Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1909 — Page 3

: :WEATHER forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; coler tonight. Our Business Is Bankings We have no other business. This is the reason why we serve our customers so w’ell. You get real Bank service here—a service that is adapted to your needs. The officers of this bank with the ample facilities for banking which are at their command, can serve your individual business interests better than you think and in more ways than you may imagine. We shall be glad to have you call for a personal talk with us. FIRST National Bank DECATUR, INDIANA Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to sr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth’e Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. Office hours: B—l 28 —12 a. m., I—s p. m Willi Paying All Expenses With Cash ? consider these few facts about a checking system: A receipted legal voucher always—for every cent expended. Absolute freedom from ail disputed payments. Absolute safety in all respects. An absolutely correct record of every cost Think them over and investigate. OLD Adams Co. Bank

Ann OH Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 0I 10 U SEATTLE, June 1 -October 16, 1909 ATOLEDO, ST. LOUIS & WESTERN RAILWAY If you are going to visit the Seattle- Exposition and the Great Northwest during the coming season, prepare your trip now. Special personally conducted parties are being organized for the trip. Fare $67.80 from Decatur with diverse route returning if desired. Going or returning through caiifornia»B2.Bo. Important Conventions Held in the West this Year Natl Fd Essn Denver.... July 5-9 G. A. Republic, Salt Lake.... Aug. 5-8 Natl Ed. Es , ?12 Spanißh Wa r Vet., Tacoma.. Aug. 5-8 ?RO. Elks Angeles. July 11-17 I. O. Odd Fellows, Seatie. .Sept. 20-25 For rates, diversity of routes and all information as to cost of trip, see Clover Leaf agents or write _ T . « E. L. BROWNE, Dist Paas. Agent. Clover Leaf Bunding, Toledo, QWa Krausi and Erie Street

»I Miss Frances Butler is visiting 4 relatives at Buffalo. Miss Bertha Beiberich went to Fort \\ ayne this morning. ► C. O. France went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. ’ A. Kattenheinrick made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Chalmer Shaefer made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. H. P. Beiberich and son Ernian went to Fort Wayne this morning. W. P. Schrock went to Fort Wayne this morning, where he will transact business. Miss Vernia Smith has returned from a visit with friends and relatives at Wren. Albert Sellemeyer went to Fort M ayne to attend the wedding of Miss Selig and Mr. Otto Kirsch. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer were among those who attended the wedding today at Fort Wajne. Rev. L. C. Hessert went to Fort M ayne to attend the wedding of Miss Elma Selig and Mr. Otto Kirsch. Miss Frances Waggoner, of Rochester, has returned to her home after a visit with her cousin, Miss Vernia Smith. Mr. Will Schell and daughter Mary of Springfield, Ohio, are in the city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Weldy. Crist Kattenhenrich, of New Knoxville, Ohio, was in tne city today visiting with friends and attending to business, and returned to his home. A number of Decatur people went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the wedding of Otto Kirsch and Miss Selig. The event was a happy one. Clarence Morris, of Huntington, was sentenced to from two to fourteen years in the state reformatory at Jeffersonville for the burglary of a grocery in Huntington a few weeks ago. Rev. D. 0. Wise is at Mapleville, 111., attending the commencement. Rev. Wise is a graduate of the school and many other of the alumni are attending the commencement and other exercises. Mrs. W. J. Meyers returned from a short visit with her son, Rev. G. H. Meyers, of Montpelier. She attended the convention at Bluffton Tuesday and Wednesday, and from there went to her son’s home at that city. A picture of the Decatur Shamrock base ball club appeared this morning in the Muncie Star, and it is a good one. The Shamrocks have quite a record this year, and are ready to meet all comers in the defense of their record. While cautiously chopping down fence posts which hallucination led him to believe were inhabited by little boys, a stranger giving his name as Walter Temple, Rochester, N. Y., was taken into custody near Osceola. Elkhart county. He is demented. Owing to the strong protest made by citizens, the Ligonier city council has rescinded its order to give a portion of Cavin park for a high school site, and the school board is now lookrhg for a new site. More than 300 voters and taxpayers signed the protest which was sent to the council. Frank Brown has just been released from the Bluffton jail after a sojourn of fifty-eight weeks behind the bars. Brown was arrested with Orville Clum on a charge of having killed Peter (Poffenberger on May 6, 1908. The charge against Brown was later changed to assault and battery and he has just completed serving his sentence for this offense. Horace William Crane, 52, was married in South Bend to Alma Lillian Patterson, 55. They were engaged 35 years ago, but .the girl’s parents object. Then Crane ran away to sea. Later he'married. His first wife died. He divorced his second in March. The original bride to be also married. The union was unhappy and she divorced her husbands at Battle Creek, Mich., a week ago. Then she mar- > ried Crane.

; Charley Patton went to Bluffton today on business. : Mrs. Guy Johnson returned from Fort Wayne today. > Thomas Gallogly went to Fort Wayne to attend to business today. i Rev. Charles W. Marr, of Detroit, Mich., is the guest of Father George i of this city. Conductor Matthison and daughter, . of Fort Wayne, went to Pleasant Mills to visit his parents today. Agent McCullough of the Clover , Leaf and his wife left this morning • for a three weeks- trip to Chicago and other cities. i Miss Bertha Knapp and Mr. Fred Ashbaucher went to Fort Wayne this morning, where they will attend the Selig-Kirsch wedding. . Jerry Torrance, of Marion, came Monday evening to join his family, who are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Bryson, north Pleasant street. —Portland Sun. Mrs. John Heller and children, Fanny and Dick, left at noon for a two weeks’ visit with Mrs. E. B. Cotton, at Shelbyville, Indiana. On their way home they will visit friends at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Ed C. Lyons, of Fort Recovery, Ohio, were in the city Tuesday, leaving on the afternoon train for Decatur, for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Midge Lamborn.— Portland Sun. Judge Kirkpatrick, of Kokomo, has ruled that the saloons in that city can operate until November, where the licenses do not expire until that time. ■ His decision was practically the same as Judge Sturgis’ in the Tonnellier case here. Mrs. Charles Throp 1 and little son, Robert, who visited with Ridgeville relatives and in this city with her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tunis W. Throp, east Walnut stret, returned Wednesday to their home in 1 Decatur. —Portland Sun. Walter B. Johnson went to Tocsin this morning to deliver a check for $52.79 to D. Bowman of that place, he being entitled to this amount ia accordance with the terms of an insurance policy carried in the company represented by Mr. Johnson. Mary V. Dailey today received a check for S9OO from the supreme tribe of Ben Hur for payment in full of certificate held by Mr. Dailey in the i order. This was a very quick settleIment of this claim, as the proofs of Mr. Dailey’s death were only forwarded on last Saturday, the 12th. An interesting meeting was held last night at the Woodmen hall and several candidates were adopted as members of the order. Members of all committees on the log rolling event are requested to meet at ths office of C. Walters Friday night at which time important business will be transacted. Mrs. Jeff Bryson, north Pleasant street, went to Decatur Wednesday morning, called there to attend the funeral services of Mrs. Charles Schirmeyer, held at three o’clock. Mrs. Schirmeyer resided in Belt, Montana, and came to Decatur one week ago for a visit with her son, F. M. Schirmeyer and while there took sick, death resulting—Portland Sun. A. M. York and family will leave tomorrow for Paoli, Indiana, where they will make their future home. Mr. York has shipped his machinery to ttiat place and will install a whip stock factory. During their several years' residence in this city the York family have made many friends, and they leave here with the best wishes of all their acquaintances for their future. Father Wilkens returned from Renssalaer, Ind., where he was in attendance at he graduation exercises held at that place of which Joseph Farought of this city completed his college course with high honors. This is Mr. Farought’s last year in college, and next year Tie will enter upon his seminary course, where he will prepare himself for the priesthood. Tomorrow morning at St. Marys cathedral Fort Wayne, eight o’clock a. m.. Right Rev. Bishop Alerding will ordain three deacons to the high office 'of priesthood! Thesq fpung priests will labor in the Fort Wayne diocese and their stations will be made later. The ceremony of ordination is something that is not seen every day, and those having an opportunity to witness it should do so. A fraud order has been issued by the postoffice department against the Guss Sales Co., B. Guss Sates Co, and B. Guss, of Syracuse, Kosciusko county. Tho department alleges that under these three names William E. Guss and wife have been using the ■ mails for fraudulent purposes. They i were promising to employ agents to 1 distribute “pain ease.’’ Every person who accepted the offer was required to remit sl. In the federal court at Indianapolis W. E. Guss was fined $lO and given six months in jail for improper use of the mails.

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Frank Arndt transacted business in Bluffton today. Al Steele was a business caller at Fort Wayne today. F. F. Smith returned to his home at Mendon, Ohio, today. Jesse Sellemeyer went to Fort Wayne to attend the wedding of his cousin, Otto Kirsch. David Gerber and Ed Ahr are now enagaged in shipping stock to the east, and they will from now on ship a car load of mixed stock each Saturday, consisting of sheep, hogs and cattle. The firm wishes to announce to those who have stock to sell that they will pay market prices for it if brought to the city. A week from next Sunday the Methodists of the northeast conference will devote to the cause of the old folks 'home. In every church of the conference the sermon and songs will be a special plea in regard to it. It is expected that the main building can soon be erected and the other necessary buildings will soon follow'. Our Methodist church, as well as the others will observe this day. This is a worthy cause and should be supported. It is announced in financial circles that James J. Hill has found away to merge his railway lines in one corporation within the requirements of the federal laws. The western financier has been at work upon a scheme ever since the dissolution of the Northern Securities company. Since his purchase of the Colorado and Southern railway, w'hich has a very broad and liberal charter, it is said that he has determined to turn all his properties over to that road as a holding company. This would compromise the greatest railroad consolidation in the country’s history. Northern Pacific has a capital stock of $342,000,000 and a bonded debt of $97,000,000. Burlington has a capital of $100,000,000 and a bonded debt of $187,000,000. Colorado and Southern has outstanding $8,500, 000 first preferred, the same amount of second preferred and $31,000,000 of common stock. It has a bonded debt and has guarantees of $56,000,000. This would give the merger a I capital and bonded debt approximately of $1,300,000,000. o ■■■■-- FOUND —A piece of money; was lost in the Nachtrieb drug store yesl terday by a customer and the loser i may have same by paying for this i ad and calling at the drug store. 144 2t

AN ECLIPSE TODAY A Partial Eclipse Will Occur Late this Afternoon —Partial Here TOTAL SOME PLACES The Sun Will Be Nearly Obscure as It Sinks from View in the West As the sun sinks into the west this evening, the people of Decatur and vicinity will notice that it will grow dark earlier than usual. There will be nothing for you to become frightened about, for it is only a case ot the moon performing her periodical stunt of getting between the sun and the earth. It is said that this is the

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only eclipse of the kind which has occurred within the past four hundred years. Those who are unfortunate enough to live below a line drawn from San Francisco through Tucsou, Ariz., to Corpus Christi, Texas, won’t have a chance to witness the event, but every person northward will get a good view, if the weather is clear. Robert E. Peary, who is somewhere up in Greenland, will be able to see the eclipse as a total one. So also, will the natives of certain portions of; Siberia, Alaska and tne northernmost points of British America. In the] northern and eastern portions of the United States it will be a partial eclipse. The line of totality will begin in Siberia, move in a northeasterly direction, then turn almost due north, cross nearly the Pole, proceed down west of Greenland, and terminate in the north Atlantic ocean somewhere about Cape Farewell. The eclipse begins in Washington at 6:5C: 12 p. m., and when the sun sets it will l be partially obscured. At New York, Boston, Charleston, S. C., Cincinnati! and Chicago the sun will also set I while eclipsed. The time of the beginning of the obscuration at these

cities is 7:02:48 for New York; 7:09: 18 for Boston; 6:58:18 for Charleston; 6:30:42 for Cincinnati, and 6:14: 18 for Chicago. At Seattle, the eclipse will begin at 3:43:42 p. m. and last until 5:14:54 p. m.

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