Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1908 — Page 3

ng » cong of Battle Sailing in a line. Hand in hand the nations all Now fer peace combine «mc As a peace promoter the voyage of Uncle Sam’s fleet has been a complete success. We are equally successful in promoting satisfaction with our famous Walk-Over shoes. You owe it to yourself to give us a trial. And there’s no time like the present! Tague Shoe Store

WEATHER. Fair tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature, RAILROAD BULLETIN GRAND RAPIDS A INDIANA. Northbound. No. 5, daily 1:28 a. m. No. 7 daily 7:57 a.m. No. 3, daily ex. Sun 3:07 p.m. Southbound. No. 2, dally ex. Sun 1:16 p.m. No. 6, daily 12:47 p.m. No. 12, daily ex. 5ub........7:16a.m. No. 16, Sunday only 8.51p.m. ERIE. Into effect Sunday June 21, 1908. No. 8. Daily 5:28 a.m. No. 12. Dally 2:00a.m. No. 22. Daily 2:00 p.m. No. 4. Daily 3:26p.m. No. 15. Daily 7:30 p.m. No. 7. Daily 1:52 a.m. No. 9. Daily 3:12 a.m. No. 3. Daily 12:46 p.m. No. 21. Daily 10:10 p.m. TIME CARD CLOVER LEAF. No. 2 —Frankfort to Toledo, Ex. Sun 12:22p.m. No. I—Toledo1 —Toledo to Frankfort Ex. Sun. 12:45 p.m. No. 3 —Delphos to St Louis Ex Sun 7:21a.m. No. s—Toledo5 —Toledo to St. Louis daily 10:17 p.m. No. 6 —St Louis to Toledo daily 1 «. 5:05 a. in. No. 9 —Sunday only, Toledo to Frankfort 10:44 a.m. No. 10 —Sunday only, Frankfort to Toledo 7:07 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. to. 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. 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:30p.m. 11:00p.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. wiH wait until after the show.

THE ADAMS COUMTY COMMENCEMENT PICTURE IS A GRAND SUCCESS It is a large 11x14 print on a heavy embossed 16x20 mount. Every face is large and a perfect likeness. The regular price is $1.25. If you place your order before July 4th it will only cost you 75c. I can only make this big reduction by finishing all at a time. So please do not delay. Remember after July 4th it will cost you $1.25. I am your photographer, SHALLEY BERNE, IND.

Mr. L. A. Andrews was a business caller at Prebl e today. Tom Gallogly was a business visitor at Monroe this afternoon, Jerry Liechty returned to Berne this afternoon after transacting business her e today. C. E. Snow left for Fort Wayne today on special business and will return this,evening. Miss C. L. Johnson left this morning for Markle, where she is spending the day with friends. Mr.and Mrs. L. E. Opliger left for Fort Wayne this morning and will spend the day visiting. Mrs. Z. M. Groves was in the city shopping today and returned to her home in Willshire this noon. Mrs. Anna Roebuck returned to her home at Pleasant Mills this noon after doing some shopping here. Mrs. J. L. Moser, of Wren, Ohio, arrived in the city this morning to spend the day with J L. Gay and family. Mrs. Alice Kennedy and son Jean returned to Roann, Ind,, today after visiting here for some time with her parents. Misses Margaret Bell and Doris DeVoss left this afternoon for Portland where they will make a visit for several days. Mrs. Rosy Mix and son passed through the city today enrout e from Fort Wayne to Willshire, Ohio, on an extended visit This is Berne day before the board of review, but at noon no one had appeared to register a kick about their assessment.

John H. Heller went to Fort Wayne this afternoon for a short visit. Ke witnessed the ball game between Wheeling and Fort Wayne before returning. Clark J. Lutz is trifling with the finny tribe at Crooked Lake, and in the meantime is trying to recuperate from an indisposition that has had slightly the better of him for a few days. The Eagle will fairly cream at the enterprising town of Monroe on the Fourth of July. Many attractions that are free will b e offered and everybody is assured one of the greatest Fourths they ever witnessed in their lives. Biersdorfer, the Berne lad. who is on the Minneapolis pitching staff, was sent fn yesterday against Toledo after the game was lost in the third inning and during the remaining five and a half innings prevented them from making a hit. Mr. Whitehouse, of Berne, arrived in the city this morning and spent a few hours here changing trains, and left over the Erie for points in wastern Indiana. Mr. Whitehouse is a fine violinist and has often been heard by people of this place. Professor Gardner's show which has held forth on the lot. at the eastern end of Mad it on street, has left the town for Monroe. The show was here but three days, but from the appearance of things, the long green was not going their way very often, hence their hasty disappearance.

If a man is down on his luck and thinks he is tired of farming because he cannot lay up something year by yead, Just let him (remember that there are thousands of men as honest as he, who are working in the cities at day or week labor and eat up everything they make so that if they get out of work for a day they must go in debt for rent and food, and let him be thankful that he has a hearth and home of his own and roof to cover himself and family and that he can raise enough wholesome food to live on, and breathe wholesome air and call no man master—Exchange.

Mrs. J, Elzey is spending the day at Fort Wayn e with friends. John Hendricks, of Monroe, arrived in the city this morning to transact important business. Mrs. Miller returned to her home at Linn Grove today after visiting with friends here. Mrs. Catharin e Lange left today for Fort Wayne, where she will make a several days’ visit. Otto Peters went to Willshire today to assume control of the Holthouse Drug Co. branch store. Miss Clara Schultz is in the city the guest of her parents. She will return to Fort Wayne next week. Mrs. Nicholas Detro and son Guy returned this morning from a several days’ visit at Berne with friends.’ J R. Badders, of Monroe, transacted business in our city today and rturned to his home this afternoon. Messrs. A. E. and O. T. Shaw, of Alliance, Ohio, have arrived in the city for a visit with friends and relatives.

Mrs. August Werling left for Fort Wayn e today, she being called there owing to the serious illness of her sister. Mrs. Wesley Hoffman went to Richmond this afternoon where she will visit for a short while with her brother. Mrs. C. W. Merryman and daughter returned to Monroe after making a short visit here with her mother, who is seriously ill. Mrs. D. B. Erwin and daughter Mary returned today from Pleasant Mills, where they were making a several days’ visit w'ith relatives. Mrs. Scott Bixler, of Decatur, came Saturday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Jo e Bucher and family west of town. —Geneva Herald. The scarcity of new potatoes have not only increased their price, but old potatoes have increased twenty, cents on the bushel as well. Miss Riedenbach returned to Van Wert, Ohio, today byway of Fort Wayne, after spnding several days here w'ith C. J. Lutz a d family. Miss Mayme Dorwin returned to Decatur the latter part of last week after a visit with relatives here for a couple of weeks. -Geneva Herald. Mr. I. Summers passed through the city today enroute from Tiffin, Ohio, where he was attending a funeral of his daughter to' his home at Berne. Dr. C. V. Connell found it necessary to take sixty stitches in the Conter ic e wagon horse to close the gash made by being struck by the interurban car. The animal may recover. Louis Springer, south of Decatur, suffered a sunstroke while plowing corn Tuesday. William Babcock, near Pierceton, is another victim of the heat, and his condition is serious.

Angola has accepted the plans of Prof. R. L. Sackett, of Purdue university, for a complete system of sewers for tho city and will award the contract for construction work soon. True R. Fristoe returned today from Troy, Ohio, and will remain here for some time. There are nearly fifty cases of smallpox in Troy and True thought he would ski doo before the town was quarantined. Mrs. DeVilbiss went to Fort Wayne this morning, she being joined by her father, Mr. Kunkle, at Monmouth, where they will proceed to Fort Wayne and visit the DeVilbiss fruit farm north of that city. Mrs. W. A. Wisner, of Decatur, who has been making a short visit here, returned home this noon, She was accompanied by her hostess, Mrs. W. A. Markley, who will mak e a short visit with her and with other Decatur friends. —Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Carolos and the members of the party of Greeks that went to the old country early in the spring to spend the summer, ar e now in New York and will return to Marion in a few days. A telegram was received in Marion Tuesday evening announcing the saf e arrival of the party in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Carolos and their party have been in Sparta. Greece, and they have visited Athens, Rome and other famous cities. Mr. Carolos is a member of the firm of Chocos and Carolos, proprietors of the confectionery store at Fourth and Washington streets. — Marion Leader.

Fred Stevens was in Bluffton last evening for a short call on his brother L. B. Stevens. He had been on a trip to various points and is incidentally looking for an opening for a good hotel. The News is informed that he is not a member of the new hotel firm which incorporated Tuesday under the name of the W. D. Junes company, of Fort Wayne, with a capital stock of 17,000, with John McAlevy, Harry Palmer and Mary C. Rossiter, incorporators. Mr. Stevens returned to Fort Wayne last night and he was visited there today by his brother, L. B. Stevens, and wif e and son Belden. —Bluffton News.

P. L. Andrews was a visitor at Markle, Indiana, today. Miss Lillie Lewton left this morning for Markle for a short visit, L ,C. Waring returned last evening from a business trip to Huntington, Ind. Many picnic parties have planned to enjoy gala times at the Maple Grove Park, Their will be a picnic at Freidheim next Sunday and an excellent time is assured all who attend. The Clover Leaf is advertising low rats excursions for the Fourth of July to all points on their line. The ladies of the Royal Neighbors will give an ice cream social in front of their hall on Madison street next Saturday night. Misses Josephine Krick and Ira Fuhrman,left for a few miles north of th e city this afternoon, where they will visit for a short time.

John R. Badders, of Monroe, was here today and took home a cartload of Fourth of July advertising. Monroe proposes to celebrate and do it right. The improvement on north Sixth street goes merrily along, the curbing being all set and in a short tim e the bricklayers will commence to lay the brick. Auditor Lewton is making some improvements in the buildings on his farm, and even in other ways is demonstrating th e fact that he knows a thing or two about the pursuis of good farming. The board of review are closing up their session, their thirty days’ time expiring next week. They have worked faithful and given universal satisfaction in the equalization of taxation in Adams county. Prof. True Fristoe arrived home from Troy, Ohio, this morning, where he has been for the past several months and will visit her e for a week or two before going to Chicago, 111., and Laporte, Ind., at which latter place he may reside. One of the most remarkable automobile accidents ever recorded in Richmond was that in which a machine driven by E. R. Draver ran up on a crowded sidewalk on Main street, striking a cab, in which was the little child of Mr. and Mrs. John Schmidt, The cab was broken to pieces, but the child escaped with no hurts of consequence. Alva Shoemaker, of Oklahoma, son of John Shoemaker, who was married at Marion on the 13th inst., left with his wife for Marlon Saturday after a visit here with his parents. They will visit in Maron a few days and from there go to their future home in Oklahoma, w’here Mr. Shoemaker is engaged in the oil business. —Geneva Herald.

Postmaster H. P. Loveland, of Peru has bene notified that unless many of of the roads in Miami county are improved within 90 days the government will order several rural routes out of Peru abandoned. Postmaster Loveland has called a convention of township trustees, road supervisors and farmers, to be held in the Coihmercial Club rooms July 11, to take steps toward the improvement of the roads. Messrs. G. M. Wilson, John Burris, Henry Stahl and C. O. Rayn of Geneva attended the I. O. O. F. lodge at Berne last Thursday night. The initiatory and third degree were conferred on candidates. The visitors all enjoyed a very fine time. Berne lodge voted to attend the Geneva lodge the first meeting night in August, and this order will try to have some candidates ready for degrees to be conferred on that night.—Geneva Herald. The regular meeting Wednesday evning of the Bluffton lodge No. 92, Knights of Pythias, was an epochmaking event in the history of the order. A splendid class of forty-seven new members w r as initiated, raising the total to 330, and in addition to this increas e beyond the long-coveted three hundred mark, the lodge took steps which means another large class, and the enthusiasm is such that predictions are freely made that the lodge will reach the four hundred mark by October first, and eventually will go to the splendid figure of 500 members. —Bluffton Chronicle.

There is not much doubt but that Bluffton will be going out to the west side ball ground rooting for Bluffton’s own team in the 1.-O. league around about July 4th. Ever since the letter cam e from Maggert stating that he would come to Bluffton at any time to manage and captain a team, the bug has been working, until this morning it began to bore in to the extent that an effort to do something was started. It is already known that finances can be raised, and all that remains is to locate som e good players, who seem plentiful this year, and start doing business. The I. O. league now has four teams and want two more, and it is expected that Kokomo and Bluffton will take a go in the league.—Bluffton Banner.

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THE FOURTH AT MONROE. Bills Out Announcing a Big and Interesting Program. Bills were posted today for the big Fourth of July celebration at Monroe. It’s to be a hummer. The speaker of the day is the Hon. Clark J. Lutz of the city. There will be ball games, races, music and fireworks and the boys ar e expecting a big time. The Ohio City band will be there, also others and the “push’’ committee are even promising more than they have advertised. Quite a number are planning to go from Decatur. . . ~o Residents of east Franklin street were given an opportunity Sunday evening to witness the flagellation of a young miss who had offended her parents by remaining from home too long. The names of the parties are withheld as it is the first escapade of the kind the young lady has committed. At 9 in the evening th e parents were anxiously awaiting her return and a search was soon begun. The father carried a whip and when he met her returning from the precincts of the city h e gave her a sound drubbing. The neighbors were apprised of the event on account of the screams given out by the girl.—Huntington Democrat. This would be a good prescription for some of the Decatur parents to use.

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