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NOT a kick. H-h not A Rood citizen * ho will L lire voice or UM, his p.*n to J? a rising tide of prosperity fffcnutagood citizen who will Anything to throw cold water “ th» growing enthusiasm for a ..iinwr l»<*»tur.” Let te« fever X. :*«><» let Hll be done that can 'done to bring industries here ,7.. will develop Decatur's possi Jliti«a«Ml pUu* her higher in the -tie of manufacturing and busi- • But without doing noy thiiiK to Stem the rising tide it is well that we take tbe opportunity .(this time to consider the result of improving Dec dur and her wealth. It is commonly claimed jnJ is ’ofa necessity true that the bringing «f a factory or any kind of enterprise here would result in creating a demand for lai Kir and I t h as in stimulating every line of trade represented here. This ot w arse would benefit all classes, apparently, the laboring man, the retail merchant, the butchers, the bakers and all the rest that furnish tbeMcessities toour people. This proposition is commonly made and there is enough truth in it to cause it t<> lie accepted without question bv nearly everybody. But the proposition needs examination in the light ot theexperienee of every city similar to this. Were a factory costing SIOO,OOO to lie located here within six months w ho would be mod benefited by it! There would lie an increase demand for hlor, and thus many of our involuntarily idle men would receive work to do and thus would enable men who can not now find work to beemployed. This would of course stimulate trade in all branches and thus benefit others. But what would lie the result of this! The increased demand forldmr would attract lalwir from the almost inexhaustible supply outside of Diva tur and the competition for jobs would noon thnst a number out of employment, so that labor as a class would not lie permantly benefited. The increase demand for merchandise would soon attract more ventures who in competing with those already here would soon reduce the condition of merchants to where it now is, so that the merchants would not be permantly beoefite 1. Is there no class then that would be benefited by a growth of iudus try! Were it possible to exclude hborera from outside of Decatur from coining here, it is clear that the laboring class would lie very greatly benefited, but labor has no monopoly on the work in any locality. Were it possible to pre vent any more merchants from com ingto Decatur those already here would lie greatly benefited by an increase in industry. But trade has no monopoly, neither, on the business of a locaity. There is, however, an element of production that enjoys a complete and effective monopoly in every locality, and it is t> this element that a very large part of the benefit of an increase in business would ultimately go, and that element is land. Were a factory to l>e located in Decatur in the near future the price of every foot °f land in Decatur would be increased and the price of rent would up at once. That this is true needs no proof for it is commonly Iwked upon as a necessary result of the growth of a city. A rise in •and values is always looked upon M a sign of prosperity and hailed ff ith delight, but it is nevertheless * burden and not a benefit to every class, except land holders. To the ® an who owns his home and uses jt to live in it is a matter of absout«ly no concern, except in the matter of taxes, whether his lot is; "''"■th $lO or SI,OOO. But to the m»n who must pay rent or to the enc who is stinting and savingin r cr to buy a home the price of mid is a very considerable item, .ikewise to the man who is hold- .?*’ vacant lots for a rise in value, it? • )r ’ ee * 9 a considerable nu 'i as Decatur has 111 ii land that is owned by a few P*‘ rs, "is it is not difficult to see nere the large part of the benefit ming from increased industries would go. ’ strne °f an increase in ustries is true of improvement ‘“every other way. Were the . ? e Decatur all to become wn i i i™ en anf l women 80 that, it a place, desirable above ’ n which to live, the Ono _ ers , rea ' estate here are the all Wou l < l he benefitted above wifi? , rß .' This is not written a a desire to check in any* way y en thusiasm but to point out a

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place in <>ur social system that thousands of our people would Im* glad t- s-e remedied. Citizen. Clerk Lenhart is still laid up. and confined to his home. Chancey Young was attending to business here Wednesday. Fetor Soldnvr, of Berne, was registered in town yesterday. You will find “Private Brown” on onr inside pages this week. So look him up. B ib Case is putting in a fine line of dry goods and clothing at his store at Magley. Mrs. Osborne, the mother of Mrs. C. E. Doty, has liven on the sick list for a week past. Mrs. J. T. France visited in Huntington over Sunday with J. Fred France ami family. Fort Wayne will have a base ball team next seison, a fact they are feeling somewhat elevated over. Bit two unclaimed letters re main at the post office this week, and they belong to Mrs. Samuel Geyse and Abber Hager, Yesterday Mr. and Hrs. Dan W. Beery entertained a host of their friends with a high noon dinner. ’ A very pleasant and eatable time was the result thereof in fee aim pie. The wife of Rev. A. A. Pitenger Idled at Walton, Ind., of tumor, I was buried at the Ray cemetery yesterday afternoon. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Gregg. Marriage license were issued by Clerk Lenhart this week to Daniel F. Fugate and Martha A. Estle, John 11. Richard and Maggie L. Dogue, George Roudebvsh and | May Cully. Recorder Harruff bought a fine organ at Falk & Erwin’s Monday. The instrument was presented to Harvey’s daughter that night, which was as pleasant a surprise [ as one might expect or desire. Mr. Bahlign ami Mr. Meybohm, Im>th fresh from Bremen, Germany, are in the city, the guests of our I horse exporters, with w hom an acquaintance originated last summer. They will remain here some time. Mrs. 11. A. Fristoe will open a ladies fashion emporium in the roomsabove Nachtrieb’sdrug store, next Monday. She will teach the various arts of fashionable cutting, and the many other necessities that go with it. Mrs. J. W. Merryman delightfully entertained a number of her i lady friends last Saturday afternoon. Several wee ladies and gentlemen were present, however, only the new man, in peticoate, was admitted. At five o’clock a dainty lunch was served. The council Tuesday evening ap I pointed John W. Tyndall as water works superintendent at a salary of $660 a year. It is needless for us to say that the appointment is first-class and the very best they could have done had they searched I the city for an endless time. His ■ work in his line for years past has been satisfactory and all right. The, i appointee will fill the position ] with credit, and will always look | to the best interests of the city in i his line of work. Many or all the people here know B. A. Dent, a trilling, dishonest, ornery, mean and worthless human, who owes nine out of every ten business men in town and is otherwise well known for his dishonorable deeds. His wife and four small children liveon Eighth street. Two years ago the above mentioned | Dent left his wife and four children, during which time he has never provided or looked after their [ welfare in any shape, manner or form. On January 25 he filed in | the circuit court at Knox, Indiana, a suit for divorce, alleging in his complaint that Emma Dent, his wife, was a common scold, found fault with him after his return home after a hard days work, all of which disturbed his peace of mind so, that he found it impossible to live with her. The people here who know the gentle and homelike woman that Mrs. Dent is, and know too what a worthless trilling fellow he is, will surely relish the words of his complaint for a divorce. B. J. Terveer is guardian of the children and he praises them and their mother very highly. From all reports he isn’t fit to own a family no matter how small or of what calliber.

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I S. W. Hide and George W. B ilds, of Geneva, were here a short time Monday. Mrs. S. O. Irvin of Winchester, visited her daughter Mrs. Lyde Patterson, over Sunday. Attorney llmm r Underwood of Huntington, Sundayed here with Auditor Btuudylierry and wife. Five probation' rs were accepted into full membership at the Methodist church last Sunday morning. Judge Vaughn, of the Wells circuit court, Tuesday, sentenced Samuel Bench to one year's confinement in the prison north, fori I larceny. The board of trade will meet Monday evening nt the court house. Busii esg of importance will come up and all members should .ie present. Burns & Peterson have put in a new glass front in their harness shop, which is a great improve- , meat in appearance as well as otherwise. Crude oil has taken on a small advance in price, which in turn has received the activity that such an advance might expect. Great things will develvpe iu the fields this siunmer. ’ I Lew G. Ellingham and wife left yesterday, the former to attend the mid-winter meeting of the Democratic Editorial Association at Indianapolis, ami the latter to 1 visit relatives at Winchester. Conrad Bauldemeyer, living . northwest of the city in Preble township, died and was buried last Friday. He has been quite a • prominent citizen of this county, and was known by many of our j people, lie was seventy years old. The firm of J. Thomas W. Luckey Co., has dissolved the com-, i pany part of the firm, Theodore • I Ahr, having withdrawn. Mr. Ahr ‘ hasn’t determined upon what he • will do in the future. The former • will continue business at the old stand. • No one can afford to miss the ' great lecture of Dr. J. P. D. John at the M. E. church Saturday eve- ■ ning, February 15. “Did man make God, or did God make man!” ■ This is recognized by all to be one t of the greatest answers ever made „ to Robt. G. Ingersoll. , j Elias Crist is a candidate for si county assessor, as his announcement elsewhere states. Mr. Crist is a resident of Washington township and has been for fifty years. He has had considerable experience .j in the assessor’s work and would fill ths office most ably. : The circuit court has ordered the ! deposition of El want Coffee taken; tbe evidence to be used in the Stu-dabaker-Studabaker divorce trial. i The court has also given B<*njamin F. Hartman judgment for $50.85; on note; judgment rendered against' Ethan A. Dausman. The partition suit of Henry Jackson et al vs Jesse Koos was ordered; Washington; ; Kern, Lavis Dailey, and Joseph • W. Smith were app tinted commis- j i sioners who were ordered to report this term of court. The prosecuting attorney appear jed iu person in the circuit court • this afternoon and, on his own mo [ tion, dismissed the case against R. G. Kerlin, a member of the firm of Kerlin Bros., of Toledo, contractors, oil and gas producers, for alleged perjury, stating to the court that on full investigation he was convinced that no such crime had , been committed by Mr. Kerlin, and ■ that no indictment should have; been returned. On December 2!)| there was widely circulated and! | published in the press an account lof the arrest in this city of Mr. i Kerlin on the charge of perjury, j he being well and favorably known among the business men of this city and throughout the state. Facts were soon brought to the attention of the prosecutor which convinced him that the indictment had been procured for the purpose of injuring Mr. Kerlinand his firm in their business and to effect Mr. Kerlin’s testimony in a case against Kerlin now pending for trial in the United States court at Indianapolis. Prosecutor Frank Snyder, of this judicial district, is being highly commended by the business men of this city on account of the course he has pursued in this matter in refusing to prostitute his state office [ by forcing Mr. Kerlin to defend an unjust suit, as was expected by the prosecuting witness and his attorneys.—Decatur correspondent Indianapolis Journal.

Trustee Hall, of Hartford township, was attending to businw-s here the first of the week. Bert Lichleiiwalter mid wife entertained over Sunday William Brook mid wife, of Huntington. J. Emmett Gully, formerly an ol<l Geneva boy, has purchased the | Willshire Gazette, and will resur j I net that paper. John Thomas, the fellow who lost a leg < n the Chicago <Jt Erie railroad two weeks ago, was taken to his home at Bluffton the first of the week. Mose Byers’ place of call has lieen in a sea of turmoil all week, owing to numerous improvements therealMHits. The walls and ceilings hate been repapered ami the change looks well. Peter Gaffer was the artist. On next Saturday evening, February 8, at 7:30 o’clock, there will be a meeting of laboring men at the ,court house. All laboring men of Decatur and others interested in the condition of labor are earnestly 1 invited to attend. Mr. Groan 1 Hog was out Sun-; day in nil his radiant splendor and to >k a good sized squint at his own personal self, much to his own gratifying satisfaction, no doubt. Personally we were in hopes that there wouldn't be enough of him to make a shadow. Falk & Erwin, the musical deal- j ers, have added a case for musical instruments, which they now handle. Besides all kinds of small instruments they also keep all kinds of sheet music, having 3,000 sheets nowon hand. The boys are hustling their business for all it's worth. A. 11. Fristoe and C. E. Suttles are now the managers and proprietors of the Peoples Bakery, they having assumed control Monday, when the invoice took place. The boys are known to every one in the city, are hustlers from up the creek, and will serve you in their ' I courteous and modest way. Here's to yon. Thomas S, Jones, a druggist at >’ Monroeville, has been arrested for violating the postal laws. It seems ■ that George Marquardt, also a Citii zen of Monroeville, owed Jones a small account for medicine, and it ■ is charged that Jones sent a demand for the money, the same being written on a postal card, which is contrary to Unde Sam’s way of doing business. The case is Iteiug trie i at Fort Wayne today. Butcher <& Butcher of Geneva, are attorneys for Enos Walker who ; is seeking a legal separation and divorce from Eliza J. Walker. Ac cording to the complaint they were J married February 8, 1878, and . lived together as husband an I wife j until June 7, 1892, at which time they separated and have not lived |or cohabited together since that time. The defendant is accused of ladultry with Deiteh Smith, Wil liam Bailey and various other men. 'She is also accused of being J | cold, neglectful, refusing to share, ! the same bed with plaintiff*—a very i j serious breach —and otherwise! treated him inhuman. Last Friday morning R. K. Erj win filed in the Adains circuit, court a suit for divorce, the title! of which is Lucy A. Studabaker vs David E. Studabaker. The complaint shows them to have been married November 25, 1892, at Goshen, Indiana, and lived together as husband and wife until j.January 8, 18911 The defendant is accused of visiting houses of ill ! repute at Fort Wayne, Monroeville ! and Geneva, where he contrac'ed | the loathsome disease of genarrhea. ! The defendant is further accused of having neglected the plaintiff and subjected her to cruel and inhuman treatment, especially so during the month of October 1893 The com plaint further states of neglect, leaving her no means of support further from that which was given by the Hon. David Studabaker, the father of the defendant. The complaint further states that during December 1895 and January 1896, the defendant accused the plaintiff with adultery with other men, these accusations being in the presence of her mother and other relatives, and also were circulated by the defendant in this city, Fort Wayne and Geneva, and on January 8, the defendant is accused of pointing a revolver at plaintiff and j threatening her life. The plaintiff* prays the court for a decree of divorce, the custody of the child,aliiniony in the sum of $5,000, and SSOO a year for tha support of the i 'child. '

Harry li. Moltz leaves next Thursday for New York where he will buy his spring lines of dry goods for the B Niton. The law office of Schurgcr, Reed & Smith shines under a few improvements of new ilsishy paper on the wall, fr«*shly painted wood work and so on, and so on. Joseph 11. Thornton hassmsl the city of Portland fol 81,500, the, same as payment of a dislocated shoulder received while going to a . tire there last summer. Last night Rev. Father Schleohtor lectured upon tbe subject of “The Ghureh of Christ.” It was an able address ami showed much intelhs-t and thought uponthesubject. This ended his services and he has gone to a new field of labor. He will be long remembered by our people. J. W. Place is getting bis annual catalogue printed, and will immediately send them to the trade. Tlie catalogue this season is much larger and contains a “cut” of everything in stock or iu which he deals. Jim is swelling out in his business considerably, and will quite likely reap returns next fall that will In* real mm rishi ng to contemplate. The melarcholy fact must be re corded that the Armstrong farm east of town was dry, not even a smell of “ile” to greet the olfactory nerves of the hopeful. But hope springs eternal in the human breast ami we are now building air castles on the great Immhii that will , arise when well No. 2 is drilied in. Tins well is located on the Byrd farm, one and a half mile southeast, an 1 drilling began Wedires- ' day.—Geneva Herald. The new circuit court cases are Thomas E. Mann vs Winfield 8. , Hughes, on account;detuaud $125. , John W. Minehart ami Austin L. Minehart vs John L. Cottrell, note; demand S3OO. Isaac Zimi merman vs Isaac Robison, note and I foreclosure of chattel mortgage; demand $125. William A. Key- . nolds vs Mary E. Reynolds, di ( vorce. Enos Walker vs Eliza J. Walker, divorce. Lucy A. Studa baker ve David E. Studabaker.; divorce. Charles Neuenschwander vs Martin V. B. Simcokeand Lewis C. Devoss, false imprisonment; de- , l maud SI,OOO. f William Reynolds has applied ; for a divorce from Mary E. Rey- i I nohl* The filed complain shows I them to have been married July ,127, 1879, ami lived together a* I husband ami wife until January '22, 1894. The defendant is av,l cased of cruel ami inhuman treat meat. On January 22, 1894, the defendant abandoned the plaintiff without his knowledge or con-ent. They are the parents of nine child ren, Ida May, ten years old, Theo- ! dore thit teen, JPearl eleven, Jes-e and Bertha nine, Cora seven, R *b ert five, ami Lola three. Th*- ! plaintiff wants a divorce, the cns tody of the children and all other; ' proper relief. Last Tuesday evening at the ; regular meeting of the common council the finance committee was ; authorized to make such temporary ! 1 loans as in their judgment might be necessary, not, however, to ex-; ceed the aggregate of $5,000, pay-1 mentout of the revenue for the current year. The matter of election of a water works superintendent was taken up, and two nannies were put in nomination, viz: J. W. Tyndall ami Lee Walters. A vote was taken and result: Tyndall 3, and Walters 1, ami the mayor de- i daring Mr. Tyndall elected. A resolution was then offered and j passed combining the offices of i city civil engineer ami water works superintendent, ami a salary for the offices was fixed at $660 per i annum. This is but a slight increase over what the city is now i paying the city civil engineer alone. I The bond of the water works en- I gineer was fixed at $2,500. The city attorney was instructed to : prepare a contract prescribing the i duties of the combined office. The < chief of fire department reported certain names to the council for! confirmation, but as the report embodied an entire reorganization : tis the department it was laid over until the next meeting. The followingtclaims were allowed: Peck Hose Go. SBOO, Gas Co. sll.lO, Wm. Geary $5, J. D. Edwards $213. 34, E. Woods $2.60, A. G. Holloway $2.60, B. R. Freeman $2.60, Peter Kirsch $10.50, Journal I $3.75, and the street commissioners > pay roll.

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David Bixler, jeweler and optician of Berne, was in the city Tms•lay. Mr. Bixler is one of Berne’s wide awake business men ami does a nice business in the jewelry line. 11. H. Howe, ofthe Howe Pump & Engine Company, lmliaiiii|H>lis, stopped here baturday while going home from Albion, Indiana, where the company is putting in a plant. He says the plant here will Im* completed in every detail within thirty days* C. M. France has had removed from bis mouth a small but very painful cancer. Dr. Clark performed the operation and did it in mighty good taste. The growth hadn't Ih*cu at work very long, but it stiec«s*d«sl in making things mighty unpleasant for Charley, and he has good reasons for tickling himself under the left chin. A. F. Bower is here representing an association whose headquarters are at Fort Wayne. The object of the association is the establishment of a library, tbe advantages of which is to be enjoyed by the memhereof an association to Im*established here. Books u|w>n all the lea Mng topics, the reading of which will broaden the mind and intellect. Many of the iMNiks the average reader don’t feel able to buy outright, and this enables him to read and Im* benefited thereby with but a nominal outlay. One hundred members will insure the success of such an organization. The Cecilian Club met with Mrs. Winch Saturday evening. A short program was rendered by the ladies of the club. Mesdames Niblick, Bryson, Ellingham, Thomas and Doty instrumental and vocally entertained the several guests w ho had been invited to enjoy Mrs. Winch’s hospitality. After refreshments were served quite a novel scheme of entertainment was introduced. I Slips of paper containing parts of quotations were pinned to the curtains and draperies about the roon s, any one guessing the whole 1 quotations from the part iu his possession had a right to demand the remaining parts from whoever held them. Mrs. Townsend secured the prize which was a handsome book. Quite a laughable joke is going the usual rounds about a Union i township farmer learned that the City cions were forthwith going to ; build gravel toads ever which way over the county, all as tie <xpeusean I d* triment of Union township farmers. ile decided that he : would <■ > n- to town forthwith and put a head-r on such an outlandish project. He hitch' d up a t'-am of brawny horses but soon found that ! one team would never be able to bring him hence, so he attaches !I he secon'i, and after many hours, much mud and like inconveniences lie reached here, but after going through such turmoil didn't have have the heart to register himself a> “ferninst” gravel roads, (' ■rue up and si n the roll, gentlemen. William Young of Salem, died last Sunday afternoon at the residence of William Sheeler in this ■city. Th-funeral occurred Tn s day. The deceased died fioni dropsy, and from all reports that have been current on the st'-eets ' this week, h>s death came after an agony of pain that was horrible and inhuman. It seems that no physician was call' d to administer releif to the sufferer, but that a few of his supposed friends, lead'd by Dau Diggs conceived the idea that they would cure him vii tbe faith cure route. While they kneeled idly around the poor man's couch and called fervently for aid from the Almighty, the poor victim lay suffering commiseration and death a thousand times. And while they were greedily expostulating in an ignorant manner, the sufferer died. The undertaker who took charge of the remains took four gallons of water from him thusdemonstrating the agonies the man endured during the few hours before death releived him. Such beastly cruelty as this is almost beyond recognition in this day and age. The last gram! jury returned indictments against the Amish people for crimes that in 2 no way compare with the inhumaq acts in this case. Here a human life was at stake, and it was permitted to suffer and die, without medical aid. William Sheeler at whose house Young died, is the G. R. & I. car inspector, and is one of the main leadersof these people who call themselves sanctified, and then permit a human being to die for want of medical attendance. The grand jury should investigate it.