Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1911 — Page 3

Make This Store — your headquarters on the day of the Big Show, leave your wraps or packages here and we’ll take care .of them for you, and if you need shoes we’ll be glad to show you through. Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

♦ O*O*O*O«M I WEATHER FORECAST I ? 2 M o*o*o*o*o ♦ o*o*o*o*o<o*o« Showers tonight and Wednesday.. followed with probably faij weather; slightly cooler in east and smith portions. Miss Ireta Erwin has gone to Val-j paraiso and Chicago to visit. Miss Theresa Miller has gone to Lima, Ohio, where she will visit wtih relatives. Ed Meyers of Fort Wayne spent Sunday here with his mother, Mrs. Mary Meyers, south of the city. Jesse Cole, Irvin Merry and Dwight Archer have returned from Niagara Falls, where they spent a week. Lawrence Voglewede and Leo Meyers were among those who attended the ball game at Fort Wayne Sunday. Miss Rose Kieinhenz of the Steele * Weaver racket store, who has been off duty there for several weeks, or months, on account of having rheumatism. has returned there to her work.

I THE HOME OF | I Quaiity Groceries I leJfet-AR Going Picnicking '■• <B> Mg WHAT A Poor Picnic - A Picnic Would Be Without A Good Picnic Dinner We Are Headquarters For Appetizing Picnic Delicacies If you drop in on us you will see for yourself that we can supply your wants, and if you phone your order we will have the goods, show you that the quality and price is right. We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 15 Butter 15 to 22c Hower and Hower, North of G. R. &-L Depot. ’Phone 108. 808080808 o 80800808080808080808 2 J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres, g s s g ■ The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- £ 8 lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ B ■farms The company would be pleased to have g J you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- g ■ nanv has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ 2 reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract q ! Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty years experience, complete recoids. O B The Bowers Realty Co. ■ I French Quinn, Secty.g OBOBOBOBOIOBOBBOBOBOBOBCWOBo

Mrs. George Syphers spent the day with friends at Bryant. Mrs. Godfrey Kurt of Monmouth was shopping here yesterday. Jesse Helm of the postoffice force went to Oden, Mich., Saturday night for a two weeks’ vacation. Mr. and Mrs. James Ford of Muncie spent Sunday in the city as the guest of their son, Arthur Ford, and family. E. H. Kilbourne of Fort Wayne spent Sunday here with his wife at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger. H. L. Conter, assistant secretary of state, who w'as looking after his busi ness interests here, returned to Indianapolis Sunday evening. Mrs. John Vail has returned from a several weeks’ absence at Cardwell, Mo., where she went with her husband to attend to business transactions. Fred Vaughn, who has been working at Boston, Mass., for a month or so, where he has been employed in a printing establishment, operating a Merganthaler linotype machine, has returned home for a week's stay with his family.

Miss Belle Ballard of Monmouth was a shopper here yesterday. P. F. Dodane of Fort Wayne vlaited over Sunday with friends here. John Kuhn of Paulding, Ohio, Is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Julia Colchln. Miss Vernla Smith has resigned as , stenographer for the Erwin & Erwin ! office. John Woy visited over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Evans in Root township. Mrs. Ble Hendricks of Mornoe who was a shopper here yesterday, has returned home. Paul Reinking was at Portland to- } day on business In the interest of the I Heckman mill. Joe Colchln of Fort Wayne spent I Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Julia | Colchln, and family. Mrs. Anna Merica is being entertain- | ed at the home of her son, John Merl- r ca, and wife this week. Mrs. Julia Colchln went to Fort 1 Wayne today to call on Mrs. J. F. Colchin at the St. Joseph hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Mygrant left ' yesterday afternoon for Lake Wawassee, stopping off at Auburn for a visit. Mrs. Oliver Roop, who was shopping in the city yesterday afternoon, has returned to her home at Monroe. Mrs. John Garard went to Fort | Wayne yesterday afternoon to visit i with her mother, Mrs. Frank Staplei ton. Mrs. Will Parent and Miss Alma Starost left Sunday for Rome City, ■ where they will enjoy a week's out-, ■ ing. , ; Miss Catherine Sprunger of Lima. Ohio, transferred here yesterday en ' route to Berne for a visit with rela-! I tives. Miss Clara Ehlerding, who has been 1 working in Fort Wayne, is here for a s few weeks’ visit with her parents in i Preble. Miss Agnes Starost has returned I t'ronj a week's vacation which she i ; spent visiting In Fort Wayne, Toledo - and Detroit. Mrs. Mary Davy, who has been ! making a visit at the home of Mrs. i I Mell Rice, left yesterday for her home , . at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eliresman were ' at Fort Wayne yesterday, where Mrs. i Ehresman received treatment for spinal trouble. Gay, Zwick & Myers yesterday deliv- , ered a load of furniture to Union townI ship, and another to a family residing i south of Decatur. Miss Carrie Bracht returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a ' i visit with her sister, Mrs. Otto Hildei brand, at Magley. John A. Lhamon of near Monroe • left yesterday afternoon for Hope, | North Dakota, where he will assist in I harvesting the fall crops. | Curt Cline returned from Monroe, i where, during the day he was employed in doing some work for the Wemhoff Monumental works. Miss Ireta Fisher, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Fisher, is spend- ■ ing the week in this city the guest of ! her cousin, Miss Grace Baxter. Miss Della Frauhiger of the True & I Runyon store spent Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Frauhiger, in Wells county. Edwin Boese and Henry Heckman left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne, where they will visit with i their uncle, Albert Buuck, and family. ; Mr. and Mrs. Will Phillips and chilI dren of Lima, Ohio, visited in the city. Mr. Phillips returned last evening. I while his family will spend a few weeks here. C. A. Dugan of the First National bank returned today from Clear Lake I where he visited over Sunday with 1 his family at their cottage, which they ■ have taken there for the season. Mrs. E. A. Mann and Mrs. Ross Mai- ' lonee and son, Albert Lysle, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon, where they will visit over tomorrow with Mrs. Mallonee's brother, Mel Smith, and family. They will attend j the Methodist Sunday school picnic ■ at Robinson park. The Misses Pearl and Grace Purdy, ■ Stella Chronister and Goldie Gay and j I Miss Bessie Harrison of Anderson ■ I have returned from a week's visit tit , | Niagara Falls. Buffalo, Cleveland, To- : ronto, Canada, and other cities of the > i east. They had an unusually fine time. During their stay in Niagara, they I witnessed the feat of the man going over the falls in a barrel, which took j place last Tuesday. Mrs. B. B. Uuhl and daughters, Mary Catherine and Jessie May, | arirved today from Mansfield. Ohio, and are guests of her parents. Mr. and I Mrs. John Christen. Tuesday the Uhls with Mrs. Christen and son. Ray, will j leave for Rome City, where they have i leased the Meibers-Clark cottage for I two weeks. They will be joined there by Rev. B. B. Uhl of Mansfield, Ohio; Bert Christen of Toledo. Ohio, and Jesse Christen of Fort Wayne. John Christen of this city will go next week.

John Springer of Berne was a bua- 1 inees caller in the city today. Rufua Stucky of Berne was a business caller in the city today. John Harrla and Jtfe Hunter were | business visitors in Fort Wayne today. J. R. Graber of Linn Grove was ' among the business callers here today. Dr. Vizzard of Pleasant Mills was a professional business caller in the city this morning. Mrs. Henry Schieferstein of north of the city was shopping here yesterday afternoon. John Omlor of Rural Route 1 was a ( business transactor here this morn-, ing, returning to his home at noon. J. R. Graber of the south pert of the county, former superintendent of the county infirmary, was a business visitor here today. W’. A. Kuebler, who has been at ] Rome City for the past two weeks, re- ■ turned home and this morning reported at his post of duty. Mrs. Harry Detamore of Portland arrived in the city for a visit with relatives. Mrs. Detamore was formerly Miss Frances Bryson. Mrs. William Bihlman of Cincinnati, Ohio, arrived yesterday for a visit with the families of Martin Miller, Otto Reppert and other relatives. Miss Rose Kieinhenz was off duty today at the Steele & Weaver racket ' store on account of sickness. Miss Vera Hammond was working in her i place. Tonight the city council will engage in its semi-monthly meeting and transact such business that may come bei fore that body. Nothing of importance is scheduled to appear and the usual routine of affairs is looked for. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Grimme and daughters, the Misses Irene and Hortense, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. CraI mer left today for Detroit and will visit other points in Michigan before returning home.—Fort Wayne News. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Donaldson went to Fort Wayne this morning, from which place Mr. Donaldson will go to his home at Warsaw, and Mrs. Donaldson will return here to be w ith her mother, Mrs. M. A. Vail, who is quite ■ Mrs. Daniel Sprang. A. R. Bell arrived this morning from Oden, Mich., called here on account of the serious condition of W. L. Gunder, , who was so badly injured Saturday, when he was caught between a hay ladder and a telephone pole near the Bell farm, east of town. Byron Erwin of Haven, Kans., is visiting with his cousins, D. N. and D.. 8. Erwin. Mr. Erwin formerly lived in | New Albany, Ind., but has lived in Kansas twenty-six years. This is the first time he has visited in Adams county or had ever seen his cousins, the Erwins, of this city. Genevieve Beriing, Emma Kinney and Stella Smith went to Ft. Wayne this morning, where they spent the day with friends. They were met there by the Misses Vivian Close and Marie Gast and this afternoon paid a visit to the Sacred Heart Academy where Miss Beriing has bee na student. Mrs. L. G. Ellingham passed through this city Saturday evening enroute from Indianapolis, where she had attended a meeting of the Womans Prison board, to Bay View, where the family is spending the summer. She was accompanied by Miss Carrie Craig, who will enjoy a three weeks' j vacation. Thomas Malley and son, Joseph P. Malley, of Chicago, left this morning for Baldron. Mich., where for the next several days they will look after some business affairs. Along with the business which they will attend to they , will combine pleasure, as time will i permit, and taken altogether the trip i will be a most pleasant one. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Myers, Mr. and > Mrs. G. H. Myers and family left to-I day for Fremont, Ind., where they will I enjoy a week or so at Lake George. , , They will be met there by Mr. and I Mrs. Robert Harding and family of I Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Emery j sJ. Wilson and family of Cleveland, j Ohio. The pay of railroad employees in the aggregate was almost doubled in the { years from 1900 to 1909, according to i a bulletin just issued by the bureau i lof railroad economics. The bulletin | 'says that the total compensation of] , railway employees, exclusive of gen- I eral offices, increased from a little' ■ over $500,000,000 in 1900 to $972,000.- | 000 in 1909, or an increase of 72.3 per j i cent. In 1907 the total compensation ' was over $1,000,000,000.

Coal Consumers Before you buy your Winters supply of coal come down and get my price. I handle White Ash and Kentucky Cook Coal. Emerson Bennett Located G.R.&I. & Adams St Phone 639

BIG b BIG SALE SALE EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS-TREMENDOUS CUT IN PRICES During this sale you can buy almost twice as much for the same amount of money. Compare prices and you will see what big bargains we are giving you. You know from our past sales that the values offered were strictly as represented. Come in and see our Bargains the prices are right and tney will interest you. Remember the date. Sale Beginning Wednesday the 19th. of July and Closes Aug the sth 1911. Don’t forget the date LACE CURTAINS AND FOULARDS, SILKS AND DRAPERIES. MESSALINES. ■ Black and white check and stripe, Gcod Curtains at, pair value, 50c, sale price, yard 34 c SI.OO Curtains at, pair ■'•••79c 60c Foulard ‘ 9° X ard 48c $1.25, extra large at, pair go- 90c Cheeny FoUlarda 9 ° at ’ yard 72c SI.OO Fancy Silks, gc at. yard....75 c $1.50 extra large at, pair , 10 Btst 27 . jnch Messatine values $1.75, good value at, pair $1.29 go at, yard §g c $2.50, good value, at .pair qjj gg ' S 2 SXX all plain and fancy $4.00, very fine, at, pair $3.10 SECRO SILKS. $6.00, very fine, at, pair $4 qq SB.OO, very best, at, pair $4 cn „ „ / . J, _ , 25c Secro Silks go at. yard ig c Some odds and ends curtains, . . *?'- $3.50 to $5.00, will sell for, 40c Secro Silks go at, yard 34c Falr $2.00 sqc secro Silks go at, yard. . 42c LADIES WHITE WAISTS WHITE WASH GOODS FOR DRESSES AND One lot Ladies’ Waists at gg c $1.50 and $1.25 Waists go at ... gg c WAI&ld. $1.75 Waists go at gj 23 $3.00 Waists go at 23 White Jaqards for waists, 25c $3.50 Waists go at $2 68 value, goes at, yard jg c $4.00 Waists go at $3 75 15c *> ,ue 9 0es at, yard 11c ALL LAWNS AND SUMMER WASH GOODS. 25c values go at, yard jg r 15c values go at, yard 1 10c values go at, yard 71-2 C CARPETS AND’RUGS. Axminster, 9x12 Rug, value $27.50, sale price only $16.50 Axminster, 9x12 Rug, value $25.50, sale price only $18.50 Axminster, 9x12 Rug. fine, $27.50, sale price only $21.00 Velvet, 9x12 Rug, fine, $20.00 value, sale price only $14.25 Velvet, 9x12 rug, best value, $25.00, sale price only $18.50 Tapestry, 9x12 Rug. good value, $13.50, sale price only $10.25 Tapestry, 9x12 Rug, fine value, $17.50,5a1e price only $12.50 Tapestry, 9x12 Rug, best value, $22.50, sale price only $16.50 Axminster, 11-3x12 Rug, $30.00 value, sale price only $23.50 Axminster, 10-6x12 Rug, $35.00 value, sale price only $25.00 Axminster, 10-6x12 Rug, $32.50 Value, sale price only $24.25 Fiber, 8-3xlo-6 Rug, SIO.OO value, sale price only $ 8.00 Velvet, 27x54 Rugs, $1.50 value, go at § 1.05 Axminster, 27x54 Rugs, $2.50 value, go at $ 1.85 Axminster, 36x72 Rugs, $4.00 value, go at § 3.25 Straw Mattings, prices range from 15c to 35c, sale price |Qc tO 22c Fiber Mattings, prices range from 35c to 50c, sale price 22c tO 35c • Ladies’ Suits and Skirts. LADIES’ UNION SUITS. 33 1-3 Per Cent Off. Lawn Dresses, $1.25 value, sale p pice 89c Hundreds of Yards of TorchLawn Dresses, $6.00 value, Qn and Va j Laces go at 4c aT other’ prices cut accord^ 00 a yard. Big assortment. All Muslins Gowns and Un- Sun Bon J alrge slzeS derwear—Bi g Cut. Gowns, 85c value, sale price BED SPREADS. Gowns, $1.25 value, sale price ... g7 c ———« » Skirts, 50c value 42c $125 Spreads, sal* price Q2c Skirts, $1.25 value, sale price.. 97c $1.50 Spreads, sal* price $1.22 Skirts, $1.75 value, sale price .43 $1.75 Spread*, sale price sl,4m Drawers. 25c value, sale price...2Jc $3.50 Spreads, sale price $2.98 Drawers, 50c value, sale price... 43 c $4.00 Spreads, sale price $3 45 TABLE LINENS. LINEN NAPKINS. M 85c values go at, dozen 25c values go at, yard 2 1C sl °° Va ' Ueß 9 ° dOM " ’’ 82c 50c values go at, yard 42 c 25 v » | ues go at, dozen gg c 60c values, extra wide, at, yard. 4g c sl-75 values go at, dozen $1,15 85c values go sn. yard gs c $2-25 values go at, dozen $1.65 SI.OO values go at, yard 82c * 3 ’ so valu « s 9° dozen $2 48 $1.25 values go at. yard QS C * 4 00 and M. 50 values, go at, $1.50 values go at, yard $1.15 dozen $3 35 DRESS GINGHAMS. All 32-inch Zepher Ginghams, value, 15c per yard, go at, yard All Imperial Ginghams, value, 12’/gc per yard, go at, yard jq Just think of it, 32-inch wide, fine ginghams at, yard j2 c In fancy colors, stripes in aW colors, and plaids. Don’t miss this. BABY CAPS. HOUSE JACKETS. 25c value, sale price . ..... . ' 50c' value, sale price '' 9ht colors ’ Btri P« a "d checks. SI.OO value, sale price gy c ° C values 9° Extraordinary cut in all Dress goods Plain Fancy black and colored the boston store ed at this sale ■ mvui vii ji vilU ed - at thissaJe DECATUR, - INDIANA