Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1907 — Page 5

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Mrs. Harry Deam, who is with a I party of Decatur friends in Texas, ! sends to the News a pamphlet picturing the fine fishing scenes which she is enjoying in reality. She also sends two scales from a large tarpon which she caught.—Bluffton News. Preferring self-government to the rule of a bishop, the Elkhart Congregational church society has passed a resolution instructing its delegates to vote against the proposed tri-union of the Congregational, Methodist Protestant and United Brethren churches. The building committee of the Fort Wayne lodge of Elks is hard at work preparing plans for the new home to be located at the corner of west Main street and Maiden lane. The committee will advertise for bids in the course of a couple of weeks. — Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. McKean, who for the past year have been rusning the Park Hotel in the south part of the city, have moved their effects into the Case property on Fifth street, where they will run a boarding and rooming house. Their new quarters are large and roomy, and they are in a position to take care> of their patrons in njce shape. b ■ ' z . :, x Dolittle Reynolds, who was stricken last week with two severe strokes of paralysis, is tn a serious condition, and chances for his recovery are indeed doubtful. The last stroke affected his speech and he is at times unable to say a word. His wife is also on the sick list and is practically unable to do anything and the neighbors are taking care of them. A new orchestra composed of a number of local musicians is being organized and Decatur in the near future may boast of one that is right. The first rehersal of his organization will occur tomorrow and in a short time the names of the members will be announced to the public. Decatur needs an organization of this description and can use one most handily. A letter from Manager Behringer of the local team says that he has signed a left handed pitcher by the name of Geyer from Columbus, and has also signed a man by the name of Cook from the Ohio-Pennsylvania league for third base. Manager Behringer seems to be doing business in the right way, and fully expects to have a team that will be the champions of northern Indiana. The city officials desire in this manner to call the attention of young rpen and boys who are getting in the habit of playing ball on the streets, that they are violating one of the city’s ordinances and that they are subject to a fine for every ball thrown. The police do not care to make any arrests, and should the practice cease none will occur, but in the future they expect to rigidly enforce the law to the limit. The practice of playing on the streets is a dangerous one and the boys should cease before too late. A word to the wise is sufficient. A number of complaints have reached the ears of the police concerning the fact that some miscreant is endeavoring to make life miserable for ladies as they come and go to their respective homes, this occuring more so after night. Several ladies during the past week have been approached’ by strangers and the women upon several occasions have been nearly frightened to death. A rigid search is going to be made by the police and should the guilty party be caught will be given the fullest extent of the law. Charles Wilhelm, a Baltimore and Ohio fireman at Garrett, has been arrested, charged with fraudulent marriage. It is alleged that he married Bertha Cramer to compromise a paternity suit last November, lived with her but a day and then deserted her. Mrs. Ezra Patterson, of Logansport, hid $54 in currency in the oven of an i unused stove; then forgot about it and built a fire. The treasury department i examined the ashes and sent her a check for sl4 with the statement that i only this sum could be positively 1 identified. 1

• [ Instead of delivering theff essays • on commencement day the graduates ! of the Goshen high school will present ; i the play "Elizabeth, Princess of Eng- > land,” the cast embracing practically ; | all the high school students. The play ; will be given on June 4. ' The Ft. Wayne Shamrocks reseated ‘ the strong Garrett team again yester- , day, the score being five to one. Rob- ; blns the twirling for Ft. Wayne. Ralb ' ing sat on the bench where he could > be easily called should the visitors ; become dangerous at any time. , A Van Buren girl wno was one of ’ twelve graduates at the commence- > rnent held Thursday night was given , a gold medal for not having missed a J day nor been tardy in four years high > school work. Her record failed to > show how many breakfasts she had ! failed to get in that time. ’ Twelve Indiana counties have no • bonded indebtedness. They are Bar- > tholomew, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, De- • Kalb, Dubois, Franklin, Gibson, Hen- • ry, Howard, Lagrange, Lake, Madison, > Marshall, Montgomery, Noble, Parke, Posey, Scott, Steuben, Sullivan, Tipton t and Wabash. The Marion, Bluffton and Eastern ■ Traction company are trying to break ! into the business of supplying elec- > trical current for all purposes to the i city of Bluffton. They agree to supply this current for ten per cent, less , than it costs them to produce it. The . traction company are getting their t current from the Marion Electric com- , pany, which is owned by an eastern f syndicate. A. C. Everingham, of Terre Haute, . a member of the commander’s staff of the Sons of Veterans; Jerome W. • Perry division secretary, and treas- , urer and R. J. Bosworth, of Winchester, a prominent worker in the cause, , arrived in the city this morning for , the purpose of seeing what is being . done in the way of arranging to entertain the state encampment which meets here June 4, 5 and 6. —Bluffton ' Banner. Does any one in Decatur ever send , to a catalogue house for a job? Is there a single owner of real estate in the city who ever sold a mail order ( house a piece of property? Is there , a single house rented by a catalogue , firm? Is there a single physician in the city who has any patients in the mail order houses? Mighty few at- ‘ torneys have clients from catalogue firms. Dentists of the city pull mighty few teeth for mail order houses. The farmer sells none of his farm products to the catalouge houses. , One of the great ambitions of the , school authorities and literary people , of Andrews is likely to be realized before many months. It now seems veryprobable that the town will get a Car- . negie library building costing $5,000. So far have negotiations progressed that Andrew Carnegie, through his secretary, has promised the place $5,000 on condition that the place give SSOO each year for the support of the , institution, a proposition concerning which there is little doubt as to its being met. The situation was made known to prominent citizens of the place and hearty approval Os the plan has been shown on every hand. The present prosperity that Tell City is enjoying in such abundance in every line of business had its beginning in 1903, when the Tell City Improvement Association was organized. At that time nearly 100 business, and professional men started in to boom their town and to spread its fame beyond the confines of Perry county. Since then the place has nearly doubled in population, and more than a dozen substantial manufacturing industries have been, added. All of which goes to show that an improvement association is a good thing for any city or town that wishes to progress. o — FOR THE BATTLE IN INDIANA Planning a General Campaign for this Project—Three Days’ Meeting ‘to be Held at Winona. Indianapolis, Ind., May 2. —The Indiana Issue for May starts in with vigor on the Indiana anti-saloon league's crusade for making Indiana a dry state by 1912. The Indiana Issue is the league’s official organ. A general campaign will be conducted with a view of obtaining from the next gneeral assembly a county feature to the remonstrance law together with a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment absolutely prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the state. For the purpose of planning the campaign a three days’ conference will be held at Winona, July 29, 30 and 31. Dr. P. A. Baker, general superintendent of the American antisaloon league, will be the principal speaker. The announcement ofQJthe meeting states: “If we are to win this battle we must show the people in Indiana. the value of prohibition, not only from I the moral and spiritual but also fmm. the business standpoint.”

NOT CONNECTED WITH ROBBERY He is Not the Man Referred to by the Kokomo Police—His Parents are Heart Broken. The young man Herd who was captured at Bluffton a tew days ago, with suspicion cast upon him for being implicated in the robberies that were committed at the G. R. & I. and Clover Leaf depots, was released Sunday. The young man was given a hearing in the mayor’s court here and was sen--1 tenced to ten days in jail for riding freight trains, which he was unable ’ to pay and was remanded' to jail to await the expiration of his sentence. The boy’s father heard of the affair, ' and accompanied by the boy’s uncle, • came to this city Sunday and se- ■ cured his release by paying the fine. Young Herd, his father and uncle re- , turned to their home Sunday night. It , has developed that the answer to the telegram that was sent to Kokomo by the Bluffton officials, inquiring about Herd, was referring to a man by the name of Hurt, who, it has been learned, is a desperate character, and Herd’s reputation was not brought in- . to question. A heart broken mother anxiously awaited the return of her son that night, in whom she has implicit faith, and inasmuch as the young man has proven that he is not the man described in the telegram to Bluffton, and that he was not connected with the robberies here, the im--1 pression that has been left with the people in general, regarding this boy should be withdrawn in justice to himself and parents. —o MAY STOP THE CITY’S GROWTH Almost Impossible to Rent any Kind of a Dwelling Here Now and the Boom Has Only Started. Build new houses. This will have to be the cry for the next few years in Decatur, if present prospects of growth continue. Who will do it? Just now it is next to impossible to rent a house of any description in the town and within a month or two when many new families who will accompany the new factories here reach town, they will have to be taken care of. Just now, perhaps, a dozen houses have ' been contracted for or are under con--1 struction. This is a good start, but • only a start. We will need fifty or more houses before fall and some one should get busy. This is a chance for people with capital. It’s also a chance for the poor man. If you are paying rent, you should build. Go into the loan association or borrow ' from your friends. At the increased price of rent, it pays to own your ' own home. This gives some one else a chance to rent your present home, or the new one. The house question 1 promises to be the greatest bar to the rapid growth of our city. Surely our citizens will meet this want. Three hundred people own vacant lots. Why not utilize them by erecting a cottage thereon? What we need is not palaces, but modern $1,200 to SI,BOO dwellings. Get busy. 0 PROSECUTOR HAS NEW PLACE Writes a Personal Letter to the Saloon Keeper. Believing that there will be less offending among the habitual drunkards of the city if the saloonkeepers and those in their employ are made to observe to the letter the law that forbids the sale of intoxicants to persons known to be chronic inebriates, Prosecutor Cooper, of Kokomo, will, within the next two or three days, address to all the saloonkeepers in the city a letter expressly forbidding them to sell themselves or permit to be sold in their places by others intoxicating drinks to persons who are known to be in the habit of becoming intoxicated. Inclosed with the letter will be a list of names of chronic inebriates against selling to whom saloon men will be especially warned. Prosecutor Cooper says he is in earnest in this matter and that he is going to break up the practice of selling liquors to habitual drunkards if it is possible to do so. He will not only prosecute vigorously those who are reported to him as selling to such persons, but will make an effort to find out all who offend along this line, and, after finding them out, will proceed against them regardless of any excuse they may make. o HAS LEFT A DEFICIT. Rome, Italy, May 7. —That the quarrel between the Pope and France has left a deficit in the Vatican balance sheet was admitted today and unless ; constant donations are recti zed ,'rom 1 wealthy '©itholics the Pope says the 1 church will become as poor as was its i divide founder. j 1

HOW THEY WORK THE GAME Are Expected Here any Day—Visit Meat Shop and Bakeries —What the Law Requires. The food inspectors are on their rounds and the arrival of one of them in this city is awaited by both dealers and consumers, with conflicting emotions, however. One of the inspectors has just paid a visit to Anderson and when he departed he left several dealers in a : state of pain. He found pork sand- ; wiches selling for the veal variety; i compound selling for lard, and preserved milk selling for the real thing. , One young man who never could , eat pork learned to his surprise that • he had been eating pork all the time . in his “veal’ ’sandwiches. Many other ■ people found to their surprise that : they had been eating adulterated foods s and drinking preserved milk. When the inspector was at Muncie : a few days ago he went into a meat i market and asked for a dime’s worth ■ of lard. After he had paid the money I he asked the proprietor of the place • to sign a statement to the effect that ■ the article was not adulterated. The ■ meat man began to explain—that he intended to tell him how the lard was : made. “You have offered the explanai tion just fifteen seconds too late,” i said the inspector. “Lard is lard and . it is not necessary to have the w’ord • pure’ tacked on in front of it. Lard i compound is a different article altogether and must be sold as such.” i As one result of the pure food law the prices of cooked meats at the restaurants are likely to advance, if report is true. The law forbids the use of preservatives in meats. W’ithout the use of preservatives meats spoil quickly and the consumer will be cast--1 ed upon to pay for the spoiled stuff. With the new law in effect and properly enforced, the purchaser may rest assured that he is getting just what he calls for, but he will also come to understand that the price is just a , little steeper. He will find that pure . food costs more than adulterated stuff. —: o CONVENTION AT FORT WAYNE This is the Fourteenth Meeting and Efforts ar Being Made to Make it a Success. The St. Joseph s Staats-verband, an organization of German Catholic so- ! cieties of this state, and a branch of the German Roman Catholic Centralverein, will hold its annual convention at Fort Wayne, May 12 and 13. An invitation has been extended to all the Catholic societies of the state of Indiana to participate in the convention and help to further the cause of German Catholics. Societies not yet members of this federation are requested to send delegates to the convention to learn of the good purpose and the necessity of such an organization, whereby Catholics may protect and further their rights and prevent leakage to their church and schools. It appears this fourteenth annual meeting will be a success, for several bishops and quite a number of clergymen will be present. The convention will open with pontificial high mass by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerding, of Fort Wayne. One of the principal fatures of this convention will be a parade, in which all the Catholics of Fort Wayne and all the visiting societies will participate. From Indianapolis and Logansport special trains will convey the societies and delegates to Fort W’ayne. Trains leave Indianapolis terminal station at 5 a. m. and return from Fort Wayne at 7 p. m. . , o B. W. SHOLTY IS IMPROVING. Regaining His Health —Bad Weather in Denver. T. R. Moore Monday morning received a letter from B. W. Sholty, who ie now at Denver, Colorado, in search of health, in which he states that the weather is something frightful, as it has been snowing for several days. His condition he says is much iirflproved, and that he is gaining in strength rapidly. He says that be is now able to make four or five miles without being fatigued in the least, while here it was an exertion for him to make the trip up town and back home. He expects to remain at Denver until the later part of May, when he will return home. The many friends of Mr. Sholty will be pleased to learn of his improvement, and trust that he will remain until permanently cured. f— o_ Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Hocker came home yesterday from a visit with his parents, Joseph Hocker and wife, at Monroe. They had as guest here yesterday afternoon his brother, Prof. C. E. Hocker, principal, of the Decatur schools, w'ho went lb Warren to act as one of the judges at an oratorical contest.—Bluffton News.

Respect YOUR Stomach GIVE it food that will not irritate or retard the performance of its natural functions, and it will reciprocate in away agreeable and comforting. No single ingredient contributes so largely toward wholesome, nourishing, agreeable food as Royal Baking Powder. Royal Baking Powder’s active ingredient, Grape Cream of Tartar, is the most healthful of the fruit products. This is why Royal Baking Powder makes the food finer, lighter, more appetizing and anti-dyspeptic, a friend to the stomach and good health. Imitation Baking Powders Contain Alum “The use of alum and salts of alumina in food should be PROHIBITED. The con* stant use of alum compounds exerts a deleterious effect upon the digestive organs and an irritation of the internal organs after absorption. “EDWARD S. WOOD, M. D. “Professor of Chemistry “Harvard Medical School, Boaton.” *: ■ « ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO-, NEW YORK

NEWSPAPER MEN Recommended the Treatment at All Times. New Orleans, La., March 9, 1901. “From the excellent results obtained in a number of casts among personal friends and acquaintances, I am satisfied that the Keeley treatment is a great boon to weak and suffering humanity.” THOMAS G. RAUIER, Manager New Orleans Picayune. The Marion Keeley Institute Marion, Indiana, is a model. Established in 1894 and in charge of one of the ablest physicians in the service. Homelike surroundings. Write to Dr. W. V. Daniels, manager, Marion, Indiana. THE COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING The Best Meeting Ever Held at the Club —Interesting Report by Trustee of the Factory Fund. The annual election of Commercial Club directors ended in the retention of the old board. They are W. P. Schrock, Clark J. Lutz, E. X. Ehinger, Earl B. Adams, C. S. Niblick, Dr. Roy Archbold, L. C. Waring, W. H. Fiedderjohann and Lew Eilingham. The board will meet Wednesday evening for organization. The annual meeting was the best ever held by the club. A spirit of good feeling being manifested throughout, and it is this feeling superinduced by that spirit of energy and push that has made the club a success as a club and made it an important factor in the commercial develment of the past few years. Many kind words were spoken, and many things discussed for the future of the club, and for the city. One of the things mentioned was that of membership in the Commercial Club. Every business man should be enrolled and show where he stands. Every business man should give his personal influence toward making Decatur commercially greater and better. They should also help pay the fiddler. They should help support a club whose first duty is and always has been for the ( advancement of the business Interests of Decatur. Send in your application.) — In addition to many other reports, the one made by Frank M. Schirmeyer, j trustee of the factory fund, was the most interesting. It showed the pay-' ment of more than $14,000 to the factory fund, and nearly all of this j amount has been paid upon the obligation made in the purchase of the, real estate, which was platted into lots and sold. The contracts in op-1 eration and which are as good as old whea| in the bin, aggregate more than $40,000 more, and this amount will be used to add to the manufacturing as-j Jlbts of our progressive city.

SHOULD HE RESIGN HIS OFFICE As Vice President —Will Probably Become Vice President of New York Central Lines. If, as a New York rumor has it, George H. Ross, vice-president of the Clover Leaf, leaves the company to become vice-president of the New York Central lines, his loss will be deeply felt by the Clover Leaf. Mr. Ross has been the acting head of the Clover Leaf ever since President Shonts was appointed chairman of the Isthmian canal commission, and is credited with being tihe only man who was able to put that property on a paying basis. As proof of this, attention is called to the fact that March 14 the directors of the Clover Leaf declared a dividend of four per cent on preferred stock to be paid out of surplus earnings. This is the first time in the history of the road that such a measure was possible. Mr. Ross came to the Clover Leaf as genral traffic manager at the time the property was purchased by Mr. Shonts and his associates. Soon after President Roosevelt selected Mr. Shonts to head the canal commission, Mr. Ross was given the title of second vice-president. He is also a director of the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line. Mr. Ross is a Bostonian by birth and is 53 years of age. He was educated in Dwight school at Boston, and entered the railway service in 1877 as expense bill clerk for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and his rise in the railroad world has been rapid.

Weak Women To weak and ailing women, there is at least on* ; way to help But with that way. two treatments, , must be combined. One is local, one is constitutional, but both are important, both essential. Dr. Shoop's Night Cure is the Local. Dr. Shoop's Restorative, the Constitutional. The former —Dr. Shoop's Night Cure —is a topical mucous membrane suppository remedy, while Dr. Shoop's Restorative is wholly an internal treatment. The Restorative reaches throughout the entire system, seeking the repair of all nerve, all tissue, and all blood ailments. i The "Night Cure”, as its name implies, does it* I work while you sleep. It soothes sore and infiam. ed mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervous excitement, gives renewed vigor and ambition, builds up wasted tissues, bringing renewed strength, vigor, and energy. Take Dr. Shoop's Restorative—Tablets or Liquid—as a general tonic to th* system. For positive local help, use as well Dr. Shoop’s Night Coro W. H. NACHTRIEB. •