Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 164, Decatur, Adams County, 10 July 1908 — Page 3

Is it Bargains Vou 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 display, as the room won’t permit, but come inside apd ask for them. They are at the Tague Shoe Store

WRITE HIS SPEECH Taft Will Devote Next Week to His Speech of Acceptance SHOWING UP WELL Republican Candidate Showing Ability as Politician Hot Springs, Va., July 10.—-W. H. Taft has planned to devote next week to writing his speech of acceptance -of th e Republican nomination for the presidency. During that time he will not inVite any one here and would regard it as a favor if his friends would cooperate ’with him to make this seclusion in the mountains of Virginia as complete as possible during that period. He has not written a word of his speech to be delivered in Cincinnati July 28. Not until it is completed does he desire to discuss the document with his friends. Before it is made public, however, he will submit it to a number of the leaders of the party to get their views upon it. Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of th e Republican national committee arrived here this morning and after a short interview with Mr. Taft stated he would not be ready to announce the membership of the executive committee or to make any statement retarding his organization for the campaign before a week from today. The selection of men for these places, he said, was an important matter requir. ing careful consideration and up to today he had given it no attention. Washington, July 10—W. H. Taft is going about the business of getting the campaign under way in a fashion that threatens to convince may of those who have criticized him as a poor politician that after all they are mistaken. Politicians vary in their methods, but ag lawyers do. Mr. Taft is not a politician of the kind Mr. Roosevelt is, but this does not alter the fact that he has shown exraordinary ability in the art of handling men and securing their co-operation on more than one trying and difficult occasion. He has done this in Panama, In Cuba, In the Philippines and elsewhere, and there is no reason so far as yet appears why he should not prove as masterful in th e political field as he has in others.

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Earl Adams wag a business call°r at Huntington today. Mr. H. Sprague was a business caller at Fort Wayne today. Messrs. T. W. Watts and Elj Sprunger have returned from a business trip to'Huntington. Mrs. Roberts hag returned to Markle after visiting here for some time with her daughter. Mrs. J. H. Heller who has suffered from quinsy for several days, is greatly improved today. Mrs. J. Gregory left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she will make a short visit with friends. Mrs. A. Rober returned to her home in Roanok e today after visiting here for some time with her sister. Mrs. Del Brickley left this morning for her home in Markle after visiting here for some time with relatives. Judge Brown, founder of juvenile courts in the United States, will be here Sunday. Be sure to hear him. This time is when many people are enjoying their annual vacation and the railroads are kept busy handling the crowds. Maple Grove Park is becoming more attractive every day and is an ideal place for picnics, etc. wher e you can enjoy your leisure hours. Don’t fail to hear Judge Brown, the boy's friend, at Presbyterian church Sunday evening. No admission, but a collection will be taken. Mrs. J. 11. Cummings returned to her home in Muncie this noon after Visiting here with her husband. Mr. Cummings accompanied her to Portland. Elsewhere in this issue is Niblick & Co.’s annual sale of numerous articles, and it would well pay you to took them over as some rar e bargains are offered. Several ice cream socials are being held this week. One was given last evening at the Hower school house near Curryville, and was attended by large crowds. Huntirtgton and Van Wert clubs played a game of ball at Bluffton yesterday which Huntington won. Biddy Burns went in the box for Van Wert after six runs had been secured by th e opposing club and but one score was secured off him in eight innings, the score resulting 7 to 2 in Huntington's favor. Albert Wetsel an employe at the Ward Fence factory, who. this morning was engaged in whitewashing the interior of the factory by the use of hose, was badly injured when the hose bursted and lime was forced into his eyes and face. He was hastily conveyed to the city, wher e medical aid was administered. Dent W. Spencer started hunting this morning and when h e reached the Hatigk stone quarry he was suddenly overtaken by a serious illness. He managed to walk to a nearby house and his father wag notified about his condition. The young man was brought to the city where medical aid was administered. "What little boy can tell m e the difference between the quick and the dead?” asked the Sunday school teacher. Willie waved his hand frantically. “Well, Willie?” “Please ma'am, the ‘quick’ are the ones that •get out of the way of the automobiles the ones that don't are the ‘dead’. A crowd of about fifty young people who enjoyed dancing at Maple Grove Park last night were compelled to walk to the city on account of no cars being operated from nine o'clock to 12:00 o'clock. The young people were enjoying an elegant time and at about 10'30 they started for the station where they expected to board the 10:45 car, but there was no 10:45 car and they walked to town.

Peter Forbing was a business caller at Fort Wayn e this morning. John Joseph made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. b Miss Ruth Patterson spent the day at Fort Wayne visiting- with friends. Miss Grace Hammel has returned from a several Jays’ visit with friends at Portland. Mrs. Guy Majors, of Berne, has arrived in the city for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shafer Peterson. Mesdames A. M. Baxter and J. Buffenbarger went to Fort Wayne this morning, where they spent the day with friends. A large crowd attended Maple Grove Park last evening and enjoyed themselves with the pleasures of this popular place and dancing. Mrs. Samuel Swigart, of Robinson. 111., passed through the city today enroute to Geneva, to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Laßue. Mrs. Gorge Wemhoff and children left last evening for Canford, Mich., where they expect to spend the summer with her sister, Mrs. Alice Archer and family. Charley Rinear moved his family from Decatur here this week into the property vacated by Larry Schell. He is the baker at Throp's restaurant.— Geneva Herald. t The laying of the foundation on the new improvements of the Berlins: Packing Co. will be begun in a very short time, and from then on will e rushed to completion, so as to be in readiness for their heavy fall trade An amusing.incident of last evening occurred when the party of young people who were at the park were compelled tv wend their way home by walking as best they could as the regular park car was not run last evening. Mrs. Ernst Weicking and son Wilbur left last evening for a visit with relatives in Missouri. They will be joined at Decatur by a relative who will accompany them on the trip. They will visit at Lucerne and Unionville.—Bluffton Banner. The city council at Ligonier has awarded to the Olds Construction com. pany, of Fort Wayne, the contract for the construction of a municipal electric lighting plant. It is expected that the system will be ready for operation by December 1, Mrs. William Wise, 46 years of age. residing three miles southwest of Pierceton, ended her life Wednesday afternoon by swallowing carbolic acid. Her body was found a short time after by her husband and a daughter. No cause is known for the suicide. Mrs. James Wasson, near Tocsin, Wells county, and her sister, Mrs. Margaret Clarke at Delta. Ohio, died Tuesday almost at the same moment. The funerals of the two sisters were held on the sam e day, at the same hour, but at the homes many miles apart. The eleven year old son of O. E. Johnson, was seriously burned by gasoline igniting w'hiie Mr. .Johnson was pouring the fluid into an engine to start it and the boy was standing nearby. The boy's pants leg caught fire and he was burned badly about the legs- 80 that it was necessary to call a physician. —Geneva Herald. Miss Mary Todd arrived home yesterday from Porto Rico and will spend the next two months at her home in this city. She will return ther e this fall to continue her duies in school. Complimentary to her return Mr. and Mr. R. S. .Todd entertained at six o'clock dinner last evening their immediate relatives. Places were laid for Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Todd. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Roush. Mr. and Mrs. W. W, Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Thorpe, Mrs. Martha Waring and Miss Bessie Sale. —Bluffton Banner. B. F. Kunkle of Whitley county, narrowly escaped death at the hands of an enraged bull Wednesday morning. He discovered the animal, belonging to hig neighbor, in his own corn field and attempted to drive it away with a club. The only object he effected, however, was to enrage the young animal, which afterwards almost gored him to death. Before he could escape he received a great many wounds, and within the next few days the full extent of these will be revealed, though it is thought they will not be fatal. With tears in his eyes and in a trembling voice, Elmer Leonard, of Fort Wayne, attorney for the Montpe. Her saloonists, who appeared instead of his brother, Wilmer Leonard who ’ died suddenly a few days ago. arose to address the court Tuesday afternoon. In a voice shaken by emotion 1 Mr. Leonard began his arguments by saying that it was a sad occasion for him and that h e hoped th»t the court 1 would excuse him if he wandered from 1 his subject. The shock of his brother's , ] death he said had almost rendered 1 him incapable of speaking at all. Wil- 1 mer Leonard appeared before the ' county commissioners at the June term for the saloonists and died sud- ' denly the day before the cas e was 1 called for trial in the circuit court ’ here.—Hartford City Gazette.

Mrs. Ella Brvwn went to Berae thia afternoon for a short vKc. Homer Lower left this morning for Atwood Lake to join the fishing camp. D. F. Quinn returned today from a business trip to Cleveland and Toledo. Gorg e Nachtrieb came home yesterday from a several days’ visit Is the coantry. 'Ed Ahr and Dan Beery have arrived home from a business trip through Michigan. Dr. Myers, of Maples, has arrived in the city for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele. Joe Engl e passed through the etty today enroute to Berne from a business trip to Preble. Misg Ella Patterson leaves today for Detroit, where she will visit with friends for som e time, E .A. Bunner returned to his home at Huntertown this noon after visiting here for several days. Campaign caps for the boys will soon be in style. The campaign promises to be a very exciting one. Mrs. Roy Archbold and son Richard left this noon for Toledo, Ohio, where they will visit for several days. Mrs. O. S. Fortney returned to her hom e at Pleasant Mills this noon after doing some shopping here. * Judge James T Merryman is at Winchester today acting as a special judge in th e Randolph circuit court. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Marschand left this afternoon io: Richmond, Ind., where they will make their future home. ■ Miss Emma SqV onovar (returned to her home at Geneva this afternoon after visiting here with Mrs. Sophia Johns and family. i Auditor Lewton spent yesterday at his Union township farm, where he watched the crops grow and otherwise followed th e occupation of a real farmer. C. D. Mills, of Warren, Ohio, was a business caller in our city today and made a short visit with his brother-in-law. Dr. Homer E. Sowers before leaving. The Woman’s Relief Corps have completed arrangements to have another of their ice cream socials on Saturday evening in front of their hall on Madison street. The pnblie is invited to attend same. Attorney J. C. Sutton and family will go to Croked Lak e next Monday for their summer outing. Due warning has been sent to the finny tribe of this contemplated visit of the Suttons, and they may succeed in hiding themselves. A sad telegram was received this morning by Mrs. Catherine McLean announcing the death of a sister, Mrs. Drew, ot Fort Wayne. The time of her death as stated by th e message, occurred about §ix o'clock this morning. Mrs. Drew has been ill for more than a year, her death resulting, from a complication of diseases. Mrs. McLean left this morning to attend the funeral.

After engaging in a short practice at the church, the members of th e M. E. choir were invited to the home of Dr. and Mrs. Wilcox, whr e delightful jnstrumetnal music was furnished by Miss Sneed, of Virginia, a guest at the Wilcox home. Mrs. Wilcox favored th e crowd with a beautiful and well received vocal selection. Miss Sneed is an accomplished musician, and as a player of classical music sh e has but few peers. All mortals have followed a beaten track since man was invented, a long time back; and folks were laughing or shedding tears away, away in the vanished years. The cave man worried because his club broke down when he batted another dub; and people flew into a beastly rage ‘cause their stovepipes smoked in the glacial age. The same old sorrow you have today was old when Adam was baling hay; th worry that makes your bosom dark was old when Noah was in the ark. The grim borboding that, makes you pale was old when Jonah was in the whale. There is nothing new in this world, so wide, so do not worry, but let things slide. Your hopes and doubts, your dreams and fears, are but the dust of a million years.—Emporia Gazette. Never in the history of this country have so many foreigners left as during the last eight months. They belong to th e common laborers —not the skilled mechanic. In the month of May only 42,000 immigrants landed in this country, 75,000 aliens sailed fcr their old homes. For the same month last year the arrivals were 198,000 and th e departures were 33,000. Since last October, when the panic took effect 550.000 aliens have left these shores and only about 150,000 hav e arrived. The departure of so great an army of unskilled labor served to reduce materially th e hard times conditions of many localities. The half million would have been added to the unemployed, and this would have meant for most of them an eventual approach to destitution.

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THE R YST A L OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES First film —“Lost, a Pretty Little Dog.” “Mr. and Mrs. Jollygood Go Tandeming." "In a Difficult Position.’’ (Comedy.) Second film—“ The Nomads Camping Out.” “Engaged Against His Will.” “The Flowers Outside the Case,” ILLUSTRATED SONG “Just Because He Couldn’t Sing 'Love Me and the World is Mine.’ ” Admission sc. SCHML'CK & MILLER J. L. Gay and family were visitors at Van 'Wert, Ohio, today. The Decatur ball club will go to Portland Sunday to play a game with, the Sluggers at that place. G. T. Kocher has rented a lot in the rear of the Farmers and Merchants State bank building, and will have his lumber salesyard up town. This will be a convenience, both to himself and the public. Mr. Kocher has also rented the residence property recently vacated by J. H. Banta and family, and just as quickly as the property can be placed in livable condition, Mr. Kocher will move his family to Willshire—Willshire Herald. THE PICTORIUM TONIGHT First reel —“anta at Play.’’ Second reel —“Cowboys’ Sports and Pastimes.” (A western drama, extra fine.) SONO. “Any Old Time at All.” The moving pictures of the Gunn ess murder mystery will also b e shown. Admission 5 cents. John B. Stone burner

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