Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1895 — Page 1

VOLUME 1.

Frut K needle was at Van Wett yesterday. Adam Cully of Geneva, was in town Monday. Wood Case, the druggist, was at "Willshire yesterday. Sain Sim iso n of Heine, was conimingling in town Monday. Miss Lucy Vail of Ossian, is visiting relatives in this city. Niblick & Son have a chamre of ad for your inspection this week. Herman Tettman of Geneva, was greet ing old friends in the city yesterday. Miss Stella, Malott is able to le out after an illnessof several weeks with fever. Rev. Stoops is in attendance at the Evangelical -conference at Elk hart this week. “Vengeance by Veraßosebern.” ! is the titleof a new serial story just begun inthis issue. Read the Press advertisements. Tl. will tell you where to getnthe benefit of your dollar. J. S. Peterson went over to Bluffton Saturday and joined his wife on a visit among relatives. Will Ware, one of Geneva’s oil producers, and C. E. White the liveryman, were here on business Saturday. Albert Husser and Milo Wilson went to Lone Tree, Arkansas, Monday, where they will embark inthe saw mill business. I). M. Hensley, the jeweler, is wearing a bandaged neck, caused by a severe-sore throat, which isn't very pleasant to talk about. You will notice the boot and shoe ad of J. H . Vogel weetie, who has just received an immeiwe stock so the spring t.ade. Read up asd profit thereby. The season is now ripe for the planting of your spring ads, and if you want the worth of your money' plant them in the Press, where they will grow into money. What more could you want? John Anderson was one of man

who took the examination for teacher’s license before Superiuteu dent Snow, Saturday. The examination was held in the court room, and the attendance was unusually large. Herman Confer is traveling on the road for Place"* celebrated ice j creams, mineral water and soft drinks. Coraey will no doubt dis \ tingnish himself iu this capacity, I as he is brim full of business and •can talk your arm off on subjects-of interest. Judge Heller will open the April iterm of our circuit court next Monday. The docket is quite heavj’ and indications point to -lots of business during the term. The grand jury will also lie on deck, j which prom tees to fui nish still more fun for those who have sinned and been sinned against. You wiV all note the page ad -of Ehinger & Meyers, who well know the merits attached to the judicious use of printer’s ink. They have bargains in accordance with the , size of their display on the eighth , page of this week’s edition, and you are individually invited to in- , gpect their mammoth stock, a privilege you don"t want to overlook. | The county assessor A. J. Porter i and the town ship assessor s gottheir■ heads together Mondav and fixed , the assessing rate for real estate, . which as given bj' the county as- , eessor is $19.50 for Washington j township, $t5.36 for Union, $15.50 , for Kirkland, $15.28 for BiueCreek, ] $17.30 for Root, $14.60 for Jeffer- , son, $17.68 for Preble, $15.36 for ' French, $16.64 for Wabash, $15.56 , for Monroe, $16.96 for Sc. Mary 's, , and $16.48 for Hartford. | Mary L. Delevan, through her,; attorneys France & Merryman, has ; filed the required documents which asks the circuit court sever the . matrimonial chains that now bind | ] her to John H. Delavan. The com plaint shows them to have been 1 married August 2, 1894, at which i time she was a widow lady, sixty- 1 seven years of age, and a resident < of Allen county, and owning prop- < erty valued at SI,OOO. Since their < marriage this and other property i has been turned over to John, all of which she wants returned to her right, so she modestly asks alimony to the amount of $1,500. She claims that direct abuse has caused her to leave her husband, which she did March 25th last.

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Sherman Mott was at Ohio City Tuesday on business. Miss Mellie Lenhart is visiting with friends at Foit Wayne. John Peoples went to Willshire, Ohio, last Friday on business. Charles N. Brown of Geneva, was here last Thursday on business. The Methodists will meet in annual conference next year at Rich moiid. James T. Dailey and wife of Bluffton, were here Saturday visit ] ing relatives. A. H. McConaha moved yesterday into the Dave E. Smith prop erty on Ninth street. Rev. Kir ch of Marion, was heie last Friday on his way to Auburn, where he remained over Sunday. Misses Leo Case and Mornie Hale attended-c immraencement exercises at Willshire last Saturday night. Jacob Deitsch, a druggist of G •- neva, has gone to New Mexico l where he hopes to regai i health, City ( lerk Brittesn is posting up, his tax duplicates, a job that re-quires-some work, some time and ' some knowledge. Our old friend Hiram Kraner <• Waitash township, is now a read : of the Press, he having joined our family of readers last Saturday. Col. and Mrs. M. B. Miller and W. W. Knecht ami wife of Winchester, were in the city over Sunday, the guests of Mrs.. Lew Eiling - ti am. Marriage licenses have been issued to Edward K. Ray and Lucinda E. Striker, Samuel E. Hite and Phoebe V. Yager. Not an oret - prodvetion for spring. Gus Schlegel will soon begin to get action on his patent awning, to be used on brick Idlus for the preservation of brick in case of raia. It is a jiiu cooler, and will surely sell like hot cakes among the br.ek making fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Niblick very delightfully entertained a number of their friends to a six

l o’clock dinner last evening. Those who were present were highly entertained in a very aceomplithed and social manner. Mana Woods is able to bearound town by the aid of a cane. While absent recently he fell injuring the bone in one of his legs, which has since laid him up. Fears arc entertained that the knee may be stiff, in which event it will prove decidedly ineonxenieut. Tbe assessor is now abroad in the laii'i,.and yetbatewn wealth should sell it and take your pay therefor in gold or silver for your greenbacks are taxable. You cannot hoard your paper money now, or you will have your foot in it. Be kind to your neighbor and give kirn your dog, don’t keep it. Henry Schulte is again on deck in the Pete Holthouse & Co. clothing house iu this eity. Since the] first of the year he has been at Ge- ■ neva managing their branch store there, but was succeeded by Frank Crawford. He is the same genial, smiling Henry, so we suppose he was proof against themany environments so noticeable in that town. The new cemetery belongiag to St. Mary’s Catholic church is being ventilated of a surplus amount of unnecessary rubbish, which, when contributed to the fore winds and all the improvements contemplated brought into effect, will make the burying ground a place of beauty. Too much care can not be given to the sacred memories of our friends w ho have passed before. This church is deserving of commendation for their thoughtful enterprise. The Neal Bros, of Portland, are again at liberty, having put up $2,000 cash as a bond for their ap- ] pearance at the next term of the Jaj r circuit court, where they will have to answer to four indictments for embezzlement. The Sun states that the deposit was made by their uncle, F. R. Neal, of Marshall, Illinois. Their father formerly was on their bond, but a jury at Winchester some two weeks ago decided that he was a member of the company, hence his property was laible for debts of the company, ] making the bond deficient, so the boys were again given a star chamber in the county jail until the above mentioned bond was filed. It seems to be a rocky road to Dublin.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4. 1895.

Harvey Hart was in Fort Wayne Saturday night. Deputy Sheriff Eiwiu made Bluffton a business vi-it yesterday. Commissioner Hobrock was in town Saturday, looking as haleand hearty as a family of six. Sam Bender and Fred Ashbaucher, Lith prominent business men of Bluffton, were in rhe city Tuesday. Mrs. Grayville'Barues of Ridgei ville, visited with Mrs. W. F. Orcutt and other friends here this ■ week. Dr. Stoneburner of Berne, w here yesterday on his way home from Greenville,where he had l»een visiting relatives. Dell Locke came borne Sunday evening from Logansport, where he •ad been attending the conference nestings for several days. Dr. Christy >of Willshire, is with Dr. Costello at Chicago, where both are taking in lectures and brushiug their minds about right. R. J. Holtkouse it Bro. are dein • the business in the boot and shoe . line. Look up their new ad which will lie found in another column. Miss Hattie Studateaker car e home kst Saturday from Fort Wayne, where she had been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. J. Vesey. The Evangelical conference ds in (■session this week at Elkhart, and the ministers of the several denomI inations hereabouts are in attend■ance. Despatches in the daily papers Mast Friday reported a man killed at Geneva, in a saloon brawl. Ini vestigation discloses the fact that the report is a rank fake. John Vogelweede is devoting Iris time now to the gardening indus ' try, and proposes to show us people ' how to successfully till the ■soil. John goes about it like a veritable : old timer. A. K. Grubb, the insurance -cyclone, tried to drive all over Adams eountj' last week, where business demands were awaiting him. He covered a good portion of Adams | county soil. The Clover Leaf Route w ill issue low rate excursion tickets to Toledo, from Frankfort and principal ! stations east, limited going Fast ( Night Express, arriving in Tok do 'oa “Easter Morning.” Tickets ' limited to date of sale. See near- ' est agent of T., St. L. & K. C. Ry. J The new cases filed since last , ! week only include N.Blackburn ex- ' parte, appeal from board of com- ] misstouess of Adams county. J. I. ' Case Threshing Machine Co. vs. ( Perry Robinson, on note and forei closure of mortgage; demands sl,300. Mary L. Delevan vs. John H, : Delevan, divorce; demands $1,500. The April term of the circuit court opens tor business next Monday. The petit jury will consist | Jacob Spangler, Daniel Runyun, Henry Dirkson, Peter Rich, Henry I Lankenau, Elijah Walters, Lemuel : H. Bailey, William Smith, John ] Way, James D. Huffman and Wil- | liaan Boehnke. They will appear for business on Monday the 15th. In Wells county near Domestic, something over a week ago, au ae cidental shooting occurred which j shortly afterwards ended the life of! Joseph Grim. He and his brother ] were shooting rats with a defective | firearm which would not stand cocked. The gun accidentally discharged, the contents taking effect in the abdomen, demoralizing the intestines in several places. He ' suffered agonies until relieved by i death the following morning. The ! funeral services took place Monday of last week.

Out in Goshen one cold morning recently, a woman, having got the worst of an argument with her husband as to who should get up and build the fire, immediately roused herself, chopped up her husband’s wooden leg, and cooked his steak with it. In revenge, he stole her false teeth and hammered them until they were reduced to powder. Then she, in turn, collared his glass eye and climbing on the bed post, stuck it to the ceiling with a wad of chewing gum. Then he stole her switch of false hair, and tying it on a broom handle, commenced to whitewash the kitchen with it, The last insult made the woman so mad that she rushed off to get a divorce, but the judge told her that a divorce had to have two parties to it, and judging from her story there was hardly enough of both of them left to make one.

Mrs. F. M. Schirineyer was at Fort Wayne yesterday. Mis. Roebuck returned last Friday from Muncie where she was < visiting relatives during the en- I cauipmeut. i The Harper drug store at Geneva is now owned by Schrunk & Berg man of Portland, the change taking place last week. i P. 1 tollhouse & Co. again gre yon with a few illustrations of bar- i gains in theclothing line, wh’.chwe solicit your inspection in fuff. Horses are said to l»e so ch' » that now it is fashionable to send captured horse thieves to the insane ! i asylum instead of the penitentiary. 1 Taxpaying lime is almost a thing ■of the past, that is without the penalty. The past two weeks have been busy ones for the treasury of- ; ticials. We see another newspaper state- p meet that the 0. U. C. & C. railroad will again be built. We wonder who next will have it in the hands of a -receiver. Sam Mil’er, a Grand Rapids i brakesman., had a foot taken off while the freight was doing some switching here last Thursday. The j a< cident is quite deplorable. Dr. Costello is in Chicago where he is drinking in the contents of a course of medical lectures, and wil l I co ne back home bright as a dollar. He will take a specialcotirseon the] : diseases of women and children. List of letters remaining in the ' post-office at Decatur: Jos. Howe, Geo. Thrift, Geo. Creamer, John ! Mauer, W. H. Diekeusheets, Sery s , Gerod, Aaron Kaufman, Miss Mary Miller. Joiiy Wn rri"., Postmaster. Dentist A. L. DeVilbiss is with ■ us with a heat commanding card, w 7 hieh emphasizes the fact that he is in the market for liiisiness in his line. Fine bridge work is made a specialty by him, and he does some mighty fine work too. The Pesss is brim full of new advertisements this week, which your attention is personally called ■ to. Our local news is somewhat compact and minus, but you will pardon, knowing that the advertising season is short :iasd to the point.

The Rev. Horton, the new pastor at the Presbyterian ! preached two very able and interesting sermons last Saijbath. He is quite a fluent and entertaining pulpit orator with a pleasaant address, and is pleasing his congregation immensely. He will not move here before the first of May. A cigar is said to contain acetic- : iomic, butyric, valeric and paponic acids, prussic acid, creosote, bar bolic acid, ammonia, snlphureated hydrogen, porinine, vidine, pico- ! lence. rubiline, to say nothing of : cabbagene and burdaekin acid. The ] man who kicks about paying five' cents for all that, does not know’ a bargain when he sees one.—Delphos Conran t. Street Commissioner Dibble is getting in his work on the streets just now, cleaning them up, making things surrounding quite health}as well as improving the appearance of the street. There are some alleys that will require his attention also with ihe coming of spring and warm weather. Let every one turn I in and lend a helping hand by keeping your premises clean which will make the contraction of the various kindred diseases quite dis- i ficult. Cleanliness is next to godliness, anyway. John B. McDowell of Adams county, through his attorneys Jacob Butcher and France & Merry man, has sued W. R. Wheat and Amanda Victoria Wheat for $lO,-! 000 damages for alienating his wife’s affections. The plaintiff set and complained of the defendants that they are husband and that Leona McDowell is and was his wife, that on Janury 2, 1892, said defendants persuaded his said wife to leave her then home in Adams county and come and live with them in \ Jay county; that she did so, taking with her their two children; that he, the plaintiff, has called at the home of the defendants several times and asked to see his wife and children but could never do so; so that he has been deprived of the pleasures and comforts of the company of his said wife and children, causing him great distress of mind and humiliation, for which he asks damages in the sum of SIO,OOO. — Portland Sun.

A. P. Beatty transacted business in Van Wert com ty, Monday. Saturday is oilice day for our county surveyor a fact, it would he well for those wanting to e J him, to remember. Arthur Fisher is in Illinois this week buving horses. Himself and wife have returned from the south and will again reside in this city. W. H. Naehtrieb and wife entertained to dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Deyilbiss, and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Fr 'BCC. The grand jury for the coming session as drawn from the jury box consists of George 11. Kelly, Samuel H- Teeple, R. E. Smith jr., Ment Evans and A. A. Spvunger. Donovan & Bremerkamp, the i grocers, are papering their store room and the change seems to tit , jnst right. It is quite an improvement in disappearance of the room. Mr. Samuel E. Hite and M’ss Phoelie V. Yager were married by f’asej. in. U SiiriCh of the Bapt'st church, at his residence, Tuesday evening. April 2. The Pres; exfiends eoogratulatkins. Some one suggested an oratorical contest among the members of our high school, aud we second the motiouand will contribute a whole t quarter toward defraying the necest sary expenses of such a public outburst. Dr. Beavers office is now as neat las any we have seen lately, being >conveniently arranged aud fixed up !in style. And the Dr. seems to be just alxmt as nice .as his office, so ■ what more do you want for seven I cents.

With the opening of spring many sabstautial improvements will be brought to light. No town in Indiana has revealed the prosperous growth that is so easily distinguished in this city. And what’s better, theend is not yet. Mrs. Saltmarsh of Indianapolis, left Tuesday for Central America, and can thank the Sentinel for the i luxury. In the contest she re- ■ ceived 48,202 votes out of a total of 215,882. By this vote she is honored as being the most populartype writer in the capital city. A delegation of Portland people came up Tuesday and put up the dough sufficient to release the three female beauties confined in jail here. Horne of the delegation are distinguished in public lite at Port--land, while others are mere figure [ heads in life at all. We suppose ere this that the usual midnight celerities are raging at a high hand. The sheriff of Jay county came up 1 Saturday night with three females! who were quietly lodged in Sheriff Ashbaucher’s bastile for safe keeping. The charges against the models of virtue were the keeping of a house of ill-fame, association and a few other immoralities un- ] known to our people, but quite fa-1 miliar with a number of the people j in Jay.

There was great rejoicing among the Methodist lambs at this place when they read among the many appoints of Rev. Gregg’s return here. Himself and wife have arrived back and are receiving a more cordial welcome than wasevergiven them before, if such a thing is in the list of possibilities. They have impressed our people with their excellence to such a degree that to lose them from our midst would seem disaster itself. But they have been returned, so everybody is happy. Next Sabbath morning begins the new ministerial year. The conference appointments in the Fort Wayne district can be summed up as follows; F. T. Simpson, P. E.; Angola, J. E. Ervin; Auburn, J. K. Waltz; Avilla, E. B. Westhafer: Bluffton, C, U Wade; Bobo, George Cocking; Churubusco, J. M. Haines; Coesse, N. B. Barton; Decatur, E.T. Gregg, Fort Wayne, Berry street, C. B. Cisselle; St. Paul, J. M. Stewart; Simpson, J. W. Paschall; Trinity, H. M. Johnson; Wayne street, J. H. Bickford; Fremont, R. C. Jones; Garrett, G. B. Work; Geneva, J. M. Chamness; Geneva circuit, Grant Peters; Harlan, Lewis Reeves; Hoagland, Charles Tinkham; Hun tertown, S. J. Mellinger; Huntington, F. G. Brown, Leo A. E. Sack; Markle, O.E. Wilcox; Monroeville, W. E. Murray; New Haven, Lincoln Steere; Ossian, S. E. Norris; Poneto to be supplied by J. B. Foster; Roanoke, C. M. Hollopeter; Uniondale, S. P. Zimmerman; Wolf Lake, C. D. Smith.

NUMBER 25

Mrs. J. D. Hill Tuesday evening entertained the historical chib which at present are exploring the internal regions of darkest Africa. On ami after April 1, 1897, Fred ! C. Miller will launder shirts at half price. All on account of an 84 pound boy at his house Sunday morning, March 31. One of the large window glasses at L. Yager furniture store was found broken yesterday morning. A brick laying among the broken ; debris clearly demonstrated how it ail happened. J H. Steel of Pleasant Mills, was in town Saturday, calling at our sanctum and having his name enrolled with our large family of read. re. H-• reports Pleassmt Miils as being right side up with care. Lagrippe is supposed to have caused the death of William Saheimann, a well known resident of this county. He died Sunday night after an ill ness of but a few days. The funeral took place on Tuesday. An exchange tells about a Georgia editor who levied upon a country circus for an advertising bill. He sold his paper, took the sherifi with him in thecircus business, and is now on the high rode to fame aud fortune. Such is life in Georgia. Bowen Hale is at Willshire this week, where he began work on his flouring mill and grain elevator. .He will push the work to rapid (completion and have things hum- ' | ming thereabouts as soon as it is ’: possible. His family will remain ! here for the present. ► I By the West Baden Journal we note that the springs there are i quite a resort for Indiana recreators, I who are seeking either better health ‘ or "list resting up, as the saying goes. We feel like recommending lit to our people who are troubled with “that tired feeling” or a case 1 1 gout. The office at the Burt House is ! simply elegantly tine since the decorators finished beautifying ‘, thereabouts. The colors all harnionize with the wood finishings, making the room appear quite majestic and a little extraordinary for any town the size of Decatur. The Burt always would be first and foremost. You will find in this issue the public statements of the Old Adams County Bank of this city, and the Bank of Berne, both substantial monied institutions with financial backbone and business integrity sufficient to make them praiseworthy corporations. They have the capital, the surplus, the cash and the official management, so | what else is necessary for a success. Business was brisk at the auditor’s office Monday, dishing out books, blanks and instructions to the township assessors, who now j are busy in their several townships I looking up the assessable property. Those who were on deck Monday were D. P. Roop of St. Mary’s, R. I E. Smith of Monroe, W. L. Mattox of Blue Creek, Antnonj- Wertzberger of Union, Frank Hisey of Jefferson, John Christen, jr., of R ot, Lewis Reynolds of Hartford, Joel Meyers of French, W. R. Kurchner of Kirkland, Charles Schrick of Preble, Henry Miller of Wabash, aud Peter Jackson of Washington The council met in adjourned session last Tuesday evening. A resolution was passed providing for the sale of st reef improvemen t bo mi s for the Jefferson street improvement. Nearly all of the property owners paid their assessments so the bonds to be issued amount to less than S6OO. Henry Bremerkamp presented a petition asking the city to pay him for sprinkling street aud alley crossings, but the council concluded that Dr. Coverdale and J. W. Teeple could keep the crossings wet by spitting on them. Miss Adda Snow was allowed $25 for a transcript of the evidence in the Madison street opening across the G. R. & I. R. R. The judiciary committee instructed to purchase necessary books for the clerk and treasurer in which to keep street, alley and sewer improvements. The city attorney was ordered to draw a resolution to macadamize Monroe street from Thirteenth street to the west corporation line, and also a resolution to brick Court street The matter of opening Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets north from Monroe i street was referred to the Street I committee, and they’ were ordered to report at the next regular meetI ing.