Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1908 — Page 3

f SCHOOL BELLS "'j U d will be ringing next week. W I We want to ring in your ears ■ the merits of our school shoes ■ | for boys and girls. They are 8 g good fitters, good wearers ■ B and good lookers. Start your ■ 3a children off to school happy gto with a new pair of our shoes. g u.J

WEATHER Generally fair exoept possibly showers south portion tonight or Saturday: warmer tonight. RAILROAD BULLETIN GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA. Northbound. Into Effect Sunday, June 28. No. s—Dailys—Daily 11:28 p.m. No. 7—Daily 7:57 a.m. No. 3—Daily ex. Sun 5:15 p.m. Southbound. No. 4—Daily 2:29a.m. No. 12—Daily ex Sun 7:16 a.m. No. 2—Daily ex. Sun 1:11p.m. No. 16—Sundays only 8:56p.m. ERIE. Into effect Sunday June 21, 19C8. Eastbound. No 8. Daily 5:28a.m. No. 12. Daily 2:00a.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. Dally 3:12 a.m. No. 3. Daily 12:46 p.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,. 7:57p.m. No. s—Toledo tn St, Louis dally 10:17 p.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 7:07 p.m. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RAILWAY CO. Trains Leave Trains Leave ( Decatur FL Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:00 a. m, 8:30a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:0va. 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. 9:30 p.m. 11:09 p.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 Irst car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p. m. will wait until after the chow. NOTICE TO B. P. O. E. There will be a special meeting of the Elks lodge at the hall tonight at 8 o’clock sharp. Be there. Special tuslnf-ss of importance. Q—LOST —A gold necklace and heart pendant with pearl settings. Please return to C, H. Colter and receive reward. 212-6 t THE PICTORIUM TONIGHT First neel —“Kerchoo” and “Don’t Pull my Leg." Second reel —"Macbeth, the Great Shakespeare Play.” •ONG. “Gypsy Ann” and “Some Day.” Admission s cents. John B. Stone burner

Judge Heller went to Warsaw on business. H. M. Foreman is spending the day at Fort Wayne. Will Engle and wife are attending the Portland fair today. C. K. Bell, of Fort Wayne, is spending the day in Decatur. ■ Clark J. Lutz is attending to business at Fort Wayne today. Ncah Lock and O. S. Spahr are at Portland attending the fair. Frank Parrish is able to be up and around after a few days illness. Mrs. E. E. Enod and baby are at Paulding attending the county fair. F. E. Smith went to Portland this morning for a short visit with friends. H. A. Straub is spending a few weeks’ visit with friends at Montpelier. Joseph Hunter has returned home from Portland and says it is the best there is. Albert Butler left this morning for Portland on business and to take in the Jay county fair. Edgar Gerber is home from a several weeks 1 trip through Ohio with the Homestead Art Co. Mrs. Emma Lewis, of Mansfield, 0., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. E. Suttles here for few days. Editor Hoffer, of Willshire, made this office a short call this morning. He was enroute to Fort Wayne. Chas, Mathewson has returned to his home at Fort Wayne after spending the day with friends here. A postal card from Geneva says 'that 425 tickets were sold there yesterday for Portland on account of the (fair. J. H. Renecher, of Holgate. Ohio, went to Monroe this morning to visit some relatives he has not seen f° r ■ fifty years. John Bollinger and his force »f workmen have started on the brick wrok of the new school building at ■ Wren, Ohio. Mrs. Al Burdg is at Fort Wayne at the bedside of her brother, John Judy, who is suffering from an acute attack of pneumonia. Warsaw was visited by a heavy frost last night. The mercury dropped 31 degrees in twelve hours. The corn was slightly. Mrs. Charles Beam changed cars here enroute from Willshire to Fort Wayne, she had been visiting relatives for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. John Weber have returned to their home at Fort Wayne after a pleasant visit with their son John B. Weber, of this city. The members of the Y. P. C. E. of the United Brethren church will hold its regular business meeting at the home of Mrs. Philip Meihls tonight. ' Med Miller has just completed two fifty foot signs to be used by Frisinger & Sprunger on the cars that con.vey their stallions to the state fair next week.. Mrs. Julius Wolmpner and daughters Lillian and Gladdis, of St. Louis, . are visiting William Bleeke and family. Mrs. Bleeke gave a dinner for them on Thursday. Hf E. Yocum is at Portland running a hack to the fair grounds and says that yesterday was the banner day of the fair. AJI former records in attendance were beaten. Mrs. Louis Gick. Mrs. M. Wefel t and Mrs. W. Gerke are guests of Charles Grote. The Misses Cecelia t and lona and Mr. Louis Gick and son Paul will join them Saturday. John Wemhoff, who has been employed at this office for several months has resigned his position, and will leave in the morning for Collegeville, Ind., where ho will attend college.

Miss Harrie Biedler of Elkhart, is in the city. Mell Rice is in the south part of the county on business. Deputy Sheriff Ed Green has returned from Plainfield. James Rice has been attending the races at’Portland this week. Cline Fisher, of Elwood, Ind., is In the city calling on his old friends. Miss Rose Geary arrived today to spend Sunday with her parents. Stella Wemhoff arrived home today to spend Sunday with her mother. Miss Kittie Stevens went to Fort Wayne on the 10 o’clock car to make a short visit. H. A. Frlstoe, formerly of this city, came down from Geneva this morning on business. Mrs. DeVilbiss has returned to Fort Wayne, after a pleasant visit here with friends. Clem Voglewede has returned from Toledo, where he has been several days on business. Frank Heiman and wife are parents of a bouncing baby boy who arrived early this morning. Henry l Fierce, a cigar maker, of Lima, Ohio, is in the city the guest of Fred G. Colchin. Herman Colchin has put a new cigar on the market called the Evening Star that is a dandy. Bert Weber, of Van Wert, transacted business in Decatur today and has gone on his regular trip. Miss Fannie Hammel left this afternoon for Portland to spend a few days the guest of lady friends. The frescoers began their work on the First National bank today and will rush same to completion. Mayme Deininger returned from Cleveland, Ohio, where she has been attending the millinery opening. Jesse Sellemeyer went to Geneva this afternoon in the interest of the Kirsch & Sellemeyer Lumber Co. Winifred and Miller Ellingham, who have been visiting at Winchester for three weeks, will arrive home tomorrow. Otto Wemhoff has accepted a position on the reportorial staff of the , Daily Democrat and started in this morning. Mrs. Elmer Moser who was operated on some time ago, continues to im- 1 prove, and will scon be in the best of health. Miss Sylvia Droppelman, of Jeffersonville, left on the 10 o’clock car to spend the day in Fort Wayne, the guest of relatives. Mr. Millikan, the Texas land man, is here again and will accompany a crowd of Adams county men to Texas on September 15th. The Waring Glove company, of Huntington, will close down Saturday noon for a week to allow the girls to observe Labor Day and take in the county fair. Interest in the base ball races in both the National league and American league is intense, and the scores are watched with growing interest as the season draws near its end. J. R. Graber brought two life sized potatoes to this office today. They were raised on the county farm and are of the variety known as Prize Takers and are certainly beauties. Miss Lydia Getting, of Root township. who lias been very low from typhoid fever for three weeks past, is reported slightly improved today. She is not out of danger however. Work on the First National bank is progressing rapidly. The workmen started this morning to put in the marble furniture and when completed it will be one of the finest in this part of the state. One of Adams county’s best known farmers reports that he threshed nearly a hundred bushels of clover seed this season. At the price of clover seed this year, it would mean some mcney, eh? Sumner W. Haynes, of Portland, Prohibition candidate ffcr governor, and his male quartet will be in this county next Wednesday. They will be at Decatur in the forenoon and afternoon, and in Berne in the evening.—Berne Witness. Probation officer Henry Lankenau was here from Decatur Wednesday . and took home with him young Howard Eley, whom the Juvenile Court has now sent to the Plainfield ' reformatory for larceny. Howard has 1 repeatedly been guilty of various misdemeanors, and no warnings from Mr. Lankenau were heeded. Howard is about 12 years old. His going to our state reform school for boys should 1 be a warning to other boys of town. , —Berne Witness.

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Mrs. John McMullen, of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Hugh Duncan, of Chicago, 111., are in the city the guests of Mrs. Mary Wemhoff. The workmen on the new addition ot the Berling Packing house are almost ready for the roof, and will g oon be completed. After it is finished they will have ample room to take care of their increasing business. Chas. W. Bryan sent a check for $2,000 to Gov. Haskell, of Oklahoma, comprising the receipts over expenditures in the Commoner office from July 24th to Sept. Ist. Also a check of $320 as receipts for 59 contributions to fund. John Hendricks changed cars here this morning enroute from Marion, ' Ind., to his home at Monroe, after attending the annual reunion of the Renecher family which was held at Mat- . toon Park. About 150 of the relatives were present. Miss Alma and Heding Runge are I visiting here, being guests at the homes of Edward and William Bleeke. , The Misses Gick from Fcrt Wayne, are also guests at the Bleeke home, and remain until Monday evening. , They are here for the big festival. The Cubs won a double header yesterday from St. Louis. This makes them only 5 per cent behind the leaders. If they keep up the clip they are now going, they will land the pennant easily, as they are certainly : clouting the ball. The White Sox are only 5 per cent from the top also. Editor Hoffer of the Willshire Her- ' aid. has leased his office to Mr. Spade |of Portland, and is now enjoying a well earned rest. He is looking after ' telephone interest and will soon begin his campaign, having been recently i nominated as the democratic candidate : for representative in Van Wert county. Roy Sautbine, who for several years successfully conducted a photograph studio in Decatur, but who recently sold the same on account of ill health, will leave Thursday morning for the southern part of the state, where he will engage in the moving picture show business. —Bluffton Ban- , ner. John Moser, of Vera Cruz, employed at ditching for Dan Neuenschwander, fell in the latter’s barn Tuesday evening and catching his arm on a door hook tore a gash in it that required ten stitches to sew. It cut through the muscles of the arm in a frightful manner. A splinter also ran in his arm requiring surgical attention. Sixteen members cf the Marion company met last evening to make arrangements for the reunion of the members of the 160th Indiana regiment, Sapnisb-American soldiers to be held at. Goldwait park, September 15. James E. Watson, candidate for governor, will deliver his keynote speech in Marion on that date and 'the soldier boys hope that he will 'consent to attend their campfire at night and give them a talk on some non-poliical subject—Bluffton Banner. A dramatic episode was pulled oft on the Commercial Traveler Sundaynight when a married man hopped on 'the train with a revolver and looked for another man who had taken the wife and another woman to Toledo on an excursion. As luck would have it. the pursued individual had gotten . off the train at the crossing about the time that the angry husband jumped cn, and this is all that saved the plush seats from being splashed up with ' gore. The revolver was swung in the ' j air a few times, and threats were j numerous and vigorous, but the smoke is now cleared away.—Bluffton Banner. The Van Wert county fair, Septembed 8-11. To those who have never attended this fair, we wish to 1 say that the Van Wert county fair is one of the best to be found anywhere, and this year with full orchards and gardens, the exhibits ■ promise greater than ever before. I No county in Ohio shows as many ’ good draft Ihorses as are annually ‘ shown at Van Wert. With the cattle, swine and sheep barns well filled, a long list of race entries, big art display, full exhibits in agriculture , and fruit halls, great machinery dis- ’ play, free attractions, innocent [ amusements, music, etc., the entire week will be one of interest and education. ! Two cans of bass from the govern- . ment fisheries were shipped to Bluff- , ten today from Fort Wayne where the | ’; governmeht car in charge of Edward j K. Bumham, of the United States . - fisheries, has been making a delivery. ’' As the lot was the only ones for [Bluffton they were sent here by ex- ' press. In the cans were fifty nice [ , bass three and four inches in length I and about a year old. Mr. Buck is making an effort to stock his pit, the eld Metts quarry near Murray, and he asked Congressman Adair to help him In the project. The bass came In by petition from that gentleman. One of these days Mr. Buck expects to have the celebrated Garrett, pits beaten in size and quality of fish. He Iwill confine himself to bass alone.— Bluffton Banner.

IBllilllßllßllKllllHlllllllflllilllllllllim I LABOR DAY CELEBRATION AND I ■ Hi Under Auspices of Feder- |iAl)n||lfA| Interurban excursion rates ■ ■ at’on of Labor IJfl 1111 1 ■ Illi All Week J : FORT WAVNE, INDIANA j | SEPTEMBER 7,8, 9, 10, II and 121 ■ Monster Parade on Labor Dav at lOa. m. ■ | Hon. Thos. H. Hinn of Pittsburq I It Will deliver the Address of the Day at 1:30 p. m,. east side of Court House EH ■ | Hatch Carnival CoJ The Largest and Best Company on the road, will open at 2:00 p. m. ■ Monday on Clinton Street grounds, opposite the Base Ball Park ® A Gigantic. Aggregation of Moral Amusements i g 6—Days of Delirious Delight—6 g

THE REALM OF .LIGHT. By Frank Hatfield. 430 pp. $1.50. A Narrative of, Thrilling Adventures and Experiences. Two Chicago business men are persuaded by an old Hungarian to go with him into the heart of Africa on a voyage of discovery. After months of hardship and thrilling adventure, a mountain is reached by the three travelers, and owing to a singular phenomenon every seven years, an entrance is found to the in terior of the mountain, and by almost superhuman effort, the four men finally reach its summit. Here they find a people, who for thousands of years, have lived a life freed from every form of self-seeking —the ideal life; a race of giants physically and intellectually, who in our year one had controlled the solar energy and made It subservient to their needs; had constructed telescopes so far superior to what are known that they bring the moon and planets within the range of intelligent perception; had worked out the principles of acoustics to such an extent that without a medium conversation could be carried on at great distances; had, through their mastery of the problems of the storage of power, annihilated space; and had discovered wonderful methods of lighting and of time-keeping. through unseen forces. The book abounds in romance; and food for thought and discussion for him who can read between the lines. Altogether, the work is destined to provoke discussion and create a large interest. Reid Publishing Company, 30 llu.i»ington Aveuue, Boston. —< o FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD For Miss Vena Opal Butler—A Card of Thanks. The funeral of Vena Opal Butler was held from the home Thursday at 9:30 a. m. Rev. C. B. Dougherty of Fremc-nt, Ind., officiating. The large concourse of relatives and friends present showed the love and respect in which she was held. The deceased was a devoted member of the Mt. Pleasant M. E. church and Epworth League, where she will be so sadly missed. The floral offering was beautiful and profuse. CARD OF THANKS. I We desire in this way to express our gratitude to the friends and neighbors, Mt. Pleasant Epworth League, Sunday School, Ladies 1 Aid Society and Tribe of Ben Hur for their kindness shown during the sickness and death of our beloved daughter and sister, Vena. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Butler and family. o W. L. Lehne and Carl Moses, both of whom are ill with typhoid fever, are progressing as well as can be expected. It ic said that Miss Beulah Poynter, who wrote the play “Lena Rivers,” visited all the scenes of that popular book and met several of the people after whom Mrs. Holmes modeled her characters.

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