Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1907 — Page 3

Time .Table I ERIE RAILROAD, m Errsov IB ’O6 AT * Dee» ar. Ind ’AST SOU-NO. so ' Ctncago to New Yo»k Express, daily 2;38a.m. < No. 10. Chicago to Buffalo Express, daily 9:-65p.m. J No. 12, Chicago to New York dally s>4saan. No. 4, Chicago to New York and Boston, daily 3:47 p.m. No. 22, Chicago and Marlon aceomodatlon. daily except Sunday 1:48p.m. WEST BOUND. No 7, New York to Chicago Express, daily 1e60a.m.; No 9, Buffalo to Chicago Express, daily 3-.22a.m. .Xo 11, Chicago, daily 6:05p.m. No 3. New York to Chicago Limited, daily 12:56p.m. No 21. Marion and Chicago daily except Sunday 16:10a.m. O. L. E.NO6. Traveling Paaseager Agent JOHN FLCMtNG, Age. FORT WAYNE <t SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Decatur —North Ft Wayne—South 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 1:30 pun. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 pan. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. • 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m.

*a—'i— rj. John Schug made a business trip to Bluffton today. Curley Ellis spent Sunday in Muncie with friends. Al Burdg made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. , William Blackburn made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Frank Stone of Fort Wayne, was a business caller to our city today. Mrs. Page Blackburn went to Fort YVayne this morning to visit for a few days with relatives. Mrs. C. V. Connell and daughter went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vaughn went to Angola this morning where they will spend a week with relatives. Misses Eleanor Forbing and Anna Martin went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. W. R. Barr. H. H. Deam and Adnah Hall have been appointed by the mayor of Bluffton, as a city board of health. Mrs. Sprunger returned to her home at Berne today after making a pleasant visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fuhrman. James vorsant, district -eputy of the Modern Woodmen of America, went to Monroe today, where he will deliver a lecture this evening before the Monroe camp. The ejectment proceedings commenced Saturday in Squire Smith s court against Otto Gross, was settled this morning by the defendant pajiug his rent and moving. J. W. Hendricks and family, who spent the past two months at St. £jgustine, Florida, returned to tliW home on East Main street. Friday afr ’cmooil. —Portland Sun. The poultry show at Ossian last Thursdav. Friday and Saturday. waS| the biggest thing pulled off in that■ town for a long time. It was simply, an Ossian affair, no outsiders being admitted. Albion is to be a “dry" town, for ( a time at least, as soon as the present saloons go out of business. A blanket remontrance was filed nday which will prevent the granting of any more saloon licenses m Vbion township for two years. - ■_ remonstrance carried the name s thirty-eight more than a majon > the votes cast at the last elecJon.

Charlie Voelewede The Shoe Seller

iiJ.C FtaslKk ii <; —JOBBER OF—- :: -Cigars 3 i: and Tobacco ■; o ************************** *++♦*+♦*♦♦*♦♦♦ WWTH6R. Fair tonight and warmer Tuesday. ❖+++++++ v •? + + + + Milo Elzey spent Sunday with friends at Muncie. Will Slusser made a business trip to Berne this morning. Ed Lyon made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. A. N. Steele made a business trip to Hoagland this morning. C. M. Meyer of Geneva, spent Sunday in our city with relatives. Grover Hoffman made a business trip to Garrett this morning. Henry Koenneman made a business trip to Williams this morning. Grant Strickler of Pleasant Mills, was a business caller to our city today. Fred Hoffman and son Oscar, were business callers at Kendallville this morning. L. A. Holthouse left last evening for Saginaw on business pertaining to the Fashion Stables. Mrs. Graber returned to Berne today. While here she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Graber at the county farm. The Epworth League of the Mt. Pleasant Church will give a box supper at the Elzey school house Friday evening. Everyone invited. Miss Florence Birdsell returned to her home at Detroit, Mich., this morning. While here sha was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Kocher. No wonder a Bluffton young man’s wife asked for a divorce on the grounds that the town was too slow At a swell ball given there Wednesday night there were just ten couples present. —Montpelier Herald. The interurban cars have all been ornamented with cards of Decatur business men announcing’ their business and soliciting the trade of the people. The cards are neat and attractive and show the progressiveness of our citizens. S. A. Roop of rural route six. today sent three handsome Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels to a purchaser at Pendleton. They were perfect beauties, one of them weighing ten pounds and sold for 310, one dollar a pound. Mr. Roop has been making many sales lately, turning into his exchequer over $125. James Corsuat, district deputy of the Modern Wood meh” of America, is in our city, with the intention of institution a camp in this city. Mr? Corsuat is the oldest field worker in thirty-eight states nd claims that he represents the largest fraternal ■ order in the United States. He is at present w-orking for membership and i has so far made nice progress. i Peter Frank returned Saturday i night from Arkansas, where he has been located for the past three months hunting. He brought a number of deer, wild cat and white possum hides home with him, which were beauties. Mr. Frank says he had a very poor season owing to the fact that so much water fell, thus driving the game to the high lands. However, his success was fair and he has the goods to show for it.

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D. W. Beery was attending to horse matters at Berne today. Lee Yager made a business trip to; Ridgeville this morning. George Maddy made a business trip to Richmond this morning. A. R. Bel] was attending to timber matters at Celina, 0., today. Chris Strebe made a business trip to Kalamazoo, this morning. M. V. B. Archbold made a business •trip to Cleveland, 0., this morning. Emil Franz of Berne, was attending to legal matters In our city today. Joe Harting left today for Cincinnati, where he will make his future home. John Brake arrived this morning from Berne, and is the guest of relatives. Jacob Butcher «f Geneva, was attending to legal matters in our city today. H. Fred Scott of Fort Wayne, was the guest of friends in the city last evening. Mrs. Badders arrived this morning from Monroe, and is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Frank. The F. A. M. lodge will >jeet in regular session Tuesday evening. March 12. Every member requested to attend. Norman Lenhart, W. M. 2 A railroad company has already paid two widows of a Norfolk negro who was killed in a wreck, and is probably thankful that its line doesn't run through Mormon territory. At Shawnee, Okla., a commercial traveler threw a tough steak ox the floor of a restaurant and was fined $6.50 in the police court. The steak must ham badly damaged the build mg. Will some student of human nature please arise and tell us why a woman who walks on her heels across the first muddy crossing will walk on her toes across the second muddy crossing. Ernest Schlickman has purchased the Humphreys property at the corner of First and Madison streets, and will likely end his days as a citizen of Decatur. His son August will have charge of the farm. Charles Good, who was arrested Saturday on a charge of assault and battery on the person ot Charles Ross, appeared in Mayor Coffee's court this morning, plead guilty to the charge and was assessed a fine of a dollar and costs. He paid the amount and was discharged. The old Baldwin farm, on the south bank of the St. Joe river, five miles west of Elkhart, has been sold to Taylor F. Shoemaker of Wells county, who will use it for a summer home. Years ago it was the hope of the proprietors to found a town there to be known as Williamsport, but the dream never materialized. L. E. Watson, local representative for William H. Brown & Co., is making up a party from here to go to Blchards, North Dakota, Tuesday of next week. He has five on the list and expects two or three times that number. These trips are delightful, and are greatly e-joyed whether you want to buy land or not. A letter has been - received from Tom Railing, who is at Little Rock, Ark., with the Boston base ball team. Tom says he is getting along fine and that Chick Stahl is giving him much encouragement. The Boston tram will not play any games until the 17th of this month, as the Little Rock team does not report until the 16th. The postoffice department gave out a statement showing that Indiana on March 1 had 2,130 rural routes out of a total for the country of 37,323, with ten applications pending. The routes in operation are distributed by congressional districts as follows: First, 169; Second, 179; Third, 102; Fourth. 1781 Fifth, 163; Sixth, 194; Seventh, 36: Eighth, 193; Ninth, 225; Tenth. 172; Eleventh, 166; Twelfth, 164; Thirteenth, 189. “Mr. Editor,’ said a patron one day, “how is it you never call on nr.e to pay for your paper?’’ “Oh,” said the man of types, “we never ask a gentleman for money.” “Indeed!" the patron replied. “How do you manage to get along when they don’t pay?” “Why,” said Mr. Editor, “after a certain time we conclude he is not a gentleman, and we ask him. ’

William was a strong lad for his age, strong mentally—in some things —as well as physically, and when a rich city merchant advertised for “a strong lad,” W’ililam applied for the job and get it. Fsr a few weeks he felt like a millionaire on his five shillings a week, but, alas! it did not last long. He got the sack. “My boy says you discharged him!” said Willie’s mother, when she went to see the merchant in tears and a black silk dress. “You wanted a strong lad, and surely my boy had enough strength to suit you?” “That’s just it, madam,” said the merchant, with a frown. “He was tco strong. Besides breaking a lot of the furniture he broke al) the rules of the office.”

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Miss Magley went to Berne today to make a short visit with friends. Mrs. Augsburger returned to Berne today. While here she was the guest of relatives. A Donaldson (Minn.) man, whose girth was 100 inches and weight 540 pounds, died a pauper because he was too fat to work for a living. Still, many other men who think themselves too big to work manage to get rich somehow. "There are many good voices,” Mme. Calve said, “that the world will never hear because their owners are too indolent to develop them. It is like a story of the farmer. Looking up from his magazine the farmer said vehemently to his wife one night: ‘Do you know what I'd have done if I had been Napoleon?’ ‘Yes,’ she answered. ‘You’d have settled down in Corscia and spent your life grumbling about bad luck and hard times.’ ” The idea of having new articles of dress for Easter seems to be the one custom which through the ages has been most lastingly preserved, and it is not very probable that all of the many young ladies who could not go to church on Easter without new bonnets or of the young gentlemen who so conscieniously visit their tailors a few weeks before Easter know of the old superstition that new apparel worn on Easter would bring good fortune in love affairs during the ensuing year. If they did, the crush at the tailors and the demands of the dressmake-s would probably be something enormous. Unless something is done to check the evil, Americans must soon become known as the most foul-mouthed persons on earth, laments the NewOrleans Times-Democrat. It will first be necessary to determine the cause of the use of profane language before any real cure can be applied. One cause is undoubtedly the lack of a sufficient vocabulary to express one’s thoughts or what he conceives to be his thoughts. It is this faulty vocabulary that induces females to describe as “awful” things entirely dissociated from any feeling of awe and as “funny” that which is merely odd. The male, with his greater freedom of speech, uses an'oath to express the same idea, which is not an idea, but merely a futile attempt, to express that which is not conceived and which consequently cannet be adequately expressed.

We Can't Help It!

A man has been arrested in New York for annoying his wife, who weighs 511 pounds. How- heavy does a lady have to be before she can take her own part? A distinguished professor has de- , dared that the so-called lazy boy is only a boy of too strong individuality to endure the conventional school rou- ’ tine which the grown-ups think is good for him. It used to be a consoling thing to some of use who were not quite the best boy in the class to read of one and another great man whose stupidity in school gave no hint of his future greatness. Any lazy boy who is perfectly sure that he has a great individuality and that he is going to appear some time in biographies may refuse to be classed with the lazy boys. All other lazy boys are just lazy, and there are time-hon-ored ways of dealing with them. Wouldn't there be a roar when men wot home to their meals if they had to climb up on a high stool in front of a table on which there was no cloth and eat their meals in that fashion? Yet a majority of men when they go to a thirst parlor to eat will pick out the highest stool and feedboard with no cloth on it in preference to a comfortable chair and a cloth-cov-ered table. A man will borrow a chew of tobacco and most of them will set their teeth into the plug right where some other man has gnawed out a chew. Offer them a piece of pie at home from which the wife or one of the children has taken a bite and they would holler their heads off. At home such a fellow will not drink out of a glass or cup from which one of the family been drink' -g, but I call him ixte the back stall oi a dirty old livery barn, puli'out a bottle and he will stick the neck half-way down his throat in order to get a swig after a dozen other fellows have had the neck of the same bottle in their mouths. o

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Ed Y r ancil made a business trip to Geneva today. Repreentative Morgan’s bill reducing the number of quail that can be killed by any one hunter In one day from twenty-four to fifteen passed the senate Thursday by a vote of 34 to 1. The measure also gives farmers and

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their children and tenants the right to hunt in their own land without a state, license as is required of other sportsmen. A county license must be obtained, nowever. The bill also prohibits the possession of quail during the closed season in incorporated storage houses.