Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1910 — Page 3

SHOW DAY SPECIALS Mens Patent, Kid and Gun Metal shoes and Oxfords $1.95 Ladies and girls Tan and Kid Oxfords and Slippers. 98c See them in the windows Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

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R Rev. E. R. Roop of Willshire, Ohio, S was a business visitor here yesterday. ■ Mrs. J. C. Evans of Monmouth was ■shopping here yesterday afternoon, ■returning on the 4 o’clock car. I Miss Ruth Hull has returned to Bconnercville after a several weeks' ■visit with Miss Frances Merryman.

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I THE BEST WAY ? ? ? Not by any means. THE best way of handling money is with a check book. Then there is no loss of change, misplaces bills, troubles over nonreceipted invoices, petty thievery, etc. A checking account is THE method for the man who wants to run his financial affairs in a businesslike way. You’ll enjoy every convenience and courtesy of good, sound banking if your account is with us. THE OLD Adams county Bank

■OIO ■o■ 0■ 0 80.00808080.0.080808 g J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer. Vice Pres. ■ ■ ■ Thp Rowers Realty company begs to call your , £ attSo the fa£of moneyto . O loan on approved security on n new loans ■ ■ to tender t‘ K d Oor renewals of oW loansorass | or a B > placing in one loan scatw wants i ■ and discuss them with us. g The Bowers Realty Co. ■ ■ French Quinn, Secty. g 50n08080.080.0080808080.080P

J. S. and Will Colchin were Fort Wayne business visitors yesterday. Helen Diller, who took seriously ill Thursday, is reported better today. Mrs. L. G. Kauffman left this morning for Redkey for a visit with relatives. John Diller left this morning for Wabash, where he is working for Butler & Son. The little babe of Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Connell is ill with stomach and bowel trouble. Miss Mabel Beery returned today from Salem, where she was the guest of relatives over Sunday. Miss Bertha Knapp left this morning for Indianapolis, where she will be the guest of relatives. Jack Heinz, Fred Goetz and John Roup of Fort Wayne visited with Decatur friends Sunday evening. Mrs. M. V. B. Archbold of Fort Wayne spent yesterday the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Edge. Mrs. Israel Stoneburner, who has been very sick for some time, is much better and hopes for her recovery are assured. Mrs. David Stoler, who has had a pleasant several weeks’ visit in vari ous Ohio cities, will return some time this week. Mrs. John Smith and her sister, _.,rs. John Kern, of Lima, Onio, spent yesterday afternoon and evening in Fort Wayne. Mrs. J. S. Wertzbaugher returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit here with Brothers and wife. Miss Nell Garrison of Anderson and Miss Fanny Frisinger left yesterday tor Topeka, Ind., for a visit with a college friend. Will and Bart Schralaka, who are employed at the Huntington -v-u.ng mill, left for that place after spending Sunday here. Ruth and Lloyd Zeigler of Bippus, who have been visiting with C. H. Smith and family, left for Navarre. Ohio for a further visit with relatives. Mrs. Huser returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit at Friedheim wiu her mother. Mrs. Buuch, and at h.~ with «er sister.

J S.COVEHDALE.M.D. E. t. COVEBDALE, M. Drs. J. S, Goverdale and Son Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat 2nd Street Decatur, Indiana

Paul Dawson is a new assistant at the True * Runyon store. Dr. M. F. Pairish of Monroe was a business visitor here today. B. Terveer and grandson, Arthur Holthouse, went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. Miss Lucile Hale left this morning for Lake Wawasee, where she will enjoy a week's outing. King Chapman returned this morning to Woodburn after a visit here with William Campbell and family Mr. and Mrs. Weatherby have returned to Chicago after spending the summer here with their daughter, Mrs. Bart France. The Misses Vernia Smith, Shifferly and Fuhrman returned yesterday from Oakwood park, where they have been enjoying an outing. . Miss Marie Kintz left yesterday afternoon for Leipsic, Ohio, where she will make a short visit with her sister, Mrs. John Wilkie. The Rev. D. O. Wise returned yesterday from Oakwood park, where he attended the Evangelical convention and spent his vacation. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Krick and children returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit here and at Willshire with friends. Miss Nora Lincoln returned yesterday to Fort Wayne after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Frank Cramer, and her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Helm. Mrs. Jennie McConnehey and son. William, or Fort Wayne, who visited here over Sunday, returned on the 4 o’clock car yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. - returned yesterday afternoon to Warsaw after a visit over Sunday with their brother-in-law, M. F. Rice and wire. The Shamrocks vs. the K. of C. team played an exciting game of bail at Maple Grove park Sunday afternoon, the Shamrocks winning by a score of 12 to 6. The M. F. Rice residence on West Monroe sltreet, occupied by Henry Koenemann, is undergoing a number of improvements, including the shingling of the roof. Miss Edith Beery returned today from a three weeks’ visit at Danville, 111., where she has been the guest of Mrs. O. V. Shaffer, and of friends at Indianapolis over Sunday. Joe Garis and Guy Walters of Wren, Ohio. Lulu Hodges and Mae Frisinger of Fort Wayne enjoyed an automobile trip to this city Sunday and were guests of Miss Clara Schultz. Mrs. Roman Holthouse has gone to Rome City, where she will take treatment for rheumatism at the sanitarium. will be joined a week from tomorrow by her sister, Miss Mayme Terveer. The Misses Emma and. Ella Mutchler. Emma Schlickman, Esther anl Matilda Sellemeyer, Mrs. Ben Elzey of this city and Norma Helmstetter o' Portland have returned from a week's outing at Rome City. The Misses Anna and Agnes Miller returned from a several weeks’ visit with relatives at Lima, Ohio. They were accompanied home by Mrs. John Wilhelm and Miss Kate Wilhelm, who will spend several weeks here. Tony Center and Lawrence Voglewede will return this evening over the Clover Leaf from their ten days’ eastern trip, the past few days of which they spent in the vicinity of Jamestown and Chautauqua. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Murray, Mr. and Mrs. P. .1. Hyland. Mrs. Carrie Sutherland, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Christen and children, Germaine and Bernardine, spent Sunday in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Sarah Robert and Mrs. Min rue Hogston and son. Nolfe, of Fort Wayne are in the city visiting with their niece, Mrs. Gilbert Strickler. They also expect to visit other relatives and friends befofe returning to their home. Mrs. A. E. Scott and daughters, Viola and Helen, returned this morning to their home in Indianapolis after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Billman. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have but recently removed to Indianapolis from Lafayette. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gunsett spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Weinman, at Schumm, and the Mercer and Brown families in Willshire, Ohio. They were accompanied home by their daughters, Ida and Lydia, who had been visiting there a week. Herman Tettman has returned to his work at the reoples & Gerke shoe store after a week's vacation which he and Mrs. Tettman enjoyed on an eastern trip which included visits to Toronto, Canada, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Cleveland and Ashland, Ohio. Arthur Ford of Muncie joined his wife and babe in a visit over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dal Hower. Mr. and Mrs. Ford and babe returned yesterday to their home at Muncie and tney were accompanied by Mrs. Ford's sister, Miss Mabel Hower, wno will visit there two weeks.

Joe Berliiu; was a business visitor at Kokomo today. S. E. Hite was a business visitor at Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Eliza Gerke and son of Root township was a business visitor here today. Miss Mabel Sutton of Detroit, MIcL., Is visiting with her uncle. Attorney J. C. Sutton, and family. Ellis Counts of Lima, Ohio, Is here visiting with his mother. He will leave tomorrow for Hartford City. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Stuckey of Herne transferred here this morning on their way to Fort Wayne for a visit. Miss Emma Pritchard returned last evening to Chicago after a several days’ demonstration here for a manufacturer. Mrs. John Knapke and son, Lenus, have returned to St. Henry, Ohio, after a visit here with William Harting and family. Miss Loretta Volpert left this afternoon for her home at Peru after a visit here with Miss Maltilda Berling. She was accompanied as far at Fort Wayne by Miss Matilda. If all things work together rightly Decatur will see one of the biggest crowds she has had in years tomorrow —the day of the great HagenbeckWallace circus. Mrs. Belle France left this morning for Alliance, Ohio, to be with her son. Dick, who is very sick with inflammatory rheumatism. He is reported as being much better. Mr .and Mrs. Homer Spaulding and daughter and Earl Spaulding returned yesterday to their home at Banquo after a visit over Sunday with their aunt, Mrs. L. C. Miller .and family. Joel Click and daughter, Susie Florence, of Berne, passed through the city this morning on their way to Fort Wayne, where the daughter will be placed in the home for feeble-minded. Jerome Carter, formerly of this county, now of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, is visiting here with relatives. He came to attend a reunion of the Carter family, which will be held August 18th. Mrs. John Merriman, who returned last evening from Berne, reports that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Adam Syphers, who has been sick with stomach and bowel trouble, is much better. Dr. J. S. Coverdale will leave Thursday morning for Marion, Ark., where he will attend to business matters and incidentally visit with his son, Clark, and family. He will be gone about ten days. Med Miller, who has just finished an artistic sign on the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway office window, has commenced one on the John Joseph candy, fruit and ice cream parlors that, promises to be up to the usual artistic standard. Miss Stella Kohne, who left Saturday morning at 2 o'clock for Fond du Lac, Wis., where she will enter the convent of the Sisters of St. Agnes, writes that they arrived there safely Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock. She met the Decatur young ladies who are students there, and says they are all well and like the place very much. Cards from Agnes and Lucile Giliig, who are away on their vacation, bring the news of a pleasant trip to Toledo, thence by lake to Detroit, and from there by steamer, The City of Cleveland, to Cleveland, Ohio, where they arrived Monday. From there they expected to leave Monday afternoon on for Nankin and Mansfield. Ohio. Herman Tettman, who has just returned from Niagara Falls, tells of the finding of two bodies, that of a man and woman, who had committed suicide a few days before by jumping over the falls. The body of the woman was picked up by the ‘ Maid of the Mist," a pleasure boat, on the evening before Mr. and Mrs. Tettman s arrival. Sunday a week ago. Miss Grace Purdy of the Baughman five and ten cent store and Miss Pearl Purdy of the telephone office are taking a two weeks’ vacation. They are spending this week at Bluffton, Anderson and Indianapolis and will return the latter part of the week, spending Sunday at Linn Grove, the guest of Miss Bess Baumgartner. Miss Velma Porter is clerking at the Baughman store during Miss Graces absence. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beam and daughters returned yesterday afternoon on the 4 o'clock car to f ort Wayne after a visit at Willshire While sitting in the car here the little daughter bade her mother be cautious lest tne babe, who was playing at the open window, get its hand hurt as the little Smith child did last week when the window dropped, catching its hand, and about which she heard while visiting here. No sooner had the word been spoken than the elder child gave a sharp cry, the window having dropped, catching her elbow which she had rested on the window ledge. The injury was quite pai 1ful for a time.

MANY SICK IN THE CITY. There is an unusual number of seriously sick people In the city at present, the greater number of which, strange to say, are in the west part of the city, within three blocks of each other, from Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Madison streets. Otis Tyndall is at the point of death, suffering from tuberculosis. Last night his death was expected at any time. John E. Smith Is said to be growing gradually weaker and Grandma Sowle is said to be quite sick from consumption. Mrs. J. H. Smith is also ill, and Abner Parrish, who has been a sufferer from cancer of the liver, shows no improvement. His son, Dr. M. F. Parrish, of Monroe, who was here this morning, stated that if anything, he was somewhat weaker today. Mrs. Israel Stoneburner, who had been at the point of death a week or so ago, is better, and her recovery is assured. — —o— JOE GANS IS NEAR TO DEATH. (United Press Service.) Baltimore, Md„ Aug. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Joe Gans, former light weignt champion fighter of the world, is reported to be dying today. It is not believed he can live through the day. Ralph Moser will leave tomorrow for Indianapolis, where he will enter the conservatory of music. He will be by his father and True Fristoe.

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

Wednesday Will be a Big Day in Decatur | But the ATTRACTION will not all be at the show g grounds. We have determined to make this STORE g one of the BIG attractions by the BARGAINS we g H will put on sale for the DAY. g I We Will This Day Make a Clean-up of Summer Goods I $1.25 Waists at ■ 55c No. 80 Ribbon at 13c § $1.25 and $1.50 Duck Skirts . 65c io and igp Lawn 4c W s<; White & gingham Dresses 2.50 50c Lace Hose at 3 a c S 50c Belts 25c ' 1 ace nos at ,i9c g 50c House Jackets 25c 25c Misses Lace Hose at . . . |oc g gir Come early and make this store your headquarters. We will take 711 care of your packages and wraps while you are in the city. The Kuebler- Moltz Co. g Decatur Indiana. g D-T-T-S

A TROUSER SPECIAL PAIR of MENS and Young Men’s Trousers, mostly fancy cheviot materials but guaranteed for service. These trousers are cut just fa littie closer fitting than the 1910 models but they’re just the caper for work trousers. Sizes are 30 to 36 waist [measure and 30 to 34 lengths. Former prices on these pants were $2.00, $3.00 and $3.50 not SUS | You can’t afford to miss this sale. See our show window. ftolthouse, Schulte £ Go. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

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