Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1910 — Page 5

Do You Remember ---the presents you bought last year. Some of them are now in the dresser drawer where they were put immediately after Christmas. But in this drawer you’ll not find any comfort slippers that you bought for your husband, son, wife or daughter there 11 not be any spats, legging, overgaiters or comfort shoes to be found there. See the point? Buy useful presents here. Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA r 4% " ’lnterest per annum Paid on Certificates left 12 Months. 3 . Interest per annum Paid on Certificates left 6 Months. DIRECTORS P. W Smith V D. Schmitt W. A. Kuebler C. A Dugan D. Sprang E. C. Bleeke M. F. Rice CAPITAL

□SE3OO CZIDCZIEZan DON’T | ODELftY I rn Fl YOU CAN’T POSTPONE THE GIFT PROBLEM MUCH LONGER. XMAS IS A SHORT WAYS OFF. Ps| CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES AT HOLTHOUSE’S COME TO HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO., a FOR UNUSUAL GIFTS — THOSE |j|| THAT ARE OUT OF THE ORDINARY. I Why not a beautiful piece of Brush Brass, Music Rolle. Hand Baps. ®«W Razors, Fountain Pons, Toilet Articles, Manicure Sets, Perfumes, Toilet Waters, Etc, Etc, Etc. gl PM- ask TO SEE OUR BEAUTIFUL LINE H OF XMAS STATIONARY, CARDS H AND DECORATIONS. g , ■ (GET THE HOLTHOUSE QUALITY) I . I j B The HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. § 808 O ■ O BO BO 80800808080808080808 ? J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schimeyer, V>« Pres. ■ ■ ° ■ 2 The Bowers Realty g O oral forty acre pieces of land, that wifi appeal to g 8 Decatur:at terms an ■ you. The company also has 53 acre farm ■ ' a96 acre farm, a 75 acre farm, a w a g ■ that are very attractive. . 5 per cen t | O The company also has plenty oi P ■ g money. ■ O I ■ £ The Bowers Realty Co. ■ French Quinn, OI O ■ O ■ O ■ 0• |gOl>O

♦ o*o*o*o*o4 | WEATHER FORECAST I 4 Fair tonight; Wednesday unsettled and warmer. . ■ LUU lILIWWWI Lee Burke remains about the same. Dan Beery is home from a business trip to Berne. P. W. Smith of Richmond was a business visitor here today. W. H. and Edwin Fledderjohann are at Indianapolis on business. Carson’s Octoroons, opera house. Wednesday, December 14th. The big Fun Show at the opera house Wednesday, December 14th. Music, mirth and laughter, opera house, Wednesday, December "14th. Henry Koenemann made a business trip to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Al Fritzinger will leave Thursday for Indianapo.is, where they will visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fry.

Dan Beery was a business caller at Berne today. Miller of Huntington visited here yesterday. Mrs. F. E. France is spending the I day in Fort Wayne. The Aber school has closed on account of scarlet fever. i Mrs. Ella Redding is visiting with i relatives at South Salem. I Elijah Mann made a business trip i to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff of Monmouth ; was a business visitor here yesterday j afternoon. I Mrs. E. S. Christen of Root township was a shopper here yesterday afternoon. D. H. Fuleton returned to Monmouth this morning after attending to business here. Mrs. M. A. Frisinger and sister, Miss Bernice Dailey, spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Wilson Lee and Miss Frances Laman were among the Fort W’ayne visitors today. > Ed Luttman, the Magley merchant, was a business visitor here yesterday afternoon. Joshua Parrish went to Fort Wayne this morning to join his wife in a visit with relatives. Lawrence, second eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson of north of Monmouth, is quite sick with scarlet fever. Jeff Bryson of Portland was here this morning looking up friends and transacting some business for a short while. Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Giffen of Liberty Center changed cars here today on their way to Toledo for a visit with friends. Mrs. D. N. Beery went to Fort Wayne to visit with friends and to attend the Chapman-Alexander revival services. Mrs. Fred Mills went to Fort Wayne to spend the day with friends and to attend the Chapman-Alexander revival service. Rudolph Schug of Berne was among the business transactors in the city today, returned to his home on the noon train. Raymond Bremerkamp, who was looking after some business at Portland for several days, returned to the city today. The G. R. & I. southbound train was over two hours late this morning owing to an accident at Fort Wayne, which delayed the crew :n making the start. The big sale of Moser’s is still on and goods are selling at a rapid rate. The stock is still complete, but is going fast. Come and make your selection now. Misses Gusta Cramer and Pearl Purdy of Decatur spent Sunday in this city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Ward of West Central avenue. —Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. Josephus Martin and two children of Geneva have returned to their home after spendlag Sunday in the city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs H. L. Merry. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beckwith and son. Ralph, have returned to their home at Nottawa. Mich., after a visit In the city with the former's sister, Mrs. H- L Merry. if you are looking for Xmas presents in the china line it would pay you to look over Moser’s before you invest. He has the best in the city and is disposing of it at half price. Miss Lena Dickinson went to Mon- * roe this morning where she will visit, with her sister a few days before going to her home at Lisbon, Ohio, and thence to Cleveland, Ohio, where she i will enter the nurse’s training school ■ at the Glenville hospital. Miss Ethel Vernon, general repre-' sentative of J. B. Lynas & Son, of Logansport, Ind., accompanied by her assistants, Julia Bishop and Fannie Clause, are in the city to secure a local representative and demonstrate the goods of the company. They are registered at the Hotel Murray. j Fred Schaub left today for Union I City, where he will attend the carriage opening of the Ross Carriage Co., which began today and will continue for the remainder of the week. While there he will be the guest of his sister, Mrs. Harry Horn, who will accompany him home to spend the holi- i days here with her mother, Mrs. Carrie Schaub. If Dr. Cook didn’t, climb Mount McKinley, what did he do? Elizabeth Woodbridge apparently tries to answer this question in her story, “The i Bonds of Circumstance,” in Adventure, for January. Mt. McKinley is ■ thinly disguised as Mount Darwin in the story, and the author apparently | tries to show what combination of circumstances would tempt a man to claim to have performed a feat which he did not perform. It is a story of brave, noble, honest men with kind and worthy impulses, and as interesting psychologically as it Is thrilling in action.

Bob IHartman of Cralgvllle was a business visitor here yesterday. Clarence Smith of Monroe was a business visitor here this morning. Lloyd Magley of Monmouth was a business visitor here this morning. Mrs. Dan Beery and Mrs. John Meyers were Fort Wayne visitors today. Mr. and Mrs. George Weber left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne. Mrs. Dr. McMillen has been sick for several days with lumbago, being confined to her bed. William Kukelhan, one of the prominent farmers of Root township was i* business visitor here yesterday. Alfred Elzey went to Fort Wayne this morning for a few days' visit with his sons. Jay and Lawrence. Miss Ruth Miller left on the 4 o'clock car yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne for a visit. Don’t overlook the big Moser closing out china sale. Better come now and buy while the stock is complete. Mrs. Perry Workinger and sister, Miss Oda Gay, went to Fort Wayne this morning for a few days’ visit with relatives. Moser's big half-price closing out sale is now on. Now is the time to purchase your Christmas present at half the cost. Messrs. Charles Robinold, Rob Hartman and Will Lindsey of Craigville spent Sunday evening here the guests of friends. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne and Miss Catherine Lentz have returned to Fort Wayne after a visit with U. Deininger and family. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Seelos of Fort Wayne were business visitors here yesterday. Mr. Seelos is the Singer Sewing machine agent. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Mygrant return-1 ed this morning to their home in Au-! burn after visiting with her parents, j Mr. and Mrs. Asa Engle. Mrs. Homer Krick returned yesterday afternoon to her home in Fort Wayne after a visit with her mother, Mrs. David Liby in Preble. Mr. and Mrs. Al Fritzinger, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Cline and Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Magley were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Magley of Monmouth at dinner. Miss Grace Miller, who is returning to New York City from Minneapolis, stopped off in the city for a two days’ visit with her mother, Mrs. L. C. Miller. She will leave tomorrow noon for New York. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hull and son, C. R. Hull of Fort Wayne were here attending the funeral of Wilford Wisehaupt held yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Hull returned to Fort Wayne in the afternoon. Abe Mercer and grandson, Abe McCoJllster and wife of Newton Falls, Ohio, are here for a two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. David Liby at Preble. They will also visit at Laketon and Bluffton before returning home. Rev. J. M. Dawson returned last evening from Columbus. Ind., where ha was called a week ago by the illness of his mother, Mrs. Lydia Dawson, whose death occurred while he was there. Pneumonia was the cause of her demise. Page Burrell, who is attending school at Valparaiso, arrived here last evening for a visit with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blackburn, before going on to Rochester, where he will visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Burrell. Charles Ernst returned this rnorn- ’ ing from El Reno, Okla., where he ' went last week to pay a visit to his brother, Carl, who is suffering with an ' attack of typhoid fever, whose condition is now improving and he expected to be home the fore part of next I week. The men who keep going throughout the winter the great telephone and telegraph lines across the Rocky mountains are the heroes of an article in Scribners Mag zine for January, entitled ‘‘The Trouble Hunters.” The | author, Allen Tupper True, is an artist who has made many first-hand ' ' sketches to illustrate the story. I S. B. Fordyce, formerly of this city, but who now enjoys life in the east | suburbs of Monmouth, where he has a cozy and comfortable little home on what was formerly the Amos Lewton property, was a business visitor , here this morning, returning home on the 11:30 car. Rev. C. T. Payne and son, Rufus, went to Fort Wayne this morning to call on Rev. Payne’s daughter, Mrs. Louis Sherry, of Kirkland township, who is a patient at the St. Joseph hospital. Sho was operated upon there last Thursday for gall stones, and is getting along very well, indeed. Mrs. Andrew Welfley this morning ■ received word from Indianapolis .stating that her sister, Mrs. Florence Bradbury, who has been sick for the past seven weeks, suffering with typhoid fever, is improving and able to sit up at times. It Is now thought she will continue to improve until her former good health Is restored to her.

Watch for the hand concert tomorrow noon. The best cornet band in the state. Charles Colter of the Smith & Bell company made a trip to southern Indiana today. Bob. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Melbera, Is sick with what threatens to be pneumonia. D. I. Weikel, the hustling newsdealer. made a business trip to Ft. Wayne this afternoon. Adam Buetell Is home from a business trip to Geneva, where he went to look after business matters. W. S. Hughes of Fort Wayne was a business caller in the city last evening. returning home today. Albert Acker will go to Bluffton In the morning to attend to some insurance business for a few days. Attorney J. C. Sutton of the law firm of Heller, Sutton & Heller, is at Columbia City on business today. The big musical farce comedy, “Derby Day in Coontown,” at the opera house, Wednesday, December 14. Big laugh show. N. I. Kiracofe of Wren, Ohio, was a business visitor in the city today and called on his son. John Kiracofe, at the Smith & Bell office. Mrs. J. B. Drummond left this afternoon for Grand Island. Neb., where she will spend the greater part of the winter visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Cowell. Mrs. John Niblick went to Fort Wayne on the 1 o’clock car for a visit with relatives. She will be joined this evening by Mr. Niblick and they will attend the Chapman-Alexander evangelistic services. Carson's big musical comedy company travels in its own special car. | They will positively appear at the opi era house, Wednesday, December 14. | One big laugh from start to finish. > Seats now on sale at the usual place. The Misses Emma and Lizzie Werder have returned from a five weeks' visit with their sister, Mrs. W. M. Casner, and other relatives at Attica and New Washington, Ohio, The Misses Werder formerly lived in that vicinity and the return to their oid home was a most pleasant one. m'jjL j J.--LJI I ■ l_ . .Ypu «an «quHi« ths spangs •» your gaming* dry—eguaaoa every paaefbl* sent eut es them and put ft by far that eppertunity—with a ohooking aoeeunt here. There ie ne system better than a shacking aaeeunt far saving every peesible eent far the man in teveiness er private life. \ Drep In and see ene es eur effioers whe will oeurteously and gladly explain every detail es a 6HBCK--INQ ACCOUNT with THE OLD Adams Bank A USEFUL HoupayGih To please a Man — Give him a KftNKUTTER Safety Razor Set Beautifully Finished, Silver Plated Handle. Twelve Blades. Packed in a velvet-lined, all leather WE SELL THIS SET FOR ONLY $3.50 You will find it good enough for any man, and he’ll appreciate it. ijiSdiMWte Wc have Gold Plated and gllMZuifl Combination Sets from W $5.00 to $12.00. SCHAUB, GOTTEMOLLER & CO.

■ 1 ' lif fVW # tiS ■ Copyright Hart Schaffner & Mara LI OLID AY joys will be 11 greater if you get the Christmas for the boys and men where boys’ and men’s things are the whole stock. This store is the Christmas headquarters for the kind of gifts men want. Here you’ll find Hart Schaffner & Marx suits and ’overcoats; no better Christmas present could be made. But we’ll show you hundreds of other good things that men and boys want; thats what you want to give—things they want. Suits $lB to $25 Overcoats sls to $25 Other things 25 cents up. HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & Co Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys. Special Furs AT Special Prices AT TRUE & RUNYON’S FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. Come In us Show You Our Gold Filled Watches Guaranteed 20 yr, $lO sls S2O Our quality an d prices are alvrays I! unequaled. Our motto is HONEST GOODS at HONEST PRICES. It is to your advantage to investigate fully before you "pay out your good money. That is why we invite you to come to our store. Compare quality and prices then judge for yourself where to buy. We now have a large assortment to select from and our prices are lower than usual. We engrave everything by hand without any cost to you. If we havn’t your present laid away you had better decide to- ■ day and save disappointment. | HENSLEY, The Jeweler. [