Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 310, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1908 — Page 3

RAILROAD-BULLETIN ERIE. Into Effect Sunday Jun* 21, IMS. Eastbound. No. 8— Daily 5:28 a.m. No. 12— Dally 2:W».a No. 23— Daily, ex. Sunday.. 2: 00 p. m. No. 4— Daily 3:21p.m. Westbound. No. 7— Dally 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. 10— Dally 7:30 p. tn. GRANO RAPID 3 & INDIANA. South Bound. No. o—Dally T 12:47 am. No. 13 —Dally, ex. Sunday. .7:16 a. m. No. 2— Daily, ex. Sunday...!: lip. m. Na 16—Sunday only 8:36p.m. North Bound. No. 5— Daily 1:28a.m. No. 7 —Dally 7:57 a.m. No. 3 —Daily, ex. Sunday.. .3-07 p. m. T. ST. L. A W. R. R. No. 2 —Frankfort to Toledo, Ex Sunday 11:27 a m. No. I—Toledo1 —Toledo to Frankfort, Ex. Sunday 11:49 a. m. No. 3 —Delphos to St. Louis, Dally 7:21 a. m. No. 4 —St. Louis to Delphos, Dally „.8:03 p. m. No, s—Tolad® to St. Louis, daily 10:17 p.m. No. 6 —St. I.oula to Toledo, daily ,5:05a. nx Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE A SPRINGFIELD Trains Leave Trains Leer* Decatur FL Wayne 5:50 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 7:09 a.m. 8:30a.m. 8:30a.m. 10:00 am. 10:60 a m. 11:30 a.m. 11:30am. 1:00 p.m. 1:00p.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. 11:00 p.m. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p. m. car wiH arrive at Calhoun or Berry streets. Fort Wayne at 8:10 p. na The last car leaving Fort Wayne ad 11:00 p. m. will wait until after the show. o GEO. THICKER has for sale a brand new Splint coal, hard as a rock, per ton for a few cars. You have not seen Its equal. Phone 534. 258-12 t that lasts equal to Anthracite at 33.50 o You have tneu uie rest, now try the best —Admiral coffee. 309tf • o — More people are taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy every year. It is considered to be the most effective remedy for kidney and bladder troubles that medical science can devise. Foley’s Kidney Remedy corrects irregularities, builds up worn out tissues and restores lost vitality. It will make you feel well and look well. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o Democrat Want Ads. Pay \y a BE ■ ll x YOU’RE SOWING the seeds of a permanent, tangible success when you open an account with this institution. No matter how small your present amount may be —by placing it here it becomes an active factor in your habits—in stopping any a reckless expenditure mid making you a careful conservative sitizen. Old Adams County Bank

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WEATHER Rain or snow tonight or Wednesday; colder Wednesday. Charles Dailey, of Bluffton, transacted business in our city today. S. E. Hite went to Fort Wayne this morning to transart important business. Attorney D. E. Smith went to Geneva today to look after legal business. G. Eppert, of Fort Wayne, came to the city today to look after business affairs. P. L. Andrews went to Geneva this afternoon in the interest of the Mascr.lc lodge. S. W. Hale, of Geneva, was a visitor in Decatur today and has returned to his home. Chalmer Porter left this afternoon for Parker City, where he will visit re’atives for so.me time. Mrs. George Dean went to Monroe this afternoon to be the guest of relatives for some time. Mrs. Oliver Hendricks, of Monroe, visited friends here today. She has returned to her home. Alex Woods, of Ridgeville, transacted business here today and has returned to his home. Miss Celia Kinney went to Geneve. this afternoon to make a stay with friends and relatives. Mrs. C. Hockenbury, of Berne, retui ned to her home this afternoon fro m a brief visit in the city. Miss Myrtle Kizer, of Geneva, returned to her home today after making a pleasant visit with Miss Lydia Thomas. R. B. Gregory went to Fort Wayne this morning to look after business interests. He was accompanied by his wife. The newly elected officers of the Modern Woodmen lodge will be installed tonight. All members should be present. The musicale given at the Bosse oi era house last night was a great event. Every one who attended was very well pleased. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Rice went to the home of Charles Magley this morning, where they enjoyed a good old country dinner. A new dwelling is being erected by Einn and Patton on south Third street and when done S. E. Hite will have a beautiful and modern home. New Years day will be observed in a quiet way in Decatur. The banks and postoffice will be closed as usual on holidays, and a few of the business houses will close at least a part of the day. Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer received word this morning fro m Mrs. Young of Belt .Montana, stating that her mother was greatly improved and it is hoped that by the time Mr. Schir-mc-yer arrives there some time this evening that she will be much better. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Tyndall will give a family dinner on New Years day as has been the custom for several years. The guests will include Judge and Mrs. D. D. Heller, Miss Bertha Heller, Miss Elizabeth Corbus, Mr. H. B. Heller and J. H. Heller and family. Brown & Summers, the Monroe real estate dealers, are at home from a trip to Pickards, Indiana, where they sold two tracts of land, on for $l9O an acre and the other for $135 an acre. They have Oklahoma lands for sale and will make a trip there leaving here January 5. Any one wanting to go along may do so. A real spring day this, and when we asked Doc Grandstaff if It wasn t about the nicest weather he had ever known in Adams county for this season of the year, he recalled one New ■ Years day when he and John Wolford I went out hunting in their shirt sleeves and came home with a dandy bunch lof squirrels. On the same day they i killed a snake in the woods, proving the fall season had been an unusually , warm one.

John Frank, of Blue Creek township was a business visirtor in the city today. A numbar of Elks will accompany their team to Fort Wayne this evening to witness the big contest. We are certainly enjoying beautiful weather at present, and it seems a little like the good old summer time. James Zimmerman, of Decatur, and Miss Viola Yarger, of Berne, will be the guests this week of Miss Merle Pierce. —Berne News. Frank Cotton, confined at the county jail, suffered a slight attack of heart trouble. His condition is not serious.—Bluffton News. Hon. John H. Baker and Mrs. Baker, of Goshen, are 'celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. Judge Baker was for many years on the United States court bench. The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fauth, formerly of Huntington, but now living in St. Louis, ate a glass ornament from a Christmas tree anil died within a short time. Misses Madge and Vera Ward, who have been guests of Misses Erma and Hazel Dickes of east Walnut stret, have returned to their home in Decatur. —Portland CommercialReviaw. Miss Virgie Sellers, who left her home in Bluffton Sunday with George Wiltse for a brief visit with friends in Fort Wayne, telephoned her mother Monday that she and Wiltse were going to Michigan to be married. Much comment has been made in regard to the motor car which passed through Decatur yesterday. Those who witnessed it marvelled at fts excellent construction and its beautiful appearance. The Irene is one of the wonders of the twentieth century. Fourteen macadam roads were sold bv the commissioners of Wells county today. The road fever which struck them last year seems to be staying with them. The county line road traversing between Adams and Wells counties, will be sold at Bluffton on February 3. Councilmen have been appointed to audit the books of City Clerk C. A. Brown, of Hartford City, upon a rumor that the official is short. Mr. Brown declares that his affairs are all straight and that the action is the work of his enemies, who are seeking to make him trouble. Hon. S. W. Hale, of Geneva, attended to lousiness and gave his friends in Decatur the glad hand today. He reported the epileptic village of which he is one of the trustees, as still making great progress and some day he expects it to be one of the great institutions of the state. Mrs. Georgia Karns went to Berne this morning to visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ed Engeler. Mr. and Mrs. Er.geler became the parents of a baby daughter on Christmas morning. A sad feature of the case is the fact that the child is afflicted with brain and spinal trouble and it seems impossible that it can live more than a few days. —Bluffton News. Congressman George W. Rauch will probably visit the Panama canal zone in company with a number of other members of congress during the recess between the regular and special sessions of congress in March. The trip will be made for the purpose of securing first hand information relative to the progress made in the construction of Uncle Sam’s big ditch. The announcement that there is a blind tiger in operation in this city has caused considerable interest among the temeprance people, many of whom have beeome active and claim that if they can find the evidence they will file affidavits and learn, if possible, who is running the outfit. The penalty upon conviction of running ai blind tiger is severe.— Bluffton Banner.

The Whitley county council has declined to make an appropriation for the county local option election until the board of commissioners shall decide that the election is to be held. It will be recalled that one of the grounds on which anti-temperance adherents contested the petition for a special election was the fact that the county council had made no appropriation for such election. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Beeler, of Geneva, and Mr .and Mrs. Enos Beeler of nine miles east of this city, left on the ten o’clock car for Alexandria where they were called on account of the death and funeral of George Beeler. Mr. feeeler moved from this county to Alexandria and the greater part of the sixty-five years of his life were spent in Jay county. He is a brother of Samuel Beeler, of east of Portland, and several brothers and sisters survive him. who were formerly residents of this county. He has been ill for some time with cancer of the mouth which was the cause of his death. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock—Portland CommercialReview.

Nick Miller is Improved and will soon be all right again. Raleigh Parrish has returned from a visit with friends at Fort Wayne. Mrs. John Lachot has gone to Berne sot a short visit with friends and relatives. Dr. W. O. Smith, of Hoagland, was in the city today looking after business interests. Jesse Rupp, cashier of the Bank of Berne, was looking after business here today. W. P. Schrock and John Baker are out today in search of such game as may run in the line of their deadly guns. Judge Macy returned home to Winchester today after presiding in the Adams circuit court yesterday and this morning. He will be here again Saturday. The Decatur public library is becoming more popular each day. The number of readers and borrowers is increasing. U. S. Drummond moved, his household goods to Pleasant Mills todav where he will assume control of the Yager store Friday. The market report of today shows a raise in all grains over yesterday, ft is predicted that wheat will soar high before many weeks. The Lajdles’ Aid Society .of Mt. Pyleasant M. E. church will meet with Mrs. Philip Baker next. Wednesd iy January 6. 1909. All members are requested to be present.

Work is progressing rapidly on the foundation of the building to be erected by the Schafer Hardware company and the structure will be built as rapidly as possible. , Niblick & Company are preparing for the big annual sale which they always give during January, and which is awaited by many of the care- ‘ ful buyers in this section. Just four more days and the D«- . catur public schools will re-convene after a vacation of ten days. The , pupils have had ideal weather for their vacation and have well improved their time. , Judge O'Rourke |vas an earfy morning visitor to Decatur, on his way home from Marion, where he attended the eleventh district Demoi cratic banquet. While here he was , the guest of L. C. Waring. Mr. L. C. Waring is home from his visit to Marion, where he attended the eleventh district Democratic banquet. He reports it one of the most enjoyable of the many previously held by , the Democrats of that district. The speeches were well received. David Studabaker who has suffered from a long seige of typhoid fever continues to improve and will be able , to sit up within a few days, though it will be several weOks before he can be around as usual, and he will probably not re-enter school this year. A space ten feet square on a billboard facing Lafayette square, in New Orleans, has been given to the members of the New Era club by Junius Garrick, and wilt be made to help in th® suffrage campaign the club is carrying on. Each week important facts concerning the movement will be announced on the space. Whether or not an attempt will be made to re-apportion the state for legislaive purposes will be determined within the next month. It is possible that the entire matter may be passed over until the next session, inasmuch as the Democrats are in the saddle in the house.while the Republicans have control of the senate. If the Democrats had elected three more members of the senate they would! have put into effect a gerrymander that would have given them contrcl of the legislature for an indefinite period. The transcript of the proceedinas had in the court, of Justice bf the Peace T. J. Cartwright, at Pennville, in the case of Clyde Strausburg. against John N. Teeter, to collect an unpaid board bill, was received Saturday by Count}' Clerk Gillespie. The case is being appealed to the circuit court by the defendant, who in the lower court permitted the case to gg

by default and suffered judgment to be rendered against him in the sum of $50.20. The money is alleged to be du a to Strausburg for 192 meals at twenty-five cents a meal. —Portland Sun. The only important case on the state docket to be left over by Prosecutor A. G. Emshwiller for his succssor, Ethan Secrest, is the appeal of Marvel Tarr, convicted in Mayor Lucas’ court of provcoation on 16-year-old Gladys Waters. Prosecutor Emshwiller has but three days more tn serve and the setting of cases en the criminal docket was postponed Monday until the newly elected officer takes charge. Other state cases of which there are but a few, trill also be left to the disposal of Mr. Emshwiller, who cleaned the docket of many old cases that have been standing for some time. —Hartford City News.

v y Doing Her Duty. o <> (Copyright, 1906. by American Pres» Association.] I know a great deal is said about talebearers. I am proud of being on* of those women who tell people if they are being treated badly. If I hear one person talking behind another person's back I don’t scruple to tell the person talked about that he or she is being maligned. I think they ought to know it Last autumn I took my daughter abroad and left her at school at Geneva. Then I started for Berlin. I got into an empty compartment and waited till the train started. Presently an oldish gentleman got in with a youngish lady. They was very affectionate —at least the oldish gentleman api>eared to dote on his young wife, who seemed to be watching for some one. Then a youngish man with black whiskers got in, took a seat directly opposite the wife, and she breathed easier. The door was shut by the guard, and the train steamed away. It didn’t take me long to find out that that young feller and that young wife were fooling the oldish busband. The old one never turned his head that they didn’t look into each other’s eyes lovingly. By and by he got up from his seat, caiue to the window where I was and sat down directly opposite me, at the same time taking a newspaper out of his pocket. I never saw such a fool in my life. If these old men will marry young wives, why on earth do they leave them in temptation, I’d like to know? The poor old husband never took his eyes off his paper, and the couple at the other side of the compartment never stopped flirting. I sat straight up and tried to frown ’em down. They didn’t seem to care much for me. but once the young huasy, when her lover put his hand on hers, drew hers away, cast a glance at me and whispered something to the young man. After that they both leaned back for awhilp and stopped their foolin’. But It wasn’t long before they was at it again, both leanin’ forward, one of his knees covered by her skirts, and she didn’t know that I knew that they was holdin’ hands under it too. I couldn’t stand it any longer. The husbanE was a benevolent looking man, and I sympathized with him from the bottom of my heart. By and by he put down his paper and looked out the winder. I began by makin’ some remarks about the weather and the beauty of the country. He seemed inclined to talk with me because he hadn’t any one else to talk with. I purposely directed his gaze to the view to be seen from the other window so that he’d see what was goin’ on, but the miserable things heard me and leaned back against the cushions. There was nothin’ for me to do but tell him. By this I’d be doin’ him a service and her, too, for I guessed there hadn't been anything real criminal between ’em, and if the affair wms nipped in the bud thete wouldn't be. Jest as I was makin’ up my mind how to put him on to the thing without offense the train whizzed into a tunnel. The compartment was black as Ink for awhile; then we shot out Into bright daylight The old fool of a husband was scttln’ with his head thrown back and his eyes shet The lovers was settln’ back from each other, and a flush was on the young woman’s cheeks. But what was that on the black whiskers of the young man? Powderpowder from off her face. I saw it and knew that the whippersnapper had been takln’ a kiss. At that moment the husband opened his eyes. Would you believe it? He looked at the couple unconcernedly and then resumed his paper. “What’s that,” I whispered to him, "on that young man’s beard?” He looked at me kind o’ surprised, then at the young man, then back at me. “I don’t see anything,” he said. "Don’t you see the powder on his beard?” . “Powder? No.” “Well, I declare! Where’s your eyes? That young man’s got powder on his beard and his coat collar, and it could have only come from your wife's face.” The old man looked again at the powder, then at me-, then back at the couple. Then, looking at the young man, he said fiercely: “You kissed her, sir!" “What business is that of yours?” retorted the other in a harsh vbice. “She is no longer yours. She is mine.” “Yours, sir!” “Yes, mine.” "Since when?” “At high noon today.”

“By what authority?” “A certificate of marriage.” I thought they were going to kill each other, when the young woman, blushing red all the time, burst into a laugh. “Oh, father,” she said, “you are always so droll! What are you up to now?" Oh, my goodness gracious! He was her father! What a blunder! “This lady,” continued the old man, “has pointed out the evidence of your guilt Look at your coat collar. There’s face powder on It.” The young woman laughed and dusted the powder off with the tips of her gloved fingers. “Madam,” said the old man to me, "I am very grateful to you. That young man married my daughter at noon today, robbing me of my pet He has had the Insolence to show me that I have lost her by kissing her In the first tunnel on the road.” There was a burst of laughter from the young couple, In which the old man joined. Anyway I done my duty. EVELYN WITWORTH.

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