Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1901 — Page 8

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Sold by L. A Vogfewede.

Linn drove. KM# Mrs Ellen Milter of Morrisonville, Illinois, is visiting her brother, F. A. W. Lindsey and family. Andrew Sowers stands at the head of the list in the production of wheat His yield was 441 bushels to the acre. A church festival was held at the : home of Emanuel Liddy Saturday night which was patronized to the amount of s2l. Just so a machine can thresh wheat no matter whether of ancient or modern design they are being util ized to garner our large crop of that cereal. M. L. Kizer and family of Pleasant Mills. B. F. Kizer and wife of Decatur. and Joseph Kizer of Poneto, were in attendance at the funeral of Chester Kizer on Wednesday of last week. Rev. Lester of Bluffton, delivered the sermon. All who are interested in connecting the Eekroat and the Reynolds gravel roads by the formation of a Y, l>eginning at the residence of Albert Lind- ' sey thence to Linn Grove, and those who desire to work out their valuation tax will apply to Supervisor Runyon. The material will be taken from the Neaderhouser X Ensley stone quarry. A very pleasant time was rounded up by a family reunion at the home of F. A. W. Lindsey on the Sabbath to commemorate the 71st mile stone of Mr. Lindsey's life's journey. Thirtytwo persons participated in the ban quet. Artist Shalley of Berne was on hand and at time proper tapped for the attention of the gathering and took a snap shot of the group. Those present from a distance were Wm. C. Lindsey and famile of Marion. Chas. Fonts and family of Bluffton, Fred Lindsey and family of Geneva. Amos Lindsey of Jefferson township. Mrs. Margaret E. Miller of Morrisonville. Illinois, arrived one day late being train bound at Fort Wayne over Sun day The donors of the honor done will fc- a life time hold the same in fond remembrance and an impressive depth of joy was discern able in the venerable host.

B Shirt Waist Sale. ' I SHIRT WAISTS. — Nice range of colors, choice ——— patterns. Well made waists, worth 50 cents, our Price 35c SHIRT WAISTS.— Good percale, nicely corded, and plaited. Waists that sold for 75and 85 cents, I this sale 48 2 SHIRT WAISTS.— This lot includes all waists, both colored and white, that sold at 00 and $1.25, this sale 75c SHIRT WAISTS. -Y our choice of any wash waist 1 ' in the house, goods ranging from f 1.50 to 12.00, ' ' this sale only SI.OO ♦ ‘ We MUST have room. ‘ 4 You need the waists NOW. t SPECIAL THIS WEED. Indies’ Vests ’ Light Chailies o c __L—. Yard Wide Percales 6 * The Boston Store, I. 0. 0. F. BLOCK*. KUEBLER & MOLTZ CO.

Steele Rev. Zimmerman delivered an excellent sermon at the M. E. church last Suuday. 0. W. F. Davis and wife spent Sun I day in Van Wert. Ohio, visiting their ! son and uncle. ® Mr. and Mrs. Chester Shinn, of Mo.iroe, spent* Saturday night and | Sunday at this place. Seven of the M. E. probationers were sprinkled and two poured at the M. E. church last Sunday by Rev. Zimmerman and the remainder were I emersed at the Fezil bridge Monday evening. C. A. Krugh and I. W. Merriman made a business trip to Rockford. O„ Saturday evening and from there they went to Elgin. Ohio, where they spent Sunday with the former's parents. The funeral of John Richard was held at the M. E. church last Sunday ( and was laid to rest in the Tricker cemetery. He leaves a wife and three ! daughters to mourn their loss. Age thirty-five years and two months. While working on G. C. McAlhanley's house last Saturday morning. E. R. Merriman the head carpenter fell from the up stairs badly bruising himself and breaking two ribs. Mr. Merriman is in a pretty serious condii tion and liable to lie laid up for some time. Lite In.nranee. It Is an Interesting fact that, whatever the reason may be. life insurance is much more popular in the United States than in any other country. In proportion to their numbers the American people carry twice as much life Insurance as the Britishers, five times as much as the Germans and eight times as much as the French. This is partly explained by the large number of American policies issued to serve other purposes than mere provision for the families of the insured. The scope of what may be called business as distinguished from family Insurance is constantly enlarging. A novel and Interesting recent development of it is the Insurance of the lives of Protestant ministers for large sums which are made payable at their deaths to tbeir churches.—New York World. Bound to Rajoy Heroelf. “Now, dear." said mamma, giving final instructions to Elsie, who is going to take tea with a playmate, "when you are asked If you will have something you must say, ‘Yes. thank you.’ and if you don't want it you must say"— “Oh. you needn't bother about that.' . Elsie interrupted. "1 don't expect tc refuse anything.’’—Philadelphia Press. A medical journal declares that lentils are not only richer in protelds than i-eas cr beans, but are also more digestible.

The Iriahtnan'e Reqneit. In the days when flogging was la vogue as a punishment in the British navy a Scotchman and an Irishman, on the arrival of their ship in harbor, obtained leave to go ashore for a couple 1 days, and they overstaid the period of leave granted them. When they did put in an appearance, they were order-, ed 50 lashes each. Ou 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 his back while he received his flogging. The captain granted his request ami, turning to the Irishman, asked him if be required anything on his back while he was being flogged, to which he replied. “If ye plaze, yer honor, I'd lolke to have the Scotchman on my back, If wouldn’t mind.” Chunked Times. Times have changed indeed from the time when Sydney Smith complacently observed that the United States had so much w ilderness 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 their 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. Syd--ney Smith's chief notoriety seems t< be that he was the author of certain observations whose truthfulness has proved as brief as it was bitter.—Harper's Weekly. MARKETS. CORRECTED BV E. L. C XRROLL, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, newJ I’s Corn, per cwt. yellow (new).... 65 Corn, per cwt. (new) mixed.. .. 63 Oats, new2B @3O Rye 42 Barley3o id 35 Clever seed 4 00 @5 00 Timothyl 00 (g 1 50 Potatoes, per bu new Eggs, fresh 10 Butter 14 Cltickens 06 Ducks 06 Turkeys 0b Geese 05 Wool, unwashedl3 to 16 Wool. washed2o and 22 Hogss 00 TOLEDO M ARKETS JULY 24. 1:30 P. M. Wheat, now No. 2 red, cash.. .$ 68* Sept wheat 6P; Cash corn No. 2 mxed. cash... 40 Sept corn 50;

An rndestrnble Boarder. Some time ago the keeper of a boarding house retired from business after having acquired a comfortable competency in the course of about 20 years. During that period her house became well known in the city and among the women in her own business. She nev- , er realized bow well known It was un- | til she set out to find a place to live in herself. She applied first at the house kept by a woman nearly as well known us herself only to learn that there was no room for her. It was not until she bad Been through the same experience sev eral times that she camo to understand that she was not wanted in the establishments of her former rivals. Her reputation for keeping a fine bouse was too much for the other women, who did not want to submit to the scrutiny of a former boarding house keeper who , had made a reputation and a fortune In > the business. She learned, after going to a hotel where her record could not l>e used | against her, that she was not the only woman who had found it difficult to get into a boarding house after having kept one of her own. When they are well known, it is practically impossible for such women to find quarters.-for whatever her reasons may be the landlady does not like to shelter her kind — Gam blinsr. The writer once spent a ' Saturday afternoon In the study of a dignitary of the church while the ecclesiastic strug- ■ gied in vain to frame an argument against gambling to be presented to the i ( congregation on the morrow. He aban- ( doned the attempt. Far be it from a literary journal to assert powers the • possession of which the professionally religious are fain to disclaim, yet with , submission we even venture to lielieve , that at least one cogent and effective ; argument lies against all forms of gambling—one, namely, based on the truth ! that wealth, great or small, is a trust and therefore may not be put In risk. The moralist may declare that the gambler gets, or at least wants to get, something for nothing. Men will laugh. . They know better. The winner gave , his chance to lose for his winnings. For his losses the winner got his i chance to win. But ask the speculator whether be would gamble with trust I funds held by him for orphans and then suggest to him the one great truth that is seizing hold of men's conscience, I the most hopeful sign In these perplexed days of social unrest, that men are , trustees of all that they call their own. —Current Literature. Influenza. Il _« very well known that the in- ' fluenza is not an exclusively modern i complaint, but 1 am not sure whether a , urious reference to It by Bower, the : contiuuator of Fordun's chronicle, has been noted. Writing of the year 14201 he says that among those who died in i Scotland that year were Sir Henry St. Clair, earl of Orkney; Sir James Douglas o f Dalkeith. Sir William de Abern by. Sir William d< St. Clair, Sir William C.>- kburn and many others, all by "that infirmity whereby not only great men. but Innumerable quantity of the commonalty, perished, which was vul- j garly termed le Qubew [le Qubew a vurgaribus dicebatur]” (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 i influenza «ras known as “the whew.” just as it is known in the twentieth century as “the fiue.” I have refrained from quoting at ; length Bower's explanation of the, cause of the epidemic, but there seems • little doubt that the disease was Men- 1 tical with that with which we are so j gr evorndy familiar. — Notes and Que-' r.es. Baromrtrle Mses. Whoever observes these interesting! Insects finds it easy enough to foretell | exactly the kind of weather to be ex-1 peered. At least this is the opinion of’ many raisers of bees. Generally the bee stays at borne when rain is In tue air. When the sky is simply dark and cloudy, these 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 1. Is only then that the battalions cn-i tire rush out In search of their nectar I A bee never goes out in a tog, because ■ , it is well aware that dampness and ■ cold are two fearsome, redoubtable “Demies. We do not mean, however, that the bee Is a meteorologist in the absolute sense of the word. Its cleverness consists in never being taken unaware*, for it possesses untiring vigilance. Often one may observe the sudden entrance of tx-es Into the hive when a dense cloud bide* the sun and even though the rain is not in evidence. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat n«. After figs have been collected they are dipped tn boiling brine and then •tried on trays for from two to four day*, according to tbe weather. The dipping is supposed to bring the sugar to tbe surface and hasten tbs drying. After being dried tbe figs nre placed in "sweat boxes.” bolding 2.000 pounds “sch. where they remain for two weeks. I Then they are washed In cold salt w*. ter to remove all dirt and are packed by women and girls In half pound, one . pound and ten pound boxes in layers, being split preliminarily with a short b’.xAed knife. — Wife—l mended the' hole In yonr trousers pocket last night after you had gone to bed. John, dear. Now, am ■ 1 »ot a thoughtful wife? Hnabaud (dubiously)—Weil— er—y-e-s, yon are thoughtful enough, my dear. . but bow tbe mischief did you discover that there was a hole In my pocket ?- Exchange.

Today Begins the Third Week of The I Big July Shoe Sale. I It has been the most successful sale in our history 3 |. and our customers are more than satisfied. If yo I | need shoes DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY g to save money. The big cut applies to every shoe in ? £ the house this week. We are making a special effort § u to reduce our stock of baby shoes.. 3 : j Babies Red and Wine colored shoes — 4g ( 2 | Babies Button shoes - - - 24 c j I Babies Moccasins ( Saturday only) - 5 See us for everything in the shoe line. VOGLELVEDE I | The Shoe Seller. : -V—W— M V-Nr , 'W"WW W'M w—tc -V ’ V V-V-W'W '«» V -V-V--W WV 'M-V'r ~1~M —U —LTUIUmi_ w w v R. B. Gregory & Co. 1 I Fine Line of, | y I i Wall Paper, ii a R 1 j Guiles Mouldings, : h r I :.i Paints % Varnishes, b ii • ' r. House, Sign on <i r P Carriage Painting. H I ii |: Capital City Paints, • Guaranteed for Ftve Years. y HI ; North of Court House. |

...AFTER HARVEST... innn turn iil Market and Trade Day of 'Ye Olden Times on the Streets... Decatur, Indiana. Two Big Davs-fnday and Saturday, August 2 3. £l»iill«)on taiisiiiii ...EACH DAV... Two days of recreation and pleasure. Meeting of friends and bargains for all. The merchants cf Decatur who believe in furnishing the best goods at the lowest prices, have arranged an old time trading day. Bring in everything you have to trade or sell. HIGH WIRE SLIDE. ILLUMINATED WIRE WALKING at night. Meet us at Decatur—the town is yours. Entertainment as tree water. Music by the best bands in the country. Trape acts, thrilling to behold. Bicycle races; Sack races ana amusements galore from start to finish. Excursion rates on all railroads. L. R. HARRIS. r Permanent address 309, S. Adams St. Marion. Ind. DIRECTOR A