Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1907 — Page 7

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ROHRER FILES THE AFFIDAVIT Warrant Will be Issued Today—ls Convicted Goods to be Destroyed and 'Sprunger Fined Heavily. Perhaps the first action under the "blind tiger” act which became a law a week ago, was taken at Berne Thursday when an affidavit was filed before Squire Liddy of that town by Fred Rohrer, setting forth the fact that in his belief, one Samuel Sprunger had in his possession, intoxicating liquors, which were being sold in violation of the laws of Indiana. Squire Liddy, according to the provisions of the new law issued a warrant giving Copstable Samuel Kuntz the power to ’search said premises. Kuntz, accompanied by Rohrer, William Ray 'Mid Fred Meyer went to Sprunger’s place of business, where they found the doors locked and were denied admission. They broke In a window, entered and proceeded to search the property, finding hidden there a good sized stock of liquors. While the goods were being confiscated Sprunger stood by cursing and swearing, but made no effort to prevent the officers. The liquor found consisted of the following: Six sugar barrels filled with bottt®d beer, keg of whiskey, two Jregs of hop cream, box of hop cream, 19 bottles of whiskey, 11 bottles of ■German rum, four bottles of beer, three bottles of apricot brandy and two jugs of wine. The stock made two good dray loads and was hauled to Squire Liddy’s office where they were guarded last night. This morning Samuel Kuntz and Deputy Prosecutor Emil Franz came to Decatur to file the papers necessary for a prosecu. tion and Sprunger will be arrested at once. Sprunger occupied a build. Ing at Berne, divided into three rooms his saloon being in the middle room, where the most of the liquor was found. A government license was

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“For over thirty years,” writes a gentleman in Los Angeles, I have used Arbuckles’ Coffee. Many times my family has tried other coffee only to come back to our old reliable, unchangeable Arbuckles.* No other coffee has this uniform never failing aroma, I care not at what price. I have often wished I could tell you this.” Many other people have the same opinion. Arbuckles* was the first roasted packaged coffee, and its sales exceed all the others put

pasted on the wall. The proprietor has certainly taken a long chance, having openly defied the laws for several months. If the court finds that Sprunger kept these liquors for unlawful sale he must order the sheriff to destroy said liquors, vessels in which kept and all furniture and implements used in their sale. If con. victed, Sprunger must be fined not less than SSO nor more than S2OO for the first offense and for the second i offense the fine may be SSOO with six months jail imprisonment. This first test of the “blind tiger” law will be watched with interest here as well as all over the state. It’s safe to say that Sam Sprunger’s “hop cream ’ joint,” which was becoming famous, ia out of commission for some time to , come. ’ AN OLD FASHIONED MARCH ( Predicted by the Never Falling 1 Rev. Hicks. ’ Rev. Irl Hicks, the weather prophet t of St. Louis, In his predictions for . March, says the month will contain ; a great deal of winter. Here Is what . he predicts, although here’s hoping ' he’s mistaken: I The first storm period, practically i covers the first week in March. It is , central on the 4th and reaches the ! 7th. Disturbances beginning at the , close of February will, in all probl ability run into this period. The tems perature will rise, the barometer fall I and electrical storms result on and ' about the 2nd, in southern sections. ; Meantime snow storms of wide extent . and severe in character will be rush.| > ing eastward and southward out of j . the northwest. High barometer and ; cold wave will be the natural sequel . behind the storms of this period. ; The second storm period will cul- , minate on the 9th, 10th and 11th. This | ; period lies at the annual magnetic J and electric crisis, which as a rule

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together. That it costs you less is due simply to our coffee business being so much greater than any competitors, in fact, it is larger than the next four laigest firms in'the world combined. We naturally can and actually do give better coffee in ARIOSA than anyone else can give for the price; Being the standard article it is sold at the narrowest Some grocers will try to sell you instead loose coffee which the roaster is ashamed to sell in a

culminates on and about March 11, each year. Added to rain, snow and many stiff gales on sea and land, auroral lights, earth currents interfering with telegraphic transmissions, and kindred phenomena, need surprise or alarm no reader of these forecasts any where from the Bth to the 15th of March. The third storm period covers the 13th to the 17th, embracing new moon on the 13th, and moon on the celestial equator on the 15th, the central day of the period. Falling barometer and change to much warmer will set in to the wet early as the 13th. As these conditions spread eastward rain and thunder storms will first appear progressively, beginning about the 14th, and touching wide sections of the country during their eastward progress about the 15th to 17th. On the western side of these storm areas, rain wiU turn to snow and sleet, bringing in the final windup a good dash of March' Winter. v The fourth storm period Is central qn the 20th, 22d. The atmospheric currents will come up from the south at,this time, bringing higher temperatures, falling barometer and some ugly March storms —storms all the way from tropical to boreal. Look for rain, sleet, snow, heavy gales and a March cold wave, , the cold wave to chase the storm areas eastward, and dominate the country from about the 22d to the 25th. The fifth storm period has the dis. tinction of holding within its brace the central day of the great Jupiter period, March the 29th. This period is central on the 27th and reaches with its perturbing force from the 25th to the 30th. The period will begin with cloudy, menacing weather; I marked change to warmer, with bari omter falling to extremely low readings, will be in full swing from westtern sections by the 27th, and from the 28th to the end of the month all parts of the country will be touched I by storms, varying in character according to latitude. Rain, thunder and gales in the south, with probable

package bearing his name. Don’t take it, neither the looks nor the price , indicate its cup quality. No matter where ycj i buy Arbuckles’ ARIOSA, or. what yea pay for it, it's the same old uniform Arbuckles’ ARIOSA Coffee. If your grocer will not supply, write to ARBUCKLE BROS., 1 New York Qty.

West India hurricanes and rain, turning to phenomenal sleet, snow and blizzard in more northerly parts’ A destructive March blizzard over Canada, and along all northern to central states, need not surprise any student of these forecasts. Tornadoes along the south tangents of these cyclonic areas will be natural and should be watched for. On the 29th and for two to three days before and after that date, earth will pass a decided crisis In seismic, tidal wave and volcanic .perturbation. o— OBITUARY. Died at the home of its parents at New Castle, Pa., Agnes Louisa, daughter of Frank C. and Bertha C. Blossom. Bom December 23rd, 1906, and died February 18, 1907, aged one month and twenty.six days. The funeral cortege arrived on an early train Wednesday morning and the services took place at the Baptist church at ,10 o’clock, conducted by the Rev. D. B. Reckard. The text was taken from fourteenth chapter of Revelations, the fourth verse. Sleep on sweet babe, And take thy. rest. God called thee home, He thought it best. Mr. and Mrs. Blossom have the sympathy of all their friends in the loss of an only child. o BROTHER SENDS FOR THE BODY Remains of J. J. Early to be Ship, ped to Pennsylvania. Coroner J. C. Grandstaff has received word from E. R. Early of Palmyra, Lebanon county, Pa., asking that the remains of his brother J. J. Early; who was found dead in the Hunsick. er barn a few days ago, that the body be prepared for burial, placed. in a casket not exceeding $25.00 in cost and shipped by express, to Palmyra. He enclosed a postoffice order for $25 and Dr. Grandstaff is arranging to comply with the requests, though it is doubtful if this sum will cover the charges. —o ARE NOW IN LUCKEY BUILDING Keller Incubator Company Moved This Week. The Keller Incubator Company are now located in the Luckey building and as soon as their machinery is properly placed, the manufacture of this well known incubator will be begun under the incorporation made last week. John S. Colchin is in charge and soon business is expected to go at a rapid pace. <• ED PEELER’S STORE IS ROBBED Lagoda, Ind., Feb. 21.—Burglars cracked the safe in Ed Bepfer’s general store here today and got' two hundred dollars In and four hundred dollars in merchandise. The Mr. Beeler referred to above formerly lived here and managed the Big Store. •— The Hon. John Steele was a sheriff In Missouri. A new county judge was elected and Steele, thinkng to pay the judge a delicate compliment, selected fo'r his first panel of Jurors every fat man in the county. The judge weighed nearly 300 pounds. The day was hot, and Steele, when he took the jurors out to dinner, fed them so heartily that they all went to sleep furious. “What do you mean,” he raor_ ed at the sheriff, “by bringing those sleepyheads into court as a jury? They haven’t heard any of this afternoon’s evidence. I discharge the panel. Go out and get a panel of men who will stay awake. I want men with a single eye to justice, not dolts like these.” Steele went out and rode the county that night. When the judge appeared the next morning Steele had a panel of one-eyed men for him. A father sent his son to a drug store the other day to buy some antiseptic tablets. He wrote as follows: “A small botttle of antiseptic tablets; no carbolic acid! no iodoform! possibly what the surgeons use when performing an operation to purify a bowl of water.” The druggist wrote back: “Cannot sell what you want to a minor; the adult must in person and sign the poison register.” W. F. Gottschalk of Terre Haute, state commander of the Sons of Veterans, yesterday issued an order for the holding of the annual state encampment of the order at Bluffton June 4, 5 and 6. A feature of the encampment will be a sham battle between the Elwood and Hartford City reserves. Del Locke and Harry Evans, representing the Merchants and Manufac. turers’ association of this city, left this morning for Chicago where they will look over the plans of . two concerns desiring to locate in Bluffton and fully investigate their standing. Either of the concerns can be land'’.'! and the Bluffton people ?."0 ixareiy taking (.he proper precautionary measures in seeing what they are getting before they come. —Bluffton Banner.

THERE’B SOME TRUTH IN THIB * • A Plain Explanation of What Constitutes Gambling. The standard dictionary defines gambling as “playing a game of chance for stakes,” and defines a stake as “something wagered or risked on a game.” Again it says “gambl. ing is pretending to buy or sell, depending en chance variations in prices for gain.” Now some have not a very clear vision of the real essence of gambling. Everyone whether Protestant or Catholic cleany understands that the man who sits at the card table in the saloon and plays to win the stakes, in green backs piled on the table before him is gambling, but when a woman sits at the progressive euchre table with other women of her social set, or members of her own club, in the parlor of a sister church member perchance and plays cards when the stake are cut glass, china or em. broidery work instead of green backs, the preacher is too often silent about gambling. Yet all join in wonder why the young people are not coming into the church and being saved. The church brands the man who plays the horse races and bets on the pace of an animal as a gambler, but the man who buys and sells grain or stocks, depending upon chance variations of price for gain is often elected Sunday school superintendent or steward in the church. The spirit of gambling, obtaining something for nothing or much for a little, is in the air—in the hearts and minds of men, women and children. These things seem small, yet it is small things that initiate our boys and girls into vice. Mothers, wives, teachers and women in general are in a great measure made to feel that they are responsible for the moral, spiritual, physical and intellectual training of the* men of the future generation, but this is unjust, for all the influence for good that it is possible for them to exert is outweighed ten times over by the evil influences' of the saloon, over which they are powerless and are made so by the fathers of these boys they are expected to train up for God, home and native land, because the vote to license the saloon. —W. C. T. IL, Mrs. Charles Ritter, press reporter. ■ _■ o — . J. Passwater and children ’ Decatur Saturday and remained there until Sunday evening, guests at the home of Verne McGonagle. Jud went over Sunday forenodn • and , took dinner’ with the McGonagles, returning home with his family Sunday 1 evening. Miss Della McGonagle is in • very poor health,' and her grandmdth- • er, Mr. Passwater, sr., of this town, ’ has been in Decatur some weeks, assisting in the care of her. —Willshire Herald. i *.•* n ■ r ' r ■" f ' According to a new interpretation of the law it will be necessary for the person desiring to take advantage of the mortgage exemption law, to see to it that the deed for the property on which he has placed an incumbrance is on record in the recorder’s office and properly transferred for taxation purposes in the office of the county auditor before the first day of March, or no attention will be paid to his application for exemption by reason of his mortgage. The new way of using the telephone (supposed to have been hit upon by one of the many health cranks who are concerned with keeping clear of germs) which is to press the receiver against the chest instead of holding it close to the mouth and talking in the usual amount of wearing appar. el, it is declared does not interfere. The scientific explanation of this phenomenon is that the sounds of the voice which are made in the chest, are carried by the bones as they would be by a sounding board. Indiana sheriffs have succeeded in getting promises from enough members of the legislature to make sure that they will, pass a bill giving to the sheriffs the “in and out” fees. This fee is paid for taking prisoners in at the jail and discharging them. The court decided about a year ago that the fees belonged to sheriffs. Last fall another decision was rendered to the effect that the fees belonged to the county. The sheriffs of the state perfected an organization and organized a lobby to look after their interests at Indianapolis. There is but one way to get even in this world and that is to live without trying to get even. Success has its own regards and none of them is revenge. No man who glories in revenge ever succeeds at anything. The one way to get even with enemies is -to ignore them just as the way to avoid failures is to succeed. This is a busy world and it hasn’t time to to the m"-* cnly aim '-J o'sc c . ■ : .11J.‘.-gainst whom he thinks he a grievance or even against whom he may have a real grievance so far as that goes. >

Yesterday afternoon the ministers of Hartford City, who are holding a big revival meeting, visited every saloon in the city with the request that they, with all other business houses, close their doors for two hours in the middle of the day today in order that all might attend the big mass meeting to : be held by the revivalists. The request was complied with by every saloonist and every business man and many of the saloon keepers promised to be present at thq churches to hear the sermons. the preachers visited the saloons, many men who were drinking at the bar made hot holes in the air getting out the back door, thinking no doubt that a raid of some sort was about to be pulled off. While John Shuman, an aged resident of Mt. Etna, Huntington county, was standing over his invalid wiffe fanning her Tuesday morning, he dropped dead from heart disease. Mrs. Shuman has been suffering from, the same malady and when she was suddenly seized by a sinking spell, the husband hurriedly called a physician and then set about making his wife as comfortable as possible. The exertion and excitement proved too much for the aged man and he dropped dead by the side of his fainting companion. He was more than 70 years of age and had resided in the county sixty years. Clover Leaf train 3, en route from Toledo to St. Louis and detouring through Danville on account of a wreck at Silverwood, Ind., was wrecked on the “long” track of the Peoria and Eastern opposite Trainmaster Huffman’s office in the Chicago and Eastern Illinois headquarters building at 6 o’clock last night and was off the track a half hour. On account of the wreck at Section street all Peoria and Eastern trains were obliged to use the long track and it was while going in at the watch shanty switch that the rear trucks of the one baggage > car climbed the rails and jumped off into the mud. A pair of wrecking frogs were called into play and . the train was soon back on the rail. — . Danville Press. , H. A. Fristoe, the Economy store man, received by expresss on last ’ Wednesday morning, from “Old Kentucky,” for . his little daughter, Mar_ 1 garetta, a full blooded water spaniel ' pup; it was a present from her grand- ' ma, who is spending the winter with her son, E, Meress and family at Lexington, Ky.—Geneva Herald. The Fort Wayne lodge of Elks has decided to let the contract for the ’ new home of the lodge within the near future, so that the work on the j structure may begin about April 1. It Is hoped to have the building ready , for occupancy by fall. The house t which stands or the lodge’s property will'be removed. It won’t be a great while before the birds begin to come north again i and the sound of the willow meeting the horsehide on the nose will be in" our midst, much to the joy of fans who have been growing tired of win- ' -ter gossip and pipe dreams, and long to get out and see the game as it is ■ played on the grassy sward rather than around the coal stove. Os course, when you get right down to it it will be nearly two months, before the season begins, but then It’s pleasant to think that most of the dreary sansbase ball months are over, and that every day brings visibly nearer the fan’s only comfortable season. A Springfield man, says an exchange, who was very fond of fishing, , while enjoying great sport at Beardstown on (he Illinois river, went to the telegraph office and sent the following message to his -frife: “I’ve got one. Weighs seven pounds and is a beauty.” In reply came the following signed by his wife: “So have I, weighs ten pounds. He isn’t a beauty. Looks like you.” Some idiot has introduced in the legislature a bill prohibiting doctors from advertising or rather to establish a board to censor doctors’ advertising. The doctors who are pushing it want the newspapers to tell only the exact truth about what the doctors can do. Whenever the newspapers tell the exact truth there won’t be half as many doctors as there are now. —Bluffton News. A letter received from W. B Suttles located at Erie, Pa., gives the information that he is nicely located with a geod berthon the- Bessemer & Lake— Erie railroad. Mr. Suttles is roadmaster and has under his supervision forty miles of double trackage and seventy miles of yards. He reads the Daily Democrat every day, and that means that- he is posted as to the doings of Decatur and her people. Veterans of the civil and SpanishAmerican wars have been watching the course of a bill introduced in the house by Representative Condo and. which passed that body. The principal provision of the bill declares that where it is possible the state, in selecting employes for its different institutions, shall give preference to men who fought in the Spanish-Amer-ican war and to veterans of the civil war.