Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1910 — Page 3

| NO HYPNOTIZING HERE This is one store where there to hypnotize you’into buying [something that you don’t Jwant. We show <you the styles and tell you the kind of leather contained in leave it to you to decide whether’you want them or not, we don’t urge you to buy. We’ve mrde a lot of customersjby this methodfof doing business. TRY US NEXT TIME. 9 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE I The Shoe Seller

♦0404040404040 ♦ 0404040404 I WEATHER FORECAST I ♦040404040 4 0404040404040$ Rain tonight; Wednesday partly I cloudy. »*' 11 - 111 IM—» Amos Lewton of Monmouth was a business visitor here today. Homer Watkins made a business trip to Fort Wayne today. Kemp returned this morning to Monmouth after attending to business here. Mrs. D. P. Reynolds, who is very seriously sick, remains about the same today. Robert Mercer of Poe returned to his home this morning after attending to business here. Mr. and Mrs. U. E. Cramer of Ossian were out of town guests at the Yeomen anniversary Monday evening. Mrs. Alice Whitcomb of Decatur spent Sunday in the city as the guest of San Yontz and family of Jackson I street. —Columbia City Post.

The Moneyed I Man.... Os today-the business man —never pays his bills in cash—he always uses a check. He has been bit by unscrupulous methods-therefore, he adopts the only sure method of payment-the check. Do you use it? If not inquire of US how you can enjoy this protection. THE OLD Adams Coun iy Bank

HOH O BO B O B 0 fiOBODBOBOBOBOBOBOBOB ■ j s Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres, g ■ ° Mr. Man who wants to buy a small home:- ■ The Bowers Realty Company has for sale H O a number of desireable and pleasant little homes o ■ that will sell for around about SIOOO.OO each. ■ £ You can secure now perhaps better than at any O ' other time what you want and need at the low- ■ est possible price. The Bowers Realty Com- » ■ pany are in a position to help you buy one of g O these homes. Don’t you think that it would g ■ nav you to discuss the matter with us? O O If vou want a home, don’t keep on rentJ ing, come and see what we have to offer. ■ ■ « " o ~ The Bowers Realty Co. ■ § French Quinn, Secty. g 8080808080808008080808080808

——■—W— L. C. Dolch was a business caller ’ at. Fort Wayne today. Harve Rice came home from Berne today after a short stay at that place. John Stoneburner was at Geneva today transacting some business. Mrs. Frank Kessler of Monroe was visiting here yesterday. Miss Fern Hendricks left this morning for her home at Fort Wayne after a visit with Miss Ruth Patterson. A. R. Bell left today for Winchester, where he was looking after important business matters. Charles Elzey left this morning for Fort Wayne, where he was attending to some business during the day E. W. Harpsinger returned home yesterday from Grand Rapids, Mich., where he was looking after some business for a few days. Mrs. Mary Gafler, who was taken suddenly sick with cramps several evenings ago, is much better and was able to be out again today. Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick returned last evening from Leipsic, Ohio, where they spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. O. P. Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Howard of Elida, Ohio, transferred here this morning on their way to Fort Wayne for a visit. Mrs. Godfrey Kurt returned to her home at Monmouth on the 4 o'clock car yesterday afternoon after shopping here. Med Miller is the artist who is painting the fine new sign on the Vance, Hite & Macklin clothing store window. L. L. Baumgartner returned to his home at Linn Grove after looking up some business in the city for a while Monday. W. M. Sheler and son, George, were at Berne today doing some work sor 1 the G. R. & I. railroad company during the day. James Sims of Willshire was in the city this morning and left later for , Grand Rapids, Mich., where he will make a several weeks’ visit with friends. Mrs. Alice Everett, who has been visiting in the city for a few weeks . as the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Debolt, and other friends, ! returned to her home at Sturgis, Mich., today. Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor t® Dr. C. E. Neptune Office above Auth’s Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. Office hours: B—l 28 —12 a. m., I—s1 —5 p. m.

William Bailey of Monroe was a business caller in the city today. Horace Snow was atending to business at Fort Wayne today. Miss Marie Heckman yesterday began work at the Boeio millinery store. Father Benuinger returned yesterday to Hesse Cassel after a short visit here. Ed Lewton and daughter of Monmouth were business visitors in Decatur yesterday afternoon. Charles Magley of Root township was In Decatur yesterday afternoon on business. Miss Rose Schlickman Monday began work for the spring season at the Boese millinery store. Tom Bogner and Oscar Sprague begen work this morning at the Schlickman feed yard. T. M. Reed arrived Saturday to spend Sunday with his wife and left Sunday evening for Fort Wayne, thence on his regular trip. Ed Miller went to Fort Wavne this morning on the 10 o'clock car, where he closed up a deal for the purchase of a house and lot. Mrs. John Wilke and children have returned to their home at Leipsic, Ohio, after visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Kintz. A fine baby boy made its advent into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Kerr in Blue Creek township Sunday, much to the happiness of all. March surely came in "like a lamb;” and as "LIT Ephraim” says in the Womans National Daily, “Es it doan look out, th’ meat trust ’ll git it.” Repairs are going on rapidly on the Jacob Martin building occupied by the Frank Parrish restaurant, and the same will be ready for business again in a short while. Miss Frances Bryson, North Pleasant street, left Saturday evening for Marion, where she will remain for a week’s visit with her brother-in-law, Jerry Torrence, and family.—Portland Sun. August Brown of Willshire, Ohio, stopped off here yesterday and was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gunsett at dinner. He was en route to Cincinnati, Ohio, to buy spring goods for his dry goods tore. L. L. Baumgartner, formerly of Decatur, who recently purchased the Bohn store at Linn Grove, has taken complete charge and is preparing for some extensive remodeling and rearranging.—Bluffton News. Mrs. Tena Peoples, who has been visiting her son-in-law, John Barger, and family, in Wells county, passed through the city yesterday afternoon on her way to Monmouth, where she will visit with her brother, Jack Kemp, and wife. The funeral of James Martz, whose death occurred at his home near Monroe Saturday afternoon, was held this morning at 9:30 o’clock from the Pleasant Valley church, the Rev. Isaac Hollingsworth of Lynn officiating. Burial in tne M. R. E. cemetery near Berne. Clem Kain went to Muncie this morning, where he and the other state field accountant examiner, who has been with him, will examine the books of the Delaware county officials for several weeks. The local examiner has been getting good assignments —Bluffton Banner. Twelve Wells county farmers left this morning for Montana, where they will look over farming land. Three of the men, Claude, Guy and Clyde Miller, will take out claims and make their future homes there. They are sons of Frank Miller, living in the northwest part of the county.—Bluffton Ganner. A dastardly assault was made Sunday evening on two well known ladies at a point on West Washington street, opposite the Grimes machine shops, in the dark shados of the building and there will likely be an arrest, and if the youn gfellow designated by Miss Ruth Bender, one of the girls insulted and struck, proves to be t’.e right pary his arrest will cause a mild sensation. —Bluffton News. C. G. Egley, who was at Fort Wayne on Friday and Saturday consulting a physician in regard to his arm which he had injured some time ago, reports that the doctor discovered another fracture, besides the one in the shoulder, at the end of the humerous bone. While he is getting better slowly he suffers a constant pain, which often keeps him from sleep. It will be some time yet before he will be able to use his arm. —Berne Witness. Mrs. I. Z. Taylor and children, Goldie, Harold and Helen, and Mrs. George Aurand of Monroeville, who have been visiting with Mesdames William Barone, Drayton Hill and John Scheumann, left this morning for North Adams, Michigan, where they will join their husbands and make that place their home. Mr. Taylor and son, George, and son-in-law, George Aurand, Left last week for Michigan to prepare the new homes.

Mrs. C. D. Lewton continues to improve, but will not be able to come . home from Hope hospital for about two or three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Tbomas Elzey left this morning for South Whitley, where they will visit with their daughter, Mrs. Charles Howell. George C. Steele returned today from Union City, where he attended to business relating to a racket store which he owns at that place. Jacob Omler, one of the pioneer residents of the county, residing north of the city, was in Decatur this morning on business and returned home on the 11:30 car. • Charles Barnhart, who has been in southern Indiana for several days, looking Yor the location of a racket store, spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Parker at Cayuga. Mrs. Parker was formerly Miss Iva Steele of this city. Her husband is superintendent of schools at Cayuga. Levi and George Mumma, two well known men of this city, left this morning for Colorado, where they will look over the land with an idea of investment. If the land conditions suit them, they will purchase farms and move to their new possesions as soon as they can dispose of their interests here. Levi has been employed for some time with A. N. Steele & Bro. Homer Lower, rural mail carrier on Route 3, who has been off duty for two or three weeks on account of a threatened attack of appendicitis, was able to be out at the postoffice this morning for the first time since his illness. He was feeling very weak, but thinks he is nearly over the attack. He will probably not be able to resume his work until the latter part of the week on account of the serious results that mige be occasioned in riding. Mrs. C. J. Weaver returned last night from a several days’ visit with Mrs. Jennie Tierney and Louis Hughes and family at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Weaver had also intended to visit with a former neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cook, formerly of this city, but on reaching Fort Wayne found that their son-in-law, Jesse Van Buskirk, had been seriously injured in a fall Wednesday, from which he suffered concussion of the brain, and was lying at Hope hospital at the point ot death. He is now, however, much better and it is thought that he will recover. Mrs. Vanßuskirk was formerly Miss Grace Cook of this city and known to many here.

|*Tlne Breath of Spring i I The mild rains of the past few days re- IB||||■ ■" \l I I mind us that it’s time to bid good bye to M- ' I ■ the passing winter season and greet the incoming Spring. |||||| ’ ■ Though there may be some bad days when it will appear as lUi| B ■ winter without, everything inside our store from now on will |||M Li B be spring. Evidence of this is shown in the new merchandise ■ now ready for your inspection, never so well chosen. lIK li ‘ ' B I . /f I I — ||||| . 1 I Our Line of Spring Suits and Wraps, I hit J ®r. > I ■II ” | lis unsurpassed any where. We can show hvWw I I you all the latest patterns and colors and 1 ’ I styles. The illustration shows you one of the new ones but —g | iwIL I . ■ there are almost as many different models as there are suits. . 13« n B r B ■ ’S ' '-i 111 ■ Hill ' . B Come inland get the first choice. Those who buy early get ’ '’BBf if I Bl f l J the benefit of the long season. The prices are reasonable as J HUI JI, |l!l' K »>•'**•-*.«=* . .. , , JH IIbI Ml l | II BlVI’ I ■ B we can fitjyou in the latest and most fashionable garment at !BOIt « || ! «r'W«r- .ir ■ -m w* !|H| I rl 4 ll■. ■ t I prices of ffl|ih fi L 1 ‘I LI 111 I 111\ I : f SIO.OO $12.50 $17.50 $23.00 $25.00 1 111 I . B IHI Bl 11 Bi Ill\ ■ i I I'l ffli ill Dtiij P iB‘I lrl|| I 111 'i’r,. y™ \ A . IUH ■■HI i IS l\\®\ ' i i V nil ii i im\ i • I The first complete showing starts today t • I and we most earnestly ask you to call and inspect the line in ' ■ > ■ the selection and buying of which we have used great care. 1 ;| _ i I True & Runyon, Big Store Block. 1 rB _ __ — ... , _ _

Arthur Mangold went to Fort s Wayne this afternoon. 1 Henry Hite and son, Hugh, were at Van Wert, Ohio, yesterday on bus- ’ iness. John Ray left today for Dayton, Ohio, here he will work in one of the factories at that place. , Mrs. M. P. liurdg went to Van Wert, Ohio, this afternoon to atend the funeral of her uncle, Leonard Kuhl, an aged man of that city, whose death ■ occurred Monday morning about 8 o’clock after a long illness resulting t from old age. He was seventy-five ' years old. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning. : ® NOTICE, Just received —Three car loads of anthracite coal, chestnut and furnace. o—- , WANTED —To buy small fire-proof safe. Address Box 6, Pleasant Mills, Indiana, and give dimensions, weight and price. 48t3

First National Bank of Decatur Interest bearing certificates of deposit issued, payable on demand at three per cent per annum left for six months. per Cviit in terest given on certificates left for one j s J J

OF WOOLEIN FOR SUITS TO YOUR Ok. Beautiful patterns in Cheviots, Homespuns, r fi Worsteds, and Serges. Colors are cheifly Grays and Blues, either plain or fancy. As Easter comes earlier than usual this spring we advise you to put your order in early. SUITS iTO ORDER ...$20.00 to $35.00... Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys ■ Z This Coupon Entitles the Holder to« Q AO/VVISSIOIN to UJ Q_ Crystal Theatre E p TUESDAY, EVE. MARCH ht. 0 If acco mpariid K irt paid admission. . Q W. P. Biggs, Proprietor j II? —