Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1911 — Page 3

Lots Os Boys In This Town -— are cutting down their shoe bills just one half. Going barefoot? Nay, nay Paul-ine--wearing American Boy shoes. I sell scads of em. Ask The Boys. Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

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H| Quality Groceries Await You Here The Kind That Make HUNGER . DISAPPEAR Here The Pure Food Laws Obtain, And Those With Appetites On The Wane Get Them Quickly Back Again We Candle Every Egg We Sell Tin cans are moving now, Stars at 40c doz., Standards at 35c a doz. Our Pickling Vinegar is guaranteed;- Will pay you for any pickles spoiled from the use of our pickling vinegar. 20c a gallon. Hower and Hower, Northtof G. R. De P ot ; Thone 108. bobobobob o boboobobobobobobobob g J. S. Bowers. Pres. F. M- Schirmeyer, Vice Free. « 2 I o ■ ■ o ■ Rl t-k. Rnuprs Realty Company has some excel- g 9', and Adams county ■ O lent ty P be pleased to have O ■ farms. The ompa . fe offerings The C om- ( ■ you call at iL g cen t money to loan on ■ O pany P > Let P t he Schirmeyer Abstract ■ ■ terns, he l b stractof title. Twenty g 2 years experience, complete reco . g O § ■, „ o O The Bowers Realty Go. ■ ! French Quinn, Secty. g

Ed Berling has returned from a busines strip to New York City. Albert Acker was a business caller at Bluffton yesterday and today. Mrs. U. Deininger visited in Fort Wayne with her daughter, Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne. John Singleton of Preble was a business caller in the city today, returning to bis home this afternoon. Miss Lollie Meibers returned yesterday afternoon from Rome City, where she enjoyed an outing at their cottage. The Misses Kate and Helen Thomas of Indianapolis are here for a visit with the Misses Tillie and Lollie Meibers and Mrs. W. G. Spencer. The funeral of Mrs. Carey Brittson. whose death occurred Tuesday morning after a long illness from tuberculosis, was held this morning from Clark's Chapel. Miss Nora Del Smith left this morning for a visit with her brothers, Albert Brittson and Marion Smith, at Owosso, Michigan, and with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Hendricks, at Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Linker were Fort Wayne visitors today. Mrs. Uriah Grimm of Williams was a visitor in the city today. Mrs. George Deem and children were at Monroe today visiting. Mrs. Mell Rice went to Berne this morning to spend the day with friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. Burr of Monmouth were shoppers here yesterday afternoon. Orval Harruff and L. L. Baumgartner were at Geneva today doing some surveying. Mrs. M. G. Garard and daughter, Lilah, and Miss Lily Garard returned to I Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after I I a visit here. Scott Hughes of Fort Wayne was | | among the business callers in the i | city today. , Mrs. T. M. Gallogly and Mrs. David Valenti spent the day In Fort I i Wayne. Miss Adella Miller and her brother. I I Otto, went to Fort Wayne this morn- j | ing. Harvey Beery went to Fort Wayne | i this morning for treatment from Dr. | I Bulson. J. W. Merriman spent the day at I Monroe, where threshing was in prog- 1 ress on his farm. Miss Hazel Smith of Daijville. 11l , > ' is here for a visit with her sister, i ! Mrs. A. M. Anker. Mrs. C. Vogt was at Fort Wayne to- , day attending the festival of the Ger- | man Reformed Orphans' home. Surveyor Charles Ernst was looking ■ after some surveying at Berne today, returning on the afternoon train. H. J. Yager, who was at Portland | i this morning transacting business, rej turned home on the afternoon train. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Zurcher and sou, Fred, of Berne, transferred here this morning -on their way to Fort i , Wayne. Mrs. Amelia Hoagland left this morning for Laud, Indiana, where she | j will be the guest of her daughter, Mrs. E. R. Richards. j Mrs. L. E. Turner of Richmond Va.,' ' who have been making an extended visit here with Mrs. Ernest Moon, left ' today for their homes. Frances Hoffman and Mrs. C. W. Shoaf went to Fort Wayne this morn ing to attend the German Reformed I • Orphanage celebration. Mrs. J. E. Smith made her regular trip to Berne today, where she was giving her regular musical instruc- , tions to her students there. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Steger and liti tie son of Roanoke, Va.„ who have, i been making an extended visit here | with Mrs. Ernest Moon, left today for their homes. Mrs. Gilbert Strickler and sons, | , Clarence and Robert, and her broth-1 er, Roy Shoaf, went to Fort Wayne to spend the day with an aunt, Mrs. j Florence Hogston. Frank Teeple returned from Linn Grove, where h« put in place a large monument for the Mutschler family, and sold by the Wemhoff Monumental works of this city. Miss Margaret Beery, who is at home from Danville, 111., for a visit, went to Fort Wayne this morning, where she will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Rose Gault. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hower and Mrs. H. S. I-achot motored to Fort Wayne where Mr. Hower attended to business matters, the ladies visiting with their sister, Mrs. William Doehrman. Mrs. A. E. Spencer of Roanoke. Va., i twenty-five years ago a resident ol • this city, left today for her home 1 after a very pleasant visit here with Mrs. Ernest Moon and other relatives. Harvey DeVinney, who for the past twenty years has been living in Chicago, is here for a visit with his aged father, who next Monday will celebrate his eighty-fourth birthday anniversary. Mrs. Otto Reppert and her guest,, ' Mrs. Emma Bihiman and daughter, of | Cincinnati, Ohio, went to Fort Wayne | this morning. They will call on Mrs. ; j Reppert's niece. Miss Tena Borne, at i the Lutheran hospital, and this after-I I noon will attend the German Reform ed Orphanage anniversary celebrai tion. Miss Borne was operated upon Tuesday morning at the hospital for appendicitis, and is said to be reeov- ■ ering nicely. The date for the Great Northern ' Fair is fast approaching and those In j charge of affairs are working hard each day to make the coming one a 1 banner one in the history of Decatur. j A large number of people are attending the carnival each evening, ' ' and the balloon ascension which I I takes place each evening is a great drawing card. It has been some i time since a balloon ascension has been made here, and the two made so far this week were completed without a flaw. The atmosphere of Wednesday evening was so light that the balloon after being free from the para- . chute, didn’t care whether it came. down or not, and remained in the air for some time before it became tin-1 balanced and turned over.

Sam Reed i« visiting here with old friends. Mrs. Jeff Addy and children of Monmouth were shoppers here today. A new postal savings bank will be opened at Bluffton August 19th. Dick Blossom of Fort Wayne Is making a visit with relatives here. Mrs. William Blackburn visited today in Monmouth with relatives. Miss Dove Cully of WHlshire, Ohio, transferred here this morning on her way to Fort Wayne. F. J. Bouse of Toledo, Ohio, will spend Sunday here the guest of the T. W. Watts family. Miss Mary Erwfh left today noon J for Berne, where she will visit a week j with Miss Cora Beltler. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Erwin will return this evening from a few days' j visit at Winona i-akeY Mrs. J. C. Sutton and sons left this morning for Ossian for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex White. Professor Withaus of Berne was here this morning, giving his regular J musical instructions to his various scholars here. I Percy Williams and daughters, TheiI ma and Dorothy, will leave Saturday for several places in Michigan, Where they will spend a week's vacation. Mrs. Wifi Dorwin. son Dean, and daughter. Helen, left Wednesday evening for Van Wert, Ohio, where they | will visit with relatives several days. R. I). Denman and family passed through the city on their way to Heimer after a visit at Celina, Ohio, where they attended the Chautauqua. William Jackson suffered the loss of a practically new pair of gold-rlm-med glasses, which fell from the pock et of his coat, which he carried on hi arm. Mrs. John Stewart and son, Mere dith, returned last evening from Wai i ren and Pleasant Plain, where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Stewart': grandmother, Mrs. Aaron Adams. Miss Gertrude Jgebker of Clarinda. lowa, who has been visiting here and ■ , at Rome City since April with her up cle, Ferdinand Bleeke, and other relai tives, left today for Fort Wayne, thence to Chicago and her home ai Clarinda. John Didot was having his buggy wheel repaired at the Hutton shop las Saturday, it having been broken bj being run into by William Elbenson's automobile on his return from the show at Portland a few days ago.Beneva Herald. Real estate transfers: Jesse Wil liams to Jacob E. Spangler, 4 acres Root tp., $500; Abe Boch to George Burkett et al., 20.94 acres, Washington tp., $7500; John F. Lachot to Abe Boch, 5 acres, Washington tp., $5000: i Isabell France to John F. lachot, pt. ' lots 346, 3*7. Decatur, S4OOO. ' Tlie band concert ot Wednesday evenin; was attentively listened to by several hundreds of people, and the best music ever rendered by the organization was given at this time. Some very entertaining and pretty pieces were among the many offered, and many high compliments could be heard afterward. Jesse McCunum or Geneva, who was taken several weeks ago by Sheriff Reichelderfer on a charge of having stolen a number of horses and carriages in northern Indiana, will be turned over to Sheriff King of Jay county today. Three of the horses stolen by McCullum were taken in Jay I county, and the first case against him will for that reason be held in the Jay county courts. —Fort Wayne JournalGazette. A party of officials ot the Grand Rapids & Indiana road went to Richmond last night in General Manager J. P. Hughart’s special train. This morning the party left Richmond for Grand Rapids. The occasion is the usual inspection trip over the lines. The officials from the officers here are Superintendent B. N. Hudson. Trainmaster R. E. Casey, Road Foreman ol Engines A. L. Lopshire, Division Operator M. H. Sechler and Division Engineer C. L. Barnaby.—Fort Wayne News. HEAVY CROP DAMAGE. (United Press Service.) Chicago, BL, Aug. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat)—As a result of yesterday’s storm, crop reports show an immense amount of damage, and the board rated the grain market today. September wheat is up thirty-five I cents, while December wheat is up jtp 97M<c by noon. Corn and oats were also up, and trading here was exclt- : ing. o— — ENCAMPMENT ENDS FRIDAY. (United Press Service.) Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Owing to the intense heat the encampment of the Indiana Knights of Pythias will close tomorrow, according to an announcement of General Grey here today. The former plans will be somewhat crowdi ed but all of the competitive drills will be completed.

MR. DEVINNEY’B BIRTHDAY. “Grandpa" DeVinney will be eightyfour years of age next Monday and this event will be celebrated by a family reunion, the children already gathering home for this event. Mr. DeVinney is a veteran of both the Mexican and Civil wars and is one of the most highly respected citizens of the community. Mr. DeVinney has been in rather poor health for the past few days. o — THE HORSE SALE. The season at the First street sta bles will open again tomorrow when a large number of good horses will be placed on sale. A large number oi j out-of-town buyers have already assembled for the affair and a large delegation of farmers will probably ati tend. It is sure to be a fast sale as : a line of the best stock in the counj ty has been consigned. o—. Denvjcra* Want Ads Pat. D. F. Leonard General Auctioneer DECATUR IND. » HP SELL SALES Anywhere at Anytime Telephone Him For Dates Early Decatur Telephone 5 On H. Line ———— 11,11 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ : $ $ $ : : In A Pinch ! 4 ♦ ♦ You can borrow any amount * O from us from $5 up, on your 4 ♦ household goods, pianos, teams 0 0 wagons, etc., without, removal ♦ ♦ and on short notice. ♦ You can have from one to * ♦ twelve months’ time in which to * ♦ pay it back. OUR contracts ♦ ♦ are simple and all transactions ♦ ♦ are clean-cut and private. « ♦ 84 cents per week for 50 « ♦ weeks pays a $35.00 loan. All 4 ♦ amounts in proportion. 4 ♦ If .you need money, fill out the 4 ♦ following blank, cut it out and ♦ ♦ mail it to us. ♦ 4 Our agent is in Decatur ev 4 ery Tuesday. 4 Name ♦ Address St. & No * ♦ Amount Wonted 4 ♦ Reliable Privats 4 ’ It. Warm loan Compan* ♦ 4 Established 189«. Room 2, Sec- *; 4 ond Floor, 706 Calhoun Street ♦ . Home Thone, 833. * ♦ Fort Wayne, Ind * 4 44449«*99*>**99

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