Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1911 — Page 3

[COUNTRY | SUITED THEM I 9 Northwestern farms—s in I South Central Minnessota and I 4in Northeastern North DaI kota—sold in one week by I The Straus Bros. Company I These farms were sold to men from Indi- I ■ ana, Ohio and Illinois--men who have been I I farming what they supposed was the best I soil in America, and who put our Xorth- ■ western farms up for comparison with it I before buying. Speaks well for our soil. | doesn't it? | We Do Not Recommend I all of Minnesota or all of North Dakota-they I are big states and contain too many kinds of I soil for all to be good. We Do Recommend I certain localities in each; namely, RENI VILLE and adjoining counties in the South I Central part of Minnesota, and RANSOM I and SARGENT counties in the Southeastern I corner of North Dakota. These particular I localities are, beyond doubt the best in those I states, and offer greater value for one's monI ey than any other section we have ever exI amined; and that is just why we are selling I farms there. There’s lot of satsfaction in I handling land that we know is actually worth [ more than we ask for it, and that our custo- [ mers can always sell at a profit. It means i that our customers areountry, and each one ‘ of farm-buyers in the cssep payspes jsaq aqi is a booster for us and our farms. We have nearly 200 of the best farms in the above named sections —farms that are well located, well improved, on good roads, close to good markets, churches and schools -not a farm of poor or doubtful quality on our list. Let us send you our Northwestern Catalogues that tell all about the country, and about our farms and the easy terms on which we sell them. You can't - afford- to- buy a farm anywhere until you have investigated the localities we recommend in MINNESOTA and NORTH DAKOTA, where a dollar will buy two to three times as much actual soil value as it will in the Central States. Drop us a card for catalogues. The Straus Bros. Co. Capitol, $1,900,000 Redwood Falls, Minn. L«b°n, N. Dak. LIGONIER. INDIANA. Chas. M. Stahl, Dist. Manager Van Wert, Ohio.

TOOK TWO TO LAND FISH. L T. Brokaw and family, who have been spending the last two weeks al their cottage at Gage have returned and report a splendid time and lots of fish. While there Mr. Bro Itaw caught a gas fish measuring twen ts-eight inches in length and it took two to land it. as they are great fight tt>. They had to use their oars to get him out R. D. Fleming, chief deputy game harden for the northern Indiana district, hag announced a plan for the benefit of those who desire to seine the rivers and streams for carp, stick*“l*. redhorse, dog fish, buffalo fish, quill backs, gar and eel, says an exchange. He asks that all desiring to seine for these varieties arrange a meeting to be held at the county seat in each county and has agreed to attend these meetings and to appoint deputies who will look after the seining and to keep the seines in his possession at all times. No seining will be permitted Io the absence of the special deputy. Mr. Fleming finds it Impossible to attend all the meetings in small communities to which he has been asked # nd for that reason finds it desirable to dispose of each county at a single meeting. He will be unable to visit kt>y county more than once. He asks that all who desire dates for a meeting I® their county, write him at once at hi« hone and the dates will be made *• fast as possible.

| Seining permits will he granted in any stream save the Tippecanoe river, Wild Cat creek and the \Wabash river e from I-ogans port down. -From Logans- , port down the Wabash river has been , I stocked with game fish and oilers fine , terns fishing II | - ’’ BEN HURS PLAN CAMPAIGN. 1k I P. O. Bowers of Crawfordsville, state 1 i Ben Hur manager, and Mr. Mclltnesh " of Hurt Wayne, the district manager, • I spoke at the Be® Hur hall FWday «' "l‘enlng A campaign for the arousing ‘ [of interest and increasing of membere ,shlp will be inaugurated. It is hoped i e to secure a class of at least twentyfive for initiation in September, when I '• the Fort Wayne team will confer the ■' Initiatory degree. Ice cream and cake were served Friday evening. The die * trict manager will be at the meeting i next Friday evening. i died from injuries. 1 J ’ Received in Motorcycle Race* in Fort Wayne May 28th. ( ■ i John F. Hughes, who was injured in \tbe motorcycle race May 2»tb at Drfv , ‘ jng park. Fort Wayne, died Friday in , the St. Joseph hospital from acute ’ meningitis, resulting from his injury. Many Decatur people who attend d the races witnessed the accident. The ; deceased was but twenty-four years • t of age. i . <• < (Democrat Want Ads Pay

Om Thing She Ceuld Do For Him. Une baturday afternoon recently a frail little man started to cross Broadway at Forty-second street Just when all sorts of fast moving vehicles were whirling their matinee patrons up Broadway. At the same Instant a very fleshy lady started from the curb directly opposite with the same pur- I pose in mind. By remarkable luck both succeeded In escaping the passing wheels; but, as fate would have It, the little man, j whose eyes were busy ogling the traf ; fle on either side of him, darted plump into the oncoming woman at the middle of the street. The result was a sickening collision, with the little man down and out. ‘‘You should have looked where you were going,” said the fleshy woman, bending over the victim on the curb, to which he had been carried by a traffic policeman. “Hut Is there anything I can do for you?” “Yes,” he replied faintly, opening his eyes a moment. "Get the number of the automobile that struck me."— Lippincott's. Holy Lands of All Religions. Christians call Palestine the Holy Land because It was the birthplace of the Christian religion on earth as well ns that of the Saviour, whose birth, ministry and death • are inseparably associated with the history of Jerusalem and vicinity. To the Mohammedans Mecca, in Arabia, is the holy land, it being the birthplace of Mohammed. the saviour of the followers of that faith. India is the holy land of the Chinese and other oriental Buddhists, it being the native land of Sakya Nunl, the supreme Buddha. Elis, one of the severe! divisions of the ancient Peloponnesus. was the Mecca and the Jerusalem of the ancient Greeks. The temple of Olympus Zeus was situated at Elis, and the sacred festivals were held there each year. With Achaia it is st present a part of Greece. The believers in the Sinto religion make i annual pilgrimage to Sitsa Kara, the | Immense stone pillar where their supreme ruler last stood while talking to men.—New York World. Sealing a Mine. The brilliancy of the clear autumn night was dimming in the first faint light of the dawn when the work of sealing the shafts began. Up into the cloudless sky, through the tangled steel work of the tipple, a tall tower of black smoke 300 feet high poured up into the still air and faded into the dawn. In two hours the black pits were covered, first with a layer of rails, and then on this was laid a solid bed of concrete, and two hours later only a few thin wisps of smoke that poured up through cracks along the edges of the great seal, like steam beneath the lid of a teakettle, told of the inferno that was seething in the mine 400 feet below. With the air cut off and the shaft sealed the fire could live only so long as sufficient oxygen remained to feed the flumes.—Atlantic Monthly. When the Super Is Ktiown. A risky uncertainty in one night stands is the super. In smaller places be works until G o'clock in the evening, peacefully partakes of his supper and presents himself nt the stage door at 7. This leaves a wry brief time for his drill. The mysteries of makeup have not t>een solved by him, and. worst of all. every inhabitant knows him. “Once,” as Lawrence Marston tells it, “we were doing'Richard III.' It -was a one night stand, with raw supers. All went well until the moment when the Is-ayers, with King Edward’s body on a stretcher, emerged from the wings. “ ‘Set down, sec down your howwable load.’ began Queen Anne. “‘Au’ do it *isy, Moike O’Brien!’ called a voice from the gallery,”—New York Tribune.

Damascus Olive Grove*. Tbere is an ancient custom under which the olive groves around Damascus are guarded by official watchmen to prevent the itrees being stripped by thieves. But on .a certain date the governor or some magistrate Issues a ■proclamation warning all owners of <olive trees that they must piek their fruit, for after a certain date it becomes public property. If a farmer has bis crop only half gathered when that date arrive* the public will gather It for him. An Extreme Case. ••Wbat was the trouble between Bwlntos and bls wife? Was It bis fault or bers that they were unable to get -along together?” "Jt’s rather hard to decide. It appears l'b»t whenever one of them bad an irresistible impulse the other had an unalterable objection.”—Chicago Record lieraid How He Gm Her. '■The psychological moment counts for much in a Jove affair.” “That is true. Ferdinand, for Inatanee, asked father for «ny hand the afternoon my dressmakers bill eame ta."- Washington Herald. Hereditary. “Jxwk at the way baby'* working hi* mouth!” exclaimed Mr*. Newman "Now he proposes to put hl* foot in it.” "H’m!” replied her busband grumpily. "Hereditary. That's what I did when I proposed.” He Went. Visitor— ls your clock right? Tired Hostes* (at the end of her patience and politeness) —Ob. no! That's the one we call the visitor. Visitor—Wbat a quaint name! Why? Hostess - Beeawe It doesn’t go.

An Epls of the Baekweede. One of the epic* of the backwooda, told by John G. Neihardt la “The River and I." is the adventure of old Hugh Glaas, who was terribly mauled by a grizzly up the Missouri, so terribly that the rest of the expedition pushed on, leaving a young friend with several others to see the end. “It seemed plain that he would have to go aoon. So the young friend and the others left the old man in the wilder- ; ness to finish the job by himself. They i took his weapons and hastened after the main party, for the country was hostile. "But one day old Glass woke up and got one of hi" eyes open. And when he saw how things stood he swore he would live merely for the sake of killing his false friend. He crawled to a spring dose by, where he found a bush of ripe bullberries. He waited day after day for strength and finally started out to crawl a small matter of a hundred miles to the nearest fort. And he did it too! Also he found his friend after much wandering—and forgave him.” Always Feminine. A young chap was walking along a business street with a very pretty girl when he happened to glance into a couple of windows where the latest styles of men's overcoats and suits were displayed. The girl noticed It. She stopped and exclaimed: “Whnt a dandy overcoat! Why don't you get one of those. Bob? You'll look fine inside of that.” She looked at everything in that window, and the young chap was delighted at her interest in men’s clothes. “You’re all right, Grace,” said be. “That’s what I like about you. Most girl« would rather look at lingerie waists than at a man's overcoat and suits.” The girl laughed. “Well, Bob.” said she, "to be perfectly honest, the mirrors in that window are something to cry for. 1 was trying to see if my hat I was on straight!” The Merits of “Angelick Snuff.” Angelick snuff, the most noble composition In the world, removing all manner of disorders of the head and brain, easing the most excruciating pain in a moment, taking away all swimming and giddiness proceeding

from vapours, etc.; also drowsiness, sleepiness and other letbargick effects, perfectly curing deafness to admira- , tion and nil humours and soreness in ( the eyes. etc. Corroborates the brain, ! comforts the nerves and revives the j , spirits. Its admirable efficacy in all ; the above mentioned diseases has been experienced above a thousand times , and very justly causes it to be es - ' teemed the most lieneficlal snuff in the world. Price Is. a paper, with direc1 lions. Sold only at Mr. Payn'a toy ■ shop at the Angel and Crown, in St. • Paul’s churchyard, near Cbeapside.— • Advertisement in London Paper, Aug. I C, 1711. i 3 Brignoli In a Temper. Ou one occasion Bianchi, the noted teacher, went on the stage to see Briguoli, the famous singer, whom he t found pacing up and down like a madi man. humming wer his part. "Why, Brig, what is the matter with r you? Are yea nervous?” he asked. r “Yes, I aa» nervous,” was the reply r as be walked harder and faster than p ever. 1, “But, Birig. you ought not to be nervs ous. I’ve heard you sing the i»art 200 times. 1 heard you sing it thirty s years ar?o.” 8 “Thirty years ago! Who are you i. that should know so much?” a “Who am 1? You know who I am, y and I know who you are.” . “Very well; you know wbat I am, but I am sure you do not know what e you are, and if you wish I will tell you. You are a fool!” i> ... ■- r Hazing Him. “Mr. Chairman,” said the new member of the literary club, “I move you. air”— r “I rise to a point of order. Mr. Chairman.” interrupted one of the other i members. r ‘(State your point of order.” “The gentleman says '1 move you.’ i It ie not only out of order but utterly f absurd for a man of 114 pounds to talk; r of 'moving' a chairman who weighs - 30e.” r “The point is well taken!” roared the ! presiding officer, bringing bls gravel. . down with a resounding tbud. “The gentleman will merely ‘move’ or take-hie-seat!”—Chicago Tribune. > A C*nt. » A<eent is a little thing, but in the ag- > gregale It is mighty. We speak of the* “copper cent.” but it is not entirely copper. Its composition Is S 5 per cent • copper. 3 per cent tin and 2 per cent 1 due. That alloy is in reality bronze. • and the official name of tbe cent is "bronae.” There used to be a copper cent, hut an act discontinuing its coinage ww passed in 1857. For seven • years <1857-64) we had a nickel cent and up de 1857 a copper half cent. Spoiling Hi* Advantage. ‘ Robert la»we, tbe English journalist, | was always saying good things. “Look •t that fool throwing away his natural advantages!” he exclaimed when i a deaf member of the bouse of com mon* put up hl* ear trumpet. Hi* Mil*. Mr. Baggie— Confound that tailor! These trousers are a mile too long. Mrs. Baggie-How much shall I tun them up? Mr. Baggie-About half an loch. It 1* lawful to pray God that we be ; not led into temptation, but not Jaw- . fui to skulk from those that come to u*. -B. L. Stevenson.

HENRY SCHMIDT FUNERAL. Funeral services for Henry J. Schmidt were conducted Saturday I at 8 o’clock at the home on Marshall street and at 8:30 o'clock from the Zion's Lutheran church by the Rev. Wehmeyer. Burial took place In the Lutheran cemetery north of Preble. Mr. Schmidt’s death occurred unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon from dropsy and heart trouble. FORGOT INVITATIONS. Not all the details of a dinner party enter the social columns. This may come a little late but it is so good we will have to give it now —omitting the names, however. A young Decatur lady was at home from college and wished to give a dinner for her friends from whom she had been separated several months. She had a fine 6 o’clock dinner prepared and was awaiting her guests, one of whom arrived on time, in full evening dress. The hour came and passed and no other guests came —the hostess meanwhile becoming much worried over the state of her dinner, which had reached the critical point when a few moments’ longer wait would mar the flavor. The one lone guest and the hostess were great ly concerned, when the guest finally said, in a spirit of fun —“Maybe you forgot to send the rest of the invitations.” And that was just what the hostess had done. She hurriedly telephoned them, and the other girls who were in town hastened to the dinner. One, however, was in Fort Wayne, but was expected home on the 7 o'clock car. and the party hurriedly went to the car to meet her and escort her to the party. Finally, after much scurrying around —everybody was seated at the table —the one guest in evening dress, the others in whatever they happened to have on at the time the call was made. But there was a jolly good time all the same, with much jollying of the hostess on accounty of her absent-mindedness.

AT POINT OF DEATH. ■ H«nry Hite Summoned to Bedside o’ 1 Brother, George Hite. j Henry Hite left at 10 o'clock last i Saturday for New Haven in response to | a message received this morning, stat- ‘ ■ ing that if he wished to see his broth- | er, George, alive, he should come at I once. George is the youngest brother j of the Hites, and has been a promiI nent veterinary ' surgeon of New Hai ven for many years. He has been ' sic kfor the past year or two with j consumption and his death is momentarily expected at this time. j ' I About the most promising three-year-old infant in the industrial his-, tory of Decatur is the Schafer Sadlery company, which is today moving its wholesale plant and harness factory into the large three-story building on East Madison street. The job of movi ing will require two weeks, but when finished the new factory will be one of the largest, most modern, best ven- ( 1 tilated and equipped of any harness manufactory in the middle west. With almost marvelous leaps the business , has grown from a one-man shop durt ing the past thirty-six months into a 1 real factory now employing twentytwo me® and this number will be increased to thirty August 1, when the wheels in the new plant begin to turn. The three floors of the tnadison street' building will be utilized, with offices I - and stock rooms on the first floor, the . r eWire second floor being used as aj {stock display room and the third floor , for the factory. A number of new mar chines have been purchased and are c aow being installed. Later a bases. ueltt will be built under the building asnd a steam heating plant put in to *• make the entire building comfortable *■ flturing the winter. The saddlery con- * stern and factory are separate and distinct from the rest of the Schafer bustineas and will be so operated, being in charge of C. C. Schafer, to whom be- - longs the greater part of the credit for, v toe irapid growth w! this department. r It a wholesale business, pure and ample. At present the territory is L covered by Walter Kauffman, who ’ Travels through central Indiana, and , 11. G. KaaaSißaw. who makes northern . ' .Indiana and southern Michigan. On i I August Ist a third salesman will be I .adhed, Henry Gentis covering western anti oemtral Ohio. The wonderful growth of tbe Schafer Sadlery company is no doubt due, i ' aside from the push that has been beI hind it., to the fact that they make ' ! high grade goods, securing business from the quality, rather than trying to meet competition of the larger factories toy meeting their prices and building an inferior grade of goods. I They satisfy their customers and are . therefore enjoying an ever-increasing business. The growth of this whole ( i sale house has been watched by many ( i Decatur people who will be glad to I learn at this time of the necessity 1 for more commodious quarters, and , hope three years more will find it ’ i necessary for them to add another ■ >

three stories ® | OLD PIONEER DEAD. l' John J. Augsberger of Linn Grove, prominently known throughout the county, died this morning at 8 o'clock following a three months' sickness with Bright's disease. For tie past month he has been bedfast and his condition had become such that the end had been looked for for some time past. He was eighty-three years ot age and beloved by the many with whom he was acquainted. He leaves six children. Noah, Albert, John, Elmer, Mrs. Charles Cremp and Miss Etta Augsberger, all residing at Linn Grove. He also leaves two brothers and two sisters. The funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock from the Mennonlte church. — o ■ East Oakland, Cal., July 2, 'll. John H. Heller, Decatur, Ind.: My Dear Heller: —We reached this city of three hundred thousand population ‘One week ago today. Mrs. Beatty stood the trip quite well and is feeling about as she did when we left Decatur. The climate here is fine. We experienced quite an earthquake , shock yesterday at 2 o’clock. We were all upstairs at the time and everybody started for the front yard, it i was the most peculiar sensation I . ever experienced. It broke all the > mantels on the gas lights in the house • and knocked some of the dishes off > the shelves and stopped the clock. They say it was the worst they ever had here except the one in 1906. The people who passed through the one ■ in 1906 were very much excited and - remained in their yards all afternoon. • We are all going out to Golden Gate r park today to spend the day. We t have been sight-seeing almost every - day. The weather here is not so - warm as in Indiana; sleep under > blankets every night. , | With best wishes, lam ! j Yours truly, A. P. BEATTY |

A CLERICAL VISITOR. Very Rev. Monsignor George Houck of Cleveland. Ohio, was in the city Friday, a clerical guest of Father Wilken and also of W. A. Kuebler. Rev. Houck was the chancellor of the Cleveland diocese for thirty-two years, residing at -the bishops' home and under the guidance of Bishop Hortsman, who died a few years ago. He and Father Kuebler. a brother of Mr. Kuebler of this city, said their first mass together, and have always been warm friends of each other, as well as of many others of this city. They were ! schoolmates together in the prepai.' tion for the priesthood at St. Mary s. Cincinnati, Ohio, and at which time Father Wilken was a professor of tbe ' seminary. His visit to the city was a short but pleasant one and their ae quaintance after several years absence was renewed, his last visit heie being at the twenty-fifth anniversary of Father Wilken's stay in this city. A happy picnic party was given in honor of the Misses Margaret Todd 1 and Helen’’“"k of Bluffton and Julius Lind of Huntington, the party going out by autos to a grove west of the city, where they had a picnic supper. Other members of the party were Bob Peterson. Glen Falk, Vaughn Murray, Free Frisinger, Dan Tyndall, Naomi Dugan. Reba Quinn, Winifred Burke, Ruth Parrish. Vera Hower and i Ethel Smith. H r- . I Very pretty was the beautiful conn •try home of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony ' Lengerich west of the city when a .’number of young people were royally entertained last Friday evening in 'honor of the Misses Thresa and Edna ,'Vrondran of Hort Wayne. Beautiful ,’vases of sweet peas and carn& aon9r 1 were prettily arranged throughout the J dining and living room?. Games and dancing were enjoyed during the evening. Music was furnished by the 'Geels orchestra. At a late, hour delicious refreshments werg served ig llit> dining room, whitb one appre ciated very much. Those who enjoyed the evening were Bertha, Eugene and John Kintz, Belle and Edward Bernard, Gertrude, Joseph and John Geels, Leo Lengerick, Lucy Colchin, Charles Bentz, Albert Langerman, Philamina and Walter Colchin, Bertha Lengerich. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bentz, Thresa and Edna Vrondran of Fort Wayne. I Mesdames D. 11. Erwin, Miles Pillars, Wid Dorwin and C. D. Lewton ’ were royally entertained Friday at ! the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Hendricks at Monroe, enjoying the best dinner and supper that were ever spread. Mr. and Mrs. James Brunnegraph celebrated the Fourth in honci of their grandchildren. A sumptuous- dinner was served at. noon and lunch in the evening. Their daughter, Mrs. R. H. Schwartz, and little daughter, Mary Agatba, of Champaign, 111., who are spending several weeks with them, were out-of-town guests.