Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1909 — Page 3

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WEATHER. Showers tonight and Thursday; rising temperature. Mrs. C. J. Weaver is at Fort Wayne today. A. Van Camp left the city today on a lousiness trip. S. B. Fordyce went to Fort Wayne on business this afternoon.-. ♦ ♦ ;; Tonight—Some Show ;; <! —The— :: ! GRAND o o o —■■ '■ O O <• The Fatal Necklace ;; ;; Now I’m Here I’ll Stay ;; Exacting Father-in-law ;; o o ♦ 2 The best show for a;; o o <; nickel ;; uolMno Loose Handling of your money is the carrying of it on your person or having it in your home where it is subject to all sorts of dangers from fire, burglary, etc. With a checking account your money is safe —both from theft and the temptation to spend that you undergo by carrying It This is just one of the many virtues of a checking account with us. OLD Adams Co. Bank

Back From the Honeymoon The first and most welcome present for the bride when she enters her future home is a brand new Singer sewing machine, or a Wheeler & Wilson. These machines help thousands of newly married couples to start housekeeping. They enable young wives to have more and better clothes than they could possibly possess in any other way on the same allowance. Singer Sewing Machines Also the Wheeler & Wilson are tne only machines that last for a lifetime. They are sold only at Singer stores or by Singer salesmen-never through dealers, department stores or under any other narrfe. August F. Puls, Manager Offices in Brock Building Ground Floor ’Phone 461

Hugh Woods returned from a business trip to Indianapolis. Miss Mary Hite went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day. Rev. and Mrs. I. Tmler are visiting their Bon, H. E. Imler at Logansport. Mrs. J. C. Patterson is slowly recovering from an attack of lagrippe. Albert Acker still continues to improve from a severe attack of pneumonia. Peter Bollinger, who has been quite sick, is much better, and will soon be well. Miss Zelma Steele resumed her duties at True & Runyon’s after an absence on account of sickness. How’s your job work? We will give you the best Job you ever had in your life. Make us prove it. Clayton Smith, of Berne, is in the city visiting his cousins, Mrs. Dyke Frisinger and Miss Bernice Dailey. Mrs. Clint Johnson and daughter Ruth are in the city visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Forbing. John Bollinger, of west Monroe street, is building a porch to his home; cement sidewalks are also being made. There are just four more weeks of school after this one, and then the boys and girls will enjoy a long vacation. A. P. Beatty is building a handsome new front porch, which will add much to the appearance of his home on north Second street. Mrs. Clyde Rice and daughter Dorothy went north of the city today on the interurban to spend the day with D. M. Rice and family. A business meeting of the Ladies Aid Society will be held at the home of Mrs. John Fleming Friday afternoon. Business of importance will be transacted. Mrs. Richard Spetnagle is hostess at the Presbyterian Missionary Society which meets at her home this afternoon. Mrs. C. A. Dugan will entertain the next meeting. The seniors are busy preparing for commencement. The other pupils* of the high school are working hard to make the literary on next Friday a success. Special effort will bo made to make the last one the best.

Otto Kirsch is remodeling his house on north Third street and the property will present a handsome appearance when finished. The home will be furnished in readiness for Mr. Kirsch and his bride. The wedding will occur in June.

I Ralph Elzey went to Peterson to , work today. I John Thompson went to Fort Wayne ■ this morning. C. D. Cross returned to Fort Wayne ' this morning. Miss Ina Everett went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Clarence Baughman went to Bluffton today on business. Miss Caroline Sherman went to ■ Bluffton this morning on business. Miss Mamie Bright is visiting in the city with Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele. Miss Madge Phillips returned today from Willshire, where she visited relatives. Mrs. Andrew Shumacher, of Geneva, went to Bluffton today for a visit with friends. Miss Ruby Miller has returned from Linn Grove, where she closed her term of school. J. D. Wisehaupt and son Howard will spend Sunday at Bluffton with relatives and friends. Frank Foor left today for Ohio City where he was called by the serious illness of his mother. Miss Minta Acker is spending a few days with her parents, before returning to her work at Geneva. Mrs. S. S. Buchanan returned to her home at Willshire today after spending the morning in the city. An old-fashioned belling was given Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cross last night they having been married Saturday evening. The city bonds sold last night for S2BO premium, notwithstanding the fact that there were many who said that no bids would be received. Grandpa Richards, who makes his ] home in the south part of town with his son, Will, is recovering from sickness, and is able to up and around now. Miss Ethel Conant went to Toledo this morning on her way to Cleveland, where she was working. While here she visited with Mr. and Mrs. Will Richards. Mrs. J. D. Wisehaupt went to Bluffton today for a visit with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hunter, and with her daughter, Mrs. John Reynolds, who lives near that place. Miss Jesse Osborne, of Peru, a bride of but two weeks, made an attempt to commit suicide Monday afternoon by shooting herself in the mouth, it is believed she will recover. The deed is attributed to despondency over family trouble. Marshal Albert Butler says he has the best farmer in the county on his farm north of the city, he having already planted twenty acres of corn. The marshal expects to show the people of this locality some corn that is corn by next fall. There was quite a little interest displayed last evening by people of this locality who were interested in the result of the local option election in Delaware county. Quite a number gathered at this office and the telephone rang every minute for an hour. U. E. Cramer, who has been conducting a blacksmith and wagon making shop corner First and Jefferson street, has sold the blacksmith department to Smith Bros. & Sons, of Huntington, who have a blacksmith shop there. The new firm members will live here, two of them coming next week. Mr. Cramer will continue in his old stand and work at his other trade.

According to the Fort Wayne News the Elks lodge of that city is back of a movement to organize an Elks baseball league to include possibly six or eight cities, including Fort Wayne, Bluffton, • Wabash, Lima, Decatur, Huntington and other nearby cities easily reached by trolley. It is proposed that a regular schedule for a league of eight cities be formed and the winning team to receive a trophy. The baseball situation in Bluffton is not fully determined today, for the solicitors report that all of the money is not yet raised with which to finance a team, in fact there is a good sized bulk of the money yet lacking. The solicitors were out last evening after banking hours and will complete their canvass tonight. Although they have not met with the success that was hoped, still Messrs Tangeman and Rogers, who are doing the soliciting express a belief today that the club will be. organized and that Bluffton will have baseball this season, although the finances will have to be secured in part in a little different manner than was anticipated. Bluffton News. o FOR SALE. At ten o'clock on Friday, April 30, the building committe for the K. P. lodge., will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder the house on their lot just north of the Murray* Hotel. The house will be a bargain for some purchaser. 95-7 t K. P. Building Committee.

Mrs. C. F. True is at Poe today, visiting relatives. J. C. Waggoner returned to his home at Willshire. Mrs. J. A. Smith went to Montpelier today for a visit. Miss Anna Scheerer went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Lase Ellis went to Fort Wayne this afternoon on business . Miss Amelia Howard returned to her home at Fort Wayne. Squire J. H. Stone is suffering from a severe attack of lagrippe. John Ford, of Geneva, was a business visitor in the city today. The Young Matrons will meet with Mrs. French Quinn Thursday. According to a new ruling Decatur will have saloons until next November. Miss Ruth Baltzell is very sick with the mumps, and is absent from school as a consequence. Mrs. Homer Watkins left today for her home at McKees Rock, Pa., where she will file divorce proceedings against her husband of this city. The trouble between the C. & E. and the traction line have been settled and work on the extension south is on again. It is to be hoped they will have no further trouble in the building of the line. The premiums for the Great Northern Indiana fair will be out within a short time and the officers will begin boosting for the big fair week, alwavs looked forward to with much pleasure, by the young and the old alike. Though DeKalb county is now T “dry” by remonstrance, a movement is on foot for a county local option election with a view of keeping it so, and in the interest of the movement a county meeting has been called for Auburn on May 8. The Ben Hur lecture at the First Presbyterian church last evening was one of the best events of the kind ever heard in Decatur, and was thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by the crowd which completely filled that commodious house. Esq. F. S. Armantrout of Geneva, was here today and made out the necessary legal papers which transferred from E. E. Young now of Kendallville, to Orlando Whiteman, the residence property belonging to the former. The property is a good one. Mrs. Robert M. Perry, of Huntington, went to Fort Wayne today,where she was called by the illness of her brother Daniel. He was the victim of a runaway some time ago, and was dragged by the horses before he could be rescued. He is getting better now.

A party of eleven emigrants stopped off at our city today enroute from Holland to Grand Rapids, Mich. They intend to settle down there and make that place their future home. They experienced a bit of difficulty on account of not being able to understand English. Mrs. L. G. Ellingham went to Winchester this afternoon and from there she goes to Anderson tomorrow,where she attends the first district meeting of the state federation of Women’s Clubs. The affair tomorrow will be delightful and especially interesting to the club women of the district. Arrangements are all complete for the reception to be given Rev. and Mrs. Sherman Powell on tomorrow evening, the same to take place in the parlors of the Methodist church. Several of the local clergy will attend the reception, and the arrangements now foretell a pleasant social evening. As Decatur is the soul of hospitality, there will be no strings attached to the welcome to be accorded the new pastor of the Methodist congregation

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F. M. Schirmeyer went to Berne today, where he is looking after business of much importance. Dr. J. M. Miller has returned to Celina, where he attended the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Shafner, wife of ex-Judge Shafner, of Mercer county. If you harbor a dog, get ready to chalk up a five dollar bill for taxes on the canine. John Christen, one of the deputy assessors, informs us that in some cases it is hard to get a line on the real owner of all the dogs. He is now chasing to cover some of those whom he suspects, and it is real funny for all those not Implicated in any dog deal.

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| Mrs. George Steele is at Fort Wayne ! today. She left yesterday on the four ■ o’clock car. She was called by the I death of the infant child of Mrs. i Jennie Tierney, formerly Miss Jennie Elzey, of this city. Barney and Isadore Kalver closed a deal today whereby they become the owners of the Archbold property on north Second street. The property was owned by lars. Ezra Archbold of Fort Wayne. It is a big lot, 455 feet deep, extending to the river and the house is a commodious brick structure. The house will be remodeled and i will be occupied by Isadore Kalver and family.

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>! Miss Lilah Lachot, who is one of • the candidates in the Comtnerciali Tribune's European trip contest, has ; not been able to devote much time to ’, the canvass as yet, owing to the fact I that she has been so busy at the coun- [ ty treasurer s office, it being tax pay- , ing time, but she will begin to work in > earnest next week and expects to make the other candidates step along. i There are six young ladies in the race from this district, Miss Lachot being third at present. A lady from Union City leads in the race at this time. o FOUND—Pair of spectacles. Owner can have same by calling at this office and paying for this ad.