Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1907 — Page 3

+++ + + WEATHER. Generally fair. + + **** + + + 4> + + + + C. J. Lutz was attending to legal matters at Berne today. Fred Hoffman made a business trip to Garrett this mi Joe Winteregg c e. was a business caller to our loday. of F<_.. ayne, was a business caller to our city today. Martin Laughlin of Berne, was a business caller to our city today. Dad Thompson of Fort Wayne, was a business caller to our city today. Charles B. Goldsmith of New York, was a business caller to our city today. Vance Buckmaster of Geneva, was attending to business in our city today. ..us. Crowley went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. Mrs. Charles D. Teeple went to Ft. Wayne this m'brning to make a short visit with friends. -j. a. M. Butcher returned to Geneva today. While ’ “p was attending to legal matter • Gus Christen of i/ille, Ky„ is in our city the gu f his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Christen. W. E. Smith has opened up his short order house in the west part of the city, and is now ready tor business. Miss Glen Porch of Columbia Citv, is visiting with her friend, Mrs. Fannie Cole at the J. H. Heller home today. Evelyn Brown, William Kirschbaum H. D. Wickett and Blanche Miller have unclaimed letters at the postoffice. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Torrence return, ed this morning from Fort Wayne, wl.ere they were attending the production of the Red Feather, at the Majestic. William Williams, who goes by the name of John Willlar s wanted at Bluffcou b.x;..use of ■ aess among , his relatives. Sheriff c ge Mahoney has received a telej 4 inquiry regarding him, the message saying that he is probably employed in a livery barn. Search has failed to locate him in Huntington.—Huntington Herald. i i J.C Mastick: —JOBBER OF— :: <. I :: Cigars •; :: and Tobacco •; ' !♦♦♦♦«❖♦♦♦♦♦< ' FORT VNE & ? GFIELD RY. Tn 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 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.

Charlie Vodewede The Shoe Seller

M. FULL ENKAMP — PT PANING TIME IS HERE. DO NOT FORGET WE CARRY THE LARGEST OPEN STOCK OF Sn AND room BVQSIN THE CITY SPEOIAL PRIOES THIS MONTH '

J. C. Mastick made a business trip to Huntington today. Burton Niblick went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends rorrestElzey"returned this morning from Huntington, where he has been working at the barber trade. Guy Johnson returned this morning from Pittsburg, where he accctopanied several cars of horses. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gay returned this morning from Fort Wayne, where they were attending the district K. of C. meeting. Miss Dora Grandstaff of school No. seven in Root township, is on the sick list, her school being closed for I the present. See P. F. Snyder for all kinds of cement work, masonry, and raising of buildings. P. Frank Snyder, 462 S. Seventh street. 69-6 t Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Drummond returned this morning from Waterloo, where they attended the wedding of Miss Stella Leas to Earl Peters. All Elks are requested to be present at the lodge rooms tomorrow evening. Two candidates will receive the work and you cannot afford to miss it. The members of the F. O. E. are requested to be present this evening at the lodge room, as three candidates are to be initiated and you do not want to miss the fun. Lodge opens at 7:30. A scientist reports that cold feet Indicate great intellectual power and activity. The common supposition that cold feet indicate unusual welching inclinations will probably continue, however, to prevail. It has been proposed that the afalfa plant be adopted as the floral emblem of Oklahoma. Mistletoe has been the emblem of the territory, but mls-tle-toe is a parasite and is not appropriate to a rugged young state. Mrs. J. A. Colchln of Decatur, passed through this city this morning on her way home from Anderson, at which place she attended the funeral srvices of her brother-in-law, Mthias Colchin. —Bluffton Banner. Mark Twain fears a monarchy is coming, and President Eliot says the monarch is already here. In the meantime the American nation is steadily forging ahead, the freest, greatest, best and safest republic the world has ever known. Rev. Daniel B. Kessinger went to Chicago last evening to attend a meeting of the Eri-Church Council of the United Brethren Congregational and Methodist Protestant churches. The three are making an effort to form an organic union by merging into one great denomination to be known as the United Churches of America. Some difficult questions are being ■ brought to the attention of the bankruptcy courts. The case of the lady who mortgaged her house to buy an automobile is now followed by that of | the female bankrupt who could not pay her rent, yet who paid SSO for a cat with a pedigree. Instances like these cause referees in bankruptcy to become puzzled and dejected, yet they are all variations upon the old story of the family that landed in the poorhouse because of its efforts to live up to a set of blue china which had been presented by an ill-advised friend.

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Judg LaFollette arrived this morning from Portland and was attending to legal matters. Postmaster Dyke Frisinger, who has been sick for several days, has resumed his duties. Miss Kittle Stevenson went to Muncie this morning, where she has accepted a position as waiter in the Delaware Hotel. An exchange expresses the opinion that the twentieth century will prove to be woman’s century. Still, she will no doubt permit us to share it with her. When King Leopold heard that the Congo natives saved their money for the purpose of buying wives, he must have been better pleased with himself for making it impossible for them to save any money. The Centlivre horse sale at Fort Wayne is on in full blast, the entire Centlivre stable being offered for sale. A number of horsemen from this city I were present and Decatur may have I some fast stock this season. Mrs. Fanny Cole returned this morning from Fort Wayne, where she attended the production of Red Feather, at the Majestic Theatre. She was accompanied home by Miss Portch of Columbia City, who will spend the day here. At the district conference of the M. E. church in session at Ft. Wayne today and tomorrow H. H. Deam and A. B. Cline will take their third examination before the conference board, for local preachers’ license. This is their third year in a four years’ course and there is no doubt but that both will be successful in the examination. —Bluffton News. Vern Smith, a son of Charley Smith, and Howard Shelley, a son of Ed Shelley, got on the C. B. and C. Portland special at noon to ride to the interurban crossing. But the gate there was open and the train went through at the rate of twentyfive miles an hour. The Smith boy jumped and went head first into a pool of water, but was not injured. Shelley remained on the train and was taken care of by the Uniform Rank, who bought him a ticket and had hits take care of some of their surplus paraphernalia. He will be home tonight.—Bluffton News. An unlucky editor over in Columbia City sat up after hours to do the subject justice; he described in words that fairly floated the bride and her trousseau; he made your mouth water in describing the refreshments and made every one who had contributed feel like a millionaire when reading the description and list of presents. He wound it all up in as pretty a word picture as you ever read, and wrote of the joy attending the affair. The j compositor set it up “jay,” and the next day one of the editor’s best friends, who lived on R. F. D. No. 6, . took is as personal, and came in and stopped his paper and threatened to mop the floor with the editor. Upton Sinclair and a publisher's reader met the other day in New York. The talk turned at once to literature and the reader mentioned proudly that a certain popular novel, after thirteen rejections, had been accepted by him, and had gained for his house nearly a hundred thousand dollars. “A mighty good book it is, too,” said the reader. “Have you read it?” “Yes,” said Mr. Sinclair. “Well, what do you think of it?” “There is only one thing to be said in its favor,” the young novelist answered. “A friend of mine during the Spanish-American war carried it in his breast pocket, and a ball ricochetted against his ribs, but the book saved him. The ball was unable to get beyond the fourth chapter.” There are some physicians who say that they are no longer obliged to answer night calls and that no case, however urgent, would drag them from bed. Thus do they cast reproach on a most honorable profession. To one groaning over the duty of lending aid at an “unseasonable” hour the answer might be given that was made to the policeman in “The Pirates of Penzance:” "You should have thought of that before you joined the force.” Men, women and children will not always be considerate. They will fall sick at 1 in the morning. Pains will not always wait for the sun. Death has a fine disregard for clocks and for house doors securely bolted and even provided with the latest and most ingenlus locks.

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of vehicle users Our steel? emirates ev< v type c f ob that is desirable, and each ,one has a touch here and there which puts it in a class just ab< ve and beyond the common run of vehicles. Whether you care to buy now, er come merely to get posted, our lines will p ove interestin and you are just as welcome in either case. We have our spring line of buggies and harness all ready for your inspection. Schafer Hardware Co.

1 Mrs. Isaac Peters and Mr. and Mrs. - Ermen Mentzer went to Waterloo • this morning to attend the wedding '■ of Mr. Earl Peters and Miss Stella i 1 Leas, which will occur this evening • at 6:30 o’clock. They will make their , I home in Decatur. Mr. Peters is well • known In this city.—Bluffton News. The rich have been getting so much ' s richer for the last ten years-and so • many of the poor have got rich, too, ! that it has got on the nerves of the r community. Good friends all, let us ' not worry unreasonably about that, 1 but try while the sky is clear to save i up a little dross for ourselves. Busi iness never stand still ong. When J it is not getting better it is getting ready to be worse. Those of us who i live long enough will survive this per--5 iod of distressful affluence and are 5 likely to see concern about the accu--5 mulations of others given way to anx- - ietles about employment and subsis--1 tence. 3 - The mysterious disappearance of 3 three diamond rings, valued at from five to six hundred dollars from the f home of J. S. Postal, on South Main ' street and the fact that the rings dis- ■■ appeared yesterday almost at the 1 noon hour, has given the police a prob--1 lem that will no doubt tax their in--8 genuity to the utmost Mrs. Postal, 1 to whom the rings belonged, is ter- ' ribly worried over their dlsappear--3 ance, and while there is a faint clue, ' there is really very little evidence f to give hope that the rings will be recovered. They were taken from a chiffonier in a room just in the 1 rear of the parlor and the indications 1 are that a smooth housebreaker did s the job, for Mrs. Postal saw a man r leave the house, or rather saw him 1 leave the front porch and dart across l " the lawn. —Bluffton Banner.

Miss Frances Bryson and Mr. S. E. Smith returned this morning from Fort Wayne, where they attended the show. The extreme delicacy of many scientific processes is indicated by the report of a government scientist at Washington, to the effect that bacteria are affected favorably or otherwise by the character ot the glass containing the water in which they are suspended. Marked differences in the behavior of the cholera germs were noted, according to the kind of glass composing the vessels used. The degree of alkalinity imparted by the glass to the water is believed to be an important factor in these experiments. A letter was received yesterday by Secretary Vaughn from Jesse Reynolds, who desires to act in the capacity of manager of the local team this season. Reynolds will be remembered by the fans as the pitcher who played in this city in 1898, when Decatur made such a neat record for herself. Reynolds is at present at his home at Ottawa, Ohio, and says he is signed for the coming season with Roanoke, Virginia, in the Virginia State league. He says, however, that he can secure his release from this team if the terms offered by Decatur are right. Reynolds, when here in ’9B, proved to be a hard, conscientious ball player and did everything in his power to make the team a winning proposition. He is a sober and industrious fellow and is just the kind ot a man to set a good example for his players. Reynolds will act in the capacity of slabman as well as manager and would thus fill the bill two ways. It is possible that Reynolds will be secured, if the terms are satisfactory.

If the “bargain” vehicle you bought don t ta i o nt to be what ou paid your money for, and the concern you bought it of is out of business. The kind of bargains we offer are good, dependable goods, with a strong guarantee of a strong concern behind them. When you buy of us you have the assurance that we are always here to make anything right that isn’t. You may be able to match our prices elsewhere, perhaps, but not for our kind of vehicles, or our vehicles elsewhere, probably, but not our reasonable paces. The secret of it all is that we always keep a few laps ahead of the procession. We have made a study of the likes and needs

L. C. Waring, C. L. Walters and George Kinzle returned this morning from Fort Wayne, where they were attending a meeting of the Scottish Rite Masons. ( The Erastus Fritzinger sale was 1 held this morning at his former rest- i dence, north of the city, and was a I hummer. Every article offered for i sale was sold at the high dollar and brought the top price. Fred Reppert cried the sale and it was mainly i through his efforts that the sale was ‘ a success, and Mr. Fritzinger is more. ‘ than pleased with the result. Squire Smith last evening, at his of- ’ fice, officiated at another wedding, this j making the fourth one this week. The contracting parties were Miss Martha < Raver of this city and John Book of > Mercer county. O. A large crowd saw ( the squire tie the knot and all say j that he did it in his usual pleasing ' manner. The young couple expect to ' i make their future home at Mercer, O. C. W. McCann of Dayton, 0., will . manage Hartford City's base ball team : during the season of 1907, the prop- • osition made to him having been ac- • cepted. McCann will report here ■ March 15 and will begin immediately > the signing of players. The season i will open some time the latter part ■ of April. The Athletic & Amusement , association in signing McCann as the ; playing manager, reserves the right > to release him at any time should his ; services prove unsatisfactory. Mc- ■ Cann managed the Dallas, Texas, 1 league team in 1906 and 1907 and ■ comes highly recommended for the • position. He guarantees to place a ■ winning team In the field for Hart- > ford City, and if he succeeds in acs complishing this his position for the - season will have been clinched. — Hartford City News.

PUBLIC SA Lb , ———— f The undersigned will offer at public auction, one mile southwest of the city of Decatur, on the farm formerly known as the Forbing farm, on Saturday, March 23, 1907, the following property: One five-year-old bay gelding, sound, weight 1400 pounds, good worker; 8-year-old mare weight 1200 pounds, family broken, good driver; standard bred dark bay mare, three years old, sired by Sunrise Chimes, broke single or double; two-years-old mare, sired by Electric Lion, broke to drive. Two cows giving milk; one cow will be fresh about April Ist; two-year-old heifer, fresh in May, and one yearling heifer. Two brood sows, will farrow last of March; eleven head shoats, averaging about 75 pounds each. One hundred and fifty head of chickens; five turkey hens and one gobbler. Ten tons of hay in the mow; 300 bushels of Big Four seed oats; 500 bushels of corn in the crib and fodder in shock. Two farm wagons, Deering binder, Deering mowing machine, disc harrow (new), breaking plows, cultivator, spike tooth harrow, two-horse corn planter, two single buggies, carriage, set of double work harness, two sets single harness, set of hay ladders, iron kettle, household and kitchen furniture and many other articles too numerous to mention. Free lunch to all at noon hour. TERMS: All sums of $5 and under cash in hand; on sums over that amount a credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved security to the satisfaction ot the undersigned. No property to be removed until satisfactory settlement is made. Five per cent discount for cash. J. B. TUDOR Fred Reppert, Auctioneer. Dan Erwin, Clerk. If you want coal oil go to the Decatur Hardware Co. Why? They sell it at 10 cents a gallon. 69-6 t