Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1907 — Page 2

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BUT NO VERDICT RENDERED Several Reports Filed in Probate Matters—The Major-Oliver Suit is Decided. * In circuit court this morning I ,“Judge Erwin heard the evidence in the divorce case of Vida Robison vs. Jesse D. Robison. Cryel and inhuman treatment were alleged and the judge took the matter under advisement Ada Major et al., vs. Alma Oliver et al., submitted, finding that Ada Majors, Amanda Schroll, Marion, Thomas and Benjamin Oliver are each owner of one-fifth of real estate mentioned in complaint, their interests subject to the life estate of Alma Oliver in one-third of. the interest, finding also that Andrew Gottschalk has mortgage on said real estate. Property ordered sold and John C. Moran appointed commissioner. Edwin Heller, trustee in the Peter Parrot trusteeship of Debrot, filed a current report which was allowed. Edwin Heller, guardian for Aurllla and Claud Studler, filed current rejport which was approved. f - ■William F. Blakey, guardian for Richard Bischoff and four others, filed a current report which was allowed and the cause continued. Daniel Cook, guardian for Harriet and Lewis Johnson, filed a current report, approved and cause continued. Maggie Miller vs. John Reynard et al., quiet title suit, proof of notice by publication to non-residents filed, default of all defendants. John A. Wheeler vs. George Baker et al., quiet title, proof of publication of non-residence notice, default of defendants. Marriage licenses have been issued to Sadie Mny Achbiucher of French township and Jeff Augsburger, and to Edward W. Tumbleson and Eva J. McClain of Monroe township, A HEALING GOSPEL. The Rev. J. C. Warren, pastor of Sharon Baptist Belair, Ga., says of Electric Bitters: “It’s a Godsend to mankind. It cured me of lame back, stiff joints and complete physical collapse. I was so weak it took me half an hour to walk a mile. Two bottles of Electric Bitters have made me so strong I have just walked three miles in 50 minutes and feel like walking three more. It’s made a new man of me." Greatest remedy for weakness and all stomach, liver and kidney complaints. Sold under guarantee at Blackburn’s Pharmacy. Price 50c. o— Send Your Cattle and Horse Hides to the Crosby Frisian Fur company, Rochester, N. Y., and have them converted into coats, robes, rugs, gloves and mittens; better and cheaper goods than you can buy. Never mind the distance, “Crosby pays the freight.” See our new illustrated catalogue, page 18 If interested send for it. <» — Do you smoke? George Klein at the Palace bowling alleys has all the go--'’

) FREE MAIL CAUSES THE DEFICIT It is Claimed Government Official* Use Millions in Franks. Washington, Feb. 8. —If the postoffice department were given credit for all the service it renders the ( ernment the deficit in postal receipts . would be practically eliminated, ac- , cording to the report of the house . committee on postoffices and post- • roads on the postoffice appropriation bill which was submitted to the houge today. The government departments . and other government offices in Washington reported that for the six months ended Dec. 31, 1906, the postage upon matter they sent through . the mails would have aggregated $2,i 285,427. The committee estimates that it is fair to assume $5,000,000 worth of mail is carried for the government annually from Washington without credit to the postoffice department. The deficit in the ppstoffice department for the fiscal year 1906 was $10,516,996, and the committee estimates that this would be entirely covered if it were possible to compute the amount of mail franked by federal officials in all parts of the country, in addition to the amount of free mall going out of Washington. The increases in compensation to the employes of the service, including clerks, carriers in city delivery offices, railway mall clerks and rural free delivery carriers are practically as recommended by First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock in his last annual report. The proposed increases in salaries will aggregate nearly $9,000,000. The report does not attempt to estimate the actual amount of cut in pay to railroads for postal service, . but it is generally believed by members of the committee that the reduction will aggregate $10,000,000. o DR. GEORGE THAIN will be at the Murray House every two weeks beginning on Saturday, February 9, and will cure all such diseases as Blindness, Sore or Weak . Eyes, Deafness, Throat and Lung Trouble, Stomach and Kidney Dis--1 eases and Rheumatism. At the Mur- ) ray House, Saturday, February 9. George Thain, of Fort Wayne. o LANDS CONTRACTS IN RANDOLPH f Calvin Miller Secures Three Gravel Roads to Build. f 3 t Contractor Calvin Miirer of this city . was at Winchester yesterday, where s ’he was the successful bidder on three | gravel roads, aggregating seven and j one-half miles. His bid totaled $23,jr 720, and was the lowest against five r blds filed. Mr. Miller has done some r work in Randolph county and has more than pleased every one concerned. Five more roads will be let next s month and Mr. Miller expects to land r, his share of them at least. This i- means that Calvin will be busy in 8 that section for a year or two to come, s 3 . O e HE WAS IN TROUBLE. J. “I was in trouble, but found away put of it, and I’m" a happy man again, since Dr. King’s New Life Pills cured t t me of chronic constipation,” says E. e W. Goodloe, 107 St. Louis St., Dallas, Tex. Guaranteed satisfactory. Price 25 cents at Blackburn’s Pharmacy.

SIO,OOO From 14 Acre*. “I expect to pick 10,000 to 12,000 boxes apples from 14 acres,” says B. i B. Holcomb, Wenachtee, Washington. “My apples average SI.OO per box.” This is only one of hundreds of reports that tempt the hard working farmer to take up more agreeable ■ tasks. Great Northern Bulletin 83, on ; Washington, tells all about it. Sent . free on request. Address C. W. Pitts, ! 220 S. Clark strfeet, Chicago. o SESSION A SPLENDID ONE I C. J. Whistler of Lafayette and Local People Gave an Interesting Program. The supplemental session of*The Farmers’ Institute was held at Berne Thursday and was a most successful affair. President Moses and a number of others from this part of the county attended. Prof. Whistler of Lafayette, who lectured here this winter, was on the program and was listened to with interest by the. many present. The program by local talent was also splendid, and the day proved a very pleasant and profitable one. The attendance was 210, making a total for the year of nearly three times what it was last .year, certainly a very creditable showing. The program rendered was as follows: Opening, 9:30 a. m.; Music; Poultry, For Pleasure and Profit, C. S. Mumma; Discussion, Eli Waggoner; Farm Management, C. J. Whistler, Lafayette; Discussion, from a financial standpoint, C. A. Neuenschwander; recitation. Afternoon session—Music; Seed Corn, Selection and Care, Ralph Gates; Discussion, J. L. Aspy; Disposition of the Corn Crop, C. J. Whistler; Potato Culture, Sylvester Pontius; Discussion Daniel Welty; Recitation; Music, conducted by Gid Reisen. —o —. COL. TOWNSEND IS POPULAR Illinois Traveling Men Call Him a Prince. The T. P. A. Magazine in a short write-up of a traveling men’s banquet held at Peoria, Illinois, handed Dick Townsend this sweet-scented bouquet: “Dick Townsend, proprietor of the National Hotel in Peoria, is so close to the traveling men in that section that they could not even leave him outside the door, but felt that they Tnnst hring Rrnthar Dick right inter their hearts and their minds and that he must take part with them in the very happy exercises of Saturday , night. Dick Townsend distinguished himself as an orator while talking at the banquet in describing the relations ( of the hotel man to the traveling man, ’ and his talk was voted excellent. Dick Townsend is given the reputation by ' those ■Rho visit his hotel, as being one ( of the most hospitable, painstaking, careful, thoughtful and conscientious hotel men in that sec. ion of the country.” o— —— WANTED —Gentleman or lady to trar vel for mercantile house of large . capital. Territory at home or abroad I to suit. If desirable the home may be used as headquarters. Weekly , salary of SI,OOO per year and ex- ' penses. Address, Jos. A. Alexander, Decatur, Indiana. 48-7 t.

MANY GUEBTB WERE PRESENT A Delightful Event at the McClain Home Near Berne Laat Evening. One of the happiest wedding events ever solemnized in this county, occurred at 6 o’clock Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. McClain, three miles northeast of Bertie, when their popular and beautiful daughter, Eva Juno McClain, became the bride of Mr. Edward W, Tumbleson. Sixty guests witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. John Jackson, and partook of the festivities which followed. Miss Norah McClain served as bridesmaid and Mr. Curt Tumbleson as groomseman. The bride wore a stylish and pretty gown of mouseline de sole and the groom the conventional black. Immediately after the ceremony a sumptuous dinner was served, thoroughly appreciated by every guest. Then followed an evening of games and music. The bride was the recipient of many useful and handsome gifts from her admiring friends. The guests were: • Messrs, and Mesdames N. H. McClain, James Tumbleson, Vance Mattox, John Striker and son, Louis Eley, John Hamrick, Reuben Clark and son, Dan Sprunger and children, Andrew Porter, J. B. Kalver, Rev. and Mrs. John Jackson, Misses Laura Tumbleson, Lula Pashong of Huntington, Nona Porter, Fannie Huser, Bessie and Ola Gates, Zona and Suie Clerk, Lena Dro, Inez Ray of Portland, Nora and Melda McClain, Levina Reiter and Luella McClain, and Messrs. Russell Kerr, Sam Dro, Jamea Durbin, John McClain, Charles Clymer, Clarence Beitler, Paul McClain, Giles Porter, William Bley, David Habegger, Rufus Huser, Ernest and Curt Tumbleson, Chelson Arnold, Chalmer and Albert Hamrick. 1 i ■ THEY WILL GIVE AWAY BEEDS To Farmers Who Will Give Them a Fair Test—Corn, Oats, Peas and Beans are Included. The Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station is preparing to furnish a limited number of interested farmers of Indiana with a few leading varieties of corn, oats, cow peas or soy beans to test on their own farms. Four or five varieties which seem to be suitable for the locality where they are to be tested will be furnished, free of cost, in sufficient quantities to plant a quarter acre of each variety of corn, and a tenth acre of each variety of the other crops, on condition that an honest effort be made to conduct the test according to instructions and report results at the end of the season. Last year about 600 such co-opera-tive tests were conducted by farmers in all parts of the state. A summary of the results will be published in a few days. Copies of this report may be had upon application. The reports received from experimenters show clearly that these local tests may be of great benefit, as, through them, many farmers are made acquainted with varieties that are better suited to their conditions than the ones they are using. Anyone interested in this offer may secure full particulars concerning the Station’s requirements by writing to A. T. Wiancko, Agriculturist, Experiment Station, Lafayette, Indiana. a 2 BLUFFTON CLOSES A CONTRACT Have Thirty Days in Which to Raise Factory Fund. Bluffton claims to have landed a piano factory, employing 250 men. The one concern takes all the factory fund secured by selling 400 lots at S2OO each and they must sell 75 more lots within the next thirty days. The agreemnt calls for the erection of-a two-story brick facU-ry building with at least 75,000 square feet of floor space upon a tract of five acres of ground. The building will be 60 feet wide and over two city blocks in length. The factory is now located in Chicago and last year manufactured 3100 pianos. »-■ " 1 '■ r ■ Manager Roberts of the Carmel base ball team was in the city this morning on his regular trip as traveling salesman for a clothing firm. He stated that owing to the loss of several of their stars to league teams, Carmel will probably net be represented on the diamond during the coming season. Last year’s bunch was made up of local players and the salary list was not great and as the town will hardly support a 'paid aggregation the sport may become a dead one there.

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LUCKIEST MAN IN ARKANSAS. “I’m the luckiest man in Arkansas,*' writes H. L. Stanley, of Bruno, “since the restoration of my wife’s health after five years of continuous coughing and bleeding from the lungs; and I owe my good fortune to the world’s greatest medicine, Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, which I know from experience-will cure consumption if taken in time. My wife improved with first bottle and twelve bottles completed the cure.” Cures the worst coughs and colds or money refunded. At Blackburn’s Pharmacy. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. o PROBATE BUSINESS TRANSACTED The Will of Abraham Augsburge'r I* ’Probated—Final*Report* Filed in Estates. Ada Major et al., vs. Alma Oliver et al., partition, Benjamin L. Oliver appears and waives issue and service of summons,' and filed answer In one paragraph. Judge D. D. Heller was on the bench today, hearing some motions in cases in which he is acting as special judge. The case of State vs. Isaac Robison, public inotxlcatlon, has been appealed to circuit court from Squire Stone, where he was convicted a few days ago. Lafayette Rape filed his final report as administrator of the L. A. Host estate, and was discharged. Leo Kohne has filed final report as administrator of the Henry Kohne estate and notice of final settlement was ordered published. County Treasurer Lachot is at home from a three days’ visit to the Legislature, his first experience of this kind. He enjoyed the trip immensely. The will of Abraham L. Augsburger was probated this morning. It was written January 7, 1882 and bequeaths to Sophia Augsburger, wife of the testator, all his estate so long as she remains his widow. Should she re-marry, she is to receive only one-third, the rest of the estate to be divided among the four children, Fritz, Paul, Sophia and Mary. The will was witnessed by J. B. Zehr, Michael Zehr Christian Stuckey. ! . o George Ulmer has secured the contract for advertising in the Fort Wayne & Springfield company’s cars and will soon have tjjie, overhead spaces filled with attractive signs. If you, want a card, call on or phone Mr. Ulmer at this office. He didn’t have a dollar; he didn’t have a dime. His clothfel' 1 and shoes were looking just as though they’d served their time: He* didn’t try to kill himself to dodge misfortune’s whacks. Instead he got some ashes, and he filled five dozen sacks. Then, next he begged a dollar; in a paper in the morn, he advertised tin polish that would put the sun to scorn. He kept on advertising and just suffice to say; he’s out in California at his cottage on the bay.

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