Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 27 April 1912 — Page 3

IO IM ’ --s. \w.,* IMJ «;< DON'T THINK I \ il ...that the boy don’t know whats what .-- in footwear—he does. He wants his shoes to look like Dads, he wants the nobby styles and we kno w where to put the wear, that’s the reason we’re satisfying so many boys. Gun Metals, Patents and Tans in both shoes and oxfords tonight sg | Charlie Voglewede I THE SHOE SELLER i On The West Side Os The Street

I , .. >ii<rT- 9 U*n4K.M»O«O* o •-JfVWEg FOftECAST 1 o - ■ •v®o«*c - . u-»o»c.eo»o«M Fair tonight; i>;ooably frost in north i and centra! portions; Sunday Increas- | ing cloudiness and warmer, probably | followed with t bowers in south porI tion. Sl-~ *■ » I I— ' ~ .1 i ««— • —-' ll ■ — Mrs. Malinda Froufield of Ft. WayE ne visited here today. Miss Cora Steele of Kirkland townI »h';> was a visitor ■” the city veaterI day. Mrs. H. C. Clark returned on the 1 I o'clock car Friday evening to Mont moth. D. F. Leonard, the real estate man, | was numbered among the business; I callers at Berne today. In the twinkllr.t. of an eye. the I leaves and blossoms on the trees have ■ popped out telling us that spring must f be really here. Mrs. Harry Detamore and fourI months-old son, James, of Portland, ■ are guests of their aunt, Mrs. B. J. | Rice, and oter relatives. Mrs. Deta- ■ more was Mis- Frances Bryson, forl merly of this ;ity.

xB s THE home of j/ x B F - Jp\ X \ I Quality Groceries I The Hostess cfW Who gX.-^°-— IXH Appreciate The Niceties Os Snowy Linnen, Rare China And Glistening Silver Also Knows The Appropriateness Os Quality Groceries You will find quality in our goods and a price that will suit you. S' We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 18c Butter 18 to 25 ... ■— —— R Hower and Hower, jj North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108. ■ 010 ■o » O SOffiODBOBOBOHOBOBOBOB SJ. S. Bower*, Pres. F. M, Schirmeyer, Vice Pres, g O B ° o ?s s o •j* 2 The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- □ lent bargains in city property and Adams county « g tons °The company would be pleased to have g s &UtiteSe id see its Offering, l The com- ® nanv has plenty of five per cent money to loan on ■ 2 terms. Let the Schirmeyer Abstract 3 J Company prepare your abstract of title, twenty „ g years experience, complete records. © g The Bowers Realty Co. g | French Quinn, Secty. O

L. C. Waring was a Ft. Wayne visitor last evening. Louis Gehrig is home from a short business trip to Berne. Miss. lima Houck left last evening tor Ft. Wajiie for a visit with friends. Peter Forblug was al Winchester today attending to business requiring attention. Tom Leonard and Curley Buftenbarger; tinners, were al Geneva today doing some work. The funeral of Mrs. August Hirschey was held this morning from the Winchester church south of Monroe. The funeral of Daniel Jackson was conducted this morning from the United Brethren church at Rivarre, and was largely attended. Miss Lillian Garard, superintendent I at the hospital, went to Fort Wayne on the afternoon Train Friday, to spend Sunday at the home of her uncle. M. C. Garard. —Portland Sun. Lois, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson left this morning for Richmond for a visit with the Rev. Earl Parker family, who recently moved there. Her mother, who has been at Indianapolis, will visit there over Sunday also, with her sister, Mrs. Parker.

Miss Banta went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. K. R. Moltz spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne. Miss Fredericka Hubbard spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Harry Kooken went to Fort Wayne this morning. The Misses Eva and Minter Acker spent, the day in Fort Wayne. Emerson Beavers of the firm of Meyer, Scherer & Beavers delivered a large load of furniture to Monroe this morning. Chauncey Lar.tzenheiser of Berne, who was in our city this morning, attending to business affairs, left at noon for his home. Mart Stultz, Charles Brock and Alfred Graham were Fort Wayne visit ors Friday, going to see the opera > “The Bohemian Girl.' Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Reid" went 'to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Reid will visit there and Mr. Reid will go to Rome City for over Sunday. Mrs. Del Ixicke returned to Bluffton this morning after attending the par’y last evening at the W A. Kuebler home. She was also a guest of Mrs. C. D. Murray. John Schultz received a sample copy and will act as agent for the book, “The Sinking of the Titanic,'' the most appalling marine disaster in the annals of the world. A large delegation from the south part of the county was here today to pay their spring tax installment, the time getting short, and the rush at the treasurer's office is always great during the last week or two. John Bowers and daughter are home from Ft. Wayne where they visited with his son-in-law, R. Kaough, who on Thursday took seriously ill and is still quite bad. He had gone to his work as usual at six in the morning but at nine was forced to return home and ever since has been under the careful attendance of a nurse and physician. The John Broc*' store, which handles tho Wear-c/er aluminum ware, and carried a series of ads in the Decatur Democrat, prior to the demonstration conducted there recently by Miss Hesler of Indianapolis, reports that this month has been a recordbreaker *for the sale of aluminum ware which is fast becoming recognized by the housewife as "the’ thing. It also pays to advertise. On account of the falling off of the movement of freight over the roads common to the spring season, eight 'freight engineer- were put back to firing passenger engines on the G. R. & I. and eight fireL.en were laid off. The names of the engineers put back to firing are L. Keen, R. M. Dignan, C F. Lane, H. H. Ti’,.r, T. J. Ahren, C. J. McDaniel, F. J. Ramstein and M. A. Coleman. The names of the firemen laid off are C. Getting, F. J. Marvin, W. R. Wells, J. F. Ahren, J. Meyers, A Huser, August Schram and F. E. Halter. There was a party of 110 foreigners arrived in Decatur Thursday, brought there from Chica-a by the St. Louis Sugar company, to work in the fields in helping with the crop of sugar beets to be raised for the Decatur factory. The company furnishes these men for doing the work of cultivation and deducts about S2O per acre from the price of the beets in the fall to | reimburse them for the work. It is understood that about three men are j required to each ten-acre patch. There I will be a goodly number of the importI ed laborers eme'jyed in the eastern ' part of this co <uty, probably the largI est number on any one farm at the John Fletcher place. Mr. Fletcher in- ; tends raising forty acres of beets. The IJ first of his imported laborers arrived ■Thursday, and they will occupy a hotwe on Mr. Fletcher’s farm which has been standing vacant.—Bluffton I News, ■■ . ■ > - - ■—■ - -O~• I —— — x thig-d lecture. i The third of a series of lectures at ■ the Presbyterian church by the pasLtor, the Rev. Glefser. on “Plain Answers to Modern Questions,” will be given on tomorrow evening, his subject for this time to be “Is Church Membership necessary lor Saltation?” The previous ones have been full of interest and the deeper the pastor enters into his talk the more profitable will his talks become. Large crowds have heard him and the one of tomorrow evening will, as usual, gather many together and hear tho excellent talk assured The. male chorus will render mesic al this time. Thservice will open at 7:30 p. m. Everybody welcome. SALESMEN WANTED —Two good salesmen wanted. Address A. Z. Brentlinger, Vera Cruz, Ind. 102t3* FOR SALE —The latest sheet music, “Just as the Ship Went Down,” and written to the memory of the lost ocean liner, the Titanic. —Yager Bros. & Reinking. WANTED —Two first-class carpenters at once. Apply at the shop on corner of Second and Jefferson Sts., Decatur. —H. Pennington. 102+3

BANK STATEMENT. M. F. PARRISH, President. WM L. KELLER, Vice President MENNO S. LEICHTY. Cashier. W. S. SMITH, Assistant Cashier. Report of the Condition of the Monroe State Bank, a State Bank, at Monroe, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on April IS, 1912: Resources. Loans and discounts $102,853.51 Overdrafts 84.21 Banking house 3,700.00 Furniture and fixtures .... 2,700.0<> Due from banks and trust companies 5,669.90 Cash on hand 6,550.17 Cash items 361.21 Profit and loss 16.97 Total Resources $121,935,97 Liabilities. Capital stock paid in . $25,000.00 Surplus 1,u00.u0 Undivided profits 176.53 Exchange, discounts and interest 275.61 Demand deposits $27,925.11 Demand certificates 45.053.75 75,978.83 Due to banks and trust companies 5,009.00 Other liabilities 4.91 Total liabilities $121,935.97 S'ate of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I, M. S. Lelchty, cashier of the Monroe State Bank, co solemnly affirm that the above statement is true. M. S. LEICHTY. Subscribed and affirmed to before me this 26th day ol April, 1912. J. F. CRIST, Notary Public. My commission expires December 20, 1914. WANTED By old reliable manufacturers, labites to solicit. Special proposition in Decatur and surrounding territory. oNthing to carry. No deposit required. Salary and expense to hustlers. Address Mrs. S. R. McIntosh, 540 Fair Mound, Fort Wayne, Ind. 91t3 Why did Tom, the Piper’s son, who stole a pig, run down the street? Because the town marsnai was alter him 1 The Pig Was “Eat’ And Tom was “Beat” That was a perfectly natural ending for the porker but we feel sorry for poor Tom, who, probably was not brought up right. You’ll not he beat if our , pork you eat—We came ’ by it honestly! DYONIS SCHMITT

Old Adams County Bank I Decatur, Indiana. ; Capital $120,000 L C - S - N ’ blick > President SjCTEy ! M. Kirsch and John Niblick BjfgyiSy /fl II I fej—BStfWl Vice Presidents ; : MJ’toggsl E. X. Ehinger, Cashier. "£ ' few Read aW Reflect —‘ I i¥i KWBfifeRXI Resolve Collections 1 VzO MrlxSJ , Made CONSERVATION! atFavor- I THE CRY OF THE DAY ableEates It Applies Just As Forcibly AccomodaTo The Matter Os Dollars tion ConAs To The Country’s With Safe NATURAL RESOURCES! Banking „ ..,r r „ Methods I i our Dollars Extended I AND START A BANK ACCOUNT Jfe' ur I ~ Patrons | We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on 1 Year Time Deposits I

Thats the Paint I Want!”— | Z FMO y° u ever stO P to consider the fact that good paint is an investment, while poor paint is merely an expense,’' Any painter, or building owner jp rvt Vvdl ° ias tr * ed both kinds will instantly corroborate J * .Hj\ assert ion. Poor paint is not only an expense, f V an d a ‘ needless expense, bu: an endless expense, f° r y ° U Can a^Wa^ S °' Dta^n / | Lowe Brothers ” liquid Paint —A paint that wears from two to four years’ wear, that surface will always be in years longer than the other —thus cost- good condition for repainting. ing far less f>er year than any cheap-priced Sold only in sealed air-tight cans all paint. read y for use - Every can of “High Standard” Paint— Now, poor paint will give trouble as large or small —contains the full govern- I long as your house stands — no repainting, ment measure of paint. however good, can “stick" if put on over Jest as dependable as “High Standard'* poor paint—and it will cost you vastly Liquid Paint are Lowe Brothers Varnishes i re x , • , i „„ and Enamels, Carriage Gloss Paint, a more to burn off poor paint, (the only way , r . . < r r • I , p z \ beautiful glossy finish tor heated surfaces to get the surface so painted into proper on the buggy and v ernico i, a stain and condition for repainting,) than to use good finish fur floors and wcod-y, . . t z* 1 I "The Little paint m the first place worn. I They will save you But when you use on a proper surface money. Let us make sug“High Standard” Paint— gestions for your color combinations. A paint that doesn’t chalk, doesn’t crack, Ask for Color Cards. r 4" doesn’t scale —at the end of the five to six See sample panels. I FOR SALE BY THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG COMPANY

WANTED Salesman call at the Beineke and Girod Restaurant between the hours of eight and nine o’clock. Inquire of Chas Beineke Refrigerators The Best at the LEAST PRICE The most complete line in the city Fred Schaub Successor To Schaub Gottemoller Company

BERGHOFF BEER A Real German Brew We Absolutely Guarantee That This Beer AV ill Never Cause Biliousness Costs no more than any other first Class Beer Instead of machine-forced methods, we use nature’s method—time, and store our product for months to get the proper age and that pleasant mellow taste. The brewing secret of the old German masters, the material, the water, the equipment and the will, combine to produce a beer whose nourishing, nerve-strengthening and stimulating qualities are unexcelled A beer whose purity, wholesomeness and flavor have secured for it friends unnumbered. Delivered By The Case CURLEY’S Phone 38

GIRL WANTED—To ilo housework. I Family of two. Inquire at once at I J. H. Stone residence.

- ■r I 0 W I I b Mi' n I ■llffi ck I ''■'■mH' ‘ 4i s -J EARLY SUMMER STYLES Seasonable frocks for Street and House wear are shown in the Butterick Fashion Sheet for ’’jpy FREE copies may be obtainta at our Pattern Counter NIBLICK & COMPANY i

| COOKS WANTED —Man and wife to cook for camp. Apply at Monroe I street bridge. 93t?