Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1902 — Page 8

West Root Rev. Early preached at Mt. Pleasant last Sunday forenoon Chancy Rineheart, the Hoagland barber, visited relatives in this vicinity last Sunday. Charles Ulman and wife of Moline, Illinois, are visiting with relatives in this vicinity. Fred Hockemeyer is repairing his threshing machines and will start out in a few days. J. C. Evans returned to Marion last Monday morning, after spending Sunday with his family. George McCiain and wife of Elwood, are visiting with relatives and friends in this vicinity. Miss Nettie Mann entertained a crowd of Mt. Pleasant young people Sunday, and all report a jolly time. The ice cream social given by the Mt. Pleasant Epworth League Society last Saturday evening was a grand success. Pleasant mils The hum of the thresher is again heard in this locality. Charles Morris of Ohio City, was a caller here last Sunday. Burton Fuller left Tuesday for a few days outing at Toledo, Ohio. Quite a number attended the lecture at the M. E. church Tuesday evening. Mrs. Isaac Reece of Dayton, Ohio, spent Sunday here with her brother D. F. Morris. Frank Martz and sister Dora of Groverhille, Ohio, spent Sunday here with relatives. Mrs. Otto Martz and son of Dunkirk are spending the week with her sister Mrs. Oran Fortney. Wm Custer and wife, Wilson Beery and family and Asa Me Mellen anil family Sundayed at Geneva. Mrs. Daisy Roebuck returned home last week from Marion where she has been attending school. Nola, Edna and Maud Steele and Nackie Acker Sundayed with Ira Steele and family north of Decatur. Mrs. Nellie McCaslin left Wednesday for her home in Middlepoint after a few days visit here with her sister Mrs. D. F. Morris. Geneva Indiana oil 84 cts. Col. J. J. Watson of Elwood, is with us for a few weeks’ visit among relatives. Our farmers report the yield of wheat not heavy but of excellent quality. This is ideal weather for the farmer and the whole human race that is dependant on him. An addition to the Cross boiler works is being built. The material is brick and stone.

TOWELING SALE! AT BOSTON STORE Best 35c Table Linen on Earth Stamped Lunch Cloths # Doylies at Cost 8 CENT TOWELING We have selected 20 pieces of toweling that retailed at 10c and 12jc guaranteed all linen, excellent patterns, sale price. 8 GENTS 25 CENT CUT WORK In displaying these goods we have had quite a number of fine pieces slightly soiled. We have put in goods worth 75c and sl, all go at 25 CENTS 8 CENT SILKALINES Just the goods you want to buy for comforts, ;<R inches wide, nice fine goods, worth 121 cents our price on this lot 8 CENTS A YARD BOSTON STORE KI JLER & MOLTZ CO. I. O. O. F. BLOCK.

Goo. McCrum has resumed work at the Hutton shops, and will not move to Fort Wayne as anticipated. ' Mike McGriff’s new brick business room is being plastered. It will be I occupied by the postoffice when eom- > pleted. I Henry Finkbone, known as the l “Father of Geneva” is on the sick list, ’ and is suffering from disease incident II to old age. Simon McGriff of Celina, Ohio, was t in the city last Monday visiting with his brother, Mike. His wife accompanied him. The wheat crop in this vicinity is 1 harvested and the threshing machine began its work in earnest last Mont day morning. ’ Mrs. Sherman Williams, living on east Shackley street, who has been j quite ill for the past two weeks is r slowly improving. I Dr. H. M. Aspy has a lemon tree in full bloon of which he is very proud. This tn>e was presented to him bv Will H. Fought over twentv vears 1 ago. The walls of the new Geneva school 1 house are now completed to the top of the first story and the work is being i pushed to completion with a large force of hands. > Tom Drew's elegant new residence ■ building on High street is fast near- , ing completion, and presents an im- ■ posing appearance. It is a frame with slate roof and gables. ' The usual variety of weeds that i thrive at this time of year profusely decorate our sidewalks and alleys, but it was ever thus, for the wielder of . the scythe is wearv and the board of health fail to convince him of the Icriminalty of his neglect. . J. W.. and Fred C. Deitsch with their families attended the funeral of their mother at Chattanooga. Ohio. '; her home, last Tuesday. She wasvery aged and died last Sunday mornning from injuries received in a fall on Thursday of last week. Linn Grove. Mrs. Silas Kizer was entertained by her son, B. F.. at Decatur. Amos Hen-man returned from Jeffersonville on Friday of last week. Mrs. P. Hoffmann and daughter. Nona, were at Bluffton last Friday. Peter Hoffmann and son. D. Forest, made a business trip to Bluffton Monday Albert Hilty of Beaverdam.Ohio, is visiting Edward Neuenschwander and family. The threshers opened up for the season, the vield so far being from 20 to 25 bushels per acre. F. A. W. Lindsey and son. Frank, were guest of the former’s brother, | Amos, in Jefferson township last Sundav.

Cesar Hilty, after spending some six years among the gold diggers of Alaska, has returned to the parental home here. Charles Barber of Geneva, made us a friendly call Saturday evening. It ;is possible that Charley is specially I attracted here, however, that is all I right, Charley, when the gates are ajar. By an oversight we omitted the marriage of Everett Bauter to Miss Lillie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Meschberger, which took place at the residence of Rev. E. Bockman, Saturday evening July sth. While unloading hay last Friday Vernon Lindsey was struck with the hay fork, knocking him down, cutting an ugly gash in his forehead and loosening some of his teeth. Vernon says for a while he thought himself among the angels. Abe Studabaker and Ed Hoffman marketed eighty porkers on Tuesday, the estimated average being 240 lbs. contracted some time ago at 7c which foots up the snug sum of -51.344. The present worth would command 596 additional. Cyrus Cotton being the purchaser. A late number of the Chicago Journal has a cartoon representing a donkey sick abed, intended to portrav the democratic party and Dr. Cleveland in person administering his bottled harmony speech to cure the party ills, but we deem the Dr. too much of a quack to effect a cure should the party be indisposed. Fred Studler. wife and son. David. ■John Nusbaum and wife. David Mettler and daughter. MissCatheSchauffter and John Gerber entrained at Berne Monday for Tacoma, State of Washington. They will be joined by a large party at Fort Wayne to make the trip. Visits will be to Montana and Salem. Oregon during their outing. Berne. Mrs. Winans and children Sundayed at Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sheets went to Rockford Sunday. Samuel Simison went to Canada ■ Monday morning. Clark Lutz was a business caller in town Monday Mrs. Amos Hirschey who was sick last week is better. George Cotton of Bluffton, was a business caller here Saturday. Bert Harruff of Preble, was the guest of friends here Tuesday. Orval Hoffman of Linn Grove, was a business caller here Tuesday. Miss Grace Miller of Decatur, was | the guest of friends here Friday. Miss Minnie Sprunger returned home Saturday from Fort Wayne. Mesdames Frazier and Drooley of

! Bluffton, were guests of D. L. Shalley and family Friday. Aaron Augspurger Sundayed at I Decatur, the guest of Ed Ashbaucher. Frank Schirmeyer and W H. Niblick were business callers here I riday. i Miss Gertrude Blosser of Decatur. lis the guest of Mrs. Eugene Runyon ! at present. Miss Bessie Buckley of Brookville, Ohio, was the guest of Cora Gottschalk last week. Sam Kelley arrived here Monday from Montpelier. He will visit with his parents a short time. Dr. Emick and wife have moved to Berne. Thev are living on I ranklin street in the fed Rice property. Miss Lillie Egly returned home Tuesday from Grabill, Ind., where she had" been visiting relatives. Levi Colbert moved to town last week. They live in one of Sam Egly s new houses west of the Orphan’s Home. C. G. Egly was at Put-in-Bay. Ohio, Saturday attending a Hay convention. He went as state delegate, and reports a fine time. The Misses Rosa and Esther Kuntz and Oscar Augsberger Sundayed at Rome City, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kinney. Fred Eichenber’s mother and grand- : son, Ralph, of West Farmington. 0., ■ are the guests of Mr. Eichenberger , and family this week. Mrs. Peter Soldner and children, Clara and Albert, left Tuesday for Oden, Michigan, to spend the summer amidst the cool breeze. The Misses Cora and Wilda Gottschalk and Bess Buckley and Messrs. Noah Zehr. Earl Shalley and John Craig Sundayed at Twin Hills. The Enterprise Oil Co. of Berne, are preparing to put in another well on the Joe Engle lease. No. 4 is a nice little well and we wish them luck and success. Two new cement sidewalks were put down last week in front of the residences of Charles Sullivan and Eli Riesen on Water street. It is a great improvement. Magley Sunday was a good day for bicycles and buggies. The farmers are busy gathering in their sheves of wheat. In olden times wheat had to have nine dews but today it gets about two. M. Kirsch and family and A. Sellemeyer and family of Decatur were the guests of W. Sellemeyer Sunday. Without doubt the happiest man in Preple township today is Crist Borne it is possible his happiness knew no limit Thursday morning when his wife presented him w ith a bouncing baby girl. The mother and little daugeter are doing fine. A warm debate was held at the big school house Friday night. Resolved that the first part of the history beginning with 17*9 to 1845 is more interesting than the latter from 1845 to 1902. The question for Friday night is that it was just for the United States to rebell against England in 1775.

Real Estate 1 ransfera. Jacob S. Riley to Olive Porter, pts sec 5 and 6,tp 26, rg 15, $3,360. Anna Nusbaum to Gideon Keisen. inlot 96, Berne $225. Albert Marker et al to F. M. Cottrell, inlot 166, Berne SBOO. Harlo Mann et al to John Everett, pts of inlots Nos. .‘164, 365 and 366, Decatur sllsO. Jacob U. Whitely to Frederick Hamm, sw } nw J, sec 13, tp2s,rg 14. 40 acres $1,650. Mahala Shannon to J. B. Stoutenberry, pt sec 35. tp 27. rg 13, 40 acres SI.OO. Obituary. Another pioneer who assisted in the upbuilding of Kirkland township has gone to her final reward. Margaret (Barnhart) Brown died at her home in Kirkland township Friday evening at 11 o’clock. For three years she has been in very poor health suffering with a complication of diseases. At times she would improve slightly but her old age seemed to make recovery imjiossible and she finally succumlied to the inevitable. She was born in Fairfield county. Ohio, Octolier 21. 1818, and died July 11,1902, making her age 83 years, 8 months and 20 days. When a young woman she moved to this county with her parents in 1841, and was united in marriage in 1843 and settled on the farm which her companion entered from the government in 1837, where they toiled and lived together up until 1878, when he departed from this life leaving her with the children to mourn the loss of a loving and kind husband and father. To this union was born seven children, four boys and three girls, who all survive her to mo ura the loss of a kind and ‘ loving mother except the eldest son who departed this life in 1895, also she leaves 19 grand children to mourn the loss of a loving grandmother. Grandma Brown has lived a consistent church worker throughout life, being a member of the Brethren church for the past thirty-two years. Her last words on earth were that she was going home to live with her Savior whom she had worked for throughout life She was laid to rest in the Antioch cemeteryjSunday forenoon. ‘‘Dis is a purty ’bligiu’ ol’ worl,” said I ncle Ebon, “an’if you let’s it git giner’v known dat you’s looking foh trouble, its mighty li’ble to ’com mod ate you.”

The Difference. TENNYSON cov’d takr a vorthless sheet of patter, writes on it and make it worth §2s,ooo.oo—That’s Genius. VANDERBILT can write a few words on a sheet of pane,. j make it worth §5,000.000.00 That’s Capital. 1 i and THE UNITED STATES can take an ounce and a quarter gold, and stamp upon it an eagle, and make it worth S’Xmn That’s Money. A MECHANIC can take material worth §5.00 and make it iu watch springs worth §500.00 That’s Skill. A MERCHANT can take an article worth 75c and sell it t 51.25 That’s Business. “ ot A DITCH DIGGER works eight hours a day. handling tons of earth, for §1.50 - That’s Labor. A LADY could buy a 75c hat. but prefers one worth 827.00—That’s Nonsense. , FOR ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIALS send your orders to the Decatur Lumber Company -That’s Sense. ' P. V. SMITH, President. C. A. DUGAN, Cashier. W. A. KUEBLER, Vice-President. E. X. EHINGER, Ass't. Cqshitr DECATUR fl /\ ]\! |< OECATUR NATIONAL D/AlNll INDIANA. CAPITAL, 4100,000.00 SURPLUS 11.U00.00 D (RECTORS J. H. HOBROCK. <■ a K U M In C. A. DUGAN. P. V. SMITH. D SPRANt E. X. EHINGER. J. B . rtASON.

DANGEROUS CRIUNIALS ARRESTED One Has Been In this Locality tor Several Months. Wanted in Canada Two men were arrested yesterday by the local authorities and placed in jail here for whom the Canadian authorities have been making a search for nearly three years. One was captured three miles from Convoy, 0., by Superintendent of Police Gorsline in company with J. W. Murray, chief inspector of the Criminal Investigation department of Ontario, Canada. He is known in Canada as Beniamin Riley. The other was arrested at Bluffton by Deputy United States Marshall John A. Scott and Deputy Sheriff Reichelderfer and is known to the Canadian authorities as William Aker although he has been known at Bluff--1 ton as William Julian. Riley has been traveling through the country for several years with his wife and living in a wagon which is fitted up with a bed and a stove and necessary articles for keeping house. In another wagon he carried an outfit for putting on and painting tar roofs and has ostensibly gained his livelihood in that manner. He has for sev- , eral months been in and around Decatur and had been camping near Convoy for two weeks. The stories of the depredation with which the men are charged by the Canadian authorities embrace a series of bold hold ups small sneak jobs and thievery of all kinds. Mr. Murray said last night that in 1900 the t•b men settled on a little farm in Lampton county, Ontario.and within a short time a series of the most daring burg laries were committed that ever had been brought to the notice of the officers of the law. The specific charge on which Riley is held is the robbery of a retired ( farmer by the name of George Jacks who live in the township ot Dover, Kent county, Ontario. On the i ight of September 16, 1900, two armed, masked men entered the Jacks home one carrying a murderous looking knife and the other a revolver and demanded money. Members of the family assured the robbers that there was no money in the house, but they were kept in a state of fear for two : hours by the flurishing of the weapons and threats of death if they did not produce money that was supposed to be in the house. Tiring of torturing the family the men made a search and found seven dollars which they took with them. - pan theii entrance they asked Mr. Jacks if he had any weapons and tvere informed that the only fire arm of any discription on the premises was an old musket kept in a shed back of the house. There were two daughters in the family at the time of the robery. In Benrcbing a bureau drawer the ahudkerchief used as a mask by Riley was momentarily pulled aside and one of the daughters mw a reflection of his face iu the looking glass. On the night before Christmas of the same year the two men returned to the same house and forced an entrance. Members of the familv were again threatened with death and revolvers were held at their heads and every effort made to find the hiding place of money supposed to be in the

BEWARE Os buying an American Clover Buncher of anyone but Niblick & Summers Sole agents for Adam county as they are the only firm who can fur nish you repairs. . . .

house. As a last resort the robba compelled Mr. Jacks to show IM deposit slips for a large sum of mow he had received and which to thought he had on hand. Inthecoffl of their talk with the family to asked about the old musket at wanted to know the whereabout I the one of the girls who had mans between the two robberies, showiaf conclusively that the same men «• mitted both roblieries. On the occasion of the last to they spent two hours in the boa in effort to find money, and failiM gathered up all of the jeweler in m house, including a gold watch Mj several brooches, took a valuable » cap, two suits of clothes, a uew o® coat and a lot of underclothes. Tb» they piled in the middle of the floorß the living room of the house w afterwords compelled the g® to cook a meal which they a * Aker worked as a pajx-r hangwto painter and lived near Jacks fto and gained perfect know lege of" habits of the family and the arranff ments of the house. He is to beH on charge of stealing twenty-!® and a half bushels of clover ** which is valm*d at $7 a bushel. 1® was stolen from the home of Di Hastings who lives near the JW farm. From last Fridays Fort«». Journal Gazette. markets. CORRECTED BT E. L. CARROLL, O* ll ’ MERCHANT, DECATVB, ISOWheat, new * L | Corn, per cwt, yellow (new).... j Corn, per cwt. (new) mixed..-- n Oats, new Rye J Al.,k. SMC ; Timothy. .... $ Buckwheat 30 Flax seed $ Potatoes, per bu ]t Eggs, fresh |l Butter ft Chickens ft Ducks ft Turkeys ft Geesejo to 1‘ Wool, unwashedSd # Wool, washed lift TOLEDO MARKETS JfLT • • „ Wheat, new No. 2 red,cash.-• S wheat® corn No. 2 mxed, casnJ uly coni 'N Oats, cash oats, duly “I Rye, cash