Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1909 — Page 3

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I WEATHER FORECAST * £+* + *♦♦ + * + ■•■ + + + + + Fair tonight; Wednesday increasing cloudiness with probable showers. Miss Lora Hendricks went to Fort Wayne this morning. George Steele of the racket store, is attending to business at Butler, Ind. Mrs. William Welsch returned to Fort Wayne after transacting business in the city. Albion Terry, of Dana, Ind., is in the city visiting with Mr. Carl Moses on Fifth street. John Peterson returned home last evening from Fort Wayne, where he went on business. ■ Henry Baughman returned to his home at Bluffton after transacting business in the city. Mrs. R. E. Peters returned from Fort Wayne last evening after spending the day with friends. Mrs. A. D. Hunsicker, who is visiting with her parents at Cadilac, Mich., will return home in afew days.

Mrs. Tom Haefling will leave tomorrow for Flint, Michigan, to join her husband and make her future home. Miss Lucy Gains, who has been visiting Mr. apd Mrs. Charles Keller, returned to her home at Upland today. Miss Linnie Burkhead, of Chicago, will arrive In the city this evening for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Burkhead and family. A. E. Ford came in this morning from Berne by auto and after attending to business during the day, returned on the afternoon train. Mrs. J. D. Cline, of Silver Lake,who visited with Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith a few weeks ago and has many friends here, is quite ill with typhoid fever. Leonard Merryman, of Indianapolis, but formerly of this city ,was in the city today looking up old friends. He will move his family back here in a few days, where they’ will again reside. Mrs. D. E. Studabaker and David left today for Stanton University, Virginia, where David will attend school the coming year. Mrs. Studabaker will go on to New York, where she will visit friends for some little time.

Miss Ethel Barkley is a clerk at the Baazar today. Free Frisinger will spend tomorrow afternoon at Monroe. Miss .Addie Oliver returned to her home at Fort Wayne. Miss Mary Hite is spending the afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Edith Thomas of this city is quite sick at her home. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wel<Jy are spending the day in Peterson. Mrs. J. Pence, of Ohio City, was shopping in the city this morning. Frank McConnel made a business trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Miss Ethel Barkley will spend the evening in Fort Wayne with friends. Miss Ida Fisher returned to Bluffton, after a visit with relatives at Berne. Miss Ruth Barber who is attending school here, returned to her home this evening.

MJrs. Luella Barkley returned to her home at Fort Wayne after a visit with friends. E. N. Ray returned to his home at Monroe, after looking after business in the city today. M(ss Lulu Amerine, of Bluffton, returned to her home at Ashley after a visit with friends. Mrs. Helen Abel went to Willshire for a visit last evening and returned on the noon train today. John Joseph went to Geneva this afternoon, where he will look after business for a short while. Kitty Fought returned home last evening from Berne, where she made a short visit with friends. Jake Meyers left today noon for Kansas City, Kas., where he will work for the government, as meat inspector. Bert Lenhart went to Geneva this afternoon, where he will look after some important business in his line. The coal man is kept pretty busy these days trying to fill the many orders that they are receiving daily. This is fair week at Fort Wayne, and a number of people from here are planning to take in at least a day or so. Chauncey Lautzenhiser returned to his home at Berne, after attending to some important business in the city today. Mrs. Rachel Kern and daughter, Lavina, went to Fort Wayne this afternoon for a several days’ visit with friends.

Mrs. Sam Laman was able to be uptown last evening, although she is not yet recovered from a recent operation. Miss Fannie Frisinger will leave tomorrow for Bloomington, where she will continue her school work at Bloomington. If you do not receive your daily Democrat every evening on time, notify this office and we will see where the trouble lies. , Helen Dorwin. who had the misfortune to fall out of her crib Saturday evening, is improving, and it is hoped that she will soon recover. Mrs. Tony Hackman, w’ho has been sick with typhoid fever for the last week, is reported as being some better and on the road to recovery. Clyde Baumgartner left today for Chicago, where he will enter the Chicago Veterinary Institute, where he will study until completing the course. Felix Holthouse accompanied by his brother Lewis left today over the Erie for Rennselaer, where Felix will take a commercial course for the next year. Louis Nageleisen, of Piqua, Ohio, who has been in the city visiting for the past day or so, left today for Rennselaer, where he will take up another year of college course.

Mrs. L. C. DeVoss and daughter Doris, of Decatur, arrived on the Saturday afternoon train for a visit with her sister, Mrs. D. M. Robbins, south Meridian street—Portland Sun. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lower went to Frankfort today for a visit after which they will return home. During their stay in the city they have been the guest of Joseph Lower and family. Mrs. W. H. Scheeler will leave tomorrow for Chicago, where she will make a visit with friends, and from there will go to Benton Harbor. Mich., where she will visit for some time with her sister. Gert Reynolds is completing the contracting for new roofing on the Niblick buildings in which are located the Daily Democrat and the building just south. When finished the job is i to be one guaranteed to last for years. The public schools in St. Mary's township will not open until September 27th. one week later than at first announced. The Berne schools have overcome their difficu'ties and will open the schools there on next Monday. The marriage of a young Adams county couple, Miss Nona Hoffman, ot Linn Grove, and Lawrence Yager, of Berne, will occur in the near future. Mr. Yager is a brother of Mrs. John Moran and has many friends in this city.

C. E. Bowers returned to his home at Fort Wayne today. S. E. Hite made a business trip this morning to Fort Wayne. John Heiman is still very sick at his home five miles south of the city. George Kinzle went to Berne to do some work for the telephone company. Mrs. L. A. Graham went to Portland to spend the day with relatives. John Weber went to Fort Wayne on business and also to attend the fair this week. Al Burdg went to Geneva, where he will do some advertising for the 13. B. ointment. A. B. Bailey, of Monroe, was in the city today on business and returned later during the day. John Bowers made his regular trip south this morning in the interest of the Decatur Packing Co. Miss Ida Kohne returned home from a visit in the country as the guest of Miss Cecilia Steele of Magley.

Eugene Rittenhouse, of Silver Lake, Ind., has returned to his home, after transacting business in the city. Wilbur Urick went to Monroe this morning for a few days' rest. He sprained his ankle a few days ago. The Fort Wayne fair opened up this morning and the managers are looking for it to be a success from start to finish. Mr. and Mrs. Rockhill of Fort Wayne, who has been the guests of the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Stoneburner, returned to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Matt Schaefer and her niece, Margaret Reiter, of Pittsburg, who has been visiting here, went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend theeday. While in Fort Wayne they called on Mr. and Mrs. Engleking, who returned today from their wedding trip. Henry Bohne and wife, Mrs. Miller and daughter Lotta of Cincinnati, Henry Bohne of this county went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day. The Cincinnati folks are visiting Mr. Bohne, and are at Fort Wayne to see the fair today.

Mrs. L. W. Johnson and daughters left this morning for Mechanicsburg, Ohio, where they will make their future home. They have purchased a millinery store at that place and will open for the fall hat business at once. They will keep posted on affairs in this section by reading the Democrat. A party of Berne people had an exciting experience while making a pleasure drive in the city last night. As they were turning at the corner of Main and Market streets, one of the horses slipped and fell, \ The double tree of the carriage was broken and repairs had to be made before the party could continue their trip. —Bluffton Banner. A copy of the Pikes Peak Daily News, printed at the top of the mountain and said to be the most “elevated” publication in the world, which shows that among those who registered on top of the sight-seeing old peak on Wednesday, September Bth, were H. J. Yager and Miss Anna Yager, of this city, who arrived in the first of four sections via of the picturesque and scenic cog wheel route.

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/SOLID GOLD ® SILVER AWARIX # For the Best Ear oi Corn % To be Known as the National Corn Trophy To be Awarded at the W f National Corn Exposition, Omaha, 6 % ® Over one hundred thousand million (100.000.000. COO ears of corn were grown in the United States last year. Over a billion dollars were paid for them. More than a million and a Quarter extra dollars went into the pockets of the xßt 8% farmers for corn this year than they received for the previous year s crop. g® S The reason for this may be found in the fact that the people of the United States are beginning to learn how delicious jg corn is and to realize its full food value. WE Eg Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes has placed corn among the indispensable items of daily fare. S sis The makers, therefore, are interested in the development of the K?"” of Cereals, and have decided to award a beautiful fgs ffc trophy for the man, woman or child who can produce the best ea .• ui -- in two difl erent seasons. aS $2 Professor Holden, of the lowa State College, the greatest authority on corn in the world, will award the prize at the SH National Corn Exposition, to be held at Omaha. Neb.. DecemberGth to 18th. 1909. Two single rules will govern the plan. and they are:—that you send your best ear of corn to the National Corn Exposition. Omaha. Neb., before November 27,1909: and that you are a member of the National Corn Association. Full particulars regarding which can be had by fig al writing to National Corn Exposition. Omaha. Neb. Tie a tag securely to your specimen and word it. "For the gg Kellogg Trophy Contest.’’ and write your name and address plainly. If yours is judged the best, you will get the * trophy for 1910. If you succeed again next year or the year following, the trophy will become your property for && all time. In other words, you must produce the best ear of corn two different years. Jgg There will be no restrictions. Any man. woman or child belonging to the Association can enter. It will be open ML to every state in the Union. Holden will judge the corn particularly on the basis of quality. The growing o f more corn per acre is one object of the award, but the main purpose of the founder of -he trophy is for W Increasing the Quality of Corn Used in Making Kellogg’s % TOASTED CORN FLAKES > VRk Many people think we have reached the point of perfection in Toasted Corn Flakes as it JgSjF now is. Perhaps we have. If you haven't tried it. beirin your education in "good things to rrw xgsgi, eal today- All grocers have it. ttSST * KELLOGG TOASTED CORN FLAKE CO., Battle Creek, Mich. GenuineW^y / / yt s si s* has this Signature < f /

Leo Weber is visiting with friends at Delphos and will return home in a few days. Miss Lucy Shaft of near Bluffton, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to spend several weeks with friends. Mrs. F. Brittson, of Dallas, Texas, who has been visiting in the city for the past several weeks, went to Portland this morning for a short visit with friends. Earl Bremerkamp and Felix Holthouse left today for Rennsaelaer, Ind., and will enter St. Josephs college to take up a commercial course for the coming year. Uncle Robert Simison, more than likely the oldest citizen of Wells county, being past eighty-eight, is very feeble, suffering from a collapse, due to stomach and bowel trouble. He lives with his son, George Simison. W. H. Park is nursing the old gentleman.—Bluffton Banner. A daughter has just been born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Owen, west of Huntington. This daughter adds another to the lineage of the great Chief Francis Lafoptaine, the last head of the tribe of Miami Indians. Mrs. Owen is a daughter of Mrs. Archangel Engleman and a granddaughter of the late chief. This makes the new arrival a great-grandaughter of Chief Lafontaine.

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Miss Ida Hower went to Fort Wayne yesterday evening for a short visit. Commissioner-elect Jim Hendricks, of Monroe, was in the city last evening attending to business. The Anti-Saloon League in DeKalb county has decided to petition for r. local option election in that county in November or December. Editor James E. McDonald, of the Ligonier Banner, who is superintendent of the art department at the state fair, was seized by a severe hemorrhage while at the Indianapolis fair Friday and for a time his condition was critical. Just a reminder —you are requested not to overlook the fact that on Thursday of next week Miss Moses and Mr. Tucker will give a piano and song recital at the library hall, to which you are most respectfully invited. The entertainment will please you. Two men met in Warsaw Saturday who had not seen each other in fiftyseven years. They were Joe C. Blain, of Oswego, and Jonathan Eddy, of Al-1 legan county. Michigan. In 1852 these two, then young men, crossed the western plains together, with ox teams as the medium of transportation. Mr. Eddy left for the west in that year I with a party from Columbia City, his home at that time being near Pierceton. Mr. Blain was with a similar | party from Oswego, Kosciusko county. I

Police at Hartford City stopped Mildred Bryan from making a "slide for life” from the top of the court house tower there until cables were arranged in a manner which the officers deemed safe.

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