Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1908 — Page 3

| COMMON SENSE aKut* most intelligent people to use only ■K/lfnesof known composition. ThereSHL, is that Dr. Pierce’s medicines, the wlich print every ingredient ngkso them upon the bottle wrapattW its correctness under oath, BSC daily gti+ieg in favor. The comof DHPierce’s medicines is open . P verybodyVDr Perce being d.-s;r,.-;s | ■ having the search. liahLpf investiga? upon his formula,~bemg aMETTjn' that jliL-better medicines, is knovrn the more wholly made of the active ‘JBfjfjTnal principles extracted from nafti£. forest roots, by exact processes |Kgiua! with ® r plwr «' and without the ‘HL ,it a drop of alcohol, triple-refined and ■enucally pure glycerine being used i.-e in extracting and preserving the |K-ative virtues residing in the roots these medicines are entirely from the objection of doing harm creating an appetite for either albeverages or habit - forming Examine the formula on their wrappers—the same as sworn to by Pieroe, and you will find that his Medical Discovery,” the great, BL . purifier, stomach tonic and bowel the medicine which, while not -.amended to cure consumption in its stages (no medicine will do that) to cure all those catarrhal condiof head and throat, weak stomach, liver and bronchial troubles, weak and hang-on-coughs, which, if negor badly treated lead up to and terminate in consumption. the "Golden Medical Discoveiy” and it is not likely to disappoint ■u if only you five it a thorough and trial. Don t expect miracles. It Kjn’t do supernatural things. You must your patience and persevere in its for a reasonable length of time to get full benefits. The ingredients of which Pierce’s medicines are comjiosi-d have unqualified endorsement of scores of leaders h- better than anv amount ]■ lay. or non-professional. testimonials, ■■lev are not given away to be experiwith but. are sold bv al) dealers in at reasonable prices. TOWNSHIP ITEMS. {■in Tuesday evening, Oct. 21. a party ■s given in honor of Mr. Samuel IJa-schy at the home of I. .1. Bowman. Earnest Isch has a new machine unload corn. Nellie Walter is visiting for a with Mr. Frank Stogdill and famof Bluffton. Henry Meyer attended the Deme. speech at No. 4 on Tuesday Kning, Oct. 21. Loltie Ford is at home at presflßdrs. Lizzie Laisure is sewing for osephine Bowman. H. Walter has his automobile Mg' od repair and made a trip of sevmiles on Sunday. Oct. 18. George Hirschy got his buggy demolished Saturday evening. Kt. 17. Samuel Neuenschwander is now in husking corn for Mr. I. jgßMiss ('ora Walter entertained her Mst gentleman friend. Mr. Jrhn Bowof Bluffton, on Sundav evening. Kt. 18. |Hor Monday. Oct. 19, Mr. Ford Isches burned. Not much was deThe cause of the fire is not was an institute at No. 5 on Oct. 17. William and John Boyce are at Mr. I. J. Bowman's at ■■Miss Emma Smith entertained Miss Walter on Sunday. Oct. 18. farmers of French township are husking corn. |■Mrs. Simon Smith entertained Mrs. Urick on Monday and TuesOct. 19 and 20. (■Hurrah for Halloween eve. one week Saturday night, Oct. 31. Have I ■ good time everybody. (■Mr. Arthur Kolb, who has been here with Dr. H. E. Keller and famK'- returned to his home at Wauseon. this morning. iHMr. -^ dam Kidner, of Fairfield counV. Baltimore, passed through the city morning enroute to Fort Wayne Harwell, to visit relatives. I o — {■Tom McCarthy, with a companion M-’c gave the name of Frank Smith. Bvd who is unknown to the officers at headquarters, got a fine of $lO costs each in the city court toto which was added ten days in county jail on the charge of aswith lewd women. He was Hued 85 and costs for drunkenness n Hw days ago and has been arrested within a week. The men were H«nd in a room in the Pixley-Long Hkck with a woman known to the of■cers as Ella Reed and the arrest was ■ade on complaint of people who have ■partments in the building. The wornB' l was fined the same amount and giv■n a jail sentence but this was suspended on her promise to leave the ■ty at once. The police have orders ■° pick her up and send her in if she W found on the streets. McCarthy is B pitcher for the Boston national leaHue team and returned to Fort Wayne B few weeks ago. He has been in po■ce court several times and always Have an assumed name. He appears B n the records as Logan this time. Bbrt Wayne Sentinel. B Forty veterans with, the martial Band met Mr. Adair at the Bliss house yat night and escorted him to the B° l,rt room where he made his speech. Bnother veteran, M. M. Justus, preB*ded as chairman. — Bluffton Banner.

Saturday Taft was in Decautr.and If the enthusiasm displayed here was an average to juagr oy. as one man was heard to say, they will never get through counting the Ikryan votes The Cr ° Wd has been various* estimat- * « from 1, 5 W) to 2 . 5 W and we should say that a guess of about alf way between these amounts would h< a fair one. 8 this was the first t me M.. Taft has ever visited this section, we confess the crowd was just a little disappointing. The do>ugs began with a parade of two bands and a drum corps at 10:15 marching to the G. R. & L Monroe street railroad crossing, where a stand had been erected. After arriving here. p. L. Andrews introduced Mr. arry Hogan, of Fort Wayne, who announced that he would try to fill in for a few minutes before the arrival of Mr. Taft, and proceeded to say some real nasty, mean things about Mr. Bryan, but somehow he failed to stir the multitude. Then Mr. Gilhams, congressman from the Twelfth district 'Ook a turn and told a joke about two tcads falling into a milk can, the democrat drowning and the republican toad churning up a pound of butter, on which to stand. Just why he knew the politics of the unfortunate frog, he failed to state, but perhaps the survivor was a member of that bull frog club in Grant and Huntington counties. The Taft special arrived exactly on time, the train pulling north of the crossing, then came adisappointment. The party refused to come to the stand and the crowd which gathered there early failed to hear a single word of the Taft speech, unless they were fortunate in having taken a position on that side of the stand. The candidate’s voice was in very bad form, and could not be heard twenty feet away. After speaking perhaps three minutes, the candidate waved his hand to Senator Hemenway, who talked perhaps as long, eliciting a rousing cheer, that made Mr. Taft look glum, when he said “some one out there cried hurrah for Bryan.” It was all over in five of six minutes, some one gave the signal and the train pulled out. A committee consisting of County Chairman John Frisinger, C. A. Dugan. W. A. Lower and Hon. Robert S. Peterson, went to Portland that morning to meet the train and jeame in with the party on the special. They were met here by a committee from Fort Wayne, including Harry Hogan and C. C. Gilhams. After the big excitement was over, Mr. Frisinger introduced the Hon. Theodore Shockney, of Union City, and a part of the crowd remained to hear him, for about an hour. The special also stopped at Berne and Geneva long enough to unload a speaker and for Mr. Taft to wave his hand from the rear of the coach. At each place quite a number of people gathered to gee the nominee. o Topeka, Kan., Oct. 23— There is a teacher out in Trego county that goes to school every morning and goes through all of the routine of teaching, but has no pupils. In July this teacher signed a contract with the school hoard to teach the school for five •months for S4O a month. At that time there were about fifteen children to attend the school. The school began October 5, but when the teacher went to the building not a child came. In the three months from the time she signed the contract every child had moved from the district, or the parents had arranged to send them to city schools. Ever since the teacher has been going to school each morning. At 9 o’clock she rings the bell, but no children romp into the room. At noon school is dismissed. In the afternoon the same formality is carried out. but no children appear. In the meantime the teacher has all the time for reading or studying. The school board is required to furnish heat and janitor service for the building. The school board has asked if there isn't away to close the school and stop the payment of this monev. for coal and janitor service, but E. T. Fairchild, state superintendent, has ruled there is no way except by a compromise with tlhe teacher. The young woman has an ironclaid c n tract to teach the school. By g r mg to the building every day she per forms her part and stows that she is willing to teach. That there are no children to teach is not her fan and she draws pay just the same.

Mrs. Frank Capp, of Preble, had an excitable experience Thursday afto"noon when, while examining a 32 cn I iber revolver, it exploded and the bu - let penetrated her left hand. . Capp had just concluded eating dinner wihen she took the weapon from th* cash drawer and was examining when in some manner the trigger watripped and the bullet entered her hand, striking a bone, but not seriously injuring same. The bullet, however, missed her head but a ► w ches, wffiich frightened her more than the injury.

Lobck, Sept. 6, 1908. Dear Father—l went to a place to bafihe this p. m . where I don’t believe any white man ever swam before and for that matter any native. My first letter had ue en mailed before I had been there, and so I did not know this. Ve have some pictures in the camera of the falls above the town. There are two sets of falls and a deep pocl between the two. There are lots of arge sharks from the sea clear up the river to the first fails and so no bath there. After considerable climbing we moved above the first falls and clothed ourself in Adams first clothing. We started swimming. After a while one of the fellows suggested a swim to the upper falls. Finally one fellow struck cut for the bad Place in the falls, to get his picture taken. The rest of us were going to follow but 1 had not forgotten my expedience in James Lake yet, and I waited until the last. The first fellow was a strong swimmer and got to the rocks. Another fellow, a second man on the party, struck out after the first man. He got caught in the whirlpcol at the bad place, and couldn t get out. The first man got out and helped him. Then neither could do much. We threw stuff to them and thought they were trying to keep from going over the first falls (which would have meant sure death) but that only I made matters worse. They were trying to keep on a rock and tihe undercurrent with our stuff knocked them off. Finally the strongest swimmer struck out and reached us, all in, and 1 told us what was the matter. We got a large piece of bamboo. I hung i on my knees to some rocks, caught the first swimmer's hand; he held the bamboo. A man swam out to the ' end of the stick and held out his hand. The man in trouble swam out and caught into the current and caught i the hand of the man out in the stream. I pulled the bunch in. After resting • the troubled man, we lost no time in i swimming to our clothes. I can say that the entire white population saw i the rescue. There is one place here at those falls where enough water , power is open to develop 100,000 horse > power and all kinds of land near to be had for a song. Well, so long, BERT.

Contrary to reports circulated on the streets Friday afternoon, Barney Wertzberger, the Second street barber is suffering from a badly, but it is thought not seriously injured eye. as a consequence of a quantity cf powder being forced into his face. Mr. Wertzberger was hunting near Barnes’ run and seeing some game, he fired. In a manner unfathomable the charge of powder in the shell escaped from the rear end of the barrel and exploded in his face, a portion of same entering his right eye. For a few moments he was unconscious, and after regaining consciousness he could scarcely see anything out of either eye. He started to town after pick ing up bis gun and arriving, solicited medical aid at once. An examination disclosed the fact that his visage was horribly distorted and his eye was affected. The print of the cap of the shell was left on his face, demonstrating that it had been forced out by the explosion of the powder. However, the barrels of the gun were closed, and no one seems able to state how the 'ccident occurred. It is possible that the member will be saved. Rumors were current on the streets last evening to the effect that he had shot the top of his bead off and several other misrepresentations. o The old feeling that every one. no matter how degraded, has a heart, is doubted by Mrs. Ulmer, of the orphans’ home. This summer Mrs. Ulmer has worked hard raising a large brood of chickens that she might have fried chicken this winter for the children in her charge. Friday night, however, thieves visited the coop of the chckens and took away two dozen cf the young fries which Mrs. Ulmer bad meant for the children. Mrs. Ulmer had remained up that night with a sick baby and about 11 o'clock heard the dog bark, but beard nothing mere ard went to bed. About 12 o’clock the boys in the dormitory saw a man enter the summer kiteften with a lantern and then go out toward the chicken coops. They thought nothing of this, however, thinking it was probably Mr. Ulmer. When Mrs. Ulmer got up, however, she found that her coops had been raided. Two weeks ago a visit was paid to the coops and twenty-five old hens taken. —Bluffton Banner. . — o Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller returned Monday morning from Celina, where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Susan E. Miller, mother of the former,; who died at Chicago last Thursday. The aged lady who bad passed -her eighty-fourth milestone. lived at Celina for many years. Four years ago she was stricken with paralysis and suffered her second stroke a short time aso- death lowing. The remains were removed to Celina, where the funeral was held.

Mrs. G. W. Cooper, of Geneva, transferred here Friday enroute to her home frem Shirley where she was called by the sudden death of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Shirley, whose death in a fire which visited their city last week! The runerai was held Wednesday morning.—Portland Review. The widow Mrs. Nussbaum, daughter of Mrs. Emil Brunner out of town where she is staying, and daughter-in-law of J. P. Nussbaum in town, is not expected to live. She is sick with consumption since early in the spring. Her death is daily expected. —Berne Witness. The wedding of Harry W. Daniels and Miss Myrtle France will occur this evening at 6 o’clock at the home of Mr. Ed France, at Pleasant Mills. Mr. Daniels is the popular auctioneer of that place, and Miss France is an accomplished young lady, being the daughter of Mrs. Laura Maples. John W. Terrell was given his first exercise this morning since his return from the insane hospital Mr. Terrell appears to be considerably improved in condition and went at the work of raking leaves and burning them with a will. The man was put in charge of a deputy while he was doing this work.—Bluffton Banner.

It was fortunate for the stock company Shat is playing at the Grand that Congressman J. A. M. Adair was here las night. Many who otherwise would not come down town came to hear the speech and as they could not get jn the rooom they attended the theater. The company has three more performances to give here, one tonight and two tomorrow—Bluffton Banner. Mr. and Mrs Fred Macke and little son, Robert, who have been in Decatur for some time on account of the sickness and death of her father, Robert B. Allison, came to this city on the Friday morn'ng train to visit • few hours with her uncle, Alex. Rayn and family, we°t Race street. Mr. Macke and family left on the afternoon ‘r-in for their home at Birmingham Ala —Portland Sun. That nervy burglar who has b<>i-n trying earnestly to effect an entrance into several business houses, was at work again last night, trying to gain entrance into the True & Runyon store, but was frightened away by George Braun. The fellow is a novice apparently, or is seeking a little cheap notoriety. He may get a bullet some of these evenings while prowling around other people’s property. A farewell party was given in honor of Mr. Justinus Hoile and Miss Ida Reinking, who will leave for California, October 24. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blakey. At six o’clock a delicious supper was served. Games and music were the amusements and at ten o’clock an elegant luncheon was served. The guests who enjoyed the evening were the Misses Ida and Bertha Burger, of Root township, Blandina and Ida Reinking, Matilda, Ludella and Lucy Hoile. Louise and Lydia Blakey, Messrs. Charley Burger, of Root township; Reinhardt, George and Ferdinand Reinking. Justinus and Otto Hoile, Ed. John and Christ Blakey of Union township. They departed for their homes wishing Mr. Hello and Miss Reinking a safe and happy journey. The persons named above, who will leave for the west wish to express their regret to leave their many beloved relatives and friends, but such is life.

1 A telephone message received in tre city this morning brought the news that the Bluffton, Geneva & Celina in--3 terurban line had been granted a frans chise into the city of Celina, 0., at a •- meeting of the council of that city .- Friday evening. The franchise assured e the completion of the road and prepe arations will start at once from this I- city. Nearly all of the right of way , has been secured and a survey has f been taken, the survey going east to i Geneva and direct to Celina. The new r road will be an extension of the M., • B. & E„ going under a different name, i but not at all connected the new line 1 building from this city to Celina by ‘ way of Berne. Several Bluffton men r are the main stockholders of the Gei neva line, R, F. Cummins, S. E. Ben- , der, L. C. Justus and Dana Brown go- ■ ing to Celina Thursday evening, mak- ■ jng the trip in the Seabold automobile. ; They returned home this afternoon. J ■ Mr. Brown acted as chauffeur for the . party. With the completion of tbe | i two lines the city will be the terminal of five interurban lines, two of them running direct to Celina, O. Both roads will commence their track lay- j ing with the first warm weather in the spring and will have cars in operation by January 1, 1910. Well county men are the promoters of the two inew lines, but they may dispose of 'their right of way to eastern capitalists. The Bluffton men returned home late this afternoon and stated that the franchise was only a renewal of the original one, which was secured four years ago and this is the second renewal. This time they claim is a sure go and the road will be built. Bluffton Banner.

The last will and testament of Mary E Neaderhouser, of Hartford tewnship was probated Saturday. She arranges for payment of debts, bequeaths to her step-daughter, Emma Sheldon and Sarah Neaderhouser SIOO each, and to May McConnell, daughter of her stepdaughter. SSO. it is her will that her residence property in Buena Vista shall not be sold so long as any of her children remain unmarried. The rest of her property is to be divided equally among the six children. Cora, Effie. Nellie, Telse, Homer and Ida. Her son Homer is named as executor and is not to give bond or file an inventory in court. The will was written July 6, 1908, and witnessed by Samuel Opllger and John Anderson.

Roj- Wolford has transferred pt. of I lot 84, Decatur, to Andrew Miller for i $1,500. — i The Henry I. Teeple et al petition 1 for drain was submitted as claim of I John T. Everett. Finding fcr plaintiff 1 and superintendent ordered to pay i Everett SIOO and balance in his hands. : ■ Drusilla Mentzer vs. Clarence Hicks et al, damages S2OO, motion by defendants to retax costs. Sadie Buhler vs. Louis Case, breach of promise, judgment rendered fcr plaintiff for SSOO. Sheriff Eli Meyer has returned from Plainfield where he took Lloyd Harris, the Berne lad. convicted of larceny. Ed S. Hall vs. George Snyder, petition to have guardian removed, was filed by Judge Heller this morning and was tried immediately. Snyder has recently been discharged from the East Haven asylum. The guardian was discharged as prayed. A new case was filed entitled John H. Yager et al vs. Dot Eicher Piercy, suit on note, demand S3OO. Peterson & Moran are the attorneys. While the democrats are making a whirlwind finish to the campaign in this and other counties of this state, the republicans are not going to be idle by any means, though they had their big cards last week. This morning a special train bearing James Watson, nominee for governor started for 1 a tour of the state, but his itinary does not include Decatur or Adams ; county. Another special will carry the distinguished senior senator of Indi- • ana, Albert J. Beveridge, over the i state, and this train arrives here over . the G. R. & I. at 7:30 Tuesday morning. The senator will be conveyed to t the court room, where he will make j a short address cf perhaps thirty minI utes. Though the time is early, it is i expected that quite a number will turn I cut to welcome this man who has a I reputation as one of the silver tongue . orators of the nation. This is the only ■ big meeting billed for here this week - fcr the republicans, but there will be a ’ few speeches over the county. Sena- [ tor Beveridge leaves here at eight i o’clock over the Clover Leaf for Bluff- ’ ton.

I Two dogs belonging to Ves Garner • were killed by Marshal Bohnke Sati urday evening after they had bitten ■ feut Decatur > people. The canines created wild excitement on tbe street when making their attacks and before they could be captured Mrs. Leonard McConnehey, another lady and Herbert : Fidlenkamp were made victims. The Fiillenkamp boy received an ugly wound which demanded the immediate attention of a physician. The dogs were killed and buried. A physician requested that the head of one of them be amputated and sent to Indianapolis for examination, as in his opinion they were mad. This, in all probability will be done. Mrs. McConnehey was not seriously injured, nor was the unknown woman and little girl which they consider quite fortunate. All dogs having the slightest appearance o* having hydrophobia will be killed at once by the officers if seen on the streets. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Durkin were ’he victims of a surprise Sunday evening planned by the members and friends of C. B. L. of I. reminding them of their tenth wedding anniversary. I Mr. and Mrs. Durkin were the recip- ' ients of many beautiful presents from their friends. Games and amusements of all kinds together with a threecourse lundheon. furnished a most enjoyable evening for all present. Those who were in attendance were the Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith, Peter Gaffer. Alphonse Kohne, Martin Mylott, Chas. . Christen, William Parent, Mederick Miller, Ben Knapke, William Harting, Charles Meibers, Ben Eiting, Dyonis Schmitt, William Bosse. Henry Eiting, Jake Omlor, Simeon Haines, James Niblick, Mrs. Charles Pennington, Hattie Stein, Misses Anna and Vena Parent, Katie and Loretta Hackman. Blanch and Edith Erwin, Rose Colchin, Mr. Peter Loshe, Ira Kinney, Edd Tonnellier, Mrs. Coffee and Mrs. Egan, of Fort Wayne.

Lobok, Valair Road, Sept 13. ' Dear Father—This is Sunday again and we have moved camp up the menn--1 tarns. It is cooler here than at Lobok. We finally put the first road around through the river valley on a deep cliff cut. This goes around the range cf hills and not over them and thereby cuts the rise and fall from 500 feet to 100 feet. We have now to go to Valair a' an elevation of 1,100 and a distance of six miies. The road here now Is certainly in bad shape You can’t very well draw a wagon over it. The bed is soap stone and has been worn into very deep ruts by the traffic of centuries. Ten and 12 per cent are common grades. We must keep down to a 7 per cent maximum. I have been running check levels all over and have been surprising myself at the accuracy. What do you want for Xmas? Any how from the east. We have nearly everything here in the tropics. Palms are growing everywhere. Rice is growing everywhere. Wc cut out banana trees on all sides for tihe line. Our line went past the falls we went swimming in last Sunday. Right near there while running the line my feet slipped over the cliff and I held onto two roots and threw my feet up over the roots of a tree and lifted myself up again. This is rather a dangerous spot around here, but that is nothing. It is SIOO per month clear and that means a whole lot. I have received no mail now fcr three weeks, but I will have five weeks mail and two months’ salary waiting for me when I get back. It is great business giving orders out here. You can't speak Bissian and the natives can speak neither English nor Spanish. The American civilization in these islands amounts to little, and I am not sure but that the morals of the Filipinos would be much better off if the Americans and all other nations were away. The cries of some of these people here on account of the crimes committed by the American “little fish” will surely reach to heaven as a burning shame upon the name of the U. S. The general policy of the U. S. is right and just, but the action of some of the moral wrecks that let themselves loose upon every vice of the east and who are employes of the government is not. The teachers are some of the worst here. This is a great place to wear out clothes, though. Change ev- ' ery day and the washing where they ’ pound your clothes on a stone is sei vere. Well, so long, BERT.-

That the Coppock commercial car is more than meeting the expectations o' purchasers, has been demonstrated in many ways. The George Rice and Son company of Van Wert, which daring the month of June, last, purchased "Old Betsey,” is more than satisfied with their purchase. The junior member of this firm was in Decatur Saturday and in an Interview with him, a Democrat representative ascertained that they have implicit confidence in the machine. In part he said: Since owning "Betsey” it has performed its duties satisfactorily and never once has it balked. We use it fcr huckstering purposes and passenger driving and find it amply meets the requirements. We can heartily recommend the Coppock car and in view of the fact that we have inspected all cars on the market, if we were to pu-chase another it would be a Coppock, the very best car being sold today. This is a boost worthy of mention. but is only one of the many compliments received daily by the promoters of this concern. Eight cars are now under construction by the Coppock people with prospects for many future orders. An express truck, parcel delivery truck and general purpose car are to be delivered to Indianapolis. The Coppock is certainly the best.

A party of Decaturites consisting of Oi ville Harruff, John Bailey, Roy Mnmma and Markey Poffenbarger.who had driven to Geneva to attend the funeral of P. A. Macklin, did a bit of heroic work on their return home which will, without doubt be long remembered by Charles Nelson and family, who reside two miles east of Geneva. The young men, after attending the services started homeward and passing tbe Nelson home, saw smoke escaping from the roof and windows of the house. They jumped from the vehicle and effected entrance to the he use by breaking a door from its binges. The hoys soon located the big blaze which had originated under the stove and they carried water as fast as four men could, extinguishing tbe fire and saving the home after thirty minutes of arduous labor. The dinner bell was rung for assistance, but as all t'he nighbors had gone to the funeral the Decatur boys were left to fight the blaze by themselves. They did the work heroically and are deserving (of hearty commendation. The loss sustained was small, but it was only by their timely efforts that the house and contents were not burned to the ground. . — o P. W. Smith, of Richmond, was a business caller here today.