Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1911 — Page 3

You Should Not i .... let this sale go by without buying at least one pair of shoes. In the last four months we have sold hundreds of pairs of womans No. 801 and 809 fine button and i lace shoes. You peoplo who have bought ithem know how they wear, you know how they fit. Both of these styles are included in this sale at - - - $1.95 - - - I Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

•o*o*o* a . ; WEATHER FORECAST | I >«0»0»0*0 ♦ Q*C'»O*O*O*O*O< Snow tonight and Friday; not so cold tonight. —' ~ —=« -xx - - .==■• Henry Koenemann made a business trip to St. Johns today. E. Woods mpde a business trip to Dayton and Chillicothe, Ohio. * Peter Soldner of Berne was here today transacting business for a short time. Henry Zwick of Williams has returned to his home after attending to lusiness interests in the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Schurger and Miss Tena Schurger made a trip north on the interurban this morning. Al Fristoe of Geneva was here this morning shaking hands with friends and attending to some business matters between trains. When you have a news item —and you have a telephone—don’t wait to write it and send it to us. Call up No. 51 and we will be ready to take your news. wl ..You can squeeze the sponge of your earnings dry —squeeze every possible cent out of them and put it by for that opportunity —with a checking account here. There is no system better than a checking account fer saving every possible cent for the man In business or private life. Drop in and see one of our officers who will courteously and gladly explain every detail of a CHECKING ACCOUNT with T HEROLD Adams Bank

aoa oaosoao aoHooaosoßosoioßoßoa S J S Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer. Vice Pres, fg K 2 O ® ■ o ■ ■ The Bowers Realty company have to offer sev- g O eral forty acre pieces of land, well improved, near q W Decatur at terms and prices that will appeal to s 2 vou The company also has now a 100 acre farm, O O a96 acre farm, a75 acre farm, a 53 acre farm - ■ that are very attractive. . h O The company also has plenty! of 5 per cent g ■ money. £ £ 8 o ® ■ » " „ O 2 The Bowers Realty Go. V French Qumn, Secty. g OIOIOIC B O

G. C. Beer of Berne was among the business callers In our city today. Mont Fee left this morning on his regular trip south, and will be absent several days. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Opliger of Linn Grove visited today with their son, Prof. L. E. Opliger, and family. Mrs. B. Plock and daughter, Elma, returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit here with relatives. Many from the north part of the county went to Berne today to attend the Adams County Poultry and Corn show. Ed Vancil left this morning for Berne, where he was looking after some business interests between trains. Miss Gusta Arnold will return to Peterson tomorrow after a two weeks' visit here with relatives and friends. Mrs. H. T. Gregg left today for Chicago after a holiday visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hale, and family. Oscar Hoffman went to Lynn where he will put the finishing touches on the new town building which they are erecting there. Freddie, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kiess of the west part of the city, has been seriously sick for some time with typhoid fever. Harold Romer and Ollie Harting returned to St. Henry, Ohio, after a visit here with their uncle, William Harting, and family. Mrs. F. H. Vernor and babe of Roodhouse, 111., who have been in the city for sometime visiting with her mother, left today for her home. A large number of people from the south part of the county were in the city today to be in attendance at the horse sale which was conducted here. Freddie, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Keiss, has been very seriously sick with typhoid fever, and yesterday it was thought he was at the point of death. He is better today. John Lachot was a business caller at Ossian this morning and from there proceeded on his weekly trip, returning home the latter part of the week The horse sale today attracted large crowds from all over the county, and the first sale of the season was a hummer, considering the extreme cold weather.Arthur Holthouse, Francis Schmitt, Felix and Arthur Holthouse and Stewart Niblick will leave tomorrow for Rensselaer, where they will take up their studies after enjoying a two weeks’ vacation during the holidays.

Alva Graham was a business caller at Monroe today. Jesse Hurst made a business trip to Monroe this afternoon. Mrs, Method of Chicago is here for a week’s visit with Mrs. Margaret Melbers. Miss Elva May went to Hoagland this morning to visit with her sister, Mrs. D. L. Barkley, Charles Lord returned to Monmouth on the 1 o’clock car after transacting business here. Miss Mayme Brown transferred here today on her way from Berne to Rockforc, Ohio, where she will visit until Saturday. Miss Genevieve Berling left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she will continue her studies at the Sacred Heart Academy. Dr. H. F. Costello and son, Dan, returned home from a week’s trip through the east, where the former has been attending to business matters for several days. They also visited with friends. Peter Confer, who, for nearly three weeks has been confined to his home owing to a general breakdown, is slowly gaining strength, although it will be some time before he will bo permitted to be out again. The play at. the opera house this evening will be one of the best ever presented in this city. They carry beautiful costumes, fine scenery and everything that goes to make up a complete performance. Fred LaDelle writes us from Rochester, N. Y„ where the Fantastic LaDelles are appearing this week. They opened at Niles, Ohio, a week ago and will go from Rochester to Buffalo, according to present plans. The restaurants today took on an I extra force of clerks to be able to accommodate the crowds who were tn the city to attend the horse sale, and at the noon hour the streets had the appearance of those in a much larger city. Attend the musical and literary entertainment to be given Saturday evening at the Methodist church by the Blue Bells Concert company under the auspices of the Epwoitfi League. Twenty-five and fifteen cents admission. If you know of any deaths, births, weddings, parties, murders, explosions, wrecks, fires, traveling, either in or out of the city—or anything that will help make up a good, readable paper, telephone it to us at once. Call No. 51. Tomorrow the graduates who will complete their course at the St. Joseph's schools next June will have their fourth examination at the assembly room of the school, and it will require several hours to complete the test.

The Citizens’ Telephone company is putting out a new telephone directory, which will be completed in a short time. The public has been in need of the new directory for some owing to the many new names and changes in the old list. The condition of Mrs. John D. Wisehaupt, who for some time has been in a very serious condition, suffering from an attack of stomach trouble, passed a good night last night, but is still very weak and her condition is not as encouraging as those of her family and friends would like it to be. Misses Agnes Kohne and Naomi Niblick will leave tomorrow morning for Fort Wayne, where they will take up their studies in the Sacred Heart Academy after a holiday vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Kohne and Mrs. and Mrs. C. S. Niblick. One merchant of the city has solved the problem of clearing the frost from his display windows, by putting electric fans in them. The electric fans are turned on in the morning and in a short while the frosted windows are perfectly free of the frosty coating. David B. Studebaker arrived this morning from Goshen, where he has been spending the holiday vacation with ihis mother, and after a short visit with his uncle, John Niblick, and family, left today noon for Staunton, Va., where he is attending military school. Earl Bremerkamp left today for Rensselaer. to attend school after speeding the holiday vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bremerkamp. Stewart Niblick, Felix and Arthur Hoitbouse and Francis Schmitt are other Decatur boys who are students there, and they return either today or tomorrow. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker, who several days ago left for Taft, Fla., are in receipt of a letter from them stating that, they are more than pleased with their visit, and that the weather is delightful. Everything is just the sams in in the summer here, people going about like in the warmest northern weather. At present Dallas and a number of others have gone on a hunting expedition a short distance from Taft and expect to be gone a week or two.

WILL MAKE FIGHT Petitioners For Big Blue Creek Ditch Are Going to Fight. THEY EXPECT TO WIN Over the Remonstrance— Consulted Attorneys Here Today. ■ II That the petitioners for the big Blue Creek drain Intend to fight the matter to a finish, over the remonstrance that was filed here some time ago, was evidenced today. About thirty or forty of the petitioners from the south part of the county, hailing from Berne, Monroe, Blue Creek township, were in the city thim morning and hed a consultation with their attorneys, D. E. Smith, Peterson & Moran, D. B. Erwin and C. J. Lutz. They intend to take the matter on through the circuit court and the fight will begin at once. It is quite probable that Jucge Sturgis of Bluffton will hear the case. The trial of the case will be a great one, and the legal battle will call forth a bright and shining array of legal skill. The trial itself will take no little time. A week so rthe trial is regarded as a very little time, a similar case having once required five weeks for the bringing to a head.

TOWNSHIP SPELLING CONTESTS. Two Trustees Offer Special Prizes to Winners. The next great step in the series of spelling contests of the county schools leading up to the great final state spelling contest, will be the township contests to ‘be held held Saturday of this week. Many of the township trustees are offering special prizes to the winners of the township contests. The St. Mary's township trustees offers $5 as follows: To the first prize winner, $2.50; second. $1.50; third, SI.OO. The Blue Creek township trustee offers $6. To the first, $3; to the second. $2; to the third, sl. — o JOHN MAGLEY QUIT SMOKING. Cost Cal Kunkle a Suppei Which He Will Pay Off This Evening. A year ago January Ist, John Magiey. the Monmouth merchant, swore off smoking. The report of this wonderful attempt spread rapidly and reached the ears of C. D. Kunkle. A few days later Cal met John and asked him if the rumor was correct, and being informed that it was. promptly laid a wager that Johnny couldn't “stay quit" a year. John set his jaws and staved off the appetite when it loomed up during the year, but he stuck. Tho wager was a supper, and Mr. Kunkle will tonight pay the same by having a feast at his home, the guests being John Magley and family and Charles Magley and family. ’Spect John will smoke one after the banquet this evening. We would. G. C. McCauley returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit here. Mrs. Julia Colchin is expected Ihome today from Anderson, where she was called to attend the funeral of her nephew, Charles Colchin. Mrs. J. A. Reitz, who has been suffering severely from erysipelas for several days, passed a very good night and is much better today. Rev. C. U. Wade, endowment secretary of the Depauw University, was in the city today transacting business with Rev. Powell and left at noon for his home. Mrs. John Nukes of Wren, Ohio, changed cars here this noon on her way to Vandalia. Michigan, for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Mary Allen. Mrs. H. J. Hall left this morning for her home in Chicago after a visit with her sister, Mrs. H. L. Warner at Pleasant Mills. She was accompanied to Fort Wayne by Mrs. Warner. D. H. Fullerton returned to Monmouth this morning after attending to business matters here. He reports that his wire, who was operated upon three weeks ago, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Bowman, at that place, the operation being for drainage of the gall bladder, is getting along very well, though slowly. She is still confined to her bed. FOUND—A small dog, with brown and white spots. Was found at the Julius Heideman farm south of the city and the owner can secure same by calling or writing for information. 4tß

I 1 Left Behind By Santa Claus.. | A very desirable stock of | Boots, Shoes, Slippers and Leggings [ |T At after Christmas prices. Be sure to attend our sale Friday and Saturday of t LADIES’ FINE SHOES Values of $2 to $4 will go at $1.38 to $2.98. I The WINNES' SHOE STORE — 22J0

HOUSE FOR RENT—Enquire of the P. K. Kinney real estate agency, over interurban station. BUCKWHEAT - ...FLOUR... For Sale Inquire of John Hessler, R. R. 2; Phone No. 10] N. L., or leave order at Smith Yager & Falk’s; warranted to be genuine.

Bosse’s Opera House Thursday, January, sth ED. W. ROWLAND and EDWIN CLIFFORD (Inc.) OFFER A NEW PRODUCTION OF HUMAN INTEREST “The Rosary” By EDWARD E. ROSE FOUNDED ON THE EMBLEM OF PURITY Three Months in Chicago Now plaving to crowded houses at the Garden Theatre, New York City A r CAST U PRODUCTION fl Ml SERMON Written and staged by the author of more successes than any other playwright in the world. Prices:3s, 50,75 c, SI.OO Seats on sale at Holthouse Drug Co SAVE THE DIFFERENCE Typewriters Factory rebuilt like new and second hand SOLD,’ REPAIRED, RENTED AND EXCHANGED. Cash or payments. From sls up. Supplies for all machines. REMINGTONS UNDERWOODS OLIVERS SMITH PREMIERS all other makes Every machine guaranteed, Will take old machine as part payment. Send for catalogue or our salesman. Muncie Typewriter Exchange. TERMINAL STATION, MUNCIE, IND

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Just received from Baltimore, car load Peerless Brand oyster shells; none better for making hens lay.— J. D. Hale. 295t12* Democrat Want Ads Pay.

RIGHT NOW | Right Now. While making the other New Years resolutions resolve to “makegood” Remember, “It’s up to you” to smoke the “White Stag” and give it a chance to “make good.” For sale by 3,1 Z/

WANTED—To buy, a good family horse. Must be safe for lady or children to drive. Inquire H. J, Thompson, agent at Clover Leaf. •’‘l Democrat Want Ads Pa '.