Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1911 — Page 3

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-G</O*<XG*O*O4K) ♦ G*0*0«0*04l j WEATHER FORECAST I t i «o«o«o«o ♦ o*o*o*o*o»o»oi Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Will Colcbin was a Fort Wayne vis itor today. John Koenig of St. Mary's, 0., was here on business. .Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner of Linn . Grove is visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Huser of Monroe township spent the day in Fort Wayne. Crist Strebe was looking after I some business south of the city today. Mrs. Ella Patterson arrived yesterday afternoon from Logansport for a visit with Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Coverdale. Miss Frances Durbin returned yesterday afternoon to Plymouth after a visit here with her aunt, Mrs. P. C. Laurent.

Old A'dam s County Bank Decatur, Indiana. | Capital $128,000 ’ £ Surplus . $30,000 »i •*■-— C. S. Niblick, President M. Kirsch and John Niblick Vice Presidents "~* E. X. Ehinger, Cashier. sSEsI A- - ~ n«a/i farm loans i i£bS *'C3(I a Specialty R?f|cd Resolve Col^ ons r Little Drops Os water I ■ able Rates. E Little Grains of Sand I ~ i m AccomodaDollars Saved lo tionConYour Bank Account with safe . Banking Mav Purchase Methods J Extended ACRES OF LAND! To»» We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on 1 Year Time Deposits 808 O 80808 O 80800808080808080808 8 J. S. Bowen, Pres.' F. M. Sehirmeyer, Vice Pree. ■ I I i i " ■ ' « The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- £' ? lent bargains in city propertv and Adams < county ■ ■ farms The company would be pleased to have g O vou call at itsoffice and see its offerings. The com- < • ianv has nlentv of five per cent money to loan on ■ 0 HSw Let the Sehirmeyer Abstract g 5 Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty years experience, complete records. O ■ i £ The Bowers Realty Go. ■ 8 French Quinn, Secty. O (L o■o■ O■ o 1O«O«OB o •-J« o■ C *o*o

I S. E. Brown was a Fort Wayne bus ! j iness visitor today. Mrs. J. M. Robinson went to Fort j Wayne for the day. P. K. Kinney has returned from .1 business trip to Geneva. F. V. Mill sand daughter, Victoria. I j went to Fort Wayne this morning. William Lepper went to Woodburn , this morning to visit with bis sister, ' Mrs. Rhoemer. Grover Long left this morning for \ Fort Wayne, thence to his home in I .Monroeville. P. K. Kinney, who was at Geneva ' this morning, returned home on the afternoon train. Mrs. D. H. Miller returned yester day afternoon to Greenville, Ohio, ait era visit with her daughter. Mrs. Will . 1 Butler. Schug and Mettler, the auto met- ’ chants of Berne, who were business 1 callers in the city, have returned to their home. ( John Hey went to Hamilton, Ohio, j and Indianapolis today to be absent | for several days, looking after some business matters.

Hamuel Beckner went to Fort Wayne this morning. C. C. Schug of Berne was a business visitor here yesterday. John Frisinger is home from a business trip to Fort Wayne. Gilbert Strickler was a Portland business caller this morning. The children of Jonas Fisher are recovering from the chicken pox. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Durkin spent the day in Fort Wayne, going to attend the Ringling Bros.’ show. Mrs. Fred Schaffer has returned home from Auburn, where she visited with friends for several days. Carrie and Ireta Stewart of near Wren. Ohio, left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne for a visit Miss Margaret Mills has returned i from a week’s visit with her uncle, J. A. Mills, and family, in Chicago. Misses Rosa Martin, Loretta Harkenrider entertained the S. S. M. C. club Wednesday evening.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette. The Misses Naomi and Verena Niblick and their guest. Miss Nellie Kundert, of Delphos, Ohio, spent the day j in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Samuel Rowe and daughter, Charlotte, returned yesterday to Bluffton after a visit here with her aunt, , Mrs. L. C. Miller. Today Ringling Bros, circus is 1 showing in Fort Wayne and a number | of people from this city were there to I witness the performance. Joe Mersch and Martin Roatan of Cincinnati arrived in the city last ev- , ening and were guests at the W. H. Harting home. From here they left for Berne this morning, where they attended to their regular line of busi iness. Mrs. Mary Crawford and son. Leon, and her sister. Mrs. Julius Spies, and daughter, Helen, of Cleveland, will ; leave Sunday for Rome City, where they will join Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuehler in a two weeks' stay at the cottage. , Miss Emma .Smith, sister of Mrs. i Samuel Doak of this city, is very sick I in a hospital in Piqua. Ohio, where she was operated upon recently, and Mrs. Doak is preparing to go tb be at her bedside. Miss Smith has often vis- | ited here and is very well known. The Misses Ruth and Dorothy ReyI nolds of Asheville, N. C., are visiting here with their grandmother. Mrs. Victoria Hill, and their uncle, Fred V Mills, and family. 'Tttey came here from Joliet. 111., where they had been visiting. Paul Jones of Portland was in the city this morning attending to some business affairs and this afternoon left for Chicago, where he will look after business matters there. He is employed by the Aetna Powder company, with headquarters in the Tribune building. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Mcs. Sarah McCrory at Van Wert. Ohio, was very largely attended and an excellent sermon delivered by the minister of the English Lutheran church. Very many floral tributes conveyed in a partial measure the esteem in which this lady was held. The band concert of last evening was interesting and listened to by many people and the rendition of the evening was one of the best ever. The ' boys are getting in the right shape for ; the giving of good music and expect . to become still better in the elapse of , time. The annual reunion of the Erwin families will be held Sunday at the 1 old homestead, the home of Richard K. Erwin, sr , five miles east of Fort Wayne. Baron Erwin of Kongman, Kan., arrived here yesterday and is visiting with .large Richard K. Erwin. 1 jr., until Sunday.—Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette. 1 C. A. Duckett returned yesterday afternoon to his home in South Whit-, ley. Mr. Duckett is a mason who has j ■ been enployed on the new Monmouth schoolhouse, but he became 111 and ■ was obliged to return home. There is ■ enough brick on bands for the basement part of the school, but the stipI ply for the other part of the build- ! ing has been delayed. The latest report from Muncie regarding the condition of Mrs. Frank .Mann is that she is holding her own, ; but is still in a serious condition. AlJ though the twenty-one days required i for the fever to run its course have I passed, there was no break, and the high temperature wilt have to be worn off from day to day, which may perhaps last another week or ten days. Grandma Gaffer of Fort Wayne, who j 1 has been visiting with her son, Peter Gaffer, and family, will return to Ft. Wayne next week. Grandma is nine-ty-two years of age, but is nearly as spry as ever, and this morning at 8 o’clock, bright and early, was down town. The only thing that makes her think she is not so young as ever is that her eyes-sight is not so good. Mfr. and Mrs. Charles Tester of Caney, Kans., are guests of his brother, Jacob Tester, and family.

Mr*. Am McMillen of Pleasant Mill* wm here today. Frank Kern of Fort Wayne wa* In the city this morning transacting in surance business. The C. V. Connell family returned today from Rome City after a month’s stay at the lake, , Dan Niblick is completing the new cement walk at hi* home, which was started last week. Paul Kendall of Willshire was here today, looking up friends and attending to business affairs. Frank Gass was among the many who went to Fort Wayne this morning to transact business. A. Bovine of Honduras was in the city attending to some business which . required his attention for a short ■ while. John Kelly of Geneva was in the city this morning looking after some business affairs which required his a' tention for a short while. Professor Wlthaus of Berne return ed to his home at noon, transferring here on his way from Willshire, where he had been on business. EAST BUFFALO. East Buffalo, N. Y., July 21—(Spec1 ial to Daily Democrat) —Receipt*, 5.600; shipments, 1.140; official to New York yesterday, 380; hogs closing steady. Mixed, medium and heavy. $7.15® ■ $7.25; Yorkers, $7.15<a57.25; pigs ana lights, $6.75® $6.90; roughs, $6.00, and 'stags, $4.25®>55.35; sheep, 3.000. steady; lambs, 25c lower; tops, $7.25; ! cattle, 250; marekt, 10c higher; tops. | | $6.60. G. T. BURK. . Timothy seed, prime ... .$4.00®55.0c | No. 2 Red wheat 78< No. 2 White wheat 76<- ' New corn 88c White core 86< I ' Rye 68<-j i Barley, No. 2 60c j Alsike seed $6.75 | Oats, new !. 40c 1 ■ No. 1 clover hay .’’ slO,llO . Timothy hay sl4©s!t-1 No. 1 mixed hay [email protected] Mixed clover hay slo@sl 1 No. l oats straw [email protected] No. 1 wheat straw $3.00 Rye straw s4@ssj M. - ULLtNkXM’’* Lard 7c I Eggs lie: Butter 15c@22c 1 M’BJL.O..* a Ct. Eggs lie Butter 12c@17c LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET. Spring chickens 10c Ducks 8c Fowls 8c Geese c 5 Eggs 12c ‘ Butter 12c Turkeys .' 8c Old roosters 5c o — NOTICE TO CITIZENS OF DECATUR The following information to the public was endorsed by the comrades of Sam Henry Post, No. 63, at their regular meeting July 20, 1911- The impression and understanding of 1 great number of Decatur citizens that Robert Blackburn is a member of San: Henry Post, No. 63. is an error. Mr Blackburn is not a member of this ' post, he having asked for and received a discharge November 15; 1902. The comrades kindly ask the Daily Herald and Daily Democrat to publish the above notice. T. W. MALONEE. Sea. Vice Com. T. R. MOORE, Adjt.

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SWORN AFFIDAVIT. — Decatur, Ind., July 19, 1911. State of Indiana, Adams County, as: Personally appeared Dyonis Schmitt, Willram F. Butler, Fred Schelmann, Charles Bleeke, who being first duly sworn, ujton oaths, declare as follows, to-wit: Notice to the Citizen* of Decatur and Surrounding Territory: Having been accused of buying deceased or lump-jawed cattle, or socalled, and butchering them, and selling the meat to my customers, this, I ' wish to state, is untrue, and without foundation, as 1 am clearly showing b\ the annexed affidavit and their signi . 1 tines. DYONIS SCHMIDT. W. F. BUTLER. FRED SCEIMANN. CHAS. BLEEKE Subscribed and sworn to before m< ; this 19th day of July, 1911. JUDSON W. TEEPLE, Mayor of the ! City of Decatur. DR. H. E. KELLER, Secretary of the City Board of Health. FRANK PETERSON, City Marshal. In conclusion to the above, I will state that during the twenty or more years of business career among my , j friends and the people of Decatur, J will meet and disprove any unlawful ] harmful or dishonorable act or charge 1 pertaining to my business transactions ] Yours very truly, ’ 169t3 DYONIS SCHMIDT < Democrat Want Ads Pay I ■■—■■l I ■■■■■* I H I " why is a bootblack like the sun? MSm I ■-- * — ■3Z* | Because he does the most snimng on bright days. Our She p Shines Every Day Because We Keep It Clean! We Figure That’s The Only Way A Meat Shop Should Be Seen! We Want Your Trade, But T1 is We Know— . To Secure It, We, The Goods Must Show. * Here The Best, You'll Always Find, | The Cleanly. Tender, Wholesome > ‘ Kind! i I DYONIS SCHMITT J

No guesswork about your money mattes when you are a depositor here, <TI Your bills are all paid by check. Your check, 71] when returned, becomes a receipt. No trouble about change, no disputes about payments, no question as to where your money has gone, or how [much you have[received. Your pass book and the stubsjof yourfcheckjbook’always tell the’story. BE ON THE SAFE SIDE AND OPEN AN ACCOUNTEAT THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur. Indiana Capital SIOO,OOO. Resources SBOO,OOO. Surplus $20,000 P. W. Smith President W. A. Kuebler Vice Pres. C. A. Dugan Cashier F. W Jaebker asst. Cashier J. O. HALE t SEEDS, COAL AND FEED j Portland Cement, Gypsum Reck Wall i j Plaster, Lime and Salt + f We make a specialty of furnishing Seed Goods good ♦ r in quality and low in price. t x Call, Write or Phone No. 8. 201 S. 2nd. St j u*im »»♦♦♦♦» ♦ ♦ 1111111 > i Better Farm* At Lower Prices In Michigan’s Rich “Thumb” District There is no ploneerlnK—no hardnhlp—when you buy an improved Michigan farm Good roads, Rood schools, good neighbors, good markets, make the rich soil of Michigan's famous “Thumb" District worth a* much as farm land anywhere—but you can buy 40 to 400 acres of us for much less. We have 106 splendid bargains in highly improved farms level, well drained. BEAKS average 20 to 30 bu. to the HAY averages two tons to the acre ”re $1.6? to g »2 25 a bushel. A 90- ° T day crop, *35 to »<!<• per acre profit. and worth $lB baled Bvnv average 10 to 15 WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, POTASIGAR BEETS average 10 to io TOE!i FL AX and FRUIT all thrive tons per acre; worth »5 to »T a ton. )n tl j [g cllmate splendid stock Five sugar factories in this section. cqyntry; cool enough for good sheep raising. to SIOO Per Acre i, .■VL\ S V'' Mmh ftrpftrding to location and improvefc j'jSWßtejF'■ -. /■jßßPnients. Write quick for details and K ■ 2 our liberal offer. n Mira® FARM REALTY company LTykUjl BOX * O, CAPACI MICH - jj 1 ? ■■■“— <>, r*« Mais us rrw, ‘" .«•■> o*r» ■**>*» i>WH*m*R*lsl»Bi > dhsn. •nn»vali<Ba<B*B*—mU—*W*R——————— * I * Quality Groceries | f The Rush And Crush | YOU Frequently See Here Is Due To The Fact That People GeV|Hungry And Know That Quality Groceries Are A Sure Antidote Saturday Only We offer a very high grade of pork and beans with tomato sauce, pork and beans, Boston style, and red kidney beans in two lb. cans as follows. 8 cans for 23c 6 cans for 45c 12 cans for 89c I We pay cash or trade for produce | Eggs 14 Butter 15 to 22c I Hower and Hower. I North of G. R. &•!. Depot. ’Phone 108. |