Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1900 — Page 8

Steel*. The small child of Jasper Case is ‘ vary sick. Rev. Peters delivered his first sermon at this placf l..st Sunday. Philip Martz has nearly all the lumber on the ground preparatory to building 3 new house. The young daughter of Elmer Eley has been quite sick with brain fever, but is now much improved. \V. P. Merriman made a trip to Bobo last Monday after pickets, but returned with ut any, as the yard was sold out. The republicans of this place held their convent:an last Saturday and nominated the following ticket: Trustee M. A. Ripley: assessor. Henry Marboug: advisory board. Howard Parr. Ves Campbell and A. M . Holman. Eastern DlspaUh. Elmer Cook is preparing to build a barn. McClellan Togue and wife visited relatives in Ohio Sunday afternoon. Andrew Artman has secured a position with the Decatur Egg Case Co. I. J. Neptune of Willshire.was very sick last Saturday with stomach trouble. Don't miss the E L program at the i M. E. church at Willshire next Sun- ' day night. Clarence Cowan is contemplating i attending school at Lebanon, Ohio, ■ this summer. Jefferson Moser has been engaged i the past few days in sawing out timber for Cook's barn. Floyd Woods and W. W left for Fort Wayne Sunday to take the civil service examination on Monday. Pteasan: mils. Joseph Archbold is on the sick list. Mrs. Janies Eddington is numbered with the sick this week. C. W. Yager and wife Sundayed with Nathan Ayers and familv. James Boyd and wife called on friends here last Sunday. The Easter social last Saturday evening was largely attended. Miss Mattie McCullough of Bluffton. Sundayed here with friends. Frank Steele and wife of Ohio City. Sundayed here with his parents. Stephen R rebuck and family spent Sunday in the country with friends. George Archbold of Decatur, Sundayed with David Archer and family. A number of our young people|were rusticating in the i cuntry Easter Sunday.

CARPETS’ S g®B^®®^g«®^Wg® s | § I 4 C P ALL WOOL, I *® g @ «® I QCp EXTRAHEAVY | | 1 iv U both warp and g 1 uUU Unions, full line | g |gi 1 filling, worth 55c and I 1 of colorings, sold every- 1 |2 ® 160 c. our price this sale | % J where at 40c; our price f 8 .?£. | only 45 cents. g @ @ g this sale only 35c. I H i B e | ® Lace Curtains Linoleums g O —— — i S Isl OO 1,000 pairs of I IOK DIFFERENT PAT- I 1 1 i SnrtTZ i a t C n S2 U OO ai ir 60 TERNS to SELECT I ® g | pair, will be sold at 81.00. f '' l u ' t(flUt Al f from... All grades at the | >| 1 Special prices given dur- iI He BOS 10N S1 ORE. g lowest prices. § 1 i n S house-cleaning on ell T •, -r ? - DT , I7 ® 1 goods in this department. 1 -Laid r REE of charge. g gg | Visit it before you buy. | | It pays to trade at the 1 L BOSTON* STORE

Rev. Peters, the new minister. ' preached at the M. E. church. Sunday I morning. The school meeting held at this place last Thursdav evening caused quite a commotion. E. W. France and wife entertained about twenty relatives and friends of Decatur last Sunday. Harrv and Will Cordua and families of Decatur, and also Robert Petersen and wife spent Sunday in the village with friends. The democrats of St. Mary's township will hold a mass convention at Belo, on Saturday. April 2re for the purpose of nominating a township ticket. Linn Grove. The residence occupied by Eugene Van Camp has received a new roof. M. S. Murdock of Lima. Ohio, is here looking after some oil territory. Mrs. Mary Neaderhouser had a new fence built on the west side of her premises. John G. Adler attended the funeral of Mrs. Samuel Biteman at Geneva. Saturday. Albert Lindsey is building a summer kitchen. W. Wechter is doing the carpenter work. Henry Gentis and Frank Nusbaum made a "delivery of s >me buggies to Sturis Bro's at Portland. Monday. The scholars of the intermediate room made a raid on their teacher. Mr. Ed Huffman and wife. Monday evening. John Mesehberger visited the Hope Hospital at Fort Wayne on Monday, where Mrs. M is receiving medical treatment. He is highly pleased with the progress that is apparent. On the Sabbath. April near Domestic. Wells county, occurred the i death of the well known and highly i respected pioneer. Father George Shigley. aged ninety-three years and four months. Bids for the building of the Evangelical church at Berne were considered Monday last for which four bids were filed, namt-k Charles Christen. Decatur. $6,211: David Boegly, Berne. < Mr. Kreps. Bluffton, 56.745: H ffmann A Liddy. Linn Grove. $6.TSO. All the bids were rejected. Died, near Liberty. Oregon. March 2S. 1900. Jacob C. Hoffmann. He was bore in Ohio. February 22. 1855. and died after a very short illness of lagrippe and brain fever at the age of forty-five years, one month and six days. He was united in marriage to M:-s Keseiah M. Hencil. of Orrville. Ohio. January 4. 1'77. In 1>79 he moved and settled in the Waldo Hills. Oregon, and later to the Red Hills.

south of Salem. He was noted for his industry, good habits and was an excellent financier. He was a good and generous neighbor toall. especially to the laboring class In him the familv mourn the of an affectionate husband and father. Heteaveea wife and nine children. The deceased was a brother of cur t< wnsman. Frederick Hoffmann. Geneva. Indiana oil $1.14. April showers in abundance. Last Sunday was Easter, y . ’. know. It rained—of course you knew the rest. Our people are putting out more shade trees this spring than ever before. It is the right thing to do. John C. Hale and wife returned last Mondav from a week's visit with rela lives at Celina, and Mendon. Ohio. Simon McGriff, of Ohio, was in town last Saturday and Sunday visiting with his father and brother. Deitach A Zehr have just ompleted an addition to their implement nwm. which gives them much needed spac.e Porter A Anderson, druggists, are having their elegant store rvcm papered in grand style. Burcge A Blowers are the artists. Our farmers manage t_ de a kn.e ploughing between showers :t tndelays them very much wirn their ' spring work. Billy Heater and Car. McFadden ‘ have sold their :.. .-is - in .-.strer • county to an Engl.sn -yn ’. at- fora handsome sum A large amenn: :' J 7 : : A lams ‘ county mud has st - ■ from the top of Line ~:r-w andritepaving stones are ■ C. Haviland AS t re r- : the City Meat Market, n.-. - their sausage factory in creret •_ Tn--machinery is propel.ee tv a gas engine. Rev. J. J. Fred. late pas:.:: i rhe M. E. church, moved with his family he was appointed by the .ast conference. ’ Ike Follen. a veteran of the civil warwh: servedin •:.- Sei nty first V. 1., died last Thursday and was ■ buried in the Lough:v r agn .--rnetery east of town. Service at the M E. nur n .is* . Sunday were largely -.txd-c. ’-y > citizens, who were well please: witu the first sermon delivered by the new pastor. Rev. Raise. t Will Heaston and family moved ‘ last Saturday from their residence m - . kley :i . hotel the depot, and will run ! a first-class boarding house Mrs. S. F. Biteman. who was pre? I

trated with a stroke of paralysis about three months ago. died last Saturday from the effects of the same at the ( home of her daughter. Mrs. Fred C. |. Deitsch. on Shackley street, bhe was J about 52 vears of age and 1 aavee a husband, four sons and two daughters to mourn their loss. Interment -lon day following in Pyle cemetery. I Preble. Bob Mullen was at Craigville, Fn day. i Miss Lucy Scherry has purchased a new bike. Miss Anna Grote was at Decatur. ] Saturday. Jeff Klopfenstein was at Decatur, Thursdav. Chas. Hoepner drove to Decatur Saturday. Jess Niblick of Bluffton, was here Wednesday. Mrs. Kreigh went to Kingsland, Tuesday. Herman Lehrmann received a new ■ bike Saturday. Mre. R. A. Sparks and children are visiting at Markle. Bob Mullen transacted business at 1 Williams Saturday. Chas. Hoeppner and family were at Fort Wayne Tuesday. Miss Emma Scherry was at home i from Decatur over Easter. David Werling and D. J. Dilling! : were at Decatur Saturday. Mrs. Kreigh entertained her sister i Wednesday and Thursday. Otto Buuck of Freidheim. was a cu--t of his brother. Henry. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. David Werling were passengers for Decatur. Wednesday. ■ “ : W:i’. Lianemeierand family Sundaved with his brother, Henry, and • . familv. S o- m -.n A Butler shipped a car ’. id f stock to Cleveland. Ohio, last Thursday. Rev. August Buuck and wife of Gi-um re. Oh:are visiting relatives here this week. < >tt : Horstman of Fort Wayne, has : freer: v - ting Fred Eierding and family the past week. Mr. Davison of Bluffton, and Henry Bremer : f Peterson, were business callers here Thursday. A number of the young folks were entertained at the home of Wm. . Grote, Sunday evening. Miss Gusta Kirchner of Ft. Wayne. . was visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. . Edward Kirschner, over Easter. Miss Anna Koenemaun. daughter • of Charles Koenemann. was married

Monday to a Mr. Werling, of Tocsin. David and Henry Werling had the dividing line between their farms; surveyed and corners established Wednesday. Otto Hoffmann and Martha Ewell were married at the home of the groom's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hoffmann. J. L. Ferry is having his Texas ponv broken to drive. So far it is about a stand off between the broken carts and colt. Miss Anna Grote, who has been at Fort Wayne the past winter, was visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs Mm. Grote, here last week. Miss Ruth Kittle returned to her home at Montezuma, Ohio. Monday, after a two weeks' stay with her sister, Mrs. Doug Elzey. David Werling, Geo. Martin and D. J. Dilling went to Tuscumbia, Ala., Tuesdav. Werling and Dilling expect to locate a saw mill near the I above named place in the near future and Martin goes to see the country. Red Estate Transfers. Wm. Miller to David Shipiger. undivided g of 35 acres, sec. 10, Hartford tp.. $1,200. Katherine W heeler to J. D- Martz. 20 acres, see. 12. Monroe tp, ssoo. J. R. Moser to Peter Stuffen, 20 acres, sec. 23. Kirkland tp.. SS» Jesse Koos to G. W. Dailey,4oacres I sec. 9. St. Marvs tp.. $1,050. G. R. Gerard to J. H. Gerard, in lot SSB and !"7. Decatur. S4‘X). C.F. Greene to James J. Greene, part inlot 142. Geneva. SSOO. Alma Englehart to L. A. Thomas. 1 acre, sec. 15. Washington tp.. S4OO. P. P. Ashbaucher to David Gerber, et al. part out lot 67, Decatur. $3,750. Michael McGriff to Alfred E. Dicklev receive in lot 35, Geneva, >375. J Father and Son Drowned. Jackson. Mi" . March 24.—F. E. Willey, a barge master, and his 9-year-old son were drowned in Pearl river i yesterday. The boy had fallen from a small rowboat and M illey jumped In J " him. A Judge In Tears. The unusual s[>ectacle of a judge in tears was witnessed at Card.ff when Mr. Justice Bucknill pronounced the : capital sentence for the first time in his judicial career. The sentence was on a woman, and the judge, whose voice was very shaky from the first words of the sentence, entirely broke down at the end and burst into tears. The scene, especially after the pathetic appeal of the prisoner for mercy for the sake of her children, was almost without parallel in the annals of trials. Even the leading counsel were obliged to use little subterfuges to bide their emotion. —Tit-Bits.

THE SAMEjOLD QUESTiqJ Even Cnto and s '*p‘o ni.. I ■When the Centarle, a ‘‘ “W In the years 600 ami v ■ Anno Urbis Conditsrethat is a ft !■ building of Rome, or 154 r’nd p,*® C.-the question was discus J® Rome whether 000 or GOl Was t , W ginning of the seventh cem ur the founding of Rome. ’w While as, in our days. tt )e 6 , question in the capital of the I; “’’B was “Quid novi ex Africa?' ra-? 5 ® the news from Africa':, a third!® with the republic of ' “ aceseeJ® Imminent. <’ato the elder, Scipio™!® younger and ether r - X® the day found time f r of the century quests.u Some held that 6jo. ~:i...r s was the first year of the c fß of old Rome. E. So Calpurnius Rise, the Ram.. -» nalist, tells us in his t\- .-.] s . ward, in 148 B. C., commanded® Roman legions in As: , jB thage. which two year, later s lWn ® ed to Scipio Africanus, by wb 0 »® was destroyed. ■ No doubt hardly a century pass® after the times of f . ... s t b e (CB (Charlemagne) in wl.ic. the ron commencement pr.,!,;,. . j. i : / the minds. This was especially t® case in Italy in the tl..rt. entb andfa® teenth centuries. 1 In the year 1600 there was soci® hot discussion on the stion in many that a medal was <• reick in memoration of it, w::':. .■ Gmn» ® scription which In E:: ; ; ,h version® “Oh. wonder of wond.rel Manet,,-® 1600. and still he ponders bow 41 ® may be.” ■ Toward the end of 17,-1 the sane jj® pute arose in the fat>. -riaud, andtb® discussion was esp>- hot »t w® mar. at that time the -of Gog® culture. There were t v - ties called respectively the “Nines® ninecs” and “Hundred :s.' accor&B to their believing either ibOorlSM® be the last of the eizbu-nt'j century® Goethe and Schiller, as may from their letters, at first siding w-E the “Ninety-niners." t.r.iiiy were verted to join the "11 . 1.-eders.” hi® not without first having reiebnte® over a bowl of champagne. tl.e close® the eighteenth century on Dec. 3® 1709. and again celebrating in same way the beginning of the nin® teenth century on Jan. 1. Ix'l.-Bal® more Sun. i Juvenile Statistician. f “How many children Lad G- : E Washington?" asked the r-acher.ffi*® ing to trip up the new boy la Lb||»l tory. K “About 3.000.000,” pr ::.; t)y auwe® ed the new boy. who knew somethiag® concerning the statistics f the peri® I when the Father of His < ountryi® at the head of the family.- B