Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1908 — Page 3

Closing Out Sale $5,000 stock of China and Notions at almost one-half price. An opportunity that rarely happens in a life time. Xmas presents by the thousands from the largest and best stock ever exhibited in Decatur at Bargain Counter prices. Notice our windows and be convinced. Just stop and think—soo hand-painted ' and fancy plates, reg. price SI.OO, 75c, 65c, and 50c, now only 59c. 49c, 39c, and 29c. 200 fancy Jardinieres, 7, 8 and 10 in., reg. price 50c, 75c, and SI.OO, now only 29c, 39c, and 49c. Five open lines in Haviland at greatly reduced prices. Hundreds of articles too numerous to mention. Sold at other places for 10c. our price only sc. Everybody come. We have enough for all. Window sale begins Saturday, Dec. 12 at 9 a. m. MOSER China and Notion S'ore

Good shows are on at the moving pictures theaters tonight. The Decatur Packing company is doing a good business and has been throughout the year. Miss Edith Miller arrived home yesterday (from Huntington, after a week’s visit with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Fleming, of Fort Wayne have come to the city for a several days’ visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. R. Earl Peters received the sad news today of the death of her uncle, John Leas, late of Waterloo, who has been a sufferer for several months.

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Your Money is indeed poorly protected if YOU guard it. Place it in an institution where it is protected by the best known modern devices and vaults, and where you can Check against it at your convenience. You protect yourself best with a checking account—every check when cashed becomes a legal voucher. Old Adams County Bank

J ■ I Christmas Bells | o Will Soon Be Ringing | o O This is the ideal shopping time-near enough to | ♦ th. <rift festival to make judicious selection, yet ♦ ± far enough away from the final rush to give one o a chance to think twice before saying, 111 take ♦ ♦ it” If you wish useful, sensible gifts such as * 1 most persons appreciate most, you . w,lI find no bet- o o ter pace to make your selection than here. ♦ t J. H. VOGLEWEDE & SON |

The cold weather continues and walking on sidewalks is still slippery. There is not a great deal of sickness at present and every one is thankful. Home cigars are the best and every Decatur citizen should buy them, if they smoke. Providing the president o' the board of commissioners, Mr. Laughlin, is well enough that body will go to Bluffton Friday to confer with the board of that county on a joint road. The Decatur public schools continue to prosper and the condition of these public institutions is by far the best they ever were in. Let every citizen do what he can to aid in making them still better. Christmas is drawing very near and we have’ but a little more than two weeks to wait for the coming of the much heralded Santa Claus. Let the stockings be mended and made ready to be hung by. the chimney. The two-men contest at the Palace bowling alleys continues to attract attention. Will Berling and Guy Dorwin rolled up a score last night that will make the rest of the boys travel some, their average being 181. Ice skating is again gaining popularity and many of the young folks are enjoying the sport. This pastime was not at its best while there was roller skating in town, but in the absence of a rink it is re-assuming its former popularity. J. B. Stoneburner has one of the best feature films for tonight's performance that has ever been shown in Decatur. The famous world championship game between Chicago and Detroit in which Tinker secured a clean homo run will be shown at the usual price of 5c admission. Decatur business men are disposing of much holiday goods at present. The people are beginning to buy early and the merchants are making announcements in regard to their large assortments and reasonable prices. The people who select their Christmas presents at Decatur stores will get the value of their money. Among those who will attend the meeting of the democratic representatives and senator sat Indianapolis next Monday and Tuesday are Dr. J W. Vizzard. of Pleasant Mills, present representative and Senator J. W, Tyndall and L. G. Ellingham of this city and Thurman Gottschalk the rep-resentative-elect of Berne. A meeting of the directors of the Bluffton, Berne & Celina traction line will be held in this city or Berne in a few days at which time the final matters pertaining to the filing of the incorporation papers will be completed. There are several affairs which the directors wish to get straightened out before filing these papers.—Bluffton Banner.

WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday. Mrs. Daniel Sprang went to Fort Wayne this morning to do some shopping. A. J. Sipe, of Berne has returned to his home at Berne from a business call in the city. Marshal Bohnke ordered a tramp to leave the city today, who begged for bread and meat and still wanted eggs. David Studabaker was reported slightly better today after a very bad day yesterday and a rather uneasy night. The roads in town are in fairly good condition for sleighing and many people are taking advantage of the pastime. The St. Marys (river is frozen across and the ice is quite thick. Ice men have fond hopes of an early harvest this year. There will be a special meeting of the Fire Department Thursday evening, December 11th at 7 o’clock p. m. L. C. Helm, Chief. Grace English Lutheran church at Elkhart, has extended a call to Rev. F. A. D/essel, of Spencerville, and it is expected that he will accept it. Appropriate funeral services were held over the body of the late Mrs. Hattie Beery at Pleasant Mills yesterday afternoon. The cortege left Decatur at 12:30 o'clock. Ray McClelland, a resident of Warren, has been arrested and taken to Robinson, 111., to answer to a charge of criminal assault filed against him there by a fifteen-year-old girl. It is desired that every member of the Modem Woodmen lodge be present at tonight’s meeting. Business pertaining to the big district meeting at Fort Wayne will be transacted. Manager James E. Ervin, of the Boyd park theater, near Wabash, has been arrested on ten grand jury indictments charging Sabbath desecration in giving Sunday shows at the park. F. E. Wentworth, a railroad telegrapher, who is charged with having skipped out of Bluffton atfer embezzling SIOO from the Clover Leaf railroad, has been arrested in Missouri. That the freight business 'on the Fort Wayne & Springfield interurban is increasing is encouraging to the promoters of the road. November’s business exceeds that of the preceding month. Nothing doing today in the justices courts. The law offenders are not numerous at present and it seems that a new era of fidelity to law’ and order h£s found its inception. Let us hope so at least. Miss Helen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walters is ."-"ouncing the arrival of a namesake, i being Helen, the baby girl who made her appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Kern, at Midland, Michigan, recently. Saloon men at Wabash secured an order from court restraining the county commissioners from calling a county option election on the ground that the county council had made no appropriation for the election. The restraining order was not served upon the board until five minutes too late, however. Leon Locke received a terrible fall in the alley back of the Bliss House at noon today. He was running down the alley with his hands in his pockets when he slipped on the ice, pitching forward onto his face. His lips and nose were bruised and scratched in a terrible manner, and his nose bled profusely.—Bluffton News. Eight of the nineteen saloons in Wabash have pool or billiard tables in the rooms/ and some have both. Prosecutor Carpenter has held that this is illegal. He called the matter before the grand jury at its last session and succeeded iu having indictments returned. These indictments are now being followed by arrests upon warrants issued. Frank Cotton, he of jail fame, is loking for a lemon tree. Although he cannot find any himself he is making an endeavor to get his friends to find the tree for him. He wishes to send it to Ash Emshwiller, prosecutor. Mr. Emshwiller, he said, tried hard to send him to the penitentiary, but was unsuccessful. He would like to send the tree to Emshwiller for a Christmas present. —Bluffton Banner. There is nothing novel in the decree issued by the pastor of an American church against the big hats, says a writer in a Vienna paper. Towohd the end of the thirteenth century great broad brimmed hats were fashionable in Austria. They were of such huge 'dimensions that a face under one of them could not be recognized. A poem written by Hadlaub expressed disgust with the style and the hope that the hats might be consigned to the Danube, “so that the pretty faces of our women might once more becofne visible.’’

Mrs. Isaac Peters was the guest of relatives in the city today. Sam Acker, of Geneva, was a business caller in our city today. John Barnett went to Berne this afternoon to look- after business interests. The musicale to be given by the Sisters of St. Aignes will be the best ever this year. Mrs. Victoria Hill, of Mercer avenue, has been quite sick for a week but is recovering J. L. Sipe, of Berne, was a business visitor here today. He has returned to his home. Mrs. Henry Krick went to Berne this afternoon for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Dolsh. Mrs. J. E. Moser remains about the same, but little improvement being noted in her condition. Mrs. J. O. Lewellan, of Monroe, was a Decatur visitor today, returning to her home this afternoon. The condition of Martin Laughlin is about the same, according to a late report from his bedside. Dr. Raymond Knoff, of Berne, was a business 'caller here this morning, returning this afternoon. Mrs. Maggie Reckard returned today from an extended visit with friends at Richmond and Muncie, Ind. Mr. Graber of the county farm, was a business caller in the city today returning to his home this afternoon. J. C. Leiter made a business trip to Monroe this afternoon in the interest of the A. Van Camp flour mill. Miss Marie Bates has returned from Meadville. Pa., where for some time she has been the guest of her parents. Brown's Corners, a hamlet in Huntington county, has a mad dog scare. The animal became violet and bit a number of hogs before it was killed. Are you reading the invitation of the various Decatur merchants in the Daily Democrat? It will pay you to do so, if you are interested in wviat you ought to buy for Christmas. J. F. Snow has made several real estate deals during the past few weeks. There has been some inactivity in real estate for several months, but the market gives evidence of again booming in the good old way. Decatur merchants are preparing for a grand rush in holiday goods. In fact there has already been considerable purchasing done. It is the wiste buyer who looks after the Christmas wants early, and it is the wise ' merchant who early advertises appropriate gifts. Frank Carroll, who for severa'i months has been employed at the Elzey barber shop at the DeWitt smoke house, bought a half interest in the shop Monday. Messers. Carroll and Elzey are popular young men and will no doubt receive their share . of the patronage. Apparently the fight against the • encroachment of the Arkansas river toward the eastern residential section of Pink Bluffs, has been won, and with the more rapid receding of the w’ater, as now indicated, it is be- . lieved that the most serious phase of the present flood is passed. District Deputy H. E. Robison of this 1 city, has set February 4th as the date for -lit? district meeting of the Knights of Pyhias and the same has been approved by the grand chancellor. The Hartford City lodge accepted the meeting and a program committee will meet shortly.—Hertford City News. Auditor C. D. Lewton is arranging to make his final settlement and conclude his term as auditor of the county. He has not determined on the future, but will take a good rest before engaging in any business. He has been a part of the force at the auditors office for twelve years past. He wil Iremain with Auditor-elect Michaud until the latter is familiar with his official duties. Saiem Bashara, earliest leader of the Syrian colony in Fort Wayne, long a power among people of his nationality in this city, but later dethroned as his fortune dwindled, died yesterday. Mr. Bashara was 54 years old. For many years Salem Ba-shara was a unique figure. He was born in Beyruth. Syria, and came ito Fort Wayne twenty years ago. At one time Bahsara supplied* half a hundred or more of his countrymen with the merchandise which they in turn retailed about the country: The talk was about the proper time to wind the watch. “It’s the last thing I do before I crawl into my downy,” volunteered the Hartford City man. “Where I live that wouldn’t do at all.” said the man from Dunkirk. “We seldom get to bed until our last white has gone into the jackpot, We wind our watches first thing when ~c get up and we are nearly always sober in the morning.” “I never wind mine,” said the Montpelier man. “Tobacco tags?” queried the Hartford City man. “Waterbury?” asked the man from Dunkirk. “No, birthday present,” replied the man from Montpelier!. “It’s exactly fright twice a day.”

CHRISTMAS TIME Will Soon be Here A Few Suggestions Concerning Practical Gifts * and the economy and other advantages of buying, where quality is assured. We have FINE SUITS AND OVERCOATS suitable for father, brother or husband also have SMOKING JACKETS AND SWEATER COATS You can buy here a pair of fine suspenders, arm bands and supporters in a fancy box, Tie, hose and Handkerchief in a fancy box, at popular prices. MUFFLERS SI.OO and up HANDKERCHIEFS, a large assortment . . . FUR CAPS from $1.50 TO $4.50 FINE UMBRELLAS from? . s|.sO TO $7.50 CUFF BUTTONS, TIE PINS . . 25C TO SI.OO FANCY DRESS SHIRTS . . . ATs| and s|.sO SUIT CASES from $| TO $lO TRAVELING BAGS from $3 TO $8 We can surely please you and will be glad to have you change any article that does not suit you. Come in and select the present you wish and we will lay it away for you. Teeple, Brandyberry & ‘•CATER TO THE MAN WHO CARES”

H>' IJjWTT~ WW* I ~ ~-' - I r CHRISTMAS BUYING’* -r—jwa Is Now in Order I /[ ,\ u ,_tr There are enly Fourteen more shopping days h JO ny until Christmas, If you want t see our com- K plete line of Christmas Novelties as well as ■ WV" At staples, do your shopping early. 11l r c MEN ’ S OVERCOATS ! I Iwfe®® and SUITS I S £■ ' that would be appreciated by any man as a a ■ -V's ftr ,’<, 1 I wßwl — I I Mil HI $8.50,510,512.50,515,518,520 I f ffWWBOpW BATH ROBES AND f I IlfcffcW SMOKING JACKETS | # We now have on display an excellent assort- ■ ■ Ww ment-of these garments. Yonr husband, fath- ■ ‘ er or brother would be delighted to receive one I 1 F 7^—J I I OUR CHRISTMAS STOCK W I I Suit Cases, Neckwear, Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Fur /) \uK | I Caps, Fur Mittens, Sweater Coats, Umbrellas and njy, g | I Dress Gloves, are all now ready for your inspection. j | J Ladies fur caps $2.00 to $4.00 / I I Elzey & Vance ( Corner East of Court House Decatur Ind. - - - - - /p