Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1906 — Page 5

■ • - • ■ 1 CURES SICK-HEADACHE Tablets and powders advertised ( as cures for sick-headache are gen- , erally harmful and they do not cure . but only deaden the pain by patting * the nerves to sleep for a short time < 1 0 through the use of morphine or 0 cocaine. ( • I ; Lane’s Family 5 Medicine $ * 1 the tonic-laxative, cures sick-head- r < 1 ache, not merely stops it for an F I ’ hour or two. It removes the cause d ( 1 of headache and keeps it away. • I 1 Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c. • < .... LEGAL ADVERTISING .. .. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the f"' lowing report of the viewers appointed at the June session of the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, In- • diana, to view the proposed road in Preble township, to be known as the Louis Worthman Macadam Road, was filed with said board on June 18th, 1906, and ordered published at the July session of said board. LOI&.WOTHMAX MACADAM ROAD . v*l To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana: We, the undersigned viewers and engineer appointed by your Honorable Board at the June term, 1906, and in pursuance to the within order of said petition would most respectfully submit the following report: • In pursuance to the within order, <e, William Huffman and Charles Oeting, as viewers and L. L. Baumgartner, as engineer, met at the office of county Auditor in Decatur, Indiana, and after being duly sworn as prescribed by law we» proceeded to examine, lay out and straighten said road as shown by that part of our report which is marked exhibit “A” and which report shows the route of the proposed road. Also a profile showing the grade of said road as established and showing showing "cuts” and fills”, also location of drains and sewers; said profile is marked exhibit “B” the same being on file in the office of the Auditor of Adams County, Indiana. We .further find that the above improvement in accordance with the plans and specifications herein set fourth would be of public benefit and utility. We further find no claims for damages of any kind whatever. We fA-ther estmate the cost of the proposed improvement to *he Four' Thousand One Hundred thirty two dollars. DESCRIPTION OF THE LOUIS WORTMAN MACADAM ROAD. Commencing at the intersection of a highway running north and south with highway running eaat anti west at the south-east corner of the northeast- quarter of section twenty-seven (27), 4n'*township twenty-eight (28) north,' range thirten (18) east in Adams County, State of Indiana, thence running iporth over the highway lying between the sections 26 and 27, and over the highway laying between sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) all in township twenty-seven north of range thirteen (13) east Adams County, State of Indiana and terminating at the intersection of the hghway running north and south with the road running east and West at the north east corner of the north east quarter of section twentytwo in township twenty-seven north range -thirteen east Adams County, State of Indiana f ROADWAY, GRADE, ETC. The roadway must be clear of all fences, trees, stumps, logs and alljrubbish of whatsoever nature it may be. All stumps must be either grubbed or blasted out in the drains or on the grade. U ’ ■■ ' The right-of-way shall be thirtysix (36) feet width. If At any 4ime the construction of’Ur befbre the final #cCeptarice -of the same the grade should settle the contractor shall'fiiv itlDdepressions and restore the same to the original specifications. The grade shall be of the single track -ystem of % uniform width of twenty-two (22) feet from shoulder to shoulder with a slope of four (4) hmhes’iroin center to either side The sub-grade shall bd rolled by the contractor at such times and places as, may be deemed necessary by, the. superintendent or the engineer with a roller of not less than six (6) tons in weight beforg placing any stone thereon - The roadbed shall, -ber made in a neat' and workmanlike manner and Inspected and accepted in 1000 feet sections before any material is piacbd thereon. Grade and'line stakes set be the engineer and destroyed by the contractor’s expense. i DRAINS. The sde drains shall be cut not less than eighteen (18) inches below the hip of the grade. All drains to be constructed in a neat 'and workmanlike manner with sufficient fall and outlet to carry all the water that may accumulate there*in and remove the same from the highway. y SEWERS. ’At the following stations the con--tractor shall place across grade'Triple Expansion Culverts „ . , ... At . station 18. plus 10 ,10” sewer. At station 37 plus 12, 10” sewer. At station 52-plus Sri; 18” sewer. At station. .5/ plus 30* 10” sewer. At each end of above sewers there there shall be built bulkheads composed of one (1) part good Portland Cement, one (1’) part clean sharp sand and two (2) parts srushed stone All parts of said stone that wll not pass through a two inch ring shall not be used in said concrete. AB bulkheads shall commence eighteen CIS) inches below the bottom of (SUPPORT SCOTTS EMULSION mtvu u a ■ bridge to cany the weakened and ■ starved system along until it can find ■ firm support in ordinary food. » ■ Send for free sample. I SCOTT ft BOWNE, Chemists, ’ ■ *O9-4x5 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. and all'druggists.

the sewer and extend six (6) inches above the surface of the stone placed on roadway, and shall be fifteen (15) inches thick and extend eighteen (18) inches on each side of sewer, except at station 52 plus 80, the bulkhead shall extend three (3) feet on each side of sewer and shall be twenty inches thick. • WELLS. At fetation 0 plus 10” one well on east side. At station 13 plus 80, two wells, one on each side of grade. At station 18 plus 40, two wells, one on each side of grade. At station 24 plus 60, two wells, one on each side of grade. At station 37 plus 30, two wells, one on each side of grade. At station 66 plus 90, two wells, one on each sde of grade. Said wells to be built of the best hard burned brick laid flatwise and to extend eighteen inches below the bottom of the tile and walled up to the surface of the drains, said wells to be not less than three feet in diameter on the inside and arched at the top so as to receive an eighteen (18) cast' iron grate securely fastened thereon. Said brick in said wells to be laid up in mortar composed of good .Portland Cement one part and two parts of clean sharp sand. All wells to be connected up with tile already in the contractor to furnish all tile for connections, and tile to be no smaller than that already in. CRUSHED STONE, KINDS, ETC. The crushed stone shall be placed on road-hed to a width of ten (10) feet, that is five (5) feet on each side of center of roadway, and shall be ten (10) inches deep n center and eight (8) inches at the sides, except from station-65 to 79 plus 40 there shall be placed on top of gravel already on grade) screenngs to a depth of four (4) inches and to a width specified above. The upper three (3) inches of said stone to be composed of screenings. All material to be placed on the grade in a neat, smooth and workmanlike manner The stone shall be graded in before final acceptance. AH stone must be so crushed that at least 80 per eent. of same Will puss through a two (2) inch ring. Where stone is unloaded all the coarser particles shall be raked to the bottom Said stone shall be equal to the product of the Linn Grove or Decatur quarres. STIPULATIONS The work as it progresses will be laid out by the engineer, and stakes set by him must be preserved. The material- for the various im provements shall be on the ground before the old material is removed. The Board of Commieioners, the engineer and Superintendent reserve theright to inspect the materials used and condemn the same if necessary, and all material so condemned shall be Amoved from the right-of-way and not used at any time in the construe-, tion of said improvement. Lt-'4s expr«ssely understood that the Contractor is not compelled to place In"any tile, culverts, bridges or approaches at any private lane or crossing, road, etc., and if any fence, post or similar matter be within the right of-way of the proposed improvement is not removed by the party to whom they belong after having sufficient notice, then the contractor shall remove, the same. ,r 5, >’■ , It is expressly Understood that when the time qomes for accepting the soad the contractor shall have the side dritns in good condition and shall have scraped in the stone and leveled the entire road and shall have in all respects complied with the specifications. PAYMENTS. All payments; for said improvement, will be paid for- in cash at the Treas, urer’s office in the city of Decatur, Indiana, on estimates made by the engineer complying in all respects with the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiaha approved March - »tn, 1905. • • ESTIMATES. , ‘ , Total length of proposed improvi-.. ment is 7,940 te£t, miles. No. yds stone for road 1 .' 1,985< >985 yds stone 11.20 for stone.<2,3Bl.oo' ,1985 yds stone .40 for hauling.. 794.00 ,1985 yds stone .15 for spreading 297.75 Grading 400.00 Wells and" connections 110.00 Sewers and bulkheads 150.00 J Total ? 4,132.00 All of which is submitted, » . WM D. HUFFMAN Viewer. C. H. GETTING, Viewer. L. L. BAUMGARTNER, Engineer.Subscribed and' sworn to before me, this the 16th day of Jun<*, 1906. 19-3 ts. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. ‘ . PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. t State, of Adams County. In the Commissioriers’ Court, August Term, 1906. . ,♦ Petition for free macadam road. To the Board of Commissioners of sdid Adams County, Indiana: The undersigned ffeholders and voters in Root township in said Adams 1 County, Indiana, respectfully petition your Honorable Body to cause to ■be ' properly drained, graded, built .and L constructed a single - track crushed stone road over, along and upon? the following described route, to-wit: Commencing in the public highway, known as the Winchester Road, at the point and place where said Winchester road crosses the public highway known : and called the Ossian Road, which is i a free gravel road, and which lies between sections eighteen and nineteen in townshp twenty-eight north, range fourteen east, in said Adorns county In the state of Indiana, and to run thence in a northwesterly direction on and along the public highway as now lo- : cated afid used, to the township line between the townships of Root and I Preble in said Adams county, Indiana, I upon which township line there 4s L now, at such point and place of term--1 ination of the road herein prayed for, ! a free gravel-road, and there to terminate. Said proposed road hereby prayed for to be about one mile in • lAigth. And We ask that the said road herein prayed for be made to the width of -thirty-six feet. We ask that the ‘ road hereby petitioned for be known and called the “Hockemeyer Macadam Road.” r We further ask that said proposed j road be built of crushed stone and ; properly covered with screenings in 1 the usual and proper manner I We further ask that you take such action upon this petition as you are authorized and directed to do under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the said State of Indiana, approved March Bth, 1905, and under and by virtue of any and all other laws of the State of Indiana authorizing the construction of free macadamized stone roads. We further ask that the road hereby petitioned for be built Without any election Being ordered or had on this petition. We further ask that said I Improvement be paid for by bonds

issued by the said Adams County, Indiana, for and on behalf of said Root township,. payable in twenty semi-an-nual installments, and for the payment of said bonds, we ask that a tax be “levied upon the taxable property of said Root township, in sufficient amount and rate annualy or otherIwise provided by law, to pay the interI est and principal of any and all of such bonds as they severally become due and payable as provided by law. The proposed macadam road hereby prayed for when built and completed will connect said free gravel road, known as said Ossian road, and said free gravel road on said township line road between said Root and Preble townships as aforesaid. All of which is most respectfully submitted. Saffiuel Fuhrman, Wm. Hockemeyer, Fred Hockemeyer, S. J. Spangler,W. Macke, W. A. Fonner, C. D. Kunkle, .Carl Hockemeyer, Benj. F. Butler, Frank McConnell, L. W. Lewton, J. E. Mann, August Koenemann, John E. Mann, Coat Cook, Tise Ulman, J. O. Hoagland, C. D. Buss. L. N. Grandstaff, Geo. Dutcher, W. W. Watts, A. J. Lewton, Reuben Baxter, D. M. Rice, E. S. Christen, Jonas Cline, Chas. E. Magley, Hen/-?/ Selking, Christ. Selking, S. P. Sheets, Thomas J. Elzey, A B. Cunningham, Phillip Baker, Henry Schieferstein, Henry Zwick, Oscar Firtzinger, John Bogner, F. C. Roop, H. A. Fuhrman, N. C. Fuhrman, Chas. Scheimann, H. N. E. Dirkson, H. F. Bulmahn, Wm. Bulmahn, J. C. Houck, John G. Hey, W. C. Gaalmeier, C. H. Getting, Eleazar Biggs, Uriah Grim, Peary Draper, Louis Weber, Jason Hobbs, Henry Doefrrman, J. A. Fuhrman, John Tonnelier, John Evans This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, On Monday, August 6, 1906, the same being the regular August session of said board, and at which time any tax payer of Root toWnship may appear and make such objections as the law may .provide for. 19-3 ts. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. State of Indiana, Adams County, ss. Before the Board of County Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. Petition for a free macadam road. We the undersigned each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of and in said Township of Wabash, in the County of Adams, and the State of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your Honorable Body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Wabash township over and up--on the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the-southeast corner of lot 121 in the town of Geneva, Indir ana, at the center of Railroad street, running thence east on Shackley street to Hale street; thence north on Hale' street to the center of Line street; thence east on Line street and the center of section twenty-eight (28) to the northeast- corner of the southwest quarter of section twenty-eight (28), thence south on the half section line to the southwest corner of the north half of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirtythree (33), thence east eighty (80) rods to the southeast corner of the north half of the nohtwest quarter oi.' the noi'theast quarter of section thir- ■ iy- three (33), thence south to the southwest corner ' of , the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter, thence east to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter, of the northeast quarter 0/ section thirty-three (33), thence south 01? the Hue between sections . thirty-three (83)- and thirty-four (34) to the southeast corner of section thirty-three (33) or to the county line yWrtwcrfn Adams „an,d Jay counties, .and ’ thftfe to . terminate, the same beirig about miles? in -•length/all of the above being in'township twenty-five (25) north, range fourteen (14) east, said road.tp be eift tension number'3 of-the Gerieva, Ceylon and, Wabash Township Macadam Road. ‘ ' Ye»n petitioners further ask your Honorable Body that said -highway ifabove described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, t : and that there be Jauilt, made and constructed upon Said highway, what is 1 known as a macadamized road, and y?pur petitioners further show that 1 tire public highway sought to be improved is bhe of the public highways' of said Wabash township. f< The said highway'thus sought to be improved intersects and connetts with the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road, a macadam road .Heretofore voted upon by the voters of said Wabash township, Adams County. Indiana, and is to be an extension of said macadam road. ,Your petitioners further ■ hsk that I said - highway as above described be j graded to a width of x 1 feet, and that the broken stone be placed thereon to a width offeet, I and that the broken stone be placed 1 thereon to a depth of inches. I at the center thereof, and to the depth I of t inches at the sides > thereof. Thai the name of said road above describad/sftall be called Extension Number) fir of the Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Twnship Macadam Road. We hsk that said improvement be paid for by bonds, issued by the county of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of Wabash township in Adams county, Indiana, in sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, as they may become due, that said road may be built, and that said bonds may be isued, and said tax levied Upon said property of said'Wabash township, in accordance with the acts of'the Legislature of the State of Indiana, new in force and passed in, the ye’ar appears in the acts of 1905 page SM, and’ that the Board take the different steps as required by law, arid that fhb sama be constructed without holding an election in-voting precincts off said township, and that the same be constructed under 1 - the law now in force for the construction of extension to free gravel and macadamized roads. Respectfully submitted. • -I NAMES OF PETITIONERS. S. W. Hale, ' x P. A. Macklin, S. ZdYkle, ’ J. H. Linton, J. Lenstermaker, * John O.‘ Kraner, Jesse Ford, J. E. Mann, C. A. Mann, Frank Haviland, , W. A. Wells, Fred E. Lindsey, , Frank Haughton, x Jacob H. Zehr, , Ada M. McKirick, Geo. B. Robinson, . W. W. Briggs, Homer Pontius, M. E. Hutton, C. A. Haviland, J A. Anderson, J. M. .WeHs. ■ O. C. Fink. W. C. Campbell, i F. J. MacWhinney, Frank Kattel, , Michael McGriff, J. H. Ru*. Chas. Hutt, H. M. Aspy, J. Banning, John Pitts/ . John A. Didot, O. A. Whitman, 1 J. E. Briggs, A. P. Hardison, - H. J. Greene, E. S. Callihan, J. W. Dietsch, F„ C. Dietsch, C. D. Porter, G. E. Fink, J. T. Love; F. F. Gregg, P. F. Burk, Abb Shoemaker, D. B. Linton, Noah Shoemaker, Josephus Martin, A G. Briggs, M. A Mastick, Nathan Shepherd, L. L. Mattox, C. O. Rayn, W. C. Pease, John Brand, G. Brand, ‘ A A. Mason, ' David«Polm, Alfred Kintz, ■A. M. Redding, Samuel Egley, (James H. Kelley, F. M. Connor,

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Bowen Vanenon, Socrates Cook, W. J. Nelson, Andrew Jellison. Said petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners, on . Monday, August 6, 1906, the same being the regular August session of said Board and at which time any ,tax payer of Wabash township may appear and make such objections as tho>law may provide for. 19-3 ts. , C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. — v »)\ A COSTLY ERROR DID IT Hay Pitched Great Game—New Short Stop is Fast—Over Twelve Hundred Saw the Game. We hate to tell the story, but it’s true. We lost to the Indians. It was the toughest kind of tough luck, the kind that’ seems to have hovered over us all season, when we really wanted to win. Just what the u hoodoo” is seems not to have been discovered and the knockers were out last evening in full uniform. However, say what you will, it was a good game of ball and every spectator saw brilliant plays and plenty of them. The score was three to nothing. The Indians got three hits off Hay while the locals got four off Justice. Each side made two errors, but ours, of course, had to be of the costly kind. In the first inning, the Indians went out in one, two, three order in their half. When Decatur went to bat it looked like a walkaway. Withan went to first on error and went to second on a bunt hit by “Bones” • France, the latter being safe at first. Cameron, the next man up, walked, filling the bases with no one out. Then Lindenback struck out,- Hilling-/ er fouled out and Fisher went out .at first. From then on until the eighth no one had a look in. In that inning with the Indians at bat, the first man up was walked, the next one hit a pop up which Bones went after. It was iraining slightly, the ball was wet and France dropped it, and “booted” it into the crowd, the run- , ners going to second and third. Ordinarily, it would have been a double play, but the. gods of luck were against us. The next Indian hit safely over the infield and one scored, then. worked the squeeze twice successfully and before'thh third out: was made, had three scores marked up. During the rest of the game neither side scored. There was not an earned run. The attendance was . 1,250. The score: * DECATUR. ~A.8.~ R.~ H. P.O. A E. Wlthan, If. .... 4 0 0 0 0 0 C. O. France, 2b. 4 0 1 0 3 1 Cameron, ss 3 0 2 2 2 1 Linderbeck, cf. . 4 0 0 1 0 0 Hillinger, rs. .. 3 0 0 0 0 0 Fisher, c. 4 0 0 ,11 2 0 Bales, 3b. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Bellinger, lb. .. 2 0 1 12 0 0 Hay, 0 0 0 3 0 Totals 31 0 4 27 10 2 ... ~INDIANS. , ' . '' ' • AR HPA E Taboyshekeshick, c... 3 11 8 1 0 'Smalßßird, 3b 3 0 0 1 2 0 iWaubOose, ss. 2 0 0 1 \ 3 1 Nokma#, 2b. .....I'.. 4 0 1 2 3 0 ■ Multnomah,,lf. 4 0 1 0 0 1 ’Ninham. rfL 4 0 0 1 0 0 [Jusicania, cf. 4 0 0 3 0 0 I Justice, p. 3 1 0 0 4 0 Totals . -29 3 3 27 18 2 Score by innings— „ . „ „ „ „ Decatur .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o Nebraska Jnd-jans.O 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 o—3 Batteries— Hay. and Fisher; Justice and Taboyshekeshick. SUMMARY—StoIen bases—Taboyseshick. TwOj ; base hits—Muttnomah. Three base hit—Cameron. Double plays —Justice to Taboyshekeshick to Thorgy: Small Bird to Nakomas. Bases on balls —Off Hay 2; off Juetice 3. Hit by pitched ball—Thorgy. Struck out—By Hay 10; by Justice 6. Hits—Decatur 4; Indians 3. Time of gatoae—l:3o. Ufnpire^—Klein. ■ *-•'■'? 1 REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Transfers of Estate Reported by The Decatur Abstract & Loan Co. — b J* f -• -J Money to loan on farms and city property at the lowest rates of interest with privilege of partial payment. Office Rooms 3 and 4, Studabaker Block, Decatur, Indiana. Anna Br Bmith to Ernest Isch, sec 12 French township 26% acres, 82,900. I Lewis C. Mills to Ernest W. Graft,. SE % SE % sec 35 Washington township, $3 200. i James H. Barrett to Curtis C. FarIber, et al, inlot 48, Geneva, Ind., |425. ‘Frank M. Schirmeyer, (com.) to Emma Cordua, sec 19 St. Marys township, 40 acres, | “Isabel Tindall to Fred Amacher sec 26 Moriroe township, 15 acres, $1,300. Dabiel Sprang ,et al., to Sophitu Miller, inlqt 495 Decatur," Indiana, |4sr. Addie F/ Andrews to Orlando D. Meyers, sec. 8 Union township, 40 acres, $2,500. Jessie E. Cook et al., to John A Cook, inlot 176 Decatur, S4OO. Hattie E. F. Moore to Thomas K. Moore, inlot 908, Decatur, $125. Fred Schafer and wife to Emily J. Niblick see 14 Washington township, 45 acres, $3,875. Isaac Lehman, to John J. Schenbeck sec 4 Wabash township 15 acres, $1,050. Albert W. Schott et al to Ester Glendennen, sec 21 Hartford township 26 1 acres, $533.33.

T* Mother* In Thia Town. Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get imipediate relief from Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children. They cleanse the stomach, act on the liver, making a sickly child strong and healthy. A certain cure for worms. Sold by all druggists, 25 cents. Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, Leßby, N. Y SHE HAD $2,000 IN~ CASH Woman Murdered at Minneapolis, for Her Money. MINNEAPOLIS, July 1L —The police learned today that Miss Elliston, who was murdered hec? yesterday, had iut recently sold her iniilit.ery store and had easuc-I a draft for $2,0C0. It is believed a robbeiy was .the cause of the foul murder, and an investigation along that line is now under headway. It was learned this afternoon that Miss Elliston, left Ellsworth Monday with $3,500 to many a railroad conductor, and expected to go to Washington state to buy a farm. ■' " 1,11 11 L DEEDS, NOT WORDS Decatur People Have Absolute Proof of Deed* at Home. It’s not words, but deeds that prove true merit. The deeds of Doan’s Kidney Pills. For Decatur kidney sufferers. Have made their local, reputation. “ Proof lies In the testimony of Decatur people who have been cured to stay cured. Mrs. Catharine Conter, of 227 First street, Decatur, Indiana, says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills with very beneficial results and can recommend them highly. In 1902 I gave a statement telling what Doan’s Kidney Pills had done for me and how they cured me of kidney complaint and backache. I had suffered some time and everything I tried failed to help me. I got a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at the Holthouse Drug Co’s, store and they benefited me almost and in a short time cured me and I am able 'to state now that the cure has remained permanent.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for United States. Remember the name —DOAN’S—and take no other. C. F. True and son Bruce returned to the the city this morning from a days outing at Winona Lake. There is tn be an Armed invasion of the state of Indiana during the coming summer. Soldiers in full marching order will, come upon Hoosier soil, and there will be no effort on the part of Indiana’s “war department” ,to repel them. On the other hand, they will be made welcome. It is expected that some of the troops will march through Decatur. J MrL George Trioker, of Dea&tur fc Indiana, president: of the Jacks6n"i&’ Decatur Coalowners, miners, apft shippers, wholesalers and retailers of the celebrated Jackson Hill coal, was in our city Friday. The company’s mines are reached by the D. T. & I. railroad and: are located just a short distant from Jackson, the county’ seat of Jackson county,' Ohio. While in the city Mr. Tricker secured the services of Antle Moorman who will take charge of and erect bins and open a yard along the Clover Leaf switch on north Main street. This means that Delphos will have Jackson coal from producer to consumer in quantities to suit with only cost of handling added.—Dejphos Herald. The death of harmless, innocent John N. Free recalls some of his eceeutricities in earlier years that are worthy of mention. His boldest exploit was at the outbreak of the Civil war, when he managed to gain an interview wtih Lincoln. It was his desire to bring about a meeting between Lincoln and Davis. He argued that if he could get these two heads of the great opposing forces together they would effect 'a" peaceable settlement and end the war at once. Lincoln, After listening patiently, sent the harmless lunatic to Davis, giving him a passport and safe conduct through the I nes. Davis appreciated the joke an I save him freedom of the city of Richmond.

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’Squire William Worden was called from his peaceful slumbers at midnight Thursday and found Miss Emma Moser and Mr. Augustus Kohnhorst, of Wren, Ohio, who showed a marriage license and asked to be united in the holy bonds. The ’squire did the work and. the young people returned to Ohio happy. The Willshire Poultry Association will hold its second annual show in Willshire from December 11 to December 14 inclusive. George Ewald of Cincinnati has been secured as judge. The Association this year is taking time by the forelock, and will make every effort to make the coming show a greater event than the first annua].—Willshire Herald. A number of members of the Fort Wayne council of the Knights of Columbus will leave today for Cedar Point on Lake Erie to attend the national outing of the order, which will be held July 9-14. Among those who will attend will be the Misses Amelia and Edith Nussbaum and the Messrs. Victor Nussbaum, Mark Shoaff, James T. Callahan, Harry Lowry and Thomas Cavanaugh.—Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette. According to well posted farmers in certain parts of Ohio, the growing corn ergp is threatened 'by a worm which is making rapid inroads. It resembles in many respects the well known grub worm and is from one to one and a fourth inches in length, narrow almost like a lead pencil, adorned with a black head surmounted with a red top. It works just about the sprouting grain cutting the roots in twain and no damage is perceptible until the blades wilt, when the stock can readily lifted from the ground. Samples of the pest have been sent to the experiment station at Ohio state university. Father Charles Dhe, who has been in charge-of the Hartford City parish . since February, 1894, has been appointed pastor o£ the St. Louis parish, Bessancon, a French settlement ten miles east of Fort Wayne. ll His ’ last regular services in this city will be held at 8:30 Sunday morning and the last services at Montpelier will ’ be held at 11 o’clock Sunday morning. [ He will be succeeded by Father John Nolf, who relinquishes the Bessancon parish to take charge of the Hartford Pily.. pari^.—Hartford City News. ma - ■' '■; |k «ls The. Junior City Imtprovement So- ‘ eiety met at the Library (building , I yesterday afterinooto. They elected , the following officers for the remainder of the year: President Esther Corbett V Vice ' Florence Myers; secretary, Celesta, Kintz; treasurer, Vera Radamacker. ;)fl, The boys failed to come, so the girls had everything their own way. Arrangements were made for a musical cantata to be given at the time,.tiie flower prizes are awarded. Every. boy and girl belonging to the society, is invited to take a part. The next meeting will be Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o’clock/ prompt. Joseph Upthegrove, one of the pioneer colored citizens of Van Wert county, and one of its oldest men, died at his home in the settlement after an illlness of one week with kidney trouble. He was born in South Carolina, Dec. 3, 1816, and until the proclamation of President Lincoln lived in slavery. He served in the Federal Army as a member of Co. A sth U. S. Colored Troop, and shortly after his discharge from the army he located in Willshire township. He was prominent in colored circles of Van Wert and surrounding counties as a preacher, and one week ago Sunday he filled the pulpit of his church in the settlement. —Willshire Herald.