Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1896 — Page 10

fimest. That is what everybody says who S visits the store of fake Hillen- * kainp, and looks o\ er his immense stock of . . • DRY GOODS, CARPETS. LACE CURTAINS, GROCERIES, Queensware Jvp Earthenware. EVERYTHING UP TO DATE. will pay von to visit our store. JAKE FULLENCAMP.

An insurance adjuster has been in our city and with our local agents have been looking up the property on the main streets with a view of reducing the rate. We can easily stand a reduction even to a cut of 50 per cent., which would then leave the, rate too high for the iqsured. But it is evident that insurance is like railroads. The officers generally manage to eat up the income, so that the dividends are not so high. What this city any every other community needs is a good local company that will insure and care for the interest of the commuity in which it does business. $J5,000 to -$20,000 pass out of our ( business each year through the insurance, while there has not been ' $15,000 paid to our people since, the city has been incorporated. A move of this kind will keep within our city a large per cent, of the money that now goes out from here never to return to our channels of trade except when a man comes here and eats a meal with our hotel men, the balance goes to improve other cities and enrich other people lyhiJe we pay for their benefit. ■Our Board of Trade is looking for something to help the city—they can find it in this work. 'Flie Talking Machine. This instrument correctly repeats the saying of all the great men of the day. Lovers of music will enjoy a rare treat in listening to the choicest vocal and .instrumental solos by talented performers. Comic sorigs and speeches, also selections.by celebrated, bands and i orchestras of America are correctly re- ’ produced. No one should fail to hear this truly wonderful machine. It will only cost you live and ten cents for twenty selections. April 21. 698d6wl For Lincoln oats, pride of the north, and Learning & Kaffe's seed corn, go Jo J. D Hale. 4 6 Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powdei World’s Fair Highest Medal and Diolo«te-

BBBTS M SHOES. ' tai Bargains! ! h In Stylos. THIS IS NO ADVERTISING FAKE, But a real, genuine reduction in ail grades,of our stock. For reasons of my own, I want to greatly reduce our presedt stock on hand, and the only way to do it is to REDUCE IBS PRICES $5 MEN'S SHOE FOB S 3. $4 WOMAN'S SHOE FOB $2. Ke Auctions extend dear down the line, and these reductions are genuine good goods, guaranteed to he all right. A. HOLTHOUSE.

, Notice to High School Teacher*. ;' Superintendents. principals and ■ teachers of all commissioned and non- • commissioned high schools of Adams county,'lndiana, take notice: That in June. July and August, 1896, the Department of Public Instruction will i 1 furnish county superintendents with < lists for the examination ot high school I teachers, covering the branches pro- ' , vided for in the course of study of the school in which the applicant expects ( to teach. | For the township graded schools and s non-commissioned high schools, in ad- 1 dition to the common school subjects I will be: 1. Physical geography. 2. i Outline of general history. 3. Ray’s j (higher arithmetic. 4 Civil govern- t ment. -5. Book-keeping. 1 . For the city high school of Decatur: t 1. Algebra. 2. Civics. 3. Latin, 4 J I Rhetoric. 5. Physical geography. 6. ( General History. 7. Physics. 8 (Geometry. 9. Chemistry. 10 English ( and American literature. { High school licenses will be issued for six, twelve, twenty-four and thirtysix months on the standard of grades made by applicants for common school c licenses. Teachers holding state certificates and diplomas from the state * normal school are exempt from exam- c ination on the high school subjects. ' No teacher is elligible to contract to do high school work unti >] he or she holds a valid high school li- j cense, (Sec. 4125, 4501, R. S.) also order f of state superintendent. i Out of regard for the old soldiers and their friends, the May examination of teachers will be held Friday, May 29th. \ Respectfully, a 655d5 3w3m J. F Snow, Co. Supt. c '— ' t Saird, Sand. Sand. ( When you want sand call bn Ashley Mann and Mont Evans. They will ' supply you with the best, at their yard a I near the water works. Always plenty ' lon hand. Iwl3 I _ a ’^Vanted—Several trustworthy gentle 1 mftn or ladies to travel in Indiana for c established, reliable house Salary s7B'6 and expenses. Steady position. Enclose reference and self-addressed i stamped envelope. The Dominion Co., , Third Floor, Omaha Building, Chicago, Illinois/ • ” 5()w24 J

Cheaper Than Ever At Hughes'Granite & Marble Works. Fifteen per cent.'of a discount for the year 1995. All work warranted to be new and first-clrss. Lettering done in i German and English. You are invited ' to stop and get prices. L. C. A. Wil. H cghes. 47tf (Successors to \VS. Hughss.) Nollce. Page Blackburn has bought Craig Mfiler's entire interest in all book accounts due the Ylrui of Blackburn A Miller. The books are at the old stand. 3w-31. Pai.e Blacrbcrn. Ckaig M 11.1.E1i. j For Sale, one new* Breytnan Tile MaChI ine. nearly new. Very cheap. •51lf Adams County Bank .Notice of Trustees. I will be-at my office on Tuesday of each week. George W. Brown. Trustee ot Kirkland township. w2‘J liin I will be at my oftice Tuesday of each week. L. W. Lewton, 2wtf Trustee Root township. I will be at my office on Tuesday of each week. J; D. Nidlinger,. Its Trustee Union Tp. The office days of the trustee of Washington township will be Tuesdays and Satuidays in the Surveyor's office, and Wednesdays at home. JoifN Steele, 22tf Trustee of Washington Tp. Should you miss the phonograph entertainment given at the First Baptist church April 21. you will miss a grand treat. Admission only live and ten cents. 698(16 swl Go to Ed Johnson's and get a quart of sweet corn for five cents. Vegetable plants such as cabbage, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. While there he will show you the freshest and best garden seeds on the market. His are all home grown. Seed potatoes, the genuine early rose, the bell rose. He has the famous Banner potato, which be guarantees to exeell all others in yield and quality. Last year he raised over a bushel from one potato. ° Iwtf Smith & Bell are paying the highest cash prices for Clear White Ash logs, cut 12 feet long, 12 inches and over at the top end, must be clear and staight 48tf For all fine, complicated watches, clocks and jewelry repairing, I take no back seat Give me a fair trial and be convinced. M.S Elzey. Closs jewelry store» ....—__ j— —lw4 I have lands in North Dakota and Texas. I will sell or trade for lands in Adams or adjoining counties and in proper case will give difference in money. 52tf David Stvdabaker. For Sale—-A good farm of 80 acres well improved, good houslf good barn, and thoroughly underdrained. Good orchard, close to school, church and the postQffice; two good wells of water Call or address this office. ”34tf Twenty line selections will be given at the First Baptist church April 21, with one of Edison's latest improved phonograph's. Admission only five and ten cints. It will pay you to at tend and hear the most wonderful machine of the age. 698d6<5wl Farmers Attention! 1 am now ready to cry sales. Terms reasonable Satisfaction guaranteed. Address, J. W. Hill, 48tf Pleasant Mills, Ind. A full line of fresh meats of all kinds and everything in the fruit line at our usually low prices. We can make you jobbers prices in quanties. • Yours Truly. 37-ts. Coffee & Baker. • ♦ Ju t Keeieved. A full line o- choice Northern Grown Garden Seeds, embracing all the leading and popular varieties. For sale in bulk at about one-third the price usually charged for seeds in packages. Also have all the popular flower seeds in packages and Sweet Peas and Nastur tiums in bulk. Your patronage solicited. John D. Hale. 51-6 t. ’RaTi for St. Loiilm and tlic foilvciition ■ JNine 16th. ’The National republican convention will be. held at St. Louis, Mo., June 16,1896.. ’Tis none too early to “fix fences” both as to candidate and route. To those located eastof St. Louis, particularly in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, we Say Clover Leaf Route. Correspondence invited, Address, C, Ci. Jenkins, Toledo Ohio. N ■ 7" - ' Head Tbi* Notice. Notice is hereby given that I intend to take contracts for plastering and patching in the year 1896. I have lost all my means of support through sickness, and take this method of notifying the public of my intention. Before letting you work call and get my figures on the same. lam prepared to do all kinds of work, such as building chimneys, cisterns and cement sidewalks, and will do all work in first-class shape and as cheap as anyone else. All work warranted to give satisfaction. Ashley Mann. I fain Ims nonhow with 14j*. Milcs’-paln Pills-

, PETITION IS DENIED e, t e n Supreme Court Ruling on the ApporJ tionment Litigation. CASE SET FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY £ VnMiicccs siul Attempt at Gravrrobbery nt IMinburu I'm<» Prisoners nt Winchester < Had .Nearly a Hundred New Knives on Them larmer's skull ( rushed by a Train Indiana News Note*. Indi an apolis, April 16.—The supreme court indicated yesterday that it will take up the legislative, apportionment litigation and dispose' of it without delay. The first thing the court did was to deny the intervening petition of Lewis Wallace. Jr., for a rehearing in the f apiMirtionineiit east' that came up from Sullivan county recently, and in which the court held that the laws of 1891 and 1885 were unconstitutional. The dei dision in this ease will now be certified to the lower court, so that it will be impossible for an election to be held under either of those laws. Having disposed of Mr. Wallace’s petition. the court made an order that the motion of the attorneys of the Democratic state committee that the suit to set aside the act of 1885 be dismissed, on the ground that it is a collusive aci tion, be considered at the final hearing of the case. An order was then made setting the case for oral argument next Wednesday. ‘ SIX-YEA lt-<H. II HERO. Timely Help I'm* a Railway Attacked by Masked Robbers. Writing, Ind., April 16. —Earl, the 6-year-old son of -J. K. Van Sickle, agent here of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, is looked' upon as a hero. As 'Mr. Van Sickle was about to lock up the ilepot at night he was attacked and overpowered by three masked irtqji, who took from him SIOO incash and his overcoat and revolver. Seeing his father helpless, the little fellow ran up the tracks to where the* Standard Oil company's employes were SAvitching cars. They returned with him to the depot and captured two of tin' men as they were searching the oftice for more bootv. The third escaped with the overcoat and revolver, but the money was recovered. Graverobbers Frightened Away. Edinburg, Ind., April 16.—Quite a sensation was caused here by the fact that diaries Breeding, as he was walking through the cemetery, discovered a number of graverobbing tools. He immediately notified the officers, but the tools avere removed before they arrived. It is supposed that the ghouls intended robbing the grave of Dniggist Thomas L. Coons, who committed suicide last week, but they were seared away by the discovery of their implements: A nightAvatiT) has been established at the cemetery. lowa Man Mianing In Indiana. RiuHMOND. Ind., April 16. — Some A\eeks ago F. W. Robinsoil, representing the Eagle Crematory company of Des Moines, la., came, here to superintend the construction of a crematory for the citV, for which his company has the contract. The plant was partially completed and given a test three or four Aveeks ago, and about that time Mr. . Robinson disappeared and nothing has been beard from him since, x 7-r. - * _ 5 Skv.ll.Crushed by a Train. Ai.kxashria, Ind.,;,April 16.—Peter Smith, a prominent farmer, and the father-in-law of E. F. Davis, one of the leading business men of this city, at--temptecl to drive across the Big Four tracks, in front of an Approaching train. His team became unmanageable, the train demolished the vehicle and Mr. Smith was instantly killed, his skull being crushed. •A Hail Knives to Sell. Winchester, Ind., April 16. —After much difficulty Sheriff Strahan ilnd Detective Fletcher arrested tAvo strangers here yesterday, Avho gave, their names as Richard Roe and John Doe. Doe had 66 iieAV pocketknives and a revolver and Roe had 30 knives and a revolver. They Avere selling knives on the street. Orator For Commencement Exercises. Greenavood, Ind-., April 16.—Rev. C. A. Riley of the Christian church of Irvington, has been elected by the senior i class of the G-reeiiAvood highschool to ■ deliver the address on commencement ! _- Mrs. Evan Scott, a pioneer of BfoaviisI town, is dead of paralysis, aged 66 years. I The town of Greenwood has passed an ordinance making it an offense to,smoke cigarettes on the streets of that village. Edward Wilson, an Elwood Avindow- • glass worker, fell under a passenger train awl had his shoulder bone broken in two i places. Rev. J. T. Jones of the I Methodist church has just, closedamppt ~ successful revival at Underwood. There g were 13 accessions to the church. i Governor Matthews has gone to Kentucky to spend a week in the neighbor- ’ hood in which he was raised, visiting an f aunt with whom he lived when a boy. ’’ B. E. Howard, under arrest at Salem for soliciting bogus book subscriptions, has been identified as H. H. Riggs, wanted at Lagrange, Ky., and Rockport and Charlesj town, this state, o , Mary Klingler of New Carlisle is dying as the reSult of a dog bite received two it weeks ago, her sufferings are said to be pitiful in the extreme, as she raves coug staiitly in her mad delirium. Articles of incorporation were filed yese terday by the.J. N’. Hurty Pharmacy com--8 pany of Indianapolis, the Keeley Institute II fomparry of Washington and the Fort Harrison Building and Loan association of Terre Haute. 3 ’ The supreme court, yesterday granted the motion of Attorney Ktnieral Ketchain k that the order of dismissal in the Bowen tax case from <hlrroll county be set, aside. The cause was reinstated. This is the cast in which the state is seeking to collect JipjtOO taxes alleged to be due it.

I The German Building and Loan Fund association Held their annual election Monday night' in the office of F. M. Schirnie} er. The tollowing gentlemen were elected direc tors: David Studebaker, W. 11. Niblick, J. B. ilolthouse, F. M. ' Schirrneyer, B. W. Sholty, C. !’• Ehuiger, Theo. Smith, J. S. Petert sort, G. Borling, C. J. Ln’z and J. r T. Merryman. A. J. Hill was re 1 elected as auditing committeeman. ‘ The board -of directors -tin n met and elected the following officers: I J. B. lloltbpuse, president; B. VV. . Sholty, vice-president; W. H. Nib lick, treasurer; F. M. Schirrneyer, ’ secretary; David Studebaker and J. T. Merryman, board of managers. This is one of the sound, carefnllv i v. . ! managed institutions of this city, l Money invested there is as safe as a bank and sure to bring good returns. H<* solution*. Womans Relief Corps No. 41 Decatur, Indiana, April 13. 1896: Whereas. Death with relentless hami has visited our Corps and tak-‘ii from us our much esteemed amt worthy sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Teeple, whose vlrtures are so well known tn this ■■ ommunity. Therefore be it Resolved. That we the m“ml>ers of Relief Corps No. 41, deeph lament the loss of our sister ami we commend her upright Christian character, her patience and tori itude through her long sickness Wo shall ever cherish her memory kindly in our hearts. Resolved. That whil- we sincerely regret outloss, we believe that our sister has gained "an abundant entrance" into the mansions of rest above, ami that "tier works do fodow Iter'’ Res >lved. That we tender oursympalhy 1" the bereaved husband 'and relatives. In this their sorrow, and as a token of respect for our sister, the charter lie draped in mourning for thirty days and that h Copy ot these resolutions lie spread upon out minutes and sent to our city papers. Nettie M Schrock ] M L. Holloway {-Committee. Anna Buhler J Phonograph conceit, grand musical entertainment, Twenty selections of music and humorous pieces. Given by the aid of the lately improved Edison phonograph-in the hands o f a skilled operator. Delightful to the old. amus- i ing to the middle aged itntl insti active I to the young. You should not miss this concert as it will doubly pay you to hear it. Will be given at the First Baptist church on Tuesday evening. April 21st. Benefit of the church All are coidially invited Admission five and ten cents. 698d6 swl Ncoteh-IriKli Society of America. The Eighth;Congress of the Society is to be held at Harrisburgh, Pa., June 4th to 7th, inclusive. 1896. Harrisburg was one of the Scotch-Irish parent hives, from which swarms of the sturdy stock have gone forth to all parts of the nation. The purpose of this society is the preservation of Scotch-Irish history and associations, the increase and diffusion of knowledge regarding Scotch-Irish people, the keeping alive of characteristic qualities of the race, the promotion of intelligent patiiotism and the development of social intercourse and faternal feeling. Any person above the age of twentyone years, who is of Scotch-1 rish decent shall be eligible to membership in the society. Elaborate preparations are being made by the hospitable people of Harrisburg to entertain the Congress and make it the largest annual gathering yet held. Members of the society wfio contemplate attending and who wish information concerning the congress, should address Hon. M. W. McAlarney, Harrisburg, Pa., who is~ the chairman of the local committees. Scotch Irishmen who are not members of the society and who desire information regarding it, should address Charles Arthur Carlisle, Secretary, South Bend, Ind. April, 1, 1896. We are all going to attend the phonograph entertainment, because the operator agrees to give us one of the loudest, plainest and most distinct entertainments that was ever given. He 1 guarantees satisfaction. His records are made new system and are so loud 3.000 people in a church, hall or opera house can understand every word. Admission only five and ten cents 698d6 swl Leave your orders for cut Howers at ' the New York millinery store for Sunday. All orders must be in by Friday noon. ■ \ • ? swtf 698dtf I. J Miesse. e THE MARKETS TO-DAY. (Corrected daily for The Democrat.) ‘ 08 „ • ‘25 i Corn Oats No. 2.. 18 to 20 r Rye 37 s Clover, red prime 4 ’>o L Clover (Alsyke) 4 20 Timothy 200 KI ax • • • * Butter’.'.' ••••• 10 e Eggs- 12 - Lard „ Potatoes 35 >■ Hams .*...... W '' Shoulders ’’ Bacon 8 n Wool, unwashed to to 14 Wool, washed 1 ..17to 20 d Cattle A/. .3 00 to 3 50 ii* Hogs •--••• -3 00 to 3 50 n Sheep.« 00 to 4 50 *- Hay ffo.OO to $12.00 Beef bides ' t Calf hides’. — 5%c

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