Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 28 September 1909 — Page 3

♦: :WEATHER forecast: Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer tonight.

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

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Your Meters Set | S It will require considerable time for us to set your meters and test ■ your house piping, so sign your contaacts for the use of gas without de- 1 1 lay. We have competent men and lots of them for the work of setting f ■ meter s,and are prepared to rush this work. W S Sign onr contracts now. Nothing can be done toward fixing your * I ' house for the comforts of artificial gas until your contract is signed. 1 ■ See to this matter today. B I ' Indiana Lighting Company. |

Hannon Johns is working for a short white at Bluffton. Miss Irene Schirmeyer went to Fort " ayne to take a pipe organ lesson. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer left on the ten o’clock car to attend a funeral. Frank Lord, of Monmouth, was in the city today attending to business matters. French Quinn went to Chicago today, where he will look after business for a day or so. Mrs. Hunter Meyers, of Montpelier, is in the city, visiting her mother, Mrs. Nettie Schrock and family. Dave Crum, of Curryville, was in the city today on business and returned to his home this afternoon. Miss Esther Rice, of Fort Wayne, returned to her home last evening, after a visit with friends in the city. Mrs. Emily Stafford, of Union City, returned to her home after attending to business pertaining to her farm. Charles Thomas, former gold miner, employed on a farm west of Warsaw, has mysteriously disappeared, leaving money in the bank. L. C. Davenport, Carl Bonham and Bruce Williamson went to Decatur this afternoon in the Davenport automobile. —Bluffton News. John Bowers is looking after business pertaining to the packing company at Bryant, Portland and other places south along the line. * Dan Lobsiger and John Donner, of Adams county, were here yesterday to spend the day as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lobsiger.—Bluffton News. Harmon Bosse who was reported as being in a dying condition, is much improved, and if present conditions continue will regain his good health in a few weeks. The seat sale for the “Saul of Tarsus” play which will be at the opera house tomorrow night is on, and will no doubt it will be greeted by a large audience, as it is a high class show. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Moore left today for Beamond, Ind., and will make a short visit with relatives. While there they will attend the wedding of Mr. Moore's sister, which will occur tomorrow. Ed Marsh, of Berne.wiil have charge of the McKee blacksmith shop for the next year as the result of an agreement reached Saturday. Mr. McKee is employed as an agent for the Extension Fence Brace Co. and will devote most of his time to that line during the coming winter, although he will look after his shop while in town. — Bluffton News.

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Miss Lucy Baker went to Fort Wayne today. Aug Puls is attending to business affairs at Portland. Misses Alice and Mary Cooper returned to Berne this morning. Mrs. Frank Hurst went to Pleasant Mills for a visit with her mother. F. E. Gnepper went to Monroe this morning for a short visit with friends. Dr. Sowers left this morning on his weekly trip south on professional business. Ira Steele, of Pleasant Mills, was in the city today and has returned to his home. Don’t fail to notify this office if you don’t receive your paper every evening on time. Fr. Benzinger returned to Hesse Castle after a short visit in the city ♦ ith Fr. Wilken. Miss Ethel Meyers went to Foit Wayne this afternoon to spend a week with relatives. Frank Copp returned to his home at Monroe after a short stay here in the city with friends. Cal Miller went to Geneva this afternoon on business and will return on the late afternoon train. John Sovine returned to his home at Honduras after transacting business in the city this morning. Mrs. Bridget Haefling returned home this afternoon from Fort Wayne after a short stay at that place. Mr. Hamilton Kilbourne went to Fort Wayne this morning, and will attend to some business affairs. Tom Gallogly is looking after important business at Geneva today, and will return on the afternoon train. Mr. J. C. Fisher went to Rome City today and will look after his property at that place for the ensuing winter. The Collins Ice Cream company, of Huntington, will embark in the manufacture of butter and cheese as well as ice cream. Miss Iva Rose, 15, was frightfully burned at Huntington Saturday by the explosion of a gasoline flat-iron with which she was at work. Mrs. Harvey Mclntaffer, of Auburn, fell a few days ago on a defective sidewalk, and erysipelas has developed as a result of the injury. There are still a large amount of sickness in and about Decatur, and the physicians are kept busy trying to take good care of their many patients. Several business men from the city will attend the funeral of Mr. Christ Christianer, which will be held this afternoon at St Peters Lutheran church northeast of the city. Mrs. Calvin Laechty, who lives northeast of Berne, and who a few weeks ago met with a runaway and was thrown out and received a sprained ankle, is up and around again. Mr. Thomas Rayl, of Monroe township, who had the misfortune to lose his barn a few weeks ago by fire, is busy getting things in readiness for the construction of a new one which he ’will erect in a short time. Mrs. Almira Bobo, of Bluffton, went to North Baltimore, 0., today to visit her Sister for a month. Mrs. Bobo made a short visit in the city today with Mrs. Ellen Adelsperger and other friends. She will probably remain in North Baltimore a couple of months. , Work was started this morning on , the gas line from Kingsland to Bluffton. The men who are working at Decatur were sent to the line and the pipe is being placed in the ground as fast as possible. The line will be completed to this city in a few weeks. S. E. Mulholland, superintendent, was in the city this morning, going through here in an automobile. —Bluffton Banner.

DISPLAY DAY TOMORROW IN DECATUR VISIT OUR STORE FIRST:And see our big fall display of suits, skirts and coats. For this occasion we have by special arrangements with one of our houses secured a special representative who will make a display at our store in addition to our already big stock. So we feel that WE CAN SURELY PLEASE YOU. I’ AA A Owing to our big stock on hands (W / \ /fI ;W) we are crowded for room and G 3 /M ’ I ' have been unable to decorate as uKZ !<| we would like to, but we have ■ ' / u made a special effort to make || fl I our second floor attractive to the | 1 i| ladies and we want you all to | ' /f | I visit that department. There we jd }Av T I | will offer special inducements to d I those in the market for suits. ; p Q skirts and coats. M. FULLENKAMP’S

Miss Ruth Meyers went to Fort Wayne today. B. J. Rice made a business trip to Algier, Ind., today. Miss Ida Miller, of Craigville, was shopping in the city today. Miss Anna Bower returned to her home north of the city today. Mrs. J. A. Smith went to Elwood today for a visit with relatives. Mrs. C. D. Kunkle returned to her home at Monmouth this afternoon. Mrs. C. J. Lutz and daughter, Miss Jean, went to Fort Wayne on the noon car. Mrs. George Steele went to Monroeville today for a short visit with relatives. Miss C. M. Sneider, of west of the ctty, who has been ill, is much better at present. < Mrs. Ellis Johnson and children left this afternoon for a short visit with friends north of the city. gud Brokaw went to Fort Wayne this afternoon on business, and will return home this evening. L. A. Graham made a business trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon and will return this evening.

The Aid Society of the Evangelical church will meet with Monte Fee on Friday, instead of on Thursday, as previously announced. A large number of the business men were engaged in fixing up their stores and decorating their windows for tomorrffW so as to make merchants’ day a hummer. Myrtle A. Lewis, who sued for divorce from Charles A. Lewis, a Mentone grocer, secured an injunction to prevent the grocer from having a closing-out sale to wind up business before her divorce affairs were adjusted. Walter S. Penfield, former Auburn young man now practicing law in Washington, has just brought to a successful settlement the $600,000 claim of the George D. Emery company against the government of Nicaragua. The young attorney is a son of the late Judge W. L. Penfield. Leo Davis, of Columbia City, 27 years old, was arrested Saturday on complaint of the First National bank of that city, charged with having forged the name of A. M. Thomas to two checks, one for $5 and another for $lO. Davis admitted his crime and is in jail awaiting the prison sentence which will follow.

Mrs. Charles Buhler, of Liberty Center visited with relatives between trains this afternoon and left for Lima, where she will visit relatives. Mrs. Newton Crowell who has recently moved with her husband back to this state from Michigan and her sister, Mrs. Ed Kintz, of this city, went to Pleasant Mills for a visit with their mother. Mrs. Barnett. Tomorrow Frank Gast and family will leave for the northwest, where they will make their future home. They’ have disposed of the personal property and everything is in readiness for their leaving. Their many friends regret to see them leave, as they have always been good citizens of Decatur.

W++++4-++++ ♦ ♦ 1 ♦ ♦ +++++++++++++++++++++++ ♦ ♦ +++++++++ I Ti E FIRST OPENING ! OF OUR SUIT AND WRAP DEPARTMENT ii WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 29, 1909 . > — . —■ '■■■TTTSy,'.T'-SaSS We have added to our big store a Suit and wrap department and have put in a : large stock of up-to-date garments made I ky the LaVogue Company of Cleveland, Vfci' - Wk Vi I willi Ohio, one of the best houses in the coun- iJ; >O7 .J | | try. Every piece in this department is VB If i ® I o i fl . M • ffirWii We wan t you to visit our store on Dis- //■/// ; /I/ I |\ I play day and we particularly want the la- 1/ . ; ///1 dies to see this line of suits and wraps, on Sstji Jly j ■ the second floor. J ; TRUE AND RUNYON |

D. M. Hensley and children. David and Leah, went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mr. Drake, the trap drum player and singer at the Pictorium, went to Fort Wayne today. Samuel Murdock, one of the principal stockholders of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley traction company, head of the Murdock traction syndicate in the northern part of the state and general manager of the Indiana Lighting company, S. E. Mulholland, assistant general manager of the Lighting company and Attorney Barrick, Fort Wayne, passed through here this morning for Hartford City, where they attended the funeral of Harry B. Smith. —Bluffton Banner.

J. C. Moran made a business trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. E. L. Carroll and daughter, Mrs. Dan Vail, went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. James Clark, auditor of the M. B. & E. and his wife and son, Ralph, went to the home of relatives in Adams county Saturday for the purpose of spending , ten days’ vacation,but they had been there only a short time when Mrs. Clark became seriously sick from an attack of stomach trouble and had to be brought home. She was in a serious condition Saturday night and Sunday, but is much better today. If she improves sufficiently the family will return to the country to complete their visit. —Bluffton News.