Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1907 — Page 2

Joe Murphy, who was to be tried today, in Squire Liddy’s court, on a charge of trespass has taken a change of venue and the case will be tried at Decatur on Tuesday, June 25th.— Berne News. The funeral of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John Gephart, which died at their home at Ft. Wayne was held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Willshire, Ohio. The babe died Saturday morning after a severe illness, death resulting from spasms. Mr. and Mrs. Saumuel Acker, of Geneva, who have been spending several days at Clear Lake, passed through here today enroute to their home at Geneva. were joined here by their children Doris, Caroline and Sanford who have been visiting Mr. Aker’s father, Mr Irwin Acker. Wheat harvesting usually begins in this section a few days before the Fourth of July and by that holiday farmers are either in the midst of the harvest or else have finished cutting the grain. A backward season, however, means that none of z the grain can be cut by that time and that the middle of the month will see the farmers in the midst of the •work. \ George Massonne, of this city and Ella Thomas, who quite recently was given a divorce decree from her husband, were united in marriage at Albion June 11th. Since their marriage the happy couple have been enjoying a pleasure trip. They returned to this city this afternoon to make their future home, as the groom is employed by the Decatur Lumber company. Our little city is being overrun this spring with dead-beats, cripples and plain every day bums. It is true that some are needy, but there is a place for the needy where they can be properly taken care of. There should be the proper steps taken to stop this nuisance to our citizens as most of the characters if you don’t give them what they ask for give you in return almost invariably an insulting remark. Dan Lanigan, Fred Plessinger and Frank Stafford will leave this city in a covered wagon drawn by a team of mules belonging to the latter and will spend the summer somewhere in northern Indiana or southern Michigan. The wagon will be equipped with all cooking and camp utensils and conveniences and stocked with a hundred days’ rations for three. The start will be made from the Smoke p > House promptly at 7 o’clock.—Bluffton Banner. War has been declared between the railroads running out of Pittsburg to Chicago and the Vanderbilt system at present holds the lead. There will most likely be a tightening up of schedules very shortly as the Pennsylvania lines, in order to hold their prestige, will have \o cut off twenty minutes of their running time between Pittsburg and Chicago, and as the road has now about all it can carry in the way of speed, trouble is in view. Thousands of dollars in prizes will be awarded this year by the Pennsylvania railroad to track supervisors having the best tracks on the lines, both east and west of Pittsburg. Competition for these prizes has been keen. The prizes will be awarded in Pittsburg by W. W. Attenbury, gen- | < eral manager, after completing his annual inspection. Last year the Pennsylvania lines east awarded $4,000 in prizes to the supervisors, and a : similar amount was distributed among the supervisors west. ■ Joe Herbst, section foreman on the Clover Leaf, met with an accident a couple of days ago that came near costing him the sight of his left eye. - He was aiding his men in cutting pt iron when one of the small particles thrown off by the cutter struck him just over the eyelid. It was not until a day later that he discovered that the sliver had penetrated the skin and was buried in the flesh. He was able to remove a portion of the metal but as some still remained the visfey ited a physician yesterday and inB struments were required in the oper- ■ ation. The iron was rusty and caused a slight poisoning of the wound and | the eye became badly inflamed and swollen. Since yesterday the swelling has subsided and the wound is healing rapidly.—Bluffton Banner.-

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John O'aen, of Frankfort, who holds the position cf state food and drug inspector under the new law, is making a tour of the business houses of Delphi and has informed manv of 'hem that they are violating the laws, in many of the stores he found that adulterated goods were sold as pure md did not bear the proper labels, joods were displayed without being properly covered and there will be a general shaking up all along the line. There has been very little attention paid to the pure food law in Delphi up to this time. —Frankfort Crescent Eluffton’s base ball hoodco left town this morning and we have ceen our last defeat. The innocent cause of all the team’s bad luck has been claimed by many fans to have been “Shine,” the colored rboy introduced here the day the ball season opened by Frank Runyan and since employed by him at the Smoke House. Runyan fired him this morning, not through any superstition, but simply because the little darkey was too busy having a good time with the white boys around town to attend to his work. —Bluffton Banner. Our home base ball boys, assisted by a bunch of Decatur “phenoms” or blingers, went to Rookford last Thursday, and lost out to the tune of 11 to 3. It is said that Ot. Passwater threw a puzzling ball, but that his support was crazy as a horde of bed-bugs. Next time the boys play, Ot. should insist that the “crazy” ones be bunched together in the box; the result will be just the same so far as he is concerned, and he won’t have to work so hard. —Willshire Herald. A local horse buyer says that five years will be required by horse breeders to put themselves in position to meet the great demand now made for horses. The fact is that the breeders, to a large extent, ceased raising horses for, the market, and that there are few horses to be found. The mistake has been seen, but in the meantime the search is uncertain, and the buyer must pay fancy prices and must demand high prices in the market. The American Express company, which is expected to take over tbe express business of the United States Express company on the first of July on all New York Central lines over which the United States Express company operates, which includes'the Lake Erie and Western, at the request of the United States Express company postponed the making of the change until Aug. 1, the latter company, not having its business in shape to transfer. Owing to a law passed by the last legislature a large number of Indiana school teachers will go into summer training schools this year that they may be prepared for the enforcement of the new measure, which becomes operative in 1908. The law requires that before a person can begin the profession of teaching must have twelve weeks of instruction in a recognized training school. Teachers already in the calling may obtain an increase in salary by taking similar instruction in a training school. A teacher or a beginner may under the new law take six weeks of this training this year and six weeks during the summer of 1908. For this reason many teachers are expected to take the six weeks of training this year.

Prices of hogs again advanced five cents per hundred at Indianapolis upon receipt of favorable advices from the general market. An active demand from outside sources was also a strengthening influence. The trading was brisk throughout the day, most of the business being transacted at $6.25, with the exception of one load of selected stock, which brought $6.27%, the extreme top price. The supply was not excessive and a clearance was made at an early hour, the market closing firm at the advance. It is believed that wheat cutting in some parts of the county will not commence this year until the middle of July. The cold weather delayed the wheat in maturing and at its present stage it is not believed it can mature and ripen inside three weeks. Haymaking and the oats harvest will be correspondingly late. If there" is a late fall a good corn crop may be gathered after all. A city man went hunting. After he had banged away for some hours without, success, two boys who had been following him approached him and the older said: “Say, mister, if you’re out for sport and ain’t afraid to pay for it, my brothej’ll let you shoot at him for two hours for a quarter.” The hopes ‘ of State Secretary Halpenny and others who predicted great things for the annual convention of the State Sunday School association, in session at Kokomo, are being realized, and the 1,000 out of town people expected are now in attendance. This is, all those in a position to say, the greatest convention ever held by the association, not only in point of attendance, but as regards the excellence of the program, the entertainment of the visitors and the general interest shown. Its benefit to the Sunday schools of the state can hardly be overstated.

The crops of peaches native plums and apples will be much better than was expected, according to the fruit growers of the county, who have examined their orchards since the beginning of warm weather. One mah said his t|inee-year-<old peach trees would bear about a half bushel apiece, if nothing happened to kill the fruit that survived the frosts. The apple trees are in much better condition than was expected. Japanese plums and cherries are all killed. The state railroad commission, in a ruling handed down today, decided to notify all the roads in the' state at once that they must obey all of the laws passed by the last legislature referring to the running and management of trains. The commission also decided that in the future the railroads must not only obey the laws, but that they must do so promptly. It is claimed that many roads in the state have evaded he laws passed by the legislature and it is the intention of the railroad commission to begin prosecutions against these. John Wingate, state tax commissioner, was the victim of an accident at Logansport, which it is hope-Lmay not prove serious. He was stopping at the Barnett hotel and had stepped to the elevator to go upstairs to his room. The elevator door was open and he confidently walked in, but the elevator was on the floor above, and Mr. Wingate fell to the basement, a distance of some twelve feet Both his back and ankle were severely strained and he had to be carried to his room.—Frankfort Crescent. An erroneous report has been circulated that preparations are being made to celebrate the Fourth of July in this city by a big display of fireworks in the evening of that day and that there was yet in the treasury a sum of SBS and this would be expended in the purchase of the display. The truth of the matter is that there will be nothing of the kind this year and the treasury of the x committee of last year is entirely void of funds. The SBS spoken of was given to the husband of the lady who was fatally injured here last Fourth. In view of that depressing accident few citizens would think of a celebration within such a short time —Bluffton Banner. Pickpockets got in good work Wednesday at Van Wert and relieved a number of people of cash and other valuables. While in a large crowd during the forming of the parade, Geo W. Wortman, of Grover Hill, was relieved of his purse containing a certificate of deposit on the Grover Hill bank for $7lO and notes amounting to S9OO. The certificates had been endorsed by Mr. Wortman. He stated that as he was afflicted with heart trouble he had done this so that they could be drawn by his son in case anything serious should happen to him. All the banks in this section have been notified to refuse payment on the certificates. —Van Wert Bulletin.

J. F. Knepper, who formerly lived in Jefferson township where he owned 240 acres of land, returned last week from Los Angeles, California, after an extended trip through southern, northern and western states and into the Pacific Islands. He ,was twice hurt in railroad wrecks, and both times taken to a hospital for treatment. One time a man sitting in front of him Was killed outright, and he himself received several cuts in his head. He carries many souvenirs with him that he gathered at various distant places which he visited. Mr. Knepper is an elderly man, still single, and does much good by getting religious tracts printed and distributing them free of charge.—Berne Witness. An exchange says: The question of what the Indiana state seal stands for was being discussed the other day. The particular significance of the rising sun, the woodman wielding his ax and the buffalo scampering away as if affrighted, were made subjects of extended speculation. Finally one man gave an explanation that seemed to satisfy everybody. “It is not original with me,” said he. “I got it from the editor of of a two by four handpress paper in the country village down in my part of Indiana. ‘The meaning of the seal,’ said this editor, ‘is that you have to get up darned early in the morning if you want to catch a buffalo asleep and kill him by chopping down a tree and making it fall on him.’ ” A party of Richmond men, including Henry C. Starr, Daniel G. Reid and Everett Lemon, have formed a million dollar company for the creosoting of railroad ties. The concern, which is to be known as the American Creosoting company, has been incorporated in the state of Illinois, and its general oflices will be in Chicago. Much experimenting has been done by the Pennsylvania railroad company at Shirley, Ind., with creosoting railroad ties and the results have been so satisfactory that they have led the Richmond men to form a company for the purpose. A large part of the company’s output will be used by the Rock Island, C., C. & L. and Wisconsin Central railroads, in which companies Messrs. Reid and Starr are interested. —Hartford City News. f '•»

CONVENTION VOTING STRENGTH Indiana Will Have Thirty Delegate*— New York Will Lead Again With Seventy-Eight. Washington, June 21. —The probability is that one year from today or tomorrow the Republicans will nominate a candidate for president. Two seem to be reasonably clear at this time. One is that if president Roosevelt will consent to accept another nomination he can have it; the other is that if the president adheres to his determination not to accept another nomination there will be a large field of candidates and a contest for the prize that will probably be full of Interest until the hour the nomination is made. It would not be worth while to attempt to conceal the fact that many of the most influential men of the party beieve today that the president will be forced to accept another nomination. On the other hand the president’s most intimate friends are firmly fixed in the belief that he meant what he said when he declared on election night of 1904 that he would not accept another nomination. It is true, too, that the president has on many occasions within | the last few months repeated with emphasis the announcement that he is not to be considered. Assuming that the president is out of it, which one must admit is purely an assumption, the field is* most inviting to men who aspire to occupy the White House. Assuming that the convention’s committee on credentials follows precedents set by former conventions there will be 992 delegates in the convention. This means that the candidate who wins the prize must get 497 votes. Here is how the voting strength of the convention will be distributed: Alabama, 22; Arkansas, 18; California, 20; Cplorado, 10; Idaho, 6; Illinois, 54; Indiana, 30; lowa, 26; Kansas, 20; Kentucky, 26; Louisiana, 18; Maine 12; Maryland 16; Massachusetts 32; Michigan 28; Minnesota 22; Mississippi 20; Missouri 36; Montana 6; Nebraska 16; Nevada 6; New Hampshire 8; New Jersey 24; New York 78; North Carolina 24; North Dakota 8; Phillipine Islands 2f Connecticut 14; Delaware 6; Florida 10; Georgia 26; Ohio 4n; Oklahoma 14; Oregon 8; Pennsylvania 68; Rhode Island 8; South Carolina 18; South Dakota 8; Tennessee 24; Texas 36; Utah 6; Vermont 8; Virginia 24; Washington 10; West Virginia 14; Wisconsin 26; Wyoming 6; Alaska 6; District of Columbia 2; New Mexico 6; Arizona 6; Hawaii 2; Porto Rico 2. It is not at all certain that the convention will permit the territories and the non-contiguous territories to have the representation here given them but in any event the convention will be made up of about 990 delegates. z o TO SEPARATE AND WEIGH MAILS Another Duty Assigned Postoffice z Employes. Commencing with the first of July another strenuous duty is to be imposed upon the postoffice force, for beginning with that date all mail must be separated into its respective classes, first, second, third and fourth, and weighed. Heretofore all the weighing that has been done in the office has been the weighing of newspapers. The purpose of the order is not stated, but it is surmised it is to be used as a check on the railways where the mail is weighed or else to better enable the department to figure on the problem of handling the mails. Sometime during the six months, the time not having been announced, every piece of mail must be counted for thirty days. Whatever the purpose of the department, it will make much additional work- for the local force of postoffice clerks. O Several of the local wool merchants have already started to ship their supply of wool to eastern markets, and several cars were reported shipped today. The price has decreased a fraction of a cent and wool is now quoted at from 23 to 27 cents. The funeral of Mrs. Glass was held Monday morning at theM. E. church at ten o’clock, Rev. Wilcox officiating, and a large crowd being present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased. The remains arrived on the G. R. & I. this morning at 7:14 from Ft. Wayne and lay in state at the church until the hour for the funeral services. Interment was made in the Decatur cemetery.

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THE MENU-ATES HELD SESSION Decatur Ladies Will be Entertained at Preble this Evening—Mrs. C. O. France Gave Six O’Clock Dinner. - An unusually pretty wedding of Sunday at high noon occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Williams on Third street, when their daughter Marie became the bride of Elmore Ault, son of Mr. and James Ault. Squire James Knavel, of Root township officiated. Immediately after the ceremony a three-course dinner was served forty-three friends and relatives. The happy young couple will make their future home in Decatur. r - —— , Miss Marie Berry was the hostess at the Ineeting of the Menu-Ates- Saturday evening. At six o’clock a three course dinner was served by the club. During which Mrs. Chas. Locke and son Chas., Jr., were the honored guests. j A dinner which was pretty in its appointments was the one given by Mrs. C. O. France, on Saturday evening at six o’clock in compliment to Mrs. Belle France, of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs/F. J. Christen and son I Stanley. The dinner was nicely served in three courses. The afternoon club which was to meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Chas. Christen has been postponed until Thursday afternoon and will meet then with Mrs. James Haefling. At the grove of Wm. Grote, situated one-half mile' north of Preble, was held the Ev. Luth. St. Paul’s congregation annual school picnic, Sunday. An excellent program was rendered by the school children. A large crowd from Decatur attende dthe festival. Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr.' and Mrs. Jesse Parrish, who reside three quarters of a mile west of Honduras, occurred the marriage of their charming daughter, Gertrude to Mr. Otto Weileman. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. C. T. Payne, and was very impressive, after which the guests were invited to the dining room to a most bounteous supper. The happy couple were the recipients of many useful presents. Those present were Rev. C. T. Payne and family, Mr. Joe Pease and family, Mr. H. J. Weileman, and family, Mr. Adam Liby and family, Mr. Joshua Parrish and family, Mr. Jesse Parrish and family, Mr. O. P. Mills and family, Mr. H. H. Bell and family, Mr. G. W. Everett and family, Mr. Charles Scheid and wife, Mrs. Rudolph T§hannen and family, Mrs. James Hower and daughters, Mr. Chas. Bowers, Mr. Grover Liby, Mr. Fulk, Mr. Jake Fulk, Mr. Gaddes Palmer, Mr. Chancey Zerkle, Mr. John Borne, Mr. Rudolph Borne, Miss Minnie Borne, Miss Grace Zerkle, Miss Lizzie Hilge. Mrs. Henry Voglewede, Misses Burt and Dude Voglewede, Mrs. James Haefling and daughters Kathieeii and Helen, held a family dinner at the Bobison Park, at Ft. Wayne, Sunday. The crowd left on the nine o’clock car and returned on the evening car.

The boys’ class of the Presbyterian Sunday school belonging to Miss Kittle Christen will give an ice cream social

at the home of Miss Christens on Thursday evening These boys are the age of twelve and thirteen years and are working very .hard in making preparations for this social. So each one ought to patronize this class and encourage the boys for they deserve it. Don’t forget the date, Thursday evening. o Representatives of the Standard Oil company were in our city Saturday evening endeavoring to secure men to go to Griffith, Ind., to assist in fighting a fire at one of the oil tanks. The tank was struck by lightning and immediately caught on fire and men were telegraphed for within a radius of a hundred and fifty miles. Quite a number of Decatur men left with . the party to assist in the sighs. Prof. Isaac Norris, the former Hartform City musician, has completed a two-year course under Eeschetisky at Vienna and has decided to!remain ; there another year. Mr. Norris left this city more than two years ago and during his study at Vienna he has made a very creditable impression with the country’s ,best known musicians. It had been his Intention to return to America in July, but a letter ■ received by a friend states that he will- < remain for another year.

OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS / Eight Hundred Delegates .Listen to Address e s by Senator Beveridge, Bishop Ireland and Others. S. W. Hale, of Geneva, was in the city Friday evening. He has just rei turned from Minneapolis, Minn., where he attended the National 1 conference of charities and corrections, which was in session in that city for a week. Mr. Hale was one of the Indiana delegates to the conference says this was one of the most interesting session he has ever attended and with the exception of two years, he has been present at every conference during the past fifteen years. Delegates were present from forty states, Canada, Mexico and Porot Rico, over 800 in all. Among those who addressed them were Senator Beveridge, Secretary Taft, Bishop Ireland and many others. A very interesting talk was the one given by Dr. Knoff, the great German specialist on tuberculosis. However, the speaker who captivated the audience was Miss Bernard, of Oklahoma, who though only twenty years old, has proven her ability as leader for better conditions for women and children. As a deputy factory inspector, to which she had herself appointed, she visited the various factories in Missouri and Wisconsin, then returned to her native state and succeeded in securing a provision in new constitution prohibiting the employment of women and children in certain kinds of work. This plank is being desperately fought by factory owners and Miss Bernard’s visit to this conference was to secure the services of the delegates in behalf of her ideas, in an appeal to' president Roosevelt. Miss Bernard is the Democratic candidate/ for commissioner of charities in Oklahoma and will likely win out. During the week at Minneapolis the delegates were entertained in various ways by several of the city’s clubs. o WHAT ATTRACTS THE LOVER Question Being Studied by "Dr. G. Stanley Hall. j Boston, June 22.—Precisely what it'j is—what attribute or physical charac- ’ terlstic in the youth or maiden, the man or woman, that most attracts one of the opposite sex, is a problem of which Dr. G. Stanley Hall, professor of psychology in and president of Clark university, Worcester, Mass., has set out to find the solution. To this end he has taken a census of young lovers, with a view to learning what in each case has mose endeared to him or her their particular object of their affection. It was Dr. Hall who recently declared that 50 per cent of college women failed to marry, thus contributing to race suicide. The compete result of this census of lovers Dr. Hall has not yet given to the public, but he has made known an abstract of what he has learned. With hundreds of lovers heard from, Dr. Hall states th,at the characteristics specified by them are, in the order of their frequency, as follows:

Eyes, hair, size or stature feet, brows, complexion, cheeks, form of head, throat, ears, chin, hands, neck, nose, finger nails, and Contour of face. Which is to say that more of those lovers interrogated have found the loved one’s eyes or hair the chief attraction than anything else. The' mone replying to Dr. Hall’s questions have also specified these charms in the men they loved best: Regular teeth, broad shoulders and white teeth; and most popular among men have been long lashes and arched brows. According to some of those replying, a retrousse nose, freckles and a long neck have been the chief charms. The voice cuts an important figure among the charms. With some -it is a high voice, with others a low voice. Even a lisp has been stated as a charm. Laughter, carriage, gait, gesture, movement of the eye, pose of the head and shoulders have also been specified in the replies.

Developments at the Bass strike have been slow during the past few days with (the etxceptiy>n oif about forty new arrivals since Saturday last there has been nothing of special interest. Pt had been expeicteid that several of the strikers would have returned to work; in fact one of them had applied for and received a position, promising to return to work the next morning, but according to the officials of the foundry, was dissuaded by the strikers.—Journal-Gazette.