Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 161, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1909 — Page 3

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Cjjy News Company BULLETIN JULY 8 'August Magazines Have arrived. Cosmopolitan Ei Smiths Motor Magazine July Magazines on hands Argosy Scrap Book Munseys Everybodys Railroad Mans Watch this space and call at Newstand WILL HAMMEL, MGR. •♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦J : WEATHER FORECAST i s♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, with probably showers. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Potts, of Indianapolis, are in the city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George Krick. Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Saccessor to Dr. C. E. Neptune : Office above Auth’s Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. | Office hours: B—l 2 a. m„ I—s p. m. ; And most of all, Don't procrastinate, ' but open that bank account now. | We pay 3 per cent. Interest, which means that your deposit will increase |at that rate without a single effort lon your part Start today preparing for that 0;d i age by opening an account here. OLD Adams Co. Bank

OC7 fl A Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition QVI IU U SEATTLE, June 1- October 16, 1909 TOLEDO, ST. LOUIS & WESTERN RAILWAY If you are going to visit the Seattle Exposition and the Great Northwest faring 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 it desired. Going or returning through Californlasß2.Bo. Important Conventions Held in the West this Year ~ . Tnlv 5-9 GA. Republic, Salt Lake.... Aug. 5-8 Nat’l Ed. Ess n, Denver... .July 59G . Tacoma Aug 5 . 8 Epworth League, S ® attl ® O Odd Fellows, Seatie.. Sept. 20-25 B. P. O. Elks, Los Angeles. July 11 I<l- v For rates, diversity of routes and all information as to cost of trip, see Clover Leaf agents or write BROWNE, Diet. Pass. Agent. Clover Leaf Building, ' Toledo, Ohio. Krauss and Erie Street

Mr. Schmuck left this morning for Huntington on business. Albert Butler returned from Fort ■Wayne this morning, where he was looking after business. Ruth Miylott returned from Fort Wayne this morning after a short visit there with friends. Florence Sprunger returned from Oberlin, Ohio, where she has been attending school for the past year. Mrs. Newton Anderson left this morning for a week's visit with friends and relatives at Fort Wayne, Ind., and Lima and Leipsic, Ohio. You can find the Argosy, Scrap Book, Railroad Man's magazines, Munsey, and other periodicals at the newsstand now. Call there for reading. Robert Carlisle and wife of New York City will arrive here Saturday for a several days' visit with his sister, Mrs. George Flanders and family. Time is short —only a few weeks before Parlor Suit is given away. Tickets with every SI.OO purchase until July 31st. Yager Bros. & Reinking. Time is short—only a few weeks before Parlor Suit is given away. Tickets with every SI.OO purchase until July 31st. Yager Bros. & Reinking. Time is short—only a few weeks before Parlor Suit is given away. Tickets with every SI.OO purchase until July 31st. Yager Bros. & Reinking. The Woodmen boys are busy advertising for the big log rolling event to be held here Saturday of next weeK. It will be a great big day in Decatur, and several thousand people will be here if the weather is at all favorable. While visiting his brother at Columbus the first of the week. County Clerk Haefling had the pleasure of meeting Governor Harmon, whom he says he found a courteous and pleasant gentleman. The governor is giving splendid satisfaction as an executive officer. Chil Omlor, who recently went out of the saloon business, is busy disposing of his furniture and fixtures and will leave in a few days on a prospecting trip through the west, where he may locate if he finds anything good In the way of a business opportunity. Faint heart lost Clyde Shipley, clerk at the Murdock hotel in Logansport, a bride and a $650 lot because he was too bashful to wed Miss Mabel Keith, former Huntington girl, now clerk at I the hotel cigar stand, before 8 o'clock Saturday evening. The marriage was proposed by mutual friends as a ‘ dare,” and the girl said she “was game,’’ but Shipley's nerve failed him I after he had once declared his intention of winning the double prize.

Bryce True is visiting with friends at Portland today. Miss Winnifred Burke is visiting friends at Casey, 111. Waldo Brushwiller is looking after business at Portland today. L. 1 A. Graham is transacting important business at Portland today. Mr. and Mrs. Barker, of Marion, are visiting their daughter, Mrs. L. E. Steele. William Arnold returned to Auburn after a visit with friends and relatives. Miss Carrie Miller of Root township spent yesterday afternoon with friends in the city. Orvai Harruff went to Berne this morning where business of importance called him. Charles True went to Portland this morning and is looking after business during the day. L. L. Baumgartner went to Berne this morning where he is looking after business interests. Dr. and Mrs. J. Q. Neptune spent last evening attending the Buffalo Bill circus at Fort Wayne. Carlisle Tucker returned to his home at Marion last night after looking after business matters in the city. All members of the M. E. choir are requested to meet tomorrow night for practice. Special music will be practiced. Miss Hite, who is visiting at Berne, will visit Miss Ethel Barkley at Rome City before returning to Decatur. Misses Elsa Haggard and Amey Andrews, of Monroe, were Decatur shoppers today and returned to their home on the afternoon train. Miss Vida Synder, of Fort Wayne, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Purdy of the west part of the city, returned home today. W. H. Fledderjohann planned today to take a number of Woodmen members to the south part of the county to advertise the big log rolling to be held here July seventeenth. Dr. Frank Clark, son of John O. Clark, of Laud, Whitley county, has been appointed assistant health officer of the port of New York and superintendent of the detention hospital on Swineburne island. William Bradburn, a farmer west of Bluffton, has received a “Black Hand’’ letter warning him to remove his family from the farm under penalty of death. Bradburn has consulted officers regarding the matter. M ,S. Smitn, who resigned as manager of the Decatur Furnace company recently, has accepted a lucrative position at the head of a large foundry in New York and will leave for there the latter part of the month. A. W. Hardman, a Mishawaka blacksmith, picked up a live wire after an electrical storm. He barely escaped electrocution and bis left hand is so badly burned that he may lose the use of it. His left leg is also affected. Lester Bing, of Anderson, took a candle and attempted to search for a moth in a clothes closet Tuesday, with the result that almost the entire wardrobe of Bing and his wife, valued at S3OO was destroyed by fire. A 250-pound hog owned by James Waugh, in Thorncreek township, Whitley county, was shot Saturady evening after it had shown unmistakable signs of hydrophobia. The hog was bitten three weeks ago by a strange dog. The gates to the old mill dam east of Hamilton, DeKalb county, have been raised, draining the historic old pool of twenty acres which has existed for many years. It puts out ot business the old mill where farmers have had feed-grinding done for fifty years. Farmers in Elkhart county are elated over the discovery of what they believe to be the certain destroyer of the potato bug. A bug with variegated rings in size slightly smaller thanthe potato bug has made its appearance in the potato patches west ot Goshen, and the new arrivals are waging war on the potato bug. Moving from one plant to another the new arrivals make short work of the potato bug, eating them quickly and not leaving a single one on the plant. Fire in the pumping station of the oil lease on the Bonifield place south of Warren at 9:30 Monday night caused much excitement. Mr. Houser, the pumper, had left the place for the night and gone part way home,when he chanced to notice the fire. He turned about and went back. Meantime people in the neighborhood had discovered the fire and failing to arouse Houser at the plant or to reach him at his home by telephone they were much worried until he came driving up to the fire. As he had not reached home before turning about, his family knew nothing of his w hereabouts. The engine in the plant was valued at SI,OOO and the building probably SSOO. All is a loss.

Avon Burk made his regular trip to Monroe this morning. Oscar Hoffman made a business trip co Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Louis Kline of Root township, was in the city shopping today. R. E. Peters went to Monroe this afternoon in the interest of the Daily Democrat. S. L. Tyndal of Pleasant Mills, stopped off in the city today on his way to Fort Wayne. John Holthouse went to Bluffton this morning, where he is looking after the cement business. Mrs. John Lachot and sen Noble i are visiting with W. S. Hughes and family at Fort Wayne today. Miss Lilah Lachot is the day with friends at Fort Wayne and will return this evening. The Misses Anna and Tena Radamacher are spending the day with friends at Fort Wayne today * Miss Lucy Hodges passed through the city this morning enroute from Wren, Ohio, to Fort Wayne. Herman Johns went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the ball game to be played there this afternoon. R. F. Smith, of Van Wert, passed through the city enroute to Sturgis, Mich., where they will visit for some time. Fr. George, who has been sick for the past two weeks, is somewhat improved, but unable to perform his regular duties. Mrs. Isaac Peters, of Bluffton, will arrive in the city for a visit with friends and relatives. She will remain several days. Mrs. A. C. Gregory went to Fort Wayne this morning with her daughter, Mrs. Dick Townsend, on her way back to Peoria, 111. Mrs. J. L. Spence, of Willshire. 0., passed through the city today on her way to Fort Wayne where she wil' visit for a few days. Mrs. Dick Townsend, who has been visiting with her mother, Mrs. A. C. Gregory for the past few days, has returned to her home at Peoria, 111. Miss Ella Eddington went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Lichtenwal ter, which will be held at that place tomorrow afternoon. The automobile party which left the city for Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon returned last night. The gentlemen witnessed the hall game and the big circus. Mrs. P. A. Macklin, of Geneva, went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with her daughter, Hazel who was operated on a few days ago for appendicitis at that place. The Catholic property in the Fort Wayne diocese carries $2,306,000 insurance. The priests of the diocese are arranging to form an assessment company, pay the premiums into a fund and carry the insurance under church auspices. Dogs played havoc with the sheep of Rockcreek township Tuesday morning, resulting in the death of one and the crippling of thirty others. The dogs were finally gotten, however,and killed. The loss to the township is s73.—Bluffton Banner. A. M. Fisher of this city left Monday night for Chicago, from where he went to Oklahoma and the southwest, where he may decide to invest in some of the property down there which looks like it would grow in value with the passing years. W. W. Mcßride, whose death occurred last week, carried a policy in the National Union, in which there are a number of local policy holders. The policy of Mr. Mcßride was for $3,000 and he had carried it for many years before his death. —Bluffton News. The local camp Modern Woodmen lodge held a very Interesting meeting at their hall last night at which time a number of the committees made reports. The committee on program completed its work for the big log rolling which promises to be a g'orious event. Allen Clark, tinner for Amos Cole & company, hardware dealers, has mysteriously disappeared and neither his wife nor friends have any idea where he has gone to. He has been missing since Saturday night,.but the first that was known of his absence was today, w’hen Mrs. Clark returned from the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Breninger, near Vera Cruz. —Bluffton Banner. The street fair committee had a short meeting last night, but did not take any especially new steps, since J. R. Spivey, one of the members of the executive committee and with a broad experience because of his connection with the fair last year, w r as out of the city. Chairman John Morris, of the finance committee, reported that the outlook for the financial end of the fair was good, but that there were a few yet for his committee to solicit before closing their work. He says that the committee still wants S3OO to S4OO before their work is completed.—Bluffton News.

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Dr. Sowers made a professional trip to Portland this afternoon. Joseph L. Smith went to Pleasant Mills, where he has secured w y ork for a few days. Miss Dorothy Ervin went to Marion this noon to visit with friends for a .week or so. Mrs. W. C. Graham went to Monroe this afternoon for a short visit with friends. Joe Dewold, of Fort Wayne, is in the city visiting with Leo Weber for a week or so. Miss Dora Gast returned to her home at Lima after a few days’ visit in the city with friends. The Misses Madge and Vida Ward have gone to Bluffton and Montpelier where they will visit for a week or so. A. B. Bailey, of Monroe, came to the city this morning to look after business interests and has returned to his home. B. S. Brown, the Monroe real estate man, after transacting business in the city this morning, has returned to his home. Miss Clara Schultz, of Fort "Wayne, is in the city for a week’s vacation with her-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schultz. Mary Baker, of Marion, Ind., returned to her home after a few days’ visit in the city with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Coffee. Miss Tillie Gast, who has been visiting with Miss Nona Harting for the past few days, returned to her home at Celina today. The Juvenile band will give another of their free concerts on the court house square and the boys promise to render some good music. Tony Harmon, of Cincinnati, is in the city visiting with Mr. John Joseph. Tony is the son of Frank Harmon and formerly lived In this city. Peter Zeaser went to Kokomo this noon to attend the funeral of Mrs. Stahl at that place. Miss Clara Zeaser has been working at that place for the past two years.

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Harvest Time is Here Again! Soon you will be ready to buy that farm or city property. Carefully read this list, which gives some of the best locations on the market. Small or large tracts, medium and modern city properties are now offered for sale by the THE SNOW AGENCY- Decatur, Ind. ’Phone 230.

777 —Is a comfortable four-room cotage and good cellar, located on the public road near Decatur... .$850.00 787 —Is a five acre tract, with fruit trees, greenhouse, drove well and good five-room residence, recently remodeled $1,250.00 743 —Is a desirable fifteen acre tract on the traction line near Decatur. Has good buildings, house is on a nice elevation $2,500.00 771 —Ib a good thirty acre tract on the stoned road near market and school. Is largely black land, small biuldings $2,350.00 753 —Is a well Improved forty acre tract on a good pike road near Decatur. Is well fenced and near school, and market $3,300.00 OTHER TRACTS. We have a number of good eighty acre tracts well located at SIOO.OO an acre. Also, An 80 acres, no buildings, at $4,000.00 An 80 acres with fair buildings, at An 80 acres near Decatur, no buildings, at $6,400.00 An 80 acres near Decatur, good buildings, at $6,800.00 And several larger tracts at bargain prices. We can offer you a large list of city property. Most of the following list has, but recently, been put upon the market. 783 —A four-room cottage on north Third street, long lot, good sewerage, brick walks, cistern, etc., 775—A comfortable cottage on South

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Ninth street. Good location, near Adams street Chicken park, cistern, etcsßso.o6 745 —A nearly new five-room cottage on South Front street. Cement walks, city and cistern water, good sewerage 11,150.00 721 —A comfortable story and a half residence, on Eleventh street. Stable, drove well, plenty of fruit, corner lot $1,300.03 780 — A roomy seven-room residence property, with cellar, stable, etc, on north Third street. Good sewerage $1,700.06 782 —A good, and well located cottage on Mercer avenue. Electric lights, cistern and city water, stable sewerage, etcsl,7oo.oo 778 —A well located and convenient cottage on South Tenth street Nice porch, drove well, maple shade, fruit trees, stable, etc 51,750.09 785 — A well located story and a half residence on the traction line m south Decatur. (Stable, city and cistern water, bath, electric lights, etc 52,200.00 786 — Is a new seven-room story and a half residence on North Second street, cement walks, cistern, cellar, stable, etc. Sidewalks and ail street improvements made $2,750.00 781 — Is a comfortable two-story residence on stone foundation, on Front stret, city and cistern water, furnished bath. Electric lights, fruit, and shade trees, stable, etc. Is on a brick street, cement sidewalks, all improvements made $3,800.00 See larger lists for other properties.