Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1911 — Page 3

The Better The Grade The Bigger The Trade We’re busy as bees today Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

so*o*o*o+o»o«c « o*o*o*o«oc j WEATHER FORECAST § *o*o*o*o«o ♦ o*o*o*o«oeo«o$ Unsettled weather tonight or Fri-, day; probably showers, with not much change in temperature. Ed Parent returned from a business trip to Port Wayne. Homer Elzey of Monroe was among the visitors in the city today. Nelson Bricker of Geneva was among the business callers in the city today. Sam Acker of Geneva was among the many in our city today from the south. Sheriff Liurkin and Jesse Rupert made a business trip to Ottawa, Ohio, yesterday. Mrs. Allen Friend returned today to Elida, Ohio, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. I. Imler. Harold, Martha and Barbara Miller of Muncle arrived in the city and will he guests at the Mrs. Henry Winnes home.

J THE HOME OF I i -rocen« I If You Would Be Happy and Contented \ our Groceries Here s<> - ■■■ They Bring Peace To Every Family Making Hunger Disappear IT’S THE QUALITY! —■—■ ■ » Green Com 10c Doz. New Cabbage 3e Its. Cooking Apples 10c and 15 pk. Fine Eating Apples 2@c pk. Fine White Cobbler Potatoes 50e pk. Cukes, Celery aud all green Vegetables. WE CANDLE EVERY EGG WE SELL We pay cag& or trade for produce Eggs 15 Butter 15 to 22c Hower and Hower, North of G. R. &;I. Depot ’Phone 108. «OB 01Q ■<>■ O HOBOO*0«C*010101010« *7 a Bowen. Pres. f. M. Sehir merer. Vice Pres. ■ ■ m 2 S >'i2 w O ■ 9 O g ■ g The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O 5 lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ ■ farms The company would be pleased to have m O yoTcall at its office and see its offerings. The com- < * nanwhas Dlentv of five per cent money to loan on ■ O jS na ble terms. Let the Schirmever Abstract g ■ cSany prepare your abstract of title. Twenty g g years experience, complete records. O ° « ■ O O - The Bowers Realty Go. V ! French Quinn, Secty. O „«pB0i0i01O*0MOBO*:>«0*C*orf5

I Mrs. Glen Glancy of Monroe was j here today. Sam Acker and daughter, Doris, of j Geneva were here today, j Dr. Rayl of Monroe was in the city | today f<Sr a short time on business. • Miss Genevieve Bremerkamp and Mrs. Edna Wertzberger assisted today in the rush at the Baughman five and ten cent store. Conrad Imblume returned yesterday j afternoon to Pueblo, Colo., after a visit here with Mrs. Mathias Schafer ! and other friends. Special Policeman W. Pennington, Abraham Stoneburner and others were on the police force today, their assistance being necessary to control the large crowd on the streets. The Misses Dorothy and Ruth Reynolds will return tomorrow to Ashville. N. C„ after a visit with their grandmother, Mrs. Victoria Hill, and , their uncle. F. V. Mills, and family. .1. S. Sutton ana tamiiy have returned from a ten days' visit with his parents and sister near Buffalo, N. V. [ They also visited at Niagara TMte and other cities and places of interest in the east.

The James Niblick residence on Second street is being reroofed. Kolia Brodbeck of Hammond visited here yesterday. Mrs. J. A. Smith has gone to Wren, Ohio, to visit with relatives. Ed and \\'ill Zeeer have returned from a visit with relatives In Fostoria, Ohio. Bernardine Heidemann left this morning for Richmond, where she paid a visit to her mother. F. G. Krelselmeyer returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a business visit here. Mrs. Anna Reynolds of Toledo, 0., is here for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Frank Shoemaker. Mrs. J. Weinman of Chattanooga, Ohio, transferred here yesterday on her way to Fort Wayne. Charles Ball and Ray Teeple have returned from a two weeks' visit in Pennsylvania and New York. Miss Josephine Shoemaker was able to he out riding today, the first she has been out since her recent illness. Paul Harrod of Fort Wayne was a business caller in the city today, returning home on the afternoon train. Herman Wefel of Preble was in the i city this morning looking after busii ness affairs which required his attenI tlon for a short while. Mrs. Moore returned last evening to Fort Wayne after spending some time with her nephew, W. L. Gunder, of Belleview farm, who was badly injured last Saturday morning. Mrs. W. H. Holsapple and daughter, jdiss Catherine, who have been the guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Holsapple, returned today to their home at West Milton, Ohio. Mrs. Lnure Van Camp and daughters, Beatrice, Edwina and Naomi, will Ipave Saturday for Jackson, Mich., where they will enjoy a two weeks' I outing at the lakes near that city. Large delegations from all directions came to the city early this morning for the big show and as a result Decatur witnessed one of the largest crowds that has been here for a long time. Work has eommencetl on the new school and sisters’ residence of St. Rose Catholic parish at Monroeville. The new institution will be dedicatJed in the fall. Rt. Rev. Bishop Herman | J. Alerding officiating.

The Bdward Doyle Stock company, which several years ago put on a ; week’s stand at the Bosse opera house here, is getting around In the northern part, of the state, and are billed to be j at Elkhart during fair weeK, commencing September llfh. Mrs. Frank. Allwein and daughter. '•Mary Catherine, arrived yesterday from Shelby. Ohio, for a »e\emi weeks’ visit with Mrs. Allwein's mother, Mrs. Fannie Peterson. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Elizabeth Allwein, who remained over night and left today for Butler. Ur. C. S. Clark refunned Wednesdayevening from New Haven, where ne | paid a visit to his brother. Dr. Battel I Clark, who is very sick with an attack of typhoid pneumonia. Ur. f>. D. Clark, and son. Johnny, left this, i morning to pay him a visit, and will | return home this evening. Fred Linnemeyer of Preble and one of the popular clerks at the Her- ! mam Wefel store, has taken the agency i for a bathtub and already has secured j j the sale of soveral of the articles. He is well pleased with the results so far ' received, but just don’t feel like trilkj ing so freely, be being somewhat bashi ful. Miss Laura Aiban w-as at Portland j today and this morning attended the ' funeral services for her uncle, Charles ! Wert, which was held from the Presbyterian Church at 9: MO o clock. She 'also accompanied the remains, with the sonotrlng relatives, to Van Wert. Ohio, Where the setxind rites were ' held. Mrs. Mary Colchin of Decatur, who was last week thrown out of an autoI mobile when the machine was struck I by a street car at the Conner of Wil- j . liams and Calhoun streets, is Improv-1 I mg. Her condition is still too serious, i however, to warrant her removal from ' St. Joseph's hospital.-—Fort Wayne News. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. McConnell will leave for their home at Cardwell, Mo., I Friday morning, going byway of Fort Wayne and St. Louis. They have been j in Indiana seven weeks, coming north j for an operation for a cancerous j growth with which Mrs. McConnell | had suffered. She was operated on at : Columbia City, and will return home i sompletely cured. Samuel Welds has returned here ' from Decatur after a visit with his parents. He will be joined here Thursday by his brother, who is a principal of schools at Peoria, 111., and : together they will leave Thursday evening over the Lake Erie for Niagara Falls. From there they will go to Toronto, and will make a trip also down the St. Lawrence and thence south to points along the Atlantic coast.—Bluffton News. i

PIONEER CALLED — . - i Charles Ewell of Preblej Township Succumbs to Infirmities of Age. DIED THIS MORNING Was Eighty-three Years Old Funeral to be Held Saturday Afternoon. In the death of Charles Ewell, which occurred this morning at 1:45 o’clock, at his home, six miles northeast of I this city, Preble township lost another jof its highly esteemed and prominent | pioneer men. Mr. Ewell, who last j April 18th had completed eighty-three years of his life, has been in failing health the past two months, from infirmities attending his great age, and | to this was added bowel trouble, weakening him so that recovery was impossible. He was a native of Germany, but lived in this county many years. His wife, who was Miss Han- . nah Nahrwold .before her marriage, survives, also three sons —Otto, with I whom he made his home; Charles and ; Theodore. Mrs. William Koldeway and Mrs. Otto Hoffman, who were daughters, are now deceased. Mr. Ewell was very badly injured when eighteen years o', age, while working in Germany in an oil mill. He slipped for some reason and fell in the flywheel, and was so badly injured that i when he was picked up it was thought | life was extinct. Though his recovery then was doubtful, he grew strong again, and lived to the very mature age of four-score years and three, though his early injury lert him badlycrippled. He was a man most highlyesteemed and the county has lost a valued resident. The funeral will he held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 from the home and at 2:15 from the Preble Lutheran church, with the Rev. Koch in charge of the services. Burial in j the church cemetery.

James Wall cf Bluffton was a visitor. attending the show here today. Charles Clark, a young man from Bluffton, spent the day here, returning home tonight. Paul Harrod returned to his home at Fort Wayne after being in the city today the guest of friends. Frank Wechter of Blue Creek town ship was here today broking after bus in ess affairs which inquired bis attention for a short while. Several plain drunks were arrested today and placed in jail to sober up. and await their trial which will probably be held in the mayor's court to morrow. Foster Arbaugh of the Bluffton fire department was a Visitor bene today, he coming to see the show and to vis|it with his sister-in-law, Mrs. J. I). Wißehaupt. Mrs. Tom Miller of Van Wert, Ohio. Mrs. Maggie Brown of Dayton, Ohio, I Mrs. Charles Beck and son, John Evans of Fort Wayne are the guests of Mrs. Daniel Acker of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Acker, Mrs. Tom Miller of Van Wert. Ohio, Mrs. Maggie Beck of Fort Wayne, and Russel and Floyd Acker w-ere entertained at 6 o'clock dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Al- , uert Acker evening. Jacob Johnson, who was injured a few weeks ago by having a hay fork run through his hand while climbing on a load of hay. preparatory to going to the barn, is again able to use tlic ■member, no more serious results ocicurring. Three special police were appointed , by the mayor to work from Midnight last night until tomorrow morning at 6 o’clock in order to handle the large : crowd which will be In town. They were Joint Andrews, Abe St on burner and William Pennington. About thirty of file Odd Fellow s | of this city will arrange to go to Indianapolis September 16th to 23rd to ! j attend the meetings of the Sovereign grand lodge and to participate in the parade in which fifty thousand Indi ana Odd Fellows will march. J. S. McCrory, the hay man Is mak- | ing an extensive improvement at his hay barns on Adams street, which will i lie of much benefit to him upon com pietion. More office room is being added, the present one being too smni l to comply with the business, which he is at present enjoying. A new weighing scales is also being placed in the front of the building for the weighing of loaded material and this, too, will also be of much advantage to him and his business. — ■ p FOR SALE—A fresh cow, and a calf. Will sell cheap. See Noah Frauhi-; ger, Preijle, Ind. 182t.i 1 >

Teeple, Brandyberry Peterson’s 810 SALE CLOSES SATURDAY NIGHT Many Good Bargains For The Asking $6.00 Buys Any all-wool Suit $2.25 Buys Any $3.00 Hat in the Store $3.00 Buys Any $4.00 Odd Pants And 35c Buys Any 50c silk hose orJ3 prs. for SI.OO Straw Dress H*ats % Off Similar reductions in Caps, Neckwear, Dress Shirts, Boy’s Suits and Underwear. Sale will positively close Saturday Night. It will be six months before we hold another sale. We can save you money. Come in and see TEEPLE BRANDVBERRY k PETERSON

MONEY TO LOAN. Plenty of money to loan on farm at 5 per cent. Privilege of partia i payment at any Interest paying time SCHURGER A SMITH, — LIVERY —I have several first-class outfits. Buggies and carriages, to let on call in first-class style, at reasonable prices, ’Phone No. 182. Schlickma* & Beil, corner Third and Monroe streets. 179ti0 Democrat Want Ads Pay. Coal Consumers Before you buy your Winters supply of coal come down and get my price. I handle White Asn and Kentucky Cook Coal. Emerson Bennett Located G.R.& I. & Adams St Phone 639 * tn&jk Eye Glass Accidents Are troublesome and expensive. The surest preventative | is to have your glasses fitted by tie Rogers system, which insures the most comfort and the least expense. Ten thousand people are wearing them with complete satisfaction. You can do the same. No charges for examination Glasses From SI.OO Up. i jFEYESKiHT SPE^IfILIA T^A EP 2\rv.lhor\y Hotel Corner “ roR-TwcrNE-iND „ I 4Wo,3<{U&rcjlrWerMrbwr. oWjcn,.

/Agent© W/anted To takejorders for the bestJFertilizerJin the world. A’ Fertilizer that is very extensively advertised and known to the farmers, to do all that is claimed for it This is an excellent opportunityjfor some hustling young [farmer. or a retired fanner. We Will Make It Worth Your While. Rapid Remedy Co. BERNEIND. Wood And Kindling Os All Kinds For Sale Delivered to any part of the city Phone 635 S. H. Adams. ■■■■MW—win hi niiirrm mr TT~ffrniTinniHf m T^‘*^~‘‘~^ M T Old Alclams County Bank I Decatur, Indiana. P Capital $120,000 c - s - N,b L*. Preslttefif M ’^rffh.nd p Resolve Collections I Made Little Drops Os Water 1 Little Grains Os Sand - I ~ Every Dollars Saved To A tio£a!?' I T our Bank Account wluisafe I May Purchase SSoSS | ACRES OF LAND! “ d f __ Patrons I We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on 1 Year Time Deposits I