Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1912 — Page 3

| You Can Buy White Four | I Button Oxfords Here g I This Week at I I $1.49 I Come while we have your size 1 p IB S E | Charlie Voglewede I THE SHOE SELLER 8 On The West Side Os The Street

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Ijocal showers tonight or Tuesday. The front of the Niblick store 'has been renewed with painting. Miss Matilda Sellemeyer was the guest of Mrs. Ed Goidner at Preble over Sunday. .Miss Alta Kennedy returned this morning to her home after a visit with Mrs. .lames Long. Mrs. Virginia Pinard of Cleveland,! Ohio, left this morning for Ft. Wayne' after a visit with Miss Mary Cioss.; Kate Hammell and Lily Teeple,' who have been'wisiting with relatives - at Portland, returned home this! morning. Mrs. Bruce Schutte and Miss Hazel | Boarrie of Ligonier, who spent Sunday here with their cousin, Minnie Or-| vis, left today for their home. Mrs. Max Garard and daughter, Emily, of Louisville, Ky., who visited with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Costello; also Mrs. Harmon Brake, and attending to legal matters, returned home.'

I ™™ E °F j 1 Quality Groceries f " I———~ EVERY DAY IS 1 A Busy Day WITH us MAKE THRM A LITTLE BUSIER By ’Phoning Your Order FOR QUALITY GROCERIES iA BLENDED FLOUR , Made from spring and winter wheat, -every sack guaranteed 25 lb. sells for 75c 50 lb. sells for $1.50 Special price on barrel lots. See us and get the quality kind and the low price. We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 17. Butter 19 to 25c Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108.

|g President V.-Pres’t & Treas. £ FRENCH QUINN I H Secretary K I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I f REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, 1 ABSTRACTS. f 0 The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete At-* > street Records, '1 wenty years Experience g Farms, City Property, 5 per cent g| S MONEY i

The Misses Bertha and ocie Blazer spent Saturday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Miss Vera Goeke of Fort Wayne is here for a week's visit with Mies Ethel Ehinger. Surveyor Ernst and Orval Harruff were at Geneva this morning doing some surveying. E. A. Boyer of the Murray hotel, made a business trip to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. John Schurger drove ito Monroe this morning, where he attended to business matters. Mr. and Mrs. John Albright of Fort Wayne, who spent Sunday here with friends, have returned home. Mrs. Ed Macy and children are expected home from Elkhart today, where they have been visiting with the C. W. Hocker family. The C. W. Hockers will bring them home in their automobile. Miss Clara Lang has returned from a two weeks' vacation at Lake George with a party of friends, including Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Meyers 6f Monroeville. Dr. Will Kortenbrer of Akron, Indiana, and several young ladies from Delphos, Ohio. Sun burned arms and faces attest to a good time spent on the water.

Mrs. Ed Booth of Monroe was a shopper here Saturday afternoon. Judge Merryman left today for a awo weeks’ visit at Mt. Clemens, Mich. Bruce Patterson left Saturday afternoon for Warsaw for a visit wph friends. The Misses Ella Mutschler and Ruby Miller spent Saturday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Fred Hoffman returned this morning to Winchester after spending Sunday here with his family. John Bolinger was at Berne today attending to some mason work which he is putting in at (hat place. Dr. Will Kortenbrer of Akron, Ind., was in the city the guest of his mother and other friends over Sunday. James Harkless of Paulding, Ohio, visited here with friends. He left today for an outing at Mt. Clemens, Mich. Miss Abbie Bigham has gone to the home of her sister, Mrs. L. A. Jackton, east of the city, for a two weeks' visit. Mrs. D. L. Best and daughter, Emma and grandson, Howard Nfcolet, went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. P. K. Kinney, the real estate man, is home from Geneva, where he was attending to business matters during the day. Mrs. Floyd Dudley and children of Wren, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to Chicago, to which place they are moving. Mrs. Lydia Thomas~retnrned — Saturday afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit here with her sister and other relatives and friends. James Hurst and force of men have returned to Berne to resume thir work after spending Sunday here with their families. Mary Hartzell of Greenville, Ohio, who has been visiting with the Misses Germain Cofree and Marie Gass, returned home this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lawton and two children of Fort Wayne arrived Saturday afternoon from Fort Wayne to spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Vesta Brokaw Charles Sowle went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon to meet his wife and daughter, who are returning from Hillsdale, Mich., where they visited with relatives. Ed Boknecht and Edwin Boese returned to their school work in the Fort Wayne business college this morning after spending Sunday ar their home here. Batch Blackburn left Sunday morning for Coshocton, Ohio, to take up his work as traveling salesman for Foley & Co. of Chicago, 111., after a week's visit with his parents. F. Yake left Saturday for Toledo and Oak Harbor, Ohio, where he will join his wife in a visit with friends. They will also be at Fremont and Lindsey, Ohio, and will be gone about two weeks. Miss Bess Pontius of Geneva returned home Saturday after a visit with friends and was accompanied by Miss Bertha English of West Arch street for a visit, Sunday the Misses Pontius and English went to Fort Wayne to spend the day.—Portland Sun. George Morris left this moaning for .'Hillsdale, Mich., to spend two or three days on business. He will go from there to Lake George and join Fred Bell of Elwood, Charles Meyers of Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Meyers' fatTTer for a few days' outing at the lake. —Bluffton Banner. Miss Gertrude Butlei left today for a vacation visit at Herbst, Point Isabel, Tipton and Windfall. When the term opens she will go to Marion, where she will enter school and take up a special course. Miss Gertrude has been employed as clerk for some time at the Morris five and ten cent store, and her many friends will he sorry to hear that she leaves Decatur io make her future home elsewhere. A little daughter of Christ Ebnit, near Vera Cruz, had her left arm broken, just above the wrist when a team of farm horses belonging to her father ran away and she was thrown from the wagon. She wfrs on the hay ladders alone_ when the horses started to run from a sudden fright. Her uncle, John Aschliman, caught the horses before they ran far, and they did no damage. Dr. McClain of Vera Cruz dressed the injured arm. Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele have received word from her daughter, Mrs Albert Parker, at Cayuga, that they will probably move to Worthington, Ind. Mr. Parker, who served as superintendent of the schools at Cayuga, for several years, has resigned, and had several positions in the nature of a promotion in view. He w’ll probably take the one at Worthington, in case of which they will remove r|neir household goods there and then come h«re to spend a portion of their summer vacation.

Miss Matilda Sellemeyer went to Fort. Wayne this morning. Joe Miller of Ft. Wayne was here this morning looking after business matters. Roman Johns who visited over Sunday with his parents returned to Ft. Wayne. Miss Tena Rademaker has returned from Toledo, Ohio, where she visited over the Fourth. Henry I>oshe has returned from a several days visit with relatives at Coldwater, Ohio. Morton Stultz who spent Sunday with his family at Huntington returned home this morning. Mrs. Agnes t. Nickel of Elgin, Ohio, transferred te r '’ this noon enroute to Ft. Wayne for a visit. The Misses Margaret and Maty Fahrenbach of Ft. Wayne visited with the John Gerard family. Miss Henrietta Brandt is making a short visit with friends in Decatur. — Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Lester Stanley' of the Western Union Telegraph company attended the i raebs at Fort Wayne yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Heilman have! returned to Tiffin, Ohio, after a visit | with their daughter. Mrs. W. L. I Lehne. Mrs. Mary King and Mrs. Johnson of Howe, Ind., who visited here with Mrs. Emma Johnson, have returned home. » John Bowers returned this morning to Rome City after spending several days here attending to business matters. The J. S. Peterson and George Flanders families have returned from Rome City" where they visited over the Fourth. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. left early today for Mt. Clemens, Michigan, to spend several weeks at this great summer resort. Mrs. J.*B. Hessert and children returned this morning to Ft. Wayne alter a visit here with her mother, Mrs Herman Yake. The Misses Treta Erwin and Frances Cole returned to their school work at Valpariso after visiting over the Fourth at their homes here. Oscar Hoffman was at Kendallville, where he was looking after some business relative to the new church, for which he is drawing the plans. Rev. Hochstedler. pastor of the Bo bo M. E. circuit, was here today calling on the Rev Karl Thompson, pastor of the Decatur M. E. circuit. The Misses Mae and Frank Rademaker and Messrs. Clayson Carroll and Fitzgeafld spent Sunday at Ft. Wayne where they attended the automobile races. Mrs. Mary LaFountaine, her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Topp, and brother-tn-l< w, Walter LaFountaine, of Geneva who have been making a visit here with relatives, returned this morning to their home. The Rev. Mr Alfred H Backus, pastor of the First Methodist church in Lagrange, left Sunday afternoon at 5:22 for Buffalo, N. Y., from where he will sail for a three months’ tour of Europe by motorcycle. Secure your tickets at the Peoples & Gerke shoe store for the Carnival Moving Picture company, to be shown at the Bosse opera house on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week, and to continue for six weeks. The tickets are free. Mary Alice is the name of the baby girl born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stewart at Hope hospital, Fort Wayne, according to a telephone message received by Mr. Stewart's brother, John H. Stewart. Mother and babe are doing nicely. Mrs. Stewar is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cal Miller, former residents of this city. Frank Riff of Salem was in the city Saturday afternoon with his left jaw badly swollen and bandaged. He stated thut ho was at Berne on the Fourth •■rd while there, himself and some other boys engaged in-a game of “tug of war," each side pulling for the honors. His opponents became angry and jumped on him and gave him-a beating. One of his teeth was knocked out and several others of both the upper and lower jaw's were loosened. His eyes also came in for a good share of the hard knocks and were badly swollen. Fire, supposedly originating from an exploding coal oil stove, sompletely destroyed the residence and summer kitchen on the Mary A. Brookover farm, three miles north of Bippus and one half mile from Bracken on Friday. The goods that were saver from flames wee taken to neighborfile flames were taken to a neighboring school house and the family may decide to occupy the building until a residence can be feet <1 or temporary quarters furnished. -Huntington Ex. This is no doubt a part of the Brookover estate involved in the partition case sent to the Adams circuit court on change of venue.

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MEETING OR STOCKHOLDERS. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of atoekho’ders of the Old Adams County bank will be held at their banking house. Decatur, Indiana, at 10:00 h. m., OU Tuesday, AU£t»st e. 1911, for the purpose of electing seven di- ' rectors to serve for tlm ensuing year j and to transact such other business | as may come before them. 157t30 E. X. EHINGER, Cashier. HOUSE FOR. .RENT —Inquire at Beat-j ty's office over Boston store. 152tf

The CRYSTAL Theater. el I I WAP IN TRIPOLI I Is pictured tonight in the feature film, “A Red Cross Martyr,’’ or "On.! the Firing lanes of Tripoli.” This film shows actual scenes and carries a dramatic love story with a climaxJ See the young lieutenant use the., aeroplane in the destruction of the I city. See hi» unfortunate fall ant his entanglement in the machine. The other two films are: “ALL ON ACCOUNT OF CHECKERS,” Selig Comedy. “AN ARIZONA ESCAPADE,” Edison Drama. and the efature. film, “A RED CROSS MARTYR,” Vitag-aph Drama. FIVE CENTS. I The_CRYSTAL Tneater _ ' ♦ “EVERYBODY’S ; ♦ DOING IT NOW” ♦ • ♦ * Doing what? Borrowing mon ♦ e ey of the FORT WAYNE LOAN ♦ 0 CO., because it's cheaper than ♦ * borrowing money elsewhere. $1 00 a week will repay a loan « # of SIO.OO to $35.00. « ♦ ALL OTHER SUMS IN PRO « [ PORTION 4 We loan money on Furniture, Pianos, Horses, Wagons, Fix- * ! « tures, etc., without removal. We * ‘ ♦ offer uneqiialed rates, best * • terms, quickest service and ab- ♦ solute privacy. * ■ If you need money, fill out e and mail us this olaak and our * j, agent will call o„ you. * Na/nt ♦ . Adduss; St. and No ♦ * Amount Wanted ♦ Our agent !• la Decatur every • Tuesday. e * Reliable Private « • H. WtyH Ln?? cniissry * ♦ Established 1866 Room 2. Sec- # ♦ ond Floor, 706 Ueibo-tn Street { ♦ Home 'Phone, 833 * Fort Wayne, Ind ♦

: Use Bug Finish For your Potatoes and Plants. It is also a fertilizer, and will prevent Potatoes from being watery which is sure to be t v e ease if you use Raw Paris Green. Just received a car of old fashioned Salt that will not harden in the barrel. Buy your Coal now and save the advance the first of July. If you want the best of Cement I have it for Cistern work by using our water proofing, I guarantee a water ■ tight Job. II E.L. CARROLL U n~vr —im—-eg jeD

FOR SALE Red and nodding, side FOR SALE -Carpet. Inquire ar. i oard, couch, plate rail. Call at tional bank or 636 North I Kuetler home. 152tf street. 151

Old Adams County Ban : Decatur, Indiana. | ■ I Surplus . $80.00., I ' z- )■ C. 3. Niblick, Prvs. M Kirsch and John Nil i . ~ vIdAA Vice President” A N ® Ehinger, Cashier Poa'rf b arm loans P Kea ° a Specialty l|||F ' Reflect uu J Resolve Col Mons THERE aTS. IS NOTHING SMALL “ Every ABOUT A tionto?’ SOME PEOPLE ~ e EXCEPT THE AMOUNT THEY SAVE — Patrons We Pa y 4 Per Cent Interest on 1 Year Time Deposits