Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1900 — Page 5

The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. H. M. Blossom next Saturday at 2 p. mCharles W, Ahr has been anointed inlonistrator of the estate of his father, Jacob Ahr, deceased. Now it’s Auditor Boek. Surveyor M. Kean and Prosecutor Moran if you please, the boys having been duly installed. At a session of the board of commissioners held Saturday the bonds of the newly elected county officers were approved. Wanted—Three rooms over business house that may be used for dwelling purposes. Inquire at this office. An old time shooting match will be given at the home of John Schurger, one mile west of the city, next Tuesday A cordial invitation is extended to ail. The funeral services of Nicholas Liehtle were conducted from the St. Marys Catholic church Friday morning at nine o’clock, Father H. Theo. Wilkens officiating. Interment at St. Josephs cemetery. Tony Forbing and sister, Miss Nona, left Tuesday evening for Shreveport, La., where they will remain during the winter as the guests of an uncle who has long resided in that southern clime, where winter is unknown. They will no doubt have an enjoyable time. Attorney John Moran, the newly commissioner! prosecuting attorney for this district has removed his office from Berne to this city an* opened rooms in the Stone block. He has purchased a brand new set of Indiana reports and is fully prepared to hand down opinions on most any old subject. W. H. Shepherd, of Hartford township. was in the city yesterday on business. He will soon temporarily take up his residence in Bluffton where he will devote himself to fire insurance, being agent for the Home in French and Hartford townships in this county, with a corner of Wells county thrown in for good measure. On Nov. 27, 28 and 29, the Clover Leaf Route will sell excursion tickets at very low rates to all points on its lines and connections in Central Passenger Association territory. Tickets good returning to leave destination to and including Dec. 3, 1900. For further information apply to nearest agent Clover Leaf Route. Public Notice. We desire to inform the public that on Wednesday, Nov. 28. we will begin making all kinds of mill feed at 21 cents per bushel, or for each one-tenth bushel toll. All work done to order on short notice. Conant & Smith, Pleasant Mills, Ind. 37-t3

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J. W. Poling, one of Red Rev’s 1 merchants, was in the citv Tuesday vrsiting relatives.! ‘ P. B. Manley the Marion lawver as counsel. oppeareu Mr. and Mrs. John Vail arrived ‘ day’s tri!) 1 "'! 117 ? Ve,,i ? g fro,u a ten Christian Beery vs; Malinda Baker . et al., a ease lor the settlement of the i P eer - V . est ?te, is being tried in the Adams circuit court this week. > T , Tb ? Cl ?ieago & Erie R. R. will se ll Thanksgiving excursion tickets for any point within 150 miles at one and one-third fare for round trip, on Nov. and 29, good returning Nov. 30. T.mb. r n By< T Ge °- r S° E ’ McK « a “™ an Indianapolis visitor Monday, and brought home in his inside pocket a commission which authorized him to act as surveyor of Adams county for the next four years. A number of people from town are ' arranging to attend the old-time shooting contest at Schurger’s farm west of the city, next Tuesday. A good opportunity to secure Thanksgiving turkeys, and no doubt the boys will each bring one home with them. Wallace W. Huntsman began proceedings against Susannah 11. Huntsman for a decree of divorce, the custody of their children and to declare trust on real estate. Colerick and 1 homas are attorneys. The complaint was taken from record. Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. Robert Gregory has received the patent on his up to date roof hook and is now arranging to push that article for all that is in it. He expects to have all parts of the hook manufactured in Decatur, thus showing his loyalty to home industries. W hoop em up Bob, and we hope it’s the winner it appears to be now. The following readers of the Democrat have favored us with their subscription money this week: Eli Crist, B. F. Pillars. T P. Hollingsworth, W. G. Hill, Mrs. Cordelia Bey, Maggie Dulin. Fred Muchler. Chas. Leimenstall, Samuel Leyse. Sam Myers, J, W. McKean. Mrs. Harriet Brandyberry, Otto Peek. Sam Wormcastel and J. J. Witsche. Kaffir Boy Choir, or perhaps better known as the African Boy Choir, from the land of the Boers, South Africa, will lie at the opera house Thursday evening, Dec. 6, under the auspices of several well known ladies of our town. They have a unique and marvelous entertainment in store for our citizens, secured at a very great expense to them for your pleasure.

I. M. Schirmeyer was at <*neva Tuesday, business being the object calling him there. ® R. A. Baumgartner, of Elkhart, Indiana, was in the city over Sundav, the guest of Miss Lilah Huffman. Joe Winteregg. Emil Franz, H. S. Michaud and Peter Soldner of Berne, were last Saturday business visitors in this city. J. K. Niblick went to Fort Wayne Tuesday, the object being to get next to an upholsterer to help him out in this part of his business. Sol Carter the genial representative of the Attica Bridge Company, was here this week lookmg aft her the construction of some work in this county. Mrs. Dan Donovan is at Fort Wayne this week undergoing the very painful operation of having a cancer removed. Her many friends here hope for results most satisfactory and that she may soon be permanently cured. A. R. Wolfe,among Root township’s well known farmers, has his head bandaged up just at present on account of a cancer just below the lefteye. The thing has been forming for over a year and just at present he is being treated by Clark Bros., with the prospect of being cured before long. Rudyard Kipling’s new novel, 'Kim,’ will begin in the December issue of McClure’s Magazine. This is a tale of life in India and in it the literary genius gives a profound studv of Oriental life. This is the author’s masterpiece, and it fulfills in its larger scop all the promise of his earlier and shorter works. Albert Brittson is at Cincinnati witnessing an interstate display of buggies and farming implements. The firm of Brittson Bros, propose to keep strictly up to date and this opportunity permits them to keep in line as nothing else could. The Queen City made elaborate preparations for the event and Albert will stje it all or die trying. Decatur Court, Trilie of Ben Hur, will go to Portland next Saturday at 1:19 p. m. The Decatur team will do the degree work in initiating a class of forty members into the mysteries of the order at that place. All those not members of the order wishing to go, are requested to leave their names at the Peoples’ Bakery. Fare, round trip, 85c. Tickets good returning Monday. A. J. Harrison, Deputy. L. B. Mcllheny of Dayton, Ohio, was in the city Tuesday evening and attended the city council meeting. He is the gentleman who is looking after franchises for the proposed electric railway from here to Fort Wayne, and was here to urge the council to take some action in the matter. He says if the franchise can be secured the road will certainly be built, that they will begin work on same next May and finish by May 1, 1902.

Bosse’s opera house was well filled last night, “Davy Crockett” being the attraction. The show is said to lie a good one. Joseph A. Hendricks, for a number of years a resident of this city, and wellxcnown all over the county, died at his home in Jefferson township Monday morning at nine o’clock of kidney trouble, from which he had suffered many years. He was about sixty years of age, a veteran of the civil war and has always taken a prominent part in G. A. R. circles. His brother, Byron Hendricks, and family, of this city, left yesterday for Berne, to attend the funeral services. Mike Lord of Monmouth, arrived home Wednesday evening of last week after a year’s service in the Philip pine army as aU, S. soldier. He was taken sick about July Ist and continued to grow worse until October Ist when he was placed aboard a transport and brought to San Francisco. He was held there about a week and then discharged, leaving at once for this place. Although he is a physical wreck just at present, the chances for his ultimate complete recovery are good providing he takes proper care of himself. J. H. Meyers who was a member of the firm of Mills & Meyers for several years has gone back to his old line of work, tailoring. On last Thursday he purchased the establishment of W. J. Abell on South Second street, and will hereafter be found at that stand. He will put in a first class stock of goods and a good guarantee goes with every order given him. Henry was for many years a member of the old clothing firm of Ehinger & Myers and all wearers of good clothes hereabouts are acquainted with his abilities in the line of making such. Several weeks ago Daniel Fuhrer, who lives near Domestic, Wells county, had a verv valuable horse stolen. He look for him everywhere, notified sheriffs of surrounding counties and offered a reward of forty dollars for the return of the horse or conviction of the thief, but with no results. Tuesday he had some business with a farmer near Honduras and while passing the farm of John Landis saw his horse. He had been stolen by John Gasser, a fellow, who had worked for Fuhrer during the past summer. Gasser is 59 years of age and had been working for Landis ever since stealing the horse. He was a citizen of Berne for several years, coming there from Monroe county, Ohio, about five years ago. He was taken to Bluffton and is now in jail there awaiting trial. He confessed taking the horse but says he did not mean to steal it. He paid Fuhrer fifty dollars for the trouble he had caused him in the way of advertising and I searching for the missing animal. , The probabilities are that he will have to serve a term at Michigan City.

r death At a Weeding; A Pathetic Tragedy of the War Between the StateN. Recalling the historic incidents clustering about South Carolina's executive mansion, Mrs. Thaddeus Horton writes 14 The Ladies’ Home Journal of’tbe shocking tragedy that occurred there toward the closcMif the wai. This was the death of the daughter of Governor Pickens immediately after her marriage to Lieutenant Le Rochelle. . “On the afternoon preceding the evening of tlie marriage the northern army began shelling Columbia, but preparations for the wedding continued. “Finally the guests were all assembled, and the clergyman was proceeding with the solemn ceremony and had just joined the right hands of the happy pair when suddenly there was an awful crash, and a ball from the enemy’s cannon penetrated the mansion and burst in the middle of the marriage chamber, scattering its death dealing missiles in every direction. There were screams and a heartrending groan, mirrors crashed, the house shook, women fainted and walls rocked to and fro. “When the first confusion was (Tver, it was discovered that in all the crowd only one person was Injured, nnd that was the bride herself. She lay partly on the floor and partly in her lover’s arms, crushed and bleeding, pale, but very beautiful, her bridal gown drenched with warm blood and a great cut in her breast. “Laying her on a lounge, the frantic bridegroom besought her by every term of tenderness and endearment to allow- the ceremony to proceed, to which she weakly gave consent, and, lying like a crushed flower no less white than the camellias of her bridal bouquet, her breath coming in short gasps and the blood flowing from this great, angry wound, she murmured ‘yes’ to the clergyman and received her husband's first kiss. A moment more and all was over. "She was laid to rest under the magnolias, and the heartbroken bridegroom, reckless with despair, returned to his regiment.” CHEAP SPONGES. Where Those Sold by the Street Fakirs Are Procured. Sponges sold by the street fakir are rather captivating in appearance, large and almost white, and the price ranges from sto 10 cents each. People who have bought sponges at a drug store know that no such looking articles can be got there for so little money, and so they invest. But they don’t invest more than once, because the sponge soon falls to pieces, whereas a good sponge will last for years. Somebody started a story years ago that the reason the fakirs could sell these sponges so cheaply was because they bought them from the hospitals, and there are some people who still believe it. As If men devoting all their

1 nergles nnd skill to ameliorating the tils of mankind would spread disease by dlsti muting old and possibly germ infected sponges. As a matter of fact surgeons' sponges are small and smooth as vi Ivet. being close grained. The fakirs' sponges are the clippings off the !>lg sponges sold to liverymen and others who need large sponges. The parts cut away have little body nnd would soon tear loose. The fakirs buy these bits, trim them into shape and then give them a bath in diluted muriatic acid. After lying there for 12 hours they are taken out and washed in clear water and dried. They are bleached. In other words, but at still further detriment to the sponge. Never of close texture, the mesh is made more rotten by the acid, and that is why they soon fall apart. But so far as disease is concerned they are as pure as any sponge bought in the finest drug store.—Chicago Tribune. The Young: Men of Today, The young men of today are too finicky—too much given to self analysis, too self pampering. Their shoes and neckties cost more each year than did the entire wardrobe of their grandfathers. They feel a sense of degradation In small beginnings and plodding, and they wait for success ready made to come to them. There is not a young man in the country who would imitate Ben Franklin and march through the streets munching a loaf of bread while looking for employment. He dare not, Indeed, because society has become also finicky, and he would be arrested as a tramp. The young man of today wants capital. He cannot be president of a bank or judge of a court the first week he is from school, and he feels, like the famous Eli Pussley, that he has "no chance.”—Memphis Commer-cial-Appeal. Exhibit Lifelike Qnalltleiv, Weeds if they are pulled out of a lawn at a time when they are full of seed will evince a degree of care for the seeds which is almost touching. They will curl their leaves upward as far as each can go to cover the seeds! and protect them from the sun till the end, and often one will find weeds that are quite dead, sun killed, whose leaves still are wrapped firmly around the seed pods. No mother could show more staking devotion in death than do these despised plants.—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Faithful Likeness. Artist—Here is the portrait of your wife which— Mr. Richman—Ah! It’s very like her. Artist—She —er— h’m—she didn’t pay for it. She said you’d do that. Mr. Richman—Ah! Still more like her.—Philadelphia I'ress. Proved. He-Do you think your father has any idea that we are in love? She—Not the remotest. lie told me he didn’t mind your coming to see me.