Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1907 — Page 3

Why the Easiest Shoe on Earth (' zs THE SOLE OF THE FOOT DIFFERS IN EVERY individual, no two BEING alike with the ordi/I VrMrß r NARY shoe the friction of /a jitwA THE FOOT ON THE HARD INSOLE m k WauFa is the cause of many foot Lt ’rzll Fl AILMENTS—CORNS, BUNIONS, ENIVAII I 111 M LARGED JOINTS, ETC. IN SUMH'AV U MER THE HEAT penetrates the LA L~~L SOLE AND IN WINTER DAMPNESS AND COLD res ult in rheumaXX. TISM, NEURALGIA, ETC. THE DR. Xjl”i REED CUSHION SOLE PREVENTS jryafjfef V AND CURES all these afflicTague Shoe Store

Toledo. St. Louis & V ern Railroad. WesL East. 1— 5:50a.m. | v— 4:52 a. m. 3—10:32 a. m. | 2—12:28 p. m. 5— 9:51p.m. | 4—7:00 p. m. •22 —10:32 a.m. | *22— 1:15 p. m. ♦Local freight. o FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In 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. 5:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m 7:30 p.m. <>■3o p.m. 11:00 p.m.

GET WEDDED TO THE MODEL WITHOUT A MATE W. H LINDSLEY

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ WEATHER. Rain Tuesday; Wednesday fair and warmer. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ George Kelley, of Portland, was a business caller to our city today. A number of Decatur people went to Van Wert this morning to attend the fair. Mrs. Ed Johnson and Mrs. Jesse Smith went to Van Wert today to attend the fair. Mr. and Mrs. Q. N. Hlldenbrand and Mrs. Elie Krist drove to Van Wert this morning to spend the day at the fair. Miss Viola Hires returned to her home at Van Wert. While here she was the guest of Miss Ethel and Tottie Hlldenbrand. The trolley on the freight car while turning the curve at the station, broke this morning, and the power had to be turned off until the defect was remedied. Some boys came here from Portland and Decatur last Monday and played base (very base) ball. We didn’t see the game but were informed that Decatur did remarkably well considering the tremendous odds they were up against.—Geneva Herald.

Exclusive “KRIPPENDORF” shoes for fall $ are moderately priced, yet they are made OF THE CHOICEST MOST ORIGINAL AND EXCLUSIVE SHAPES AND PATTERNS. THE MOST CRITICAL TASTE CAN BE ■BB PLEASED WITH THESE SUPERIOR SHOES. ALL THE NEW SHAPES ARE NOW READY FOR YOUR INQ SPECTION TO WHICH WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU. Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

E. Woods returned today from a business trip at Indianapolis. Mrs. Emma Russel went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. Mrs. C. E. Hocker and son went to Monroe today to make a short visit with relatives. George Thomas went to Van Wert today to spend the day with C. M. France who is quite ill. Mr. and Mrs. James Gay, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Beatty and Mrs H Bohnke went to Van Wert this morning to attend the fair. The trip was made in the Gay automobile. D. E. Studabaker went in Indianapolis today to attend the fair. He has fourteen of the best Hereford cattle on exhibition there. This bunch of cattle won several prizes at thq Decatur and Warren fairs this year.—Bluffton News. Mrs. Marvin Kuhns, of Kendallville, widow of the dead desperado, in quarreling with the Metropolitan Pub. lishing company, publishers of “The Life of Marvin Kuhns,’’ has forbidden the sale of the book. She claims that an article she wrote was to have been incorporated and it has now been excluded. There were 438 tickets sold from the Geneva station last Thursday account of the Jay county fair. The accommodations from the G. R. and I. were inadequate and tardy. It was eleven o’clock before the passengers from here landed in Portland. It don’t take much to swamp the little G. R. and I. —Geneva Herald. The county council of Allen county has made an additional appropriation of |2OO to pay attorneys fees for the defense of Charles Dunn, charged with the murder of Alice Cothrell. The defendant had to ask the county to pay his attorneys, as he had spent his fortune is the previous trials. The council first appropriated S4OO, but the lawyers would npt take this and asked for SBOO. The council then compromised by allowing S6OO. J. Fred France will eave next Sunday for Norfolk, Va„ where he will go as a delegate representing the state of Indiana at the meeting of the National League of American Municipalities. It is the law of the league in this state that the retiring president of the order shall be the delegate to the next national meeting and Mr. France is the one to receive the honor, as his term of office expired last June.— Huntington NewsDemocnat.

Mrs. Koenig went to Berne today to make a few days’ visit with friends. Frankl Cottrell, of Berne, was attending to legal matters in our city today. Miss May Sells went to Monroe today to spend a few days with friends. W. H. Fledderjohann made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Abe Simmons, of Bluffton, w'as attending to legal matters in our city today. Miss Jessie Winnes and Mrs. Kate Butler are spending the day at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Johnson returned to Monroe today. While here she was the guest of friends. Miss Marguerite Moran returned today from Fort Wayne, where she was visiting with friends. Misses Bertha and Ada Deninger and Bertha Voglewede left today for Chicago, where they will visit for several days with friends. Mrs. Charles Dille and daughter and Mrs. J. C. Hower have arrived home from Columbus, Ohio, where they enjoyed a several days’ visit. The cement sidewalk along the Moser property on Second street is near, ing completion and is going to add to the appearance of the property. A number of foreign brick and stone men are in our city today furnishing prices to the contractors for the construction of Seventh street, which will be sold this evening. The local team left this morning over the C. and E. for Van Wert, where they play two games against the Buckeyes. The boys expect to split even and will work hard for both games. All the dope now requires is that »we split even in the series. J. B. Stonburner presents “The Great Fire of London’’ this evening and from the reports of those who saw the show last evening it was fine. The pictures are among the best on the market and have never been shown in this section of the country before. William Sheerer, the well known Monroe township farmer, was in the city today after a six weeks’ seige of typhoid fever. The illness caused him to lose fifty pounds of weight and he is not entirely well yet, but believes he will soon recover his former good health.

W’ord received from Mt. Clemens this morning announces the fact that the condition of Albine Smith is much improved and that he will be brought home as soon as his condition will permit. He is resting much easier and it is now thought that he is apparently out of danger. The Kokomo base ball team left this morning over the G. R. and I. for Richmond, where they will play two games with the Quakers. The Kokomoites are confident of winning one game, and claim they will make Rich, mond go some to win either of them. Here’s hoping they take both. A warrant was served today on Mrs. Dayton Steele and Mrs. Bertha Mayo charging them with provoke and assault and battery on the person of Mrs. Willard Steele. What the trouble originated over we are unable to state. The case will be heard this evening before Mayor Coffee and promises some sensational evidence. The county commissioners at Lafayette gave the Chicago and Western Indiana traction company, known as “The Educational Route,” a franchise over two sections of the Romney road. The company proposes to build an electric line from Lafayette to Greencastle, a distance of fiftynine miles, and will parallel the Monon railroad most of the way. Mrs. Lucien P. Ferry has just celebrated her ninety-third birthday anniversary at Decatur, receiving the congratulations of many friends. Mrs. Ferry is the widow of a distinguished Fort Wayne lawyer of pioneer days and is the mother of Mrs. W. P. McMillen, of Decatur, and Mrs. R. D. Boyles, of Fort Wayne. She is remarkably active and retains a lively interest in affairs of the day—Fort Wayne Sentinel.

The electric theater presents a new anl entire change of program this evening and the films are the best that have ever been shown in our city. “The Robber Robbed” and “Postal Card Scenes from Spain” are the title of the films and they are bound to please those who see them. The films are brand new and fresh on the market, and the postal card scenes are beautiful and instructive. These pictures will be shown two nights and should be seen by all. Taylor university opened Wednesday with the usual enrollment of students. The attempt of the faculty of Eastern Indiana Normal school of Muncie to steal the name of the Upland school was a flat failure and if anything was a good advertisement for the Grant county institution. President Winchester, formerly head of Taylor university and who attempt ed to engineer the deal to transfer the school to Muncie, has returned east and the Muncie project is aban-1 doned.

Miss Merle Burdg went to Monroe today to spend the day with friends. Mrs. Chil Omlor and children left this morning for Fort Wayne, where they will visit with friends. Word from Van Wert states that C. M. France a former resident of this city is in a serious condition, and his demise is expected to occur at any time. He is suffering from a cancer of the face, which is gradually effecting his brain. Mr. France is well known in this city, and his many friends. will be grieved to learu of his serious illness.

The trustees of the Indiana State Soldiers’ home found a large amount of business for their consideration when they convened in regular session at the home yesterday. There were eigthy-three applications for admission to the home. Os this number sixty-eight were approved, while six were continued and nine were rejected.—Frankfort Crescent. Frank Cotton, confined in the coun. ty jail awaiting trial on a charge of issuing a fradulent check, was painfully injured this morning by a fellow prisoner, Ben Hoover, the aged insane Ossian man taxen in charge several months ago on a charge of stealing chickens, later adjudged insane and since then held in jail because there is no room for him in the asylum at Richmond. —Bluffton News. The exhibition game heretofore scheduled between Decatur and Terre Haute and Decatur and Minneapolis have been cancelled by the local management, owing to the lateness of the season and the bad weather that has been prevailing. The base, ball season in this city will consequently close on next Sunday, when the respective members of the team will leave for their homes. The seed season is open, and dealers report a marked increase in business. There is a good demand for timothy. Rye is being bought up all over the country. The supply is limited and the price unusually high. It is too early for seed wheat. As a general thing, all seeds are higher than last year. Blue grass is so high as to be prohibitive. This is due to the short crop and a monopoly which exists in the blue grass region.

The city council will meet in special session this evening at which time they will receive sealed bids for the construction of Seventh street, and at the same time hear objections on the proposed improvement of sidewalks along Second street and Winchester streets. The judiciary committee, to whom was referred the charges against the marshal will also report at this meeting. The council will certainly have something to handle Thursday. Detective M. E. Babcock arrived in the city last night with Ike Raber, an alleged forger from Indianapolis, whom he had arrested at Fort Wayne. They were met here by Detective Brown, a member, as is Babcock of the Webster agency, and the latter was relieved of his prisoner, Brown taking him back to Indianapolis to answer the charge. Babcock has been conducting a newsstand at Decatur, but sold the place two weeks ago to enter the thief-catch, ing profession. His headquarters are now at Indianapolis. —Bluffton Banner. Earl Snyder lost the first joint of the. second finger on his left hand this morning by an accident at the Erie in the back yards. Mr. Snyder is a member of the back labor gang, and was assisting in removing a heavy casting from a box car. The casting slipped and caught the laborer’s hand on the car floor. The end of the finger was so badly mangled that Dr. B. H. B. Grayson was unable to save it, and an amputation was necessary to put it in a healing condition. He will be detained from his work three weeks or more. —Huntington Herald..

The present season in medical circles has not been a prosperous one. Decatur physicians have had comparatively .little sickness as the amount of sickness in Decatur and vicinity has been quite small. A prominent local member of the fraternity this afternoon said the season had been the dullest for him in several years and from others he had received the same kind of report. Typhoid fever, frequently prevalent at this time of the year, has been found in very few cases and other illnesses have been of minor Importance.

The promised change in weather conditions prevails today, much to the satisfaction of the managers of the county fair. The dark clouds and heavy atmosphere of yesterday have been dispelled by the brightness of the sun and from early indications the weather will remain cool and pleasant. The rains of the opening day had the effect of delaying the placing of many exhibits, but the forces were at work this morning with ull their energy and the show was in order, in all the departments, in time for the inspection of the early arrivals. —Van Wert Bulletin. FOR SALE—A new stove. Can burn either coal or wood. Inquire of Mrs. Margaret Meibers. 221-6 t

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 this season, as it will be impossible to get a nobby suit late in the season. We have a complete line at $12.50, $15.00, SIB.OO, $20.00 to $25.00. Our new line of Skirts will be in in a few days. Wait and see them. NIBLICK & CO.

THE Electric Theatre TONIGHT Admission 5 Cents. Motion Pictures —“A Robber Robbed.” “Spanish Views on Post Cards.” These views are new and extra fine. Illustrated song—“ln the Valley Whre My Sally Said ‘Goodbye.’” Schmuck & Miller, Proprietors Mrs. M. F, Parrish, of Monroe, was operated on yesterday for appendicitis. The operation was performed by Drs. Porter, of Fort Wayne, Thomas of this city, and Rail, of Monroe. The operation was a success, but the patient is very weak today. Her recovery is expected however. Paul Milfred Jones and Charles Ellison* the two boys who confessed to leaving open the switch and causing the wreck at Bowman, of a passenger train on the Clover Leaf, have filed with Coroner Cretors a sworn statement of what they had done. On account of the boys’ youth, they will not be prosecuted.—Frankfort Crescent.

The great council of the United States Improved Order of Red Men in sixtieth annual session at Norfole, Va., yesterday adopted an amendment to the laws of the order prohibiting membership in the future of all saloonbeepers and bartenders. The great council rescinded all legislation enacted at the Niagara Falls meeting last year in relation to the substitution of the “jewel” for the “sash” and went back to the old form of regalia in initiatory'.

Flags on English Schools. In some parts of England the practice prevails of displaying a flag from a schoolhouse roof when every pupil is present. The children take great pride in this and the rivalry between schools is found to improve the attendance. Lucky 13. On an American 25-cent piece there are 13 stars, 13 letters in the scroll held in the eagle's beak, 13 feathers in each of the eagle’s wings, 13 tail feathers, 13 parallel bars in the shields, 13 horizontal bars, 13 arrow heads, 13 leaves on the branch, and 13 letters in the words "quarter dollar.” —The Sunday Magazine.

:the PICTORIUM TONIGHT The Great London Fire TO BE GIVEN AWAY jlq/a worth of MerchanVw dise on October 7th. All shows now berg put on are new and have never been shown any place before. J. B. STONE3URNER, Prop.

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BASE BALL Chicago National League Team (The Cubs) VS. The Fast Portland Team Tuesday, September 17th. AT THE PORTLAND BASE BALL PARK The Cubs, no doubt is the strongest bunch of ballplayers in the world. They won 116 championship games in 1906. There is a guarantee that the cnbs will use their regular line-up in this game. Don’t miss seeing the fastest base runners, best batters and all around players in the world.

IB 1! ■ if At the different makes of ' W GASOLINE STOVES ENQUIRE THE PRICES and you will buy The Insurance or New Process If style, durability, efficiency and economy of fuel and price has anything to do with your decision. Schafer Hdw. Co.