Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1899 — Page 1

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■ Lawn tennis has become the pre- ■ .Hiner snort in Decatur and talk of a Kiubhou.se next year is already heard I I Tt is estimated that over two hundred Kithens of Adams county are at present K her residing or traveling through northern part of Michigan. I Dunkirk is to have a new glass sacK (irv of Which Mayor J. T. Day, of Kut citv. is to be president. It will ||,a,iufa<<ure nothing but prescription Kettles. I I Charles Kizer has been appointed Kjstmaster at Bly, Wells county, vice Krank M. Gordon resigned. Mr. Kjzer is an old Adams county boy, Saving lived at Linn Grove. He is Ki excellent young man and will make Ku excellent servant for Uncle Sam. I I \ young son of Robert Lusk, who Besides near Berne, fell from the hay Kow while playing in the barn several Kavs ago. He alighted on his back, Ktriking his head with terrible force Knd causing concussion of the brain, Kom which it is feared he cannot re- | lover. I I Children playing in the summer Hitmen, at the home of Charles I Hunger on Fifth street, yesterday Kfternoon accidentally set fire to the Building. The alarm was sent in and Kromptaction of the fire department Krobablv prevented a serious conKlagratio'n. The loss is about two hunKreii dollars. I I The old settlers meeting to be held I j. Steele’s park. Saturday, will be I i.rsrely attended by the Adams county Kjroduct who have witnessed the Browth of the county and been instruI b ental in making it the garden spot I. of all creation. Pioneer hardships will tjb.. discussed and a pleasant day en- | j wd. A general invitation is extendjsd~ the public. I I Uncle Johnny McGriff is celebratI i: .• his ninety-fifth birth day today at Hjjhe home of his son, Michael McGriff. I #' Geneva, where the annual big dinHer will be given. Until a few months Bg when his brother, Richard, died. were known as the oldest twins | the United States. Uncle Johnny ■ i- quite robust, his only failing seemKU- to be his eye-sight I I Revs. John and Franklin Yantis, Pease, Cora How’er, Laura and Vina D. Bell left here ■ Tuesday for Wyandot county, Ohio, Kthere they will spend a week in atI t nding a conference of the Christian church. These meetings are ■ h?ld yearlv and have grown in imand interest until now they ■« largely attended by people from | a'l sections of the country. I I Isaac Rosenthal and family will 11- the latter part of the week for ■'Cincinnati, Ohio, where they expect to ■ Sake their future home. Mrs. RosenI t:.al is already in that city arranging I ®ie home for the reception of the I family. They will reside on Walnut I Bills and Mr. Rosenthal will probabI hgo into business before long. He ■Bas been a resident of Decatur many Hears and his friends here wish him I til possible success. H Miss Mary Closs entertained at her I home on Third street Tuesday even■jag in honor of Messrs Frank and g Bichard Spuller, of Akron, Ohio. ■Bbout twenty-five guests were I present and the evening is reported I 8.- most enjoyable one. Progressive ■jie iro was the order and prizes were I * Miss May me Ter veer and ■■ohii Kern, while Miss Mary Heffner I siU Richard Spuller succeeded in I Capturing the booby gifts. RefreshI Bents were served and enjoyment of every sort was there. ■ Free rural mail delivery which at or-’ was looked upon with suspicion is now meeting with hearty •]>proval wherever it has been sufii■ently tried to give an idea of its /forkings. The oldest established fcutes are the best paying ones, and. ■ is said, pay the government 840 per B>onth at the present time and the [Business is still increasing and the I yulume of mail handled by the car|B ers ' * s also becoming greater, while objections at first raised against I ? are giving place to words of praise r the new enterprise. Our farmers ■ should agitate free delivery in Adams I Country We can have it just as well I any other in the state. Some enerI |etic man should make himself famby circulating such a petition. ■■John Vail who, with his family, has en j°ying the refreshing climate Petoskey, has written several letters I® l his assistant, Homer Sowers, which addressed to Decatur, Wells ■■ )uc dy, l u( li aua - Such an error as ■Bj ls is certainly unpardonable and an B’planation and apology will be de- ; by our irate citizens immedi- ■ e, y upon his return. To think that Pf; "ho has for so many years known ■Ju Adams for his home should locate fT capital in the swamps and prairies K ’hat forsaken spot known as Wells, H certainly too much, and one can blame his neighbors for risen masse against him. But let us Ot be too harsh with him, perhaps he U's produce some of the Indian firethat would thus unbalance a ■ an s mind and a proper treaty of a, ‘e can be agreed upon by the com•ssioners that will be appointed for purpose,

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William Hannan, the ballonist, who was injured here some time ago is reported to be getting along nicely and will probably be about shortly. Col. M. B. Miller returned to Washington, Tuesday, after a vacation of sixty days, which was spent among relatives and friends in this part of Indiana. Charles Beall who was taken quite sick while visiting at the home of R. S. Peterson in this city and who returned to his home at Fort Wayne last Friday, is reported to be in a very serious condition. He has been removed to the hospital. Miss Sofa Mangold entertained the members of the Bluffton Orchestra at her fifth street home Tuesday evening. Music, games and refreshments made the evening a most pleasant one. The boys rendred some beautiful music and their serenade trip was appreciated by all who heard them. George Morris has embarked in the insurance business having purchased the majority of the insurance controlled by S. E. Hitchcock. The latter still retains a few companies. George will be located temporarily at least in the Todd office. He has gone to work at once and is now a full fledged insurance man. —Bluffton Chronicle. A. C. Gregory and daughter, Miss lantha. will leave the latter part of the week for the east. During their absence they expect to visit New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington and other cities. Mr. Gregory will return in about two weeks, while lantha will probably remain several weeks longer. They will also enjoy a few days at Niagara Falls on the way. September, according to weather prognosticator Foster, will be an unusually cold one this year and frost will appear early in the month. In fact cool evenings will be pretty general all through the month, except about the middle when warmer weather and storms are predicted, followed by more cold weather with Jack still making frequent appearances. There will also be rain during the month. While the Ehinger fire was going on yesterday afternoon thieves ransacked the house of Henry Bremercamp, on the corner of Fifth and Madison streets. Every drawer in the house was overturned and things looked rather topsy turvey. The thieves seemed to be searching for money, however, and did not molest anything else. Whoever did the work were certainly’ bold as a crowd of people stood on the sidewalk all the time. B. McLaughlin. Mrs. Joe Fahmkoff, John Heveeg, Boyd Clark, Ema Beshasiser, Mrs. W. T. Brawn. Mrs. Sarah Miller, W. M. Myers, Miss Meva Jackson, Elax Kiny, Mrs. E. J. Nesbitt, Mrs. J. E. Pillars, Mrs. J. Runnel, Mr. B. Yager, Mrs. Sarah Schafer. Mr. S. A. Young, E. M. Jeffries, H. M. Daniels, C. H. Daughtry, Chas. Slucher and Miss Mashilva Hesemy compose the postmaster s list of unclaimed letters for the past week.

St. Patrick, the Decatur horse owned by Bock & Woodruff, was entered in the free-for-all pacing race at M inchester last week. In the first heat he secured second place easily and a piece of money looked like a “cinch . In the second'heat, however. St. Patrick had bad luck in getting away from the pole and was pulled into the fence, thus loosing the race and money. He showed up in good form, however, and his owners are certain that he has a great record before him. He is at Greenville, Ohio, this week. Through A. P. Beatty as attoruev, Louise Bradlev by her next best friend Joseph Bradley, has filed suit in the circuit court, which alleges breach of promise and damages in the sum of 810,(W, David E. Studabaker being made defendant thereto, The complaint states that the defendant began paying attention to plaintiff in March 1899, and that in June of the same vear thev were betroathed, their marriage being agreed to take place either in September or October. That on July 5, the defendant, without the knowledge or consent of the plaintiff, was married to his divorced wife, thus damaging the plaintiff in the sum of 810.000. The complaint is written in two paragraphs. John Hale, who has been employeci at the Peoples livery barn for several mouths, has suddenly left the city, and under rather suspicious circumstances, too, Mrs. Hiram Gregg who is visiting friends in the city was out driving last Friday evening and when she got out of the pheaton she forgot her purse which was lying on the seat. She did not notice the loss until she arrived at the home of her mother, Mrs Hale, when she immediately telephoned to the barn. Young Hale answered the phone and ‘“formed her the pocket-book was there and that he would keep it for her which he is shll doing. The next morning Mrs. Gregg called for her purse and was that the young man had Grawn inwiges a/d left town. About ten dollars was the amount stolen and as there is no trace as to his where, abouts, the culprit will probably not i be captured. I

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1899.

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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lankenau were at Schuum, Ohio, over Sunday attending the mission festival of the German Lutheran church. Henry used to teach in that neighborhood twenty years ago and he says he enjoyed one j of the best times of his life last Sunday. E. T. Taylor, representing the Bell I Telephone Company, will be here to-i morrow evening at which time an | agreement will be considered and probably entered into, between his | corporation and the Decatur Tele-1 phone Company. Nothing definite can be ascertained until after the meeting tomorrow night. The young son of Mr. and Mrs. D. French Quinn, frightened everybody about the house last Monday morning, by drinking a large amount of paregoric, which he succeeded in getting hold of. The family physician was called and soon had the little fellow out of danger, although it was considered a pretty close call. Mary E. Ault has asked the circuit court to sever the bonds of matrimony existing between her and James Ault. According to the complaint they were married January 1, 1880, and lived together as husband and wife until August 25, 1899. Cruel and inhuman treatment and failure to provide is alleged. She seeks a divorce and alimony in the sum of 8500. Benton W. Knoff, through his attorney, A. P. Beatty, has filed a suit for divorce from Jennie Knoff. The complaint states that they were married April 10, 1890, and lived together as husband and wife until September 1, 1895. That on this date the defendant abandoned the plaintiff, going to Michigan where she has since lived. The plaintiff asks for a divorce and the care and custody of their two children. Alfred Minge r. the young man who was so badly injured in the boiler explosion at Linn Grove last M ednesday, died Friday afternoon, after fortv-eight hours of terrible suffering. He was scalded so badly that the flesh simply dropped from his body. However, he was thought to be improving and for a while bis recovery was believed possible, but on Tuesday he became suddenly worse and expired during the afternoon. He was twentyeight years old. Another church will be erected in ; Decatur early next spring. The new [ edifice will be built by the German Reformed congregation, of which de- ■ nomination there is already quite a j large congregation in the city. Arrangements for a permanent church I organization are going on now and a I lot, now in view, will be purchased 1 within a few days. Several of our I very best business men are looking ! after the establishment of the church and the church is an assured thing ; for 1900. The building has not been I decided upon, bat will probably be a I modest frame church for the present. It may be a surprise to many of our : readers to know that Graham Earle, | who managed the Lennon Stock ComI pany, which exhibited here last week, is a brother of Mrs. Rev. Kline, of the United Brethren church. Such is. nevertheless, true and the meeting of brother and sister last week was quite a surprise to both. They had not seen each other for more than ten years, and in fact had almost lost trace of each other. Mr. Kline happened to be down street one morning and was handed a bill containing an announcement in which the name of Graham Earle was given as manager. He went to the hotel Miesse and inquired for the gentleman. A happy meeting followed and Mr. Earle spent many hours at the Kline home during the rest of the week. The Boston Store was out last Sunday. That is the proprietors and clerks and a few of their friends were enjoying their annual feast in the country and late reports say the entire mix came near foundering. The crowd was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moltz, Mr. and Mrs. Keubler, Mrs. Coffee, Misses Jessie and Mary McLean, Lena Barthel, Ella Touhey and Amelia Smith and Messers Oscar Lankenau and Charles Christen. They left the city early in the morning and drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Yager, who reside ten miles southwest and there spent the day. And such a glorious, lazy, sumptuous day. Everybody was in that happy frame of mind which makes one feel like shouting. The event of the day was the dinner and Mrs. Yager has made her name a household word among the members of the Boston Store crowd. Everything in season was on the table and we have not the slightest doubt that they did justice to the affair.

School opens next Monday and for several months the children will be under the care of Prof. Hartman and his assistants. You should each and every one put forth every effort in helping them make the year a most successful educational one. Mary May Hall, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hall, who reside just north of the city, died Monday morning of flux. Funeral services were conducted from the house Tusday afternoon by Rev. Daniels, after which the remains were taken to Rossville, Ohio, forinterment. Dr. J. Q. Neptune, one of Ahe jury commissioners, is at Rome City, so the jury for the September court term was not drawn Monday, as the usual custom. Communication with him brings out the fact that he will be here today, when the jury will be named and he will return on the next train to his cottage heme. The funeral services of Miss Maggie Trim were held from the Evangelical church, in this city, yesterday morning at ten o’clock, Rev. Mygrant officiating. She died Monday afternoon at her home south of the city, after an dlness of several weeks, she having been a victim of consumption. She was twenty-five years old and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Trim. Joseph Ross, one of the oldest settlers of the county, died at his home in Blue. Creek township last Wednesday; aged seventy-four years and eight months. He had been ill for some time and his death was not unexpected. Rev. Kohn, of Willshire, Ohio, officiated at the funeral services, which were held Friday. His son, Dan Ross, of Charlotte, Mich., was here, but arrived just an hour after his father’s death. The “measuring social” is a new method of raising money adopted by church organizations. The invited guests are required to register their “altitude” on the door casing or wall, and one cent is asked for each foot and odd inch of their height. By this means the person who is so unfortunate as to be “five feet-eleven” planks down sixteen cents, while the man who towers an inch above him gets off with six cents. Such is the irony of fate

The Huntington Eries and Fort Wayne Shamrocks have played a number of ball games this year and have broken even on the series. To settle the dispute as to who are champions, they have arranged a game which will be played in this city next Monday. As that date is Labor Day a large crowd will no doubt accompany both teams to assist them by “rooting.” Both are good, fast clubs and the game will be exciting and interesting. The game will be played at Zimmerman’s park and the gate receipts go to the winner after expenses are paid. Ora France, of this city, will play first base for the Eries. The Lennon Stock Company closed their weeks engagement here last Saturday evening with the comedy“ The Out-cast” and as usual every available seat was taken. The company is a favorite here for aside from being well acquainted with what is necessary to make their plays a success, they also mhke a practice of doing business in a straightforward manner which wins them many friends. They are booked for a return engagement during Christmas week and crowded houses every evening is an assured thing. At their presentation of East Lynn last Thursday evening over six hundred people were in the opera house the largest crowd ever assembled there, and photographer J. E. Moser took a flash light picture of the audience. The following from the Bluffton Evening News tells the story of the latest move in the Clover Leaf checker game: Decatur will lose the Clover Leaf freight division and Bluffton will be the gainer thereby. A few years ago the Clover Leaf bodily inoved the division from this city over the protests of public and Decatur felt naturally jubilant. The laugh is now on the other side of- the face. Official notice has been received that on Sunday the freight division will lie moved back to this city and that three crews will be laid over each night at this point. This is a small matter, but still it is as go«l as a factory working twelve or fifteen hands. Several of the men will make Bluffton their permanent home. Most of them draw good wages and will be a welcome addition to the population of the city. From a source that is about as official as one would want it, it is learned that the removal of the division to Bluffton will be permanent and it will not be shifted about again like checkers on a board.

A small daughter of Mike Englehart who resides in the south part of the city, was slightly burned Monday morning by a gas explosion. She attempted to light the gas in the kitchen stove, when the accident happened. Craig Miller has again taken up the musket in defense of his country and is by this time on his way to San Francisco, from where he will sail for Manila. He is a member of the thir-ty-first regulars, having joined them at Ft. Thomas, Ky. John R. McLean, editor and owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has been chosen by the democrats of Ohio at their state convention held at Zanesville, Wednesday, as their candidate for governor. He is one of the popular men of the state and the fight promises to be an interesting one. Out in the far west there is said to be a perfectly honest slot machine. It legend reads- “Put a quarter in the slot and get a surprise.” The surprise consists of a mechanism which points a loaded revolver, with the notice, “Drop in all your money and your watch or I’ll explode in thirty seconds.” Next Tuesday, September 5, is the Jewish new year day, and the event will be suitably celebrated by the Jews all over the country. Barney Kalverisky of this city, will go to Fort Wayne, where on Tuesday and Wednesday he will attend suitable services. The event marks the beginning of the Hebrew year 5660 and is supposed to date since the creation of the world. Quite a crowd of “rooters” accompanied the Monroeville ball club to this city last Sunday were they crossed bats with the “Decatur Reds.” The game was a very sloppy one and was won by the Monroeville boys. We are unable to give the score as the official tally keeper ran out of paper, but at the end of the seventh inning the result was thirty-three to eighteen. The crowd was not a large one and the enthusiasm not very marked on either side. Mrs. L. O. Jones and daughters, the Misses Mabel and Margie, left Friday last to join her husband and father at Waitsburg, Washington, in which city Prof. Jones has been teaching school for the past year and in which the family will take up their future residence. The Breeze wishes the mother and daughters a sale and pleasant journey on their way to their far distant western home. They leave a large circle of warm friends who regret their departure. Monroeville Breeze. Prof. Jones and family are well known in this county, the former having had charge of the Geneva schools several years ago. The Board of State Charities has issued a circular calling upon the the ministers of the gospel to aid in arousing the people in the work it is trying to perform. At the national conference of charities and correction the following resolution was adopted: “Resolved, that this conference strongly urge upon the Christian ministers of the nation the importance of their consideration of the subject of prisoners and prison reform, and ask them them to unite in setting aside the last Sunday in October of each year as •Prison Sunday.’ and preaching an appropriate sermon on the occasion.” The board also offers to supply ministers upon application with such literature as will be of service to them in the preparation of appropriate discourses. , At a meeting of the city council last Friday evening in continued regular session, Councilman Suttles, Haefling, Miller and Niblick were present, with Mayor Beatty presiding. D. B. Erwin as secretary of the school board, reported the levy as adopted by the board for school purposes. The levy is the same as last year, being thirtyfive cents on the 8100, for special school purposes, thirty-two cents on the 8100 for tuition fund, and three cents on the 8100 for library fund, making the total levy for school purposes seventy cents on the 8100. The school board also asked to have their salaries to remain as heretofore, 875 to each the president and treasurer, and 8100 to the secretary. The same was ordered spread of record. The finance committee of the council reported the city tax levy for the coming year, which was approved. For general purposes thirty-two cents, for waterworks interest and bonds fifty cents, for electric light interest and bonds twenty cents, sinking fund three cents, interest in general seventeen cents, making a total levy of 81.22 They also decreed that on each male dog a tax of 82 shall be levied and upon each female dog a tax of 85. A poll tax of fifty cents was also agreed to. The levy was ordered certified to the county auditor, there to be placed upon the tax duplicate and collected by the treasurer of Adams county. The same as other taxes are collected. An ordinance prohibiting the playing of ball within the city limits, was read the first time, the rules suspended and the same passed to the second and third reading, and then the final passage. A contract with the Pittsburg Meter Company was read and the waterworks committee authorized to enter into such contract.

CIRCULATION 2400 WEEKLY

NUMBER 25

Marriage licenses were issued this week to Alfred Kelley and Carrie B. Bucher, Otto Franz and Ella Jane Ray, William Andrews and Pauline Bowers, Jesse O. Callihan and Lizzie M. Campbell, George L. Maddy and Josephine Congleton, Peter Dunwiddie and Hattie Brown. A young son of Dyonis Schmitt created a heap of worry and excitement yesterday by becoming lost. After about a two hours’ search he was found at the furniture store of Gay & Zwick and seemed utterly unconscious of the fact that he had done anything out of the ordinary. Frank and Fred Spuller of Akron, Ohio arrived last week and have been spending several days here with their largecircleof friends. They are on their way to Colorado, where they will remain several weeks exploring and sightseeing. They left yesterday morning for Chicago, where they will visit a few days before starting on their western trip. Mrs. Barbara Williams, a pioneer lady of Fort Wayne, died at her home Tuesday afternoon of cancer of the stomach. She was sixty-five years old and had been a resident of Ft. Wayne since she was two years old. She was a relative of Jacob Martin and Peter Forbing of this city and was well known among our older citizens. The funeral services will be held from the Cathedral Friday morning. Word reached the city yesterday of the death of Uncle John Ashbaucher, for many years a resident of French township. His death occurred at the home of Jacob Mershberger, whose wife is a daughter of the deceased. His death occurred Monday after a paralytic illness lasting more than seven years. Chris. Ashbaucher, of Vera Cruz, and John Ashbaucher, of Bluffton, are sons of the deceased, while P. P. Ashbaucher, of this city, is an nephew. The funeral took place yesterday at Vera Cruz. Jimmy Murphy, an actor of some prominence a few years ago, now considered somewhat of a “has-been,” was in the city last Saturday on his way east. He is enjoying a walk from Chicago to New Y'ork and stopped here long enough to take a few hours rest and several drinks, which put him in the proper condition to entertain the boys in a splendid style. He was a typical broken-down actor and had any of the Puck or Judge cartoonists happened along his face would have undoubtedly appeared in this week’s issue. He went from here to Fort wayne where he said an uncle resides, who he expected to greet with the endearing words, “Uncle, I have come home to eat.” Mrs. William Jackson died at her home on Fornax street at an early hour Saturday morning, after an illness of only a few days. She was born in Blue Creek township, July 2, 1864, and was thirty-five years old. She was married in 1884, to William Jackson and her husband and seven children are left to mourn the loss of a dear wife and mother. She was an earnest Christian and a member of the Evangelical church. She died peacefully and confessing her belief in Him who died to save us. The funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church Sundav afternoon at two o’elobk, conducted by Rev. Mygrant, assisted by Rev. Daniels, and her remains laid to rest in Maplewood cemetery. The husband and large family of motherless children are grief stricken and have the sympathy of every citizen of Decatur. A quiet wedding surprise occured on Winchester street Monday evening, when Miss Josie Congleton and Mr. George L. Maddy were united for life. The marriage which was to have occurred two weeks latter was hastened by a telegram received by George Monday evening summoning him to Washington D. C. where he has been chosen as an assistant in the city postoffice. It was necessary for him to report by the first of the month and as a furlough for some time would be next to impossible the parties concerned decided to have the affair occur at once. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. H. Daniels, at the home of the brides mother, only the family and a few friends being present. The scene though quiet was an exceedingly happy one and a more merry crowd than that wedding party would have been hard to find in this or any other universe. Those who enjoyed the festivities of the evening were Misses Fannie DeVilbiss and Dollie Christen and Mr. John H. Heller. Mr. Maddy left at midnight for Muncie going from there to Washington yesterday. Mrs. Maddy will join him in that city within a few weeks. Among the young society people of Decatur none have been more popular than Miss Josie and George and an army of friends join the Democrat in congratulations and heartfelt good wishes, hoping for them a century of prosperity. Mr. Maddy who came to this city eighteen months ago and who has since been employed at the Decatur Steam Laundry has through the influence of Washington friends received a very lucrative position and his future is most prom isng. Here’s hoping it may be even brighter than it appears.