Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1895 — Page 1

The Decatu® Democrat

VOL. XXXIX.

?■ S. Hammel and wife—a girl. I *** J. W. Merryman and wife rejoice ■ in another eon. ■ Mies Jennie Bollman, who has ■ quite ill, is ■ “Cinch” is the popular game of El amusement wince the Nicholson law ■ went into effect. ■ The funeral of Mrs. Joseph Moy- ■ 'er will be held Sunday morning H from the German Lutheran church, ■ % of this city. I The funeral of Mrs Peter H. Col- ■ chin will occur this morning at B 8:30 o’clock from the St. Maiy’s B Catholic church. I The parly that left a pair of B shoes and some other goods lay in S town Saturday, can find same by B calling at this office. I The way Ex-President Harrison B looks at the Indianapolis election B may be the cause of the chilly Ba weather in this state. I Decatur Lodge 1. O. O. F. the I G. A. R. Post and Company B, I. I N. G., took part in the civic parade I at Fort Wayne yesterday. I Miss Rose Radamacher, who has I been seriously ill for some time, I at the home of her mother, on I Third street, died last night. I The popcorn friends will have to I do without their usual lunch for a I few days. Lyman Hart is at Fort I , Wayne taking m the “blow-out.” I Evangelist Rice, of Ft. Wayne, i will hold a series of meetings at I the Christian church, beginning I next Sabbath evening. Everybody I invited. I ; I Mrs. Dr. McMillen received a telegram Tuesday morning an nouncing the sudden death of her uncle, Governor Ferry, of Seattle, Washington. • The wife and small child of Joseph Stagmeyer died yesterday, and will be. buried Saturday mornihg at 8:30' o’chjifk from the St. Mary’s Catholic church. The heavy freeze in Mercer and Auglaize counties of Ohio, ruined the cabbage crop. It about all froze, so that hundreds of car loadi? • will be left in the fields to rot. Theodore Smith and wife, of south Fifth street, are the proud parents of a fine boy baby which made its appearance at their pleasant home last Thursday evening. We are in receipt of a copy of «.» the Saturday Times, published at Anderson, with /de villjage of "Pendleton beautifully illustrated, it is the work qf, J. O. Hardesty. Corbett tin/i Fitzsimmons are having sonaa trouble in locating a qdace te figu. They are threatened with arres> wherever they go and it is possible the scrap will not be pulled <//. Mis/l/ay Jackson, of Ft. Wayne, died/Tuesday whilest on a visit . to b/r sister, Mrs. Wesley Bowser, ne/r Rivare, St. Marys township. Fdneral yesterday morning at 10:30 at Salem church. Some people burn their trash in thq evening. This should be stopped, as the smoke makes it bad for the sick of our town. The morning is the time to burn the trash, you soon get rid of the smoke. » The waterworks building are I fast nearing completion. The machinery will arrive in a few days and will be placed in position at once, The plant will be in full operation in about six weeks. Glenn O. Dicks, of Lebanon, will soon open up a candy kitchen in the room formerly occupied by Robert Case as a drug store. Mr. Dicks is a practical candy-maker and will manufacture his own goods.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1K95.

A fire occurred yesterday morning one mile west of Monmouth, destroying a large two-story frame house. We were unable to learn who the house belonged to. Mayor Quinn this morning re ceived by telegram the sad news of the death of his sister, Mary, who lives at Burrows, Ind., The deceased was sixty one years old, and has lived there for a long time. Next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock Evangelist McDonald will deliver his popular lecture, “Is ths World Growing Better or Worse?” at the Christian church. Admission is free and everybody is invijed. Charley France, the horseman, will go to Craigville next Saturday to see tiie horse races. The people over there back their favorites by putting up SSO a side of the good and lawful stuff of the United States and Charley starts the race. Chas. Helm met with an accident Tuesday that will compel him to wear his eye in a sling for some time. White carrying the stove in. to the house lie stumbled and fell upon the stove, cutting a deep gash over the left eye and badly bruising his teg. The degree of Master Mason was conferred upon Jno. W. DeLong Tuesday evening. After the initiation, oysters was sevred to all present, after which they retired to their respective homes. Mr. De Long will no doubt long remember his ride upon the Masonic goat. Miss Minnie P. Orvis read a paper at the Centennial annerversary at Ft. Wayne Wednesday, giving a history of early life at Old Wayne. The paper was prepared by her grand-mother, Mrs. L. P. Ferry, who enjoys the distinction of being th'e earliest settler of Fort Wayne. “The Celina reservoir,” says the Celina Observer, of that city, “will soon be a thing of the past; there is less than half the amount of water in the basin now than it held last spring. A few more months of drouth and our neighboring counties can come over and help us pick our crop of fish. At Rochester Judge Capron decided that signers of saloon remonstrances have a right to withdraw their names after the remonstrance is filed with the county commissioners. Ten saloonkeepers will now get a license under the above decision, the commissioners agreeing to abide by the court’s decision. The following ladies were most pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Lenhart, at her home south of town, with a carpet rag sewing last Friday: Mesdames H. H. Hart, J. K. Mann, Deborah Chapman, Jay Chapman, W. F. Orcutt, J. H. Lenhart, J. T. Archbold, W. S. Hughes and Mrs. N. W. Ayers. An enjoyable time was had by all present. The School Superintendents of the state have Selected November 7, 1895, as “Patriotic Day.” This will be properly observed by our schools on Friday afternoon, Nov. the Bth. There will be renditions of patriotic addresses and music. The patrons o£ the schools and public are invited to be present and assist making > the day one to be looked forward to by the schools. The fall meeting of the C’raigvrlle driving club was held Friday afternoon oh the Garton track, and while the time was comparatively slow, interest in every contest was high. « Three races were on the program, a two-year old trot, the free-for-all and a half mile run. So much controversy arose over the latter that a match race between the two entries will be pulled on the same track next Saturday afternoon. Charley France, Decatur’s leading horseman, acted as starter. —Bluffton News, Oct. 12.

The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas Citv railroad earned in the first week of October $49,350 an increase over the corresponding week of 1894 <>f $ 12,46(E08, and the coming weeks of i his month promise even larger increases if the company can get cars to handle the business offered. A youngster whoso mother has been instilling his growing mind with beautiful moral precepts and bible lessons was in a Monroe street store one chilly morning last week when he happened to walk over the register and saw the glowing fire in the turnace below. The frightened lad called to his.mother, “Oh mamma, come and look, here’s hell right aider us.”—Ex. A party composed of Dr. J. (J. Neptune, Henry Myers, Dan Momma, David Eley, E. P. Menefee, Frank and John G’deon of this city, Charles Riel and Pat Rummell of Wolfcate Ohio, Henry Radabaugb of Payne, Ohio, and I. J. Neptune of Willshire, 0., will soon go on a hunting trip in the wilds of Northern Wisconsin. Look out for b’ar stories on their return. Mrs. C. P. Ferry, better known to her many friends and acquaintances as “Grandma Ferry,’’left Monday upon special invitation to attend the centennial anniversary at Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Ferry who is now past eighty years of age, located in Ft. Wayne some eighty years ago, when the now thriving city of 50,000 inhabitants was a mere hamlet. She was no doubt, the oldest settler in attendance. The time of year is here to gather up the vegitation that has matured and will soon decay if not taken care of. But only the nox ious weeds should be burned —the leaves and all matter that will make good fertilizer should be piled up and prepared ready for next spring’s use in the garden or potato patch. There is no better fertilizer than leaves which have fallen from the trees. Gather them up and take care ot them. Christopher Kirsch is. at Fort today. He left for there Tuesday night in response to a message from an old school mate of his that he had not seenfor over forty-six years and who has been living for a long time at Troy, Ohio. When last they met they were beardless youths of Germany—now greybearded American citizens of honor to the community in which they live, a sovengn of themselves, owing allegiance to no one but the laws they help to create. According to the Rochester Republican, a new Jersey preacher is endeavoring to prove by the Bible that there are no women in Heaven and never will be, because women in olden times were not considered immortal and are not now. He says, “man was made for the glorification of God and woman for the glorification of man.” The Republican says that if tb'ere are no ladies .with whom walk the golden street of the New Jerusalem arm in arm, the City of God will have no special attraction for its male inhabitants. Doctor Grandstaff, the postmaster of Monmouth, returned Saturday from Ossian, where Mrs. Grandstaff had taken him-to a reunion of the company to which he was attached during the war. He reports this one of the most pleasant meetings be ever attended. The good people of Ossian attended to their wants in such a manlier that the Dr. js profuse in the language he uses in expressing his good feeling for them, so much is he taken up' with them that he would move, there if he could take the postoffice} along with him. • - ■ • .«»•*. ..v? 1 •

P-inland has companies, and (the citizens think they want another, simply because the gas com tames want to make them pay for peir gas. The more companies they have, the higher the pric.jj' of gis will go. But they w ill have gas. . 'lfhe state health officers have insisted of the citizens in the comma nities where typhoid fever is prevalent, that the wells shall be kept thoroughly clean. This, they claim, is made imperative from the fact that the water is yery tow in all the wells, and completely exhausted in many. They claim that if these wells are < caned now the fall rains will fill them with good pure water. Ills the filth that has accumulated in the bottom of the wells that causes typhoid fever, and this advice should not go unhead ed. Cleanout your wells!’ Mrs. J. E. Ellsworth was very pleas antly surprised last Friday evening by about fifty of her friends and relatives. The occasion being the birthdays of Mrs. Ellsworth, Mrs. W. R. Smith and Miss Jessie Myers. An elegant supper was served at 8 o’clock by hostess’ daughter, Nellie, assisted by Misses Olive King and Millie Lenhart, which was partaken of by every one. As ter supper the remainder of the evening was spent in various ways. Those present from abroad were: Mesdames McWhiuney and EHs worth, of Geneva, and Miss Jessie Myers, of Fort Wayne. The following American citizens will on next Monday morning silently take their leave of Hoosierdoni: David Runyon, George W. Gates, Wilis Glendening, Sherman Glendening, William Fields, Robert Brown, Joseph Brow’n, Charles Watson, C. C. Cline, Harvey Brokaw, Abe Moser, Armstrong Crick and tw’o of the Netters, with a few’ more to hear from. They will leave here in the dead hours of the night when we expect to be in the arm-' of Morpheus. Captain Gates will have charge of the squad and Will move them to Pembine, Wisconsin, where after attacking the samples they have with them, they will hunt for deer and other big game. The Cleveland Press observes that what might be termed a lost art is being revived among farmers in this section. Threshing with the old fashioned flail is generally believed to be a thing of the past, but .it is not. Since the hard times many of the farmers have fallen back on the old time method of threshing. In the east for two seasons, many farmers have been known to thresh large crops in this manner for the sake ot saving the expense of hireing steam threshers. When threshed in the old wiay the straw is not broken. This is tied up in large shocks and sold,to city hay and straw dealers who sell it for 5 and 10 cents per bundje. The supreme court Saturday, in the case of the commissiohers of Huntington county vs e’x-Audito'r Heaton, handed down the following decsion: 1. The allow r ance of a claim by a board of commissioners is not conclusive, but only prnna facie evidence of its correctness, and.not in effect res adjudicata. 2. The board of county commissioners cannot bind the’county by allowing and ordering a claim to be paid not leagally chargeable to it,,or the allowance of which is not permitted by statute, nor can they make an allowance under the guise of making the same 'for services voluntarily furnished. 3. If a county auditor has received and has the money of the county under such circumstances that in equity and good conscience he ought not to retain the sanje, and which ex requo et bono belongs to the county, an action for its recovery will be in favor of the latter.

Here is some good advice young boys. Hold on to virtue, it is above price to you at all tunes and places. Hold on to your good character, for it is and ever will be your best wealth. Hold on to your hand when you are about to strike, steal or do a wrong act. Hold on to the truth, for it will serve yon well and do you good throughout eternity. Hold on to your tongue when you are about to swear, lie or speak har«hly or use an improper * ord. Hohl on to your temper when you are angry, excited or imposed upon or others are angry with you. II dd on to your heart when yil persons seek your company and invite you to join them. Hold on to your good name at all times, for it is of much more value than gold, high place or fa- hionable attire. The Huntington Herald, like a dark plumaged, ill onioned raven of despair, sits croaking in the shadow of a calamity wall erected by its own ini Agination stubbornly, refusing tc come out into the genial sunlight of universal prosperity and join the sensible men of all parties who rejoice that the panic like a “burned out crater heald o’ej>with snow,” is a thing of the past only to be remembered by the scars t!.? it has left, and that good tim ar with us once more. The Tino s i> Willing to tolerate and grant bon esty ot opinion to those republican papers which hold that their party was not respocM I? for the panic and admit that Mi never was responsible for it, prosper tv has returned, bat it his no use for the pessimestic calamity howler who continues trying to scatter terror abroad by insistiipr that ths panic is. still on. Such obstamgy is characteristic of the unreasonable ass which balks at the top of the hill after the load has been hauled up and thus prevents those below it from asiSendmg. The Indianapolis Journal, Chicago TimesHearld, Inter-Ocean, Tribune, New York Tribune, St. Louis GlobeDemocrat and all other important republican papers freely admit that prosperity has returned. The Herald and W. McKinley stand almost alone iu their denial of it. Little importance, however, is attached to the opinions of either. —Wabash Times. John W. Tyndall returnd Tuesday night from Brazil, Ind., where he-had been tO’-see the kind of clay they used in the manufacture of fire clay brick and square hollow tile, such as are used for building purposes and are shipped here, having in view the manufacturing of such work here. Knowing that our clay makea a first class brick for buildings, and that the same had never been tested for any other purpose, and being desirous of learning the methods by which the work is done, he spent some time at Brazil where he found they have an abundance of material for the work and that first-class. They get clay and shale out of the same hole in the ground, while they go a few teet deeper and get coal with which they burn the shale and clay brick and tile. They have the largest works there of any in the state, and but a short time-will pass until they have the largest in the . world? Their material “being so easy to get at they have" tjJ remove only one foot of soil, anib they have one of the finest beds ot shale in the I'nited States. This will give them some advantage over other places in the manufacturing of the work, but’ other points may hhve some advantage in shipping facility’s that will equal their nearness to their material. The firm of which he is a member have in view the enlargement of their busiiiess, and the near future may find them engaged in' some business of this kind. Our city can well afford to make some sacrifice to encourage an enterprise of this kind. „ ?

The supreme court Thursday handed down Bevfen decisions and the appelate court three. In one of the cases, that of the State of Indiana on the relation of Daniel E. Wilson vs. James M. Wells, which was an appeal from the Grant county circuit court, the supreme court holds that every township trustee elected last November could have taken office at once by qualifying and filing bis bond. Had the township trustees then elected so acted they could have proceeded to the election of county superintendents, and the bill passed bv the legislature changing the time for electing county superintendents, which was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court, woujd have been an entirely unnecessary proceeding. Forty county superintendents who are now serving asdemocrats would have been succeeded by republicans last jane, and the township trustees elected as republicans in seventyfive counties of the state would have increased their term of office by nine months, as their successors, under the decision of the supreme court handed down yesterday, will demand office the day after election. Daniel E. Wilson, elected township trustee in Center township, Grant county, was the only trustee who attempted to take office at the time of hi- election last November and is the unly man directly affected by the decision, all the others having forfeited their rights by not claim - ing them at the time. — The members of the Ladies Aid Society took charge of the JJnion City Times office this week, and got out a women’s edition which reflects great credit on the ladies. Among the many bright articles is the following which is printed under the caption of “Things we Know:” This week in the printing office has been a school of learning to the Aid Society. Wbat queer things and how many of them it takes to run a piper. We have learned that “Cases” hold type but’ have no clients or attorneys necessarily near; that the “Cabinet” holds type in their cases and does not always refer to the President’s chief lieutenants. ’“Chases” not after rabbits and bears but surround a form. “Forms” are encircled by “Chases” — and not always- by boy’s arms. “Font” does not always mean baptismal font. “Galtey’’’ is not al-, ways an ancient boat. “Lock up” does not- mean, in the calaboose. “Make up” resembles the attire of a dude providing it is tasty. “Offset” not the sort that is sonr times used to balance accounts. “Presses” not for clean clothes nor to your bosom as does the rustic awain the' country lass. ”M Braces” that does not mean a hug. “Pi” is not always a concoction' of fruit and sugar. “M Quod” is nut related in any way to the humorist M. Quod. “Roller” is not the one by the farmer in cultiyatin'g his fields. “Rules” are not of grammar nor etiquette. “Sticks” are not the sort the schoolmaster administers knowlwith. “Slugs” not the kind that hatches out the beetle. “Scissors” a very convenient tool but hot used in making up this Woman’s edition. “Write up” is when the editor sets out to tell all he can think ot (doesn’t need to know a whit about it) concerning the last session of congress. The Devil —we nietMiim face to face ami vanqbiMigd him. Then there are the bellow's, tweezers, border, copy, disk, em, guage pins, grippers, ink fountain, ink-stone,.impression, imprint, lead and slug£mould, teaders, leads,’mallet. mitre box, mailer, planers, pressboard, 'proof, quoins, spaces, stapler, big primer, little primer, pearl, agate, and so on without end. We have crowded this knowledge all into our craniums but are very much concerned as to whether it will stay there or not. —Union City Times.

NO. 31.