Decatur Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1899 — Page 3

Local News. 4t least half of the visiting ministers left the city yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Fitzniourise, of Winchester, was a guest of relatives over Sunday in this city. Rev. Gregg and wife and Mrs. Ida will return to their homes at Kokomo tins evening. \V. H. Turpin, city editor of the Kokomo Dispatch, was a pleasant caller at this office Sunday. He was in the city attending conference. Rev. George Kemp who has been connected with the Democrat during the past week left this morning for his home at Comma. Miss Grace Petterson, who is employed in a Milinery store at Fort Wayne spent Sunday with her parents and other friends in the city, returning to her work yesterday. The Current Topic Section of the Shakespeare Club will meet with Mrs. Blossom at her home on Sixth street Wednesday afternoon. Interesting work is on the program and a full attendance of club members is expected. Rev. N. P- Barton, who has been entertained at the residence of John Falk, had the mishap of falling down the cellar-way and cutting a gash in his forehead. He is not seriously injured, bnt was not able to return home yesterday. Judge Heller came down yesterday morning long enough to open court and charge the grand jury, which is now in session. The Miller vs Wabash case was continued until next Mondayat which time time it is hoped the court will be himself again. We are informed by Manager, J. W. Place, of the Citizens Telephone Co., that orders for twelve 'phones, which are to be connected for use by May 1. The company has been at great expense during the past year in the way of improvements, and many more are contemplated. The Citizens give excellent service ami highly please their large and growing list of patrons. Fred Johns, a well known citizen of this place, died about 0 noon yesterday of dropsy, from which he has been a sufferer for several months. Funeral services will be conducted by Father Wilkins at the St Mary's Catholic church at nine o’clock Thursday morning. Mr. Johns has been a resident of Decatur a number of years. Although he has been ill for some time, his death was rather unexpected. Jacob Myers of Union township, died at his home, Sunday evening, of Bright’s disease. He was seventythree years old and was one of the county’s most respected citizens. He was an ex-soldier and a member of the G. A. R. Funeral services will lie held today and a large number from this city will probably attend. Mr. Myers had been ailing for a number of "years and had l>een quite feeble during most of the past winter. Rey. J. H. Jackson of Peru, who has been attending conference here and has been the guest of J. M . Tyndall and family, is very ill at their home on Jefferson street. He was stricken with pleurisy Sunday night and has been a constant sufferer from the disease since that time, although last evening be was reported considerably improved and it is thought he will be able to leave for his home within a few days. Miss Fannie Foster, a popular young lady living i ear Mill hi e, died at her home at an early hour yesterday morning of consumption from which she has been a sufferer for some time. Miss Foster was a sister of Mrs. R. K. Allison of this city, and had a large circle of friends who are grieved to hear of the sad death of one so young. Funeral services will be held tomorrow from the Mt. Tabor church and a number from this city will attend. On the Suwanee River comes to the Bosse opera house, Wednesday. April 12, in a new departure in the line of Southern dramas. While it introduces some colored people in the plantation scenes, it does not in any way depend upon them to attract attention to the disadvantage of the story and the interest of the audience. The scene in which the colored people are introduced is a perfectly natural one and in it are introduced the songs, dances and pastimes of the plantation hands. When the scene is finished the darkies are no more in evidence. This is as it should be. This kind of talent is all well enough in its place and when not overdone is amustng and interesting. Advance sale usual place.

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The German Building, Loan F und Saving Association held their annual election of eleven direcI tors, at the office of Secretary Sehirmeyer last night. David Studabaker, I James L. Merryman, J. B. Holthouse,; J. E. Moser, R. B. Allison, Theodore Smith. J. Bowers, R. K. Allison and J. W. Vail were elected thereto. I They met immediately and Selected | J. T. Merryman president. J. B. Holthouse vice president, F. M. Schirmeyer secretary, W. A. Niblick treasurer. and Merryman. Holthouse, , Niblick, Studabaker and Schirmeyer 1 a board of manager. Bob Gregory is building a neat store room on "the Jacob Schafer lot, corner Madison and Third streets, I which when completed he will occupy with a Peat stock of wall paper, fancy paints, etc. The building is to be frame, covered with sheet iron thus i making the building fire proof and allowing it to be erected within the fire limits. Bob has leased the lot for one year with the privilege of buying same and it is his intention at the end of that time to erect a handsome brick building, and to continue the business on a larger scale. The building now being built will then be removed back to the alley and used as a work shop. There took place at the Park Hotel on Saturday afternoon the reunion of the class of 1874, consisting of the following members: C. King, J. B. Cook, C. Harvey and wife, A. M. Patterson, J. M. Rush, P. J. Albright and J. S. Cain. Arrangements were made with Mrs. Meyers, the landlady, to serve a five o’clock dinner. The class met at the M. E. church and proceeded in a body to the hotel where, at promptly five o’clock, they partook of a dinner such as few know how to j serve. After the repast the class re- j paired to the parlor where Rev. C. | King was chosen chairman. Then followed reminences of the past twen-ty-five years after which one of the members gave a short but eloquent address paraphrasing the class. Os the eight admitted none have died. As a fitting climax to a hard week I of successful hustling the proprietor of the Democrat gave a banquet at the Hotel d’Fristoe to the entire force. As they gathered around the festal. board they were just ten in number, ! the whole force, except two of the reporters who had retired early to catch up some of the sleq; lost during the week. While the proprietor was thus showing his appreciation of the loyalty and energy of a crew of hustlers, the printers from devil to foreman and even the reporters vied with each other in showing by words and actions' how much they enjoy an employer who knows the way to human and even printers’ hearts. For such employers men will lose sleep, strain every nerve, call forth every atom of latent energy and forget all else but the visions of a glorious scoop. It 1 was fine, it was superdonbonsieallyl sublime. Hooray for the Demorat. Hooray for the editor. Hooray for the big banquet. Hooray for the biggest newspaper scoop ever known in North Indiana. We are the people! So say the Democrat mechanical amt Faber force. By the way, among the guests who participated in the fray as described above, were Rev. W. E. Grose, of the Methodist Book Concern and Rev. George Kemp, who has been with the Democrat during the past week. This article was donated by one of the force, after the proprietor had gone to bed. Lottery. Chinamen are natural gamblers, and in every city in this country where they congregate they have a lottery. The manner of conducting the lottery is characteristic. Square yellow papers are circulated about Chinatown. They contain 80 characters within a green border. There is no name or location on the sheet, but every one knows its office and uses. Translated literally, these characters represent some natural phenomena, such as “Heaven and earth." “Fishes swim," “Birds fly," “The world is vast. ’’ “Clouds rise” and other commonplaces of daily life, and so general are they that the most ordinary dream may find here a character for interpretation. Twenty characters are chosen and crossed and the wager laid. When the drawing comes, the man who guesses ■ three of these numbers gets his money . back; five, he wins double his stake, and ten, 200 times the amount paid in. I The stakes run from 10 cents to $5. The highest and lowliest inhabitant of the quarter delights in the hah-ka-pou and plays it with almost religious persistency.

YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT, The Only Whi-.e Buffalo—A Curious but Jolly b sort—Obeying His Master. During the summer of 1875 bands of Indians returning from a hunt far out on the plains brought in stories of having seen at different times and in different places, and always in the center of a large herd, a white buffalo. They had used their best horses in the effort to overtake it, but to no purpose, never being able to get anywhere near the animal. At first we did not pay much attention to these stories, but still it kept cropping up from different camps, and at last, in the fall of 1875, I myself had a chance to verify the truth of the report. I had been sent on duty north along the Red Deer river and was camped near a large band of Blackfeet, who were hunting south of that river. The buffaloes had moved north in vast numbers, and the prairie was black with them. I had gone out one morning with a party of Blackfeet to see one of their hunts and also to try to kill for myself. My horse was a good one and much faster than any belonging to the Indian hunters. I had got detached from the party, becoming tired of the slaughter, and must have been at least 20 miles from camp, when I made for a small clump of timber not far off, intending to build a fire and roast a portion of some buffalo meat I had on the saddle with me. As I approached the wood a band of about 100 animals burst out of I the brush and made off to the south, I and, yes. most certainly, in the middle of them w-as a white buffalo. Although they were a quarter of a mile away, j there could be no mistake about it. He was there as large as life and quite white and running like a deer. There was no time to much more than take in the scene, but I gathered up the reins and was after him, determined to bag that buffalo or kill my horse. Oh, what a race it was. mile after mile! And. although all the band, with the exception of about a dozen, had j split off and gone in different directions, | the white animal, with his bodyguard I ' of about a dozen, kept at about the j same distance ahead. I could catch a | glimpse of him now and then, and there | was no doubt he was snow white. Get within shot I could not for many miles. l At last they began to tire, and, al- , though my horse was tired also, I had good hopes of coming up and getting a shot. Alas, for such a chancel Os a sudden my horse lurched forward on his nose, sending me over his head on to the prairie and turning a somersault himself, missing me by only a few feet He had put his foot into a badger hole and brought my hopes of a white robe ■ to a sudden end.—Forest and Stream. A Curious Sport. The word “tobogganing” in most minds is indissolubly associated with ■ blanket costumes and frosty weather, but in Perak, a state in the Straits Set- ; tlements. where blanket costumes are unknow-n and where the weather certainly isn’t frosty, there exists a sort of distant relation of this sport which is probably not enjoyed in any other part of the world. There is a huge granite slope in the course of a mountain river, down which the water trickles about two inches deep, the main stream having carved out a bed by the side of the bowlder. This rock, the face of which has been rendered as smooth as glass by the constant flow of the water dr ring hundreds of years, the Malays—mi n, women and children —have turned il’to a toboggan slide. Climbing to the top of the rock, they sit in the shallow water, with their feet I straight out and a hand on each side for steering and then slide down the 60 feet into a pool of water. This is a favorite sport on sunny mornings, as many as 200 folk being so engaged at a time. Obeying His Master. A milkman, who obtained his supply of milk from a number of farms in the neighborhood, employed a boy to drive round from one to the other, collecting it just before delivering it to the customers. On his round he had to go over a dangerous railroad crossing, so his master said to him, “Wait until the train passes, if there is one coming. Somebody soon after asked his master why his boy stood with the cart nearly ’ 30 minutes every morning at the crossi ing. The man was puzzled to account for it, so he asked the boy. “M ell, ! said he. “I am forced to wait, because I there is a bend on the line, and as I I cannot see whether a train is coming or not, I simply wait until one goes past, and then I "hurry over as quickly as possible."

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