Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1908 — Page 3

F r , j Xi THE BEST W W JnN MEN’S fKB WE ARE TO THE TOP and to the front this spring ■■H with the most up to date line HB of men's and boy's dress ■■k -shoes taht we ever handed ™ before. And the work shoe you know we handle the best on the market. Come in and be convinced . Tague Shoe Store

WEATHER. Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight and east portion Saturday. William Ruckman left last evening to visit friends at Hoagland. L. F. Hopkins, of Cold Center, W. Va., attended the horse sale today. Nolan King returned this morning from a business trip to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Everett Ferry, of Berne was here attending the show last evening. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Merriman are visiting the day at Fort Wayne with friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Matthewson arrived from Fort Wayne to visit her parents. Mrs. Hunter has gone to Berne to be the guest of friends and relatives for some time. Dallas Butler accompanied his father to Van Wert this morning to attend a meeting. Miss Laura Stephens, of Berne, came last evening to attend Uncle Tom's Cabin here. Miss Louise Zwick returned to her home at Williams after visiting in the city with relatives. Mrs. Adam Buettel, of Berne, passed through the city enroute to Fort Wayne to spend a day. Mrs. Workinger, of the vicinity of Wren, is quite Hl suffering from an affection of the lungs. Mrs Charley Meibers spent the evening at the .home of Mrs. A. J. Kelley of Fort Wayne Thursday. Colonel Foreman went to Portland this morning to make a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. Harry Helm was the guest of Mrs. A. J. Kelley at her home at Fort Wayne last evening. The condition of Eli Presdorf continues to improve and he is strong enough to sit up at times. Martha C. Kettler, of Fort Wayne, teacher in piano, is in Decatur one day a week. For particulars phone 266. Elmer Johnson was a busy buyer at the horse sale today and he will ship a car load to Pittsburg in the near future. Mrs. W. J. Blayne and daughter Mabel, after visiting friends at Ohio, they returned to their home at Kalamazoo, Mich.

The Cheapest Rubbers to Buy Are the ones that have the best rubber in them and usually cost a little more than the ordinary. We sell Pure Gum American rubbers at the same price of the ordinary. Buy rubbers here. ' _________________ __ CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE The Shoe Seller.

A suit department has been added to the M. Fullenkamp store. The interior of the Holthouse Drug company store is undergoing a complete overhauling. L. D. Hall, of W’est Virginia, -attended the horse sale today and has returned to his home. Harry Stoner, of Dayton, Ohio, was a caller in our city today and auctioneered the bors e sale. iting Mrs. Jonathan Everett, from Wren, Ohio, where she was visiting Mrs. oJnathan Everett. Mrs. Charley Knodel left for a short visit at the home of her brother, Charley Ruckman at Hoagland. Andrew Crabill went to Berne this morning to make a visit with his son-in-law, Charles E. Sullivan. Mrs. William Hreiner, of east of town, is all but well and her condition is flattering to her many friends. L. G. Ellingham has returned from Fort Wayne where he attended the love feast given for Thomas Marshall. E. S. Phillip, president of Ames Bending Co., at Celina, Ohio, Is visiting his sister Mrs. Elias Coverdale. Mr. and Mrs. David Moser, of Linn Grove, arrived this morning to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Gerber and family. Aruthur Suttles was initiated into the third rank of the K. P. lodge last night after which a delightful social session was enjoyed. The M. E. church choir will have practice at the church tomorrow night and all members are urgently requested to be present. Albert A. Butler left this morning to attend the meeting of the secretaries of the Celina, Van Wert, Polling Fair associations this afternoon at Van Wert. Mrs. Hervey Steele, who recently underwent an operation, is getting along nicely and the physician states that if nothing unforaeen sets in she will soon recover. Many horse buyers from the various parts of the country were in the city today attending the Decatur horse sale and bidding was lively on the good consignment of animals Chris Myers, of Geneva, passed through here this morning enroute from Chicago to his home. He was at Chicago learning many new ideas about cutting which will b e useful to him in the tailoring profession.

Frank Copp, of Preble, is a Monroe caller today. B. Boice, of Berne, called this morning on a business trip. Gorge Inechen. of Geneva, was a caller here this morning. Mrs. Alice Warner, of Peterson, arrived to spend the afternoon here. i Mr. Koehler and daughter Katherine left at noon for a visit at Bluffton. I David Soldner returned to his home at Berne after visiting here on business. C. A. Haviland returned to his home at Geneva after seeing to business here. Mrs. Harvey Bulter is at Fort ■ Wayne spending the day with relatives. Miss Victoria Stone, of Second street, is very ill with attack of lagrippe. Mrs. Sarah Sprunger returned to her home at Berne after visiting at Bluffton. Mrs. Leon Butler and baby are visiting Martin Lord at Monmouth, this afternoon. Donald McFeeley, of Fort Wayne, is in the city visiting his aunt, Mrs. James Bain. Mrs. Jacob Alweni was a caller in the city this morning. She returned home at Monroe. Mrs. E. Lord and baby are the guest of her father-in-law Martin Lord for the afternoon. Mr. Reeves, of Chicago, was a pleasant caller in our city today and has returned to his home. R. L. Peitz, of Marion, transacted business in our city today and has returned to his home. There is not as much sickness prevalent at present as has been during the past several months. Mrs. George Winters and daughter Mara, are spending the day at Fort Wayne, visiting relatives. Easter is but a few weeks off and several of the churches are planning programs for the occasion. A large number of farmers attended the horse sale today and bought many of the commissioned animals. Mrs. Joe Helm and her little granddaughter, Helen, are visiting MTs. C. C. Partlow at Richmond for a few days. Mrs. Dan Berry left this morning for Mentone, Ind., to be the guest of her brother, Rev. D. T. Hower for a few days. Med Miller has just completed a neat and attractive job of painting on the carpenter wagon belonging to Mann & Christen. Parrish Shilts, of near Van Wert, left this morning for Fort Wayne, to visit with his daughter, who is attending school there. Street Commissioner gtriltz and force of new are busy at present cleaning the streets and they present a very nice appearance. The condition of Mrs. J. B. Jones, of Seventh street remains about the same. She is unable to take much nourishment and consequently is very weak. The waters of the St. Marys river continued to recede and the bottom is being well drained. Within a short time the water will take its usual course. The topic of discussion mong many of the people of Decatur is in regard to the new. Clover Leaf depot that is to be built this summer. Just when work will begin is not as yet known. t The action that is pending against District Attorney Jerome at NewYork is causing much comment over the country. He has made a general denial to all the accusations and it will probably be threshed out in the courts. Rev. Harland, of 'Warren, will deliver an address at the M. E. church Sunday morning in behalf of the old people’s home that is under consideration. Rev. Harland is a speaker of ability and should be heard by a large audience. The furnace factory is operating at full blast with a goodly number of men on the pay Toll. Mr. Smpt.h. manager of this concern, has landed several good future orders and this summer will be a busy time for this institution. Mrs. M. J. O’Harra, two and onehalf miles southeast of Geneva, her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Marion O’Harra, of Kansas City, who is spending several weeks in this part of the state, transferred here Wednesday afternoon enroute to Geneva after an eight days’ visit in Indianapolis. —Portland Commercial-Review. A farmer entered one of our stores ' the other day and asked the price of sulphur. When told it was ten cents, he said: “I can get it from the mail order house for seven cents.” “Yes, replied our merchant, who had evidently heard that argument before, and you can get it in hell for nothing, and won’t have to pay the freight.” He sold the sulphur all right.

The Uncle Tom's Cabin will play at Huntington t£is evening. H. O. Young left this morning for Huntington to transact business. A large crowd of men arrived from Bluffton to attend the horse sale. J. P. Nuffeaun, of Berne, called this morning to see after business affairs. Great preparations are being made I to stage Ben Hur at Fort Wayne this month. A number of Decatur citizens attended the love feast at Fort Wayne last night. Miss Midge Smith left for Fort Wayne to see Blanche Bates play this evening. Miss Marie Allison and Wilbur Pool are witnessing the show at the Majestic this evening. J. L. Beck returned to his home at Tocsin after visiting his daughter, Mrs. Walter Johnson. Mrs. Homer McKean and baby went home this afternoon to Germantown, Ohio, after visiting at the home of Mrs. Geo. McKean. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Gilbert returned to their home at Ossian after visiting their relatives and friends in the surrounding country. Miss Ethel Desmond will sing at the Crystal theater this evening and Saturday afternoon and evening. Miss Desmond sings in three languages: German, English and Italian. Beside this specialty you see a show worth several time the five cent admission. Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin show company entertained a fair sized audience last night at the Bosse opera house and all who attended were well pleased. The scenic effects were fine and the characters were above the average. Although Uncle Tom is an old show it is one that always appeals to the theater going people. Because the twenty-five sets of gravel road bonds were issued in such “small” amounts and in such various lots, the Keane Bond Brokerage company, of Chicago, has refused to dally with the mere bagatei of $133,880 represented by the bonds, their refusal to make a bid on the paper being received by County Auditor O. D. Gar rett this morning.—Bluffton Banner. The most of the subscribers to the Daily and Weekly Democrat have been supplied with .one of our new and valuable library and wall charts and we have prepared to supply each one of our large list with one. The only condition is that the subscription Is paid for one year and the six page map that usually sells at $2.00 will be given absolutely free of charge. Don’t fail to eall and see this chart. A paper received from Bay City, Texas, conveys the information that Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Cooper, of this place arrived there with about sixty others from this and other northern states in a special car of the Burton D. Hurd Land company and are now touring the great state of Texas and taking a trip down the coast to Brownsville. Plans have been made to give the visitors a royal entertainment at a picnic party at Portsmouth on Sunday.—Berne Witness. Many private bankers in Indiana who neglected to tile reports of their condition with the state auditor within five days after the call will be required to pay the .penalty prescribed by rhe law. The last call was made February 29. Mahy of the private banks have not yet*reported. The penalty is a tine of SIOO to SSOO. The inference is that some private banks would sooner pay the penalty than allow their true condition to become known. In time depositors will grow suspicious of banks that refuse to comply with the law. The oldest twins known in this vicinity are Abralnm Butterfield and Mrs. William Hunt. They were born in Wilton, Me., Jan. 30. 1829, and are now’ seventy eight years old. Mr, Butterfield for several years has been in the National Soldiers’ Home, Danville, 111., while Mrs. William Hunt, is making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Sparks, near Markle. Mrs. Hunt is the mother of nine children, and there are thirty-two grandchildren and twenty-six great-grandchildren. Mr. Butterfield is the father of four children, three sons and one daughter. —Huntington News-Democrat. A number of socalled industrial schools hav e been opened in China, and notably in Tientsin and Pekin, where, for a small fee. students are given a manual training. Such things are expected in France and Germany, and even ini Sweden, but when this news comes from “The Forbidden City,” it is more exciting and significant. Os these schools, the leading one, “Shih Hsi Chang,” is a sort of a stock company with shares as low as fifty cents a share, so that all people may be interested. There is also an annual provincial subvention of SB,OOO. Training is given in dyeing, weaving, soap-making, art carpentry, pottery, silk embroidery, matchmaking (not the old fashioned kind indulged in by elderly ladies and anxious mammas), and porcelain painting.

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Mrs. Harry Deam. of Bluffton, who | has been visiting Mrs. R. K. Allison is attending the play at Fort Wayne | this evening. Rev. Richard Spetnagel and wife | arrived last evening from Rockford Ohio, to make their future home here. His household goods came last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. George Layer returned to Fiqua. Ohio, this noon after visiting with Mrs. Jacob Olwein of Monroe. On their way home they will stop at Eaton and Dayton, Ohio.

FARMERS ATTENTION r auctioneer—--I*/ »* /fV-igrX X* i I will be at home after March, 18tH and am now ready to book your SALE. A LIFES TIME OF EXPERIENCE SELLING NEARLY EVERY DAY ENABELS ME TO MAKE A SUCCESSFUL SNAPPY SALE FOR YOU AND THEREBY ADD SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS TO THE lOTAL OF » YOUR SALE FRED REPPERT The Auctioneer OFFICE over Burns Harness shop PHONE 312, 430

Albert Smith, of Berne, was a business caller here this morning. Mrs. Rosie Dailey, of Fourth street. I will leave Monday for Massachusetts I where she will visit her daughter. : Mrs. Olive Pearson for several weeks. The entertainment which was given by the Ladles’ Aid society of the United Brethren church last evening was a success in every particular. The ladles took in $27.63, which speaks well for them. The program was splendid, and each one who attended was well paid for going.

Mrs. R K. Allison is attending the play at the Majestic this evening. Miss Lena Miller left at noon for Fort Wayne to take treatment for her cheek. The condition of J. K. Rinehart remains practically the same this afternoon. For forty-eight hours he has been lying in a comatose condition and the attending physicians give no hope for his recovery. His death is momentarily expected. His son, Fred is expected tonight from Logansport. —Bluffton News.