Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1909 — Page 3

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:WEATHER forecast: Fair nothern showers south portion tonight or Wednesday. FREE EXHIBITION At the Comer of Monroe & 2nd St. TONIGHT First Show at 7 o’clock, 2nd. Show at 8 o’clock. Euerybody is Invited. ———'l Illi < Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth’a Jewelry Store. ' Telephone No. 472. Office hours: S—l 2 a. m, I—s p. m Money Works Long Hours WHY WASTE ? your earnings through thoughtless and more or less indiscriminate spend ing when by opening a checking account with us you can put a stop to the leaks and really save—not by stinting but by a little care. The saving feature of a checking account is but one of a hundred others. OLD Adams Co. Bank

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Rev. Hoile returned to his home at Shumm last evening. Miss Alice Hansen returned to LaFontaine this afternoon. Miss Mabel Weldy returned last evening from Lake Geneva, Wis. Miss Cora Chronister went to Craig - Ville today for a visit with friends. Miss Celia Zeaser went to Defiance, Ohio, today to attend a family reunion. Miss Lulu Smitley went to Fort Whyne today to visit her grandmother. Mrs. P. L. Andrews and niece returned this noon from a short visit at Peterson. Miss Bessie and Bertha Drummond of Pleasant Mills are visiting friends in the city. Mrs. Ada Bier and children went to Craigville today for a short stay with friends. Mr .and Mrs. W. Hawkins of near Monroeville, were in the city and have returned home. Rev. Dornseif and daughter were in the city today and have returned to their home north of the city. Ernest and Casper Hausen after visiting friends here for the several days returned to their home in Wood county. A. R. Wolfe left this afternoon for Indianapolis, where he will attend the fair this week and also visit with friends. Mrs .Studabaker of Bluffton, arrived in the city this noon for a visit with Mrs. W. J. Craig, other relatives and friends. Miss Hattie Hawkins returned to Muncie today after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Hawkins of near Monroeville. Mrs. Chas. Goodwin and Mrs. Jacob Shy returned to their home at Dayton, Ohio, after a two weeks’ visit in the city with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. David Bradley and children Louis and Jesse, of Chicago, are in the city for a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Theo Kennedy. Mr. Philip Miehls went to Berne this afternoon -for a short stay at that place. Gerald Hendrickson a niece of Mrs. Miehls accompanied him home. Charles Coverdale and wife of Bluffton, are here today visiting the former's mother and seeing other friends. Mr. Coverdale is interested in the Bluffton Land & Timber company, a Bluffton company that holds valuable timber and land holdings in Mississippi. They but recently added over twenty thousand acres and are preparing to do business on a large scale in that southern country.

Frank Parents went to Defiance, 0., today. John Moran made a business trip to Fort Wayne. Miss Marie Allison went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Rice are spending the day in Fort ( Wayne. Miss Rose Gates went to Fort Wayne last evening to visit friends. Mrs. Ada Richards went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day. W. L. Guilfoyle, of South Bend, is in the city today looking after business. William Judy, of Geneva, went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day. Mrs. C. J. Lutz went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend sA-eral days with friends. Henry Koenemann went to Williams where he will look after the cattle market during the day. Harmon Bosse returned to Fort Wayne this morning, after a few days visit in the city with his parents. Mrs. R. B. Allison went to Oden, Mich., where she will spend some time at her cottage at that place. Peter Englesmith of Marion, changed cars here this morning and took in the excursion to Traverse City, Mich. Bernard Brake returned to his work at Ossian after attending the funeral of his father which was held yesterday. Miss Margaret Moran is spending a few days with friends at Geneva. She was accompanied by little Helen Moran, a daughter of Mr. John Moran. The dance given last evening at Maple Grove park was attended by a goodly number of young people and all seemed to amuse themselves very much. Mrs. Bernard Feldhause and Nicholas, returned to their home at Cincinnati today, after "being in attendance at the funeral of Mr. Harmon Brake. Mrs. Chas. Brown returned to Indianapolis this morning after attending the funeral of her father. Mr. Hannon Brake, which was held yesterday.

Several people from here took advantage of the excursion to Michigan this morning and will spend a few days or weeks in that flourishing country. Albert C. Hirschey went back to Huntington today after attending the Hirschey family reunion at Berne. Mr. Hirschey is an employe in a wholesale paper house and printing office at that place. Rev. Vernor went to Evansville this morning, where he will make a few days’ visit with his parents and will then go to Smith Mills. Ky.. where he will conduct a revival meeting for two weeks. There will be a called meeting of the Y. P. C. E. at tne TT. B. church tomorrow evening to complete plans for the trip around the world to be given next Tuesday evening at the new parsonage. Frank and Wm. Gillig of south of the city took in the excursion to Petoskey. Mich., this morning and if things are satisfactory will try and invest in some of the timber business. They will be gone at least two weeks. Mrs. D. M. Hensley will return home this afternoon from Rome Cityafter spending the summer there. She will be accompanied home by Mr. Hensley, who went there to arrange things in shape for the coming winter. Pbstmaster Frisinger reports the foilwing unclaimed letters at the postoffice: Miss Laurie Bammarger, George C. Curtis, D. E. Denise, Will Johnson, C. J. Hartley Co., Edward J. Miller, Miss Francis Murphey, Paul Rayran, Mrs. Carl Palmer, Robert N. Steele and S. F. Welker. Mr. D. M. Niblick has returned from New York, where he spent aweek buying his fall and winter stock of cloaks, suits and other merchandise for the Niblick & Co. store. He informs us that he bought heavily and that his store will soon have some of the best and prettiest styles ever seen in this city. Dr. C. V. Connell left this morning Ifor Chicago, where he will spend the balance of the week attending the sessions of the American Medical Society of Veterinarians. Dr. Connell has given close application to his profession for several years, and this recreation and vacation will be used to brush up his already wide knowledge of his profession. The Jennings Oil company holdings in Illinois have been bought by the Ohio Oil company for between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. The deal includes 11,000 acres of leases, about 250 producing wells with a daily production of 8,000 barrels of oil and eighteen steel tanks. This is the deal that was feared by independent and smaller producers as they think in controlling this large production it will enable the Standard to close down the field until such time as it needs the oil.

Velma Shroll has returned from a visit at Fort Wayne. True Fristoe went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. Shafer Peterson is transacting business in Fort Wayne today. Misses Rose and Emma Schlickman are spending the day in Fort Wayne. A. N. Steele went to Monroe, where he has been working for the past few days. Chas. Colter is attending to business at Greenville today for the Smith & Bell Lumber Co. John Schug returned on his regular trip south this morning and will be gone for several days. Anna and Al Volmer returned from Toledo last night where they have been visiting for the past week. Dr. Sowers made his regular weekly trip to Bryant and Portland this morning and will return home this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Macklin were at Geneva over Sunday guests of Mr. Macklin’s mother and other relatives and friends. Mrs. Ella Smith of Marion, passed through the city this morning on her way to Traverse City, Mich., where she will make a few weeks’ visit. ' 'What is now the city of Logansport had its first postoffice on January 9, 1828, with Hugh B. McKean as postmaster, and the place was known as Eel River. In August of the same year the name was changed to Logansport.

(Edward Kennel, a young farmer northeast of Kendallville, was in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad wreck near Newcastle, Pa., in which four persons were killed and thirty more injured. Mr. Kennel escaped with a few slight bruises. Howard Fox of Markle, put powder tn a stove to clean out a chimney flue, and in the explosion Fox received a bad bruise on the forehead w-here a section of the stove struck him, as well as the loss of part of his hair and most of his eye-brows. Arch Gordon, who was arrested several months ago with his paramour, Stella Mettler, in a barn on the Adams estate, pleaded guilty in the court of Mayor Hamilton this morning, paying a fine of ten dollars and costs. At the time of the arrest he advised Stella to plead guilty to the charge against her but stated that he would fight the charge. After this he went away, but later returned and this morning concluded to get the old charge wiped off from the docket. —Bluffton Banner. Articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the secretary of state for the Indiana Northwestern Traction company, organized to build, equip and operate an interurban railway from Hammond to Lafayette. The incprporators are William Brucker, Curtis D. Meeker and Jacob L. Timmons, all of Monticello; George Goff, Rensselear. and George A. Haskell, of Chicago. The concern is capitalized at $50,000. No declaration of the proposed route of the line was filed with the petition for a charter. The central offices of the concern will be -at Monticello.

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Rev. J. A. Beaton, of the Christian church at Warsaw, has announced his resignation. The Marion fair made some money and will be able to pay off a portion of its indebtedness. E. E. Hammel, who was attending to business affairs in the city yesterday, returned to his home at Geneva last evening. Gertrude, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Austin, near Mishawaka, has been missing for several days and it is .feared she has been stolen by a band of gypsies encamped near the place. A. P. Moste, city councilman at Garrett, against whom five or six “blind tiger” indictments had been standing for months charging him with illegal sale of liquor, entered a plea of guilty, to three of the charges in court at Auburn and paid fines and costs aggregating $239.75. Two remaining charges against him were dismissed. Moste was a brewery agent at Garrett when the city went “dry.”

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Miss Marie Hackman has returned from a short visit at Fort Wayne. Mr. John Lind returned to his home at Cincinnati last evening after a week’s visit in the city with relatives. H. S. Gilhams, brother of ex-Con-gressman Gilhams, has been re-en-gaged as superintendent of the Rome City schools. A. R. Bell went to Greenville this morning, where he will look after some timber business for the Smith & Bell Lumber Co. Mrs. J. R. Graber and her sister, Mrs. Sol Moser and son Menno from south of the county, left this morning for Bronwick. Mich., where they will make an extended visit with their sister, Mrs. Schindler.

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