Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1912 — Page 3

TAN BUTTON BOOTS I We got in a nice lot of Tan Button Bootfe for ® ladies today. The shade is a beautiful golden || brown and they are made on a new dumpy last. We’re getting new goods in every day and will soon be fixed for all your wants. Come in and |s see us. ■ —.—— —— n Charlie Voglewede I THE SHOE SELLER 1 Now on the West side of the street J

LEATHER forecast if i —j; ! 1 o*o4o»c>4o ® | Fail tonight and Saturday, not < much change in temperature. Miss Fisher returned yesterday aft- , etnoon tn Fort Wayne Curley Kademaker is able to be nut again after an illness. Mrs. F. A. Peoples went to Monmouth last evening on the 4 o'clock car. Miss Adelaide Deininger went to Ft. Wayne today for a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne. Mrs. M. V. B. Archbold of Fort Wayne visited yesterday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Edge, returning or. lire 4 o’clock clt. The high school girls' basket ball team left this afternoon at 3:19 for Bluffton, where they will meet the Bluffton girls this evening. Leah Hensley, Glennys Mangold, Mary Erwin, Juanita Boch left today noon for Bluffton, where they will witness the basket bail game between the Decatur and Bluffton girls' teams this evening. Talk about Alaskan cold weather! We have it right here in the east. Friends in central Pennsylvania write Decatur people that it has been 30 to 40 degrees below zero there this winter —the coldest in many years.

One or Two Treatments of | DRI--SEAL Permanently Waterproof Shoes-Men’s, Women’s, | Children’s Does not interfere with the shining of the shoes B Softens and preserves the leather Makes shoes last longer and I RUBBERS ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY I £ DRI-SE AL is guaranteed satisfactory or money refunded. See the demonstration in our | Window WINNES SHOE STORE I ■OH O & O ■ O R 0 BOBODBOBOBOBOBOBOfi 4 SJ S Bowers, Pres, F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. 2 O O ■ 5 x £ I I 2 The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- £ O lent bargains in city property and Adams county ■ farms. The company would be pleased to have H 2 you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- o ! pany has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ 2 Reasonable terins. Let the Schirmeyer Aosiract g n Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty — m years experience, complete records. O | 2 The Bowers Realty Co. y E French Quinn, Secty. O

M. S. Hilpert of Rivaire went to Ft Wayne this morning. Burt Hunsicker was a Fort Wayne business visitor today. The Steele & Weaver five and ten ■ cent store has begun its invoice. Felix Holthouse, Arthur Kleinhenz and Walter Corbett were numbered among the Fort Wayne visitors last evening. Miss Emma Bogner is an extra assistant at the Schlickman restaurant today an account of the rush occasioned by the horse sale. H. A. Smith, who has been conducting services at the hall of the Church of God, returned this morning to his home in Whitley county. Charles Gulick of Auburn, who has been working tor the handle plant, left his morning for Garrett, wherg he has a good position in the B. & O-. shops. , Miss Pauline Schroeder and brother, Leo, of Madison, Ind., who were in attendance at the Laugerman-Eiting wedding on Wednesday, left today for their homes. The Misses Rosa' and Bert Voglewede, Rosa and Margaret Confer will ne among those to attend the play, “Are You a Mason?" at the Majestic theater, Fort Wayne, this evening. Rosa Weismantel of Elwood has arrived in the city to visit with her brother, Frank Gass, who has been on the sick list for the past four weeks, and is now on the way to recovery.

John Waggoner was a business caller at Monroe today. Another delegation from this city attended the “Are You a Mason?” performance at the Majestic theater. Fort Wayne, last evening. Lee and Lew Yager have arrived home from their regular trips and will spend Sunday here with their sister ■ and brothers. Edgar Gerber is serving as conduc- i tor on the Fort Wayne & Springfield I railway in the absence of Homerl Ruhl, who is tailing a few days' vaca- : tion. Charles Gulick of Auburn, who has been employed at the handle factory here for several months, left today for Garret, where he has taken a position in the B. & 0. railroad shops. The Teeple, Brandyberry X- Peterson sale will close Saturday. It has been a big success, due to the fact that it I has been a real sale, and the last day | promises-to be the biggest of all. Revival services at the Hobo M. E church will begin Sunday evening. The I former pastor, the Rev. D. A. J. ! Brown, who resigned on account of ill ! health some time ago, will assist. 1 [ ’ The democratic county central com-' ' mittee will meet next Thursday, at j which time delegates will be Selected for the state, congressional and semi i torial conventions. The meeting will be the first in the new headquarters over the Joseph & Lang fruit store. Work on the remodeling of the building north of the Page Hlackb.-rn j drug store is going on rapidly. A new front is being built and tile work is going on under a front improvised from the old doors and window panes to shelter the carpenters. Ti e 1 .aiding will be occupied by Joseph XLang's candy and fruit store. Ben Schrank, administrator of his : moaher’s estate is offering for sale the old John Schrank farm, eighty acres of as fine land as a crow ever flew over, and located a mile south of Pleasant Mills. The improvements are first- ’ i class, including a fine country home I and a good barn, good fences and I I 1 ditches, and rtimr one is going to pick up a bargain. The force of clerks in the Peoples & Gefike shoe store is busy arranging the stock cn the shelving in the new 1 \ room, across the street, from | their former place. Chronister & Fisher, the paper hangers, are engag--led in repapering the building in a • . handsome manner, and things are be- , i ing straightened around in a hustling ■ | way, that seems to make moving a 1 thing of little trouble after all. It will : be a very short time until the firm will Ibe thoroughly at home in their new quarters. ‘ I Miss Margaret S. Vesey, state secreI tary of the King's Daughters and Sons, ' returned home last evening from Terre i Haute, where she attended a meeting lof the executive council. On account I of the prevalence of smallpox at Con- ; nersville it has been decided to hc.G ! the state convention during the second week in March at Terre Haute instead of Connersville, which was chosen as the convention city at the convention in Fort Wayne last year.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel.

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Ben Gerard of Auburn is in the city visiting. Mr. and Mrs. I. N. L’ptegraft of Bryant passed through the city this morning on their wav Ft. Wayne to visit with friends. We are getting used to this zero weather and like it. course that's not saying that we won't feel like hug | ging the first blue bird that arrives. The Rev. Jones of Warren transferi red here this morning on his way to I Monroe, where he conducted the funeral rites over the remains of the late Mrs. Stella Hendricks, which took place this morning at 10 o'clock from the Monroe M. E. church. Howard W. Sains, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sams, of Fort Wayne, the fireman who was on the engine pulling the southbound Grand Rapids and Indiana freight, train which figured in ‘ the head-on co.’..sion near Kalamazoo Wednesday afternc' died soon after beiftg removed from the wreckage. The , young man would have been twenty-i four years of age February 24th. I I Frank E. Fi ance will leave Sunday ' lor Indianapolis for a few days' visit with his brother. J. Fred France, clerk 'of the supreme court, leaving next week for his home at Muskogee, Okla, i Mrs. France will not return for two or I three weeks and may be accompanied j home by Mrs. H. L. Confer o: Indian- j apolis, whose health for the past two i ,weeks has not been as good as! desired. j The Burk'’Construction company of I New Castle got both bridge contracts I at the joint meeting of the Hancock i and Rush county boards of commissioners in the court house Tuesday, i The contract for each of the I bridges was $2,350, making the total j $4,700.—-Rushville Republican. Mr. I ' Burk was also the successful bidder 'on the new Monroe street bridge, the contract for which was let here on , Tuesday of this week. i Frank Wemhoff, who a month ago ( accepted a position as bookkeeper atTI 'office man at the Indiana Board & Filler company's office at Vincennes, has returned home and will for the i next week or so be engaged in going over the books of the local plant. As soon as this is completed he will return to Vincennes and take up the j work which he was mostly secured for. He likes the work very much, there being a large force employed day and night by the company, and business is rushing at all times. Blanket your horse in cold weather! If a man allows his horse to stand in the street on a cold day in Kansas, without being properly blanketed, any officer can take the horse and have it taken care of at the expense of th- - Should the owner refuse to pay he. may be taken before the court and fined $250, and, if necessary, be imprisoned in the city jail. Such an ordinance is in force in almost every | city in the state and the horses are | thereby legally projected from the I commonest forms of cruelty. "That is I how we treat cruel people in Kansas," I comments the secretary to the govern or of that state, in his reply to a question about the matter.

Rev. R. L. Sernans has gone to Battle Creek, Mich., to visit with his wife, who is in a sanitarium there for treatment for rheumatism and complications. Charles N. Christen was at New | Castle today, where he was looking aft-I er business matters relative to a school' contract which was being considered I there today.

SPECIAL TO BEET FARMERS! □l I For Rent 120 acres, fine soil and ' buildings, near beet station; cash rent. For Sale —Two 60 acre tracts of black soil, with buildings fair. sllO per acre. 15 acre tract, fine soil and building; near town; cheap. 118 acres, miles of Decatur, $12,000. Some other good w'ell located tracts •heap. Possession March Ist. DAN ERWIN. Shredded Fodder For fodder shredded fine, 75c per bale Doors open from 7 to 9 Sherman Major has it for SALE — The Riverside Livery and Feed Barn. First st. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ • V <♦♦♦■< ♦ Bring Your Money * ♦ Troubles to Us * ♦ W< can loan you enough mon • ♦ ey tc put you on your feet "* ♦ Enough to get rid of the small. 4 ♦ worrisome bills which you find it 4 ♦ bard to meet. 4 j 4 We loan on Furniture, Pianos-. 4 4 Horses and Wagons, etc , with 4 1 4 out removal. 60c per week pays 4 4 a $25 loan in 50 weeks. 4 4 ALL OTHER SUMS IN PRO 4 4 I ORTICN. 4 ♦ OUR NEW METHOD 01 mak ♦ ♦ ing loans does away with the c!:1 ♦ ♦ time red tape and makes it a « very simple matter to open a * 4 credit account with us. 4 4 If you need money, fill out 4 4 and mail us this blank and our 4 4 t.gerif will call on you. * ♦ Name ♦ Address; St. and No ♦ I . Amount Wanted 4 Our agent is in Decatur every 4 4 I Tuesday. , 4 Reliable Private « ♦ h Lm cwmy * 4 Established 1896. Room 2. Sec- ♦ ond Floor, 706 Calhoun Street * ♦ Home ’Phone, 833. \ Fort Wayne. Ind * |»4»4*♦« o » o > 4 ♦<«

naw*j Maa rwin I SPRING GINGHAMS | i 1 I s ■ i 1 g We have just received a big ship- d Iment of our New Spring Ging- | hams. Buy early and get the H B choice patterns. We have also 0 -X- | received a nice big line of New j | Spring Silks in new colors and J j patterns. ■ | | THE BOSTON STORE g j DECATUR, INDIANA I

ui I fVib THBEV. JBk THtJtl J t I I THE HOME OF I ■ Quality Groceries I | *■ 1 * ■ JACK SPRATT || 0L ‘ Would Eat No Food, J —/V HIS WIFE Would Eat No More. Until it Was Thoroly Understood That it Came From Our Grocery Store FORM THE HABIT! Our solid pack of can goods never fail to please try these Asparagus points 25c Raspberries 15c Spinach 16c Blackberries 20c IKerna’led fruccatash 12 1-2 Pineapples 15 to 25 Cut wax beans 12 1-2 Kraut 10c Sweet potatoes 15c Hominy 10c We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 30c Butter 20 to 27 Hower and Hower. I North of G. R. &I. Depot. ’Phone 108. I F\ V. /VW LS THE GROCER Has a few articles he wishes to call your attention to in the way of table delicacies, Purity Butterine, Piemento cheese Heinz Dill Pickles, Campbells soups, Potato chips, California white cherries and apricots, nice salt mackerel, Durkees salad dressing, Wisconsin cheese, Websters sweet cider to drink, DMI houses with 2 packages Maple Flake, and the famous Chase & Sauh in Coffee are always in demand, Vancamps Kraut and delicious Hominy, Beechnut peanut butter, Taragon Vinegar, nice line of olives, Imported Peas and Mushroons. Marv other good things for the house wife who wonders this time ofiyear what to fix for her Hubby to eat. 1 -- TIL. a-L - j—— —■■ •■U— . . -■ _ II »■■■»■ II «!!!■ w. « MR. SMOKER Don’t ask for a Light cigar ask for the right cigar. A cigarthat is Mild All Through filler as well as wrapper not made from green tobacco, harvested when harsh and bitter for the sake of color, but fully ripened in the fields, so well cured that there’s no need for ou to be cured of the cigar habit but merely of buying cigars that harm. Hot a sore throat or a heartburn in l life times supplv (ask your physician) of the “White Stag” cigar For Sale by AH Dealers