Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1907 — Page 5

GROOMING COUNTS But it caqnot make • Fair Skin or a Glossy Coat. f Women with good complexions cannot be homely. Creams, lotions, washes and powders cannot make a fair skin. Every horseman knows that the satin coat of his thoroughbred comes from the animal’s “all-right” condition. Let the horse get “offhisfeed” and his coat turns dull Currying, brushing and rubbing will give him a clean coat, but cannot produce the coveted smoothness and gloss of the horse’s skin, which is his complexion. The ladies will see the point. Lane’s Family Medicine Is the best preparation for ladies who desire a gentle laxative medicine that will give the body perfect cleanliness internally and the wholesomeness that produces such skins as*painters to copy.

Judge W. L. Penfield .formerly of Auburn, for eight yars solicitor for the state department at Washington, where he is now engaged in practicing law, has been appointed as a delegate to the international peace conference to be held at New York April 14 to 17. The funeral services of Mrs. Jacob Scheuler were held Sunday morning at the Preble Lutheran church, Rev. Preuss officiating and a large crowd being present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased. Interment was made in the Preble Lutheran cemetery. M. V. B. Archbold and family will leave next Monday for Fort Wayne, where they expect to make their future home. Mr. Archbold has purchased property at Fort Wayne and is making this move under the impression that it will be more convenient for his regular routine of work. While here Mr. Archbold has proven his worth as a citizen and we wish him success in his new home. Tnomas J. Wright, a pioneer citizen of Kosciusko county, whose skull was crushed two weeks ago by the limb of a falling tree on his farm near Atwood, died Thursday night. He did not regain consciousness after the accident,' Mr. Wright was the first male child born in Kosciusko county, his birth having occurred near Milford Junction October 4, 1833, and he was the oldest continuous resident of that county. The fruit crop caught another jolt Saturday morning when the thermomter registered three below freezing, the mercury the night before standing dangerously near the freezing point all of the time. A stiff north wind, that at times blew a gale prevented any frost, yet it was cold enough to freeze the ground. That the fruit crop has been seriously damaged, if not indeed entirely ruined, is the opinion of fruit growers. Floyd Ratliff, oldest son of Mrs. John Ratliff, had three fingers of his right hand badly lacerated Friday aftemon while assisting Otto Ratliff unload some tools, from a wagon. Among the articles was a portion of a derrick, which fell across Floyd’s hand when the wagon bed tipped upward. The flesh on one finger was peeled off almost to the bone. He went to the office of Dr. Hirt to have the injury dressed. —Bluffton News. As a general average the teachers who taught school in Indiana in the year 1906, received just about six cents more a day than those who taught the preceding year. This and a number of acts of interest in connection with education, is to be obtained from the biennial report,''■just published, of Fassett A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction. The average daily salary of each teacher of the state in 1906 was $2.78; in 1906, the average daily wage was $2.’J2. The average yearly salary has increased in the year from $378.29 to $394.76. — There is one thing to commend in the manner in which the mail and club order houses conduct their business. They are persistent and more or less consistent advertisers. They have at least two effective mediums of reaching the public. First, they are large advertisers in the cheaper magazines and so-called mail order weekly publications and then many, if not'all, issue voluminous catalogues in which detailed statements are made about nearly every article list-' ed. True most of the statements made are not backed up by the good but they catch numerous suckers just the' same. If the local dealer would advertise in season and out with the same degree of persistency that marks the mail order house there would be Jess complaint about money going out of town. o- — This May Interest You No one is Immune from Kidney trouble, so just remember that Foley’s Kidney Cure will stop the irregularities and cure any case of kidney and bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

Ed Lyons and family have moved from this city to their new home on Rural- Route nine, which he recently purchased. The farm is composed of forty acres and will make them a nice country home. Suppose you’d go to the postoffice and hand a dollar bill through the wicket, and say: “I want twice as many twos as ones and the balance in threes.” How many stamps would you get? Try it once. Rev. *D. M. Buirley, of Decatur, went home after being here Sunday, officiating at the funeral services of Mrs. Fred Hummer, held Sunday morning at the Union church near BlainePortland Commercial-Review. I Mr. and Mrs. Harry White, formerly of this city, who have been located at Ft. Wayne for the past year, will return to Decatur in a few days, as I Mr. White has accepted a position ■ with the Cement Block Factory of this place. Horace Botthoff, custodian of the new cemetery, has been busily engaged during the past few days removing the remains of a number of the relatives of Mrs. J. D. Schrock, of Columbus, 0., from the old cemetery to the new. Sampson Little, a well known Huntington man, dropped dead Saturday afternoon, falling lifeless from his chair within a few moments after he had told friends he felt much better. Mr. Little had long been ill from Bright’s disease. Chauncey Stetson, the janitor at the South Ward school house, met with a very painful accident Tuesday while cleaning the wash basins at the school house. He was using Red Seal lye and in some manner got some of it in his right eye, causing him much pain. Joseph Minch and Co., of Geneva, are moving their stock of goods here from that town and expect to occupy the room in the Bimel Block recently vacated by the Durbin dry goods store. Tlje stock has been greatly replenished, and it is expected to be open to the public some time this week. —Portland Commercial-Review. A commission was appointed at Indianapolis last year to formulate a plan for a merger of the Baptist and Christian churches. The commission reported its work Friday at a Cincinnati conference. The churches are said to be close together, yet no nearer a merger than when the idea was first advanced, thirty years ago. Levi Kohler, the erratic German who has been in jail for some time because of his drunken carousal at Vera Cruz, during which he annoyed Rosie Stanfleigh, a young girl, was released from jail Saturday when his brother appeared and paid his fine. Kohler has been in trouble several times before, but drink is always at the bottom of his difficulties —Bluffton Banner. The horse sale to be held Friday under the auspices of the Decatur Horse Sale Compay according to the views of the managers will be the best sale yet conducted by this institution. Seventy-five head of horses are now guaranteed at their stables and fifty more will be added by Thursday night. The horses are all good ones and there are some very pretty teams among the list. The remains of Mrs. Ed Brushwiller, who died last Wednesday at Boulder, Colo., were laid to rest Tuesday morning in the family burial plot at Matthews. The services were conducted at ten thirty o’clock. What Mr. Brushwiller expects to do in the future has not been announced, but it is fully expected by his friends that he will return to this city and make his future home. When P. A. Allen opened his office this morning as superintendent of the city schools, he found upon his desk a handsome floral horsehoe bearing a card signifying that the gift was from former graduates of the school. Mr. Allen was deeply impressed with this display of friendship from those whom he had presided over in the past and desires to thank every one who had a part in the pleasant little surprise.— Bluffton Banner. A woman who is acknowledged by all who know her to be not only clever, and brilliant, but possessed of .sound sense, said to a friend: ‘‘There is never any necessity for accidents” and although thia many sound para- ' doxical, it is a great truth. The accidents that occur are the result of ignorance of natural laws. How can we hope to live without making great i mistakes if we are blind to the law lof cause and effect? A trifle less be- - 1; lief in and use of the term “luck” will , place us all where there are fewer ac- • cidents. It’s a rather good thing ■, sometimes to ponder the advisability ' 1 of using the brainS with which Prov- • idence has seen fit to endow us; to ! use them to forge our own “luck” and iso prevent accidents. QrDr. Sol C. Dickey, president of the . Winona Interurban railway company, i has gone to New York to see Andrew ■ Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. He 1 will endeavor to interest both men in ! the Winona Technical and Winona Agricultural schools.

SOME MORE INFORMATION Taylor University Has a Three Year Normal Course and a Good One, Too. Many ask, “Have you a summer Normal course?” No, we have not. The course plans three years work in the regular school year. A typographical error recently caused me to say "Bachelor of Physiology,” when it should have read “Bachelo of Philosophy.” Taylor University is located at Upland, Grant county, twelve miles southeast of Marion, on the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania railroad, and only about forty miles from Decatur. The five main buildings are heated by steam. A well, two hundred feet deep, with engine, reservoir and plumbing, furnishes an abundant supply of excellent water. The University is situated on the highest general elevation between Chicago and Columbus, 0., according to the railroad survey, 936 feet above sea level. There are one hundred and ninety students, one hundred and twenty of which take meals at the dining hall. The main building is Maria Wright hall, in which the work of the various schools is mostly done. There are also two men’s dormitories, and two for the ladies. It is hoped that ere long, there may be added to these a chapel, a gymnasium, another ladies’ dormitory, with other improvements for comfort and health. Remember that Taylor University leads the way in cutting out the “objectionables” from the institutions, giving a good, broad, general education. This is an age of reform. Can anyone do better than to help her in this great undertaking? Can you, reader? Phone 82. GEO. C. ULMER, ' Financial Agent. oOBITUARY. Noah Merica was born in Champaigne county, Ohio, November 18, 1833, died at Decatur, Ind., April 2, 1907, aged 73 years 4 months and 15 days. He was married to Annis Wood February 15, 1854, and to this union was born six children, four girls and two boys. One daughter has preceded him to the glory world, leaving to mourn, three daughter, two sons, two brothers and one sisters. He was a kind and loving husband and father, and a devoted Christian, having united with the United Brethren church about forty-three yeafs ago, and has never lost his faith in God through all his illness. He was always praying that God’s will be done and his last hours were his happiest ones. He volunteered in 1864 and served our country faithfully until the close of the war and then returned home with an honorable discharge. He moved to Decatur in 1887 and lived there until his death, and by kindness and honest dealing has made many friends who mourn his departure. When we leave this world of changes, When we leave this world of care, We shall find our missing loved ones In our Father’s mansions fair. Call not back the dear departed, Anchored safe where storms are o’er, One the border land we left them Soon to meet and part no more. o— OBITUARY. Anna Mary Shafer, Kawdenbush, was born Oct. 17th, 1831, in Pennsylvania, died Mar. 3rd, 1907, age 75 years, 4 months and 16 days, in Adams county, Indiana. Death resulting from old age. She emigrated to Akron, Ohio, in 1847, and in 1849 was united in marriage with Isaac Rawdubush. To this union were born six children. They were called together in 1877 to mourn the death of the father, and in 1894 to mourn the death of a sister. She was one of the early settlers in Adams county, emigrated here from Ohio in 186.6, and living a useful life until her death. The children that survive her are George, Day*ton and William Raudenbush, Mrs. Clara Roebuck and Mrs. Ellen Faust, and several grandchildren. All children were at her bedside during her last hours of life. The services were conducted at the St Paul church by Rev. C. T. Payne. Interment at Maplewood cemetery. There is no one like a mother In the hour of weal or woe; A mother’s voice will reach us Wherever we may go. And, though her life has ebbed away, And left her children dear, Her spirit watches over us As she did while with us here. HER CHILDREN. o— - A CARD This is to certify that all druggists are authorized to refund your money if Foley’s Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. It stops the cough, heals the lungs aid prevents serious results from a cold. Cures la grippe, coughs, and prevents pneumonia and consumption. Contains no opiates. The genunlne is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. . to s' k■'M■ ’ ' ' - ■ ’V t'.: l A-s ■ ■ u. ■; .i* .•ik, , .

ALLOTTMENT GIVEN TRUSTEE There is Much Red Tape About the Cleaning of Ditches, But it is an Improvement. The new drainage law provides for repairs by a petition to surveyor by the owners of oue-eighth of lands along lines of ditch. The allotment list in turned over to the township trustee, with addresses; it is the trustee duty to notify resident and nonresident owners of day set for sale of allotments. Notice of appeal may be made to county clerk three days before sale of allotments by any dissatisfied land owner, but he must give bond in twice the sum of hi» allotment. The surveyor and trustee are summoned by clerk, surveyor files record, no other pleadings are required for determination of case. The trustee must not sell but await court’s action. If landholder’s assessment is not lowered 20 per cent he must pay all costa. No appeal from circuit court judge’s decision. No ditch constructed by irege can be cleaned out under the act without a petition by owners representing onehalf the land affected. Nor shall it apply to tile ditches. The survey-ur shall not receive a greater sum than $8 per mile of ditch for himself and assistant. Landowners are required to keep down noxious weeds and grasses. The landowner ha the right to repair his allotment on his own land. A LARGE NUMBER WAS PRESENT The Event Was Held tt the Home of His Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marschand. A grand surprise party was given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Marschand and daughter, on the Heckman farm, seven and one-half miles northwest of Decatur, in honor of their oldest son and brother, Earl, the event being his twenty-first birthday anniversary. Those present were as follows: the Misses Adda Fuhrman, Florence Morton, Lizzie Heckman, Tena Fuhrman, Bertha Weighman, Martha Conrad, Clara Hockemeyer, Lizzie Hockemeyer, Hannah Hockemeyer, Florence Diehl, Bertha Bazy, Pearl Diehl, Daisy Diehl, Gusta Gallmeier, Freda Gallmeier, Bertha Galmeier, Martha Gallmeier, Osa Marschand, Aldena Harschand, Martha Koldewey and Mrs. Lillie Brandyberry of Germantown, 0., and Messrs. Hiram Morton, Mart Bultemeier, Frank Morton, Edison Heckman, William Fuhrman, Mart Heckman, Connie Scheuman, Adolph Stoppenhagen, Henry Conrad, William Hockemeyer, Mart Conrad, Charles Weighman, Crist Wente, Pete Bultmeier, Rina Heckman, Walter Bultemeier, Lawrence Heckman, Henry Cook, Louis Fuhrman, Henry Kiser, Adolph Doehrman, John Kiser, Mart Buuck, Frank Kiser, Charles Zwick, Coonie Doehrman, Add Diehl, Adolph Buuck, Henry Koenneman, Mart Bieberlck, Otto Keiffer, and many others whose names could not be obtained. Altogether there was close to a hundred present. Everybody enjoyed themselves very much and spent the evening playing games of all kinds. Music was furnished by Earl Marschand and Otto Keiffer with the violin and guitar and much music was furnished by a phonograph. Mr. Marschand gave Earl a fine driving horse as a present, and Earl received many other nice presents. The surprise of • Earl was complete. The rooms were decorated and the part was said to be one the finest that was ever known of. All stayed until a late hour, dinner being served at 12 o’clock. The guests departed, wishing Earl many more such happy birthdays. o The News —No Pure Food Drug Cough Cure Laws would be needed, if all cough cures were like Dr. 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 must be printed on the label or package. For this reason mothers and others, should insist on having Dr. Shoop’s Cough Cure. No poison marks on Dr. Shoop’s labels — and none in the medicine, also It must by law, be on the label. And it’s not only safe, but it is said to be by those who know it best, a truly remarkable cough remedy. Take no 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 be on the safe side by demanding Dr. Shoops Cough Cure. Simply refuse to accept any other. Sold by W. H. NACHTRIEB. o ATTEMPT TO WRECK EXPRESS Tie Placed on Buffalo & Allegheny Tracks. * Pittsburg, Pa., April B.—An attempt was made yesterday afternoon to wreck the Pittsburg express on the Buffalo & Allegheny railroad. A tie had been placed across the track about three-quarters of a mile south of Parker. The engine, however, dashed the obstructio aside with but little damage. One man waM arrested on a charge of attempting to wreck a train.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Reported by the Decatur Abstract & Loan Co. Money to loan on farms and city property at the lowest rate of interest, with privilege of partial payments. Office rooms 3 and 4, Studabaker Block, Decatur, Indiana. Abe Ackerman to Wm. C. Krieg, pt. section 15-22, Kirkland township $lO,500. Amos Danner to C. W. F. Davis, section 8 Blue Creek township, 12 acres, S6OO. Abe Boch to Wm. Breiner section 35 Root township, 6 acres, $612. Emma McQueen to Wm. Breiner, pt section 35, Root township, 5 acres, $1550. Sarah Baker to John D. Nidlinger, section 25 Root township, 15 acres, SBOO. Henry E. Robinson to Joseph Isch, section 12 French township, 533 1-3 acres, $34,750. Fred Schafer to Samuel T. Niblick, section 14 Washington township 45 acres, $3875. Thomas I. Schooley to John H. Beery section 34 Kirkland township, 40 acres, $2900. Thomas I. Schooley to Mary E. Beery, section 34 Kirkland township, 40 acres, $2900. Mary E. Beery to Joseph Reinhard and wife, section 34 Kirkland township 40 acres, S3IOO. Lunetta Drake to E. Burt Lenhart, section 34, Union township SI.OO. E. Burt Lenhart to Lunnetta Drake, part section 34, Union township, SI.OO. E. Burt Lenhart to William Drake, part section 3, Kirkland township, sl. Frederick Scheiman to William E. Ramey, inlots 900-914, Decatur, S6OO. Wm. J Goldner to Henry L. Buuck, inlot 3 Preble, SI3OO, Emma Goldner to William A. Meyers, inlot 22 Preble, $225. Elias E. Goldner to William J. Goldner part section 1 Kirkland township, $2500. Gottlieb Gerber to Peter Huser, part section 8 Wabash township, S2OOO. George A. Stone to Finley Striker, part section 30, Blue Creek, SIBOO. Jacob J. Felber to Charles Moser inlot 120 Berne, SIOOO. Eli Sprunger to Maynard A. Frislng-. er, part section 5 St. Marys township, S4OOO. Furgeson A. Peoples to Mary J. Fleming part section 15 Root township, SIOOO. Joseph D. McFarland to David Staler, inlots 244-225, Decatur, S9OO. Gideon Gerber to Aaron Moser part section 34 Kirkland township, $525. George W. Syphers to Charles W. Feasel part section 19 French township S9OO. , Paul G. Hooper, commissioner, to T. T. Lister, inlot 2, Decatur, S4OO. E. Burt Lenhart, commissioner, to John S. Whitehead, part section 1 Monroe township, SI.OO. E. Burt Lenhart, administrator, to Wm. F. Fansler, outlot 260 Decatur SBOO.

W. P. Colchin to Fred Scheiman, outlot 291 Decatur, SI2OO. Joel Baumgartner to Samuel Baumgartner, part section 15, French township S7OO. W. E. Everts to Daniel Brewster, part section 35 Monroe township, $3200. Gustav Matthias to Amelia K. Hoagland, part section 4 Washington township SI6OO. Amelia K. Hoagland to Ben C. Hoagland part section 4 Washington township S7OO. David J. Mazelin to Noah D. Schwartz, part section 8 Monroe township $1768. George W. Kellar to Henry C. Fuhrman part section 25 Washington township SSOOO. Elisha Reynolds to Joel Q. Reynolds part section 12 Monroe township, $2500. John B. Tudor to Martin Miller, part section 9 Washington township $10,300. Martin Miller to James T. Keif er,! part section 16 Washington township I $7200. I Joel Q. Reynolds to Della C. Frank, outlot 14, Decatur, SBOO. John B. Stevison to John Smitley, part section 2 St. Marys township, $4550. Lewis C? Fisher to David E. E’ey outlot 275 Decatur, $650. Solomon Linn, president to Robert Meyers, lot 509 Decatur cemetery, ’ $76.80. I August Heuselman to Eugene Kneuss part section 15 Wabash township, $5500. I Daniel Brewster to W. E. Everts inlots 451 and 452 Berne, $3200. Joseph Rumschlag to Conrad Glllig» part section 11 Washington township, $3500. i H. M. Blossom to Furgeson Peopies, south half of outlot 70, Decatur, $2650. ' Lewis C. Mills to Monroe Cemetery association, part section 4, Monroe , township, $134. Elmer E. Welker to Jacob E. Henschen part section 21 Kirkland township $6500. Carolina Glutting to C. R. Niblick, inlots 286, 287 Decatur $2500. Maggie S. Vesey to Dr. M. F. Parrish inlots 8,9, 10 Monroe, S3OO. Magdalena Schwartz to Bertha

Moeschberger part section 2 Monroe township, $3950. J. A. Neuenschwander to Albert N. Sprunger in lot 423 Berne, $lO5. I Ben Schrang to Osa Wemhoff inlot 241 Decatur SIOO. Sarah Ehle to Joseph D. McFarland, inlot 832 Decatur SI6OO. Henry Grow to Abe Ackerman, part section 35 Kirkland township, S7OOO. William Rinehart to Maggie Burnett inlot 225 Decatur, $1025. Mary J. Thomas to C. H. Lammiman, pt sec 1 Monroe twp., $650. Jonathan Rian to trustees of M. E. church pt sec 16 Jefferson twp S6O. Mary J. Badders to Wm. Badders in lot 67 Monroe, S2OO. j John S. Postal to Benton Hough pt 1 sec 23 French township SISOOO. Elenor Johnson to Simon Hain inlot I 924 Decatur, $560. I Emma Krohn to S. Lochner pt sec 6 Washington township S3OOO. J. W. Brown to William M. Kitson pt sec 6 Wahington township S3OOO. i o ’ INJURIES PROBABLY FATAL Run Down by Runaway Horse—ls Sister of Ed Phillips of This City. Mrs. Charles Conner left this morning, over the Wabash, for Los Angeles, Cal., where she was called by the serious injuries of her mother, Mrs. Mary Barrington, formerly of this city. M/£. Barrington vent to <'a’tforniu .:ou>c time ago with Mr. and Mrs. Rubsi’ Barriugtot., in hopes ..jf benefiting Banlngt i.’s health. The trip was in vain for him. She has been making her home with Mrs. Robert Barrington but the latter has been sick and is in a hospital. Mrs. Mary Barrington had gone to the hospital to visit her daughter-in-law and was returning home when she was run down by a runaway horse and hurled into a ditch. In her fall she was seriously, if not fatally hurt. She was taken to the same hospital which she had left as a guest but a few minute before. A message was hastily dispatched for Mrs. Conor and he left at once for Los Angele to care for her mother. Mrs. Barrington, it is feared, is in a grave condition for she is now sixty years of age and her injuries will go harder with her than they would otherwle. Mrs. Barrington has a host of friends in this city who will regret to learn of her condition. It is expected that word will be received in this city of the developments of the injuries.—Wabash Plain Dealer. Mrs. Barrington is a sister of Ed Phillips and is quite well known here. _o GETTING CONGRESSIONAL BEE Editor Toner of Anderson, is Being Boosted for Congress Indianapolis, April 6.—Word has reached Indianapolis to the effect that Ed Toner, editor of the Anderson Herald, is being boosted by his friends for the Republican nomination for congress in the Eighth district. A few evenings age a numbe r ot gentlemen who are interested in political matters, were discussing the situation in the Eighth and Eleventh districts, when one t.f those present gave the above inform ion. He said he knew positively that Mr. Toner has been urged by his friends to seriously consider his own candidacy for several months past and that later Mr. Toner had appeared rather agreeable to the proposition. The writer has been unable *to verify the statement, but the source of information is so reliable that it seems unnecessary to do so. Mr. Toner is a very pleasant and affable gentleman and has much energy and tact, and would, no doubt, make a very aggressive candidate. —_o_ FRANK GALMOUR IS ON TRIAL Valparaiso, Ind., April 8. —Frank Galmour was placed on trial here today charged with being responsible J for the B. and O. wreck at Woodville, j which cost fifty lives. Galmour was I the engineer of the first section of the passenger train. o EXPERIENCE Convinces E. R. Lewis, M. D., and He > Recommends the Institution. | “I have had no little experience s with chronic alcholics and drug habitues who have taken the Keeley treatment, and I am glad to be able to say that I never allow any opportunity to pass to advise those who are addicted to these habits to avail themselves of the wonderful benefits derived from the Keeley treatment.” , E. R. LEWIS, M. D. Treasurer National Association of Railway Surgeons. Write to-day to Dr. W. V. Daniels, Manager of the Marion Keeley Institute, Marion, Ind. i ! Bitten by a Spider. Through blood poisoning caused by a spider bite, John Washington of Bosqueville, Tex., would have lost his leg, which became a mass of running sores, had he not been persuaded to try'Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.. He writes, “The first application relieved, and four boxes Jiealed all the sores.” «25c, guaranteed at Blackburn Pharmacy. ".’