Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1910 — Page 4

FREE! FREEH] Handsome Decorated SIO.OO Dinner J gj Sets Given Away Absolutely FREE to g w our customers. e * jg? ! We want you to visit our store and g we are giving you a special invitation p 8 to do so at this time. We will give || S away a great number of these hand- £ some presents. Will you call at our store and see them? See the Dinner S Sets in the Window. £ s — l Our stock of Hardware, Buggies, Im- » g pliments, Stoves.—Everything in our fi g line is the most complete we have ever g 8 carried and our prices are right. Come 8 ft in and see us. ? ■ I LAMAN & LEE. J

SPECIAL FARES WEST SEASON 1910 from Decatur, Indiana j*— - - COLONIST ONE-WAY rate to California and North PaJh Ciflc Coast Points. Daily until April 15, 1910. /h yr aa ST. LOUIS AND RETURN week-end (semi-monthly) excurß'on rate from all stations, Toledo, Ohio, to Cayuga, 'VF Indiana. See ticket agents for selling dates and full information. y zxr TEXAS AND RETURN. Homeseeker rate to Houston, \ Fort Worth, Galveston and other principal points in Tex- ' •JVf* as ’ and proportionately low rates to intermediate points in the west the first and third Tuesday of each month. CONVENTION Excursion rate to California and North / OU Pacific Coast points, on specified dates during April, ill /* May, June, July and September.. Limited 90 days and return, but not exceeding October 31, 1910. Rate to California, returning through Portland, or vice versa, $15.00 higher than direct route. A letter or postal card to C. F. Harris, Agt., or to this office, will get you time tables and complete information as to service, sleeping ear reservations, etc., etc. Courteous Passenger Agents meet all through trains, assisting in the care of transfer of passengers and baggage. — E. L. BROWNE, District Passenger Agent, Clover Lear Route eh* and k™. st., Toledo, Ohio. CLOVER LEAF ROUTE. iTsell insurance I Loan Money at S Per cent You can save $lO on a Kitchen Range, s2s on aFurnace you will call and see me W. J. MYERS ’Phone 265. 233 North Fifth Street .Decatar, Indiana. ANNOUNCEMENT The Star restaurant reopened Tuesday, March 29th. Headquarters for bread, pies, cakes and all baked goods, fruit and vegetables in season; Fine dining service, good homecooking, short orders and quick lunches a specialty. Finest line of candies in the city, first-class line of cigars and tobacco. Courteous treatment assured. Frank Parrish.

DECATUR CARRIAGE PAINT and TRIMMING SHOP WILBUR PORTER Over Buhler's Blacksmith shop E. Madison Street Fine poultry. Double Rose Combed Rhode Island Reds, 50c per setting of 13. Jacob Scherry, Decatur, Ind., R. R. No. 2. 81t6 Cheer Up Don’t'feel downhearted simply because you lack ready money. You can borrow what money you need from cs on your house- . hold good®, pianos, horses, wagons, fixture®, etc. You can have from one to twelve month®' time In which to pay it back. Our contracts are simple and all transactions are clean cut and private. $1.20 per w«ek for 50 weeks pays a $50.00 loan. All amounts in proportion. > If you need money fill out the following blank, cut it out and mail it to us. Our agent is in Decatur every Tuesday. ■ Name * Address Am's Wanted > i Kind of Security Reliable Private . Ft Wayns loan Company Established 1896. Room 2 Second Floor, 706 Calhoun Street. Home Phone, 833. Fort Wayne, Ind

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THE SOCIAL NOTES (Continued from usgc 2.) Philips. This will be followed by a social time, in which there will be a number of contests, and refreshments will be served. The social Is given for the benefit of the Presbyterian Sundayschool and a fee of ten cents will be charged. The public is cordially invited. Twenty-seven were In attendance at the regular monthly business meeting of the C. E. of the German Reformed church last evening at the home of Miss Sue Mayer. The forepart of the evening was devoted to the business and then came a social period. Besides music, there was an interesting contest in which cards bearing the picture of a cat, and ten questions in rebus form were given each, who were required to guess the ten words beginning with cat. The T. B. G. club wil be entertained tomorrow evening by Miss Anna Clark at her home on Third street. A theater party that will see David Warfield in "The Music Master” at Fort Wayne Friday evening includes Jessie Helm, Pansy Bell, Anna McLean, Berber Bremerkamp, Edna Hoffman, Lucile Hale, Ervin Manth, Roy Wagner, Bonnie Druhot and Mr. Miller. The topic for the C. W. B. M. meeting at the home of Mrs. E. H. Shoemaker tomorrow afternoon will be "Supplemental Easter: The Christian's Home the Dynamo That Lifts the World.” The leader will be Mrs. Henry Stevens and the Bible lesson will be taken from Psalms 24. After prayer and hymns the follpwing program will be given: Solo —Mrs. P. G. Wiliams. Reading—“ The Christian’s Hope — Mrs. G. T. Burke. Address —"The Value of Telling Missionary . Stories to Children” — Dora Schultz. Business Period. D. I. WEIKEL BUYS AGENCY. D. I. Weikel, of the City News Stand, has purchased the Hitesman & Gerard magazine agency. Mr. Weikel intends, however, to make the Hitesman & Garard store a substation and the magazines will be handled there as usual. The stock will be increased and every kind of magazine wanted can be obtained there. NOTICE, EIKS! members of the local lodge are requested to be at the hall on next Friday evening, as much business of importance will be transacted. On this evening three candidates will be taken Into the lodge and the degree work given. Doors will be opened promtply at 7:30. o— OBITUARY. The funeral of the late Mrs. Adam Baker of near Monroeville was held Thursday afternoon at the Schlemmer German Lutheran church. Services were conducted by Rev. Kaussman, of Convoy. Interment in the Schlemmer cemetery. She was born in Berlin, Germany, May 21, 1833, and died March 29, 1910, aged 76 years, 10 months and 8 days. 'She was Miss Dorothy Brendal and her parents and one brother died in her early youth, and in the month of January, 1862, together with four sisters and her uncle’s family, she came to this country, residing for a few months in Brooklyn, N. Y., coming to Holmes county, Ohio, where on June 21, 1862, she was united in marriage to Mr. Adam Baker, at Walnut Creek, Ohio, coming to Allen county, where they have resided since. To this union were born seven children, two of whom have preceded her. She leaves an aged husband, two daughters and three sons to mourn their loss: Mrs William Pancake, Monroeville; Mrs Henry Schultz, Decatur; George Bak er, Yukon, Okla; Edward of Fori Wayne, and Jacob Baker of near Mon roevllle; also twentyfour grandchil dren and one great grandchild. Moth er Baker, as everybody knew and lot ed to call her, was most highly es teemed and loved by all who knew her A member of church all her life, s faithful wife and mother and a womar ideal in all respects, her death wil' b be a loss keenly felt. There remain t eth, therefore, a rest to the people ol I God. o WANTED —Lady demonstrator tc demonstrate Ox-Gall liniment from house to house. No sales. Straight * salary. Apply Smith, Yager & Falk's * drug store this evening.

DAILY MARKET REPORTS Corrected Every Afternoon

BANK STATEMENT. J. F. HOCKER, President. M F. PARRISH. Vice President. MENNO S. LIECHTY, Cashier. WM L. KELLER, Asst. Cashier. Report of the condition of the Monroe State Bank, a state bank at Monroe, Adams county, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on March 29, 1910. Resource*. Loans and discounts $76,866.10 Overdrafts .. -o'lo Banking house 3-512.28 Furniture and fixtures 2,408.46 Due from banks and trust companies 4,758.51 Cash on hand 2,808.14 Cash items * Current expenses 167.81 Interest paid 143.70 Profit and loss 15.00 Total Resources $90,865.46 Liabilities. Capital stock —paid In $25,000 on Surplus 350.00 Undivided profits 98.64 Demand deposits. .$23,695.41 Demand certificates 33,960.75 57,656.16 Bills payable 7,000.00 Exchange, discounts, etc. .. 760.66 Total Liabilities $90,865.46 State of Indiana, county of Adams, ss: I, Menno S. Liechty, cashier of the Monroe State Bank, do solemnly affirm that the above statement is true. MENNO S. LIECHTY. Subscribed and affirmed to before me this sth day of April, 1910. ’ A. B. BAILEY, NoUry Public. My commission expires Nov. 20, 1911. ■ CITY BOARD OF HEALTH NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to all those living within the corporation of the city of Decatur that they must remove all rubbish, filth and other nuisances from their premises, and clean up their lots and alleys within the next ten days. All persons failing to comply with this notice will be deemed the author of a nuisance and will be prosecuted the law directs under the state and city boards of health, when the state inspector comes around the middle of April. No further notices will be served or given, so govern yourselves accordingly and clean up at once. DR. H. E. KELLER, Secretary of City Board of Health, Decatur, Ind. -r NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. Notice is hereby given that the firm of Smith & Bell, with principal offices in the city of Decatur, Indiana, Is ths day by mutual consent dissolved. By the terms of said dissolution Adam J. Smith takes over all of the property of said firm including all accounts and bill receivable, and the said Adam J. Smith assumes and agrees to pay all of the indebtedness of said firm. ALEXANDER R. BELL. ADAM J. SMITH. Dated April 4, 1910. o - 1 TO THE HOMESEEKER. . The great fruit belt of Michigan is . equal to any of* the world. It pro- ! videe the best opportunity for either I rich or poor. I speak from observation and experience. Call and get price list of lands in this great country at the office of H. Harruff, or i write him at Decatur, Ind., or the 1 Evans Holt Co., Fremont, Mich. 74t12 o i LOST —By Mrs. J. B. Fonner in this ■ city, a small purse containing four > dollar bills and some change. Finder i return to this office and receive re--1 ward. 76t3 < FOR RENT —New house on paved 3 street; has conveniences. See P. 1 K. Kinney, real estate agent. 82t6 , FOR SALE —New carriage and a pony , buggy and harness. I do not need i- these since selling my interest in the i- barn and will sell them right. James I M. Rice, Decatur, Ind. - 82t6 s FOR RENT —A house on North Third I, street, seven rooms, good cellar, '. bathr room, furnace, electric lights and >, all modern conveniences. Inquire ■•£ y Jacob Atz. 82t6 a HOUSE FOR RENT OR SALE—At if 611 West Jefferson street. Inquire s at this place. 81t6* d FOR RENT—Four rooms on Eighth 5. street. Inquire of D. H. Hunsicker. I. ‘ 81t6 t- LOST — Ladies’ purse containing ■t $6.95. Thought to have been lost i- near Heckman mill. Please leave at 1- this office and receive reward. 80t3 i- FOR SALE—lnsurance gasoline stove r- good as new; baby cab; soft coal 3- heater. Will sell cheap if sold at r. once. Mrs. Peter Stein, Madison a street. 81t3 n FOUND-—A ladies' black leather II purse containing a pair of gold rimi- med glasses in case. Owner can have >f same by calling at this office or Mills grocery and describing same. A PRIVATE Maternity Sanitarium—o Charges reasonable; correspondn ence strictly confidential. For partlcit ulara address Mrs. J. B. McMillan, s 1415 North G» Ihoun street. Ft. Wayne, Ind. 4724 t 1 ? I

EAST BUFFALO East Buffalo, N. Y. April 6-(S ial to Daily Democrat) —Receipts, i--440; shipments, 1,140; official to NeuYork yesterday, 190; hogs closing steady at the early decline. Medium and heavy, [email protected],-Yorkers, $11.05® $11.10; lights and pigs, slo.9o®sU.oo; roughs, slo.i)oy> $10.25; stags, [email protected]; sheep, 200; steady; top wool lambs, $10.10; cattle, 50; slow. CHICAGO GRA N Chicago, 111., Apr. 6 Wheat—May, $1.13%; July, $1.06%; Sept., $1.03%’ Corn —May, 60c; July, 62%c; Sept, 63%c. Oats—May, 42%c; July, 40%c; Sept., 38 %c. TOLEDO GRAIN Toledo, 0., Apr. 6—Wheat—Cash, $1.16%; May, $1.17%; July, $1.07%; Sept., $1.05%. Corn —Cash, May, 61%c; July, 64%c; Sept., 65%c. LOCAL GRAIN G. T. Burr. No. 2 Red wheat SI.OB No. 2 White wheat $1.06 Standard White oats 39c Yellow ear corn,, per cwt 71c White ear corn, per cwt 73c Rye, No. 2 70c Barley, No. 2 55c Clover seed, prime $6.25 Alsike seed, prims $6.25 Timoth yseed, prime $1.60 Timothy hay, No. 1, primed, bailed $14.25 PRODUCE H. BE RAJ NG. Eggs 16c Rutter 18c Fowls 10c I Young turkeys 14c Ducks lie Geese 9c Old turkeys 12c Chicks ....10c By Decatur Produce Co. Young tuikeys 17ts Old turteys 13c Chickh 10c Fowls 10c Eggs 18c Ducks / 10c Geese 9c Butter He NIBLICK A CG. Good roll butter 25c Eggs 18c M. FULLENKAMP’S. Good roll butter 27c Eggs 18c Lard Me B. KALVER and SON. Beef hides 8 cents Calf hides A 11 cents Sheep pelts, 25c to $1.25 Wool 20c to 24c Tallow a® HAY MARKET. i No. 1 Timothy in mow $13.50 ■ Mixed bay $12.50 ALBERT COLCHIN. —o —————■ MATTER OF GOOD FAITH. I I can show you one of the best . lines of diamonds in sizes 1-16, 5-8, > 1 1-2 to 3-carat. In Rubies we have them in 5-8 to 1 1-4 carat. Other jewl els that make beautiful presents. We > have a complete stock to select from, i See our window display and be con- > vlnced. We have the goods. Knuf I 'said. Didot & Son, on north side of , court house. I i FOR SALE. Twenty good improved farms from t $20.00 to SIOO.OO per acre. These 3 farm produce of all kinds and fruit * farm produce o fall kinds and fruit i of every variety. These farms lay . within ten miles of Wayland, the best farm country in Michigan. ; J. M. GILPEN, t Real Estate Agent, t 79tf Wayland, Mich. 3 > FOR SALE—Sow and seven pigs; full 1 blood Poland China. Reuben Baxter, t Monmouth. 64tfi i HOUSE FOR RENT—On Fourtn St., 3 modern conveniences. C. V. Conr nell. o—- » Foley’s Kidney Remedy will euro 3 any case of kidney and bladder trouble not beyond the reach of medicine. - No medicine can do more. I- STRAYED—Four red shoats, about 3 >- months old. And information leaii, Ing to recovery of same will kindly b® i, received by William E. Berling, Prebt le, Ind. 82t3 ■