Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1904 — Page 2

THt DAILY_ DEMOCRAT. ■▼■BY IVISINO. EXCEPT BVNDAY, BY taw G 3 . ELUINQHAM. • ÜBSCRIPTION RATES. >y oarrler, per week 10c !:> carrier, per year $4 00 ly mall, per month 25c dj saatl, per year $2 60 Single copies. Two Cents 1 <«‘rWllng rates made known on application Sintered In the posto<flce at Decatur. Indi » aa, as second-class mall matter I H . HELLER, Manager, ■ 111' ! Genera] James B. Weaver, the grand old man of lowa, win open the democratic camptign in Adams county, in a speech at Decatur tonight. General Weaver is one of the most forcible talkers in the nation and a philosopher as well. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. The opening of the campaign in Allen county was a great success, and the memories of the great and able address of the Hon. Charles A. Towne will live long in the minds and hearts of the Allen county democracy. The meeting also showed encouraging signs for an active and successful campaign. General James B. Weaver will discuss the issues at the court house tonight. He is numbered among the best political speakers, and is sure to say many things that will interest you about the issues that are paramount and important. Fill the court house and show your interest in a campiign that means much for the country.

William J. Bryan opened the democratic campaign in Colorado, Hundreds were unable to gain entrance to the densely picked hall. Mr. Bryan dwelt at length on what he termed the policy of militarism of the republican party. “You ask me, a believer in free silver, hiwl can bring myself to support u man who favors the gold standard. I say 1 love peace and . the gospel of peace infinitely rtiofe ♦han I love either gold or silver.”

I a Good Dressers | E£® AND I jUsm" Economic g | jVi Buyers | I® / 1 -i Aft Are interested in the showing of FINE CLOTHING at our store. The New Things | Wolfer For Fall and Winter S ' iLf IU Men’s and Boys’ Pine Suits are $ S JW iaade of the high-grade Scotch fe VI J homespun worsted and Thibet It •; '.p f cloths. Tailored 1 .n<.<r I ================== ■' | Perfect Fit and permanence of good shr.pe. Prices are low, con- Jr 1 f- . H sidering the values. ■ Men’s Suits For Dress Z M i $16.00 to SIB.BO ICold'evenings demand that you dress warmer, and we can recommend a? our New Top Coats and Craven- | ! j H ettes. They are made most up-to- f " j , — date, the higher grade, strictly ' < wh Hand-Tailored, and sell at $7 50 J- ?i’ J to $lB 00- Money back if goods are J & not as represented. 7’ • g>, Ges Hosenthfd s 'i§s? I

Who ever neurd of Jim Robinson trotting over the Twelfth congressional district blowing his bazoo about HIS rural routes, yet they have more routes than aly district in the state, and Mr. Robinson is a democrat. Compare him to George Cromer who is sneaking around under the pretext that he is Uncle Sam in disguise, and has full charge of the postottioe department. It is the only issue George Cromer has and he and his Adams county managers are already bragging about results. They are practicing a | simple gold brick scheme with a I view solely of reducing the majority 1 for the democratic national ticket. The pjstoffioe department has ordered complete service for Adams ■ county and we will get it, Congressman Cromer or no Congressman Cromer. “Now the men who differed from |us in 189(1 were honest in their opinions. I have no doubt of that. But they have a good right to stand with you and me today. The question on which we split is settled. At the St. Louis convention Bryan and H’ll were members of the committee on resolutions, and they both agreed upon a unanimous rep irt for a platform. Now if William J. Bryan and David B. Hill could agree on a platform, I think it’s up to you and me to vote for it. They couldn't put silver into the platform, for so long as the supply of metallic currency is adequate to meet the needs of business, there ' is no need of free silver coinage. If the time ever comes when there will not ba enough metallic money to meet the demand, the monev question will again become an issue in spite of all the platforms and resolutions ever adopted.”— C. A. Towne, at Fort Wayne. Notice. All of the members of the Christian Endeavos of the Presbyterian church are requested to be present at the church at 7:30 Friday evening, Sept. 16. The regular business meeting will be held, afterwards the evening will be spent in a sociable time. Refreshments will be served and a collection taken. Djnt miss the ribbon sale at True’s Saturday, see his ad.

i A fresh cow for sale, with calf, - it her side. Enquire of J ulus I i Haugh. , Wanted—Messenger boy at tin I L telephone exchange. F. M. Sohir-! a meyer, Secretary. I Insure with the Graham Insur- | ■ ance agency. Graham & Lower, I ■ I Agts. ’ 203dtf. 'i For Rent—A nine room st >ry ' and a half house on West Monroe! street. Inquire of Henry Meyer, the tailor. 210d6 Lost—Pocketbook, containing ; . notes and valuable papers. It is I the property of Judge R. K. Erwin, who will give $5 for its return. Private funds to loan on city property at lowest rate interest. Privi- ! • ege of partial payments. The De ; oatur Abstract and Loan Co. 257dtf For sale—Twenty shares of Fort ' Wayne & Springfield interurban ! railway stock. Will sell cheap. Inquire if L. A. Hidgon at Decatur i ' Steck A- Grain Exchange. The Eccmomy department store | ! will be closed all day Monday, Sept. , ! 19th, account of religious holiday. : 208d6&w Excursion to Toledo, Ohio, Saturday, Sept. 17. via Clover Leaf, i rate |1.25 for round trip. Train leaves Decatur at 11:37 a. m. T. j L. Miller, Agent. Sae W. C. Fronefield for all kinds of fresh und cured meats, dressed spring chickens and lamb on hand Saturdays, at the Old Home Meat ' Market, on Madison street. 212d2 NOTICE I will make cider every day i until furthei notice. Respectfully, j P. Kirsch. tt Public Sale. George Appehnan will offer for I sale’at his residence two and one- ' halt miles southwest of Decatur, I on the Mike Smith farm, at ten ! o'clock, a. m. on Thursday, Sept. 23, the following a tides: Four I head of horses, one brood mare with , colt, one work horse, two-year, old colt, and one spring colt; three head of cattle, two milch cows, one to be frosh soon, one spring calf, 31 head of hogs, 10 head of shoats, farming implements blacksmith tools and other articles.

I theßub | m — — —— __ — - — — ~ Like Concentrated II Sunbeams, our & f ■ . . Values are B g v Pnetrating gl 0 |C ' kA C, WWM al I’ KM I 'ttH E o si er HAND-FINISHED GARSS M EJ'j i F MENTS of standard Abries of K* ’kW T f I Black unfinisl e 1 Worsteds and wW H i Thibets and Blue Serges, showing the HAND- gsnß JI Bl 7 FELLED and PADDED, COLLAR and butmS ®..'/ flUa ton-holes, shoulders and fronts, MOULDED Wtfl TO FIT THE FORM, at our remarkable Cyl Bn price of S - $12,00 == || Garments shown elsewhere for $15.00 to $16.50. Every up-to-date and <7x3 NOVEL IDEA, is embodied in our garments, and if you once wear them, It will prove the GREATEST SUIT INVESTMENT you 03 ever made. All goods as represented, or money refunded. ONE price TO ALL B KALVER & SONS 0

Linn Grove. The Misses Ada aud Elda French, 'of Tippecanoe, Ohio, were visiting t he Lot-French posterity. Morris Brown and family and Miss Rosa Gunkle, of Montpelier, were gueits of the Walter Hunt | family last week. Rufus Kreeps and Peter Baumi gartner have each tx.ngbt a lot on West street and preparing material f or building a dwelling. Eugene Marrow of Bluffton, and j his brother" Charles canvassing for Lyman Bros. ’ art studio, visited their parents last Sabbath. Benjamin Meschlierger in company with wife and his two daugh tars, Sherman Higgins and Samuel 1 llowdeshell leftTuesday morning at Bluffton,| for Oklahoma to visit relatives, except Mr. t I who will remain indefinitely. As Noah Lindsey was pitching i brick the top newdwelling house one of the brick fell and broke whin striking the 1 scaffold, one striking Noah on the ; I forehead, prostrating him senseless, I for a time, and evttirg a furrow! on his skull. Noah came near get-! ting his angelic harp. The (finest game of base ball played here was pulled iff last Sabbath between tho Bluffton Blues and the Linn Grove Stars. A Bluffton friend of the Blues re < marker! that the team, a culled one, I howeverjfmuoh care must have l>een taken us each was proficient in the , art, and a mere genteel team hasi cross bats on our diamond. The game was nine innings, the tally standing 3to 4 in avor of the Stars. last Sunday at the home of John P. Stiner occurred the French family reunion, about forty of the relatives being 'present. The day was very pleasantly spent in gen- , oral conversation, and a general good time. best featu-a of . 1 this was the large table’w’hicn was I placed j n J li eJ_yar<l. loaded down with everything in the eating line , and decorated with flowers of every j variety.'"‘After Ph< togrn- i pher _ Baumgartner appeared "on the same and" took "severnT""snam shots of the enitre crowd, after entail* toed by some i very appropriate recitations deli?* I

ered by Miss Nona Hoffman. Those to participate in the good time were Grandmother French. John C. Stiner, and family, Marion French, Peter Hoffman and families, Mrs. La via North. Lew Justus and wife, of Bluffton, Fred. Lew Hugh French and families, John Miller and wif >. of Domestic. Herliert North, of D. Iphos, Ohio, Guy Pratt and wife, of Davenport, I >wa, Moses A"g«herger, wife and family. Grandmother Stiner, D. F. Hoff w, wife and family. Miss Ka' • 1) oter, Nona May Hoffman, Oal V Hcffman, Linn Grove, Misses E.diaad Adi French Tippect.noe, Ohio, at supper All enjoyed a dish of ice cream and a slice of watermelon, and everybody left saying they had a good time, plenty to eat and wishing Grandmotheor French many more happy occasions. After leaving Atlantic City the next stop was Philadelphia. While crossing the river on a ferry boat 1 thought of Reading of the time Benj. Franklin arrived in Philadell phia on a ferry boat and of his walking up street with his entire J wardrobe, (consisting of only a pair of socks) poked into his pock- , ets. The first place to visit was Liberty’ Hall where the declaration i of independence was signed; next 'place was where William Penn m»do peace with the Indians in j 17t>2. Also seen the U. 8. mint where the bright silver dollars are coined. It being time for me to | leave for Washington, D. C., I | was compelled to leave this historical city, arriving in Washington at the B. and O. depot. It occurred to me that here is where President Garfield was asassinated, and stepping up to a guide I asked in what room. He lead the way and I followed and he showed me. The floor was made of white and blue slate, and the place where Gurfleld stood the white slate was removed and red slate put in its place. 1 then started out to find Major H. H. Deam, formerly of Wells county and at one time laught school in French township in the old building, that is being used as a carpenter shop by Mr” Fouts. After having a short con' vorsation with him 1 started to ».<. the capital of the (J. 8. This I found to be a very beautiful oiti with many fine an llarge buildings'

After a short, ride on a street car it occurred to me that this city was noted for its wide and wind< ing streets with beautiful flowers] As one rides down Pennsylvania avenue in a northwestern direction they find at every corner a beauti j ful flower tied with flowers of ever) variety. The first building that | went to was the Capitol building which is located in the southeaster! ! part of the city, facing the west, ' its length lieing 751 feet and 50 | feet wide built of Virginia sand stone. Ibe corner stone was lai< by President Washngton in 179 S This is a very fine ; building. ant through the courtesy of Mr. Hines the electrician, I was show! through the entire building, see in, the table on which George Wash | ington was laid after death, aln where he was to have been buried but owing to he was placed in the tomb. Afte reading a copy of Washington’ will I was taken around to the el gine room and introduced to th engineer., Thomas America, wide! is a very patriotic name. It not being near eleven o’clolck p in, and after going through this larg building one realizes that it i time to retire. (to be continued) Hural Route Six. Fred Hindeanlang was at Will shire yesterday. The schools in Harrison townshi commenced Monday. A. P. Finkhouse is building al addition to his house. Mrs. Joel Johnson and daughtd went to Decatur Thursday John Ault of near Willshire, i visiting W. H. Miller and family Rolie Sheets of Van Wert, was il our vicinity looking up business • Mr. Bosse, of the firm of Brittsol & Myers, was in this vicinity today Sam Swigart of near Redkey was in our vicinity for a few dayl visit. I Miss Graoie Gause is visiting hoi uncle near New Era. Ind., for a few days. I The people in this vicinity atfl busy cutting corn and some atfl sowing wheat. 1 Standard pattern free. True's ad. ■