Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1903 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. ■ V«KY KYCNING. KXCKPT SUNDAY, BY Lew Q. eULINOHArVI. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, carrier, per week lO© By carrier, per year $4 00 By mail, per month 25C By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. tdTßrttalng rates made known on application Entered tn the post office at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER.’ Manager. John C. Lawler of Salem, a state senator and one of the most solid and substantial democrats in the state, died yesterday. The Bluffton News has began its twelfth year as a daily paper, and from its own inventory of itself it bids fair to continue its travels amid peace and plenty. The News is a mighty clever newspaper at all times and under all circumstances.

A NEW FUEL. A New Pater.! on the Perplexing Question of Heat. In the patent office at AVashingt; r. is a document which contains within its plump bosom the specifications for a fuel which can Ir- turned into the mains of this city and delivered in plentitude and in consant flow at a cost to the consumer of $1 a month. W. J. Lewis of Fowlerton is the patentee. He has just returned from Washington, whew he spent several days in the pitent office. He was assured before he left Washington that there is nothing else in existence like this fuel, and that his papers will be issued as soon as possible. This means within a month. Mr. Lewis has something new un«der the sun. His scheme is simple. ■Cut through every test it has prov- • ed to be all and more than he claims for it. It has been turned into mains and employed in the co >k stove and in the heater. It has been shown to lie as’good for lighting as the electric light. It can be reduced until its light is remarkable for its brilliancy. It is capable of producing a heat of unusual intenisty. At the Fair. One of the attractions at the Pres byterian church will be Thursday evening with the following pro gram: Piano solo—Miss Gertrude Moses. Recitation—Miss. M. Z* ola Hershey. Vocal Solo—May Niblick. Reictation—Agnes Schrock. Recitation—Vada Martin. Vocal Solo—Kate Mylott. Recitation—M. Zeola Hershey. Piano Solo—Dessie Beerv.

THE Wilson burns Chips, —■ BO YOU USE A WILSON HEATER? ““““'"" “* ' claim to make them better IT HAS MANY IMITATORS, BUT IT HAS NO EQUAL O4MMSRSUSX -e Jliaw'u;.. at 3wr ,X. WMnMUMt/BSf UHII 111 II — .... — —— l ——— ■ ,!■ if ■ tTTirr -’■■■■•Bu i - , _ —W— — ' More than 5 00,000 tees made Bright by these Famous Stoves] Less Fuel; Mere Heat, than any other Stove on Earth ' ~ Other Staves LOOK like the W.lso-i, but—that’s all. If Ynil Wont ol ~~ None of tnem WORK like the Wilson. ' UU vv «ni a OtOV© And none are eo good. BUY A XA/ILSOIN —-— - It Has Stood the Test for Years. Ask Your Neighbor and be CONVINCED Now is the time to buy one—Save your money in more ways than one SCHAFER HARDWARE COMPANY TvSFiSS - _ * longer by actual test.

A LETTER. Rev. Allen Says a Word About the Lecture Course. Editor Democrat: By your indulgence I wish to call the attention I of the public to the Endeavor Lee 1 ture Course for which a canvass is now being made. First of a]l I ! wish to compliment the press for I the interest they have always taken in such an enterprise. Any one who has had anything to do with the course in the past ton years knows full well the difficulties and the little profit that there is in lecture Courses. It is certainly a matter in which the entire public should be interested as a matter of civic pride. Bluffton and Portland have courses with almost twice the magnitude of ours. It is the policy of the committee to get the best talent that money will buy. While we do not have so

Ttoei.’ dSK* ’ *’ - ' ■' ■ . » " a. ' ‘ • •** ■ ’ ■ '■ V £ f • J J" , . t, T 1. TRANSPORTATION BUILDING, WORLD’S FAIR. ST.LOCIS.

many numbers as our neighbors We do not fall one whit behind them in quailty. We are compelled to cut the price of a season ticket at one dollar and fifty cents rnd we are doamfal even at that rate whether the course can be made to pay. It is a matter of utmost importance to the cause for the committee to know on what to depend. Therefore we earnstly ask that everyone give the solicitors a decisive answer. Hoping that we will find sufficient pub’i'spirit to make thecause a success. I remain Respectfully, E. A. Allen. Holthouse. Schulte & Co., for overcoats, suits, underwear, shirts’ hats, caps and neckwear. Sec Holthouse. Schulte & Co., for your next suit. They will please you both in quality and price. Wanted—To buy a five or six room house that is near good sanitary sewer. Enquire of Dr. J. M Miller. 202tf

IS INTERESTING. M. Burns Has a Picture of the Fire of 1881. Scene of the Destructive Blaze When Second Street Was Destroyed. I M. B.irns, the harness man, has a i picture on exhibition at his store that would certainly interest all the old settlers and a part of the young-

er generation who can remember as ' far back as twenty one years. It is I a picture of the east side of second 1 1 street at the time it was entirely | Chi I 'agoed, Mr. Burns at the time ; of the fire had the same photographied on a small scale and undir the skilful hands of Charles Ross the ! artist, so it stands about four feet high. Mr. Burns certainly prizes the picture as he takes great pleasure in shownig it to everyone who desires to see the same, and it certainly is a great relic. Many people here still remember that eventful September night of 18bl when the entii e east side of Second street was wiped out and for hours the utter destruction of the city seemed possible. Nineteen buildings were on fire at once and the blaze was the fl rcest ever known. The awful fire however was one of the best things that ocurred in Decatur for where sto<xl a row of frame shacks has since been erected an entire brick block. Mr. Burns invites the pub-

I lie to view his picture and anyone may do so who calls at his place of j business. THE STOCKHOLDERS. I Names of Those Who Are Now Interested in the New Studabaker Bank. In promoting the Studabak r bank from a private to a state institution, the large subscribers to t; e ! stock are John Studabaker s’o,o o. Hugh Dougherty s‘>o,ooo, A.B Ciii e SIO,OOO, H. C, Arnold slo,oo'’, Samuel Bender SIO,OOO, Fred Askbaucher s‘>.ooo, J. W. Sale $5,000 and H. D. C ok $3,000, whovil constitute the board of uireetor , except Mr. Studabaker who desins to be left <-ff the Board on aceou t of his age and inactivity. The rc- ■ maining $.‘>7,000 of stock has been ■ taken in various sums by the following business men of the community:

| Godfrey Ash ba ucher. Edwin S. Waii mer, Dell Locke, John Gordon. Philo Rodgers, Amos Cole, William Gregg. John Litchent»erger Cyrus i IS. Cotton, John M Back. Ezra Lev|enson, Jno. H. Piinter, Daniel Beel-1 er, Theo. Ellinghvn, John L. War , ing. Hiram E. Grove, Nelson K Todd, Charles E. Strugis, Abraham Showalter. John W. Markley. W B. Nimmons, George Scott, David Klopfenstine, W. H. Eichhorn, William A. Kunkle,Gabriel T. Markley, James P. Hale and Russel Brown. Lost—Somewhere between Nickel Plate saloon and Monroe and North Saventh street, a n'w |lO note, t > urn to Marshal Harry Cordua and receive reward. For Sale—At |SO per acre. ICO acres best black land in belt six miles north of Monroeville Ind. Could be cut into two farms. For particulars or appointment to show land address owner, R H Permt, Hawkins. Ind.

: DEAL IN OIL. Darby Oil Company Sell Their Holdings. Prosperity Oil Co. P a Y Sixty-Five 1 I Thousand Dollars for the Property. I . i I An important deal in oil property ' took place yesterday at which time 1 the Dart y Oil Co . with holdings in the Chittar ooga field sold out to, the Prosperity Oil Co., of Bloomington.lll.. the price paid being $65,000. Senator Ulleray of Fort Wayne who made the deal and is a member of the Prosperity Company was here this morning getting recorded the transferred leases. He was exceedingly jubilant over the new proper ty and thinks it will terminate into a great bargain. He had held an option on the property for some weeks, and since then a well has - discounting any of the ten now pumping. It flowed for several hours and it was with great difficulty that the well was capped. Sen ator Ullrey has become extensively connected in the oil business and is owner of several blocks of good oil stock. He has promoted several enterprises and as the boys say. is now strictly in it. He is thinking of devoting most of his time to the Geneva field, and will likely ojien an office at that place. He thinks that territory the most reliable as well as productive and will hereafter gamble with the prospects there. Presbyterian Fair Program. The Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian chruch will give an ’ other of their good programs on • Wednesday evening at the church, composed of gentlemen. Overture.—Orchestra. > Quartette—Messrs Ernsberger, Coverdale. Beery and Bell. Vocal Solo—Rev. Pontius. Cornet and piano duet,—Jesse Sellemeyer and True Fristoe. Vocal Solo—Ernsberger. Quartette—Messrs. Patterson Schrock, Patterson, Lutz. Piano Solo—True Fristoe. Vocal Solo—Rev. Pontius. Selection—Orchestra. 1 Quartette—Messrs. Ernsberger, Coverdale, Beery and Bell. Admission 10 cents. Millinery opening Thursday and Friday. Oct. 2 and 3 Mrs. A W. Peterson. 225d4

Amusements. Apropos of the coming o f pp, mer 's Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company Mrs. Stowe’s greatest work, a short history of the original cabin may of interest. The jieople about Na< 1. itoches, La. have long insisted that Ribert McAlpin was the origins Simon LaGree. His house anj plantation were the only onesfitti n > the description in the hook, on t >r near the Red river and he the onlv man in the state who ‘filled the bill." He was intemjierate ard mer ciless and died before the war. lean ing a memory with horror. On his place lived a faithful old negro, from Kentucky,who suffered everything but actual torture to death and Mr 8. Chopin the 'present wealthy owner of the estate, ha# preserved the cabin with great care in confident belief that in time it would become an object of natural curiosity. The cabin is of Cyprus logs covered with Cyprus boards, and sound as when built, some forty years ago. It is presumed that Mrs. Stowe used the novelists privilege of combining the experience of sev. oral negroes in one. But simple f! a relic of the old slave times, tl« cabin will present great interest at the Bosse opera house Saturday Oct. 3rd. Millinery opening Thursday and Friday. Oct. 2 and 3. Mrs A. \V Peterson. 225df Mlillinery opening Thursday and Friday, Oct 2. and 3 at Mrs A. \V. Petersen. ?7h14 Wanted Educated man to scli-it Nice work. S4O a month to right party. Address D„ Daily Demo, •rat 21412 Stolen—Bright bay mare; weight about 1,050; no white marks, new shoes on hind feet; mane lays to right side; foretop roughly trimm. ed; taken from barn two miles north of Montpelier, Monday night, August 17; old end spring buggy with unpainted wheels, and harness. Reward of $25.00 will be paid for return of property. 8. M Montgomery, R F. D. No 1, Montpelier. Notify Harvey Rowe. Marshal, Montpelier, Ind. ly-klwtf . — - —— ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. toace, IM Phone ■ Keodenoe MS.

Weak Men Made Vigorous rrutr imwrr rmwr What PEFFER'S NERVIGOR Did! It acts powerfully and quickly ('um wb-a afl other* fan. Young regain lost ii.anbood.oi4 men recover youthful vigor. Absolutely Goaranteed to < ure bsrrouanese, Lost vitality. IniiMvtency. Sightly EmlMlone. 1 oat Foyer, either sei. Fail in* Mcmorj, U sating Diseases, ind all ffeett nf »*l/-abuse or ercri*s rat •ndt-errtom Wards off Insanity and consumptfit I>ou‘t let druggist lmiM*ea rou because it \ields a greater profit In-ist ob b* T< u« FEri'KK’M S ER VIGOR, or sen.’ fur it (M be carried in vest pocket. Prepaid plain wnpf*. Si per box. or 6 for with A W ritten Guar•“s•*•«>< ■ •■’Refund Money. PampNajJ PEFFER MEDICAL. ASb’N. Cbicafo. IU. For sale by Blackburn &