Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1907 — Page 8

S7EB WORK. .--v » 1/77 / >^ J T~r"\' Tf"/T You will do better work for a cup of fragrant delicious A RIOS A Coffee — and you will rest better afterwards. Cuts your coffee bills about in half. Sold in one pound packages only, sealed for your protection. Loose coffee isn’t the same — it may be dusty, dirty and bad for your stomach and nerves. CoTiplies with all requirements of the Nation J Pure Food Law. Guarantee No. 2041. filed at Wasf.iaj.on. ■ — DISTURBED THE CONGREGATION The person who disturbed the congregation last Sunday by continually coughing is requested to buy a bottle of Foley’s Honey and Tar. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o

TO AILING WOMEN. A Little Sound Advice Will Help Many a Sufferer in Decatur. No woman can be healthy and well if the kidneys are sick. Poisons that pass off in the urine when the kidneys are well are retained in the body when the kidneys are sick. Kidneys and bladder get inflamined and swollen, crowding the delicate female organs nearby and sometimes displacing them. This is the true cause of many bearing down pains, lameness, back ache, sideache, etc. Uric poisoning also causes headaches, dizzy spells, languor, nervousness and rheumatic pain. When suffering so, try Doan's Kid ney Pills, the remedy that cures sick kidneys. You will get better as the kidneys get better, and health will return when the kidneys are well. Mrs. Martha Messinger, of 321 west Williams street, Fort Wayne, Ind., says: “I suffered with my back for nearly twenty years. There were dull heavy bearing down pains in the hips extending to the lower part of the abdomen. I did everything for it but finally lost all hope of ever being cured. My attention was called to Doan's Kidney Pills by seeing them advertised in the papers and recommended by Fort Wayne people, so I made up my mind to get a box. I had not used the box before I felt so much improved that I was encouraged to continue with the treatment. I kept on using Doan's Kidney Pills until I had taken three boxes. For this small expenditure, I was cured.” Plenty more proof like this from Decatur people. Call at Holthouse’s Drug Co. store and ask what their customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's —and take no other. Mrs. S. Joyce, 180 Sullivan Sl:.,ClaremuuL, a. tt., writes: "About a year ago I bought two bottles of Foley’s Kidney Cure. It cured me of a severe case of Kidney trouble of several years’ standing. It certainly is a grand, good medicine, and I heartily recommend it.” THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

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FIRST WAS MUTUAL DITCHES Blue Creek Township in 1871 Furnished the First Ditch to be Constructed by Law. No less important than good roads is the splendid drainage of Adams county. Let us turn back to the days of fifty years ago and contast the swamp lands with the excellent farms of today. The surface of this county is nearly level, except near the rivers where it is slightly broken. The controlling topographical feature is its numerous streams of which the St. Marys and Wabash rivers are the most important. Each measured by its windings, traverses the county for about twenty-five miles, intersects four townships and flows from southeast to northwest. In Jefferson and Wabash townships branches of these two principal streams are very narrowly separated and there we find the watershed from which the waters run both into the gulfs of St. Lawrence and Mexico. The St. Marys river was formerly navigated by flatboats and all the large streams teemed with fish. This means of transportation was taken away and this supply of food diminished by the building of milldams across the creeks and rivers. In any country of abundant rainfall, rather high temperature and decaying vegetation the atmosphere must be loaded with malaria. Such was the case here and many of the early settlers fell victims. Ague was as common then as colds are now in the height of mid-winter. As tree after tree fell and the sun and wind did their work the chief cause of ague was removed. The earliest mode of drainage was the removing of drifts that had accumulated in the natural water courses. No mills were in the country nearer than Winchester and Richmond and a little later at Ft. Wayne. One of the hardships endured was the procuring of bread. Much danger and even the loss of life was encountered in going to mill. The peaceful stream of one day would be a raging stream of tomorrow. When the weather and roads were good the journey could be made in from four to six days, but when they were bad and the streams out of bounds, and the roads well nigh impassable, the making of the trip was a dangerous proceeding. Soon after the county became more generally settled, enterprising men were ready to embark in the milling business. Sites along the stream were selected for water power, as mills, being so great a public necessity. they were permitted to be located upon any person's land where the miller thought the site desirable. The land would be examined and the amount of damage by making a dam was named. These mill-dams were operated for a number of years and new settlers kept coming to new homes and trouble began. Their land was overflown and the settlers realizing the damage, held mass meetings, decided to furnish these mills new power. This was the only lawful mode of clearing the feeder dams from the river. When the proprietors would not accept this new power, the farmers, taking the law in their own hands, used dynamite and blew the dams to atoms. Traces of the dams can still be seen in various places in the County. Much danger was incurred by the settlers in the south by high water. Limberlost was one of the large streams of the south. In times of abundant rainfall it overreached its banks and flooded everything. Mrs. R. B. Allison, a pioneer of the south, says it received its name in the following manner: A boy, perhaps of fourteen or fifteen summers, living in Ohio, had acquired the sobriquet of "Limber-Jim" and eventually this was shortened to “Limber.” The boy was lost in the forest for a time. A man on horseback saw him and called to him. “Limber” thought it was an Indian and began running. The mounted man ran him down and brought him to his friends. Afterward the creek was named “Limberlost.” The “Loblolly” was so called from its peculiar form and was a continuation of beaver dams. As was before mentioned, the earliest mode of drainage w r as by removing the drift from the natural water-' courses. This was followed by the "mutual ditch” which was made by farmers of the same locality by mutual agreement. This ditch was either an open or “blind” ditch. If a “blind" ditch it was made of hewn or sawed timber in trough fashion, placed in the trench and covered. Very recently some of these troughs have been unearthed and in a remarkably good state of preservation. After the mutual ditch came the located ditch by pttitioning the court. The ditch daws passed in March, 1867, and in May, 1869, took the place of those passed immediately after the constitution of 1852. These laws were superseded by two laws of March, 1873 and March, 1875,* One of the first ditches construct-

ed by • law was the Clymer ditch, in Blue Creek township. In December, 1871, W. M. and N- E- Clymer presented their petition, asked the board of commissioners to appoint viewers to view and assess the benefits and damage, if any, by reason of construction of a ditch in Blue Creek township to reclaim lands. The farmers w’ere bitterly opposed to the construction of ditches by location for the reason that the expenses incurred would be more than they could bear. Nevertheless the work progressed as in the year 1878 sixty-seven ditches were ordered constructed. This is the greatest number constructed in one year. The law of 1873-75 remained in force up to the time of the general revision of 1881. Since 1881 ditching and re-ditching has been made in a very marked degree. Some ditches have been relocated three or four times, each time latger and better. Most of the ditches of recent years are tile ditches. The largest tile used is the twentyfour inch, manufactured by the Krick. Tyndall Co. A few years ago a minister drove through Monroe township to Linn Grove remarked that the lowswamp land was not worth anything, and could never be cultivated. Today this same land sells for S9O or SIOO per acre, showing w-hat enterprising I farmers and plenty of ditch law can ! do. Even the vegetable mold mixed with earth as found in swamps, commonly known as muck land, makes the choicest onion farms. The proceeds of one forty acre onion farm in 1906 was four thousand dollars. One of the largest located ditches of the county is the Holthouse ditch reconstructed at a cost of $6,000 and benefiting sis-teen thousand acres of land. Very recently the Lob ditch has been re-constructed, costing Adams and Jay counties thirty-two thousand dollars. We might mention scores of other splendid ditches if space permitted. But from this we I can see the progress that has been i made since the swampy days of the swampy past. Every section of land is tillable now, made so by drainage into the proper watercourses. It is estimated that there are two thousand miles of ditches in the county constructed at a cost of one million dollars. The history of pioneer life usually presents the dark side of the picture; but nevertheless, those were palmy days according to the “older heads. ” Probably the young folks enjoy themselves as much or even more at the present time, but the older ones will not admit it. Times have changed; they will ever change, but there wjll always be those who will cling to the cherished days of long ago and who 1 may recall times which in the telling [ will make one regret that he did not ! live then instead of facing a future that appears prosaic at the best. o Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is best for women and children. Its mild action and pleasant taste makes it preferable to violent purgatives, such as pills, tablets, etc. Get the booklet and a sample of Orino at THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o The mention in last nights paper that the funeral services of Efl Streit who died at Montpelier would be held in this city was a mistake. The remains will be taken directly to the cemetery, after the arrival of same, and no services will be held here. I • o I Kidney complaint kills more people than any other disease. This is due to the disease being so insidious that it gets a good hold on the system before it is recognized. Foley’s Kidney Cure will prevent the development of fatal disease if taken in time. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o According to a recent ruling of the legislature the three railroads running through this city will be compelled to put in an interlocking switch system at the junction of the three roads I in the west part of th city. The railroad commission of this state regulates this matter and have informed , the representatives of the three roads I to appear at Indianapolis and show cause why the system should not be instituted. This is done to insure safety to the traveling public and is being ordered done all over the state by the commission. According to a ruling made by Judge Cook, of the Huntington circuit court, all inmates of county infirmaries must perform work when able | to do so, whenever commanded by the superitendents, and for refusal to . do «so they cannot be reinstated ex-1 cept at the pleasure of the superintendents when once discharged. Edgar Ebersole, an inmate of the Hunt-| ington county infirmary, had been discharged for refusal to work and he sought to compel the superintendent to take him back, but unuer the circumstances the court decided it had no power to make the superintendent reinstate him. NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. We are pleased to anounce that Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung troubles is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs, and we recommend it : as a safe remedy for children and adults. ! THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. j

INDIANA BUREAU OF STATISTICS St. Joseph and Allen Counties Lead in the Cost of Caring for the Unfortunates. Owing largely to an increase in the expenses of conducting the poor farms of the different counties of the state in 1906, the total expendiures for the different county benevolent institutions in 1906 were in excess of thes expenditures for 1905. The total expenses for these institutions in all the counties of the state for the year 1906 was $1,100,863.36, as compared with an expenditure of $949,048.76 in 1905, according to figures compiled by Miss Mary Stubbs, chief of the Indiana bureau of statistics. The expenses of conducting the county poor farms were about SIBO,OOO in excess of these expenses in 1905, the figures for 1905 and 1906 being $265,393.21 and $417,931.88, respectively. St. Joseph and Allen counties led all other counties in these expenses, the former county spending $60,729.76 and the latter 056,530.44. No other county came near approching these expenditures. The superintendents of these poor farms got a very small per cent of this large in increase, the salaries of all having increased from $58,561.10 in 1905 to $59,682.16 in 1906. The other, the so-called running expenses of these institutions, is responsible for the large part of the increase. The expense of the county insane was less than the year 1905, the amounts thus expended for the years 1905 and 1906 being $92/686.19 and $74,094.49. respectively. Marion county spent the largest amount in 1906, $24,267.76. The orphans' homes were more expensive in 1906. the amount expended being $178,473.57, as compared with $162,563.81 the y’ear before. Marion county led in this also, the cost being $32,873.10. There w as a reduction in the amount granted in the form of poor relief, the figures for 1905 and 1906 being $287,300.17 and $258,898.08 respectively. Grant county led the list in this regard, with an expenditure of $11,783.53, and Wayne county came in a close second, $11,005.93. Other institutions in 1906 cost $81,783.18, as compared with $82,584.28. More News from the New England States. If any one has any doubt as to the virtue of Foley’s Kidney Cure, they need only to refer to Mr. Alvin H. Stimpson, of Willimantic, Conn., who, after almost losing hope of recovery, on account of the failure of so many remedies, finally tried Foley’s Kidney Cure, which he says was “just the thing” for him, as four bottles cured him completely. He is now entirely well and free from all the suffering incident to acute kidney trouble. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o Miss Hattie Ritter, of Steele, Ind., arrived in the city this morning and will visit friends for some time.

legal iDtaaara APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR. Notice is hereby given, That the undersigned has been appointed Ex-1 ecutor of the will and estate of Henry, Hildebrand, late of Adams county, de- j I ceased. The estate is probably solI vent. OTTO F. HILDEBRAND. April 26, 1907. Executor. J. T. Merryman, J. C. Sutton, Attys. APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given that the un-’ dersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Simon Taylor, | late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. JACOB DRAKE, Admr. Judson W. Teeple, Atty. | May 3, 1907. 1 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTuEMENT OF ESTATE. , Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Elizabeth Hart, deceased,to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Ind., ' on the 23rd day of May, 1907, and show cause, if any, why the final ; settlements accounts with the estate j of said decedent should not be ap- " proved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heir-, ship, and receive their distributive shares. HENRY H. HART, Administrator. 1 Decatur, Indiana. April 30, 1907. Schurger and Smith, Attys. NOTICE OF LOCATING AND VACATING HIGHWAY. Notice is hereby given that a peti--1 tion will be presented to the Board of . Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, at their next regular term, in I June, 1907, for the location and for | the vacation of a highway in said county, Indiana, said proposed highway, to be located will pass through the lands of Samantha E. Young, and Andrew Holmes, and over the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of sWtion twenty(2o) in township twenty-six (26) north range fifteen (15) east in Adams county, Indiana, thence to run south on the section line between sections twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) to the i public highway dividing said sections twenty (20) and twenty-one (21), a j distance of about one half mile, and j there to terminate, affecting the lands

'of the said Samantha E. Young and Andrew Holmes. And in said l’«* lt |°? will also be asked t 0 mwit" lowing part of the highw a;y, Commencing at or near the northeast corner of section twenty (20) in town ship (26) north range fifteen (15) east in said Adams county. Indiana, thence running a s °“ t *‘ ‘ lv course about eighty (80) rods hence a southeasterly course about eighty rods more or less to where intersects the section line running north and south between said sections twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) and there’to terminate, affecting the lands of the said Samantha E. Young and Andrew Holmes. p p leWTON, 10 ., t Auditor. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the , Board of Commissioners of Adams I county, Indiana, will receive bids for ■ the construction of a macadamized. road in Kirkland township in said county, known as the Otto Reppert Macadam Road, up and until 10 o clock a. m., on Monday, June 3, 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor's office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful performance | of said 1 work and that the bidder if, awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid ' filed. All bids shall be made so as to give ( the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on es- I timates to be made by the Engineer I in charge, not to exceed eighty per | cent, of any one estimate out of the . funds to be hereinafter raised by the | sale of bonds as required by law. j Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 10-3 t. Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will receive bids for the construction of a macadamized road in Hartford township in said county, known as the Reynolds Macadam Road Extension No. 4, up and until 10 o'clock a. m., on Monday, June 3. 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor's office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful performance I of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid j filed. All bids shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will> be constructed for cash payable on Estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. I Each bidder will be required to file ' affidavit as provided by law. j The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. c. D. LEWTON, 10-3 t. Auditor of Adams County. • SHERIFF'S SALE. The State of Indiana. Adams cosnty.ss: i In th* Adams Circuit Court of | Adams county, Indiana. Bernard J. Kohn vs. Rosa Stump, James Stump, Henry Knapp. I By virtue of an order of sale to me directed by the Clerk of the Adams I Circuit Court of said county and state, I have levied upon the real estate ; hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east door of Coutt House in the' City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, bteween the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., on Saturday, May 25, 1907. The rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wit: Forty-five acres off of the north side of the nor:h half of the southwest quarter of section six (6) in township ■ twenty-six (26) north, range fifteen (15) east. Also the following: Com- | mencing thirty-five rods north of the southeast, corner of the north half of the southwest quarter of said section six (6), township and range aforesaid, thence west thirty-two (32) rods, thence south thirty-five (35) rods, thence east thirty-two (32) rods, thence north thirty-five (35) rods to the place of beginning, containing seven (7) acres, in Adams county Indiana. 1 ELI MEYER. May 1, 1907. Sheriff Adams county Schurger & Smith, Attys. NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS FOR SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 3rd day of June, 1907, and up until ‘en o'clock, a. m., of said dav, I the Board of Commissioners of Adams i county, in the state of Indiana con- : stituting the Board of Turnpike directors, as such Board will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of crushed stone, and other materials for turnpike repairs in said Adams county for the ensuing year, bids will be received and

entertained as follows, in carload lots to vary with the needs of the county and subject to the order of said Board or its superitendents, prices per yard f. o. b. at the following railroad s a tions in said county, to-wit; Bingen Decatur, Monroe, Berne,Geneva Crain' ville, Peterson, Pleasant Mils, Rivarre Preble, Magley, also per yard loaded in wagons at quarries .in Decatur Linn GroVO, Hartford township. Jefferson township. Blue Creek township Pleasant Mills and at Willshire, o Said stone to be furnished upon order aforesaid, optional with said Board and according to specifications now on file in the Auditor's office of Adams county. Indiana, bids will also be received for bridge plank, bidder to give place of delivery, bids will also be received for common drain tile in sizes from three to eighteen inch, bidder to give price at factory named by him bids will also be received for hard burned brick, suitable for wells, bidder to state prices at kiln. Bids will also be received for salt glazed tile sizes from six to twenty-four inches each bid shall be accompanied by j good and sufficient bond in the sum of $2,000 with either free hold or surety, and with the necessary affidavit as required by law, the Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids MARTIN LAUGHLIN DAVID WERLING ’ WILLIAM MILLER. Board of Turnpike Directors of Adams county. Indiana. Attest: —C. D. Lewton, Auditor. 10-2 t. SHERIFF’S SALE State of Indiana, Adams county, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams county, Indiana. Fred. J. Gerber vs. Albrecht Reber, Fred Gfeller, Mary Gfeller. first name unknown, wife of Fred Gfeller. No. 7345. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed from the Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court, I will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, on Saturday, May 25, 1907. between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day at the east door of the court house in Adams county, State of Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate situated in Adams county in the State of Indiana, to-wit: Commencing at a point which is north twnty-six and oneMialf degrees west eleven rods from a stone which is north 26% degrees west three rods from a stone which is thirty-four rods and 15% links north twelve and onefourth degrees east of the southwest corner of section two, township 25 north, range 13 east, thence north 63% degrees east, ten rods and five feet; thence south 33 degrees east 40 feet, thence south 63% degrees west ten rods and five feet; thence north and west to the place of beginning, containing twenty-five square rods more or less, all in Adams county, and State of Indiana, and on failure to realize the full amount of judgment, interest and eostsl will at the same time and place expose at public sale the fee simple of said real estate. Taken as the property of the defendants at the suit of the plaintiff Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. ELI MEYER, May 1, 1907. Sheriff Adams county. Merryman & Sutton, Attys. NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS.

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, will on the 3rd day of June, 1907. and up until 10 o’clock a. m. of said day. receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all material and labor necessary for the construction of the following Bridges, Arches and Abutments, for the use of said county, to-wit: Repair of Daniel Beeler river bridge in Wabash township, Wm. Kuklehan Bridge, Root township, 16 by 32, also concrete abutments at same bridge. John McKean Bridge on Monroe township line, 22 by 16 foot span. George Jacobs Bridge Blue Creek township line. 24 by 16 foot span, G. W. Reynolds Bridge on Jay county line, 30 by 16 foot span, also concrete abutments at same place. Concrete and Bollinger French township 8 by 16. John Hirschej Arch 8 by 16, Hartford township. River Bridge at Linn Grove, 160 by 16 toot span, concrete abutments at same place. All according to certain surveys, profiles and general plans. whicn have heretofore been prepared and deposited and are now on file in the office of the Auditor of said count) and which are now open to pubh inspection. No bid will be received or entertained by said Board unless such bi is accompanied by an affidavit sue as is now required by law governing bids for Bridges. Each bid must be accompanied by good and sufficient bond, equal to t amount of the bid. made payable the State of Indiana, signed by at least two freehold sureties. resic \ a of the county, or by a properly autn ized and qualified bonding or sure ; company; which bond shall guarant the faithful performance and executi of the work so bid for, in case same is awarded, and that the c ®, r in . tor shall promptly pay all debts curred by him in the prosecution such work .including labor, ma , r . . furnished, and for boarding the laD ' ers thereon. Any one desiring to s mlt plans and specifications for petition at the same letting ma} ... so by filing the same with the co • Auditor of said county not less ten days before the said date of ing. If any such plans and specificath 11 ’ 5 so submitted include the use or • patented device or of any artlC ®, ifira . trolled by a monopoly, the spe tions shall be accompanied by a s ment of the terms upon which device or article may be used o tained. . re . The Board reserve the right ject any and all bids. „ ITI ... MARTIN LAUGHLIN DAVID WERLINGWILLIAM Board of Commissioners ot ■ County, Indiana. Attest:—C. D. Lewton, Auditor. 10-2 t.