Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1907 — Page 3

Why Not Get a Shine On?

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The busy man to-dav wants a shine quick; that is wuy the shoe shiners are calling tor our polish.

F. B, Tague’s SHOE STORE

4. + + + *** + *** + + + WEATHER. Fair tonigh’ and probably Saturday. Slowly rising temperature. +t++**++ + + + + + + Toledo, St. Louis 4 Western Railroad. East. 50.6. Com. Traveler, daily. 5:22 a.m. No. 2. Daily Mail, ex. Sun. .11:42 a. m. No. 4. Daily Express 7:00 p.m. No. 22. Local Freight 1:25 p.m. West. No. 1. Daily Mail, ex. Sun.. 5:53a.m. No. 3. Daily Express 10:37 a.m. No. 5. Com. Traveler, dally. 9:12 p.m. No. 23. Local Freight 10:37 a.m. — oFORT WAYNE 4 SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Decatur —North Ft. Wayne—South 6:00 a.m. 7:30 am. 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 O. N. Snellin returned this morning from his regular business trip. Red Beam, of Willshire, came to the city today to see the ball game. George Klein, of Van Wert, came to the city today to witness the ball game. Dan Beery and James Rice went to Bluffton this morning to attend the horse sale at that place. Miss Agnes Murray went to Marion this morning to be the guest of Harvey Niblick and family for several days. 310 lbs., strayed away from the G. R. & I. s ock yards. A liberal reward will be paid for its return to William Butler, at the Monroe street meat market. 145-6 t

Fred Eichenberger of this city, accompanied by his brother, A. J. Eichenberger. of Farmington, Ohio, left this morning for an extended pleasure trip through the states of California. Oregon and Washington. They will be gone five weeks.

See What They Say.

Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

I never had a better selection of Shoe Polish than now; have all grades and colors for coloring canvas shoes to match gowns. Take notice of the shoe blacks; they are shining with the little silver dime they get by using our new polish. They know it is a good thing, that’s why they are wearing that smile.

Pat Kinney went to Geneva this afternoon on real estate business. Scott Hughes returned this morning from a business trip to Bluffton. Oran Strickler, of Willshire, came to the city today to attend the ball game. Amos Hirschey, of Berne, arrived in the city'thls morning to transact legal business. Leo. Yeager returned to the city today from his regular business trip on the road. Miss Aletha Myers, of Hartford City arrived in the city today to visit friends for some time. Mrs. Sickfus. of Preble, went to Ft. Wayne this morning, where she will visit friends and relatives for a few days. Mrs. Albert Lachner, of Ft. Wayne, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Elidah Walters, returned to her home yesterday afternoon. Next Sunday night at the Salem church two miles east of here, a children's day program will be rendered. The program will be a good one and everybody is invited to attend. The new cornice is being placed on the Murray hotel and the new building is now looming up as a modern hotel. A large force of workmen are employed by contractors Linn .and Patten, who are desirous of finishing up the work as quickly as possible. Today was Flag Day and a number of our business men displayed their patriotism by hanging out the national colors. This is a day that every citizen should try and remember and give honor to the stars and stripes and our nation by displaying old Glory. The first quartery meeting of this conference year at the Evangelical church will be held over this coming Sunday. Elder L. S. Fisher will be with us. Services this Friday evening at 7:30. A cordial invitation is extended. “Red" Williams, playing at short on the Frankfort base ball team, has been made the captain and the fans predict that he will instill a great deal of the fighting spirit in the players that will win games. Williams is a great player and plays the game all of the time. The Brotherhood of American Yeomen at its last meeting decided to hold an open meeting on Thursday, June 20th, at which time refreshments will be served and an old-fashioned time will be had. One of the times when every one will be made to feel at home. Speeches will be made by the best people of the town.

Look in my south window and see what Frazier, Longenberger, Richards, Olwine, Clark, Jacobs, Campbell, Boner, Heidmann, Spade, Brothers, say about my Elk Skin Shoe. Read their recommendations. See the best shoe sold in Decatur.

M. F. Rice made a business trip to Berne this afternoon, and while there will visit his son Edward. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Dellinger passed through the city today enroll, e to their home at Robinson. 18. J. B. Custer, of Willshire, arrived in the city this morning and was a spectator at the ball game. Miss Eddington returned to her home at Pleasant Mills this morning from a visit in the city. Rev. Fisher, of Kokomo, presiding elder of the Evangelical church of this dis rict came to the city today. Jack Miller, of Ft. Wayne, returned to his home today after being the guest of Enos Henry for a few days. ~ Chris Strebe went to Mendon this morning in the interest of the G. R. & I. railroad company. Mrs. John Glancey and daughter Electa returned this morning from a visit with friends at Berne.

Miss Vesey, of Ft. Wayne, arrived in the city this afternoon to be the guest of relatives for some time. Clem Holthouse, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is in the city visiting with Mrs. R. J. Holthouse and other frienJs. Mrs. Baumgartner, of Berne, who has been visiting friends at Bluffton, passed through here today enroute to her home. Mrs. Samuel Dubois, of Hartford City, who has been visiting friends and relatives in the city for the past week, returned to her home this morning. Mrs. F. V. Countz. of Marion, Ohio, passed through the city today enroute to Cadillac, Michigan, where she will visit relatives for several weeks. Nearly all the business houses of the city have agreed to decorate in the Epworth League colors red and white, next week during the district conversion here, and everything will be done to make the visitors feel they are welcome.—Montpelier Herald. Jack Deininger returned this morning from Denver, Colorado, where he has been working for an electric company. He says the weather didn’t agree with him so far west. Cue Long, who was with him at Denver, stopped off at Chicago, on the wayback, and is visiting relatives there. A letter from Tom Railing todaystates that he is getting along in nice shape at Tecumseh, Mich., and has won the last six games out of seven that he has pitched. Tom certainly has the goods and no one wishes him any better success than do his manyDecatur friends. That Tom is missed this season is without argument and he certainly would fill a big hole on the local team. There is alarm among those who are in the Huntington jail or those who have been prisoners recently, from the fact that it is reported that the jail is infected with smallpox. Two cases of smallpox, which have developed, one of them, that of William Schwartz, of Markle, are said to be traceable to the jail. The authorities are investigating, while the jail's regulars are being very good for a time. A story of the use of phonograph records as evidence in a legal proceeding comes from Paris. A lodger sued his landlord to suppress as a nuisance the noise of a coppersmith on the ground floor. He employed a phonographite record the sounds complained of. and no sooner was the instrument set going before the judges than they began to stop their ears in dismay. The complainant was not long in obtaining the relief he sought.

James Straub, formerly conductor on the local electric line was in our city today and denied the allegation that he had been discharged and stated that he had merely resigned to accept a better position and is now employed on the Logansport and Wabash Valley line. Mr. Straub felt deeply hurt over the HCile article used in our paper, and like a gentleman asked us to rectify the same and clear him. This we gladly do, although our information came from headquarters. The base ball fans of Boston and vicinity turned out in force today to witness a game bdtween the Boston American league club and the Providence team of the eastern league played for the benefit of the widow of '‘Chick" Stahl, the captain of the Boston club who died during the training season this spring. Both clubs contributed their service free and the benefit fund was increased by contributions of SSO from each of the clubs in the American league and SSOO from the Boston club. Many have conjectured how the Erie would pay wages due the machinists and other employees out on the strike for services rendered in the month of May. But few of the strikers, other than those who have left the city to accept employment in other cities, have called for their time. The Erie has never instructed any of the men that the money awaits them at the freight office in a manner that would indicate that their names had been taken from the pay rolls or that they had been discharged.—Huntington Herald.

O. N. Snelling went to Geneva this afternoon on business. B. W. Sholty made a business trip to Geneva this afternoon. J. A. Ernsberger made a business trip to Portland this afternoon. Charles W. Yager, of Pleasant Mills was ab usiness caller to our city today. Harry Smithson went to Ridgeville this afternoon to visit his mother, who is ill. Miss Cora Yocum, of Spencerville, arrived in the city today to be the guest of friends and relatives for several days. Mrs. A. J. Smith and daughter Midge went to Ft. Wayne today to spend tt*s day with friends. Mrs. C. N. Murdoch went to Berne this afternoon to visit with her cousin Edward Rice, who is sick. L. A. Holthouse is the proud possessor of a beautiful black horse that is a picture. The animal is broke to ride or drive and when any one is riding it the animal prances around and does some very pretty foot work. From all appearances the bottom has fallen out of the price of wheat and the staff of life is now quoted at near ninety cents having fallen off two points in the Chicago and Toledo farkets today. That some will be holding the sack in the near future in relation to wheat is looked for by all local merchants. The interurban people are busily engaged at present in hauling out gravel and ballasting the line and in the near future the round trip between this city and Ft. Wayne can be made without strapping yourself to the seat to stay in the car. The work is being overseen by superintendent of construction Edwin Fledderjohann. The local order of Eagles are making big preparations for their big picnic to be held at Steele's park in the near future. The services of several bands have been secured and the visiting members will be entertained in a royal and fitting manner. It is expected that something like one hundred visiting brothers will attend from Ft. Wayne alone. That they will enjoy themselves goes without commenting. O. O. Emmons, cashier and billing clerk at the Grand Rapids depot has been granted a sixty days’ lay off during which time the duties of his office will be in charge of F. X. Shirack, who began duty Monday morning. Mr. Emmons, it is understood, contemplates engaging in the moving picture show business and is at present in Michigan giving the business a tryout. If his'new venture proves satisfactory, it is quite likely he will give up railroad work altogether.—Portland Sun. Judging from the tone of the Ft. Wayne papers they are l aving a hard time getting over the defeat of the Shamiocks by the Bluffton team last Sunday-. Every day something is said of the game, and while bouquets are always thrown at Bluffton for the easy manner in which they turned the trick, they seem to be surprised at the result. If the scribes up that way will look up the dope for the past two years they will find out the Shamrocks are coming, as last Sunday is the first time they have scored on Bluffton for three years. —Bluffton Banner. When the local freight on the Clover Leaf pulled into Van Buren Tuesday morning and stopped across the principal north and south street of the town, two men were found engaged in a hand to hand struggle in a box car. The marshal was notified and he went to the car and arrested the two hobos. In the car three coats were found and now the Van Buren officials are looking for the third man, whom they suspect might have been thrown out of the car or jumped during the fight. So far no mangled remains have been fount along ths track to solve the mystery.—Bluffton Banner.

Receipts of wool continue liberal and dealers are predicting that this season’s shearing of wool will exceed that of last year by fully twenty-five per cent. One prominent dealer in looking over reports received from many sections of the state said that the “clip” would undoubtedly be large for Indiana, and that the increase was brought about by the advance in price of wool and mutton during the last few years, which has made sheep raising a very profitable business. There is a good demand for all merchantable stock, and prices hold firm. The time of the year is again at hand when the junk dealer will start on his grounds, gathering up old bones. rags, iron, etc., and they have been during the last few days, taking out the annual license required by law. This license which is required to be in the possession of every person working at the business must be secured of the clerk of the circuit court and costs a fee of one dollar. There is another provision in the same law, which prohibits the purchase of junk from a minor, without the written consent of the minor’s parents or guardian.

Silas Shroll, of Wren, Ohio, and George Shroll, of Decatur, sons of the late Josph Shroll, and Barbara Shroll, of Decatur, a sister, arrived here Tuesday afternoon to help arrange for the funeral of Josph Shroll who was buried yesterday afternoon. —Berne Witness. As George and Charles Brewster came driving to town Monday morning their horse scared at Peter Soldner’s automobile and George was violently thrown out of the buggy. He was no. hurt, however, beyond receiving a severe shaking up.—Berne Witness. In Muncie at raveling man sitting in a barber’s chair during a severe thunderstorm Wednesday was struck by lightning twice in succession without being injured, only his hair singed. But this was too close to "fire and brimstone" for the drummer and he left the chair half shaved, saying, “Closer shave than I asked for. I’ll stand this thing once, but not twice. I suppose I ought not to kick at having my hair singed for nothing, but this thing gets on my nerves.” Taylor university, at Upland, is considering a proposition offered it byMuncie to move to that city, according to a dispatch from Upland. The university came to Grant county from Ft. Wayne in 1892, receiving a bonus of SIO,OOO, ten acres of ground and was afterward assisted by a lot sale to the extent of $5,000. It is claimed that the board of trustees have been offered a college building and $12,000 bonus. The question will be decided at a meeting of the board to be held Friday. The college has prospered and no reason is given for its desire to move elsewhere. —Jour-nal-Gazette. LEGAL ADVICE. A Story Showing How Foolish It Is to Try to Get It For Nothing. A young lawyer moved into a town where there was only one lawyer before—an old judge. A close fisted old farmer thought there w-as a good chance to get some legal advice from the young man gratis, so he dropped into his office, told him how- glad he was that be had come into town, because the old judge was getting superannuated, and contrived in the course of his talk to get the legal information he wanted, and then bidding him good morning he was about to leave when the young man asked for his fee. “What for!” said the old man. “For legal advice,” replied the young lawyer. “How much is it?” “Five dollars.” The farmer declared he would never pay it, and the young lawyer told him if he didn’t he would sue him. So the farmer trotted down to see the old judge, whom he found hoeing in his garden, and said, “Judge, I went this morning just simply to make a neighborly call on that young scamp of a lawyer who has just come into town and he charged me $5.” “Served you right” said the judge. “You’d no right to go to him.” "Well, have I got to pay it?” “Certainly you have.” "Well, then, if I must, I must. Good morning.” “Hold on,” said the judge. “Aren't you going to pay me?” “Pay you, what for?” “Why, for legal advice, of course.” “What do you charge?” “Ten dollars.” The result of which was the old fellow had to pay $5 to the young lawyer and $lO to the old one. Moral—Don’t try to get legal advice for nothing.—Exchange. THE POSTAGE STAMP. Order In Which It Was Adopted by Different Countries. The first postage stamp seems to have been used in Paris in 1653, but the service in which the stamp was used was only local and soon failed. On May 6, 1840, the first regular post-, age stamps were Issued in England. Various local forwarders of letters and postpiasters in this country issued stamps as early as 1841. The first to do so was A. M. Grieg’s City Dispatah Post, which was sold to the government in August, 1842. Blood & Co. of Philadelphia sold stamps in 1841, and the postmasters of Baltimore, New Haven and New York of 1845 also sold stamps. In 1847 the government took up the business, but Brazil in 1843 was ahead of the United States in taking up the stamp end of the postal business. The other principal countries followed In this order: France, Belgium and Bavaria in 1849; Hanover, British Guiana, Prussia, Spain and Switzerland in 1850; Italy, Denmark, Baden, Wurttemberg, Saxony and the provinces of Canada in 1851; Chile and the princes of Turin and Taxis (who had the postal monopoly In Germany) in 1552; Portugal in 1853; India and Norway in 1854; Uruguay and Mexico in 1856; Russia and Newfoundland in 1857; Sweden in 1858; the Australian colonies early in the fifties; Greece in 1861; Turkey in 1863; Ecuador in 1865; Egypt in 1866; Bolivia in 1867; Paraguay in 1870. The international postal union was formed in October, 1874, and went into operation on July 1, 1875. “There are some people who believe that the whole human race will be saved,” said an old lady, “but tor my part I hope for better things." o FOR SALE —Shorthorn male calf old enough for service and two year old driving mare, broke to work. True Friend stock. O. T. Johnson, residence (4 mile southeast of county farm, R. R. No. 10. 145-6 t

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Many Ways of Cooking Bananas. Bananas are served in the same way as plantains in the West Indies, and the Americans anxious to find a new and delicious addition to the dairy bill of fare cannot do better than try fried or baked green bananas, or, boiled and pounded, they can be fried in boiling grease. IC E CREAM fOC IA L. Haines' school house, three miles south of Decatur on Saturday evening June 15th. Everybody invited. 141-5 t o FOR RENT —An eight-room house on Mercer avenue. Inquire of Mrs. Al Burdg. 140-6 t SAND FOR SALE —Clean, sharp plastering sand at the quarry on G. R. & I. railroad. Inquire of Julius Haugk. 144-6 t WE WANT a representative in each township in Indiana, to insure the lives of horses and cows against death from all causes. He must be a stockholder in the company, a few dollars invested will mean a big addition to your income. Address the Farmers’ and Citizens’ Live Stock Insurance Company, Tipton, Indiana. 143-3 t FOR SALE —A rubber tire, open, twoseated surrey, use only a short time. Good as new. Worth $125. Will sell for $75. It’s a bargain if you need %uch a rig. See John W. Miebers. 141-12 t LOST —Small locket with monogram G. M. H. Return to this office, ts FOR SALE —Cattle and sheep. Inquire C. L. Mumma, R. R. 12, ’Phone 10 G. 138-6 t Have you seen the pictures at the Sautbine Studio for $1.50 a dozen’ See Charles Phillips for a coupon. TOMATO PLANTS FOR SALE—Stone and tenderloin varieties. 25c a hundred; 5c a dozen. Miss Jessie Magley, 1014 Monroe street. 137-12 t LOST—A $5 bill last Saturday evening between Atz & Steele’s harness shop and Lehne's jewelry store. Finder return to this office. Reward. FOUND —A whip; owner may have same by calling at this office, ts WANTED TO RENT—A good dwelling house, centrally located, or a store room. Address L. F. Alexander, care of Decatur Democrat. ts

WANTED —All your cement work. We guarantee to do your work honestly and at a fair price. Satisfaction guaranteed. All kinds of cement and concrete work done. Tom Peterson & Co. ts

This is the season to discard your heavy winter shoes and enjoy the freedom, comfort and style of a new pair o f spring Oxfords. Why cot look around a little more this year and get the best Oxfords in the market? EXAMINE

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Don’t Break Your Back pushing a hard running mower or a mower that cuts raggedly. Don't Break Your Purse Iby spending good money for a cheap mower and have to get a new one in a short while. Put your good money into a iff TRADE MARK ▼ LAWN MOWER, the mower that cuts easily and evenly; the mower whose first cost is the whole expense; the mower that is right; the mower for you — any price, $2.75 to $lO. We sell grass catchers and garden hose and all other good things you need for the garden and lawn. Schafer Hardware Company The New Electric Theatre Admission 5 Cents. Program for Friday. Song—“ Smile on Me.” Pictures, —(a) Wrestling Match of 1906. (b) Kidnapping a New York Boy. Remember the Famous Daniel Boone play for Saturday and Monday. KEMP & JAMES. Proprietors. WANTED —Pupils in French or German. For particulars phone 243.