Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1909 — Page 3

Why Overheat Yourself? Much of your rammer plea*. [M * ¥ 4/ 'H nre depends upon having a cool i jq Ltj and comfortable kitchen. Why |K • . /I] not be prepared for hot days -4M. before they come. y" Ask your dealer to show the -H~ ~ New Perfection’ Wick Blue -Mr) / Flame Oil Cook-Stove. It’s a ' y-y wonder. [cjLfe==VT- Jp Does the work of your big range in every particular; but [ 11 V"j has this great advantage over it, JJ & I / w that it never heats the kitchen. ll’ The CABINET TOP is U another feature of the t) New Perfection Wick Blue Flame Oil Cook-Stove Has a spacious top shelf for holding dishes and for keeping food warm after it is cooked. Also has drop shelves for holding small utensils, and is fitted with racks for towels. No fll _ other stove approaches the New Perfection” in conventi- 4 ence, comfort and simplicity. Made in three sizes. Can be had with or without I \ Cabinet 7 op. At your dealer's, or write our nearest —-J agency. \ The ' T ftfnn ■ center draft lamp of great illuminating power. Suitable for living room, dining room or b-f parlor. Free from all objectionable features—a splendid family, y* i■> lamp. If not with your dealer, write our nearest agency. J STANDARD OIL COMPANY <!■—rparated)

Cjll News Company BULLETIN JULY 9 August Magazines Have arrived. Popular Standard Clipper Cosmopolitan Smiths Motor Magazine July Magazines on hands Argosy Scrap Book Munseys Everybodys Railroad Mans All the 5c Weeklies. WILL HAMMEL, MGR. • Miss Edna Hart of Avllia, returned to her home today. While in the city she visited friends. 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. in 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 on your part. Start today preparing for that old age by opening an account here. OLD Adams Co. Bank

d»(J7 QH Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 0I 10 U SEATTLE, June 1-October 16, 1909 VIA TOLEDO, ST. LOUIS & WESTERN RAILWAY If vou 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 Californiasß2.Bo. Important Conventions Held in the West this Year * iniv s-qg A Republic, Salt Lake... .Aug. 5-8 Nat-1 Ed. Essn, Denver... .Juty Vet Tacoma .. Au g. 5 . 8 Epworth League, * att, « ' ’ 0 Odd Fellows, Sfeatle.. Sept. 20-25 B. P. O. Elks, Los Angeles. July 11 m- v. uu For rates, diversity of routes and all information as to cost of trip, see Clover Leaf agents or write BROWNE, Dlst. Pass. Agent. Clover Leaf Building, Toledo, Ohio. Krauss and Erie Street

:WEATHER forecast: * ♦ Partly cloudy with possibly showers tonight or Saturday. I Bert Green went to Fort Wayne this I afternoon. Miss Ida Barnhart went to Rome I City today. Miss Anna Clark went to Fort Wayne today. Miss Cora Beaber went to Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Elizabeth Ross went to Williams today to visit friends. Miss Ruth Graber of west of the city went to Fort Wayne today. C. A. Dugan made an important business trip to Berne this afternoon. Lee Yager returned from his regular trip today and will spend Sunday with bis sister and brothers. Mr. David Heller of Berne, returned to his home after looking up business affairs in the city today. Mrs. Congleton, Miss Bessie Congleton and Winfield Maddy went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Miss Ruby Miller came home from Winona, where she has been attending school to spend Sunday with her parents. Mrs. G. W. Clemmer, of Franklin who has been visiting her sister at Hoagland, went to Bluffton today to visit her son on her way home. Lee Stults, who recently disposed of the newstand, has accep’ed a position as a fireman at the city water station, and began his duties there today. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hartrey, of Pittsburg, and Mrs. David Barker of Marion, went to Marion today. While in the city they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Steele. Judge Macy, of Winchester, sitting as special judge in the matter of the dredge, has appointed James M. Sutton, of Balbec, ag superintendent. His bond has been fixed at SIO,OOO. S. A. D. Whipple, attorney for the petitioners, has been paid $4,000 for his services. This allowance was made on the basis of five per cent, of the estimated cost of the construction, SBO,OOO. The fee is the largest ever approved in Jay county. Fred Schneider, of Blackford county, one of the viewers, secured $635 for ills services. —Bluffton Banner.

| Harry Moitz transacted business in . Toledo yesterday. Miss Dorothy Erwin is visiting friends at Marion. | Miss Pauline Schurger returned to , Fort Wayne this afternoon. Grandmother Moyer is quite poorly with a complication of ailments. Mrs. Shumacher is quite sick at her home in the south part of the city. Mrs. Martin Marhenke returned to I her home at Monmouth this morning. Miss Edna Crawford and Miss Marcella Kuebler went to Toledo yesterday morning. Ben Lang and John Joseph returned last evening from Toledo, where they spent the day. Miss Susie Mayer spent yesterday afternoon at Fort Wayne and returned last evening. Albert M. Hutchins who has been visiting relatives in the city, went to Fort Wayne today. A ten pound girl arrived at the home of Charles Nodle on south Fifth street Thursday evening. Mrs. Dan Erwin and Mrs. Dan Meyers went to Fort Wayne today to visit with Judge R. K. Erwin and family. Dave Smith and little daughter went to Fort Wayne this morning where the former will attend to business. Miss Fannie Rowan, of LaOtto.who has been visiting friends here for the past week, returned to her home today. Mrs. Chris Vogt and sister, Mrs. Schuster of Oklahoma City, Okla., went to New Bremen, Ohio, today to visit their mother. Dr. Grandstaff. of Preble, returned from a week’s fishing trip at Silver Lake. He reports a good time and plenty of fish to eat. Mrs. Libbie Basset went, to Fort Wayne today on her way to Washington, D. C„ after a pleasant visit in the city with Mrs. Emma Daniels. Mrs. S. B. Merriss, of Pleasant Mills, arrived in the city today, and will make an extended visit with Mrs. Maggie Reckard and other friends. Frank Caley is In jail at Huntington on a charge of entering a grocery there and smashing the cash register. He pleaded intoxication as an excuse, but officers who arrested him say he was sober at the time. Washington dispatches say that Sen ■ ator Shively’s health is improving. The senator has been ill most of the time since going to Washington and his sickness has materially interfered with his senatorial duties. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gay, and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Teeple came home last night from a pleasant fishing outing at Silver Lake, one of the numerous fishing grounds in Steuben county. They had good luck and a fine time. C. B. Smock; a former resident ot this city, but for the past year or more at Decatur, where he has owned and operated a moving picture show, has disposed of his business. He has not yet determined where he will locate. — Portland Sun. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chauncy Lautzenheiser, of Berne, filed before Noah A. Pusey, a justice of the peace in and for Hartford township, an affidavit in which Taiford Runyon charges Fred Miller with tres« pass on inclosed or uninclosed lands of Taiford Runyon. Geneva Herald. Len Bennett, a Spanish-American war veteran, who fought in Cuba with the 160th regiment, applied recently I for a pension because of sickness or disability resulting from the service and Congressman Adair was also askasked to give his assistance in the matter of trying to get the application allowed. —Bluffton News. Mrs. S. F. Stout and children, of four miles east of Geneva, .returned home Thursday after a ten days’ visit in this city with her mother, Mrs. S. W. Stephens, west Main street. Mrs. Stout had been here on account of the sickness of her mother, who ran a nail in her foot several days ago and is yet unable to walk. —Portland Sun. Judge E. C. Vaughn went to Portland today for the purpose of taking the deposition of Rev. McCarty, who recently brought suit for several thousand dollars against his divorced wife, an aunt of Mrs. Vaughn. The Rev. McCarty evidently did not care to be examined and although he had been reported about the city he kept out of sight and Judge Vaughn had to return without being able to hold the investigation. —Bluffton News. One of the reels at the Airdome last evening gave many interesting scenes of the Wright brothers of Dayton, 0., manipulating the famous aeroplnac. It was awonderful reel, perhaps the most interesting of any ever shown here. Many people do not realize what this invention means, and that it is the greatest since the days when the steam engine was produced. This is the first real progress along this line, and the Wright Brothers have written a name in history that will live forever.

Dr. Connell made a professional trip to Berne this morning. Miss Anna Yager spent yesterday with her brother at Toledo. R. E. Peters went to Hoagland this morning in the interest of the Democrat. Avon Burk made his regular trip to Monroe this morning and remaining during the day. Mrs. Martha Touhey, of Lima, Ohio, is in the city visiting with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Vogelwede. Mrs. G. W. Clemmer, of Franklin, passed through the city today to her j homo sftcr 2. ten days' visit with relatives at Portland. J. M. Jones, of Midland, Mich., passed through the city today on his way to Berne, where he will transact some real estate business. I have the agency for the best magazine that is selling today. If you have not as yet subscribed see Tony Conter, or leave your order at this office. Mrs. Margaret Glass, 82 years of age, was found dying in a corn crib at her home west of Bluffton, where she had been stricken by apoplexy. She expired a few moments later. Mrs. John Johns, who suffered a stroke of paralysis about a week ago, is able to be up at times, and unless something unforseen sets in will be able to be out again in a short time. Mrs. C. P. Roop and children of Bluffton, who have been making their home at that place for the last fewyears, went to Linn Grove this morning, where they will make their future home. Onion growers are elated over the prospect of the growing crop of onions. “They were never better,’- said a big grower, “and if nothing happens out of the ordinary we may be assured of a fine crop." Thursday, Aug. 26, is Onion day at Wolf Lake. Fifty-two residents of North Manchester have filed suits at Wabash against Carey Cowgill and Judge Shively, former stockholders of the failed North Manchester bank, demanding that these two men pay back thOr share of the money lost by depositors through the bank failure. Three boys—-Earl Isenberg, Paul Hadley and Chelsey Ramer —the elHest 10 years of age, were arrested at Huntington charged with having driven off a farmer’s horse and buggy. "Prisoners are sentenced to one hard spanking each, to be administered by their respective parents," said Mayor Anderson when the culprits were brought into court. Armed with a shotgun, Mrs. William Rathbun, of Hartford City, rescued her newly made son-in-law, Eric Jenner, from falling into the hands of revelers Tuesday night when they came to the house to capture him and take him out of the usual initiation, which in some places young married pepole are subjected to for deserting single blessedness. Neighbors of Thomas Hainbaugh west of Warsaw, chose a novel way of celebrating the Fourth. Three w-eeks ago while plowing corn, Mr. Hainbaugh was badly injured by a stroke of lightning which killed the horses with which he was at work. The man is not yet able to resume work, and neighbors gathered on Monday and p’owed his corn for him. Miss Mabel Ray Bundy, the great granddaughter of Frances Slocum, known in history as “The White Rose of the Miamis, ’’ was married Tuesday to Roy Sausaman, of Peru. The bride was recently graduated from college at Lawrence, Kansas. Frances Slocum was stolen by Indians when a little girl, and grew up with the Miamis, by whom she was beloved. She became a great power among them. A monument was recently erected to her memory. Ora Lenwell, much of whose life was a mystery, is dead at Larwill, Whitley county. Twenty-four years ago Lenwell disappeared from Kosciusko county, leaving a wife and children. Six weeks ago, purely by accident, he was located by a daughter in a hospiatl at Shreveport, La, where he was very ill,and was brought back to the old home by his daughter, Mrs. L. W. Tennant, of Larwill. After Lenwell's mysterious disappearance years ago, his wife secured a divorce, married again and now lives in North Dakota. Nephews, thinking to play a joke on their uncle, Michael Welch, who apparently was asleep on the veranda of the old Kyran Welch homestead in Grass Creek, north of Logansport, placed a big firecracker under his chair Monday afternoon. The firecracker exploded, but the old man did not move. Laughing in great glee they placed and lighted a larger cracker under the chair. It exploded with force that partly raised the chair from the floor. But the uncle slept on. Becoming frightened they summoned members of the family and an investigation revealed that, the old man was dead. Examination showed tha the had been dead for some time.

Quite a Number Os people took advantage of our $lB Coat and Pant offer of a week ago and they were mighty well pleased with the clothes. Now we are going to continue this offer a few days longer. The clothes are being shown in our North window. Good Patterns and Good Merchandise. We will make to your order a Coat and Pants for $lB. Get in early. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

A. A. Steele went to Bluffton today. J. A. Smith went to Monroeville on business today. Miss Erma Cook, of Kirkland township was in the city today. Mrs. James Zimmerman went to Berne today for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Yager, who has been sick. Miss Hazel France, the little daughter of Mayor France, is quite sick with a severe atack of stomach trouble and sympotms of peritonitis. This is the good old summer time with a vengeance, only the nights are nice and cool and every one gets a good rest, that is if they take it. The Stanislaus exhibition car will arrive Tuesday morning. You should see this wonderful display of California fruits and the museum also carried. It costs fifteen cents. When you are arranging for your summer vacation stop at Will Hammel’s newstand and get a supply of magazines to read while enjoying the lake breezes. W’ill has all the good ones and will appreciate your patronage.

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Seth Melchi went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Miss Dove Culley of Willshire went to Fort Wayne today. William Gross returned to Fort Wayne after a visit with his mother in the city. Mrs. Henry Barnett, of Pleasant Mills, who has been visiting her daughter at Lynn, returned home today. David Meyer returned home last evening from a trip of nearly four thousand miles witn me owners of the Auburn automobile factory. Twenty-one hundred miles was covered in the new 1910 model machine and the remainder on the boat from Duluth, Minn., to Detroit, Mich. Mr. Meyer stated this morning that everything went smoothly on the test trip and the car stood the run exceedingly well. The men spent part of the time fishing in the rivers and lakes in the northern states and Canada. The machine arrived back in Auburn late Tuesday night and Mr. Meyer attended the Buffalo Bill show in Fort Wayne yesterday.—Bluffton Banner.

Frank Reynolds went to Preble this morning, where he has secured work for a few days. Miss Anna Hardin returned to Greentown after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Augsburger of Berne.

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