Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1911 — Page 5

I Say Kids I I Tell your Dad to buy you a | t pair of my high top shoes | f with straps and buckles at I g the top. Got em in black j g and tan. A lot of fellows I will be wearing them next ■ Monday A. M. I ■ ■ Charlie Voglewede B THE SHOE SEEL.L_EEF?

■X <• 40 « o»o*o<o*oc WEATHER FORECAST II 0 i A - o* Increasing cloudiness tonight: Wednesday cloudy, with rain or snow in south portion. Miss Lilly Gates of Wren, Ohio, was I a shopper here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff of Monmouth were business visitors here yesterday. Mrs. Harry Braden and Mrs. C. H. Schafer went to Fort Wayne yesterday noon. Miss Mayme Deininger and Mrs. Fred Deininger were Fort Wayne visitors yesterday. Mrs. J. L. Edge fell Sunday morning with what was thought to be a slight paralytic stroke. Miss Ella Meyers went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with her brother, Ed Meyers, and wife. Thomas Bright, who has been making a few days’ visit with his mother, Mrs. Nancy Bright, returned to Fort Wayne yesterday. D. M. Swartzba igh, representative of the Prendergast company of Marion, Ohio, was a business visitor here yesterday, calling on Smith & Beil. Miss Bessie May left yesterday afternoon for the home of her sister, Mrs. Dayton Barkley, near Hoagland, where she will spend the remainder of the week.

1 UlUb yon : < O TC, ’ 'wm </< JUcrrti <a :<v I fin?jusVS% y waMin W shoe e s, 1“ I present so much more appreciated than the) One av Article so foolishly but so ’ n Xmas I me. Come let us help you nme jour sei ection. WINNES SHOE STORE | !J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer. V.ce Pres. . § ’ 0 o « s 0 ■ 3 The Bowers Realty- Company "cSy g ) lent bargains in city prope leased to have g ® farms. The Co ™P al }y? its offerings. The com- q 2 you call at >ts office and on on 5 pany has plenty of hve p schirmeyer Abstract ■ 2 reasonable term". of tit e. Twenty g ■ Company prepare >*±“* > j years experience, complete rec «u o ■ ■ O The Bowers Realty Co- — ■ S French Quinn, Secty. niOlC

Mrs. E. L. Carroll was a Fort Wayne ’ visitor today. Mrs. Reuben Gilpin spent the day in | j Fort Wayne. Mrs. J. W. Tyndall went to Fort i , Wayne this morning. Mrs. John Macy and Mrs. W. S. I Smith of Monroe, who were shoppers ; here yesterday, returned this morn-, ing. • Father Benzinger of Hesse Cassel, who arrived here Sunday in response ; to a ’phone message to come to the i bedside of Father Wilken, who is very j ■ seriously ill, returned home this noon. Mr. and Mrs. George Roop had as i | their guests over Sunday Mrs. Hattie Sells and children, Mr. and Mrs. Gro-1 , ver Sells and family and Mr. and i Mrs. M. L. Oliver of Monroe. The day was pleasantly spent and greatly | enjoyed by all. Frank Parent, employed by the lowa Construction company, received word this morning to be ready to report at. Ruhl, Texas, in ten days, and will leave here on Monday next, going to St. Louis, thence to Dallas, Texas, and on from there to the place of his destination. The Misses Mary and Amelia Niblick began moving yesterday into i their newly remodeled home on Marshall street, which was formerly the Closs homestead, the girlhood home of their mother. The house has been remodeled in a handsome manner, both inside and outside, and is modern in i all respects.

C. C. Schug of Berne was here to-| day on business. Mrs. Al Kauffman is the guest of I friends at Berne. Mike Miller returned this afternoon from a business trip to- Portland. Young people’s measuring social at U. B. parsonage tonight. Public in- j vited. Clayson Carroll was at Richmond! this morning looking after some busi-| ness affairs. Mrs. Vine Hendricks of Monroe, : who was here yesterday, returned to her home. Mrs. A. F. Wilson returned to her home at Berne after a short visit here with friends. O. P. Steiner of Claypool .txu.nedl home this morning after a visit here ' | with friends. I Perry Fawling of Warsaw returned | heme this morning after a visit here i with friends. Gay, Zwick & Myers delivered a load of fine furniture to the Knipsteir. home near Hoagland today. Mrs. Daisy Noffinger and babe returned to their home at Monroe after a brief stay here with friends. Mrs. H. D. Ostermeyer has return-

ed to Monroe after being among the visitors here for a short while Mrs. Dan Bailey of Geneva returned to her home after visiting here with her son, John Bailey, and familv Mrs. Mary Brodbeck of Fort Wayne transferred here on her w’ay to Monroe to make a several days visit with friends. Julius and C. C, Schug and Amos Neuhauser of Berne changed cars here this morning on their way to Ft. Wayne. John Schug left this morning on his • regular trip as traveling salesman aft'er spending Sunday here with his ; family. Mrs. Charles Thropp and son, Rob- | ert, left yesterday for Portland, where I they will visit with Mr. Thropp’s mother, Mrs. F. W. Thropp. Mrs. Ben Kohne and daughter, Gerj aldine, went to Fort Wayne this afterI noon to call on her sister, Mrs. Clem Hake, who is ill and was taken to the hospital. Miss Lucile Gillig, a student at the state university at Bloomington is here to spend her holiday vacation with- her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Gillig, and family. Mrs. Henry Stevens, Mrs. William R. Wood, Mrs. Tracy Stevens and their guest, Mrs. Hannah Manley of Lansing, Mich., spent the day in Fort Wayne with Mrs. Al Bauchman. Miss Beatrice Coffelt was called to the home of her mother, Mrs. C. Grim, this morning by a message of the illness of Lafayette, the litjle son

of Mrs. Grim, who is ill with the grip. Mrs. Claude Caton and daughter. Claudine, of Lagrange are here, guests of her sister, M. J. Welker, and other relatives. They will remain over the holidays, visiting with her father, James Steele, of Kirkland township, before returning. Mrs. Ed Moses and daughters, Gertrude and Mabel, went to Ft. Wayne to call on their cousin, Dr. Cowan, who is a patient at a hospital there, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis recently. He is reported as getting along nicely. Ernst Schlickman, who was Injured four weeks ago in a fall against a wagon he was repairing, is still con fined to his home. He is recovering nicely from his injuries and would probably have been able to be out but for a cold which he contracted. The sale of Mrs. Rnchel Baughman was held today at the farm near South Salem. Mrs. Baughman will move about the holidays to Ft. Wayne, where her daughters aro employed. Her son, Gail Baughman, and family of Ean Claire, Mich., will make their home on the farm. Omer Butler returned this morning | from near Berne, where he is teach-1 ing On account of the smallpox scare in that vicinity, not enough pupils reported for duty yesterday to warrant the continuance of the school sessions at present, so it was dismiss- ; e d for a while. A lively blaze started In the <oal ( elevator of the Berne Grain & Hay company yesterday morning about 8-30 o’clock when some pitch with I which workmen were going to paint i the roof caught fire. Prompt action | on the part of the men averted serious damage before the fire department was obliged to throw water.-Berne j Witness. Mrs Ellen Borne will leave Tuesday morning for Cardwell, Mo, where she will visit with a sister, Mrs. Minnie Gorham, whom she has not seen for eleven years. She will spend a month, visiting and recuperating, and will return at the end of the mouth’s visit, ready to resume her work as a trained nurse. She has been much in demand as a nurse and feels that she needs the rest. She anticipates with much pleasure her visit with her sis-| ter _—Bluffton News.

Charles Berning went to Ft. Wayne , this morning. Miss Ida Bogner went to Fort j Wayne this morning. John Kelly’ of Geneva was numbered among the business callers here this morning. Mrs. Shafer Peterson went to Monmouth this afternoon. S. E. Hite made a business trip to I Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. Anna Bailer and son, Hubert', went to Fort Wayne this morning. Charles Schug of Berne, who was I L here theis morning attending to busi- j I ness matters, returned at noon to his t home. o OBITUARY. '' Joseph Willis Hakes was born in the year A. D. 1856, on the 14th day of May, and passed out of this life on i | December -5, 1911, at 1 o’clock a, m„ i aged 55 years, 7 months and 29 days., He was united in marriage to Susan Irene Montgomery in the year 1879, on the 22nd day of November. To this union were born ten children, six boys and four girls, one child and the wife having preceded him in death, leaving nine children and two brothers to mourn their loss, — IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. 1 A few days ago C. C. Schafer adver-1 tised a Kimball piano for sale. The advertisement was a small one. but ■ the results prove that it pays if you I are selling an article the people want. The piano was sold the same evening the first advertisement appeared and i the buyers are still coming. Today he asked us to notify the public that the piano was sold and that he had no more goods in that line. 0 CARD OF THANKS. We wish in this manner to extend our heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors who so willingly assisted us during the illness and death of our beloved father, J. W. Hakes. THE CHILDREN. Attention. See the P. K. Kinney real estate agency before you purchase any farms or city real estate. I have some choice bargains. Office with Peterson & Moran, over the interurban office. 293t6 LOST—Between G. R. & I. depot on Monroe street and Holty’s Case, $5 bill. Finder please leave at Democrat office and receive reward. FOR SALE—Farm of 200 acres, situ-; ated 4 miles southwest of Willshire, •• Ohio; 2 miles southeast of Steele,Ind.: has 10 room house, with cellar, and 4 room tenant house; barn 40x77 | feet; orchard of 150 bearing apple trees; plums, pears and other small

J fruit. Farm will bear dividing into jBO and 120 acres. Reason for selling. ’ ' old age and no help. For terms, ad- - ! dress S. Campbell, or call at farm. 293t24.Wr1 ■ ' '94983 I i WANTED —Men to learn the barber trade. Here Is an Offer that includes : tools with tuition. A method that ’ saves years of apprenticeship. Posi- ’ i tions waiting in city or country shops. ’ Write Mole Barber college. Chicago. ’ 111. . 5 4 , Democrat Ads Pay FORSALE BUCKWHEAT FLOUR Inquire of John Hessler Rural Route 2 and Phone 10 on N line, or Jleave orders . with Smith, Yager & Falk. _..., — 60. Plenty of Gifts Here for Men They are hard to pljsase at Christmas time, but you've probably noticed that most of them prefer gifts of the sensible, useful sort. Practically everything we sell is in that class. So if you want to give some man a present that he will really appreciate, come in here today and pick it out. A FEW SUGGESTIONS: Tools and Tool Sets, Handy Tool Kits, Pocket Knives, Reading Lamps. ' Safety Razors (Gillette, Star, Gem Junior, Auto Strop, Durham-Duplex, Ward, etc.), Ordinary Razors, Shaving Sets, Strops. Luxury Lahter Brushes, Cork Screws, Revolvers, Drawing Sets, Key Rings, LT. S. Ice Sak4.es (all models), Manicure Sets, etc.

= - —; — HtSlfai — — i—, I -—| EUi .s/ . X - - - ~~ '~iniMUj,Qjji- r rilllfS-.. jmii ti't tut - 1 ■■w~r-irr~—ft — Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marr Christmas Cheer And Good Clothes

Go Together, We’ve a lot of good things here for Xmas giving; things that men are glad to get; and that are worth while, Chief among them are HART, SCHAFFNER AND MARX CLOTHES But \ ou’ll find a good many less expensive things here for men such as Dress Shirts 50c to $1.50 Sweater Coats . . . SI.OO to $6.00 Mufflers 25c to 1.50 Gloves 25 to 2.50 Neckwear . , .... 25c to 1.00 Bagsand Suit Cases . I.ooto 12.50 Combination Sets . . . 50c to 1.50 Handkerchiefs. . . -.05 to .50 Laund-y Bags 2.00 Caps 50 to 3.00 Fancy Vests $1.50 to 3.00 Hats 50 to 5.00 GLAD TO SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE Holthouse Schulte & Co* Good Clother Sellers for Men and Boys

FARMERS! Mougey it Le?. vaT ’_ the new blacksmithing firm at the Monroe street stand, are at present making to the farmers a good offer, which they will redeem on December 24th, to the man who brings to them the largest, ears of corn, as specified in connecting a< Eight new shoes for first largest ear. Four new shoes for second largest ear. Four old shoes for third largest e:r By Christmas Eve, at the Monroe street shop. PETE MOUGEY & MILT LEAVELL 2t»I —2tw-6wks Meet me at the Model cigar store 206t5

L 1 I * .A, y'Your Christmas MOnev \ '■ 111 ■ '■■■■— Will go round if you buy here. Practical gifts that will be appreciated. Now is the time to buy. Look in our show window for suggestions. TEEPEE, BRANDYBERRY & PETERSON

FOR SALE —Good 6 room house on I So. 7th street; almost two lots, ex-1 cellent condition. A bargain. In-, quire at this office. > 296t3* I

We will clean and ci! your harness at the following LOW PRICES Double breeching harness $2.00 Double hip-strap harness $1.50 Double buggy harness . . . $1.20 single buggy harness . . . -95 c Single express harness . . . Bring in your harness early and have it ready W hei you want it. ATZ & STEELE

FOR SALE—Two 6-ft. candy cases at half cost—C. E. Baughman. 295t3 WANTED—To rent farm in Adams Co —grain rent. —R. Bell, Chalmers, Ind. 29613