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by Mr and 10l Hendricks for $4,75 instead of $475 aft ’oZ lb XvZ‘X"XVk>T™£ roM. _ ~ . Monroe, Indian#. Dally Democrat, Decatur, Ind.: •I have not had time to write you •were out five weeksif Traveled by rail 12,227 miles going to Denver, Col., for &T i'- >. ■ , . v ‘ Ing. Then we drove on to Seattle and In on the lay o*f Seattle, has too Cascade .mountains,' which ; ; _ were £The tunnel through jpem ift ♦ tit v*Aiv trit haM - M 'j& De fn nftf hftvn anv smoke □dXeTabout'faeTa kveranTas around afaTdrop down to HoT Springs a small town In the valley, then we reach Spokane, Wash., a very busy town of one hundred and twenty thousand." Since I was thete four years ago it has increased forty thousand In population and Is still booming. Here we visited with Miss Frank Thompson, ; John Kirkendall. and sister and Mrs. Dick Reed and Otto Longenbargef, all of Monroe. fine timber land twenty-five miles out from Spokane and is building a hfafa on it, preparing to stay there and make a fam out of it W hjm we were * and trtS* fax--; iha TtavAnnrtri' Xethtag Ue to feed m7 when lam sightseeing, and to fay Ye had a fine time is putting ft very mild, as the drives and parks are very beautiful. Leaving here We returned to Denver, < * Here on cur way back we note Tennessee pals, on the mountains, at an elevation fa over fourteen thousand feet above the sea ifafa which was beautiful scenery and on down we came inrougn me noyai vrurgc wuiuu surpasses almost any river or water scene. While up on the pass, so high I asked the Mra df she thought We would ever set any higher thah this In future, and she says oh, shut up. I could not get her to look down when we were up on the side of a hill; so high. I forgotto tell you we saw the great Mdrmon churches of Salt Lake and Ogden. W attended church at Ottr t#asn being Cuurcn e wmen ww ■ quire nicei * 1 ucy twenty rears to build -•■Hw church fa- ■>* .*<- _ *«■ m —J I you can hear a pin drop from one music. The first song the^sang 1 ****My Country’ l which sounded good Thon our rnfne to Rockvford. '.■f -WAw • aawaa yu* <fa., io visit with my uncle, Geo. M. C/WFmnn who grow to manhood at V>W.LU<»U* wuv w , 7?y! Pleasant Mills, Ind., going west faj artery early age, taking up land fa Kansas, which he still owns. He is now located in Rockyford, CoL.and president of the Peoples Home bank which Is doing a nice business. While here we took in the entire valley in an auto studying irrigation. Hero they don’t depend on rata. They Just turn on the water when they, need It Never need to work the roads, nor ditch to take the water away. Sev X l L’tX« “ a/C---dreds of ear loads, and cucumbers, watermelons and sugar beets. I talked to one man who did oyer two hundred thousand dollars worth of business ta the banks just In cantelope industry in one year. The sugar factory here employes six hundred men yearly and they own two 1 thousand acres of land and raise a you can’t buy any sugar of them. I They ship it all out by the car load, fthto apples th® car load We ’

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Joif Rpdayford muskmelons, w e caU > i •.them, so early injhe spring; arid they ‘ honey dut by the car load. Quite a 1 few honey makers here. Rockyford '.is a town-of about 4,500 population,, and supports four banks, and all claim to be doing a nice business Here we leave again going direct' to Colorado Swings to visit a day or ,’so with my cousin, W. P. Hendricks,; ( who formerly Bred in Monroe town-. I ship and still owns a good farm in f. Monroe township. He met me at the, . train with a pocket full of car line, . tickets and hi and wife took us to i dinner and then to Manito, and the! I cog wheel r|ite up the mountains f and the Gard<m of the Gods. We r drank from the soda snriwaZ the sul-' I ■• . . > cipiy by smelters and mining indusi|trEs. Leavfag hero'we went back to’ with Mr D. WWalj pfas a year. Leaving here’we stop ’Wmpso^nnd^famHy^my o r & M. railway out of Lincoln for the r past five years, who is doing well r here. We enjoyed a day or two ntee- - ly. going through the asylum and penlr we see them 429 in 7 Indians . 90. negroes, 9 women, 325 whites, all I very busy Place, and Lincoln is a . very hustling town, the capital of . Nebraska. We also vlstted 1 w v^°X W « tJjjX t are ustag crushed stone' and then’ -[crude oil which makes a > Mother Thompson and my boy Mc- ; Gee home and myself and wife go ! south on M. & O. Ry.,, down through > Illinois, Jonesboro and Tamms, a. good sized, town. Here we see the , first negro school about 25 or 30 > little darkeys was a teal picture to ; me. the town fa about 70 per cent. I negroes and is owned by one man, i Mr. Ttonms. On down we pasp. Mr. . Taft president at Cairo, IR., he being i on the river. We went around him on ■ train. Now we see nothing but net groes and mules as we cross the Ohio i river. They raise oniony turplps arid i hay and corn. They were cartag or [ loading corn fa cate with husks on-, don’t dare; husk it ofe the items would eat It up. At CWW •. ned to eat Lunch room, fruit, stand, * saloon, depot ahd all fa satne building quite a’good combfastton Now as we cross; the river we go up sfane on the iron bridge which fa a mile long land makes a sharp curve abofat half Lfaee. *faye : |fa > into their own cars/ Along here we see good, looking conhtry. good many ,L miUs and quite a' fatod bit of Ibrqsh land. As We near Keiieth, Ky., [we see here the ladtes’ wiar the W ian the back of theta head Instead of jail around the hqad as our girls do, and We note there is quite a safe far {Grove’s Chill Tonic, guaranteed tasteless, fifty dents per bottle. Mw we come to Rutherford, Tenn., the beginning of the cotton fields, and the hJbomtag roses. CJotton selling far iTcenta per pound, highest price fa bales Since the civil war. As we leaye Meridian, Miss., on N. O. & N. E. Ry. Here we see a very large darky lady as train caller at depot. AU aboard for "New Orleans. Out of, here we see the popular deserts of ( Mississippi. Thousands of acres. Then we run into the high pine awaya seeing them hauling •tn piling with six head of oxen. From here we run into the swamps, which continues for; fifty mites before we near Nsw Or-j leans,, and as we near the city we, run in on piling or tressle through. Lake Ponchartraln for eight miles, j Thousands bf acres of swamp land. As. we near the city we see the great race tracks once very famous but now broken since the pooling stopped. Here we arrive In New Orleans, get a room and then employ an auto and guide and toured the town, seeing, many things or interest General Lee’s monument all the different ’churches, wharft, eta. They were 'dAMTßtlnf the town for the pres- «“ d •“ ”• “ bß ’

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best. Even the fences around the dty| 'were being white washed.- At the wharf they were very busy unloading flUftftFy molasses, rice and cotton. There were three men of war near the wharf, North Carolina, Montana and New York, and the Mississippi 'state boats and Taft’s picture on all ( corners and in tb© middle, and around every tree was a large pasteboard 'box and minted on it was, “Dip It* . deep .dig it 14 feet deep; water nav■igatlon te rate regulation.” But the I finest sight we saw was the cemeteries. Everybody put in vaults on ’top of the ground and sofae ver y high Jones, and ail us them that did not look white were being painted white, and] if was a .very beautiful sight to drive ind is as level as a floor ab* ! I 4fa fniii* fAftt loufdkl* tlifait 1 » J.vita aww r; There i» v» wall built all I water’s edee to beeo the I ck. Hence they can’t burd fa the ground. They even rame fixed so when you gol hat you can put netting att fa wfiifayou steep, fbucanl it this ,4s, domb tor Ufa ks larcr&r h fir a arid staDds our i five miles out the track had been Washed Away and turned over fate the side ditch and it still laid there. They had put in a new track, ties, rails and all. The storm we read of a few weks back done this. We came ’out of New Orleans for fifty miles .before we see any dwellers, only drib I houses along the lakes, all swamps. I jThe first little town we come to was made of fill, principally of oyster shells, as we tee around all the restaurants In Orleans, oysters fa the shell, by the wagon loads, we see them snapping them out, old coons mostly do this. But I tell you they taste fine down there where they are fresh. Also the fish, you can almost catch fish out this side of town with a scoop shovel, they are so plenty. < ( kinds. -At Nashville, Tenn., we JMUft to Change coaches and my wife lost > her'hat, she not missing it until we were nearing Louisville, Ky. We learned It had gone on down to St. Louis, OM, ’and we came *on up through Kentucky seeing many fine homes and we land at Cincinnati, p. I take her up street ten blocks to buy her a hat bare headed. Here’s Where I had the laugh oh her. We spent one half day in Cincinnati, then left the city on the Pennsylvania lines for Washington, D. O; stopping over Sunday at Dennison, Ohio, teem; Saturday evening to Sunday evenfag with friends, then going on to the white house down through Pittsburg, Pa., Baltimore, Md., arriving i-htj Washington, D. C., all safe and sound and on the camwta hU the kings, ambassadors and Tuleta of JWU jM at the mw «».« depot to th» u; S. made from white marble, costing 18 million dojfars, stood autori ta waittag tor all these far me, se T -fatfa•,/a teb told n well wn ■** x-w 1 . j>- -I -* ~imifa ~A r/w the oapitol J arid bad our .guides fapd iitfteeded to go down and Ptaked up Unde Joe tfcfanon’s gavel. But there was no eessloti so I could not call order. From Mere we wept to the White house and Up in Washington monument, wh<ch was very nice, 500 feet high. I also took a look at fae white house stables which Teddy wanted twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated to make new, arid I was surprised some fa they are very fiqe. We‘ went through all the buildtegsjU. S. treasury, U. ft Navy yards,' national library whiqh cost six hundred and two-third million of dollars, which was very Tine. 1 will not mention any more for want of space. We enjoyed the visit very much to this city, an it is very nice ahd fine drives. The white house and stables' being a mile and a quarter from the capital. Leaving Washington we went direct to ;New York. There we see quite a few skyscrapers and the Brooklyn bridge 'and walked across over in Brooklyn. Got a shave and had some icecream I and spent a couple hours. Taking a ■ car back into New York and went through the great Wanamaker stores, largest In the world, and watched them voting for a few hours for may- i or of Greater New York. Os course < I boosted some for the Democrats as ; J you see the Democrat won out by one hundred seventy-five thousand major- I 'tty. New York is the greatest city I ] ever visited and I was very much in- i terested in the town. My time being cut short here by'having a message • -'•■■■ ■ ' ' ‘ 7 *

| from my superintendent at Fort Wayne to please report soon. I left New York coming to Willoughby, 0., just east of Cleveland, Ohio, where we stopped over night with friends. Seeing the country home of Jaines A. Garfield, which Is very nice and the country along through here is very fine, an Immense amount of grapes being raised between Buffalo ' Now we come up to i iCtevelfad anjt on to Fort Wayne. I could write all night on this trip and then not be through, but I have given you a rough sketch. In my awkwafa way and any one wanting to hear ariything further ta way of explanatila will have to call on my wife. I She cah tell you the rest, but she I don’t want to make the trip over I sooner than six months anyway. We I had not mishaps or wrecks, only run over woman In a buggy at RipI ley, OJ did not kill woman or horse. I Upset fae taxicab in New York. threw I the man out. Wanted my name as [ witness fad I told them I had no [ name and they went on. We returned [safe. Yours as ever, J. A. HENDRICKS. o—' The new safe is now doing duty in [the auditor’s office, and ft is a beauty and adequate for the needs ot the office, being well arranged for the safety and preservation of the valuable papers and records of that office. The safe is one of the largest made by the Alpine Safe & Lock Co., of Cincinnati, and was supplied the county by Sebug Bros., of Berne, and they were here placing the same fa |positfon, and moving the old safe to the recorder’s office, where it will fa used for the business of that public office. ■ t . ■—L—. The settlement between the treasurer and the auditor is now taking place, -and after that Adams county will be ready to pay her obligations to the state and to every other fund and official to whfch she may be indebted. The small amount ta delinquent taxes will be pushed to a setThings’ate inclined to be a little slow around the court house this week, denoting that taxpaying time is fa fa end, and that the circuit court j is not in fa session. . : o J. H. Vfatewede, John and Anthony Voglewede will leave tor Lima to be <at the bedside of theta sister,; Mrs. Kate Touhey, who is dying at her home in that place. A speond message was received this morning * ;&ttoraey Dore B. Erwin has filed a new cane entitled James Hurst vs. Peter Wetael. comfaaint to foreclose mechanics 1 lien, demand |IOO. < A hunters license hah been Issued to W.WP. .-.ready for a tofafaers: A. B. Bailey to Mfano S. Latehtfaipt lot 29, MonD. N. Erwta'to Walter Sudduth,fat 987, Decatur, >125; Ellsworth Brown to Alice Swoveland, tots 728 and 729, Decatur. |3.000. Sheriff Mfeyer is busy just now serving ■ottcew .<m > . the men chosen to serve on. the petit and grand Jury. This is quite a job as the men live in various sections of the county. • A sale of certain real estate owned by J. W. Vail has been .ordered for December 3rd on an execution in the Page vs. Niblick case tried at Bluffton some time ago. The judgment will probably fa settled before date of sate. o Chicago, Nov. 9.—The west is dissatisfied with the tariff and in a measure with President Taft After eight weeks of travel, covering some 12,000 miles, and a careful canvass of public sentiment ta Minnesota, the two Dakotas, Colorado, Montana, Washington, Oregon and California, that is my conclusion. There is no real difference between the "Pacific Coast West” and the so-called "Middle West” on these Cannon, Aldrich, the tariff fad the “central bank plfa’> are not endorsed by the great body of electors any more ta California than ta Illinois. Whe one gets down to the real sentiment of the people—down through the upper layer of “business Interests” and the professional politicians— the people are found to be Just as "progressive,” Just as “insurgent” ta theta thought fa Oregon and Washington as they

are in states like Kansas. lowa or Wisconsin. Politically considered,' President Tafts trip has not been a success. His defense of Aldrichfafa has not increased the confidence of the public in the Rhode Island states? ■’ man. The average voter does not understand how there can be any partnership between the Roosevelt poli[cles and the Aldrich-Cannon-Payne-Tawney combination. President was stronger before his trip than he is today. The people everywhere have been sincerely anxious to believe ta Taft. They took him on the faith of the indorsement he received sWh President Roosevelt. Taft seeriis fa many things to be on the anti-people i side. He begins by indorsing Alrich; he goes along with a plea tor “party regularity*’ as of more importance thah “revision downward;* he builds up Tawney and the Cannon organization ill the House of Representatives; he tfar Wall i street plan for “currency reform,”, and at; tile suggestion that the Roosevelt 1 Pfafate jfa carried responds wlfa JWk fa • r fafaprotoise.”/Tn<S the complaint as T have heard it on my travels. I have said there is a i strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction. ■ This to found by anyone who cares , to dipOfatn and test the stream. It ’ is also*shown on the surface in many' . ways. It was manfest in the President’s reception. It was shown alsq by the editorial tone of the western press. Even more significant is the J disposition of the professional poli- ■ ticlans to trim their sails. All this t is most significant Tt means that ; those veterans of public life have t placed their sensitive ears to the , ground* and have heard the distant rumblings. The fight for the control of the house of representatives may be said to be already op. The leaders . see that all signs point to an overJ turning in that body. Either the ! Democrats will control or the Republican insurgents will replace members who worked and voted for the\Aldrich tariff act Defeat forthat brand of “stalwartism,” headed by . Such men as Tawney, Payne ahd Cannon, may imply defeat tar Taft —Gfson Ganien (representative tof ( Cincinnati Post, and who was with ( the president’s party during the ent tire trip. o — ■ Did you say something about quail on toast? The season opened yester- -■ day and, a number of hunters are out l scouring thq woods and fields fa the a hopes of getting a shot at the birds before they get too wild. The open season for hunting quails begins on ; November 10th and continues until January Ist It is reported that the delicious little birds are numerous, and the men who can handle a shotgun and has a place to go to hunt . no doubt have a feast before • faany days.; Under the state ® Bh i fame, ccfamisstoner a special, effort will be made this year to enforce the t game lawfi and deputies . state have received explicit fastructions to watch for and arrest parties who hunt ofi Sunfay. without licenses trespassers, hunters who- kiR more’ game than the laws allow, which is , fifteen quail a day, for hufaera hril quaij fa sfifa Ufato ofa. fa stafa. AU hunters , tofat have fafafa except, those .wfa? hunt on their own land or on lafa’ teased by them. ‘ ■ — - ' ■ '0 Dbcatur is to have a now shoe store. The proprietors will be Ferd? inand Peoples and Henry Gerke, both well known young men of this city. They will occupy the Jacob, Schafer building, now occupied by Joseph Knapke, who recently closed, his saloon and is now conducting a, soup and soft drink place. His lease, expires the first of the year and the ( new firm have already closed the ( lease, expecting to open the store ( by February 15th. That they mean, business is further demonstrated by ( the fact that they have purchased a ( large amount of their stock, They. will fit the room with modern fixtures' and furniture and will have one of ( the most complete stores fa every re- ( spect Mr. Gerke who is now amployed as a conductor on the interur-. ban will resign wfthln a few weeks, according to the dope, although we were unable to interview him today, and both he and Mr. Peoples will devote their entire attention to the shoe business. They are hustlers and have many friends and wfil no doubt make a success of the business. . — A splendid audience greeted Evan- ( gelist Thompson Tuesday night at the Church of Chrlat to hear a sermon [ lecture "The Young Lady’s Mistake.” ( As an introductory the speaker said ta part: “I would like to be amazing a I

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with phlology and phrazing with vocabulistic plentitude. I would gather all the flowers of earth terreßtial, into one bouquet sublime celestial, and cast at the foot of womanhood.” He ’said it was a part of a girl’s education to learn to sew, cook and housekeep. If is fine to be able to paint a chromo, pick a banjo, sing a solo and play a piano, but turning a coffee ■ fall is mighty stv.-et music to a tired hungry husband. The audience enjoyed a hearty laugh at the description of a bossy wife and a henpecked husband, but was in tears when a picture of a brutal husband, , a sick wife and starving children was pre B. Many beautiful lessons were His eulogy upon Queen Vash- { America’s uncrowned queens was a masterpiece. Ab a climax to the address ta a most Impressive manner he proved that a young lady’s fatal, awful mistake is to retect .tee Christ who gave her the supremacy she enjoys. The chorus give, excellent support and the solo by Miw Daniels was meet helpful. . fabfact' todfarwili be ’’Who is Godr o > MR. MYLOTTE A® BARITONE '■ 4' '' .T— The Show World, a dramatic magazine, under recent date, contained 2 the following notice: With military dignitaries present and many members of the Illinois National Guard in uniform, in addition to many invited guests, a complimentary showing, of. the motion pictures of the \ United States Military Tournament, held at Camp Wm. H. Taft, Toledo, Ohio, July 5 to 10, 1909, under the dfirect Command of Major General Frederick D. Grant, was witnessed at the Armory on Michigan avenue ; Friday evening, October 8, and the excellent program rendered was thoroughly enjoyed by an audience that filled the blgl hall It was the first time that the pictures were shown in Chicago and that they made a most favorable impression and, were appreciated. was attested by the fact that there was much handclapping throughout he running of the film. General Grant and many of the officers of the department of the lakes were preesent and lent a typical military aspect to the occasion. WhHe the military tournament had its principal features shown in clear form on the curtain, there were other things on the program that were enjoyed. , Andrew D. Mylotte, a fine baritone singer, rendered a number of popular military songs that were illustrated by the picture machine. The soloist yas accompanied on the piano < by Miss Frances Winegardener. Every solo was encored. • ■ ; ——.o— ■ ' The Times-Democrat, Lima, Ohio, v\ , contained the following account of Mt. ■ Silas Schroll, farpaeriy of this city, now ta ,business at Lima, Ohio, Where , he conducts a wall paper establish- ; ' ment: • , ■ ■■■ ■AOh Tuesday evening at the Slouth Side Church of Christ occurred a' very beautiful wedding, that fa Miss ! I Edith H. Beartager ahd Mr. Sias A.ShroH. At 7:30 Msrs. T. D. Burke, ‘ charmingly. gowned, took ' her -place at the piano and played exquisitely “Hfarte nrid" Fibsters;” I '-sifa -the bridal party marched down the aisle and took theit place before a back ground of palms and ferns. Rev. H. C. Verl Wilson officiated with the Impressive ring service. Little Ce- ’ ctl Bearinger, of Ada, 0., a niece of the bride and little Mary Katherine J Fields were the’ flower girls, one car’ rying pink carnations, and the other \ white chrysanthemums. The bride one of Lima's sterling young ladies, 'elegantly-gowned ta white satin with 'fine lace and pearl trimmings, carried an armful of bride’s rdees. The 'groom wore the conventional black, 'and is a popular Lima business man. *A few of the most intimate friends 'and relatives were present. The out[cfitown guests were Mrs. Amy Bearinger and little daughter, Cecil, of *Ada, Ohio, and Mrs. B. E. Cartmell, 'a sister of the bride, of Delaware, 'Ohio. Many beautiful presents were 'received. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Shroll [will be at home to their at 797 Grenlawn avenue. —, o TROUBADOURS THIS EVENING The Troubadours wHI be the attraction at the Elks hall this evening ■and no doubt a large crowd will be ■present as the occasion promises to be a very enjoyable one. The program is a splendid one and will be 'followed by a dance with the music [furnished by the best orchestra ever heard here. The tickets are one dollar. ? I .

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