Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1903 — Page 5

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Gold Fish Free with each one sound package Climax Coffee. 17-4 Chas. Teeple has accepted a position with Gus Rosenthal clothing store. Sylvester Schott of Warsaw, a lad of eighteen year’s, lias completed a coal burning automobile. The machine was completed by the lad and although a little odd in appearance is said to travel along at a fast clip. Work on the heating of the St. Mary's C itholie church was begun today. The contract has not been let, but the basement is being cleaned up, and the stone founda- [ tion laid. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Nelson who have been visiting in this city with W. H. Murphy and wife, returned to their home at Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mr. Nelson is at present a locomotive fireman on the P., F. W. & C. railway. J. C. Johnson, a popular young man of this city, who is at present in the employ E. L. Carroll, went to Sidney, Ohio, last Saturday night where, according to reports, he was to have been married Sunday. Mr. Johnson has not returned and the truth of the matter could not be as: certained. The Decatur post office will hereafter be opened on Sundays for general delivery from 8 to 9 a. m. This hour seems to suit the majority of people than the time heretofore adhered to and the change is made for that reason. The Printer’s base ball team of Decatur have thrown a challenge to any printer's team in'this part of rhe state, Bluffton included. All communications from those who wish to accept this challenge should be addressed to the manager. Charles Peterson, who ever since a boy has been connected with the different newspapers in this city in almost every capacity, will leave for Tallequah, Indian Territory, Tuesday, where he has accepted a position on the “Arrow," a leading publication of that western city. The job, that of general manager, is a good one and Mr. Peterson's success is past assured. Mrs 1 . Delight Sweetser Prentiss committed suicide at her home at Cleveland yesterday noon. No cause for her act is known as she was apparent} 7 happy and had every comfort one could wish for. She was formerly Delight Sweetser of Ms-ion and was quite well known here. She traveled extensively and wrote a popular book entitled. “One Way Around the World.” She married four years ago to Mr. Prentiss, a wealthy citizen of Cleveland. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Sweetser of Marion are traveling in Europe and were to have been joined this fall by Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss. The Fort Wayne Stars will play here next Sunday, bills announcing same being ordered today. The game is sure and no doubt a big crowd will attend. The Decatur team have won the last seven games played this season and are acknowledged one of the best amateur teams in Indiana. The Stars is Fort Wayne’s best independent Team except prehaps the Shamrocks who are dated for a game here late in the season. Tne game with the ShamroAs at South Whitely which was to have been played Saturday has been cancelled owing to the inability of the Shamrock's,[players to get away from their work. A challenge was received today from Harry Catting manager of the new Bluffton team, for next Sunday, but it will be impossible to meet the old rivals on that day. Manager Marty says he will try and arrange dates with them for the near future. »

The Marion Zouaves one of the leading attractions of Wallaces great show is composed of boys. Harry Stowr who is well known in this city as being a former member of the 160th Indiana regiment and is connected with the Marion Owl club is captain of the Zouaves. Mrs. Pete Wilhelm who has been at the St. Joseph hospital of Fort Wayne returned to this city Sunday evening. Mrs. Wilhelm recently underwent an operation at that institution for cancer and since that time she has steadily improved. The operation was performed by Dr. J. M. McOscar. Unclaimed lettres are at the post office for Chas. Gilbert, John D. Bourke, Mrs. John Burkhart, Miss Pearl Knight, Miss Jane Vane 11, Miss May Spooler, Mrs Ella Porter, Miss Mollie, J. H, Evans, Miss Ella Beerling, Mrs. W. H. Clifton, S. Goldner, Miss Dessie Maud, E. L. Marvin, T. J. Miller and Mr. Holsemeyer. Because of alleged abuse of the pass privilege, the Chicago and Erie company has decided to refuse to issue ]>asses to its empoyes only for travel on the Chicago and Erie proper, which means the line between Marion and Chicago. The order is not a very popular one with the men. The Decatur Base Ball team will go to South Whitley Friday where they will meet the Shamrocks of Fort Wayne. What the outcome will be cannot be said but if Decatur puts up an errorless game like she has before, the finish will not be so bad. The boys are fast and suffice it to say that the team which wins from them will have to hit the clean kind or it is all off. Frank Dibble the drayman was almost franticTusday afternoon, and he certainy had reason to be. Frank had been unloading coal that afternoon, and about half a ton he says, refused to go down the cellar w 7 ay and landed in his eyes. Dr. Coverdale worked with him over an hour before he was relieved, and at three o'clock he was feeling better. The accident may weaken his eyes however. Leases were recorded at the county recorder’s office Saturday for 1800 acres of land in Monroe, Union and Root township. Over 800 acres were leased by Theodore Beursdorfer of Berne, all the land lying near the new oil field in Monroe township. The 1000 acres were eased by Floyd E. Andrews, an attorney living at New Baltimore, Michigan. Part of the territory as leased is to be tested this fall. The latest sensation in loop-the loop acts is done with an automobile. Os all features of a show the loop is the best and thousands of people go miles to witness the death defying, awe inspiring feat each vieing with the other in procuring thw variety. The feat has been accomplished on automobiles, bicycles, roller skates and now men are trying to do the trick on foot. Smallpox has again broke out in Adams county but it is a very light form and a general infection of the disease is not expected. Dr. Miller had heard of a supposed case among the Amish of Berne and investigated in that localities and found four cases. stircl •’■•ltßtr.tfff*.-*-'-’ placed ever twenty families and the curbing of the disease is well under way. Dr. Miller says there is no occasion for alarm but that the people cannot be overcautious. He made the following statement to the Democrat. With the recent outbreak of smallpox we are impressed more than ever of the necessity of vaccination and I advise those people particularity who live in or near the Amish settlements to take this precaution at once.” A deal was completed this week by which the F. L. Mercer lumber company bought from the firm of Smith & Bell all of the timber which they have on their miltyard in this city. The timber purchased consisted of rough logs on the yards and all the lumber which has been sawed. Roughly estimated there are 80,000 to 100,000 feet of lumber included in the deal, and 200 or 300 logs which will measure 25,000 to 40,000 feet. The Mercer company is now engaged in hauling the logsSto their own mill yard. The saw mill owned bySmith & Bell is retained and they will likely move it in tlj# near future to another location. They probably will sell also to the Mercer company the timber which they have in the woods near here —Bluffton News.

The big Chicago drainage canal promises to pay for itself. Preparations are now being made to develop from 14,000 to 2-0,000 horse power with this great waterway, means many dollars in income. The electricity developed at the canal will be used both by the city 7 and for factories. The Wabash railroad is equipping their engines with a device known as the bum killer. ’’ The apparatus consists of a spraying apparatus which will thoroughly 7 drench any hobo who attempts to ride on the bumpers. It has been tried in several instances and found to he very 7 effective. For some time past it has been the custom of south end boys to gather around the Clover Leaf depot in the evenings, and pester any passenger who might be there beyond endurance. The operator wishes to warn those who engage in such incivility to desist from this detriment or have the culprits arrested. Delphos Ohio is to have another railroad according to the plans of the C. H. &D. railroad. That company is preparing to build a line from Delphos to Ottoville, Ohio and work towards securing the right of way is now 7 under progress. When that road is completed Delphos will have in all five steam railroads. Friday the Star News of this city published its tenth anniversary edition. The paper is published by Snow Brothers, neither of whom are twenty-one years of age, and is a model of neatness and skill. The paper has been enlarged and is now a four column, four page paper, issued every two weeks. We congratulate the boys on their remarkable success, and bespeak a brilliant future for their interesting publication. The electric light committee purchased r a ninety kilowatt dynamo from the Warren Electric Company of Sandusky, Ohio, today, and the machine is expected to arrive within the next thirty days. The installation of this machine will increase the capacity of the Decatur plant about 20,00 incandescent lights which will be. none too adequate for the present demand. The Sandusky dynamo is a good machine and was selected from those made by a number of other companies. W. B. Reynolds, justice of the peace, went to Marion Monday evening to attend his son, John Reynolds who is critically ill in that city. Same time ago Mr. Reynolds received a scratch on his finger to which he paid little attention at the time. But Monday his father reccievd word that gangrene had set in , and amputation would probably be necessary. John Reynolds lived here up to a few 7 years ago and has many friends who regret his misfortune. R. J. Holthouse is very busy just «« which he wishes erected on his lot and the construction of this addition is causing him a great deal more worry than the building of the Big Store block causes Allison and Studa baker. However their wood shed is to lx- no ordinary affair, but strictly modern and entirely up to date affair. It will be two stories high and from the plans and specifications which he says i -in ,nMMtWMT* 1 1toct Eugene Christen, at a cost of SIOB. We would, unless otherwise informed, think it an elevator. One bid was received at four o’c’ock this morning but Rome refuses to let the contract until all the carpenters in the city have had ample opportunity to make figures. Electric railway talk was current again onthe streets yesterday, caused by the arrival of President W. H. Fledderjohn and his attorney John H. Koenig, of the fort Wayne & Springfield company. They announce that they were very successful at Fort Wayne and succeeded in having a sufficient" number of feet on the Piqua road from the Adams county line to the city limits set aside for their tracks and they are now busy taking up deeds of right away where it is necessary. They wil have the contract for grading, furnishing ties and other necessary improvements within a few days according to present prospects and then begin actual work, that everyone business man and farmer has been anxiously looking forward to for several months. The line from Fort Wayne to this city will be built first, so we are informed i but the this is complete! work on the south and east end of the road i wil! be well under way.

Mid-Summer Clearance Sale OF —. ... CLOTHING” AIND FURNISHINGS All Spring and Summer Goods must be moved within the next thirty days and will be sold REGARDLESS OF COST. All odd and single men’s and boys’ suits must go and the price has been reduced to 75c and in some instances down to 50c ON THE DOLLAR. 200 pairs Men’s pants, worth up to $2.00, go now for 50c a pair. Straw Hats 33 per cent, off of the regular selling price. AH 25c Suspenders go at 19c a pair. Equal reductions throughout the store. No goods that have been especially bought for special sale, but only the Rosenthal kind, the standard of which has long been established at the best, although for the least money. All goods guaranteed as represented or your money back. Call early and get first choice. B.uibij—l bh— ■! ■■■■!! ■■■■■■iß—iir—TißßrrrßW-wBB-wi r—ll 11 itii 1 iib — bl.ijb—mittbiii I—■ ibui 11 ■—l I—— 11 iii jbi ■■■■£—m GUS ROSENTHAL THE SQUARE MAN. Decatur, Ind.

W. W. Grossman, a member of the Star Oil] Co., of JWarren, was in the city yesterday, onjhis way to the company’s property southwest of Geneva, where he superintended the shooting of a well that promises an excellent producer. One car load of coons was hauled tbroagh this city Thursday on the north bound G. R. <fe I- passenger train. They were shipped to the nothern summer resorts to be used as table waiters, chefs, and the table d’hote like. The sight of Ce?;-.q»Sz?.ht f . , for we so seldom see members of that race in this city. Mrs. Harvey Segur of West Adams street was sightly improved Tuesday. Mrs. Segur was taken suddenly ill last Saturday with a nervous disorder and symptoms of brain trouble. It was reported that morn ing that she was in a dying condition, but Dr. McMillen denies this report and says Mrs. Segur’s chances for recovery are good. She had no fever, and is resting easy. Her numerous friends will doubtless lie glad to hear of her improved condition . Mrs. Cora Zimmerman died at the home of Augustus Schlegel, her father, on Line street yesterday about four o’clock after an extended illness with kidney trouble. She had been very low for several days past and was not expected to live although her condition yesterday showed some improvement and the end was not looked for so soon. The deceased would have been twenty eight years old the twentyfourth of this month and [has lived in this city, the place of her birth, during her entire life time. She was married several months ago to Ike Zimmerman and their three weeks old child was buried just a short time ago. She had been married once previous and a four year old son survives her. The funeral services will be held from the L nited Brethren church Friday morning. Rev. Pontius officiating. Interment at Maplewood cemetery. Besides .her son, her father and mother, one b'other, Lawrence, survives her. The remains may be viewed Thursday afternoon from four o’clock anil Thursday evening from six to eight.

Very soon the horse watering j trough on Court street will be sup- j plied with the waste water from the 1 big drinking fountain. The latter j is of higher level than the Court I street trough and the water will I naturally run from the one to the , other. Work was commenced on; the new system this morning and it will not be long until it will lie in use. The idea is a good one and will save the County a big water bill. A wreck occurred on the Clover Lo at Marion Monday engineers William Noble of Marion and P. A. Cowdin of Delphos were seriously but not fatally hurt. The | wreck was caused by an extra west | bound freight running into a switch ' engine. Men of both trains jumped and thus saved themselves. It was ! a lucky affair after alias both en-! gines were running at a high rate of ! speed and it seemed miraculous that < any of them escaped. Trains were I delayed a short time until the wreckage could be cleared away. W. E. Fulk, representive of the Morgan tracation line which will ran from Toledo through Van Wert ■ to this city and on to Indianapolis has received information from Pres-1 ident Morgan of Toledo that his 1 secretary, Mr. L. J. Weadock wifi ■ arrive here next Monday prepared 1 to push along their plans. They, will take up right of ways, and decided on the exact route and will ask the county commissioners for the same rights granted the Fort Wayne & Springfield company. ' They say they will push things as rapidly as money and men can do it and it need not surprise the na-! fives of Adams county if the first interurban car run through its terri-' tory bears the name * * Morgan Line,” at any rate it looks now like ! a race between them and the Springfield people, with the latter however a length to the good at present. There has been enough traction talk and what the people here want now is actual evidence that the promoters meant at least part of what they said. Both lines say the main ori central power houses will be built, in Decatur and if such is the ease the line will lie doubly beneficial to us. Let 'em come, anil come fast. i

GENERAL TOPICS. Views of Paragraph Makers on Various Subjects of Interest. A citizen says: Yon may not I know that Decatur enjoys one of [the best sewerage systems in the state. We are on the high side of the river, and both our sewerage and sanitary drainage, are among the best. This is the cause of the general good health enjoyed by the majority of our citizens. And we are still improving. - A farmer: Corn is fair this year, .perhaps above the average, but i nothing phenomenal. Wheat is all [cut, and hay in. We are cutting oats this week. Yes, it is a good , lierry season and fruit and nuts in I plenty. In fact, we ha ve nothing . to complain of, everything is plenty I and if nothing unforeseen happens, we will have a good harvest. “ Adams • H. Bremer kamp the miller “is rather light in yield this year but is of [number one quality. The weight [ is extraordinary good and if the crop 1 was heavier it would mean dollars jto the farmer. 1 hardly think that I the yield will average over ten bushels to the acre although' in some places it will harvest to the fifty bushel limit. But little wheat ' has been threshed in this locality 1 although harvesting is well under way.” A Harness Maker. The harness ! trade is undergoing a radical 1 change. There is perhaps no me- ■ chanical trade so much abused as this one. Harness shops do. not I turn out harness makers, and there is not a sufficient inducement to the I beginner to secure the requisite number of apprentices. The result will be that the harness maker and hand made harness will soon dfeapjjear and factory material will take its place, the same as has tieen done lin the boot and shoe trade. The price of leath< r remains normal, i with not much prospect of a rise. The brass trimmings used so much ' around here are fast disappearing in the east and solid nickel now used to triujpjaney harness. k