Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1911 — Page 3

| Skating Boots I | For The Boys A high top shoe is the sensible thing for boys • (winter wear, keep his feet dry and his ankles warm. We have them in medium and heavy weights, some with buckles and straps, some without. The boys like them and you’ll like the way - they wear. Big boys $2.50 and $3.00 Little boys $1.50 and $2.00 , Charlie Voglewede The Shoe Seller I

4»<MH>»C+O*O>o ♦ cxooecxoii WEATHER FORECASTS X > ♦©♦o*o ♦ o*o»o*o*o*(xo« Fair tonight in south, rain in north portion this afternoon and tonight: generally fair Sunday. Mary Erwin was the guest of friends at Berne today. John Schug is home for an overSunday visit with his family. Kate Hammel has gone to Portland for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Smith. Mont Fee is home after a week’s aband will spend the veek-enl with his family. John B. Holthouse was a business caller at Bluffton today, looking after his interests in the cement business. Leo Yager arrived home from his regular trip and will spend Sunday here with his sister and brothers. Great is the interest manifested in the Scheimann-Lammiman trial being held at Portland, with Judge Moran presiding. A number of people of this city are interested in the trial and for the past three days many hare been witnesses in the case.

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I. H. R. Moltz was a Fort Wayne busii t’ess yesterday. E. B. Lenhart was at Fort Wayne i yesterday on business. Messrs. Fox and Schne of Fort Wayne were here visiting with friends. Miss Gertrude Butler was an extra clerk at the Steele & Weaver racket store today. Ed Bailey of Monroe passed through the city this morning on his way to Fort Wayne on business. John Stoneburner was a business caller at Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. returning home on the afternoon car. Mrs. H. L. Center, who has been . here for several days, visiting with relatives, left this morning for her home at Indianapolis. i Mr. and Mrs. William Weldy have gone v North Carlisle, Ohio, to attend the conference of the Brethren 1 in Christ, being held there this week. Mrs. Harve Schroll and children, i Grace and Helen: Mrs. .1. A. Tester and Master Floyd Burdg went to Marion yesterday for an over Sunday visit with Lawrence Tester and family.

I). W. Beery was/t Fort Wayne bus! 1 ness visitor today. J B. Rice was a Fort Wayne bus! j ness visitor today. J. W. Tyndall made a business trip ! to Columbia City this morning. Omer Butler spent the day in Berne. ! w here he attended teachers' institute . Mrs. Elmer Sprague of near Mon I roeville was a shopper here yester- ] day. F. M. Cottrell of Berne was a buffi- . ness caller for a short while in our ■ city today. Mrs. John Coffee and Mrs. Koenig ; were Fort Wayne callers today, re j turning home this afternoon. Charles Colter returned home this , I morning from Winchester, where he 1 was on business for several days. Mrs. Emma Armey returned this j morning to Mentone after a visit with ! her son, Robert Armey, and family. I A trip through the country at this ; season Is delightful, the trees beine i now adorned with all the beautiful ‘ autumn tints. Fran'' kSchultz left today noon for | Butler, where he will visit with friends a tew days. Look out, girls, Frank is i sure a ladies’ man. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Kiser and son ot Linn Grove arrived lase evening foe a I visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wolford, at Monmouth. Miss Mary Colchin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Colchin,, has returned from Fort Wayne, where she spent the week as the guest of Mrs. Frank Mcßennett and Mrs. John Dailey. Dr. R. G. Knoff has now moved into Mrs. Anna Liechty’s house on Sprung er street and Peter C. Moser will remain in the Orphans' home building another winter. —Berne Witness. Mrs. J. C. Moran and children of Decatur, Mrs. Lena Yager and Mrs. Ferd Mettler of this place took dinner yes- • terday with Nir. and Mrs. Lawrence Yager on West Main street. —Berne Witness. Mrs. Jerry Torrence of Marion, who spent several days in Indianapolis, re- ■ turned to Portland Thursday evening ' for a several days' longer visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Bryson. —Portland Sun ( I Ralph Amrine left today noon for DeGraff, Ohio, where he will spend . Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. • Charles Amrine, going to meet an uncle and aunt from Illinois, who art gue.sts there, and whom he has never seen. Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Arminth'. Elchar, living east of town, suffered a stroke of paralysis, which affected her entire left side. At present hei i mjnd is becoming affected and it is ! not likely that she win last more than a day or two, at the most.—Willshire Herald. I J. F. Ijichot and sons, Dwight and Dewey, left this noon for Bluffton to make a visit with Mrs. Mary King, sis- ' ter of Mr. Lachot, who has been sick I for some time. Recently she suffered . an attack of heart trouble, and since ' then has been in a rather weakened j condition. Her friends wish her a ' speedy recovery. I The power of environment aud asi sociation is strong. While riding in I a car a boy, who is the son of a stock I buyer of this city, looked from the ) window- and saw a herd of cattle. ' "Look at the soup bones,” he said, ' A son of a shoe maker would probably | have looked at them from the hide [ standpoint, and a dairyman from the milk or butter point of view Mrs. N. E. Vitz and son. Robert-Her-man, returned this afternoon to their ‘ home hi Defiance, Ohio. They came i to attend the funeral of Mrs. Edward 1 Worth maun, and while here visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs Herman Sellemeyer. They were accompanied to Fort Wayne by Miss Matilda Sellemeyer. who will visit until tomorI row evening with the Misses Matiklp Genthner and Pauline Werkman. The Baseball Magazine. Special World Series Number, is just out, and contains some fine dope, comparing the Giants and Athletics. This special issue is profusely illustrated with photographs of all the leading con- ; testants in the great World Series. There are good football stories, and a tine lite story of Champion Frank Gotch. Among the contributors of this I issue- are Edward Collins ol tire Cham- » pion Athletics, an article by John Evers, together with stories on Connte Mack and Frank Schulte. —The Basehall Magazine Company. The truest, best and sweetest type 'of the girl of today does not come ' I from the home of wealth, she steps i out from the home where is comfort I ' rather than luxury. She belongs to 1 the great middle class—that class which has given us the best wifehood, 1 which has given helpmates to the ! foremost men of our time: which ; I teaches its daughters the true meani Ing of love; which teaches the mani ners of the drawing room and the ' practical life of the kitchen as well as ' teaches its girls the responsibility of ( I wifehood and the greatness of mother-I •;ood. —Ex. i

FOR TELEPHONE COMPANY. Frank Milla Will Begin Wonk Monday In Minneapolis—Office Job. Prank Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Mills, who has been Working In Min-; neapolis this summer, will on next i Monday begin work in the office of the | 1 Northwestern Telephone company at ' that place, having a good position In | the office department. He has been ; spending the summer there, serving as ■ collector for the People’s Magazine, and finds the city very agreeable. He : Is making his home while there in the Y. M. C. A. building. Frank, who ; is a graduate of the Decatur high school, and taught a successful term , of school In the county last year, is a- - and will without doubt make ( ! good in his new place. home. He reports the Decatur people there getting along all right and doing fine. Fanchon and Harold Magley went to Monmouth to visit with their aunt, Mrs. C. C. Wilder. Mrs. Ves Baker of near Berne was a shopper here today and the guest of her mother, Mrs. Frank Martz. Mr. and Mrs. John Schafer of Cincinnati, Ohio, are in the city for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Harting. Miss Bess Jeffries left this afteruoon for Fort Wayne to enter the Lutheran hospital nurses’ training class. Joe Kortenbrer, who has been spend | ing the summer months u pnorth, in Saskatchewan, Canada returned Mrs. T. M. Gallogly and daughter, 1 Carrie, went to Portland today to visit with her father, George Ramseyer. I vho is ill with asthma. Paul Tawney of Trufon, Mich., who has been here for some months work ing at the W. P. Colchin Candy Kitchen, left last night for his home. John Niblick will go to Leipsic, O. this afternoon to join his wife in a visit over Sunday with their son-in law, O. P. Edwards, and wife. > i Alphonse Kohne ano uaughter, Mists . I Agnes, left at noon today for Riel.- ) mond to spend Sunday with thei’ daughter and sister. Mrs. Chas. Cole. Mrs. M. C. Merryman, formerly oi r this city, but now living in Indiana] 1 oils, has bought a piece of property in . that city at 944 East Georgia stree l , ■ instead of her son-in-law, John B. Burkhead, as Mondays paper stated, r through a misunderstanding. Joseph Korternbrer and Clifford ’ Brown, who last March iett with Ton., 1 Hackman and Carl Moses for Sas- : katchewan, Canada, where the two later have a large ctrip of land and where they just reaped a large har--1 vest, returned home and will spend the winter months here. They report the weather there is already of the 1 real winter style, having snow since > September and ice is frozen several - inches thick. The Decatur people are : all doing fine and will perhaps arrive I home som£ time in December, or shortly afterward, until spring, when I they will again return. Mr. Brown i and Mr Kortenbrer have been in the employ of Messrs. Hackman and Moses and the time spent there was greatly enjoyed. EXECUTRIX SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned executrix of the last will and testament of James M. Archbold, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction on the late residence of the decedent, two and one-half miles southeast of Decatur, on the old Piqua road, St. Mary’s township, Adams county, Indiana, on Tuesday, October 17, 1911, at 10 o'clock a. m., the fol lowing property, to-wit: Two Head of Horses: One gray mare, 8 years old; 1 black mare, 13 years old. Seven Head of Cattle: Two milch cows, part Jersey, giving milk; 1 one-year-old heifer, part Jersey: 1 one-year-old steer, part Durham; 3 spring calves. Hogs: One brood sow, 7 spring shoats, 8 last fall shoats. Farming Implements: Milwaukee binder. McCormick mower, good as new: McSherry grain and fertilizer drill, hay rake, 2-horse wagon, breaking plow, springtooth harrow, spike-tooth harrow, sulky corn plow, 2-shovel plows,l onehorse cultivator, hand garden plow, set work harness, sweat pads, set manure boards, cross-cut saw, 16-foot ladder, hay ladder, scoop shovel, grindstone, Jack plane, shovel, spade, log chain, mattock, grain sackp. two-third Interest in 8 acres of corn in shock, and many other articles not herein mentioned. For all amounts of $5.00 and under,! cash in hand. For al) amounts over I $5.00 a credit of 9 months will be giv-1 en, note bearing 6 per cent interest | after maturity, and waiving valuation or appraisement laws will be requir-| ed. No property to be removed until I settled for. MARY C. ARCHBOLD. Executrix. John Spuhler, Auctioneer. 1 I Special Sunday dinner, ar < Holty’s Case, better than ; ever. Only 35 cents.

Gee! I Everything but f ■ // ® ut you can be sure he remembered 9 ■ Kellogg's. ■ The crackling, filmy flakes are far toe BK 9 J// '/ 6 delicious to ever forget. A delightful taste of purest white corn ' V Nr Is •$. II flaked and then toasted in the inimit- J able Kellogg way. Have Kellogg’s for tomorrow’s breakfast and ' Ard deli « ht the J THE ORIGINAL HAS | O

FOUND —Small white hood. Ownet 11 can have same by calling at this office and paying for ad. 24113 What is the difference between the president’s traveling expenses and a menu card? One is the fare of Bill, and the other a bill of fare! ; COME And look over our bill of , fare before arrangingyours ‘ You’ll like our Meats. Most Tender our chops, our steaks are rare Excellent our hams, salt meats the same. All cuts prepared with greatest care™ To serve and to please you, our aim! ;’— — - DYONh SCHMITT ♦ ♦ . SB S S ♦ iilN A PINCH : ♦ You -can borrow any amount * from us from $5 up, on your household goods, pianos, teams, wagons, etc., without removal, * and c-n 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 fifty ♦ weeks pays a $35.00 loan. All ♦ * amounts in proportion. * If you need money, fill out ♦ the following blank, cut it out * | * and mail it to us. B Our agent is in Decatur every ♦ ♦ Name ♦ * Address; St. and No ♦ ♦ Amount Wanted # « Reliable Private ♦ H. W»»nf hu CiMW’iif ♦ ♦ Established 1896. Room 2. Sec- * ♦ ond Floor, 706 Calhoun Street * Home ’Phone, #33. * Fort Wayne. Ind ♦

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The best and cleanest place ' in tlie city to eat your meals is . at Holty’s Case. Try his 1 special Sunday dinner and be 1 convinced. Only 35 cents.

$25<»,000 7< CUMULATIVE PREFERRED STOCK (PREFERRED AS TO ASSETS AND DIVIDENDS.) OF THE DECATUR MOTOR CAR COMPANY. OF DECATUR; INDIANA (Incorporated Under the Laws of Indiana.) MANUFACTURERS OF THE « “Decatur Hoosier Limited” 1J TON MOTOR TRUCK. PAR SIOO PER SHARE Dividends Payable January Ist and July Ist Callable on Any Dividend Date (After Three Months’ Notice) at Slov . ] , Per Share and Accumulated Dividends. * CAPITALIZATION ’ Preferred Stock (74 Cumulative) » $200,000 > Common Stocks3so,ooo ’ NO BONDED IN DERTEDNESS i The charter of the Decatur 'victor Car Company provides that the , holders of the Preferred Stock shall receive a fixed cumulative tfivi- I dend of seven per cent per annum, payable semi-annually on the first I days of January and July of each year. The Preferred Stock shall fapreferred both as to principal and dividend, and, in case of the dissolution of the corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary the hold ers of the Preferred Stock shall be paid on the basis of SIOO per share i and all unpaid accrued or accruing dividends thereon shall before any . amount shall be paid to the holders of the Company’s Common Stock * No bonds, mortgages or encumbrances of any kind can be placed against any of the property of the Company without consent of at least 75 per cent" of the outstanding Preferred Stock. The Company has built up an effective orgartization for the manufacture andl distribution of its product. The personnel of the management and directorate taken in connection with the history of the company to date, .s, in itself, in the nature of a guarantee of th, I soundness of this issue. guarantee of the I Th ® eatings for the twelve months of 1912 should show over r 7 t,mes the entire preferred dividend requirement and over I I fer£d dijdend* BUthorlzed c °ntmon stock after payment of pre- I From the standpoints of security, liberal income yield and prob- I ab,c appreciation in value we~gard the above offering as one o/ the I moßt w a e tt offe t r Ve . i " V " t, 7" ts . in th * Present industrial market. I portion of the ahovf . pr, ? r , sale and advance in price, the unsold j at S9O oer char, t h' ISSUe of 7 per c ent Cumulative Preferred Stock I * s9 ° per sha ' e t 0 te accompanied by a bonus of 50 per cent in I of the Company' " ' " ’ ' I — IL. For Further Information Address WALTER A. UNDERWOOD & CO. I INVESTMENT SECURITIES ! -ORM. E. BRACKETT, Prest. Hanover Bank Building Decatur Motor Car Co., I DECATUR. INI., NEW YORK, N. Y. I

New business coming every. day. Why? Purity, cleanliness and quality brings them to Holty’s Case. A special Sunday dinner, 35 cents.