Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1908 — Page 3

f Presidential Campaign'll Should make all good citi- J zens think of which one of the Candidates will be the K best a nto vote for. B The next thing of import- I * tnce to our friends in the ■ ■ fall shoe buying is to know B ■ what will be the best for the g g coming season. We will f ■ show a large line of new pat- ■ E terns in the ton, ox-blood, B ■ e gunmetal, calf,patent leather B glazed kid and kangaroo J leathers. J" We are never too busy to ■ show goods or answer quesg tions. Come and let us talk B B shoe to you. TAGUE SHOE STORE

WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. RAILROAD BULLETIN GRANO RAPIOS & INDIANA. Northbound. Into Effect Sunday, June 28. No. s—Daily 11:28 p.m. No. 7—Daily 7:57 a.m. No. 3—Daily ex. Sun 5:15p.m. Southbound. No. 4—Daily 2:29 a. mJ No. 12—Daily ex Sun 7:16 a.m. i No. 2 —Daily ex. Sun 1:11p.m. No. 16—Sundays only 8:56p.m. BRIE. Into effect Sunday June 21, 1908. East bound. No. 8. Daily s:2Bam. No. 12. Daily 2:00 a.m. No. 22. Dail y,ex. Sunday. .2:00 p. m. No. 4. Daily 3:26 p.m. Westbound. No. 7. Daily 1:52 a.m. No. 9. Daily 3:12 a.m. No. 3. Daily 12:46p.m. No. 21. Daily, ex. Sunday. .10:10 p. m. No. 15. Daily ....%.. 7:30p.m. T. ST. L. & W. R. R. No. 2—Frankfort to Toledo, Ex. Sun 12:45 p.m. No. I—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—Toledo to St. Louis daily 10:17 p.m. No, 6—St Louis to Toledo daily e -,5:05a.m. No. 9 —Sunday only, Toledo to Frankfort 10:44 a.m. No. 10—Sunday only, Frankfort to Toledo 7:07p.m. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RAILWAY CO. Trains Leave Trains Leave Decatur Ft- Wayne 5:50a.m. 7:00a.m. 7:00a.m. 8:30a.m. 8:30a.m. 10:00a.m. 10:00a.m. 11:30a.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. 5:30p.m. 7:00p.m. 7:00p.m. 8:30p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:09 p.m. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p. m. car will arrive at Calhoun or Berry streets, Fort Wayno at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p. m. will wait until after the stew.

The Decatur Efeg Case comflany having completed its sheds along the G. R. and I- railroad, can furnish coal of any kind at reasonable prices. Also kitchen and kindling wood a specialty. Phone 116. G. F. Kintz, Special Agent.

DO NOT FAIL TO j ii^">TDQNO > dfe '4H& > A T TH E F AIRThe Most Wonderful Freak Ever Born to the Animal Kingdom.

"Dono"’ is one of the popular shows on the Great Northern midway. Chris Sheets lost a very valuable horse yesterday morning, the colt succumbing to a short illness. Miss Mary Cummings has returned to her home at Elkhart, Ind., after a pleasant visit here with friends. Fred LaDelle will leave today for Chicago, 111., where he will look after business niatters for a few days. Family tickets are being sold by the fair management and a number of those have already been bought. The Conter Ice Cream Co. continues to ship many gallons of ice cream daily, and are very busy at present. The streets appear deserted here during the day. Everybody being at the fair grounds accounts for this. Glen Glance", operator at the G. R. and I. railroad is enjoying a several weeks' visit with friends at Rome City. Many visitors from the south arrived this morning on the G. R. and I. to attend the Great Northern Indiana fair. Miss Hammond, la trained nurse from Hope hospital, Fort Wayne, is the guest of Miss Clara Kintz this week. Many people from the south part of the county arrived this morning to attend the second day of the Great Northern Indiana fair. One of the best and largest consignments of race horses are to be found at the fair this year and some great races are looked for. Many visitors are in our city to attend the Great Fair and see the races. Miss Bessie Garard, of Fort Wayne is in the city on a visit with friends and relatives. Titius Ernst returned home last evening from Fort Wayne where he witnessed Barney Oldfield’s race at I the Fort Wayne driving park yester- ! day afternoon. Miss Bertha Hart, who has been attending and taking a course of treatment at the Kneipp sanitarium at Rome City, will return home soon and i her friends are hoping for a change for ; the better of her condition The famous Packard hand, of Fort Wayne arrived this morning and are playing at the fair grounds today. The band is one of the best iu the state and pleased the many large crowds of people that attended the fair today. *■ Work on the raising of the Monroe street bridge at the St. Marys river will begin in a short time. The work will be under the charge of Titus i Ernst and will be rushed to completion as soon as the work is started. |Tki« will make the structure much safer than heretofore. The LaDelle family who have been spending their vacation here this summer. will leave next week for Coney ' Island, at Cincinnati, Ohio, where they will play a week’s engagement. From there they will travel to other large places making the circuit which will consume several weeks' time.

Otto Peters, of Willshire, Ohio, is in the city attending the fair. N. Mentzer, of Bluffton, has come to the city to attend the fair. The Dixon, Ohio, band will be herd’ tomorrow and the Bluffton band on Friday. Dennis Wertzberger, of Chicago, is here visiting his parents and taking in the fair. Mrs. Laura Sprunger, of Berne, is in the city attending the funeral of her mother. The races this afternoon were excefltionally good and many people witnessed same. Bluffton is making another effort to have a fall fair. Plans have not taken definite shape yet. Mrs. Bert Lynch and children, of Jonesboro, Ark., are in the city on a several days’ visit with relatives. Miss Gertrude Taylor has returned to her home at Huntington after a most pleasant visit here with friends. F. B. Porter and wife and baby arrived in the city last evening to spend fair week here with F. B. Porter and family. Mrs. Emma Winans, of Stockland, 111., is in the city attending the funeral today of her mother, Mrs. H. C. Fuhrman. The Bluffton band will funish music at the fair Friday afternoon and it is expected that a large delegation will accompany them. Mrs. Ida Asbury, of Stewart, Nev., arrived in the city to be in attendance at the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Fuhrman, which was held today The officials of the G. R. and I, railroad who were here yesterday left in the aftemon ,for Kendallville, where they looked after railroad affairs. If you owe any electric hill for light or power, call at city treasurer W. J. Archbold’s office and settle between this and Monday, or your lights will suddenly snuff out. Mr. and Mrs. H. Hobrock of Fort Wayne, arrived in the city today for a visit of a few days with his mother, Mrs. Sophia Hobrc«k. On next Sunday they leave on a month’s visit and pleasure trip for Denver Col., and other points in the west. Many people from here witnessed Barney Oldfield’s great race yesterday afternoon at the Fort Wayne driving park at that city. Although he failed to lower any track records previously made, the lovers of auto racing were well pleased with the result. The monthly report of the Decatur public library is a very good one for this time of the year and many are taking advantage of the many good books to read which are on the shelves at the library building. The August magazines are arriving and are being placed on the reading tables. The funeral services of Mrs. H. C. Fuhrman, who died Monday night were held this afternoon from the Evangelical church at 2:00 p. m. The cortege left the house at 1:30 p. m. The Rev. D. O. Wise had charge of the funeral services and spoke on the life of the deceased. Interment took place in Maplewood cemetery. The floral offering was beautiful and profuse. Thirty-two members of the Berne fire company are planning to attend the firemen’s convention at Garrett Thursday. A sufficient number of those going are able to toot a horn so that they could organize a band for the occasion. Last year at the convention at Newcastle our boys captured a $25 prize given to the neatest appearing company.—Berne Witness. The clover yield in Wells county is a record breaker and some enormous outputs are being registered. Philip Miller living northeast, threshed twen-ty-one bushels of little red off of three acres and a half, an average of six' bushels to the acre, which will probably be the limit. The seed paid him nearly S4O an acre, which is more than he paid for the land. John Cobbum, south of town, had four bushels of big English red to the acre and three bushels of the little seed is not uncommon. Most of the farmers are selling straight from the machines. — Bluffton Banner. Friends and relatives of Mrs. Anna Geisell, formerly Miss Anna B. Hirshey, living near Vera Cruz, at the time of her marriage, will make an investigation of a report which comes from Hutchison, Kansas, to the effect that her husband. E. J. Geisell, has applied for a divorce there, alleging that his wife is of unsound mind. According to his divorce complaint he alleges that bis wife was insane at the time he married her and he claims that fraud was practiced in bringing about the wedding, to the extent that she could not read or write and that a sister carried on he correspondence without his knowledge. They have three children. Mrs. Geisell was placed in an insane asylum at Ossawatomie twb years ago. The Geisells were married in this county August 12. 1882, by Rev. O. P. Vltz, of Vera Cruz. —Bluffton News

HELD WITHOUT BAIL. Man Who Killed Mother-in-Law Charged with Murder. Laporte, Ind., August 25. —James William Delph, who shot his mother-in-law. Mrs. Sarah Margaret Meacham, was last held to the Laporte county grand jury without bail, on an affidavit charging murder in the first degree. He waived preliminary hearing. Attorney E. E. Wier, who will defend Delph, said the defense would be that his client intended to shoot some of the men, and that the killing of Mrs. Meacham was an accident. o A. J. Smith has returned from a short business trip to Fort Wayne. Charles Sether is home from a business trip to Kingsland yesterday. Don’t forget tomorrow the best day at the Great Northern Indiana fair. Wai Wemhoff has returned home from a business trip to Sebum, Ohio. Dr. W. E. Sowers has returned from a short business trip at Fort Wayne. Miss Mary Tread, of Toledo, Ohio, is in the city visiting with friends and relatives. Mr Clem Holthouse, of Indianapolis, is making a short visit in the city with relatives. The season for county fairs is on and most of them are occurring at the present time. Mrs. C. A. Dugan, who has been visiting at Winona Lake for several days, has returned home. The Modern Woodmen will meet tonight in regular session and every member is requested to be present. Mrs. Mary Hammond passed through the city today enroute from Van Wert to her home at Van Buren, Ind. Miss Lilah Murray, who has been visiting relatives at Berne has returned home to Warren, changing cars in this city. Mr. and Mirs. (Joseph Mason, of Jonesboro, Ark., have arrived In .the city and will make a several days’ visit here with friends. Misses Viola Ulman. Bertha Gase, Rosella Kinney, spent the day yesterday at Fort Wayne with friends and 1 returned last evening. Mrs. S A. Karns has returned to her home at. Fort Wayne, after doing some ! shopping and looking after business Interests here yesterday. Mrs. Lon Richwine has returned to Huntington after making a pleasant visit of a few days here with Mr. and ; Mrs. D, E. Scott and family. | Miss Anice Stevens, of St. Marys, Ohio, who has been visiting here a few days is making a short stay at Fort Wayne with friends before returning to her home. Ben and Mrs. «H. H. Hocker have returned to their home at Westfield. I after making a pleasant stay herd in I the city with C. E. Hocker and fam- ! Uy. ■ Mr. and Mrs. James Coleman and George Jacobs, of Ashland, Ohio, pass- ! ed through the city enroute to Kalamazoo. Mien., to spend several days with friends. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Senet, of west Berry street, Fort Wayne, will arrive , in the city tomorrow to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and : attend the fair. | One of the special features of the fair will be the balloon ascension i Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afj ternoon by Curtis Johnson an old hand at this business. Many of the stores, including the drug, barkeries and dry good stores will close at least some of the- afternoons of the fair to permit their employes to see the great fair. Mrs. Homer Sowers will leave tomorrow for Kirksville, Mo., her old . home, where she will make a several days’ visit with relatives. She will be joined by her daughter at Hartford City. Messrs. L- L. Baumgartner, C L. Walters and C. R. Dunn have returned j home from Fort Wayne where they attended the automobile races of Barney Oldfield at that city yesterday. I They report the races as being fine. ’ The Erie railroad will run an excursion to Chicago next Sunday for two dollars for the round trip. No special trains will be run. but tickets will be good on any train Saturday good to stay until the following Monday. These excursions are always a great event and no doubt many will take advantage of same. The public schools will open a week from next Monday and the students are making the most of their vacation at the present time. The school board and teachers are expecting a most prosperous year for their pupils and when the familiar ring of the .old school bell is heard the pupils will go to work with a will to make their coming school year a banner one. Many of the teachers have attended the higher colleges at summer school this summer, taking a six weeks’ or more course.

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Pay Your Electric Light Bill All accounts for lights and power due the city must be paid before September Ist. or the current will be shut off and your account left for collection. Please pay attention to this. M. J. MYLOTT CITY ELECTRICIAN , Miss Frances Radamacker has returned from a short visit with friends at Bluffton. Miss Helen. Fonner Is entertaining as her guest this week Miss Efina Pulver, of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Lucy Rout is spending a several days’ visit at Fort Wayne w’ith Mrs. B. F. Thompson. Mrs. Dora Studabaker, of Bluffton, is visiting in this city with her sister, Mrs. W. J. Crafg. Misses Anna Miller and Bertha Knapp have returned from a short visit with their friends at Fort Wayne. THE • R YST A L OPEN TONIGHT MOTION PICTURES Forst film—“An American Soldier in the Philippines.” (Good.) Second film—“ Tormented by His Mother-in-Law.” “Mrs. Pimpernel’s Gown.” 1 ILLUSTRATED SONG “Cheer Up Mary.” Special music. Admission 5 cents. SCHMUCK & MILLER 37th Annual BIG FAIR Portland, Indiana Aug. 31, Sept. I, 2,3, 4 OW — SB® SSfB • • $3,100 Purse on Races « > The Engagement The Gregory Family Famous Acrobats The Greatest Company on the Road ALSO Kennedy Bros, and Mack in their novel trick house comedy and acrobatic act. ” • • Grand Military Drill by Indian/ National Guards and Stock parade on Wednesday only • • Many Grand Special Feature wv * asstt. - ® • • J.F. Graves Secretary

THE VAN WERT I COUNTY FAIR Every indication points to a larger and better meeting than ever before. Many improvements at the grounds add to their attractiveness and make provision for the comfort of patrons. The general show will, as in the past, bte educational in its nature, and good races and special featurled daily for the entertainment of patrons. Soldiers’ day will be observed on Wednesday. Arrange to be present. fSEPTEMBER I 8,9,10,11/08. I* Special Offer *1 a For a few days only, I can take your order for ■ I Current Literature and Me I 1 Clures’ Magazine for §3.50 I | Saving you a big dollar on | I the two. I also take orders for 1 Saturday Evening Post At | $1.50 per year I Ladies Home Journal At | $1.50 per year J I WANT YOUR ORDER - I Will Conrad I I Phone 13 H Line Address R.R. 2 - . . BOSSE OPERA HOUSE | Fair Week I THE I WILLIAMS STOCK Co. I To-Night I 6 BIG VAUDEVILLE ACTS 6| Her First False Step I Reserved Seats on Sale at Holthouse Drug Co |j Prices 10 20 30 and 50 cents | ■nmi ■■ BEUS3 BBIMII ■■ ■■■■■■ ! See Our ■ I CHI NAMEL GRAINING | I PRIZE CONTEST I : AT THE HAIR ! ■ 9 Prizes Given Away 9 £ S Contest Open to Amatures Only ■ ■ HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. ■ ■nuiininniiiiirHiiimi