Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1903 — Page 3

■ Miss Bertha Johns went to Bluffton fc s morning to visit with friends. ■ Cmunissioner Doak made a bnsitrip to Berne and Buena Vista ■ Mrs. E. Nash returned this morn to Kokomo, after visiting friends •ere. ■ Mrs. S. M. Williams went to Mar this morning for an extended h t with relatives. ■ Miss Opal Pollison returner! to this morning after a visit j*itb relatives here. I Miss Man Stair, who has been vis it g relatives here, returned this felkorning to Petroleum. I Miss Nellie McGill of Portland, HBas visiting here this morning. She If. t at noon for Warren. I Miss Georgia Bobilia, who has !>een here for several days, return Kfe: to Willshire this morning. I Pete Stein returned from Lima, Kt)! Jo. this noon, where he made a f A.>rt visit wsth his mother. I Miss Frances Fahrenbach of Ft. it. thisicity returned home today. Mrs. Roy Archbold and son return today from Toledo, where they been visiting for several weeks. ■I Mrs. N. Kinney, who has been vis friends in this city for several Kie. r turned to Kokomo this morn ifcg. eSI Mrs. J. W. -Poling and children. RSrho have been visiting in this city Hk turned to their home at Redkey, Mr and Mrs. Geary of Fort ivne visited over Sunday in this with Wililam Geary and wife, daughter Mi-> R i.-c who has Km visiting for the week past recd with them. The committee composed of E. \. David Coffee and J. T. Hherryman, will call on the citizens fi norrow to subscrilie toward a fund Bt r bringing the interurban power k use here. It is expected the money Iw'H be raised in a few days. The Folito shows traiisfored here 1 ay. They came from the south will go over the Clover Ixcaf to ® uffton. where they exjieet to be Kine stunts for the peop'e of that The carried -'Veral < .iae] lt -» -•i.l a good deal of baggage.

A Delightful Trip Is one through our mammoth store. Our Introductory Sale of Fall Goods this week will contain some eyeopeners for you. A dazzling display of dainty and durable DAVENPORTS, COUCHES, ROCK ERS, SIDEBOARDS and BEDS of endless variety and value. The question of quality and price in PIANOS and ORGANS is answered by a glance at our stock. Come now! Tomorrow may be too late. Gay & Zwick

W. D. Reinhart of Eleventh street is suffering with lumbago. M . A. Kendall and wife wont to Marion this .morning for a short viist. Ed Beeler and Jesse Rice made a business trip to Grund Rapids this morning Mrs. H. Winnes was taken suddenly sick this morning but was better this afternoon. A big German Lutheran picnic was given at Flatrock grove east of Hoagland, Sunday. Miss Liluh Huffman who has been visiting her parents in this city returned this morning to Elkhart. E. Moods went to Summitville this morning where he is looking up a contract for brick streets over there. Otto Blume, the manufacturer of cigars reports that a ten pound l>oy has made its appearance at his' home. Attorney J. F. France of Huntington was in the city Sunday to make a visit with relatives and incidentally to see the bull game. A stone cutter in the employ of Streicher, the brick street contractor, is in jail, and when sober will be up before the mayor to answer a charge of drunk. Miss Jennie Ross and Thomas Gauze were quitoly married Sunday evening by ’Squire Smith at his home on Eleventh street. The happy couple will reside in this city. The funeral of Mrs. Jacob Reppert was held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the German Reformed church north of Magley. Interment was made at the churchyard cemetery. Harry Moltz and Horrace Callow went to Chicago yesterday to visit the big city for the first time. The boys having heard of that awful place, out of precaution, had Mose Krohn of the Burt house, to act as their chaperon. See that fellow heading this way How jovial he swings along and his face all beaming with smiles. Something doing for sure. Why its Billy Zwick of the firm of Guy & Zwick. “What’s up Billy’’? “Oh! its just an eight pound girl. Do you smoke?” The little tot came Sunday morning and all concerned are doing well.

I No Fire! No Smoke! No Water! ] 33TTT -A. TTIEMEIVDOUfe ■ I Slaughter Sacrifice Sale | ■ is the great attraction at our store DURING AUGUST. Prices will be cut in two, but the same ■ GOOD QUALITY offered. Hurry! Come now! Don’t delay! ■ I WINNES SHOE STORE J

Miss Neva (Ernst went to Cincinnati today where she will work for several weeks in a large millinery establishment. Mrs. B. A. Dorwin and Mrs. M. D. Pillars went to Fort Wayne this morning from where they will go to Lima tomorrow. Misses Mayme Dorwin and May Rademaker went to Fort Wayne this morning where they will enter the International business college. Beecher Meibers and wife, Henry Bremerkamp and wife, and John Voglewede and wife went to Claypool today were they will remain several weeks. Misss Edna Crawford gave a six o’clock dinner yesterday to a fewin vited lady friends. The dinner was given in honor of Miss Alice Wall of Bluffton and was a delightful treat to all present. Morning and evening services at the First Christian chruch in this city were conducted by Rev. Brown of Lynn, Indiana Sunday. Rev. Brown is a very able speaker and his auditors were highly pleased with his sermon. Mr. Brown has occupied the pulpit here at several different times and is always welcomed by those who had the pleasure to hear him.

All member of Decatur lodge F. & A. M. No. 571 are requested to meet in called session at their hall Tuesday evening, Sept. 1., 1903 to consider a proposition for said lodge. The opinion of every member is desired. P. L. Andrews, Acting W. M. Mrs. W. C. Fronfield supplied this office with the finest samples of apples that it has been our good for- ! tune to get mixed up with for some : time. They were fine lookers and i they tasted just as good as they looked. They were raised on her I farm just east of this city. Robert Downing, the well known I and popular actor, will be seen next season, supported by his own company in a strong comedy drama, written expressly for him by Herbert Bashford, Esq., author of “Beyond the Gates of Care,” etc. The title ofithe play is “Hon. John North.” The Old Adams county Bank will put in a new- vault this week, which will compare with any in the state. It will be lined with steel, have a time lock, and the door alone will weigh ten thousand pounds. An agent of the company will be here soon and give the Democrat a detailed description of the vault. I Peter Gaffer visited over Sunday in Fort Wayne with his wife who is now at the St. Joseph's hospital.; He stated to the Democrat that his ’ I wife was resting very easy and that I her case was very promising. One operation has already been perform-I ed and another will lie made the lat- i ter part of this week. It is probable I that it will require three operations I to complete the case. Wesley Huffman arrived in this ' city Sunday to visit for a couple of j weeks with his parents before re I turning to his school duties in the law department of Indiana University. He has been working in the I circulation department of the Chicago Record-Herald and reports! that he very much liked the posi- j tion and will probably take up the | work next .year again. Esq. William F. Worden officiated ; at a wedding ceremony Sunday at! the home John Drake in Union' township. The ceremony was per-| formed at ten o'clock before a num-1 ber of invited guests. The contracting parties were Miss Dessie Drake and Walter Noack, an employee at the Henry Mayer brick yards in this city. Both have many friends who' wish them a long life of unalloyed I happiness. They will reside in' this city. A gigantic scheme is on foot to construct one of the longest railways iin the world which is to ext nd from a point on the Hudson b.y on Buenos Ayers, Argentina, in South America. The promoters of the railway say that they are backed by 1250,000,000 in capital which will more than build and equip the I lino. The road will run through I Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas and will embrace near 12,000 miles of track. The Erie is at present enjoying a streak of prosjierity in the freight line and Marion yards are so full of cars that the switch-men are having quite a little inconvenience. There are now over 700 cars standing in the yards. A large number have been taken out in the past few days and an effort will be made to have the yards cleaned out before the coal rush begins. While the Eric is enjoying its prosperity, the other , roads are doing the same and the freight business is the heaviest at present that it has been for some time.

We are now ready for business with a full and complete line of Foot Form Shoes All goods in stock fresh from factory. Stock complete. Call and see me. CLEM VOGLEWEDE The “Big 4” Shoe Store.

CARLOAD OP WATERMELONS At Peoples' Restaurant. Friday William Doehrman received a carload of fine Posey County Melons, direct from the greatest melon field in Indiana. - — Prices in Everybody's Reach Get a Posey Melon and be Happy.

The Erie has contracted for forty simple consolidated locomotives. They will weigh 200,000 pounds, with 10,000 pounds on the drivers. The drivers will lie sixty-two inches in diameter and cylinders tw mty by thirty-two inclies. The tank capacity will be 7,000 gallons of the water and twelve tons of coal. The company has also placed an order for thirty six wheel switching engines. A dispatch from Marion says that Dr. J. Forest, ex-president of the state health board, has demonstrated to his satisfaction that deafness in many forms can lx l min'd by the use of Finson rays. Ho announces that he successfully experimented on himself a deaf girl aged seven teen years, and a boy. The girl had been deaf since birth and the boy for three yours. The apparatus used by Dr. Forest is a modification of the Finson apparatus, the rays being induced from static electricity.

WANTED! A boy at this office, to learn the trade. Apply at once. A Mission Feast of German Lutherans was held north of Preble Sun day. A large number of people at. tended the affair. About twenty five from this city took in the Nickel Plato excursion from Fort Wayne to Chicago yesterday. As many went over the Pennsylvania. These two roads took nearly six thousand passengers into the Windy City on their week end excursion. The ('lover Leaf excuris<>n to Marion yesterday took over a thousand jieople. Sixty tickets were sold from hen l . The Erie ran two sections on their Chicago excursion yesterday and carried over two thousand passengers. Every conch on both trains was crowded to the steps. About two hundred tickets were sold from Decatur.