Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1903 — Page 5

rt proacKing marriage of Miss Margaret Wpiu nd to Mr .Elmer Finch wan made at the St. Marys church Bunday morning. Misaes Jessie and Ruth Bimison who have been visiting in this city with L. C. Miller and family, returned to their home at Berne Monday. Lewis J. Smith of Petoskey, Michigan, has been here looking over the scenes of his boyhood days, it being some twenty years since he left here and located in his present home. Unclaimed letters are at the postoffice for C. D. Smith, Henry Thompson, Miss Krida Prague, W. E . Hadley. J. R. Glancey, Charles Nelson and Miss Mary Meyers. Peter Heiman is the busiest man in the county. He is erecting at new barn on his farm south of town. The building will be fortythree feet wide and seventy-six feet long. The Uinformed Rank K. of P. will meet Thursday evening for organization and the election of officers. Members of same will call at Acker, Elzey & Vance’s and get their measure taken for a uniform. Attorneys C. J. Lutz and Henry B. Heller left Monday for Rome. New York, Warren and New Castle, P 4,, where they will take depositions in the case of W. 8. Liken vs. Elizabeth Liken to be tried here soon. They will be absent all week.

Mr. Niblick is the latest arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Niblick and the former’s broad grin which could be plainly seen the entire week is thus explained. The young fellow is very prepossessing and looks very much like a democrat. County Assessor Crist will be busy in the country most of this week, where he will lend a helping hand to the township assessors. On April 28, he will attend a district meeting at Fort Wayne, where samples of equalities in assesment will be given an airing. Word has been received from Will Reynolds who is now at Noble, Oklahoma, that his wife is again worse and that her recovery is still in doubt. Mrs. Reynolds was taken sick about mid winter but soon began to improve until she agin suffered a relapse. tlobert Gillig of Fort Recovery, Ohio, who is the son of Conrad Gillig of this county, will soon be married to Miss Catherine Kintz of Fort Recovery, Ohio. Mr. Gillig is engaged in the flour mill business at that place with Mr. Heffner and will reside there in the future. Oscar Hoffman went to Ossian Monday where he will take the ground level and measurements for a new Presbyterian parsonage. He has been instructed to prepare plans for a four thousand dollar ' pressed brick veneered structure, which will certainly be a fine addition to that progressive town. Oscar Lankenau came near being mistaken for a chicken thief Friday for when he drove into Meyers livery barn a big pullet jumped out of the buggy. It was’afterward explained how the chicken got there when Fred Bentz stated that he had missed a hen, for it had crawled in Oscar’s buggy to lay an egg. J. E. Ulman is getting ready for the threshing season and has his two rigs in this city for repairs. He states that indications point to a heavy crop of wheat this year, but he believes that oats will be light. The recent rains have interfered considerably with the sowing of oats and a very small acreage will be put out. The junketing trip to Greenfield has been delayed owing to a telegram that some of those connected in the enterprise were unable to be at home should the Decatur party

go at that time intended. The trip will be abandoned for a few days, but some time during the week ' they will make their tour of inspection. Frank Berger, the veteran horse dealer, was over at New Corydon Saturday and brought back with him a cane which had been left there fifteen years ago by John Shirey. The stick Was kept by Mr. Houser, the druggist, with whom Mr. Shirey had left it when buying horses at that place. Mr.' Shirey remembers .distinctly where he had left it but never had the opportunity to pro Cure it, while the druggist had been waiting all that stretch of v time for a chancy, to, return the valuable eane. -

Marshal Barnes was uf> from Geneva, bringing with him Julius Geyout, who is under arrest for carrying concealed weapons. He safely landed him behind the bars at the county jail. The "dagos” who have been working on the Erie in this city, were removed to Preble Monday and will reside at that place for a few weeks. They are worked as an extra section gang and were engaged in putting in new ties. The piano. Dought by a delegation of the Daughters of Rebekah through J. B. Stoneburner several days ago at Norwalk, Ohio, has arrived. It is the ‘finest upright piano in the city and was made by the A. B. Chase company. Great preparations are under way for the yearly reception given by the Shakespeare club, which is this time scheduled for the home of Mrs. C. A. Dugan on Friday evening. It -will be an elaborate affair and one of mportanoe in club circles. Irvin Brandy berry went to Geneva Saturday where he conducted a county diploma examination. The examinations are quite different as those who successfully pass them are privileged to entre any high school in the state and only forty per cent, of the applicants thus far have received diplomas. The schools in the northern part of the county have already been examined and there were sixty-five who tried for these honors [and an equal or larger number is expected in the south. The time of year is at hand when the city health officer is expected to move himself along the streets and alleys and use his eyes and nose in detecting bad places. Wholesale cleaning should now be in progress. Every garbage pile should be removed. Vaults should be cleaned and everything that might bring on an epidemic of disease should be removed. There is much work for a health officer at this time of year to begin the campaign against the festive microbes which abound in dirty places. An exchange says: ‘‘Men have various ways of carrying money. Bakers grocers, butchers and millers carry it in a wad. Bankers, in clean bills, laid full length in a pocket book. Brokers always fold the bills once, doubling the money as it were. The young business man carries it in his vest pocket, while the sport has it in his trousers pocket. Farmers and drovers carry theirs in their inside pockets whether it be SSO or 15 cents. Printers usually carry theirs in other people’s pockets.

Mr. and Mr*. Simeon Weiand have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Marguerite Weiand to Mr. Charles Elmer Finch, the event to occur at nine o’clock Wednesday morning, May 6th at the St. Marys Catholic church. A reception will be given in the evening from five to ten o’clock and the affair promises to be a brilliant one. Invitations will be issued in a few days and the many friends are awaiting the event with the anticipation of much pleasure. Both the bride and groom are well known young people and we advance con gratulations. Enos Peoples, an industripus tiller of the soil, who lives east of this city, is deeply engaged in the chicken business and a casual visitor who happened out that way this morning noticed his great efforts toward the establishment of a big chicken farm asked him concerning the size of his coops. Mr. Peoples replied that he secured over 4,000 eggs per day from 6,000 chickens and that he had five or six hundred young ,chickens already hatched. Os course this is big butt he story would have been more consistent had he announced that those who desire settings could get them fresh, the same day they were ordered. Frank Annon, who has been in the extra railway mail service for the past three months, has finished his work and is npw in this city. He held the position as weigher of mails and worked on the Erie railroad between Chicago and Marion, Ohio. This kind work is only furnished during three months and is really an experiment carried on by the postal departent or away to average the relative amount of mail carried by the different railroads. Mi*. Annon is not positive as to w’hat he will do in the future, but he may possibly endeavor to secure a permanent situation under the civil service as a railway mail clerk.

Rev. F. Reinking of Richwill Corners, Ohio, and William C. Reinking of Union township, went to Indianapolis yesterday where they will attend to business. Andrew Hudson of Petoskey, Michiagn, is here visiting with his brother, Kelley. Mr. Hudson went to Petoskey four years ago to get relief from an attack of rheumatism. Frank Durkins was brought home Saturday from St. Joseph’s hospital of Fort Wayne, where he was operated on during an attack of appendicitis. The operation was held just twenty-five days ago and he has improved to such an extent that he can. now walk around a little. Harman Buuck and Miss Minnie Bultomeyer of near Friedheim, were married Sunday afternoon by Rev. Pontius at theF riedhiem church. IThe contracting parties are widely known in the northern part of the of the covnty and have the best wishes of their many friends. % Fred Scheiman sent two dressed calves by the American Express company Tuesday noon to the Judd Commission brokerage of New York City. They were the finest of the bovine species ever sent out of town, and when the express charges are taken in consideration every bite will cost a piece of money. The Easter ball given by the C. Y. M. 8. and especially the music of the Rag Time orchestra, have met with such favorable comment that the club boys have decided to give another about the last of April. This decision is wholly a desire to give those who have been so profuse with their praise to have another good time. No business of very grave importance was transacted in circuit court Monday. The Culler divorce case occupied an hour's time. Christian Brown vs. Joseph Brown and others, sale of land to E. Woods for $3510 was reported and approved. In the case of W. S. Liken vs. Lizzie J. Liken, all depositions on file were ordered published. The placing of advertisements iu the rural mail boxes is a direct violation of the law as laid down by the authorities at the postoffice "department. Route carriers are reporting many instances of this kind of violations which they claim must be reported. Merchants and others who use boxes must do so with the stamp attached, and they must go through the postoffices and be placed in the boxes by the carriers, the only authorized agents of Uncle Sam.

Thirty - seven yonug men who have an inclination for places in the government service were in Fort Wayne Monday taking the necessary civil service examination, the larger number of them for places in the postal service. H. A. Hesse of Washington, a special examiner in the civil service division, conducted the examination, with the assistance of C. A. Stockbridge and W. J. Hess of the Fort Wayne postal board. The larger number of applicants are from points out of the city. The annual election of officers for the Fort Wayne Trust company was held Monday. This concern is one of the most substantial of that city and did a satisfactory business the past year. The officers as chosen are president, Henry C. Paul; first vice president, Samuel M. Foster; second vice president, A. Ely Hoffman; assistant secretary, E. H. McDonald. The former board of directors were aagin elected and the members are Samuel M. Foster, Charles S. Bash; George W. Pixley, William E. Mossman. Henry C. Paul, Charles A. Wilding, A. Ely Hoffman, John C. Peters, William J. Vesey, Louis Fox, John B. Reuss, David Studabaker. The Berne Witness says: The graduating class will give their gradutaing themes next Friday afternoon in room seven. The following are the graduates and their themes: Saloma Schug, Early education in Indiana; Cora Hocker, Leading lights of Indiana literature; Wilda Gottschalk, Child labor in the United States; Rosa Lehman, Helen Keller. The becCalaurette services will be conducted by Rev. D. B. Koenig at the Evangelical church in the evening of May 3. The third annual commenceemnt of the Berne high school will be held at the Reformed church May 8. Pres. N. C. Hirschey of the C. M. college, Bluffton, Ohio, will deliver the class address.

At Sixty Cents ' on the Dollar woo Stock of Clothing Which was purchased by our ELEVEN STORES’ Combination has been distributed and SB,OOO worth of the same was sent here to be sold. As I am always looking to the interests of my friends, I will put these goods on sale at 60 per cent, of the regular selling price. .This stock is a remnant of a New York Clothing Manufacturer’s stock, made for this spring, and consists of nothing but HIGH - GRADE CLOTHING for Men, Boys and Children, and this is a rare opportunity to save 4Oc on each Dollar It will pay you to call at your earliest convenience to take advantage of this sale. 300 Fine Sample Fur Hats in Golf, Fasha, Fedora, ete., for men and boys, at 50c on the dollar. All Goods Guaranteed as Represented or Money Refunded. FUJEjF I Handsome and useful presents with your purchases. yßJffiy ! GUS ROSENTHAL "The Square Man.” Decatur, Indiana.

Nathan Mosser of Berne, accompanied Marshal Cordua here yesterday evening and was immediately given a hearing before ’Squire Smith. He was given an opportunity to compromise the case and did so after a few moments talk for the sum of |350. Mosser must have been ready for such an emergency for he had With him a roll of $l,lOO. Miss Neusbaum and her father returned home last evening apparently well pleased with the settlement. The late leigslatnre enacted a law por viding that delinquent taxes now delinquent, or which may hereafter become so, shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from the first of January following two years of delinquency began and that such interest shall be collected by the treasurer for the benefit of the respective municipalities to which the taxes are due, in addition to the jienalties upon delinquent taxes. The act applies to all taxes now’ or hereafter merged in judgments. A house on the Ferdinand Drake farm four,miles north of town and occupied by Charles Scheiman, was totally destroyed by fire at noon yesterday. Mr. Scheiman happened to open a stairway door when the smoke poured out in volumes and the house was soon in flames. But little of the household goods were saved. The house was insured in the French Township Mutual f< r $250 and the goods in the same company for S4OO. The loss on the house is estimated at S7OO and on the household goods at about the same amount. Rev. and Mrs. John C. White will arrive in the city today at 12:58 over the Clover Leaf. It has been arranged to have them driven direct to the church where a warm and hearty welcome will be extended to them by the members of the congregation and as many others who care to participate. It is hoped that a large assemblage will be present at one o’clock in the assembly room at the church and join in extending the hand of good fellowship to the new pastor, wife and .family. Arrangements for this event are now complete and it is hardly necessary to state that the occasion holds the allurements of a pleasant and social gathering.

Deputy Clerk James P. Haefling ws at Indinanpolis yesterday his duties being to attend to important business. He is having several records rebound and the law makes it necessary that he oversees the job. As a consequence of his absence there is no court today and Judge Erwin is busily engaged at his farm west of town in breaking in a handsome team of mules purchased yesterday by he and Deputy Sheriff Ferrill. Agreeable to a time honored custom St. Marys lodge No. 67 will meet at their hall o* Monday evening April 27, for the purpose of celebrating the 83rd anniversary of Odd Fellowship in America. They will also meet at the hall at 9:30 o’clock on Sunday morning, April 26 to attend divine services in abody at the M. E. church. All members of the surbordinate and Rebekah lodge are requested to attend these meetings and all visiting members are cordially invited to be present and participate. A unique marriage ceremony and a most beautiful one was performed at the M. E. church at Steele Sunday. Rev. H. Kohne of Willshire, had charge of church services there that day and preached and eloquent sermon from the text. “Behold, the bridegroom cometh.” As he closed he repeated the text, walked down the aisle and led in Rev. Delson Burkett, of Upland and Miss Grace Campbell of this county. They were accompanied by Prof. Dennis of Upland and Miss Davis of Indianapolis, best man and bride’s maid. As they started in Prof. Lee of Bobo, took his place at the organ and began playing the wedding march. The party approached the altar and there Rev. Kohn in his usual polished mannw united in holy bondsßev. Burket and Miss Campbell. Congratulations from the many friends present followed after which the wedding party and the invited guests attended a bountiful dinner served at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell. A happy afternoon followed in which Prof. Lee, Miss Ida Nutt and Prof. Dennis added pleasure by musical and reading selections. Rev. Burkett has charge of the Taylor University at Upland and the happy young couple will reside there for the present.

N. F. Fayes of Lima, Ohio, was in this city yesterdayattending to|the I interests of the Lima Wholesale i Grocery company which he repreI sents. Our correspondent at Peterson gives the following report of the attempt of Jeorme B. Carter to take his own life. It will -be remembered that Mrs. Nancy Carter of this place and who appiled for a divorce from her husband, Jerome B. Carter, was granted same last week. Accordingly they proceeded to divide their property, selecting Al Straub and C. M. Weldy for this purpose. Wednesday of last week was the appointed day but owing to the serious condition of Mr. Carter’s health, this could not be done that/lav and consequently was postponed a day. However, Wednesday morning • this quiet village was shocked by the startling news that Carter was dying . Dr. Coverdale was immediately summoned. In the meantime quite a number of people had gathered in to do, if possible, anything which could be of service to their dear old friend. Those who got there first were horrified to find a corn knife set against the side of the bed. This article, presumably placed there for the intent of suicide, was removed by some person present and concealed. After the old man had somewhat recovered from his condition the people left leaving him with his divoi’ced wife and Mrs. Matheson, his daughter, of Pleasant Mills. While thus left alone he vainly persuaded Mrs. Matheson to go to a neighbor while he would go up stairs for As this she would not do, she followed him up and saw him safely in bed. It was thought best to remove him from his present smToundings and it was forthwith agreed to take him to Pleasant Mills where he formerly resided. When taken from his bed he took from under his pillow a razor, evidently another means to end his unhappy life. He complied reluctantly when asked to go to Pleasant Mills. His brother from the above named place stayed and hauled, a load of his property for him. As a friend and neighbor Mr. Carter was genuine and those who knew him will fully sympathize with him in this apparent hour of desertion.