Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1898 — Page 5

Addition 21 ' Locals. Ben Knapke has lieen on the sick list the past week. ti . W C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. King next Saturday at 2:30 p. m. Remember the big balloon ascension at Steele's park next Sunday. ifrs French Quinn is the guest o f friends and relatives at Bluffton. Miss Otis Good, of Columbus Grove, Ohio, is the guest of Mrs. Ed Lyons in this city. j es se T. Connett is now weilding razor at the well known tonsorial ‘hop of Lose & Shrank. Sam P. Roush and Miss Nellie Krill of Bluffton, guested in town Sunday with John Wisehaupt and wife. Don't fail to see Trilby Ann Johnson in her famous song and tambourine act at Bosse’s opera house Friday evening. Holthouse, Callow & Co. are headquarters for everything in the line of paints and oils. Rock bottom prices and goods guaranteed. Any soldier or citizen wishing to m with the Grand Army to Cincinnati September 5, will give their name to Robert Blackburn, as soon as convenient. For Sale, fifty bushels of Rudy Seed Wheat. It is the best wheat for seeding there is, as was fully demonstrated this last season. Motts Miller. 22-4 Civil suits filed this week are, Levi Heller and David Eekrote. claim: Decatur Investment Company vs. Win. Drake. Jr., et al. demand S9O; John F. Colchin vs. Sarah Hammell, note, demand $550. Dan Niblick, of the dry goods firm of Niblick A Co., is in the east this week buying goods for their immense winter trade. He will visit New York, Philadelphia and other eastern cities before returning. Mrs. Fred Mills entertained a party of her lady friends for supper last evening. Although a surprise upon Mrs. Mills, that lady proved herself equal to the occasion and the entertainment was a royal one. At the Baptist church on Sunday next the subjects of discourses by Rev. G. W. Pearce, will be, morning at 10:30 “Shooting Three Arrows or Shooting six? What difference can it make?” Evening at 7:30 “The Ship of the Soul.” There will lie a meeting of the old soldiers of Adams county held at the court house on Saturday, August 20, at two o'clock p. m. for the purpose of arranging for the county reunion to be held at this place. By order of J. H. Smith, Pres. W. A. Wisner, Sec’y.

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Frank Schirmeyer and Delle Locke spent Sunday at Rome City. Balloon ascension at Steele’s park next Sunday. Don’t forget it. Dan Bolds of Geneva, was in town yesterday looking after business. \\ e have the finest line of hammocks in the city. Holthouse, Callow & Co. Miss Kittie Christen, the popular lady clerk at Sprang & True’s, is on the sick list this week. But one marriage license was issued this week and that to Jesse A. Buckmaster and Harret A. Brewster. Buy one of those Electric Bug Exterminators for destroying all kinds of insects. Holthouse, Callow & Co. Miss Nellie Schrock is serving as clerk in Sprang A True's store this week on account of the illness of Miss Kittie Christen. Fred Durst now has charge of the shining stand at the City News stand. Shoes shined for twenty-five cents a week by buying a ticket. For Sale- Fence machines for the weaving of farm and lawn fence. It is the best and cheapest fence in the market. Address Harry Karr Monroe Ind. 21m6 You should be sure and make arrangements to attend the opening of Bosse's opera house, September 6th. “Side Tracked” is the funniest play on earth. Noah Loch is on the sick list this week, threatened with typhoid fever. At this writing, however, he is reported considerably improved and he will no doubt be all right in a few days. W. A. Marsh and family of Bluffton were the guests at the home of A. Gilliom Sunday. Billy is the democratic nominee for auditor of Wells county, is a clever and congenial gentleman. Holthouse, Schulte & Falk have a new advertisement for you this week, in which they' plainly illustrate the elegance of their clothing which in price can not be duplicated this side the earth. The last will and testament of Lewis Andrews, deceased, was probated at the clerk’s office Monday. It gives the widow all real estate, consisting of eighty acres, together with personal property and names Hazel J. Andrews as executor. W. H. Niblick and family are enjoying a trip through the east this week. Washington, Boston, Atlantic City, New York and Baltimore will be among the cities in which they will stop for a few days. The Bluffton Band and the Decatur City Band will furnish the music at Steele’s park Sunday. Big balloon ascension and many other attractions will be on the grounds. Don’t fail to attend the best day of the season.

Mathias Thomas and wife desire to sincerely thank their friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted them during die sickness and death of their beloved son, Clement. For the G. A. R. National Encampment at Cincinnati the G. R. & I. will sell excursion tickets Sept. 3,4, 5 and 6 at $2.90 each, good returning until Sept. 13, and on payment of 25 cents at Cincinnati may be extended until Oct 2. Rev. J. H. Heinz, the pastor of the Feulling church, northeast of the city, is the happiest minister in the county just at present, over the arrival of twin girl babies which made their appearance at the parsonage last evening. Mother and babies are doing well. Two weeks from next Monday school begins and the small boy will no longer be in evidence. Although children usually hail the coming of the last day of school with joy, they are equally glad when the first day comes again. From Huntington some very wise prognosticator tells of strange things by saying that the next Indiana legislature may tussle with a proposed law to abolish the office of county commissioner. For a year or more a movement has been in progress looking to such a change. The proposition is that the board of county commissioners in each county be abolished and that a county judge be appointed in the place of each board, this judge to perform all the duties now exercised by the board. He must be a lawyer, as his court is intended to be a tribunal for the determing and settling of many questions that require legal knowledge and judgment. This would mean that another office probably as remunerative as is that of judge of the circuit court, would be parceled out to lawyers. Therefore the new movement is receiving the active support of a large portion of the legal fraternity. It is not only intended that the county judge shall perform the duties of the board of the county commissioners, as provided by present laws, but that his jurisdiction be increased to embrace a large amount of business that now comes into the hands of the judges of the circuit and superior courts. Ditch and drainage business would form an important branch of the county judge’s duties. Often a whole board of commissioners is stumped by a knotty problem as to how to build or repair a ditch. Under the present laws ditch proceedings may be instituted in either the circuit court or commissioners’ court, though the usual course is byway of the latter tribunal. When the commissioners decide a ditch question it may always be appealed to the circuit court. This is so frequently done that there is always a great deal of ditch business in that court. The promoters of the county court scheme say that the county judge, if given exclusive and original jurisdiction over all ditch business, would greatly relieve the circuit court of this troublesome and frequently long-drawn-out class of litigation. Liquor licenses are granted by the county commissioners, and often a hearing of the application for the applicant and the remonstrators produce such a lawsuit that a legal head is almost a necessity in order to carry it through. County commissioners now purchase all supplies for every part of the county government and this would have to be done by the county judge. The widening of the authority of the county judge, so the promoters say, will be in the direction of probate anil divorce business. It is proposed to transfer from the circuit courts all the probate matters. The county judge is to appoint administrators, guardians and have jurisdiction over the settlement of estates. This, it is figured, would be the means of removing a great burden from the circuit court dockets and would give the circuit judges an opportunity to catch up with their business. Divorce litigation is also to be transferred from the circuit and superior courts to the county court and the county judge would have exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the business of the courts. This would mean another relief for the circuit judges. With all this amount and variety of business on his hands the countv judge would be one of the busiest men in any county, and this is one of the strongest objections to the law. Opponents say that there would be little if anv saving in salaries and that it would be throwing nearly all the judicial offices into the hands of lawyers. Another strong objection made is that it would open up a possibility for wholesale corruption on the the bench of the county court; that a corrupt and unscrupulous county judge could “bleed" contractors for supplies and public work and that the countv court might become a disgrace. The principal source of opposition to the movement is coming from the farmers. Most of the boards of commissioners are now composed of farmers and naturally they oppose anything that means the abolition of those positions which have always been considered as belonging to the country. Successful Cleaning and Dyeing. Special attention is given to cleaning men's clothing. All grease and spots are removed. Repairing clothing is done to perfection. Binding, re-lining, pressing and general repairs are made and the garments are made to look like new. Dyeing is done only after the clothing has been thoroughly cleaned, and after being repaired and pressed, one would be surprised to see how well an old suit of clothes is made to appear. The colors are fast and will not crock or fade. We pay express charges one way. Give us a trial. Johnston's Steam Dye Works, Bluffton, Indiana.

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CAMP GRANT NEWS.A Letter from our Correspondent which Shows Discontent Among the Boys. Newport News, Va.. Aug. 15, ’9B. A description of one day’s experience describes our camp life in Camp Grant. At 4:30 we are awakened by revelie, and answer the roll call at 5:00, when we are put through the “sitting up” exercises. Shortly afterward we are called to mess, and those who can stand the camp grub fall in, and those who wish better fall out and pass the guard line evading the provost guard and buy their meals at an up town restaurant or boarding house. The people here areverv obliging and almost any of them will favor the boys. After mess the company drill call sounds, and as many as are in quarters and haven’t sufficient exercise fall in. Sometimes the company is quite short as once reported that one set of fours constituted Co. B, and she was not the smallest in the regiment then. I can not say as to the truth of the report as I was ojje of the absent ones. Company drill, however, was conducted within the companystreet, which is about twenty feet wide, and as there is a great pond of water between our company headquarters and the mess tent, the street is very short. It began to rain yesterday and continued the greater part of the day and night and where many of the boys slept the previous night the water is now a foot deep, so many of us slept inbox cars upon the side track near ns. After company drill we have batallion drill, and as we all like Major Bockmaman, we hate to hear him called down for not having enough men in the field, so as many as can fall in, and although it is many times tiresome we know he tries to favor us as much is in his power. After batallion drill you may see th3 boys scatter as leaves are scattered by a whirlwind. Some go to the nearest negro hut to get fried fish and corn pone. Some go sailing End fishing in the small boats the negroes keep for that purpose. Some g’o to town and all feel at liberty until dress parade or guard mount should one be so unlucky as to be on detail for guard duty. Our noon meal seems of no consequence to us and many times few are present. Some of us fail to get back in time to answer roll call and as Sergeant Myers can not find enough excuses to offer up for so many absent ones, we are reported absent without leave’and the colonel has us brought upon the carpet before him and then it is $5 and five days or “take off your stripes.” S. C. Edington our first lieutenant handed in his resignation papers and they were acknowledged Aug. 10, and now that there is a vacancy thecolonel has ignored the rule of allowing the vacancy to be filled by an election

held by the company and talks of allowing the senior second serg’t of the regiment to take his place. This method did not suit the boys and they will enter a protest to Governor Mount. The boys of the 160th made no complaint as long as there was a chance to show our willingness to fight for our country, but that peace has now been declared, they are just as stoutly opposed to going to any foreign port to do garrison duty, but wish to be sent home to their families and again resume their usual occupations. We received orders, so the officers say, to move to Lexington, Ky. as soon as we can get transportation. The order caused no stir in camp. The health of our company is good and none are now in the hospital here. We earnestly hope to lie home soon. e.b.m. Real Estate Transfers. Sylvester Pease to Peter B Baumgartner, 40 acres, French township, SIBOO. John Ashbaucher to John D Krepps, fr pt n w 4 sec 35, Kirkland township, SIOO. John D Krepps to J D Fulk, fr pt n w 1 sec 35, Kirkland township, SSOO. P P Ashbaucher to John Brown, 100 acres. Wabash township, $377. John C Moran to Tim F Golden, lot 225, Geneva, SBOO. John E Kern to Helen M Blossom, lot 280, Decatur, $950. John R Porter to Newton C Anderson, pt lots 469 and 470, Decatur, $950. John Stuckey to George F Pontius, 10 acres, Hartford township, $450. Perry C Good to A M Fuller, 2 and 45-100 acres, St Marys township, S4OO. Geneva Creamery Co to J K Bretelle, lots 267 and 281, Geneva, S9OO. Mary Teeter to A J Scoles, 20 acres, Wabash township, SSOO. J W Merryman to Angeline M Archbold, pt lots 60 and 61, Decatur, Stephen Roebuck to Samuel Steele, 2| acres, St Marys township, SIOO. Tim F Golden to Frederick Betzel, lot 225, Geneva, $1,200. Grace A Harper to Jacob Butcher, lot 170, Geneva, $1,500. Wm Elzey sr, to William Elzey jr, 35 acres, Root township, $1,312. German Building, Loan Fund and Savings Association to F W Yantis, fr pt sec 34, Root township, $620. H D Fuelling to John G Hey, lots 39, 40 and 41 Williams. S2O.

Read What Your Neighbors Say. MRS. WINNES. corner Fifth and Jefferson streets, Decatur. Ind., writes: Having faithfully tested your Dr. Bayer’s Cough Syrup and Penetrating Oil, I must say that I am highly pleased with them and shall use no other in the future. XAVIER M. MILLER. North Fifth street. Decatur. Ind., says: It gives me great pleasure to state that I can not praise your Dr. Bayer's Cough Syrup too highly. It cured mine and my neighltor's bad cold very promptly, MRS. A. C. WAGONER. Decatur, Ind., says: I admit tnat your Dr. Bayer's Cough Syrup. Penetrating Oil and Spanish Cross Tea are the best remedies I have ever ussd. They do all they are recommended to do. t<"Aek for pamphlets and samples at B. J. Smith's drug store.

Clements Anthony, the two year old son of Mathias Thomas, died Tuesday night and was buried this morning at 9:00 o’clock from the Catholic Church, Father Wilkens officiating. Take Notice. We desire to inform you of a decision handed down by Judge Townsend in the United States circuit court fully and broadly sustaining the Welsbach Company’s suit for infringement of the patent. Under this decision an injunction has been granted and notice is hereby given that all incandescent mantles not made by the Welsbach Light Co. and stamped with their trade-mark “Welsbach” are infringements Users as well as manufacturers and sellers will be held liable. This suit was filed in the United States circuit court for the Southern District of New York, November 14, 1896, since which time numerous incandescent mantles have been manufactured and put on the market by unscrupulous persons which we were unable to prevent until the final determination of this case. As this case has now been decided in our favor and our rights established, we will diligently prosecute all infringements of our rights, whether by manufacturers, dealers or users. Welsbach Light Co. MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new 8 65 Corn, per cwt (mixed) 42 Corn, per cwt (yellow). 42 Oats, old 20 Oats, new- 20 Rye 35 Barley 22 Clover seed 2 40 id 2 60 Timothy 1 00 Eggs, fresh 09 Chickens 05 Ducks 05 Turkeys 08 Geese 04 Wool 16 to 18 Wool, washed 18 and 20 Hogs 3 85 TOLEDO MARKETS, AUG. 17, 1:30 P. M. Wheat, new No. 2 red, cash... . 8 72 September wheat 68 Cash corn No. 2 mixed, cash.. 334 Prime clover, Oct 3 60