Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1908 — Page 3

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I WEATHER II Fair tonight and Thursday; not I® much change in temperature. I RAILROAD BULLETIN | GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA. I Northbound. Into Effect Sunday, June 28. I No. s—Dailys—Daily 11:28 p.m. I No. 7—Daily 7:57 a.m. i| No. 3 —Daily, ex. Sun 5:15 p.m. Southbound. I No. 4—Daily 2:29 a.m. I No. 12—Daily, ex. Sun 7:16a.m. I No. 2 —Daily, ex. Sun 1:11p.m. I No. 16 —Sundays only 8:56p.m. ERIE. Into Effect Sunday June 21, 1908. Eastbound. I No. B—DailyB—Daily 5:28a.m. No. 12—Daily .. 2:00 a.m. No. 22 —Daily, ex. Sunday. .2:00 p. m. Ki. 4 Daily 3:26 p.m. i Wt' Westbound. No. 7—Daily 1:52 a.m. | No. 9 —Daily 3:12a.m. No. 3 —Dally 12:46 p.m. No. 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 12:22 p.m. No. 3 —Delphos to St. Louis, Ex. Sunday 7:21a.m. No. 4 —St. Louis 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, daily .... .5:05a. m. No. » —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 Ft. Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:00a.m. 8-30a.m. 10:00 a.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. 9:30p.m. 11:00p.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 ciaer mill August 18th, and wfll 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. 215-61

THE PICTORIUM tonight First reel—“A Mountaineer's Son ” Second reel —“The Haunted Kitchen.” ’ SONO. “The Garden cf the West.” Mr. Stoneburner has contracted with a new firm for his reels and will show the newest and most up-to-date reels ever given in Decatur. Get the habit. Admission & cents. John B. Stone burner

C. J. Lutz is at Portland on business. Mike Bogner is a victim of typhoid fe, er. Mr. John F. Snow is at Geneva on business. Dan Beery is at Fort Wayne attending the races. O. L. Spahr is at Fort Wayne attending the fair. Mrs. W. A. Kuebler is spending the day at Fort Wayne. J. B. Holthouse is a business caller at Kendallville today. Tute Leßrun is attending the fair at Fort Wayne today. Godfrey Bell went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. Mr. F. E. McDowell, of Lafayette, is a business caller in the city. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lower are attending the Fort Wayne fair today. Attorney C. L. Walters has returned from a business trip to Fort Wayne. John Hey, of Williams, was a business caller in the city this morning. C. M. Foreman and wife of Willshire are attending the fair at Fort Wayne today. Abe Boch and T. H. Baltzell are taking in the races at the Fort W - ayne fair today. Silas Hale returned to his home at Geneva this morning after a short visit here. Miss Clara Boknecht went to Willshire this morning where she will teach school. Bob Alexandria, of Indianapolis,was here today representing the Lesh Paper company. Mr. anfl Mrs. L. C. Annen are taking in the Allen county fair at Fort Wayne today. Walter Wemhcff is in Allen county today in the interests of the Wemhoff Monumental works. Mrs. Lewis Dolch has returned to her home at Monroe after a pleasant visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krick. The north bound train on the Grand Rapids had on several extra coaches this morning to accommodate the people attending the Fort Wayne fair. . Miss Stella Kiser, who has been visiting relatives at Mt. Carmel, Illchanged cars here this morning enroute to her home in Belden. Mich. Misses Ethel Bender and Iva Miller are spending the day at Fort 'Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. McGill went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the fair. ! Mrs. Mary Bender and niece Mary Bender, left on the 8:30 car to spend the day in Fort Wayne with her daughter Minnie Jones and taking in the fair Rev. Samuel Small, who spoke on the political issues last evening at ' the court house, left this morning for Hartford City, where he delivers two addresses today. Mr. and Mrs. Mart Andrews have moved from Van Wert. Ohio, to this city, and are living in a neat little cottage on Ninth street. Mr. Andrew s was agent for the Watkins Medical company w’hile at Van Wert. A new floor is being built at the Monroe street bridge, it being found to be badly worn when the men were putting in the new supports and raising the floor. The improvement was authorized by a special meeting of the board of commissioners held yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lutz arrived home this morning from Lima, Ohio, where thev accompanied their daughter Miss Jean Lutz, and the Misses Fay and Rose Smith, who left yesterday for Boston, Mass., to attend college this year. They went byway of Portland, where they were joined by another young lady, who will be with them in the eastern school.

William Darwecter is attending the races at Fort Wayne today. A. P. Beatty is attending to legal business at Portland today. Mrs. W. H. Lee is spending the day at Fort Wayne with friends. Arthur Lankeuau is spending the day with William Zwick at Williams. Ed Ray returned to Berne this afternoon, after transacting business here. D. E. Smith went to Berne this afternoon to attend the funeral of Lewis Long. Judge Richard K. Erwin, of Fort Wayne, was a business visitor here this afternoon. Lew G. Ellingham went to Muncie today where he will look after politics for a day or two as district chairman. ~ Mrs. Ellen Cochran has returned to her home at Chicago, after spending a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Brokaw. Miss Nellie Schrock will leave Thursday for Indianapolis to resume her work as a teacher in the institute for the blind. A seven piece German band did a few stunts here this afternoon, taking up a collection as they went aiong the streets. Mr. and Msr. W. P. Hoskinson, of Geneva, who have been visiting 1. F Snow and family, left this morning for Fort Wayne, to spend a few’ days with relatives. Rev. A. B. Haist, formerly of this city, but now located in Illinois, was the guest of John Smith and family last night. He left on the early morning train for Toledo. Trustee Luttmann, of Root township. has gone to Ohio for a two weeks visit and vacation. He will visit relatives there and enjoy the pleasure of a short rest from work. D. E. Studabaker ha s brought in some twenty-foot corn, negular old Adams county kind that grows whether we have drought or not and it can be seen at this office. Brice True left this afternoon for Winona, to take up his third year course in the academy at that place. He was joined at Fort Wayne by Ralph Moses, son of H. P. Moses, who will also enter the academy. The bulletin boards at Seymour Robinson’s contains the first bet offered this season. One hundred dollars is posted that Thonjas Marshall will carry Indiana. Betting never makes results, but merely indicates which way the trend is headed. —Bluffton Banner. Auditor Garrett has found six additional roads granted by the commissioners and will advertise seventeen gravel roads for sale on October 8. It is expected that many gravel road contractors will be here to bid on the construction of the immense amount of work that will amount to $100,000.— Bluffton Banner. Irvin Case, of Magley. who graduated from the Winona school last June, has gone to Swathmore, Pa., where he will enter a preparatory school, taking a three-year course in law. He will then finish with a year or two in some other high class college and will be well prepared to battle his way along legal lines. Bert Cox. of Hutchinson, Kansas, is in the city visiting his sister. Mrs. Geo. Patterson. This is Mr. Cox’s first visit here since he left fifteen years ago. when he was nine He ha s been in Chicago, where he closed a five year contract with the concern he has been working for, and will leave Saturday for Seattle, Wash., to accept a better position. The Fort Wayne & Springfield interurban line is to have a special type of overhead construction for its southern. extension from Decatur. It is of bracket design with porcelain insulation to withstand the high voltage. The company recently awarded to the Electrical Traction Supply company the contract for furnishing all the overhead construction material. —Fort Wayne News. Milton M. Graham living east of the city, reported last night at the Gutellus drug store that out of a large lot of teams hauling on the pikes near Geneva yesterday six fell dead. A postmortem was held over one, and from its lungs and throat were secured a quart of dust. The extent of the dry weather can be judged from this incident, the* first of its kind noted in this part of the country. —Bluffton Banner. John Kerlin, one of Montpelier’s foremost citizens, died Saturday at Knapp’s sanitarium, Rome City, after an extended illness. Mr. Kerlin was a member of the firm of Kerlin Bros., who engaged extensively in the building of pipelines. Few men in the country had a larger acquaintance. His affliction was a peculiar one, his blood having turned to water. The remains were brought back to Montpelier. Funeral services will be held today at the Catholic church. —Bluffton Banner.

COURT HOUSE NEWS The Meibers vs. Kintz Case Appealed from Squire Zeigler’s Court TO CIRCUIT COURT A Case Dismissed-—Mar-riage License Issued— Real Estate Transfers The case of John W. Meibers vs. Henry A. Kintz, in which damages are demanded on misrepresentation in a horse trade, and which was tried before Squire L. 41. Zeigler, of Root township, and a finding rendered for the defendant, has been appealed to the circuit court. The case of The Kuebler & Moltz Co., vs. Frederick Huffman, on account, has been dismissed and the costs paid. Joseph Wolfe vs. Washington Wolfe, for appointment of guardian, demurrer filed to complaint. H. L. Conter vs. Fort Wayne & Springfield Ry. Co., damages $250, rule to answer made absolute within five days. Williahi G. Smith vs. Mirl Laisure, account $25, set for trial Monday, October 12. The Monitor Oil company vs. The City of Decatur, on account, set for trial, Tuesday, October 13. Sarah H. Craig, executor of the will of William J. Craig, has qualified and filed bond. A special teachers examination will be held here Saturday on order from the educational board of Berne. Ferd Litterer and J Fred Fruchte, have been duly appointed as notary publics, and filed the necessary bonds as required by law, John W. Voglewede has sold to Ernest Schlickman 14 acres in Washington township for $1,500; Wm. Drew has given Solomon Moser a commissioner’s deed for 100 acres in Jefferson township for $6,701. A marriage license has been granted Louis J. Habegger, twenty-three, a bridge carpenter, of Berne, and Susannah Luginbill, twenty-two, of Berne. — o The Ladies’ Shakespeare Club met at the home of Mrs. C. A. Dugan this afternoon and the study of Othello was continued in Acts 3, 4 and 5. Tile hostess had the paper, the subject being "Othello as a Picture of Jealousy and Intrigue.’’ Quite a large crowd were present, and passed a very pleasant afternoon. Sparks rrorn a passing locomotive on the G. R. & I. railroad set fire to grass along the right-of-way near the Stephenson and Watson farm just north of this city Monday evening and considerable damage was done to timber on the two farms before the fire could be extinguished. Several rods of fence was also destroyed.— Portland Sun.

tlf you like to be dressed in the smartest style, and the best quality, now’s your chance. You’ll find this store the right place for distinction in clothes. HART, SCHAFFNER AND MARX clothes are the best ever offered for men to wear; every fabric all-wool, the tailoring done in away to keep the good style looking right; you’ll find these clothes the best for your wear, the most perfect clothes made. We show you just for example one of the new two button styles; a very snappy stylish suit. In addition to a great line of fancy weaves and colors we want you to have one of our fine black suits for dressier-than business-use. * We’ll show you all sorts of good things to wear besides clothes; shirts, neckwear, hats and all the rest. This store is the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes. SPECIAL —Visit our Merchant Tailor Department. Copyright 1908 by Hart Schaffner & Marx HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & COM’P’Y. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

WE ARE NOW READY TO SHOW VOU Our unusually large stock of Men’s and Boys’ Suits, Overcoats. Underwear other furnishings. We ytdA \W will be phased to show you these goods at an} tune that you may be. f ~r - A gin to get acquainted the new ) 1 styles whether you are ready to make/jL £. 1 \ your purchase or not. Men’s High jy Wtw Grade Suits ' In high-grade, hand tailored suits | M l and overcoats, we have “The Solo- IKI'I mM/ mon Bros, and Lampert” and “Colle- gWI.4/ \W/ gian” makes. -1 / W If you need a good suit don’t fail to • z see these. Wjl Prices ran s e QQ QQ good QQ so JQ CHILDREN'S SUITS We are showing an exceptionally large and stylish assortment of Children’s Suits both in plain and Knickerbocker trousers. a HATS HATS Zj '^ e le Stetson, Knox and Albert Soft and Stif Hats. All the new ('A f ‘Af shapes and colors B ELZEY & VANCE™ tsS Corner East of the Court House

The Adams County Detective Association will hold their regular annual meeting in the Grand Army hall in the city of Decatur, Ind., Saturday, Sept. 19, 1908. Meeting to be called promptly at ten o’clock a. m. As this is the time for the election of new officers for the coming year we would like to have as many as possible present. Much business of importance "i® be transacted. Be sure and attend. JAMES HURST, Pres. 221-4 t J. F. FRUCHTE, Secy. o——————— PAIR OF MULES FOR SALE. FOR SALE —A pair of mules, five years old, 16 hands high, weigh 2,300 pounds, well broke and as gentle as a pair of horses in stall or in harness. The price is right. Call on D. W. Beery or Abe Boch at once if you want them. 219-ts

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING. The policyholders of the French Township Fire Insurance company a.e notified to attend to the election of officers for a period of five years, the above meeting to be held at the election school house of French township, Adams county, Indiana, on Saturday, the third day of October, 1908, at 10 a. m. 2216 t G, W, Rupright, Pres. o — A RARE INVESTMENT, $5,000 worth of stock in a good live corporation, paying 6 per cent above taxes. With SI,OOO of this stock you can secure a good position. C. Lautenheiser, opp. Court House. tf-2tw o If your dealer does not handle Admiral coffee, others do. 209tf Try Admiral coffee. 209-ts

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