Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1895 — Page 1

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Rev. Thomas Addington and wife of Ridgeville, visited relatives in the city this week. Miss Minnie Fleming, one of the handsome young ladies of Portland, was visiting in the city during the ■ holidays. Mrs. Fiest of Greentown, Ind., who has been visiting with her parents, E. G. Coverdale and wife, has returned home. Mrs. Will Winch went home to i Wairen last Saturday aftera pleasant visit with her parents, the Dr. and Mrs. Halloway. The Indiana general assembly meets one week from next Monday. GovernorMatthewsisnow busy preparing his message. Chara Rosenthal of Winnemae, I Ind., who has been the guest of Isaac Rosenthal and family for the past week, has returned home. Miss Vic Stone returned to her collegiate studies at Fort Wayne last Friday, after a few days recreation among friends in this city. The general passenger agent on the C. & E. was in town one day last week, calling on Agent De Long and looking after railroad matters in general. A half million dollar fire at To-, ledo last week was among the casu- ■ alities. The Dayton & Michigan | elevator burned to the ground. One life was lost. Ice is this week being cut and packed for use during the hot smeltering summer season. The com- | modity ranges in thickness from four to six inches. Fred Mills arrived in town last week and is shaking hands with friends. He has been engaged in the restaurant bus'ness in Richmond for some time past, until quite recently. William Bosse’s Marshal medicines are going to take on a boom soon that would fairly take a tear from your eye. But all good things are bound to burst upward, hence the henceness. Mrs. Huffman of Marion, Mrs. Duke Stoops of Petersburg, Miss Maggie Dorwin of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Paul Hooper were very pleasantly entertained at dinner Monday by Mrs. W. H. Nachtrieb. The Markle Journal will enjoy a recreating vacation by issuing no paper this week. Thus will be seen the advantage of being a mon >polist, something so seldom noticed in newspaper circles. But then they will crop out. Crude oil has been advanced in price one and a half cents bv the Standard people, making it the highest price paid for the article since the history of oil in this state. We are sorry we sold ours before the advance, but then such is life. Culbert, the appointed sheriff of I Jay county, has brought suit I against Linkhauer, the holdover, and will test the courts with a view j of ousting him body and breeches. Legal opinion on the subject favors the opinion that Jay county will continue to have a democratic sheriff for the next two years to come. New Years evening a cantata was given at the opera house under the management of Prof. Fred M. Falk. It was a seasonable affair anil ranged from January bass, to December basser. Forty voices commingled and made it a very entertaining affair. Tableaux were also numerous. France & Merryman, one of the oldest and best law firms in the city, are bound to increase their extensive law practice during 1895, and to this end placed their card in the professional eolumn of the Democratic Press, where our army of readers will find it. The firm in question are known by every one the county over, so further commendation of their worth and merits will be useless. If you desire any knowledge upon questions of law, call and see them, over the Old Adams County Bank. | Rev. Noah Brandyberry has been selected as pastor of the M. E. Church of Lamar, Col., and the Lamar Sparks, a weekly paper of that place, speaks very highly of his ability and success as a minister. He was for two years the successful and loved pastor of the M. E. Church at Geneva, and it is safe to say that no one ever had a larger circle of friends in this place than Noah. His Geneva friends would expect nothing but success for him wherever he may engage in his chosen vocation. —Geneva Herald.

C. K. D. Ross and wife of Elwood, were in the city Monday evening, guests of ye editor-and there were others. Grant Lupton and Miss Nellie Winters, both of Hartford City, I were married Tuesday evening of last week. Both are known in this city. J. W. DeLong, the genial agent of the Chicago & Erie, was laid on' the sick shelf several days last week. He is now out feeling bigger than ever. Emerson Mann of Geneva, was in ! town Friday last on business rela- I tive to the brick industry, with which he is connected. He will not move to our city as contem plated. The marriage vows of Peter Myers j and George Kintz were announced at the Catholic Church Sunday. We failed to learn the names of the young ladies, they being non-resi-; dents of our city. New officers will be elected by the Decatur National Bank, on Jan-I uary 8, next Tuesday. The officers then elected will serve one year and i J until their successors are elected, I qualified, and so on. J. D. Hale, Frank Dibble, Dell i Txtcke. J. B. Meibers, Chalmer . Shaffer and others were in Fort Wayne Monday evening and saw I “Madeleine or the Magic Kiss,” at the Temple, which they pronounced first class. J. W. Place came in Tuesday ■ from Hot Springs where he has been ' for a month past, taking treatment for his throat. He is looking much . improved and it is to be hoped that the cure is permanent. His many I friends are receiving him with open I arms. New and revised ordinances have' ! been ordered printed by the city (council, and are something that are necessarily essential for the proper management of a goverinental policy. The present ones i date back to 1889. The vacant ground just east of | the Chicago & Erie depot has been i leased by a Mr. Shaffer who will erect thereon a hotel, lunch and bar room. The location is a good one for that kind of business and no doubt the projections of the move- : inent will te able to realize good inI vestment. The marriage record records the names of John Mayer and Char- | lotte Baily, Eli Meyer and Florence Woods, George Zimmerman and I Jessie Burwell, David McKee and Lillie Mann, Wesley Evans and Jennie Heller, John Pontius and Hattie Lush, who have concluded that life wasn’t worth wasting in single gear., Mrs. A. J. Hill very proudly proclaims that she is grandmamma of Dorothy and Ruth, tw.o bright little daughters born December 22 to Rev. and Mrs. C. D. Reynolds at St. Paul, Minnesota. Mrs. Reynolds is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hill, and is known to every one in Decatur, hence this informa tion w’ill be read with pleasure by her many friends. The Epworth League and friends from other churches, were delightfully entertained at the Methodist church last Friday evening. Amusing and instructive games were played, among which was the fol- ! lowing: Each person present represented some noted character, whose name pinned on their back, was known to everyone but themselves aud which they were to discover by asking questions of their neighbors. This caused much amusement. Delightful music was furnished, consisting of piano solos and duetts, vocal music and selections ou the guitar. Dainty refreshments were served and all seemed to have enjoyed themselves. The Allen county circuit court is this week tangled up with a case taken ou a change of venue from this circuit to Fort Wayne. The case is one wherein Emanuel Woods is plaintiff and prays for damages from Dan P. Bolds, who, by virtue of said complaint, is made defendant in the suit. The case reverts back to a land deal along about ’9O, from which the former claims he is entitled to more than he got. It was first tried in the courts here and the jury assessed damages at S6OO. The case was appealed to the supreme court and that tribunal of justice reversed things by sending it back for new trial, the plaintiff taking a change and the case was sent to Allen county. Many of our people are in attendance as witnesses.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1895.

The banks as well as many other places of business closed Tuesday in acknowledgement of the legal holiday, accorded the first day of the year. John Vogelweede has been having a season of prize winning at his place of business during the holidays, and more fun than a box of monkeys has been on all week. Portland’s,water works plant will not be completed by January 1, ac cording to contract, but the Commercial says that the progress made is highly satisfactory to all concerned. This office has the stock and the prices and we are pleasing our patrons immensely judging from the amount of work being turned out by us. We can fix you up with the latest artistic designs, so come and 1 see us. Next after the telephone comes ■ telegraph companies, many of which are being organized in variouscities ! in this and other states. Huntington comes to the front with an or ganized company with a capital stock of $12,000, Sam Bone was acquitted of man- j slaughter in the Jay circuit court, j Our readers will remember him as an official there who shot and killed an oil man whom resisted arrest. I Since that time he has been under a bond of $5,000, and now that he iis acquitted he has a right to con-1 gratulate himself. Skating was the order of things last week and is yet. The young boys and girls, the older boys and girls, and even some who haven’t seen their teens for many a Long year, “had on their skates” and enjoyed the old time sport. It really did one good to watch them : in all the latest agony. Uncle Henry Stacey came into town Monday and while here drop ped the proper amount of glue into our subscription slot to insure him the Democratic Press and all the news for the year 1895. Uncle Henry knows a good thing and isn’t long nailing it to the cross when he does see it. On New Year’s day at the Presbyterian parsonage occurred the marriage of Eli Meyer of French township to Miss Florence Woods of this city. The wedding was a quite affair, participated in by only a few of their intimate friends. Both are well known as highly respected people,who will wish them the best in the house. The Press congratulates. The cigarette habit is said to be increasing instead of diminishing, and the number of youths who are veritable slaves to the habit, many of whom are already wrecks, is said to be appalling. The number in Decatur who are fiends to the disgraceful habit are few and they should be fewer. It is certainly true that any one who will smoke a cigarette will—well, what won’t he do. Miss Celia Russell met with quite a misfortune last Sunday w’hile skating on the river, and while it is not the least bit serious, yet it will keep her housed up for several days yet. She and George Bailey 7 were exhibiting a few artistic strokes together when they became mixed up some how, fell, when the sharp point of one of their skates pierced an artery just above the left ankle. Blood fairly boiled for a second, but a handkerchief was securely wrapped around the gaping wound, she was taken home, a physician summoned, and now she is getting along very nicely and will be ready 7 to try the ordeal over in a very short time. One of the prettiest foot ball games ever played in this city took place Christmas afternoon at the Water street grounds, between Decatur and Portland. The day 7 was a splendid day for the sport and when the teams, headed by the city band, marched out to the grounds they 7 were followed by a good sized crowd. Time was called at three o’clock and Portland got the ball and the war commenced. At the end of the first half the ball went out of play on the very spot I where it went into play and with no score. The second half started out the same way and continued so until near the end of it, when Waltz scored a touch and subsequent goal on an end play, which was the extent of scoring, making it 6 to 0. Taking it all in all it was one of the prettiest and most evenly matched games ever played here and was harmonious through- ■ out.—Portland Sun.

J. H. Beattyjof Blue Creek town-! ship, met with rather a serious ac cident Monday night. While ou his way home his team ran away, | throwing him outof the buggy, and discolating his shoulder. Anthony Wertzberger joins our Press and Sentinel combination and proposes to know it all during 1895. We have decided to continue this offer during January and if you want to know it all come in now and subscribe. At Curley’s place Mon .ay night “ba’r” was on the bill of fare, and the mix seemed to be relished by all who were there, and there were many. Moser, the! photographer, took a flash light; picture of the interior, and in all a good time was had. John Pontius and Miss Hattie Lusk, both of Hartford township, were married on Thursday evening of last w 7 eek, the ceremony 7 taking 1 place at thebride’s home. Both are highly respected young people and we will take time now 7 to extend to the happy couple our congratulations and best wishes. If Ed White, Andrew Goene, W. H. Hain, S. Hifferman, F. C. Heeker, Ed Riffer, Sadie Cheetwood, Mrs. Silas Cronister and Mrs. M. Baker will go to the postoffice in this city they will find a letter there belonging to them. The list was reported by Postmaster WeL tley. Divine services were held at our various churches as usual last Sabbath, which w ere also attended by the usual number of faithful worshipers. Each and every congregation is supplied with ministerial eloquence worthy of note, and that goes a long ways toward tilling the wants of our people. I became so interested in Mrs. Kate Crary’sopeningentertainment' ! that I cancelled all interfering and j attended every evening for six I nights iu succession, and to repeat my journies in this way has been very delightful. If an old traveler can be instructed, certainly 7 those who have,not traveled canuotafford to lose this opportunity. Gen. R. Brinkerhoff, Chairman Ohio Commission World’s Fair. The ball New Year’s eve by the city band boys was well attended 1 as well as enjoyed by those who did attend. It also enabled the! band boys to bank a neat bunch of dollars which will later be used to better equip them for business A good band is a mighty 7 nice thing to have around, and for this reason every 7 one should lend them the necessary encouragement to make it a rip snortin’ success. The people are to have a treat next week in Kate Crary’s art tours, which will be given in Meiber’s hall, all next week, beginning Monday evening. Each of her tours will be illustrated by one hundred and twenty magnificent views, each covering four hundred square feet, projected by Dr. Crary who has ranked as an expert in stereopticon work for many years. After the tour each evening they will give half an hour at the world's fair, taking up a different part each night and illustrating it by 60 original views of their own taking. Every place shown during the week covering the chief portions of Europe and America has been personally visited by the lecturer, and her talks are from her own observation. The exit of the old year and the debut of the new was celebrated at the home of Prof. W. J. Myers on! North Fifth street, last Mondayevening, where Misses Eicher, I Sprang, Ilaleand Myers entertained ! about twenty of their friends. Among the amusements furnished was the following: Each young' lady and gentleman were required to write a truthful description of their ideal, these were then read 1 omitting the name of the author, and the one guessing the nearest number correctly was given a prize. Mr. Clark Coverdale was the one so fortunate as to receive a box of candy, for excelling the others in the guessing. Refreshments were i served at 10:30, consisting of ice ■ cream and cake, by Misses Mary ! Myers and Mina Case. Games and music were enjoyed until 12 o’clock when 1894 was bade farewell with I just a tinge of sadness, and 1895 welcomed -with happy greetings; after which the guests departed carrying with them pleasant mem ories of the last night of the old I year.

I was so charmed with Mrs. Kate Crary's entertainments as to go to them night after night with fresh and unfailing interest, and take pleasure in recommending them to all who have memories or hopes of travel. Gen. Lewis Wallace, Author of Ben Hur. The marriage record shows a license issued to George W. Zimmerman and Jessie Burwell, and the meanest part of the business is that George never said a word to us about it. The young lady formerly lived in Bluffton. The Press joins their procession of friends in extending congratulations. Prof. Moffatt and County Superintendent Snow were in attendance at the state teachers' association at Indianapolis last week, and report it one of the most interesting and profitable sessions since the inauguration of these meetings. Valu-! able papers upon subjects that were entertaining, and many other features of interest to the profession of successful school teaching. The Odd Fellows on last Monday I evening elected the following officers for the term ending July 1,’95: Noble Grand, M. L. Byers; Vice Grand, M. F. Rice; Recording Secretary, A. K. Grubb; Per. Secretary, L. C. Helm; Treasurer, Henry Winnes; Trustees, J. F. Mann, Daniel Sprang, R. D. Patterson. The new officers will be installed Monday evening, Jan. 7, 1895, by D. D. G. M., J. F. Mann. The Democratic Press will soon be three months old, and not! only that but it seems to be filling the bill just about righ., judging by the way new names are being added to our list; not say ing a word about the many personal compli ments heaped upon our manner of giving the news and all the news. This is and always will be our prin I cipal feature and if you want all ! that’s going subscribe now. The j Sentinel and Press one year lor $1.50. Last evening at Winchester occurred the marriage of Miss Nellie Miller to Lew G. Ellingham, the editor of this paper. The ceremony , took place at eight o’clock amid a I host of their relatives and friends, . the Rev. J. K. Walts, pastor of the Methodist church at that place officiating. An extended wedding j tour brought them to this city this I morning, where they will make! i their future home. In a week or j two they will be at home in the A. J. Smith property, on Second street, where they 7 will welcome their friends, old and young, great and small. Mr. and Mrs. A. J Hill and Mrs. Fred Mills of this city, were in attendance. An exchange tells us that the “smart alec” is never a success. What is meant by “smart alec” in the true yankee definition of the Americanism, is a man who knows a little of everything and imagines that his knowledge is a necessary ! atom of carrying on the business of the world. He offends people by his alertness. He knows something 'about everybody’s business and tries to force his confidence on people who would rather see him in South America. Not infrequently his “smartness” takes a waggish turn and he worries everybody with his neat attempts at wit-turns into a light channel the most serious strains of conversation. When the little brains of the “smart alec" is laid to rest ’neath the sod iu the church yard none will mourn. The Methodist people iu this | city promise us some extensive an valuable church improveme tsdur- ’ ing the coming summer. The itn- | provemeuts themselves will totalize !an outlay of cash amounting to ! SIO,OOO, and which will give them one of the finest church edifices in thispait of christendom, costing all told $20,000. The present au ditorium and lecture room will be thrown into one room the church ! proper, with raised seats, gallery I and so on The extensions will be j built to the north and west, mak- ! ing a Sunday school, lecture and reception rooms. There will be two main entrances to theauditori i tun and many other improvements I which we are not now enlightened upon. _t will be safe to say, how ever, that it will be done up right | and that it will be an honor to that congregation as well as to the public and city in general. Rev Gregg > will have plenty of room to distinguish himself, and he will do I jit too, for he seems to be made out of that kind of jeans. Here’s wish I ing them untold success in their undertaking.

NUMBER 12

Edward F. Coffee is mixed up in insurance about right, as a circular printed at this office fully intimates, it giving yon many valuable pointers demonstrating that insurance is insurance; something you all need and must have in order to live proper and l>e right. His office is i over Uncle Sam’s postoffice, where seekers of good paper will find him. Elsewhere in this edition will be found the business card of the Decatur National Bank, a monied institution of no small amount of prominence, cash and business push concealed about its working proclivities. Cashier Dugan is not only well liked by the business public, but he is a rustling rustler as well, a necessity 7 about a bank as well as anything else. Their capital is $50,000 with liabilities making them as strong as the rock of ages. Read their card. Additional new cases filed at the county clerk’s office which will come up for hearing at the January term of court, are Lydia Clouse who wants the matrimonial chains that now exist between herself and George Clouse severed. Adam I Scholl vs. Samuel Btetler to set aside fraudulent conveyance;Chas. Bolenbancher vs. Winchester Oil Co., appeal from Esq. Runyon; Columl ia Harriron vs. Isaac Robinson, complaint for injunction; B. F. Terveer vs. City of Decatur, com plaint for injunction, and demands I damages to the amount of $500; * Henry 7 Eiting vs. John A. Walters, !account, demands $100; Sylvester Hillery vs. Christene E. Hillery, ! divorce; Cassius M. Clay vs. Joseph 11. Linton,account,demands $2,000. The large palatial home of Uncle George Pontius of Hartford was all | ablaze last Sunday with fifty or i sixty of the relatives aud friends ’of the family. The feast on this occasion would make a poor editor hungry to look at, and we are told that everything recorded upon the staff of life was brought forth. Uncle George was the recipient of a handsome plush rocker where be can rest his weary bones without the sbghest provocation of au interruption. On Cnristmas day Uncle George had presented each ; one of his children with a one hundred dollar bill, something that don’t grow on trees, and this rocker was a slight return of the love and esteem with which they held the father. Uncle George admits that while he is not quite sixteen yet a fellow would have to get up pretty 7 early in the morning to get ahead of him. Long may the family connections enjoy these hospitable occasions. The council met Friday 7 evening, Dec. 28, in adjourned session. The school trustees filed their report as before ordered by the council, and also presented a request for permission to erect an addition to the main school building. Thecouncil became very warm in the discussion of the request, and finally 7 referred the whole matter to the committee on public schools. City 7 Attorney Maun was instructed to appear and defend the injunction proceeding of B. J. Terveer, wherein he asks to prevent the city interfering with his dwelling house in Sixth street. The committee on streets and alleys reported in favor of opening Grant street and the whole matter was referred to the city commissioners. City Attorney Mann reported that he had pre pared the city ordinances of the city for publication as ordered by the council, and they were referred to the judiciary csmmitt.ee with instructions to receive bids for the work. The street commissioner referred back to the council the city engineer’s final assessment on Third street improvement, with a report that there were no objection to said assessments by any property owner. The clerk was instructed to give the property 7 owners notice that they had twenty 7 days in which to execute waivers if they 7 desired the benefit o' the ten annual pay ment plan. The city treasurer aud mayor filed their quarterly reports. The finance com. reported that they 7 had made a careful examination of the accounts of ex treasurer McLean and they found them correct. The Winchester street side walk along the Clover Leaf track was again before the council, and the railroad was giv< n permission to put down a plank walk provided they would ■ pay the costs of advertising so far > as made. After the allowance of a > number of claims, and scorching the wood work of ;the council room by the suppressed heat that existed 7 over the school bouse question, the council adjourned.