Decatur Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1899 — Page 3

Local News. Work done in five hours at the Decatur Steam Laundry. Colchin will have a special line of baked goods for conference week. Mrs. Marv Hendricks of Geneva, is : lP ’the city attending conference. Leave your order with Colchip for the finest Bread, Pies, Cakes and Rolls. The best and finest line of Choco’ate-.. Creams and Home-made Candies, at Cholehins’. Mr anti Mrs. Samuel Lutz, of Williamsport. tire the guests of C. J. Lutz and family during conference. Mrs. W. E. Lewis, of Fort Wayne .pd Mrs. E. H. Brown, of Elkhart, are in the citv attending conference. Mrs. Will Smith was taken violent/ dl at the lecture last evening. She’ was carried to the Methodist parsonage. A franchise, for waterworks and electric lighting plants, have been let to a company by the city council at Winchester. Mrs. j Dell Locke and daughter. Lucile, of Bluffton, are the guests of friends and are enjoying the conference now in session. Business at the Burt House is certainly quite flourishing just at present Forty-five guests registered yesterday up to six o'clock. Rev. J. E. Stoops, of Portland, formerly pastor of the Evangelical church in this city, was a visitor at the conference yesterday. We will continue our sale on curtains. rugs and tapestries at prices in circular, don't miss a bargain but call early, at Archbold & Haugh. Remember the City Meat Market, only first class meats of all kinds. Home made, sugar cured, Hams ami sausage a speciality. Dyonis Schmitt. Prop. Frank Linn, who has been engaged in the undertaking business at Ossian for several months is at home having disposed of his interest in the business. A. L. Whitman of South Bi nd, was in the city yesterday and called on his old college friend. Prof. Brittson. The boys were classmates at the State University. Winchester Knights of Pythias will celebrate their nineteenth anniversary with a banquet on Thursday evening, April 13. invitations to that effect having been received in this city. C. M. Kenyon, editor of the Redkey Times, is in the city visiting his family, attending conference and in spare moments looking up old friends. He will return Monday morning. We acknowledge a very friendly visit from H. J. Blacklidge, Charles Haynes and Albert A. Small, prominent Anderson Methodists, who came in yesterday and will remain over Sunday. The directors of the defunct Schell Loan Company borrowed $50,000 of the Ft. Wayne Trust Company, and will at once pay off the notes they signed in blank and which Schell had negotiated. The "Immortal J. N.” agreeable to his promise attended conference yesterday morning and extender! greetings to the preachers. He attracted no little attention, but did not disturb the meeting. Moser makes a special rate on photos to those attending conference. Your picture is an appropriate present which will be highly appreciated bv friends and acquaintances. All work furnished promptly and guaranteed to please. The graduates of the Boston Theological School gave a banquet last evening at the home of W. J. Myers on Fifth street. The affair was given in honor of Bishop Andrews and Bowman and was a most enjoyable affair. G. Hunter Myers, isagraduate of that school and assisted in giving the banquet. One of the ministers attending conference was doing a little missionary work last evening. He went into •Meyer's saloon on Second street, shook hands with the boys, told them that he was once in the saloon busihimself. and ased them to listen to him. He read a few verses from the Bible, talked and then knelt and prayed for them. His mission was an honest one. well meant and his words touched the hearts of the men who heard them.

Th<> lecture lastevening by Rev. Quayle was certainly one of the grand est and most eloquent entertainments ever heard in the city. Every seat f was taken and the large audience were captivated bv the brilliant remarks. ’ v ; Hobbs. of Fairmount, r candidate for admission to the confer I ence was a pleasant caller at this office yesterday. He is a very pleasant and clever gentleman and we bespeak - j for him unlimited success in the min--1 isterial work. The following crowd of Bluffton - ladies were registered at the Burt . House yesterday and attended conference: Mesdames I’. A. Allen, D. } H. Swaim, John W. Tribolet, J. J. Todd. W. B. Muirores, W. D. Mason and James P. Hale. Harry Tribolet, editor in chief of the Bluffton News, one of the best I; daily newspapers that appears in print, was a visitor at the conference yesterday, and incidentally called up Ii on bis many acquaintances in this ; | citv. Harry possesses a nose fori II news that is hard to beat, as is evi-I I denced by the daily appearance of his i production. f j Judge Heller was stricken with! I pleurisy Thursday night and all day I yesterday was an almost constant sufi serer from the gripping pains that accompany this frequent critical phv- ! sical ailment. The pains were conjcentrated in the left side and at times I had but little regards for the right of . others. He was carefully nursed yes- ! terday and late last night was reported to be out of danger. Owing to his : illness court came to an abrupt end. Perhaps by Monday he will be able to again dispense justice from the bench.

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S. F. Biteman and family are now citizens of Richmond, having left the first of the week for that place. Mr. Biteman has been a resident of Geneva for many years and at one time figured among the most prosperous and enterprising business men of the town, but with the big fire four years ago, came a reverse which meant to to him the loss of everything acumulated in vears of industry. Geneva Herald. Stella Mayhew is always welcome to her many admirers amongst theater goers. Her nnmerous darky songs and banjo solos are enjoyed by all. She will be seen in her original charac ter this season as the good hearted and lovable old black aunty in “On the Suwanee River’’ and will introduce some of the latest and best negro melodies. At Bosse’s opera house, Wednesday, April 12. Advance sale usual place. - Three tramps, as tough looking “blokes” as ever struck the city are now in charge of Sheriff Erwin. They arrived on a freight tram yesterday morning and by noon had tanked up with enough “cheap booze to make them mean enough for anything. They wandered out to Vail’s Box factory, where they showed a disposition for fighting. They were accomodated and after the factory boys had showed them a'good time in that line, the police were notified and went out to the battlefield, where they founds the "pugs and arrested them. They were each find five dollars and costs, in default of which they now languisheth in the county bastile, and will probably spend a few day in doing lobor on our streets.

• The One-hundred and-Sixtieth regiment Indiana Volunteers, will be . mustered out of the service and Company 8., will soon be home. » There is no longer any conjecture about the matter and the date has been fixed at April 25 and the place at Savannah, Ga. The boys will be home about April 28. Just a year to the very day since Captain Miller and his company of the bravest boys on earth left this city for the front. Let their welcome home be a glorious one. 1 Governor Mount has honored a requisition from the governor of Kentucky for the return to that state of . Sam Marshall, who was arrested in , Terre Haute for forgery committed at Henderson. An officer from HenI derson took Marshall back to the Blue Grass state for trial. Marshall is also wanted in lowa. The Terre Haute police have received a letter from H. E. Smith of Mason City, lowa, inquiring about one J. H. Marshall, whose discription fits the Anderson man in every particular. Handsome Polly Stockwell has made a decided hit this season as Dora Clayton, the blind girl in “On the Suwanee River.” Her part is so pathetic and simple that it appeals greatly to the audience. Miss Stockwell’s professional career has been nothing but success since her first appeal an?e before the public. She has had a training since childhood, her father being California’s greatest comedian, L. R. Stockwell; her mother known as Ethel Brandon, also winning great prominence in the profession. It is no wonder that Miss . Stockwell has proven a success. At opera house, Wednesday, April 12,

The following is from the LaGrange J Standard: "Rev. .1. A. Sumwait j preached his final sermon for the I closing year of his ministry here, last : Sunday. He is now at conference. | It is hoped he will be assigned this ; place another year. He is one of those bright, scholarly young men ' who make a community better for his ■ having lived in it. He and his est- I timable wife are held in high esteem : by the entire community, both saint I and sinner.” Rev. Zumwalt is being ; entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Frank j Dibble at their handsome home on ' First street. Jacob Newman Free, known through ' thecountry as the “Immortal J. N.’ is ' in the citv, having arrived at an early I hour yesterday morning. He is the ; same stately looking gentleman as he | was before his recent illness and still claims to be the greatest philospher , since the time of Plato and Socrates. , He had intended delivering one of ■ his famous lectures at the close of I | the Dr. Quayle’s address last even- ■ I mg, but finally decided to postpone | I that event until Sunday evening at • which time he announces that he will j “lift the veil" and explain his won-1' ful “pressure” theory. Free is t ■ registered at the Bu rt as follows, “J.; I N., Greetings to Pick, Ma and j i Auntie.” This man who “controls the 11 weather” is perhaps better known ! ; than anyone who travels to-day and :. although he has not visited Decatur ~ for more than ten years, he still re members many of our citizens well. ' 1 In fact his memory is a most remark j able one and it is said if he has once j met you he will know you at any time or any place and his welcome to his friends is always a warm one.

Bal\er & Ghristeq, . fIrRCFHTEGTS,. Have opened an office over Archbold A Haugh’s book store and are prepared to do any kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can save time, trouble and money by consulting them. | <& Christen, ftrctfitects. JOHN 8. PETERSON, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY. Rooms I and 2 Holthouse Block. DECATUR, IND.

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