Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1914 — Page 3

To Night Till 10:00 P. M. Mens Gun Metal or Dongola Kid Blucher Shoes With Leather Lining Sizes 6 to 11, E-wide. $2.45 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

WEATHER FORECAST '* Cloudy and probable showers Sunday. Miss Estelle Chavanne of Ft. Wayne is the guest of Mrs. Mark Braden. Miss Marie McMullen of Ft. Wayne was the guest of Miss Agnes Costeilo. R. K. Allison of Indianapolis is in the city looking after business matters. Mrs. Henry Schultz has been quite ill since Monday of a nervous breakdown. Mrs. A. M. Anker and daughter. Veronica, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Charles Tyrill of Cincinnati, 0., was a visitor here with friends and attended the fair. Mrs. John Staker and son, Mar quette, of Bluffton, are here visiting with friends. Mrs. J. C. Sutton went to Ft. Wayne yesterday afternoon to visit witli her sister-in-law. Charley Schug of Berne had a good time at the fair yesterday, enjoying the many attractions. Mrs. Henry Krick went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to call on her son, Virgil, at the Hope hospital. Mrs. Ed Engelking and son, Maurice Edward returned to Fort Wayne after spending a week with the Zezer family. Ralph Burns and Mrs. Lots E. Hull, both of Fort Wayne, were married by Rev. J. W. Will at the Presbyterian manse, at Hillsdale Mich.

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Mrs. John Rice spent the day in Ft. Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Allison Andrews went to Fort Wayne today. The Misses Mary and Lydia Bieneke w’ent to Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Philip Baker went to Fort Wayne for a visit with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Kimsey. Count Newson of Columbus, Ind., was among those who attended the big Adams county fair this week. The Misses Bess Congleton and Clara Berry and Winfield Maddy spent the day visiting in Fort Wayne. Grover Hoffman is home from his weekly business trip in the interest of the Schafer Saddlery company. Mrs. Wash Gilpen left this morning for northern Michigan, where she will visit with the Peter Gilpen family. Mrs. John Reuss and a party of four lady friends will motor here tomorrow for a visit at the W. A. Kuebler home. Mrs. Joe Reynolds left this morning for Grand Rapids, Mich., where she will visit with her brother, R. E. Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bennett returned to Fort Wayne this morning after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. Marcus Jahn. Thomas J. Doyle, representative of the Indiana Catholic, is in the city looking after business matters and renewing subscriptions for tbe paper. Charles A. Bookwaiter of Indianapolis was arrested in Fort Wayne, his old home town. The policeman said Bookwaiter laughed at him when lie arrested a chauffeur for driving past a street car into which passengers were entering. He was discharged when recognized.

Mrs. Linnemeier of Preble went to For.t Wayne this morning. Mrs. Mury Smith and Mrs. Joshua Parrish went to Fort Wayne today. C. A. Neuensch wander of Fort Wayne was a business visitor here today. Joe Myers and son, James, of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Martin Stair and daughter, Mabel Ashbucher, of Bluffton visited here with Mr. and Mrs. Herb Borroughs. Cadel Meibers is suffering from an injured hand which he cut several weeks ago with a hatchet. The wound festered, and for some time it was feared that blood poisoning might set in. Miss August of Willshire claimed the bracelet advertised by Teeple, brandyberry & Peterson in this paper last evening and was delighted to recover her lost property so quickly. Judge Smith has his pocketbook. Os course it came back minus the two five-dollar bills, but it came back. The judge was touched at the fair grounds Wednesday, and yesterday workmen while raising the old laundry building on Soutli Second street found the pocketbook and returned it to the judge. Statistics show' that only a little more that three per cent of the passenger cars turned out last year were of W’ooden construction and in a few years those of wood will have disap peared from the principal arteries of travel, if not from all roads. In the coming year all postal cars must be of steel. It is believed among the British troops that bullets fired vertically upwards at aircraft never descend as bullets, the intense and prolonged friction of their flight to the limit of the trajectory and the subsequent descent of what is left of them completely dissipating them into vapor. Thousands of bullets have recently been fired at aircrafts but none have positively been known to descend. The leaves are begining to fall again and the old question of what to d< with them is arising. In many sur rounding cities and towns the city it arranging to have the leaves bunched up, loaded into wagons and carted away, while in others they burn them in the streets to let the fumes and ashes and dirt sift through the houses and make things generally unpleasant. Because a conductor carried two passengers beyond their destination, the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railroad Company, a traction line, has been sued in the Elkhart superior court by Jessie Wade and Henry Beditch for $7,000. Miss Wade demands $5,000 so ralleged sickness due to walking to her destination through a deep snow. Beditch de mands $2,000 for humiliation. Peru has lost the winter quarters of one big circus and has a chance to become the winter home of two more. The Hagenbeck-Wallace show will not winter there as other places have made them good offers and they have decided to accept the proposition from Carthage, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati and the horses, elephants, wagons, etc., that v izens” of Peru, will not be there this winter, at least. Little Gordon Moore, two year old. son of Mr. and Mrs. Sampson Moore, of 715 east Main street, Hartford City, was severely injured Thursday morning in a peculiar manner. A pane of glass falling from a window' struck him in the face, severing a major portion of his nose. The surgons, who dressed his injury, sewed the dismembered portion back in place in the hope of saving the boy from disfigurement for life. Eastern weather prophet predicts a white Christmas. He figures snow this winter will be deep because weeds are very high. Recent frosts caused tips of hickory leaves to point skyward. This means they are winter leaves and there will be plenty of wind and snow'. Chestnut twigs are unusually loaded with burrs, although this is an off year for chestnuts. This is the way nature provides the squirrels with food during a severe winter. The double tracking work on the Erie, begun last week, betw'een Akron and Laketon must be done within 70 days. Tiie Walsh company with a large equipment of construction apparatus has been working night and day to get. the work done before the cold weather sets in. All of the second track and the grade reduction work is to be completed in this contract which will be remarkable if finished on time. With the completion of this work comes the finishing touch of a double tracking job 206 mimles in lengtii betw'een Marion, Ohio, and Lomax , Ind. From Lomax to Griffiths there are about thirty-five miles of track and construction work which must be done, but this work is not included in the contract which was given to the Walsh Construction company of Chicago.

George Lexan and family went to Fort Wayne today noon. Dr. J. C. Grandstaff of Preble was a business visitor here today. Walter Thornhill of the soutli part of the county was here on business today. Mrs. Jennings went to Fort Wayne today noon. She visited at Rockford, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs, R. M. Birchuer returned to their home in Angola after visiting in the city with relatives for several days, Ross Nelson, city editor of the Bluffton Banner, was a visitor in the city yesterday afternoon, attending the fair. G. C. Steele and family arc getting their household goods ready to send to Huntington the first of the week, where Mr. Steele is opening a five and ten cent, store. Speakin’ o’th’ awful European war this mornin’ Tell Bin key said a feller might as well be a Belgian as th’ owner of an automobile. There’s lots o’ suckers at Bass Lake. —Abe Martin. Mr. and Mrs. William Strebn and daughter, Virginia, and Mrs. Daniel Clot:: and son, Sylvester, of Fort Wayne motored to this city yesterday and were the guests of the John Gerard family. Police Matron Fanny M. Winch has returned to her duties in the police department after several weeks spent at Mackinac, to which place she went to escape the rigors of the hay fever season. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Vail and daughter, Mary Louise, have returned froma three weeks’ motor trip through the east, where Mr. Vail looked after business matters pertaining to the Decatur Supply company. They visited at Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.

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> Earl Hoagland is gaining rapidly since his operation for the removal of the appendix. Mrs. Charles Nelson and two sons returned to Sloan, Ark., after a visit , here with relatives, Mrs. E. Woods went to Fort Wayne to visit with her daughter, Mrs. John Poliicmus for several days. Mrs. Eli Myers accompanied her for the day. Mrs. Simeon Bowers and children, Morris and Reba went to Fort Wayne today noon whore they will visit with her mother, Mrs. Howard Sliackley. Grace, eleven-year-daugliter of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Elzey, who has been ill of typhoid fever, is better and was able to dress and sit up today for the first time. Mrs. U. 8. Drummond returned from Bluffton where she has spent two weeks with her sister, Mrs. I. Peters. Mrs. Peters is recovering from a several months’ confinement to her bed, though she is yet unable to walk. N. K. Todd, who has been spending several days in this city, visiting with friends and relatives, left this morning for Cleveland, Buffalo, Boston and other points in the east where lie will make an extended business trip.— Bluffton News. Charles N. Coverdale, who has been spending several days in this city, left this morning for Dallas, Texas, where he will spend ten days or two weeks attending the annual convention of American life insurance agents. The convention w'ill convene there for possibly ten days, and agents all over the United States will be present. Mr. Coverdale is one of the officials of the People’s State Life Insurance company of Frankfort. Ind. —Bluffton News. Mr. Coverdale is the son of Mrs. Harriet Coverdale of this city. (j WANTED —Second nand roil top desk. Leave word at Democrat office. 204tf

ANNUAL PARTY The Family of Daniel Weldy Gathers Home to Celebrate Birthday. WAS 92 YEARS OLD Program Rendered and Big Dinner Served at Noon— Had Good Time. Tiie annual family reunion of the Weldy family was held today at the home of Daniel Weldy on First street, tiie occasion being the ninety-second birth anniversary of this venerable and highly esteemed man, long a resident of the city and county. The golden sunshine made the day an ideal one and as usual, the long table for the noon day feast was spread on the lawn. The Rev. Benjamin Borton of the Christian church conducted tiie table devotional service, and after the feast, there was a program. Music was furnished by the male quartet comprising Messrs. Ray Collins. Janies Anderson, O. P. Mills and Harvey Shroll. The Williams sisters, Thelma and Dorothy, gave a violin solo with piano accompaniment and addresses were given by Rev. D. T. Stephenson of tiie Methodist church and others. The day was the usual enjoyable gathering of tiie children and other descendents of this aged man, and their near friends.

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