Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1896 — Page 1

The Decatur Democrat.

VOL. XXXX.

Mrs. Clem Kennedy, of Geneva, in the gnest of the family of Theo. Kennedy. Minnie Obereguer returned to Del’phos alter a week’s visit with Miss Fannie DeVilbiss. Ex-Marshal Malony now of Blue I Creek township is in the city today. ’ He is looking as fine as ever. Harvey Murphey, of Belmont, Ohio, who has been attending school at Valparaiso, is the guest ot his cousin, Mrs. Aaron Devinney. The Childrens’ Day .exercises ol the Baptist Sunday will be held next Sunday everting at 7:30. An excellent program has been prepared. The adopted child of Albeit A. Butler, on last Saturday, upset a pot of coffee on herseU, burning her in a horrible manner from the hips down to the feet. i — Dan Railing returned last Thursday from Alabama, where he bough’ a potato patch of 020 acres. He will winter in that country, and summer with the Hoosiers. Berry Rice have bought the finest sorrel mare in Branch county. She is very speedy, pacing quarters in thirty.five seconds. She can also trot very fast.—Coldwaterr, (Mich,) Reporter. Fred Whines, returned last Saturday evening from Ridley, California, where he spent the last year. He is in love with that country but friends here caused him to return to Adams bounty. John Reiker and Mrs. Yost brother and sister of Mrs. M. Shafer, left Monday for their home in Pennsylvania. They had been visiting with Shafers and other friends here for the last two weeks.

Cashier Allison, of the Adams County Bank, with his family and sister Mrs. Jessie Townsend and son Burt,-left last Monday for a vaca’ tion. They will domicil at Oden, Michigan, for the summer. The Journal man pokes fun at our coming celebration on the Fourth. It’s wonderful what an interest(?) he takes in Decatur’s welfare. The Journal never has a good word for Decatur or any ot her citizens. A change of time will be made on the G. R. <& I. next Monday. Northbound: No. 1,5:35 p. m.: No. 5, 10:46 p. m.; No. 3, 1:45, p. m. South-bound: No. 2, 1:59 p. m.: No. 4, 3:27 a. m.; No. 42, 6:30 a. m. * Boch & Mangold sold their fine bred trotting stallion, “Maelstrom,” to Eli Umspaugh Tuesday. The boys realized a handsome sum for the horse, which is one of the finest bred stallions in northern Indiana Death again visits our city and the two weeks old babe of W. O. Simons was called. It died Tuesday at 4 o’clock. They left Wednesday with tffe remains for Huntertown where they will lay the little form away. Married.—On the 13th inst., at the home of the bride’s parents near .Willshire Ohio were joined by Jtev. H. Kuhn in holy wedlock, Mr. Oatus Strickler and Miss Lillie Braunstettler. They have the well v wishes of the communityQuarterly meeting at the M. E. church nextSutiday< Sunday school at 9:15. Preaching at 10:30. Junior League at 3p. m. Love feast at t;:45. Preaching at 7:45 by Rev. F. s T. Simpson, I’fesiding Elder, Followed by communion.

A son. of Levi Poling’s, the driver of the baggage wagon,-fell from “ the top of the fence around the yard last Saturday, and ’Stoke his left arm between the wrist and elbow. Dr. Thomas reduced the^fracture and tbedittle-kdlawdKgeUlitg along nicely. ‘ a ”

DECATUR. ADAMtf COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, .JUNE 19. 1890.

At the district meeting of the I Epworth League for the Ft. \\ ayne district, m session at Bluffton, Miss Cora Shackley was elected first vice ; president. The honor could not i have fell on any one more worthy, j 'The League will find in her an ! officer who will advance the interest of the work. Dr. Thomas, secretary of the Board of Health, last Tuesday visited the City dairy at the farm and ordered some needed improvements, and a discontinuance of some of the methods of caring for the cows and milk. The doctor will inspect all the cattle from which the milk is furnished our citizens. A lady says the spdonr she bought, at the auction last week are fading, and are not as was represented. ; Too bad, indeed. She should- take ' them to the manufacturers in Boston ' and perhaps she might get her I money back. Or wait until another cheap auction comes Mong, and then buy another set. Sortie people delight in being swindled.

The children ot St. Joseph schools will give the melodrama, entitled “DoloreTs,” at St. Joseph school hall, on Thursday evening, June 25, commencing at 7:30. The children have been in training for sometime, and this will certainly be a rare treat to our people, and the hall will be crowded - ; — of 25? will be charged for adults, and 15c for children. A few evenings ago about eighty of the friends of Mrs. Geo. ood, residing east of this city a tew miles, gathered at her home and prepared an agreeable surprise for her. A good social time was enjoyed by all present and'a fine supper was served which was heartily partaken of. The Lone Star quartet of Decatur furnished music for the occasion. Henry Lowmeyer, wife and daughter, of Toledo, Ohio, are the guests of Fred Bussick, of Root township, they are relatives and will visit here for some time. Mr. and Mrs Lowmeyer are the parents of sixteen beautiful daughters the one they brought with them being the sixteenth daughter, and as our reporter informed us all are living and doing well. The men who were conducting the auction store in the Ston§ Block have departed. Some of our fair sex will undoubtedly be lonesome since their departure, but then there may be some other men to follow in their Wake who like these, will be “just too sweet to live,” -is the the consolutation that the bruised and bleeding hearts are clinging to. While they may consult their watches for the present: r -4

The women city government at Ellis, Kansas, is at war with illegal liquor vendors, and all but two violators have been prosecuted and languish in jail. At the recent election the women promised if given control of the city to drive out gamblers and “jointists,” They have made good the pledge. The county attorney is being prosecuted on a charge of accepting money from a jo.intist. On last Friday evening when Morpheus had all it’s victims within her embrace. When we were dreaming of the days gone by, we were lulled to further sweetness by the sweet strains of the “W hipperwill,” which for a time caused us to forget where we were, but as the charms of music died away and the merry laughter of the sweet singers was borne to our ear, we learned that it was a party of coy maidens out serenading.. We: with the other twelve fortunate ones return our respects to the fair singers with the hope that they may come again.

Jatib's Moses ha I a runaway.over at the crenneiy this morning. His team frightened while, he was standing in the wagon, throwing tiim ou*. They started toward home with Mrs. Julia, Mises in the wagon. When they came to Pendleton Rice’s farm, the barnyard gate being open, they turned in and ran to the barn. Mrs. Moses was severely shaken up but otherwise is not injured. The wagon was damaged slightly. When you visit a printing office remember that it shows excessive verdancy to display a disposition to read the copy or any part of the printed paper before it is completed or ready for delivery. This is no wise personal but simply business. The editor’s ambition is to have his paper go to the public fresh and complete. He has the right to do it. It vou want to reflect credit ‘upon yourself and serve your country, yvm will walk into the printing office tell what you know and Wait tii! the paper comes out to see it in pruit. From godd authority we learn of the death of a Miss Sprunger, of Berne, Indiana, the cause of her death being diptheria. The treatment she recieved for the disease was prayer, the result of the faith cure was the death of a voting girl about fifteen years old. While we have faith in prayer, we firmly believe in physicians in cases of diseases such as this county is subject to, and believe such eases should be looked after by the proper authrity with a view of correcting such wrongs or at least causing the law to be applied in n measure that will prevent a repetition of the act.

If a traveling peddler comes along and tries to sell goods ask him if he will take your, butter, eggs, hides and other farm produce. Ask him if when your neighbor I gets readv to build, a road or a bridge over a creek or slough, he will be willing to donate a few dollars to help it along. Tell him there is a poor widow down the road who would be very thankful if he would donate a few provisions. Finally say to him that the money will be scarce next sedsbn and would he mind trusting you with a few dollars worth of goods. If he will agree to this, then patronize him.—Ex. Willie Thomas met with an accident Wednesday while -cutting logs on the Jacob Ahr farm in Union township. They had cut a tree which in falling wedged between two saplins. ’ They had sawed it near off when it pinched the saw. Thomas took an ax and struck the underside of the log a blow which cut it off. The top end sprung around stricking him and throwing him fifteen feet. Breaking his leg and otherwise badly injuring him, so that' it looked as though his chances for recovery were poor, but at this time he is somewhat improved, and Dr. Boyers who is attending him thinks he 'will get along all right. -

_Among the vices known to Decatur’s small boys, that one of throwing stones is in evidence. Especially is this vibe known to the boys who resort to the freight cars on the (T. R. 1. They have been a nuisance and a menace to the people living within a “stone’s throw” of their rendezvous. On last Sunday a stone was thrown by one of them that struck near where, two small children were at play. This morning they threw a stone at the house of Jaeqb Spangler and knocked a piece off the eave of the porch, barely missing the large plate glass window. Though these boys may not live ip.glass houses they must not throw stones, ami unless irts stopped some of the throwers may expect to be severely dealt with. Their names will not Ire given this time but—well.

Tlw pl. ice to tal<e the true meaure of a man is not t,he market place or the ainen corner, not the forum nor the field, but at his own fireside. There he lays aside his mask and you mH learn whether he is imp or angel, king or cur, hero or humbug. We care not what the world says of him whether it crowns, him with jewels or pelts him with bad eggs; we care never a copper what his reputation may be; if his babies dread his home coming and his better halt swallows her heart everytime she asks him for a five dollar bill, he’s a fraud of the first water even though 'he prays both night and ’morning ’till he is black in the face and Howls hallelujah ’till he shakes the eternal hills. Telephone connections c»ith Geneva. Berne and Monro/ were male today. Monroe sends the following message to the cit z-n-. of Decatur. “Monroe congratulates ’Demitur in her being aide to correspond with the sister towns of ' >e county and most especially woh Monroe, the town where the county seat should be; but the old and young will truly celebrate this event here in Monroe by the ringing of bells and blowing of horns and the burning of midnight oil. Truly the event will long be remembered by the citizens of M onroe, and it is our hope that Decatur may still move forward in the advancement that will lead her to be one of the foremost cities in this state.” .

The festive lightning rod agent got in his work on.a farmer living in Kirkland township. We were unable to learn the man’s name, but the amount he ..paid to have his buildings roded was 113. Sevendollars was to be the >price, as the farmer understood it when the slick agent was contracting with him. But when the work was done he found he had signed a contract for 8175. lie compromised with the agent, 8145. This is another monument to the man who tries to get something for nothing, but is alwav found at the wrong end of the game. The lightning rod men have done up as many suckers as there are days, they realizing the saving that there is a sucker born every minute. And they know where to find them. Hon. W. H. Harkins, of this city, deputy collector of internal revenues, with his office at Fort Wayne, is awaiting instructions from Washington in regard to the collection of “the tax and license provided for by the famous “Filled Cheese Law’ passed by the late congress. Manufacturers of “tilled cheese” will be compelled ty pay a tax of on-e cent per pound oil their product as well as a license of 8400 per year, while jobbers and wholesalers must pay .8250 per rear for a license to sell the stuff. The retail dealer gets off with 812 per year. By this provision a sign must be displayed m front of each store where it is sold. This sign is to be black letters, six .inches long, on a white background, with the words “Filled Cheese Sold Here.” Violations are to be severely punished.- Portland Sun.

Tuesday the orders of the I. (). O. F., Daughters of Rebekah, K. of P. Lodge and Rathbone sisters, united, held their annual Decoration 4>ay services, which took place in the evening. At 6:30 o'clock their line of march was taken up and the •a four secret societies proceeded to Maplewood ce'metery by conveyances, where the graves of the departed brothers and sisters of the -different orders were decorated. After which the Decoration Day service of K. of P. and I. D. D. F. ord. rs (according to their rituals aider which .L T. Merryman spoke of the good of the orders, follow t d by a ten minutes address l>\

Rev. E. T. Gregg on the, f>'' ui'ie« of the remembrance of d> parted friends. The orders then li-tened to prayer by Rev. Vaughan after which they returned to their spective lodge rooms. George Pierce, of Union township, was befere Esquire Smith Tuesday charged with stealing chick ens. The warrant was issued on an affidavit sworn to by Abraham Moore wherein he charged Pierce with stealing ten chickens. Moore missed his chickens and in looking around found a fresh buggy track which he followed and found it came from and returned to Pierce’s house, upon inqueiy it was found that Pierce had gone to Willshire, ()., leaving home at 3 o’clock a. m. Further investigation proved that he had sold chickens in Willshire l ' that mor i g. He waived an examination and in' default of *IOO bail was committed to the care of sheriff Ashbaucher. He leaves his family m poor circumstance-. Henry Falk, a farmer living five milis northwest, has a freak of nature in the shape of a hairless horse, which when brought to town is the cvnosure of all eyes. The animal is seven years old and has never been sick a day in its life, but about two year/ ago began shedding its raiment and kept on disrobing to such an extent that today it is absolutely naked. Not a hair is to be seen on the horse’s body except a thin growth in ths. ears and on the noSe_ Mr. Falk keeps the horse wrapped in a blanket and has humanely tied some frayed pieces of rope to the brute’s tail -that it may have protection against Hies. The animal is a good worker.and, would be a good buggy horse, were lie not ashamed to appear m public. He is for sale and any museum or circus manager can, by corresponding with Mr. Falk, secure a freak that will equal Barnum’s celebrated wooly horse.— Bluffton News.

Out in Kansas they do things in a breezy and cheerful wav that must I .* rob sorrow of much of its power to sting and take away the desire for victuals. The following “card of thanks” is a sample: “I desire to thank the friends and neighbors most heartfully in this manner for their united aid and .co,operation ' during the sickness and death of my husband who escaped me by the hand of death on Friday while we were eating supper. To the friends and all who contributed so willingly toward making the list, moments a howling success, I desire to be remembered most kindly, hoping these few lines jna'y find them enjoying the same blessing. I also have a good milch cow and roan gelding horse raising of eight years old which 1 will sell cheap on the preihiges. God moves ma mysterious way his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the s.torm. Also a black and white shote very low. An aggregation of ball tosser,s from this city visited Bljiffton Tuesday. They attempted to entertain the BlufftoniteS" by playing iheir team a game of base bill. But, as the score would indicate, they proved a dismal failure. <hir team returned home yesterday and : have been hard to find today. The • manager of the club informs us that the score was 22 to I in favor of Bluffton, and he gave as a reason for their disastrous defeat, the fact that they could not punch the ball out of the •“diamond. That they could not find the ball after it left the Bluffton twrrlers hand. Also that a tew of the hoiue?team refused to play good ball. They played more “hoi'se” than ball. The thing to do with a member when he g : et> that tired feeling and refuse to play, is to tire him instantly and bodily. He isn't to be trusted, and may

throw a game at any time. Our boys can put up.a -good game of ball if they will all work together. We will turn the tables on Bluffton the Fourth. Just watch our smoke. On last Saturday evening the friends of Mrs. Jerry Archer arranged a surprise on her, it being an anniversary of her birth. The friends to the number of one hundred and ten assembled at the house while she was in town. They arranged a thirty feet long, which was loaded down with all the delicacies of the season. When Mrs. Archer arrived home it was dark. She entered the sitting room, lit a lamp, and when she saw the large table sue exclaimed, “My, O! My, what’s the matter.” But her friends soon surrounded her, wish ing happiness to the fullest extent. This was one of the most enjoyable occasions that has taken place in this county for many a day. If you look’ at Jim Place you can tell lie was there. John T. France says it will be alright as long as lie can find such eatables to eat. Then comes Charlie France, and of him we can say—nothing. The Democrat force was kindly; remembered, • ■ ■)'■ and we all join the many friends in saying may she live to enjoy many such days. Bells. Wednesday morning at St. Marys Catholic church, at-half past seven o'clock, occurred the marriage of Miss Mary Constantine Smith to Mr. John M ingey, two well known young people of this city. The bride was attended by Miss Anna Mougey, of Pmoa, Ohio, a si steroid the groom, and Miws Ella Touhey, of this city, whi e the grooms attendants were-Messrs Floyd Smith and Robt. Ehinger, of this city. The bride was gowiied in an exquisite gown of white silk, made en traine. She carried a boquet of bride’s roses while the bridsmaid, Alisa Anna Mougey, was becomingly attired in a gown of canary colored albatros, and carried a boquet of yellow La France roses, and Miss Elia Touhey was handsomely attired in pink albatros and carried pink La France roses. The groom and his attendants were each attired in the convetional suits of black. The fair bride is the handsome and accomplished daughter of Mrs. Mary Smith, of this city, while the groom is one of the popular young gentlemen of this city, being the operator at .the T. St. L. it K. Cc, depot, and he may well be proud of the fair one he lias chosen for his

companion through life. After a wedding reception at the home of the bride’s .-.mother on Fourth street, the happy couple left on the 12:1-5 tram east for a wedding tour, after which they will be at home to their many friends at their residence at the corner of Jackson and Fourth streets. The Democrat extends to them its heartiest A Haby’s Carnival. The ladies of the Christian church are planning a novel entertainment for Friday evening next week It is to be <i Baby's Carnival ami the iftfle ones will meet at, the Christian church at -5:30 o'clock in their cabs each with an at tendanthnd each cab appropriately decorated and will proceed to tbefilbtot .ground west of therjG.#lv iv 1 depot, where a-cab drill' will be given, after Which the company will go to Second . - street where another little drill will be given after which the little onesayill be taken to the tile banquet hall and given' an appropriate banquet, whiib the ladiys serve ice cream and bake to-the public. z > Good Riddance of Had Kubbi-li. Pat Bobo, in connection “with a Humber of other parlies in 1-rank-fort, has purchased. the American Bi-Metallist, at Huntington jwd will remove itto FrankforlTTfournal.

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