Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1903 — Page 3

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■EgC- D M'irray ti ■.:.>.i • . I,i> . at V ayne this morning. x- Fr ink '’.■■■ ‘ t • i. T. \ was in town last evening. ML" Berling xxa- at I', rt \\ this morning, on business. tod By transacting business, to M nroevili, this morning. Kkrs W. H. Sbi-ler ha- l»-.'ii x.-rx I tick with tiie grip for a f.-xx d.n- } ,-t Stout an \ i.'o.'i i, qflßlutlten -petit li-t In :>■ ■.OU Wi-e get this morning where he spent Sunday.. JflUatie Anten of E-rt Wayne who has been visiting friends her . ver 'lm. y returned this morning. Marx Ba a:, re- ;r:."d t |9Krt Wayne this m n.,t.g aft. r-p . lag Sunday here x\ ith h-r parentJ. Lutz went t Portland, thimor ig. where he xx.d trii.-a. t I.ii-: MS- if a legal nature dnr.n - : ■ : y V B. Arxhliold xxent .mt on a regie r trip this n. r.nng and i !•■ Bicl lond. Indiana, a- 1..- first -t | ■Ahir and Mr-. I. G. Turner f S .th Whit ■ x who have been visiting relaBm here, returned home t ,o rn ing I Mrs. K. I.- x f I’,. .\x j. i timing in this . .ty with h.-r-isb r. (diaries F. rd. returned t. ’ • bom- today. E 8 E. Bonbrak.- . f \>hb-x- wt, I. s J. been ttending the fui.er d ■ f t.,- -- ter. Mr-. .I.'im W< v. n-t-.;. :■ • ■ this morning. ’ Bev. E. S. Oaks, xx h 1 .-i i qu r’erl. J. Mteet ig at the Ex re. ... n . hiir.d. returned I. - ■ ,t I it Wayne this morning. MRj.R. X Andrew- left f. r -x it: Mbprmtig. having ns-e... d x to n 'Mat ng that his lit't" gr.m.u ... M.t ' rit i was believed to be dying. ■Mrs. William Tague, wi, hi- I in this city with i.. rp, r mt-, ft'Mr. and Mrs. William Baughn, :u r-f-'hir:.. Ito her In me at M :.r l ■; R, A E. Bose left f. rB. rm th- ■ - where he will look after rei.itixe t the eolitra. tin heating plant- xxhi.'ht." has with parties of that place. ■ The gas eng.!..- xxh. h d •ttheCairoll elex.it. r ha- i>e. . ' B dutv for a few day-. .\ng t a iix doxx ■ of the exhaust box. but xx.ttgam put to work thi- mi ruing. ■ Max Kornberg, wk . - . miect.d 'With the American T-lepl. n HMnv, returned t> I.im.i. hiheadquarter-, th.- " spending >iit in this citv.

.-.-vs #•« mcm m tcjSim ’-r 9 Our Clothing Store... I is now open to the public. We ■ I have a complete lino of MEN’S, I BOY S’ an d CHILDREN’S I CLOTHING, and a strictly UP I TO DATE line of Men’s. Boys’ I and Children's FURNISH ; I INGS. We kindly ask you to I call and SEE US and INSPECT - “ I OUR GOODS. I Acker, Elzey B & Vance.

Attorney A. W. Hamilton of Bluffton was here today on business. Al Gerard went to Willshire today where he will make a short visit. 0. A. Morris of Pleasant Mills, was a business visitor in the city today. V eterinary Surgeon Leßrun made a professional call at Willshire today. L. C. DeVoss went to Marion today to look after important legal business. Doris Ehinger of Huntington. spent Sunday in this city with Miss Mavme Kleinhenz. Irwin Lmbach went to Vanßuren this noon where he will work this summer. Charley Fehrenbach was at Fort Wayne this morning transacting business. Attorney Fred France of Huntington, was here this morning, enroute to rort Wayne. Alpha Graham, D. E. Scott and J. O. Huston were business callers at Berne today. Elmer Rohrer, of Hoagland was here over Sunday visiting with friends and relatives. William G. Hoffer, editor of the Willshire Herald transacted business in this city today. i Charles Steele and wife were at , Bluffton yesterday the guests of Zan Mentzer and wife. Will Winnes returned to Fort Wayne this morning after spending Sunday in the city. ■ Mrs. H. B. Niblick, of Marion, Indiana is in the city visiting with Newton Parish and family. Rev. Noll, of Fort Wayne, will preach every Tuesday evening during Lent at St. Mary’s church. John Johnson went to Yorktown today to work for the Coil Filler company formerly of that place. Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Osborneot Milo who have beee visiting C. S. Pile at Geneva returned home today. Mr. and Mrs. William Snyder of W dlshire, Ohio, are in the city visiting with Frank Snyder and family. Miss Clara Meyery of Fort Wayne who spent Sunday here with her parents returned home this morning. Miss Edith Wemhoff returned from Fort Wayne today, where she has been visiting with her sister, Miss Stella Wemhoff. John Kuntz and wife, of Geneva, passed through the city today on their way to Huntington, where they will visit relatives. Ralph German, who has been making his home in this city, went to | Abanaka, Ohio, today, where he will visit with his parents. Chris Boknecht and daughter Clara xvent to Fort Wayne this morning where the latter is taking medical treatment for paralysis of the arm. J. R. Shaffer, who is now in the south on a health trip, writes from Asheville, South Carolina, that he is improving rapidly and enjoying himself to the fullest extent in the mild and balmy southern clime. As the result of fast switching by a G. R. & I. train Saturday, while in the Decatur yards, a car was knocked off its trucks and came very near turning over on its side. No damage further than the smashing of the end of the car resulted, however, anti all breaks were soon repaired. The High School orchestra of this city, played at Hoagland Saturday night for the dramatic club of that place, during the production of "Under the Laurels.” The play was produced very satisfactorily, and upon request another light melodrama, "The Danger Signal,” will lie given April 16. A hobo who was doing duty on the streets, this morning deserted the ranks of his comrades, and fled through Schmitt’s store room, doxvn the alley, and out again unto freedom. He was pursued by Marshal Cordua and captured a few miles east of town and was reinstated with his old pals, veterans of many a hot chase.

C, K. Bell Sundayed with relatives at Lima. W. H. Lyman went to Indianapolis today on business. C. C. Yoder of Berne, transacted business here this morning. David Meschberger of Linn Grove, was a visitor in town today. Samuel Oplinger, trustee of Hartford township, was in town today. Tom Andrews went to Yorktown today to work for the Coil Filler Co. Anthony Schurger arrived home yesterday from a several xveeks trip to Oklahoma. Earl Scott of Kenton, Ohio, has a«cepted a position in the grocery store of G. W. Archbold & Son. Quite a number of Decatur people went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to attend the “Joy of Living,” presented at the Temple bv Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The caboose of the west bound local an the Clover Leaf was derailed at Peterson Saturday evening, and as a result traffic was suspended several hours. W. D. Hendrickson, former manager of the Decatur Lumber company’s business in this city, will move tomorrow to Clay county, where he will engage in farming. Floyd Brittson took a header on the sharp end of a pair of scissors Sunday and came out of the fracus with a dangerous cut, which made him feel faintly pale for a time. Mrs. Philip, Warren Hienkle and son of Bloomington, Illinois are the guests of D. E. Studabaker and family for a few days. They will go from here to Detroit to make their future bomb. The {ea party at the Dugan home Saturday evening, was a very enjoyable affair, the guests being the school and Sunday school teachers of the MisiesJFrances, Naomi and Dorothy Dugan. The pretty Bluffton Miss who slept -and snored as she slept on the up bolstered seats at the' Clover Leaf depot last night, is a fair sample of the aristocracy of our neighboring city. The habit, however, is a bad one. Architect Wing, of the Fort Wayne firm of Wing & Mahuren, was in the city today conferring with the K. P. building board. Mr. Wing, it is understood, will submit a sketch for a building which that lodge will possibly build.

Ed Ashbaucher has purchased the interest of his partner Harry Studabaker in the Smoke House barber shop, the deal having been closed this morning. Charles Kitson has accepted a position with Ed and the boys are ready for business again. Rev. E. H. Pontius of the Cnited Brethern church left this morning for Plymouth where he will join the St. Joe quartette at a rehearrsel meet. The boys are known as the U. B. conferende quartet and have quite a reputation in their line of work. Cal Sutliff. formerly of thiscity, has been quite sick for several weeks at Fort Wayne with a genuine case of smallpox, but is now on a fair wav to recovery He has been employed as a fireman on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway and will be able to resume his duties soon. G. W. Archbold & Son are having their grocery store remodeled in such away as to add to the convenience and appearance of their up-to-date place of business. A partition is being removed, a new office booth will be constructed, and a general overhauling will be given all interior arrangements. A fine picture, which was reproduced from a photograph by Mrs. John T. Meyers, is on exhibition at Maser’s gallery. It shows Louis Holthonse driving a span of fine coach horses and is very true to the original paotograph. The work is done in pastel and certainly proves Mrs. Meyers to be an adept in that line of work. Kate Shriver, who has a class in painting in this city has an exhibition at Smith, Yager & Falk’s drug store twoot her recent paintings which go far to prove her proficiency with the brush and pencil. The pictures are hunting scenesand show the dogs in such natural attitudes that those who are experienced can see that they are close on to the quarry. An implement and wagon shed, twenty-six feet wide and forty feet long, was partially completed this afternoon at the rear of Brittson Brothers hardware store. It was constructed foi the use of that firm and is really but an addition to the build ing that they now use for the storing of hardware and farming machinery. With the new building they have almost 6,500 feet of floor space as a repository for the line of goods that are found in a first-class hardware store. C. D. Carr, who formerly lived here but is now a resident of Ossian, is still puttingout his game of business authors. It will be remembered that Mr. Carr while living in this city became imbued with the idea of making the old game of authors an advertising medium and that he had many decks of the game published here and in surrounding cities. According to the Ossian News he is at present working that city and the paper appears this week with a large cartoon showing Mr. Carr and the press of the News at work.

Frysinger & Gerber recently sold a horse to a stock company composed of farmers who live east of Fort Wayne in the Geoglein settlement and if is considered one of the finest specimens of the Belgium breed ever seen in Allen county. The horse weighed 2,000 pounds and was sold for $2,500. They also sold a big five year old horse to Charles W. Ahr, who lives east of town. The stables of the firm are becoming quite prominent and sales are made all over the country, At a convention of the representatives of sixty-seven railroads xvest of Chicago, now being held in that city, the free-pass evil is being discussed liberally. The Elkins anti-rebate law. which recently passed congress, makes it unlawful for a railroad to discriminate against any of its patrons. The officials, unwilling to transgress any of its provisions, are attempting to inaugurate a system of special privileges to none. If'successful, this plan will probably be taken up by all the railroads of t&e country, which means that whoever travels on any railroad, be he a shipper of any kind of produce or a senator, he must ! pay the three cents clean, cash fare. Did the ground hog see his shadow 1 They >;ay that he did, but for all that ho must have made a mistake, as a j sign to the contrary of the weather j conditions which he would have us believe made its appearance last night. Indeed spring is here, for when the east bound Clover Leaf train rolled |in last evening, five or six of Bluff- | ton s most gallant young men dropped off and started up town. All I know what they come over for, but ten to one Bluffton people do not know as well as we do how near their intentions or hopes for propitious circumstances were realized. A walk about town which always takes them past the opera house, a short stop at every restaurant in the town, a visit to each depot, finally winding up at the Clover Leaf, and by that time the train has whistled in and soon they are dff off after a trip which though foul of its intentions, will as moulded from the lips of the young men in question, ring with gallantry and chivalrous deeds without end. AMONG THE SICK. Charley Elzey is very sick today with a severe attack of the grip. Noah Loch is again able to be at his business after a weeks’ illness. Israel Stoneburner who is siek with the grip, is reported no better this morning. Attorney Earl B. Adams is one of the latest of the many who are suffering with the grip. Councilman Fordyce is now under the influence of a bad case of lagrippe and is doing time at his home on Adams street. x Miss Edith Hackman, an employee of the Big Store, was taken quite ill xvhile at work this morning, and was obliged to leave for her home.

SCHOOL TEACHER BEATEN Woman Objected to the Punishment of Her Stepson. Terre Haute. Ind., March 9.—Miss Elizabeth Johnson, a school teacher at Coal Bluff, was beaten by Mrs. Triplett because th« latter's stepson hail been sent home for misbehavior. Miss Johnson escaped the angry woman by getting aboard a train for this city. Mrs. Triplett was brought into court, where she was obstreperous and declared she would go to jail instead of paying a fine, but her husband decided otherwise. At Grant, another mining town in the neighborhood. Miss Torrence, a school teacher, was beaten by a Mrs. Selby a few days ago. ANATOMY OF.AN OYSTER. The Bivalve** Orirani Are Xamerona mid It* Heart Quite Humanlike. Every oyster has a month, a heart, a liver, a stomach, besides many curiously devised little intestines and other organs—necessary organs, such as would be handy to a living, moving Intelligent creature. The mouth is at the end of the shell, near the hinge and adjoining the toothed portion of the 'oyster's pearly covering. This tiny little apology of a mouth is oval in shape, and. although hardly visible to one unused to making such anatomical examinations. it can be easily discovered by gently pushing a bodkin or a piece of blunt, smooth wire along the surface of the locality mentioned. When tlie mouth is at last located, you can thrust your instrument through between the delicate lips and a considerable distance toward the stomach without causing the oyster the least pain whatever. From this mouth there Is of course a miniature canal leading to the stomach. I'ood passes from this canal to the stomach and from the latter organ into the intestines just as readily as though the little bivalve were ns large as an elephant or a rhinoceros. Remove the shell (this operation Is rather rough on the oyster, but can be done in a comparatively painless manner by an expert), and you will see the crescent, which lies just over the so called heart. This half moon space is the oyster’s pericardium. Within Is the true heart, the pulsations of which can In- readily seen without the aid of a glass. The heart Is very humanlike, mnde of two parts, one of which re celves the blood from the gills through a network of real blissl vessels; the other portion contracts and drives the blood out through the laxly. The other organs of an oyeter's anatomy are all in their proper places and perform their several functions.

ITS LAST THROES Legislature Will Go Gut Amid the Usual Scenes At Midnight. The Customary Horse Play Characterizes the Final Acts of the Staid State Solons. Members Express General Gratification That the Agony Is About Over. Indianapolis, March 9. —The sixtythird regular session of the general assembly of Indiana will adjourn sine die at 12 tonight. The members almost without exception are glad the agony is over, as it has been trying on the nerves, during the last month especially. There have not been so many important measures this time, but just enough of ordinary matters to keep the members and everybody around on the qui vive. The employes are looking jaded, anil they act as it they are willing to give up their lucrative clerkships and go home. Tho session today was not expected to amount to much. The last day is always noted for horse play. The house tries to play jokes on the dignified senators, and the senators try to get even in a dignified way. There has been the usual amount of this during the closing hours. Tonight is when the most fun will take place. The members will have nothing to do but lounge around and wait for messages from the governor's office. The governor is the ousy end of the legislature just now, as over 150 bills are piled on his desk. The session will never get an opportunity pf passing them

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Six Thousand Kurds for Christ Take Away Their Arms and Give Them the BibleRev. M. George M. Daniel Will Deliver Lecture Here Tuesday. >A @ « , v ; . • Wk I. pi ™ r ■ &ll Mil. GEORGE DANIEL, I’h. D.. a native of Kurdistan, Asia, and now a * naturalized citizen of the United States, will lecture at the Reformed church Tuesday, March 10, at 7:1)0 p. m. Dr. Daniel will speak on thecustonis and peculiarities of the Mohammedans, Kurds, Turks and Devil Wor shippers, their marriage ceremonies and the Christian work carried on in those lands. Dr. Daniel was in Armenia at the time of the massacre of the Christians in 1895-6. Speaking of the horrors of the massacre, Dr. Daniel says: “In the district of Van, where I was then stationed, were nine thousand families, of which two thousand escaped alive.” Bring your friends and enemies with you. Admission free. A free will offering will be taken at the close.

over nis veto, as he can’t wade through them before the adjournment. Tho governor has thrown do-.vn the bars and will accept meritorious bills up to the hour of adjournment. General Franklin Dead. Hartford, Conn., March 9.—-Major General William Buel Franklin died Sunday at his home in this city, aged eighty years. He had been in poor health and had failed perceptibly since the death of his wife three years ago. General Franklin was graduated from West Point in 1843 and was a classmate of General U. S. Grant. He served with distinction in both the Mexican and civil wars. Suicide of a Young Wife. Goshen, Ind., March 9. —Mrs. Pansy Montevon Wurster. nineteen years old and wife of Robert J. Wurster, twentythree years old and principal heir to a $150,000 estate, committed suicide by swallowing two-thirds of an ounce of carbolic acid. She died in awful agony. Mr. and Mrs. Wurster had been married about a year and a few days ago she sued for divorce, alleging she was driven to such action through the conduct of her husband, who belongs to an old and highly respected family. Juvenile Justice at Lafayette. Lafayette, Ind., March 9.—Three boys were flogged by their parents in a justice’s court by order of the court They had been caught stealing goods from the Lafayette Underwear com- ' pany. Venezuelans Are Chilly. Caracas. March 9.—The text of the protocols with the allied powers was published in the Official Gazette Sunday. The protocols art- coolly received by the Venezuelans, who say that congress is not favorable to their approval. Track Walker Killed. Indianapolis, March 9. —Miles M. Foutz, aged forty, while walking on the tracks of the Belt railroad, was struck by a Big Four train and instantly killed.