Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1901 — Page 8

Hag ley. Nows is scarce. The farmers are busy cutting corn. The Pentecost people are still with us. George Steele sjient Sunday in Decatur. V. Linker and wife are visiting relatives in Ohio. Lewis Sherry of Honduras was in town Sunday evening. M. E. Smith and Charles Baurs makes their daily trips to Little Vine. Mr. Joseph Shady and wife went on the excursion to northern Michi gan. Frank Carpenter of Preble in seen in town quite often he must have some attraction. Harry McGill our blacksmith is kept quite busy these days shoeing horses and attending to his duties in the east part of town. Pleasant Mills. Mrs. D. McLeod has almost recovered from her recent illness. * The new minister will preach at the U. B. church Saturday evening. Agnes Murray of Decatur, Sundayed with A. M. Fuller and family. Mrs. John Noll and son Will, left Tuesday for Gas City, to visit with relatives. Relatives from Rockford, Ohio, Sundayed with Samuel Steele and wife and E. Roebuck and family. Dr. Vizard was at Dixon last Friday to see his father who is very low with cancer of the stomach. Harry and Will Cordua and their families and James Gerard and wife of Decatur, were entertained at the home of D. P. Roop and family last Sunday. We have been informed that Mrs. Adda Butler has made application for divorce from her husband John Butler, who several months ago deserted her and left for parts unknown. Hedge Corner, Corn cutting is the order of the day. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kintz spent Sunday at Preble. A welcome rain visited Hedge Corner last Monday night. Any one wishing a job of corn cutting call on N. S. Sheets. George Geels has purchased a new corn cutter of Brittson Bros. Gertrude Linnemeyer spent Sunday with Miss Minnie Schultz.

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takes half the women to thrash a job I that the old one did. Anyone wishing a job of potato diging call on Mrs. Herman Geels. Harry Baker and Mike Kaylor drove to the picnic at Friedheim last Sunday. Ed Baker, Will Kaylor, Cecil Kaylor and Bertha Baker drove to Bobo last Sunday. Andy Schurger and Frank Kurlie and lady friends passer! through our burg last Saturday morning. Wo thank the Preble itemizer for his kind offer for the girls. They say it is not leap year and those overgrown boys will have to call this way. Linn Grove. Jacob Amstutz of Lafayette, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Mary Nusbaum. David Meschberger had one of the Marcy wind mills placed in position on his farm last week. Thieves broke into the house of Alfert Ramey one night last week rumaging for money while they were asleep. Albert Lindsey had several head of cattle foundered on green corn last week, from which two of his best milch cows died. Last Wednesday while Amos Stuck ey’s team was standing on one of our streets one of his team became paralized and since has not regained its feet. The animal is one of value and is five years old. Byron Dunbar left here for his home at Richmond, Wisconsin. L. L. Dunbar and wife of this place accompanied him. The former bought a turn out of the latter, carriage, horse and harness, aud the party will drive the entire distance. The first reunion of the surviving Lot French family took place last Sunday at the residence of John P. Steiner, the homestead. Four generations were represented, the oldest being Mrs. Mary French, aged 82 years, the youngest being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred French, age four months. Fifty persons were in I attendance. Those present from a distance were Lewis Justice and wife, Herbert North of Delphos. Ohio. Louvina North and daughter Nona, Clayton Shepherd and family of Bluffton, Harry McLeod and wife of St. Louis, Mo., and Noah French of Petroleum. The theme of the day was to make glad the lives of the aged and the young. while the middle aged shared in the festivities after an elaborate dinner was served. Sterling P. Hoffmann brought his kodak into requisition and took a snap shot of the assembled group. The occasion was one of pleasantness to all, especially to Grandmother French, who in the

evening tide of life was favored to enjoy the presence of her family descendants, and we fully desire that she may again witness a like occasion. Berne. The new depot is being nicely finished. J. N. Fristoe called on Berne friends Saturday. Mrs. Chris Stengel is reported doing fine. John Lachot returned home from Ohio Friday. Sam Shepherd and wife were at Berne Monday. Teachers’ Institute was held in Berne Saturday. Miss Christman of Geneva called in Berne Friday. R. Lehman went to Fort Wayne on Tuesday on business. Paul Baumgartner was a business visitor in town Monday. Miss Wilma Merryman of Decatur was a caller in town Monday. Rev. Owto of Piqua Ohio preached at the Reformed church Sunday. The mother and sister of B. A. Winans are visiting here this week. Lessie and May Beers of Bluffton called on Berne friends Wednesday. 64 tickets were sold at Berne Thursday for Petoskey and Traverse City. C. G. Egley returned home from Michigan Monday w’here he attended to business. Thurman Gottschalk left for Nap erville, 111., Monday where he will attend college. C. G. Egly and wife went to Indianapolis Tuesday where they attended to business. Mrs. W. Forman and children of Warren are visiting at Frank For mans this week. Mrs. Grace Watson and W. J. Heater of Geneva took supper at the Cottage Hotel Sunday. Rev. Oaks of Kendalville will preach at the Evangelical church during the quarterly meeting held here over Sunday. Harry North our popular book binder left Wednesday morning for Fort Wayne where he has secured a position for some time. R. P. Harris and son visited Mrs. Chas. Broun over Sunday they are on their way to Winchester where they intend to make their future home.

Mr. Stengel returned home Saturday from Fort Wayne bringing his wife homo with him who has been at the hospital for three weeks, where Dr. Rosenthal preformed an operation.

A progressive pedro party was given by Miss Nell Simison on Friday eyen- • ing. those present were: Misses \\ ilda Murphy, Carrie Beau Mvral Wilson and Lena Clouser, Messrs Harry North. Earl Shelly, John Broun, Sam Magis, Thurman Gottschalk. Dai Jacobs. Chris Martz, ( Dr. Simpkins and 0. V. Borden. A nice time was reported. Harry North and Doi Jacobs were the successful players. NEWS FROM THE PHILIPPINES. Mrs. John Buhler Receivesan Interesting Letter From Her Brother. San Juan. Luzon Isl., P. 1., Dear Sister — July 19, 1901. This letter will no doubt take you by surprise for the last time I wrote you I was in Indiana and now I am in the far-off Philippines. lam in a small town 160 miles north of Manila, of about 800 inhabitants and am in the best of health, even better than when 1 was in the States for I am taller, fatter and larg er in every way. I just received a letter from mama at Indianapolis with some stamps and she said you was sick so I take this opportunity to write you. I am going to take an examination in a few months for a commission as lieut. and I hope I will succeed. I will now drop these matters however and give you a brief discription of the island, people, town and our quarters. The island of Luzon is made up of some ten different tribes of people, some more civilized than others and all wanting to get in the first blow at one another, so you see we cannot give them free government of their own for there would lie one of the mc't barbarous of wars take place here, equal to that of the savages in Africa. lam in the province De L’nion, which is peopled by a tribe called Ilhokinos, who, are as a whole very well civilized in regard to music ana embroidery and farming near the the coast, but in the interior they are are less civilized and in the woods and mountains you may find the Negarotees who wear only a string girth and the children awaiting another vear for their clothes, but although they fight with bows and arrows and spears they are our friends and are hated by the Insurgents worse than we are. I have been invited to dine with the president or mayor of the town for dinner tomorrow and have accepted. The president is also called the alcade. I took dinner Sunday with the secretary and this is what I ate, cow. caraboo, pig, chicken, fish and dog meat as I was afterwards told, drank tea. water, wine and beno, ate rice, boiled fish and stewed with potatoes, and no bread for they do not understand how to make it here. They raise plenty of tobacco here and it is of the finest kind that I ever saw and the cigars are so cheap that you could not hire me to smoke cigarettes if they were given to me. The town of San Juan is 160 miles from Manila is four and one half miles from San Fernando, eleven and onehalf from Bachnoten, our company headquarters and five miles from San Gabriel, it is just two blocks from the ocean beach and is in a valley surrounded by hills which are covered with bushes, bamboo, cocoanut. banana. bread fruit, mango, betel nut and numerous other tropical trees. It was at one time a beautiful spot before the late war for there is a large old Spanish monastery here and stone Spanish dwellings that were built by the retreating Insurgents. The hills around here are full of gold and silver for I have samples of both and not far back in the hills can be found iron, copper and zinc and at some time these islands will become a very great help to the United States. The people live in small bamboo houses two story high and some only one story with their chickens, dogs, cats, tobacco, rice and whatever property they have in the same room with them. They do their washing by drawing a jar of water and pour a small cup of water on a piece of cloth ing laid in a lump on a rock or board and pound it with a heavy flat stick shaped like a paddle. Our quarters are in a large stone building with walls four feet thick and our doors being our windows with a tin roof and mahogany floor. The top of the doors are made of shell of about one inch square and scraped thin but the light they let in is very little. lam sitting on a small box of provisions with my locker on my field cot with the lid tipped back writing this letter. The cots are good and we have mosquito bar above us now to keep us from being eaten up for during the rainy season which lasts seven months out of twelve the mosquitoes multiply very fast and they are about the size of small house flies too. The beast of burden here is the caraboo, a large awkward animal as large as an ox with no hair on his body, large horns from four to five feet long each, short ears and tail aud small eyes and large nose and of a maltese or white color. They also use the Australian bull which looks like our American Jersey cow. The wagons are made of a box with wooden floor thatched sides, top and back just large enough for two people to : get into comfortably with wooden axles, solid wooden tvheels with iron < runs and wooden shafts. Their meth- I od of hitching up is simple, just back < your animal into the shafts, put a i yoke over his neck in front of the < shoulder, tie a rope under bis tiellv I put a rope through his nose and voti I an, ready. 1 , Well*! must close and will describe < things better when I return for I will i l?ave many pictures with me and hop < nig you all a merry Christmas and I New Year, I remain your brother, Guy Beatty, i Co. C, sth Inst. Reg. ]

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Adams County Tenchnr’s Institute. The following is a list of institute members for 1901, also the number of days each were present: Lissa French 5 days. Mary Baumgartner 5, Katie Sbaffter 5, Alice Wheeler 5, Katie Miller 5, Carrie Dunbar, 5, Lucy Fruchte 5, Meda Jackson 5, Rose Egan 5, Emma Pontius 5, Gertrude Rayne 5, Emma Birely 5, Allice Addington 5, Etta Mallonee 5, Fanny Dutcher 5, Ida Magley 5, Wilma Cow an 5, Olive Dailey 5, Maude Foster 5, Eva J. Acker 5, Matie Auten 5. Blanche Aspy 5, Mrs. Snyder 5, Maude Welis 5, Marv Baumgartner 5, Rosina Wittwer 5, Ada Wittwer 5, Lulu Miller 5, Mina Case 5, Florence Johnson 5, Verna Johnson 5, Grace Simcoke 5, Dollie Simeoke 5, Georgia Scherer 5, Edna Karschbaum 5, Lora Bunner 5, Bertha Bunners, Mary Dailey 5. Lena Sprunger 5, Grace Campbell 5, Amelia Ashbaucher 5, Nora Ahr 5, Grace Burk 5, Mary Miller 5, Luella Reich eldefer 5, Nettie Miller 5, Daisie Roebuck 5, Olive Close 5, Maggie Moran 3, Matie Fogle 5, Tessa Barkley 4, Bessie Congleton 5, Fannie Rice 5, Lanta Baughman 4.5, Blanche Reynolds 5, Lizzie Peterson 5, Wanda Weldy 5, Lola Jackson 5, Bessie Bowers 5, Belle Barkley 5, Grace Suttles 5, Mabel Winans 5, Dora Steele 5, Nellie Winnes 5, Lucy Bunner 5, Nellie Blackburn 4.5, Nellie Krick 5, Lulu Lankenau 5, Grace Coffee 5, Minnie Coffee 5, Martha Schug 5. Kate Jackson 5, Adda Barnett 2, Hat tie Blackburn 4, Lottie Kelley 4, Helion B. Leffingwell 3, C. E. Hocker 5, H. L. Schrank 5 Chauncv Lautzenhiser 5. J. F. Felty 5, W. H. Miller 5, John Weldy 5, W. E. Weldy 5, J. M. Kelley 5, Harvey Opliger 5, Frank Mumma4.s, C. L. Brown 2.5, Homer Lower 4, Glen Warner 5, Clyde Rice 3, Bert Greene 5, L. E. Opliger 5, Orval Harruff 5, Jonas Tritch 5, Samuel Woodward 5, Ottes Burke 5, E. L. Huffman 5, L. L. Baumgartner 5, E. C. Runvon 5, Nelson Bricker 1, Ed Kintz 4.5, F. R. Holmes 5. J. T. Kelley 5, Sylvester Johnson 5, Revillo Scherer 5. Oscar Huffman 5, J. D. Cline 5, B. A. Winans 5, Arthur Suttles 5, H. E. Helmer 4.5, C. E. Gage 5, Fred Bentz 5, W. J. Smith 5, J. L. Yancy 5, C. M. Tvndall 5, D. J. Sprunger 5, D. O. Roop 5. Menno Burkhalter 5, J. F. Fruchte 5, R. O. Soldner 5, Samuel Nussbaum 5,M. F. Beery 4.5, Harry Erwin 5, J. E. Lung 5, W. E. Spuller 5, Mark Moran 4.5, E. H ; Baumgartner 5, Arthur Bart5, Ernest Danner 5, \\. P. Morriman 5, J. A. Beery 5, C. E. Finch 5, I rank B. Porter 5, G. H. Laughrev 5, W. E. Smith 5, C. D. Spuller 5, J. C. Fogle 5. H. E. Elston 5, Albert Egley V Macklin 5, D. T. Campbell 5, A. D. Buckinaster 5, J. F. Snvder 5 M. Mallonee 5, O. N. Tyndall 5 E Dailey 5, 0. L. Vance 5,0. P. Mills 5. ;. E. Crum 4.5, \\ m. Jackson 5, J. R, Parnsh 5, M.L. Wells 5, John Maglev jr. 5, E. S. Christen 5, A. J. Lewton 5, N. A. Baumgartner 5, J. B. Dutcher 5, S. S. Magley 5, D. A. Baumgartner 5, Forest Kunyou 5, E. E. Ritgers 5, p P’ IZ Ann ? n ’ 51 E - "’• Reynolds 5, Frank Kuos 5, Robert Poer 5. Wm NoP Chis Rosenthal 0, T. E. Harris 3, J. D Brown a, P. L. Fulk 4, M. S. Vu WU r O, T F -' » F , onner 5, Robert Mann 5, Irvin Brandvberry 5, J c Cowan 5, F. M. Troiitner 5, J. W. Carr 4, H. A. Hartman 1, Kenneth M mans 4, C. M Simcoke 2, John Nelson 4, F. J. Bublitz 4, W. F. Davis 3, E. B. Brown 1.

Kairat Decatur, Ind., Sept, 24 to ■«’. rromises a grand success.

moßt mis ®rable teings in the world are those Buffer"°D and liver complaint. More than seventy-five per een .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 nt the pit of the Stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and mgrei.able taste in the mouth, com ete “go toTo aft . ereßt i n ßdowspirits, Ix.ttlo of a J . ‘b-'iggist and got a ' P ' i "’

MARKETS. CORRECTED BY E. L. CARROLL, GRAIY f MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new g- ’ Corn, per cwt, yellow (new).’.’.’. 75 7 Corn, per cwt. (new) mixed.... 73 , Oats, new » {P* ••••’ 45 - parley ... 35 45 j Clover seed 4 00 @1 25 . Timothy 00 Potatoes, per bu new 1 ?n . Eggs, fresh] 2 , Butter j Cliickens' gg r Ducks Qg ( Turkeys 03 , Geese t q 5 , Wool, unwashedi.3 to 16 , Wool, washed 20 and 22 i Hogs oo 1 TOLEDO MARKETS, SEPT. 4, 1:30p.M. * Wheat, new No. 2 red,cash... J 721 Sept wheat 7 2 i Cash corn No. 2 mxed, cash... 56’ Sept corn 591 30th Big Fair at PORTLAND, INDIANA, Sept. 30, Oct. 1,2, 3,4, 1901. Grand Special Attractions Free each day. Grand Cake Walk and Other Special Features. Speed Department Bigger and Better than Ever. Excursion rates on all railroads. Notice of the French Tp. Fire liwurancoCo. The annual fire insurance meeting of the French Township Fire Insurance Co. will be held at the Election school house in French township. Adams county, the first Saturday in October, being the sth day. Meeting to open at ten o’clock a. m. A good attendance is desired. 27-3 V. D. Bell, Sec. Nobility Recommends Nervine. The above portrait is that of Countess Mogelstud, of Chicago, HI., whose gratitude for the benefit received from the use of Dr. Miles’ Nervine prompted her to make this statement: “It afford. me great pleasure to add my testimony to the very excellent merit! of Dr. Milea’ Nervine. Although lam paat 80 yean of age I h n ° it soothes t'«e tired brain, quiets the irritated nerves and insures restful sleepI never feel contented without a bottle of it in the house." Gratefullv yours, Christiana Maria, Countess Mogelstud. Moe’,- Nervine is a nerve tonic and strengthbuilder that starts right in restoring health immediately. Sold by all Druadsts. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.