Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1907 — Page 5

A 25c. Bottle <rt b KempS Balsam ji */ Contains * [ 40 DOSES, ;; i • And each dose is more effective than 1 * ' J four times the same quantity of say ' [ ' , other cough remedy, however well , » < i advertised and however strongly rec- 1 * ] ’ ommended that remedy may be. ' • Remember always that KEMP’S ’ * !! BALSAM is the o Best Cough Cure. ; • 1 * It has saved thousands from con- 1 * ] J sumption. , ~ i » It has saved thousands of lives. <> i > At all druggists’, 25c., 50c. and sl. < > Don’t accept anything else. 'TSTT" TtimraisaoiH iaia» misi i ■ « A SORT OF DIVIDED VICTORY The County is a Party, But Not the State, According to Ruling of - Judge Elliott. I Kokomo, Ind., September 9. —Judge Patrick Elliott, in the matter of the appeal of Felix Conwell from the ruining of the Howard county commissioners, in refusing him a license to retail intoxicants, in which appeal the right of the state to be made a party and to be represented through the attorney-general, is being tested, held that the state cannot become a party, and that the attorney-general cannot be heard. The court ruled, however, that the people must be made a party in some way. and that the proper way is through the county; that the county commissioners, in refusing an applicant a license, are bound to defend their action if aikappeal to the courts is taken, and it is the duty .of the county attorney to apear for the commissioners and support their contention. The effect of the decision is a divided victory. It excludes the states as a party, but admits the county. The applicant contended that neither the state nor the county could be made a party. The saloon men are gratified because the ruling is antognistic to Gov. ernor Hanly, but are disappointed because it gives the county the right ;to appear. The anti-saloon men, meanwhile, are somewhat disapointed over the rejection of Governor Hanly’s theory of the case by the court, but they say the finding that the people are entitled to representation through the county insures that appeal cases will not go by default in the future as they have in the past -■ o ; — GIVES GENERAL SATISFACTION The Abandonment of Schools With Small Attendance. \ - An Indianapolis dispatch says that general satisfaction is expressed by county superintendents over the state with the new law, which becomes effective with the opening of the schools, and which provides for the abandonment of schools where the attendance is not over twelve. It ’^eans“fHe“”clbsrgg ra^”§W®ra“sclrcro^ i over Indiana, there being scarcely a county which has not felt the effect of the law. Not a superintendent can be found, however, who does not approve of the action taken by the- last legislature. For many reasons they are pleased, for they say that it will have a good effect on their schools. Where complaints had been expected from farmers living far from the schools, none are heard. The farmers seem to. realize, as well as the teachers, the good resulting from the new act. o TO HOLD A PUBLIC SALE. Mr. Bobilya Will Sell Real Estate and Personal Property. G. L. Bobilya, of Willshire, who bought the Frank Dibble property, corner First and Jefferson streets, a few months ago, will offer same for sale at public auction on the afternoon of Saturday, September 21st. At that time he will also sell his stock of livery, consisting of five head of horses, buggies, surrey ; road wagon, harness, etc. The property is modem in every respect and can be easily rented for S4OO per year. The property should find a ready buyer, as good properties for sale in Decatur are a scarce article. o Dr. J. M. Miller," secretary ol tEe county board of health, has been notified by the state board of health that hereafter all birth returns must be compiled in an improved form. They shall be collected like reports of deaths and the county secretary must forward them to the state board of health within twenty days after birth. Failure to report within twenty days ineans a fine of not less than $lO nor more than SIOO. Heretofore the secretary has made his report quarterly and only forwarded the names' and date of birth.

| WILL CONTINUE NEXT YEAR Decatur W>i Third in Attendance— Protested Game Goes to Richmond L. A. Holthouse returned Tuesday morning fromTndianapolis,where he.attended a meeting of the managers of the Indiana-Ohio league and reports that the meeting was harmonious in every respect and that every club was represented at the meeting with the exception of Van Wert. President Kling presided over the meeting and plans were discussed for the league next season, and it was definitely decidedly to go under national league protection as the managers would thus be afforded protection as well as the players. The disputed game between Van Wert and Richmond was awarded to Richmond, as President Kling stated he had notified both managers not to use Stewart, the disputed player, and as Van Wert violated the order the game stands awarded to Richmond and should count in the percentage column. The Labor Day receipts were equally divided among the respective teams and every thing in this way indicates that financially the league has been a success. President Kling presented a tabulated statement showing the attendance of the various cities represented in the league, which shows that Richmond was first, Van Wert second. Decatur giird, Kokomo fourth, Bluffton fifth and Portland sixth. Taking everything into consideration the showing of Decatur as compared with the other cit ies was remarkable. The season will close on next Sunday, as contemplated, and another meeting will be held some time during the winter, when the circuit Will be agreed upon and everything closed for next season, which now indicates that the Indiana-Ohio league will be a hummer. What the pennant will be was left to the president and the team leading next Sunday will be awarded whatever prize the president may see fit to give. FOR THE VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES Friur Go to Purdue —Others are Scattered from Boston to Leland Stanford, California. The school terms for the many colleges have opened and a large number of our young people have left for college, where they expect to spend the coming year at hard study. Those who have gone or will leave this tveek are as follows: Robert Schrock, Cornell; Florences Oberlin; Jean Lutz, Oxford; Irene Schirmeyer, Oxford; Faye Smith, sEmerson’s College of Oratory,Boston. Mass.; Nora Smith, Wellesley College, Boston, Mass.; Fanny Frysinger, Indiana University, Bloomington; Charles Garard, Purdue; George Babcock, Purdue; Charles Knapp, Purdue; True Daugherty, Purdue; Brice True, Winona; Margaret Hughes, Business College, Fort Wayne; Hilda Tudor, Business College, Fort Wayne; Willie Shelton, Music Conservatory, Akron, Ohio; Royßeachrer.EarihamConege, Richmond, Ind.; Tom Vail, Howe College, Lima, Ind.; Harry Berry, Valparaiso; Burton Niblick, Ohio University, Delaware. Ohio; Harriet Morrison, Glendale; Luther Boyers, Leland Stanford, California; Waltef Baltzell, Leland Stanford, California; Harry Dibble, Medical College, Detroit, Ohio. No doubt there are a number of others who will enter college this fall, but whose names we were unable to asceretain. It is a safe assertion that Decatur and Adams county furnish their quoto of students at the various universities. o TO ISSUE COMPLETE DIRECTORY M. and K. Company, of Portland, Will Publish a Good One. The M. and K. Advertising Company, of Portland, will publish for Adams county a complete county directory, giving a city directory for Decatur, Geneva, Berne and Monroe, and each rural township, giving the name, occupation, section number, number of acres owned and title. This will be the first compile county directory- for Adams county,and should be encouraged by the business men, as it gives the location and rural route of every man .woman and child of school age in the county. The M. and K. company have just completed ' a directory for'Jay county and it was liberally patronized by the advertisers and then twenty-five hundred of the 1 books were sold to the residents of the county. o Mr. arid Mrs. E. N. Vancil and children of Decatur, Mrs. George J Bergman ahd daughter Ethel Bergman of west Walnut street, this city, 1 the ladies parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1 Nicholsa Money, of Ft. Recovery O, 1 have returned to their horn's after a ten days’ outing at James Lake — Portland Review.

OVER FORT WAYNE DIVORCE Fiftieth Anniversary to be Duly Observed—Program at Fort Wayne C*thedral. The Rt. Rev. H. J. Alerding, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne, has issued an official letter to all the clergy of the diocese, calling their attention to the golden anniversary of the diocese and requesting that services of an appropriate character be observed in each church in the district under supervision of the bishop, on dates to be chosen by the clergy themselves. On September 22nd, the Fort Wayne diocese will be fifty years old, and on that day in this, the episcopal city, the bishop announced, the day will be celebrated by solemn pontificial mass in the Cathedral, with the Very Rev. Andrew Morrisey, C. S. D. D. officiating and delivering the sermon. Appropriate services will also be held in the evening at Library hall., when a grand chorus of one hundred voices will render the music. Addresses have been arranged as follows for the evening service: “Tift Day We Celebrate” —Chairman. “The Pioneer Days”—Dr. H. O. Bruggeman. “The Golden Years” —lion. W. P. Breen, LL. D. * “Charity”—Hon. Henry C. Berghoff, ex-mayor of Fort Wayne. . “Education” —Hon. Timothy E. Howard, of South Bend. In the letter of the bishop attention is called to the fact that the clergy will possess on this day a splendid opportunity of showing the people the grand record of the diocese and to inspire everyone with greater love for religious work, and to appeal to those following in the footsteps of the ones who made the path in pioneer days, that they may continue to carry on the grand work made possible by their predecessors.—Fort Wayne JournalGazette. Q « FOR TAFT TO A FINISH States That Will Not Endorse Taft Will Be P e rmitted to Endors® the President. * Washington, September 10.—The Washington Herald presents what it calls “Present Day Facts as to the Republican Presidential Situation.” “President Roosevelt,” says the paper, “is as firm as ever in his determination not to be a candidate for re-elec-tion. His decision, his closest confidants say, is irrevocable. He would even go to the extent of refusing a nomination. He is tor Taft to the finish, however bitter the finish may be. A significant report in this connection. however, has been current the last few days. It is toihe effect that states which are for Roosevelt, and which cannot be lined up for Taft, will be permitted to instruct for the president, with the object of switching them to the Ohioan in the national convention. Whether such a course would in the end still leave it possible for Roosevelt to escape being the nominee is a matter of serious doubt in the minds of shrewd Republicans. They believe that, once states begin instructing for Roosevelt, no power on earth can prevent his nomination and that, strong and determined as he is he could not defy the will of the peo. pie as expressed through his party without everlastingly wrecking his future. New York, September 10. — A. dispatch from Honolulu to the American quotes Congressman Longworth, who has just sailed from that port for San Francisco, as saying: “President Roosevelt will not a candidate for re-nomination unless the entire country demands it He has firmly made up his mind to stick to this course and only a more widespread demand for him to accept the nomination will alter his determination.” o OBSERVED NEW YEAR’S DAY. The Jewish Holiday Celebrated—"Yom Kipper Sobn. Hebrews all over the world celebrated Roshashaoreale, New Year’s day, yesterday, and all Jewish business houses were closed until last evening. September 18 is Yom Kipper, the day of Atonement, the day the Book of 1 Life is closed and the sins that remain on its pages cannot be erased. 1 It is an ancient story.** It is said that the angels are ready to expunge the i sins of men from the Book of Life if sincere repentance and prayers are : offered up before sundown on the Day i of Atonement. The Book of Life is ; opened on New Year’s day and re- 1 mains open for ten days, in which time the devout meditate on their sins and pray for forgiveness. 1

MANY RELATIVES ARE PRESENT Special Meeting at Rebecca Lodge— Regular M®eting of the Eastern Star. All the relatives of Grandma Wherry responded to invitations which were issued by Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry for a twelve o’clock dinner and six o’clock ’ supper in compliment to Grandma’s eighty-fourth birthday anniversary, i given at her home on north Third street Monday. Very pretty did the honft look, decorated with nasturtiums and sweet peas, and many were the beautiful remembrances that she received from the guests, who were: Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Bryson and daughter, Frances, Mr. and Mrs. U. P. Smith and family, William Pillars and daughter Ethel, Perry Robison and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Rice, Joe Rice and family, Miss Stella Hunter, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hite, Mrs. Evelyn Sheets and family, from Monroeville; Mr. and Mrs. Harve Smith, Mr. and Mrs. N. Andrewson and family. Sunday was the birthdafr anniversary of Mr. Levi Baker and the event was duly celebrated. A surprise which proved complete and was perpetrated on him Saturday evening by a number of friends, and on Sunday the following accepted Mrs. Baker’s invitation to a delightfully delicious din. ner: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steele, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Stultz and Mrs. Mentzer and sons of Bluffton. o L FOR NORTH HALF OF COUNTY Dates of the Opening of Couhtry Schools —Five Townships B®gin Next Monday. The teachers of the north half of the county will meet in this city next Saturday, the event being a joint institute. A good program has been arranged and the day will prove a profitable and interesting one for the teach, ers, who will soon begin their year’s work. A similar Institute for the south half of the county was held last Saturday at Berne and was well attended. Within the next thirty days, every school fn the county will have convened, those In the various country' districts all opening within that time. The dates as fixed by the various townships are as follows: Preble, Washington, St. Marys, Blue Creek and Jefferson, next Monday, September 16; Root, Monday, September 23; Union, Kirkland, Hartford and Wabash, Monday, September 30; Monroe and French township, October 7. County superintendent Opliger Is busy just now preparing his copy for the Teachers’ Handbook of information, which is issued annually and same will be published soon. —o —. SUFFERED A PECULIAR DISEASE Physicians Failed to Aid Him Though Every Treatment Available Was Administered. John EL Rose, one of the best known business men of Berne, died Monday, of an unknown disease, which baffled the physicians and with which he first became ill nearly two years ago. It was a skin disease, caused terrible suffering and finally wore his life away. He was about fifty years old and leaves a wife and two daughters to mourn. Mr. Ro.se was born In Wells county, moving to Berne in 1879,where he soon secured a position with Andrey Gottschalk in his drug store, remaining there twenty-five years. In 1904 he embarked in the grocery and notion business for himself, and enjoyed a profitable trade. Since his illness the business has been conduct, ed by his wife and daughters. The funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at one o’clock from the . house and at 1:30 from the Evangelical church, Rev. Frank Hartman , in charge. Mr. Roae was widely known over the entire county and, in this city. ] Q | True Frlstoe left today for Fort j Wayne, where he will act in the ca- ( pacity of best man at a wedding of < a college -chum. ] Sheriff Mahoney this morning paid back to the county sll6 in and out . fees which it his been decided by the t supreme court he has no right to keep. All the previous sheriffs had J made accounting of the fees in their , settlement and this, settlement Com- i pletes Mahoney’s score in this regard, i The ex-treasurers are also looking up ’ their fees for delinquent tax collec- * tions and will make payment to the f county.—-Huntington Democrat. ]

BLOCKADED. Every Household in Decatur Should Know How to Resist it. The back aches because the kidneys are blockaded. Help the kidneys with their work. The back will ache no more. Lots of proof that Doan’s/Kidney Pills do this. ' Mrs. Herbert Stout, of 302 South Morgan street, Bluffton, Ind., says: “Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me of kidney complaint that had bothered me for overa year. The trouble started with a dull, miserable feeling in the small of the back and grew worse and worse until it became so bad that I was alarmed. The slightest cold or over-exertion settled in my back. There were sharp shooting pains all through my back and limbs and I could hardly do my housework. Doan’s Kidney Pills were brought to my notice and I got a box at Chas. C. Deam’s drug store. I am glad I Used them, betause they cured me and that cure has remained permanent to this day. I am glad to confirm this statement I gave you in 1902 for publication regarding Doan’s Kidney Pills.” Plenty more proof like this from Decatur people. Call at Holthouse Drug Co. and ask what customers re. port. z For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name —Doan’s —and take no other. o JOE MILLER WAS RELEASED. J Proved He Acted in Self Defense in Scrap. The case of the state against Jacob Miller, bartender for Joseph Tonnellier, who was arrested upon a charge of assault and battery by Marshal Green for Saturday night’s rumpus, heard Tuesday morning before Squire Stone, the defendant being represented by Attorney L. C. DeVoss, while Prosecutor Heller looked after the interest of the state. Three witnesses, bore Miller out in his statement tha# Ed Whitright struck he first blow and that he fought in self-defense and the court concluded that the state had not made a case and dismissed the defendant. Green Burkhead is scheduled for the next hearing, which will be held tomorrow morning and this Will end the fighting cases of last Satur- , day .evening. Marshal Green is determined to break this fighting practice up, and will make arrest whereever he sees something of this nature started. o Do you know that Pinesalve Carbolized acts like a poultice in drawing out inflammation and poison? It is antiseptic . For cuts, burns, eczema, cracked hands it is Immediate relief. HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o Mr and Mrs. Charles Pilliod, the newly married couple, left on the south bound train on the G. R. and I. on their honeymoon trip. Where they left for no one was able to state. —ono no longer fear croup, colds or whooping cough. Bees Laxative Cough Syrup- tastes cold through the bowels, clears the head. Guaranteed. f-w HOLTHOUS# DRUG CO. - Q_ The principal difference between a town woman and a country woman is that the town woman spends her time watching her husband and the country woman puts in hers trying to keep track of her young turkeys. o It comes put up in collapsible tube with a nozzle, easy to apply to the soreness and inflammation, for any form of Piles; it soothes and heals relieves the pain, itching and burning. Man Zan Pile Remedy. Price 50 cents. Guarantee. HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o Despatches in th eßecord-Herald today are to the effect that it believed that Walter Wellman has abandoned hope of attempting to reach the north pole this summer and that he and his party, a member of which is Dr. Fowler, of Bluffton, will return the latter part of this month. The report is to the effect that the trip was abandoned because of unfavor- , able winds and storms. o Trial Catarrh treatments are being mailed out free, on request, by Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wls. These tests are 1 proving to the people, without a pen- 1 ny’s cost, the great value of this sclen- 1 title prescription known to druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop’s Catarrh Remedy. Sold by W. H. Nachtrieb. Pain anywhere, pain in the head, ( painful periods, Neuralgia, toothache, all pains can be promptly stopped by r a -thoroughly safe little Pink Candy Tablet, known by Druggists every- 1 where as Dr. Shoop’s Headache Tab- ; lets. Pain simply means congestion ( undue blood pressure at the point where pain exists. Dr. Shoop’s Head- 1 ache Tablets quickly equalize this 1 unnatural blood pressure, and pain i immediately departs. Write Dr. ] Shoop, Racine, Wls., and get a free ( trial package. Larger box 25 cents. Druggists. W. H. Nachtrieb. ‘

MARRIED TWENTY-SIX YEARS I Suit on Note Filed—Marriage License i Issued —Furnace Company , Changes its Name. Lewis C. DeVoss filed a divorce case ( entitled Rosa Counts vs. John Counts. They were married at Allen county, j Ohio, June 26, 1881,- and seven children have been born to them, four of whom are under twenty-one years , of age. They separated July 1, 1905, 1 when the defendant left his home and t lias since failed to provide for them. . When married Mr. Counts was quite wealthy, had money in plenty and real [ estate, but his appetite for drink t proved his downfall and his family . were reduced to dire straits. For a , number of years Mrs. Counts has sup- . ported herself and children by doing hard work. She asks for a plain di- , vorce. Attorneys Peterson and Moran filed . a new suit, the plaintiff being Jessie L. Smitley and the defendants Morris L M. Boyd et al, to collect a note, the , sum of SBS being demanded. In the case of Cora M. Kanneberg ) vs. William Witwer and Joel Liddy, suit on account, separate answer and [ cross-complaint filed by Witwer. [ Acting on the petition of the Angola Furnace Company to Change their name to the Decatur Furnace Company, Judge Erwin granted said petition. proof of publication of notice being published. i Daniel B. Ford vs. Smith Shoemaker ( et al, damages $4,000; motion filed to require plaintiff to make complaint more specific. I 7 Charles A. Dugan vs. Perry J. Ogg ’ et al, partition, suggestion that Ogg is now of legal age. A tench warrant has been issued ft>r Gotthard Brown, returnable forthwith, ■pn a charge of burglary. Brown is ( in jail. State of Indiana vs. David Burk, ' petit larceny, suggestion of death of L defendant, case stricken from docket I State vs. Isaac Zimmerman, perjury, cause continued by agreement State vs. Nelson Bricker, assault and battery, before J. T. Merryman special judge, cause set for trial Thursday, October 3. A marriage license was Issued to , Ross B. Lano, aged twenty-nine, a farmer from Princess, Ind., and Mary M. Niblick, aged twenty-seven, daughter of Samuel Niblick, of near this city. The groom has been married once, his wife having died two years ago. ’ ——— — A junk dealer’s license was issued to W. A. and Dan Comer, whose place of business is at Pleasant Mills. Daniel Welty, ex-parte, to review , sewer assissment. Judgment rendered in accordance with the report filed. Judgment against town of Berne for costs. Christian C. Sprunger, ex-parte, sewer assessment. Judgment in accordance with report and against plaintiff for costs. Delilah J. Butler vs. Margaret and Henry Mayer, trespass to real estate, plaintiff ruled to reply within five days. Judge Erwin ordered the sheriff to bring Gotthard Brown into court tomorrow morning to answer to a charge of burglary. James Haefling, county clerk elect, whose term of office begins January Ist, will enter the office as deputy October 15th, Mr. Paul Baumgartner retiring after four years of faithful service. Letters of guardianship were grant ed today to Cora M. Archbold, for Jonathan, Chester and Harrold Archbold, and filed bond for SI,OOO. Quick relief for Asthma Sufferers During the summer kidney irregularities are often caused by excessive tend to the kidneys at once by using Foley’s Kidney Cure. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. Fifty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Spencer were married in Bluffton by Justice of the Peace s Amos Townsend. They asked for no certificate of the ceremony and the justice gave them none. Last week some- - thing brought the oversight to the mind of the aged couple and they forthwith hunted up the aged justice, now an old man but still residing In Bluffton. Mr. Townsend at once recalled his neglect and issued a certificate. —Kendalville Sun.