Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1892 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXXVI.

CLASS OF 92. The Twelfth Annual Commencement. Eight Pupils of the Decatur High , School Graduate with Honors. » On Wednesday evening occurred the twelfth annual.commencement of the Decatur high school at the opera’house. The evening marked the period in the lives of eight of our young people, which will be cherished in memory while life lasts. The opera house was crowded to the walls and even standing room was not available. ' Prof. Lewis and his corps of excellent instructors had reasons to feel a fair degree of pride in the youths who under their guidance and instructions had so successfully arrived at that point in their ' school course where it would be necersary lor them to leave it and take up the practical affairs ot life. At eight o’clock Casso Bro?, orc' estra rendered the first selection, “Golden Gate.” At the conclusion of the selection Rev. Allen, pastor of the Presbyterian church, invoked the divine blessings. After another selection by the orchestra the graduates delivered thetr addresses. Mary Cutting, the first speaker on the program, delivered ni-i address, the subject of which was, •■•I., the Angle of Reflection Eqnal to the Angle of Incidents,” in a very creditable manner. “Voices of the Dead,” was the subject of a well prepared production by Hattie Wertzbeiger. * , The next subject on the program "Think for Thyself," was rendered by Frank Christen, who did the subject ample justice. “A Ship at Sea,” by Katherine Miesse, which by delivery, showed that careful preparation always crowns the. efforts with success. Charles Bell, who followed Miss Miesse, had for his subject, “Relation of the Common School to the State. “Drifting with the Tide” was the sub- • * ject of Lucy Meyer's a splendid discourse. Ed. Miller’s “Hitch your Wagon to a Star” was very creditable. “Does Virtue always Assure Happi ness,” was the well chosen theme of Effie Bottenberg. This concluded the addresses, and Mr. John Nibliek, president of the school board stepped forward and presented the diplomas after which the benediction was pronounced by Rev. Work. The members of the class all received many fine presents from their friends. < Immediately after the exercises were over at the opera house, about seventyfive ladies and gentlemen repaired to the Miesse House. Here a reception was held until eleven o’clock whftn the guests repaired to the dining room to partake of a repast that has seldom if ever been equalled in this city. Mine host Miesse is to be congratulated on the elegant manner in which the choice viands were served, and the entire assemblage speak in the highest praise of their entertainment. Notice Our line, radical changes in goods and prices on general line of hardware, sash, doors and blinds,Champion reapers, movers and binders, hay rakes and ladders, linseed oil, best binder oil on earth, full line of paints and varnishes, brushes, &c., Milburn wagons, buggies, carts, road wagons, and surreys, all steel gear. New Home sewing machine, best in our land. Plows and cultivators in endless variety, Reel’s original spring tooth harrows and corn cultivators, steel truck hay carriers. These goods have been time tried and tested, lack for nothing. Call in and let us show them to you free of charge. Binder twine, a car load cheap. Read carefully, study closely, look carefully and *ee that you buy only the Champion harvesting machine. They are made of best steele and nullcable iron, gards are steel. See what the cheap cast iron traps have, sight over their gards, see how they are out of line, see the malleable gards on them. trap on earth. How would you like a pair of scissors, saw, ax or hatchet mads of this stuff ? You would condemn. Why buy such stuff on binder, mower and reaper that you know can’t hold edge ? I have had twenty years experience in the sale of such goods. Call in, we will impart to you good solid facts. If you can believe your eyes we can convince you. If you make a difference between cast iron and steel or steel and soft wood we are your men. Everybody in need of goods in dur line are cordially invited to call and see us. rots John S. Bovvers & Co. • Wanted, 100 Men> One hundred men wanted to work on pipe line. Apply at office of Kerlin Bros., Decatur, Ind. 7lf Wright Bros, Hair Food will grow hair on the baldest head providing the hair bulb has not been destroyed. Sold by Holthouse, Blackburn & Co. 46tf -

Clover Leaf bhops. The large and conveniently arranged shops of the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City road at Frankfort, Indiana., artcompleted, and most of the machinery in position, and within a few days 350 men will be employed In the different departments, adding considerably to the population of the thrifty town of Frankfort. The buildings are constructed of brick, resting on a stone foundation, there being ample ground room, and they are so located as to be convenient, and at the same time not so close together as to give an appearance of being crowded for room. The two main buildings are in rect angular shape, one being for repairing and building locomotives, the other for repairing and building cars. The former is 318 feet long by fifty wide, the car shop is 231 feet long by eighty wide; adjoining, on the south, is the engine and boiler room, fifty feet long by twenty-five wide; next comes the blacksmith shop "and boiler repairing house, 120 feet long by fifty wide; the maching shop is too feet long by fifty feet wide; another building is the erection shop, which is seventy-three feet long by fifty wide; adjoining is the wood working shop, eighty feet long by seventy wide; then the general repair shop, in which are eighty tracks, with capacity to hold two cars each. Adjacent to the main buildings is the round-house, vfith twelve stalls, so planned that as many more will be added in the next few months. There are several small buildings for offices, storerooms, oil, and sand houses, and taken as a whole, it would be difficult, to find in the west more cheerful, better arranged and complete shpps than are these. All the machinery is new. and of the most improved patterns. The officers of the road are quite proud of these shops, with good reasons, and the citizens of Frankfort fully appreciate what the company has done for tire town. How to Lose a Day. You often hear some one who thinks himself “cute” telling how sailors in circumnavigating the globe “gain” a day. Such persons alrndst invariable mention the “gain” but it is seldom you hear of the “lost” day, which can also be dropped out of existence in making a trip around the world. The facts are these: If he goes to the east he gams a day; to the west he loses one. It comes about in this way: There are 360 degrees of longitude in the entire circle of the earth. As the world rotates on its axis once in twintyfour hours, one twenty-fourth of 360 degrees which equals" 15 degrees, corresponds to a difference of one hour in time. Now, imagine a ship sailing from New York to the eastward. When it has reached a point fifteen degrees east of the starting point the sun will come to its meridian, or noon line, one hour sooner than it does at the point from which the ship sailed. When the ship has reached a place thirty degrees east of the sailing point it will be noon two hours sooner on shipboard than it will thirty degrees to the westward, and so until the ship has reached a point 180 degrees from the place) of sailing it will be one o’clock say Tuesdav morning with the people on the ship, when it is only one o'clock in the afternoon of Monday with the people at home, in other words, the ship Jias sailed just one-half the distance around the world (180 degree), and has gained exactly twelve hours. Double this and you can readily understand bow the day is gained in sailing around the world to the eastward. Subtract an hour from the calendar for every fifteen degrees ot longitude crossed in traveling around the world to the westward and you will soon find the root of the mystery of the “lost” day which is dropped out of the calendar by a person who crosses the total 360 degrees with his face constantly' to the west. Political Capitol. The tax levied in Delaware county in 1890 was $180,572 61, and in 1891 it was $267,787.84 an increase of $81,21426. The Democratic legislature increased the state debt to pay off a tune-billion dollar debt which has been accumulating for years because of old party mismanagement, extravagant appropriation, political bar flies and general incomplency in conducting the state’s finances. The county commissioners could have reduced the taxes materially by reducing the local levey to the limit of necessary expences but they would rather make political captai against the Democrats than serve the people. So they, good, easy men, held the local levy up to high water mark, regardless of the fact that it was not necessary. Delaware county is greatly blessed with nature’s gifts, but, scheming politi cians are fast making life a burden to its taxpayers.— The Farmer's Record. A Monster bnake. Ora Rohr, who resides on the Numbers farm, about a mile north of the city, Tues day discovered a monster snake lying upon a fence on the farm. ( He immediately went to the house and procured a gun and returned to the place where his snakeship was basking in the sun shine and killed it. The monster, which is supposed to be a blacksnake measured 15 feet and 4 inches in length and 6 inches in.' circumference. Now our readers may think this is not true, but if any of you it, y'ou can convince yourself by calling at the fa in and see it. Thus the ninth wonder of Indiana has been discovered.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1892.

Let Decaturjcelebratc July 4th. Commissioners court next Monday. George Roop is repairing his shoe store . Don’t forget the lawn social opposite the big elm. Mart Barker, ot Rivare, was in town vesterday. Lawn social opposite the big elm tree next Tuesday evening. Oh next Saturday our people will contract for test wells for the water works. B. F. Major, one of the prominent merchants of Monroe, died Wednesday of lung trouble. Business men, it is to your interest to be present at the meeting at the court house Saturday evening. Henry Voglewede will put in two brick buildings east of the Burt house. The contract will be let in a few days. Through an oversight last week we omitted to mention Simon Boyers as the guest of his brother, J* S., and family. George Speer and wife, of Topeka, Kansas, are the gUeria of A. A. Steel and wife. Mrs. Speer arffl Mbs. Steel are sisters. Huntington school board employs foreign teachers, while we always believe in home first. It may be well to change fre ! quently. Midkes Rosa Nix and Katie Balters, of Huntington, Ind , are the guests ot Mr. and Mrs. N. Nix and family, and other friends. Seth Weldy, of Lancaster, Ohio, is at the bedside of his sick sister, Mrs. James 11. Stone. He is one ot the prominent attorney of that city. . Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Todd, of Bluffton, was in this city Tuesday last, the guests of Mrs. Todd’s paints, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Patterson and family. There will be a meeting at the court house on Saturday evening to arrange for the Fourth of July. Everybody come out and help the move along. Daniel Bottenberg, of Monroeville, and Andrew Bottenberg, of Fort Wayne, were in attendance at the school commencement last Wednesday evening. Dr. Boyers, D. M. Hensley and the Knights of Pythias have bought the Porter property on Second street. There will be some fine buildings put up in the near future. Dr. Myers, of Fort Wayne, came to the city yesterday and performed an operation upon Mrs. J. H. Stone, who is afflicted with dropsy, taking three gallons of water from her. The council has concluded to finish the street work let before they will let any more, and the weather has been against the contractors so that all that will be done this year is what is under contract. As we go to press we hear of a sad accident at Bluffton. The son of Henry Kover, aged twelve fell from a window ot the the court house to the pavement below sustaining injuries from which he died in a short timei The mayor on last Tuesday at the regular meeting of the city council appointed the, following members of the council a committee on water works: W. H. Niblick, John Buhler and George W. Patter son. The gentlemen are all in favor of water works. School closes to-day. The term has been a success ul one. The pupils have shown a marked attention in all the work, especially in the Kindergarten work, some of which is equal to the work of an experienced workman. A' miniature farm wagon made by Frank Cloud is complete in every detail, having baen made with the pen knife and the rooms all show such work. D. C. Townsend has advertised for the letting of the contract of a three story brick hotel on the ground where the Burt. House now stands. The work to be completed this fall. This is what our city needs, and with the gas and the water works and next year a few of our streets paved with brick, Decatur will lead anttown of is size, jn Northern Indiana. So let the building go on. In spite of the unfavorable weather Kerlin Brothers are pushing the gas business. Monroe and Adams streets have been piped from Second street west to the corporation line and trenches in many of the cross streets have been dug and now are ready for the tonge gang. Decatur for a long time has been talking gas and it now will be but a few weeks until the citizens will have the pleasure of enjoying the advantages which this fuel affords. Here is a stunner on the corner loaferthat we find going the rounds of the press: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth and all things therein. ® He then created mon and woman, and left the loafers on the- comers, and in due time they multiplied, and spread into the depot, postoffice and store. In the latter place they sit and explain state and national problems that have' vexed great minds, and exist by partially sampling goods. While he is thus engaged, his wile is out washing for his neighbors, and the poor helpless children are left- at home to care fur themselves as best they can. There is nothing more noticeable th*n the loafer. 77. 3. , A'/-. . ■

Let us have a Soldier’s reunion this fall. Ben Schrank moved into the Gillig property on Monroe street this week. Miss Anna Johns has left for a visit at Fostoria, Ohio, with relatives and friends. —1111 1 ■ - —- Perry Mil!er;,Mpent Sunday with relatives and friends at Geneva. I. Fred France went to Fort Wayne, last Tuesday on legal business. Call on Mrs. Kate Coffee, two doors west of the Burt House, on Monroe street, for millinery goods. 10-3 L. Mrs. Kate Coffee, the milliner keeps the most stylish line of hats and trimmings in the city. 10-3 Misses Bertha and Ida Harrison, of Ft. Wayne, are visiting their cousin, Miss Hattie Wertzbierger, Miss Anna Dailey and Miss Ada Kuntz, of Union City, Ind,, visited friends in this city the past week the guests of Miss Jessie McLean. During the past month we have had twenty-three days of rain. .And still people will grumble. Ex-Commissioner George Pontius, of Wabash township, was in the city yesterday on his way home from a visit to relatives in Texas. 'lewas accompanied by his two sisters, M rs. Alex. Bolds and Mrs. Wesley Watson and her son Charley. George Chronister will soon occupy his new home which is located a short dis tance west of the Ward school building. George is a hustler and will be content with nothing short of a home of his own which he truly deserves. John S. Bowers haring bought B. P. Rice’s interest in the stone quarry will at all time have founda'ion and crush stone on hand, and with switch off of G. R. & I. railroad can deliver stone at any station along three lines of railroads at lowprice. * tots The Ft. Wayne Journal says that Wenzer Meir was found dead in his arm chair last Sunday. He resided with his daughter, Mrs. John Evers, of 323 south Hanna street. Mr. Meir was a former resident of Adams county, and died at the good old age of eighty -seven. Mrs. John Walterl, of near Henpeck, died Tuesday evening in hei* eighty-Binth years. She leaves 1 aged husband, two sons and two to tnotirn their loss. Otie daughter being the wife of Fred John and one son, Albert Walters living in this city. Interment took place at Bluffon Thurday morning. Rev. W. H. Baker, publisher of the Christian Union Messenger, at Alert, Ind., made our office a fraternal call Wednesday. Owing to a washout he did not reach his appointment at the Presbyterian church Tuesday evening, and owing to the commencement exercises it was decided to postpone the Wednesday night services. During the present season, May 20th to October 21 st, the G. R. & I. R’y will issue excursion tickets : > Rome City ar.d return at the.following reduced rates; To par ties ol 3 to 0, s>ir ea<:!l ; 10 t 0 49> $ 2 -°9! 50 or more $1 65. Riite shown for parties of 3 to 9 good for return within fifteen (15) from and ir, luding date of sale o Farmers and others who desire fruit tree q vines and small fruits should not fai to see James Middleton before selecting their goods for spring setting. He represents the Painesville nursery, one of the oldest and largest m Ohio, and goes direct to the nursery t< fill ail orders. Goods guaranteed tn be first class. Ladies I have opened up a dressmaking shop at my home pn South Second street, opposite the old elm tree where I would be pleased to welcome my old customers and new ones also. Charges reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed—fitting a specialty. Also .gent for the celebrated Williamson corset and brace, 4tf Ella Kkllison. The members <■ the People's party have chosen the fol', 'ing delegates to thy ■county convention to select ca’.didat s: Robert Andrews. Havel Andrews. Joseph D. Beerj-, James Wagoper and I’. Baker. Kirkland tow-ship will be tepivsented bv William Briner, Robert Brown, George Martin, Adam I': se and ■Samuel Shell The balance of t township wc have not heard from. ' The following item clipped from the Ft. Madison, (lowa,) information well worth remembering. Mr. John Roth of thia city, who met with an accident a few days spraining and bruising his a d arm severely, was cured by one 50 cent bottle of Chamberlain’s Bahn.. This remedy is without Sn equal for sprains and bruises and should have a place in every household. For sale by W. 11. Nauhtrieh j J. W. Place, th.' ice cream-manufacturer, has again made a great improvement 011 his ice cream. Mr. Place is putting in machinery to stereliaegll cream before frozen, wh ch destroys all germs that is caused by extreme wet and dry weather. The most delie-fte. child can now eat Place's ice cream with perfect safety. It is endorsed by all •physicians. "Tlrs new process will no.iJ'ubt make his cream in greater demand, :md at present he is, shipping nitofouy stab’s, and has the repuptatien of tnaking the ilnest creatT m the market. ’■ , ; ~

. Mrs. Bin. Grant is on the sick list. - Mrs. John Cox, ot north Ninth street, is seriously ill with lung trouble. Mrs. Eli Merriman is confined to her , room on account of sickness this week. Misses Gertie and Ethel Bobo were at Fort Wavne, Monday. , Neil Rademacher and wife «cre at Foit Wayne on Decbiatton Day. Schneider & Nichols for first-class met\ts ot all kinds. 10-2 Berries ant! vegetables received fresh twice a day at J. Martin’s. 9-2 Will Christen, architect, over 1 Pete Holthouse clothing store. qtf I . —— — Y'ou will be treated well at the north of court house mest msrket. 10-2 Go to Schneider & Nichols for the cheapest and b< st meat. 102 ■ Bro. Ashcraft returned home last S tturday from hi' southern trip. James Parks and wile, of Po-tla d, were the gues'a of friends here this week. ”There are 30,000 union printers in this country. Ex-Sheyiff McGriff and wife, of Geneva. were in the city Tuesday. David Evans moved into the Lenhart property on north Ninth street pits week. A son of T. B. Circle, ot Ma /ley died Monday and was Ukeh to Ol.io Tuesday for interment. — ’ It is reported th it one oi . e 1.-dy wait- i ers of tlje Miess.- r.ome L s o .'y t<- be i married to «young m.in of W l;d*i e, O | Call on C. G. Fcx the plun.tx: . ibr ycur I gas fitting aij«l plumbing, ct.xt door to Burt Hous-. See fox on si n Four ladies or gentlemen atter dine 'he Normal can find a first‘class place t. bon d by calling at this office. For fresh fish and vegetables go to the fish market north of court hou.se. 7tf YV. E. Rohr, Prop’r. Remember the City Meat Market for a tender beefsteak. Dyonis Smith, Prop. For Sale—A house with two lots east of the G. R. & I. R. R., by Kirsch & Sellemeyer. gtf Don’t forget to call H. S. Porter for • 'gaklfitjings and plumbing. He gu ivantees Wths wrhk. Db'you know Schneider & Nichols are the only firm in the city who have thoroughly learned the butcher business. 10 2 Rey. Father Wilkens will go to Bluffton next Tiiesday, accompanied bv his sisters Lizzie,Rosa, Annie and Tena Rademacher, Pet Kinfz and Addie Fuellencamp, to attend a wedding. Mrs. E. T. Liebman and daughters, Misses Bertha and Minnie, of Ft. Wayne, are visiting in this city and attending the commencement exercises. They are the guests of-'the Misses Miesse. For fashionable anTreliable dressmaking call on Miss Bn-: d-nberg, a modest with years of experience in one of our largest cities. Shop over Vcglewede’s shoe store 10-4 bits Helen Woods left last Sundav for her home at Middleburg, N. Y’., after spending a year v.i Ji friends, here. She will stop a few days at E’mira, N. Y ~ to visit her cousin, Miss Cora Phelps, who is .well known to many here. John Henry Meyers was called to Foil Wayne last Monday to attend the funeral of his father, Wesley Meyers, which was Tield on, Wednesday morning. The de-Cea-ed was wrfl known to many of our citizens. The G. R. & I. will resume sale of summer tourists tickets to northern points on June Ist. Decatur to Traverse City, $12.30, Petoskey, $: .| 15; Mackinaw Citv, $15.60; Mackinaw Isand or St. Ignace, $1660: Return limit October 31, 1892. ■The ■ utloc.k for a spring crop i' vjjv po ..rand the people irel that the wet weather ca.-.not.helpbut depress busmess to a certain autont. \ t Frank Mann says uiat In is able to support one more —if ; s t girl. W. 11 Myers ha; ft ,i off his f irm in town Jots. On th; west -Ida these lots ’.ay i i . ; md ~d.:.e on 'he matket , at api L-e •vi'.h'n t'-.e each of all. Prices rangh’.g• >m ft'o to $1.50 on small payments, by a.- nlairpaymcnt down, n-2 On Saturday n'ght, May 14th, there appeared in this city a stranger, dressed in a garb which would indicate Jhat was* minister of the gospel. On Sunday morning, May t rth, he occupied the pulpit, at the Evangelical church. After preaching a most powerful sermon, and just before pronouncing the benediction he remarked that his father was in the audience, whom he had not seen for twen'ynv«S years. The father was E. M. Gross, one of the old and honored citizen of out e t. and the.mlnister was h's son William Hwy Gioss. Imagine the suprjse of.the elder Mr Gross when this announcement ‘lpiTne. Rev- Gross is stationed at Milton, Penne. He will return to this city next fall ■ and engage in evangelic..', work. Words cmnot ilcscrihe the. feeling of I'atlvr a-4 son, after -facing apdi t for twep-ty-five years without seeing each yviher. Uappin?. s 1 eigf.s'supreme m the household ol the e'dvr Gross over the occasion V

• We will celebrate July 4th. Get ready for the celebration, July 4th Go to John Mayer’a for first class brick iStf School closes to day for the summer vacation. Charles Liebenguth was at Ft. Wayne Monday. I Louis Harder, of.Union township died Mot May. " Charles Murray was at Fort Wayne this week. James France was at Bluffton Thursdayon legal business. Miss Nettie Baker is visiting friends and relatives at D1 ton, Ohio. The laying of ga- mains throughout the city is progressing rapidly. Judging fiom their cough some people have a very bad cold. Be careful wi’h that cough. It may lead you into trouble. Only a short time untill the Fourth of July. Shall we celebrate? Al Grant was at Lima, Ohio, last Monday visiting relatives and friends. We are uncle again so says our brother Robert, for on last Saturday a boy arrived at his house. Mrs. Harper, of Greenville, Ohio, has been.the guest ol the hjiesse House tor the past few days.' I Milo Harris, who has been employed at I Hartford City for the past eight months, I 'pent last Monday in this city. Miss Roma Turner, a charming young lady of Greenville, Ohio, is the guest of the Misses Miesse. Miss Ella Fleming returned home last Tuesday. She has been attending school at Marion, Ind. Rev, L. W, A Luckey will preach at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning and evening. O' The elephants and the big show have arrived and the boys and the older ones are correspondingly happy. Misses Minnie Kell and Susie Thompson, of Fort Wayne, attended the commencement extsgeisis in this city. The hands it the stone quary on last Monday foundy, n/m coming down the river clinging to a log. He was more dead than a live. A son of T. B. Zerkle, of Kirkland township, died last Monday. The remains were shipped to St, Paris, Ohio, for inter - ’ ment last Tuesday. Perhaps it is the seven-tail comet, which can be seen in the eastern sky every morning, which is raising Cain with the weather this sp- ing. Mrs. Catharine Gaffer was called to FtWayne last Friday to the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Kramer who is seriously ill. Mrs. L. Web .Banister gave a musicale at her Studio i-.i Fort YVayne last Friday evening which was among the fiiKsi ever rendered. For Sale \t a Bargain.—The resi- . dence property of YV. J. Meyers, corner of Fifth and Jackson streets. For price and terms call on W. H. Niblick. iotf Jerry Coflee, of Coffee Bros, restaurant, will always rememher Decoration Day. His wife presented him with a fine girl baby nearly as big as. its father—ten pounds. Ira. Ma ker, who has been serving Uncle Sam in Cotnpan 11, toth infantry, of the tegular army, for 'd\e past the years, has r ceived an hono able discharge and returnee home. Rev. L, W a. Luckey, of Crown Point, with his family are the guests of' Mrs. Luckey’s 'parents. Tames and family. They are we!' >; ;&wb to our peo tie here. ' - - M VKRIAGE I.;, -nsks —Louis F'. Mil--1.1 and IHorenc? if. Parrish, Aaron Baker nd Ro a Blo'.'ers, Sloan Meyers and’ Lulia I. Tr.oifi ■. Frederick Eichenberger ’i d Sarah A. 1 .-ghairer. An exchange ay; “A patent has Ix-en issued to a woman for an improved fastie i::g for shirt buttons.” Give us her ’lame quick A-- want to erecta cloudpiercing monri-.nt to her. While Frank Burkhgud' waa hitching up his team, they from some cause became frightened' and attempted to run away. Frank n’.ue.g to the lines and the spectators could more easily see than describe ft e maneuvers of Fra.nk and the teams ■After a shade tree was broken down and the fig and harness slightly damaged, the team without fui ther damage was contioled. Then the whip did its woik. The heavy rain- that commenced in the west are.moving eastward. It was Kansas ai d loy a at first, but now Central Indiana is s&.tKiing. Portions of Indianapolis have been submerged during the past week. So far not much damage has been done in Adams county except to the farmers. Bus t'ew have planted any corn yet. Our stone quarries were plumped dry previous tn the .last heavy tain, but a'e now lull o', water. This not only stops the work on our streets, but it throws many of our citizens out jof employment. Yet we can It-el grateful that things a:e no worse.

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Buy gasoline and coal oil at Nachtrivb’s. 6U Mrs. Catharine Eady spent Sunday w’th friends at Ceylon. Miss Adelia Spangler is visiting friends at Fort Wayne this week. Try one ot those clear Havana 5c cigars the Rosina, at Jake Martin’s. 6 5 For rent.—office rooms in Mayer & Kleinhenz’s new block. 35tf Osborne binder took first premium at Berlin, Germany. A. C. Gregory, house painter and paper hanger, solicits vour patronage. 30* Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, of Wabash, is visiting her son, Ed. A., and family. We call the attention ot our readers to the add of the Weisel! Washer, one ot the best washers in the market. When Smoking call for Donovan & Coffee’s Leader for sale at Donovan & Coffee’s. 6-5 Smoker’s try one of “Disney’s” Leland 5c cigars for sale at Holthouse, Blackburn & Co. 6 - Money to Loan—At six per cent interest with privilege of partial payment 37tf Christen & Schirmeyur. One bottle of Wright Bros., Hair Food will stop the hair from falling out. Sold by Holthonse, Blackbum & Co. ts For Sale—lmproved farms and timber lands, also town property at prices to suit purchasers. Schurger & Reed. 42* If you want your gas fitting done in first-class shape and warranted call on A. Van Camp at planing mill on First Eighteen of the teachers of Adams county attended of the spring term ofschool at Marion, Ind., The term closed this week and they have nearly all returned home. 4 . ' b The fight between Frank Slavin (white) and Peter Jackson (colored) for the championship of Australia, at London, was won by Jackson. Slavin being knocked out in the tenth round. For a fine homemade surnmar wurst, a self-cured ham, a fine piece of sugar-cured bacon and first-class bologna sausage, wiennerwurst, etc., call at the City Meat Market. Dyonis Smith, Prop. Jemison’s great blood, Hver and Kidney remedy for the diseases of the blood, liver and kidneys. Purely vegetable. Contains no mercury, arsenic or other mineral poisons. For sale by Holthouse, Blackburn & Co. 3 . 4 m A Bargain—A good stable horse for sale, a full blood Norman four years old next June. The reason for selling, poor health. Sold on good time and easy payment. Call on or address Dr. E. H. Lebrun, Decatur, Ind. ts Soldiers Attention—Now Is the time to apply for increase, under present laws many pensioners are entitled to» larger pensions than they are now receiving. No pay unless successful. James T. Merryman, 2itf ” Att’y and Claim Ag’t. Charles Liebenguth, of Fort YVayne having purchased the beer and bottling works of Henry Mayer, will furnish beer to Mr. Mayer’s old customers, and is desirous of forming the accuaintance of all parties who deal in or have use for beer pop or mineral water, any jf which will be delivered at your house without any extra charges. zstf fiurdge & Co., proprietorof ot the Farmers’ Flour Exchange and Feed store, situated in Noah’s Ark on Second street, will exchange flour for wheat and pays the highest prices for corn, oats, hay straw, etc. He keeps everything usually kept in a first class feed store. Flour and feed delivered in any part of the city free. ts Excursion rates to Helena; Montana, June Sth to 12th. The Glover Leaf route, Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City rail road, will sell excursion tickets at ex* tremely low rate. One tare for the round trip, return limit to 30 days, The privilege of choice of route west of Kansas City in either direction and stop overs in Kansas, Colorado, etc. will be given. The above account meeting supreme lodge. AO. U. W> Call on nearest agent, Clover Leaf rente, or address, C. C.' Jenkins. Gen’l Pass. Agent. Toledo, Ohio a-io. Hon. W V. Lucas, Ex-State Auditor, of lowa, says: “I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in my family and have no hesitation in saying it, is an e?* cel'ent remedy. I believe all that Is claimtor it. Persons afflicted by a cough or cold, w-ill find it a friend.” There is na ■danger from whooping cough when thia remedy is strictly given. 50 cent bottles tor sale by W H. Nachtrieb. j Just as sure as hot weather comes there will be more or less bowel complaint in this vicinity. Every person, and especially families ought to have some reliable medicine on hand for instant, use in case it is needed. A24or 50 cent bottle of Ch»m be Hain’s Colic, Cholera and Di rrhcea Remedy isjjyst what you ought to have and all that—you need, ’feven for the most severe and dangerous case*. ,It i -t’-e best, the most reliable and most and- is pleas- \ ant to take. For sale by \V; H Nachtrieb. , j