Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1907 — Page 3

You have everything— I TO GAIN AND NOTHING TO LOSE ‘ IF YOU INVESTIGATE OUR CLAIM itm THAT WE CAN actually show nA 1 YOU THE BEST FOOT WARE WE Il HAVE EVER SHOWN YET. UNLESS rWVII F 4 I*' D WE COULD ACTUALLY PROVE IT Ub I W WE’D HAVE NOTHING to gain Z 617 AND EVERTHING TO LOSE BY MAKING YOU A PROPOSITION Xlk which guarantees you more FOR YOUR MONEY. < Tague Shoe Store

Toledo, St. Louis & '• ern Railroad. West East 1— 5:50 a.m. [ ~—- 4:52 m. m. 3—10:32a.m. | 2 —12:28 p.m. 5—9:51 p. m. | 4— 7: 00 p. m. •22—10:32 a. m. j *22 — 1:15 p. m. •Local freight FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Decatur—North Ft. Wayne—South 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 am. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.ia. 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

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦ WEATHER. Rain Tuesday; Wednesday fair and warmer. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Eugene Runyon made a business trip to Cincinnati today. Jacob Werthan, of Chicago, is in our city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kalver. Mr/ and Mrs. R. B. Allison returned today from Oden, Mich., where they have been spending the summer. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Daniel returned last evening from Chicago, where they were visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Daniel. Miss Martha Beaber. of Cincinnati, Ohio, arrived in the city to accept the position as trimmer at Mrs. D. F. Feltzer’s millinery store. The Charles Heckman Mills in the north part of the city are closed down owing to a bad break in the machinery. It will take the mechanics several days to remedy the break. Mrs. J. E. Heffner and children of Ft. Recovery. Ohio, who visited ar Decatur with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Forbing, transferred here Monday on their way home.—Portland Review.

The Rain is G00d... FOR YOU and me. in dry WEATHER ANL OLD SHOE WILL DO, ONE MADE OF PUNK AND PAPER WILL STAND A WHOLE LOT IN THE DRY. WHEN THE WET ''s9k AND MUD COMES Y ° U HUNT UP THE store that sells reliABLE SOLID SHOES AND THAT’S WHERE I COME IN. WE HAVE SOME NEW THINGS TO SHOW YOU IN HIGH CUT SHOES THAT WILL THE WET COME AND Charlie Voglewede T*H® Shoe Sell® r

A. Gottschalk, of Berne, was a business caller to our city today. Mrs. Sam Schindler went to Berne today to make a short visit with relatives. S. S. Bartlett, of Huntington, was attending to insurance matters in our city today. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin, a baby boy. Both mother and babe doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gordon and son, of Tipton, are in the city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Meibers and family. Mrs. Harmon Bethrler and daughter Elma returned home Wednesday after a ten 'weeks' visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Hedges, of Marcus, Washington. The funeral of Mrs. Polly Steele was held today at the United Breth ren church at Pleasant Mills, Rev. Noah Staffer officiating. Interment was made in the Pleasant Mills cemetery. Center fielder Johnson, of the local team, has had an offer made him to play in the Western league next seasdh. Mr. Johnson has not fully decided upon what course to pursue, but will in all probability accept the offer. The Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban railroad will run an excursion on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week on account of the Fort Wayne fair. The round trip for any of these days will be sixty cents per round trip. They will also adopt the every hour and a half schedule. Miss Clara Barrick. of Tiffin, Ohio, and Miss Delta Fleck, of Deshler, Ohio, are the guests of Miss Clara Zesu and other friends for a few days. Mrs. Margaret Meibers is in receipt of a basket of most delicious Indiana peaches sent her from Jeffersonville, Indiana, by her son-in-law, Mr. Theodore Droppieman. Ed Whitright, one of the young men who participated in the Tonnellier saloon fight Saturday evening, appeared before Squire Stone last evening and plead guilty to the charge of assault and battery and was assessed a fine of a dollar and costs, which he paid and was released. The case against Green Burkhead and Jacob Miller, who were also connected with the affair, will be heard some time today or tomorrow. Each will probably be given the same dose as Whitright.

Henry Hart made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. i Mart Moran made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. i Mr. and Mrs. James Barard. of Fort 1 Wayne are in the city visiting with relatives and friends. < Mr. and Mrs. Mark McConnell ar- ' rived this morning from Monmouth, 1 and will spend.the day with friends. ' The council will meet in special 1 session Thursday at which time they will sell Seventh street, and will at the same time hear objections on the ' sidwalk along Second and Winchester 1 [ streets. ' i Burt Green is busily engaged at ' present in collecting the delinquent ' water rentals for the city for Treasurer Archbold. The task is a big one and will keep Burt busy for several days •to come. Jacob Schlegel was here from Fort Wayne Saturday to consider a proposity to work at the city news stand again, but turned down the propositiou and returned to Ft. Wayne to act as circulation man for the Sentinel of that city.—Bluffton News. Corn has taken an awful jump in the Decatur grain market and that commodity is now being quoted at ninety-one cents. The bulls and bears in the Chicago exchange are the cause of tfcis big jump and from all appearances this commodity will go higher. This has certainly been a great year for farmers who held their grain. W H. Fledderjohann informed us this morning that those who were contemplating taking in the state fair at Indianapolis next week could make nice connections by taking the interurban from this city to Fort Wayne and then, get through connections to Indianapolis. A reduced rate has been offered for this week by this route and will no' doubt attract many desiring to make the trip. Richmond has at last a real live coach. Gardner is the man. Scrappy Frank is in ' the contest at all stages and he works himself into a frenzy on the coaching line. He mad' a big hit by his coaching Sunday. It is some thing the Quakers have be n shy on a.l season. Good coaching puts pepper in to the game and the fans enjoy it. Let some of the other members of the team follow Gardner's example.—Richmond Palladium. Joe Gans, the undisputed lightweight champion of the world, disposed of James Britt yesterday afternoon in the fifth round of their twenty round battle. Britt at that time being unable to continue fighting, claiming he had broken his arm. However, up until this time he had received an awful drubbing and was practically according to the referee’s idea, all in. Gans was challenged by Battling Nelson, and these two popular fighters may yet come together. Mike Long returned today from a I'rip to Robison. Casey, and other points in the Illionis oil field, where he has been looking after his interests. About 770 acres of land in that territory which had been leased by Mr. Long was contested by a local company in th field. The case was decided Saturday by which Mr. Long is given a clear lease to the property. There is still about eighty acres contested, but this will probably be decided in the near future. —Bluffton Banner. The case of the state against Marion Whitright was heard last evening in Squire Stone's court, and resulted in a verdict of guilty, although several witnesses did state that young Whitright was not to blame, and did not strike a blow until forced to defend himself from his assailants. The court, however, determined that he was in the general mixup and w r as practically as guilty as any of the others, and should be fined accordingly. Whit right stayed the docket and was discharged. The county commissioners decided this morning to relieve Eli Bierie from contracting for the Mills road in Lancaster township, on which he filed a bid about 32,000 lower than the next lowest man. He explained to the board that he had taken his figures from his partners and had never seen the road and had figured on the road in another location with a shorter haul and where stone could be secured cheaper. The commissioners may let this road to the next lowest bidder, or re-advertise it.—Bluffton News.

Frank Peltier, a conductor of a worktrain on the Clover Leaf, met with a severe accident on the west end of the line Saturday. It occurred while the train was being cut in two at a crossing to permit teams to pass. Mr. Peltier endeavored to pull a coupling pin so as to divide the train, but was unable to do so. With the assistance of two or three others he raised a large iron apron near the pin but even then it was impossible to pull it. The engineer was then signalled to back the train. He did so and when the jar came the apron was thrown onto Peltier’s head so that be was forced against the car.—Delphos Herald.

Bub Mischand. of Berne, was a bus- ■ iness caller to our city today. Walter Phipps returned to his home at Chicago last evening after spending a few days here with his parents. 1 A freight train on the Clover Leaf ditched three cars Monday near Marion, and the track was blocked for a few hours. The wrecking crew was called from this city. The train was in charge of Conductor C. Lloyd.— Frankfort Crescent. Mrs. Tom Railing and babe arrived last evening from Tecumseh. Mich., and will remain here for the remainder of the winter. Tom will return as I soon as the season closes in the Mich, igan league and also expects to stay here this winter. Jacob Buhler, the blacksmith, is loafing around, being unable to work owing to an injury he received yester day by running a nail in the index finger on his right hand. The injury is very painful and he has no use of that member at all. The injury will cause him to rest up for several days to come. The managers of the Decatur Horse Sale company received a message from Indianapolis yesterday announcing that a car of draft horses would be shipped from that place and would be offered at the sale here Saturday. With this added lot of horses the sale Saturday should be the largest in the history of the company. The sale will be cried by auctioneer Fred Reppert. which fact alone insures success. Three tragedies occurred In Fort Wayne within a few minutes of each other. In the first James Carter, residing on the Fairfield farm south of that city, committed suicide by hanging himself, he being of unsound mind due to a sunstroke suffered some > years ago. John W. Smith dropped! dead from the effects heart trouble 1 at the barn of the Brown Trucking Co., and the last event was the asphyxiation of Gottleib Unger, at the Fort Wayne gas works. The “Two Country Kids” company was greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience last evening at the Bosse Opera House andgieemed to please all that attended. The company was one of the strongest that have held down the boards for some time, and each and every member of the company was a star in his or her part. Manager Bosse is making an extraordinary effort to get good companies this ' season, and so far has succeeded in excellent style. The next attraction I will be “Monte Cristo.”

The Kokomo base ball team arrived on the noon train today from Kokomo full of confidence and fully expect to take the locals down the line at a merry clip. The Kokomo bunch have been coming fast during the past week and will certainly bear watching. Kiel will be on the slab for Decatur today and we predict a victory for the locals. In tomorrow's battles Richardson will pitch the first one and Kiel the second game and we thus have a fine chance of winning both games. Go out and root for the locals. As the 11:30 train was pulling out of the station this morning at the Erie an aged gentleman, who came through the city and had occasion to get off here set down his suit case containing some valuable papers in the depot for a short time while he went upca the platform. When he returned it was gone, and he was at a loss to know what had become of it. He had been gone but a short time. Those standing near say a woman who Is supposed to be with one of the companies at the fair grounds took the valise. The matter has been placed with the police.—Huntington Herald. Mrs. E. N. Tyrrell and family will leave tomorrow for Cincinnati, Ohio, where they expect to make their future home. Their household goods and effects have all been placed aboard cars and will start enroute for Cincinnati tomorrow. Mrs. Tyrrells son Charles has secured the option on a blacksmith shop in that city and the deal will undoubtedly be closed upon their arrival at Cincinnati. The many friends of this family will be grieved to learn of their departure and wish them much success in their new quarters. They will keep in touch with Decatur doings by reading the Democrat.

Richmond and Decatur are now going down the stretch about neck and neck. Richmond, however, has the advantage in this race for the 1.-O. league pennant owing to its double victory over Van Wert Sunday and the defeat of the Decatur team at the hands of Bluffton on the same date. This week will be a hard one for both of the leaders in the race. The team that shows the best staying powers will be the winner. Tuesday and Wednesday Richmond plays at Bluffton. These will be hard games to win and an even break will be acceptable. On the same days Kokomo plays at Decatur. Thursday and Friday Kokomo plays with the locals at Athletic park. On the same days Decatur plays at Van Wert. Saturday and Sunday Portland plays here while Bluffton will play on these dates at Decatur. —Richmond Paladium.

NEW FALL SUITS ALL THE LATEST PARISAN STYLES We have a complete new line of t ladies’ up-to-date Suits that are strictly Man-Tailored and styles exclusive to our store. Make your selections early lbSk this season, as it will be impossible to lget a nobby suit late in the season, k We have a complete line at $12.50, / fl- z« 1 new line cf Skirts will be in in a few days. Wait and see them. NIBLICK & CO.

, Upward of one thousand millions of dollars more than last year will be the American farmers’ earnings in 1907. Farm productions this year ; will be about 10 per cent less in quan- ■ tity than in 1906. which was the bumper season. But the crops of 1907 will fully equal the average yields for the five years prior to last season. Charles Dunn, who is about to be tried the third time for the alleged murder of little Alice Cothrell, at Wallen in Allen county, has used up all his means in former trials and is asking the county to employ an attorney for him this time. The judge fixed the allowance at S2OO, but Dunn’s attorney’s refuse to accept that allowance. They say they cannot afford to spend six weeks for SIOO apiece. The case has been postponed for three weeks to allow for the adjustment of the fee for his lawyers. The night porter who assaulted Charles Phillips Saturday night in front, of the Murray Hotel, was arrested last yesterday afternoon by night policeman Joel Reynolds, and was arraigned before Mayor Coffee, where he plead guilty to the charge and was fined the usual old dose, a dollar and costs, amounting in all to nine dollars and a half. The young man paid his fine and was discharged and says that this will end his career as a fighter while in Decatur. Guess the young man has come to the right conclusion at that. The appellee in the superintendency matter Modlin vs. Geiger will confess error in the supreme court and will begin all over again. The attorney who drew the complaint neglected two necessary averments; that the plain- ■ tiff was a vc .er and a resident of the county for a year prior to his election.: The new complaint will be placed J on file as soon as possible., but the un fortunate omission will delay the case several months. In the meantime Mr. Geiger will continue to act as county superintendent unless some unlooked for action occurs. —Hartford City Times-Gazette.

The vown board of Uniondale is certainly getting chesty. Since the village became an incorporated city airs have been assumed by them and the handful of inhabitants and now they are generously bestowing public improvements upon the property owners there in a manner not unlike a Bluffton city council. There has been ordered 3,000 feet of cement sidewalk which will be completed by October Ist. and about one-third of the work has already been finished. The ■ contracts are divided between G. W Black and J- H. Sechler, of Uniondale, and Wycliffe, of Zanesville.

The Erie railroad received yesterday an all-steel passenger coach, and it is attracting much attention at the Jersey City terminal. This car is practically non-wreckable and will not burn. There is less than 300 pounds of wood or other inflammable material used in its construction, and all of that has been treated with a preparation which, ft is claimed, renders it immune to an ordinary degree of heat The car is somewhat shorter ; in length than the usual Erie coach, being but fifty-two feet in length, but its weight is much in excess ot the wooden car, being nearly 100,000 pounds.—Huntington Herald.

FARMS FOR SALE We have some great bargains- If you are in the market for a farm come in and see us. H«re are a few of our bargains: 100 acres, close to town, good 5-room house, fair barn, soil sandy I loam, good well with wind pump, wagon shed, and corn crib; fairly well I fenced and drained, nearly all under cultivation. Price. S6O per acre. 40 acres, b ack land all under cultivation, except 4 acres of young timber; good well and cistern; good 4-room house with stone foundation; ’small barn, milk house, corn crib, wagon shed and chicken house; fairly ’well fenced and drained; good young orchard; on stone road, close to De|catur; this is a bargain. 11l acres, 2 miles from good small town; 5-room house, two-thirds black sandy loam, on stone road close to school and church; fairly well fenced and drained; 25 acres of 2nd growth timber land. Price S6O per acre. We also have some rare bargains in city property, including some choice lots in good locations. „ hone 430 The Northern Indiana Real Estate Co. _ r - «—. I |» ..I ..I . linnIWPWR—UUB

Portland defeated the locals in their exhibition game at Geneva yesterday by a score of eleven to two. The locals indulged in a lot of horseplay, changing positions and otherwise making a faree out of the game. A small crowd was in attendance and the teams were lucky to pull out even. Portland played at all times to win, and put up a stiff contest. Engle pitched four innings and Behringer finished the game for Decatur, while Hunter worked for Portland.

The constitutionality of Indiana’s two-cent fare law and those of other states that have passed like statutes is involved In acts just filed in the United States supreme court, in which the contention is made that under the provisions of the Hepburn rate act all railroad companies engaged in transporting commodities between the states are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission; further, that the states have lost ail supervision and control over railroads within their borders. The Missouri Pacific railroad company has brought this case to the supreme court. —Ex.

Spain is about to pay a debt to this country that has been due more than 70 years. The amount involved is about SIOO,OOO. which is not a great sum in the dealing between nations. But the fact that the payment is to ■be made without urging on our side, I without pressure of any kind being • applied, merely as an old and honest ' debt that Spain acknowledges, serves 'to show how’ different are international relations today as compared with other times. The money to be paid was awarded to this country in 1834. as representing damages to American commerce. Why the award was not paid at once is not stated.

Edna, the six-year-old daughter of William Nussbaum, northwest of i town, had a miraculous escape from instant death last Thursday. The children were playing in the bank barn after the threshers had left and the little girl decided to pump from the barn floor to the ground, which was covered to quite a depth with chaff and straw. Just as she struck the ground one of their largest cows came running around the straw' stack stepping on her left breast just over the heart. The child was thought to be dead when picked up. Medical aid was summoned and the child is on a fair road to recovery receiving a bruised brdast and the disarticulation of a false rib. —Berne Witness.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR INDIANA CAPITAL SIOO,OOO SURPLUS $20,000 INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS

THE ; Electric Theatre TONIGHT Admission 5 Cents. Motion pictures—“All’s 'Well That Ends Well.” These pictures are extra good and will please all. Illustrated song—“ ’Neath the Old Cherry Tree Sweet Marie.” Schmuck & Miller, Proprietors

THE PICTORIUM TONIGHT Tonight—“A Bad Mother.” "Baby’s First Outing.” Saturday—" Sherlock Holmes, the Detective." "How Burglar Bill lost a Tooth.” AH shews now bel’-g put on are new and have never been shown any place before. J. B. STONEBURNER, Prop.