Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1907 — Page 5

II BEST COUGH CURE H Ke Am *|| You are not getting the beat and will be disappointed. KEMP'S BALSAM costa no more than any other cough remedy, and you are entitled to the ’ best when you ask for it. Kemp’s Balsam will stop any cough that can be stopped by any medicine, , and cure coughs that cannot be cured I by any other medicine. ■lt is always-the Best Cough Cure. t J At all druggists, 25c., 50c. and sl. Don't accept anything else. J)

Mrs. Compton returned to her home at Indianapolis this morning, after making a pleasant visit here with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. True. The fuperal of Mrs. , Margaret gent was, held this morning at ten, * o’clock from the house, Rev. J. C. V White officiating and a large crowd was present to pay their tribute of- respect to the deceased. Interment was ■made in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. *7 Three pipe liners were arrested last evening by Marshal Green on a Charge of public intoxication and were lodged in jail. They were arraigned this morning before Mayor Coffee and plead guilty, being given the usual dose. Being unable to pay they went to jail and will board it with Sheriff Meyers. On March 10 the Ohio passenger rate law will have been in effect one year and from what can be learned the 2-cent rate is to be enforced by the railroads, basing all long distance rates on short* line mileage. Whether this will be- done where there is strong competition with the electric ’lines remains to be developed. Mrs. Lucinda Sautbine, aged sixtyfour years, died yesterday at her home in Craigville after an illness of two weeks’ duration, death resulting from a complication of diseases. The funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at ten o’clock at the Zion church and internment will be , made in the Zion cemetery. Mrs. Bautt4ne..waq, ip this city, , The’ musical given* last evening un. der the auspices of the Pythian Sisters tvas' Attended by a large crowd and the entertainment was enjoyed W evrirybrie. The music-was ( classic and showed-the - musicians to! be of a high standard. rThe readings of Miss MJurta# were enjoyed immensely by the' audience and she was called back oWne and time again. The pro. - eoeds' went to swell the funds of the Pythian Sisters. Xii-«Bhortly after Fred Underwood took charge of the Erie a Western friend called on him and asked him what Erie stock was worth. “When I was a bpy,” replied Mr .Underwood, “I was troubled with sore feet. Some- ! body told me to try Saint Jacobs’ Oil. So I went to a drug store and asked the clerk if he kept Saint Jacob’s Oil. He did. ‘What is it worth ?’ I asked. ‘lt ain’t worth a d ——n,’ he replied, ‘but we charge $1 a bottle!’” An Englishman, who was going to drown himself, found two sovereigns in his pocket, and thinking it was a pity to waste so much, gave them to a poor woman who was starving for bread. When he saw how happy the 'pieces made the mother and her children, he bethought’ himself of how much happiness he could occasion by all the hoards of gold and silver he had. He gave up the idea of suicide and devoted the rest of his life to doing good.—Ex. ’W. F. GottsChalk of Terre Haute, state commander of the Sons of Veterans, has issued an order for the hplding of the annual encampment at Bluffton June 4, 5 and 6. There are a number of members of the organization in this county, County Recorder George F. Ogden of Laketon, formerly being state commander. They are preparing to attend this gathering. A feature of the encampment will be a sham battle between the Elwood and Hartford City reserves. During the three days there will be elaborate exercises and the affair will be made a big success. —Wabash Plain Dealer. , ; *•••'■*■ ‘ •a.'”/' A. S. Burkhart, owner and manager ofthe Southern Michigan Brise brill /league, was in Auburn last night and signed several good players. Mr. BurMfart/fe 4r«d&mend broker ato-De-troiUfcnA (rom that it would seem he has money to burn on the national game. The following well known players signed contracts with him last night: Jack Hillinger, catcher, who has been assigned to Mt. Clemens; Earl Howa d, outfielder, to Jackson, Mich.; “Rasty” Witham, infield, to Jackson; “Cy” Stout, first base, Jackson. All of these players have been seen in games in this section of Indiana and are well up in the inde pendent class. They will report for - . , —a a r _ Auburn nniiriPT*

The importance of protecting chilf dren from evil influences is a thing that needs no argument. The world is frequently shocked at a revelation .of the means that are usejl to lead !' children into wicked lives. People are ! weU enough aware that the? menace is constantly present. The only ques--1 tion can be as to the best means to bring about their protection. - Program for the March C. W. B. M. of the Christian church, to be held at the home of Mrs. McKinney on North 11th street on next Thursday I afternoon at 2 o’clock: Topic, Chil- ; dren’s Work —Its History and Present Standing; hymn; Bible lesson, 34th , Psalm; circle of prayer, For the children and Their Training; readings : and talk on the History of the Children’s Work; reading, “Give-Ye Them to Eat;” business period; benediction. Simon Moore, an employe of the ' Schafer Hardware Co., was arrested this morning by Marshal Green, ■ charged with running a threshing machine engine over the curbing on First strpet and breaking the same. Moore plead guilty to the charge and Was assessed a' fine of a dollar and costs, which he paid and was discharged. -The curbing was damaged to such an extent that it Will have to be taken out and a new section put in. [ ' * c ’.-¥;■ ' A man asked us the other day if . farming pays. Os course, it pays, or it would not have been carried on from the beginning of the world. But it does not pay with all men, and the number that do not make it pay is not very large. If farming is to pay the conditions must be favorable just as they must be for any other enter- ' prise. There is no kind of occupa- - tion that will pay if badly hanmed, 1 some of the greatest 'money-making enterprises in the world vpuld have 1 proved of no benefit to the men who ‘ went into them half prepared to suc--1 ceed. » Running a newspaper is just , like running a hotel, only different. When ' a man goes into a hotel and finds something on the table that does not 1 suit hied he does not raise hades with ’ the landlord and all in his old hotel. Well, hardly. He sets that dish 1 aside and wades into the many dishes '■ that suit him. It is different with ' some newspaper readers. They find ah article' occasionally that does not r suit them -exactly and without stop- ‘ ping to think it'may please hundreds of other readers, make a grand stand plriy and tell "the editor how a paper i stfdulcT'be ruffi-and what- should be ; plit i’ntb it. Rfif such people are',rie- ; coming fewer every year. ■ A. 4. Sellemeyer returned this morning from Huttig, Arkansas, where 1 he spent ten days with his son, Jesse ■ Sellemeyer, who is learning the lum- ! ber business. He found his son in good health and spirits and progres- : sing nicely in the business, he having received three promotions since being ; there and is now acting as yard mas--1 ter for his employers.! The plant is ; one of the largest in Arkansas and ■ this fact alone speaks much concern- , ing Jesse’s ability. Before returning home, Mr. Sellemeyer made a short trip through the states of Louisiana , and Texas and is loud in his praise , concerning the latter state, as he says it is booming. The climate is great and they are now enjoying ' balmy weather all through the south. > l Rear Admiral Coghlin, commandant • of the Brooklyn navy yard, whose rep- ■ utatioii as a relator of good stories ■ has increased each time he has spoken at a dinner, told a story a few ' nights ago which was given to illus--1 trate his distaste for being the last • speaker. “Having the last word,” he - said, “reminds me of a story I heard > not long ago. A certain man died and a clergyman was engaged to offer a eulogy. This worthy minister pre- ’ pared a sermon of exceeding length, but just before' he entered the parlor '■ to deliver it he thought that it might , be advisable to learn what the dead man’s last words had been. So he • turned to one of the weeping younger sons and asked: ‘My boy, can you tell me your father’s last words?’ ‘He u didn’t have none,’ boy replied. ‘Ma ' was with him tbVthevend.’” A large crowd of friends gathered ’. at the home of Mr. W?*®. Bigham to remind him of his 4Lth birthday an r x niversary.- •. Mr. BighumAas taken to Pleasant Mills by to r look at some horses when they I arrived home the table loaded I-with all kinds of gootfc-things, espe- ■. dally chicken and erke. The afterwn was spent in .chat, and s music. The guests present: were 1 Messrs, and and i sons, Weimer and daughter, J. B. t Stiveson, Rowand Stiveson and son, a Hunter and daughter of Glenmore, O.; ; Mrs. John Broadbeck,. Grandma Mc1, Cully, Mrs. Ally Workmger, Mr. and 0 Mrs. William Broadbeck, Wm. John- :- son, Mr. and Mrs. McMichael, Harley ti Stiveson, Harley Bigham. Abbey Bigi- ham and Mr. and Mrs. V' O. Bigham, j- The guests departed wishing Mr. Bigr ham -a great, many more such birthdavs. i

An exchange presents the matter of advertising as the following proposition: The cost of advertising is a secondary consideration. What is the difference as long as the advertiser can make tponey al it? He does not hesitate to buy a box of silks at a fancy price if he can make a good profit by the transaction. That ns the key to business —profit. If advrtising brings trade and profit, then advertise. Successful men advertise because it is to their interest to do so. “Ha! here comes Ratcliffe with a dagger. My last moment has arrived,” exclaims one of the characters in a new melodrama. Unfortunately, however, the acor representing Ratclffe had forgotten the dagger and came on the stage without it. But he was equal to the occasion. “Villain,” he exclaimed, “thou thought’st thou saw a dagger in mine hand. ’Twas thine evil conscience supplied the vision. But I will slay thee with a blow of this strong right hand,” which he proceeded to do. katherin O. Graf was before Judge Keeler of Cleveland, Tuesday asking him to restrain her husband f-rpm saying “Oh fudge” and other “silly things” in her presence. “Yes, we have lived in the same house since the filing of my divorce petition, one week ago, and we eat at the same table, but we both are silent,” she said. “The children commented at the dinner table about my second dvorce petition and my husband said ‘O fudge! Why did you do it?’ Judge Keeler refused her order on the grounds that a man can’t be restrained from saying silly things in his own home. To those who love the manly sport of the great national game—base ball -rtjiere must come just now a feeling of joy that during the present season we are to have professional contests on the diamond. To those who love to linger in the bleachers and howl their respective favorites to victory this news brings an Imbase ball is not confined to the small boy by any means. Many of us yvho are plodding down life’s pathway and to whom is left even the memory of a certain vacant lot where opposing “clubs” were in the old 4ays wont to battle for supremacy, can not if we would and would not if we could, entirely eradicate from our hearts the love for the game, and the bounding exuberance that comes with the glory of one home run. The Monroeville Breeze gives publicity to this interesting edict: Mr. Roy Crane, who, has. been filling the position as night operator fdr the 1 Mdnroeville Home Telephone coffi-’ pany in this city for the past several months, tendered his resignation last night as such operator. His place has been filled by Miss Viola Rowan, of Ft. Wayne, who enters upon het' duties this Thursdday evening. Under the change the company has adopted new rules which undoubtedly will be a benefit and result in better service to the patrons in the future. One of the rules is to the effect that after 9 o’clock each evening the office shall be closed and no person other than the operator will be allowed in the room until the next morning; thus the spooning of the operators and other persons over the lines has been cut out. Once while two famous students of Blackstone were arguing a case, one said he could illustrate his part of the argument, which was that of circumstantial evidence, by a story of a boy who was fond of custard pie. One day when left alone at home, he got into the pantry and finding a custard pie, ate it all. Then thinking of a certain strap which was hanging in the hall, he caught the house cat and smeared custard over its paws and mouth, and then turned it loose to roam at its will. Finally the old man returned and soon saw the cat with its tell-tale mouth and marks of its paws upon the floor, getting a rope he tied the poor cat to a tree limb, and went to the house to get his gun. The boy who had hidden himself in the rear ot the barn, remarked as he heard the report, “There goes another victim of circumstantial evidence.” When a man first enters prison to serve an indertemlnate sentence from tw to fourteen years he is dressed In a suit of narrow stripes. At the end of six months, if the man’s conduct has been satisfactory, he is allowed to wear clothes of cadet gray.. On the other hand it' the man is sullen or vicious and refuses to obey the prison rules, at the end of-six months he is clothed in broad stripes and twelve months of perfect conduct are necessary to gain for him the, coveted cadet gray. AWo to fourteen years sentence may* be cut down to about twenty-one months by good behavior. Mrs. Arina Raudenbush, aged sev-enty-five years, died Saturday night at eleven o’clock at the home of her son George Raudenbush, south of the city, after an illness of several months’ duration, death resulting from old age and other infirmities. The funeral was held this morning at the St. Paul church and interment I was made in the Decatur cemetery.;

IRWIN CARTER ROAD TO SELL The Board Has Taken up Considerable Business of Importance Thus Far. The board unanimously appointed and entered into contract with Clark J. Lutz as county attorney for another year. Mr. Lutz has acted in this capacity for the last nine years, has given close study to all the features of what is known as the county council law, and has guided the commissioners clear of all breakers. His reappointment is well merited and is a just tribute to a clean record as a counsellor for the board of commissioners. The James Hoagland macadam road petition was granted, Michael Miller and H. W. Sellemeyer were appointed viewers and L. L. Baumgartner engineer. They will meet and qualify, as such viewers on March 8, and file their report on said road, at least ten days before the April term of commissioners’ court. The road petition of Otto Reppert et al., was granted and Clinton Borne and Henry Wolfe were appointed viewers with the county surveyor as engineer. They will meet to qualify at the auditor’s office on March 7. Licenses to retail liquors were granted to Wiliam Hartings, Lafayette Ellis and John Meyers. Surveyor Baumgartner was ordered to prepare and present specifications for all the bridges and abuttments for which appropriations were made by the county council at their meeting last September. Blds were ordered for the construction of the. Irwin Carter macadam road, one of seven voted roads in St. Marys township. Blds will be received April 1, the first day of the April term of commissioners’ court. Mrs. W. H. Llndsley and daughter returned today from Dowagiac, Mich., where they were visiting with relatives ana friends. rs ; Mrs. William Bartling and child of Rockford, Ohio, who visited her fath-er-in-law, George Bartling and family, four miles west qt-this city, went to ■Decatur, Monday, for a few days! visit { wiht other relatives before returning home. —Portland Suh. ■ • ■ V.Beecher Meibers is today celebrating his fiftieth birthday in an appropriate manner and his old schoolmate John Yager is making great preparations for his fiftieth birthday which comes tomorrow. These boys are certainly getting to be old marks.The commissioners have refused to dismiss E. J. Walters as road superintendent in Rockcreek township on the petition of a number of farmers. It is understood that the petition, was circulated because Walters had issued strict orders against heavy hauling when the roads were soft. News. While skating near his home, the ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Pletcher, near South Whitley, fell and a stick which he carried in his hand, gouged out the lad’s eye, the eyeball lying completely out upon his cheek. Surgeons who were hurriedly summoned, replaced the optic and have hope of saving the eye. Marsh Burdg has rented the Wilder building near the Chicago & Erie railroad and is fitting the saiiie up and expects to open a burner shop by the first of next week. Mr. Burdg is one of the veteran ba Leri of our city and ha-- a reputation of being one of our best and you can bet that he will do considerable, business in his line. The room Is being remodeled and will make a very attractive shop. We are in, receipt of a copy of the momentous decision made by Judge Samuel R. Artman, of the Boone Circuit court, in which he holds that Indiana’s liquor license law is unconstitutional. In support of his opinion Judge Artman presents a great array of supreme court decisions in various states? The Artman decision has been printed in neat pamphlet form by the Patriot Phalanx, Indianapolis, tor five cents a copy, ten for 30 cents. Governor Hanly has signed the pure food bill, which the state board of -health after ten t of ( persist; ent effort, succeeded' ,in getting through the legisllfttire,'’hid unlawful to manufacture’ sell adul- : terated food or drugs, in the state of Indiana. The bill contained an emergency clause and became a law the minute it was signed. The bill not only makes it unlawful to manufacture or sell adulterated food and drugs in the state, but it provides for an annual appropriation of ?15,000 for its enforcement, which is placed in the hands of the state board of I health.

PENSION AGENCIES LET ALONE A Monument for the Tippecanoe Battlefield- —Indiana Senators Absent Some Time. ■ t Washington, March 5. —Republican members of the house who voted for the ship subsidy bill now wish they had not. The outcome is what some of these Republicans of the house feared it would be, the defeat of the bill in the senate. If the bill had become a law these disappointed Republicans say, the storm would have soon blown over, but now that the bill is defeated, which means that the whole subject of subsidy remains to be considered, the representatives who voted for the legislation will have to do a whole lot of explaining. The four Republican members from Indiana who voted against the bill in the house were feeling very good today. “I do not want to do any bragging,” said Representative Charles Landis, “but I felt and still feel that this is an inopportune time to enact a subsidy law, and my judgment is that when do take up the question of subsidy again, we should take it up in connection with- the revision of the tariff. My friends know that I also take the view the present is an inopportune time to revise the tariff There is a time coming when these two subjects should be considered together.” Washington, March 5. —The final decision of congress is that the present plan of paying pensioners shall not be disturbed. The conferees on the pension bill reached a compromise agreement which provides that during the coming years the secretary of the interior shall cause an investigation tb be made for the purpose of ascertaining if saving could be affected by the consolidation of the eighteen payment agencies here in Washington. Washington, March 5. —Among the last of the laws of the session signed by the president was one appropriating $12,500 for a monument on the Tippecanoe battefield near Lafayette, Representative Crumpacker got the bill through the house last night. The special appropriation is made on condition that the state of Indiana appropriate a like sum. r. Washington, March 5. —The two Indiana senators will not get back to Indiana for several weeks. Senator Hemenway will be detained here uritil about April 1 by the Brownsville investigation, and Senator Beveridge after recreation, will return here to write the next Installment of the Reader Magazine joint debate. The case of George E. McKean vs. the city of Decatur has been set down for trial in the Allen Superior court on March fourteenth. This* is the ' case that was tried some time ago, in which the jury disagreed. There is 1 some talk of settling the case before 1 it comes to trial. • Invitations were received by a num , ber of people in this city announcing ( the wedding of Miss Stella Leas of ; Waterloo, Ind., to Mr! Earl Peters of I this city. The happy event is to take place at the home of the bride in 1 Waterloo. They expect to make 1 their future home in this city. ' o 1 FATHER IS DANGEROUSLY Hi ' D S. E. Shamp receivea a telegram yesterday from Akron, Ind. saying that his father, Jeses Shamp, was seriously ’ ill with Bright’s disease, and thkt the . end was momentarily expected. Mr. j Shamp is seventy-five years of age. I and has been suffering from Bright’s disease for the past two years or ' more. Sam left last evening for ] Akron, to be at his father’s bedside. ; ———————i

CATARRH To prove unquestionably, and beyond any doubt . that Catarrh of the nose and throat can be cured, lam furnishing patients through druggists, small ’ free Trial Boxes of Dr Shoop's Catarrh Curs. I Ido this because I am so certain, that Dr. Shoops Catarrh Cure win bring actual substantial help. Nothingjcertainly, is so convincing, as a physical ] test of any article of real, genuine merit. But that . article must possess true merit, else the test will condemn, rather than advance it. . Dr. Snoop s Catarrh Cure is a snow white, healing antiseptic balm, put up In beautiful nickel ca pped glass jars . at 50c. Such soothing agents as Oil Eucalyptus, 1 Thymol, Menthol, etc., are tneorpora»ed into a < velvety, cream like Petrolatum, imported by Dr. Shoop from Europe. If Catarrh of the nose and throat has extended to the stomach, then by all ! means alsotute internally. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. ■; Stomach distress, a lack of genertil ■ strength, . Moatifig; belching, biliousness, bad taste, etc. ■ surely call for Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. I a Foruncomplicated catarrh only of the noser nd ( throat nothing else, however, need be used but < Dr. Shoop’s Catarrh Cure WM. H. NACHTRIEB.

DR. BOUCHELLE I* B. Bouchelle of Thomasville, Ga., a physician well known in the South, is very enthusiastic over the cod liver oil preparation Vinol. He Bays: “I have used Vinol in my ily and in my general practice with the most satisfactory results. It is exceedingly beneficial to those afflicted with bronchial or pulmonary diseases and to create strength.” The reason Vinol is so far superior to old fashioned cod liver oil and emulsions, is because it is a real cod liver preparation from which all the useless oil has been eliminated and tonic iron added. ■ We ask every weak, thin," rundown, nervous and aged person in town, and all those suffering from chronic colds, coughs and weak lungs, to try Vinol oh our guarantee. SMITH, YAGER & FALK.

DEEDS, NOT WORDS. Decatur People Have Absolute Proof of Deeds 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 wh6 have been cured to stay cured. Mrs. Catharine Confer of 227 First street, Decatur, Ind., 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 immediately and in a short time cured me and I am able to state now that the has remained permanent.” ■' : ■ For sale by all dealers. ’ Price 50 cents. Foster-MUhum Co N. sole agents for States. Remember the name-^DCAN’S—and take no other. . ■ ■ ; itp. ’ t.#i, .''Xi' The News — dhig c~ugh cure laws would be needed, if all cough cures were like J)r. Shoop’s Cough Cure is—and has been for 20 years. The national law now requires that if any poisons enter into a cough mixture it iqu»t; be printed on the label or package. 'For this reason mothers, and others, should insist on having Dr. Shooj/s Cough Chre. No poisori marks on Dr. Shoop’s labels' —and none in the med! cine, else it must by law be on thelabel. And it’s riot only safe, but it is. said to be, by those that know it best, a truly remarkable cough remedy. Take nd chance, particularly with your children. Insist on having Dr. Shoop’s Cough Cure. Compare carefully the Dr. Shoop package with others and see. No poison marks there! You can always bd'bn the safe side by demanding Dr.. Shoop’s Cough Cure. Simply refuse to accept any other. Sold by W. H. NACHTRIEB. APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE. . The undersigned, Louis Keller, a male inhabitant of the city of Decatur, Indiana, and over the age of 21 years,, a person not in the habit of becoming intoxicated, hereby gives notice to the citizens and voters of the town of Monroe, Adams county, Indiana, and to the citizens and voters of Washington township, Adams county, Indiana, that he will apply to ..the board of commisisoners of Adams county, state of Indiana, at their April term, 1907, for a license to sell intoxicating, spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time with the privilege of allowing the same to he drank on the premises “where Sold. My place of business whereon said liquors are to be sold and drank is situated in a room on the following described real estate, to-wit: • Commencing at a pofrit on the south line of the southeast corner of section 33 in township 27 north, range 14 east, at east line of the right-of-way of the Cincinnati; Richmond and Fort Wayne railroad, thence running east 122 feet and six inches, thence north parallel with the' east line of said sectipn 152 feet, .thence west 11» feet to east line of iiald right-ot-way T 52 feet taore or rifess to the place of beginning.. Said room in which applicant desires to sell lrift>x:cating liquors is the - — '■' story frame building situated upon the above described premises, said room being 18 feet by 30 feet, fronting on the public highway in said Washington township. Glass windows in front nd rear ’nd rea ings. Said applicant desires also to keep a lunch counter and cigar stand I in said described room and sell cis tobu.ccj lunch therein. | J ’ LOUIS KELLER. J 3t ■ • Applicant. J