Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1898 — Page 5

Additional Locals. U nited. A girl at th ° Burt H ° USe . tododish"' ashlllg - the 27th annual .Jay county , 26, 27, 28. 28 and 30. grass’s lid. « ortb - 26-2 Bazaar. vine Creek Township Fair today an d tomorrow. Two miles south of Steele. \f iqs Kellie Schrock has returned ],pr college work at Indianapolis. She left on Tuesday. ‘ Miss Bertha Sellemeyer of Sprang , r ru e’s. is visiting with Rev. \ itz * d family at Indianapolis. Paddv Hviand. Chas. Murray and King were amun " the excursionists to Toledo last Sunday. ire vou going to the fair today and tomorrow, at Beatty’s Blue Creek ', ryve ? You should not miss it. "No 9. all heavy copper boiler with i t' worth $2.50 for $1.60, for one day only, Sept- 17 ’ at the Bazaar - 26 2 Unclaimed letters at the post-office arp for Mr- Peter Ruffing, Mrs. Nellie £tt. Mr. Edward P. Steven, L. C. Moon. Miss Harriet Burns left yesterday for Bloomington, this state, to take up her rear's work in the State University at that place. Next Saturday is the Jewish New Year, and will be celebrated as such by Barney Kalverisky, who will attend services at Fort Wayne. Mrs. W. O. Garrett, of Liberty Center. anil Miss Frankie Winans of Warsaw, are guests of Misses Martha Bender and Grace M inans. Davis’ Uncle Tom’s Cabin show is billed for here next Monday night. The usual large audience will no doubt be present. Notice their ad. in another column. Grand special feature. The greatest attraction ever seen at a fair Bert Mayo's Great Trained Animal Exhibition and European Circus exhibited each day on track of Jay County Fair. Portland, Ind., Sept. 26,27, 28, 29 and 30. Found - A red dehorned cow with white line on back, was found and taken up on the farm of John Rupright, in Preble township. Owner of same will please call on or address G. W. Rupright, Echo, Wells county, Indiana. More than twenty million free samples of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve have been distributed by the manufacturers. What better proof of confidence in it’s merits do you want? It cures piles, burns, scalds, sores, in the shortest space of time. Page Blackburn.

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b J^ le raCes aav at the Portland Fair. Hugh Kapp of Blufft on spent several hours in the city last Monday. Excursion rates on all railroads to the Jay county Fair at Portland, Ind. Remember special sale day at the Bazaar 1 44 copper boilers at greatly reduced prices. 26-2 Frank Miller and family of Markle spent Sunday with his parents and otner relatives in the city. Mrs. T. J. Hilliard of Albany, New iork, is the guest of her cousin, M. Burns and family this week. The Decatur citv band have been engaged to play at Beatty’s Blue Creek fair today and tomorrow. Mrs. Hiram Walters of Benton Harbor, Michigan, is the guest of her parents and other relatives in the city. One hundred and forty-four copper boilers to be sold Sept. 17,1898, at the Bazaar. Greatly reduced prices. Arrangements are being made to begin work on the construction of the new court house tower in a few days. Ike Rosenthal will close his clothing and shoe store from 6 p. m. Friday to 6 p. in. Saturday on account of Jewish holiday. Rev. Simpson, of Fort Wavne was in the city over Sunday. On' Monday morning he and Rev. 'Daniels made this office a pleasant call. Mrs. L. G. Ellingham and daughter Winifred returned Sunday morning from Petoskey, Michigan, where they had been for several weeks. The Beatty Blue Creek township fair, today and tomorrow, is an assured success. The races promise to be quite interesting. A ball game, several bands, and many other amusements will interest those who attend. The Portland Fair affords the finest grounds, the best track, the longest amphitheater, the finest art hall and the most liberal premiums of any county fair in Eastern Indiana or Western Ohio. Send for premium list. Lieutenant Fonner of Fort Wayne, who spent the summer at Tampa, Florida, as a member of Company B, 157th regiment, was the guest of friends and relatives here yesterday. Bert has many many warm friends here who are glad to see him back from the campaign. Stolen —A reward of one dollar will be paid for information leading to the arrest of the thief who stole the wire and posts from around the Robinson graves at the Backestoe cemetery. Any one so unprincipled as to steal from a grave should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Information should be addressed to Alvia Robinson, Decatur, Ind.

FROM CAHP HAMILTON, Complete Review ol Co. B, Since They Left Home. Camp Hamilton, Lexington, Ky., Sept. 18, 1898. Democrat Readers:—l am a membcr ot Co. B, 160th I. V. 1., and I dosire to state to the public some of the facts concerning a soldiers’ life in camp. We arrived in camp at Indianapolis on April 20th, and it being the rainy season, it made camp life very bad for the boys and to add to the hardships, we had nothing to eat but a little bread, hard tack, bacon and a little coffee, but after a couple of days we had a better supply of rations and it continued to be better until we had plenty to eat, but the first two or three nights were terrible, we had nothing to sleep on but straw ticks without straw, and the weather was almost to zero at times, and most of the boys spent the first night carrying wood and standing around the fires, and the second night was no better and some of the boys tired out for sleep laid down on the empty ticks with a piece of a worn out blanket and got what sleep they could, but this they endured without a murmur and by the next ten days some of the boys were talking of reterning home and they did, and as a result they were laughed at and called ‘‘tin soldiers” by many that would not have had courage to stay longer than over night, but as the days rolled by and spring came nearer and the weather became warmer the boys became lighter hearted and so some of them decided to stay with the army and today finds some of them in the hospitals or out on r fulough. When the 12th of May came Co. B, found out that she needed about thirty recruits to make the eighty-three officers ami men, but on the 20th day of May which is long to be remembered by the boys of the 160th regiment, Co. B. had her number of men, and eighty-three stout, robust young men stood up before Lieutenant May of the regular army, uncovered their heads and held up their right hands and took the oath that they would defend their country against all enemies, and little dreamed that they were entering into such a prison as it was made. But the greatest loss to Co. B, was when Captain E. P. Miller was appointed to major of the third battailion, but this the boys could not kick against, but they hated to part with one that had won their affections and who was and is today the friend of every man that may seek a friend in him. Major Miller is every inch a soldier, and he could not be over praised for his courtesy and kindness to all who know him. But with patience the boys waited for orders to proceed to Chickamauga, and they were received with cheers and every man was in his highest when the long trains pulled out of Indianapolis for the south, which was a pleasant trip to all, and as we went through the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee we could notice that the weather was very much hotter, and when we landed at Chickamauga in the evening, the heat was almost unbearable in the cars, and to make it worse guards were placed at the doors of the cars with the instructions not to leave privates out. We remained there the next day until about ten o’clock when we reached the park and unloaded, fell in line and marched about three miles in the boiling sun of Georgia to where we camped and here our misery commenced. No sooner did we get our camp put up, than the Colonel put a guard line around our regiment with instructions not to let any one out unless he was on duty, and from that day on we had to drill three and four times a day and oftener four times, but this the boys did not kick on, for they were expecting to go to the front and not a murmur was heard, and during the nine weeks our regiment was stationed there we did not miss more than two or three drills and that on account of hard rains. While in camp here we received the nickname of the Indiana penitentiary, for Sunday as well as week days we were confined to within the guard lines until Col. Gunder got ashamed of himself and gave us from one until half-past four on Sunday afternoon which was occupied by washing clothes and bathing, and if one was not in at the proper time he was placed in the guard house and put on extra duty next day for the penalty. Various reports were afloat that we had orders to proceed to Porto Rico, and when the news came into camp that Santiago was captured the news spread like wildfire and in less time than it takes to describe, it over fifty thousand pair of lungs were joined in the jollification. Speeches were made by the commanding officers of the various regiments and a hot time was kept up until a late hour. And so the days went slowly by and we continued with our regular duties each day with the hopes of still going to the front, and as the last spark of hope began to die away and talk of going home began the boys were revived by the statement of the company commander after officers’ call one'day that they should begin to pack their belongings at once, and a shout went up from every throat and in a very short time every man was ready to be on the move. And the next'morning at two o’clock the bugle sounded and every man was up without the second call, and in about half an hour our camp was packed on the wagons and at just six o’clock the march was taken up and we marched about eight miles to Rossville where we boarded the train for Newport News. But one thing I want to relate in order to show that the boys of the 160th were willing to go, was that some of the boys who had been excused from all duties on account of being sick, packed their things and

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marched with the rest of the regiment to the station and no complaint was heard on their part, so anxious were they to go. But their trip was not so pleasant on account of the grub, but all was endured with the hopes that better awaited them at the other end. When we arrived at Newport News, instead of finding what we expected to find, we found that we had nothing to eat but sea breeze, bacon, hard tack and sand storms, but this was not the worst of it. Gunder put the usual guard line around the camp and would not let us go up town to get anything to eat, but the boys, driven by'starvation, broke the guard line and went up town, and as they had not been naid for sometime they were broke, and as a result they had to beg for something to eat which was not refused to one man, and had not the people helped us no doubt some of the boys would have fared badly; but the people heard of our condition and when they saw us going along the street they would call us in and, of course, a well spread table was prepared for them. So as the days went by and pav-day grew closer, the boys felt that a'brighter day was coming and it did come, welcomed by all; and that night not more than ten men were present in each company for they were up town getting something to eat and did not return for tatoo roll call. This enraged the Colonel and of course he laid revenge high upon the shelf for them, and when morning came still there was not more than one-third of each company there to attend the battailion and company drills, and this made it all the worse for those that missed, and as a result the boys that were not present were fined from three to seven dollars which is taken out of their $15.60 a month. But the boys did not get to go across the pond to fight Spaniards, so they can tell how they fought starvation with sea breezes and sand storms and a looking glass during their stay at Newport News. The garrison duty question then came up and everv man declared that he would not do that, and then they wanted to go home, and when the orders came to move to Lexington, all were in hopes they would return to their homes and'loved ones, and today finds the writer in Co. B, 160th Indiana Volunteers at Camp Hamilton, Lexington, Kv., and none the worse off for the hardships that he has endured. Camp Hamilton is the most beautiful place we hav© pitched our tents yet, It is on a hill about two miles west of Lexington, and all are well pleased. The sick rate is very large here at present, the number of patients in the division hospital is about 750 with a death rate of not more than three a week which is very small, and most cases are not very serious and are not in the hospitals more than ten days or two weeks until they are sent to

their regiments. Since our arrival at Camp Hamilton the question of going home is discussed more than ever, and it is reported that on last Tuesday Congressman Steele said that our regiment would be in Indianapolis in ten days, and every one is looking for orders to go to Indianapolis and then be sent home on thirty days furlough and discharges will follow soon. W e have plenty to eat since we have been here, and have not been under such strict orders as we have been in other camps and more passes are given to the boys that come off of guard in the morning after serving twenty-four hours. This week has passed quite pleasant to the boys of Co. B, as quite a number of Decatur people came down on an excursion Monday and Tuesday, and they were received with a ready welcome by the boys as some of them received large baskets filled with chicken and other good things much to the delight of the boys to get something to eat from home and have a change of grub. Among the visitors was Mrs. E. Cut. ting, who had a word of cheer and hope for the boys, and she showed it by giving the hospitals a call and looking after the sick. She will return to her home in Decatur, about Wednesday, Sept. 14th. Well as this is my first experience in newspaper correspondence, I will bring my letter to a close by saying that pay-day is near at hand, and that we are expecting to be in Decatur in a short time, then the boys can tell more about army life than a newspaper can publish 'in three months. If any one has doubts about the statements in this letter, just ask the boys about it, and if they don’t say that one-half was never told, then it is a wonder. Co. B, 160th Reg’t. Notice to Holders of County Order*. Notice is hereby given to all parties holding county orders issued previous to the Ist day of May, 1894, that funds are on hand to pay the same, and that they cease bearing interest from the date of this publication. Noah Mangold, Auditor Adams Co. Jonas Neuenschwander, Treasurer Adams Co., Ind. August 25, 1898. 24-4 Balloon ascension at Steele’s Park Sunday, Sept. 18th.

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Balloon ascension at Steele’s Park next Sunday. Grand Peace Celebration. Notice is hereby given, that on and after the 25th day of September, 1898, and until the court house is so repaired as to be a fit place to hold the Adams circuit court, of Adams county, Indiana, said court will be held in the G. A. R. Hall in the Forbing building on the east side of Second street, in the city of Decatur, in said county; and of which all officers, parties to actions, jurors and attorneys will take notice. John H. Lenhart, Clerk A. C.C. by E. Burt Lenhart, Depuy Clerk. 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. MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new $ 60 Corn, per cwt (mixed) 38 Corn, per cwt (yellow) 38 Oats, old 19 Oats, new 19 Rye 35 Barley 22 Clover seed 2 25 @ 2 50 Timothy 1 10 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, SEPT. 14. I=3o P. M. Wheat, new No. 2 red, cash.... S 63$ December wheat 65| Cash corn No. 2 mixed, cash.. 354 Prime clover, Oct 3 60