Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1912 — Page 3

This Cold Weather Ought to 1 Make You Want These g i Boys best socks and two buckle overs . . $2.39 O Youths best socks and two buckle overs . $1.89 |h| O Mens good felts and overs at . . $2.45 Mens felt shoes with leather soles at .$1.19 || S| Womens felt lined shoes .. . 89c,98c and $1.50 JI . The Big Sale is Still Drawing i The Crowds ■ —. H I Charlie Voglewede I THE SHOE SELLER

■9FT — J ' ■-— —— J . . . ' .MWM * 000*0+0+043 FATHER FORECAST;) I -- Snow tonight, Tuesday unsettled; not much change in the temperature. • — ~ Tlini Jt'X- □«■.... JL ~ YZ Perman Hobble has gone to Marlon to transact business for a day or so. Deputy Clerk L. L. Baumgartner spent Sunday with his family at Bluffton. John Schug arrived home from his regular trip and si>ent Sunday with his family. ; Mrs. John Wefel of Magley went >o Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon for a two days’ visit. Mrs. J. D. Reiter and son, Richard, went to Portland to spend Sunday with relatives. Miss Gertrude Philips was a Sunday visitor in Fort Wayne, leaving here on the 4 o’clock car Saturday afternoon. Miss Beatrice Coffelt, who is employed in this city, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. C. Grim, in Root township. William Gailemeyer of Bingen was here Saturday attending to business affairs which required his attention for a while. Mrs. J. L. Edge has recovered sufficiently from injuries received in a fall several weeks ago, to take a few steps about the house.

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 making your feet glad, and yourself happy, by fitting you with the right shoes for comfort, style, wear and economy. 1 1 WINNES SHOE STORE I — — '■ - 1 OOfl O ■ O ■ O ■ O ■OBODIoaoiOIOVOHOBOa ft J. S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. 2 ■ ": 5 o 8 : | £ The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O O lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ (■ farms. The company would be pleased to have x 2 you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- o J pany has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ ■I reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract ■ q Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty ■I years experience, complete records. S 91 2 o ■ i o 0 LThe Bowers Realty Co. < French Quinn, Secty. uloioiclosos<oio»Dioi<'go«p ’ I ’’ I* ’ ‘

.'-j=_ —.—....... | Omer Butler returned to Berne this \ morning after spending Sunday here with his family. John Lachot left this morning on his • regular trip south, after spending Sun- ■ day here with his family. Miss Irene Scherry of Preble was ■ here this morning on her way to Dayton, Ohio, to make a visit with rein i tives. Miss Ada Keiffer, from New York | City, has arrived in the city on a visit with her relatives, whom she has not ' seen in fifteen years. Wayne, little son of Mr. and Mrs. I Nick Wagoner, ot near Monroe, is reI covering from a week’s illness. Mr. I Wagoner was also able to be out Saturday for the first time after a slight ■ i illness. Lester Stanley, the Western Union ; telegraph messenger boy, was all swelled up today—and very justly, too, over his new uniform. To add to his sense of dignity, the trousers are 1 long—his first long pair. Glen H. Holsapple left Saturday for Lafontaine. where he visited over , Sunday. He had the pleasurer of hearing ex-Goxernor Hanly speak Sunday afternoon at a men’s meeting at the M. E, church at that place. The plumber has been reaping a harvest from the recent cold snap. It is said each have a list a yard long—more or less —of names requiring their services for bursted pipes and that they have had to work night and day to do the repairing.

Miss Sophia Jaebker went to Fort , Wayne this morning. Ora Burkett cf Monroe was here Saturday on business. Mrs. A. L. Kauffman, who has been ■ quite sick, is improving. Noah Mangold made a business ; trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Bess Baumgartner of Linn Grove visited here with friends over Sunday. Frank Kleinhenz of Fort Wayne visited here over Sunday with his moth er and family.Miss May me Brake wont to Chicago yesterday to visit with her sister, ■ Mis. Minnie Brown. Miss Bess Baumgartner of Linn ■ Grove spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Lachot. Miss Fern Kerschner of Bluffton i was the guest of Miss Vera Hun--1 sicker over Sunday. Miss Catherine Kriegel of Fort . Wayne will attend the Columbian club’s leap year ball here tonight. Miss Elizabeth Hill of Louisville, Ky., who has been visiting here with friends for a short while, left today for her home. Leo Yager, who was the guest of 1 his sister and brothers, left today on ! his regular trip to be absent for the : coming two weeks. Miss Huldah Bauer returned this ; morning to her senool teaching at St. John’s after spending Sunday with the Herman Sellemeyer family. The Misses Frances Murphy and ■ Frances Nicholson of Geneva, who | have been at me Ira Bodie home for i several days, left this morning lor I their home. L. A. Graham left today for LeTioy, Ohio, where he will attend the annual meeting of the Ohio Farmers’ Insurance company. Mr. Graham is local agent for this company. Mrs. Alice Comer and son, Elmer I Schnepp, returned this morning to I their home in Franklin county, going jby way of Fort Wayne. They visited | here with Mrs. Comer's brothers and j sisters. The Misses Hazel Lenhart, Frances j Gaffer, Louise Teeple, and Masters Edi win Boese and Kenneth Neptune re- | turned to their studies at the Fort Wayne business callege this morning after spending Sunday here at their homes. j Miss Bessie Jeffrey of the nurse’s training class in the Lutheran hospital. ! Fort Wayne, spent Sunday here with j her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Jes ; frey. Miss Bessie is now ready to 1 don a uniform, having been with the class for three months. I Postmaster Lower reports letters re- ’ retaining uncalled for at the Decatur I postoffice for M. Wagner, Chester ' Smith, Aina McFarland, Burl McFailand, T. N. Johnson, Nick Jenney, ! Frances Knavel, Charley Henry. Ha- ' zel Galloway, Clem Folman, C. K. Ail I ing, S. J. Carroll. The Presbyt .rian Christian EndeavI orers had an unusually good meeting I Sunday evening under the leadership lof Owen Edwards. The program heretofore published was given with very little change, and the lesson was curried out in ". most pleasing way. Next Sunday evening will be honorary I members' night. The Bowers millinery store is niovI Ing its fixtures and furniture to the ) new Bowers building on Monroe street . which was recently completed. The I store had been conducted over that ! occupied by the Bowers Realty comi pany and the new place will be on | the ground floor, just west of that . building. The building is fitted up in a most handsome and up-to-date man rner. Miss Bertha Kohne returned Saturday from Fond du Lac, Wis., where she visited with her sister, Miss Stella, who is in the convent of the Sisters of St. Agnes at that place. Miss : Kohne stopped off in Chicago and jwhlle there also visited wltii the My- ■ lott family. She had the pleasure of meeting their cousin, a Miss Mylott, j from Australia, a noted singer, who is i touring this country at present. Mrs. J. A. Beatty has returned from Portland, where she was called by the serious illness of her brother, C. W. ■ Church, who was suffering from pneumonia. He is now much improved and has returned to his home in this city. —Fort Wayne News. The Rev. Church is a former pastor of the Methodist Church here preceding the Rev. Se- ' mans, and is well known not only ■ among the members of the church, but ; the business men as well, and by i whom he whs highly esteemed. A. L. Kauffman, who for the past six months, has been working as moulder for the Decatur Furnace, Foundry & Machine Works, left today for Lima, Ohio, where he has taken a good position, the same being an advance over the one held here. Mr. Kauffman is a skilled mechanic, and has invented in Improved variety of furnace, and has applied for a patent for the same. If Mr. Kauffman finds the new place all that is desired, he will move his family to Lima later.

t H. H. Bremerakmp made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. i J. L. Yaney of Jefferson township was a business visitor here today. i Trustee J. T. Kelley of Jefferson township was here today on business 3 Trustee Daniel Hoffman of Preble township was a business visitor here t today. r j Mr. and Mrs. John Hebble are prom, parents of a bright baby girl horn las- . night. ' C. K. Bell of Lima, Ohio, was here ' for a few hours Sunday, returning . J home during the afternoon. >' A number of Decatur people will go to Fort Wayne this evening to see i | “The Deep Purple’’ at the Majestic. ’I Mrs. Christena Niblick, who has I been suffering from sciatica rheuma1 ■ tism for two weeks, is slightly better ! ’ today. I • i Miss Pauline Weisse of Fort Wayn , will be an out-of-town guest at thColumbian club’s leap year ball this evening. j j James Touhey has returned from . , i two weeks' trip to Winchester and ! ; Muncie, and says lie liciil it good time f His mother, Mrs. Ellen Touhey, will spend the winter at Winchester. i 1 3 ' C. E. Bell, proprietor of the LanFuuiitaine Handle works here, will leave . this evening for a trip to New York, i Boston and Philadelphia, where he p ; will dispose of his stock of handles. Mrs. Lafayette Baker of North Secj end street is very sick with asthma 3 She had a severe attack Sunday nigh >• and is reported today as being no bet : ter. Her many friends here and over the county hope for her a speedy recovery. .1 j L. A. Graham lett this afternoon foi ■ i Leßoy, Ohio, where he will attend the I annal meeting ol the Ohio Farmers’ ' Fire Insurance company. At this time r , will occur the election of officers and □ other important business will be atg tended to. ili RACE IS NOT DETERIORATING. — s i The race is not deteriorating. The I-. records of the state board of health ■ show- the birth rate in the state to 1i be higher than it was ten years ago. g I The records in the office of the state r' statistician disclose the percentage of divorces to marriages is lower than s ■ it was a decade ago, and finally the . |, I records of the United States bureau h ' of the census disclose that there were f. i more marriages in 1910 to the 10,090 o population than in 1900. The records e jin the office of the statistician show that in 1899, the earliest date avail- , able, the divorces in the state numberbed 4,031, which was 15.9 per cent oi r the number of marriage licenses _ I granted. In 1910 there were 4,632 di- . i vorces, or 15 1 per cent of the marri- ■ ages performed. The marriages in I crease from 25.232 in 1899 to 30,677 in [•1910. During this time the population cf the state Increased 7.3 per cent. The United States census shows that in 1900. 105 persons in every 10,090 : population were married during the I year. The census for 1910 shows that ; 111" in every 10,000 population were' . married during that year. II — — I ■■ !-- 1 1 — * RUSSELL FOUGHTY’S STATEMENT It will be remembered that one night *'; last week it appeared in the papers ' that Master Russell Foughty ran down p and injured a certain Stults boy while I riding his wee! on the sidewalk. It is l ' I a mistake. Russell was not on the n sidewalk, but was crossing the crossi ing just south of the Clover Leaf II store, where he had gone on an er--1 ’ rand for his mother. At this crossing came a number of his schoolmates, ■- 1 running up to him and calling, “Hello, e Russell!” He was slowly moving !- across the crossing, when, playfully, i i- the little Stults boy ran up to him, s throwing him irom his wheel, causing 1 both legs to get a few small hurts. But ■ Russell did not know that the Stulls f boy received any more injuries than , he did, nor was he in any way v lolai s ing the law, as many others have been ; seen crossing the same place Russell j did. Russell offers deep sympathy to ’ the little fellow, and says he Is very sorry, but neither of the boys are to blame, as he was only riding very slow, while the other little fellow plat I , fully undertook to throw Russell from 'this wheel, which he did. Parties who happened to see the children, sa? that Russell did not, through cuttin up on his wheel, or any rough action at all, injure the Stults child, and that he was not on the sidewalk, but was 'crossing the crossing. 1 Russell has always lieen well liket among his playmates and is a boy o 1 a good, kind disposition and on hi; • visits to Decatur his little friends arglad to meet him and have him with 1 them again, and such a case as this was the result of their meeting. Rus sell returned to his home in Bluffton 1 later in the evening, after making i visit to the South Ward school in th' afternoon, and with his brother an 1 sister enjoying supper with thei ! | grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J Fought' Eleventh street.

EAGLES INSTALL. The installation exercises of the Eagles’ organization on last Thursday evening still lingers in the minds o' the many members who attended the interesting session called, and wti. took part in the social function which followed the business proceedings. A large crowd was in attendance to e-i joy the evening and those who failec to attend are still regretting their absence. Following the installation ex ercises the retiring' worthy presides and grand worthy vice president gav> a banquet for the many present am until a late hour the hall was tin scene of great pleasure. A sumptuou: dinner was served and along with tire social doings, made the evening the best enjoyed for many a day. The officers installed were as follows: Worthy President —Green Bulkhead Worthy Vice President —Dora Lai; man. Worthy Chaplain—Frank Keller. Worthy Treasurer — Joseph l’> Knapke. Worthy Secretary—E. F. Gass. Inside Guard —J. H. Meyers. Outside Guard William Faughty. Trustees—Charles Omlor, Frank McConnell and Pink Ball. MEN’S MEETING. Was Held Sunday at the German Rc formed Church. The annual meeting and election o the officers of the Men's society of tin. German Reformed church was held a. the church rooms Sunday, at whic time the business for the past yea was gone over and found to be in : most satisfactory condition. The ok officers who served last year, and wire brought the present condition up t< the high standing which it enjoys were again re-lected, and their earnes efforts to make a good showing wil be continued. The reports of the di ferent committees were read and ai proved and the financial standing wa found to be in excellent conditioi. Following this a donation of? 30.0 was made from this society to the gei. eral building fund, which, by the wa; '.s accummulating into a large an'; creditable sum for their undertaking of the future. The officers are as follows: President —Martin Worthman. Secretary—Rev. L. C. Hessert. Treasurer —J. O. Sellemeyer. PUBLIC SALE. As I have sold my farm and goin to move to Monioe I will sell at pul lie auction at my residence 5 mile south of Decatur, and 1 mile nort and one-fourth mile west of Monroi on Wednesday, January 17, 1912, be ginning at 10 o’clock a. m., the follow ing property, to-wit: Two Head c Horses: One black mare, 4 yeai old, good one, weight 1300 lbs; 1 gre. horse, 9 years old, good one, weigh 1300 tbs. Two Head of Cattle: On 7-year-old cow, fresh four weeks; Jersey cow, 8 years old, fresh in Fel ruary. Hogs and Sheep: Fiftee. head of shoats, weight 40Tbs. each 15 head of good young ewes; 5 dozei chickens. Farming Implements: Or. two-horse wagon, buggy, cultivate breaking plow, 2 shovel plows, sprin tooth harrow, spike tooth harrow, so double harness, set single harness, 1 shocks corn in the field, 150 shock fodder in the field, 125 bu. corn ii the crib, 8 gallon barrel church and other articles too numerous to men tion. Terms —All amounts of $5 and un der, cash in hand. All amounts ove: $5 a credit of 9 months will be giv en. purchaser giving note with ap : proved security. 4 per cent off foi cash. No property removed until set tied for. DAVID EVERHART. J. N. Bulkhead, Auct. A. B. Bailey, Clerk. o EAST Fast Buffalo, N. Y-, Jan. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Receipts, 11, 200; shipments 4.371) today; receipts, 3,200; shipments, 950 yesterday; off cial to New York Saturday, 1.140; hog, closing firm. Yorkers, medium and heavy, $6.80(c $6.85; pigs, [email protected]; roughs, $5.9 —56.00: stags, $4 50iJj)$5 00; sheep, 21 200; fair demand; tops, $7.00fu57.15 yearlings, [email protected]; wethers $4.2’ @54.50; ewes, [email protected]; mixe' sheep, sl.oo@s 1.25; offeringe, light good grades active, 10c@25c higher extra choice heavy steers, [email protected] plain and heavy, [email protected]; be.handy, [email protected]; common butcher; [email protected]; dry fed cows, 45.00(1 $5.40; fair choice, $4.25 —$4.85; choic heifers, $5.00@56 00; grassy, $4.25(1 $4.75. " FOR_SALE 811C L WHFAT FLOUR Inquire of Jehn Hessler Rural ’’oute 2 and Phone 10 or * lie, or leave orders wit >’ h, Yager & Falk

Z?Og IOBEJOI=ION O GREEN TAG g MILLINERY SALE OF 200 HATS All trimmed and untrimmed hats H at 1-2 price n LOOK FOR THE GREEN TAG COMMENCING Saturday Dec. 30th. Lasting two weeks. This M F sale Cash only at II IWrs. Burdg’s South Second St. 11 2 doors south of Meyer, Scherer & Beavers g 2 Furniture store 2 ■ •1— — — ARE YOU WITH US i. Yes. Are you helping to make this town a place of which we all will be proud? Beautiful homes, beautiful streets good schools, good churches and convenient stores. We can accomplish this in only one way and that’s through co-operation. We believe in community wealth and we believe that you do, too. Why not purchase everything in your home town? Thus we are all helped. Buy your drugs from us. Deal at home--it costs no more; besides, it saves you time and trouble. It’s worth while to have a convenient drug store and one that stands ready to assist you always. LACHOT & RICE; Al TURN OVER A NEW LEAF With the begining of the New Year turn over a new leaf in the tobacco line too, start to smoking only home made cigars. The White 8 tag is the Smoke with a Smile ai d has made many friends the year past. Try one and seee what a really good cigar you can get for 5 cents. For Sale By All Dealers. * I Sand, Wate.” . 1 ani^ portland h Cement only .« i U'T materials required. We furnish all equipment at small _os . y '• . i The demand exists now, the profits are large, and the busy % ness grows iAoidlv. The Pettyjohn Co. hss established thousanca 0 ’ ( i successful big paying plants. A hundred dolla*s will start you R j right THE FIRST JM YOUR TOWH TO WRIT* FOR PARTICULARS rs We refer vou to the publisher of this pajier. M - * THE PETHaOlta CCMPAKY, 6G6 Canal St, Terre Haulc, tniiana If You Want Anything In My 1® || Line, Come And See Me B sell the famous B°rghoff Beer, real German brew', the best made, at $2.00 per case, in pints or quarts. Ils the best for every pur- JS P ose> SI 8 All kinds of w’hiskeys-Kentucky Bourbons, and sour mash, Pennsylvania rye, Maryland a a rye and all the others, from $1.5*0 to $6.00 per J per gal. Wines and cordials of every kind at prices to suit. || Corner Second and Madison Sis. 8 | CURLEY RADEMACHER f