Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1912 — Page 3

™ ■ iiM Spring Shoe Style I ... are here for your inspection. « White and Tan Boots are the ® biggest sellers right now. Ours '4 gl are made in the new slant seven £1 I inch heights, sixteen buttons. | | You’ll want to see these. | I $3.50 and $4.00 I I Charlie Voglewede ■ THE SHOE SELLER g C Cn The West Side Os The Street

* .. *> O«c«»r>4O4O&. 0 « fy&cas; ! c jT>o«.ec4o*o* Snow north, rain or snow south nortion tonight or Sunday. John Schng was a Richmond caller today. Mrs. J. A. Hendricks of Monroe was a shopper here Friday. John Frisinger is home from a business trip to Fort Wayne. John Coffee made a business trip to Ft. Wayne last evening. Miss Mary Gallmeyer of St. Johns was a shopper here yesterday. Ed Meyers, the Fort Wayne attorney, was a business caller here Friday. Tom Gallogly, who was at Portland today on business, returned home this afternoon. George Zeuro of Geneva was numbered among the business visitors here Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Vv. Frank Burns attended the initiation of the class into the American Insurance Union at Ft, Wayne last evening.

j THE HOME OF . * Quaiity Groceries | ■ I — Shelves Well Filled Hd HTTi \vH Artistically Arranged Hi ll\> II > y Give Observers Aid In Sel■hH LV ; LLiIJ ecting What They Need. You Will Find What You Want On Our Shelves. Take A Look Our solid pack can goods please others and they’ll please you. ! Fine Table butter and plenty of it at 30 cents per lb. , We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 16c Butter 20 to 28 Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108. fIOB 010 ■ O B C f J. S, Bowers. Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. C 5 0 i ■ §1 « ¥ £ The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O 8 lent bargains in city property and Adams county ® a farms. The company would be pleased to have w £ you call at its office and see its offerings. The c - q Z nanv has nlentv of five per cent money to loan on Mt 2 Ut 1 the Schirmeyer Abstract 3 £ Company prepare your abstract of title. Twe y g i years experience, complete records, q O G b i 2 The Bowers Realty Go. w J French Quinn, Secty. 0 OBOBOBOBOIOBOBBOBOBOBOBCBOBC

•: 'Lilah Lachot is assisting at the . Charles Vog'ewede shoe store. Mrs. Mary Rae of Monroe has re-' turned home after shopping here Friday. Mrs. Maiinda Fronfield returned last evening to Ft. Wayne alter a visit here. | Mrs. R. Da'lay and Mrs. H. R. Moltz ' spent yesterday afternoon in Fort ; Wayne. i James P. HLefiing will return today 'from Crown Point to spend Sunday ' with his family. Miss Dorris Kuntz of Geneva, who’ 1 was in the city Friday, taking her regular musical instruction, has returned to her home. .' Miss Lilly Teeple yesterday received a message of the death of a young lady friend at Cary, Ohio, where the TeeI pies formerly lived. 1 Dr. Rayl and Professor East of Mon1 roe, who were at Fort Wayne last evening on business, stopped off here ■ i this morning for the day. ‘; Mrs. Harry Horn of Union City, who had been visiting with her mother, ' Mrs. Chilson, at Bryan, Ohio, arrived I here yesterday afternoon for a visit ’ with her brother, Fred Schaub. Mr. Horn will join her Sunday.

John Wagner is home from a business trip to Monroe. i Victor Graber of Berne, who was a business caller iu the city, has returned home. Jbhn Frisinger, who was a business caller at Fort Wayne, returned home this morning. Mrs. D. W. Laisure of Monroe was shopping in om city Friday, leaving at noon fc her home. • Martin Laughlin of south of the city was numbered e.mottg the business callers here yesterday. Mrs. Laie Baker v.as able to be up town yesterday for the first since her illness prior to the holidays. | Fred Hoffman and son, Oscar, the architect, were business callers at Winchester Friday afternoon. Rufus Stuckey of Berne passed through the . ity this morning on his ,way home from Fort Wayne. ' John Myers of Monroe was in the; city today looking after business matters which required his attention. | Appropriate religious services will be held tomorrow in all of the city’s churches, to which the public is invited • i Lee Yager arrived home yesterday from his regular trip and will spend Sunday here with his sister and brothers. Martin Laughlin, president of the Geneva bank, was attending the monthly meeting of directors there this morning. ■Rufus Stuckey of Berne, who has I been at Fort Wayne on business, passed through the city this morning on his way home i Mrs. P. A. Salisbury of Chicago, who has been visiting nere with her mother, Mrs. Celia Ehinger, left yesterday for her home. , Walter Johnson of Monroe passed through the city this morning on his way home from Fort Wayne to spend Sunday with his iarnily. George Mo'.is and N. F. Rhoton ■ came over from Bluffton last evening on business relating to the Morris five and ten cent store 1 Ben Beavers, a junior in Wabash college at Crawfordsville, arrived home last evening for a week's visit with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. S. D. Beavers. ' John Reiter was at Portland today on business in the interest of the firm of Hood & Company, wholesalers, he being a traveling representative of the company. I William Conrad, who boards at the home of Sam Purdy on West Wiley I avenue, was quite ill this morning with a spasm of the muscles of the chest. —Bluffton. News. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Zurcher returned yesterday from Berne and later left for their heme at Ottawa, Ohio. They were here to attend the funeral of Mrs. Sarah Decker. Several from this city al tended the funteral of David Frisinger at Wren Ohio, this morning. His death occurred Wednesday from Bright's disease. Mr. Frisinger was 73 years of age. Mrs. John Stoneburner and daughter, Louva, are both ill. Mrs Stoneburner is suffering from a severe cold and Miss Louva has been very ill for five weeks with leakage of the heart. I A large number of farmers were in the city today, the letting up of the cold spell permitting them to visit the city and the business men again realized a nice day’s business as the result. I Miss Lilly Teeple left - this after-, noon for Cary, Ohio, where she was! called by the death of a friend, Mrs. I Blanch Hanna, who had been ill some time wjth tuberculosis. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. Miss Teeple formerly resided at Cary. ■ Mrs. J M. Dawson and daughter. | Frances, returned this morning from Huntington and Andrews. At Huntington they attended the Christian district convention and at Andrews visited with the Rev. J M Dawson, who is conducting a successful revival. Those who have had difficulty in jumping the mud chasm across Third street to the library. wiP be pleased to learn that steps have been taken lor the building of crossings, being the extension of the sidewalks along . the street south of the courthouse. II ] is said the library alley will also le ' bricked.

COME TO THE BOWERS MILLINERY To see there Spring Millinery display Saturday afternoon and evening March 23rd. Dry Cleaning and Dying a Specialty Bowers Millinery I

■ j Miss Golda Gay is numbered among , the grip sufferers. , Mrs. Jeff Klopfenstein of Preble went i to Fort Wayne this morning. > A. S. Keller of Monroe was in the i city today on real estate business. L. Thomas of Monroe was numbered among the business callers here today. | ' Fred Hancher, who is working at Huntington, will be here to spend Sunday with his wife. I ■ Miss Luella BuWemeier is visiting with her brother, Ed Bultemeier, and family at St. John's. II Sherman Perry of Geneseo, 111., re- ’ turned this noon to Marion after a 'visit with Miss Lilly Teeple. Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nichols, lias been Quito ill with j ja prolonged attack of convulsions, i Mrs. Herbert Pennington went to Wayne to visit with her daugh- i ters, Mesdamcs Lauer and McMaken. j Mr. Shadker, route agent for the Express company, was | ' here today checking up the local of- I flee. | Mrs. Martin Ault went to Pleasant j Mills at noon to spend Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Overholser. [ .1. W. Merriman went to Adams to visit with his son, Ralph, who is an operator for the Pennsylvania railroad 'at that place. I Alfred Elzey went to Fort Wayne to call on his son, Lawrence Elzey, who was operated upon recently at the Lutheran hospital, but who is getting along well. A ten-pound baby boy was born Friday evening to Mr. and Mrs. William i Cloud, east of the city. Both mother and babe are doing well and great is the happiness of the home. There are slid a number of business transactions which will come about in > a short time, t'.e hum of business in I various way making the changes a= frequently as they have been 1 D. O. Roop, one of the well known : teachers of the county, who was for- ! rner deputy county clerk, visited here with friends today and attended to , business matters. Mr. Roop has two , more weeks in his school term. s Mrs. Aaron DeVinney is in receipt of word from Fort Wayne that her , nephew, Charles Ault, who has been 1 at the point of death from consump- , tion, is slightly better, but so little ' that the change is not noticeable, except to the physician. , Samuel Algo arrived last evening ■ from Chicago to join his wife, who has been visiting with Mrs. Daniel Trout- > ner at Pleasant Mills, and with the A. J. Roop family. Mrs. Algo will return home with her husband tomorrow ev- . ening. Mr. Algo is an employee of the Pullman Car works. <j Want Ads Pat

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CARD OF TMANKS. I Wo take this plan to thank th ? i neighbors and friends wso so kindly ' assisted in the sickness and death of our husband and father, John Durbin. Mother and children. FOR SALE—Radiant Home hard coal burner; also Garland malleable, sixlid cooking range, good as new. For particulars, call Cu 6N. 3rd St., or 'phone 456. 70t3

I I Elizabeth Brothers i Burns Physician & Surgeon I ' Office & Residence over g Bowers Realty Co. Office | • Hours-9 to 1.2 a.m., Ito I 4 p.m. and evenings i 4444*4**4*44444 hour Debts: o 4 $ Let us pay them. The way . ♦ t° do this is to find out how - <j, much you c'.e. Come to us and borrow the money to pay them, thus making the pay- * ments within your income. * We loan on furniture, pianos, * horses and wagons, etc., with- * - out removal. 60c per week pays * a $25 loan in 50 weeks. ♦ ALL OTHER SUMS IN PRO- ♦ * PORTION. « ♦ OUR NEW METHOD of mak- « * ing loans does away with the 4 ♦ old-time red tape and makes it 4 ♦ a very simple matter to open 4 ♦ a credit account with us. 4 * If you need money, fill out * 4 and mail us this blank and our 4 agent will call on you. « 4 Name 4 4 Address; St. and No 4 4 Amount Wanted « 4 Our agent it m Decatur every 4 4 Tuesday. * # Reliable Private « : H. Wains Loan company • * Established 1896. Room 2. Sec- * 4 ond Floor, 706 Ctlho'.n Street. * 4 Home 'Phone, 833 * Fort Wayne, Ind * 4*4444444 4 4® *

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PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will offer for sale at public auction at the Livery Barn at Berne, Indiana, on FRIDAY, MARCH, 29 COMMENCING AT 10:00 A. M. The following Live Stock and Personal Property to-wit: 20 HEAD OF HORSES Consisting of livery horses, mares with colt, and farm chunks. I Black Hearse Team, broke in all harness, full brothers. Red Roan Stallion coming 4 years old next August, 7-8 Belgian weight 1550 pounds. A 5-Passenger AUBURN Automobile 4 storm front buggies, 2 good as new; 2 ruboer tire carriages, open 2-seated rubber tire rig, steel tire carrige, 4 rubber tire buggies, rubber tire stanope, 3-seated rig good as new, 3 steel tire buggies, cab, buckboard, light sample wagon, 2-horse dray wagon good as new, 12 sets single harness, 4 sets double harness, set heavy breeching harness robes and blankets, 2 small hard coal burners, 11 bedsteads, springs and mattresses and many other articles. Terms Made Known on Day of Sale FRED BRAUN J. A. MICHAUD, Auctioneer C. A. LEHMAN, Clerk sn/ioke: the «/ M Il / p Ml \ J WHiTE o’gafr For Sale By All Dealers