Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1908 — Page 3

Is it Bargains You are looking for ? ? If so look in our window. We have them piled up for you and more of them inside which we can't put on dis play, as the room won’t permit, but come inside and ask for them. They are at the Tague Shoe Store

WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight and Friday. RAILROAD BULLETIN GRAND RAPIDS A INDIANA. Northbound. Into Effect Sunday, June 28. No. s—Dailys—Daily 11:28 p.m. i No. 7 —Daily 7:57a.mJ, No. 3 —Daily ex. Sun 5:15 p.m. Southbound. No. 4 —Daily 2:29 a.m. No. 12 —Daily ex Sun 7:16a.m. No. 2 —Daily ex. Sun 1:11p. m. No. 16 —Sundays only 8:56p.m. ERIE. into effect Sunday June 21, 1908. No 8. Daily 5:28a.m. No. 12. Daily 2:00 a.m. No. 22. Daily 2:00 p.m. No. 4. Daily .3:26 p.m. No. 15. Daily .....7:30p.m. No. 7. Daily 1:52 a.m. No. 9. Daily 3:12 a.m. ’ <o. 3. Daily 12:46p.m. ■Jo. 21. Dally 10:10 p.m. TIME CARD CLOVER LEAF. ■Jo. 2 —Frankfort to Toledo, Ex. Sun 12:45 p.m. S’o. I—Toledo1 —Toledo to Frankfort Ex. Sun 12:22 p.m. No. 3 —Delphos to St Louis Ex Sun 7:21 a. m. No. 4 —St. Louis to Delphos, Ex. Sun 7:57 p.m. No. s—Toledo5 —Toledo to St. Louis daily .............10:17p m. No. 6—St. Louis to Toledo daily 5:05a.m. No. 9 —Sunday only, Toledo to Frankfort 10:44 a.m. No. 10 —Sunday only, Frankfort to Toledo 7:o7p.rn. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE A SPRINGFIELD RAILWAY CO. Trains Leave Trains Leave Decatur Ft. Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:06 a.m. 7:60 a. m. • 8:39 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 11:30a.m. 1:00p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:39 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7roop.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p ■. car will arrive at Calhoun or Berry afreets, Fort Wayne at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p. m. wlB wait until after the •bow. I repair Bi<:vc,es Guns ’ umbreliaS/ Etc. J Prices Right F. E. SMITH The man who fixes things I have good city properties for sale ■ Or will trade for farm. Arthur Fish- ■ er . Decatur, Ind. 160-6 t ■ — o —- S Beginners dancing class at Maple ■ Grove p ark Monday night. 148-2 t

Will Holbrock was a caller at Kingsland today. Lee Walters was a business caller at Bluffton this afternoon. Mrs. Charles Zesor js spending the day at Monmouth with friends. Elgin King arrived from Willshire this noon on important business. John Tyndall returned from a business trip to LaOtto. Ind., last evening. | Messrs. T. W. Watts and Eli Sprungtor were business callers at Huntington today. Mrs. Charles Fishcher and children went to Markle today, where they will make a short visit with friends. Mrs. J. W. Ray and children left today for Pleasant Mills, where they will riake a short visit with friends. Tom Buckmaster and Forest Elzey left this noon for St. Louis, where they will spend a few days on business. Several picnics are being held at Maple Grove Park this evening and they will be attended by large crowds. Mr. Weber, agent for a book publeshing company in this city, left this noon for Bluffton, where he will attend to business matters. .“Hech” Hensley has Some- more curios in the way of some large snake eggs, which were given him by some of his many friends. Mrs. J. A. Mienerding and children returned to Toledo, Ohio, their home, this noon, after visiting in the city for some time with relatives. Mesdames Jennie Studabaker and Fred Schafer are spending a few days as guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Dibble, east of the city. Mesdames Arthur Champer of this city and Ernst Wieckng ,of Bluffton, left this morning for points in Missouri where they will visit for some time. Mrs. Geo. Wemhoff and children will leave this evening for Sanford. Mich., where she will visit with her sister, Mrs. Alice Archer for several days. The W. R. C. will give an ice cream social on Madison street in front of their hall Saturday evening and an elegant time js assured all who attend. Miss Edna Hoffman is taking the place of Miss Zelma Steele at. the Tru e and Runyon dry goods sto-a while Miss Steele enjoys her vacation. Earl Marschand and wife who were recently married, are moving to Rich, mond. where Mr. Marschand has accepted a position with the Hoosier Drill company. Ruth Juday returned to Geneva yesterday after visiting with Al Burdg and She was home by Joe Burdg, who will make a short visit. Mrs. Elizabeth Hart and Mr. and Mrs, John Johns have returned from Fostoria. Ohio, where they attended the wedding of the latter’s son, Roman. who was wedded Tuesday. Every member of the K. P. lodge should be present at tonight’s meeting and assist in deciding the important issue in regard to the new home which will undoubtedly be built before snow flies. A large crowd is figuring on attending Maple Grove Park this evening, this being the regular evening for dancing. Good music by the orchestra will be furnished and everybody is invited to attend.

Otto Burns, who played left field on the Decatur team of the 1.-O. league . winning many a contest with his time- j ly hits, was here this morning looking up old friends. He has been with Van Wert this year and is playing great ball. The Van Wert and Huntington teams are playing a series of exhibition games at Bluffton this week. Van Wert won yesterday's game three to two.

Mr. Moses was a business caller at Fort Wayne today. H. B. Heller was a business caller at Fort Wayne today. Hubert DeVoss spent the day at Fort Wayne on business. Charles Elzey made a business trip to Hoagland this morning. Wabash coal dealers have signed an agreement to sell only for spot cash in the future, Mrs. Elizabeth Ehinger went to Fort Wayne th is morning to visit with her sister for a short time. The condition of Mrs. J. H. Heller, who is suffering from a severe attack of quinsy is unchanged today. Mrs. Charles Loch and her sister, Miss Zoa Miller, are spending the day at Fort Wayne with friends. Miss Harriet B. Geddes, of Goshen, is the guest of her cousin, Master David Studabaker, for a few- days. Mrs. Enos Lord and children went to Williams this morning, where they will visit with friends for several days. Mrs. C. M. Hower and Miss Ruth Ernst went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with Mrs. William Doehrman. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Baltzell went to Fort Wayne this morning where they will make a short visit with a brother who is sick in the hospital Fred Eichenberger, of Berne, was a business caller In our ci y today.! Mr. Eichenberger formerly lived here owning the restaurant that is now occupied by Prover Bros. Messrs. John Falk. Guy Majors. Kurt Brown and Roy Woltord left this morning for Wolcottville, Ind., where they will enjoy a ten days’ outing and tease the finny tribe. Mrs. C. W. Bushnell and son Arthur (transferred here Tuesday enroute to their home in Muncie from Decatur, where they have been visiting relatives for two weeks. —Portland Review. Cullen, with Decatur last season, is playing a fine game for Sharon. His work in the field, at third base and heavy hitting gives to him the rank of one of the most valuable infielders of lh e Ohlo-Bennsylvania jieagu^ —Van Wert Bulletin. Dick Heller, while out driving with several playmates, in a pony cart last evening, fell out and the wheels ran over his ankles. Except a few bruises he received no injury and was ready for another try at playing ‘‘hopping trains” in a few minutes. Mrs. E. France and daughter, Louise, of Decatur, spent Wednesday in Portland with the former's niece, Mrs. Lewis Collins who is seriously ill at the home of her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Collins of west Main street. —Portland Sun. A big motor car made by the Coppock factory at Decatur, passed through this city last night enroute to Attica, Ind., where it will be used by one of th e mineral springs resorts. The car was in the city over night at the Grove garage.—Bluffton News. William Chapman, proprietor of Warsaw’s last saloon, poured his remaining stock of liquor into the gut ter when his license expired Friday night. Nine saloons in Warsaw have been closed by remonstrance during the past six months and the city is now “dry.” Wilma Jacques, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jacques, of Blu‘fton, had a narrow escape from choking to death Tuesday. Sh e fell with her head between the rods of an iron bedstead and hung suspended for several minutes bfore she was discovered by her mother. Margaret, one year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard McCrum, south of Huntington, is suffering from at least fifteen bites of a rat or w-easel. A few nights ago the parents were awakened by the cries of the child and running to its side, found numerous places indicating the bites of an animal. Physicians have been in frequent attendance and the child has been in great agony, fighting those about it all the time. There was much rejoicing last night among the temperanc e forces of Hart, ford City and of Montpelier over the decision of Judge Sturgis in the ci" cuit court yesterday afternoon, in which h e held that the twenty-two votes thrown out by the county commissioners in the remonstrance filed in the second ward of Montpelier were valid, giving th e remonstrances a clean majority and, for the time bsing at least, making Montpelier a “dry” town. —Bluffton Banner. Becoming beyond control th e big automobile belonging to and driven by Manson Reiff skidded from side to

side along the road south of Elm Grove cemetery at 10:30 o’clock last j evening, struck the wet grass at the side of the highway and turned over . ou its side, hurling the occupants into : the ditch, injuring Mr. Reiff seriously ■ and the other occupants, Misses Cecil . Karns, Corrine Dailey, Blanche Dailey . and Pearl Saylor and Dayton Abbott, 1 Al Abbott and Ben Levenson, more or I less severely.—Bluffton Banner.

SERIOUS CONDITION Is that of Ben Middleton, Who Was Taken into Custody Today INSANITY INQUEST Will Be Held this Afternoon—He Became Violent* this Morning Ben Middleton, a well known citizen here, whose mind has been affected for several months, has becom e so violent that, it wa s necessary to take him into custody this morning. His wife has sworn to the necessary affidavit before Squire James H. Stone, for a sanity inquest and same will be held this afternoon. Ther e is no doubt as to his condition and application for his admission to East Haven asylum will be sent in at once. His mind trouble follows several years of poor health and has been noticeable for some time. La-t week he went to .Monmouth and wa- unable to find his (way home, finally .feeing found lying in a ditch along tie :oad. During last .night he threatened to kill his wife, ■ and children, and it became necessary : today to take cere of him. Marshal Bohnke took him to jail, where he will (be held until he is taken to Richmond, i which may be two or three weeks. The charity t aid will hold a specid meeting this evening. Dan Beery and Ed Ahr are attending to business of importance in Michigan today. W. A. Lower devoted his time today at assisting in hay making on his farm east of town. J. F. Snow, the real estate man, has some offers of good bargains in his list published today. Niblick and Co.’s big July sale is on. Watch for their list of special prices in tomorrow's issue. Mr. Vane Weaver left last evening for Marion, where he attended the funeral of his little niece today. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hughes and daughter, Margaret, of Fort Wayne, are in the city th e guests of friends. These are dry days for news about the court house and most of the officials and their deputies are taking life rather gasy. Tie up your dog or muzzle them. This is a bad time of year to allow them to run loose, and the marshal will shoot them if you don’t take care of them, Hav e you thought over this proposition of smoking Decatur made cigars? It means a great deal for the manufacturers, who live here pay taxes and spend their money here. Mrs. Kate McLean will leave tomor. row for Hammond, where she will visit for several days the guest of friends. Her daughter, Jessie, is in Hammond and Chicago now spending her summer vacation. The Chicago Cubs are again back in first place after holding the second sack for over a week. The Cubs are there when it comes to an uphill fight with a crippled team and deserve to win the pennant again this year. An ice cream social is to be given this evening" by the members of the U. B. church and th e public is cordially invited to attend. Refreshments will be served, so don’t miss this chance for enjoying yourselves. Banks hav e been notified of the ap pearance of a new counterfeit $lO national bank note. It is of the 1902 series, issue of February 25, 1903. check letter M, on the First National bank of the City of New York, cha"ter No, 29, portrait of William McKinley: J. W, Lyons, register of the treasury, Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer. It is a poorly executed photo-mechan-ical production on three pieces of paper, the back and the front being printed on Indian tissue pasted to a heavy middle sheet with a few silk threads pasted between the face and the middle sheet.

Virgil Garvin, the one time famous pitcher, died the other day at the hom e of his parents in Texas. Tuberculosis, the culmination of several years’ dissipation, was the cause of his demise. Garvin’s last big league performances were with Brooklyn and the New York Americans in 1904. With the former team h e got into trouble in St. Louis and was released. Clark Griffith also gave him a trial, but his erratic habits resulted disastrously for Garvin, and he was let out. During the past three seasons Garvin played ball on the Pacific coast. During his career he played with the Chicago Nationals and Americans, Newark and Milwaukee.

k TO THE M-Wl) Snow Agency ||< DECATUR, INDIANA Telephone 230 Yes Follow the Crowd and Get a Home of Your Own and Quit Paying Rent Are you expecting a great reduction in values, or a sudden fall in prices? A moment's consideration will convince you that artificial gas, electric lights, paved streets, stoned roads, large manufacturing industries, and new traction lines put in operation, do not reduce the prices cf the real estat e near them. That good locations will steadily increase in value, no matter who owns them. That you might as well sav e that increase as to pay high for it when yo.i buy some years later. Now is the time to invest your money while property is reasonably cheap. The Snow Agency can fit you out with your choice frem a list of aboit 25,000 acres of as good farm lands aa can be found in eastern Indiana or from a list of about One Hundred City Properties The owners want to sell these properties, not for speculation, at fictions values, but for a change of investment. Some of them can be exchanged for goed farm lands. If your property Is for s.-le at its tea! cash value, bylisting it with us we will advertise I: without cost or expense to yon, and are nearly cure to find you a buyer in a reasonably short time. Befcr e buying examine our prices and properties, as we can doubtless fit you out with just what you want and save you money in the transaction. Frcm our large lists we here refer you to a few sample properties that we are now offering for sale:

699 -Is a five room co.tage in southeast Decatur, near the electric lights is on water and gas lines, good sized lot. has small stable, summer kitchen. wood house, etc. fruit trees, etc. Rental value $6.00 per month. Can be bought for $650.00. 682—1 s a five room cottage on Adams street in good location, stoned street, cistern, city water, on gas line, has stable, coal house, garden, maple shade and fruit trees. Rental value $7.00 per month. Cau be bought for SBOO.OO. 700 — Is a fiv e room residence in southwest Decatur on the stoned street, and in a good location. On e acre of ground goes with this property. Fair buildings consisting of residence, horse and cow stable, etc. About fifty nice thrifty apple, pear and plum trees. This is a bargain at $1,050.00. Fine rich garden ground. 704—1 s a 2.56 acr e tract in west Decatur, on the stoned road in a good location. This property has two residence buildings, sheds and some other buildings. Is a good tract for berry culture, and can furnish homes nicely for two families in comparatively new dwellings. For the next sixty days this can ba bought for $2,300.00. 643 —Is a well built seven room story and a half residence on stone foundation lin southwest in good location and a desirable property. Has small stable, coal house and some other buildings. Just the home for a retired farmer who wants to be on a public street. For a short time this can b e bought, for $1,600.00. 707—1 s a good frame seven room residence on 11th street, in good location. Has good large stable and granary, drove W'ell, cistern and plenty of fruit and shade. Is a desirable location; can be bought for $1,775.00. 701 — Is a well built seven room story and a half residence in south Decatur, on the proposed traction line south. This house is well located and is natural wood finish throughout. Is on stone foundation, has large cement cellar, electric lights,

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city water, is plumbed for gas, and the property has a quarter of an acre of ground.< A small stable, wood and coal house, etc. Has plenty of fruit and shade ai d is in a desirable location. Can be bought for $2,200.00. 705—1 s a brick business room on Second street, has a 22 foot frontage, 132 back to the alley; has single story brick building, cement sidewalks, and is on the brick street. Is suitable for a good business location not requiring extensive floor surface. Also No. 629. a large business room fronting the court house, on Second street. Prices and terms made known on application. 695 —Is a seven rom residence with cellar on north sth street. This property consists of two regular sized lots, is on the west side of the street, and in goodlocation. Is convenient in arrangement, has plenty of shade and nice fruit trees, drove well, is on stoned street and good sewerage. For the next, sixty days it can be bought for $2,400.00. 708 —Is a brand new seven room residence property on north 3rd street; is built on concrete foundation, with cement blocks abov e the ground; has city water, large cement cistern, electric lights, fine open stairway, two ample porches, lit with electric lights, fiv e closets and clothes rooms and is finished throughout in hard pine, natural wood finish, large windows, cement walks, nice front yard, good wood and coal house, is in nice location on the west side of the street. Fof a short time this property can be bought for $2,400.00. W e can supply you with vacant city lots in nearly any part of the city. In Lynches, Erwin & Archbold, Meibers and Pattersons, Fullenkamps, Scheiman’s subdivision at from $125.00 to $300.00 apiece. 710 —Is a three quarter acr e tract on the gravel pike just outside of the city limits of Decatur. Has all new buildings is in a good locationhouse a story and a half frame, six room building with nice front porch, good cistern and natural wood fin-

$1.25 SUNDAY EXCLUSIONS From DECATUR To TOLEDO AND RETURN Marion si. Frankfort $1.50 Bluffton 50c CLOVER LEAF ROUTE ..For particulars call on or address.. T. L. McCullough, Agt. Toledo, St. Louis and Western R. R. DECATUR, IND. UNTIL JULY 16. Up until the above dat e you can buy an 18-horse power New Huber engine, one 32-54 Huber separator, complete outfit, run one season, will sell for $1,400. Call or address A. W. Werling, Preble, Ind., P O. Box 55. 160-10 t o . Democrat Want Ads. Pay.

ish throughout. Can be bought so" $1,025.00. 674— Is a three quarter acre tract of well improved ground just outside the city limits of Decatur on 'he traction line south. Has good fram e story and a half house, good garden plenty of fruit, and shade, has has large cistern, small stable an 3 some other buildings. Good location just beyond the corporation at $1,550.00. 694—1 s a55 acre tract within a half mile of th e stoned road and near church and school and about two miles from a good market railroad station, etc. About twenty acres of this farm is black land as is to be found along the Wabash river. The * remainder is largely sand and city leant. The buildings are inexpensive and the land needs fencing. Considering quality of the land, location, etc., it is a good bargain at $2,100.00, if sold within the next 60 days. 675— Is a 110 acre tract on the public road near market and about % nrle •to school also near graded school and church. Has ordinary house, large barn, and some other buildings; productive soil, a mixture cf clay and sand loam with some black land. If sold scon the farming implements. stock, etc., can be told with this farm. The tract alone can be sold for $9,300.00. 665—1 s a one hundred acre tract of perhaps 40 or 50 acres black land with the remainder a mixture of sand and clay soil. This land lies on the public road in a good location near Decatur. Has inexpensive buildings, a horse and hay ba'-i perhaps 30 by 40, a small cottage house and some other buildings. This tract can be bought for $5,600. 690—1 s an 80 acre tract on the stoned road about five miles from Decatur. Is about % black land has new buildings which consist of a convenient story and a half ten room house on stone foundation, large horse and hay barn, new cribs, granary, etc. This farm is a half mile from school and church, is ou the telephone and rural free delivery lines and for the next 60 days can be bought for $90.00 an acre. 6S8 —Is a well located 79 acre tract on the stoned road within two miles of a good market, graded school, church, etc. Is within a half mi’e of the public school building and i na good location. This farm 's nearly all black land, has good drainage, hag nearly new frame buildings, a cottage house of perhaps five rooms, a frame horse and hay barn, cribs, granaries, etc. Has some good timber on this land. Price of this farm is $96.00 an acre. There is no better land in Adams county than this farm as a whole. 706 —Is a well located 160 acre tract in western Union township, in good location on the rural free delivery route and telephone lines. Is in a thrifty German neighborhood near the stoned road, is near school and church, on two public roads, the two 80s face the roads to the south and west and could be divided. This land has gooo drainage, a large two story frame house, about as good as new, a good frame barn 40 by 60. on stone, also a horse and hay barn about 30 by 50 feet in size. Hog and sheep houses, double corn cribs and wagon shed, tool house, buggy house,etc. Has a drove well and windpump, besides small fruit, grapes etc., there are about 100 trees. This land is well fenced, with principally wire; the soil is largely black land, and properly cultivated will produce gpod returns of any crops grown upon It. If taken soon, this farm can be bought for $85.00 an acre.

R YST A L ■THEATRE® OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES First film—“A Good Boy." “Nellie the Beautiful House Maid.” Second film—“ Lost, a Pretty Little Dog." "Mr. and Mrs. Jollygood Go Tandeming.” “In a Difficult Position. ’ ILLUSTRATED SONG “Just Because He Couldn’t Sing ‘Love Me and the World Is Mine. ” Admission sc. SCHMUCK & MILLER TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. P. H. Wagner, who has been with the T. St. L. & ~W. railroad as operator, has purchased a half interest with Girt Reynolds in the Clover Leaf coal yard. You are all acquainted with the old reliable stand. Please call phone 495 and let us have your order. We handle all kinds of hard and soft coal. Thanking you for your past favors, we remain, Respectfully yours, 163-3 t REYNOLDS & WAGNER.