Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1909 — Page 3

AUGUST MAGAZINES at the CITY NEWS STAND Phone 39 Smart Set Ainslee’s Dogdom Young’s Green Book Popular Cosmopolitan Smiths Bill Board Order Today. WILL HAMMEL, MGR. •*♦*♦♦♦*****«**+ :WEATHER forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Charley Heckman went to Bedford today on business. Old papers for sale at the news stand at five cents a bunch. Thomas Gallogy returned last evening from a business trip to Geneva. Miss Bessie Congleton was at Geneva yesterday making a visit with friends. Albert Butler was a business caller at Bryant yesterday and has returned to the city. I Mrs. Mel Butler and daughter Lucile went to Bluffton to visit Mrs. W. A. Markley and family. I Mrs. George Flanders and daughter and Mrs. Robert Carlisle are spending the day at Fort Wayne and will return this evening. White, Red and Green are the colors to be used to decorate for log rolling day. These colors can be had at Fullenkamps. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vaughn and the latter’s mother, Mrs. Christen, will leave for the lakes in the northern part of the state tomorrow. They will remain for several weeks. 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 I—s1 —5 p. m ; And most of all. Don't procrastinate, but open that bank account now. I We pay 3 per cent, interest, which means that your deposit will increase at that rate without a single effort on your part j Start today preparing for that oid age by opening an account here. OLD y Adams Co. Bank

I WANTED I ■ Ai* active energetic agent who is established in business in this city I who can devote part of his time in representing The American Cash I Register Co. Must be responsible, willing to give bond and satisfac- > tory reference. Will give a good commission, furnish samples, price I list and personally instruct the right party for the position. DrugI gist, Grocer or Hardware Merchant preferred. I HENRY F. JAMES I District Sales Manager, I g27-S-9 Chamber of Commerce Building, I Detroit, Michigan.

Miss Tena Schurger went to Fort Wayne today to spend the day. Godfrey Bell went to Craigville to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Bell. Ed Ahr and son Fred went to Fort Wayne this morning, where they will spend the day. Leo Weber returned from Fort . Wayne last evening after looking ■ after business during the day. Miss Etta Brandyberry is clerking ■ in the Everett & Hite bazaar during the absence of Miss Ina Everett j Mr. and Mrs. Dave Stoler left this . morning for Lagrange, where they | will visit relatives for aweek or so. Barney Kalver will leave tomorrow I morning for Chicago, where he will make a visit with his son, Jacob and family. Forest Helm is a new employee of the Parrish restaurant. He is doing well, and will learn the business thoroughly. The passenger going south on the G. R. & I. was nearly two hours late this afternoon, but the cause thereof was not ascertained. Mr .and Mrs. M. Brant, of Raidon, 111., passed through the city today on their way to Lima, Ohio, where they will visit for few days. Miss Vivian Dutcher arrived home last evening from Rome City where she spent several weeks visiting with Misses Veda and Leah Hensley.

The fair managers are busy preparing for their advertising campaign for this year’s event, which is to outshine all similar shows in this county. Mrs. L. L. Mattax, of Geneva, was in Portland Wednesday as a guest at the home of her mother, Mrs. Louisa Blocher, North Commerce St. —Portland Sun. Margaret Jane Hoffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hoffman, is recovering from here recent illness, and it is thought that she will be all right in a few days. Get yourself ready for the big day tomorrow. You can have a lot of fun if you join the crowd and go to Steele's park. The program will be carried out as advertised. All the five and ten cent weeklies, family magazines and others of the interesting kind arrived at Will Hammell’s news stand today. Better get a bunch to read over Sunday„ Elgin King was at Maple Grove park this morning putting the dancing floor in shape for the hop to be pulled off there tonight. A large crowd will attend the first dance and excellent music is promised. A numebr of the clerks and bookkeepers of the business houses of the city are enjoying their vacations. Miss Ida Kohne is among the number and is enjoying her vacation. She will visit in Chicago before returning to her work. D. O. North, ex-county surveyor of Wells county, was appointed Tuesday night by the Kendallville city council, as assistant city engineer at that place, and he will have charge of street and sewer construction that is to be installed, at wages of $4 per day. —Bluffton News. The work on the construction of the grade for the new Bluffton, Geneva & Celina traction company will not be started for some time. The Wells Construction company, which was organized, will not do the construction work, but will merely have charge of the work. The contract will be let to another company, which makes a specialty of building grades. -Bluffton Banner. Ratch Blackburn writes his parents here of his experiences in Kansas and Oklahoma, his letter coming from Lawton. He has not been able to work a lick so far, because of the weather conditions and the floods. He has had all kinds of mixups as a result of the high waters and says the thermometer there registers 117 in the shade and there is danger of the crops burning up.

Miss Grace Bell returned to her home at Bluffton. W. P. Schrock is tending to business at Portland today. R. E. Peters returned last nigut from a business trip to Geneva. Chris Meyers made a business trip to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. J. E. Moser is looking after business of importance at Portland today. Chas. True [went to Berne this morning, where he will look after business during the day. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Talbot, of Fort Wayne, have arrived in the city for a visit with friends and relatives. Pat Kinney ise looking after business in his line at Berne today and will return on the evening train. Mrs. C. W. Johnson returned to her home east of Monmouth on the four o’clock car yesterday afternoon. Dan Beery returned this morning from several places south after looking up business. Ross Mills, Godfrey Bell and Fred Paterson were among those who attended the picnic supper at Robison park. Joe Helm returned home this mornfrom Richmond, where he has been visiting with his sister for the past few weeks. Paul Webster, a Peru boy of 13, is dead from lockjaw which followed an injury to his hand from the discharge of a toy pistol. Bill Steiner, of Bluffton, Ohio, who has been in the city for the past few days, went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. John Moran and Shafer Peterson went to Portland this morning, where they will bring the Holthouse and Poling case to an end today. Alfred Fulton, a Huntington young man, was crushed to death Wednesday afternoon while at work in a lime manufacturing plant at Portland. Otis Flowers, who escaped from the Lagrange jail where he was confined on a charge of horse-stealing, was captured Wednesday morning at his home south of Elkhart. Charles Gretzinger, near Albion, cut a frightful gash in his leg while trimming a hedge fence at his home. He was unconscious from loss of blood when he was found some time later. Mack Reed, an epileptic, fell from a ladder on which he was standing picking cherries at the home of Fremont Folk, in Scott township, Steuben countyj-Tuesday, and was instantly killed.

Kosciusko county banks object to their assessment on a basis of 85 per cent, of capital stock, surplus and undivided profits, and will apeal to the board of state tax commissioners for a Miss Alma Leckrone, of North Manchester ,has created a tremendous sensation by filing paternity charges against Clyde O. Bashore three days after he had wedded another. Bashore denies his guilt and will fight the case. Mrs. Daniel Brumbaugh was so badly injured in a fall from a cherry tree at BaKertown, Noble county, that her recovery is a matter of grave doubt. Mrs. Brumbaugh stepped upon a rotted limb of the tree which gave way with her. She is 60 years of age. Decorate your store tomorrow in red and white and green for the Modern Woodmen boys, who will be here for the big district log rolling. If you haven’t arranged to spend the day at Steele’s park, better do so at once, for you will have a good time. Attorney James H. State, in a speech before the Industrial Club, declared that Elkhart “is just about as sloven a city for its size as any I have ever seen.” He was assailing the prevalence of hitch racks and their accompanying unsanitary donditions. A gasoline stove In the house of Clayton Hinkley, at Lagrange, exploded setting the house on fire and doing $250 damagf before being extinguished by some men who were painting nearby. Mrs. Hinkley was at work in the house, but escaped injury. Wilbur Hall, an all around mechanic at Ligonier, who in the past has demonstrated his ability by constructing organs, pianos, lawn mowers, bicycles and even automobiles, now intends to try his luck at building an airship with which he hopes to outdol the famous Wright brothers. At a meeting of the local fire department Tuesday night the report of Secretary Robert Newbauer was read, showing the cost of the recent tournament of the Northeastern Indiana Firemens’ association, held here, to be ovei'“s6oo. A sum slightly in excess of this amount was raised for entertaining the visitors and the remainder will be used in defraying the expenses of the local department in making the trip to the convention at Fort Wayne next year. A vote of thanks was given the merchants and citizens for their assistance in making the meeting a success.—Hartford City News.

Charles Loch went to Fort Wayne this afternoon.

C. E. Hitesman went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Newton Anderson went to Fort Wayne on business today. Mrs. Springer, of Rockford, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Fred Tague. Miss Carrie Craig has as her guest her cousin, Miss Martha Miller, of Mansfield. L. L. Baumgartner came home from Garret, where he has been doing some surveying. Clem Voglewede returned last evening from Chicago, where he transacted business. Chester Imler is visiting for a few days with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. I. Imler during his vacation. Mrs. Richard Spetnagle and son have gone to lowa for an extended visit with relatives and will be joined later by the Rev. Spetnagle. Miss Fannie Hammell, who is ill with typhoid fever is reported not so well today. Her sister Ruth, who also has the ailment, is some better. The Royal Neighbors were today busy making all arrangements for the log rolling to be held tomorrow. The visitors will be well taken care of. Miss Dorothy Dugan has returned from a pleasant visit at the Hensley cottage at Rome City, where she was the guest of Misses Veda and Leah Hensley. The new airdome being erected by W. P. Biggs on the Niblick lot, will be ready for opening tomorrow night. Mr. Biggs expects to have a good performance. Mrs. Frank Gast and children, Carl and Helen, arrived home from Rome City this afternoon, where they have been enjoying themselves for the past two weeks. Mr and Mrs. Charles Simcoke arrived home this afternoon from St. Louis, and will visit for a few weeks with his sister, Mrs. Walter Kauffman on north Fifth street. Mr. Rurode, proprietor of the Rurode dry goods store at Fort Wayne, was in Decatur this morning in an automobile. He was accompanied by a number of Fort Wayne men. Dan M. Niblick and wife are expected home tomorrow from West Baden, where they have been for ten days drinking the water and enjoying themselves at this famous resort. The annual After-Harvest sale will begin at the Runyon store next Monday and continue for twelve days. Read the half page announcement in this issue. You will find some real bargains. Mrs. R. B. Allison will leave for Qhicago tomorrow, where she will visit for several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Deam, after which she will likely go to Oden for the rest of the summer. The storm of last evening cooled the atmosphere off in a most acceptable manner, made it a great night to sleep, and made today a perfect summer day, just right for nearly every one we met, not too hot, not too cool. July 31 —Last day for tickets. Yager Bros. & Reinking.

DIVIDENDS OF SATISFACTION To be a bank customtomer means that you receive the benefit of the bank’s experience and To be a customer of The First National Bank means to you that you have at your command the experience and judgment of our officers, the careful personal attention of our officers to your bustness needs and every advantage that a bank can give you. To invest in our bank service, to become a customer, means that you get dividends of satisfaction at the very start and all the time. We want you to accept our service. 4 first National Bank DECATUR, INDIANA

We’ve Been Doing A little stock cleaning this week and find 50 Mens and Boys Suits in broken lots that we would like to dispose of at once and inorder to make them move rapidly we have divided them in three lots and put on driving prices that ought to interest you. Mens Suits that formerly retailed at SIO.OO $12.00 and $13.50 Now $7.50. Mens Suits that formerly retailed at $15.00 $16.00 and $lB. Now SIO.OO. Boys Suits that formerly retailed at $6.50 $7.50 and SIO.OO Now $5.00. Mens Sizes 35-36-37 38 Boys Sizes 15-16-18 T’will pay you to look these goods over, we’ll be glad to show you. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

Robert Allison has arrived in the city for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Allison. He will remain for several days. . Never before in the history of Adams county have the prospects been more encouraging for a bumper corn crop than at the present time. The farmers are expecting a great crop this season.

Crystal Theatre DECATUR’S POPULAR AMUSEMENT PLACE. The Newest Shows, The Best Films, Courteous Treatment. f TONIGHT Song—“ They will Be Sorry Someday.’’ First reel—“ The Honor of the Slums.” and “How the Kids Got Even.” Second reel “All’s Well that Ends Well,’’ and “Where Love Will.” Orchestra every Night IT'S 5 CENTS W. P. Biggs, Prop.

• z 1 ~ 1 s i TOASTED I X . WWwS I flak?* ?, F-fflP / Ij VOASITO CPfW "LAKE c<». Hiit I/ f I BATTLE CREEK. MICH. U | bV' # W • * . 111 'TJ™ kz /The Biggest Thing for Breakfast f Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes is the “Big Thing” in two-thirds of American Homes. We I will have the other third in a very short time. It only requires one taste to make permaI nent Corn, Flake eaters. Its delicious flavor can't be described. You must try the genuine J —Kellogg’s— to fully know its goodness. Ask your grocer. I SI,OOO Solid Gold and Silver Award for the Best Ear of Corn \ To be known as the W. K. Kellogg National Corn Trophy X To be Awarded at the V NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION, OMAHA, ITi&St J Watch this paper for further particulars. KELLOGG TOASTED COBN FLAKE CO.. Battle Creek. Mich.

July 31—Last day for tickets. Yager Bros. & Reinking.

ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL Lima, 0., June 22, 1909 Mr. Chris Meyers, Decatur, Ind. Dear sir:-The suit received 0. K. lam more than pleased with the fit and that you are up-to-date. I always had the best tailors in Lima to make my clothes and paid much more for them than you asked me. I paid you $42.00 for my suit but if I could not get another one that fits me as well as the one you make for me I positively would not take $50.00 for it. I am more than pleased. Yours Very Truly W. A. Stevenson 127 N. Jackson Street. Lima, Ohio. P. S. As soon as you receive your fall line I want a suit and overcoat.

I July 31 —Last day for tickets. Ya[ger Bros. & Reinkibg.