Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1908 — Page 3

The Merry Widow The Newest Creation for spring wear in low cut Oxfords with broad sailor tie and the large solone! tongue which adds greatly to the new spring style. Tague Shoe Store

WEATHER. Showers and severe thunder storms touigut and possibly Saturday. RAILROAD BULLETIN GRAND RAPIDS i INDIANA. Northbound. No. 5, daily 1:28 a. m. No. 7 daily ex Sunday .7:57 a. m. No. 3, daily ex. Sunday ....3:07 p. m. Southbound. No. 6, daily .12:47 a. m. No. 12. daily ex. Sunday. . .7:16 a. m. No. 2, daily ex. Sunday... .1:16 p. m. ERIE. Westbound. No. 7, daily 1:41 a. m. No. 9, daily 3:06 a. m. No. 21, daily ex. Sunday. .10:10 a. m> No. 3, daily 1:18 p. m. Eastbound. No. 12, daily 2:18 a. m. No. 8, daily 5:35 a. m. No. 22. daily ex. Sunday.. .2:00 p. nt. No. 4, daily 3:26 p. m. T. ST. L. & W. R. R. Westbound. No. 1, daily 5:50 a. m. No. 3, daily 10:32 a. m. No. 5, daily 9:51 p. m. No. 23, daily local ex 5un.10:32 a. m. Eastbound. No. 6, daily 1'4:52 a. m. No. 2, daily 12:28 p. m. No. 4. d ally 7:00 p. m. No. 22, daily 10ca1........1:15 p. m. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RAILWAY CO. Trains Leave Trains Leave Decatur Ft. Wayne 5:50a.m. 7:00a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. ) 5:30 p.m. \ 5:30 p.m. 7:00p.m. 7;00p. m. 8:30 p.m. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p. m. car will arrive at Calhoun or Berry streets, Fort Wayne at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p. m. will wait until after the show. \

TAN OXFORDS Are ascarce article in some stores just now. We anticsiiy - ipated the demand for them and we have alarge stock for to arrivals this week in both ladies and mens. Ladies made on the new Spitz last with military V heel and short, forepart at $3.00. Mens light shade y Russia calf with large brass D rings at $4.00. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE The Shoe Seller.

Henry Koeneman went to Williams this morning. Charles Fisher left for Rome City to visit hig father, Fred Fisher. Col. Fred Reppert received a mule by express yesterday afternoon. A. P. Beatty made a legal business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. The Coffee and Rinehart restaurant is undergoing a complete overhauling. Miss Mary Haag arrived home from Berne, where she was visiting her sister. Harvey Harruff. who was a business caller at Berne yesterday, returned last evening. D. D. Heller made his daily trip to Fort Wayne this morning to attend to legal business. Miss Lillian Lewton who has been sewing at Monroe this week, arrived home this morning. Misses Pearl Delhi and Viola Urick arrived from Monroe, where they visited friends and relatives. Miss Ruby Miller, who finshed her term of school at Linn Grove, returned home this morning. M. H. Stewart, of Avilla, was in the city yesterday transacting business and left for his home town last evening. Many people are busy cleaning house at present and many carpets are getting good beatings. Well it is the time of year for it. Mrs. E. E. DeWitt last evening arrived from Geneva, where she was looking after the interests of the order of Royal Neighbors. The damage case that is being tried in the Wells circuit court wherein Mr. Magley demands $2,000 damages for injuries, is attracting much attention. Mrs. Errilla J. Collier, of Liberty Center, Wells county, has sued for divorce from her husband, Edward J. Collier, and in addition demands $2,500 in alimony. The Decatur Horse Sale stables were taxed to their capacity today with foreign buyers who were anxious to secure the excellent horse flesh to ship to the market. T. W. Shelton, who is organizing an amusement company for the park which is to be constructed north of the city along the interurban line, is getting along very nicely in securing subscriptions of stock and it is thought that the company will soon be organized.

Fred Scheiman was a business caller at Fort Wayne today. Miss Elenora Forbing is on the sick list, although she is not seriously ill. Marshal Bohnke has been busy for the past two days serving notice on people to clean up. The Coppock Automobile factory is still running at full blast and several machines are under way. Mrs. Ellen Dailey, who visited Mrs. Geo. M. Haefting left for her home at Bluffton this morning. The Erie Stone Co. vs. Calvin Miller et al case was resumed in the Allen circuit court this morning. Mr. Hiram Garton who transacted business, left today for Fort Wayne where he will be a business caller. We are informed that most of the citizens are complying with the order to clean up given by the board of health. The Center Ice Cream company is shipping much ice tb Fort Wayne and this speaks much for this enterprising institution. The Decat ar Furnace factory continues to do a flourishing business and Manager Smith has succeeded in landing several good orders. Charles Nelson was busily engaged yesterday moving his household goods from the north pan of the city to his property in the west end. The Ward Fence buildings are being rapidly built. The west side of the main building is about completed and Contractor Adamson is pushing the work to completion. Incendiaries fired a large barn on the farm of John Mort, a few miles south of Warsaw, early Wednesday morning and it was a total loss, together with its contents. The daughter of* Charles Afrau, at Elkhart, is in a critical condition from poisoning as the result of dyes permeating the shell of an Easter egg which she ate. The Atoz Printing company wants to move from South Whitley to some larger city which is willing to purchase from $50,000 to $75,000 of its bonds to provide a larger working capital. The funeral of Stanford Stevens was held from the Union township church yesterday afternoon and interment was made in Clark's chapel cemetery. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Burrows. Judge Lawrence W. Halsey, of Milwaukee, Wis., filed suit in the circuit court of Mason county, Ky., against the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad for SBO,OOO, on account of the death of his wife and injuries to himself in the wreck at Lawrence Creek, two miles west of Maysville last May. It is the largest damage suit ever filed against a railroad in this state. For the last dozen years J. H. Banta has been a fixture in the business life of Willshire and vicinity. He has bought wool and poultry of the farmers and sold them general merchandise, and has retained their friendship, and up till the time he was put out of business, he enjoyed a liberal share of their trade. He regarded him as an honest business man, and one with whom they enjoyed doing business. —Willshire Herald. Rev. Jasper H. Winans, pastor of the First Baptist church of Bellefontaine. Ohio, had the pleasure of eating his Easter dinner with Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Fristoe. Rev. Winans is just recovering from a severe spell of illness and is visiting his daughters, the two Mrs. Haughton and Mrs. Kizer of this vicinity. Rev. Winans is an old schoolmate of Mr. Fristoe and the meeting of the two was a very enjoyable affair in talking and taking a retrospective view of their boyhood days when “Down in the Farm."— Geneva Herald. Mrs. James Thrasher, of Andrews, is jll with smallpox and it Is feared that the entire populace of that burg ,has been exposed. Saturday a child of Mrs. Thrasher died and over two hundred people attended the funeral. When the child’s death was reported the physicians did not report that that there was smallpox in the family. It is thought the child did not die from smallpox. Dr. E. W. Poineer, secretary of the Adnrews board of health, has filed an affidavit against the attending physician, Dr. W. E. Nichols, charging him with failure to report the case of smallpox. THf PICTORIUM TONIGHT First reel —“Commanding a Battleship Fleet.” Second reel —“Boxing Contests in England.” son a “Good-bye Christina Swanson.” A gold piece will be given away tonight. J. B. STONEBURNER, Prop.

Dr. Connell ig quite sick with an attack of lagrippe. Dyonis Schmitt made a business trip to Tocsin. Indiana. J. D. Lewton left for Marion to be the guest of friends a few days. Ira C. Taper, an attorney of Toledo, was a business caller in our city today. John Tyndall went to Bluffton, where he will transact business today. Chas. Gilbert, who was here on business. returned to his home at Bluffton. George E. Cramer, of Kokomo, was here visiting the K. of P. lodge last evening. J. F. Adamson, contractor of the Ward Fence Co., returned to his home at Hartford City today. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Roderick, who have been at the Hotel Murray for a week, went to Marion, today. Miss Daisy Williamson went to Markle this morning. She will attend commencement there tonight. Mrs. C. Vogt left for New Bremen, Ohio, this morning to visit her parents at that place for a few days. Gay and Zwick sold and delivered a consignment of furniture to Ed Miller at Pleasant Mills this morning. Mrs. Linnia Wilhßlm went to Elkhart by the way of Fort Wayne, to visit with her sister, Mrs. C. D. Kern for a week. W. J. Connell, of New Manchester, father of Dr. Connell, was in the cityvisiting hf« son and other friends and relatives. Mrs. John Niblick went to Fort Wayne at 8:30 to transact business there today. She will attend the Korina concert tonight at the Majestic theater. Dyonis Schmitt entertained three of his cousins. John, Matthias and Peter Schneider for a few days. They left for their homes at Mt. Pleasant and Tars, Pa., this morning on the 8:30 car.

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Ed Vancil arrived home today at 10:32. Jacob Magley went to Bluffton to attend a trial there today. Miss Emma Latter arrived from Willshire to do shopping here. W. H. Fledderjohann left for Richmond. Ind., on a business trip. Mrs. John Hofstetter, of Willshire, 0., was in the city shopping today. Jonathan Andrews left for Marion to visit with relatives for a short time. Mrs. Frank Garton went to Bluffton for a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Biddle. G. Barnell who has been in the city for a few days went to Bluffton this morning. Jeff Leichty, of Berne, transacted business here today and left for his home at 1:18. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Peters are visiting Mrs. and Mrs. Erman Mentzer at Bluffton, Ind. Miss Celia Kinney was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. T. F. Golden, of Fort Wayne today. Tom Stoneburner went to Bluffton today. From there he will go Jo Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Fred Beery went to Upper Sandusky by the way of Bluffton. He will take pictures while away. W. A. Bucher, who was in the city transacting business, returned to his home at Huntington on the 10:10 train. Mrs. Rachael York, who visited for a week with her son, A. M. York and family, returned to her home at Convoy, Ohio, by the way of Fort Wayne. An order has been issued to the G. A. R. posts of Indiana changing the date of "Flag Day” from June 14 to Monday, June 15. This day is observed in commemoration of the raising of the United States flag over Fort Schuyler in New York on June 14, 1777.

James Thatciier, of Geneva, was a business caller here today. Chris Haverne returned to his home at Geneva this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Cary Evans, of Geneva. spent the day in Decatur. Wm. Whittman, of Berne,' transacted business in our city today. Vernon Light, of Bprne, brought some horses to the Decatur horse sale and returned home. John E. Foster, of New Corydon, returned to his home this afternoon. He was here on business. Messrs. G. W. and Glen Huffman, of Portland transacted business here and left for their home today. J. H. Smith, of Berne, was a business caller here this morning and returned to his home this afternoon. Ralph Ervin, of Delphos, Ohio, who has been visiting Charles Ervin and family for some time, will leave for Delphos this evening. Jacob Berington, or Blue Creek township, was here transacting business and returned to his home by the way- of Willshire today. Arthur Rice and Joe Foreman went to Ossian to visit the business college school and if it is all right they will attend the school next fall. John Denton has purchased a lot in the Meibers addition and he will build a house thereon in the near future. This will be the first house built west of the railroad on a lot sold by the Commercial Club. Hartford City is to have an independent base ball team this summer and Ralph Monfort, the all around athlete of that place, will now receive recognition, having been elected to the management of the new club. Monfort is a splendid first baseman but has always been turned down when Hartford City started its annual salaried bunches. He will play the first corner this summer and has gathered about him a fast bunch of local players and the season is well dated so far.

Malcolm Skinner left for Fort Wayne on the ten o’clock car to transact business. Mrs. Rosa Roop went to Fort Wayne where she will visit her sister, Mrs. J. C. Peoples. Miss Lena Miller left for Willshire Ohio, this noon to visit with for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Feller, of Lagrange, arrived to be the guests of Newton Anderson jtnd family, Henry Engler, who was a business caller here, went to Fort Wayne, where he will transact business. Marshal Bohnke put the quietus to another dog today and this makes a large number of scalps to his belt. In giving the names of those who attended the Jones-Bender wedding in yesterday’s paper. Mrs. D. E. Studabaker and her guest, Mrs. Hattie Geddes. of Goshen were omitted. The base ball game to be played here next Sunday between the Toledo Shamrocks and the fast city bunch, promises to be very interesting and no doubt a large attendance will greet the boys at their initial game of the season.

. THE =-■ R YST A L ■THEATRES OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES. First film —“Funny Faces Competition.” “Going to Switzerland.” Second film —“The Little Marauders." “Satan’s Little Jaunt.” ILLUSTRATED SONG. "Good-l>Fe Christina Swanson.” (Comic.) SCHMUCK & MILLER