Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1903 — Page 3

I \[j s ., Jennie Wile visited with rela-1 I Lew at Fort Wayne yesterday. diss Ethel Myers, of Bluffton, is I jsitink' friends here this week. 1 \V. F. Smith was among the pasI" 11L ,,. r s to Bluffton this morning. Otis Dibble went to Toledo today, aere he will visit for several days, Patil Beardsley left this morning r a two weeks outing at Winona. I David Vultz left this morning for a . aek's visit with relatives at Bluffton. Mrs. J. Smith has returned from an tended visit with friends at Bluff n. Mrs. B. Weismantel of Kokomo the guest of Frank Gast and tnily- t Harry Deam and wife, who were siting here, drove back to Bluffton b terday. Homer Sowers went to Arcadia this irmng to meet hie wife, who is visitj there. Mrs. Charles Colter returned this irning from a visit with relatives at illehire. Wm. Mcllheny went to Bluffton, s morning, to remain a few days ;h relatives. !drs. Jacob Spade who was visit- ' her son this morning returned I ■ Peterson. I The eity council will not meet to ■ ght but will be in regular session J ixt T ,-osday evening. I William Spregel. the piano tuner fl jtn Fort Wayne, was in the city to- ■ [y looking after his line of business. ■ Charles McDaniels, of Portland, Ao has been working with Dick Silik ■ a swipe, returned to hie home toil X ■it L. Ashton and wife of Ling. io have been visiting friends here j fc several days went to Berne this afernoon. ■ ISisses Della and Nora Deam of Be e were visiting friends here tfes morning while on their way to ■ lumm, O. to Lagrange. Indiana last evenwhere he will visit with her son Anderson. rman Yager ar."mipanied his y fati r to Rome City Sunday, where tie latter will remain at the sanitarintp for some time and rest up. J. Neptune and wife were in t® city this morning on their way They will remain at the sanitarium there for several Jackson of New Orleans i> here for an extended visit with rel«v> - and friends. Mr, Jackson iftkmely lived here but this is his f forst return visit for forty-five years. Sjohn Moran and L C. D Voss re■tjrnod last evening from Berne were they were taking depoaifln> in the case of H. Nicholas ■fisser vs J. M. Rose and L. T. W. Uoky. ■Lon Dillon has knocked a hole in the •orld’s record by trotting a mile in two minutes flat yesterday at Readville. Mass. The hitherto unequaled Acord of 2:2| was easy for Lon Dill-1 lon, and the famous trotter’s driver bids fair to come inside the two minute record.

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E. A. \ ail of Cardwell, Missouri, is registered at the Murray. A marriage license was issued today to \ ictor A. Foreman and Elizabeth Stettler. Mrs. Jacob Buhler went to Marion this morning where she will visit with relatives. Mrs. F. W. Davy left this morning for a visit with relatives and friends at Bluffton. Miss Julia Wegmiller arrived from Geneva, this morning, for a visit with Marie Meyers. Miss Maude Christen left this morning for Blue Lake, where she will en joy a week’s outing. Misses Francis and Vera Rademaker went to Bluffton this morning for a visit with friends. The first case docketed for several days was the divorce suit of C. M. France vs. Louisa France. A. Van Camp and R. K. Allison were among the business visitors at Fort Wayne this morning. Shafer Peterson returned this morning from Berne where he met with the city council last evening. Rev. J. C. White came in from Geneva last evening, where he occupied a pulpit in the Methodist church Sunday. Mrs. J. B. Doersch ond Miss Elsie Beal, who have been visiting here with Rev. Spies, returned to Lafayette this morning. Miss Jane and Ada and Mr. John Sawers, who have been visiting with relatives here, returned to Schumm this morning. Mrs. H. F. Rosenwinkel went to Fort Wayne this morning after an extended visit with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Rainier. Miss Louise Bunch, after visiting in this city with relatives and friends, returned to her home at Fort Wayne yesterday evening. Stone cutters have begun work on the curb-stones for Fourth street. Two more car loads arrived this morning and teamsters are busy removing them. C. S. Worden and wife left this | morning for a two weeks visit with relatives at Deshler. They have been visiting here with John Venus and family. Ed Johnson is placing furniture this week in the building formerly occupied by Phillips Bro's, restaurant. He will open a saloon in that building the first of next week. The city electric light linemen were at work on the Secund street line today putting it in better shape. Tlie slack in the wires will be taken up and some changes in the loca tion of transformers will be made. The outside cover of insulation which is hanging in shreds is also being torn off. The sheep raisers in the United | States, Canada and England are asking the authorities of the St. Louis exposition to name John L. Thompson, president of Indiana state | board of agriculture, as superin- ; tendent of the world’s fair next : year. Mr. Thompson lives at Gas City, and has been identified with ' agricultural exhibits for many i ' years.

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin and daughter Vada returned last evening from Bluffton. Haggert, J. A. Hakes, Phillip Erb, H.T. Fritz, Miss Liddie Ellenberger, Emma Diehl, Chas. Dean. Robert Sauers and wife of Bluffton who were visiting L. A. Linn, and wife here returned home last evening. Bluffton was defeated by the Portland base liall team Sunday in a finished way. The edore resulted in 19 to 5. Letters at the postoffice are for Mrs. Barbara Wasaka, Mrs. Lucy Penhallegon, Frank Millner, Henry Ladig, Miss Edna Idle wine, J. A. Oscar Way the young Ossian pitcher who appeared in this city with Bluffton some time ago is to get a try out with the Marion Indiana Central League team. No doubt he will do well. The Indiana state l>oard of health has sent out circulars to all secrej taries of county boards, advising I that the greatest precaution lie used jin the preventtion of cholera infantum, cholera morbus, diairhoea and dysentery. The circulars name several simple precaurions which may be used with good results. Charles Voglewede who recently | I returned from a trip through the I east saw the great British and Am ! erican racing yachts while at Sandy 1 Hook. New Jersey. He says they I I are big looking boats and are more ' of canvass than anything else: states that while the boats lay at their moorings there were thous- ' ands of people who came up to take 1 a look at them. Huntington county is not the only one in the state whose assessors' i work for 1904 has been ordered changed by the state tax board. Howard county Saturday received notice of a two per cent reduction on lands and fifteen per cent on improvements. In Adams and Cass counties conditions were reversed, Two per cent on lands and ten percent on improvements will be added.—Huntington News-Dem- | ocrat.

Peter Gaffer and wife went to Fort Wayne this morning where Mrs Gaffer will visit for several days. Mrs. Della McClure who has been visiting with her brother here, returned to Delphos this morning. • Mr. and Mrs. Edward Buucher of Fort Wayne, are in the city the guests of Fred Hauer and wife. James N. Fristoe and wife returned from Winona Lake this morning, where they have made their summer home. Mrs. Henry Mercer returned to her home at Fort Wayne, last evening, after visiting in this city with William Daugherty and family. An informal family reunion took place at the home of C. A. Neuenschwander. south of town, on Friday. It was the occasion of the fifty-fourth birthday of the head of the familv, C. A. Neuenschwander. All the children, grand-children and grand -parents were present to partake of a goal birthday dinner. Berne Witness. The Reformed churches of Berne, j Magley, Vera Cruz, Bluffton and I Decatur will have a union picnic' tomorrow in Arnold’s grove, three I miles north of Honduras. There j wll be addresses by different pastors, songs and recitations by the! I Sunday schools. A large number i I from here will go in hacks and pri- 1 I vate rigs. Electrical Contractor W. G. Spencer has just finisher! a small lighting plant for W. B. Hale of Geneva. The plant consists of a fifty light direct I connected Marion Abbet machine and it certainly is a pretty outfit. The machine is made at Cleveland, Ohio, and is considered one of the best makes to lie had. Mr. Spencer ' has the agency for the Abbet comI pany and is prepared to install all kinds of machinery from a small induction moter to a city lighting plant. A big Gay family reunion was held at the home of George Gay j east of this city today. The affair I was planned by Mont Holmes of Bucyrus. Ohio and from reports of those who returned it was a grand I success. At noon a big dinner was i served and throughout the entire day the festivities were boiling. | i Among those who attended were • P. J. Hillard and family of near Decatur, James Gay amt family and Ed Green and family of this city. The annual Methodist Sunday school picnic was held at Gilpen’s I grove, east of this city today. The [ picknickers in their carriages and wagons headed by the Tocsin brass ' band, paraded through second street this morning. Thiy' Tocsin band ! proved the center of Attraction during the day. It is composed of sixteen pieces and is there with the goods when it comes to playing good music. The concern is well organized and equipped in neat uniforms. Walter Johnson, who works in this city is a cornetist in the Tocsin band. Miss Thompson who for a short time held a position as pianist with the Chandler-Sturgeon Comedy Company returned to her home at Chicago last night having been discharged from her theatre position Sunday evening. She had prepared to go to Delphos Sunday and was down at the depot with her baggage when the manager told her that they would get along without her services. A man by the name of Evans who knew the girl paid her way back and claimed that she in com]>any with his son had run away from their Chicago home. Mr. Evans arrived in this city Monday afternoon.

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