Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1895 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat.

VOL. XXXIX.

Al Fristoe will move his family to this city from Bluffton, next week. • The patent medicine show on Court street drew a large crowd last flight. Dyonis Schmitt shipped a fine car load of hogs to Buff.do, N. Y., Wednesday. The Herald office, of Geneva, went through the fire with the rest of the town. The new School Board of Decatur will probably organize for business this week. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the home of Mrs. Dr. Hollow’ay tomoarow at 2:30. I John D. Manross and Miss Maude Evans were married at the M. E. parsonage Tuesday night, by Rev. Gregg. The Journal office is about to make its semi-annual change of proprietors. Verily, suckers continue to bite. The water works contractors will want one hundred and fifty hands when they commence work, which will be next week. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. and M. J. Wertz.berger and families desire to return thanks to friends for favors during their late bereavement. Miss Dora Watson and Mrs. Kellison have dissolved partnership in the dressmaking business. Mrsi Watson returns to Portland. John D. Hale informs us that the first car load of new wheat was received in the Toledo markets yes terday. It came from southeastern Kansas. John B. Miller has rented the basement of the court house and will open a bath house in the room formerly occupied by Foreman as a barber shop. Uncle George Pontius, John Rupright and Henry Fuelling were all in the city Thursday on business. It wasn’t to ride the S2OO balky pony, either. Decatur Chapter, No. T 27, O. E. S., will confer the degrees of the order upon two candidates this evening. All members of the order are requested to be present and assist in making the occasion one of pleasure and profit. John Niblick and wife, W. H. Nachtrieb and wife, Frank Schirmeyer and wife, A. D. Moffett and wife, Rev. E. T. Gregg and wife, L. D. Adams and Jeff Bryson were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hill at five o’clock dinner Wednesday. • . a The Directors of the Grand Rapids railroad passed through the city yesterday. They were enroute to Geneva to view the remains of the burned depot and leave orders, we presume, for the erection of a new one. They should have investigated their old shed and “waiting” room here first. The case of M. Shaffer before the .Board of Commissioners for license to retail liquor was up Friday tor trial, but the t remonstrators failed to prosecute the case, Sofne of the party that signed the remonstrance testified that Shaffer kept a good orderly house. The license was granted. ~ A number of Jefferson township people have been punished for misbehaving at church. About 'six of them have felt the heavy hand of justice laid upon them, and they have donated to the school funds of Adams county. Violations of the law may be pleasant at the time but the stingthat usually follows takes away all thoughts of the past nleasures.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14. 1895.

Hay made of rye is what some of our farmers are selling now. The ; wonder of our devil is, will the hay made of rye have the same effect on the horse that the juice of rye will have on man. It is said on good authority that equal parts oil of lavender and water sprinkled in a room will keep the flies out. While it smells sweet and refreshing, a nickle’s worth will be a cheap way to test the same. The trustees of the town of Ge neva have passed an ordinance establishing a fire limit. This will give them a better town, for all buildings will have to be of brick Or some material that is as near fire proof as they can get. Mrs. Peter Zeigler, mother of Mrs. Judson TeepD, died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, of neuralgia pf the stomach. She was here on a visit and took sick about a week ago. Her remains wall be shipped to Germantown, Ind., for interment. The relatives arrived yesterday. Some of the Decatur belles have raised the war whoop all on account of the attention attracted by the sqaw fraternity of the recent aggregation. ’ln rejoinder the boys say that the precedent—was set some time ago by our belles Writing with each stunning dude that strikes the town. Gravel in Adams county, and plenty of it to make good roads all over the county. A new “pit” has just been opened on the Dorwin farm, north of town. This is the best gravel yet found, and the quantity seems to be such that it wil! require lots of time to exhaust it. Soviet us have a gravel road from the north soon. H. G. Berthold has moved back to Van Wert, O. He is much pleased with Decatur and.our people, but being on the road and away from home the greatest part of his time, he moved his family' back to where his wife’s folks live. He expresses his thanks to the people of this place who showed him many favors and myites them to call on him when at Van Wert. We saw the Marshal of fierne here Thursday and thought we “smelled a mouse,” which was explained when he returned with Charles Millet, charged with public intoxication, to which he pleaded guilty. His Honor, the Mayor, thought one dollar would be enough, after the trimmings were added. Which swelled (he total to something over thirteen dollars. The council has closed up the contract for waterworks; the work to commence on the 15th day of J une. One part of the contract implies that no “dagos” need apply. So before the snow flies you can turn the faucet and let the water run, provided always that you put up the “ready John” to help bear the expenses of building and operating the great plant we are about to put in. A number of married men of our city do not sleep much these warm nights, not that the nights are so sultry, but that the warmth that comes from the fact that they are not above suspicion and the trouble a young girl is in causes them to toss restlessly on their virtuous couches, when nature’s sweet, refreshing sleep Should lull them into a rest that will refresh them so that they will be pleasant and enjoyable to all w’ith whom they meet. But the wages of sin are such that they can’t rest, and it may be thus until after the next session of the Adams circuit court and then the divorce mill may be grinding so that rest will still not be thine, but a continual uneasiness that will haunt them as long as life lasts.

Mrs. John H. Mumma, of Union township, died Wednesday. She has been sick for some time, consequently her death was not unexpected. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn her departure. The funeral was held yesterday at 4 p. m. at Pleasant Grove church, of which she was a member. Today is Flag Day. On this day the stars and stripes should , wave from every building in the United States, notonly public buildings and business house but every home, should have the flag of Amer ica float in the free air of America that our children may learn to honor the flag of the United States of America. Howard Siupp by his next friend . Hattie Stupp, sues Abrabam K. Grubb for false imprisonment, demanding SI,OOO. This suit grows out of the time the Stupp and Grubb boys left here together and were brought back from Bluffton by Deputy Sheriff Erwin when young Stupp was placed in jail for a short time and the matter was dropped, hence the suit. RWph, the : -year-old son of and Elsie Wertzberger, died Sunday morning at Continental, Ohio. The remains were brought here on the Clover Leaf train Sunday night and taken to M. J. Wertzberger’s, the father of Leo. The funeral services were held at 3:00 o’clock p. in. Monday at the home of Mr. VVertzberger’s parents and were conducted by Rev. Smith of the Baptist church, assisted by Rev. Horton of the Presbyterian church. Interment in Maplewood cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Dr. P. B. Thomas royally entertained a number of their friends on Tuesday evening in honor of their tenth wedding anniversary. The evening was most pleasantly spent in- various ways. Delicious refreshments were served during the evening. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan, R. K. Allison, J. F. Mann, J. F. Bryson, F. M. bchirmeyer, A. L. DeVilbiss, George Woodward, C. D. Knnkle, of Monmouth, Mrs. Ed. Beigley, of Daytop, Ohio, and Mrs. Jessie Townsend, of this city. The following in the Cincinnati papers today, and refers to the Wild West Show that exhibited here last week: “Ho-te-ot-te-na-wish was the unusual name which appeared on the application for a burial permit in the Health Office yesterday. The bearer of the name was a little year-and-a-half old daughter of one of the Gree squaws with Beveridge’s Wildest West show. It died rather suddenly at 10:30 o’clock yesterday morning, and Coroner Haerr was notified. The place of birth was given at Havre, Mon., and of death, a show tent.” The new taw relating to exemption from road labor reads as follow: “On applicant to the township trustee any person liable to work on highways may be exempt therefrom if it be shown that he is unable from bodily intirmites to pay the commutation therefor; also ahy person who is a bonifide member of a legally organized fire company organized and located in an incorporated city or town in this state, and in such cases the township trustee execute to such person a certificate thereof which shall, on being presented to the supervisor, entitle him to such exemption.” The above law has an emergency clause and is now in effect. We are under obligation to Agent DeLong, of the Erie railroad, for a handsome 48-page souvenier of the famous Lake Chautauqua. It is full of engravings of scenes around The lake, and is, indeed, a hand - some book, of course it advertises the Erie Lines as the best route to reach this lovely resort.

A number of our papers in reporting ihe cutting affray, reported that the Kern’s who had the racket was Emerson C. Kern’s family of this City and afterward merchant of Geneva. The writers of the papers did not look for the truth but drew on their imagination, with the hope of creating a sensation. Everyone here who attempted to get the truth knew that E. C. Kern was not at Sheldon and his brothel Will was and had been in Nebraska for i the last fourteen years. This cor- j reel ion is made it the request of the friends of the Kern’s late of our county. Friday night A. K. Grubb, the in- ; surance man, was aroused from his sleep-. He got up, looked out of the window and saw a man trying to get the window up. Grubb burned- | ly dressed, got his gun and started ! for the man who, when he heard : Grubb, started for him, but was met with a shot from Grubb’s revolver, which aroused Jerry Coffee who was at ihe scene in a short time. • The fellow seeing two, started to ; run when another shot struck him ■ in the heel, when Coffee and Grubb i closed in on the game, and took ; him to the county jail. Today he was arranged before Mayor Quinn charged with vagrancy, and was fined five dollars and costs, and ' in default of bail was sent to jail. ! He may be a good catch if it can 1 be found where he is wanted. Samuel Evans, who for some’ time past has been leading a rather fist trot, has again fixed himself to | reduce his exchequer to the amount of fifty dollars and the expense of 1 collecting the same. For some I time past he has been buying goods : on credit of our merchants and . giving his note therefor. While j be is a minor, but represents that I he is of age** but can not get his money because it was loaned out ■ and not yet due. Some of the notes are not yet due, but one coming to the hand of bis guardian, he | soon set the matter right. He was i afterwards arrested for associating with dissolute women, and when I the time for trial came he made an affidavit that he was married to the woman, but could not show the marriage certificate because the house in which they were married had burned. So the case was con tinned until Wednesday, and he was placed under a bond of fifty dollars for his appearance, which was forfeited. It is said that parties from Van Wert are looking for him to release themselves from a bond that they will have to pay for him ■ unless they can produce his body ; in court in Van Wert county, Ohio. I ' _ i The Bluffton circuit court has I been engaged for three weeks in ’ trying the case of Alkinson against * the Utility paper mill of Hartford ' Oity, the case having been brought from the Blackford circuit court to i the Wells circuit court on change of venue. Judge Whitelock of Huntington, sat . as special judge, and with a special jury listened to the case for three weeks, and then rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for S3OO. The case was for, damages to the plaintiff by reason of the waste from the defendants mill, polluting a creek running through the farm of the plaintiff. The costs in the case will amount to over $2,000, exclusive of the attorney fees. Some of the expert witnesses were paid at the rate of SSO per day, while the jury fees amounted to $432. The same people own a mill at Eaton where they were tried on a criminal charge for polluting the water with their waste from the mill and were fined SSOO by the Delaware circuit court. Tms will compel them to cremate or run their refuse into the ground. Licensed to Wed. Henry E. Eglev to Alvina Moser. Oscar Jones to Daisy Frank.

■ll ffl WK ! A DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION. The Town Almost Wiped From the Face of the Earth. Tuesday night about nine o’clock i tire broke out in the rear of Andrew i J udy’s grocery store on the south side of Line street The buildings being all of inilamable material and ihe town ■ without any fire protection, not even a ' well of water near where the fire started, it soon gained such headway , that to check it was impossible, from one building to another it seemed to go :bo fast. Following are the business I houses that burned and an estimated ’ amount of loss for each one: G. R. 1. depot, Buckeye Supply Co.’s building. . $700; contents. S2OOO I’ostoflice , building. $400: contents, S3OO. Shell’s ! saloon building. $300: contents, $350. ‘ Heaston restaurant, $400: coptents, j S2OO Manley saloon, $700; contents, SI2OO. Brown barber shop, $400; contents, s2oo A. J. Judy's grocery store. $•>00; contents SBOOO Bell Fought eating house, $500: contents, 11000. I I’orter & Co.’s drug store. $1000; con- | tents. SBOOO Kelly's restaurant, $800: contents, S6OO. Wagmiller’s saloon, ; $700; contents, SIOOO. All the above named buildings were ■ situated on the south side of Line street and occupied the ground floors. [ From the G. R. & 1. depot to the ' Shamrock hotel, where the tire was stopped; but the north side of Line i street suffered the most severe losses. The grain elevator of S W. Hale, building. $6000: contents. S6OOO. i Kelley Bro’s, agricultural implements, I building. $600: contents. sl6po. Briggs hardware building, s4o®; contents, SSOOO Waites & store, building, $4000; concents. so6o. 1 Durr harness shop, building, $400: contents, SI2OO. Deido jewelry store, building. $600; contents. S2OOO. Mrs. Green's millinery shop, building. $600; contents, S3OO. Samuel Biteman's general store, building, $2000; stock. SBOOO. Forman’s barber shop, building $600; contents, S2OO. L. W. Watson. « grocery store, building. $800; contents. SI6OO. John Watson's grocery store, building, $700; contents. SI2OO. Palace hotel building. $1200: contents. S7OO. Gregg's photo studio building. $600: contents, S6OO. All the residences on the square were burned and quite a number on the ( next square north. The aggregate loss ' is between sixty and seventy thousand i dollars. BROTHERM ARE THEY. . .. —... I North Manchester Wants Her Johnson, i While We Have Our Johnson in Jail. I •‘A reward of $lO will be paid for the arrest and conviction of two swindlers who are going thr&ugh the country victimizing people under the guise of the Davis, Allen <& Co.’s Bad Debt Collecting Agency, of Toledo, O. Their method of doing business is to get subscribeis to membership at $lO each tor one year, and 10 per cent for collecting, which they steal after collecting same and escape to new fields. “The two men wanted arrested and held, gave, lheir names as F. B. Johnson and J. (). Bell. The former is a slim built man, spare features, black hair and musteche, about twenty-eight years of age, weight about 140 pounds, about 5 feet and 10 inches in height, wear ing black Priqce Albert suit and soft hat. The latter man has a ■flushed round face, black hair and short black mustache, age about 30 years, weight about 150 pounds, wearing a black suit, sack coat and soft hat.” *

Team Runaway. I About noon Friday when Levi Nelson was starting away to work, bis horses became frightened and ran away. The accident-occurred on north Sixth street near the north end of the street. Mr. Nelson was thrown from the wagon and severely bruised and ■ was rendered unconcious for a long time. At this time he is somewhat improved, but in a serious condition. A Warning. A warning to fast driving and riding on the streets. On last Sunday evening a couple of young men from the country, John Shade and W. Hurst tried the speed of their horses Today they interviewed the mayor and he thought that the city had been outraged to the sum of three dollars each and the usual amount of embellishments that spread out to an eagle a piece for the boys. A few more prosecutions will set the danger of being run over by fast and reckless driving and riding at rest. The boys may be happy, but would prefer that some one else have that kind of pleasure and they keep their ducats. Water Works Directors. The directors of the Decatur Water Works Co., elected June 6th, are as follows: J. C. Howe. G. Christen. L. C. Miller, C. A. Dugan. F. M Schirmeyer, J. T. Merryman, J. T. France. E X. Ehinger. G. Christen was elected president; E. X. Ehinger, secretary and C. A. Dugan, treasurer. Last Saturday, E. X. Ehinger resigned as secretary on account of his trip to Europe and F. M. Schirmeyer was elected in his stead. The contract with the city is to begin work on or before June 15th and to have the works completed by September 15. 1805; the contract price being $63,500. ff the work is done according to the plans and specifications we will have one of the best water works' systems in the State of Indiana. Conference of the Zion Classis of the German Reformed Chnrch: From near and far the brethren of Zion classis arrived at this place in or der to bear the reports of t he respective pastors of the congregations enlisted on the roil of the Zion qlassisand to counrsel for the welfare of the church. The following brethren have arrived, viz; Revs; J.’ Bosh, Fort Wayne; J ; Knelling. D. D.. Fort Wayne: L, C. Martin. Huntington; -J. Houser, Archbold, Ohio; L. D. Benner. Defiance. O.; - G. Euglemaun, Auburn. Ind : E. Vonholt, Magley: J. M. Grelher, Swanton, Ohio; C. 11. Schoeptle, Vera Cruz, N . Buetnick. West Bay City, Mich.: H. Hesse, Port Hope. Mich : H. W. Vitz, Decatur. B. Ruf, Berne. G. M. Hirsch, Marion. Ind.: Abr. Schtick, Detroit, Mich. The respective elders are; J. Scherer, J. Buehrer, C. Memmer. C. C. Gerber. E. Bloemke, .II Hilgemann, M. Kirsch and C. Burkhalter. The session was opened June 6th at 7:30 p. m-by an opening service conducted by Rev. J. Knelling, D. D..then proceeded to organization. Rev. J. Knelling. I). D.. was re-elected as chairman; Rev E. Vonholt, stated clerk: treasurer. Elder M. Kirsch; corresponding secretary. Rev. G. Englemann. Friday's session from Sto 11 a. m. and 2 td?s p m. During this time the various reports of the different congregations were received and the brethren noted a progress in the work, which is encouraging. Decatur has raised S3OO for a ball team and games are being arranged for. A telephone message was received this morning offering Bluffton a date Thursday, and an endeavor will be made to pick up a team that will stop the crow of the Decatur bluffers. — Bluffton News. It is the kids and not. the ball team that wants to play Blnfftonites- Our ball team can’t afford to play a picked up nine. The Blqltton team will feel bad enough when they are defeated by the kids, but doh t spoil the game on that account. Do not fail to hear the 'famous Canadian Jubilee Singers and Imperial Orchestra ai the M E church Friday evening. June 21st. This is their fifteenth season and they- have made a five years tour of Great Britain. Ten artists—seven pieces i n orchestra. Ad mission, adults 25c; children 15c Men Wanted. We shall want to employ quite a number of men, and a number of teams when our material arrives, and in order that we may get the help when we need it, will ask those wanting to work for us to leave their names and addresses on our register at Blackburn A Miller's drug store. The register will be ready Monday, June-17. Howk Pump & Engine Co., Water Works Contractors.

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