Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1911 — Page 3

Plenty of Velvets and Tans To Night We’ve got all sizes and widths of Velvets and all sizes m five styles of Tan Button Boots. The new broad Hi-To last that these shoes are made on has taken the town by storm We can’t get them fast enough and we advise early buying in these styles. $2.50 and $3.50 Charlie Voglewede THE SHOE SELLER

*O<O<O<€'«XO<O < O<O<Q<O<O< i WEATHER FORECAST 1 J 0 ‘o*o«xo<o < o<o<o<o<o<o<o< Cloudy tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature. Abe Boch went to Fort. Wayne on business today. Miss Ruby Miller was a Ft. Wayne business visitor today. Mrs. Malinda Fronfleld of Fort Wayne visited here with friends. Miss Gertrude Geels of Preble went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit. Dan Baumgartner left for his home at Linn Grove to spend Sunday with his mother. Mrs. James Spade and daughter of Fort Wayne are in the city for a visit i with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Weis, sr. John Schug made a business trip south this morning, returning this afternoon for an over-Sunday visit with his family.

IFT! F THE HOME OF * Quality Groceries ( V-jT Linsns«mßHMraß®»aß«K i We Like t0 * Meet You Face to Face That Would be Our Choice! But When This Can’t be The Case We Hope to Hear Your Voice! Use’ Phone 108 for Choice'Groceries Lettuce Michigan Celery New t California Walnuts Kraut Cabbage Jersey Sweet Potatoes Spanish Onions Cream Cheese Eating Apples Switzer Cheese Ear Eop Corn We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 27 Butter 18 to 22c Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Rhone 108. fiOM O ft O ft P ft O aoBODHOBOBOROIOROBOR S J. S. Bowers. Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. & a s ° O w ■ z ■ t The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- g 5 lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ ■ farms, company would be to have g Mt you call at its office and see its offerings. Th. c O Z pany has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ ■ reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract ■ . Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty H I years experience, complete records. 0 O ■ ■ s o « The Bowers Realty Go. ■ | French Quinn, Secty. O 8mobo»o«oio«o«*o«o» obobc moJo

I Attorney L. C. DeVoss was a Fort W ayne business visitor today. Ed Berling has returned from a business trip to New York City. 1 Miss Beatrice Coffelt spent, last evening with her mother, Mrs. C. Grim, in Root township. Joe Tonnelier was at Geneva today looking after interests relatives to the Geneva Glove company. Mrs. Grover Hoffman and son, Frederick, went to Fort Wayne this morning tor a visit with relatives. Miss Verna Harkless has returned from a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harkless, at Poe. Why is it that all spectators stand looking on with breathless interest while a belated traveler runs to catch his car? W. D. Coil returned to his home a* Muncie after being in the city for several days looking after business rela- | tive to his filler plant. Mrs. Roy Venis came home yesterday from Hoagland and Decatur, where she has been visiting since Sunday as the guest of friends and relatives. —Bluffton News.

Mont Fee arrived in the city for an uver-Suuday visit with hl» family. J. B. Stogdill returned to Fort Wayne after a business visit here. Mesdames Charles Rinehart and Dorse Hoagland spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lee left this morning for Wooster, Ohio, for a visit with relatives. Miss Josephine Lang has returned from a visit with Mrs. Claude Gay, east of the city. Julius Haugk returned home from Imboden, Ark., to attend to some business matters for a short time. Mary is the name of the babe born Thursday night to Mr. and Mrs. Gra den Light, living south of the city. Appropriate religious services will be held tomorrow in all the city's churches, to which the public is invited. A gallery god is never late. Some fellers’ idea o’ reciprocity is loosin’ a umbreller an’ stealin’ another one. —Abe Martin. Mrs. Mary Fullenkamp and daughter, Ode, will go to Fort Wayne to spend Sunday with their daughter and sister, Mrs. D. M. Reed. Wlhat’s become o’ all th’ patent gates we used t’ see in th’ country? Ther haint nothin’ as lazy as a dressmaker's husband. —Abe Martin. Mrs. John Peoples, who underwent an operation for the removal of a tumor some time ago, is recovering. She is now able to sit up a while. Mrs. William Skillman, who has made a four weeks’ visit with her cousin, Miss Mary Closs, left this morning for her home in Hartwell, Ohio. Mrs. Otto Kirsch and daughter, Helen, went to Fort "Wayne last evening for a visit with her parents. She will be joined this evening by Mr. Kirsch in an over-Sunday 'visit. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hocker, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Tritch and Charles Dunn were among those who atended the dedication services of the Monroe new school house last evening. You can alius tell a good-for-nothin’ farmer by th’ pile o’ old buggy wheels back o’ his corncrib. It hain’t been long since a feller used t’ say, “Why, I’d no more think o’ doin’ that than I’d think o’ flyin’.”—Abe Martin.

The Mutschler meat market is building a new office department in the front of the store that will add much to the convenience of the employees as well as to the appearance j of the place. Over at Sterling, 111., Miss Jennie I Wilson, - aged forty-eight, and Frank j Spencer, aged seventeen, eloped The | boy’s father was in pursuit, but whether of the boy or the woman, the ' paper failed to say. Frank Gass has returned from ElI wood, where he was called by the seri ious illness of his brother-in-law, Bernard Weismantle and daughter, who | are ill with typhoid. He reports that i they are now getting along well, r Several of the Bluffton rural mail I carriers are figuring on buying automobiles for their work of carrying the ' United States mails, and by early I spring it is expected that at least | three or four of the carriers will be so I equipped, says the Bluffton News. The reservation of the seats for the I lecture course this morning at the Holthouse drug store started off with a rush and from the present looks of the board there will be a full house for each evening. The students have worked hard and are deserving of a I liberal patronage. Frank Kern of Fort Wayne, a forI mer Decatur man, is in the city looki tag ofter some insurance business. I He and Albert Acker, the local agent, returned yesterday from Bluffton, where they had been on a similar mission, and at once got busy on a num- | her of prospects here. O. H. Long of Columbus, Ohio, representing the Warren B. Ferris Brick Company, was in town Friday, and through R. C. Gillig, manager of the Fort Recovery Tile company, sold to Mayor Harting and Harold Anthony fancy velvet brick for the outside walls of their new residences. The brick are the new type of fancy or | rough finish, in fact, very rough, and ; I are now very stylish and largely used ' for residence purposes. These two jobs will be the first of the kind in I Fort Recovery.—Fort Recovery Jour-, nal. Writes a medical authority. “The I Chinese are far behind other people in the matter of sanitary regulations and slow to adopt modern methods. I And still the}' have sound ideas as to hygiene, which, wnile they may be crude, are, nevertheless, effective. They employ steam as a disinfectant. Napkins and towels, as well as wearing apparel, are subjected to hot steam baths, and at theaters, restaurants and in homes steaming hot towels are served with which hands and faces are vigorously rubbed. The hot flatiron is used on garments with killing effect."

Rev. G. Bauer was a business visitor hero today. Frances Cole was assisting at the Winnes shoe store today. Mrs. Congleton and daughter, Bess, spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Coppock Is suffering from a severe attack cf grip in the old-fashion-ed form. F. M. Armantrout of Geneva, who was here this afternoon on business, returned to his home. Clark Spahr went to Berne this afternoon for a short stay there, to look after some business affairs. Mrs. James Stulls and daughter are at Monroe for a visit with their daughter and sister, Mrs. Glen Glancy. George Tricker was at. Geneva this afternoon, business of importance requiring his attention for a short while. Hon. Levi Mock, biggest attorney in Indiana, was heie today from Bluffton, looking after affairs in the Adams circuit court. The frosty air and the threatened ; winter weather brought in a good crowd ot buyers today and the various stores were quite busy. W’hen buying confectionery for ‘‘Her.” only the best answers. That is why so many young men insist on ! having the He-Mi-La purity brand. Miss Mayme Terveer, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. C. W. ; Uhl, at Toledo, Ohio, for the past three weeks, returned home last evening. Charles Dull and daughter, Velma, of Wren, Ohio, went to Fort Wayne for medical treatment for Velma, an infantile paralysis sufferer. She is recovering. Howard Flack of Huntington will arrive this evening for anover-Sunday visit with the John Stewart family. Mrs. Flack has been a visitor at the Stewart home tre greater part of the week. Traffic Manager Hardy of the Chicago & Erie railroad was here Friday evening looking after business affairs. The Erie will very probably double-track their line through this county next summer. Hon. S. B. Fleming of Fort Wayne was here Friday afternoon attending an important meeting of the box board factory. Mr. Coil of Muncie and other members of the company ►from Vincennes were also here. An Amishman named Schwartz, was heretoday and signed a contract to raise sixty acres of sugar beets for the new Decatur factory. Mr. Schwartz has been raising the beets, and knows what the work and the profits are. , Do you realize that three week" from next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day and that Christmas is but seven, weeks away. The seasons fly around so rapidly that we have to get ready for them now or they will get past without notice. Julius Haugk arrived home last night from Arkansas and will immediately close up his business wit!) ! the committee relative to the selling , cf his land for the new factory site. Mr. Haugk is planning to erect a fourstory business block here early in the spring. State Superintendent of Public In struction Charles Greathouse, one of the most popular of the state officers, came in yesterday afternoon and visited with the boys until time for him to go to Monroe. He spent the night at the Murray and left this morning for Indianapolis. Miss Nona Forbing, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Clinton Johnson, at Lewistown, Ohio, who

■ was operated upon the forepart of the week for tumors of the stomach and appendicits, returned home, stating that her sister was greatly improved. She was accompanied by her niece. Miss Ruth Mary, who will make a re- . turn visit here. The Rev. Semans of the Methodist church will give one of his “sermons in story” tomorrow evening, being based upon Catherine Holland Brown's story, “The Mother of the Island.” The pastor often takes his sermons from stories where application of the great truths of the gospel to life is made, and among those which j will follow, from time to time will be i “Ben Hur," “Rotnola," “The Sky Pilot” and others equally famous and well liked. BANK CLOSES DOORS. (United Press Service.) Rochester, Ind., Nov. 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Akron Citizen’s bank, with deposits of more than SIOO,OOO, was closed today on orders received from the Indiana state auditor, and Howard Harker, son of Andrew Harker, president of the bank, is said to have admitted to the police a shortage of between s’s,ofi<i and $35,000. Young Harker is now in the voluntary custody of the sheriff, no wararnt being as yet sworn out for his arrest. He Is well known for his large number of diamonds, spendthrift, and his automobiles.

Corn at its Best - x \ M \\ / (f Y'\ W I “Ole Virginny” corn pone? Ripe, juicy corn on the sis M cob? Both mighty good—but they’re not in it with ys. O t/n $ > Kellogg’s. Just imagine ripe, sugar-sweet corn 1 ” corn. That's corn at its best—that’s Kellogg’s. -nJ 1 Wi I Have it for tomorrow’s breakfast, sure. If 11/ A I THE ORIGINAL HAS THIS SIGNATURE f __ \ \ J3' - X’Wt ‘ LL

For Sale at Monroe Public School Building 15 Windows and Frames, Several inside and outside doors, windows and door casings, wainscote lumber, about 200 iron spot brick coal house Bft by 12ft, two out houses 4ft by Bft, quantity of miscellaneous moulding and lumber.

Wm. Everly Contractor IT’S ,B GUARANTEED B R>OULTEY W f 1 I \W The druggists below B) vk can tell you. B/ INVESTIGATE '•J/ Smith, Yager & Falk I Lachot & Rice | Holthouse Drug Co.

“SHUR ON” Eye-glass mountings adjusted by us add the final touch of refinement to your personal appearance. They are the most comfortable. If you have never worn glasses, see us. If you suffer from the unsightliness and discomfort of ordinary glasses, see us. If you would see better see us. No Charge for Examination fr-EYESiHHT Hotel Comer roTci w«!fNE.iNr>. SyroOqu&reabxUer’urbtxxAOtu.UaS.,

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