Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1907 — Page 7

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According to figures compiled by : Miss Mary Stubbs, state statistician, fewer licenses were issued to saloons i in the various counties of the state during the year 1906 than in 1905. Miss Stubbs’ figures, which have just been compiled, show a decrease of twenty-four in the number of licenses issued. - On the other hand the license fees have been raised in many cities and towns of the state and the revenue derived from the sale of licenses has increased substantially over the revenues collected in 1905. Wheat, corn and oats took a big jump yesterday on the Chicago markets and of course the local market is affected by the change. It seems that some speculator in Chicago has oats cornered and that was the cause of the rise of one cent. The cold weather has been the cause of the rise in wheat, as it has interfered with the progress of the threshing in the northwest. It is rare that markets advance during the harvest season. In fact, they most always go the 'other way, but this has been an off year in more ways than one in the grain business. Gottschalk and Yoder are pushing the work on the contract for the Louis Worthman macadam road in Preble township. They have rented a house and are temporarily located near their work. The road is being built strictly according to contract and will be a great addition to highways of Preble township. . | Everett, Hite and Co. have shown their progressiveness by the construction of a hitch rack on the K. of P. lot just south of their place of business. The rack is a chain supported by heavy posts and is 125 feet long. The idea is a very good one and will be appreciated thoroughly no doubt by the farmers. While the wneat crop in this county was not as large as was hoped for, the farmers have not lost faith in the product and they are now making preparations for a large crop next year. Quite a number of them are plowing for wheat at the present time and there will be more ground devoted to it this fall than there was last. It is understood that he Marietta plant of the United Sheet and Tin Plate company, which is to be sold at : public auction, August 25th, will probably be bought by the Pennsylvania line and consolidated with the • Pennsylvania shops for the Marietta ' division of that road, which has had 1 under contemplation the erection of 1 new shops. ' The Investigations relating to un- ' derground water supplies being con- ] ducted this summer by the United 1 States geological'survey, throws light upon the condition of municipal water- ; works in Indiana. There are a few 1 where the supplies are as good as ’ they are jn the region thus far cov- 1 ered by geologists. , » 1 Fearing that she was about to be- 1 come insane, Mrs. Edward Kimes, * wife of a farmer residing north of Claypool, has gone to Logansport and < made application for admission to ! Longcliffe asylum. She has long been In falling health and brooding over her condition has impaired her , mental faculties. It Is believed that treatment at the institution will restore her to health. i

Word has been received from the supreme office that Isis Court No. 32 Tribe of Ben-Hur has won the state banner for securing the largest number of beneficial members for the first half of 1907, of any court in the state. This banner will be retained for six months and if the largest number of members be secured during the latter half of the year of any court in the state, the banner will become the permanent property of Isis Court, Anderson. The date set for the dedication of Buffalo’s McKinley monument is Thursday, September 5, in old home week. Governor Hughes is to deliver the principal address. Vice President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon and others of national prominence are expected. There will be a parade of state and federal troops, of two regiments from Canada and flhe Spanish-American war veterans. Other features of the week, lasting from September 1 to 7, inclusive, are Labor day, Fireman’s day, Canadian day, Fraternal day, Children’s day and German day. Wonderful electric illuminations are promised. Souvenir Invitations are being sent to all former residents of Buffalo, including Grover Cleveland. The Evangelical Lutheran St. Peters church at Fuellings settlement will hold its annual mission feats Sunday Aug. 25th in the grove of Mr. Herman Gerke. The Rev. Wm. Brandes, of Huntington,, Ind., will conduct t|he services in the forenoon and the Rev. F. J. Lankenau, of New Orleans, La., will preach in the afternoon. A shady place has been provided in the grove to hitch horsete. Refreshments can be had at the stand. All are cordially invited to attend. Clarance Baughman returned yesterday afternoon from a business trip to Lagrange. Mr. Baughman was a visitor with Mr. J. O. Ball,' who is opening a new racket store at that place and he says th prospects for Mr. Ball are quite flattering. Joseph Bennett, of Allen county, one of the viewers now acting in the i Little River ditch matter, and David Spindler, county surveyor Allen county, were in the city today acting with Benjamin Heaston, of this county, also one of the viewers, correcting descriptions of property for .the assessment roll of the proposed ditch. The report is due August 28. Mr. Bennett says the ditch sought is a necessity and must come some time and it is only a question of how long. He says many people are not posted as to the scope of the work and are taking exceptions to assessments when they do not understand them. He has assurance from Wells county people that no fight will be made by them on paying a small assessment. In Lake township. Allen county, the greatest unrest is found, others having practically conceded that the ditch must come and simply asking a reasonable assessment. —Huntington Herald. D. E. Studabaker will go to Richmond tomorrow to witness the ball game. Probably several of the “fans” will accompany him. The farmers are rushing their work so as to be able to attend the Great Northern Indiana Fair. It promises to be more interesting than ever this year and a large attendance is expected. E. D. Moffett arrived home Thursday evening from the Canadian mining regions. While in the north Mr. Moffett got hold of two claims which look good and he hopes they will come up to expectations.- They are located south of the Montreal river. He saw Fred Sage, Harry Ayres and Sam Emshwlller in the Cobalt region. They were looking well, but they had resigned their positions and were to be joined by Charley Hubbard last week, when the four were to go prospecting on their own account Mr. 1 Moffett likes the Canadian country on J the score of healtfulness. He will j return in the spring. 1 < After stirring up no end of com- j ment and worry; after taking records, i books and other belongings of the •< Taylor university of Upland; after i trying tomove the college, bag and ( baggage to Muncie, filching its very | name; after realizing the error of such a move and changing the name } of the proposed school to McCabe , university, the Muncie deal has col- j lapsed and Dr. Winchester and his 1 following are feeling decidedly cheap. < Taylpr university still lives and flour- f ishes. Its would-be destroyers are { reaping their just deserts, much to , the satisfaction of all. The books and ] records are being gradually returned , to the Upland school and the pros- ] pects for next year are brighter than ] ever. —Eaton Gaslight. ] Mistaking a bottle of horse medicine for a bottle of whisky, Charles Shearer; a farmer two and one-fourth 1 miles southwest of Bippus, came near ; dyipg at the home of Mrs. Joseph Sell, - a relative in Bippus, Thursday night. 1 He drank a “swig”, of the stuff, and 1 only the prompt efforts bf physicians, j saved his life. ,

The Indianapolis breweries, and others which do a large business in the state, with the exception of the Capital City Brewing company, have decided not to open any more saloons for the next two years; also to close saloons which people in the districts where they are located deem objectionable as soon as the licenses expire. It is estimated "that 2,400 saloons will be closed in the state, including some seventy in Indianapalis. The work of grading the C. B. & C. railroad between Bluffton and Huntington is now being pushed rapidly by several gangs of graders and officials of the company say that the line will be completed Into Huntington in time to claim the subsidy of $98,000 voted by the city of Huntington and adjoining townships. The county commissioners have ordered the subsidy tax placed on the duplicate for collection this fall and next spring. Tomorrow will be a big day for the Methodsits of Allen and .adjoining counties. About ten thousand members of this denomination are expected to meet at Robinson’s park tomorrow and enjoy a gala day. Governor Hanly and other noted speakers will be present to deliver addresses to the multitude that will be there. Many from this city are planning to attend. William Mlllette, who owns an interesting collection of wild animals, has completed arrangements for his tour of the various county fairs and will open next week at Decatur, and from .there will go to Portland for the week following. He has engaged a man from Dayton, Ohio, who will join him Monday to act as his “spieler” and outside man. —Bluffton News. At the home of Rev. Cook, at Ossian, last evening occurred the wedding of Miss Emma Shimer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Obadiah Shimer and Ernest Vananda, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Vananda. After the ceremony a wedding supper was served at the home of the groom’s parents in Ossian. Mr. Vananda is: a school teacher in Jefferson township and he and his bride will \ reside in Ossian. —Bluffton News. Nsah Zehr-left Wednesday for Cleveland, Ohio, to resume his studies in the radical college. Before he left here Deputy Sheriff Butler served an attachment on him, which seems to be the result of a misunderstanding, and the outgrowth of the Boegly and Ray trial, in which Mr. Zehr was a witness and which was later dismissed out of court. Mr. Zehr stopped off at Decatur, Wednesday and matters were satisfactorily arranged with Judge Erwin. The charges will no doubt be dismissed. —Berne News. Zac Smith, a prominent merchant and banker of-Bonham, Texas, and a brother of Superior Judge Lucas F. Smith, of Santa Cruz, Cal., and Senator J. H. C. Smith, of Bluffton, Indiana, has been appointed one of the delegates from the Estate of Texas to the Fifteenth National Irrigation congress, which will meet at Sacramento September 2nd to 7th, 1907. A large delegation from Texas including the govenor and other state officials, expect to attend this important convention. —Santa Cruz Morning Sentinel. A few days ago Prof. Merriman, principal of the Bluffton high school, received a letter from the superintendent of the Evansville schools, asking him to come to that city to consider a proposition looking toward his employment as principal of the high school of that city. The request to come really meant his employment, but as the time is so near for the opening of the schools of this city, and Mr. Merriman is expected to have charge of the high school of this city this year, he thought he was in honor bound to stay here. The Evansville position pays $1,200 per year.—Bluffton Banner. State Entomologist Benjamin W. < Douglas has just issued a brief cir- < cular calling attention to the weed 1 problem of the state. It seems that I Indiana has been backward in the of weed legislation and while other states have been studying the problems of weed eradication and pre- i vention we have persistently neglect- j •ed the matter and today there is practically no place in the state where i any information can be obtained on < the question. ■ Hay advanced today on the Bluffton market to sl2 for the best timothy, 1 and oats advanced to 42 cents as a regular market quotation. A little war on oats developed in Bluffton today between two of the elevators and some of the farmers received a price above that quoted. Forty-five cents was offered for several loads, but the highest figure was 47% cents, which was paid by Davison & Thomas for a load of oats bought of William Yager living east of Bluffton. —Bluffton News. TEN YEARS IN BED “For ten years I was confined to my bed with disease of my kidneys,’’writes R. A. Gray, J. P. of Oakville, Ind. “It was so severe that I could not move part of the time. I consulted the very best medical skill available, but could get no relief until Foley’s Kidney Cure was recommended to me. It has been a Godsend to me.”

CHEAP LUMBER HAS PASSED Great Waste of Building Material Has Caused it to Increase Rapidly in Price. * Will the price of lumber go down? I Well informed men think not Just now the government is investigating the lumber trust but the prospect is I that a reduction in the price of lumber to the consumer will not result I from any action that may come as a' result of the government’s investigation. If the country’s supply of timber. had been conserved for the last fifty years; if the federal government had adopted twenty-five years ago some such forest policy as it is now enforcing and if states had followed such an exampie set by the federal government lumber would today be Selling for one-half what it costs the consumer. The danger now is that lumber —wood in all forms —will go to a considerably higher price in the years to come unless the policy of forest preservation and forest extension is carefully carried out by both the federal government and the several states. 1 The fores't lands of the United States are owned in three separate waysFirst, by the government of the United States, to which belongs the national forests; second, by some of the states, and third, by private owners. The private forest lands exceed in area those of the states and the federal government combined.- As a rule the privately owned foreSt lands have fallen into hands of monopolistic concerns which are not likely to take any 1 steps toward preservation, reforesting or extension. It is certain that the . privately owned forests will sooner or later be gutted for the money there is , in them. Some of them are being held i back today with the exception that higher prices will yet prevail: So when one considers the supply of tim- . ber and the increasing demand for it it becomes plain that lower prices for lumber are not to be expected. - Rapidly as “the population tit the United States has increased, the lumber consumption has increased more rapidly. According to the latest statistics, the United States is now using annually 400 board feet of lumber per capita, while the average for Europe is only sixty feet per capita. J. S. Kellogg, of the forest inspection service, who has made a careful Im vestigatlon of the timber supply of the United States, reaches the conclusion that the forest area of the country is sufficient, if rightly managed, to produce eventually enough timber to supply every legitimate demand. He argues that if the present forest area is taken in hand there is no reason why it should not some day be brought up to the point of yielding an annual increment of more than thirty cubic feet an acre, which, he says, would supply the quantity of timber now consumed. Superintendent Hart has been having his full share of trouble in securing teachers for the city schools. He now has all the positions in the grades filled but the position of science teacher in the high school and instructor of music and drawing are the stickers,. He had a young lady secured for one of these positions but she backed out at the last minute on account of having a better job.—Huntington Democrat.

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MR. TAYLOR CAN’T BE FOUND Man Well Known Here Has Been Absent Ten Days—Gravel Pit Wa» Dynamited. Yesterday Sheriff Lipkey went to iOssian to aid in the search of Cornelius Taylor, the demented man who mysteriously disappeared from near that place a week ago Saturday. For j the last week every effort has been made by his family to locate him but they have not been able to get even the slightest clue. The fact that a thorough hunt was to be made was given out Saturday and Sheriff Lipkey found about 150 men awaiting him at the interurban station. He immediately took charge of the crowd which he strung out for nearly a mile along the track with orders to keep about twenty feet aparj and work slowly westward to an abandoned gravel pit about three miles from the railroad. Several men were appointed to take charge of the various crowds and the whole country in which it was though likely the missing man might be was carefully spoured. After all of the ground had been covered, it was decided to dynamite the abandoned gravel pit oh the Prough farm. Three charges of the explosive were set off in the hole but they failed to reveal anything. The other pits in the vicinity will be dynamited tomorrow. Several theories are afloat about Ossian as to the whereabouts of Taylor, but his family are inclined to believe that he either committed suicide in ' s()me out of the way place or went to Harrisville, 111., worked at one time. It fs thought that more ■ circulars, bearing the man’s picture, wilj be sent all over the surrounding country, so that if he is still alive 1 there will be no chance for him to go much farther and lead to his capture. —Bluffton Banner. o— - BIG PAPERS FEEL THE STRIKE Their Daily Issues Contain Few Sensational Items. A casual glance at the head lines of any big city daily paper will convince the reader that something is wrong. The headlines are to be seen in any number, but the matter is very tame according to the way the men on the big paper look at the situation. There are very few references made, to any sensational news, but essays on farms that pay, raising bees for profit, how to shear sheep, rid hogs of flees, keep lice out of chicken coops, how to get a bigger yield of potatoes to the acre than wheat, how to manage the market iand many other kindred subjects are now dealt with. The big dailies are carrying more local news to the outside world than ever before, all because a telegraph operator was fired in California when he held up business. The telegraph companies say they have the upper hand of the situation but the operators are still out and the companies are endeavoring to transmit messages by mail and express. In the meantlmelhe American newspapers are afflicted with a dearth of live news which is heartrendering in the big offices. IT — k Relapse Monday and Died Last Evening.