Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1895 — Page 10

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Where We Are At. D. I. Hower 18 at Geneva yesterday. William Mersman was at Craigville Tuesday. Cox. the plumber, was at Fort Wayne yesterday. Rose Erwin left Friday for Richmond, Indiana, Mrs. J. C. Ferry returned from Fort Wayne Tuesday. L. B. Hale, of Willshire, Ol io, was in our city Monday. C. C L.chtenwalter was at Fort Wayne yesterday. Lase Reiker. of Willshire, Ohio, w’as in our city Friday. Mrs. Will Knopp is visiting friends at Berne this week. Mrs Samuel Laman is visiting friends at Bluffton. Miss E Edwards left for Portland Tuesday afternoon. Clarence D. Carr left Tuesday for Rochester, Indiana. L C DeVoss Sundayed with his friends at Portland. John Robert Christen, of Marion, was in the city Wednesday. Miss Emma Ereshman returned from Fort Wayne Wednesday. George Frank was visiting friends at Pleasant Mills yesterday. George H. Kelley, of Geneva, was a caller at this office Thursday. Mrs James Dailey returned Wednesday to her home at Bluffton. Frank Linn, of Geneva, Sundayed with his parents in this city. Rev. Vitz and daughter returned Monday from Spencerville, Ohio. Rev Lake, of Ossian, was in the city last week the guest of his parents. Delma Reynolds, of Geneva, spent Sunday with bis parents at this placeHarve Edington and family have gone to Bluffion to stay a short time. Mrs. W. Wisner was at Huntington visiting her sister, Mrs. Sarah Chubb Miss Kittie Fought, of Geneva, is the guest Ser aunt, Miss Kate Flickinger Mr. Ireland, one of Jay county’s commissioners, was in our city yesterday. Mrs. Al Lynch and son left for Marion Monday where she will visit her qister. William Schug, trustee of Monroe township, was in the city on business Friday. Miss Minnie Hale, of Willshire, Ohio, was in the city Saturday visiting heifriends. Mrs Jacob Blew and children, of Bluffton are in the city the guests of friends. Mrs. Norman Case and daughters left Monday for a visit with relatives in Chicago. Mrs. Ed Coffee left for Bluffton Monday where she will visit friends for a few days. Mrs Jesse Brandyberry was visiting relatives and friends at Willshire, Ohio, last week. Jesse Stoneburner left for Warsaw Monday where he will visit friends for two weeks. Prof. Hurless, of Pleasant Mills, was in the city Saturday and made us a pleasant call. Mrs. Peter Smith left for Bluffton Saturtday where she will visit friends for a few weeks. Chester Buhler, of Ridgeville, was the guest of bis parents. Jacob Buhler and family, last wees. Mrs. Patterson, sister of Mrs; Samantha Dorwin, left Monday for her home in lowa. Mrs. James Dailey,.of Bluffton, was the guest of her mother, Mrs Joanah F i tSigfe arid. Sat urd ay. Miss Alpha Baker returned Saturday from Marion, Ind., where she has been for the last three weeks. Miss Nellie Shrock and Kit Christen left Friday noon for Portland where they attended the fair. Mrs Dell Lock was called to Toledo, Ohio, Monday to attend the funeral of her uncle, J. B. Eckhart. E. L. Smith and Charlie Simcoke.two of. Monroe township’s pedagogues, were in the city Saturday. , Mrs. J. B Ford returned from Indianapolis yesterday, where she has been visiting for the past three weeks.

Herman Tettman, of Geneva, was in our city yesterday. He reports Geneva still on the move. » Dr. Coverdale is catching the “big ones” up in the lake region. He left for there Wednesday Studebaker, Allison and Niblick were at Geneva Thursday in the interest of their bank. M. C. Baker, theftraveling passenger agent of the Nickel Plate road, was the guest of Mr. Lake Saturday. Mrs Kate Chamber left for Bhiff'on Saturday where she spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Curry. Ex-Senator John M. Smith, of Portland, was in the City Tuesday. He was on bis way home fr«m Bluffton Mrs H R. Howe left for Colon, Michigan, Wednesday where she will join her husband who.is there fishing. Rev Wilgus -passed through here Saturday on his w.iy to Lima, Ohio, where he has charge of the W. B Class. Herman Meyers, of Geneva, accompanied by Mr Wheeler, was in cur city Monday, while on their way to Bluffton Chas. N Sims, of Blue Creek township, has returned from Bloomington, Indiana, where he has been attending school. w. F Parrish left for Indianapolis Friday to attend medical college. He can be found at the Indiana Medical College. Col. M. “Boots” Miller, was here last week, as natural as life and looking “bigger than old Grant ’’—Winchester Journal

Mrs Frank Grill left, yesterday, for Scio. Ohio, where she will visit her parents and other relatives for several weeks. The Misses Benters, of New Haven, who had been attending the Col-chen-Heideman wedding, returned home Tuesday. John H. Steele, of Stoney Point, was the guest, of friends in this city Monday He is still lireing on the Nickel Plate railroad. Mrs Howard, of Montpelier, who had been the guest of her sister, Mrs. H A Malott, while here returned home Wednesday. Will L. Coffee and wife, of St. Marys, Ohio, are vis.ting his relatives here. Will says st Marys is improving very fast this summer. John Peterson left Saturtday for Al-, bion, Ind., where he will visit bis son, Henry Clay Peterson, one of Albion’s prominent attorneys. Ed. Weishaupt and wife, of Blufftdh, returned home Tuesday after spending some time with J.- D. Weishaupt and other friends here. Mrs. Delinda Ellsworth and daughter, Mrs. Oliver, returned Tuesday from W hitley county, where they had been visiting for some time past. H. R. Howe left Tuesday with fishing tackel and all the necessary paraphanalia to tempt the finny tribe. He will land at Colan, Michigan. Dr. Clark, of Delphos, Ohio, has moved here and is in the office with his brother. He moved into the house formerly occupied by Joseph Steele. Daniel Sprang and A J. Smith are at Colan, Michigan. If they send back good reports Major Allison and a number of our fisherman will leave for there at once. Samuel C. Shamp left our city for Ft. Wayne Monday where he has a position as telegraph operator with the Nickel' Plate 1 ' Company. He was down last week and worked two days. Baxter Lemasters, of Goodland, Ind., who bus been the guest of relatives and , friends here for some two weeks past, left for his home Friday. He will stop at Huntington fora few days. Marion Elzey, a former-resident of this.city, but later of Detroit, Mich , was in the city Friday. lie will move here in the near future; and will again engage in the jewelry business. Editor Davis, of the Willshire, Ohio, Gazette, was a caller at this office Monday. Willshire seems to be in the gas field, and should they tap a few more good wells, the town will soon be so that it will not know itself. Mrs. Sarah Miller left Saturday tor Pieasant Mills to be at the bedside of her -father, Samuel Mcßarns. Her father is not expected to live much longer, he is now past eighty years old. She was accompanied by he sister-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Mcßatns. Roy Archbold and Earl; Adams, two of our prominent young men left here

Monday morning for Atm Arbor, Mich., where they will enter the law school of that city. The young men are bright, and are graduates of our schools, and no doubt will return home when they have graduated with a full knowledge of Blackstone. The best wishes of the Democrat goes with them. George Gales and Alpheng Kohn, two of our enterprising farmers, attended the Jay county fair. Saturday night after returning,- they called at this office and said they could *ee no good reason why Adams county could not have a better fair than Jay county. Our stock is better and a fair would improve it some. Our grain If far bet ter and the big pumpkins of this county would surprise the Jay county farmers. Our people should awake and prepare for a fair next year. Upton Decker, who with his nephew has been the guests of his sister, Mrs. Charles W. Miller, left here Saurtdav with his nephew, Henry Decker, for Chicago, whore be will visit relatives for some time before returning to Maryland, his home. While not in Pennsylvania, is near the State line and within nine miles of that famous battlefield, Gettysburg!!. They could hear the rattle of musketry and the booming of cannon as they belched forth their death dealing missiles The Feeding of Oats. The price paid farmers for oats at the present time is lower than for many years, perhaps the lowest in the history of. the United States' From 1870 to 1895. the lowest average value for oats in the United States in any one year was 22.9 for 1889. The quotations on oats ip Chicago markets to lay are 10 to 12 cents less per bushel than for a vear ago at this time. At LaFayette, Indiana, farmers are paid 16 cents per bushel for No. 2 white oats, and extra choice old oats can be bought of commission men for 20 cents. One hundred pounds of average oats and corn are each supposed to contain the following amounts of food nutrients that are digested by the animal body. Protein Carbohydrate® Fat. Oats 9 2548.34........4.18. C0rn7.92 66.694.29. Protein is the flesh or muscle forming material, while Carbohydrates and Fat are important fat forming foods. Os the two foods, protein is the most expensive to produce. The so called “rich” foods, are so designated on account of having a larger per centage of protein than the others, and they are usually the highest priced foods in the market. Oil meal is a good example of this class of foods containing a large per cent, of protein. From the above it can be seen that 100 pounds of oats, contain decidedly more flesh or tnuscle forming food than 100 pounds of corn. On the basis of LaFayette quotations 100 pounds of oats would fetch 50 cents, and 100 pounds of corn. 48 cents. In view of these extremely low prices, the writer believes feeders will do well to feed oats, rather than sell them and buy bran, which is now 70 cents per 100. No other grain is superior, if equal to oats ap a food for working horses. For growing cattle or sheep or miich cows it is most desirable, and should be ranch more generally fed than it is. Instead of feeding corn as the only grain, a decided improvement would be a mixture q£ two parts ground corn and one part bats While oats are less referred to than other commongrians, in recommending feeding rations, it is not because of inferior value, but rather from the cost of this food. At the present time, however, the low price will warrant its more extensive use. In a list of 100 rations used by prominent dairy cattle feeders in the United States and Canada, published by the Wisconsin experiment station, oats are fed 35 times. Os 9 Canadian feeders, 8 added ground oats to the rations. It is not the .purpose of this communication, to reflect upon the feeding value of other food stuffs, but rather to urge a more extensive use of oats, especially during the present depression in prices. C. 8 Plumb, Director.

Harvest Time of The World. The following shows the month of the wjieat harvest in the different wheat growing sections of the world; , January—Australia, New Zealand, Chili and Aargentine. February aud March—East India and Upper Egypt. April—Lower Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Persia, Asia Minor, India, Mexico and Cuba. May—Algeria. Central Asis, China, .. Japan, Morocco, Texas and Florida. ' June—Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, South of prance, California, Oregon, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas Arkansas, Utah, Colorado and Missouri. - ..; ; r July—Roumania, Bulgaria, AustroHungary, South of Russia, Ger-

many, Switzerland, France, South of England, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York, New England' and Upper Canada. August—Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland, Lower Canada, Columbia and Manitoba. September and October—Scotland, Sweden, Norway and North of Russia. November—Peru and South Africa. December—Bu rmah.

PETER GAFFER & BRO. Painting, Paper Hanging and Calcamining. We solicit your work, and are ready to guarantee satisfaction, both as to quality and amount of work done. We can complete your work so as not to bot her around long. Call and see us or drop us a card, and you will find us on hand Peter Gaffer & Bro. Letter ListList of unclaimed letters In the postoffice at Decatur, Ind., for the week ending Sept 3.0 1895 Lizzie Walters, F E. Summons, Addie Ogden (3), O. Q. Miller, Kate Karns, David King, Burt Davis. Hayes Tabler. Persons calling for the above will please say advertised. i John Welfley P. M. » Those In Need of Blacksmithing. All those jn want of blacksmithing let them bear in mind that Chas. W. Schiefer has vacated his North Side Shop and moved over into the old King stand. All those in need of work done will confer a favor by giving me a call. Yours Reap d4s2tfwl6tf Char. W. Bchiefei& NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS. Your taxes are now due. The books will be closed November 4th at 5 p. m. Positively no receipts will be made out except the money is paid in advance. 28-ts. Dan P. Bolds, Treas. lou can get two of the largest and best loaves of bread in Decatur for 5c at the Union Bakery d3ostfw43tf You can now buy furniture in Deca tur cbea er than you can at Fort Wayne. And to convince you of this fact we invite you to call at the furniture store of Auten & Gay in Ellsworth’s block. 473tf October 7th and Bth the T St. L. & K. C. R, R. will sell excursion tickets to Lancaster, Ohio, and return at $5 00 for round trip. Thirty days return limit. E. A. Whinrey, Ag't. Good board and lodging at the Union Bakery. dßostfw4Btf For Sale or Trade. 240 acres of timber land. Inquire at this offee. Farmers, when In Decatur eat at the Union Bakery and you will get value received. dßostfw43tf For Sale—The scenery in the Meibers’ Opera House. This is a Tqll set of scenes and in good condition. As I have concluded to quit the opera house business, this will be sold cheap, I have a fine piano with the house that I sell will with or without the scenery. d3«3-tfwltf John Metbers

Appointment of Administratrix. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate Os Jonathan Bowers, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. ' Lydia Bowekb. Administratrix. Sept. 24th, 1895. France & Merryman Att’ys. ColcHen’s Candies Are just as toothsome in tbeir way as his BREAD so are his OYSTERS. If he keeps everything else good his CIGARS must be good also. o Gilliom’s You will Best and Cheapest 4y Goods The only exclusive dry goods house in the city You. will find him next door to Jake Martin’s bakery.

I Bi? Stock S | ..NEV FALL STYLES B I BOOTS and SHOES I » THESE GOODS WERE I Mrt Mrejdrance I H in the prices of leather, so you can I Save Money I *8 By buying your I FOOT.. I at the same old prices, at | Holthouse’s II • I Shoe Store, i ffi llie Lewis & Co’s wears Resister School Shoes, sold at the same 8M § old price. 7'2

PUBLIC SALE ■X. , L OF .* 100 MEAD .* HBOC JERSEY HOES, Tfiursday, Del. 10, K On the farm of John D. Nidllnger, four and -. • ■ .. ■ t one-half miles north-east of Decatur, 7 Adams county; Indiana. J. A. FLEMING. J. D. NIDLINGER. k <• A-■ ’