Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1894 — Page 5

l-’.-fa Can Scarcely Guess-:-—Mr fl — t/' I r ® I ri Mtißwß T H I\l 1 R 5 fed hwy i.rvtKJ IA • gIR I WHAT A VARIETY OF BARGAINS I WE ARE OFFERING IN OUR Mii-Srawr taw Sak! | Goods are so Cheap and the Special Low Price we are giving now almost gives them away But we mint do some business whether we make any ) profit or not / Goods must go at some Price i YOU SAY — “Sprang & True are most always busy.” Very true. We believe in pushing trade by giving Low Prices. Come in with the Cash and we will surprise you how many goods you can buy with a —<W wt DON’T FORGET THE PLACE, F SPRANG & TRUE.

Berne Hems, Fred Weeliter and wife left last Monday for a few days visit with friends at Piqua, Ohio. Miss Grace Mason, of Bluffton, was the guest of Miss Cora Gottschalk the forepart of the week. Joseph Sheets and brother-in-law of Bodkins, Ohio, visited relaAves at this place Monday and Tuesday. Gid Steiner, of Clam Lake.'Mich., is in town shaking hands with his old friends. Charles Geller and wife, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday' and Monday with Jacob Brown and family. n The German Reformed of this place mot Sunday afternoon last for the purpose of deciding the question of building a new church next spring. The vdtvs were 3-J to 31 fornotffiuildtng. They need a church very bad, nut if nothing else should turn up, will have to try it next year over again, when they will have it possibly so arranged as to make a vote for the affirmative easier. Wm. Gaylor is working at the egg house. The little boy of Lewis Gerigand wife died last Saturday and was buried Monday. C.C. Burry and wife, a boy Sunday night. Preble Township Ileius. The hum of the threshing machine is The average yield of wheat per acre in this locality is about 28 bushels. Mrs.Lankenau, is visiting her son, Henry Lankenau of this place. The Lutheran preachers and, teachers went to Cleveland, Ohio, July 31 to attend the Synodical meeting of the central district of the Missouri Synod. Mr. Liggit, of Fort Wayne, went through here last week with a government officer, who was taking testimony regarding pension claims. The schools of Preble township will begin in September. The following teachers will be employed for the term of 1894-5: Henry Lankenau and Lulu Lankenau, district No. 1•; F. Bublitz, No. 2; Ida Fuhrman, No. 3; Emma Fuhrman, No. 4; Miss Beatty, No. 5 ami Mr. Hower, No. 6. Mrs. John Reiter and Mrs. Witte, of Ft. Wayne are visiting Henry Ilarstmeyer and family. Last Monday Mrs. Henry Lankenau was! reminded that she had"passed the 48th mila >®.static on her journey through life in this world, by tlufc neighbors Hocking into het house and congratulating her and prepar ing the table. / I

| Linn Grove Grist. I. L L. liunbar was at Fort Wayne last , ’ Monday :i,id Tuesday to procure a painter | for his buggy woiks, . Sealtjd tids were received for the build- , ing of a n|iw school house in District No. I, . | located oil the northwest corner of the land fopnerly belonging to , Joseph Martin. The , contract was awarded to Joseph Liddy, the lowest bidder, at 81.075. The house ’ will be of brick with basement. » Mrs. Rev. 11. 11. Smith, of Decatur, and i Jacob Beaver, of Nottingham, were visiting here during the week, the former the guest of the family of John Hoffman, the later of George Fahruey. The Hartford Oil Company’s first well will go in on Thursday, Two more wells have been completed during the week in the srme locality on the George Pontius farm, the other on that of Frank Pontius. Both wells are paying, one of them has a reputation of four feet of oil daily. Machinery has been put in place at the Opliger well which had been abandoned and pumps are at work; so far salt water is the production. A seven-year-old son of D. E. Evart, of town, had an arm broken by jumping a part of the way down stairs last Sabbath. Rev 11. R. Waldo, of Franklin, Ind., will preach at the Babtist church on the coming Sabbath. John Schupp, of Greenville, Ohio, was here on business the first of the week. John (). Adler and Ephriam Reynolds were on business last week. Adler to Cincinnati, Reynolds to Paulding county, Ohio. Root Township Items. Wiillard Steele is enrolled on the sick list thisfweek. Rev. Meads will preach at the Salem church Sunday evening. Miss Ettie Lincoln, of Ft. Wayne, Is visiting Samuel Helm this week. f. Brown and Miss Essie Kern were the guests of Thomas Kern last Sunday. IMiss May Jackson, of Ft. Wayne is visitlug her sister, Mrs. Westley Bowser this Week. It was stated in the Democratic weekly World last week that the editor of the Dei»tur DiyiociiAT would find a greater demand for,,his paper if he would puclish .more news and not "so much’’personally. We think tiie editor of the Democratic , Weekly World was speakinga word for the Democrat and two for himself, and he would find a greater demand for his paper if he would print more ■substantia news and call them the World’s ‘'weak” 1 news, tor it is the name it deserves. rs- ■<* k ' ■ . 'ZI . .. I ‘

DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. The Democratic State Convention will assemble in the city of Indianapolis at Tomlinson Hall on Wednesday, August 15, at 10 o’clock a. m. The basis ot representation to said convention as fixed by the Democratic State Committee is one delegate for each 150 and one delegate for a fraction ot 75 or more votes cast for the Hon. Claude Matthews for Governor in 1892. Under this apportionment the convention will consist of 1,747 delegates. The offices for which nominations are to be made are as follows: Secretary ot State. Auditor of State. '1 reaburer of State. Attorney Generl. Superintendent of Public Instruction. Clerk of Supreme Court. Chief of Indiana Bureau of Statistics. State Geologist. Judge of the Supreme Court, First District. Judge of the Supreme Court Fourth District. Adams county is entitled to 19 delegates.

Monroe Hems. Irey Wagoner is building one of the finest houses in this country. Charlie Hocker has bought a new bicycle and is visiting friends somewhere unknown to his parents. An ice cream party was held in honor of Miss Fravil, who is visiting with her sister, Mrs. John Ray. Miss Susie Merryman, of Hungry Hook, is taking music lessons from Miss Doda Gilson, of Decatur. Our John F. Hocker is the inventor of a sprocket wheel belonging to a bicycle which will be a great improvement. John D. Hale, of Decatur, through his agent. Marion Oliver, at Monroe, bought and handled six hundred bushels of wheat one day last week. Grapes and pears are the only fruit in quantities around Monroe this year. Get a receipt to make raisins of your grapes. The Hon. Chas. France, Lewis C. Devoss and Deputy Sheriff Dan Erwin, were at Monroe last Wednesdayjon legal business. The father and mother of Chas. Daugherty returned to their home at Columbus, Ohio, last Wednesday morning. To make the finest raisins out of your grapes is to buy one of Simcoke’s patent evaporators, and get a receipt to make raisins. Warranted. Several wells are being dug around Monroe on account of the scarcity of water. Steele Items. John Lachot, of Berne, was in our villiage on business last Monday, i £□ Miss Della Baughman, of Decatur, who has been visiting relatives and friends in this place, returned home last Saturday. Virgil Mercer, formerly of this place, but who has recently been living in Albany, Ind., returned home last week and surprised his friends as he has chosen a better half and intends ou making this his future home. Mrs. Alice Merriman, of Decatur, is visiting in this vicinity. Rev. Stewart delivered a very interesting sermon at the Prarie school house last Sunday evening. Ilollie Young*left this vicinity last Saturday evening for Greenwood, Ohio. Miss Mary Baughman, of Decatur, is now the guest of her brother, A. B. Baughman. Owing to the busy time among our farmers, occasioned by the presence of two thresh machines in our neighborhood, it has become necessary for the Salem Sabbath school to give up attending the picnic to be held at St. Paul next Saturday. Peterson Items. Misses Dollie and Grade Lewton are the guests of their cousin, Ada Lewton of Root township this week. A picnic was given by Missea Sarah and Dollie Lewton last Sunday near this place in Arnold’s grove. All present had an enjoyable time. HKAL ESTATE! TRANSFERS. Frank Marker to Susan Marker, pt out-lot 200, Decatur # 1 00 Rachel A. Steele et al, q c to Geo. E. Hower. 30 acres in Kirkland tp 1000 00 Abraham Egley to John Snvder, 80 acres in Hartford tp 4250 00 John Snyder to Jacob Shanebeck, 4M acres in Wabash tp 19100 Clark J. Lutz, guar, to John M. Anderson, 20 acres in Monroe tp.... 020 00 Decatur Cemetery Association to Mary Maloney, lot 107...... 25 00 Frank T Mann to Burley R Waite, . ? in-lot 155, Geneva loot) 00 Edward Kinney to Wiley Hayes, s pt in-lots 184 185. Geneva 300 00 Elizabeth Scbaupp et al, to Chr. a Gerber, lot 4 Buena Vista '>so 00 Elizabeth Habegger et al, q c d to David Habegger, 105 acres in Monroe tp I '>s7o 00 Hiram W. Burk to David Eckroto, pilot 141, (Geneva 25 0

• SAY! We have been too busy to write up our “Ad” this week so keepjyour eye on these columns if you want Bar<§aiQs! In the mean time call in if you want to save money in purchasing Haidware and Afiricnllnral Wsbils. JOHN S. BOWERS & CO.

A PROBLEM SOLVED. PROGRESS MACE BY GERMANY IN MU- * NICIPAL GOVERNMENT. Councilor. Arc Excellent Citizen, and Bel »■ Without Pay—Adinlnl.tratlon Put Into the Hand, of Expert., Who Are Often Choaen For Life. Municipal housekeeping as a science and an art evolved out ot the condi tiuna of life prevailing in tho last half of this century can lie observed to better advantage in Germany than in any other country. It is true that the German cities have been somewhat tardy in providing themselves with modern conveniences and improvements, but now having fairly entered upon the task they are accomplishing it in a more systematic, thorough and businesslike way than any other cities, whether in Europe, America or Australia. To this work of modern improvement, especially in public appointments, the (Germans seem to hava more of the scientific spirit and method than any other people. Their ha&its of thoroughness in research and of patient, exhaustive treatment of any subject in hand have fully characterized their progress in the arts of civilized life. Above ail, the Germans had already developed a system of public administration more economical and more infallibly effective tiian could have been found elsewhere, and they were prepared when'the growth of their cities and the new demand for modern improvements made necessary a great increase in the number and variety of public functions to do in the best possible way whatever it was decided to undertake. So confident were they indeed in the efficiency_.yf their administrative organization that they dared to assign to tho municipalities spheres of action which elsewhere have been left to private effort and control. Municipal councilors in Germany are, as a rule, very excellent citizens. It is considered a high honor to be elected to the council. Membership is a title of dignity that merchants, professional men and scholars are usually eager to hold. No salaries are paid to the councilors, and a penalty is attached to refusal to serve if elected. The sentiment toward thesepositions is much the same in Germany as in Great Britain, though stronger with men of high education in German than in British towns. The re-election of good councilors term after t< rm is common in both countries. It would be difficult to estimate fairly the influence of the claAs system in Prussia upon the character of city councils as regards their conservatism, intelligence and business ability. Undoubtedly the recent growth of the social democracy would have a sharper innflence upon the city councils if the class system were abolished and if the municipal franchise were made identical with the simple manhood suffrage that exists for purposes of representation in the imperial legislature—the reichstag. In addition to the magistracy aud the council, there is in Berlin a body of about 75‘so called “citizen deputies,” who are selected by the council for their general fitness to serve as associates on committees charged With the oversight. of various municipal interests, such as parks, schools, tho earc’ of the poor and Ihd sanitary services. They have nd authority to vote in the council, but they illustrate, ar tie center of administration. the excelhnt practice.which is follow, b throughout'the entire ramification of German city government, of enlisting the co-operation of unofficial citizens in Urn’-.aging .the..ordinary con-- ’ . cerns of the community.- .’ ’ The burgomaster and magistrates are the most highly trained experts that a German c>ycaii secure. The buTgomas- ■ ter is an expert in the general art of municipal administration, Associated .with him in the magisterial council ate) ’ experts in law, experts in finance, experts in education to administer tho schools, experts in engineering to oversee public works of every character, ex- x perts in sanitary science, experts in public,charity, experts in forestry and park management, experts in the technical •and business management of water and gas supplies, and so on. The analogy would not be perfect, but it would answer roughly to compare the governmental structure of a German city with that of a railway corporation, in which the board of directors, chosen by the stockholders’, appoint a general superintendent or manager, a general passenger agent, a general freight agent, a chief legal officer, a chief engineer, a superintendent of motive power and other genera! officers and leave to these high salaried experts, drawn from the service of various other transportation companies, almost the entire management and operation of the road. The shareholders represent the voters of Berlin, let us say, the board of directors are the municipal council, the general superintendent is the chief burgomaster, and the general officers at the head of departments are the magistrates. The magisttatsratb, or stadtrath, of a German city is, then, a body of distinguished and honored, highly paid, professional, expert employees and not a body of citizen representatives, aljlumgh experienced members of the body of citizen representatives may be, and not infrequent ly-are, promoted to mem- ’ bership in the inagisrratsrath.. The pro- ‘ fessional civil service is a vastly greater ; and better established field of employment in Germany than in England or America, and it is particularly difficult for an American to appreciate its petition aud significance. The mayor of an American is usually some well known citizen who is called temporarily from private life to occupy the most i authoritative’place in the corporation. ' The burgomaster of a German city is a i civil servant —the permanent head of a | permanent b\>dy of trained officials. •>...■ ! The (lit! n air between the two is some- . . what like i;.at.between our secretary of • war cud. the. general .commatiding the army.—Dr. Albeit Shaw in Century. , 7