Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1909 — Page 3

& ROYAL rHL Bakin S Absolutely “Pure Th e Only Baking Powder D made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar made from Grapes— Ro al Baking Powder has not its counterpart at home or abroad. Its qualities, which make the food nutritious and healthful, are peculiar to itself and are not constituent in other leavening agents.

t WEATHER FORECASTJ £♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦***««+* Unsettled weather with showers tonight or Thursday; not much change in temperature. Miss Anna Yager went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. John Fleming returned last evening from Huntington. Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Atith's Jewelry Store. Telephone Np. 472. Office hours: B—l 2 a. m., I—s1 —5 p. m THE FAIR MONROE STREET Notions 5 c up Popular Music [all the latest song hits] 2for 25c Musical Instruments and • Supplies We handle all the Magazines Disputes as to paid bills, overpayments, etc., are absolutely eliminated with a checking account —the receipted , legal voucner you hold in the returned paid check protects you perfectly, j Thia is just one of the many reasons why you should have a checking account with us. OLD AdamsCo.Bank

■dbobobobobobobob dbobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobdbobobobobobobobdbobobobobobobobobobobobobobobobjbobobobobobobob c i JOHNSON BROTHERS ,=a e BIG CUT PRICE SALE I ■ WC INNING THURSDAY MAY 27, and continuing for fifteen days, we will conduct a cut ed to sell for cash, and no charges will be made during this sale at this big discount. We will O salb This sale is to reduce stock, and prices will be the lowest that can possibly be made have many bargains for you, and it will be your duty to take advantage of them. Below we R § and within the reach of everybody. Owing to the close margin we will sell at, we will be fore- quote you a few prices to give you an idea of what you can buy during this sale. g £ SHOES I L idles’ 82.50 dress shoes, unequaled I PANTS I HATS I SHIRTS I 5 ■ Men’s 84 00 high grade gun metal for .... 2.95 Ladies' 82.50 tan and wine color Ox- Men’s 84.53 high grade dress pants 3,45 Men’s 82.50 hat that sells elsewhere for A.l] men > s g00( j work B hirts for 40c O O Men’s #3.50 velaur calf, Blocher Good- fords, for •■ • • U'?? Men’s 84 neatly woven worsted pants.. .. 3.15 >3, for 1.85 TIES ■! B year welt, fur-.- . 3’5 g o y,’? work shoe, for Men’s 83 M pants for 2.70 Men’s 82 dress hat, in drab, green, tan 50c ties for 40c n O Men’s 84 tan Oxford, worth 85, for a.io Boy’s 82.00 heavy work shoes, for 1.95 * and brown, for 1.45 o=„ n„ a f., r S' ■ Men’s 84 patent leather Oxfords for Boy’s 82.50 Easago work shoes, f0r....... 1.95 Men sB3 dress pants for 2.25 Men’s 81.50 hat, in all popular colors and “ DRESS GOODS ~ " R Men’s 82.50 Vici Kid Oxfords for Boy’s 82,50 patent leather dress shoe, for 1.95 Men s 82.50 worsted pants for 1.90 shapes, for ... P 1.19 75c dress goods for 60c M AH men’s S 3 leather the AH Misses and Children’s Dress Shoes Men « dreßß pants 1.65 Men’s $1 hat, worth $1 50, will go for ... 80c 50c dress goods for <oc B Ladies’S3 and p ‘ ’ §2.65 will be sold at a reduced price. Men’s §1.50 dress pants 1.15 Special bargains galore 25c dress goods for 20° O O finest made, for ' _ - ■ O W will have at all times attractive bargains in the grocery line, and we will pay you the highest price for your produce. Above we have given you the regular price that we have always sold ■ t 1 the Drice during the sale. We have not marked the prices up to an unreasonable profit, as most of our competitors do, and cut the price in two to mislead you. We again invite you to o O at, also r^^ ee w^a t-bargains we have for you. We will be glad to show you where our prices are the lowest. ■ 1 ~ JOHNSON BROTHERS. MONJBOfE | ■ ■OBOBOBOBOBOBOBCBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBCBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOBOHCBOBOBOBOBOBOIOBCB

1 j Miss Florence Kunkle was in the I city today shopping. Mrs. Mary M. Breiner went to Fort Wayne this morning. Adam Brown and family went to Bucyrus, Ohio, on a short visit. Miss Mayme Deininger and Bertha Deininger returned from Fort Wyane. Gay & Zwick this morning shipped 'a load of household goods to Wren, [Ohio. Miss Agnes Costello is visiting her cousin, Miss Marie McMullen at Fort , Wayne. R. E. Peters is looking after busli i ness for the Daily Democrat at Berne and Geneva today. John Vail and family arrived home from Cardwell, Mo., yesterday, where they have been for some time. The schedule for the Elks league will be given out in a few’ days, according to word received from headquarters at Fort Wayne. Rev. William E. Hunter, just graduated from the McCormick Theolo--1 gieal seminary, has been called as pastor of the Ossian Presbyterian church. It is rumored that several blind tigers are already in operation In Decatur, and some of the boys will find they are taking long chances if they are not mighty careful. It is said that ministers of the Christian church have secured control of forty-three acres of land and will establish an assembly ground at Lake Gage in Steuben county. The court room looks more like business than for some time, as the room is always well filled with witnesses and parties interested in the case of Faylor vs. Studabaker these days. A valuable little dog belonging to H. H. Bremerkamp met with its death yesterday while playing about the mill. In some way or other he got mixed up in the fly wheel and was ground to pieces. Mrs. L. C. DeVoss and daughter, Doris, of Decatur, left Tuesday for .their home after a visit with her sisters, Mrs. D. M. Robbins and Miss ' Libbie Kendrick, south Meridian street.—Portland Sun. I Samuel Barter, of Adams county, left today for Texas, where he will j purchase a section of land and locate. I He accompanied the South & West, Land company there last February. with the view to looking over the' country and was very favorably impressed. —Bluffton Banner.

Chas. Colter went to Bluffton today on business. Mrs. Abel returned to her home north of the city last evening. Miss Ida Smith has gone to Bluffton for a several days’ visit with friends. Miss Helen Evans was in the city today, and has returned to her home north of the city. J. C. Augsburger, of Berne, returned to his home after transacting business in the city. Judge LaFollette returned to his home at Portland last evening, after lookiug after legal affairs in the city. Thomas Mallonee is about the streets at present which he is able to ,do with the aid of crutches. He is i rapidly recovering. The summer cottage at Crooked I lake, owned by Dr. James Cole, of Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. F. W. Tucker, state food inspector, after looking over the dairies at Mishawaka, says conditions in some of them are simply filthy. Mrs. Stribe and daughters, Clara and Flora, of Bucyrus, have returned to their home after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mayer. The trial of O. B. Giley, for the murder of his brother-in-law, Edwin Wright, at Rome City in February, was begun at Albion Monday. Misses Winifred Ellingham and Gladys Meyer went to Winchester yesterday afternon for a visit with the former's relatives and young friends there. . Mrs. Philip Salisbury, of Chicago, is in the city visiting with her mother, Mrs. Cecilia Ehinger. Mrs. Salisbury was formerly Miss Ida Ehinger and who is now making her home in Chicago. Mrs. Isaac Peters and grandson Walter Mentzer, accompanied by Mrs. U. S. Drummond, of Pleasant Mills, and Mrs. Harriet Beidler of Elkhart, went to Bluffton for a several days’ visit with relatives. The following letters remain in the postoffice: A. R. Clogston, Dan Brandyberry, Elenora Omlor, L. B. Perry, Arthur Daniels, Martha A. Reynolds, Clarence Depp, Silas Fisher, Wm. A. Duff, Otis C. Hower, Agnes Jones. M. A. Frisinger, P. M. Governor and Mrs. T. R. Marshall, who spent Sunday with old friends at Columbia City, returned to Indianapolis Monday evening. Governor Marshall spoke briefly at the union memorial exercises held Sunday in the First M. E. church at Columbia City. A special term of the Whitley circuit court at Columbia City has been called for June 21 to take up the trial of John B. Scott, the Fort Wayne man, on a charge of murder. Scott killed Walter Thornton some months ago in the Scott saloon at Harrison and Main streets. Lloyd Anderson, six years old, living with the Hiram Coulter family was strangled to death Monday when the sliding door of a granary fell upon him as he was crawling through the opening. He was pinioned helplessly in the doorway and expired before his plight was discovered. A team of horses owned by Noah Frauhiger, the well known auctioneer, of near Magley, ran away in Preble Tuesday afternoon, and for a whi e there was much excitement. The animals were frightened near the home of John Miller, and went running at a mad pace till they reached the home of Martin Reppert, where they were caught. Before they reached the Reppert home the wagon was de-. molished and it was certainly lucky that no one was hurt. The horses w’ere not injured any.

Mrs. L. H. Purdy is quite sick at her home on First street. D. M. Hensley and family returned on the four o'clock car from Rome City. Mrs. Walter Plew, of Gary, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hoffman. • John Rice tok a horse to Paulding, Ohio, today, going byway of Ohio . City and Van Wert. Mrs. Clarence Baughman returned from Bluffton, where she visited Samuel Purdy and family. Yager Bros. & Rciuking are announcing that they are going to give away a parlor suit of furniture. Decatur will have saioons until next November, according to the decision of Judge Sturgis this morning. Mrs. Joe Daniels of Preble, arrived in the city this afternoon and will visit with Mrs. Amanda Daniels and daughter. Miss Bessie Baumgartner is working a the Baughman store on account of the absence of Miss Grace Purdy, who is taking a day's vacation. Judge Sturgis returned to Bluffton on the noon Clover Leaf, he being here making his decision in the saloon cases heard one day last week. Merryman & Fugate are getting ready for a crusade upon some of their macadam road contracts and this summer they expect to complete several miles of this kind of public . roads. Three cases of smallpox are rei ported at Fort Wayne, and the health officers there are getting busy. They , have just finished with a siege of this disease and it was thought that It had been exterminated. Mrs. W. H. Wiley, of Marion, has extended invitations to Mrs. Dugan, Mrs. Schirmeyer and daughter, and Mrs. Ellingham and Mrs. Tyndall to . be her guests during the recital of the Thomas orchestra at that place. Mrs. , Dugan and Mrs. Tyndall are now at Marion. Mrs. Susan Ludy, of Berne, was here Tuesday on account of the death of Robert Journay. Funeral services took place Tuesday afternoon at the Fairview United Brethren church in charge of‘Rev. Allie Sipe and Rev. W. H. Shepherd. Burial in the Liber cemetery.—Portland Sun. Miss Rebecca Steele has received, word from her sister, Mrs. George Gault ,who, with her husband, Mrs. Sarah Cochran and Mrs. Willard Hartman, went to Seattle, that they are greatly enjoying the trip and are well. The card was sent enroute. By this time they have reached the city. It was evident this morning that at this time of the year there is not any great demand for a job on a jury. Farmers and business men hate to leave the work which is so important at this season, but when one has to do these things and we wouldn't give much for a man wha refuses to answer a call to duty. The ladies of the United Brethren church will give an ice cream social Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. J. D. Wisehaupt on Nuttman avenue. The proceeds will go to help make up the fund to erect the pastor’s parsonage. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to come and help this good movement along. Invitations sent out for the bankers of group eight including all of th* banks of this district, shows that the bankers at their annual meeting at Anderson Thursday of this week will be entertained at the Anderson Country Home, where there will be a luncheon served at twelve o’clock with a program there, and followed later in the afternoon by an automobile trip about the city. The local [ rbanks will be represented.

Announcement The firm of ELZEY & VANCE having been succeeded by ELZEY, VANCE &HITE; the old firm wishes to thank most heartily its many friends and patrons for the many courtesies and patronage given them. The new firm extends greeting to the public and asks a continuance of your friendship and good will, with the positive assurance that you will be treated with the same courtesy and frankness. Square dealing has always been our watch-word, and it shall continue to be. Call and give us a visit whfither you wish to make a purchase or not. Yours Truly ELZEY, VANCE & HITE.

Mr. John Wemhoff who is attending college at Conegeviue, Ind., will arrive home in about two weeks as then his school term will be completed. Mr. Frank Schultz, an employe of this office, is sick at his home in the south part of the city with a severe attack of sore throat and is unable to be at his post. The Rebekahs and the Odd Fellow’s are requested to meet at the Odd Fellows hall on Sunday morning at nine thirty a. m. They will march from the hall to the Methodist church in a body and attend the memorial services. Rev. Sherman Powell will deliver the sermon at ten-thirty a. m. o Early cabbage plants for sale five cents a dozen. At Fullenkamp's.

PREVENTS BALDNESS. Your money back for the mere asking u Rexall "93” Hair Tonic does not make the scalp clean and healthy, nourish the hair roots, cure dandruff, and stimulate a new growth of hair. Put it to a test at our risk. Two sizes, 50c. and J 1.00. Smith and Yager, Druggists

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