Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1912 — Page 3

r —| Advance Showing I Os New Fall Styles I In Our Window I Charlie Voglewede I B the shoe seller | On The West Side Os The Street ‘

■** — ; WEATHER FORECAST 1 f i ft +^.++++ ++*+^i^^*,.. ! -r++++ ■ Thunder showers tonight or Saturday. Cooler Satmday. Mrs. Cal Peterson was a Ft. Wayne; visitor yesterday. Miss Vonnc Sell went to Ft. Wayne i to spend yesterday afternoon. !>>■ h BurrH "nd family are moving' back to dear old Decatur after two] years at Rochester Miss Rose Voglewede is serving at • t.; Filler factory office in the vacation of Miss Vada Marti-. I Miss .lune Kno r . a graduate of a : Chicago business college has taken a ' :Ccn as bookkeeper and Sjteno-j grarher for the Vail office. Simeon Fordyce left yesterday with little Henry Fravel son of James Fravel, for Manon where the child will be placed in the orphans' home. Cat. les Baumgardner is back at the i Ashbaucher oChdio after a few days . vacation during which he visited his ;i:s at L.an Grove -Bluffton Ban ! ner.

DECATUR “Can and Will” And We Are For Decatur With this month we begin our 14th. year in business in Decatur, and it has been the most successful one of all. We wish to heartily thank every one of our patrons of our store and the general public for their cooperation with us. Each day finds new customers at the home of quality groceries— shows they’re appreciated. Read our ad every day in this same place and you will profit by the bargains, sales, and market quotations. We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 21. Butter 19 to 25c Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. Phone 108.

I JNO. S. BOWERS F.M. SCHJRMEYER I President ••P res & Treat*. ■ FRENCH QUINN » Secretary |» I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, r abstracts. 1 The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- g 5 stract Records. Twenty years Experience 1 Farms, City Property, 5 per cent MONEY

C. 1,. Johnson was a Fort Wayne visitor yesterday. Mrs. Jesse Cole has returned from a several days' visit at DeCliffe, O. Muri Laisure and Ed Miller left yesterday for Marion. Ohio, on business. J J. Kelleher the contractor, from Frankfort, was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Miss Edna Brewster returned to Berne this morning alter attending the Fort Wayne fair yesterday. Milton l.eavell was serving yesterday at the postoffic® in the place of Jesse Helm who is busy moving. Mirs Catherine Geary went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon for a visit with her brother, Frank Geary and familv Miss Josephine Krick of the Hope hospital. Foil Wayne, spent yesterday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krick. „ Miss Bess Jeffrey returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to take up her work at the Lutheran hospital after a two weeks' vacation. Mrs. Catherine Grvss and daughter, Villa, of Ceylon, and Samuel Beeler of east of Geneva changed cars here this morning on their way home from Chicago.

Mrs. Jesse Sellemeyer spent yesterday al tel noon in Fort Wayne. Henry Gerke and Charles Teeple attended the fair in Fort Wayne today. Mrs .1. F. Hocker returned this morning to Monroe. She visited with the E. Woods family. W. W. Andrews of Coffeyville, Kansas, is b*»re for a while visiting with hit brother, John Andrews, and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Baker of east of Berne changed cars here this morning on their way home from Fort Wayne. Mrs. John Lewis of Bellefontaine. Ohio, and Mrs. Amanda Parrish of Auburn are guests of their niece, Mrs. F. C. Summers, Miss Bessie Boyers left this morning for Champaign, 111., where she will enter th« University of Illinois for her last year’s course). Mr. and Mrs. Henry Center returned to New Berlin, Ohio, yesterday after attending the funeral of their cousin, Anthony Confer. ' Mrs C. V. Connell returned from Monroe, Michigan. She accompanied her daughter, Miss Marie to that place where she entered college. About everybody in and about Decatur who had the price today, went to the Fort Wayne fair, this being the big day of the week. Miss Mary Winans returned to Fort Wayne yesterday after a visit here with her parents. She is in training for a nurse at the Lutheran hospital. Miss Helen Walters of Delaware, Ohio, daughter ot Mr and Mrs. John Walters, formerly of this city, is recovering from a severe operation for appendicitis. Mrs. T. C. Bixler and son, Joe, left this afternoen for their home at Muncie. They came to attend the funeral of Anthony Conter, held Tuesday, and remained for a several days' stay. Mrs. Floyd Brittson, who has been visiting here with relatives, left this morning for Indianapolis, where she will make a two weeks' visit before returning to her home at Dallas, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. W. X. Smitley and his mother, Mrs. Martha Smitley, changed cars 41 ere this morning, enroute to the home of the first named, east of Berne, from Toledo, Ohio, where they visited. The sugar factory is getting ready for the test which will be made in a few days. There is much to do and every man is on the jump. Mr. Hubbard is making a trip through central Indiana this week. Mrs. Bice Mcwzler and niece, Clarice Andrews, left this morning for Portland. They were accompanied by Mrs. Sarah Andrews, who is enroute to Fort Recovery, Ohio, to be with her granddaughter, Mrs. Harry VanKirk. Mrs. Jack Mason, of Decatur, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Crouse, went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to spend the remainder of the week. Her husband will join her there today.—Blufffton Banner. Mrs. T. C. Bixler of Muncie who has been spending some time with relatives in the country, returned to the city for a few days’ stay with the Peter Conter family. She came in to attend the funeral of Anthony Conter, held Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Warner and son, Lowell, of Bloomington, who have been visiting here with relatives, left this morning for Fort Wayne, thence to Mishawaka, where they will be the guests of his father. Jesse WarD r . Harold V. Wilcox, city editor of the Daily Tribune-Gazette, Iron Mountain, Mich., is hem lor a visit with his father, (’. r>. Wileox of the Holland St. Louis Sugar company. He is a hustler and looks as though he could handle most any kind of a news story. Charles Burrell, an old Decatur boy who has lived in northern Michigan for a number of years is here for a visit with relatives, this being his first trip here in seven years. He is prospering, and owns a dandy little farm, near Traverse City, Mich. Mr and Mrs. John Wade had their household goods shipped to Decatur, Monday. Mr. Wade has taken a position as section foreman with headquarters in Decatur. Mr. Al Smith will move into the home vacated by Mr. Wade. —New' Haven News. Lewis Fruchte is able to be down town again with the aid of crutches and is cordially greeted by his many friends. During a runaway several weeks ago Mr. Fruchte suffered the fracture of a leg, which confined him to his home for a long while. Among those who went to Fort Wayne on the 8:30 o’clock car were: Mrs. M. F. Shirk and babe, Miss Sylvia Rayl, George Gerner, of near Monroe; H. L. Johnson, Mary Ritter, Mrs. Mary A. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lee, J. S. Lower, John Johnloz, Miss Eva Kirschbaum, Miss Vada Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burns, Mrs. M. E. Clark and niece, Rhoda Jones.

James K. Niblick went to Ft. Wayne today. Dr. Ernest Franz of Berne was here todav on business. Judge James Moran of Portland was here today on businues. Roscoe D. Wheat of Portland was here on business today. Francis Shores of Ossian was a business visitor here today. Miss Josephine Malley has returned from a v'sit In Indianapolis. Samuel Opliger of Linn Grove was a business visitor here today E. Fritzinger and Andrew Baxter were Fort Wayne visitors this afternoon. Cecil and Effie Byer of Willshire, 0., changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne. A. L. Workman, an insurance man of Fort Wayne, was here on business yesterday. Xed B<’bo left toda;. for Huntington, where he will be employed on the Huntington Herald. John Egaz of the sugar factory made a business trip to Chicago today intending to stay two or three days. More than six hundred took advantage of the interurban yesterday, going to Fort Wayne to attend the fair. Miss Tablea Dornseif will go to South Bend tomorrow, where she will spent several months with her sister, Mrs. H. Hoile. Miss Mary Cook of Crown Point, Ind, is here for a few days' visit with Mrs. Charles J. ’filler and Miss Agnes Miller. Bruce Patterson returned this morning from Camden, 11l , where he attended to business for the Ward Fence factory. S. A. Riche, traveling representative of the Southern Casualty Co., was in the city today conferring with Chas. Helm, the local agent. Mr. Brunnegraff has purchased the barn on the Dr. W. E. Smith lot, north of the library, and is moving the same to the Brunnegraff farm. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Waggoner, Mr. and Mrs. Dal Grimm and Miss Anna Johnson of near Monroe went to Fort Wayne to attend the fair today. Lew G. Ellingham, secretary of state, and editor-in-chief of the Democrat, is here for a few days, attending to business affairs abcm this office.

James Kinney and J. L. Yaney of Jefferson township stopped off in the city for a short time enroute from Ft. Wayne, where they attended the fair. Lew Corbin, the artist, is painting a dandy sign on the window door of the office to be occupied by Dr. Sterling Hoffman, over the interurban building. Free Frisinger will leave Monday for Bloomington, Ind., where he will resume his studies at the state university, entering the junior class this year. Mrs. Clint Johnson returned to Lewiston, Ohio, yesterday after being here several days. She came to attend the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Peter Fofbing. Mrs. Elizabeth Rademacker will return next Monday from Toledo, Ohio, where she went to attend the funeral of Clarence Ardner. Miss Irene Gerard will remain for a longer visit. Ernest Schlickman is back to old Decatur after eight months in Denver. He will remain here for some time. His family remained in Denver and Ernst will return there after his business affairs here are completed. A New York suit and coat man w ; ll be at the Gass & Meibers Store of Quality all day tomorrow, giving the ladies of this locality an opportunity to secure any information along the suit and garment line they may care for. Electrician Mylott is busy today erecting the new lamp posts in front of the Peoples & Gerke store and Holty’s case. Others will buy posts soon and it is to be- hoped that as many as are contemplating this Improvement will do so before Old Home week. C. Henry France, better known as “Jinks” here is one of the attractions at the Temple at Fort Wayne this week. He and his wife do a funny sketch, and are as good as can be found on the vaudeville stage this year. His stage name 4s Charles H. France and Company. Don't forget that Decatur is going to clean up and fix up, and you might as well start now. A dumping ground has been secured and thu work will go forward. Within a few days a geu eral cleaning up day will be announced and the city officials and the citizens’ committee will get busy on this proposition. Tom Reid, Will Schrock and Dr. E. G. Coverdale yesterday drove out to their beet plantation south of the city, taking with them enough mellon, ham, fruit and other eatables that we don't suppose we will see them before Old Home Week. They say they are going to harvest their millet crop, but they took some queer tools.

BUSH HAMMERED BLOCK Our tooled margin, bush hammered block has proved so popular that we are forced to keep one busy making them. This block gets away from the old fashioned sameness of cement work and gives a personality to any structure that may be built with it. We are the only works that makes this block and we always keep a large supply on hands, also sc me buiitup into a display. Come to the works am time and see how the blocks look when built up in a wall. You will be surprised.

Acker Cement Works Bicycle Repairing Electric Wiring Bicycle andTTectric Sundries Mezda and Gem bulbs Gocarts Retired EDW. E. PARENT 131 S. 2nd. St. Open Evenings

BOSSE OPERA HOUSE WEEK COM. MONDAY IGHT SEPT. 16 Return of the rave ites THE Shannon Stock CO. IN NEW PLAYS AND VAUDEVILLES LADIES FREE MONDAY SEE “A Receipt In Full” Price 10, 20 & 30c

EJSfiK SES®! BSgBIM IMBM I NEW WAISTS I a — g B If you are in need of a new i I waist it will pay you to | □ see our new line of f I silk waists and al- | so wash waists g I just new I | THE BOSTON S ORE I CZZ~)

7/ iMN Jr J F Lut "W A \\ V IB A Copyright Hart hehaffner & Marx Here a lively style for young men; a two button sack suit with high cut vest; trousers with good turnup. Suits like this from SIB.OO up.

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FARM LOANS We have plenty of money 1 to loan on farms, at 5 per 1 cent. We also make loans without commision. Erwins’ Law and Real Estate Office

IH. PENNINGTON AND CO. Carpenters and Builders H. Pennington, Mgr. W. H. Pennington Forman C.E. Pennington Secy & 1 reas I Prepared to do all kinds of j Carpentering and building I work. Prices the lowest. | Call and see us if you reed | anything in this line. ■m— wmwi iiiiiimhu'm”

WINTER KING-SEED WHEAT Bearded wheat--1911 Seed. Grown in Adams County. ......WE WANT GRAIN, HAY AND SEEDS Largest seed cleaner in state PHONEJNO. 25 BURK [ELEVATOR COMPANY

YOUNG men are especially invited to see the new mod' els we have brought out forthem, the latest things from H ART, SCHAFFNER & MARX you’want these clothes for what they are as well as for what they look like; you,!! take to the styles; there’s a snap and “go” to them that will pleasejyou and a quality that will keep them shapely. HOLTHOUSE. SCHULTE CO. Good Clothes Sellers For Men And Boys

_ar._~- wnn j-jm— i mr~ nM—y—<—nwnf“<ni — f; *■ ****** LOW PRICES SSL. FENCE 00other i'/lii. Man, oheaperrhrw wood—.lltetter. Fort-wm, Churches, Parks. «0. W-fe •»’ V.llern Book aud jjw ■HS WARD FENCs DECATUR. Going! Going! Going! Are you going to have a sale if so let me add it to the list of sales that I have booked : for this fall. Date your sale early and get ahead of tqe rush, as the man that buys at the sale today will not be a bidder on the same article tomorrow. Phone me at my expence or see me £at T. A. Leonard tin shop. Phone 531 John Spuhler. The Auctioneer Decatur, - - - Indiana.