Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1911 — Page 3

A (Good Cool Lightweight Shoe ...forordirary wear is an cutting shoe. We have them in black and green leathers made with the tip running up to the lace opening, no seam iat the sides. We have four grades. Buckskin $1.50, Grain Elk $2.00 and $2.50, American Boy at $3.00 Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seiler

; WEATHER FORECAST I *o«omomo«o ♦ o*o*o*o*o*o*o® Fair and cantinaed warmer tonight and Saturday. V. S. Drummond. the'Pleasant Mills mei'«*hant, was hets on business today. Mrs. C. A. Stsebe and daughter, Mildred, went to Fort Wayne to spend the day with friends. Forest Helm was at Portland this morning, having gone to attend to tome business affairs. , Wild* Watts made a business trip to Geneva this rooming to look after some business for :a ■Short while. Miss Esther Moeschberger of Berne, who has been visiting here with friends, left this morning for her home. Mm. William Sheler has returned from a week’s stay at Anderson, where she has been attending the camp meeting of the Church of God. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Andrews of Muncie, who have been making a visit here with their son, P. L. Andrews, and family left today for their home. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cook, Mrs. George daughter of Monro* have gone t© Anderson tto he in attendance at the camp meeting'*ftthe {’hunch of God.

Iz -X UR ASSURANCE of quality I I stands behind every purchase g - 7 made here. We do not mis- g represent things. We do not sell ■ second qualities. Every purchase ; made here must be satisfactory, I we’ll gladly correct any that are I not. We call special attention to I our screen doors, screen wire, win- I dow frames etc. The doors are i I strong well made, have mortised I joints and are neatly finished. SCHAFER HARDWARE CO. I We Save You Money * ioa Oil o «O ■OBO*O0«01OBO«OBO*OaOB 8 J. S. Bowen. Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Via- Free. ■ S “ o ■ 8 , 5 2 The Bowers Realty Company has some excelw harcrains in city property ana Adams county * ■ g Thei cornSiy /ould be pleased to have g 1 officTand see its offerings. The com- g ■ nlentv of five per cent money to loan on ■ 2 y X"X tltk ’ 5 2 S ■ o ? The Bowers Realty Co. ■ W French Quinn, Secty. g

Mrs. Sarah Mercer of Hoagland is visiting here with friends. E. W. Johnson of Monroe was here today, looking after some business afffairs. Miss Jean Lutz attended the state Sunday school convention at Fort Wayne today. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gulick went to Fort Wayne today to attend the Sunday school convention. Stella Thomas of Monroe was among the large number in the city today attending the county commencement. Leo Yager arrived home today from, his regular trip and will spend Sunday here with his brothers and sister. The children of the Baptist church will hold their Children’s Day exercises tomorrow evening at the usual preaching hour. Miss Gertrude Moses has returned from Chicago, where she spent several weeks, taking treatment from a specialist for rheumatism. Mrs. August Johnson and children left today for South Bend, Ind., to make a several weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hagqust. B. E. Van Camp, who Is working at Elkhart and who spent a short while here with his family left today for his place of business. He is connected with a lighting company at that place.

J. 8 Lower was a Fort Wayne business visitor today. Chris Strebe was a business caller at Fort Wayne today. John Klracofe will go to Wren this evening to spend Sunday with his parents. Mrs. Lena Yager was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. John C. Moran, Friday. Miss Blanche Harshbarger returned yesterday to her home in Columbia City. William Reynolds, formerly a resident of this city, is here visiting with 1 his old friends. Maude Cowley of Fort Wayne is visiting with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Weaver. Carl and Eva Brokaw of Fort Wayne | are guests of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Brokaw. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leichty of ( Berne, who were shoppers here yesterday, have returned home. Ed Vancil is home from Fort Wayne where he was looking after some business affairs during the day. Bernardine Heidemann left this morning for Fort Wayne to be the guest of friends for a day or so. Ren Beavers returned home from Crawfordsville, Ind., where he has been attending college during the past year. Albert Gessinger went to Fort Wayne this morning for a week’s visit with his sister, Mrs. Chauncey Lhamod. Ed Gehris and Fred Geiseley of Wren, who were business callers here yesterday, have returned to their homes. Miss Clara McChristen of Fort Wayne is in the city making a visit with Miss Anna Clark and other friends. Cherries are coming in early. J. C. Patterson has been notified that the cherry market will open the first of next week. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Syphers of Berne, who have been in the city for a visit with their son, J. W. Merriman, left yesterday for their home. Scarcely two weeks of school remain for the St. Joseph Catholic schools. The annua! commencement win be held Thursday, June 22nd. M. E. Brackett of the Ward Fence company, is still in the east looking after business matters r» the interest of the Decatur Motor Car company. Miss Reba Quinn returned to her home in Decatur this morning after visiting here for several days as the guest of Miss Margarrt Todd. —Portland Sun. The Misses Vera Meyers and Frances Butler will spend Sunday in Fort Wayne. They will call on Miss Irene Meyers, who is in the nurse’s'training school rn Hope Hospital. Rev. D. O. Wise has returned from Fort Wayne, where he has been in attendance at the state Sunday school convention which is in session there and win continue until Sunday evening. Ralph Merriman of Fort Wayne, who was here for a visit with his parents, Mr- and Mrs. J. W. Merriman,' returned yesterday afternoon to his home, where he is employed as a tdleg rapher. Mrs. W. A. Foltz and Mrs. Peat! . Steine of Collett, who have been in attendance at the Sunday school conven- ' tion which has been Hi session at Elgin, Ohio, transferred here yesterday ! on their way home. Mrs. Mary Congleton and grandson, Winfield Maddy, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Bert Owen, of Nebraska, left yesterday for Muncie, where they will remain over Sunday with friends. William Hale and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Throp and Mrs. Zea Briggs of Geneva spent Thursday evening in ( Bluffton visiting with Ervin Thorp arid family and with other relatives. The party made the trip by automobile^—Portland Sun. Miss Georgia Diller went to Foil Wayne yesterday afternoon, where 1 she wTfl spend several weeks with her . cousin. Mrs. Ben Hili, while her aunt, j Mrs. Margaret lx>utha», arrived yerterday afternoon for a three weeks ; stay here, during which time she will take treatment for stomach trouble. Mrs. E. H. Shoemaker and daughter, Gretel, and their house guests, the Misses Edith Dysinger and Inez Shaw, together with Miss Mary Baker, spent the day In Fort Wayne. From there the Misses Dysinger and Shaw went to Warren, then to Marion for a visit after which they will continue their trip east for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ehreshman of Rivarre went to Fort Wayne yester-j day afternoon, where Mrs. Ehreshman will continue treatment for spinal.trouble: They will remain until Monday, but Mrs. Ehreshman will make regular trips to Fort Wayne every other day for a while, where she will receive | medical treatment. She has been a sufferer for many months from this trouble.

THE FIFTH ANNUAL CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE mine “What am I good for?" and then develop themselves along those lines He then turned from the graduates to those in the audience—or those who have dropped out before they reached the goal of the others. He gave an eloquent plea for genius that might have fallen by the wayside, perhaps from want of encouragement, or because of failure, perhaps in one branch or line. He stated that because one had failed in one thing did not prove that he was a failure in all, and he ’j;c at out the I statement that sell; .It S’o learning .more and more tn de.e'oy !•’'» students along the 'in r s to which they ire best adapted—. st as the houpewi e gives to one kind of plant more or less sun- | shine, water or other things that it individually requires. At the Mendon (Mich.) commencement thic year, he ' cited the case of a twenty-three-year-o’.d toy graduate, who had worked hir.sc’..’ through difficulties, but who says he is determined yet to graduate frem the state agricultural school. He trough up Darwin. Emerecn, Lowell, Si encer, and others, who in youth were thought to possess less than ordinary intelligence but who develop'ed into leaders in their departments. He emphasized the value of work, and the application of thought. His address was a masterly one, teeming with good, practical thoughts, and abounding in practical illustrations, with here and there a flash of humor and wit. i The presentation of diplomas was made by Superintendent Ira B. Potts of Huntington county, who prefaced this act with an excellent speech, and after more music by the Dudley Buck Male quartet of Fort Wayne, the commencement closed with the benediction by the Rev. R. L. Semans, pastor of the M. E. church. The class this year is one of the brightest and most promising that has gone ont from the doors of the county schools, making a good showing for the excellent work of Mr. Opliger and his able assistants, the teachers The class comprises the fdllowtng: Graduates. Union —Sylvia Beatty, Vernon M. Brodbcck, Roland Bailey, Nellie G. Barkley, Lucile Fleming, 11 ilma Freck, i Harry Magner, Lele I. Shafer, Nellie Wolfia. Edna Welty. ! Root—Harold A. Cline, Edwin Babbitt, Iva Mirian Spangler, Bessie Wilder. | Preble — Otto Dilling. Albert 1 Fruechte, Curtis Grandstaff. Edward Jaberg, Otto Kreutzman, William Kreutzman, Esther E. Koch. Ernst Worthmann Kirkland—Frank Arnold, Grace ‘ Driver, Mary Ehlerding, Irvin G6ldner, Olga HoutJk. Floyd Longenbarger. Marie Smith, Allen Stalter, Hazel . Tumbleson. I Washington—Merle Coppock, Har-j-.vey Everett, Otto W. Hoffman, Joe | Heimann, Ralph Miller. Naomi Poling. I Genevieve Spuller, Ruby Wynn. St. Mary's—Forest Bunner, Abbie Bigham, Wilma Dailey, Clarence Davis, Nellie Helm, Goldie Helm, Ha? • land Heath, Helen Johnson, Arnold i Stults, Ethel Tague. Paris Vizard. Blue Creek—Manola Bryan, Bertha ' Burnett, Charles Foreman, Beryl Lha- * mon, Earl Ripley, Minnie Tricker. Ha ;zel Davis. Monroe — Martin Husche. Clifton i Duer, Samuel Fluckiger. Edward Hendricks, Ella Habegger, Bryan Hendricks, Howard Keller, Frances Kessler. Gertrude Lehman. Henry E. Lehman, Edna Mock, Walter Michaud. Noah N. Soldner, C. A. Shirk, Lulu < . Stuckey, Noah X. Sprimger. Homer Winteregg, Lessie Watkins. French —Esther V. Roth, Ada Schindler. | Hartford—lda Blocher, Cleo Dunbar. Harold Engle, By rati Hart, Frantie Heller. l*red Heller, Claude Kiosk?!, Aha Miller, Ottie Moyer, Dora NeTle Michael, Fred A. Reffe. Hugh Rimyon, Vearl Runyon, Kenneth Reiff. M. Shanks, John A. WBson, Raymond Yoder. | Wabash—Tilman Amstutz, Bertha . Baumgartner, Opal Cole, Bessie Fish- ■ e r, Katie Fravel. Daisy Kaulfmann, Georgia Longenecker, Ray McCullum.! Nora E. Mettler, Frieda Maurer. Ray ' Mann. Edandr Pickett, Brayton Pyle. Milton SprtHtger. Metta Sprunger, Edward St«it Zephthah Zuercher. Jefferson—Edward Blosser, Horace Caffee, Iva Irwin, Nelly Kerr, Mary A. Laughlin, Adda Ketchum, Cleo Rumple, Mary Scoles. Berne —Ruth Kattman, Gilbert Hirschey, Beatrice Hanis, Edna Neaderbouser, Paul Frederick Rohrer, Ora Wechter. Geneva—lna Bolds, Ruth Dickerson. Clyde Good, Pearl Gaylor, Pauline Greene, Metta Haviland, Inez Pyle, Olive Shimp, Ralph Waldo, Isabel Weeks. Decatur —Samuel Baumgartner. Miss Effie Miller went to Wrer.. where she will spend the week with friends.

AT I True J Runyons A few specials will be found this week 1 Lot Os White Dresses At 1-2 Off on our Bargain counter a White waists $1.50 $1.25 SI.OO now .69 Whitejpetticoats.49 Colored; Waists.so We have SPECIAL prices on all Silk waists > Have you looked our Lawn dresses over-They are just what you want for this warm weather. There are many other good things not mentioned. We Will Be Pleased To Show You THROUGH TRUE AND RUNYON

Attorney R. H. Hartford of Portland was here today on business. SANK STATEMENT. Report of the condition of the First National Bank, at Decatur, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business. •June J, 1-9111; Resources. i Loans and discountss’47,9ll.Bs I Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 2,153.98 U. S. bonds to secure circulation .. 50,000.00 Premiums on U. S. bonds . .. 500.0 Bonds, securities, etc. .... 28,016.00 Banking house, furniture and fixtures 7,500.00 'Other real estate owned... 5,000.00 Due from National banks (not reserve agents) .— 36,035.83 Due from approved reserve agents 73,361.28 ■Checks and other cash items 1,072.14 Notes of other National banks 3,618.00 Fractional paper currency, nickles and cents 371.86 Lawful money reserve in bank, vis: Specie — ■ ■ $29,£79.60 Legal-tender notes 6,770.00 36,449.6') Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per octst circulation ) 2500.)),' Total $793,889.9 Liabilities. Capital stock paid in$.100,000.(It Surplus fund zt),000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid.... 4,980.68 National banking notes outstanding <0,990.09 Due to State and private banks and banters 38.175.9 t; Individual deposits sublet to ' check 184,848.42 Demand oertlficates of deposit 387,581.98 Certified checks 800.00 611,409.36 Bonds' borrowed 7.’00.00 Total $793,883.94 State of Indiana, bounty of Adams, ss: I, C. A. Dugan, cannier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to thbest of n.v knowledge and belief. C. A. DUGAN, Cashier. Subscri' cd and sworn to before me. 10th day of June. 1911. ANTHONY CONTER, Notary Public. My commission expires October 4 1913. COP.REC ” -Attest: DAN.EL SPRANG, DYONIS SCHMITT. W. A. KUEBtER, Directors.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given by the School Board of the City of Decatur, Indiana, that they will receive sealed bids for repair of the Central schotW building in said city up to seven o’clock, p. m., Friday, June 16, 1911,

■ ELECTRIC WIRING |- B Bicycle Repairing » — ■I M 2 I am now prepared to wire your “ " house or do all other electrical ® ■ work. Also al) kinds of bicycle ■ fixing. H 2 ED PARENT Prop. ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

■—■■■lll ■MIIIW tg?r fjl ! THE HOME OF IX. i Groceries ■ k—“ " GOOD GROCERIES fcj GO TO THE RIGHT SPOT Fr - 7k- EVERY TIME This Is Spot TO GO TO Every Time, For Good Groceries Those large’Ripe, Sound Pineapples for canning are heie at 5>2.95 per case, or $1,20 a doz. Now is the time to can them, price is right and. quality could be no belter. Old Potatoes at 35c a bu. New Potatoes at 40c a r k. Ho war and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108.

according to plans and specifications on file with the secretary. A certified check for S2OO must accompany each bid, conditioned that the bidder will enter into contract and bond if awarded said contract. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. A. H. SELLEMEYET, FRED V. MILLS, O. L. VANCE, School Board, City of Decatu 1312wks e-o-d gas consumers . No Discount after the 10ta.. Please cal) at office. Indiana Lighting Company.