Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1907 — Page 3

MMMTHfcR Saow Curries northern porticxi. Showers in southern portion tonight Cooler. *<>♦♦**♦*«* « 4 4, -•r ** ... --Tin !*■■■••■»,2.; U-ymlds is Mak with »,g ipp*. tj. M. SYiellen made a business trip tou&erne this morning. , Al Garard made % business trip to Hoaglaiyi this morning. Chris Strebe made a business trip to Fort Wayne this mowing. Jsadore Kalver made a business trip to Fart Waynr this morning. Andrew Gotieehatk of Berne, was< a business caller to our city today. Mrs. Howard Shackley of South Eleventh street, is quite sick with lagrippe Mrs. J. C. Moran and daughter went to Berne today to attend the funeral of a friend. Mrs. D. B. Ervin went to Pleasant Mills today to make a few day s visit with relatives. Miss Leona .DeVoss went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit over Sunday with relatives. Mrs Harry Cock in of Sju-'i Tenth ttreot, is confined to her home with a sevfere at* «k of lagrippe. Mrs. C. O. France entertained Mrs. R. S. Peterson and Mrs. Lizzie DeVllbtss at six o'clock dinner last evening. Senator John W. Tyndall and wife arrived this morning from Indianapolis, where they were attending the session of the legislature. Dr. E. G. Coverdale, who'left last week for Chicago where he will finish his course on the diseases of the eye, ear. nose and throat, will upon the completion of his work return to this city and resume his practice Don't forget the horse sale Friday at the Boch & Rice sale stables. If you are in the market for a god horse attend. A hundred head will be offered for sale, and if you are in need of a first class animal it will pay yeu to attend. Drs. D. D. Clark and J. M. Miller this morning performed an operation on Mrs. Grepper of Monroe, removing her left breast. The operation was successful and Mrs. Grepper is on a fairway qp recovery. She. is sixtyfive years old: Time k Tabte ERIE RAILROAD M nrui Nov - 18 06 Deca u/. Ind f»ST BOUND So v. Chicago w> Nev. York Express, Jally 2:3s*n> So 10, Chicago to Buffalo Express daily 9:55p.m. So IX. CMcago to New York Jrtfiy 5:45a.m. So 4, Chicago to New York and lUu-ton dally 3:47pm So 22. CMcego and Marion acoomodarium daily except Suadav l:4Bpta. WEST BOUND. So 7. New York to Chicago Express, daily I:s9am. So 9. Buffalo •to Chicago Express, daily 3:22am. .so 11. Chicago, daily 6:05p.m. So 3 New York to Chicago dialled dally 12:56p.m. j S-. 21. Marion and Chicago dailv except Sunday 10:10a.m. O. L ONOS. Traveling I’amaver Agent JOHN FLEMING, Age. FORT WAYNE 1 SPRINGFIELD RY. Is Effect February I. 1997. Decatur—North Ft. Wayae—south 6:00 a-tn. 7:30 a.m. 9:W a.m. 10:30 am. 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p m. 9:30 p m. 11:00 P m '

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to Genexa today. M. F. Rice was attending to timber matters at Berne today. ’ C. F. .True returned today from ‘a business trip to Winona. Mrs taxi Unn is the vicum of a severe ,-aunck of rheumatism. A. J. Smith was attending to tin!- ■ matters at Ridgeville today. O.' C. Fink of Geneva, was a busineeg caller, to our city today. S. A. M. Butcher of Geneva, was attending to legal matters in our city today. C John Gephart, a Son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Gephart, has purchased 'property tgn New Haven avenue, in. Fort Wayne and expects to make that city his future home. The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett. .Fence, residing north of the Huntington county line, near South Whitley, accidentally fell into a keg t>f vinegar at their home Saturday afternoon: It had. only been in the fluid a few minutes before being discovered by the mother. The doctor heroically tried to resuscitate the child heroically to resuscitate the child, but without success. It died at 12:15 Sunday afternoon. The acid contained in the vinegar shriveled the body in a horrifying manner.

According to information from Chicago, it Is possible that the eighteenhour trains of the Pensylvania and New York Central between Chicago and New York will be abolished as a result of, the general movement toward a 2-cent a mile fare.' It is set forth that the laws passed providing for a maximum of 2 cents for fares, make no provision for the special muipment and the additional expense of operating the high-speed trains. 1 The excess fares collected on these fast trains, it Is pointed out are pracically declared illegal by these new laws. A representative of the Pennsylvania is quoted as saying that if ‘he road can not charge extra tares for special service in speed and equip rnent, the road no longer can afford to operate the limited trains. A representative of the New York Central expressed himself in similar vein. The Clover Leaf changed its plan on Sunday and a wreck was reported from the east ned of the line. In the past few days the west end has been getting the majority of these little mishaps, but this time tie scene, was aid near Middleton, a station near KokomCT. It was an east boutfd'frelght train that had the trouble and according to the reports from that part of the line and thirteen cars were ditched and the track was torn up for quite a distance, there being damage to the amount of several hundred dollars reported- as a result. The wreck train, was called from this city and new rails were taken along to replace those twisted b ythe wreck It is said that the accident resulted from a broken journal which had been weakened by burning, it being under a car with a hot-box. —Frankfort Crescent. o Adams County Detective As s ociatitfn. Will hold their regular quarterly meeting on Saturday, March 16, 1907, in the Grand Army hall on Madison street above Sim Hain's meat market. Meeting will be called at 10 o’clock a. m. Now this meeting has been especially arranged for you and we would like to have you present at our next meeting as considerable business of importance will be transacted. Be sure, and remember the. date, as all members of the association are required so be present. Come' out as this meeting will be of importance to all members. WM. BAI'MGAKTNER, President. J F. FRUCHTE, Secretary.

New about shoes if you will examine my Elk skin shoi. Let me show von the loJg fibers in thejeather that are sot destroyed in tanning. Men’s $3.00

Hanry .Ptuwon ol Berne, was-a-bue-loess caller to our city today. Dr. Smith of Hoegland, was a professional caller to our.city.today. Sherman Kunkle of Mofimouth, was is business caller to our city today. Mrs. Charles Draper of South Twejfyh street, is very low with lung trouble. <■ ’ Mrs. John Meyers went to” Geneva this morning to visit for a few days with her sister, Mrs. Wegmillbr. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Boyd of Pleasant Mills, passed through our city this morning, en route to Fort Wayne. Miss Blanch Knowles returned to her home at Hoagland this morning. While here sigs* was the guest of friends. Huntington has raised $32,500 *by popular subscription for a factory fund. They Intend to swell It to fifty thousand. Mr. and Mrs. Finkhouser returned to theit home at Six Licks, Mich., this morning, after making a pleasant visit here with friends. There will be no service at the German Reformed church tonight, as the pastor was called to Fort Wayne, on account of the death of his nephew. No service. L. C. Hessert Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nichols will entertain the following . this evening at a six o'clock dinner: Messrs, and Mesdames Dan Beery, John Meyers, Jesse Dailey; Dal Hower, Alva Nichols and daughter, Beulah and Margaret. To. eat asparagus gracefully take lesson from some good sword swallower. Raise the stalk in your right hand very slowly until yqur audience is with you, then lean back your head, open your mouth to its fullest extent and push ths stalk down as far as it will go. Then remove it with a nailpuller. In making love to another man's wife it is no longer good form to do it secretly. It is quite proper now'to go to the man and advise him beforehand of your action. Thus there will be no misunderstanding and nothing to fear. You will be doing the manly thing. The man himself will be pleased, and his wife will be grateful to both of you. The car famine, from which the railroads of the country have been suffering for several months, is still a serious problem and there seems to be no immediate relief in sight. The situation is keenly felt in this city and is more serious at shipping points of greater importance. A well known railroad official has stated that the present car famine situation is the worst in the history of railroading.— Delphos Herald. When the friend you are calling on in the evening offers y%u a cigar, and you- light-it and discover at the firstpuff that it is made up of equal parts of cabbage and oakum, it is no longer correct to tell him it is one of the | best you have ever smoked. Instead of this, first throw it out of the win- i dow calmly before his face and then throw him after it. Unless his nature i is too hardened, he will understand and treat you better next time. i Mark Twain tell this story ,the j moral of which you may supply your-, self: “I went to church one time and was so impressed by what the preach- ! er told me about the poor heathen 1 that I was ready to give up a hundred dollars of my own money and even go ' out and borrow more to send to tin- - . heathen. But 'the minister preached ' too long and my enthusiasm began to ‘ drop about $25 a drop till there was nothing left for the poor heathen and by the time he was through and the collection was taken up I stole ten cents off the plate.”

In some mysterious way the word has been pased around that the lid which has obscured Hartford City for some time is to be tilted up in order to permit the coining and going of those who demand entertainment that is not afforded in a tight town. The only evidence, so far, of the removal of the lid is seen in the cigar stores, where dice boxes and cards have reappeared. In the saloons the slot machines which were a feature before the Hd was ordered are still absent. The gambling rooms are still in the darkness into which they were plunged by the closing order. It is not known at this time whether the lid is to be removed entirely or to be put slightly lifted. Hartford City never wore a lid very gracefully and it is expected that it will soon dispense with it.—Hartford City News.

■ J.C Masticki <> < > o o <; —JOBBER OF— ;; < > !! Cigars •• and Tobacco :■

SIX O’CLOCK DINNER ! 4 . * . ' ’I (Continued from page 1.).. / Club . met at the Library Club rooms last evening Mrs. Orpha Erwin had charge of the program. The subject was “The Combined Efforts of Ezra and Nehemlah to Restore Jewish Worship." This was divided into three divisions as folows: (a) Feast of Tabernacles; (b) Confession of the Levltes; (c). Dedication of the Wails. The entertainment of the evening was in charge of Mrs. Miller. Tbe next meeting will be held on the I.9th of this month. The Christian Endeavor Society ol the Presbyterian church have decided to postpone the social to be given; until March 22nd. instead of giving it this coming Friday evening. 4 large crowd is expected. • ■ t Master Brice Thomas is celebrating his sixth birthday anniversary this afternoon at the home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas. ■ In the dining room twelve covers were spread for his little friends and at four o'clock a delicious supper will be served.

A. J. Smith was at Fort Wayne this morning, where he attended the -funeral of Mrs. William Fenner, an aunt ' of Mrs. A. J. Smith. Interment was 1 made in the Williamsport cemetery, j Samuel Jordan, a prominent farmer near Wawaka, has returned home after having had an eyeball removed bv Fort Wayne surgeons. The eye wap injured some months ago by a splinter ’ while Mr. Jordan was splitting wood, and it was necessary to remove It to 1 save the other eye. 1 The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Evangelical church will hold its March meeting With Mrs. Soloman Linn, Thursday afternoon, March 14 at 2 o'clock. The study of the South ' Sea Islands Will be Continued and an interesting program will be given. A cordial invitation is extended. The funeral of the twin babies of ' Mr. and Mrs. Morris Johnson will be ' held tomorrow at their home near Monroe and interment will be made I in the Ray cemetery. The babqs were born Sunday, one dying soon after birth and the other dying Monday afternoon. They will be buried in the ’ If you are paying for a pew in church and find it already occupied just because you were late on ac-. count of your wife not being able to fit her hat on, leAve the church quietly and without fu'ss—only saving the time after you are once out for praise and thanksgiving over the fact that a woman's hat is, after ail, of some use. The Shamrocks base ball team will hold a business meeting next Tburs- • day evening. Manager Cleary has been informed by Manager Stahl of the j j Boston Americans, who will play here on April 5 and 6, that he may have i the use of any of Boston pitchers for both games. Railing, a Decatur boy, j who is trying out with Boston, will likely pitch one or two innings for i the Shamrocks when Boston plays here. —Journal-Gazette. What a determined woman can do when she sets herself at it resolutely ! was shown it) the case of Miss Mary ' Stubbs, who is serving out the unex- ! pired terms of her father, ‘Joseph 1 Stubbs, deceased, as state statistician, 1 the young lady going before the leg- ; islature and by her own lobbying ‘ had her salary increased from $2,000 to $3,000 per annum. Few women would have had the nerve to have undertaken such a thing, but she did, and she won. | Ralph, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Evans Sheets of Logansport, was burned to death as the rej suit of playing with, matches early Sunday night. The mother, returning home, stumbled over the burned body of the little one, as she opened the door and stepped across the threshhold. The child was gasping for breath and as the mother grabbed him in her arms, he .expired. When 1 the mother entered the doorway another child, two years old, sat on the i floor, gurgling and cooing, as he patted 1 the charred and naked body of his dy- ' ing brother. 1

The cigarette output of 4,368.729,013 in the calendar year of 1906 must have come as a surprise to the bulk of the trade, but more stunning yet is its increase in one year of 842,240,452, an increase by nearly 300,000,000 larger than the increase of our cigar industry during the same year.—Unit, ed States Tobacco Journal. This item tells less than half of the cigarette business, for it cannot begin to take any account of the countless millions of coffin nails rolled by their users. Every man who encourages this business is paving the way to sin. sickness, insanity, prison, and death for numberless boy% yet unborn and It is time to take a sensible view of the matter. Tobacco is not contributing to a high moral or intellectual Standard and it is detracting therefrom. Cut it out. . > - \

1 » ■■ .1.1 11. 1 1 L.IIIII. ■HJLIIim 1 will I ' 11 ■■ Nobby Spring Suits! win iiiiiiib iumu i— mmiiiii m iiiiiiiww i i rminiiwiißiHMißii m i a— — * —-— urn ’ s^*n 9 s and Shoes ! I 4USII now on display. f M vfiW-| W<? are dai.y receiving our immew «s»Bortmint f w s P r irtß Wesr, a»d would be j»le-n#f d to ehow r M y° u - justice to ycurseii and pick' ttuuk you I can not to l or ' r °ur immense display of ‘ I- »* *slll Men a and Boys’ Wear x . W/ff Smart Spring Suits I ’ ® M Wha ever tbe amount you wish to expend h : re, you have th« assurance of a better Suit for that |; g » g price tnao can ba obtained elsewhere Hub K a I" 8 prices in Syring Suits range ire m yi W TO 5j520.00 STROUSE A BROSIQB Baltimore 'nw’Jl —ASK TO SEE OUR GREAT $12.50 Special made of fine, fancy worsteds, iu desirable shades, cutin the newest styles and hand tailored throughout. We are satisfi-d these suits can not be duplicated anywhere in Northern Indiana for hts than sl6 60 Hub Prices for these Spledid Suits is only $12.50. Lot Sale at Decatur, March .2€stin. DCGATUft.INO. B. ISALVER CLOTHING CO. I Advertisers of Facts.

■ - i ■ MJUU-LT 1 ■■■ ELECTRIC STORM Visited This Locality Last Evening I , 'I LIGHNNiNG DID SOME DAMAGE Struck Adam Wise’s Home on Closs Street and Cau s ed a Slight Less. A terrific electric storm, the first of the season, visited this locality about five o'clock last evening, continuing for two hours. Lightning flashed incessantly and thunder roared in regular July fashion. Along with it rain fell in torrents and the spring storms certainly started off briskly. The house owned by Adam Wise on North Class street, was struck by lightning at a few moments before five o’clock, causing some damage. The bolt hit the Chimney on the east portion, of the house and ran down to the windows which were : torn out. One carpet was burned and the stove wrecked, the total loss being perhaps fifty dollars. Mr. Wise was standing on the back porch and was burled to the floor, but recovered in a few moments. Mrs. Wise was in the house at the time but was unhurt. She became quite Sick shortly afterward, however, due, perhaps, to the shock. No other damage has been reported from the storm. _o There is a swindler abroad by the name of George C- Adams, whp claims to take subscriptions for""The’Delineator” at the rate of fifty and sixty cents per year and gives ‘a premium of twelve prtteins. ‘‘The Delineator” is not so.d oa subscriptior at a less rate *iu-i ? • u year nor wuh a premium. /idams i« not a Butte -ick canvasser end is cbtsining money under false pretenses. The Butterick Publishing Co. is offering a reward of $25 for the arerst, conviction and incarceration for three months or burger of any swindler operating in the name of the cwrrpany. .

“Biddy" Burns, the well known base ball player, who has played in a number of towns in this part of the state, is endeavoring to interest citizens of Defiance in the organizing of a team in that city. LOST —A brindle bull dog wearing collar with name “Jack” on. If 1 found please return to Baker & AnI derson's restaurant and receive •«.- ward. 62-3 t

♦ For house cleaning time you < ♦ will need a bottle of i | LIQUID VENEER ; ♦ to polish up and brighten finish 3 |on your furniture. Old furni- 3 ♦ ture made new with this polish. 3 ♦ -T&-- ---■ 'EaMiiiiijjrrWgq . ♦ You will also want a 33 J CURTAIN STRETCHER | to stretch and dry your Lace J : Curtains. 33 : We have them to sell. 33 | Store of Quality | I YAGER'S ’ | FURNITURE STORE

The special mid-week prayer services will be held at the M. E. church Miss Marie Beery will render special vocal selections. You are invited. Mrs. John Magley and daughter Dora .Marie of Monmouth, spent the day with Mrs. C. O. France. Miss Veri-ie Johnson left f-.r Danville, Ky . yesterday, where she has accep -1 a :■■■ sition as head trimmer in a l irze ;..i ’inery <. taori •'hmciit.