Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1904 — Page 5

NOW-IT IS UP TO YOU W /E must admit that our purchase of Vni;i ~ , —«■« V/ work. Therefore wo quote vo- the e7u 1S T °° LA ® aE - We MU3T a “ a WILL tlis l’ ose of them if PRICES will do the besides the stock is all new. No last Tear's PßlCES ' We have «“ most ““P line of HOLIDAY COODS in Deeatnr —- ThlS iS a great opportunity to secure CHRISTMAS GIFTS at unusally low prices -priopr talk

Trunks. All 24c trunks 19c All 49c “ 39c All 79c “ 62c All 98c “ 79c Ten Pins. All 25c ten pins 19c All 49c “ 39c All 98c “ 79c Books. 110 c books 8c « 15c “ He <• 19c “ He « 23c “ 17c “ 33c “ 22c « 48c “ 31c « 63c “ 17c « 73c “ 52c « 98c “ 69c

This is just another case where “ECONOMY MEANS SAVING,” Remember THA T THESE GOODS ARE ALL NEW. Trouble is we have TOO MUCH in this line. We are still giving tickets on the Doll. You are entitled to one, just ask for it You will find all goods morked in plain figures as usual No goods exchanged during this sale Prices on all Holiday goods have been reduced WE LEAD IN LOW PRICES 1111 ECONOMY

It is said that Governor Durbin is making inquiry into the John W. Terrell case at Bluffton, which is taken as an indication that the subject of a pardon is to have some considers tion at the hands of the chief executive. Jesse Dailey, r who for the pastfive months has been in the employ of the Milner Wholesale company at Toledo, Ohio, resigned his posi tion Saturday, and has accepted his former position with Keubler & Huitz, which duties he will assume next Monday. It is stated on good authority that Charles Hammond is slated for the position of train master of the Clover Leaf for the section between ■Toledo and Frankfort. Mr. Hammond has served for a number of tears as conductor and has many friends in the service. F. E. Hutches, the rural route agent, has completed his insj>ection of the proposed complete rural service for Wells county and forwarded his report this week. It will doubtless be acted upon favorably and the rural service put in opeartion by January 15th. There will l>e a total of only twenty two routes, it is said, starting from points within Wells county and of this number ten will start from the Bluffton office.— Bluffton News. Warsaw, Ind., Dao. 9.—The jury in the case of Daniel Tuigg, who ’as tried for shooting three men Ona Pennsylvaniajtrain, reported at 5 o’clock this evening a disagreement. The jury had her n out twenty five hours. It was learned tonight that the disagreement [kinged upon the question of Tuigg s iftnity, eight of the juror's believing Tuigg insane and therefore irresponsible, while four held out nr a conviction. The jury was and preparations will te made for another trial. The contract with Henry J>hn*°n, of Buffalo, for a 420-borse PO’er engine and dynamo now at korain, Ohio, was accepted by the kty council Friday by the adoption of a resolution to that effect. The finance committee are arrangthe matter today, and will meet six o’clock this evening to sign •he contract. The machinery will k® shipped at once and will be set immediately, giving the city suffic'en t power for all purposes, inking the long-talked about day *®rvice. The contract calls for 1-450 cash and *1,450 payable ' v ’fhin sixty days, the city thus seeing machinery worth *IO,OOO for ’•900. At last night’s council feting a resolution accepting the Ming sewer rejxort was adopted «■ bond ordinance passed. cr y member attended the meet an< T Mayor Coffee presided.

Iron Toys. Any 10c toy s 2&c 19c “ 49c ■* “ 98c “ 83c Games & Blocks. 25c » 33c “ 24c 49c “ 38c 63c blocks at jg c 57c “ Drums. All 23c drums iu P “39c “ w; 28c “ 19c “ 41c “ 89c “ 73c “ 98c “ 87c

Frank Oberchain, treasurer o Cass county, is a defaulter to the tune of *50,000 or more. He also has absconded and his whereabouts are not known, at least to the public. J. H. Tucker of rural route five, has sold his farm, being paid a fancy price for the same. He will continue to reside in this county, but is unable at this time to state what he will do. Charley Smith went to Decatur last evening in connection with some real estate business. He and his brothers and sisters expect to sell the farm they own in Adams county and have their mother who now lives on the farm, live with them. —Bluffton News. Four tickets were all that were sold yesterday for the Milner excursion to Toledo, and the amount of money that this grafter will realize from Adams county will not cause any over time work in counting it up. The people are getting wise and prefer to deal with their own merchants whom they know do not dare to cheat them, instead of taking a chance wih out of own fakirs.

An exchange soliquizes: Pass the butter, gentle Fannie, shove it lightly through the air, for in the cover of the dish, love, you will find a nut brown flair. What fond memories it awaken,s of the days e’er we wed, when upon my fine coat collar often you’ve laid your little head; lovingly I’ve smoothed those tresses, in the days that have gone by, now I find them every time in the butter and the pie. I A farmer says that he rids his ' farm of rats in the following manner: “On a number of pieces of shingles I put about a teasnoonful of mclasses and on that 1 pat a small quantity of concentrated lye and then put the old shingles i around under the cribs. The next ' morning I found some forty dead 1 rats, and the rest left for parts ■ unknown. I have cleared several > farms of the pests in the same way, ' and never knew it to fail. Tom Harvey, who stole the pair lofl wo dollar boots from the sign ! board in front of Clem Voglewede’s I shoe store, Monday night, appeared | before Judge Erwin yesterday morinwgaM Plena g »ilty to « otarge of ■petit larceny. He W" i dollars and costs and sentenced to I mil for thirty days, which means Ihe will be held a prisoner within ,4e dreary stone walls uut.l FebruJarv Ist. Harvey is b«t twenty J years eld, and that fact with his 'earnest plea for leniency saved h“,„ from the trip to .Teffersonville. HI, theft was a bold one. having i™m«.d at six c clcclr •• I the erenibg. when the stteets were I filled with people.

Dolls. 24 dressed dolls, former price 19c now 10c 20 dressed dolls, which sold for 25c now 19 C 30 dressed dolls, the kind we sold at 50c new 4ic 15 dressed dolls formerly 54c now 44c All 63c dressed dolls 48c “ 98c “ 77c #1.23 “ .’"’B9c “ 51-48 “ 99c “ 15c rag dolls 10c “ 25c wool 20c “ 25c rag “ 19 c 10c wool “ 8c Toy Dishes. All 10c toy dishes 8c “ 25c “ 19c “ 33c “ 240 “ 48c & 54c toy dishes 39c “ 98c “ 77c

On Monday morning a party of six, consisting of the following persons: The Misses Barbara Leichty and Emma Mazeline and Jacob J. Schwartz, John F. Mazeline, David Schwartz and son Noah, left for lowa, Louisiana, where they expect to visit Joseph Leichty and family, who formerly lived north of here, for some time. Some members of the party may remain tor an indefinite time if the climate and country agrees with them.—Berne News. The Masonic lodge held their regular business session Tnes. evening, it being the stated time for the election of officers for the year 1905. This interesting event resulted last night in the selection of the following worthy men. Henry B. Heller, Worshipful Master; Norman Lenhart, Senior Warden; Will Dorwin, Junion Warden; £. B Adams, secretary; George, Kinzle, secretary; J. S. Coverdale, trustee. The installation will occur on Tues day evening, December 27th, at which time the Royal Arch officers will likewise be installed. The list of officers chosen last night include the youngest men ever elected in the iocal lodge, but they are efficient and will preside with dignity.

Lew Corbin, the well known sign artist, had the misfortune Monday j evening to fall and break his right arm at the wrist. Lew, together ! with John Edwards had just completed painting a window sign for I the new meat market on Monroe ' street, and had gone into the HoltIhous Drug company's store to ' warm, and it was while walking around the store to get a chair that Ihe tripped over a heavy cuspidor 'and fell heavily to the floor, the entire weight of his body falling on his right arm, causing the break ■at the wrist. Dr. H. F. Costello ■ was called and dressed the injury, i stating that Corbin would undoubt ’ edly do well to use his right arm , before next spring. I A base ball association has been i formed in this city and will incor- . porate under the name of the Hartford City Baseball association, with a capital of *1,500, to be sold at *ls per share. A paper was ' started Friday morning, and if the money can be raised a good grand stand will be built and a fence put up. The location has not yet been decided on, but will most likely be !at the old Walnut street park. All 1 the shares must be so Id and the i nionev collected by Feb. 1, 1905. The company will have five direct'ors who will attend to the business lof the company. An attempt was 'made to form a* association last ; vear without success, but it is thought they will be successful tins ‘imp A "ood baseball and football Xn will be

Dolls. All 25c kid body dolls 19c All 33c “ “ 23c All 38c “ “ 28c All 49c “ “ 39c All 63c “ “ 49c All 73c “ “ 56c All 83c “ “ 60c All 98c “ “ 77c All $1.23“ “ 89c All $1.48“ “ 99c All $1.73“ “ sl.llc All $1.98 “ “ $1.21c All $2.48“ “ $1.71c Tool Cnests. 24c tool chests 21c 49c “ 41c 74c “ 63c 98c “ 83c $1.23 “ 99c

Edna Bosse writes to Santa Claus through the Daily Democrat and tells him she wants a Xmas tree, a sled, doll baby, a cradle, cab and candy and nuts. Her sister, Helda, wants a doll, cab, quilt, two flat irons, ring, candy and nuts. C. P. Miller and son, of Adrain, Mich., are in the city, the guests of Nick Miller. This is Mr. Miller’s first vsit here in a number of years and he states that he marvels at the growth of our prosperous city. He will remain here for several days. Grandmother Holmes, mother of Mrs. John D. Hale and Mrs. W. J. Craig, of this city, died Wednesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. L. S. Kapp, at Bluffton. Mrs. Holmes was about eighty-five years old, and her death was caused by infirmities, though the end was quite sudden, the relatives here not knowing of her serious illness. She was one of the pioneers of Adams county, first settling in Hartford township on the Solomon Moses farm. Her home for some time has been at Portland, but she recently went to Bluffton to spend the winter with her daughter. She was a splendid lady, loved devotedly by the many who knew her. Her remains were taken to Portland today, where the funeral services will be conducted tomorrow. A number of the relatives and friends from this county will attend. F. M. Sohirmeyer left Monday for Chicago, where he will attend a three days' session of the Inter State Independent Telephone association of America. Much interest in this meeting is being manifested from the fact that eastern capital has recently been taking options on all the independent telephone appliance factories, and should this deal go through, the independent companies would be up against, the real thing. This meeting will develop a means and I method to protect itself against the dangers of such a gigantic merger. There are but a dozen factories such in the country and it would be i comparatively easy to assemble them in a trust. If the factories surrender themselves to the Bell company the independents will enter the manufacturing field an d turn out their own instruments. All independent telephone exchanges of the country, numbering more than 8,000 will be represented at the convention. Eleven states are represented, and this year there will be several visitors from newly acquired territory of the independents. The convention will continue through Thursday. The last suit regarding a contention between the Bell and independent companies regarding the patent infitogements, has been remove 14«£>.v a decision favoring the independents.

Dolls. All 23c and 33c china dolls go at 19c All lOe and‘lsc china dolls goat 8c All 5c dolls go at 4c Doll Heads. All 5c heads at 4c All 10c heads at ... .. 7c All 13c heads at 8c All 15c heacs at 10c All 19c heads at 13c All 23c beads at 17c All 33c heeds at 22c All 38c heads at 24c Pianos. All 25c pianos 1 9c All 49c pianos 39c All 74c pianos ......... 62c All 98c pianos 79c

C. M. Morrison, of Blue Creek township, was in the city. After ; tomorrow his mail will be changed ’ from a rural route out of Willshire, to Pleasant Mills, rural route one. Complete rural route service begins tomorrow morning in this county, and nine new carriers will start out delivering mail for Uncle bam, traversing practically every corner of the county. Five of the new routes start from this city, one from Pleasant Mills, one from Mag- I ley, one from Geneva and two from - Monroe. This will make a total of- - routes in the county, besides several from other counties, which reach into Adams. It is said the service here after tomorrow ( will be the most complete in any , county in the state. < The Island Park Assembly association, which controls the annual assemblies and summer schools at ( Rome City, is organizing a new society to be known as the Western Chautauqua Island Park assembly, ( to be under the control of the Na tional Local Preachers’ association ‘ of the M. E. church. It will be one of the largest organizations of its kind in the country, and the or- | ganization embodies a readjustment ( of the affairs of {the famous assem-1 ( bly. The articles of association _ have already been forwarded to the ' , secretary of state, with the names . of the following as charter mem- ( bers: Dr. Stemen, Fort Wayne; ( J. F. Snyder, Lagrange; Wm. Me- ■ Carty, Brimfield; W H. Brimfield; , Buoy, Wolcottville; M. F. Owen, ! W. A. Williams, George Brothwell, George Northham, H. G. Cobs, all of Rome City. The capital stock will be *IOO,OOO, divided into 1,00 shares of *25 each. Dr. Stemen < and Mr. Snyder will have a meeting today with Mr. J. W. Hunter, i superintendent of the G. R. &I. i. railroad, and the details of the organization will be worked out and ’ officers elected at a meeting to be -, held next week. The institiution ’ will be an educational adjunct of ( the Methodist Episcopal church, as , Taylor university is. The new or- ■ ganiaztion will, it is predicted, I make the Island Park assembly | meetings the equal of any chautau qua assembly in the United States. I The project was first suggested by Dr. Stemen, president of the Na- ■ tional Local Preachers' association, in his annual report last year, and I through his influence the society ,' I appointed Dr. Bosworth, of Phila-1 ' delphia, and Dr. William Wright, [ lof Washington, D. C-, to meet the , Island Park officers. Out of this meeting grew the western chautau qua assembly just ' While the plans are not yet complete it is announced there will be Improvements made on a gigantic | scale at Rome City. |

Chairs. All 98c chairs at 84c All $1.23 chairs at 89c All $1.48 chairs at .. 99c All $1.39 chairs at 93c All $1.73 chair 3 at $1.28 All $1.79 chairs at $1.33 All $1.98 chairs at $1 42 All $2.19 chairs at $1.79 All $2.63 chairs at - $1.91 Go-Carts. All 49c carte at « 39c All 63c carts at 46c All 98c carts at 74c All $1.23 carts at 99c All $1.48 carts at . sl.ll All $1.73 carts at $1.19 All $1.98 carts at $1.43 All $2.23 carts at $1.78 Horns. All 10c horns. 8c All 25c horns 19c

The thermometer went down to ten below zero last night. Not so bad for mild winter. At that the cold was not so noticeable as usual for it lacked that dampness that chills to the very bone. Luther Collins is on trial in the Adams circuit court, the case having begun before Judge John M. Smith, of Portland, at nine o’clock Monday. The case is the most sensational and important criminal case heard here since the famous Osborn murder case just one year ago. Collins is charged with having caused the death of his sister inlaw Malissa Smitley, a well known young lady of Jefferson township, and the daughter of John Smitley. Miss Smitley died mysteriously Februuary Ist last, after an illness of a few days. The affair became public when Coroner C. H. Schneok returned his verdict, which set forth the fact that the young lady had died as the result of a criminal operation, and charged Collins with the crime. The April term grand jury investigated the affair and returned an indictment against Collins. He was immediately arrested and after a few days in jail was released on *I,OOO bail. Since that time he has had considerable trouble with his bond and has filed same four different times, his bondsmen asking for release. The indictment is in five counts, the first alleging that Collins willfully and feloniously prescribed and administered drugs tc Miss Smitley with intent to procure a criminal result and causing the death of the victim. The second count alleges that instruments were used. The three other counts are similar. The case promises to be a hard fought contest and will continue probably during the greater part of this week. Prosecutor John ('. Moran and D. E. Smith represent the state and L. C. Devoss and C. J. Lutz the defendant. If Collins is found guilty the punishment will be a penitentiary sentence of from two to fourteen years. Collins is a handsome man of thirty-two years of age. For a year or more he has been operating a hotel at Chattanooga, Ohio. About thirty witnesses have been subpoenaed to testify in the case. The empanelling of a jury required several hours, audit was 2:15 that afternoon when the following men were sworn to try the case: Louis Worthman, Sam Butler, John Helm, Cornelius Eiting, Joseph Graber, Shelby- V anee. Isa&O Booher, J. R Cline, William Young, .lames Hoa and Emanuel L ‘liman and Fred Tliieme. Fil ininut' - re- then while attorneys for the defendant prepared a motion to s q erate tl.e I witnesses.