Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1909 — Page 3

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R. Earl Peters returned yesterday aftrnoon from a business trip to Monroe. J. H. Heller will return from Indianapolis to visit with his family over Sunday. Mrs. E. B. Adams and Mrs. Ammerman of Detroit, are spending the day in Huntington. The Euterpean Club was pleasantly entertained at the home of Mrs. Eli Meyer last pight. E. D. Moffett left today for his heme at Hartford City, after a pleasant visit here since last Sunday. . Levi Augsburger of near Berne, was attending the horse sale today and attending to other matters of business. Mrs. Carrie Thomais-Haubold returned home to Evanston, Illinois, yesterday, after a visit here with her parents. Orval Harruff was looking after business interests at Berne yqpterday and returned to the. city last evening. The present weather resembles that of spring more than January weather but we may still have a siege of the blasts of a severe winter. Mrs. E. E. Snow and daughter Elinore went to Anderson yesterday, where they will spend some time the guests of Mrs. C. C. Miller and family. The restaurants did a land office business today as a consequence of the big horse sale held at the First street stables. Many out-of-town buyers were here. For the past few days, U. S. Drummond of Pleasant Mills has assisted at hae Niblick store while D. N. Niblick was attending the meeting of the Indiana Retail Merchants association at Indianapolis. Work in the construction of the new Schafer building is progressing nicely and within a few weeks the structure will be ready for occupancy. It will be modefn in every respect and a credit to the city. “A Cowpuncher” scheduled for the Bosse opera house Tuesday night is said to be a clever show. It is one of those interesting jwestern plays that always please. No doubt a large audience will greet the company. A large number of horse buyers were in the city today in attendance at the auction held by the Decatur Horse company and the animals found new homes readily. There is no question about these sales being the best held in this section. Large crowds visited the Grand last night and were well pleased with the performance. The song “Decatur” was well rendered by Miss Verena Niblick with True R. Fristoe as accompanist and 'the glides (showing familiar views in the city were well appreciated by all who saw them. In his usual clever manner Squire James H. Stone solemnized a wedding ceremony at his home last evening at six o’clock, the principal parties being Leonard W. Schnepp and Miss Nora Drake, both of Union township. The contracting parties are well and favorably known in this vicinity and their many friends wish for them success on .their matrimonial career. The body of Mrs. Kathryn Krill and the funeral party in attendance will arrive in this city from Danville, 111., this evening at’7:33 over the Clover Leaf. After they have come the funeral arrangements will be made. Mrs. John WeishaUpt, Mrs. Eli Christ, of Decatur, her sisters, and Mrs. Pen Robinson, a daughter, arrived today and will remain for the services.—Bluffton Banner.

Now that the snow has disappeared ! the farmers welcome the rain we are .getting. ! FTed Brown, of Berne, attended the , horse sale today and has returned to his home. There is a large amount of sickness on account of the changeable weather. Most of the Decatur merchants have completed their invoicing, and they are glad of it. , Frank Richards still remains away from Decatur, and leaves his wife to support his children. Carrie Botthoff will leave tomorrow for Indianapolis, where for some time she will be tire guest of friends. The iee is again a thing of the past and the skating loving people must resort Jo some other amusement. A. B. Bailey, of Monroe, who a few days ago was painfully injured in this city, is yet suffering much pain. . A letter mailed from the Kendallville News office November 23, made the circuit of the world in 57 days. County Superintendent Wetherow, at Peru, is seeking to establish annual training schools in that county. H. B. France has resumed duties at the Decatur Steam laundry after being detained for some time on account of illness. The police courts were idle today and in fact the violators of law and order seem to decrease in number each week. Let’s keep it up. A. P. Beatty and Judge D. D. Heller returned from Portland last night, they being there as interested lawyers in the Paille damage case. The dry goods store of Herman Zeese, at Michigan City, was robbed early Wednesday morning by four men, who carried oft 31,000 worth of silks. M. F. Rice returned yesterday afternoon from a business trip to Berne. He was there in the interest of the Adams County Lumber company. Frank Hower, a barber employed at the Frank Wisner shop, is taking a weke’s vacation. He is spending the time at Decatur where he is visiting with relatives and hunting.—Bluffton News. The Bryan prize oratorical contest at Indiana university Wednesday afternoon resulted in a victory for C. J Wood, of Ridgeville, a law student. All six contestants spoke on “The Referendum in Indiana.” Every member of the Modern Woodmen degree team should be present tonight to go through th various drills. The team is rapidly rounding into condition and will soon be able to put on the work in great style. Again Muncie is trying to unload its normal school property on the state. George McCollough has been trying to trick the state into becoming the partner in this moribund institution for several years, but thus far has not succeeded. When aroused from his slumber early Wednesday morning by a peculiar noise, Mayor Charles A. Rigdon, o’ Warsaw, discovered a mouse carrying off his three-karat diamond ring, valued at SSBO. The mouse had the ring half way through a small hole, twenty feet from the table, where it had been placed at night. The C. P. Cole window glass plant at Lancaster, 0., is scheduled to resume operations Thursday night on the sliding scale. A dozen or more Hartford City glassworkers have gone to Lancaster to take employment in the Cole factory. Among those who will work there are Larry Cullen and Jack Riddle. —Hartford City News. One of the horses taken in here yesterday by the Decatur Horse Co. was raised by Dick Prilliman. The animal is but two year sold but weighs 1,500 and is an especially beautiful chestnut sorrel with a blazed fact. Prilliman has a full brother to the horse left yet that gives promise of being even a larger and better horse. He received $225 for the one he sold yesterday. —Bluffton News. The Rev. Earle Naftger has tendered his resignation as pastor of Grace M. E. churcsh at Hartford City, and it is probable that he will be transferred to a pastorate in Washington in about a month. Mr, Naftzger has been at Hartford City about three years and I has shown much enthusiasm in church work, but has never entirely regained bis health following an attack of ty-pho-malarial fever last summer. The business men from Geneva,who w ere here yesterday for the purpose of investigating the chances of the interurban line between this city and Celina being built through Geneva left with the statement that they were not going to permit the Berne people to get the line without a struggle. The men from Geneva stated that they' did not know what course might be pursued by them but that one thing was certain and that was that the line would be built that way if possible. Nothing definite was done at the meeting yesterday.--Bluffton Banner.

Elmer Gay, a rural mall carrier at Valparaiso, lost two horses and his mail wagon by fire Wednesday morning. Ha:ry Lowenstein, of Fort Wayne, was in the city today attending the horse sale. He bought several animals. Mr. ahd Mrs. W. H. Hunt went to Portland this afternoon to make a visit with their son, who resides at that place. Charles L. Jacobs, demented and missing from Wabash, w’as found at Marion, after he was seen on a Big Four train. Fire destroyde Frank Kring’s barn near Nappanee. One horse and three cows were cremated. Hay and fodder also burned. The firemen realized a neat amount of money from their recent benefit show and this will be applied on the purchase of a fire team. The Heit, Miller and Lau company of Fort Wayne, has contracted with the Berne Condensery company for all the cream they will use this year in the making of candy. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Neuenschwander, their little daughter, Mrs. E. A. Luginbill of Berne, Miss Lillian .Schindler of Geneva, were Portland shoppers Thursday.—Portland Sun. Final plans for the new city hall will be submitted to the council nt their next session and it is quite probable that this body will at once advertise for bids for the construction of the building. Hon. George W. Miles, of Syracuse, is being boomed by his friends for fish commissioner to succeed Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus. _Mr. Miles is president of the Wawasee Protective association. Frank Landgraff, of Albion, lost his pocketbook containing $165 in currency and two certificates of deposit in a field w’here his herd of cattle were kept. When the loss was discovered the cattle had chewed the cash into fragments. A part of the fixtures of every barber shop in Bluton is a Bible, the gift of some unknown person. It is said that now the barbers there are asking for an instructor, as they are somewhat lame or. the real meaning of most of the important passages. Messrs. F. V. Mills, A. H. Sellemeyer, Robert Case. Charles Hower and D. M. Niblick returned last evening from Indianapolis, where they were in attendance at the state meeting of the Retail Merchants’ association. They report an elegant time. Miss Hazel Phillips, aged 15, residing three miles north of Warsaw, found a tramp in the haymow of her father’s barn smoking a pipe. She ordered him out and when he threatened her the plucky girl attacked him with a pitchfork, driving the fellow from the place. Joseph Gerber says that if the subsidies on the Bluffton, Berne & Celina Traction Hue are voted, a construction company is ready to at once begin the work of grading, and that the line will be pushed to completion. Those interested along the line are very much in earnest and have great hopes as to the future of the company. Representative J. B. Merriman, of Wells county, made his maiden speech in the house of representatives in seconding the nomination of Hon. Benjamin F. Shively tn the joint session held Wednesday. He is said to have covered himself all over with glory and opened the way for future opportunities before the legislature adjourns. Mrs. Anna Miser, of Auburn, while visiting at Elkhart, left her wraps on the river bank together with a note stating that she was fin'd of life and that it would be useless to search for her. Friends at first believed she had ended her life in the river, but later she was found wandering aimlessly about the city. Mrs. Miser is believed to have bjtn demented.

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After seeing to business interests in Decatur, C. W. Baumgartner returned to his home this afternoon. E. M. Ray, of Berne, was a De- ' catur business caller today. He rej turned to his home this afternoon. Alex Parks, of Willshire, was among the throng that attended the horse sale at the First street stables I today. Mrs. Ida Hunter went to Monroe this afternoon to be at the bedside . of her daughter, Mrs. Baker, who is reported as being quite ill. A bill has been introduced in~the legislature which will compel counties to give one hundred dollars a year to farmers’ institutes. J. H. Koenig went to Berne this afternoon where in 'behalf of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Interurban company he transacted business. A. Shoemaker, of Geneva, transacted business requiring his attention in the city this morning, and returned to his home this afternon. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. are numbered among the business houses who are invoicing, an undertaking that yearly falls to the lot of every business house. Miss Maude Shaft, of Craigvllle, had to give up her place as a music teacher at Toledo, on account of poor health. She has returned home and will take a long rest. Emerson Addington, of Winchester, was in the city today looking over Frisinger & Sprunger’s Belgium stallions with the view of purchasing one and returned to his home this afternoon. Miss Bessie Bowman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Em Bowman, is showing a slight improvement from a serious illness with inflamatory rheumatism. She has been sick for two weeks, and much of that time her condition was serious in the extreme. The civil service examinations for the railway mail service, the biggest examination of the year in the civil service, will be held at the Fort ■Wayne postoffice on May 15 and it is expected that an unusually large number will take the examination. True & Runyon are going through the last stages of an invoice of their stock. The job Is an endless one, but time and hard work usually accompjishes every undertaking. They appear to be pleased with the result as figured out by the invoice sheets.

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