Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1903 — Page 3

■bee OUF? FftLL latest Styles ■Ev’rythingNew E K'M store - Jesse Dailey is quite eick with ty■phoid fever. I Joe Wi 11 teregg of Berne was hereon ■business yesterday afternoon. Herman Yager is at Rome City ■ where he will enjoy an outing a few ■days. Todd Linn is suffering with a very ■ lame foot the result of stepping on a ■ rusty nail. Miss May Heffner returned this ■ morning from a visit with her 1 ■ brother, Joseph, at Fert Recovery. Mrs. B. Block, who has been visiting herewith Mrs. G. H. Meyers, re ■ turned this morning to Et Wayne. Mrs. John Mason and daughters, ■ Mav and Francis. went to Et. Wayne ■ this morning, and from there will go ■ to Arcola. Rev. John Heffner and nephew. ■ Mr Earl Heffner, of Eort Recovery. ■ are the guests this week of Peter ■ Forbing and family. Miss Francis Bryson went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon where ■ she will visit a few davs with her ■ friend. Miss Helen McGee. The’ Misses Georganna and l.ud ■ miller Laurer. of Port Wayne, who I have been visiting in this city with I Miss Agnes Costello, returned to E their home last evening. Ben Middleton reports the break I ing of another scaffold at the ■ Sehnepp school building yesterday. I He was on the top side of the scaf a fold when it took a header, but fortu- | nately escaped without injury. The G. R. A I. pay ear will be in this city some time next Thursday I morning to pay off the employes in | and about this city. The car starts I from Richmond at six o’clock in the I morning and will pay on its trip I north.

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A. Van Camp went to Auburn this morning to attend to business affairs | there. Charles Tyrill went to Fort Wayne this morning for a few days’ visit with friends. Jim Cook went to Fort'Wayne this morning, and from there goes to Winona to spend a week. Mrs. C. S. Duckett, after a two j weeks’ visit with friends here, went 1 to Winona this morning. Joe Volmer, who has been visiting in this city with his mother for a few ; days, went to Norfolk, Va., today. Howard Shackley went to Geneva this morning, where he looked after business matters during the day. Miss Arby Lock is suffering with a ! nervous spell, resulting from her re- ; cent experience in a runaway. Mies Dollie Pennington, who has [ lieen visiting friends here for several days, returned this morning to Fort Wayne. The Bluffton papers say that a rain would do the corn crop much good. Why really, how observing they are. Mrs. C. V. Connell and daughters, Lois and Marie, left for Pierceton, • Ind., this noon, where they will visit with relatives. • Miss Barbara Lotter. who has been 1 visiting for several weeks with John 1 ! Niblick and family, returned this morning to Fort Wayne. A peep into the painting shop of ■ Corbin A; Miller, corner Madison and Third streets, showed the firm very busy striping signs, today. Nolan King went to Geneva this “ morning where he will advertise a horse sale for Beery A Holt house. The sale will be held next Friday. Rev. Pontius will be home from >i Indianapolis tonight, where he went i to investigate the Keith music plaver. i After his return, the matter of formI . mg a stock company will be pushedThe tnree-months-old child of Otto »i Ray, near Monroe, was buried at ten . o’clock this morning from the Monroe M. E. church. The child had been ailing some time and died Mon- ; day. I Frank Thomas, the bricklayer in r jured Monday, by a falling scaffold, II is fast recovering, and in a few days s more will bo ready for another dep scension. The wound in his head. P while not particularly serious, had pains sufficient for a dozen falls.

The Day of Judgment For a suit of Clothes is the first day a man puts them 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 beat dressers prononuce them so. »./_ Pllt on men ’ 8 boa*’ B to make them look hand vAf 6 I U I II OI o Romer. 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. Rrnlorl Shirts we defy competition. Come lul I I UUlltjU and set* 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 I’ostoflice. East of Court House

I No Fire! No Smoke! No Water! j BUT -A- themendous ■ I 1 I Slaughter Sacrifice Sale i ■ is the great attraction at our store DURING AUGUST. Prices will be cut in two, but the same K GOOD QUALITY offered. Hurry! Come now! Don’t delay! ■ I WIN NES SHOE STORE]

Misses Zoa Miller and Madge Hite, of this city, and Fern DeLong, of t Greentown, went to Ohio City, this I morning, for a visit with friends. Chas. N. Coverdale, a former Deca- 1 tur citizen, was in the city today vis- < iting with hie father, Elias Coverdale. Charley is now in the insur- , ance business at Bluffton. . Mrs. H. S. Porter will soon leave for . Owatonua, St. Paul and other Minnesota points where she will make an extended visit with relatives. At ■ Owatonua she will visit with her son, Clarence Porter, who is in business at that place. The case of the State vs. Charles Ball, which was to have been tried in ’Squire Reynold’s court, was withdrawn by the prosecuting witness, Maynard E. Johnson. The affair I grew out of a family quarrel and the ! affidavit charged assault and battery, j Richard, the two-months-old son , of Dr. H. Covault, died yesterday at ,; twelve o'clock. The child had been I I suffering from indigestion, and I other troubles, and suffered terribly during its short life.; The funeral was held at the house at four o’clock this afternoon and the body was buried in Maplewood ceme- ' I tery. 8 Last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Michaud of Berne, a haud- | , some girl baby was born. Their many | friends had long ago abandoned all ■ ’ hope of this kind of happiness, but Bub never gave up. It is said to be a very handsome one. and upon itsar- ! rival met a very cordial reception. Late reports indicate that soon the Michaud household willjsettle down to a normal condition. j A meeting of all the members of j the medical profession of Adams County, Indiana, will be held at tie office of Drs. J. S. and Earl G. Coverdale on Friday afternoon, at 2 oclock. The meeting will be addressed by Dr. Kemper, of Muncie, Ind, who has been , elected medical organizer for the Bth congressional district of this State. Matters of much interest to the medical profession will be discussed at this meeting, and it is hoped that every licensed physician in this county will be present.

Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Coverdale entertained Mrs. T. Auten anil Miss Mattie Auten at dinner, yesterday. Marriage licenses were issued to Robert Hathaway to Ida Babcock, John V. Custer to Maggie Fortner. Samuel and Mrs. Emma Zimmerman of Leo, Indiana, returned today after a pleasant two weeks visit with John P. Spooler and family. The Methodists Sunday School at Steele will give a picnic in Danner’s grove, one forth mile west of Steele on next Saturday. Every body invited to take their lunch and attend. Mrs. E. G. Coverdale entertained Mrs. Auten, and her datghter Mary Auten and Mrs. Clark to a six o’clock tea. Miss. Auten will soon return to school at Fort Wayne. Attention, Company No. 70, U. R. ' K. of P.—There will be a meeting of I U. R. at Castle Hall, Friday night, at 7:30 sharp. Business of importance, i All members required to be present. By order of E. Bcrt Lenhart, H. M. De Voss, let Lieut. Recorder. A. E. Rose has secured the contract for constructing a steam heating plant in the central school house at Liberty \ Center. The job is a big one and will require considerable work. E. H. Rose and John Cook will go to Liberty Center tomorrow morning and commence the job. We are informed that quite a number of our young people will attend Valparaiso, Indiana, beginning Sept.l This school is growing rapidly in pop ular favor and well it should because it is doing more for young people ■ than any other. It is well equipped, gives a high grade of instructions and makes the expences the lowest. A peculiar incident occurred at council meeting last evening, when the finance committee read to the council and allowed a bill for supplies from the firm of Coffee & Man- , gold. Mr. Mangold sold the goods, and his partner, Mr. Coffee, acting as mayor, brought up an objection. The law is that no salaried city official can ever recover from the city for goods 1 supplied by him. Mayor Coffee de-1 dared the bill void, as he was mentioned in it. The firm will go loser.

" The opera house orchestra was orI ganized last evening, and tirst-class - music between acts is now assured. The orchestra is composed of the foli lowing musicians: Fred Patterson, violin: Charles Loch, clarionet: Fred Bell, trombone; Albert Sellemeyer, cornet, and Ed Miller, trap drums. The boys met last evening and completed arrang-ments for the ensuing year’s work. They expect to spend much time in practice and always 1 have a full supply of new. popular and up to the-huur pieces nt their command. The addition of the trap drums will greatly strengthen the or > gauization. Today cannot be considered a i good day from the standpoint of Bluffton merchants. There seems to ' be but few farmers in town and bus- j . iness was correspondingly dull.” . i The alxive appeared in Saturday’s Bluffton Banner, and shows the 1 strenuous life that hamlet is leading. While Decatur merchants were mov- 1 ing behind their counters at lightning speed, waiting on a dozen customers at once, while the market streets were a moving mass of farmer's wagons, and while errand lx>ys were dodging the vehicles and pushing through the sea of humanity that always crowds i our main streets, then as usual, the J Bluffton merchant sat behind his j counter waiting Tor another explosion to bring Decatur people over to his forsaken village, so he could sell enough last year's goods to pay the rent. 1

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