Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1911 — Page 3

I Ever Notice When I g Dad Comes Home I I ...in the evening, slips his shoes off and f cocks feet up on a chair? His feet are tired. Would’nt it be dandy to say on H Christmas morning, “Here Dad is some- || H thing to rest your weary feet” and hand || him a pair of nice, soft, easy slippers? H Try it. W e can help you. H I Charlie Voglewede I THE SHOE SELLER I

i OTHER FORECAST ? 0 ■ >4»rt*« Unsettled with rain tonight or Saturday; slightly colder Saturday. The expressmen are doing a rushing Christmas business. Miss Nell Brown went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Plough are guests of V. L. Plough in Monroe. David Werling of Preble township was a business visitor here yesterday. Will Gehres and A. J. Cully of Wren, Ohio, were business visitors here yesterday. Mrs. Margaret Louthan returned | yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a 'Visit here. Mrs. Joseph Hower went to Fort Wayne today to take her regular medical treatment.. Miss Clara B. 'Williams of the high school faculty, will leave this evening for Indianapolis, thence to her home at Worthington. Miss itessie Boyers will arrive Saturday from college to spend her holiday vacation with her parents Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyers. Mrs. J. A. Harvey is at the bedside of her father, Thomas Evans, iu Clinton county, who has been ill for several weeks, and is now at the point of death.

A Pretty Present for the little Tots / White Buck Button Shoes All Sizes WINNES SHOE STORE ■OB O■O■ O ■ O 8080080808080808080 l * J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, V>ce Pres. « I ■ 0 0 ■ 1 The Bowers Realty Company a^“ e c ““ t y ■ 0 lent bargams in city propertv a • h e O ■ farms. The company would be ,«> n , g you call at its office and see its c ■ pany has plenty of five per Abstract S B reasonable terms. Lei uie j Twenty £ ! Company prepare your abstract oi tiue. * 2 years experience, complete record . H O v ! ■ n 0 O she Bowers Realty Co. . ■ . I French Quinn, Secty. u __ _ m

Oscar Colchin went to Fort Wayne this morning. Tom Bogner went to Fort Wayne this morning. William S. Steed of Geneva was here today on business. Attorney Milton Miller made a business trip to Fort Waytie this morning. A. P. Beatty was a business caller in tho south part of the county this morning. Miss Kittie Fought went to Berne this morning to visit with friends during the day. Herman Heuer has gone to Richmond to visit with his sister, who is staying there. The basket bail team left this afternoon for Portland, where they will I play tonight. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Adams have gone to Flint, Mich., to visit over the holidays with Mrs. Adams’ parents. Miss Rose Dunathan. principal of the high school, will leave this 'evening for her home at Van Wert, Ohio, for the holidays. The attendance of every member of the Evangelical Sunday school is requested at the church this evening. The annual reorganization of thel I school will take place this evening'. The LaFontaine Handle company is . doing an extensive business. The ! plant shipped this morning some of its products to Birmingham, England, the same going byway of the WellsI Fargo express.

L. E. Miller went to Monmouth on business this morning. Andy Harting made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Frances Cole was clerking today at the Winnes shoe store. Mrs. A. J. Smith and daughter, Miss Midge, were Fort Wayne visitors today. Mrs. Brady Cloid of Wausau, Wis., is here the guest of her sister, Mrs. Victria Hill. Mrs, M, Grote returned this morning to Fort Wayne after a visit here with relatives. Ola Gaunt has returned to his home at Pleasant Mills after a short stay here on business. 0. G. Hakes of Pleasant Mills was numbered among the business callers here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Lou Losh of Chicago will arrive today for a Christmas visit with C. C. Schafer and family. The schools of Decatur dismissed today for the holidays. About, ten days of rest in which to enjoy the Christmas gifts and get over the season will be allotted. Bernard Beckmeyer of Route 1 has received a number of fine Ply mouth Rock Barrod cockerels from a well known breeder at Wolcott, Ind , which he will place with his already large and valuable flock. He also has a number of them for sale, should any one care for any. Now is the season of the year when the small boy—and girl, too—is held in abeyance and to obedience by dir. threats of w-hat Santa might or migli: not do. If there ever is a period of time on earth like the millenlum, il is the ten days before Christmas —bur woe be the expectation of the time following when Santa’s promises are a full year ahead. Miss Catherine Kriegel will arrive tomorrow’ from Berne to spend the 1 night here with friends, leaving Sunday- morning for Fort Wayne. Miss Kriegel is a stenographer for the Egley grain elevator at Berne, and the plant having moved to Fort Wayne, Miss Kriegel has been transferred to the office there. She has made a weekly Sunday visit here to attend . the services at the St. Mary’s church and with her transfer to Fort Wayne, this will be her last regular visit here. “DOC” IRWIN DEAD. Well Known Horseman Commits Suicide at Home in Winchester. » I (United Pres;. Service.) i I Muncie, Ind , Dec. 22—(Special to ’ Daily Democrat) —’’Doc’’ F. Irwin, formerly one of the best known liquor, and race horse men in Indiana, committed suicide at his palatial home in Winchester today, shooting himself in the heart, pulling the trigger by means of a yard stick. He was formerly one of the wealthiest men in Winchester and owner of the Irwin theater. Worry over financial reverses and ill health are given as reasons for the suicide. VERY ILL. Mrs. Frank Wright of the south nan of the city, was very suddenly taken ill about 2 o’clock this afternoon and is lying very low, —o — WOMEN—SeII guaranteed hose, 70 per cent profit. Make $lO daily. Full or part time. Beginners investigate. Strong Knit, Box 4029, West Philadelphia, Pa. 298t2<)

1F rHE home of 1 ■t Soistlill ” (M’ty Groceries I Lin J ■try 11 Si ! A Merry Christmas B*l' ’ HIM TO ALL! ■lA*- s—ls 5 — If We Are To Ilave The ' P* v Pleasure _ Os Assisting You In f n ® ’ Getting Up That Christmas Spread You would be justified in Inviting Santa Claus Himself He is a great Champion of Quality! Our line of nuts and candies is a complete one and n-ice and quality is sure to please you. Large CaliLmla soft shell walnuts 20c per lb Brazils and Almonds 20 lb. Fanev mixed candy 7 l-2c up. Stick eandv 9c, French cream candy 12 l-2c. I To complete that Xmas dinner order some of our fine celery, lettuce, oranges, sweet potatoes and fresh i oj -ters. or tra j e f or produce Eggs 27c Butter 20 to 26 “Hower and Hower, II North of G. R. &I. Depot. ’Phone 108. 1 fi —

STILL LEADING. J. , Miss Schneider Being Closely Pursued I in Lacbot & Rice Doll Contest. Mary Schneider 311 Catherine Smith 302 Mary Poling 291 i Ireta Beavers 224 i Naomi Stults 123 < Mary V. Vail .....123 i Thora H. Johnson 118 Florine Michaud no t Marcia Helm 115 ] Pansy Bell 106 « Margaret Kinzle 106 ! t Kathryn Kocher 105 ; Kathryn Ernst 104 ■ 1 Josephine Burns 103 < — ( BIG DEAL IN FARM LANDS. t 1 Deals in farm property are still be-■ ing made in this locality, an impor- 1 , tant one being reported today by the 1 Dan Erwin real estate company, by i which James Tumbleson purchase 110 - ’ acres from Dick Harris in St. Mary's I township, also forty acres adjoining 1 i John S. Falk, The consideration, as ■■ can be imagined, runs up into the 1 1 thousands well, and everybody is satisfied with the deal. ., * * * $ * * * -k * * * * '-k ! ( ■A ONE CENT LIFE INSURANCE. * 1 * . *ll * Everyone would have life insur- * ; * ance if life insurance policies * < * could be bought at one cent * 1 * each. * 1 * Red Cross Christmas seals are * * life insurance policies—and 4- 1 * they can be bought for one :< 1 * cent each. * * Tuberculosis will claim its 5,000 * 1 * victims in Indiana in 1912 just ■<: * as surely as it did In 1911, 1910 * * and all the other years—unless * 1 * you help prevent it. * * What assurance have you that * I: * you, or someone in your fam- k !1 * ily will not be sacrificed In * 1912? * * You have, perhaps, escaped so * * far, but what of the future? * * Tuberculosis can be prevented * * as well as cured. The money * * from the sales of Red Cross * * Christmas seals will be used * * in Indiana to prevent as well * * as cure tuberculosis. * * This means protection for you * * and yours. * * It is life insurance. * * Do you expect your neighbor to. :< * protect you? Do you expect * * your neighbo" to pay your life * ; * insurance premiums? ->■• 1 * No! You trust no one with this * * imixirtant duty. You do it *| * yourself. * * Buy Red Cross Christmas seals | * seals today. J !************* SI . — - 1 — SCHOOLS CLOSE FOR ►’DLIDAYS. 1 The city schools closed this afternoon for the annual holiday vacation which extends over the new year, the schools opening again January 2nd. In the greater number of the grades special Christmas programs and exercises were given, and were witnessed by many visitors. Many of Ike teachers will attend the state teach ers’ association which meets in Indianapolis December 27, 28 and T 9. — WANTED —Girls, at once. Inquire at the Indiana Board and Filler Company. I FOUND—On Second street, this city. a note made payable to Matilda , Martz Call at this office and pay ford this ad and get note of A. B. Bailey, ji the finder. 299tf I ————.

NINETY PERSONS DOOMED In Coming Week Through Indifference of People. "Ninety persons are doomed to die in Indiana during the next week, whose lives might have been saved except for the indifference of their neighbors.” This was the startling statement issued Thursday by the officers of the Red Rross Christmas seals commision of Indiana at the headquarters at Indianapolis. “And by a very little effort tomorrow, the people who live iu Decatur can help save the lives of almost 5,000 or more Hoosiers who will die 0! tuberculosis during the next twelve months,” says the Red Cross bulletin Tommorrow has been designated as Red Cross Christmas Seal Day in In (liana and each man, woman and chili, is asked to purchase even one seal with the knowledge that by so doin~ the purchaser has had an actual pa:. 1 in saving one of the many lives th? will be destroyed by tuberculosis ur. less money is provided for making . definite fight on the disease. It is hoped that through the pur 1 chase of one, live and ten cents' wort', of theseals by thousands of Indiana residents toomorrow, the Red Cios.1 fund will be greatly increased and . greater work be carried on in Indian; during the next year, along the line of preventing and treating tubereulu sis. It is not the thought that large purchases shall be made, but that ii: a volume of small sales, the total lithe state may be great. Even those who have already pmchased are asked to buy five or ten more seals, and those who have 110: bought heretofore are urged to take a stand against the dread whiti plague by buying a few seals. Al persons interested in selling the seal; are appealed to by the state manager: to make a final effort to reach even person in their communities who havi not yet contributed to the Red Cross fight. (90. Plenty of Gifts Here for Men They are hard to please at Christ ! mas time, but you've probably noticec that most of them prefer gifts of th< sensible, useful sort. Practically everything we sell is in that class. S. ; if you want to give some man a pres ent that he will really appreciate, I come in here today and pick it out. A FEW SUGGESTIONS: Tools and Tool Sets, Handy Toe Kits, PSieket Knives, Reading Lamps Safety Razors (Gffllette, Star, Gem Junior, Auto Strop, Durham-Duplex Ward, etc), Ordinary Razors, Shaving Sets, Strop®. Luxury Lahtei Brushes, Cork Screws, Revol vers, Drawing SHts, Key Rings, U. 8 Ice Saktes (all models), Manicure Sets, ®tc. 6b.

i IF I I I’ 1 He Will Smile Too I If You Get Him Something For I CHRISTMAS I A f£W SUGGESTIONS I Suit, Overcoat, Underwear, Dress Shirts, Dress I Gloves, Hats, Caps, (clothor fur) Neckwear, Muff- I lers, Combination Sets, Traveling Bags, Umbrel- I las, Bath Robes, hosiery, Sweaters and suit cases I Take a peep in ou v show window and see many other suitable Gifts For Chr’stmi.s. TEEPLE, BRANDYSERgr & PETERSON \ . J ~ — \ .at. . atMMMM*. , . .—t- j

/\\ c ▼ J\ u \ f 1 V H 111 li J Copyright Hart Schaffner & For Christmas gifts that have use as well as beauty; for thing men want and wear and keep a long time- this is the place to come. A Suit of Clothes or an Overcoat makes a fine Christmas gift; practical, serviceable and durable. Suits $lO. and up . . O’coats s6.soand up. BUT you’ll find plenty of things here thatjeost less than a suit or overcoat, for instance Dress Shirts Heck wear Gloves Combination Sets Mufflers Suit Cases Handkerchiefs Traveling Bags Hats Laundry Bags Caps Sweater Coats When you’re trying to think of something to give a man for Xmas think of this man’s store; we’ll help you all we canHrolthouse, Schulte £6O. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys. THE morning after Christmas f _. This is a picture of a man . £ ■ ’ who found a box of “White /.-o jSSk Stag” cigars in his stocking, \ Happy—well see him smile. tesJwh Said he, mother you’re either a mind reader or I ve been talking in my sleep, they’re just I what I wanted. J For Sale By X-u-' ail Dealers 5 ZZZZL-Z—