Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1907 — Page 5

< SSiS—; A Me. Bottle of Balsam Ocntaina ' 40 DOSES, i > And each dose is more effective than ' ] * four times the same quantity of any , i J other cough remedy, however well i i > advertised and however strongly reo> 1 ] [ nmwiended that remedy may be. 1 ' Remember always that KEMPS ' H BALSAM is the Best Cough Cure. 1 * It has saved thousands from con- 1 ' [ sumption. ] i > It has saved thousands of lives. i ] , At ail druggists’, 25c., 50c. and sl. ' B«s*t '*ee*pt susythtao rte*. ! 'wsssssssssssssssw The cornice on the buildings occupied by Page Blackburn and the electric show are undergoing a little painting, which is bound to add to the appearance of the same. All the children of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lankenau and all the brothers and sisters of Mr. Lankenau, were in the city Sunday, and reminded Mr. and Mrs. Lankenau of their fortieth wedding anniversary. A good jolly time was enjoyed by the sixty people that were present. L. W. Coppock of the Coppock Motor (Comptny, will return from Chicago today, where he has been on business. While in Chicago Mr. Coppock spent much elf his time arranging to exhibit a machine of the Marion • factory in the Windy City. It is probable that a machine will be sent to Chicago in a few days! to put on exhibition. —Marion . Tribune. Cliff Bales, who pitched three innings for Hartford City Friday, made two dollars' easily. Tpm Bell and Ben Tomlin yelled to ikies from the grandstand that they yould present him with $2 if he would fan Durham, the heavy hitting outfielder with the Portland team. Durham thought Bales needed the money and he swung in all directions, striking out. Bales got' the dough.—Hartford City News. At Rensselaer on Friday, an echo of the McCoy bank case was sounded when 1,600 acres~of land near McCoysburg, formerly owned by Alfred McCoy, was sold at sheriff’s sale to satisfy mortgages and claims amounting to $90,000. The town site of McCoysburg, consisting of twenty-seven acres, was included in the sale, and was bought by Banker Bowen, of Delphi, for $2,500. Mr. and Mrs, B. F. Butler entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Ed Smith and son Claud, Misses Mamie Nash., Carrie Grove, Mary Smith and Mt. Homer Smith, of Bluffton, Mrs. Harry Gratic and daughter Ruth, of Muncie, Ind., Mr. Tully Dickensheets, of Piqua, 0., Mr. and Mts. Geo. Ruckman and family, Miss Etta Mallone, Will Ruckmqn, Mr and Mrs. Jesse Williams, Mr- and Mrs. Harvey Butler. Workmen were engaged yesterday in cutting a hole through the top of a vault in the third floor of the government building. The combination of the lock of the vault has been lost and rather than break open two steel dors it was decided to effect an entrance from the top. A steel door will be put in the entrance to the room over the vault, making it a dou-ble-tiered safety deposit. Only old records are stored in the receptacle. —Journal-Gazette. The school board received a letter Saturday afternoon from Miss Beyerly who resides at Knightstown, Ind., announcing that she had resigned her position as a teacher in the Decatur public schools, the resignation to take effect at once. This will necessitate the school board to hustle around and secure another teacher to fill Miss Byerly’s place, which at this late hour may be hard to do. During her care eer here as a teacher, Miss Byer.v gave perfect satisfaction, and tlfe school board hates to lose her. X ' A warning goes forth from the office of Fred A- Sims, Secretary of State. Something like 10,000 corporations in the state are going to get into trouble of a nature more or less serious unless they do better within the next ten days than they have within thq/ last month. The new state law provides that practically all of the corporations organized under the laws of Indiana are to file reports by July 31 of their capital stock and other detailr After that date there Is a SSO penalty attached for lateness of the filing. A Clover Leaf freight engine jumped the track on the siding between the Mercer Lumber company’s yards and the hay sheds of Studabaker & Son, yesterday about noon. The more the crew tried to get the engine on the track, the deeper it sank in the mud, and they finally had to suspend operations until the hrough frelgh arrived here. The large engine pulling the freight train was used to pull the other on and after half an hour’s work and after six or elgnr rods of track had been torn up they were sue cessful and the local left several hours late.—Bluffton Banner. , ;

A marriage license was issued late Saturday evening to Franklin H. Lutz, | a laborer, fifty-one, and Rosa E. !. Schlegel, aged thirty-eight. The groom [ | had been married twice before and the i j bride once. Mrs. Lutz died Sunday i morning and was burled Monday after- [ noon. ! Tom Peterson, the cement sidewalk [ contractor, is busily engaged at presi ent in putting in a cement sidewalk J along the Shaffer and Niblick prop- [ erty on Madison street, which will > add much to the value of the prop- > erty. This is in compliance with the [ plans and specifications adopted by • the council when the street was or- > dered constructed. » The carpenters at . the Murray Hotel I are putting on the finishing touches [ on the third floor and as soon as this is finished, Mr. Murray expects to furnish the same and will thus be able to handle the trade without any i apparent trouble. The down stairs i will be the last to be finished. The • hotel when complete will be a swell affair. ’ Clifford Bales, the well known ball i player, who has been doing mound . duty for the fast Portland, Oregon, . baseball team, is back in Montpelier, i making a visit with his family. Cliff was hit in the head with a hard line i drive and will only remain here until he is able to be back in the game . and then he will return to Portland. , He likes the northwest very much and says it is a great base ball place. ; —Montpelier Herald. - Judge Erwin sends us a copy of the 1 Daily Nevada State Journal, publlshL ed at Reno, Nevada, and we notice 1 that one of the editors and managers 1 is our old friend, Merrill A. Teague, formerly of this city, where his father • served as a minister at the M. E. '■ church for several years. He has I been in the newspaper business for » a number of years and gained quite : a reputation while in Baltimore as a , newspaper and magazine writer. b At the Elks’ convention in Philadel- • phitt 'the Toledo Cherry Pikers' were -awarded first prize, S3OO, for making ' the best appearance and first prize of SSOO as best drill corps. Detroit cap- ' hired second prizes in both contests. 1 Cincinnati secured first prize, $250, for ' largest number-ofo ladles from a. dis--1 tance. Geo. C. Mountcaste, of Rich- ’ mond, Va., as fattest Elk and J. Ed. ’ Neis,' *of Pasadena, Cal., as leanest ’ The tallest Elk was Karl M. Koenig, 1 of Sacramento, Cal., and the smallest 1 Jerry D. Sullivan, of Rosebury, ’ Oregon. Shrift Hudson spent Friday afternoon at the county infiramry and assisted Superintendent Mills in giving J Harry Mote, the demented barber and ' ex-baseball promoter, a much-needed bath. The Insane man was covered b 6 from had to foot with filth and pre- ’ sented a most pitiful sight. After re- ’ ceiving his bath the cell was given a thorough cleaning and Mote was re- ’ turned to the cell attired in shirt and trousers. With his hands fastened together he is powerless and obliged to spend his' time sitting on the floor as 1 his legs are swollen to almost twice ’ their normal size. The condition of ■ his limbs was occasioned by his stand- • Ing for hours in his bare feet. —Hart--1 ford City News. If you hire a horse at the livery ■ stable you ought to treat him as if he were your own. If you drive out ten miles you ought not to attend to your own wants until you see him properly cared for. If an honest man, you will remember that you are under a two-fold obligation to that animal — an obligation to its owner and an obli1 gatlon to the animal. You are the debtor of both, and though you pay the price of the horse, no money can re- • lease you from the duty and moral ’ claim involved In the bargain between ■ yourself and the owner. To neglect 1 the poor, speechless beast that cannot '{Appeal to the commiseration of a ktoasserby is simply unpardonable, and v the man who is guilty of such neglect • is worse than a man. A newspaper prints the ‘ story of what happened to a family ! that borrowed the neighbor’s paper: ' “A man who was too economical to subscribe for his home paper sent 1 'his little boy to borrow the copy ■ ,taken by his neighbor. In his haste ’ the boy ran over a 4-dollar stand of bees and in ten minutes looked like [ a warty His cries reached his fatheMwho ran to his as- ■ sistance and failing to notice a ■ barbed wire fence ran into it break--1 ing down, cutting a handful of flesh ' from his anatomy and ruining a 5dollar pair of pants. The old cow ' took advantage of the gap in the ■ fence and got into the cornfield and i killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket the wife ran, upset a i 4-gallon church of rich cream into a > basket of kittens, drdwningthe whole , flock. In her hurry she droppend a ' 25-dollar set of false teetch. The ba- • by left alone, crawled through the I spilled cream and into the parlor, ruin- • Inga 20-dollar carpet During tb4 i excitement the oldest daughter ran ' away with the hired man, the dog broke up. 11 setting hens, and the i calves got out and chewed the tails off four fine shirts.”

! The next national convention of the , Benevolent and Protective Order of . Elks will be held next year at Dallas, i Texas, this being determined at a buss iness session held in Philadelphia, r Dallas went to the national convention - with a large crowd of boosters and their efforts were, rewarded. L The committee appointed by the city * dads some time ago to look into the c matter of'procuring some place to * dump the garbage that accumulates, 1 report that so far they have been un- • able to secure any desirable place and i have asked tor a little more time in r which to look the situation over. Mrs. J. D, Reiter and son, Richard, of Decatur, visited Saturday with his 1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. VanTil--5 burg of east Water street, leaving on 3 an afternoon car for Connersville, * for a two weeks’ visit with her sis--3 ter, Mrs. Joseph Wrennick. —Portland r Review. 1 j Editor E. A McKee, of the Sim, 1 Congressman J. A. M. Adair, and son 4 Herbert, left on the Thursday j noon train for French Lick Springs I to attend the sessions of the MidSummer Democratic Editorial Associatio in session Thursday, Friday j and Saturday. Mr. Adair is on the , program for an address. —Portland Re- \ view. s In honor of Mr. Sutdabaker’s sev- . enty-seventh birthday, Mrs. A. T. i Studabaker entertained at a family • dinner today. Present were Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner and Mrs. A. N. Bows man, of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Mar- _ ion French, Mr. and Mrs. John Studa--5 baker, Mr. and Mrs. Ed ‘Huffman and s their families, Mrs. Laura Burroughs an<l Miss Chloe Studabaker.—Bluffton ’ Banner*. Father George Algemler, of Decaj tur, Father Michael Eichner, of St. • Meirads’and Father John C. Wakefer, i of Dunkirk, left Thursday morning for l their homes after being here Wednesday evening to attend the social given by the Catholic church on the east ’ Walnut street parsonage lawn. Fath- ' er L. A. Eberle left on the same train ’ for Decatur to look after church mat- [ ters. —Portland Review. O. H. Heck, who has been in Del- . phos for several months, where he . has been employed as agent for the . Metropolitan Life Insurance company, was in Frankfort, where he made arrangements to take up the duties of an operator on the Clover Leaf railroad. He will leave tomdrrow for Frankfort, where he has accepted a position as day operator.—Delphos Herald. As if from the grave, John Lennon has returned to Hartford City for a ’ visit with relatives after an absence Jof forty-four years. When the war ( between the North and South broke out in 1860, John Lennon was a resident of Marion, Ind. He enlisted and as he was never heard from since it 1 was supposed he had met death in battle. Instead he was mustered out of service at Jackson City, Tenn., and later married and settled there. > The Indiana Bureau of Statistics is ) , sending out blanks to all of the labor , unions of the state asking for information regarding every organiatjon. Each organization is asked to furnish its membership, its decrease or increase in membership during the , year 1906, the length of the apprenr ticeship. term, the rate of wages, the ' total amount paid out for beneficiary * purposes during the year, the average 1 weekly number of sick benefits, the ’ total amount of sick benefits paid during the year, the weekly and yearly death claims, strike benefits, traveling and out of work benefits. , Harvest time has been the means' of taking many men from the cities to [ the rural district and in a number of L instances factories are hampered by . an inability to get as many men as . they would like for doing the work in k their plants. At the Clover Leaf shops [ this scarcity of men is felt Several . would be given employment but the men are not obtainable. Those in , charge of putting in the. sewers are al- ' i> so experiencing difficulty to g«y SUf- I ‘ 'ficient men for accomplishing the work j : and it is probable a number will be brought to town from other points.— ( \ Delphos Herald. William Archbold and his express ! : outfit had a narrow escape from being 1 i run over Monday night by the inter-. ■ i urban baggage car and as it was his < horse was knocked down and dragged 1 , for a few feet Will was driving ] north and did not notice or hear the . car coming and when he reached the • Fashion Stables, he turned to go west and just as he swung on the tracks 1 i the car hit his horse knocking it < [ down and away from the track. The i car was stopped on short notice and , the horse was assisted to its feet and i , aside from being bruised up and I i skinned up it is thought that no fur- i , ther injury was sustained. However, i Will claims he was frightened. Q CARD OF THANKS. 1 We desire to return our heart felt i ; thanks to the neighbors and friends < i who so kindly assisted us during the < i sickness and death of our beloved Dottie. U. H. Cramer and family.

The cornerstone of the new Reformed church at Bluffton was laid Sunday morning. Rev. A. K. Zartman, of Ft Wayne, delivered the sermon, and there were addresses by Mayor A. W. Hamilton and Judge C. E. Sturgis. George Teeple, a well known citizen of our city, residing on the corner of Adams and Ninth street, was seized with an attack of paralysis and was rendered speechless. His condition is serious and it is doubtful if he will recover from the attack. This is the first time he has ever touch of this disease. Tom Railing, wife and babe, arrived last evening from Tecumseh, Mich., and expect to remain in this city for the time being, at least. Tom is experiencing some trouble over his sale by Dalas, Texas to Boston, Mass., and has been ordered not to play any base ball with teams under national league protection until his case has been settled by the national commission. Tom will play with the locals until he has his case settled, which will not be for several weeks yet. While diligent search has been made all day for the body of O’Connor, drowned at Rome City Sunday, up to going to press this afternoon, his body had not 'been found. The Vesey brothers, of Ft. Wayne, went there today with special appliances, but failed to find the body. This brings up the subpect—discussed frequently there —of buying a fresh water diving suit for just such emergencies. Cost about $75.00 _and badly needed. Who/ will head a subscription ?—Kendallville Sun. Nel Todd arrived home last night from Philadelphia, where he attended as a delegate from the Bluffton lodge, the national meeting of the Elks. Nel says he enjoyed a great trip and that the meeting was one of the greatest ever. He brought home a large collection of badges that are representative of nearly every lodge in the United States. Nel walked but two squares in the parade on the. day when thousands of people fainted from the extreme heat and rush of the crowd. —Bluffton News. As the busy season for the farmers comes on they are brought face to face with another difficulty besides rain and poor crops. The great Amount of hay and wheat to be taken care of in the county demands the work of more men than can be obtained. The men who have been in the habit of drifting into this locality at this time of the year are casting their eyes in the 4 direction of the western harvest fields and leaving the farmers of this state to do the best they can. . Because he resented being called a name that reflected on his mother, Raymond Hutchinson, 14, struck Vandorf Gray, 13, over the head with a piece of gas pipe Sunday afternoon Young Gray is confined to his bed in a very serious condition and may die froih the effects of the injury. His has been arreslted on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill' and will be held to await the outcome of his victim’s injuries.—Hartford City News. Horace, the twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Coffee, while trying to swim the other day in little Blue Creek after those big rains, we had, came very near being drowned. He went out into the water and he kept going under the water, then up, down and then up. The other boys saw him, and his older brother went to him and dragged him to the bank of w creek. He lay there a while. The others thought he would never recover. The boys thought they would not let his parents know this time. But they should know this before it is tooMate.—Berne Witness. — Q. . ELIJAH HAYES DYING ATWARBAW Who. Ggve Fortune to M. E. Missionary Society. I Elijah Hayes, the man who gave $150,000 to the Methodist Foreign Missionary society is dying at Warsaw. In his conscious moments he made plans for his funeral, selecting the hymns he wishes sung and naming the pall bearers. Mr., Hayes has been ill eypr since he was taken back to Warsaw, from the Home for Old People at Edgewater, 111., last winter. He was seized with spasms and on account of his age there is little or no hope for him. He celebrated his 90th birthday June 4th. Through Bishop McCabe, Mr. Hayes was induced to give his entire estate to the Missionary Society; and in return was to receive an annuity of sl,000 for the missionary society. The Hayes hotel in Warsaw and numerous business blocks are owned by the Foreign Missionary Society as a result of Mr. Hayes’ generosity. His first request to the societies, was in 1889, and since that time he has saved from his annuities enough to give a' large sum to the Mercedes college, situated at Mercedes, S, A. This last bequest was left in charge of a board of trustees composed of Bishop McCabe and Bishop Fitzgerald, L. W. Royse, William Alleman and E. H. Hill, all of Warsaw.

SESSION HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS » 1-1 1 Auditor Lewton Represents Adarrfs County—State Insisting Upon a Fifteen Per Cent Raise. i 1 Indianapolis, Ind., July 24. —County attorneys, auditors, assessors and ' commissioners, representing the nine--5 ty-two counties of the state, are ex--1 plaining to the state tax board this week why the real estate valuation I for taxation for their respective coun- , ties should be lowered, raised or left ' alone, as fixed by the county boards. 5 Nineteen counties were represented s by one or more officials in the crowd. » before the board when the first sesr sion was feegun yesterday. Secretary 1 of State Fred Sims presided, and the 5 members of the board, Auditor Bill- • heimer, John Wingate, Park Martin s and John McCardle were present. 1 Without exception the counties first heart! showed an increase in valuai tion over that of four years ago—- - the valuation over that of four years , ago—the valuations being taken quad- , rennially. Clinton county came near > being an exception, reporting an int crease of only 4 per cent., which was, , small compared with the majority res ported. Farm lands and improvements I were reported at an average valuation i of $11.96 an acre. This, according ■ to J. W. Morrison, and Harry Sherl idan, county attorney, meant that the • valuation fixed was about 60 per cent of the selling value of the land. Prop- ; erty in Frankfort, the county seat, he [ said, was assessed at about 65 per cent. * Auditor Lewton is representing , Adams county at this very important meeting. ; o T7- , BOTH PAST THE SEVENTY MARK Another License Also Issued —Assess1 i sor Gentis Is Busy—Five Weeks More, of Vacation. 1 • A marriage license has been issued to John Breiner, aged seventy-eight, i of Preble township ahd Mary Beltz, ager seventy-three, also of Preble. Each has been married once before. This is believed to be the oldest couple ever granted a marriage license in Adams county. They will perhaps : not celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, but we sincerely hope for them a long and happy future. Another marriage license issued was to a couple just the reverse of the former one, the parties being just in the springtime of life, the bride, Rose McClure, being eighteen years old, and the groom, William Emerine, being twenty-one. Both live in Decatur. County Assessor George Gentis is busy these days going over the work of the board of review and making the proper record of same. Vacation time is slipping away, and five weeks from next Monday will find Adams circuit court again grinding away. At present there are no very serious signs of a busy fall term, though the docket presents its usual appearance. DANIEL FRANZ BURIED MONDAY Was One of the Best Known Citizens of Berne. x Daniel Franz died on Saturday morning, July 20, 1907, of heart disease at his home one mile east of ' Berne, at the age of 71 years, 8 months and 5 days, leaving to mourn ‘ their loss the widow, three sons and . two daughters, twenty-one gradnchil- j xlren, seven stepsons and two step- ( daughters with their families and an aged brother. He was the father of Dr. Ernst Franz, attorney Emil Franz, < mail carrier Otto Franz ahd Mrs. Peter Habegger. The funeral services were held Monday at the Berne Men- , nimite church. ■’ ' o— *- .' WORK SUNDAY, IF NECESSARY. Rev. Wilken Gave Wise Advice to His , Congregation. 1 Father Wilken made an announcement Sunday morning services that , met the approval of all that heard I it, and he is being congratulated upon J his foresight. The announcement was t that if any farmer of his church thought it necessary to take advantage i of the weather to gather in his crops * and thus save them, that he should , do so, and should start to work at I once. Several farmers it is under- J stood took advantage of this remark J and Sunday afternoon cut their wheat which may mean a big saving in the I » v- I Everything was quiet in police drcles today, the guardians of the peace I not having a call and unless something I happens pretty soon they will not i I know how to respond when a call is I. made. |

Foley# Heney 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. The managers of the local team are endeavoring to land another pitcher, it being a man by the name of Richardson, from Coldwater, Mich He is a left handed man and is re ported as being a very clever artist. D. D. Clark, D. W. Berry, John Yager and John C. Moran left Tuesday morning for Mount Clemens, where they will remain a few days taking baths. Messrs. Beery and Clark also expect to take a trip into Canada and will on tomorrow see the famous M. & M. race at Detroit, in which two of the most famous and promising • colts are to start. The boys expect to be absent for two weeks. 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 THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. A corespondent of the Decatut Democrat has scanned the horizon and finds that the first defeat administered to the town’s ba?e ball team by Van Wert was due to favors shown by the umpire. The second defeat is charged to “overpowered in the mud and the horse shoes were all with Van Wert. —Van Wert Bulletin. —Q WAS IN POOR HEALTH FOR YEARS. Ira W. Kelley, of Mansfield, Pa, writes: “I was in poor health for two years, suffering from kidney 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. o_ The Wren-Elevator company has brought an attachment, suit against the Arkansas City Milling company, to collect moqey due as damages to the plaintiff’s business, the result of a failurer ~,to . deliver a car of flour. A car load of flour on the side track in Wren has been attached, subject to the attachment brought a few days ago by H. H. Bremerkamp.— Van Wert Times. A Kokomo special says: "The common council failpd to take seriously the ordinance just adopted by Frankfort concerning the care and custody of dogs. That ordinance makes it the duty of the police department to kill all dogs that are in the habit of fighting frequently and, also, it is made a crime for a man to harbor a dog which is in the .habit of tearing up a neighbor’s garden or flewer bed. 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. Autoists who are in the habit of speeding should read carefully the new automobile law, passed by the recent legislature, and in that way perhaps save themselves a fine and costs of considerate size. The new law provides that the maximum speed in the business section of any city or in that portion of the city which is thickly settled shall not exceed eight miles an hour; in the outlying districts of a city, fifteen miles an hour, and in the country twenty miles an hour. The law also provides that autoists must give one-half the road when carriages are met and also that the speed in passing any horse must not exceed six miles an hour.

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