Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1903 — Page 3

time tables G. R. & I. (In effect June 21. 1803) TKAINS NORTH. « 0 5— Daily ,••••• H:«“ pm So 3-I'Hlly (except suiid&y i 6:22 p u, So 7— I'Hiiy to (.rand Rapids fe:00 a ui TRAINS SOI'TH. snj-Paily (except Sundayi 1:18 pm So i—daily lilt a ui So is- Dally (except Sundayi T:l7 a m So 14 Sunday oniy 6:46 p m CLOVER LEAF. In effect May 3,1808. EAST. S« (-Commercial Traveler, dally ... S:SS a m s Mail, daily, except Sunday 11 Wain So 4—Day Express, daily 6:43 p m jiu 22-Local Freight 1:10am WEST Ko 3-Pav Express, dalle 6:26am So |-Mail. dally, except Sunday .11:26 ain So v-CXinimercfal Traveler, daily .. 8:18 p m ISo 23—Local Freight 12:05 p m CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect June 14. 1303. WEST. So 9-Ruffalo-Cblcago Limited, daily 3:10 a m so i--Express, dally .I:42am So a—New York and Chicago Limited through roach Columbus and Chicago dally 12:38 pm So IS— Well* Fargo Express except Monday 6:12o m No 21- Marlon-Huntington Acc'm.. 10:10a in EAST So 8-Vestibule Limited for N Y 2:6:1 a m S 22-Marion and Columbus except -iimlav 6:58 a m S<. i— New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus and Chicago 3:24 pm No 18-Buffalo and Chauutu<|ua Lake 8:65 pm So. I.- will not carry baggage. 3 and 4 has through coach Columbus to Chicago. Miss 7 tcsu’Dit bolt went to Fort Wayne tiiis morning for it visit. Miss Erma Dykenmn is spending a few days with Miss Merle Burdge of rh-eatur. T. Beavers aiul family went to Ft Wayne this morning for a visit with relatives. ■ Mr- John Johns went to Fort Wayne this morning for an extended vi-it with friends Mi'- Mary Brown wen> to Fort Wayne this morning and will visit there with friends over Sunday. Rosenthals will go to Huntington Sunday where they will perform a few stunt- for the fans of that city L D. Adams returned from Frankfort last evening for a few days visit in this city with his family. R. C. Drummond went to Ft. Wayne this morning to attend the district meeting of the Metropolitan Insurance company.

GOING OUT OF BUSINESS worth of Wall Paper and Paints TO BE SOLD OUT. Sale Began June Ist. GREATEST BARGAINS EVER OFFFRED. LISTEN TO THEM: WALL PAPER 50 PER CENT OFF. 15c paper at 8c per bolt. 3fie paper at 18c. Borders at 2j cents a yard. Crepe Ingrains at 40c per bolt. 20c paper at 10c. Ingrains, 15c, 18c aud 20c a bolt 25c paper at 12|c All borders 4c to 12c per yard. 30c and 35c papers at 15c. All Paints, Brushes, Varnishes Oils, go at Cost. 4c mouldings at 2c per foot. 5c mouldings go at 2Jc a foot, tic mouldings at 3c per foot. All other stock and brands go at discounts of 50 per cent. Finest grade of paints at $1.25 per gallon. THE ABOVE TELLS THE STORY. I have de termined to quit business, and want to sell my entire stock as soon as possible. The BIG SALE begins at once. 1 have the greatest assortment of wall paper, paints and everything in my line to be found anywhere, and if you need anything, buy it while you can make 60c on every dollar you spend. R. B. GREGORY Decatur, Indiana. Cor. 3rd & Madison Sts.

Miss (>s„ Fonner of Geneva is here tor a visit with Miss Virgie Buckmaster. Preaching at Union chapel next Sunday atfernoon at 2:30 by Rev. Krouse. M s B. Arehbold returned from a weeks trip on the roid yesterdav 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 1 lin kmen 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. (1. Hudson left over tl.e northbound this morning for Cailiornia. They will visit intermediate points and will lie gone a year. John Barnett, of Muncie, is in this city visiting with friends and relative-. John formerly lived here hut for the past year has been at Muncie. Hartford City has voted favorably on a proposition to bond the city to the extend of a wry hand some school building, and the same will immediately be erected. Philip Hemeline the genial traveling salesman for Burnham, Sto)h r A- Company, a large wholesale dry gi mmls house of Detroit, Michigan. was in this city today attending to business Tilt* Fin De Sickle girls and their friends were the guests of Roliert Beery of near Peterson last evening. A tint 1 timt> is reported and those who attended were more than pleased with Mr. Beery's hospitality.

Matt Kelly of Wuslrngton. Ind., is visiting friends in this city. E. Friedleina, of Monroeville was a business visitor at this city today. Mrs. Sarah Griswold of Pleasant Mills was a visitor in the city today. Mable Sohlegle left for Bluffton this noon where she will make a short visit. Miss Dessic Moore of Huntington was tlie guest of John Niblick and family yesterday. The K. of P. Memorial day parade will leave the hall tomorrow after- 1 noon 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 at-t4-nd to business during the day. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Williams left for Bluffton this noon where they will visit with John Smith and family. Hurry Christen and Charles Bouham 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. Weickitig 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 will 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 be 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 eitv today. M illiam 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 j ever. Henry Holbrook. John P. Spooler and Frank O. Davis us viewers, and ; Surveyor McKean us enginee j were busy today making their final j report on the Andrew Miller ditch. The members of the Columbian club are considering the organiza- | tion of a base ball club. If their plans materalize another team will J Im* in Decatur and to assure games ja league will have to lie organi/asl. The cigar makers and printers will play the second game of a series I tomorrow afternoon at Steele's park. ! A fast diamond is almost assured and one of the best amatuer games of the season can I*' expected. The first game was won by the “prints'’ with a score of 21 to 14. Tlh> Aeolian Orchestra went to Pleasant Mills last evening where they played for Newton’s circus which gave a performance at that place. Tlie show is a first class one and the people of Pleasant Mills were well pleas*-d with it. They have lieen engaged to play at Monr(x> this evening. The funeral] of Perry Springer was held this afternoon at the Mcthixlist church. R v. Pontius delivered the funeral sermon and was assisted with the services by i Rev. J. C. White. The deceased I was a member of the Ben Hur lodge and the members of the local order attended the funeral in a body. Interment at the Decatur cemetery. Decatur Journal's pijx' 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, t<> 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 tie 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 jiay the exjtenses himself. Tin* case decided came from Knox county, where the county oopimissinnorM 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 decision.

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 j visit a few days with Jacob Miller. Marriage licenses were issued to day to William Liddv and Esta Gen tis, Ottis Burke and Myrtle Fogle. Honduras will celebrate July 3rd with a big social and fireworks in the evening. A good time is guaran-1 teed. The Y. M. C. B. of. Monroe will hold an ice cream social on church 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 Bluff ton, where they attended the junior re-! eeptiun. Mess jiork 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. 0. 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, 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 days with Mr. and Mrs. Levi Augsberger. Misses Genevieve Hale and Midge Smith retruned today from Bluffton. where they attended the high school reception and commence - ment. Mr. and Mrs. Welsch of Spencer j villc and Mrs. Jameson of Bradford, Penn., who have been visiting friends in this city weut to Berne this afternoon. John Sehieinan shipped two ear loads of stock from Monroe today which is said to have been as fine a shipment as was ever made from that place. Remember the entertainment at the G. A. R. Hall Monday evening, under the auspices of the W. R. C. A good program has beeD arranged for the occasion. Mrs. Rolla Calderwood went so Ft. Wayne last evening in company with Mrs. John Eppart of Pleasant Mills, 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 eveniug. 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 & j Steed, who operated a gambling room ' at Geneva for several months and who were indicted have left the county aud could not be located. Flag day, which was on the 14th o: this month, will be observed next Monday, June 29th, ut the G. A. R. Hall on Madison street by the worn-, en of the Relief Corps. The program ! is an interesting one and fittingly 1 arranged for such an event. It 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 Swingled Banner. Quarttete; Music, Aeolian Club; Address, , Our Country by Rev. White; Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, (Juartr'tle; Solo, , Dr. J. (J. Neptune; The Flag Gih-s By, Flossie Bolinger; Flag Drill; , Music by Aeolian Club; Betsy's Battle Flag, Nota Winans;Music Aeoli- ( an Quartette, and song America by , the audience.

Grand and Glorious 4th oi 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. m. 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 sloo Ladies’Race, purse $ 50 Running Race, purse.. j; 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 Glaneey of Berne, returned home today after visiting in ] this city. Misses May Black and Nellie Krick i returned this morning from a visit at Bluff ton. Earl Hughes returned this morning from Geneva, where he attended the Inland Minstrels. Late this ufternoon a marriage | license was issutsl to Simon Hull inger and Liza Buosse. Mrs. A1 Stemen returned today to 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 Tndiana- ! polis today where he has been attending a convention of g lndiana health officers. An oil well on the Jacob Rawley ; farm is being shot today. Up to ; the time of going to press, no re--1 ;>ort of the same been received here. Mrs. Harry Deam of Bluff ton, and Mrs. Macke and child ot Birmingham, Ala., who have 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 be watched with interest as Decatur is figuring for a game with the Van Wert team. A. M. Ackers of the Ackers-Ham-ilton company, gave to a Demo- ' crut reproter this morning the first | authoritivo statement of his com- ! jMtny to a press representative. Mr Acker states jiositively that his com jmny will commence work in the Adams oounty field within two weeks. The delay in drilling is caused by the fact that they wish to us<* the tools now at Chattanooga in this county. Operations in the Chattamsiga tielil will lie discontinued in a week, the tools will then lx* brought here and drilling will begin at once. Mr. Ackers is confident of success in the leoal field anil by next month will have leased four thousand acres hero.

1 Mt bUUP PLA I E. * Seventeen! It Century CookhooU Tell* Why It \Va» Invented. A valet of I/mis XIV. published a cookbook in 1055 in which lie gives as follows the reason for the invention of the hollow soup plate: The plates of the guests will he hollow in order that they may help themselves to as much soup as they may want without Is'ing obliged to lake it spoonful by spoonful, because of the disgust they may have for one another on seeing the spoon go from the mouth to the tureen. Guests, it will lie seen, used their own Simons to till their plates, the large sptsin to he used for serving the soup not being invented till some time later. Vet eveu a hundred years after the Invention of the soup plate (17401 a work on civility advised that all the dishes should he so placed on the table that ever}' one could reach them with his spoon and that if the soup was served in a dish (tureeni 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 doomed it best to advise its readers that it was impolite to pnss tile spoon back and forth between the mouth and the tureen. A Pies For De*erlptlve Title*. Setting aside the flood not to be counted ns 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 (In- mt in* i.f a leading i haiv.etcr. a* “Jane F.yre" and “Hob Hoy;’’ the other that of giving some hint of the nature of the book, 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 coutuiu the soul or tlir keynote of the book. Then the author and reader start on fair terms. Jane Austen, a Consummate nrtist, understood this well, as in “I’ride ami Prejudice,” but forsook her advantage in "Emma”—a better hook and susceptible to as telling a title. It is difficult to estimate vvhat would have been the loss to literature If “The Scarlet Letter” had been labeled "llester Prynne” and “The House of Seven Gables" a title that lias worked its way Into architecture had been called "The PyncheoiiH.”— Dr. Theodore T. Hunger lo Booklovers' Magazine. Two Kill*. “I enn't Imagine a worse gllly than the man who's forever Indulging In siiiall talk.” "Oh. I don't know ! He's no worse than i*c fellow who is forever tuiklng big "—Philadelphia Press. For n Sivlteli (iff. "1 wish you'd send mu to one of those electricians' schools, pop.” “Why. wlint do you mean, my son?” “She's altogether too careless with the switch, pop," VunUors Statesman