Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1903 — Page 3

TIME TABLES a. r. & i. (In effect September 28, 1902) TRAINS NORTH, No 5-Dally 1:80 a m No 3—Daily (except Sunday) 3:17 D n . No "-Dally (except Sunday) 8:00 a m TRAINS SOUTH. No 2 -Daily (except Sunday: 1:19 p m No 12-Dally (except Sunday) 7:17 a in No 6—Dally ra CLOVER LEAF. EAST, No 6— Commercial Traveler, dally... 5:25 a m No 2-Mail, daily, except Sunday. .12,58 p rn No I Day Express, daliy 0:43 pm No 22—Local Freight 1:10 am WEST. No 3—Day Express, dally 5:25 a m No I—Mall, dally, except Sunday ...11:25a m No s—Commercial Traveler, dally .. 9:27 p m No 23—Local Freight 12:05 p m CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect September 22, 1902. WEST. No 7—Express, daily, except Sunday..2:22 am No 3—New York and Boston Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago 12:28 pm No 13—Wells Fargo Express 5:12 p m No 21—Marlon-Huntington Acc’m 7:42 p m EAST No B—Vestibule Limited for N Y 2:22 a m No 22—Cleveland and Columbus... . 6:58 a m No 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus and Chicago.... 3:24 p m No 14—Huntlugt’n-Meadville Expr's 8:20 p m A. P. Beatty returned from Fort Wayne today. Max Romberg returned from a bus iness trip at Fort Wayne. Amos Liehty of Linn Grove, transacted business here today. John Lehman returned to Berne this afternoon after transacting business here. Alice Atz returned to her home at Berne this afternoon after spending several days here with friends. Miss Eleanor Forbing returned from Fort Wayne this afternoon after attending an Easter ball there Monday night. The body of Charley Covalt who has been missing for several weeks was found floating on the reservoia at Celina Sunday. Stetler's body has not been located, but it is likely that he suffered the same fate. Charles Hower who has been at Denver and other points in Colorado for his health, has returned. He has been greatly improved by the winter’s trip, and while the climate does not agree with all who go there seeking to be cured, it has benefitted him very much.

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Will Miesse made a business trip to Kendalville this morning. John Beaverstine of Linn Grove was a business visitor here today. John Fulk went to Willshire today where he will look after the oil business. Henry Kohn of Chattanooga, Ohio, was a business visitor in this city today. Jacob Butcher of Geneva, was here hxlay looking after business matters. Mrs. J. Reynolds went to Auburn this morning to spend several days with friends. Dallas Hunsicker returned from Xan M ert last evening, where he had been visiting. James Buchanan and A. A. Evans of \\ illshire, were business visitors in this city today. Mrs. S. C. Edington went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend several days with friends and relatives. Miss Estella Wenihoff returned to Fort Wayne this morning after a few days visit here with her parents. Miss Ella Stuckey of Berne, returned to her home Tuesday after spending a few days with Miss Lizzie Knapp. Gusta Kirchner returned to Fort Wayne this morning after spending several days with relatives in this vicinity. Roman Barthel, who is working at Willshire, returned to that place today having been in this city last evening to attend the dance. Mrs. Peter Shaffer and children of Willshire, returned to their home today after spending Easter with her parents, John Johns and wife. Father Adlesperger returned to his charge at Cynthia, Kentucky last evening, having been in this city to attend the funeral of his sister. Miss Minnie Hart, who has been visiting with friends at Rockford and Van Wert, Ohio, has returned to this city and is again at work at the Big Store. Misses Lettie Ford and Irene Bryant of Geneva, pissed through this city yesterday on their way to Huntington to attend a business college. While in this city they were the guests of Miss Agnes Buckmaster.

Fred Huffman was a business visitor at Berne today. J. 11. Hohrock was in the city today attending to business T. M. Gallogly went to Geneva today, where he attended to his business interests. Mrs. W. A. Wisner went to Monroe his morning where she will visit during the day. A. R. Bell went to Union City this morning where he will look after the lumber business. Ringling Bros, circus is billed for Indianapolis May 11, making a direct jump from St. Louis to that city. The soda season is here and Smith, Yager & Falk have their fountain in trim and ready for business. Frank Oldrigdes left for Berne this morning where he will work on the lines of the Citizens Telephone company. Anyone who finds a small brown pocketbook near the G. R. &I. depot should please return the same to this office. Reports from Fort Wayne say that Frank Durkin is progressing rapidly and will soon be able to return to this city. M. F. Wisner of Hartford City, who has been visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wisner, left for Monroe this morning. Ray Miller left for Berne this morning and returned this afternoon with a heavy draft horse which had been bought by Beery & Holthouse. “Hans Hansen,“ a great Swedish comedy, similar to the “Ole Olson” production, is scheduled for a forthcoming attraction at .Bosse’s opera house. The members of the G. A. R. are moving today into their new rooms over Scheinians meat market, formerly occupied by the Columbian club. Mrs. A. J. Hill returned from Joliet, Illinois, this morning, where she has been visiting through the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Reynolds. The contract for the Marshl 1 street sewer which was to lx- let at nine o'clock this morning, was postponed till an extra session of council tonight. A contractor from Marion. Indiana was in town yesterday endeavoring to secure brick layers and stone masons to work in his city. He offered five dollars per day and it is said that a number of mechanics from this city have been employed. Jacob Miller and his force of wormen are busilly engaged in building a picket fence alwut the Catholic school and church grounds. It requires many feet of fencing to enclose these large grounds and it will lie some time before the job is completed. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Brenneman and son, Edward, left Friday afternoon for their summer’s stay in Switzerland. They expect to leave New York on Thursday and will go direct to Berne, the capital of Switzerland. and will be gone at least until next October.—Berne Witness. The merit and demerit system of keeping the records of the employees has been installed at the Harrod & Waggoner shoe factory. A bulletin is posted each week that shows the standing, he. it creditable or not, of each working lady. The system is a very effective and productive of good results, even as it is in large factories where it can always be found. Three Bluffton boys who attempted to hit the “head end” of the east bound Clover Leaf train to Decatur last night were given an eight mile walk by the train crew About two miles east of Craigville, midway between Blutffon and Decatur, the train was brought to a standstill and the boys were ditched. One of them was Frank Brown, a son of Dick Brown. A dozen other boys were comfortably riding the cushions inside the couches.— Bluffton News. There are fifty-seven women carriers in the rural mail service and about nine hundred women are carried on the substitute list. The average loss of time for each during the las’ year was a little over three days. This is almost equal to the record of the men carriers. The law requires the rural carrier to cover his or her route every day regardless of the condition of the weather und the records o! the department tell of heroic deeds on the part of the women carriers.

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“MR. BOB.” The Cast of Characters in High School Play. The cast for “Mr. Bob” which is herewith presented shows careful selection and vouches for a first class support of a standard comedy. Miss Rebecca Luke, a maiden lady with a weakness for cate, May Coverdale; Philip Roysori, her nephew and an amateur yatchman, Jesse Sellemeyer; Katherine Rog< rs, her neice who loves a “lark” Genevieve Hale; Marion Bryant, Kitty’s friend and cause of all the trouble, Blanche Carroll; Mr. Robert Brown, a lawyer's clerk who just came down, Dixon Blossom; Jenkins, Miss Rebecca’s butler who has objections, Charles Loch; Patty, a waiting maid and would be ballet dancer, Vada Martin. Between the acts there will be a piano solo by Miss Carrie Thomas and a vocal solo by Miss May Niblick. The play is to be presented next Friday night and the board for the reservation of seats will be open next Thursday morning at the usual place. John Jones went to Yorktown this afternoon to spend several days with his brother, Rev. Jones. A Life Saving Order. Many years ago the American warship Delaware came near foundering off the coast of Sardinia while luffing through a heavy squall during a morning watch. The "unauthorized letting go of the fore sheet" alone saved the ship from going down with 1,100 souls on board. The first lieutenant, afterward Commodore Thomas W. Wyman, with difficult climbing succeeded in reaching the quarter deck, where, snatching the trumpet from the officer in charge, ills first order, given in a voice heard distinctly fore and aft, was "Keep clear of the paint work!” This command to hundreds of human beings packed in the lee scuppers like sardines in a box instantly restored them to order and prevented a panic, they naturally feeling that if at such a time, with a line of battle ship on her beam ends, clean paint work was of paramount importance their condition could not be a serious one. Origin of “Cannnl." Here is a newspaper derivation of the word “canard." A canard means, in French, a duck: in English it has come to mean a hoax or fabricated newspaper story. Its origin is amusing. Many years ago a French journalist contributed to the French press an experiment of which lie declared himself to have been the author. Twenty ducks were placed together, and one of them, having been cut up into very small pieces, was gluttonously gobbled up by the other nineteen. Another bird was then sacrificed for the remainder and so on until one duck was left, which thus contained in its inside the other nineteen! This the journalist ale. The story caught on and was copied Into all the newspapers of Europe. Ami thus the "canard” became immortalized A So Hires ted Cure. “Your son,” said the phrenologist to the anxious parents, “will become n poet some day.” Here the father Interrupted with an air of deep concern. “But don’t you think we could cure him now If we could whack the poetical bump with a sledgehammer or something like that?”

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Safe From Poisonous Serpents. A physician, who spent some time In tlie countries bordering on the gulf of Mexico, found n curious body of men among the natives called curados de calebrn, or the safe from vipers. Having been Inoculated with the poison of the serpents they were proof against their venomous bites. The inoculation was made with the venom tootli of a viper and the bulb of a na- 1 five plant called tnano del sapo (toad s i band). The preventive inoculation has been an old custom among the natives of that region. What a man sees only In Ids best moments as trutli Is tratb in all mo-1 meats.—Cook.

That Hleancd llnby, “My dear," said a frightened htiabnnd In the middle of the night, shaking his wife, “where did you put that I bottle of strychnine?" "On the shelf next to the pepper- | mint.” "Ob, Lord!" he groaned. "Fv<> swallowed it!” "Well, for goodness’ sake,” whispered bls wife, "keep quiet or you'll wake the baby!"—Philadelphia I.edger. The Vtny to Succeed. If you would win success in life, don't waste time reading maxims and I taking advice from the successful. Just get busy.-Somerville (Mass.; Journal.