Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1903 — Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE Items of Interest Contributed by the Demo= crat’s B Corps of Correspondens

Route One, Hario W. Mann isjreported on the sick list. C. C. Sheets and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Wm. Mallonee. Frank Reed of Cleveland is visiting with his father Uncle Johnny Reed. Oscar Fuhrman, a young son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fuhrman is report- | ed on he sick list. Fuhrman Bros. & Hocemeyer Husking and shredding Co., are busy husking corn. Mr. Davis and wife of Paulding county, Ohio, spent Sunday with Wm. Singleton and wife. David Showers and family returned to Chicago Saturday after a week visit with relatives in this community. Monroe. The people here are preparing for winter. The climate is rather cool ’round Monroe. Buy your winter wear at Graham & Bailey’s place. W. H. Graham shipped a car load of hogs, Tuesday. Miss Jennie Shacklev, of Decatur, is the guest of Mrs. N.H. Graham this week. You can now get any kind of a meal you want at J. R. Badder’s luncn room. Harve Kessler talks of buying an automobile. The girls are waiting (?) for that ride, Harve. Beginning November 10th there I will be three lectures at Monroe, one on Nov. 12th and one on Nov. 16th., Whole course tickets 25c. All are invited. At a spelling contest the other night a young high school student of Monroe would have won the prize had it not been for one word. The word window was pronounced. He spelled it “winder.” Linn Grove. Albert Christinan and wife, of Berne, were visiting friends here last week. Lewis Dunbar is building an elabo- . rate additi m to his barn on his town j property.

FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. | To be held iq the Circuit Court | Dec,. 2-3.1 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 9:30 A. M. 3 Music Miss Frances Merryman S Invocation Rev. Pontius g LIVE STOCK SESSION. g Importance of Improved Live Stock C. S. Mumma g Discussion 9 Profits in Good Live Stock E. H. Collins, Carmel, Indiana g Discussion g Kinds Best Suited to the Locality .3 Mrs. V. C. Meredith, Cambridge City, Indiana 2 General Discussion. •;= 1:30 p. m. g Music Miss Jean Lutz 9 Nature’s Nobleman J. F. Snow g Building Roads with Gravel or Crushed Stone E. H. Collins 3 Discussion .• 5 Fences, Fields and Farmsteads Mrs. A. C. Meredith 5 General Discussion. K 7:30 p. m. Music Mandolin Club 2 GENERAL AND EDUCATIONAL. g Nature Studv in the Public Schools Prof. E. S. Christen 5 Music Quartette 2 Elements of Success in Life E. H. Collins 5 Music Quartette 9 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 9:30 A. M. 5 Music Argo Brushwilder g Invocation Rev. White .5 Music Rev. Pontius Potatoes—(a) Soil, (b) Seed, (c) Cultivarion, (d) Digging, g (e) Marketing Sylvester Pontius g QUESTIONS. g General Purpose Farming Mrs. V. C. Meredith g Discussion g 1:30 p.m. g MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS. g Music Misses Midge Smith and Marie Patterson g Benefits of Farmers’ Institutes Philip Baker g Business Methods on the Farm E. H. Collins g The Relation of the Home to Civic Life Mrs. V. C. Meredith p

Mrs. Frank O. Lindsey and children of Phenix, visited F. A. W. Lindsey on Tuesday. Christian Stuckey is building a new summer kitchen Jon his newly purchased property. A series of revival meeting began at this place Monday. Quarterly meeting will be held Friday, lasting over Sunday. Fred Blacher, of East Nottingham township, died at his home SundayFuneral services were held at Salem on Tuesday. Last Wednesday night Miss Viola Dunbar was made the victim of a surprise party, composed of thirty of her young friends, who gathered at her home to remind her of her twentyfourth birthday anniversary. The party being well planed the result was that Miss Dunbar was well surprised. Various games of amusements were indulged in until a late hour when refreshments were served and the guests departed having enjoyed a pleasant evening and wishing Miss Dunbar many more such happy occasions.

Pleasant Mills. Walter Brown has been on the sick list for the past several days. Dick Boyd and family, of Decatur, spent Sunday here with relatives. Oran Fortney and wife are rejoicing over a bouncing baby boy since last Thursday. Charles Hower and wife, of Steele, spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Steele. The Misses Nackie Acker, Cora McBarnes and Maude Steele spent Sunday with Miss Minta Ritter. Mrs' Charles Peterson returned to her home at Decatur, Tuesday, after a few days visit here with her parents. Mrs. Laura Corbin, of Muncie, and daughter, Mrs. Pearl Shockley, of Dalesville, returned to their homes last Saturday morning, after a week’s visit here with their uncle, Jesse Watkins and their aunt, Mrs. John Schrank, and other relatives. There will be an oyster supper at the school house one mile west and one mile south of Pleasant Mills, at district No. 7, on next Saturday evening, Nov. 14. Proceeds to purchase reading circle bocks. An invitation

is extended to all by Orpha Ayers, Teacher. Those young, ladies that did not prepare and take a box to the social last Saturday evening, did not act wisely, or prudently, by endeavoring to cheat other young ladies of their rights and priveledges. Such was the ease at the box social last Saturday evening. If such conduct continues these social events will soon be a thing of the past here. OBITUARY. Catharine Harvout was born in Richland county, Ohio,Jan.,l9, 1820 died Oct. 31 1903, aged 83 years, 9 months and 13 days. She was united in marriage to Nathaniel Bailey November 28, 1839. In 1844 they moved to Union township, Adams county Indiana, living for a long time in an old log hut on the old Hines farm, until they could build one on their own, at which place they lived until 1857, when they moved into the house now owned by John Sheets, where they both died. Mr. Bailey died in 1882. Their marriage was blessed with eleven children, five sons and six daughters and only three sons and one daughter living. Jane Tillburg, Issac M., Albert J. and Lew H. Bailey. There are 35 grand children and 22 great grand children with a host of friends to mourn their loss. Mrs. Bailey was formerly a member of the Campbellite church, until about 14 years ago, she united wi'h the M. E. church at Clark’s chapel and has has lived a dutiful and devoted Christian. Interment in Clark’s chapel cemetery, Rev. A. D. Waggoner officiating. Marriage Licenses. Harry Funk to Alice Freeh. Zera David to Della McClure. Adron W. Hawk to Katie Husser. Bert G. Merriman to Stella Smith William D. Aetling to Emma Zwick. Unclaimed Letters. Uncliamed letters ar 8 at the postoffice for Miss Eva Dininger, A. L. Walters, Mrs. Norris R. Fill, Wm. Ankney, M. P. Ashbrook, S. M. K ing, Chas. King, Mary C. Jnegs, Miss Emma Cheyney, Mrs. Ellen Stuck, Mrs. Katy Swartz, Mrs. John Jwerd, Miss Bertha Meyers, Mrs,. Ira Richards, Mrs. Ellen Stuck, Frank Acton.

Real Estate Transfers. Frank B. Porter to Otto Bolds lot 400 Geneva $l5O. Leander Johnson to George Ohler pt sec 8 Union tp 40 acres S2OOO. John B. Okeley to John B. Okeley pt sec 10 Jefferson tp $2,400. Abraham Okeley to John B. Okeley pt sec 10 Jefferson tp $2400. David Studabaker to Frank B. Porter lots 399-400 Geneva $250. ■■ «£• <• AweGeo. Shafer to John W. Shafer pt sec 5 Union tp S6OO. George Shafer to Wm. Shafer pt sec 8 Union tp $3600. Mary C. Patterson to Ellanor Johnson lot 924 Decatur $5lO. Peter Steffer to Emanuel Gerber pt sec 33 Kirkland tp S4OO. D. B. Erwin, com. to Isreal Bender pt sec 19 and 24 St. Marys tp 160 acxe« $691.69. Alfred A. Ayers to Sarah Ayers pt sec 11 Monroe tp SSOO. Emil Leichty et al to Wm. Miller lot 297 Berne $225. Calvin Lehman to Jacob Habegger lot 48 Berne SIOOO. Alonzo Powers et al to William Fields lot 47 Alberson cemetery sls. John Stoneburner to D. E. Smith pt lot 559 SI.OO Perry Andrews et al to Hazel C. Andrews pt lot 27 Monroe S6OO. David Rich to Chris Musser pt sec 16 Blue Creek tp_sßoo. I The two year old child of Mr. and Mrs, Ed Gross of Van Buren and who formerly lived here, died Sunday of measles and was buried today. The Gross family are well known here Mrs. Gross being a sister of William Foreman. If ever the city of Decatur was in need of a Humane society for cruelty to animals it needsone now. It was just Friday night as a horse stood tied to a tree on north Fourth street from six oclock last evening until seven this morning, when it was taken in care by Beery & Holthouse. A man that would treat a dumb animal like this is certainly somewhat of a brute himself and should be taken care of by the proper authorities.

J. H. Hobrock, William Hoile as reviewers on a highway beginning at section thiry in St. Mary’s township* and running west t© the tg wnship line, drove out to begin the assessment of damages. A remonstrance was filed to a former viewers's report and it is expected to adjust this difference in this waj • Aaron Zook holds the belt for. catching the largest chicken hawk of the season. It measured four feet and two inches from tip to tip, and weighed five and one-half pounds. It is an ugly looking bird and was caught in a steel trap, while on a mission of intimacy with the chicikens belonging to Mr. Zook. After carrying away one or more the successful attempt was made at capture. Sheriff Butler and Marshal Cordua dicovered a big Berkshire hog grazing leisurly in front of the post office Thursday and the beast was inarched off to jail where the owner can have same by proving owenrship. The hog is about a year old and weighs 200 pounds, spotted black and white. If the owner doesn’t appear in due time a big pork roast with the police officers as hosts is a possibiltites of the future. Mr. E. Fritzinger informs us that the new post office building is nearing completion and the same will be ready for opening by the middle of, next month. A consignment of new office fixtures arrived today and from the out side appearance of the same Decatur will have just as fine a post office as any city of its size in the state on the inside as well as the out. Mr. Fritzinger has spared no expense in putting up this structure and same is certainly a handsome one. Treasurer Voglowede sold bonds for the extension of the Peterson and Prarie macadam road, the contract for which was secured by Calvin Miller. The extension begins with the Peterson and Prairie and runs north to the Preble, thus passing through some good territory. The bonds were purchased by Allison and Niblick, a premium of $5.72 being given for issue of $3,849, the same runinng or twenty years. Contractor Miller will begin work Monday morning and expects to have the job complete by the first of the year.

Beginning Tuesday it is lawful for any man to go into the field with dog and gun and hunt quail provided he has a written consent of the farmer who owns the land whereon he happens to be hunting. It was a perfect day [and from the number who started out that morning from all over the county it is safe to say that there are not as many live qauil in Adams countyas there were twenty-four hours before, by several hundred. During the next month this sport will be indulged in by many who anxiously await the season each take the real hunter to go out and get enough of the birds to make a good meal. During the ten months when the life of quail are protected by Indiana’s stern laws they multiply rapidly and became very tame, but after the first day when they are short at every few minutes they become wild a.id to protecttheir lives in a very remarkable manner. —

W. D. M. CONFERENCE. The Women’s District Missionary conference of the Babtist church convenes at Bluffton Thursdayand several ladies from here will be in attendance including Mesdames Gilson, Beardsley, Everett, Rice, Fristoe and others. The program as announced is as follows: • Morning Session 10 o’clock. Devotional, Mrs. Lester, Bluffton Conference of Missionary Workers, Conducted by Mrs. Jeffrey Twelve—Questions to be considered. Afternoon Session 2 o’clock. Devotional ... .Mrs. A. H. Allen, Montpelier Address—The Work of the Training School.. Miss Meier, Chicago Address The Responsibility of Not Doing Mrs. Jeffrey, Indianapolis Discussion —How to Create a Deeper interest in our Society ... .Led by Mrs. Gilson, Decatur Evening Session 7:30. Devotional Rev. C. S. Lester Anthem Choir Address Miss Meier, Chicago Solo.# Mrs. W. R. Barr Reading Mrs. E. J. Beardsley, Decatur Address A Threefold Message.. Mrs. Austin, Chicago

Tom Gallogly made a business; trip to Portland. The court house well water is not in a very sanitary condition at | present at least that is the remarks ' we hear from the consumers there | of, this matter should be looked; into. The International Live Stock ex-1 position will be held at Chicago from November 28 to December 5. The railroads will issue reduced rate tickets, and many will go from this section. Barney Wemhoff Tuesday celebrated his 60th birthday and says that he never felt better in his life 1 and today feels like a young man. We hope he may live to see many ! more birthdays. Estrayed—From the pasture of the undersigned northeast of Decatur last Saturday night a black horse about 7 years old and thin [in flesh. A liberal reward will lie offered for any information of its whereabouts. Julius Haugk. Decatur, Ind 260d6wl For Sale. Chester White hogs, choice boar pigs farrowed March 1903. Sire, Tiptoe; dam, Whinrey Girl. Me also offer a few choice gilts. Our hogs are first-class, our prices reasonable. Call at the Fonner Stock Farm, one mile north of Decatur, Ind., and we will show you something that will please you, or address Smith, Fonner & Co., R. R. No. 1, Decatur, Ind. 36 ts Low rates from Chicago via Chicago, Great Western railway. $25 to Billings, Mont., S2B to Livingston or Hinsdale, Mont., S3O to Helena or Butte, Mont., .$30.50 to Spokane Wash., $33 to'Portland, Ore.. Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., $33 to ancouI ver and Victoria B. C. Tickets on sale daily up to November 30th in--1 elusive. Superior service and uneuualed equipment. Full information on application to J. P. Elmer, Chicago. Public Sale. The undersigned will offer at public sale at his farm four and one-half miles south of Peterson and four miles west and a half mile north of Monroe,

THE MARKETS

Accurate prices paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow $ 4 5 New Corn, mixed 43 Machine shucked one cent less. Corn, per cwt., mixed 58 Corn, per cwt, yellow 60 i Oats, new 33 1 Wheat, No. 2 78 Wheat, No. 3 ... 76 I Rye 49 | Barley 52 Clover Seed 5 151 Buckwheat 60 Flax Seed 80 Timothy _ $1 25 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p. m. today as follows: Wheat, October 76j Wheat, December 76; Wheat, May i Corn, October 42J Corn, December 41| Corn, May _.5 432 Oats, October ..... 34 £ Oats, December 33g | Oats, May 1 35 Jan. Pork _.sll 62 May Pork 11 62 January Lard per cwt 6 67 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by J. D. Hale, Decatur. Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash. J 84 Oct wheat, 84 December wheat. 84f May! wheat 83; Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash.. 46 Oct corn 42 Corn, December 12 May Corn 42 Oats, Cash 364 Oats, Oct. 35 J Oats, December.— 36| May Oats 36 Rye, cash 57 STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAN, DEALER Lambs 4@ 4 50 Hogs, per cwt J 4 50 Cattle per lb 3 @ 3| Calves, per lb 44 @ 5 Cows.. 1 2 @ 3 Sheep, per lb 2 @ 2| Beef Hides, per lb 6 ® WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVER & SON. Wool, unwashed 16t02(F Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per pound 051 Calf hides 07 Tallow, per pound 04

on Wednesday, Nov. 18, fi ve h ' horses, sorrel mare 6-y ears . old 0 mare 6-years-old, splendid d ri M heavy two-year-old, weighs 1 2(10 H 2 yearling colts, 10 head of cattle 4 milch cows, 2 red Polled and 2D hams, 2 fresh soon and 2 ingpri T 1 Durham heifer, 3 years-old, fresh'' ' spring; yearling Durham he'if er ' Polled yearling bull, yearling 1 „ Red Polled Bull, 8-months-old; heiL, calf, 3-months-old; 18 head of h ogß * Poland China brood sows, 2 Berksl' brood sows, 1 registered ChJ? . White boar, 4 Poland China ehoats' i 8 market hogs weighing IflQ j.J pounds each; McCormick binder, g as new; Hocking Valley hay loader hay tedder, Deering mower. Champion drill, corn cultivator, corn harrow breaking plow, shovel plow, roller two-horse carriage and harness, buggy and harness, set iron truck wheels set wooden truck wheels, hay in barn corn in crib, fodder in the field, 25 cords of stove wood, household goods and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms of Sale $5.00 or under, cash; over that amount a credit of nine months will be given, p ur . chaser giving note with approved security. Isaac L. Babcock. Fred Reppert, Auctioneer. diw FOR LIQUOR LICENSE. To the citizens of Hartford township Ada, county, Indiana, and all others concerned: I Notice is hereby given that the under signed. W-Iter A. Hunt, a male inhabitantot Hartford township. Adams county, Indiana and past the age of twenty-one vears. will make application at the December term', lliffl of the board of commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, to be begun and held in the court house in Decatur. Adam, county Indiana. on Monday. December 7. i'.-w. 'for a license for one year to sell spirituous, vinous malt and other intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank in the room on the premises where the same are to be sold, said room and premises being located and described as follows: The front room of the one-story frame building situated cn the following described real estate, iu Hartford township. Adam, county. Indiana, to-wit: Lot number seven (7). as known and designated on the recorded plat of the town of' Heun* Vista. Adams county. Tddiana. Said room faces and fronts east upon a public street, to-wit: Water street, in said town and is twenty feet wide and forty-five feet long, has double glass doorsand two windows in front, one door upon the north side and one in the west end and with trap door leading to cel'ar below. Said room Is tile east or front ground floor room of said buildipg. Said applicant will also ask lunch counter privileges in connection therewith. 36-3 WALTER A. HUNT. Applicant

OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCERS AND MERCHANTS, Eggs, fresh, per doz -J 22 Lard 8 Butter, per pound.. _ll@ls Potatoes, new 60 Onions 50 Cabbage per 100 lb EOe Apples, per bu - Sweet Potatoe, per bu 15 POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb. — 06 Fowls, per lb _ 0® Ducks, per lb '•> @O6 ’ Young Ducks - 6 @O7 Young Turkeys, per lb. H) < *b'. *'■■■' Geese, young, lb - 5 @ob HAY fIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (new) - No 1 mixed hay (new) - No. 1 clover hay (new) COAL—Per Ton Anthracite ? ‘ Domestic, nut - "J Domestic, lump, Hocking ’ ™ Domestic lump, Indiana. -J * Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 0 50 OIL fIARKET. Tiona Pennsylvania Corning New Castle I'.’, North Lima South Lima ! Indiana '■£. Whitehouse Somerset ini Neodasha. (Kan.) Ragland W fIARKET NOTES. Liverpool market closed steady. Wheat, | cent lower. Corn, 4 cent lower. Receipts at Chicago today: ~ 23000 Hogs — - 9 Wheat - g Estimate for tomorrow: 260 W ” heat 35 car 6 Oats ; 165 Cdr Lyman Brothers are sportin-' ■' brand new sign now, letting t e publicknow where they are ami w J they are at. The young men •' hustlers and are a credit loi city.