Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1903 — Page 3

F „ Berkshire hog to i(j^K n . Wi : -nsin. The hog « peiinds and was cer--811 JEfr • ha’>!~‘ ~ne ’ nS K ‘ au t v the pi- family. -Shore railway <•• -* control of the L. E. ; ',r< lus been a decided ir m the condition of the HF x ynds were declared were used in iinThe road has been fur l w‘r two-fifths of its an ,l • additional equipK■ aS been added. i»j|^H t r e z . ... ... < 1-sian telephoned ’ T nr slay that, at hour, smne one driving ftHj] r h.n town stole a valuable mid the thief simply it on behind his buggy IV ,. It was a brand new, bugg >’’ with red tkH, nears and made by the dtlSlir Buggy Company at Ohio. A reward will be appo-hension of the thief. ’ isi^H c . r .s.- war. over which so much -«L made, is virtually over. Mr. Egan. of the Wallace shows, told reporter that while Ringfighting the Barnum A ~H| combine, the other circuses •- congenial dates. The advertising ear will Monday, on its way to Benton Ebor The Wallace and Fored. as lap in some of the Egan citi'-s. but there is no seri- ■ deiger. Walter L. Main and Enm i A Bailey are in the east, and Ecß"- are in the west. Buffalo Eilnow showing in England. E.I. F . k . local representative Mr M'-ruan traction lines, .■;■ from headquarters hi !!1 t” tH ' at Indianapolis ’ m ; i'nd a meeting of the ir ».Jfcai- -I. Morgan, president of will t'o present and it ■ bogin work at once on i_h here. Mr. Fulk jg i* confident that actual raking up right of ways EelWtand then pushed ’ f jjEg r ipidly. By fall there will be ■ do ibt in the minds of Adams people as to the building I •■■m line for actual labor ■ »gin before that time so we ■•A Taylor, Ex-Attorney I MB. who was here a few days ca, M:dntefor governor, and ; b d i ® fol] iwing story is told of him : dpi® dis-tateh sent out from RushL. Taylor, one of the fcbli ar. candidates for governor ««EBh<- 1 .--r. and a bald-headed one Eat The other day he came to fchwle t<> look after his political bumped up against Tom 81, |f Manila, and Adam Spivey, ‘"■f cdv ' They both assured they would be glad to supR h|ni but for one thing.' ‘ Pledged I®®'- one else”? asked Mr. lißWlanxiously, "No, worse than ’ must promise to get, B>M." said Spivey, speaking »Whimsef and Mr. Mull. “A man ' ■ohasTi t the nerve to get married be a safe man for gover"Gentlemen,” said Mr EB- you nominate me I will This declaration is —■Mk'Wn here to mean that Mr. gw has matrimonial ideas in

OUR HOMESEEKERS’ LOW RATE HARVEST EXCURSION TO . • • - "The Land of Sunshine" WILL LEAVE DECATUR ON Jesday, Aug. 4th >re is still room for more people, and the attention of those who see Sio better themselves is directed to the opportunities o tin •ive territory. Now is Your Chance to See This Country and its Productions. sarge orchards of all kinds of fruits: its fields of wheat, corn,, Ke-; its herds of cattle: its flocks of sheep; its droves o io„s. 1 mercantile institution, its schools and churches, a epi f'E-S-S with letters of constantly increasing size. 1 on or address SYSTEM HALL, SON & FULK, E RN IMMIGRATION AGENTS. DECATI R, INDIANA

Mrs. Cliuton Fisher and Miss Myrtle Emery went to Ceylon Saturday afternoon, having been called to that place on account of the serious illness of their aunt, Mrs. William who was stricken with paralysis some time ago aud is now in a dying condition. A ten days U. B. camp-meeting will begin the 30th of this month at Smith's Grove, one mile south of Monroeville. Rev. Kessinger, who has charge of the meeting was in this city Friday and stated that the affair was to be one of the best events of its kind ever held in this section of the state. Revs. J. A. Grove of Ligonier and W. P. Kessinger, Freeport.lllinois, D. Robbins, Huntington, and C. M. Beyer of South Whitely, will be in attendance. The big $5,000 Chamber of Commerce race at Detroit was finished Wednesday and third place was the best Kingmore could do on the heavy track. The horses raced in three inches of mud and this is all that kept the Decatur horse from geting the money. Elastic Pointer got first place in the race and Pan Michaels second. Tom Keene who got a first Tuesday was distanced yesterday. Kingmore made a mile on the heavy track in about 2:08, and his owners have just cause to be proud of him. He goes in the SIOOO race tomorrow and for a big purse at Cleveland next week. The first new case in a month was filed at the county clerk's office by attorneys Merryman & Sutton and F. M. Schirmeyer. The case is a quite title suit brought by Martha A. Dutcher , the defendants being David Aber, Lucinda Cline, Susan Aber, John K. Grier, Mr. and Mrs. Mock, Mr. and Mrs. Avery, Mr. and Mrs. Rifenburg, Lucy B. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Grier, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rice, Mr. and Mrs. James and Della Rice. Most of the defendants live out of the state and a notice to nonresidents was ordered published, the said defendants being ordered to apjiear September 14 or the case will be heard and determined in their absence. Coronor Mcßride of Wells county has returned the following verdict: “That Melvin Wolfe came to his death from a gunshot wound which entered below the left scapula, penetrating the upper lobe of the left lung , thence into the heart, causing instant death. Said shot was fired from a double barreled shotgun by one John W. Terrill, July 12, 103. Signed this 23rd day of July, 1903. Fred McBride, coronor Wells county.” Terrill will probably be tried in September. It is thought he will not ask for a change of venue. His friends claim that public sentiment is for him, and that there would be no advantage in going into other counties to be tried. Opinions of men who say they are taking an unbiased view of the case, is that Terrill will get about ten years. They make that prediction saying that Terrill was no doubt grossly annoyed and goaded into fury by the misconduct of his daughter, who married Wolfe, and who later was abandoned by him, but that Terrill's conduct in shooting Wolfe by the roadside and then murdering him as he lay helpless on the operating table, will show premeditated murder, which will militate ag linst the defendai t.

It seems they are going to paint the .town, but not red. All the cornice work aud fronts on the stores from the Pete Holthouse clothing store to the Smith meat market have received l new trimmings and this has changed the appearance of that side of Maui J street. The Seheitnan meat market ; and Holthouse drug store have also recently painted their store fronts. The well recently shot at the , outskirts of New Corydon,ownedby the Star Oil and Gas company of M arren, is proving to lie a winner. The well, two weeks old, is showing five barrels and at times much better. The president of the company, W. J. Hurd, and the treasurer, W. W. Grosman breathed into the ears of a Democrat representative that some great surprises were in store for the Corydon people, the same to come to the surface within the present year. The Hazelwood Oil company locally managed by Mr. Grossman, next week begin operations near Keystone The Lewellen family enjoyed a picnic and days outing at Rome City Thursday, the affairjbeing also a reunion of the faimly. They’ attended the assembly, enjoyed boating and fishing, and best of all partook of a big picnic dinner, previously’ prepared by’ the ladies of the party. Those- present included delegations from New Castle, and Mt. Summit, Indiana, and the following from this county: Z. O. Lewellen and family, W. S. Smith and family, Marion Oliver and family, Mrs. Will Scherer and son John Hocker, wife and daughter, and Miss Orpha Baker, and John Mayer and family. Misses Goldie Gay and Fannie Rice of this city were also in the party. Mr. Keyless of the Keyless Lock Company of Indianapolis was in the city’ Saturday’ conferring with E. Fritzinger. Mr. Keyless has some patent boxes and furniture which he is urging Mr. Fritzinger to buy. But they came to no agreement, as ascertained by a reporter that afternoon. Some of the office furniture now in use may be installed in the new building. Mr. Fritzinger told us then that practically nothing had been done as regards new furniture, and that he is still figuring. He will place a wire netting from the top of the box rows to the ceiling. The new building he says, will be furnished as near the first of September as possible, but nothing can be determined at this date. The lastest use to which oil has been applied is in saving the fine gold which is generally’ lost from stamp mills. A chemist who is versed on the subject says: “The water in the main vat is kept at a certain level by means of an automatic valve, which also furnishes an outlet for the coarse sand and gravel. At the head of this tank oil flows onto ' the water, over a blanket, and into a second vat, from which it is automatical}’ returned to the head of the first tank, and in this way the oil is kept moving continuously and evenly’ over the surface of the water. The slime to be treated is run over a set of dividing bars into the main vat and the course matter falls to the bottom passing out through the automatic valve, while the oil, which act« a.s..a..4K^yitaj£ H gathers it on the blanket, returning then to the head of the machine to be used over and over again. The loss of oil is estimated at less than five cents per cubic yard of placer gravel.” Information which comes from New York from headquarters is that the Erie railroad has made a most important arrangement with the Clover Leaf railroad. It is now stated upon the authority above mentioned that the Erie company made arrangement with the Clover Leaf by which it will run its St. Louis exposition trains through to the Mound City from the east. The connection or transfer will be made at Ohio City or this city where special cut offs will be made to permit the free running of the' trains with the least possible inconvenience. The Erie has been flirting with the Clover Leaf some time. There have been stories about this courtship, but the relations did not become more intimate because the Grand Trunk company stepped in and took a hand in the matter and formed such a close alliance with the (‘layer Leaf that the Erie seemed to be entirely out of consideration: Lately the relations a s far as the public is concerned have become simplified.

Tuesday evening’s storm did considerable damage in the oil fields near Chattanooga, Ohio. In one strip of territory there were forty-nine derricks swept to the ground and many hundred dollars worth of damage done to rigging, pumps and power stations. The Sun Oil Company was perhaps the heaviest loser as not one of their derricks was left standing. The wind was awful and the heavy timbers were broken as though they were but toothpicks. Another graft has been heard from which two men worked successfully in several communities in this state. The game is worked among the farmers and while as old as thegraft is many an unsuspecting ruralite has been roped in. A sleek looking fellow offers a big price for a piece of land which is usually accepted. A week later another individual makes his appearance and offers three or four hundred dollars more. The farmer is in a dilemma, and not until he has received a hundred dollar cash bonus does the first buyer release his claim. In the end the bargain, hundred dollars, and two men disappear. When the present generation was in. its faity tale stage, it owned grandmothers. The gentle old lady who donned trailing gowns, wore lace caps, employed her hands knitting,—what has become of her? Women live longer now than theyonce did, and seldom get old enough for the chimney corner. An old lady who celebrated her ninetieth birthday not long ago, watched the modiste cutting out her dress for the occasion. ‘ ‘ Make the sleeves of the latest cut,” she said, “I don't wan’t to be going out of fashion.” The grandmother of today is modishly gowned, rides a wheel plays golf, and searches the dry goods stores for natty designs. It doubtless says much for the strength of the race but incidentally a few Philistines regret the passing of the typical grandmother. An Adams county farmer chased a lady agent six miles yesterday to collect a board bill of thirty cents. He captured her at the Dan Shoemaker farm east of the city, took her to a justice of the peace in Adams county and had her fined. She paid $8.50 to get clear of the law, and came here today to make a little trouble for the avaricious, Mr. Mills and the justice who fined her. M. W. Walbert went over to the justice court today to investigate the case for her. She was selling sweepers and Mills tried to swap her a pony for some machines and territory. He told her that she could sell the pony to a neighbor of his for $65 but when she tried to do so she could not dispose of the brute at any price and returned it. She had to wait until Mills got back home before she could trade back with him and in the meantime she was compelled to stay for dinner. Mrs. Mills wanted to charge her thirty cents for the meal and this’the woman refused to pay, and left without putting up the cash. When Mills came home he had a warrant issued for the woman from a squire’s office, had himself appointed special constable and then crossed the Wells county line to make the arrest.—Bluffton News. - -- ur.- - hum As a result of too many matrimonial alliances Allen Moyer, a young man who formerlly worked in the John Painter grocery, may find himself in a whole lot of trouble with the law regulating marriage and divorce. Two years ago he was granted what he supposed was a divorce from his first wife, an Adams county girl. But the divorce was not the real simon pure notice of the pendancy of the action had been served on the defendant, and therefore the divorce is void. Notwithstanding this fact he married Miss Horner, living on the South side, and they separated a short time ago. Then, it is said, he returned to his first wife at Berne, informed her that the divorce he had secured in the court here was not legal and tried to persuade her to live with him again. She refused to do so and has brought suit for divocre in the Adams circuit court.—Bluffton News. There is nothing in this dream of the News man, so for as we can ascertain. All examination of the records show that, Moyer was granted a divorce several years ago and it is as as they make them, at least no rdCord here shows, it otherwise and no divorce suit has! been filed recently by Mrs. Moyer.

=AT DECATUR = Saturday, Aug. 1. / U&V \ 3 Ring<ircus / i i Millionaire \ / Aquarius \ JfC rah a Spectacular Regal in Presentation OTO and best of Americas BIG OWS.» GRANDEST, GREATEST, PUREST, FAIREST AMUSEMENT ENTERPRISE ON EARTH. Three Rings, Two Stages, Half-mile Race Track, Scores of Original Features, One Hundred Phenomenal Acts, 25 Clowns, 20 Hurricane Races, 10,000 Seats, One Million Dollar Menagerie of Fifty Dens, Droyes of Camels, Herds of Elephants.

1 (iifiHEST ctAs s ■mgji circus HEfe gRWSfWrB inthe THE FEATS WHICH ARE SEEN HERE Are New, Original or Superior else they would not be here. Only those Ar tists who are Truly Marvelous, presenting Sensational Achievements of Hazardous Daring with Angelic Grace and Pleasing Ways complete the Mightv Congress of Circus Stars.

y saa /u NvA wJL -a 'E I ...2aW A REMARKABLE EXHIBITION Os Super human and Incredible Athletic Deeds of Innocent Sport Presented with Bewildering Rapidity and with Faultless Style.

MANY TRAINED ANJIN/IALS Educated Seals, Elephants, Bulls, Babocns, Monkeys,— —Horses, Pigs and Donkeys. Wallace’s Circus Day Programme: 10:00 a. m—The Grand Street Parade. A unique combination of Glorious Street Carnival, Spectacular Street Fair, a Zoological Display, Horse Fair and Glittering Pageants. 1:OO and 7:00 p. m.—Doors opened To the Immense Waterproof Tents 1:15 and 7:15 p. m.--Prof. Bronsons Concert Band of Renowned Soloist Musicians begin a 45 minute Grand Concert on the center stage. 2:00 and 8:00 p. m.-All Feature Performance begins, comprising multitudinous, overwhelming, indescribable Gymnic, Acrobatic, Spectacular, Aerial, Trained Animal, Hippodromatic Feats.