Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 310, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1907 — Page 3

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WEATHER. Cloudy with probably showers nor!.' portion tonight or Friday; warnie: tonight.

Mrs. Molly Cooke is visiting friends at Monroe today. Grover Everhart returned to his home at Monroe this morning. Ray Miller arrived yesterday to visit with friends for a week. Miss Jennie Shackley is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Blossom at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Wynn and family are visiting friends at Bryant, today. Miss Bessie Bowers left this morning for Cincinnati to visit for a few days.

Miss Alta Ludy returned home to Geneva after spending Christmas with Al Burdg and family. Hugh Miller returned to Muncie this morning after spending Christmas in our city with relatives. James Zimmerman arrived from Geneva, where he has been teaching school to visit with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Studabaker and son left this morning for Goshen.where they will make a short visit with relatives. M. L. Oliver and wife, of Monroe. Spent Christmas day with relatives in Bluffton, returning home that evening. Miss Viola Yager returned to her home last evening at Berne. V hile here she was the guest of her sister Mrs. Moran. Mr. and Mrs. C. Hines returned to their home at Elwood today after making a visit with the latter s father i J. A. Smith. John Mayer and family, of Kendalville. were over Christmas visitors ■ in Decatur. Mr. Mayer was one of the Democrat office force for many years. The following letters remain uncalled for at the postoffice: Mrs. Mary Everhart, Daniel N. Robins, F. G. Soltdtman, A. R. Montgomery, J. M. Meyers, Joseph Bank, Forest Meyers. The Daily Democrat acknowledges receipt of a box of Doctor cigars, from Fred V. Mills, the up to date grocer. The goods were fully up to the guarantee and every one was thoroughly enjoyed. Mrs. A. G. Briggs and son Richard of Geneva, changed trains here Monday evening, enroute to Celina. Ohio, to visit over Christmas with her parents, Judge and Mrs. James H. Day. —Portland Commercial-Review.

Jit / THE BETTER THE ; GRADE THE BIGGER THE WhM TRADE ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦***♦**♦* ■ Ml Charlie Voglewede ; ‘The Shoe Seller.

Just handing you a few bargains the remainder of this week. Boys’felt boots go now at q>1.05 a pair. Two cases of men s felt boots running in sizes 9 to 12 at $1.60 a pair. e have a few slippers left which we are throwing out at a bargain.

Mr. W. Kelyard, of Fort Wayne, is in the city today. E. Mann made a business trip to Fort Wayne today. Don Quinn is a business caller at Richmond today. Miss Lola Hire, of Van Wert, is the guest of Miss Frieda Hildenbrand. Otto Kirsch returned last night from a visit at Fort Wayne. Don Edwards, of Fort Wayne, is in our city visiting with friends. Edwin Van Horn, of Middletown, arrived on a pleasure trip this morning. Mrs. Sadie Hire, of Van Wert is in the city the guest of Mrs. Q. Hildenbrand. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Kidd are attending to business at Fort Wayne today.

J 7 Charles Simcoke, of St. Louis, is in our city the guest of friends and rela. tives. 3 5 Harry Quinn, of Chicago, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. D. L. j Quinn. ; G. W. Menefee passed through here today enroute to his home at GreenI town. Ind. ! Elias Mitch was called to Edgerton ' today on account of the death of a relative. H. S. Parrish and wife went to Bluffton today for a visit with friends and relatives. Elias Crist Is very ill at his home suffering with lagrippe and hiccoughs. Mr. Crist is a prominent citizen and his friends will be sorry to learn of his serious illness. Ed Phillips, an old Decatur print, stopped in Geneva a few minutes i Wednesday of last week on his reI turn to Decatur from Portland, and while in town called at the Herald i office. Mr. Phillips published a paper i here in th e eighties when the paper was known as the Enterprise. He has been working on the M. & K. directory that was printed at the Timmons office in Portland, which is now completed.—Geneva Herald. Paul Kendall, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kendall, of this town, arrived home last Wednesday from Staunton, Va., where he is attending military academy. He will remain in Willshire till the evening of January 4. He must be back at school not later than the evening of January 6. He likes his surroundings at Staunton, and is one of 350 students now attending that famous school-boys who have been sent there from all over the American continent. —Willshire Herald.

divides the cash The Five Banks Bid on the Interest on Public Funds. IT WILL BE DIVIDED The Two Banks of this City Get the Big End of the Deal. The board of commissioners were in session a short time today, it being their second meeting as a board of finance. Bids were opened for interest payments on public funds. The five banks of Adams county each bid two per cent on daily balances, two and one-half per cent on monies deposited six months and three per cent on monies deposited one year. The funds were divided in accordance with the capitalization of each of the banks, and in accordance with this division the Old Adams County bank is given $60,000, First National bank $60,000, Bank of Berne, $40,000, People’s State bank $25,000, and Bank of Geneva $24,000. Under this system the liability for the preservation of these funds is shifted from the county treasurer and his bondsmen to the several banks, and they supply the necessary bonds to make the countysafe from any loss. The county surveyor’s office is being moved from its present location to the rooms in the Morrison block, formerly occupied by the interurban. -o Louis Yager, of Toledo,spent Christmas in our city the guest of his sister. Charles Adelsbeyger was a visitor in Fort Wayne last evening and returned on a late car. William Hammell left this morning for Columbus, 0., where he will visit with his aunt. Curley Poffenbarger returned last night from a short visit with friends at Fort Wayne. It. E. Gilpen ana tamily moved to Fort Wayne this morning to make their future home. Earl Peters returned this morning from Angola, where he spent Christmas with relatives. George Browne, the genial porter at the Murray, was a visitor in Fort Wayne last night. The show troop -which played at the Bosse Opera house last night left this afternoon for Lagrange. Mrs. V. E. Robinson and Miss Glay. dise Bowsers left at noon for Lima, 0., and Indianapolis to visit. Mrs. Lehman and daughter went to Bluffton today, where they will remain for a few days on a visit. Mrs. S. B. Lenhart has returned to her home at Warren, after visiting in the city with her mother, Mrs. L. Lenhart. Miss Corrine Daily, of Bluffton, returned to her home this morning after visiting over Christmas with Mrs. Haefling. Mrs. B. Amerine, of Craigville, spent Christmas with her parents in this city and returned to her home this morning. Mrs. A. Mahoney, of Marion, has returned to her home after enjoying a short visit with friends and relatives in the city. Misses Elenore Forbing and Edna Crawford returned last night from Fort Wayne, wher e they spent the day with relatives. Mrs. Nora Russell returned to her home at Curtisville today after visiting with J. H. Kemper and family over Christmas. M|ssdv May and Gertrude Radamacher went to Bluffton this morning to be the guests of Mrs. Barwiller for a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bockover, of Bythe, Ind., spent Christmas with her mother and sister, Mrs. Sarah Blackburn and daughter Nellie. Misses Ada and Emma Cowan left this morning for Hartford City,where they will make a visit with their cousin, Miss Frances Cowan. Charles Merryman, of Cardwell, Mo., who is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Merryman, attended the show at the Majestic last night. A general good time was had all over Decatur throughout Christmas day. Many family dinners and other glorious events were experienced. a. V. Shipp, Clintonville, Ky., says: “I have sold and used most of the hog remedies on the market and have hauled out dead hogs by the wagon load. Bourbon Hog Cholera Remedy is the only cure I have ever found for hog cholera.” Sold by Holthouse Drug Co. w -■ "* DEMOCRAT WANT ADS. FAY.

DODGED THE BULLETS. ( Incident of the Italian Revolution es 1848 In Brescia. The Count de Hubner tells in his ' memoirs a thrilling story of an adventure In the Italian city of Brescia ' during the days of the revolution of 1848. When the trouble began in the streets he contrived to get into a house, ■ taking with him two or three other persons, including the wife of a minor 1 official who had intrusted the lady for awhile to the count's care, but who was to have certain news of her as i soon as possible. The firing grew heavier, and the reb- ' els soon had possession of almost every house in the street On the 19th of March Count de Hubner decided that he must do something toward bettering his position in case of an assault, and he forced his only remaining servant to make a dash 1 across the street to the palace where the Austrian general, Rath, was quartered, two blocks away and on the other side. The man was merely to let the general know that De Hubner himself was coming and to ask that the gates be held ready for him. “Myself,' prudence and my honor had a long and heated argument,” says Count de Hubner. “Finally I pulled myself together. I had to let Prince Metternich know about myself, to make a last report and to keep my word about poor Mme. M. I undid the door, drew a long breath and plunged down j the street “The bullets flew all around me, spattering in leaden showers from the stone pavement. As I arrived at the gates of the palace they swung inward, and in a second I was Inside, unscathed. But only half my journey was done. I had still to go back again. "A letter—my last report—was soon completed for Metternich and my message to the husband of Mme. M. was given. I had to return. “Again the gates were opened and I bounded forth. A veritable fusillade followed. From every window and housetop came the spurts of white smoke, and I tried to dodge forty bullets at once. Ina minute I had reached my own door, and as I did so I turned to look back. "Another man left the palace gates at full speed, but before he had half crossed the street a puff of smoke shot out of a window and he fell flat and was instantly lying like a log across the gutter. The Are stopped at once—what use would even an Italian see in shooting a dead man? “But on the second that all became quiet to my great astonishment I saw this ‘dead man’ rise to his legs like a cat and dash across the street into the half open door waiting for him. The sharpshooters were taken by surprise and he escaped.” Beggars In Italy. As the natural beauties of Italy increase toward the south so do the beggars in numbers and persistence. The lame, the halt and the blind confront one everywhere in Naples. Mothers exhibit the ailings of pitiable children, and strong, well children follow the foreigner about, begging for soldi. They stick like leeches to the traveler unaccustomed to the country’s ways, sometimes even laying hands on him to call attention to their needs. This nuisance is in no small degree due to the careless generosity of tourists who scatter coppers to be struggled for by ragamuffins in the streets or w’hose hearts are touched by pitiable spectacles. It is. however, better to make a firm rule not to give. In the first place your money when given to manifestly needy beggars is often extorted from them by ablebodied loafers. Besides, if you give one you’ll soon find a crowd after you. If you must give, give little. A soldo (equivalent of our cent) is sufficient. Knowledge of methods of dismissing importuning beggars, touts and venders will be found useful on reaching Naples and other cities of the south. The word “nlente” (nothing), spoken firmly, Is the first to use. If this does not suffice try what Baedeker describes as “a slight backward motion of the head, accompanied by a somewhat contemptuous expression.” “Va via!” (Italian for “Get out!”) may also be found useful.—Travel Magazine. Bohemia’s Rocky Maze. The Rocky maze of Prachov, near Jacin, In northern Bohemia. Is a veritable natural curiosity. It has been well described as a gigantic “freak in stone.” To enter the labyrinth without a guide is a perilous proceeding, for an unwary adventurer would probably speedily be lost in the tortuous windings of the maze, where the paths are so narrow and crooked and the cliffs on the side so high that the explorer soon loses all idea of locality. In days of fiery persecution the Moravian and Bohemian brethren’s secret prayer meetings used to be held here, just as the early Christians assembled to worship in the catacombs. The cliffs are honeycombed with cells, and at the far end of the ms~e Is a rock castle, where in the old days a robber baron lived and took toll of all wayfarers. The shape of some of the rocks is very curious. There are, for instance, the “bishop and miter,” the “Madonna and the child” and many others.—London Scraps. A Red Headed Match. While in a tobacconist’s shop a gentleman asked a girl behind the counter, who happened to have red hair, if she would oblige him with a match. “With pleasure, if you will have e red headed one,” she promptly replied, with a suggestive, demure smile that aroused his Interest Further conversation proved her to be a person worthy of regard, and eventually the red headed match wii handed over. —London Punch.

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THE === R YST A L STHEATRESS OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES. First film—“ Funny Fisheries in Sicily. “The Mysterious Armour.” (extra fine.) Second film —“A Quiet Hotel.” “Satan at Play.” (A comedy). ILLUSTRATED SONG. “In the Valley Where the Weeping Willow Grows.” SCHMUCK & MILLER i Men, Women and Adjectives. Certain adjectives are reserved for men and others for women. A man is * never called “beautiful.” Along with “pretty” and “lovely” that adjective has become the property of women and children alone. “Handsome” and the weak “good looking” are the only two adjectives of the kind common to either sex. Even “belle” has no real masculine correlative in English, since “beau” came to signify something other than personal looks. It is singular that “handsome” should have become the word for a strikingly good looking person, since its literal meaning is handy, dexterous. But “pretty” likewise comes from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning “sly.” Beauty In the Angleworm. If there is any living thing that seems to have nothing to relieve its ugliness it is the angleworm that crawls slimily I j across the sidewalk after a heavy rain. I And yet even that is beautiful. Put a ' bit of its upper skin under the micro-1 scope and your ideas of the poor little < worm w’ill change mightily. It shim- ■ j mere like the softest satin and spar-j I kies with all the colors of the rainbow, j I for it is covered with little fine lines ] crossing each other like the cuttings in | a glass vase. THE PICTORIUM tonight “John D. Rockefeller and the Reporter.” “The Burglar.” “Another’s Crime.” "Doorkeeper’s Curiosity.” SONG. “I Am Tryin gso Hard to Forget You.” Open every afternoon and evening this week. J. B. STONEBURNRR,

■MB—■llM—WllimiMli 111 ■■■III I You can get any thing you want in RUBBER FOOTWEAR at i J. H. Voglewede & Son. ( Opp. the Court House j

Harry Erwin arrived yesterday from Chicago, and is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Erwin.

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i Mrs. H. D. Myers went to Craigville ■ this morning to oe me guest of her father, A. Peas, for some time. 1 — ■ ?