Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1903 — Page 3

TIME TABLES a. r. & i. (In effect June 21,1903) TRAINS NORTH. No 5-D»lly 11:09 pm No 3—l'aliy (except cunday, .’,-22 pm No 7— Dally to Grand Rapids 8:00 a m TRAINS SOUTH. No 3—Daily (except Sunday 1:19 pm No 4—Dally 2:32 a m No 12—Dally (except Sunday) 7:17 a m No H Sunday ou y 9:40 p m CLOVER LEAF. In effect May 3. 1903. EAST. No 3—Commercial Traveler, dally... 5:25 a m No 2-Mall, dally, except Sunday . .11 50 am No 4-I'ay Express, daily 8:43 p m No 22—Laical Freight 1:10 am WEST No 3—Day Express, daily 5:25 am No I—Mall, dally, except Sunday . 11:25a m No i>—Commercial Traveler, daily .. 9:l9pm No 43—Local Freight 12:05 p m CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect June 14, 1903. WEST, No 9— Buffalo-Chicago Limited, daily 3:10 a m No 7—Expreea. daily .1:42 a tn No 3—New York and Chicago Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago daily 12:3S p m No 13—Wells Fargo Express except Monday 5:12 p m No 21-Marion-Hunting-ton Acc'm.. 10:10a m EAST No S-Vestibule Limited for N Y 2:55 a m N 23—Marion and Columbus except Sunday 6:58 a m No 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus and Chicago 3:24 pm No 10-Buffalo and Chautauqua Lake 9:55 pm No. 11 will not carry baggage. 3 and 4 has through coach Columbus to Chicago. J. War Inagle of Geneva is a business vis? >r here today. J. Q. Neptune is attending to business at Willshire today Mrs. G. W. Holmes of Berne is visiting friends in this city. Miss Ella Counts is in this city the guest of Miss Mary Todd Miss Bessie Pilliod left this morning for her home at Grand Rapids, Ohio. Miss Faye Smith will entertain tonight in honor of Miss Goldie Worden of Marion. Harry Johns went to Fort Wayne lust evening where he secured a p >sition as driver of a cab. Herbacious Bremerkamp has accepted a jkisition at the T. C. Corliett cigar factory and is now on duty at that place. Mell Rice went to Ridgeville this I morning where he look ed after the int< rests! of the Adams County Lumber Co., during the dav.

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 60 PER CENT OFF. 15c paper at 8c per bolt 36c paper at 18c. Borders at 2} cents a yard. Crepe Ingrains at 40c per bolt. 20c paper at 10c. Ingrains, 15c, 18c and 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 2.1 c a foot. 6c mouldings at 8c 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 determined to quit business, and want to sell my entire stock as soon as possible. The BIG SALE begins at once. I 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 Dolly Simcoke visited during the day at Monroe. . Jacob Atz went to Woodburn Ind., this morning where he will make a short visit. Charley Phillips, Arthur Beery and Paul Beardsley were visitors at Berne yesterday.

Ed Orcut, sr., a former Decatur citizen, was in this city last evening attending to business. Rev. Daniel and wife returned to their home at Fort Wayne last evening after making a short visit in this city. The Big Store is missed the most perhaps in the evenings, what was a bright busy corner is now dark and desolate. Harry Dibble who has been quite sick here of late with an attack of appendicitis is slowly recovering, and is considered as being out of danger. Mrs. Springer desires to express her thanks to the many kind neighbors and friends for their kindness and sympathy during her recent affliction. A M. Ringle of Fort Wayne arrived in this city today from Pittsburg where he disposed of several car loads of horses for Beery &■ Holthouse. J. Z. Brickley of Fort Wayne is attending to busness here. He represents the Bankers Life Association of Des Moines, lowa, and certainly has a unique offer to make in the way of life insurance. The following milliner* will close their stores every evening at six o'clock, excepting Saturdays, and 1 eginning July 6th. Mrs M. P. Burgde, Mrs. U. Deininger, Mrs. Alice Peterson, Mrs. Anna Boese. The Driving Club received the consignment of fire works yesterday morning through the Adams Express company. Judging from the shipment, which was a very large one, the 4th of July pyrotechnic display wil be one worth seeing. C. £. Albaugh and family of Monroe, will take up their new residence at Convoy, Ohio, the former being there now and the latter will leave Thursday. Mr. Albaugh has long been identified at Monroe and counts many friends in the county who will regret the change.

: Gertrude Blosser renrned from a trip to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Thos. Gallogly and children returned from a visit at Portland this morning. J. Z. Brickley of Bluffton, was looking after life insurance business here last evening.

George Krick rode the goat at the Masonic lodge. He was given master mason degree. Rev. C. M. Somer of Hesse Cassel was here yesterday the guest of Rev. Theo. Wilken. Miss Jesse Cook has issued invitations announcing a lawn party at her home Friday evening. Joe Winteregg and Peter Soldner of Berne, were in the city on business a few hours this morning. A. E. Rose returned this afternoon from Butler. His mother, Mrs. E. B. Rose accompanied him. D. J. Harkless and wife, and Miss Leota Hower, went to Anderson this morning for a visit with friends. Mrs. Nettie Schrock and daughter, Mrs. H. Meyers of Upland Indiana, went to Berne this morning where they will visit for a short time with friends. Harlo Mann was in town today and reports everything as being prosperous in the vicinity of Monroe township. He recently completed a large barn and is prepared to take care of any kind of a full grown crop. A Decatur citizen who was in Berne yesterday states that the people of that town are all preparing to spend the glorious Fourth in this city. Large crowds are also expected to come from the other southern towns. Thomas DeWitt arrived in this city Saturday evening from Chicago where he has been working for some time. He has a responsible position as enigneer in a large car shop and is now out on a two weeks vacation. Charles Yobst has been advised by the management of the Eagle's Carniral that number 19804 drew the automobi’e and that number 19068 is entitled to it if the holder of the first ticket does not claim his prize within thirty days. John Albright who did such nobla work at the Big Store fire Sunday, reports the loss of his gold watch. It was a 15 jewel Rockford movement and had the photograph of a young lady in the rear cast-. The finder will surely return it to him. A large party of young people drove last evening to the home of Garret Voglewede west of this city where they were entertained at a moonlight picnic. The event was planned in honor of Miss Bessie Pilliod of Grand napids. 0., and Miss Anna Walsh of Chicago. David Meyer, a harness dealer of Bluffton attempted to make an automobile trip to Woodburn yesterday and failed. When near Monroeville his machine gave out and after several unsuccessful trials at repairing it he played quits and hired a team to tow- him to this city. When here the machinery was repaired and he was able to run the machine to his home town. The Hall safe used in the Big Store was opened last evening and the contents were found to tie in fairly good shape. Everything was stained with smoke and water and the backs of the hooks were badly scorched, but all the figures are legiable and the pages clean. The combination worked perfectly and the safe proved as near I v fireproof perhaps as any under the circumstances. The Chicago markets were comparatively inactive today and prices dropped and raised immaterially. July oats took a spurt to tbe better and shows that the influences that caused the scare a few days ago have not become a thing of the past. An appreciable drop befell mess pork and it is now said that Chicago packers have the ropes m their hands. Hogs at the yards regained their former price of Saturday by an unaccountable raise of ten cents. Would you like to lie an editor? It is very easy. Yon have only got to be a freak weather for all the calumny and slang gilies in the country; you are only required to have a knowledge of all things in heaven and earth and the ability to transfer them to printsmeared paper. It is an especially easy job—hut after a while you get to the point where you do not care much and had rather lie an editor than a minister, a lawyer, a doctor or any other sort of a Pharisee.

Miss Lizzie Leichen is visiting at i Warren today. W. A. Hoffman made a business •trip to Berne today. Wm. and Joseph Merstnan went to Marion this morning. W. S. Hughes made a business trip to Geneva this afternoon. Wm. T. Wisner went to Hartford ■ City today for a short visit. Wm. J. Hardison, of Geneva, was a business visitor here today. Quinn Stevens returned this morning to Ohio City, after a short visit here. A. Z. Brickley, of Fort Wayne, is in the city looking after life insurance business. John Williams, who has been suffering with abscess, is reported as improving. Miss Genevieve Hale returned last evening from an extended visit at Bluffton. E. Hartings went to St. Henry, Ohio, this morning, for a visit with his relatives. Mrs. Henry Meyers is entertaining her lady friends this afternoon at pro-1 gressive pedro. E. E. Young and Robert Harrison, of Geneva, were attending to business in Decatur today. The board of equalization went to i Preble this afternoon to appraise the | Standard Oil works. Mrs. John Mayer and daughter, Hattie, went to Monroe this afternoon for a few days visit. The Big Store clerks were together today for perhaps the last time. Meser photographed the group. Misses Nettie and Daisy Reynolds went to Craigville this afternoon, where they will visit several days Work on the federal building is being pushed. The excavation is nearly completed and today the first foundation stone was laid. C. J. Lutz and family leave tomorrow morning for a three weeks vacation at Wolcottsville, where all kinds of finhing are on tap. Mrs. Ellen Archbold, who has been suffering with dropsy for sometime past, does not improve and it is feared that she cannot recover. D. D. Studabaker and R. B. Allison went to Marion this morning. While there they will attend a meeting of the board of directors of the First National Bank of that city. Fred Avery, a clerk at N. A. Loch’s ten cent store, was called to his former home in northern Michigan last evening by a telegram which stated that his eldest brother was dying. The Clover Leaf will sell round trip tickets to Denver. Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado, at rate of S3O for round trip. Selling dates July 1 to 10. Return limit August 31. T. L. Miller, Ag’t.

Some of the business men on Madison street are complaining of the debris caused by the recent fire, which blocks the street. As soon as the insurance adjusters arrive this will be removed. Unclaimed letters at the post office belonging to L. C. Coulter. Janies Hanner, C. Simcock, S. Shaheem, Geo. S *aright, Arthur G. Poorman, Peter Pott. A. T. Lane, Kilson Keed, Chas. Gilbert and John Greer. Mrs. W. H. Nachtrieb is "at home” this afternoon to forty of her lady friends. A luncheon will be served at five o’clock. Mrs. Florenc DeVilbis and Mrs. Claude Cole of Lancaster, Ohio, are the guests of honor. Emil Bain met with a very painful accident last evening While working at the Bain meat market his hand slipped and grazed the sharp edge of a steak knife, cutting three fingers to the bone. Mr. Bain will not be disabled but will be laid up several days. The train robbrse who were taken prisoners at Huntington several weeks ago as was told at the time in the Daily Democrat are still held and their trials will occur within a short time. One of the captives made u complete confession and stated that his name was Gillent and that he was a former member of the Piqua Fire Department. A black cow, the property of Julius Haugh is lost, either strayed or stolen, having been missing since Sunday night. A suitable reward will be ptid for her return. 1472d1w The Way With Lite. Es you set down on a board with a tack in it the harder you set the more tack you git, an' that's the way with life It's full o' tacks, an' don't you forget it.—" The Substitute.’’ - ■ A num who Is eternally squaring himself must lie just a little crooked.Atchison Globe.

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 10:00 a. m. Balloon Ascension and Parachute Drop at 10:30. $1,500 RACE PREMIUMS 2:30 Pace purse J2OO 2:20 Pace, purse .S2OO 2:30 Trot, purse Jl5O 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.

WHEN BURGLARS CALL. The Proper Thing to Do and the Proper Way to Do It. "Events that are apparently trivial in the daytime assume an immense importance in the dead of night. A slight noise, out of the ordinary, will sometimes have its bearing on the married lives of two people," says Tom Masson in Life. "When, therefore, your wife wakes you up with that intensely nervous movement that indicates a brooding horror do not lose your presence ot mind. Keep from shaking if possible, and while secretly your heart may be in your throat do not betray yourself. Above all, do not wake up too s<s>n. Begin by groaning slightly, and roll over. At the second pull on her part it will lie entirely proper for you to start slightly, rub your eyes and mutter any unintelligible sentence. Then, as you gradually wake up and she becomes more persistent, you may allow yourself to say. 'Oh. nonsense!' '■Remember that up to this moment the formula for a husband waked up by his wife who hears a noise is always the same and should only be varied later. Now, however, is the time to act. “Dash quickly from the bed and either reach for your revolver, or it that Isn't handy take the first thing that presents itself fire tongs, curling irons or a chair and rush madly to the door. "If you have acted your part correctly and courageously you will find your wife there bi'firc you, barring the en trance. “By fids time, if you have made noise enough, the burglars, if there were any, have without doubt departed, and when you bate persuaded your wife that the thing must be done you can search the house at your leisure and ever afterward pose as a genuine hero who was thwarted in his purpose at the critical moment.” FRUITS AND FLOWERS. The northern slope of a hillside is the best location for an apple orchard. The pear will come as near bearing a crop of fruit every year as any other kind of fruit. If the currant worm makes its appearance, dust the foliage while the dew is on with white hellebore. In transplanting plants from ftots Invert tlie pot and rap the bottom of it sharply, mid the plant will come out. An overloaded grapevine will not mature Its fruit. If it bears more than it ought It will ripen Its fruit late. Air slaked lime sprinkled on rosebushes when the dew is on will destroy Insects without Injuring the bushes. Bose plants should have plenty of light and heat. Nothing will blight their buds sooner than shade and moisture.

Nearly all cultivated fruits an- liable to overbear. This is always injurious and should be prevented. One of the best preventives is thinning. One of tlie l«-st places to use coal ashes is around the base of the fruit trees. Put a mound of them around each tree. Borers will not be so apt to trouble them. , The Hiikfclan Amsterdam. St. Petersburg is one of the few great cities which have been made and not torn. During his residence in Holland Peter the Great was so impressed by Amsterdam, pen-bed upon the waters, that be determined to abandon Moscow and build a new capital which should have canals for streets. In his campaign against Sweden in 1702 ire noted an island situated in the midstream of the Neva. "Here is my Russian Amsterdam!" he exclaimed and immediately began the building of a city there. The site was a marsh in summer and a frozen morass in winter. Two miserable bitts were the only buildings. The erection of the citadel, a great fort in the shape of a hexagon, with a tower 360 feet high, on the north bank of the Neva, was Ids first care. The cottage in which Peter lived while laying out the city still exists. Children In Houin 1i la rid. Children are regarded as a chief asset In the belongings of a Somali native. A man may have as many as four wives, and most of the patriarchs boast of tremendous families. One old chief of a tribe near Berbera was the head of <i family ,om! ting f 2.'! sons. 29 daughters and 390 grandchildren. A fattier sells hN daughters tor camels and often builds up for himself a fortune in this way The children nre named according to the circumstances of their birth, as Wa Berri (born in the morning) or Robleh (born in the rain). Revenge. The doctor's wife went to the door. She and the woman next door were not on friendly terms, but the tramp did not know that. "De lady next door,” he said, "give me a piece of her homemade pie and I fought”— “I'm sorry.” interrupted the doctor's wife, "but the doctor Isn't at home Just now. However, there's a physician In the next block, and if you hurry be may be able to give you relief before much barm Is done.”—Chicago Post. *»n<l den. Ethel There. I've forgotten to attend a function to which I was invited. How careless! George You should have an engagement calendar. Ethel Ob, George, this is so sudden! —Chicago Record-Herald. A terrible lot of money Is spent on parlor scenery at a wedding that Is longed for Io buy kitchen scenery later on.—Atchison Globe.