Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1895 — Page 1

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VOLUME I.

D. W. Beery left Saturday for Philadelphia, with a car load of horses. Treasurer Bolds is making a few additions to his residence propertv —fixing it up for winter, as it were. Dan Erwin is selling insurance, and is located in the office with A. K. Grubb, second floor in the Stone building, Second street' O. N. Tyndall and wife are home from Indianapolis, where the latter had been taking medical treatment. We understand that her condition is somewhat improved. You will find one half column advertisement for Campbell A Ervin at Berne. The firm in question do an extensive business, and it will pay you to investigate their prices. The Brethren in Christ will hold a conference at Antioch, beginning tomorrow. The meeting will last over Sunday, and many of the members in that locality are prepering to attend. Letters belonging to Lizzie Walters, F. E. Summons, OddieOgd n. (). O. Miller, Kate Karns, David King, Fred Hanert, Bert Davis and Hayes Tablet remain unclaimed in the Decatur postoffice. The literary club meets at Dr. Boyer's office to night, for the first , time since its re organization. The I membership has been increased, and predictions point to successful, beneficial and social literary season. Esq. Smith looked solemn Tuesday while he repeated the words that made Frank Magors. of M illshire, and Minnie McMurrey, of Blue Creek township, husband and wife. They immediately left for their future home at Willshire. Wallace, the horse thief and general criminal captured by our officers about a month ago, was sentenced to five years in the Columbus ]>enitentiary, from Kenton, Ohio. Sheriff Ashbaucher and Marshal Cowan were there as witnesses in the case. E. I*. Menefee will be one of a party that goes north in a couple of weeks to hunt and have a good time for a few weeks. We envy them the sport they will derive from this trip, and hope, too, that nothing traveling wild on four legs will escape their observation. A petition is in circulatson about town for the building of a gravel road, extending a mile and a halt east on the Piqua road. Our business men were planking down th* lucre in a free and easy manner It is safe to predict that the road will be built, and we hope with it many miles more. The gas company has beeu doing a land office business since the frosty wave struck us. Everybody immediately thought that Jack Frost had come to stay, and with that end in view had (heir heating stoves arranged for future protec tion. But we will have plenty of warm weather yet. Saturday Harvey Harruff will take charge of the recorder s office, which he will proceed to olhei;ii -’’ hold down for four years. Retirin'’- Recorder Baughman ha. ado a faithful, painstaking, acI He has many friends who will wish him continued . ever he may engage, Success the ins and outs. Ferry J» “"J ft™ Fort.''-.™, « bere s £ “ height of progression. She is aged eighty-two years. r w Place has began the re- • f ice cream, soft modeling of 111 , forv a t 814i ,„ir --.nd extract factory, on i-'S Fornax street, mention of la-16 torn , e co i U mns » few weeks g r floor space J, ” l “ partment, used in the oVer fficture of flavoring extracts j nianufactu BllDP iies used by finished It Wiil be replete in Wh r e “ d Sf andJiniistobecomever.i decan, terpr i ße m makmended for h )ftte , Q every ing the inuuowy —• . detail.

Ed Wagoner and Deputy Sheriff Emmett McLain are fairing to day ;, t \\ iuchester Judge Heller Sundayed with his family here, after a full week of ] .judicial prestige in the Jay circuit court. Edward M. Cowan of Bobo, died Sunday at one o’clock with typhoid fever. The funeral services were held Tuesday. In the list of pensions granted yesterday the name of Andrew J. ] Devinney, of Decatur, appeared. He is a survivor of the Mexican ■ war. Ehiuger & Meyers, the clothiers, overcoaters and gents’ furnish -’ ers, have a change in their advt. this week. It’s dimes in your pocket to feast upon bargains. P. Holthouse has a few words to say to you upon the important sub- \ ject of overcoats for this frosty weather, and clothing and the like ; ] for general wear, every day and ] Sunday too. Mrs. Samuel Hocker, the wife of Ex-Trustee Hocker of French town- ■ ship, died one week ago yesterday. Her death was caused by kidneycomplications. Funeral services were held at Zion. The real estate and insurance agency of Stoops & Walters are doing a nice, neat business in their ’ line. They handle any kind of in surance you might mention and can ' do you good, no doubt. The water works line pipes are now about all completed. If nothing prevents, in a few more weeks ■ ; water will be turned on and a test . | made. The sooner the quicker,! fl and the quicker the better. I \ Contractor Howe was arrested ; ■ j last Monday for obstructing Win ! I Chester street by- throwing up an ' 1 embankment across the street J r ] The case is before Esq. Hill, and ' g will come up for hearing next Sat- .: urday. , J County' Clerk Lenhart issued 1 marriage licenses the past week to' Ainos E. Biggs and Ada Wisner,’ Daniel E. Smith and Lydia Schra I luka, Frank Magors and Minnie ‘ J McMurrey, Curtis W. Campbell I and Margaret Schenck. I You will notice in this issue the ■ sale of one hundred Duroc Jersey hogs and pigs by Nidlinger & Fleming. The sale takes place on the farm of John 1). Nidlinger, four and one-half miles northeast ]of this city, on October 10. Read . up their sale and attend. Will Fought visited the scene of his former grandeur in the sunny state of Tennessee last week and 1 again climbed Lookout Mountain which he ascended thirty two years ago when chasing the flying rebs. He says he rather enjoyed his last i ascension better than the first.— ] Geneva Herald. Tank Kee, or General G. W. Baily, the American cyclone who has spent much of his life in China, and brought most of it home with him, judging by the enormous displays at the Methodist church, is amusing our people this week. He is up to date in the elocutionary and historic lines, and his lectures were educating and interesting. Fair audiences greeted him each | evening. Frederick Knoble, an old inhabitant of Union township, being aged eighty-one years, nine months i anl sixteen days, died Sunday. A i very short time before his death he stepped on a broken hoe, poisen ing his foot, and resulting in lock I jaw, which caused death. He is! one of a few that has seen Union township from childhood, and knows much interesting historyrelative to Adams country history. The funeral services were held Tuesday at Salem with interment at the cemetery at that place. When a reporter strikes a dull day he feels like quoting the following lines taken from an exchange: “News, news, news! It’s enough to give me the blues. Nobody married and nobody dead; nobody broken an arm or a head; nobody comes in to talk of the “crap-” no one boozy and started a scrap; no one got run in for taking a horn; nobody buried and nobody born. Oh! tor racket, a riot, i a fuss! Some one to come in and kick up a muss; somebody to stir up the peace laden air; somebody’s comment to give up a scare. Somebody thumped within an inch of his life; somebody run off with another man s wife; some one come in and pay up his dues; anything, anything; just so it’s uewa,”

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3.1895.

Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Winans have gone to Greencastle where they will attend school this winter. Phillip and Henry Ardner, of Toledo, Ohio, were guests of Curley Rademacher and family the first of the week. Mrs. Dell Locke was called to Toledo Monday by the announcement of the death of her uncle, John D. Eckhardt, L. Bowen Hale, the Willshire grain merchant, was attendir g to business in town Monday. He reports the milling business as being just right. Albert Wade a bank cashier at Mt. Vernon is reported gone, and following this announcement comes one that he is short in his accounts ] with the bank some $30,000. Mayor Qninn and B. W. Sholty have formed a pirtnership in law, ] collecting and all that. The com-! ! bination seems to work all right, i and here is wishing them good luck and lots of it. The races at Fort Wayne last week weie more largely attended than of any previous year. The j races were up to the expectationsl of the many spectators, so we pre same every one was satisfied. From July 1, 1804, to July 1, 1895, County Clerk Lenhart issued j 208 marriage licenses. This is an average of four per week, and is a record that will average with any [ , county of our population and pro- j . gression. George W. Woodward, J. H-1 1 Stone and Vick S. Reed, program committee for the District Odd ] Fellows’ meeting here the 14th, . are getting a full grown hustle on [' themselves, and are arranging for a genial, good time. 1 Earl Adams left Monday morning to enter the Ann Arbor law ' school, where he will thoroughly acquaint himself with these educa tional qualities. Earl is a bright I I young boy. and we predict for him > a successful school year.

“Dihydrodibenzoyterephtale” is a new, delicate and charmingly simple little word, recently added to | the chemist’s vocabulary. It ] should be pronounced with the ac- ] cent on the middle syllable. Such ] a word as that ought to be taken through a course in physical cul- ] ture. David B. Studabaker, at home 1 two to five p. m., Saturday, Octo- ] ber 5. The above David B. is the ] son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Studa baker, and this occasion is in honor of his second birthday anniversary. ] The youthful images who will greet ] him on this occasion will no doubt enjoy a huge, good time. New filed circut court cases can ] beenumeratedas follows: William | Underwood vs George Harmon, et al., appeal from J. P. Jasper ] Robison vs. Peter P. Ashbaucher, sheriff; injunction. Loyd Kidmell I vs. Amos Kidmell, note; demand ] $l5O. Fred Schafer et al. vs. Isaac Robinson et al., on note and to 1 foreclose chattel mortgage. John ■A. Depew vs. James Gilchrist, appeal from J. P. Among those who sat upon the ] judicial bench in the Adams circuit court since 1836, official records show the names of Charles W. Ewing, David Kilgore, John K. Evans, William Elzey, Wade] Loofbourrow, James W. Borden, Ezekial Harper, E. A. McMahon, Joseph Brackenridge, R. S. Taylor, ] William W. Carson, Robert Low-! rey, J. M. Haynes, James R. Bobo and Judge Heller. Many of our ■ old timers who have seen Adams ] county in all its variations, will probably recall many of these names. Saturday Sheriff Linkhauer took ’ Burwell Fox to the penitentiary to serve two years for horse stealing. When he returned he brought with I him Charles W. Williams, who was ] ] sent up from here on a sentence of two years for burglary. Along in the fall of 1894 Williams broke into the shop of C. W. Muth, of New] Corydon. For this he was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, which, with the commutation, expired Saturday. Williams is in bad shape, having contracted Bright’s disease. This is the first trip Sheriff Linkhauer has made under the uew ’aw, which requires that when a prisoner is released from the penitentiary the sheriff of the county from which he is sent up shall b< present ]to receive and take him to that i county. —Portland Snn.

Mrs. J. S. Peterson came home Saturday evening from a pleasant' visit at Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Murray arrived home Saturday, and are ’ now at home to their many friends. Jim Touhey still walks with a crutch, the mashed foot that he! now wears being even more serious j than at first thought. October 7 and 8 the Clover Leaf road will sell excursion tickets to Lancaster, Ohio, and return at $5 for round trip. Thirty days return limit. E A. Whinrey, Agt. ] N. K. Todd, wife and Baby Todd came over Saturday to visit relatives and show off the young Miss Todd, who is a beauty and no mistake. The latter two are spending the week here. Bro. Davis of the Willshire] Gazette, called at this office while paying his respects about town Monday. The Gazette is a very] neat paper, for which Mr. Davis is to be congratulate 1. Solomon Neuenschwander has ' taken up a stray black and white spotted pg which the owner can have by calling at his residence, ■ one and a half miles north of De- ■ eatur, and settling all damages. The Winchester fair is in prog- ] i ress this week. L. C. Devoss is I attending, and at the same time l greeting many of his old time friends and acquaintances. He I was born, bred ai d died in that j loyal region. C. A. Neuenschwauder and Sam Soldner were Press callers Tuesday, the latter, knowing that life was a dreary waste without our publication, planked down the cash and will henceforth keep abreast with Adams county news.

The West Baden Journal presents this week a picture of all their presses, engine, etc., used to pro duce the Journal. In addition to this they float to the breezes the many befitting qualities of the springs, which is “the Carlsbad of America,” in their well-developed opinion. The Portland fair last week was the usual attraction. Something! like 9,000 tickets were sold on! Thursday, and a corresponding number every other day. It will be seen by this that the big Jay ] county fair is losing none of its old- j time prestige. Many from this place were in attendance. A member of our medical fraternity, wishing to make a favorable impression upon a Germa*n farmer, mentioned the fact that he had received a double education, as it were. He had studied homeopathy and was also a graduate of a “regular” medical college. “Oh, dot vas noddings,” said the farmer, “I vonce had a calf dot sucked two cows, and he made noddings but a common schteer after all. Jesse Conner an employee of the Clover Leaf at Marion, was killed Monday evening. He was yard switchman, and was setting a brake on a car that was being pushed by a switch engine. In some manner ] the brake being rather tight, failed to catch on the cachet. The brake ] suddenly whirled around and threw the brakeman from the top of the car directly in front. He was] caught by the bolt on the brake beam and thrown some distance, dying instantly. He is a brother of Marion Conner of Geneva, where his remains were taken yesterday ] for interment iu the Burris ceme- ] tery. He leaves a wife and four children. Howard Stupp, the seventeen-year-old son of the widow Stupp, is in jail for stealing a ten dollar William from the cash drawer of Snyder’s grocery store, at which place the boy had been sent on an errand. When he reached the store he found it empty, the pro prietor being in the back room. Snyder appeared iu time to see the boy retreating as fast as he could, and surmising something not according to “Hoil,” investigated the cash drawer, found the shortage and the tale was told. He immediately notified the officers, but in the meantime the boy had hired a livery rig and was gone to Wayne. He came back, however, and was immedi..iely taken in by the officers. He was given a preliminary before Esq. Hill Tuesday moruI ing, who bound him over to the {circuit court, placing his bond at S2OO. Not being able to give bond, I the boy occupies a conspicuous [place at the county jail.

M. Burns the Second street harness dealer, came home Monday a from a week’s absence at Akron, '1 Ohio, where he visited relatives. e Mrs. Judge Heller entertained 1 the Shakespeares yesterday’ after 1 noon, light refreshments being an 1 important feature of the club program. , I! Miss Julia Parrott, daughter of Mr. Parrott of Hartford township, sails next Saturday' for her mission- ] t ary fields in India. The trip will I take about six weeks. ' Gotlieb Sourer of French town j ship, died last Friday morning v after a lingering illness with con- , sumption. The funeral services . were held Sunday at Vera Cruz, ] Deceased was aged seventeen years. „ Van Wert papers m intion the i arrest of Charles M. Hill on a c charge of forgery. Mr. Hill is well; 8 known here and spent several days j i last week here. He positively | stated that there was absolutely f nothing in the charge. ? Sam Shugart, one of Geneva’s! ’’ prominent oil speculators, was in ! ! the city Saturday. Sam verily be-] ’ : lieves that oil lies hiddeaquite near | 1 Decatur, and wouldn’t hesitate]' very much in trying his luck at,' | finding it. We hope ’tis true. j William Peel, Samuel Soldner ( ! and C. A. Neuerschwander, view- -. ! ers on the Jacob Fqgle half section ~ | road, which was petitioned for last commissioner’s court, met here l Tuesday and gave Job Young s2s] worth of damages, the road run- ] ning through h-s land. The electric car and the bicycle' have nearly routed the horse, and. many are the columns of news-1 papers filled with stories on the ] subject. The latest is to the effect that they are turning horses out and tying placards to them which read: “He w-ho feeds me can have me.”—Electrical Student. A Kansas farmer has been arrested on charge of having kissed his neighbor’s wife in such a “loud, boisterous, felonous, malicious and unseemly- manner” as to disturb her husband’s peace. There is no punishment too severe for a man I who will thus abuse the art of osculation. Loud and boisterous kiss- . ing, if not unlawful, is certainly not in good taste. On Tuesday, October 8, the Chicago & Erie will run their annual I excursion to Lancaster, Ohio, vial Marion and Columbus, Oiiio, and the C. 11. V. &T.R. R. Fare $5 for the round trip; ticket good 30 days for return limit. Special through coaches will leave Decatur] October Sth on train No. 12 at 1:37 a. m. arrixing at Columbus, Ohio, at 7 a. m. and Lancaster at 8:42 a. rn. The Fairfield county fair will be held at Lancaster October 8 to 12. J. W. DeLong, Agent.

You will all note the cloak open ing advertisement of the Boston Store. Every lidy is interested in a nice, shapely, good wearing and appearing cloak, because they are all the fashion this year. The Bos ton has taken especial care and pride in the selection of their win ter cloaks, and in consequence only have in stock the latest styles and neatest patterns. On Wednesday and Thursday, October 16 and 17, they will be “at home” to their many customers, with their annual cloak opening. This event should not be allowed to escape the atten tion of every lady iu this proximity. All kinds of cloaks will be on dis play and you can’t help but find your proper fit, style and color. Don’t miss it. At the council meeting last Tuesday evening the street com mittee reported the city engineer’s report on the final estimate of West Monroe street, with the recommendation that the report be approved. A resolution was then passed approving the c’ty engineer’s report. Twenty days time, was given the property owners in ■which to sign waivers or pay their assessments. A resolution was passed permitting the mayor to remove his office from the council chamber to his office on second street. The Chronister walk failed to sell. The resolution to macadamize Court street came up for hear ing, and after consideration the improvement of the street was continued until the spring of 1896. A resolution was passed ordering brick walks on the east and west sides of North Seventh street, between Monroe and Nuttman streets. The following claims were allowed: B. J. Terveer $2.60. J. D. Edwards $213.35.

NUMBER 51

Peter Kirsh is enjoying a boom at his washing machine factory on Third street. The machine is an excellent combination for the washing of clothes, and that means much to those who perform this much needed cleansing operation. Pete is doing a little extra advertising and intends to push the business for all it’s worth. In another column you will note the programme for the district Odd Fellows meeting, which will be held in this city October 14. All the lodges in the county will lie present and participate in the work, besides several addresses will be given on different subjects pertaining to the secret work and benefits of the order. It will be a gala day for the order, and the members in this city should put on their best smile and prepare to show the visiting brethern a genuine fraternal time. We are indeed sad to chronicle the sad intelligence that Mrs. Wilson H. Shepherd, of Hartford township, is dead. Her death occurred at an early' hour Monday after a short illness with some chronic trouble. She was the devoted wife of W. H. Shepherd, who is well known throughout the county, and possesses many' friends who will sympathize with him in his great trouble and bereavement. The funeral services were held yesterday morning at 10 o’clock with interment in the Hartford cemetery. J- M. Frisinger and Bob Peter- ; son came home yesterday from , Hamburg, Germany, where they went in company with Arthur Fisher to dispose of sixty head of ] horses. One of the animals turned ] up its toes just as they were going into harbor. The horses were all disposed of at sell-’em prices, judging from the fact that they will immediately make a return trip. Fisher remained over, so that he would be there when the next invoice arrives. Mr. Frisinger goes to Chicago this week to buy up the necessary number for a return date. The boys seem to be in the business for all it is worth, and if any one deserves goldglitteiing success, they surely do. The course of lectures delivered in the M. E. church by Tank Kee, the great Chinese lecturer were very interesting and instructive. The subjt cts were treated with such ease that the audiences were kept from tiring, though each evening’s i entertainment lasted an average of two hours. The exhibits were of ] the rarest kind, and very valuable. One pieceof embroidery alone being worth four thousand dollars. A skull of ivory, anatomically perfect, an inch in diameter, upon which three years of labor was expended; costumes worth thousands of dollars each, made by t he imperial designer; Chinese gods made fill B C.; and hundreds of

curious relics of all kinds that may be seen butoucejna lifetime were dis; layed each evening. Xo history gives such a graphic description of China as does this Tank Kee whose long residence in China makes him one of the great author - tiee <>u ad Chinese topics, social or material. Marshall M. F. Cowan, of Decatur, was in the city last evening looking for a couple of runaway boys from that place. Yesterday’ morning Mrs. Stupp sent . er son, Howard, aged seventeen, to Snyder’s grocery on an errand. The lad, on reaching the place, found the store empty, the proprietor having g- ne into a back room. Young Stupp slyly opened the cash drawer and extracted a §lO bill, after which he made his escape. Mr. Snyder came in to the store just in time to see the boy slinking out of the door, and at once concluded that something was wrong. A glance at the cash drawer confirmed his suspicions, and he notified the marshall. Before the lad could be found, however, he had hired a hoi se and buggy at Romi berg’s livery barn, and started for this city, in company with a lad named Anderson, about fifteen I years of age, whom he had invited to accompany him. It was with the intention of intercepting the young thief that Marshall Cowan came to Fort Wayne. On arriving here, he found a telegram awaiting ! him at the police station, informing him that the two boys had returned, and were already under ! arrest, Sheriff Ashbaucher having captured them at the livery’ stable when they returned with the horse. . Young Anderson was let go, but Stupp was locked up.—Ft. Wayne | Journal.