Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1907 — Page 3

Did You Ever Get a Bite ? Os course you have every time you take out a pair of our Walk-Over shoes for dress and one of our Elk- ® skin stloes for work - you have somcthing worth while taking home. d| I They are making new friends daily. We have sold these two years and every pair sells another one. 4 F. B. Tague’s SHOE STORE

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ WEATHER Probably fair tonight and rains tomorrow. ♦ ♦** + ♦ + ♦»♦♦♦ + * Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad. East. No. 6. Com. Traveler, dally. 5:22 a.m. No. 2. Daily Mail, ex. Sun. .11:42 a. m. No. 4. Daily Express 7:00 p.m. No. 22. bocal Freight 1:25 p.m. West. No. 1. Daily Mall, ex. Sun.. 5:53a.m. No. 3. Daily Express 10:37 a m. No. 5. Com. Traveler, daily. 9:12 p.m. No. 23. Local Freight 10:37 a.m. FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. •ecatur—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. GET WEDDED TO THE MODEL WITHOUT A MATE W. H LINDSLEY James Bain went to Monroe this morning on business. Mrs. W. H. Lindsley went to Ft. Wayne this morning on business. J. S. Bowers went to Geneva this morning, where he will transact special business. Mrs. M. F. Rice went to Berne this morning to spend the day witn her son Edward and wife. Chris Strebe went to Wayland. Michigan, this morning in the interest of the G. R. & I. railroad company. Fred Beery went to Rockford today, where he will work for a pipe line that is being laid in that neighborhood. Amanada Amstutz returned this morning from Monroe, where she has bee nvisiting her mother, Mrs. Werst. M. E. Babcock, night operator at the Clover Leaf railroad, went to Monroe this morning to visit his father-in-law and other relatives. Martin Laughlin, of Geneva, who has been here for the past »two days acting in the capacity of county commissioner, returned to his home this morning. >

BOVS’ TAN ELK We just received a new boys’ Tan Elk Skin Shoe. This shoe is made on a neat last blucher pattern. We also have the same pattern in black. See them n south window Boys' $2.50 Sr Charlie Vodewede The Shoe Seller

Carl Myers went to Bluffton today on business. > Russ Andrews was a business callerin the city today. O. N. Snelling returned this morning from a business trip to Venedocia. Douglas Johnson went to Rockford Ohio, today to work on the pipe line. Jesse Steele arrived this morning from St. Louis, and is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Mary Steele. Ben Miller, of Geneva, w'as in the city today transacting business and returned to his home this afternoon. Mrs. Peter Gaffer is on the sick list and in a serious condition suffering from a severe stroke of heart trouble. Mrs. P. J. Hyland had a very severe stroke of pleurisy last evening and for a time her condition was considered serious. Miss Josephine Yeager, of Craigville, who has been visiting in the city with Miss Ada Sautbine, returned to her home this morning. Chille Thompson, of Marion, who has been visiting friends at Berne for several weeks, passed through here today enroute to her home. Mrs. S. M. Ables, of Ridgeville, who has been at Huntington attending the funeral of Major Anderson, passed through here this morning enroute to her home. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kauffman returned this morning from their extended wedding trip. While gone they visited relatives at Redkey, Dunkirk, and several other cities. M. E. Babcock, present night operator at the Clover Leaf, has been honored by a promotion to the agency at Forrest, Indiana, and will leave the last part of this week to assume duties in the new capacity. The Sunday school convention of Washington township convenes tomorrow afternoon at the United Brethren church in the city. A program of merit has been arranged. All works and teachers in Sunday school should not fail to be present. Dave Gottschalk and his partner, C. C. Yoder, yesterday landed the contract at Decatur for about two miles of stone road for $6,100, this being the lowest bid. They also have another road of one and one half miles in Adams county. —Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Worden, of Marion, are visiting friends in this city. They will also visit friends at Pleasant Mills before returning to their home, and while there they will attend the silver wedding of Mrs. 'Worden’s uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. David Frisinger.

Calvin Miller made a business trip to Winchester this afternoon. Earnest Gross went to Rockford this morning to work on the pipe line. J. C. Wagner went to Willshire this morning from a business trip to this city. Mrs. John Lachot went to Berne this afternoon to visit friends and relatives for some time. Fred Mettler, of Berne, returned to his home this afternoon from a business trip to this city. William Adler left this morning for Toledo, where he will attend the wedding of his niece, Miss Louise Bauman. Adam Steiner, of Bluffton, Ohio, passed through here today enroute to Berne, where he will attend the Steiner reunion. J. B. Stroud, of Princeton, Ind., who has been conductor on the Ft. Wayne and Springfield interurban for several months, has resigned his position with the company. Willis Basinger and John Reichenbach, of Pandora, Ohio, passed through the city today enroute to Berne, where they will attend the Steiner reunion that will be held there tomorrow. Mrs. Mary Ellis, who has been the guest of her son, Lase Ellis, and family at Decatur for the past month, changed cars here Saturday afternoon enroute to her home at Albany.— Portland Sun. Master Miller and Miss Winifred, the children of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Ellingham, went to Winchester this afternoon to remain with their grandmother for a few weeks, while Mr. and Mrs. Ellingham are attending the Jamestown exposition. Pitcher McKee of the defunct Hartford City base ball team arrived today and joined the Frankfort team and will undoubtedly be worked in tomorrow’s game. He is considered a strong man and Frankfort is fortune to secure his services. He was w’anted by several teams. Mrs. Maud Murdoch and children will arrive tomorrow from Goldfield, Nevada and will visit for some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rice. Mrs. Murdoch was formerly Miss Maud Rice and is well known here. This is her first visit home since going to ehe west several years ago. Lawrence E. Opliger was on Monday re-elected as county superintendent for Adams county. The election was unamious, thus showing the popularity of Mr. Opliger. During his term in office the schools of the county have prospered more than ever before, and the trustees certainly made no mistake by re-electing Mr. Opliger. —Berne News. Earl B. Adams received a message from Flint, Mich., today announcing that Mrs. Faileing, his wife's mother, was gradually sinking and that the end was not far distant, and that if they desired to see her alive to start for Flint at once. Mr. and Mrs. Adams left on the afternoon train and will arrive in Flint this evening. Mrs. Failing is suffering from a severe attack of bright’s disease and othef complications. James Straub, conductor on the interurban has been laid off indefinitely by the interurban management owing to some gross neglect in his work. During his absence his run is being cared for by Conductor Prover and Conductor Hunsicker has been assigned the night run. What offense Straub committed we were unable to state, but it is a settled fact that it was a serious one or the management would have been more lenient. The great rain fall that has visited this county in the past month has, according to the farmers of the county, done a great deal of damage to the corn crop and it is said that there are, scores of acres in the county that are under water and have been for the past week or more. In some parts of the county the conditions are worse than in others, but taken all over the county they are serious enough to begin to cause the farmers considerable worry. The Clover Leaf has issued a circular wherein it is stated that all the employes of the road whose duties pertain to the operating department will be compelled to take an examination in the very near future to determine their competency to perform the various duties entrusted to their care. The examinations will be conducted bY a representative of the Interstate commerce commission, and among the men who will be compelled to take it are dispatchers, conductors, engineers, firemen, brakemen and others. —Delphos Herald. While making a trip to Delphos on a Clover Leaf freight, James Speigel an extra fireman, met with an accident which will keep him from working for several days. His train had reached a point a mile south of Maumee and Speigel was leaning out of a window of the cab. Suddenly he received a terrific blow on the left cheek just under the eye which staggered him. A board protruding from a box car standing on a sideing was the cause of the difficulty. A gash was cut in his cheek and on the side of his nose. —Frankfort Crescent.

Mrs. Malon Harmon went to Berne this afternoon to have her eyes tested. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. True returned this afternoon from a several days’ stay ate Winona. Sam Hartless, of Berne, was a business visitor in the city this morning and returned to his home this afternoon. Mrs. L. E. Hower and daughter, Marcell, accompanied by Miss Merle Shires, are visiting friends at Van Wert, Ohio. S. B. Nicholas, of Columbus, Ohio, returned to his homt yesterday after a weeks' visit with is sister and family in this city. Mrs. H. S. Pason, of Berne, who has been visiting friends at aVn Buren for some time, passed through here today enroute to her home. ed as large before the birth of the triplets, there had never been anything but a single birth. Mrs. Woods is 35 years old and her husband is 41. He is a cab driver. “More rain, more rest,” so say the carpenters, brick layers and other men who have out door work to do, but “dodgast the rest” is one of the remarks that they attach to the old saying. Mrs. C. B. Smith, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hammell, of this place for several days, returned to her home this afternoon. She was accompanied by Miss Ruth Hammell of this city. Work on the new additions at the St. Marys school house. and sister's home gpes merrily along, apd is now looming up in great shape. The contractors, Mann & Christen, are’ pushing the work as fast as possible as they have a number of other contracts on their hands that demand their immediate attention. By theb irth of triplets to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods, of Marion, Ind., the number of children in the Woods family is increased to twelve. The three new arrivals are all girls, and average four and three-fourths pounds in weight. They are all healthy and well-formed babies. Although the Woods family of children was regardAll the children of the Evangelical church are requested to be present at the church Friday afternoon to practice some music to be sang on next Sunday at the children's day service. Some very appropriate music has been secured for this service and the day will be duly honored in an appropriate manner. Let every child of the church be present. Interurban officials informed us today that they were busily engaged at present at Ft. Wayne in laying steel so as to transfer their steam engines recently purchased in the southern part of the state for hauling the gravel along the line for anew road bed. They expect to transfer the engines to their line some time this week and will then be able to run the same at once to the pit and commence operations. A big crowd greeted the Cook stock company at their pavilion last evening at the corner of Fourth and Monroe streets and from all reports w r ere royally entertained. The company is one of the strongest on the road and will be with us every night this week. A set of silver ware was given away last evening but who the lucky party was we were unable to state. Their musical organization is one of the best ever heard here. The Countly Commissioners at Frankfort made an order to the effect that the $55,000 voted the Clover Leaf railroad company by the tax payers of Center township, Ind., to aid in the enlarging of the shops and yard facilities in Frankfort, be placed upon the tax duplicate. The amount is one half of one per cent of the taxables in the township and the order says that not less than one-half of the appropriation is to be collected in the year 1908, the remainder in the following year.—Delphos Herald. C. C. Myers was in town Monday from Robinson, 111., where is superintending work in the territory of the Phoenix Oil company. Mjr. Myers says his company has two strings of tools working, but only one well has been drilled in. Traffic in that territory is at a standstill and is likely to be for many weeks. There is but one gravel road and it is but a mile long. The mud is so deep that the roads are hardly passable and to move a rig is impossible. It has rained there continually for four or five days.— Hartford City News. A number of people during the past several months have been figuring and guessing how much money was expended by the city of Decatur during a year. Some guessing it very high while others guessed it very low. The annual report of the clerk was filed last evening at the regular council meeting, and shows that during the year ending May the first that the city had exended $89,024.17 or nearly ninety thousand dollars. That it costs something to keep up the running expenses of our beautiful city is evidenced by the amount of money expended.

William Steiner, of Bluffton, Ohio, passed through here today enroute to Berne, where he will attend the Sftiner reunion. Enos Henry has returned from Vanceboro, N. C., w’here he has been doing civil engineering for a firm at that place. P. S. Steiner, of Ceville, 0., passed through here today on his way to Berne to attend the Steiner reunion at that place. Lester Grim, of Marion, Ohio, has arrived.here and he will be the night operator at the G. R. & I. to fill the vacancy made by Israel Stoneburner. Judge John F. LaFollette was at Decatur. Monday, where he presided as special judge in a case in the Adams circuit court. —Portland Sun. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Kerns of 1606 Pine street, Scranton, Pa., a nine pound son. Mother and child doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Kern have many relatives and friends here. Mr. Will Skelton has resigned his position as traveling salesman with the F. P. Wilt company and has accepted a place on the road for the Ullman Dreifus importing firm, of Cincinnati. —Journal-Gazette Mr. and Mrs. Abe Bebout, of Geneva, who have been at Marion for some time attending their daughter Maud, who is sick with the measles, returned to their home today. Their daughter • has been attending college at Marion. ' Uncle John McKean has disposed of his property on West Monroe street ' to Reuben Beery and the latter expects i to make that his future home. What the consideration was we were un- ■ able to learn. Mr. McKean disposed ■ of the property owing to the fact that 1 he expects to make his future home 1 with his son at Linn Grove. John Harris at the Boston store had a ghastely experience this morning I while cleaning out a water connection , in that store. While cleaning it he i found a pair of ladies’ hose, which • frightened him nearly to death. He I has fully recovered from the shock i however, but he says he does not I care for any more similar experiences. ' Glen Glancey has been honored by a ' promotion by the G. R. & I. officials. Mr. Glancey went to Ft. Wayne this morning to work in the dispatcher's office at that place. This promotion was well deserved as Mr. Glancey is a fine operator and an earnest worker. Israel Stoneburner is filling the position as day ticket agent at the depot here. A force of men were busily engaged today at the Old Adams County Bank in putting in the vault fixtures for the safety deposit boxes. This bank ' is doing everything up in apple pie order while they are at it, and are giving their patrons everything that goes in connection with a first class banking institution. The work of putting in these boxes will be completed tomorrow evening. There was a healthy increase in . the price of crude oil Saturday morning, but it never touched Indiana. The increase is 10 cents per barrel on Cabell, West Virginia, and 5 cents on Ragland, Kentucky. This makes the price of the former $1.32 and the latter 75 cents. The upward tendency of the market looks encouraging to the Indiana producers, who believe that the next increase recorded will include Hoosier oil. A review of the Twenty-first artil- • lery in command of Captain J. W. Kilbreth, was held at the army post at Indianapolis, Monday, in the presence of oGvernor Hanly and staff. The drill was in the nature of a farewell to the post, as the Twenty-first ’ battery breaks camp and starts on a long “hike" for the battery headquarters at Fort Sheridan, near Chi- ' cago. The Twenty-first may pass ' through here on the return trip.— 1 Frankfort Crescent. This is the com- ' pany that Alpheus Roop of our city is with. Harry O. Grove, living east of the city in Adams county, was in town last night to leave on the Commercial Traveler for a trip of a month to Texas. He will go to Amarilla, near which city he owns an entire section of land. He bought the land, he says, at about sls per acre and within two weeks was offered an advance of $2 an acre or a profit of $1,280 on his investment. He has out about 80 acres of wheat, a lot of oats, and corn is being planted this spring. A party from Berne was to leave last night for Texas also.— Bluffton News. Miss Lucile Frankie, who has been studying at Chicago university where she w’as taking the domestic science course, has been forced to discontinue her work there on account of her health. She will remain there during the remainder of the quarter, however, visiting the classes, returning then to her home here. At her physician's orders she has asked to be released from her work in the Knicke.-b >cke" school at Indianapolis and will also give up her trip abroad. The many fi lends of Miss Frankie are sorry ‘o learn of her illness but hope a timely rest will enable her to continue her work later. —Bluffton Banner.

HAVE YOU GOT A PAIR OF OUR FAMOUS Elk Skin Shoes? If Not, Get Busy and come in while the assortment is • complete. Only $2.75 a pair OTHERS ASK $3.00 NOW GET BUSY. A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT THEtHUB OECATUR. IND, ONE PRICE CLOTHING AND SHOES li ——■ p i: V X \’\'WE SELL f :: TH£ RUBBERS i; It’s Rubber i: Season Again ; for Sure! ♦ We sell the best rubbers tljat money can buy. We ; I have no trash and never offer it to our trade. ]! Men's, Women's and Children's Rubbers No one, who buys rubbers here, ever wears poor rub- < ► bers, or pays too much for them. J ‘ Winnes’ Shoe Store i; The Shoers Buggies! Buggies! I Just received a car load of all styles of Buggies and Surries. steel, rubber or cushion tire. Bike gear, auto seats, in fact any style you desire in the * latest patterns. jOur prices are right in every line. Call and see us before purchasing. Decatur Hardware Co.