Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1912 — Page 3

II One Reason I HEHI * K ( R this store is doing the business it does is be- ' H cause we try to give just a little more for your Kg money, because we don’t sell you a cut off tip just because you don’t see it, because we don’t L sell you a two piece counter where a one piece H ; H counter ought to be, because we cater to par- H ' ticular people, people who want their shoes just jffi H right in style, just right in wear too. Let us ■ show you our new spring styles. n * iBBiS* ________ O; ■ ■ ■ ■ —— y i

NT M'/OfOW OAO+OAOOCH 0 ■WEATHER FORECAST s K... , <-.o»oeGeo*o#oJt tonight, frosts in north and gyj»n: ral portions a.id probably in lower} gltt' < s in south portions. Tuesday l E fa i and slightly warmer. EMohn Mayer of Monroe was here Sat-1 urday. gfi. E. Hite si>ent Sunday in Fort I Wayne with relatives. I ■M- Bertha Kohne went to Fort i Wayne Saturday afternoon. Margaret Evans of Bluffton' was the guest of Juanita Boch over ; Sunday. Miss Hazel Davis returned to Fort, Wayne Saturday evening after a visit here with friends. KGatfrs Ed Corville returned Saturday evening to Hoagland after a visit with her siste’, Mrs. WIFI Biggs. who are least superstitious . imisr jegin to believe in the "rain on, Sister, rain seven Sundays" theory. BtfTWllliani Harden of Bluffton visited over Sunday with his mother, Mrs. William Harden, of near this city.

III—-- - >. . —MI - fl - - Ti ■—III W ■ Ep? -**’* I |B||s I ! phe home of I M Ua Groceriesjl I <2_ The Goods We Buy ISb \L ~ Do Not Stay Long. ’ I Good Things You Know aa Are Pushed Along! The reason they take such a lively hike Is, Because They’re the Kind the Peonle like I Watch an Ad For SATURDAY’S SALE I It Will Be Worth Your While We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 17c Butter 20 to 28 I Howar and Hower, North of G. R. & 1. Depot. ’Phone 108, I BO® 010 BO IE OBOBCDHSOBOBOIOW< ;• !J S. Bowers, Pres. F, M. Sehlrrneyer, V ice g I £ PH 0 i g B r 2 The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- g 5 lent bargains in city property and Adams county « ?• farms. The company would be pleased to have you call at its office and see its oh enngs. The com- q Hl pany has plenty of five per cent money vo loanon ■ p 2 Enable terL. Let the Sehirmever Abstract S L Company prepare your abstract of title. Twenty 2 years experience, complete records. . q | C 5 C; f 8 The Bowers Realty Co, 1 j French Quinn, Secty. C moboboboio>c 1HO8?G

— - - ■ - '--- 1 Joe Johnson of Monroe was in the city Saturday on business. : Mr. and M: a. B. F. Kizer went to ' Fort Waves Saturday afternoon. 1 Lilah Laehot was an extra clerk- at ! .the Charles Voglewede shoe store Sat- ' iurday. I Mrs. M. F. Rice visited Sunday with i the D. M. Rice family in Root town-1 Iship. , | Nelson Bricker of Geneva, who was 'here on business, has returned to his !*•* ■ i, ; Misses Mae a:.;i Margaret Rade|macker spent Sunday in Fort Wayne with their sister, Mrs. Tracy Nelson, i i i 1). B. Erwin and daughter we c in 'the south part of the county Saturday, (where the former was transacting business matters. I I Friends in the city have received I announcement of the birth of a son, Gerald Rinehart, to Mr. and Mrs. Sol 'Sheets of Root township. j I I Hartford City papers announce that the Central Indiana Gas company | promises to have artificial gas ready I for its patrons in that city by July i Ist. The price is $1 per thousand cu-, ' bic feet, with ten per cent discount for J prompt payment, in effect, 90c gas.

Jacob Drake has gone to Berne for | a few days’ visit with hit; son. James Hurst was at Berne today, where he was doing some mason work. Mis. A. J. Smith and daughter, Edith, were Fort Wayne visitors today. I Mrs. ('. A. Dugan and daughters, Naami and Dorothy, spent the day in Fort Surveyor Ernst and Assistant Har-• ruff were at Berne today, locating the' Albert Smith ditch. Chudes Niblick and Dr. Costello are 1 at Indianapolis attending the Knights oi ( ohimbus stnto convention. | People manage to keep all other i lamil) gossip private except when I they have been married more than once. i Mrs. Chauncey Brokaw of Root; township visited Saturday with her ■ mother, Mrs. Mahlon Harmon, of Tenth street. Vernon, Nolan and Reed Riley of South Salem spent Sunday with their grandfather, R. A. Davis, of West Madison street. About the wisest looking thing in: the world is a country boy who has' been boarding in town three or four months studying law. Orville Sudduth, little son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sudduth, corner of Madison and Fourth streets, is ill with liver and stomach trouble. ' Annen & Moon, the well known contractors, are working on the construe- | tion of a fine two-story house tor Ben Butler of Root township. I Rosa. Ryehoff of Terre Haute arrived in the city this morning for a visit with her cousin. George Geels, and family, west of the city. ! Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips will arrive this evening from Kendallville to live, Mr. Phillips having accepted a position as chef at Holty's Case. i i Mrs. D. V. Steele and daughter, Edna;. Fanchon, Jessie and Harold Magley were guests of the ('. C. Wtl--der family at Monmouth Sunday. I Mr. and Mrs. John Watson, Mrs. Henry Hart and Mrs. Alice Kache of Fort Wayne spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burr at Monmouth. | Harvey Steele, who is employed by Sumner Mumma of northeast of the city on his farm, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. R. A. Davis, in this city. ; Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Ruggles returned to Warren today after a week's visit at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart. i Bertha Blazer and little niece, Helen Blazer, went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon, where they visited with their mother and grandmother, Mrs. Elwood Blazer. Stanley Martin of DeGraff. Ohio, was a business caller in the city Saturday afternoon calling at the Indiana Lighting company’s office, and left on the 4 o’clock car for his home. Mrs. J. H. Templeton and baby of East High street went to Geneva on the morning train Saturday to spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Hale. i —Portland Commercial-Review. When the young take up cold baths and sleeping out of doors, it is because they have heard it is good for the complexion, but older people fotl low reforms of this kind for health’s , sake. The Misses Jessie and Gertrude Philips and Margaret Shehann of Fort i Wayne, with their gentleman friends, ' were guests Sunday of the Misses I Phillips and Margaret Shehann of Ft. i mon, of Tenth street. Mrs. Olen Baker left Saturday for Anderson, where she will spend several weeks with her husband and her brother, James Artman. who are-in the picture business. Mrs. Baker will do some of the finishing work for them. Postmaster Lower reports letters remaining in the Decatur postoffice for Warner Wilkinson, Frank Davis, John Yoeman, A. C. Winans, Chas. W. Howard, G. Hofer & Co., Albert Johnson, Dr. C. E. Neptune, Geo. Schindelecker, 'J. H. Vhl, Daniel Werberg. I The Clover Leaf had three small i wrecks on the Delphos,Frankfort dii vision last week. On Thursday the eastbound Commercial Traveler lost jthe rails at Willshire, Ohio, and was ' stopped after running on the ties for ■ some distance, ineluding safe passage! iover a small bridge. Earlier in the I i week a ear of meat was derailed and I | upset near the C. B. & C. crossing.; I When the wreck train was coming| , from Delphos the engine had a break- ■' [down and that train was also laid up.’ The passenger trains were transferred 'around the wreck at Willshire Thurs-, I day, using the G. R. &■ I. and C. & E.; from Decatur to Ohio City. The Clo-■ I ver Leaf and L. E. & W. handled S 5 I cars of steel billets in the past week ; from points in Ohio to Anderson for . the American Steel & Wire company. Division Superintendent C. L. Hin-' kle and General Superintendent Frank Morse passed through Bluffton this week on their annual inspection.— Bluffton News.

John Bolinger is at Berne doing | some concrete work. Father Wf" : i.i? ; bus'netts tri; to He. . ’ -on. | Mr. ar.’ Mi-. .Ni.z.s !• the" were guests o: .; . . ■ : i.s. Will Evans at dinner Sur..lai. Mrs. 0 h - Ayres and Alma and l-lvelyn Ayof Colliei w. file, Virginia, visited here with relatives. Clelland Ball, who recently returned | from Moline. 111., has taken a position lat the Morris five and ten cent store. | Jesse Schug, Edwin Fledderjohann, Fred Schtuger and W. H. Clark attended the show at Fort Wayne last even- , ing. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winans return ed this afternoon to Fort Wayne after i a visit with relatives at Pleasant ! Mills. J I Mrs. James P. Haefiing and son. I ' James, returned this afternoon from I Crown Point, where they spent Sunday with Mr. Haefiing. Miss Orpha Death oi the Schlick- j man restaurant, has yone to her home ! | at Rivarre fora ft . days’ visit. Mrs. ! Barto is working in her place. | Mr. and Mrs. ,nas risher had as their guests Sum’.j eierring Mi-, and Mis. John Yaney ot Coldwater, Mich, j Mesdames Fisher ;:r,d Yaney are sis tens. Rev. George Owen o. Burnettsville preached two very good sermons at, the Christian church Sunday. Mr. Owen will be a candidate for the pastort. here. Miss Helen Holloveter returned this I afternoon to Grabili after a two weeks’ visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Drayton Hill, and her aunt, Mrs. John Scheumann. Mrs. Mary Dilley of Columbus, Ohio, arrived to be the guest, of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hower. She comes to take a two months’ course of medical treatment. Ed Wetzell left Sunday for Fort Wayne, thence to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he will be employed at the Motor Car works, which recenly moved there from this city. W. F. WilZun, who farms the A. J. Smith farm near this city, had a pa'r . of twin colts born Saturday night. , Roth the colts are alive and will prob- , ably grow to maturity. ; Miss Ethel Whiteman, of West High street, returned home Saturday morn- . ing after a week's visit with her parj ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Whiteman, at Geneva. — Portland Commercial Rei view. Mrs. Albert Bailev returned this - morning to Fort Wayne after a visit - with her son, Charles Bailey, and farnt ily. She was accompanied by her - granddaughter, Irene Bailey, who will visit with her. 5 Mr. and Mrs. Bert Croyle and son, Herbert, and Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Weaver and daughter, Norma, returned to ’ Fort Wayne after a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Liniger, at f Pleasant Mills. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, known over the Cathlic world as rogation days, will be observed at the St. Mary’s church with s a high mass and procession on each - morning, calling down God’s blessing r upon the fruits of the earth. Rev. and Mrs. Emory Dunbar and ’ children of Geneva came Saturday afternoon to spend the night with Earl ? Bowen and family, West Race street, t,enroute to Elaine to attend the dedi- , .cation services there Sunday. .A:. s land Commercial-Review. "Horses is Horses" furnished the theme for a discussion in,the Randall r hotel lobby last evening. John W. - Weber of Decatur, a pastmaster in r "horseeology,” led the debate, and :. proceeded to explain that automobiles, > 'and plenty of them, have not had a . tendency to reduce the market price of horses. The Decatur gentleman .! seemed to have some figures in his i J vest pocket to support his contention. i At any rate by referring to a note ! book he gave the information that his '; brother, Noah Weber, of this city sold ’ Jone team at the local horsemarket Saturday for $640, and a grav horse lor I i $342.50. If those ‘‘horses isn't horses" ’ {will some kind friend please come for- ‘ ward and explain just what ‘‘horses is?” —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. !i ° CRYSTAL VAUDEVILLE. ' Manager Parent has secured the . services of Mamie and Emil Ludwig, singing, dancing and talking vaudeville artists, for the first three dajs of i this week. This is a guaranteed ati traction and will not fail to please the most exacting. The act is replete I with catchy songs, jokes and fancy i dancing and the three nights will prob- : ably be record-breakers. The price of admission is five and ten cents. of program nightly. , FOR SALE —S. C. Rhode Island Red i eggs from flock selected because of the beauty of form, color and general i fine qualities. Eggs, fifty cents a setting. Inquire of Mrs. Dale Moses, corner Fifth and Indiana streets. 76tf'

W'LL FINISH IN JUNE. | Fobert Schrock to Complete Special i Surnical Curse. Robert Schrock, son of Mrs. Nettie Schrock of this city, will on June fifteenth, complete a special surgical course in New York City, and receive I his degree, this being the completion - of a ten year's speqlal preparation for his medical profession. At the coinple J tion of his course there, he will take ( a six months’ position as one of a staff of sixteen physicians In a prominent New York insane asylum, before taking up another excellent opening. Mr. ‘ Schrock is a graduate of the Decatur ( high school, and ber'.drs this has been hi : lining ten year in Ihree of the best . alleges and universities in the [ count: j. He is a graduate of Wabash college at Crawfordsville, Ind., of Co'--:nell university, Ithaca, N. Y., and of J this New York university. WATER STILL HIGHER. Goes Even Higher Since Dr. Covedale's Return from Arkensa;. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Co.ordnl - have *-■ ! ccived word from their son, Clark Co- [ itidale, of near Marion, Ark . that I since Dr. Coverdale left there last I I week, arriving bej Wednesday even-; ing, t’-e Roods nave arisen and are now . much higher about their home than they had ever been before. When Dr. Coverdale left they had subsided so' that about one hundred and lift; of his land had c<- me above the water, 1 and plowing was in order. During the last twenty-four hours of his stay there, however, the waters had arisen nine inches, and since he has been gone, it has the highest point reached before. At no time ha l the water come into the Clark Coverdale home, however, and there are hopes tha,. they will be safe. SEES PENSION BILL SIGNED. ! Adair, Called Out of Bed, Attends White House Formality. Washington, D. C., May 13—Shortly before midnight Saturday night Represenative Adair was called out of bed by a telephone message from the white house, stating that the pdesident would be pleased to have him come and witness the affixing of the executive’s signature to the bill, to increase the pensions of the old soldiers. He responded to the invitation and was one of those present when a flashlight photograph was taken, showing the president in the act of signing the bill. Adair had charge of the pension legislation in the house and was one of the conferees who put the bill in its final shape. TAFT IN OHIO. Marietta, Ohio., May 13 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Taft today continued his final tour of Ohio in the interest of his candidacy for the republican presidential nomination with an early speech here. A great crowd had gathered at the station to greet the chief executive. His remarks concerned himself with the record of his past administration, which the president said justified his renomination. Taft reached here at 7:45 o’clock. The schedule today called for ten speeches. The big one of the day will be at Steubenville tonight. The presidential preference primary will be held a week from tomorrow. ' " — ■—o- I

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Does Our O.K. Mean Anything to You? I Then when we say that the Sure Drop Corn Planter is positively the best machine we can find will you rely on our judgement? Mechanically perfect, action unexcelled the Sure Drop has given satisfaction to many farmers in this county for several years past. Ask them about its features, about its working, about its construction. We’ll bank on their statements for we know it cannot but be favorable. We’ve a demonstrating machine in operation, come in and see it work. LEEASTULTS I Company ■» lIT ■ ----- » i ■■■ - ,Wnnl»i I BERGHOFF BEER A Real German Brew We A bsolutelv Guarantee That This Beer Will 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 ?eer 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 CURLEYS Phone 38 I FISHING TIME is here. When you go on that fishing trip you’ll enjoy it more in company j with the luxury of a real good havana f smoke as cigar comfort make for contentment. Try the “White Stag”Segar and you learn to know a dandy smoke delight. For sale by all Dealers I WHY GRANITE FACED? I I hat question was asked our salesman I the other day. j The party wanted to know why the blocks f were granite faced, and the few reasons were | summed up for the customers benefit. First the ! granite facing has a “sheen” to it. Shines lika i silk.?fThis is permanant. Second it makes a I harder face, which means that the block is more 3 impervious to moisture and hence more durable. ■ Third it gives a smoother finish to the product ■■ adding dignity to a much maligned building ma- f terial. We’ve a full line of samples, see them I at our factory. ACKER CEMENT WORKSI