Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1907 — Page 3

CHRISTMAS

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fort WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In .Effect February 1, 1907. Decatur —North. Ft. Wayne—South 8:00 a.m. 7:30a-m. 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:ti0 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. Toledo. 34. Louis & Western RailroadWest. East. 1— s:soam. | 0 — 4:52 a. m. 3—10:»2 am. I 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 Daniel Sprang made a business trip to Fort Wayne this mornitg. Ed Lyons left thia afternoon on a business trip to Dayton, Ohio. John Kern went to Geneva this morning to remain for some time on a visit. J. C. Mattox, of Bluffton, has returned to his home from a business trip to this city. Mrs. Lizzie Hydeman went to New Haven today to be the guest of relatives for some time. Mrs. B. E. Adams returned to Berne this afternon after enjoying a short visit in the city. Cal Peterson made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning and returned this afternoon. Miss Blanche Miller returned to her home at Liberty Center yesterday from a visit in the city. Decatur merchants are after your holiday business. They have the goods and the prices. C. E. Smith returned to his home at Richmond this morning after looking after business affairs in our city. Miss Amelia Short, of Fort Wayns, came to the city today to be a gu< s of friends and relatives for so.i.< time. Deputy Sheriff Ed Green was busy yesterday serving subpoenas on p e who are to testify on the case against Ka’ver & Hurst. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McClung, of Martford City. Indiana, have arrived in the city for an extended visit with triends and relatives.

Going Like hot cakes, are our lined shoes for men. Our I add last week telling about IHIF this shoe sold a good many nairs. W estill have all sizes an dwe want you to see ■B S: ’ if you wear warm lined B shoes. A neat box calf shoe B $2.50 Charlie Voglewede 94JS The Shoes

is only fourteen shopping days away. Gift buying time is right here. Hundreds of holiday shoppers are now looking for the best things for their friends. Are you at a loss to know what to buy this year? Let us help you select something useful. We will be glad to show you the newest things in footwear. You could not choose a more appropriate present for your friends.

WEATXFR Cloudy and colder tonight with snow north portion; Wednesday generally fair. Miss Fancheon Rice went to Fort Wayne this morning to be the guest of friends for a few days. P. W. Smith returned to his home at Richmond this afternoon from a short business trip to the city. Mrs. Rebecca Cowan went to Fort Wayne this morning to make a visit with her daughter. Mrs. Winans. Some change in the weather but nobody was anticipating the lawn festival temperature for many days. H. M. Aspy returned to his home at Geneva this afternoon after looking after business affairs in the city. Squire I. N. Veeley, of Geneva, was a visitor in our city this morning and returned to his home this afternoon. Dr. Price, of Geneva, was a professional caller in our city this morning and returned to his home this afternoon. Charles Nelson, of W’illshire, was a business caller in our city yesterday and returned to his home in the afternoon. Matthias Gase, of Hamilton, Ohio, who has been the guest of his brother, Joseph, for several days, returned to his home today. Many Decatur people are planning to attend the show at the Majestic theater Friday night. A good show is advertised for that night and a packed house is assured. Mr. and Mrs. Allwein, of Shelby, O„ who have been guests of friends and relatives in the city for some time, left this morning for Greenville, Ohio, where they will make a short stay, after which they will return here for the holidays. Nightwatch Abraham Schneck took very sick last week with lung trouble. He was dangerously ill for a few daj s. and much better on Saturday and Sunday, but yesterday suffered a very severe backset, owing to the overstrain his talking to the many visitors caused him. His fever is now higher han ever. —Berne Witness. Clyde Harris, of the Departmental was "taken ill with what proved to be scarlet fever and is now at the home of his uncle, Aaron Waltz, on north Jefferson street. The school authorities do not believe that there will be anv danger of an epidemic. Every school building in the city was thoroughly fumigated Saturday and every pupil is carefully watched. If thecomplain of headaches or illness they are sent home to await developments. —Hartford City News.

H. E. Michaud, of Berne, was a bus- I iness caller to our city today. Sheriff Eli Meyer went to Berne this morning to serve subpoenas on witnesses who will testify in court this , week. The every hour and a half schedule on the interurban was well patronized today and they seemed to be doing i a thriving business. Charles Railing and his force of ’ painters left this morning for the country where they have a big job to complete this week. ■ Work of painting the Christian church has been completed and that: place of worship now looks one hundred per cent better. Messrs. William Karspeter and August Greisinger returned to St. Marys, Ohio, today after enjoying a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Cris Vogt. All members of the red met are requested to be present at the lodge room Wednesday evening. Work will be given several candidates after which a banquet will be in order. Nel Todd was the lucky man who received the diamond ring which was given away at the Smoke House last week. His number was 1 682. The ring was valued at $75. —Bluffton News. Ed Stapleton, while working at the P. W. Smith sawmill at this place last Friday, had the misfortune to have two of his fingers badly mangled by getting them caught between two • pieces of timber. The accident was very painful and it will be some time before he will be able to resume his work. Harvey Prough, of Ossian, probably will have more faith in banks in the future and he certainly should have after his experience of Sunday night, when his residence was burglarized and the thief or thieves made a clean escape with $270 in cash and a S3O ring which was stolen while the fam ily was absent at church. Schmuck & Miller, who are preparing the Romberg building for their moving picture show, are equipping it with every convenience that will please their patrons. An elevated floor will be put in this week and their announcement will be made as soo t :•.« their doors are open to the public, which will probably be the latter part of this week. tur have practically completed the’* display windows for the holidays and the same hold many beautiful and attractive presents. Now is the time for all people to make their necessary Xmas purchases and thus avoid the heavy rush and stampede that always follows on the last week, besides this you get the first choice of the stock, which is something that many des’re. The rehearsals for the Elks minstrel show are running along as smoothly as could be expected at this early date, and those who have the performance in charge are more than satisfied with the results up to date. The songs are all up to date and popular and are bound to make a hit with the public. Numerous specialties will be introduced in the second part and some new talent introduced to the public. Marshal Bohnke received a notice ’from Knox, Ird., yesterday which reads thus: Stolen—from my residence in Knox, Ind., Saturday evening. Dec. 7 1907, one sterling silver jewel case, marked “Sterling” on top, plush lined containing ladies’ % karat diamond ring, one % karat diamond ohirt stud, one gold stud with leaf on front, one bracelet and other small jewelry. $25 reward will be paid for the apprehension of the thief. W. M Biggs While there are many persons who are coming out for road supervisors, it might be well to enumerate some of the duties devolving upon them by law. The new law goes into effect on December 14, 1907, and by its provisions supervisors are allowed sixty days’ time in a year at $2 per day, to work out the poll and land tax and perform other duties. Supervisors are under the direction and subject to the orders of the trustee. President Theodore Shonts, of the Clover Leaf and Alton, accompanied by other officials of the Clover Leaf and also of the Alton road passed through the city Monday on a special train enroute to Toledo, the party being out to make an inspecion of the road. The special reached the yards at 12:55 and 10 minutes after was on its way east, the engines hating been changed here. None of the party left the car in which they were traveling while in the city. / Charles Wills, ex-Bluffon base ball player and all-around athlete recently shucked and cribbed 136 bushels of com in nine hours, on his father s farm one and a half miles north of Gaston, Ind. This record more than rivals that of the champion of Illinois who agrees to husk 150 bushels in ten hours and with the aid of a driver and man to unload. Wills says he can beat a record of 150 bushels for ten hours’ work and crib same in good shape, alone. Anybody desiring a husking match can probably arrange same by addressing him at Matthews, Ind. —Bluffton Banner.

The gold watch that Mr. Stone- | burner expects to give away during the holidays, is now on display in the D. M. Hensley window. The watch ’is certainly a beauty. The cost of advertising space in the big periodcal sounds like a list of Standard Oil profits to the man who is used to a rate of a few cents an inch. For instance, a single page in one issue of the Chicago News costs $1,141.56; in the New York American, $980; in the New York Herald. $698.25; in Collier’s Weekly, $1,600; in the Saturday Evening Post, $1 800; in the Delineator, $1,800; in the Woman's Home Companion, $1,890; . in the Ladies’ Home Journal, $4,000. [ And yet the people advertising are glad to buy the space at that figure, and know that it pays to advertise. Homer Underwood, a practicing attorney in Fort Wayne, formerly in the practice in this city, and in part nership with S. C. Cook was in the city today appearing in court in a case before Judge Cook. This was his first visit since summer and by several friends he was not recognized. During an illness this fall his hair turned quite gray within three days. The change in his appearance is quite marked, and caused the failure to recognize him. Mr. Underwood now appears in about his usual health, but finds it rather embarrassing to have to introduce himself to his own aci quaintances.—Huntington Herald. George Patterson narrowly escaped being killed by a discharge from a gun in the hands of a friend, while hunting near Craigville yesterday afternoon. In fact, had he been twentyfive instead of one hundred yards away from the shooter; had the gun been loaded with buck shot instead of No. 8 shells, and had his neck been composed of ordinary flesh and bone instead of a certain resistible, elestic substance, he would have been undoubtedly slain. But, owing to these few trifling facts, his life was spared he did not die the death of a rabbit, and he will be pfesent this evening sound and unmaimed, at the initial winter feast of the Buzzards. —Bluffton Banner. The Clover Leaf railroad company made an investigation of a bad wreck at Kokomo Wednesday morning of the west bound passenger train. The blame appears to attach to a switching crew. The wreck was caused by the passenger train running into an open switch. Conductor Williams, who was in charge of the yard crew says: “I opened the switch at the hoop mill to let our engine and the cut of cars we were handling in with the purpose of clearing the way for the west bound passenger train, following the engine down the track. I supposed my brakeman, G. I. Sholty, would watch the switch. He failed to do it. I suppose we are responsible.” —Delphos Herald. A Springfield, Illinois, paper contained the following statement with regard to the proposed air line to be built from Springfield to Chicago by the Clover Leaf people: “The new air line will make it necessary to concentrate all the offices, shops and division headquarters of the two roads at Springfield, which, it is announced is to be done. The Clover Leaf's shops at Frankfort, Ind., and the Alton’s at Bloomington, 111., will be moved here and located north of the city, where work is now in progress on new buildings such as a 50 stall round house and a concrete and cement boaling station. Springfield will then be the hub of a system extending east to Toledo, west to Kansas City, north to Chicago, souh to St. Louis and north to Peoria. —a — Euphemisms For “Mad." In order to avoid the blunt word “mad” many euphemisms are resorted to in the English language. While “lunacy” refers to the supposed Influ-i enee of the moon, “insane” simply means unhealthy; “imbecile” signifies only weak, and “crazy,” meaning decrepit, almost corresponds to the slang “cracked.” “A tile off,” “not all there,” “a bee in his bonnet,” are only a few of the efforts slang has made to carry off the sad fact with an uneasy joke. “Lunatic asylum,” for the old “madhouse,” represents not only a great improvement in the institution, but also in the term used to designate it. A Tiny Well Digger. The mole is one of the thirstiest of animals. It never burrows at any great distance from water, and al times of drought when the supply of the needful element is diminished or cut off the “little gentleman in the velvet coat” counteracts the scarcity by digging wells until It comes to a depth at which water may be obtained. Reassured. "Say, pa. won’t you buy me a drum” “No! I’m afraid you’d disturb me with the noise.” “No, I won’t, pa. I’ll only dram when you’re asleep.”—Life To Talk About “She hasn’t any friends to speak of. “No? Then what are they for r — Puck. . An Indolent man draws hla breath, but does not live — Cicero.

SALE) I ON I I FURNITURE | I for a short time and only for cash | | CCME in early and have your Christmas gifts I I laid away for Xmas., delivery. We will hold I i them for you. And make a Good Discount to I I you for cash during our sale. I Ous Motto The Best Goods For The Least ( I Monev- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 1 I | J 1 I See our Large Line of Davenports they are I 1 beauties I | The Genuine Hoosier is the best Cabinet on | | Meyer, Presdorf & Moses | Pho.ie 90 525 69

THE PICTORHJM TONIGHT Iroublasome Neighbors. Song —“Yankee Hos." Get a free ticket on the sewing machine. All shows now being put on are new and have never been shown any place before. J. B. STONEBURNER. Prop

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Woman’s Shoe The Shoe is the most important part of a Woman s wardrobe. It makes or unmakes her entire outfit. Most Women appreciate this fact and for this reason are very particular about their Shoes. Our Spring styles will appeal to the particular Woman. Choice selected leathers. Street and Dress Boots, Lace or Button styles Whatever your Shoe price may be, Madam, you’ll find the best Shoes at that price right here . When you find prices below ours, you’ll find quality way below also. We count it a pleasure to show you our new Shoes. WINNES’ SHOE STORE

What is a Better XMAS PRESENT Than a GOOD PHOTOGRAPH THE HOLIDAY prices are now on at the Sautbine Studio, above the Nachtrieb drug store. All I ask is for you to call and investigate my work and prices. R. L. SAUTBINE The Uptown Photographer

The Packard Music House of Decatur Is a salesroom, selling direct from the Packard factory at Ft. Wayne, to the consumer. We are in position to sell you a better piano or organ for less money than the small dealer who buys one or two instruments at a time. Be ’ ,d * s /“ c instrument you buy of us, has the Packard factory back of it, and your banker will tel you that no better guarantee is needed, because the Packard factor}’ baa been tu nlng out satisfactory instruments for nearly half a century, and hardlv any neighborhood can be found but that the Packard Muaic House has a number of pleased customers, all of whom wil recommend the Packard instruments. L. F. ALEXANDER, AGENT. North side of thdDecatur Public Library Decatur Ind