Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1895 — Page 1

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r a I Several of our people received 1 I postal cards from Ehrpger and Fry , I winget at Bremen Germany. ■ -• ... ' I I Mayer and Foreman are shipping ■ brick to Geneva to help the con along with their new buildI • * > T I ’»gThere were six oi the fishermen I who were fined, the lowest one paid I over sl7, while the highest I amounted to *3O. I The funeral of the child of R. C. I Drummond was held at the ChrisI tian church at 2 o’clock p. m. MonI day. ' Services conducted by Elder I Vaughn. With the putting in of water I works the streets and Alleys will be I torn up, and before this is done I every street and alley should lie put Ijn the best sanitary condition that I can be attained. I Several of our horse owners have ■ been on the “fence” as to what is ■economy; whether to sell the horse ■ and sleigh ride on foot the coming ■ winter, or to foot the bill at twenty ■ dollars a ton for hay. ■ The Masonic Lodge of this city ■ will hold a special meeting on the ■ 23d inst., for the purpose of work. ■The meeting will be called at two ■o'clock p. tn. The Grand Master ■of the State will be present. I A recent decision of the supreme ■jourt is to the effect that if a wo■nan marries a man knowing him to Ke an habitual drunkard she cannot ■Lgally procure a divorce from him Bbpon that ground. Hr Ed John-on, well knowing how HJungry an editor gets, dropped in Hrrnlay and presented us with a fine of cauliflower. The first that eyes have rested on for m my a K|a.y. Thanks Ed. ■H|he train on the Glover Leaf due HHjti at 5:33 a. tn. was four hours late ■toft Tuesday. They done some fast Kaauing, leaving Marion at 9:18, left here at 10:2 1, making miles in one hour ■jStThree nun«*o’. ■ Wobert Feterson, son of Robert K. and Fannie Peterson of this city. Kted Tuesday evening. The funeral ■vas held at 3 o’clock Thursday, BtF’the First Presbyterian church. ■he operation performed Sunday Bv«b too late to save his life. ■ One of the finest pieces of work H>ver turned out in this city, is the ■ttep” cart of B. J. Teryeer. The Hvork was done in our city; the HvOOd work by Ezra Cutting, the Hvagon maker, on first street, ironing by Buhler ‘ Bros., Subtle the artistic painting was done KvhLew Corbin, the well known Krtist. H in gome of the counties of the Ktaie the assessor, in appraising real Kstlte, made pretty low estimates in Hhefvalue. It is given out from ■ nefcfrnapolis that all such appraiseHnents. Will be set aside and that the Hioaid of review will not permit the Valuation of real estate to go below of 1891. ■ Ajilthin the past six months there ■i as: been an unprecedented effort to ■entw the pedagogical ranks. The at Kemance by months, at teachers ■xaiainatiotis, is shown by the follow statement: January 1895, H>-j afblicants, February, 35; March, Ifi, May, 52; June, 35. B'otM for six months 249. Total ■ipfoma applicants, (52. Total ap- ■ ieants, silver dollars are in mineral circulation, and so close is |H& resemblaXe to the genuine that HBery rigid inspection can hardly ■ect it. It bears the date of 1890, about the only thing suspicious |H>ut|it are the edges, which .are /■riy 1 * smooth, and somewhat tin |Ben. '".Several have been dropped Sw^hisfeity.- Huntington Democrat. (

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, I

I Rev J. A. Sprunger, of the Or-1 1 phan’s Home, at Berne, Ind., will j speak at the M. E. church Sunday (evening. He will have with him a number of the children and deaconesses. All are cordially invited. John Miner, of the Indianapolis Sentinel Co., was here Wednesday. You can be sure the board of com missioners are in session when you see him here. Our county has helped to build them a fine brick building and they may want to build it bigger and need mor# help. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Harkless entertained at their house Saturday evening a number of friends in honoY of Mrs. Tom Watson, of Battle Creek, Mich. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pillars, Dick Neptune ami wife and W. J: Merryman. The evening was spent very pleasantly and all went away feeling that it was good to be there. The business men who fool with a dirty rubber stamp instead of letting a printer do a decent job for him is wasting time and losing money in the outcome. That is right! If he enlarges his business or adds another branch he wants the local paper t</make a quarter column mention of it without charge. But business is business. A good paper, is a benefit, and printers must live Alexandria Record. The Knithts of Pythias of In diana, at their recent annual meeting, rendered official decisions with reference to liquor sellers that those engaged in delivering beer to customers, those tending bar in a sa loon, a man in the grocery business who sells bottled beer not to be be drunk on the premises, and one who is part owner of a saloon but takes no part in the conduct of the business, T aie. melligibie to membership in that order. The men here whom Fitzgerald, Os Indianapolis, is organizing intoa colony to go to Georgia, had a meeting Tuesday night at the home of William Ramsey. There were 23 present and 19 of them took in the concern. On Hie face the plan looks very lair, but how a man is to keep a family on ten acres of land in Georgia, is to us yet a mystery, but it may be done and that better than here. A cigarette is a roll of paper, to bacco and drugs, with a small fire on one end.and a large fool at the other. Some of the <ihief enjoyments are condensed nightmare, fits, cancer of the dips and stomach, spinal meningitis, softening of the brain, funeral processions and families shrouded in gloom. There are plenty of subjects left, however, who are perfectly willing to under go the trials of such a nature for the sake of putting on a certain amount of style. bnturday morning about 7 o’clock Mrs. Elizabeth McGonagle was called to rest, after passing the 81st year of her life. Her husband, Joseph E. McGonagle preceded her some years ago. She has since that time made her home with her granddaughter, Mrs. C. J. Lutz and family. The funeral was held last Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the Presbyterian church, of which she was a devoted member. Her pastor, Rev. Horton will conduct the service. Interment was in Maplewood cemetery. The .following postal card was received from the writer Saturday and will be of interest to the friends of Frysinger and Ehinger: Bremen, Ger., July 1, 1895. Friend N. Blackburn: • / We arrived in Bremen port at noon Saturday, June 29. * Had a rather pleasant trip for most part. Cannot say for my life which looked the toughest, the horses or myself. We were on the water just. 14 days. Ed. X. is looking fine as a fiddle. Can not say just when we will start home. Respectfully, J. M. Fiivsinokr. j

| Mrs. George Doctor is again sufj sering from stomach trouble and i| in a serious condition. About oni year ago she had an operation pel formed by Dr. Myers, of For Wayne, and she will again have t i go through the same ordeal to r< ceive any benefit. Dr. Myers, c Fort Wayne, says the case is one i the most aggravated that has com under his observation. Every column in a newspaper contains from 5,000 to 25,000 distinct pieces of metal, according to the size of the paper and type, says an exchange. The displacement of these means an error. Is it any wonder that errors sometimes oc cur? Still some people think is is awful to see mistakes in a news paper, and when they find one they make it a point to tell the editor about it. Perfection, all should remember, is not attainable in any thing. The drag net was pulled again Monday morning, and in its meshes were found Christ. Stalter, Frank Baum, Jesse Niblick, Jr. They had been scaling the suckers they bad caught, but the net closed so tight around them that they each felt that a donation of ten dollars a piece to the common school fund of this common wealth. With the extras on the side to help the boys along, was the proper thing for them to do. Mr. J. R. Graber, manager of the county infirmary, in order to be courteous to visitors, has set aside Thursday and Friday of each week as days during which he will .Receive visitors; and requests all those wishing to visit the infirmary to call on those days, as the rest of his time will be devoted to care of the farm and those under his-care. There will positively be no admittance on Sundays, !r J R. Graber, Supt, ot Co. Infirmary. The board of commissioners were in session Tuesday, that- 18 Brake and HolbroH refters ■vS'irg abstnr*. aiiouinng the funeral of his brother. They granted Ed JsTuenscliwander, of Buena Vista* a per - mit to run an eating house in con nection with his house of call. Ed is one of the men of this county who is always ready to obey the law of the land, and in this case is right. While it was some expense and trouble to him, yet he has obeyed the law and will now be ready to serve the hungry as well as the thirsty. “The time to advertise,” says a Philadelphia business man who has made a fortune out of printer’s ink. “is when buisness is dull. Any man can get business whip buyers are plenty. It is the business man who pushes his trade in the dull months of July and August by fetching advertising, who has a large balance to his credit at the (nd of the year. ‘Keep pushing’ is an excellent motto, I *have found, and I never de crease my advertising m the sum mer. I have special sales. I study what the people want and I have it for them. I ‘keep pushing’ and haye no dull seisons. Monday Frank Railing's 44th .birthday ' anniversary. And in consequence a large number of invited guests enjoyed the hospitality of his libme. An excellent dinner was served, and a good time had by those present. The guests were: Mesdimes J. A. Hall, J. W.. Meyers, P. S.plubbard, Ed Woods, and O. E. Bennett, wife and daughter, of Lima.jO ; F. 11. Balding and wife, ot Bhjitotr. D. N. Hay, wife and of Abanaka. Dino: Messrs and Mesdames G. W. Wood ward, 11. Moltz, J. B. Rice, John \ ail, Theo. Ahr, Aaron Deviifney, .L S. Hart. Mr. 11. S. Porter, Mes. dames Isaiah Fellers, John Williams and Misses Osa France and Anna | Williams. —--

DIANA, FRIDA Y, J FLY 19, 1895.

I Charles M. Hdl has again taken! charge of the edrorial department j of the \an Wert liepnbiican. Mr. j 1 Illi was for sorm time a resident I of this county, beginning the work i of tne craft on a small paper that a ’ ■ number of young men started in ' Monmouth. His experience since I that time has. been such that the! people of \ anWert county will I find the Republican a paper worthy | . of the support of the readers of t that county, and to those who want republican doctrine, they will get j it red hot from Charlie, The plans and specifications for the water works qall for the laying of the main line through the center of Second street. 11 the property owners along that portion of the ' street that is bricked, want the line p I changed to tke alley or along side of the curb, the proper thing for them to do s to get a petition I signed by a majority of the proper--1 ty owners and present the same to 8 ■ the city council asking for the i I change. This should be done at J once as the contractors are now distributing the pipe and getting 1 ready to open the trenches. I ■ - —r—--1 A'number of the editors of the democratic jpunWs of the state i have since their meeting at Maxin--8 kuckee, been fighting the coinage r question. They, have been telling how many gold bugs and how ■ many free silverites there was , one claiming to know t how many Jree silverites there were i present and then how many who | favored a gold standard. VVhile 1 we would “not put that to our r neighbors lips that we woulrt not to f our we will wager a chew’ of > tobacco that not a single one there r knew how many there were of 3 either kind or how a vote on the question would have resulted. Then there were some there who like one paper here may have, a boss that 3 dictates ta i-hem by leger stand on a 7 j IU , portance. * > 5 Tuesday Quartermaster - General of the Indiana militia received bids for supplies for the annual en I campment and the list would indi- , ' cate that none of the boys would , starve at Indianapolis. The bids 5 will be hiade on the following quank titles: Ten thousand pounds break , j fast bacon; 5,000 pounds roast beef 1 in cans; 15,000 pounds of fresh beef: [ 21,000 loaves of bread, each to weigh 24 ounces; 50 cases baked beans; 1,000 pounds Corolina rice; 1 100 cases corn; 2,500 pounds ground ' coffee, Rio and Java mixed: 150 ' pounds Imperial tea; 3,150 pounds granulated sugar; 5 barrels eider ! vinegar; 800 lbs dairy salt; 1,200 lbs. laundry soap; 50 pounds ground pepper; 400 pounds star candles: 400 bushels potatoes: 50 bushels onions, (Gosh!) 3 barrels Heinz cui cumber pickles; 50 cases tomatoes; 40 tons of ice; 7 tons of timothy hay; 0,500 pounds of oats; 4,300 pounds shelled corn; 10 tons wheat ' straw; 00 cords of wood. p ■ -. ' . —: The Independent (llub of Bluff ton, composed of ladies and gentlemynfflno over Tuesday-morning ac compamed with well-filled baskets to spend the day with H. A. Fristoe and wife and to hold a picnic,which was enjoyed by all present, as the eatables were elegant and by no means scarce. They returned home in the evening at B:3t)r Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ashbaucher, John Beil, Al Robt Barr, Janies Foncannon, M. M. Justus, James Dailey, Ed Bartlema, E. S. Mason, Thos. Me Dowell, David Studabaker, and Mrs. Al Oppenheim, Ghas Miller, E, O. Marsh and Jennie Merriman. The I . *■ .3 I Bluffton people always find a hearty welcome in our city, and to them we extend the right hand of friend ship, luddwg them welcome.

1 R tilroads of this part of the state ‘ arc trying to devise means to lessen l the number of accidents to people) I and thereby lessen the amount of ’ damages roads are required to pay. ‘ I They are keeping a daily record of | the names of persons injured or killed. Under the heading of in- ■ jured is given the manner m which ■ the party is injured, such as struck Iby obstructions, hurt by boarding trains in motion, by coupling cars, I by falling from trains, on a high L way crossing, etc. The report goes | into the smallest detail, apd it is I hoped these reports will be of practical value both to passengers or employees and the railroad company. Elwood Press. - ■ -..... , Jk, * Some days ago there was an item going the rounds of the press that a picnic party in Glay county had been attacked. The assault breaking up the jpKjnic, that the same was done by some drunken Irish. The reported picnic being a number of the members of the Catholic church. Father Wilkins, of our city, made inquiries of the officer of the church there and finds that the whole story is false. Nut one word of truth in it for tftere was no picnic there that day or at any other time by the parties named ! in the report The whole thing was hatched out of the brains of some irresponsible parties who had no regard for the truth or anything else. • , —-— ■ 4 It is said that the old graveyard i is still held in reverence by a num ber of our people. Some not satis ( tied with visiting there in day tune, - go there in the twilight when tbej moon does not shine brightly. p Among the number is a grass widow who does not mourn the t loss of any friend dead but mean ders around there of nights for the f purpose of meeting a married On the evening of July 4th ner i • - daughter happened up that way i . auA -met them. Tht* ’Wolf!* lo ' ’ plenty of excuses, while the man: ] looked at the grave stones. ' This! I couple is not all that frequent the place but members of the families ! do not find the others there like I the grass widow and her gay mash. The wheel made another turn : Friday, and our friend Johnson, | ' of Peterson, turned up a sawbuck i ■ for fishing in the St. Marys with a ! > sein. The officers are always mind- I ful that they have some one to j provide for and their fee always equals the amount that those who fracture the statutes of the great ! state of Indiana, pay to the school j revenue, so you- see. Johnson paid i near twenty dollars for the sport. The farmers along the river some ' miles below here say that some parties have caughtall the fish out of the river. At one place, they have a wag on load of fish heads. The pressure . is being put on the wheel for toj cause another revolution which it 1 will make in a few days. ———r- ■- \ I’he following named ladies of i Monroeville, formed a merry coach- ; iiig party •to this city last 1 - Wodnodtiy ft-ttd — spentday at the home of Mrs. \V. S . Hughes: Mesdames G. G. Hunsick-i ■“ j i er. Wm. Baker. Minnie Spake, Hat . 1 / 11 tie Barnhart, S. .1. Sweeny, Pearl I j Stephenson and Edith Redde. Mrs 1 ' . i Hughes was assisted in entertaining : ». & | by Mesdames John King T .-Jr., Jce Helm, Martha Shields, J. E. Ells-1 worth, G. F. Allegar, G. E. SuttlesJ 11. 11. Hart and/Lew Hughes. The - party returned to their homes in ■ the evening" by the aid of the light: cjf the moon carrying with them the 1° Irearty wishes of our people for j their safy return with the earnest : ( hope that they were, so favorably : impressed with our city that they ; ’ will frequently return to visit our , people.

'Die horse <>f Eo StQops the buggy dealer, took a notion t.p travel by himself yesterday morning,, arid the way he made things fly was a caution, but no one was hurt. Our people should be somewhat careful about attending the open air concerts given by people other than our own. They frequently are for the purpose of getting you away from home so that -a band of thievek may rob your house while they rob you by selling you some nostrum WMiamoapts to nothing. You can safofe tepfnd upon this fact that they the make, and will make WW?* ome wa Y can from home. are here arranging Wjiwf a bsflHßn ascension. 'l'hev havh solicited bur business men for money. They are very modest in their demands—seventy-five dollars is the amount they want to fleece.the business men ot the city out of, aprljve understand, that" a number business people have signed a contract to that effect. Such things are frequently for the purpose of getting farmers add other people away from home while a set of theives rob and plunder tire premises, so beware of such schemes, for people must live if they have to steal for it. Ed. Democrat;—Your articles on street fakirs and sich, which ap peared in your daily of last Wednesday, was a yard wide and all wool. i The idea <>f a gang of all round I skinners ceraiug into our city and ■ biikmg our people out of money .that they (the skinners) may live in j idleness, is something that-■■khQuld j not be encouraged by anyone. How- • ever, there are a few -business” meiijn Uir niidst' who are always ready to receive these same people with open arms whenever they come ini > our city and show them more favors than they would some iof our- >wn people, if a qall was i.Djade up’-,a <!’/■ m tv, some honor •'abTe eiiterprise. R. D. Henry Urick of Monroe town ship, was buried' at Ray's graveI yard Monday afternoon. He was at the time of his death the oldest man in the c,ounty,.having reached the age of ninety-six years. He , was one of the. pioneers of the county, moving herein is:;7, while j the county was yet a wilderness | A short time afterwards he en- ' tered the piece of land on which he I lived the rest of his days. He had la large family,seven boys and five I girls, six of the boys still live in I this county, while one died in dei tense of his country. Thus one of ) the oldest residents of the county I has passed away, one to whom we I are indebted for clearing up and making of this county, has passed tin, 1 beyond, vyherc all must some time go. I'he state board of tax cominis j sioners met last’ Monday. .They will be in session for at least tifty days. I nder the new law their, powers have been increased and they now become the sole judges-,of the appraisement of property both real and personal. Diey do not need -to pay: any attention ip i-he returns made by any corporation, county auditor or cotintv. board of e<|iializitioii. I'bey have full • power to subpoena parties with al! book ot accounts and matter that may be necessary to a lull and com plete investigation of any partlciflar matter under this law. If the commissioners <lo their duty there will not be as rtinch property left untaxed as there has been in the past. Men and corporations with large amounts of money and stocks of different kinds have in the past kept them from the assessor. Bui thislaw if properly executed’ .wRTTput them on an equal footing with ■ -the common people and cause them to bear an equal share ot the bur ' den. .

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