Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1907 — Page 3

SHOES

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Toledo. St. Louie A V ern Railroad. West. East 1— 5:50 a.m. | —- 4:52 a. m. 3—10:31a.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 FORT WAYNE A. SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Recatur— 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. «: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 warmer Monday; Tuesday fair in south, rain in north portions; fresh southeast winds. * James Rristoe went to Geneva this morning to look after business affairs. William Nelson, of Bucyrus, Ohio, has arrived in the city for a visit with Hank Martz. The curbstone has been laid on Seventh street and the pavement will soon be put on. Peter Holthouse left this morning for Redkey, where he transacted business of importance. Miss Merle Burdg went to Berne this morning to demonstrate the famous B. B. ointment and cream. Mrs. Isaac Peters returned to Bluffton last night after making a visit In the city with friends and relatives. J. C. Merss, of Portland, was a business caller in our city this morning and returned to bis home this afternoon. Miss Cartie Cogswell went to Fort Wayne this morning as a delegate to the district convention of the foreign missionary society. C. S. Niblick and E. X. Ehinger president and cashier of the Old Adams County Bank, will go to Indianapolis tomorrow to attend a two days’ session of the Indiana state banker's association.

The Second Sale

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Charlie Voglewede THe shoe Seller

FOR STURDY YOUNGSTERS, BOYS, YOUTHS, LITTLE GENTS, MISSES, INFANTS AND CHILDREN. WHEN YOU BUY SHOES FOR YOUR CHILDREN IT’S THE WEAR THAT INTERESTS YOU CHIEFLY. WEAR COMBINED WITH THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF STYLE AND COMFORTABLE FIT. OUR SHOES HAVE THE STYLE, THE DASH AND ESPECIALLY THE WEAR THAT APPEAL TO EVERY YOUNGSTER AND HIS PARENTS.

Barney Kalver went to Fort Wayne this morning to look after business affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sprang went to Fort Wayne this morning to be the guests of friends for the day. P. W. Smith came to the city this morning from Fort Wayne to look after banking business in the city. Jesse Steel, of St. Louis, Missouri, arrived in the city this morning to make a short visit with his mother. Israel Stoneburner left last night for Denver. Colorado, where he will remain for some time on a vacation. Rev. Alexander returned to his home this morning after making a pleasant visit here with former members of his congregation. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Martz, of Van Wei t, Ohio, arrived in the city this morning to remain with friends and relatives for some tme. A numbar of local fight fans will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow evening to see the Goodman-McFarland go and it promises to be a hummer in every respect. Everything is quiet in police circles and the guardians of the law have nothing much to do and merely patrol their beats so they may be handy should something go wrong.

The Ladies' Aid Society of the Evangelical church will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Me Barnes in the south part of the city. A full attendance is desired. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brlttson, of Dallas, Texas, who have been the guests of friends and relatives In the city for some time, will leave tomor<ow evening for their home. That Dog-goned Dog Is the title of the film this evening at the Pictorium and those attending will see the most comic pictures yet shown in Decatur. The film is a dandy and right up to date. An error was made In yesterday’s issue in announcing that a smoker would be held at the Knights of Columbus lodge room Wednesday evening and should have read Thursday evening. A fine program has been arranged and a good time is in store for all who attend. Much interest is being manifested in the Passion Play that will be put on at the Electric theater this week and from all indications the Presbyterian ladies will make this entertainment a success both financially and socially. The show will be well worth the price of admission.

epends on the satisfaction GIVEN BY THE FIRST. IN THE MAKING OF THE FIRST THE BUYER BELIVES IN WHAT HAS BEEN TOLD HIM OR HER, BUT IN THE SECOND THEY BELIVE IN WHAT they HAVE SEEN. IF THE FIR»T PAIR HAS BEEN SATISFACTORY AND WE TREAT YOU RIGHT OTHERWISE YOU WILL CONTINUE TO TRADE WITH US, WON’T YOU? TRY US ONCE AND YOU WILL ALWAYS DEAL HERE. THIS SOUND A LITTLE BOMBASTIC, BUT WE BELIEVE IT AND OUR GROWING BUSINESS proves it. try me.

Bub Mischaud, of Berne, was a business caller to pur city today. Emil Franz, of Berne, was attending to legal matters in our city yesterday. Roy Sautbine went to Fort Wayne this afternoon on a special business trip. The markets are in this issue changed right up to the minute and we will continue to run the same every day from this time oil. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer went to Willshire, Ohio, this noon, where the former transacted business for the Holthouse Drug company. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Ray have returned from Alma, Mich., where they spent the summer and have again taken up their residence at Monroe. The Interlocking switch system at the junction of the three roads is fast nearing completion and will soon be ready to put in use. The plant is a fine one, and is expected to be a safeguard against any accidents to the traveling public.

The improvement on Seventh street is going along very slowly owing to the fact that the material is slow on cming in. Mr. Haugk is expecting the material every day and as soon as the same arrives will push the work rapidly to completion. All of the local grocery firms are doing a big business handling cabbage and filling the orders of those desiring to put up kraut for the winter. Several thousands of pounds have already been disposed of and many more will be doled out before the season is over. The improvement on the Allison building occupied by the City restaurant and F. V. Mills is fast nearing completion and will »oon present a fine appearance. The front as now arranged gives the occupants some room to make a display of their goods. The Belgium stallions at the Frisinger stables at Steele’s park are attracting considerable attention and that place was on Sunday visited by scores of people desiring to inspect these animals. The horses are beauties and every one who has yet seen them say that it is the finest lot that the firm has yet handled. Mrs. Sam Laman held the lucky number 2557 that drew the twenty dollors worth of merchandise given away at the Pictorium, she having presented the ticket last Saturday evening. Mr. Stoneburner will soon announce his Christmas offering which will consist of many valuable presents and he will thus show his appreciation of the attendance. The Electric theater people have a new film for tonight's enterainment that will please every one that attends. The first subject, ‘‘Life for Life,” is a western drama that is full of exciting climaxes and is an interesting throughout. The second subject is a very comical scene and will appeal to your sense of humor. Don t forget the Passion play Which begins next Thursday.

The Blackford county jail is taxed to its utmost capacity and new n"isoners continue to be added to the list There are now fourteen men having their mail addressed to Hotel de Hudson, and among them are some held on serious charges. This week the prisoners have been obliged to double up in the sleeping apartments. The Inmates seem to accept the situation in a philosophical manner, however, and no kicks have been registered.— Hartford City News. Reports from various sections of the country give promise of an open winter. They say that the squirrels are not laying in their usual store of nuts, and that the bees have made less honey than in other years, sure harbingers of a warm winter. On account of the scarcity of fruits and vegetables, the housewife did not put up as much canned stuff this season as usual—another good (?) sign and then —the naturlal gas pressure is lighter as the weather gets chillier. Sergeant Caldwell yesterday enlisted th) ee men for the marine service, as follows: C. L. Johnson, an aeronaut of Decatur, Ind.; William Pierson. of Archbold. O.; and Charles H. Anspaugh, of this city. Captain J. C. Brackenridge, in charge of this jurisdiction will arrive in the city todaj to muster in the recruits. Sergeant Caldwell announces that all men enlisted in the near future will be given a chance to take in the oriental cruise planned by the war department.—Journal Gazette.

Word has been received here to the effect that W. H. Ernst, formerly a resident of Bluffton and ex-county auditor of Wells county, who is now living in Ohio, to the effect that he is critically ill with the cancer with which he has been afflicted for several years and that his life is now despaired of. According to the word received here there is no hope for bi& ■recovery and his relatives are reconciled to the belief that 1‘ is now only a matter of time until he will pass away. Mr. Ernst hn had several operations performed but nothing could be done to check it. -Bluffton News.

Charles Brown, of Berne, was a business caller to our city today. Gay and Zwick shipped a large consignment of furniture to Monroe today to Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Ray. Rev. Frank Hartman received a telegram Friday announcing the death of his sister, Mrs. Wedy, at Wakarusa. They left on the early tjrain Satujflday morning for that place where they attended the funeral. —Berne Witness. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lewton came home last night from a three weeks’ absence in the east, visiting Washington, D. C„ Philadelphia, the Jamestown exposition and many other places of historic note. The trip was most enjoyable and they both enjoyed It immensely. Commissioners at Huntington have held that the anti-sa: oon remonstrance recently filed for Jackson township, including the town of Roanoke, is good, and it will bar saloons there for a period of two years from May 3 last. James Rose was refused a license on the decision. Electric ngnt superintendent M. J. Mylott and assistants are at present busily engaged in constructing a new elect) ic line to the auto factory and fully expect to have the same completed in a few days. The auto factory expect to use electrical power, which will be furnished them by the city. The task of putting in this line is no small one. Jesse Smith, w-ho received the contract to tear down the old brick smoke ( stack at the city plant has commenced operations and will keep at the ’ work steadily the weather permitting and expects to soon have his contract 1 completed. Mr. Smith is supposed to f 1 clean the brick and pile them in shape ’ so that they may be used for any other purpose necessary. Miss Rose L. Fritz, champion typej writer, made a new record Saturday when she wrote from dictation an average of 97 words a minilie for thirty minutes while blindfolded. She actually wrote 3,vu2 words in the 1 half hour, but lost 95 words as a *■ penalty for nineteen mistakes. Miss Fritz’s former record was 94 words a minute. The exhibition took place ’ at the business show at Madison ' Square Garden, New York.

Attorney John Burns has been unsuccessful in securing a settlement with the Lake Erie and Western railway company for Robert Guseman, whose wife, daughter and son were run down and killed by a passenger train some weeks ago. Suit against the company will likely be filed within a short time unless the railway company reconsiders in the meantime. It is understood that the bereaved father has demanded $20,000 damages. —Hartford City News. Grant L. Fox. the son of Tom Fox, returned yesterday from Brooklyn, having just finished his time in the navy. He has been in the service sos four years and during that time has been home only once, when he was in Bluffton for two days. Mr. Fox has been on the battleship Colorado, one of the finest and most modern boats in the navy. During his service, Mr. Fox has seen most of the world, but says that he is glad to get back to Bluffton—Bluffton Banner. The Decatur high school for the first time in its history can now boast of an cvehestra which when taken into consideration that they have been together but a short time, is one of no mean ability. This organization is made up of boys who are members of the hgh school and they are playing up-to-date music in every respect. The boys have several nice engagements on hand and will make their debut to the public in a short time. The boys are to be encouraged as the schools have long needed something of this description. Billy Adams, one of the few remaining tout ist printers of the old school, known in almost every newspaper office from coast to coast, has made his last hike down a railroad track. Last week, at Lafayette, he fell beneath a Monon passenger train and both his feet were severed. He is nowin a hospital at Lafayette. Billy was an artist in his line and no matter w’here he happened to be there was always a job open to him. He has worked at the Democrat office on numerous occasions but invariably, after working a few days he would yield to his old weakness, booze, and drift on to some place. G. C. Steele of the Racket store returned last evening from Bluffton, where he met buyers from ten different stores to make arrangements for buying all their goods from the factory direct instead of the wholesale house. This store has alreadyreceived a carload of holiday goods including everything in the toy line imported direct ftom Germany and Japan and the lot includes some unique stuff. Mr. Steele expects to put up a new store in the spring and add a much larger stock to the store 4n this city. /It would certainly pay you to Took into this bee hive and see for | yourself what he is doing.

THE PICTORIUM TONIGHT “That Dog-goned Dog.” All shows now bel r g put on are new and have never been shown any place before. J, B. STONEBURNER, Prop. HE GRANTED A DIVORCE. Hon. Chark J. Lutz, Acting as Special Judge at Portland. Clark J. Lutz, sitting as special judge in the Jay circuit court on Monaay near a tne evidence in the divorce suit of Mary E. Glendening against her husband, John C. Glendening. The charge made was cruel and inhuman I treatment, and abandonment. Late Monday afternoon, Judge Lutz granted the plaintiff a divorce with the custody of their daughter, Gladys. The defendant was awarded the custody of their two boys, Roscoe and James, each party being given permission to visit the children in the custody of the other, at seasonable times. —Portland Commercial-Review.

S. S. Bartlett agent for the Metropolitan Life insurance company, of Huntington, is in our city straightening up the business of the company since the death of the former agent, Charles McConnehey. Mr. Bartlett expects to secure a man to care for the company’s business here, but up to this time has made no selection. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wiley arrived from Marion at noon and have been spending the afternoon looking for a suitable home. They expect to move here the first of next month. Mr. Wiley is the manager for the Coppock Automobile company, the latest addition to the manufacturing interests of Greater Decatur. Mrs. Robert Anderson, of Dunkirk, is pi eparing to enter suit against Daniel Hinshaw, George Black and Martin Kantz. Dunkirk saloonkeepers, who she claims have fleeced her husband out of about $1,200. The money, she says, was lost in poker games conducted in gambling rooms owned by men named. —Hartford City News. Dr. W. N. Fowler, physician and surgeon for the Walter Wellman north pole expedition, has returned so his home at Bluffton. He was with Wellman two years ago and will go back again next year if another attempt is made. He is of the opinion that the plans of Wellman a.e good and the most feasible of any yet proposed. He says the failure to accomplish anything this year was due entirely to the bad weather. Irene, the seven-year-old daughter of Roy Venis and wife, narrowly escaped being burned to death Saturday afternoon. She was in the yard of their home, on west Market street, making a bonfire out of leaves, when in some manner, her clothes caught on fire. Mrs. Venis heard the child crying for help and when she arrived on the scene the girl was a mass of flames. She tore the child’s clothes off, saving her from being seriously burned. As it was the girl was burned slightly on the face and one hand while Mrs. Venis had both hands burned painfully.—Bluffton Banner.

the Electric Theatre TONIGHT Admission 5 'Cents. MOTION PICTURES. Motion pictures —First film: “The Wire Tappers.” “An Interrupted Card Party.” Second film—“A Life For a Life.” (A Western Drama.) ILLUSTRATED SONG. Illustrated Song—“ Somewhere.” Schmuck 41 Miller, Proprietors Cough Caution JlSf ys he»L soSU onisMsih. ehiol Sabas. Don’t blindly suppress H with s stupefying poison. If. strongs bow jtfjmi thinks flnsllr earns sboat. For twenty year. Dr. 8hoo» has constantly warned people not to take cough mixtures or prescriptions ruotalntnsOpfum. Cbloroforss. or similar poisons. And now—•lrtu» late though—Congress says "Put it on the label, if poisons are in your Cough Mixture. Good I Vary rood! I Hereafter for thtoveryrensonmothern and others, should issM on having Dr. ghoops Cough Cure. No poison marks on Dr. Shoops labels—and none in the medicine, else it must by law be on the label. And it’s not.only safe, but ft is said to be by these that knowlt best, a truly remarkable cough remedy. Take no chance then, particularlrwlth your children. Insist on having Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. Compare carefully the Dr. Shoop package with others and note the difference. No poison marks there! You can always be on the safe side by demanding Dr. Shoop’s Cough Cure W. H. NACHTRIEB.

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Mrs. J. P. Defter, of Willshire, was shopping in our city today.

Mrs. Roy Archbold left today for Chicago, where she will visit over Sunday with Mrs. C. C. Schafer.

The material for the deep well pump at the city plant has arrived and will be installed in a few days ready for use.

STOVES! STOVES! Now is the time to think over the stove situation as cold weather is coming. We have stoves of all descriptions and can fit you out complete in anything you want in this line. Hard Coal Burners $28.00 to $55.00 Cook Stoves and Ranges $12.00 to $60.00 Soft Coal Burners $5.00 to $25.00 Oil Heaters $3.00 to $5.50 The stove question is a puzzling one to solve and the main feature is to purchase a stove that saves you money on fuel. This we can give and guarantee with perfect satisfaction. We also carry a line of General Hardware and make the best prices. DECATUR HARDWARE CO.

Save a Hundred ONLY a very few Pianos equal the Huntington for tone. Pianos that do compare with them in this respect are usually sold by dealers at $350 at $375. Our price $275 In additition to the extremely low price we will offer further special inducements during October of terms at the rate of $1.85 Per Week Send for Catalogue PACKARD MUSIC HOUSE Opp. Murray Hotel. Decatur, Ind.

you can get at this stole in the very latest single or double-breasted cut, and in such suitings as are usually used in making most $lB and S2O value. For verification of this, you needn’t be a clothing expert —the value is so evident that anyone can see it. Aside from this you will fi id these Michaels=Stern Fine Suits "sls endowed with all the style, character and individuality of to - order . made clothes costing S3O, and the suits of your size will fit as through tailored to your special measurements. The fabrics are dark brown, olive, blue and gray worsteds, cassimeres, cheviots and tweeds, in beautifully striped, plaid - and check effects. , Fall shirts in beautiful patterns, coat or regular style, pleated or stiff bosom; fully worth $l5O only SI.OO

Ed France, of Pleasant Mills, was

a business caller to our city today. t The sewers that have been let during the past few weeks to contractors are fast nearing completion and the same will soon be ready for acceptance. The Erwin. Roop and Rice sewers are practically finished and the Chronister and Lenhart are under operation by the various contractors.