Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1911 — Page 3

The Better The Grade The Bigger The Trade Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

| WEATHER FORECAST I * -•0*0*0*0 « 0«0<0*0*040»oS Unsettled; local showers tonight or Thursday; warmer Thursday. Miss Mamie Teeple went to Fort Wayne thia morning. William Sheler has returned from a business trip to Berne. Jesse Niblick was teasing the finny tribe at Rome City today. Mrs. Glen Glancy of Monroe was a shopper in this city this morning. William Weiland of West Monroe street is ill, requiring the services of a physician. Paul Reinking, who was a business caller at Portland this morning, has returned home. Hunter Myers has gone to Portland and Muncie to look after business matters for a few days. Mrs. Mitchell Page and sons. Harold and Edwin, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus returned to Paulding, Ohio, yesterday, where they will reside in the future. Mrs. V. Leach returned last evening to Fort Wayne after a few days’ visit with Mrs. Bella Johnson. Painters are at work on the John Brock residence on Monroe street, which is being renewed in a very pleasing way.

✓ <7T Banking service is not an expensive luxury, WJ Some of the greatest services we perform cost our clients absolutely nothing. “ 77 The individual needs this bank to help Banking make his income go farther, and to Service turn some of it into a permanent asset The small business man needs this bank’s help to make his business grow. This bank is here to serve all the people, and its officers]will be glad to talk to”any having need of banking service. FIRST NATIONAL BANK'OF DECATUR CAPITAL SIOO,OOO. flOffi O B O B O B O 80800808080808080808 1 J S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, g 2 ° ■ ■5 O ■ S ■ The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- £ O lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ ■ farms. The company would be pleased to have B ► vou call at its office and see its offerings. The com- g * nanv has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ O EH terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract ■ JJ Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty H 2 years experience, complete records. O O g The Bowers Realty Go. 2 French Quinn, Secty. O 3®OBOBOBOBOBOB*OBOBO«OBa*OBO

Susie and Celia Mayer were Fort Wayne visitors today. Joe Berling arrived in the city from ( I a short business stay in Bluffton yesterday. Charles Nyphler of south of the city was among the business callers in the city today. Miss Vera Purdy of Bluffton is here for a visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Purdy. Dr. Finch of Portland arrived in the city this morning and was looking after his regular line of business during the day. Mrs. Godfrey Kurt of Monmouth returned home yesterday afternoon afternoon after visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Hill. Miss Rose Smith returned Monday night from Brunswick, Georgia, where she has been serving the past year as | supervisor of music in the schools. Mesdames J. T. Baucher and J. Hof-' stetter of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here yesterday afternoon on their way to Fort Wayne. The Rev. H. G. Gleiker of Watseka, 111., was here to attend the ordination and installation of his son. the Rev. William H. Gletser, as pastor of the ' Presbyterian church, last evening. The H. B. L. ladies of Washington church, four miles southwest of the ( city, are arranging to hrtd an ice cream social next Saturday night on ■ the church lawn. A good time is assured ail who attend.

Marion Oliver of Monroe was here today on business. Bruce Patterson was a business caller at Monroe this afternoon. Mrs. Ves Vents returned this afternoon to her home in Hoagland. John Steele went to Fort Wayne to be the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Wilson Miller. T. L. Reed of Portland has returned home after being a business caller here this morning. Miss Clara Llnnemeier, who has been visiting at her home at Preble, returned this morning to Fort Wayne. John McKean of Linn Grove ras returned to his home, having been a business caller In the city this morn i ing. I Mrs. C. M. Myers returned this ! morning to Celina, Ohio, after a visit i with her mother, Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp. John McKain of Linn Grove was among the business callers in the city this morning, returning to his home at noon. | Bernice Rowe of Portland has - returned to her home, having been the guest of Miss Naomi Dugan for several days. 1 John E. Deam of Willshire transfer red here this noon on his way to Richmond to look after some business matters. Miss Frances Thomas of Monroe, who has been making a visit at the John Starost home, returned today to her home. Mrs. Clifford Lee will be hostess to the Evangelical Ladies' Aid society ■ Thursday afternoon. A good attendance is desired. Mrs. Ed Ahr and her mother, Mrs. B. P. Harkless and Miss Permilia Mumma went to Fort Wayne this | morning to spend the day. Mrs. Edward Harting and Miss Mary Heckman left this morning tor Rome City, where they will spend a week or so at. that summer resort. George Wood of Trumbull county, Ohio, was here yesterday to take treatment for his eyes and will re--1 main a few days longer, the guest of relatives. ’ ' Miss Agnes Meibers. who lias been | ill, returned to her work at stenog- ' | rapher for the Peterson & Moran law 1 firm, after a half day’s absence on a< - 1 yount of illness. The Misses Margaret Runyan. Jane . Meriwether, Cecil Bradshaw and Mart garet Gross will return this evening ■ from a farm near Decatur, where they * have been spending a short time. —Ft. I Wayne News. l > Mrs. Jacob Tester and her sister. . Mrs. Samuel Foudray, of Waverly, Ky., > left this morning for Liberty Center, i i Henry county - , Ohio, for a visit with - the former's mother-in-law. Mrs. Geo. Tester, and with their sister, Mrs. F. W. Rhoades. Mrs. Mary Sutllef went to Berne to visit with relatives and to make arrangements relative to her going to Battle Creek, Mich., for a several months' stay for her declining health. ! where she was advised would prove to be of much benefit to her. ! Rev. Ferguson, moderator of th' Ft. ; Wayne presbytery, who presided over ' and delivered the sermon at the instali lation and ordination of the Rev. Wil- ! liam H. Gleiser at, the Presbyterian | church Tuesday evening, left this I morning for his home at Lima, Ind. Rev. and Mrs Wehmeyer and son, George, went to Fort Wayne this morning and this evening will attend i ’he concert to be given by the Orpheus Glee club of the Concordia Seminary of St. Louis. The program wifi be one of rare make-up, and many will be in attendance to listen to the musical notes of interest. Jesse Ernsberger of Celina. Ohio, made a business trip here this afterI noon. He was accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elzey and granddaughter. .Mildred, and Miss Hazel Lenhart, who will make a visit there until Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Elzey's son, Irvin Elzey, and family. Irvin Elzey’s daughter. Mildred, had been visiting here some time with her grandparents. A. A. Feller, state agent for the J. I. Case Plow works, stated that he struck a wrong day for business this morning when he called at the Schaub I & Gottemoller hardware store, and was told that the proprietor had just become a benedict and was unable to carry on his business today. However, he excused him this time, but was invited to the wedding, which, he says, will suffice for this time. Mrs. P. E. Miehls went to Decatur last Friday to visit friends and relatives and celebrate her birthday anniversary, and found a bunch of her friends had gathered to drive to Monroeville, having planned to surprise her. The visiting friends were Mrs. John Hill, Gaylie Nelson, Bertha Dean, Bertha Tricker, Velma Lenhart, Lucy and Blanch McCrory, James Dean, Ben Hoagland, Lester Baughman and Ernest Wlsnor.—Fort Wayne News.

CLOTHES COMFORT ff dll IIIBiBmiW 1 . a „ " ' . . ' 18 our consi deration in buy1 ins a PP are l at this time of the /'ffl / " year,for by trading at store J it; i3n fc necessar ? t 0 sacrifice appearance to attain it. - Ml x we have ever y thin £ the d res ' sed man could desire from the standE Hip point of appearance and comfort. We don’t favor one from the other■Br WV they go hand in hand with the hot ■II/ mJ weather clothing we sell. VANCE, HITE & MACKLIN w Corner East Os Court House.

APPLICATION GRANTED. ' Martha Buffenbarjer Recommended For Admission. ■I ■ But twelve marriage licenses issued, thus far this month —and only two: more days left for Cupid in which to | get busy. There is a chance, however, I for this month to exceed June of last | year, as only twelve were issued in June of 1910. The average number in June of years before in Adams county was twenty-eight or thirty. The hearing of the application of Alice Jeffrey, for the commitment of, her daughter, Martha A. Buffenbarger,' to the feeble-minded school in Foit - * Wayne, took place this morning be- . fore Judge Merryman, the defendant ' appearing in person. The defendant j ' was adjudged feeble-minded and a: I proper subject for admission to the : school for feeble minded .i Real estate transfers: Frank M. , Schirmeyer, trustee, to William .1. Myers, lot 74, Decatur, $225. J HUMAN TROMBONE. Prof. Herr. Carl Hanff of Berlin, , Germany, will give a vaudeville per- ’ formance at the Star theater tonight. 1 imitating the trombone by means of ', his lips only. Among the selections ‘ | he will render will be the Holy City | and II Trovatore, etc. He will only ■ make one appearance here, tonight, at •' the same admission. He is the only - known person who imitates the instru- - ment correctly. i o i President Taft will speak at the soldiers' home at Marion Monday afternoon and many from here will probab- ’ ly hear the distinguished gentleman. ’ He goes from thereto Indianapolis, where he will be a guest the Fourth. , ' While working on his farm this i morning Elias Crist had the mlsfortune of inflicting upon himself a pain- , ful injury, when a penknife, with , which he was working, slipped and ent a deep gash tn his wrist. ’! The funeral of John Aschbaucher of Bluffton, well known here, whose death occurred at Bluffton Tuesday | noon, will be held Thursday morning ’ ’ at 10 o'clock at the Reformed church. The deceased was sixty-four years old. i The various committees of the i ! Great Northern fair will get busy I soon. They are arranging for various kinds of advertising and the noise j that, will tell every one when and row, will soon be on. This year’s fair 1 should be the biggest and best ever, j The Red Men will hold their regular meeting tonight in the lodge room , and the degree will be conferred on | two candidates. This lodge is having . few meetings that no degree work is , given and great interest is being ma® ifested by the members of the order in getting the young men into the order. Mrs. L. G. Ellingham and children. Miss Winifred and Master Miller, wiil leave Indianapolis Sunday night for Bay View, where they will remain during July and August, thetrip north being necessary on account of Miss Win ifred’s health, which, while improved. Is not as good as before her recent illness. O " " LOST—A <rmall purse containing about eight dollars. Return to Mrs. I C. A. Dugan. 152t3

I The merchants have agreed on the movement to close their places of business on tsa Fourth of July and to take a day of rest, to which they think they are justly entitled. 1 * - - ’ ....~ * —

fl- 4 i"•» Srtwrf* * All Shur-ons Are Not Alike any more than all hats are alike or all shoes are alike. The “Atlas” is the best of all the Shur-On mountings, and we have the EXCLUSIVE agency. The low bridge and the “trouble proof” springs render them attractive, secure and comfortable, No charges for examination Glasses From $1.50 Up. Jr Hotel Comer FORTT WCfNE.IND :ARE YOU INF ♦ * ’♦ NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSIST- ♦ ♦ ANCE? ♦ ♦ 4 If so, why not call on us? WE 4 4 loan money on your household * 4 goods, pianos, horses, wagons, 4 0 fixtures, etc. YOU can have 4 4 from one to twelve months’ 4 4 time in which to pay it back. 4 4 OUR contracts are simple and 4 ♦ all transactions are clean-cut ♦ ♦ and private. * ' 1 * 84 cents per week for 50 I ♦ weeks pays a $35.0(1 loan. All 4 4 amounts in proportion. 4 1 ♦ If you need money, fill out ♦ ♦ the following blank, cut. it out ♦ 4 and mail it to us. Our agent is *l| , in Decatur every Tuesday. / ♦ ♦ Name - 4 ♦ Address St. & Ne 4 ♦ Amount Wanted 4 ♦ Reliable Private ♦ H. Wayne Loan Company ♦ 4 Established 1896. Room" 2, 4 Second Floor, 706 Calhoun St., * 1 4 Home 'Phone, 833. ♦ ♦ Fort Wayne, Ind 4 ♦

r — DON’T PUT . '-~S YOUR FOOT IN IT! In Your Search FOR Stylish And Comfortable footwear, j I I Don’t put your feet into shoes Unless mads by a Reliable Maker. Se’ect those having an Established Reputation for Style, Comfort and Service, and see that they are fitted to your feet with care. Such Shoes Will Give You Satisfaction. NO OTHERS WILL! YOU GET SUCH SHOES AT ELZEY & FALK OPP. COURT HOUSE I FORD TOURING 4,73() I CAR._... '"r g Or Without Equipment S7OO | H [Prices F. 0.8. Detroit] ■ 0 Ford Cars are Equal and Ofttimes superior to Cara g It costing S3OO to S4OO More H rs L, - I FORI) ■ s $ ■ 1 Vlll/ louring Car 700 ■ ■ (Prices F. 0.8. Detroit) ■ ■ Equipment consisting of top, wind,‘shield, gas B S lamps fitted with-electric light and trip speedome- g H ter, only SBO. extra. || I SCHUG, METTLER CO. I ■ BERNE, INDIANA 1