Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1908 — Page 3

C Everything New That’s"'i Good iln our styles of Fall Foot- ■ wear we don’t give the most ■ for your money—we give S the best, and that’s what ■ counts. Making money I won’t make you rich. It is ■ ■ a placing it where you realize the most value for your dollars. Come in and let us talk shoe to you. 9 TAGUE SHOE STORE J)

WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. ay™. l ■- . i 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 5:15p.m. Southbound. No. 4 —Daily 2:29a.m. No. 12—Daily, ex. Sun 7:16 a.m. No. 2 —Dally, ex. Sun 1:11p.m. No. 16 —Sundays only 8:56 p.m. ERIE. Into Effect Sunday Jurie 21, 1908. Eastbound. No. B—Daily 5:28 a.m. No. 12 —Daily 2:00 a.m. No. 22 —Daily, ex. Sunday. .2:00 p. m. No 4 —Daily 3:26 p.m. Westbound. No. 7 —Daily 1:52 a.m. No. 9 —Daily 3:12a.m. No. 3 —Daily 12:46 p.m. Na 21 —Daily; ex. Sunday. .10:10 p. m. No. 15 —Daily 7:30 p.m. T. ST. L. & W. R. R. No. 2 —Frankfort to Toledo, Ex. Sunday 12:45 p.m. No. I—Toledo to Frankfort, Ex. Sunday 12:22p.m. No. 3 —Delphos to St. Louis, Ex. Sunday 7:21a.m. No. 4 —St. Louts to Delphos, Ex. Sunday 7:57 p.m. No. s—Toledo5 —Toledo to St. Louis, daily 10:17 p.m. No. 6 —St. Louis to Toledo, dally 5:05 a.m. ...No.. 9—Sunday only, Toledo to Frankfort ” . i<. 44 a. xr No. 10 —Sunday only, Frankfort to Toledo 7:07 p.m. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE 4. SPRINGFIELD RAILWAY CO. Trains Leave Trains Leave Decatur Ft. Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 11:30a.m. 1:00p.m. 1:00p.m. ' 2:30p.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. 7:00p.m. 8:30p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 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 last car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p. m. will wait until after the show,

NOTICE. I will start my ctaer mill August 18th, and wHI make cider every Tuesday and Thursday every week until further notice. Factory N. 3rd St Respectfully. 195-ts P. KIRSCH. o HEAVY HICKORY WOOD suitable for furnace or heater. A. M. York, Phone 502. 215-6 t

THE PICTORIUM TONIGHT First reel—The Burgess' Daughter. Second reel —An Athletic W oman. (Very comic.) Third reel —Checker Fied. SONGb “08-Ka«La-Sa-U»r and “Priscilla." Admission & cents, John B. Stoneburner

Geo. F. Kester was a caller from Monrce today. Mr. Anson Van Camp is at Monroe on business. i Mr. Ray returned to big home at Berne this afternoon. Miss Dessie Andrews has returned to her home at Monrpe. F. M. Cottrell, of Geneva, transacted business here this forenoon. E. X. Ehinger has returned from a business trip to Indianapolis. Mrs. Fred Blosser left this morning for a short visit at Moore, Ind. Mrs. A. R. Bell and daughter Pansy, are spending the day in Fort Wayne. W. L. Lehne is getting along as well as possible in his battle against typhoid. Miss Carrie Thomas has returned home after a pleasant visit at Fort Wayne. Marsh Burdge has returned home after attending the Van Wert fair Thursday. Mr. Yooster, of New York City, spent last evening in the city the guest of friends. County Superintendent Opliger and wife are attending the teachers’ institute at Berne today. Dick Heller seems to be holding his own against the typhoid fever, with which he has been ill two weeks. Mr. A. Post, a leaf tobacco man of Cincinnati, was in the city this morning, and left at noon for Fort Wayne. The annual Barkley reunion will be held at Steele’s park Sept. 16th. Quite a few from out of town will be present. One of the largest crowds of the .Season enjoyed dancing at Maple Grove pa. Mast " is almost at a close. Mrs. Geo. Grffiin, of Richmond. Mich., who has been visiting her Meter, Mrs. E. A. Zimmerman, returned to her home this morning. Mr. J. Kelley, of Van Buren, changed cars here this afternoon enroute to Geneva, where he was called to t)he bedside of his sick daughter. All former records for attendance were broken at Van Wert fair yesterday, and not an accident happened to mar the pleasure of the day. Chas. Baxter )and 'Will Lose attended the Van Wert fair yesterday. The boys drove over and said tihe dust was six inches thick some places. Mrs. John Niblick went to Leipsic. Ohio, yesterday and Mr. Niblick will join her tomorrow for an over-Sunday visit with their daughter, Mrs. Edwards. Mrs. James P- Kinney and children who have been visiting with P. K. Kinney and family for several days, returned to their home in Jefferson township this morning.

TOWER’S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING looks better-wears longer Jjf\\ and gives more \ /V/' bodily comfort because cut on ’jZ”' l\ large patterns, yet A x ' costs no more than the "just as good \ SUITS WLICKERS'aQPW’ SOLD EVERYWHERE \ \\ Every garment xQjWERX ' bearing the s bco sign ot the fish j uTAioorste The Citizens' Telephone Co. wants three telephone operators. Inquire a toffice of F. M. Schirmeyer, secretary.

Howard Sheil, of Geneva, is in the city on business. Ed Sether is on the sck list suffering from lagrippe. Miss Minnie Orvis has returned from a several days’ visit at Fort Wayne with Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Rhamy. Misses Emma and Esther Burr have returned to their home at Berne, after a pleasant visit here. Kintz & Welfly the real estate and insurance agents have dissolved partnership. Andrew Welfley purchasing the interest of Ed Kintz. Tom Railing, who is playing ball in the Michigan league, i s batting over 400. He is playing right field on account of having a sore arm. The dentists convention at Fort Wayne closed with a banquet yesterday. The next meeting will be held at Goshen, Ind., in September, 1909. Mrs. McDonnell and Mrs. Richell returned to their home at Elkhart this morning after a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. Lon McDonnell, of south Eighth street. The Elks ball game at Fort Wayne between the Warsaw Elks and Fort Wayne Elks was called at the end of the ninth inning on account of darkness, the score being a tie. Miss Lilah Lachot has resumed her position in the county treasurer's office, after enjoying her summer vacation. They are busily jengafeed in filling out the receipts for the fall taxes. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Sprague, who have been attending the encampment at Toledo. Ohio, and visiting in Cleveland and other places for a few weeks 1 returned home this morning. They report a fine time. A. S. Moon, a lumber man who has been making his headquarters in Chicago, passed through the city enroute to visit his father at Portland. He has just returned from a trip through Oklahoma and Texas and reports business being very quiet there. Mrs. Charles Brim was brought to her home yesterday from Decatur, where she has been making her home with her parents for a few weeks. She underwent an operation for a tumor in a Fort Wayne hospital and was taken from there to Decatur. She is recovering from the effects of the operation nicely. Mr. Brim is a machinist at the Grimes foundry.—Blffuton Banner. The remains of Dr. J. C. Grafton, who died at the home of his daughter Mrs. John P. Davis near Monroe Wednesday. transferred here this morning over the Fort Wayne & Springfield traction line to South Whitley, Ind., where the funeral will be held this afternoon. Those who accompanied the remains were Mr. and Mrs. John P Davis and children, of Monroe, and Miss Grafton, sister of the deceased from Pierceton, Ind. From reports which various game wardens are receiving throughout this section of the state, it is said that never before were there so many old quail to be seen at this season of the h ’ls.-also estimated that later in the season there /iTT’be an abundance of young birds. The enforcement cf the law protecting these birds out of season and lied ting the number that the hunter can kill has saved the old birds and given them opportunity to multiply. The benefit game for Red Goshorn between Ossian and Bluffton Wednesday resulted in a victory for Ossian, 3 to 2. Foust, Wiltse, Scott and McKinney were the only regular players the balance being pfekups. Lttle Everett Scott with his .300 batting average, is back at school at his books getting ready to graduate this coming spring The first tim|e at bat Oscar Way knocked one a mile and scored a home run, his only hit. Goshorn was hauled out to the ground in a carriage and saw the game, which netted him about s2s.—Bluffton Banner. The firemen closed all arrangements for their annual show for the Fall Festival lasi night. They will rent a tent and pick up all the animals they can find in Wells county. Included will be aligators, squirrels, Billy Miilette’s outfit, a fine bunch of raccoons, in all nearly a hundred animals and birds of every description. Tlheir tent is coming from Decatur, and they will lease a space from the management just the same as any other show. The ad'.mission will be ten cents to the world, free list suspended— Eluffton Banner. The Rev. Charles Thiele, pastor of St. Peter’s Catholic church, and the Rev. Louis A. Moendb, of Mishawaka, returned last evening from a four months’ tour of Europe. A committee of thirty-five members of Father Thiele’s parish went to Lima, 0., yesterday on a chartered interurban car and met their pastor, who was a passenger ton the westbound Pennsylvania train from New York. Father Thiele joined tihe interurban party and was escorted home. The trip agreed with him, and he says he had a most interesting and profitable visit in most of the European cities and saw all the principal places of interest on the continent—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Rauziger, who | have been visiting in Howard county, have returned to their home in Fremont, Mich. Mrs. Wm. Shackley and children, who have been here attending the fun-1 eral cf her brother, Milo Elzey, has ; returned to her home at Geneva. Mr. Thomas Trim left this morning I for Bourbon, Ind., where he will attend the United Brethren conference which is in session at that place. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Moore changed cars here this morning enroute from Kemp, Ohio, where they have been attending the Howard reunion to their home at Bremen, Ind. Investigation into the clogging of the main sewer at Garrett disclosed the fact that in some unaccountable manner a beer keg had become lodged in the sewer and prevented the flow of water. Noah Long, of Ligonier, who since May has been in the Albion jail awaiting commitment to Loncliffe hospital for the insane at Logansport died Monday at the jail, of organic heart trouble end complications. The remains were taken to Ligonier for interment. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Crago. of Huntington, married two years ago. have quarreled recently, and when bis wife left him to go to the home of her parents, the husband swallowed arsenic Wednesday morning in an attempt at suicide. Physicians pumped him out and saved his life. The deed transferring forty acres for park and fifty for cemetery purposes by James Addison Rice to the city of Elkhart, in consideration of an annuity of S6OO while Mr. Rice lives and an equal sum to be expended in improvements and maintenance of the property after his derth. hag been executed, given to the authorities and recorded. The Dallas team o the Texas league, of which Cliff Bales, of Montpelier. was a member, has closed the season, finishing in second place, and Cliff has returned home. Bales went to Dallas, and since being there has pitched seven games and won all of them. This is an excellent record, and his good work has secured him a place on the Mobile team in the southern league, and he will report for duty at. that place when the season again opens—Montpelier Herald. Wer has been t declared on the American buggy ride. It is claimed that in the east it is very bad form for a girl to go riding with a gentleman to whom she is not engaged, though this practice is quite common in the west. There is also an impression in the west that when two young people are engaged, they have a right to do whatever they please. This is an exceedingly bad notion. Engagements of marriages are as easily broken in this country as engagements to dinner. Misses Cora and Nellie Neaderhouser were in town this morning from Linn Grove. They report that there is little change in the condition of .their mother, but it anything she is grow ng ..; Nellie is arranging to return to work at the Leader store a week from next Monday. She has been out several weeks helping take care of her mother. Miss Cora has been home also from Pennville, where she has a good position in a store, and she is not postiive when she will return te work—Bluffton News. The doors of the county hospital at Portland will probably close as soon as the present patients can be discharged as cured. It has been found unable to meet all the bills as they come in and pay them entirely from the money derived from medical attention. The board is behind on the last month’s bills and the colder months are coming, necessitating the buying of necessary new articles* As was done last year they asked the county council now in session for an appropriation of SSOO with which to carry on this work. The bill came before the body Wednesday morning for consideration and was promptly turned down. The recent action of the legislative committee of the temperance society of the Methodist Episcopal church in advising all Methodist voters who favor the “Interstate liquor bill” to vote for congressional candidates who are opposed to the re-election of Representative Cannon as speaker, has been follewed by the decision of the contmittee, it was announced at the committee here today, to carry the fight into the speaker’s district and recomimend that he be opposed for reelection to congress. The fight on the speaker will be conducted from Chicago, mainly through the Northwestern Christian Advocate, which is the official Methodist paper throughout most of Mr. Cannon's district. The issue of the Northwestern Advocate which appears tomorrow, will contain statements from a majority of the bishops df the Methodist Episcopal church condemning the course of the speaker and approving the recommendation of the legislative committee in advocating his defeat.

Mr. Kirchoffer returned to Berne, after transacting business here. Tom Burke, the cigar man, from Kokomo, is in the city. Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughter Frances, are spending the day at Fort Wayne. Mrs. John Briggs returned to Geneva after a pleasant visit with Miss Kittie Fought. W. L. Lehne and Car! Moses, typhoid fever patients, are both progressing in an excellent manner. Mr. and Mrs. wart rrance entertained at a twelve o’clock dinner yesterday, in Bw.nor of Mr. and Mirs. Frank Chrsiten and son Stanley, of Chicago, and Mr. Richard R. France, of Alliance, Ohio. The westbound train on the Clover Leaf that passes through here at 7:41 a. m r , was delayed at Bluffton for three hours this morning, owing to a car on the Bluffton and Fort Wayne traction line jumping the track on the railroad crossing. The Pictcrium was visited by several large crowds last evening. This place of amusement is getting more popular every day as Mr. Stonebumer always puts on a clean, moral show. He has several very comic reels for tonight’s entertinment, so don’t miss it. County Clerk Haefling has received notice from Supt. Whittaker of the State Reformatory at Jeffersonville, that Cauncey Miller, who was sent up from here September 17, 1904, for forging a ciheck <»n Herman Gerke and who was paroled last February has bee n finally discharged. A. L. Hayes is home from a two weeks’ visit in Oklahoma and Texas. Mr. Hayes talks encouragingly of the country he visited. He thinks the opportunities for farming in Oklahoma are much better than in Indiana. He is so favorably impressed with what he saw that he has decided to make his future home in Oklahoma if he can dispose of his interests here at a satisfactory figure.—Ossian News. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Butler, of rural route 4 entertained a number of young people at a mystery supper at six o'clock Wednesday evening in honor of the Misses Eda. Mae and Opal Fisher, of Eaton, Ind., and Miss Ada Fuhrman, of Carson City, Nevada. Those present who enjoyed the bountiful repast departed at a late hour never to forget the mysteries of the supper and the good host and hostess which they proved to be. A special train on the Pennsylvania yesterday, carrying a number of soldiers from Indianapolis, made a trip which is just about a record for a heavy train. It was run on a second section of the Manhattan limited going west through Fort Wayne about three o’clock in tlhe afternoon. The train consisted of nine coaches and four baggage cars. The run from Warsaw to Crestline, a distance of 171 miles, was made in 170 minutes. Dr. Homer Sowers, the Osteopath physician, who has had an office here this •Summer, will leave the last of the month for Kirksville, Mb., where he will conclude his school work. His practice here, which has been a liberal one, will be loked after by Dr. Johnston, of Fort Wayne, who will be here two days each week. After concluding his school work. Dr. Sowers will return here and again take up the practice. He has treated a number of patients here and has been very successful. That he has the ability, is evidenced from the fact that Dr. Johnston, turned his Fort Wayne business over to him and took a six weeks’ vacation, the first in ten years and Dr. Sowers, who has spent three days there each wek, has given splendid satisfaction to all whom he has treated.

$2.75 FROM DECATUR, TO DETROIT And Back Via “CLOVER LEAF ROUTE” Good Going on September sth and 12th. Rail to Detroit with option of returning from Detroit to Toledo by Boat, without extra charge. A splendid three days outing. Cheap?r than staying at home and lots more fun Write to me or talk to me about it. I can tell you all •hat you want to know. T. L. McCullough Agent Toledo, St. Louis & Western

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Mr. James Moran returned to Portland this morning after visiting his brother, J. C. Moran. Miss Ruby Miller is attending the teachers’ institute of the south part of the county at Berne today.

THE JOHNSTON Institute of Osteopathy Has removed its Decatur olflee into Booms 10 and 11 in the MORRISON BLOCK, DEOATUR. IND. All kinds of diseases successfuly treated,—No Drugs Main office over First National Bank, Ft. Wayne, Inc Dr. W. H. Johnson, Mg’r Dr/Homer E. Sowers Ass’t O O o STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! ° o BARGAIN SALE f O u o —- o O 12 quart Good Enamel Dish Pans, regular price is O O 26 cents, while they last Next Saturday Only O O o o IO cents o 0 • n O with a purchase of 25 cents or more ~ o CHINA! CHINA! ° o - u O We have just received a swell line of’China direct O from Germany and Japan. Come in and see what O fancy Japanese Cups and Saucers we_are selling q ? for I9cjor6jors! o ° GOLD FISH! o 0 o q Just-Received ajlarge supply of Gold q q Fish, that we are going to sell quick. Two fish o 0 bowl and sea weed for only |0 cents, also extra O O fish bowls and food. O O — O 0 Remember us when in need of anything in the 5 O O and 10 cent line and higher priced articles. We O O have the goods and at prices that make them move O 0 ====== o iRACKETSTORE g r, STEELE & WEAVER O g| .0 0000000000000oooooo° 000 9

S. C. Wessel went to Geneva this fnorning to work on a dredging machine. Mr. E. Starr, of Richmond, returned home this morning after transacting business here.