Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1912 — Page 3

|»3ri® __ — ft mg - ._, ~__ ra l| Charlie Voglewede | 1 THE SHOE SEI—L_ER |

t ■». ww :WO ■» O*U«O«O*OU itUO FORECAST t Flair is north portion; colder hi south portion tonight and Tuesday, with moderate temperature. Levi Miller of Geneva was a business visitor here Saturday. Julius Haugk is at home from Imboden. Ark, for a few days. Commissioner Christ Eicher of Berne was here Saturday on business. Baptismal services were held both afternoon and evening at the Christian church Sunday. John Schug, who spent Sunday here •with his family, left this morning on his •regular trip south. Master Leo MiUer of Monroe, who ■ was a visitor here Sunday, returned home this morning. Irvin Acker was a visitor at Geneva Saturday afternoon with his son, Sam Acker, the merchant. Miss Grace Batternbui-g, bookkeeper. for the Indiana Board & Filler company, has gone to Mtrneie for a Short visit. Miss Stella Thomas, who was here Saturday morning, taking her regular musical instruction, left at noon for her home at Geneva. Mrs. J. C. Patterson, who has returned from Winchester, reports that her mother,. Mrs. S. O. Irvin. whe hat been ill, is better.

Boys Shoes jf : , 2% to $1.50 J£ Former Price I $2.00 to $2.50 1 WINNES SHOE STORE 2 B fiOHOk^*IO M O BOBOOBOBOBOBOBOiOBOB wij. S. Bowera. Pres. F. ML Schtrmeyer, Vice Pres. £ ■ 0 o a 3 c o 0 B 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 fi you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- q Jl lnanv has plenty of five per cent money to loan on M 2 » reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract ■ 2LCompany prepare your abstract of title. Twenty g years experience, complete records, j 2 G ■ ■ 2 The Bowers Realty Co. g B French Quinn, Secty. 0 OIOIOIOIOIOIOMOBOf 3>OIC<OIP

C. D. Lewton made a business trip ■ | to Portland and Muncie today. Marion Smith of Mt. Pleasant, I I Mich., is’visiting here with relatives.. Graydon Lcnor is the name of the l ; son born to Mr. and Mrs. John W. I Gerard of Mercer acenue. Mr. ami Mrs. <’. D. Gallemeyer oil jnear St. John's were business callers I I here Saturday afternoon. Professor East of Monroe, who was here yesterday for a. short stay lelt tnis morning for his home. Surveyor Ernst and assistant, Orval Harruff, were at Geneva today, where they surveyed the Schenbeck road. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Amspaugh oi Paulding, Ohio, are in the city for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Mell Butler. Miss Bess Baumgartner of Bluffton, Ind., will arrive this evening to be a i guest of Miss Sadie Welker.—Van | ' Wert Bulletin. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Worley and child have returned to Portland. They ] had been here since November, Mr. Worley being head sawyer at the Adams heading factory. John Reiter, representing the W. H. Hood Co, wholesale dealers, of Port-, land, who spent Sunday here with his family, left today on his regular trip, 10 be absent for some time. Prank Perry, a laborer in Forest park, sustained a double fracture of the bones of his right leg yesterday I when caught under a falling weight. He was removed to St. Joseph's hos- ; pital for treatment.—Fort Wayne ' Journal-Gazette. I ■„ —— - • —--

Morton Stults spent yesterday ii I Huntington. Charles Lose was a Fort Wayne vis itor yesterday. Carl Moses was the guest of friends in Fort Wayne Sunday. Walter Deitsch of Celina, O, spent Sunday here with friends. Will Hammell made a business trip ■to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. G. F. Kintz went to Ft, Wayne ! to spend the da*" with friends. Mrs. C. L. Meibers went to Fort | Wayne to attend the theater. Dick. Peterson spent Sunday at Mar- i i ion and Bluffton with friends. Omer Butler returned this morning ■ to Berne to resume his school work. Charles Dirkson was numbered 1 ameng the business callers here to-1 ! day. Miss Letta Lang was the guest of j i Mrs. Ted Ramsey in Fort Wayne Sun- , | day. Miss Ethel Barkley went to Fort I j Wayne this morning for a few days ; visit. I Mrs. Andi .»• Welfley left today for • PeoTia, 111, for a short visit witli friends. Mitchell Page, chef of the Murray ; House, has gone to Wabash for a few i days' visit. Mrs. Catherine Nichols of Elkhart,i a state rebekah officer, is the guest o: • ■ Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Helm. Charles Ross, the traveling sales-1 man, spent Sunday here with his fam . j ily on North Seventh street. I Ratch Blackbira arrived in the city for a few days’ stay with his parents, I Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blackburn. A. B. Bailey, formerly of Monroe, i but now of Fort Wayne, returned this i morning, after spending Sunday here. Miss Leah Apt arrived this morning from Butler to take a position as stenographer for the Hooper & Lenhart office. Will Mougey ’uturned last evening to Fort Wayne to resume his school work after an over-Sr.iday visit with ibis parents. ! Peter Lehman of Berne changed | cars here this morning enroute i'oi j i Monmouth, where ne will work for E I S. Christen. Harry Dunbarr of Montreal, Cana- | da, has arrived in Hie city for a visit | with his wife, Lydia Dunbarr. now at the Madison House. j Miss Velma Daniels returned this II i morning to Berne, to resume her : school • work after spending Sunday ! here with her mother i > Anna ami Ed Parent were among 1 I the number at 17 wt Wayne last eveni ing to attend the play, “The Goose . > Girl." at the Majestic theater. ! I Herman Eb’’:.ger, who was the guest of his mother over Sunday, left this i morning to resume his school work at i the Fort Wayne business college. Miss Pascaline Smith returned fast j i evening to Fort Wayne after a visit ! ■ here since Friday with her grand moth-I | er. Mrs. Veronica Smith, and daugh- ' ters i Mrs. Rollo ITlrey of Hoagland, who | I has been visiting with Mrs. Charles i Brothers, at Rivarre, was met here . Saturday afternoon by her husband,] who accompanied her home. Bishop Alerding was re-elected president and treasurer of the Catholic orphanage of the Fort Wayne diocese at the annual meeting of the directors held in Lafayette last week. Mrs. Mary Smith and Mrs. J. C. Hower went to Fort Wayne Saturday ; afternoon for a visit. Mrs. Hower went to take her regular medical I treatment. She is improving nicely. James McKean of Bowerstown, 0., arrived here Saturday for a few days' visit with his brother-in-law, Judge D. D. Heller, and family Mr McKean is i ' enroute home from Grand Rapids., i Mich., where lie attended the funeral j ‘ of a cousin. The Mfaim.i Frances and Eva Gault ■ went to Fori Wayne Saturday afternoon to caff an their cousin. Miss i Frances Laman, at the St. Joseph hos- ; I pital. Miss Laman still shows im-I provement. The Misses Gault return I ed home Sunday. Miss Golda Moorehead returned to' her work at Fort Wayne Saturday aft-1 i ernoon after spending a week at her ' home at Willshire, Ohio. She was; called home a week ago by the illness of her mother, Mrs. Calvin Moorehead, who is now better. A freight wreck occurred on the Chicago & Erie at Elgin Friday, in j I which two trains, both being pulled | by two engines, came together, and all four locomotives were derailed. One of the enginemen was slightly injured > by jumping. The collision is said to have been due to a misunderstanding of orders. Trains were detoured from Lima to Delphos over the Pennsylvania and from Delphos to Ohio City via the Clover Leaf. The four big, damaged engines were at noon Sunday pulled through this city to Hunt- ' ington, where they will be repaired and made ready for continued service.

D. M. Hensley and son, David, spent last evening in Fort Wayne. C. C. Miller of Magley, who was attending to business affairs, left this noon for his home. Joe Palmer of Route 5 was here today on business which required his attention for a short while. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Forbing, who were niaried last week, and for sever ' al days visited with his brother, Tony , Forbing, at Milford. Ind., arrived home | yesterday. James P. Haefling, who Saturday asI sisted Dal Wandall in the We'ls cm;a ]ty clerk's office, returned home. Mr. Haefling was called upon to lend assistance in the absence of the deputy, who has been on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mutschler o' | Wompleton, South Dakota, who ha-' ' | been the guests of friends here, 10l | this morning for their home. On their I way they stopped at Madison, Wis., j where they wIU visit Mr. John Treitei. for a short time. o SENTENCED FOR LIFE. Illinois Physician Goes to Penitentiary for Murder of Wife. (Uni'ed Press Service.) j Oregon. 111, Jan. 22 —(Special to ] Daily Democrat I —Dr. Harry E. WebI ster. murderer of his bigamist wife, I Bessie Kemp Webster, was sentenced , j today to lite imprisonment in the Joi pet prison by Judge Farrenz here to- j i day. Webster was almost a mental , wreck when he faced the courts be i cause of the fear that he would be sen fenced to be hanged. The court ex tended clemency because of the physi i cian's confession and pleas of guilty. CENSUS REPORT. Orval is the name of the son born Sunday night to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Russell K. OF P. CALL. j Ail members of the Knights of Pyth I ias lodge are requested to be present I at the hall this evening at 7:30 to make arrangements to attend the funeral of their brother, Samuel Laman whose death occurred on Sunday evening. —e. —■ — FOUND—Bunch of keys Inquire at 220 Fourth street I3t“ —o PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer for sale at his residence one and one-halt miles east and one-half mile north o Pleasant Mills, and two and one-haP miles northwest of Willshire, on what is known as the old Carter farm, on Tuesday, January 23, 1912. beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., the following pron erty, to-wit; l**ive Head of HorsesOne draft mare, coming 6 years old. in foal; 1 general purpose mare, coming • 7 years old, in foal; 1 driving mare, i coming 9 years old, in foal; 1 heavy

Croup Catarrh Pneumonia Formidable ailments these and when allowed to run may j easily become fatal. At first sign of sneeze or cough, shiv- 1 er or shake Take White Pine and Red Spruce Cough Syrup the modern remedy for throat, lungs and chest trouble. No better remedy made-never fails 25c the bottle LACHOT & RICE r | THE STATE LIFE OF n INDIANAPOLIS ■HoaeMMBi H | The foremost Life Insurance Company of the Central States [ Its complete protection, double-indenitv pol- [ 11 icy protects better than any other policy issued. h I Every policy issued as good as a National 11 Bank note. I shall be glad for an opportunity to explain it to you. DAVID J. SCHWARTZ Agent. Interurban Blotk. M

draL colt, coming 3 years old; 1 driving colt, coming 1 year old. Four Head of Cattle; One cow, iresh in April; 1 cow, flesh in July; I cow. .fresh in September; l beiler, ii months old. Nine brood sows. 3 will farrow first of March, 1 by last o. March; 5 not bred; Hi head oi snouts. I weighing 75 lbs. each; I O. I C. man | hog. Farming Implements: One j i horse wagon, 2 sets o ( doul, e w or? ■ I harness. 1 Osborn mower, L riding l breaking plow. I walking breaking I plow-, 1 spring-tooth harrow, I hay ia.l I der, 2 sulky corn plows, 1 set ci black ! smith tools. I gravel bed, corn in crib. 100 shocks corn in field, 250 shocks oi fodder, hay In the mbw, 12 doz. chick ens, 17 head lull blood Indian Rttnne ducks. Terms —her ail amounts ol ?.">.OO and i under, cash in hand; all amounts over I $5.00 a credit of 9 months will be giv : en, purchaser giving note witn approv- j ed security. 4 per cent, off for cash | , HENRY SOVINE J. N. Burktiead, Auct. FOR SALE —Acme range, No. 8, good ! I condition. Call E. H. Shoemaker. ] So. Winchester St. 7t3* I o FOR SALE--5,000 acres of land m Ail I ams county; also houses and lots! for sale in all parts of the city. A 22x80 foot brick business building in j Decatur. Money to loan at 5 per cent | , See the P. K. Kinney real estate agency, over the interurban station. ) 18t6 I

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John Spuhler The Live Stock and General Auctioneer Decatur, - Indiana Listen He is a good judge of all kind of properly and has had years of experience in the auetioneering business claim your dates early. Phone Res. 531

: ■ WS- w—wo «■ ■-.» •«»>... „!■_ n- HwtffgHi ‘tuMniMllirr"- 1 R 1 THE HOME OF ! Quality Groceries I L-i— ».ii- —nnJ There is } sS=t- A place, a season and a reason 7 Wna For every thing txCwlW ' 'Fhis is the placo For Every Seasonable Thing in the Grocery Line ? And There’s a Reason why we Sell Them THE QUALITY! Try These—They’ll Please ; Pure maple syrup 40c qt. marquetce syrup in qt. , bottles 25c. Maple flavor syrup in 15, 30 and 50c tins. We are still selling that pure Duckwheat flour your neighbors has been telling you about. We always have plenty of A 1 country butter. Wejpay cash or trade for produce Eggs 27c Butter 20 to 27 Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108. zx Tj ■ ‘ l Si 1 ml ■ 'uRK s- -' safe 3i p L-'' Wei! Lighted Store Windows g attract trade and this fact is realized by progressive merchants the world over. New Edison ITazda Lamps give the desired results, for their clear, white rays, almost like sunlight, make it easy fur pa.iershy to get the full effect of your window display. , The new Edison Mazda gives twice as much light as the ordinary incandescent lamp, but consumes no more current. —.< , Come in to-day and let us prove to your satisfaction that the new Edison flazda is all we claim. Jb The Holthouse Drug Co. ” NOTICE FUR SALE- IbO feet of linoleum, 'wo yards wide, good as new; will sell We have plenty of monev to loan on or Pnee. Inquire at Joseph &. . . Lang candy kitchen; phone 512. HtC farms. j«ng time. No commission charges FOUND—At the postoffice, a package TAF-tf ERWIN LAW OFFICE. Os yarn * etc * Owner (an haVP - arnv by calling there and paying for this ad BANKING CONVENIENCE ! NO matter where you live, you can have the banking convenience afforded by the First National Bank. Just enclose your check, draft or money orders in an envelope carefully addressed to this bank. As soon as the deposit is received credit will be given on the books and acknowledgement made of deposit, so that your money will always be safeguarded against loss, even though you do not take time to come into town. WE INVITE CHECKING AND TIME (DEPOSITS. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA P W Smith, President, c A Dugan, Cashier W A Kuebler, Vice President, F W Jaebker, Asst Cashier