Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1908 — Page 3

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R. Earl Peters made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. C. O. France went to Monroe this afternoon to look after business affairs. The condition of Mrs. Armstrong, of Pleasant Mills, is still alarming. Her Iffe is despaired of. Rev. Newcomb, of Hoagland, will begin revival services at Mt. Pleasant church next Sunday evening. J. B. Stoneburrter had an interesting performance last evening and many people saw the excellent films. Silas Fuller and Rebecca Summers, an aged couple, of Milford, who desire to wed. have twice been refused license. H. M. Romberg left last night for Fort Wayne, after a day in this city, looking up old friends and attending to business. Mrs. J. H. Heller, who has been quite sick for a week past, is greatly improved today land Xvill prtobably scon be as well as usual. Raymond Knoff, the popular young dentist, expects to be ready for business at Berne next Saturday. He will get his share of the business no doubt. The Murray hotel is doing a thriving business ■at present. Many traveling men are on the road and the popular hostelry is enjoying a liberal patronage. . ; ' ‘ Jesse Shull, aged 22 years, was killed at Lapaz Junction, Marshall county, while attempting to board a moving freight train. His home was in the southwest part of Kosciusko county. ;. 1 » Every member of the local camp M. W. A. should feel it a sense of duty to attend tonight’s meeting, as very vital business is to be transacted besides the election of officers and a banquet.

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WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday; rising temperature Thursday. The council held an interesting meeting in their chambers last evening. A new picture studio has been opened in the Bremerkamp building on Madison street. The mercury hugged the zero mark well last night and today and we are promised even colder weather. Miss Clara Burr returned to her home at Monmouth last evening from a visit with friends in the city. Just twenty-three days until Christmas. Oh! my! What will Santa Claus bring for the children. Patch the holes in your socks. The Christmas entertainment to be 1 given at the Methodist church will ,bo unusually interesting. A great proigram is being prepared. Mrs. R. Earl Peters returned today from Waterloo, where she has been the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leas for several days. The school board were on another visiting tour today and they have found the schools to be in excellent condition. The attendance is far above the everage. Mrs. C. A. Drerup, wife of a well known Kendallville man, is dead following an operation for abdominal tumor. She was married in 1877 and eight children survive her. “East Lynne” to be staged at the Bosse opera house tonight is an old but interesting play. We are informed that the company is a good one and no doubt many people will see the play. Ray Boggs, a Pennsylvania railroad telegraph operator stationed near Warsaw, was struck on the head Monday by a piece of telephone pole broken off by the wind. His injury was not serious. There is still a large amount of sickness in Adams county, due probably to the changeable weather. The weather this summer and fall has been very changeable from dry to wet and warm to cold. Sam Barger yesterday sold a four-year-old gelding for the (handsome sum of S3OO, the purchaser being William Steiner, of Bluffton, Ohio. The horse was a beautiful animal and speaks well for the man who raised him. The boys are putting a fine edge on their skates again making ready for another jubilee. The football uniforms are tucked; away in the closet but who knows how soon the weather man will demand their recovery from oblivion. The Modern Woodmen male quartet will render selections at the big district meeting to be held at Fort Wayne December 21. A grand time will be had. The boys will render several pieces, which w’ill be fitting to the occasion. Verne Cripe and Walter Evans, aged 15 and 13 respectively, were buried Sunday night in a sand bank near Walkerton, their home. They had left home Sunday to spend the day in their cave. Heavy rains caused the roof to losen and it fell upon them. They had been dead three hours when found. x Mrs. Theresa Wartzbaugh and her 14-year-old daughter are in jail in Peru charged with obtaining money under false pretense. The woman is bright, affable and charming and a puzzle to the officers. She asserts that her husband, now living in lowa, is a.bigamist, and that he was once a law partner in the firm of Governorelect Marshall at Columbia City. A special train of private cars carrying President Joseph Wood, of Pittsburg and other high officials of tbe Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad, passed through the city Tuesday morning enroute to Fort Wayne. The officials are engaged in making the annual inspection of the road bed and property of the company with which they are connected. The train did not stop in Decatur.

Fr»d Sellemeyer is suffering from an injury caused by a nail entering his foot. Charles D. Murray and Bud Brokaw are at Chicago for a few days on business of importance. Fred and Edward Kalter, of Magley, came to Decatur this morning to look after business interests. Now honest, which do you prefer, warm or cold weather? Os course we realize that the answers depend somewhat on the temperature. S. D. Walters came in from Plymouth, Ind., last night for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Walters. He returned to Fort Wayne today. Miss Bertha Hoffstetter passed through the city enroute from Chicago where she has been visiting, to her home at Willshire. While here she visited with the Misses Walters. The First National bank is sending out postal cards showing the interior of their new banking house and containing a statement of the standing of this sound and substantial concern. David Studabaker, suffering from fin attack of typhoid fever, is reported not quite so well today, having had a rather severe sinking spell during last night. His symptoms, however, are not serious. Dr. J. Q. Neptune and George Nettle returned this morning from Witbeck, Michigan, where for three weeks he has enjoyed a splendid hunting trip. The first day they were out they killed two deer and had a great time. Mr. Neptune says hunting is good in Michigan. Noah Frauhiger, the Preble auctioneer, is kept busy these days with sales over in Tipton and Howard Counties, where he has enjoyed a liberal patronage. He will go tp Tipton Friday for a series of sales. Mr. Frauhiger speaks English. German and Swiss languages fluently and his services are just beginning to be recognized. The memorial services to be held at the Bosse opera house next Sunday will be very interesting. Three addresses will be delivered and special quartet music will be rendered, beside vocal solos. The Elks leave nothing undone which will add to the appropriateness of the occasion. The public is invited to participate in these services, whch promise to eclipse all former similar events. Os interest to local baseball fans is the announcement that Perl Laßue of Andrews, well known in professional base ball and las* year with Marion and Portsmouth in the Ohio State League, was second in the fielding averages in the league for third basemen. Laßue played in 146 games, had 186 put-outs, 331 assists and but thirty-four errors, making his average .939 for the season.

Old, and stricken with paralysis since three years ago, Andrew Striker on Jefferson street was relieved from his suffering by death at 10:30 Sunday night. During the last three weeks of his life he suffered considerably as besides suffering from paralysis he was much bothered with rheumatism. He reached the age of over 77 years. Funeral services and burial will take place at the Spring Hill church northeast of Berne Wednesday at 10 o’clock. —Berne Witness. The Fred Blackwood and R. B. Marshall saloons will cease business this month because of the effective blanket remonstrance, and there will then be only four saloons left in Bluffton. Two more places will go out in January. and in February John Clark and Cal Ditzler will retire and the town will be completely “dry.” The blanket remonstrance in effect will be good until November 1, 1910, It having been renewed only a few days before the election. It was originally filed last February. Three Wells county boys, Carl and Rugh French and Fred Speheger, of near Domestic, are preparing for a trip to the Pacific coast to spend the winter at various coast points. Messrs. French expect to return in April while Mr. Speheger may remain a year or longer. They leave from Bluffton Saturday and will go via f EI Paso, Texas, where Mr. Speheger’s brother. William lives. The French boys have an uncle living at Fulterton. Calif., and that will be one of their stopping places.—Berne Witness. A local automobilist was touring in his auto this summer and ran over and killed a dog while speeding on a michigan road. The dog was a valuable one and a man with a gun was standing beside him on the road when the auto owner turned back and the following conversation occurred: “Was that your dog?” “Yes.” “Prettv valuable, wasn’t he?” “Yes.” "Will you accept $lO in payment of my killing him?” “Yes.” again answered the man with the gun. who was made $lO richer. “I am sorry that I spoiled your hunting trip,” said the autoist. “I wasn’t going hunting.” “What were you doing with a gun them?” asked the victim. "I was just going over to that woods to shoot the dog,” was the answer. —Portland Sun.

The Ward Fence people are receiving many orders daily for their famous »fence land the promoters are highly encouraged by the large volume of business which is being done. The plumbers had their first call for frozen pipes this morning and many people got a slight reminder that real winter is approaching. The registered twelve above zero at six o’clock. Ameeting is to be held soon by the bowlers of Decatur to organize a city league. It is believed that the league will be a success this year, as interest in this great winter sport continues at the Palace The senatorial fight in Indiana is becoming interesting, the principal factors at this tme being Kern, Slack, Shively, Hoffman, Lamb and several lesser lights. It is the general belief however, thatjhe scrap will eventually narrow down to about three candidates. Captain Milton Garrigus, of Kokomo, has announced the arrival of a son at his home. Although 77 years old Captain Garrigus is still in sympathy with the view s of President Roosevelt on the race question. Captain Garrigus, who is a former commander of the Indiana department of the G. A. R., seven years ago married a young woman against the wishes of her parents.

One of the most complete and effective presentations of “East Lynne” which has ever been sent on tour will be given at the Bosse opera house this evening by Joseph King's New York company. The company, scenic equipment and accessories are all up to the standard required for an artistic presentation of the favorite old drama. The engagement is for one night only, and seats can be secured at special prices. I A mass meeting for the purpose of organizing the temperance people of Grant county for the purpose of holding an early local option election will be called in a few days according to a piogram outlined at Fairmount recently. The advocates of this movement are said to be residents of all different parts of the county, but the leaders are Fairmount people who have heretofore participated in temperance fights in the county. Last Tuesday while Ira Waggoner and son, on route four, were in the field husking corn a thunderstorm came up and the two sought shelter in a shock of corn. While in their place of retreat lightning flashed into their faces almost dazing them, when they peered out from their hiding place they were surprised to see a fodder shock on fire about ten rods from where they were located, the result of the lightning.—Berne Witness. A crowd of Warren girls are resting uneasy today as the result of a childish prank, which they played on one of the members Saturday evening. This one member was married Saturday afternoon and during the evening the girls placed her in a two v’heeled cart and the ride proceeded. When the party arrived at the steep Salamonie grade, the cart overturned and the young married lady fell to the ground. She was badly bruised in the fall, but it is thought that the injuries are nothing serious. Although New Years is almost a month distant, we will venture thus early that many people are stamping both feet and saying they will stop this or that from that day on henceforth. Would be very appropriate if they would make an effort a few weeks in advance to ascertain whether or not their will power is working. ’Tis worse to resolve and then forget than not to resolve at all. With the proper effort every Decatur citizen could drop one habit and how noticeable that wquld be when 5,000 kre figured together. Barney Rupright, one of the oldest conductors on the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley traction line, was given a lay off last night and probably is out of a job for good because be objects to working at night. He was notified yesterday that his run would be changed from a day to a night run, but to this arrangement Rupright strongly demurred. He declared that he would not take a car "as far as the bridge’’ at night. On the next car from Fort Wayne a new man arrived to take his place as conductor and today Rupright is walking the streets of Bluffton without his blue uniform. J. M. Waterbury, who has swiped the world’s record from Albert Numbers a s the long endurance piona player, will be at Dreamland Thursday and will attempt to shatter his record of twehty-seven hours continuous playing. He will start Thursday night at eight o’clock and -will still be playing all day Friday. He takes nourishment while his hands are sail on the keys never stops playing until exhausted. In order that the skeptical may believe and be convinced the theater will be kept open continuously, and the public will be allowed to see that he does not "fudge" in the parlance of marble playing. —Bluffton News.

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Children are practicing for the Christmas eve entertainments to be given at the various churches on that very important occasion. Each promises to be good. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 1. —Night riders at an early, hour this morning destroyed the bam of W. H. Gossar, in Warrick county, near here The barn was filled with tobacco and the less is estimated at $3,000 with insurance iof $(1,000. Mr. Gjossar ’recently moved to Warrick county from Kentucky and it is said while a resident of that state he had refused to pool his tobacco.

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Park Hompton, 25, tflarmerly engineer on the Clover ueaf, died yesterday at the home of his father, W. D. Rampton, a veteran engineer of the Clover Leaf in Delphos, after a lingering illness from tuberculosis. The young man spent a year in Las Vegas, New Mexico, hoping that a change of climate would be beneficial, but it was too late, and he returned home two weeks ago. While in the west Mr. Rampton was employed as an engineer on the Santa Fe. He leaves, besides his parents, a young wife. —Van Wert Times.

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