Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1911 — Page 3

YOU ...should get acquainted with this store, investigate the quality of the shoes I sell. Now is a good time. We are sellingall of our broken lines at greatly reduced prices. Charlie Voglewede, The Shoe Seller

Start Now The savings account. To put It off moans much lost for that money now on your person is certain to be spent in one way or the other. A savings account is the first step to material success —start it now with us where you will be paid 3 per cent interest for six months and 4 per cent interest for twelve months. THE OLD] Adams County Bank

— If you pay 10c for an | Imported Havana Cigar j Out you are paying about 5c I : rest for tobacco and manufacture. These < V are actual facts. Now if you want to | 11 save that nickel and at the same time get f . ,K just as much smoke satisfaction try our. ? 4 “White Stag” cigar. Finer Flavor and I More Pleasing in Aroma than any import- | P ed cigar at double the price, and you | q double the purchasing power of your cigar I TRY ITOUT. I BO| |O l lo 8080 80800808080808080808 g J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. . g " ■ ■ o ■ 1 The Bowers Realty Company ■ | lent bargains in city proper y „] eased to have 2 ■ farms. The CO^P^ d its offerings. The com- q 2 you call at its office and see its onermu v 0 pany has plenty of five p e Y Abstract ■ H reasonable terms. Let the bcnm Tw g J Company prepare g H ■ years experience, complete recorus. B " ■ ■ 2 The Bowers Realty? Co. v J French Quinn, Secty. o UoIOBOBOBOBOBBOBOBOBOBOMOIg

So<Q<O<O<O<O<O » O<O<O<O<O4 ; WEATHER FORECAST I Vl<O<O<O<O < O<O<O<O<O<O<O< Fair tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature. James Artman left for Bluffton yesterday. Wai Wemhoff was a Geneva business caller today. H. C. Harrod of Fort Wayne spent yesterday here. J. A. Smith is one of the grip sufferers at present. Andy Artman made a business trip to Monroe yesterday. Charles Heckman made a business trip to Bluffton, Warren and Van Buren yesterday. Mrs. J. A. Smith is at Wren, Ohio, with her sister, Miss Laura Callow, who is sick. I .... 1 M For Sale-Indian Run* ner Duck Eggs Heavy laying strain —Price $1 for 13; $2 for 30. Order soon, —Herman Miller, Decatur, Ind., R. R. 5, Box 46. 19 t 30

John Frisinger returned this morning from Fort Wayne. Herb Fullenkamp sang at the Crystal theater last evening. A. B. Bailey of Monroe was a business visitor here today. Al Steele made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Charles Colter left yesterday for Michigan to transact buslnes. Judge James T. Merryman went to Bluffton this morning on business. Tracey Nelson is on the sick list and unable to be at his work at the True &. Runyon store. Pliny Lyon has recovered from the chicken pox and was able to return to school this week. Mrs. R. R. Ernsberger of Bluffton was here to attend the funeral of her uncle, Thomas Baker. Miss Mary Gallemeyer of Root township was here getting some dental work done this morning. William Sheler left today for Chicago, where he will look after some business matters- for some time. Tuesday evening was quite a busy one for the members of the city council, and much business was attended to. Fred Mutchler made a business trip over the interurban to purchase stock and transact business in Fort Wayne yesterday. Mrs. Wesley Hoffman and daughter, Margaret Jane, left today for Elkhart, where they will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Vanderlip. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baughman made a business trip to Bluffton today. Miss Genevieve Bremerkamp was a clerk at the store in their absence. Mrs. Dick Townsend of Peoria, 111., who has been here the past three | weeks with her mother, Mrs. A. C. Gregory, will return next week to her home. Franklin Johnson of near Berne arrived in the city this morning to be in attendance at the funeral of T. A. Baker, which was held this afternoon at 11 o’clock. Mrs. Ed Luttman arrived this morning from Fort Wayne, where she visited over night with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wagoner. . Mrs. Luttman left this morning for her home at Magley.

Mrs. F. M. Wilson, who has been here several days the guest of her husband, who is one of the state accountants, working on the court house records, left this morning for her home at Lafayette. Abe Stuckey of Decatur and Dr. Zehr of Fort W’ayne visited here Sunday with their mother, Mrs. Zehr, whose condition is very serious and it is feared she cannot live long.— Berne Witness. The firm of Baker and Hower has .purchased from William Klick six hogs ten months old and weighing 1,$175.00 was paid for the six, making $29.16 each. This is probably the banner price of the year. The funeral of Thomas Baker, whose remains were brought from his late home at Marion Tuesday, where his death occurred Sunday night, was held this afternoon at 1 o’clock from the M. E. church by the Rev. Church. Word from Moline, 111., is to the effect that the A. C. Ball family which lately went there to make their home, Is getting along well. Miss Pansy Ball has- recovered from her recent illness and is feeling unusually well for her. J. J. Kelleher of Frankfort, contractor for the Adams street and Mercer avenue pavements, which were recently constructed in this city, was here last evening to attend the council meeting in regard to some business pertaining to these streets. Rev. O. P. Vitz went to Indianapolis today. He and his brother, Rev. J. O. Vitz, of Louisville, Ky., have been conducting a revival meeting at Honduras. His brother went with him as far as Indianapolis, going from there to Terre Haute. Rev. O. P. Vitz took his small child to Indianapolis to a specialist.—Bluffton Banner. Burton Niblick, who has been visiting over Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick, left this morning for his home at Quincy, 111. Burton, who has been a student at the business college there, will complete his course in a month. He has finished the regular 'business course, and on next Monday will enter the closing banking department course, this being actual experience in the banks at that place. ' Thomas A. Baker, aged fifty-one years, died at his home, 1119 West Fifth street, Sunday night at 12 o’clock. He was a carpenter and had been a resident of Marion for about two years. Besides his wife he is survived by six children and two brothers, Philip and John, of Decatur, who were at the bedside of their brother at the time of his death. A short service will be held at the residence this morning at 8:00 o’clock, after which the body will be shipped to Decatur for burial Wednesday.—Marion News-Tribune.

Ed Kukiehan waa a business visitor at Willshire. Mrs. Cal Morehead of Willshire was shopping here today. John Omler of Root township was here today on business. Mrs. Foreacker of Huntington will visit friends lu Willshire. Frank Kern of Fort Wayne was a buslnes caller here today. Ex-Commissioner David Werllng was a business visitor here today. Miss Martha Schlnnerer of Fort Wayne will visit friends In Willshire today. Wilson Steele will go to Rockford, where he baa a large amount of timber to cut Ben Amerlne has gone to Rockford to assist Wilson Steele to cut a large tract of timber. Postmaster Lower has been off duty today and yesterday on account of an attack of the grip. J. E. Barnes, pastor of the United Brethren church in Willshire was a business visitor here today. Miss Myrtle Plummer of Tocsin returned today from a visit with Mrs. Charles Steele and family. Harry Schlice of Philadelphia, Pa., who is visiting here with relatives, went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend to some business affairs. Robert Patterson is nursing a sore hand on account of having a felon break out on the back of the left hand While not dangerous it te proving verypainful. Mrs. Henry Bauman of Monmouth is quite sick with what seemed to be symptoms of gall stones and appendicitis. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Fulleton, are both sick also at the Bauman home. Mrs. James Watts returned this afternoon to ner home at Fort Wayne. The family has been there the past week but came back to Monmouth yesterday to get the remainder of the' household goods, Mrs. Watts remaining over night. Clayson Carroll made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Messrs. Tague and Carroll have been most unfortunately delayed in the opening of their shoe store owing to a delay in receiving the fixtures, but hope to be ready for the opening in a short time. Five lashes on his bare back and two months in jail was the sentence imposed by Judge Duffy in the criminal court at Baltimore, Md., on George H. Wooden for assaulting his wife and terribly mutilating her face with a knife. The last time the whipping post in the jail there was used was in 1907. A letter received by Fred Bohnke states that his son, Gus, is ill with a serious case of measles, in his rooms at Three Rivers, Mich, The doctors fear that pneumonia may set in and cause serious complications. Today his sister went to Three Rivers to care for her brother and will remain until he is able to return home.

The Daniel Boone snow trouph arrived in the city this noon from Paulding, Ohio, over the G. R. & 1., with their live wolves, real Indians, big dogs, and a great deal of special scenery, coming fully prepared for the play at the opera house this evening. It is one of the best out and you will be sure to get your money’s worth. Father Lynn of Fort W’ayne and his friend, Father O’Rourke of Detroit, Mich., were in the city this morning for a short stay with Father Flaherty, a college student of theirs. At noon they left for Portland to be the guesr of Father Travers, another chum, and then go on to Dunkirk for a few hours' stop as the guest of Father Durham. They will return to Fort Wayne this evening byway of Muncie. Mesdames C. 3. Weaver and Jacob Miller, accompanied by Mrs. Page Blackburn left Tuesday for Huntington to attend the funeral of Mrs. Willard Oliver, formerly of this city, regarding whose death the Huntington Herald says: "Mrs. Willard Oliver died at her home on East State street Sunday morning at 6:10 after a short but severe illness. Some time ago she developed pneumonia, which brought on hemorrhages of the lungs and caused death within a short time. The deceased was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Bretelle June 5, 1873. She came to Huntington with her parents when a young lady, her father engaging in the laundry business on Little river near the Lafontaine street bridge. A few years after her marriage to Mr. Oliver her father's family moved from this city. The father now lives at Huntingburg, Ind. Besides the father there survive the husband and two children, John and Beatrice; two brothers, Alexander, of Logansport and Arthur of Aurora; three half brothers, Donald. Daniel, and Lester Bretelle, and a sister, Helen. Mrs. 01liver was a member of the Central Christian church and of the order of Ben Hur. The funeral will be held at the Central Christian chursh Tuesday afternoon at 2:30, Rev. Elmer Ward Cole officiating. Interment will be at ML Hope."

TRY a pair of Buster Brown Blue Ribbon shoes for the boy or girl and you will be satisfied with the wear, you can get them at Elzey & Falk. Also all kind of shoes and rubber goods, we will save you money too. Remember the place. ELZEY & FALK OPP. COURT HOUSE

Wilda Watts was at Bluffton and Sheldon today. J. B. Holthouse was transacting business at Bluffton today. Dr. J. C. Grandstatt of Preble made a business trip to Fort Wayne today. Ruth Reason of Berne has returned to her home after a short visit in the city with friends. William Pyles of Berne was a business caller here today and at noon left for his home. Miss Josephine Shoemaker has been confined to her bed since Sunday with an affection of rae lungs. Solomon Good of Dayton was a business caller in the city this morning, leaving at noon for his home. Mrs. M. Andrews and daughter, Daisy, of Monroe have returned to their home after being in the city for a short time this morning. Mrs. Sadie Cowley has recovered from a several days’ Illness and was able to be at the Steele & Weaver racket store again today. Mrs. Daisy Ballenger, a milliner of several years’ experience, will begin work at the Mrs. Burdg millinery store the first of next week. Mrs. Scott Bockover of Ripley, Ohio, left today noon for her home after a pleasant visit in the city with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Blackburn. Fred Reppert of Adams county and Arlie Frye of this county have been awarded a road contract In Huntington county.—Bluffton Banner. Many people from the country were in the city today to attend the GelmerBentz wedding, which occurred at the Catholic church at 9 o’clock. Roy Wolford, rural mail carrier, is on the sick list and was off duty today. His substitute, J. C. Magley, of Monmouth, served in his place.

ATTENTION! ■HIII LIH.il. • —Will -HUI EVERYBODY ■ Bw I® ... VIf you are going to have a sale remember the General Auctioneer who always gets the top price for your property. I make sales of any kind. Call on or write me for dates. JOHN SINGLETON ’Phone No. 6-R line. Decatur, Ind.

BANK DECATUR, INDIANA 4‘ Interest per annum Paid on Certificates left 12 Months. '""3 %' ' interest per annum Paid on Certificates left 6 Months. - DIRECTORS P. W. Smith 1 6. Sehmiti W. A. Kuebler C. A Dugan , r-- - D. Spr«i«g I E. C. Bleelce M. F. Rice *’ CAPITAL $ 1 O 0,00 0.0 0

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