Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1905 — Page 3

* "" 1 11 - W‘ME TABLES RAPIOS i INDIANA RAILWAY I brr 33. HM>4 Now tn Mf«t. OuTHl>» > I ‘ *•>'> >• ' s ..Illy tu” I .-<9,111 ’ I4»m 7 Mpui" *'■!>"' mil aot ' «•<»“ »IJ »M " ‘>4S’. .oti.t j, w" w4»‘ J 4« •« >». n»tl " iJifonnsiM. hi Gerpet to Cincinnati, I:i4 train par Train,arrive from aouth at i jo a. m. . daily and J t? p. tn. Ha Sunday. Daily JMily*. M. Suu tur r.jcam 7wa m. 317 p m avna >:»» " »S“ " <*> ” »pld« ««" iy>pm 940 •• rat City 1 xspnx *•» ” ly >lS<>” SM " iioja.tn naw CIS “ ’- jo " »i» " .in alerptnsrar to Grand Rapid, and w Dity -twa m train parlor carlo apfda and Mackinaw City jl7 p m lor car to Grand Rapid.. »b--ping car n a City Train* arrive from north al a tn, t:i» p. tu. 751 p in. 1 Auc. C. L. Lockwood, G P. A " «.i ftapida Mich NEW ERIE TIME TABLE. J| EAST ROUND k'. « Sun <t:s‘ a in. i p m H • «. Sun " «> P. m 4 1.10.. not carry liaagng.. an I dnva not y pu*M!iiiCvr* tail of Marion, üblo. ® WWIt BUVND l . tiiiiaeea 1 i„n ■ tiit — — -7 — Z’' ll A. til. •X. Bun .. a. <u. mll[ 11 1 !■■ ■■■ ana .aaam ■ ■laaci 1 1 r-rnr--| AR*AA p. |J) — -l» Ui, t Monday'* & day* f<d’ir legal holld.iy*. 3 doet not carry baggage. CLOVER LEAP. In affect June 3a, 1804. BAST, Commercial Traveler, daily... a.B3a m Mali, dally, except Sunday...ll .Ara m Day Biproee, dally... t 33pm -Local rrel<hl. . 11:10 pm WEST Day RxptOM. dully .1 t*» txi Mall. dal>y. except Sunday .. •» ,iOa m Commercial Traveler, daily ' lu O'pm -Local Frelabl ~.-W- III!! II ■■ Lake Urie & Western RSI Time card from Bluffton Ind, iJi SOUTHBOUND -Daily exi'pt Sundaya m 35— Daily except Sunday s:»pm j> 0 tt run. t trough t<> Indlanapo Is without .h .-e. arriving In:'W aui Io 13 leaves Indlanopoht st 7:00. m Kuns -, i| r. jgb without change, arriving at Bluffton I is am ■ 41 and 43 run via Muncie * Big I route fl THE MAN iVho pays His Rent Must Hustle. THE MAN Doesn’t Pay, is obligee! to Keep Moving. j Just Hustle Into Fristoe’ Smoke House see what a Complete Line of To- •|| bacco and Cigars you Have to ■ .a Select From. W. Smith made a visit at Fort Wayne last evening. i I Calvin Miller returned last ever.ig from a visit at Geneva. I W. H. Kuebler made a visit at rt Wayne last evening. I •!<)<■ Kirn returned to Fort Wayne M evening, after transacting busi--11 ss here. I Chris Strebe returned last even from Portland, where he was to business. I A T. Vail returned to Fort Wayne evening. While here he was to timber business. I Mrs. Wefel and Mrs. Hank re ■timed to Fort Wayne last evening ■Vhile here they were guests of rel fives. I Hartford City has gotten up to thite and is advertising a meat war ■>ecatur has one every once in a but the trouble is, they do ■lot last long. W1 Harry Tribolet, who has been ■it West Baden during the past left that place today for ■lalden, Missouri. He will spend ■ome time in Missouri and Ark 11■as and may make some real estat • investments in timber land — Blulf ■on News.

1 .Mr*. 0. O. Frunon is on the sick Hat. Huber Devon made a vialt nt Bluffton today. Joe Hocker, of Monroe, was a visitor here today. N. K Todd, of Bluffton, was in the city today, on boainon. Frank Stone returned to Fort Wayne lust evening. He was n visitor here. Mrs. Druett, of Willshire, passed through our city last evening, en route to Fort Wayne. Mrs Doudan returned to Fort Wayne last evening, after a visit here, a guest of friends. Miss Della Harruff retorted last evening from Berne, where she spent Sunday with friends Mias Laura Stoneburner returni'd last evening from Geneva, where she spent Sunday with friends. Charles Brink returned to Fort Wayne last everting, after a visit in this city, a guest of Jesse Niblick. Mias Edith Mosnre arrive! last evening from Berne to assume her duties as 000 k at the county infirmary. Frank France went to Fort Wayne last evening to visit friends before leaving for Muskogee, 1. T., next Thursday. Ernest Bolds anil wife of Berne, have rented the Ed Sullivan house, where they have already gone to housekeeping. The appointment of Frank Walters the new postmaster at Monroeville, was confirmed yesterday by the U. b. senate. The completed tabulation of tax assessments for Allen county, shows the taxable property in that county to be fifty million dollars. Mrs. John Reiter of Decatur, who has been visiting friends in the city for a few days, returned to her home today.—Bluffton Banner. The postoffioe at LaOtto was burglarized Sunday night, the safe blown open andthe contents thereof taken. There is no clew to those who performed the job. The legislative bill has been introduced changing the time for holding court in the BlackfordWells circuit. The new deal gives Blackford five weeks to a court term and Wells six. Miss Kittie Watts entertained a number of her young lady friends last evening at her Lome in the west part of the city. The evening was spent in numerous games and music.. Refreshments were served. Fort Wayne has adopted and the same is now in force, an antispitting ordinance. If such legislation was put into full force and effeo in this city, the office of street sweeper could with propriety, be abolished. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Smith entertained a number of their friends last evening at a good old-fashioned I>edro party’ and from all reports a most enjoyable time was had. Re freshments were served and everything in order was done to make the guests enjoy themselves. Jacob Baumgardner, of Vera Cruz, has sold an acre of land at the gravel pit to Peter Baumgardner, of Linn Grove, for 1500. The latter will begin the manufacture of ii 'inent blocks a s soon as the weather is fit. Here's good luck to our Vera Cruz friends —Bluffton News.

Special prices on Men’s and Boys’ Winter Suits, Overcoats, and winter Underwear. Yours for Business, Elzey & Vance

A fine time will no doubt be in order. Ed Andrews, of Geneva, was a visitor here today. Daniel Sprang made a trip to Fort Wayne this morning. William C. Baker, of Berne, was a business caller here today. E. P. Nye went to Fort Wayne this morning to consult an eye specialist. N. K. Tiidd returned to Bluffton today. While here he was a guest of relatives. Henry Holbrook wont to Fort | Wayne this morning to act as a I witness in a ditch case. Elmer Johnson returned this morning from Pittsburg, where he was holding a horse sale. Mr and Mrs. C. H. Snyder went to Fort Wayne this morning, to visit a few days with relatives. E. Reinking, of Fort Wayne, nrrived this rooming, and is a guest of his brothers, in Union township. Mrs. John Reiter and son returned last evening from Warren, where they were visiting with her parents. H P. Streicher arrived today from Toledo, and is looking over the brick street he put in here a year ago. S. V. Barkhead returned this morning from itedkey, where he was visiting his daughter, Mrs. John Poling. It will soon lie aU. S. order for all employees’of the postoffioe to ap|>ear in uniform. Blue coat and trousers made on the line of a cadet suit, seems to be the prevailing fashion with Uncle Sam. D. B. Ford returned to Geneva, today. He was enroute from Arkansas, where ho was running over the state looking over the chances of speculation. Mr. Ford may return to Arkansas in the near future. The “Two Johns" compiny arrived this morning from Winohester and will show this evening at the opera house. This comi>any comes highly recommended and will no doubt put up a first class jierformance. W. J. Kuhlman, of Cincinnati, representative of the C >nsolidated Lock company, is in our city today cleaning up the time locks at the Old Adams County Bank, this being in their contract. Mr Kuhlman is an expert in this line and travels over the United States. The programs are out for the Adams County Sunday School oonven tion, to he held in this city at the Methodist church, March 1. E. D. Goller, the state field worker, is an enterprising worker in the cause, and the convention mentioned, will no dpubt be the best ever held here. Twenty five members of the Re becca lodge of Decatur stepped from the southbound passenger train Friday afternoon enroute for Linn Grove, where they installed a Rebecca lodge with a number of charter members. They were taken overland by Liverymen Braun & Co.—Berne Witness. A Montpelier man who disappeared ten years ago has just written his wife that he “will come back to her from the grave." She replied that if he was comfortable in the grave, he had better remain there, as she had another husband just at present who was giving good satisfaction and she didn't think she would make a change.

YOU BET It pays to read our ada. The reason is here before you, in facts and figures, •ECONOMY MEANS SAVING” (ALL THE TIME) :::::: 4qt. Granite kettle with 1id......37c 10e hide combs, all kinds per pair. “<• 12 piece decorated toilet set, .. $3,7*1 No. H granite tea kettle white lintsi, tl ft. felt window shade..He Large size ironing b0ard...... ■ 73c 73c 6qt.<x>vmd bucket fie Large chop plate worth 73c 26c No. N copper bottom Dm kettle ...42e N’o. 2'i granite kettle3lc Whits or blsek tape any width each !<• 17 ql. granite dish pan white linsd.63c 7x!) shelf brackets, pair 50c infunt’s wool knit jackets ... ,3!»c Gocxi mop stick for Nc Large corn popper He All 10c laces per ran!«c It is certainly to your advantage to trade here. Our prices arc convincing proof of this statement, and besides you’ll find our goods the best obtainable. j* > > Tl —IE ECONOMY We deliver goods. .< c. M. EPPSTEIN.

Mr. and Mrs Dyonis Schmitt will this evening entertain a number of I thvtr friends at their home on First street, at a pedro party. The Skßkespeare club will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. J. W. Tyndall. Miss Hattie Studaba ker was to have acted as hostess, but is prevented from doing so on account of the ilineas of Mrs. Cham per. The case of Daniel Haley against j James N. Fristoe was tried before 'Squire James H. Smith. Tho sqit was on account, Haley nb“<»ing Fri<toeowed him |s.4O for labor done, and performed on his p-esent home on Mercer street. Th« "same resulted in a verdict in favor of Fristoe, thereby vindicating him. The newspapers reach everyb dy It is the one agency which touches all the people all the time. The scholar cannot get along without it., the day laborer has it for hi* sole intellectual food. Rich, poor, wise, ignorant, young, old—everybody reads the newspaper and it is the only form of literature to wbioh this may be said. Thus the opportunity of the press is an limited. J. W. Sale is home from | ington, D. C., where ho spent u week. While there he had an interview with President Roosevelt and met many of the prominent senators and representatives. The special object of his visit was to testify before the interstate com merce commission in reference to proposed legislation which would affect the members of the National Hay association and other big ship pers —Bluffton News. HOW rlUMtb ARt uOST. They let their insurance run out. They bought things they did not need because they were cheap. Tliey subscribed for everything they could pay for on the installment plan. The father always intended to get his life insured, but died without doing so. They did not realize how easy It »s to get into debt end how hard it is to get out. Money enough went down in drink and up hi smoke to have saved the home. They tried to do what others expended of them rather than what they could afford. They thought it small to insist ou having an agreement or understanding put in writing. They could not say “No” and could not afford to tell their friends, ‘‘l cannot afford it.” When the shoe liegan to pinch they ‘•really did not see where they could retrench.” Habit had made luxuries seem necessaries. Succ4*ss. The l.uiiK i «<• <>f India. Among the 145 distinct languages spoken in British India ara some possessing only 11 few hundred words, others rivaling English, as Dr. Grierson says, or Russian, as I would say, in their copiousness, some in which every word is a monosyllable, others in which some lire elongated by ngglllti nation till they run to ten syllables, like dn-pa-l-oeho-nkan tahen tne-tln-a-e, a Sontail word, mem ing "He who be longs to him who belongs to me will continue letting himself be made to light.” Some of the-e divers tongues lack verb mid noun, otliers tire ns com plex nml systematic as Greek and Latin.— Nineteenth Century. t'nreßßonable Woman. His wife asked him to read to her. Taking up the paper, be turned to tho woimrti’s page mid started with the first article that attracted his attention. it was by a distinguished medical authority on the subject of correct breathing mid began: “As a means for preventing wrinkles in the face it Is certain Hint the practice of keeping the month shut Is one of the most positive.” “That will do. sir!" she snapped. ‘‘l nski-d to be cntertnined. not to be In suited.”—New York I’ress. Simplicity has always been held to be 11 murk of truth. It Is also a mark I of genius. Schopetihmier.

DO YOU Need a pair of Eels Sox or Artics ? Don’t forget that “The Better the Grade, The Bigger the Trade.” I am selling lots of them now. Something to it, don’t You Think ? CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE THE SHOE SELLER Sells it for less Same Old Place I BOSSE'S OPERA HOUSE TUESDAY EVENING, JAN, 31 J. C- STEWART'S MERRY MUSICAL FARCE THE TWO JOHNS Delightfully Ludicrous, Witty, Droll, Humorous Satire, and the other Trimmings Necessary to Complete Rich Funniosites ONE CONTINUOUS LAUGH, START TO FINISH The Coniixiiui Includes: EDW. BEGLEY, BERT ( ANNON 11. .1. KOOPCPJGHAT. A. BOYD, HEBMAN SI EINMAN, Al. SM?AGUE.'.ROGER and Ell I E ECI AN. IZDNAC. BIIRNFTE, FRANKIE TRIh'IBO, CI./XRA KFLI ER, IRENE GARI N I AND THE IWWOUS GARDEN CITY QUAD 11': II E NEW SPECIALTIES. NEW SONGS, NEW DANCES. Prices : on ci 50 cents Seats at Holthuuse Drug Co. MONEY TALKS'! Will Money Help You? Tl’ SO call on or write to ns. We will loan you money in auy amount from $lO to $100,"on household goods, pianos, organs, teams, fixtures, etc., without removal. You can have from one to twelve mouths of time in which to pay it back, in small weekly or monthly payments as you prefer. $1.20 is the weekly payment on a SSO loan for fifty weeks; other amounts at the same proportion. If you need money fill out the following blank, cut it out and mail it to us. Our agent will be in Decatur every Tuesday to make loans and will call on you. Date Your Name Wife’s Name Street and Number City Amount Wanted. Kind of Security you have Occupation All communications are held strictly confidential. Call on or address Koo.»2,2 n ufloor F()RT WAYNE LOAN CO. Home ‘phoneHS.l ~, , , Established 1 ’SB. Fort Wayne, Ind.