Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1903 — Page 2

The D. M. Hensley household in % happy today, and Dave is prancing about like a boy. However, they have oue caaae for joy for a real, live, active, healthy, crying, healthy baby boy has joined their happy circle.' The event, occurred Friday morning. The Bahelor maids met Wednesday night with Miss Maine Center and and indulged in progressive euchre. First prizes were allotted to the Misses Maine and Anna Terveer and boobies to Miss Ada Deininger and Mrs. James Haefling. Refreshments were served and the storm without did not in the least bother the assembled guests. Miss Olive Dailey who formerly ' had Charge of the Latin department in the Dectnr high school graduated from the state university at Bloomintgon. She has successfully completed a four year course in three years and a half, having obtained credit for Greek work done last winter under Dr. C. G. Hudson. Miss Dailey will remain at home until next September, when she will take up higher branches in an eastern college. She certainly has the good wishes of all who have been connected with her in the high school work. Thirty-eight Decatur members of the Masonic lodge spent Wednesday afternoon and that night in Van Wert where they were guests at a Masonic doings of no mean proportions. The visitors were composed of the lodges from this city and Paulding, Ohio, the secret work of the Master Mason’s degree being confrreed upon three candidates. This lodge had the honor of winning deserved applause for the excellent presentation of the unwritten work, and we must confess that the boys outdid themselves and justly earned the praise bestowed. Van Wert is one of the handsomest cities on the map and her Masons fully up to the standard as entertainers. Fully 300 people feasted at a six o'clock dinner, the same being served in the Presbyterian church at that city, and by the ladies of that congregation, and about the midnight hour ice cream and cake was served in the banquet rooms of the lodge. It was a gala time in Masonic circles and one long to be remembered by the Decatur colony who attended.

/GOING OUT | I OF BUSINESS) « $5,000 I worth of W {Wall Paper ~ I ] and Paints I fl TO BE SOLD OUT. I | Sale Began June Ist. I GREATEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED, 1 LISTEN TO THEM: g WALL PAPER 50 PER CENT OFF. f ■ 15c paper at 8c per bolt. 36c paper at 18c. g ■ Borders at 2 J cents a yard. Crepe Ingrains at 4Gc per bolt. ■ g 20c paper at 10c. Ingrains. 15c, 18c and 20c a boil * * 25c paper at 12|c All borders 4c to 12c per yard g g t 30c and 35c papers at 15c. g 1 All Paints, Brushes, Varnishes Oils, go at Cost. ■ *4c mouldings at 2c per foot. 5c mouldings go at 2jc a foot * S 6c mouldings at 3c per foot. I g All other stock and brands go at discounts of 50 per cent g g Finest grade of paints at $1.25 per gallon. S J THE ABOVE TELLS THE STORY. I have de ■ termined to quit business, and want to sell my g g entire stock as soon as possible. The BIG SALE 3 ■ begins at once. I have the greatest assortment * ■ of wall paper, paints and everything in my line ■ g to be found anywhere, and if you need anything, R i buy it while you can make 50c on every dollar S » you spend. ■ | R. B. GREGORY! I Decatur, Indiana. Cor. 3rd k Madison Sts. I

The inspectors for the St. Marys macadam road- election,, canvassed, the vote at the auditor’s office Thursday. The total vote cast in favor of the south road was one hundred and twenty-five, to sixtyfive against it, making a majority of sixty in favor of the road. The north road records one hundred and eighteen for the road, and sixty-six against it, making a majority of fifty-two for the road. The boys worked hard and are now entitled to the reward that is rightly theirs. Frank Richards, who for a year past has been manager of the dry goods department of the Big Store, will leave for Chicago one week from last Tuesday, where he will go to work in the cloak and readymade suit department of a large store of that city. Mr. Richards has signed a contract with Kern, Beeler & Company and will return to this city about a month before they will be ready to open for business. The work in the Chicago store will be valuable experience for him and he takes it for the education that it will afford in his line of business. Messrs Butler and Wolf of Indianapolis. the former representing the British American and Aechen and Munich fire insurance companies and the latter the Royal were in the city Friday to adjust their loss on the Allison & Studa baker block destroyed by fire ’Sunday morning. The building was insured for only (8,000 and as the loss was twice that amount there was but little chance for salvage. The adjusters and their assistants Messrs C. S. Niblick and D. F. Quinn met the owners, Messrs R. B. Allison and David Studabaker at the Burt House and in a very few minutes prepared proofs of loss for their share of the (8,000 in full. The Aechen and Munich paid SSOO, the British American $2,000 and the Royal SI,OOO. This means that the owners will receive their insurance in full as they certainly should. The other companies involved are the Agricultural $2,000, J. S. Peterson, agent and North Western Natonal $2,500, Lenhart & Lenhart agents. The promptness of the companies in settling the loss, a total one, within four days speaks well for them and shows they are first class as represented.

The first appea Is in the allcttment for cleaning the Meyers ditch in Blue Creek township were filed at the county clerk’s office Friday, noon. The cases are entitled George McKean, surveyor vs Davidson Mattox and William Mattox respectively. A peculiar part of these case is that while the appeals are made by Davidson and V illiam Mattox, they are really the defendants and the burden of proof is on them. The law gives every property owner along a ditch which is ordered cleaned out the right to appeal to circuit court if he thinks his allotment is more than should be and these gentlemen have taken that step. The case will be watched with great interest by many farmers as it is a test case on the new ditch law passed by the recent legislature. It is saidjanother property holder along the ditch has also signified his intention of filing objections. The suits were filed by D. D. Heller and Son. One of the best oil wells in the Adams county field came in on the David Swartz farm, four miles north of Berne, making it but. six or seven miles from this - city. The well is owned by the Cherry Oil, Gas & Mining company of Toledo, an enterprising, lucky and hustling associadon. in which several Berne business men are interested. This territory is practically new and is the closest paying i field to Decatur. The Cherry company own fifteen hundred acres of leases in the immediate neighborhood and expect to drill a number of more wells. The Swartz well, number one, was shot yesterday and filled up five hundred feet with oil which indicates almost to a certainty that it will be a fifty or sixty barrel well. The members of the company are elated and will proceed at once. Their next well is to be located on the Joseph Rich farm in the same territory. The Cherry company are incorporated at SIOO,OOO .and mean business and their earnest efforts means much for the citizens between Berne and Monroe. While the field is practically new it looks as . thouhg it would be the best territory in the county. While this gusher means much for the stock holders and farmers whose lands are leased, it likewise means much for Decatur, as it proves the rich mineral is nearer here than heretofore shown.

Wednesday was the hottest day of f the year, so far. and wound up with j the most severe thunder storm seen 1 here for some time. The thermometer registered ninetv three in the 1 < shade yesterday and the big storm i ■ was predicted by many. About six . o'clock the big black clouds began j to roll up in the northwest and an .; hour afterwards the elements were I i reigning all thei fury. For six j: hours the air was filled with light-! ning and the roll of thunder was continuous. In every direction i bright light.-could be ai-5-errieudh the sky, showing that the lightning was doing damaging work. The heavy rain began about ten o'clock and for several hours came down in sheets, bringing joy to the hearts of the farmers, who say the corn was being burned np in the fields. Numerous losses have been reported today: A large barn owned by Mr. i Perkins, and located a mile and a I half north of Magley, and two miles yrirtif naan church tn Wells I .’ county. was struck by lightning and ! I burned to the ground. All the con- ' ■ tents, including nine loads of new I ; bay. was destroyed, making a loss I lof about- <I.OOO. A barn on Michael! Millers farm, near Monroe, was! also struck but luckily did not take ! < ■_r t - The rafters were torn loose. ! r damaged, with a loss of about' dollars, insured in the ; Ccesrmentai company. Charles Pol- ■ nss? .■>: two valuable horees which T-ere -<rw;k while in the pasture. He on the Joshua Parrish ■ f.-irr.'. near the Washington church. ; Frank Bremer who also li res near '''ashmgton church, is minus a calf which got in the way of a bolt of electric fluid. A big .barn on the John Hoblett farm, east of Steele, was struck daring the storm and is reported a complete loss with all contents The barn was the largest in that section of the country and if the loss was total, as our informant says, the loss will reach <2.500, with an insurance of <9OO. A traveling man who came in today says a hotel at Willshire was destroyed last night, the result of being struck by lightning. There were several other fires of more or less consequence over the countiy but it has been impossible to get accounts of them.

If there be such a one. a view of rhe patriotic display at the ll’.l home Thursday might do him good. The hostess. Mrs. Vctoria I Hill, arranged the most novel | event of the season in honor of hei daughter, Mrs. C. G. Reynolds and children, of Joliet, Illinois. Unfurling its folds to the breeze, the veteran and bullet-pierced flag of Col. Miller waved high above the incoming guests. M ithin, the house was tastefully decorated with flags, bunting, palms and an abundance of beautiful flowers. The guests were being entertained with various progressive patriotic games, such as “Martha Washington acrostic,’’ writing original poems, or the first verses of national hymns, guessing* the names of generals, etc. Appropriate prizes were awarded to the successful contestants in the different games. At four thirty a twocourse luncheon was served at the home of Mrs. Fred Mills. The walls here were also covered with diminutive flags cunningly set. and the dining table waSC)V«red with an abundance of roses and earnations, while towering palms stood_at either end of the room. Misses Marie Patterson, Hattie Niblick, Dollie Simcoke, Carrie Thomas, Irene Schirmeyer and Margaret Mills served the guests, while Frank Mills, costumed as Uncle Sam, presided at the punch bowl. The entertainment ended with a regular Fourth of July celebration, including a potatoe race and May-pole dance. The event was quite a treat to Decatur s society. A French chemist and his wife have recently made a discovery which seems not only incredible to the uneducated, but even startled

scientists of widest repute, until their own investigations have but , corroborated the fact, and now all 1 are deeply interested, not excluding Lord Kelvin, who has himself developed many surprising details. The discovery is that of a new element radium, which in the infancy of its importance, bids fair to upset many established scientific theories of the past century. Nor is this improbable as chemical knowledge has already’ passed through three widely differing stages. Radium, the rarest of metals is found only in a mineral called, in mininig language, “pitchblende." This is of a phosphorescent appearance and is found only at a few places upon the earth's surface. Even in pitchblende radium is but a minute element, for it would require 5,000 tons of ore to obtain one pound of radium. Hence it is quoted at an enormous price per pound, $3,720,000. In the ore it exists as radium chloride and is not known to combine in any other manner. But what are far more striking than the price are the wonderful phenomena that it exhibits. and great possibilities in view for it in practical, way, most observable quality it has is that of giving off energy, light and heat,without perceptible exhaustion or chemical change. This is a flat contradiction of the law of conservation of energy, which modern science has so clearly demonstrated. i It gives off light at the rate of 120,000 mile per second, thus radiating thousands of millions of molecules, and yet its volume and weight in no wav dmn^afe-J'• Many mon*W • -areful exjj^inwntiug has shown I that from a gram of radium but one ! grain would disappear in a billion i years. Heat, too, is voided without : the least increase or diminution of ■ temperature. Radium will melt its j own volume of ice in an hour. I Treated with liquid air. its activity lis lowered a half. With such a power under control, men could utilize it to do his work without frequent replenishing. Radium will destroy all genus placed near it, so I may be useful as a disinfectant. ; Canned upon the person it creates sores very much resembling burns .or scalds, as a scientist learned to his sorrow. With the eyes closed and radium placed upon the forhead, the light it yeilds is visible. One I man has been successfully operated upon with the metal for blindness. With no other light than that of i radium comparatively good photographs have been taken, and it may be partially used to perform the j function of an X-ray. Many claim to see relation between the question of perpetual motion and the inexhaustible energy of radium. Again some regard it as a final proof of the unity of matter, that all the known • elements are composed of primary ■ substance, whose ions are of similar s nature to the atom. Meanwhile the price is $3.720,000 a pound.

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Hartford City has voted favor-1 ably on a proposition to bond the city to the extend of a very hand , some school building, and the same will immediately be erected. After a brief lull of contagious; diseases Portland is doubly nnfor-; tunate. A case of scarlet fever and a case of diphtheria were reported to Health ( iflicer Stanton late Monday evening and although it was getting dark when the word reached him the cautious officer went at once to the house where the disease, exist and put up the. yellow flags, ine ea‘si*ot diphtheria is Clara Chamberlain, the one-and-a-half year old child of William Chamberlain living on Race street and the scarlet fever case is Leona Spohn, the eight year old child of Thomas Spohn on Shanks street, South Portland. — Portland CommercialReview. Mrs. Sarah Ripley McKee died Wednesday morning at ten ... (■•MM* fifty-six years, one month and twenty four days. She had been ill of the disease for over a year. Mrs. McKee's death occurred at the home of her only child, Mrs. A. B. Himes, at 432 west Fourth street. The deceased was the widow of the late Thomas L. McKee, who died in 1891, and since the death of her husband she had made her home with her daughter in this city. Prior to that time she lived on the large farm near the Eel river church. Mrs. McKee was born in Ohio, May 7, 1847, but she moved to Allen county a good many years ago and was one of the best known and most highly respected ladies of the county. She leaves four brothers and a sister. These are J. A. Gilpin, Forrest, Ohio; W. R. Gilpin, Dunkirk. Ohio; W. J. Gilpin, Whistler, Alabama; R. E. Gilpin, Sidney, Nebraska, and Mrs. M. H. Ray, Kenton, Ohio. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 8-.30 o'clock from the residence of MrsHimes and at 11 o’clock from the Eel river church. The Rev. David Wells will conduct the services. Interment will be in the Eel river cemetery. — Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. Mrs. McKee lived in this county, and is well known here, being a cousin of Mrs. Frank Dibble and Wash Gilpin. 9 ®

A Missouri editor has created a ; sensation by printing a strong edii torial defensive of Sunday fishing. He insists it is no more sinful to catch a fish on Sunday than it is a yellow legged chicken for a minis- ■ ter s’ dinner. The comparison is clever, but it will not save much unpleasant criticism from the pulpit. Will Jeffries, a former resident here and who left a few months ago, was found dead in a lumber yard at Andrews Tuesday a week ago. The Huntington Herald gave the folJi< sad “There was a ghastly find at Andrews today noon. Some one was passing through the Wasmuth lumber yard when he found the form of a man named W. F Jeffries. It is not known how long the man had been dead, but the body was soon recognized as the man who > came to Andrews last November . and followed the vocation of an ; agent in the «a* ■ ■“ ■ ®WL.s -about thirty seven years < Id. i and his death was the result of di’I sipation, he having been a heavy . drinker. Tire theory is that during -a period of intoxication he wand . ered into the Jubmer yard , became . unconscious and passed away with > out a struggle. On account id. i telephone line affording unsatisfa ( • tory service it was impossible to > learn further details except that no . disposition would be made of the body until parties at Springbok. -0., could be-heard from. Coroner i Morgan was called to Andrews t > investigate the circumstances sur, 5 rounding the death. He left l’ ere i at Spring in company with a tel ow f known here as “Churn Bill, whose - avocation was to drive over t w . country and sell patent churns t- , the farmers. Will was a bright t> , low and when sober was as ch' Pl , man as could be found. His p l ’ . ents who are wealthy, live at Sprn's 1 field, Ohio, and a telegram tn”’ ) them t-oday said that the body -a • arrived there and was buried o 8 day. His wife and two little »o 1 live here. He was about thirty ei o - years old. A brother. Charles Jeu - ries, well known here and w 1 - ed at the Burt House several ye . s ago, is now employed at th’ ; , House, Marion. Will was emplo e as a clerk at the Murray Hou- | several months last fall-