Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1912 — Page 3

BUY that boy or girl, a pair of Barefoot sandals, for the hot summer days. Just opened up a big shipment today. Come in and see them. Charlie Voglewede THE: SHOE SELLER On The West Side Os The Street

-#o*o00«0*0 • CMKMKttOtCMI ; WEATHER FORECAST f O •o* <#o*o .r- ~XKr*aeo*o#o? Fair tonight and Wednesday; cooler in extreme south portion tonight. Mrs. Harry Deam went to Chicago this morning. A large attendance was present this morning for the funeral of Mrs. Tanvas, held from the St. Mary's church. Joe Crabel, who has been traveling through the west for some months, has arrived home for a visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hendricks and daughter are home from Portland, where they visited for a few days with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Voglewede will arrive home this evening from Toledo, Ohio, where they have been visiting for a week past. The Gottschalk drug store building, one of the oldest buildings in town, is being torn down and a new one in connection with the Witness office building, will be erected there. — Heme Witness.

THE HOME OF | GroceriesJ THE GOODS TO SELL SECONDLY, Because We Sell The Goods We Have Then There’s Another ReasonTHE QUALITY This Week Only Those sweet juicy Santa Clara prunes—Large and bright going at 3 lbs. for 25c H. & E. Granulated Sugar in 25 lb. sacks at $1.50 We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 15. Butter 18 to 22c Hower and Hower, North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108, qjiiiLiLjiiiMj-Lij unioirrri —-wwir- »«-<-»•'■»* * l SGffl 01010*0 adODIOBOIOBOBOBOIOI «T. S. Borers. Free, F, M. Schfrmeyer, Vice Pres. § m 3 o 2 ■ O O m * S The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O 5 lent bargains in city property and Adams county U farms. The company would be pleased to ha.e y *» you call at its office and see its offerings. The com- q n pany has plenty of five per cent money to loan on & 2 reasonable terins. Let the Schmnwer Abstract H q Company prepare your abstract of ft g years experience, complete records. wSisSi&u-* q o ; fl g 2 The Bowers Realty Co. gs French Quinn, Secty. O OiUIUSOE C OBOIC *ORT

New hook cases arrived today for the Erwin offices library, Charles Yobst of Ft. Wayne was a business visitor here today. Miss Mae Berling made a trip down the line today, leaving on the 11:30 interurban car. Naomi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oast, is confined to her bed with an attack of tonsiiitis. Miss Josephine Hang has returned to her work at the oteele & Weaver store after a two weeks' vacation. The Misses Veda and Leah Hensley will leave tomorrow for Rome City, where they will open the cottage and get it ready for the family’s occupancy. Mrs. John Rex left at noon today for a three or lour '..eeks' visit with W. H. Rupright and family at Burden. Kans. She was joined at Kingsland by several parties from Blufftou, who will also visit in the west. Mrs. Elizabeth 'Morrison writes us from Coronado, Florida, where she has been for several months with her daughter and other relatives. She says she expects to arrive in Decatur some time the latter part of this month.

John Mullen of Monroe was hire yesterday on business. Mrs. A. A. Kist left yesterday afternoon for Ft. Wayne. George Sprague of Portland was a business caller here yesterday. The Misses Christens and Eva Zerkle of Monroe were shopping here yesterday. Judge James Moran of Portland visited here yesterday with his brother John C. Moran. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Snyder were at Monroe yesterday afternoon looking after business matters. Frank Mills has returned to Minneapolis alter a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Mills. Mrs. Lena Cloud of Lynn who has been a guest at the C. C. Cloud home on west Monroe street returned home yesterday. Mist. Elva May left yesterday afternoon for Hoagland where she will spend a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Dayton Barkley. Surveyor Orval Harruff was at Berne today surveying a new road. He was accompanied by Carl Beatty, who assisted him. Miss Nora David returned yesterday afternoon to Ft. Wayne after an over Sunday visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Sol David. (- ommiss.oner Henry Zwick returned this morning from his home at W illiams to look after business matters relative to his office. P. W. Smith of Richmond stopped off in the city this morning on his way home from Fort Wayne, where he attended to business mas .ers. Mrs. Sarah Castleman and two children left yesterday afternoon for Detroit, Michigan, after a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Cochran. Mrs. William Sheler left today for Grand Rapids, Mich., for a visit witli her son, George, who is employed by the Grand Rapids Motor Car company. The city band got in another evening of practice Monday night, and the members are fast getting thpmselves in readiness for the coming summer. The work on the excavation for the basement for the new house to be erected on Fifth street at the rear of his own residence lot, by E. X. Ehipger, is going on. Mrs. F. L. DeVilbiss left yesterday afternoon for Ft. Wayne where she will visit with relatives a few days, returning to her home at Detroit, the last of the week. C. U. Dorwin of Geneva who spent Sunday here with his family returned to Geneva to resume his work in a butcher shop and grocery which he recently purchased there. Mrs. J. C. Sutton and son, Harry, w’ere business visitors in the city yesterday. The Suttons are spending the summer at the Preble township farm of Mrs. Sutton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex WLite. and like it fine. The telephone company is making distribution of its revised telephone books. All whose old ones were torn, out of date, or mutilated in any way, should take heed of the instructions in the new one, to call by number instead of name. There is now no excuse for not so doing.

I Miss Olivo Goodwin left, this morning for Bloomington to visit for a few days, and from there will go to ' Frankfort and Lebanon for a eontin- ! ued visit. Frances Goodwin left at 1 noon for Mulberry to make a short stay, and her father, who left for Cambridge to conduct funeral services, ! for a near friend, left also on the . same train. Mrs. C. S. Clark and children, Jean- , ette and Bernard; Mrs Anna l)roi> ! pieman, Mrs. .Toe Totnielier and sun, Richard: C. L. Meibers will leave toI morrow for Rome Cit'\ where they ; will open the cottage of their mother, Mrs. Margaret Meibers, for the summer. They will probably remain a mon+t and Mrs. Margaret Meibers will join them in two weeks. Captain E. H. Kilbourne, who led I the hosts of Mizpah temple on the field at Los Angeles, received yesterday the silken banner which was awarded the patrol as the first prize for field work in the competitive drills. The banner is of yellow and black silk, five feet in length and bears this inscription: “First Prize, Renay Drill Championship, Nalar Rancho Selecto, May 8, 1912,_ Los Angeles, California.” —Fort. Wayne Journal-Gazette. Paul W. Tribolet, living on South Main street, reported today that 1 prowlers made an effort to break into his home, about 1 o'clock this morning. Mr. Tribolet was aroused about 1 o'clock by some one trying to get into the rear door of his home. They then went to the front door, and tried tu get in, but Mr. Tribolet secured a revolver, and when he got onto the porch the prowler was gone. He made a circuit, of the house, but could find no trace of the intruder. —Bluffton Banner. ,

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gillig of Fort Roeovery, Ohio, left this morning for Fort Wayne. The city council will hold their regL 1 ular session this evening to dispose of : such business to come up before them. . 1 Miss Alta Dibble of Detroit, Mich- , igan, who has been visiting here, was joined today noon by her sister, Mrs. 1 Dr. McGeaph of Detroit, the two leaving for Ft. Wayne where they will visit relatives. Commissioner James Smith and force of men were busy today replae- ’ ing some broken curbstone on main street in front of the Ed. Parent bicycle shop which became crumbly from • the weather and constant use of years. The Decatur Ministerial association ; j met in regular session at 2 o'clock '. Monday afternoon at the library hall. • Paper by Rev. Semans on “Charles Darwin and the effect of his writing on modern thoughts.” A very inter-! esting discussion followed. Miss Emma Mag icy, who last Friday closed her term of school at Monmouth, left this morning for Fort Wayne, where she will join her pan . cuts, Mr. and Mrs. John Mugley, who j recently moved from Root township 1 to their farm west of Fort Wayne. j The Daily Democrat office is soon to ■ enjoy a new prism front, with an awn- j ing or reflector at the rear of the! building which gathers, holds and j diffuses the light. The work is being] done by Mann & Christen and will! improve working conditions in this office The work of placing the concrete ii; the abutments on the new Monroe I street bridge commenced this morn-; ing, the material being mixed on the west side and hauled over to the east abutment by means of a car A large crowd is watching the interesting operation. Mrs. John Meyer returned home yesterday, alter visiting at St. Henry, 0., | with her daughter and family, the Mr. and Mrs. J. Herman. The latter were former residents of this city having recently moved on a farm near St. Henry. They are very much pleased with their new home. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Fink and son, Robert, of Decatur, came Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mre. J. R. Adams, East Votaw street. The latter s children, Hazel and Catherine Adams, who visited at Ceylon with their grandmother, Mrs. Catherine Gross, arived home on the same train. — Portland Sun. The Citizens Telephone Company are at present delivering their new telephone books just off from the press in this office and which contain many new names over the one of a year ago The number is also somewhat increased and the business of the company has taken quite a boom during the past, six months. Rev. Parker, pastor of the First Methodist church at Richmond, formerly of Hartford City, and well known here, in his sermon of last Sunday scored the daily press for their lengthy details on sensational articles, and that, the reading should be such as to give the public better reading literature. ' Fred Rice, formerly a resident of Pleasant Mills and now of Ft. Wayne, was married at Fort Wayne this afternoon, and will come to Decatur this evening, where he will visit with Mar- . tin Ault and wife over the evening ■' and from this city will go to Pleasant i Mills to visit with relatives, going from there to Ohio on their wedding ! tour.

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A tramp blacksmith was taken ill Monday by Policeman Peterson and was brought up before the mayor last night when he became sober enough and was ordered out of town. The police were authorized to use a club on him if he did not move fast enough. o PLANTS FOR SALE. We have for sale plants at the following prices: Large yams, 50c per 100; tomatoes, 5c per dozen; late cabbage, 25c per dozen. RAYMOND GASS, 134t3 Corner sth and Adams. o AT THE REX TONIGHT. King Baggot, in “THE LOAN SHARK,' 'an imp that will create a big stir. “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST," Beauty, the beast and his friends; it's a beauty. You cannot afford to miss these two films. They are very good. Come and see them. Five Cents to All.

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WANTED —Several good men, with teams. Will pay $4.00 per day. See Julius Haugk. 131t3 Sweet potato plants and yam plants for sale; the large kind, 25c per 100. —S. A. Roop, Decatur, Ind., R. R. •6. Wiltshire 'nhone. 132t6

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WANTED —State, district, county and township agents to see how driven wrenches will make woven fences, hog and lightning proof, with No. ft wire anchors. At the Schlickman feed yard. 134t3