Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1909 — Page 3

JRAILROAD BULLETIN ERIE. Into-Effect Sunday June 21, 1908. Eaetbound, £ Me. B—Daily 12— Daily 2: warn. No. 22—Daily, ex. Sunday.. 2:00 p. m. No. 4—Dally 2:21p.m. Weatbound. No. 7—Dally 1:52 a.m. No. 2-DaUy 3:12 a.m. No. 3—Daily 12:49 p.m. Na 21—Dally, ex. Sunday..lo.lo p. m. No 15—Daily 7:Mp.m. GRAND RAPIDS A. INDIANA. South Bound. Na 6—Daily 12:47 a.m. Me. 12—Daily, ex. Sunday. .7:1« a. m. No. 2—Daily, ex. Sunday... 1 : u p. m. No. 16— Sunday only ,8:36 p.m. North Bound. No. s—Daily 1:28a.m. No 7—Daily 7:57 a.m. Na 2—Dally, ex. Sunday.. .3:07 p. m. T. BT. L. A W. R. R. • Na 2—Frankfort to Toledo, Ex Sunday 11:27 a m. No I—Toledo1 —Toledo to Frankfort, »x Smwtey ......11:49 a- m. Na I—Dtopbos to 3t Louis, 7: 2i a. m. ■bo. 4—Bl Louis to Dtophoa DeW ..8:03 p. m. We. s— Toledo to 3*. Lotos. daily IMlp.m. Na B—St, Letos to Toledo, *a*y ~ 5:05a.m. Daily Interurban Schedule THE FT. WAYNE A SPRINGFIELD Trains Leave Trains Leave g, Decatur Ft. Wayne I 5:10 a.m. 7:00 a.m. B 7:00a.m. 8:30a.m. | 8:80 a. tn. 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. ■11:89 a.m. 1:00 p.m. ■ 1:90 p.m. 2:30 p.m. I 2:30 p. in. 4:00 p. m. E 4:00p. m. 5:30 p. m. y 8:80 p m 7:00 p. m. I7:00 p. m. 8:30 p. m. • :30 p.m. 11:00 pm. Theater parties taking the 7:00 p. BL ear will arrive at Calhoun or Berry ■treats. Fort Wayne at 8:10 p. m. The last car leaving Fort Wayne at 11:00 p. m. will wait until after the ■e 1 • — WEATHER I.' Snow or rain tonight; clearing Sunday. Don't pay unnecessary and wasteful • ®Xpen?*-e of old system dealers. Try the new. See Charles Hendricks, Decatur, Ind. Phone 580. CIGAR SALESMAN WANTED— In your locality to represent us. Experience unnecessary; sllO per mo. and expenses. Write for particulars. Monarch Cigar Co., St. Louis, Mo. »♦#♦♦s******♦** ■ THE ; :GRAND: # * * One of the finest shows ever J # come to the city. Don’t forget w « TONIGHT • • * First film—Magistrate's Crime. # _ I Bachelor’s Wedding Bells. # • Second film —Making Moving * • Pictures. w # Song—You Will Be Sorry Just # _ ■ Too Late. * w |B Everybody goes to the Grand. # : # • ♦ A»A*4»<***s«*»Y* /Il ■ I i IMs" OPEN A CHECKING ACCOUNT with us now and commence 1909 on a genuine business basis. Then you will know to a cent the respective costs of living, will be free from all disputes as to payment and will greatly better your business reputaticnM? Would you Investigate? I Old Adams County Bank i I

Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Reed, of Huntington, have arrived in the city for a visit with friends and relatives. A. B. Bailey, of Monroe, was in the city today looking after business affairs and has returned to his hnu><». R. Earl Peters will leave this evening for Waterloo, to remain ov«r Sunday as the guest of his wife, who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leas. A clever show will be given at the Grand theater tonight, and it will please all who attend. The music as usual will be a feature of the entertainment. There will be a special meeting cf the fire department tonight at the city hall, and it is Important trat every member be present as urgent business will be transacted. D. E. Studabaker held a most successful Duroc hog sale this afternoon and many buyers were at the First street sale stables to bid on the excellent animals. The auction began at 1:30 o'clock. The protracted meeting in progress at Salem church east of the city, are still in progress, and much interest is being manifested. The meetings' will continue over Sunday and part of next week. David Studabaker is improving nicely and is able to sit up several hours each day. It is but a question of a short time untli he will have fully recovered from the illness unless other complications set in. The wolf which was killed near Williams Wednesday is now on exsJ hibition at the D. M. Hensley jewelry store, the same having been mounted by Mr. Hensley. The wolf is an unusually large one, and is attracting much attention. Much interest has ben shown in the revival services at the Mission. There has been four conversions the pas tweek. Many more have asked for prayer. Rev. Gibson’s sermons are of that nature that will cause the sinner to repent. H .H. Deam was a passenger on the ill-fated Wabash Valley car that caused the death of H. L. Frazier yesterday afternoon. Deam was enroute to Fort Wayne, where he is assisting in a revival service at the First Methodist church.—Bluffton Banner. Friends of Dr. Holcomb, at Blufften, claim that the Dr. will return there and put the stories of his intimacies with Mrs. Cotton to the bad. The doctor must be a foxy guy and if half the stories are true he has lived a long time to now live in vain. An effort is being made at Celina to get an appropriation of $30,000 from the commissioners of Mercer county to be used in paying the expenses of improving the Wabash river channel, in order to re-claim much bottom land and prevent it overflowing at high water periods. A similar effort was started in Jay county, but a remonstrance has held up the matter there. Lon Batson, engineer of the Bluffton.Berne & Celina Traction company, is making preparations to complete the survey of the line between this city'and Celina as soon as the weather will permit. Nothing will be done in any way toward the survey of the line or the financing of it until after the subsidy elections in Harrison township, this county, and the three townships in Adams county, are held. —Bluffton Banner. A small child in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hesher of Craigville, was severely bitten by a large dog while at play at the Hesher home this morning. The animal which bit the child was a large Collie and the wounds made were in the face. The teeth penetrated below and above the eye and if they had come together the whole eye might have been bitten out. The lacerations were cauterized and thoroughly cleaned and as the dog was only in play there is thought to be no danger of rabies. Six thousand volts of electricity passed through the body of Arthur Clark, a motorman on the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend interurb*—. 1 railway, at Hammond, Wednesday night, and the man still lives. Clark was on top of the car trying to adjust the trolley pole, when, in some way, he formed a circuit and received the full force of the power. The shock threw him from the car and landed him twenty-five feet away. Clark’s head struck a rail and he received a fracture of skull. With the advent into office of the new governor a number of old cases that had been appealed to Ex-Gover-nor Hanly seeking pardons will again be carried before Governor Marshall. One of these cases was that of Jesse Hower, a former Bluffton man. convicted at Fort Wayne for complicity in an operation that caused the death of his second wife. Hanly refused to take action in the case. The case of John W. Terrell is another that Marshall will likely get to hear. Durbin and Hanly, ex-gev-emors, both refuse dto grant a pardon in this case. —Bluffton News.

Analysis of city water at Wabash shows that it is free from typhoid germa, We were favored by another snow today, and from appearances there will still be sleighing. J. A. Blue, the horseshoer, on Third street, will be able to open his shop again next Tuesday, January 19, ready for work. Peru women gave a charity ball, with net profit of $166.70, which will be used for the relief of the poor in that city. Many strangers were in the city attending the Studabaker Duroc sale, which was held at the Rice barns on First street. Women in Huntington have decided to organize to assist in the fight for county local option at the coming election, Feb. 2. Lack of crime in Wells county makes it unnecessary to summon a grand jury for the February term of court at Bluffton. Judge Sturgis, at Hartford City, the other day granted three divorces in thirty minutes, thereby making a new record for circuit court action. An effort will be made to induce Governor Marshall to pardon John W. Terrell, convicted at Bluffton of murder and later a patient in the Richmond insane asylum. A. Boch returned yesterday afternoon from Rochester, where he purchased several horses for the Decatur Horse company to be disposed of at s their next auction. The firemen’s big benefit show will certainly be great. The cast and chorus had a rehearsal last evening at the Bosse opera house and displayed ability in the various roles. While he was absent from home thieves stole $1,600 in certificates of deposit from the residence of John Basinger near North Manchester. Payment on the paper has been stopped. Judge R. K. Erwin, of Fort Wayne, was in the city yesterday afternoon and evening, mixing business w-ith pleasure, and took advantage of the occasion to see many of his old time friends. Merschel Thomas, a well known Garrett man, suffered a stroke of paralysis Thursday afternoon while at Auburn and is in a critical condition. He is manager of the Garrett-Auburn artificial gas plants. State officials are booming the meeting of the merchants and manufacturers. who are scheduled to meet at Indianapolis next week. Efforts are being made to make the meeting the best ever in the history of the organization. The farm home of Norman Shank, near Angola, was totally destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon, and the loss is with $1,200 insurance. The blaze originated in the attic, and only a small portion of the household goods were saved. Wesley Hoffman has resigned his position at the True & Runyon store and accepted one with the Schafer Hardware company. He has assumed his new duties. Mr. Hoffman is a hustling young man, and will without doubt prove a valuable man for the Schafer people. The Muncie lodge of Eagles denies thaF SSO was contributed to Rev. A. M. Hackleman, of Montpelier, for his church, because he refused to sign the remonstrances. It is explained that the lodge voted him only $25 and that it was in payment for a memorial sermon which he delivered before the lodge. E. M. Crawford left yesterday with his family for his new home in Bluffton. Mr. Crawford was recently promoted to the position of assistant superintendent of the Prudential Life Insurance offices at Bluffton and Decatur. He was employed as agent in this city several years.—Huntington Times. Candidates for the Modern Woodmen degree team were present, at the hall last night where under the captaincy of Chief Forester Roy Wolford. they were given their first practice in drilling. The team expects to drill each week and soon be able to confer initiatory work Tn a clever manner. The scarlet fever epidemic that has been raging in Preble and Magley and vicinity for some time is abating and but one new- case has ben reported to Dr. J. M. Miller, the county health officer of Adams county, since January 1. At one time there were fifteen cases and the same number of families quarantined, but nearly all of these have been raised. A. B. Bailey, of Monroe, received an injury while in the city this morning which will cause him much pain. He was walking down street when he slipped and fell to the sidewalk, striking his hand on an iron hoop, inflicting an ugly wound in his right hand between the thumb and first finger. The gash was cut quite deep and several stitches were required to close it. Mr. Bailey returned to his home on the afternoon train.

ROBBED POSTMASTER REPAID House Passes Bill Reimbursing Official Who Suffered from Thieves. Washington, Jan. 15. —The house of representatives today passed a bill for the relief of John Anderson, postmaster of Sandborn, Ind. About a year ago thieves blew open the safe of the postoffice and stole stamps and funds amounting to $463.85. The bill, which passed today, reimburses the postmaster in that amount. ■ a Robert J. Mann will give a recital Friday evening. Jan. 22 at M alienee school house north of Mt. Pleasant church. He is an oratory graduate from the Marion college. Proceeds to go to Mt. Pleasant Epworth League and admission is 15 cents. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Studabaker returned home from Indianapolis this morning, where they have been attending the state meeting of the lumber dealers ended by a banquet at the Claypool hotel last evening at which six hundred people were present.- 1 - Bluffton Banner. Melvin Gallogly was tried in Squire Smith's court this afternoon upon the charge of assault and batery upon the person of Tommy, the son of Mrs. Florence Mentzer. Gallogly,who is employed in the bowling alley, ordered the Mentzer boy from the place, of business and the youth refused to go, whereupon he (Gallogly) took him by the arm and pulled him out. The squire found him guilty as charged and a fine of $1 and costs was imposed, amounting in all to about nine dollars. The docket was staid and Gallogly released.

4ft ; "i IL ! J The Snow Agency can fit you out with your choice from a list of abo rt 25,000 acres of as good farm lands as can be found la eastern Indiana or from a lost of over One Hundred City Properties The owners want to sell these properties, not for speculation, at fictions 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 yon, and are nearly sure to find you a buyer in a reasonably short time. Befor e buying 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 hero refer you to a few sample proportlee that wo.are now offering for sale: The Snow Agency

Tel. 230. No. 741 —Is a five room story and a half residence near the traction line on Oak street. Two lots, cistern, stable, drove well, some fruit and shade trees, and a bargain at $725.00. No. 755 —Is a good six room cottage on south Tenth street, in good location near school and church. Two porches, cistern and city water, brick sidewalk, and good sewer drainage. Some fruit and shade trees, wood and coal house, chicken park, etc, $1,800.00. No. 745 —Is a modern new frame five room cottage In southeast Decatur, near Rugg street. Has cement walks, city water, in the house, good cistern, coal house, etc. Is an alley lot, has some large fruit trees and is on good sewerage. $1,200.00. No. 746 —Is a large, well built twostory residence property on north Ninth stret; Is a corner lot, with good seweage, brick walks, nice maple shade trees, and in good location on the west side of the street. House is on stone and has front stairway. Can now be bought for $1,650.00. No 749 —Is a seven-roo m story and F half residence on Russell street. Is on concrete and cement block foundation, has large cement cellar, electric lights, city and cistern water, side and front porch, and is on the traction line south. $1,900.00. No. 754 —Is a seven-room story and a halt residence with cemented cellar, on north Second street This property has an 83 foot frontage, and a brick street and cement sidewalks. A large new stable, cow shed, drove well and large brick and cement cistern. Has bey window, large nice front porch and electric Igihts. This property comprises about an acre of ground that extends back to

IN THE JAWS OF DEATH (Continued from page 1.) the body to the Clover Leaf station, where respirations were noted fir about twenty minutes before life became extinct. The Yager ambulance was called and removed the lifeless

form to their morgue, and in the meantime the Sehtimaker family was notified of the heart rending accident. It. is said that the trainmen are in no way responsible for the untimely death of Mr. Schumacker as the engine was moving at a low rate of speed when the uiau stepped upon the track directly in front of the engine, and when it was but a few feet away. The deceased has lived in Decatur for many years, is the father of several children, who, besides a wife, survive to mourn their loss. A peculiar circumstance in regard to the affair was that a portion of the hip bone of the was found about 100 feet from where the body lay. A large number of people witnessed the corpse at the Yager Brothers and Reinking morgue this afternoon, which is indeed natural, as the face was not Injured in the least. The family is heart broken over the sad affair. o- . Dan O. Roop, the deputy county clerk, is entertaining a number of friends today and over Sunday. Among the guests are a cousin, Miss Evelyn Ott, of Van Wert, Miss Goldie Miller of Geneva, and Miss Lulu Meyers and Rolla Raudabush, both of Blue Creek township.

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the river and is now offered at $2,200.00. No. 752 —Is a new and modern story and |a half eight-room residence with good cement cellar, on north Third street. Is natural wood finish, nice porch and plenty of clothes rooms and closets. Has electric lights, cistern and city water In the house. Is in a good location on th ewest side of the street, and for the present ia offered at $2,300.00. No. 742—1 s a new modern six-room story and a half residence on north Third street, has natural wook finish, electric’ lights, city and cistern water and furnished bath room. Good cemented cellar, new, convenient stable, some good fruit trees, is on good sewer, and has an 82foot frontage. Plenty of room for garden on this lot Price $2,5Q0.00. No. 756 —Is an alley lot with frontage on Mercer avenue, near Rugg street Brick and cut stone walks, nice fruit and shade trees, good cistern and large cellar, city water in the house. An eight room story and a half residence on solid foundation, natural and stained wood finish, ample porches, open stairway, electric lights, etc. $2,250.00. 699—1 s a five room cottage In southeast Decatur, near the electric lights ts on water and gas lines, good sized lot bas 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, hag stable, coal bouse, garden, maple shade and fruit trees. Rental value $7.00 per month. Can be bought for SBOO.OO.

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NfiT|[>Fl lIU I IULi At the following reductions Come in early and leave your order. This mi ans FALL and WINTER GOODS. FOR CASH ONLY. $4.50 Pants Reduced to $3.85 $5.00 Pants Reduced to $3.95 $5.50 Pants Reduced to $4.30 $5.75 Pants Reduced to $4.65 $6.00 Pants Reduced to $4.80 s6.soPants Reduced to $5,00 $6.75 Pants Reduced to $5.30 $7.00 Pants Reduced to $5.55 $7.50 Pants Reduced to o |Q SB.OO Pants Reduced to $6.45 $8.50 Parts Reduced to $7.10 $9.00 Pants Reduced to $7.45 $9.50 Pants Reduced to t |Q GUARANTEE you a fit and workmanship same as if sold at FULL PRICES. Let me make ALL YOUR CLOTHES CHRIS NEVER, The Tailor 135 S, Second St. Decatur, Indiana

CALL ON G. W. Nidlinger, three doors east of the postoffice for fish, groceries and vegetables o fall kinds. 6-6 t 100 pounds of granulated sugar foi $1.75. Bee Charles Hendricks, phone WO. .

f 07 —Is a good frame seven room residence oa 11th street, In good location. Has good large stabl c and granary, drove well, cistern and plenty of fruit and shade. Is a desirable location; can be bought for $1,775.90. 701 —la a weii built seven room story and a half residency in south Decatur, on the proposed traction line south. This house is well located and is natural wood finish througheut. Is on stone foundation, has large cement cellar, electric lights, city water, is plumbed for gas, and the property hag a quarter of an acre of ground. A small stable, wood and coal house, ete. Has plenty of fruit and shade and is in a desirable location. Can be bought for $2,200.00. 706 —Is a brick business room on Second street, hag 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. 699 —Is a seven rom residence with cellar on north sth street This -property is on the west side of the street, and in goodlocation. Is convenient in arrangement, has plenty of shade and nice fruit trees, drove well, is on stoned street and good sewerage. For the next sixty days it can be bought for $2,000.00. 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 bouse. Is a full alley lot in good location. Price $759.

725 —Is a comfortable five-room cottage near Lutheran church, on Eleventh street; nice front and bach porches, cement cistern, brick sidewalks, good Beverage, some fruit trees and maple shade; can be sold for SBSO. 719 —Is a good lot wtth sewer drainage on Eleventh street, plenty of fruit and shade, nice front porch, Bummer kitchen, cistern and citywater, 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 condition, has nice front porch, coal house, cistern, % of a drove well. Is on good sewerage, nice front view to Monroe street, and can be bought for $1,300. 711 —Is a story and & half new eight room residence in south Decatur. House op 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. $1,409. 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 weH, cistern, stable, shade and fruit trees, nice front porch, cement walks, summer kitchen, wood bouse, eta. Price $1,400.

NOTICE. There will be a special teachers’ examination held in Decatur on Monday, January 18, 1909. By order of the trustee of Wabash township. 11-3 t

725— Is a story ana 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, twu nice high lots, briek 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; ig on good sewerage, has cement cistern, drove well, brick sidewalks; is natural wood finish, has nice front and back porches, is en concrete and tile foundation. Has large cellar, and four nice upstairs rooms. Can be bought for $2,009. 703 —Is a seven-room story and a half 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. 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. S1S —Is a modern seven-room t|»vostory residence, with cellar, on a brick street In a nice residence part of Decatur; has a 60 foot frontage, ana contains ground for about thre« city lots; cement sidewalks, good stable, clstera, city water, electrio lights, bath, etc; some fine fruit and shade trees: $2,800.

735— Is a five rom cottage on the west side of the street in south Decatur. Is a full alley lot near the traction line and schooL Is on water, gas. and electric light lines, and in good location. On this lot is a good variety of plums, pears, grapes and other fruit Price $925.00. 739—1 s a neat and nearly new, story and a half residence i nthe central part of the town of Pleasant Mills. Has god cement walks, cistern, cellar, stable, etc. Is a well built residence, and a good property for $1,200.90. 736 — Is a neat story and a half nearly new seven reem 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 room, 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 foun- • dation, on brick street, within a few squares of the court house. Has electric lights, city and cistern water, good cellar, nice niaple shads and some good fruit trees. Is well located and has plenty of room for any ordinary family. This is one of the few large weH located residences on bricked street that can be booghit at a moderate price. $3,525.00.