Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1908 — Page 3

A Feast of Bargains 300 pairs of Oxfords out on the bargain counter at a price that says go. As we need the room for fall goods. Come in and look them over and see.if style and price suit you. We consider it doing us both just. We need the room, you need the shoes. Tague Shoe Store

WEATHER. Generally fair Sunday; cooler tonight and east \ortion Sunday. RAILROAD BULLETIN GRANO RAPIDS & INDIANA. Northbound. Into Effect Sunday, June 28, No. s—Daily 11:28 p. m. No. 7 —Daily '. 7:57 a.m. No. 3 —Dally ex. 5un......5:15p.m. Southbound. No. 4 —Daily 2:29 a.m. No. 12 —Daily ex Sun 7:16 a.m. No. 2 —Daily ex. Sun 1:11p.m. No. 16 —Sundays only 8:56 p.m. ERIE. Into effect Sunday June 21, 1908. No, 8. Daily 5:28 a.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 1:62 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 12:45p.m. No. I—Toledo1 —Toledo to Frankfort Ex. Sun 12:22 p.m. No. 3 —Delphos to St Louis Ex Sun. ...........7:21a.m. No. 4—St. Louis to Delphos, Ex. Sun 7:57 p.m. No. s—Toledo5 —Toledo to St. Louis daily 10:17 p. m. No. 6 —St. Louis to Toledo daily j. .5:05 a.m. 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 Deeatur Ft. Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:00 a.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. 1:00p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m, 7:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p. m. car w9l arrive at Calhoun or Berry streets. Fort Wayne at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p.-m. wIU wait until after the ■how. FOB BENT - The F&rk Hotel. Inquire of Dan Meyers. THE PICTORIUM TONIGHT First reel —"Poacher’s Wife." • Second reel —“Cupid Pranks" (Edison’s latest film, hand colored and beautiful.) •ONG. “Neath the Bows of the Old Maple Tree.” , Admission 5 cents. John B. stoneburncr

Joe Beery was a business caller at Geneva this afternoon. Godfrey Ashbaucher -was a business visitor in Decatur today. Mrs. Isadore Kalver is spending three weeks at Rome City. George Wemhoff was a caller at Berne on important business. A junk dealers’ license was issued to Joseph Kaplan, of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Shafer Peterson was taken ill last evening and she has sofhewhat improved today. Mrs. Eli Sprunger left this afternoon for Portland, wher e she will make a short visit With friends. Jerry Burkhead, of Hammond, is in the city making a visit with his parents, Mr/ and Mrs. S. Burkhead. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Foreman left this afternon for Portland, where they will make a weeks’ visit with friends. Mis s Nellie Sterley from Lima. 0.. arrived in the city this morning for a visit wth her sister, Mrs. J. R. Clark. Seth Weldy Will return to Logan, Ohio, tomorrow. He (was here, attending the funeral of Mrs. Samuel D. Beavers. Mr. G. Schlagel passed through the city today enroute from a business trip at Fort Wayne to his home at Pleasant Mills. Second aegre work will be conferred at the I. O. O. F. lodge next Monday night and an interesting session is promised. John Hensley, an uncle of David Hensley, the jeweler, who has been here visiting, has returned to his home in Jefferson, lowa. Mr. George Brock and family arrived this afternoon from Alliance, 0., and will spend a few days with John Brock and family. Mrs. Tom Mylott and daughter Genevieye will leave in th e morning for Chicago, 111., where they will make a visit with relatives. Oakley Sloan and daughter Grace, of Spencerville, Ohio, returned today after attending the funeral of Mrs. Samuel D. Beavers. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Miller left this morning for Fort Wayne, where they will make a short visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. John | Mangey and children larrived from Columbus, Ohio, this afternoon and will make a several days’ visit with friends here. Mrs. L. G, Ellingham and children. Miller and Winifred, left this morning for Rome City where they will make a several days’ visit with friends. Henry Hite has returned from a week’s visit at West Baden, where he wag drinking the mineral water and taking treatment for his health. The usual routine of business was transacted at the meeting of the directors of th e Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban company yesterday. Sheriff W. A. Lipkey this afternoon purchased from the Elm Grove association a strip of twenty acres adjoining the cemetery. The land will be used by the new owner as a pasture for his horses. —Bluffton Banner. Everything is running along smoothly in arranging for the Great Northern Indiana Fair which will be held the latter part of August. The committee who have the affair in charge are sparing nc pains in making this year s fair the greatest that Decatur and vicinity hav e ever witnessed. Many repairs have been made at the fair grounds in the way of remodeling the various buildings, race traejk, etCy putting them In first class condition. Thi races will far exceed those of former years and the great northern this year will be the best that ever happened. Be a booster.

Fred LaDelle and family are in the city for a week’s rest. Miss Bessie Teeple is spending a few days at Fort Wayne. Dave Werling has returned from a business trip at Fort Wayne. Fred Hoffman arrived home today from a short stay at Berne. John Moser has returned from a busines strip to Markle, Ind. Harry Johns, of Fort Wayne, was visiting friends In the city today. Tom Reid and family will go to Rome City for a several days’ outing. Several family picnics will come off at Maple Grove Park and a great time is anticipated. Charles Sether made a business trip to Williams today and returned this afternoon. J. S. Peterson will go to Rome City tomorrow to remain for a week’s outing. R. M. Broadwell and Herbert Lachot have returned from a visit, with friends at Berne. Charles Smith, of Bluffton, was a visitor in the city yesterday and has returned to his home. S. E. Shamp and wife are enjoying an outing at Rome City. They left for the jesort yesterday. Miss May Parrish has returned to Craigville after making a short visit with friends at Monroe. ’ The big after harvest sale began at True and Runyon’s store today and it will last for one week. The Decatur Packing company is doing a thriving business and a large forc e of men is employed. Mrs. Clara Watkins left this morning for Hoagland, where she will spend the day with friends. David Hensley will leave in the morning for Rome City, where he will spend Sunday with his family. The Decatur public library is being liberally patronized, notwithstanding the warmth of the weather. An umbrella mender made himself quite conspicuous on the streets today. He was ordered out of town. A game of ball will be played at the park tomorrow afternoon between the Greys and a club from some other place. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Fought, of Richmond. were visitors in our city yesterday and they have returned to their home. All the factories of the city are very busy at present with their summer trade, and ar e giving employment to a number of men. A number of ice cream socials will occur tonight at several different places in country and will be attended by large crowds. Cecile and Mary Watkins arrived home this afternoon front a several days’ vacation with friends and relatives at Hoagland, French Quinn left this morning for Rome City, where h e will spend Sunday with his family, who are spending their vacation there. Charles Meibers, Henry Thomas and D. M. Hensley will go to Rome City tomorrow to remain for several days with their families. Mrs. Erman Mentzer, of Bluffton, has arrived in the city for a visit with her~rhother, Mrs. Isaac Peters. She will remain over Sunday. Mrs. Hosier, of Marion, Ohio, was in th e city toda y enroute to Tuster, Michigan, where she will visit with relatives for a short time. Work will begin in the very near future in placing fire escapes in several DecatMir buildings. A Fort Wayne contractor is figuring on the j|obs. The Electric theater people have a strong feature film for tonight’s entertainment entitled “The Gentleman Burglar." The show will be very interesting. M. E. Brackett left today for Corrunna, Michigan, where he will attend the funeral «f Hon. Hugh McCurdy, one of the most prominent Masons in the country. Everybody is anxiously waiting for the beginning of the Great Northern Indiana Fair. It will be the best ever held in |the county. The exhibits, races and everything will be great. The funeral services of Mrs. Samuel D,- Beavers were held this morning at the Antioch church at 10:00 o'clock, the cortege leaving th e home an hour earlier. Interment was jnade at the church cmetery. The floral offering was beautiful and profuse. Under the sad sea waves, upon a coral strand, ther e the mermaid dwells, with comb and brush in hand; but where the merman lives, I do not think 1 know, unless it is around some bar where the schooners come and go—Judge (for yourself). The Erie railroad is making some improvements at th e depot in this city in the way of putting down a cement sidewalk and laying a new floor in the baggage room. When these are completed the depot will present a neat appearance.

Miss Blanche Dibble was a caller in our city yesterday afternoon. Convoy, Ohio, was visited by a disastrous fire Wednesday afternoon. The merchants were quite busy today, as a goodly number of farmers were in town. Guy Majors returned to his home at Berne today after enjoying a visit in the city. Messrs. Earl Brackett and L. C. Steele were business callers at Fort Wayne last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schnitz. of Portland, have arrived for an over Sunday visit with relatives.. Isadore Kalver will leave next week for Rome City. wher e he will remain for a week for an outiqg. Mrs. L. C. DeVoss left this morning for Portland, wher e she will make a visit with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Koehl have returned to their home at Fort Wayne after making a pleasant visit here. George Steele will return this evening from Lagrange, where he has been looking after his racket store. O. N. Snellen has returned from his regular business trip and he will remain over Sunday with his family. J. S. McCray, the hay man, is extremely basy at present. Te is preparing for the winter season by buying much hay. A large number of picnicers enjoyed the pleasures afforded at Maple Grove Park last night and all report i a fine time. Mrs. Robert Knoll, of Geneva, passed through the city enroute to Chattanooga, Ohio, for a short visit with friends. Interesting services will be held at the various churches tomorrow morning and evening and the public is invited to attend same. Miss Maude Cowlef returned yesterday afternoon from Kendallville; where she had had been on a week’s visit with relatives and friends. Dr. C. S. Clark has purchased a new Kiblinger* automobile from the factory at Auburn and it is a beauty. Decatur people are getting the fever The gentlemen from New Knoxville, Ohio, who attended the directors meeting of the Fort Wayne and Springfield yesterday, hate returned to their home. The Ward Fence factory has been placed in readiness to start the wheels rolling next week and thus another institution bgins activity in our enterprising town. The people of Decatur should get the habit of smoking honje cigars. It is to the interest of every citizen to do so. Let's increase th e number of cigar makers in Decatur. Big Tom Railing is more than making good in the Three-I league. His phenominal work is causing much comment among the fans at the various places at which he plays. The Coppock Motor Co. are at present busily engaged in manufacturing their commercial cars. This firm have one of the best cars on the I market and are enjoying a liberal patronage. Charging that Paul Byrr pulled her from a chair and caused her to fall in such a manner that her spine was perI manently injured, Gertrude Wilkinson has filed suit at Warsaw, demanding $2,000 damages. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Burkhead and daughter Bessie, of Decatur, transferred here Thursday afternoon enroute to Dunkirk, where- they will visit with' the latter's brother, Daniel Urick.—Portland Review. John Miller, who conducted a meat market at Newville, DeKalb county, was found dead in bed Thursday morning. He was about 70 years of age an dhad retired the night before in apparently good health. Tomorrow occurs the annual picnic of the St. Johns church north of the city. This picnic has a reputation for itself and is always attended by large crowds. A number from her e have signified their intention of attending same. Judge Brown, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who is scheduled to appear at th e Presbyterian church tomorrow evening has sent no word stating that he will be here and as a consequence it is thought that he has changed his plans. The ice cream men over the country are wearing wide smiles during this sultry weather, while the other individuals continue in their chronic kicking. The coal men will even up this winter, however, and while they are smiling the ice cream man will pray for summer to return. The funeral services of the late Mrs. Samuel D. Beavers were held from the Antioch church this morning at ten o’clock. The cortege left the house at nine o’clock and a multitude of sorrowing friends paid their last respects to the departed estimable woman. The services were most impressive after which the remains were laid to rest in the church cemetery.

I About fiv e hundred visitors are expected to attend the meeting of the order of Modern Woodmen to be held at Decatur, August 8. The Fort Wayne drill team will initiate a large class on that date. —Fort Wayne JournalGazette. Miss Ethel Bothoff left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she will make a short visit. At Fort Wayne she will meet her sister, Mrs. Ed Kellinger, of Cleveland, Ohio, who will return with her this evening and make a several days’ visit with her. Surveyors in Jackson township Wells county, have just unearthed an old wooden marker which was driven by government engineers when the land was originally surveyed in 1837. The first survey was made by Engineer Brackenridge of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Terveer have left for Rome City, where they will make a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Vcglewede. who are enjoying their vacation there. They will also visit their nephew, Arthur Holthouse, who Jfe taking treatment in the Kneipp sanitarium at Rom e City. Mrs. A; N. Jack, of Berne, her daughter, Mrs. David Miller of Rockford. Ohio, who visited with the family of A. L. Macy, five miles east of Portland, left Thursday evening for Berne. Miss AJfaretta Youqulet of. Fort Wayne, is spending this week at the Macy home. —Portland Sun. Here’s some brain work: See if you can make it out. Take in your mind a number, double it, add any number you wish, take away the half of the number, subtract the first number, and your answer will be one-half of the number you first added. Try it and see if you can work out the dope. Another large crowd jg expected at Maple Grove Park tomorrow. The usattractions will be on, including music by the Loch band. The band is at present very busy getting ready for their ice cream social to be held at the park next Wednesday evening, to which all are looking forward to a gala time. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Butler, accompanied by their daughter in law'. Mrs. Jesse Butler, of Fort Wayne, and Jesse Butler of this city, left this morning for Richmond, where they attended a reunion today of the Stanley family. The reunion was held at the Glenmiller park. They will return Monday morning. The Detroit Tigers made a new record in the major leagues yesterday when they played against the Athletics of Philadelphia. «The hitting of the Tigers was something awful, they knocking out three pitchers and getting twenty-five hits. The star batsman Cobb, & ot five hits, including a triple and two doubles. The department of commerce and labor and the bureau of immigration and naturalization have sent for distribution to every postofflee in the United States blank application cards to be mailed by unemployed persons to the department, stating what kind of work is desired. Positions will be secured for the applicants. The purpose is to supply laborers with employment and employers with laborers and no fee is charged. It develops that th e death of Hypolite Bonjour, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bonjour, of Jefferson township, Allen county, which occurred at Chesaning, Mich., July 6, was due to accidental shooting while the young man was cleaning a revolver which he had used in celebrating the Fourth. The bullet pierced his forehead and death was instantaneous. Young Bonjour located in Michigan some time ago, purchasing a farm. He was unmarried, and his sister was his housekeeper. Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Ashbaucher and daughter, Louise, accompanied by her father, Charles G. Quick, are arranging to leave today for Petoskey, Mich., where they will spend the remainder of the summer. Mrs. Ashbaucher said last night that she will hav e her father placed in a hospital w'here he will receive treatment and where he win be near her all the time. This makes the twenty-sixth annual trip that Mr. Quick and his daughter have made to Petoskey. —Bluffton [News.

the = _ R YST A L STHEATRES OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES First film —“The Sacrifice.’’ “New Military Airship." Second film —"The Gentleman Burglar.’’ (A strong feature film by Edison.) ILLUSTRATED SONG "Are You Sincere." Admission Sc. SCHMUCK & MILLER

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