Decatur Democrat, Volume 39, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1896 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat.

>VOL. XXXIX.

Miss Bessie Hale, of Willshire, O. is visiting friends in the city. IK Mrs. C. J. Lutz is somewhat nn,/K proved from her severe illness. The town of Geneva will extend «Kber corporate limits this spring. Judge Heller is holding court at |KPortland, this being the regular I session. Timothy Coffee is slowly improvising, which is agreeable news to his ■km any friends. ♦W Master Harold Crawford, of I ■ Geneva, is the guest of his aunt, ■ Mrs. Will Kuebler. The Ladies Shakespeare Club ■ was entertained by Mrs. Dr. Hallo- ■ way Wednesday afternoon. p«K. Rev. J. F. Winters, of Huntingpreached at the German Rej Kfform church in this city Wednesday .Mrs* Thomas'* E'zey entertained /■J Albert Entsminger and wife and I BMiss Eva Ezey at five, o’clock dinK ne.r Monday. ■ Rev. Shepherd left for Geneva ■jl Tuesday to assist the U. B. pastor ■ ot that place in a revival service v that is going on there. John Hesslej brought to town last Saturday one of his tine hogs. It weighed 770 pound. This is one of the best in the county. A party of friends enjoyed the is hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Hart Saturday evening. All present report an elegant time. It is rumored that the Grand Rapids road is about to be taken in rby the Pennsylvania system which holds a mortgage and lease on the read. The jury in the case of Sherman Mott vs John and Rhoda Durbin, brought in a verdict for $34.17 in favor of the plaintiff. The amount of the note sued on was $l5O. The woman’s edition of the Bluffr* -ton Banner came to our table Monday, a fourteen page paper full of good spicy news. The paper was edited by the ladies of the Baptist church of Bluffton. A report comes to us that a man y-s was held up last Saturday evening while walking along the Grand Rapids road near the stock yards. Three men grabbed him, two held him, while one went through his pockets getting about four dollars. The city council of Greenfield, Ind., was in the city Friday to see a test of the air compressor in use by our city water works. The trip to this city is made with a view of purchasing one for their water works plant. f** Dell Dragoo, attorney-at-law of Red Key, was in our city Tuesday. The gentleman is looking after the nomination tor prosecuting attorney for , this judicial circuit. He says the democrats of Jay county are ready for the fight. * Forty boys, bright, healthy, attractive, from three to twelve years of age for whom good homes are desired. Can you not point ns to some suitable place for one of them? Write to Lucas County Children’s Home, Maumee, Ohio. The Schug-Lehman breach of promise case was dismissed Friday morning and another complaint jpas I " Jmmediately filed. This step was | necessary as the court would not | grant a change of venue’or conI j^''tinuance. i ” Capt. John T. Myers, formerly I Captain of Co. B. Indiana Guards, I of this city, has received the souveR nir badges of' Mrs. Roby for serI vices , rendered during the riot at I * Hammond, Ind., in 1894. The boys l\ all wear them and feel proud that U they are elided io do so.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 18911.

Quarterly meeting at the. M. E. church next Sabbath. Preaching in the evening by Rev. F. T. Simpson, presiding elder. The great pugilistic affray is over. Maher did not last as long as a snowball would in hades. We have* to admit that Fitzsimmons is a good man but still insist that he is an Antipodes freak. Mrs. Mary Gaffer, mother of the well known artists Peter and Mi chael, is very seriously ill, and has been bed-fast for some time. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary Durr, of Fort Wayne, is here attending her. A Bluffton lawyer wrote as follows to the widow of a deceased friend: “I cannot tell you how pained 1 was to hear that your husband -.has gone to heaven. We were bosom friends, but now we will never meet again. At the Epwoi'h League this evening music will be rendered by Mandolin club. A recitation by Miss Dollie Schaffer. A talk “Experiences apiong the Indians of North Dakota,” by Dr. C‘. E Neptune. The Geneva Herald is somewhat indignant because our county commissioners did not jump at Electric Everetts’ railroad scheme, which would pass through that place. Keep your shirt on Bro. Ryan, the commissioners have charge of county affairs. Postmaster Weltly says that his office done a good foreign business Monday, sending [thirty-two letters in one mail to Germany. But a few years ago this office did not send out more than that number of letters each day for all parts of the country. Prof. Hirschfield, the optician, with headquarters at the Miesse House, was arrested Friday on a warrant charging him with selling foreign goods without a county license. He was tried before Justice Hill and fined $5 and costs and allowed to depart. The brick sidewalk on the west side of Winchester street between the C. & E. and Clover Leaf railroads needs the attention of the street commissioner. From the looks of things the brick were laid in the mud and a little sand would help things wonderfully. The city council at their meeting Tuesday night established two voting precincts in the first ward. The voting place for precinct “A” wiil be in the building located on the north half of inlot 331 and the voting place for precinct “B” will be in the office of The Decatur Egg Case M’f’g Co. Erwin, son of Reuben Breiner, of Kirkland township, came near losing his life last, Thursday. While in the woods cutting wood, a dead limb fell from a tree, striking him on the head, from Which he lay unconscious for over four hours. He is now somewhat revived, but still under the doctor’s care. It might be well for the marshal to keep his eyes open on Sundays. '1 his day seems to be set apart by a certain class of individuals to hold their jubilees arfit debauches. More noise can usuallyibe beard on Sun dayv evenings ihpn at any other time aqd sonu bidy .should call a halt. Mrs. Kesler and Miss-Fitzgerald, mother and daughter of Mrs. Jack-, son Schlagel, who have been their guests for the las three-weeks, left for their home in Abbyville, Miss., Ij'riday morning. They will spend a week with Wendt in Terre Haute on their way bjome. They were much pleased i ith our city and I people while W

Albert Numbers who has been at i Luna, (.)., learning to tune and re- , pair musical instruments, has returned home. He will go into the business here. i . • •• - a ; Gerber <& Sprunger bought of • James Faust eight head of hogs i that weighed 3,000 pounds, averag- > mg 375 pounds. They were of the Bukshire stock and last year’s pigs. Such stock as this is the kind that our farmers should look after. Ihe G R, & I. railroad is fitting ■ up the yard arpund the depot with gravel. They are trying to get nd of the mud with which they have been intested. But while they are making these improvements they should not forget that a “depot” is what the city wants. The town council ot Geneva at their meeting Monday night, granted C. E. Everetts a franchise to run an electric railroad through that place. The franchise gives him the contract to furnish the town with electric lights. But Mr. Everetts has not got a franchise from the county commissioners yet. Fourth street is in a terrible condition, but we understand that some steps are being taken to have brick put down instead of the miserable stone used on most of our streets. If such is the case it will be a moneysaver in the end, for ere long our macadamized streets will have to be relaid with other material. Give us more brick streets. R. D. Patterson is making some marked improvements on his business room occupied by Sprang »fe True. The building will be extended through to the alley. This move was necessary to accommodate the fast increasing business of these hustling business men. When com pleted they will have a room second to none in the city. All because they advertise in the Democrat. Adams county will probably continue to be the banner democratic county. Theae isn’t another county in the state wishing to be disgraced with that title. —Decatur Journal. If the Journal man is anxious to get out of the county, why don’t he pack up and move to some point where republicans can appreciate a good thing. It is evident the few republicans in this county don’t appreciate his efforts. A number of friends gathered at the residence of H. H. Hart Saturday evening to remind the lady of the house that she had passed the 45th milestone in life. An elegant supper was served to the twentyfive guests present. After supper a general good time was had and when it came time to depart to their homes they all joined in wishing the hostess many more happy years of usefulness. Adams county should constitute a judicial circuit by itself. The amount of business transacted in this county will soon make this step necessary. During the last term of court more business was transacted than any previous term, and court was held day and night to reach the cases set for trial. And with all this amount of business was carried over for the next term. Make Adams county £■' judicial circuit. Our exchanges are telling of an old- farmer who expresses the opinion that the lime is not far distant when the farmers will cultivate their wheat crop. He relates an instance where a farmer tried Qultiva- . tian, and the results. The farmer removed every other Huke froiti his drill, thus sowing double the quantity. He then cultivated the wheat after the spring rains-and was rewarded with forty bushels to the acre, while the remainder ot the field sown in the ordinary way only yielded twenty bushels to the acre.

Daniel Railing, Solomon Linn and three others of our people, who were down to Mobile, Ala., have returned home. Three ol the young men remained there with the expectation of getting work. Railing and Linn are well pleased with the country and feel as though they would like to live there about four months otst of each vear. They say the peach and pear trees are in bloom, while the oats sown makes the fields look green, but the grass has not started yet. Willshire, Ohio is on the boom. A good oil well within two miles of town. Well No. 2on the John N. Jones farm two miles east of Will shire *as drilled in on the 15th and shot the same day and produced 100 barrels the first twenty-four hours. This is one of the best wells in that field and shows to our people that there is oil in this county if they will bunt for it. Let some one lead out and develope the country north and east of tl y city.

A modest young lady of Bluffton who desired to make a purchase at a dry goods store addressed the > young man behind the counter thus; L “It is my desire to obtain a pair of ; circular elastic appendages, capable of being contracted or expanded by means of oscillating burnished steel r appliances that sparkle like parti- , cles of gold leaf set with Alaska , diamonds and which are utilized for retaining in proper position the habiliments of the lower extremi- ! ties,- which inate delicacy forbids msto mention.” The clerk thought 5 a moment and said he believed she ' wanted a pair of garters! > '■* > The children and friends of Jacob i Buhler gathered at his house today to remind him that , another 1 year had been added to his life, i making the seventy-first of his existence in this world. The time to him has been short, always being in fair health and ready to enjoy the ’ society of his numerous friends and the comfort of having raised a family of children that is to him a • soun-e of joy and to our comity i useful and honorable citizens, cause : him to feel that his lite has not i been spent without its reward. His ■ many friends wish him many more ■ such days. The relatives and’friends of Nel1 son Hendricks, who formerly resided in this city, fear he has been the victim of foul play. About the 1 20th of last November he left this - city for Trinidad, Colorada, to col- ■ lect a claim of several hundred dol- ’ lars due him there. But up to this I time nothing has been heard from ' him, excepting a letter received by ■ bis sister here yesterday, from the ' officials at Trinidad. It was in answer to an inquiry, and stated that shortly after his arrival there, he received his money and several head of horses. Last he was heard of was at Folsom, N. M. where ► . * • he was seen with the horses. An investigation is being made. When a man who has held office, ’ or has been an aspirant for one nearly all his natural life, declares ' he is ‘tout of politics,” we sometimes wonder if he kfiows how silly such an expression sounds. ..Such a man has never been in politics. He i iilibthing else but a delfish grasper ■ after an office, plain and simple, ■ ready to do anything to secure one. • It is« the plain, straightforward ■ woter that stands by his.party, votes ■ the ticket of his choice and never • thinksjof any reward for doing his i duty who is “in polities,” and it is . such straightforward, honest voters who give to the country all the respectability there is in it. The i man’ who uses .the expression, “I s am out of politics,” causes a smile ' to pass over the face of his listener . every time —the joke is so broad! :

i The next Indiana State Epworth > League Conference will be held as ! Anderson, June 25 to 28th. ; As the location is central it is ex- - pected that this will be the largest ; Epworth League convention evet i held in the state. No effort will be spared to secure the best talent ■ available to make gthe meeting thoroughly practical and spiritual Special sessions will be held for each department. Every E. L. Chapter in the State is urged to send delegates. Railroad rates will be announced later. Another cock fight Tuesday night about one mile south of town, between two Decatur birds, both thoroughbreds. The fight lasted forty-five minutes and persons who are interested in this kind of sport say it was a beauty. To the peop'e who are conducting these affai s a word of advice will not be amiss. Steps are being taken by a number of our citizens to put a stop to these fights, so boys look out and be prepared to be surprised by the officers of the law my time. Miss Elizabeth Flagher daughter of Gen. Flager, of the Ordinance Department, U. S. A., was Tuesday sentenced to three boars imprisonment and fined SSOO for, killing a little colored boy who was 1 stealing pears from her father’s orchard. Can it be possible that this little colored boy’s life was worth no more than that. Surely, justice was not given in this ease. If the young lady was guilty at allfehe was guilty of crime worthy'V a more Severe punishment. But this is only another case of a person’s high social standing shielding them from the strong arm ot the laW. Henry Stevenson, foreman of L. D. Adams’ stave factory at Uniondale, a small station west ot this city on the C. & E. railroad, was instantly killed while unloading logs Thursday morning. He was standing between two wagonk Unloosening chains when one of the logs unexpectedly started to roll, striking him on the head, breaking his neck and badly mangling his face. It happened so sudden that he was unable to get out of the The remains will be brought to this city tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. The funeral cortege will ga direct from the depot to the M. E. church where the funeral setvicjes will be held. Interment in Maplewood cemetery. The people of Ft. Wayne are awakening to the fact that they are being beautifully robbed by the gas oompany of that city. This corporation is capitalized at *2,000,000, is bonded for *2,000,000, earning for its owners a net ahnual profit of $200,000 and only returns to the city for taxation $173,015. This corporation seems to own the entire city administration, and a bill introduced to tax gas mains was defeated by the republican council. Yet they see fit to place a tax.upon the poor man’s vehicle, while these monster corporations they leave go untouched. We are thankful we live in Decatur. While we have a republican, admunstra'ion in this city, we believe that these gentlemen will pass the ordnance to aj gas mains which way introduced a few weeks ago without a dessenting voice. We are ni t yet in life power of these mighty Corporations. Saturday night was i great night for sports. They wen out emuasse and concealed boneah their coats could have been found figjiting; Cocks of all descriptions. Plymouth Racks and Buff Goch'ns were in the majority however, hut here and there could be found an old broken down dunghill. The thing that worried their minds most

was to find a place to pull off the fights. They finally determined to take possession of a room on Monroe street occupied as a sleeping room. When they arrived the occupants of the room were in bed f»'t asleep, so they turned the chickens loose. Before long the feathers began to fly and the noise awoke the sleepers, one of whom grabbed a club and started a fight of bis own. It did not take long to clear the room and soon nothing was left but the sleepers and a few chickens. Decatur is getting to be headquarters for cock fights and the breeding of game cocks is getting to be one of the leading industries. <ia« all The Time. We must compliment our gas company for the good service rendered its consumers during this winter. Not once were we short of gas. A full supply for all, both domestic consumers, mills and factories, were supplied and this is the only gas company near here that has furnished a full supply of gas all the time. Our city council should look to and consider well the interests of citizens usipg gas, as to an ordinance now pending to be acted on by them, that may, and evidently will need to be considered from a legal | standpoint as a dangerous undertaking at the present time. This should be considered well and thoroughly gone over before this step is taken in justice to citizens using gas and the company that bas served her customers well. < : : Council yroeeeding*. Council met Tuesday evening with Mayor Quinn presiding and all members present. The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. A bill was allowed The Decatur Journal for $32. An ordinance was introduced providing for two voting precincts in the first ward. Rules were suspended and ordinance adopted. The school trustees of the city presented a petition asking for the I funds and permission to build an addition to the central school building. The committee on schools reported unfavorable on said petition, recommending that a ward building be erected iri the first ward. They also recommended that permission be givfcn to erect said building and also that school trustees build said building out of their own funds, the citv not being in condition to contribute. A petition was presented by Judge Studebaker and the property owners, requesting a hearing as to the assessments levied against property relative to the opening of Madison streets. A special meeting was fixed for Friday night to hear the prayer of the petitioners. Council then adjourned. Had A Red Nom*. A man at Tipton, who is the posessor of an extremely red nose, is alleged to have expatiated upon its beauties as follows: “Backward turn backward, O time in your fight; give me the same nose ! breathed through last night! Bring back the smeller that tw’o days ago knew not the torment of continual blow. .Wipe from my mustache the moisture of sneeze, put wooden splints on my poor weakened knees; rub my red nose as you oft have before, with tallow dear; jlear doctor,yoh it is so sore. Backward, flow backward O tide of the nose! I /am so tired from my head to'niy foes; tired .out with mopping and Coughing and snefzing; weary /fyom hiynkerchte.f constantly 1 have grown of snitMe and snuff, of wiping my bugle übtil it is rough. Stick my poor head in a big pillow slip; and sew it up, dear doctor, for I have tfee grip. Do it so quick that -- people won’t think, this nose is the product of>X rays Irink. ■ ".’7.' ft 1 4c -.1.

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