Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 4 July 1907 — Page 2

The city delivered to the Old Adams County Bank this morning bonds amounting to sixty-five hundred dollars, these being the bonds refunded and sold some time Ago. The bonds are of the straight issue and bear four per cent from date. M. E. Babcock, who recently purchased the news stand and who takes possession on next Monday, Is in his new place of justness learning the crooks and turns of the trade. Mr. Babcock expects to run the business on the old basis and insures prompt and accurate delivery. Cincinnati with Miller Huggins and all the celebrated Reds will play Dunkirk at the South Side park, Muncie, July 1. Harry Hay will be in the box for Dunkirk. Dunkirk has an idea it can beat Cincinnati, as it has wiped Portland oft the map six out of ten games between the two towns. Julius Haugk is hustling things on Madison street and is at present hauling sand for the cushion on which the brick will be laid. The brick layer who was expected this week informed Mr. Haugk that he could not arrive until next Monday, and in consequence thereof the work in this line will necessarily be delayed a few days. A new time table went into , effect on the Chicago and Erie railroad last Sunday and some very noticeable changes were made in some of the times. The noon passenger going west at 12:56 now goes at 1:18 and the 6:05 train in the evening now goes at 7:03 nearly an hours difference. Those contemplating a trip over this line in the near future should note the changes before making peparations. The K. of P. lodge at Markle has decided to give up the idea of organizing a uniform rank of their order, as they do not have enough members to make the venture a profitable one. It is said that the Markle Knights will be invited to join the Huntington lodge which will help them greatly with their showing at Indianapolis convention in August.—Huntington Democrat. A deputy fish and game commissioner who has within the last few weeks visited all the lakes in northern Indiana, says that some unknown disease is killing off fish by the thousands — ringed perch and sunfish, specially being victims. Fish afflicted with the strange disease have been shipped to the government hatchery at Detroit with a view to ascertaining the cause and applying a remedy. We would again remind our readers who were interested in hunting, that every one who hunts anything but rabbits off his own farm is required to have a license; and the licenses are not issued this year from the office of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game, but are issued by the Circuit Clerks of the various counties, except Marion county. Blank applications are to be had by applying to the Circuit Clerk in each couny. The open squirrel season begins next Monday and continues for three months. A young couple from the south nart of the county attracted considerable attention this morning on our streets by their peculiar actions and were subjected to a considerable amount of good natured joshing. The young couple paraded the streets all morning carrying a marriage license, and were caught several times in the act of making love and goo-goo eyes at each other. That they were deeply in love could readily be ascertained by their actions. They returned south at noon and will be united in marriage this evening. Two hours after she had declared that she would die before she would consent to an increase of the valuation of her property for taxation purposes, Mrs. Adam Newman, a wealthy Wabash woman, died of heart disease. She owned the New Tremont hotel building worh about? 18,000, but it had ben listed for taxation at $12,000 and the board of review sent the assessor to interview her concerning the figures. She flew into a rage and declared she would die rather than have it assessed at $12,000, and at 4 o’clock her death from heart disease occurred. She leaves an estate valued at $40,000. HEALTH INSURANCE The man who Insures his life Is wise for his family. The man who insures his health is wise both for his family and himself. You may insure health by guarding it. It is worth guarding. At the first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and manifests itself in innumerable ways TAKE Tutt’s Pills And save your health.

i Rol'o Shaw and his wife arrived i last evening‘-from Alliance, €)., and • are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joel I Reynolds. *Ro !o i- wo ’king for the i Pennsylvania railroad rt the above ■ named place and from aU reports is getting along in excellent shape. He was married but a. few days ago and , is on his honeymoon. ( Wheat was on a rampage again toi day in the Chicago and Toledo exchanges, and both markets closed to , within a fraction of a cent of the dollar mark. The local merchants are again in a quandary as to how to quote the price of this commodity, as it is running up and down every day. Dollar wheat again looks like an assured thing. Items of news handed into this office or sent in over the telephone are valued more than those the reporters have to hustle for themselves. If you know anything in the news line that would interest other people; if you are going away or returning home, don’t let false modesty deter you from letting the public know about it through the Democrat. John Rex, who is suffering with a mild form of blood poison in the right hand, had the same operated upon yesterday and a large mass of puss was removed which afforded him much relief. The hand is swo’len in bad shape and he is unable to do anything, and is thus kept from his regular duties. It is thought by his physicians that all danger is passed and he Will soon be able to resume his work. P. H. Houlahan, general superintendent of the Clover Leaf, came to Delphos Tuesday evening from Van Buren in his private car. He made an inspection of the company’s property while here. At the Clover Leaf shops Locomotive No. 17 has been thoroughly repaired and it will be used in hauling through freight. No. 56 has been brought from Marion, Ind., to Delphos for light repairs.— Delphos Herald. Since the “busting” of the paper trust, all sorts of paper has advanced in price almost double, as compared to the price before the “bust.” And since the meat trust has gotten into court and been fined a big pile of money, the price of meat has gone balooning. The trusts have got to have money from some source to pay these fines, and, of course, the poor carniverous people have to pay the fiddler. —Exchange. The Winona season opens next Monday with concerts by the Rogers’ band which haS been playing at the lake for several years. In the evening the Gamble concert party, made up of high class soloists, who give programs especially pleasing to discriminating music lovers, will give a concert, The first lecturer will be John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta Georgian, said to be the moit eloquent speaker of the South. A Pittsburg horseman holds to the theory that if the present prices on hay and grain holds on until winter and the crops don’t soon make a show that the horse market will make many a man lose plenty of money. He claims $2 a day won’t pay the expense of a heavy team in the city at the present time, with hay retailing at $26 to S3O per ton, oats 55 to 60 cents, and corn to 60 and 70 cents. Farmers can see what the crops bring when bought by the consumer. While searching for pearls in the Wabash river yesterday Charles Scott of Wabash, discovered one of the largest jewels ever taken from this river. The pearl last evening was valued by a local dealer at $35 and said it might be worth more than that when fully tested, says the Wabash Plain Dealer. This is probably the largest gem that has been discovered in this region but the Wabash in other places has furnished a large number of pearls and people have even gone so far as to make an industry of /searching for them. With the amount of Work there is to do in and about the city of Decatur there'is no need of any laboring man to claim that he is unable to secure work. Mr. Haugk, who 7 is putting in Madison street informs us that on next Monday he can use fifteen men and that he can use the same number at his quarry. This is only a sample of the numerous positions that are open, and we are unable to understand why laboring men sit around and bewail their fate and claim there is riothing to do. It certainly looks as if they didn’t want to work or they would accept one of the numerous "jobs open. David Bixler was recently poing some repair work on an’old clock belonging to Jonathan Merryman, living west of Monroe. Mr. Merryman was in town Wednesday to get it. The clock had been bought by his greatgrandfather for $194. It is now 110 years old, is constructed entirely of wood, with the exception of the escape wheel, which is of brass, and is the only brass wheel .in the whole mechanism. The dimensions of the clock are about 20 by 36 inches. It is to remain in the family fprever, and after the death of Jonathan it is to go to his younger brother Judge James T. Merryman.—Berne Witness.

The Standard Oil Company will, within two years, own and operate a complete transcontinental railroad system in the opinion of those familiar with such matters. This line will extend from the Atlantic tidewater at Newport News, Va., to Seattle and mile will be controlled by the Standmle will be controlled by the Standard Oil interest and from the day it opens it will be the most potent transportation influence on the continent. The crowds and excitement which has attended Bluffton ball games so far this season have been nothing compared with what is in store for this week, for Bluffton goes to Decatur Wednesday and Decatur plays a return game at Bluffton Friday and if either team is able to scrape together enough able-bodied men after that they may continue the season. The Decatur games are the result of the Leland Giants of Chicago canceling their games in this section. —Montpelier Herald. According to an act of the last legislature, if the farmers desire aid, in conducting the farmers’ institutes they must first organize and help themselves. They are required to enroll their name and pay a fee of not less than twenty-five cents each. When they have become properly organized if necessary they may draw on the county treasury for a sum of equal to the amount subscribed by the members, provided that that sum does not exceed SIOO. This makes it possible for a county to secure S2OO institute funds. Lewis Clark, of Berne who was arrested a few days ago at Ft. Wayne by Samuel Kuntz for deserting his wife and family and lodged in the county jail, was released from custody this afternoon after paying the costs that have acMiuu.ated and giving his promise that he will go back to his wife and children and live as a man should. If he repeats the offense no leniency will be shown to him so it is up to Mr. Clark to return to his family in a more creditable manner in jusci>: 'o himself and family. Twenty more were initiated into the Uniform Rank of the K. of P. last night. This will make their membership sufficiently large to make it almost certain that they will outdistance Terre Haute at the state meeting in August. The time has been extended and the lodges will have until August 1 to carry out their campaigns and the local lodge does not propose to lie down now just because it has a. good lead but will put up a fight to the very end of the time allotted for securing new members for the rank.—Huntington Democrat. The officers and employes of the Pennsylvnia railroad were somewhat surprised at Pittsburg when an order was issued stating that on and after July 1 the transportation of household goods, coal and other freight for the officers and employees shall be at the duly tariff rates, friom which there shall be no rebates except that freight charges may be refunded upon shipment of household goods, the propery of officers and employees whose place of residence may be changed by their appointment by the company to a position which necessitates a change of location. Do the little striped bugs drive you almost to desperation by eating up your cucumber and melon patch? Somebody suggess that these pests can be kept away in the following manner: Take a small branch of a tree about two feet long and stick it in the ground at an angle so that the point will be directly over your hill of cucumbers. Take a strip of paper eight or ten inches long and an inch or two in width and suspend it with a string from the end of the switch directly over the vines. The breeze will keep it in motion and the bugs will skidoo. The scheme Js easily tried, Dr. J. N. Hurty, the active secretary of the state board of health, has taken to himself an assistant, Dr. Guy Coffin, now of Indianapolis. This was done owing to the fact that work of the office has become entirely too much for one man—“too much in fact for two men,” said Dr. Hurty. Dr. Coffin’s duties include the inspection of school houses, with a view to condemnation proceedings; work in the pure food and drug campaigns; work in case of special epidemics in any part of the state; and anything else that the secretary may find for him to do. The interurban railroads won in the supreme court Wednesday on the main proposition that the use of the streets by their cars is no more an “additional servitude” than their use by city street cars, as long as they are operated within the city like street cats. But the court holds that whatever special damages they inflict on adjoining property by running so fast as to shake down houses, or by the improper operation of their cars in other respects, must be paid. All of the judges express the opinion that interurban cars cannot be excluded from the streets by abutting owners, the owners having a right, at most, to recover damages.

t I 400 BARRELS OF WHISKEY. I I '* I A Well* County Distillery Has Big Stock on Hands. Not many people know that whiskey [ while not one of'the principal, is at . least an important product of Wells . county. The Klopfenstine distillery, east of the city, closed down in May . after the winter’s run and there is at present in the warehouse there over 400 barrels of corn and rye whiskey. Each of these barrels holds 45 gallons, ' so there is about $55,000 worth of the snake juice in the warehouse. Os course this i> a United States bonded warehouse and to release all of this at once would require about $22,000. This does not sound like a great deal to the ordinary person, but one can see from the following what the chained lightning would do if turned loose. The population of Bluffton is about 5,000. In the 18,500 gallons there are 148,000. pints. A pint of whiskey will cause the average person to accumulate a very respectable . jag if taken in the course of a day. So if every man, woman and child in Bluffton were to drink a pint every day the supply east of the city would last over twenty-nine days. As some would undoubtedly get on enough during the week they would be entitled to rest on Sunday, so the supply would last over a month. What the result of the debauch would be is hard to tell, but the fact remains that we have right here in Wells county, made out of Wells county’s own products, the foundation of one of the most glorious jags this country would ever know. The above doesn’t exhaust the possibilities of that warehouse by any means. In a quart of whiskey there are from sixteen to twenty-five drinks, owing to how much the drinker pours out The average is about twenty-five So figuring from this there are 1,850,000 drinks on hand. If a man were to begin the morning he was bom and take an eye opener and a night cap before he went to bed and keep it up every day of his life, he would have to reach the ripe old age of 2,534 years before he would have exhausted the supply. Moses even didn’t have time to do this even if he had had the joy oil. If any man would agree to accomplish this he could get a written guarantee that at the end of his engagement he would have in his possession the most beautiful crimson (Strawberry on the end of his nose ever viewed by mortal man.—Bluffton Banner. THE TWO-6ENT FARE LAW. / 1 Winona Lake One of the Few to Escape Railroad Action. The two-cent fare railroad law has had a disastrous effect on a number of summer resorts, the railroads driving some of them entirely out of business by refusing to grant old excursion rates. *lt was for this reason that Island Park Assembly at Rome City, for many years the retreat for Methodists, will not be conducted this year. Its secretary, Rev. J. Frank Snyder, has joined the Winona Assembly forces, and it is probable will go to Winona Lake. This religious resort has from the beginning been the summering place for Presbyterians, Baptists, United Brethren and other denominations, and the Methodists will probably make it their permanent summer retreat. A stock company of Methodists is being organized by Rev. W. J. Vigus, of Wabash .which proposes to erect a hotel at Winona Lake which will cost $60,000 or $75,000, and it will be made summer headquarters of this denomination. The Northern Indiana Methodist Conference is considering the question of making Winona Lake its permanent meeting place. While the railroads have apparently interfered with the operations of a number of summer resorts, for some unknown reason the old rates to Winona Lake are again in force on all roads in the territory of the Central Passenger Association. The 15-day rate from Indlanapblis to Winona Lake and return this year is $3.55, while last year it was $3.90. The Winona Assembly is taking qare of its own transportation affairs from many points in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan by means of its trolley line from the lake to Goshen, where connection is made with, other systems. The Winona people are also building a line to Peru, to connect with Central Indiana systems, but the unseasonable weather has delayed the construction on this road many weeks and it will not be opened this summer i GUARANTEED CURB , FOR FIDBB. Itchlnr, Blind, Bleedlnr, Protruding Piles. Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to c’”‘* in 4 to 14 '"ays 50c.

FOIEK MDNEY CURE W Will cure any case of Kidney or Bladder Disease not Bright’s Disease * beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more. or Diabetes I THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG COMPANY,

OF BENEFIT TO ALL THE CLERKS I < \ Grades Established Giving Each r Somethin? to Work for in the Fut ture, Also More Money. i ■ r Washington, June 28. —Many impor- ■ tant legislative acts by the last con- . gress become effective July 1, the beginning of the governments fiscal year. The postoffice department is ’ partcularly interested*in the new leg- > islation affecting the postal establish- . ment which goes into effect on that > day. Here are the more important things . provided for: ( Clerks in offices of the first and , second class and carriers in the city delivery. service will be divided into , six grades. -A ( In the first grade the salary will be , $600; in the second grade, $800; third , grade, $900! fourth grade, $1,000; fifth grade, $1,100; sixth grade, $1,200. On thq first day of the month clerks and carriers at first class offices will be promoted successively to the fifth grade, and clerks and carriers at second class offices will be promoted successively to the fourth grade. Every promotion is to be based on efficiency and faithfulness. Any clerk will be eligible for transfer to the service of a carrier, and any 1 carrier will be ellgfffle for transfer 1 to the service of a clerk. 1 Every city carrier who, on June 30, 1 is regularly employed at a salary of SBOO a year, will be promoted to' the fourth grade, at SI,OOO a year,' provided there is submitted at the ’ postoffice department evidence of efficiency and faithfulness. Substitutes may be employed for clerks and carriers at the rate of 30 cents an Hour, and a substitute becomes eligible for appointment to the l first grade. Employes in the railway mail service are classified and nearly everybody in this branch of the service will receive an increase of SIOO. ' Rural letter carriers w£o cover what is known as a full route will receive S9OO a year instead of $720. The compensation paid the railroads for carrying the mails is to be readjusted, and the pay considerably reduced. Postmasters throughout the country will begin keeping a record of the weight of each class of mail. This record ia_.to be kept for a period of six months. * In making promotions under the new legislation the department is being guided by the recommendations of postmasters so far as postoffice employes are concerned and of division superintendents in dealing with the employes in the railway mail service. n —— THREE MARRIAGE LICENSES One Couple Were of Advanced Years —Peculiar Question Raised in the Miller Damage Case. * (_ A marriage license was issued to J&mes H. Williams, of Bryant, Jay county, and Irma Blanche Glendening of this county; also one to Floyd E. , Brandyberry, of Monroe, and Alta P. Buess, of Berne. • —- ■ I Another license to wed was issued to G. W. Keller and Elizabeth Laughery, each,aged sixty-seven, and both from Monroe. The groom has been ■ married twice and the bride once before. I o - TO GO TO WEST POINT. I Portland, Ind., June 28. —Congressman John A. M. Adair, of the Eighth 1 district, has announced the Appoint- 1 ment of Willis Crlttenberger, of Anderson, <to a cadetship in the United States Military academy at West Point The young man is a son of ' Dale J. Crlttenberger, owner of the ; Anderson News, and is a graduate of the 1907 class, Anderson high school. 1 He is to enter the academy in March ' 1908. 1 • ' o — i CURED OF LUNG TROUBLE. “It is now eleven years since I had 1 a narrow escape from consumption,” ] writes C. O. Floyd, a leading busi- f ness man of Kershaw, S. C. “I had run down in weight to 135 pounds, and coughing was constant, both by < day and by night. Finally I began < taking Dr. King’s New Discovery, and j continued this for about six months, wheff my cough and lung trouble were ! entirely gone and I was restored to < my normal weight, 170 pounds.” Thou- : sands of persons are healed every , year.. Guaranteed at Blackburn drug store. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. • i 1

I SHOWER GIVEN FOR MISS ERNBT i Whose Wedding Will Occur Soon— Missionary Society to Hold an Ex-change-Other Society News. By Perle Burdg. 1 The Misses Francis Dugan and ‘ Bessie Boyers are giving a picnic party Friday to a large company of sixteen young girls in compliment of the \ Misses Katherine Calvert, of Covington, Ky., and Charlotte Dorwin, of Lafayette, Ind. The party includes the girls of the A. H. C. club. They met at the home of Miss Dugan and ■ then left on the twelve o’clock car for Dorwin’s farm, near Monmouth, whereon there is a splendid shady grove where they will hold the picnic. The hostesses sent a large wagon filled with every article that is necessary for such an occasion and also the Inucheon which it is impossible to describe, and to which ample justice will be done. They will return some time during the evening. A very pleasant surprise was given at the home of Charles Standlford, 6% ( miles southeast of Decatur, Wednesday evening June 26th, in honor of ( their daughter Olive, it being her 18th | birthday. Those present were. Misses i Verda Bigham, Gertrude Shifferly, ( Grace Gauze, Maggie Bell, Maude ,Wood, lona Shifferly, Gertrude Pomerdy, Myrtle Springer, Olive Standiford, Lula Dull, Ethyl Myers; Messrs. Landy Jackson, Otis Shifferly, Rolla Jackson, Burley Swygart, Merle Cowan, Lawrence Johnson, Willie Johnson, Vernon Shifferly, George Peters, Russel Stewart, Love Woods, Sherman Carter, Russel Pomeroy, Harry Pomeroy,’ Curtis Springer, Carl Dudley. The evening was spent in games And social chat until a late hour, when all departed wishing Miss Standlford many more happy birthdays. o BERNE’S NEW SUPERINTENDENT Frank Huff, of Argos, to Have Charge of Schools. ' The school board have, after due deliberation, selected a superintendent for the schools for the coming year, the successful applicant being Frank D. Huff, of Argos, who will move te this place with his family in the near future so. as to make complete arrangements for the beginning of school before the opening day. The course of Study will be arranged so as to give a four-year course in the High school dfepartment Two teachers will give their entire time to this work and Berne will soon be in line for a commission from the state if the present plans are carried out. Mr. Huff comes to his new 'position highly recommended by the people of his own town where he has taught in the township and town schools for the past nine years as principal and superintendent. He is a man of strong personality, an able instructor and a man with a clean character. The school board have spared no effort on their part in securing an able superintendent and qye surely to be congratulated upon their selection. ' Now as soon as a principal has been selected the corps of teachers will be complete.—Berne Witness. o — MAY HAVE EFFECT ON CASE. Attorneys Claim Wrong Corporation is Being Sued. . Declaring that the wrong corporation is being sued by Andrew Miller, of Adams county, who is seeking to recover in the superior court judgment for damages alleged to have been caused by fire, which resulted from sparks from a Grand Rapids and Indiana locomotive, Judge Allen Zollars yesterday filed a motion asking Judge Heaton to instruct the jury to return a veridet for the defendant The mdton was overruled, but the point may have,an important bearing upon the case which has been on trial for several days. Mr. Miller’s action is against the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad comply, and after the plaintiff had been allowed to develop his case attorneys for the defense offered a showing to the effect that the railroad property was in fact owned by the Grand Rapids Railway company, to which corporation it had been sold in 1896 by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad company, the original owner of the property. The single words “railroad” and “railway” constitute the only difference in the corporate names of the two organizations.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel.