Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1909 — Page 3

THE Lafe’ Home Journal For September : Has arrived at the City News Strand. Get one as ; quickly as possible ■ Also Hampton, The Red Book, Mack’s monthly ; containing an account of Mrs. Tom Marshall. American, Holland and others. City News Company, Will Hammell, Mgr. I ’PHONE 39

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♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦to :WEATHER forecast: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. Miss Rosa Hale of Fort Wayne, is spending the day in the city. I Mrs. Walter Grove of Bluffton, will visit Miss Fannie Rtte this week. L. C. Smith returned to Fprt Wayne after transacting business in the city. • Mrs. Haney Daniels of Preble, arrived in the city today and will attend the fair. The various shows at the fair ground opened this morning and did a fair business. Mrs. Nellie Hart Oakes, of Chicago, arrived today for a visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Inathe Townsend of Peoria, pl., will arrive todiay for a visit with friends and relatives. Ted Young of Delphos, Ohio, has returned to his home after being the guest of Miss Gyp Dorwin. Mrs. William Plagsteth and son Willie are spending the day with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Runyon. L. L. Baumgartner made a business trip to Geneva this morning and will return on the evening train. Miss Emma and Mazie Kern, of near the city, have gone to Monroeville for a few days’ visit with friends. Most of the business men have put on an extra staff of clerks in order to handle the large crowds during the fair. Mr. and Mrs. C. Wheat, of Bluffton, returned to their home at Bluffton after a visit in the city with Mrs. H. L. Merry. Charles E. Sullivan of Berne, came to Decatur this morning for a visit with friends and relatives and will, while here attend the Great Northern fair. iWlliam Earrer.of Peru,is the official starting judge at the races this week. He is a clever gentleman and will no doubt give entire satisfaction in his position.

Glen Glancey. formerly of Decatur, but now of Kalamazoo, Mich., is in the city for a short vacation. Mr. Glancey is operating for the G. R. &. I. at the above named place. If you want to hear and see a clever show, don’t miss going to the Bosse opera house any or every evening this week. The Doyle company is the best evpr seen here and that statement is no idle story but the plain eold facts. Go and see if you don't agree with us. George W. Richard and Walter Suntan, of Portland, who for the past few months have been devoting their spare time and energy to the building ( of an aeroplane according to their own idea, expect to have their machine ready for a trial test within the next few weeks. Bill Shrock is having all kinds of fun at the fair grounds these days, throwing advertising feathers of various hue. a common every day burr is attached to the end and the feathers stick wherever they land. On the same is this inscription: “Stick to Holthouse, Schulte & Co." The skull of a mastodon was unearthed from the Adam Hostettler ditch on the farm of D. H. Mast, in Lavrange county, by workmen employed by C. A. Walb, Lagrange drainage contractor, and the discovery has caused quite a sensation. The skull measures 26 inches between the eyeholes and a hole from which a tusk protruded is several inches in diameter.

Miss Fanny Miller is spending the afternoon in Fort Wayne. ("Has. Ross went south this morning on his regular line of business. Miss Ina Smith, of Bluffton, returned to her home this morning. Mrs. F. M. Eddington and babe are visiting with her parents at Portland. Miss Maria Robison returned to her home north of the city this morning. Miss Ida Martin of west of the city, was shopping in the city this morning. John Bowers made his regular trip south this .morning for the Decatur Packing Co. Mrs. Cora Sturgmen returned to Fort Wayne, after transacting business in the city. Misses Mildred Dailey and Inez Snellen of Willshire, are visiting friends in the city. Mrs. Esta Libby of near Monroeville, was in the city today shopping and attending the fair. Miss Hyla Foreman, of Van Buren, is in the city today and will attend the fair before returning. Mrs. Dick Burrel and daughter Frances went to Fort Wayne on the one o’clock car this afternoon. Mrs. H. O. King, who has been spending the past week in the city went to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Bertha Heller came home today from Rome City, after enjoying a week of pleasure at this great resort. Mrs. C. S. Clark and children are visiting with friends at Rome City, and will return to the city in a few days. Attorney Jacob Butcher was in the city this morning looking after business Interest and will enjoy the big fair. Miss "Lucile Smith is recovering from sickness, having been ill for a week or so. She will soon be fullyrecovered. A good crowd of.people from south of the county came down this morning to attend the fair and returned on the afternoon train. Miss Harkenrider, of Fort Wayne, is in the city and win demonstrate at the fair grounds for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. Today was soldiers’ day at the fair and the veterans were royally entertained during the afternoon. The soldiers were admitted free. The Doyle Stock Co. who are playing this week at the opera house, are pleasing the people very well and are deserving a good patronage. Al Volmer and Frank Bremerkamp will return from Rome City after spending a week or so at that place, hoping to benefit the latter’s health. Amos Bussert, of Rochester, Ind., who has been at Elida, Ohio, arrived in the city this noon from that place and will visit with Rev. Imler and family. Miss Sylvia Droppieman returned from Rome City after spending a week or so at that place with C. L. Meibers and family, who are spending the summer there. C. O. France, representing the Center Ice Cream company, is doing a thriving business at the fair grounds. The famous ice cream and soft drinks is finding ready sale there.

Mrs. Arthur Porter and children and Mrs. Jim Porter of Bluffton, are in the city for a visit with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Chronister and her aunt, Mrs. Jacob Eady and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Weldy left the city afternoon for Fort Wayne, enroute to Angola, to visit their son John, who graduates from the Angola Normal college. Mr. Weldy will teach in the high school at Berne this winter. Mrs. McConnell who was so badly injured by falling down stairs a few days ago, is much better, and it is believed she will soon recover. This is wonderful when the fact that she is past eighty-seven years old is considered. Dr. Daniel Palmer is dead at Warren, where he had practiced medicine for many years. He cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, and is said to have been the oldest Master Mason in the state, having been a member of the Masonic fraternity fifty-eight years. Miss Jennie Pfefferle, of Auburn, is shortly to wed R. M. Bruning, of New Orleans, as the outcome of an unusual romance. Some years ago while in the employ of an Auburn carriage concern, Miss Pfefferle wrote a nom de plume, “Jennie Wren,’’ on a catalogue which she was mailing for the company to Mr. Bruning in New Orleans. ‘‘Jennie Wren" was the nick name given Miss Pfefferle while she attended a business college in Fort Wayne, and her postoffice box at Auburn served to enable letters rrritten by Mr. Bruning to reach her. Finally she disclosed her true name to the young man. Love making by letter followed, and the engagement is the outcome.

Miss Celeste Wemhoff went to Fort W’ayne this afternoon. Mrs. George Mclntosh went to Fort Wayne today to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Erhardt went to Fort Wayne to spend the day. John Rohm returned to Fort Wayne after visiting relatives at Scbumm. Ed Vancll was attending to his regular line of business south of the city today. t Mr. John Weber, of Union City, is In the city looking after business during the day. Mrs. Lew Reynolds and children went to Craigville today to visit friends and relatives. Ed Bailey, of Monroe, is in the city attending to business and returned on the evening train. Veruon Fasswatcr, of Willshire, is visiting Vera McGonagle and family and attending the fair. Misses Emma Haughton and Iva Reidel, of Van W T ert are attending the fair and visiting relatives. Mrs. William Lyman, of Indianapolis, has arrived for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Houser. Mrs. Bell Stewart of Avilla, arrived here today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Merry on Fifth street. We are all going to the fair tomorrow, so you will get your paper in time for dinner instead of supper. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rinehart of Fort W’ayne, are in the city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Forbing. Mrs .Harriet Clark and sister, Mrs. Gertrude Berry went to Fort Wayne today, and will spend a week there. Miss Esther Buhler, of Marion, will returne to her home this evening after a short visit with friends in the city. Miss Esther Corbett will returned Sunday from Rome City where she has been enjoying a several weeks' outing. Mrs. Jerry Swank, of Geneva, has arrived in the city to remain for some time as the guest of C. U. Dorwin and family. Henry Boknecht left this morning for Cincinnati after visiting here for the past week with Mr. Fred Hoile and family. The threatening rain this afternoon looked a little bad for the races, but the clouds cleared away after a few moments bluff.

Hampton's magazine for September is one of the best and by buying ft you help the manager out as he is after a special prize. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lachnit of Berne, passed through the city today to Fort Wayne, where they will make a short stay during the day. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lyman, of Indianapolis, have arrived in the city for a visit with friends and relatives. They will remain here for several days. Mrs. H. H. Ladig and Mrs. F. J. Ladig and children, who have been visiting relatives at .Spencerville, returned to their home at Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. Rob Hathaway returned to her home at Lima byway of Fort Wayne this morning. During a week’s visit in the city she visited with relatives’ and friends. All the little boys in town who are hustlers and want to work have jobs on the fair grounds this week, at least it seems that about every lad you meet is on the force somewhere or other. Rev. C. W. Diederich, pastor of the Flat Rock Lutheran church near Hoagland, was in the city yesterday and while here contracted with the Wemhoff Monumental Works for a handsome monument at his wife's grave in Concordia cemetfOy, Fort Wayne. The veterans of the civil war were honored guests at the Great Northern fair today and they enjoyed a great time. Friday is Geneva day and from reports, there will be a large delegation from that place here on that day. The Geneva band will furnish the music and they expect the time of their lives.

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Mrs. Eva Thbmpson went to Bluffton today to visit her son. Mrs. J. D. Winans, of Pleasant Mills is attending the fair this afternoon. Miss Pauline Dailey of east of the city was shopping in the city today. Misses Ruth and Carrie Dimler, of Rockford, 0., ar« here, attending the fair. August Imler returned to his home at Lafayette today byway of Fort Wayne. Joseph Moser of Berne, was in the city today and while here attended the fair. Mrs. Sarah Craig, who has been quite ill for some days, is slightly better today. Mrs. Walter Schrock who has been visiting Mrs. Nettie Schrock and family returned to her home at Lafayette this noon. Ed Lyons, of Fort Recovery, is in the city visiting with some of his relatives. He returned to his home this afternoon.

* The Forever Favorites > EDWARD DOYLE’S “ALL STAR” Orpheum Stock Co. AT BOSSE’S OPERA HOUSE FAIR WEEK Commencing, Monday, Aug. 23d. PRICES, 20/30 3est Popular Priced Show in America. > Ladies Free Monday Night. Seats Ready Saturday. A CAR LOAD OF SPECIAL SCENERY Seat sale Will be held at the usuaLplace. ====aa!K===!!!==s!=!^ ——

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