Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1903 — Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE - - ... Items of Interest Contributed by the Democrat’s Busy Corps of Correspondents izatCkiiMSmaOßSSaaiaa »*> ~ SsaewS

Route One. Rev. W. E. MeC-irtv preached at Mt. Pleasant last Sunday forenoon. N. A. Loch and wife of D catur spent Sunday afternoon with J. A. Fuhrman and family. Elijah Houck, wife and son of Allen Co., spent Sunday with Samuel Fuhrman and family. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ball of Monroeville spent Saturday and Sunday with G. W Buckman and wife. Miss Cloves Warner of McGill. Ohio spent Friday and Saturday with Win. Singleton and family. Har’o Mann wh ) h is been sick for some time remains about the same. All of his friends wish him a speedy recovery. Monroe. The young ladies of this place met at the church Monday night and organized themselves into a Young Ladies Christian Band. We hope for their success in the future. Mrs. Z. O. Lewellen will spend two or three days at Portland this week visiting with Mrs. Gillium of that place. H. C. Andrews has completed a fine cistern. Miss Lorena Laisure returned from Portland, Saturday evening where she has been visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Alonzo Blowers. A district lyceum will be held at this place next week, in which about all of the ministers of the Fort Wayne district will participate. We are not worrying a partic e about what will be done at the meetings but think how the poor chickens will have to suffer. Berne. Sam Magids Sundayed in Decatur. Wm. Bole spent Sunday at Marion. Abe Stuckey made a flying trip to Geneva Monday on important business.

There wet e 563 tickets sold from here Thursday morning to tlu* Great Northern Fair. Chris Stengle purchased a fine dwelling house of Rudolph Lehman on West Main street. Dr. Chas. H. Schenk and J. M. Ehrsam left Saturday evening for Oten Mich., where they will spend ti< next ten days fishing and recreating in that healthful resort. Miss Cora B. Gottschalk and B. F. Welty of Lima. Ohio were quietly wedded Monday morning at the bri le s home in Berne by Rev. Koenig jf the Evangelic tl church. The co iple were driven immediately to D ■ • tur where they took the 12.40 train for Chicago after which they will be at home in their ne.v home at Lim .. Rudolph Lehman Leaves for Acme. Washington for hi • future home Thursday morning. His many friends are very - >rry to see him leave' but what is Borne’s loss is Acme’s gain and we all wish him aa 1 his family well and our best ...... » ......... pro tJid him m >re than two months ago. Linn Grove. L. L. Baumgartner and wife were at Bluffton last Saturday. Albert Johnson attended court at Decatur last Monday as a witness. John Liddy, a member of the Junior Band is sporting a new slide trombone instrument. Peter Hoffmann and Clayton Hunt are attending the Adams circuit court during the term as jurors. Prof. S. K. Ward, superintendent of the Geneva schools and Prof. Morris Wells, visited Prof. H. E. Rittgersand family last Sunday. Merlin Dunbar and Arthur Schaupp of this place, will be numbered with the French township teachers for the ensuing term, being the- first school for each of them. The Berne base ball team met an ignominious defeat at the hands of our home team last Sunday by a score of Bto 22. The effect was a substitute for a mild cathartic. The following pedagogues of Hartford township will take up books and switch next Monday morning: No. 1, Sterling P. Hoffmann. No. 2, Malissa French, primary; L. L. Baum-

gartner, second room; Lawrence Opliger, third room; Pi of. H E. Rittgers, fourth room. No. 3, D. A. Baumgartner. N. 4, James Kizer. No. 5, Catharine Schauffter. No. 6, Oliver Shoemaker. No. 7, Emma Pontius, orimary; E. C. Ruuyon, principal. Pleasant Mills. Preaching at the Baptist Church uext Sunday evening. We are needing new sidewalks, or the old ones repaired, as they are in an unsafe condition. Fredriek Roop is reported t o be quite ill with the dropsy. A girl baby at the home of our merchant, Samuel Durbin. Harry Worden and wife of Marion, visited his relatives here last week. Mrs. Libbie -Ritter and daughter Minta, left Tuesday, for a visit with relatives at Angola, Ind. Miss Wilma Cowan left last week for Valparaso where she will attend school during the winter. Albert Mauller the new merchant, is busy fitting up his Store with a new stock of fresh goods. Roe & France the hay dealers have their hay presses on the road and are doing a thriving business. Our Schools are progressing nicely with Prof. Miller as principle, the other Instructors being Charles Gage aud Curtis Brown. We predict for them a Successful term. Rev. Reil of Ft. Wayne Rev. White of Decatur and Rev. Sprague of Monroe Were here Tuesday evening, in the interests of the Epworth League and advocating the Missionary cause. They addressed the audience at the M. E. Church, and together with Rev. Wagner they formed a Quartette and gave us some fine vocal music. As they are polished and Christian gentb men we again welcome them to our town. Real Estate Transfers. Hattie Rice et al to Fort Wayne & Springfield Ry Co. pt sec 21 tp 28 rg 14. |BS. J. W. Moser to W. W. Stewart, pt sec 23, tp 25, rg 14, S3OO. Jacob Butcher to Isaac Michael pt sec 23, S2OOO. Isaac Lehman to Berne M'f’g. Co. lot 203, Berne, s*oo. Elnora Buettel to H. B. Melendy, lot 297. Geneva, SIBOO. C. Burkhalter*to Emil Pleuss, pt sec 20, SSIOO. Belinda Schell to D. Polm et al, lot 162, Geneva, $25. Belinda Schell to M. Polm, same lot, $25. Hannah E. Miller et al to Sarah A..Clymer, pt sec 35, SIOOO. Asa Engle to Maria Engle, pt lot 18, Decatur, SSO. David Studabaker to Samuel Egley, lots 267 and 268, Geneva, SSOO. Eleanor Johnson to Samuel Stetler, pt sec 11, SSOO. W. J. Selby to Peter Helmrick, pt sec 4' S2BOO. Hartford township to J. P. Shoemaker. pt sec 26, sl. ...... ■■

Speakman pt sec 23, SIOOO. Mary E. Smitley et al to W. L. Foreman, pt sec 33, JIOOO. Keziah Cary et al to Alonzo Shanks, pt sec 13, 80 acres, S4OOO. J. N. Smitley to Win. Speopman pt sec 333 tp 26 rgls, 20 acres SIOOO. Mary E, Smitley to Wm. L. Foreman pt sec 33 tp 26 rg 15, SIOOO. Keziah Cary et al to Alonzo Shanks pt sec 15 tp 25 rg 13, 80 acres S4OOO. Mathias Uolchin to Lucy E. Rout lot 548 Decatur SI.OO Henry Hite to M. Colchin pt lot 39 Decaturs 750. Marriage Licenses. Lawrence Emery to Ada Kize . Joseph Robin to Margaret Kelley. Lewis F. Midland and Marie Goethner. Benjamin F. Welty and Cora B. Gottschalk. Mohlow Hutchinson to Effie Mutter. See Holthouse, Schulte & Co., for your next suit. They will please you both in quality and price. Wanted—To buy a five or six room house that is near good sanitary sewer. Enquire of Dr. J. M. Miller. 202tf

In the patent office at Washington is a document which contains with in its plump bosom the specifications for a fuel which can be turned into the mains of this city and delivered in pleatitnde and in constant fl »w at a cost to rhe consumer of $1 a month. W. J. Lewis of Fowlerton is the ( patentee. He has just returned from . Washington, where he spent several ! days in the patent office. He was assured before he. left Washington that there.is nothing else in exist-1 ence like this fuel, and that his papers will be issued as soon as possible. This means within a month. Mr. Lewis has something new under the sun. His scheme is simple. But through every test it has proved to lie all and more than he claims for it. It has been turned into mains and employed in the cook stove and in the heater. It has been shown to be as good for lighting as the electric light. It can be reduced until its light is remarkable for its brilliancy. It is cajiable of producing a heat of unusual intenisty.

John B. Stoneburner, the piano dealer, made a trip to Monroeville Tuesday, returning that evening. When about three miles this side of that place John noticed an old .man, who appeared tired and footsore walking along. He stopped and asked the stranger if he cared to ride and the man climbed eage:lyinto the seat. They had gone but a short distance when John began to wish he had left the fellow : walk for he discovreed his companion to be a mani ic. He said his name was M. King and that he had : been captured on one ot his six , farms near Ada, Ohio and placed in j Michigan prison. He talked con- ' tinuously and all his utterances i were rambling and every word t' ld the story that he was crazy. John | came to town without loosing any time and turned his friend of the ‘ road over to the officers who plated him in jail where he now rests while an effort is being made to 10-1 1 cate his friends or find where he be--1 longs. A representative of the Democrat with pciiceman Cordua and Mangold interviewed the fellow at the jail yesterday and he told about the same story as he did to John excepting he said his name was Michael Fisher, that he was some time ca lied King Fisher. He is rather a nice appearing man, fifty three years old, tall and of slight build. His shoes were worn through showing he had walked a long distance and his feet are so sore today that he cannot wear his shoes. The officers beleive he has escaped from an asylum. He says he separated from his family several years ago Later—At three o'clock yesterday Marshal Cordua received a message from Akron. Ohhio stating that the man’s name is Fisher, that he escaped from the asylum at Toledo, Ohio several days ago, where he had been sent from Ada. Amusements.

Apropos of the coming of Palmer’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company, Mrs. Stowe’s greatest work, a short history of the original cabin may lie of interest. The people about Nachitoches, La. have long insisted that Robert McAlpin was the original Simon IztGree. His house and plantation were the only ones fitting the description in the book, on or •< ■ • ..... man in the state who ‘filled the bill. ” He was intemperate and merciless and died before the war, leaving a memory with horror. On his place lived a faithful old negro, sold from Kentucky, who suffered everything but actual torture to death, and Mr. S. Chopin the 'present wealthy owner of the estate, has preserved the cabin with great care, in confident belief that in time it would become an object of natural curiosity. The cabin is of Cyprus logs covered with Cyprus boards, and sound as when built, some forty years ago. It is presumed that Mrs. Stowe used the novelists privilege of combining the experience of several negroes in one. But simply as a relic of the old slave times, the cabin will present great interest at the Bosse opera house Saturday Oct. 3rd. Taet. “Laura,” said Mr. Ferguson, “this is Mr. Klippinger of Harkinsville,” the town where I used to live. He’s the editor of the Echo. I was telling him we had the files of his paper for the last ten years. I’ll show them to you. Mr. Klippinger. They’re”— “Why, George,” interrupted Mrs. Ferguson, with a mechanical sort of smile. “I ought to have told you. but—but they’re under the dining room carnet.”—Chicago Tribune.

l/VHERE OLD HATS GO. Clerk Tells of lnl<iue Scheme l or Makins Cigar Money. “Needn't, send that old hat home,” eaid the customefoss lie I laced the newly purchased derby on his bead, it s too shiny around the edges, and it would just take up room in the closet. The customer walked out ol the suite and the clerk turned to a friend. „ "That means cigar money f< r me. he said, "and I smoke good cigars at that. In most stores it wouldn't do me very much good, as all the discarded hats are given to the drivers of the <1 livery wagons. But here the house allows the clerks to have the hats, and as result we make a little extra money. About once a week the busheimau comes around to the store looking for old bats, and when 1 give him all I have collected he pays on an average of 15 cents apiece for them. "After the bushelman has made bis rounds he takes the hats to a shop on South street, and there they are taken apart. The silk ribbons and bands and sweatbands are removed and the hat given a thorough cleaning and new material and trimmings put on. M hen it is all fixed up it if- extremely difficult to tell it from a new bat, and in many cases it will sell for as highas $2. When you can buy a hat for 15 cents, clean it for about 5 cents, put 25 cents’ worth of leather and ribbon on it and sell it for a dollar or more, you see where the profit comes in. don t you: — Philadelphia Press. The “Show" anil the Showy People. ‘ Society" in England is divided into two classes —show people and showy people. To the first "society" belongs; the second are anxious to belong to "society."

Os the former there are comparatively few. It is a feature of the times that there are very many of the latter. The show people are those who. because of their position, their popularity or tl.eir abilities, have attained prominence : nJ are more or less associated together in the social life of their period. The showy 'people, without the position, the popularity or the ab iities. strive to become prominent by display, extravagance, eccentricities or self advertisement. Their carriages are painted in the most glaring color: they are dressed expensively even on ordinary occasions; they are tireless and tiresome in their endeavors to appear to be associated with "society;" their life may l»e described as one of continuous deceit and disappointment, and they take off. nse on the least provocation and -Sre implacable in their vindictiveness.—London Truth. The Actor's Month. The actor's mouth is essentially facile and not infrequently it exhibits a tendency to turn to one side or the other. This is due, in part, to its being constantly used to express emotion and also to the peculiar but no less well recognized fact that when the mouth is somewhat crooked a greater effect can be produced than when it is opened quite straight Example after example could be cited, but for obvious reasons names may not be mentioned. At one time it was considered the mark of the low comedian, for nearly every one of them had a mouth twisted either to the right or left as the result of "mugging.” Some of the most serious actors—even those with a reputation for beauty—could, however, be pointed to as possessing the same characteristic, which has also been observed with not a few opera singers of the first rank.—London Tatler.

Sex Pecuxiaritiex. A man will run as fast as he can to j cross a railroad track in front of a | train. Then he will wetgb fJJJ it* goes out of sight. Then he will walk leisurely away. He seems to be ail right and probably is. That is a man. A woman in a street car will open a satchel and take out a purse, take out a dime and close the purse, open the' satchel, put in the purse, close the satchel and lock both ends. Then she i will give tlie dime to the conductor. I who will give her a nickel back. Then ! she will open the satchel and take out the purse, pm in the nickel, close the i P’.. - . o en the satchel am! put in the ends. Then she will feel for the buckle i at the back of her belt—Kansas City Journal. and Thirteen. In the life of Richard Wagner the number thirteen played a curious part. He was born in 1813. the numerals of which, added together, are equal to thirteen, and he received a name the letters of which when added to those of his family name are also equal to thirteen. Moreover, he finished “Taunhauser” on April 13, 1860, and it was performed for the first time on March 13. 1861. Twenty-two years later he died, and again the mystical number was dominant, for be passed away on Feb. 13, ISB3. <> • A Scientific Classification. “Now. children.” says the dear teacher, “I have explained to you how yeast grows until it is full of cells. Which little boy or girl will tell me the kingdom to which yeast belongs?” The little wise'boy lifted his hand. “You may tell. Johnny.” “The criminal kingdom, teacher,”— Chicago Tribune. Practical. The Rooster—Why can’t you lovj me? I swear I’d go through fire and water for you! The Hen—Oh. don't be ridicu.ous! You know you can’t swim, and I just hate the smell of burned feathers.— Puck. A gossip is usually willing to be a liar, so is the man who is always complaining.—Atchison Globe.

necoßntreil Him. Two little girls were playing in front of a city dwelling when a strange man W "That man is an undertaker.” said one of the little girls. •How do you know?” asked her com panion. , "Oh. because he is the man who undertook my grandmother." — Lippin-

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GRAIN. BY E. G.R*t.X ,J Corn, per cwt., (new) mixed $ 59 Corn, per cwt, yellow 61 j Oats, new 34 Wheat, No. 2 76 Wheat, No. 3 _ 73 Rye 51 Barley 53 Clover Seed 5 25 ! Alsyke @ 6 (XL Bick wheat 60' Flax Send 80 Timothy SI 25 j ’ LiiitAuG iaAr.'nEsS. j Chicago market dosed at 1:15 p. m. today a.- fol ‘ ,we ■ • Wheat, September 773 Wheat, December 77|| Wheat, May 78| j Corn, September 44 p Corn, December 45* Corn, May ..... 45.‘ ’ Oats, September - 35’ Outs, December 36|: Oats, May. „.. 4 37| Jan. Pork. sll 17 May Pork 12 55 i January Lard per TOLEDO GRAINMARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash. $ 82| I Sept wheat, S2| i December wheat 832 | May wheat 84g Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash.. 48| Sept corn 48$ i ; Corn. December.. lcs I Oats, Cash 38 i Oats, Sept 37 | Oats, December 37$ May Oats ....... ............. "38 | Rye, cash 59 POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb @Bl Fowls, per lb 8@ 81 Ducks, per lb 5@ 05 Young Ducks 6@07 Turkeys, per lb 8 Geese, old per lb Qi j Geese, young, lb 07

Jn«t HI. I nek. “I long to go about doing 200rt .. Mrs. Henpeck. ' ' • Wj “Don’t hang back on my account" piled Mr. Henpeek wearily, “j u ' * woman who will come to' take the children for her board and v ] ot ? °! Then she Hared up and wouldn't? Chicago Record Herald. —' —

STOCK, Lambs 4 25 Hogs, per cwt $ @5 60 Cattle per lb _3 @ 34 Calves, per lb 41 @ 5 ■Cows 2 @ Sheep, per lb 2 @ 2j Beef Hides, per lb._ - 6 COAL-Per Ton .Anthracite - ? <SO ' Domestic, nut - - .'Lv ./ ... ... ' — I Domestic lump, Indiana I Pocahontas Smokeless, lump ;» 00 HAY fIARKET. Nc. 1 timothy hav (new) - ’ .. SB.OO @SS.SO No 1 mixed hav (new) No. 1 clover hay (new) ' s4.so<d •' 00 OIL HARKET. Fiona...' i Pennsylvania ■ Coming i New Castle North L'ma 1 - 1 . South Lima - Indiana Whitehouse } Somerset i Lacy -9 Ragland OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS. Egg's, fresh, per doz — I Lard J j Butter, per pound - Potatoes, new Onions ; Cabbage per lb - - i Apples, per bu - WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVEB fc SON. Wool, unwashed Sheep pelts t 0 ? 1 Beef hides, per pound Calf hides — Tallow, per pound ——