Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1907 — Page 3

THE AVERAGE MAN Knows well what he wants We have prepared a good combination to take the place of that heavy felt boot which some people can’t wear. We have a good line o fleather boots, which you , can wehr overshoes with. We have them in the light weight and heavy. We are prepared for the cold weather trade better than ever before. Tague Shoe Store

FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Decatur —North. Ft. Wayne—South (:00 a.m. 7:30 a-m. 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. 3’oo p.m- 4:30 p.m. 0:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9:30p.m. 11:00p.m. Tcfledo, St. Louis & Western RailroadWest. East. 1 — 5:50 am. | 0 — 4:52 a. m. 3— 10:32am. | 2—12:28 p. m5 — 9:51p.m. | 4— 7:00 p. m. •22—10:32 a. m. | *22— 1:15 p- m. * Local freight. GET WEDDED TO THE MODEL WITHOUT A MATE W. H. LINDSLEY

WEATHER. Fair, warmer Wednesday; Thursday increasing cloudiness with warmer in south portion; winds becoming southwest and fresl? Harry Ehraam attended the Fall Festival at Bluffton last evening. Curley Ellis was in attendance at the Fall Festival at Bluffton last evening. Mrs. A. J. Kelley, of Fort Wayne, is in our city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Meibers.

Rev. E. E. Bergman baa returned from Geneva, where he attended the Adams county Sunday school convention, which was held at that place.

Charlie Voglewede

House, Week Commencing Monday Night Nov. 13

Stetson and St. Clair elite players SUPPORTING TVMss Maud Seidon in a High-Class Comedy

John Kelley, of Geneva, was a business caller to our city today. Chas Sether was a buisness caller at Fort Wayne last evening. Isadore Kalver has returned from Bluffton, where he attended the Elks fall festival. A. J. Smith returned last night from Pleasant Lake, where he enjoyed a short Ashing trip. Rev. A. B. attended the Sunday school convention at Geneva yesterday and returned on the afternoon train. All members of the Elks' lodge are requested to be present this evening at the usual hour. Business of importance. Miss Carrie Craig, of Decatur, is a guest for a few days of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Studabaker and other relatives and friends. —Bluffton News. The Masonic lodge room which for some time has been undergoing a special lot of repairing, is now completed and presents a pleasing appearance. The frescoing Is Ane, and the other painting add materially to the Anish of the interior. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Barton, of Weston, Ohio, who spent several days here visiting with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hendricks of east Main street, left Thursday morning for Decatur, and Monroe, where they will spend the remainder of thig week with relatives enroute home.—Portland Review. The meeting of the stockholders of the Van Wert Base Ball association, called for last evening, failed of a quorum. Another meeting has been set for next Tuesday evening, at rhe office of Longwell Brothers,*to close up the affairs of tho past season and determine on a course of action for the coming year.—Van Wert Bulletin.

The better the grade The bigger the trade Thats why

Sells The Shoes

M. F. Rice made a business trip to Berne this afternoon. Tom Burke, of Kokomo, was a business caller to our city last evening. Miss Cecil Fencing returned to Monroe this afternoon from a visit in the city. J. W. Meibers went to Geneva this afternoon to look after business affairs. Sam Kuntz, of Berne, was a business caller to our city today and returned to his home this afternoon. Christ Egley, of Berne, transacted business in the city this morning and returned to his home this afternoon. Mrs. C. Vogt returned this morning from Geneva, where she attended the Adams county Sunday school convention. | A number of out of town people were in attendance at the pedro party and dance given at the K. of C. hall last z night. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Martz, of Portland, have returned to their home after making a pleasant visit with relatives in the city. Tom Peterson has taken a contract to construct a private drain from the Coppock Motor works to the St. Marys river and commenced operations upon the same this morning. The job is no small one and will require several weeks to complete the same. V. D. Bell, son of Vince Bell, the well known farmer who lives east of ,the city, who has been working here this summer at the pumping station south of Bluffton, has resigned his position there and is now looking up a farm. He intends to rent a farm and move back into the country— Bluffton News. In describing a cyclone a Kansas editor said it turned a well inside out, a cellar upside down, moved a township line, blew the staves out of a whiskey barrel and left nothing but the bunghole, changed the day of the week, blew a mortgage off a farm, blew all the cracks out of a fence and knocked the wind out of a politician. Pirl Laßue, our speedy captain and third sacker, who since the closing of the base ball season, has been working at the chandelier factory, left today for his home at Andrews, and will remain there until next spring. He is unable to say wbeher or not he would be in a Bluffton uniform next season. —Bluffton Banner. A letter received from Lawrence Meyers, who is attending a veterinary school at Grand Rapids, states that the entire college is at present under a strict quarantine, as twelve members of the school are down with smallpox. Mr. Meyers is not alarmed for himself, as he has passed through the mill. He also says that Mr. Beery is well and not alarmed.

Catcher Elmer Johnson, of this city, has numerous offers to play base ball next year in the league and he will likely accept some one of the offers He can go to any one of a half dozen teams. He has offers from teams in three different leagues but he will probably go to the Three-I and sign with either Springfield or Cedar Rapids. —Frankfort Crescent. The decrease of 18,000 in the number of pensiohers on the rolls at the end of the fiscal year 1907, as compared with the previous, is the feature of the annual report of Pension Commissioner Warner. This is the greatest decrease in the history of the pension bureau. The number of pensioners on June 30, 1907, was 967,371 and the value of the pension roll 1140,850,880. The Banner is in receipt of a new Whitlock press today and the same ■ is now being installed. The machine is a dandy, very fast and will grind out Banners at the rate of 2,200 per hour when it is once goin£ But just now it is not going, and it is barely possible the paper will be a little late for an evening or two, but all will be well by Monday, it is hoped.—Bluffton Banner. Over at Lebanon Edward Emmert’s saloon was closed under the blind tiger law. According to the interpretation of the statute relating to the time of dating a liquor license, as made by Judge Artman of the Boone circuit court and by Judge Roby of the Appellate court, Emmert’s license expired last Thursday. Notwithstanding this fact he has continued business the same as usual. '

"DAD’S GAL" * * With a change of Play Every Night < . —

John H. Heller made a business trip to Muncie, Indiana, this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Vincen Lewton, of Preble, were shopping in our city today: S. S. Bartlett, of Huntington, was attending to insurance matters in our city today. Mrs. Ira Cook, of Lagrange, has arrived in the city for a visit with friends and relatives. Chris Strebe left , today on his regular business trip in the interest of the G. R. and I railroad company. Mr. Dunlap, of Anderson, was a caller in our city last night and returned to his home this morning. Mrs. Fred Bell is at Bluffton today attending the Elks Fall Festival. While there she is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Morris." Apples are rotting on the ground in Pennsylvania, because the farmers are unable to hire men to pick them. In the corn belt it is almost impossible to get corn huskers and in Texas cotton is going to waste for lack of pickers. If this state of affairs continues United States will have to offer inducements to emigrants to come over and do the work of farm hands.

Marshal Green received a postal this morning announcing that Jonn Wolf, who resides near Winchester had a dark bay mare four years old weight 1,400, small star on face, right hind foot white up to hock, and shod all around, stolen on November 13. Also a buggy, harness and lap robes. Any information leading to the recovery would be greatly appreciated by Marshal Green. Bruce B. Kiger, who has held a position as reporter on the Evening News during the past summer, has resigned and will leave Saturday night for Little Rock, Arkansas, where he expects to spend a portion of the winter and where he will work on the editorial staff of the Arkansas Gazette the same paper that he was employed on last winter. From Little Rock he may go to New Orleans. —Bluffton News. The banks of the city are still in hopes that the Erie will be able to secure the currency to cover their pay checks. The road is exerting every effort to do "so and will ship the currency here at once if they are successful. The banks will pay all the checks as soon as they get the currency to do it and hope that they can do so by the last of the week or the Arst of next at the latest.—Huntington Herald. The thirty-one members of Company G, who signed the muster roll last week, received discharges from state headquarters this evening. There are about twenty who did not sign the roll and while they did not receive discharges they now owe no allegiance to the state’s army. Lieutnant Bert Wasson stated this morning he did not believe that, for several years at least, would there be an effort made to organize another company in Bluffton. —Bluffton Banner.

■ cold wave I ARCTICS I Come in and see the kind I that will wear you a whole I winter. Other people have I tried these Arctics and say I they are the best they have I ever had for long service. I J. H. Voglewede & Son. | Sell the Arctics

Albert Butler went to Portland this afternoon to look after business affairs. Mrs. John Malotte went to Geneva this afternoon to inspect the Relief Corps lodge. Charles Elzey, who has been on the sick list for several days, is reported as being some better. Mr. and Mrs. James Doherty and son left today for Chicago, where they expect to make their future home. Messrs, and Mesdames Henry Krohn, Henry Kuklehan and Henry Ludwig returned to their home at Cincinnati after making a short visit in this vicinity with relatives. D. J. Dilling has just marketed a part of his turkey crop, which he sold to the Decatur Produce company. Sixty-two head bringing him $121.20, or nearly an average of two dollars. Mrs. Noah Lock, of Decatur, came over Friday to visit her sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Jackson. She remained until Sunday when she was joined by her husband and spent Sunday here, returning home in the evening—Ossian News. The local high school basket ball team has arranged a game with the Berne schools to be played in this city tomorrow afternoon at the central school building. This is the Arst game of this kind ever played in Decatur, and the citizens should encourage the boys by turning out. The game will be called at two-thirty. Basket ball is a much cleaner game than foot ball and' the boys should be encouraged to play it. Postoffice authorities are convinced that the picture postal card now is the greatest single corrupter of public morals. They declare the custom of sending these souvenirs has developed into a mania, the extent of which it is hard to estimate. More than a million a day are mailed at the various postoffices of the country and daily from 40,000 to 60,000 are buried in the dead letter office because of their objectionable nature.

If the Erie trailroad tried to help its men through the difficulties of getting checks paid today It utterly failed in the attempt. And if the road had made any special effort, nothing was known of it here. The means within its power, to write the checks in small denominations, so that the local merchants could take them as payments for accounts, were not used, and the checks, one for each employee, came in the same style as heretofore. — Huntington Herald. Gus Vogel, Bluffton’s big backstop, has received numerous offers since the season closed for the season of 1908, the most Aattering one coming from the Liverpool management of the P. O. M. league inclosing a contract at $l5O per -month. The contract, however, was returned to the East Liverpool management unsigned and Gus, who is working during the winter at the W. B. Brown factory, says he will not sign up until near the opening of the season.—Bluffton Banner.

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