Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1910 — Page 2

womans Power v : ah ;> Over Man |i Woman’s most glorious endowment is the power to awaken and hold the pure and honest love of a worthy man. When she loses it and still loves on, MH no one in the wide world can know the heart agony *■ «ne endures. The woman who suffers from weak* ness and derangement of her special womanly or* ganism soon loses the power to sway the heart of • man. Her general health suffers and she loses ■HHHHHBptito* her good looks, her attractiveness, her amiability and her power and prestige as a woman. Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N.Y., with the assistance of his staff of able physicians, has prescribed for and cured many thousands of women. Ht h« devised a successful remedy for woman’s ail* ments It is known as Dr. Pwrce » Favorite Prescription. It is a positive specific for the weaknesses and disorders peculiar to women. It purifies, regu* lates, strengthens and heals. Medicine dealers sell it,’ No k«nnt dealer will) advise you to accept a substitute in order to make a little larger profit. IT MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG, SICK WOMEN WELL. Dr. Pterce’f Plenat ft/fets Myn/ate and stmngtteO Stomach, tfrw and Bowsfe.

Mrs. Harriet Coverdale has received announcement of the marriage of her granddaughter, Miss Marie Allegar, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Allegar, which took place last Thursday at the home of the bride’s parents at Marion, the minister of the First Baptist church at Marion solemnizing the ceremony, which was witnessed by the immediate relatives of the young couple. Miss Allegar was a very popular young lady of that city and is known to all Decatur people, as she was born in this city and lived here until going to Marion with her parents several years ago. The groom, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dich, of Marion, is a traveling salesman for the James S. Duk company. The couple went to Chicago on their wedding trip and will make their home as Springfield, 111. Her Decatur friends will be pleased to hear of her happy marriage. — oWord received here Tuesday by relatives is to the effbct that Frank Houghson, for several years citv attorney of Portland, died last night at 6 o’clock, at Indianapolis, where he had gone on business. > While there he became suddenly sick and was taken to the hospital, his death occurring last night Mr. Houghson- had been subject to attacks of acute indigestion, and it is thought this caused death, though the message was very meager. He was also suffering from tonsUitis. The deceased was about thirty-six years of age. He was one of the best known attorneys of Portland, and is known to many of the Adams county bar. His wife was formerly Miss Maaide Hendricks, a daughter of John W. Hendricks of Portland. She is also a niece of Miss Jane Hendricks of this city, and a cousin of Mrs. Walter Kauffman, with whom she has often visited. The body was brought to his late home in Portland and funeral arrangements will be made as soon as the relatives can be communicated with. Mr. Houghson’s, mother resides in Wisconsin, and the parents of Mrs. Houghson are now located at St. Petersburg, Fla. Mrs. Kauffman will leave Wednesday morning for Portland to be with her cousin Tn her bereavement A sad feature is that the little child of Mr. and Mrs. Houghson is very sick with catarrhal fever. o , Mrs. Otto Caple of Rochester, who sptnt Sunday at the E. H. Shoemaker home, has gone to Fort Wayne. Misses Adelaide Delninger and Bertha Voglewede went to Fort Wayne today to spend the remainder of the week as guests of Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne.

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Dr. H. E. Keller, secretary of the city board of health, has completed his annual report which he will forward soon to Dr. Hurty, secretary of the state board. The report gives some very interesting vital statistics regarding the city during the past year. During that time there were seventy-one deaths in Decatur, thirtytwo males and thirty-nine females. To offset this number of deaths, however, there were 115 births during 1909, fifty-eight of which were males, and flft-seven, females —just one more boy than girls. Thirteen of the deaths were of persons under one year of age, while the rate according to ages for the remainder was as follows: From one to five years of age, 7; five to ten, 2; ten to fifteen, 1; fifteen to twenty, 2; twenty to twenty-five, 3; twentyfive to thirty, 2; thirty to thirty-five, 3; thirty-five to forty, 1; forty to fortyfive, 2; forty-five to fifty, 1; fifty to fifty-five, 3; fifty-five to sixty, 1; sixty to sixty-five, 8; sixty-five to seventy, 4; seventy to seventy-five, 6; seventyfive to eighty, 2; eighty to eighty-five, 4; eighty-five to ninety, 5; ninety, 1. The causes of the various deaths range as follows:. pneumonia, 5; fracture of hip, 1; railroad accidents, 3; interurban accidents, 2; still born, 2; influenza, 1; chronic nephrites, 8; dropsy, 3; scarlet fever, 1; chronic anemia, 1; catarrhal fever, 1; chronic Bright’s disease, 1; Illeo colitis, 1; paralysis, 3; cancer of bowels and stomach, 1; meningitis, 2; pulmonary tuberculosis, 13; convulsions, 3; cerebral apoplexy, 3; gastro enteritis, 5; diseases of the heart, 4; asphyxiation, 1; bronchitis, 2; dysentery, 1; bronchial asthma, 1; acute diarrhoea, 1; diabetes Mellitls, 1. The greatest number of deaths, it will be seen, occurred from tuberculosis, which is fast becoming the scourge of America, the disease claiming thirteen in Decatur during 1909. Nephrites of a disease of the kidneys, claimed eight, ranking next highest, There were but twenty-two cases of contagious diseases —sixteen of scarlet fever; five of measles and one of typhoid fever. During 1909, 154 cows were examined, according to the ruling of the health department, and thirty-eight milk licenses Issued during the year. Dr. Keller’s report is excellently compiled and carefully typewritten, and it is safe to say will be one of the best received by Dr. Hurty. What is more Dr. Hurty, who recently wrote an article, condemning the spelling of many of the doctors in their reports, can surely find no fault with Dr. Keller’s work in that respect either. It’s simply "all right.” The report is a matter of no little work. 4 —o■ ■—■*-— According to a rumor afloat along the C. B. & C. railroad. J. C. Curtis, receiver of the short line, is soon to sever his connections with the company and leave for a western state to take up the management of a traction line now in course of construction by S. H. Bracey of Chicago.—Bluffton Banner. The construction men on the Bluffton, Geneva & Celina Traction line have all been laid off until the weather settles so that they can work. Foreman A. D. Savage reported this morning that the track is under water and slush at many points, owing to the fact that all drainage connections have not been made and until there is a change little work on the track or roadbed can be done. —Bluffton News. Sam Shamp has returned from Saginaw, Mich., where he took several parties who are interested in Michigan land. Mr. Shamp Is the agent for a large tract there and is selling to quite a number of people in this vicinity. o Mrs. C. U. Dorwin and daughter. Gyp, have returned from a visit with their daughter and sister, Mrs. Miles Pillars, at Jonesboro, Arkansas. They stopped off on their way home for a visit with Mrs. Jdsse Braden, another daughter of Mrs. Dorwin, living at Fort Wayne. Frisinger and Company harnessed up one of their fide stallion teams this morning with a sat of brass trimmed harness, purchased from Atz & Steele, and they made a very fine appearance. 'wjzw**

February Ist will see the launching bf a new enterprise in the city, that of the Leah Medicine c mpan'y, which will engage in the manufacture of what will be called the “Forty-nine” remedies. The company is not a new one, that is, it was organized several month's ago, but has been working quietly until all difficulties weire overcome for the final launching of the enterprise on the public. The comcompany was organized with a capital Stock of twenty-five thousand dollars, the members of the company being D. M. Hensley, president; Charles Colter, secretary, and John Baker, treasurer. It is their intention to secure a building and have all things tn readiness for tHe output by the first of next month. The building in which they will locate is not definitely decided upon, three being now considered. Quite a number of people will be employed at the beginning, and if the company makes a success of the undertaking, a great many will be added from time to time. The remedies are those which have been used by D. M. Hensley’s father, Dr. J. L. Hensley, of Marion, Ohio, during his forty-nine years of practice. The name is taken from the time in which he has used them, and also from the fact that of fifty test cases made of the medicines among Decatur, forty-nine havp reported themselves cured - . The renaedies manufactured will include about fifteen of the famctas family remedies used by Dr. Hensley in his practice. The company will do a strictly mall order business. Dr. Hensley, from whom the remeMK ■ * J9K* / DR. J. L. HENBLEY Well known Marion, Ohio, Physician, Father of D. M. Hensley of This City. dies were secured, is now eighty years of age, and is a prominent man of Mjarion, Ohio. Besides practicing medicine and upbuilding the physical life for nearly half a century, he has devoted much of his life to the upbuilding of the, spiritual life of the country, his great hobby—if such a name can be applied to so worthy a cause, being to a broken down church or congrejjftton and'upbuild them, donating a large sum of money to them, with the understanding that they are to raise a sum proportionately large for their use. In this way he has donated during his life a fortune of about sixty thousand dollars, a large number of churches rejoicing in his fielp. He was born in Virginia, later going to West Virginia, and to Marion, Ohio, in 1887. He was a member of the West Virginia legislature and of the Ohio general assembly. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Electric College of Medicine, and is a member of the various medical societies' of Ohio and West Virginia. He was also a member of the medical congress auxiliary -at the World’s Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893. 1 During the course of Dr. Hensley’s practice his medicines became known all over the country and were used by many physicians,. They extended as far as South Africa, where they were used by Dr. Wilberforce. The company expects to be quite a success and the aid of the citizens is solicited in making it such. —a- —■ MISS NIBLICK RECOVERING. Misp Amelia Niblick, who on New Year’s just two weeks ago Saturday, was so badly burned by an explosion of gases from a coal stove, is recovering. Her face and hans, which suffered the most terrible burns, are healing very nicely and will soon Save entirely healed. A deplorable part of the accident is that it was necessary to cut off her hair, which was so badly singed, this taking place yesterday. Her sister, a clerk at the Niblick store, has been og duty at the store since the accident, assisting in caring for Miss Amelia. ——— o — ' .■ The Bowers Realty company is planning to have things ready for moving ' into its new quarters in the Bower# building on Monroe street the first of the week. Among the useful souvenirs which the company is preparing to send out are some maps of Adams couaty. . • - ■ .. — ■,... . Julius Haugh was among the many who left today for Texas.

J A letter of svmnathv written bv t Miss Kate Kllcklnger to her uncle h R. D. Dague, and wife at Denver, t Colorado, upon the supposed death of >- their only child, Mrs. Florence Ridv ley. brings the astounding, yet most 1 welcome information that it was not ? their daughter’s death, which occur- > red the latter part of last month, but a that of het sister-in-law, another Mrs. - Ridley, living at that place, and like--1 wise the husband of an optician. Miss > Flickinger first heard of the death • from a friend in Fort Wayne, the Fort ■» Wayne friend having received the mes- . sage from her son, also living in Den- <■ ver, Colo. The message stated that • the name of the dead woman was Rldf ley, and that she was the wife of an » optician, all of which lead them, natur- - ally, to think It was the cousin of ” Miss Flickinger., The Dague family ’ lived for many ydans In this city, s where Mr. Dague conducted a restaur- • ant, and Miss Florence, though leav--1 ing here when quite young, is known to many here. The Dagues lost two 5 daughters quite recently by death, and > that fact made the message of the > last daughter’s death the more sorrow- • ful. All will be pleased to learn that 1 she is still living and in good health. > -o>- ! One of the latest notable changes in Decatur real estate circles took place when Attorney D. E. Smith and ex- , County Surveyor L. L. Baumgartner . traded residence properties, Mr. Smith - becoming owner of the Baumgartner • family home on Madison street, and Mr. Baumgartner owner of the Smith - home on West Monroe street, the ' change in possession to take place March Ist. The trade was considered by reason of the fact that Mr. Baumgartner had purchased property In Linn where he will enter business, moving, his family to that place. He then decided to dispose of his residence property here, and Mr. Smith desiring to be more centrally located, land desiring a more spacious home, took immediate advantage of the opportunity. Both properties are among the most desirable in the city. The Monroe street property is no doubt especially endeared to Mr. and Mrs. Smith .because it was there that they began housekeeping and have lived continually since. Quite recently the home was completely remodeled and . is modern in all ways. Their new home, however, the Baumgartner residence, is more spacious, is located ’ nearer to the business section of the city, and*the.more recently remodel, . ed, and is therefore the more destr- , able to them in several ways. Mr. Baumgartner will dispose of the prop- ■ ffrty acquired in the trade, arhe • wishes to give his entire attention I and interest to his business. j The deal was made through the . Snow agency. I ■■■ — t MR. COFFEE HEAVILY FINED. i‘ 1 , ' ' t Fort Wayne Police Judge Gave Him I SIOO Fine. p lA" 1,1 ‘ ‘ t After thinking the matter over for . a night Judge J. Frank Mungovan this ) morning gave John Coffee a fine of j SIOO and costs for obtaining money on j a check given on a bank in .which he i had ‘no money. Coffee protested that he made a mistake, but the fact that t for years he has been giving checks | was brought to the attention of the j court and the fine was inflicted. j Coffee came to Fort Wayne for a Christmas celebration and thought he j couldn’t do the thing justice without a . bit of money so he just had a check for sl2 written and he got the money | 6n ft to spend. In former days his J check at Decatur were protected, alI I though he never had a bank account —Fort Wayne Sentinel. » 0 t Old-timers will remember a terrible I fire which occurred In this city thirI ty-three years ago Saturday, Janur ary 15, 1877. As the hour neared 12 } on that night a tiny flame crept from the building then owned and occu 1 pied by Leopold Yager with his fur ntture and cabinet store, and located where now stands the handsome Ya ger store. The title flame slipped along in its course, until presently 11 r burst into terrifflc and uncontrollable , flames, licking up every thing in ib ji course and causing a loss of thou ■- sands apd thousands of dollars, ir i those days, too, when insurance wa« 8 practically unknown and when 11 S meant a terrible loss to a cOmmun f ity. The Yager building was qom r pletely destroyed, as were also the r buildings located nearby and ownec by B. S. Thompson, John Welfley, Mrs k Harriet Studebaker, A. Barthel anc o judge James R, Bobo. The entin j block was destroyed but the ownqri undaunted soon rebuilt it. each build ing being of brick and a credit tx i. the then small town. 5 is remembered by all who were oh B enough at that time to realize and, ii f was one of the most exciting in th( i- history *of old Decatur. jo 11 i’ Mrs. Andrew Welfiew, who slippet and fell on the street some time ago tearipg loose the ligaments from kne< r to ankle, is now abls to be about wltl ibAuotao*". * .

al ha® President Taft’s complete legislation conservation and waterways sent L- in today is the last important comt municatlon the legislative body will t receive from the president during the •- session unless something comes up to t Influence him to change his present k program. No one is able to foretell >- at this time what congress will do s with the president’s recommehdai tions Some of them will undoubtedt ly recommended into law; some will be tiirovn overboard, while others will he laid aside for future considert atlon. - The indications are that the net legi islatlve results of the session so far--as important general legislation is f concerned, will be: J r 1. Amendments to the interstate , commerce law somewhat along the • tines suggested by the president. - 2. Conservation legislation putting i into effect in .general way the recJ emmednations contained in the pres--1 Idenls message today. a 3. A new form of government for - the teiritory of Alaska. t • ' ’ -I,- ■ . ; Washington, Jan. 15.—“G0 into the party caucus and take pot luck," is 1 President Taft’s command as the head 5 of the party, to the “insurgents.’’ "When you get into the caucus thump r the other fellows if you can, but if you j can’t thump them, then take you? r medicine." This is almost the exact 1 language in which the president is i outlining the test of party regularity i which he proposes in the future to 8 apply to republican members of conl gress. The president holds that the • party caucus is ■ the place to thrash i out party troubles. He also Is making - it known that the past will be forgot- . ten if the "Insurgents" win go into - the caucus on administration measi ures and “take their \nedicine” if they . get - Washington!, Jan. 15.—RepresentaI tive W. A. Cullop of Indiana made a 3 speech in the house in opposition to t the proposed change in inaugural . date from March 4th to the last r Thursday in April. He advanced the--1 unique proposal that the inaugural 3 date should be either December 4th 1 or January 4th, following each press idential election. • . •*’ '• -O "i 1 11 " I W. J. Connell, the aged father of » Dr. G. V. Connell, the well known , veterinary surgeon died at his home • at North Manchester, Indiana, at about ’. 12 o’clock Friday night. He has been h a sufferer from Bright’s disease a s number of years and this fall made 1 a trip to Texas, hoping to regain his strength. He visited his son here e about six weeks ago. The turn for the worse came last week and Dr. Connell visited his father at that time. Yesteday morning he began to sink and the end came ar midnight. He Ul u survived by the wife and three sons. Dr. Connell will leave here this evening for North Manchester. The re* r mains will be taken to Fayette couns ty, Ohio, where the elder Mr. Connell f spent the greater part of his life, and a where the funeral services will be held a Tuesday afternoon. The deceased t was seventy-six years old. t — —o - s Frank Darwood, a well known young e married man of Blue Creek tawnship, living two and a half miles east bf a Salem, was quite badly injured early e Saturday when he was kicked by a a horse, and suffered a broken leg. k Frank had been hauling stone and eary ly this morning went to the barn to s hitch up, and while working wltff the I- team, one of the horses gave him a L terriffic kick, resulting to the breaking of one of his legs. He was taken to the house and Dr. Roler of.WUle shire was summoned. He attended to r- the man’s injuries and no doubt Frank i* will get along all right, though it will 2 be some time before'he can resume n his work of hauling stoney or any i- other for that matter. Mr.'Darwood r- is quite well known- in this city, and d his friends hope he #lll soon recover. L- - , j —■—■» ' O— . d Abraham Brown vs. Fred Schaefer et it al., suit on warranty, demurrer overe ruled; exceptions by plaintiffs. ' i- Lola P. Jones vs. Frank Jones,, n proof qf publication filed; default of s defendant; appearance by prosecuting It attorney, who was ruled to answer by i- the court. 1- ' ■v; ■ e Daniel B. Roop vs. Anderson Roed buck et aij deed reported and approvb. ed; commissioner allowed two dollars d and discharged. ■e The Lesh divorce case trom Blue’S ton was resumed - today and the tes- -- tlmony was completed this afternoon o at 2 o’clock. The arguments of lhe n attorneys were postponed until the d afternoon pf Febi/iary 7th. the first it day of the next term ot court. ,e — t k Many Decatur friends of Mrs. Anna Seidel, widow of Edward Siedel, and d. one of the pioneer residents of Fort >, Wayne, will he sorry to hear of her « death, which occurred there Bunday h from diabetes. She was seventy-two yearßOfage ' ■

' Somptextoii a ’• ’ wut? as ir , A > 1 niU producing maid balsam n'®tez®e» Isl 11l Hr A years M ’ Bod* dM MDe ». Gtereas A (Sa, *« >«* *. D. 0. Br u « Ohicsge, ClevUmM. Detroit Met. 1«M. rwem Dr. Louis Severin, county health commissioner, and Dr. A. W. Brown, city health officer, are to be called to attend a conference at Indianapolis 1 between the state board of health and all the newly elected health officials of the state in the near future.— Bluffton News. t Mrs. Del Lock entertained the Pris* 1 cilia club in her suite at the Bliss ; hotel yesterday afternoon. The la- ; dies spent the .hours socially, luncheon being served at 5 o’clock. Present i were Mesdames Bert Barley, W. T. Junkin, Fred Mcßride, Charles Cover- . dale, M. Alexander, H. H. Skiles, W. J. Watson, James Foncannon, Abram : Simmons and Miss Mary Deam of ■ Chicago.—Bluffton Banner. D. I. Weikel of the City News com- ' pany has leased the front room of' the Gregory building at the corner of Third and Madison streets and will remove his news stand there. He ' will remodel the room, adding new - furniture and shelving, will repaper ' and repaint the room and then put in a complete stock of reading, in- • eluding pot only all the daily papers k but the magazines, periodicals, books, ' etfl - ' i -.-a- ~———, ———- Rattles White Wyandottei. t W. E. Johnsoa A Son, Lexington, , Ky, my: “Last year we lost one en- ‘ tire hatch of fins White Wyandotte 1 chickens from white diarrhoea. This 1 year we have given our chickens • Bourbon Poultry Cure In their drink--1 tag water and have sot lost oM** 1 Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. > ■ _.—— 1 Sleighing parties have returned withr • the coming of the last fall of snow, ‘ and one of the most pleasant of last ■ evening was the- party (that drove to ’ the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Har--1 den In Union township, whgre the j evening hours sped merrily. The com-; ■ pany Included Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cline ’ and son,'Clyde; Mr. and Mrs. John • Niedlinger, Mr. and Mta. Josephus Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. Orval Wedd J and son, John. ' 1 The newly elected officers of the 1 Eastern Star order were installed Friday evening with appropriate ceremonies, a social time following, with the , ’ serving of refreshments. The follow* ’ ing officers tool their obligations, ladt f evening. Worthy matron, Mrs. John r Peterson; worthy patron, J. D. Hale; 1 associate matron, Anna Wlnnes; sec- ■ rotary, Nellie Blackburn; treasurer, ‘ Monta Hensley, conductress, Letta Anr ’ nen; associate conductress, Jessie ‘ Flanders; Adah, Ethel Shjth; Ruth, 1 Bessie Dunn; Esther, Sadie Kalver; ■ Martha, Carrie Craig; Electa, Florence 1 Klnzle; Angellne Archbold, chaplain; • warden, Mrs. T. R. Mobre; organist, ’ Mrs. Eva Hoagland; marshal, G. T. c Burke. Mrs. George Klnzle served as 1 Installing officer. 3 , c>' ; , r Mrs. George DePeyster of Morris, 1 Illinois, who has been visiting , with 1 her daughter. Mrs. C. R. Dunn, for • some tftne, left this morning for Joliet, Hl., where she wlll.be the guest of relatives before returning home. • ‘I A———o— — . CURES CHICKEN CHOLERA' Mrs. G. A. Beazley, Trenton, Ky., » says: *T certainly had fine success f in treating my fowls for limberneck ’ and with Bourbon Poultry 7 Cure. I gave them this medicine in both drinking water and feed. I like this remedy fine.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. o — —. ’ ; NOTICE POULTRY RAISERS Alonso Thrqpp, Mt Carmel, 111., '* says: “I was losing on an average of fifteen fowls a day with cholera. 1 After giving, the first dose of Bour--0 bon Poultry Cure all aroundto®y 6 flock I never lost Another fowl,* 1 Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp.

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