Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1912 — Page 3

■ ■ . 1 ■■■MM——————— MmwiMMWi^ m mt KI I White Buck and Canvass I I Shoes for Girl s I || We’ve got a dandy line of these shoes g| || in high tops ma de on the new broad toe g K lasts. Nu-Buck that you can wash with H any good soap and water when they get S badly stained. White-Dri dry cleans s them quickly. Drop in and let us show W H you - ® I Charlie Voglewede I i THE SHOE SELLER On The West Side Os The Street

.. -- •. -... « <j«o*oe»o<o* — ♦ 1 FATHER FftRECASi ? §1 Ifc- . ■ ' - vrtPOO- —o»otT- -| F.dr tonmn. temperature. Irvin C. Case visited over Easter with friends in Elkhart. Mrs. C. D. Gallmeyer of St. John s was shopping here. M. J. Welker made a business trip to Fort Wayne Saturday. Mr. and M«— James Fry went to Ft. Wayne Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gamp went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. Miss Minnie Bogner went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon tn visit with friends. The Misses Bess Schrock and E. B. Adams spent Saturday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lamlin and daughter, Ireta, were in Woodburn for a visit with friends over Easter. The Misses Blanch and Lucy McCrory went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon to visit over Easter with Miss Gladys Tomlinson.

I THE HOME OF | Quality Groceries I - *y\ YOU Wh?" *w£ wi " Always FIND J Us Busy BUT NEVER TOO BUSY To Give Your Especial Wants our Special ATTENTION WE VALUE YOUR TRADE Have you been thinking of seed potatoes. We have the genuine varieties at the right price. Early 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 Hower and Hower. | North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108. •oiioi oiioic ao»cD»oBoio«cxioBoao« !j S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. Schirmeyer, Vice Pres. £ ! £ ? o ■ ** The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O 5 lent bargains in city property and, Adamscounty ■ ■ farms The company would be pleased to ha . 2 you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- q * nanv ha« plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ 2 reasonable terms. Let the Sehjmeyer Abstract 3 ! Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty w II years experience, complete records. O O G S M £ The Bowers Realty Go. r X French Quinn, Secty. g tfOVC

- - - '.. i Miss Hazel Davis was the guest of friends over Sunday at Berne. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Oliver and son, : Milton, spent Sunday with friends at Berne, Mr. aw. M.». iiert Haley and end- ' .... I with relatives. Mrs Joseph Bentz and daughter, , Susie, visited over Easter in Fort I Wayne with relatives. I L. W. ( oppock came home from I Grand Rapids, Mich., to visit over Easter with his family. Mrs. William Duff of Mendon, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to Fort I Wayne to visit with her daughter. Miss Clarice Noll of Berne visited [ over Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Noll, at Pleasant Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Schafer Peterson went to Fort Wayne Saturday to visit over Easter with their daughter, Mrs. Guy 11 i Majors. Mrs. George Flanders is expected I home this evening from Cincinnati, 1 Ohio, where she has been visiting with relatives. Miss Martha Vail returned Saturday to Fort Wayne aftei- a visit with ' Miss Naomi Dugan and the D. N. Sprang family.

“Casey Jones” is coming to town. Mrs. H. L. Smith was visiting with relatives at Monroe today. Mrs. Don Quinn and daughter, Louise, returned today to Chicago. Lew and Lee Yager were here over Sunday visiting with their sister and brothers. Mrs. Mary Tablor returned to her | home at Monroe after a short stay here on business. Mrs. Christ Strebe and daughter, Mildred, were at Berne over Sunday visiting with friends. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lachot were Berne callers over Sunday, returning home Sunday evening. Mrs. Mary Strack of Willshire, 0., transferred here on her way to Berne for a several days' visit. Mrs. A. P. Beatty still continues to improve and it is thought by tomorrow she will be able to sit up. Mrs. J. W. Shifferly has returned from Berne where she visited over Sunday with Mrs. Dr. Sprunger. Mrs. G. Crumley and daughter, Helen, are home from Monroe, where they spent Sundae with friends. Dr. Will Kortenbrair of Akron, Ind., was here over Easter the guest of his

mother, Mrs. Herman Kortenbrair. 1 “Casey Jones’’ is a ready enemy of 1 Mr. and Mrs. Grouch. He will slip you the heartiest laught of the season. Tom Leonard was at Geneva today lockin'; after some business affairs which occupied k:c .attention between ’ trains. 1 < CMv, "''' 9 ■pent Raster here with turned to Ids ;>>n.e <>.' work . evening. You’ve heard the song. See the play, “Casey Jones,” which comes to the Bosse opera house on Saturday, April 13th. Mrs. Roy Archbold and children returned Saturday night from Toledo. Ohio, where they visited a week with relatives. A large number of people transfert red here Saturday evening on their . way to Berne to attend the Mennon-

r ite dedication. Willis Fonner and daughter were I among the many at Berne unday to attend the dedication of the new Menr nonite church. R. K. Allison left on his regular . trip south, going to Indianapolis and i other places to look after timber business several days. Airs. Harry Starr and babe of Bluffton, who have been visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Sprunger, spent Sunday at Berne with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fritzinger and daughter, Faye, spent Easter in Fort Wayne. They were accompanied home by their little daughter, Mary, who is visiting there Workmen today began on the laying of the blocks for the foundation of the Henry Vian house on Monroe street, which is being raised and a number of improvements made. Work on the remodeling of the Bleeke Lutheran church has been delayed somewhat on account of the late spring. It is thought, however, that the workmen can begin Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart and son, Meredith, spent Sunday afternoon and evening at the Calvin Miller home in Fort Wayne, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stewart and the Miller family. _ i Milton Wel ling, the young man who on Wednesday was kicked by a horse and seriously injured. so that an oper- ■ ation was necessary, is improving L and great hope is now being extendI ed ‘by those caring for him. I Fred Selleineyer and son. Albert, |i were numbered among those at Berne II Sunday to attgnd the dedication exerI cises. The latter, some „■ ears ago, I taught school and is well known by I many of the Hern? youngsters, v. I The show that pleases all classes of I i people must indeed possess merit. I Every advance report of “Caseyi Jones'' is to the effect that it is a "dandy” show, h comes to the Bosse opera house on Saturday, April 13th. ( The Misses Helen Fonner and Mildred Strebe went to Berne Saturday i afternoon to visit over Easter with! the William Rawley family, and to at : ! tend the dedication exercises tomor-j row. hey will be joined Sunday by W. A. Fonner and son. Heber, and Fred Nye. » Potmaster Lower reports letters remaining uncalled for at the Decatur postoffice for Mrs. C. A. Wertzberger. Lloyd Sodin. P. J. Teraen, G. L. Robison, G. V. Porter, C. R. Orcutt, Inona Niblick. Jodie Lane. Iva lines, Mis. Jessie Day. L. 1. Burns, Esther Bixler. W F. Bennett. Deputy Recorder Mrs. Letta Peters and sister, Miss Maytne Cloud received a box of wood violets from their sister, Mrs. Frank Cloud, of Hot Springs, Ark., formerly of this city. The climate there U fine and warm, peach trees are in bloom and spring is manifest in all the other beautiful ways.

John Reiter spent Sunday here with I bis family, arriving Saturday. 1 John Wagner was numbered among the business callers at Monroe today. The Misses Vera and Esther Purdy j of Bluffton were guests of triends here over Sunday. | Robert Johnson of Bluffton was vis- ■ iting here over Sunday with the Pe-! ter Forbing family. The St. Joseph school, which has! been discussed for several days, will resume work tomorrow Mrs. John Reiter and son, Richard, are home from Portland, where they ' spent several days with relatives. Mrs. Dayton Barkley returned to Hoagland this morning after spending Easter with her father, Nelson May, and family. Genevieve Berling will return to Ft. j Wayne in the morning to resume her , musical instruction a’ the Sacred 1 Heart Academy. Miss Georgia Faust returned to Wabash this morning after spending Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Faust. Rosa Martin returned to Ft Wayne after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. _ _ __ — .. I

Dr. C. V. Connell. She was accom H panied by Master, Fred, who will visit ■ with his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Baker. B One hundred and thirty-six tickets m were sold yesterday ever the G. R. & L I. to Berne to parties who wext on | the special train to attend thflMen- K tu.nite dedication, the p ’. ere at noon. dr ■! B ! un- ■ rWamr■t.vhiFriTrti- BTr ' n " 3 of a four-inch inc:.knee to allow drainage for tne highly swollen condition of the little girl’s limb. This is the twelfth operation to have been performed in the last eleven weeks, and it is hoped that this | one will bring relief to the afflicted girl. Nelson K. Todd, a Bluffton attorney, . known here, and who has been con- . nected with the King Piano company

of Chicago, landed a good position with the Weiller Piano company of the same city as vice president of the concern. The Weiller company is one of the leading and long-established firms of that city and securing of a positive with this company shows the estimation of Mr. Todd with the new firm. , At the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday the Easter service attracted an audience that tilled the church. Mr. Semans delivered a practical and inspiring sermon on the Easter faith It was his first sermon for the conference year and sounded the keynote for the year’s activities. The music, under the direction of Mr. F. H. Hubhard, was of exceptional high order. The chancel was profusely decorated , with flowering plants and cut flowers. , The flowers were more than mere decorations as each was in memory of departed friends. At the evening service Mr. Hubbard rendered a solo very acceptably. The official board of the church will meet tonight at 7:30 for organization and the discussion of plans for the year. Some Old Record CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE disposed of for the next entry was 1 made at a special session of the coni- ■ missioners, October 27, 1877, and shows the following acceptance of the : completed bridge: "Ordered by the board that the bridge across the St. Mary’s river. , built by the Smith Bridge company, i be accepted and the following allowance is made: “For the bridge $2614.50 | “For sidewalk and roof 7T.77 i “Total $2692.27’’; With the amount paid for the abut-! J ment, $1,835, the total sum paid for; I the bridge according to these entries, I 1 was $4,527.29. A few months later, June 12, 1878, ' an order of the commissioners direct-; i ed Jesse Niblick that "Jesse Niblick i cause a walk to be erected at each : end of the St. Many’s river bridge to I protect the chords of saitl bridge and : report cost at the next session of this board.” The bridge succeeded by this erect-| ed by the Sndth Bridge company, was I the second one built here and was .in ; open affair, resting on wooden I benches of jaists. The sides were! boarded up to a height of six feet ! or so for protection. The first bridge ; was a rude structure of logs. The Smith Bridge company subsc- ' quently built many more bridges in 1 the county—that of the Pleasant Milla river bridge, the Wabash river bridge 1 and the Limberlost. SEED TOR SALE—S 2 bu. millet and 48 bu. Hungarian, for planting purposes. Will sell for SI.OO per bushel. Inquire Christ Selklng, R. F. D., No. 4, Decatur, Jnd. Preble phone. 85t6

ZZIL-OB SILK DRESSES I IWE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A NEW I I line of i ' "’'-x B litfc/ \ I fOWI Ladies and Misses rIF i v I /Ip I 1 Ready to wear Silk ./- t \ tj i wBIT WaJ KI 3 * | Dresses and Embro- j < j 1 | ! < idery Dresses. Also '1 * i 1 I . ISO I I -Wil some oats ’ S u ’ ts . I I I I Shirts P I theAoston STORE I

PROPERTY FOR SAL.™®* 5 * 20 acres within two miles of Deca- j tur, good buildings, $2600, I? taken < within ten days, see c. Hughes,. Decatur, or Jacob Vogt, R. F. D. No. 3, Decatur. Michigan land —160 acres, in St. Josephs county, Mich.; well improved; $47 per acre, if bought now. 40 acres in Kalamazoo county, Mich.; fine buildings, first-class. A bargain at $2500. See L. C. Hughes, Decatur, Ind. 80t6 — f.OTiCE. We have plenty of money to loan on farms. '«ong time. No commission charges T&F-tf ERWIN LAW OFFICE. LADIESATTENTION Don’t Fail to Attend our Special Demonstrations of '•WEAR EVER” ! ALUMINUM UTENSILS j to be given at my store April I 15, 16, 17th. by Miss Grace M. Hesler 50 Interesting Tests, showing the superior qualities of the ware. Cooking, Baking, Pot Roast without water etc. You can’t afford to miss this. Change of program each day. SPECIAL j | As an inducement to attend I ; these demonstrations we will I ! offer at that time only a heavy 3 pint sauce pan which 1 ; sells regularly at 65c for only 29c. Your only opportunity to obtain these goods at that price JOHN BROCK WANTED Two good boys or men.at ■ once in packing department and stock room. Good positions for right men, We want hustlers who are willing to learn and work. •» / Schafer Saddlery Company

r—A sma’i, l»avk purse, on Mon-1 j roe street, between Sixth and Sec-; ond streets. Please '.eave same at (HO , 'Monroe street. 73t3 i A DE - M A WHAT IS IT? I IT-IS a Remedy-for-Barren Mares R Cows, Sows and Ewes ■ “It's Guaranteed” S Ask Smith, Yager & Falk |! v LUHJFIII WII—BW—

• BOSSE OPERA HOUSE Saturday April 13 THE GREATEST COMEDY IN YEARS “PA2FY OK 3"A unvL I JONES BY OLIVER LABADIE . JF A REAL COMEDY SELECTED CAST CLEVER SPECIALTIES A REAL SHOW YOU’LL LAUGH TILL YOU’RE RED IN THE FACE PRICES 25, 35 and 50c Seat sale usual place NOTICE We are mailingjto those farmer’s who engage this spring in growing Beets a little book on SCO AR BEET CULTURE This paper was written by Mr. E. M. Wagner, the agriculturist, and approved by Mr. F. H. Hubbard, the manager of the HollandSt. Louis Sugar Co., and therefore is authoritative. It is confidently beleived that much valuable information is contained therein We are only too happy to mail to any one sending his nameand address a copy,so long as we have them. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA

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