Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1894 — Page 1

VOLUME I.

■Ki Mrs. Dell Locke was culling on Fort Wayne friends Monday IN. K. Todd and wife came hut ■ Thanksgiving. remaining the of Mr. and .Mrs. Patterson until Sunday night. f F. M. Talbot, the head and shoulders of an egg case industry in this city, was visiting his home at Peru several days last week and over Sunday. I Portland is now wound up in an epidemic of diphtheria that is be- ■ Comingsomewhat dangerous. Their public schools have closed and an effort is lieing made to thwart the evil. Harry Meisse was in Grand Rapids last Friday, being called there on business pertaining to the Grand Rapids railway, which Harry has been connected with for some two years. P. Holthouse & Co.calls yourattention, by means of a goodly sized sprinkle of advertising space, to the fact that they are now reducing prices, which means bargains and lots of them. Ixtok ’er up. Emerson Mann of Geneva, contemplates moving his family to our city so re time the first of the year. He is interested in the brick business here and will make the change in order to be more convenient to his business. ■woe. A. Hendricks showed his face in town Tuesday, the first time since removing to his suburban home near Berne. He has began the erection of a new house and Boon will be right at home. He will manage his saw mill this winter. The county commissioners Tues day granted to Peter Wilhelm, Sylvester King. Henry G. Braun. Samuel 8. Wagoner and Robert N. Steele, who for one year hence ere permitted to deal in spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time. The grand .jury ma le th* ir report to the court last Friday, as er which they were duly dischaiged for this term of court. They returned nineteen indictments, inspected the county infirmary and jails and in all did quite a nice bunch of work in the time they were at it. Bj petition of I. J. Meisse et al., ;the board of commissioners Tuesday ordered the regulat ons in time to be changed to the standard, and now we Lave but one time. The change is a desirable one and will be appreciated by all our people who quite frequently got mixed up and hardly knew wren they was hungry. Dr. H. F. Costello was taken very suddenly ill last Friday night. He and his wife had spent the evening with Mr. Daniel Donovan and family, and no unusual feeling was experienced until about three o’clock in the morning when his . heart began to trouble him. He complained of his feeling to his wife who sent for Dr. Thomas, who adm nistered to his case and by the afternoon of Saturday the doctor was able to be about again. Saturday afternoon Wallace and Burton Neal, members of the defunct firm of Neal Bros. & Co., millers had theirlpreliminary hearing [before Mayor Bergman on a charge of embezzelment preferred against them by Mary Fry, who lost her wheat or rather had it stored in their mill. Tne council chamber was crowded and jammed and hundreds were turned away. They were bound over to the circuit Court in the sum of SI,OOO each, which they failed to give and went back to the jail where they had already spent a week. —Port land Sun. Last week we mentioned some thing about the T. O.T. club which exists ujkiu social viands at Geneva, and is composed in membership of the fair and fairer sexes. They gave a blow out at the pleasant home of Will and Hattie Kelley on Thaksgiving night last, and no words of praise are sufficient to do justice to the occasion. The pro gram of entertainment consisted of i recitations by the Misses Black and Brou nyer, solos, deep tangled and mystified charades, luncheon, social ' enjoyment and a little dancing to wind up on. It was quite a society event and much credit is hereby extended to the management of the “Thirty Odd Tittiers” for courtesies extended. May the . club live foicver and die an old ! maid.

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The Misses May Smitley and la»ah Bark ley of Hoagland, spent Thanksgiving w th W . H Reed and family. John Peter Clever Shanks of Portland, one of the old land marks and at one time quite a useful citizen of that place, attended court here one day last week. The motion to quash the indictment against Charles Bone and Clem Kennedy was overruled by the court, and the case set down for trial the fifth Thursday of the present term which is December 6. At the last meeting of the city council, the city engineer made a report on the Fifth and Jefferson street improvements, and an order has l>een made for a meeting December 22, at which time objections will be heard and considered. Our subscription list is growing and in a very short time will be Unite healthy- From ail quarters of the county comes cheering words, names and money. Come right in and make arrangements to insure yourself with a fine lot of reading . fora very moderateoutlay of money.. Phillip Zangg and Maggie BowI man, Henry N. Sovine and Ella | Good. Jacob J. Felber and Emma I. Stricker, William C. Christianer and Minnnie Whietfeldt have secured the necessary marriage credentials from County Clerk Len- : hart to tic themselves up. Following is a list of letters remaining uncalled for in the Decatur postoffice since our last issue: Jos. Meyers, Ed H. Hamilton, F. G. Hecker, Rev. N. A. Foster, Myrtle Roller, Miss Sally Smith. Parties I calling for above letters will please say “advertised.” J. W. Wellley, P. M. Hon. Hugh Dougherty and Mr. i L. A. Williamson of Bluffton, were in the city yesterday and drew on I the Deidterich syndicate for 8105, 000, the price of the Bluffton rat oral gas plant. Today this money will be paid to thestoekholders and i Bluffton will be filled with money : fora time.—Ft. Wayne Journal. The bachelors of the Shamrock ! at Geneva, tonight tender their i friends a reception and ball, and : which will lie done up brown. Music from Fort Wayne will be i among the attractions, and it rs safe to bet that a genuine good time will |be there. Miss Kitty Miesse of this city will attend, being a guest of Miss Black. Commissioner elect Eckrote went I over to Bluffton Thursday last, taking with him Mrs. Klopfein-: stein, and while there the two were I married and now reside at the for-1 j mer’s home near Linn Grove. Mrs.; Eckrote is an estimable lady, living I near Vera Cruz, and the Democratic Press will now wish them plenty of joy. Mr. Eckrote was in ; town Tuesday smiling loud and, J setting ’em up to his friends. Last week the proprietorship of Hotel Beckman was changed, Mrs. I <’. Beckman being succeeded by I Mr. J. M. Lynch of Decatur, Ind. I During her continuance in business | : here Mrs. Beckman has proven I : most enterprising, and has expend- ! ed much money in the improvement j and betterment of our town. Her j hostlery secured an enviable re-.u---j tation tor comfort, neatness and accommodation. We trust that her i well earned rest will prove all that j ican be desired. Mr. Lynch camel here from the New Miesse, the j management of which leaves no! I question as to hisability and popu- I parity, and is believed that Hotel: Beekman will not only- retain its | j old reputation but add thereto tin-1 der his careful management.—Ottawa, Ohio, Gazette. An oil deal of good sized proper- j tions was consummated Thursday, Ihe Harshman and Templin leases ! being sold to H. < ’. Zigler of Penn- I | sylvania, for 818,000. The first owners of the lease were Hon. Hugh : ' Dougherty, Abe Simmons, W. F. I (Jnoynes, S. F. Shoemaker and L. C. Davenport and they have been in possession of the property about two years. In that time eleven j wells have been drilled, ten of them being producers with a total daily I output of about two hundred bar-i rels. The leases are situated in Nottingham township and each farm is eighty acres in size, leaving Mr. Zeigler, the purchaser, five . or six more locations for drilling. As to the profit in handling the farms the Chronicle is informed I that there is an indebtedness of i about $3,000 on the two leaving I the stockholders $3,000 each in j clear money.—Bluffton Chronicle.!

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1894.

(>ur Sentinel snap is the bigge-t thing of the season—two papers for the price of one ami one dollar ami a half pays the bill. Thetime will 1 soon be up. After a lingering illness with consumption, Mrs. John Coots died yesterday morning at an early hour. The funeral services will take place j at the house today. Death, no doubt, was a relief to her many painful struggles. Mrs. Canine (Steele) Yager, wife of Chas. W. Yager, died Friday Nov. 30, and was buried at Pleasant Mills, Sunday, Dec. 2. She was aged 26 years, 2 months and 3 days. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. H. 11. Smith. You will find a notice elsewhere from Treasurer Bolds which will be of interest to delinquentites. Anyone who still owes this exchequer for taxes can pay same without extra cost. After that the tax col- * lector will call on you personally, and that means a penalty. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Merryman were at home last evening to a number of their friends, the occaj sion being a social outburst of their j own. Their elegant home on North Second street was flooded with social enjoyment, making the evening one of profit as well as pleasure. Curley Rademacher bought a nice quarter of beef last Saturday and had it storedin his cellar at his residence. Last Sunday night it was transferred to other quarters by some one who no doubt saw Curley make the purchase, and thought it would be an easy way of getting his winter's beef for nothing. The show window of the Boston 'Store is dressed up in Its Sunday clothes, making an appearance that attracts the attention of any passerby unless they own mud eyes. It | is a beauty, a real, genuine, art is ie beauty. and the persons who commingled their ideas with such an effect are entitled tothis much con sideration. But then the Boston is chuck full of business and you need not be surprised at anything. The most notable event of the! j season wherein Decatur people took part, was the banquet given by the Knights of St. John ami C. B. L. societies of our city on Thanksgiving evening. Fully one hundred and fifty lady and gentlemen friends of the members were present, who ' took in the occasion with a relish : never before equalled. The menu i was of rare and special selec- , tion, and was prepared and served j with a taste and style that only first class caterers are familiar with. Thanksgiving day in this city ! was duly observed by all moderate thinking people in a modest yet impressive way. Religious services * were held and thanksgiving was I depicted upon the countenances of | every one who feel the weight of time as it wildly Hies and rememj bers the many blessings for which | they can truthfully be thankful for. Dinner was served by the | Methodist ladies in their church | parlors, where many people paid their respects and went away with | a light heart anti a full stomach. ' The democrats as a party were I thankful that they still lived, and ' the republicans were equally as | thankful that they didn’t own the universe. So all in all it was a day I fully commemorate with the ideas ’ I of those who engineered same into i existence. The common council of our city I j at last came to themselves and in ! less time than it t ikes to tell it, I gave Street Commissioner Archbold . | the grand everlasting bounce p. d. ' q., or words to that effect. They ; i met Saturday evening and took the j | matter in hand with results as rellated. The first and only vote; j stood Frank Dibble three, Lase I Baker two and Jo.-ha Barn ■ hart one, and upon this vote Dib-| |Me was declared to be the high ' I cock o’the walk, and vested in the < i several rights given street com- ' missionerships. There is some real, ■ low, downward talk that a street ; I commissioner shall receive the ma- i Ijority of the votes cast before he h ; can be declared elected thereto, but | i I it isn’t probable that the question i will be further examined into. Dur .- ing Mr. Archbold's career as such t official much efficient and beneficial < work has been done, and he retires 1 with a knowledge that he has dcnc < his duty and done it well, and has I many friends all over the city. We I hope the new official will be able to t make as good a record. Let’s see what we shall see.

Miss Kate Flickinger, one of the important annexes at Sprang & True’s, was twisting turkey joints with her sister, Belle Fought, at Geneva on Thanksgiving day. I). M. Hensley, the jeweler, calls your attention to the fact that the holidays are coming, and that anything from a diamond as big as a June bug to a two cent finger ring can lie furnished by him cheaper than any place on the boards. We now have a real live correspondent at Geneva, and after he gets scientifically warmed up will furnish our readers with all the current chroniclings in that neck of the world. Jefferson township will lie looked after bj- our next issue, ami by and by we expect to be clear around. Sheriff Ashbaueher has a female prisoner under his care, sh- being brought here from Portlan I. The charge which brought abont her incarceration is said to have been nothing more or less than fighting, so we advise our festive youths to avoid treading on her coat tails. I The jail building in Jay not being adequate she was brought here. H. G. Brann of Berne, was in town Tuesday appearing before the board of commissioners who granted him a license to retail spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, etc. Mr. Braun has bought the Brenneman stand and will tender a reception to his friends on next Thursday at which time he will open the business under his management. Arr angements are being made for a high old time. We are informed that Meiber’s opera house will be a thing of the past after the 17th of the present month, and the same will be re- ! modeled and partitioned off into office rooms. This will leave De- ' catur without a play house of any description, and our people will I have to content themselves the best they can in this direction until some enterprising citizen erects one that will be in keeping with our I present beautiful and progressive city. Quite an interesting evening was I spent by the membersofSam Henry Post, G. A. R., last Saturday evening at their hail, at which the elec tion of officers for ti e ensuing year took place. The meeting was attended by upwards of fifty members, which, considering the inclement weather was very large. The following are the names of the honored ones who will hold positions set opposite their names: Commander, R. S. Peterson; senior vice, Win. Culley; junior vice, Geo, W. Teeple; quartermaster, A. G. Gregory; chaplain, R. N. Andrews; officer of day, Henry. H. Hart; surgeon, Janies Edge; officer guard, Samuel Chronister; trustees, John D. Hale, Henry 11. Hart, Simeon B. Fordyce ; delegates to state encampment, Robt. Blackburn and Michael Wirtzberger. The grand jury made a report in these words: “The grand jury as aforesaid report to the court that they have examined into the cases of all persons confined in the county jail. That in the matter of one Aaron Baker held to bail, they are unable to secure evidence that would justify them in finding an I indictment against him, anil they therefore recommend that he be : discharged. That we further, as dir. cted, on the 27th day of No I vember, 1894, visited and inquired into the condition of the county in ' firmary and poor farm and we would report as follows : That we I found the sanitary condition good as could be under the present construction, and that the inmates thereof are well eared for. Wtalso find that the live stock on said firm is in good condition and well |cared for. Also the implements! are cared for and in the dry. But we find that upon investigating the ! infirmary, that the inmates are in great danger and should fire break out in any part of the building it j would be impossible to remove all j the inmates without some of them perishing. We, therefore, recoin-1 mend that the board of commissioners of Adams county, Indiana,' immediately proceed to provide I more and better means of exit from | said building. We further report that we have examined into the condition of the county jail, and find it in good condition, with exception a defective flue and fire box, and recommend that these defections receive immediate attention. Andrew Gottschalk, Foreman.

< >nr lai dlord and also president of the Old Adams County B ink, is > in Toledo, 0., today, being summoned to appear Itefore the V.iited States grand jury. As grand juries , are mysterious affairs we know , nothing of the nature of their busineits in this instance. Miss Ida Brandyberry returned last Saturday from Sopris, < ’olorado, at which place she has resided for one year ami a half. The object of her prolonged absence was the! search of lietter health, with which she has been happily blessed and returns strong, stout and healthy. , Her brother, Noah Brandeberry, whom nearly everyone here knows, is there and doing nicely. The Inlander, a populist organ of Jay county, pul listed at Port i land, has again suspended publica- i tion after a continued existence of some two months. This is nothing new for the Inlander, however, for it has turned its sweet smelling toes to the daisies something less than a dozen times and comes back to life with as much regularity asan eight day clock. A n exchange says t here is searcejTy anything a woman cannot do! with a hair pin. She uses it to ‘ pick her teeth, button shoes, clean linger nails, punch bed bugs out of, cracks, fasten up stray bangs, clean out hor husbiiud’?? her hair, pick her toenails, run it into cakes to see if they are done, and alxint a million other things ' that the poor deluded men k ow nothing about. The b aid of con missioners met | and organized Monday by making ' the heavy weight of Jeffersontown ■ ship, Sainnel Fetters, president, and for one year he will sit upon his official seat and gaze compla1 cently upon his brothers. Conrad Brake has oc upied this position for several years and it will look somewhat queer to s !> e hi n set back. The board is now wrapped up in Ujob lots of business ami will be yet ’ for several days, but ]>alienee and “eval liver oil will cimsummate most ‘ anything, so they ar- 1: .rd at it. The circuit court Tuesday heard ': the evidence in the Olierman chattel mortgage cases, and decided the France A Merr,nrrti and A. J. Bradley one to lie good for their full amounts, 85" > each, and th Sampson J. Friendly for 854L.50. This one was $2,000. J. Frank ■ Mann was made commissioner and ‘ as such filed his bond Tuesday as ternoou calling for $7,500. This ’ iron clad document bore the signatures of Ilario Maun, R. S. Peterson, A. P. Beatty, John T. France, and Paul G. Hooper. The com missioncr was instructed to sell out 1 the stock of goods, giving him ten : days to carry out the formalitie- of law regarding the advertisement i f 1 same. The proceeds thus n alized ' were first to pay all c >sts and then rthe remaining creators pro rata with what was left. While at Willshire last Tuesday I we called on a number of our ac i! quaintances of years ago, and fouiM them all in the same good cheer as of old. Drs. Shafner and Calderwood are the veteran practitioners of the burg, and judging from their present appearance and actions they will be doing business at the old stand many years after old Gabe wifl have ceased to toot his tin whistle. John Schrank, Samuel Stein and John Hofstetter are the mixologists of the corporation, and judging from the large order of job work given ns pertaining to their business they too will have a front seat when the last roll is called Jake Beam, Christ Nichols ami Henry Weimer have also gained their residence here, having voted ' at the election in 1867 which made Israel Remp marshal of the town. Jake is engaged in the grocery business, and lias everything in ! sight that is generally kept in a i place of this kind : beside this he is one of Uncle Sam’s chosen dis ! ciples, having the mail route from ! j depot to the postoffice, a position ! most satisfactorily tilled by him. j Alex Parks, the most aeconimoda- ’ ting gentleman this side of the divide, is supplying everybody who ! calls on him with first class livery. His place of business is situated on ‘ the bright side of the St. Mary's, i where beautiful horses and fine car- ! riages are kept and let at ri asonable j prices We commend Mr. Parks to the general public when in need of anything in his line. Space forbids us saying more of the good people of Wil'shire at this time, and will leave our correspondent there to take up the duties therof hereafter.

NUMBER 8

An exchange that has been tigur • ing things, and is said to know whereof he speaks, says that in the Michigan City penitentiary > there aie about 900 prisoners, and a careful, interview with them individually reveals the fact that most of them were termed “fast young men’’ ami who delighted to act smart, drink lager Iw-er, high . wines, etc., and felt highly elated ■ if they could get into a scrap occasionally. It did no good forthose most interested in the welfare of these young men to try to persuade them to change their ways, for being “exceedingly wise in their own egotism,” they only sneered and kept right on from bad to worse, until finally t ey wore the striped : suits and had plenty of time to reflect. The new palatial homeof Banker Porter of Geneva, is just now receiving the finishing touches, and when fully completed there will be no lesideutal home in this part of the kingdom that will hold a candle to it. The first story is a genuine imitation of log, while the second is shingled. The interior finishings consists of oak and yellow pine with polished floors. Large oak cases and aldine grates trimmed with old iron, are in the library. Every room is finished differently, and beyond doubt is handsome beyond expression, and will figure a total cost of something like 86,000. The plans were drawn by Will Christen of i his city, while ! Henry Fred Linn is responsible for ’he carpenter work, the same being superintended by Mrs. Porter. A ords fail to tell the magnitude of beautifulness there developed, and Mr. and Mrs. Porter may well ft el proud when housed beneath the roof of such a mansion. Mr. Jesse King of Rockford, 0., was in the city yesterday,nd called on the sport ing editor of this paper. Mr. King is a breed r and owner M' fast horses, and would be pleased to have our people arrange matters fur several dais racing to take , place some time in June next,. The i towns of Celina, New Bremen, Rockford and Van Wert, in Ohio, t are formed into a circuit for the .: purpose of holding several days racing in each of these tow s; and the secretary thereof, Mr. B. F. Bloss ilii Ilf Rockford, i—qile-tt il Ml . King to invite our horsemen to join in the circuit. Mr. Steele’s track is about completed, and we see no reason why we shouldn’t J join hands with our Buckeye neigh- ' bors in this undertaking. A meeting of horsemen from the above towns will meet :n Celina on the second Saturday in January next. ! This is a matter that our horsemen should not overlook, as it would be • the means of getting some of the •j best horses in this section of the country to come here. Whoofortr horsemen will attend? December 22 is the date set by Conn y Superintendent Snow for a teacher’s institute, which will be held in the circuit court room. A program of the doings of this institute is now being issue I by the county superintendent, a copy of which each and every teacher in ! due time will receive. The vocal part of the program will lie under the direction of Clark Calderwood, assisted by Kate Jackson, Ella Fleming, D. B. Erwin. Dora L. Petersoi. C. L. \\ alters and Laura Bunner. Alice Clem is on for an essay, “Some advantages of grad ing the county schools,” which will afterwards be discussed by A. Z. Smith and Elmer Johnson. “Does the commissioned high school lit the youth for business Hie,” will be systematically dis ensseil b\ A. D. Moffet, D B. Erwin and ('. 1). Kunkle who affirm as much, while Ed Chronister. C. E. McKean and C. 1., '' alters isay “nit” and will prove it by practical illustrations. B. F. Ibauch then lectures “Are weEng|lish?” The afternoon will begin by an < ssay “The teacher's fluty as ! to giving instructions in civics and patriotism” by Maggie Beatty, f-.l* lowed l>.\ a discussion of same by George Brown and J. C. Granastaff. G. W. Hurless will then produce a paper on “Education from the parent’s standpoint oi the ‘unnecessarj ' in the children's educational outfit”; the same tn be discussed by Hervey Steele and J. R. Parrish. Last is a paper or lecture by Henry Lankenan on “Some difficult points in school management, or for what part of the pupil’s environment is the teacher responsible,” closing with a discussion by W. A. Lower and J. S. Falk.