Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1910 — Page 3

We Make ---a specialty of I Comfort Shoes for Sff Women. The one I shown is made /Sto L with a flexable 1 turned Cushion J sole, the uppers are of the softest velvet kid, the f .jgr last has a round toe but plenty of I ball room giving a neat appearance and lots of I Comfort, Women’s $3.00 ' Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller ■ MUI IT | Illi

!T— "" -■ ■. 40404040404040 < o<o<o<o<o4 I WEATHER FORECAST I o*o»o<o»o ♦ o*o<o*o*o*o»o* Thudren storms and cooler tonight; Wednesday fair. Ed Vancil was a business caller at Berne today. Mrs. Carl Shamp is visiting with friends at Peru. Miss Blotkemp of Avilla is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Thomas Leon ard. B. A. Fledderjohann of New 'lTFemen, Ohio, was here on business today. Mr. and Mrs. David Archer of Pleasant Mills were shopping here yesterday. > Attorney D. E. Smith made a business trip to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hocker have returned from a visit with friends at Bluffton. Miss Ida 'Bogner will join a company of friends at Fort Wayne tomorrow to attend the Barnum & Baileyshow. ( r D O NkT LOSE YOUR MONEY Through those many little leaks ■ that could be stopped with a checking account. Start a checking account with us today—have us kep your funds safe from careless spending, theft, fire loss, etc. The checking account costs you nothing and is a convenience and real business need of today. THE OLD Adams county Bank

■OR OIOSOIO roroororororororohob 5 J. s. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer. Vice Pres. H | LOftNS | o The Bowers Realty. Company o o calls your attention to its loan de- o 2 partment. ■» - The Company has five per cent. ? o money to loan on sensible and act- ! vantageous terms. ■ ■ Our loans have certain features that will appea O Oto vou. . , , , . 0 ■ See us about farms, city properties and abstracts, ■ 2 The BowersJßealty Co. ■ French Quinn, Secty. g ROROR 0 R O R O R O ROOROR O R O ■ O ■ 0 ROF

Charles Teeple was a business visitor at Fort Wayne today. Elwood Blazer made a business trip tc Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Margaret Moran was the guest of friends at Geneva today. Rev. Freeman of Pleasant Mills was here yesterday on business. Joe Smith has gone to Liberty Center, where he is working for Mann & Christen. G. W. Standiford of Wren, Ohio, passed through the city on his way to Fort Wayne. Melvin Burkett has returned to Kokomo after a visit with his sister, Mrs. Frank Pearce. The Misses Krace and Germaine Coffee are enjoying a two week’s outing at Rome City. L. H. Purdy has returned from a visit with his son, Sa.uuel Purdy, and family at Bluffton. Tom Gallogly went to Fort Wayne this morning, where he looked after business interests. Mrs. E. H. Shoemaker, who has been visiting with friends at Marion for a week past, returned to the city. Mrs. Henry Wafel left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she was called on account of the serious illness of her sister. Bob Meibers. Sylvia Droppieman and Bess Tonnelier have gone to Rome City to spend a two weeks’ vacation. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Wolfe and granddaughter, Marie, went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit with relatives. Mrs. J. W. Brittson and Ralph Brittson returned to Owasso, Mich., this morning after a visit here with friends. Charles Merryman, who has been employed at Cardwell, Mo., for several years, is here for a visit with his parents, Judge and Mrs. J. T. Merryman. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Miles Pillars and son, Dorwin, of Jonesboro, Ark., arrived Monday morning and will spend some time visiting the Pillars and Dorwin families. Charles Grim of Monroe passed through the city this morning on his way to Bellevue. Ohio, where he will work. He will move his family there next "week. J J.COVECTALE.MJ.E. 6. COVEWUE, M. OTs. J.S. Coverdah and Son Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Ttiroat Office 118% 2nd Street. Decatur, Indiana

Frank Gass has gone to Detroit to attend the EMh’ convention. Peter Forbing was a business transactor at Fort Wayne today. Gilmore Haynes of Swayzee was a guest at the Fred Hoffman home. . Miss Della Sellemeyer left this morning for Wauseon, where she will visit with friends. Many automobiles were in use today conveying the voters for the subsidy election to the polls. C. R. Tarbett, the typewriter man of Fort Wayne, was here yesterday afternoon on business. Simeon Bowers, the Kirkland township justice of the peace, was a business visitor heer today. Mr. and Mrs. j. f. Lachot left this Inornlng fbr Fort Waytto, where they rpent the day with friends. John Koenig of Si. Marys, Ohio, is hero today on business relating to the Foft Wayne & Springfield. Father Flaherty left last evening for his home at Muncie to be the guest of his parents for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Helm will leave Saturday for Klinker lake, Michigan, where they will spend a two weeks’ outing. Mrs. Jennie McConnehey and children. William, Henry and Allen, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon for the week. Mildren, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Worthman, has been numbered among the sick for several days. Walter Kauffman left today on his regular weekly trip, going from here to Columbia City. He will return the latter part of the week. Gert Reynolds left this afternoon tor Berne and Linn Grove, where he was looking after some business for a short while at both places. Theodore Heckmnn returned this morning to his herme at St. John’s. He was accompanied by Elmer Koeuemann. who wifi visit there. J. W. Tyndall went to Sethwood, Mich., this morning, where he was attending \o some business relative to the Krick & Tyndall company. J. M. Archer, who was called here by the death of his mother, was called last evens ng to his home at Fitzgerald. Georgia, by the death t>( a relative there. Bert Lynch, who accompanied his family here rrom Jonesboro. Ark., is making a business trip through this section and will return for an overSunday visit in Decatur. Frank Pearce, foreman of the Ward Fence factory, spent Sunday fishing in the lake near Angola. He returned, bringing with him a fine string of fish to back up his fish stories. The Salem Sunday school will give a picnic Saturday, August 6th, to which we kindly invite you to attend. Different schools will be tovited. —A. M. Danner, Supt. Quite a number of Decatur people are planning to go to Fort Wayne tomorrow to witness the famous Barnum & Bailey circus, greatest in the world, according to their bills. The ladies who drove to Willshire Monday to attend a gathering, which was arranged by Mrs. 0. N. Snellon, leturned to the city in the evening and report a very enjoyable time. ~Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Beavers and children. Ireta and Glen, returned last, evening from Monticello, where they had been visiting over Sunday with his brother, A. J. Beaver, and family. George Kintz and daughter. Mrs. Joe Smith, and children, Geraldine and Graden, have returned from Tiffin, Ohio, where they spent a week visiting with relatives and attended the wedding of Mr. Kintz’ adopted son. Fred Smith, which took place July sth. Mrs. George Robinson and daughter, Iris, of Winchester, who have been visiting relatives at Hoagland for several days, are in the city visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Huneicker. Mr. Robinson, who was also a visitor here, left yesterday for his home. A dance will be given tomorrow evening by the Phi Delta Kappa order at Maple Grove park and a large crowd will no doubt be in attendance. A dance will be given each week dur ing the summer season and many pleasant .evenings will be enjoyed there. • Frank Parent and Tom Bogner, who have taken positions as machinists at St. Louis, Mo., write relatives here that they are doing fine and like the place and work very much. Many of the boys here are thinking of joining them and they write that the prospects are good. Word was received in the city this morning by the officials of the G. R. & I. that on August 9th the Wallace & Hagenback show train, consisting of two passenger cars and forty-two freight cars are to arrive in this city and are to be transferred from the Clover Leaf to the G. R. I. on their way to Portland the following day.

o 'Squire Zeugler of Monmouth was a business visitor here yesterday. i- Chris Strebe was at Ridgeville today looking after some business. t Homer Knodle of Bluffton was in , the city this morning looking after s some business for a short while. 1 The new office and wareroom of the Bowers-Niblick elevator is nearing , completion and will be ready for occu- , pancy in two or three weeks. The office rooms over the Bowers , Realty company building are near- . ing completion and will be ready tor occupancy In ten days or so. The Shamrocks are preparing to . meet the Fort Wayne Independents at Maple Grove park next Sunday and an interesting game Is assured. , I Jesse Helm, t'livles Merryman, Will Lehne are among tho Decatur Elks who leave tomorrow to attend ’ the convention at Detroit. The harvest of wheat, oats, rye, clover and timothy is said to be unitst ually heavy this year. The rains of the past few days are delaying the farmers somewhat in the harvest, how--1 ever. ) A number of Adams county people will go to Muncie Thursday to attend the congressional convention, at which time the Hon. John A, M. Adair t will be renominated for his third term 1 in congress. . Mrs. C. D. Bieberlck -and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bieberich, and child of Preble went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the funeral of Henry C. Bieberich, which will be held tomor--3 row afternoon. " . Word has been received that Charles Doty, the former Decatur man, now a resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and who was reported to have had a s ( leg broken in the wreck near Dayton, Ohio, on July 4th. escaped with slighter injuries than at first stated. He had ” several Tibs broken and was quite bad--8 ly bruised, but his leg was not broken. He will recover within a short time. Ed Hurst and a Bogner boy from this city, who have been employed in ( an automobile factory in Detroit for some time, write that owing to the present dull season, they, with many other employees are given a vacation at this time- and they are now contemplating taking a trip through the west, and will leave in a very short time. They had been employed in ’ Flint, Mich., but later went to Detroit, 5 where they secured very good posi- ’ taons.

IA BIG CHINA SALE} i I B | ft We have just received a swell line of Imported China « ft . that is the best thing ever put out for the money. « i- On Sale This Week for Only 10 Cents ig - ' "" "' ' "■■ I! Worth 25c and when this shipment is gone we will § J have no more. Don’t wait but come at once. || ; Don’t kick if you don’t get any. S I ‘ <§l Large size Blue Meat Platters—extra fine, only . |Qc ,O X Fancy Cups and Saucers |Q<; r I 'f‘ 4 fift/ . > I ’ 9 r alsjsM Fancy Plates, cheap at 25c, sale price -- - |Q C ! :S Deep Dishes ------ lOe i ’ Japanese Nut Bowls - - - - .. |q c g ( i 1 ! We have all kind of dishes at prices never heard of before. Re- S i member us when you need those articles for the kitchen. We have 3 >' everything in the line of glassware, enamelware, tinware and in fact 8 ! the largest stock of novelties in the county. Remember the place. • . STEELE& WEAVER’S S 810 RACKET STORE S

Warm Weather Demands that you wear a Straw Hat to . secure head comfort. I You’ll never know what this means unless you wear one of our Famous Knox or Townsend Grace Straw Hats. For comfort, style, workmanship and finish you can’t beat them. Great variety oi styles to select from. Let us show you. Prices SI.OO to $5.00. Holthouse Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys

Miss Margaret Woods, wiho has been working at the Murray hotel for some time, left this morning for her home at Columbia City. Tne Rev. Fathers Hottenroch, Thiele, Horstman and Hruhl of Fort Wayne were the guests of Father Wilken yesterday afternoon. The Misses Irene Eady and Roxy Syphers went to Fort Wayne this afternoon, where they will visit with tihe iatter’s mother, ... rs. L. L. Syphers. Charles E. Hocker, new deputy postmaster at Decatur, and his wife were here Sunday to visit with L. G. Starr and J. E. Sunier and families. Mr. Hocker is a nephew of Mrs. Starr and Mrs. Sunier. —Bluffton News. Carl Shamp, who has served as miller at the Van Camp and Monroe mills, has accepted a position as miller at Conklin, Mich., and has gone to take charge. He will move his family there in a few weeks. Grandma Burkhead, aged seventyfour years, who has been ailing for several years, is still in a bad condition and shows no improvement. She makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Jacob Johnson, southwest of the city.

Charles Colter will leave tonight fori Zoar, Ohio, on business. A. J. Smith has gone to Albany on I business. Miss Maud Ayres of Monroe went to Fort Wayne this afternoon for a visit. Henry Hite made a business trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon. - Mrs. Harry Ward and daughter, Fern, went to Fort Wayne to spend the afternoon. J. C. Rich of Monroe passed through the city on his way to Fort Wayne this afternoon, where he will attend to business matters. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gilbert returned last evening to Ossian after a visit with his father, Jasper Gilbert, east of the city, who is suffering from an injury received in a fall from a hay ladder. Mr. Gilbert slipped in some way through the opening in the bottom of the wagon about two weeks ago and it was not thought that he was badly hurt at that time. He has grown worse, however, it developing that the tendons of the leg had been torn in the fall, and while he is able to be up and to walk about, his condition is quite bad.

| Charles Voglewede is remodeling ni« I home on Monroe street. ■ ’ Attorney Jesse C. Sutton and family I leave tomorrow for Crooked lake. Mrs. Elijah Walters of east of the city was shopping here today. Jacob Neiman of Chicago is here for a visit with I. Kalver and family. Miss Stella Kohne has resigned her position as assistant at the Dr. J. Q. Neptune dental office. Mrs. John Knapke returned to St. Henry. Ohio, after a visit here with Will Harting and family. Miss Ruth Miller has taken a position as clerk at the D. I. Weikel news stand and ice cream parlor. John Stoneburner was a business caller at Hoagland this morning, returning home on the noon train. Mrs. Charles Shackley and children left today for their home at Berne after visiting here with her mother, Mrs. Mary Elzey. TC LEYS KIDNEY PILLS For Bacxacme Kidneys ano Bladder