Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1896 — Page 1

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Mihh Cora Shackley is the guest of Miss Mary Baughman, of Silent. Mine Cora Shearer, of M mon, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. B. Ford. Miss Hattie Blackburn is visiting her uncle, G. VV. Menefee and wife * near Berne. Trustees Stuckey of French township and Hall of Hartford, were tn the city Tuesday. L. Cole and wife, of Findly,Ohio, are the guests of L. T. Brokaw, the parent of Mrs, Cole. •' ■* Mrs. Barney Flock and two daughters, of Ft. Wayne, are the guests of friends here. Miss Agnes Schrock returned home yesterday, after a two week’s visit with friends at Fort Wayne. Clark J. Lutz an'd family have returned from their trip up north'. They report a very enjoyable time. The W. C. T. U. will hold a public meeting at Christian church Sunday at 2:30. A good program has been prepared. » A social will be given at the Alpha M. E. church Saturday evening, July 18. A cordial invitation is extended to everybody. Mrs. Dick Morrison and Miss Hattie S’.udabaker, of Marion, are the guests of their father, Judge Studabaker and family. Ellingham is stepping high. Free silver has nothing to do with him now. Mrs. EUiugbam and b|tle daughter are getting along nicely. .-' • - Charley Ehinger beaded a party which left last evening for a fishing trip. tell when they return where tliey were while away. Misses Minnie Owan, of Bluffton, and Nora Congdom, of Fort W ayne, after a pleasant visit with Miss Mabie Edwards, have returned 1 to their homes. a The Adams county teachers’ institute will be held about the middle of August, -and will close with an excursion to Rome City at 81.23 rate for round trip. » — - —— Never will I vote for McKinley. Never will I vote the republican ticket, or for any man, even my brother, who might be named thereon.—Grover Cleveland. . tSfr - ' j Corn, cucumbers and “cramps” are now on all vegetable stands in the city. Bro. Everts gets ’em—that is the “cramps”— free when the free silver issue is sprung. ; An oil well in Nottingham township, Wells county, was shot Monday with 260 quarts of nitroglycerin one of the largest shots ever used in Indiana field. The result was a fair well. » The rain, yesterday, was one of. the heaviest sh o wers th at has 1a 11 e n .in this-city for years. While two miles southwest of town it did not rain_at all at the time, we were getting the heavy Fain. • This morning about -8 o’clock, at the home of his parents, John Harf, son of Jacob S. and Elizabeth Hart. The funeral will be from tae residence on Monroe street, Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. — . '• - ' ■ - 5 h Trustee Stucky, of French township, was in the city today. He tells, us he planted corn on the 10t.li day of May, amLnjmasured it on the jnth ofeJuly a,pd finds it has grown one and a half inches each day from May 10 to July 13. All corn in that ~ part of the county is good and the oats were never better, but the ' wheat is onh fair. A

The Decatur Democrat.

DECATUR. ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 17. 189(1.

Maud M 'Gill, wife of Grant Gaskell, died last Wednesday at their horn* 1 in Union township. She left a husband and one child with parents, brothers and sisters to mourn her early leaving this world. • The Chicago convention labored hard and brought forth a leader that with the common people is the man the party needed to lead them to victory. With Sewell, of Maine, the West and East hold the ticket. Miss Maine Holthouse who has been visiting her sister at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, returned home last Sunday. She was accompanied by her sister, Nona, who has been teaching the past year at Sheboygan. Mrs. Chas. Wheeler, of Chicago, after a pleasant visit with friends here, accompanied by her niece and nephew, Lena and George Menefee, left for Berne this alternson, to visit Mrs. Wheeler’s parents, George Menefee and wife. The stockholders of the Bluffton canning factory want to supply the state with tomatoes this year. They have out over one hundred acres, and should the weather prove favorable they will feed the hungry on tomatops. The firm of Fristoe it Suttles, proprietors of the People’s Bakery, have dissolved partnership. Mr,-, Suttles having received a sufficiency of the restaurant business retires, while Mr. Fristoe will continue to make ’er hum. Nathan Wyatt and son returned home Saturday from Huntertown, where they were attending the funeral of Mr Wyatt’s oldest brother. This was indeed a sad' time for him as it was the first near friend or relative he ever lost. '”• * * ' Dr. Irvyin, for near a quarter of a century superintendent pt the city schools of Ft. Wayne, has resigned. The board has secured the Services of Col. Study, of Richmond, Ind., who has been connected with the Richmond schools for a long time. r - At Indianapolis a saloon-keeper was arrested for selling beer on the' Fourth of July. At the trial he showed that the beer was "bought on the third and left in the cooler. The judge released him and thus a new way to evade the law is opened up. A Mr. Peipenbrick, of Ft. Wayne, wheeled into our city last Monday He made the run in one hour and twenty minutes. He is in the employ of the electric light company and has the forenoons off, and he enjoys a spin to the neighboring towns. Dr. 11. E. Keller, our leading physician and surgeon performed a very successful operation, Saturday afternoon in removing a cancerous growth from Mrs. Rappert, of Treble township, and thtPMady is., -getting along nicely. The doctor is a skillful operator, A-nuniber of_euthusiaslic demo; . erats met at Meibers _hal 1 Monday night and ratified the nomination of Bryan and Sewall. A meeting was arranged for next Wednesday night, when a club will be organiz’d. The meeting Monday evening was addressed by Hon. R. K. Erwin and others. The German Reform congregation of Berne Ijjid the corner stone of their house ofworship lasj Sunday. 'lffie house will be among the fine church buildings that out county is blessed with. The structure will be of brick with all the modern improvements, and will be ti pleasant house for those who ' attend divine service at Berne.

H irttor 1 City people are giving the bums the “marble heart” Or someth.ifig equally as hard and coin. A specimen with a couple of artificial produced blisters, requested aid claiming he was burned in an accident. He got it in the shape of a big boot well applied where it would do the most good. Jubilant democrats of Bluffton ratified, Saturday night. Tne “Boy orator of the Platte” was the slogan. Addresses were made by Hon. A. N. Martin, Judge Dally, Levi Mock, and a number of others. They will have another ratification meeting next Saturday evening, which they intend shall be a monster affair. You can hear a discussion of the financial question any time of the day. AH you have to do is to stop on a corner for a few minutes and vou will be entertained with a discussion. Occasionally a squeak for high protective tariff is heard from one who has not heard of the tight that is on, or one w’ho is afraid McKinley will yet declare tor free silver. I ... ■ u Keep off the grass has been the order of. our county commissioners. The rule has been enforced except as to Sunday base-ball and card players who run over and lay around on the grass from morning until night, regardless of the order of the county fathers or the pleasure or feeling of anyone else, only so they get to spend their time to please themselves. There are some queer names in this world, and especially are they significant when tjiey . appear in print. Hoopston has a jeweler named Karats. At Bryan, O , there is a firm under the title of Gailupj Hustle & Hurry. But the most appropriate and striking sign is that of two doctors down at Terre Haute, which announces that Drs. Ketchum & Killum are ready to do the people. The commissioners were m session today. A number of our people appeared before them, asking that they improve the hydrant on the southeast corner of the public square. Die same should have three openings and then the waste basin should be large enough to catch the water that will naturally splash out. As it now is you can get only a small cup, and not a pitcher-or bucket there to get water. - - , o ' ... O Farmers report the wheat crop rather poor this year. It will not make a half crop, while the berry is of an inferior quality. The price holds about fifty cents a bushel, but may fall below that before long. The farmer who has 15 bushels so the acre will have a good crop for this summer. In some localities aworm is working op the oats, but harvesting is putting a stop to their work. „ An action lias burn -bremght in the DeKalb circuit cou"t for 820 alleged to be due a choir, winch sang at the funeral services of the late Abraham Corbin. The officiating clergyman was given 8.5, but the choir was not paid.. , The defense is that singing is not a necessary expense at a funeral. This is the tirst'ease of the kind .brought in in the history of litigation in the Indiana courts, and promises to establish a unique precedent. July will be a great month for church picnics, and Jhe wood-tick will gnaw ihe alabaster limb oDthe Sunday schoql teacher, and a green worm will Tall down the back of the organist, and the tired minister will sit down 4>n a rotten-stump and ask for “a sweet pickle and another leg of chicken please,” while the

fimli-h yellow jieket will ba>'k up to him and punu'.u'e bis tire; and the old maid who sings in the choir wiP see a snake and faint in the arms of Simple Simon, who is there fbf the ostensible purpose tQ giggle. The busy ant will play around the jelly and one of the infant class will fall out of the swing and break its collar bone, and they will have a jolly time and it will be “shocking‘revealing.’’—Ex. Last Saturday sheriff Ashbaucher t ok Mrs. Peter Macabee Shewalter to the Eastern hospital at Richmond a commission in lunacy having passel on her case, Tuesday last. Yes ! tirday the sheriff recieved a telegram apprising him of the death of i t ie patient which oceured Saturday . night! The sheriff left for there! this morning and will bring the re-i mains to Ceylon, her former home, from which' place her funeral ogcured. Could the county commission'rs I I hear the people condemn the “dinky” fountain being put in the court house yard, they would certainly call a halt to the proceedings, and order a fountain put in of some service. As it is, it will require the constant service of the deputy sheriff to keep farnlfers from hitching their teams to it. But it would even make a poor hitching post. Put m a large founta.in, gentleman, and receive Ttle _ pfaises~of"a'n ever thirstpublic. 'Lhe best argument against Sunday base ball is the following taken from the Portland Evening Sun: “While engaged in playing a game of base ball near Elm Grove, SaWtay Rittenour, a young man, had the misfortune to 7.e .k his iwg. He was- running and tell, breaking his left leg above the knee. When he fgli the broken limb Hew up, the heel striking him on the shoulder. It is a serious fracture and- with the hot, weather will make a bad go of it.” / — — <)jr fafniers complain about a place to hitch' their teams when m the.cuv. While some go to other places to. trade because we have no place for them to hitch t«lieir teams for a-short time. A large number of towns have racks around the public square. W bile we do not favor this, there can be hitching racks made on Court street. This would save them going to the feed yard when they come to town and w v ant to hitch-for a few minutes. Give them a chance. Charles Simcoke left Monroe early last Suday morning, on his wheel, for eastern i >hio. Jason Hendricks left the,same place this morning, bv rail, for eastern Ohio. Their objective being Scio. It is to be a race between the wheel and the steam horse. Mr. Simcoke left a li«g “cannon” wager that he would be there m time to meet Mr. Hendricks at the depot on his arrival, the distance to be traveled on the wheel is about 265 miles. A large crowd witnessed the wheelman de--part-. • ji— — — ; —i . One ot the good things in the TTiTcagirplatform TsOdre TlFThatwfdvr more stringent measures to properly rrg.nlateTofergii fmmi^falTdrn-"'uThT r ' statistics ,of. the past year emphasize this. From Italy, came sixty-six thousand people, one-half of w-hom c.'uld not read or write, while the same is true of one-third ot the twentv-three thousand Hungarians who landed on our shores. This condition of things is not only unfair to the laboring people of this 'country, but the public at large, which can illy afford-to. have such ignorance thrown upon it. That th is-condition of things ex ists duriiu' the business depression, makes it Jilldhe more forcible, as it iißii catt s what we can expect with the return of prosperity. ’

i Here are a few facts from an exI change which are as true as gm-pel: J “It is always hard *o get up in the world. When you see a man who ■ is really truly up in the world you see a man who has worked. Ins way i up. There is no man or woman at ; the top of any department who did : not have to climb there with blisteri ed hands and feet. The leading physicians, lawyers and educators all climbed patiently to eminence. Plants get up, trees get up, men and women get up, all one way bv climbing up. Charles Simcoke, of Monroe, who ‘started on a 265 miles run on his , wheel, Sunday morning, who, on a [ wager, was to beat Jason Hendricks | who left last Monday, by rail, tor i Scio, Ohio, met with bad luck the i first day out, which mav lose him i * J the race. He wrote Falk Erwin Tuesday, from Mt. Vernon, Ohio, as follows: “I am’ progressing slowly. Rode 121 miles yesterday, a’ I Had'four ‘•punctures. How’- that? Today I am taking my time to it. Have only made 47 miles today, it now being 10:30 a. m. Hive 37 miles to go yet, when I will rest.” The following is an extract from a small boy’s essay on “Heads.” “There is a lot of kind of he is, red beds, wooden beds, soft beds, cabbage heds, lite bawled beds, and - r 4th. Pa he’s got one. It’s bawled. Ma she’s longlieded and |l3 he’s billiheded, but I am redheded and level too. The smart end of a boy is his head except when he gets spanked, but the smart end of a bee ,is not there. (>, no. Pa says if a feller has a bed, he will get abed in Lilis.w.o.rld, but.LjJou’t warn, a iied like he gets on when he goes out w«tb the Lotw.” Here is the language ot Maik Hanna, chairman republican com mittee in an interyiew by a correspondent of the New York World: “McKinley is a better friend to free silver than all the planks adopted by the democrats or populists. McKinley had to aece'pt a gold plank, but he did not make it or want it. ' Tire democrats that have bolted tin Chicago platform are having a thoTUy road to travel, while Hanna feels the force of the silver w ive that is passing ov'er this Country. 1 he York World had for McKinley, but will now have to' boom some Life else. We have found that our roads cost us fifty dollars per year for i each of our 60,000 miles of highway, or 83,000,000 per annum. This sum is paid in money or labor almost entirely by the farmer. Add this sum to the hauling expense, *816,400,000. and we find it costs the farmer 822,400,000 to get his products on the market, or 82.24 > per ton, H'.'Jl per cent. In.other words the farmer markets sI 1.25 • worth of produce at an expense of sj.2 1 in making the average .haul of 8.8 miles from hisjfarm .to market. Is it any wonder tiie boy leaves the farm whence can? Ex„ On Monday the home of Mr. find MrsAlohn W. ail was opwmid-to.-the \ arlttnn i 1 y-,- w Im asse-mb retb the re - "and held a family retrrrruii: Thiswas the first time the family, which consTsts of Mr. Vail’s mother and seven children, five sons a.nd two daughters, were all permitted to be together since the death of the father, whicn oceured twenty-six years ago. At 12 o’clock an elegant diynner was served, after which the happy family repaired to Moser's audio where the had a grofip picture taken which consisted of twentyfour members. Those present from abroad were: Mrs. Vail and daughter, Lucy, Joe and Ephriam \ all and family. Mrs, Donaldson and family, of Ossian; Rev. S. W. \ ail and"' wife, of Hopkinsville', Ky.; and A. >

T. Vail ami family, of Chicago. After supper the family, with the exception of J. \\ . Vail,and family, returned to Ossian, the home of the' mother, with the wish in their hearts that the family might be permitted to be together lor many years to come. if there is aught in the nature of things to justify the idiotic practice of going about at unseemingly hours of the night tooting some of those who were kept awake last night by the uncanny noises of those horn blowers who made night hideous, would like to have it. pointed out. There are occasions : when the noise-makers have, by Consent, the posession of the town and the wishes of quiet people are prop- ! erly laid aside. But these occasions are not in justice every time a tin I horn and a pair of lungs come together. Let the rights of the peo- ! pie be respected. i One evening last week, sneak i ' . thieves visited the home of Ed . Luttman, of Root township, and stole a lot of meat and a turkey. Sunday evening theyheard the dog making a fuss, and, on looking out of the window, saw the same man that bad robbed them before, of the meat apjd turkey clipping along in the orchard, but he seemed afraid of the dog and left' before he bad secured, any thing. The thief is well known by Mr. Luttman, will meet with a re ception next time that will require the skill of a surgeon to assist ..in patching up the rents left on his i sneaking stealing carcass. ? I ° Tuesday ..twelve ladies of Mon- ; roeville formed a coaching piarty . and drove to this city attt spent the day at the home of Mrs. J. Es UTls^' - • woitb, who with the asisstance of .a few otiyir ladies mow royally .entertained them. And as it had threatI ■ . s i ened rain during the morning it was j dinner time when thev arrived here, but the hostesses’had the.dinner’-on the table when the guests arrived. After dinner the ladies received a large numberj-ot cullers. During the afternoon lemonade wa- served : and music was furnished; Hy Dr.. T. Reade and his quartette ■'! singers-. At 6 o’clock supper was served buffer which the guests left for their • home, Monroeville. Those „who were hei'e were: Mesdames, . B. Baker, M. E. Argo, Dr. Kauffman, Arnold, Ed Finan, Griffith, Sweenex and .L. Wright and Misses Edna. Miller, Lulu Argo and Grace Sweeney. i_2 - 4 The Detroit Free Press, heretofore a strong democratic paper, declares its independence of all party 'organizations. It is singular hOw i many great (?) men we have in tfiiS country, who know just what is best for the country, You can bear of them ev4‘ty day since the convention. "Had the convention declared for a gold 1 - instead of a silver standard, then it would have been the silver standard, men who ! its principles. It is always the fellow that knows "j'ist how the gov eriiment slmnid be rutg” that says he will bolt it’it is not ins way'. Jle says the majority has no rights. the minority is bound to respect.. ■ k..:; .. He. goes further ana says it is undeiiiocratie for the majority to < dictate to the minority. This seems to be the ground tliat the_ imrsL oi -the papers have taken that have de■clared 1 against the Chicago nominees: ,/rhat the free.>srlv.er. men, should h.jive allowed the minorty to sax what the ..platform should bei Then all would have been serene ’ with the party. lliu riimc i.ieenscs.’fFraiik Kelly and Cora Hays; Clint V. Sn'iil J'id Drilia Russell.

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