Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1909 — Page 3

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:WEATHER forecast: Fair tonight; Sunday partly cloudy; not much change in temperature. Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth’s Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. Office hours: S —l 2 a. m., I—s1 —5 p. m Paying All Expenses With Cash ? consider these tew facts about a checking system: A receipted legal voucher always—for every cent expended. Absolute freedom trona all disputed payments. Absolute safety in all respects. An absolutely correct record of every cost. Think them over and investigate. OLD Adams Co. Bank

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Frank Schultz remains quite sick. A. Williams went to Bluffton today on business. Miss Carrie Roe returned from Fort Wayne this morning. F. E. Ferguson returned from a business trip at Loma. Ben Shilts of east of the city, was transacting business here today. Hattie Brewster was a Fort Wayne visitor today. She returned on the 2:30 car. William Dorwin and O. B. Mills went to Rome City today to tease the finny tribe over Sunday. Mrs. R. Earl Beters went to Bluffton this morning to remain over Sunday as the guest of E. E. Mentzer and family. W. A. Kuebler will spend Sunday with his wife at the hospital. It was necessary for Mrs. Kuebler to have a second operation. Charles Railing, Harry Leßrun anti several others left today for Rome City, where they will engage in fishing for several days. Appropriate religious services will be held at the various Decatur churches tomorrow morning and evening to which the general public is cordially invited. Harry Imboden, of Berne, transferred here Friday enroute to Tipton, where he will spend a week with various friends and relatives. Tipton is his former home. —Portland Review. Mrs. N. J. Baughman and son Lester, who have been enjoying a visit with relatives at Portland for several weeks, have returned. They were accompanied home by S. J. Sutton, a brother of the former. Many of the property owners along Adams street are digging out and putting in the foundations for their sidewalks, and it is no idle dream that when the street is bricked and cement walks grace the curbing, that Adams will be one of the prettiest thoroughfares In the city.

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I Percy Williams went to Geneva on business. | Miss Dove Culley, of Willshire, was in the city shopping today. Miss Alice Butler returned on the four o'clock car to Fort Wayne. Ed Kintz is working for Henry Bremerkamp as bookkeeper for a few days. Miss Inez Smith, of Bellefontaine, will arrive in the city this evening to visit friends. J. E. Moser made a business trip to Geneva. Mr. Moser bought a studio at that place. George Steele, who has been seriously sick, is getting along all right now, and will soon be recovered. Miss Emily Graham, of Muncie, who has been in {Tie city several weeks on business, returned to her home. Sim Burke- went to Bloomington today to attend the annual picnic given by the students of the university. \f id Dorwin, Harry Fritzinger, Spot Archer and Ollie Mills are enjoying a few days’ outing fishing at Clear Lake. Free Frisinger will attend the annual picnic t<x be given by the students of Indiana university today at Bloomington. The name of Veda Hensley was omitted by mistake from the names of the girls entertained by Miss Glenys Mangold. Mrs. Kate Thompson and daughter, Mrs. Wid Dorwin and children, went to Van Wert this morning to visit E. K. Thompson and family. Michael Goxdenawicz, of South Bend, was fined SIOO and costs for failure to cancel a revenue stamp on a beer keg. He paid the fine. Farmers of Lagrange county will meet June 19 to organize a cyclone insurance company in connection with the fire insurance association now in existence. The saloon in the Kelly house at Kendallville, has closed its doors by expiration of license as a result of the local Option election. It had been in existence since 1867. Vern Stewart, an Avilla boy, has been appointed to a place in the department of plant pathology at Cornell university, Ithaca N. Y. He is a graduate of Wabash college. Four saloons in Columbia City and two at Peabody closed their doors at 11 o'clock Thursday night as the result of the local option election held March 5 in Whitley county. The Great Northern Fair this year promises to eclipse all previous ones, both in value of exhibits and in attendance. Let every one boost the Great Northern at every opportunity. Great preparations are being made for the Children's Day exercises at the M. E. church. An appropriate program will be rendered and those who attend will be royally entertained. Large consignments of horses have already begun to arrive for tjie last horse of the season, to be given on next Friday by the Decatur Horse Sale company. The final sale, like all preceding ones, promises to be a record breaker.« Miss Lucile Locke arrived home last evening from Glendale college, where she completed her course of four years. The other Bluffton girls in attendance at the school during the past year, will arrive home in a few days.—Bluffton Banner. Fred Koldewey and Fred Krueckelberg, of Union township, went to Friedham today where they attended a meeting of the Mutual Insurance company, of which they are stockholders. The annual election qf officers and much other business of importance, will be taken up at this meeting.

Captured by their friends and loaded into a calf wagon, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cees, newly-weds at Hartford City, were hauled about town Wednesday evening, followed by a crowd of boys and girls armed with bells and tin horns, and were then taken to a moving picture theater where they were dragged upon the stage and introduced to the audience. They were released after they had been compelled to sing “I'm Glad I’m Married Now’’ for the edification of the audience. After waiting for each other for fifty years, William H. Watts, sixty-eight j years old, and his wife, sixty years old, have decided after only three short months of married life that fate which separated them at the outbreak of the civil war, was more kind than cruel. The husband has filed suit for divorce in the Cass circuit courx. He states in his complaint that his wife has abandoned him. Before the war they lived in the country north of Logansport, and for years were sweethearts. A foolish lover's quarrel separated them at the outbreak of the struggle between the north and south, and Watts in a huff marched aw’ay to war. They met again recently and were married.

U. 8. Drummond returned to Pleasant Mills. Mrs. Maria Smith returned to her home near Rivarre. Mrs. Kate Kern went to Marion to visit her daughter Rachel. t Miss Amalia Thompson returned to her home near Van Buren. Judge Henry C. Fox, of Richmond, Indiana, was here today attending to legal affairs of importance. Miss Bessie Parker is in the city making a- visit with friends. She will remain for several weeks. Matthias Kirsch T.nd Rev. L. C. Hessert rteurned last evening from a business trip to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Albert Acker and children returned from Bluffton, where they visited with the former's mother. The M. E. choir indulged in a good practice last night and will render special music at tomorrow services. Mrs. D. E. Studabaker is repairing her house on Third street, a new roof being the principle improvement. Frank Johnson, who has been attending school at Angola, is here visiting friends. He was formerly employed at the Conter Ice Cream factory. The funeral services for Mr. Henry Kruetzman were held today at the German Reformed church in this city this morning and at Magley this afternoon.

Arrangements are be'ing made for a ball game to be played between ( the Elks and Woodmen teams of this city in the near future. The contest will be bitterly fought. The funeral services of Clayton Dailey will be held tomorrow morning 1 and the services for Doyt York tomorrow- afternoon the former at the Chris- 1 tian and the latter at the M. E. church. < It is not as yet known whether or < not Maple Grove park will open this summer. Negotiations to that end , are now on, however, and unless ( plans fail the resort will soon be op- ( ened to the public. The Monroeville base ball club will play the Decatur Shamrocks on the * local diamond tomorrow afternoon, 1 and an exciting contest is anticipated. ' The locals are in great form and thus far this year have a good average. z David Klopfenstine, Jeff Klopfen- ' stfne, John Ashchleman Jr., Joseph f Rinehart and several other gentlemen residing east of the city, will leave this evening for Sikeston, Mo,, where , they will spend a few w-eeks visiting t relatives and investigating the land that is offered for sale there. —Bluffton Banner. - t Claude D. Stitt, former deputy post- j master at Wabash, Thursday pleaded ( guilty- in the federal court at Indi- , anapolis to the charge of embezzling . $2,500 of the postoffice funds and was , sentenced to two years in the federal prison. Stitt says he will not return to Wabash, but will remain in In- 1 dianapolis with his wife until he is ' taken to prison. i Mrs. George W. Rink has filed suit j at Goshen to discharge the guardianship named for her husband before , she married him. Rink is worth about $20,000 and the guardian was appointed after the death of his first wife. When refused license to wed 1 his second wife, Rink and his intended went to Michigan, where they were married. ' H. B. Sark, Christie Stogdill and . Mr. Graden of Decatur, were out on the Adams-Wells county line road. j yesterday as viewers. Christie was in town this afternoon and he is enthusiastic over the prospects for good crops in that section of the country. They had a fine rain there yesterday afternoon and everything is booming. The viewers will meet 1 again on Tuesday to complete their 1 work.—Bluffton News. An Inskeep boy who is an inmate , at the county infirmary, is credited with having the largest human head in Wells county, and when it was found necessary to buy a new hat for him none large enough could be I found in any of the stores, and a special order had to be given. The hat that he will require is a number nine in size, while 7% is a large size. Byway of comparison Inskeep’s head measures 28 inches in circumference, while a number seven hat is only inches. —Bluffton News. I SATURDAY’ SPECIALS Ladies- 50c white hose 35c Ladies’ 50c union suits ..35c O. N. T. thread 5c Boys' overalls 22c Gingham, per yd 8c Calico 6c Ladies’ neckwear 10c to 25c Ladies’ and childrens’ hose 10c and 15c Toilet paper, 3 rolls for 10c Swell lot of vases, each 10c Many other articles at low prices. Magazines and popular music. THE FAIR , West of Old Adams County Bank, MONROE STREET

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Miss Eva Acker is spending the afternoon at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Mary Smith went to Fort Wayne to spend the day. Ted Sowers returned to his home at Winona Lake this afternoon. Mrs. Ross Mallonee went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to spend the day. Elijah Nidlinger has assumed possession of his new store and is greeting his many friends. Joe Volmer left this morning on a business trip to Marion. He will remain there for several days. Adam Westrick, of New Bavaria, Ohio, returned to his home byway of Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. Amanda Sc.hirmeyer and Mrs. Young of Belt, Montana, arrived last evening and are guests at the home of J. M. Rice. There will be a big barn dance tonight at the home of Mr. Heckman north of the city. A great time 's anticipated by those who attend. The weather was very warm today, and there were not many coats visible. From appearances we are sure going to have real summer weather. G. W. Lechner, commissioner of Wells county, returned to his home at Bluffton byway of Fort Wayne today. He transacted business while in the city. . Ed Coffee and Curley Ellis are certainly making good in the Northern League. The boys have proven that they have the goods in every particular and they have secured berths. The Marion club on which they play won a pretty game yesterday. The funeral of the late Clayton E. Dailey will be held from the Christian church tomorrow morning at tenthirty o'clock, where a large following of sorrowing friends will pay their last respects to his memory. Interment will be made at Decatur cemetery, Leslie Andrews, a icrmer printer on this paper, now operating a linotype machine at he office of the News-Tri-bune, Marion, Indiana, has sent word to his relatives here that he is the daddy of a bouncing boy baby w-ho was born yesterday morning. An unusual co-incident is the fact that yesterday was Leslie’s twenty-ninth birthday.

Will P. Schrock and H. L. Conter will leave tomorrow evening for Louisville, Ky., where they will attend the national meeting of the Mystic Shriners, which will hold a four days' session there. These are great events and wiil.be thoroughly and completely enjoyed and appreciated by the boys. They will go to Cincinnati andrflence to Louisville by boat.

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Big Silver Sale | All during the month of June. ♦ That is not a sale in name only | and includes everything in stock ♦ with a cut of from 30 to 50 per ♦ cent. Look at some of the prices. ♦ 12 pwt. Rogers knives and forks ♦ $3.40 and $3.50 : Tea Spoons, former price SL7S t and $2.25 from $| to $1.75 ♦ Dessert spoons, former price $3 ♦ and $4, from . . .s2to $3 * Gravy Ladles, former price $1.25 ♦ and $2.00, . -75 cto $1.25 t Everything else in proportion $ which includes Orange spoons, | Berry spoons, Meat forks. Salad J forks, Pie forks, and lots of other ♦ odd pieces. This is a chance of ♦ a lifetime, so take advantage of | the same and lay in a supply of J silverware, that will wear. | Cut glass and Solid silver spoons J and Forks are included in this f sale. All Engraving free. | « ♦ LEHNE, The Jeweler, i

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