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Smyrna times., 1907-08-28
WIFE TRUE BLUE" so WHY WORRY.
Decker's Honeymoon Interrupted Until His New
Wife Gets Him Out OF Jail.

DOVER, DEL, August 23-Mrs Mary
Louta, of New Castle, 20 years old,
but much younger in appearance aud
spirits, and the towns youngest bride,
will have occasion to stand by the
promises she made before a Methodist
minister, who last week married her in
holy wedlock to William H. Decker, at
which time she swore that she, ''for-
ssking all others, would cleave only to
him until death us do part "
Decker, brought to Dover by de-
tective was held in $500 bail and could
not then furnish the bail, for the whip
ping post offense of larceny, crime
committed in 1902, against Ralph B.
Jarman. He declared to the authori-
ties that he would not remain long in
prison as bail would be promptly forth
coming, intimating that his wife was
true blue. Two days ago Decker was
enjoying his honeymoon at New Gas.
tie where, last week, he welded Mrs.
Mary Louth, a septuagenarian widow
of some chattels and money in hand,
acting like man who, in the midst of
dream of riches and palaces, was
awakened by the ringing of his alarm
clock, almost splitting in his ear, al
$50 in the morning. When Decker
was brought to Dover and taken before
Magistrate Wood, Constable Fourakel
Immediately recognized him as th,
William II. Decker, who was wanted
| for the larceny of blacksmith's tool
{ from Ralph B. Jarman, of Woodside
as we'll as the man who is supposed {,
4 have stolen John II. Ross drivini
: horse in 1901, and drove offon South
r ern tour with the Ross roadster. Th
r courts docket showed the entry tina
q William H. Decker, October term, 1901
, pleaded guilty to larceny of horse
Il was sentenced to the following punish
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28

John, the only child of Mr. and Mrs.
John Collins, Laurel's wealth lest resi-
dent, died Friday in great agony after
swallowing some tablets which his
father had been taking. The medicine
was kept in box on a stand. In some
way the child, who was but eighteen
months old, got the box and helped
himself. He was rushed to a physi-
clan but all efforts were fruitless to
save his life.
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28
Hay Fever and summer Colds.

Victims of hay fever will experience
great benefit by taking FOley's Honey
and Tar, as it stops difficult breathing
Immediately and heals the inhamed air
passages, aud even if it should fall to
cure you it will give instant 'e'ief.
The genuine is in a yellow package.
Benton n. Weldon, Smyrna aud W. R.
KevF, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28

not feel at all hilarious; in fact, he is
singular person who does not feel quite
serious.
The second time you enter a store
you do it as you would perform any un
pleasant duty, or as you would enter a |
morgue in search of a lost friend.
When the portals close behind you and
you begin to breathe the dark, dank,
gloomy atmosphere in the place, you
watch two silent men who handle boxes
as if they were coffins. With solemn
foot and a studied expression looking
neither to the right or to the left they
perform their work, and uncanny feel
ings will begin to creep over you. You
think of all the abbeys and catacombs
in Europe and Mexico. Just then the
proprietor from some unseen corner
will break in upon your reverie and
ask: "What will you have. But his
expression is cold, and he has the stony
stare of the dead, and his voice is a
stately echo from a sepulcher which
makes the cold sweat start. You state
your wants, one at time, while he
moves in silence like an automaton and
you feel as if you were being waited
upon by dead man, and you really
are. He is dead to every human feel
ing except that of greed and the fact
that he is an aristocrat. You feel too
uncomfortable to make any quibble
about prices. You pay and hurry out.
Such is business to the new conner in
Lake County.
Just when the death of the merchant
occurred will probably never be known,
he has been in Lake county so long
that he does not know he is dead makes
no difference; for no dead thing ever
thinks it is dead. The manner of his
death is more certain, While figuring
on a problem of how to put thousand
miles of ocean water on the outside of
the mountains which rim his democracy
to compel his customers to buy al
home, he ruptured blood vessel il
his great brain.
Though they never allow it to mil
in their business, the aristOcracy il
} very religious. They have plenty o
churches and ample church room bu
: they are never filled. Their religion
D is the good old hard she'll kind wher'
r they have hard benches and preacl
q hell fire, aud though have told man
q of them of the warm weather they hav
t there in summer, they will not fill The
5 churches and the preachers wOnde
5 why.
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28
The Limit of Life.

The most eminent medical sc'e '-is
are unanimous in the cOUcluslO f''t
the generally accepted limitatlo #
human life is many years below tue ~
tainment posslble with the adv ced
knowledge of which the race s o"
possessed. The critical period, 'at
determines its duration, Seems he
between 80 and 60; the proper CO" oi
the body during this decade ca""o' tie
too strongly urged; care lessnt-s 'hen
being fatal to longevity. Maui" :
best helper after so - Electric Buffers,
the scientific tome medicine that e
vltalizes every organ Of th. ""'N.
Guaranteed bv Benton \. Nrli''.
Druggist SOC.
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28

Miss May Walls, of Milford Neck,
died on board the steamer Fredr'l'a
last Thursday. She had fallen ON
a cherry tree and sustained Iufr' nal
injuries. She was sent to Phi0del-
phia hospital, where she was put In
plaster Paris aud treated successfully
until the authorities agreed she conld
be sent home. Excitement of the trip
FASTENED her death
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28
The Jurisprudence of Lake county.

The jurisprudence of Lake County
is supposed to be guided by the Cali
fornia Code. The lawyers are few,
however, which is fortunate, but
humanity sometimes has to ask for
their services, which is unfortunate.
Should a new conner or a sojourner
happen to have case with an aristo-
crat which seems to demand the ad-
Indication of the court, when he seeks
lawyer he finds them all engaged on
the other side. Here, as elsewhere,
the lawyers are alert to their own in
terests and it is only the code of the
aristocrat which goes in Lake County.
Anybody knows an arlstocracy is al
ways progressive and this one is no ex-
ception. They have bridged all the
little streams which cross their coun-
try roads while they still ford the
larger and more dangerous ones. Au-
other remarkable thing about this re-
markable republic, they have elimina
ted the negro. The negro wants some
play and song, music and stories
This people is gloomy. They have {
beautiful country, good climate bu
too little good cheer, except that which
comes from the nimble edge of rotgu
whiskey.
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28

ment: Restitution money, $137.25; fine,
500; whippluep t"eh ueN
on bare back; pll.r for one our;
prison for one }eo Decker the
good sense to NIKE no statems" a." n
court.
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28
SKETCH OF LAKE
COUNTY CALIFORNIA
A FARMERS ARISTOCRACY
HAS FULL SWAY THERE
What an Eastern Man, Former
Delawarean, Was Up Against
in Becoming a Settler.

KE1sEYvILL. LAKE Co., CALIFORNIA,
August, 3:-Not even in "Gulliver's
Travels" or the romances of VOltaire
can be found a county exactly like old
Lake. This is supposed to be county
in California, but it has such malig-
nant desire to keep apart and different
from the rest of the state as makes it
wholly unlike any part of it. Travel
ers have credited the greatest intellect
ual development attained on our planet
to Boston, Berlin, Buda-Pesth, Paris,
Vienna, etc., but they all may have
their perplexity removed if they will
but come to Lake, for here it is truly
found. Were there enough inhabitants
in Lake to make city it would be a
very brainy one but there would
be scarcely any who would do the work,
and after they had preyed upon each
other until their substance had been
consumed, it is difficult to tell exactly
whal they would then do. Perhaps
their greatest brains would then sug-
gest that they bring IN the people from
Philistia and fleece them.
Among the commission men of San
Francisco they say Lake is afflicted
with 'mOssbackitis. Commission
men, you know. are never reliable and
are apt to stigmatize community with
unjust libels. Therefore, 1 sought
several expert opinions, and these all
agreed that it is nothing moIe serious
than fossilized palzy of the brain sup
erinduced by an overweening desire o.
each inhabitant to always beat thu
other fellow in a horse trade. But a
neither of these opinions seemed to ez
plain how it was that old Lake ha
climbed pinnacle which had mad
the majority of her citizens more wis
than the Gods of Olympus, and know
ing there must be spot In the worl
somewhere which had reached th
greatest intellectual superiority, it
discovery and location were matters
greater moment to mankind than tt
discovery of either the North or Sout
Poles, perhaps than of both of then
began a search which has lasted MOI
than year. After scanning the pag,
of many large and curious Yolun
aud interviewing many wise men, d
you know, have found the spot is o
Lake itseIf-a community of farmer
1t is, therefore, the purpose of this lC
ter to give this important knOwled
to the world and give a short histol
of Lake and some of the customs pl
Vailing there that they may become
beacon to your benighted state.
Smyrna times., 1907-08-28
The First Settlers OF Lake County.

Except few Catholic missionaries
to the Red men, the first white men to
seek out Lake County, were prospec-
tors in search of gold (the effete east
might call them ''dollar ehasers. ") All
of them were disappointed in finding
pay dirt, but some of them rather liking
the looks of the sky and mountains
and big Clear Lake (Which is always
clear when il is not muddy decided to
remain here anyhow. This was in the
early fifties. Their haunts were not
seriously disturbed by further inrOads
of white men until '65 after the close
were a disappointed lot even before
they crossed the elliptIcal range of
mountains which wall in the county.
They came mostly from the divided
state of Miss ouri with an occasional
one from Tennessee and Arkansas.
They had lost their slaves and some
money in the fortunes of war Many
of them had refused to take the oath oi
allegiance prescribed for those who
had been in rebellion, at that time
Their hearts were sodden so they set
tied down to agriculture and gloom il
this beautiful gem of the mountains
along with the disappointed prospec
tors.
Cotton was no longer King, it haC
lost out. Oil kings, railroad barone
and the like had not yet reached thei
zenith, but these farmers sighed an
wished for some form of aristocracy
and as they were not overfond of worl
it came natural to them to be intellect
ual and they began to scale the height
on which they soon stood without
peer. They loved the good old day
of ''befo the wah." They nursed the
mIsfortunes rather than forgot then
but knowing no opportunity to wrea
vengeance they became gloomy an
glum like the intellectual philosophei
of eye olden time" So that, whi
every other aristocracy of the wor
can only boast of one great distinguis
ing quality, this aristocracy can boa
of two.
They wrote to their friends, a
their friends brought their frienC
They began the trek across the plain
and found a welcome when they
rived. Those who happened to CO.
to Lake unbidden were hardly welco
neighbors, especially those of mel
eyes and an honest demeanor; th
they liked best of all to ostraci
They told them strange and gloo
stories about the country and only
determined remained.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
duct services. Burial will take place
at Calvary cemetery.
NAME IS KELLEY,
BUT NOT E. LOUIS
Trouble at Sherrard Over Confusion of
Preachers, and Rev. A. c. Kelley
Is the Victim.

There is trouble at Sherrard. and
c. A. Samuelson, former representa-.
tive. and president of the Sherrarl
village board appears to have made a
mistake which is the cause of the row
Rev. A. C. Kelley of Sherrard appar-
emily is the victim. Recently Mr.. Sam
uelson went to Peoria to investigate
the record of L. Louis Kelley. who
was indicted in Peoria for -wrecking
the Peoples Savings bank, about the
time of the suicide of Rev. George
Simmons. Mr.. Samuelson found much
against f. Louis Kelley, and return.
ing. it is said. to have confused Rev
e. Louis Kelley with Rev. A. C. Kelley
of Sherrard. Then Rev. A. G.. Kelley
began to get busy. He has shown
that Rev. f. Louis Kelley is in Chi
cago and has never been near Sher-
rard, and according to Peoria news
papers the Sherrard preacher promises
trouble for Mr.. SamuelsOn and others
who took up the story and prepared
for a church trial to fire him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
LATTER DAY SAINTS
DELEGATES ARE HERE
of the Reformed Church Opened
This Morning.

About 80 delegates from the various
branches of the Kewanee district of
the reformed church of Latter Day
Saints assembled at Odd Fellows hall
this morning in the annual conference.
f. W. Wight of Lamont, Iowa, mission
airy in charge of Illinois, Iowa, and
Wisconsin, is presiding, and Mrs Mary
f. GilIin Of Peoria is secretary. The
reports of the various branches were
read during the morning, and James
Norris made financial report of the
district
This evening at 7:I5 there will be
preaching by Elder J. 7. HaCkctt of
Lake Geneva. Wis, who will be as
sisted by Carl Ball of the tri-city branch.
The program for tomorrow is as fol
lows: S:4J a. m, prayer meeting in
charge of Ehlcrs Amos Berve of Ke-
vance and Ezra Bryant of JOY: 1915,
preaching by Elder f. b. Farr of Mar
ion, Iowa. assisted by o. SADIE Of JOY
ILL.,; 80 p. m, preaching by Bishop
G.. j. billiard of independence, Mo. as.
sisted by James Davis of the tri-city
branch; 7:45 p. m. preaching by J. w
Wight Of Lamont, Iowa, assisted by O.
ii. Bailey of Media. Iowa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
OBITUARY..
Francis A. Solander.

Francis A. Solander, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. A. Solander, 1000 Fourteenth
street, died this morning at 11:25 from
a complication of ailments. He was
born July q, 1878, in this city, and
had resided here all his life. He work
ed during the last four years at the
Standard Table Oil Cloth plant in this
city, His parents are the only sur
vivors. The funeral will take place al
2:30 Monday afternoon from the resi-
dence, where Rev. J. l.. Vance will con
duct the services. Burial will take
place at Chippiannock cemetery. Mem
bers of the local tribe of Red Men, O
which Mr.. SOlander was a member, will
attend the funeral in a body.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
DELAYED ON LAKES
Members of Inland Waterways
Commission Leave St. Paul
Behind Schedule.
WILL ARRIVE HERE TOMORROW
Are to Be Guests of Tri-city Press
Club During Stop Here, and
Dined in Evening.

Owing to unavoidable delays and
heavy weather on the great lakes. the
members of the Inland Waterways
commission, who are to be in Rock
Island tomorrow, did not leave St. Paul
until yesterday morning. They did not
reach st. Paul until Thursday night
as they expected, but Colonel Durham
of the engineers office here states that
the Col. A. Mackenzie, on which the
party Is making the trip down the
river, will reach Rock Island on sched-
ule time between > and o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. While the water
on the upper river is high and will
prevent a view of the dams and other
improvements. the trip will be most
interesting one. Captain Frank B.
Martin, master of the Col. \. Macken-
zie, states that better time for such
a trip could not have been chosen.
To Bc Entertained Here.
The party is to be met tomorrow
at Clinton by the entertainment com
iIIit'Ct vi me IIi-CllH IItSS tluD, TIE
members OF which will entertain the
visitors tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock
at dinner at the Rock Island Clur.
At Rock Island the party will be met
at the landing by automobiles and
taken to Moline for a hurried inspec.
ton of the government water powe:
plant at the arsenal. The members
of the commission to be here are Con.
gresham T. L. Burton of Ohio. char
| man; Senator Francis Newlands OF
| Nevada, General A. Mackenzie. Chi ii
of the engineers; DR.. w. J. Niece
| government ethnologist, secretary; F
II. Newell, chief of the reclamation
| bureau; Clifford PinchOt. chief of the
forestry service, and Herbert X. Smith
chief of the bureau of corporations.
| Wilkinson il Coming.
In addition to the members of the
Waterways commission, the Press clut
expects tomorrow to have as its guest
Thomas Wilkinson of Burlin gton, pres
ident of the Upper Mississippi Rive
/ Improvement association. Mr.. Wilkin
son will probably be in the city to
night or in the morning. and will b,
one of those at the Press clubs din
ner tomorrow evening in honor of thu
members of the commission
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
Health in the Canal Zone

The high wages paid make it a
mighty temptation to our young arti-
sans to join the force of skilled work
men needed to construct the Panama
canal. Many are restrained however
by the fear of fevers and malaria. 1t
is the knowing ones-those who haze
used Electric Bitters, who go there
without this fear, well knowing they
are safe from malarious influence with
Electric Bitters on hand. Cures blood
poison too. biliousness, weakness AMI
all stomach, liver and kidney troubles.
Guaranteed by w. T. Hartz, druggist
sol Twentieth street. soc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
PERSONAL POINTS.

Leonard Smith departed this morn
ing for visit at Peoria.
Charles McHuGh leaves tonight for
South Dakota on hunting trip.
Mr. and Mrs. w. e. Copp and daugh-
ter have gone to Chicago for visit
Mrs. S. T. Bowlby has gone to Eu-
glewoud, where she will visit for a
week
Earl Bowlby left at noon today for
Chicago, where he will enter the Chi
cago university.
Ed Brandmeyer has departed for
Seattle. Wash. where he will max =
an extended visit and perhaps locate.
Mrs. Charles McHugh and daughter
Miss Elizabeth McHugh, left yesterday
for New York where the latter enters
school,
the city. having come here to attend
the funeral of James ]. LaVelle, d
cousin of Mrs. Miller.
DR.. V. A. Bergland. who has been
touring the Pacific coast from south
ern California to British Columbia, i,
now on his way home via the Cana
dian Pacific and expects to arrive
early next week.
Robert Merk, formerly a resident
of this city, who has been living fo1
| the last two years near Seattle, Wash.
has returned to the city with the in
tention of again making his home
here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
Is Assessed Big Fine.

julius Mesdagh was fined 500 and
costs this morning by Magistrate Ell
lott on txe charge of assault and bat
terry, and in default of the amount went
to Jail for 90 days. Mesdagh was ar
rested Thursday evening for assault
ing Charles Steinbach at the Owl sa
loon. Steinbach had worked during
the day as bartender at the place in
the absence of Mesdagh, the regular
bartender. When the latter arrived a.
the place in the evening he objected to
Steinbach's presence back of the bar
and the trouble followed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
POSSIBILITY OF SETTLEMENT
Soilermakers Stated to Have Formu
lated a Proposition,

According to a statement given OUT
today from the office of Superinten
dent Sidel of the Silyis shops, there
seems 10 be a prospect of a settle
ment Monday of the boilermakers
strike. The men, it is stated. have
formulated d proposition TO be con
sidered at a conference to be held III
Chicago Monday, and will return 10
work if the company accepts the prop
osition. The terms proposed are
withheld by the superintendent.
Today $50 more men were laid off
at the shops, and provided with passes
to any point on the system where they
cared to go This makes a total of
between 400 and 500 men out of work
in addition to the boilermakers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28

which time w. l.. Brodine of the com
pulsory education department of the
public schools of Chicago will lecture
on THE Cross of Childhood" The
president of the club, Rabbi Fineshri
Der, will also give a short address out
lining the work of the club for the
coming year. Mr. Bodine has had many
years of experience in rescue wOr';
and his address will undoubtedly be
full of much helpful aGyi"e. \ general
invitation mas been issue Il to the pub
lie anu those especially Interested in
educational work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
BELIEVES ROAD WILL COME
Rock Island Southern's Good Showing
ing Will Aid Extension.

Superintendent Mccullough of the
Rock Island Southern. operating an in
tcrurban between Monmouth and
Galesburg, saws he has examined the
books for the past year and finds tn (
the road has done exceptionally well
financially. so much better than ex-
pected. that he believes there will be
little difficulty now in financing the
extension to this city. As is generally
known several routes to Rock Island
have been surveyed and efforts to pro
vide capital to build the line, while
not successful the past year, have noJ
been given up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
Entertains Operators at Dinner
River RipIets.

The Helen Blair and Ruth were
down. The Everett and B. Hershey
went north.
The stage of water was $50 at 6 a.
m and 615 at noon.
The steamer Helen Blair returned
this morning at 10 o'clock from its
cruise to st. Paul with a party of
tourists. The boat kept up to schedule
time, but the last part of the cruise
was made somewhat unpleasant ~
the stormy weather.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
SOCIAL AFFAIRS.

fSoclety news. written or telephoned
TO the society editor of The Argus, will
be gladly received and published. But
In either case the identity of the sender
must be made known, to insure relia-
bility. Written notices must bear sig
nature and address.
Russ AtWelI.-Miss Frieda Russ of
this city, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Russ, 3006 Tenth avenue. was
united in marriage this morning at .
O'Clock to Marshall Burton Atwell OF
Chicago the ceremony being performs
ed at the parsonage of the Broadway
Presbyterian church by Rev. w. s.
Marquis. The couple was attended by
George c. Picard of this city as best
man and Miss Bertha GlOckhOff, cousin
of the bride, as bridesmaid. Following
the marriage ceremony the bridal
party and number of invited guests
gathered at the home of the brides
! parents, where a sumptuous wedding
| breakfast was served. Mr.. and Mrs
Atwell departed on a noon train for
| Chicago where they will make Their
home The bride was born and reared
| in this city where she is widely and
favorably known. She was employed
for the last two years as bOokkeepel
in the grocery store of Rogers & CO
| The groom is at present a member D
the mounted police force of Chicag:
but formerly was employed on tht
Rock Island road in this city.
Entertains Operators at Dinner
Miss Anna RanbergeI yesterday en-
tertained the day operators of tn
Union Electric Telephone company a
her home, 1910 Fifth avenue, at din
ner. Following dinner games an
music contributed to the evening
pleasure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-28
LIGHTNING STRIKES A HOUSE
Home of Mrs. j. r. Huber Damaged
by Bolt Last Eveninu,

During the hard storm last evening
just about : o'clock. a bolt of light
ming struck the residence of Mrs. !.
R. Huber. 9l1 Fourth avenue. occupied
by Mrs. Huber and Colonel w. T.
Channon and family. The lightning
struck a chimney at the rear of the
house. but the bolt left the chimney
tore off part of the roof. and reached
the ground by way of metal pipe
The building was damaged about 5000
Several persons We're seated near the
chimney on the first floor, but were
not affected by the shock.