Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1910 — Page 2

. - - . . --h s»Nm— hip ■■ ■ y i jww— wnii.. ; Patriotism The stomach Is a larger factor fa "life, liberty and the purV suit of happiness ” than most people are aware. Patriotism can withstand hunger but not dyspepsia. The confirmed dyspeptic “is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.*' The man \jn who goes to the front for his country with a weak stomach, will be a weak soldier and a fault finder. A sound stomach makes for good citizenship as well aa for health and happiness. Diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and / nutrition are promptly and permanently cured by the use of I Df. PIERCE’S GOLDER MEDICAL DISCOVERY. I A I jt builds up tbe body with sound flesb and I tv I solid muscle. • - L J T* l ® dealer who offers a Bubßtitute for the “Discovery” la n/ iSm only seeking to make the little more profit realized on the Im} fill 81de ’ ess meritorious preparations. |W Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free W HI on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send W 21 one-cent stamps for the paper covered book, or 31 stamps fl for the cloth bound. Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association, R. V. Pierce, M. D., President, Buffalo, N. Y.

George Hirschy was arrested on a grand jury indictment for assault and battery. He lives in the southwest part of Monroe township' and was released on filing bond for SIOO. A petition for a drain signed by William Glenending and others, was filed at the county clerk’s office by attorney D. E. Smith. It was set for docketing March sth. Real estate transfers: Emma Morningstar to Henry Morningstar, 120 acres, Hartford township, $1.00; Sarah C. Opllnger to trustees of Christian church at Linn Grove, tract in Hartford township, $305.37; trustees Christian church, Linn Grove, to J. A. Lindsey, 43 acres, Hartford tp., SSO; Rufus Kreps to John Romey, tract in Hartford tp., $800; John Mutur et al. to William T. Waggoner et al., pt lot 16, Berne, $2500. —, o— — Toreva, Ariz., Jan. 10, 1910. Friends of the Daily Democrat, Decatur, Ipd.: Without doubt marriages and ceremonies are as interesting to all readers as one could suggest and in our opinion that of the Hopi Indian is un- • equaled anywhere. The Indian does not marry as young as do the people of India or some of the tropical countries. The average age of the bride is about sixteen, and I she is the only interesting personage connected. There is no courtship whatever. When an Indian girl reaches the age where she desires to marry she grinds a little corn meal and bakes it in thin wafers, which they call peke. She takes this to the home of the boy whom she wishes. If the father, mother, or any of the close relation accept this they are then engaged, - after which follows the head-washing, at which her parents wash the intended groom’s head and his parents wash her head, and it is at this time the agreement is made as to the amount of corn she must grind to buy him. She how begins grinding, which requires about three months. In the meantime the groom and his father have been making her the wedding gown, which is folded up in a suitcase made of small sticks. This gown is never worn again until'her death, as she is then buried in the same gown. After the grinding the bride takes all the meal to his home and. they are then ready to have the chief come in and give them the necessary advice, which makes tnem man and wife. This ceremony is performed at midnight. Then the meal is all carried Wtat the {mbhcMJu about curTeasVCajfoestseW W advertising we want Everg fcmilu ushujotr Cefieecomee back for more, ana tell fet* neiqnbors about ft as wdl* We leaoe it with fee ladvesta sauhow it is to ofi jrder for us because our is good. We Jqf catalog given to ladies jor gating up orders,and we wi§ show gsu how to Jurnish your homes selling staple groceries at prices that invite competition. We are the onto mil order house sellingmgh class staples such as Forney Teas, Fresh Rice, Prunes, Raisins,etc Let us send 1400 our twelve page Grocery Price List end Catalog oj Pre' tmmus that you may see Ihd wc are the People. Address. Limo

back to her home and he goes to her home to live. Should she at any time become dissatisfied with her lot she kicks him out and he goes back to his parents. Should he become dissatisfied he walks off and leaves her alone and both are soon married again. But the second time no meal is ground. She gets out of it then by furnishing one load of wood. There are very few Hopis who have been married but once. Many women who but twenty years of age have been married from three to five times. Another peculiarity, they never marry out of their own village. Chimopovy, our village, has a population of about 250, and how they keep from marrying relation is a mystery. According to American way of thinking they are related, but the Hopi’s relation is only counted on the feminine side, so their relation soon drops out, and what we call cousins the Indians don’t consider. It is only father, mother, brothers and sisters. Our next letter will be about witches and the Indian’s belief in same. ... tHoping that all our Adams county friends a successful year, we are, MR. AND MRS. JABERG. —-~.y ■ ■ —■<>■’ | | ——— Miss Collins, representing the Sil-ver-Burdette company, and an' expert in their music department, spent Friday in the Decatur public schools. The schools here use the music books published by this company, and Miss Collins is kept on the road, visiting the schools over the country, advising the teachers in many ways that are most helpful. During the morning she addressed the high school students, telling them how they can get great help in a simple manner by following certain rules. Later with the music teacher, Miss Schrock, she visited the various grades, where She gave short talks to the children. From a teacher’s point of view Miss Collins is one of the very best in her line in the entire country and her visits are of much help to the students and the teachers. She offered numerous suggestions, wnich will be followed in the work here. She went from here to Huntington. —« FINGER TORN. Carl Crist, son of Warren Crist, and son-in-law of Levi Dyson, with whom he lives south of Cralgville, had a little finger of his left hand terribly torn and mangled about noon today by the cog wheels of a wind pump on the Mrs. George Dyson farm south of Reiffsburg. He had climbed to the top of the pump to adjust some bearings when he got his hand in the cogs. A Bluffton physician dressed the fingo* and hopes to save it—Bluffton News. — . . «■ ■ — Handsomely engraved cards were ■received here Saturday by many of £he friends of the Morrison family, announcing the marriage of Miss Harriet Julia Morrison to Mr. William Richard Wallace, the happy event having occurred at Orlando, Florida, on Monday, January 10th. The cards are issued by Mrs. Ambrose Bryson Morrison and Included is an “at home” card, announcing that Mr. and Mrs. Wallace will reside at Oaxaca, Mexico, after February Ist. The engagement of the young couple was announced a few weeks ago, at which time it was said that the wedding would not occur until next June, following the graduation of Miss Morrison from college at Ossining, N. Y.. The young couple were to enjoy the holiday season at Orlando, Florida, .where Mrs. Morrison is spending the winter, and it seems while there the plans were changed and the wedding occurred there. The cards were sent out from New Castle, Pennsylvania, and as Mr. Wallace’s former home was in that section, it is presumed that the couple went there on their honeymoon and will soon proceed to Mexico, where they will feslde. Relatives here had no further information than was given in the cards and there was as much surprise as were the friends to receive the announcements. Miss Morrison is one of the most popular young ladles of this place, and for some years has been attending college. She Is beautiful and attractive. Mr. Wallace is engaged in the

those who nave met him fe declared a splendid young man. The Decatur friends extend the most sincere congratulations for Mr. and Mrs. Wallace. e- ■ '— A picture post-card received by Mrs. Adna Yahne from Mr. and Mrs.' Martin Jaberg, mailed at Toreva,''Arizona, gives a delightful view of a spot there and shows that however Isolated they are from conveniences and comforts of the east, and the general things of the world, they are not shut off from the postcard privilege—that general Innovation that has gone to the nethermost Corners otf the earth. At least they will not be so long as Mr. Jaberg’s camera remains. The postcard is a picture taken by Mr. Jaberg after they had taken a fifty-mlle drive » far from the "maddening crowd,” and > shows Mrs. Jaberg standing on a large r boulder, queen of all she surveyed, t with a background of rugged, rocky > cliffs, with great caverns therein, not - unlike the abodes of the cliff dwellers, t* so pictured. Nearby stands the dou-. I ble-seated carriage in which they I made the trip, and the horses grazing i at leisure,. The picture is one typical > of the mountainous regions, which i they have described in their letters > previously published in this paper, t The card says, “You see a little of the kind of rock we saw. Rock is more - plentiful here than grass in Indiana.” - The card was posted January 11th, ! and was nine days on the journey. ( — l —O ' — With the near year o*iy begun and • spring several “chirpy of the robins ■ away,” faint echoes of the building ! boom, which by spring will be in full ■ blast, are already beginning to sound, 1 and Decatur is promised several fine additions to her residency section In fact the work of several is already un- ; der way, and only warm weather is needed for the rushing of the work to completion. Among the fine new home in the city to be built in the spring is that of Michael Miller, and Mann & Christen are already preparing plans for the same. The house owned by Mr. Miller, just north of the Methodist church on Fifth street will be moved away, probably to tbe back of the lot facing Sixth street, and on the site of the old one a handsome $5,000 house, with all modern improvements will be made, making one of the finest residences In the city. Linn & Patton, for R. K. Allison, have under way in the Fullenkamp addition the construction of two six-room cottages In bungalow style which will be admirable residences for rental purposes, built right up-to-the-minhte in the matter of style and convenience. Work has already begun on the foundations, also On such work as can be done in the workshop as the making of the window frames, etc. As soon as the weather permits the carpenters, will also resume work pn the remodeling of the Indiana house, which Yager Bros, have purchased and are converting into a sixteen or twenty room hotel, to be first class in all respects, with heating plant, bath and all conveniences .required by the traveling public. ' —— ; _ o—- — , Howard, the eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob C. Atz, of North Third street, met with an accident while at play Thursday, and although it was not serious, he does not care to go through the experience again. He, with several friends, were playing with a toy cannon, and discharged it by using gun powder. Howard had filled the cannon with powder and set it off so as to go off in the opposite direction from where he was standing. Instead of this the canno turned and the full force of the pow* der struck him on the forehead, burning him very much and singeing his eyebrows. Had it gone a trifle fewer it might have destroyed his eyesight and he 'can consider himself lucky that it was not such. He will be all right in a short time, but the younger class who are fond of this dangerous sport should take warning, lest they should meet with a much more serious accident ——L. Q. . —— . - “Natchez, Miss., Jan. 22—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Thomas Taggart, national democratic committeeman from Indiana, who was shot by W?H. Norson, his private secretary while they were hunting yesterday in Fayette, Jefferson county, left here at 8: 30 today for Jackson, Miss. He expected to leave that place for Louisville late today. He will lose the sight of the right eye, one of the bird shots having passed through the half of the eye. He rested well last night. (United Press Service.) Elkhart, Ind., Jan. 22 —(Special to Dally Democrat) — William Allen, elected city judge on the democratic ticket by seven votes last December, died last night of exhaustion, following a hemorrhage. He was born in England in 1834 and came to Elkhart forty-three years ago. The average at the horse sale Friday was $186.66. a trifle low, but this is perhaps due to the fact that the

; ■x'sxz r made any money or not. This,horse - business is one where you often haie • to let go, that is if a sum fs offered near the first cost It’s business to let go for the cost of keeping a horse two . weeks is something now-a-days that - has to be reckoned in the cost. A , large number of buyers were present 3 Friday and the entire bunch of 250 r head of horses were sold out by 3 1 o’clock. Did you ever stop to figure s what Is costs to gather up 250 head of t horses at an average of even what - they sold for yesterday? Try It, and 3 see If there wasn’t nearly $50,000 t worth of business done at the barn . Friday, and to that another $50,000 - was necessary during the two weeks ; that they were bujling them up. The s boys, while not delighted with the, 1 sale, have hopes of a brighter future,j 3 when they can buy them for what they , are worth and when foreign buyr ers will see a market which will wart rant them paying- a profit on those , they buy. The next sale will be given ' Friday, February 4th. * The 4 buyers r will start out Monday to secure anoth- ; er bunch of good ones. 1 , Q i With a dUfetlnued and careful watch- ’ ing of the ipe gorge at the interurban • bridge over the St. Marys river, north, s yesterday afternoon and blasting and ‘ shattering of the ice mass at various times during the afternoon, all danger > is now past and as the river has fallen considerably in the past few hours it is thought there Will not be at presl ent a recurrence of the threatened dam i ger from this source. Will Richards, ; as master of the blasting, Mose Henry I and his crew of men, and Frank Burns , and others of the Interurban employi ees were stationed at the bridge Thursday and kept a constant lookout ■ for all threatening disaster. Boats i were used and the men oared about • amid the inflowing ice mass and by the careful and timely placing of the blasti ing agencies, shattered the mass so that the pieces floated away with safety to the bridge. Mr. Richards stated that at times cakes of ice : about fifty feet wide, and about fourteen indies thick were massed about : under tbe bridge and furnished a retarding agent for the ice floes that kept sweeping down with the swift current of the flooded river. 1 But for the continued watching of the men and their efforts to keep the pieces free and moving the mass would no doubt have piled up to the bridges and vented their burden of ruin. The river has lowered considerably, however, and all danger is now thought to be past, o Albert Knavel, indicted by the grand jury for assault and battery on Robert Peterscp at the fair last fall, has filed bondMn the sum of SIOO, as required. Only one real estate transfer has been filed since'our last report and that is Susan Debolt to Henry Kruckenberg, 40 acres, Union township* the consideration being $4,000. The last will and testament of Peter H. Habegger has been probated. It was written October 19, 1908, and witnessed by John F. Mazelin and Anios Hirschy. It is in two items, the first providing for the payment of debts and funeral expenses and the second bequeathing all his property, real, personal and mixed, to his wife, Roslna A. Habegger, who Is given full rights to dispose and convey same, id any manner she may see , fit : Th estate accounting board who were quartered in the commissioners’ room, have moved into the cozy corner room of the clerk’s office, where they are still at work on the township trustees’s books.- Mr. McCoy, one of the accountants, Is an old bachelor, and seems fearful that he will be disturbed by a marriage ceremony, as the room they now occupy is the one always used by young couples when they desire a quiet wedding at the court house. . o— — County Clerk J. p. Haefllng Friday day forwarded to the state statistician his report for the year 1909. According to this statement there were filed during the year 167 civil cases, while disposed of; fourteen cases venued to this county, while thirteen were venued from here;, in Juvenile court there were twenty-four cases; thirty-three letters of administration Issued and seventeen guardianships;! ten foreclosures of Uenff, seven sheriff sales, eleven people were declard of i unround mind, and 199 marrlag licenses were issued; seventeen divorces were granted, four to husbands and thirteen to women, of which numi ber four were for abandonment, two for adultery, ten don cruel treatment and for other causes. Nine crlmin- , al cases were filed and ten dismissed, while a total of twenty-one were, disposed of. There was one conviction for felony and one release on probation and four convictions for misdemeanors. In connection with this it Is of Interest to note that during the year rile clerk more than paid his own HIM, .ad n»d® U» county.

xliS stusry on ciorik is uuium i the year he took in $28,067.06 and rereceived as fees, 1 $2,488.88, together Bluffton, Jnd., Jan. 21.--(9Declal to Dally Democcrat)—Quite a sensation was created this city today when it became known that Marion officers came here last evening and with two Iqcal officers arrested William . and James Byrd, two Wells county citizens, the charge against them being the harboring of Stolen horses. In all eight arrests were made, and it is said that it means the breaking up, of the worst gang of horse thieves that has invaded this section of Indiana in recent years.. The gang .is headed by Oliver Gunder and his arrest was made at Columbus, Ohio, and It was ai this point that the horses were taken and placed on the market. Besides, Gunddr and the two Wells county men under arrest, the others are from Grant County, they being James Ca* biH, a gambler of Marlon, Peter Cole of Gas City, Charles Ferguson and Charles Imel, living in the country a short distance from Marlon. The two Byrds are said to have been harboring the stolen animals and assist ed in getting them to Columbus, where Gunder sold them to the market Much excitement is prevailing at Marlon, where the gang operated the most extensively. , o — Dr. Marie L. Holloway, who, g year ago last December moved to Branson, Mo., to make her home near that of her daughter, Mrs. Winch, sends us an illustrated booklet descriptive of the county in that vicinity, and it needs just,one glance at the beautiful* scenes therein to tell us in -full just why Mrs. Holloway likes her new home and surrounding so-much. It is truly a part of “Nature’s Picture Gallery,” portrayed so well in Harold Bell Wright’s charming noyel, “The Shepherd of the Hills." Branson' is called “The Gateway to the White River Country," and aside from the excellent trade and industrial advantages, bids fair to gain lasting fame for the natural charm-and beauty “of its picturesque landscape, the green topped hills and shaded valleys, miles of deep forest with patches of sweet smelling pines, fragrance of mountain flowers growing along mossy banks, of bubbling springs and graveled brooks, the songs of birds! and chirp of sqiiirrel and chipmunk, and the White River, with its stretches of sandy beech and seeming mountains of palisades that rise from the river’s edge, and with its excellent fishing advantages and bordering game preserves, the mecca for summer tourists, and those in need of rest and recreation.” Branson is a prosperous little town of 700 people, and in its business district has three factories, a foundry, a bank, a newspaper, five stores, postoffice* building, a whosesale supply warehouse, a lumber yard, a firstclass modern hotel, several restaurants and boarding houses, residence houses, two churches, Masons, Odd Fellows and Woodmen lodges—and no saloons or gambling houses. The resources are great, and among the thnber mnqjufacturers mentioned is the “Winch Spoke Compbiy, an In* diana Corporation," which has just completed a large plant capacity for 10,000 wagon and carriage spokes daily, and employing thirty men. This plant is conducted by Mr. Winch, formerly of Fort Wayne, a son-in-law of Mrs. Holloway, and bids fair to become one of the leading industries of the west ’ The many friends of Mrs. Holloway will be pleased to hear of hertttbntinued well being and pleasure In her new home. . —■■•■■ 1 o I .■ “RATS” ARE "GOING OUT.” Best Selling Novelty of Recent Years —"Turbans’’ Taking Place. ,“In spite of all the ridicule heaped upon the ‘rat’ which has played so prominent a part in woman’s head dress in the past two years, this article has been one of the best sel’ing ‘novelties’ In sany years,” said George Steele of the racket store, “and during that time we must have sold a half carload." The latest is the “turban,” which is taking the place of the “rat,** though' we still handle the “rats" also, as there are a great many just coming Into that style of headdress. The ‘turban will no doubt prove to be as great a novelty as the ‘rat* When the ‘rat’ first came out we ordered but a dozen or two, for fear they wouldn’t prove ‘good,’ but in a short time we were swamped with orders,, and couldn’t v get them here fast enough, receiving as many as a piano box full In one consignment So It seems It will be with the ‘turban.’ ” — PURCHASES MAYER PROPERTY. Willart Steele Buys New Home— Mayere Will Build. / ' '&.* ■ Another notable change fa. Decatur’s

Bit HftftftA’S UIIm ■ OOt AKm ■reif die tata ie ft» eriafc VKMA SOAP * awllS*J*»«3sr. aMF(■M. MtrauMa, Price 23 C««ta «. ©. •ITTNtIiTaK.TiM.KDO. *wannreßßeßSESErasßßoanaiKresßKftai. nm —rximnpi — JM Mrvor* l Adie M ■ , ArelMMire Gi ''® I 6 * r fill 3HI S r®*™ * ’ ooet Bead •• free beeUet. Mito B. Bteveas 4b O*. (M 4 14th BU Wtahtegtott, D. C. Bnuufe CBMoago. Clreelred. Botrott. Met USA <wb"jom! ■M.wtaauLi ..... -TsgazßegmaseKasw purchase of the handsome brick residence of Henry Mayer, on North Second street by Wiliard Steele. As soon as the weather becomes favorable Mr. . Mayer will begin the erection of a s. new residence on Second street on the - lot between the Peoples and Patterson residences. The house will be a brick, with furnace, bath and all other modern conveniences. He will continue residence In his present home ' until the new one is completed, after which Mr. Steele and family will live in their newly purchased property. The sale comes as much'of a surprise to the parties interested in the deal as to the public, as the house had not been listed for safe and was only on the expression of a sudden desire of Mr. Steele’s for the house as a residence that Mr. Mayer thought of selling. The home was built twenty-two years ago by Mr. Mayer, and the family has lived there continually since. . The property is one of the most desirable in the city. 4 . — —e — 3 ■ 'Si Rallies White Wyandottes. W. EL Johnson ft Son, Lexington, | Ky, aay: “Last year we lost one entire hatch of fine White Wyandotte chickens from white diarrhoea. This year we have given our chickens Bourbon Poultry Cure tn their drinking water and have not lost any.” Bold by H. H. Bremerkamp. — MANY WITNESSES TESTIFY. State Medical Board Visits Bluffton on Landfair Case. Friends of Dr. Charles Landfair are feeling elated since the visit, of the two members of the state medical board to this, city Thursday to Investigate his case and they beliete now that the doctor will get back his license. There were about forty wit nesses examined Thursday afternoon by the two doctors. ' All of the examinations were on the moral side of the doctor and whether the citizens thought that Dr. Landfair had ought to get his license back. There were a few witnesses against him, but the the majority were for him. The other physicians of this city are about evenly divided on the proposition of the doctor having his license restored, some of them thinking that he had ought to get it back and others thinking that he should not receive it— Bluffton Banner. BOLD SAlO! TEETERS DITCH. < . Surveyor Ernst sold the Sam Fetters ditch Saturday, J.M.Amtsutz being the contractor, his bld being $2,400. The estimate on the work was $3,477, so the bld was an extreme low one. The ditch will traverse a part of War ' bash and Jefferson townships, Is about tour miles long and when completed will be of Inestimable value to the land affected. Work will begin on the contract just as soon as the weather Will permit % 1 j J. ; F. Lehman of feme passed through Decatur Monday afternoon on bls way to Bluffton, Ohio. Mi. I O- " . CURES CHICKEN CHOLERA ' Mrs. G. A. Beazley. Trenton, Ky< says: *1 certainly hall fine success in treating my fowls for limberneck and cholera with Bourbon Poultry Cure, f gave them this medicine In j both drinking water and feed. I like | this remedy fine.” Sold by 8. H. Bremerkamp. NOTICE POULTRY RAISERS Alonso Thropp, ML Carmel, IR, 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 I never lost another fowl" Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. - —— o ■ i— w ’r- / ASTORIA