Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1909 — Page 3

News Stand BULLETIN Madison Street AUGUST WOMAN'S HOME COMPANIONS’ Have Arrived—HUßßY ill! HAMMEL, MGR.

Jr. Fred Patterson ■ DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune ©ffice above Auth's Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. ' houra: B—l 2 a. m., I—s p. m :WEATHER forecast: MBenerally fair tonight and Wednesday; slowly rising temperature. jglfiss Eva Koos went to Van Wert today on business. jf-Ralph Martz went to Fort Wayne today on business. 7 Mrs J. W. Teeple went to Marion today and to Redkey on a visit. John Hollinger is looking after bustßto» at Berne this afternoon. / Pat Hyland and Lew Wagner went Berne this afternoon, where they will do some plumbing. ®yrank Gast and son returned from Hoagland, where Mr. Gast was looking after business matters. i'i A large crowd of people will attend the Evangelical picnic tomorrow at Maple Grove park. EtMiss Iva Harnett, of Fort Wayne, after being in the city on business and pleas ttie, returned home.

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ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL Te-LMoK EAN. ix/i.rp. Physician and Surgeon Mr. Chris Meyers, Decatur, Ind. Linn Grove, Ind., May 6, 1909 Dear sir:—l received my suit and am well pleased with it, thanking you for insisting on me buying a suit and the way you make up your goods. They surely are all 0. K. Enclosed find check for the balance due you. It is yours so I send it to you freely and gladly. Yours Respectfully T. J. McKean, M. D. Linn'Grove, Ind.

Ed Coffee returned to Fort Wayne today. Sam Acker, of Geneva, is in the city looking after business. Miss Mena Robison returned to her home north of the city today. Mrs. Henry Meyers, of Vera Cruz, w’as shopping in the city today. Miss Ruth Brown of west of the city is visiting relatives at Tocsin. Mrs. Robert Smith, of Monroeville, spent the day in the city shopping. Miss Frances Meyers, of west of the city, was shopping in town today. John T. Meyers returned from a busines strip to Richmond last evening. Frank R. Price returned to Bellefontaine after transacting business in the city. Miss Celia Tryol, of Hammond, returned today after being in the city on business. • A. R. Bell went to Eaton, Ohio, this morning, where he will look after the timber business. Rev. Gates, of Montpelier, returned to his home after a short visit wPh Rev. Vernor of this city. A large number of Decatur people will go to Winona next Fridav to spend a few days at the resort. Miss Lora Williams went to Bluffton last evening for a short visit after which she will visit at Indianapolis. Do you read the Daily Democrat? If not, why not? Get the habit at once. Join the big family of readers at once. The Misses Rose Sether and Jennie Woods left for Rome City this morning, where they will take a week’s vacation. J. O. Kantz, of Nappanee, is donating to the Elkhart County Historical ; society his valuable collection of Injdian relics. | The Woman's Home Companion has arrived at Will Hammels’ newstand. Call at once if you want one as they will go out quickly. Elder Frank Roster of the Christion church of Montpelier, returned to his home after a visit with Rev. F. H. Vernor of this city. Miss Fanchion Rice ha? returned from Winona Lake, where she took a six weeks 'course in the summer school located at that place. The carnival people are busy putting up their tents on ..Fourth street and will be ready to give their performance from this evening on. Miss Ruth Ernst, Mrs C M. Hower, C. E. Ernst, Mrs. Doehrman and child'cn spent the day at the home of James Ernst near Peters m yesterday. The members of the W. R. C. served ice cream and cake in front of the G. R. R. hall on Saturday evening, and succeeded in doing considerable business. The city put in several new alley and street crossings in the north part of the city last week, and which makes it much more comfortable for those who before had to walk through the mud. Miss Ruth Hammell, who has been ill with typhoid symtoms for some days, is greatly improved. Her sister, Miss Fannie, is, however, reported not so well, and it is feared she is in for a long seige of the ailment. This is certainly ideal weather for picnics and the people around here are making good use of it Three of the city churches are having their : picnics this week, besides the many small gatherings, which are taking place every day.

Miss Reba Quinn is visiting her cousin, Miss Margaret Todd, of Bluffton. Ted Snyder went to Bluffton today to visit his grandparents, who . live near that place. Miss Ruth Ernst is assisting in the duties at her brothers’, the county surveyor’s office. Aug Puls returned from Fort Wayne last evening, where he was looking after business during the day. A. R. Bell returned last evening from Oden, Mich., where he has been on a fishing trip for the past ten days. Misses Grave and Pearl Purdy will arrive home this evening from Rochester, where they have been visiting friends. Miss Rose Christen of The National Bank, is taking her vacation, and will ; visit with friends at Goshen for a few days. Miss Mae Frysinger, of Fort Wayne, has been spending a few days at the 1 home of her uncle, Mr. E. W. Jackson and family. i Marcella Kuebler is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Juel Speice, at Cleve- 1 land, Ohio. She will be gone for sev- 1 eral weeks. I Harry Grubb, who has been visit- 1 ing friends here for several days past, left last evening on his regular busi- 1 ness trip for his firm. 1 Mrs. William Breiner, living just ' east of the city, is showing no signs ' of improvement from the serious illness that seems to be staying right ’ with her. 1 The Presbyterian picnicers took their water with them today, the committee spending considerable time this morning filling the barrel and getting it ready to send down. Will Biggs, the new proprietor of the Crystal, went to Muncie this morning, where he will purchase a new lens for his moving picture show. Will is a hustler and will do anything to satisfy his patrons.' The picnic will be enlivened during the day by music furnished by the members of the Juvenile band. Besides the members of the Presbyterian congregation many others will attend, some going in the afternoon. Don’t fail to attend the Sunday schol picnic to be given by the Evangelical church tomorrow at Maple Grove park. A special car will be run i at nine o’clock from the interurban office and will no doubt convey a large i number to the grounds. W. A. Bowman, the well known farmer .started out this morning with his threshing outfit and it’s safe to say that he will do his share along this line before the snows fly in the autumn. Em is a hustler and every one about here knows It. A battalion of United States cavalry passed through DeKalb and Noble counties Saturday and Sunday, en- , route for Fort Sheridan after its participation in the military maneuvers at Toledo. The cavalrymen went into camp at Albion Sunday afternoon. Miss Gussie Johnson, widely known as the first lady station agent employed by an electric line in Indiana, has resigned her position as agent for the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company at Andrews. Her successor is Miss Dorothy Mills, of Bluffton. The Carnival city on Fourth and Monroe streets looks like a busy place and they say they will prove to the Decatur people that they are all right before the week is out. If they do the people will sure say so, and if they are not they are also very likely to express themselves in no uncertain terms. On the Milburn farm at Bristol it is estimated that at least 250 cases (4,000 quarts) of (Sherries remained unpicked because it was Impossible to get enough pickers to get them off the trees before they spoiled and it is declared that other fruit growers in that vicinity have suffered in relative proportion though not to the same aggregate. Mr. Laudy Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Jackson, of R. 9, has gone to Columbia City, to act as agent for the Watkins Remedy & Spice Co., of Winona. Michigan, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the United States. He has bought the individual right of Whitley’ county. His headquarters will be Columbia City, which is a beautiful, thriving city. Success to you, Laudy. Fortunatus Miller, of Elkhart, received new’s Saturday of the death of his aged mother at Three Rivers, Mich. He says he knew bad news was coming for the old clock which has been in the family 137 years stopped Thursday night, though just wound. He says it performed a similar trick before the death of his grandfather, his grandmother, his father, and each of the five brothers of his grandfather. The death of a cousin was presaged by the clock's striking three times at the exact time of tris death. Mr. Miller is the onlymember of the family who will keep the clock.

Frank Crawford was taken to East Haven asylum yesterday, where he will receive treatment. The special sale at the Runyon store is progressing, many taking advantage of the opportunity to buy at greatly reduced prices. The Woman’s Home Companion, one of the best magazines printed in this country, is now on sale at Will Hammell's newstand. Mrs. Judson Teeple and son Ray and Mrs. Rose Ruhl, left this morning for a few days’ visit with friends at Marion and Huntington. Mrs. Henry Heckman went to her home north of the city yesterday evening, after spending the afternoo shopping in the city. I have the agency for the best magazine that is selling today. Only one dollar a year. See Tony Center or leave your order at this office. The new gas tank in the west part of the city is nearly completed and within a short time Decatur will be ' supplied with a good flow of gas. I A. W. Butler, secretary of the state ’ board of charities, has advised Wells county to abandon its orphans’ home and secure places elsewhere for its charges. Sam Hite went to Rome City this morning, where he will spend a few days with his family who are spending the summer there. Mr. Hite will return home on Saturday again. Niblick & Company are busy with the third week of the big annual July clearance sale, and as always are doing a rushing business. If you haven’t taken advantage of the sale, better call soon. Seven Catholic nuns, sisters of the Muncie St. Lawrence Catholic church passed through Portland Mon/day morning enroute to Decatur, where they will engage in some special services.—Portland Comercial-Review. Peter and Jacob Meyer have returned from a two weeks’ trip to Martinsville, Indiana, where the former took treatment for rheumatism. When he left here he could scarcely get around, but he came home as spry and active as any one. Pro. P. A. Allen is in receipt of a letter from Dana Kizer, a graduate of the local high school, stating that his intentions were to teach school in Tacoma during the coming year. He was employed in the county schools for several years.—Bluffton Banner. Word has been received at Decatur to the effect that Mrs. Harry Fowler formerly Miss Dink Berry, of that city is lying at the point of death in St. Louis. She is in a hospital very low from typhoid fever, with practically no hope o frecovery.—Bluffton News. This is picnic week, several were held today. Tomorrow the Evangelical Sunday school goes to Maple Grove and on Thursday the Methodist enjoy the annual excursion to Robinson park, Fort Wayne. Its a big week for the children, young and old. The special car which carried the Presbyterian children to the picnic grounds today, had a slight accident just as they left the station here this morning, when the trolley pole caught and was broken loose. It was soon remedied by attaching the pole at the other end of the car and the happy crowd was soon on their way. The carnival company which pulled stakes here and went to Decatur last Saturday morning fared even worse in that city. Mayor Orie France and his police force organized a raid as soon as the nature of the shows was learned and the three managers were all placed under arrest, and their shows stopped. The girls were not pinched but the shows were all stopped, and the show managers had to settle with Mayor Orie France’s court.—Bluffton News.

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Quite a Number Os people took advantage of our sale on Broken Lots of Suits last week and expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the bargains we offered, consequently we will continue the sale for the remainder of the month and if you are in the market for clothes t’will pay you to look these goods over. We’ll be glad to show you whether you buy or not. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

Dan Beery went to Bluffton on business today. Miss Florence Kunkle and Miss Fannie McConnell, will leave tomorrow for Indianapolis, where they will visit for several days with friends. Nelson Bricker, of Geneva, was here today advertising the old settlers' meeting to be held midway between Berne and Geneva, on Sunday, July 25. Miss Mabel Dailey is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dailey, of south of the city. Last winter she taught school at Cairo, Mich. S. S. Acker of Geneva, w-as here today getting next to considerable business in which he was an interested party. Himself and family are just home from a month at Clear Lake, where Sam caught all the big fish in the lake, and then hiked for home. Jacob F. Denney of Portland, shorthand reporter in the case against Calvin Miller, which was tried in the Jay circuit»court, was here today submitting the transcript in an appeal to a higher court. Mr. Denney is one of the good ones at Portland, and w-e are always glad to see him come to this city. Hack Edmunds and Clem Stair, who have been attending the national convention of the B. P. O. E. at Los Angeles, left that aity Saturday for Frisco, where this morning they took a steamer for Seattle, Wash. They will remain in the exposition city for three weeks when they will return home. —Bluffton Banner. Discouraged by a series of misfortunes and an apparently hopeless struggle against ill-luck, William J. Hoback, of Eaglesport Morgan coun- ' ty, Ohio, committed suicide Sunday afternoon by shooting himself through the head in the Pennsylvania station at Columbia City. On his person were found a number of messages which he had written to his wife before firing the fatal shot. Charles C. Deam, state forester, was in the city yesterday, he having come here to spend Sunday with his family. Mr. Deam said that he had learned after taking his office that there were a large number of people after the place, including several who were not out of college and one or two were nearly ninety years of age. Mr. Deam has had a number of applications of men who wish to work on the experiment farm, many of them being from people who never had any farm experience.—Bluffton Banner.

Slyo Johnson, of Williams, was in the city today. Rev. Omer Ream, of Indianapolis, arrived in the city for a visit with Mr. | and Mrs. Ed Lyons. Oliver Schug, ticket agent at the interurban office, went to Berne,where he will visit for a few days. Mrs. Jonas Tritch and Miss Florine, Edwards, went to Fort Wayne on the one o’clock car to spend the day. Miss Clara Zeser returned from Kokomo today, where she has been the nurse of Mrs. Stahl, who has been quite sick. The five cent shows all did a thriving business on Saturday evening. There was a large crowd of people on the streets and they patronized the shows generously. Cris Meyers went to Geneva this afternoon, where he will try to drum up trade for his tailoring department here. Cris is there with the goods and will get his share of the business. Tony Harmon, of Cincinnati, who has been in the city visiting for the past few weeks, received a telegram from his people to come home at once. No particulars were given. Tony has been visiting withJiis friends here and went to Fort Wayne yesterday to visit with his uncle for a few days. He left for Cincinnati on this afternoon’s train.

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W .J. Myers returned today from a business trip to Willshire nad Pleasant Mills. Mrs, Elsie Straub went to Bluffton today, where she will enjoy a visit with friends, going from there to Muncie to visit friends and relatives.

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