Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1901 — Page 5

Cristoe’s Smoke House. I Next door to Postoffice. 5-13 Tue \V. C. T. I’, will meet with jj rs . Rosa Daily next Saturday afternoon. The medical fraternity of Geneva tte re well represented at the Botkin\spv malpractice suit here this week. Have you seen our line of calendars? They are the finest ever shown in the ~;tv and our prices are astonishing low. H. Max Romberg came down from Fort Wayne yesterday morning, and w ill spend several Rays with his familyMrs. 11. G. Wittgenfield left for her home at Cincinnati after a weeks visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. D. G. M. Trutih The Meisse House is scheduled to lx- sold tomorrow and numerous bidders are said to have their eye on the property. For Sale The Shields property on First street and three vacant lots in Cooktown. Price reasonable. Enquire of E. Cutting 10 4 Deputy Treasurer Baumgartner is on the sick list again, and is trying to recuperate by visiting his brother in French township. Miss Lizzie Peterson will leave Saturday for Montpelier, Ohio, where she will visit her sister Miss Grace Peterson several weeks. John S. Bowers as manager of the Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Company, visited the gas field in Jay county the first of the week. Tom R. Baker, the genial engineer at the city lighting plant is announcing with great pride the advent of a big baby boy at his home last Friday. No discount on American horses yet Jesse Butler’s horses Bergin and Lion will be at Eli Myer’s feed barn barn in Decatur until July 1901. Call and see them. 12-3 L. L. Sypers is removing his family to Fort Wayne this week, where he expects to reside during the future. He will continue the sale of his farm er's account book. Mrs. Florence DeVilbiss left Saturday afternoon for Lancaster, Ohio, where she will reside during the future. making her home with Mr. and Mrs Claude W. Cole. One of the finest suburban resident homes in the city is that of druggist Page Blackburn, which is a model of neatness, convenience and in appear ance is hard to beat. Postmaster Andrews reports the following unclaimed letters since our last issue: Rev. G. W. Eichelberger, Miss Cary Herland, Ed Helvie, Bernie Braley (2,) Emery Shutt and B. F. Berry. Homer King has purchased a fine speeder, paying therefor $835. The new racer comes from the vicinity of Winchester and will make the season with the Decatur driving club in this city. Father Majay, former pastor of the Catholic church at Portland, arrived home Monday from a several months' trip abroad, during which time he visited London, Rome, Paris and other cities. Mr. and Mrs. Lem Johnson left Friday for Kendallville. Ind., where they visited their son, J. M. Johnson, over Sunday. James is holding a splendid position in a hardware store at that place and is prospering. Michael McGriff. John R. Runyun, J. C. Mauley. A. G. Briggs. Dr. j. B. Ward, Mesdames Frank Barr, J. J. Warson and several other Genevaites were here this week attending the Botkins-Aspy damage suit as witnesses. Dick France is at Battle Creek, Michigan, to day where he is scheduled to pitch a game of ball for the Shamrocks of Fort Wayne. He will get his trial with the Fort Wayne Western League team within a few days. J. W. Place is adding some new machinery to his ice cream factory this week which will increase the capacity several fold. J. W. is always looking for au opportunity to improve his famous ice cream and the new machine he is adding should do this if such a thing is possible. The amount of taxes collected by Treasurer Neuenschwander on the May 1901 settlement, is $120,150.08, which leaves a balance of the Novem her and delinquent taxes of $100,179. 65. According to these figures the delinquent from this spring’s install meat was about $2,000. James Rice is now owner of Midget C., formerly the property of Elmer Johnson. Notice is hereby served upon the other memliers of the Deca tur Driving Club, to the effect that they will have to go some to win the race during the 1901 meets, which open some time next month. At the bride s home Tuesday evening occurred the marriage of Samuel M. Paulison and Rachel Merryman, froth residents of the city and both well and favorably known, and possess numerous friends who join with the Democrat in extending congratula tions. Rev. C. G. Hudson, pastor of the Methodist church, performed the ceremony. June 1 to September 30 the G. R. & I. will sell round trip tourist tickets at ‘he following rates: Decatur to Traverse City $12.30; Decatur to Petoskey $14.15; Decatur to Bay View J 4 15; Decatur to Mr’fcinaw City *15.16; Decatur to Mackinaw Island -Iti.fiO. All tickets good for return until Oct. 31,1901. J. Bryson, Agt.

( urley Radamacker was an Erie passenger yesterday to Chicago, where he transacted business. John H. Lenhart was confined to the house several days last week stomach trouble being 3 the aggravaTown Clerk Chris Stengel was here ; from Berne Tuesday attending to busmess appertaining to his newly acquired ofhee. J M.H. Nisbet and mother, of Peru. Indiana, were in the city Saturday to j U'ir" l n ii* fl ‘ neral Bervices of Miss Ellen Bollman. , The funeral of Miss Ellen Bollman! ■ was held from the home, corner of Adams and First street Saturday morning, Rev. H. C. Duckett officia . ting. Mrs. H. L. Confer is at home after several months at famous Southern health resorts. She is somewhat im proved and will remain here during 1 the summer. Vou should see our handsome line of up-to-date calendars. Don’t buy until you do. We can give you the best and save you money. Dr. Miles Porter, of Fort Wavne, was in the city Tuesday appearing as an expert witness in’ the Botkins Aspy damage suit for malpractize. Ditch \ iewers Henry Eiting and Milliam Adler have been busy with a proposed ditch which benefits a good ly portion of Monroe township. Mrs, William Swaigert died at her home in I nion township Saturday morning of consumption. The funeral j services were held’at Wren Sunday afternoon. The ever clever Clem Macklin of Geneva, was circulating among his friends here yesterday, and incident ally watching the proceedings of the circuit court. Marriage licenses have lieen issued this week- to Jonathan C. Myer and Ina B. Linsey, Mahlon Morehead and Emma Dent, Samuel M. Paulison and Rachael Merryman. Mrs. Socrotas Cook, of Geneva, mother of Mrs. E. P. Menefee of this city, is reported as recovering from the serious illness which has kept her abed for several weeks. Good Residence For Sale. The Foreman property on Third street opposite the court house can be purchased at a reasonable price. For full information call on or address Samuel Doak, Decatur, Ind. 11-3 The rains of the last two weeks have made the farmer hereabout a little anxious. If the dry weather don’t start pretty soon it will necessitate the replanting of a part of the corn crop. Three town boys and as many teamsters who live near the city en gaged in several fights Monday, all of them shedding a considerable amount of skin and loosing a quantity of blood. Good progress is being made in the oil well east of the city and if nothing happens the drill will have reached oil territory by Sunday or Monday, the guage already showing a depth of about 1000 feet. The big damage suit of the various railway companies vs city of Fort Wayne came to a close Friday and Judge Heller now has same under consideration. His decision will be rendered within a few days. The marriage of Mayion Moorehead of Willshire, and Emma Dent occurred at the residence of Joseph Harris in this city Tuesday evening, the Rev. C. G. Hudson performing the mar riage ceremony. They will reside in Willshire. Clerk Elmer Johnson leaves Saturday for Pittsbug. where he goes with a car load of horses recently purchased at Winchester and Union City. They are a fine lot of coach and driving horses and will no doubt fare well upon the markets at Pittsburg. Sheriff Daniel Erwin, of Decatur, came to this city Friday and took back with him Thomas Sullivan, the tramp who attempted to kill Erie brakeman Royston with a razor at that place Thursday. Brakeman Ward went to Decatur and filed the necessary affidavit. Huntington Herald. In the June number of the Review of Reviews the editor analyzes educational conditions in the south, having regard to the needs of both races. Dr. Shaw's comments ou the facts brought out at a recent conference in North Carolina, at which he was pre sent, will lie read with interest north and south. Eight Amish appeared in Esq. Albaugh’s court at Geneva Monday and plead guilty to the charge of refusing to swear or affirm to enumeration blanks. The affidavits were made out by Trustee Soldner. Prosecutor Monin appeared for the state and in each case a fine and costs amounting to sl4 was assessed by the justice in whose court the eight Amish brethren appeared. On last Sunday the friends and neighlxirs gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs J. P. Crist to remind Mrs. Crist she had reached the sixty fourth birthday. The rain did not stop the people from coming with well filld baskets and everything wasdone ot make the day pleasant and when ev ery one had done justice to the pie,cake and chicken the afternoon was spent in music. As the day came to a close all departed and wished Mrs. Crist many more happy birthdays. A. handsome chair was presented to Mrs. Christ by Mr. Crist and daughters, Emma Tefrona and Mrs. W. J. Schooley of Elkhart Ind.

The control of the Freie Presse, the leading German daily of Fort Wayne, has passed into democratic hands. The republicans have for a long time held a controlling interest in the stock. They disposed of their stock for fifty cents on the dollar. Steve Fleming, well known here, is said to have negotiated the deal and that ultimately the Freie Presse and the Staats-Zeitung,l theother German dailv. will be consolidated. Among the topics editorially treated in the June Review of Reviews are I “Parties in the South,’’ “The President j and His Journey.’’ “The Cubans at | Washington,” “The New Stateof Mind ! at Havana,” ‘,Notes on Industrial War! and Peace.” “The New English! Taxes," “Lord Salisbury and Ire land,” -‘The New British Army Bill,” “China and the Indemnity,” Improve i meat in Philippine Conditions, "Hawaii's Political Deadlock” and “The j Exposition Season.” The real estate bulletin of Harruff I & Lenhart again appears in this issile, j Their arrangements are about complete for the successful buying and i selling of real estate in any part of I the universe. Their connection with j the Central Association of real estate ' dealers enables them to place their ! bargains before the buyers of nearly all the states of the union, and if it’s sales you want, it will pay you to see them. Electric light bugs, big as a pancake, have again become numerous. These bugs were probably as common before the introduction of the lights as afterwards, but they were not so much observed. The young live for a year in ponds and when grow n up fly out in seacti of mates. They are attracted in large numbers by the lights. While in the larvae stage they are scavengers, living on decayed animal matter. They also destroy small fish, and it usually is “all off” with a fish pond if it becomes infested with them. The News Stand is undergoing a treatment just at present which when finished will make it most attractive and even more popular than heretofore. A change in the show window is being made, a new candy case ordered and other material changes made. The proprietor, N. C. Coverdale is a hustler and is after the business with a rush that will count. He announces that a fiee ticket to the Buffalo exposition will be given to one of his patrons during thesummer, a cupon being given with every pur chase of five cents. The tent caterpillar has made its [ appearance in greater numbers this I season than for many years, and you can not find a tree but what contains a cluster of them. Immediate action should be taken to prevent the destruction of the foliage, as they are ravenous eaters and will soon destrov a tree of its leaves. Spraying is a good remedy, burning them out or a pole long enough to reach them will do. The entire nest can be twisted around this when it can be placed on the ground and the occupants killed. Now is the time to do the work. The machinists in the Clover Leaf shops at Frankfort were called out on strike Saturday noon and not a wheel is turning in the entire establishment. The helpers went out later. It is said that the blacksmiths will also ioin in the strike, but this is not confirmed. At present there are about 100 men out. The Clover Leaf has flatly refused to pay the scale demanded by the machinists’ union. An official announced that not one of the strikers would be allowed to resume employment under the company so long as he remained a member of the union. The common council of Huntington passed a salary ordinance last night. No changes were made from last year's figures. The mayo gets S6OO a year; the clerk, including fees,about $1,500; treasurer, including fees, about $1,510, marshal. $800; city atorney, $500; city civil ehgiueer. SBOO street commissioner, $660; chief of fire depaitment, S2OO and snperintendent of water works, SBOO. Members of the board of health get SSO, except the secretary who receives $75. Members of the school board receive SIOO each. All minor offices are the same as in 1900 Good Advice.—The most miserable lieings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people of the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects, such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpation of the heart, heart burn, waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food aftereating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you. Try it. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. Page Blackburn. ts The annual services in memory of Decatur's dead soldiers were held at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon, being attended by the members of the G. A. R. and Ladies Relief Corps in a Ixxly. Rev. H. C. Duckett deliven'd the sermon, which was very appropriate, his text lieing taken from the 91st psalm. Too much praise or too many beautiful thoughts can never lie express»sl to do justice to those lioys in blue who nearly forty years ago left their families and business to do their duty behind the national guns, but Rev. "Duckett came as nearly doing so as is possible. The church was decorated in the national colors and presented a beautisul and attractive appearance.

| GO«- | =FOR A SONG! I ================== f "LT AVE purchased the remnants of a New York clothing manufacturers line || 1 * of SPRING CLOTHING at LESS THAN ACTUAL COST TO MANU0 FACTURE and shall put them on sale at a little above ONE HALF of original TO ifi; value - These goods are all new, clean, up to-date and all sizes. || I = I g® 200 nien s and young-men’s suits, in Cashmere, Worsted, Or rn Cheviot and Tweed, worth regular price SB.OO toslo.oo, go at UviUu 8 Fine Cashmere and Worsted Suits, regular price SIO.OO 07 [fi 1 || to lia.oo, go at --------- JhOU g Z® Forty Fine Men’s Worsted Suits, originally $13.50 Olfl nfi to $15.00, goat - - - -' - - ' - - - OIUiUU ' § A vast number and variety of fine Dress Suits in black, clay S g® dress worsteds, venscian and thibet, made equal to finest custom tailoring, and at one-half that price. One hundred Men’s Fine Alpacca Coats, worth SI,OO to fV $1.50, go at --------- - Two hundred Men’s fine Fur Stiff and Soft Hats, worth $1.50 OEL ~ H j to $2.50, go, to make room at, each - - - - - O Saturday only— For first-class Blue overalls, made with patent buttons, loose pockets, warranted not to rip, worth 50c. f— With purchases amounting to $25.00, a pair of good H 1 • Horse Fly Covers. t FREE_I ; ine Thermometer, with purchases amounting to SIOOO. g || Call before buying and take advantage of the money saving. | Gus Rosenthal, | | DECATUR, IND. THE SQUARE MAN

We have received subscription dues this week from the following readers of the Democrat: Fred Weber, Christopher Green, E, A. Libby. Christian Graber, Jasper C. Lee. Mrs. Claude Cole, C. D. Kunkle. Homer, Pontius, Henry Eiting. J. T. Johnson. J. A. Wherry, C. W. Hocker and Jane Anderson. On account of what is believed to be unfair treatment the Decatur high school boys Lave withdrawn from the athletic association and will not take part in the field day exercises which were acheduled for Bluffton June 6. The Winchester school has also with drawn and as a consequence there will probably lie no meeting this year. Today is decoration day and the usual exercises are scheduled in honor of those brave lioys of the blue coat who so well defended the flag in days of the early sixties. Business houses will lie closed this afternoon and all proper respect for our dead heroes will lie paid. This occassion comes but once a year, therefore let our re cognition of same lie a solemn and sacred one. Marshal Hart and Night-policemen Doehrman and Elzey walked into several gambling rooms Saturday night and “skeered” the boys badly, as a consequence several affidavits have been filed against the proprietors but the players ha v e thus f . escaped. The officers also visited Nichols’ saloon Sunday, where they found him selling beer. To make sure they tasted the beer and say it was the real stuff. The papers were accord ingl filed the next day. Peter Colchin, an aged and respect ed citizen of this place died Monday afternoon of cancer of the stomach after several months of suffering. He has been having stomach trouble for some time which about two months ago developed into cancer. The family physician worked with him incessantly but to no purpose and dur ing the last two weeks of his life he was unable to take nourishment of any kind. The deceased was born in the year 1837 and was nearly sixty five years of age. He has been a resident of the county many years and recent ly moved to town, expecting to pass the last years of life in ease. He was comfortably fixed in this world's goods, was a kind husband, an indul gent father and a good neighbor. His faithful wife, one daughter and four sons survive, one daughter having died several year ago. Mr. Colchin was a veteran of the civil war, enlist ing early in the combat and serving with credit and honor for three years. The funeral services will be conducted this morning from the St. Mary's Catholic church, Rev. H. Theo. Wilkins officiating. Interment at St. Joseph cemetery.

HARRUFF & LENHART, REAL ESTATE BROKERS. A BARGAIN. | 80 acre farm, 34 miles east of Decatur, on a good road, one half mile from school, one mile from church, part black land and balance sandy clay loam, seventy acres cleared, balance in small timber and woods pasture, fences fairly good. One and one half story frame house of five rooms, and summer kitchen, all in good repair, rooms nicely papered, and all in good shape. Barn 46x66 feet, solid oak frame set on stone Un 7 pillars and with slate roof, first class in every particular, good • -{ granary, corn cribs and other out buildings built apart from barn, good driven well with iron pump, never failing, 85 barrel cemented cistern, good soft water for drinking or washing purposes. Two orchards of nice thrifty young bearing trees, apples, pears, etc; fine grape arbor, excellent grapes. About 50 acres of this farm is now well set down to grass. This is a fine farm in an excellent neighborhood and is a bargain you should not miss at $40.00 per acre. HARRUFF & LENHART, DECATUR, INDIANA. REAL ESTATE BROKERS.

On account of today being memoiial day the Knights of Pythias will hold their next regular meeting tomorrow evening. Hazel France, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. France, has about recovered from a several days seige of the measles. The house of Henry Laughry near this city was struck by lightening last Thursday evening and quite badly wrecked. The house caught fire but was soon put out by the rain. An infant daughter was liorn to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Myers last Friday but died Monday evening. Short funeral services were conducted by Rev. Hudson Tuesday afternoon. Drs. D. D. and C. S. Clark, P. B. Thomas and H. F. Costello, held a post mortem examination last evening upon Peter Colchin. They found that death had been caused by a cancer located just back of the stom ach and which had finally eaten its way into the stomach. Among the bills filed for allowance by the board of commissioner at their regular June session which begins next Monday, is one by Prof. C. W. F. Bartliug. which is for $66 in amount and the services rendered is for the natural healing of Ashley Mann. It is now time for the Adams county medical society to hold an indigua tion meeting.

J. S. Bowers. S J. Laman. Studebaker Wagons STILL THE BEST. Bryan £ Clipper Plows STILL THE BEST. Farmers Wont the Best and wo noil only the best. Garden Implements, ...REED'S... Spring Tooth Harrows ...AND... Com Cultivators at prices that have never been heard of before. We sell the Ijest line of buggies and Hurries that is sold in the citj , wc don’t only say bo, the people say so. We will give you more buggy the money, that is goods and quality considered. Come in and nee our line. We have everything in hardware and implements that is the best that money will buy. J. S. BOWERS & GO. DEt'ATVR, INDIANA.