Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1903 — Page 3

TIME TABLES U. R. & I. (In effect September 88, 1908) TRAINS NORTH, Ne t> Dail, Hk) um No 8-Daily (except Sunday) 8:17 pm M No 7-Daliy (except Sunday) 8:00 a m TRAINS SOUTH. B No 9—Dally (except Sunday 1:19 pm No 19— Dally (except Sunday! 7:17 u rn No • -Dully 19:25 a rn - CLOVER LEAF. EAST. No <—Commercial Traveler, daily. .. 5:25 a m No 2 Mull, daily, exct pt Sunday. 12 58 pin No 4—Day Express, dal y 4:48 p ni No 22 Local Freight 1:10am WEST. e No S-Day Express, daily 5:25 am No 1 Mail, daily, except Sunday . 11;25a m , No s—Commercial Traveler, daily . 9:27 p m No 23— Local Freight 12:06 pm CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect September 22, 1902. WEST. No 7—Express, daily, except Sunday. .2:22 a m No 3- New York and Boston Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago 12:28 pm No 13—Wells Fargo Express 5:12 p rn I No 21 Marlon-Huntington Acc’m... 7:12 pm EAST No 8— Vestibule Limited for N Y 2:22 a m No 22-Cleveland and Columbus .... 6:sßam No 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbuand Chicago ... 3:24pm i '' No 14—Huntingt’n-Meadvllle Expr’s 8:20 p m L. S. Polbert from Berne, transacted business here today. Hugh Elite returned to his work at Fort Wayne this morning. W. H. Graham of Monroe, was a ' I business visitor here today. G. W. Schaffer, a Geneva man, was ■ .’ in town on business today. Berle Lockwook, of Bluffton, was in E the city the guest of friends. John O. Cramer of Geneva, was i in town today attending to business. C. E. Finch returned home last night after calling on friends at Bluffton. Miss Lulu Criss, of the Bluffton News was in the city yesterday the guest of friends. Come early and get first choice of new spring ginghams from 10 to 15 cents a yard at True's, 4tti Mrs. Isaac Weaver returned from Portland this morning, where she has been visiting relatives. Miss Fae Werder of Van Wert, is visiting her cousin, Miss Letta Wetter and other relatives. Miss Fern DeLong, of Greentown, is in this city the guest of Misses Madge Hite and Zoa Miller. If you know any news tell us. That’s the only way to make the paper interesting to everyone. The Entre Nous club will give an informal dance at their club rooms Next Friday night. January 23. Miss Florence Johnson returned to her school work at Berne this morntng after a few days visit with her parents. Sam Soldner of Berne, came in this morning to look after his business relations as a member of the county council. Remember the choice patterns always go out fitst so be sure and get first choice of the new spring patterns at True’s Decatur. 4t6 Mrs. A. B. Morrison and (laughter, Harriet, returned from Fort Wayne this morning, after a short visii with J. W. Vesey and family. Robert Gillig, son of Conrad Gillig, left for his home at Ft. Recovery, Ohio, this morning, after making a short visit with his parents. • Acker, Elzey & Vance left for Cincinnati this morning where they will buy goods for their store which they willl open up in a few days. Clarence Porter, who has been visiting his parents here, will return to Watonna, Minnesota, tonight where he has business interests. J. W. Tyndall and J. E. Moser left for Jackson, Michigan, to attend a meeting of the stockholders of the Jackson Pennensular Cement Company. E. H. Wolfe, of Indianapolis, is in ’’’ the city representing the Masonic Advocate Publishing Company of Indi anapolis. Mr. Wolfe is an ex-Auditor es State and well known. The Knights of Pythias report seven candidates for the first degree work, one for the second and two for the third degree. Theyjwill be initiated at the meeting to be held next Thurs day night. Harvey Waddell, of Johnstown, Penn., and a brother of Robert Waddell the famous Philadelphia pitcher in the American league spent Sunday in the city. Mr. Waddell is a ball player himself playing with the Pennsylvania state league. Frank and Louis Ripley of Bluffton, spent Sunday in the city with friends. Frank Ripley was on his K way to Los Angeles, California, where he has a good position awaiting him. His brother Louis will spend a few days yet in this city before leaving for Washington, D. C., where he has a clerkship in the Columbian office. Miss George Wein pie of Galion, Ohio, who sang at the M. E. church yesterday, left for Fort Wayne this morning, where she is a student in voice culture under Prof. Miles. While here she was the guest of Miss Minnie Orvis. She is a sweet singer and her solos were certainly thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated by those who heard her.

Wanted. —A porter ut the Burt House. Miss Inez Ernes is very much improved today. Louis Holthouse spent Sunday even ing in the country. Miss Genevieve ILiff.e spent last evening in the city. Cy. Baumgartner of Bluffton, spent Sunday evening in this city. William Lyman left for Frankfort this noon to look after business. William Campbell of Steele, transacted business in the city today. Thomas B. Millikin bank examiuer is at the Old Adams County Bank today. Ed Rice returned to Berne this morning after Sundaying with his parents. Tom Gallogly returned home last night from Bluffton, where he spent Sunday. Harry Harb returned from Geneva this morning where he transacted business. J. Q. Neptune and C. H. Colter and families spent Sunday with Jacob | Colter at Rivare. Dot Rainier and Jack Tester left , last night for Delphos, to call upon their lady friends. Bob and C. O. Ehinger left for Fort Wayne this afternoon where they will i look after business. Mrs. Henry Bremerkamp went to Fort Wayne this morning where she 1 will visit with relatives. John D. Kern of Detroit, who has ! been visiting with his parents here, i left for Marion this noon. John Lenhart went to Hoagland ' this morning to put in operation a saw mill that he has there. Jasper Wable who has lieen visiting friends at Toledo, returned to his home near Mouroe last night. Frank Burkhead and wife returned to their home at Willshire, after ■ spending Sunday in this city. L. T. Brokaw left for Chicago this morning to look after the business inI terests of L. T. Brokaw & Son. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sunderland returned to their home at Veuedocia, after visiting relatives in this city. Albert Wyman has resigned his position at the Big Store and has returned to hie home at Schumm, Ohio. Mrs. Emma Case, who has been vis- ■ iting with Harry Cutting and family I of Bluffton, returned to her home last I night. Lucile Gessinger who visited Miss : Nellie Poffenbarger at Bluffton over 1 Sunday, returned to her home last night. Mrs. Jeff Bryson will leave tomorrow for a two weeks visit with her sister Mrs. E, A. Huffman at Marion Indiana. If you see Guy Dorwiu or Charlie Phillips ask them if they were ever fooled in their life. It occurred Friday night. “Nus sed.” County Commissioner Jacob Abnet came in from Berne this morning to attend the regular meeting of the board of commissioners. C. A. Reed and wife of Fremont, i Ohio, returned to their home at Fremont, Ohio, after visiting with Dr. and Airs. AL F. Parrish of Monroe. Abraham Ramseyer, of Lima, Ohio, left for Berne this morning, to attend the funeral of Abraham Sprunger. He spent Sunday with his nephew, L. C. Annon. Frank Houk, a former Decatur boy, now an employe of the Marion Fruit Jar and Bottle company at Converse, ' returned to his work this noon, after transacting business here. Will Smith returned from Bluffton last night where he went to see Mrs. Charles Smith who is very poorly and in not expected to live. She had two hemorrhages yesterday afternoon. The entertainment by the Colonial Moving Picture company, which will be held at Bosse’s opera house next Monday night, is under the auspices of the Improved Order of Red Men. Mrs. Peter Colehin was pleasantly ! surprised last evening by friends, the | occasion being her fortieth birthday i anniversary. Quite a crowd was pres- | ent and the event was certainly a i pleasant one for all, and was the re- | suit of plans carefully made by her children. Andy Schurger will leave tomorrow night for Lawton, a growing city lo- ' eated in southern Oklahoma, where he will make his future home. A number of his friends called last evening to say their farewells and bid I him success. We join them in their i good wishes. The C. Y. M. S. club are making | extensive preparations for the danee at their hall which will be held on the 27th. The Buffalo Harp orchestra will furnish the music and anybody I who has heard them before will certainly not miss the chance to hear I them again. A gentleman very closely associated with the east and west proposed traction line that would Intercept either Geneva, Berne or Bryant, was in town last Saturday and dropped the remark that Geneva was a preferable point on the line and by hustle on the part of our citizens there would be no doubt ' but what Geneva could have an east and west traction line. Our citizens should not let an opportunity to get the road pass as it would undoubtedly prove a great benefit to the town. — Geneva Herald.

Mrs. W. L. Brill is in Jhe city. A. Marklev returned to his home today at Willshire. J. B. Mason is looking after besincss at Celina today. J. W. Barnett returned to Pleasant Mills after tranaating business in the city. John Cottel, of New Corydon, was in the city today, attending to business. R. J. Holthouse came home Sunday from a business trip to Columbus, Ohio. J Mrs. Kreigh and Mrs. Siekafus, of Preble, were in the city doing some shopping today. W. D. Reynolds returned to Will 1 shire this noon atter spending Sun-' day in this city. James Kinney the Jefferson town-| ship trustee was in town today at- ■ tending to business. Cecil and Grace Harb will leave '■ the city for a few days visit with relatives at Willshire. Henry Thomas and wife left yes ! terday for Marion, Ind., for a few days’ visit with relatives. Mrs. George Burwell arrived in the I city this noon for a visit with her i daughter, Mrs. George Zimmerman. The babe of Prof, and Mrs. H. A. j Hartman has been quite sick with a j bealing in the head, but is now betI ter. George Syphers of Willshire is in the city today looking up old acquain tances and calling ou his Big Store friends. Remember the choice patterns always go out first so be sure and get first choice of the new spring waisting i at True's. Decatur. 4t6 P. C. Kantz, the district agent for the International Correspondence ■ schools, with offices at Fort Wayne, was in the city a short time today. The palm and fern of Mrs. Belle France, on which numbers have been sold to many in the city will be rafi lied off at Fristoe’s Smoke House this evening at seven o’elock. Miss Mary Kibler of Keystone, Indiana returned from a visit with Berne relatives this morning and will make a short stay with Miss Gertrude Blosser before returning home. A. E. Rose has been awarded the ; contract for building a hot water heating plant in the residence of Josua Yoder, of Berne, and will begin work on the same this week. W. H. Fristoe of Sidney, Ohio, and E. B. Fristoe of Dayton, Ohio, are in the city visiting their cousins, H. A. and James N. Fristoe and other relatives. W. H. Fristoe is an ex-shenff of Shelby county, Ohio. They will remain about a week. Preparations are going merrily on for the entertainment of the Bluffton ladies, and the six o’clock dinner at the commodious home of Mrs. W. H. Niblick tomorrow evening. It will lie quite a social event and one in which many of our people are eagerly looking forward to. Major Allison writes from Birmingham, Alabama, that the thermometer registers in the close proximity of forty-six, and that to us sounds too good to be true. He reports the weather perfect and that he is thoroughly enjoying his visit in the southern clime. With Mrs. Allison he is visiting his daughter, Airs. Frederick G. Alacke. A jolly crowd of young people left the city yesterday for Berne, where they were royally entertained at the home of Sain Simison, where an elegant supper was awaiting them. Those in the party were Misses Alice Jackson, Lola Jackson. Jess Winnes, Bess Harruff, Arbie Loch, Jessie Cook, and Messrs. Dallas Hunsicker, Ed Coffee, Rufus Linn, Orval Harruff, Harry Beery and George Case. We are in receipt of a letter from J. H. Stultz of Longmont, Colorado, and lit is interesting as usual. Among i other things he includes a postal order for the necessary amount of pay i for the Democrat a year. He also | sends us a newspaper clipping which | tells of a .'51,000,000 beet sugar faci tory to be erected there at once. The new plant will have a capacity of 1.200 tons per day and will certainly be a I great industry. Otto Seitz the young son of Charles Seitz living in the west part of town j fell off a chair at the home of his I grandfather Peter Seitz and it is fear'ed fractured his jaw. While playing I in a room where his grandmother was ' doing some sewing he accidentely fell j off of a chair striking his jaw and hurting it very oadly. Before mediI cal aid could be summoned his jaw i was swollen to such a proportion that I hardly anything could be done and j nothing postive can be learned as to how badly he is hurt until the swellgoes down. The accident is causing j the boy intense paiu. Surprises were numerous in Bluffton ’ last evening and all of them were j pleasant ones. Airs. Levi Linn who ! will go to Decatur soon to make her home, was the recipient of one of the | surprises last night when about fifteen I or twenty of her friends and neighbors jof her parents called at the Gottlieb Saurer home on west South street. The party wan given as a farewell to Airs. Linn in view of her removal to Decatur. Games of an interesting and amusing nature were indulged in and the Saurer home rang with merriment until a late hour. Dainty refreshments were served to the guests and then they took their leave.—Bluffton Banner.

NOTICE! I Only 24 Days More I THE NEW FAIR STORE j Going Out of Business I This is your last chance to get goods at I Almost Your Own Price ! Dry Goods, Hosiery, Underwear Queensware—all other lines have been sold. Fixtures have been sold and store is rented. We have to vacate in thirty days. Be Sure and Come! |

ROY ARCHBOLD, DENTIST. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. _ J Office, 164. rnone ' RegkJencet 153. Will Cordua transacted business at Fort Wayne this morning. C. W. Murray was a business visitor at Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Peter Gaffer is confined to her home with a severe attack of the grip. “Shucks” Schumacher went to Fort Wayne this morning to transact business. The small child of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gaffer is very sick. It had four spasms in two hours. H. H. Diggs, the Decatur agent for the 1. C. schools, made a business trip to Huntington this morning. Miss Gertrude Forbing returned from Fort Wayne today, after a few days’ visit with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. 0. N. Snellen entertained a small crowd at their home last night. Progressive pedro was the amusement of the evening. Mies Julia Moser, who has been visiting here with Mrs. Mary Lee and family, returned to her home at Monroe this afternoon. Samuel Opliger, trustee of Hartford township, returned to his home at Linn Grove this afternoon after transacting business here. W. H. Niblick left this afternoon for Jackson, Michigan, where tomorrow he will join the other Decatur forces in attending a meetingot stockholders of the Penninsular Cement works. Mr. Niblick is a large stockholder in this company. A young man who has been visiting in the city for a day or two went out to a much talked of house on west Adams street early this morning and tried to effect an entrance. He made considerable noise and the lady of the house opened a window and fired at the intruder who proceeded to make his escape. The attendance at the Methodist church yesterday was large. Rev. C. G. Hudson delivered one of his practical sermons, one that was straight to the point and needed no microscope for a better view. It was a good, thoughtful and trilthful sermon delivered from the heart of a minister who preaches the gospel as he sees it. FOURTH STREET. The Paving Question up to Judge Erwin. The ease of Joseph Smith and others vs. City of Decatur and others was tried in the circuit court today. But little evidence was offered by the plaintiff and none for the defense, the principle contention of the remonstrators being that the letting of the Fourth street contract was illegal on account of the city being over thejtwo percent, limit. The evidence was concluded by noon and the case argued this afternoon. A decision has not yet been rendered. THE ONLY BIDDER. The only bidder on the smoke and wood house to be built at the county infirmary, that was filed before the board of commissioners was that of J. D. Weikel, his price being <535. The fate of the building is in the hands of the county council as it requires their approval of an estimate to this amount before the same can be contracted. The new building is a necessity. ® ...

=JUST OUT= Swell English Squares, the correct thing in spring neckwear, shown at Gus Rosenthal’s.

Men’s Felt Boots SL4-9 Men’s Artics 95 Women’s Artics 68 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE, The Shoe Seller. Decatur, Indiana.

THE ARMY POST. The Secretary Rightfully Protests Against too Much Bossism. It is intimated at the war depart; ment that Indianapolis mav not get any army post at all unless the condition over various cities ceases It is said by reliable persons that the secretary of war is- disgusted over the protests and counter protests that are coming in and the pulling and hauling that is being done by various individuals and companies. He feels that there ought to be sufficient patriotic sentiment at Indianapolis to make it as easy as possible tor him to work out the problem instead of burying him alive beneath a mass of bewildering protests and suggeseions. Amusements. The management of Bosse’s opera house will offer us tomorrow night Lincoln J. Carter’s great success "The Eleventh Hour.” a comedy drama in five acts, dealing with types of characters that we come in contact with in every day life. The first act is an old mill in DeKalb county Illinois, and is said to be very realistic. The third act is a block house tower on the Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Few people traveling understand this all important part of railroading. From this tower the lives of hundreds of people depend. The fourth act shows one of Chicago’s famous resort. The Bismark Gardens. The last act is said to be an exact reproduction of one of Chicago’s Millionaire’s homes. This is said to be the grandest stage setting that has ever been presented by a traveling organization. The company that represents this play is far above the average. Carter, one of the worlds greatest majicians will appear at the opera house Thursday night and the advance seat sale proves that his enter tainment will be well attended. ® The Colonial Motion Picture company are billed for an entertainment at Bosse’s opera house next Monday evening.

LATEST FASHIONS. The Daily Democrat Gives the Ladies a Few Pointers. This handsome gown of berry-red zibeline, has a bolero waist, which is shortened to disclose a tucked lower portion. The stylish collar has tab extensions, and a scarf of black taffeta is knotted over the bust. The skirt is tucked at the top to hip yoke depth, and is outlined by strappings stitched with Corticelli spool silk; fancy ornaments are added. The sleeves follow the fashionable Du Barry shaping.

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All shades of red are in vogue, from the blushing cherry tints, to the richer darker shades ranging from dahlia to wine, mahoganp, claret and cedar. For the house there is nothing more charming than a red gown, relieved with a touch of black and white on the waist. The skirt could be plaited, with a generous sweep, and a similar embellishment displaced in the waist and voluminous sleeves. Red hats covered with shaded dahlias, or scarlet petaled roses.♦re smart, and ball and dinner gowns of geranium-colored crepe have almost deposed the pinks ana blues.