Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1901 — Page 8

Steele. Mrs. Zella Kohnes is ou the sick list. Mrs. Matie Lahnion is quite sick with typhoid fever. Elmer Merriman of Indianapolis, has been visiting friends here the past i week. Joshua Davy of Indianapolis, a former resident of this place, was back visiting a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Syphers of Berne, took dinner with E. R. Morri man and family last Sunday. Garth Gilpeu and sister of Portland. spent Saturday and Sunday with John Merriman and family. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will hold their next monthly meeting at Mrs. Clara Campbell’s, Friday. August 2, 1901. Everybody invited to attend. Lost—A gold chain bracelet and pad lock with the name "Rosa on back of pad lock. Thought to be lost in Tucker cemetery. Will finder please leave same at McAlhaney A Krugh’s store. Pleasant Mills. We are right in the midst of smallpox. Dr. Morgan of Dixon, caller! on Dr. Vizzard last Friday. Quite a number of our citizens spent the Fourth at Decatur. Mrs. Samuel Bowser of Decatur, was the guest of Mrs. 0. J. Sumau last Monday. Messrs. Walter Brown and A. X. Acker transacted business at XX illshire Monday. Another enterprise in town in the way of a new butcher shop. Koop A Wood, proprietors. Dr. Vizzard has been confined to the house the past week with small-pox. but is improving nicely. The stone quarry is again running in full blast. Plenty of fine building stone at reasonable prices. The family of James Watkins living about two miles south of town, is afflicted with small pox. The state health officer of Indianapolis. was here Monday investigating the small pox, and pronounced it as such. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fuller and Gilbert Thompson attended the funeral of A. H. Mook. as was wrongfullyquoted in last week's issue. Stephen Roebuck the quarantine officer, is kept very busy. His business is to see that the children are kept off the streets and are at home. The cases already reported have been very light and we think by careful attention there will be no further spread < f the disease.

| WASH GOODS SALE g AT THE BOSTON STORE l^X SSl^st:^Kt^sr SiS»xrv.--^~~ :v^- j Sf^— .sgrter 10 cents 8 cents H = 2 I DIMITIES.- All | DIMITIES.-One lot wash goods of any kind 9 of Dimities and FoulH that sold at will 1 ards that sold at 10c, be sold at this sale at i price this sale tn q 1U cents O cents I I I 12 2 cents I 15 cents I EXTRA FINE DIM- | ETAMINE .* SATIN S ITIES. —One lot con- 1 STRIPE DIMITIES.— S taining the very best f lot of goods con*l of Dimities and fine § taining the best goods, || Balitistes that retailed i choicest colorings, re- | at 15c, price this sale B a " price this | sale i 122 cents i 15 cents g| ALL LIGHT CHALLIES, 3c per yard. | INFANT S VESTS, 2sc each. .«».<>DON’T MISS THIS SALE AT>»» I THE BOSTON STORE. KUEBLER & MOLTZ CO. 9 I. O. O. F. BLOCK.

Monmouth. Lee Fetterhoff is on the sick list. Sam Potts has purchased a bike. Lee Fetterhoff made a business trip to Preble last Thursday. Oscar Hoene. of Bingen, spent last Sundav with Ed S. Christen. Rev. Loyd Douglass, of Monroeville, preached at Concord last Sunday. XVin. Frank and family, of Decatur, spent last Sunday with A. J. Lewton and wife. L. X. Grandstaff, wife and daughter visited with Dr Grandstaff and wife, of Preble. Bert Christen, after a two weeks vacation, resumed his position at Blackburn's drug store in Decatur. XV. A. Fonner biked to Fort XX ayne Sunday to see his brother. Lieut. J. B. Fonner. who has lately returned from the Philippine Islands. While loading bolts into a car at Hoagland last Saturday. Lemnel Frank fell from the car and received several injuries, but at this writing he is much better. Berne. Dr. C. Simkins called on Columbus, Ohio, friends last Sunday. "Frisco Jim" is doing sign painting for Engles A Co. this week. B. F. Welty of Lima. Ohio, wt s calling on friends here Sunday. C. G. Egley and Emil Erhart were business callers at Decatur Tuesday. Julius Yost and family of Markle. Sundayed with A. Gottschalk and family. Fred Neaderhouser is exercising his muscle at th Linn Grove stone quarrv. Miss Wilda Gottschalk returned Friday, after a few weeks visit at Botkins. Ohio. Peter Baumgartner and family will leave for Oden. Michigan, Thursday of this week. Daniel Stauffer is delighted over a baby boy that arrived at his home Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wittwer are the happv parents of a boy baby that ar rived at their home Tuesday. C. A. Augspurger with son Oscar and daughter Selma, are visiting al Cincinnati and Hamilton county. Ohio, this week. Mrs Rev. Vomholt and children left for Shebovgan. Michigan. Tues day morning where they will spend the summer with her parents. Mrs Dr. C. Schenk and daughter accompanied by her father, left for Michigan this week where they will spend some of the hot summer days. Mrs. Rudolph Lheman and child

ren left Tuesdav morning for Washington State, wLere they will spend the summer with a sister of Mrs. Lheman. Mrs. XV. H. Badders and children moved to Berne Monday and will live : in the X. G. Funkhouser residence on west Water street, while Mrs. Funkhouser is on a visit. XV. H. is highly pleased in having his family with him. Linn Grove John Weiger and wife entertained a host of friends Sunday. Fred Hoffmann and daughter, Edna, spent Sunday with relatives at this place. Fred Lindsey and family of Geneva. were visiting F. A. XX . Lindsey at this place Sunday. Thomas Whipple and Henry Staley of Boundary City, were guests of friends over Sunday. Mrs. Emanuel Liddv and daughter. Ethel, and Miss Lolo Reynolds were visitors at Craigville Tuesday. Gotlieb Gerber has one field of forty acres of fine wheat on which he is swelling muscle and his pride. Peter and Silas Kizer were at Richmond Sunday at the bedside of Chester Kizer w ho js quite sick. Mrs. Silas Kizer is at the bedside cf her sou. Chester, who is an inmate at the insane asylum at Richmond. Lee Baumgartner and family. D. F. H iffmann were visiting J< hn Studabaker and family in XX'ells county. Sundav. The I. O. O. F. installed their officers Wednesday evening. David Falb X. G.. Lawrence Opliger V. G., Lor enzo Dunbar secretary. William Mdler, Alfred Reynolds and daughter, and Merle, Charley Sowers and sister of Muncie, were visiting relatives at this place over the Fourth. Jacob Eckroat and Miss Fifer. John Zimmerman and Mary, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Schindier. passed through the ordeal of matrimony Saturday evening last. Edward Reynolds. Stella Daven port. Loyd Merriman Morna of Bluff ton. were guests of H . XV. Reynolds Sunday. Mr. Merriman has just returned from the seat of war. George Houhaus and wife of Fort Wayne, were entertained over Monday'night while enroute by private conveyance to Richmond. Their mode I of travel is tual that they have a bet ter view of landscape scenery. The annual meeting of the Hartford Oil Companv was held at Geneva on the 2vth ult. The officers elected were the same as last year, except that Jacob Wegmiller was made one of the directors, taking the place of Clifton Hood of Alexandria.

XX’hile Fourth of July patriotism is no back number, yet regardless of age our people passed the day in harvest ing. A view taken by our young men was that an outing during the day would entail an expense of at least |b, loss cf the day -?1 50 total S6.t>o. Day’s wages earned $1.50, amount spent in pyritonic display in the evening 50 cents, leaving a balance to their credit of $4.50, while their patriotism was as fully appeased as though the day had been devoted in awaiting the disposal of a one and one half hour program. Monroe. A. B. Bailey is building a barn. Miss Pearl Ray sjient the Fourth at Berne. The shirt waist craze has struck Monroe. Z. O. Lewellen is busy making the finest of tile. The new Ivoiler for the elevator arrived last week. John Badders has his sign out for display. Take notice. Mrs. John Strait is again very sick with stomach trouble. Miss Carrie Scherer will go to Buffaly X. Y., Tuesday. Xe irly all the young men around here have rubber tire rigs. Preaching at the M. E. church Sun i day evening was well attended. Sunday school at Hardscrableevery , Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. Corn and oats are growing fine, and already the oats is getting ripe. James Hendricks has his barn com pleted and has a very novel structure. Mrs. A. S. Blowers and family of Portland, are the guests of relatives here. Mrs. Silas Deboff and daughter. Mildred, spent the Fourth at Portland. Miss Lammerman’s summer school at Pleasant X’alley will close next Friday. Wade Andrews of Daleville, has come back to take a look at his old home. Quarterly meeting was in progress Saturday and Sunday at Smith s Chapel. Jude Hoffer and Robert Hathaway the painters, aredoing carpenter work this week. Eli Hendricks has purchased one of those great labor saving machines—hay loader. A. B. Bailey. Howard Louthen and Otto Uhrick were at Decatur Satur dav evening. John Kasschbaum of Hamilton. Ohio, is the guest of his brother. William. this week. Miller H-ndricks and family arrived home from XX’inchester where they have been visiting.

Work commenced on the pike in Monroe last Saturday. Push the good work along. Nicholas Wagoner contemplates going to the Pan-American exposition in the near future. John Hendricks’s hub shed came in close proximity with the earth last : Thursday evening. The Fourth was amply celebrated in Monroe by W. S. Smith. He had a fine assortment of fireworks. The farmers are busy cutting their golden grain and are making tons upon tons of excellent hay. The Waltz Sisters’ show is talking of coming again this fall. Their rep--1 utation is well established here. ’ Many from here contemplate going . to see the Buffalo Bill Wild West ; show at Fort Wayne next Friday. Bert Michaud the grain and hay ■ i merchant of Berne, was helping Cyrus ’ Sackett in the hay field this week. Ed Magner has given up the junk 1 business and commenced farming, j This leaves the field open to John 5 Everhart. j Dan Noffsinger certainly shows his S ability farming by the fine crops he f raises on the Wm. Niblick place. G south of town. f Orvil Osterman and Eph Lobenf, stein had a bard time of it last Thurs- | day night. The night train did not ? stop at Decatur and they spent the £ night in the G. R. A I. depot.

InHwensa. H very well known that the Influenza is not an exclusively modern complaint, but I am not sure whether a curious reference to it by Bower, the contiuuator of Fordun’s chronicle, bus been noted. Writing of the year 1420 he says that among those who died in Scotland that year were 8!r Henry St. Clair, earl of Orkney; Sir James Doug las of Dalkeith, Sir William de Abernetliy. Sir Wlllinm <!<• St. Clair. Sir William Cockburn and many others, all by "that infirmity whereby not only great! men. but innumerable quantity ot the commonalty, perished, which was vulgarly termed le Quhew [le Quhew a vurgaiibus dicelmtur]’’ (Bower, xv, 32.) Now. ’’quh” In Scottish texts usually represents the sound of ”wh” (properly aspirated.) Therefore It seems that In the fifteenth century the influenza was known as “the whew.” Just as it Is known in the twentieth century r.s "tne fine.” 1 have refrained from quoting at length Bower’s explanation of the cause of the epidemic, but there seems little doubt that the disease was identical with that with which we are so grievously familiar.--Notes and Quefits.

A JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES. | fl. j I ' —- -’j < 1 IT W./ ■ Tift 'Xy 111 JACK OF ALL TRAD" I haoe HY ' FAIRBANKS MORSE SC? > Ase I pump water, shell corn, saxv wood, grind feed, chum butter, run sewing machines, and am handy for a hundred other jobs, in the house, or on the farm. [ can work 24 hours every day. Weather does not affect my work, hot or cold, wet or dry, wind or calm, it is all the same to me. I have the strength of 15 men. It costs nothing to keep me when not working. It costs between one and txvo cents per hour when I work. I can pump 600 gallons of water per hour. You have just to start me and I will do the rest. Call and see me working at

Barometric Urn. Whoever observes these interesting insects finds It easy enough to foretell exactly the kind of weather to be expected. At bust this is the opinion of many raisers of bees. Generally the bee stays at Lome when rain is in the air. When the sky is simply dark and cloudy, those busy workers do not leave their dwelling all at once. A few go out first, as though the queen had sent out messengers to study the state of the atmosphere. The greater number remain on observation until the clouds begin to dissipate, and k Is only then that the battalions entire rush out In st-arch of their nectar. A bee never goes out In a fog. because it is well aware that dampness and cold are two fearsome, redoubtable enemies. We do not mean, however, that the bee is a meteorologist in the absolute sense of the won!. Its cleverness consists in never being taken unawares, for it possesses untiring vigilance. Often one may observe the sudden entrance of bees into the hive when a dense cloud hides the sun and even though the rain is not in evidence. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

I'hanKcd Time*. Times have changed indeed from the time when Sydney Smith complacently observed that the I’nltod States had so much wilderness clearing to do that it might well take Its literature, learning and luxury In the bulk from English factories. “Why.” he had asked, “should the Americans write books when a six weeks’ passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius In bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills, are tbeir natural objects for centuries to come.” We might almost reverse this and ask. "Why should the English feel ill at ease when a six days’ passage brings them our sense, science and genius?” For the time at least the Rev. Sydney Smith’s chief notoriety seems tc be that he was the author of certain observations whose truthfulness has proved as brief as it was bitter.—Harper’s Weekly.

The Irl«hinan’» Reqoeat. In the days when flogging was In vogue as a punishment In the British navy a Scotchman and an Irishman, on the arrival of tbeir ship In harbor, obtained leave to go ashore for a couple days, and they oversta id the period of leave granted them. When they did put in nn appearance, they were ordered 50 lashes each. On the day of the punishment a parade was ordered to witness the infliction of the flogging. When all was ready, the Scotchman asked as a favor to be allowed a piece of canvas on bis back while he received his flogging. The captain granted his request and, turning to the Irishman. asked him if be required anything on bis back while he was tieing flogged, to which he replied. “If ye plaze, yer honor. I’d lolke to have the Scotchman on my back. If yc wouldn’t mind.” U w as His Deal. A mining engineer who has returned from Alaska brings among other interesting things, evidence that the higher the latitude the greater the latitude. Watching a poker game in which the stakes were heavy he saw a player give himself four aces from the bottom of tie- pack. Burning with Indignation at such shameless cheating, he turned to a bystander and whispered, “Did you see that?” “See what?” "Why, that fellow dealt himself four aces!” “Well wasn’t It bls deal?”

Summer.. ..Resorts OX THE C. R. & I. "The Fishing Line.” Th" Passenrsr Department of the Grand Rapid* & Indiana Railway has l-sm.la booklet, en'illed • Michigan in Summer ihr contains 2to pictures ot resorts in N irtbeio Michigan. Interesting informatics > givet about these popular resorts: Petoakey, Barkin*' Island. Bay View. Trarerse City, Harbor Spriaa*. yieahtawanta. Harbor Point Omena. Weqoeonsina. Northport. Boariaa Break. Northport Piiiat. Emmet Beark. ESaewasS B alloon Lake, ami other point*. I It contains a list ot hotels an: iDSrtiot I houses in Northern Michigan, wi’h t ••irnteby the day and week, and passenrier farH from the principal points in the Middle wen This Booklet will he Sent free

upon request to C. L. Lock woon. Passenger and Ticket Agent. Grand Bapioi Michigan. The summer train schedule goes into eject Juneau. Time cards and full lo'o^* 11 . 0 garding connections, the h.rrtb.snd u press" with case car service, will be sent, sod assistance given to plana comfortable tr.j via the Grand Rapids & Indiana Ry Oaakllag. The writer once spent a Saturday afternoon tn the study of a dignitary o the church while the ecclesiastic struggled in vain to frame an argument agnlnst gambling to be present. '! to the congregation on the morrow. He a ' ia3 doned the attempt. Far I* It from 1 literary Journal to assert powers t * possession of which the professiona y religious are fain to disclaim, yet submission we even venture to t»el et that at least one cogent and effect' argument lies against all forms of gl® bling—one, namely, based on the tru that wealth, great or small. Is a tru and therefore may not be put In risk. The moralist may declare that ta gambler gets, or nt least wants t 0 ' something for nothing Men will 10--•_ They know better. The winner g» his chance to lose for his wludi"»For his losses the winner got “ chance to win. But ask the specu s ' whether he would gamble with ’ funds held by him for orphan’ a-. then suggest to him the one great that Is seizing hold of men’s const i' • the most hopeful sign In d> ese IK ' r „ ed days of social unrest, that niei' _ trustees of all that they call the r —Current Literature. Life lasaraaoe- .. It Is an interesting fact that. ever the reason rnay be, life la j is much more popular In the States than In any other count jproportion to tbeir numbers t w I lean people carry twice as )n)CI insurance as the Britishers, • as much as the Germans n times ns much ns the French. . This is partly explained by ti* • number of American policies _ .. f serve other purposes than ni>’ [ * ur< d. sion for the families of 1 6u ,j. i The scope of what may be on* l |n . . ness as distinguished from a t>o»- , surance la constantly enlarg ’ el and Interesting recent tie' 1 ■ o t of It Is the Insurance of r Protestant ministers for « which are made payable at to their churches,—Ke* xor