Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1909 — Page 3

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Miss Glenys Mangold returned last evening from Colfax, Ind. —■■——— DIVIDENDS OF SATISFACTION To be a bank customtomer means that you receive the benefit of the bank’s experience and facilities. 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 business 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. ' FIRST National Bank DECATUR, INDIANA Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth’u Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. Office hours: B—l 28 —12 a. m., I—s1 —5 p. ns The Basis Os Credit Your utanding is greatly strengthened by being abl eto refer the in quirer to a responsible conservatively managed banking in stitution. A checking account here will be one of the best aids to the man who wish es credit and convenience. It costs nothing to Investigate. OLD Adams Co. Bank

■: WEATHER FORECAST J **************** Fair tonight and Saturday. Oscar Fritzinger is on the sick list. Miss Ruby Smith went to Monroeville today. Mrs. C. J. Weaver, who has been sick is recovering. Mrs. C. C. Enos went to Fort Wayne to spend the day. Mrs. George Steele is improving from a recent illness. Beulah Chapel congregation west of the city wul hold a picnic Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Brokaw went to Niagara Falls on the excursion last night. Miss Maud Cowly is recovering from, sickness, having been sick for several weeks. Will Berling went to Bluffton this morning, where he will look after business for a short time. A postal card from John Heller is to the effect that they are having a great time at Rome City. The father of Frank Heiman is seriously ill, and owing to his extreme old age, the outcome is uncertain. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Ramsey of Fort Wayne, returned to his home last evening from a business trip to this city. I have the agency for the best magazine that is selling today. See Tony Center or leave your order at this office. J. W. Parrish and wife of Honduras, are the parents of a handsome baby girl, and their many friends are rejoicing with them. John Meyers is moving his household goods from Sixth street to his new home which he purchased of Mr. Beachler on Fourth street. Fred Reppert arrived home this morning from Thorntown, Ind., where he has been conducting a sale and attending to other business. Ora and Golda Weimer of Lima, 0., passed through the city today on their way to Plainfield, Mich., where they will visit with friends for a few weeks Mrs. Charles Hawkins, son and daughter, Imogene Eloise went to Bluffton today to attend the camp meeting of the Seventh Day Adventists. Mrs. N. Deininger and flnughte: ’' Mayme will arrive home this evening from a trip to several large cities, where they attended to the millinery business. A number of out-of-town guests were here last evening to attend the dance. This is getting to be a great amusement place, and something new takes place every day. Mrs. Barney Weisiiiautle and children, who have been visiting her brother, Frank Gass and other relatives, returned to her home at Elwood I today, transferring at Marion. Dick Peterson resumed work this morning at the Everett & Hite grocery after an absence of a week, during which time he spent his vacation fishing at Rome City. Dick is feeling fine, but is suffering somewhat from sunburn. The following from Berne left last evening to join the Niagara excursionists at Decatur: The Misses Ellen Lehman, Tillie Moser, Lucie Reusser, Etta Welty, Phillip Sprunger and wife, John Winteregg and wife, Benjamin Sprunger and wife, John Rohrer and wife and two of their children, Silvan and Frieda—Berne Witness. ...

E. M. Crawofrd of Bluffton, was in the city attending to business. Mrs. Clara Fuhrman went to Bluffton to visit for several days. Mrs. Sadie Lee and infant daughter went to Willshire to attend the cat nival. • Harmon Johns has returned from Willshire, where he attended the carnival. The Willshire carnival has been a big event, and many people have been in attendance. Miss Marie Allison arrived home today from Hartford City, where she visited friends. Mrs. Nettie Schrock went west of the city today for a visit with friends on rural route 6. Mrs. F. E. Smitley, of Delphos, are in the city for a visit with Mr. ana Mrs. Shoemaker. Mrs. Rosa Mix and son of Fon. Wayne, went to Willshire today to visit Mrs. J. B. Rice, Mrs. E. A- Altheon returned to Willshire today after spending the morning in the city. Fr. Benzinger returned to his home at Hesse Castle after visiting in the city with Fr. Wilkens. Calvary church will give a picnic next Saturday and the event promises to be well attended. Earl Sickafoos returned to his home at Preble after visiting with his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Reynolds. Mrs. William Roop arrived home yesterday from an extended trip in the west. She greatly enjoyed the trip. Miss Bertha Bunner, of Rivarre, arrived home today from Marion, where she has been attending the noraml school. Will Schrock went to Winona yesterday and spent the day with Miss Midge Smith. He returned home last evening Miss Ruth Oakley, of Marion, who has been attending the Marion Normal college, changed cars here enroute to Lynn.

Mrs. W. H. Coppock of south of the city, went to Bluffton today to attend the Seventh Day Adventists camp meeting. Mrs. French Parrish and daughter Helen, of Delphos, arrived in the city today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Abner Parrish. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner took in the excursion to Niagara Falls last night, and they expect greatly to enjoy the trip. Mrs. Jeanette Irvin went to Venedocia today, to visit her son Frank, who is located at that place, and is prospering there. Mrs. Dr. Stone returned to her home at New Bremen today, after a visit with Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ell Meyer and other friends. > Mrs. C. V. Connel and baby returned today from Willshire, where they attended the carnival and visited with Mrs. O. N. Snellen. Auburn is trying to orlng about an arrangement under which the city will have but one telephone system instead of two as at present. Ralph Orenyer, of Portland, passed through the city on his way to Rochester, where he will make a week's visit with friends at that place. French Quinn came in last night from Cardwell, Mo., where for several weeks he has been looking after business for the Allison Land company. Miss Irene Myers is quite sick and there is some fear of an attack ot typhoid fever. An effort is being made to head off an attack of this kind. Mr. Davidson Mattox, who was operated upon some time ago by Di. Earl Coverdale for an affliction of the head, is slowly improving. Mr. Mattox stays in the city in order to have the constant care of his physician. Mrs. Arthur Rose of Jackson, Mich , who has been visiting her sister at Fort Wayne, arrived yesterday afternoon from that place. Mrs. Rose is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Barkley and will enjoy an extended visit in the city. Ex-Congressman J. D. Leighty, residing at St. Joe, has one of the largest apple orchards in the state. He has seventy-five acres set out with apple trees, which are now three and four years old, 4,500 trees in all. The orchard looks fine. J. L. Sisk, of Bryant, was here Wed- ’ nesday and contracted with Daniel Lehman to construct the grade on the Habegger macadam road east of town. Work will commence at once. They expect to commence hauling stone in about ten days.—Berne Witness. Lorenzo D. White,veteran rural mail carrier of the postoffice force at South Bend, probably one of the oldest rural carriers in the service, was Tuesday suspended for a thirty-day period under peculiar circumstances. He is charged with continued insubordination and with offering criticism to the government’s general plan of dscipline.

Fred Litterer made a business trip to Geneva this afternoon. Mrs. Will Martin went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend th eday. The K. P. lodge held their regular meeting last night and transacted important business. Miss Harriett Morrison, of Decatur, is here as the guest of Miss Lucile Locket.—Bluffton Nows. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner were among the number wiio went to Niagara Falls last evening. John Baumgartner went to Linn Grove this afternoon for a visit with his grandmother for a few days. Earl Heffner of Fort Recovery, is in the city visiting with his grandparents, rM. and Mrs. Peter Forbing. A number of people from Decatur are attending the carnival at Willshire this week and from reports it is O. K. A number of people from here took in the excursion to Niagara Falls last evening and will no doubt have a very enjoyable trip. Mrs. Dell Locke, who has been at Chicago, as the guest of Mrs. Harry Deam, returned to Bluffton this morning.—Bluffton News. Mrs. Newton Anderson and daughter Margaret left this morning for Rome City, where they will take a week or ten days- vacation. The improvements at the Ernsberger and Moses greenhouse are nearly completed, and the place already has taken on a very neat appearance. E. B. Adams, secretary of the Fair association, went to Willshire todqy to do some advertising for the Great Northern Indiana Fair to be held August 24-27. Jack Robert McHugh, Earl Marsells and Walter Best of Toledo, returned to Rome City this morning where they are taking a few weeks’ outing. Miss Bertha Votaw and two children, of North Platte, Nebraska, are here visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Votaw is the youngest daughter of Mr. Quincy Dailey, and it is her first visit here for a great many years. According to a Washington dispatch Congressman Barnhart has arranged to spend his vacation in traveling over the Thirteenth district in an automobile, the trip being planned to place the congressman in close touch with his constituents. M. C. Hamill, of Terre Haute, attorney for Austin Miller, the boy who shot Night Marshal Alonzo Howe four times at Winona Lake Sunday night, says Miller will return to Warsaw within a short time and give himself up to the authorities. Mr .and Mrs. B. E. Miller, of Angola, who arrived in the city for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker, went to Geneva this afternoon and from there will go to Winchester for a short visit They were accompanied by Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker of this city.

Red Wilkeson, while trying to per form a bicycle stunt on First street yesterday, fell off and lay in the street for some time till a passerby picked him up and carried him to the Decatur Lumber Co. He was all right in a few minutes and went on his way rejoicing. According to statements made by a well known resident of Poneto in this city several days ago, an effort is being made to sound the voters in that vicinity on their attitude toward a prospective saloon in Poneto. The fact I that saaloons exist at Montpelier, so close to Poneto, has caused some to desire a saloon right in their own village and it is claimed that as soon as the remonstrances which are now effective in keeping out saloons there have run out, another effort will be made to secure a license by some one. —Bluffton News. Tump coal FOR CASH ONLY | $2.65 DELIVERED I WAGNER’S I Coal Yard. I

| Last Week of the Big Clearance Salel

I AT I Teeple, Brandyberry I and Peterson’s I This Sale Closes I Next Saturday Night ■. We Offer Discounts from I 10 to 50 PER CENT. H Ask Your Neighbor About the Bargains.

Miss Vernia Schlegel returned to Fort Wayne where she is employed. Mrs. Will Mauriceson went to Fort Wayne today to spend the day with friends. Miss Addie Jones went to Bluffton today for a visit with Mrs. M. J. McClellan. C. V. Heaton returned to Fort Wayne after transacting business in the city. Miss Ella Mutchler returned this morning after a week’s visit with friends at Portland and Briant. Mrs. S. M. Keller, of Fort Wayne, returned to her home today after a visit with friends in Willshire. Mrs. Eula Cowan, of Van Wert, who visited for a short time with her brother returned home yesterday. H. M. Romberg came in on the at ternoon train and spent the afternoon attending to business and looking up old friends.

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Mrs. Lydia Bowers is improving from severe illness at her home near Peterson. Mrs. Charles Hartman of west of the city, who has been ulte sick, is much better. Miss Elizabeth Peterson arrived home last evening from Ypsilanti, where she attended school. Mrs. Dr. W. E. Smith will go to Fort Wayne on the seven o’clock car jthis /evening |o attend the poyal Neighbor initiation at that place.

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Miss Ruth Hammel who was quite sick, is very much better. Mrs. Joseph Kern went to Cincinnati today for a visit with her uncle. Miss Mabel Weldy arrived homo from Marion today for a visit with her parents. Miss Eva Acker arrived home last evening from Ypsilanti, where she attended school the past ten weeks. Miss Fannie Hite is at Winona, where she is spending her vacation in a very pleasant way. She will return home in a few days.