Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1909 — Page 3

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t WEATHER FORECAST J I* ***** Thunder showers tonight and Sunday.

Miss Ruth Heckman went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. J. C. Coverdale went to Fort Wayne today to spend the day. W. Harting has gone to St. Henry’s. Ohio, for a visit with relatives at that place. Miss Elsie Byer returned today from Indianapolis, where she • visited friends. Miss Marie Schindler returned this noon from Indianapolis, where she visited with friends. Tr. George returned from Fort Wayne last evening, where he spent the day with friends. Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner went to Bluffton today to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Studabaker.

Otto and Charley Andrews, of Marion, returned to their home after a visit with Dick Roop and family in the city. Fred Engle went to Rome City this morning, where he will spend Sunday with his brother who is taking a vacation there. Quincy Hildebrand went to Bluffton today to join his wife who is visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Caleph Archbold. Mrs. A. A. Carpenter, living southeast of the city, returned to her home after a several weeks’ visit with friends at Russiaville. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Meyers, who have been visiting relatives at Lake George for the past two weeks, will arrive home in a day or so. Austin Wagner, formerly employed by the Clover Leaf in the depot at this city, but now located at Frankfort, was in the city today. C. L. Meibers and family and Stewart Niblick will leave tomorrow for Rome City, where they will spend the next week or so at that place. Mrs. Vancil and son Nicholas came home last evening from Portland and Fort Recovery, where they were visiting with friends for the last month.

Mr. G. B. Robinson of Winchester, stopped off for a few minutes this morning in the city with Mr. and Mrs. Dalas Hunsicker, on their way to Angola, Ind. Mrs. Grace Ilippengarten, of Ossian, after visiting with Miss Grace Hippengarden, the daughter of Leslie Hippengarden. Miss Grace has been sick for some time. Mail Carrier Clyde Rice is starting a pigeon yard and he expects to have pigeons of every variety. He has some fine squabs for sale at this time, and will deliver them any place in the city. Tabernacle meetings will be held at the Church of God two and onehalf miles east of Monroe beginning September first, and continuing until September twelfth. The Church of God is located on the township road and the public is invited to attend these meetings.

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Frank Miller returned last evening from Fort Wayne. Miss Nola Snyder went to Bluffton today to visit relatives. Miss Frances Ward went to Craigville today to spend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gilbert went to Bluffton today to visit friends. Mrs. Fred Schlickman went to Fort Wayne on the one o’clock today. Mrs. Will Gains went to Kokomo today for a visit with her parents. John Tyndall and family Will spend the next week or so at Rome City. Mat Kirsch transacted business at Fort Wayne and returned last night Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Lammerman of near Monroe went to Fort Wayne today. Wm. Shackley returned to his home at Berne after working here for the past week. B. S. Brown returned to his home at Monroe after looking up business during the day. D. O. Roop, deputy clerk, went to Geneva, where he will make a short visit with friends. Miss Bid Bowers has gone to Detroit, Mich., where she will visit with friends for some time. Philip Schug returned to his home at Berne alter attending to business in the city during the day. Mrs. Will Pennington and daughter Josephine, went to Willshire for a visit with relatives over Sunday. Jacob Buhler went to Marion today. He received a letter today saying his mother could live but a day or two. Miss Bessie Robison returned this noon from Denver, Ind., where she visited with Mrs. Vandeven of that place. Effie Schlagel and children went to Berne today, where they will spend some -time in the country visiting friends. The dance at Maple Grove park last evening was well attended and all those present enjoyed themselves very much. Mrs. P. J. Hyland and children, Arthur and Catherine, went to Winchester for a short visit with Mrs. Hyland’s mother. Mrs. Cecilia Ehinger will leave Tuesday for Chicago, where she will visit with her daughter, Mrs. Philip Salisbury, for a few weeks. Mrs. Charles Heckman returned from Fort Wayne last evening after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zwick, north of the city. John Woy, who has been in several parts in eastern Ohio visiting with friends, has returned to the city after an absence of several weeks.

Donald and Kenneth Vancil, who have been visiting for the past two months {With friends at Tort {Recovery, returned home last evening. Mrs. Wm. Hunsicker of Willshire, returned to her home today accompanied by Mrs. Phillip Able of Fort Wayne, who will visit her for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Leonard and babe returned from Kendallville and Avilla this afternoon, where they spent the past week visiting with Mrs. Leonard's relatives. Rev. Walters will speak at the Presbyterian church tomorrow morning at the ten-thirty o’clock services. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to hear him. Chas. Scheiman, a prominent farmer living north of the city, has disposed of his farm to Fred Bohnke, of this city, and the latter will move his family and household goods on same, where he expects to make his future home.

A large number of people from Decatur will leave tomorrow for the different summer resorts and other places where they will spend the coming week or so enjoying themselves, and forgetting a few of their daily struggles. Miss Ruby Miller came home from Winona, where she has been attending school for the past three months at that place. Miss Miller will be one of the teachers at the West Ward this coming year, and took this course to be better qualified. Two Union township farmers were in an exciting runaway Friday afternoon, the horse which was hitched to the buggy running like wild down First street. The men did not jump for the horse was caught just in time by Will Jackson, and they avoided a collision with a team coming down the street.

E. M. Ray of Monroe, was in the city today on business. Tom Baltzell from south of the city, was in the city today on business. Misses Mayme and Rose Confer returned last evening from Fort Wayne. Charles W. Merryman, of near Monroe, celebrated his fiftieth birthday today. L. A. Graham returned last evening from Fort Wayne, where he attended to business. r Miss Mattie Suttlief went to Chicago, where she will visit for a week with friends. [Miss Elizabeth Hawk of Middletown, Ohio, is visiting Misses Edna and Bernice Andrews. Mrs. John Peterson went to Rome City this morning, where she will spend Sunday with friends. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Mont Fee is very seriously ill at its home in the south part of the city. Cornelius Weaver, of Nattawa, Mich., is in the city for a visit with his nephew, Cyrus Weaver and family. Mrs. H. Lankenau and her guest, Mrs. Charles Jorn, of Chicago, went to Fort Wayne today to spend Sunday with friends. "Sirs. M. D. Pillars, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. U. Dorwin, went to Fort Wayne today. Two blind men were on the street i this afternoon and furnished music for all those who wished to listen to I their pieces, and also gathering up a few stray nickels. The weather man furnished us with some of his wet goods and all whom you happened to pass were exceedingly I joyful over the limited down pour. • The rain will be of much good to the corn crop. | Mrs. E. N. Vancil and sons who l visited several weeks at Fort Re- | covery, Ohio, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Money, were in the city Friday enroute to their home at , Decatur. —Portland Sun. Frank Snyder is absent from Portland on a trip which will include Denver, Colorado, Salt Lake City, 'Utah, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon and Seattle and Spokane, Washington.— Portland Commercial-Review. A slight mix up was caused last evening when a rig driven by George Schlagel and another by a crowd of young people from the city came in contact with each other. No damage was done outside the rig which belonged to Schlagel was damaged to a slight extent

G. W. Gilbert of Montpelier, was here today on his way home from Monroe, where he had been attending the funeral of his sister. He says that he likes Montpelier real well and has a good place there, having charge of the delivery system that is in vogue in that place. The imuncipal lighting plant is broken down and the streets will be in darkness for a few days. City Electrician George Nicholson was about to leave for Muncie this afternoon when the big engine broke and he was forced to forego his visit to superintend the repairs which will consume several days.—Bluffton Banner.

Yesterday the trustees of the new German Reformed church at Vera I Cruz purchased the furniture for the I new edifice. W. H. Davis, of this city, I representing a wholesale furniture house, made the deal with the trus- ■ tees and will have the goods shipped here at an early date. The furniture is of the best that can be procured and is of the latest models in church I furniture. —Bluffton Banner. I George Emerson, aged two months and eighteen days, the son of Elmer T. and Elsie May Plummer, residing , at Tocsin died, last nignt from cholera infantum. Jhe child is survived by one brother Gordon. The funeral serI vices wil ibe held at the U. B. church !in Tocsin at ten o’clock on Saturday morning. Burial will take place at the Prairie View cemetery, one and one-half miles north of Tocsin.-—Bluff-ton News. i i The improvement society of Rome I City are raising funds for the imI provement of this great resort and Labor Day has been set for the event. There will be all kinds of races, firei works and other amusements, which ' will make the day a banner one. A large amount of money will be spent for programs and other advertising ! and Rome City expects to have one .of the largest crowds that they ever entertained.

Time in the B. & O. shops at Garrett has been cut to fifteen hours per week. Mrs. Martha Linker and Miss Rosa Linker went to Fort Wayne today to spend the day. Miss Frances Bright, who has been visiting friends here, returned to her home at Delphos last night Joe Simons, painter at Huntington, was painfully hurt in tumbling from a house on which he was at work. P. G. Williams went to Geneva, where he will have charge of the Moser studio at that place during the day. Pickpockets at Elkhart got S6B from Ira G. Van Tilburg, 72 years of age, as he was boarding a street car in Elkhart. Miss Genevieve Bremerkamp is working in the Baughman store today, assisting in the Saturday’s rush of business. Miss Kittie Smith, the armless girl at South Whitley, has become financial secretary for the home for crippled children at Woodburn, 111. Mrs. Elizabeth Carlisle, of Cincinnati, returned to her home this morning, after visiting for several weeks in the city with (her sister, Mrs. George Flanders. Lew Kime, of Wabash, has a turtle captured in Little lake at Warsaw. The monster weighs 36 pounds and measures 36 inches lengthwise and 18 inches crosswise. Mrs. George Flanders and children Jest this morning for Rome City, where they will make a visit with Mrs. D. M. Hensley, who is spending the summer there. Survivors of the 160th Indiana regiment, Spanish-American war veterans, which held the annual reunion at Ossion Wednesday, voted to meet at Anderson next year. Thaddeus S. Taylor, one of the first white children born in St. Joseph county and one of the founders of South Bend, died Wednesday after an extended illness. He was 72 years of age. Frank Bremerkamp, who has been very sick for the last two weeks, Is resting well today, having no pain. It is thought that he will recover before long, although the improvement is slow. Lieutenant Governor Hall, who came to the city last evening from Angola, where he had delivered an address at the Old Settlers’ meeting, left this morning for Laketon to fill another speaking ; engagement. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Kelly while in the city.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. Dr. Fred Patterson went to Winchester this afternoon, where he will meet Mrs. Patterson, who is returning from a several weeks’ visit with her mother in Terre Haute. They will spend Sunday in Winchester with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Irvin and will return home Sunday night. The Adams county people who have attended the State University are always interested in the county institute, for at that time there are always god speakers here. This year, however, Dr. Aley’s presence has aroused more inerest than usual among the students, as some of them have personally known Dr. Aley when he was connected with the university.

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777 —Is a comfortable four-room cotage and good cellar, located on the public road near Decatur....sßso.o9 787—1 s a five acre tract, with fruit trees, greenhouse, drove well and good five-room residence, recenUy remodeled $1,250.00 7 ,43 —1 s a desirable fifteen acre tract on the traction line near Decatur. Has good buildings, house is on a nice elevation $2,500.00 771 —Is 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 eottage 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, etc. $850.06 745 —A nearly new five-room cottage on South Front street. Cement walks, city and cistern water, good sewerage $1,150.00 721 —A comfortable story and a half residence, on Eleventh street. Stable, drove well, plenty of fruit, corner lot $1,300.00 780 — A roomy seven-room residence property, with cellar, stable, etc., on north Third street. Good sewerage $1,700.00 782 —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 51,750.00 785 — A well located story and a half residence on the traction line in 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, ate. Sidewalks and al! 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.