Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1909 — Page 3

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WEATHER. Rain tonight and Thursday; colder Thursday. Mrs. E. A. Althon returned to Willshire after spending the day with friends. Charles Coverdaie, of Bluffton, is in the city today visiting with his mother and Incidentally looking after business interests, C. D. Lewton was here today, but will leave tomorww morning for Bluffton and other points in the interest of the Central "Union Life Insurance company. {GRAND I < > ——————————— o o o ; • FIRST REEL ; ► ;> Pioneers Crossing the ♦ < > Plains in Forty Nine. ;; • > SECOND REEL ;; ;; (A New Film) ;; : ; SONG :: ;; Where Mt. Tacoma over- ;; ; ► looks the Bay. ; ► < ► o < ► -- < • <► < > o Everybody Goes to the J J 11 Grand 11 i ► ♦ The Worry The Loss, and most of all, the poor business policy or paying your bills by cash can be avoided with a checking account here. The holiday purchases, the ordinary expenses, in fact every expenditure, should be paid with a check. Then you are protected against your own errors and the acts of unscrupulous business people you might deal with, for each paid check is a legal voucher in itself. OLD Adams Co. Bank

r’s a matter of a good deal of satisfaction to us to be able to offer our customers such a fine lot of suits and overcoats as Hart Schaffner & Marx have made for us this season. Overcoats and suits in all the finest fabrics and patterns, new models, smart styles. Better see them. HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes sellers for Men and Boys. Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes

H. M. Beery went to Fort Wayne on business this morning. Frances Brown, of Berne, went to 1 rShumm this morning. Mrs. Emerson Elzey went to Fort Wayne to spend the day. Mrs. Esta Liddy, who has been quite sick, js recovering slowly. Mrs. John Hessler and Mrs. Frank Parent went to Fort Wayne to visit friends. Mrs. Gevetha Bergman an aged Logansport woman, was found dead in her chair. Frank Smith, of Continental, Ohio, went to Fort Wayne on business this morning. L. T. Dunbar, of Continental, Ohio, went to Fort Wayne -on business this morning. Mrs. John Heller and Mrs. Miller went to Fort Wayne on business this morning. The Thimble Club will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. ■Jesse Dailey. Mrs. Fred Tague went to Williams today to visit with her sister, Mrs. Elmer Johnson. Mrs. Dyke Frisinger and daughter Margaret, went Ito Williams this morning to visit Mrs. Elmer John'son. | Miss Daisy JLincoln returned to Fort Wayne after attending the birthday party given by Miss Vernia . Smith. i Gayle Poling and Herman Geisler of Convoy, Ohio, returned to their homes after visiting with friends in the city today. Nelson Howe, of Kendallville, who escaped from Longcliffe asylum at Logansport, has been returned to that institution. The Peterson high school are going to give a box social at Peterson on Friday evening, March 26th. Everybody is invited to attend. Cracksmen blew the safe in the interurban station at Garrett early Monday morning and secured S3B In cash, after wrecking the strong box. Col. Josiah Farrer, of Peru, died Saturday. He recruited the Ninetyninth Indiana volnteers and was second in command to General Thomas at Atlanta. Friends of Miss Mary Coil, in the city, have known of her excellent musical ability. Her home is in Muncie, but she is now residing in Kansas with her parents. She is a musician of extraordinary skill and plays often before the public. She devotes most of her time to classic music, which is greatly appreciated by her audiences. Mary formerly resided here, and is quite well known.

E. Woods went tc Warsaw on business this moraiug. Lois Hay and wife went to Monroeville this morning. Ed Ehinger went to Fort Wayne on business this morning. Miss Hazel Culley returned to her I heme at Wren after visiting with friends in the city. Miss Mamie Kitson and niece Donna Parrish, went to Monmouth today to visit friends. Russell Gifford, a Logansport boy, who ran away from home to become an actor, has returned. Mrs. Ehinger went to Fort Wayne this morning, called there by illness of her sister, Mrs. WeibeL Miss Dorotnea Callow returned to her home at Wren, after a pleasant visit with Miss Vernia Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Remly of Fort Wayne, went to Maumee. 0., on the noon train to —isit relatives. The Albion town board has passed an ordinance making It the duty of the town marshal to kill all unmuzzled degs found running at large within thee orporation limits. Wilda Deam., of Decatur, who has been employed as a molder at the Red Cross factory, will return home thia evening to take a position in a Decatur foundry,—Bluffton News Jacob Spencer, an old resident of Bluffton, died Sunday morning after a six months’ Illness with dropsy. He was a veteran in the civil war and was known to many people in this city. Mrs. Margaret Meibers, who just returned from (Jeffersonville, and Louisville, Ky„ went to Fort Wayne this morning on account of the Illness of her sister, Mrs. Weibel of that place. Rev. Richard Spetnagle of the Presbyterian kfcurch here,, has 'returned from Kendallville, Indiana, where he assisted th Rev. A. Judson Arrick, in conducting the quarterly week services. The case against Dr. George E. Snearley, of Roann, charged with wife murder, will be sent to Whitley county on a change of venue, the defendant declaring that he cannot secure a fair and impartial trial In Wabash county. Mrs. Elizabeth Hollowell, of South Bend, 78 years old, was burned to death in her home Monday. She lived alone, and it is not known whether her dress caught fire from a grate or from a lighted pipe which she may have placed in her pocket. H. M. Romberg came in from Washington this morning and spent part of the Hay in greeting old friends. He still holds an important position with the American Telegraph & Telephone company, and travels the country over in their interest. Hon. S. W. Hale was in the city from Geneva this morning transacting business and greeting his many friends Mr. Hale has long been one of the leading citizens of the county, and has been foremost in much of the public progress which has been so noticeable and permanent. Dr. Fred Metts, Ossian, was taken to the Hope hospital at Fort Wayne last night, where he underwent an operation this morning for appendicitis. He recovered well from the operation and according to reports from Fort Wayne (this afternoon, shows evidence of an early recovery. —Bluffton Banner. L. C. Justus returned today from a business trip in Ohio. He said that no- -ie will get down to the proposed traction line between this city and Celina, matters. Mr. Justus has been very enthusiastic over this line ever since it was proposed and he thinks that there will be no trouble about the building of the line. Tie said he did not know whether the people of Linn Grove and Geneva have raised the entire $75,000 yet or not. —Bluffton Banner. Pirl Laßue, former old ABluffton ball player, will leave today from Fort Wayne for Columbus, 0., where he will join the Columbus American association ball team. Manager Quinn of the Columbus team, became attracted with Laßue’s work while he was playing last year with the Ohio state league. “Big” Gus Fogle, who also played with the Bluffton etam, has been ordered to report Monday to the Fort Wayne Central league team. —Bluffton Banner. In attempting to renew the fire in the kitchen stove with chips which she carried in her apron, Miss Minnie Martin was seriously, if hot fatally burned Saturday evening at her home just east of Etna Green. Miss Martin is partially blind and did not see that there was fire in the stove. When she threw the chips Into the stove the apron caught fire and her clothing soon was in flames. She ran into the yard followed by her Invalid father who finally succeeded in tearing off the burning garments.

lofan Custer returned to his home at Pleasant Mills. Miss Calpurnia Alberson returned to her home at Marion. Jesse Niblick went to Fort "Wayne on business this morning. Mrs. Barbara Aberson, of Grant county, returned to her home. A. A. Nichols, of Jackson, Mich., is in the city on business today. H. M. Romberg, of Fort Wayne, is greeting friends in the city today. W. H. Green transacted business in the city and returned home this noon. William Sheerer, of Monroe township, is in the city today on business. Mrs. Harry Deam, of Bluffton, arrived in the city for a visit with her mother. Mrs. Frank Christen arrived yesterday afternoon called by the death of her mother, Mrs. Godfrey Christen. Misses Frances Merryman and Frances Bryson returned to Greencastle to resume their duties at the university. Miss Esther Lewis, of Ridgeville, visited with Mrs. Ed Kern in the city today. She went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Frank McFadden, of Bluffton, is talking of leaving that place and locating in some western state, perhaps Wyoming. Dick Miller of Indianapolis, who has visited friends here for a day or two past, will leave tonight for Chi-, cago on a business trip. An effort Is being made to settle affairs of the Ossian Live Stock association. A petition will likely be presented at the next term of the circuit court at Bluffton, asking that an assessment be made against every member of the association. A large number of people have been filing their exemptions for their taxes the past few days and if the people still come in at the rate which they have recently there will be but few who will be left out and will have to pay taxes on their property whether mortgaged or not. G. A. A. H. Schiedler, of Marion, was at Bluffton Monday evening and spoke to a 1 large audience there, his subject being prison life. Mr. Schiedler w r as for several years warden at the prison north, and as a matter of fact what he said at the Bluffton meeting was more than interesting. The Acker cement works are kept busy in order to keep pace with their growing business. Since the first of January they have furnished blocks for the foundations of fifteen houses with several more in sight. This is ; doing fine for so early in the season, and bids fair to be a busy summer j at their works. . Dr. Haughton, for many years a practitioner at Linn Grove, but for a 1 year or two has lived a retired life : in Bluffton, is just recovering from a serous illness, which will be good , news to his many Adams county . friends. Dr. Haughton lived in the county for many years and was especially well known over the southern part of the county. John Henry Walmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Walmer, who is attending school at Heidelberg university at Tiffin, Ohio, suffered a broken nose some time ago as the result of a fall while engaged in a basket ball contest. He kept the matter secret from relatives here and it was only recently, after the injured member had been completely restored to the normal by a course of treatment from a facial specialist that he wrote home telling of the accident. He was laid up for more than a week after his fall. — Bluffton News. On last Saturday evening a surprise was sprung on the Rev. J. L. Buyer, pastor of the Evangelical church at Linn Grove, for the purpose of giving public expressions of appreciation for the work which has been accom plished by this earnest pastor in that town and community during the past two years. The ladies of the W. C. T. U. gave the first surprise by meeting at the parsonage for the rendition of a literary program after which, they presented to Mr. and Mrs. Buyer a beautiful piece of table linen across the corner of which was embroidered in large letters *‘W. C. T. U.” —Berne Witness. • Pupils in the graded schools of Bluffton will adopt a new and novel methods of studying geography, that is, a system will be given a trial with a few of them, in the matter of letter writing. The plan was suggested by letters received by grade pupils from pupils of schools in other cities, especally from Ohio. The children of those cities write to tell of their home city of their geographical surroundings, clmate, etc., and invite a reply. The pupils who are most proficient in studies may be given opportunity of answering some of them. Letters of a ■ similar nature have also been receiv- • ed from Seattle, Wash., advertising I the exposition at that place. —Bluffton News.

Look in our Show Window I And see our new spring models. The new green mixtures, chalk stripes, sand tans, fancy and blue serges are among the new arrivals. . We can y° u a new suit as low as / j \ f y A $7.50 J Jr and the best grade for M|. /A. i\\ $25.00 )i -- W \ Ojf/ new hats W 'jk liw and— —- /lY Wl ’FURNISHINGS K I 1 of all kinds at popular prices. I r, |||; f II liH I Now k the time to buy that new I Bl Xjin ' Easter Outfit. We want you to see « Qi I■G? J 1909. our new styles even if you are not f ''.-I \ ready to buy. We have a strong f rl I line of suits for boys. Come in and W z .W. 1 see them. You are always welcome. Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson. CATER TO THE MAN WHO CARES

The Modern Woodmen will meet as usual at their hall tonight. Miss Pansy Bell returned this morning to Greencastle to resume her work at college. Ed Wiseliaupt, a brother of John D. Wisehaupt of this city, will move to Fort Wayne. Frederick H, Lewis of Fort Wayne, transacted business in the city and returned home. Mrs. Samantha Dorwin is entertaining the Shakespeare Club. The hostess has the paper as usual. Donald Smith, of Fart W’ayne, transacted business in the city and returned home on the half past two car. William Hilgeman, one of the prosperous farmers in the northern part of the county, was in the city on business today. D. E. Studabaker made a trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon, whore he will join his bowling club in a contest this evening.

D. L. Quinn came home from Indianapolis last night, he being here making a demonstration of the popular Coppock motor car. Bluffton is harboring a case of smallpox and her population is about eleven feet in the air today. A traveling man brought the case to town, and he Is now under quarantine. The Decatur Furnace company will begin at once the erection of additions to their factory building. The addition will be modern and will also mean the employment of several additional men. The Fort Wayne ball team in the Central baseball league are gathering and will soon be ready for actual practice. The Decatur fans are depending on that team to furnish them plenty of sport for the summer. The kidnaping case of Willie Whitla of Charon, Pa., has been the general subject of discussion here for several days. If the perpetrators should receive a small proportion of the punishment meted out to them by the various debaters they would not need any in the world to come. o Don't miss the big show at Monroe March 26 and 27, at the Woodman hall. 71-ts LOST —A pair of gold spectacles with case. Lost between the Hoagland farm and Decatur. Finder please return to this office or with J. M. Andrews.

WHV PAY HIGH TAXES ? ?

On all cash you have on hand March ist. 19C9? Better close a bargain for some good property and save y our incomes. We can now offer you some of the best properties in Decatur.

No. 766 —Is a 26% acre tract a half mile from school on public road, twenty acres fine black land, all wire fenced, nearly new frame house on brick foundation, hip roof, a mile and a half from railroad station, market, etc. Price $2,600.00. Would take Decatur city property as part payment. No. 772 —Is a new five room cottage in west Decatur, with good stable, drove well, cement cistern, fruit, etc., rejuires but $650.00 cash. No. 769 —Is a 115 acre tract of fine

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