Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1907 — Page 3

[Time .Table | ERIE L rrrrcr y ° v ‘ 18 ’OB ■AT v Ind BAOT 3©UR». £&[<’ 8, Chicago to Mew Y»tfc I Express, daily 2:BBam Bio. 10, Chicago tq Buffalo | Express, dally .«* » m. Bfo. 12, Chicago to New fork I daily 8:45*.m Bio. 4, Chicago to New tors ’1 and Boston, daily 3‘47pm Bio. 22, Chicago and Marion ■' g accomodation, daily ex--3| cept Sunday 1:48p.m. WEST BOUND. Bio. 7, New York to Chicago ■ ? I Express, daily 1:50a.m. Bio. 9, Buffalo to Chicago Express, daily 3:22am ■io. 11. Chicago, daily 6:95p.m. ■io. 3, New York to Chicago W Limited, dally 12:56p.m Bio. 21, Marion and Chicago 31 daily except Sunday 10:10a.m. O. L. ENOS, Traveling Passenger Agent ’ JOHN FLEMING, Ag’t. ■SRMD RAPIOrriNDIiNI R’T. in Effect November 25, 1906. I I:l4pm train, sleeper to Cincinnati. ■ :tl night train, sleeping car to Cincin■mti. GOING SOUTH. | Daily lex. tainiu,! ual> 1 I Daily Gaily (Sa.riay ■Leave ■tocatur 2:3lam| 7:l4am|l:l6pm| 7:46pm :20pm! B:lsam|2:l3pm! B:4spm ■uchm. |4:4sam| 9:42am 3:4opm 10:15pm ■umin. l6:ssamJl2:lopmi6:sspml ■ GOING NORTH 1 Dally |Gr.Ba*>|ex. au. ■pecatar |l:2oam| 7:59|3:17pm Wayne ...2:00am! B:4oam|4:oopm ■brand Rapids ..16:45am, 2:oopm|9:4optn ■Traverse City .|l:26pm| 7:55pm! ■petoskej’ |3:oopm! 9:3opm|s:ssam ■fcachlnaw City |4:2spm|l»:sspm!7:2oam r 1-,2oam train sleeping ear Cincinnati ■to Mackinaw City; 7:59 am train parlor {■car Port Wayne to Grand Rapids and City; 3:17 pm train parlor Cincinnati to Grand Rapids aleep■ng car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw Bcit>. ■FORT WAYNE A SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Bjecatur— North Ft. Wayne—South 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. B 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 pm It H B MOD E L I GET WBM>ED TO THE I MODEL CIGAR STORE I WITHOUT A MATE. ■W. H. j Orval Harruff spent Sunday with ■ friends at Linn Grove. Mis Rose Smith went to Monroe ■ this morning to resume her school ■ work. William Drew of Geneva, was at. ■ tending to legal matte’s in our city ■ today. Elmer Johnson left this morning ■ for Pittsburg, where he will con 1 net I a horse sale. Mrs. C. M. Meyers of Geneva, is in ■ our city today the guest of her moth. ■ er, Mrs Fullenkamp. I Mrs. Monte Fee and Mrs. Garard ■ went to Fort Wayne this morning to ■ spend the day with relatives. 3 Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Stml ibiker ■ went to Goshen this morniii;; :o visit ■ for a few days with Mrs beune Albert Brittson and daughter re- ■ turned to Alma, Mich after making ■ a pleasant visit here with relatives. I A number of Decatur people went ■to Wayne yesterday where they at■tended the play at the Majestic ■ Tneatre, The next horse sale will be conduct Bed at the Boch & Rice Stables on ■ March Ist and the promoters of the | same are now scouring the country ■ for available horses.

Ladies ‘ Dd your feet hurt? I sell Grover’s soft shoes for tender feet. Come in and lefe ■ . me show you Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

J. C. Mastick —JOBBER OF— Cigars and Tobacco

WEATHER. Rain tonight or Tueday, warmer tonight, cooler Tuesday. Increasing southerly shifting to westerly winds. M. F. Rice made a business trip to Berne today. John Brake made a business trip to Berne today. John Andrews made a business trip to Wayne today. J. B. Stoneburner made a business trip to Geneva today. George Tricker made a business trip to Portland today. Fred Hoffman made a business trip to Garrett this morning. Rev. Kissinger made a business trip to Fort Wayne today. Dr. E. G. Coverdale spent Sunday at Fort wayne with friends. Mike McGriff of Geneva was a business caller to our city today. C. M. Meyer of Geneva spent Sunday in our city with relatives. J. R. Morris of Van Wert was a business caller to our city today. | Columbus Baker returned this morn ing from a business trtp at Ft Wayne. Miss Anna Martin went to Fort Wayne today to spend the day with ; friends. Miss Vesey aarived this morning from Fort Wayne snd is the guest of -relatives. Andy Edington arrived this morning from Fort Wayne and is the guest of friends. Nick Miller spent Sunday in Fort I Wayne the guest of his brother Sam’ my Miller. Harmon Colchin, Cappy Johns and Will Berling spent Sunday at Wayne with friends. Mrs. Fetzer and Mrs. Mygrant went to Wayne this morning to attend the millinary opening. Born to Superintendent Opliger and wife a baby girl. Both babe and mother are doing well. The advancejagent of Robert Downing company arrived today and will show here on February 25. Mrs. R. K. Erwin and Mrs. Dan Erwin went to Fort Wayne this mornj ing to spend the day with friends. Miss Margnrite Contant returned to Fort Wayne today. While here she was the guest of Miss Bertha Fullenkamp. Dr. and Mrs. T. J. McKean of Linn Grove were the guests of the formers parents Mr. and Mrs. John Mckean of this city. John Meyers was arrested this morning by Marshal Green on a > I charge of keeping his saloon open on . Sunday and was arraigned before the Mayor, where he plead guilty, paid his fine and was released. The marshal is certainly doing his duty in regard to keeping the saloons closed. The remains of Allen Archbold arrived last evening from Marion and was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs.W.H, Gilpen until this afternoon at two o’clock when the funeral services were held at the M. E. church Rev. Backers of Marion officiating I and being assisted by Rev. John C. j | White. Interment was made at the Decatur cemetery.

•••*••••••«•••••<•<•••«••• • « • A Woman Collector • [Original.] “The firm name was Shirts & Shinn,” Mid the retired hardware dealer, “and we didn't get on from the start. I ■ had a good trade and was obliged to be on the road most of the time. This left the buying to my partner. The trouble was that he wasn't any kind of a buyer. If a salesman came along with a cock and bull story about a sick wife and a dozen or so starving children Shinn would buy a bili of goods of him whether we wanted them or not. The consequence was that every time I came in I found the stock growing in spite of my efforts to reduce it. "Well, the result of it all was that weeping drummers finally succeeded in turning the store into a Junk shop, and we had to quit. Shinn, as be should have done, offered to stand the loss, giving up all the capital he'd put in, acknowledging that the outcome had been entirely his fault If I could have closed up at once his money would have been just enough to square us, with no loss to me, but the very day we closed along comes a one leg-ged-commercial traveler he called himself—consumptive, wheezing through one lung, and Shinn had to order a SSOO bill of him. We closed the order out at about 60 cents on the dollar, making a deficiency of $187.42. This Shinn agreed to pay as soon he was able. “Shinn was a bachelor and removed from his rooms In an apartment house to a little shanty. I sent a man around to collect his Indebtedness, but he came back empty handed. I sent another with orders to be more persistent, and he came back, reporting that the door had been slammed In his face. I used to see Shinn occasionally on the street. He looked morose and shabby. One day I saw him give a quarter to a beggar. That made me mad. If he had money to give such nuisances he had it to pay his honest debts. I hired a regular fighting collector and sent him round to Shinn’s shanty. He came back with his head bandaged up, a black eye and a swelled lip, to say nothing of the lom of a sutt of clothes. ‘1 hired several men In succession to go and get Into the house and stay there till Shinn came down with the funds. The first one that came back reported he'd been thrown out, the second shared the same fate and the third and the fourth and so on likewise. “Then It occurred to me that rd send a woman. You see, a man can't Ight a woman, and there never was a woman yet that couldn’t get ti»e better of a man if she wanted to. There was ne woman's collecting agency in the town, so I told several friends of mine that I'd give half the debt to any woman who’d collect It. “About a month after making the announcement a young, good looking woman came to see me and said she’d heard I wanted a debt collected of Percy Shinn. She didn't look like a business woman at ail, but I concluded to try her. So I gave her an order for the money and started her out. “It was 3 o'clock when she left me, aud I waited with a good deal of anxiety to learn how Shinn would meet this new enemy. I expected her back In about an hour. Four o'clock came, but no collector —5, 6,7, and she didn't show up. lu fact, she didn't show up that night nor the next day nor the next nor the next. A week passed, and I began to think Shinn had murdered her. Fupny, wasn't it? Every man I'd sent had come back after having been thrown out; the only woman I’d sent didn’t come back at all. “Then I fancied maybe the woman had collected the money or a part of It and gone off with it. At the same time it occurred to me that I had stupidly omitted to take her address. I concluded to notify the police and started out to do so, but thought I’d take a look on ths way aj Shinn's house. Bo I went a roundabout way and brought up opposite the shanty. Somehow It didn’t look so tumbledown as before. There were white Holland shades in the windows and a tew flowers In the yard in front. r “4 woman came out of a bouse near where I was standing; and I asked her who lived In the :bouse opposite. She eald, ‘Mr. Shinn.’ ‘Any one with him?’ ‘His wife.’ ‘I didn’t know he was married.' 'He wasn’t a short time ago. There’s a story connected with It Mr. Shinn owed some old curmudgeon some money and sent a young woman to collect It She was real smart. She told him she was to get half the amount collected: that she was the only support of a widowed mother and seven brothers and sisters. She gave such a pitiful picture that Shinn, who had been a long while starving himself to pay the debt and had Just saved the last penny, went and got it and gave it to her. You see somebody had told her what kind of a man Shinn was. She was so cut up by his lovable meaner that she told him to keep the money for alj her, and he said he would keep It till his creditor came for It himself. It was one of the quickest matches I ever heard of. They only knew each other a week before they were married.’ “This was the story given out Years after I heard the true one. The woman was an old sweetheart of Shinn’s who had refused him. On hearing of his condition she had gone, disguised, ostensibly to collect the money. Knowing his soft spot, she had made up the yam. Then she threw off her 1 disguise, and there was a circus. “Yes, I got the money—every cent due. I went for it myself.” HERBERT DOUSMAN.

PANTS, PANTS Have you bought a pair of pants ? If not come at once and get next Men’s Pants Men’s pants, good strong material of neat QC r pattern, worth $1.25; this sale only Men’s pants fine worsted cassimeres, 01 DQ neatly made, all sizes, worth $2.25- $ liUu Men’s pants, finest dress worsteds cas- 00 QQ simeres, fancy cheviots, worth to $3 iUU Men’s fine worsted and cassimere (M OQ pants $5 and $6 values - - THEtHUB MGATUH.uaO. Advertisers of Facts B. Kalver Clothing Co.

Henry Koeneman made a business trip to Hoagland this morning. Amos Gillig made a business trip to Kalamazoo, Mich, this morning. Miss Rose Voglewede of Ft. Wayne spent Sunday in our city with her parents. Cy Ervin of Erank fort is in our city the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ervin. The Bluffton Elks and the local Elks will bowl this evening at the Palace Alleys. This is the second contest, Bluffton having won the former by a nice margin. The locals expect to win the series this evening. o FISHERMEN. There Are Two Classes* the Genuine and the Pretenders. It has sometimes been said that fishermen cannot be manufactured. This is true to the extent that nothing can supply the lack of certain inherent, constitutional and inborn qualities or traits which are absolutely necessary to a fisherman’s makeup. Os course there are many who call themselves fishermen and who insist upon their membership in the fraternity who have not in their veins a drop of legitimate fisherman blood. Their self asserted relationship is nevertheless sometimes seized upon by malicious or ignorant critics as permitting the assumption that the weaknesses and sins of these pretenders are the weaknesses and sins: of genuine fishermen. But in truth these pretenders are only interlopers who have learned a little fish language, who love to fish only “when they bite,” who whine at bad luck, who betray incredulity when they hear a rousing fish story and who do or leave undone many other things fatal to good and regular standing. They are like certain whites called squaw men who hang about Indian reservations and gain certain advantages in the tribes by marrying full blooded Indian women. Surely no just person would for a moment suppose that genuine Indians could be treated fairly by measuring them according to a squaw ma,n standard. Neither can genuine fishermen be fairly treated by judging them according to the standards presented by squaw fishermen.—From -’Tishing and Shooting Sketches,” by Grover Cleveland. Good Reason. "Why did Mrs. Fickler sue her hueband for divorce?” “I suppose he was the only man she could sue if she really wished to get one.”—Milwaukee Journal. No Danirer. Stella—Does she complain of being misunderstood? Bella—No; her money talks.—New York Press.

S Buffetts, China Closets, Sideboards, Combination China • Closets, Any of these we will cut on regular prices until our large stock is reduced. a Come and buy now WlO we will save you feWg' money Store of Quality YAGER'S furniture store

A, J. Smith made a business trip to Clear Lake this morning. W. L. Litterer was attending to legal matters at Biufftou today. Mrs. Lee went to Willshire today to make a short visit with relatives. Mrs. James Bain went to Frankfort , today to attend, to lodge matters.

Jesse Anderson was arrested Saturday evening by Marshal Green and lodged in jail to answer to a charge of piblic intoxication. He was arr ugn - ed before Mayor Coffee this morning aid plead guilty being given the usual do a e. He stayed tho docket and was discharged.

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