Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1912 — Page 3

Any pair of Mens Tan, Gun Metal or Patent Oxfords in the House at $2.95 Any Pair of Ladies Oxfords $2.29 Charlie Voglewede THE SHOE SELLER On The West Side Os The Street

♦ ♦ ( : WEATHER FORECAST J ♦l' fll ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•**<■■l' »■!"■ »i>« 1 >»»■» 9 Unsettled with probiibly showers in . north portion tonight or Wednesday. John Joseph was a tiwiness caller at Fort Wayne today. Henry Schlickmar. is home from a i J business trip to Fo” Wayne. Clifford LaOelie left this morning | ior Toledo, Onio, where ke will spend > I a ','eek or so at the i.eadr, The .Misses Vernia Smi r» and Ethel | ; Fuhrman have gone to La e Wawaste [to spend the coming i o deks .Mrs. H. A. Poj of c ithwest of [the city, left for Big Hbiins, Mich.,, [ to visit a week or so will 4iends. .Mrs. B. G. Fry left thisjirtrnlng for. s Grand Rapids, .Mich, to tii: with her ■ parents, Mr. and Mrs. lil-ne Muns ■ ter. I Mi. and Mrs. JMin Tymll and son, ■ Ralph and Mr. and Mrs. 1 \ Dugan ■ and daughter Dorothy amllelen are ■ home froiE Winona wherebiey hate ■ been visiting Decatur peoA .or sevI eral days.

| THE HOME OF IB I Quality Groceries I If We Please You Once EKa I ■ rW We Know LWi L-lw We May At Least ExLW HI * ’ ped. To have the p'.eaire of pleasing you again; Hence our car in purchasing quality boODS Fancy southern Abrta Peaches for C anning Tli WEEK Price and quality righ| See us before buying. Do not wait for Mic Han peaches. s lou may nolce any We pay cash otrade for produce Eggs 18. btter 19 to 25c Hower aid Tiower, North of G. R. &1. DepJ ' Phn ™ 108 - gHP—M—— l ■ IMO S BOWERS i F.M. SCHIRMEYER I | ,NO ’ V.-Pres’t&Treas. g I FRENCHDUINN z 18 Seerdry I I I THE BOWERSREALTY CO. | REAL ESTATE, INDS, LOANS, abstrAts. I The Schirmeyer AMract | I stract Records, I went ears Experience 1 Farms, City Propej, 5 per cent | | monh 1

0. r. Schug was et Berne yesterday on business requiring his attention. John Elzev returned to Monroe alter attending some business matters in the city. • ' Miss Eleanora Heinze of Elkhart, returned to her home after spending the week with Miss Clara Fuelling Mrs. A. C. Oakes and daughter who have been visiting here for some time have gone to Muncie to continue their visit. Miss Florence Weimer transferred here this morning enroute to Wayland. Mich, to spend the coming month. Jacob Aiz returned home yesterday i afternoon from Geneva where lie lookI ed alter some real estate business ’ yesterday. Harry and Rail Archbold who attended the funeral o! their grandfather. James Edge left for Portland on ' business. Mr. and Mrs A. V. Powers and ' daughter Helen of Fort Wayne visited over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Welfley. Di. C. B. Wileox. Secretary of the Sugar Co., will occupy the Gerber home on north Second street now 1 owned by Julius Haugk.

„ I Ed Ahr is home from a. business j trip to Van Wert, Ohio, where he was ’ buying hogs. Noah Weber of Fort Wayne was 1 looking after business matters in the city this morning. Miss Edna Rehm of Fort Wayne, I who has been a guest of Miss Marie Connell, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Bennett of i Portland, who have been gitMts at the Harvey Steele some, left today for Kendallville to visit friends. Miss Lizzie Werder and niece, Miss Letta Wetter, left for New Washington, Ohio, where they will visit several weeks with relatives and friends. Mrs. It. J. tioulthouse, son Arthur and daughter Naomi and Bernard Ter- i veer are home from Toledo where they spent Sunday with Mrs. C. J. Uhl. Eli Sprunger was at Berne today attending to some business matters pertaining to the death of his father. Abraham Sprunger, who was buried , on Sunday. George Scheier, who visited here for a week or so, returned last night to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he is employed by the Grand Rapids Motor Truck company. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Berry will arrive this evening from Ripley County. Mrs. Berry being called here on acccount of the death of her mother, Mrs. Wm. Custer of Pleasant Mills. Mrs. Mary Hudson arrived this morning from Portland to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. William Custer, of p leasant Mills, who was laid to rest this morning. Ed Magley, Pau! and Earl Blackburn, Tilden Lister and Elmer Darwechter, who have been enjoying a week's outing at the Lewton bridge, on Route 7, have returned to the city. County Recorder Andrew Welfley and wife and her brother, and sister, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Powers and daughter, Helen, who visited at Fort Wayne over Sunday, have return'd home. Miss Florence Cowan of Decatur arrived here this morning and spent the day with Miss Vera Humphrey. Miss Cowan will go to Pennville this evening for a short visit.—Bluffton News. Samuel Weldy, a former clerk in the Deam & Spivey drug store, visited here over Sunday with B. B. Baumgartner and family, and other friends. He is now one of the proprietors of a drug store at Noblesville, Ind—Bluffton News. W. F. Carter, state manager, and Mr. Stolcup of Des Moines. lowa, and one of the highest officers of the American Yeoman lodge, will be here on Wednesday evening to attend the conferring of the degree work and be present at the social function arranged in their behalf. F. M. Schirmeyer of the Bowers Realty company, and one of the trustees of the Allison estate, left Sunday for a week’s business trip to the southwest. He was taken to Fort Wayne via the auto route, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn and children and Miss Annetta Moses. Rev. Wehmeyer and HenryGunsett I of the Zion Lutheran church, Walter | Gotjcli and Professor Dorn of the ■ north part of the county, left today ; for Indianapolis to attend the Middle District synod of the Zion Lutheran church, comprising the three states j of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Manager J. S. Peterson of the Indi iana Lighting Company, reports that I. thirty-one contracts for gas have been secured in Tocsin and the gas will be turned on this week. A number of I contracts have also been secured at Preble, where the gas will be furnished and arrangements are being made j to furnish gas to the farmers along the I line. Sliss Emma Gillig is back again at i her work at the Old Adams County | bank, after a two weeks’ vacation. I She reports a most pleasant time, ; having visited a number of cities in j Canada, including Montreal. Quebec I and the Thousand Islands. She also: stopped at ■ Niagara Fails, Buffalo, ' Cleveland and other cities of inter-| est. Although her visit in Canada ' was an enjoyable one, she was glad ■ to again return to the states. Almost miraculous was the escape from serious injury or death ot a | party of Bryant men a couple of days j ago while enroute for a business trip ' to the vicinity of Decatur. George ! Flauding, in his machine, and accom-1 panted by Samuel Renner, Aaron Mo-! ( ser and James Fifer, were just enter- , ing Berne at the time of the accident, i Attempting to make a sharp turn at ' about twenty miles an hour, the reir I wheels of the car skidded and the I •into turned turtle. All of the ocen-1 pants of the car were tossed out ami I clear of the machine, save Flauding, : who fell underneath. Fortunately, | however, he was not caught by ltd i weight, but suffered no injury. Neither of the others suffered more than ' slight bruises. With some difficulty i and assistance, the men righted the | machine, which was not damaged be- j yond the breaking of the wind- I shield, and were able to continue their trip.—Bluffton News.

Dent Spencer is home from a business trip to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Rost Scherry has gone to Garrett, where she will make her home. C. L. Oliver of Geneva, who visited here with friends, returned home at noon. A. C. Ball was at Fort Wayne today, looking after business requiring his attention. Mrs. R H. Roland and daubhters, Esther and Beulah, are at Monroe,the guests of relatives. Henry Scherry of Preble was numbered among the business callers here this morning. Milton Girod was at Berne (his morning on business, returning home on the afternoon train. Mrs. Bud Michaud and daughter, Florence, have gone to Berne to spend the remainder of the week, visiting. Miss Nellie Nichols was at Fort Wayne today, taking her regular musical instruction from Professor Archer. ,Miss Mildred Yaney of Celina, 0., arrived in the city today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Baxter, of Elm street. A. P. Rumple of Petroleum passed through the city this morning on his way to St. John’s to attend to some business matters. Marie Ball, Leola Smith and Lucy Gregory are new clerks at the Morris Store in the places of Grace Purdy and Effie Miller. This is canning season, and the > i est grade of peaches ever sold in the city is to be had from most every saleable place in the city. The Misses Lorene Keller and Jeanette Kinney are home from Berne, where they were guests of friends between trains this afternoon. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse and children, and Mrs. Regina Gast, have gone to Oshkosh, Wis., to visit with Mrs. Robert McMahon, formerly Miss May Holthouse. The postoffice force was busy this morning raising the racks in the office used for the holding of the mail sacks, which will make it much more convenient for their daily use. Charles Steele, the new proprietor of the Atz & Steele harness shop, is making a new arrangement of the place and is equipping the shop to handle a larger amotint of business. David Steele left yesterday for Peterson, where he awaited over until today, when he attended the Virgil Beery funeral, held from the Beery church, returning home this c.ening. Rev. and Air's Dornseif, from north of the city, left today for Indianapolis to attend the Zion Lutheran synod of the middle states, comprising Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The meeting convened this morning and will continue until a week from today. Mrs. Ed Vancil and son. Nicholas, left for Fort Recovery, Ohio, to attend the home-coming, which is being celebrated this week. The little town is thronged with former residents, I and the event will be one unsurpassed for business records and home-com-I ing people for the week. THE BEET PLANT (Continued from Page 11 mous quantities of beets. Much work remains to be done be- ! fore the opening of the plant, and al-, ready much work has been done. I From this time, however, the work I will progress much faster and The! plant will be completed easily by the | time of harvesting. o j This is the last week of the big sale at Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson’s. I I I - whir upw " VJ Mtn flu THIS IS * RECIPRO CITY of the right kind. Our Regular Customers are [ welcomed at both windows. When You Sell four Crops ; deposit the returns with us. Pay All Your Bills With a Check. ‘A hen you need Money you will find us ready to loan. This is “ONLY BUSINESS” FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DECATDR j

I tERIV>S ~ ■-^=^== =======:=::::^ :Z ' | IL ' " —here’s durability! From Red Hook, N. Y., comes this letter —“For the past three years I can honestly say that 1 have only spent $1.83 for repairs on my * Maxwell. I consider it the most economical car on the market.” ? I Many letters are received from Maxwell owners who seem surprised at - the extraordinary durability and economy of their cars. That these durable qualities are the rule and not the exception, is proved by New York State records showing 91% of the cars registered during 1905 and 1906, again registered this year. Seven years of continual daily service and good for more. Maxwell “Special” SI4BO Fully equipped, including Self Starter When you can get a car of proven durability, In beauty, equipment and workmanship, economy and reliability, that is roomy, pow- '‘Special” compares favorably with cars erfui and stylish—for less than SISOO why costing almost double its selling price. Make wait any longer? This is the family car you this comparison yourself —give this car a been waiting for. practical test by having a ride in it. It’s big enough to be used by all the family, We are ready to take you out today— come in. and its handsome style is such that you can be proud of. Sold UNITED STATES MOTOR COMPANY A. J. MOSER & CO., Maxwell Diviaion t j • 3W. 61st St., at Broadway, New York erne, n iana. — — SI4BO f. o. b. Factory, fully equipped

Many good bargains in suits, dress shirts, underwear sad odd pants at Tee]2>le, Brandyberry & Peterson’s. Sale closes Saturday night. Democrat Want Ads Pa». L. P. MEYER Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist Phone Crawford’s Store Calls answered promptly day or night HOAGLAND, INDIANA.

Dr. C. V. Connell j VETERNARIAN PVinrci Office 143 ± IlJilc Residence 102

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