Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1909 — Page 3
EStaEI solutely S URL __ Ihe only baking powder ■ | from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar /al does not contain phosphatic acid uch is the product of bones digested > lulphuric acid) or alum (which is -third sulphuric acid), unhealthful " ’stances adopted for other baking vders because of their cheapness.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+++ ‘WEATHER FORECAST* {♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦l . Local thunder storms this afternoon generally fair and cooler tonight and Sunday. THEFAIR Decatur’s New General Store Introducing a better grade of goods at prices ranging from oc up. Call and inspect our Notion Department You also can find here the only line of Popular Music in the city, which usually is sold for 25c. Our price 20c. We make a specialty of Musical Instruments-supplies Visit our store and be convinced as to our prices. The Fair is on Monroe street, just west of Old Adams County Bank.
The Sewing Machine Times of this week's issue. reprinted one of Mr. Puls advertisements for the Singer sewing machine agency in this city, and classed it witn those worthy of notice by other dealers. This speaks for the hustling ability of Mr. Puls, it being the only mention of at advertisement tn Indiana.
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Disputes as to paid bills, overpayments, etc,, are absolutely eliminated with a checking account —the receipted legal voucher you hold in the returned paid check protects you perfectly. This is just one of the many reasons W you should have a cheeking account with us. OLD Adams Co. Bank
Have Yon a WHBHpI Summer Stove? 11l *WW i i The st 'fi’ ng a * r a nJ fl close kitchen is changed to • * -f comfortable coolness by arr-* I'll installing a New Perfec- \ tion Wick Blue Flame —V = Q Oil Cook-Stove to do the ; gcc| /Wi family cooking. rhfj cc - I No kitchen furnishing is iTT-fT. C ■: 80 convenient as this sto e. Gives a working heat at // W B '~ Li cnce, an d ma > nta ' ns it II JJ I \ / 'll until turned out —that, too, 2/ I I ( A without overheating the V I II room. The NEW PERFECTION Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove / j. built with a CABINET TOP just like a steel luh „ nee . Jt is the most convenient stove ever made, / and is almost indispensable to summer comfort. From its powerful burners to its handy racks for towels O it is simply PERFECTION. I hree sues. C... be ; had either with or without Cabinet Top. Ask your H dealer, or write our nearest agency. is a very / i AlO-VO Lamp standard oil company (laeorpormted)
Miss Marie Patterson went to Fort Wayne today. Miss Leota Bailey went to Fort Wayne today. Mrs. C. Cook returned to her home near Monmouth. Miss Rose Martin, of Peterson, was in the city today. George Shieferstein, of Monmouth, returned to his home. Ralph and Oscar Merryman went to Fort Wayne last evening. Miss Naomi Cramer has recovered from a severe attack of tonsilitis. Otto Rice returned to his home north of Monmouth this afternoon. Miss Minta Acker is home from Geneva and will visit here over Sunday. Miss Clara Harshman, of Willshire, returned to Fort Wayne, after a visit with friends. Miss Gladys Sprunger went to Fort Wayne on the one o'clock car to spend the afternoon. Miss Rose Dunathan returned to Van Wert last evening, and will spend Sunday with her parents.
Mrs. John Reiter and son Richard went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to visit with Henry Reiter and family. Miss Inez Snellen went to Willshire to stay over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. N. Snellen and family. Miss Lucile Hale is visiting her parents. She will return Monday to Fort Wayne to resume her work at the business college. Mrs. A. R. Bell and Mrs. A. L. De Vilbiss went to Monmouth today to visit their father, who was seriously injured by a fall. Mrs. John Butcher and daughter Eda went to Monmouth, where they will visit the former's sister, Mrs. Louisa Barkley, who is quite ■sick. L. G. Ellingham went to Fort Wayne today, where he joined a party of editors and lawyers who will enjoy the delights of a few days at James Lake as guests at the J. Fred France cottage. The club meets there annually and always bring home a bucket full of evidence that they really fish.. Mrs. Iva Osborn and her eiglit-montbs'-old babe were prisoners in an omnibus at Morth Manchester while the runaway team drawing the vehicle dashed madly down the street for many squares without a driver. The escape of the woman and her babe from death is regarded as little short of miraculous, but they suffered only inconsequential bruises.
Miss Maud Magley was in the city this morning. Rev. D. O. Wise went to Fort Wayne this niorning. Clyd Johnson returned to his home at Williams last evening. Adam Brown went to Fort Wayne on business yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Martin Marhenke, of Monmouth, was in the city this morning. Mrs. Med Beavers, of west "bf the city, went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. C. V. Connell and children went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. Miss Jessie Magley returned from Fort Wayne where she spent the afternoon. Miss Boswell, of Fort Wayne, is in the city visiting with Miss Marie Tonnelier. A male chorus will furnish special music at the Presbyterian church tomorrow evening. Ben Shilts transacted business in the city and returned to his home in Van Wert county yesterday evening. Miss Amelia Andrews, of west of the city, went to Fort Wayne this morning, where she will spend the day.
Amos Danner and children, Harry and Marie, of Blue Creek township, went to Fort Wayne this morning for a short visit. Special music is announced for the Presbyterian church tomorrow evening when a male quartet will urnish a part of the program. Mrs. George Sheiferstein and her mother, Mrs. Grandstaff, were in the city this morning and returned to their home at Monmouth. W. A. Kuebler arrived home from Fort Wayne last evening and reports that his wife, who is a patient at St. Joseph hospital, is improving nicely. Warsaw business men are endeavoring to relegate politics to the rear in the municipal elections this fall and place a citizens’ ticket in the field, without regard to political lines. Holden J. Hunter, of Ossian, has secured judgment for SSO against the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company for the death of a cow’ killed by an interurban car at Ossian. Miss Cora Roop who has been visiting with relatives, returned to Fort Wayne. She was accompanied by a friend, Miss Golda Nye, of Blue Creek township, who will visit her for several days. Fred Martin has telegraphed his relatives here of his safe arrival at New York, after a two months’ trip abroad. He will visit his friends here before proceeding to his home at Fairbanks, Alaska. The cases against Max Wiley and Sam Jordan, accused of swindling Joe Davis, of Auburn, out of $3,000 on a fake wrestling match, have been dismissed and Jordan was released from jail Thursday. Mr. -and Mrs. O. P. Edwards, of Leipsic, Ohio, sailed for Europe on the twenty-fourth of last month and are now in the beautiful city of Naples. Mrs. Edward is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick of this city. Mrs. John Heller is greatly improved today after a weeks’ illness with the quinsy and will be as well as usual within a day or two, the only redeeming feature of this ailment being the rapidity of eonvalesence in the patient.
The Clover Leaf had a small wreck this morning on the Mercer Lumber yard siding when the trucks of a loaded lumber car left the track. Several hours' work were required to put the wheels back on the track. —Bluffton News. At the meeting of the Elks lodge last evening, Charles E. Ernst, was unanimously chosen as exalted ruler to succeed D. E. Studabaker, who resigned, owing to the act that he 's arranging to go to Chicago for some months on business. The late Thomas L. Graves, who died a*t Kendallville a few days ago, served as mayor of the city from 1873 to 1879. He was the father of the present mayor, James Graves, who has held the position for the last twelve or fifteen years. John C. Vought, former recorder of Noble county and long prominent in Grand Army circles, is dead at his home in Kendallville from valvular hear trouble. Mr. Vought was a member of Company G. One Hundredth Indiana volunteers, and rose to the rank of quartermaster. The local order of Knights of Columbus is making elaborate preparations for the initiation of 65 candidates on Sunday, May 23. The meeting will start at 8 o'clock in the morning and will continue until late that night. From 1,200 to 1,500 visitors are expected to attend. Special cars will be run to this city from Kokomo, Elwood, Anderson, Tipton, Union City, Hartford City, and a special train from Fort Wayne over the L. E .& W. —Muncie Star.
Zack Stauffer went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. Henry Schultz is slowly recovering from severe illness. Miss Matie Elzey returned to her home west of the city today. Miss Fancheon Magley is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Magley and family. John Wetter, of Huntington, will spend Sunday with his wife and his daughter, Mrs. John Fleming. Miss Faye Smith wiil arrive home the last of this month from Boston, where she is attending school. The L T nited Brethren national convention which is in progress at Day-torty-will come to a close next week. Nearly three hundred ministers are there. The Missionary Society of the Evangelical church met Thursday and elected officers. Miss Bessie Baumgartner was retained as president of the league. Miss Pearl Miller left for Valparaiso today, where she will attend the normal school. She has taught for several years, and is taking this course in order to prepare herself more thoroughly for that profession.
The eighth grade pupils who have been efficient in their studies at school and secured recommendations, are taking the county diploma examinations today. The final examinations beginning next Wednesday will be taken by many as either the “exam 1 ’ today or the finals will admit a pupil to high school. Some of the students, however, will only try the final term tests. The school children within the last week have secured letters from Honolulu and the western states. Some of these, which are written by the school children, are very interesting. They describe the country and tell of its resources. It is considered by the teachers as a great aid to geography as it mifiles the pupils intersted. Some of the members of the grades have had no reply, owing to the fact that their letters were carried by a delayed steamer. The newly created Commercial Club of Dunkirk, held its second meeting Wednesday evening and was largely attended by the enterprising citizens of that place. By-laws for the club were adopted providing among other things for a membership fee of one dollar. The club already has a large membership. A board of directors was elected consisting of J. T. Day, C. W. Smalley, George T. Whitaker, Barney Putz, C. W. Todd, John F. Sutton and H. H. Frier. A judgment refusing to grant James C. Rose a license to sell intoxicating liquors at Roanoke in Huntington county, because of a “blanket remonstrance," was reversed by the supreme court for failure of the remonstrators to file a brief. .None of the many grounds urged by appellant for a reversal was expressly decided to be well taken, but the opinion throws doubt on several current practices trader the Moore law, by stating the objections urged by the appellant against the action of the circuit court, and then reversing its judgment “as upon a confession of errors.” This leaves the whole matter up in the air. A new trial was ordered “without prejudice to either party.”
MUSIC BY NEW ORCHESTRA J. J. Foughty, superintendent of the United Brethren Sunday school, asks us to announce that they have arranged for music by the new orchestra during the regular session of Sunday school for tomorrow, which convenes at 9:15 a. m., and the attraction should prove of interest to many. « BELIEVED HIP BONE IS CRUSHED The Condition of Mr. Kunkle, of Monmouth, is Very Serious. The condition of Grandpa Samuel Kunkle, of Monmouth, is very serious, an examination by the physician yesterday leading to the belief that the left hip bone is crushed in the socket. This means a very dangerous condition when the fact that Mr. Kunkle is nearly eighty-nine years old is considered. He is one of the pioneers of the county, and has acquaintances and relatives all over this section. — o SUNDAY DINNER MENU PARK HOTEL Decatur, Ind., May 16, 1909. Vegetable Soup Green Onions Radishes Roast Beef Roast Leg of Veal with Dressing Mashed Potatoes Green Beans Cabbage Salad Graham Pudding, wine sauce Orange Pie Tea Coffee Milk
Miss Ruth Daniels, of Preble, is I visiting her aunt. Miss Maggie Daniels. Mrs. I. Imler returned te her home after a visit with her mother at Elida, Ohio. The showers today, while not exactly necessary, will aid the crops some, as they are warm and not hard enough to cause any serious injury. Miss Edith Danner returned to Fort Wayne, where she is employed. She will leave next Sunday for Detroit, where she will visit for some time. A number of Decatur people are at Bluffton today being interested in the law suit, Page vs. Niblick, a claim against the W H. Niblick estate for $8,500. A most interesting letter from Mrs. Otto Hauboid appears in this issue written aboard ship while crossing the Mediterranean sea. Mrs. Hauboid was formely Miss Carrie Thomas. Now is the time for the merchants of Decatur to advertise, if they are ever going to. The spring trade is slipping away from the man who is not wide awake enough to advertise. Do it next week.
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The One Big Event of the Year I IN DECATUR | which will be held in Decatur Saturday, July 17, 1909 I This event will draw 2,000 Woodmen to Decatur, —tall, short, lean, fat and otherwise. H It Will Be fee Greatest Time Ever Enjoyed in Decatur in a Single Day I National Lecturer Wheelan | of Madison, TY isconsin, one or two of the Grand Lodge officers and Sthte Dfte M uty head counsel J. D. Vote will occupy the platform. P " Prize Drill contests, Ball Came and Contests of every description’will be given I 50 Candidates Will be initiated at Hall in Evening-50 I ARE YOU IN THE QLABS? I If not do not fail to sign the card which will be presented to you. A bisr ban- I royally 1 a^er initiatory work by those who know how to do it I S2OO in Prizes Will be Given Away on That Day S2OO I The local camp has one of the largest and one of the best equipped lodge M halls in the city and other rooms will be engaged for the occasion to accomo- ■ date the vast throng. Remember the date, July Seventeenth and get in the ■ class and become a real live Woodman. ■ A Fraternal society with a membership exceeding 1,200,000 which is the ■ largest in the world.
fs DAYS MORE| I Must Get Out of Business I All Goods must be sold at a Great Sacrifice J I DISCOUNT I I On all gallons or quart goods such as the fa- | ■ mous Kenwood, Monticello Club, Solo Rye, Gins, ■ ■ Wines and Cordials, all good for medical pur- ■ ■ poses. ■ ■ Get your supply now before too late. “CURLEY" I
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