The Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 5

THE DECATUR REVIEW Page Five Tuesday April 12, 1904. LATEST SINCE LAND WAS ALL TILED All Farm Work Far Behind This Spring. CHANCE FOR OATS YET. Trees and Plants of All Kinds Held Back. is later this spring than Farm work since the country has been been tiled.

The farmers are getting anxious heard than and more complaints for many years. Because of the eonand cold it imtinned rains for most of the farmers even possible, the preliminary work that is usually There has about been no chance for spring through at this time. Oats have not been put in the plowing. ground. save in one or two highland be fields, and the date when outs must according to the farmers of these in parts, the 10th of April, is gone by two days.

TRIED "MUDDIN' 'EM of the farmers have tried Some "muddin' 'em in." but this method is not possibility on most of the farms. even a In places it Is out of the quesfor a man to try to. get on the tion at all. -and 'his impossible for a fields horses to worked. There is team of farmers think It is too late and practically no oats planted.

and many of the useless to put them in nt this date. will be planted around DeBut oats late as the 20tl: of the month. catur as and doubtless not without wisdom. with considerable risk. One though grain man was remarking yesterday that he remembered one oats crop that the record for having been the holds biggest in the county.

It was planted after the 15th of April. DEPENDS ON ST'N. The rule for planting on the 10th is arbitrary one. A3 are many other an ones in the farming business. The success of a crop depends 011 the time of the hottest spell of summer weather.

One crop In the last five Years wont all to pieces in a day. after having been promising fine. The hot sun caught it at its stage of maturing. or the "milk stage." When the sun catches the grain at this milk stage. just when it is ripenIng and filling out.

the kernel is quickdried up and only the husk of the oat remains. There is still as much measure per bushel as there ever would have been. but the bushel weighs only about eighteen pounds instead of from to -six pounds. If the hot days catch the crop at either the milk stage or the blossoming stage, it is pretty sure of being ruined. When the sun does strike the crops at this time.

it takes instead of from three to six days to mature. only one. GOOD CHANCES YET. This is the actual experience of farmers. and the April 10 date is planned.

as nearly as can be reckoned. to bring the maturing stage the hottest days of the season. But really very little can be told. about, what days will the hottest. so.

of the oats that 18 put in after the 10th. even after the 15th, may be more successful than that put in before, just as it pleases "Old Sol." While many of the farmers are planning still to try their oats planting. this year's supply will doubtless be short. is hard to predict for a crop that isn't above nor even in the ground vet." said one of Decatur's grain dealers today, "but there will probably be a shortage this year." And this seems to be the general sentiment. GARDENS LATE.

TOO. Not only in all the branches of farming is the season unusually late. but also in -gardening and kitehn gardening in town is the lateness remarked on. The season last year about ten days later than it was the year before. and already this year's planting is, in many ways.

ten days later than last year. At this time of year, the tulips are usually in bloom. while now those in Central park look like pansy plants without a flower anywhere. Trees that are usually in leaf at this time are making but very littie sign. All over this part of the country the lateness of the season is being noted and felt.

Serions Condition. Chat Traughber is in a serious condition at his home in Mt. Zion. Last Thursday while at work he ruptured bimself and on Saturday an operation was performed in the lope of saving his life, but it is believed that he can not recover. His niece, Mrs.

F. M. Glan of Decatur. went, to Mt. Zion this morning to him.

Wiggle(Patented) Laundry Blue At Ail Wigele Grocere Won't Freeze Won't. BreakWon't Spill Won't Spot Clothes este 10 Cents, Equals 20 Cents worth of any other kind of bluing Stick in a stick of soluble bias in fu tor bag inside a perforated wooden tube, through which the water flows and dissolves the color as nooded. DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Stick around in the water. THE LAUNDRY BLUE COMPANY, Image WIFE IS ELEVEN, HUSBAND SIXTY. Girl in Short Skirts Anka Annulment 02 Marriage Forced Upon Washington.

April in a dress that scarcely cleared her knees and with her dark brown hair falling in long curls over her. shoulders. Gertie Trust. 11 years old. has filed a petition of her marriage with John before Judge Scott for the annulment years old.

a resident of Brighton, whom she had been forced to wed, she acclared, when she 9 years old. The girl's story is was shocking reveIntion of the primitive theory of life followed hy the scarcely civilized dwellers in the wild mountainous digtricts of Atlesouri. Two years ago, according, ta her story, with her mother 'in one of the most inaccessible regions of the Ozark mountains. near Lebanon, Mo. She was then scarcely 9 years old.

It was there she first met Leeper. He made a contract. the details of which she does not know. with her mother. Leeper stayed in their cabin.

Then a traveling, preacher--Buck could was his remember- name came to the cabin. There was 'a ceremony. the nature of which she did not understand, and she was told she was Leeper's wife. More than that. her mother told her, she said, that she was Leeper's slave and must him in all things as long as he lived.

Some 'after their marriage Leeper returned home' The girl put off the long dresses her mother had forced her to wear for the ceremony, and month was ago a the child old again. man 'sent for. his child-bride, and her mother sent her to him. Neighbors heard her story and refused to let her live with the old, man. County, the Attorney attention Benley of the brought court.

the A warrant has been issued for Leeper. MOURNING FOR ISABELLA. Madrid, April Official. Gazette appears with black borders, but merely announces the death of Queen Isabella and makes es no statement regarding the funeral arrangements. King Alfonso desires that every honor shall be pald' to the dond, but' the remains will be met at the frontier by the members of the cabinet, and Minister of Justice Toca alone will go to El Escorial for the interment, Requiem masses were said simultaneously at Madrid and Barcelona.

today. The Spanish court will go into mourning for one year. Another Route. Postmaster Calhoun yesterday received a letter from the. postoffice department stating that a case had been made up for an naditional rutal free delivery route out of the Decatur postoffice.

This route would be in Hickory Point township. The letter stated that the laying out of this curtail route No. 1. Frank Hall's route, a part of which is in Hickory Point township. It is not known when the will be established.

The letter stated that the matter had been placed in the hands of a special agent. MOROS WERE REPULSED. Manila, April news reached here today of a great fight between the forces of General Wood and the Moros at Taraca river. The Moros attacked the Americans and were, repulsed with great slaughter. The Moro leaders escaped.

The American loss wa's two killed and six wounded. ed to have been damaged during the WINTER WHEAT'S POOR CONDITION Way Below the Mean April Average for the Past Ten Years. Washington, April monthly report of the chief of the bureau of statistics of department of agriculture will show the average condition of winter wheat on April 1 to have been 76.5, as against 97.3 on April 1, 1903. 78.7 at the corresponding date in 1902, and 54.1, the mean of the' April averages of the last. ten years, The following table shows, for the principal atates, the averages of condittons on April 1, the corresponding averages one year and two years ago and the mean of the corresponding averagas of the last ten years: Apr.1, Apr.1, Apr.1.

10-Yr. States. 1904. 1903. 1902.

Avg. Kansas. .78.0 37.0 73.0 83.0 Missouri 81.0 95.0 91.0 84.0 California .92.0 98.0 .03.0 87.0 Indiana. .66.0 97.0 81.0 79.0 Nebraska 81.0 96.0 93.0 89.0 Ohio 66.0 97.0 77.0 78.0 Illinois 83.0 98.0 90.0 81.0 Fonnsylvania 74.0 100.0 82.0 87.0 Oklahoma ...66.0 100.0 67.0 90.0 Texas 68.0 94.0 72.0 82.0 Tennessee ..73.0 98.0 60.0 82.0 Michigan 78.0 85.0 83.0 80.0 United States 76:5 97.3 78.7 84.1 BACKWARDNESS OF THE SEASON. Burden of the Speelal Illinois Crop Bulletin.

Springfield, April 12. -The Illinois section of the government weather bureau issues this bulletin of crop conditions for the week ending April 11: The weather the first part of the week was fair and cool, with considerable bright sunshine; the latter part was mostly cloudy and showery. On the 8th a snowstorm covered portions of the central, and the entire northern district. The temperature averaged below normal. season is decidedly backward, the weather has been unfavorable, and but little prograss made in farming operations.

The soil is wet and soggy, and unfit for apring plowing. The average condition of winter wheat is good, the crop 1s improving where did adverse conditions obtained. A small acreage of spring wheat has been sown. Considerable damage has ensued in river bottom fields and lowlands from overflows and inundation. In the principal wheat growing section, the southern district, reports indicate a decreased acreage sown.

Much corn is spoiling in cribs, and seed of assured vitality will probably be scarce. Considerable sowing of oats has been done in the northern district, but the work done represents only a sinall part of the crop: In the central and southern districts but little progress has been made and the season is estimated to be ten days to two weeks backward. Rye is in a thrifty and normal stage of development. Meadows and pastures are starting and outlook. is generally promising.

Some old clover fields are report- winter. which have been generally killed or damaged, the fruit prosports' are assuring. The outlook for apples' les especially promising at this time. Some: gardens have been made and early potatoes planted, but the work is backward, Stock has wintered well and is now in good conditior ONE WAY TO HEAD OFF INSTRUCTIONS Anti-Hearst Men Got the Resolutions Committee of One Drunk. Sullivan, April reason why resolutions endorsing Hearst were not presented in the Hamilton township Domocratic convention Saturday leaked out Sunday, The leader of the Hearst' movement had prepared a lengthy set of resolutions, which he turned over to a Hearst man with instructions to read the resolutions in the convention.

The anti-Hearst forces' learned of the intention to introduce the resolutions in the convention, and set about to circumvent the Hearst crowd. The political bosses selected nine men who. by taking turns, finally 'succeeded getting the would-be luader of the rosolutions drunk. While the convention was in session the resolutions reader was slumbering peacefully and aid not up until the convention was over. The anti-Hearst men greatly sober elated over this political coup, but it 1s believed that their triumph will be short lived, as the Hearst resolutions will be introduced in the vention today.

The convention today is' for the purpose of selecting delegates to the state judicial and congressional conventions. A strong effort is being made to have Miers' Merthcongressmanagers record endorsed, but there will be no endorsement of say Miers and the delegates will go to the Spencer convention STOLE FROM A CORPSE. Thieves Took Gold Teeth from Dead Woman's Head. Paris, April the workmen engaged in removing the bodles from the abandoned M. E.

church cemetery, were away at dinner thieves removed two gold teeth from the skull of the remains of a woman. The body had been disinterred ready for deposit in a transfer box. Seven or eight graves had. been opened by the diggers employed at the work. Humbolt Man LoRes Foot.

Mattoon, April careless ranning of. passenger trains. over the Broadway crossing by the Illinois Central came near causing the death of Joe Medley, a citizen of Humbolt. yesterday at the noon hour. Medley was thrown under the wheels and received Injuries that will result in the loss.

of his left foot, even if more serious: con-sequences do not follow. Kaufman's 245-249 North Water Street. OUR NEW SUITS AND NEW TOP COATS Cannot Be Excelled. Our fine hand tailored suits are perfect in fit and style, all the newest patterns in cassimeres, cheviots, homespun and to $28 Our $8.50, $10, $12 SUITS Are the best of values, all the newest fabrics, blacks, blue serges, fancy cassimeres and cheviots. Our Cravenette Rain Coats Are thoroughly tailored, have the broad shoulders and perfect fit that are characteristic of well made clothing.

In blacks and fancy mixtures. If you like the freedom of getting around in wet weather without an. umbrella; try a Cravenette Rain to $28. Our Hat Department Styles for spring--All the newest in Soft and Stiff Hats-Sigler's, Stetson's. JAM Here Are Real Genuine Bargains.

No Wonder We Are Always Busy DEATH CAUSED BY GRIEF OVER LOSS Mrs. Moses Sherman Soon Follows Husband. ILL. ONLY ONE WEEK. Always Well Until He Died Weeks Ago.

(Rertew Special Service.) Lake City, April Moses Sherman. who lived southwest of Lake City, died this morning of broken heart. The doctor's certificate will say that death was caused by. bronchitis and apoploxy, but. her friends know that her death was caused by the death of her husband about three weeks ago.

WORRY AND GRIEF. From the time of his death she worried and grieved over her Joss contin-. Wednesday 35c 5 dozen Ladies' Muslin Night Gowns, square or high neck, tucked and hemstitched yokes and with ruffles of India Linen, positively 50c Night Gowns; customer, for each Wednesday until noon, one to a 35c ually and her family and triends were not surprised whon seven days ago she became 111. Her. illness was pronounced bronchitis.

She went down gradually until Monday night, when sho took a more sorious turn and diod suddenly Tuesday morning at about o'clock. Mrs. Sherman was born in Ireland and came to the United States forty -eight years ago. She was married to' Moxes Sherman In 1800 at Oxford, 0. She came to Moultrie county with her hunband at the close of the Civil war and has lived here since that time.

She was always strong and woll up to her last illness. LIGHT CHILDREN. Light children survive Mrs. Sherman, four sons and four daughters: They are as follows: Joseph, Moses and James Sherman of Lake City, John of field, Mrs. John Morrison, Henry Hoelscher and Miss Lena Sherman of Lake City, and Mrs.

Guy Covault of Maroa. The funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at St. Isadore's church. Sudden Death at Atlanta. Atlanta April Louise Milstead, 'aged 70, died very suddenly Saturday at 1 p.

m. at tho home of her daughter, Mrs. Hallie Smith. Mrs. M11- stead lived in Missouri for twenty removing to this- about.

a years, year ago. She leaves. four children, namely: Mrs. Henry Nicholson, Yotter, Henry and John Adams, and Hallie Smith, of Atlanta, and Frank Milstead of Weston. DIED WITH EYES ON THE OLD FLAG Abraham Stilts Loved It Most Even in Last Hours.

(Review Special Service.) Taylorville, April his eyes fixed on the flag he fought to preserve Abraham Stilts, aged 65 years, died at his home in Owaneco Saturday after an iliness of several months of consumption. He was born In quick Ohio in 1838 and lived there until 1873, when he and bin family moved to Owanoco. He is survived by his wife and four children. He was a soldier in the Civil war and active in the Grand and his last request was that the Army the Owaneco post be draped at flag of foot of the bed. This was done and the propped up on pillows Stilts feasted hie the Stars and Stripes us he eyes on died.

Shelbyville Beats Charienton. April local high Shelbyville, school basketball team played basketball with the Charleston team in the armory and Saturday afternoon visitors to the tune of 18 to 0. "did" the THE THE WE WHO ARE STEWART CREATES THE PRICES. LOWEST DRY GOODS CO EXQUISITE IMPORTED MODELS Wednesday and Thursday in our Millinery Department we will offer choice of upwards of 200 exquisite Imported Model Hats and those of our own expert milliner's creations -exact copies of hats retailed from $10 to your choice Wednesday and $3.50 and $5.00. of them displayed in our north sho.

indow. See some We have a pleasant surprise for lovers of Fine Millinery at popular prices. Children's Underskirt Specials of 500 10 dozen Black Mercerized Upwards Underskirts with deep New Dresses for flounce and small ruffles. Children, ages 2 $1.25 special price Underskirts; to. 14 years.

The 200 beautiful black Mercernew Peter Thomp- ized Underskirts, made son and all the and cluster of ruffles and with the new lily flounce latest of novelties, $1.98, accordeon $1.49, $1.25 plaiting, and 98c made linens, Colored and Changeable madras cloths, Silk Petticoats, sold everycales, ginghams, prints, per- where special for price. $3.98 great values- Beatiful Petticoats, high colored, class change- Silk it da PLAN $2.98, $1.98, $1.49, able and black, great 98c, 69c; 49c ues, $7.98, $9.98, $5.98 $4.98 and 25c. SOME GREAT WEDNESDAY SPECIALS $1.00 Package dozen Mercerized White Madras and 10c Brass Extension Rode for wash 25c. $1.50 Waists for 98c. Flyers for Wednesday.

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