Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1903 — Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE Items of Interest Contributed by the Demo- B crat's Busy Corps of Correspondents

Route One. Orval D. Spahr was at Fort Wayne Friday. J-.h-i Reed Sund lyed with relatives at Fort Wayne. Rev. McCarty preached Mt. Pleas, ant Sundae forenoon. Carl Kiess of Fort Wayne, is visiting with relatives in this vicinity. Perry Gilbert and family of Monroe, Sundayed with C. C. Sheets and family. Several of the Mt. Pleasant Ep worth Leaguers attended the union meeting at Hoagland Sunday night. Samuel Fuhrman, wife and daughter, left la-t Thursday for Cambridge, Ohio, for a weeks’ visit with relatives. Peterson. H. A. Breiner and wife Sunday - ed with August Hildebrand near Fort Wayne. Ervin Huffman of Fort Wayne is here the guest of a highly respeced young lady. Mr. May Shafer of Danville. Till., is here spending a few weeks with her parents. Joseph Drum and family called on Rebecca Ernst who at this writing is on the sick list. George Me Whiten Jr., and wife of Dunfee are spending a few days with his parents here. James Hall and daughter Lizzie of Lima. 0., are here visiting Mr. Halls mother Mrs. Alvoy Aurand. Those from here who took in the excursion to Chicago Sunday were C. M. Weldy, Mary Gault, Frank Gault and Richard Bowers. Wm. Huffman took in the one to Marion. Berne. Wm. Bole spent Sunday at Marion. Attorney Shafer Peterson was in town Saturday. Theo. Beiersdofer bought the auto- bi of Mr. Lot. Wm. Wagner of Monroe township is reported to be sick. Fred Wechter is having an addition built to his house. Judge R. K. Erwin was showing his smiling face here Friday. Attorney’ L. C. DeVoss was transacting business here last week. School commenced this morning with Prof. B. W. Winans at the helm. About 60 tickets were sold from here Thursday to the annua! tourists excursion. Several from hereabouts took in the ball games at Decatur and Fort Wayne Sunday. „ Mrs Julins Yo t and children of Markle are visiting at Mr. and Mrs. A. Gottschalk’s. Abe and Rufus Stuckey were calling on lady friends in Jefferson township Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James York of St. Marys Ohio were calling on friends here a shot time Sunday. Peter J. Bryan returned home 1 ,y from a two weeks trip - ■ »n the west and south west. Quarterly meeting at the Evangelical church Sunday was very largely attended. Rev. Baumgartenr of Elkhart the Presiding elder con- j 'ducted the services. Pleasant Mills. The Pleasant Mills schools opened Monday. Rev. Scherich of Poneto called on friends here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Armstrong | are numbered among the sick. Airs. Henry Stetler of Decatur spent Sunday here with friends. James Gerard and wife of Fort Wayne spent Sunday here with friends. Re v.Peters of Portland will preach at the U. B. church next Sunday \ at 2:30 p. m. Mr. Wood living south of Willshire is visiting his son A. J. Wood and family this week. ’ Mrs. William Hill returned Monday from a few days visit with friends at Sandusky, O. A., J. Wood our merchant and post master is now prospecting a little and looking a location as he ex-

perts to retire from business at £ this place soon. Mrs. J. W. Vizard and little son j returned Saturday from a few days visit with relatives at Marion. Mrs. Charles Peterson of Decatur spent a few days here last week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Fuller. Grass Fortney and family moved into their own residenca last week. The property formerly belonged to W. F. Beerv. i , The Baptist association will be hel lat Bluffton this year. It will convene Sept. 17. Quite a number from here will attend. Fredreick Bender has purchased the property formerly owned by Henry Steele in the north end of town. Fred is tired of farm life and will make this place his future L home. Linn Grove. Mrs. G. W, Gentis is the guest of her people in Wayne county, Ohio. Mrs. P. Hoffmann and daughter, Wynona, were visiting at Berne Tuesday. Cortney Runyon has put cn a force of men and is macadamizing East Center street. L. L. Dunbar and Geo. Schagenhauf made a business trip to Parker City last Wednesday. Ed Heller and son. Bert, are at Cincinnati this week, purchasing their fall stock of goods. F A. W. Lindsey and Charles Fonts spent Sunday with Eugene Lindsey of South Hartford. Mrs. Eugene Lindsey is visiting Alex. Vorhees at Winchester, and will accompany Mrs. Fonts to Union City and Greenville. Wm. Judd has been keeping time table on the coming and going of the moon. He reports her on time during the month of August. Wesley Hoffman of Decatur visited friends here a few days last week. He will be a student at the State University the eiisuing term. The parties borrowing the dynamite augur and pruning shears of Peter Hoffmann will receive many ’ thanks on returning the articles. Florence Johnson, who has been with his people here during a ten weeks’ lay off at the Eaton glass works, returned Friday of last week. The Sunday school picnic in Gottschalk’s grove at Salem last Saturday, was favored with fine weather and a good attendance. Eight schools were represented. hi- 4 cozy residence to Dr. Geo. Emick, $1,075, made the deal Mr. Neueni sch wander purchased the Kreps property on West street which he proposes to put in good repair. After seeing the late editorial in the prosqective coming of the electric railway. John G. Adler scaled the top of his undertaking establishment, as he says to see her coming, but was he not looking for her cadaver. Geo. Lindsey and consort left for ' their home at Niantic, Ills., last Thursday. They will tary a few j days at Indianapolis and Laporte enroute. Mrs. Charles Fonts accompanied them as far as Winchester from whence she goes to Union City and Greenville, Ohio to visit relatives. I Marriage Licenses. Chas. Jackson to William Jack- | son, lot 851, Decatur $125. Jacob A. Coolman to Charles W. Armantrout lot 63 Geneva SSOO. Ella Walker to Edward Neuenschwander lot 21 Buena Vista S4OO. Edward Neuenschwander to Geo. Eurick lot 11 Buena Vista $lO5. Stolen—Bright bay mare: weight , about 1,050; no white marks; new shoes on hind feet; mane lays to right side; foretop roughly trimmed ; taken from barn two miles north of Montpelier. Monday night., August 17; old end spring buggy with unpainted wheels, and harness. Reward of $25.00 will be paid, for return of property. S. M. Montgomery, R. F. D. No 1, Montpelier. Notify Harvey Rowe, Marshal, Montpelier, Ind. 194dwtf

Tom Railing has telegraphed his I friends in this city that he wil. n I rive here Friday. He sent word : from Lima. Ohio, where he is visiting i with his father. Mrs. P. E. Albers and daughter i Lucy of Chicago who have been ! visiting with J. T. Merryman and family left this city yesterday I for Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Macke returned to to their home at Birmingham. Alabama, today, as visiting in this ■ city with Major R. B. Allison and ! wife and other relatives. Base ball excursion to Marion and Bluffton Sunday Sept. 13th via I Clover Leaf. Will be a special train , leaving Decatur at 11 a. m. will re-! turn on No. 4 at 6.43 p. m. T. L. Miller agt. Joseph M. Ruff, formerly of the Wayne Hotel, and just home from Mackinac Island, and Louis Schinokey of Battle Creek. Mi.-higan, are guests of William J. Ruff, chef at the Burt House. Nat Popkias, the genial artist for the Lyman Brothers, has rented a house on Fifth street and will bring his wife and family here. They are i expected Sunday, and he will move into his new residence next week. John Bucher sold a pair of sixteen i months old roan colts to John Neaderhouser of Berne. Tuesday morning. They weighed 2500 pounds and were as pretty a team as ever came down the pike. The consideration was 5260. Oscar Way the Ossian base ball pitcher who has been twirling for Bluffton this season received a call from Marion yesterday asking him to report at once for a position in the Central League. If he makes ; good this year he will probably be given something substantial for next season. A business woman who has a large correspondence says that women are guilty of two epistolary sins. One is the omission to send a stamp when a reply is sought, the : I other the failure to indicate whether the writer is to be addressed as Miss or Mrs. Each of these sins generally brings its own punishment and may in time, work its own cure. A Baltimore &■ Ohio passenger train recently ran 128 miles be tween Chicago junction, Ohio and : Garret Ind., in 128 minutes. The train was as heavy vestibuled limited and was hauled through by an engine known as the B. & O. type and weighs 177,000 pounds. At. times in high bursts of speed the | train travelled as high as 85 miles j an hour and 75 miles seemed an easy rate. Dr. Ha vis of Wren was in the city I yesterday and left at 4o’clock with ■ a Cidallac automobile of which he ; is a sole owner. He purchased the i machine of the Schafer Hardware i Company, making this the fourth sale of Cadillacs within a month. The 11 1 i! doubt the most popular machine on the market and Dr. Havis will never regret his purchase. He will use his auto tomorrow to go to the Van Wert Fair. The new and original comedy drama that Mr. Robert Downing, the well known and popular actor will present during the coming season has its location in Seattle Washington and it is said to be one of the most unique and original plays ever written by an American. Mr. Do wring is so well pleased with it, that he has laid aside all of lus classic plays, stored away his tons of scenery and costomes, and will devote his entire attention to this production. The title of the play is “Hon. John North.” The banks of this city report the circulatiaon of a number of counterfeit silver dollars. The coin is a mighty good imitation and would fool any ordinary individual, as it has all the elements of genuineness only it is not. The Old Adams County Bank detected three of them yesterday and the First National one. The opinion prevails that they are being systematically put j into circulation by some knowing 1 one and we print this principally i to warn those who have occasion to j handle filthy coin, that they mav keep their weather eye open. A campaign with counterfeit money occurs about every so often, and to the one now is probably the semioccasional session for a seige with the; counterfeit. However if you do not care to be left with a surplus stock I of this imitation, it will pay you to j closely scrutinize every der omina-1 tion of silver that comes into your possesion.

——————— * The Clover Leaf stati nreportsthe ninety-eight ti■•keV to I . r. their r- «t iar morning train. (,r.= - Kir.t <*■’ n ’ ; >' r . “‘ rn ’ cd t<> their home at Fort Mayne last evening after visitinv i-i t ll . ' city and vicinity with relatives. Ira Lake a former resident of this | l city pass d through hereon hi- way i from Ney, Ohio to Fort Wayn< j j where he will, work for the Mayne I Cooperage Company. The Excursion to Detroit this I morning was on>- ■: *h-* G'-t ever ■ run ever the Clover Leaf. Every • i car w;,s crowded, ninety-seven tickets being s Id from here. About 35 people from Monroe were passengers on the Detroit ex-1 \ cursion - rain this morning among I them being the entire society of the | 'Monroe organization of the Y. My jC. B. A number came to this city ! last evening and the remaining | one drove to this city early thi- ■ I morning. The “King of the Dessert" show] which will be at Bosse s opera ; house next Tuesday evening carry ’ four horses and two cameis to pro- ’ iduce their great dessert scene. I i There are 27 people with the concern ■ which includes a nand and special ■ orchestra. The company gives al 1 street parade in the morning. In honor of Bnj. Emerine *s 38th i birthday a number of his friends | completely surprise I him. But not Iso much surprised until he found the table spread with everything j goed. Those present were Grandma Emerine, Mr. and Mrs J. J. Luttrell, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Eixler, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Poling, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mayer. Mr. and Mrs. Pennington, Mr. and Mrs. Grant; Russell and three children. Mr. and ■ Mrs. T. R. Baker and four chidren. Mrs. Williard Sutttles and four child'ren, Miss Alma Andrews. Mr. Sam Emerine. Harry and Ross Andrews. All report a good time. The Decatur Chapter of the Ladies' Historical Club began the' 16th year year of its existence Tuesday evening. The meeting was an important one being the first of 1 the season was held at the home of Mrs. M. Burns and an interesting ' time was had. The membership of ■ the organiaztion is limited to twenty active members and the opening of . this season finds them with the full I quota. As the name of the association indicates the cardinal policy of the club is to study history but • along with that they devote some i time at each meeting night to genI eral literature. This year the study I course has been aranged to embrace i ■the most exhaustive of German Histories and they expect to com-i I plete the work within eight months. Frank Heiman tiled an affidavit ■ before ’Squire Smith yesterday charging one Thomas Fisher with malicious trespass. Some bees had swarmed in one of Mr Hei-1 mail s trees and Fisher was d< B ous of securing the honey. He secured two assistants, one to help him to cut down the tree, so as to get the honey, and one to do picket They went to Mr. Heiman’s woods after night, but it seems the guard couldn't stand the pressure and soon went to sleep. Heiman was suspecting something and walked down to where the men were ■ The guard was too sleepy to-ask-the countersign but both he and the j other assistant arranged to escape ’ detection. When Heiman arrived ■ on the scene a fine red oak tree had ' been cut down, and Fisher paid; $9.80 for his trespass. He thought this was tough as he didn’t even get any honey and unless the other two pay a share of the fine he' threatens to expose them. Mr. and Mrs. Matthias Kirsch, i Mrs. David Gerber. Mrs. H. Mayer ! and Mrs. Fruchte as delegates and j Rev. Grether of the German Reformed church left for Berne this afternoon where they will attend the Seventh Annual Convention of j the Reformed church. The convention which embraces a territorv . including the churches at Fort Wayne, Huntington, Auburn, Garrett, Marion, Berne, Vera Cruz, I Magley and this city went into session today at the Bern.- German Re- ■ formed chruch and will continue' until tomorrow evening. This even-1 ing Dr. Shade of Cleveland will deliver an address on “Object Lessions in the infant Departanent.” The purpose of the convention is 'simply to promote Sunday school work and many valuable points are gained through such an organiza- ‘ tion. About seventy five workers | are expected to be present.

The Great Northern Indiana JFfatrlI JL xx X X x I decatur, Indiana' September 22, 23, 24, 25, ’O3 $6,300 Paid in Purses and Premiums Best Fair Ever Held in the Central States. Today The Fair is Without a A CONTINUOUS EXHIBITION Going on all the ITZriHE GROUNDS ARE THE BEST ARRANGED T IN THE STATE. They cover 107 acres. The —J buildings afe new, have a complete police protection. telephone system, etc. There are shady drives and groves. No gambling or games allowed, and every factor that goes toward making a'successful fair is in evidence. —— l — T It will be the Greatest and Grandest Fair ever held in Indiana j* e* > c* WEDNESDAY WILL BE CHILDRENS* DAY ADDRESS George Tricker, T. H. Harris, President Secretary

W. M. Williams and Dr. L. Williams of Indianapolis arrived last night and will spend several days here. They were former residents of Adams county. One of the colored “gemmen” at werk on Fourth street, imbibed too freely in fire water last evening, and was promptly landed in jail. His case will come up tomorrow for trial.

THE MARKETS

BY E. L. CARBOL, GRAIN MERCHANT. Corn, per cwt., (new) mixeds 70 Corn, per cwt, yellow 72 Oats, new 33 Wheat, No. 2 76 Wheat, No. 3 74 Rye 47 Barley 50 Clover Seed 5 00 . Alsyke @ 5 75 Buckwheat 60 Flax Seed 801 Timothy gl 25 ChtCAdO MARKETS. ” ’ ’ T Chicago market closed at Lie p. m. today as follows: Wheat. Septemberßo;' ’ Wheat, December 81i. Wheat, May 84g Corn, September 51 . Corn, Decembersl Corn, Maysl ; Oats, September 351 Oats, December 37 , Oats, May 38| Sept. Pork>l3 40 May Pork 13 50 September Lard per cwt 9 15 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:001 oclock by J. D. Hale, Decatur.. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash..__| 83 , Sept wheat, 83 ' December wheat 851 1 May wheat 87j cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash- 55 ' Sept corn 55 j Corn. December 51| May Corn 513 i Oats. Uash_ 36| I Oats, Sept 3€>j| 1 Oats, December 384 May Oats 391 Rye, cash 56 POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb,B@B|; Fowls, per lb Bfd 8 I Ducks, per lb 5@ 05 Young Ducks t Turkeys, per lb 8 1 I Geese, per lb 04@05

NJOTICE OF FINaL SETTLEMENT Os ESTATE. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of David Lyon, atceased, to appear in the Adams circuit court, held at Decatur. Indiana, on the Ist day of October. IW3. and show cause, it any. why the final settieirent accounts with the estate ot said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified totbto and there make proof of heirship and recent their distributive shares. Dore B Erwin. Administrator. Decatur. Indiana. September 27.2 Ei w.n A Erwin. Attorneys.

L < SJPKK* BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER. Lambs £4 Hogs, per cwt S 7 Cattle per lb.-3 @ ■’l Calves, per lb ’ Cows_.__2 @ J Sheep, per 1b.2 @ 4 Beef Hides, per lb ’ WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVER S SON. Wool, unwashed Beef hides, per pound - , Calf hides 2* Tallow, per pound COAL— Per Ton * Anthracite® .( Domestic, nut Domestic, lump, Hocking .. Domestic lump, Indiana- . Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 3 HAY fIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (new) No 1 mixed hay j | 7 j 0 No. 1 clover hay (new) ~~ | |4.50@® 00 OIL HARKET. .j iTiona...... Pennsylvania Corning New Castle jj ■ North Limaj y South Lima Indiana Whitehouse $ ■ Somerset $ Lacy 91 Barkersville.- $ Ragland OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND Eggs, fresh, per doz— —- 9 Lard 11 Butter, per pound ' tjO Potatoes, new 50 | Onions 01 Cabbage per lb 50 Apples, per bu