Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1912 — Page 3

m Is 1 1 I YOU’LL SEE I p*/* ’ : >r li l . slot of our shoes and ■ g oxfords on “dress parade” to- | g morrow. Tans, Black and li’ 1 White Bucks were the big sell- i I ers today. Plenty of clerks to | | wait on you tonight. Open | till eleven. Better come. In E' si m y | | Charlie Voglewede I J | THE SHOE SELLER gr ■ S O n est Side Os The Street g|

r . »«•> « . »o t- ■ ■— 3 ■ fe.- RWECASi’ i H ’ O' ♦ gs .■?•..■€ t, «C<0»0« | ■ Showers and colder tonight; Sung day fair and ctffder. M C. C. Schug of Herne was here today I on business. K Did any one have the nerve to plant ■ potatoes yesterday? ■ Miss Ada Death Os the Schlickman || <t Goldner restaurant will spent Suns' day at her home at Bobo. K The Misses Lola and Dorothy Dunn B have returned from Bluffton, where | g they visited with Mr. and Mrs. C. W. s Campbell and family. J Joseph & Lang have added two 8 large palms of decorations to their attractive fruit window, which adds . i greatly to its appearance. H. S. Steele, ex-county recorder, who | | vas badly injured when he w-as drags' ged by his runaway horse several w eeks ago while at Tocsin on business | for the Schafer hardware company, was able to be out yesterday with the f aid of crutches. It will be some time hbwever, before he will be able to step on his injured foot.

I THE home of || ya'U| Quality Groceries || *x *! t < YOU f ’’Sfe?* Will Always I f ,™d I * - ii —J Us Busy I BUT NEVER TOO BUSY sTo Give Vour Especial Wants our Special I ATTENTION | j WE VALUE YOUR TRADE Have you been thinking of seed potatoes. We have 1 the genuine varieties at the right price. E rlv Rose SI.BO bu. Early Bliss $2.00 bu. ; Early Ohio $2.15 A complete stock of Garden and Flower seeds | We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 18c Butter 18 to 24 I i nd Hower, I | North of G. R. & L Depot. ’Phone 103. I O«iO28 O 4: O **S'CD3OROBOfIOfIiOfIGBC& I £J, S, Bowers. Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres., < IO I I I ® « ■ 5 O I « ® j The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O t O lent bargains in city property and Adams county g ■ farms. The company wornd be pleased to have a 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 fg 2 reasonable terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract g JB Company prepare your abstract ui title, fwenty , ■I years experience, complete records. q ■ ~ . 5 i o fl 2 The Bowers Realty Go. jv 5 French Quinn, Secty. O S OflOBOBOBClOMO«*0®0* 18080 tfoaßr * \

Mrs. Noah Loch went ttr Fort Wayne last evening. Frances Cole was assisting at the Winnes shoe store today. Dr. Grandstaff of Preble Was numbered among the business callers here today. Dr. Vizzard oi Pleasant Mills wag numbered among the ’ usiness callers hero today. J . R. Graber of the south part of the | county, formerly superintendent of i the county infirmary, was visiting [ here today. : Miss Agnes Starost, a stenographer* at Middlepoint, Ohio, is here to spend Raster w ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stalest. A large crowd of people visited the city today, all busy shopping, and taki ing advantage of the Easier offerings 1 which were offered by the business men. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Bright of Elgin. 111., who have been in the city for the past week, where they had been called on account of the death of his mother, Mrs. Nancy Bright, whose funeral was held Tuesday, left this noon for their home.

-win ■■■mi I n Dan Ty x ' s ', wis tn ex*'a clerk at the Joseph k r iCt -ream parlor • today. Commissioner Jam ■» Mei ricks was s here yesterday attendin' a she ses- j sion of the board. Mrs. Margaret Louthan retu ft 1 Fort Wayne fast evening after a ‘art! here with relatives. Miss Etta Mallonee went to Fort Wayne last evening to visit wifli friends, returning today. i 1 Mrs. Herman Gerke and- children went to Fort Wayne last evening to visit a week with relatives. Miss Irene Smith left today for Indianapolis for an over-Sunday visit with her sister, Mrs. Albert Lachnit. ! Mr. and Mrs Otto Keller are home from Dixon, Ohio, where they spent ' their honeymoon, visiting with her relatives. Miss Carrie Cogswell left last evening for Fort Wayne, where she. will spend the summer with Frank Stone and family. I Charles Morrison and J. M. Wiley of blue Creek township were among those who looked after business- in town yesterday. The Easter season is at hand The hoy with a fish pole and the spring fever will soon be in evidence, and it seems like it was just about time for it, too. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Haubold will return to Chicago today. Mr. Haubold has been enjoying a month's vacation from his duties and : s much iramovec in health. * The automobiles have been taken cut and pvt in shape for the delightful spring driving; that is those who i own them have them out, some of us I haven't. I The Easter services at the FresbyI terian church will be very interesting, including a special musical program j with a number of solos and anthems. | You are invited to attend. The horse sale brought to town the usual large crowd, and tae sale was a very successful one. Three hundred head of fine animals were cltered and Auctioneer McNab was in his usual fine form. An institution of chiropractic learning. to be known as the Ross College of Chiropractic, will be opened Monday at Fort Wayne. It is said several Decatur boys are contemplating taking a course. Mrs. John Wisehaupt of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. "Ed Wisehaupt of Fort Wayne and Mrs. George Carnail of Fort Wayne will visit over Easter as the guests of Mr. asd Mrs. F. C. Harbaugh..—Bluffton News. Miss Eva Sprunger of Marion, Ind., who has been a guest of the Misses Ireta Erwin and Lulu Atz, left this morning for Berne, where she will spend Sunday with her parents, and attend the dedication exercises. County Chat.-man Bosse is busy • with plans that will assure the registration of as many of the democrats as possible at the first session on May 9th. It’s a big job and the first of its kind in the county. Street Commissioner Smith is making the dirt fly and the paved streets will soon be in a better condition than for several months. The alleys down town are alsc receiving attention, and the town is putting on her Easter togs. J. W. Malott of Decatur returned home Wednesday after a short business trip to Poneto Mr. Malott received the contract to build a fine home for A. E. French, cashier of the new stare lan . at Poneto- Bluffton II Panner. ! Mr. and Mrs. George Morris went I■ to Decatur Wednesday. Mrs. Morris 1. will visit with relatives and Mr. Morri ris will look after business affairs Bin connection with rhe Morris five. Land ten cent store in that placs>. — I j Fluffton Banner ‘ The Pocahontas convention next ' Thursday will be quite an event and means about three hundred visitors i for Decatur. Give the guests the glad band. It costs you nothing to say "howdy" and when you say it, say It like you mean it. A hundred or more will likely join the special train to Berne Sundry afternoon, when the dedication services will be held. Tpe people of Adams country are proud oi th esixty thousand dollar property, now owned by the Mennonite congregation. A young lady living near Bluffton, employed as a clerk in a department store, was the victim of an April fool joker on April 1. The young lady had been expecting a camera from a relative in Indianapolis, and some of her friends learned of 'he fact and fixed up a very unique affair with which to fool her. The cafhera was made out of, a paste-board box, i mirror was used for a lenz, and a lemon was used| for the lense bun>. 9*trese, with oth< .■ parts substituted, made the camca resemble :• real one, and as she wss unable to unwrap the present” until some little time after it was received the joke was more complete.

M. V. B. Archbold of Fort Wayne is visiting here with relatives. Miss Vera Purdy of Bluffton will spend Easter with' her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Purdy. Omer Parent of Three Rivers, M'cr., is home for a few days’ visit ■his brothers ar.d sisters. ts/ s Effie Rex <?f Ossian, formerly Ou city, is here visiting with rela ’ves, u-'d also organizing a music class. Miss Jo. ?*4ne I'r'ek of the Hope hospital, Fort Way: ill spend Easter with her p. "enw. Ji nd Mrs. ittenry Krick. Mrs. Hi IL McGill <•’ V. > Ohio arrived this morning for . n over i < ter visit with her parents, Mr. an' 1 Mrs. John Porter. Fred Hahnert of Monroe was in F'e! city today looking after business which required his attention, return- 1 ing at noon to his home. May Carrier of Fort Wayne and j ge itleman friend, are here for a visit, w ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank ! Carrier, south of the city. Frank Porter and family of Parker j City arrived in the city this afternoon j for a visit with his parents, Mr and I Mrs. John Porter, in the south part o? s the city. The Misses Cora and Carrie Dan- ' iels and Messrs. Curtis Moser and'. Jesse Tricker will spend Easter ini' Huntington with'the Misses Daniels’|j brother, Otto Daniels, and family. Jonas Tritch, S. C. Cramer and Ed js CI listen are home from Chicago where i I iriey attended the Northern Indiana || Teachers’ association meeting, held i I here tl’.e last three days of the week. I The, next attraction at the Bosse-1 Opera House Saturday, April 13, will • be the newest comedy success CASEY |! JONES. It is a clean, up to date play j in three acts, with e’ever people and j extremely entertaining specialities. j The Rev. Pormohlen of the Portland . Friends’ church will speak at the Mon- i roe M. E. church Monday evening at i 7:30 o clock, and a good attendance ; is desired for that evening. The Rev. ! Pormohlen is an able speaker and his i talk will be one of great interest. Mrs. E. M. Wagner has been called to South Lyons, Mich., on account of the very serious illness of her granddaughter, Miss Thelma Gilbert. The ■child is suffering from whooping cough, to which has now-been added a severe attack of tonsilitis, making her condition very serious. With the warming up of the weather the local prognosticators are tell ing of the kind of weather we have gone through and the number of snows that have fallen during the winter months. Thirty-seven snowfalls are said to have fallen during [ the winter, white the forecasters at Portland give their number as fiftynine. Mrs. Peter Hess felt this morning over the Clover Leaf for Erie, Ohio, where she was called by the illness of her daughter, Kate. She became ill after attending the funeral of her sister. Miss Frances Hess, held here several months ago, and was operated upon at that time for a cancerous affection. She is reported as being worse at the present time. Rev. L. R. Stambaugh of Warren, who was robbed of $145 while enroute to Wabash to attend the Methodist j conference last week, and for whom a purse of $95 was raised by the conference to compensate for his loss, will move to Bit ffton, his children being enrolled in the schools there. He will give up his work as a regular pastor, and will de'ote his energies to the evangelistic work, devoting the summer months to his trade —that of i a paper-hanger. He is not a member j of the M. E. conference. Os the 293 Allen county students i. taking the examination for county di- ■ ploma, 1L made passing grades. Os i the number passing, Ivan K. Kaiser • of Poe made the highest grade—96l per cent. He is fifteen years of age j and was a pupil in the class of Lucius I Somers. The lad’s grade is the highest. ever made during County Stipe"-, intendent Felger’s incumbency in of- j fice. Harper Deane Frock, of New ‘ Haven, aged thirteen, years, received I the next highest grade, which was 95 ; per cent.

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I - <£XjZ=OOE=3DCc-D i ?esainting 8 Bugl es, Carriages and Automobiles first class ; nwork all he time. We have the latest product in Varnish for A.utorn 'hie painting, soap has no ess feet on it. g Trimming and Upholstering ; U Tops, Cushions, Curtains and etc. Rubber tires I D Goodyear brand at 3-'in. $10.50 7-Bin. $12.50 F Special Prices on Rep.'.’mtiiig and Rubber tiring | when both done together. We give you best work, be: t qualit,, -ior the money The Decatur Carriage H WORKS A W.D. Porter Pi prieiT Q X 3 °oors E. of Post Offiee Don forM tne location A r™- 1 — iaam■■■■ imi—~ ■’■ jij t«i ■ - -r THE 1912 OVERLAND \9 '' 5 7 OVERLAND MODEL W FIVE PASSENGER, S9O - A CAR FOR PARTICULAI PF " J ' E B Y Particular people we mean fol <■ ho demand in a motor car those eleni ?nts whu h det < mme its real ! worth. After all is said and done ser ice is e one thing ito buy in an automobile. Style and d« <*gn ■ . .utters ot I fashion’s caprice, paint, varnish ano pimrn’ s ye suoi.jects of taste, but the all-important f; ctor i t ice--nu> I this one-thing first and last-all we as isacri' .j< exan 1 - ■ iration of the Overland. Schug-Mettler Compare bernK ind. -.fr.-Mr.oa.tu.. - • . r ttar m 11 " | NOTICE We are those farmc s ' engage this spring in growing Be< s a i’c book on ' SUGAR BEET CU LI UR ’ This paper was written by Mr. E. VI. W’ gner, the agriculturist, and approve dby i r. F. 11. Hubbard, the manager of the 1 Id'L l ( <W St. Louis Sugar Co., and therefore is an! / itative. It is confidently beleived that m ich ' jable information is contained there in We are only too happy to mail to an, ’ sending his name and address a cop z,si as we have them. FIRST NATIONAL RAN. DECATUR, ULIANA