Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1909 — Page 3

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Save Your Stomach NOT THE WRAPPERS Most Package Coffee is glazed and adulterated with various substitutes to make a worthless coffee salable. CHASE and SANBORN’S COFFEES of whatever price are clean, wholesome and pure We have them from 20 cents per pound to 35 cents. To pay a little more and receive value for value, or pay a little less and receive nothing much —which is better? A trial will remove any doubt. Sold only by Fred V. Mills, The Grocer

Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth's Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. Office hours: B—l 28 —12 a. m., I—s1 —5 p. m The Fort Wayne base ball team opened the Central league season there yesterday. There was a big automobile parade, %nd a large crowd attended the game. Evansville was the attraction and won by a score of ten to four.

# te OF THESE FEW of the many reasons why you should open a checking account here. You have a positive legal voucher for every cent expended. You have at your command every facility of a modern banking system for the eollection of out-of-town accounts. You money is absolutely safe from theft. You Lave a credit reference that is unassailable, OLD Adams Co. Bank

DECATUR’S NEW NOTION STORE

THE FAIR

A complete line of General notions-Musical Instruments and Musical Supplies. The public is invited to inspect our new store and note our low prices. The stock is all new and up-to-date and priced within easy reach of all by our low prices. Make the Fair your headquarters. C. E. HITESMAN, Manager. 214 Monroe Street.

♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ :WEATHER forecast: ♦ ♦ + ♦♦♦ + ♦ + ♦ + + ■!■ + + + ♦♦ Showers and thunder storms tonight and Sunday; warmer tonight; colder Sunday afternoon. Miss Donna Sowers went to Winona today. Miss Hatie Bufkhead returned from Pleasant Mills today. Henry Bovine went to Port Wayne on the one o'clock car. Fred Wagner, of near Monroe, went to Fort Wayne this morning. Dr .C. S. Clark was called to Monroe this morning on a professional duty. Herbert Lachot has accepted a position at the Smith, Yager and Falk drug store. There will be no meeting of the Shadow Club today, as everybody is housecleaning. Mr. and Mrs. Miller of Fort Wayne, arrived in the city today to visit with their niece, Mrs. B. J. Rice. H. L. Roe returned to Kalamazoo county, Mich., after a visit with relatives at Wren and in this vicinity. Attorneys Sam Butcher, of Geneva, and Frank Cottrell, of Berne, were attending to business in court here today. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Armour, of Evansville, are visiting their many relatives and friends at Geneva and in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Olmer, of Fort Wayne, have returned to their home, after making a pleasant visit in the city with friends and relatives. Mrs. Harriet Beidler left this morning for her home at Elkhart, after making a several weeks’ visit in the city as the guest of friends and relatives.

Attorney R. O. Johnson, of Kendallville, was a business caller in our city yesterday, and went to Fort Wayne, where he is interested in a litigation at that place. Miss Mildred Winter, daughter of Rev. J. A. Winter, formerly pastor of the German Reformed church at Huntington, has been appointed a missionary to Japan. The family now resides at Toledo. During the storm Thursday evening a large section of the roof of St. Joseph's Catholic church at Roanoke was blown off by the wind, and the rain beating in through the opening did extensive damage to the interior of the building. Andrew Jackson Croy, who died at Wodburn a few days ago, was the father of Columbus Croy, former marshal of that town, who was murdered in June, 1907, and for whose death three men have alreadybeen convicted and given prison sentences. In the menu published yesterday for the Park hotel’s Sunday dinner, there was but one meat entry given, due to a mistake of the printer. Besides roast beef, the menu also includes roast loin of pork. If you want a good dinner go to the Park ' tomorrow.

Miss Marie Allison went to Fort Wayne to spend the day. Herbert Knorr went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend Sunday. Miss Nettie Reynolds went to Craigville this noon to visit relatives. Miss Lizzie Kortenbrer went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to visit friends. Albert Adams, of Jefferson township, was in the city today on business. Gwendolyn Stickell, of Lima, 0., is visiting in the city with Gabriel Kintz and family. Mrs. I. Irnler went to Delphos today on her way to Elida, Ohio, to visit her mother. Present weather conditions are certainly ideal after the siege of rain and wind storms. Mrs. F. G. Rheme, of Willshire, went to Fort Wayne today, where'she will visit for some time.

You will be happy all day Sunday if you eat dinner at the Park hotel. Read the menu m today’s issue. Mrs. Jacob Spade, of Peterson, arrived today and will visit her children in the city for several days. Mrs. C. W. Yager and children, Mildred and Gertrude, went to Pleasant Mills today to visit for several days. Samuel Zimmerman is at Fort Wayne today, where’he is attending to business. He will return this evening. Hazel Sprague returned to Rockford after a visit with her grandfather, Randall Sprague and other relatives. Go to the Park hotel Sunday if you want to enjoy a dandy good meal for less money than you can get as good at home. Mrs. Anna McCullough went to Pleasant Mills today. While here she visited with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Winans and family. Mrs. Harmon Sellemeyer went to Definance, Ohio, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Emma Vitz, of that place. She will be gone several weeks. Mrs. S. E. Whitman, of Bluffton, returned home after a week’s visit with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Peterson and family. A number of people from the south part of the county were in the city today looking after business interests and returned to their home on the afternoon train. Miss Effie Lee and nephew and neice, Lowell and Imo Love, went to Pleasant Mills today to visit with Mrs. W. H. Ayres, a sister of the former. The children lately returned from Colorado. Now is the season of housecleaning and everything is torn up. This is ideal weather, however, and many Decatur women are taking advantage of it. For tn a week or two it will be much warmer. The four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Halferty, of Auburn, tumbled into a cistern, but managed to cling to a projection and hang there until his screams attracted the attention of a neighbor, who rescued the little fellow. John W. Terrell will soon be the only inmate of the Wells county jail. The case of Frank Brown will' be disposed of next Monday and unless some arrests are made between now gnd then Terrell will be in the jail alone. —Bluffton Banner.

J. H. Walters will preach tomorrow morning at the United Brethren church. Rev. Walters formerly held charges in the Methodist conference, and proved very efficient in that profession. Everybody is invited. Rev. Irnler will conduct services at Union Chapel tomorrow. After hearing evidence for two entire days in the case of Smith Wiseman vs. the Wilmot Telephone Co. for $6,000 damages, the case was dismissed in Warsaw at the instance of the plaintiff. All of the evidence had been heard and the attorneys were ready to argue the cause when the plaintiff s attorneys decided to withdraw. John Mock, who has been negotiating for some time with the state board of pardons concerning the parole of Jesse Hower, received a letter this morning from the secretary of the board stating that the case had been taken up at the last session and laid on the table until the June meeting of the board, when Mr. Mock and the young man's relatives are very hopeful of securing his speedy release.— Bluffton News. The Northern Indiana Ben-Hur congress, in session at Huntington Thursday, voted to hold its next meeting at Tipton, and clhcers were elected as follows: Past chief, E. A. Stockwell,. South Bend; chief, John H. Bohiman. Fort Wayne; judge, C. F. LaFlare, Garrett; teacher, Lillie Stevens. Tipton; scribe, C. M. Hunt, Kokomo; K. of T., A. L. Miller. Sorth Bend; captain, Ida M. Snyder, Columbia City: guide, Charles Bowers, Huntington; keeper inner gate, Lillian Horn, Elkhart; keeper outer gate, U. S. Kress, Decatur; pianist, Belle Roos, Avilla.

A. B. Bailey, of Monroe, transacted business in the city today. Mrs. Hervey Steele and baby went to Fort Wayne today to visit relatives. William Mauriceson, of Willshire, went to Fort Wayne on business this morning. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Mann went to Napoleon, Ohio, to visit over Sunday with friends. The child of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stele, of Pleasant Mills, aged four days, is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mauriceson, of ■Willshire, went to Fort Wayne on the ten o’clock car this morning.

Charles Sullivan, of Berne, was in the city today making a visit with relaitves and looking after business affairs. J. W. Hayes, of Broughton, Ohio, will preach tomorrow at the Christian church. Everybody is invited to attend. The M. E. choir had an excellent practice last evening in preparation for the evening of the baccalaureate sermon to be delivered. Appropriate religious services will be held at the various Decatur churches tomorrow, and the publie is cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Joseph Young, of Kokomo,who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. U. E. Cramer, for several days, left for Her home at Kokomo today. Charles Smith and A. B. Hedrick went to Decatur at noon, Where the latter man will purchase a drviing horse of the Decatur horse company. —Bluffton Banner. Rollo Broadbeck returned from Marion, where he is atending the normal school, and will spend Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Gus Broadbeck in the country.

Dan Mosburg, town marshal at Warren, attempted to pick up a dangerous ' electric wire blown down by the wind Thursday evening and received a terrific electric shock from which he may not recover. The local Shamrock base ball club will go to Monroeville tomorrow to play the city team of that place. The boys fully expect to administer bitter defeat to the Monroevilleites and they are taking with them a strong lineup. The picture shows all did a thriving business last night. There were several causes. The shows were good the music special, it was Friday evening when parents feel free to let the children enjoy themselves, as there is no school the next day and then the spring time is here and this business is always much better ii^ this season. Attorney A. M. Waltz has gone to Rushville to defend a damage suit in which Frank P. Powell is defendant. The suit grows out of an explosion in Powell’s motion picture show at Greenfield months ago. From Rushville, Mr. Waltz goes to Jeffersonville, where he will contest the suit of the divorced wife of the late George Mussetter in which the woman is endeavoring to gain possession of the Mussetter estate. The case is set for May 14. —Bluffton Banner. Daniel Swartz, a farmer living east of Bluffton across the line in Adams county, was in town today and appeared before Judge Sturgis on an old case that has been pending on the criminal docket against him since last September, when a grand jury returned an indictment against him. The only charge was intoxication and his fine was $1 and costs, which he paid. Swartz came to Bluffton last summer and got on a drunk that landed him in jail for one night. The grand jury investigated and the indictment was returned. —Bluffton News.

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c % Os Your Life Is Spent in Bed And it is during that period that our storage cells are recharged with power to drive the human machine. It is a duty we owe ourselves and those dependent on us to provide the best bed we can afford - and we can all afford the best, because the best is the cheapest. We pay $25 to SSO for a suit of clothes to wear a season—one costing half the money would afford the same comfort, but it does not possess the-quality. QUALITY.’ That’s the thing that counts. Why do we not apply the same rule when we purchase our mattresses? Is it because the mattress is never seen, or because we do not appreciate the value of sleep? Sleep is not only important, it is necessary. Do you think you can rest as comfortably on a knotty, tufted mattress as you can on one of those smooth, non-tufted, resilient mattress that we have spent a lifetime perfecting? , We absolutely guarantee that the SEALY MATTRESS will never lump, pack or lose its resiliency. Twenty-five years’ experience in manufacturing this mattress has amply demonstrated the validity of this guarantee. One half million sold and the smallest possible per cent returned. Sleep on it 60 nights. If not perfectly satisfied return to dealer and money will be refunded. MYERS & 7V\OSE£S, Funeral Directors and Furniture Dealers.

Shafer Peterson went to Fort Wayne this afternoon on business. Laura Bleeke and Clare Teemaa went to Fort Wayne on the one o'clock car. Charles D. Murray has contracted for a new Jackson touring car which will be delivered next Wednesday. Mr. Murray is getting an excellent machine. Many new automobiles will he purchased by Decatur people during the next few weeks. Contracts have been let for a number already, and others will make purchases subsequently. Mrs. George Woodward and Miss Bessie Congleton and George Schug and Winfield Maddy went north of the city on the interurban this morning, where the little boys will enjoy an outing. „ A number of real straw hats were in evidence today and this is sure indication of the approach of summer. We are hoping that the hats will not have to be put on the shelf before tomorrow evening at least. Attorney Chauncey Lautzenheizer, of Berne, passed through the city this morning enroute to Willshire, from where he will go to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lautzen heizer for an over-Sunday visit. Special music will be rendered at the M. E. church two weeks from tomorrow night, vhen the baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by Rev. L. C. Hessert. The choir is practicing diligently in the preparation of excellent music for that occasion. Amnog the magazines who have sought admittance to the American league, established by the E. G. Lewis Publishing company, are Colier's Weekly, Everybody's Magazine, Success, Delineator, St. Louis Star and Chronicle. Quick to see the advantage of getting new subscriptions and realizing the worth of the cause almost all of the best magazines were eager to be admitted, among them were the Phelps Publishing company and the Curtis Publishing company. The ladies are getting along nicely in their endeavor to establish a chapter house for the league in this city.

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We invite the public to call and inspect the superior quality and reasonable prices of the full and complete line of buggies we have in stock. Seeing will convince. ATZ & STEELE North Second Street