Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1895 — Page 8

Geneva Oil Notes. The work in Adams county ison the increase, with the usual fair results. Kerlin Bros, have a rig up for their No.l on the A. Pontius farm, located in section 36, Hartford town - ship. Bolds Bros, are drilling their No. 3 well on the G. F. Pontius farm, located in section 26. Hartford township. The Ohio < >il company is drilling its No. 12 well on the 0. Hirschy farm, located in section 25, Hart ford township. Geneva parties are drilling their well on the S.W. Hale farm, located in section 2S Wabash township. Adams county. The Hartford Oil company has a rig up for its No. 1 on the L. O. Bear farm, located iu section 21, Hartford township. The Geneva Oil company has a rig up for its No. 1 on the Wm. Vance farm, located in section 23 Hartford township. Moonhank -t Heiman Br<>s. have a rig up for their No. 1 on the F. Troyer farm, located in section 31 Hartford township. Collins, Hardison & Leonard are drilling their No. 3 well on the P. J. Lichty farm, located in section 21, Hartford township. Collins, Hardison & Leonard have a rig up for their N 0.5 on the E. Lindsay farm, located in section 22. Hartford township. The Rock Island Oil company has its N 0.6 well in the sand on the E. C. Martin farm, located in section 24 Hartford township. The Northern Indiana Oil company is drilling its No. 2 well on the A. Fields farm located in section 33, Hartford township. The Northern Indiana Oil company has a rig up for its N 0.2 well on the J. Glendennins., 'irni, located in section 34, Hartford township. Griffin, Liken & Henner have completed their No. 5 well on the Geo. Pontius farm, located in section 26, Hartford township. The well is making a fair showing. The Eastern Ohio Oil company and Finnegan have completed their No.l well onEidelwine farm,located in sect ion 30, Hartford township. Adams county. The well produced 40 barrels in the tirst 24 hours. Bolds Bros, have completed their N 0.5 well the J. S. Miller farm, located in section 1, Jackson township Jay county. The well produced 225 barrels in the first 24 hours.—Oil City Derrick. Oil City Items. The weather is a little too dry for the farmSamuel Maurer lost a good cow last week. The* Hol ingsworth well is still increasing in gas. Tramps are seen in this vicinity, some of whom are very musical. They go the houses and ask the ladies to play for them, and then they sit down to the organ and play like a ' professor. Treat them kindly and you will hear some news in the near future, as we think they are not tramps but spies. Cl ■ a of the week looking up his gas. Monmouth Items. The weather is still dry and hot. The fruit is not so badly damaged by the ' frost as people surmised, apples, plums and pears will be plentiful. Miss Belle Ev;; r;s is visiting friends at Kwwanee. Kunkle’s travel bank is being run to its full capacity, the gravel being hauled on the road. That’s right. U»ys: good roads are a blessing to any community. Children s day exercises at Concord. June 9. ! W. A. Turner and family spent a few days at Fort Wayne, guest of his brother Bernard. ' Bert Lord is the happiest man in town, a new boy Lav.n.' put ill hi* day. Mother and babe doing well. Memorial services at Concord were very ' largely attended. Neverin its history did she ■ draw so large a crowd, there being at least I 600 persons present. Quite a number from | Decatur were present, and all seemed ready j to honor the boys in blue. Rev. D. F. Kain' delivered an excellent discourse and the quartette sang some very beautiful selections which were highly appreciated by all present, especially by the soldier element. Mrs. C. I). Kunkle acted as organist. May Concord have ' many more such occasions. Geneva Items. Wig Briggs was at Portland the first of the week on business. Mr. Fred Vance and Miss Vina Pusey were i married at the bride's home Saturday eve. Sime McGriff and family of Celina, visited I here Sunday with his brother Michael. Dick Scuse was at Richmond last Saturday. I David Runyon of Linn Grove, was in town 1 MondayFred Hoffman of Hartford township, was in j town the first of the week. Charles McClain of Briant, was in town i Monday. Mr. Griffin of Lima, was in town Monday. Bill Swielier of Wapakoneta, but formerly of this place, was in town Monday. John LaChot of Berne, was in town Monday ■ on business. D. P. Bolds of Decatur, was in town last . Saturday shaking bands with old friends. Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hale, a bright ! bouncing baby girl. A petition is now being circulated through I the town for the purpose of raising money for the construction of a Catholic church. W. P. Black, w ho was badly injured in a run- j away sometime ago, started for Cambridge Springs. Pennsylvania, where he will stay un- i til his health improves. Chas. Reading spent Sunday in Huntington ■ th * guest of his best girl. Coffee & Baker have onions, lettuce and most all kinds of green vegetables, a fact you don’t want < to forget. 11

Berne Items. The littl. ~.n .ft Henry Lai-sure rut his head t*adly with an axe. Dr. Franz was tn attendance. .i.t.-.d, \:/ | to K. • s ; . 8 ’day. returning Monday noon with his wife and baby. Jacob got tired of living alone. Eli and Jacob Meyer drove to Woodburn last Wednesday and returning Thursday night Jeff Lehman and Daniel Sprunger went to Fort Wayne Monday. Pete AshbaucherofDecatur.passed through Berne Monday on his way to Geneva. J. T. Lachot and children were at Geneva Monday afternoon. Chris Stengel was at Decatur Monday on business. C. C. Voder and Jame-, Sullivan had quite a runaway Monday. The toys got thrown out of the buggy, but escaped being hurt. Frank Erwin and family went tn Chicago ■ Tuesday to visit friends. The little son of Rev. B. Ruff got badly • scalded in a vessel of hot water Tuesday. Dr. I Uranz is treating the case. Dr. Stoneburner was at Greentown over Sunday attending to his sick sister. Rev s. F. Sprunger has returned from California. and reconuuends that country very highly. Sam Schindler went to Red Key on business Tuesday’ afternoon. E. F. Hoecker and family with Grandmother Hoecker went to Kansas to visit relatives this week. The brickyard has started up with a full set i of hands. The town council passed a very wise ordinance on Monday night, prohibiting nitroglycerine wagons from passing through town. They have made it a rule of going through through town but will Lave to change their route now. The fine was affixed at not less than §IOO and not more than >»no. David Bailey and Miss Alice Fink were united in marriage last week. Program Os the the High School com meneement tomorrow evening, PA KT I. “The Puritans." Salutory Frances F. Rice “Success and Its < tendinous.** India Helm "The Standard State.**.. . ... Sophia B. Mangold ■Historical Cranks.’’- Earl B. Adams "Are We a Prosperous People." Ik M Krick “Do We Respect Our Freedom'!'” Gusta Cramer “One Difficulty at a Time."... Lavina A- Kern “European Education.". William C. Thomas "Zenobia." Lulu I. Helm “Prejudices Against Higher Education.” Bee C. Dor win I " Tis the Mind that Makes the Body Rich.” Tessa A. Barkley i Discussion “Protection or Free Trade. Which?”. Will P. Schrock. R. D. Myers • Three Pivotal Points in the World's History." Sada B. Hale • A Tangled Skein." Maud M. Rice "Women of Greek History.” Bessie E. Congleton : ••The Laborer aud His Wages.” Henry H. Heller Fa IseA ml >it k ms.”.. . !»• I 0 B Chafer - Toiling Toward Light." Eva J. Acker • Frances E. Willard.” "Value of Curiosity.”—Valedictory Grace L. Miller and Nellie Winnes PA KT 11. Music. Invocation Rev. E. T. Gregg Music. Adumni Address. . D’French Quinn M usic. ! Class Address . Joseph Swain L. L.D., Pres. Ind. Univ. Music. Presentation of Diplomas Supt. A. D. Moffatt Benediction. Rev. H. H. Smith FREE COINAGE. Dead Max’s Gulch, Colo., May 20, The noble cause of free silver is march ing on in the gulch, but we demand a new ratio. The change came about in this way: Last night Judge Hamm delivered his celebrated lecture on ‘’Free Silver or a Free Fight—or Both.” Red Light Hall was crowded, as the ■ judge is one of the ablest advocates of free silver and free fights in the west. He also believes in free whiskey, hut the score he ; owes at Colonel Sourmash’s Crystal Palace saloon prevents him from airing his views on this latter subj'ect. ‘‘All the great men in the world are for a double standard,” exclaimed Judge Hamm in the beginning, “Look at the list: I Governor Waite and Mrs. Lease, General Coxey and Ebenezer Wakeley, and scores |of others just like ’em. The Emp’ror of Chiny is for it, although, I reckon, he’d rather pay up in old iron than anything else just at this time; theJubjubof Bul-bul in Injy is also for free silver—or anything else he can get.” “Dead Man’s Guichers never will be I slaves,” went on the impassioned orator, “not on your 455. Give me a double standard or give me trouble—and in the mean- ’ time,” continued the speaker, “somebody give me a drink.” While the judge was bathing himself inside with the contents of a bottle which had been passed to him, a tender foot—a j “gold bug” from the east, who was in the audience, arose. This single standard plutocrat said there could be only one standard of value. The judge wiped his mouth with the tail of his coat and called on the stranger to explain. “Why, its like this,” said the prejudiced grasping plutocrat. “A standard pound, for instance, is 16 ounces. We could not have two standard pounds, one of 16 ounces and another of 8. If all the world except: j ourselves bought and sold at 16 ounces we could not do business with others if we insisted cn giving only 8 ounces to the pound. If you changed the marks on the scales so that the 8-ounce notch would read one pound—l mean if a law were passed to that effect—it wouldn’t make the 8 ounces equivalient to the 16 ounces, although the j 8-ounce scales and 16-ounce scales would each record a pound.” “Suppose you were a grocer, judge,” con- ’ tinued the tool of the Shylocks, “and on one set of scales you sold 16 ounces of cof-' fee for a pound, and on the other set of |

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scales you sold 8 ounces of tea which those scales arso recorded as a pound, people might do business with you in the coffee line, but when it came io tea —well, they would not come to tea—they would go somewhere else.” “That," said Judge Hamm, with a noble wave of his hand,“is what I call sophistry and I shall ignore it.” “As I was saying,” he resumed, “we’ve got to have more money, got to have it right here in Dead Man’s Gulch. There ain’t been a sucker from the east out here to buy a mine for two years. Suppose I ‘ go up to my mine now and dig out an ounce of silver and sell it, what do I get’’ Fifty cents. What’s 50 cents? Four cock-1 tails. Now if congress would pass a free • coinage bill and 1 got that silver coined in’o money 16 to 1 with gold, the value would be doubled and I could get eight , cocktails; do you wonder that 1 am for free silver? Think of that odds —eight to one on cocktails.” Tin Can Charlie, who had struck the gulch that morning on his thirty-ninth annual tour around the world, arose, aud said in a voice that trembled with great excitement: “May I ask the honorable gent a question.” “Turn yourself loose,” replied the judge smiling ” “Would that plan work both ways?” “How do you mean?” “Would a ratio of 8 to 1 with gold make the cocktail ratio 16 to 1?” “It would,” said the talented orator. “Then I move that we adopt resolutions demanding the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 8 to 1.” ft was carried without a dissenting voice. Then Colonel Sourmash, of the Crystal ■ Palace saloon, who was in the back end of the hall, arose and his remarks broke up the meeting. “In the meantime,” said Colonel Sourmash, “the ratio on cocktails will remain 4 to 1 and hereafter you’ll pay cash.”— Chicago Times-Herald. Tbe officials nailed a suspicious looking and suspicious acting vagrant who scared the people at a farm house, a short distance in the country, yesterday. It should be universally understood that Beveridge's Montana Wildest West is not only a stupendous show, but also a superlative show, a sensational show, a savage show, a solid show, a successful show, and a sincere show. You should patronage that which furnishes labor at home. Who can ask for better ice than was harvested here last winter. The business man should use home ice and the laboring man should use home ice because it furnishes work for our home laborers. Since the triplet story got afloat, the following is a fair sample of white house mail. Dear Sir:—l see you are giving •SSOO for twins. Please send me SIOO right away, for I going to get married this week to a girl that is a twin. I come from a twin getting stock, so you will see that there is no risk to run and when my wife has twins, I will draw on you for the balance. I need the money to start housekeeping with. lam in good health and so is the girl I am going to marry, j have always been a Democrat. I voted for you the s first time and will vote for you again and name the twins after you. Do not disappoint me for I may have to get married sooner. A. P. BEATTY J. F. MAXI MANN & BEATTY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW And Notaries Public. Pension claims prose- | cuted. Odd Fellows building. I

The G. R. & I. (Effect Jan. 90. 1W5.) TRAINS NORTH. •No. 3. ♦No. 5. ’No. 1. Richmond 11:00 am 11.25 pm 3:30 pm Parry ll:lu ” 3:40 “ Votaw 3:4*» “ I Harley 3:51 “ I Fountain City. 11:25 “ 3:57 “ | Johnson 11:35 “ 4:10 “ Lynn 11:44) “ 12:U2am 415 “ Snow Hi 11... 11:46 “ 4 21 “ W.nmls 11:49 “ 4:24 ” Winchester.... 12:00 ” 12:30a m 4 4 ” I Stone 12.10 pm 4:44 “ I Ridgeville ...12:19 “ 12:3® am 453 ” Collet 12:32 “ 5:05 ” I Portland 12:42 “ 12:54 am 5:17 ” Jay 12:52 ” 5:36 “ - Briant 12:59 “ 5:32 “ Geneva 1:07 “ 1:14 am 5:41 ” Ceylon 5:43 “ Berne 1:18 “ 5:51 ’• Monroe 1:36 “ 6:01 “ DECATUR. 1:47 “ I:44am 612 ” Monmouth 6:18 “ Williams 2:01 “ 6:36 “ • Hoagland 2:06 “ 6:31 “ Adams 6:41 ” Fort Wayne.. . 2:35 “ 2:20 am 6:55 “ •Daiiy. except Sunday. ♦Daily to Grand Rapids. TRAINS SOUTH. •No. 2. ♦No. 6 :No. 4. Fort Wayne.... I:lspm 11:45pm 5:45am Adams 5.> •• Hoagland 1:39 “ 12:15am 6:13 “ ' Williams 1:45 “ 12:21 ” 6:18 “ i Monmouth ... 6:24 “ I A Monroe 2:13 “ 12:50 ” 6:44 “ Berne 2:25 " 1:02 ‘‘ 6:56 “ Ceylon "... 7:04 “ i Geneva 2:35 “ 1:14 “ 7:06 “ 1 Briant 2:44 “ 1:24 “ 7:15 “ I Jay 1:31 “ 7:21 “ | Portland 3:00 “ 1:41 “ 7:30 “ Collett 1:51 “ 7:41 “ I Ridgeville ... 3:24 “ 2:03 “ 7:50 “ Stone 2 14 “ 7:59 “ : Winchester ... 3:44 “ 2:25 “ S:O9 ” Woods 2:.M “ *.22 “ Snow Hill 2:36 •• 8:25 “ Lynn ... 4:05 “ 2 42 “ 832 “ Johnson .... 2:47 “ 8:38 “ Fountain Citv. 4:21 ” 2 57 “ 8-49 “ Haley 8:55 “ Votaw 8:59 “ Parry yuix “ j Richmond... 445 “ 3:20 ” 9:15 " •Daily Grand Rapids tDai.y ex. Sunday. Jeff Bkyson. Agent ! ! C. L. Lockwood. Gen. Pa* Ag-‘nt j The Clover Lieaf. T.. St. L. &K.C.R. R. In effect May 2»i. 1 EAST. Passenger 7:50 p. m. I Express •- i •.! t; I xOCa l 1:45 p. m. . WEST. Passenger 5:10 a. m Express 8:33 p. m. j Local 9:40 a. m. E A. Whinrey. Agent. fPonargue, No. 907 Monargue is a beautiful dark bay. low • - high, weighs 1.550 pounds. Has excellent feet and limlw. andt on is certainly unsurpassed by any horse his class in Indiana. Monargue is a Belgian stallion, registered tn Belgian stud book. He was foaled in 1887; imported In I*l l,y the Wabash Importing Company. Wabash, Ind. Monargue will make the coming season as follows: Mondays and Tuesdays of each week at Frederick Bohne’s. one mile and a half northeast of Knopp sci.ool house in Union township. Wednesdays and Thursdays at F. W. Fuelling’s, one mile and a half east of Williams Station. Fridays and Saturdays at H. D. Fuelling’s. Root township. TERMS. 36 to insure colt to stand and suck: single service S 3. Parting with a mare before she Is known to be with foal forfeits the in- ’ insurance. Care taken to prevent accidentsbut will not be responsible should any occur F. W. Fuelling & Bros. Bingen, Ind. 8080 & COFFEE. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Roomsover P.O. Decatur, Ind

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