Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1901 — Page 8

|p|o|p| THE OPENING OE THE SEASON finds us prepared to fill all foot needs. Our stock of FOOTWEAR is made up of new, stylish and excellent goods. We carry nothing over from season excepting such shoes as are still in perfectly correct style. OUR EASTER SHOE OFFERINGS are of superior style, excellent quality and reasonable price. JOHN H. MOUGGY.

Eastern Dispatch. The new iron bridge at the Strickler crossing is in. Easter will be celebrated by the people of the surrounding community to the utmost. Walter and Haul Hakes visited James Hakes and family n<»ar Wren, Ohio, last Sunday. Rev. Peters preached his farewell sermon at the M. E. church at Pleasant Mills last Sunday. The funeral of Gus Steavely took place at the M. E. church at Pleasant Mdls last Sunday, and of William Winans at the Baptist church last Monday. They both were fine young men, one 2S years of age and the other 35 years of age. They always lived an open and upright life making friends with all whom thev became acquainted, and their life has been one which it is safe for us who remain to make an effort to imitate. They were true to themselves and their God. and have gone to reap the reward that is promised to all who lived as they did. In their death the communitv has lost two good men, and the church two grand and noble men.

EASTER SUITS. READY MADE. Although our suit department is crowded with work, we are making a special effort to take care ofthe trade that want suits for Easter A $ us Your Order U 9 now and we will X ■ I a I O V > 1 Hl \ .// /J 1 17 Rft QOV ER I CLO I H 0C BA SL ITS, honie-s pun, 01 IJU suits, grey, brown and OJiUU all shads, Eaton Jacket, blue, tiy front jacket, full flare satin lapels, Hare skirt, worth skirt, worth SIOOO, our JJ |j|j S7OO, our price this QQ SPECIAL THIS WEEK. (M OC Black Underskirts.— Mercerized ruffles or flounce Ad AF lIU U good width, worth $1.50 and $2.00, our price W liL V BOSTON STORE. FCuebler & Moltz Co. L O. O. F. Block.

Western Spy. William Elzev and wife Sundayed with their daughter Mrs. W. D. Rinehart and Grand mother Rinehart are sick with the grip. • Mrs. Henry Westenberger of Ft. Jennings, Ohio, is the guest of \\ ■ D. Rinehart. Miss Mae Lybin who has been visiting at Fort Wayne returned home last Saturday. We are wondering who our fellow itemizer “Western Spy” is, says the West Root itemizer. It is just me, and I go right straight ahead and stop for no one. Now tell who it is. Preble. Mrs. Bert Harruff Sundayed at De catur. Supt. Miller gave the pipeline men a pleasant call. Mrs. C. H. Carpenter is quite sick at this writing. Dave Werling is running his saw mill in full blast this week. Dave Werling has his force of 13 men cutting coni wood for Ins tile mill. C. H. Carpenter, Bert Harruff and Wm. Laughner were at Decatur Saturday. Mrs. L. Sickafusgave a supper in honor of Miss Mammie Kellison last Sunday. Tom Stoneburner made C. H. Carpenter and family a pleasant call last Sunday. Miss Mammie Kellison and mother will go to Lima, Ohio, to live in the near future. C. H. Carpenter moved Tuesday into the house formerly occupied by Chas. Hoepuer. Amos Bowman bought the John Kiefer farm for 52,600, and moved to it last Tuesday. Ray Carpenter will go to Hicksville, Ohio, to study telegraphy. We wish him success. Mr. and Mrs. Mann and Mr. and Mrs. Graudstaff paid Dr. Grandstaff and wife a visit Sunday. Chas. Hoeppner will put in his time this summer on a farm raising rabbits, chickens, quail and pigeons. Chas. Hoepner moved to the Wilson place one and a half miles from here, but he will still continue to run his shop at this place. Telegraph operators at the oil station have to do their own guaging as the gaugers are laying the steam line to tanks 18, 26, 27. Peck Werling built a picket fence 1 around his lot and is running his picket saw this week,and is now ready to supply any one in the picket line.

Pleasant Mills. I The high school conducted by Prof. Smith, closed last Friday. Rev. Sherick filled the pulpit at the > Baptist church last Sunday, Mrs. jSeph Comer is improving . some from her recent sickness. ' Dr Vizard was called to Dixon last Tuesday on professional business. Mrs. D. B. Erwin of Decatur, called ’ on friends here the first of the week. Miss Artie Archer of Decatur, Sundayed here with relatives and friends. 'W. J. Cowan of Decatur, attended > the funeral of Will Winans here Monday. Born, to Dick Bovd and wife a ten pound boy, last Saturday. All are doing well. D. E. Morris transacted busines at Decatur Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The funeral services of Augustus Stevely occurred at the M. E. church Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Peters and assisted by Rev. Kohn. Falk’s Juvenile Orchestra will give a grand concert at Fuller’s Hall. Pleasant Mills, on Friday evening, April 5. Two hour program. Admission 15c. Money back if not satisfactory. The funeral of William Winans of Fort Wayne, occurred at the Baptist church Monday morning. The funeral services were conducted by a minister of Fort Wayne, assisted by Rev. Sherick, and was very largely attend ed. Interment in Pleasant Mills eeinetary. Monroe. Charles Ward left here Monday. Mr. Baily is dangerously ill at this writing. Mr. Reaffy is some better at this writing. Our stores will soon start out their huckster wagons. Peter Rich has been running his saw mill lately. Miss Daisy Gilbert is again at school after a short absence. Frank Smith came near dying from the effects of over-eating and indigestion. Sunday school will commence at Smith’s Chapel next Sunday. All come. Floyd Brandyberry had the pleasure of shooting at a wild duck last I Saturday. A new man from Salem has taken the place of B. M. Smith at the blacksmith shop. Monroe cttizens say they will do all

they can to keep the coming saloon from locating there. • , Rev. Peters preached his farewell sermon Sunday, and leaves for the annual conference at Elwood, Mon- . day. Well drilling was commenced on the Wn>. Schug place last week. They 1 were down over one hundred feet last, s Sunday. We notice that our neighbor itemizer of Linn Grove, is getting pretty r strong lines about spring. Hit er > again, brother. Boys, don't scare me so. I hear that some boys know me. Probably you c do. but don’t'let on, as lam used to f the business and can take a little fun. Bobo Wm. Faulk started his hay baler • Monday. t John Thatcher started his junk wagon this week. t Some of our farmers are sowing oats j between snow storms. i Ida Shaffer commenced her school at Bobo last Monday. I The anti cigarette movement is I growing somewhat in Bobo. Joseph Johnson moved his goods from Lima Ohio, to Bobo last week. ‘ Zach Shell and E. H. Hilvard were i at Decatur Monday afternoon on business. | Kit Cowan has quit fireing on the f railroad and will lee a brakeman here- I after. < Elzev Jackson moved to his farm last week on the former E. H. Cowan | place. i Ben Colter has built himself a work < shop at Bolx). where he can lu» found • at all times. ‘ Wilson Gulick was here last week and contracted for a bill of lumber of H. Colter. G. Chronister will commence the | brick work on the M. E. church this week at Bobo. t A large crowd gathered Monday afternoon at the new church building J to see the corner stone laid. Chauncy Samples was elected last Sunday as superintendent of the ] Brethren Sunday school at Bobo. t Rev. E. H. Peters will attend con ference next week. We hope he will < be sent back to stay with us another ; rear. < Gus Steavely who lived near Van Wert. Ohio, ami was visiting friends , at Pleasant Mills, died last week and < was buried last Sunday. Rev. E. H. < Peters conducted the funeral services. Maule}. Rufus Franks has moved on the 1 Mankey farm. G. C. Steele and Earl Kitson drove to Pleasant Dale Sunday night. I William Myers of Honduras, was . seen in our vicinity last Sunday. Rev. Curry of Curryville, preached at the Little Vine church Sunday. April is here and the people got fooled, for spring is not here yet. Our farmers are busy building wire' fence and getting ready to sow oats. Archie Shady has left for parts unknown bv the people of this community. Eli Burkhead and family of near Honduras, visited William Bargerand family last Sunday. Ed Amtneu was in our neighborhood selling buggies for Atz & Stuckey of Decatur. John Fender and family have moved to their future home in Ohio. Welven Smith will go later in the i spring. Quite a crowd got fooled last Wednesday night at the Barger school house by the professor turning the keys on the audience. Next Friday will be the last day of school at the Barger school. The teacher and the scholars are preparing fora good program in the afternoon. Cleve Anderson and Frank Myers who left home last January for the wild west, have landed safely in Missouri. The Ixiys are but 15 years old and were reported frozen to'death in Michigan last winter. Another page should lie added to Magley’s history of society, and Miss Lizzie Conrade shall receive the honor. Last Saturday night alwut 65 of her friends gathered at her lieautiful home in the east part of town for a good old fashioned time, and inde>?d they had it. After the guests finished a delicious supper they passed into the parlor which was decorated with lieautiful flowers. All kinds of ainuseI ments were the order of the evening. | John Linker furnished the music. I Beautiful red carnations were given I as souvenirs. The guest of honor was I Mr. Bert Anderson of Craigville. Geneva. fl Indiana oil *7 cts. Plenty of April foolishness and | mud last Monday. Good Friday next, but what to do I with it on account of the miserable [I weather. I G’ $’ *’ ar ” putting new balast on this hoodooed ]>art of their ■ track this week. I Rev. B. F. Aspv of Eaton, Ind., is I in our midst visiting relatives in town fl and country. The farmers in this portion of AdI ams county report the wheat in excel- ■ lent condition.

J G. Brenner, one of our deserving old soldiers, was allowed a pension ot $6 per month last week. Albert Harlow went to work last Monday morning for the Geneva Lumber Co., as foreman. John Miller left for Indianapolis last Friday, where he will take up his studies in the Voorhees business college. The city waterworks after a long rest through the winter months, has again been put in operation. Let s drink. Larry Shell is building a raw dwelling house ou his lot on R. K. street, recently purchased of Burley Waite. Jake Zehr went to New Corydon Monday and purchased a fine horse which he will use in his business excursions. It is rumored that Pete Burke will retire from the restaurant business, and open up a boot and shoe emporium somewhere in town. The front of the Hotel Shamrock is being brightened up with a coat of paint,a rearrangement of the furniture in the lobby has also been made. The ladies (God bless them) are hoping for fine weather next Sunday, in order that they may display their Easter millinery tothebest advantage. Notwithstanding the numerous attempts to destroy Hank Finkbone’s soup foundry, the plant is still in the ring with Henry dishing it up at five cents per. S. F. Biteman, formerly of this place but now a prominent merchant at Ceylon, and Mrs. Sarah E. Blythe of E'au Claire. Pa., were married March 26 at Fort Wayne. The happy couple will make their future home at Ceylon. Linn Grove. Fred Hoffman left for Mooreland. Ind., Saturday on business. John Wanner moved from town to the M. L. Kizer farm Wednesday last. M. J. O’Harra and son Ephraim, of Jay county, made us a social call last Thursday. Rev. Harry Reynolds and Oscar Hoffman made a business trip to Bluff ton Friday. Prof. B. A. Winans and E. M. Ray. of Berne, and Rev. Lester, of Bluffton, attended the commencement here Friday evening. We extend our obligations to Judgeelect Erwin for his social call after the conclusion of the commencement exercises. J. H. Rizor. of Van Wert, Ohio, and Eli Bierie. of Bluffton, Ind., were here representing the Deering harvesting machinery last Friday. Lawrence Opliuger and Oscar Hoff man left Monday morning to take a college course*, the former at Angola ' and the latter at Bloomington. Ind. Mrs. J. H. Bryan and children, of' Marion, and Mrs. Wm. Seckler, of Montpelier, are visiting their mother, Mrs. Ensley, and other relatives here. A. W. Merriman and family.of Buffton, were visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. W. Reynolds, and family over the Sabliath. Her sister, Miss Mama, will remain during the week and assist them in moving from West Linn Grove to the town proper. They will occupy the house vacated by Ed Hugman. Commencement of the class of 1901 here last Friday evening was an all around success. The speaker, Hon. R. K. Erwin, although indisposed, gave his hearers a rare treat in oratory. His subject. “The Golden Age,” which was methodical and very instructive, was a treasure for the mind of the audience as well as of the class and his effort inspired the occasion. The small fee for admission produced some §24. A residue of $5 goes to the library fund after the expenses of the class are adjusted. A reign of joy was supreme in the household of the Enslev Mondav evening on receipt of a fetter from M illiam. a son and brother, who left for the far west 26 years ago. and from whom they had not heard for more than eleven years, and all had pined in the belief that he was dead. His letter was dated at Anaconda, Montana, March 29, where he haslieen engaged in labor in the mines. He 1 says after this season he is done reap i ing his crop of wild oats on the desert and is in the matrimonal market, when he will locate in Jackson county Oregon, where he has already taken 1 up a homestead. His many' friends join the family in th.se joyful tidings.

MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE, GRAIN MERCHANT. DECATVR, IND, Wheat, new -q Corn, per cwt, yellow (new).'.'.'. 55 Corn, per cwt. (new) mixed.... 54 Oats, new 22 to 25 Rye 45 •••• «> 46 Timothy.... I w^'2 Potatoes, per bu 44) 12 Chickens (w; Ducks ( u. £ ,rkp y on Geewe # e t e Woo, unwashed"if.tolM Wool, washed 20 and 25 H, «" 5 (X) TOI tuu MARKETS APRIL 3,1 ;30 P. M. Wheat, new No. 2 red,cash...f 74 May wheat - r(S Cash corn No. 2 mxed,’ cash 42* May corn Prime clover / 6 50l

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UNCLE SAM’S SPOTTERS. Especially the Man In Europe Who Looks Ont For Smugglers, ••Uncle Sam’s large and well organized secret service," says S. 11. Adams In Ainslce's. "Is made up mostly of men wln> come properly under the head of detectives with police powers, but it lias its class of bona fide spotters, whose entire duty it Is to ingratiate themselves with persons suspected of having designs to evade the custom house duties and to warn the baggage inspectors nt this end of the impending swindle. “In cleverness, address and adaptability the secret service spotter is easily at the head of his profession and even ranks with the trained experts of the European diplomatic corps. It is essential tbilt lie should be a man of the world, for he must associate with all kinds of people on equal terms. He has no fixed abode, but lives in various European capitals when he is not on shipboard, where ho is much of the time. He must never let himself be in the slightest degree suspected. “There is always a number of these agents in Paris, liecause of the great American trade there. They live at the fashionable hotels and live the life apparently of tianeurs and boulevardiers. In all lines of trade that concern dutiable good® they are' experts, and no large purchase by an American in Paris is unknown V> them. Their cir,cle of acquaintance is enormous, but noliody knows them for what they are. In one way or another they contrive to make the acquaintance of any person w hom they suspect and unostentatiously but unremittingly trail him. “Many a time some man who has made a heavy purchase of diamonds or laces and so disposed them that | he felt sure of being able to get them I through the port undiscovered has been passed on the dock by a chance acquaintance of the voyage over who. unseen, presses a little note into the hand of the customs inspector. That note tells all that the wily smuggler would wish to keep secret, and hia baggage is mercilessly ransacked until : the bidden articles are brought to light. He has been followed over by the spotter. Men employed in this line get good pay—as high as $lO a day—but it costs them much to live In the manner in which they must maintain tbemselves.’’ was burned to death. His clothes caught tire from a brush heap which his father was burning. Feud Termlnatcw Fatal!' Jjouisa. Ky., Feb. 36.—Dick V iuson •hot and kllhsl William Tbompsoo Saturday night. On meeting they re- . newed an old quarrel and Vinson opened the firing.

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