Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1896 — Page 1

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9 . Grace Petenmn did the Ull Mi* . to Koj Archbold, ■^‘" n The lu '* ■Fr*"**- . rinc* • 9 i’lrrk lenhart issued but two 9 .. licHlM* last week and ■ to wnii.nn Bow< I Ei . John Eynehb :•»•! I!’”- 11 9 Stauffer of Berne is a new ■ it to the Press family of ■rir- •" nmk, " u ' ,hi * wlw ; 1 , “" 1 Eh ilidicioUS SflvCti Wf* Will SCI* EtllMt Mr. Stautlerg-lHhiHmon. Bev- worth. B i uk.v Erw in the popular muMc- ■ .l.ki.er-, haveaddeda new wagon B their already large ami well ■ L„hd Hk ol music instruments ■ supplies- hanplajshone.m ■the W" u B fbas \ Seh met tan. general at Btornevot the ('lover Leaf for Indi ■ IKI was in the city last 1 uesday Buiktngafter the interests of the ■ railnwl company in the time of ■ Hiram Drum vs the R. R. Co. ■ Jesse.l. M. LaFollette of Port- ■ laixl was transacting business m ■ ourioarts here Saturday. This ■ same. Jesse is an 1895 state senator. ■ who will holdover to. the 1897 ■ providing he holds over., ■ Mrs. Fred Schafer entertained lonite a number of ladies yesterday ■ afternoon with a sewing las-, from 112:.'1u to Ip. *'f They sewed and ■ aerrd and sewed. Never a word I ra« spoken. Luncheon was served. Ii I. N. Bryan of North Dakota, I formerly a resident of Blue Creek I township, in this county, is visit ■ ing in the city, and renewing his I former acquaintances He looks las though the west agreed with | him. I Mrs. Fred V. Mills and children I came home last Friday night from | a several weeks’ visit with her | sister at Peora, Illinois. Little | Margaret wears glasses and’ looks | like a little grandmother. Her I eyes are much better. I The paper read by Dr. J. 8. I Boyers last Friday evening before ■ the members of the Fortnightly | Club, on the subject of “ImaginaI tion,’’is said to have l»een most I highly entertaining. The clu.i I eeasun closes in a few weeks. I Treasurer Bolds and Deputy I Katherven Meisse done more bnsiI ness Saturday than any bank—we I know nothing about banks. It was I next to the last day for paying I taxes and everybody presented I themselves at one and the same I time. I Postmaster Weltley rejiorts utiI claimed letters belonging to Emmy I Reynolds, Christ Reynolds, Mrs. I 1). M. Goss, A’ Gray, Burton Mil I let, Charles My best, Frank T. I Mehany, Mary Forest, Mrs. M. I Andrews, T. D. Shay, Minnie I Teng, Thomas 8- Kizer, Ollie An I drews, Mary Kieser, Joe Comer, I Minnie Drake and A. Mustard. I Will Sheets, the best acknowl- ■ edged advertiser in Adams county, I and a hustler at everything he I winds into his head, was in the I city Monday. He says that Berne I is the only place on earth and his restaurant the only eating house in the western hemisphere. When at Berne should you feel lean ami lank, drop in and see him. France & Merryman and Petersen & Lutz Tuesday filed in the circuit court a suit in which Joseph E. Stoops is plaintiff and the municipal corporation of Decatur is defendant. The suit is one for damages wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover damages in the sum of 85,000. The complaint sets out at length that South Second street s as in bad condition for travel, it being rough and contained deep rutsand ridges. While driving OT ’er the street the plaintiff was precipitated to the ground below "ith such force and violence that his left arm w’as broken at the elbow, and the cap thereof cracked a n<l broken off, as well as other injuries and cuts about his head and other parts of his body, all of *hich confined him to the house until the present time. The complaint avers that the injuries will I* permanent. The plaintiff at the time of the accident was moving to Urbana where he had a ministerial charge with a salary of SBOO yearly. The injury will keep him idle six months, and at a great expense in boarding and keeping his family, especially damaging the Plaintiff in the sum of SSOO, and in *ll damaged $5,000 worth.

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B'-ery & Rice shipped a couple of car loads of the finest looking horses that has traveled out of this town for many n long time. Every one wiihk picture of beauty. They wen- sent to the Pittsburg markets. I ><■<•<Tat ion Day Is duo nt an early day, and preparations for the proper celebration of the event should now Iwgin. Sam Henry Post will no doubt honor the dead heroes in their usual fraternal and lienevoleut manner. J. W. I‘lace reports the sqiening of the ice cream season Saturday as being the most voluminous since his initiation into the business. AH the orders couldn’t beHfilled. If this thing continues Jim will outdo any former record. Simeon P. Beatty was yesterday morning appointed stamping sec retarry of the local fire Isiard of insurance companies. The appointment is a good one and Sim should feel honored at the recognition. It will net him S2OO or S3OO yearly. The millinery harvest is still on, Easter having already recorded itself to the contrary notwithstanding. The many pretty new hats this season den tes progression of the ladies. The editor always wears his last summer's imitation of a hat. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson gave a dinner party Saturday evening to A. J. Hill and wife, Will Winch and wife, R. B. Allison and wife and Mrs. Jessie Townsend. All the deliciciesof the season were served and a genial g<xsl time enjoyed. The petit jury showed up for business Monday morning. As empaneled they are Thomas Moran, James D. Stults, A. B Baughman, John T. Baker, Rudolph Sehug, Solomon Mosser, Jeff Lehman, Elijah Nidlinger, Jesse Clark, Au drew Holmes, A. B. Daugherty and David C. Sprunger. An exchange tells of a Colorado editor who goes into details of the scenery of his country so far that he writes as follows: “We have ' mountains so high that you can tickle the feet of free silver angels in heaven, ami gorges so deep that you can descend to their base and hand down ice to the gold | lings in the infernal regions.” J. W. Place’s new tangled horse- | less ice wagon made its appearance at the opening of the ice season, Saturday. Notwithstanding the many aversions that the critter wasn't fully up in “G,” in the horse language, we are forced to admit that it traveled with ease ami grace, and stopped every time Oliver Jackson said whoa in a semi contralta tone. Ice delivered to all parts of the city. Last Monday morning about two o’clock a tire broke out in the barn of J. H. Williams near Vail’s fac- | tory in the west part of the city. The tire quickly spread to the barns i of L. S. Waggoner and J. F. Mann, and from there to the barns of J. 'R. Parrish and J. R. Porter. The barn of J. R. Parrish was stored I full of egg cases manufactured by .1. W. Vail, ami it was there the greatest loss occurred. About sl, I 500 worth of egg cases were stored in the barn, and the loss was almost total. The following are losses and insurance on each loss so far as we ■ have ascertained: J. H. Williams, loss SIOO, insurance SSO; J. R. Por ter, loss SIOO, insurance $00; J. IL Parrish, loss S2OO, insurance $100; L 8. Waggoner, loss $250, insurance SSO; J. W. Vail, loss $1,200, insurance $1,000; J. F. Mann had no insurance. The tire department after reaching the scene of the fire done good work, but this tire shows that a good system of water works with no way of the company to get to the tire, will not avail much. It is true the company kept the tire from spreading after they' reached where it was, but that is not the reason for spending so much money for water works. We thought that watei works were designed to put out a tire before a building could be totally destroyed. The council can , not take action in this matter in too much of a hurry. It seems to j us that the plan of different hose stations distributed around the city is the correct one. Our city j spreads over considerable territory, and it is next to impossible to get hose to a fire in the western or southern portion of the city in time to save a building. The fire department is all right if the council will give it the means with which to work.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23,189(5.

The last will and testament of I lirlch Kiieusz, decvasisL was probated nt the clerk's office Tues- i dav. It gives his surviving wife i all real ami personal pr<q»erly then eommandei) under the will. It also appoints the wife executrix. Miss Tina Allison gave a swell party last Friday evening to a large number of invited guests, ; The large ami palatini Ali son ; mansion was all ablaze with social brilliance. Luncheon and social amusements were enjoyed by the many present. Enos Polly, a succi-ssful stock* raiser, says to learn a calf to drink out of a pail without strangling, to take it by the ear and tail, lift its hind feet off the ground till its body describes an angle of 15 de- , grees, insert its nose in the pail. The calf will see th<* point ami do the rest. —Pennville Gazette. Warren Sweet took his family and went to California last fall, expecting to find riches growing therealsiuts. After staying there some time they traveled onto Texas and then to the famous Cripple Creek, Co'orado, but everything was not gold that glittered, so they turned their faces homeward, and arrived one day last week. E. B. Thomas president, Frmk Harriot general traveling man, and W. F. Merrial general manager of the Erie lines, passed over the road last Friday on a tour of inspection. They traveled on an unlimited train schedule, blowing the wind through their whiskers at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour. Pretty tolerable fast, thank .you. The editor sat in his office cold, whence all but him had fieri; but Ue wished that every last dead-beat was in his grave—stone dead. His mind then wandered far away to the time when he should die, and his loyal editorial soul go scooting to the sky; when he'd roam the fields of paradise and sail o'er jasper seas, and all things glorious would combine, his every sense to 'please. He thought how then he’d look across the great gulf dark and drear, that yawned between his happy soul and those who swindled here; and when for water they should call, and in agony they’d caper, he’d shout to them: “Just moisten your tongue with the due that’s on your paper.” At the council meeting last Tuesday evening the committee on streets and alleys reported in favor of the petitioners asking for the improvement of Court Street with crushed and blocked stone, ami the city attorney was instructed to draw a resolution to that effect and re port the same at the next meeting l of thecouncil. The same commit tee also reported a contract with \V. H. Myers in reference to the open ing of Thirteenth Street, wherein Myers agreed to open the street as soon as the crops for the year 18!M> were gathered. The contract was approved. The board of school trustees of the city presented ape tition asking for permissio i to erect a school building in first ward. They estimated the total cost of the ground, building and fixtures at s the sum of $11,500, and asked the council to provide the means with which toconsrruct the building and buy the ground. The petition of the board was granted and the city , attorney was ordered to draw an ' ordinance providing for the issuing of the bonds asked for. The curb line on Sixth Street from Jefferson Street to the secoml alley north of Madison Street was fixed at nine ' feet from the lines of the lots borbering on ti e street, and the im- ( provements now contemplat <1 by i the property owners on the street were ordered made in accordance with the curb line as fixed by the council. A general discussion <>f the best means of fighting fires as ' had, but no conclusion was reached. The following bills were allowed: The Democratic Press s(>.4o, Wells Fargo & Co. express seventy-five j cents, Page Biackburn $3.10, De- | catur Journal $lO.lO, Charles Smith i $3, fire department on account of the Williams fire $21.25, Gas Comj pany $57.88, Donovan & Bremerkamp $1.85, Gust Schlegle $5.05, I and the street commissioner’s pay ; roll in the sum of $74.70. The mayor reported that he had been served with summons in a case commenced by Eli Stoops against the city wherein he claimed $5,000 damages occasioned by the breakingof an arm on Second Street. The city attorney was directed to look after, the interest of the city.

The three railroa I companies have made settlement of their spring taxes, paying in a total of $9,212.(13. Os this amount the Grand Rapids paid $3,971,05, Erie line $3,401.15, and the Clover D'uf $1,803.83. Miss Ellie Botteuberg has been tendered a position in the TriState Normal College at Angola. She has accepted. From what we have been able to learn we know that she has an excellent position. Miss B. is one of our best teachers and we know sin* will succeed in her new field of lals>r. The col lege and its friends are to be con gratulated for having secured her 1 servic sas one of the instructors. The doings of our circuit court can !><• summed up as follows: State vs. Sam Evans, continued. State vs. John Evans, submitted. Joseph E. Stoops vs. City of Der-atur, complaint for damages; demand $5,000. Laban Gage vs. James 8. Gage, for an accounting; demaml $.500 State vs. Ben Middleton, continued. State vs John Smith, set for trial April 28. Davis’ I). Kern vs Elizabeth Kern default of defendant, answer filed by prosecutor. O. P. M. Andrews vs. William Adler, set for trial May 2. William A Reynolds vs. Mary E. Reynolds, divorce granted plaintiff State vs. Herbert Leßrun, tine $.5 ami costs. William E. Falk vs. Jennie Falk, divorce granted plaintiff.

The business manipulator at this office, gazed on the enchanting beauties of Berne hist Friday afternoon, where we circulated for a few hours. We found Sam Simison ijehind the wires at the bank, where he was sweating and counting cash for Rud Lehman, who was off sick. It was something new for Rud, but he had a pretty bad dose of the fever mixed up with other ailments, which was anything but pleasant. The balance of the bank furniture including Amos Hirshy was all in legularorder, doingduty at the eld stand. Postmaster Michaud aud deputy J. Winteregg were busy up to their eyes, dishing out the big bundle of PRESSES to our patrons there, and looking after other business that comes to that office. The boys run the office on a strictly business plan and in a manner that ought to be highly pleasing to Uncle Sam. While there we met John Frank,oneofour Blue Creek township readers, who had blood in his eye and nothing but a Press subscription receipt would do him. He got ’er. John wants some hay this year, so we immediately sent in an order for some wet rain to help things along. Baumgaitnei Bros, were doing business al the old stand in their usual pleasing and prospering manner. L’hey sell hardware and everything pertaining thereto, and have been at it ever since Gabriel was a kid, so you may know that they are sti'l all right. Mont Rose was wearing a crop of red lavinder whiskers, but he assured us that the Cottage Hotel was still preserving its national reputation of serving more for your money than any eating house on earth —or elsewhere. Simison <& Soldner’s store room was so full of buying customers that not even the lady clerks would even cast a winning glance at a poor country editor. We looked around, found a hole to crawl out. and left them to their happy fate. I’he old drug store of Gottschalk <!i Rose were still selling pink pills for pale people, as well all the standard drugs of the day. The ex-treasurer is as pleasant as he use to was a few years back, when in our court house. Will Sheets makes the most toothsome ice cream that we ever run agrinst. Just touch the button for ten cents and try it. Henry Braun is now tilling the <>)d shoes of Jacob Brinneman. Frank Erwin was at Hartford City, but his numerous clerks were doing their duty faithfully. The store was crowded and the goose hung high. Stengel & Craig the clever young druggists there were hustling about their business, just as if there wasn’t a law against it. While we were there they sold seven pounds ofJ. T. and everything else that you could chew or rub in by application. The numerous Schug Bros, were decidedly “in it” so to speak, and command a voluminous trade and business. They have sold numerous road machines this year, and are in the market for more. Had we time we could continue this strain for a week, but must give you a rest. We will go again some time.

A NEWSY LETTER. MRS. J. 0. HALS WRITS* OF THS MANV ■ NCHANTING BCAUTISS AFFOROSO SV THORICAL CALIFORNIA. Los Angeleh, Cai.., April io. To the readers of the I’RENS; Tmlay dear reader 1 ask you to visit with m<‘the glorious Mount Lowe, the crown of the San Gabriel Valley, and the highest sum mit of the Stem Madre range of mountains. The peculiar climate existing in southern California, is not yet thoroughly understood, hence the average eastern reader cannot be expected to know much about it. In the combination of sceuic wonders of summer and winter, we doubt if any country in the world can rival southern California. Every winter snow falls on the Siera Ma re mountains, while there is perpetual summer in the valleys Irelow, and snow is unknown, and by means of the Mount L >we railway the novel experience of going from orange groves and roses, to snow in less than an hour's time, can la* enjoyisl by every person fortunate enough to be in southern California during the snowy season. This year hundreds of people took this trip, and all expressed wonder at the marvelous rapidity of the change. Leaving Los Angeles, an hour’s ride brings the visitor to Altadena a beautiful little station embowered in orange grovesand flowers. Near by are the houses of what is there known as the “Chicago Settlement,” a number of Chicago citizens having made that their summer home; on the house of one of these the delicate helitrope has been steadily blooming for over three years, and yet on the cars of the Mount Lowe railway <n another thirty minutes we may lie on the summit of Echo Mountain, and there in the snow and clouds almve, liefore and around us, opening up to our view a vista of the gorgeous valley below us, we may fully realize the novel and strange experience of actually breathing the fragrant oders of semi tropic gardens whilst standing in the snow of alpine win ter. I wish I could describe to you the marvelous engineering skill of these wonderful mountain railways, that gives to us indescribable grandeur and beauty hidden away in the mountains; glimpses of the ranges rising peak beyond peak, gorges, ravines, abys ses, magnificent forests with myraids of delicate plants and bright flowers, nestling at their feet. Spread out below us sixty miles in length lies the San Gabriel valley, one unbroken view of lovely towns, fruitful gardens, waving palms. The old San Gabriel Missionchurch is in a dilapidated condition but the bells are still hanging which were wont to call the faithful to their devotions long before the yankees invaded the country. This church w is built in 1804, of brick said to have be-n imported from Spain and roofed with tiles. I’hirty miles away across the breast of the valley, the Pacific rolls its restless waves in the sunshine. Os the •electric cable incline, over which into open whitechariots the visitor is carried up 1 10 feet, at an average grade of fifty-nine per cent, and for a portion of its length sixty percent. To tell you the truth I when I stoixl at the foot of that mountain, and gazed up that long! cable incline, I whispered to my self “I never can go up there, no I never will,” I sank intoaseat near by still repeating the words, while the cars filled with passengers. Suddenly the bell rang and the car shot upward. I consoledjmyself by still saving to myself “I never can.” In breathless silence I watched it go up higher, but when it disappeared in a hollow of fleecing white clouds, I changed the words to “I will go up there,” al) my courage returned, and by the time the next car went up I was ready to go. But while we are waiting we will visit Rubio Canyon which lies at the foot of the incline, between the two mountains, with its winding stairways and rocky sides which close around on cither side shutting out everything; but the blue sky far above you, j then again widening and leading you into gardens of ferns and flowers and low green shrubery, where j the dense stillness is only broken by the low sweet music of the waters running down the rocky sides of those towering old mountains. For half an hour I stood there alone, drinking in that strange grandeurfillcd with aweand wonder, all ending in a song of praise to the Creator. But we will

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h ave the canyon for the top of the mountain. Th® first thing tn greet the eye at the head ascent is the great World's Fair searchlight to the right, the imposing and beautiful Echo mountain house, with the starry banner of the republic iloating from its dome. Directly before one is the electric power house, farther up to the right the Lowe observatory where Prof. Lewis Swift for an hour or two courteously gives his time to visitors, show ing the instruments and explaining their workings. The visit to Dr. Swift and the observatory is a pleasure that few visitors to Echo mountain are willing to loose. Like other mountain resorts the l»est views are to be had in thcevening and morning, \ isitors can set* and enjoy more in one night at Echo mountain house than in one month at ordinary places. The great telescope, the World's Fair starch lighted cities below resembling at night a lake of diamonds, the magnificent sunrise anil sunset, the wonderful morning and evening echos together with a ride over the mountain railway afford more lasting pleasure than all of the Pacific coast combined. I asked how Echo mountain came to its name, anil was told that directly behind a broad plateau and over the precipice below, rests a small cannon. When this is fired the mountain ranges round about re- | verlrerating thunders that leap from craig to canyon, die down, gather force again and finally grow fainter in the distance till they are done. Then a skillful attendant takes up a coronet or a horn like those sometimes used in the Swiss Alps, and in reply to his playing comes back distinctly and in most perfect tone and lime a hundred echoes following each other or joining in exquisite music giving back perfectly the melody. Los Angeles is l>eginning to put on her “Fiesta I colors.” Preparations for the great carnival are progressing most satisfactorily, and under the united management of her three commercial associations, gives promise of surpassing all previous “Fiestas.” We will remain until alter this event, then turn our faces eastward, filled with pleasure at the thought of again being united with the dear friends from whom we have been so long separated, and yet with a long deep sigh as we think of turning away from the grandeur of these mountains and valleys, from the days of golden sunshine, from the jierpetual b'ooming of tlowers. from a climate that is never too hot or too cold, that will ever bring back sweet memories t>f this one short year of our lives. If I have time will write you another letter before our departure, giving you a description of each day of the “La Fiesta.” Mrs. J 1). Hale. Dr. George Bruce, a well known physician of this city dropped dead in his barn lot yesterdaj at'teruoon. Dt ceased was ju bad health at al) times and has l>een a sufferer lions heart di ease for many years. His sudden death was not unexpected. He was b-iru at Eaton, Ohio, 74 years ago a id commenced the prac tiee of medicine at Huntington, Indiana, in 1852. He cami to Winchester in 1851 and his home has bt*en here since that time. During the war he made an h nor able record as assistant singe >n in the Eighth regiment ami the first Indiana cavalry. He leaves a wife, daughter, two sistersand a brother and a wide circle of friends to mourn their loss.—Winchester Republican. John Gloss of Belleview, Ky.,died last Thursday evening after a short illness. The deceasetl was a brother of Jacob Gloss aud Mrs. Jesse Niblick of this city. The funeral services were held at Belleview, Ky., aud the interment took place at Price Hill, Cincinnati. Mrs. Jesse Niblick, Misses Mary and Amelia and Mr. J. K. Niblick ami W. 11. Niblick, Jacob Gloss and wife, Ed Gloss and Peter Holthouse all of this city were in attendance at the funeral. A letter from Mrs. J. I). Halo, giving a glowing account of the pleasures and scenery of California, will be found elsewhere. Her accounts of the many perfections that country enjoys, and which she has seen in all their varied lovliness, will be read and enjoyed by Mis. Hale’s many friends here. She is now in Chicago on her way home, and in a few days will be cherishing the embraces of her many friends.