Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1901 — Page 8

Monmouth. Go to Decatur July 4. Ed S. Christen has purchased a tine hound pup. Lee Tetterhoff made a business trip to Fort Wayne last Thursday. Farmers are busy making clover hay and good hands are in demand. Bert Christen who has been work ing in Blackburn's drug store at Decatur, is taking a short vacation. Miss Ethel Blood and Mrs. Blanch Trump of Blackwell. O. T., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Me Connel. Mr. and Mrs. John Woy and Mrs. Thos. Butler and daughter of Deca tur, were guests of Mrs. Fonner last Wednesday. Blue Creek X alley. Go to Decatur July 1. Orn Strickler is just recovering from an attack of measles. H. Schrank is home on a short visit with parents and friends. Pierce Hilyard has erected a new kitchen and K. K. Boss a cave. Preaching services at Union last Sunday night were well attended. Win. Custer and wife visited relatives in Mercer county. Ohio, last Sun day. Fourth of July lieing the next holiday, our people are preparing to cele brate. Prof. Ben jamin Winans of Berne. I visited his pareuts at Pleasant Mills over Sunday Children’s Dav exercises will take place at the M. E. church next Satur day evening. June 29. and at the Bap tist church on Sunday evening. June 30, at Pleasant Mill.

Muslin Underwear Sale! AT THE BOSTON STORE. You have Heard of Low Paices—Here they are! This entire LOT OF SEASONABLE UNDERGARMENTS at the price of the muslin and thread placed on sale on THURSDAY, JUNE 27, And continue until sold. Utl db ink K\ O) i«c. n o ft a CD r K Cir, vou >-3-1 to w><te making ibese offered u»o Cents > Poet trg« these cun. Coh* and ** goodUt 2 ZYk * '‘“T ■ CL fest !sc. (jJ nil* So welt done to Bute money is a Barrel The praents spe>'« <<* themselves. L iter to them. 3 JL JL JL Zsc - wTm W rfc 7 ” A traTbh n< nodem industry. Take *$ many £irme«ts in this as«ortmeet as you wisb except the towns. Only one to a customer Lot 4 ///Im r / Za /11/h //.iVy «*• »/ M ® These xti-r t<e trit i •-t "I the (res: nlaes offered u tins sate. Chance, like this ire seklu ~ fonnd. Taae ynnr ckoice. * M AA If roo bare aae donta shorn treat value foe l.ttle moner. come and tee one roods Ooh at tM sale can yoe ret so r<-od value U ’ 6 '/'fc M tffiv M «* W w Latest stylet and shapes. If you fat! to supply youneß now. you won t re: another ctunex Take a few wb.le thev uu —. ■-■ ' — — _j THE KUEBLER & MOLTZ CO. The Boston Store.

Honduras. C. M. France has just completed a new barn. Mrs. C. M. France is still slowly improving. The saw mill has been moved on Peter Fulk's farm. Mr. Mills the Honduras merchant, is doing a thriving business. Don’t fail to go to Decatur July 4. Greatest celebration of the age. J. Fred Franco and Frank France were here visiting their father last I Friday. John Sovine who has been working | for Frank Dibble the drayman, at I Decatur, has quit his job and is at , home attending to his duties as mar shal of Honduras. Steele Go to Decatur July 4 Mrs. Rosa Krugh is the guest of relatives and friends at Elgin, Ohio, having left for that place Tuesday. Irwin Davis met with quite an accident in the way of an up set on aci count of running races last Sunday night. Those people who visit their neighbors' wood piles and flour barrels and milk other jieoples cows had belter lie a little more careful or they may get into trouble. C. A. Krugh and wife entertained at dinner Sunday Horace Edwards and familv. E. K. Merrimeu and wife. L. H. Merriman. Mr. and Mrs. John Burkhead and Miss Anna Merriman, of Decatur. Mr. Pinkney Holmes and Mi-< Sunday are to be united in marriage at the M. E. church at Jay Citv next Sunday. The grooms relatives, of this place, expect to be present at the wedding.

Jefferson Township. Go to Decatur July 4. Mrs. P. J. Bryan is still on the sick list. • Daniei Brewster and familyfl isited J. A. Buckmaster last Sunday. Daniel Brewster is beautifying his residence with an addition. Kib I’ingry of Anteville. visited relatives and friends here Sunday. Mrs. Emma Amspaugh purchased a new carriage at Geneva last week. Chas. Brewster the thresherman spent a day in Cincinnati las week. The Children's Dav exercises at Mt Carmel last Sunday was a decided success. Ed Ferry and family spent a few days at Di-atur last week visiting relatives. W. V. Buckmaster and Trustee Kinnev were business callers at De I catur last week. Wheat harvest will soon be here. The crop is far above the average in appearance at least. On Thursdav evening of last week quite a wind storm accompanied with hail and rain passed over the southern portion of this township, doing much damage to grain crops and also blowing down oil dericks. Soon we will travel over golden streets, while some mourn over their defeat and stay at home so sad alone and amuse themselves with their telephone. But a dreaded change came o'er their face, now a pike they will have right by their place; they want to pike the whole creation, and do it solely by donation. If you want a pike lig in and make her. if it costs you each two and a half acre.

Hedge Corner Go to Decatur J uly 4. George Geels and family spent Sat urday with Herman Geels. Dave I.iby and Earnest Doehrman hauHM hay to Decatur Monday. Jess Ball and Harvey Baker made a pleasant call at Schurger’s Sunday afternoon. Harvey Baker has accepted a posi tion with the pipe line company, and left for Huntington Monday. Bovs, when you go in swimming you had better take your clothes with vou as the girls might run away with them. George Geels and Dave Liby have dissolve ! partnership in fishing and George has accepted a job of picking the barlev out of Henrv Kintz s mustard. The Mt. Pleasant Sunday school classes were pleasantlv entertainer! at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Baker last Sunday. An elegant din ner was served and every one enjoyed the day. The people around here are very much surprised over the action of three of the city councilmen of the city of Decatur suppressing the highway ini provement of the Decatur and Preble road. Pleasant Mills Races at Decatur July 4. The chicken-pox is raging here to some extent. The stone quarry will soon be in operation again. Remember children's exercises Sun day morning and evening. Mrs. Al Boner is very low and her death is expected at any time.

A girl baby arrived at the home of Mrs. Addie Butler Wednesday. Chas. Morris left last I riday for Elkhart to visit his best girl. Mrs. Eli Smith, of Gas City, is call-' ing on relatives here this week. We had a very heavy rain and I electrical storm here Tuesday evening. The Baptist church is undergoing - some repairs and lieing repapered this week. Mrs. Jesse Rose visited relatives and , friends at Winchester a few days last, week. Mr. Morris and son. Perry, of near Middlepoint. Ohio, called on D. F. Morris and family last week. Rev. L. D. Brown preached a soul stirring sermon at the U. B. church Sunday morning, taking for his subject the ascension of Christ. Linn Grove. Go to Decatur July 4. Mrs. Robert Simison is registered among the sick. Janies A Hardison of Geneva, gave us a pleasant interview on Thursday last. Many tons of new mown hay was caught'by the rain on Tuesday morn ing. Christ Hirschy is putting a new slate roof on the barn on his north farm. George Gentis has about completed the cellar digging for the John Weger building. Mrs. Kate Slawson is having a driven well put down on her property in town. John Henning and family were guests of your reporter on the Sabbath. They brought with them their I grand-child" which is a dispeller of I dull care. Work has liegan on the remodeling of the Salem Evangelical church. The building will be turned one half around, a large addition added and I new tower and other modern improvements made. Mrs. David Heller took the early 1 train to Fort Wayne Friday to visit her daughter. Mrs. Noah Gottschalk, who is being treated at one of the hospitals.jThis being the second time she is an inmate of that institution in the past year. Iler husband visited I her Sunday. Monroe.

Omer Lewellen is on the ’sick list. C. W. Hocker was in town Tuesday. Clvde Graham is chief carpenter at the elevator. Mrs. Joseph Hocker was taken to Fort Mayne Monday morning. Winter, spring and summer each had their turn in June, we had better call this summer with the thermometer 97 in the shade. MARKETS. CORRECTED BT E. L. CARROLL, GRAIN MERCHANT, DEC ATER, IND. Wheat, new< 60 Corn, per cwt. yellow (new).... 55 Corn, per cwt. (new) mixed.... 54 Oats, new 22 @25 Rye 40 Barley3s @ 40 Clover seed 4 0) @5 00 Timothyl 00 @ 1 50 Potatoes, per bu 70 Eggs, fresh 10 Butter 12 Cliickens 06 Ducks 06 Turkeys 08 Geese' 05 Wool, unwashedl3 to 16 Wool. washed2o and 22 Hogs 5 00 TOLEDO MARKETS JUNE 26,”1:30 P. M. Wheat, new No. 2 red.cßah... .5 6si Sept wheat 684 Cash corn No. 2 nixed, cash... 43| Sept, corn 42 Clocks With "Wheels.” “Clocks are certainly queer things,” said the man who was tinkering at the hall clock lu a suburban house the other day. "They get cranky spells just like people. Sometimes they really act as though •tivy were be wit v bed. A friend of mine had a little clock that had behaved itself and kept good time for years. One day It took a notion to lay off for awhile, and they couldn't get it started again. My friend’s wife was cleaning the room several days afterward, and she took the clock and laid It down flat on Its back on a chair. It started to go at once and ticked away at a grert rate, but as soon as she placet! it on end It stopped again. Well, they set IL and for a time It acted all right as long as It remained on Its back. But It soon got cranky again and refused to go. The other day, just for fun. they turned It upside down, and. would yon believe It. that craxy dock started off again. Now it only runs when It Is standing on Its bead, and they are wondering what new foolishnosg it will develop next."—Boston Record. Delicacies Oat ot Ssasoa. Old Moneybags was tired of hearing all this stuff and nonsense about the poor. Some one had called bis attention to bls own way of living, with delicacies out of season on bls groaning table and—- " Delicacies out of season”’ be thundered. "What If I do get to nse tee in the summer time! Don’t the poor get to use It In the winter, when it’s fresh, and I have to put up with the cold storage stuff! B-r-r-r-r!” — Indianapolis x rwxs. fJnrt P . r^ 1 ’. tOrI B tlmes the rhinoceros flourished In California, while large Hons and tigers lived In the jungles.

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COULDN’T CALL HIM CRAZY,

J out n Newspaper Headliner V| nni bllnK From Force ot Habit The young man with the haggard look sat in the rear car of an elevated train, staring and staring at one of the advertisements. ••English beauty shoes," he mumbled to his companion. "That's what be says.” -yes." said the other, "but that’s ton short." “Hm. hm,” the haggard man replied. "Beautiful shoes from England"— "That won't fit. It's long," was the curt reply. "Well, then, ‘Beautiful English shoes — “That’s only three words. You’ve got to have four, you know.” "That’s so. that’s so. Ah, 1 have It!" he cried so loud that all the other pa«sengers in the car gave a jump. " ’Eng. lish shoes of beauty,’ 23 letters and spaces at last." A compassionate old man looked up from bls newspaper. “What's the matter with your friend?” he asked. “Is the chap suffering from delirium tremens?” “Oh. no.” the man addressed replied nssuringly. "You set 1 , he's just through with his night’s work on a morning newspaper. He’s a headline writer, you know, and after a fellow has scribbled off headlines of 23 letters and spaces for about eight hours steady he contracts that habit and can’t get over It. Every advertisement, every scrap of paper be sees for several hours afterward until his mind gets restedwell, he begins to count the letters and spaces and turn the wording into a headline that will fit. It isn't exactly delirium tremens. It's something worse. The headlines of 23 letters and spaces go wriggling around in that poor overworked brain much worse than snakes.”—Chicago Chronicle.

MILTON RELICS AT HARVARD Mpnfitnrr In an Autograph Album and the Poet’s Copy of •‘Pindar.’* The Harvard library numbers among its treasures an autograph of Milton and a copy of “Pindar'' annotated in .Milton's own handwriting, with milginal notes in Greek and lattin. Both of these rarities were bequeathed to the university by Charles Sumner. The "Pindar” Is dated 1620 and wm doubtless used by Milton during his stay at Cambridge university. At the end he b" = added an alphabetical index in manuscript, occupying two closely written pages of all the authors cited in bis notes, with references to the pages in which their names occur. Milton’s autograph is found in the pages of an autograph album or visitors’ book kept according to a custom common In the sixteenth century, by a Neapolitan nobleman. Camillus fardoyn by name, who resided In Geneva from 1006 to 1640. where Milton. apparently. visited him. Another autograph in th.s same album among the hundreds which It contains Is that of Thomas Wentworth, the unfortunate Earl of Stafford. Milton’s sig: nture is dated Jan. 10. 1630, and is appended to a I-atin motto—" Travel changes one’s sky, but not one’s mind.” it may be freely rendered and a quotation from his own “Comus:” “1! Vertue feeble were. lieeven Iteelfe would stoope timber.” The most notable Milton manuscript known to exist is a little book now owned by Trinity college. Cambridge. England, which contains the poets copies of his so called minor poems, including “L’AUegro’ and "Il I’enseroso.” In this country, however. It is said that the only origin*! memorials of the great author of “Paradise Lost" are to be found In these two time stained volumes in the possession of the Harvard library. A Cement Which Resists AelA. hi some branches of Industry a cement which is proof against the Influence of acids is absolutely essential, and such a substance can be prepar'd by melting together one part of India rubber with two parts of linseed oBThis should be gradually incorporate: with three parts of white bole so as ,l ’ form a plastic mass. This when bent softens but very little. Though It does not easily dry upon the surface, when once set It Is not affected at ail by j. 1 ’ drocbloric acid and but very little . nitric acid. Its drying and harden ng Is materially promoted by mixing » one-fifth of Its wight of litharge < minium. Rat • “How much will you charge for tna rylng us, squire?” asked the bridegroom, painfully conscious u new suit of ready made clothing. “I atu entitled by law to « fee or replied the justice of the peace. , ‘T'erbapa. Alfred.” timidly sugg* 4 the blushing bride, "we mtgbt FU dune somewhere else for 11 cago Tribune. Msrvelea at !*• ~f c. m “Yes." said Mr. Henry Peck. Ukt go to the circus. One sees so many’' Ing deeds. For instance.did yon ev anything more feckless than < ' In which the ringmaster crack whip at the todies who ri<w horses?”—Baltimore American-