Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1909 — Page 5

~’.t., w4»r ■■■»— *. pr. Lizzie Bums, Formerly Miss Lizzie Brothers, of Adams Couftly. < SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR Now Has Large Practice in Chicago — Visits Here * With Father. More and more are the women of America branching out into the professions where they are making good and forcing mankind to feel that they also have A place In the great life work of the nation. One of the very! few women doctors that Adams, county has produced, is Dr. Lizzie Burns, now , of Chicago, who is here tor a visit over the holidays with her father, Clark - Brothers, a well known fanner of east of this city. Dr. Burns will be well remembered by many or the county, having been one of tne successful school teachers of ten or more years ago. After teaching for some time, Mrs. Burns decided to enter the medical profession and has now been pra<> tlcing for several years, having located in Chicago, where she finds aWide field for labor In this line, which’ perhaps is of more real good to humanity than any other, since it provides and cares for the body that It may be a fitting temple for the soul in its expansion; Mrs. Burns, while enroute to her father's home, visited In this city, stopping over night wuh Levi 0 Barkley and family, and calling on other friends and acquaintances. ■; . >- , .y...... .fl ... ■>■ Mrs. William Foreman spent the day with griens at Hoagland. x’xThe city schools Closed today and in many of the rooms there were appropriate exercises for the occasion. The children will now enjoy a ten days’ vacation. The Misses Bertha Kinney and Margaret Clark will leave in a day or two for Van Wert, where they will attend a dance, whjcb will be held there on Monday evening. * Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hale and Miss Carrie Craig were at Fort Wayne foday attending the funera 1 of Judge Zollars, which was held in the Scottish Rite cathedral at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. F. H. Vernor, who has served as pastor of the Christian church in this city, has resigned to accept the pastorate of a church in Ohio. He preached his last sermon here last Sunday night - : Dr. Cook’s a fakir, but we have te admit that he played for a high stake. Had Peary remained away a year, he would have had the money. . After all, what is to be deme about the fact that he has been proven a fraud. Befor his spectacular entrance into newspapers space he was an unknown quantity, but now he would be a drawing card on the vaudeville circuit Ice harvesting is here and it’s no joke. It requires a bunch of men to pack the necessary amount to keep us cool next summer. The season will probably continue a week or two from present appearances. A peculiar fact it Is that though the weather has hoyereg about zero for a week past and there Is eight-inch Ice on tte pontte, the river, has not frozen over. This is accounted for by the fact that the river was bank full and the current has been go swift that It prevented freezing. <i -'- ' .•‘'<4 . •* ——•— —-o— -—*.j j,< « ■••Hl** want a oertMn. pleasant herb cure er-failing cegnuMs *t Draolato or by mall 60 era. Sample package FREE. Address, She Mother Gray, Co.. Leßoy. N. 1. „

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j P s lea l ' lai Shrilly Democrat)-There will be a congressional investigation of the Ballinger controversy. On the floor of tpA Senate today. Senator Flint, republican, of California, offered a resalutioh wMoh-was adopted, calling on the president for. all receipts and statements pbrtatnlng to the charges made against Secretary of Interior Ballinger, by Glabis. Immediately thereafter Senator Jones, republican, of Washington, read to the senate a letter from Mr. Biallfoger, addressed to him, demanding In the strongest terms, a thorough Investigation of his department and the forestry branch. TO CLOSE UP SHOP * Decatur Merchants Have all Agreed to Cease Busi--1 ness Christmas Day. R •’ ♦» , i '■ ' r-* '“ ' « a '■ ARE TO CELEBRATE This Agreement Gives the Store Keeper and Clerk a Day for Home.' We, the undersigned merchants of the city of Decvatur agree to close pur respective places of business all day Christmas, Saturday, December 25, 1909: 7 e Niblick & Co. M. Fullenkamp. True & Runyon. A;-- ' Kuebler & Molts. Everett & Hite. J. H. Voglewede & Son. F. V. Mills. Fred B. Tague. ; Steele & Weaver. • . . Charlie Voglewede. v t*. The Meyers & Daily Co. K Holthouse, Schulte & Co.. ? A Wlnness Shoe Store. ' •?.» Schaub, Qottemiller & Co. i Schafer Hdw. Co. # Elzey, Vance & Hite. - , • * Yager Bros. & Reinklng. C. E. Baughman. j ’ Moses A Meyers. ♦ ’■V Moser’s China Store. . ” •. Mrs. J. S. Bowers. ’ Mrs. M. P. Burdg. * Gay & «wkfo - ■ tu -*r ' <‘. Ata & Steele. ; ' U. Deinlnger. Mrs. C. Boesse.. ’ Lamon & Lee. Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson. ‘ Tbder & Brushweiler. Hower & Hower. - Sam Hite. C. E. Hitesman. . Dr. Mart Moran of Portland w» a business visitor in the city today. John Smith went to Fort Wayne today to look after business interests. John Schnlts went to Portland, where he was engaged in doing'sotoe work. . William Meyew cff Preble lift'today for South Bend on a few days' business trip. G. E. Hitesman and son. Robert, will spend Christmas with his mother at Logansport. Emil Schumm, at' Sehumm, Ohio, passed through the city this morning on his way to Fort' Wayne. \ John Dicoutoe of Marion changed cars here this, morning on his Way' to Lagrange, where he will fobk afjter some business. ' Yesterday and today were the shortest day?; of the year, and frpm this, oh, the daylight vjgl .at both end?. J , ’ r Ed Ahi* made * business trip to Fart Wayne this morning, where he Was attending to some business for the Decatur Horse Sale company. Hrs. Alfred Elzey, who has been sick for four or five weeks with congestion of the brain and liver trouble, Is much better and able to be up again. LOOKING ONE’S BEST. It's a woman’s delight to look her best but pimples, skin eruptions, sore and tolls rob life of joy. Listen! Bucklen’s Arnica Salve sures them; makes the skin soft and velvet/ l£ glorifies the face. Cures pimples, sore eyes, cold sores, cracked Ups, chapped hands. Try it. Infallible for piles. 25c dt all druggists. K* i :.O- — RETURNS FROM NEW YORK CITY. ’-i Jl '" r Manager Mulholland Attended an ExGas Appliances. ttf' -'"/' < ' _ General Manager S. E. Mulholland, of the Indiana Lighting company, :retutiidd yesterday froto New Ybrfc City, *We, with Mrs. Mulholland, he Ispirtit a week - ’ — I "'ar* attended the nation* ■ mLI • jwaiaSeAVaasaaawa •vwmwvm n n— y Eliilirii todu will-' iHßmteijnh! ■

manufactures at Madison Square Garden and the Indiana Lighting com- > pany’s manager says It was the great- 1 dst show the world has ever knoWn. It wave Mr. Mulhplalnd an opportunity' .not only to study the natural gas problem, but he. was able to see X applied tp em phases of life—ing, AM . <fomeit|c uses—with all th«. appliances the world knows in ,form to demonstrate gas. ,f; J » ; . ~'l. Mr. Mulholland is applying himself to the needs of the people, is seeking to enlighten himself , on the best and. most economical uses of gas and his experience in Madison Square Garden will enable him to improve the serv-' ice of the Indiana Lighting company In all its centers. The Madison Square Garden exhibit was in progress for eight days.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. — > Q ..i . HQLTHOUBE DRUG CO. SUCCESSFUL After a great deal of effort and correspondence Holtliouse Drug Co., the popular druggists have succeeded in getting the Dr. Howard Co. to make a special' half-price Introductory offer on the regular fifty centy size of their celebrated specific for the cure of constipation and dyspepsia. : This medicine is arecent discovery for the eure of all diseases of the stomach and bowels, it not oidy gives quick relief, but it makes permanent cures. Dr. Howard’s specific has been'so remarkably successful in curing constipation, dyspepsia and all liver troubles, that Holthouse Drug Cd. willing to return the price paid in every case Where it does not give relief. Sb great is the demand for this specific that Hoknouse Brag Co. have been able to secure only a limited supply, and every one who is troubled with dyspepsia, constipation or liver trouble shou’d call upon them at or smd 25 cents, and get sixty doses of the best medicine ever made, on this special half price oiler with their personal guarantee to refund ths money if it does not eure. 11, 18, 12, 1 Judge Sturgis of Bluffton arrived Tuesday and assumed jurisdiction In the Johnson vs. Amacher “et al, tending toward the completion of. the issues were made by the Attorneys. ■■ ■■-J 1 ’ ” ' .A-' -7)11. ... In. the matter■_ pf the Angeiine Schlegel estate, C. 8. Clark, administrator, suggestion was'made of ’the minority of Charley and Julia Schlegel and D. B. Erwin was named as guardian ad litem and filed his answer. E. B. Lenhart, guardian for Andrew Meyer, a person of unsound mind, filed a petition for the sale of bis life estate in real estate. F. T. Harmonand B .B. Mitch were appointed as appraisers and the sale was ordered Ijrlvately. Gottlieb Brandt vs. Thoms E. Mann et al, suit on note; demand, |150; motipn by defendant to suppress part eff the depositions was filed. William F' Moellering et al. vs. Robert B. Gregory, account; demand, 8100; default of defendant. In the Joseph Hakes vs. Sarah Hakes, suit for dlyorce, Mrs. HMles has filed a. sensational cross-com-plaint, in which she accuses het. husband of non-suppoft, infidelity and other things, asks that he be denied a divorce, but that the decree be granted to her, that her former name of Sarah Ayres be restored to her and that she be granted the sum of |SOO alimony. ;A SCALDED BOYS SHRIEKS - ~ horrified his grandmother, Mbs. Maria Taylor, ot Nebo, Ky, - Who writes that, when all thought he w>uld die, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve wholly cured ‘ him. Infallible for Burns, Scalds. Cuts, Corns, Wounds, Bruises, Cures, Fever-Sores, Boils, Skin Eruptions, Chilblains; Chapped Hands, Soon routs Piles; 25c at all druggists. . ’ N— i "vQ" " l " 1 11 111 — About one hundred of the Woodmen from Decatur, Berne and "Monroe camps attended the initiation at Fort Wayne Monday evening, and report a royal good time this morning. A class of fifteen candidates from this city received the degree that identified them with this noble order, the candidates being John Good, Abner Good, Albert Acker. Christ Hofstetter, Frank Foor, George Bruhn, Jesse Williams, Ben Hill, E. Hoffman, H. Sikes, R. B. Branson. A. A. Gottemoller, Melvin Boat wood. The initiation was done by the Fort Wayne degree team, in an admirable way, after which a social time was spent <fbe Fort Wayne camp is noted for tts famous entertMnment, and that Monday evening, with a sumptuous banquet was no Atoeption. The only accident to mar the pleasure of the evening was a delay on the way

I home, in Fort Wayne a street car ■ | became caught, Hocking the interur- ? rah line, and the boys did not get home until 2 o’clock Tuesday morning. | w Abraham Brown vs. Fred Schafer i et at, warranty snlt; rule against defendant tp answer made absolute in ; five days. < ■ i ■ "■ —■ '* j, Leota Ross vs. Homer Raudebush, breach of promise, appearance by C. ' J, Lutz as attorney for plaintiff No remonstrance of objection being filed to the David J. Barkley ditch and the report having been filed ten ' days, the same is ordered constructed. C. 'C. Ernst was appointed superintendent of construction, with a bond of |2,000. A-marriage license was issued to James Stewart, aged twenty, an Allen county farmer, to Miss Josie Mumma, aged eighteen, daughter of John A. Mumma, of Root township. ;■ r John Frislnger, who has been at Fort Wayne for some time, taking treatment for paralysis, left Tuesday noon for San Antonio, Texas, where he will spend the winter. Mr. Frisinger, it will be remembered, suffered < Stroke of paralysis many months ago and for some time was was in a hospital at Fort Wayne, but later was able to leave the hospital, going to a private home near that of his physician, where he could continue the treatment He is very much better and able so wqlk without his cane. The trip south Is made that he might be in a Warmer climate, Where he can enjoy greater outdoor freedom and eypreise. Reports have, been going the rounds the past day or two that he was much worse, and that the family was summoned to his bedside at Fort Wayne, but these were false. He is in a fairway to complete recovery. — —o ■ , The programs for the fanners’ institute to be held at the Schug hall at Berne, January 25th, have been issued by C. Sumner Mumma, president of the association, arid the program .giyes promise or a meeting of ranch interest. Among the speakers is E. I C. Martindale of Wllkuson. who v is [ known to the tinners of the county as an excellent speaker, having beeu > here at previous institutes. The pro- ■ gram follows: Music—Mennonite Male Choir, Rev. Mass. ( "Profitable and Unprofitable’ Meth- . odh Fanningl’—H. C. Mills of , ,ppr<iu.e f University. . Discussion by the Institute. , “Alfalfa”—Sylvester Pontius. . E-,. ( C. Martindale, Wllkuson, Indiaha. Discussion— (( ( ? Miscellaneous. Adjournment. js ; ( Afternoon Session—l:3o. j, ? Music—Mennonite Male Choir. , THerd Testing’ll!. C. Mills. , t f Questions by .the Institute. Essay—“ The Home and Its Influence”—Jesse Rupp. r j ’ .*.*Rearing, Buying and Selling Beef CatHe”—E. C. Martindale, t Discussion by the Institute. Reports. Announcements, Etc, / Adjournment, \ t “ ; ... • ■ Qne pf thq .very..biggest and most enjoyable Christnma dinners to. bq,glv-. en-sta*tile city,/ perhaps, will be , the 1 one at the W. H. Fledderjohann home 1 nekt Saturday ‘Hie guests will be ’ aboht forty of the stockholders of the [ Fort Wayne & Springfield company. [ The dinner will be served at 6 o'clock. t and* it is” said that several turkeys and ( chickens, and a ipost varied number . of all the Christmas delicacies will be > included in the bill of fare, Which will be an elaborate one. As Mr. and Mrs. Fledderjohann are famed for their hospitality and their royal good cheer, those so fortunate as to .be included in the invitation are anticipating the very best times of their lives. • ' —i : William Wiswell, a prominent young man of near Berne, died late Sunday night at the St Joseph hos- : pi tai, Fort Wayne, where he had been since Thursday for an operation for gall atones. He was thirty-seven years of age, and surviving him are ' his wife, nine children, Reul, Edmund, • Erma, Revon, Roger, Vadia, Mabel, Charles and Earl, his parents and several brothers and sisters. The deceased was an oil -pumper by trade and waa a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges of Berne. The body will be taken to Berne for burial, i . ,i ' ,ie ■ — OF LOCAL INTEREST. Astonishing reports are being made by the maay people of the city who are using the wonderful vegetable treatment ft G. W, It is guaranteed to satisfactory or money -Will 4 be refunded. P. C. W. te highly rebornmended to sufferers of rheumatism, kidney, liver and stomach trouble. Can at Holthouse drug store and see thte

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STUNG FOR 15 YEARS ' , , by indigestion pangs trying many .doctors and $200.00 worth of medicine in vain, B. F. Ayscue of Ingleside, N. C., at last used Dr. King’s New Life Pills and writes they wholly cured hhn They cure constipation, biliousness, sick headache, stomach, liver, kidney arid bowel troubles. 25c at all druggist*. , ; .- 5 o— CURES SICK CHICKENS. Mrs. John F. Wagers, Richmond, Ky., says.: "About a month ago quite a number of my chickens were sick with distended and I thought ■sure they would ah die. I gave them Bourbon Poultry Cure and never lost a chicken.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. „ — -o ■ RICH MEN’S GIFTS ARE POOR. beside this: “I want to go on record as saying that I regard Electric Bitters as one of the greatest gifts that God has made to women, writes Mrs. O. Rhlnevault, of Vestal Center, N. Y. “I can never forget what it has done for me.” This glorious medicine gives a woman bouyant spirits, vigor of body and jubilant health. It quickly cures nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, headache, bachache, fainting and dizzy spells; son builds up the weak, ailing and sickly. Try them, 50c at all druggists. * Something Old Yet Worth White. It has oeen decided at a recent meeting of the township trustee* that there be given a series of spelling contests in the schools of Adams county with the purpose of creating a greater interest in school work, to improve the spelling Os the pupils, and give new impetus to the In other words the contests carry with therir the desire or motto: —“Enthuse! Inspire! Spell!” May this Spirit get tor work at once in the schools and improve a golden opportunity which now awaits almost every boy and girl in this county. Without the sympathetic and hearty support of every teacher and education-loving citizen, the pupose and efforts of this undertaking • be to that extent defeated and futile. So let us lend a hand to one another for the cause of freedom apd the hope of our country. , Rules and Regulations. The following rules and regulations, governing the spelling contests of Adams county, have been made la order that these contests may be conducted in the fairest possible way to . all 1 ,L Tbese speUing contests are open to all pupils, below the high school, and nqw enrolled in the country schools. Provided, however, that pupils holding county diplomas are aot eligible tP , the county contest. . >. 2. Provided that two spelling contests be held In each school district not more than two ch* three weeks before th*: township contests. When the first contest is held in the district, the pupil, who stands after all the otter pupils kave been spelled down, will become one of the delegates or representatives to the township contest At the second contest (the former winner being omitted), the one who stands last becomes the other delegate. The alternates will be chosen at the second contest by their rank, 1. e., the one standing second to last becomes the alternate to delegate No. 1; the one standing third to last the alternate to delegate No. 2. In the township contest the two standing last become the honor students or delegates to the county contest The 3rd and 4th from the last will be considered the alternates to the Ist and 2nd delegates respectively. The alternate may spell only In case his delegate te absent. 3. All contests shall be oral, and all of the words will be pronounced from the Alexander Speller. 4. The county contest shall begin on page 25 of the speller and an effort will be made to cover pages from 25 to 192 inclusive. If any pu pl's are still »tending, words will be pronounced from lists marked “Words Requiring Special Drill.” ■’* 5. The c 6 itestant shrill spell each word clearly and distinctly. GnhrMri trial will be ghten. If a pupft frilte to spell • word correctly, the «M >4ho pronounces sbaU speß the WRBi’te

stead of the next pupil. The proaoupcer will give the meaning of the homonyms so that the contestant may know which way to spell such words. The word must be pronounced by the pupil before he begins to spell so that there may be no mlSun derstanding. 6. By resolution of the trustees. It was decided that all townships hold ’their fifth teachers’ institute at the same time, Saturday, February Sth, 1910, and that the township spelling contests be held in the afternoon of that day, Instead of following the regular afternoon program as outlined. Thus each county delegate will have equal time for special preparation. 7. The trustee and chairman of the township institute will have charge of the township contests. 8. The admission fee to the county contest will be fifteen cents to every one except to the contestants. All door receipts will be used to defray expenses of the contest 9. Five prizes in the county contest will be awarded as follows: Ist, A Webster’s International Dictionary. 2nd, a gold signet ring, offered by the Hensley Jewelry Store, Decatur, Indiana. 3rd, Two books, “Birds of the Bible,” and “Song of the Cardinal,” by Jean Stratton Porter, offered by The Daily Democrat 4th, An all-wool sweater coatworth $4.00, offered by Teeple, Brandyberry & erson, Decatur, Indiana. sth, A lin Fountain Pen, worth $4.00, offer' Bon >| by Smith, Yager & Falk, Decatur, r The contestant winning second h ors shall receive first choice a t st last four prizes; the one winn a utifuL third* honors shrill receive secoiiet-— — choice land the one winning fourth honors shall receive third choice. The prizes will be displayed in the show windows of the dealer giving the prize. . Suggestions. We do not think it advisable for pupils to slight their other school work for the sake of spelling, but heartily encourage pupils to make special preparation outside of school hours. In order that the Tight spirit may prevail in all these contests, it would be well for teachers to give their pupils and especially their contestants, a few talks or suggestions on the proper attitude they should show toward those who are successful as-well as toward those who fail or rather lose. Real victory is measure* by heroic effort Do your best and in a sense you will have won even if you fail to secure one of the coveted prizes. r— Ail district contests should be held on Friday afternoons, and all possible effort should be made by teacher'and pupils tor interest the parents to the extent that they will be present After the close of each preliminary contest, it might be well to have an old fashioned “spellfog bee,” in which all present participate. t ToWhship contests should be held near the center of the township, so as to equalize the distance as near as possible. Three judges should be chosen for the township contests for the purpose of deciding any disputes thtft might arise. Probably, it would be well to see the parties before tha choice is made, so that there need be no question as to their acceptance. An ’intelligent, disinterested, party, > who resides in the township, should fill the place to the satisfaction of all contestants. Judges and pronouncers will be appointed for the county contest confidentially- It might be well to use the same precaution for the township contests. The “spelling bee” and “contest” is highly endorsed by the State Department of Public Instruction, by the Course of Study, and by the County Board of Education; -and for this tea.son every district is expected to hold the contests and send the required number of delegates according to the rules and regulations. ’ With best wishes, I rim, t *•< Very truly youra, LAWRENCE E. OPUGER. , , County Superintendent

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