Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1911 — Page 3

f Automobile Tire* Soles On -—Rubber Bc-ots—-in IrAN the account of hard wear it is necessary tfi use the best known compound of rubbe r in automobile tires. If these tires stand the wear and tear that is given them, why shouldent they make the best kind of a sole for a rubber boot? We got a boot made up this way that we want to show you. Ask to see the Automobile Sole Rubber Boot.* Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller

W l*O«*O*O*O*> ♦ .■ WEATHER FORECAST! * *O4O«O0O ♦ 040404040404U4 I nsettled tonight, with showers in extreme north portion; Friday fair. .Miss Clara Tricker has gone to Geneve to be the guest of friends for a few days. .Mr. and Mrs. ’R. N. Andrews were at Winchester today attending the Bollinger-Andrews reunion. Mrs. Ernest Lusk and daughter, Mabie. are visitors at Monroe and will be absent for several days. A. J. Smith is making a trip through the east looking after extensive timber business for the firm. Lewis Tarsha of Toledo, uncle of the lost girl, who ran away from that place, was here today awaiting money for their return home. The rain which fell at an early hour this morning, continuing for several hours, was received with much welcome, and Its help to everything is invaluable.

Hi "T ! THE HOME OF g I Quality Groceries I ' i J Appetizing Gratifying Satisfying MEALS Alway On Tap Here. In The Way Os Quality Groceries And Provisions! TAKE THEM AWAY! Indiana Melons on ice, fine and juicy—2oc up. Have one in your next order We candle every egg we sell The finest white potatoes you ever saw at 40c pk. We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 16 Butter 17 to 22c I Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108. lOR 01010 ■ O ■OfiOCBOIOIOBOIOIOIOfI I J. S. Bowers. Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres, g ■ O o » a * 0 ■ 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 g 2 you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- q " pany has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ — reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract j q Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty g g years experience, complete records. O' O Q ■ <3 O O g The Bowers Realty Co. 0 g French Quinn, Secty. O oaoaoioßoioaouoßooHOßCßoato

li Joe .Miller of Fort Wayne was I . among the business callers in the city J today. Miss Florence Magley of Moumoutli ’ was the guest of Postmaster and Mrs. i W. A. Lower over night. This is good weather to take a cold and nearly as many have one, as those you run across that have not. Work on the new court house sidewalk was stopped today on account > of the wet spell, which set in. .Mrs. Earl Snow and two children left this morning for Geneva to spend • several days visiting with relatives ' Miss Addie Hoskinson of Geneva, who has been the guest of the E. E. 1 Snow family, left this morning for -. her home. | Chester Imler, operator for the G. f, r & 1., at Portland, who was the 1 ■ guest of friends here last evening, r returned this morning to his place of : business. r Mr. and Mrs. Orval Harruff of De- • catur spent Sunday with relatives at i Linn Grove, and attended the corner--1 stone laying of the new Evangelical 'church of that place. —Geneva Herald.

John Uachot made a business trip I to Willshire where he has several business Interests which require his ' attention. Miss Florlne Edwards of the Smith & Bell Lumber company, is enjoying • her vacation at Detroit, Michigan, this week. Charles Lammiman of Monroe was a business caller here this morning returning to his home on the noon train. Lafayette Ellis and family, Mr. and j I Mrs. Frank Burns and Dr. and Mrs.' I E. G. Coverdale are at Rome City for 1 a week or two. Miss Bess Tonnellier of Decatur' returned to her home yesterday after > i having spent several days with Miss Helen Doswell. —Fort Wayne News. Blooded horses, cattle, sheep, hogs ’ and poultry in numbers larger than i ! ever before, will be on exhibition at the Portland fair, August 28th to September Ist. |, C. C. Schafer has returned from I I Kenosha, Wis., where he purchased a ' , big supply of leather for the i Sadlery company. Mrs. Schafer came' ' home Monday. Miss Jessie Magley, one of the Dem- 1 ocrat force, who has been enjoying ■ I a two weeks’ vacation at Detroit, | Mich., is expected to arrive home to-' I morrow evening. Charles Archbold of Cleveland, 0.. | | who is making a visit here with friends, left today for Fort Wayne to I make a short stay before leaving for his home on Sunday. I I Mrs. Charles E. Wagner of Indlan- .! apolis has arrived in the city to be I in attendance at the funeral of Irene Mary Gottemoller, her sister’s daughter. which will take place Friday morning from the St. Mary’s church. Purman Hebble received a slight ( cut above his left eye last evening ' while working in an egg car at the | Berling & Moltz packing plant. He • I was pushing a deck in the car when • it slipped back, cutting a small gash above his eye.—Bluffton News. I Charles W. McLaughlin has rrturji- . ed from Fremont, Ohio, where he had > 1 gone in the interest of the Ft. Wayne . ' & Springfield traction company, relaf ; tive to securing the right-of-way for , the proposed extension qf the line to j this city from Decatur. —Portland ! Sun. A fair-looking damsel, well gowned 1 and apparently prosperous, who hasbeen parading the streets here for two , or three days, caused some surprise today when she entered a half-dozen , business houses, down town, and at- ; tempted to borrow two dollars. So far as learned the loan was not ne 1 gotiated. R. B. Russell, youthful aviator, who was seriously injured in the Pennsylvania flyer wreck at Fort Wayne a week ago. it not only recovering, but he will leave the hospital soon with a good left ear, which was severed from his head in the accident. The flesh was picked up and grafted back by a deft operation, which has proven entirely successful. Other wreck victims, who are still in the hospitals, are recovering, including Engineer Malone, at first thought fatally hurt. A proprietor of one or tne Decatur feed yards came in this morning and ' encouraged us on the proposition of a I public free feed yard. He also offered to back up this encouragement by a subscription of $25.00 out of his own pocket. He agrees with us that it is an outrage that the farmer has no place to go when be comes to town, jHe can't hitch anywhere and-is forced j to drive to a feed yard, often at his 1 own inconvenience. A little effort I on the part of a few men would land I this and maintain it. Mr. R. F. Ixmgsworth and family will start this week for Pamplin City, Va., where they will reside permanently. Mr. Ixmgsworth has rui- ! chased a ranch there, having sold his I lease comprising the Pontius, Shoe- ' maker and Stauffer farms, to Mr. J. iP. Eaton of Grand Valley. Pa. Mr. Eaton, we understand, will move here ' to take charge of the property. Mr. and Mrs. Longworth and children have many friends here who are sorry to see them move away, yet all wish them well in their new home.—Geneva Herald. There were 4,443 birts in Indiana during the month of June, according j to figures which are being prepared j by the state board of health for its ’ ■ monthly bulletin. There were 2.2631 male children born and 2,181 female, j The monthly birth rate in the state, j ' based on the number born annually ‘ at the monthly rate for each 1,000 of the population, was 20. In the north J ern section of the state where the population was given as 927,229, the | i rate was 19.2. In the central section . with a population of 1,114,087, the rate was 18.9. In the southern section j J the population was given as 659,650 , and the birth rate as 23.3. The high- ' est rate recorded in the state was from Martin county, where it was 33.8. I Carroll and Whitley counties divided I honors for the lowest birth rate witii I n 08.—Hartford City Times-Gazette.

The J. W. Bosse property on First street has been improved by the addition of a new porch and other modern necessaries The teachers’ institute next week will bring to the city all the teachers of the county. An interesting program has been prepared. i Stick these dates away in your I mind —September 19-23. It's the week || of the Great Northern Indiana fair at | Decatur, when you can get more for a quarter than anywhere on earth. Next week will be a busy one In De | catur, when the convening of the i county institute takes, place. It will | open on Monday and continue for five i days, each day to be the best ever | 1 held In the city. The Decatur people who attended ■ the big picnic at Concord yesterday | report one of the best events of the i kind for the year. A big crowd was I present and there were no serious ac•cidents. The Schafer Saddlery company isl arranging for an exhibit at the state ' fair at Indianapolis, the first week in September. This factory is growing rapidly and they pre doing a splendid business. This is the time of the year when I the pesky fly is about the meanest critter on earth. When he alights on your ear he refuses to move until you knock him into eternity, and even then he sometimes hesitates. The Bosse opera house has been I greatly improved by the frescoing of the walls and otherwise cleaned up ! for the coming season which opens Monday. Manager Bosse is contemplating several other changes. H. A. Fristoe, the Rochester me■•chant, who was here on business, left I last night for Toledo, where he will buy his holiday stock of goods. He I reports that the firm of Fristoe & Merriss is getting along in fine shape. Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer, who is enjoying a several weeks' outing at Ba> View, Mich., writes that the weather there is ideal and she is deriving much pleasure from the various ente:- ' tainments provided by the literary chI cle there. Only a little more than one week remains until the opening of the city schools, and then the little boy and girl, with book under arm. will be seen going to and from Decatur's excellent places of learning, after en joying their three months of vacation.

I — ■■ - 1 Dr. C. V. Connell VETERN ARIAN Office 143 ± none Residence 102 iMHMiiiaim ■ T. H. SOLDNER » ■ ■ ■ Dentist ■ Speaks German and ■ <■ English ■ ■ Over Vance, Hite and J J Macklin’s Clothing ■ STORE. | Decatur, .... Indiana ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■l

en Jus SHOW YOU We want T Ol110 a ew ■ ' MhL “WHITE STAG” CTGARS Are WJVU We know that if you will only a- 7/ smoke a half a dozen you’ll never IOU j7* eX-Jv again be satisfied with the ©rdinary nickle cigar. The * ‘White A VIF Stag” is sure some smoke “scr,r. . umptionsness” be game, chance Missourian it> well both win. 50 AT AIXIV DEALERS SO f— FREE 1 I BASSWOOD SAWDUST I I FOR BEDING I I Adams Heading Factory I

| COMPLETE SATISFACTION i S the elusive goal which all merchants are constantly striving to | attain. To give the customers of their store that satisfaction — which will result in added sales without effort, creating that foundation which has builded up businesses of mammoth proportions, in the merchant’s constant aim. <JFor years’we have enjoyed that kind of pat- , ronage. We began business with the iron-clad policy of giving satis- q E faction with every purchase, whether one cent or one hundred dollars. X Today we are reaping as we have sown. Onr customers are willing, and Q 5 do take our representations of goods and buy upon that knowledge. 1 They know, and we know, that the goods are right. If you have never purchased anything at our store try for once to enjoy a guaranteed class of goods. a LAMAN AND LEE 8 0 WE MAKE YOU MONEY 0 ffywwi jooooi innooQ ■ _ ..

GIRL WANTED—To do kitchen work. Inquire or write Mrs. G. C. Dodez. 345 W. Wayne St.. Ft. Wayne. 199t3 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 : $ s $ : ♦ In A Pinch : ♦ You can borrow any amount 4 ♦ from us from $5 up, on your 4 ♦ household goods, pianos, teams 4 ♦ wagons, etc., without removal and on short notice. ♦ You can have from one so « ♦ twelve months’ time in which to * ♦ pay it back. OUR contracts ♦ ♦ are simple and all transactions ♦ ♦ are clean-cut and private. 4 ♦ 84 cents per week for 50 4 ♦ weeks pays a $35.00 roan. All 4 ♦ amounts in proportion. ♦ ♦ If you need money, fill out the ♦ ♦ following blank, cut it out and ♦ ♦ mail it to us. J 4 Our agent is in Decatur ev 4 ery Tuesday. 4 Name .. * ♦ Address S' i. No 4 ♦ A moot.t Wanted 4 ♦ Reliable Private 4 ♦ Ft. Warn ‘ow Cornwny ♦ 4 Established 1896. Room 2, Sec- * . ond Floor, 706 Calhoun Street. * - Home 'Rhone, 833. ♦ ♦ Fort Wayne, Ind 4

*♦**♦♦*♦<♦* ♦ ♦ I J. D. HALE j SEEDS, COAL ANE FEED j J Portland Cement, Gypsum Rock Wall I Plaster, Lime and Salt ♦ : ■ We make a specialty of furnishing Seed Goods good ♦ ■ ’ in quality and low in price. X ;; Call, Write or Phone No. 8. 201 S. 2nd. St. | : 4.444****• ♦ *4*********»**♦»***♦♦♦ >♦ ****♦*♦♦♦<>-. 1 ’ FOR SALE:- A six room house and a lot on , i North Fifth Street. House is on cement block ■' foundation, has Electric Lights, both kinds of ■ i water and gas, and is in excellent repair. The ■! lot has shade and all kinds of fruit trees, a good barn and chicken park. Price reasonable. SEE HENRY B. HELLER, Over Old Adams County Bank" I ■CldLJll Ccrriithl I**’. k» C. E 2iantrß>i Ce.--. No. » \/VE are as careful in our 'advertising as we are in the goods we buy and sell. We would not think of misrepresenting one, any more than the other. During the next year, we have the OLD CABINET MAKER tell you what really constitutes good furniture, showing you properly furnished rooms, and how you may exercise true taste in furnishing your home. While this will undoubtedly be a source of interest to you, it will be a source of profit to us, for the more you know about good furniture the surer we are that you will trade at our store Our earnest desire is to offer you nothing but the best - and nn the point of advertising to give you the absolute truth concerning our goods m the most conservative mannerpossible. Undertaking and Embalming, Calls answered day or night MEYER, SCHERER & BEAVERS