Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1908 — Page 2

CASTOR IA Fsr Infonts Mid Children. The Kind You Hm Always Bwght A WILL PROBATED David Zehr Appointed Executor —A Marriage License—Other News Clerk Haefling received the transcript of the opinion and ruling of the supreme court in the case of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway company vs. Jesse N. King. The case came trom the Jay circuits’court and was tried here at the February term in 1906, ending in Jesse King getting a verdict for $2,000 damages against the railroad. The charge was for false imprisonment. The case was taken up upon the ground of error and the supreme court decided the case on February 20, of this year, affirming the judgment rendered in the lower court. About a year ago Jesse King died and this judgment, or what is left of it, after the attorneys are paid, will go to his estate. The certified copy of the opinion and ruling of the supreme court will have to be copied into the records of the Adams circuit court.

The last will and testament of Cary E. Irwin, deceased, was offered for probate. The document provides that all debts shall be paid, and that full possession of the twenty acres of land in Jefferson township shall be given the widow, unless she again marries or should die. In either event the land is to be divided between the two children. This same provision is made relative to certificates of bank deposits. David Zehr is named as executor to carry out the provisions of the will. A marriage license was issued to Jesse Bowers of Allen county, aged twenty one, and Susie McDaniel, of Washington this aged twenty-five. The latter has previously been married, she being granted a divorce in 1907.

Lawyer Tabler. of Toledo, with Peterson arid Moran, argued a demurrer in the case of Cris Hoffstetter vs. National Supply Company. D. E. Smith of this city and F. H. Snyder, of Portland, represent the plaintiff. The matter will be called up this week, when the court will rule upon the demurrer. David Zerr qualified and filed his bond as executor of the last will of Cary E. Irwin, deceased. H. G. Hogan, of Fort Wayne, was here today and with Peterson and Moran and D. B. Erwin had several entries made in the case of Charles D. Krick vs. Julia A. Elliott et al. a suit to partition and sell real estate. The land in question is located in Union township, consists of ninety acres and Mr. Hogan was appointed commissioner to sell this real estate, i»is bond being $1:1,000. The usual statutory terms of one-third cash, onethin' in one year and one-third in two years will govern the sale. Attorney A P. Beatty filed a new suit ettitled Old Adams County Bank vs. Nosh Loch and Edward Dirkson. The suit i.s on a note, and the demand is $4,000. SATISFIED WITH HIS LUCK. Washington, April 25.—Representative Adair, who introduced six public . building bills, is well satisfied with ’ his luck in getting an appropriation for a site and building at Elwood. ’ Inasmuch as no congressman was al- i lowed more than one appropration, the , five Eighth district towns that lost out “have no kick coming.” Elw’ood. it is claimed, was chosen out of the six because the postofiice receipts are the largest, * Yinol Our delicious Cod Liver preparation without oil. Better than old-fashioned cod liver oil and emulsions to restore health for Old people, delicate children, weak run-down persons, and after sickness, colds, coughs, bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. Try it on our guarantee. SMITH, YAGER & FALK

TUESDAY, MAY STH State Chairman Jackson is Planning for a Real Campaign The Democratic state committee is preparing to hoi 3 the most important meeting of the campaign, the meeting when the candidates on the state ticket will be assessed for campaign expenses. This year the Democratic leaders feel sure of success. Consequently they will place the assessment a little higher than usual. Each candidate on the state ticket likely will attend the meeting. U. S. Jackson, chairman of the state committee, was in Indianapolis arranging for the meeting. which will be held on Tuesday, May 5. The official call will be issued by Secretary J. L. Reilly. Chairman Jackson announced that Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic candidate for governor, will attend the meeting. The Democrats of the state have seen liitle of Marshall since the state convention. A day or two after he was nominated Marshall went to Arizona, and is still there. He went partly for business and partly for the benefit of his health. ‘Mr. Marshall," said Chairman Jackson, "is expected home from the west next week and we understand that he will attend the meeting of the committee. Mr. Marshall is growing in popularity ever since he was nominated. All of the elements and factions of the Democracy —if there be faction —will unite on Mr. Marshall for governor and there is no doubt of his success in the November election.” At the meeting on May 5 the Democratic state organization will make its plans for the campaign. “And it is going to be a real campaign,” said Chairman Jacksou. “It will be a campaign such as has never been waged before in Indiana by the Indiana Dem; cracy. We are sure of victory this fall.” THE SICKNESS A PECULIARITY. Great Deal of illness but not Many Cases are Serious. ‘ There is something very peculiar about the sickness this spring." said a local physician. "While there js a great deal of illness, there is a compara: ively small number cf serious cases. Most of those who are sick this spring are suffering with various chronic complaints. There seems to be a general debility with nearly all of my patients, rather than any serious affliction.” The doctor then went on to explain that much of this has been caused by the ravages of the grip. Last winter the grip prevailed over the entire country, and there was a particularly severe form of it from which these people suffered. From this there seems to have come a peculiar chronic complaint which it is difficult to diagnose. The patient seems to be suffering from no particular illness, but the system is run down and the victim has a genearl lack of energy which comes with perfect health.

REMONSTRATING AT HARTFORD The Antis Making a Vigorous and Well Organized Campaign. The anti-saloon solicitors, numbering one hundred, it is said, are not letting the grass grow under their feet. It is their intention completely to cover the town by next Thursday which is the last day for filing a remonstrance for consideration in the May term of the commissioners’ court. If any voter is not afforded an opportunity to sign a remonstrance before that day it will be because he has gone into hiding. The enthusiasm of some of the solicitors is said to exceed the speed limit, but that was to be expected. It is declared that business men who have refused to sign the remonstrance have been threatened with what would amount to a boycott, although it is possible that such a course is not really to be adopted.—Hartford City News.

A MOST CONVENIENT HOME. Surveyor Baumgartner is Remotfefing Madison Street Purchase. Surveyor Baumgartner, who recently purchased the Glutting property on Madison street, is remodeling the same from cellar to garret. Every convenience known to modern times will be installed, and when completed it will be abeautiful and modern home. It is well located and bids fair to be among the best arranged homes in the city. Contractor Suttles is doing the work. e ness life of Willshire and vicinity. He has bought wool and poultry of the farmers and sold them general merchandise, and has retained their friendship, and up till the time he was put out of business, he enjoyed a liberal share of their trade. He regarded him as an honest business man, and one with whom they enjoyed doing business.—Willshire Herald.

CASE IS POSTPONED Absence of Lawyers Makes the Court Room a Dull Place Commissioner Jesse C. Sutton made a final report in tne case of Jonas Gilbert vs. Norma P. Gilbert, a suit for partition of real estate. The report as filed was approved and the commissioner discharged. The divorce of Sadie Myers vs. Harvey Myers, winch was on the calendar for trial yesterday was postponed on the account of interested lawyers being at Fort Wayne in the trial of a case. While it is apparently dull around the Adams county temple of justice, it is made so by the absence of several lawyers from the city. There is considerable business to do, but. the court cannot be the whole show, all by his lonsome. Deputy Clerk Dan Roop is a busy man. He is copying several transcripts, each and every one of them as long as the moral law and which contain enough double twisted allegations to drive a strong, energetic human being to desperate deeds. Dan, however, owns in fee simple a well modulated temper, and wants 'o get married. REAL LIVE BOOSTER FOR STEVE Dr. Hurty Says He Will Pray for Mr. Fleming’s Election.

“I want to see Steve Fleming and congratulate him on his record in the senate,” said Dr. J. N. Hurty. secretary of the state board of health, Tuesday. “Senator Fleming,” he continued, “was a friend of the public health, and I want to tell him that I think he made a good public officer and that I will pray for his election.” Dr. Hurty was discussing public sanitation, and the duty of the man in public office to safeguard the health of the people. He believes, with Disrael, that “to preserve the health of the people is the first duty of the statesman,” and speaking along this line he referred to Mr. Fleming. He said that during his service in the senate Mr. Fleming championed every measure calculated to preserve the health of the people and was energetic and intelligent in assisting the state sanitary officers at ail times. o A GREAT TIME The Congregation at St Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church Enjoy It Sunday was a gala day at the St. Peters Evangelical Lutheran church in the Fuelling settlement. On that day they will install a handsome new school building just erected at a cost of $4,000. The building is a beauty well built, and arranged for the sort of ventilation that the state superintendent of public instruction Is now talking about. The building is 40x40 with hallway and one room, and was built and paid for by the members composing the congregation at St, Peters, numtiering seventy-five families, all of them the best that grow. There are fifty-three pupils that attend this school and their educational welfare will be taken care by Paul W. Dorn. A regular form of installation services was indulged in, and which will clothe Mr. Dorn as teacher, and these services will be in. charge of the pastor of the church, Rev. L. W. Dornsief, who for so many years has fulfilled the ministerial duties of this church. These services took place in the morning. In the afternoon the school hotse was dedicated, and Prof. L. W. Dorn, of Fort Wayne,' . officiated. It was a great day for the membership of this church. o — THE LOSS OF FARM ANIMALS. Statistics and Figures that May be of Interest.

The following figures on the loss of farm animals in the state of Indiana for the year ending April 1, 1908, will prove of considerable interest. Total number of horses dying from disease was 14,652, which was one per cent less than the previous year; total number of cattle dying from disease and exposure was 40,388. or three percent less than the previous year; total number of sheep lost from disease and exposure was 65,610, or one per cent more than the previous year. The total number of hogs lost was 104,268, which was one per cent more than the previous year. These figures show that something over 5 per cent of all swine owned in the state died from disease.

LOOSEN A BAR Howard Johnson and James Cia.s Make Good Their Escape Bluffton. Indiana, April 23. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —This city is undergoing the sensation that usually follows a successrui jail delivery. The sensation lacks all the elements of blood and thunder, wherein the sheriff or his wife is held up and threatened with their lives, and are otherwise made to stand and deliver. The game was successfully worked by Howard Johnson and James Clark. The former was being held as a witness in the LaPointe murder case, and as will be remembered. Mrs. La Pointe on Monday plead guilty and was sentenced to the Woman s prison. Johnson, aside from being a bad character on general principles, was the real cause of the murder, and the Wells county authorities expected to keep him a prisoner until late in the summer, and then try him for fornication, in order that he, too, might suffer to some extent for his part in the crime committed. Clark was held for assault, and would have completed the terms of his sentence in a few days. The work was done with a piece of broken banister, taken from the stairway some time ago and hidden in Johnson’s trunk. With this piece of broken banister, wrapped with bed clothing in order to deaden the sound, a bar was pried from the windows of the two cells, where these prisoners were confined, and they made their escape. It all happened between twelve o’clock last night and six o'clock this morning. The sheriff and his family were all dead to the world and heard nothing unusual during the time mentioned. The conductor on an early Fort Wayne car reports taking up one passenger at Kingsland, and one at Greenwood, and the description of the two tallies with that of the two escaped prisoners. The Wells county officers will not spend much time or money in running to earth these two escaped prisoners, on the theory that their room is •more welcome than even their presence in the Wells county jail.

HAS RELATIVES HERE Many of the Andrews Here Are Related to the Victim of this Accident Arthur E. Oliver, the young man accidentally shot, as the police believe, by a stray bullet from a gun hi the hands of Clarence Reynolds, is said to be gradually improving at the home of his father. 3636 south Washington I street, and although he is not entirely out of danger it is thought he will recover. The bullet has not been removed from the young man’s body, but the wound is healing nicely and it is the opinion of the attending surgeons that no infection will result. The shooting of Oliver has proved a puzzle to the authorities. The police, spent many hours investigating the circumstances surrounding the case, and accidental shooting is the verdict 1 otmg Reynolds is the only person in the vicinity with a gun at the time of i the shooting. He had a twenty-two caliber rifle and Oliver’s wound was caused by a bullet from a twenty-two rifle. The youth was shooting In a northeasterly direction and Oliver’s wound angles from the breast bone to the shoulder. The time of the shooting is almost identical with the time given by the young man. and .he police have accepted this theory as correct and the only feasible one. Oliver was driving south along Selby street near Forty-fifth street, and the Reynolds boy wms a square and a half away to the southwest. Young Reynolds says he does not know he fired the shot that struck Oliver. If he did he says he did not intend to do so and is not fully satisfied he did the shooting. He admits shooting at birds, at a mark, and in almost every direction. but he did not know his bullet struck Oliver. The matter has been dropped by th* police and no further investigation will be made. —Marion Leader. Mr. Oliver is related to many of the Andrews In this county. He is a bus driver, and while driving along the public streets of Marion, was shot as related above. He saw no one with a firearm and himself is at a loss to know from whence the Shot came Luckily it was not serious.

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ONLY THE LICENSED The Attorney General Construes the Beardsley Law of 1907 Indianapolis, April 23.-A construction of the Beardsley law of 1907, given by James Bingham, attorney 'general, will, if sustained by the higher courts and enforced, put an end to the sale of liquor tn any quantity by unlicensed persons except whole salers, who may sell in quantities of five gallons or more at a time under certain restrictions and except druggists and pharmacists who are licensed by the state board of pharmacy. The new point raised is that relating to the sale of liquor by wholesale dealers. It has been the general impression that wholesale dealers might under the law sell in quantities of five gallons or more to any consumer. This would have been permissable under what was known as the blind tiger law which was enacted early during the session cf 1907. The attorney general holds, however, that, according to the Beardsley law, which was passed later in the session, wholesale dealers who are unlicensed may not sell liquor in quantities of less than five gallons, and that even in quantities of five gallons or more they may sell to licensed retail dealers, other wholesale dealers and to regularly licensed druggists and pharmacists. The construction placed upon the law by Attorney General Bingham will have a sweeping effect in Indiana, if sustained by the supreme court to which a test case will hurriedly be appealed. It will stop all deliveries of beer and other alcoholic beverages to private houses in the customary way and put an end to shipments of beer by breweries and agencies direct to consumers, a practice now extensive in territory’ made dry by operation of the remonstrance law. o — TO BE CONSTRUCTED Capital Stock to be SI,OOO and Sold in Shares of $25 —Many Takers

T. W. Shelton, one of the progressive officials of the Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban railway is. at present busily engaged organizing an amusement company, who will furnish attractions for the park that is to be built north of the city along the interurban line. The capital stock of the company is to be SI,OOO and $25 shares are being sold to different people who wish to speculate in the proposed enterprise. A moving picture show, peanut and popcorn stand, baby racks, bowling alleys, shooting gal lery and. stands will be installed in the new park and at the end of each year the above mentioned company will deciare a dividend to each stockholder. Fifteen prominent people have already subscribed for stock and u is thought that enough wiß be subscribed in the near future to perfect the organization, no subscribers being bound until SBOO stock is raised. Decatur people are anxious that the park be built and it is safe to predict that the nark will be visited by thousands of people this summer should it bq constructed as planned.

Dr. E. W. Poinier, as secretary of the Andrews board of health,has filed suit in the circuit court at Himtington charging Dr. W. E. Nichols, of Andrews, with having failed to report a case of smallpox. It is said that as a result several hundred people were exposed to the disease at a public funeral.. The board of commissioners of Adams county were here Monday, and went out to the bridge east of Ceylon where the dredge wiU go through. There will probably be a new bridge needed, to replace the iron structure now there.—Geneva Herald. On last Thursday at Hope hospital Fort Wayne, an operation was performed on Mrs. J. M . Wellg Dr port(?r performing the operation, with other assistants. She is rep o rt ed getting &along as well as could be expected - Geneva Herald. ter M wiiM PlaCe ’ Wh ° the win ter with her daughter, Mrs. John Jewell and family at Frankfort, Tod has returned to Willshire for the summer. Mrs JeweU and | Helen came home with her and visP m iD Willshire severa > —Willshire Herald. !

ARE ON THEIR EAR The Pure Food Commission, er Will Screw Down the Law The state board of health has d e dared war on “ye ancient and <xj or ous egg’’ and H. E. Barnard, stat, food and drug commissioner, has or I dered all the inspectors of his de I partment to be on the lookout for vio lations of the law by those who sei the raw material for the “soft boiled’ and "once over” products. It j a llo| difficult, Mr. Barnard explains. fn r a grocer to recognize a decayed egg He declares also that a Tarnier h usually aware of ihe fact when he is placing an objectionable egg on th« market. Now, for example. Mr. Bar nard declares that a fanner knows that after an American hen has beet sitting on a bunch of eggs for two 01 three weeks, the eggs are no longei good for edible purposes Likewise after eggs have been In an incubatoi they are no longer palatable on th< breakfast table. There is a specifii provision of the statute against sell ing decayed eggs. The penalty is s fine of from $lO to $25, and on the third offense a jail sentence, it p conceded, would be bad for the farmer ; especially during the busy season ol the year. In addition to this, the law makes it possible to punish the mat who sells storage eggs for fresh eggs, When a dealer sells storage eggs foi fresh eggs he violates that sectiot of the law which prohibits the mis branding of food, and is subject t( the same penalties as the man wht sells the decayed egg. —oIN MICHIGAN 160 Acres of the Best Lane in Midland County, Mich., for Race Horses David Flanders, of five miles east of this city, closed a deal Thursday whereby he came Into possession o! one hundred and sixty acres of the best land in Midland county. Michigan which now makes him a total of acreq In that vicinity. In considers tion of the land. Mr Flanders traded to the owner, Mr. William Campbell, his two race horses, “True Worth" and "True Fred,” which he has owned for more than five years. True Worth is one of the best known race horses In the county, it having a re markable track ijecord and near'y always being Inside the money. Tht first year Mr. Flanders owned this horse it was entered in ten races and it won seven firsts, two seconds and one third money. True Fred is a young horse, but notwithstanding, has a promising future -on the track. It has not been marked, while True Worth has stepped a mile in 2:1914. Mr. McCoy left this afternoon with the horses and he will deliver them to the new’ owner. While Mr. Flanders regrets parting with the ho ?s he considers good land more valuable —— o GOES INTO EFFECT MAY 1. New Pension Law Becomes Operative on That Date.

The new pension law that give! every soldiers' widow a pension of sl2 a month, will go into full fora and effect May 1. It is not neces sary to employ any one to help yol get this increase or if not an increase a pension under this new law. Al that is necessary is to write youl congressman. Hon. J. A. M. Adair. M C, Washington, D. C. He will to, ward a blank which the applicant wil fill out, and this blank after beini properly subscribed to, return to C OI 1 gressman Adair. The new law goe into effect May 1, and the pension will be paid from that date. The condition of AI“X Beall, whoa [dangerous illness the past month hs I been the cause of grave concern to h> [family and friends, remains about th [same. There is little hope for his r< [covery.— Willshire Herald. Thomas R. Marshall, democrats nominee for governor, has written friends at Columbia City, that he « pects to return early next week fro Prescott, Ariz., where he has sp« the last three weeks. He says he " ' be ready to begin an active canipai. vvhen he returns.