Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1907 — Page 3

+++♦+♦♦♦♦♦+♦+ WEATHBR. Probably showers tonight and Wedesday. Cooler. +++++++ + + + + + + I —- " '" ' ~ '' 1 !' 11l -- Frank Burger made a business trip , Markle this morning. John Schug made a business trip 3 Columbia City this morning. \V. Richards returned this morning rom a business trip to Monroe. Alonzo Runyon of Linn Grove, was ittending to legal matters in our city cday. Attorney Merriman of Bluffton, rats attending to legal matters in u r city today. Father Eberle arrived this morning rom Portland and is the guest of father Wilken. A. W. Flshbaugh arrived this mornng from St. Marys, 0., and is attendng to interurban matters. Miss Johnson left this morning for Janville, Ky., where she will visit for everal weeks with friends. Rev. Duckett returned to his home , t Alexandria this morning, after makng a pleasant visit here with Mr. and ,Irs. C. F. True. More than $30,000 has now been subscribed to the fund at Tuntingon by which the city hopes to secure more factories. The list is headed by the Huntington Brewing company ftith a contribution of $2,000. Huber DeVoss, stenographer of the Adams Circuit court, was here Saturday getting record evidence in the Blauer divorce case which he reported and which is being appealed to the appellate court.—Bluffton News. Fred C. LaDelle and son returned yesterday afternoon from a very successful tour of two months through the west, where they played in all the leading vaudeville houses. They will remain home and rest for two weeks and will then again take up their strenuous duties. Amos Cole returned last night from Fort Wayne, where he has been at the bedside of Mrs. Cole, who is undergoing treatment in one of the hospitals in Fort Wayne. She suffered a relapse Saturday night but her condition yesterday improved so rapidly that the doctors feel that the danger point has been passed.—Bluffton Banner. Time .Table I ERIE RAILROAD. « crrBCT 18 ’ O6 Deca- ur. Ind east bound. No. 8, Chicago to New York Express, daily 2:38a.m. No. 10. Chicago to Buffalo Express, daily 9:55p.m. No. 12, Chicago to New York daily 5:45a.m. No. 4, Chicago to New York and Boeton, daily 3:47p.m. No. 22, Chicago and Marion accomodation, daily except Sunday 1:48p.m. WEST BOUND. No. 7, New York to Chicago Express, daily 1:50a.m. No 9, Buffalo to Chicago Express, daily 3:22a.m. No. 11, Chicago, dally 6:05p.m. No. 3, New- York to Chicago Limited, daily 12:56p.m. No 21. Marlon and Chicago dailv except Sunday 10:10a.m. O. L. ENOS. Traveling Paseeager Agent JOHN FLEMING, Ag c FORT WAYNE 4. SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1. 1907. Decatur —North Ft. W ayne Sout 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a - m - 9:00 am. 10:30 am. 12:00 noon 1:30 p m. 3:00 p.m. * :3 ° T m - 6:00 p.m. " :3 ® P m ' 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m.

Charlie Voglewede *The> Shoe Seller

ARE you GOING TO BUILD THIS YEAR? There was a time when about all a man had to do to build a house was to chop down a few trees, get his neighbors together and have a “raising bee” and in a short time a log house was the result. But little if any. Hardware was used. Today this is all changed and Builders’ Hardware is an important part in the plans and specifications. We have in stock Builder’s Hardware, Sash, Doors Glass, Paint, Roofing and we do spouting. Let us figure on your hardware bills. The Schafer Hardware Company, Decatur, Ind.

David Eley made a business trip to Geneva. J. B. Stoneburner made a business trip to Geneva today. David Fox of Berne, was a business caller to our city today. R. K. Allison made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. M. F. Rice was attending to timber matters at Fort Wayne today. T. M. Gallogly was attending to insurance matters in Berne today. Charles Daily of Bluffton, was attending to legal matters in our city today. Mrs. John Parr went to Monroe today to visit for a few days with relatives. Mrs. Gross returned to her home at Monroe today. She was en route from Rockford, O. L. A. Holthouse returned today from Saginaw, Mich., where he purchased a pall bearers’ coach which is a dandy. Mrs. C. V. Connell and daughter returned today from Fort Wayne, where they were visiting with Miss Rose Martin. Mrs. Jerry Liechty and children. Mrs. Joe Stuckey and Mr. and Mrs. David Hirschey and daughter returned to Berne today. While here they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Schindler. Cold is when you ware yure overcoat if you have sed coat. It is when the wether man says Fare & Warms’ - . A Grate poet once wrote: Hoam is whare the Heart is & Cold is whare the Janitor is. The • prison" which is not conducted as a hospital for the morally weak, with aim and hope for cure of its sub--1 jects, commits crime against its I ■ criminals" greater and graver than I those committed by its 'criminals" • against society. —Exchange. If you will look into your personal ' affairs you will find that you have no kick coming. You have always got more than you have deserved and vour “hard luck" and the fate against you are your weakneses cropping out so thickly that all your efforts seem to fail and somehow you just can’t get along. All preparations for the horse sale ' Friday have been completed and the same promises to be a hummer in every respect. A large number of horses will be offered for sale and a number of foreign horse men will be I present to make purchase for shipping i purposes. Those having horses they desire to sell, should have them on hand early Friday.

EVER SEE My ELK skin shoe? Ifyoucidlam sure you wtie impressed with the soft velve y feel of this ltather sales are increasing every week on this shoe and the b st advertisement is that every one who wore them last year wants them again- Dont you buy a work shoe until you have seen my ELK SKIN. MENS $3.00

C. F. True made a business trip to Winona this morning. Albert Kindel of Linn Grove, was a business caller to our city today. Miss Emma Byerly spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clark J. Lutz. Mrs. George Crays returned today from Waterloo, where she was visiting with her mother. The infant child of Lizzie Crist died this morning at her home in Kirkland township and will be buried tomorrow. A pretty faced girl baby was the welcome arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anson Van Camp last night. Everybody doing nicely. George H. Holloway and wife of Ravenna, 0., and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Winch of Fort Wayne, with their sons Fred and Bruce and daughter Helen, spent Sunday in Decatur with Dr. M. L. Holloway. The tailors in convention assembled have decided that the styles for the coming season must be different in every respect from those that have prevailed during the past year. The tailors know how to promote their business. Bluffton has two weeks to decide whether it wants to entertain the annual encampment of the Sons of Veterans which has been offered to this city for June 4, 5 and 6. It costs about $250 or $350 to entertain the encampment and if this much can be raised by the local post the big meeting will come here as at present scheduled, otherwise it will go to Terre Haute, which offers to raise for the convention SI,OOO inside an hour.—Bluffton News. David Makane, living near Milford, Kosciusko county, is a creature of misfortune. Fire totally destroyed his home last Friday. Some years ago he had a portion of each hand blown away by the accidental discharge of a shotgun while he was standing with his hands upon the muzzle. Last year an explosion of dynamite tore off his right hand, rendered him deaf in one ear and destroyed the sight of an eye. Previous to this time, however, his wife had separated from him, leaving him with twin sons to care for. Sir James Sawyer, according to the London Lancet, has adopted the idea that there is a direct association between enameled cooking vessels and the increase of appendicitis. He holds that fragments of the enamel are broken off from the vessels by spoons used for stirring, and that the sharpedged fragments are at least one of the causes of inflammation of the vermiform appendix. If this is the case appendicitis is likely to continue increasing, for enameled vessels are growing more and more in popular favor. The Saxons, and in fact all the Teutonic races, worshiped Easter and kept her feast day about the time of the spring equinox. Unbridled license was allowed on this occasion and jests of every kind played. Many of these survive, notably that practiced by the sturdy countrymen north of the Humber, who, during Easter, sally forth ino the streets and claim a kiss or a silver sixpence from every woman they meet. Not long ago in the town of Bedlington, Northumberland, a coal miner was fined for kissing a woman on Easter. He pleaded the old custom and was immediately released.

J.C Mastick —JOBBER OF— Cigars and Tobacco

Mr. and Mrs. Will Colchin returned today from Michigan, where they were visiting with relatives. Miss Anna Radamacher left this morning for Detroit, where she will visit for a few days with relatives. Thursday, March 21. Some fine stock will be offered, together with considerable other property. Life is full of disappointments. For instance, there's the case of the London man who broke into the window of a pastry shop and took what he thought was a pie. He found it to be an imitation china dish, filled with sawdust, and while he was expressing his disgust the policeman came along and gathered him in. A two cent advance in the price of Indiana crude has made the operators here look just a bit more cheerful and they are getting ready to knock the rust off their drill steams and go to drilling if a few more boosts of similar size come along about this time. The rise makes the Indiana product worth 89 cent a barrel and this is still a figure much lower than the average operator cares to work under when the field presents so many opportunities of getting a dry one, as it does at this time. According to statistics gathered by Miss Mary Stubbs, state statistician, relative to the number and nativity of persons naturalized in Indiana during the year 1906, 1,557 foreigners became citizen of the United States within Indiana’s borders during the year. Os this number the Germans predominated, 1,197 of them taking out naturalization papers, while the lowest number of any one nationality was that of the Scotchmen, only nine of whom became naturalized. Clinton county furnished one of the 1,197. Walking along a road in the remote west of Ireland, two tourists were passing one of the cottages, or as they are better known in the country, “cabins," of the peasantry. This particular “cabin” was even a more than usually dilapidated specimen of its class, and the chimney,*consisting mainly of the remains of an old top hat, presented a comical, if pathetic appearance. Tipping his friend a wink, one of the tourists accosted a youth, who was sitting contentedly on a fence. “I say, my boy,” he said, “does that chimney draw well?” “Sure thin, it does,” was the prompt reply; “it draws the notice of ivery fool that passes by.” Congressman Pekins was talking about his bill for a progressive inheritance tar “Even a billionaire," he said, “would approve the bill if he looked at it in a broad way. But few billionaires look at such things broadly. Everything to them has but the one narrow, personal aspect. They are much like the old lady who, seeing a storm signal, asked what it was' She was told that the weather bureau now studied the weather, and telegraphed its forecasts far in advance all over the country. The old lady, looking at this fact in a narrow, personal billionaire-like way, could see but one advantage in it, and she said: ‘Oh, isn’t that convenient for the washerwoman! ’ ” The Erie railroad has Issued to its regular shippers the new schedule of advanced freight rates for grain and grain products shipments. As mentioned before, this will go into effect April 1. Not so much effect on rates from this city as was expected is found. In f at, the rates to local domestic points, such as Toledo, Cincinnati, Chicago, Buffalo and other markets, are not changed enough to have any noticeable effect. The principal change will be on the export rate, which rate hereofore been lower than the domestic. This will no doubt influence those who are shipping to Baltimore and other sea ports for export trade. There are, however, few local shippers who use the foreign market directly. No changes are made on stock or hay rates.

An appeal was taken this morning from Squire Smith’s cour htotte 39 from Squire Smith's court to the circuit court in the case of Eli Meyers vs. Julius Haugk, on account, the bond having been filed this morning. This case was tried some time ago and the court gave judgment against Haugk for the full amount of Meyer's claim. D. E. Smith represented the defense, and D. B. Erwin the plaintiff It has just recently developed to Andy Welfley that he has vaudeville talent inexhaustible that has heretofore been dormant, and in order to get ready for the coming season he is doing some very clever stunts in his room to the amusement of his brother roomers at he Star restaurant. It is stated that Andy will also take his old gray mare with him and perform one of the greatest equestrian hits of the season. The wearing of the green on St. Patrick's Day becomes more general on each annual recurrence. Saint Patrick crossed the channel from Kilpatrick, Scotlad about A. D. 440, to save the pagan Irish. It has not been given to many to live so long in the memory of their kind and to receive annual tribute for nearly fifteen centuries. Local merchants are displaying the “three leaves of Shamrock,” for wearing on March 17, in commemoration of the patron saint.

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At a millionaire’s banquet in Chicago ten of the guests brought prize pigs with them to table. The animals wore ribbons in order to avoid any confusion with other guests. A practical woman remarked the other day, says an exchange, that the most interesting thing in a newspaper to her are advertising columns. "Long ago,” she said, “I quit buying of those who did not advertise. It always seems to me that the merchant who advertises invites me to trade with him, while the one who does not advertise impresses me with the idea that he don’t care enough for my trade to ask for it. Then, too, I have found that the merchant who advertises has fresher goods, for the reason I suppose, that he seels more goods. ’ Hartford City has ove of the oldest Odd Fellows in the United States in David Foos, who makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Cowan. Mr. Foos has been a member of the Western Star No. 81 lodge of Augusta, Kas., for 64 years. He is now past 85 years of aeg and the local Odd Fellows have made application for his ad mission to the Odd Fellows’ and Re bekahs' home at Manhattan, Kas. The aged gentleman has been failing in health for some time past and his local brothers expect no difficulty in securing him a permanent home at Manhattan.

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“Be careful, here comes a grafter,” said one as they saw him enter the case and glance around over the crowd as if in search of somebody he knew. “He's not a grafter,” said another. "He's a piker.” “What’s the difference?” asked the first. “A grafter is a man who borrows money,” was the answer, “and never pays it back, but a piker is a rung lower on the idder. He has given up all hope of getting more money, but he'll wait around till you buy him a drink, or he’ll take your box of cigarettes when you are not looking and empty half of them into his pocket.” Tim Doud, chief of the Peru fire department, has been removed from office and all on account of a few bull dogs. Doud is a great lover of dogs and several dogs were kept around the engine house. One of the members of the council presented a motion in the council that all dogs be removed from the central fire station at once. Doud was notified to get rid of the dogs, but did not comply with the order. Later a committee was appointed to investigate the matter and on Tuesday night made a request to the council recommending that the resignation of the fire chief be demanded at once. The report of the committee was adopted and now Doud is down and out.