Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 5 November 1909 — Page 3

A Positive Closing Out Sale.... J* V* To begin with we will sell one thousand 10 cent articles for only 8 cents each and give a ticket with every purchase on a $25 Jardineer and Pedestal. Hurry up! we mean business. You are getting your goods cheaper than any where else and may get the $25 premium and your 10c article for only Bc. Goods are now on display in our show window. Hurry! Hurry!! Hurry!!! j» > > Moser’s China and Notion Store.

: WEATHER FORECAST J Fair tonight; warmer in southern portion; Saturday partly cloudy. We still have a few sample bottles of || CHOLERINE | * s The liquid food for i|g fowls. H IGet a sample bottle 3 of p H. Berling Wholesale Produce Dealer Decatur and Berne. 16 oz. bottle 50c Gal. Jug $1.50 —- Have You One? or do you carry your money around loose or hoard it away? Open an account here and use a check book to pay bills and you'll And that the balance in your favor will grow much quicker. A fact we can prove if you will call. OLD Adams Co. Bank

■OaJ QB O B O B O BOSOOBOSOaoEOKOEOBO J UH ■ Mr. Home Buyer:— O n O We have something interesting in the way O O of a $2,900.00 well arranged, convenient and o g thoroughly up to the minute home, right in the ■ § heart of the city, that will most certainly appeal g ■ to you because it is right at the price and can be H ■ acquired on terms that are most generous. We O 2 will be delighted to show it to you. 2 O ■ Respectfully ■ O O ■ The Bowers Realty Co. ■ By French Quinn, Secty. ' 80808 080808080 0808 O B O B O B O 808

I, Henry Koenenian went to Williams > today on business. ’ John Schug went south today on ’ hiß regular business trip. i John McKain, of Linn Grove, vu a business caller in our city today. i Fiss Gladys Miller went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit with 1 her aunt. I Miss Lelah Buhler returned today from a visit with relatives at .Pleasant Mills. | L. S. Burkett, of Portland, who was a business caller in our city today, has returned home again. John Joseph, of Geneva, who was In the city yesterday on business, returned home this morning. I Many Decatur ladies are taking •advantage the (beautiful Indian summer weather to clean house. Mrs. Henry Biting and daughter Mary went to Berne, where they attended to business during the day. P. K. Kinney, who was transacting business at Geneva this morning returned home on the afternoon train. Dr. Sowers left this morning for Bryant and Geneva where he will attend to professional business during the day. George Steele left this morning for Union City, where he will look after • some business regarding a five and ten cent store. Don L. Quinn left this morning for Jndianapolis, where he attended to pertaining to the Decatur Motor Car Co. 1 Mrs. Fred Heuer and Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer spent yesterday at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heuer on rural route three. A number of new magazines have been received at the news stand Remember when you buy your paper next Sunday the price is silx cents. A large number of people are taking advantage of the cheap offer for buying potatoes for the com tag winter. Two car loads being on the railroad tracks at present. Mr. and Mrs. James Hendricks, of Monroe, who have been on a trip through the west for the past month or so returned last evening and left for their home this morning. Rev. Edward Baumgartner, pastor of the Evangelical church at Defiance, Ohio, was in the city a while ' last evening, a guest at the home of County Superintendent Opllger. . — . Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth’s Jewelry Store. Teiepnone No. 472. Office hours: B—l 2 a. m„ I—6 p. m.

! Joe Volmer made a business trip to Bluffton today. Mrs. Joseph Hill returned to her home at Monmouth. | Mrs. Walter Johnson in visiting with relatives at Tocsin, Ind. | John Hendricks, of Monroe, was a i business visitor In our city today. Miss Helen Evans Went to Mon-1 mouth today for a visit with friends.' Mrs. Jonas Tritch went to Monroe ' and will spend Sunday there with her mother. Miss Paulline Kregor of Wren, returned to her home after shopping ' in the city. Mrs. W. H. Nachtrieb went to Delta, 0., today for a week's visit I with friends. I E. N. Crawford returned to his home at Bluffton, after attending to business in the city. Marvin Mygrant, of Van Wert, 0., was attending to business of importance here today. Omer Butler returned home from Berne and will spend Sunday in the j ' city with his family. J Mrs. Neptune, of Willshire, arrived today for a visit with her son, J. 1 Q. Neptune and family. Albert Acker is acting in the capa--5 city as mail carrier today owing to the Injury of mail carrier Rice. t Mr. and Mrs. Ed Case of Willshire, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne for a visit with friends. r John M. Smyth, one of Chicago’s most prominent merchants, is dead. His estate was valued at three mil- * lion dollars. Mrs. Jeff Bryson, of Portland, who has been visiting with relatives in 1 the city for the past few days, re- ’ turned to her home this afternoon. Miss Jennie Woodward returned to- ' day from Lima, after a visit with her brother Sam Woodward and family. After a visit with her sister, Mrs. Otis Tyndall of north Eighth street . Miss Woodward will return to her home at Traverse City, Mich. Albert Sellemeyr the teacher at ; the Peterson schools reports the box social held at his school Wednesday evening as being all kinds of a success, and he desires to express to the patrons and others there hits thanks for their interest in the school and their patronage on th" event in question. Mrs. John Fleming left today for [ Huntington, after a visit with friends in the city. Her sister, Mrs. Huston, of Kewanee, 111, is now at that place ‘ and the home coming of Mrs. Fleming 1 will make complete a pleasant visit with relatives. Mrs. Huston and Mrs Fleming will spend the week-end' I with another sister, Mrs. Casper, of s Andrews, Ind. r Either a carnival of crime has struck this city or the people have j become so thoroughly saturated with the details in the Haag murder case r and other incidents in the criminal world which have happened recently that their imaginations have been badly stretched. People in all secr tions of the city have been seeing ' things recently.—Bluffton Banner. Harry Studabaker this morning purchased the sugar grove farm from ' his grandfather, John Studabaker, the ’ farm consisting of 246.70 acres. The 1 farm lies just north of this city and 1 is known to nearly everyone in the county by the fact that it has a large ‘ sugar grove on it and because John Studabaker owned it for years. The s price paid was SIOO an acre, making t $24,670. —Bluffton Banner. Barney Kalver has purchased the ‘ two lots at the northeast corner of the intersection of Market street and I the Clover Leaf railroad and will use the same for a junk yard. The lots are now occupied by two small houses which will either be moved off or converted into a store house. The title of the lots rested with the old Commercial Club until Barney bought them—Bluffton News. Bans have been published for the wedding on next Tuesday, November ninth, of Joseph Kling of Fort Wayne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Kling, and Miss Louitea Kelley, daughter ,of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Kelley of this city. The ceremony will be performed by Father Beiderman at the St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic church at nine o’clock a. m. Miss Kelley’s father is the monument dealer, who resides on Miller street—Bluffton News. Nineteen new* cases of smallpox have been reported to the health department since the first of November and while this is a big increase so far as numbers go most of them are in homes in whiteh the disease had existed prior to that time. Two of four put on the records today are of that character. There, are new patients in the Hamlet home at 321 west Main street and one in the Tourney family, 69 Baltes avenue. The others are in the Etzold and Moody families at 1300 Boone street and 1207 Mpumee avenue (respectively.—Fort Wayne Sentinel.

> George Steele made abuitness trip to Union City today. Miss Ida Cartright returned to Bucyrus after a visit with friends in the city. Mrs. David Gerber left today for 1 Monroe for a short visit with friends lat that place. Mrs. Elizabeth Steele returned 1 from a visit with relatives at Goshen this afternoon. Mißs Francis left this evening for Crafgville and will be the guest of friends over Sunday. ! Uncle John McKean of ' Linn ; Grove, 18 calling on his numerous friends in this locality. I Mrs. Mollie Baxter returned home, ’this afternoon from Berne after a 'ishort visit there with her brother, Wm. Tucker. Crist Boesse went tq, Fort Wayne this afternoon on the one o'clock car where he will attend to business for a short while. Mrs. C. J. Weaver and daughter, Mrs. George Steele and baby, Jean- ( « j ette and Miss Maud Cowly, are spending the day in Fort Wayne. Miss Lucy Mayer went to Fort Wayne to attend a family reunion of : the Mayer family. Her sister Mrs J. S. Hendricks of Los Angeles, Cal , I will be among those present. Mrs. Crist Eichler and Mrs. Charles Kuhn, of (Chattanooga, 0., arrived I. yesterday for a visit with their sister, Mrs. Julia Colchin. They re-1 turned to their home this afternoon. | Mr. Frank Christen of Chicago, ar- : ’ rived in the city this afternoon for ' a short visit with his parents. Mrs. J Christen who has been here for some ; time, will accompany him home Sunday. J. L. Aspy went to Dayton, Ohio, last jTuesday and expects to buy some of the Poland China hogs as he has sold out very close, having ■ had quite a sale on them lately.— 1 Geneva Herald. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Lyons, of Holgate, Ohio, were in the city today ( for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Debolt and left on the afternoon train for Portland where they • will transact some business for a day or so. Ephraim Herschy of Berne, died this noon after about a years illness with bowel trouble. Mr. Herschy had a number of relatives here who will be grieved to hear of his death. The funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon from the Mennonite church, and interment will be made at that place. Mrs. John W. Kelley, of Geneva, visited Thursday with her sister-in-law, Mrs. George H. Kelley, who is ill at the county hospital. Monday f afternoon Mrs. Kelley underwent an operation at the hospital, her left eye being removed. She is getting along nicely and will be removed to her east Walnut street home the first of next week.—Portland Sun. The Geneva schools will open again next Monday. The scarlet fever is now under control, and everyone is anxious that its further progress be stopped. Some still continue to let their children run about the streets, which we heartily condemn, but we think even with this drawback, the epidemic is now under control. The teachers will all be on hands to begin next Monday. Mr. Ault and Supt. Horton are here this week.—Geneva Herald. Albert C. Hlrschy returned from Huntington a few days ago and brought with him a wife in the person of Miss Martha E. Bowen, of Huntington, but formerly of Rochester. It was not generally known to his Berne friends that he had taken his second wife, and they were surprised to receive the news. Mr. Hirschy’s first wife died here about three years a;(o. Mir. and Mirs. Hirschy will live in Huntington, where he fe at the head of the tableting department of the U. B. Publishing house since a year and a half ago. —Berne Witness.

Nthe first ATIONAL BANK OF DECATUR, INDIANA EQUIPMENT IS THE BEST METHODS MODERN, SERVICE UNEXCELLED. Capital . . . $100,00.00 Surplus . . $20,000.00 Resources . $700,000.00

Treasurer John F. Lacbot is at .Cleveland today, going there on business. Little Mary Barnhart went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to spend .the remainder of the week with relatives. Mrs. Lew Stevens returned to her home at Wabash after visiting her ,parents at Geneva and other relatives in the city. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Uhl and childrep of Anderson, arrived this evening for a visit with P. G. Williams and family. Mrs. F. M. Addington, is at Portland, owing to the sickness of her 1 grandmother, who is not expected to live. Miss Ina Teeple went to ' Fort Wayne |’esterda|yl |afterntoon for a short visit. She will probably return on Monday. Msss Nfargaret Walters (returned home this levenlng ftjbm Berne after attending to her school work for the past week. The LaDelles will leave tomorrow morning Grand Rapids, Mich., where they will begin a tour of some weeks in that state. Rev. Spetnagle is entertaining his father for a few days. The elder Mr. Spetnagle has many friends •here, having visited In the city before. John T. Coots went to Preble this afternoon to repair an organ for the church there. John is about the only man in this section who understands the mechanism of an organ and he has many calls from over the county for his services. J. D. Miller, of Union township, who has the name of raising fine horses, disposed of three of his head yesterday rto two parties (over in Leo, Ind., and they are certainly beauties. Two were sold to Mr. Louis Gilliom, and the other to Mr. Andrew Bloom. The three head brought the neat fat sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

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, f T) OSSE OPERA HOUSE 1 d ONE NK.HTOM.y - Uthursday, NOV. 11th. I F —' —»——■■■■ ——■ - | ALAN VILLAIR I and company, including pretty Lillian West and I - . James Sylvester presenting | 3 I ; Thn E rid nr nnd Ihn fl r I r 1 I t J ..» » J *I n V J A pretty love story, with plenty of good whole- I some comedy, a few tears and strong dramatic I t situations. Special scenery. Pretty light effects. | PLEASING SPECIALTIES I including Miss Lillian West in her “Kid” Imper- I sonations. I 5 I Dri roc 9CL 2C EA Seat Sale at the rriltb: ad, DU. Usual Place C i School children 15c 1 , oi emigre J r

» . AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS r For sale, one Auburn runabout for $125.00. ’ One two cylinder touring ear in I first class condition for $600.00. Will demonstrate to prospective buyers. Write or call on Peter Kirsch, N. Third street, Decatur. 260-12 t FOR SALE—Having installed gas I have a Peninsular steel range and a gasoline stove for sale at a bargain. J. T. Myers. 264-3 t

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PIANO TUNING —Our factory tuner will be here for us a couple of days thie week and those wanting tuning dene may leave oraers with us. Actions regulated also. Moses & Meyer. I 261-2 t o NOTICE TO HUNTERS Notice fe hereby given that ao [ hunting or trespassing is permitted ! on the farm of John Tonnelier. 260-31 o ■ Democrat Want Ads- Pay