Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1903 — Page 3

time tables 0. R. & I. (In effect May 8? 1MB) trains north. I , n.|ly •• •• 1:30 a m l> 'v (except s-undnyi . 3:17 pm (except Sunday) b;Wam trains SOI’TH. . J-Dally (except Sunday, 1:19 p m Etf-Oally (except Sunday, 7:L a m ■■ ■ "" CLOVER LEAF. In effect May 3, 1903. EAST. , l -nonierclal Traveler, dally .. 3:25am t » Mall, dally, except Sunday 11 50 a m a liar E’preas. dally S:<3ptn J e Local Freight 1:10 am WEST i. 1-PayExpress, daily 5:25am Lt-Mail dally except Sunday 11:23am l , Lcommerelal Traveler, daily . »:1» p m . IJj-Loeal freight 12:05 pm CHICAGO & ERIE. In effect June 14. IMU. I WEST. x-Ruffalo-Cbicairo Limited, daily 3:10 a m j-F.ipreaa. dally I:42am ?. s_Xtw York and Chicago Limited r through coach Columbus and Chicago dally lt:3»pm , B-Wella largo Express except ’ Monday 5:12 rm Son-Marion-Huntln|rton Acc m 40:10am EAST ... Vestibule Limited for NY. ....2:55a m . So S-Marion and Columbus except ’ * Sundav 6:5S a m . ~ 4_Mew York and Boston Limited ’ through coaches Columbus and Chicago 3:24 pm 10-Buffalo and Chautauqua Lake 9:55 pm go 13 will not carry baggage. 3 and 4 has t tlreugh coach Columbus to Chicago. =- - ’ ‘ ' 1 J. D. Bright and wife of Craigville. , ire the parents of a baby boy. Mrs Bn >wn recently went through , an operation at that institution. Dr Overmeyer and wife, of Lit- i en. Indiana, are in this city visiting i with Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kern. Sammy Miller a former reslident ! of this city passed through here < yesterday <>n his way from Geneva 1 to Fort Wayne. ! Mrs. Laura Magley of Fort Wayne > returned to her home last evening after visiting with M. Magey and < family near Monroe. j Mrs. W H. Stults and children of Wren. < Ihio are in the city as the , 1 jgnsets of her mother, Mrs. W. A. 1 Wetter and other relatives. Mrs Isaac Brown left for Fort i Wavne last evening where she will . i v sit for a few days with Miss Barber. a nurse at the Hope Hospital. * The Ladies Aid Society of the ; Presbyterian church will meet at , Mrs A. J. Reynolds, on Fifth st.J ( Thursday afternoon. The chair j man of the different sections are re ( quested to lie in attendance. t&w , The stone quarries of Bowers and i Fntzinger which were recently i filled during the high water level of 1 the St. Mary’s river are now being ' pumped out and it will be but a i short time until quarring stone can < be resumed. , i

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c Miller went to Unn Grove 'his afternoon to look after business interests. Dr. Boyers is moving his household goods into the N. Blackburn on Third street which he recently bought. Miss Bessie Gerard was able to return to her work at the Big Store this morning after an absence on account of sickness. Mrs. Freang was callaed to Hummond yesterday, to attend at the ledsule of her (laughter, Mrs. Joe Roy, who is seriously ill. Strayed—A sorrel mare with white face and hind feet. A reward will lie paid by Jacob Atz for any information of her whereabouts. Mrs. 8. E. Brown of Fort Wayne returned to her home yesterday afternoon after visiting in this city with John R. Peoples and wife. True Fristoe and Charles Loch went to Berne this morning to complete arrangements for putting on Mr. Bob there next Friday night. Mrs France of Fort Wayne arrived in the city this afternoon to sjiend a few days with her sister Mrs. James Bain and Charles Helm. Miss Alice David who has been absent from the Big Store for some time on account of sickness, returned from Monroeville this afternoon. Miss Minnie Selking who lives in the west of this city went to Fort Wayne last evening where she will make a short visit with friends and relatives. Dallas Hunsicker of the Big Store, is now enjoying his summer outing and at present is pleasantly located at lake Winimac near Sturgis, Mich., He will be gone about one week. The citv council will meet at the city hall this evening and open bids for the construction of Monroe, Thirteenth and Fourth streets. Other than this no important business is expected. William P. Barkley of Union township, is just completing a new barn, the measurement of which is 3*x6o feet. It is exjjected to he competed this or next week. It will afford ample room for the storage of grain and will be a handsome addition to the improvements of his farm. The oil well on the Joe Rich’s farm in French township drilled for the W. G. Lott oil company came in Saturday morning and promises to Iks-ome a good producer. It is the first well drilled in that territory for miles around and it proves to be a payer. A new oil field will be opened there in the near future.— Berne Witness.

Rev. Wagner, pastor of the M. jE. church at Bobo, was a business visitor at Fort Wayne this morning. A. R, Bell went to Web City today, where he will be gone a short while to look after the lumber business. Attorney J. Lutz went to Portland this morning, where he will attend to some important legal business. Mrs. Harry Cordua and Mrs. D. B. Roop went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend a few days with Mrs. Jim Gerard. Mesdames John Colchin and B. J. ernhoff were among the persons who accompanied Mrs. Wilhelm to Ft. Wayne this morning. Mrs. Crist Streby and her mother, Mrs. James Gilson, left this morning for a few weeks visit with triends and relatives at Pontiac and Union City, Michigan. Misses Ethel and Marguerite Frysinger returned to their home at Fort 11 ayne today, after making a short visit in this city and at Pleasant Mills with friends and relatives. Harry Quinn, who has charge of a part of the clothing department in Montgomery. Ward &Company’s big store, Chicago, is in the city to attend the wedding of his brother, Don. to Miss Merryman, tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. James Fristoe left this morning for their summer’s outing at Winona Lake, one of the most pleasant spots in the state, and the seat of the western Chautauqua Assembly. D. Beeler of near Geneva, was a business visitor here today. He is very enthusiastic on the traction line question and says he will give any company a right of way and a hundred dollars bonus that will go past his farm. Miss Hoffman invited a few young ladies yesterdafy morning to meet Miss Hill of Chicago, a guest of Miss Margaret Hanna. The company was a neighborhood affair and very informal.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Will Parent and his gang of workmen have completed a big barn, I south of this city on the Elmer Johnson farm. The structure is surely a large one and a very neat piece of workmanship us it was built especially for horses and stock Webster Brothers' consolidated and antiquated shows pussrsl through this city last evening on their way north. The outfit consisted of one wagon and in an interview with the press agent it was learned that the second section of the show had gone a different route. Gus Rosenthal this morning received a very handsome tie pin tliat he values among his most valuable possessions. It represents a “pickii ninnie" with a star and crescent on his head, containing choral and pearl. The pin came from the esj tate of an uncle who died a few months ago in India of the far cast. The membres of the Columbian club announce an informal dance which is to be given at their club ' rooms over Rosenthal's clothing store next Thursday evening, June is. The best of music will be fnrj nished and everything will be gotten wady for a successful event. | The Columbians are progressive and ! popular peopel, are gotxl entertainI ers and will no doubt make the last dance of the season an unequaled success. Mrs. Jacob Mock died at the home lof her sun, thre» miles west of I Monroeville, yesterday afternoon at one o’clock. Her death resulted from jmralysis with which she had been stricken several weeks befow. The deceased was passed eighty years of age and leaves a family of several children to survive her. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at ten o'clock and interment wil follow at the New Haven cemetery. Every telegraph office of the Pennsylvania railroad company was connected with the naval observatory at Washington last evening and at eight o’clock over fifteen thousand receivers ticked simultaneously the time of the day. A message was sent out yesterday afternoon to all operators warning them to be on the guard and it was stated that the time sending would lx* continued for an indefinite period as it was a government exjx'riment. Just what is to be derived we do not know but the time could lx l arninged to agree all over the country by a complete system of telegraph connection.

Fred Schiman, of Friedheim, was | iu the city today on business. Leo Meyers and Harry Johns were , visitors at Monroeville Sunday. Dan Sprang left this morning for a ! several days visit at Oden, Mich. Alex Beall, of Willshire, was a business visitor here this afternoon. Jesse Butler, who has been working at Van Buren, is spending a few days here. Hugh Woods, of Rochester, was in the city today looking after some business affairs. Jeremiah Kelley of Willshere, 're-1 turned home this morning, after transacting business here. Will Doehrman and Arthur Man gold went to Van Wert this afternoon to get a load of fruit. Miss Myrtle Kitson, who has visiting a few days with friends at Willshire, returned home today. Dr. C. F. Spaulding, of Frankfort, was in the city today casting about with a view of locating here. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Clapp of Hartford, Conn., went to Bluffton today to visit a few days with Ernest Wicking. 1 Mrs. 0. Bender who has been the guest of friends here a few days, returned to her home at Bluffton today. Mose Byers, of Monroeville, an old Decatur boy, was in town today calling on his friends with a good line of cigars. Miss Margaret Hanna, of Fort Wayne, arrived here this afternoon to attend the Merryman-Quinn wedding i Wednesday. F. V. Mills, the grocer, is busily engaged in arranging his stock of ' goods so that the room can be paper ed and painted. A. F. Guerding, of Guerding <k Annan Bros., of Ft. Wayne, was in the city this morning on matters of a business nature. Mrs. N. Blackburn, who has been visiting near Berne with friends and I relatives returned to the city yesterday afternoon. Doctor J. Q. Neptune and Hugh Hite left for Rome City this afternoon where thev will camp along the shores of Sylvan Lake for a week or more. Miss Nellie Snellen, Gyp Dorwin and Blanche Rice were visitors at Ft. Wayne yesterday. Thev attended an Auburn Sunday School picnic at Robisons Park and report a very nice time. W. H. Lyman, senior member of: the Lyman Brothers picture enlarging establishment of this city, left for Terre Haute this morning, where he will look after the interests of the firm. A horse belonging to John Loshe, who lives east of town, became frightened last night while tied north of the court house, and but for the timely assistance of some passers-by would have completelyjdemolish harness and buggy, which were damaged a great deal as it was. Mrs. Peter Wilhelm was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, at Fort Wayne this morning to undergo an operation j some time today or tomorrow for a ; cancer. She has been suffering intensely for several weeks, and is now I in a very low condition. She was ac-| companied by Dr. Beavers and Mrs. | Peter Gaffer. Andy Schurger directed a big barn ; dance at his home west of this city last evening at which about one hun- > dred couple attended. The affair was a success in every particular and all report that they never had a better time. The orchestra of the jEolian : Club, of this citv. furnished the music which vouches for first class accom paninient. for although but recently organized they play delightfully. The Ohio City Giantu have been : scheduled to meet the Decatur liase ' liull team at Steele's jiark next! Sunday. It will lx* remembered i that the hx'als went down in de- ! feat before this same team, with a close score, several weeks ago, and another game has been arranged for, so as to let Decatur retaliate. The home team, we believe, has rallied since then, and although a close score may be expected, the outcome is not feared. Zella Miller, daughter of Dr. Miller, while standing in an old ice bouse which stands In the doctor's yard, while it is being torn down today, narrowly escaped very serious injuries. The roof fell in on her and she was completely buried in a bank of sawdust that caved in on her. Some neighlKirs and passers-by along the street heard the girl's screams and hastened to relieve her. While she might have lieen seriously injured, and possibly suffered, the fright was as much as she sustained.

GOING OUT OF BUSINESS worth of Wall Paper and Paints TO BE SOLD OUT. Sale Begins June Ist. GREATEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED. LISTEN TO THEM: WALL PAPER 50 PER CENT OFF. 15c paper at 8c per bolt. 36c paper at 18c. Borders at 21 cents a yard. Crepe I ngrams at 10c per bolt. 20c paper at 10c. Ingrains, 15c, 18c and 20e a bolt 25c paper at 12|c All borders 4c to 12c per yard. 30c and 35c papers at 15c. All Paints, Brushes, Varnishes Oils, go at Cost. 4c mouldings at 2c per foot. 5c mouldings go at 2Jc a foot. 6c mouldings at 3c per foot. All other stock and brands go at discounts of 50 per cent. Finest grade of paints at $1.25 per gallon. THE ABOVE TELLS THE STORY. I have de termined to quit business, and want to sell my entire stock as soon as possible. The BIG SALE begins at once. 1 have the greatest assortment of wall paper, paints and everything in my line to be found anywhere, and if you need anything, buy it while you can make 50c on every dollar you spend. R. B. GREGORV Decatur, Indiana. Cor. 3rd & Madison Sts. hi in ■■■—lll ww— iiibiii i , i rm, 1 Grand and Glorious 4th of July Celebration To be held at Decatur will far surpass any celebration ever held in this city. Horse Show and Parade To Steele's park, at 10:30 a. m. Balloon Ascension and Parachute Drop at 10:30. $1,500 RACE PREMIUMS 2.30 Pace purse 5200 2:20 Pace, puree ?200 2:30 Trot, purse $l5O Ladies’Race, puree $ 50 Running Race, puree $ 50 FIREWORKS! Grand Display of Fireworks in the evening. Inspiring Music! Come to Decatur and enjoy one of the grandest Celebrations ever held in Adams county.