Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1907 — Page 3

Have you Noticed The wind blowing a little stronger and a little cooler. It is going to blow up some bad weather one of these days. Are you prepared with shoes that can stand the wet. We have the best shoes that can be made today. We have given our boys department special attention and will back up every pair of our R K L shoes to be as good as any shoemaker can make you. Sold by the Tague Shoe Store

Toledo, St. Louie & V ern Railroad. West East 1—5:50a.m. | 4:52 a. 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. | *22— 1:15 p. m. •Local freight ~o— FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Meet February 1, 1907. Becatur—North Ft. Wayne—South 6:00 am. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 19:30 a.m. 12:00 nooa 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9-30 p.m llwO PmGET WEDDED TO THE MODEL WITHOUT A MATE W. H LINDSLEY

WEATHER.

Fair Friday and Saturday; fresh northwest winds, diminishing. John Lachot went to Berne this morning on a special business trip. Hose Ray, of Dayton, Ohio, has arrived in the city for a visit with relatives. Frank Stout has arrived for an over Sunday visit with his fother, J. H. Stout Charles Draper, of Bingen, came to the city this morning to remain over Sunday with relatives. Mrs. Kate Ernest has gone to Richmond for a short visit with friends an drelatives. Mesdames A. R. Bell, J. H. Heller and Lizzie Devilbiss went to Fort this morning to spend the day with friends. Mrs. Clem Voglewede and sister, Miss Grace Coffee, went to Fort Wayne this morning to make a short visit with friends. Going down the steps to the basement of the Hale & Co. jewelry store last evening, Ed B. Edmunds stepped on a liise board, turning and severely spraining his right ankle. This morning he was unable to leave his home and the injury will result in a couple of days’ confinement.—Bluffton Banner.

Charlie Voglewede

Miss Pansy Bell was at Fort Wayne to-day visiting with friends. Miss Ma'le Auten, of Fort Wayne, is in our city, visiting with friends. Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Lewton of Preble were business callers in our city today. Dick Franre of Alliance, Ohio, is in the city, the guest of friends and relatives. W A. Laman, of Delphos. Ohio, is in the city with his uncle, David Laman, who is quite ill at his home on Second street. Mrs. O. S. Fortney, of Pleasant Mills, passed through the city this morning enroute to Dunkirk, where she will be the guest of friends and relatives for some time.

oSme changes will be made at the electric plant tomorrow in the way of changing several of the large dynamos, and it is possible that the power may be off for a short time Sunday. Charles Roe and Harry Fuhrman, broom manufacturers, of Pleasant Mills, was in town Friday, with a load of brooms, and was disposing of them at the small price of 25 cents. Yager Brothers & Reinking have on display in their window some very pretty lamps, which are known as the mission stand lamp and the dome style. The lamps have attracted considerable attention,- especially after night. The grain market in Decatur is on the boom, wheat being quoted at nine-ty-seven cents, and the other commodities being the same. Butter and eggs are also exceptionally high, the former being twenty-two cents and the latter at twenty-three cents. z

D. E. Studabaker is at present busily engaged in getting his advertising matter out for his big five thousand dollar sale, which promises to be a hummer in every respect. Don’t forget the date, November 18, and be on hand, as he may offer something for sale you have been wanting.

A small church was in need of repairs, and a meeting was being held to raise funds for that purpose. The minister, having said SSOO would be required, a wealthy and equally stingy member of the congregation rose and said he would give a dollar. Just as he sat down a lump of plaster fell from the ceiling and hit him upon the head, whereupon he rose hastily and called out that he had made a mistake —he would give SSO. An enthusiast present forgetful of everything, called out fervently, “O, Lord, hit him again."

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We have been very busy this week. Our store was crowded most of the time our stock of all kinds of footwear is larger than ever and we are satisfying the people with styles and qualify. Come in and see us some time.

The Shoe Seller

Lyman Hart, of Monmouth, arrived in the ci.fc’ thi smoming for a short stay with friends. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Graham went to Fort Wayne this morning to be the guests of friends for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, of Cardwell, Mo., was in the city a few days this week, the guest of Mrs. D. B. Reckard, of South Fifth street. Ed. Bultenner, the Jefferson street liveryman, has up to date turn-outs, and solicits your patronage. He also boards horses. Give him a trial. Miss Jennie Studabaker, of Decatur, is in the city, the guest of Ferd Mosiman and family. She returned recently from an extended tour through Europe and the Holy Land. — Bluffton Banner. Work on the improvement of the business rooms occupied by the City Bakery and F. V. Mills is gong steadily along, and when completed is going to add materially to the appearance of the rooms. Arthur Hobbs, of Toledo, arrived in the city yesterday to look after business relative to the divorce proceedings he has instituted against bis wife. The case has been venued back to Allen count yfor trial. The Electric Theater people have a new show for tonight’s entertainment, and it is first class in every respect. Two funny films will be shown as well as a new interesting and instructive subject, which will appeal to all. You can not affird to miss this great show. J. B. Stoneburuner presents a new and comic show entitled: “The Gay Washerwoman and "Hop-o-My-Thumb.” The films are new and up-to-date, and have never been shown in our city before. If you are looking for a place to spend the evening, don’t fail to attend this show. Dunkirk defeated the Cincinnati Reds yesterday by the score of three to two. Hay was in the box for Dunkirk, and while he was batted for ten drives, they were so scattered that runs were not productive. Dunkirk landed on Campbell for eight safe hits. —Van Wert Bulletin.

Second Baseman Parker, who played the past season with Portland, made a fine impression in the game between the Cincinnati Reds and Richmond. The big leaguers viewed Parker’s work with admiration, and agreed that he should reach fast company.—Van Wert Bulletin. A lot of gossipers in one of the outtownships of Huntington county drove Martin Ulrich to suicide. His name was being connected with a woman in his neghborhood and Ulrch could not face the music, although he insisted that the stories told on him were all false. He left t nite saying that he could not stand it any longer. He was fifty-two years of age and was well known. The Elks committees at their meeting last night appointed Postmaster J. R. Spivey and M. H. Ormsby to go to Elkhart to investigate the conditions under which the Elks lodge of that city recently gave a festival similar to the one which the lodge here expects to give. The Elkhart lodge cleared up about $7,000 on a festival but it is of course several times as large as Bluffton. The local committee expects to secure some ideas at Elkhart that will be of value in giving the festival here. —Bluffton News. A humerous story going the rounds is that of a drug clerk of the city, who was so mixed up with business, dyestuffs, poison, etc., that he never smiled. However, one night while off duty, he strolled down the street •on which were two churches. He passed a church and they were singing “Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?” Going a little farther with the echoes still ringing' in his ears, he passed another church, and they were making melody from the hymn “No, Not One.” Then the drug clerk smiled. There is occasionally a farmer who thinks that a man with a store is getting rich all the time. It would do a heap of good if such thinkers could shoulder the cares of the average business man for a few weeks and have to do the figuring it takes to meet the demands of expense and paying bills for help and stock. The small home merchant is not accumulating much money. He is a hard working man. puts in more hours than any other class of men and has more worry'than a dozen individuals ought to have. Letter from a preacher to a church! that needed t pastor: “If your pulpit is vacant as indicated by r°cent items in your church paper, it becomes my brotherly duty ti point you io a suitable pastor, which I proceed to do -by referring to my own gifts and graces. I am a graduate of a theological seminary. I am sound in wind and limb. I 1 preach extempore, not as great sermons as I equid wish, but better i thus far than my congregation has i been able to live up to. I have been, five years in my present location, and feel that my duty to this city and yours calls me to a change of field.”

THICK DFTHE TO Wieked Deeds Done by the Imp of the Perverse. AMUSING ERRORS IN PRINT. Example* of What la Liable to Happen When the Compositor Blunder* or When the Usually Alert and Careful Proofreader Node. Sometimes the proofreader nods, and in this connection the late Lord Goschen told at a public dinner a story of a reader who w-orked for his (Lord Goschen’s) grandfather and who, in answer to a denunciation from his employer, cried: “Let some other man work at correctness of typography. I despair. My own thoughts often hinder me as they seize and hold the authors otherwise than they ought to do. It is quite possible that niggling about words and syllables may often go to the wall when my soul cannot tear itself loose from some thought or picture. Errors have been found in sheets which I thought I had worked backward and forward with the greatest particularity. I read always as it should be.” It is wheu a reader is in this soulful condition that the public are permitted to read, as they did once in a morning paper not given to humor, that a celebrated politician, in a speech, described some one as “sitting at the feet of the game bird of Birmingham,*’ instead of “Gamaliel.” In the same journal, too, the following startling announcement appeared under the heading of “Births:” NICHOLSON.—On the 12th Inst., at Belton road, Sldcup, the son of Alfred Nicholson, of a daughter. In another newspaper a most pathetic account appeared of a doctor who died owing to having accidentally infected himself while injecting some plague virus into a “gnat.” The mystery was solved the next day, when an apology was printed explaintlng that the word should have been “rat? “Come over and try some new soup,” a lady novelist did not write; “songs” was the word. “It is a sickly kopje of the real article” was perhaps excusable. It appeared in a paper during the Boer war. These mistakes are curious enough, but they pale into insignificance before some of those that never reach the printed sheet “Cold milk, father!” once demanded a compositor In cold type, and he was aggrieved to have to alter it to “Caed mille fallthe!” “Brer Fox” was made “Boer Fox”—that was also during the South African war. On a hot summer’s day another tired typesetter turned “The Ides of March” Into “The Idea of Work.” In a sermon a celebrated divine was made to say, "And they erected a marine store at the mouth of the sepulcher.” “Massive stone” were the correct words. Abbreviations are at times the bane of the compositor, but he had no excuse In setting up, in an account of a Mansion House function, that among those present were “Old Isaacs and Old Treloar.” He should have known that “Aid.” was an abbreviation of “Aiderman.” In the same “take” of copy the “Lord Mayor was received with a crash” (should be “eclat”) and was followed by the sheriffs In their “margarine (mazarine) gowns.” “Let the gulled Judy wink” appeared in another first proof, and the proofreader wearily made it the “galled jade wince.” “Die, lusty platter!” has quite a transpontine flavor, but the “copy said “Die Lustige Blatter” (a German weekly paper). “Pignut of the enunciation” does not seem convincing: “figment of the imagination” is better. “Petticoats long on Sunday morning is a disgrace” is all right when the first two words are read “Petticoat lane.” In a police court assault case the prosecutor was made to say that the prisoner had given him “twins.” What the prisoner really did was to give the prosecutor a “turn” (a fright). “The government were suffering from mental aberration,” must have been set up by a compositor of the opposition politics. The real charge was “mutual admiration.”

“De mortar ivil nice loreum” would trouble a Latin scholar. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” is more correct. “Jim the Pieman” is easily recognizable as the hero of a play, and “Putty Polly,” the racehorse, would throw up her pretty head in disdain to see herself so described. For “a pair of scandals completed the costume” read “sandals,” and for “Here is indeed a sundial” substitute “scandal.” He lived in the “hubbubs” should be “suburbs,” and “Call her, Herr, in” is understandable when printed "Caller herrln’.” A well known descriptive writer was startled to read in a rough first proof that he had described the fields surrounding the Derby course as “covered with boots and shoes.” He was placated when informed that it had been altered to “booths and shows.” Columns could be filled with the amazing and amusing blunders of the compositor, but here space forbids of more than a final “howler.” which is a classic in the printing world. “O temporal O mores!” wrote a leader writer at ten minutes to 1 in the morning. “O Moses! indeed!” exclaimed the proofreader a quarter of an hour later when he "caught and bowled” the compositor who had improved the phrase into “0 Tennyson! O Moses!”—London Express. It Is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.—Lowell.

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We have a complete new line of 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.

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