Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1909 — Page 3

FIRST NATIONAL BANK P. W. Smith, President W. A. Kuebler, Vice Pref C. A. Dugan, Cashier. T. J, Durkin, Asst. Cash. F. W. Jaebker, Asst. Cast Capital SIOO,OOO Deposits $500,000 Resources $700,000 DECATUR, IND.

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WEATHER. Generally fair tonight and Fridayprobably frost tonight Miss Maud Magley went to Monmonth today. Mrs. W. H. Leas returned to her home at Waterloo today. Mrs. D. A. Cline, of Geneva, l b visiting relatives in the city. Charles Huber went to Fort Wayne on business this morning. Ernest Cross went to Fort Wayne on business this morning. Otto Rice returned to his home north of Monmouth last night. Miss Alice Barrel went to Fort Wayne today to visit here aunt. Mrs. Earl Peters went to Waterloo to stay over Sunday with her parents. Mrs. C. M. Hower went to Fort Wayne to spend the day with friends. Miss Ruth Ernst went to Fort Wayne today to spend the day with friends. Mrs. Harry Daniels, of Pleasant Mills, has returned to her home at that place. Mrs. Harry Ward went to Fort Wayne today, where she will spend the day. Charles Eaton spent the afternoon lr Decatur attending to business matters.—Bluffton Banner. Miss Etta Lincoln of Fort Wayne, is visiting with Mrs. J. A. Smith and Miss Alice Burrel of this eity. Miss Mayme Dorwin has resigned her position with Hooper & Lenhart. She will go to Spokane, Wash., where she has secured a good position. J. H. Welker, a rural mail carrier out of Huntington, has been suspended for two weeks without pay for working newspaper subscription business as a “side line.” D. L. Quinn came home last night from Indianapolis, where he has been talking up the merits of the Coppock car, and the talk went, as he brought home four nice juicy orders. Mrs. Letita Bennett, who is believed to have been the oldest person in Wells county, died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mose Spake, in Bluffton. She would have been 96 years of age on April 26. Dr. Metts has returned from Fort Wayne, where he was in the hospital, having an operation for appendicitis. He is fellng better and will be ready to resume his practice at Ossian within a short time. —Bluffton Banner. Miss Anna Heidegger, living near Hector, went to Decatur Wednesday morning, for a couple of weeks stay with her sister, Mrs. Henry Fuelling, six and one-half miles north of Decatur. Miss Heidegger was called there on account of the sickness of her sister. —Portland Sun. Be sure to give in the correct answers to the questions propounded to you by the school enumerators, as it assists In various ways, the most important of course being that it increases the school fund from the state, this being paid per capita, or so much for each school child. Josiah Pinkerton, a bachelor aged 80 years, was found dead at his farm home three miles west of Milford. He had a very peculiar disposition. He lived alone and did all of his housework. although abundantly able to have some one attend to this department of his household. Pinkerton was found lying on the floor where it is supposed he was suddenly seized with a heart attack.

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F. J. Galbreath, of Geneva, was here on business today. W. F. Jaebker of Preble, was in the city today on business. Miss Harriet Morrison returned from Fort Wayne this morning. O. J. Suman. of St. Marys township, was tn the city today on business. Miss Ethel Botthoff returned from Marion, where she visited with her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurst returned (today from Pleasant tails,, where they visited with the latter’s mother. Miss Frances Dugan returned to her college work this morning. She was delayed on account of illness several days. Some of the expert pool players among the Bluffton K. of P. members have started a pool tournament, and are going to have a good time among themselves. Mrs. Chauncey Roop and children, of Chicago, returned to Decatur for a visit with relatives. They had been the guests of Pleasant Mills relatives for several days. Trustee Thornhill, of Wabash township, and John T. Kelley of Jefferson township, were looking after business for their respective townships here today. Troby Cramer likes his work as manager of the Elzey restaurant at Ossian and is getting along nicely. He will arrive home soon for a visit with relatives and friends. Word comes to the Democrat from Rev. Powell that he is well pleased with his assignment to this city, and will be on hand and will fill the. pulpit for the first time on next Sunday. John P. Shoemaker, of Hartford township, was a business visitor In the city today. Mr. Shoemaker owns one of the finest farms in the county, and makes money even while he sleeps. Things around the auditor’s office are rather quiet since the adjournment of the board of commissioners. These sessions bring lots of people to the city, and they come from every joint in the county. Prof. L. M. Sniff, for the past twen-ty-four years connected with the TriState coMege at Angola, has resigned the presidency of that institution and expects to locate in California. He will leave n June. Lew V. Vlrey. formerly of this city, but now located at Oahaco. Mexico, a town near the Central American border, sustained the fracture of several bones in his left hand and some minor bruises as the result of a fall while inspecting a mine recently.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. John Biddle, aged 55, one of the best known men in Wells county, died suddenly last night at 10 o’clock, at hfs home on north Main street, in Ossian. Mr. Biddle had suffered a stroke of apoplexy yesterday morning, later being seized with a harder stroke, from which he lingered until the hour of his death last night.— Bluffton Banner. Henry Wischmeyer, the Root township citizen who was struck by an interurban car about three weeks ago, Is still in a very serious condition. He Is very weak and he continues in a half-conscious condition that is not at all encouraging. However, his friends still hope for a change f>r the better, and there are some improved symptoms which aid this hope. The memorial home soon to be erected at Warren is to be a statewide institution for the Methodist denomination. A movement to that end was started at the Grenfield conference Monday when Revs. C. U. Wade, B. S. Hollopeter and W. W. Martin were named a committee to meet with like committees from other than th° North Indiana conference for the purpose of making the home for the aged one In which all conferences o." the denominati— ’ in the state wi’l be interested.

Word was received this morning by Mr. and Mrs. Dell Locke, informing them of the death at Waterloo last night of her father, the Rev. S. P. Klotz, aged 71, a retired minister of •the United Brethren denomination. His death was due to the complications attendant upon the infirmities of his advanced age, aggravated by a touch of pneumonia. The Rev. Klotz was well known in this city, as he spent four or five months here last summer .following the death of his wife.—Bluffton News. Announcement was made today that the marriage of Dr. Fred Metts, the well known young physician at Ossian, a son of Dr. J. I. Metts and Miss Mabel Sanders, of Sarnia. Ontario, Canada, will take place next Wednesday, April 14th. at the home of the bride in Sarnia, a pretty little town located opposite Port Huron, Mich. The wedding will be a quiet home affair, witnessed by immediate relatives. Following the wedding Dr. Metts and his bride will spend about ten days in the north before returning to Ossian, where they will reside. —Bluffton News.

C. 'C. Ernst went to Fort Wayne on business today. Will Bailey went to Geneva where he is transacting business. Charley Elzey went to Fort Wayne on business this afternoon. William Amspaugh of St. Marys township, returned to his home. Mr. John Tremp returned to her home at Berne after spending the day with friends. Miss Eva Andrews returned from Fort Wayne, where she spent the day with friends. Daniel Bailey returned to his home at Ceylon after transacting business in our city today. James Martz, of Monroe, transacted business in our city today and returned on the afternoon train. Miss Lucile Hale returned today from Fort Wayne. where she is attending the business college. Mrs. Michael Wertzberger went to Lafontaine today to visit with her daughter. Mrs. H. S. Walters and family. Walter Fuelling went to Fort Wayne on the one o'clock car to transact business with M. L. Jones of that place. D. M. Hensley is improving his building on south Second street by adding handsome new awnings both below and above. County Clerk James Haefling celebrated his forty-second birthday today by putting in about twelve hours of work at. his office. At that he was happy. Rev. Martin assigned by the Methodist conference to Bluffton, is sick at Greenfield, and it is not at all probable that he will be able to preach to his congregation on next Saboath. Judge Merryman is home from Portland, where he was presiding in an important case in the Jay circuit court. The case was one of the most important that has come up in that court for a long time. Mrs. D. Mattax, of Geneva, her brothers. G. A. Blocher, of Cedar Rapids, lowa. Matthew Blocher of Syracuse, New York, and J. I- Blocher ofe West Baden, arrived in the city on the afternoon train on Tuesday, called to see their brother, Otto Blocher, who is ill of lung trouble at his home on north Commerce street. —Portland Sun. The Senior class of the Decatur high schol is very busy making arrangements for the closing day of school. A class meeting was held last night, presided over by the president, Ben Beavers. Most of these students have been hard workers while at school, and while the closing will be a relief to them, they will regret that their school life in D. H. S. is over. The Juniors are busy arranging for the junior reception which they have just decided will be held at the home of Frank Mills. This affair as usual, is in honor of the Seniors. The commencement will be held on the twen-ty-eighth, the senior reception will follow the exercises at the opera house. The graduates are practicing nearly every night to make “The Princess’’ which they will give on class day, a success.

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Teeple, Brandyberry and Peterson. CATER TO THE MAN WHO CARES

Mrs. Frank Brice went to Clinton county to visit her mother. Miss Anna Macey has returned from a pleasure trip to Fort Wayne. Dallas and Clarence Wertzberger formerly of this city, who are now located in Oklahoma, are quite successful in that state. The former is manager of the Oil Well Supply store at Bartinsville and Capan. The salary he receives is a fine one. The oil industry is at its height in Oklahoma now, and the stores are doing a good business. The latter is employed with the Bovard Supply company at Sapulpa and is prospering there.

We have a magnificent assortment of men’s and young men’s clothing that we are showing for Easter. The new styles are particularly nobby —equal to the best custom-tailored clothes, designed'and shaped on living models to insure style'and distinctiveness. Prices range from $lO to $25 We have a full line of suits for boys. We have these suits in the popular shades. Prices range from $2.50 to $7.50 Our Easter values are extra good and our prices extremely low. Just received a new line of Easter Neckwear.

Gay & Zwick are busy this week showing ehe big line of Sanitaire beds. They wll give one of them away on Saturday. Mrs. Pete Schafer returned home from Decatur, Wednesday of last week, where she had been the guest of her father, John Johns, and attending the funeral of her cousin. Miss Bertha Hart, who died at that place from a lingering illness of tuberculosis. Mi£s Htirt. was one of pie highly respected young ladies of Decatur, and held the distinction of being one of the few lady lawyers of the country.—Willshire Herald.

EASTER ATTRACTIONS AT HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & COMPANY’S store for Men and Boys UHart Schaffner and Marx, Clothcraft, and Ederheimer, Stein and Co’s new spring clothes-Longley and Stetson Hats. Davies and Elgin shirts, New line of boys caps, New effects in neckwear, Fancy hose. Suits for Men SIO.OO to $22.50 Suit for young men $6 to $18.50 Suits for Boys $2.00 to $7.50 You’ll want to be dressed right for the occasion, just give us a chance to show you. This store is the home of Hart Schaffner and Marx clothes.

J. A. Graham, of Muncie, was greeting old friends in the city today. McNavin-Cash company will commence a week’s engagement at the opera house next Monday night, April 12, presenting for their opening bill “The Man from Nevada,’’ a society comedy drama of New York City life. Monday night ladies will be admitted free if accompanied by a paid 30-cent ticket. Popular prices, 10c, 20c, 30c will be the rule during the engagement, with a complete change of program at each performance. The company is said to be one of the best playing at cheap prices