Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1912 — Page 3

IN This store you find new ways of doing business; we put your interest ahead of ours. We want you to be satisfied when you buy our shoes and to stay satisfied with them afterwards. You will realize this when you see the styles we show you, the quality we give, the care we take to get just the right shoe for your foot, Easy to buy here, we do the worrying, tiy us. Charlie Voglewede THE SELLER On The West Side Os The Street

i WEATHER FORECAST I T J 42 A *--*•>-*-*-- a -*-- , ~-*- a --*--*- -*- E Pair tonight and Thursday. «• ... .»».■ a* - >■■■■•• • —. Mrs. Robert Blackburn went to For; Wayne this morning. Miss Mae Berling will entertain the Bachelor Maids Wednesday evening. Mrs. Will Rundell went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day ■. t triends. Dr. Rayl, the well known Monroe logician was a business visitor in Decatur yesterday afternoon. Miss Electa Glancy is spending the day in Fort Wayne visiting with friends and taking her weekly music lesson. Mrs. lease Williams and son, Dar11. spent the d?.y at the homo of her ! arents. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deam, in Root township Mrs. Henry Krick has returned •rom Marion, where she accompanied . babe to the orphans’ home, Mrs. Krick being a member of the children's board of guardians.

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r '™ iW i S THE HOME OF WAS ■ Quality Groceries E J?. ; x AL There Is Sggfe^J^ A Place ASeason 30(1 a leason v ’? Tor Everything Jfc** This Is The Place For Every Seasonable Thing In The Grocery Line And There’s A Reason Why We Sell ThemTHE QUALITY Qt Jar Olives 25c. Qt. Jar Sour Pickles 15c Canned Soups 10c Extra Fancy JHoney 18c lb. Fancy Michigan Celery alway Freshs Fancy cakes and wafers in packages or bulk. Full line of breakfast foods to select from. Cream and Switzer cheese. Let us supply you with good country butter. • We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 25. Butter 19 to 25c Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108. I JNO. S. BOWERS F.M. S>1?? I President V.-Pres t & Treas. M I FRENCH QUINN | Secretary I THE BOWERS; REALTY ’CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS. EOANSJ I abstracts. ■ The Schirmeyer Abstract Company|complete Ab- | stract Records, Iwenty years„Expenence I Farms, City Property, 5 per cent K MONEY

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Snider left for Etna Green, Ohio, where Mrs. Snider will visit with her father aud mother. Thomas Topple was a Fort Wayne business visitor y'jsterday afternoon, going to continue treatment for his eyes. J. 11. Vogk" ede will leave tomorrow morning for Indianapolis to visit relatives and to hear Woodrow’ Wilson speak. Mrs. Charles Jiiller ami sou, Walter, returned yesterday irom Rockford, 0., where they visited with her son Ervin Millei and wif<. Mr. and Mrs. Mann Andrews will have today tor Kansas City. Kans., where Mrs. Andrews will spend a couple of weeks visiting with her father, who is very sick. The members of the baptist church held an interesting cottage service at the home of Mrs. IL L. Coverdale last evening. Mrs. Coverdale is recovering from an illness, during which t me she was unable to attend church. Miss Ella Parsons, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Lena Flurer, returned to her home at Woodburn this morning, being called b." the illness of her mother, •Irs. Henry Parsons.

Paul Miller, jr., went to Ft. Wayno this morning. Albert Schlickman has taekn a position as clerk at the Schlickman Bailey restaurant. A fellow named Wood was brought up before the mayor on a plain drunk charge and pleading guilty drew a tine of and costs. Mrs. Ed Johnson and son, Lester. .Mrs. Dan Hill and son, John Edward, wete guests today of their sister, Mrs. John Ballard, in Root township. While wrestling with a Schnepp boy on the Laman farm east of the city, John Spahr, a boy about sixteen years old, had the misfortune to bave his left elbow dislocated. Members of the committee on the decoration of the Ollie James meet uig are requested to meet at the office of County Surveyor Ernst in the interurban block at 8 o’clock this evening. John Spuller and Noah Frauhiger were the auctioneers at a big sale of dairy cattle at the Kindel farm near Fort Wayne Tuesday. The sale was a most successful one, fifty head of dairy cows and thirty heifers being disposed of. The cattle averaged sixty dollars per head.

Tuesday night the promised citv basket ball team held a meeting at their hall on Madison street and the following players were picked for the season: Core and Shoemaker, forwards; Biggs, center: Burk and Beery, guards; Bremerkamp, substitute. After the team was picked the election of officers was held, the results being Burk, captain; Beery, treasurer; Schmitt, manager. Manager Schmitt has a game booked with Churubusco foi Wednesday during Old Home Week, and the boys will be around selling tickets in a few days From this line-up it can be seen that t'< im is a strong cue, and that they will put up some good and fast games. The first number of the Geneva high school palter, The Informer, was distributed today. The editors .ire Forest Fike, editor in chief; Ralph t ort ins. senior class; Doris Acker, junior class; Virginia Pyle, sopho more class, and Mary Hoskinson, freshman class, as associate editors. The high school this year numbers ty Rvo, thy largest in the history of the school since it has received a commission, it ha senrolled a number of students from surrounding towns where they only have a threeyea r course in the high school. The school is under the direction of H. M. Griffey, as superintendent: S. V. Millikan. principal, and Miss Myrtle Lung, assistant principal. o 1 (Advertisement) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Notice is hereby given that Clara Erandyberry, my wife, has left me, and that t will not be responsible for any debts contracted by ber. Please take notice of this. Advt.-233t3 WM. BPANDYBERRY. (Advertisementl WANTED —Boarders and roomer* at 411 N. 2nd St. Z2St6» (Advertisement) WILL DECORATE RESIDENCES. (Advertisement) Seifert Bros., who will do the decorating in Decatur for Old Home Week, will also decorate your dwellings if you desire it. Practically every’business house in the city will be gaily ribboned and flag-covered, and the dwellings should not be neglected. Prices and information given on application at our headquarters, three doors south of interurban station. 235t3 SEIFERT. BROS.

THE GRIM REAPER Nelson Steele, Former Adams County Boy, Died at Bluffton. TWO BABES DIE Widow of Rev. A. J. Reynolds Former Decatur Man, Dies in East. Nelson Steele, brother of Charles Steele of this city, and son of Dav Id Steele, formerly a prominent farmer of Kirkland township, died at his home in Bluffton Tuesday night at about 11 o'clock from heart disease, with a dropsical trend, his lungs filling up with water. He had been sick for some time and had been at the point of death for several days. He formerly lived In Kirkland township on hfs falher's farm and is well known in this county. The funeral will be held from the M. E. church at Bluffton Friday at 2 p. tn.

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F V. Mills received word this morning from his brother-in-law. Rev. ('. G. Reynolds, of Elizabeth, N. 1., of the death of his mother, Mrs. A. I. Reynolds, which occurred Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Sharpe, at Blairstown, N. J. Mrs. Reynolds was the widow of Rev. A. I. Reynolds, who about twenty-eight years ago was pastor for five or six years of the Presbyterian church tn this city and is remembered by many here. Besides Re v . C. G. Reynolds and Mrs. Sharpe, she is survived by a daughter, Miss Grace Reynolds, at Blairstown, N’. J., and Rev. Walter H. Reynolds, of Greensburg, Ind. The funeral will be held tomorrow at Norwood, Cincinnati, Ohio. With the telegram came word that Miss Mary, daughter of Rev. C. G. Reynolds, who has been in poor health for som" time, is very low. Funeral services were conducted

this afternoon at the John Meriea i home by the Rev. T. L. Jones of the I Baptist church, for the little step-> granddaughter of Mr. Meriea. whose death occurred Tuesday morning I The babe was four months old, and is ' one of twins, the other dying some! time ago. , The girl baby born Saturday night j to Mr. and Mrs. Noah Baker, died' this morning. The mother was for-1 merly Miss l.cota Ross. — Henry Schmidt, a civil war veteran, j aged about seventy-live years, passed away at 11 o'clock today at the home ol his step-daughter, Mrs. Schwartz, I near Freidheim, from infirmities at-j' lending old age. The funeral arlungements had not been decided upon at time of going to press, other than the services will be held at the I'dledhclm Lutheran church.

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i MEN WHO KNOW fl / will tell you that the Havor W : and bouquet of the liquor are Cl/ Jr 1 \ ’ Jr M assured if the bottle bears our Jjß ’w» fl® label. We can and do tell you that the quality equals the mT’ taste Offer your guests some fIU of our wine or liquor and you Hfl can feel sure you are offering B J ■ B them the best to be had. g J J 5 Berghoff Beer by the case. FV Comer of Second and v'L.I Is_ I Madison streets.

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