Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■VBBTTBUWDATMOXMIKG BY <W G ELLINGHAM, PUBM«ME» WMPBB YBAB IM ADTAMOB. i ■atirvd M tfc«»oatoac«»< Decatur. IsdlM* | m ■•ooad-claM mall matter - — I IFFKIAI WtR OF ADAMS Min t I JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING ELSE I The Democratic editors of Indiana .will spend the three last days of : this week at French Lick, at which place their mid-summer meeting will be held. The pfogram promises to be more than entertaining. Indiana politics will receive some attention 1 from the newspaper boys as they want to win an Indiana victory so badly . that they can taste it The three Indiana congressmen, a large parcel of which is the Hon. J. , A. M. Adair, of this district are on ( the program to speak at the French Lick editorial meeting. . I While the writer was in Washington recently, he received a very good account of the intial workout of Congressman Adair, who spent two weeks there jluring the last session of congress.' The opinion was given that the representative from this district had already established himself, and that it would be but a short time until he was an actual force. It usually takes a long time for the Washington statesmen to measure a man, so the feat accomplished by Congressman Adair is a record breaker. AS OTHERS SEE IT Senator Beveridge alludes to Roosevelt’s policies as “the historic movement of the last five years.” He meant, perhaps, the hysteric move.ment. —Houston Post. After the meat trust has been broken up by everybody refusing to eat meat everybody will go barefooted to bust the shoe trust, of course. —Philadelphia Press. When Pennsylvania starts after the presidentcy Uncle Sam instinctively begins to nail down things in Washington and hunts out a place to hide the valuables. —Baltimore Sun. Speaking of the presidential nomination, Mr. Taft remarked, “if the duty comes I shall not decline it” In the meantime he is keeping the country posted as to his whereabouts. —Washington Post. It was the New York World that inquired, “Is the law. really an ass?” That depends entirely upon whether you are making it, interpreting it, or being kicked by itA-Washington Herald. The St. Louis Glgbe-Democrat presents the following for solution: “Conundrum: If two cents more of cotton and two cents more wages are put into a shirt, why is the price of the garment marked up twenty-five cents?” Dead easy! The thieving tariff! — Louisville Courier-Journal. THERE IS A MORAL IN THIS. It is reported that farm lands in one of the best corn-producing sections of lowa are slowly declining in value. This depreciation is taking place in spite of ever-bettered crops, the district having produced more corn during 1905 than ever before., This year the prospects are even better. The territory especially affected might be included in a cirle a little over six miles in diameter. It has good railroad facilities and would seem an ideal location for enterprising farmers. Nevertheless, farms have decreased in value from approximately sllO an acre to SBS and even lower. This has occurred within the last six years. A contemporary in calling attention to this almost unparalled instance, points to the fact that a country town in the same district has lost in population during the same period. The population has not only decreased, but business has suffered most severely during what has has been elsewhere the most prosperous decade any country has ever enjoyed. The contemporary noting this parallel decline of town and farm declares: “Investigation shows that this city was formerly a prosperous township, convenient and desirable for both business and social purposes. The large mail order and printing houses drew much of the trade tc Chicago and merchants, after vainly endeavoring to overcome this compe tition, left for other sections, or wen! , out of business entirely.”

OUR DOPE COLUMNA lady from Marion is visiting in the city, and she says that that city and the citizens of Marlon feel both the loss an<T the humiliation of losing the Coppock Automobile plant. While in the past this company has been no great addition to the manufacturing interests of Marlon, yet apparently, every one saw a bright and prosperous future, and fully expected some day to hear of them as the leading industry of its kind in the country. Viewed from a business standpoint, it is a serious loss to Marion. Decatur’s brick streets are models of beauty when cleaned and thanks to a faithful city employee, they are clean. Now, if some one will get after the alleys with a scrub brush, dog days will present no new terrors. Marshal Green is after those of us who are harboring an unusual crop of weeds. He has the law with him and we hope that station in life or previous condition of servitude,. will exclude no one from following in the straight and narrow path. As a breeder of disease and filth, there is nothing that will outrival the rag weed. Now comes several of the manful to the fore who are seriously considering the advisability of relieving the house stagnation in Decatur. There is nothing needed so badly and there is nothing that will prove a better dividend payer to the investor. The Democrat contributes to exceed six thousand dollars a year to the cause of labor in Decatur, not a cent of which finds its way to the mail order and large printing houses of Chicago, and elsewhere. This little sum of money is helping to make that Greater Decatur, about which you have heard of before. In addition, our mechanical equipment at this time enables us to do as good printing as any mail order or large printing house in the country, and if our volume of business justifies, we can do it as cheaply. This is not a bouquet, just news. “— — ■ REFLECTIONS OF THE HOUR. If the smelling committee of the city board of health would draw one long breath in the alleys and backyards in the business section of the city, they would be ready for hospital care. Let’s clean up. The merchants of a neighboring town have been pretty slack advertisers for some time and Sears, Roebuck and Co. recently spotted the town for easy picking and sent in over 500 of their large catalogues at a cost of postage alone of over $l6O. The mail order and large printing houses watch the country papers like hawks and when they find a town with sleepy, dead merchants they pour in their dray loads of advertising. The house situation in Decatur is not clearing up very rapidly. Demands for places to live is a daily experience nowadays, and what is more serious, is the fact that the real demand has not begun yet. Fifty or more homes will have to be provided between this time and fall. Who will start the ball rolling? Mr. Dealer —The “catalogue houses ’ are everlasting at it; it is their untiring energy that brings them business. They are, “pounding” at your customers all the time. Are you doing anything to counteract this activity? Some merchants are and they find it pays. You can keep your trade at home if you make it clear to your customers that it is to their interest to trade at home. Japan is to have a world’s fair in 1912. This settles the question of war. It will be so busy in getting ready and so long in paying the deficit that it will have neither time nor money for fighting other nations.— Indianapolis Star. =ssssssts The Boston Transcript, a Roosevelt , republican paper, says that Falr- • bank’s candidacy is “stuff and non- , sense” and that if he should be nom- > inated his votes in the west would - have to be looked for under the column headed “scattering." Gov. Folk, of Missouri, was the • orator at Evansville on the 4th. He s took occasion to pay a warm compllment to Gov. Hanly for his aggressive- • ness as a reformer and said he was a 8 man after his own heart. Words of ° pralse fr om such source must have y made the Hoosier governor feel good. '* He gets none like them from his party lt papers in this state-or very few of them.—Columbia City Post.

THEIRIGHT WAY TO BOOM DECATUR It is time now that the Business Men’s Association should be a business men’s association in fact, as well as in name. It is time they were dissolving all combinations, both tbr the prices paid for grain, live stock, poultry, butter and eggs, as well as the selling prices thereof. It is time they were boosting a little for Decatur, instead of using their organization for the purpose of gratifying the selfiish interest of a few people. How does it come that grain raised within a mile of Decatur is conveyed miles to every little town around us? Why is it that both cattle and hogs are taken from the close proximity of the corporate limits of Decatur to Willshire? Why is it that farmers complain that the prices paid for poultry, butter and eggs is lower than every little jefk-water cross roads around here? Why is it that farmers come into this office and say that our market reports are incorrect as compared to markets in every other town around here? Decatur is losing trade and losing business by the pigheaded methods that are in vogue among certain business men. These methods are apparently approved by the Business Men’s Association. The Democrat regrets to speak of this existing condition. We would rather boost everything and every- . body than to speak ill of business men or their methods. But this question is a public one. z-It concerns the vitalI ity of our business life* It drives away that which would come for the ! i asking. Decatur should have good , markets, not only good, but the best markets. That should be our grand rallying cry, and afford us the right ’ to ask and demand the patronage of ’ all the surrounding country. Some . merchants afe already complaining that the Ft. Wayne and Springfield J railway carries many buyers to Ft. > , Wayne. They will continue to carry them and their numbers will grow and multiply unless the right markets are acorded them here. What is the use of raising a factory ; _ fund and booming our town,, if by so ' doing we are simply to fill a leak I that ought not to exist? Let’s get right. Let’s boom our markets up and make them ths talk for miles around. Let’s boom Decatur. ; POLITICS AND > ■ POLITICIANS. t I t There has been considerable said about Editor E. C. Toner, the able and polished editor of the Anderson [ Herald, entering the slimy paths of r politics, and actually, of his own vo- » lition and accord, wanting the nominatlon and election from the world r famed eighth congressional district. We never accorded such statements with much reliability, until now, when t we have it second handed but straight, u that Mr. Toner actually harbors such . ambitions. He is the second Moses . that proposes to sacrifice himself upj on the political altar in order to save . his party from the humiliation of defeat by their arch enemy and political adversary, the democrats. Mr. Toner is a mighty clean gentleman, an able a newspaper writer, and is worthy of b any confidence that may be reposed -by party, state or church. His friends h already assert that he has the Madison a county vote in his vest pocket and a f long string on the necessary number b of votes to make him the G. O. P. con1. gressional nominee. That being true, Z we take advantage of the rainy season f and slack business, to extend our conI gratulatlons.

NEW SUIT ON ACCOUNT FILED Big Reward Offered for Murderer of Marshal Cray—Final Adjustment by Board of Review. In the estate of Joseph Shroll, deceased, George Shroll, administrator, an inventory was filed by William Shackley and Henry Michaud, appraisers, the total amount of personal property being $44.50. Attorney D. B. Erwin has filed a new case, the title of which is Franklin Spease vs. Fred Huffman, and Joel Liddy, account, demand $l5O. Will Lefever, of Berne has been granted a license permitting him to hunt in Adams county for one year. Sheriff Meyers has received posters which offer $2,175 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of Columbus Cray, marshal of Woodburn, Allen county, who was killed a month ago by three men who were robbing a saloon. SSOO is offered by the county and $1,675 by citizens, the latter amount being secured at the Woodburn bank. The final adjustment of the board of review fixes the valuation of real estate, improvements and totals in the various townships as follows: Real Est. Imp. Total. Uni0n..527.21 $6.04 $33.25 Root 28.18 5.25 33.43 Preble. 28.06 6.24 34.30 Kirkland„. 29.58 5.70 35.28 Washington 31.37 .5.58 36.95 St Marys 28.93 5.97 34.71 Blue Creek 27.55 4.69 32.24 Monroe 30.26 5.97 36.23 French 27.40 6.64 34.04 Hartford 27.80 5.64 33.44 Wabash 28.13 5.58 33.71 Jefferson 26.99 5.24 32.23 ♦ o — APPLICATION TO FEEBLE MINDED Frank Huston Will be Sent There— Next Session W'H be a Busy One—Other News. A short session of the board of commissioners was held Tuesday morning, at which the auditors of both this and Jay county were ordered to advertise for blds for the construction of a bridge on the Adams-Jay county line. , The date of receiving bids is set for August 7. Mrs. Lower as a representative of the Adams county board of charities, appeared before the board and asked 1 for some little improvement at the county jail, which when completed, will help the sanitary condition thereabouts. On application of J. R. Graber, superintendent at the infirmary, Frank Huston, was recommended for admittance to the school for feeble minded youths at Ft. Wayne. He will be taken there at once and placed in that institution. At the next session the board will be busy making up their estimates of expense for the coming year. This requires considerable skill, as it involves the expenditure of a great deal of public money. Auditor Lewton is busy compiling the total valuations of real and personal property by townships. The work is not yet advanced to the point where comparison can be made. o— — MRS. ALBERT HIRSCHY IS DEAD Well Known Berne Lady a Victim of Consumption. I » On Monday, shortly after the noon L hour, Mrs. Albert C. Hirschy, on north , Jefferson street, who had been on the sick list for several months, answered Death’s call and joined the large - list of annual victims of the most I dreaded disease, consumption. Mrs. Hirschy took sick with a bad cold last winter which later developed into the 5 disease which ended her earthly car 1 reer. She suffered patiently during , all the past months and was prei pared to meet her reward. } Mrs. Hirschy, nee Ida Zepp, was . born in Wadsworth, Ohio, May 25, » 1878. She was* for several years em- - as tteacher and was” promi--1 nent in church circles of her town, r On October 25, of last year she was 5 united in marriage with Albert C. f Hirschy, the oldest son of Mr. and 1 Mrs. J. J. Hirschy, north of Berne, a She leaves to mourn her sorrowing i young husband, her mother, three a sisters and three brothers. r Short funeral services were coni- ducted at the house yesterday afteri, noon, after which the remains were a taken to her former home, at Wadsi- worth, Ohio, where they will be in-terred.-—Berne News.

BPEND TEN DAYB IN CAMP. Governor Hanly Will Enjoy Soldier Life in Camp. Governor Hanly has decided to spend practically all of the ten days of the state encampment of the Indiana national guard at the camp, beginning Wednesday of next week. This will be the first time in recent years that such a thing has been done. The governor will have his own tent, and will remain at the grounds night and day. Cql. Fred Gemmer, the governor’s secretary and a member of his staff.will be at the camp at night, though he will be at the governor’s office during the day. Several of the members of the staff will follow the example of the governor and spend the entire ten days in camp; others will be there several days at a time, and the entire staff membership probably will be there Sunday, July 2t, when the militia will pass in review before the governor. o HARRY GROVE SUPERINTENDENT The Purses Aggregate Tw®nty-Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars—Big Bunch of Entries ExpectedThe speed department of the Great Northern Fair this year is in charge of Harry O. Grove, and from present appearances, the races will be the best ever seen in this sectipn of the state. There is a trot, pace and run on each day and the purses aggregate $2,250. Already there have been many inquiries and the management believe thei biggest string of horses ever in Adams county win be quartered on the fair grounds the last week of next month,; the date for the big event. The Great j Northern belong to the American Trot-1 ting association, and all races will be j governed by their rules. Stalls andj straw are furnished free for race horses. Entries are expected to start this way soon and the races alone this year will be well worth coming miles to witness. The speed program as announced will be as follows: Wednesday, August 28 — 2:24 trot, 3 in 5....?..5350.00 2:19 pace, 3 in 5 350.00 % mile run, 2 in 3 75.00 Thursday, August 29 — 2:25 pace, 3 in 5.5300.00 2130 trot, 3 in 5 300.00 % mile run, 2 in 3 75.00 Friday, August 30— 2:19 trot, 3 in 55350.00 2:15 pace, 3 in 5 350.00 % mile run, 2 In 3100.00 o— — —b.— Charles Grim, commonly called and known as “Coxey,” was arrested last evening by Marshal Green on a charge of‘giving whiskey to a drunken man and will have his hearing Saturday evening. From what we are able to learn Grim is the young man that gave Joe Eley the pint bottle of whiskey last Sunday morning that caused him to get beastly drunk, get licked and in the end yet pinched and have to pay a fine. The marshal had been looking for Grim since Sunday morning and finally landed him last evening. Grim denies the charge in every way. oStimulation Without Irritation That is the watchword. That is what Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does. Cleanses and stimulates the bowels without irritation in any form. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o — The wise merchant is selling his summer goods out just now. The wise man turns his money over rapidly. An advertisement in the Daily Decmocrat will do it for you. S. P. Beatty, of St. Paul, Minn., is in our city the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Beatty This is Mr. Beatty’s first visit home in several years and he expects to remain several weeks. He is employed by the Wells Fargo Express company, being in one of their main offices. G. B. Burhaus testifies after four years G. B. Burhaus, of Carlisle Center, N. Y., writes: “About four years ago I wrote you stating that I had been entirely cured of a severe kidney trouble by taking less than two bottles of Foley’s Kidney Cure It entirely stopped the brick dust sediment and pain and symptoms of kidney disease disappeared. lam glad to say that I have never had a return of any of those symptoms during the four years that have elapsed and I am evidently cured to stay cured, and heartily recommend Foley’s Kidney Cure to any one suffering from kidney or bladder trouble.” THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

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ON BANKS OF THE WABASH At This Time They Will Select a Dele7 gate to Their National Convent tion—Many to Attend. ' The entertainment committee of the Retail Druggists association, of Adams county, have arranged an outing on the banks of the Wabash river for July 21st All druggists, their frillies and friends are invited to and help make that occasion one long to be remembered. The picnic will be at the David Lehman farm on the east bank of the Wabash, about two miles north of Linn Grove. On this occasion a delegate will be chosen to represent this county in the National convention to be held at Chicago. The menu is as follows: Spring chicken, rolls, cakes, bananas, oranges, cheese, pickled eggs, bottle pickles, olives, boiled ham and everything that is good to eat They will have on hand hammocks,pillows, camp chairs, boats, fishing tackle, bathing suits and everything that goes to make this kind of an event most enjoyable. Maijy from this city will attend and all look forth to a good social time. , o ; OIL PUMPER FELL FORTY FEET Still Lives, But His Condition is Very Serious. Sheridan Kams, pumper on the Heagany lease, northeast of the city,, fell from a derrick a distance of forty feet Monday afternoon and lives to describe the accident. However, he . may die from the injuries sustained. Kams was pulling a block to the top of the derrick. He was using wire cable in the work while he was | perched on a board nailed to the der- ! rick forty' feet in the air. Suddenly [ the cable broke and Kams lost his ' balance and fell to the ground. He alighted on his right side, rendering him unconscious, in which state he remained for half an hour afterward. Kams’ young son, who was on the lease, called assistance and the injured man was removed to his home on north High street Dr. Samuel Hollis was called. His right side was crushed, but so badly swollen that the physician is unable to judge the seriousness of the internal injuries, and the right leg and arm are badly bruised. The internal injuries are feared to be serious ones and may result in death. —Hartford City News. o . “CIGARETTE” BAKER LN ENGLAND <a* • - Baid to Have Been Sent There by the Tobacco Trust. That O. A. Baker, more commonly known as “Cigarette Baker,” since the memorable bribing escapade in which he figured has at last bidden farewell to the continent, and will likely sojourn for some time in Europe, is the text of a statement made by a relative in this city yesterday. » According to this relative, Baker and his wife have left Canada, where Baker has resided for some time, and are now in London. “The company sent him to London,” was the only explanation made by the relative, and it is presumed that by “the company” he meant the American tobacco trust whose interests Baker is alleged to have been serving when he offered a bribe to a member of the Indiana legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Baker sailed from a point in Canada shortly after Mrs. Baker left this city. Mrs. Baker stated before leaving that she was going to join her husband, and together the couple have placed themselves in a land where the fame of the man Sheriff Sourbier sought has not penetrated. —Marion News-Tribune. ————————O" 11 ' i—• Bluffton is finally to have a humane society. This is something that has been needed for a long time, and now that the season is here that dumb animals are so often mistreated in the way of letting them go without water, the right time is-at hand for the organization of the society. Mrs. Sol Staver is at the head of the enterprise. —Bluffton Banner. As forecasted in the Journal-Ga-zette yesterday morning, the Ft. Wayne hotel company yesterday closed a ninety-nine year lease upon • the property of Mr. E. C. Rurode, at Harrison and Berry streets, which is to be the site of the new hotel. Mr. Charles McCulloch and Mr. Louis F. Curdes were authorized to sign the lease. —Jounal-Gazette. **