Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1910 — Page 2

attJHWJJM.JLUJg"! Jl™. ~g!es« , .g!es« U.. . "■■■■■! No Man is Stronger A Than His Stomach A strong man is strong all over. No man can be strong who is suffering from weak stomach with its wB consequent indigestion, or from some other disease wHfi cf the stomach and its associated organs, which im- ■ • pain digestion and nutrition. For when the stomach - is weak or diseased there is a loss of the nutrition contained in food, which is the source of all physical strength. When a man “doesn’t feel just right,'* BHNBBHMnIUUJk. when he doesn't sleep well, has an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach after eating, is languid, nervous, irritable and despond* ent, he is losing the nutrition needed to make strength. Such • man * should use Dr. Plerte’i Golden Medical Discovery. It cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It enriches the blood, invigorates the liver, strengthens the kidneys, nourishes the nerves, and so GIVES HE3LLTH XND STRENGTH TO THE WHOLE BODY. You can't afford to accept a tecret nostrum as a substitute for thia non* alcoholic medicine of known composition, not even though the urgent dealer may thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients printed on wrapper. M ■ ■ ■■■■— l « ■ ■"■■■■■ ■-

NOW AT FOGARTYVILLE, FLA. John Bowers and Frank Schirmeyer Enjoy Delightful Trip. Word has been received by French Quinn of the Bowers Realty company that John Bowers and Frank Schirmeyer cf that company, who are in •Florida, are located for a short time at Fogartyvi’le, on the Manatee river and are having great luck in their ’ fishing. The weather is very warm and beautiful, and Fogartyville, especially, is a very pleasant place. The late Major R. B. Allison spent many winters there. Messrs. Bowers and Schirmeyer report that they are in the ' best of spirits and are being greatly benefitted by the climate and their outing. — o —"•■*' . * The Elks held their annual election of officers Friday evening, resulting in the selection of the following strong staff, who will assume their new duties Aprist Ist: Exalted Ruler—H. J. Yager. Esteemed Leading Knight—John C. Moran. Esteemed Lecturing Knight—Dan Vail. Esteemed Loyal Knight—Charles Elzey. Trustee —J. S. Falk. Tyler—J. G. Niblick. Trustee —Charles Niblick. The installation will take place March 25th. Besides these elective officers, many will be appointed by the exalted ruler, among them being the esquire, inner guard, entertainment and financial committees and / others. -i— c WEL LKNOWN CITIZEN IS DEAD. D. R. Bonewitz,-Head of Big Store, Died at Van Wert Last Night. Van Wert, Ohio, March 12—(Special to Daily R. Bonewitz, head of the largest store in Van Wert, and one of the best known business men in this part of Ohio, died at 5 o’clock Friday evening. He was seve-ey-nine years old and had been the head of the store, which bore his name here for over thirty years. He is survived by three sons who will continue the store, and by one daughter, Mrs. William McGirr, of this city. He had lived In Van Wert county since 1854, and was a member of the Twentieth Ohio infantry. He was one-of the wealthy men of this community and amassed his fortune through his own untiring efforts. The funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the residence with Dr. J. A. Gordon officiating. What the £ubhc sag about ourTsaslZ&jjoesisaU iW advsrhshg tte want, Evcvg fcmilij qs.7. c?.r Coffee comes Deck fol’ ntore, c ud toll tteir neighbors übot-t des well? •We leave it to-h ‘ I.idies to fiaub.ow casg it is to gel Haan kaer Jar us becauto ctor {s qood. h r iie jo r ctoutotj premiums given to todies Jor getting up orders,and we will show you how to Jurnishyour homes by selling staple‘groceries at prices that invito competition. We are the only mad order house sellinqnigh class staples such as Fancy Teas, Fresh Roasted Cojjoes.Storch, Rice, Ertincs,Raisins.etc. Lei us send you our twelve page Grocery Price List and Catalog oj Pre • tnwnus that you may see that we are the' People. Address. Limo TenCo.lima.o.

Monroe, Ind., March 12 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Abe Helmer of Monroe has just returned from Louisiana, where he has been looking over the county, and left Thursday morning for Seattle, Wash., where he expects to make his home for at least three or four years. Enroute he will visit various places with relatives and friends. Z. O. Lewellen has a large force of men at work at the tile mill this week, making repairs and getting everything in readiness for the manufacture of tile, which will begin within a short time. Quite a number of improvements are being made, such as putting in a patent dump car and new track; also a new kiln will be built at once and other later improvements are being made preparatory to an early start this spring. Monroe is now up to date in the latest shoe repairing. The same is a Solidity shoe repairing system and is owned and operated by Menno Wittwer, the young shoe maker. This machine is quite a novelty and with it he can do more repairing in one hour than could be done in a day with the old way. He has also installed a patent harness greasing vatwhich is also a labor-saving device. Mr. House, a representative of the Continental Sugar Beet Co., arrived here this morning and is busy among our farmers. o . Attorney John Moran of Decatur, says the Bluffton Banner, was in the sty Thursday collecting evidence in a suit for damages, which Roy Jones and “White” Bremerkamp of Decatur propose filing against the Chicago & Erie Railroad company, alleging false arrest. The case grows out of the two men being picked up in this city several weeks ago as suspects in the robbery of the Erie depot at Decatur. The two men were not put under arrest while in this city and ..when the call was received from the Decatur officials they were found in the Humphrey barn by Marshall Charles Pierce. They were kept at the sheriff’s office until the Clover Leaf evening train when they returned to Decatur without even being put under the care of an officer. They easily proved their innocence of the robbery at Decatur and were turned loose a short time after their arrival there. The Chicago & Erie authorities do not think that the suit will ever be filed and stated a few weeks ago that they could easily show that the two men had no grounds for filing the charge of false arrest? — o— —■ . OLD FASHIONED WOOD CHOPPING Neighbors Gather at Home of Henry Bittner in Union Township. Years ago it was the custom, when any person became incapaciatated, by affliction or age, to provide the necessary fuel, a number of neighbors assembled, repaired to the forest with axes and saws to engage in a wood chopping bee, and thus make glad the hearts of the recipients of their kindness. These gatherings were the source of much pleasure to all, as they also furnished social intercourse. Just such a return to days of old, was the wood chopping bee given for Henry Bittner of Union township, who last November had the misfortune of having a leg broken by being kicked by a horse. Hq has been unable to work since, and is just now able to go about on crutches. Following are the names of those who assembled at the Bittner home and enjoyed a happy time, leaving a large pile of wood nicely cut and ready for use:Jacob, John A. and Lester Barkley, John W. Shafer, Will Shafer, Orlando Myers, George Ohler, Theo. Beatty, Willis Wagner, William Bohne, W. S. Welty, Abe Raver, Charley Bittner, Walter Thieme, Simon Blakey, Gerhart Reinking, John Everhart and Adam Beery. — *o —» ENDORSED HIS PENSION BILL. The splendid work of Congressman Adair is not only applauded by everyone throughout his own congressional district, but in every section of the country. A Washington special says: “Representative Adair of Portland is

» in receipt of a petition containing the names of 1,009 old soldiers in southern California indorsing his $1 a day pension bill, and also indorsing his recent speech on the floor Os th* house advocating the passage of such a bill at this session.” , , , u, — II i'll,, A LITTLE EGG HUNT. The Egg and Joke Full Force Upon Cwm Baker. Though Easter is full two weeks away, Oliver Schug of the interurban office and Wells-Fargo Express Agent Ben Elzey could not resist an “egg hunt” this njoming, especially since there was concealed therewith a little joke that broke with full force upon the unsuspecting Clum Baker, the popular, shoe shiner, located in the in- » terurban building Clum says he does o not know who the joke is on since he, f after all, came out “ahead” with an i- egg shampoo’and a quarter, and a lot r of good-will advertising. It happened i- in this wise. Schug and Elzey had arranged the joke beforehand, but apt peared before Chum in seemingly great 1 innocence. Elzey brought out the egg 1 and made a bet with Schug that he could hide the egg in a place that he couldn’t find it. Elzey, then, with f all confidence, enlistened the aid of 3 Clum and the egg was hidden on - Clum’s head undpr his cap, his curly - locks making a very snug little nest, i Schug was brought out and began the - hunt, making a pretense of searching s “high and low” for the egg, but with ,• seeming unsuccess, while Clum stood t by laughing in his sleeve. Schug fln--5 ally went up to Clum, and throwing - up his hand as though to give him a little love-pat, brought his hand down with full force upon Clum’s cap, and » the egg hidden thereunder. Os course i the egg ran—and so did Clum —to the i water basin; but there is this to say ■ in favor of the egg—it was a good i one. That is where Clum came out i “ahead” with the shampoo. The quari ter hangs upon another chapter. The two practical jokers thought to carry it further by giving the story to the reporters. This Clum objected to so seriously and threatened dire vengeance upon all, that the reporters, fearing the consequences, refused to use it unless Clum should consent thereto. Clum refused Jo consent, and' the jokers thereupon offered him a quarter if he should do so. CJum persistently demanded fifty cents, but finding the jokers would go no higher than a quarter, accepted it—so here is the story and the name. a ESTABLISHING MILK ROUTES Charles Frya, who has been assisting W. M Worktnger establishing routes in the northeast part of this county for the delivery of aream for the Clover Leaf Creamery Company, returned last evening to his home at Warren. He will return next week and routes from the south part of the county will be established. The creamery is located at Marion, and is supplied from the country along the Clover Leaf. Three routes have been established here, from Union, Root and St. Marys townships, and others will be established from the south. The cream Is brought to this city and shipped over the Clover Leaf. ■ ■ O~ — ROOT JUICT ACCOMPLISHING GREAT THINGS Source of Great Trouble Removed In a Short While. Every now and then we hear of some great cure Root Juice has made. Many heart-felt testimonials, which are being hecelved by the Root Juice people are similar to the following: “I suffered for the past two years with the most aggravated form of nervousness, was unable to sleep and my stomach was a source of constant remedy, but was not able to obtain the slightest relief, until I purchased a bottle of Root Juice. I have used, three bottles and can truthfully say that it has benefitted me more than all of the other medicines. I now enjoy healthful sleep, am able to eat, without the slightest distress and can do my own housework.” (Signed) MRS. S. B. HYLAND, 107 Helock Ave., Kane, Pa. Root Juice is doing so much good and has become so popular with the hundreds of people it has cured that the demand for the remedy has become so great it has become almost impossible for the manufacturers to fill the orders. No one who suffers with indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous weakness, liver and kidney troubles and rheumatism should hesitate going to the Holthouse drug store and hear what the many focal people, who have used the great remedy, have said about It. ■ ' ——O ! "■ Mrs. Straight of Fort Wayne is the guest of Mrs. R. K. Allison. Messrs. Chester Johnson and C. E. > Hocker made a business trip to Mon- : roeville this morning in their new » automobile.

e The attendance at the regular »• monthly session of the Adams Coun y ty Medical association Friday even s Ing at the office of the Doctors Cover e dale was quite large and much inter 11 est was manifested. There were (sVeral out-of-town attendants, among them being Dr. Albert E. Bulson, jr., of Fort Wayne; Dr. Vizard of Pleasant Mills, Dr. Ernest Franz and Dr. I Schenck of Berne, Dr. J. C. Grandstaff of Preble and Dr. Parrish and Dr. Rayl of Monroe. Very good papers s papers were given by many of the phyi siclans, all of them taking part in the t discussions of the various subjects. 5 Dr. Costello spoke on “The Relation s of the Physician to the Laity;” Dr. 3 Thomas on “The Relation of the Phyi slclan to the Physician;” Dr. Boy- - era on “Relation of the Physician to - Life Insurance Companies;” Dr. E. G. s Coverdale on “The Physician in Char- , ity.” i Nearly all the physicians in the city t and the association were in attend--1 ance and contributed to the interest 1 and profit of the meeting with talks. - The next session will be held at the t office of the Doctors Clark. > —— o—, » ) ' Among the noteworthy events of the t coming Methodist conference for the i northern jurisdiction of Indiana, and ’ which will be held in Bluffton early i in April, will be the naming of two ’ district superintendens, vacancies oc- * curving in the Muncie and Fort * Wayne districts. A number of promi- : nent ministerial gentlemen are being named for these two, places, among them being Rev. C. U. Wade of Fort Wayne, L. J. Naftzger of Muncie, J. A. Beatty of Elkhart, A. G. Neal of Warsaw, W. W. Martin of Bluffton, F. G. Browne of Newcastle, Madison Swadener of Kokomo, C. E. Line of Greenfield, John C. White of Logansport, Chauncey King of New Haven, W. D. Parr of Kokomo and Sherman Powell of Decatur. While there will be a certain amount of political log rolling indulged in by the friends of the various ministers named, yet the naming of the successful ones is in the hands of Bishop Cranston of Washington, D. C., who will preside at.the Bluffton conference. Along with the many other friends of Rev. Powell, pastor of the local congregation, the Democrat would like to see him succeed to one of the two vacancies. If we could get the ear of Bishop Cranston we would like to suggestthat the cause of Methodism could not be better served than by the naming of the Decatur pastor for a district superintendency. • - 0 Washington, March 14 —President Taft is giving some attention to suggestions for a tariff plank in the Indiana republcan state platform. The president’s attitude in regard to the Indiana situation is not different from hs attitude as to other state situations. He does not wish to be considered as Interfering in any way with matters of more or less local concern, but it is one of his ambitions to be of assistance, if he can, in composing whatever differences may exist between Indiana republicans. Saturday Former Representative James E. Watson was a caller at the white house. It was reported that he went to persuade the president •to use his influence < 'toward obtaining a strong indorsement of the Payne-Aldrich bill in the Indiana state platform. A congressman who happened to be near spread the word that Mr. Watson was emphatic and that he said something about the probability that the democrats would sweep the boards in Indiana unless the indorsement of tfie Payne law is made strong’ and unequivocal. Mr. Watson denies this report. 'He made the following statement: “I went to the white house to introduce a friend to the president. I had no other purpose in going. While I was there the president himself brought up the subject of the Indiana ’ platform’s probable treatment of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. It was evident to me that it was a subject in which the president was considerably interested. I did not venture an opinion one way or the other, as it is a matter which I am in favor of leaving to Senator Beveridge.” About as soon as Mr. Watson left the white house a telephone message came to Capitol Hill from the white ' house inquiring for Representative ' Crumpacker. Mr. Crumpacker at ’ that time was attending a meeting of ' the committee on Insular affairs. He * was found at the committee room and 1 informed that the president wished 1 him to come to the white house at 1 once. He went and they had a con- ’ ference, which lasted for a good while. The subject of the conference * was the Indiana platform declaration 1 on the tariff. Mir. Crumpacker is anxious that a plank be prepared which all Indiana republicans can in- ’ dorse. He submitted his views to the president and other conferences will . follow. i ,‘,l ■ -I—i Qi-" j Frank Cotteral of Geneva was a business caller in our city today. IBEL ■?■

I- shows his genefeelty more to the Red i- man than any other of his inhabitants > and it is at a great expense that the Indian is being taught. One would -- hardly imagine the sums spent just g for the support of one reservation. We ~ will endeavor to show a few items of t expenditure jiist for this one (Moqui) -. reservation. I The agency consists of two physi- ■. clans, a general mechanic, a farmer, 3 blacksmith, two field matrons, two in- - terpreters, five police and three » judges. It Ream’s Canon they have employi ed four teachers, three matrons, a . laundress, baker, carpenter, two en- . glneers, seamstress, cook and three - miners. ■ > At the Oralba schools they have . employed a principal, two teachers, . a housekeeper, seamstrees, cook and teamster. _ • At second Mesa, schools, a principal . two teachers, a cook, seamstress and ; assistant, and at Polacca, a principal, a teacher, a housekeeper and two > assistants. At Chlmopovy we are left for all the work ourselves, unless we should get more than fifty pupils, but > on April Ist we are allowed to make > estimates regarding supplies requir- [ ed, buildings needed, additional help, • etc, so next year we will possibly , have three assistants, viz.: a teach- . er, a cook and a seamstress. ; This makes a total of seventy, with . pay ranging from S3O to $l2O per . month, and the montly pay roll exceeds $6,000. Then, too, Uncle saml stands the board bill of all the children on the" reservation, the clothing . bill, the fuel bill, etc:, and when wood is $8 per cord this is no small item. Just at present the Hopis are get- . ting their land alottments. Each man ,woman and child gets 640 acres of pasture land and forty acres of corn land. This in Itself is not a small gift. The allotting agent gets $8 per day, the surveyor $6 and the chain men $4, and surveying in this country requires time. So this item in Itself costs $5,000 per month in this one reservation. It costs S3OO per year here to feed a team of horses, as hay Is $55.00 per ton, and oats four and one-half cents per pound, and they heve eight teams. Each year the various superintend-. , ents make an effort to place all the large boys at some of the industrial schools. The government furnishes transportation both Ways, which in any case is not less than‘s7s.oo per pupil. We have a young man in our village who says the government spent at least $2,000 on him. He is an eighth grade graduate of Phoenix, a tailor and baker by trade. He is now married. His wife can’t speak a word of English. He bakes “pikke,” uses ashes to make it rise instead of yeast, hasn’t baked a loaf of bread for three years, hasn’t cut a coat for the same time and traded off his uniforms and government clothes for a few sheep, hasn’t had his hair cut for two years, and can generally be seen with , a cigarette in his mouth, perched in the sun ,and one would be led to ask, “What’s the use?” People who have worked among them for several years think that two or three generations will affect a slight change, then of course, the investment would not be a bad one after all. We shall next write about the school work, as we expect to begin March 14th. • MR. AND MRS. JABERG. o , .r..,.,.'. ~ - SENT THE WRONG ENVELOPE. D.’ M. Hensley thinks he has a good joke on Charles Weaver of Fort who is known to all Qecatur citizens who spend their summers at Fort Wayne. Sometime ago Mr. Weaver had the Hensley cottage and mislaid the key in some way. This morning Mr. Hensley received an envelope In which was enclosed another envelope containing some broken . bits of glass. A letter accompanying this explained that he had found the key and hastened to return the same. Notations on the envelope show that the glasses were the lenses from the spectacles belonging to his daughter, Mildren, which had been returned from the optician. They were marked $2.00. Mr. Weaver had no doubt i been mistaken in the envelopes and i picked up the wrong one to send. ; The postmaster’s stamp ground the ’ glasses to atoms. —y. V i? — I TWO MEN PAID FINEB TODAY. I Buck Parrish and Frank Hower, : two young men, were arrested about - midnight Saturday by Policemen Mell chi and Geary near the G. R. & I. rall- ) road for intoxication and taken to k jail. They were released Sunday and j appeared before Squire Stone Monday I morning, where they paid a fine of - $12.80 each. They* Claim that the/ j bought the booze from a stranger and 1 the officers will keep an eye open for such fellows in the future.. The boys engaged in a fight and caused quite a i disturbance in the west end before they were landed. < V- A.. .

| gonylexlan Preser iretj J vm * PKIM ' nal fivshnass. waparatlons and perfectly hamlets" At all druggteta. for Mria. Send lor Circular. jWOAMM iwVjiw_ . V ,0.1 ( m HAIR BALSAM W? »I'.: BaiAnin I 6 * raiHHiS re*™ s Htt | e eort. frea booklet Mljo B. Stevens & C<x. M 4 14th St, Washington, D. C. Braneh Chicago, Cleveland. Detroit. Est igfA ■J'JSJX' 1 .; 1 , I '■LUJJ.JJXL 1 . »y. **w—. Benjamin Franklin Middleton, long a resident of this city, but who for the past two years has been a patient at Easthaven infirmary at Richmond, passed away there Saturday night at 11:25 and the remains were brought to this city this morning, arriving here at 8 o’clock over the G. R. & 1., the body being taken to the family home in the south part of the city. His death was caused by cerebral tumor with which he had been suffering for some time.. Mr. Middleton was born and reared in this county, and at bis death was fortyslx years of age. Seventeen years ago he was married to Miss Emma Overhusser, who, with four children survive. The children are Lucile, Leia, Bernard and Helen. He also leaves the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Peter Gaffer of this f city; Mrs. Burt Mann of Liberal, Kansas; James Middleton of Jonesboro, Ark. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the Evangelical church, the sermon being delivered by the Rev. D. O. / Wise. Burial in the Decatur cemetery. —o Rallies White Wyandotte#. W. E. Johnson & Son, Lexington, Ky., say: “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 in their drinking water and have not lost any.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. 0 ?. WANTS TO BE JOINT SENATOR. — James W. Sale of this city will be a candidate again for the nomination as the republican candidate for joint . - senator to the state legislature from the district comprising Wells, Blackford and Grant counties. For some ? time Mr. Sale has been mentioned in connection with the nomination, but ‘ not until today did it become known positively that he would be in the race, when he Informed his friends that he would seek the nomination. The convention date has not yet been set, but it will not be held for several weeks.-*-Bluffton —-—— ?S CURES CHICKEN CHOLERA Mrs. G. A. Beazley, Trenton, Ky., says; “I certainly had fine success In treating my fowls for limberneck and cholera with Bourbon Poultry Cure. I gave them this medicine in both drinking water and feed. I like * this remedy fine.” Sold by H. H? Bremerkamp. - , o , INSTALLATION OF ELKS. — The installation of the officers of tfee Elks lodge, which in Saturday evening’s issue announced would take place on the 25th, will- not be until Friday, April Ist. preparations are being made for the occasion and the event yrill be a long remembered one. o NOTICE POULTRY RAISERS Alonzo Thropp, Mt Carmel, 111., says: *‘l 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. — BROTHER DEAD AT COLUMBUS. Mrs. Belle Harmon has received a message announcing the death of iher brother, C. C. Clark, who had been superintendent of the malls at Columbus, Ohio, for many years, the death occurring Friday night. The funeral S was held Monday and several members of her family from this city were?> in attendance. CASTOR IA 7or Infants snd'OHldrttL Ito Khd Ya Km Ahnp BagM J