Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1900 — Page 1

ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME.

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M Burn? is improving his house on Adams street, .by the erection of a handsome new porch and other additions. One marriage license has been is sued this week by Clerk Johnson, she happy parties being John M. Smith and Miss Cora Belle Gessinger. \ large delegation from this county will attend the congressional convention and ratification meeting at Hartford citv July 18. H you want to be in the push you should join them. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Reid arrived home Monday from a ten days outing at Clear Lake and report an enjoyable time. Mr. Reid will resume his duties on the road next Monday. Among the Americans who are supposed to have been massacred at Pekin, China, is Miss Mary Smith, daughter of J. Candit Smith, the man who built the Chicago & Erie railway. Mrs. John Meibers returned to Louisville, Ky., Monday morning after a few days visit here. She had intended remaining longer but was called back to Louisville on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Theodore Droppieman, upon whom a serious operation is to be performed. Hon. Clark J. Lutz was the orator at Berne’s Fourth of July celebration, and the latest returns from the very pleasant event, give him credit for having done the occasion a full measure of justice. Clark has been very favorably congratulated by many of ■those who were in attendance, and ■this is certainly evidence of the fact ■that he touched the spot just right. I Mrs. James Harman who resides least of the city, died suddenly Wednesday evening. It was reported Khe cause of death was heart trouble. ■>ut it is said that the real cause was ■r m exhaustion caused by the terri■>i>- heat. She was attending to some ■rork in the garden and was overcome. remanining unconscious until Ker death. Funeral services were ■onducted from the home Friday ■fternoon. ■ A crowd of young folks enjoyed an ■vening of pleasure at the Robison Mome in the north part of the city ■hursday evening at which time Miss ■annie Robison and Mr. Jess Robison ■itertained. Music, games and re HfHshments were on the program and Bsisted materially in making the ocdelightful. The guests ini luded Misses Bernice Peterson. HatMr Niblick. Francis Bollman. JosephNiblick and May Niblick and ■essrs. Fred Patterson. Arthur Sut- ■ Frank Bell and Frank Burns. [■Stale's park is being put into good this year and scarcely a day r#''cs but some jolly crowd dines in shady grove near the lake. Among who have enjoyed an outing of kind this week was a party comof Messrs, and MesdamesJ. D. H. A. Fristoe, M. Gilson and Daii Meyers and Mrs. Dawson of Kwchester. who is the guest of the family. The affair took Tuesday evening. The lunch Eva veretible feast and was heartily by all and it is probable that ■•like wason will participated in soon. ■Tk | ,lls ‘ uoss deal was consumated whereby Mrs. Rommaine so ured the millinerv store owned by E. J. Bailey A K-i, 4r ' Merryman assumed control biHm,. S s yesterday morning, firm stepping oll t. The busi established one ami under gF Mr. and Mrs. Bailey has and liecome one of the hat establishments of the city. Ixu ev has not yet fully decided their future intentions. Mrs. will leave within a few days '••verai Weeks’ visit with relatives vast and in the meantime Mr. will probably decide upon Hisiness enterprise, probably in y. although they may go elseaccident occurred near Geneva Kz.|''' lllliri| iug when the oil well on farm was being shot. A ‘' s ‘‘ "f nitro glycerine was on B er ."i s J an, l' n K near die well and E of several hundred people ■ijj, '* x,llt to witness the shooting. ■LJ 1 tK ,1 a,l d eighty ipiarts of the Kfth wit ° R| V'' I*** l * l lowered inEL ‘ the shooter was put another can containing twentv r F when the line broke ami the E, , ‘v - on . d ‘‘O'drol. The alarm H "d there was a sudden K/-''J 1 11' 1 crowd, but luckiltthe ■act. i t , ' K J. n °t explode until it KniL- 011400 fwt dowu - Had IT „ "’ D anywhere with •ou| ( h’ 8, “? the result • F'iim. , n different ami the Eon of the most terrible ever Etirfe i°i f , uo doubt some* of the ■haE;.,' 1 ' ‘“'j” adffhted upon the EX an ' ai , ls . ln die wagon and ■ o f u , | X I , . < * l , on °I lhat, ■v«L in, i h die crowd could never l M a<thi,„' 1 d WFIS the damage KAd iiA' w n °t being obfcoftii,, u' 1 'I'* 1 '* i" a - v ' The rest of the r* »• sahm. I ! ln *‘ ,xl '*> and the well th 111 000 the beat proKBv. witn oun ty- John Reiter, of CKv.llee tll ° lllT “ ir froui “ ■ i-xcitin 'r savs the scene was | (ltin K for a few minutes.

The Misses Grace and Mariette Halo, daughters of Dr. David B. Hale i of West liberty, Ohio, are here for a protractisi visit with their relatives HiraniT. Gregg and wife and the Hale family. Winifred Mildred Ellingham celebrated her fourth birthday by the en-' tertainment of a number of her young friends from three to five yesterday afternoon. The event is reported to i have passed off with due dignitv to the occasion. The nine Adams county representatives who attended the great democratic national convention arrived home at various times ranging from Friday to Sunday evening. All are enthused with the earnestness and unanimity of feeling and are ready and willing to go to work for the winners, Bryan and Stevenson. The latest thing in the smoking line is a cigarette that is fully six inches long. It is oval shaped with a gilt tip, and it is a decided novelty. Two of the cigarettes are sold for five cents and one of them will last as long as an ordinary cigar. If the ordinary cigarettes are known as coffin nails, the new ones of a larger growth certainly come in the spike class. Prof. Stahl, who has acquired a great reputation in training wild horses, is entertaining the citizens of Decatur this week. He has a good sized tent erected on the vacant lot corner Monroe and Fourth streets, and an admission fee of fifteen cents is charged those persons who wish to see him make a wild horse as gentle as a lamb. The professor is alright and from reports of those who have attended, he certainly knows his business. Clark J. Lutz left Tuesday morning for Indianapolis, where he attended a meeting of the state bar association, which held a two days session in that city. All the prominent legal lights of the state were there, and the meeting is reported to have been the best ever held. This organization perhaps contains more signal ability and public prominence than any other organization in the state, and much benefit and social enjoyment is derived from an attendance at the meetings. A banquet at the Denizen hotel was one of the features of the meeting. Some people forget to be Christians in hot weather. What it is scientists have never been able to ferret out, but there is something about the intense heat of summer that affects peoples' minds and brains; making them lose their tempers and sometimes their senses. Losing ones' temper in hot weather is a dangerous thing. It is apt to bring on apoplexy and may even cause that other dread disease, apendicitis. So. no matter what your grievance is against your neighbor, try to keep cool when the thermometer stands ninety odd in the shade. Getting hot both bodily and mentally will wear out the strongest constitution. Tuesday’s Huntington Herald said: The Erie railroad company is making arrangements for a substantial improvement to their track road lied this summer. A force of workmen are now engaged in stripping a gravel lied at Joliet. Illinois, and as soon as this is ready, five trains will l»e placet! in service to haul gravel along the line from Hammond to Decatur, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. The graveling of the road bed for this distance will lie an extensive improvement, and one that will be substantial and lasting. A supply train is already at the pit, and engineer Chauncey Firman will have charge of the force of men at that place. From the pit. trains will run over the line of E. J. E. railroad connecting with the Erie at I’aynefield. It is stated that the state organization of the Epworth League will soon pass into historv and that an early dissolution of the state society will occur. The Warsaw district has withdrawn and it is predicted that the meeting at South Bend this month will be the final one. Then' has never iieen vital connections between the individual chapters or districts, and the so-called state league. From its first organization, which is said to have lieen irregular, its right to exist has been denied by many district organizations. Secretary Marion Swadener, of the Kokomo district, suvs that it was tacitly understood and so stated to him by the president of the state league at the last state meeting, that after the organization had participated iu the entertainment of Indianapolis, in the international convention at IndianajioliH, thtf“tate league would dis band. It is claimed .hat a state organization is useless as faF as benefit to the various districts is concerned. The Methodist discipline provides that the pastors of the various churches shall organize chapters of the league in their respective charges; that the presiding elder sluill organize the several chaptenof his district into a district league. The only referffiee to a state h<ague ii#to th<> that the district “may" organize a state organization if they see fit. Prior to the organization of the present state league the several presiding elders were notified of the date of the preliminary meeting. A very small number was present. •

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1900

Sheriff Dan Erwin was at Richmond yesterday, having in charge Mrs. Mattie Stotler who was declared insane last Saturday and who was placed in the Eastern asylum. Mrs. Stotler was forty-four years old and a resident of Blue Creek township. Charles True and family will leave Saturday evening for a trip to thfe various lakes in northern Indiana. They will drive to Fort Wayne and remain there over Sunday, leaving Monday for Wolcottville, and from there go to some of the many lakes of that region. Julius Vandervour, the young man iv’no has been employed at Fry singer. Gerber A Spruuger’s stables caring for their horses was overcome by heat last TLursdav while at work iu the hay mow. He was unconscious several hours and his condition was considered very serious but his constitution was too strong for any serious results and he is now- entirely recovered. The first sermons in the interest of the anti-saloon league of Indiana were delivered in this city Sunday. In the morning Rev. C W. Helt conducted services at the Presbyterian church and Rev. Barkley at the Methodist, while the evening services were held at the Lnited Brethren church by Rev. Helt and at the Evangelical by Rev. Barkley. All the services were largelv attended and were quite interesting. The league will probably organize a branch iu this county. A dispatch dated at Elkhart appeared in various papers last Friday and read: “William Morgan of Decatur, has been placed in jail here liecause of a joke last evening. He threw a cannon cracker between the feet of \\ ilber Bender, a fanner boy, who was badly injured, the flesh being opened to the bone in long gashes in Ixith legs. Morgan’s bond was fixed at S3OOO. and the trial was continued for thirty-days to await the extent of Bender’s injuries.’’ It is believed here that the young man is from Bluffton as no one by that name is known to reside here. This week’s issue of the Berne Witness has the following mean things to say of a certain section of Monroe township: There in a spot in Monroe township known by the name of Hard Scrabble. The name originated from the fact that people scrabbled hard for ! inost't anything they wanted. But Hard Scrabble is noted for one other characteristic: and that is when anything new transpires the first one to know of it starts off on a gallop to tell the nearest neighbor; then this one starts and others follow, until in a very short time after the occurrence takes place everyone in the vicinity knows all about it. Keep the good thing moving on. for you can’t hurt anybody but yourself. A New York World of last week speaking of the terrible fire which occurred among tne vessels off Hoboken tells of a numlier of sad scenes Among them is one wherein the suffer ings of Agnes Holte, a sister of the gentleman who was here last week and whose story was told in these columns, was described. It said that as one of the life boats approached the Bremen, upon which vessel she was staying, they heard a ladv shouting through one of the port holes. She said her name was Agnes Holbe and her home in Germany, giving the . name of the town, where her mother t still lived. She realized her awful ! fate and asked as a last favor that the I boatmen would notify her mother of | her sad death and tell her that the i last thoughts of her dying daughter I were for home and mother. The men ■ carefully noted the name ami have done as requested. The sad intelligence that the death of Wood Case had occurred at Richmond at 10:30 o’clock was received Saturday morning. Mr. Case had for many years worked at the painter's trade and several weeks ago he was taken violently ill with blood poison, a disease often brought on by t the constant inhaling of poisonous paints. He clung to life earnestly I and for a time it was telieved that he ■ could master the malady, but such was impossible and finally the brain was affected and his ravings were most terrible. Later it was decided to send him to the Eastern Insane Hospital at Richmond and he was conveyed to that institution on Friday. June 29. Everything ]x>ssible was done for him, but the laxly was tix> frail aud weak from the long illness and he passed into the sleep of death •Saturday morning. His remaius were brought to this city Sunday evening aud the funeral services wen- held Monday morning from the home on Third street, being in charge of Rev. J. Q. Kline of the United Brethren church. J. W. Case was born near Willshire, Ohio, May 9th, 1954, and died at Richmond, Indiana, July 7th, 1900, aged 1G years, 1 month aud 28 days. Mr. Case was joiued in marriage to Emma King July 25th, IH7B. To this union seven children were tern, three of whom are dead. The remaining four are all with their mother save one, Mrs. A. O. Amspaugh who lives at Kent, Ohio. The death is .in exteremely sad one and the sorrowing family has the sincere sympathy of the comtnuniiy.

New cases filed with Clerk of the j court Johnson sinc<», our last, week’s report are James C. and Emily C. i Moses vs Mary Ann Arnold, suit to quiet title and correct deed. Ovando Morgan vs Jennie D Morgan, divorce j proceedings. The board of review adjourned last Saturday, having completed their labors in revising the assessments as returned by the township assessors. Auditor Mangold and County Asses sor Crist are now changing the figures and footings, and in a few days the same will be completed, and then no further changes will be made unless ordered by the state tax board. The merchant who would leave a city for New York in a stage coach today instead of the railroad cars would be no farther tehiud in business principles than the man who quietly sits down without advertising and expects the rapid moving, hustling world to bother itself in hunting him up so as to do business with him. It is the wide awake business man who keeps his name and his business prominently before the public through the columns of the local newspapers that gets the trade. A crowd of members of the F. A A. M. order of this city were at Monroeville Monday afternoon to attend the funeral services of George Webster, an aged and respected brother Mason, who died last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Webster was a well known and popular citizen and a staunch admirer of the Masonic fraternity, and the funeral was largely attended. Among those present from here were L. C. Miller, Dave VanCleef, N. Blackburn, J. H. Lenhart, Lewis Waggoner, William Pillars. T. M. Moore, Ed Beeler, George Kiuzle, and Barney Kalver. The friends of Miss Hattie King were agreeably surprised last week to learn of the fact that she had teen united in marriage on Easter Sunday to Mr, A. J. Salgal, of Marion. The ceremony was performed at Kokomo and was kept a secret by the bride and groom until July 4th. when Mr. Salgal came to this city to claim his bride. They returned to Marion Thursday and are now at home in that city. Mr. Salgal is in the plumbing business at that place and is a popular and prosperous gentleman. The bride is well known here, having resided here during her entire life. For several years she has teen connected with Mrs. Southerland’s dressmaking establishment. The Democrat extends congratulations. Among the most enthusiastic Bryan men in the state of Indiana is Daniel Haley of this city. Four years ago when the campaign was on he secured a large picture of William Jennings aud placet! it in the window of his house, which stands out prominently on south Mercer street. Dan worked hard for his candidate, bu. took defeat calmly and resolved that Bryan’s picture should adorn that window just as long as it held together or until his choice should be elected to the high office to which he aspired. About two weeks ago some one who knew of the resolution or thinking thinking perhaps the place was too public for the picture of one who aroused so much enthusiasm in "the breast of the passer-by raised the window and store the image of our leader away. Dan was very angry when he discovered the loss and savs he would just as leave they would have taken any other article in the house. He is now in search of another picture which will be placed iu a similar position and the thief will have gained nothing for his trouble. Such fidelity by Mr. Haley is certainly commendable. Special sessions of the city council were held at the rooms on Monroe street last Thursday and Friday evenings. All members were present aud Mayor Beatty presided at both occasions. At the former the report of the street committee, stating that the Trout sewer had been examined and found completed according to the plans and specifications was filed and adopted by a unanimous vote. Mr. Myers moved that th» Lister sewer be connected with a ten inch glazed tile, with a top joint ateve the arch, and said motion was duly carried. The final estimate on Trout sewer was upon motion allowed to the contractor, A. E. Hoffman. Mr. Niblick then moved that another special meeting should tecalled for Friday evening and that Marshal Hart te instructed to notify Civil Engineer Knoff to Ire present at same. Motion carried mid council adjourned. At the Friday evening session Engineer Knoff was askixl to report as to the number of water meters already set and the condition of same, which was given satisfactorily. Mr. Leßrun moved that the waterworks superintendent te instructed to either put in a meter at A. YauCamp’s or turn the water off, which motion was duly carried. A motion was then carried to the effect >that the engineer be instructed to make plans aud specifications of the Lister sewer and an estimate of the same and report at the next meeting. J. D. Wisehaupt was then instructed to set water meters at such places as the committee should designate. Upon motion council then adjourned until the following Tuesday.

George L. Maddy, who during the I past year has been employed as a | clerk in the city postoffice at VVash- , ington. D. C., has resigned his posi- ' tion and last Monday accepted a more j profitable one in the census depart- ] ment, where he expects to remain unthe close of that department, which will probably te several years. George passed the examination creditably aud had no trouble in landing the plum. A disastrous fire occurred at Preble about five o’clock Saturday evening and as a result Jeff Klopfenstine, the I popular saloon proprietor of that city lis the looser by several hundred dol" |lars. The conflagration started in the barn adjoining Jeff’s saloon aud was ignited by a spark from a passing engine on the Chicago A Erie railway. No one saw the fire until the barn was completely enveloped and nothing could te ({one towards saving the building and contents. All the grain and hay, a valuable horse, wagon, carriage and harness were burned. The flames soon spread to the bottling I works and ice house near by and these also with all contents were destroyed. A bucket brigade was soon formed and did great work,finally succeeding in saving the saloon against a very stubborn wind. Had the saloon caught it is very probable that with the stiff wind all the homes in the litle city would have teen destroyed, and the boys who did such excellent word are to be commended. The loss to Mr. Klopfenstein is estimated at £ISOO, with only £250 insurance. We are in rceipt of an interesting letter from our friend John M. Frysinger. now located for a short time at Hamburg, Germany. He describes Hamburg as a busy city and a great | sea port, from where is sent a vast ! amount of merchandise, live stock, etc to the remotest parts of the commer- ' cial world. Every day Mr. Ahren, who visited Decatur last fall, forwards live stock to African,South American, North American and Australian ports. At the time of writing the letter John ’ i says a lot of horses, cattle, sheep and I various kinds of property were teing , shipped to Suuth Africa, where recent- ■ ly a large trade has teen established. ' j He also says that the day previous a I handsome four-in-hand span of grey ■ I horses were stabled iu the Ahren's ; barns, which tear quite a history. The four animals are exactly alike and were bought in Hungary last year, tak#n to the Berlin exposition, where they secured first honors, and were purchased by the emperor of Germany who in turn gave them to the king of , Portugal, whither they were bound at [ that time. Mr. Frvsinger will return , tn this city either in August or SepI temter, and will bring with him several of the test stallions he can puri chase. The death of Mrs. Maggie A. Lower (nee Congleton) wife of J. W. Lower, occurred at her home at Fort Wayne last Thursdav after a long illness, She was born in Adams county, Indiana, March f>, 1852, and died July ' 5, 1900, aged forty-eight years, three months and twenty-nine days. She ' was united in marriage with Rev. J. W. Lower September 12. 1876, and to ' them were tern three children, Mamie A., Edna Z. aud Allen Virgil, all of whom are left with the sorrow stricken husband to mourn the loss of their I kind and loving mother and wife. Mrs. Lower residl'd in this county I until her marriage when she and her ' husband removed upon a farm near Monroeville, where they remained two years, then going to' Dayton. Ohio, where they resided three years. From then on she resided in the various cities when* her husband as a minister of the United Brethren gospel was called, living at various times at Dunkirk. Ohio, Lockington, Ohio, Decatur, Geneva, Fort Wayne and Saratoga. About a year ago she was stricken with a disease which baffled the physicians,lreing from appearances paralyi sis of the bowols. However various I physicians who waited upon her seemed puzzled as to the exact cause of the illness. Everything possible was done for her. and seven prominent physicians did what they could to saae her life but their efforts were useless and she went to the long, sweet sleep with a calmness which fortells her future. She united with the United Bretnren church at Union Chapel in this county early in life. It could te said her that she wa4 an active church worker especially in the Sabbath schools. Besides the immediate family there remains three sisters, Mrs. Josephs. Lower and Mrs. Joseph Helm of this city and Mrs. Rachael Dailey of Willshire, and two brothers, Hiram P. Congleton of Monroeville and Pilley Congleton of this city. Short services were conducted Friday morning at the Foit Wayne home by Rev. J. W. Lake, after which the remains were brought to this city and the funeral conducted Saturday morning at 10:80 o’clock from the United Brethren church by Rev. W. Z. Rolrerts of Sidney. Ohio. Interment ut Maplewood cemetery. A large numter of ministers were present including Revs. J. W. Lake. Fort Wayne, J. Q. Kline, Decatur, E. Bald tic, Geneva, W. H. Shepherd, Redkey, R. W. Wilgus Lima, Ohio, H. D. Meads. Tocsin, C. T. Betts, Monroeville, D. J. Schenck. Willshire, Ohio, D. W. Abtett, Portland.

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

NUMBER 18

From recent dispatches from the oil field cities in this section it appears that the Standard Oil company has notified all workmen to stop drilling in the Indiana field. The order has caused a panic among tho independent producers, as they have invested heavily in wild cat territory and developed a large numter of wells that yielded from 100 to 1,000 barrels per day. \\ hen the crude was worth over $1 per barrel they could work at a profit, but when the Standard forced it down to ninety cents they were compelled to operate at a loss or close down. It is claimed that the Standard has an over production of crude and when there is market for it work will resume. The continued session of the city council met as announced Tuesday evening with Suttles, Haefling, Myers, Leßrun and Mann present and Niblick absent. Mayor Beatty was absent and Mr. Suttles was made presidingofficer for the evening. The object of the meeting was then stated to te the determination of what steps to take in the matter of the Lister sewer. However, no conclusion was reached and Mr. Myers moved that the council meet next Tuesday morning for the purpose of investigating said sewer. Motion was carried. H. B. Knoff, city engineer, filed his final report on the Trout sewer and said , report was unanimously adopted and Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock fixed as the time for hearing said report and the assessment of benefits therein, and the city clerk was ordered to give notice by publication. Mr. Mann moved that the water works committee instruct the engineer at the station to blow the whistle as follows: 6:30 a. m. and 11:30 a. m. and 12:30 p. m. and 5:30 p. m. Motion was carried and council adjourned untill next Tuesday evening. Auditor Mangold has completed the distribution for the township trustees, and the amount of money each will receive is as follows: Union township—Congressional r/'hool fund £53.60, common school fund £522.20, township tax 5331.01, tuition tax 8110.60, special school tax 8865.86, road tax 840.56, dog tax ninety-four cents, township poor 821.22, township bridge $467.80. liquor licenses 8126.29, total $2,540.08. Root Congressional $158.86, common school $509.82, township $1,027.08, tuition $327.17, special j school $410.84, road 8127.40, dog uinety-four cents., township poor s4l. 08, township bridge $8(8.95, liquor ; licenses $146.66. total $3,553.80. I Preble -Congressional $63.93. common school $638.81, township $554.84, I special school $553.41, road $'.*5.03, i township poor $73.41. township bridge •8715.76. liquor licenses $154.12. total $2,849.31 Kirkland Congressional $34.36, common school $618.84, township $255.49. tuition $255.t’0, special school $129.41. road $50.58, township p00r550.75, township bridge $775.80, liquor license $14.3.26, total $2,314.09. Washington Congressional $73.56, common school $701.93. township sl.998.78, tuition $305.82, special school $596.84, road $1,589.91, dog ninety four cents, township poor $647.40, township bridge $1,010.21. liquor license $170.07. total $5,664.41. St. Mary’s Congressional $69.09, common school $506.71. township $1,049,27. tuition $601.82. special school $406.77, road $43.03, dog $3.76, township poor $131.14. township bridge i $651.32. liquor license $126.29, total j $3,589.20. Blue Creek Congressional : $lB, common school $551.02, towhship $224.25. tuition $5204.93, special school $208.1], road $71.55. township poor $40.16, township bridge $428.69, liquor license $131.38. total $1,908,09. Monroe -Congressional $37.20, com mon school $1,287.83, township $350.95, special school 8531.37, road $88.65, dog $3.76, township poor s69.2B,township bridge $5.34.34. liquor license $290.56, total $3,193.91. French Congressional $50.24. common school $567.31!, township $257.93, tuition $129.01, special school $872.63. road 8127.24, dog niiiety-fiYur cents, town ship poor $25.77, township bridge $219.07, liquor license 8135.46, total 82.415.65. Hartford Congressional $25.35. common school $709.90; township $210.33, tuition $>6.74, sjiecial school $1,538.87, road $185.98, dog ninety four rents, township poor Sis. 83, township bridge $346.71, liquor license $116.25, total $1,294.90. Wabash Congressional $53.96, common school $992.43, township $200.97, tuition $190.10. si'hool $1,124. 64, road $16.3.12, dog $5.64, township ixxjr $216.71, township bridge $368.72, liquor license $229.47, total $3,575.76. Jefferson Congressional $81.60, common school $551.58, township sso»lit;9, tuition $6.95, special school $636.76. road $13.86. township ixxir $62.57, township bridge $117.14, liquor license $138.83, total $2,445.70. Decatur • Common school 51.98L.38. tuition s2.' 599.25, s|XH'ial school $3,836.16, dog $175.42. liquor license $135.17, corporation $10,014.33, library $24.3.10. total school $8,098.06, total corporation? 10,189.75. Geneva Common school .$165.89, tuition $640.99, special school $451.77,d0g44.62, liquor license $102,19, corporation $1,597.26, total school $1,660.84, total corporation $1,641.88. Bertie Common school s4l*6 85, tuition $600.26 sjxH'ial school $3Bl, dog $25.22, liquor Imense $108.98, conior ation $2,469.06, total school $1,587.09, ! total corporation $2,494.28.