Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1902 — Page 5

■T7 William Baughman of this in Chicago visiting her daugh- ■ n M Henslev and John S. Peter- ■ siindayed with their families at City- ■ a number of fast running horses ■L in this week and are working ■t for the fourth of J ul - v races■\earlr a hundred people took ad■ntatre’of the excursion to Chicago ■inday- It was the first trip of the ■ason- ■ y rg s, G. Bartle of Indianapolis is ■ the city on a weeks' visit with her ■other. John J. Mayer and family of ■rth Ninth street. ■ \ number of Decaturites took ad■ntageofthe Knights of Colutnbias ■cursiou to Rome City yesterday ■d all report a good time. ■ Dr. !’• B. Thomas left Tuesday for ■lenkern. Ohio, his former home ■here he was called on account of the ■rious illness of his father. ■ y r s. J. Sehabacker and daughter ■issCaliie Sehabacker, of Chicago, ■e guests in the city at the home of ■r.aud Mrs. \V. A. Keubler. ■ Frank Sehumacker, better known •■Schticks" arrived home Saturday ■om Omaha. Nebraska, where he has ■en employed for several months. ■ Samuel Rosybone of Tamah, ()hio, ■,ued with his sister, Mrs. Permelia ■ Martin this week. Mrs. Martin ■ju't seen her brother for eighteen Hears. H Plans and specifications for the ■er. Presbyterian church are com ■eted and are ready for the coutrac■rs. They can Lx l had by calling at ■e parsonage. ■ iheeitv band give their regular ■oneert Monday evening and showed ■at they are devoting time and at■ction to their work. They will be ■it again this evening. ■ The Misses Stella Liddy and Mary ■izer of Linn Grove are spending a in this citv. They are the ■iest- of the latter e sister Miss Myr- ■ and other relatives. I Judge Studabaker and family were ■ Linn Grove Tuesday attending the ■rthday anniversary of Uncle Robert ■imison. A big dinner was served ■nd quite a number were present. J Dr. J. S. Boyers arrived home ■jmday from a ten days’ trip to ■leveland. < thio, and to his old home ■ Virginia. He appears happy and ■ears evidence of having had a first ■ass time. ■ Mary, the infant daughter of Mr. ■dMrs Aaron Burk died Friday ■rening after a few days illness. The ■neral services were held Sundav ■ternoen from the United Brethern ■hurch at Bobo. ■ B. J. Terveer, W. H. Niblick and ■ C. M iler attended the birthday ■jiniversary at the home of Uncle ■Jubert Simison and wife at Linn last Tuesday. All report a ■rst class time. Decatur people were at ■prt Wayne Sunday afternoon to the American league ball between Cleveland and Wash■gton teams. Crist Meyers anil ■'rank Gast went down on their heels. ■ Mrs. Mary Johnston and daughter. ■' Warren. Indiana, were guests this of Mrs. P. J. Martin, the form■js niece. The two relatives had not ■>et since childhood days, fortv years ■go. and as may be imagined the visit a most uleasant one. ■ lames N. Fristoe • afld family left ■*onday for their summer home at ■»ke Winona, one of Indiana's most ■popular resorts. Earl accompanied ■hem and will enjoy a few days at the after which he expects to at cept ■’Position in Chicago with the Western Company. ■ Miss Grace Peterson came home ■“* even ing after a several months during most of which time ■° e bud l>een at Benton Harbor Mich in the millinary department of ■Jarge store. For a week past she has ■T 1 *be guest of Mrs. W. A. Lower of ■? <llat u»noliB and Mrs. F. A. Cotton at ■helbyville, Indiana.

VISIT THE ICE CREAM — AND SODA PARLOR AT THE City News Stand *T*HE coolest place in the city. Everything up-to-date. We have the finest line Candy in the city. Cigars, Tobaccos and Smoker’s Sundries. Daily Papers and Periodicals N.C. COVERDALE, Prop.

-.P°“ e t 0 Decatur July 3rd 4th and big days y6u will Mrs. G. W. Tester, of Liberty Center, Ohm, is in the city the guest of J. A. Tester and family. Col - George Maddy came home from Washington. D.C., Friday and is visiting with relatives and friends. . n r f: P if . er an»l little daughter of Bellefountain, Ohio, are in the citv the guest of her parents Mr. and Mrs’ W. J. Myers. Take a glance at the Big Store’s corner window, trimmed by the manager of the Mardi Gras entertainment to be given here next week. Attorney J. W. Hill attended to collections and other legal business at Liliertv Center, Alexandria and other Indiana towns this week. The petitioners on the Oak Grove macadam road have withdrawn their petition and settled all difficulties much to the satisfaction of all concerned. Beery & Holthouse are participating in a big horse sale at Fort Wayne which began Tuesday and in which the Decatur firm will dispose of about fifty head of fast ones. Beery & Holthouse have purchased a Park Stanhope ri£ of Schafer & Son which is without doubt the finest rig in the city. It showed off well behind the tandem team. I ncle George Pontius was here Tuesday from Hartford township being on his way to Bluffton. Montpelier and M arren where relatives reside and where he will visit. A. D. Ross, of Corey, Pennsylvania, was the guest of his son-in-law, John Yager and family over Sunday. Mr. Ross was on his way to California, where he will seek a business location. At a meeting of the Decatur Oil <fe Gas Co. held Monday evening, Prof. H. A. Hartman resigned as a member of the board of directors, and Horace Porter was unanimously selected to fill the vacancy.

W. A. Keubler was at Chicago Sunday and witnessed the record breaking ball game between Chicago and Pittsburg teams, the former winning by a score of three to two after nineteen innings play. W. Floyd Brittson is at home from Fort Wayne where he has been undergoing treatment for a badly sprained leg. We are glad to state that his treatment was very beneficial and he is again able to handle himself in first class style. Frisinger & Co., will give three prizes at the Great Northern Indiana Fair Association for the test colts, the products of their horses. The first prize will be S2O, second $lO and third $5. Indications point to a very successful fair meeting this fall. Coffee <fc Mangold opened the Fourth of July season Tuesday evening by sending up a paper balloon, and it was a beautiful ascension. The balloon went nearly straight up, continuing to soar until the light finally burned out and the inflated paper came down in Keubler’s yard. Boys secured it and another ascension was as successful as the first. Any number of people have gone out of town and had the elephant tramp on their pocket books, but Frank Heckathorn, who went to Decatur yesterday to see Robinson's circus, had a different experience. While watching the parade he got too close to the animals andoneof theelephants stepped on his foot, crushing it so that he will not be able to walk for a few days.—Bluffton News. Tom O’Leary, who left the Robison circus here and has since been working for Tom Covault the horse trainer was seriously hurt yesterday morning. He was driving a colt along the alley bast of the Burt house and the beast became unmanageable. O'Leary was thrown out and dragged quite a distance. His left hip was badly sprained and his foot cut quite badly. The services of a physician were secured as soon as possible and unless it develops that the hip was fractured instead of sprained the ypung man will be alright in a few days.

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A letter received by Mayor Beatty yesterday savs that surveyors and officials for the Fort Wayne, Dayton & Cincinnati traction line will reach here about Saturday, going from here to Fort Wayne, surveying and giving grade for the new line. It looks very much as’though the company means business and that before a great while our citizens can travel via the traction lines. The Bluffton Evening News of Saturday said: Invitations were issued today by Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Volmer for the marriage of their niece, Miss Gertrude Edmee Sixbey, and Lee Darwin Myers, of Geneva. The event will occur at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Volmer at 7:30 o’clock on the evening of July 1. Mr. and Mrs. Myers will live at Geneva where he is engaged in the oil business. Ex-Treasurer Jonas Neuenschwan der is about to build a new house on his farm in French township. He had selected a site and had the cellar and foundation all finished, when a second thought occurred to him to “mend in time” though late, and had all the foundation torn out again and moved about 16 rods, where he will rebuild the foundation and erect one of the finest mansions in French township—Berne Witness. A grand jury indictment has been returned against Joseph Miller of Union township, charging him with disturbing a religious meeting. The case arises from the fact that Miller refused to allow a man of different religious denomination to act as Sunday school superintendent. A case over the same trouble was filed before ’Squire Smith some weeks ago, but after bringing about half the citizens of the township as witnesses a settlement was effected. However, it seems that some were still dissatisfied and appeared before the grand jury with the result that an indictment was returned. The U. S. Civil Service Commission will hold examinations during Septemter and October, in several places in this state to secure young men and women for the government service. There are now 126,736 positions in classified civil service,being an increase of 46,736 in six years. There were 7, 972 persons appointed between July 1. 1901 and April 15, 1902, being at the rate of 10,070 for the year. There will probably te 11,000 appointments next year. Salaries at appointment $660 to $1,200 a year with literal promotions afterward. All appointments are for life and for most positions only a common school education is required. Politics or religion is not considered. Those desiring to take examinations of this kind can get full information ateut them free by writing to the Columbian Correspondence College. Washington. D. C., and asking for the Civil Service catalogue for 1902.

Come to Decatur July 3rd. 4th and sth— you will te entertained in a royal manner. To Cure a Colp in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggist refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c. ts Hubert Van Camp son of A. VanCamp, the Decatur miller, came to Bluffton yesterday afternoon on a bicycle which he stated belonged to a son of Charley Smith, the horse dealer. The youthful Decatur navigator was going to charter a box car for the homeward ride until Smith come across him and presented him with a quarter to go back on the 6:45. He said the boy was awav without his parent's knowledge and consent and it looked very much like the young fellow wasn't doing things on the square to come away with no better facilities for returning than he seemed to possess. Bluffton Banner. Craigville citizens are all agog over the actions of their new barber and his w’ife. The barber’s name is Bright. He is a deaf mute and about six months ago married a young lady at Portland who is also deaf. Since then their dream of domestic bliss has been shattered five times by the sudden departure of Mrs. Bright from the home. Last week she left for the fifth time and went to Portland to visit hex parents. She returned to Craigville Saturday morning but her husband refused to take her back. Bv signs she plead with him, but to all her entreaties he shut his eyes and Mrs. Bright finally climbed in her buggy and drove to Decatur. It is claimed that her parents will not allow her to stay at home and as her husband refuses to take her in she is between two fires.—Bluffton Banner. Those who heard the argument made by Richard H. Hartford in the Shepherd murder trial, which ended Saturday in a conviction, are more than free to admit that the effort was one of the best of that well known attorney’s life. ‘ Although not in the best of health and weary from the es sects of the demooratic state convention at which he was nominated for appellate judge for the Fourth district, Mr. Hartford talked for nearly three and one-half hours. Not the slightest bit of the testimony introduced by the defense was over looked, and wherever he saw a weak spot this was instantly pounced upon and picked to shreds. Mr. Hartford showed himself complete master of all the evidence which had been introduced, and his arguments as deduced from it were clear cut and comprehensive, being of that sort which make a deep and lasting impression, and carries with it the weight of conviction. Mr. Hartford was congratulated by his many friends over his masterly effort. Portland Commer-cial-Review’.

o r r i c r « s: P. W. SMITH, President. C. A. DUGAN, Cashier. W. A. KUEBLER, Vice-President. E. X. EHINGER, Ass't. Cashier. DECATUR m WIIZ DECATUR NATIONAL D/Al ill INDIANA. CAPITAL, $100,000.00 SURPLUS, 11,000.00 DIR ECTO RS ; J. H. HOBROCK. W. A. KUEBLER. C. A. DUGAN. P. W. SMITH. D. SPRANG. E. X. EHINGER. J. B. MASON.

Warning. If you have kidney or bladder trouble and do not use Foley’s Kidney Cure, you will have only yourself to blame for results, as it positively cures all forms of kidney and bladder diseases. Holthouse, Callow <& Co. j On Tuesday, the 24th of June, was celebrated the 28th birthday of Mrs. Rebeckah Simison. wife of Robert Simison, of the village of Buena Vista, by their children, grand-children, rel atives and neighbors to the number of 76. Mr. and Mrs. Simison are pioneers in Adams and Wells counties. Mrs. Simison moved to Wells county with her brother-in-law, Harvey, in 1882, and settled on the Wabash about four miles below Bluffton, when she was ateut 14 years old. Robert Simison, her husband, came to Adams county in 1833 with Peter Studakaker, and settled first in Wabash township. Not long after he entered the land from the government where the village of Buena Vista now stands, and in 1886 he and Rebeckah were married in Wells county, Indiana, they being the first white couple married in Wells county according to the records. Soon after their marriage, in the same year, they built a cabin house on their land, ami moved into it and commenced the clearing up of a farm, where they have resided ever since,owning the same land he entered from th(» government, except a portion that has been laid out in village lots and sold. Robert Simison is now in his 91st year, somewhat enfeebled by age and dim of sight, but clear in mind, was a great friend of early history, with a bright recollection of the incidents of a long life. Their children ami grandchildren were all present at the birthday party. A bountiful repast was served at the noon hour, after which old acquaintances were renewed ami several nappy hours spent in social conversation.

The now disreputable amusement of cockfigbting, which was once respectable enough to divide with scholarship and archery the attention of Koger Ascham, has provided the language with "crestfallen,” "in high feather” and Shakespeare's “overcrow" (cf. to crow over). “To show the white feather” is from the same source, since white feathers in a gamecock’s tall are a sign of impure breeding. Often the origin of such words or phrases has been quite forgotten, but when traced discloses their true character at once. “Fair play” is still recognized as a figure from gambling, but “foul play,” now specialized to "murder,” is hardly felt as a metaphor at all.—Open Court. Kettle llridires. Perhaps the most remarkable bridges In the world are the kettle bridges, of which Cossack soldiers are expert builders. The materials of which they are constructed are the soldiers’ lances and cooking kettles. Seven or eight lances are passed under the handles of a number of kettles and fastened by means of ropes to form a raft A sufficient number of these rafts, each of which will bear a weight of half a ton, are fastened together, and in the space if an hour n bridge is formed on which an army may cross with confidence and safety. She Knnv the Reaion. “Can you tell me why it is,” he growled as he began diving under the bed, "that my slippers always seem to get pushed clear over against the wall?” "Yes, dear,” she answered pleasantly. "You can?” "Yes, dear.” “Then"vby Is it?” “Because you don't put them away iu the slipper rack when you take them off, dear.”—Chicago Post •