Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 238, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1908 — Page 3

NINE CENT Bargain Sale Begining Oct. 9tb. and lasting 9 days of 9 hours eaeh 9 gross displayed in window EVERY 9TH PURCHASER Will rtceive their purchase free All names will be posted on bulletin day following date of puoehase. During this sals we will offer to the public all 10, 15 and 20c articles. WATCH THE WINDOW MOSER’S China and Notion Store

WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and wanner tonight; Tuesday showers. RAILROAD BULLETIN GRANO RAPIDS & INDIANA. Into Effect Sunday, June 28. Northbound. 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 2:29 a.m. No. 12—Daily, ex. Suu 7:16 a.m. No. 2—Daily, ex. Sun 1:11p.m. No. 16—Sundays only 8:56p.m. ERIE. f ' Into Effect Sunday June 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 3:12 am. No. 3—Daily, 12:46 p.m. No.’2l—Daily, ex. Sunday. .10:10 p. m. No. 15—Daily 7:30p.m. T. ST. L. A W. R. R. No 2—Frankfort to Toledo, Ex. Sunday 12:45 p.m. No. I—Toledo to Frankfort, Ex. Sunday ~.,,,12:22p. m. Na 3—Delphos to St. Louis, Ex. Sunday 7:21a.m. No, 4—St. Louis to Delphos, Ex. Sunday 7:57 p.m. No. s—Toledo to St. Louis, daily 10:17 p.m. No. B—St.8 —St. Louis to Toledo, daily 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 I 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. 11:30 a.m. x 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. f 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. - 11:00 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.

For The Business Man to Remember. We give the quckest r< turn on out of town 1 collections-results on your drafts by personal presentation-- transmission of money on foreign and d omestic points at lowest cost and maximum safety Old Adams County Bank

Calvin Miller is at Winchester on , business. Ed Ray. of Berne, was a business caller here today. Wall Wemhoff visited friends at Huntington over Sunday. Rudolph Schug, of Berne, transacted business here this morning. Abe Boch and Ames Fisher are at , Fort Wayne today on business. R. O. Johnson, of Kendallville! is visiting in the city with relatives. Mr. N. May went to Fort Wayne this I morning on a special business trip. | Orval Harruff and Will Bailey are at Geneva today doing surveying work. Bert Bailey, cf Monroe, was in the city this morning attending to business. A large number of Decatur people ’ attended the street fair at Bluffton ■ last Saturday. Miss Laura Bogner, of Fort Wayne, I spent Sunday in the city with her sister, Mrs, Chil Omlor. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mallonee visited friends at Bluffton yesterday and have returned to the city. Miss Cora Rcop returned to Fort Wayne this morning after spending Sunday here with friends. Charles N. Steele and family returned last evening from a two days’ visit with relatives at Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Arnold, of Fort Wayne spent Sunday here with her mother, Mrs. Catherine Center. Will Ward made a business trip to Winchester this morning. He is in the souvenir post card business Mr .and Mrs. C. Hildebrand and children were Bluffton visitors over Sunday and returned to the city last .night. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ervin returned lart evening from Bluffton, where they were the guests of relatives for the day. Chas. Baumgartner returned to his home at Linn Grove this morning after a visit with his brother, L. L. Baumgartner. Mrs. V,. JHendricks, of Monroe, who has ben visiting her brother. Mr. Riffey at Sulphur Springs, Ohio, returned home this morning. Mr. and Mrs. R. Earl Peters and Daughter. Leah, returned last evening from an over-Sunday visit with Mr. and Mrs. Erman Mentzer at Bluffton. Everything Is in readiness for the opening of the Grand theater this ev ening and no doubt they will be greeted by large audiences. Miller and Fristoe, the proprietors will endeavor to put on nothing but high class shows. Harvey Thornburg's saloon will be closed next Wednesday upon the expiration of his license and he said today that he will go to TulsaJOklahoma for an extended hunt and may locate in the west. Frank Hixon's salcon license expires next Tuesday. —Bluffton News. Nelson Toby, a Sturgis druggist, came near choking to death on a piece of meat at a Kendallville restaurant. Fred M. Howell, a Dayton traveling man, saved Toby’s life by blowing his breath with all possible force into Tcby’s mouth and in this manner restored respiration. There will be a meeting of the Bryan and Kern Thirty-Cent Club at the headquarters this evening. Every Democrat who has not jcined the club should be present this evening and sign his name, and make the membership reach 500 this evening. There will be speches by local politicians.

Ossian’s electric lighting system is assured. Capital of $3,000 to erect a building for the Wabash Valley substation will be furnished by fifteen Ossian citizens. They are promised a rental fcr the building that will yield them a return of not less than 6 per cent. The lighting franchise is to run for a period of twenty-five years. The bans of matrimony werepublished for the first time yesterday at the St. Marys Catholic church of Albert Smith, of Hesse Castle end Isabelle Dodane of this city. Also of Mr. John L. Weitz, of Fostoria and Lena Eiting of Washington township. These weddings will occur 4n about two weeks. Payment of $1,500 in gold, the alimony obtained by his wife in divorce proceedings, has been made by Edward M. Collier to County Clerk Plessinger at Bluffton in full settlement. Collier and his wife separated after tw-enty years of married life, and the divorce case was hotly fought on both sides. Collier said he would pay his wife every cent of the judgment in gold, and he made good. The following letters unclaimed at Decatur, Ind., postofflce for week ending Oct. 3. 1908: A. C. Zink, Finley Evans, Esq., Henry Trilch, S. C. Peterson. Mrs. Annis Roy, Frank Remmy, Frank Ramsy, Peter Moser, Mr. D. Matchai, Miss Grace Long, Mr. Wm. U. Albin. Emmett. Andrus, Mr. Wallace E. Crowell. Mrs. Jennie Murry. Mrs. John Gleason, Mr. Charley Grote, Chas. Golding, F. M. Hughes & Co. Persons calling for the above say advertised giving date. M. A. Frisinger, P. M.

Mrs. J, S. C-dchin is on the sick list. ' J. D. Beery is at Pcrtla-.d o;i business. i Frank Heal spent Sunday at Kokomo with lady friends. i John Bowers made a business trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon. E. X. Kb Inger made a business trip to .Cincinnati, Ohio, last evening. LOST —Bracelt. Finder please return to this office and receive reward. 237-3 t J. H. Heller and Raymond BiemerLamp were business calle-: it Geneva this afternoon. Earl Snow laid off from duties at this cffice today and went to Pot (Wayne on business. | Frank Shoemaker witnessed the ! Huntington-Shamrock ball game at Fort Wayne yesterday. Mrs. Anna Bennett and son Earl -e---tnmed to their home at B’‘i?ord. 0., after visiting with relatives. Mrs. C. S. Baird has returned to her home at Sal-3 monie, Ind., after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Harruff.' > Fred LaDelle and family have returned from Kckorno, where they played at the Sipes opera house for the last week. All Pythian Sisters are earnestly requested to be present at tonights meeting as matters of interest will be discussed. Mr. Fred Hardison spent Sunday at Larwell. Ind., with his family. He says Whitley county will go solid for Tom Marshall. Cappy Johns and Bert Colchin spent Sunday at Fort Wayne with friends. They also witnessed the HuntingtonShamrock ball game. The Columbian will have a social session- for its members at their ”lub rooms Thursday evening Oct Ober Sth. Fvery member take notice. Hundreds of people attended the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the St. Pauls German Lutheran church held at Preble yesterday. John Weber, agent for the Pacific Mutual Insurance C.o. of California, returned to his home at Union City after transacting business here. Mr. Fronefield realized $350 off ten acres of land this year, which is indeed a record breaker. This was revealed at his sale. The spring crops brought $1,270. Mrs. R. N. Whitenbarger returned to her home near Decatur this morning after spending a few days in the city, visiting with her mother, Mrs. William David. —Bluffton Banner. William Raqamacner, who travels for Benziger Bros., of Cincinnati, was in the city this morning greeting his old friends. He is a brother of the late Bishop Radamacher of the Fort Wayne diocese. Mr. J. C. Grimme, cf Fort Wayne, was here today looking up old friends. He is Democratic committeeman of the fourth ward at Fort- Wayne, and he says the national and state tickets are both sure winners this fall. T)r. C. B. Wilcox delivered the last of his series of lectures at the M. E. church last evening to a large and appreciative audience. His theme, “The Witch of Endor” proved very interesting and the musical program rendered was indeed good.

Miss Ethel Botthoff. who some time ■ago was operated upon at the St. Joseph hospital at. Fort Wayne, for appendicitis. returned to Deoatur today accompanied by her, sister and Frank Daniels. She is recovering nicely from the effects of the operation. The Grand, the new five cent theater will be open to the public tqnight and in all probability their opening will be greeted by a large audience. The building has undergone decided improvements and beside having seven, exits, ,1 beams have ben arranged so as to make it perfectly safe in every way. A government inspector has been sent fcr and will be here soon to make an examination. Donald Adams, aged fifteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Adams, mounted to the tops of the high buildings Saturday evening with the dare-devil wire walker. Davenport, who has been the great feature of the street fair and climbed to the back of the iron nerved man for a flight across the street on the wire, eighty feet from j the ground. The trip was made by the two without a mishap all owing ,to the nerve of Davenport. The boy slipped several times while in midair but was grabbed each time by the wire walker. The -mother of the young man was near the scene to- witness the stunt, unaware of the flight of her son until the lad was in the center ’of the wire. When she learned of this it was thought she wculd have hysterics and the ladies accompanying her tried to get her to leave the agonizing scene, but all to no effect. She i watched the lad until he reached the other side of the wire. The lad had the nerve and received a hearty hafldshake from every one that could reach him after his dismounting from the ' building.—Bluffton News.

THEOCTOBERTERM " 1 —• Board of Commissiones Holding a Regular Session NOT MUCH DOING The Board Go to Bluffton Tomorrow—Other Business The commissioners met in regular October session and have already waded through most of business presented. The docket for this term is net heavy. The board go to Bluffton tomorrow in compliance with a request from the circuit court there, to take some action relative to a proposed county line road. Robert E. Smith and Joseph E. Mann have been appointed viewers on the W. A. Bowman macadam road, and will meet October Bth. W illiam Hoile and Perry Everhart were appointed viewers on the Gailmeyer road and ordered to meet Oct. 9th. On the Tieman macadam road David Dilling and Henry Wafel were appointed viewers and called to meet Oct. 10th. William Hoile and Perry Everehart were named viewers on the PrebleKirkland road, and they too will meet Oct. 9th. \ t The record heretofore made in the Amos W. Gulick petition for drain was approved. The Adam Pease petition for vacation of road was in all things approved and the auditor ordered to so instruct the township trustee. The report of the engineer and superintendent was made in the J. R. Nusbaum road. Decatur & Bluffton No. 7, C. E. Bollinger, Brushwood College No. 2, Elzey road, Blomberg and Eckrote No. 2. These roads are all complete and accepted by the proper officers. The petition of W. .H. Laughrey for a highway was dismissed. The specification for county stationery was approved by the board Application for liquor licenses were granted to William Badders and Charles Zeser. William Hoile and Perry Everhart appointed viewers on the Henry Wefel macadam road petition. —o - - - The board of commissioners go to Bluffton tomorrw. where a joint session will be held. The Bluffton ball team, reinforced by several cf Decatur's best, trounced the Montpelier team Sunday to the tune of 29 to 1. I twas a slaughter. Hon. J. *A. M. Adair arrived in Geneva this afternoon and from there will go to Linn Grove, where he speaks tonight. The remainder of the week will be spent in Randolph county, where he is billed for five speeches. Will Kortenbrer has gone to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he will enter upon his second year’s course in the Conkey Veterinary School, intending to adopt that profession. During his vacation he has been employed at the Niblick store. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Beery pleasantly, celebrated their first wedding anniversary by a six o’clock dinner given at their home to which about twenty of the members of both families were invited, thus making the affair a sort, of family reunion. i Special for Saturday at the Decatur Packing Co. meat market—Grandma spare ribs like you used to eat on the farm. 236-2 t

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Mwra TO THE in Snow Agencv g 7 DECATUt, INDIANA Yes Follow the Crowd and Get a Heme of Your Own and Quit Paying Rent Are you expecting a great reduction in values, or a sudden fall in prices? A moment’s consideration will convince you that artificial gas electric lights, paved streets, stoned roads, large manufacturing industries, and new traction lines put in operation, do not reduce the prices cf the real estat e near them. That good locations will steadily increase in value, no matter who owns them. That you might as well save that increase as to pay high for it when you buy some years later. Now is the time to invest your money while property is reasonably cheap. The Snow Agency can fit you out with your choice frem a list of about 25,000 acres of as good farm lands as can be found in eastern Indiana or from a list of about One Hundred City Properties The owners want to sell these properties, not for speculation, at fletious values, but for a change of investment. Some of them can be exchanged for good farm lands. If your property is for sale at its real cash value, by listing it with us we will advertise it without cost or expens e to you, and are nearly sure to find you a buyer in a reasonably short time Befor e baying examine our prices and properties, as we can doubtless fit you out with just what you want and save you money in the transaction. From our large lists we here refer you to a few sample properties that we are now offering far sale:

699 — Is a five room cottage In southeast Decatur, near the electric lights is on water and gas lines, good sized lot. has small stable, summer kitchen, wood house, etc, fruit trees, etc. Rental value $6.00 per month. Can be bought for $650.00. 682 —Is a five room cottage on Adams street in good location, stoned street, cistern, city water, on gas line, has stable, coal house, garden, maple shade and fruit trees. Rental value $7.00 per month. Can be bought for SBOO.OO. 700 — Is a five room residence in southwest Decatur on the stoned street, and In a good location. On e acre of ground goes with this property. Fair buildings consisting of residence, horse and cow stable, etc. About fifty nice thrifty apple, pear and plum trees. This is a bargain at $1,050.00. .Fine rich garden ground. 704 — Is a 2.5 G acr e tract in west Der catur, on th e stoned road in a good location. This property has twe residence buildings, sheds and some other buildings. Is a good tract for berry culture, and can furnish homes nicely for two families in comparatively new dwellings. For the next sixty days this can ba bought for $2,300.00. 707—1 s a good frame seven room residence on 11th street, in good location. Has good large stabl e and granary, drove well, cistern and plenty of fruit and shade. Is a desirable location; can be bought for $1,775.00. 701 — Is a weii buiit seven room story and a half residenc e in south Decatur, on the proposed traction line south. This house is well located and is natural wood finish through•ut. Is on stone foundation, has larga cement cellar, electric lights, city water, Is plumbed far gas, and th e property has a quarter* of an acre of ground. A small stable, wood and coal house, etc. Has plenty of fruit and shade and is In a desirable location. Can be bought for $2,200.00. 705 — Is a brick business room on Second street, has a 22 foot frontage, 132 back to the alley; has single story brick building, cement sidewalks, and is on the brick street. Is suitable for a good business location not requiring extensive floor surface. Also No. 629, a large business room fronting the court house, on Second street. Prices and terms made known on application. / 69- —Is a seven rom residence with cellar on north sth street. This property consists of tw-o regular sized lots, is on the west side of the street, and in goodlocation. Is convenient in arrangement, has plenty of shade and nice fruit frees, drove well, is on stoned street and good sewerage. For the next sixty days it can be bought for $2,400.00. 717 —Is a comfortable. five-room cottage on water and electric light lines in southeast Decatur. Has two porches, cistern, brick sidewalk and a bargain at $550. 720 —Is a new small cottage in southwest Decatur, hag a good cistern, brick sidewalks, nice new summer kitchen, and coal house. x Is a full alley lot in good location. Price $750. • 725 —Is a comfortable five-room cottage near Lutheran church, on Eleventh street; nice front and back porches, cement cistern, brick sidewalks, good severage, some fruit

trees and maple shade; can be sold for SBSO. 719 —Is a gooa lot with sewer drainage on Eleventh street, plenty of fruit and shade, nice front porch, summer kitchen, cistern and city water, good stable and comfortable cottage house for SI,OOO. 633 —Is a roomy and comfortable story and a half residence on Ninth street near Monroe st; is in good conditioa, has nice front porch, coal house, cistera, % of a drove well, is o> good sewerage, nice front view to Monroe street, and can be bought for $1,300. 711 —Is a story and a half new eight room residence in south Decatur. House on concrete and tile block foundation and natural wood finish inside; has cement cistern, drove well, coal house, etc. Is a full city lot in this addition; can be bought for $1,400. 721 — Is a good seven-room story and a half residence in northwest Decatur near Monroe street; is more than a full lot, has a drove well, cistern, stable, shade and fruit trees, nice front porch, cement walks, summer kitchen, wood house, etc. Price $1,400. 725— Is a story and a half new sixroom residence with cellar on east Mercer avenue; ha s water well, stable, cement cistern, and an acre and a half of ground. This property can be bought for $1,550, or seller would take a smaller desirable property as part payment on this one. 726— Is a good location on west Adams street, in southwest Decatur, two nice high lots, brick sidewalk, fruit and shade trees, summer kitchen and comfortable six-room story and a half residence in good condition. If sold soon this property can be bought for $1,625. 716 —A nearly new story and a half nine-room residence on north Third street; is on good sewerage, has cement cistern, drove well, brick sidewalks; is natural wood finish, has nice front and back porches, is on concrete and tile foundation. Has large cellar, and four nice upstairs rooms. Ca n be bought for $2,000. 703 —Is a seven-room story and a halt residence with good cemented cellar, in southeast Decatur on High street; about eighty feet frontage on west side of the street; nice high lot, has water well, cistern, chicken park and stable with cemented floors nice shade and plenty of fruit trees; price $2,000. 715—1 s a convenient nine-room story and a half house with good cellar, on north Third street; stone foundation, bay window, nice porches and fine maple shade; city and cistern water, good sewerage and on stoned Street; plumbed for gas and water, and thoroughly wired for electric lights: has coal house, stable, cistern, and two full width city lots, for a short time this property will be offered for $2,500. 722 — Is a well built and convenient eight-room residence on stoned foundation on west Monroe street; cellar, cement cistern, wood house, stable, electric lights, cement walks, furnished bath, plenty of fruit and shade trees, and on the proposed traction line; price $2,500. 618 —Is a modern seven-room twostory residence, with cellar, on a brick street in a nice residence part of Decatur: has a 60 foot frontage, and contains ground for about three city lots; cement sidewalks, good stable, cistern, city water, electric

sb??’ t ba,h ’ ete: SOIDe flne fnjft shade trees; Rno 73 !i7 1S fi r rom Cona « e 'be west a fui an T' iD S ° ,l,h Deca,uris a full alley | ot near t line and school, is « water and electric light lines. Md iB location. On this lot is a rtety of plums. „ ears ether fruit. Price $925.09 * 737-1, a comfortable five room eottage on Fro nt gtrcet near th etraction line and is on a brirMed street. Is a full clty w Jn iginal plat of Decatur; has cement and brick walks, cistern, etc. Considering bricked street, location etc., is reasonable in price at $1 ir,’ 739— Is a neat and nearly new, storv and a half residence f nthe central part of the town of Pleasant Mllb Has god cement walks, cistern, eeb lar. .stable, etc. i 8 a well bl g lt residence, and a good property for $1,200.00. 736—1 s a neat story and a half nearly new seven rcom residence on Grant street. On water, gas and electric light lines. House on brick foundation. large front windows, weathered oak and stained finish, nice open stairway, electric Ights. plenty of porch rcom. more than a full lot, cistern, part of drove well, brick sidewalks, etc. Price $1,600.00 740— Is an eleven room story and a half residence on cement block foundation. cn brick street, within a few squares of the court house. Has electric lights, city and cistern water, good cellar, nice maple shade and some good fruit trees. Is well located and has plenty of room for any ordinary family. This is one of the few large well located residences on bricked street that can be bought at a moderate price. $2,525.00. HI this list does not contain what you are wanting, call for large list of town and city property. We alto have some very good bargain, in few aero lots and farms. Call for list of farm property. TOLEDO, ST. LOUIS A WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. The annual meeting of the stockholders of Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad company for the election of directors and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting will be held on Wednesday. October 28, 1908, at 10 p’clock in the forenoon at the principal office cf the company in the city of Frankfort, Clinton county. Indiana. The polls for receiving ballots will be opened as scon as the orgaization of the meeting shall admit, and will remain open one hour. The stock transfer books of the company will remain open one hour. The stock transfer books of the company will close on October 17, 1908, at the elose of business on that day. and will reopen October 29. 1908. at 10 o'clock a. m. JAS. STEUART MACKIE, Secretary. — ...—— GLENDALE FARM HERD DUROCB Now la the time to buy your tried sows and get ready for next year’, spring pigs. You sold your sows this last fall and winter, so why not buy a tried sow or spring gilt and start right. I have them in the reach of every farmer. If you need a good male pig, I have them and will sell them right, and will register all hogs, sold to farmers during the next thirty days. My fall sale is on Oct. 29. Write or phone at my expense for prices and sale catalogue. Don’t forget the date— Oct. 29, 1908. D. E STUDABAKER, ts R F. D. 3. Decatur, Ind. o— — — ECZEMA IS NOW CURABLE. Zenio. a scientific preparation for external user, stops itching instantly and destroys the germs that cause the disease. This remarkable medicine has cured more chronic cases of Eczema and other skin diseases than all other remr edies o n the market combined. Smith, Yager & Falk, the druggists, say they believe Zemo to be an honest medicine and that it will do all that is claimed for it. —o - Smith Yager & Falk are pleased to announce to their customers that they have secured ‘he agency for Zemo, the best known remedy for the positive and permanent cure for Eczema, Pimples. Dandruff. Blackheads. Piles and every form of Skin or Scalp disease. Zemo gives instant relief and cures by destroying the germ that causes the disease, leaving a nice, clear, healthy skin. See display and photos of cures made by Zemo. o HOW TO CURE SKIN DISEASES. The germs and their poisons must be drawn to the surface cf the skin and destroyed. Zemo will do this an cure any case of skin or ?ca 'P ease, no matter from what fause w tff how long standing. Write for pie. E. W. Rose Med. Co., St. Lout . Mo. Gee photos of cures andl w - dow or show case display at Smith. Yager & Falk drug stor«