Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1909 — Page 3

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WEATHER. Fair tonight and Sunday; rising temperature; frost tonight ==—s— Mrs. John Rex went to Bowling Green, Ohio, today, to visit here son, Newton, at that place. Misses Jennie and Maud Kirt went to Huntertown today to visit with relatives over Easter. Walter B. Johnson, of Monroe, after transacting business in the city today returned t ohis home. Decatur was visited today by a large number of farmers. The merchants therefore did a good business.

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. Casl Cap it al SIOO,OOO Deposits $500,000 Resources $700,000 DECATUR, IND.

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Mrs. Corey Thomas will spend the day at Berne on business. Mrs. Anna Stemen of Wren, went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Charles Elzey went to Van Wert today to visit friends. Rochester, N. Y., Eastern league, Fort Wayne, Sunday, April 11. Mrs. Henry Mayer is visiting relatives and friends at Bucyrus this week. Mrs. C. A. Augsberger went to Ohio City last evening for a visit with friends. Miss Katherine Culley, of Willshire, went to Fort Wayne, on the four o’clock car. Miss Bertha Steele returned today from Pleasant Mills, where she visited with relatives. C. E. Bowman returned to his home at Fort Recovery after transacting business in the city. R. H. Smidt who transacted business in the city yesterday, wept to Monroeville last evening. R. R. Hoover, who has been visiting with friends here, returned to his home at Huntington today. Will Jackson gave a fish fry at his home yesterday afternoon, the guests of honor being John Baker, and W. P. Shrock. Miss Emma Gillig, who has been sick for some time, is slowdy recovering, but she will not be able to resume her work at the bank until the last of next month. Mr. Raymond Knoff and Miss Lulu DeWeis will be married at Hammond tomorrow afternoon. Miss DeWeis formerly lived here, her father having served as an operator on the Erie. Billy Sunday, the base ball evangelist, has donated $20,000 for a new auditorium at JWinona; He simply telegraphed the news to that place and a half hour later the work had begun.

F. Marion Crawford, one of the greatest novelists of the century, died at Sorrento, Italy, last night, after an Illness of many months. His last words were "I enter serenely Into Eternity.’’ Mrs. C. B. Jones, of Garrett, has given to the North Indiana M. E. conference a residence property in Garrett, valued at SI,OOO, to be sold and the proceeds donated toward the Old People’s home at Warren. The government is having trouble trying to get the necessary ground for the proposed government building at Goshen. The lots selected are quoted at $19,000 by the owners and this offer has been rejected by the government. Misses Helen and Blanche Good, of Warren, were in this city yesterday I as the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Edward [ Rinear. Dir. Good is moving from Warren to his new location in Huntington and his daughters were here enroute to their new home. —Bluffton News. Since'the adjournment of the North Indiana M. E. conference, another change has occurred in pastors. Rev. C. J. Graves, assigned to New Haven, will go to Geneva instead, and Rev. C. King, originally appointed to Geneva, will take the New Haven church. Mr. and Mrs. Drew, of New York, parents of Mr. George Ulmer, formerly of this office, are here for a visit of a few days with their son, who is here | from Hillsdale, Michigan, where he is a linotype operator. Mr. and Mrs. Drew are with the Frohman “Thief” company, one of the best on the road, who are touring the larger cities of this state at present. In a cablegram to J. N. Pfeiffer, received at noon today. Attorney A. J. Vesey announces the safe arrival of the Fort Wayne party in Havana, Cuba, this morning. Tn the party are Mr. Vesey, Dr. W, W. Barnett, W. D. Henderson, Harry Jones, Mr. Moser, of Decatur, and Mr. Glime, of Lima. The travelers left Fort Wayne Tuesday evening and are making a trip to Cuba to investigate the proposition of the land development company recently organized in this city.—Fort Wayne Sentinel.

I Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Dbble went to Ohio City today to visit relatives. Miss Kate Hockman went to Fort Wayne today to visit with friends. Miss Mary Frisinger went to Rockford today to visit with relatives and friends. Miss Vera Radamacher went to Bluffton today to visit with relatives and j friends. Mrs. Chauncey Roop returned today from Pleasant Mills, where she visited with Mrs. Trontner.

The township assessors are on their last rounds and in a few weeks more will have their work complete. Mrs. J. W. Rutledge, of Rockford, who has been visiting friends in the city, returned to her home this noon. Mrs. Peter Shafer and children, of W’illshire, arrived in the city to visit with her father, John Johns and family. Dr. Grandstaff, of Preble, was in the city this morning looking after business interests and has returned to his home. Miss Rose Dunathan, Latin teacher in the high school,’ went to Ohio City on her way home to Van Wert to spend Sunday. Mr. Noah Moser, one of the reliable young men from the vicinity of Geneva, was here today looking after his business interests at the county seat. Mrs. Harriet Beidler returned this morning from Pleasant Mills, where she has been the guest of her sister. Mrs. U. S. Drummond for several days. The ladies of the Christian church did a land office business today with their market which held forth In the front window of the Decatur Packing company business room. Joel Kemp, one of the pioneers of Wells county, died at his home in Bluffton. He was a resident of that county for seventy years and was known by every one. He was past eighty years old. Mrs. Wld Dorwin and son Dean will return today from Monroe, where the latter was operated upon for the removal of his tonsils Thursday. The operation was successful, and the little boy will get along all right, no doubt. Mrs. Henry Sheiferstein and children, Carl, Arthur, Ervin and Velma went to the home of Philip Sheiferstein last evening, where they will visit for several days. They will also visit with Henry Sheiferstein, her father-in-law, north of the city. James Harkless, cashier of the Paulding, Ohio, bank is here for an Easter visit with relatives and friends and the latter are numerous in this locality. James served as bookkeeper at the First National bank for a number of years before going to Ohio. Mrs. Thompson, of Monroe and daughter, Frankye, went to Marion today. The latter will go to St. Louis in time to meet Misses Kate Sether and Mayme Dorwin next Tuesday on their way to Spokane, Washington. The girls may decide to make their future home. A number of the German Lutherans in the vicinity of Poe, on the WellsAllen qounty line, have purchased land in the German Lutheran colony in Texas. They built a house and drilled a good well on their church property. They went 222 feet to get water. Several parties expect to move to their new possessions next fall. —Bluffton News.

Rudolph Lehman, former cashier of the Bank of Berne, writes from Wickersham, Wash., that he has sold his mountain ranch there and bought a home in Bellingham, a city of about 40,000 inhabitants. Mr. Lehman and family have no doubt moved by this time, and their many friends here may be interested to take note of the new address, which is 1113 High street, Bellingham. Wash. —BerneWitness. Reach’s official American League Guide for 1909, published by the A. J. Reach company, of Philadelphia, and edited by Mr. Francis C. Richter, of “Sporting Life.” is out, and is, as usual, first in the field, thus making it the harbinger of the base ball season. It can be said without any qualification that, excellent as all of tfie editions of the Reach Guide have been in recent years, the 1909 Reach Guide is the best hand book of the kind ever issued by this or any other publisher. The special distinction of the of the 1909 Guide is, next to the text, quality of paper used and the number and beauty of the engravings furnished, the world's championship series being especially well dowered with splendid action pictures. The American League Guide for 1909 is in all respects a first class hand book of the national game and a decided credit to the American league and to the publishers, the Reach company. This is the eighth annual issue <»f the Reach Guide as tl>e official hand book of the American league, and the twen-ty-seventh consecutive year of its publication as a book of record and reference for the entire base ball world.

Miss Emma Shnltz will spend Easter with friends at Bluffton. Miss Kate Mangold went to Kokomo today where she will remain a week with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Niblick left this afternoon on a wedding tour and will be gone for several days. Mrs) W. E. Eggleston, of Huntington. returned home after a visit with her friend, Mrs. John Wetter. Peter Weisbrod returned to hts home at Huntington after a visit with his sister, Mrs. Wetter, who is sick. Several Monroe people were In the city today looking after business interests and have returned to their homes, Ormsby, the Smith-Premier typewriter man from Fort Wayne, was here today looking after business pertaining to his agency. Deputy Postmaster John Peterson who has been very ill for several days, is reported some better today, though still suffering considerable pain. Joseph Johnson, a retired farmer, who lives at Monroe, and is taking life rather easy after many years of toil, was here today looking up his friends. Mrs. John Tremp Returned to Huntington. While here she visited with her aunt, Mrs. Wetter at the home of the latter’s daughter, Mrs. John Fleming. D. W. Beery has returned from Berne, where he purchased a number of horses for the Decatur Horse company, to be sold at their next sale to be held next Friday. Rev. Noah Stalter, of near Monroe, was in the city today and made this office his annual call. Rev. Stalter Is one of the old school of gentlemen whom it is a pleasure to meet.

The committee is busy arranging for the Elks first annual ball to be given at their hall next Wednesday evening. The boys are anticipating a good time. The tickets are one dollar. The Rochester, New York, ball team winners of the Eastern league pennant last year, will play at Fort Wayne tomorrow and several of the boys are planning to see the game if the weather looks favorable. Services at St. Marys church on Easter will consist of solemn high mass at six a. m. and one at ten a. m. In the afternoon at three sacred solemn vespers and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Easter is here, and the boys and girls have been busy today preparing the rabbit nests. The services tomorrow at the various churches will be most appropriate. The program on this occasion is always one of the best of the year. The manager of the local agency of the Singer Sewing Machine company. Mr. Puls, reports that he is very much pleased with his business in Decatur. He expects a big shipment of machines within a few days and has orders for the most of them. Mrs. D. W. Meyers will leave tomorrow for Ashland, Ohio, to be at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Harriet Gwinner, who spent last winter with her daughter here, and was consequently well known here. Mrs. Gwinner is very old, but her friends are hoping that she will soon get better. Miss Frankye Thompson has left for her home in far away Spokane, Wash. She will visit over Sunday in Marion, spend two days in St. Louis stop at Kansas City, Lincoln, Denver, San Francisco, before reaching her home. She has been here for some little time visiting her relatives and many friends.

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Mrs. Cordelius McGerkins, returned to her home south of Willshire today, after a visit with friends at Fort Wayne. There has been a variety of weather this week. It started with a warm, balmy day, and we have a taste of the bitter elements during the latter part of the week. U. S. Drummond of Pleasant Mills, was in the city today assisting at the Niblick and company store. Mr. Drummond is one of the progressive merchants at Pleasant Mills. The drawing for the Santaire bed will be pulled off at the Gay and Zwick furniture store this afternoon, and no doubt many people will be present. The bed is a beauty and will be valuable to the one who is lucky enough to draw it. On Tuesday, April 20, the annual district meeting of the Red Men will be held at Muncie, and preparations are under way for one of the greatest times in the history of this secret order. This part of the state is favorable to the growth, and as a consequence they are strong in numbers. Archie Cook reports a hatching of eggs from the big incubator in his grocery today and says that he secured 410 chickens from 409 eggs. He explains this by stating that one of the eggs was a double egg. The chicks will be taken to the Sixbey poultry farm south of Bluffton. —Bluffton News. There are two ways of spending a dollar. You can spend it at home, gain an easy conscience, make another friend and perhaps get the dollar back tomorrow, or you can send it away ,feel that you have sinned, offended home merchants and forever lost the dollar and the blessed influence for good to yourself and neighbor. William Geake, of this city, who has just been appointed by Governor Marshall as a trustee of the state institution for the education of the deaf, has been elected treasurer in the reorganization of the board. Mr. Geake returned last evening from Indianapolis, where he attended the first meeting of the new board. —Fort Wayne Sentinel.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baker went to Fort Wayne to visit with friends today. The management of the Springfield Three-I ball club is negotiating for the sale of big Tom Railing and the deal is expected to come off in the near future. Religious services will be held in the various churches of the city tomorrow and the public in general is invited to attend. Several young men from Decatur will leave Monday for Wabash, where they will try out as players on the ball team of that place.

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Work on Lew Wise’s house in the north part of the city is progressing very rapidly and before very many weeks pass it will be completed. The Rev. Sherman Powell, who has been chosen to have charge of the local pastorate during the coming conference year, will make his initial debut before a Decatur audience tomorrow. He is a minister of ability, and will no doubt be greeted by large audiences tomorrow. Rev. Powell is among the very best ministers in the conference and Decatur is well pleased that he has been assigned to this charge.