Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1907 — Page 3

WEATHER. Fur tonight. Probably unsettled by Thursday night. Rising temperature. ♦♦♦♦♦♦+++**+++ George Kinzle made a business trip to Fort Wayne today. J. C. Mastick was a business caller to Fort Wayne today. Henry Koenneman made a business trip to Williams this morning. M. W. France of Van Wert, was a business caller to our city today. Dennis Robison made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Fred Bohnke, sr„ made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. W llliam Scherer of Monroe, was a business caller to our city today. Dan Sprang was attending to timber matters at Fort Wayne today. C. L. Walters was attending to legal matters at Fort Wayne today. S. A. M. Butcher of Geneva, was attending to legal matters in our city today. Mrs. C. D. Lewton went to Fort Wayne this mormng to attend the district conference meeting. Burton Niblick is home from Pennsylvania, whre he is attending school and is the guest of his parents. Mrs. A. Huffman went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McFeely. Mrs. D. W. Beery and daughter, Marie, went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the district conference meeting. A special called meeting of the Masonic lodge will be held Thursday evening. It is important that all be present who can. Norman Lenhart, W. M. “During the past week more than a dozen people in Auburn and vicinity have been made seriously ill by eating cheese which had been purchased from grocers there. The stuff is now being examined by the state chemist to determine the cause for the trouble. The local order of Knights of Pythias turned out twenty-eight strong this morning to go to Portland to attend the district meeting. What the members lacked in numbers they made up in enthusiasm and all expected to be royally entertained by the Portland lodge. A fine program has been arranged by the Portland order.

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Charlie Voglewede jThe Shoe

M. FULLENKAMP whttqp CLEANING TIME IS HERE. DO NOT FORGET WE CARRY THE LARGEST OPEN STOCK OF CARPETS AND ROOM RUGS IN THE CITY. SPECIAL PRICES THIS MONTH.

A. Van Camp made a business trip to Berne today. John Lachot made a business trip to Portland today. J. D. Meyers made a business trip to Portland today. A. J. Smith made a business trip to Clear Lake today. Miss Carrie Cogswell went to Geneva today to make a short visit with her sister. Mrs. A. J. Smith and daughter went to Fort Wayne today to spend the day with friends. A man ig reported to have discovered $5,000 under an old carpet. But stories like this always get into circulation just before the carpet-beating season opens. The several members of the Decaur Horse Sale company are now traveling day and night in their efforts to have a number of good horses at the next sale, which will be held March 28. Mrs. C. U. Wade of Fort Wayne, delivered an address at Lagrange Sunday evening, the occasion being the thank offering meeting held by the Women's Missionary Society of the M. E. church. A draft was received today by Mrs. Martha D. Spuller, calling for SI,OOO covering certificate No. 31,836 of the Pathfinder’s lodge, this being the amount of insurance her husband carried in this order. The payment was prompt and shows the reliability of this progressive order. The Helping Hand Society of the German Reformed church will hold an apron and bonnet sale, next Thr.rs-1 day afternoon and evening, March 21st, I at the home of Mrs. Fred Heuer, 915 West Monroe street. Everybody cor- i dially invited to attend. Mr. E. C. Bristol of Perribine, Wis-1 consin, arrived today for quite an extended visit with his stepdaughter, Mrs. James Hendricks of rural route 3, Monroe. Mr. Bristol is 80 years of age, and is well and hearty. He spent the winter at Benton Harbor, Mich., with his daughter, Mrs. Daigneau. On a wager as to whose stomach had the larger capacity for ice cream, Fred Stuart and Harry Templeton, two high school students at Hartford City, took part in a cream-eating contest Saturday, which was won by Templeton, but not until after both had become deathly sick. The winner got away with sixteen dishes of the frozen delicacy. Mrs. Harry Deam had as guests today twenty-one ladies from Decatur who came to attend the Wagner recital given at the Presbyterian church this afternoon by the E. May Foltz club. Misses Leia Pago and Katharine Spease of Montpelier, were also here to attend the recital and to attend the bridge whist party given by Mrs. Ralph Todd tonight—Bluffton News. When nearing the B. & O. water tank at Defiance Sunday the engineer discovered a little girl ahead of him with her foot caught in the trek. He put on the emergency brake and reversed the lever and was about to close his eyes to avoid seeing the awful accident, which he thought was inevitable. At that instant the little tot got loose and dodged from in front of the train as it passed by.—Van Wert Bulletin.

WHEN I TELL YOU That I have the excluive sale of the only genuine MEN’S EASE ELK skin shoes I mean it. If you must buy the imitation, let me sell them to you. I will save you FIFTY CENTS a pair. I sell scads of the genuine at $3.00 for Men This store will be closed on March 26th from 12 to 6p. m. My clerks and I are going to buy lots.

Charles Patten made a business trip to Portland today, David Gerber was a business caller at Monroe today. Ed Ray of Berne was a business caller to our city today. Mr. and Mrs. Waggoner went to Fort Wayne today to make a short visit with relatives. A. J. Forbing of this city, who, for a year past, has served as foreman of the Kendallville News office, has purchased a half interest in the Milford Mail. Tony is an excellent printer, a clever fellow and deserves success in this enterprise. The Mission is still attracting considerable attention and the hall is crowded every night, some going out of curiosity, while others go for the good they may derive from the servivecs. A great number of people have so far connected themselves with this sect and they are growing daily. The young recruits that are breaking into big league company for the first time, seem to be creating a very favorable impression and the chances that a number of them will make good seem to be a foregone conclusion. The games as played Sunday by the big leagues in training quarters, shows that some of the minor league timber is able to deliver the goods and in large sized packages at that. The new Huntington county court ! house in process of construction so j ' far has cost the county $247,238.77 and on the general contract nearly $25,000 remains to be paid, while the : frescoing, wood and steel furniture, I electrical fixtures, etc., will cost $50,000 more. Altogether the building i will cost the county nearly $325,000. ! Bonds totaling $260;000 have been isI sued, falling due in 1914. Short-time 1 bonds probably will be issued to cover the cost still unpaid. Every year the statistician of a Chicago newspaper adds up all gifts and bequests to charity in this country for the preceding twelve months. Only sums of a thousand dollars or more are counted, and only those gifts that have been announced in the newspapers. The total for 1906 was a hundred and six million dollars. This is the highest since 1901, when the total was a hundred and twenty-three 1 millions. In these big figures no reckoning is made of the humbler gifts which those who are not rich have been privileged to make. In some portions of Wells county, the outlook for wheat this season *s none of the brightest. Whole fields are dead and withered in appearance and it is feared that the warm weather of spring will not be able to revive the growth. The trouble was a lack of snow during the latter part of the winter. Wheat left unprotected in this fashion was frozen and the I chances are that it will not make I nearly as good a crop as was report-1 ed season. There was a considerable acreage this year.—Bluffton Banner. The Athletic and Amusement association's directors had a business meeting Friday evening in the office of Hollingshead & Hubbard, but noth- i ing of importance was brought up. Secretary Will Hess has received about fifty letters from ball players from all parts of the country wishing to secure berths with Hartford City. Some of the applicants ask salaries similar to those paid in the leagues while others* offer fair propositions. One of the applicants is Asher, the former Lebanon twirler. Asher is one of the best playing outside the big leagues, but he asks too much money. —Hartford City Gazette. At a meeting of the official board of the M. E. church last night it was decided to carry out plans for an additon which has been under consideration for several months. This addition is to be a frame structure 20x 46 feet in dimensions, and will occupy a space directly east of the Sunday school department, in the rear of the parsonage, and the site for it will be cleared by moving away the barn on the property. The purpose of the new addition is to provide a gymnasium for the boys of the church. A boys’ organizston has been in existence for more than a year and a gymnasium has been one of the greatest desires. It will thoroughly equipped with clean, healthful gymnasium parapheranalia. —Bluffton News.

Fred Hoffman made a business trip to Berne today. D. E. Lauferty of Fort Wayne, was a business caller to our city today. Services at the German Reformed church this evening, at 7:15. Sermon in German. Mrs. David Liby returned today from Fort Wayne, where she was visiting with her daughter. The interurban people have completed arrangements with the management of the Majestic Theatre concerning the Prince of India, that will show in Fort Wayne during the first week of April. The arrangements made are in relation to tickets which Miss Winnes can explain more fully. The average modern young man cares only for “tame rabbit coursing.'’ He labors under some new-fangled delusion that it is undignified to woo unless you’re more than half sure of winning. Naturally the sport is dull both to pursuer and pursued. The dainty art of courtship is nearly forgotten. The plans and specifications for the improvement of the St. Joseph schools and the Sister Home, have been placed in the hands of the committee in charge, who are perfectly satisfied with the same and will no doubt recommend the improvemens as asked. The cost according to the plans, will reach in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars, which means someI thing very elaborate. Jack Smith, one of the best base ball players in Fort Wayne, has decided to turn down a number of flattering offers made him by teams in minor leagues and will be on the roster of the Shamrocks and will be used where he is most needed. It is whispered that his decision was reached by reason of the fact that he will in the near future sign a contract that will make him the managerial end of a life-time alliance and this probably influenced him to remain at home. — Fort Wayne Sentinel. A bunch of commercial men were sitting out in the office of the Hotel Hays, after their orders were written preparatory to cooling off before turn ing in. Said one of them who boasts of being worthy fifty thousand, as he interlaced his fingers over his bay window in a self-satisfied way: “I tell you, boys, it’s all in practicing economy now. I started in by clerking in a humble grocery store at a salary of $3 a week and I managed to save money on that.” “But,” replied the tall man who carried flannel samples, “that, of course, was before the cash registers were invented.” Sheriffs, past, present and prospective of Indiana are just now calling down maledictions on the head of Governor Hanly. Among the last of the many bills vetoed by the governor was the bill passed by the legislature and insuring the sheriffs the "ins and outs” fees of the jail. As the matter now stands on the appellate court’s ruling in the Delaware county case the sheriffs are not entitled to these fees. The case is now in the supreme court and the hope that that body will make a favorable decision is the last straw' to which the sheriffs can cling.

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M. F. Rice made a business trip to Berne today. Dr. Grandstaff made a business trip to Portland today. Judge R. K. Erwin was attending to legal matters at Fort Wayne today. The Elks and Postoffice teams will bowl this evening and a decided change in the percentage column will no doubt be made. There is an old song which says a boy’s best friend is his mother. ’Tis pretty hard to make the boy whose mother is approaching with a spoonful of medicine believe it. All arrangements for the Odd Fellows meeting for tomorrow, have been completed and the local order is expecting a large number of out of town guests to be present. Several of the high officials in the order will be present.

We will offer special inducement on re-rubbering buggies and carriage wheels for the next 30 days. We use nothing but the highest grade rubber which is guaranteed for the season by us. in. wheels $11.75 set % in. wheels $13.75 set 1 in. wheels $15.75 set

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