Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

A REAL TIN WEDDING Nr. and Mrs. Holtnonse Celebrate Tenth Wedding buy

OVER SIXTY GEESTS WERE PRESENT — Bride and Groom Wear Wedding Clothes. Many Handsome Presents—Novel and Appropriate Services—Splendid Social Event. Ten years ago yesterday ooeurrod the wedding of Miss Minnie Torvoor to Mr. R; J. Holthouse and as will I be remembered the affair was a ! brilliant social event. These ten years have been happy and prosperous ones and the tenth anniv< rsary day was celebarted Sunday j evening in a most fitting manner as j can be attested to by some sixty j friends who were present. At the door the guests were received by Mr and Mrs. Holthouse, each gowned in the wedding togs of ten , years ago, which had been preserved for the occasion. After the preliminary courtesies the game of progressive pedro was indulged in and the hours passed rapidly, Mrs. B. J. Terveer and Mr. E. X Ehinger being the winners and Mrs. C. S. Clark and Mr. C. V. Connell securing boobies.. Then came the luncheon, a delicious course of refreshments,indulged in and enjoyed thoroughly by every guest. An hour of merriment followed in which the bride and groom who really looked more beautiful and handsome thanever before, came in for thoir share of compliments. The event was a most delightful one and will be long remembered by every one connected there with either as host or guest. A number of presents including not only tin ware but silver ware and other valuable gifts were given and the bride was the recipient of a rich diamond ring with oomplimcnts of the groom. Souvinirs for the occasion were tin knifes,forks, ladles etc., attached to which were the figures 10 also built of tin. Notning was left undone to make the anniversary a real, live tin wodding and this desire was oertainly accomplished. Among the presents most highly prized by Mr. and Mrs Holthouse was a box of beautiful roses from the groom’s mother, Mrs. A. Holthouse of Jonesboro, Arkansas.

BASE BALL Rosenthals Win Easily From Celina Opening of Season—High School Team Lost to Van Wert. The Rouen thill* opened the Buko Bull KouKon in thin city yesterday by capturing the first, game from Celina. The weather man was somewhat aguinMt the niangement which materially held the attendance down. Btill three hundred of

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the faithful braved the weaher and j witnesed a one sided game through- ] out, in fact Celina was never in it , from the start and it was only a , question how high the score would l run. The Rosenthals for the first , time together under tire played a fine game and the team work helped materially in piling up such a large score. Every .member was in the game to win and but for an error on | the part of first baseman Farrell | which however under the cireum-1 stanoes was exousahle Celina would j have been presented with a nice j hunch of gooso eggs. Pitcher France : was on his mettle and onlv allowed j the Buckeyes four scattered hits, and only giving one base on halls, j The batting of the Rosenthals was j a fine exhibition they lambasting the ball right and lets for a total of , twelve hits and taking every ad-1 vantage of the misplays of their op- ' ponents, thus enabling them to run up such a large score. Celina was olearly out classed and it will certainly take a much stronger aggregation than Jhat to show the Rosenthals where to head in at. The feature of the game was the catching of Pennington and his throwing to second base. The next attraction will be the Bloomer Girls on next i Sunday who come well reoommended as hall players and who put up a clean and fast game. Yesterday's score by innings was as follows. 123456789RHE Celina 00001100 1 3 4 9 Rosthls. 50212050 x 15 12 31 Saturday afternoon at Steele’s j Park the two High School rivals Van Wert and Decatur met to play their second game of the series, and as was the result in the former game Van Wert came out of the fray with Decatur’s seal]) dangling I from their belt. Too game was replete with sensational and brilliant plays Van Wert however loading in this line and playing in all the luck imaginable. The very first inning saw the undoing of the Decatur boys and after the baloon came down and the smoko had cleared away Van Wert had gathered five runs which practically won the game. From this inning on however it was as pretty a game as any one would wish to see and the Decatur boys worked hard to overcome the big lead but their efforts were fruitless and the best they oould do was to get six runs through out while Van Wert hud the long end with ten. Knapp pitched a fine game for Decatur but his support was ragged giving him no chance to win. Vun Wert played a nioe game and was the steadier of I tho two this feature alone winning ! for them. ANOTHER DROP. Indiana oil has made another drop «f three cents this week, and is now quoted at fl.oß. The eon- | stant. lowering of the price is said I to be due to over production. During the last two years new stock companies have sprung into existence as rapidly as the wild oat tanks did in the thirties and most of them have little stability. Prominent men connected with the | oil business in this territory say that the oil market will have the same struggle to recover its equilibrium as the currency did after the reckless speculation of half a century ago. A BOY BABY. i The Daily Democrat foreman, John Nix has assumed an important air and we beg to aunounoe that he i has a perfeot right to do so for a i big healthy boy baby now completes the happiness of his home. Mrs. 1 Nix and the boy are doing nicely.

DECATUR, INDIANA, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9. 1904.

WED AT BLUFFTON George Johnson Married to Ossian Young Lady. At the Methodist parsonage oc- | curred the marriage at eleven j o'clock this forenoon of Miss Ger-: trude Houser daughter of Mr. and , Mrs. David Houser, of Ossian, to Mr. George Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson, of De-S ca'ur. The oeremonv was per | formed by Rev. L. A. Beeks in the’ presence of a few friends. Mr. and Mrs Johnson have many friends j here who extend their heartiest j congratulations.. To most of their i friends their wedding came as a i surprise. They left on the 11:16' train over the Clover Leaf for their future home in Akron, Ohio, in which city Mr. Johnson has a good ; position.—Bluffton News. STOVE FACTORY Chicago Concern May Locate Here Meeting at Commercial Club Rooms Tonight—A Good Proposition. L. D. Jamison, of Chicago is in . the city interesting our citizens in a , project to bring his factory to De- ■ catur. He is in earnest and has one of the best propositions ever offered any where and a meeting of , business men will be held this evening at the Commercial Club to oon- ; sider the matter. He is a member 1 1 of the Allingham-Janiison M'f’g. j: Company, manufacturers of patent gas, gasoline, oil heaters, radiators , etc. The plant is small but is rapidlv and would no doubt in a few years lie a splendid I concern for Decatur or for any . other city who lands them. Mr. ,I Jamison is endorsed as a hustling , business man by his old triend, Mathias Kirsch, who has known . him for many years. The stoves , are the best on the market and are j made at t good profit. The propor sition which Mr. Jamison offers is a plain business deal and will be ! fully epxlained at tonights meeting

at the club rooms. If you are interested in the towns welfare, he there. OUT OF JAIL Lawyer MacGinuitie Balled by Eleven of His Friends. Attorney Walter F MacGinnitie who has been spending the past three weeks in the county jail is again at liberty after having given bond. He was arrested three weeks ago on a oharge of issuing a false check on the bank of Redkey, the check having been given in last March to Circuit Clerk Crowe in payment for atransoript. The bond wus arranged Friday evening, eleven of the lawyers friends offering themselves as surety for his appearance in the cirouit court to answer the charge or charges against him.—Portland Commercial Review. LEFT A MILLION Alba Haywood, Once a Poor Actor, Dies Wealth. Word has just been received in this city by a friend of Alba Haywood that ho had died in Texas and that he had left an estate of over ♦ 1,000,000. Haywood will be remem beret 1 as a young man gave entertalnmonts with imitations as a main feature and has performed here. He went to the Klondike and was one of the luoky ones. With money made in the Klondike he speculated in the Teuxs oil field and struox it rinh there too.

DIVORCE EVIL Church Co-Operate to Fight It Inter-Church Conference Held at Philadelphia Issues Strong Appeal to Public.

The Inter church conference on marriage and divorce, body representing officially fourteen leading j denominations has issued through i its secretary, the Rev. William H. Roberts. D D. an appeal to the public, calling attention to several aspects of the divoroe question. The paper is the beginning of a na- j tional campaign of education on the subject to be followed by efforts to secure the enactment of laws in the state legislation and ultimately, it is thought, of an amendment to the constitution of the United States. Already action has been taken by the conference looking , towards the prevention of re-mar-riage by ministers of other communions of divoroes whom clergyj men of their own faith have refused to marry. This movement is ! the first occasion of any sort on which the representatives of the ! great denominations have officially come together . Th ■ members of

the conference include: Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, Presbvterian church, Methodist Epi scop tl church, Reformed church of America, Reformed church in the United States, United Presbyterian church. Evangelical Luthoian church, the Baptist church, the Congregational churoh, | the Universalist church, the Uni- ! tunan church, the Reformed Pres- | byterian church the Cumberland j Presbyterin church, the alliance of

the reformed churches holding the j Presbyterian service. AN OLD PIONEER — Mrs. Griebel, of Fort Wayne, Dead — Had Been la Resident of Allen County Sixty-five Years—Husband Survives Her. Mrs. Maria Griebel, the wife of Louis Griebel, sr., and one of the most lovable ladies and most piouresque characters of the oity, died at 10:30 o’clock Sunday morning at the family home, 220 East Jefferson street. The direct cause of Mrs. Grieliel’s death is given as exhaustion but the trouble is traceable to a fall which she sustained ten days ago, in which she suffered a fracture of tho hip. She was eighty three years old and with the weight ot her great age she was unable to combat the effects of her injuries. Mrs. Griebel may be numbered as one of the city's earliest pioneers. She resided here for sixty five years and she and her husband enjoyed ; tho distinction of having boon the first oouple married in a Luthern ohurch in Fort Wayne. In addition, they were the only couple married here in tho oarly days who lived to walk together through life for a great spaoe of sixty four years. In 1900 they celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Griebel, though eighty-eight years of age is still remarkably active and , only about ten years ago he retired i from business.—Fort Way no Jouri nal Gazette. Mrs. Gruibol is quite I well known to number of Decatur people.

WILL SELL Ol)T Adams Bros, to Dispose of Big Tiact of Southern Land. F. P. Adams was interviewed to day says the Bluffton Nows as to his intentions of himself and his brother L. D. Adams, of Dot-atnr, j with the tract of timber land which j i they bought last summer in Missis- 1 sippi and his statements show that j they made a valuable purchase at j the time. They bought 1200 acres j and took an option on 2,200 acres! additional. They had intended to | locate a factory there but Mri Adams said today that they would . likely sell the land instead. They have been offered a price which would net them a profit of 35 per ! cent on the investment. It would ; take them about a year to get a factory established and since buy- i | ing the land they secured another j cooperage plant at Huntington. L. D. Adams had intended to go I south hut has taken charge of the ! i Huntington factory instead, therefore the big southern track will he sold. A southern railroad company wants it. BIG OPENING George Bright Secures Valuable Buggy i Mrs. Sheets and C. D. Poling also Lucky at the Schafer Haadi ware Opening.

Another immense crowd filled the big store rooms of the Schafer Hardware company all day Saturday and the spring opening must have certainly been a "success. Tho firm with the help of men direct from the factories which make their goods had everything arranged to ; display the various kinds of machinery and other lines of goods and they certainly were kept busy. Os course the principal attraction was the Mg drawing of free gifts’ which took place in the buggy room at four o’clock in the afternoon. George H- Bright was the lucky holder of the ticket which drew the eighty five dollar Union City Stanhope buggv. Mrs Noah Sheets secured the sixteen dollar set of harness and C. D. Poling the Monarh Cultivator. DEATH AT WREN Mrs. Frisinger-Was Well Known Here Had Been Sick for Long TimeSister of Milligan Jackson. Mrs. Peter Frisinger, a well j known lady, died at her home at Wren, Ohio., Saturday morning at! eight o clock after a long illness. She was born in St. Marys township, this county, February 7, 1861 and was forty three years old. She was a sister of Milligan Jackson of Findley, who is so well known here and also of Joel Johnson. Mrs | Frisinger was one of the most pop ular ladies of her neighborhood. She leaves a husband, two sons and two daughters. The funeral serv ’ (M's will be held Tuesday morning at ten o’clock from the U. B ohurch jat Wren. Interment at the MlI Tabor oomotery.

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THE DEDICATION Large Crowd Attend Services Yesterday — St. Johns Church the Scene of Event Long to Be Remembered. Many Decatur people attended ! the dedication of the new pipe organ at the St. Johns Gorman Luthern i church yesterday and report the

occassion as a most scueessful one. The big church was not large enough for the immense crowds which attended every service. The exercises were appropriate and were thoroughly enjoyed. Prof. M. Luecke of Cancordia College delivered the dedioatory sermon at ten o’clool# Sunday morning. During the afternoon Prof. Dome, also of Concordia preached I a powerful sermon in honor of the i twenty fifth aniversary of the dedication of the church, and at 7:30 in the evening Prof. Ruprecht of Chicago conducted an orgn recital of ! great merit. The church had been I especially prepared for the occasion presented an inviting appearance. Among the improvements noticeable was a new beautiful brussels carpet which was laid by Niblick & < Company of this city. One of the parties which drove from Decatur last evening arrived home early this morning and report a tedious homeward trip. They were in a rig drawn by a team of old fashiond mules which became tired when they reached the bridge north of Monmouth and refused to, budge. For two hours the driver and occupants of the rig ooaxed and threatened, heat and pnrsadeed the mules but finally had to give up, One of the party walked to Monmouth and tel phoned to this

I city fur a team to bring the load to ! town. CONFIRMATION DAY Appropriate Services at St. Marys’ Church Bishop Alerding Receives Class of Church. Yesterday was confirmation day !at the St. Mary’s Catholic church and the event as always was a mein | orable one for the class of thirty ; eight who received the holy sacraj inent at the hands of Bishop H. J. I Alerding of Fort Wayne. The services were held at W HO o’clock. Rev. Alerding delivering a short sermon at the close.

The hishop also conducted vespers at three o’clock in the afternoon. He returned home this morning. The class of thirty eight taken into the church were as follows: Misses Auiih Masoney, Catharine Masouey, Clara Kiting, Cecelia NOswald, Agues Rerling, Edith Miller Anna Liehtle. Lena Meyer, Josephine Schumacher. Irene Gerard, Agues Costello, Mary Geels, Marie Gluting, Bertha Steigmeyer, Ida Bogtier, Hose Heiman, Francis Rademacher, Loreto Bosse, Alma Starhouse, Lillian Meyer, I Margaret Clark, Emma Keller, Emma Kelley. Master Edmund Kleiuhenz, Otto Boguer, Joseph Colcbin, Charles Herman, Joseph Gase, Joseph Korteubrier, Otto Keller, Clarence Bre■nerkamp. Fred Fullenkamp. Me ' nn i Galloglv, Samuel Ben*. Adolph CoC Chin, Janies Carrier, Flof.fi. Oeimer »ud Leo Braun

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