Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1897 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. nryrv -w—tr—vr—v-v-v—v—v -v —u —ir v—vt'-ir ~v~w -v—v -v—v j, —n_lnj I POOR PRINTING Pft-YS — - • ? POOR PROFITS. We get out a class ot printing j t that is superior to the "general 3 [- run." Good printing pays. j » DEMOCRAT < s B->OKAND.IOB « I PRINTERY. S THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. The Democratic Press was estab liahed by a ring of officeholders and office seekers to indorse any man or proposition they dictated, because Mr, Blackburn would not sell or permit them to control its editorial policy. Corrupt propositions were made him that should have placed the maker behind the bars —Journal The above implies a very serious charge. We ask the Journal editor in all serious earnestness, to explain in detail the “corrupt propositions” that were made Mr. Blackburn, and the name of him who dared to make them. We demand a full explanation. The council should give us a little light on the streets, and afford the people this necessary convenience and protection. That ever prevailing rag weed is permitted to grow unmolested, even upon the north Second brick street. Think of it; and the Journal insists upon eulogizing the “industry” of our street commissioner. Mo exhibit of the financial condition of the city has yet been ordered by the council, in the face of our already burdensome debt and new contemplated improvements, the people should know something about where we are at. The duty on “rags” under the Dingley bill, will probably have the desired effect in stopping the importation ot this class ot goods, thereby encouraging a home industry. The Dingley tariff will soon increase the stock of “rags” in this country. The proposition of the council to furnish more and cheaper lights, may be all right; w e never disputed it. However, it is and will be an experiment. This don’t excuse the council fur their neglect of life and property now, by leaving us in darkness. Turn on the lights. Bradstreet says there were 259 business failures last week in the United ptates, “rather more than the average in recent weeks” “Rather more,” did you say? But the Dingley bill, man, the Dinglev bill; what becomes of that after such a report as that?—Delphos Courant. Some of the civil service cranks : are doing so much shouting over Mr. McKinley’s extension of the i civil service law to a few ot the small custom bouse employes, that j they have overlooked his exemption from those rules ot numerous important places in the custon and internal revenue service. The Democrat dare not tell where a single dollar bus been stolen or mis appropriated by or through any coun oilman of this city.—Journal. The Democrat don’t want to do anything of that kind. However,; this don’t excuse the council from turning on the light, and demon- ■ strating to the people who are now paying increased taxes, that they still retain a little regard for their public convenience and safety. The Journal editor calls it a high grade of journalism within themselves to call our attacks upon the council slanderous, and then deal in a generality of insinuations that deeply reflects upon the character of the editor of this paper. Insinuations that never should bespread before the public, unless accompanied by a full and complete explanation. This is journalism with a vengence. The sympathy of the nation will follow * Hanna into the retirement! of his summer vacation. After his 1 great task of buying the country for McKinley he was hurried into* the arduous labors of getting a ■ place for himself, electing a sena i tor from Kentucky, running con gress, man aging the executive, fix Inga tariff that would satisfy althe trusts, and heading off the currency reformers. He has earned a much-needed rest; and he cannot rest too long for the welfare of the . nation. —Sentinel.

The Journal tell“ us that we can | find abundant testimony of the street commissioner’s industry, by ■ peeping over our back fence. Dou’i you believe it. Ihe alley referred to was made passible by the “industry” ot the property owners And that isn’t all. Under the ten years plan of payment, the property owners now pay on both ends—the brick in front and the alley behind. The Journal jollies the council by calling our attacks on that body of resolution makers, “slanderous.” We presume it is very slanderous io inform a council in plain English, that their acts—that of turn- ; ing the city into total darkness and refusing to furnish the taxpayers with a statement of the city’s indebtedness—are not approved by the people. The journal will have a hard time to convince that body that we slanders-d them Now that it is an assured fact that we are to have an electric light plant—the same to be owned by a private corporation and to be paid for by the city —can’t the council give us a little light now. Os course, we realize that we are too poor to pay for street lights but rich enough to put in a new plant complete, but still we need light now. The peo- : pie and their property need this protection, and in the face of new improvements, the council would be doing but little for those whose money they so freely spend. The republidans have other troubles than those which will be made by the new tariff ahead of them. They are going to have no end ot worry over finance in the near future. It is an opeu secret that there is a serious difference of opinion in the cabinet ou the advisability of committing the administration and party to the retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes Secretary Gage, as the personal representative of the bankers and ultra gold men, will make a hard fight to commit the administration and party to the retirement of those notes, although he knows as well as anybody that no such legislation can be put through during the life of the present congress, because of the silver majority in the senate. The signs of good times are now better than they have been any time for four years, and we now feel perfectly safe in predicting a steady improve ment from the condition precipitated by <be great panic of 1893. That the panic came with the first few months of democratic legislation and the better times with the return of the republican party to power may be onlv a coincidence but it is one the American people should avoid repeating.—Journal. The “signs of good times” are principally evident only in the minds of a few republican editors. If the great miner’s strike, general reduction of hours and wages by many manufacturers, the reduction of nnmber of employee on railroads, &c., is a “sign of good times,” then we have them, otherwise not. Wheat may be worth a little more now than it was a year ago, but no more than it was selling for tbe day McKinley was elected. Other farm products sell for no more, while the Dinglev law will mcrta-e the price of most everything tbe farmer buys. The fact that a pani--precipitated only three months after a republican administration wen out of power, only seals the fact that the affairs, as the government a« administered by a republican executive, was on the brink of dis aster. Members of the administration still in Washington are somewhat worried over the results of the new tariff as far as they have become apparent. They did not like the shutting down of those big New England cotton mills, and some of them went as tar as to say that the mill owners should have been willing to keep on running their mills, even if they lost money, to help along the republican party. They 'ike even less the story of increased prices for almost everything but labor that comes from every direction. Speaking of this phase of the matter, a prominent Philadelphia business man, now in Washington, said: “1 hear that a general rise I in prices is to take place, and that people may prepare to pay more for their dry goods, clothing, boots and i shoes, and all articles of household necessity. If this is going to be so, I predict tremenduous discontent and dissatisfaction among the peo pie. In flush times there should be uo compaint, but when commodities rise in value and the volume of money is not increased, the common people are bound to suffer, especially when, as now, there is no chaoce of an advance in wages. The upshot of the matter will be a revolt against the political party that passed the law which made dearer all things tbe consumer is bound to buy, without doing anything to increase the ability of the consumer to purchase the necessaries of life. If tbe republican party nasn’t a rough row to hoe, then I am utterly without ability as a prophet.

BLUE CREEK TOWNSHIP. REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES ROAO TAX FUND. Total receipts road tax fund 8 914 .’3 Total expenditures since last report. 38-49 Balance 8 532 04 EXPENDITURES. S. 8. Buchanan... f ® E D. Lynch - Ohio Supply Co 1 o John w echter 8 A. B. Baughman John J Burke -5 ?• ME Oswalt w S Porter J K Porter ‘95 Wm Frazier ’ R. Henry Hopple 3 O' S S Buchanan ; ■*' Wm 1’ Waggoner ■ ■? ’!, P S Arnold. o xn E B Merriman -■?*! Fuller & Beery w John J Burke -50 Charles Morrison ' •*' Wm Frazier 3 « GW Lyon , « James Foreman ? P 8 Arnold J*'"' Culler & Co., agents ' Wm Frazier -8° — » 382 49 TOWNSHIP FUND. j Total receipts township funds J 789 SB Total expenditures since last report .. 396 to Balance f 393 61 EXPENDITURES. John J Burke f 48 00 A J Mvers M 001 Charles .Morrison JO uo Wm Frazier ♦ j ft 11 James F ireman ♦- -t I L G Effingham 3a W j Irwin Brandybcrry......... -00 Noah Mangold John Wechter 1* 00 L G Effingham 3 j* ' Jacob Wechter 5 no ; S 396 25 | SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND. i Total receipts special school fund 8 728 26 | : Total expenditures since last report... 334 61 j f 393 65 EYTENDITURES. Bertha Tumbleson I 72d i O N Tynda!’ 5 •” iGCMcAlhanv J*’ W S Porter 10. I Orpha .Jacobs if?? i Maggie Tumbleson • i W P Merriman I . Fred Tague J TO | Bryson Snyder , J. E R Merriman 2 (h - S Wood A J Sipe 976 J L Sipe 18 J L Sipe 3 O' Charles Workinger 1} 50 Henry Althoen 15 95 Norman Lautzenhiser 50 John Coffee M IS Edgar Kelsey 10 n 0 i Wm Frazier ~00 William Campbell 4 75 Jacob Wechter 24 00 | H. D. Robertson 10 50 Jacob Wechter 5 Ou I Kirsch & Sellemeyer 37 30 Thomas Everett 20 00 Henrv Weimer 5 00 C. E Pass water 2 00 j D Baumgartner 2 fid A B Baughman 3W; Solo man C Wolf 10 50 Kirsch & Sellemeyer, 4 59 W O Myers 1 00 A J Ray 1 Mi Henry Richards 12 00 Smith A: Callow 9 J 3 D H Gable 12 50 Jacob Wechter 5 00 S 834 61 TUITION FUND. Total receipts tuition fund $2276 74 Total expenditures since last report... 14>0 0G Balance 846 74 EXPENDITURES. W 1’ Merriman I 198 00 Maggi* Tumbleson 198 00 G C McAlhaney 198 00 ON Tyndall 209 00 Bertha Tumbleson 198 00 W s Porter 220 00 Orpha Jacobs 209 Ot 11430 00 DOG TAX FUND. Total receipt dog tax fund I 94 63 Expenditures since last report .. $35 00 Total expended and turned over to county dog fund 35 00 Balance ? 59 63 EXPENDITURES. Frank Neadstine 4 00 W H Parr • • 18 00 S Wood 8 00 M A Ripley 5 00 ; SUMM ARY. 2 X B o o * F : a X Road Fund * 914 53 I 382 49 » 532 Township fund 78» 86 3M 25j 393 61 Special school I und.... 728 26 334 611 393 65 Tuition fund 2276 74 1430 ft)! 846 74 Dog Fund 94 631 35 0l)| 59 63 The undersigned, being duly sworn, on oath says t hat the above account is true and correct. as he verdy believes. JACOB WECHTER, Trustee. Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 2nd 1 day of August, 1897. NOAH MANGOLD. Auditor Adams Co, j ' — I TO PHYSICIAN*. Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals I will be received by the Board ot Commission I ersof Adams county. Indiana, at the Auditor’s office until 2 o'clock p. tn on Monday, the 6th day of September, 1897, for furnishing medicine and medical services for the poor of Adams county, for one one year. Proposl tions will be received for each township separately : all proposals for Washington township to include the county asylum. The Board re- ; serves the right to reiect anv or all bids. 21-3 NOAH MANGOLD, Auditor. I Vocal Concert. The Ladies Mite Society will give a . miscellaneous vocal concert in the lecture room of the Methodist church, commencing at eight o’clock next Tues- | day evening. Following is the program: Male Quartette. I Recitation Edith Walters Instrumental Duett June Merryman ana Lizzie Peterson Recitation Miss Mamie Ely Duett, Violin and Piano Mrs. Djty and Miss Orvis Vocal Solo Matie Albers Recitation Baby Edwards . Guitar Solo May Niblick Duett, Cornett and Piano .... Mr. Dickerson and Miss Terveer Vocal Solo Mrs. Winifred Hunt Intermission. Recitation lay Edwards Vocal Duett Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Neptune Vocal Solo Eva Smith Recitation Agnes Schrock Vocal Solo Margaret Icher Recitation Blanche Dibble Vocal Solo Miss Ethel King

Something Entirely New! We have just received a shipment of the new Ultra fashionable Howard Stiff and Flange Brim Hats in all the new colors of Green, Brown, Black and a new shade of Blue. If you see them you will surely BUY ONE. We still have a srood assortment of Summer Clothing and Straw Hats which we are selling at Reduced prices. We must have room for our fall goods. These are bargains for you, at P. Holthobse # Go.

Mrs. S. D. Beavers left this morning for a five weeks absence at the lakes. For sale or will exchange for improved farm, stock of goods from ?2,000 to 820,000 Address A. J. Miller, Frankfort, Indiana. 18 4 Notice—l will sell at private sale, in parcels or as a whole the Lawson Linhard farm in Root townsnip, two miles north of De catur. For further information inquire of the undersigned or at the county clerk’s office. Lois Linhakd, Adm’x. May 13, 1897. 9tf Place’s lee Cream. When you want icecream packed in ice and deliveied to your home, order from the deaieis; they all handle Place’s. Special prices made to socials and picnics. 21t2 A. P. Beatty and Roy Archbold had qui'e an exciting experience last Thursday morning while smok ing glass over an oil lamp for the purpose of watching the eclipse. The flames ignited the oil in the bowl and after considerable skirmishing Archbold threw the lamp out of a window and it exploded before it reached the street. One of the Jobs of Chemists, Chemists sometimes have queer experiences. The following facts were told by a professor in one of our western universities: “For about ten years I have made a specialty of examining and reporting upon cases of real or suspected poisoning. As a number of my cases have been connected with murder trials I have had considerable notice in the daily papers. This reputation for making analyses for poisons has brought me a queer class of patrons. “Every year I have one or more old men come to me with samples of food to be examined for poison. These men, without exception, have married young wives, and when the husband is taken sick and does not recover as quickly as he thinks he should he begins to suspect that his young wife wants to get rid of him and is poisoning him gradually through the medium of his food. Os course he does not want his wife to know of his suspicions, so he quietly gets a sample of the food be suspects, and at some unusual hour for work, generally either early in the morning or very late in the evening, he comes to me and tells me very secretly that he wishes to have an examination for poison made. “Now the odd part is that though I have made a number of such analyses I have never found poison present in any case. Then the husband is very much afraid that his wife will find out he suspected her, and he gets out of my laboratory in the quickest and quietest banner possible. So every year I expect to see some elderly man coming apprehenI sively up my office stairs with a well concealed sample of food about him to be examined for poison. Every year he comes, ever year I make my analysis I and find no poison, and every year the old gentleman gets information that he considers cheap at the price. ’’ —Chicago Journal. Strawberry Profits. A Kentucky strawberry grower reports a clear profit this season of <729.60 on seven acres of ground. Brave to Recklessness. Englishman—Some of our English girls are quite expert with the gun, ! don’t you know. Lady Eva Wyndham Linn shot six man eating tigers in India. American Girl—ls they were eating nice men, she did just right.—New York Weekly. One Good Thing. Daisy—Well, there’s one good thing about going to the seaside. Mazie—What’s that? Daisy—A girl doesn’t have to stay at home because she has nothing to wear. —Town Topics.

JAMES K. NIBLICK, I THE. GROCER. | Can supply you with all kinds of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and the prices can’t be HL discounted any place at any time. Goods delivered promptly to all parts of the city. Call and see us and permit us to place you Hi upon our list of regular customers. M James K, Niblick. I Donovan & Bremerkamp’s Old Stand. ■

How Chewing: Guin Is Made. A walk through a leading chewing gum factory is interesting. Here over 1,000,000,000 pieces of gum are annually produced and shipped to every portion of the world. Three hundred employees are engaged in the manufacture of the gum, the first step of which is the importation of the raw chicle, which is gathered by tfie peons in Mexico and exported in bales containing about 150 pounds each. The gum is taken from the bales and chopped into small pieces. These are freed from tree bark and chips by steaming and picking. Then it is ground in mills making 3,400 revolutions a minute. The ground gum is subjected to a continuous heat of 140 degrees F. in drying rooms. From here the gum is sent So the “white aproned cook,” who adds the purest sugar and the freshest cream, granulated pepsin, powdered guru or kola or other desired ingredient to it and cooks it in a steam jacketed caldron, where it is turned and mixed by an ingenious double acting beater or rotating paddle until it has assumed the consistency of bread dough. Now the “dough boys” take hold of it and knead it in finely powdered sugar, passing it to tire “rollers,” where it is rolled between steel rollers until it is of the proper thickness, when it is whisked away to the “markers. ” The markers are steel knived rollers which leave their impress upon the long sheets of appetizing gum before it goes to the “seasoning room,” after which it is broken on the lines left by the markers. Now the gum finds its way to the “wrapping room.” The nimble fingers of 150 dainty maidens are here at play. Under their deft touch waxed paper, tinfoil and pretty wrappers envelop the gum quick as a wink, and in another moment the “packers” have the gum to place in jars or boxes, wherein it is shipped for sale to the general public. Gastronomic Echoes. Try green pea soup. It is delicate am delicious. The “best” water ices are made from the fresh fruit juices. Boiled water ice is firm and flue grained. The uncooked melts quickly upon exposure to the air. Olives cut through lengthwise to the stone in long, thin slices are used to fill cup shaped leaves of lettuce. Strawberries and raspberries are recommended to the bilious, plethoric and gouty. A woman undergoing the same amount of muscular activity only requires eight-tenths as much food as a man does. Nickname* of States. Missouri means “muddy water,” Nebraska “shallow water.” Nevada is the “Sage Hen State,” Oregon “Wild Thyme.” Texaskeeps the“ Lone Star” name, while the state of Utah used to be called the “Desert State.” Wisconsin was named, from its badgers, the "Badger State.”

Erie Lines / Schedule in effect Uy" 27. IS97 ' Trains leave Decatur u follows: WEST. No. 5. vestibule limited, daily for Chicago * 12:3 p. a No. 3. Pacific express, daily for Chicago i 1 :«»»•■ No. 1. express, daily except Sunday for Chicago ' m No. 31. local, daily except Sunday??. ... > 10:10 a. n> No 13. Wells Fargo Limited Ex-/ press, daily except Monday - and day after legal holiday ' EAST No. 8, vestibule limited, dally for > _ _ New York and Boston 1 No. 2. express, dally except Sun- ■. day for New York 1 - ’’ ” No. 12. express, daily for New ' York > 1 ” “ m No. 30. local, daily except Sun-' day ’ 1 ' Through coaches and sleeping cars to r York and Boston . , p T rains 1 and 2stop at all stations on tae E. Division. , Train No. 12 carries through - ;-ptn- an to Columbus. Circleville, 4-hiilieotln- ■ v , a ly. Portsmouth. Ironton, and be.- I ', ' „d Columbus. Hocking Valley & loied.. Norfolk 4 Western AgeDt The G. R & I. (Effect June 20.1897.) TRAINS NORTH. •No. 3. +No. 5. Richmond llzOKam ’• ospm Parry 11 5:10 Chester... „ 5:20 ‘‘ Fountain City. 11-27 u 5-30 Johnson ID *’• „ 5:35 Lynn 11;4~ 5:41 Snow Hill Woods 11:50 5.53 •• Winchester... 12:00 #.43 pm # .. Stone IBtlvpm „ 12 •' Ridgeville 12;19 , t »« P “ „ ~ Collet 12-J2 n m 6:36 Portland 12:42“ 10.1 bpm Jay • .. 6:52 Briant 12:5? „ Geneva l:0‘ Ceylon . „ 7:11 „ Berne l : «> •• ’ " Monroe l:w u-olntn 7:34 ” DECATUR I:4’ “ 11 01 p ; t “ Monmouth 1:58 ’’ 7:B' Williams 2:01 7:56 ’ Hoagland 2:06 - : 12 Adams „ ’ :35 Fort Wayne.... 2.35 **• v •Daily, except Sunday. Dai yTRAINS SOUTH •N 0.2. +No-4. Fort Wayne. ...12:35pm -.■*’» r 5.5? Adams „ Hoagland 1:00 (> 6:1. „ williams.. 1:05 .. «:2* .. DECATUR Ul? „ S " . Monroe ! „ •• Berne 1:4 4 Ceylon .. >•» .. Geneva “22 .. Briant 2:00 „ Collett 2:23 . >■ ,;rf „ Ridgeville... . 2:85 ,:a» Winchester.... 2:50 *• 8.- , Woods • Snow Hill .. Johnson 8:11 „ -Sf • Fountain City. 3:20 . ' „ Chester » C'L Lockwood. Gen. Pas A- 1 ■