Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1903 — Page 3

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Frank Bradey of Monroeville was the guest of W. S. Hughes yesterday. Mrs. 8. C. Reynolds, went to Auburn this morning where she will visit with relatives. Oscar Huffman went to Fort Wayne this morning where he will attend to business interests. Mrs. L. E. Wagle, who has been visiting here with Rev. W. Spies returned to Grund Haven, Mich. Teachers arrived from all directions todav and institute this year promises to lx> highly successful. Misses Dessie Beery and Lota Hower returned from New Haven today, where they visited over Sunday with Rev. Hower and family. J. L. Perry of Bluffton, a postal clerk on the Pennsylvania, was among the injured in the wreck at Van Wert Friday afternoon. Mrs. Susan Reynolds and two daughters left this morning for Elkhart where they will visit with Mrs. McDonald formerly of this city. At Mt. Pleasant cemetery, on next Tuesday, August 25, those interested are requested to meet and help in the work of cleaning it. This order is from the board of trustees. W. E. Weldy and wife left this morning for Napanee, where Mr. Weldy has secured a good position. They moved their personal goods last week and will make their future home in that city. Nearly a thousand people were carried into Fort Wayne yesterday from points south on the G. R. & I. Many of these went on to Rome City. Quite a number of Decatur people were among them. Hocker Bros, have let their contract for a large business block at Bluffton. The building will be 38x140 feet and will contain two business rooms, thrown together. And when completed will lx? occupied by the Rogers & Cole large hardware store. Although the Indiana peach crop is a failure and the southern crop has gone the same route the price of the fruit will be comparatively cheap in this loclaity. The Michigan crop is showing up and all evidence points to a bountiful havrest. Dealers are already receiving the advance guatd of the peach invasion and heavy shipmentswill soon follow.

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John Edington Sundayed in Fort Wayne. Miss Alice Tberdle speut Sunday with her parents at Van Wert. Dr. Lawrence Hughes, of Geneva, was visiting his parents here Sunday. Will Kelley, of Portland, is attending to business interests here today. Dick Erwin, Jr., returned this morning from a visit with friends at Richmond. True Fristoe returned yesterday from Winona, where he has been spending the summer. A girl baby is a new addition to the family of Chris Omlar, residents of the west part of the city. The Huntington county fair association have began their advertising. The date of the exhibit being September 15-19. Mr. J. B. Overesch and Mrs. L. C. Diehl, who have been visiting with Rev W. Spies and family returned this morning to Lafayete. Leslie Andrews is at Benton Harbor, Mich., where he is holding down a good position on the Post, one of the leading newspapers of that city. No small number of Decatur sports accepted the straight hunch in yesterday's ball game- and I guess that’s going some, yes, indeed, for it went in sums. Mr. and Mrs. Denman, of Findlay, Ohio, passed through this city today on their way to Richmond, While in the city they were the guests of F. A. Dibble and family. Mrs. W. B. Nimmons and Miss Gretchen McCormick left on the 10:35 train for New York City where they will sail next Wednesday for Europe. They will spend a year aboad. Miss Verne Page, of Montpelier went with them from this point. —Bluffton News. Scientific horse raisers say that the days of the mule are drawing to a close. A cross between the zebra and a horse it is said will supersede the mule which is a cross between a donkey’ and the horse. The new animal is known as the zebrula and has many advantages over the mule. It has not such a melodious voice as its long eared brother but has harder hoofs, is larger, just as heavily muscled, is immune fiom most diseases including the dreaded “tzetze” and makes a better transport animal in every respect.

The Day of Judgment For a suit of Clothes is the first day a man puts it on and meets his friends. Critical eyes will examine the cut, the fit and the fabric. Our Suits have passed muster they are perfect in every detail, and the best dressers pronounce them so. \jk/r» F*||+ + on men’s heads to make them look bandWKI U I I I(1 I o gomer. Come and let us try our skill on you. We have just received a complete line of all the latest shapes, styles and colors, at prices that will please you. Pp.!* Qnff Rnilorl Shirts we defy competition. Come • OU|I kJUIIVAJ and see them. It costs nothing to look. See them in the window. TRUNKS AND SUIT CASES at prices so reasonable that you cannot afford to be without them. ACKER, ELZEY & VANCE Two Doors North Postoffice. East of Court Hpuse

I No Tire! No Smoke! No Water! j ■ BUT A. TnEMENDOUS fl I Slaughter Sacrifice Sale ) ■ is the great attraction at our store DURING AUGUST. Prices will be cut in two, but the same 1 K GOOD QUALITY offered. Hurry! Come now! Don’t delay! ■ IwiNNES SHOE STORE J

T. Will Kelley of Portland, was in the city today. Mrs. P. K. Kinney went to Geneva, this afternoon, where she will make a short visit with friends. Miss Helen Grubb, of Ashland, O. arrived Sunday morning and is a, guest of Mrs. W. F. Brittson. Alva Nichols departed for Monticello, this morning, where he has accepted a situation in a shoe store. Miss Nellie Winnes returned this morning from an extended visit with her sister, Mas. Hugh Miller, of Muncie. James M. Willey ditch commissioner and a prominent citizen of Blue Creek township, was in the city on [ business today. Mies Anna Miller goes to Kendallville where she has secured a good position in the department store of Campbell & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hellinger, of Crestline, Ohio, are visiting with Horace Botthoff. Mrs. Hellinger was formerly Miss Carrie Botthoff. of this city. A ’possum hunt, conducted m a “down south style,’’ took place four miles west of the city, Saturday night. John Edington was main axman, and one fat ’possum was captured. The Lima slow - freight- train-base- ! ball-team catcher was seen going south at six o’clock last evening. On I a Wallace show bill he wrote: “Os all the tricks of sphere and sticks, the saddest are these: ‘score, thirty-six.’ Back in five weeks.” ’S that so? C. W. Boucher, the gentlemanly president of the Marion Normal colj lege, and who will be the attraction at the court house tonight, arrived this morning. He was with the institute last year and will be among its chief attractions this week. The usual number of Blufftonites were in the city last evening, rubbering at the sky-scrapers and illuminated dial on the court house. Bluff ton girls were also in evidence’but I escorts were a missing quantity. This ■ may speak bad for Decatur youths, but perhaps they appreciate the charms of Decatur damsels.

Misses May Fitzgerald, of Fort Wayne, and Corinne Eailey, of Bluffton, are visiting with relatives and friends here. Frank B. Porter, a former resident of this city, was in town today shaking hands with his old friends. Frank is at present employed in a Geneva drug store. Mrs, Rebecca Shaw, Oliver Warren and wife es Farmland, W. S. Smith, wife and son, and Mrs. Will Scherer and son, Leo, were Sunday guests of J. J. Mayer and family. A freight train on the Clover Leaf was wrecked yesterday at Ohio City. A car wheel broke and three cars were piled up. The cars were badly damaged and traffic delayed for several | hours. George Zimmerman and Lawrence Schlegle mixed up yesterday afternoon, and both now feel very much ashamed of themselves. Such scenes are disgraceful to all concerned, and could certainly be avoided. A. L. Gary of Indianapolis arrived Saturday and was a guest over Sun i day of W. A. Lower and wife. He is a distributing agent of the Indiana reading Circle beoks, and is today in attendance at the county institute. James Edington will leave tomorrow for the west, with a view to locat- i iig there. He will go from here to Deming, New Mexico, where he will | join his brother, Chat. Both will go to Douglas, Arizona, where they will : probably locate. Charles Probst, the Grand Trunk engineer, who had charge of the 2d | section of the Wallace show trains, in I the recent smash-up at Durand,' Mich., assumes all the blame at the coroner’s inquest. He claimed the | air was not working right, but had he i paid more attention to the gauge, the tragic accident would not have oc- . curred. Dibble & Meibers are storing up a big supply of chopped barley straw I for feeding purposes during the win-1 i ter and have established a mill in the alley by their barn to do this work.' | A small “Jack-of-All trades” gasoline | engine is used to drive the chopper ; and it does it in an easy manner. Frank Dibble acts as foreman of the work and has about five workmen under him. J. H. Hall, of the real estate firm of i Hall, Son & Fulk, received a telegram this morning stating the sad fact thatj his mother had died. The deceased [ was past ninety-five years old and death was due to old age. Mr. and Mrs. Hall will leave for Findlay. Ohio.' this evening. Arthur Hall, who is on hie way home from Oklahoma, was telegramed at St. Louis and will go ■ right on through to Findlay. The ever popular Aeolian Club ' whose musical renditions are al- | ways in demand went to Rome City Sunday and from reports thorough- j jly enjoyed themselves. They play- 1 j ed at the cottages of several Decatur people, and were also taken by the Assembly management to the big assemby hall where their efforts brought forth much applause from the auditors. They were given free steamboat rides and treatxsl royally in every respect by the enthusiastic resorters who thought them alright. Miss Marguerite Blackburn, an employee at the Waring Mitten factory, 1 had the misfortune to run a small needle through her finger, Saturday, while operating one of the machines. The neddle struck the bone of the ( finger and inflicted quite a wound. : After withdrawing the steel it was, thought that perhaps a part of the, needle still remained in the finger and 1 an examination with the X-ray was made at the office of Dr. Beavers’ but no trace of a bit of broken steel was found. 1

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Thomas Costello of Spencerville, passed through this city today on his I way to Geneva, where he will look I after hie interests in the oil field. Mr. Costello is a representative of the Western Oil & Gas Co, Miss Blanche Revnolds returned 1 Lome yesterday from a three weeks’ visit through the east. She spent a j week at Chautauqua, two weeks at Weedsport and visited Niagara, Buffalo and other places of interest. Manager Marty, of the Rosenthals, has secured a game with Ohio City which will be played in this city next | Sunday. Ohio City has developed ( her men into fast players and will try , hard to defeat the locals in next SunI day game. In the two previous games with Ohio Ciiy the Rosenthals took . one in a score of 12 to 3 and lost one in a score of 6 to 5.

Two large barns on the farm of Mitchel Robison, one and a half miles southeast of Monroeville, burned to the ground yesterday morning. | Peter Rally lived on the farm and I lost to the extent of fti(H), Fourteen hogs burned alive, and a large amount of oats and wheat, which had just l>een hauled in, and was not yet I threshed. Fann implements, harness and wagons were also destroyed. A I subscription was taken up from 1 among the bystanders yesterday and Mr. Rally was presented with a purse •of 8153. Mr. Robison also loses heavily, as there was only a small insuiance on the large buildings.

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Mrs. Elizabeth Chappins returned to her home at Berne today after visiting in this city with relatives. Mr. K rim me], piano tuner of Fort Wayne, is in the city for a few days. Parties wishing their piano tuned will please leave word ot the Murray House, at their earliest convenience. • n Lost Paakage containing EpWOrth League badges from Iron & Russel, Providence, R. I. It was addressed to Rev. W. E. McCarty, Hoagland, Ind. Finder will please return. Henry Hobrock and William Hoile went to Berne I his afternoon where they will act as viewers on the Chris Zehr ditch. The Zehr ditch is over eleven miles long and Messrs. Hobrcck and Hoile have no mean job before them.