Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1907 — Page 8

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LAME EVERY MORNING. A Bad Back is Always Worse in the Morning—Decatur People are Finding Relief. A back that aches all day and causes discomfort at night is usually worse in the morning. Makes you feel as if you hadn’t slept at all. Can’t cure a bad back until you cure the kidneys, Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys—make you feel better, work better rest better and sleep better. Permanent cures in Decatur prove the merit of Doan’s. John Oswalt, living on Elm street, near C. & E. R. R. station, Decatur, Ind?, says: “I was a member of the 130th Indiana Volunteers and when • I left the army, I suffered terrible pains through my back and loins,which I think was brought about by injuries I received by the explosion of a shell. I felt a pain across my back at the time, but apparently I got over it, and thought nothing of it for several years, and then I began to have continuous backache and as I grew older the aching became more severe. There was a dull aching pain right across my loins and sometimes the pain was sharp. It made me feel miserable. In the morning I felt lame and sore, for my rest was broken at night. I used so many remedies without results

it seemed like throwing my money away. For a while I became so badly • afflicted that I could not attend to my work. Doan’S 1 Kidney Pills were brought to my attention, and I got a box at Holthouse Drug Co.’s store, and to make along story short, they cured me, and during the past ten years I have not had a return Qf the trouble. I made a statement for publication in 1902, telling of'my experience, and I am pleased to state today that the cure the neffected has remained permanent. I can conscientiously recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills. I have’told a great many people about this remedy and will be glad ter repeat personally what I have stated.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Miibum Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the. name—Doan’s—and take no other. 1 . George Winters has resigned his position as watchman at the Line street crossing of the Clover Leaf railroad and John Williams is fulfilling that position.

Old People/ ™LxB Need VINOL it strengthens and vitalizes With old age comes feebleness and loss of power; the blood is thin and digestion weak. Vinol repairs worn tissues and checks the natural decline. It tones up the digestive organs, aids assimilation, makes rich, red blood, and strengthens every organ in the body. In this natural manner Vinol replaces weakness with strength. Vinol contains all the medicinal elements of cod liver oil in a concentrated form, taken from fresh cods’ livers, the useless oil eliminated and tonic iron added. Try It on out guarantee. SMITH, YAGER A FALK.

WAS VERY BRILLIANT AFFAIR One of the Very Prettiest and Most Enjoyable Affairs in Decatur History Occurred at the Dugan Home. By Pearl Burdg. The Junior class of the necatur high school entertained the Seniors and the faculty of the school Friday evening at one of the most charming affairs of the season, given at the home of Miss Francis Dugan on Monroe street. White roses and fems banked on the mantles, with the strips of delicate blue paper running from the chandeliers to each corner decorated the parlors. These were the colors of the Seniors and a huge bowl of pansies and violets with the Juniors colors of black and gold arranged similar to the parlors, were the decorations of the library, while the reception room, the prettiest room of the home, with the large open stairway was lovely to behold, and these showed the hard labor that each Junior did. This room was to represent the Decatur high school, the colors being purple and gold. Pansies, immense ferns, tulips and wild violets formed the pretty background of the room. The Misses Frances Dugan, Pansy Bell, Messrs. Harry Welty and Irven Case received the guests at the door as they arrived, and the little Miss Noami Dugan received them at the stairway and Dorothy Dugan showed the guests to the differeiit rooms. Immediately following the arrval, each guest was handed a dainty hand-paint-ed card, the design being purple and gold. This contest was “All about Kate,” a pretty book was awarded to Miss Dunathan. Next came a plant contest, which "was a unique feature among contests. Mr. Baumgartner proved the leader by answering the most questions.

During the next hour ten small tables were scattered around' in the rooms and an elegant five-course luncheon was served in a very pleasing manner by the following boys: Dan Tyndall, David Studebaker, George Nachtrieb, Robert Peterson, Carl France. At the close of the fifth course, excellent toasts were given by four teachers, one Senior and Junior. These showed that each one had given special time on his toast for they were especially fine, and worthy of praise. Those who participated in this and their titles, were, The Decatur Hight School, by superintendent Beachler; To the Senors, Miss Dunathan; To the Juniors, Miss Bylerly; To the Seniors and Juniors, Mr. Baumgartner; To the Senior Girls by a Senior, Walter Baltzell, and Farewell to the Seniors by the Junior president, Harry Welty. The favors of the evening were white roses. The remaining portion of the evening was pleasantly spent in dancing and having a general good time. One number of the evening which was highly appreciated was the music rendered by one of the most talepted young -musicians of the city, Mr. Johnnie Wemhoff. He needs no praise here for every one knows what a skilful player he is. This was truly the most brilliant reception ever given by 'any Junior class of Decatur. Those who belong to the class are: Misses Frarfbis Dugan ’.Francis Bryson, Clara Boknecht, Pansy Bell, Etta Brar.deberry, Lucile Gillig, Fancheon Magley, Fannie McConnell, Florence Helen Evans and Messrs. Harry Welty, Irvin Case, William Conrad, William Hammell, Ray Teeple. — Mrs. J. 'Mouser and daughter, Ida of Spencerville, Ohio, passed through the city today enroute to Richmond, where they will Visit friends and relatives for. some time.

DOUBTS AGE OF METHUSELAH. Chicago Professor Says Old Timers Didn’t Outlive Present Generation. Chicago, May 27. —When old Methuselah used to get out and tell his great-great-etc. grandsons > about how he could remember, “Nigh 900 years ago when there was not a house twixt here and Liphalet’s cave” he was lying. Professor Frederick Starr, leader of the department of anthropology at the University of Chicago, has exposed him? The professor told his class recently that he did not believe Methuselah ever lived 969 years or within centuries of that. Although the Bible says Methuselah lived on earth this length of time and divides life into periods, Prof. Starr, with the cold criticism of science, deprived him of the honor he has borne for centuries, surpassing the life clinging efforts of every venerable person is history and making the centenarians of 1907 seem mere striplings. “It is also doubtful if Saul, David and Solomon ever reigned forty years apiece,” said the professor. “Men lived no longer then than now. In fact, I believe that people live longer now than they did in Bible times.” The Rev. Jenkin Lloyl Jones, the well-known pastor of All Souls’ church, agrees with Prof.. Starr as to the exaggerated length of Methuselah’s life on earth.

He said: “All college professors and every Intelligent man who has studied the subject, believes that the Stories of Methuselah are ‘merely legendary and mythical. Methuselah himself was a myth. They are all fairy tales of the hills and were written a thousand years after they even were supposed to occur.” o. - - GRAND CHIEF TEMPLAR. — Adds Testimony ’to Truthfulness of Advertising. West Kennebunk, Me., Feb. 26, 1901. “J never read an untrue advertising in the thousands of pages persued. I never heard or knew a false claim put out by the Keeley Cure. I know it is all it claims to be.” U. A. CAINE, Grand Chief Templar Maine Good Templars. A positive cure awaits you if you are a slave to whisky or morphine. Write W. V. Daniels, manager, the Marion Keeley Institute, Marion, Ind.

WITH NEXT FRIDAY’S AUCTION * Chance to Buy or Sell Quickly—the Company Has Done Nearly a Million Dollar Business. The last sale of the Decatur Horse Sale company for the spring of 1907, will be held next Friday, May 31st. Farmers who have horses to sell should take this last opportunity for finding a ready sale for their animals. A big crowd will be present and it is the desire of the management to make this last sale the banner one of the season. During the past four months the business transacted through the Decatur Horse Sale company has reached nearly a million dolalrs. This seems almost impossible, but auctioneer Reppert is authority for the statement. Think of it, a business equal to an immense manufacturing industry and one which has brought profit and employment to many others than the owners and managers. The sales will be resumed again next faH, and we believe the splendid success of this spring will continue. Remember, if you want to buy or sell a horse next Friday is the time to do it.

BIG SUNDAY DINNER SERVED The Real Surprise was the Arrival of a Brother, Mr. Coffman, from Erie, Kansas. One of the happiest events in the social history of Adams county was a surprise dinnerton Mrs. Mary E. Hendricks at the home of her son, J. A. Hendricks, at Monroe, last Sunday, May 26th, the occasion being the sev-enty-fifth birthday anniversary of that estimable and highly esteemed lady. The victim had some inkling that something was doing, but when her son J. A. H. drove in on Saturday evening with the brother of Mrs. Hendricks, George M. Coffman and wife, of Erie, Kansas, the surprise was a most complete and happy one for both Mrs. Hendricks and her sister, Mrs. Abe Beery. They had never thought of the. Coffman’s coming 700 miles to eat dinner with them, and their arrival completed the occasion. This is Mr. Coffman’s first visit to this county since 1876, when he stopped while enroute home from the Philadelphia centenial. He arrived over the Clover Leaf Saturday evening, an a his first remark was to express surprise as he had berth 13 and the car was 23, there were just 23 people in the car, and his ticket was 123, a mixture he termed unlucky. However, he arrived safe and sound, excepting a strained knee received while going to the train and a night at Monroe cured this. He proved an entertaining visitor, and held the attention of all the guests with his jokes and stories, and at the dinner table proved more than equal to the occasion, so say the cooks. ■ Mr. Coffman was born at Pleasant Mills in 1852, educated there and taught school for several years, then went to Kansas with his brother, J. H. Coffman, where they entered a homestead. George has been president of a bank at Erie, Kansas, for several years, and both men have prospered. He will remain just a few days, visiting his sisters, Mrs. Hendricks, Mrs. Beery, ,of this city, Mrs. Henry Steele, of Pleasant Mills and Mrs. David Springer of Van Wert. It is hoped he will not again wait thirty-one years before visiting old Adams county. Forty-two guests enjoyed the dinner Sunday, which proved a success from every point of view. Grandma Hendricks received a number of valuable presents. From Kansas came a S2O gold piece and an absent brother sent a fiver. Every one enjoyed the day immensely and especially did Mrs. Hendricks. The latch string is always out at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hendricks, who heartily say, come again. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks and family, of Portland, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Roop, and son, of Pleasant Mills, Mr. S. G. W. Roop, Mrs. Abe Beery, Mr. L. A. Graham and family, Miss Mas Sells, Mrs. M E Babcock, Miss Jane Hendricks of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Hendricks and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hendricks and family, Mrs. Hattie Sells and sons Jess and Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Sells of Elwood, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hoffer and family and Mr. Coffman, of Erie, Kan.

OBITUARY. Wilson H. Shepherd was born at Ethica, Ohio, March 17, 1840 and died May 15, 1907, at the home of his son in Muncie, Ind., aged 67 years, 1 month and 28 days. He was married at Greenville, Ohio, to lady Florence Leeds, who was his faithful companion until Sept. 30,1895, when our heavenly father took her to be with him. To father and mother Shepherd were born four children, of which two i have, gone to the other world. Melvin McClellan died in 1871 at the age of eight years. Annie Ennlnine, who became the wife of Edward Pontius, died in the year 1905 at the age of 39 years, leaving to mourn their loss two children, Clarence C. Shepherd and Nellie I. Steiner, eight grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters, besides a host of other relatives and friends. Wilson H. Shepherd moved to Adams county, Ind., from Darke county, Ohio, in the year 1865 and settled on a farm. He followed the avocations of farming, carpentering and teaching school. He was of a pleasant and cheerful disposition, although his pathway through life was not all, strewn with roses. He had the white swelling on his right shin at the age of 13 years, from which he suffered more or less the rest of his life, or until it was amputated on the 28th day of Dec., 1906, the wound never healed. But he was gaining strength and health slowly day by day until stricken with paralysis May 14, 1907, from which he never regained consciousness. — o —————— H. B. Roy, who has been here for several months . assisting in getting up the history of Adams county, left today for Indianapolis, where he will remain for some time. Mr. Roy, during his stay here, has made many ■ friends, who regret to see him leave.

COMEB FROM WELLS COUNTY Two Divorce Cases Dismissed at Cost of Plaintiffs—the Diehl Case Reaches Circuit Court. Thomas Johnson, of Willshire, made application and was granted license to buy junk from house to house in Adams county. A petition for a gravel road in Wells county,, entitled Elias Tice et al, has been filed in Adams circuit court, a change of venue having been-taken fromVWells. Todd & Gtordon are attorneys for the petitioners. L. C. DeVoss has entered his appearance for the defendant in the case of Martin J. Bligh vs. Jonathan M. Andrews, suit on account, demand $73.71, and was ruled to answer within five days. Clara D. Harris vs. James C. Harris, divorce, Smith and Moran, of Portland entered their appearance for the defendant and were ruled to answer. The divorce case of Dora Hauser vs. Charles J. H. Hauser has been dismissed with judgment against plaintiff for costs. - The Charles W. Carpenter vs. Laura E. Carpenter divorce case has been also dismissed at the plaintiffs cost. , The case of the State vs. Adam Diehl, wife desertion, has reached the circuit court, he. having been bound over by Squire J. H. Smith. • » \ Inventory number four was filed by Christina R. Niblick, administratrix of the W. H. Niblick estate and approved. A petition to sell $5,500 worth of Geneva bank stock at private sale was filed and granted. “Words and phases, judicially defined,” is seven handsome volumnes, is the latest acquisition to the court house law library. It is a very valuable and interesting set of books.

Weak Women To weak and ailing women, there is at least om way to help. But with that way, two treatmenta, must be combined. One is local, one is constitutional. but both are important, both essential. Dr. Sbaop’s Night Cure is the Local. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative, the Constitutional. The former—Dr. Shoop’s N ight 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. The "Night Cure”, as its name implies, does its work while you sleep. It soothes sore and inflamed mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervous excitement, gives renewed vigor and ambition/ builds up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed strength, vigor, and energy. Take Dr. Shoop’s Restorative—Tablets or Liquid—as a general tonic to the system. For positive local help, use as well Dr. Shoop’s Night Coro W. H. NACHTRIEB. LZftAL ADWMMDra

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO CHANGE NAME. State of Indiana, Adams county, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court April Term 1907. Petition of the Angola Furnace Company to change name. No. 7380. Ex-Parte. Notice is hereby given that The Angola Furnace Company has applied to the Adams Circuit Court, of Adams county, Indiana, to have its name changed from the Angola Furnace Company to that of The Decatur Furnace Company, and that said petition and application will be presented to and heard by said court at the first day of the September. Term, 1907, of said court. Dated this 10th day of May, 1907. The Angola Furnace Company. Clark J. Lutz, Attorney. 11-3 t

NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, as surviving partner of the, firm of E. Woods & Co., pursuant to an order of the Adams circuit court duly entered of record will on the Bth day of June, 1907, at 10 o’clock a. m., of said day, at the east door of the court house in the city of Decatur, Indiana,, offer for sale at public auction for net less than two-thirds of the appraised value thereof, the following personal property belonging to said firm, to-wit: 2 Road Graders, 2 Wheel Scrapers, 1 Large Plow, 1 Road Plow, 1 Steam Roller. Terms of sale—Oqe.third in three months, one-third in six months, and one-third in nine months, payments to bear six per cent Interest from date and to be secured to the satisfaction of the undersigned. EMANUEL WOODS, Surviving Partner. Clark J. Lutz, Atty. 11-3 t. board of review. Notice is hereby given that the

Board of Review of Adams county, State of Indiana, will meet at the Commissioners’ Court room in he City of Decatur, in said county at nine o’clock a. m„ on Monday, June 3, 1907, at which time and place all complaints of unequal or unjust valuations for assessments of real and personal property will be heard. Valuations of personal property will be equalized and all propnety omitted will be added to the tax list. A uniform valuation of all personal property will be made as nearly practicable as defined by law. Returns made by the township assessors will be corrected and amended so as to make a uniform valuation of all property as nearly as practicable. C. D. LEWTON, 11-3 t. Auditor Adams county, Indiana. — ■■ PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before .the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, June Term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident free-holders and voters, of and in the township of Monroe, and the towns of Berne and Monroe, situated in said Monroe township, Adams county, Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Monroe township, Adams county, Indiana, over and upon the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the north-east corner of section seven (7), township twenty-six (26), north range fourteen (14) east, running thence west on the jsectlon line dividing sections six (6) and seven (7) for a distance of one (1) mile and terminating at the north-west corner of section seven (7) township and range aforesaid, and there to terminate, being the boundary line between said Monroe township and French township, Adams county, Indiana. \ Said proposed highway to be an extension of the C. E. Bollinger free Macadam Road. That the improvement thus prayed for is less than three (3) miles in length, and connects at the commencement thereof, with the €. E.Bollinger Free Macadam Road in said township, and at the end and terminus said roads connects with an improved highway, on the boundary line of said Monroe township and ends, and terminates on the boundary line di said Monroe township. Your petitioners further ask your Honorable body that said highway above described be graded, and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon said broken stone that there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway already established, and is one of the public highways of said Monroe township. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-four (24) feet, and that broken stone be placedthereon to a width of ten (10) feet, and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to adepth of three (3) inches upon said broken stone, that said road be constructed as a double track, that the name of said road shall be the C. E. Bollinger Extension No. 4, Monroe township. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask, that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said . Monroe township, and the towns of j Berne and Monroe, situated therein, in Adams county, Indiana, in a sufflc- • lent amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, as they may become due, that said road be built, and that saidiTonds be issued, and said tax be levied upon said property of said township and said towns of Monroe and Berne, located in said township in accordance with the acts of the legislature of the state of Indiana, now in force and passed in the year 1905, beginning on page 550 and as amended in the acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, for the year 1907, beginning on page 68, acts of 1907, and any and all other amendments thereto. We further ask that the Board take the different steps as required by law to have said improvement constructed and made as petitioned herein, and. that they construct the same under the laws of the state of Indiana, now in force providing for the extension of Free Gravel or Macadam Roads. J. P. Johnson, Shelby Ray, Albert Duer, M. H. Badders, J. F. Hocker, B. M. -Smith, J. R. Badders, A. B. Bailey, W. L. Miller, M. F. Parrish, Robt. E. Doty, John Yeoman, Thomas F. Ray, D. W. Laisure, A. Breinlnger, J. Y. Mack, J. E. Loudon, John Dileten, George Gilbert;, C. H. Lamlman, F. M. Gilpen, J. A. Hendricks, Harlo Mann, Thos. S. Perkins, George W. Martz, Charles E. Martz, Gerry R. Martz, Jacob J. Roth, H. G. Anderson, S. E. Shepherd, N. Waggoner, M. L. Oliver, Jesteen Hocker, A. N. Keller, J. P. Crist, F. Kessler, Jesse Essex, C. E. <Bsllinger, Loyd Kidwell, John Lobsiger, Jonathan Andrews, Eli Margove, Marion Johnson, V. C. Laisure, Amos Burghalter, J. F. Lehman, Fred Roh. rer, Cris Reusser, Daniel J. Sprunger, M. S. Leichty, William Narr, Emil Franz, Otto Franz, Elmer J. Ray, L. Habegger, A. B. Dougherty, J. W. Kloppenstein, Abe Kuhn, Peter P. Kloppensteln, Henry Hirschy, R. L. Leimenstall, August Girod, John Amann, Frank Martz, Joseph Wisler, D. C. Brandyberry, Solomon Brandyberry, Daniel Noffsinger, William Brandyberry, James V. Hendricks, John Hendricks, R. E. Smith, T. B. Oliver, Ell W. Hendricks, R. L. Shirk, Z. O. Lewellen, George W. Hahn, Geo. W. Keller, J. L. Gross, H. O. Stenman, J. A. Hendricks, W. S. Smith. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, June 3, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Monroe township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide tor. 11-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor.