Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1908 — Page 8

URHL ADVERTISING. AN ORDINANCE PROTECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH. DEFINING THE DUTIES OF THE CITY HEALTH OFFICER AND MARSHAL; DIRECTING THE ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common council of the city of Decatur, state of Indiana, That it shall be unlawful and it shall be a nuisance for any person, persons, company, firm or corporation to erect, construct, cause permit keep or maintain within the limts of said city of Decatur, Indiana anything whatsoever which is injurious to health or indecent or offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of travelers and any person or persons maintaing any nuisance as above set forth is declared to be the author and maintainer of a jjuigancf?

Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company, firm or corporation to throw or deposit, or suffer to be thrown or deposited or suffer or nermft any child, servant, member of th e fvuily or any other person under his, her or their control to throw or deposit any manure, rubbish, slops, putrid or unsound animal er vegetable matter or any filthy, noisome or unwholesome liquid or slops or any liquid or slops or substances that ar e liable to become unwholesome, in or into or upon any street, lane, alley, sidewalk, gutter, crossing, lot. cellar, premises or common; and it shall be unlawful for any rank weeds to be allowed to grow on .any ground within the corporation imits of the city of Decatur, Indiana, and it shail be unlawful and it shall be a nuisance for any overflowing vault of any privy to exist. Section 3. All kitchens shall be provided with garbage receptacles and said receptacles shall be made of galvanized iron, shall be tightly covered and emptied frequently to prevent fermentation and bad odors and garbage receptacles and privy vaults shall be emptied, cleaned and disinfected and weeds shall be cut and hauled away at any time upon the written order of the health officer; said officer to fix a reasonable time limit of not less than five days in his order when said garbage receptacles or privy valuts shall be emptied, cleaned and disinfected and when weeds shall be cut and hauled away. And if any owner or lessees being duly ordered ag herein provided, shall fail or refuse to obey said order it shall be the duty of the street commissioner in and for the city of Decatur, Indiana, upon written notice from the health officer to cause the garbage receptacle or vaults to be cleaned, emptied or disinfected or the weeds to be cut and hauled away and said street commlssionr shall keep an accurate account of the expenses thereof which shall be paid from the city treasurer upon the sworn voucher of the street commissioner and said expenses shail be a lien on the property and collected by law and turned into the city treasury. And it shall be unlawful to fill up old privy vaults or sinks without first emptying the same. Section 4. The secretary of the city board of health in and for the city of Decatur, Indiana, who Is also city health officer, all deputy health officers and the city marshal and city police of said city shall have full power and authority to enter Ipto or upon any str.eet, lot, alley, premises or grounds for the purposes of making a sanitary survey of the same and if a nuisance or any unsanitary conditions are found it shall be the duty of the city health officer, when informed of the existence of the same to immediately notify the person or persons so offending in writing, fixing a time limit to abate the nuisance, if such person or persons shall fail or refuse to abate the nuisance within the time specified it shal’ be the duty of the street commissioner, upon notice of the health officer to cause the same to be abated, keeping an accurate account of the expense thereof, which shall be paid from the city treasury, upon the sworn voucher of the street commissioner and said expenses shall be a lien upon the property and collected as taxes are collected and turned into the city treasury. Section 5. The city health officer and all deputy health officers shall be diligent in enforcing this ordinance, for the protection and preservation of the public health. They shall studv the state health law and the health rules of the state board of health and be active in enforcing the same. The vital statistics shall be carefully collected, duly recorded and reported to the state board of health for final compilation In the state health reports by the city health officer; and h e shall make a monthly report to the mayor and common council of said city of all health work done, with such recommendations as may seem proper to him.

Section 6. If at any time the work I of prevention of the spread of infectious or contagious diseases is more than can be reasonably expected of the city health officer, he may, with the consent of the mayor and common council employ one or more intelligent, men to act as deputy to establish quarantine, remove patients to the special hospital and conduct disinfection. All houses wherein infectious and contagious diseases may exist or have existed shall at the proper lime be thoroughly disinfected, with formaldehyde by the health officer or his deputies at the expense of the city of Decatar, Indiana, as the work is obviously for the benefit of the people. A complete record of all disinfections, all vaccinations and all other health work done shall be kept by the city health officer in the minute book of the city board of health. Section 7. When visiting persons known to b e infected with smallpox, diptheria and scarlet fever all physicians and health officers shall protect their clothing and hair against infection and shall thoroughly disinfect themselves before coming in contact with the public. Section 8. It shall be the duty of the marshal and cf the police of the I eity of Decatur, Indiana at all times,

to aid the city health officer In ths work of enforcing ths ordinance upon demand of said health officer. Section 9. Any person or persons, company, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance. upon conviction therefor shal! be fined for each offense In any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty five dollars, to which may b e added imprisonment in the county I jail for any determinate period not exceeding thirty days, and each day s violation shall constitute a separate offense. Section 10. It is hereby declared that an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this ordinance. It shal! therefore be in full force and effect from and after its passage and two weeks publication, once each week for two weeks, in a newspaper printed and published in the city of Decatur, Indiana. All ordinances and parts of crJi- ! nances in conflict with any section of this Ordinance is hereby repealed. Passed and adopted by the common council in open session this 16th day of June, 1908. THOS F. EHINGER. Clerk. Presented to the Mayor this 16th day of June, 1908. , THOS F. EHINGER. Clerk, j Signed and approved by me this 16th day of June. 1908. C. O. FRANCE, Mayor. 26-21 THOS. F. EHINGER, Clerk 0 PETITION FOR STONE ROAD.

State of Indana, County of Adams, ss; Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, July Term. 1908. We, the undersigned, all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of Kirkland township, in Adams coun ty, Indiana, respectfully petition your honorable body, that you construct and complete a free macadamized road in said Kirkland township, over and upon the public highwa situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the southwest corner of section 27, township 27, north range 13 east, running thence north on the dividing line between sections 27 and 28 and sections 21. and 22, township and range aforesaid, and terminating at the southeast corner of section 16, township 27, north range 13 east, in Adams county, Indiana. Your petitioners further show that the improvement prayed for herein is less than three miles in length, connects both at the commencement and ending thereof with a free macadam road, and that a United States rural mail route passes over said highway. Your petitioners further ask that said highway above described be graded, and drained, and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon such broken stone, there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway already established, and in use and is one of th e public highways of Kirkland township. that the improvement herein prayed for is to be an extension of the Decatur and Bluffton Macadam Road, and is to be called the Miller Macadam Road. | Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be drained and graded to a width of 24 feet, and that broken stone be placed thereon to a with of 10 feet, and to a depth of 10 inches in the center thereof and to a depth of 8 inches at the sides therof, and that crushd stone screenings be placed thereon, to a depth of 3 inches, upon such broken stone, that said improvement be made a double track.

That io pay for said improvement we ask, that bonds be issued by the county of Adams, In the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levid, upon the taxable property of said Kirkland township, Adams county, Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they become due. That said road be built, and that said bonds be Issued, and said tax levied, upon said property, of said township, in accordance with the acts of the legislature, of the State of Indiana, passed in the year 1905, beginning on page 550, and as amended in the acts of 1907, now in force providing for the extension of fre e gravel or macadam roads, and any, and all other amendments thereto. We further ask that the board take all of the necessary steps as required by law to have said Improvement constructed as petitioned herein, that the same be constructed without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said Kirkland township, and that they oonstruct the same under the laws of the State of Indiana, now in force, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. S. L. Driver, G. W. Miller, Guston Yager, Louis Bracht-, P M. H. Hiigemann, Christ Helmrich. H. J. Dilling, Jacob Scherry, J. H. Ward, H. T Diehl, Albert Reppert, Jas. D. Brown, M. Jahn, J. Bright. George Crist, Adam W. Hoover. Jacob Heller, D. F. Fugate, Ezra Reber, Philip Sautbine, Joe Shoaf, Reuben Beery, Wm Breiner, E. E. Zimmerman. G. H. Bright, James D. Hoffman. W. F. Fulk, John H. Beery, Harman Thomas, J. D Stoutenberry, M. C. Norris, Fred Ilubner, Geo. Houck. B. F. Booker, Jacob Olwine, P. E. Fugate, A Fugate, Sam Yost, J. V. Pease. Elijah Pease, Jacob Weldler, Geo. P Shaft. E. S. Howard. C. B. Niblick, Calvin F. Eller, Albert Arnold. Jess e S. Byerly, Samuel Leyse. Geo. Martin. David Steele, Jacob Corson, David Cress, Henry Howard, J. A. Zerkel, J. S. Crum, Wm. Adler, D. M. Byerley, Lewis Zimmerman. H. S. Jackson, G. Pierce, R A Pierce, Otto Reppert, Mary E. Wright, James A Steele, Wm. Bieneke, Elmer Schlickman, Jacob Myer, Jeremiah Barton, C. S. Bryrn. Ths petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, July 6, 1908, at which time the taxpayers of Hartford and Wabash townships may appear and make such objections as the law mav provide for 26-3 t C. D LEWTON, Auditor

NOTICE TO NON RESIDENTS. State of Indiana. County of Adams ss. In the Adams Circuit Court Term 1908. Martha J Summers et al vs. Charles W. Davison et al. No. 7606. Complaint for partition of real estate. It appearing from affidavit filed in th e above entitled cause, that Frank i lin D. Davison and Mary Davison cf i the above named defendants are non i residents of the Slate of Indiana. ! notice is therefore hereby given the • said Franklin D. Davison and Mary Davison that they' be and appear be- ’ fore the Hen Judge of the Adams 1 Circuit Court on the seventh day o! September. 1908, the same being the ■ first Juridicial Day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the : Court Hous e in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the seventh | day of September, A. D, 1908, and I plead by answer or demur to said ■ complaint, or the same will be heard I and determined in their absence. Witness, my name, and Seal of said Court hereto affixed this 19th day of June, 1908. JAMES P. HAEFLING, Clerk. Dore B Erwin, Atty, for Plaintiffs. 26-3 t ■■ o NOTICE. Sale of Unclaimed Freight and Bag gage. Notice is hereby given that the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company has in its possession divers articles, packages and cases of freight i and baggage which have been and I remained tn its possession for upwards 'of one year, unclaimed and refused at the places to which the same were consigned, and checked, and upon which the owners have failed, and refused for one year, and more, to pay the carrier’s charges thereon, and to claim and take said freight and baggage, and that all the said articles. . packages and cases of unclaimed I freight and baggage will be sold, each article, package.and case separately, at public auction, to the highest bid der, for cash, at the warehouse of the Union Fireproof Storage Company, on Pearl street, in the City of Grand Rapids, in the County of Kent, and State of Michigan, on the line of | the railroad of said railway company, commencing on Tuesday, the Ist of September, 1908, at 10 o’clock a. m.. and continuing until all said articles shall be sold. | Terms —Immediate payment by pur chaser in cash, and delivery of the I property to him, to be taken away ‘ immediately THE GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA RAILWAY COMPANY, By E. C. Leavenworth, General Freight Agent. ,C. L. Lockwood, General Passenger. Agent. ' Dated at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 112, 1908. 25-8 t

APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given. That the undersigned hag been appointed Administrator with the will annexed, of i the estate of William R. Kirchner, late ;of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. MARTIN KIRCHNER. Administrator. Peterson and Moran, Attys. June 15, 1908. 25-3 t o APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the Third ward, in the City of Decatur, Adams county, and State of Indiana, that I, Albert Lehrmann. a male inhabitant and resident of said ward, a person over the age of twen-ty-one years and a person not in the habit of becoming Intoxicated, and a fit person to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors, will make»apI plication to the Board of Commissioners of the County of Adams, at their 1 August sesson for the year 1908, for a license to sell spirituous, vinous and malt and other intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time. ! with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises where sold. The place where I desire to sell said intoxicating liquors is a one-story brick building fronting on Monroe 1 street in said city, being the ground floor, with front and raar openings : and situated on the following describ'ed premises, to-wit: j Commencing 41 feet west from the southeast corner inlot No. 120 in the City of Decatur, Adams county, Indi- , ana, thence running north 132 feet, j thence west 13 feet, thence south 132 (feet to the north line of Monroe street; thence east to the place of , beginning. Said building is situated on the south end of the above described real estate and is 31 feet long by 12 feet 8 inches wide on the inside. I will at the same time ask permission from said Board of Commissioners to keep and maintain a lunch counter In aforesaid room for the purpose of selling lunch. ALBERT LEHRMANN, 27-3 t Applicant. Nature has provided the stomach with certain natural fluids known as the digestive juices, and it is through these juices that the food we eat Is acted upon In such away as to produce the rich, red blood that flows through the veins of our body and thereby makes us strong, healthy and robust, and it is the weakening of these digestive juices that destroys health. It is our own fault If we destroy our own health, and yet It Is so easy for any one to put the stomach out of order. When you need to take something take Itp romptly, but take something you know Is reliable—somethink like Kodol for Dyspepsia and Indigestion. Kodol is pleasant to take, it is reliable and is guaranteed to give relief. It is sold by B. Doolittle. o-— — DeWitt's Little Early Risers are small, safe, sure geatle little pills. Sold by B. Doolittle. o— — Democrat Want Ads, Pay.

000000000000 o O o THE MARKET O O REPORTS O O o 000000000000 Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day at 2 o’clock. i EAST BUFFALO, N. Y., July I.— Receipts, hogs, 15 cars; market ! steady. (Mediums and heavies .... @56.90 Yorkers @56.90 Pigs @56.10 SHEEP. Wether sheep @57.25 Culls, clipped @$4.H Wether sheep @54.60 PITTSBURG MARKETS. July I.—Hog supply, 30 cars; market steady. Heavies @56.80 Mediums @56.80 Yorkers @56.75 Light @56.50 Pigs @56.85 TOLEDO MARKETS. Cash wheat 87 July wheat 87% Cash corn 78% July corn 71% Cash oats 53% PRODUCE. By Decatur Produce Co. Butter . 14c Eggs 14c Fowls 8c Chicks 12c Ducks ?c Geese 6c Turkeys, young 12c Turkeys, toms 9c Turkeys, hens 9c HIDES. By B. Kalver and Son. Wool 13c@l?c Calf hides 7c Beef hides 4%e Tallow 4c Sheep pelts 25c @sl.oo DECATUR GRAIN MARKET. Niblick and Company.

Eggs 15c Butter 15c I Mixed ear corn 93 Yellow ear corn 95 White oats 49 Wheat 83 Rye 63 Barley 65 ' PRICES ON COAL. By Girt Reynolds. Chestnut coal $7.50 . Hocking Valley 4.00 West Virginia splint 4.50 I Wash nut 4,00 The Decatur Packing company, ■ Phone 81, will pay the following prices for live stock: Hogs [email protected] Cattle 3.00@ 5.00 ! Calves 5.00@ 5.50 EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN? The Single Woman’s Demand For the Married Man’s Wage a New Feature of the Suffrage Movement. With the admission by the New York women school teachers that they are ' not working merely for an increase of pay, but for equalization of salaries as between men and women, it is realized that the equal pay movement has become an important feature of the woman suffrage propaganda. This demand for equal pay by the teachers has been taken up by the aggressive suffragettes, who see in it an opportunity to enlist indifferent sisters in the cause. Nothing less than the equalization of the salaries of single women up to the wage of the married men will satisfy the teachers. That 80 per cent of rren teachers are the heads of families and that 60 per cent are aiding other relatives in no way abates the women’s demands, nor are they dismayed by the fact that for well settled economic reasons stenographers and other women workers receive less pay than men. What a concession to the equal pay demand would entail In the way of increased taxation is shown by the fact that It would cost New York city alone over $9,000,000 a year to equalize its school teachers’ salaries. This is only one of the factors that led the superintendent of New York, schools to state that “neither by any received economic theory nor by the analogy of any practice in any walk of life can it be regarded as sound policy to determine the salaries of the great majority (women) of the teaching force by the salaries paid to a comparatively few (men) who are employed for special purposes.” Perils of Crinoline. The dangers of the historic crinoline are Illustrated by a story told by Lady Dorothy Nevill in her “Reminiscences." Going too near the fireplace, her voluminous skirt caught fire, and in an instant she was in a blaze. There were no men present, and the women could not help her, because if they bad gone near enough to be of use their own skirts would have been ignited. Fortunately Lady Dorothy had sufficient presence of mind to roll herself in the hearth rag and thus subdue the flames.

1000000000000 ° 2 o DEMOCRAT O O WANT COLUMN O O O 000000000 O O O ‘ ' MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL prices will be given on all trimmed hats Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20 at Mrs. Burdges Millinery Store. 146-2 t AGENTS —Our “No Bum” Wire Kettle Bottom and Individual Toaster is a wonder. Earns its cost twice 1 over each week in every household, i where used. Show any woman a sample and the sale is made “at sight.” Talk for itself. Sample free to ' (workers. Thomas Co.. Desk 144, Dayton. Ohio, WANTED WANTED —Boarders and roomers ty the day or week. Mrs. Whitright. 155-3 t WANTED—Permanent or part time , position to energetic parties. Good pay weekly. Pleasant work. First class opportunity for advancement. Inquire Glen Brothers, Rochester, N. Y. WANTED—Teams to haul stone from Decatur to Jay Cline Road. E. Woods and Son 146-6 t : — — WANTED—Lawn mowers to grind by electricity. Bicycles repaired and general smithing. See F. E. Smith, 131 S. Second SL 104-60 t TEAMS WANTED—To haul stone I from Decatur to th e Cline road. E. Woods & Son. WANTED —Boarders and roomers. Inquire of John Russell, Marshall St near Fifth. 153-3 t FOR SALE AUTOMOBILE for sale or trade. A bargain. A. Van Camp. 154-24 t THRESHING OUTFIT FOR SALE—i I have a threshing outfit, consisting of one 18-horse power New Huber engine, one 32-54 Huber Separator, complete outfit, ran one season, will sell for $1,600 or will sell separate. A. W. Werllng, Preble, Ind., P. O. Box 55. 135-30 t FOR SALE—Black Lanshan eggs, 75c | for 15 eggs. E. F. Miller, R. F. D., 6, Phone 14 oa B line.

FOR SALE. First class building stone, crushed stose, stone screenings. Portland oomerit, cement blocks, dynamite in caps and lump coal. ts JULIUS HAUGK. I HAVE good city proe«rt!es for rule I or trade for farm. H. M. Fish j v 152-61 HOUSE AND LCT”FOR”SALE—On south Ten.'l tueet. Inquire Mis. A. W. Peterson, 115 south First St. 156-6 t LOST AND FOUND — LOST —Lower part of K. P. charm. Finder will please return to O. L. Vance. 155-3 t LOST —Handkerchief with $5.30 tied in it. It was lost near Monroe last Saturday evening and the finder will please leave it at John Badders and I receive reward. 1157-3 t Any 12 Year Old Girl Can make those delicious Lemon, Chocolate and Custard pies as well as the more experienced cook if she uses "OUR-PIE” preparation, which is now sold by nearly all grocers at 10 cents per package. Just the proper iagredients in each package. o ■ I Food Value of Dried Fruit. Sir Francis Henry Laklng. King Edward’s famous physician, has an article in the Scientific American on “The Food Value of Dried Fruits,” in which he says: "From recent analyses of samples of dried currants the fact has been verified that the fruit contains no less than 73 per cent of sugar in its most valuable form. This great saccharic proportion is already in the shape of grape sugar, and thus is potential to take up its work of producing and I maintaining energy and vitality. It is what is known as ‘lnvert sugar,’ a composite of dextrose and levulose. It assists digestion, it allays nervous excitement and provides nourishment in case of nervous exhaustion. "In the dietary of the peasant classes of Greece, a people remarkable for their hardihood and health, the currant appears at almost every meal while in Germany and Holland currant bread is a common article of food Indeed, among the many shapes in which the currant may be brought to the table a bread made of, sav. thlrtv parts of currants to seventy parts of dough is one of the best “For children and those who must of necessity adopt a diet currants will prove a digestive aid and act as a gentle and natural laxative. ThereI fore any accusation against the delicious, economical and valuable little «"rd” ,IXaSt fBII t 0 gronnd as ab_

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Express Steamer Service to Mackinac D. & C, Line Now Operates Daily Trips From Detroit to Mackinac The large and comfortable steamer City of St. Ignace is the express or limited boat of the D. & C. northern division. This steamer makes three trips per week between Detroit, Alpena and Mackinac and City of Alpena maintains a daily service to the Northern Michigan resorts. Send for llhistrated pamphlet which shows tlm» tables, cost or tare and accommodations. Address: D. & C. LINE 6 Wayne St., Detroit, Mich. o —- Mother Gray’s Sweet Powdere for for Children. ■ Successfully med by Mother Gray, I nurse I>. i(’hndren’s Home in New 1 . k, <’u e F-v-rishness, Bad Stom ach, leeuiiug Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 19,000 testimonials They never fail. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. 4 o ... ... AN AERIAL HORROR’. The Very Dreadful Thing That StrehSchneider Did. A group of aeronauts were talking aeronautics. "Did you ever hear of Strohschuelder?” said a German. “He did a dreadful thing once. I’ll tell you about tt. “Strohschneider appeared in a certain village and advertised that he would take the landlord of the village Inn up with him on a trapeze hanging from the car of his balloon. "Though the landlord’s wife made a kick aid the authorities, upholding her, forbade the man to accompany Strohschneider, the landlord sat In state on the trapeze beside the famous aeronaut when the ascension began. "But those nearest to him noticed that he was paler than a ghost and that his arm was thrown around Stroh Schneider's neck as if In terror. And. noting these things, the people nodded ominously to one another. "Up and up went the balloon, and now a murmur of horror arose among the multitude. The aeronaut and the landlord were quarreling; they were fighting. High tip there in the clouds, perched on the swaying trapeze, they struggled, thumped, kicked, “Suddenly the aeronaut, in a mad burst of rage, seized the landlord by the throat, thrust him backward and flung him into space. Down the poor fellow dropped like a stone, turning over and over. He alighted on his head. “The people, mad with horror and rage, rushed to the spot. And there, to their amazement, stood the landlord, laughing heartily. The figure that had fallen was a manikin dressed up in his clothes. “And this,” the speaker concluded, “Is the only practical joke that has ever been' played from a balloon.’’— New Orleans Times-Democrat Cheap Fun. He--You talk about men playing poker. It is no worse a vice than the shopping habit of the women. She— Perhaps not, morally speaking; but> then, it takes money to play poker, whereas a woman can shop all day without It costing her a cent except What she pays for car fare.—Boston Transcript