Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1904 — Page 8

Pleasant Mills. Glenis, the little daughter of Albert Boebuek is quite sick. Squire Smith, of De.-atur, tiaasacted business here Tuesday. Garden making and house cleaning are being postponed this spr.ng. Miss Mattie Fuller is slowly recovering from an attack of rheumatism. A Sabbath school was organized at the U. B. church last Sunday at 3 o’clock. Our merchants are hustlers as four huckster wagons leave town every mornins. W. A. Comer and family spent Sunday in the country with Chas. Roe and family. Samuel Carter, formerly of Chicago spent the past week here with his father and other relatives. Messrs Irwin Carter and Win. Smith are numbered with the sick, and are confined to the house. The firm of Brown and Suman have changed, Mr. Suman having retired from the business. M alter Brown has taken his place and the firm will now be Brown & Son. Rev. Scherick. of Poneto, pastor of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church here for the past three y ears preached his farewell sermon last Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Scl-rick contemplate leaving ere long for their old home in Green county, Pa. Rural Route Six. Miss Jennie Helm is on the sick list. Mrs. P. B. Dykeman is on the sick list. A friend from Vanwert was the guest of Miss Gertrude Moses over Sunday. Mr. D. Helm & Co. have been busy making maple molasses for the last few weeks. Mrs. Clare Gaunt of St. Marys townshipi visited her sister, Mrs. Nellie Meyers of this vioinity Monday. Rev. G. H. Hutchison will preach at Union Chapel next Saturday night and Sunday morning. All are invited to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ulman are the proud parents of a new baby girl which arrived at their home Tuesday morning Mother and babe are getting along nicely. Ed will recover in a short time. Mr. Carl Moses entertained in honor of Miss Rosa Hackman Wednesday evening. The following persons were present. Mr. Tony Hackman, Miss May Niblick, and Miss Rosa Hackman. Light refreshments were sevred at six o’clock and games and music were indulged in during the evening. They dt parted at a lute hour. Steele Mr. Harry Jefferson is quite sick. Mr. Lee Mattox is quite sick with throat trouble. The infant daugther of Mr. and Mrs. Wm Lahm an was buried Thursday. Mr. Cal Wells left for Michigan 1-. st Wednesday *o look for a farm in th .; state wl .re he purposes to move. Quite a number of the pupils of this township and adjoining townships took the examination Jot diplomas which was held at the Kimsey school house last Saturday. The oil well which was being drilled on the Wm. Young farm east of Steele came in last week and has a stiong gas pressure and also a very good showing for oil. Rev. Sprague preached at Salem Sun lay thus lieginning the third year at this place. Rev Sprague did very well last year and we hope he may do even better this year. Quite a number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Wagers gathered at their home south of Steele, last Saturday evening in honor of their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary and a good time is the report of those present. Linn Grove. Charles Schnapp is seriously sick with typhoid fever. Emil Bondilier is also building an addition to his stable. Rev. Edward Greiner takes charge f the Linn Grove circuit succeeding Rev. Ehrhartt. James Kizer attending the Ft. Wayne Commercial College was home over the Sabbath. David Falb is building an addition to the rear of his blacksmith shop this gives him a shop 24x60 feet. David Yoder, Cora and Nellie

Ne.iderhouser of Bluffton spent t Sunday at their respective homes here. Rev. Leo J. Ehrhartt preached his farewell sermon at the E .’angel ical church Sunday evening he ; ’ leaves for Greenville Ohio, his new j field of labor. David Baumgardner returned from Rockford Ohio Saturday even1 ing accompained by his brother ’ Noah who is in the photographing business at that place. r The Junior Bind boys was an ' attraction on our street last Sunday having doned their new siuts. true t blue in color trimmed in cardinal in • which they gave us the first pavillion concert for the season. > F. C. Lindsey. Eugene Lindsey. 5 Chas. Fonts and their families and Amos Lindsey and Henry B. Lind- . sey of Council Bluff lowa constitut- , ed a partial family reunion at the home of our townsman F. A. M. t L indsey laast Sunday. ’ Benjamin Meschberger is remod- • eling his home. He isj moving the > old house back from the new one and planting a number of beautiful ' trees between the house and barn. When, finished he will have as, handsome a home as can be so end in the county. C. L. Johnson, secretary of the Golden Rule Milling and Mining Co. of Salem Oregon is making a social and business visit here. Me extend to him our hand in welcome to our midst his journey will be ex-

tended through Ohio and Pennsylvania before returning. EUTERPEAN CLUB — Te Meet Thursday Evening With Mrs. Schirtneyer.—The Program. The Euterpeans will hold their next meeting at the home of Mrs. F. M. Schirtneyer. Thursday evening, April 21, The program will begin promptly at 8 o’clock, and is as follows: Piano —“Aufschung" Schumann Dessie Beery Reading—“ The Fiftieth Birthday of I Agassiz" — “Daybreak” — Long-1 fellow Mrs. John Peterson Piano. Pronunciation. “Life of Raphael” Mr' E. J. Beardsley “Art Characteristics of Raphael” -Mary Myers Piano" Grand Valse” opus 18-Chopin .Mrs. H. C. Beardsley, Chicago, j Reading-Longfellow "Moonlight on i the Prairie" Myrtle Watts. Review Questions. Reading-Longfellow-"The Chamber over the Gate" Dr. Beardsley Piano —“Songs”— Schubert Mrs. H. C. Beardsley “Description of Raphael Pictures” ’ Mrs. H. A. Fristoe Business. — Do You Know That the consumers of beef fail to find any benefit from the triumph of justice in pronouncing the beef trust illegal. That the farmers are viewing what might have been instead of a promising wheat crop. That here is more exercise than cleanliness and economy in gathering dirt from one part of the street and dropping it on another part. That it is hard for some landlords to realize the situation and accept a come down in rents, which have been too high for the renter, even in the best of times. That a boy sixteen years of age has more need to go before the spanking society, than before a justice of the peace to be tried for life, or till divoce. to a wife as im« mature as himself. That business men will meander to the base ball park in the balmy of spring just for the sake of their health, and that they would not look (?) upon a game for anything. Beal Estate Transfers A grus Zohm to Delana Teeple pt . sec. 25 Root tp— <2,000. Lulu Miller to Elmer Miller lot 156 Decatur <275. 8. J. Hein to Clarence L. Ayers lot 113 Decatur <BSO K. K. Erwin to J. M. Rice et el. ptlot 72—‘<10 Daniel feprunger to Noah Hobegger lot 30 Berne <225. Amos Hirschy to H. H. Stucky i lot 165 and 150 Berne <2,000. D. L. Shally to Earl K. Shally pt. lot 14 Berne <2,000J. A. Habezger to A. A. Habbeg--1 ger lot 348 Berne <llOO. Rokie Guebard to Mary A. Durr lot 897 Decatur <llOO. Jas. Rich to M. F. Parrish pt. sec. 66 Monroe tp. <BOO. A. W. Swanson to J. W. Pitts lot 103 Geneva <I2OO. Thos.E . Mann to Jesse C. Mann lot 183 Geneva <4OO.

_ ________ — ANCIENT ENGLISH INNS, Some Have Been In Existence For yearly a Thousand Years. Round and about London and its ever extending suburbs there may still be seen inns and taverns of great age and interesting associations. The Angel inn. Highgate Hill, dates I back to the time of the reformation. Originally it vpis called the Salutation inn. It is built entirely of wood. Another famous inn is the Bald Faced Stag at Edgware. Nobody knows when it was originally built, and it would seem as though each successive propri-. etor has endeavored to place his mark * on its architectural aspect, for many | parts of it have evidently at different times been rebuilt. In the stables, it is alleged. Dick Turpin had his horse’s shoes turned, so as to make bis pursuers imagine be had gone in an opposite direction. Among the very oldest of suburban j London inns are the Plough, at Kings- : bury Green, and the King James and j Tinker inn. at Enfield. The first is said \ to be 850 years old. and the latter was i reputed to have been first built as an i inn and under another name 992 years ago. Its present name is derived from an encounter which King James I. is said to have had with a tinker at the door ' of the inn. The tinker's conversation so pleased the king that he made the mender of kettles "a knight, with five hundred a year.”—London Mail. THE SURGEON'S PROBE. See That He Sterilize! It Before He lees It. It frequently happens that the doctor has occasion to probe a wound or a sore. Notice him when he does it. He opens his case of instruments. He takes out a long, slender silver or hard rubber rod which is from six to ten Inches long, with a smooth, round end. Some of them are as small as a darning needle. Others are as large as a pencil. Watch the doctor closely when be takes this probe and attempts to use it. If he does not take the precaution to clean it. stop him. Don't allow him to touch your sore with it. He has been using it on seme one else and may poison you if you allow him to use it. Call his attention to the fact that he boils an instrument when he operates on any one. and be should also boil his probe before he uses it on yon either for a sore or wound. Make him do it Tell him you will furnish him with hot water, and he can dip it in it and elean it carefully before he uses it Otherwise he will use it os you and i slip it back in his surgical case and i use it on the next person. In this way he scatters infectious dirt—Medical ; Talk. ORIGIN OF ORATORIOS. They Were First Introduced la the Sixteenth Century. St Philip de Werl. a Florentine 1 priest, born 1515, first introduced dra- j' mafic services in his oratory. In order ' to draw the young or careless to ■ church he and others who followed his ! lead had hymns, psalms and spiritual songs or cantatas sung either in cho- I rus or by a single favorite voice as special attractions. These pieces were divided into two parts. Sacred stories or events from Scripture written in verse and byway i of dialogue were set to music, and th* i first part was performed before the sermon, which the people were induced , to stay and hear that they might not miss the performance of the second part The subjects in early times were the “Good Samaritan” and the "Prodigal ■ Son,” which by the excellence of the composition, the band of instruments and the performance brought the music of oratory into great repute. Afterward any such rendering of sa- : cred musical drama obtained the general appellation of "oratorio." The first , oratorio in England was performed in London in Lincoln s Inn theater in Portugal street in 1732. How Rocki Grow. Rocks do not grow in the sense that a plant grows. They may increase by j accretion, and they may undergo chem- i ical change. The old sea bed, being lift- | ed up. becomes sandstone and limestone. The volcanic ash and lava strewn i over the plains become tufa, hard j enough for building stone. The pebbly shore of a river becomes conglomerate. ! The simple mineral does grow, how- j ever, when it takes a crystal form. The j sparkling prism of quartz increases j from an atom to a crystal as large as * a forearm by a process of addition and * assimilation, wonderfully slow, but ! beautifully regular, exactly as crystals of ice form on th« window pane. The Fragrant Lemon. Lemon trees of California are a thing of beauty and a joy forever. The lemon is the emblem of productiveness. At all seasons of the year can be found on the lemon tree the blossom, the tiny formed lemon and lemons In all stages of growth to the full grown fruit It is a perpetual bearer. The blossom, the leaf, the wood, the fruit and all parts of the tree are delightfully fragrant—Country Life In America. A Lover of the Mountain*. “Do yon like mountain scenery?*’ “I might as well.” “‘Might as well?* I fear I don’t get your meaning.” “I might as well like It for I can’t change it”—Houston Post. Improved ? Miss Summit—How that young Monroe girl has Improved! Miss Palisade —Hasn't she? Why. I ean r -member when sue was such a modest little thing.—Town Topic*.

Marriage Licenses. Frank Spanglr to Nettie Case. James Murphy, to Catherine Lange. Sylvester Staab to Rosa Hack- ' ".tan. MARKET REPORT. Accurate prices paid by Decatur nerchants for various products. Cor reeled every dav. GRAIN. BI E. L. CARBOL, GRAIN MERCHANT. New Corn yellow I *>o New Corn, mixed 58 Machine shucked one cent less. Oats, new 39 Wheat, No. 2 92 Wheat, No. 3 Barlev ° ,J Rve No. 2 65 Clover Seed 0 *9 Alsyke @ 4 85 Buckwheat A8 Flax Seed 80 Timothy I 95 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at l:15p. tn today, according to J. D. Hale’s special wire service, as follows: Wheat, May 89j Wheat, July 84; September wheat 811 Corn, May 48| Corn July 48| j Corn, September Oats, May Oats, July 37 Oats, September 31g May Pork 11 9z July Pork 12 !■ Mav Lard, per cwt 6 50 July Lard 6 67 Sept Lard 6 80 TOLEW grain markets. Chamred every afternoon at 3:00 o’clock b< J. D. Hale, Decatur Special wire service. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash—l 97| May wheat 96 July wheat, 88 September wheat; 85| Cash corn, No. 2, mixed, cash_ 52 Corn. July 48J May Corn 49| September corn 49 Oats. Cash 42 May Oats 41 Oats. July 38i September oats 32J. Bye, cash 73 OTHER PRODUCTS. BY VARIOUS GROCEB3 AND MERCHANTS. Eggs, fresh, per doz f 15 L ard 7 Butter, per pound 15 Potatoes, new 1 CO Onions * 5 Cabbage per 100 lb 1 50 Apples, per bu 8C Sweet Potatoe. per bu 75 STOCK. BI FBED SCHEIMAN, DE LEB Lambs 4<? 5 0C Hogs, per cwt fl 50@ 4 60 \ Cattle per lb 3 @ 3| 4 Calves, per lb 4j 5 Cows____________2 (g Sheep, per lb @ 3 Beef Hides, per lb 6 POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE 00., PACKERS. Chickens, young per lb. 6) @7 Fowls, per lb 6(d 6| Ducks, per lb 6@7 Young Ducks 6<g 7 Young Turkeys, per lb 12 Geese, old per lb 5(56 Geese, young, lb HAY FIARKET. No. 1 timothy hay(baled) No 1 mixed hay (baled) No. 1 clover hay (baled) WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. KALVEB A SON. Wool, unwashed 16t020 Sheep pelts 25c to 75 Beef hides, per pound 06 Calf hides 0« Tallow, per pound 04 Muskrat 15 to 20 OIL HARKET. Tiona fl.Bo Pennsylvania 1.65 | Coming 1.45; Newcastle 1.52 North Lima 1.16 South Lima.. I.H Indiana 1 11 Whitehouse 1.30 Somerset 1,10 Neodasha, (Kan.) 1.25 Barkereville 1,09 Ragland 66 COAL—Per Ton Anthracite | 7 50 Domestic, nut 4 00 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 00 Domestic lump, Indiana 3 80 Pocahontas Smokeless, lump 55j VOTICE CF COMMISSIONERS SALE OF REAL ESTATE. The undersigned. commissioner, by virtue, of an order of the Adams circuit court, made and entered in a cause therein pending, entitled Cordelia I. Townsend ana Dick Townsend vs Lucy J. Gregory and Augustus C: Gregory, and numbered 6731 upon the dockets thei-eof. hereby gives notice that at tbe law office of D. D.Jfieller & Son in tbe city of Decatur, Adams county. Indiana, on Friday, May 20,1904, between the hours of 10 o’clock and 12 o,clock a. m., of said day. and from day to day thereafter until sold, be will offer for sale at private vendue and at nut less than tbe full appraised value thereof, the following real estate situated in Adams county. Indiana and described as lollows. to-wit: Tbe east halves of inlo’s numbered one hundred ani fifty-seven (157), one hundred and fifty eight and one hundred and fifty-nine tl») as said lots are designated on the original plat of the town (now city) of Decatur. Indiana. TERMS Or SALE: One-tMrd(H) c«hinhandon day of sale. ’ ->ae-third (S) in mne t.P) months, and oneth.rd in eighteen months. Deferred payments to bear six per rent, interest per annum, and to be tecured by mortgage and freehold security. HENRY B. HELLER, Comtnisbloner. D. D. Heller & Soo, Attorneys. 7-4

!! The high school base ball team will play a team of players composed of. j the Decatur school teachers Friday afternoon. An admission of 10 cents | ' will be charged and a red hot game lis expected. This will be the high I school last work out before going to ■ j Van Wert on Saturday. |

——l — ■ -— _____ Commissioners' Annual Report. i - i ! RECEIPTS. I Balance on land January 1.1« - JJ Amount from taxes December. 43 Amount fr n« ♦’■ustees on bridges i<o A ♦ <rom J v county Amount from ch age of venue i<s >2 Amou a. ,uuw licen-e ? M I Amount from products from county farm li i Amount from Auditor’s fund J-J 65 ■ Amount from ear-officers fees ■■■- • _ )v Amount from recorder’s fees above salarj from Gallogiy 307t> i, Amount from clet k’s fees above salary from Johnson 2S.M 25 Amount fr* m miscellaneous., 565 05 County orders redeemed during year •• KTRK74 Balance county revenue on hand January 1, ijw DISBURSEMENTS. Expense of county asylum • 5177 05 ' Expense of court 1 1,540 W i Expense of jury Expense of specific allowance <2 1 Expense of jail 92 ! Expense of insanity 273 56 I Expense of attorney 349 97 ; Expense of highway 80 Expense of inquest ~1 05 Fxp nse o F county office ®217 42 Expense of hridges U 338 S 6 Expense of change of venue 1762 30 Expense of printing 4H) 30 Expense of assessing 3294 22 Expense of county board of charities 5u 00 Expense of court house 4255 m Exp» nse of bailiff 795 72 Expense of stationary 2413 54 Expense of board of review 525 O 0 Expense of benevolent I M I 29 Expense ot board of health 313 90 Expense of el» ctric light 35 98 Expanse of county superintendent 1240 00 Expense of truant officer 125 00 Expense of institute I’o 00 Expense of clerk of council 400 00 Expense of county council sala r y 90 00 Ex ;»ense of physician at jail and asylum 150 00 Expense of r- nt at surveyor’s office 75 00 Expense of burial of soldiers 345 00 Expense of county’s job of ditch 93 01 Safe for surveyor’s office 45 00 Insurance at asylum - 75 Amount paid tax agents 243 65 Amount paid sheriff Butler balance uncollected fees 171 00 Insolvent tax collector 33 52 Indexing clerk’s office 5500 Road grader repairs 18 25 A mount paid architect 125 00 Extra at infirmary 500 00 Cleaning ditches 70 36 Judgments atainstcounty and interest 3150 Posting ditch notices 110 7o Coal at asylum 109 17 Expense of attorney. Bolds case 16 45 Amount paid to Sheriff Erwin balance on salary 825 32 Expense making fill at Wabash river bridge 497 00 Total 117817 74 Exhibit of Receipts and Disbursements of the various funds by the Board of County Commissioner of Adams County, Indiana, to January 1, 1904. ?! S? ! 1 I \ K 2 FINDS • I 1 Is I J I H !r U n1State funds hIOTT 43 11077 31 11077 23 State benevolent 5378 . State debt fund I State educational fund ... ; 1792 H 17-2 II 1702 11 | State school fund 13524 54:13524 5113324’4 Road fund 1286743=74 51 1371 U 3> 13.5' « «! ! Turnpike fund .. 1424 12, 40 -03 52 Sfm us rui Special school fund 11-sS Oh'-TTST SB 39«e '/< 266-2 31) 13010 Tuition und 7831 4.* 17742 >0j25673 4' 17431 ■* -21- « Tow-ship fund. ... 7310 22 21147 '5 14521 61 6615 M f’og fund | 537 Be SV7 60 K!7 6" I.iqnor license | 1300 00 32 0 "0 4aW» On «>1 M Township bridze fund so 54<7 3M7 81 M'.>> -t 121 W Comm tn an, consre-sional fund 32-2 42T217S 5» 'm4 K isle 10 •'<?.' W Common and congressional interest »37 74 32447 0 358® 74 2»’• 6- 62*5 M Library fund ■ 239 Sli 540 S7j TSO TO| ’l*'<7 261 73 Decatur corporat'en fund j SS»> *- ? <«t2 "0,30532 21 21M"2 I V>l ” Gen va co-p ration fund 1124 l*i SS)| 751 4'i-> Hl 17'141 Berne corporation fund 23'10 45 5329 ft’> 7722 50 53-:'. *<i 2338 71 Decatur and Bluffton gravel road 455 l 67 9464*6 7743 15 1721 71 Wagoner gravel rad 444 531 1764 65 2228 3* 2:35 6* 93 70 Pa:ron grave! road 4 59, 459 4 59 Count! sinking fund 2S4’ 64 11440 3? 142*2 IT 131 : 27 115174 County revenue '19775 64 45736 Vs 64511 V 47*17 74 lOT W Coun y auditor 224 65 224 65 224 •» ounty recorder 2160 43 2509 M 4670 3* 15M 21 ))76 17 County clerk 1350 IB I 3569 & 4109 25 £275 o. 234 S Permanent endownraent fund 566 211 263.3* *49 s'* 77’ 00 74 58 Permanent endownmeut interest •91 00l 43 2 43 92 242 19 *19*27 Pontiu* gravel road g| gd si 21 61 21 Ea>t w as 4,irsr>n gravel road 442 3011684 69 «76'» 1409*2 '167 11 ! ' ashinztor. Decanir and Monroe gravel road ’>3‘» 34 :J79h 34 9tW* ’■* 71772 42 1516 * s’rnroe Township Cen-ril gravel road 5303 T«i 2TSO 24 «n*l f«' 77*1 ** W M I Pleasant Va'ley and Oak Grove gravel road 7811 73 546 S,< 12790 16'11*64 17 *75 W est Jefferson gravel road SSny si 1363 "8 st‘i2 !«■ 5092 *1 100 "7 Petersen and Prairie gravel road I*l 13 5555 59 5006 72 39:-‘ ‘7 1007 15 I Joe) FTirschy gravel mad 132 2S IS*O 79 sor* 07 101 7’7 *■ I William Shoemaker gravel road ’ *523 94* 432 64 432 61: 152:. o 'll'". ® 1 Geneva. Cevlon and Wabash gravel road 35ns 75 350* 7’ 2* .14 't" J* ; Kirklaed Township Central gravel road. 1663 34 16*1 34 22*5 " ''Ol 75 !« 3ds gravel road .. iITSTO 17*70 ’•* 9131* ? . Poor fund 1315 < 1794 «5 3110 72 2b 1 ' * 1W» « ; Ditch tax 334 •> 27*0 31 « 94 296 1 * ’* D* ’’ sheriff-und 10 00 619 Sil 629 *1 6 >'■ *1 ’> Dog fund .... ~T j;,; n 4 44 >7 b unclaimed fees 1 > I*6 60* 136 W IS* W Docket fees. ..A i 140 Oui 140 OO 114 00 S*« * Over dratis. Condition of Common School Fund. Amount of funds held in trust by the county as shown bv report of January 1.1908 - ” fssnll 88 Amount since added from fines 304125 Total am .unt of common school fund held in trust at this date. .. .. f 3? 2 Total amount of congressional school tund held in trust at this date Total amount o common and congressional held in trust Jan. 1. 1904 “ Condition of Permanent Endownment Fund. Total amount held in trust January 1. 1903 2 03 - * County Bonds Outstanding. Outstanding bonds on refunding debt 250«) 00 Outstanding bonds on county infirmary Total outstanding bonds to date .. . $53000 00 Outstanding Gravel Road Bonds. fisaasßsXJSi'SB“?S' , di ?’***“ 7rav“ro‘?d’ ,nShiP read .. . ■ » BSM S 5 bSnd S s on S f 'a ' ’ ::: ’l^'« Outstardlng bonds on C E BSlMnger grevel^«d rc e g ~ rel Outstandmg bonds on West Jeffe/on travel 2 Outstan nng bonds on Woods gravel road g 1 I*** S On standing bonds West Pi< asanOhif. mre! n h-mdson Decatur and Preble grevel Mil .. Outstanding b :nds on North St. Mary* -ravel road n Outstanding bonds on South St. Harvs gravol 14es) S Outstanding bonds on Brushwood College gravG £>*d Total s ;443t’6 10 MARTIN LAUGHLIN, | .-inner* DAVID WERLING. kCommiS’ i 0 Attest: ABE BOCH. Auditor. WILLIAM MILLER, ‘

—1 If you have contracted rh«u raat ; s ~ no matter what form Dr. J. ft tn ’ ! Lean’s Liver and Kidney Balm cure it. This medicine so rwtukt the kidneys that the poisonous n ducts which cause the disease ant moved from the body through tp natural channel. For sale bv Tt i Holthuuse Drug Co. J