Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1908 — Page 6

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FROM CONSUMPTION She Was 11l for More Than Six Months from the Dread Disease Mrs. E. F. Johnson, of East Liberty, who for more than six months has suffered intensely from consumption, in its worst stage, passed away Monday morning at 3:45 o’clock. Six years ago the deceased, who was a daughter of J. Crozier, was united in marriage to Mr. Johnson. Three years and onehalf ago a child tvas born to this happy union and it survives to share in the bereavement brought about by the death of this most estimable woman. About six months ago Mrs. Johnson became ill from lung trouble, and as days went by her condition became more serious. Three months ago she was forced to take to her bed, from which she was domed never to leave until the spirit took its flight. The husband is heart broken over the untimely death as is the father, Mr. Crozier and beside these, two brothers William and Rollie Crozier and two sisters, Bessie and Emma, survive to mourn the departure of their beloved sister. The funeral services were held from Clark’s chapel Wednesday morning at 10:00 chapel Wednesday Rockford, officiating. The deceased was twenty-nine years of age. o_ —- - ■ Elgin King made a business trip to Willshire, Ohio, this morning. J. H. Schug started his week's work by going to Bluffton this morning. Miss Florence Elzey left for Indianapolis this morning where she will visit for one week. Miss Mary Brandt, of Willshire, Ohio, went to Fort Wayne for a week’s visit with relatives.

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ON TO CHICAGO Candidates are Opening Headquarters—Bryan’s Telegram Washington, May 30—It was practically admitted at the White House that Gen. LuKe E, Wright, of Tennessee would be appointed secretary of war to succeed Secretary Taft,when the latter resigns July 1. Gen. Wright’s experience as governor general of the Philippines and ambassador to Japan is regarded by the president as eminently fitting him for the post of war minister. Gen. Wright is nominally a Democrat, although it is not known that he has supported the national Democratic ticket since he voted for Grover Cleveland in 1892. He is an ex-Confederate soldier, and the administration believes that his appointment on the eve of a presidential election will yield fruit at the polls. Washington, May 30. —"On to Chicago,” is now the slogan of the presidential boomers, Next week each candidate will have his headquarters in full swing, and when the national committee takes up the contested seats a small army of watchers will be on the ground to lock after the interests of the various candidates. There are almost 200 contests. 189 to be exact, and the decision of the committee in each case will haye an important bearing on the general result . Washington. May 30. —A telegram from William J. Bryan, urging the Democrats to oppose the legislation came early in the day yesterday. It was brought to the senate by Willis Abbott. Mr. Bryan’s personal representative here. While the text of Mr. Bryan’s telegram was not made public it is understood the Democratic leaders advised that the minority could not afford to let the currency bill go through without the best fight possible.

HOME FROM NEW ORLEANS. B. H. Meyer Returns from a Three Months’ Trip. B. H. Meyer, one of the best known farmers of this county, arrived home Saturday from a three months’ trip through the south, having visited Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana. The greater portion of the time was spent in New Orleans and Mr. Meyers saw that old city from one end to the other. He saw many interesting ■sights, studied the ways, laws and customs of the people and his descriptions are most interesting. o Miss Ida Woodruff, of Geneva, is in the city on business. The south side ball team, of Muncie, ■ will play Decatur next Sunday. Joseph Buter, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday with the Parent family and reI turned home last evening. John Buckmaster, of Berne, transacted business matters in our city today and has returned home. I Frank Wisse, of Mt. Olive, 111., was in the city enroute to Fort Wayne, where he will make his future home. The Misses Nora and Marie Heiny and Messrs. Charles Brink and Ralph : Erbine, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming of i this city. I M- - .!■ . — ~

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. Reported by the Decatur Abstract & Loan Company, Decatur, Ind. Rooms ! 3 and 4 Traction Bldg. Money to loan iat 5 per cent on farms; building loans, 'city loans. Plenty of money—no ! delay. Charlotte C. Worden to Jos. F. Steigzneyer. Sec. 32, Union $62.50. C. D. Teeple to S. B. Fordyce, inlot 137, Decatur $2,000. E. F. Walsch to O. O. Juday, lot 262 Geneva, $2,100. David Wintrow to Chas. Buhler, Sec. 29 Jefferson township, $1,500. Elias Moser to Ferd. Fuchs, Sec. [l4. French Tp., $7,850. Geo. Raver.to R. B. Johnson, 746, 747, 748, 749 Decatur $1,200. Jacob Vogt to W. L Sipe, Sec. 34 Blue Creek Tp., $3,300. J. P. Nussbaum to Jacob Ringger, Sec. 19 Monroe Tp., $14,350. Fannie Meyer to Henry Meyer Sec. 32 Union Tp., 40 acres, SI.OO. Fannie Meyer to John J. Meyer, Sec. 34, Union Tp., SI.OO. Henry Kinney to Esther Ross, Sec. 19. St. Marys Tp., SI.OO. Albert Bracht to Emil Egly, Sec. 15, Kirtland Tp., $7,600. C. L. F. & S. A. to Jos. Chronister, inlot 11, Rivarre, $250 A. B. Bailey to John R. Badders, lot' 27 Monroe. $350. F. L. Studler to Wm. Schlagenhauf, Sec. 3 Hartford Tp., $12.50. Henry Sovine to Esther Ross, Sec. 19. St. Marys Tp., $3,500. Dallas Spuller to Jesse A. Swartz, Sec. 36 Root Tp„ $1,030. Malena Ashbaucher to Jno. Heyerly Sec. 10 Monroe Tp., SB,OOO. Michael Gaffer to Peter Gaffer, inlot 182, Decatur $125. Levi A. Sprunger to Jesse Rupp, lot No. 216, Decatur, $25. Anton Zurcher to Jacob Vogt, Sec. 14, Monroe Tp., $2,500. Emil Egly to John Gerber Sec. 27 French Tp.. $5,700.

MEETS ON JUNE 10TH Hon. J. A. M. Adair Will Be Named—the Delegates from Here Democrats of Adams county likewise all Adair Republicans should remember that the Democratic congressional convention will meet at Union City on June 10th. It is conceded that the present congressman, the Hon. John A. M. Adair, will again be chosen as a candidate for the office he has so admirably filled and the meeting will be an enthusiastic one. Chairman Gallogly of this county is making an effort to secure a delegation from Adams county that will be a credit to the banner county of the state, and it is believed that a large crowd will make the trip. The delegates and alternates as selected March sth last are as follows: Union — J. Stegmeyer, Ed Ullman. Root —A. J. Lewton, Chas. Schelman. Preble —Louis Cline, Dan Hoffman. Kirkland —William Adler, J. Crum. Washington—Geo. Gales, H. Gunsett. St. Marys—M. E. Jackson, A. Gephart. Blue Creek—John Wechter, John Durr. Monroe —Jacob Scheerer, C. E. Bollinger. French —A. Meshberger, J. B. Steiner. Hartford —M. Augsberger, Wm. Anderson. Geneva—R. B. Kerr, W. R. Mann. Jefferson—Wm. Kerr, Job Yaney. Berne —W. Baumgartner, Sam Simison. Decatur —F. V. Mills. H. Lankenau, delegates: D. B. Erwin, T. M. Gallogly, alternates. The steamer Shinonno, of the Japanese line, which has just arrived, news of another disaster (through typhoon at Hankow, following on the disastrous flood, which involved the loss of more than one thousand lives, -with the wrecking of one thousand junks and the stranding of many steamers. The typhoon came suddenly and in a few hours reduced hundreds of boats in the Kan river tc splinters. The shores were thick with the corpses of river people. Hundreds were recovered before the steamer left Shanghai. News was also brought of a great coal mining disaster in Kwang Sa, where one thousand lives were lost when the mine took fire. — —o —■ —■ . THINKS it saved his life. Lester M. Nelson, of Naples. Maine says in a recent letter: “I have used Dr. King’s New Discovery many years, for coughs and colds, and I think it saved my life. I have found it a reliable remedy for throat and lung complaints, and would no more be without a bottle than I would be without food.” For nearly forty years New Discovery has stood at the head of throat and lung remedies. As a preventive of pneumonia, and healer of weak lungs it has no equal. Sold under guarantee at all dealers. 50c and |I.OO. Trial bottle free.

majority fifty-four Filed at Auditor’s Office Here at Eight O’Clock Last Night The clock in the old court house tower pointed at 8 o'clock Friday evening when Otis O. Juday and Rev. George Barker entered the county au- ' ditor’s office and filed the remonstrance papers, which sound the death knell to the saloons of Geneva. It was an ordinary looking document, but it was in due and legal form and had attached the signatures of just 326 legal and qualified voters who live in Geneva and Wabash township. This is a majority of fifty-four, 272 being all that is necessary to prevent any man from securing a license. Two saloon men from Geneva were here Friday night to see the list of names, but they admitted they could do nothing, as the majority will likely grow. However, they will seek legal counsel and fight the remonstrance if a chance offers itself. The plan used in the fight was the same as that used at Bluffton, Portland and other places, the card system and the Geneva saloon men say it was practically impossible to fight it, as they had no way of ascertaining who had signed and who had not. One of them said: “Why half of those people told me or intimated they had not or would not sign the remonstrance.”

The card was simply a power of attorney authorizing John Brown, S. W. Hale. William Drew or George H. Barker the right to sign a remonstrance against any person applying for a license to operate a saloon. It means a knock out for saloons in Geneva for many years to come. The first man affected will be Ed Young, whose license expires in January next, while John Pitts, who was granted a license the first of this month will have nearly a year, six months of which will be without competition. Fred Rohrer, the Berne editor, took a prominent part in the fight, aided by a number of Geneva minister and citizens. o — FOR WARD FENCE CO. Sold a $1,200 Cemetery Job at Carman, Ill.—Encouraging Prospects J. E. Lawrence, who a short time ago was engaged by the Ward Fence management to serve as a special representative of this enterp. sing company, has just returned from a business trip to eastern lowa and western Illinois, where he secured some fine orders for fencing, which in fact are unusually large ones. An extra large cemetery job was sold at Carman, 111., amounting to about $1,200. This together with several other large orders, makes the few days' trip of the new representative most profitable to the Ward Fence company, and it also bespeaks volumes for the ability of Mr. Lawrence as a special salesman. The business of the Ward Fence company is experiencing an unprecedented growth and the future is unusually bright Mr. Lawrence who at one time was a resident of this city is a salesman of ability. He will leave in the near future on an extended trip through Pennsylvania and N.ew York and much is expected from this, his second trip.

MAY HAVE BAKING COURSE. Purdue Officials Are Talking of the Pro ject. The plan of adding a course in baking to the university curriculum, which was abandoned by Purdue uni versify after the master bakers of Indiana had raised enough money to insure support of the course for three years, has been taken up in earnest by the University of Wisconsin. Lecturers on the subject will be started this month as soon as 100 bakers have enrolled as students. The trustees of Purdue abandoned the course because it was feared the enthusiasm of the bakers who had volunteered to support it might wane to such an extent that the university would have to ask the state to support it in time. L. E. Roush, of this city, was the iriginator of the plan to found a school in baking ard while he is disappointed in not securing the department for an Indiana college, he is very much pleased at the stand taken by the Wisconsin university. o — Old Daddy Pennington is now permanently located in his new shop near the “Little Palace livery barn” and is ready to do your carpenter work in a first class manner. He is now busily engaged In making some screens for the Confer Ice Cneam company.

Do You Open Your Mouth Like a young bird and gulp down, whatever foJd or medicine may be offered yon ? Or, do you want to know something of the composition and character of the which you take into your stomach whether aa food or medicine ? Moit intelligent sensible people now-a-days insist on knowing what they employ whether as food or as medicine. Dr. Pierce believes they have a perfect right to insist upon such knowledge. So he publishes.'taa&deast lnd <> n ea?b wrapper wbstJjT-uwdiHnes are made of he can ttWJTQtd todp tile more Qj which his, medicines .ITTF.Tde are studied and understood _the more wilTtheji 1 superior curalive virtug cureof woman's peculiar weaknesses, irregularities and derangements, giving’ rise to frequent headaches, back- : ache, dragging-down pain or distress in lower abdominal or pelvic region, accompanied, ofttimes, with a debilitating, pelvic, catarrhal drain and kindred symp- . toms of weakness. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite 1 Prescription is a most efficient remedy. It Is equally effective in curing painful periods, in giving strength to nursing mothers and in preparing the system of the expectant mother for baoy s coming, thus rendering childbirth safe and comparatively painless. The "Favorite Prescription * is a most potent, strengthening tonic to the general system and to the organs distinctly feminine in particular. It is also a soothing and invigorating nervine and cures nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, soasms. chorea or St. Vitus s dance, and other distressing nervous symptoms attendant upon functional and organic di»eases of the distinctly feminine organs. A host of medical authorities of all the several schools of practice, recommend each of the several ingredients of which "Favorite Prescription” is made for the cure of the diseases for which disclaimed to be a cure. You may read what they say for yournif by sending a postal card request lor a frtr booklet of extracts from the leading authorities, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute. Buffalo, N. Y., and it will come to you by return post HAVE ORGANIZED Currency Commission Have Early Begin Their Work

■Washington, June I.—President Roosevelt is determined no attempt shall be made to stampede the Chicago convention to him. He is worried by the situation in West Virginia, where a break has occurred in the delegation and where two of the states fourteen delegates have announced they will vote for him in spite of the Taft instructions. To head off this outbreak the president has written a friend in West Virginia asking him to counsel the delegates to heed their instructions. He says in this lefter: “No friend of mine will vote for me at Chicago.” ■Washington, June 1, —The currency commission appointed by Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon under the terms of the Aldrich-Vree-land bill held its first meeting Sunday, and while the meeting was only to organize, there was ageneral discussion of plans, and if the outline submitted by Senator Aldrich is perfected by the work of the commission the country will be given the benefit of such a thorough investigation and complete an exposition of currency and banking as it has never before received. Washington, June I—Senator Culbertson of Texas five minutes before the adjournment of congress Saturday night presented resolutions thanking Vice President Fairbanks for the able and impartial manner in which he has presided over the senate’s deliberations. Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire was in the chair and the resolution was at once agreed to. FILED THEIR REPORT More Than Two Hundred and Fifty Farmers Will Be Affected The drainage commissioners filed their report Friday morning in regard to the proposed Albert W’alters ditch, favoring the project in every particular. As has been previously stated, this ditch will be the largest open trench ever constructed in Adams county, affecting more than two hundred and fifty farmers in French township. Mr. 'Walters circulated a petition some time ago securing thirtynine signatures and the commissioners were petitioned to cause the same to be established. The report of the commissioners covers sixty-six typewriter pages and is probably* the most lengthy which has ever been compiled by the body. June the eleventh has been set for hearing of objections on the assessments of the proposed improvement and if none are registered the same will be constructed during this summer and fall, it is quite probable that no objections will be made as the drain is much needed. The assessments’ have been made against each forty acre tract of land or less, which will be drained by the ditch.

STILL IN SESSION The Question of Amusements is Still Unsettled Baltimore, May 30.—The Methodist Episcopal general conference made its ass’gnmnets of bishops, sending Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, president of DePauw university, Greencastle, Ind. to San Francisco. Other assignments are: Boston, Mass. —John W. Hamilton. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic. —Frank M. Bristol. Buffalo, N. Y. —John W. Berry. Chattanooga, Tenn—William F. Anderson. Chicago —William F. McDowell. Cincinnati—David H. Moore. Denver —Henry W .Warren. Foo Chow, China —W. S. Lewis. New Orleans—Thomas B. Keely. New York —Daniel A. Goodsei]. Oklahoma City—William A. Quayle. Omaha—John L. Nuelson. Pekin, China —James W. Bashford. Philadelphia—Luther B. Wilson Portland Ore.—Charles W. Smith. St Louis —Henry Spellmeyer. St. Paul—Robert Mclntyre. Washington. D. C.—Earl qranston. Zurich, Switzerland -William Burt. One action taken by the conference has back of it a determination on the part of a large number of the delegates to bury the whole question of whether paragraph 248 of the Book of Discipline, which deals with amusements, shall be changed. The action was in the form of a motion that a time be set for the consideration of the report of the committee which had he question under consideration. The motion was lost. Nothing was said in explanation of the report other than that the report should be given precedence over other important matters. However, it is said there is a determined purpose not to permit the amusements to be discussed on the floor of the conference at all if it is possible to prevent it.

A HAY RACK PARTY Miss Hattie Studabaker Delightfully Entertaind for Mrs. Winch A hay rack party given at the country home of John Schurger by Mr. Tom and Miss Ida Bogner. Three course luncheon was served and all report a fine time. Those present were: Misses Ida Bogner, Kate Hackman, Tottie Hildenbrand, Ethel Hildenbrand, Mary Winans, Adeline Schneider, Eva McGath, Loretta Bosse and Tillie Schneider, Messrs. Roy Miller, Dwight Archer, John Lose, Claude Gay, Perman Hebble, Cahrley ■Baxter, Mart Slickman. A farewell party was given last evening by Mrs. J. Q. Neptune in honor of Mrs. Hugh Hite, who will leave for Oaxaca, Texas, in the near future. Several friends were invited and a delicious six o’clock dinner was served by the hostess, after which the evening was spent in a social way and several selections of music were rendered. A fine time was had by all present. The Tribe of Ben Hur held their rgular meeting at their hall last evening. The meeting was interesting and well attended. HAS A RARE SPECIMEN. D. M. Hensley Has One With Two Heads. D. M. Hensley, proprietor of the south Second street jewelry ■store, has added to his collection of mounted birds one of the most unique specimeets that has ever mot the human eye. The new specimen is one with two heads and four feet, which was captured near the Ohio state line several days ago. The one w r as found under a fallen tree and when first noticed, one of the heads was still moving. The bird was at once brought to the Hensley store and “Heck” lost no time in closing a deal for the curiosity which taxed him |5.00 of the long green. — So far the tax ferrets employed by the Noble county commissioners to unearth sequestered taxables in Noble county, have caused to be turned into the county treasury sl7>" 828.60. It js estimated that the ferrets will be able to turn something like |75,000 into the treasury before they finish their labors. Os this amount they will receive one-third as compensation for their services. o E. M. Ray, of Berne, was here on business today.