Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1902 — Page 5

Wood wanted by A. C. Gregory, ts Meet your friends at the Great Northern’ fair to be held Sept. 23-26. Frank Foreman of Berne, was in the city yesterday on business. Como to Decatur fair week. It’s the biggest and best that ever happened. Lawrence Tester is enjoying a visit with relatives and friends at Rochester this week. The Great Northern Fair dates are September 23-26, Don't let that fact get away from you. H. L. Confer will leave Saturday for a week’s vacation, most of which time will be enjoyed at the Cincinnati fall festival. Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Drummond are radiant with joy over the arrival of a ten pound son who came Saturday morning last. A temperance billiard hall has opened in the Hooper building on Monroe street and seems to be doing a prosperous business. Miss May Niblick entertained a party of friends at her home Friday evening. The luncheon was delicious and the evening was well enjoyed. An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Enos Lord of this city died Monday morning after a short illnes. Funeral services were held Tuesday. Tne peach season has started in and hundreds of bushels have been sold this week by our hustling merchants. The prices run from 51.00 to 81.50 a bushel. . Attorneys David Taylor of Portland, William Drew and S. A. M. Butcher of Geneva, were attending to legal affairs in the Adams circuit court yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Schafer and editor and Mrs. Daniels arrived home Tuesday morning from a ten days’ pleasure trip to Chicago. They report a good time. According to Marion papers Dick France has been secured to act as coach and full back for the Owl club foot ball team of that city. If it’s a fact, the team will be a winner. The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church met with Mrs. D. D. Heller Thursday and the afternoon was well enjoyed, an interesting program was given. Half rates to Des Moines. The Erie railroad will sell round trip tickets at half rates on Sept. 12th to 15th, good for return Sept. 22nd to Des Moines, lowa, for the Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows. See Erie agents. Wouldn't that jar you. Stone and glass jars, jelly glasses, tin cans, sealing wax. can lids, stew kettles and a general line of house hold notions at the Bazaar at prices that jars all competitors. Coffee & Mangold, next door to National bank. 26t4 Will Christen, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Christen of this city is very sick with tvphoid fever at his home at Rockford, Ohio. His parents and brother Charles were called to his bedside yesterday. Will has hosts of friends here who hope he will soon pass the danger point. Cosma Wilhelm, the boy arrested two weeks ago for stealing junk, from Barney Kalver & Son and then reselling it to them, was sentenced Tuesday morning to a term in the Plainfield boys’ reformatory. The boy has become incorrigeable and it is hoped that a year or two in this school will improve his behavior. The first well drilled by local capitalists and known as the Carroll Oil Company, came in last night and was a duster, although there was a slight showing of oil. Sand was reached at noon yesterday at a depth of 1243 feet, and this extreme depth foreordained a salt water hole. Drilling continued until late last nirrht when at 22 feet in the sand all hope was banished and drilling stopped The company are not the least discouraged and' will drill another well as soon as a new location can be determined. They own leases on about 3000 acres and one good well would put them into the business on a paying scale.

■■ 111 M IB WTE want to make it as strong as we know how ” that we will give you better lumber at the same price, or equal grades at a lower price, than you can get elsewhere. We believe, first, in giving the best lumber that money can buy, and then in making the price as low as possible for the kind of lumber. And still we defy you to find lower prices than ours. If you leave dissatisfied it’s your own fault. I opfllnr idiot . j j.. ~ j . i* -1 j

Everybody will be here for the hi., fair to be held September 23 to 26. Ttmfri K ‘ To<ll1 ’ r ife and daughter of !» ir sop*"®ber 23,24, 25 and 26. The best that ever happened. L. G. Botkins and §. A. M. Butcher of Geneva, were rubbing up against business here yesterday. Bluffton's commercial club are booming the location of a pretzel factory. Great excitement prevails in business circles. Recorder-elect Cloud was quite ill several days last week, but at last reports was improving nicely and will be as good as ever in a few days. Winfield Maddy was one year old Monday and he very gallantly distributed his first birthday cake with his little playmates and acquaintances. Will Sheets of Berne was in town Monday and gave this office a pleasant call. His subscription account is now paid to the good fur several years to come. John Hessler and wife were at Fort Wayne yesterday where they witnessed the marriage of John Grunt and Anna Parent. The ceremony took place in the cathedral. Manager Bosse of the opera house, is making an effort to secure the Mortimer repertoire company for an engagement here the week of the fair. It is said to be a strong company. Dinner and toilet ware, fancy lamps and China ware stock so large and prices so small that to call and see will convince you that wo have no baits but real things all along the line at Coffee & Mangold’s. 26t4 The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. John Brock next Saturday at 2:30 p. m. The program will be opening exercises by Mrs. Brandyberry, current events in temperance work by members. Paper, Mrs. Hughes, recitation. Mrs. Gilson. While attending to business down street yesterday Prof. H. A. Hartman was suddenly taken ill with severe cramps. He managed to get home and the services of a physician were necessary to make him comfortable. He was resting easy last evening and will probably be able to resume his school duties by tomorrow morning. For a week past a number of workmen have lieen busy excavating the cellar for the new Presbyterian church building. The church has been delayed considerably on account of a mistake in the former plans, they being drawn fora larger building than was desired by the congregation. New plans are being prepared and the con tract for the building will probably be let in a few days. A. B. Jackson, president of the as sociation who will give the Derbyraces here October 14 to 18, is at Windsor, Kansas, this week attending a big race meeting. He has secured entries for a number of strings of running horses that will be here. On his way home he expects to stop at Detroit, Ann Arbor and Jackson, Michigan and at each place expects to secure entries. There is no doubt that the races here will be the best seen anywhere m the country and and every race will have enough entries to make it a fight from wire to wire. It is believed now that 250 starters will lie here. Perhaps the most remarkable scientific discovery made in a long time so far at least as its wonderful possibilities are concerned—is that of radium. Apparently this substance has from the beginning been giving off particles at the rate of sixty to ninety thousand miles per second, without dimunition of its own force and will continue to do so forever. It supplies light without heat. A ray of this light conducts electricity. It converts oxygen into ozone and colors glass permanently brown. These are only a few of the properties of this remarkable substance. In the Cosmopolitan for September a brief article is publisher! under the title “A NewField For Speculation,” and announcement is made of a prize of three hundred dollars for the best paper on this subject.

Ihe Huntington Indiana Business L Diversity is the best equipped and most highly endorsed business training school of Indiana. Expenses half that of other cities. Positions for ' graduates. Send for free catalogue.' 0. E. Hawkins, Pres. 22-10 < )ra France arrived home Thursday afternoon from Dal law, Texas, where he has been playing ball in the Texas league. He is looking old fashioned and says the southern (dimate agreed wiih him. “Bones” played second base and put up a great game, lead ing his team in batting and the league in base running. For his good work with the stick he was presented with a beautiful diamond ring. He expects to move his family to Dallas next spring, having signed a 1903 contract with the team for 8125 a month. The Dallas team finished second in the league. Charles M. France took an active part in a lively runaway Tuesday evening, and while his injuries proved notover serious he has no;buruing desire to repeat his experience for some time at least. Mr. France and a youth named Dullehan, were driving east on Monroe street when the horse scared at a bicycle and shied upon the sidewalk in front of John Mason’s home. Mr. France was throw against the fence, while the boy was thrown clear over into the yard. Each of the participants were slightly cut and bruised but escaper! any real serious injuries. The horss ran about two squares before it was stopped. It is almost settled that the Decatur Oil & Gas Co., will pipe Willshire and Wren, Ohio, with gas. Arrangements are now under way looking to this end. and if they comply with their Willshire ordinance they will be ready to supply that town by November 10. It is a project involving the expenditure of ten or fifteen thousand dollars, and matters of even this magnitude can not be settled in a day. The Brewer oil and gas well continues to be the wonder of the field. The gas pressure is excessive and the oil comes without much exertion. It has l>een making thirty to forty barrels daily in twelve hours, and is in fact an all around hummer. The republican county convention was held in the court room Thursday morning and was rather a quiet affair, the entire attendance being estimated at Jess than twenty. County Chairman C. L. Walters acted as chairman and L. Reffey secretary. After a few preliminaries the following ticket was nominated: Representative, John D. Engle, French township; treasurer, Elmer Cook, Washington township; clerk. T. C. Corbett, Decatur; sheriff, John W. Dague, St. Marvs township; recorder, John Glancy. Berne; surveyor. Jesse Buckmaster. Jefferson township; coroner, Wm. C. Braden, Geneva; commissioner first district, C. D. Kunkle, Root township; second district, Joseph W. Smith. Decatur. George Lawdy, while returning to his home in the oil field from Geneva Saturday evening, had a close call with highway robliers. When he neared the home of Ed Pontius a man jumped from the shadows and grabbed the horse by the bid, ordered George to throw up his hands. Lawdy had the whip in his hands and struck the horse a hard blow. The horse lunged forward and in doing so knocked the would-be robber down and the buggy ran over his body. Lawdy is field boss for the Buffalo Oil Company and at the time of the attempted hold up had the monthly pay roll of more than 8500 with him, This is the third attempt at robbery that has been made at that place. At the dedication of the handsome new Allen county court house, said to lie the finest building of the kind in the United States, many distinguished people are to be present. The county officials and attorneys of all northern Indiana are to be invited as are also the following: President of United States and members of his cabinet, justices of the supreme court, senators and representatives in congress of the states of igan, Ohio and Kentucky, judges of the United States courts in the federal and judicial districts within the above named states, governor of Indiana ami staff, judges of the supreme and appellate courts of Indiana, state officers and superintendents and trustees of the state institutions, judges of the circuit and superior courts of Indiana, governors and state officers of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky. The affair comes off next month and will be one of the greatest events of the kind in Indiana history. Mrs. W W, P. McMillen and daughter, Miss Orvis, delightfully entertained yesterday afternoon, the occasion being the eighty-eighth birthday anniversary of Mrs. Lucien P. Ferry. About thirty ladies were present and each enjoyed the hours to the fullest extent. A unique game was indulged in, questions being asked to be answered by the fewest possible words, Mrs. E. L. Carroll receiving first prize and Mrs. Jennie Studabaker the consolation. At five o clock an elaborate dinner was served, which part of the afternoon was by no means the least enjoyable. The house was beautifully and appropriately decor ated and the event will long lie remembered by every guest. Grandmother Ferrv is one of the pioneer women of Indiana and is an honary vice president of the Pioneer Settlers' Association of Allen county. Her husband's name is mentioned in the liistory of early hooeierdom and the family name has been an honored one in this territory for more than a century. Mrs. Ferry’s friends here are numbered by her acquaintances and all join us in wishing her many more celebrations such as yesterday’s.

VH Start the Boys ry" fll RIGHT! ■F IN A NEW JA School Suit! J] * Have made special preparations for school * A days am putting on sale the greatest bargains ever hBKJP) offered. _ _________ **• Boys’ School Suits Sixty-two boys’ good wearing suits, ages 6 to 16 years, they are well worth $1.25 and $1.50, and go at this sale for 98c Eighty-five boys’ good cashmere and chevoit suits, double breasted coat and pants, ages 6 to 16 years, worth $2.00 to $2.50, they go in this sale at $1.48 each One hundred fine boys’ three-piece suits (coat, vest and short trousers) made of very good wool chevoits, cashmeres and tweeds, good wearers, which is the most essential quality of a boy’s suit, worth up.to $3.00, go in this sale at $1.98 each ■MM———— II ——— Many lines of the finest and best in boys’ wear, from the nobby Norfolk for boys to the swell things in long pant suits for young men, at most astonishingly low prices. All goods guaranteed as represented or money refunded. For the correct things in men’s and boys wear, at money saving prices, always see GUS. ROSENTHAL, THE SQUARE MAN.- DECATUR, INDIANA.

A new and important use for refined paraffine wax seems to have been discovered by a prominent resident of Ohio, living near Lancaster, who had two trees badly damaged by storm, one being a maple and the other an apple. In each case a limb was broken down from the trunk, but still attached to it. The limbs were propeii up and fastened securely with straps, very much as a broken leg might be fastened with splints, and then melted refined wax poured into and over all the cracks. The “surgical operation” was entirely successul. paraffine prevented the escape of the sap, kept out the rain and moisture which would have rotted the trees, prevented the depredations of insects, and the limbs seem thus far to be perfectly re-attached to the trees. The new corn cutter which was set up on north Johnson street this morning, caused a great deal of comment. The machine was a peculiar looking thing but it is said to work perfectly. The corn passes up between two endless chains, is cut off by a knife, gath ered onto a platform, tied and then is lifted off onto the ground by means of a derrick and windlass. As soon as it was set up, William Quick hitched it on behind his wagon and will give it a complete trial. Bluffton Banner. Pinch yourself dear old ancient an tiquiated Bluffton, and hold a post mortem with a view of convincing yourself whether you are actually a corpse or only peacefully slumbering. Sixty-seven of these “peculiar looking things” have been sold by our merchants to as many farmers, who are now harvesting their corn crop by the new method. Hurd to SntlNfy. She—You will love me always, won’t you, dear? He—Always, darling. She (petulantly)—Oh— He—What in the world is the matter? She—Why on earth don't you nay twice as long as always? Illa Filemla. Jinks—l tell you what it is, there is nothing like having lots of friends. Winks—l presume not. Jinks—No, sirree. As quick as I lose a job tuy friends go all round hunting a new place for me so as to save me the trouble of borrowing money from them. I.onica No Lonwer. Once upon a time there was a man who thought ho wanted the earth. Then be bad n vision and he dreamed he did own the earth. He thought the assessor came around, and he woke up with a groan. Herbas never wanted the earth since.—Hudson Register.

Donkeys In Mexico. There are two classes of donkeys in Mexico—one with four feet and the other with two. Each is a kind of competitor of the other. Sometimes they are partners. They are both bearers of burdens and the subjects of brutality. Everywhere you see the donkey loaded down with sacks of ore, baskets of dirt, cans of milk, sacks of water, and you find bls driver very often loaded in the same way. These combinations sometimes go two by two. and sometimes there will be a band of ten to fifty thus loaded, coming down the mountains witli ore, charcoal or wood, corn or whatever may be needed in the villages or cities. It is indeed a mediaeval life in middle and southern Mexico. The V'ny of the Frontier. The way of civilization in a new land passes comprehension, its motto seems to be “Kuin first; there is time afterward to save.” Civilization is a good deal like a wild, full blooded boy—lt must first sow wild oats, waste its patrimony, disgrace its antecedents; then it is ready to begin the serious work of life. That has been the liistory of the range country—swift ruin for thirty or forty years, witli a resulting wreck that it will require a century of hard work, perseverance and self control to save.—Kay Stannard Baker in Century. x Siamese Toi»h<•<•<>. The best tobacco in Siam is grown at Petehabun. It is planted in open fields near the town after the floods in September or October, and the first crop, or tips, which is considered the best quality, is gathered about February and tlie last about the beginning of May. The very best quality cannot lie purchased, as it Is reserved for the special use of the king and sent down to Bangkok, where it is smoked In the palace and distributed to the chief officers of state. Cemetery Monument*. What is more sadly comic or incongruous than the imposing medley of stone and marble in a great cemetery? Tlie towering columns loom over the resting places of such small citizens. The “dove of pence” alights v, acre it would never have brooded of its free will. Tlie guardian angel bends over tlie vixen's tomb, while mediocre lilts of slate denote the graves of many saintly and gifted pilgrims.—Atlantic. A Cheerful Wnlt. A laborer applied to tlie foreman nt some building’s workshop for n job: “Can yez do anything fur a poor fella at nil in the shape ave work?” Foreman Oi liev nothin' tlie day. Cum buck a gen. There is a drunken cnrpentlier workin’ on tlie top, and Ol'm waitin’ ivory nilnlt till lie fails and gits killed.

31st AINIMUZXL Big Fair Portland, Ind., Sept. 29, 30, Oct. I, 2,3. Many grand special features FREE each day on large stage in front of Grand Stand Rates on all Railroads. J. F. GRAVES, Secretary. A I’POINI M ENT OF ADMINISTRATRIX. Notice is hereby given. that the undersigned ha-beet, appointed adnilidst ratrix of the estate of Charles 1* Ehinger. late of Adams county, deceased. The estate la probably solvent. MAHY c. EHINGEIi. Administratrix. Sept.'a. UK)?. S7t» A PPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned his liven appointed administrator of theesst ate of Isaac Soutbine, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. *7-3 Philip O. sovtbibk. Administrator, September 10. IMB. C. J. Lutz.. Attorney. VTOTH’E of final settlement of EOTATB. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatei s of Elrieh Gehrig, deceased, to appeal' In th* Adams Circuit Court, hell! al Decatur. Indiana, on the Ith day of October. IMW and show cause. If any, why the final sett lernent accounts with the estate of said decetlant should not be approved: and said heirs are notified Io then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. LOI'IS GEHRIG. Administrator. Decatur. Indiana, September KI. IMB. *7-2 A P, Beatty, Attorney. Virkpoeketa and Pina, Artful as the ways of the “Heathen Chinee” are the dodges of the expert picker of pockets. The other night a young lady who had been to the theater was -otting on to it train car, and, knowing the possibilities opened up to the light lingered gentry by a crowd, she kept her hand In her pocket and grasped her purse firmly. Suddenly she felt a sharp prick as from a pin on her hand and. acting on the impulse, let go her hold of the purse and anntelied her hand out. almost us quickly returning it. but she was too late. In the few seconds that had elapsed another hand hud been there, and th*, purse whs gone. Enouuh n« Good i»* h I’rnwt. What retd good dues an addition to a fortune already sutlicleiit procure? Not any. Could the great mini by having . his fortune increased increase also bin ' appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement — GoldI smith.