Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1903 — Page 3

TIME tables 1 1 a. r. & i. (In effect June 21. 1903) TRAINS NORTH. s_naily 11:0 s pm v, i-I'aliy (except Sunday, -,:22 p ui So 7-Duiiy 1° Grand Rapid,, B:ou o, TRAINS SOUTH. ‘ So 2— Daily (except Sunday' 1:19 pm < So I—Dally ■••• '-’:32 am So 12—Daily (except Suuday, ;1. am So 14 Sunday omy 9:46pm I CLOVER LEAF. In effect May 3, 1903. EAST. S 0 a—Commercial Traveler, dally... 5:25 am , So 2 -Mall, dally, except Sunday. .11 50 am 1 So 4-I'ay Express, dalty 6:43 p m . jo 29—Local Freight l:l#am WEST ' So s—Day Express, dalle 5:25 am So I—Mail, dally, except Sunday ...11:25am . So s—Commercial Traveler, daily . 9:19 p m 1 Sc 25—Local Freight 12:05 p m , CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect June 14. WIU. WEST. No 9-Buffalo-Chioajro Limited, daily 3:10 a m SO 7—Express, dally . 1:42 a m No 3—New York and Chicago Limited through roach Columbus and Chicago daily 12:39 p m No is—Wells Fargo Express except Monday 5:12 Dm No 21—Marlon- Huntington Acc'm.. 10:10am EAST So a-Vestibule Limited for N Y 2:55 a m No 22-Marion and Columbns except Sundav 6:5b a m No 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus and Chicago 3:24 pm Nc 19— Buffalo and Chautauqua Lake 9:55 pm No. 13 will not carry baggage. 3 and 4 has through coach Columbus to Chicago. Miss T. resa Ditbolt went to Fort Wayne ' lis morning for a visit. Miss Erma Dykeman is spending a few days with Miss Merle Burdge of Decatur. T. Beavers and family went to Ft. Wayne this morning for a visit with relatives. J Mrs. John Johns went to Fort Wayne this morning for an extended visit with friends. Miss Mary Brown went to Fort Wayne this morning and will visit there with friends over Sunday. Rosenthals will go to Huntington I Sunday where they wil] perform a : few stunts for the fans of that city ! L. D. Adams returned from Frankfort last evening for a few' days visit in this citv with his family. R. C. Drummond went to Ft. Wayne this morning to attend the district meeting of the Metropolitan Insurance company.

[going out 'i I OF BUSINESS I $5,000 1 * worth of I I Wall Paper 1 | and Paints] I TO BE SOLD OUT. I | Sale Began June Ist. | ■ GREATEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED. a fl LISTEN TO THEM: I | WALL PAPER 50 PER CENT OFF. I K 15c paper at 8c per bolt. 36c paper at 18c. fl ■ Borders at 2J cents a yard. Crepe Ingrains at 40c per bolt. ■ ■ 20c paper at 10c. Ingrains, 15c, 18c and 20e a bolt ■ H 25c paper at 12|e All borders 4c to 12c per yard. I fl 30c and 35c papers at 15c. fl I All Paints, Brushes, Varnishes Oils, go at Cost. ■ ■4c mouldings at 2c per foot. 5c mouldings go at 2|c a foot. ■ ■ 6c mouldings at 3c per foot. I fl All other stock anti brands go at discounts of 50 per cent. fl I Finest grade of paints at $1.25 per gallon. ■ ■ THE ABOVE TELLS THE STORY. I have de fl fl termined to quit business, and want to sell my I U entire stock as soon as possible. The BIG SALE ■ * begins at once. 1 have the greatest assortment B ■ of wall paper, paints and everything in my line fl fl to be found anywhere, and if you need anything, fl buy it while you can make 50c on every dollar K I you spend. ■ |r. B. GREGORYj I Decatur, Indiana. Cor. 3rd & Madison Sts. ff

Miss ()sa Fonner of Geneva is here for a visit with Miss Virgie Buckmaster. I reaching at Union chapel next Sunday atfernoon at 2:30 by Rev. Krouse. M \ . B. Archbold returned from a weeks trip on the ro id yesterday evening. J. Boyers, the well known insurance man, went to Auburn this morning where he will remain for some time. Frank Bauserman and sister are now’ enjoying a short visit with friends and relatives in Paulding county, Ohio. Miss Edith Hackmen has resigned her position as cashier at the Big Store and Miss Lena Mi’ler has accepted the place. Misses Marie Beery and Emma Huffman went to Berne this morning for a few days visit with their friends and relatives. Mrs. Ora Sells returned from Dayton, Ohio last evening where she has been visiting for some time past with friends and relatives. Mrs. Oscar Shaw and daughter arrived in the city last evening from Portland where they have been visiting with friends and relatives. Rev. and Mrs. C. G. Hudson left over the northbound this morning for Cailiorniu. They will visit intermediate points and will be gone a year. John Barnett, of Muncie, is in this city visiting with friends and relatives John formerly lived here but for the past year has been at Muncie. Hartford City has voted favorably on a proposition to txmd the city to the extend of a very hand some school building, and the same will immediately lx* erected. Philip Hemeline the genial travel- ! ing salesman for Burnham, Stoi per <Sr Company, a large wholesale dry goods house of Detroit. Michigan, was in this city today attendI ing to business Tlie Fin De Sickle girls and their friends were the guests of Robert Beery of near Peterson last evening. A fine time is reported and those who attended were more than pleased with Mr. Beery's hospitality.

Mutt Kelly of Wash J ngton. Ind., is visiting friends in this city. E. Friedlema, of Monroeville was a business visitor at this city today. Mrs. Sarah Griswold of Pleasant Mills was a visitor in the city today. Mabie Schlegle left for Bluffton this noon where she will make a short visit. Miss Dessie Moore of Huntington was the guest of John Niblick and family yesterday. The K. of P. Memorial day parade will leave the hall tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock Ralph Knoff and Bruce Christen were visitors at the Fort Wayne carnival last evening. Judge R. K. Erwin left for Portland this morning where he will attend to business during the day. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Williams left for Bluffton this noon where they will visit with John Smith and family. Harry Christen and Charles Bonham went to Fort Wayne last evening to see the sights at the carnival shows. Pete Stein, the cigarmaker, left for Lima Ohio this noon where he will visit over Sunday with his mother. Mrs. Ellen Dailey and Mrs. Weicking returned last evening to Bluffton after attending several social functions there. Miss Mammie Smith and Louise Brake returned from Fort Wayne this morning where they have been visiting wih friends. Miss May Griswold of Pleasant Mills, left for Windfalls. Indiana today where she will visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. H. A. Fristoe and baby daughters left at noon for Rochester where they will lie the guests of J. D. Holman and wife for a week. Charles True and family who have been enjoying a weeks vacation among the lakes of northern Indiana returned to the city today. William Gerke, who was injured some time ago while assisting in raiisng a barn in Allen county was in the city today feeling as well as ever. Henry Holbrook. John P. Spooler and Frank O. Davis as viewers, and Surveyor McKean as enginee were busy today making their final report on the Andrew Miller ditch. The members of the Columbian club are considering the organization of a base ball club. If their plans materalize another team will be in Decatur and to assure games a league will have to be organized. Tlie cigar makers and printers will play the second game of a series tomorrow afternoon at Steele's jxirk. A fast diamond is almost assured and one of the best amatuer games of the season can be expected. The first game was won by the "prints” with a score of 21 to 14.

The Aeolian Orchestra went to Pleasant Mills last evening where they played for Newton's circus which gave a performance at that place. The show is a first class one and the people of Pleasant Mills were well pleased with it. They have been engaged to pluy nt Monroe this evening. The funeral of Perry Springer was held this afternoon at the Methodist church. Rev. Pontius delivered the funeral sermon and was assisted with the services by Rev. J. C. White. The deceased was a member of the Ben Hur lodge and the members ot the local order attended the funeral in a body. Interment at the Decatur cemetery. Decatur .Journal's pipe dreamer has dug up a story (that there is to tie a consolidation of ten big oil companies now operating in the Indiana field, and that they will gobble up all the land between Decatur and Warren, to the exclusion of all other operators, and will put down test wells all over this territory. The main truth about the item is the statement that the trust will not be formed for some time.— Bluffton News. The Indiana supreme court has just sustained the law which requires the township trustee to bury at the expense of the county, any veteran of the civil war who has not sufficient funds to pay the expenses himself. The case decided came from Knox county, where the county commissioners refused to pay a trustee for the burial service. The Knox county court held with the commissioners and the opinion of Judge Hadley reversed its deci sion.

Perry L. Ayers of Ossian, is a busi ness visitor in Decatur today. Kenneth Winans of Pleasant Mills, was a visitor in this city today. Mrs. J. F. Snow went to Geneva this afternoon for a visit with relatives. Thos. Gallogly and family went to Portland this afternoon for a visit with relatives. Lawrence Smith and wife went to Geneva this morning, where they will visit a few days with Jacob Miller. Marriage licenses were issued to day to William Liddy and Esta Gentie, Ottis Burke and Myrtle Fogle. Honduras will celebrate July 3rd with a big social and fireworks in the evening. A good time is guaranteed. The Y. M. C. B. of Monroe will hold an ice cream social on theehurch lawn this evening. All are invited to attend. Levi Johnson will give his annual ice cream social at his home one mile east of Honduras Saturday night, July 11. Robert Schrock and Wesley Hoffman returned today from Bluffton, where they attended the junior reception. Mess pork made a parachute drop in the Chicago markets in the last two days, having been lowered from 117.00 to |15.40. A fine program has been prepared for the Children’s Day at the Baptist church, Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Everybody invited. Mrs. O. S. Baxter of Bluffton, passed through the city this morning on her way home from Monroeville, where she has been visiting. B. F. Welty, a former well known Adams county boy, now of Lima, was greeting friends here this morning. He went to Berne this afternoon.

Mrs. E. Sifeld and daughter, Nina. : who have beeen visiting at Geneva, I passed through here today on their way home at Wapakonetta, Ohio. Misses Bessie and Beatrice Billman ’ returned from Berne last evening, where they have been visiting a few I days with Mr. and Mrs. Levi Augs berger. Misses Genevieve Hale and Midge I Smith retruned today from Bluff- I ton, where they attended the high j school reception and commencement. Mr. and Mrs. Welsch of Spencer ville and Mrs. Jameson of Bradford. Penn., who have been visiting friends in this city went to Berne this after noon. John Schieman shipped two ear, loads of stock from Monroe todayi which is said to have been as fine a shipment as was ever made from that I place. Remember the entertainment at the ■ G. A. R. Hall Monday evening, under the auspices of the W. R. C. A good j program has been arranged for the occasion. Mrs. Rolla Calderwood went so Ft. Wayne last evening in company with , Mrs. John Eppart of Pleasant Mills, i who has a sick daughter in a Fort Wayne hospital. Rev. S. H. Klausing will deliver a ' sermon in the English language at the Zion Lutheran church on west Monroe street, tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock. You are cordially invited to attend Major R. B. Allison left for Oden. Michigan, last evening, where he will take up his summer residence. Mrs. Allison and daughter, Mrs. Macke, of | Birmingham, Alabama, will go to; Oden about the sixth of next month.' Sheriff Butler arrived home this morning from a ten days trip to the south part of the county where he made several arrests for gambling on Grand Jury indictments. Hose A Steed, who operated a gambling room j at Geneva for several months and who were indicted have left thecounty and could not be located. Flag day,which was on the 11th o ! this month, will be observed next Monday, June 29th, at the G. A. R Hall on Madison street by the women of the Relief Corps. The program . is an interesting one and fittingly , arranged for such an event. It 1, stands as follows: Reception of the . Colors; Battle Cry of Freedom, Male Quartette; Reading, The Stripes , and Stars, Miss Maude Russel; Essay, History of the Flag; Star Spangled Banner, Quarttete; Music, , Aeolian Club; Address, , Our Conn ( try by Rev. White; Columbia, the j Gem of the Ocean, Quartette; Solo, ( Dr. J. Q. Neptune; The Flag Goes ( By, Flossie Bolinger; Flag Drill; t Music by Aeolian Club; Betsy’s Bat- , tie Flag, Note Winans; Music Aeoli- ( an Quartette, and song America Ijy (| the audience. .

Grand and Glorious 4th of July Celebration To be held at Decatur will far surpass any celebration ever held in this city. Horse Show and Parade To Steele’s park, at 10:30 a. na. Balloon Ascension and Parachute Drop at 10:30. $1,500 RACE PREMIUMS 2:30 Pace purse S2OO 2:20 Pace, purse S2OO 2:30 Trot, purse $l5O Ladies’Race, purse $ 50 Running Race, purse $ 50 FIREWORKS! Grand Display of Fireworks in the evening. Inspiring Music! Come to Decatur and enjoy one of the grandest Celebrations ever held in Adams county.

Miss Elva Rex will visit with her sister, Mrs. Ed Pastor at Huntington Sunday. Miss Ella Glancey of Berne, returned home today after visiting in this citv. Misses May Black and Nellie Krick I returned this morning from a visit 1 at Bluffton. Earl Hughes returned this morning from Geneva, where he attended | the Inland Minstrels. Late this afternoon a marriage i license was issued to Simon Hull- ! inger and Liza Buesse. Mrs. Al Stemen returned today to i Ft. Wayne after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. David Lyman. Miss Kitty Lang, of Delphos, Ohir, arrived in this city today for a few days visit with her parents. Dr. Miller returned from Indianap >lis today where he has been attending a convention of (Indiana health I officers. An oil well on the Jacob Rawley i farm is being shot today. Up to ' the time of going to press, no re- , l>ort of the same had been received | here. Mrs. Harry Deam of Bluffton, and Mrs. Macke and child of Birmingham, I Ala., who nave been the guests of Mr. and Mrs, R. B. Allison will go to \ Bluffton tonight. The Ohio City Giants will play the ! Van Wert base ball team tomorrow at Ohio City. Ohio City was recently defeated by Decatur and tomorrow’s game will lie watched with interest as Decatur is figuring for a game with the Van Wert team.

A. M. Ackers of the Ackers-Ham--1 ilton company, gave to a Demoi crat reproter this morning the first authoritive statement of his company to a press representative. Mr. Acker states positively that his company will commence work in the Atlatns county field within two weeks. The delay in drilling is caused by the fact that they wish to use the tools now at Chattanooga in this county. Operations in the Chattantxiga field will lie discontinued in a week, the tools will then lie brought here and drilling will ls>gin at once. Mr. Ackers is c mfltlent of success in the Icoul field and by next month will have leased four thousand acres here.

1 Mt bUUH PLATE. A Seventeenth Century Cookbook Tells Why It Was Invented. A valet of Louis XIV. published a cooklssik in 1(155 in which he gives as follows the reason for the invention of the hollow soup plate: The plates of the guests will be hollow in order that they may help themselves to as much soup as they may want without being obliged to take it spoonful by spoonful, because of the disgust they may have for one another on seeing th» spoon go from the mouth, to the tureen. Guests, it will be seen, used their own spoons to till tlieir plates, the large spoon to tie used for serving the seup not being invented til! some time later. Yet even a hundred years after the invention of the soup plate (1749) a work on civility advised that all the dishes should tie so placed on the table that every one could reach them with his spoon and that If the soup was served in a dish (tureen) every one should help himself with his own spoon without seeming to lie in a hurry. A work on manners that appeared just before the French revolution deemed it best to advise its readers that it was Impolite to pass the spoon back and forth between the mouth and the tureen. A Plea For Descriptive Titles. Setting aside the flood not to be counted as literature, the naming of a book that is worthy of a name is a matter of real moment. Two methods seem to have been followed-that of using the name of a leading character, as “Jane Eyre’’ and "Hob Hoy;” the other that of giving some bint ot the nature of the tssik. as In "Vanity Fair" and "The Cloister and the Hearth.” The first method has no justification What we plead for is that a title shall contain the tibul or the keynote of the book. Then the author and reader start on fair terms. Jane Austen, a consummate artist, understood this well, as in "Pride and Prejudice,” but forsook her advantage in “Emma"—a better book and susceptible to as tell-

Inga title. It la difficult to estimate what would have been the loss to literature if “The Scarlet Letter" bad been labeled “Hester Prynne” and “The House of Seven Gables”—a title that has worked Its way into architec-ture-hail been called "The Pyncheons.” Dr. Theodore T. Munger In Booklovers’ Magazine, Two Bvlls, “I can’t Imagine a worse glllv than the man who's forever indulging In email talk.’’ “Oh. I don’t know! He's no worse than Ke fellow who Is forever talking big.’’— Philadelphia Press. For n Switch Off. “I wish you’d send ma to one of those electricians' schools, pop.” “Why. what do you mean, my son?" “She's altogether too careless with the switch, pop." Yonkers Statesman