Daily Democrat, Volume 3, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1905 — Page 3

TIME T A B L E 8 HAND RAPIDS A INDIANA RAILWAY 7Z>« as. ••os- N.w i n en «t. .<>,<<• »ouVHl'«»’y K» »un K> nun h, h o t L», Decxlur jum Li*t>«n v 4, mb at >roil»n<l ' l fi *•!» " ».IJ u : V™ •• Kkhmond 4 4®" ««> •• j4O •• • CtuuinnßtlytiJ" l>Ksßns;js •• .O.bsbosth Dxll, Ostin®. Xi Run G<l Maplda g, t ,D«-«lui H::4pm • .m. 4 H *r. pt W.vnt .IJU- I,J •• o<l. Xlpull 45'' >o»p.m ulO •• ■> p*l®*ky lij •• J; JS • Mukiniw UM •• 93# •• , !S £ l,.i4lt»i«il«pinicir to Grand Rapid. KadinawDity. m. train parlor cat n> •read jupiilaand Mackinaw City » ~ _ train park >< c«< to Grand Rapid, ati.-nins ear la vtackio* ▼ City. Train-arrive from north at 1 v a. m. , 14 a m. p. m >. arvaon. A<e C. L. Lock wood o p a O’ Rapid. Mic. TOLEDO, ST.LOUIS t WESTERN R. R CO "OLOVI" LI*F ROUTI'i .a affaot Jana M. lvu« BAST. pc •—OonnsorcialTraToler, daily... e : n atn Pc B-Ma'l.dally, rireut Sunday ..Um * Pa 4-D»y Xiureaa. dally ? n P m ps <4—Looai Fr.ight imo PB WIST PC l-Uay Bipraaa. dally - <0 I—Mali, dally aacypt Sunday . .11 s-. a ‘S Po 4—Comtnercl .1 Tra»olar. dally i:ii 0 p rt—Local •»•'»•”_•• »:»ia " NEW ERIE TIME TABLE. EAST BOUND Pc S, .■■■—■ . — „ , „S:3S a. tn. 10. Mex 5un...... 7 .'I a. tn Po. 4 — I:4T p m Pc. Ilex. Sun. ":k)p. m Pc. 10 — — S.kTp. tn No. 14 doe. not carry baxxage and does not Carry paaaonjera eaat of Marton. Ohio. WEST BOUND Po t — —..... DM a m No t——- »:»a. m Po ilex Sun 10:10a. m No. , ■ p. m ‘oxelptMonday 'a ilava ft>f'ir iepai hob Saji lalltun ot carrv baxxaxe Lak® en» a Wasters Timo card from Bluffton lad. SOUTHBOUND Po.il-Dally excpt Bunday till am PO. IB—Da:., except Sunday 11 Kan Re »—Dailyexceptßandav S:Mpm Noll runs tnroueb to Indlanapolla without ekanxe. arrlvlns 10® a m No ixleavealndianopoliaatTiOOa m. Kuna ikroufb without Cbaaxe arr.vlnx at Blufftcn 14 U a m No. 41 and it run ria Muncie A Bis 4 route L L Baumgartner returned last evening from a business trip to Berne. Mrs. Julius Speit and babe arrived today from Cleveland, O, and is a guest of her mother, Mrs. Coffee. Miss Esther Corliett. accompanied bv herWrother, Walter, and little sister, Iweile. left today for La Rue, Ohio, tMvisit several weeks with their,imb dmother. Richardson, living on Tenth Jxt<M, u the champion bean raiser. so,.;e samples now at this office measuring nine inches. They are certainly world beaters and I hard to duplicate. The farmers and others who intend to make exhibits at the coming county |fair, should begin their preparations The dates of the fair are August 29, 30, 31 and September 1. Everyone get on their toes for the greatest ever.

TO-NIGHT | We have bunched up Py all odd sizes in gir!s slippers and you can have vour pick at 35C | TO-NIGHT I CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. || THE SHOE SELLER DE( ATUR, INDIANA g||| PETER GAFFER House Painting, Paper Hanging and Frescoeing WORK DONE PROMPTLY AND WITH DISPATCH AIURGE FORCE OF MEN IN MY EMPLOY TO INSURE QUICK WORK DECORATING A SPECIALTY Set Mt Before Contracting for your Wnrk Elv where. All Work Gutrinteed. PHONE 330 — ■— - .!!L . .'U. L 01 __ From Decatur via. f 51.25 “CLOVER LEAF OljD t Tm rnn ROUTE’ Sunday May _ nrTDniT TO TOLEDO 7th and every Sunday TO DETROIT 4 j nrv.mxa thereafter during the nrTiinu And RETURNi summer. and RETURN. T. L. MILLER, Agt.

Milliard Elaey made a business wi|» to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Vera Ehinger went to Fort " •'tyno .last evening to visit friends. John Woy went to Hoagland thia •norning to sjsmd Bunday with triends. Miss leisure returned to Hoag unl lust evening, astir visiting friends here. Miss itene flrim returned last "vening after a visit hero with Mrs. Charles Ehinger. J--ff Bryson went to Wawaasee hake thia morning to spend Sunday with nis family. Miss Z>e Miller went to (Trauntown, today to make a short visit with Miss Fern DeLong, 8 quire J, H. Smith returned this morning from Piqua Ohio, where he was visiting relatives. ; Father Eherle returned last evening from Portland, where he was holding religious services. Mrs. J. C. Patterson returned last evening from Geneva, where she was visiting her son, Fred. Otto and Earl Mann returned to Chicago this morning after making a pleasant visit herewith Jack Reynolds and family. Miss Vera Patterson went to Rome City this morning to spend Sunday with her sister, Mrs. French Quinn. J. H White and wife and Charles White and wife left this morning for Goshen, where they expect to make their future home. D. E Btudab»ker reports Petoskty and Oden as filled chuck up to the limit, every oottgae b?ing occupied and the hotels taken from cellar to garet. Mrs. R. K Allison, ’son, Robert and daughter, Marie, returned last evening from Denver, Colorado, where they spent several weeks taking in the sights. J H- Gray of the North British Mercantile Insurance company, of which J. S. Peterson is agent, ar rived last evening, aud is today busily engaged in adjusting the fire loss of the Dacatur Egg Case ! company. The social given by the Ladies' Mite society of the Methodist Church, yesterday afternoon at the old Rtuabaker home, was well attended and enjoyed by a large number of our people. Refeshments were served. Mrs. Kate Chamjier was the hostss for the occasion.

B H. Mover made a business trip to Ft. Wavne thia morning. Miss Nellie Moyers returned to Borne today, after a visit at Markle Mrs. Jennie Hmith returned to Huff ton today, after a visit bore with relatives. Miss Mary Wiley, of Sidney, O. is in the city, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Hmith. Three unclaimed letters are at the poatofiloe for Ira Baker, Walter Way and Mattie Grief. Mrs. M. Tilden, of Richmond, passed through our city today en route to Kansas City, Mo. Charles Hawkins, who is farming Samuel D iak's Blue Greek roal es fate, was in the city today. Mrs. Tom Miller and Miss Maude Coiner went to Marion t<slay to spend Sunday with relatives. Mrs John 8. Peterson and family will return home Monday morning from Rome City, where they have spent several weeks rusticating at this popular resort. An editor of Ohio who stat ted some seventeen years ago with |25 is now supposed to be worth 1100,000. He accumulated wealth very rapidly owing to his strict attention to business and the fact that his father died a few months ago and left him *w,»B7. The Hartford City team was defeated yesterday at Paulding by a score of 3to 2. Hartford City is playing fast lm.ll and any team that defeats them will know that they have been in a ball game. It is hoped this team will return to Daoatur again before the season eloses A surprise was given Mary Stults last evening, by ten of her young friends, and reports say that a good time with lots of fun was the result It was a late hour when the festivities closed, and the hope was expressed that the occurrence might be repeated at an early time The Bluffton base ball team ia on a campaign tour, and since they left the protecting wing of Mac Harbaugh, they have been easy picking. And the funny part of the funny deal, is to hear the wails of the Bluffton newspapers about rank umpiring. Tuey were beaten at Union City, Thursday by a score of four to one. Marshal Green received a postal card from Peru this morning announcing that the noted horse thief Chai les Funday had been captured at Fon du Lac Wisconisn, and a horse and buggy captured at the same time,and the entire outfit returned to Peru. Funday is a notorlous thief, and has been on the inside of four different prisons. A son of Alonzo Runyan, of Linn Grove and another young fellow living in that vicinity whose name could not be learned, ha,’ a mix up near the Kaltwasser farm going home from the show last night. The boys were racing their horses and the rigs collided. As a result the Runvan ng was smashed to kindling. The boys came down this morning and gathered up the remains of their outfit.— RlufTton Banner. Here is what John B. Stoll, of the South Bend Times has to say about the person who ‘ forgot:’’ “About as poor an excuse us anyone can offer for the non performance of assigned duty is ‘I forgot.’ A person hired to do oertai n things in a certain way or at a certain time has no right to forget. Such forgetfulness smacks of indifference, neglect, carelessness , anp disregard of obligation.’’ Mrs. Durr, who resides south of the city, while picking berries in the woods of Samuel Chronis ter, saw a snake which she declares was twelve feet long aul which nearly frightened her to death. She describes the creeper as being white and quite thick This is the third time this snake has heen seen, and a posse are goin g to the Chronister f .rm Sunday und try and capture or kill his suakeship. Northern Indiana land owners who h„ve been successfully experimenting with alfalfa have found that Russian thistles are springing up all over the fields. It has a sprangly top and when small resembles in eoler and texture a full grown stalk of asparagus. Later it sends out branches aid becomes round like a ball. As the seed ripens it breaks free from the root and is tumL u about the field by the nid. The only salvation is to pull or hoe the Russian thistle up.

Our Days are Numbered The end of this Great Money Saving Slaughter Sale is Near Ending Saturday, August 12th If you are looking out for you own interest, call while there is a chance and buy for future needs Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Caps, Furnishings, Trunks, and Valices 4» ALL GO AT ax Strictly Wholesale Price And as you all know the standard of our merchandise and our ability to purchase at less than many others this last offer of such a chance should bring you all to this store within the next 15 days. Stock will be Transferred August 14 Gus Rosenthal THE SQUARE MAN : : DECATUR, INDIANA

Jesse Leßrun made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning Mr. and Mrs. Williams went to Bluff tin fora Sunday visit with freinds. Gus Rosenthal returned this morning from a business trip to Huntington. On next Thursday the Sunday I school of the Calver Evangelical church, five miles east of this city will hold their annual picnic to which all are invited to attend. The proceeds will go towards the benefit of repairing the church. The Ladies Historical Club have their program arranged for n'ext year which will soon be printed and distributed among its membership. The club have enjoyed several years of profit and pleasure and the coming one promises even more. Gus Sellemeyer has a picture which he highly prizes, and that rightly. Four generations are rap resented, they being his mother now eighty seven’years old, h is sister, Mrs. Fred Reppert of Vera Cruz, her daughter, Mrs. Rudolph bnhug of Berne, and the latter’s daughter, a prepossessing young lady of sixteen Bluftton reports the customary number of skin games with Wallace s show, which exhibited there Thursday. Suckers were plentiful too, and with comparative ease they were separated from the easy coin. It is said that everyone played except a couple of preachers, and they were barred because cash instead of due bills were required to play the game. A farmer boy near town was sitting on a fence enclosing a corn field the other day, when a ' city chap in an automobile rode up, and, halting his machine, said: ‘‘Your corn looks kind of yeller, bub.” "Yes si', that is the kind we planted," answeied tho boy. ‘‘don’t look like you’d have more than half a crop,” said tho man. * Nope, we don’t expect to; the landlord gets the other half. ” The stranger' hesitated a moment and then he quietly ventured: “There isn’t much difference between you and a fool, boy.” “Nope, ony a little strip of weeds,” returned the farmer boy, and the automobilist I drove on.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harding arrived today from Fort Wayne and are guesta of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. ' Meyers. Mrs. Fred Schafer is enroute home from an extended absence in California. where she went in the hope of benefitting her health and in that she j was successful. She is expected to arrive in this city within the next few days. 1 Charles Merryman, who has been visiting with his parents. Mr and Mrs. James T. Merryman for the past ' month will leave this evening for Cardwell. Mo., where he will assume i his old duties as assistant auditor of the P. dr M. radrod. The many friends Os Harry Stone will lie plersed to hear that he is recovering from his illness and is able ' to lie up and around his home. He I was able to ride out for the first time ' Tuesday afternoon. His illness was a serious one. ami if no unforseen I complications set in he will soon lie I himself again.—Albion Democrat L. L. Baumgartner, county surveyor. was here from Decatur, yesterday afternoon to do some stir veying for the B me school board, with a view of getting a better outlet for the school hou«e. The pre sent outlet proves inadequate, as every time tb«re is a heavy rain, ■ the basement is deeded with water. The survey was made throngh Fulton street down toward Water street.] I- Berre News.

EJ ■» ‘“w4i fi&T ' k *,, ID THr Off l(E (IE THE K® SNOW AGENCY B , DECATUR, INDIANA. If you waut to well your farm or city property for cash, list it with the j SNOW AGENCY. We have several cash buyers as’soon as what they want jis put upon the market. If you wish to buy a country home or city resi idence, we may have just what you want, as our lists comprise several . thousand acres of good farm lands in Indiana and a large number of city : properties. Besides these, we have timber and prairie lands in Missouri, 1 Minnesota and Arkansas, in all stages of improvements. Property advei--1 ised without expense to the owner, if left on the market fnrthe time Ihtxh

The condition of Clark Backmas . ter, who is confined to his bed with typhoid tever under the care of a trained nurse, is worse today. The ministers who will exchange pulpits tomorrow evening: Revs. J. A. Brown, Christian church: Geo. E. Lukes, United Brethern church; E. A Allen, Presbyterian church: A. B. Haist, Evangelical church; Geo. Grether. German Reformed church? John C. White. Methodist church. A committee will notify them of their assignment late tommorrow merning. A surprise party was held last evening on Mrs. John Girard in h mor of her thirty ninth b.'thlay, and from all reports a fine time v as had. Pedro was played and tho prizes won by Mrs. Henry Schulto and Mrs. Frank Gass and Mrs. Frank Crawford the booby. Refreshments" were then .served and at a late hour the guests departed. Mrs. Girard was presented with a beautiful rocking chair. x’he Toledo Ivies who play here tomorrow are one of the strongest teams in Ohio, and are coming fully prepared to give the Rosenthals one if the fastest games this season. The management hen | gone to quite un expense in securing this attraction and a large [crowd should be in attendance and help encourage the team to victory, i Don’t miss this opportunity of witnessing one of the best games ot' the season.