Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1907 — Page 3

'Why We Call Our E. P. Reed Shoe Our F’ride Leader * Because the ladles say it Is the best is a full welt shoe with the sole inlaid It is the best ladies' shoe that can be F. B, Tague’s SHOE STORE

♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦+*♦♦+* WEATHER Increasing cloudiness, with showers Friday and possibly tonight. Moderate temperature. JJIHI3BI •♦+++**+**++++ Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad. East. SKo. 6. Com. Traveler, daily. 5:22 a.m. Ko. 2. Daily Mail, ex. Sun. .11:42 a. m. |S’o. 4. Daily Express 7:00p.m. Js'o. 22. Local Freight 1:25 p.m. West. jKo. 1. Daily Mail, ex. Sun.. 5:53a.m. 'No. 3. Daily Express 10:37 a.m. N’o. 5. Com Traveler, daily. 9:12 p.m. Ko. 23. Local Freight 10:37 a.m. o . FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. i*ecatur —North Ft. Wayne—South 8:00 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. I — GET WEDDED TO THE MODEL WITHOUT A MATE W. H LINDSLEY O. N. Snelling went to Berne this morning on business. Chris Amstutz made a business trip to Monroe this morning. Ed Johnson went to Ft. Wayne this morning on legal business. Peck Kramer has resigned his position at the Eichenberger restaurant. Fred Ashbaucher went to Berne this morning to attend the Steiner reunion. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Kern went to Ft. Wayne this morning to visit friends for some time. Fred Hoffman went to Winchester this morning in the interest of the firm of Hoffman and sons. Misses Hazel Sprague and Leota Blossom, of Rockford, Ohio, came to the city today to be the guests of John Sprague and family for some time. Jesse Steele, of St. Louis, who has been visiting friends in the city for several days, returned to his home this morning. Mr. Steele formerly lived in Decatur. He is in business now at St. Louis.

This cut represents an Oxford made on the new “Shorty” last. It has that broad, stubby effect that is entirely new in lasts. We carry a shoe made on the same last. Tbe uppers of these numbers are the famous “Burro Jap” patent; the kind that wears. ... Men’s $4.00 MEN'S Charlie Voelewede The Shoe Seller

Mr. Sheline was a business visitor in Ft. Wayne today. Fred Sievers made a business trip to Ft. Wayne this morning. Mrs. Ella Thomas has returned from a visit with friends at Kirnmel. Mrs. J. A. Smith is on the sick list suffering from a very severe attack of rheumatism. Charles Ross, of Paulding, Ohio, is in the city, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ross. Mrs. Florence Mentzer ana Mrs. Covault went to Ft. Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. Mrs. Sarah E. Moon, of Wabash, arrived in the city today to be the guest of relatives for several days. Emil Franz, of Berne, was in the city today transacting legal business and he returned home this afternoon. Miss Lillian Lewton and Mrs. C. L. Johnson returned to Monroe this afternoon from a short visit in the city. J. C. DeVoss, of Winchester, who has been visiting in the city the guest of his brother, L. C. DeVoss, returned to his home this afternoon. Daniel DeVoss, of Indianapolis, returned to his home this afternoon after making a visit in the city with his nephew, L. C. DeVoss. Miss Charlotte Frisinger, of Rockford, 0., returned to her home this morning, after making a visit here with her cousin,' Fannie Frisinger, for a few days. Mr. J. N. Veeley and daughter, of Geneva, returned to their home at Geneva this afternoon, after making a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Drummond. The river is slowly receding and within a short time will be confined within its banks. Haed it not ceasedS raining when it did, the entire bottom would have undoubtedly have been covered with water. B. E. Reddout assumed charge of the National Supply Co.’s store at this place last Saturday, June Ist. The place was left vacant by the death of G. W. Weeks. Mr. Reddout is efficient and will make the National a good man for the place.—Geneva Herald. While the Cook show band was giving their usual concert on the street today, at noon, Mike Touhey entertained the crowd assembled by doing a few fancy steps that would have done credit to any dancing teacher. Mike’s efforts were generously receiver and he was handed more applause than the band. Mike is certainly an eccentric character.

Ira Baker, of Monroe, was a business caller in our city today. C. E. Smith made a business trip to Ohio City this morning. Charles France went to Ft. Wayne this morning on business. Attorney Cottrell, of Berne, was a business caller in our city today. Carl Myers returned this morning from a business trip to Marion. D. E Lauferty returned this morning from his regular business trip to Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Willis Van Camp went te Berne this morning to attend the Steiner reunion. Miss Trudith Steiner went to Berne this morning to be in attendance at the Steiner reunion. Miss Cora Hendricks went to Monroe this morning to remain for a few days with relatives. Mrs. Anna Sheline went to Geneva this morning to visit friends and relatives for a few days. Jacob Butcher returned to his home at Geneva, this afternoon from a business trip to the city. Amos Lindsey returned to his home at Berne this afternoon from a business trip to this city. Jeff Lobenstein, brakeman on the G. R. & I. arrived in the city this morning from Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Mi F. Parrish, of Monroe, who has been visiting in the city, returned to her home this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ashbaucher went to Berne today. While there they attended the Steiner reunion. Mrs. J. O. Allen passed through the city today enroute to Grand Rapids, Mich., where she will visit friends. Mrs. J .N. Archbold and daughter Jennie went to Ft. Wayne this morning to visit friends and relatives. Miss Jean Lutz left this morning for Lafayette where she will visit friends and relatives for several days. Homer Pontius, of Geneva, was a business caller in the city today, and returned to his home this afternoon. Mrs. Ed France, of Pleasant Mills, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. Yeager, for a short time, returned to her home this morning. Rev. Horace Odgen and family arrived today from Louisville, Ky., and are the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lower. They are enroute to the Jamestown exposition. Thomas F. Miller, of Ligonier, was a business visitor in the city today. He attended the divorce proceedings that his daughter, Mrs. Ella Thomas instituted against her husband. Alta and Chester Bryan went to Marion this morning to visit their uncle, J. H. Bryan, and family. While there they will attend the commencement. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Sells, of Elwood, who have been visiting Mr. Sells’ mother at Monroe for a few days, passed through here today enroute to their home. Mrs. R. A. Dubois and children, of Hartford City, spent a couple of hours this morning with friends in this city. She was transferring here on her way to Decatur to be the guest of relatives over Sunday. She formerly resided at Decatur. —Bluffton Banner. The supreme court of Ohio has rendered a decision that means that all church property except the place of actual worship shall be taxed, including the parsonage of any and all churches. The decision grew out of a test case brought by Bishop Watterson, of Columbus, Ohio., who versed the auditor of Franklin county on the parsonage the Bishop resided in. The Schafer Hardware Co. is busily engaged today in unloading two cars of Turnbull wagons for the summer and fall trade. Already this progressive firm has received thirty car loads of merchandise and fully expect to reach the fifty mark before the end of the year. This is a remarkable record for a hardware Btore, and speaks for itself and shows the enormous business done in Decatur in this line in a year. People who write things which they would like to see printed in a newspaper should bear in mind that what they write as their personal opinion should be fathered by them, and when they write stuff that is not fit for them to attach their names to it should never be printed. Remember, the rule of all decent newspapers and you will never have occasion to put on the shoe. This is the rule which we give in all kindness. Never ask a newspaper to do anything you are ashamed to do yourself. Street grafters in our city are getting more numerous than the flees on a dog’s back, and as a consequence are carrying away considerable money that rightfully belongs to our local business men. A grafter of no mean ability held forth last evening on Mad Ton street and as usual found a number of suckers, who bought his medicine which was guaranteed to cure any and all diseases. It seems strange to us that some people will never get w r ise that they are being bled and are always looking for bad bargains.

FORMER GENEVA MAN DEAD A young man with papers in his pocket that indicate that he is Thomas Ingle, of Terre Haute, or Robinson, 111., was found dead in a room in the Hoosier Hotel in Louisiana street, opposite the east end of the union station shortly before noon, Saturday. There was some evidence that he had killed himself, although a post mortem will have to be held, to determine the exact cause of death. Ingle was well dressed, wore a gold watch and chain and had a large amount of cheap jewelry. He had over sl3 in his pocket when he was found. Bicyclemen Hall and Dodemacher who were sent to the place to investigate, learned that Ingle had been drinking heavily for several days. The young man was about the hotel until 11-30 o’clock Friday night when he went to his room. He was not seen alive again. A maid employed in the hotel noticed that the lights were burning in his room Saturday and when the door was unlocked Ingle was found dead across his bed. The condition of the body indicated that death occurred several hours before the body was found. There was a small vial half filled with chlora in the room and the police thought he might have killed himself with the drug. Dr. Wagner of the dispensary staff, took the body to the city morgue.—lndianapolis News. Young Ingle's home is at Rockford. He w-orked at the barber trade at Geneva several years and was known here. o The Willshire ball club went to Ohio City Decoration day, where they won from the Enterprise club by a score of 12 to 10. It is said that if an Ohio boy had been playing in place of “Curley” Ellis, of Decatur, the score might have stood 30 to 0 in favor of Willshire. —Willshire Herald. Twelve young ladies and gentlemen met last evening and organized a new tennis club and expect in the near future to entertain clubs from Van Wert, Portland, Ft. Wayne, Huntington and Bluffton. A tennis court will be fitted up in the vacant lot owned by F. M. Schirmeyer on Rugg street and many pleasant afternoon and evenings are expected to be spent in this pastime by the young people iu the near future. i Marshal Green and night policeman Sam Frank picked up two pipe liners who had come to town and endeavored to slop up all the booze in the city and the aforesaid gentlemen are now languishing in jail. The men were beastly drunk and were unable to navigate and when arrested were laying on a lawn on First street. The men will be given their hearing this evening and will no doubt be given the usual dose. A drunken umbrella mender was picked up last night by William Geary and landed in jail and will be given his hearing this morning before Mayor Coffee. The fellow before he gets out of this scrape may have to answer to something more serious as it is reported that he tried to hold up several people and while he did not secure anything of value, he frightened several citizens nearly to death. The officers are lookiug into his case and an affidavit may yet be booked against him for highway robbery. B. J. Waggoner, of rural route three is short a set of single harness that some miscreant carried away Tuesday evening. However, Mr. Waggoner informs us that he has a remarkable good clew and expects to recover the the goods in a few days. The guilty party is practically known and to avoid further trouble in the line of prosecution had better return the goods and the matter will thus be closed and dropped as far as Mr. Waggoner is concerned. The harness was a good set and he does not propose to lose it without showing some one a warm time. Frank Tucker, of Noblesville, deputy pure food inspector, went to Elwood two weeks ago and obtained samples of various kinds of foods from a number of grocers, milk dealers and others, which was sent to Indianapolis to be analyzed. Tuesday Peputy Prosecutor R. F. Broadbent received notice to file complaints in the local court against W. H. Cavan, a grocer, for selling adulterated ice cream. Nine other Elwood dealers will be arrested within twenty-four hours, says Mr. Tucker, for violating the pure food laws, the butchers of the city being the greatest offenders. Sam Fisher, the man with the peg leg, entertained the citizens in the west part of the city last evening bybeating up his wife and in other ways making his presence known. Sam had taken on board a little too much booze and when he arrived home and found that things were not running to suit him, he concluded to settle the matter with his wife and as a result gave her a licking. Not content with this, he commenced to kick the furniture around with his wooden leg and demolished a part of this. Sam was only influenced to desist his trouble making by the arrival of the police. No arrests were made.

Baving a Cab Far*. Here's a pretty tale of domestic economy from an English paper. He had been brought up in the lap of luxury and extravagance, and when bad times came and he had to go down to the city and look carefully after his shillings it was his pretty and tender little wife who helped him and encouraged him by example in small savings. One fence he never would face. He balked at taking a bus. “It might pass the club, you know, dear, and the fellows at the windows.” One evening, however, he returned radiant to dinner. Tenderly embracing hLs life’s partner, he murmured: “I’ve done it, darling! All the way for threepence!" Love and gratitude were in her eyes as she said: “My brave boy! Did you mind it very much?” With affectionate cheeriness he made answer: “No, dear! Got box seat; real good old sort, the driver. Told me lots of stories and was quite chatty. Capital chap! Gave him a big cigar and half a crown for himself when I got down.” How Frost Affects Plants. Plants do not freeze to death in winter, but perish from thirst. The process is simple. The cold causes the withdrawal of the water from the cells of the plant, forming ice crystals outside of the cells. The frost, cooling and contracting the surface, acts as a sort of pump, and as soon as the cell is emptied of its life giving fluid the plant dies. The truth of this theory has been proved by numerous careful experiments. Great variation was found in the amount of cold necessary to cause the death of vegetation. Some plants dry out quickly and are killed before the freezing point is reached. Many plants will survive zero weather, and some die only at 20 degrees below. Certain vegetable growths never freeze. There are forms of bacteria that even when immersed in liquid air, the intensest cold available, come out of their bitter bath as chipper and lively as ever—Chicago Tribune. Precious Plant Stones. Among the many strange things to be found in the Philippine Islands are the so called “plant stones” encountered now and again in certain vegetable ! growths. The bamboo, for instance, according to Kultur und Natur, contains a stone very similar to the opal, but on account of the rarity with which it is found it is much more costly than the opal. In many thousand cane stalks cut down and carefully examined there may perhaps be one in which this beautiful greenish pink scintillating stone has been formed from the minute particles of siliceous deposit that imparts its intense hardness to the outer covering of the cane. The bamboo cane stone is known as tabashirs. In the interior of some cocoauuts a stonelike secretion is found that is not inferior in brilliancy to the most beautiful genuine pearl. Wonderful Builders. A personal inspection of the pyramids made by an English quarry owner led him to the conclusion that the old Egyptians were better builders than those of the present day. He found blocks of stone in the pyramids weighing three or four times as much as the obelisks on the banks of the Nile. He saw a stone the estimated weight of which was 800 tons. Many of the stones were found to be thirty feet in length and fitted so closely together that the blade of a penknife could be run over the surface without discovering the break between them. There is no machinery, lie claims, so perfect that it will make two surfaces thirty feet in length which will meet together in unison as the stones in the pyramids meet. Ruskin to an Admirer. Ruskin, it is known, had his own ways of publishing his works, with the result that they were sometimes hard to get and expensive. According to the Great Central Railway Journal, he once sent this letter to a stranger who wrote to him complaining of the price of his books: 84 Woods took Road, Oxford. 4th Nov., ’B4. My Dear Sir—l have ordered my publisher to send you in gift a book of mine (“Munera Pulveris’ ) you have not read. Be content with that at present, and Carlyle. Have not you Shakespeare, cheap? And the Bible nowadays for nothing? What good do they do you? Faithfully yours, J. RUSKIN. —o--TOMATO PLANTS FOR SALE—Stone and tenderloin varieties. 25c a hundred; 5c a dozen. Miss Jessie Magley, 1014 Monroe street. 137-12 t ATTENTION, K. OF P.’S. Timber for second rank tonight. To be conferred by Old Line team. W. B. Johnson, C. C. o ATTENTION, BEN HURS. Memorial service w-ill be held at Ben Hur hall Sunday, June 9th, at 2 p. m. Ail members requested to attend and to bring flowers, if possible. Mary V. Dailey, Scribe. 137-3 t Passion Play AT THE PICTORIUM Part No. I—June 6. Part No. 2— June 7 and 8. Part No. 3—June 10 and 11. Part No. 4 —June 12 and 13. These four parts are beautifully colored to nature and I promise my mustomires the treat of their life. The films portray t'te life and passion of our Lord a: piayod by the peasants of Oberamrue.fgau, Bavearia. Sacred music i:i connection. Remember the dates. Adm.ssio i, 5 cents. J. B. STONEBURNER, Prop.

Public Auction Burt House Lot (on premises) Decatur, Indiana Saturday, June 22 Commencing at 2:30 p. m, This tract is 66x120 feet, with 7% foot passage in the rear. Situated on Monroe street in the center of the business district. Only three doors east of the Old Adams County Bank. Just across the alley from the postoffice. Only three doors from the interurban road. This property will be sold in three tracts 22x120 feet, then offered as a whole. This will make an ideal business location. REASON FOR SELLING: —We live 200 miles away and cannot look after it. W ill p@sitively be sold to the highest bidder. TERMS One-third cash onc-third due in six months, one-third due in twelve months. Deferred payments to bear six per cent interest from date and be secured by mortgage on premises sold, or purchaser can pay all cash R. M. Link l Owners Nate Linki p “ i! ' “• H. O. BOYER, Auctioneer.

|! |\ x v \ \WE SELL P RUBBERS \ \ <► || We sell the best rubbers that money can buy. We !! have no trash and never offer it to our trade. i > i ► j; Men's, Women's and Children's Rubbers < > < > No one, who buys rubbers here, ever wears poor rubJ; bers, or pays too much for them. iiWinnes’ Shoe Store < > The Shoers < ► Buggies! Buggies! 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. 'Our prices are right in every line. YJ Call and see us before purchasing. Decatur Hardware Co.