Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 4 July 1907 — Page 8

«|» HJffig W Back to the farm! That’s where you gel good coffee. None of that “ fresh roasted loose by the pound ” store stuff from nobody knows where, full of dust, atmosphere and soiled hands, but the real old, genuine egg and sugar coated Arbuckles’ ARIOSA Coffee, which the, folks keep in the original package and grind in the kitchen. That’s Coffee! Complies with all requirements of the National Pure Food Law, Guarantee No. 2041, filed at Washington. HAS JUST BEEN ANNOUNCED Pythian Sisters at B«rne Last Evening —Mr. Earl Butler Gave Stag Party for Mr. Widner. A wedding which was a very quiet affair was the one of Miss Letta Ernst to Mr. Lee Annen, at Logansport last Sunday aftrenoon. Rev. White, formerly of Decatur, performed the ceremony. The happy couple returned home during the evening, in order to take possession of their newly furnished home on west Monroe street They will be at home to their many friends after July Ist The Democrat extends congratulations. * A crowd of ladies numbering eighteen belonging to the Pythian sister order, drove to Berne to attend an initiaition which was held at the Berne hall. One candidate was taken through the mysteries of the order. After the close of the session an elegant supper was served the visitors, who were from Decatur and also from Geneva. A stag party was given by Earl But- i ler Friday evening to a dumber of his 1 friends in compliment of Artie Wid-! ner, of Clapool, Ind. Various games j _and music occupied the evening, dur-' ing the time a two-course luncheon ' was served. The out of town guest beside Mr. Widner was Chas. Saulter, I of Buffalo, New York. ——._o — The Sunday school convention of Unon and Root township will be held I at the Mount Pleasant church Sip-! day, July 7th. There will be an after-! • noon and evening meeting. A fine 1 program has been arranged and the services of Rev. N. C. Shirey have been secured for a lecture in the evening. Come out and help make the lecture a success. — -o «■ — War Against Consumption. All nations are endeavoring to check the ravages of consumption, the “white plague” that claims so many victims each year. Foley’s Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds perfectly and you are in no danger of consumption. Do not risk your health by taking some unknown preparation when Foley’s Honey and Tar is safe and certain in results. The genuine is in a yellow package. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. OLD PEOPLE NEED VINOL Because it contains the very elements needed to rebuild wasting tissues and replace feebleness with strength. We return money if it fails to benefit.) SMITH, YAGER A FALK.

WAS MUCH DOING TODAY The Session Will be Short hut Considerable Important Business is on the Docket. The commissioners opened a busy session, macadam, bridge and abuttment contracts being the principal business that interested many people from nearly every section of the county. The first entrance on the docket was the granting of a liquor license to P. T. Burk and Michael McGriff, of Geneva, and J. M. Ehrsam, of Linn Grove and Charles T. Frank Heller entered into contract for the Reynolds Macadam road extension four The road was bid in at the June session. Report on the Maggie Miller ditch petition was ordered back to the surveyor for correction, three other landowners being due for assessment, and their names being omitted from the original assessment ! John Hessler and L. H. Boknecht i were appointed viewers on the Fred Blumberg Macadam road petition, they being ordered to, meet at the i office on July 5, to qualify. Surveyor Baumgartner was appointed superintendent. Six macadam road contracts were let, the bidding being close and interesting on most of them., Otto Reppert Road — C. W. North ...$5,987.00 E. Woods 6,300.00 Fred Hoffman and Sons 6,550.00 Sam Dook 6,144.00 Gottschalk and Yoder 5,987.00 Huser and Waggoner Road— Frank Heller $4450.00 F. Hoffman and Sons 3,815.00 Sam Doak 3,815.00 -L. O. Bears and Co 3,632.00 Beirie and Rose 3,999.00 Gottschalk and Yoder 3,707.00 West Washington No. 5 — Beirie and Rose $2,745.00 F. Hoffman and Sons 2,780.00 Magley and Parrish 2,799.00 S. Doak 2,678.00 Gottschalk and Yoder. 2,690.00 M. Miller ) 2,579.00 Wm. Reppert 2,294.00 J. A. Cline Road—, E. W00d558,445.00 F. Hoffman and Sons 8,998.00 Julius Haugk 8,804.00 : Magley and Parrish 8,998.00 ! Gottschalk and Yoder 8,525.00 ( M. Miller 8,709.00 | Randerbush-Hain Road—j Woods and Miller $6,024.00 . Magley and Parrish 6,998.00 ,L. O. Bears and Co 6,999.00 , Sam Doak 6,663.00 Beirie and Rose 6,930.00 ! Gottschalk and Yoder 6,572.00 t M. Miller 5,969.00 [ Geneva, Ceylon No 3 — jL. O. Bears and C0...57,599.00 CONTRACTS FOR ROAD REPAIRS Macadam Road Superintendents Ap-pointed-Other Business Before the Board. ► —. . > P. A. Macklin was appointed superi intendent of construction on the Ge-, ' neva, Ceylon and Wabash township . Macadam Road Extension three. i I David Merhberger, Decatur Lumber • Co., Levi Augsburger, A. & C. Stone Co., Julius Haugk, E. M. Ray and Erie Stone Co., were all given contracts for furnishing crushed stone for road repairs. The French township extension four, Tanner extension four, Decatur and Monroe extension five and Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash township were continued. The petition Decatur and Monroe five and six macadam roads was approved and William, Anderson and Chris Eicher were appointed viewers and L. L. Baumgartner engineer. The National Concrete Co. was low bidder on Linn Grove bridge, and the Attica Bridge Co. secured three little bridges. James M. Foreman and Charles Morrison were appointed viewers for the C. E. Bollinger extension four. P. J. Bryan, Henry Eiting and Michael Miller were appointed reviewers on a highway location. Chancey E. Young et al remonstrated against a former viewers report. Elwood H. Faust was refunded $3.13 cents in taxes. During the summer kidney irregu- . larities are often caused by excessive 1 tend to the kidneys at once by usine Foley’s Kidney Cure. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

' SUPERINTENDENT FULK BUSY • Shut Off the Supply at a Hundred and Fifty Places—the City Is Not Selling Meters. Water works superintendent W. E. ■ Fulk Monday morning started upon his I strenuous duty of turning off the wati er supply of those who had not qomi plied with a recent ruling made by the common council in relation to putting in water meters, and informed ; us that by six o’clock this evening i he expected to have something like : one hundred and fifty consumers turned off. As the plant has something like seven hundred and fifty consumers, it can readily be seen that . his task is no small one and that it will require several days in which to make the entire rouhds. Out of the seven hundred and fifty consumers Mr. Fulk expects to have to cut the water supply off for about two hundred and fifty as the remainder of the consumers have made arrangements to comply with the order and will not be turned off. The plumbers all re* port that they are behind anywhere from twenty-five to a hundred orders and to protect those who have placed their order and have been unable to have their meters set, the Superintendent will not turn off the water and will permit them to use the same until the meter can be set. A report has been circulated among the property owners that the city is selling these meters, and getting the commission upon the same. This report is erroneous as the city refused absolutely to have anything to do with the selling of the meters and not a cent passes through the hands of the treasurer for this purpose. The only thing the council has done in this matter was to order that all consumers use water by meter measurement, and are not particular what kind of a meter the consumer uses so as it does the work. Water works superintendent W. E. Fulk is representing the Crown meter company in his own behalf, and it may be in this manner that the false report has become circulated that the city is interested. The councilmen are desirous of stopping all further censure in this line ’ as they are not interested in the least! other than seeing that every drop of ’ water that is consumed is paid for. j However, they do expect to insist that tfie resolution as adopted by them 1 is complied with in every respect and ’ will insist and urge that the super-) intendent do his duty regardless of who it hits or misses. With this new ’ system the city dads are confident J that the water works plant -will be \ a paying institution the same as thej electric light plant, as the shameful waste of water that has existed in, 1 the past will cease. In case your ■ water is turned off do not blame any < one but yourself, as the council has’ given fair warning to all and it is; your fault if you have not prepared • for the same. TO ROOT FOR THEIR FAVORITES Clover Leaf Will Have Extra Cars to Accommodate Them—lt Will be " a Big Fourth After All. Going from the gay to grave, Bluffton will be the deadest town in the universe the Fourth. All the grocery stores will be closed all day; the druggists will do the same, while many of the other business houses will either shut up shop all day or the greater part of it. The base ball game will take place in the morning, and then all the fans will follow the team to Decatur for the afternoon game: j Just to be in style and to follow out I a custom of long standing, the Banner will not issue on the glorious Independence day, and, of course, that fact alone makes the town dead. But we can’t help it. Everybody seems glad of a chance to get out of town for one holiday, and the interurban cars, if the management is up to snuff, will put on lots of cars to carry the people out of town, and then for a nice wind-up to a day of pleasure it is hoped they wlll’furnlsh plenty of cars to bring the tired multitude back home. The Clover Leaf will have extra cars on the noon train to carry the crowd to Decatur to see the ball game and they, no doubt, will carry four or five hundred people. We serve notice now on Decatur to enlarge that ball park to accommodate the crowd from Bluffton alone. Nobody but the aged and Infirm will stay in Bluffton the Fourth. So get ready to leave and pick your spot to land. —Bluffton Banner. ——— o WAS IN POOR HEALTH FOR YEARS. Ira W. Kelley, of Mansfield, Pa., writes: “I was in poor health for two years, suffering from klfiney and bladder trouble, and spent considerable money consulting physicians without obtaining any marked benefit, but was cured by Foley’s Kidney Cure, and I desire to add my testimony that it may be the cause of restoring the health of others.” Refuse substitutes. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

BY SCORE OF SEVEN TO SIX With a Lead' of Three runs in th* First Inning and the Best of it All Through We Lost in Ninth. The second game of the series went to Blufftoh Friday by a score of seven to six, and from the appearances of the error column it was merely presented to our Wells county friends with our compliments and best wishes. Five errors seemed to be all that the locals could accumulate in nine innings and every one of the five were very costly as they resulted in runs that in the end meant our undoing, /ton an uninterested standpoint and from wna: we were able to learn from strangers, who attended the game, the score in reality kho aid have been six to three in favor of Decatur, but costly errors at ciitlcal moments presented the Wells county aggregation with the game. That it was a tough one to lose is without argument and the fans who attended from this city were sick over the result and said many unkind things. Base ball at the best is a very uncertain game, and it is this uncertainty that makes the game the grand sport it is. If a team had no errors and every play was perfect, the fans would then be discontented and would grumble the same as when errors are made. The players who make errors feel just as bad over the same as the fan who See them made and feel the loss of a game as keenly as any one and in the end should not be so unjustly criticised. The game started promptly at three o’clock With Mr. Gormley, of Marion, Ind., holding the indicator and Whalen officiating in the box. The locals at once got busy and accumulated three runs, the result of .a base on balls and three hits. Bluffton came back with two in the first, they being presented to them on an error after two men were out. Both teams secured a run in the third and by timely hitting the locals scored two in the fifth, one run being the result of a home run drive made by Behringer that went over the first baseman’s head and got lost , in the grass, while the other was the , result of two hits and an error. There ; was nothing more doing for the locals . the remainder of the game, while in ' the eighth and ninth Bluffton pro- ( ceeded to get busy, they scoring two , runs in the eighth after two men i were out and securing one in the l ninth after the same number were , out, the errors in these two innings being qtfite numerous and costly,, and I with them went a game that should : easily have been credited to Decatur, i The hit and error column of the locals rivaled six hits being secured, while five miss plays were made, two of the latter being credited to Beringer and three to Witham. The Bluffton people were crazy over the result and last evening shot off something like twenty dents worth of fireworks and in other ways celebrated their victory as only Wells county people know how, and are gloating over our defeat. The two teams will meet on the Fourth of July the first game being played at’ Bluffton in the morning and ’the two .teams will meet here in the afternoon, and we predict that we will take their scalps in both of these contests and the fans will then be contented again. So cheer up and pull hard for the team, cut out the knocking and forget the loss of this game, and the results in the future will be much better. ... V Decatur. * I AB R H PO A E Nash, rs 4 1 0 0 0 0 Behringer, ss.. 2 1 1' 0 3 2 Linderbeck, cf. 3 3 2 3 0 0 Burns, If -3 11 1~ 0 0 Weber, lb .... 4 0 1 11 0 0 Pierce, 2b .... 4 0 1 3 2 0 Sealts, c 4 0 0 4 1 0 Witham, 3b >... 4 0 0 2 4 3 Geyer, p 4 0 0 0 3 0 Totals 32 6 6 25' 13 5 Bluffton. I AB R H PO, A E Boyd, cs-rs ... 5 11 1 0 0 Gouhl, cf-p .... 4 0 1 0 3 1 Gillis, If 5 1 0 1 0 0 Larue, 3b ...'.-2 2 11 6 0 Pfefferle, lb .. 4 0 1 15 11 Fogel, c 4 0 1 8 0 0 Zanglein, ss .-2 2 0 0 2 0 Squibbs, 2b .. 3 11 0 3 0 Whalen, p .... 2 0 0 11 0 Johnson 2 0 1 0 0 0 Totals .33 77 27 16 2 Decatur 3 0102000 o—6 Bluffton 2 0100002 I—7 Summary— . Base on balls —Off Geyer 4; off Whalen 2. Left on bases—Decatur 4; Bluffton 5. z Wlld pitches—Geyer, Guhl. Struck out—By Geyer 5; W_halen 2; Guhl 2. Double player—Larue to Pfefferle to Larue. Hit by ptcher —Linderbeck, Zanglein. Three base hit—Burns. Two base hit —Boyd. Home run —Behringer. Time of game —2 hours- Umpire—Gormley. — o Quick relief for Asthma Sufferers Foley’s Honey and Tar affords Immediate relief to asthma sufferers In the worst stages and If taken in time will effect a cure. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

I TALKS OVER INDIANA MATTERS 1 Vhe Tippecanoe Battle Ground Commission and Widening of Michigan City Harbor. t Washington, June 28. —Representat live Crumpacker had an extended con- . ference with Secretary Taft this as- ( temoon, having come to Washington , especially to talk with him about two . Indiana matters. He IKJnterested in I the appointment of the federal comL mission, known as the Tipepcanoe k Battleground Commission. Through [ the efforts of Representative Crum- . packer the last congress appropriated . $12,500 and the Indiana legislature , made an equal appropriation with , which to erect a suitable monument The governor of Indiana and the > president of the Tippecanoe Battleground Memorial Association, Job Sims, were designated by law as two members of the commission and the Secretary of War is to name the third member.- Representative Crumpacker Ik’ urging the appointment of Albert A. Jones, of 'Battleground, and took up the matter with Secretary Taft at the conference here. Representative Crumpacker also talked with Secretary Taft about the widening of the Michigan City harbor. Congress appropriated’ $60,000 at the last session for this work and the war department has .had expert engineers examining the harbor with the view of having this work done. There is some hesitation about attempting it now, as it will require a new alignmen of the west pier and a removal of the revetment bn the west gide of the harbor. It may be necessary to have a special act of congress passed before this work can be done. Representative Crumpacker will visit the Jamestown exposition and New York city before returning to Indiana First Assistant Postmaster-General Hitchcock has designated the following promotions of Indiana city letter carriers effective July 1, from SBSO to S9OO a year: Ft. Wayne, 31; Laporte, 5; Lebanon, 3; Logansport, 11; Mishawaka, 6; New Albany, 10; Shelby vile; 5; Terre Haute, 24; Valparaiso, 6; Wabash, 6. > . The postoffice department has accepted the proposal of Mrs. Fannie E. Todd, of Dunkirk, to renew the Dunkirk postoffice lease for a term of ten years from August 1, 1907, including a complete equipment, heat, light, water, safe, etc. Supervising Architect Taylor, of the treasury department, has written Senator Hemenway and Representative Chaney that he has postponed all actidn on the Bedford Federal building indefinitely, as per their wishes. J. W. Fuller, formerly of Westville, Laporte county, has received a temporary appointment as deputy revenue collector in the district of Louisiana. o Miss Frances Bryson, of Decatur, went home Monday after being here one week as a guest of Miss Hui la Tudor west Portland, the latter recently moving here froiji Decatur. — Portland Review. At the time of the election in this township when the question of voting $50,000 for the Clover Leaf railrqad was up, the money to be used by the company in enlarging its shops in this city, the costs of the election was guaranteed by a number of the citizens who afterwards paid them, the cost amounting to about SSOO. On Monday the Clover Leaf company, by its attorney, Braden Clark, paid into th e county treasury the amount <of the cost of the election and it was at once paid back to the men who had advanced the money in the first case. —Frankfort Crescent: LEGAL ADIMMN APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE WILL ANNEXED. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Johnson Nye, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. BUEL G. NYE, Admr. D B. Erwin, Attorney. June 13, 1907. 16-3 t PUBLIC NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that sealed blds will be received at the Linn Grove school house till the hour of 10 o’clock a. m., July 13, 1907., for a low pressure steam heating plant to be Installed in the Linn Grove school building for which plans and specifications can be had at the Opliger & Co. hardware store at Linn Grove, Ind. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. - 'MOSES AUGSBURGER, . Township Trustee" Hartford Township, Adams County, Ind. Dated June 20, 1907. NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS, t Notice is hereby given that, The

► Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, will on the sth Day of August, 1907, and up until 10 o’clock a. m., of Said day, receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all material necessary for the painting of the court house and for furnishing oil and paint for use at county infirmary, according to plans and specifications now on file in the auditor’s office. All bids must ■ be with the affidavit and l bond as required by. law. , The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. 1 MARTIN LAUGHLIN, DAVID WERLING, WILLIAM MILLER, Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. Attest: —C. D. Lewton, Auditor. 18-3 t -W—__——— NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. i * Notice is hereby\given that the undersigned, superintendent of the construction of the Maggie Miller ditch in Blue Creek township, Adams county, Indiana, will on Saturday, July 27, 1907, at) 10:30 o’clock a. m., at the office of the county surveyor, in the City of Decatur, in said county, receive sealed bitjs for the construction of said ditch, in accordance with reports, plans and specifications therefor, now on file in said cause. Bids will be re. ceived and contracts let as follows: Sec. 1 from station 21 to 41 plus 50. Sec. 2 from station 0 to 21. Sec. 3 branch from station 0 to 23 plus 44. Or as a whole. Bidders will be required to file with their z blds affidavits as required by law, upon forms furnished by suchsuperintendehf, and each bid shall be accompanied with a good and sufficient bond tn a sum equal to the amount of such bid, conditional for the faithful performance of said contract, and that such bidder will enter into contract if fixe same be awarded to him, such bond to be aproved by said superintendent. The said superintendent reserves the right to reject any and all bids. No bids will be accepted dn excess of the estimated cost of such work, or in excess of the benefits found. L. L. BAUMGARTNER, 18-2 t s Supt. of Construction. / „■ * NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. State of Indiana, Adams county, ss: Lydia Martin, John Martin, her husband vs. Julia Betzell (nee Kuhm), William Betzel, her husband, Amelia Kuhm et al. In the Adams circuit court, September term, 1907. No. 7396. Partition of real estate. It appearing from affidavit, filed in ) the above entitled cause that Julia’ Betzell (nee Kuhm), William Betzell, her husband, Amelia Kuhm, Edward Kuhm, Rosau Kuhm, Esther Kuhm, Lizzie Kuhm, the above named defendants, non-residents of the State of' K Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Julia Betzell, William Betzell, her husband, Amelia Kuhm, Edward Kuhm,Rosa Kuhm, Esther Kuhm and Lizzie Kuhm that they beandappear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the first day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the court house in the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 2nd day of September, A. D., 1907 and plead by answer or demur to said complaint'or the same will be heard and determined in their absence. Witness my name and the Seal of' said court beret® affixed this 18th day of June A. D. 1907. DAVID GERBER, Clerk. By Paul Baumgartner, Deputy. Petersqn & Moran, Attorneys. 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 16th day of Ju]y, 1907, and up Until 10 o’clock a. m. of said dajy, receive sealed blds for the furnishing of all material and labor necessary for the construction of the' following Bridge and Abutments, for the use of said county, to-wit: G. W. Reynolds Bridge on Jay county line, 30 by 16 foot span, also concrete abutments at same place. Atl z according to certain surveys, profiles and general plans which have heretofore been prepared and deposited and are now on file in the office of the auditor of said county and which are now open <to the public inspection. No bid' will be received or entertained by said board unless auch bid is accompanied by an affidavit such as is now required by law governing blds for bridge. > Each bld must be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, equal to thb. amount of the bid, made payable to the State of Indiana, signed* by at least two freehold sureties, residents of the county, or by a properly authorized and qualified bonding or surety company; which bond shall guarantee the faithful performance and execution of the work so bld for, in case the same is awarded, and that the contractor shall promptly pay all debts incured by him in the prosecution of such work, including labor, materials furnished, and for boarding •the laborers thereon. Any one desiring to submit plans and speciflcatipns for competition at the same letting may do so by filing the samp with the county auditor of said county not less than ten days before the said date of letting. If any such plans and specifications so submitted include the use of any patented device or of any article controlled by a the specifications shall be accompanied by a state- ' ment of the terms upon which such device or article may be used or obtained. ' The Board reserve the right to reject any and all blds.. MARTIN LAUGHLIN, DAVID WERLING, , WILLIAM MILLER, Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. Attest:—C. D. Lewton, Auditor. ■■