Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1895 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat.

VOL. XXXIX.

I Tbe eagle will scream here July ||?4tb.~ The a'd soldiers will have a picnic July 4th. j Fred Falk is the father of a nice girl baby, and be is happy. I The Indiana State University is holding its commencement this week. Mrs. E. A. Phillips entertained the Home Social* club at dinner Wednesday. Portland celebrates the Fourth of July this year by the dedication of one of itijfpublic school buildings. Max Romberg rode the Masonic goat Tuesday night. Being used I to balking ponies, Max lit right side up. The Walters-Winans Normal now has on a full head of energy I • and is starting in with a creditable showing. ■ Elder Vaughn has accepted the charge of the Christian church of this crty and will move here in a short time. Forst Brothers, dry goods dealers of Bluffton, made an assignment Tuesday. Liabilities, >14,000. Assets, s 10,000. The midsummer meeting of the Democratic Editorial association will be held June 27th and 28th at Maxinkuckee, Indiana. M. L. Byers, thecigar manufact - urer, is having his business room papered in a unique style. Call around and see how nice. John A. Fuhrman brings to the front a tine gravel pit. You can see a sample in front of this office He has a lot of it uncovered ready for use. Thursday evening at the home of the bride’s parents occurred the mar riage of Miss Lizzie Wisehaupt to John Reynolds, Key. E. 1. Gregg officiating. Gerber & Sprunger have bought the packing house meat shop and all the fixtures belonging thereto of Samuel Doak. They took possession Tuesday. Communion services will be held at the Presbyterian church next Sabbath, June 23. The services will be proceeded by the ordination of two deacons ami two elders. The new laws will go into effect a few days/ffiot later than Monday. There will be some bitter wrangling over that part requiring the removal of all tables, music and games of all kinds from saloon.s Martin Miller, of Preble, ■ was in town Wednesday, lie says they have been fighting the fire there for two days and nights to keep it away from the oil tanks, and thinks they have it under control. E ngifftart is happy over the arirval C a nice two and onehalKjpound Kiri at his home. While says it could not be any firmecfcian she and he is sure she will bewrge in his eyes for all time to come. The republicans that are meeting in Cleveland are ashore on the sil ver rock. They will be likely to leave the ship rent asunder when they desert it, and may be able by and by if they have plenty of “soap, grease and tar,” to slip the silver rock from the majority. Mrs. John D. Hale will leave for an extended visit through California and expects to be gone over a year. Last Tuesday evening the members of the Eastern Star Chapter of this city surprised her by calling on her in a body when she least expected them. An enjoyable time was the result of the meeting.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY. JUNE 21. 1895.

The 4th of July will find the patriotic people of fiiis county awakened and ready to let the eagle Hop his wings. So be ready, but keep out of the way of his tail. Don’t fail to take a look at the gravel in front of our office, and say what you can do, and tell us where there is better and more gravel than anyone ever dreamed of in Adams county. Montpelier is reveling in big stories ol' the past. Some work men unearthed three skeletons sixteen feet under ground. They are supposed to have been murdered years ago. Another skeleton tin earthed was shown to have been murdered. A slight rust is gathering on the wheat which may effect it bad, but as yet the damage is but slight. While the dry weasher continues, the corn never looked better in Adams county than it does today. It may have been larger but not any better color than the. present crop. The old soldiers and Ladie’s Relief Corps will picnic m Zimmerman’s Grove assisted by the Grand Army boys, July 4, 1895. All are invited to be present. Come with your baskets well filled. Music, vocal and instrumental. Also good speaking. By order of Committee. The many friends of Miss Allice Moore will be surp-ised to here of her marriage to Lawrence P. Boyle, of Chicago, on Wednesday at the home of the bride’s aunt, Miss Fredelia Anderson, in Indianapolis, Mrs. Boyle has many friends in this city, and has often visited here with .Mrs. John Nil,lick and others. The W. C. T. U. seems to takei some exception to our statement of the report of the case of Schaffer for license. We today publish their reply, th at our—readers may have their view of the matter. The Democrat is always open for a fair and honorable discussion of all questions effecting the community. While this is somewhat personal, we give it as they write the same. Rev. John M. Driver delivered one of his characteristic lectures to the newspaper fraternity at the meeting at Logansport Thursday evening. The subject was, “The editor and his right and left hand bower or the editor, the preacher and the politician.” The discourse was splendid and the editors not present missed one of the finest addresses that has been delivered m the state. Last Sunday morning at Portland an accident happened a young lady by the name of Flora Evans who was out riding with a young man by the name of Moore. They reached a railroad crossing at the same time a Jocomotive and one car was being backed down. Theyoung lady jumped out, the carstriking her and mashing an arm and one leg so that both had to be amputated. She is in a fairway to recover but will be a bad cripple and otherwise disfigured for life. The county board of equalization was m sessioii Monday. They hid a number of complaints to pass on and found land assessed at so many different prices and complaints from such came -up so that they had considerabel trouble in adjusting assessments to please everyone. A farm appraised at $22 per acre while one adjoining is at $ 11> and another at $17.50, makes the $22 man squirm. While it may be true that they are equal to the man who , 'A has to pay taxes on the $22" per acre, it will be hard to convince him of that fact. When you reach a man’s pocketbook then you fail to be his friend.

The laying of the corner stone of the Rochester Normal University will occur June 27th at 2 o’clock p. m. The ceremonies will be conducted by the Masonic Fraternity and will be participated in by other civic and military societies. The way fires have been sweeping towns around us we have reason to rejoice, but our people should be more careful about the fires they I start out of.doors. The burning of j paper on the streets or in the alleys should bestopped. While we have an ordinance making the same a penal off euse/our people should not wait to see the ordinance enforced, but should use that care which is necessary to protect our ci-ty -from the devouring element that has destroyed so many towns near around our city. Postmaster Welfley returned from Indianapolis where he had been as a witness in the case of the United States vs (). K, Anderson, charged with embezzling §3*9.97 from the United States by issuing money orders from the Linn Grove po'stofiice for the purpose of paying a debt he owed a farmer near this city. Mr. Welfley says it was a general surprise to find the decision of the court favorable to Anderson and to see him go seott free looks strange to some people, but the facts are he»was acquitted. The town of Decatur ha* been enjoined from building Waterworks because the cost of the improvement would be beyond tile two per cent, limit of its taxation, and the stat utes prohibit, an indebtedness in excess of that amount. It is a serious blow. to the progress and growth of the town.—Bluffton . News. Again we call your attention to the fact, that in ancient times 'men were taken to to the post and there given forty-nine stripes for such offenses, but it may be you are not responsible for what you say, and we will not ask to have the punish" ment enforced. The ground for waterworks has been broken. The work has commenced and by September 15th, you can see a plant that will surpass any in the state. In our trip to the Editorial Convention of the Northern Editor ial Association of Indiana at Logansport, June 13th and 14th, we observed the crops along the road. In no place did theylook any better than in Adams county. Tie greatest damage is to the grass, so that the hay crop will be very short. Corn along the road all looked fine, and the acreage is large. The life was injured by frost so that none of it was left. Clover is short, so that to save it some of the farmers were cutting it the same as they cut-it for seed. I'heir hay rakes were not fine enough to gather if scattered. The oats were short on high ground. Wheat looked fair, but may not be filled. Every town or city has its ungrateful people and ours, like the others, have some of the same ilk. Men who have had the credit of others until they could get a start' then like the mangy dog that you feed and care for, they snarl arid bite you. o The individual is worse than the dog they not only attempt to ruin you in business, but. they start and circulate all kinds of lies about the one who has been to them the means of their being in a financial condition that they may make money. Such men are the ones who do the most lying on oth-. er "We have them with us. Men have been carried and helped every way possible until they could help themselves, Then they afe not satisfied until they lie on the dne they, have lived off of. The time comes when such men meet their reward, but that does nbt help the community.

Last Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Lewton, of Root township, a pleasant surprise was tendered their daughter, M iss Ada, the occasion being her 18th birthday. While Ada was visiting a friend about twenty five guests assembled at her home., On arriving home later in the-even-ing she was completely surprised. At 12 o’clock ice cream and cake were served, after which the merry crowd repaired to their home®. Music was furnished by bchiefer stein Bros. Miss Ada wa- the recipient of many beautiful presents. The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City earned the first week of June $30,870.1.7, against $23,527 in the corresponding week of .J 894 an increase, this year, of s'(i,2BQ.'i 7. The Toledo Blade says: “The freight receipts and general business of the month of May is a large flowing feather in the cap of R. B. F. Pierce,, the T. St. L. dr K. C., new receiver. The freight receipts for May, I-t'4. were only S’BG,9OO, while last month they reached the handsome sum of $.198,300, almost an increase of more than 50 per cent. This, despite the tact that there has been a decline iu the grain trade on all roads, is surely a splendid recordThe Clover Leaf’s west-bound lake traffic has been especially brisk since navigation has opened.” An exchange remarks, that the 1 reason kissing is so pleasant as told by an osculatory expert of Scientific tendencies, is because the tee/h, jaw-bones and lips are full of nerves, and when the lips of persons meet aii electric current is gener ated. And another says: ’ Yes, and it Is so confounded cheap. You don’t Lave to have a dynamo machine nor a battery in the house, nor a call box. nor a button totoueh to ring up the central office. And there is no patent on." it and the poorest person in the world can enjoy it more than the millionaire, and it never gets out of order. If Edison haff invented kissins it would cost SIOO a. year, like the telephone, rand then extra, and if ■you didn't pay it they would take out your kissaphone and disconnect you from the central office. Jacob Morningstar, of Ft. Recovery, ()., has been the guest - of bis brother-in-law John Crawford. Mr. Morningstar is an old gentleman and one not a stranger to this county. He was in this place when it took but one figure to count all the voters in the town of Decatur and that character was expressed by one straight mark. Mr. Morningstar Says that. Huffer was the only man living where our beautiful city now stands. He left here for Ft. Recovery, 0., in Uf44, , where he has resided ever since, ’ but frequently comes oyer here to i visit friends and see how This county j is getting along. To a number of our citizens he is always a welcome visitor ———■ —I The Ft. Waynedistriet of thQ,Ep j worth League have been in session at,Angola this week. TJie different leagues ot Adams county were represented in the convention by Misses.j-Cora Shaekley, Nellie Ells worth, Nellie Blackburn, Ella Sprang, Maggie Eicher, Ella Mag j ley, Cora Elzey, Anna McCullough, Rev. Cocking, W. P. Merryman, Dick Myers, Don Quinn, Charley Bell ami Charley Barnhart. There may be others that we failed to get. The league and different social societies are the auxilanes of the church that will be the mainstay tor all time to come. Most of the delegates returned home yesterday. They report a fine time. All of them speak of the hospitality of the citizens of Angola in the very highest terms and will forever cherish the pleasant time they had with the good people of Angola.

The deed of trust is given to the Union Central Trust Co., of New Yprk and Ferd Winters trustee and is to secure the issue of bonds lof which they will place on the market to the amount df $1,750,00b i the said bonds to be of the denom ■ ination of SI,OOO each. The trust deed covers the Decatur, Logans | port, Peru, Wabash and a number of smaller plants. About fifty of the friends and neighbors gathered at the home of Mr. ami Mrs. Jesse Williams m Root township, last Sunday to remind Mrs. Williams that she had reached the 55th mile-stone of life's I journey. A sumptuous repast was served and all done ample justice. Those present from abroad were Did Overly ami family, of Fort Wayne, Mr. David and family ami , the Mises Lillie and Emma Smtih, of Bluffton. Mrs. Williams was the « recipient of several nice presents. The most unique-feature pf the oc casion being that tbe ladies present I al.l had Mother Hubard gowns i alike. Bluffton's water supply is getting short, ami the water is ot a poor quality. They use river water, and that from below the city so that they get the tilth of the city by the ,drainage, and all the filth that can be brought to the river. Should ; <>ur supply fail, we will find our selves in tb.e same condition. Ihe water will have to got from the river, and that at the lower side ot the city, where we would be corn peiled to get all the pointed water that can be got from that s.mix-e. Too much care can not be taken m the work that has been commemid. A small amount of outlay at Uiis time may be the' best investment the city can make. Be sip*.-'>he pipes are large enough, am* fLaj, the pumps have the c;macU>.p o keep the supply rtquired g 'i > "’The eoliditien of the water, ami tfce failure.—of the line and supply the same, is-what is the trouble with Bluffton. Ami we may find ourselves in tire same condition unless we commence aright and see that the work is well dune. Monday forenoon J. E. Garwood's gray horse ran away. Starting near the C. st E railroad, it ■ame down Winchester street at a ' teakneck speed. thr,ow ing Garwood 0u t, when opposite the Evatrgi iieal church bruising him badly ami stuniug him so that did not n al:/.e for some time what had happened j him. The horse continued .its mad i tiight until it came to the alley ! leading to tha barn, then it attempted to turn m but the was too great to make the turn, the buggy struck a tree and tore loose from the horse withbul any injury to the buggy, but the tree was damaged some, the horse crossed the sidewalk and. run against the iron picket fence, cu’tting the breast of the horse in a terrible manner. Lt seemed ro be so that it did not try to get away until it was helped. The blqod flowed freely until the wound wag dressed. . ;— I—— ’The commissioners of Wabash county have got themselves iii the box as the word goes. . The grand jury returned nineteen indictments against them: ..The indictments ire for extortion, illegal allowances, presenting false claims ami for perjury. They have been arrested and gave bonds for their appear ance in the circuit court. Their come up for trial in the September term of the Wabash circuit court. It has been charged by phe newspapers and by a number of citizens that they had been crooked for some time past, that they had made allowances for work that they could have got done for one half tlie money, but when.j.iersops would offer to do work for the county or offer to bid for work they would

j say we have let the contract. The ’ I republican organ took them to task , I when they let the contract for the i stationary to an Indianapolis firm, 'thus robbing their county of the i i money that should remain there to help build up Wabash county, : instead of building fine brick budd- ; ings for the city of Indianapolis am! •j at prices that clearly showed that there was something wrong in the letting of the contracts. The Republican organ did not say of the commissioners that they did not have “brains enough to grease a ' gimlet,” but went after them in an honorable way and today they stand ; before the bar of justice charged i with crimes that should they be able to shake off. still leaves the ■stain upon tlieir official if not private life that “will follow them j through life. Mayor Quinn says the Nicholson j law, like all other laws, must be enforced as the same stands oji the ■ statute books. The pool and bil tables must be regulated to I some other room than tbe saloon. The card 0 table and the nickle in" i the slot machine must be cleared out. While the music box and alldevices whereby there is gaming of any kind, will share the fate the law intend.-, shall befall them. While he regards our saloon men as citizens who believe m upholding tbe law of the land, he believes there will be no trouble whatevei. when the law’ takes effect. So far •<s the screen part, it is the same as ■ear city ordinance. The screens I must be removed: when not doing I business. But Firing the hours whenqt is illegal to sell, that part igf thedaw will be rigidly enforced,. or the Mayor will so instruct the - police officers."a. - A t'orection. I . Eicvoi: Democrat; —Will you i allow us to correct a statement . made in the Democrat of June 14th ■ m regard to the case of M, Schaffer before the Commissioners ftTf a licen.se to retail liquor in the First Ward. The paper States the remoiistrators tailed to prosecute the case. The-statement is not correct. The case was contested by, one of our well known attorneys who made as strong a fight as any lawyer in’ the city could have made under the circumstances. The citizens of the First Ward must have been mis taken in their estimation of the character of Mr. Schaffer, notwithstanding the indictments against I him for selling liquor to. minors, on .. ' record at the court house. Mr. Schaffer leased the ground for his , • • I building from a prominent' church member. He retained for “ins - —attorneys the s rijieTinteiident of the M. E. Sabbath school and a prospective officer injthePresbyterian church. Not only that, but lie was also able to ‘•retain” the St.ayor of the city as his principal witness. With such an array of Christianity on his side, who can doubt Mr.'Soljaffer’s moral charae t t or his quaification to sei! whiskey, or who can blame the Board of Com missioners for their action in the case? -' ' The W. C. T. I . who hae charge of the remonstrance extend tlieir congratulations to the attorney who so ably .contested the case for the remonstrators. They also desire to expend their thanks to the Board of Commissioners for their, courteous treatment towards them when prosecuting the remonstreanee. AV. C. T. U. Sec’y. Rev. Chamness, of Geneva, was one one of the Epworth Leaguers trom there to Angola. Marriage license as shown by the record in the Clerk s office the first since our last report is blank, then comes Peter Moser to Anna Witwer. then comes Mr. Blank, and Miss Blank. This is followed by Emory M. Stone to Flora Stephenson. en 'l ß the re l cord to this date.

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