Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1910 — Page 3

HI-TO We got in a bunch of men’s Hi-To Gun Metal Oxfords today and among them is a button that is a pacemaker. It has a Hi-To tip with small perforations, a high arch and a high heel. Priced reasonable too Mens $4.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE The Shoe Seller

Marie Boese and Martha Heckman went to St. Johns this morning to spent the day as guests at the St. Johns school. I |0»0»0>040» ♦04040404040] X .8 |W e are going to | ♦ send some man ♦ Ito NEW YORK | | CITY and pay | | all his expenses ° I for 5 days. * JU' I ’ I j RIETER & FRANCE | ♦ Cigars & Tobacco ♦ ♦ ♦ o o * ♦ ■o*o*o*o*o*o* ♦o4o*o*o*dß — 1 f ’ i $ $ $ YOUR FUNDS are absolutely secure when on deposit here-they’re safe from all dangers. This institution offers you the maximum safety together with every facility and convenience that safe, conservative banking allows. Drop in and see our cashier about the advantage of a checking account. THE OLD Adams county Bank

■OIO 808 OB 0 80800808080808080808 * J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. e O ■ 2 Please Understand £ o £ ■ The Bowers Realty Company £ ■ has for sale farms in every town- o 2 ship in the county and as choice fmros as lajre out ■of doors The Company nas abo a fine list ol city g, O rowrties qWe ask you to list your property wifli ■ ■ having many inquiries, qWe have plen- g £ ty’of money to loan and ask that you inquire for ■ terms. q JJ 2 The Bowers Realty Co. ■ French Quinn, Secty. g BOBOS 0808 OB O 800808 0B O 8080 ® ■ B

♦o*o4o<o<o4o<o ♦ O*C*O*O*O* o o i WEATHER FORECAST S O ,o *o*o»o*o*o ♦ o*o*o*o<o*o*ot Showers tonight and Saturday; warmer tonight. John Sehafer went to Fort Wayne this morning. C. D. Lewton was a business caller at Portland today. L. T. Brokaw was a business caller at Bingen this morning. J. M. Frisinger returned this morning from Fort Wayne. Bud Summers was transacting business in our city today. Miss Lilly Venis of Hoagland is visiting with Miss Ruby Artman. Gabriel Kintz was at Geneva today attending to some business matters. Mrs. Gleh Glancey of Monroe was the guest of friends between trains this morning. John Steele returned home from Fort Wayne, where he was a business visitor this morning. John McKain of Linn Grove was a business caller here today and left on the noon train for his home. D. D. Heller left this morning for Geneva, where he was attending to some important business during the day. Mrs .A. D. Artman went to Fort Wayne today to attend the Ben Hur congress as a delegate from the local order. Wesley Hoffman left this morning for LaOtta, Mich., where he will attend to some business for the next day or so. Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Scott, who for the past month have been visiting with relatives at Mendon, Ohio, returned to the city yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Morris Hay and son, Emerson, left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne, where they visited with Mrs. Lewis and attended the Ben Hur congress. Walter C. Miller of Crawfordsville, who has been employed at the Decatur Motor Car company’s plant as a mechanic, left today for his home on account of ear trouble, which has been troubling him for some time past.

Dr. Fred Patterson DENTIST Successor to Dr. C. E. Neptnno Office above Auth's Jewelry Store. Telephone No. 472. Office hours: B—l 2 a. tn., I—E1 —E P- m.

Dr. Sowers made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reid went to Fort Wayne this morning. Forest Steele piade a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. H. L. Townsend of Fort Wayne was a business visitor here today. William A. Campbell of Fort Wayne was a business visitor here today. Mrs. E. W. France of Pleasant Mills is visiting with her mother, Mrs. Yager. Otto Bremerkamp Is home from a business trip to Hammond, where he has been for t(je past few days. John Baker called on his mother, Mrs. Peter Baker, today, who is quite sick at her home south of the city. Mart Long of Monmouth was a business shopper here this morning and returned home on the 10 o'clock car.

Elgin Scott, wno has been absent from the city for a number of weeks, returned home from Mendon, Ohio, yesterday. Miss Lizzie Heckman returned yesterday afternoon on the 4 oclock car to her home at St. Johns after shopping here. James Hurst and force of men came home from Monroe today, where they have been engaged in doing some cement work since the first of the week. Paul Harrod has resumed his position as ticket agent and operator at the G. R. & I. depot after an absence of two months on account of sickness. C. M. Ray of Indianapolis, of the Hoosier Casualty company, stopped off in the city yesterday for a short time with Walter Johnson, who Is their representative here. Mr. and Mrs. John Voglewede went to Rome City, where they will be for the coming two weeks. While there they will put things in shape for the coming season, which will open in a few weeks. David Flanders has purchased the James Kocker home on North Third street and will occupy it after September next. Mr. and Mrs. Flanders will summer in Michigan and then move here for next winter. “The Minister’s Son” at the opera house tomorrow evening will be one of those good plays which makes you laugh throughout the play. It is one that has been o nthe road for a number of years and has met with success more and more every year. • Mrs. A. R. Bell went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Bell, and children, who will leave next week for their future home in Akron, Ohio. Mr. Bell has been there for some time, having been transferred there to the Wells-Fargo Express agency, but has been unable to get a house until now. “The newspapers have been a great help to me in taking the census,” said J. Riley Broyles, supervisor of the census in the Eighth district, in telling how the work of census taking s progressing. Mr. Broyles claims that the press had done much towards educating the public as to its purposes and adds that the taking of the census this year was not so difficult as it had been in former years. Charles Coverdale will go to Decatur this evening to submit to an examination by his nephew Dr. Earl Coverdale, who is a specialist in diseases of the ear. Mr. Coverdale has been confined to his home all this week with an abscess in one ear. The trouble has been growing gradually worse and he is now somewhat alarmed.—Bluffton News.

. It is quite bad enough that men have no other employment of their time than to sit about fringing the sidewalks with their feet so that pedestrians have barely room to pass; but when they have no other employment for- their tongues than to make remarks about everybody that passes, paying strict attention to his own business, than that is adding insult to the nuisance. Coming! “The Minister’s Son.’’ A home-run right over the plate. A riot of fun and pathos. A story we all like to see and hear. Always enthusiastic applause. Audiences always delighted. It is wholesome, laughable and the liveliest comedy drama ever produced by a large, capable company, with special scenery and perfect attention paid to the smallest detail. And look at the prices—2s, 35 and 50 cents. Charles Stengel and family leave this afternoon for a visit of about three months in Germany, Mr. Stengel's nativity, and other European countries. Mr. Stengel has a father, two brothers and a sister in Rheinpfalz, Germany, whom he lias not seen in about twenty-three years. They will sail with the steamer New Amsterdam from New York Tuesday morning. Their landing place Is Rotterdam, Holland, from which place they sail over the Rnine to Mainz, Ge--many.—Berne Witness.

Miss Minnie Blasuer went to Fort Wayne this afternoon for a visit. Mrs. D. Schmitt and her sister, Miss Lizzie Hain, went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. J. W. Vail, who returned recently froih Cardwell, Mo., quite s|ek with malarial fever, is able to be out again Homer Butler is clerking at the Everett store in the absence of Daniel Shackley, who is on the sick list. W. C. Holmes and C. I. Golder, who were business callers here yesterday, left for Fort Wayne and thence to Huntington. < E. A. Mann left today for Petroleum, where he will sign a contract for a school house which he®received there this morning. Bud Summers of Monroe left this noon for Kokomo, where he will attend to sonje real estate business for a short while. Mr. Augenbach today began the work of painting the front of the Yager & Reinking store building, which is being done in pure white. William Heimann and C. S. Yingling of Tiffin, Ohio, will arrive in the city Saturday for a visit with their daughter and sister, Mrs. Will Lehne. Mrs. D. H. Hunsicker and daughter, Vera, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker enjoyed a watch party this morning and were quite successful In spying the comet. Colds, with swelling of the glands of the neck, are quite prevalent among the children of the county at present, and not infrequently attacks the older people as well. Miss Rose Geary of Cleveland, Ohio, who is visiting here with her parents, and Miss Lizzie Hain, will attend the play at the Majestic theater, Fort Wayne, this evening.

Smith, Yager & Falk have a very {good description of Halley’s comet in their window, which is attracting quite a bit of attention. It will be only a few days now until the comet comes nearest to the earth. Mrs. John Peter Baker, living south of the city, was taken very suddenly 111 Thursday evening at her home with an attack of heart trouble and for a time was in a very serious condition. This morning she was reported as being soro n what improved. Miss Ada Jackson, who Is visiting wltrT relatives in Reading, Pa., sent a picture to her father, Will Jackson, which he prizes most highly. It is of a mineral spring in one of the beautiful parks there and which is but a short distance from where she is staying.

They’re dangerous! Head them off as soon as they make their appearance. This can easily be done by the timely use of Hoover’s X-Ray Healing Oil. Mrs. F. C. Mullett, Roanoke, Ind., says: '‘X-Ray is the best remedy for sore throat I have ever used and for rheumatism it is unsurpassed. H. S. Mulitt. Fort Wayne, Ind., says: “I have used X-Ray both internally and externally. It is an excellent remedy for tonsilitis. Results always satisfactory.” This great remedy is effective in such ailments as rheumatism, lumbago, lame- back, neuralgia and every ache and pain with wliich humanity is afflicted. Remember The Name LACHOT & RICE

It 1 ifaaihJl icx / lia I INDIANA LIGHTING COMPANY . I | DECATUR, INDIANA g May, 6th and 7th. | j TO THE HOUSEWIVES OF DECATUR: ] j The Gas Company requests your attendance at the company’s office and j Saturday, the 6th and 7th of May, that the company may have the pleasure ofjdemonstrat- T 1 ing and showing to you the latest and most up-to-date gas appliances for use.in the kitchH en as well as other parts of the home. , The gas range makes kitchen work lighter, easier and pleasanter. It makes sun- * |H ny-tempered cooks. 0 The low prices and the easy terms as regards payment place the up-to-date gas j ■ range within the reach of everyone, Gas is an economical fuel to cook with. i Miss Malley J. Johns, teacher of domestic science, will be in attendance and dem- > onstrate the many advantages and economy of cooking with gas. Light refreshments, I such as biscuits, cnokies, etc, will be served. ■ ■ I 0

M. F. Rice went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to attend the T. P. A. convention. John Tyndall returned today from Bluffton, where he had been a business caller. John Lachot made a business trio to Berne this noon and returned home on the afternoon train. John McKain, who was a business caller hire during the morning, left for nil hfime this afternoon. John Bollinger and force of men went to Berne to look after some business for a few hours. The dance to -e given this evening by the members of the Leather Workers' union at the Eagle hall promises to be a very pleasant affair. A number of tickets have ben sold by the different members and a large crowd will be in attendance. This is the first one held in this city, but others will probably follow in the near future. ’ E. A. Mann of the contracting firm of Mann & Christen, left this noon for Pejn-oleum, Ind., where he signed up a contract for another school hotise, which they received last evening. They were one of five bidders and were successful by being the lowest. The contract calls for a four-room school building, with two rooms up stairs and two down. It is a twelve thousand dollar building and when completed will be one of the finest buildings in that vicinity. This is tue second contract which they received in the last few days and shows that they are there with the goods as well as the price. Work will be commenced on tffe bjiilding just as soon as possible and the work will be pushed along so that the school building.will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the schools next fall. The firm Is a hustling one and is giving employment to a large number of men.

SAFETY AND PAYMENT OF Four Per Cent Interest on certificates of deposit left one year make this BANK an excellent place for your savings and idle money THE First National BANK Decatur, Indiana

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