Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1912 — Page 5

I This Morning Thousands I I Os Men I 1 Put on their Barkers Best I: " Shoes and went out in the L | wet to wo k confident that | ft their shoes would stand the 1 test. ’ l| I - Do Your Shoes Stand This Test? g SB 1 ■" y„: | Charlie Voglewede 1 THE SHOE SELLER 1 On The West Side Os The Street iS w .. w MB

¥COO«0«04>0«0<0 • o*o*o«o*o*> ; WEATHER FORECAST ♦ 2 ■ MKWKrt»O#O>O« Fair Jonight and Friday. John Elzey of Monroe was here today on business. Judge .Merryman is in Huntington - today on business Mrs. Margaret Louthan returned to Fort Wayne this afternoon after a visit here with relatives, I John Tyndall is at Indianapolis attending to business matters relative to the Krick & Tyndall company. Grant Ball and daughter, Opal, of Magley, passed through the city Wednesday afternoon on their way to Fort Wayne. Miss Huldah Lammert of north of the city has gone to the Ben Rice home, four miles south of the city, where she is employed. Walter Kauffman of the Schafer saddlery company's traveling sales men force, left Wednesday afternoon on his regular trip north.

i I r THE home of ”1 I Q ua^y rocgries | < The Goods We Buy V " Do Not Stay Long. Good Thingy You Know as Are Pushed Along! The reason they take such alively hike Is, Because They’re the Kind the Peonle Like SATURDAY ONLY We offer QUALITY Red Kidney Beans as good as any 15c goods you ever ate. 3 Cans for 23c 6 Cans for 45c 12 Cans for 89c We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 17c Butter 20 to 28_ Hower and Hower, North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108. OOM O ft O ■ O 8 0 BCSOOBOBOBOBOBOB | J, S. Bowers, Pres. F. M. ScNrmeyer. Vice Pres. 0 • as s o lO « o k 2 s ? » The Bowers Realty Company has some excelP lent bargains in city property and Acams county 8 farms. The company woulo be pleased to Uve — you call at its office and see its offerings. The c m- q S pany has plenty of five per'cent, moneyto loan on g 2 reasonable terms. Let the Schirmejer ■ o Company prepare your abstract of title. 1 m years experience, complete records, o E The Bowers Realty Co. ■ ft French Quinn, Secty. O pSOBOBOBOIOftOWOftOt □■oßo «OBP

Miss Velma Daniels has gone to Geneva for a visit. I. A. Kalver made a business crip to Portland this morning. E. M. Wagner is home from Clufiago, where he has been for several days, securing labor for the beet fields. Mrs. J. I). Nidlfnge- went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with her daughter, Miss Irene, at the Hppe hospital. Mrs. Uriah Grim of Williams passed through the city this morning enroute to Monmouth to visit with her daughter, Mrs. Effie Draper. Charles Niblick and Dr. H. F. Costello are home from Indianapolis, where they attended the state convcn tion of Knights of Columbus. Graham & Walters will move their real’ estate and abstract offices into the 1). N. Erwin building about June Ist and will have as fine offices as can be found anywhere. Decatur wants to get a rock pile t > put its tramp visitors and prisoners to work. Some one comes forward with the suggestion of tfrying the scriptural advice to get this stone pile—by letting these who are without fault, case the stones.

Mrs. Pearl McGill went to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Clara Heckman of north of the city was shopping here today. Mrs. A. S. Ayres and babe returned this morning to Fort Wayne. Miss Mayme Teeple went to Fort Wayne to take her regular music lesson today. A largo number of people w-ere on the streets today, owing to it being the 1 feast of the ascension. Mrs. A. J. Smith and daughter, Midge, and Miss Mary Fonner spent the day in Fort Kayne. Mr. and Sirs. Uriah Crim of Williams visited today at the Draper home north of Monmouth. Rev. Gleiser will preach the baccalaureate sermon Sunday evening at the Presbyterian church. William and Lydia Schinnerer of Willshire, Ohio, transferred here this morning enroute to Fort Wayne. F. H. Hubbard, manager of the sugar factory, is at Cleveland, Ohio, attending to business for his company. Mrs. Gus Johnson and daughter, Bernice, left on the 10 o’clock car for the Adam Deain home, where she was entertained today. A new macadam road to cross the sugar factory site, is being planned and the petition will be out in a fewdays. It is a necessary improvement. The Rev. Gleiser left today for Columbia City to assist in the installation exercises of tile Rev. Hunter, who will serve a% pastor of the Presbyterian church there. The Decatur attorneys who attended the funeral of Hon. Levi at Bluffton Wednesday afternoon, return- ( ed home on the 7 o'clock car Wednesday evening, via Fort Wayne. Henry Hite, who suffered a stroke of 1 apoplexy Wednesday is much improv- i ed today, and it is believed will be able to report for duty at his place of business within a tew days. The new city hall and fire department is a modern and commodious building. It is well fitted and will provide a suitable home for the offl-; i cials for many years to come. A. R. Bell is moving into the house

just west of the home he has occupied for many years. J H. Heller will move into the house at the corner of Madison and Third streets next week. Ben Wagner went to Monroe this morning to call on his mother, Mrs. John Wagner, who "was taken ill with a stroke of paralysis while visiting there. She is somewhat improved ami more hope for her recovery is extended, Merchants of Decatur appreciate the fact that the Daily Democrat reaches fifteen thousand readers each evening. While the news is as interesting as we can make it, you will find much of value if you read the advertisements. Fort Wayne has a new incorporation known as the Fort Wayne Traction company. They will boost for several new lines into that city and the plans include a new line through Williams and Hoagland to this city and then southeast to Ohio City. It's easy on paper. Mrs. W. A. Kuebler, who with her husband, had been at Fremont, Ohio, to attend the funeral of Mr. Kueblers sister last week, returned home Wednesday. Mr. Kuebler will remain a short while longer, he having gone to the home of his brother, the Rev. Father Kuebler, for a visit at Shelby, Ohio. The wedding of Miss Frieda Bieberich, a known young lady of Preble, to Gustave Bidberich, a prominent, young farmer of that vicinity, will be an important event of next Sunday at the Preble German Lutheran church. About 250 guests will witness the wedding which will be in elaborate affair.—Bluffton News. Great interest was excited this morning along the main street, where the new electric light posts were being placed in position in front of the different business houses, for the better lightimrof their places of business and the street as well. Owing to their great weight and height a derrick had; to be used in hoisting them to their positions. Charles 1. White and Ti ustee N. M. Johnson of Tocsin were in Bluffton Tuesday afternoon on business. They report that there will be about 300 acres of sugar beets raised for the' Decatur sugar factory in the immediate vicinity of Tocsin, and that many of the imported laborers have arrived i there to assist the farmers in the eul- i tivation of the beets.—Bluffton News.; Mrs. Chauncey Fuhrman of Marion, * Ohio, sends us a clipping from the 1 Marion Daily Mirror which says that the two largest gold dredges ever' built will soon be shipped from that city to The Yukon Gold Mining company in Alaska. The shipment is the largest ever made out of the Ohio city, weighing four million pounds. It will require sixty days to load the shipment.

Miss Leota Ross and Mr. Noah Baker went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. Susan I -<ys ci il'ngen was numbered Lie iboypeis here today. Charles Loch of Fort Wayne was here this n:u -.lag on business and left at noou, sc..th, on his continued trip. Rev. Lover of the United Brethren church oi Ossian was in the city* this afternoon, and took jl me to 100 kup old friends. Mrs. B. Haefling and Mrs. George Kintz left on the 1 o’clock car for the home of a friend north of the city, where they will visit. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Gteisef* left this afternoon for Columbia City to attend the installation ot the Rev. Hunter, at which Rev. Gleiser will assist. Miss Luella Bultemeier went to St. John’s this afternoon to join her mother, Mrs. L. Bultemeier, ina visit with their son and brother, Ed Bultemeier. Mrs. John Wagoner of First street, who is quite ill with a paralytic stroke received Wednesday of last week, is still helpless, though she is Somewhat better. The high school seniors are busily practicing for their class play, “Thfe Fftcenth of Januaiy," which they will give at Bosse's opera house Thursday, May 23rd. Advertising is already distributed for the Celina Chautaqua, which will be held in July. It is growing each year and promises to be one of the big ones this year. The school board will soon meet to sign the high school graduate's diplomas. The diplomas this year, as last, are in book form in the high school colors —purple and gold. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sowers left this morning on their honeymoon trip to Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich,, and will arrive at their new home at Sharon, Pa, by Sunday. The following men from Decatur attended the funeral of the late Levi Mock Wednesday: Judge J. T. Merryman, P. G. Hooper, Jesse Sutton, David E. Smith, J. C. Moran, R. C. Parrish, French Quinn, Judge D. D. Heller and J. D. Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Teeple called

on their aunt, Mrs. Samuel Zimmerman, of Cedarville, who is a patient, at a Fort Wayne hospital, where she was operated upon. She is gaining, is now able to take nourishment, and was able to sit up in bed a half hour. C. C. Cloud returned Wednesday evening from near Forr Wayne, where he called on his sister-in-law, Mrs. Rose Gault, who has been at the point of death for several days, suffering from tuberculosis of the blood. Her condition remains unchanged for the past few days. ■ Local agent Thompson of the Clover Leaf has received a letter from E. L. Brown, district passenger agent stating that a change of time will be male on the Clover Leaf June Ist. It is not likjly that additional trains will be added, but the change will probably give us a train west in the morning and one east in the evening, instead of the noon trains. The road will add a train between Delphos and Toledo. While the change will be welcomed as an improvement it will not be as good serv- ' ice as was formerly given, nor as good > as our people would like. Mrs. P. J. Hyland left at 1 o’clock for New Haven, where she will attend the funeral of her uncle, Bart Dowling. ! which will be held Friday morning at j the Catholic church at that place. Mr ’ Dowiing was seventy years old and his death occurred suddenly Tuesday • night from heart trouble. He was a ‘ brother of Mrs. Ellen Touhey of this ■ city, who is now' at the home of a , daughter at Winchester. Mrs. Touhey . is seventy-three years of age and has ■ I been an invalid for two years. She ■has been bedfast since March and , there are no hopes for her ultimate rej covery. ;! Twenty-five ministers of the St. Joseph conference of the United Breth■j ren church were present at the open1. ing of the Ministerial Institute Tucs- •| day evening at the Sickafoose Mentor- ■ ial church. Rev. W. D. Robinson of Bremen, president of the institute, is ’in charge of the services. The scripture services were read by Rev. J. C. I Albright of Roanoke. The sermon cf the evening was delivered by Rev L. i L. Shaffer of Columbia City. His srfbi ject was “Since We Would See Jesus." The prineipaal addresses o? Wednesl day morning’s services were deliveried by Rev. J. W. Lower-of Ossian and i ‘ Prof. J. G. Huber of Dayton, Ohio. The j ■ Rev. Lower spoke on “The Modern 1 Church as Compared with the Apos- ; tolic Church.” D. L. D. Bonebrake, i president of' Indiana Central univeri sity, Indianapolis, delivered the prini cipal address Wednesday afternoon, . on the subject, “The Kind of PreachI er and Preaching for tire Pulpit Os Today.” Wednesday evening Prof. J. G. Huber will deliver his second address He will also speak Thursday afternoou —Huntington Herald. Rev. Goodwin of this city is among those attending. Rev. Lower passed through the city today enroute home.

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HOUSEHOLD SALE. The undersigned will offer for sale at her home at 116 South Tenth street next Saturday, commencing at 2:00 p. m., the following household articles: Kitchen cabinet, kitchen table, 2 kitchen chairs, rocking chair, dresser, commode, china closet and buffet combined, dining table, 2 pairs feather pillows. Terms strictly cash. MRS. SAM HOWARD. Fred Spuhler, Auct. 116tl

» THE DOLLAR IS A ; | Verv Elusive Fellow YOUMUSTHOLDiiIM or he will leave you Hold him, bring] him to our bank and we will guarantee to keep him in safety. YOU CAN GET HIM ' WHEN YOU WANT HIM I ———— — — — I FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DECATUR

AWAY WITH CATARRH; A FILTHY DISEASE A Common Sense Treatment Quickly Relieves all Distressing Symptoms. If you have any symptoms of catarrh, s«ch as stuffed up feeling in the head, profuse discharge from the nose, phlegm in the throat, causing hawking and spitting, cmil 'pain in the head, or ringing in the ears, just anoint the nostrils or rub tho throat or chest with a little Ely’s Cream Balm, and see how quiclfiy you will get relhef. In just a few minutes you will feel yaur head clearing, and after using the Balm for a day or so the nasty discharge will be checked, the pain, soreness and fever will be gone, and you ■will no longer bta offensive to yourself •and friends by your constant hawking,

' - ■——— — 11 The Finishing Touch to a Graceful Attire Is a pretty shoe or oxford and surely none others possess so many points of excellence as ours. Mens $3.00 to $4.50 Ladies $2.00 to $4.00 "peoples & GERKE~ New Location In Meibers Block j First Door South of Schmitt Meat Market

spitting and blowing. Shake off the grip of catarrh before it impairs your sense of taste, smell and hearing and poisons your whole system. In a short time you can be cured of this distressing disease by using Ely's Cream Balm. This healing, antiseptic Balm does not fool you with short, deceptive relief, but completely overcomes the disease. It. clears the nose, head and throat of all the rank poison, soothes, heals and strengthens . the raw, sore membranes, and makes you proof against catarrh. I One application will convince you, and a fifty cent bottle will generally 1 effect a complete cure. Get it trom j your druggist and start the treatment . at once. 1-f-s o i Mrs. L. Bultemeier is visiting at the f home of her son, Ed Bultemeier, at St. John’s.