Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1910 — Page 3

OVER 900 PAIRS One shipment of over 900 pairs | of fall shoes arrived this week and other shipments will be in in a few days. Our summer stock must be closed out regardless of cost or profits to make room for these goods. We will not carry a J pair over that a price will move and it is up to you to profit at this reduction sale. Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

JK>*C*O*O*O#O*O ♦ o*o*o*o«c<» i WEATHER FORECAST! L 2 "©♦o*o*o»o ♦ o*o*o*o*o*o*o> jHPartly cloudy with showers tonight or Wednesday. ProWrE Sarah Ayers was a business visitor here yesterday. ■ /Clayson Carroll made a business trip to Fort Wayne yesterday afterSoon KE. H. Johnson left this morning on trip through northern Indiana Miss Florence Sprunger has returned from a visit with friends at Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Catherine Eady left this mornJrg for Richmond, where she will visit with friends. Miss Pearl Heilman has returned to Tiffin, Ohio, after a visit here with Mrs. W. L. Lehne. KB. A. Fledderjohann of New Bremen. Ohio, was here today on business, attending the interurben stockholders’ meeting.

- ' ■ ~ ' r^ r *y£w/ ■) L. ■ I THE BEST S WAY ? ? ? 11. Not by any means. I: THE best way of handling money I Is with a check book. I • Then there is no loss of change, ■ misplaces bills, troubles over non- ■ receipted invoices, petty thievery, I etc I A checking account is THE methI od for the man who wants to run I his financial affairs in a businessJ like way. ■, Yen'll enjoy every convenience Wand courtesy of good, sound bankI ing if your account is with us. THE OLD Adams bounty Bank

DBOIOIOIO 1010080108010101010 l J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. £ L.OANS j The Bowers Realty, Company o calls your attention to its loan de- o partment. The Company has five per cent money to loan on sensible and ad- £ vantageous terms. £ Our loans have certain features that will appeal o to you. g See us about farms, city properties and abstracts, g The Bowers Realty Go. ■ French Quinn, Secty. O

S. E. Hite made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. J. W. Smith left this morning for Owosso and Mt. Pleasant, Mich., for a visit with relatives. D. B. Erwin and family left today for the lakes near Angola, where they will enjoy an outing. Mrs.-A. C. Gregory and granddaughter, miss Jirene Gregory, are spending the day in Fort Wayne. Gay, Zwick and Meyer delivered a load of fine furniture to the Martz home southeast of Monroe. Miss Adah McMullen of Fort Wayne spent Sunday with Misses Glennys Mangold and Ruth Bowers. Miss Grace Purdy was off duty at the Baughman five and ten cent store today on account of sickness. Hudson Voltz returned this morning to Pittsburg, Pa., after a month’s visit with Conrad Gillig and family. A. J. Smith left today for southern Illinois, where he will transact business for the Smith & Bell firm. Mrs. Margaret Ruby, aged seventyfive, is ill with stomach trouble at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Barnett. Miss Helen Hale of Geneva spent Sunday with Miss Glennys Mangold and remained over for the show last night. The Misses Bertha Kinney and Margaret Clark left this morning for Portland, where they will visit with relatives. Mesdames James Drage and John Christen drove to the Drage farm near Ossian yesterday, where they spent the day. Isabel, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cloud, who has been suffering from indigestion for several days, is somewhat better. Father D. A. Brackman of Portland passed through the city this morning on his way to Hesse Castle for a visit with Father Benzinger. Mr. and Mrs. John Sherman Powell, jr„ left this morning for Redkey, where they will visit with her mother, Mrs. Laura Barnell. A new electric fan at the library is making that popular institution even more so, witn a dehgntfully cool breeze during these warm summer days.

J. S.COVEBIALE.M.I.E. k. COVEIB4LE, M. Ors. J. S. Covardalg and Son Special attention given to diseases of thv Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Office 118# 2nd Street Decatur, Indiana

Sam Acker of Geneva was here today on business. Miss Hattie Hurkhead went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. J. J. Mayer of Monroe was a business visitor here today. Jacob Huser of Monroe township was a business visitor here today. Miss Cecil Phipps returned to Chicago today after a week's visit with her grandmother, Mrs. John Phipps. Amos Hirschy transferred here this morning on his way home to Berne from a business trip to Fort Wayne. Peter Sether, sr„ is quite sick at his home on West Monroe street, suffering from Bright's disease and dropsy. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ross and babe of near Willshire, Ohio, are visiting with her sister, Mrs. John Barnett. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Baxter and children returned to their home at Fort Wayne after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shell. Jesse Rupp and family of Berne .transferred nere this morning on their way home from a visit at Oakwood park, near Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. John Eiting returned yesterday to thelv home at Minster, Ohio, after a visit here with Dan Niblick and family and other relatives. Mrs. Jerry Meyers Os Bluffton arrived last evening for a visit with her aunt. Mrs. O. P. Mills. Mr. Meyers will join her Saturday for a visit here. Congressman John A. M. Adair returned home Monday from Bay View, Mich., where he had spent the past two weeks with his family.—Portland Sun. The clerks at the Fuilenkamp store have received word from the Misses Ode and Letta Fuilenkamp that they are enjoying their vacation at Rome City very much. The Misses Lulu Grevenkamper and Lucy Bahr returned this morning to their homes at Cincinnati, Ohio, after a two weeks’ visit here with William Kukelhan and family. Edgar Gerber is the new conductor on the Fort Wayne & Springfield, making the runs with the regular conductors that he may learn the details of the business. Mrs. Dennis Striker of Berne and Mrs. Warren Striker of Geneva spen* Saturday and Sunday in this city as the guests of Adolph Witzeman and family.—Bluffton News. Emil Erhart returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a business visit in Berne. He was accompanied by Amos Hirschy, who will transact business there. Messrs. Roy Scoles and Nancy Fuhrman of Berne transferred here yesterday afternoon on their way to their work at Fort Wayne after a visit at their homes at Berne. Edgar and Harry Fleming of Union township have returned from Marion, where they attended the normal school, having completed their summer course. ' They will teach this fall. A lot of fifteen or sixteen fine chickens were stolen Saturday nffeht from Joseph Smith of South Mercer avenue and the police are working upon clues that may lead to the recovery of the chickens. Henry Hansel of Logan, Ohio, is here to attend the regular monthly meeting of the directors of the R>rt Wayne & Springfield railway company today. He spent yesterday afternoon at Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hoffman and daughter, Margaret Jane, left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne. Mr. Hoffman will continue his regular weekly trip, while Mrs. Hoffman and daughter will visit with relatives. Med Miller, the artist, is painting a sign on the north window of the interurban office today that will prove a crackerjack. It will be similar to the one he painted on the adjoining window for the Wells-Fargo express office. Herman Tettman i>f the Peoples t Gerke shoe store, who with his wife left Saturday night for Niagara Falls, writes that they are having a pleasant trip. They went later to Buffalo ami left last night for Cleveleand, where they will visit. Mrs. Charles Baughman and children of New Yaga, Michigan, stopped off here and were the guests over night of Mrs. N. J. Baughman, leaving this morning for Portland, where they will visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Whiteneck. The Misses Lydia and Ida Gunsett left today for Willshire, Ohio, where they will visit with Mr. and Mrs. August Brown. From there they will go to Schumm, Ohio, to be the guest of their aunt, Mrs. Mary Weinman, for the remainder of the week. Mrs. John Mason and son, Edward, of Jonesboro, Ark., who have been two weeks in the east, visiting with relatives, arrived here yesterday noon to visit with their former neighbors and friends, leaving this morning for Fort Wayne, where they will join Mr. Mason In attending a reunion of relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Mason were former residents of this city.

Miss Mayme Deininger is spending the afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Meyers went to Fort Wayne this morning. F. O. Davis was among the Fo't Wayne business visitors today. Mrs. Sherman Powell left today for Logansport, where she will visit with relatives. Everywhere In the country nowadays is heard the busy hum of the threshers. Miss Cleo Glancy of Ohio City transferred heer today noon on her way W Fort Wayne. The Misses Esther and Gertrude Evans of Monmouth were shopping here yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Dayton Steele went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to visit with-her daughter, Miss Bertha Steele. Mrs. Annice Chronister and daughter, Gertrude, left this morning for Owosso and Mt. Pleasant, Mich., for a visit. Jesse Helm of the postofflce force was serving as mail carrier today in the absence of O. P. Mills, who is on the sick list. Miss Nellie Diehl arrived home from Huntington yesterday afternoon, where she was visiting with her sister, Nona Brentlinger. Sherman Mitch, one of the prominent farmers of near Pleasant Mills, was a business visitor in the city today, ordering the Decatur Dally Democrat sent to his address for the coming year. The stockholders of the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway held a called meeting at the assembly room of the interurban building today. Dinner was served there at noon by the wives of the stockholders. A. F. Donaldson of Medina, Ohio, representing the dictionary company, arrived today and tomorrow will deliver the books, orders for which were taken several weeks ago by himself and Leyton Potter. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Helm returned last night from Elkhart and Clinger Lake, Michigan, where they spent a two weeks’ vacation. Mr. Helm reports that ti>ey enjoyed the best time ever, and he looks like he meant itr Attention is again called to the literary and musical program to be given at library- hall a week from last evening. Monday. August Bth, by the Y. P. C. V. of the United Brethren church. The program will be published in full The Misses Anna Boese and Marie Heckman of the Boese millihery store left this morning for Dayton, Ohio, where they will spend two weeks at the wholesale millinery houses, gleaning the latest ideas for fall millinery and making the new models. D. E. Laufferty arrived today from Rochester, where he was on business relating to the Waring glove factory. Mr. Laufferty is superintending the local plant in the absence of L. C. Waring, who is spending the month of August at Manistique Lake, Michigan. Mrs. Joe Tonnellier called on her daughter, Miss Rose, at the sanitarium at Rome City. Miss Rose had gone to Rome City several weeks ago and became sick there, it being necessary to take her to the sanitarium to recuperate. She is recovering nicely, and it is thought will be able to come home this week. Miss Margaret Todd entertained a few of her friends at a 6 o'clock dinner Saturday evening at her home on ■South Main street. Those present were Misses Beatrice Sawyer, Edna Cummins, Dorothy Bennett, Waneta Driscoll of Indianapolis, Helen Foust or Warren and Edith Goodyear of Toledo.—Bluffton News.

The G. R. & I. railroad park on West Monroe street is growing nicely. The hedge that was put out this spring surrounding the plot is doing well, as are the trees that were set out several years ago. To make the place even more pleasant, the flower beds made in the middle of the plot are now in full bloom. The park which in its youth is very pretty, gives pjpmise of being a beauty when in full growth. While Mrs. Lena Yager of Berne, in company with her son, Lawrence Yager, and wife, were making the trip to this city by automobile last Saturday, where they were joined by Mrs. J. C. Moran and daughter in a trip to Butler, Mrs. Yager had the misfortune to loose her purse containing two or three dollars in cash, a twen-ty-five doljar certificate of deposit and her glasses, somewhere on the road between Berne and this city. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Addington and little son of Decatur are visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Allen, of South Portland. Mr. Addington and family are moving to North Vernon and will leave the latte; part of next week for their new home. For some time he has been in *he employ of the Ward Fence company at Decatur, as traveling salesman, but expects to go into business with his brother, O. O. Addington, at North Vernon. —Portland Sun.

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Rev. and Mrs. Freeman of Pleasant Mills were shopping here today. Miss Devona Doehrman of Fort Wayne Is visiting with her grandfather, T. H. Ernst, and other relatives. George Brewster of Jefferson township was a business visitor here today, looking over some legal matters. Miss Helen Hale returned to Geneva this afternoon after a visit here over Sunday with Miss Gertrude Mangold Mrs. William Schumaker left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she will visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Blauvelt. The Misses Jessie and Nell Winncs and Fanny Rice will leave Thursday for Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls and other points in the east. Mrs. J. C. Tritch, who was brought home Saturday from Bloomington, where she became seriously sick with perftorfltis and was obliged to undergo an operation, is recovering more speedily since her return. Miss Mamie Kitson writes from North Manchester that she Is having a fine time. She has gone there from Huntington and Silver Lake, where she has been the guest of friends. She will return the latter part of this week. Mrs. Ed Engelking of Fort Wayne is here for a week’s visit with her father, Peter Zeser, and family. Mr. Engelking, who accompanied her here Sunday, has returned to Fort Wayne, but will return next Sunday to spend the day and to accompany her home. But a little less than five weeks of the long summer school vacation remain, and this means that the youngsters will need crowd into this time the fullest amount of pleasure possible to last through the long nine months’ term which opens September sth.

SAFETY AND PAYMENT OF Four Per Cent Interest on certificates I® of deposit left one year make this BANK an excelent place for your savings and idle money THE First National BANK DECATUR INDIANA

NOTICE ; ’ <l|All parties knowing themselves to be in- ;; debted to the old firm of I ELZEY & VANCE | please call and settle t at once as the book T will positively be tum- + ed over to the collector j on August 15th. I+++++++444+44+++H+H"

Attention Threshers; <7l We have iust received a carload of " ] coal suitable for threshing engines which we will sell at a reasonable price. Now is the time to lay in your hard coal for the winter as the price is steadily advancing. We have a large amount on hand. Liechty Bros. & 60. s-m-t Hardware Dealers, Monroe, Ind. QUALITY, Nothing But QUALITY 11 <TT Our proposition on Cigars is to j] make Good Cigars, Extra Good Cigars, so much better than anyone else that our customers will do all the talking needed to increase our business. THE Tr >' a ASTE “WHITE STAG” ELLS 5c HE All Dealers Have ALE Them On Sale I *++++++++++ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<"»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦4IIIIIIMH J- D. HALE | SEEDS, COAL AND FEED | ■; Portland Cement, Gypsum Rock Wall i Plaster, Lime and Salt ■> 7 < ■ ■ We make a specialty of furnishing Seed Goods good ■ ;; in quality and’low in price. : ;; Call, Write or Phone No. 8. 201 S. 2nd. St :; ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■Hl ■■■■■■■ H Enjoy yourself by’smoking a ■ S GEARY-0 s ■ ■ ■ 10c CIGAR S ■ Geary Brothers, g ■■■■■*■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ // lishes, Tinware and Graniteware\ IgTT Still we want to call your attention to these goods because they are seasonable n and are our best sellers just now and if L you are in need of anything in this line we || □ can do you good. We handle the very best goods that can be bought for the money and gs our prices are right. We invite you to our 8 store when in the city. Remember the place Baughman’s 5 and 10 Cent Store I One Door North of Curley’s.