Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1906 — Page 5

gusgj., — WRITES FROM NORTH DAKOTA Henry Erhart Well Pleased With Hie New Location. Lisbon, N. D., July 23, ’O6. Dear sir:—l promised a number of my friends to write to them when I left Decatur. I will now tell them through your valuable paper, how I am getting along" in North Dakota, the land of the goldep wheat. Talk about wheat and small grain all kinds, the wheat is as high as a man, and everything- is look fine. Improvements are being made all over the country, and there has been 25 new houses built in Lisbon this spring so far, and I am told there will be as many more built before winter sets in. There are a number of new settlers coming in and some of the specuators’ lands and big bonanza farms are being cut into small farms of 160 to 320 acre tracts and settled on by eastern men. At the rate the people are coming into this country, it will soon be as thickly settled as Indiana, and land is going up fast. I find the people very nice out here; they are sociable and treat a man fine. I have a job as engineer running, one of the big threshing rigs. Some of the machines here thresh 3,500 bsuhels of wheat in a day; that would make an Indiana man go some. The largest farm in the world, compris-

SOUTHWEST The Land of BIG CROPS and PROSPERITY Are you makipg as much off your farm as you ought? No doubt vou are making all you can. The trouble is. the land costa too much. It takes too' much money to buy a big farm, and so you are trying to a living on a small farm, or perhaps you are renting one and paying a good share of what you raise, in rent. Wouldn’t it be better to go where the prise of good land is so little that you can own a big farm—where every acre of the ground is,working for you and all you raise is paying good profits. * - , There are thousands of acres ol fertile land in the Southwest along the line of the Cotton Belt Route that can be bought from $3 to $lO an acre. This land is increasing in value each year. see The southwest at small cost Atrip to the Southwest will convince you that your best interests lay in settling ther The trip can be made at very little expense. On the first and third Tuesdays ot each month you can purchase a round trtp ticket to any point in the Southwest on or via the Cotton Belt Route at very low rates. Stop-overs will be allowed for you to examine any locality Xou are interested in. . Write at once for free copies of books describing this wonderful country and for full in mation about cost of tickets etc. L.O. Sctiaefer, T.P.A. Cotton Belt Route 614 Traction Term. Bdj. l idlanitMli

14 A GRAND OFFERING | ■ Os Richly Bred Duroc Jersey Hogs I K«9M '* 'wtj, hr I MME H , —~ so ft l* : - nrnnT n |fc ft . ? - J 1 i ULUnUi xMUfJLgm a 1 o B w fi N INI g Hi p? K > ■.:-^ > W^’ 3 ’ S L ■•'-■' ' •■ ■»••- ' n»| 111 h '-'t: --1 - ~ ~ -‘-.J— x II 1 l t w ■ II n 0 «C ik t dnfe nLiy. o , < saa I mwEHMBwI IQHR '■. 1 ■ H ™fc _: t S ln m ~ -— ® J. D. NIDLINGER. Hair Grounds. g|

ing 52,000 acres, ir<ndy a short’distance from here. Ransom county can boast of having received several gold and silver medals for its grain at some of the largest world’s fairs, namely St. Louis in 1904, and Portland, 1905. I gadly invite some of my old friends to take a trip out to see our country. It is well worth your’while to see the great Northwest, study the conditions here and you will be convinced of its future. I will here suggest that wages will be good and working men in demand, and it would be a good place for a young man to come to harvest and thresh. I will now close with best wishes to all my friends. I will make this my future home. Yours truly, HENRY ERHART. TO HOLD QUARTERLY MEETING. The last quarterly meeting of the ference year will be held in the Union Chapel U .B. church next Saturday evening and Sunday mornir August 4th Presiding Elder J. Simons, of Peru, will preach at both services. Let all lovers of a pure gospel attend, and receive the uplift to- be gained. A Certain Cure tor Aching Feet. Shake into your shoes Alien’s FootEase, a powder It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, T.eT?ay, N. Y.

NOW AT FOREST HILL HOME | ' I Is Well and Happy and Wants to be I Friendly Wtih Everybody. Scripps-Mcßae Special 1 CLEVELAND, 0., July 31.—Jolfh D. Rockefeller, the billionaire and , world’s richest man, is at. his home, Forest Hill, this i.iormng, well ami happy. He arr ve-l at an earl*? hour i.n.; was taken io his beautiful heme a M.ce. He ss -s, “I hope the time till come when some pe .ple will ' know others better. You newspaper men can do much toward making some ■ of us better acquainted with others.' You can tell them what kind of people we are and I believe it your duty to do so.” Rockefeller’s party consisted of himself, wife and his secretary. J They traveled in an ordinary stateroom, in a Pullman sleeper car and all looked healthy after a long journey in various lands abroad. “It is ' good to get home again,” said the geatf oil king, “for Cleveland is my real home and I shall always consider it such.” DIED OF HEART FAILURE j Daniel Sauers known to many readof the Witness in Indiana and Ohio, suddenly died of heart failure on Friday evening, July 20th, at his home near Columbia City. He was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, January 30, 1820, and at his death was aged 86 years, 5 months and 21 days. Iq> 1828 he came with his parents to Wayne county, Ohio, where they resided until 1852. On April 8, 1852 he was united in marriage to Barbara' Neuenschwander and later in the same year - they moved to Adams j county, Indiana. From here they went to Whitley cohnty where he died and where he had lived for .the past thirty years.—Berne Witness. J. D. Nidlinger is busy mailing catalogues of his Duroc sale, which is . scheduled for Steele’s park on Aug-! ust 8. This sale gives evidence of being several shades better than any ever given before, and that is saying much, as Mr. Nidlinger has become known in every state in the union, because df his famous Durocs. ’ I

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HIS BEARD FIFTY YEARS OLD Kokomo Man Who Made a Bet on Fremont. Daniel R. Jones of Kokomo, is wearing a beard fifty years old. He has never had a razor upon his face in that space of time. He registered ■ a vow before the rebellion that if | Fremont was not elected president he would never shave. Fremont has not been chosen chief executive yet, and Mr. Jones has never since that time visited the barber shop for a clean shave. He expects to possess his beard when he is laid in his coffin. He is now 81 years of age. There was a rally at Frankfort, Ind., during the campaign of General Fremont for the presidency. Mr. Jones was selected to secure a delegation to attend. He procured the attendance of.nineteen couples from Russiaville, where he then lived, and among the number was a beautiful young woman who asked him why he had not shaved. Mr. Jones explained that he had been busy and rushed and had not had the time. It all ended by Mr. Jones making a promise that if General Fremont was not elected he was to buy the young woman a dress and never* to shave. BUY YOUR TICKETS UP TOWN For the Bluffton Game, at Christen’s Cigar Store* i I ——- ; It is expeted that with a fair day 2,500 people will witness the game between Bluffton and Decatur here Thursday afternoon. Arrangements for the seating of the people have been made, bleachers having been built on the east side. You can save ! time by buying your tickets up town, arrangements having been completed for the sale of tickets at Dick Christen’s cigar store. Decatur people should buy there as tjhe people from a distance will keep the ticket sellers Jon the ground busy. <

AT THE WALLBRIDGE PARK An Annual Event Participated in by Several Adams County People. A reunion of the Miller family was held at Wallbridge Park,. Toledo, last Sunday and the Adams county members of this family who attended, report it a very delightful affair. These picnics are held annually, but this year’s excelled all previous records. About forty people ’ were present when dinner was called and they looked like a happy family as they gathered about the festive board. During the afternoon they went to the Casino and otherwise enjoyed themselves until time for their departure. Among those from this community who were present were Commissioner and Mrs. William Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Miller, Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Parrish and R. Limenstall, while those from Ohio included Messrs, anc Mesdames C. Reid, George Reed, Samuel Miller Seymour Gaynor, Ed Garden, Charles Vogt, C. Lesser, Frac.’? Miller, Louis Gnepper, and others [ whose names could not be ascertain- ' ed. It was a pleasant day for every- ( one and will be long remembered. TO START FERTILIZER PLANT Kalver & Hurst Will Put in a Concern. - '■ ~ ■' — , i Isadore Kalver and Will Hurst have returned from Fort Wayne, where they completed arrangements for the installing of a rendering or fertilizer plant near this city. It will probably be located on the Coverdale farm north of the city and will in time be a big industry. They will put in modem 'machinery and will take care of all dead animals and other refuse in and about the city. I They will manufacture fertilizer.

THE C. W. B. M. AUXILIARY. They Will Meet Thursday Afternoon With Mrs. Holloway.. The C. W. B. M. auxiliary will meet at the home of Mrs. Holloway on Thursday, August 2nd, at two o’clock p. m. The following program will be given: Topic: A Study of Missionary Opportunity in the United States. Hymn, God Bless our Native Land; Bible lesson, prayer, paper, Our Home Field Mrs. Arthur Fisher; Selected readings "by members of the society as follows: Inherited Opportunities, Keeping for Christ what Belongs to Him, The Call of the City, Imported Opportunities, New Opportunities in New Places, Other Opportunities, Emergency Calls. Song, America; prayer for our country, business period, closing. ARE BUT FIFTY- TWO SUNDAYS. If those newspaper men who have been publishing the statement that there were fifty-three Sundays in this year will take the calendar and count the Sundays in 1906, they will find only fifty-two but there are fifty-three Mondays. In 1911 there will be fiftythree Sundays and then again in 1922. Take a perpetual calendar and you will find several years with fifty-three Sundays in the next 110 years. PETER ROTH DITCH IS SOLD. County Surveyor L. L. Baumgartner today sold the Peter Roth ditch in Hartford township as follows: Section one —station 131 to 184, to J. W. Watson, $300; section two—station 78 to 131, J. W. Watson, $225; section three —station 53*4 to 78, R. W. Glendening, SSO. MANY CHILDREN ARE SICKLY. A powder for swollen, tired, hot, smarting feet Sample sent FREE. Also Free Sample of the Foot-Ease Sanitary Cnrn-l’aa. a new invention Address Allen 3. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y.