Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1910 — Page 3

Make the Boy Feel Good Our new line of shoes for boys made over the Hi-To lasts make the little boys feel good because he has a pair of shoes just like Dads. We have them in both Patent and Gun Metal Button and Blucher in regular shoes and Patent and Gun Metal Bluchers in the oxfords. Take a look at them when you’re up town. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE The Shoe Seller

*0404040404040 ♦ 0404040404 o o | WEATHER FORECAST j •040404040 4 0404040404040$ Unsettled weather; rain or snow in south portion tonight and Thursday. I D. F. Quinn has returned from a business trip to Cardwell, Mo. Mrs. Dan Vail spent yesterday afternoon in Fort Wayne. i C. . Dugan made a business trip to Venedocia, Ohio, yesterday. Dore B. Erwin was attending to bustiness interests at Geneva yesterday. : Jake Tester made a business call at [Monroe Tuesday. John Kurt and family are moving [from Monroe to North Ninth street. Mrs. James Bain has recovered from an attack of the quinsy. ! MILLINERY OPENING Friday afternoon and evening. March 11th.. Easter display of millinery. U, DEININGER. The Moneyed 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 Count y Bank

ROH O R O R O H C ! J S Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. g- ■ ° ■ READ THIS 5 o m ■ A one and one half story home excellently sit- o B uated CHEAP. ® This home has seven large rooms and closets O O beautifully finished throughout, electric lights, B ■ drove well, two large porches, lattice porch in rear £ ■ fine shade and good fruit, good bam and coal house O O located on a brick street, brick sidewalks, southeast “ ■ corner West Monroe and Ninth streets and can be O • purchased for the reasonable sum of $2,400.00. g ■ For further informrtion and terms call at our g office or call ’phone 35. " O ~ The Bowers Realty Co. ft French Quinn, Secty. g ROHOROHOROiOiOOHOIOiOROROROH

Mrs. Andy Moyer has been umbered among the sick. ’Squire James Knavel was a business visitor here this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Peltz went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Charles Heckman and family have moved into the A. C. Gregory property on Marshall street. Harry Moltz left yesterday for Bluffton, where he was looking after some business during the day. P. W. Smith has returned to his home at Richmond after being a business caller in our city. Mrs. Almira Bobe of Bluffton, who has been visiting in the city with friends for several days, returned to her home. Mrs. Grover Hoffman and son, Frederick, of Swayzee are visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Loch and other relatives. Mrs. B. D. Hendricks left yesterdayafternoon for Dixon, Ohio, where she was called by the sickness of her sister, Mrs. F. B. Hackett. Erna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Schindler of North Second street suffered an attack of appendicitis yesterday and was very bad. She is somewhat better this afternoon. Unclaimed letters are at the postoffice for Mrs. Tillie Walls, John France, William C. Brandon, Mrs. Emma Alexander and Harry Castle. Dyke Frisinger, postmaster. W. T. Reynolds of Noble, Oklahoma, has arrived in the city to make a visit with his mother, Mrs. D. P. Reynolds, who has veen very sick for some time. Daniel Bracht left yesterday morning for Midland, Mich., where he will take care of his father’s farm. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bracht, wl’l leave after Easter for that place. Henry Lankenau has been taking treatment for the removal of a facial cancer, and is rapidly getting well. The cancer was removed and the wound is now healing. Miss Clara Peters, a stenographer in Eckhart’s Packing house at Fort Wayne, and her roqmmate. Miss Sane White, of Ossian have returned to Fort Wayne after spending Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peters.

Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Saccetsor to 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 McConnahey was at Monroe today on business. Chris Meyers was a business caller at Geneva today. L. G. Ellingham is attending to business affairs at Indianapolis today. Bernard Voglewede went to Muncie yesterday in search of work. Charles Voglewede was at Fort Wayne yesterday on business. Uusual lenten services were held last evening at St. Marys church. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Johnson are planning to move from Tenth street to West Monroe street. Misses Stella Ward, Lou Kolman of Fort Wayne have peen visiting with Miss Ida Bogner. Rev. Roop, pastor of the Salem Evangelical church, east of town, was in the city yesterday on business. Mrs. Charles Bonham of Bryant is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rex. Asa Engle went to Monroe tnis morning, where he was doing some work durin gthe day. Mr. and Mrs. Mat Kauffman of Curryville are visiting with her grandmother, airs. R. A. Steele, of this city. Jake Tester was doing some work at Monroe today for the Decatur Furnace Co. Jake Butcher of Geneva was in the city today looking after some business matters. Harry Christen of Fort Wayne visited last evening with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Christen. S. T. Fordyce was at Geneva today looking after some business matters and returned home on the afternoon train. Jesse Huffman of Marion was here yesterday and took part in the entertainment at the library hall Tuesday evening. Andrew Artman made a business trip to Poe yesterday afternoon in the interest of the Schafer Hardware company. Mrs. Henry Weidler, living a mile northwest of the city, who has been sick for the past two weeks with grip and catarrhal fever, is much better. Mrs. J. . Smith, who has been sick for some time, is gradually gaining, though she is still unable to leave her home. Mr. and Mrs. Will Kitson went to Monmouth last evening, where they visited with their daughter, Mrs. Charles Johnson. The opening at the Schaub, Gottemoller & Co. hardware store this week is a very successful one. A beautiful set of silverware, fully guaranteed, is given away with each purchase of a stove and on Saturday they will have a gift distribution. Decatur merchants believe in advertising. They invite you into their stores and they stand behind every thing they sell to you. It’s up to you to patronize them, for they carry anything you want and sell at a close margin. Rev. Sherman Powell left this morning for Anderson, where he will take part in the Muncie district convention, which is being held at that place. It has been in session since Monday and will be brought to a close this evening. Mrs. Frank H. Addington and son of Decatur, who have been visiting several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Allen, went to Ridgeville Tuesday afternoon to visit Mr. Addington’s mother, Mrs. L. M. Jellison, for a week. —Portland Commercial Review. C. E. Suttles, formerly of this city, now of Celina, Ohio, returned home today after visiting here for a couple of days and attending to business matters. Mr. Suttles recently opened a racket store at Celina and reports that business there is 6«e. Both he and Mrs. Suttles like their new home very much. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyers have received a telegram from thir son, Luther, a student in his senior year at Stanford University, California, who suffered an attack of appendicitis recently and has been in the university hospital, announcing that he left the hospital Friday for his trip home and would probably arrive here today, though heavy snow storms and avalanches throughout the west have delayed the mail and traffic so much that it is not known whether he wil’ arrive here on the schedule time or not. Women of the city have been asking for several weeks past why the electric lights are not turned on unti the after part of the night, when they are not needed. During the early part of the evening, when the public uses the streets they find them so dark that one step after ancther is rendered almost unsafe. Then, towards morning, the lights come on and shine with persistent glare upon the untraveled streets. Travelers coming into the city frequently remark upon the dark streets of the city.

Mrs. John Btaker Is the guest of Fort Wayne friends today. Mrs. C. C. Schafer went to Fort Wayne to spend the day. Mrs. E. B. Adams spent the day in Fort Wayne. D. R. D. Meyers has returned home from a business trip to Muncie. J. A. Mamma left this morning for Fort Wayne on business. Milton Kidd went to Fort Wayne this morning to look after business affairs. F. 8. Armantrout of Geneva was looking after business Interests in the city today. The Knights of Pythias are all requested to be in attendance at the regular session Thursday evening. Mrs. Joe Tonnellier and daughters, Rose and Marie, are spending the day in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Albert Katterheinrich went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day. Jacob Atz, who is at West Baden taking treatment, states that he is feeling much better and expects to be home about Saturday. The Klondykes and Tigers played another game at the Palace Bowling alleys Tuesday evening, the Klondykes winning two out of three games. Dr. H. E. Keller went to Monroe today noon, being called by the illness of Mrs. Fairchild, an aged lady of that town. Mrs. Dick Burrell and daughter, Frances, and Mrs. Page Blackburn went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with relatives. Fred Hayward has returned home from a business trip to Portland and other places in the interest of the Decatur Packing company. The people from Bluffton who were to take part in the musicale given at the library hall last evening could not be present on account of the train being late. Dr. Mart Moran of Portland passed through the city this morning on his way to Fort Wayne, where he was attending to some professional business. Mrs. Viola Beery, who has been making a month’s visit with James Knavel and wife of near this city, left this morning for her home at Elkhart. Miss Koth, a trained nurse from the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, who has been in attendance on Mrs. Fred Harker of Union township for the past four days, left yesterday noon for Fort Wayne. Will Kitson has received a letter from his son, Earl, who is engaged in the barber business at Sheridan, Wyoming. He states that the weather there is very spring-like, and that the doors are standing wide open during the day. Mrs. Carlisle Tucker and daughter, Miss Lula Breed, and Miss Carrie Kirchenbower, secretary of the Indiana College of Music, arrived in the city yesterday and took part in the musical program given in the library hall last evening. Mrs. Robert Meyers of Columbus, Ohio, who was called here by the injury of her sister, Mrs. Paul Baum gartner, is here for a two days’ visit with friends in this city before going home Thursday. Mrs. Etta Rosebrough of Huntington will join her here in a visit. Mrs. Florence Elzey and niece, Mrs. S. P. Sheets, spent yesterday in Fort Wayne, where they called on their niece and sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Rinehart, at the Lutheran hospital. Mrs. Rhinehart is getting along well, but will probably not come home until a week from Saturday. Mrs. Ferd Peoples and niece, Elloiso Lewton, spent yesterday afternoon at Hope Hospital. Fort Wayne, calling on their sister and mother, Mrs. C. D. Lewton, who is a patient there. Mrs. Lewton will probably be able to return home a week from tomorrow. Mrs. Peoples and niece are spending today at Monmouth the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Magley. Tom Miller returned this morning from Herbst where He has been spending a few days and will resume his duties as agent at the Clover Leaf station as quickly as arrangements can be made to check cut Amos Neff, who has had charge of the station during his absence. The operation which Mr. Miller underwent some time ago for the removal of a growth on the outside of his eyes, was entirely successful. —Bluffton News. Montpelier relatives of Roy Jones, a former well known citizen of this city, say that his arrest at Delphos, Ohio, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretense, was the result of spite work on the part of the drug-’ gists who caused his arrest, and that the grand jury dismissed him, saying there was nothing In tho case, after hearing only a few witnesses. Roy it is claimed, was only working for other parties, and was in no way responsible even if there had been cause for action. He is now in Illi-nois-Montpelier Herald.

Sam Slmison of Berne was a business caller here today. Chauncey Lautzenheiser of Berne was in Decatur today on business. Lou Scheiman will make a business trip to Fort Wayne this evening. Jacob Spade of near Peterson is said to be very sick with Bright's disease. Herman Newman of Chicago was a business visitor here yesterday. John Holthouse went to Bluffton this noon for a short stay on business. Frank Parrish was a business caller at Monroe today. A. P. Beatty left this noon for Van Wert, where he was looking after important business. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Smith went to Fort Wayne this afternon. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Zimmerman are visiting with their son, James, at Butler, Ind. Mrs. Sarah Brothers of Bobo went to Fort Wayne today to visit with friends. 'Squire J. H. Stone made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning and will return this evening. A. D. Hughes of Laketon, who has been here attending the Van Camp sales, returned home this morning. Dallas Butler, who is working at Albion, is in the city for a short time on business. Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick returned Tuesday evening from Fort Wayne, where they attended the district convention of the M. E. church. Mrs. J. N. Parrish returned last evening from Fort Wayne after attending the M. E. district conference. The Rev. and Mrs. Sherman Powell, who attended the M. E. district conference at Fort Wayne yesterday, returned home last evening. Mrs. Ed Christen will leave Thursday morning for Cutler, where she will spend Sunday with her husband, who is superintendent and teacher of the schools at that place. W. T. Reynolds arrived from Oklahoma to visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Reynolds, and his daughter, Hazel. His mother has been very sick for sometime. Mrs. Sarah Bell of Magley arrived in the city today on her way home from Fort Wayne, where she had been with her sister, Mrs. Catherine Miller, since February 14th. Mrs. Miller has been in poor health for some time and added to that was an injury of several broken ribs, received in a fall. Her sister is now much better.

New Spring Styles In Men’s, Boy’s and Children’s Suits, Overcoats and Furnishings. Our new Spring showing is now almost complete, and we will take great pleasure in showing you whether you are ready to buy or not. ‘"1 \ 0/S ■■C* ! ’M rens Suits sl.sos'°7-50 Men ’ s S ui,s • • $5.00 to $25.00 • Men s T °P C° a,s $6.00 to $20.00 L 7 Up-f CONFIRMATION SUITS 11 I t .3 J Black Clays and Thibets or Blue Serges 55.00 $7,00 SB.OO SIO.OO & E I S T E IN We are showing better values for this spring than were ever shown in this city before. Give us a call and see what we are offering. —i 1 nrrni — i m i —iwwrwi ” n urmwn—i wmimi .■■■nwumi mth wii -Tr rm——nu—a Vance, Hite & Macklin Corner East of Court House Decatur, Indiana

1, 1/1 I //fe® I I II | \ 1 aWm 1 I Bl V H // I yjjim l| ||L FRESH FROM THE MAKERS Not an old garment in our Department All new, Spring Styles. La Vogue quality is known to every woman. None but the best materials. Linings fully guaranteed. Strictly man-tailored through-out-beautifully finished. La Vogue tailoring keeps the shape until worn out. All details of making receive special care. It shows in the service and life of the garments. TRUE & RUNYON