Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1911 — Page 3

I A Dandy Foot Warmer | ...for the fellow that wants a lot of warmth and | not much weight is our 8 inch felt shoe with a i leather sole and heel. You can fit them with 1 anv kind of an artic, alaska or rubber sandal and B have the warmth of a felt boot and have no more f weight than a light shoe. Another advantage | is that you can sap a clean alasKa or sandal over 1 them on Sunday or when you come to town and I’ you can t tell but what you have on a dress shoe. H Considering the amount of wear and comfort B you w ill get out of them the price is most reasonable too Mens sizes $1.50 I Charlie Voglewede I THE SHOE SEE ! __L_EEF3 ||

WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Wednesday, with rising temperature. Bruce Patterson was a Fort Wayne business visitor yesterday. M. L. Oliver of Monroe was a business visitor here yesterday. P. W. Smith of Richmond was a business visitor here yesterday. Miss Goldie Breiner left yesterday afternoon for Elkhart, where she will make a week’s visit with friends. Mrs. William Dailey returned yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit with friends at Willshire, 0 Wai Wemhoff was attending to business affairs at Berne today in the interest of the Wemhoff Monumental Works. Yager Bros. & Reinking today delivered a large load of furniture to the home of Fred Wietfeldt, near Monroeville, Ind.

KBML.W ’ ' •maiu - f r !« ! THE HOME OF n | I Quaiity Groceries r - ■ WaREX ‘ If We Please You ONCE I WE KNOW We Mav at Least Expect, r To Have The Pleasure of Pleasing | You Again! I Hence Our Care in Purchasing s Quality Goods! — - —-— — ■ That is our experienc every day. New faces com- . ing and they keep coming. Hence our increase in a )0(^s \ .. . j | our thanksgiving ad | for produce ? to 26c I —7 "" " H °we r ’ J SOSOBO3OBO « J. S. Bowers. Pres. F. M. Schirmejer, Vice Free. 3 1 * a 2 g s r ■ 2 The Bowers Realty Company has some_exceb = -j lent bargains in city property O fa"®- TheV - s offerings. The com- g ■ you call at its of , nt money to loa n on a o pany has plenty oi nye s c hirmeyer Abstract ■ 2 reasonable toms- ' tJe. Twenty g o Company prepare j oui 0 2 years experience, complete recora J O o n ■ 0 O The Bowers Realty Co. . _ V S French Quinn, Secty. □

Mrs. C. D. Kunkel was a shopper here yesterday afternoon. Frank Cottrell of Berne was a busi- , ness visitor here yesterday. William Yonts, the Burford man, was a business visitor here today. T. W. Best was a business caller in the south part of the county today. Miss Mamie Teeple went to Fort Wayne this morning for her regular music instruction. Mrs. Dale Moses went to Monmouth ■ this morning to call on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kunkel. Mrs. Mary Breiner went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon where she will visit with her daughter, Mrs. I Belle Humble. The Loyal Women's class of the Christian churcn will give an oyster supper Saturday evening at the G. A. R. hall. Everybody is invited to attend. Lester Baughman was clerking at the Baughman store in the place of Miss Grace Purdy, who, with her sister. Pearl, spent the day in Berne at the home of their uncle, Marshal William Tucker. „ — . - — ■ y... > m ill

1 Mrs. A. M. Fisher was visiting with I friends in Fort Wayne today. Mrs. John Beam changed cars here today on her way to Fort Wayne. Miss Edna Hoffman was a Fort i Wayne business visitor today. Mrs. Frank Host of Willshire, Ohio, transferred here enroute to Fort Wayne. Big fur opening, one day only, Monday, November 27th, at the- Boston Store. I P. W. Smith of Richmond, who was I in the city yesterday on business, reI turned home. ' Veronica, little daughter of Mr. and I Mrs. A. M. Anker, has been ill several I days with catarrhal trouble. I Miss Sarah Zurcher of Berne chang I I ed cars here today on her way to Fort | Wayne for medical treatment. I Miss Bessie Baumgartner of Linn ! I Grove spent the day here visiting I with friends. Bluffton News. Chauncey Lautzenheiser of Berne I was here this morning looking after I some business affairs which required his attention for some time. Miss Lucy Adelsperger arrived this afternoon from South Bend for a visit with her cousin, Mrs. F. V. Mills. She : will be accompanied home tomorrow by Miss Alice E. Hill. James Carrier, who has been working in the Pittsburg Tin Plate works, - arrived home and will spend Thanks-, giving with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ; Frank Carrier, south of the city. Congressman Adair was here today t shaking hands with veteran friends: and other friends also, who number many, and at 10 o’clock! addressed the t old soldiers on a topic most interest- ' ing to all. Mrs. Jesse Buhler and son, John, of' i Las Vegas, New Mexico, who is visit , ing here, spent the day with Mr. and ' Mrs. Sampson Pillars in Root town t ship. Mrs. Buhler was Miss Ethel a Pillars before her marriage. J. S. Bryton, an old soldier, who has been making his home at the Park 3 House for the past year, has gone to Marion, where he will enter the solp diers’ home. Mr. Bryton makes the • change on account of ill health. Miss Vena Bohnke has gone to Ft. Wayne to visit with her sister, Lizzie, t widow of the late Herman Miller, i f Mrs. Miller has been in poor health - and if she is now able, Miss Bohnke ' 11 will bring her here to stay at the ' -1 home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Fred Bohnke, sr., until she recovers. , Mrs. Rebecca Brobst of Catawissa. . I Pa., is here to spend the winter with : 5, her sister, Mrs. Brandyberry, and the k latter's daughter, Miss Mattie Young. t ■ in about six weeks the two sisters will I ' go to Chicago to visit with Mrs. Bran“f ; * dyberry’s daughter, and all three will « j then go to Portland, Oregon, to visit i ; with relatives. t Rev. E. L. Davis of Leipsic, Ohio. 5 l formerly pastor for four years of the •1. Methodist church at DeGraff. Ohio. * was in the city last evening for a H short while waiting for his brother, J John Davis, of Monroe, where he will visit for a few days. While in the city 7 he enjoyed a short talk with Ralph S - Amrine, a friend of his, and whom he I knew for some years. e | Miss Ireta Erwin, a delegate to the 11 district Christian Endeavor convenv i tion to be held at Churubusco over i $ Thanksgiving day, will go to ColumB bia City also, to visit over Sunday , : with the Rev. W. 1. Alexander. The J Rev. Alexander was a former pastor i of the Presbyterian church in this city ■ and is going soon to Kansas to take L ( charge of a church there. g j The Pleasant Mills Modern WoodI men wish to call to public attention | the oyster supper which it will serve I Wednesday evening. November 29th, I in the Woodmen hall in Pleasant I Mills. The public is cordially invited. 7 Get your Christmas presents of the A Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid. which wili * conduct a bazaar in the building oppof site the Hensley store the first week | in December. A full line of fancy ar-[ * tides of all kinds —pretty as well as useful. ■ .. PURITAN SOCIAL. The Ruth Circle of the Christian [ ! church will give a Puritan social | j Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock in | ; the Yeoman hall over the Schmitt, j meat market. The members of the class who entertain will be gowned as j ' Puritans and 'the entertainment will jbe a pleasing and unique one. There j | will be a musical program, followed ' ! by games, including charades, grand j 1 I march, the game of coffee and others 1 appropriate to the occasion. Refresh- j I ’ ments will be served and a silver of-11 sering—anything from ten cents to a ’ 1 j dollar—will be received at the door. \ ’ | Everybody is Invited. The following , ’ I program will be given. ' Instrumental Solo —Germaine Coffee i Instrumental Solo —Marie Daniels. < IReading—Mabel Weldy. < Instrumental Solo—Crystal Kern. ! i Solo —Nellie Daniels. . i i ] Democrat Want Ads. Pay

FELL FROM SCAFFOLD. Late Tuesday evening, while walk ing on a scaffold, eight feet from the ground at the new McCrory property I on West Monroe street, S. E. Whit-! man, formerly of Bluffton, Ind., fel ' suddenly and was unfortunate in causing a severe sprain of an ankle. In some manner the scaffold gave , away as he was working along the' building, and it threw him to the ground giving him no chance to recover his balance. He was assisted to I I the office of a physician, where a thorough examination was given hi I injuries with the result as above stat ed. He was taken to his boarding house in the south part of the city,, i where he will be confined for several ; weeks. W. J. BRYAN A PASSENGER. On Steamer Prince Joachim Which Grounds on Rocks Today. i fUnited press Service.) New York, N. Y., Nov. 22—(Special i to Daily Democrat) —The big Northern i liner, Prince Joachim, on which Wil-i Ham Jennings Bryan Is one of the pas sengers, went ashore on the rocks oi SaMaMa Island, near San Domingo early today. Mrs. Bryan and their six-year-old grandson, John Bryan, are with the democratic leader. Lincoln, Neb , Nov. 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— In a wireless message to Charles W. Bryan this morn-1 ing from his brother, William Jennings Bryan, and coming byway of Key | 1 West, Fla,, was the following informa- j tion: “Vessel grounded a mile out I from the shore; don’t worry; no dan ger." CLOSE THANKSGIVING. Business Houses to Close All Day , Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 30. The following merchants have agreed to close their places of business all I day, Thanksgiving day. November 30, 1911: Kuebler & Co. Niblick & Co. M. Fullenkamp. F. V. Mills. True & Runyon. Everett & Hite. Brushwiller & Baker. Hower & Hower. Sam E. Hite. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Myers-Dailey Co. Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson. Vance, Hite & Macklin. GOES TO AFRICA. Miss Elsie Roush Will Sail on Thanks- ■ giving Day. Miss Elsie Roush, daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. L. Roush, of 125 Dawson street, will leave Fort Wayne on th. 28th of November for New York, and on Thanksgiving day will leave for Africa in company with Bishop Hartzel, of the Msthodist Episcopal churel: and a number or otner mission work ers. The party will go Ibernla in West Africa, and will enter mission ary w'ork in that country. Miss Roush will remain for five years and will teach in a school established by the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the M. E. church at Loanda, in the province of Angola. For the past three years she has studied in the training school at Chicago. She returned to her nome in this city during October. —Fort Wayne Journnl-Ga zette. Miss Roush gave an address so the Epworth League at the Decatur Methodist church Sunday evening. Peter Spangler, Julius Schultz and John Overmann were three candidates who were given the initiatory degree by the C. B. L. of 1. Tuesday evening, and attending social good time following the degree work. | PREBLE NEWS. D. J. Dilling was a visitor in Fort Wayne Sunday. Robert Jaebker returned to Fort , Always get the cream. Don’t wait I till the best of everything is selected. I • We have equipped our store with the ; largest stock we have ever carried, in | diamonds, watches, bracelets, umbiel- ' las, jewelry of all discription, silver | ware, pearl, hollow, fancy handles, . . which will do you good to see. ladies’ . lockets and chains. We have the largest assortment you will find in any city. Ourt motto remains the same. If our goods don"t prove as represented, return them to us. We engrave free and will lay your selection away for you. No deposit needed. HENSLEY, JEWELER. »

Wayne Monday morning, where he is attending the International business college. Miss Eva Steele of Bluffton has been visiting at the Dr. Grandstaff home. Mr. Huser, the elevator man, is very busy these days taking care of the grain and hay hauled in by the farmers. Henry Welling and family will move to t Fort Wayne in a short time, he having rented his farm to C. D. F. Bieberich. Dallas and Eli Goldner are improvi ing nicely, both being able to sit up most of the time. Miss Mangold is I still looking after them. The town of Preble is in need of a good blacksmith. The Preble Telephone company will hold its yearly meeting in the town | hall on Saturday evening, November j 25th. All members are urged to be present, as matters concerning all will be brought up. Delbert Tumbleson spent Sunday with his parents, returning to his work near Huntington on Monday. The wedding bells will soon be heard to ring, as it is said that one j of our young ladies will start out on her matrimonial voyage Thanksgiv- | ing day. — Lawrence Linnemeier is working for Herman Wefel in his grocery and meat shop. Noah Frauhiger has driven all the cats, dogs and rats out of town since he removed his muffler from his automobile engine. John Kirchner spent Sunday with his family, returning to his work at Griffith Monday. Several of the county candidates ! were seen on our streets the past week. The Preble Telephone company will on Saturday evening have an address by their president, Mr. Nathan Ehrman, on the subject, “How to Build and Maintain a Successful Telephone System.

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STEPHENSON UNION SUITS f » \ 1 lu f» il ~ J c . ..- DiA - - FAMOUS for nURABILITY w COMBINED WITH PERFECT FIT YEARS of experience in selling woolen underwear have proven to us and scores of our customers that the Staley Woolen Underwear for quality and service can’t be beat, Once you wear it you'll have no other. Staley Underwear two piece suits $2.00 to $5.50 suit Staley Underwear union suits . . $3.50 to $6.00 suit Staley Over shirts . $1.25 to $2.50 Mens Cotton Union suits . , . . SI.OO to $2.00 Mens Cotton Two piece suits . . SI.OO to $2.00 Boys Woolen Union suits . . . . sl. andsl.so Boys Cotton Union suits 50c and 75c Boys Cotton Two piece suits . . 50c and SI.OO We believe we can give you the best Underwear values in the city. We’d like to show you. ♦ Ftolthohse, Sgl]Lilted Go. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.