Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1899 — Page 8

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Monmouth. The large bank l>ani on the Dugan farm is nearing completion. Miss Effie Strubey of K rasas. has been visiting with John Magley and family. Several from here attended the funeral of Henry W iunes at Decatur last Sunday. G. A. Christen left last Saturday morning for Livermore, Ky.. where he has a position. John B. Dutcher has accented a position as teacher in the Decatur schools for the next term. Mont Evans is busily engaged in supplying sand for the court bouse and Studabaker-Allison building at Decatur. Quite a number from here attended the partv at Solomon Neuenschwander's near Fort Wayne, one week ago last Saturday night. Eight diplomas were issued to applicants of Root township this year. That number being ahead of any other township’s number in A lams county. A petition has been going the rounds among our farmers, the same : allowing no hunting on the premises of the signers. Several of our farmers have signed the petition. 1 Dr. John Grandstaff returned from’ Cincinnati a week a ago last Tuesday where he has been attending medical i college. He finished his course and j graduated the night before he came ' home. He began practicing the fol- i lowing Monday. — — Linn Grove. Fred Lindsey and family of Gene- ( va. were parental visitors over the Sabbath. Quite a number of our young men ' made an excursion trip to Cincinnati last Sunday. About twenty men were putting up a long distance telephone line through this place last week. Geo. Heller is having his country residence repainted. Bert and Rufus Heller have the contract. At Decatur last Saturday occurred the marriage of Fred Boran and Cath- ; arine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John

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Sny '.er. of Hartford township. Misses LeNora Huffman and Ada Parrott, who have been teaching in the Nashville. Tenn., high school for the past eight months, returned home , on Friday last. A historic page was on last Wednesday added to the I. O. O. F. and ito the citv of Greensburgh by reason ■of the laying of the corner stone by the Rebekah assembly of the Odd Fellows home for the orphans, un- ■ fortunate and infirm of this order of lienevolence. The ceremonies were in keeping with the occasion and were ' soul stirring. The program was pre- ' ceeded by a grand march by a multitude of the order, headed by the Greensburgh brass band and the school children of the city, many of the urchins in the rank carrying arms. The children in the parade added import to the days’ doings. In their wake followed the Indianapolis brass : band and members of the various Cantons, followed by subordinate members and members of the Rebekah Lodge, when a countermarch was made. on arrival at the grounds the ceremonies proper were conducted and delivered by the sisters of the fraternity and were ably and impressively administered. It was a gala day for Greensburgh. and for the various branches of the I. 0. 0. F. of the state of Indiana. Pleasant Mills. Mrs. O. J. Suman is on the sick list. It is quite healthy in this vicinity. Oscar Roebuck is at St. Mary’s. 0. Bom. to Joe Comer and wife- a girl on the 20th. Wilson Beery is working at the carpenter trade. B. B. Winans is working at his trade at Celina. Ohio. Rev. Jackson will preach at the U. B. church next Sunday evening. John Noll and Charles Yager are at Decatur this week attending court. Dr. Morgan of Dixon. Ohio, was here last Tuesday calling on Dr. Vizard. Hamp Mook and wife of Willshire, spent Sunday with A. M. Fuller and family. Misses Nora and Fay Smith of De-

catur. Sundayed with Miss M-bel Winans. Grandmother Comer returned f*?® Decatur after a tew days visit with friends. D. B. Erwin at I family t D-- :tur. Sundayed here with Henry Martz and wife. Miss Mabel Winans attended the : oratorical contest at Portland last Saturday. ; Miss Dora and Doyt Huston have gone to Delphos, Ohio, to visit relatives a while. > The James Family Swiss Bell Ring- . ers are entertaining the Pleasant Mills people this week. The prospects for good crops this season are favorable. The soil is in good condition for Mrs. Margaret Merris has returned to her old home at this place, and has gone to housekeeping. Sh • spent the winter in Kentucky. O. J. Suman and wife have taken a girl babv to raise. It is four months old. and came from the home at Indianapolis. Its parentage is unknown. Gilbert Thompson had the misfortune to lose his silver headed cane at Decatur one day last week. Any one finding same will confer a favor by leaving it at the Democrat office. Samuel Steele and wife were called to Ohio City Monday to see their son, Frank, who’ was injured by a tree falling upon him. He is said to be in a critical condition at this writing.

This is the time of the year when the able-bodied men between the ages of twentv-one and fifty years in the rural districts are expecting the supervisor to come along and serve notice on them to turn out and work on the public roads. A supervisor is expected to see to it that each able-bodied man in his district works or give the equivalent of not less than two days nor more than four in each year. Eight hours constitutes a day's work on the highways. ••Green Withes." by Jeannette H. Walworth, the powerful complete novel in the June issue of Lippincott s Magazine, is a tale of strong human interest, touching, as it does, on one of the vital questions of the present time. Mrs. Walworth gives to environment its full value in leading the reader from the old world into the new. How pathetic is the situation of the illfated millionaire’s daughter whom we meet in Rome I Then the vigorous, independent heroine of the later pages. Both are harmoniouslv and artistically set forth. The snapping of the green withes of convention, and the inevitable awakening are told in a forceful and interesting wav calculated to arouse the deepest sympathy.

Prot. Brittson Resigns. Office of Board of Education. Decatur. Ind.. May 2. 1599. Prof. W. F. Brittson, City. Dear Sir: You ; r- her.-by notified that ata meeting of the Board held last night you were re-elect- ’ ed to superintend our schools for 1 <99-1900. Bv order of the Board, D. B. Erwin. See. Decatur. Ind.. May 14. 1<99. Board of Education. ‘ 1 Decatur. Ind. . Sirs: Under present conditions I eannotaccept thesuperintenden cv cf vour schools for the coming vear. Y'ours. W. F. Brittson. To the Publie: In announcing ’ mv resignation of the superin--1 tendency of the city schools for the year 1 >99 1900. I wish t. thank I the great Ixxly of citizens for their . most cordial welcome and beartv ■ support extended to me at all times. The past two years have l>een among the most pleasant ‘ vears of my life, and certainly so ’ far as school work is concerned I am sure that no superintendent ever had more courteous treatment from both patrons and pupils. While I shall always be interested in school work, the boys and girls of Decatur will ever lx? remembered as no others can be. Os the members of the high school I can say that they have shown themselves at all times, and in the truest sense of the ' word, ladies and gentlemen. In fact, we all. teachers, pupils and I . s-n'irC tn

patrons have spent two years in perfect harmony. With best wishes to all I am sincerely. W. F. Brittson. The above needs but little additional explanation but we wish to add I that Prof. Brittson has in many ways distinguished himself during the two years of his superintendency with the schools of this city. He is a close student, and has rendered good service to the schools and regret is expressed at his withdrawal now. He has several positions in viev but has no definite plans yet. as to the future, but it is safe to assume that his knowl- ’ edge and ability will find him happily located at’any time he may so ! desire. Indiana is said to lie the strongest state in the United States in the manu- : facture of threshing machines. A movement is now on foot to organize a threshing machine trust, with headquarters at Indianapolis. It is rumormi that when the trust gets in operation several of the plants will be : closed permanently. There are about thirty threshing machine manufactories in the United States and nealrv all of them are located in four states. Ohio, Indiana. Michigan and Wiscon--1 sin.

An ImpreMlonWhen the air begins to mellow. How the topics seem to change. What old names fade to give a place To others weirdly strange. Xone asks who wins a battle. N ,r who is making laws, K r who by scientific toil Bids for the world s applause. Perhaps new books are written Or pictures deftly made. At present uo one cares; they drift Forgotten to the shade. F. r what men new are asking, Ail breathless, face to face, p- -Who will pitch?" or "Who will catch? Or Who will play first base?" — Washington Star. Built Bike a Shark. A ship repairer who has a shop front-1 in" the river and near the Lake Street. bridge has conceived something new m , his methods for propelling boats. In his . shop he has a beat nearly completed which resembles a man eating shark. | It is 18 feet in length, ns narrow as a, racing boat and designed to hold one person. The tail and fins, which are elastic plates, act precisely like those of a fish and are manipulated by internal mechanism. The principal advantage claimed for the boat is the small amount of force required to propel it, for when the, plates are moved and tend the action | of the water on the convex part will produce a push forward, when they ■ spring back by virtue of their elasticity. ! and another push will result, thus to a large extent utilizing the movement of j the waves. If this invention proves successful, next summer will probably, seethe park lakes dotted with vessels, looking more like marine creatures than pleasure craft. —Chicago News. Trick Jewelry. All sorts of trick jewelry is to be

found both for men and women. A < sporting man has a representation of a | favorite racer in a pin, and by pressing . a tiny button it is set in motion and gallops along as natural as life. A humorous lawyer has a watch with a concealed reservoir of perfumery which can be sprayed into the face of a friend: when it is being wound, if the owner so desires, and a woman with a heavy bracelet can give too inquisitive friends an electric shock. The up to date bracelet is quite heavy enough to allow the insertion of a battery. But all these things are as nothing to the "Klondike tooth.” It is a gold shell to fit on over a tooth, and the great delight of it is. as the vendor says, that it can be “slipped on and off 100 times a day.”—New York Times. Out ot Practice. Yeast —I hear you’re going to take your wife into partnership with you. Crimsonbeak—Y'es; as a silent partner. “She’ll make a good one.” "I’m afraid not: she’s terribly out of practice. "—Yonkers Statesman. I

MARKETS, CORRECTED BY J. D. „ ALE CHANT, DECATUR. IXD ' N ME »’ Wheat, new Corn, per cwt (mixed) "0 Corn, per 'cwt. yellow.. £ Oats, old 43 Oats, new 21 Rye 21 Barley 45 Clover seed '■> ’' 41) Timothv ' - <■> 3 fjg Eggs, fresh 10 Butter 10 Chickens 13 Ducks 05 Turke vs 05 i Geese Wool. . .. W ■ Wool, washed ' 18 ad° Hoira ISand2( l I ° TOLEDO MARKETS, MAY 24, 1 ;3Q p 1 Wheat, new No. 2 red.cash.. s' J uly wheat ” * l.i Cash com No. 2 mixed, cash\’ 3! J uly corn ’' jfh Prime clover i’S* Rome City -Commencing Mar n the G. R. A l. will seireieursh tickets to parties of one to nine at rate of -52.35 each, good until Oct. 31. bi, , for return. Parties of ten to forty nine -$2 each, return limit three data 'from date of sale. For any desired information please addressC. L. Lock- . wood. Gen’l Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. Seine Tenueiuee Riflemen. i A yarn is told in Manila, and it con1 cerns the prison and twn Tennessee vol. unteers. A Filipino convict had climbed the prison wall and was running for dear life through the open. Two l on? i legged Tennesseeans were on guard

duty. They knelt to fire. “I don’t guess it’s more than 300 yards,” said one quietly. "I reckon it’s most 500,’’ said the other, as if he were discussing the weather. The prisoner was running like a deer and rapidly approaching the undergrowth around innumerable little huts, where he would be safe. “Call it 400,” suggested the first Tennesseean in a conciliatory tone. They adjusted their sights, aimed and fired. The escaping convict fell, and the two Tennesseeans went ont to bring in what was left of him. "If he’s hit in the head, it’s my shot," said one. “I aimed low, acco’din to a'iny regulations." drawled the other. The convict was found with one bullet through the back of his head and another through the lower end of his spine. They know how to shoot in the mountains of Tennessee.—Harper's Weekly. The necessary expenses cf a Japanese student at the University of Tokyo an estimated at from $7 to sl2 a month.