Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1907 — Page 3

Something in it for You * * Are you looking for comfort and elegance ? If so, it will pay you to examine our line of RED CROSS SHOES for ladies. It combines these two qualities. It bends'with the foot makes no noise when walking. Gives perfect ease and comfort to the wearer. Tague Shoe Store

Toledo, St. Louie & W ern Railroad. West. East. 1— 5:50 a. m. | 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 _—.—. oFORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Becatur—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. J: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. Fair and cooler Friday; Saturday fair, fresh west winds. Henry Kirschner has gone to Ft. Wayne for a visit with friends. Bert Green went to Fort Wayne this morning to look after business affairs. Miss Emma Snyder has gone to Ft. Wayne so a short visit with friends and relatives. Peter Holthouse left this morning for Redkey, where he will look after business affairs. Many people are moving their household goods from one house to another at the present time. John Ray went to Monroe this morning to be the guest of friends and relatives for some time. The work on the Seventh street improvement has been resumed and it will be rushed to completion. Paul Wooten, of Oaxaco, Mexico, is in the city the guest of friends. He will leave in a short time for his home. Milo Trout, who has been working at San Francisco for some time, hffs returned to the city for a visit with his parents. Gay and Zwick shipped a large consignment of furniture to Monroe today. This being the second big consignment this week. By the looks of things the sale is proving a big success and the people are taking advantage of the low prices.

jf The Better the Grade The Bigger the Trade ■ That’s Why Charlie Voglewede SELLS THE SHOES

James Waggoner, of Monroe, was a business caller to our city today. Charles Werling went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit with friends. Mrs. George Steele went to Fort Wayne this morning to remain for some time with friends. Rev. P. H. Walter, of Bobo, was a caller in our city this morning and left on the early car for Fort Wayne. A number of Decatur people went to Bluffton to attend a law suit wherein the sheriff, marshal and several others are implicated. Haefling and Ernst just completed a job of wiring the Decatur City Laundry building for electric lights, which certainly adds to the business room’s appearance. C. C. Cloud returned yesterday from Kalamazoo, Mich., where he was visiting with friends and relatives. Mr. Cloud reports an excellent time and may return in the near future. Janitor Stetson, of the south ward school house has been busy for the past two days putting up new blinds at the windows of the school house, whic hmake the building present a better appearance. All members of the Elks are requested to be at the lodge room this evening at the usual hour as business of importance will be transacted. The regular weekly meetings will be held from this time on and there is always something on that proves interesting. The old home of Henry Schulte was moved away by house mover J. F. Tison and force of men and Mr. Schulte is now busily engaged in fixing up his lawn. His beautiful new home shows up to a very nice advantage since the old home has been moved and Mr. Schulte now has one of the most handsome residences in our city. About fifty ladies of the Tribe of Ben Hur of this city will go to Fort Wayne tonight in response to an invitation from the court of that place and a royal time is anticipated. The ladies’ degree team of the Decatur tribe will give drills at tonight’s session -and the Fort Wayne team will respond with their work. Tim Corbet is contemplating putting a new sign on his window and is undecided what to use, and is open for any ideas that his friends might desire to give. He has had several very appropriate suggestions made up to this time, but they do not seem to satisfy him. If you have any suggestion to offer go in and quietly inform Tim.

Alonzo Runyon, of Linn Grove, was a business caller to our city today. Miss Elva Zerkle, of north of the city ,was a visitor in town today. Jesse Roop went to Monroe this afternoon to look after business affairs. A. Van Camp went to Monroe this afternoon to look after business affairs. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brittson are at Fort Wayne spending the day with friends. David Detro of the Marion Soldiers’ home, is visiting his son, Nick Detro, of this city. Miss Emely Wyatt went to Fort Wayne this morning to be the guest of friends for the day. D. E. Lauferty, of Fort Wayne, arrived in the city this morning on his regular business trip. Miss Myrtle Light has returned to her home at Portland after making a short visit in the city. Mrs. George Doctor went to Monroe this afternoon to remain for some time with friends and relatives. Ray Russell and Warren Buckmaster returned today from a short business trip to Springfield, Ohio. M. F. Rice went to Berne this afternoon to transact business for the Adams County Lumber company. Mrs. Shafer Peterson went to Berne this afternoon to make a short visit with her daughter, Mrs. Guy Majors. The rattlesnakes in the window of the Holthouse drug store are attracting much attention from passersby. The electric theater people have a new show for their entertainment that will prove interesting to all who attend. Editor Fred Rohrer, of the Berne Witness, was a business caller in our city today and has returned to his home. John Schultz has accepted a position as agent for the State Life Insurance company and began his duties today. Miss Verena Kleinhenz, of Fort Recovery, who has been the guest of her cousin, Miss Rosa Kleinhenz for some time, returned to her home today. A good killing frost is all that is needed to make a fine collection of hickory nuts. Trees are loaded, but they are not yet falling in quantities enough to pay. About all the “kids" are bringing in are clubbed from the trees. The nuts this year are plenty enough to sell at $1 a bushel, and this .means will be employed by most people in getting thei? winter supply. Woe to the person who writes “Hello Bill’’ on the edge of a newspaper and sends the same through the malls at third-class rates. If caught at it the guilty person is subject to a fine of $lO. Uncle Sam insists that writing sent through the mails must be paid for at the rate of 2 cens an oz., and he’s mighty busy seeing to it that no one sidesteps this rule. Five new locomotives from the railroad shops in Allegheny, .Pa., passed through Delphos Thursday afternoon. They came here byway of the Penna, line and were then transferred to the Clover Leaf. On that line they went to East St. Louis and from there they were shipped over the Rock Island railroad. It is expected that in the near future twenty more locomotives will be completed read} 7 for shipment over the same route. —Delphos Herald. David H. Randall, a Fort Wayne saloonkeeper, has been arrested on a 1 charge of poisoning Frances Steele, ■ nearly causing her death by placing strychnine on some meat the woman 1 had in a refrigerator and which she 1 ate. William Kessens, another Fort ’ Wayne saloonkeeper prevented Daniel 1 Haas, of Bremen, from kidnapping his two little children from Harmer school. ' —Columbia City Mail. Some difference in saloonkeepers, isn’t there? According to the Medical Press and Circular the “plain fact is that the prettiest girls are notoriously the stupidest.” Therefore, argues the learned editor, the suggestion that there be examinations for girls be- ’ fore they become wives is staggering. “If," he remarks, “none but ugly girls could get married, whatever result ! their ability might have on the nature of their infants, it would not be long before there were no types of British beauty to lighten the burden of the drab world.” The spit hog is not entirely shameless. He may squirt his tobacco tainted saliva over railroad cars, but he does not spread over a great deal of teiritory until he has flooded all rhe corners and out-of-the-way places. Like the shiftless housewife who sweeps the dirt into obscure corners rather than out-of-doors, the spit hog is also on the lookout for obscure corners in which to deposit his expectorations. Go into any place where men congregate and find stains around table legs, under the stove, in corners and even against the baseboard. This shows they know they are doing wrong and are ashamed of it but not to the point of giving up the bad habit.

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

J. Fred France returned to his home at Huntington last evening after attending to legal matters. Mrs. George Zimmerman, of Decatur, spent yesterday in the city with her mother, Mrs. Jane Burwell. —Bluffton News. Mrs. C. J. Weaver went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit friends for the day and attend the meeting of the Ben Hur lodge. Everything is quiet in police circles, nothing being filed in any of the courts and as a consequence the judges of these respective benches are taking things easy. Word from Mott, North Dakota, conveys the news thot Joseph D. Beery Jr., who went there some time ago, with his brother Robert, is getting along nicely and he likes the country fine. D. M. Hensley has on display in his show window a guinea pig that formerly was the property of Fred C. LaDelle, the magician. The animal died from the result of a wound received from the bite of a rabbit, and as Mr. Hensley wanted the specimen, LaDelle kindly turned the dead animal over to him, with the result that it is now mounted and on display. That there has been plenty of money in Indiana during the last eleven months is indicated in the financial report compiled by Frank I. Grubbs, Assistant Secretary of State. The report shows that much money has been invested during the year and that just 2,850 persons have acquired automobiles. The report is made for the eleven months ending September 30, because of a change in the fiscal year. Governor Hanly, his private secretary, Col. Fred Gemmer, and R. Harry Miller have purchased a farm of 223 acres five miles east of Seymour. There is 85 acres of fine timber on the farm and this was the particular feature that prompted the purchase. They will put a saw mill on the farm and cut the timber into lumber. Mr. Miller will have charge of this work and he and Mrs. Miller will go to Seymour and remain at least a year. The Indiana State Board of Pardons opened its regular quarterly session yesterday afternoon in room 57 of the State House. But two members of the board -were present, and but little business was transacted. The board has under consideration it is said, an application for pardon in favor of Thomas McCoy, the Rensselear bank wrecker, who is now serving time in the Michigan City penitentiary. McCoy’s friends have been active in his behalf ever since he was sent to prison. He has several months more to serve. Inquiries have been mailed to each county auditor of the state by Miss Mary Stubbs, state statistician, asking the number of saloon licenses granted in each county from January to July of the present year; how many of them are yet running; the residence of the parties licensed, and how many saloons are believed to be owned by breweries. “This information is desired by the department,” said Miss Stubbs, “because of the discrepancies in temperance statistics between reports sent in by county auditors and the clerks of cities and towns.” Johns White, an old offender, was arrested last night by Deputy Sheriff Pierce on the same old charge of imbibing. He went the limit yesterday, and. feeling pretty good, thought it was about time for him to get even with Pierce for some old grudge he held against him. He met Charlie in front of the Court House about six o’clock and started to tell him where to head in. The talk didn’t sound good to the officer, so he got Mr. White by the neck and hustled him to the county boarding house. No charge was filed against him, and he was turned loose this morning and proceeded at once to the task of consuming good whiskey where he had left off before his Incarceration. —Bluffton Banner. White formerly resided in this city.

■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ! Business Announcement 5 ■ ■ ■ I | AVIN( * s °ld an interest in our Furniture Store to Mr. ■ | I Gus Eeinking formerly of the Smith, Yager & Falk J ■ drug' store,' t we[desire to announce to the public, the name of ■ ■ the new firm—YAGEB BBOS. & BEINKING and to sincere- ■ ■ ly requests share of your patronage. Our stock is larger ■ than ever and to make room for ■ Fall and Holiday Goods ■ ■ we will continue our sale for a short time, to reduce our Mammoth stock of New and Up-to date i FURNITURE j We also do undertaking and will attend to calls day or J night, Telephones 44 and 105. Our store is at the old place opposite the Court House. Drop in and see us. ■ a ■ ■ ■ a ’ Yager Bros & Reinking : ! B— bcbbwwbmm—m—

Mrs. Hoyt Denny, formerly of Portland, Ind., now of Whittier, Cal., is in the city visiting her aunt, Mrs. Robt. Blackburn. Those who are interested in the assessment of Clyde M. Rice sewer should call on the clerk and look the same over and if any mistakes have been made now is the time to remedy the fact and have the same corrected. The assessment roll if not objected to will stand as it now is and. those effected will be compelled to settle the amount assessed against their respective property. The work of ballasting the interurban line still continues and the same is gradually rounding into excellent running shape. Work will continue until cold weather, when they hope to have the same in excellent shape to stand the cold weather. The company has spared no expense in working up the roadbed and in a short time fast time can be made between this city and Fort Wayne. The prospects for base ball in Hartford City for next year are rather slim at this time. Jacob Willman, who owns the land on which the park is enclosed, is having a twostory frame dwelling moved into the center field. Michael Capper is moving the structure and it is now on north Walnut street. The lease on the park expires this fail and the fence and grandstand will probably be sold for the lumber that is in it. An effort will be made to sell the fence to the Pease Machine Company, which will probably enclose the No. 2 Johnston factory, which has been leased by that company for an experimental station. —Hartford City News. Statistics just compiled at the office of Miss Mary Stubbs, chief of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics, show the prices charged by the water works plants of all the incorporated cities of the State. This kind of information has been gathered before. ' this is the first year that the pirees have been placed on a common basis. Os the eighty-six incorporated cities of the state only three have no water works plants. One city has a leased plant; thirty are supplied byplants owned by private corporations and fifty-one are supplied by municipal plants. The lowest sprinkling rate in the state, according to the report, is that in force at Evansville. The rate is $1.50 for each forty feet of frontage. The rate at Bloomington is $lO. Both of these dries are supplied by municipal plants.

Miss Irene Schirmeyer, who has been attending school at Oxford, is at home on account of ill health. Mrs. O. C. Kingman, of Delaware,' Ohio, who has been the guest of Mrs. D. B. Erwin for several day-s, left this, morning for Indianapolis, where she will remain for some time with friends before returning to her home. The Pythian Sisters will hold their regular meeting Friday night. The degree team will practice in order to i get ready to go to Decatur on Monday I evening October 14th when they will! give the work to a class of candidates. I; Members of the Ossian lodge are al-! so invited by the Decatur lodge to be ' present that evening and quite a num-. her from there will attend. —Bluffton j i News. ■'

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A number of Decatur sports expect to go to Fort Wayne next Sunday t® witness the game between Delphos and the Shamrocks. Railing of this city is scheduled to pitch and will no doubt make the Buckeye boys go some to beat him. A number of persons are circulating a petition over the city today asking the city council to grant a franchise to the traction company to furnish light to the citizens of Huntington under certain restrictions. The petitioners are said to be very successful and nearly one hundred names are already subscribed. lis not yet known just who the circulators are though there are a few prominent names on the list. —Huntington Democrat.