Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1894 — Page 1

I RMotd.t’. <»•• <» s ' I The I)e(atur Democrat.

■. _ _ I VOLUME XXXVIII.

■ From Friday's Daily. Bf,*- Rev. Wit>e and wife who have been ■ visiting friends at Portland returned ■ home to-dav. ■ Doc Brookwaiter, pressman of the B Gazette Office, at Fort Wayne, is in ■ the city today. ■ Isaac Peterson and John M. B Frisinger went to Roekrojd, 0., today B to buy horses. . ■ Mrs. Irvin Acker left today for iiart- ■ ford City to visit her son who is teach- ■ ing school near there. ■ Miss Foster, who has been the guest ■ of Mrs. R. K. Allison, returned to her I home at Willshire. O , today. ■ Daniel Sprang and wife, and the ■ Mrs. Dr. DeVilbissand A. R. Bell re- ■ turned from Fort Wayne today. ■ ’ Plan Kern, of Elkhart, who has been ■ visiting Howard Sfaackley fend other ■ friends here rebArifl^ home to day. ■ Mrs. Agatha Bogner, of Senaca ■ county, 0., mother of our townsman ■ Michael Bognef, is dangerously ill. I W. H. Fristoe, one of the old reeiI dents of this city, but now of Bluffton ■ made this office a pleasant call today. ■ Martin Laughlin, trustee of Jefferson I township, who has been in the city on I business returned home this morning. I Henry Laughrey and Joseph Hocker I who were in the city today on business, I returned to their home at Monroe this I evening. s . I Harry Bell returned home from I Angola today, where be is attending I school and will probably remain until I after the holidays. I M. A. Vondran, of Geneva, who has I spent the last six weeks with friends at I Tiffin, 0., where be was confined to his I room with rheumatism, made this office I a pleasant visit to day while on bis way I hbme. I The Indianapolis News suggests that I a collection be taken up in the public I schools of the state for the purpose of I raising monev with which to purchase I a silver service for the battleship, I ■ """ —’ I Scientific men are trying to explain | why it is that telephone and telegraph I wires make so much fuss and are I hardly ever quiet. The seem to have I overlooked a very simple explanation. I It is because they are m one respect I like a woman, they have so much to I »ayI The merchants of Decatur evidently I expect a big holiday trade if one can I judge by the handsome displays of holiday goods which are now being made. The stocks this year are larger than ever and the goods finer and more costly than ever before shown here, Therejis no need for any one to go to other cities to procure Christmas pres ents as the merchants here can supply any article needed almost. Watch the columns of the Democrat for holiday announcements; the men who advertise are the ones who have the goods and who will give you bargains. -T *— Said a Jefferson street physician of much experience to a Herald representative, this morning: “It would be a good thing for people, in times of diptheria epidemics, to use sulphur more freely. There Is nothing more easy of'access or which a family can use with more salutary results than sulphur. It will surely destroy all germs of diphtheria if used in the very beginning. It will also heal an ordinary sore • throat that is in a condition susceptible of infection from diphtheria germs. It can be placed in a quill ai d blown into the throat with very little inconvenience. The treatment Is simple but 1 know it to be highly effieaL cious as a preventive and cure. No family ought to be without a supply of sulphur.— Huntington Herald. Editors are necessarily very thick skinned persons—or they quit the business very young. From the very nature of their business they are compelled at times to produce articles in the interest of the great publili that jars upon the sensibilities of somebody; publish items oflnews that offend someone else, and in divers ways they arouse the resentment of people when they are entirely innocent of intent to insult or affront The very nicest discrimination and the utmost care makes it impossible to publish a readable paper without occasionally saying something to incur the enmity of a patron or a public personage. Were everybody to stop to consider that articles reflecting upon anybedy in any manner are of but little concern except to the party referred to, the lot of the newspaper man would be easier and the anger of the subject of the article more easily mitigated. Be charitable to the editor. Without knowing it he is often your best friend. Logansport Chronicle.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1894.

From Saturdays Daily. Sulivan at the Opera House, December 26th. Mrs. Z. O Lewellen, of Monroe, was in the city to-day. Manard Fuller, of Pleasant Mills, was in the city today. • Herbert Pennington is confined to his bed with iheumatism. See if you cannot make some poor child happy Christinas morning. Miss Daniel Roop, of Pleasant Mills, will Sunday with friends in the city. L. W. Lewtoh, trustee elect for Root townkbip, was in the city on business today. Warren Moses will be the guest of his brother, Homer, at Fort Wayne over Sunday. '' Nidlinger & Fleming shipped a car load of heavy hogs to the eastern market to day. Miss Sadie Roop, of Pleasant Mills, will spend the Sabbath with her sister, Mrs. Harry Cordua < Dick Townsend of the Randall, Fort Wayne, is in the city hands with his old friends. Mrs. Sycatus, of Preble, after a pleasant visit with friends m the city returned home to-day. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels, of Preble, who have been the guests of friends in the city returned home today. Miss Della Lewton, who has been visiting with friends here returned to her home at Peterson to-day. Mrs. Clara Holden, of Huntington, who has been the guest of Mrs. L« D Adams, returned home to-day. Mrs. Robbins of Portland,, who has been the guest of L. C- De Voss and wife, returned home to-day. E B. Macy and Chas Simcoke, two Monroe township pedagogues, were in the city taking m the sights. Mrs. Fred Mills, of Hammond, Ind., who has been the guest of friends in the city returned home to-day. f „ Miss Nellie Blackburn returned from rtJbWfi scMif Co von tii on ■' * ■ ■ ' ■— <! — Miss G. D. Lebne, of Van Wert, Ohio, has been Visiting her sister, Mrs George Gilbert, returned to home last night. Christian Blakey, of Union township, brought a load of dressed- pork to the city today that was the finest of the season. Miss Nqla Beery, of Pleasant Mills, who has been visiting the past week with friends in Ossian home to-day. There will be public exercises in all the public schools. Such exercises should be attended by the patrons of the shools. Roman Holthouse don’t believe in doing anything by halves. He is bound to have his French plate in order if it takes all summer. Jesse King, who was married to one of Portland’s a charming young ladies a few days ago, is in the city with his bride visiting his sisteiUMrs. Charles Helm. i, Obediah Kover, of Fort Wayne, who had the contract for painting and decorating the bt. Marys Catholic church, finished the same and returned home to-day. The people out west think it takes a greyhound to catch a jack rabbit, but John Henry Bremerkamp can catch them in Indiana. He has one on exhibition not quite as large as a mule, but the ears will compare well with those of k donkey. « »There will be a fox chase by the people of Adams and Wells county on Thursday, Dec. 27th. The line in Adams county will commence at the Hower school house in Kirkland township, this being the northeast corner line, will extend south four miles to the Election school house in French township; this to be the southwest corner of the four miles square. All parties to be on the ground ready to move at 9 o’clock a. m. sharp. The east line will be under the foliowin g marshalls of Adams county: Jacob Crist, Christy Stogdill, Lee Annan and Joseph Tonner. Everybody invited. A hunter says a curious thing about a ribbit is that it always faces the sun, turning around slowly all day in order to do so. In hunting them in fields this fact should be kept in mind and the ground gone Over by the hunter with his back to the sun. He can then see , the eyes of the rabbit in the grass and they will glitter like big diamonds in the sunlight.

From Monday's Daily. Henry Wagoner, of Berne, was in the city today. Miss Rose Fisher, of Willshire, Ohio, was in the city to-day. William Pillars is reported to be seriously ill with lung fever. Lase Reicard, of Willshire, was in the city today on business. The City Band will give an invitation Ball on New Year’s eve., Dec. 31. George Reiter, of Fort Wayne, was doing business in the city to-day. John Baker and Mr. Harding and wife went to Fort Wayne to-day. John Niblick and wife and Rev. E. T. Gregg went to Fort Wayne to-day. Mrs. W. Butler left for Bluffton Saturday night to be the guest of friends. Dr. W. H. Myers, of Fort Wayne, was in the city today on professional business. E. T. Simpson, rresiding Elder of the M. E. Conference of Fort Wayne, returned home to-day. Jonathan Mosier, Esquire, wife and daughter, of Magley, were guests of friends in the city today. ’ Obediah Kover, of Fort Wayne, was in the city this morning and left for Rockford, Ohio, this afternoon. Isaac Peterson and John Frisinger returned home Saturday night from a trip through Ohio, buying horses. Thomas Teeple and wife were called to Rochester to-day to the bed side of a brother-in-law. They left over the C. & E. Mrs. 11. H. Rice, accompanied by Miss Lucy Locke left for Indianapolis this morning where they will visit until after the holidays. Mrs 8. R Lenhart, of Bluffton, who has been attending at the bedside of her father-in-law Lawson Lenhart, re turned home today. Mrs. Leonard Bass and Mrs. Peter Hoffman, of Preble, were the guests of Jacob Flora family yesterday. They returned home today. 4 De French Quinnwwt to Bluffton : Saturday aigMiO. Sundiiy with . his wife, who has been the guest of N. K. Todd and wife the past week. Mrs. James Smith, living abodt six miles east of this city was found dead in bed yesterday morning. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause. Misses Ltha Macca and Emma Thompson, of Ohio City, who have been visiting at Ossian, spent a few hours with friends in the city today on their retnrn home. The following new cases have been filed for January term 1895: Clark J. Lutz, adm’r, vs C. A. Lamer et al; petition for partition. Reinhart Eger vs Thomas Dalton et al; foreclosure of mortgage, demanding S9OO. Lydia Close vs George Ulos.e; divorce. The second case against the Neal brothers of Portland, was continued until Monday, Dec 31st. They returned to their home furnished by Jay county. They should ask to be changed to Decatur where we have a good place to attend to the wants of such people. Deputy Sheriff Erwin went to Cbica go last Friday night and returned home this morning. While there he took in the Sunday sights of the first city of this great Republic, and gives it as his opinion that all things considered, it is a very religious place, from the number he saw going towards many churches, The balance he did not see. Mr. and Mrs Jeff Bryson very pleasantly on ertained a company bf friends at dinner Saturday evening. Those present were Dr. and Mrs, A- L. De Vilbiss, Mr. and Mrs. Heriaeft Rice, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Moffett, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dibble, Mr. and Mrs. D. E Studebaker. Reader bear in mind that the merchants of Decatur will sell you goods just as cheap, if not cheaper, and better goods than you can buy of Fort Wayne merchants, who are bidding for your trade through a Decatur paper. Our merchants have laid in a large stock of every class of goods and are offering them at a fair living priceTherefore don’t go away from home to trade, for inline times out of ten you will pay more for goods at other points than you would pay to the merchants of Decatur, and you are building up our City instead of Fort Wayne. Remember it is our merchants that help pay the taxes of this county and city, not other people but our home people, so patronize them. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Fair Highest Award.

From Tuesday's Daily. The small boy of Abe Boch’s is very ill with catarrhal fever. Benj Winans, of Pleasant Mills was doing business in the city today, j Commissioner llobroxe shipped a car load of hogs to the eastern markets today. Pugilist Fitzsimmons was in the city yesterday and Sullfvan will be here the 28 th. Miss Sadie Jenks went to North Manchester today to visit her brother a week. Mrs Irvin Acker who has been visiting her son at Hartford City returned home today. Lawson Lenhart father ot Clerk Lenhart died today at eleven o'clock a m. Ira Neptune, of Willshire, who has been the guest of his sons, J. Q. and C. E., returned home. The Bluffton News of Dec. 17th says: Miss Sadie Baker and Ed Kain were Decatur visitors yesterday. Mrs. Writtenhous, of Kendallville, arrived in the city today make this place her future home. Fred Roop and wife, of Willshire. 0., who have beenthe guests of Theodore Kennedy and wife returned home today. Mrs. Campbell, of Willshire, O , who has been the guest of Rev. H, 11. Smith and family over Sunday returned home today. Mrs. Andrew Barkley left for Fort Wayne today to have her eyes treated by Dr. Wheelock. Mrs. B. W. Quinn accompanied her. Mrs. Mary Ooerly, ol Sand Lake, Mich., who has been visiting her brothers Pete and Charles Smith will returh home tomorrow. Mrs. I>fe Ricard, of Willshire, who has been at Chicago attending at the btd side of her daughter, who is now con valesing, returned home last night. The six-year-old daughter of J. T. Merry map is very ill with diptheria. Df. of Wayne, and Dr. 1 a consultation —-■ Bluffton has been having anTemcefak to determine the kind of time they will use in the near future. The result was that 413 voted for standard time while 892 voted for sun time.' The majority of 479 being favorable to continuing in the same old line. We wonder if they would not be in favor of a torch for a light and old mud road that was of anoint days Wells county comes to the front as of olden times. Lee Davis near Markle, bad a valuable mare and buggy stolen last night. The description given of the mare is that she will weigh about 1300 pounds and is eight or nine years old. The buggy was new with green plush cushions, trimmed in light. A reward of $25 is offered for the horse and buggy and a like amount for the thief. Mr. Nicholas Lichtey and many others living along the mud pike south of Decatur have been making a great improvement along that road for the distance of three miles from the corpor ation line south, which improvement consists in grading the ground the width of six feet and putting thereon a heavy bed of sawdust from 8 to 12 in - ches thick making a good sidewalk that the people along may have a good walk in going to church or their children to go to school. People traveling along said road either with buggies, wagons or on horseback should show respect due the builders of the sidewalk not, to drive or rid upon it. Graham Earle no doubt last felt highly honored as he stepped be-) fore the foot lights at the opera house and cast a look over the sea of faces that greeted him on his return to Decatur. No company has been greeted with as full a house as that which welcomed Graham Earle last night, and all who were present went home speaking in the highest terms of not only one or two, but of the whole company. Mr. and Mrs. Earle and his strong company will be with us all week and will present new plays nightly and on Saturday afternoon will give a grand matinee. We do not hesitate in the least to say that the Earle company is the best that has appeared before a Decatur audience for some time and that they will be greeted nightly with a full house is a foregone conclusion. Tonight for the first time in this city, “Fernclyfte.” Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’* Pair Higbest Medal and Diploma.

Wednesday's Daily. ’ We wish our many' patrons a merry Christmas. 1 Benj. McLaughlin went to Bluffton today. . -— 4John Eley, of near Berne, was in the • city today John L. Sullivan, the puglist, at the Opera House, Dec. 26th. i J. T. Lyons is in the city with a car load of New York cabbage. W. 11. Niblick and wife left today for Toledo, 0., to visit friends. L. M. Aspy, of Wabash towmsbip, was in the city on business today. Rev. Von Swaedler, of Monroeville, is in the city the guest of Rev. Wilkens. William Lenhart and John Apdrews went to Fort Wayne to-day on business. i . Mrs J. N. Fristoe and Mrs Lapra Jelleff went to Fort Wayne to visit friends. Mirs Emma Miller left today for Toledo, 0., where she will be the guest of friends. Fred Blakey, one of Union township s ; prosperous farmers, was in the city on business today. Mrs. John Niblick and Mrs B W. Quinn who have been visiting at Fort Wayne returned home to-day. > Mrs. 11. E. Lyons, of Geneva, who has been the guests of Mrs E. I’. Menefee for a few days, returned home today. Mrs. A. E. Forty, of Portland, who attended the funeral of her mother i Mrs. Samuel Moses in this city, returned home today, , Mrs. Sbanefelt and two daughters, of Portland, who have been visiting James McGill in Union township, returned home today. , Last Monday James Glick and Miss , Carrie M. Reber were united in ■ marriage at the residence of Rev. Staffer at Honduras. Henry Cruit and wife, of Shelbyville, 111., who have been the guests of bis brother-in-law, Samuel Slabaugh, rei turned home to day. > ” Brokaw, of Portland in j Lodis Wagoner, who has waI the guest of her sister 1 -" '' t!i: , few days. 1 r Mr. Bradley, formerly with the of ne: York Store, went’Ao Mariop^tc' 8 1 where he has secured a position business house, and will make tKn city, 1 his future home. The revival meetings conducted by Rev. W. A. Pavy at the Baptist church ! is meeting with great success. Twenty , members have been added to the i church. There will be”special exercises in , each room of the public schools of the L city Friday afternoon The public is most cordially invited to attend. ’ A. D. Moffett, Supt. 1 The funeral of Lawson Lenhart will be held tomorrow at ten o'clock at the Alpha church in Root township-and the interment in the cemetery at that place. Rev. Smith assisted by Rev. Pavy will conduct the funeral services. Another fine audience greeted the ; Graham Earle company’ at the opera house last night. Although it was for , the school children the older ones cuuld not miss the treat that was in store for ■ .them. Tonight the celebrated play “Forgiven” will beiprese lifted. ' It was our pleasure to w alk through the St. Mary’s Catholic church yesterday. and take a look at the improvement Father Wilkins has just had done. The beautitul decorations, paintings and emblems of the patriarchs of ancient tiujes, and various ornaments are grand to look upon. I The work was done by one of the most skilled artists in the State. Obediah Koover, who has bv his skill and work made the inside of chat church one of the most beautiful churches in the state. g. The government b. is sent headstones for the following deceased soldiers who are buried at or near J >ecatur, Indiana: M. L. Wingent, John Redhuger, Wm. Smith, Thos W. Andrews, Joseph Erwin, David King. John P. Teeple, George Place. Winield Congleton, John Merryman, Moses LoUtban, Richard Murry, James Whipple, Absolem McCurdy, Isaac N. M< Millen. While the government furnishes the stones here free of cost, it does not agree to put them up. If the friends of the above ; named deceased soldiers will call at the | Democrat office you will find the stones here. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Pow der Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Franck.o.

MUMBER 4(>.

From Thursday's Daily. ' ,- Smoke Case’s Best Case is the place to get fresh drugs. 1 Deputy Sheriff Erwin went to Berne to day. > Eli Merryman went to Fort M ayne this afternoon on business. ! Mrs. Hardin who has been vi iting at Fort Wayne returned home do day. Eugene Bunner and wife, of Rivare, were the guests of friends in the city ■ today. Henry Dirkson, trustee of Preble , township, was in the city on business today. Graham Earle gives a gold watch at the Saturday i night. Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt, of Shelbyville, 111., are the guests of Samuel Slaybaugh and wife. 1 W. R.-Kirchner, one of the able farmers bf Kirkland township, was in the city today. Miss Rose Christen went to Dayton, Ohio, today to visit friends during the , holidays. Miss R M. Elzey returned from New Bremen, 0., where she has been visiting for three months. V* Mrs. James Crane, of Geneva, w’ho was the guest of friends in the city returned home to day. Edward McLeod and wife, of Pleasant Mil.s, were the guests of J. N. Fristoe and wife today. Mr. Ballenger, of Columbia City, is the guest of his son, John, and daugh ter,Mrs. Wm. H. Meyers. Sheldon Harkless. of Syracuse, Ind., who has been the guest of Theo Kennedy, returned home to day. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. Scott Hughes next Sati urday, Dec. 22 at 2:30 p. m. . Mrs. J. A. Harkless, ot Albion, Ind., who has been the guest of Mrs. -Theo. Kannedy, returneAjhome to-day-Ex-Commissioner John Kuprigbt and 1 wife, of Preble , township, - were the guests of Jyhn Box and family to-day. keweenaw\ gd o{jj ca g O? ' the CTCW be the guests s en- Avife during the 1:1 f i,; tyncliilb com- I1Is ” Dec ’ \her, of Will?ar.v the young man near X euests onds tery. The victim is , of Police Cowick of J? le East St. Louis yesterday afterudt W ' Harry Cummins, a suspeot A ere? assembled at the depot last uight < tnero. the arr j va i o f Cummins, al night. M i n g W as looked for, uotwithstan a month anu tangible evidence has beenJ home 'aiust the man. The offid uumc. what wag going j Misses Maggie daughters of John Peoples, of Ro. I township, w’ho have been attending school at Upland. Ind , returned home to-day to spend Xmas. The people of the country are coming into the city by the wagon loads to purchase their Xmas presents, and when they read the Deeocbat know where to go to get good goods and cheap Jesse King and wife, who have been l the guests of Chas. Helm ami other relatives in this city the past week, returned to their home at Portland today, . accompanied by JJr. King’s.sister, Mjjs Olive. Garrett Burling, the poultry, butter and egg merchant and packer, is doing a heavy business in his line. He has shipped 300 barrels of tracked poultry this week. Yesterday he slaughtered 1484 turkeys. He is"£working thirty hands. A circular sent out from Washington states that fill who enlisted before July 15, 1862, for three years, and were discharged or promoted before serving two years, are entitled to §IOO bounty under the present laws. Al) officers are entitled to the difference in pay from the date.of commission or proposition to the date or muster as an officer. Nearly* all officers who were promoted from the ranks or from non-commissioned officers are entitled to several months more, pay. as officers thus promoted were only paid from date of muster, and often months intervened before a mustering officer appeared to muster them in as commissioned officers after their commissions were dated. They are flow en titled to pay for that time. All commissioned officers are entitled to pay fronfthe place of their discharge to 1 their place of residence, counting i every twenty miles for one day’s ser • vice. And case of death of officer or enlisted men, their widows or heirs are entitled. This law was passed in June, 1891, and expires in the same months, 1895.