Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1911 — Page 3

SOMEHOW when you put on a pair of Barkers work shoes you feel that there is certainly a good shoe; you can see the goodness in every part of their makeup; the feel of the uppers tells you that here is the old fashioned tanea calf skin we used to get; when you tap the saies with your knuckles you hear the ring of solidity; heels, insoles and counters of the . best leather, made to withstand wet and hard wear. Don’t you need a shoe of this kind right now? * Better let me show you. Mens $3.00 and $3.50 / • * <« " Charlie V oglewede The Shoe Seller

j WEATHER FORECASTj | *O>O»O*O0G ♦ o*o*o*o*o*o*o« Fair tonight, and cooler in south portion: Wednesday probably fair. Look out for Friday, thethirteenth —next month. s C. G. Elgey of Berne was here yesy | terday on business. Miss Zelia Keller of Monroe went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. The school ’board will meet Friday evening to close up the month's work Mrs. Bertha Hendricks and daughter, Goldie, of Monroe, were shoppers here yesterday. Mrs. Shafer Peterson and granddaughter, Pauline Wolford, went to Monmouth yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Shady, well known residents of Kirkland township, were here yesterday on? business. Mr. and Mrs. David Heller and great-granddaughter, Mildred HeHer, of Berne, changed cars here yesterday on their way to Fort Wayne.

I I THE I Quality GroceriesJ M OUR \rs I Growing Aches And Pains InA-BiwlfH WE ACHE s* To Supply Your Table \VITH GOOD THINGS TO EAT, And Take Great Pains 10 PLEASE OUR PATRONS SUGAR *®has been advancing but we can sell below ” wholesale cost today. Get busy. You will E — not see a low sugar market for a year. 25 lbs. H & E Granulated $1.90 I. Home grown Potatoes 30c pk. Jersey Sweet Potatoes. Kalamazoo Celery. We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 20 Butter 17 to 22c Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I- Depot. ’Phone'loß. ■OB O B O ■ O ■ O 80800808080808080808 J J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Free, g O ® 3 O 5 ■ 5 J 2 The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- g 8 lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ B farms. The company would be pleased to have * 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 termsi Let the Schirmeyer ( 5 Company prepare your abstract of title. Tw y g g years experience, complete records. O o J ■ ? The Bowers Realty Go.’ ■ French Quinn, Secty. O

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Mrs. Ira Elzey and babe were Monroe visitors today. B. F. Brown of Pleasant Mills went to Fort Wayne yesterday. J. F. Snow was attending to real estate matters at Berne today. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Franz of Berne i were business visitors here yester-. nay. t John Plants of Willshire, Ohio, , changed cars here yesterday on Ills way to Fort Wayne. Mrs. A. R. Bell was the guest of her son, Frank Bell, and family at Fort Wayne over night. George Wemhoff went to Bryant this motning in the interest of the , Wemhoff Monumental Works. Amos Fisher is making a fine new cement step at entrance to the | Curley Rademaker building. Miss Irene Bailey retu»ied yesler-1 day to Port Wayne after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carrier south east of the city. Rev. R. Spetnagel, who spent the night here with friends, left yesterday fol*. South Bend, where he is su-, perintendent of the South Bend anti- ‘ saloon league district. (

Mm. Samantha Dorwin spent the I day in Monmouth. Dan Beery was a business caller at , Berne this morning. Miss Ruby Artman will attend the street fair at Bluffton. Troy Babsock of Logansport is visI Itlng here with old friends. , Rev. H. C. Jaus of St. John's was , here yesterday on business. Miss Stella Bremerkamp went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Father Benzinger of Hesse Cassel was here yesterday the guest of Fa ther Wilken. Miss Kate Zurcher of Berne changed ■ cars here enroute to Fort Wayne for ' medical treatment. I J. L. Aubrey and Mr. Wilson of Ft. Wayne were here yesterday in the interests of The Sentinel. Mrs. Alice Moore of Fort Wayne. ; was here yesterday in the interest of the Fort Wayne Sentinel. Miss Marie Patterson, assistant at ( the county auditor's office, is taking a vacation from duty there. 1 Mrs. V. Leagh returned to Fort | Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit with Mrs. Belle Johnson.

S. E. Large and O. C. Kreischer of Glenmore, Ohio, changed cars here this morning enroute to Fort Wayne. Miss Aldine Annen of Magley is the guest of Mrs’. L. A. Linn. She arrived in the city yesterday.—Bluffton New Valentine Kirsch of Cowling, II!., uncle of Mathias Kirsch, arrived n . the city for a short. visit with the la' ( ter. Mrs. James Hurst and Mrs. Amos Fisher left today for Indianapolis, ac- ! companied by Miss Grace Hurst, whom they placed in the school for the blind. Miss Adelaide Keller returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a three weeks' visit here with the Misses Genevieve Bremerkamp and Agnes Kohne. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Peona. 111., are guests of Mrs. Smith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Garard. i Mrs. Smith was Miss Bess Garard be- , for her marriage. Miss Nelle Brown of Willshire. 0.. and Miss Mayme Teeple passed through the city on their way to For: Wayne, where they will take regular mJsical instruction. |. The Misses Mayme and Adelaide Deininger, Rose Confer, Stella Bren: erkamp and Bertha and Kynt Vogle wede will be among those to attend | the Bluffton street fair Thursday. Mrs. Louis .Conrad, Mr.’ and Mrs. . Charles Bushnell and Mi's. Myrtle

I Daugherty of Muncie arrived i nthe i ■ city this morning to be in attendance at the funeral of George Conrad whie i took place this afternoon. The state medical association will convene Thursday of this week at In- ■ dianapolis and continue over Friday, the sessions to be held in the parlors of • thes German House. Several Adams county association members will doubtless attend. The remodeling of the Hart home- 1 ! stead on Monroe street recentlj' pur- ' chased by J. S. McCrory, is being ! pushed along rapidly. The house has , ’ been rinsed and the cellar made under j i it, and work on the cement block . foundation is ih order. Barney Kalver, who has been at ‘ Chicago for some time at a canitar- ; ium, where he took treatment for the I "shingles,' arrived back in Bluffton this morning after a day's visit with friends at Decatur. He is feeling ' I much better. —Bluffton News. Troy Babcock of Logpnsport arriv-I ed in the city yesterday for a short ! . visit with friends and this morning I , left for Monroe to visit with his parents, I. L. Babcock, for a few days He will leave Saturday for Indianap1 oils, where he will enter npon a college course. I Mr. and Mrs. Levi Linn of Toronto. I Canada, who have been visiting here, ; left yesterday afternoon for Fort ; Wayne, where they will visit further I until Friday, when they return home, j They were accompanied to Fort i I Wayne by Mr. Linn's mother, Mrs. ■ ; Mary Linn Breiner. Arthur Vitz, son of the Rev. Henry Vitz, of Indianapolis, former pastor of : the German Reformed church in this - city, was a member of the band that | accompanied the Indianapolis boosters | to this city this morning. Arthur was i but three or four years of age when the i j Vitz family left this city. Workmen engaged in fastening the | ! end of the wife which Prof. Ereig will . I use in his slide for life from the court I i house tower to the roof of the Grove 1 j garage this afternoon dislodged a j large piece of slate from the tpp of! the tower. It fell to the sidewalk below and a pdrty of spectators -had a j narrow escape.' A square blow from j the falling slate could not have but ' resulted fatally. The roof was badly j damaped. The apparatus was not com- j pleted in time for the first slide to I be made on schedule. —Bluffton News |

COURT HOUSE NEW (Continued Front Page One.) vantage. Terms, one-third cash, one third in one year, and one-third in two years. John C. Moran appointed commissioner under $15,000 bond. Out of the two-thirds of the proceeds the cbtfimissioner is to pay first. Its share o' costs, and the costs of the sale, and then to the plaintiff administrator, enough to pay debts of the estate of -Wesley Evans, the balance going to the parties as above found, and the full one-third to the widow, Jennie Evans, less its share of costs. The case of Gustavus A. Heyman et al. vs. George W. Waldrop, on note and account, demand S6OO, which came here from Allen county, was submitted by agreement to the cour . instead of to a Jury, with judgment for the plaintiff for $572.08, and costs. The Independent Torpedo Co. vs. Silas W. Hale et al., account, s7‘. Separate and several motion filed by defendants to make the complaint more specific and certain. Marriage license: Arthur A. Mangold, /lerk. born May 11, 1886, son o.“ Noah Mangold, to wed Agnes Rademaker, born October 12, 1888, daughter of Cornelius Rademaker. The Jury reported today, but excused until tomorrow morning. The current report of Abraham M. Habegger, as guardian of Noah Stauffer was approved. - Fred Llddy, guardian of Ralph Schaupp et al., filed final report as to Ralph and current report as to the others. They were approved and the guardian discharged as to Ralph. The case of the state ex rel. GerI trude Keller vs. Edward Kleinhenz. has been set for trial Friday,.October 13th. Real estate transfers: Cassius M. Andrews to Seth D. Beavers, 20 acres, Kirkland tp., S2IOO. Edward A. Kirchner vs. Bertha Kirchner, possession and damages S2OO. Demurrer to corpplaint filed. A marriage license was issued this afternoon Jo Otis Brandybeny an 1 Miss Flossie Laisure. Call up ’phone 50 and we will reserve oysters for you. Holty’s Case.

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