Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1895 — Page 5

ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Druggist Case was a Craigville visitor Monday. ''. S. Hughes and wife were at Fort Wayne Monday. Mrs. A. R. Pierceoi Ft. Wayne, is visiting in the city. Jim Frank Mann was in Chicago i yesterday on business. .John Hammett of Marion, was here on business yesterday. Hanker Morrow of Bluffton, was in the city a short time Monday. Ed Eddington of Logansport, visited his parents here Monday. Prof. Winans of the Geneva schools, was here Saturday evening. Frank Smith of Bluffton, was preambulating about town last Friday. Myers & Middleton for Seed Potatoes. Early Rose and White Star. George Zimmerman was at Bluffton Sunday returning home Monday. Chris Hocker of Monroe, was here on business the first of the week. Joe Heffner of Cincinnati, visited relatives and friends in this city Sunday. Mrs. Lew Ellingham is visiting relatives and friends at Winchester this week. Aaron Devinney is this week entertaining his brother from Springfield, Ohio. Surveyor Fulk ami wife spent Sunday at the latter’s home near Vera Cruz. Follow the crowd at meal time and you will find yourself at the Union Bakery. This office is under obligation to Agent DeLong of the Erie lines, for favors extended. Miss Millie Lenhart was taken sick yesterday morning and is but little better today. A new paper is talked of for Willshire but as yet it has failed to put in an appearance. Miss Ilattie Wert zberger returned Tuesday from a pleasant visit with relatives at Honduras. Miss Rosa Gass of Kentucky, was here this week, attending the funeral of her brother Charley. Rice & Beery shipped another car load of horses to the eastern market the first of the week. Mrs. .John Dix of Lebanon, Ind., is in the city visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Miller.

Clark J. Lutz was attending to business at Fort Wayne Monday. Likewise J. Toni Merryinan. Our bread trade is growing. Don’t ask us why? The bread is what talks. Union Bakery. Mrs. Ada McLaughlin has returned home to Elkhart, after a plea-ant visit with relatives. Mr. Railing is knee deep in the maple syrup business, and it makes our mouth water to thiuk about it.

Peter Forbiug was a guest of Cincinnati friends over last Sunday, returning home the first of the week. Miss Maggie Forbing came home Saturday from Anderson, where she had been visiting relatives for some time. Clarence D. Carr is home from an extended absence in Michigan, where he was disposing of the business authors. Hugh Gallagher Kapp of Bluffton, stopped in the city between trains last Friday, while enroute from Portland. Dr. Dick Neptune still makes his professional visits to Geneva the same as usual, but he returns home the same day. Miss Cora Shackley entertains at a taffy pulling bee tonight at her home on Third street, to which a number of her friends will be present. The Easter Presbyterian social and supper is still a sure fact, the bill of fare being eggs, egglets and eggsomelets, with other fill ups too numerous to mention. A small blaze early yesterday morning at the home of John King, was the means of calling out the tire laddies and a few sleepy citizens. A defective tine started the blaze, which was luckily extinguished before any damage resulted. J. W. Middleton will start for the famous Painesville nurseries in about two weeks to select his stock of fruit trees, vines, plants, ornamental stock and seeds of all kinds. If you want anything in this lit e you will do well to place your order with him, as he will save you fifty cents on the dollar. All goods guaranteed true to name and No. 1 stock.

Miss Ella Schenck of Pleasant Mills, a missionary in the employ of the \\ Oman’s Missionary Board of the U. B. church, and who has just returned from three and a half years missionary work on the west coast of Africa, will lecture in the U. B. church of this city on Sunday, March 24, at 7p. m. Admission free. The Burt House office is jest now in a turmoil, so to speak. It is being frescoed, and that means that it takes a mighty’ short individual to walk underneath the scaffolding without bending himself in the middle. When finished it will l>e fine as silk, and Mine Host Locke will be too extraordinary to spit at. Commissioners Brake, Hobrock and Fetters and Deputy Auditor Brandyberry were at Portland yesterday in session with the Jay county commissioners settling a county line gravel road. They granted the road, and the commis sioners from Jay will be here next Wednesday’ to put the finishing touches to the legality of the road. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Archbold tonight will entertain Rev. E. T. Gregg and wife, W. H. Nachtrieb and wife, J. D. Haleand wife, Fred Shafer and wife, Jeff Bryson and wife, D. P. Bolds and wife, Dell Locke and wife, Dr. and Mrs. De Vilbiss, R. S. Peterson and wife, 1). M. Hensley and wife, A. R. Bell and wife, D. W. Beery and wife, J. H. Lenhart and wife, R. K, Allison and wife, ('• E, Doty and wife, J. T. Merryman and wife, J no. Niblick and wife, Mrs. A. M. Fisher. State Pride.

The public schools will tomorrow devote themselves to a program which they have dedicated as Indiana day, at which time the ap ■ pended program will be shot off ae- ' cording to hoosier style: I Conversation between Govs. Harrison and I Matthews. A. Nichols. I Essay on Hoosier Poets. Chas. Suttles. ; Resolved: That Statesmen of Indiana are ias great today as ever. Affirmative—Jennie ; Hammel. Lou Case. Negative—Ota Scott, Blanche Reynolds. Recitation—“My Philo-*•phy,” Mamie Long . Physical Feat ures of Indiana. Frank HamI mel. Lines to Prof. John Clark Ridpath. A. M.. L. L. D. J une Merryman. Recitation—“ The Old Swimming Hole." Chas. Peterson. Indiana in the Civil War. Hattie Patterson Politics of the Hoosier State. John Streit. Review of Ben Hur. Bee Dorwin. Education vs. Educators. Fannie Rice. Indiana at the World’s Fair. Earl Adams. Prose Writers of Indiana. Earl Fristoe. j Oration—" Hoosier State A. I). 2000." Sophia Mangold. What Others Think of I's. Norman Len- * hart. Early Expeditions to Indiana. Will Wertzberger. High School Musicale. Under auspices’ of the highschool, the following program will be rendered Tuesday evening, March 26, at the Presbyterian church: Music. -Orchestra. Male Quartette.—Dr. Neptune, Warren Moses. Frank Christen. Don Quinn. Instrumental Solo,—May Hughes. Instrumental Solo.—Mrs. Gage. Vocal Solo.—Grace Peterson. Instrumental Duett.—Mrs Doty. Mrs. R. K( Allison. Vocal Solo.—Cal Kunkle. Violin Solo, —Millie Lenhart. Instrumental Solo.—Gertrude Moses. Vocal Solo.—Marguerite Hughes. Quartette.—Dr. Thomas. Mrs. Thomas. Lee Walters. Grace McConnehey. Vocal ion.—Miss Charlotte Malotte. Vocal Duett.—Mrs. Patterson. Mrs. Thomas. Vocal Solo.—Miss lanthe Gregory. Instrumental Duett.—May Hughes. Mrs. Lutz. Vocal Solo. —Carrie Thomas. Vocal Solo.—Miss Emma Jackson. Instrumental Solo.—Mrs. Ellingham. Trio, two Violins and Piano.—Prof. Falk. Chas. Mrs. C. E. Doty. Vocal Solo.—Maggie Eichar. Music.—Orchestra. Tickets at Falk’s Music Store. Admission, 10c. Resolutions.

Whereas. The current year of the Northern Indiana Conference is drawing to a close, and Whereas. There will beat the annual conference. to be held in the city of Logansport, Indiana, commencing on the f7th day of March, 1895. some changes made by the Bishop in charge, of the location of the pastors belonging to the said conference, and Whereas. it-has pleased the Almighty God to bless the work of Rev. E. T. Gregg at the Decatur charge, in so much that there has been a large number of additions to the church, and adherents to the faith of Christ, by the e who. in the preceding year, had connected their labors with the ehurch, to such an extent that, nf the 159 persnn« who became probationers, there has been taken in as full members 11 s person, and Whereas, The full amounts assessed to this charge for benevolence, salary, etc., have been fully met, and Whereas, The morality of the city has manifested a great improvement since the location of the said E. T. Gregg in said city, by reason of his untiring devotion to, and teachings of the principles of Christianity. Therefore, be it Resolved. That we. the members of this quarterly conference, of the Decatur Indiana, charge, earnestly request that Rev. Simpson. Presiding Elder of this district, use every means within his power to induce the Bishop in charge of the coming conference, to return the said E. T. Gregg to this charge for another year, believing that it will be a moral and religious advantage to the Northern Indiana Conference in general, and the citizens . of Decatur and the Methodist Episcopal church in particular, and be it further Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be presented to Presiding Elder Simpion, with

a request that th*y be presented to the Bishop in charge as the unanimous wish of the mem tiers of the Methodist church at !>»•- catur. and the ettixen* of said city. Decatur. March 19th, 1895. I. the undersigned, secretary of the qnar-! teriy conference, of the Decatur, Indiana, charge, of the Methodist Episcopal church, of said city, hereby certify that the above resolutions were unanimously adopted by the quarterly conference of said charge, at a meeting held in the city of Decatur. Indiana, on this linhday of March. 1895. Witness my hand this 19th day of March. 1895. J no. Niblick. Secretary, ' Real Estate Transfers United States to lleary Galbraith *o acres in Kirkland township. Samuel Waggoner, quit claim deed to David | Studabaker. 40 acres. Monroe townships SSO. Helen Blossom to Wm. Coon, part Inlots 355. 356 and 357. Decatur. 3800. John Coffee to Wm. H. Niblick. 50 acres.; Washington township,sl,Bso. Levi Clark to Wm. Stauffer et al., 20acres, i Blue Creek township. 3700. John Nusbaum to Daniel Kipper, 80 acres French township. $2,700. Peter Sprunger to John Nusbaum. inlots 98 and 99, Berne. $wS5. Charles H. Girard to George E. Garard, in lot 888. Decatur. S6OO. Jacob Crist to Samuel H. Hocker. 30*4 acres. French township, 31.000. Nicholas Brock to Peter Meyer. 40 acres, Washington township. 11.700. Mary Soldner to Alfred L. French. 177 60-100 acres. Wabash township. 36.000. John E. Albers to EveCath Albers, part of 1-6 part of outlot 24. Decatur. s4*>o. DBerne Lumber Co. to John Bixler, inlots 157. 158 and 147. Berne. 31,900. David Eley to Bernard Lingerie!). 100 acres. Washington township. *1.450. Joseph E. Head to Elizabeth Laughry. inlot 75. Monroe. S3OO. Elizabeth Laugry to George IL Laughry. inlot 75. Monroe. 3300. John Braun, jr., to Mary Braun, inlot 20. Decatur. 11.800. Joseph Ulery to Geo. W. Stout, inlot 705. Decatur. S4OO. John H. Steele to Morris L. Steele et al., inlots 516.1. 7. Decatur. SIOO. John S. Moses to EdgarS. Moses. 1-6 part 100 acres. Root township. $»i00. Samuel Simison quit claim deed to Eugene Morrow. 260 acres in Monroe and Wabash townships. S2.OiX). James 11. Stone to Polly Stone, iulot 43, Decatur. $4,000. Robert F. David to Mary Mentzer. 50’ 8 acres- | Union Township. $1,500. P. P. Ashbaucher. sheriff, to D. G. M. Trout, | ; Sacre*s. Wabash township. $309 97. □ Harry E Corduu to M. V. B. Archbold, inlot I 436. Decatur. S2OO. Edward Baumgartner, administrator,, to i Rosana Baumgartner, ’j of 80 acres, French I township, $2,000, Geneva Items. Wm. Fought was at Ft. Recovery last week J attending the funeral of a friend. ’ John Black and Jim York were at Ft. Wayne ; last week. j Win. Black spent Saturday and Sunday of ' last week in Chicago, I Jim York was at Portland the first of the i week. Mrs. Chas. Porter was iu Fort Wayne the ' latter part of last week. Wm. Harper has been on the sick list for the past week. B. R. Wait was in Chicago the first of the week on business. □ Wm. Wear, of Briant, was here Saturday and Sunday. Harry Juday has lieen on the sick list for the past week. Henry Schulty. of the Geneva clothing house, spent Sunday in Decatur. M. M. Herr has been on the sick list. Emma Smith, of the Hotel Shamrock, spent Sunday in Berne at home. G. W. Ober was in town the first part of the week on business. Harry Haviland and the Dutch Butcher spent last Sunday in Berne. Jake Shoemaker has been sick for the past week’ The Marshal of Berne gave Geneva a short business visit last Saturday. Chas, Harper, the’miller. was at Berne Monday. Noah Amspaugh left for Paulding. Ohio* last Monday for a short stay with friends. David Runyon, of Linn Grove, was in town the first of this week. Miss Daisy Ruuyon is on the sick list. Wm. Clendenen was in Fort Wayne the latter part of last week. Wm. Harper moved his stuck of drugs the first of the week. Frank Foreman, one of Berne’s tonsorial artists, was in town last Monday. Mrs. Grant Weeks was in Portland the first of the week. Frank Hillman, of Bluffton, was in town last Monday. Rob Runyon spent Sunday at home, east of Berne. Amos Beatty, of Decatur, wag in town the first Os the week. □ Mike McGriff was in Muncie the first of the week. Jim Read, of Montpelier, passed through our city the first of the week, to St. Marys to attend the funeral of bis wife’s father. Berne Items. I Chris. Longaker. who spent two years and four months as a United States soldier at Ft. Niobrara. Neb., returned home Thursday night. He was enlisted with U. S. army for I five years, but got out by paying $45 He says I this would prove a good cure for many young men. Mr. Frank Erwin removed his family from Hartford City to this town and they Jive in i the Mendbnhall property on west Main street. I D. Gilliom has received the papers for his patent mower. It will lie called the Gilliom . .Mower. Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. Hammel, a girl, on Wednesday, of last week. A. J. Moser will build and start a machine shop west of Jacob Brown's blacksmith shop. People are getting ready to build houses in all corners. There* will be some fifteen houses built this spring. Berne had one of their great stock days Tuesday. □ Mr. John Soldner. west of town, has sold his .farm to some Michigan people, who will put up a saw mill on the place. Geo. Schigley. of Bluffton, was in town Friday. A. A. Lehman & Co., will open up their millinery shop, above’ Ervin & Campbell’s store, with a full line of spring goods about the 25th inst. uohn Wagner, of Decatur, was in town Monday. Web Foreman, of Ottawa, Ohio, was in town Tuesday. Mrs. W, Sheets has returned from Fort Wayne, where she purchased a fine line of spring goods.

Jos. Herod and wife, of Hoagland, vis- I ited their son-in-law. Geo. Holmes and family. over Sunday. " m. Gaylord returned from his two weeks’ I trip Monday. David Gerber and wife were in Berne Monday Theo. Norr. of Piqua. Ohio, formerly of this place, is in town, shaking hands with his many friends. Mrs. Barely, of Buffalo. N. Y.. who was * called to the bedside of her sick sister, Mrs. Dr. Stoneburner, returned home Monday. Miss Josie Riffle is confined to her bed with la grippe. A. J. Hawk is sick with la grippe. H. S. Michand and Jacob Brenneman went J to Fort Wayne Tuesday. Eugene Morrow, of Bluffton, was here Mon- • day and Tuesday on business. Judge Studabaker. of Decatur, was here on : Monday. John F, Lachot has purchased the Kircho- • fer property on West Main street. Eugene Aschleman has purchased three ; acres of land of Chris Stauffer, where he will ; erect an ice house. The party that was out serenading last Sat- ’ urday night made a failure of it. and nearly ‘ ended in a riot. We would advise them not | to serenade until people are in lied. John Soldner will make a public sale at his I place, four miles west of town, on the 28th of this month. John F. Lachot was kept at home on Wed- I nesday of last week to attend ’Squire Abnet’s i court. A soldier of the Salvation Army was in town Monday preaching on the street corners. I Hints to Advertisers. All sorts of men must advertise. From patriarchs to lads; The baker always needs his puffs. The carpenter his adze. The length of each advertisement Needs cogitation solemn; The angler only needs a line. But the general wants a column. The tenor of their ads besides. Needs long deliberations; The old maid seeks ’ Help Wanted. Male,” The playwright, situations. The printing, too, requires some care. As one cannot deny; The baby likes his in small caps. The housewife uses pie. So each must advertise. Each find his missing link. The babe, the maid, the boy, the man. Baptized in printer's ink. Special Notice to consumers of natural gas furnished by Decatur Trenton Kock Mining Co. that in case of turning off gas j into the main lines on account of unavoidable accident. the signal to all will he the court house bell. J. S. Bowers, Secy. All kinds of Garden and Field Seeds in Bulk at J. Niblick & Son. New lino Carpets, Lace Curtains and Draperies in all the latest designs. J. Niblick & Son. Seed Potatoes. A fine lot of Early Rose Potatoes, just shipped in from Michigan, at Myers & Middleton. New line Dress Goods in endless varieties. Prices lower than ever. Call and see them. J. Niblick & Son. Dress Goods in all the latest styles. The largest open stock ever shown in the city. No trouble to show goods. J. Niblick & Son. The new clothing store of Ike Rosenthall is simply immense with a line of goods unequalled in style and price. See him for Suits. P. W. Smith has purchased all the timber on land in Adams county owned by Joseph D. Nuttman, consisting of about 500 acres, and hereby warn all persons to keep off of said land and not to cut or remove any timber from said land. P. W. SMITH. Notice to Taxpayers. Your tax is now due, and if not paid by the third Monday in April, at 5 p. m., they will be returned delinquent. Positively no receipts made out. Dan P. Boids, Treasurer. E. BUHLER & BRO. Are paying the highest market price for 2d-Growth White Oak Logs, also Oak and Elm Butts. If you have timber of this kind to sell, see them. Office and factory, North Eighth street, Decatur, Indiana. J. D. Hale has just received a full line of May’s Northern Grown Seeds which are acknowledged to be superior to all others, being earlier, hardier and more productive. They were grown in 1894, near St. Paul, Minnesota. You are invited to call and see them before purchasing. Prices to suit the times. The Bargain Store next door to Postoffice, is the cheapest place for Glass and Queensware, Tinware, Small Hardware and Household Goods. I have also a lot of Men’s and Boy’s Shoes, which we are closing out at low prices, also have regular shoemaker’s outfit and soles. Carpenter Tools. Come and examine our prices and be surprised. E. STREIT.

WE HAVE THEM JUST What You are Looking For! SWIVEL SILKS AND SILK WEFTS in the very latest patterns and colorings that can be produced at prices lower than ever in the history of trade. As you may know skirts with waists are to be the prominent fad. Then again suits complete will be very popular the coming season. See our the most beautiful cloth for skirts and jackets that was ever made. It is water proof and guaranteed to be the best wearing fabric that is made. Ask to see it. NEW—CARPETS, CURTAINS AND DRAPERIES—NEW We have a complete new assortment in this line in the most beautiful designs. Call and see them. Prices lower than ever. New goods arriving daily in ALL DEPARTMENTS. JESSE NIBLICK & SON. Big Public Sale OF 3500 RODS OF MOBM—BBMMWlMliiflilllllllllllllll I—DRAIN TILE ■ The undersigned will sell at public sale at their tile mill in Preble, Adams County, Indiana, on Wednesday, March 27, ’95 All sizes of tile from three to twelve inches. Come early and get what you need. Sale will begin at 10 a. m. TERMS OE SALE: On all sums over $5 a credit of 12 months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved security, to satisfaction of undersigned, bearing eight per cent interest after maturity. Werling - and. • Dilling. !1 R. J. HOLTHOUSE-& BRO. W — : Are successors to A. Holthouse, and besides being in the market for tradj, can give you the worth of your money in a neat fitting Boot, Shoe, Slipper i 1 or anything you may choose to wear. Our fl'al stock is complete in every particular. We are K® here for business and will sell goods at a low >n)!l . , RSI margin. Come and see us. I 11 R. J. HOLTHOUSE & BRO. g I A. K. GRUBB. General Insurance Agent Agent for the Ohio Farmers Insurance Co.; Union Central Life Insurance Co.; Standard Accident Insurance Co.; The Franklin of Philadelphia; Firemans Fund of California and the Western of Toronto. Farm loans without commission and at a low rate of interest with the privilege of partial payment at any time. Give me a call.