Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1909 — Page 2

. ========= , — T 1 —" , — , — Not Sisters i Now and again you see two women pass- ' ♦ 'vk inf down the street who look like sisters. vk! You are astonished to learn that they ere 11/ mother and daughter, and you realize that /It wi a woman at forty or forty-five ought to be / [ at her finest and fairest. Why isn’t it so? f | ?1 t • The general health of woman is so in- lit > I timately associated with the local health 111 r JI of the essentially feminine organs that \ ***. /I there can be no red cheeks and round A // form where there is female weakness. Vk Women who have suffered from j this trouble have found prompt ~ I relief and cure in the use of Dr. Fierce’s Favorite Prescription. It gives vigor and vitality to Ao n ,p n , of womanhood. It clears Ao complexion, brightens Ae eyes and reddens Ae cheeks. No alcohol, or habit-forming drugs is contained in “Favorite Prescription.” Any sick woman may consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. Every '^J er w held as sacredly confidential, and answered in a plain envelope. Address: World ’s Dispensary Medical Association, Dr, R.V. Pierce, Pres., Bunakh N.Y. . i«"i ■ J! 11 , 1 2!JL , .M l ,. l " ,l "T?g .~LLL- —> ‘ ~ ~ n “UNCLE BILL” ? a Wants.to Know ■

Who, as a “champion chicken eater,’ can hold a candle to Rev. Spet- ’ nagie. If “jjakie” Meyers isn’t stepping j mighty high since the twins came, c If Kansas City is large enough for him. i r If Carl France and Fred Meyers own the high school. a If several other fellows are not t willing to tie crippled so that they { can stay in the "hospital.” If Bruce Patterson has put his 11 chickens to rooost. Why Pete Gaffer didn’t get down town Tuesday" evening. y If he would rather make sauer kraut th as hear election returns. a If Mart Jaberg likes the Indians. If he will teach them how to use li the Kodak. If politics isn’t Canter’s line and it c be isn’t enjoying himself. i Who bet on the. “Tigers" winning s that first game with the “Pirates.” What Mayor “Bones” thinks of the t players and if he feels that they are e good enough for his Texas league. Who tried to do the “stage door a Johnny” act at the opera house last c Saturday evening. Who got a lemon for trying to do so. If he won’t pass up the chorus lady with the wicked eye. 1 How Prof. Rice bet on the-ball game today. < Where John Manley caught that moustache. • , ' ’ If raising babies scientifically isn’t just a good excuse for the mother j having more time to primp and attend her clubs. 1 If too much walking tired Tracy Nelson. 1 If Ned Steele was lonesome on Friday evening. When “Fish” Mangold is going to buy an interest in Curley’s case. < If Hensley has one of his baby teeth on display at the store. ] U B. W. Sholty succeeded in geta ting the farmers load of wood meas- I ured all right Friday. . < Why the “Black Crook” didn’t play tn Decatur. ' Attorney L. C. DeVoss had filed a sensational suit in the Adams circuit, < court, in which the plaintiff is. Miss eS9S9S=9ESSSSE9SSSSSSS9SSS9 .AbsoliMjfree-BedDaven-; porls>rd-robe&Steelßange& I SewinjHlftcKmes,Binner-sds. Sideboards.Dressers.HaU ' Racks, Cou€hes,Kitdwn Cab- 1 * 1 mds, Chiffoniers,Dining Ta- ■ Wes, Art Squares,lron Beds, ffiirrors,Rockers,LaceCurfains, and other useful household articles. Write us for our illustrated <4 I Cfitabq cj the above ar.d manvjotber items free to the ladies for groceries, Address, ... . ... ■***>- Lima.O.

Who “just loves hot llmberger sandwiches.” A What fellow tried to make them for her and where he buried his clothes. If the Decatur Motor Car Co. doesn’t sound good to ’muh! If you Mr. Business Man won’t lay aside your grouch now and come to the boosters’ meeting Monday evening. If you won’t boost for all there is in it now. How much did it cost Shorty to get back to Decatur Sunday. Did he pay his fare with nicke® and dimes. How many nickels and dimes did it take. If it takes eight men to close one cottage in the fall, how many men it will take to paint one boat in the spring. If Mr. Baumgartner ever gets tired teaching the freshles cases in Ger- , man. # If Fred Rogers and Dwight Archer ( aren’t glad to get back to Decatur on Saturday and Sunday night Who kidnapped Cappy J. Sunday. , Where did he spend the evening. Where did he find his suit case. How many nickels and dimes did it take to pay his laundry bill. What was the name of the new . club that was organized this week. And how many charter members are there'. Did they all read the constitution, and how many words in it If C. L. knows what the fare is to Huntington. How many times a week he goes there. And what is the attraction. And if he is going to be a benedict Where Bruce Paterson was Friday night October 1. If L. H. found out and what happened afterward. If Purman Hebble took his lady friends to supper Sunday night or did they eat Ae crackers and cheese furnished by “Cappy” Johns and “Scotty" Wemhoff. Leota Ross, a daughter of Al Ross of Ais city, and Ae defendant is Homer Raudenbush, a. high school student. The case is one wherein I Miss Ross alleges Aat Raudenbush promised to marry her and has now forsaken her and in which she asks for damages amounting to $5,000. The complaint recites that Miss Ross is nineteen years ojd, that early in the present year Mr. Raudenbush began paying her attentions, that he frequently met and walked wIA her on the streets of Decatur, called at her home, todk her to places of amusement and to social events, and paid her such attentions as caused her to become deeply in love wita him, that in Ae month of August they agreed to marry, and that under this promise Miss Ross allowed him to pay her many attentions that would have not been otherwise permitted, But Mr. Raudenbush nroved fickle and has now declined to fulfill his promise, though the plaintiff is still willing so to do, wherefore this suit and the demand that he pay her the sum of money asked for her wounded affections. The young people are well known and respected. o-— ——— The' Republicans held a mass convention at Ae court house Mond&y I night for the purpose of nominating a city ticket. The meeting was called to order at 7:50 and twenty minutes later it was all over. The ses-, sion was smooA. in fact so smooth that it looked to an outsider as though some pre-arranged affair was "being carried out. At .the stated time Mr. Ford Litterer, "announced 'that the city chairman was detained by a very severe headache and ask- - ed who was wanted for permanent chairman. Hon. R. S. Peterson was named by acclamation amj. W. A.

Lower was elected secretary. The chairman without any preliminary fuss or feathers, asked for nominations tor mayor. Judson W. Teeple was quickly named, and Mr. Litterer moved that the nomination? be closed and the nominee chosen by acclamation. It carried. For clerk T. C. Corbett was named and Mr. Litterer made the same motion as before which again carried. For treasurer Earl B. Adams was nominated by acclamation, after Mr. Litterer, working over time, had again made Ae motion to do so. S. B. Fordyce and Jacob Atz were selected as nominees for councilmen at large, without opposition and the convention then broke Siree divisions while each ward d a nominee resulting in SylPeterson being chosen in the first, James Bain in Ae second and E-astus Fritzinger in the third. This conc’uded the business and Ae con•ention after hearing. Ah reports from the wards, stood adjourned. A very sudden and aad death occurred in this city Monday when 'f.rs. J. W. Bowers succumbed to heart failure and within thirty minutes after making a complaint of distress, she was dead. She had accompanied her aged moAer to Bluffton, and on returning on Ae eight o’clock Clover Leaf wfoi met by her husband, it being Aeir intention to drive to their home in Allen county, near Monroeville. She complained of a pain in her heart and instead of starting home drove io Ae home of their daughter, Mrs. Anna McDaniels on Line street, and after being assisted into the house she became unconscious and lived but a few minutes. The deceased had long been ? sufferer from asthma and a weak, heart, and at times suffered great pain, and the attack coming last evening was too much tor her weakened condition. EllzabeA Smith, daughter of Elias and Catharine Smith, was horn in Monroe township Allen county, March 16, 1856, and was fifty-three years, six months and twenty-five days old. She was married to J. W. Bowers December 21, 1872, also a resident of Monroe township, in Allen county, and they have happily lived there every since. Ten children with the bereaved husband mourn Ae loss and companionship of a most devoted wife and mother. The children are Mrs. Elnora Fishdr, Mrs, Anna McDaniels, Mrs. Sarah Elida Ross of this city, Mrs. Minnie DeWitt of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Bessie Hey, living near Monroeville, and Miss Daisy 'Bowers, who is at home. The sons are Jesse, Will, Frank and Earl, two of whom also live tn Fort Wayne. The funeral party left the city late Ais afternoon for their home near Monroeville, and Ae funeral will occur from there on Thursday morning, leaving Ae house at ten o’clock, Ae services being held from the East Liberty U. B. church, of which the deceased had long been a devoted member. The services will be in charge of the pastor, Rev. J. W. Lower, and 'interment will take place in the Brown cemetery. A motion for change of judge was filed in the case of Malinda Frohefield, for divorce, and the course was assigned to Hon. R. S. Peterson as special judge. In the matter of Ae David J. Barkley et al petition for drain, proof of notice filed, finding Aat all parties interested have been notified and this cause is ordered docketed. Judge LaFollette, of Portland, was here today and in the cases of Frank M. Schlrmeyer, trustee vs. Samuel Butler, John Schaffer, Henry Krick Decatur Abstract Company and John W. Tyndall, on contracts, Ae defendants were ruled to answer absolute on or before October 25th. The Arbuckle-Ryan Co. vs. David L. Marshand et al, notes anti foreclosure, $2,050, demurrer filed plaintiff to second, third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of anwser of Marshand, James E. Moser vs. Peter Frank et al, note and chattel mortgage, separate and several demurrer filed by defendants. Real estate transfers: Decatur Steele to George F. Steele, 40 acres St. Marys tp., $2,500; Aaorn Eury to I Vincent D. Bell Jr., 10 acres Kirk-, land tp., $1,250; William 0. Baker to W. N. Smitley, 43 acres, Jefferson tp., $4,000; Henry H. Hart et al to Harvey D. Rice, pt. lot 120 Decatar, > $2,700; Mary Bremerkamp to Harvey D. Rice, pt lot 120, Decatur, $540; Harvey D. Rice to Benjamin P. Rice, pt. lot 120, Decatur, $2,700. i — ’ Harry Imboden, admr. of Ae estate 5 of Henry Imboden, default of sevl eral parties; suggestion of minority I of defendants and John C. Moran I was appointed guardian ad litem. t- Clyde Death, who was bequeathed 3 all the property of Eunice Q. Death ■ is a grandson of the deceased instead if

of a son, as mentioned in our SaturAfter a lingering illness lasting for many months, Mrs. Joseph Harris died at half past ten o’clock Sunday night, death being caused by consumption. She (ifM-.an' estimable woman with a hosi of friends who are now sorrow stricken, although It has been been known for a long time that she could not live. During the long illness she bore her sufferIngs with great fortitude, in fact she welcomed the relief that could only come in death. She with her hue- 1 band, son and daughter have lived in this city for the past twelve yean, j and during that time they have made for foemselves a place in the affections of our people, and especially is this true with the one now claimed by death. Lydia Remp I was born in Willshire, Ohio, February 24, 1864, and she was united in marriage to Joseph Harris then also a resident of Willshire. To Ais union was born two children, Lillian aged twgnty-one, and ’ John aged twenty, i and Aey wIA the husband now sin- 1 cerely mourn Ae death of Aeir delvoted wife and moAer. The funeral services were held Wednesday , morning from Ae home |on west I Monroe street, Rev. Sherman Powell having charge of Ae services. In-1 terment was made in the Decatur cemetery. s ■ o OPEN A NEW CIGAR FACTORY Al Volmer and Frank Johns Are Manufacturing High Grade Goods. Al Volmer and Frank Johns, two 1 young men of the city, who for a 1 number of years have been under the employ of Chas. Sether as cigar makers, have gone, into business for themselves. They have leased the two rooms in Ae Allison building over the Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson "Clothing Co. and are already doing business. They have several new brands and will endeavor to get: Ae best grade of tobacco possible. | They are experts’at the business, and hustler?, and will no doubt receive ( their share of Ae local patronage. Help Aem along, boys, and give them a boost. ——_oGeneva, Indiana, October 11.— (Special to the Dally Democrat) —The resignation of Rev. O. W. Bowman | as pastor of the Geneva circuit of the M. E. church, came as a surprise to his many friends and supporters here. He has wiA entire satisfaction filled the pulpits at the Ceylon, Zion Chapel, Hartford and New Corydon churches, where he has done good work, and where he was well liked. He has beep offered a charge in Nebraska at a good church and an Increase In salary, but he has not fully decided to accept it. Sunday was old peoples’ day at Ae M. E. church, and their magnificent church was crowded to' the doors. The church was beautiful In Its decorations, red,, green and maple leaves playing an important part in Ais feature of the entertainment To Aese were added pots of ferns and flowers, and the American flag. Every one on entering were presented with a button hole bouquet, to which was attached a scriptural passage, and after Ae sermon by Rev. Graves he announced that Ae oldest one In attendance was to be presented wIA a beautiful bouquet of carnations. Mrs. Hawkins, the moAer of Mrs. W. W. Briggs, and aged seventy-two years, captured the carnations. s. ' 5 James Rice of Decatur,was here today buying horses for the sales stables with* which he Is connected. Mr. Frank Miller, living southwest of Geneva, Is home from Martinsville, where he has been for Ae past two weeks. He returns much Improved in health, and his friends hope it will prove to be permanent ■' The Geneva orchestra gave 1 a free concert at the M. E. church on last, Friday evening, It being their first public appearance. The program was good, and Prof. Bliss was congratulated on all hands. Mrs. Cal Miller spent a pleasant day here Saturday as a guest of Mrs. H. A. Fristoe. The ladles of the MeAodlst church gave an old time social and supper at the Masonic hall on Saturday evening, and it Was the best Aat ever happened. The menu consisted of corn bread, sorghum molasses, fried liver, boiled potatoes with Ae jacketa, ripe onions, butter and hot coffee. It was largely attended and that ' it was enjoyed is hardly necessary to say. Nelson Richter and wife who recently. moved here from Rochester, are pleasantly located in the Ward I property on Line street. Mr. Richter i has charge of the Anderson I Knepper drug store.

John Joseph will open bis candy kitchen on Saturday. It Is a Iwell looking place and one too, Aat would do credit to a much larger place than Geneva. 'We hope Aat he will succeed. L. E. Carter will open Ae Cincinnati store to the public on Thursday of this week. Mjr. Carter is a nephew of one of Ae former proprietors and will doubtless make'the bus. iness a success. Mrs. Ida Woodruff will move her millinery stock to Ae room recently occupied by A. P. Hardison. ' Mrs. W. W. Briggs came home today from Indianapolis, where she attended a meeting of the grand lodge of the Pythian Sisters. (Editor’s Note—ln writing up the Republican ticket for Ae town of Geneva, Ae name of W. D. Cross for treasurer, was unintentionally omitted.) i ' — —o St Marys, Ohio, Oct 12.—A motor boat voyage of 9,000 miles, beginning on Ae St Joseph river, across Ae J souAern end of Lake Michigan, down Ae Illinois and Michigan canal and , Illinois river to Ae Father of Waters, emerging at New Orleans and crossing Ae Gulf to Yucatan, then to Cuba and Florida to spend Ae winter before returning byway of Ae Atlantic seaboard, the Hudson river, Welland canal and great I lakes, Ae start to be made on Ae 15A Inst, by Claude Rockey and , three friends, in two boats, Is the consummation of nine years’ planning . and expense on the Part of Mr. Rockey, whose local relatives have full falA in his determination and ability to carry out his ; Intentions. The boats which wi|l be launched at) Twin Lakes, Mlfeh., are regarded as Ae highest development of the marine builders’ science. The largest craft is Ae one wIA which Mr. Roekey has won two cups from ChtI cago, competing in one race wIA thirty-six competitors. It was built ( by Charles Binkley, now with Ae United States navy at Seattle, Wasn. The frame is of selected oak, Ae remainder of Ae wood being imported Spanish cedar. It is thirty feet long and easily carries a ton. The engine was built especially for | Mr. Rockey by a firm In Milwaukee. The motive power Is In charge of ' Walter Hanley, an experienced gas engine man. The second boat is for utility purposes. It Is nineteen feet in lengA and carries a four-horse power engine, has an eighteen-foot sail and Is fitted wiA oars. Both craft are provided with air chambers and are practically unsinkable. The larger one has a speed of twenty knota per hour, but will be confined to twelvejmota to permit Ae smaller one keeping pace. The crossing of Ae open sea from New Orleans to Yucatan is regarded as the only dangerous portion of the voyage. o— Visitors to Washington who have their eyes open may see, once or twice a day, a big closed wagon drawn by three sturdy white horses drive up Fifteenth street and back up against the curb at one of the entrances to Ae treasury department There is noAlng eapeciallv to distinguish Ais wagon from lots of others, except Aat Aere are usually two men on Ae front seat beside Ae driver and two other men standing ion Ae back step. But when Ae visitor notices We number of packages Aat are taken off Ae wagon this extra complement of attendants ceases to occasion comment or surprise. It seems to be quite natural, and Ae comings and goings of the, wagon attract little attention. Yet there is a romance about Aat van which reaches out to every man, woman and child in Ae country who has spent a dollar bill or any oAer amount In currency for Aat matter, in the last twenty-six yean? For every piece of paper money that has been issued in Ae United States dur- , Ing that time has first ridden in Aat wagon, and the total equals all Ae money Aere is in Ae world today. A recent calculation produced some raAer remarkable comparisons. For instance the report says: "It would take a string of hay wagons twenty miles long to hold the money that has passed through this old van. If the packages were piled one on top of Ae other Aey would make a monument fifteen miles high. If the bills were placed end to end Ae string would be 250,000 miles long, or equal to ten times Ae distance around the world. They would carpet a road fifty feet wide from New York to San Francisco. Their weight in coal would supply Ae average family with fuel for 250 years. Had an expert begun counting Ais money in Ae days of Columbus he would have been half Arough when President Taft was inaugurated.” It is because of the value of its loads that ■ the old wagon is accompanied by fouFmea, two in front and two behind, besides the driver. Uncle Sam

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is not taking any chances on a “hold up” even if Ae driv; is so short Each of those men is heavily armed and ready to tackle any man, or party of men, Aat should attempt a “wild w«t” display in Ae neighborhood of Ae wagon. o* Mr. Ernest F. Danner, a former resident of Adams county, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Danner Hying south of Decatur, who for the pas; two years has been employed as bookkeeper wiA Ae Big Four railroad at Indianapolis, Is to wed Miss Mildred Cragun of that city. Miss Cragun is skilled in the painting of scenery and fine china, and is a society leader. The wedding will take place at the home of Ae bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Cragun, 1308 north Capitol avenue, Indianapolis, on Sunday, October 17, at 4 o’clock p. m. Immediately after Ae wedding Ae young couple will leave on their honeymoon for Detroit, Mich., and the lakes, where Aey will spend a few days. On their way home they will stop off wiA Mr. Danner’s parents for a short time, and Aen return to their already furnished home at 29 wet 30A street, Indianapolis, where they will be at home to Aeir many friends. George H. Martz was taken suddenly ill last Saturday night and has been very sick .since, but today is somewhat Improved. The many friends of Mr. Martz here hope Aat he may speedily recover from his Hlness. The stock of goods of J. J. Mayer have arrived and will be arranged • Ais week. The store will open next Saturday, Oct 16. Mr. Mayer invites Ae public to call and inspect the line of goods he handles. There are many bargains for you. Up ' '"l. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mills of Ais place died Monday morning at 8 o’clock after an illness of one day. The babe waa one week old, and being Ae only son in a family of five girls, makes it very sad for Ae parents, and sisters and friends. The funeral was held today. • Miss Susie Kerke, of Hammond, was a guest at Ae lowellen home last Saturday evening while enroute to Berne, where she will make a j short visit with Dr. Ray Knott and i wife. ■ II — Charley Gross, of Ae Beeker Paper Co., of Fort Wayne, was here Monday looking after' the interests of his firm. 'v. Misses Harriet Mayer and Anna SmiA were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Macy at Decatur. . Miss Mary Ball returned last ev- . ening from Richmond, where she visited friends. Saturday Mrs. Jerre Myers slipped and fell while carrying an armload of wood. She was severely injured, and for a time It was feared Ae ' injuries would prove of a serious nature. However this morning she is resting well and It Is Aought she will soon recover entirely from the , 111 effects of Ae accident.—Bluffton f Banner. •l — — 0 NOTICE POULTRY RAIBERS Alonzo Thropp, Mt Carmel, HL, says: “I was losing on an average . of fifteen fowls a day with cholera. After giving the first dose of Bourbon Poultry Cure all around to my flock 1 never lost another fowl.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp.

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