Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1912 — Page 3

I SPECIAL SALE I | OF WHITE GOODS I I SATURDAY I I Charlie Voglewede I THE SHOE SELLER On The West Side Os The Street S

g ♦♦♦♦♦«■♦<♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ g i WEATHER FORECAST | s +++4 _mhh. ++++++++++^< . a Showers late tonight and Saturday. Abe Hoch made a business trip to Fort Wayne today. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Schug spent the ■ Fourth at Berne. Mrs. Shafer Peterson went to Monmouth this morning. I i Vince Bell of Graigville was here I this morning and later transferred for 1 Monroe for a visit with his sister. i Attorney D. B. Erwin is home from 1 Berne, where professional matters oc , 'Uriel his attention during the day. He' R ... Semans of the eMthodist j church went to Warsaw this morning iooK after s u me business matters. Da'las I?'tier and force of men were al -t.i today looking after some cemt. f i- -stress pertaining to bridge work, 1 James Artman, who spent the! Fourth here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A’-tman, left today for Albany, to look after bja business affairs.

L'j'buil d U j a •O , "Ri^ I | THE HOME OF I~9v * * : ■ *w J I “ (M**y Groceries || fMX jffiin 3»CTrawnS«HHBSHBHBBBB«a# P ]>A \t^W / ri|P HURRAH FOR The Fourth Os July! | No Onc I 77 " Can Be Patriotic With an unappeased Appetite. Our good grocer * ; ies will fire your enthusiasm to the exploding * point! Most appropriate for 4th. of July Dinners! Would These Help Your Picnic Dinner Sweet pickles, Sour pickles, Sweet mixed pickles ? Olives, Peanut butter, Canned meats, and cream or switzes cheese, and plenty of good country butter. Our store will be closed all day on n e 4th. of July. We pay cash or trade for produce I Eggs 17. Butter 19 to 25c Hower and Hower, | North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone’loß. I E JNO. S. BOWERS F.M. SCHIRMEYER g President V.-Pres t & Treas. H FRENCH QUINN g B Secretary gg | THE BOWERS REALTY CO. | | REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. U The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- L stract Records, Twenty years Experience 8 Farms, City Property, 5 per cent g MONEY ■ 1 » . - w* 1

James Hurst was numbered among the business callers at Berne today. Harmon Brake, who has been absent for some years. Is home for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Catherine Brake. John Bolinger made a business trip to Berne this morning, looking after several business matters requiring his attention. J. J. Foughty left this morning for his trip to Fort Wayne, Lima, and I Elida, Ohio, in the interests of the ! Heckman company. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Duvey and I babe and Mrs. Hendricks and atighI ter returned to Kendallville this morn ing after a visit here. J Mrs. Daisy Balllenger and daughI ter. Dolores, returned this morning to Auburn after a visit over the Fourth | with her parents, Mr and Mrs. John W. Edwards. The death of A. J. Wood, a well known business man of Willshire, 1 which occurred at Fort Wayne, causI ed sadness among his many friends here. His remains were transferred here this morning from the G. R. & 1., the trip to Willshire geing made overland.

•Miss Tena Rademaker went to To-1 ledo, Ohio, to visit over the Fourth and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Philip Ardner. Ezra Archbold, in the circulation department of the Ft. Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette, was a business visitor here Wednesday. Mrs. Aron Rehrig and brother, Ed. Fiitzinger of Allentown, Pa , are here visiting with their brothers, Oscar and Erastus Fritzinger. Mrs. lona Patterson returned Wednesday evening to her home in Chicago after a visit with her mother, Mrs. Randall Sprague. Charles Teeple, of the firm of Teepte, Brandyberry & Peterson, left Wednesday for Rome City to Join his family in a two weeks’ visit there. Mrs. M. P. Burdge and grandchildren, Marcia and Bob Helm spent the Fourth with their daughter and aunt, Mrs. James Collett at Van Wert, O. M. M. Miller of Geneva was in the city yesterday afternoon, and purchased a Ford runabout, which will be delivered within three weeks. — Bluffton Banner. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Burrell and daughter, Frances, of Rochester, are here for a visit over the Fourth and Sunda., with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blackburn Rev. and Mrs. B. B. Vhl ana children. of Mansfield, Ob’j; Mrs. John christen and Miss Jessie Magley were guests the Fourth of the E. S. Christen family in Root township. Fanny and Fay Ilammell, Grace But'er, Juanita Bock, Esther Sellemeyer, Eva aPtten and Forest Vail and Stewart Niblick are home from Portland, where they spent the Fourth. Mr. and Mrs. Festus Rhoten and baby went to Portland this morning where they will spend several days. Mr. Rhoten will work there for a fewdays in the Morris five and ten cent store.—Bluffton News. With the brickihg of West Monroe street, this thoioughfare leading to the cemetery, which has been in very bad repair, will be one of the best in the city. From Thirteenth street west the road has been filled with crushed stone, making it like new. D. F. l.eonard and family left today noon in their automobile for Frankfort, where they will spend the night, continuing their way tomorrow to Vermillion county, 111., where they will vis-t with relatives and friends, that being the childhood home of both Mr. and Mrs. Leonard. While all Adams county is interested in the growing of sugar beets, John B. Kiracofe, of Decatur, is claiming the championship as a potato grower in his home city. On Munday Kiracofe dug from his garden a tuber measuring eleven and one-half inches in circumference.—Portland Sun. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Archbold of Chicago spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. William Murphy and Mrs. Eliza Archbold. Mr. Archbold was a former resident of this city, being a son of Eliza Archbold. now of Ft. Wayne He is now teaching in the Lane high school at Chicago. Rev. B. B. Ehl has arrived from Mansfield, Ohio, to join his wife and ■-'..ildren In a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Christen. Rev. Uhl will leave about the middle of the month for his new charge at Necomis, 111., and Mrs. Uhl and children will join him there about August first, Ray Houser of Indianapolis, who visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Houser, over the Fourth, left today for Plymouth, where he will visit with friends over Sunday. His sister, Mrs. Will Lyman, and son, Daman, and their friend, Miss Helen Weber, of Indianapolis, who have also been here over the Fourth, will remain over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Houser. Glen, little son of Mr and Mrs. Roy II Wolford, who was injured when he fell out of a swing Wednesday, is bet- 1 ter and is able to be about as usual again. The lad is in the Indiana) QChool at Fort Wayne, and was found ; unconscious under a swing in which 11 he had been playing, and from which i lie had fallen. It was at first thought] that an operation might have to be! I performed on his head, on which he 11 had fallen and suffered injury, but J this did not prove to be the case. | A well known bachelor who died I the other day at Frankfort, Germany, left an endowment tor an annual , prize of $125 to the man who leads the ugliest woman to the altar. If I the bride is lame as well as unpre possessive, the groom will receive at: ’ i additional $125. This reminds its H : that the town of Haschmann, in Ger-i | may, had a system of rewarding lov- ; ers who marry girls who have little I |or no personal attractions. A well i I known fiuancied left a sum or money | to the town authorities to provide l| j dowries for the plainest woman under ! thirty married in Haschmann every ■ vear, a cripple, and four women un- ( der forty who had been jilted several times.

Jesse Fansler of Ft. Wayne is here for a visit with Dick Tonnelier. Owen Edwards and Lawrence Gerard spent the Fourth in Fort Wayne. ' Ray Houser of Indianapolis is here I for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Houser. Miss Lillian Wall of Bluffton visited over the Fourth with Miss Verda i Burkett and friends. Father Bensinger has returned to Hesse Cassel after a short visit here 1 with Father V,'liken. Albert Acker is home from Bluffton i where insurance business occupied his 1 1 attention for a day or so. Mrs. H. H. McGill returned to Wren, Ohio, after spending the Fourth with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Porter. George Everett of the posteffice force was making out a bi-monthly re- . port of the office equipment, which he | will send to headquarters. . Prof, and Mrs. O. H. Blossom and | babe of Pittsfield, 111., are here visiting with relatives. Mr. Blossom is a former Adams county boy, a aon of Lyman Blossom. Floyd Smith of Fort Wayne returned home after spending the Fourth with his mother, Mrs. Veronica Smith. His children, Marquette and Pascaline, who accompanied him here, will remain for a two weeks’ vacation visit. Mrs. A. Kohne and daughters, SteL I la, of Fond du Lac, Wis., and Mrs. I Charles Cole, of Hamilton, Ohio, j spent the day in Fort Wayne. Miss | Stella is home from Fond du Lac, Wis., where she is a student in the convent of the Sisters of St. Agnes. The Fourth in Decatur was a rather quiet one, and outside of the doubleheader ball game, there was nothing doing except the shooting of a few cannon firecrackers Accidents were scarce, although many suffered burned fingers and slight scars were plainly visible this morning, and some of the youngsters will carry “relics’’ for a few days at least. One of the largest crowds ever in Berne was that of July 4th, when it is believed that more than 5,000 visitors attended the Sunday school picnic held in Lehman’s grove. The morning train leaving this city conveyed a large number while during the day autos earring many made the trip and spent the day in the grove. It was one of the best arranged and well attended county picnics ever held and the sane Fourth, urged for several yeers past, was fully realized in this gathering.

IF we persist in our advertisements"about our fancy blocks it is because we have a good thing and we want you to know 7 about it. We are not spending our good money to advertise and then not be able to back up our claims. Our tooled margin bush hammered block is positively the best imitation of stone you can get. Net the plain cement effect but a sand stone effect. You can get it in coli ors, or a pure snow 7 white. No other firm makes this block and to get it you must get it here. We want to show you how your porch will appear nicer with this block than with the ordinary kinds.\ WILL; YOU |LET t US? | ACKER CEMENT WORKS I Special Sale on White Goods | I and Colored Lawns I I Now is the time to buy | I your white goods and ■ I dainty colored lawns for I I dresses, just what you I S want for summer resort I I dresses. Come in and I j J see our line. I i I FULLENKAMPSI

[DON’T FORGET! B Our Coat And Skirt ffl 2 Sale Is Still On. ' 9 1 Lot $12.00 skirts for /3rh| 1 /w Only ’ ' ’ H 75 I ■ Ja-t only - - - $4.00 W i I IM only ■ ■ ■ s2 ’ oo I I I ra T Nrw Voils, Panamas and w‘ f a ij iffilir Serges s ® Reduction In Any Coat J * In Stock. * g m io Isl —mw ■ —in rirw ~ —■■iiwiiii—umm ■■ i i | THE BOSTON SI ORE | IMlm

A. P Bailey of Ft. Wayne was a business visitor here yesterday. George Simmers went to Monmouth on the 11:30 car this morning. Miss Margaret Clark and Wilbur Poole spent the Fourth in IT. Wayne. Ola Gaskill, Bess Fisher and Roy Steele were Fort Wayne visitors over the Fourth. Mrs. Frank Porter and children of Parker City are guests of the J. R. Porter family The Misses Bertna Kinney and Ode Fullenkamp spent the Fourth in Fort Wayne guests of Mrs. D. M. Reed. Mrs. E. X. Ehinger returned last evening from Bluffton, where she visited with her daughter, Mrs. Will Berling.

r i I I OUR shoes are up to the standard. When you try them on, you cannot fail to recognize the perfect fit and feeling of comfort Once you wear them you will fully realize their staying qualities, and the big value you get for your money. I PEOPLES & GERKE I New Location In Meibcrs Block First Door South of Smm tc Meat Market. I AS® — _ _ — .... -H. J It-. - I. ■ -■ I ——— —— » if NEVER FAILS : WONDER : KI LLBR » i * PRICE ><>♦ * ' ** , DEALER* U> W- *j. ', 'iif THE WATSON’cO.PERU.INO* — * • . ■ .1 NWI I —■ —.—■■■ • ■! ■■ —- - ■ ■ ■.■«!! ... • [ * i Old Adams County Bank | Decatur, Indiana. IB> Capital 1120,000 Surplus . 130. W C. S. Niblick, Preside C 1 M. Kirsch and John N'biick ® Vice Presidents E. X. Ehinger, Cashier. Dporf Farm loans KcdO a Specialty Reflect - Resolve Collections I Made j THERE M*. IIS NOTHING SMALL “ I — - _ Every J ABOUT I tion Con. I SOME PEOPLE With Safe I EXCEPT ’ I THE AMOUNT THEY SAVE E “ I — — _j Patrons | We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on 7 Year Time Deposits |