Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1899 — Page 5

t G spent Sunday with bis family at Winchester. ~,-ovor W. E. Fulk transacted business at Portland last da.'’Per the best machine oils at reason,bfe price go to storeMiss Mary Myers is at home after several weeks visit with friends at Fort Wayne. Miss Arvilla Dewitt has gone to Detroit, Michigan, to visit her cousin, Mrs. Sadie Stounnton. Miss Mary Lincoln of Fort Wayne, who for several years was music instructor in our city schools, is the g liest of friends here. r Ed Wertzberger, after several days visit with friends here, has returned to Elwood, where he is employed in the American tin plate mills. The D. of P. club enjoyed a moonijaht picnic last night. From the e av voices and merry laughter we presume the evening was an enjoyable one. Miss Mary Miller, daughter of Indee C. P. Miller, of Adrion Aliehiaa„Js the guest of W. H. Niblick and family and other relatives for a few days. David Runyon of Linn Grove, attended to business in this city ye sterday and while here did not forget to drop in and renew his allegiance to the Democrat . Circuit court suits filed are James B. Ward vs Olive Ward, divorce; Mary E. Huffman vs Aaron C. Huffman'. divorce: Elsie Stacy vs Douglas Dudgeon, replevin. J. B. Ward has filed a complaint for divorce from Olive Ward. They were married February 10, 1896, and Lived together until June 17, 1997. Abandonment is charged. Prof. Adams writes that he will be 11 • 1- . u .I . »* A T-Z-AW’ Li.’

with his church in this city for his farewell discourses on next Sunday morning and evening. All are cordially invited to be present. Thomas Alacey of Alarion, Indiana, formerly a resident of Jefferson township, is in the county looking after his property. Air. Alacey made this office a pleasant and profitable call. Don’t buy your insect destroyer, Paris Green, London Purple, Hellebore, etc., of peddlers and pay two prices for it. You can save money by buying it of Smith & Yager at the old Dorwin drug store. ts Card of thanks- We wish to tender our thanks to the kind friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our beloved babe. Sincerely your friends, Jessie and Ada Roe. A deal was closed yesterday afterternoon whereby Anthony Holthouse disposed of his elegant Alonroe street home to A. C. Gregory. Air. Holthouse will shortly remove his family to Jonesboro, Arkansas, where he has

large milling interests. i I have for sale or exchange one ‘ farm of 100 acres, one farm of 120 acres, one farm of 60 acres, one farm ' of 121 acres, one house of seven rooms in the city of Decatur, one house of five rooms in the city of Decatur. Will sell any of the above on long time at low rate of interest on deferred . payment, or will exchange part of the above for other property. R. K. Erwin. 19tf The Masonic lodge of this city are i planning for a general good time next Tuesday evening, at which time they will entertain members from the Van Wert, Geneva, Willshire and Monroeville lodges. Third degree initiating work upon three candidates will Ije given and a great social and fraternal gathering is anticipated by the boys. A supper and banquet will also be given in honor of the visitors. Charley Dailey’s Bluffton ball team came over last Friday and were easily defeated bv a score of twenty-three to two. Taylor did the pitching for the Creams and Heller for Bluffton. This is the aggregation that has been defeating Kokomo. Muncie and Anderson clubs but how they have done it is certainly a mystery to every one. It certainly looks as though they have bad luck away from home. Dr. W. Barton Olds, of Chicago, a homoeopathic physician has located in this city and for present has established quarters in the Stone block opposite the court house. Dr. Barton . Olds has had twenty .years experience in the practice of medicine and is said to have had a large practice in Chicago. He prefers living in a small city however an I has chosen Decatur for his future home, after a visit to many of the larger cities of Indiana. A Virginia railroad was made to pay SSO for killing a rooster, records the Orange Observer. The engineer said he spoke to the gentleman very kindly with the whistle, but when he dropped one wing on the ground, raised one eye heavenward, and commenced whetting his spurs on the rail, forbearance ceased to be a virtue, and he lit into him with thirteen freight cars and forwarded him to the happy scratching ground by the lightning express. Mary E- Huffman is seeking a divorce from Aaron C. Huffman. According to the complaint they "ere married July 5, 1876, and lived to-| gether until July 12, 1899. The defendant is charged with cruel and inhuman treatment and with adultery with Mary E. Rilev, which are the ground upon which a divorce is sought. The plaintiff asks the court to grant a divorce, give her custody ot four children and alimony in the sum of two thousand dollars.

"Babe Miller has been signed to play second base for Place's Creams. I Potato Bug Poison, Fly Paper and Insect destroyers of all kindsat Black- , burn’s drug store. 16-4 We carry a full line of cheese, such ■as \\ isconsin Swiss, limburger. brick and full cream. Coffee & Baker. 1 Its Homer 0. Hendricks of Monroe has secured a position in a large slaughter house at Hammond. He will leave I for that place tomorrow. The Huntington ball team are billed I for an appearance here to-day, at which time the Creams expect to win their third game out of a series of five. The excursion to Detroit, under the management of the Ladies Mite Society, left here this morning with a large crowd who will enjoy a day of J pleasure. Order your plums now, they will be delivered within a few weeks when thoroughly ripened. The supply is abundant. First to order first served. A. Al. Fisher. ts The Portland street fair held this is said to have been a great success. Large crowds attended and amusements and exhibits were plentiful and interesting The residences of Charles Suttles and Frank Gast on Mercer street are being pushed to completion and will soon add greatly to the appearence of that very popular street. Aliss Hattie Thornton of Portland, will preach at Pleasant Valley on the Saturday evening, July 29, and remain over Sunday. All are cordialy invited to come and hear her. Marriage licenses have been issued by Clerk Lenhart to Jacob Bluffer and Rachel A. Baily. Samuel A. Shady and Julia Sovine, Samuel Neusbaun and Rachel Yoder. The attraction at the ball park Sunday will be Rochester vs Place’s Creams. It will be one of the best

games of the season, and will be a good drawing card tor the fans. Don’t buy your insect destroyer, Paris Green, London Purple, Hellebore, etc., of peddlers and pay two prices for it. You can save money by buying it of Smith & Yager at the old Dorwin drug store. ts A little known fact that most serious diseases originate in disorder of the kidneys. No hope of good health while the kidneys are wrong. Foley’s Kidney Cure is guaranteed to make the kidneys right. Holthouse, Callow & Co. i Unclaimed letters this week at the postoffice arefor Airs. James Reynolds, Chas. Hitchcock, E. Z. Stalter, Herman Aliller, J. W. Emenhizer, Airs. Emma Donovan, Harry O. Douglass, Airs. AL Buell, Airs. Ester Blaine, Virgil AL Appner, Buck Abner. Airs. Frank Hill and daughter, Aliss Alay L., of this city, are in Chicago for a few days’ visit with friends and relatives. From there they will go to Lodi, Wisconsin, where they will at-

tend the golden wedding anniversary of Mrs. Hill’s parents. They will also visit Minneapolis, St. Paul and other cities along the great lakes and will be absent for several weeks. High Grade Fertilizer for sale direct to the farmers. Any one wishing some can order it through Elmer Johnson. This is not sold to agents. It has been tested as every man who used it had excellent crops while their neighbors plowed up their wheat ground and sowed some in oats or barley. Leave your orders with 18-4 Elmer Johnson. W. J. Knapp and wife are moving to Adams county to-day. They have been residents of this city for the past three years. Mr. Knapp's father has given him an eighty-acre farm in Root township, Adams county, and they will go over to possess it. We regret to lose Mr. and Mrs. Knapp from our community, but can't blame them for accepting so nice a gift. Bluffton Banner. Fire is essential in some wedding celebrations. In Persia the service is read in front of a fire. In Nicaragua the priest, taking the couple each by the little finger, leads them to an apartment where a fire is lighted, and there instructs the bride in her duties, extinguishing it byway of conclusion. In Japan the woman kindles a torch, and the bridegroom lights one from it, the play things of the wife being burnt then and there. In a listless game of ball the Creams defeated the Marion City Hat Store team Tuesday afternoon by a score of eighteen to three. France did the pitching for Decatur and Hegwood for Marion. The feature of the visitors was a long running catch of a line fly, by leftfielder Condo. The home team made twenty hits and five errors while Marion made four hits and ten errors. Owing to the Youngstown team being previously announced the crowd was not a large one. The ‘‘kissing bug’’ which made his debut in Washington a few weeks ago, is coming west, according to the papers. A kiss from this bug, how ever, is not attended with pleasant sensations, but with a severe pain, followed by swelling, which sometimes involves the entire face. Entomologists have been looking up the bug’s historv and have discovered that litis a “melanlestes picipes." That is much better than the common name, •■kissing bug.” In fact anything that goes by the name of “bug" is unpopular. The melanglestes picipes is an inch long, black as pitch, has a strong ' beak and a flat body. It is not a Jersey mosquito as some at first suspected, nor is it a spider or a wasp. It is just a melanglestes picipes.

The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. AL Gilson, Saturday July 22. About eighty tickets were sold from , this city for the Mite Society excursion to Detroit this morning. Quite a number were also sold at Willshire. , The Huntington News-Democrat of Tuesday said: "Rev. Sherman Powell, of Trinity AL E. church, says the Fort Wayne Journal, may be called to the pastorate of Grace Reformed church, at Kokomo, to succeed Rev. E. T. Gregg. Rev. Powell is the minister who created so much excitement at the base ball game last Sunday. This is the pastorate which it was supposed Rev. Hill, of Richmond, was to receive. Huntington citizens are loth to believe that Rev. Hill be turned down.” Obituary. Mary Elizabeth Hursh, was born in Wabash county, Indiana, October 26, 1876, and passed away when near twenty-three years of age. When only eleven years of aje Mary, .with her sisters, became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the church she was an active and earnest worker. The Epworth League was her especial delight. In 1894 she moved with the rest of her family to Upland, Indiana, where she remained until her marriage. On the second of April 1896. Mary became the happy of Samuel R. Peoples and removed to Adams county with her husband. Her friends here are familiar with her life. She was a true and loving wife and fully tried to be good. In her short illness she had the 14th chapter of John and other favorite passages of scripture read. She was fond of the old Methodist hymns and in her most distressing illness she sang “It is well with my soul,” three different times. On Wednesday evening during her sickness she talked long to her mother about leaving this world. She said “I know I'll not get well. I’ve felt it long ago. At first I didn’t know whether I was fit to die but now all is well. There is such sweet peace in my heart.” Mary leaves a husband and two little girls to mourn their loss. Three sisters, one brother and mother feel that part of their sunshine is gone. In the bright morning sunshine of July 10th her spirit left its temple of clay to spend a blessed eternity with the Friend who giveth rest. Funeral services at Alpha M. I E. church. Interment in cemetery. Ralph C. Jones officiating. School Books. Superintendent Jones of the department of public instruction has issued to the superintendents and trustees of the state circular No. 10. giving complete and official information as to the contracts and prices for the books to be used in the schools of the state during the next school year. The circular is as follows: “The state board of school book commissioners has entered into contract with the following named firms to supply books for five years, and at the retail and exchange prices indicted below: “Ginn & Co. —‘Frye’s Complete Geography,’ retail price, 75 cents; exchange, 55 cents. “Ginn & Co. -‘Frye’s Introductory Geography,’ retail price, 30 cents; exchange, 23 cents. “Indiana School Book Company—‘First Reader,’retail price, 10 cents; no exchange. “Indiana School Book Company — Second reader, retail price, 15 cents; no exchange. “Indiana School Book Company ‘Revised Third Reader,’ retail price 25 cents; no exchange. “Indiana School Book Company—‘Revised Fourth Reader,’ retail price, 30 cents, no exchange. “Indiana School Book Company ‘Revised Fifth Reader,’ retail price, 40 cents; no exchange. “Silver, Burdet & Co.- ‘New Advanced Arithmetic,’ retail price, 45 cents; exchange, 25 cents. “Easton N Co. ‘The New Era System of Slant Writing, 1 to 6, retail price, 5 cents: no exchange. “Eaton & Co. ‘New Era System of Vertical Writing,’ 1 to 6, retail price, 5 cents no exchange. "The exchange may be made any time prior to March 1, 1900. If it is desired to make an exchange the per-1 son making it must give for the new book a copy of the old book and the exchange price as given above. “No book now out of adoption can bo sold to any pupil by any dealer or trustee in lieu of newly adopted books. No requisition should be made for any book now out of adoption. “All publishers of both old and new books have filed their consent to have the dealers handle the common school books with the restrictions and conditions provided for in an act, approved and in force March 1, 1893, the same being secs. 5,298 and following of R. S. 1897, the same being secs. 55 and following of the school book law of Indiana as sent out by the department. In regard to the manner of introducing these newly adopted books, all officers charged with their introduction should read all of secs. 6.293 and 6,307 of R. S. 1897, the same being secs. 50 and 64 of the school book law of Indiana as sent out by this department. All sales of books to the dealers by the trustees must be for cash, the dealer being allowed a discount of 10 per eent. from the retail price of the books. In settling with the county superintendent for books sold to dealers, trustees must pay out of the special school fund one-half the amount of the 10 per cent, discount, which amount the county superintendent must remit to the publishers (See sec. 56, school book law.) “Either the vertical or slant systems of writing may be used in the schools, but uniformity should be maintained in any

given corporation."

Mr. awl Mrs. Horace Campbell and family of Frankfort, arrived in the city last evening and left at eleven o’clock over the G. R. & I. for Bay View, Michigan, where they go to spend the summer. They were accompanied by Miss Dora Peterson of this city, who will also spend several weeks at the famous summer resort. Notice of Stockholders Meeting. There will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Old Adams County Bank at their banking house in Decatur, Indiana, at 9 o’clock a. m., on Tuesday, August 1, 1899, for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the ensuing year, and to transact any other business that may come before them. R. K. Allison, Cashier. Real Estate Transfers. Sarah AL Dow to Catharine Evans, 80 acres, section 5, Jefferson township, 81.750. Helena Weiand et al to Margaret A. Weiand, 5 acres, section 4, Washington township, 81,000. Margaret A. Weiand to Simeon Weiand, 5 acres, section 4, Washington township, 81,000. Simeon Weiand to Helena Weiand, 5 acres, section 4, Washington township, 8500. Susannah Yost to Wm. J. Rawley, inlot 262 Berne, 875. Magdalina Yager to Wm. J. Rawley, inlot 262 Berne, 575. Dan N. Erwin, sheriff, to the Indiana Farmers’ Savings and Loan Association, part inlot 237 Geneva,8254.47. Wm. H. Niblick, guardian, to Simon L. Brandyberry, 40 acres, section 26, Washington township, 8800. E. S. Metzger et al to E. J. Ray, 40 acres, section 7, Alonroe township, 81. James W. Emenhiser to Ida Al. Galloway, 15 acres, section 7, Jefferson township, 8262.50. Decatur Cemetery Association to John H. Lenhart, lots 138 and 139 Decatur Cemetery, 860. Sylvester Spangler to Chalmer C. Schafer, outlet 104 Decatur 8700. — MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new 8 65 Corn, per cwt (mixed) 42 Corn, per 'cwt, yellow 43 Oats, old . 23 Oats, new 15 @ 18 Rye 40 Barley 30 Clover seed 3 60 @ 4 00 Timothy 90 Eggs, fresh 11 Butter 14 Chickens 05 Ducks 05 Turkeys 08 Geese 04 Wool 16 to 18 Wool, washed 18 and 20 Hogs 3 40 TOLEDO MARKETS JULY 19, 1:30 P. M. Wheat, new’ No. 2 red, cash... .8 70J Sept wheat 72 Cash corn No. 2 mixed, cash.. 34 Sept corn 34. J Prime clover 3 50

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Great Midsummer Clearance Sale... ...AT... ROSENTHAL BRO’S. Stock must be reduced and all goods consisting 0f.... Men's and Boys’ Clothing, Hats, Caps, Furnishings, Will be sold at lower prices ■*“' —— thaN ever to make room. Special this week. . . . • 100 pairs all wool Men’s Pants, worth $2 50, go at, per pair - - - SLSO Men’s and Boys’ Straw Hats worth up to si.oo, go this week at - 23 c each Take this opportunity and SAVE MONEY. . . ——— ——— BASE BALL Rochester \/s Place’s Creams Zimmerman's Ball Park Sunday, July 22. The Rochester team is said to be the best ball aggregation in the state, having this season defeated the Findlay, Ohio, and other crack ball clubs. I Cents, 25c. Ladies Free. Game called at 3 o’clock.