Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1908 — Page 3

Enter the Old Store With New Styles Wearing time for work and '} dress shoes is just ahead. 'p \ Choosing time is now. First 11 W \ \\ \ / wltm Jr because of selection; second \ , \\ \ / wcSrT? L'"* to insure your being ready V [ /ImMBMfl for the first touch of warm weather. f Tague Shoe Store

WEATHER. Generali fair tonight and Friday; rnueh colder Friday. s jri_, —- j • ■-- —— R. B. Kerr, of Berne, is a business caller here today. Tom Gallogly came home last evening from Portland. Ed Koeneman, of Hoagland, was a business caller in the city. Mr. Henry Anman of Stop 25, was visiting here this afternoon. Miss Maud Kurt, of Monmouth, was spending Wednesday afternoon In the city. Miss Helen Bayes, of Wauseon, has come to the city for a visit with relatives. Miss Bessie Parker arrived from Fort Wayne last evening to spend the evening. Mrs. Henry Dirkson, of Stop 23, was shopping at Decatur Wednesday afternoon. Emil Erhart, of Fort Wayne, was a business caller here Wednesday afternoon. Miss Helen Daily .has returned to Fort Wayne after a visit with friends in the city. Ms. John Porter returned home this afternoon after visiting her son Frank at Parker City. Mrs. J. Hendricks, of Monroe, arrived here to be the guest of Mrs. S. H. Thomson. Mrs. Eli Sprout, of Fort Wayne, has come to the city for a visit with friends and relatives, John Keller, of Lima, Ohio, returned to his home after spending a fewdays with Dr. Keller. The M. E. church choir will meet tonight at the church for practice and all members are requested to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Israel Sheets, of Bluffton, who have been guests here for some time, returned to their home last night. The condition of Mrs. Longenberger, of east of the city, remains about the same, no improvement whatever being noticed. A largo number of the subscribers of the Daily Democrat have already taken advantage of the splendid offer of one of our new library charts. We have a number left and expect to supply all of our subscribers who comply with the conditions. Come early.

>1 1 ( t I IW'I Another new feature of JvrJ our s P r ’ n & ne * s a P a t en t den Brown Cloth top. It is fiE&r made with welted sole and wf short forepart plain toe. A U| combination both neat and jl attractive. This exclusive stvle sells at i W $4.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE The Shoe Seller.

I - .Bl J. W. Lutz is at Fort Wayne on business today. Father George is visiting at Fort ■Wayne for the day. Mr. and Mrs. Kern are business callers at Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Frank Smith and children are in the city this morning visiting. Mrs. Sarah Barnett arrived home from Hammond last evening, where she has been visiting. Mrs. Frank Small, of Hoagland, returned to her home after visiting her daughter, Mrs. S. McLean. William Worden, of Union township, returned home yesterday from a visit with relatives in Marion. Ohio. The principals in the Coffee impeachment case have returned after three days of trial at Portland. E. Cutting arrived home last evening from Milwaukee, where he has been visiting his son for some time. Degree work will be conferred at tonight’s meeting of the K. P. lodge. All membes are urgently requested to be present. It is hoped that no serious cases will result from smallpox in French township and every precaution will be taken to prevent it from spreading. The managers of the Decatur Horse Sale company hav e been scouring the country for animals for their tomorrowsale, and they have a large number of fine animals. Word from the bedside of Mrs. Hervey Steele is to the effect that she is getting along as well as is expected. The physician and nurse are much .encouraged over her improvement. Judge J. T. Merryman has returned from Winchester where he arranged to try a $3,000 claim against an estate is involved. The interested parties were not ready to begin the trial and it was postpond. Harold Swartz, the little six year old son of Mr. and Mrs, Jesse A. Snartz, on R. R. eight, accidently fell twelve feet from a hay mow yesterday and received a very seriously spraiued ankle. Dr. C. S. Clark was called and dressed the injured limb. The district meeting of the I. O. O. F. encampments of the county to be held in this city promises to be very interesting. Arrangements are already under way for this big event when a class of candidates will be initiated into the mysteries of the order. An elaborate banquet w-ill also be given.

John Fuerst is a Fort Wayne business caller today. C. F. True was at his farm todaymaking maple syrup. John C. Cowan left this morning to attend a trial at Fort Wayne. Mrs. O. H. Tyndall, of Auburn, was a caller here today between trains. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bairs, of Geneva, are in the city visiting friends. Miss Allie Burrell left this morning for Fort Wayne, to attend her uncle’s funeral. Oscar Meyers, of Wren, Ohio, passed through to Picksville, on a business trip today. Mrs. Henry Koeneman and two children are spending the day at Fort Waye with friends. Mayor Coffee returned home this morning from Portland, Ind., whre he was on business. Mrs. G. W. Cooper, of Geneva, came this morning from her home'to attend to business affairs here. Miss Goldie Morgan, of Dixon, 0., returned to her hom e after visiting relatives for a couple days. J. H. Koenig came to the city last night from St. Marys, Ohio. He is here on interurban business. Many Decatur citizens are visiting the public schools this week and much interest is manifest amang all concerned. Third rank work will be conferred on Arthur Suttles tonight at the K. P. lodge room and all members are requested to be present. Contractor Charles Railing is putting a coat of red paint on the front of the racket store that improves its appearance very much. Mr. and Mrs. J. Eizey returned to their home at Fort Wayne, after visiting Alfred Elzey and family and Geo. Bowserman and family on R. R. 12. Mrs. Carolina Smith, of St. Marys township, is some improved today and the physician thinks she will recover unless she is the victim of another stroke of paralysis. The household goods of Judge R. K. Erwin were shipped to Fort W’ayne today, where they will make their future home. The family have also gone to Fort Wayne. Contractors Linn & Patton placed a new awning in front of the F. V. Mills grocery store and it improves the appearance of this popular place of business very much. All members of the Baptist church are urgently requested to meet at the church one week from next Wednesday, March 25. as the election of trus tees w-ill take place at that time. The meeting is of vital importance to all the members and they should all be present. Elkhart county is no gainer by the public d<‘i>ository law. The interest amounts to about S6O a month. The expense of collecting, including SSC increase in the auditor’s salary. $60(1 increase in treasurer’s salary and $l5O for printing and advertising, amounts to SBOO a year. Two Filipino young women who are receiving their education at Notre Dame, came to the city yesterday to take the civil service examination for position as teachers in their native land. The entire class taking the examinations yesterday at the federal building numbered nineteen. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. The roads of the county, both gravel and mud. are almost impassable and those who find it'necessary to be out with teams are experiencing a difficult time in reaching their destination. Physicians and rural route carriers are the most affected as they are compelled to go on the mud roads which are extremely waxey and tough. A few days more sunshine with a little wind will materially help them. —Bluffton News. Frank Runyan went to Huntington today to attend the base ball meeting called for the purpose of trying to organize a base ball league. Bluffton is out of the figuring entirely and will not have a team In the league, even if it is organized, but Runyan is willing to help all in his power to make the league go just the same. At, Huntington today it is expected that cities of the old Indiana-Ohio and of the new- Northern Indiana will combine to form a league.—Bluffton News. C— -THE -- = R YST A L “Th eatress OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES. One film —“Repentance.” “A Novice on Stilts.” ILLUSTRATED SONG. "Virginia Dear.” SCHMUCK & MILLER

The Kalver-Hurst trial Is set for hearing next Monday. Mrs. W. H. Lindsley Is spending a few days at Chicago, 111. Miss Aaron Gilpin, of Bobo, arrived thia morning to spend the day. Mrs. Sweetland returned to her home after visiting Mrs. W. H. Densely. Mr. and Mrs. Z. B. Gossiard returned to Tocsin after visiting friends here. Miss Laura Beck returned to Toxsin after visiting at Fort Wayne with relatives. Mrs. John Parish left at noon for Huntington to visit relatives for a few days. Albert Overton, the cook at the Murray Hotel, left for Chicago, 111., this nocn. Mrs. John Thomas went to Fort Wayne this morning to make a visit with friends. Homer Merica, of Huntington, has arrived in the city for a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. O. H. Tyndall, of Auburn, passed through the city enroute to Willshire, Ohio, this noon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cutting and family left for their future home at French Lick Springs, Ind. Mrs. W. E Kance, of Huntington, returned - home after visiting for a few days with Mrs. Cy Weaver. Mrs. Ora Andrews left yesterday for Bloomington, Indiana, where she will visit with her father Tor some time. The high waters that have caused so much inconvenience to the citizens of Fort Wayne are rapidly receding. George L. Stephens returned to his ( home at Convoy, Ind. Before reaching home he will stop off at Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Clcn Baughman and baby returned to their hom e at Eau Claire, Mich., after visiting Mr. and ’ Mrs. John Porter and family. I The various carpenters and painters of the city are busy at present making improvements on store buildings and residences. It seems that many have • the fever of Improving their places s of business. ( The Stetson "Uncle Tom” company will present tnetr popular and unrivaled version of the ever welcome ' “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” appearing at the ■ opera house Thursday, March 12. That 1 their entertainment is giving unlim- ! ited satisfaction is fully evidenced from the number of laudatory notices i complimenting their excellent per- . formance. You can't lose Kansas at any turn of the road. Her people are as quick ’ with their wits in the big marts of 1 civilization as they are with their ■ scythes and more dangerous blades on their native heath. Senator Plum, of • Kansas, got away with a Gothamite some years ago at a Kansas delega- ) tion of plutocrats with axes to grind. ’ The fish course presented itself in I the form of a mammoth salmon cuuI chant and rampant amid its garniture, s “You don’t have fish like that in Kansas. do you Senator?” asked the New Yorker. “No,” drawled the westerner. “We don’t need ’em. The Lord knows where to send' brain food.” > Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was ■ white as snow-; it strayed away one - day where lambs should never go. I And Mary sat her quickly down and ; tears streamed from her eyes; she never found the lamb because she did ! not advertise. And Mary had a broth- ! er John who kept a village store; he sat him down and smoked his pipe and watched the open door. And as the people passed along and did not stop to buy, John sat still and smoked his pipe and blinked his sleepy eye. And so the sheriff sold him out, but still he ’ lingered near and Mary came to drop a sympathetic tear. “How Is it, sister, can you tell, why other merchants here can sell all their goods so rapidly and thrive from year to year? ! Remembering her own bad luck the 1 little maid replies: “These other fel- ■ lows get there John, because they I advertise.’’ A young man from the country was 1 lazily ambling along a certain street in Washington, when he stopped in front of an engine house and looked in. ’ “Have many fires here in Washing- ' ton?” he inquired of a fireman standing at the door. “Quite a number,” yas the reply. “Have to go to all of 'em?” “Not unless they’re in our distlrict. or there’s a general alarm,.” - “Ever try to see how quick you can hitch up?” “Yes.” At that instant ' there came an alarm. At the first : stroke of the gong the men ran to their posts, the doors of the stalls opened, the horses ran out and were quickly hitched to the engine and hose cart, and within a few seconds men, horses and apparatus were out of the doors and speeding down the street. The young man watched the performance with undisguised admiration. “Well, I must say this is a derned obliging town!” exclaimed he. “There ain’t many places where they’d, go to all that trouble to show a stranger what they can do!”

t ALL READY NOW Our new spring suits for men, boys and children have nearly all arrived and a great many of the early buyers have already made their purchases. Young Men’s Suits We are better prepared to meet the desires of stylish young dressers this season than ever before. We have the Celebrated COLLEGIAN CLOTHING which is made especially for young men. Don’t fail to come and see these suits. Children’s Suits We have the handsomest assortment of Knickerbocker suits for children ever shown in the city. Mothers bring your boys and see them. Elzey & Vance Corner East Court House Decatur, Indiana

Charles Miller is a Fort Wayne business caller today. Miss Rose Geary is spending the day at Fort Wayne. Ora Sell of the city went to Willshire on business today. Peter Forbing is a business caller at Toledo, Ohio, for afew days’ trip. Bub Burrell it attending the funeral of his relative at Fort Wayne today. Dr. Vizard, of Pleasant Mills, passed through the city enroute to Fort Wayne to attend the trial. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Gus Chronister is at ' Willshire, Ohio, attending C. F. I Cornell's funeral this afternoon. Mrs. Wesley Baer and her sick child had a narrow escape from death in their burning home at Andrews early Tuesday morning. Mrs. ■ Baer awoke to find the house in > flames and had barely time to gather ‘ up the baby and hurry out of the t house, which was totally destroyed, together with all the contents. The oriI gin of the fire is unknown.

TOMORROW At Fullenkamp’s Big Skirt Opening ■■■ t EVERYTHING WILL BE IN READINESS IN THE MORNING, TO SHOW ALL WHO DESIRE TO INSPECT OUR STOCK A COMPLETE LINE OF STYLISH Spring Skirts This line will consist of all the newest weaves and all the newest flares, and prices will range from $5 to $25 _ ONE DAY ONLY, TRY US - M. FULLENKAMP

Contractors Myers and Davis will begin work on the foundation of the Ward Fence buildings next Monday if their material arrives. Deputy Clerk Dan Roop has received a handsome photograph of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Van Gunten, of Berne. When Dan began his duties at the clerk’s office in January, the first marriage license he issued was to Mr. and Mrs. Van Gunten. Dan spoke of the fact and today he received the photograph, which he will retain as a souvenir of his first official work. The new broom factory owned and operated by Ludlow Sheline on First street is an industry well worthy of mention. This concern is supplying many homes ad business places in our city with brooms and brushes and their output is of the very best and serviceable material. Nearly all the time five men are employed at this concern all of whom command good wages. Such an institution is of much benefit to our city.

That there will be base ball in Decatur this season is evidenced from the fact that Charles Pennington has already engaged the ball park. A meeting will be held at the Model cigar store the twenty-fifth day of this month and all local ball players are requested to be present as a team will probably be selected at that time. There is very good material in this city for a good ball team and we predict that some fast games will come off at Steele’s park this summer. One of the longest and hardest fought legal battles ever originated in Wells county was settled at Indianapolis today, when the supreme court overruled the petition to transfer the famous Heller-Dailey case from the Appellate to the Supreme court. This ends the original suit and leaves the defendants with judgment against them and without any recourse at all. The original amount sued for was $3,300 and this sum with the interest will make a much larger amount. — Bluffton Banner.