Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1907 — Page 3

Mrs. Earl Peters is on the sick list. Miss Bessie Hale passed through our cKy last evening enroute from Bluffton to Lima, Ohio. Roman Barthell arrived last evening from Summers, 111., and will spend the holidays with his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Rolland McClung, of Richmond, has arrived in the city for an extended visit with friends and relatives. Harold Murray, who was bitten by a dog a few days ago. is getting along nicely and it Is thought that nothing serious will result from the injury. The various Decatur students who are attending the surrounding colleges will commence to flock to Decatur in the near future to spend the holidays. The every hour and a half schedule on the interurban continued to do a big passenger traffic business 511 day today and the system seems to be popular with the traveling public in general Mrs. Foster Harbaugh went to Decatur today for a short visit with her brother and family. Although Decatur is Mrs. Harbaugh’s old home, this will be her first visit to that city for the past twenty years.—Bluffton Banner. Judge Levi Mock, of Bluffton, who has gained distinction as being "the highest court in the state.” was a visitor for a time in Marion yesterday. He had spent Sunday with an aged aunt at Sweetzer and was enroute home yesterday. —Marion Tribune.

The rehearsals for the Elks minstrels are going along smoothly and' will be continued until the very day before the performance. True Fristoe. who will arrive home the 22nd ■will take charge of the musical part and with the snap and vim he puts in the actors there will be something doing all the time. The rehearsals will continue every evening and it tt essential that every member who takes a part to be present. The council met in special session last evening at the council room to take up the matter of issuing bonds to Julius Haugk for the construction of Third and Madison streets. The matter was referred to the finance committee with power to act and they will rush the matter rapidly. The hole in the roof at the water works plant caused by the removal of the old chimney was ordered to be repaired at once. There being no further business the council adjourned.

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Chris Amstutz went to Fort Wayne this morning on a business trip. Robert Allison went to Fort Wayne this morning to look after business affairs. Mr. and Mrs. George Girard went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the funeral of a relative. Mrs. F. Dibble and daughters went to Fort Wayne this morning to do some shopping. Mrs. Agnes Andrews went to Fort Wayne this morning to be the guest of relatives for some time. Charles Sullivan, the proprietor of the west end restaurant, has just received a supply of Xmas candies. He will make special prices to school teachers. Hartford City merchants are being vistimized by a woman who is passing dollar bills which have been raised to five by erasing the one with acids and substituting a five. The work is said' to be crude, but in these times when all are anxious to get hold of the long green, it seems an easy matter to pass them. A secret service man is there investigating the affair. Better look up your five spots and see if they are the genuine article.

It’s working finer than silk(?) that plan of the Erie officials to allow reporters to call up and get particulars when wanting to get the news sraight concerning that line. Tuesday evening as train No. 14 was coming out of Chicago, she came in contact with an engine on the belt line, but particulars could not be learned. The Erie officers said that they knew nothing about it, because it happened on the western Indiana, and no report was made of it to them. The engineer of the train vas called up and asked for particulars and he said that he had “nothing to give out.” —Huntington Herald. Indications point to the abandonment by the Interstate Commerce Commission of its intention to prosecute the Monon road for ignoring the rule that advertising may not be paid for, in whole or in part, in transportation. Since the filing of the suit no attempt has been made by. the commission to bring it to a hearing, but it has been intimated that its legal advisers have informed it that it has no basis on which to prosecute. However this may be, the Monon has decided to go ahead and make its advertising contracts for next year on the same basis as this year, and to defend its action, if neuessary, in the court of last resort—Frankfort Crescent

Many people are taking advantage of the big reduction sale at the Myers, Presdorf and Moses furniture store. A large assortment of new and up to date furniture to select Xmas presents from. See them before you buy. Mr. and M!rs. Harry 0. Grove from French township, were in town last Tuesday afternoon to see Mr. and Mrs. John Stocker leave for their home at Greenville, Ohio, after a pleasant visit with them. —Geneva Herald. Dick Miller & Co., of Indianapolis, were the successful bidders for $30,000 of inflramry bonds issued by DeKalb county to provide funds for the erection of new county infirmary buildings near Auburn. The securities draw 5 per cent interest. The getting-up process this morning was the hardest to accomplish you have experienced for a long time, wasn’t it? For the first day of real winter weather is here and the king of cold appears to have taken hold with a vengeance. The condition of the paved streets, covered with ice frozen from the wet sleet last evening comes as a boon to the village smithies and horses are being rough shod to overcome the difficulty. The slippery sidewalks caused a number of dignified citizens to make undignified tumbles. L. A. Holthouse has instlaled a new machine at the Fashion stables in the shape of a currying outfit and now instead of using the old method of cleaning the animals, by hand, all the work is done by a machine. The new apparatus is on the same style as a horse clipping machine, and is a great labor saver and does the work in much less 'time than the old style. The machine can be operated by one man and twenty head of horses can thus be groomed in one-half the time than by the old style. Mr. Holthouse is certainly conducting an up to date establishment in every way.

Roanoke has granted to the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company a franchise for lighting the streets of that town. The traction company is to maintain one arc light at Its own expense and the other street lights are to be paid for from the town treasury. The town agrees to pay S6O a year for each light. On account of the town’s finances, at present no lights will be put up but provision will be made soon for securing the lights for the streets. The traotion company will string wires all over town and put in lighting systems where the residents have their houses wired.

Xmas underwear, the good servicable JEfif) kind. Prices range, a suit, $ i to. . vUiUU Xmas shirts, exclusive patterns in g« at <9.00 variety styles. Prices range 50c to . O£|UU Xmas neckwear in great vaneties, Ties f | Jj 0 neck scarfs. Pnces range 25c to. . iPIiJU Xmas Handkerchiefs, silk linen and ini- JjQg tial effects. Prices range 5c to . . . VMM x r. sas s,Vto‘ Mcy 75c

COLLEGE ALUMNI > - II 3 Will Form a Fraternity in ’ Spokane—Many Schools Represented. I IN WESTERN CITY 1 Purdue and Indiana are InI eluded—Will Meet December 21st. Alumni of the universities of Columbia, Pennsylvania. Bucknell, Chicago Virginia. .Minnesota, California, ; Stanford, Wisconsin, Indiana and Purdue will form a cnapter of the Phi 1 Kappa Psi fraternity in Spokane at ■ a banquet the evening of Dec. 21. C H. Harvey of the university of California has been elected secretary of the preliminary organization, which , plans to give luncheons every Saturday and a banquet at its annual meetings. It is purposed a’so to have alumni of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Nebraska Michigan, lowa, Tennessee and Missouri in various parts of the Inland Empire join the chapter with a view to making it the strongest organizaion of its kind in the country west of the Rocky mountains. Mr. Harvey said: "It is believed there are more college men, representing the various institutions of America, in the Spokane country than in any similar district on the continent, and it is for the purpose of bringing them together that the Spokane chapter is being organized. TO THE PUBLIC. I take this opportunity to thank all my friends who supported me by their i votes In our primary election, and also | to thank those who did not support me | for their kind and courteous manner I toward me. I have nothing but the ; kindest feeling for all and shall try Ito prove by my future efforts to please I I you one and all. JOHN LOSE. I ATTENTION KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS It is earnestly requested that all members of the order of Knights of Pythias attend the funeral of George Hurst, son of Brother James Hurst, at the M. E. church Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock.

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