Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1903 — Page 4

Weather Forecast. Fair; same Thursday. Country Correspondence. Route One. George Steele of Magley, was a caller in this vicinity Sunday evening. John Bogner returned home from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, last Tuesday evening. Presley Wittmere of south of Decatur, was the guest of Misss Bessie Fisher Sunday. Mrs. Dr. J. C. Grandstaff and son ot'P reble, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mann. Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Singleton went to Paulding county, Ohio, Tuesday to visit with friends and relatives for a few days. Berne.

Oil Well Nol. on the Hostettir farm two miles south is considered a very good one. C. W. Wright, has bought another string of drilling tools ami the same will be here next week. H. S. Michaud is at Monroe, Mich., this week selecting his fall stock of fruit trees which will be very large. From all appearance Sam Magids is out of the oil business as he is seen 'in our streets again with a new junk outfit. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Brenneman and son Edy, returned from Switzerland Friday and moved into the Mrs. Winn property on Jefferson street which they purchased late Saturday. , Oil well No 2. on the Joe Peel farm south east of town came in Saturday and oil men who have seen it sav it is aNo 1. well. The Bronnfield Oil Co., of Mansfield, Ohio ha 'e the lease. A. A. Faust of Geneva and a Mr. Pugh of Findlay, Ohio were here Tuesday on business of importance. H. O. Silvers moved his household goods this week to LaGrange, where he will locate permanently. Mr. Silvers will manage the grain elevator at tliat place for the Berne Grain & Hay Co., of this place.

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Peterson. Mr. Straub spent Sunday with Miss Sadie Liemenstall, who is working near Avilla. The work on our grocery will be completed this week. Quite an addition has been set to it, thus insuring the customers a more complete stock to select from. John Moore and wife are visiting friends and relatives in Ohio. He wll return Saturday to make arrangements for his sale next Wednesday. A party of young people gathered at the home of Miss Goldie Brienier last Saturday night, the event being a past time and an evening of pleasure. Those present were Misses Maggie and Edith B *ery, Lillian and Bertha Shell, Mattie Spade, Maggie Moore, Bessie Zimm merman Minnie and Maggie Brown, Ada Johnson, Vori Balltzelll, Sadie Crist and Messrs. James and Jesse

Beery, William Johnson, Jesse More, Wililam Martin, Louis Scheery, Louis Straum, Earl Archer, Marion Reber Walter Baltzell Warren Panye, George Curry and August Yake. The evening was welFspent with well chosen games, superintended by a competent ■ pleasure maker, who those present gladly thanked for her benignant . invitation. R. D. Liemenstall returned from a four months visit in in his native country, Germany, last Thursday. He reports well and says the German wine is just as good as it was forty years ago. He brought with him a hired hand, whose name is also Liemanstal. He tells many strange charaeteristics of their form of Government. among which perhaps ths ' most interesting is the control of the wealthy class of people, who live in the cities, over the laboring class. An annuity is paid to the government for the exclusive right ■ to protect game. The deer, rabbit and the game in general, are allowed to graze and run unmolested over the lands of the poor class, who are not allowed to kill them. A heavy i fine and imprisonment is taxed up- ) on one who kills his game intentionally, without leagl rights.

Linn Grove. David Mesebberger is improving I is ' I farm dwelling east of the river bridge. I Samuel Opliger moved into hie spacious and commodious residence here on Thursday. John Cowan, E.-.q , is anchored for repairs, having a bad cut foot which ! he received while splitting wood. The Misses Berth and Elda French of Tippecanoe, Ohio, are visiting the | family of Peter Hoffman this week. William Davenport and wife, of I Phillipsburg, Ohio, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Kev. Leo Ehrhart, of tnis place. David Heller and son, Edwin, and wife, L. L. Dunbar, Peter and Charles Kizer, A. J. French and David Falb visited the Fort Wayne fair last week. Mrs. Lena Neaderhouser sold her property hire to Samuel Nusbaum and purchased a piece of property at Berne and moved into the same last week Chris Stuckey has cleared away all locus shade trees in front of his late purchased property. They were removed none too soon for sightly imi provement. William Seckier moved to Bluffton

last Tuesday. On the same day the following changes were made: Kufus Kreps moved into the house vacated 1 by Seckier. Ed Neuenschwauder into, Kreps residence and Dr. G. Emrick took possession of his own, purchased of and vacated by Neueuschwander. Major Harrisou Deam. of Washington. D. C , Major Lee Martz. Eugene Morrow, jr, and Henry Engle, of Bluffton, were the guests of John P. Stiner on the Sabbath. The former taught school in district No. 1 in 1557. This being his first visit in this locality since he served his country through the civil war, and at this time is holding a responsible position in the military services at Washington. The Kunyon restaurant has added a large hand-power coffee mill to the equipments, which by chance a few days ago Win. Judd came to notice and after a thorough inspection mistook the machine for a model stone crusher bearing up-to-date improvements, and at once proposed to Mosser that they negotiate fur the purchase of one of the crushers and secure a crew of Lands and go into that business next season. Now, however,

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| when one says “coffee mH' it silences ' Bill as if he was trapping red birdr. L. D. Miller lays claims to extra good luck and at the same time mure unfortunate than many of his neigh bors. Levi went forth the other morn iug to take in the rudy air and found himself blessed with additional wealth. First, a hen came off her nest with a pair of twin chicks: next he spied a sow with twin pigs, and on looking around what did lie see but the old cow sporting twin calves. With all this, Levi is not satisfied. His lamentations are great by reason that a pair of twins could not have been added to his household, also. Is it a wonder that when he conquered the world Leaser wept. On last Sunday Jefferson Dunbar and wife were made the victims of a complete surprise. Upon their arrival from church they were met and sur rounded by the Linn Grove Junior Band who played them some of their popular airs. After Mr. and Mrs Dunbar had became partly reconciled they were marched into the house where an elegant lamp was presented Mrs. Dunbar and a large quanityof tobacco to Mr. Dunbar, (that he will take proper care of.) There were

many other valuable presents, among ( which was a family group picture of their son Emanuel's family of Missii lon, Ohio. An elegant and delicious dinner was then served. Those that participated were, Messrs and Mesda mes Harrison Marsh. Levi Miller, sr. Levi Miller, jr.. of Bluffton: Emanuel Hetcti, Vere Cruz: Robert Meyers. Rufus Michels. John Shoemaker. . Alex. Michels, Peter Baumgartner, j Asa Haughton. Emanuel Liddy. Benj Banter, Timothy Fauts. John Lichty. Daniel Heller, Samuel Reynolds, I Charles Reynolds. Paul Grandenlard, j Levi Miller and Chester Hall. Mesda mes Silas Kizer. Ada Emery, Caroline Haughton, Marv Eckrote, Kite Slaw “on, Sarah French, Louisa Hoffman, ' Rose Baumgartner, and Kate Lindsey; Misses Bessie, Emma, Pearl and 1 , Dolphia Baumgartner, Ethel Liddy. Nana Hoffman, Grace Lindsey. May 1 Grandenland, Sarah Hoffman, and Alice Runyon; Messrs. Ollie and Bert Heller. Fred and Daniel Studler. John and Will Liddy, Rufus and Harry Mashberger, Arthur and Chas. Shoop. George and Bob Slawson, Nelson Gentis, Miller Baumgartner. John

Runyon, Fred Oswalt, Fred Reynolds. Wilson Demfos, Oral and Sterling Hoffman. Mason Haughton. Archie j Haughton. Lewis Grandenland. Mtl 1 son Banter. Clyde Baumgartner, I Leander Rhaue ami Daniel Baum, 1 gartner. A photograph was taken of the crowd and everybody left saying I that they Lada splendid time, and wishing Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar many more such happy occasions. ••Owingto the change being made j m the gas line from the old to the I new field all the consumers may I expect a light shortage of gas for | at least two weeks, which time it | will take to make the change anti to nIM ct up the new welte to the | 'line now being laid. As soon as the new ime i- the wells : connected we expect to give better | service, by far than that given during the past two years. The company now has meters on hands it is urgently requested that all persons who expect to use gas this winter will leave their order for a meter at once so that the company may be able to make orders in advance to the manufacturers for what , meters we may need for other con- i | sinners. We are paying a bonus

to the manufacturers in order to get all meters to supply our patrons at once and it is very hard to get an order, for the demand on the manufacturers is so great that their capacity is almost exhausted. All the I gas companies located in the gas belt have been driven to the meter i system in order to supply their customers. We being some 42 miles I from the gas field are driven to force the gas such a long distance, . requiring the best class of pumping | machinery and from 800 to 1000 i hi >rse power steam to drive the great air pressure to supply our cust >ni- ' ers with gas that it entails an enor mous expense. J. 8. Bowers. I Owing to the scarcity of meters ; and the slowness of the manufac--1 turers to supply our orders we have j • extended the time for consumers to : supply themselves with meters ‘ until November Ist. After that 1 date gas will be sold only to those 1 people who have the meters. This r matter refers to consumers in Deca- • tur. Monroe, Berne and all others ' along our line J. 8, Bowers. 1 ——————

® THE MARKETS

Accurate price* paid by Decatur merchants for various products. Corrected every day. GRAIN. BY E. L. CARROL, GRAIN MERCHANT. Corn, per cwt., inew) mixed f 61' Corn, per cwt, yellow 63 I Oats, new 33 Wheat, No. 2 79 ■ heat, No. 3 7u |ye 50 Barley 52 Clover Seed 5 30 AJsyle 0 5 00 Buckwheat 60 Flax Seed so Timothy $1 25 CHICAGO MARKETS. Chicago market closed at 1:15 p m . •oday as follows: Wheat, October HOT Wheat. December Wheat. May Corti, October Corn, December Corn, May ‘lain, October ‘ Oats, December Oats. May Jan. Port |y s j May Pork ; 1 M ■ January Lard per cwt 6 62 TOLEDO GRAIN MARKETS. Changed every afternoon at 300 o clock by J D Halo, Decatur, special win* *orvicc. Wheat, new No. 2, red, cash J (UJ Oct wheat. December wheat ' May wheat Cash < orn, No. 2,1: ~o imll 1s I Oct corn _ iu I Corn. DeMober I May Corn Oats. Car-h Oats 11, ■!. ’! Oat*. Dec>'inl». : ‘ May Oats Ek «* COAL Per Ton Anthracite• - (¥1 Domestic, not 4 Domestic, lump, Hocking 4 tM) Domestic lump, Indiana 3 m oc ihontas Smokeless, lump 550 -—- — WOOL AND HIDES. BY B. XALVER a so K . M ,MJUUd - « Tallow, por pern-; ZZZZ 04*

f OR. CANADA I I Ophtha’mic Specialist. ( ■ Practier limited to the <-<>n, I ■ ttou of defects ot ttiH ( >w B ■ tilted to r. Ilrvv strait B M numerous functional nvinn . B ■ to Intpr ■¥•■ vision und fin ;,,, s • B B WEFERENCES THE BEST. I ■ At Dr. Coverdale's office, at B ■ Decatur. Ind., first Tuesday I ■ of each month. BOSSE’S OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24th. SAGER DEAN’S CO. IN J. C. Nugent's Magnificent Pastoral Comedy-Drama of Tears and Minh An Indiana Romance LL, r——\“ "k | Ml Wf -'I /O Jr.„ W . I

Au idea of the Middle-West pre seuted on a metropolitan scale with complete and elaborate scenic equip rneut. Prices: Lower floor 50c gallery 25c.

STOCK. BY FRED SCHEIMAX, DEALER. Ijtmbs 4 o 4 50 Hogs, per cwt f (g 5 25 Cattle per 1b.3 <j 4 Calves, per lb4| <rr i Cows 2 £ Sheep, per lb 2 4 Beef Hides, per lb - • POULTRY. BY J. W. PLACE CO., PACgEBS. Chickens, young per lb. Fowls, per lb Ducks, per lb. - sj| (>_ Young Ducks ■ a 1 Voting Turkeys, per lb. Old Turkeys, per lb leeae, old per lb M Geese, young, lb MAY GARKET. No. 1 timothy hay (new) No 1 mixed hay (new f. ■ Isl No. . clover hay (new) OIL MARKET. Tiona fl* Pennsylvania Corning}** New Castle North Lima *7' South Lima H Indiana '7. ' Whitehouse Somerset *•*'' Neodasha. | Kan.) 1 *- . ‘‘ Ragland ,W) OTHER PRODUCTS. I BY VARIOUS OBOCERS AMD MEH HANTS I Eggs, fresh, per doz . * ", Lard„ . Butter, per pound ' ( j. Potatoes, new q Onions /. Cabbage per 100 lb I Apples, per bn .. fIARKET NOTESLiverpool market closet! steady. j Wheat, cent lower. ) Corn, i cent higher. > ) Receipts at Chicago today: 1 Hogs 2 Estimate for tomorrow: ite. ■