Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1895 — Page 1

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The last race was not run until after dark Saturday evening. Albert Ensminger buried their first born Saturday morning. Samuel Mcßarnes is not expected a live. He is at the home of his son, Ezra. Tnefti will be a Iw-ket meeting a| Oak Grove church the first Sunday in October. > ' Five people will leave here Monday for Mobile Alabama. They will look up a location for a home. The party that picked up an umbrella at the races last Saturday, will please return the same to this office. The “boys” of this office desire to wish Miss Veda M. Hensley a happy life. They are all smoking on Pa. Mrs. Richard Burrell, whose serious illness has occasioned some fear of her recovery, is slowly improving. , ■ The schools of Preble township •'begin next Monday. Trustee Fruohte is the controlling faculty at present. John W. DeLong last Wednesday night investigated the goat at the Masonic Lodge and found him to be quite docile. — • A small day book full of icy acwas left at this office. If owner will call and pay for this notice he can have same. ' I A good agricultural fair is what I the farmers of Adams county need. I Steel’s Park is as fine a ground as Athey have in the state. The sudden change of the temperature has made a number of the boys scratch to see how they can Vedeem their overcoats. At the St. Marys Catholic church i Wednesday morning occured the • ’marriage of Mr. Henry Colchm to Miss Lucy Heideman. ■. '■ —j David M. Hensley is papa of a fine girl baby, and is as proud as any man you ever saw. Mother and baby are doing fine. The Ladies St. Vincent De Paul Society will meet on Wednesday afternoon of this week at the residence of ex-Treasurer John Meibers. On last Sunday after attending the basket meeting tn Monroe township, we stopped at Mathias Thomas’ and saw the big corn of Adams county. A reunion of those aho attended the first Wabash county fair in 1853 was held at the forty-second fair last week, forty-six of the old settlers being present. Decatur Chapter No. 127 O. E. S. will confer the degrees of the order on Friday evening Sept. 27th. All members of the order are cordially invited to be present. * - • — The Geneva, Bank Tuesday passed j into the bands of a stock company. Judge Studabaker, Robert Allison ; and W. Niblick, of this city, becoming stockholders and direp.tqxs. A son of Frederick Schroder, of Preble township, was buried today. That fatal disease, typhoid fever, was the cause of his death. The other members of the family that ’ have been afflicted are improving. The city band furnished some excellent music during the races, Friday and Saturday of last week. Keep up the lick boys, you may get some substantial enfcouragement before you die Os old age. “Is the Church the Friend of the Laboring Man?” Is to be the subject of. the evening sermon at the Christian church next Sunday. Every laboring man of Decatur is cordially invited to attend. I'' ' .

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1895.

This is the week of the Portland fair, and Wednesday five houses were plundered. Thieves seem to be plenty, and have been getting in their work. They rob on all sides and have no resppct for any one. Co. F. of the 130th Indiana, will hold their company reunion at Ossian on October 10th. There is but one member of the company in this county. The postmaster at Monmouth having been with that company. Seventeen of the Daughter of Rebecka left Saturday afternoon for Fort Wayne where they will assist at the confering of the degrees of the order and attend a trolly car party and a pleasant time will be the result. Mrs. Rosanna Bowers and children desire to return their heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors who„so kindly assisted them during the last illness and death of their husband and father, -3 ■ Si • Jonathan Bowers. In our statement last week of the youngest couple married m this county, we were in error as to their ages. The young man being eighteen, while the bride was past sixteen. We make this statement to correct the error. The basket meeting, of the Friends church at Pleasant Valley held Saturday and Sunday was a success in every particular. The meeting was in> charge of Rev. Smith, of that place, assisted by a number of other ministers. The Epworth League Friday night entertained the Grand Army men anW’old soldiers ot this place. The entertainment consisted of recitations and music. Those who failed to attend will be given another opportunity in the near future. Forty-one of the 89th boys left here Wednesday for Hartford City where they hold their reunion today. Several of the boys from the country were late getting in and the train left befpre they got here, so we have them in town with us today. About eighteen of Miss Della Robinson’s friends gathered at her home on last Friday evening to remind her of her 21st birthday. The evening was spent with games and music, Miter which they all retired wishing her many more such oc casions.

Volume one number five of the Wabash Daily Times is on our table. The Times is a number, and deserves the support of the citizens of Wabash and the county. The paper has Nelson Hunter at its masthead, which assures it to be all that any one can expect, = The sidewalks are*being put back in their proper place. Why not have the street crossings piit in order so that teams can cross without the’danger of breaking a rig ot crippling a horse. The city is liable for damages for any breakage that may happen while the crossings are in their present condition. The joijjt Epworth League held at Clark’s chapel Sunday evening, was a grand success. All of the league of Monroeville charge was present and did remarkably well, especially in the litetary department. The next meeting will be field at the Robinson chapel ip four weeks, which will be the last held until spring. There will be a womans’ edition of the Daily Democrat issued the last week in October. It /Will be managed by the Ladies Mite Society, of the Methodist Episcopal church, but* its pages will be open to all women. Articles for publication may be banded to Mrs. A. R. Bell, Mrs. Elsie Bollmam, Mrs. Dan Beery or Mrs. Mark MoConnell.

A district meeting of the I. O. O. F. Lodges of Adams county will be held at the Lodge Hall in Decatur, October 14th,afternoon and evening, at which time degrees will be confered by the different lodges. Refreshments by the Rebeckah Lodge. The Dr. Miles Medicine Company have struck a new deal in getting a little free advertising. They send out a petition in blank asking for signers to it who are in favor of as. gisting Cuba in its struggle for independence. You can find one at the Democrat office, should you want the petition, asking our people to declare for Cuba. Sheriff Ashbaueber and marshal Cowan have returned from Kenton, Ohio, where they were as witnesses in the case ot the State of Ohio against Wallace for horse stealing. They say that the jury was ont only a few minuses until they returned a verdict of guilty. In that state the court fixes the penalty, which the court did not do at that time. Os the 6,000 inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton but 2,053 lined up for review at the recent inspection by national officials, the remainder, 3,947, being too ill or too aged to appear. The fact that neatly 4,000 out of the 6,000 were excused from standing in line is a striking illustration of the ravages of dipease and wounds upon these men-. • The old settlers annual excursion went eastward Tuesday. One hundred and forty got on at this place. The train consisted of two sections, one of twelve cars and the other of eleven cars. The familiar face of ex-commissioner Kupright was not among the excursionists owing to his crippled condition. This is the first excursion of this associatfoh he has ever missed since they have had them. Both sections of the train was loaded. Wednesday-evening at Waterloo, this state, occurred the marriage of Charles D. Murray, of this city, and Miss Nevah Cheyney, of the above place. The bride is a prominent society belle of Waterloo, and Charley is to be congratulated on his excellent choice of a future parter. The groom is a pros perous business man of Decatqr, and “a mighty good feller,” and. the Democrat joins his many friends in extending a full of con-j gratulations. They will make the Burt their future home. For double geared, never-say-fail go-aheadativeness commend us to those Decatur girls who worked the boys at the Catholic fair Thursday night. If once they tackled a poor, harmless man he was doomed to lose either an arm or pocket-book, or both, and generally was willing to subscribe five 'dollars tor a crazy cushion or take the gold cure, he did’nt know which after listening to three dr four rods of feminine talk, if they had stayed here three days there would have been money enough raised to build a brick church four stories high—Geneva Herald. \ [

Saturday morning a quail fle\ from the side of the street on whicl A. R. Bell lives over to the MieSs House, and through the office win dow, lighting on the floor, looke< around and then walked out at th door and down the sidewalk pas Gerbers & Sprunger’.s jfieat market the Alcove Coffee house. J. Colob en’s barber shop and M. L. Byer cigar store, looked in at each an then went on until it come to ti alley, leisurely walked up the alh and was soon otit of sight. It seen as though the fare at the differs places didn’t suit it. The glass the window is badly shattered.

Prof. B. A. Winans, who last year was principal of the Geneva Schools was recently married to Miss Emma Fuhrman, a former teacher in the schools of Decatur. The newly married couple started Tuesday tor a term ot school at DePaw University at Greencastle, Indiana. ~ Married, Sept. 21, at the home of the bride’s parents, Miss Emma Fuhrman to B. A. Winans, JGv. J. Wise of the Evangelical church performing the ceremony. As both bride and groom rank among Adams county’s best teachers, they are well known to the citizens and educators of our county. They left today for Greencastle, Ind., where they will attend the De Pauw University. May success and pros perity attend the -young couple. The sheriff of Wells county passed through here this week with a patient for the insane asylum at Richmond. When nearing that city the woman jumped up and ran out of the door, the lady assistant with the sheriff grabbed her by her dress and held bn until the skirt of her dress tore off and she went down head foremost into the loose ground, when the train was stopped they went back and found her up and brushing the dirt off ol her face. Sbe was put on the train and safely landed at the asylum.

The .Bank of Geneva to succeed (ter doing business under of Geneva Bank, was orn Tuesday, the 24th inst., pital of $15,000 and will s business soon. The folmard of directors was David Stndabaker, R. B. V. H Niblick, of Decatur, Porter, A. G. Briggs, S. Daniel Pontius, of Geneva. The board of directors then selected the following officers serve the ensuing year: Av G; Briggs, Pres; B. W. Hale, Vice Pfe.; C. D. Porter, Cashier; and JLyepe Ash, Ass’t Cashier. stock of some of the weal&wt and best Business men in the county, and we wish them the success we are sure they merit and certainly have. ;; « C The # South Carolina Constitutional Convention is. in session, and among the resolutions that are presented to becoihe laws is one that provides for a board of examiners, whose duty it shall be,to examine every young man about to marry, and before he can obtain a license to marry, must have a certificate of good health, and a person fit to become a busband and father and without such certificate he cant obtain a marriage license. With this section there is a penal provision for the person obtaining a license without the. proper certificate, and the punishment of the officer who will violate any of the provisions of the Act. The law is intended to benefit the community by prohibiting the marriage of people who are physically unfit to marry from physical disabilities and from moral relations, also from criminal disabilities, advancing the theory that criminal acts are hereditary and that crime can be done away with by improving the mental condition of the human family as well as the physical condition, thus producing a healthier, happier and better people for this the best country the sun has ever shone on. This they believe to be one step in advance of atty other state in the Union. It has been argued by the promoters of the provision that every state in the Union .will adopt the same laws or- some mote stringent than the one they now have under consideration. ___________ . ' Lorin F. son ot Albert and Edith 'Roebuck, was bom February, 18, 1895, and died Sept. 23,1595, aged 7 months and 10 days. Brief was the life but full of suffering. The funeral services were conducted by Pastor H. H. Smith, at the Baptist church in Pleasant Mills, Tuesday morning, Sept. 24.

Burned. Pleasant Mills was visited by a firebug last Saturday evening or Sunday morning between twelve and one o’oclock. The grist mill of Cowan & Smith was discovered on fire, when the alarm was given the whole town was aroused, but nothing could be saved. The ones there first found the window of the office broken m and the fire had been started in the office, but had got such headway that to stop its mad course was impossible until there was nothing within its reach for it to feed on, with the mill went the stable that stood near. The mill had been lately overhauled and new machinery put in. It was a first-class roller mill and was run by water power, so that for sometime past it was standing idle owing to the low stage of water which Jias been caused ,by the extreme dry weather ot this season. There had been no fire about the mill for a long time so that the fire must have been the work of an incendiary. The loss is between six and eight thousand dollars to Messrs. Cowan & bmith, and to the farmers who had their grain stored there, their loss is between one and tw ■ thousand dollars, making a total io-- ' ot about ten thousand dollars ali of which passed to ashes without; one dollars’ worth of insurance. The building was a frame structure and was the first gjist mill in the county, and was Hu.ilt over fifty years by" a man by the name of Godard, who wa,s one of ’he first settlers of the .county. I’ne mill will be rebuilt if the owners can receive the assistance from the farmers of that neighborhood* and it is right they should assist in such work. _ . . ' — Lightning Struck. ►W.. ' That is political lightning struck expected. The death of Tnjskee Bower lefts vacancy-ttvtfie trustee’s office, and during the week several politicians were in the city to see the Auditor and have their friend appointed. While the Auditor was revolving the matter over in his mind, a friend of his whom be well knew, came into the city on business, without any thought of who would be the successor of Mr. Bower, when Auditor Brandyberry approached him and told him that he would appoint him trustee of Kirkland township, and in a few minutes thereafter presented him with his appoinment this morning. The new trustee, Geo. W. Brown, is well known to all our people and a Democrat of the true stripe and one who will discharge his duties to the satisfaction of the people of that township'/

Death of John B Shirey. ... i John B. Shirey died this afternoon at 2:15 o’clock, of dropsy, aged thirty years. Mr. Shirey was born in Carroll county, Ohio. When about 15 years of age his parents moved to Decatur Ind., taking John with them, where he has since made his home. He was a printer by trade, and most of the time for the past six years has been in the government office at Washington. Several months ago his health began to fail him, but it was only about three months ago' that he discovered that the dread desease, dropsy, had taken hold of him. Since he discovered this the best of medical aid was summoned, but it did no good. One month ago he came to Carrollton to visit his brothers, Joe and Homer, to see if the climate here and the change would benefit him. But it failed, as hadl'every thing else, and he continued *to grow' worse. About, one week ago be made a profession of religion, and was admitted to the M. E. Church, South, by Rev. H. C, Bolen. He realized that his hours

in this world were numbered and he wanted to make sure of a life in the world to come. He found his Savior in these last hours. His death has been expected for the last 48 hours, and since last evening he has been unconscious. About midnight his breathing became difficult, and the watchers at lais bedside knew the end was near. But the cords of life held tenaciously on until 2:15 this afternoon, when his spirit took its flight. The remains will be taken to Decatur, Ind, on the 8:36 Wabash train tonight for interment. Homer Shirey will accompany the body to Indiana, where the funeral services will be held before laying the body in its last resting place. Peace be to his ashes.—Carrollton (M 0. Democrat, Sept. 19. September Plant Notos. There is no time to lose if you intend having plants in the house this winter. When taking up the plants from the border for wintering over, cut back the tops freely. This is the best month for securing the bulbs for the window garden and for the out door planting. Clumps of perennials if divided and reset this month will be ready for early growth and abundant bloom : ng next spring. Particular care should be given to chrysanthemums coming into flower. Keep them well supported and the foliage clean. An application of wood ashes well stirred into the surf ace soil of potted plants is a sure remedy for white worms. It will also be well to mix a little through the soil when the plants are pottedin planting the window garden, remember that crowded plants are sort of things, although the fault" is not their own. Give them plenty of elbow room and don’t neglect them. Strong winds may be expected ’soon; therefore stake and securely tie all tall growing plants, especially the cosmos and other tall bloomers that will prolong their flowering until November.

This summer weather in September is deceiving. Frost is<surely coming'/ Make some preparation to protect the blooming beauties during the first cold snaps and prolong the flowering throughout October. Observations of a Tourist. Browerville, Mjnn., Sept. 21,1895. Editor Democrat. Dear Sir:—Wife and I boarded the train the morning of the 18th at 5:20 a. m. at Peterson; changed cars at Frankfort, took the Monon route, and arrived at Chicago at 6:30 p, m., we left Chicago at 7:30 p. m. for St. Paul, on the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railway, and arrived at St. Paul on the 19th at 7:30 a. m. We boarded the train on the Great Northern railway at 8:30 a. m., changed cars at Sank Center at 12:30 p. in. for Browerville arrived at the place of our destiny at 5 p. m. We passed through Milwaukee in the night, did not get to see any of the sights. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway run the finest coaches we ever saw. and have the largest [&nd fastest trains and coaches ate lit up with electric lights. Minnesota is certainly a great state. Twas surprised to see the amount of good corn raised in the northwest part of this state. Corn, wheat and rye is good, oats b'vxhe million bushels, and other, cereals in proportion. This is one of the finest farming countries 1 ever saw. 1 have met a number of people that moved here from the Hoosier state They are glad to see a Hoosier and take him by the hand. On our return we will stop off at Minneapolis, the greatest city in the northwest, from there we will run to Vinton, lowa, where we will spend a few weeks. Respectfully, „ V Joshua Bright.

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