Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 10

THE DECATUR DAILY HERALD over Sunday with Ed. Deland and fam- ily. The primary school is preparing to "District School" on Dec. 29, sire, the benefit of the school. Miss Jeanette Dawson, the teacher, is conducting it.

Mrs. G. W. Teats gave a china and linen shower Friday afternoon at her home to the Misses Bessie Deland and Bertha Bradley who are to be married Wednesday evening. Twenty-nine young women were present.

Sandwiches, coffee, fruits and cake were served for refreshments. MACON MACON CHURCH TO OBSERVE CHRISTMAS MACON, Dec. 21-The Presbyterian Sunday school will give its Christmas entertainment at church Thursday evening. The program follows: Recitation, "Welcome," Esther Gilmore; recitation, "Keeping a Secret," Eunice Wise; exercise, "The Holly Berries," four girls; exercise, "Heralds of Christmas," four boys; chorus, "Wondrous Night," primary scholars; recitation, "One Christmas Eve's Dream," Miss Pearl Bitter; recitation, "Coming of Christ," Miss Martie White; exercise, "Making Presents," six girls; recitation, "Face upon the Floor," Miss Bessie Overiin; chorus. Christmas Hymn," class of young ladies; recitation, "God Hears," Mabel Adams; recitation, "Story of Christmas," Danny and Alfie Kalips; recitation, "My Dolly's Christmas," Mary Gilmore; recitation, "The Christmas Tree," Freda Wichener; exercise, "Favorite Year," six boys; recitation, "Bessie's Dream," Trela Cotner; recitation, "An Automobile Sled," Mardie Easley; Christmas Bells," six girls; recitation, "Little Gabriel; recitation, "Little Boy Blue," Elizabeth Carson; cantata, "A Christmas for Santa Clous," by a number of young women and young men.

SNAP LOCK PUZZLES POLICE. Helpless as Baby, He Phones for Needless Key. ern trip. Christmas shopping. The stores here Miss Ella Dorsett of Clinton visited thought I r.eede! a Key!" a more a week, of tuber- Steel corporation have granted pen- condition.

For sale by all druggists. of little than STIRRING UP DECATUR Mammoth Thirty-Day Stock Reduction Sale Thousands of Dollars Worth of Clothing at a 20 Per Cent. Discount Right in the heart of the Christmas season we are forced to inaugurate this great Stock Reduction Sale in order to enable workmen to install new fixtures. No one can doubt the genuineness of this great event. We do not run sale after sale and cause our prices to fluctuate.

We have been in business in Decatur for the thirteen years and this is positively the first sale we ever held. Our business methods are known to be straight forward and honest and in this sale past our men's suits and overcoats and children's clothing goes. EVERY ARTICLE IS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES If the values we offer do not stir up Decatur and vicinity to a clothing stampede, it will be because folks hereabouts do not want clothes. No one with common clothing judgment can help but realize on sight that never before in the history of Decatur trading have such remarkable clothes values been offered. Not old job lots, special purchases or trash; but fine, up-to-date, dependable goods such as Hall has offered you all season at prices that were then below their real goods, worth.

Now they are cut with a determination and generosity to effect a quick clearance. If you are within 50 miles of Decatur and do savings, have lost that come to not grasp this great chance at clothes you The reductions bona may marked you many years. Every article is marked in plain figures. You can tell on every item an opportunity not again in you are saving. are fide, just as and as stated here.

Hall never misleads- -when Hall says it it's so. You take chances. just what than promise- no We more WE GUARANTEE EVERY PRICE AND STATEMENT J. H. HALL, 159 East Main Street Decatur, Illinois Tuesday, December 22, 1908 PIATT U.

OF I. STUDENTS IN BEMENT PULPITS Over One Thousand People Attend Sunday Services And Hear Them. BEMENT, Dec. students from the University of Illinois conducted the services at the PresbyterIan church of Bement, and all its branches Sunday, over one thousand people attending. Mr.

Kukutchi, a Japanese, spoke at Cerro Gordo in the afternoon, and at Bement Ir. the evenThe students were divided into parities to conduct the services at the missions folows: At the Coffin school, Messrs. Scott and Harmon and Miss Nichols; at Willow Branch Messrs. Thrall and Kruger; at Prairie Miss Bowen Miss Kirk; at Cerro Gordo, Miss Nichols, Miss Kirk, Mr. Thrasher and Mr.

Kukutchi. Miss Nichols and Miss Clark had charge of the Christian Endeavor meeting in Bement, Sunday evening. Bement News Notes. Miss Edna Church of Pierson was In Bement Monday. John Crinnigan of Ivesdale was in Bement Monday.

Miss Geneva Ray will visit relatives In Hammond Tuesday. Miles Quick of Atwood transacted business in Bement Monday. Elmer W. Jacobs of Decatur visited friends in Bement Sunday. Spooner of Blue Mound was in the city.

Sunday and Monday. George W. Wigging of Lodge visited in Bement Monday. W. M.

White of Atwood was in this city Monday. Cressy Rhinehart was a Decatur visitor Monday. Ray Palmer, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. James Palmer, who has been quite sick, is better.

Charles Adking was in Monticello Monday. Bowdle is in the hospital at Bpringfield. He will be operated on for an abcess. Mr. and Mrs.

George Goodrich were In Decatur Saturday. M. J. Mason was an Ivesdale vistor Monday. Mr.

and Mrs. George Larson of Voorhles shopped 1n Bement Monday. Bert Landenback is ill with yellow Jaundice. Thelma, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Prieslly, 1s quite 111. Dr. T. H. Swain of Decatur made a professional visit to Bement Monday.

C. W. Dawson visited friends in Decatur Sunday. Louis Connaghan and L. E.

Harshbarger were in Decatur Saturday. Claude Burns who is attending the Chicago veterinary school is home for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. John Allen of Indianapolis visited Mr.

and Mrf. Robert Parker Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Allen were on their way horne from a west- A.

J. FOUST DIES IN HOOKER, OKLA. MONTICELLO, Dec. was received, A. J.

Monday Foust of morning Hooker, of Okla. the which occurred Monday morning. Mr. Foust had lived in and about Monticello for the past fifty-ono years, until about one year ago when he with his wife, went to Hooker, to reside. His death was not wholly unexpected, as his daughter, Miss Olive Foust was summoned to his side, a week ago.

Mr. Foust wag born In Ohio March 12.1829. He cume do Ill1nois in 1855, and to a farni in Platt county in 1856. In 1860 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Anderson, who survives him. To this union five children were born.

They are: Mrs. Emma Alvey. and Miss Olive Foust of Monticello and Frank Foust Hooker Okla. The a remains will be brought to Monticello for interment, arriving Wednesday. No arrangements have made for the funeral.

Miss Richards Dies Miss Lillie Alice Richards died at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs. F. A. Richards, living near Seymour, Sunady, Dec. 20.

She wts born July 9. 1893. She had been ill with dropsy for the last six months. She is. survived by her parents, one brother and a sister.

She was a granddaughter of J. J. Strohl. The funeral services will be at the Fairview church, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev.

Whitney of White Heath and Rev. M. Predmore of this city will officiate. The interment will be in the Monticells cemetery. Monticello News Notes.

Mrs. Fred Silcox of Bryan, turned to Monday after a visit with her daughter, Airs. J. D. Leiper.

Mr. and Mrs. Leiper accompanied her as far as Bement. Mrs. John Haffner and son of Farmer City are the guests of Mrs.

Fred Edie. Misses Gertrude McMillen and Grace Davis spent Saturday in Decatur. Miss Margaret Davison of Highlands is visiting her grandparents E. G. Knight and wife.

Rev. Jesso Dansey, formerly of this city, now of Danville, will deliver a lecture in the Methodist church on Tuesday evening, 29. for the benefit of the Epworth league. Mrs, Frank Dilatush and daughter, Miss Annie, Mrs. John Phalen and daughter, Miss Clara, and Mrs.

M. R. Davidson spent Monday In Decatur. D. V.

Bohon of Harrodsburg, is here to spend the holidays. Claude Lanman of Decatur visited his parents Sunday. 75 PEOPLE DAILY RIDE TO DECATUR CERRO GORDO, Dec. Gordo has what might be called a population these days, as floating, Pan average of seventy-five people who daily go to Decatur for the also have many attractions and are having a fine Christmas trade. Cerro Gordo News Notes.

At the G. A. R. hall Saturday, night the Woman's Relief Corps, gave a reception to Dudley. The husbands were all invited, also the members of the G.

A. andetheir wives. About fifty people evening. Coffee, ice cream and apple pie were served. A surprise was planned and executed Saturday night by "The Jolly Crowd" and their husbands.

The victim was Mrs. Mollie Guswold Macey, now of Tuscola, who is visiting here. She was a former grammar room teacher in the Cerro Gordo high school and has many friends here. Refreshments were served and a merry happy time was enjoyed. Miss Faye Thompson of Kansas City and Miss Edna Hawthorne of Decatur are guests of Dr Mrs.

J. G. Ellis this week. County Sheriff Col. C.

A. Shively, was in town Saturday on business. AGED WOMAN DROPS DEAD. Mrs. Mary Troxell, of Deland, Expires After Attending Church.

DELAND. Dec. Troxell dropped dead at 12:30 p. m. Sunday, at the home of J.

W. Cyphers, where she had gone after attending church, intending to take dinner. She had hardly entered the house, when she fell to the floor and expired instantly. A coroner's jury decided death resulted from heart failure. Deceased was 64 years old and had resided Deland for many years.

She is survived by two children, C. F. McBride, with whom she made her home, and Mrs. M. E.

Miller, who resided here. The funeral will be held from the home Tuesday afternoon, and interment will be in Deland cemetery. LA PLACE. LA PLACE, Dec. revival services that have been in progress at the Methodist church will continue throught the remainder ofth'e week.

The Odd Fellows have papered and painted their hall. Perry Wertz was in Burrowsville Sunday. Mr. Kosey of Monticello, who is to take Mr. Owensgy's place as cashier of the bank here was here Saturday getting acquainted with the people.

The farmers of this community are plowing. welled the rain the ground plows Roy Jennings of Casner was here Friday. Frank here Edgcomb Friday. of near Cerro was Ray Curry of Lintner was here Monday, The basketball team from here is to play Sullivan New Years day at Sullivan. Henry Kenney and Frank Kregg who have been ditching near Oakley returned Tuesday.

The ground is so hard and dry they could not dig longer. WHITE HEATH. WHITE HEATH, Dec. L. Seiners shipped two car loads of hogs to Chicago Friday.

Mrs. E. R. Deland and Mrs. E.

E. Deland and children and Jake Perry, attended the chicken show 10 Weldon Thursday. The new business building of Thompson Deland and Bluchey, is going up rapidly. DOUGLAS FATHER FILES SUIT FOR DAMAGE Arthur Lothan Charges Alienation Of His Child's Affections. TUSCOLA, Dec.

precipe and declaration in a $15,000 damage suit was filed here today by Arthur Louthan, charging Mr. and Mrs. Jenny of Arthur, with the alienation of fections of his daughter, Vivian LouthAn, who was taken from his custody the court because of 1ll-treatment by child's step- mother, Louthan's second wife, who secured a divorce from him at the last term of the circuit court. The child was placed in the care of the Jennys, who are relations. the father being ordered to pay $300 per year for her support.

Louthan tomorrow will file a petition in the county court asking a modification of this decree. He is represented by Attys. McDuffy and Salmans of Danville. Third B. and L.

Association. Tuscola will have her third buildIng and loan association Jan. 1, the enterprise having already been incorporated. It will be known the Home Building and Loan association, and it will open for business Farmers and Traders' bank on the above named date. Its officers are: Henry Bollman, president; F.

H. Jones, secretary; Orestes Foster, treasurer, and its board of directors comprises F. H. Jones, Orestes Foster, James Jones, C. L.

Hine, R. D. Callaway, Walter C. Hackett, Henry Bollman, E. V.

Buchanan and G. England. Speak in Costumes. Chapter 6504, Epworth League, of the First Methodist Episcopal church, held a successful missionary meeting at the regular devotional service Sunday evening. The topic was "Open -The Call for Renewed Consecration," and the president, W.

R. Griswold, was the leader. Short talks on the needs of the various fields they represented were made by the following persons, dressed in native costumes, stood at the open class room door about the chapel: China, Miss Mabel Coddington; Japan, Miss Blanche Wright; Egypt, Miss Nelle Stevenson; India, Miss Cecile TenBrook; Philippines, Judson Owen; Korea, Wayne Calhoun. Sturm Estate Worth $6,000. In the probate court today, the will of the late John Sturm of Fairland, was filed for probate, and his son, Henry Sturm.

was appointed executor. The property devised aggregated about $6,000, all of which, save 160 acres of land, was left to his widow. 'The bequest of 160 acres was to be divided equally among his four children. Arthur Man Dies. hothn.

Arthur Thompson, Sunday, aged 33. after died an at illness his culosis of the brain. He was married, but leaves no family save his wife. His sister, Miss Minnie Thompson, of this illness. Funeral services will held has been at his bedside during, his Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Baptist church at Arthur.

Tuscola News Notes. Charles McCumbers of Murdock, was here today. Miss Marie Robertson is the guest of Danville relatives. Mrs. Jennie Owens spent today in Villa Grove.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rigg will leave for an extended visit in the Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Othar Donalds will spend Christmas with Mrs.

Donald's parents at Flora. Mr. and Mrs. Brown Robertson shipped their household goods at Kinmundy today, where they expect to make their future home. Mrs.

Fidelia Benere was in Garrett today. Miss Maggie Casey, colored. of this city, was married Sunday in Mattoon, to John Moore of that place. The young couple married in their home, which gridegroom had fitted ready for the reception of his up. bride.

Miss Casey was a prominent worker in the Methodist Episcopal church here. B. F. Hollowell of Brushy Fork the guest of State's Attorney Newman today. The board of auditors, A.

A. Moon, township. Coley and C. F. Lamb held its semi-annual meeting today and allowed the usual number of bills for the running expenses.

Plucks Rabbits. Machine. of patient work has at last been rewarded in the completion by T. C. Mills of a machine for "unhairing" rabbit skins, says a London dispatch.

It is not generally known that the rabbit fur lies beneath a bristly layer of hair, and the business of separating the hair from the fur is a large industry. Mr. Mills showed a newspaper man who visited the factory in Swan Mead, Tower Bridge road, how the machine worked It is an almost human contrivance of ratchets and rollers, and the rabbit skin is drawn between them as though in a mangle. There is a blur of hair, and in a second or so the skin 1s withdrawn with only the soft fur left. Some 30 machines are at work.

and they are fed by girls, who formerly had to pluck the hairs out with a tails of the enormous and little -known knife and a rubber covered forefinger. Incidentally, Mr. Mills gave some debusiness that is done in rabbit skins. Besides its uses for imitation furs, the fur is made into felt for hats; the hair is -used for mattresses, quilts and furniture the pelt-that is to say, the actual skin is used for gelatine, size and varnish, while the hair dust finds its way into the hop fields for manure. Into Millions England of rabbit skins are imported every year.

gave the following figures, showing where they from. France, 000; Germany, Belglum, America, 80,000,000. herself supplies the trade with 000 rabbits a year. Corporations Pension Employes. Since 1903 the Standard Oil company has generously treated its inactive men; it retires them on half pay at the age of 065 and on quarter pay at 70.

Since 1900 many of the subsidiary companies forming the United States sions; the directors have now under consideration a plan, which will probably become effective next year, for an automatic pension scheme affecting all their 20,000 employes. The unpopularity of the Powder Trust is so great that its president was recently obliged to drop out of the Republican national retires campaign; this corporation, however, at fair wages its used-up men. Those forced to pay exorbitant rates for gas and electricity in consolation New York City may find some in the fact that money goes to pension the septuagenarian gas men. Bad as is Ryan's Metropolitan Street Railway company, its conductors and motormen are able to look forward to the time when they can retire at half pay. Even many of the great financial houses and insurance companies that have been recently subjected to general criticism keep their faithful old employes on the pay rolls.McClure's Magazine.

WILL BE A FRUIT STATE West Virginia Has Chartered Twenty. five Orchard Concerns This Year. West Virginia is in need of farmers, and thousands of them. In the last year thousands of them have been invested in the planting of orchards in the state, especially in the great fruit-growing counties of Mineral, Berkeley, and more than 25 companies charHampshire. "orchard year there were tered by the secretary of state, and fruit growing is becoming one of the State's greatest Industries.

There are 100,000 farms in West Virginia, containing 114 acres each, valued at about $2,000. There is now produced in the state more than 1,000,000 bushels of corn annually. All kinds of grain can be raised from the soil -with as little uncertainty of an annual yield as anywhere in country. Great oat crops. wheat, buckwheat, and rye are extensively produced.

Steaks 10,000 Years Old. PITTSBURG, Dec. 21 -Locked a riumbing shop in Dickson street early this morning a new patrolman reporting at the Penn Averue police station, to effect his release, sought aid by teleptone from the Hotel Schenley, the morgue, and sundry other places He was released from bullding by Lieutenant Mcrris McCarthy. While patroling his beat about 2 o'clock the new policeman found the front door of the plumbing shop of 'Theodore Beille, 3259 Dickson street open. He the buiiding to search for burglars, and the door tanged shut and the spring lock was snapped.

After trying to get out the policeman began using the telephone. He called up every place could think of and finally it dawned upon him to call the telephone operator at the central police station. The Penn Avenue police station was notified and Lieutenant McCarthy was sent out to the rescue, When asked by the l'eutenant why he did not open door, the policeman 1g said to have replied. "Why, For the second time in Russian court history, steaks cut from the flesh of 8 mastodon have been served at the Tsar's dinner table, and the question now being discussed is: How old is the meat? One hundred years? Five hundred? It is difficult to say. The theory ordinarily held is that this huge, wooly elephant has been extinct for far longer periods than these; tens of thous.

ands of years, in fact. Yet it is diff. cult, impossible, Indeed, to reconcile this hypothesis with the undoubted fact of whole bodles having been found incased in the ice of beria. Even, however, if the steaks In quer: tion dated back for twice five hundred years, they would not constitute a record for antiquity in food. stuffs.

For, some little time ago, at Liverpool, a well known antiquarian gave a dinner, the menu of which cluded some apples that were at least 1,800 years old, having been found In an hermetically sealed jar unearthed from the ruins of Pompell. The meal also included a loaf of bread that had been made from taken from an Egyptian rock-temple tomb of the time of that Pharaoh "who knew not Joseph," together with a pat of butter, churned by an Elizabethan dairymaid and which had been found on a stone shelf near the bottom of an ancient and long disused well. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Aldo Nature, Remedy acts on this plan, It the cough, alds expectoration, relieves the lungs, opens the secretions, thereby aiding nature in throwing off a cold and restoring the system to a healthy.