Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1912 — Page 5

I The Big Shoe Sale I | ....is still going on. Drawing big- | I ger crowds every day. I I Specials I || Warm felt shoes for men from $1.19 up || Warm lined shoes for women 89c up E Come Tomorrow I ■ x Charlie Voglewede I the shoe seller “HBt 11 . ii iii ii in ■ -7 -—r-w

♦ o*o*o*o*o4l | WEATHER FORECAST | ’ • o*o*o*o*o*o*o« Fair tonight and probably Saturday; continued cold. O. H. Moser went to Garrett yesterday afternoon. Will Mache went to Cincinnati, 0., for a short visit with friends. Mrs. Lizette Bultenieler is visiting with her son, Ed Bultemeier, at St. John’s. Mrs. Henry Bauman of Monmouth was a shopper here yesterday afternoon. John Briggs of Geneva returned this morning to his home after a short stay here on business. The horse sale of today, the first of the season, had a large crowd present,: considering the cold weather which prevailed. Surveyor Ernst and Deputy Haruff were at Geneva today, where they were surveying some work pertaining to the Shenandoah road. The Bryant basket ball team, which played here last night, returned this morning to their home. Last evening they received a severe drubbing from the local teain. Professor James Troop of Purdue university returned last evening on the 4 o’clock car to his home at Lafayette. He was one of the instructors at the fanners’ institute.

We Wish You All A Happy And Prosperous NEW YEAR We hope 1912 will bring you health prosperity and contentment. We wish to thank the people of Decatur and vicinity who have patronized us so liberally during the past year. We believe it has been mutually profitable to both us and you. In 1912 we hope to have the privelege of J making your feet glad, and yourself happy, by fitting you with the right shoes for comfort, style, wear and economy. I : WINNES SHOE STORE o ■ o ■ o ■ o ■oooDßOfloaoiioaoaoioa 3 J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. 2 ■ ° S ° ■ S S The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O Q lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ ■ farms. The company would be pleased to have 2 you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- q 5 pany has plenty of five per cent money to loan on B 3 K reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract ■ q Company prepare your abstract of title. 'Twenty g ■■ vears experience, complete records. O c? “ 91 i O © O n > o g| The Bowers Realty Co. i > g French Quinn, sAty. C O«O«O«O1C IGIOK 4G & G e ' I ® Q * AoWc

I Sherman Kunkel of Monmouth was a business visitor here yesterday. Victor Grosjean of Berne changed cars here last evening enroute to Mon--1 mouth to the Ed Christen home. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Christen of Louisville, Ky., will arrive Saturday for a : visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1 ■ John Christen. D. A. Fledderjohann of New Bre-1 • men, Ohio, is here on business relating 1 to the Fort Wayne & Springfield rail- j , way company. ■ D. A. Baumgartner of the Decatur high school faculty returned to his l work after a two days’ absence on ac- - count of illness. William Aumann returned last even- j 1 ing on the 4 o'clock car to his home ’ in Root township, after attending the farmers’ institute. Mrs. John Sprague left this morning : for Three Rivers, Mich., where she will make a week's visit with her son, Os car Sprague, and wife. Miss Ada Kiper of New York has ar- ' ■ rived in the city for a visit with her ’ , uncle, Henry Kiper, whom she has not seen for fifteen years. l s Mr. and Mrs. Victor Grosjean are 5 j preparing to move to the Ed Christen ’ i farm, where Mr. Grosjean will be em-1 1 ployed. Mr. Christen will continue to reside in his own residence there, and ‘ is building a house on the lot for Hr, s Grosjean and wife. Their marriage - took place at Bluffton a few days ago, i Mrs. Grosjean being Miss Marilta. Edington before her marriage. I. UH I J-81

Miss Agnes Haugk went to Fo Wayne today noon. Henry Graber of near Berne was . business visitor here today. Miss Lily Venis of Hoagland was a business visitor here today. Miss Mamie Kitson has taken a position in the telephone office. Miss Emma Sullivan of Ft. Wayne was a guest at the Wemhoff home last evening. Miss Nora Del Smith was a dinner guest today noon of Mr. and Mrs. John Kiracofe. Vane Weaver played the trap drum last evening with the Fife orchestra at the Christian church. Leo Miller returned last evening to Huntington after a short business visit here yesterday afternoon. W. R. Smith left this noon for Hammond, Ind., to make a visit with his son, Frank, for a short while Daniel Kaehr, a prominent farmer of near Monroe, was here today on business and attending the horse sale. Julius Haugk left last evening for Imboden, Ark., to ,ake charge of his stone quarry after a short stay here on business Word from tne nurse in charge at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, to the physician here, is that Frank Andrews, who was operated upon there this week for appendicitis, is recovering with the best possible results. His condition is fine. G. T. Burke left this morning for : Bluffton on business. Mr. Burke was , due there at 10 o’clock, but as there ; was no Clover Leaf train before noon, i he was obliged to go byway of Fort ; Wayne, and was unable even then to reach there on the time set. Frank Maley, one of the merchants' general delivery drivers, had a runaway Thursday evening about 5:30 o’clock on West Monroe street, the horse running about a square before I caught. A glass was broken in the | wagon, being about the only damage done. David StuoauaKer. jr., wno has been making a visit with his mother at : Goshen, during the holidays, returned home last evening and this noon left over the Grand Rapids railway for Cincinnati. Ohio, thence to Lebanon, Tenn.. where he will resume his college course. Horace Callow, who a year ago moved from here to West Plains, Mo., has returned, coming here from Jonesboro, Ark., where Mrs. Callow is a pa- . tient at the hospital Enroute here ■ she was forced to stop there, being on account of ill health, unable to continue the trip here. Rev. Roger Fife, the evangelist, and daughter, Mrs. A. K. Brooks, and two sons, left Thursday night at 10:30 over the Clover Leaf for Oklahoma, where Mr. Fife has accepted a call to the pastorate of a church there. His sons and daughter, Miss Nellie, will con tinue the evangelistic work here. C. M. Wc-ldy of this city is in receipt of word from his son. Samuel, of Bluff ton, that he left last night for Noblesville, where he has purchased a drug store and will begin today upon the invoicing of the stock. Samuel Weldy has beeu employed at Hie Deain drug store at Bluffton for some time. The picture show, Sing Sing,” at the Star last evening, was one of the best ever seen here. Notwithstanding the cold weather, the crowd was twice what was figured on, and Mr. Stone burner has received bo many requests to repeat it, tha* no will probably do so at some fu.ure time. His next big attraction will be Monday, January 15th, "Sitting Bull.” After undergoing treatment at two private sanitariums for dementia and after his case had been pronounced hopeless, an operation for the removal of his appendix has cured George Green, a resident of West Liberty, Ohio, At the solicitation of friends he went to Indianapolis for treatment. The physician says the case is one of the most remarkable known. It would be well for more of us to get our appendix removed. Aunt” Rosa McLaughlin, one of the oldest ladies of the city, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. J. S Colchin, is growing weaker from day to day, and was reported as being wuise this morning. Mrs. McLaugh lln, who is about ninety-four years of age. has been bedfast and completely helpless for about four months, the weakening being due simply to the weight of her many years. Mrs. Minnie Daniels is assisting in the nursing. AUBURN GETS TEAM OF HORSES. H. R. Culberson, mayor of the city of Auburn, Indiana, accompanied by two members of his city council, were here today attending the first sale of the Decatur Horse sale company. They purchased a handsome team for use of the city on its street work. While here they were made to feel at home by C. A. Dugan of the First National bank, whom they knew years ago when ho ’ vd in Auburn.

COURT HOUSE NEWS dward Tolan Alias Frank Smith. Discharged by Jury on Sodomy Charge. t — THE CHIEF WITNESS 1 i Was Francis May, of Unsound Mind—Testimony ’ Not Acceptable. t Edward Tolan, alias Frank Smith, ’ was placed on trial in the circuit court this morning before Judge Merryman and a jury on a grand jury indictment on the charge of sodomy and at 11 o'clock was discharged, the jury having returned a verdict of ‘not ’I guilty." This resulted from the in- ‘ competence of the only and chief wit- ! ness, Francis May, who was heretot fore adjudged in court to be of un- > cound mind and placed under guar- • dianship, which still exists. Accord : ing to the statutes, a person of un- • sound mind is incapable of giving tesi timony, and when Prosecutor Parrish, i representing the state, announced this ; morning, after May’s testimony was ; i given, that there was no further evi- > dence to offer, the court instructed the jury io return a verdict of “liul guilty,” t j which was accordingly done. Tolan j i the defendant, has been a resident of the city for about two years and • | had heen employed at the Erie pump- , ing station. The offense with which jI he was charged was alleged to have been committed last June 20th. Ate torney J. C. Moran conducted the defense. May, on whom the crime was e , alleged to have been committed, is about thirty-five years old. 1 The transcript and paper in the case 1 of Hanna Breckenridge Company vs. Henry Pfeiffer et al., were received to- • day on change of venue from Allen ” 1 county. The suit is on replevin and '• j asks SSOO for alleged damages. I-! Real estate transfers: Daniel Maze - Hr to Adolph Bauman, realty in Mons i roe tp., $250; Walter E, Thornton et i-1 al. to Walter F. Crosley, realty in i- French tp., $12,000; Trustees M. R. E e 1 Cemetery to Frederick Hossman, lot S i 30, M. R. E. cemetery, $10; Julius i- Havgk to Homer Gause, 1 acre, Decatur. $1400; The House Builders' Realty a | Co. to Samuel Simison, lots 127, 128, 0 Berne, $735; Sam'l Butler, Washing T ton Tp. Trustee, to Jacob D. Hen ~ drick, 1-3 acre, Washington tp., $500; e ■ Homer Gause to Julius Haugk, 31 g acres, Blue Creek tp., $2284. Frank W. Wright vs. Franklin | Small, ejectment, S2OO. Dismissed and • i costs paid. — ’’! A. Gottschalk, special administrator “ of the estate of William Schwartz, e I tiled inventory which was approved, y i —,— s Homer Faust, guardian of Corliss Faust, filed inventory of ward’s est, late, also petition for sale of real cs e tate. Charles W. Yager and Dan N. g Erwin appointed appraisers; appraise e ment filed. Additional bond for SBOO >- filed and approved, and sale ordered at s private sale without notice for- cash, o Report ordered tor first day of next t term of court. y Upon request of Clarence E. Hoagland, a minor, for the appointment of ° a guardian, Daniel N. Erwin wa* ap- • pointed such and qualified. a SUFFERS HEART ATTACK. e ’’ Sheriff Durkin Seized With <-~rious Attack at Noon. e R Sheriff Durkin was seized with an atB tick of the heart while on his way home at noon today. He was able to get to the home before it assumed a ; serious phase, but soon after arrival 3 there his illness became most alarm- . Ing, and for a while his condition was i very serious. At 2:30 o'clock a report ; from the home was to the effect that he was much better, and that his phyt Bician stated that he would probably • be able to be about again by tonight. ■ Mr. Durkin has had attacks of the ■ heart, prior to this, but none lately. The ■ news of his illness was very unexpect- • ed to his associates at the court house, as he had left there at 11 o'clock, and at that time had seemed in his usual good health. STAR OF BETHLEHEM. > Al! members of the Star of Bethle hem are earnestly requested to be at ■ the meeting at the hall this evening, when important business will come be i fore the house. » , ,1. ! ... 11. . <»» ■■ ■ !■ ■■■ 1 WANTED—GirIs, at once. Inquire at ) the Indiana Board and Filler Com nany. 299t2

OUR January Clearance Sale is attracting quite a satisfactory number of people who believe in our 20 pr. ct reduction on fancy Suits and O’coats and seem pleased with the opportunity of saving $2 to $5 on their purchase- we don’t believe you can afford to miss this chance, its true economy to buy our clothes at any time. Let us show you. HOLTHOUSE-SCHUL.TE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers For Men And Boys

WANTED—Men to learn the barber trade. Here is an offer that in eludes tools with tuition. A method that saves years of apprenticeship. Positions waiting in city or country shops. Write Moler Barber College, Chictgo, 111. it

PETTICOAT SALE ON > | HENREITTA SMOOTH BACK PETTI- I | COATS | We have taken the agency for this|well|known I ,1 ’'b brand of petticoats and have a nice stock to H 4 select from all the way from SI.OO to $5.00 each I M ill Murkas £ one t° see these petticoats before £«j they buy, our price is as low if not lower than ® others ask for the common kind. H Smoothbackl adjustment easy and perfect fit like a glove.over back and || hips. In fact we guaranteejthem to fit. BBe sure and see them before you buy and get the best for the money. I fiSteele <Sc Weaver! ; anw seaa i»MMa BOSTON STORED | I I E@l Watch This Space For fi OUR I BIG JANUARY SALE I I THE BOSTON STORE | J DECATUR, INDIANA I

FOR SALE —Good property on Mercer avenue, formerly occupied by the late Mrs. Jacob Yager. Inquire of Charles Yager. 286t-12 FOR SALE—Hard coal burner. Inquire of the Misses Mary and Amelia Niblick, Marshall St. 3O3tf

LOST—Men’s kid gloves, underknitted ones. Finder leave at Everett A Hite’s grocery. FOUND —On Second street, this city, a note made payable to Matilda Martz. Call at this office and pay ter this ad and get note of A. B. Bailey, the finder. 299tf ■ ■ 1