Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1913 — Page 3

I . BARKERS I I qto This ? ark ln Trade I ■ Stamps Best Shoes Made ■ ft Barkers Best Work S I each spring bec ° ( S are more in demand I I the best kinds of uppes a V Su? °?i y T? e of I 1 comfortable, easy to broA J • athe £ but are i E est amount of wear. k nd glves the great “ £ S . Mens Black or Tan ® S $3.00 and $3.50 E I Charlie Voglewede I I ' rl_lE SHOE SELLER I

g »» - | WEATHER FORECAST i Fair and cooler tonight. Tuesday fair. Phil Macklin was at Geneva today on business. W. H. Johnson made a business trip to Monroe this morning. Carl Battenberg left yesterday for Bloomington to resume his studies in Indiana university. Otto Wemhoff returned to his work at Fort Wayne this morning after spending Sunday with his mother and other relatives. Messds. James and John Dowling of Morocco, have been spending the past two weeks as guests of their uncle, Thoma* Dowling, and family. Clem Steigmeyer returned to Bloomington this morning to resume his studies in Indiana university. He was compelled to make his vacation a few days longer than that granted the sudents on account of the hoods which prevented him getting back before.

National Canned Food Week I ALL THIS WEEK We offer our special price on all canned Foods. A partial list as follows 1-2 doz. Idoz. 2doz. 15c sweet peasß4c $1.68 $3.35 15c sifted peas77c $1.54 $3.05 15c selected peas76c $1.52 $3.00 12 1-2 standard E. J63c $1.25 $2.50 10c standrrd E. Js4c SI.OB $2.15 CORN 3 for 25c standard corn ... 42c $ .84 $1.65 10c standard sweet com . . 44c $ .87 $1.70 12 l-2c sugar corns4c SI.OB $2.15 12 l-2c counry Gentlemen . . 62c $1.23 $2.45 15c country Gentlemen .. . 67c $1.33 $2 65 10c Kraut 45c $ - 90 s l>7s 10c Hominy 40c $ - 80 J l - 60 See our list today. See our goods today Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108 I F S EREN SX’Treas. | I THE {BOWERS REALTY CO. I I REALIESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, I ABSTRACTS. | 1 The Schirmeverj;Abstract Company complete Ab- p 1 stract Records, f ® Farms, City Property, 5 per cent g H MONEY ■

; | 11 rom Gallogly went to Geneva this nmorning on business. >i Roy Sautbine made a business trip ,|to Portland this morning, | John Schug left on his weekly bust- | Qess trip this morning, going from ■ here to Versailles, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Detamore are preparing to move from Muncie to '■ Portland, where they will reside in their own property on East High > street. Charles Carter has sold his 80-acre farm in the southwest corner of 1 iWashington township to Henry and | Herman Meyers, for the fancy sum of [! >IO,OOO. ! 1 Stewart Niblick is home from Valparaiso, where he has been attending school, to be present at the wedding ; of his sister, Miss Naomi, to Mr. Peril ry Gundy, of Fort Wayne, which will - take place tomorrow. i .-. Jw' I Mrs. Lillie Carter, wife of Roy Car- > ter, has sold her interest in the Shell > farm in Kirkland township to Charles j Arnold. The Carters have purchased i the Mrs. Ed Luttman farm in Wash--1 ington township and have moved s there. The Shell farm was the one - involved in a partition suit in court recently.

Free Frislnger returned yesterday to his studies at Indiana university. Miss Bess Congleton watf at Fort Wayne today visiting with friends. John Wemhoff spent Sunday in the city with his mother, Mrs. Mary Wemhoff. J. H. Gentle has returned from Van Wert, Ohio, where he was looking after business. Messrs. Perry Gandy and Stewart Niblick went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day. The spring vacation of the city schools is on apd the children are enjoying it fqr dll Its worth. Mrs. May Garrison, who has been sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Belle Johnson, Is still seriously 111. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Phillips of Kendallville are visiting the formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Phillips, and family. Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne returned to Fort Wayne today after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. IJ, Deininger. Mrs. Dr. C. V. Connell went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Fred Martin, who is at the Lutheran hospital. Forty thousand people are being fed by charity in Dayton this week as a result of the flood and still there are those who think it was'nt much of a flood. Cincinnati Is Just feeling the effects of the high water in the north part ot Ohio last week. The old Ohio is on a rampage that promises to beat all records.' The 20x30 foot barn of Mrs. Mary Snyder in Blue Creek township which was blown down by the wind storm, is among the losses to be adjusted by the insurance agents. Richard Deininger, Elmo and Dick Ehinger, who spent Easter with the Will Berling family at Bluffton, were held there all of last week by the floods, have at last arrived home. Mrs. Major, cook in the Artman & Hess case, is suffering very much from an accident in which she cut her right hand on a tin can last week, and it is feared that blood poisoning will set In. A new factory is in sight for Decatur and if we can land it, the coming year will be the most prosperous ever known here. It means the building of a number of houses and other improvements. The last number of the lecture course will be held this evening at the opera house when the Euclid Bell ringer* will entertain and amuse all who atend. Its one of the big numbers of the course. The condition of Mr. Fred Schafer, the well known merchant who has been suffering from blood poison for several days continues uuite serious. He passed a very bad night, but is reported to be some better today. Miss Frances Deininger and her guest, Miss Bernice Coffee, of Danville, 111., and the Misses Genevieve and Matilda Berling returned to Fort Wayne this morning to resume their school work in the Sacred Heart academy. The firemen are working hard in getting out the early advertising for the annual convention and tournament to be held here June 26th, when a crowd of 20,000 people will visit this city. Help them when and where you can. They deserve it. Frances Deininger and her guest, Bernice Coffee, and the Misses Genev- • ieve and Matilda Berling have returned to the Sacred Heart academy, after more than a week’s vacation longer than that allotted them for the Easter vacation, on account of the high waters. Mrs. Will Parent and Mrs. D. D. Coffee were brought home by automobile from Fort Wayne. Mrs. Parent spent last week there and intended to undergo an operation f for appendicitis and gall stones. On account of the fact that her local physician could not get down to Fort Wayne last week, the operation was postponed. It Is not known when it tvill be held. IReltelves here received word by telephone from T. A. Gottschalks at Ottawa, Ohio, stating that there is three feet of water in their home and that they are living upstairs with another family. Mr. Gottschalk and family are preparing to move here soon. They will occupy the William Ray house on East Water street. Mr. Gottschalk will manage the tile mill and farm east of town for his father. —Berne Witnessfl Curtis Campbel] was here today after a visit with his parents at Willshire. He says the people of that vicinity suffered considerablly from the flood, a number having to move out of their houses. Curtis lives at Bluffton and had a number of pictures to show that the water reached the second story of a number of the houses tn the low districts of that city. The railroads were badly washed out and that town suffered considerably more than did Decatur.

Mis* Maytne Deininger is in Fort Wayne today on business. Miss Lillian Harris of Fort Wayne is visiting here with Mrs. Fred Schaf er. I Mr. and Mrs. Will Berling of Bluffton spent SundAy here with the E. X. Ehinger family. Don Smith has arrived from Hammend and has taken a position in the Smith & Son restaurant. John and James Dowling have returned to Morocco after a visit with their uncle, Thomas Dowling, and family. Clelland Ball, who is working at the Fort Wayne electric light works, arrived home. Ho fortunately escaped the flooded districts of the city. He will remain here a week. Rev. Wehmeyer who was storm-stay-ed at Fort Wayne last week, arrived home in time to conduct his regular Sunday services yesterday as pastor of the Zion’s Lutheran church. —— IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS Against Allen County Superintendent Felger—Other* Involved. Impeachment proceedings have been begun against Allen County School Superintendent Henry G. Felger of Fort Wayne, well known here. TlAs was the result of the Special grand jury, which started on March J7, to investigate the shocking social conditions in Fort Wayne, bared by the confessions of four young girls, says the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Thirty-two indictments wore brought against prominent men of Ft. Wayne, as well as negroes and Chinamen. Jacob Funk, former Allen county treasurer, is charged with contributing to the delinquency of Martha Lugar and Hazel Thomas. It will be remembered that Mr. Funk is one of the men who came down to Decatur to go on the bond of Dr. Goheen, who is charged with a serious offense here. The Hazel Thomas mentioned above is a daughter of Will Thomas, formerly of this city. Her foster mother, Mrs. Eva Spahr, who was formerly the wife of Jesse Anderson of this city, from whom she is divorced, is among the number Indicted for blackmail, as is her attorney, Thomas G. Moorhead. The case against Felger is a civil impeachment suit, and asks that he be removed from office, charging him with extreme moral degeneracy. He is also charged with using his position to influence teachers to take out life insurance with his agency, all to the detriment of his office. o PUBLIC SALE OF HOUSEHLD GOODS. The undersigned having decided to move to California win offer for sale i at public auctjpn, at his residence, 598 West Madison street, corner Madison ■ and Sixth streets, beginning at 12:30 . noon, on > Saturday, April 5, t the following property: • Leather davenport, library table, la- . dies’ writing desk, leather rocker, 2 oak rockersfi couch, hall or den mis- ( sion clock, electric library lamp, dinr ing room suit, composed of quarter . oak buffet, pedestal table, six oak din--1 ing chairs, drop-head sewing machine 3 wit# all attachments, brass bed, set , sanitary springs and felt mattress, all new, two pair feather pillows, child’s iron crib and mattress, one oak Prin- > cess dresser, folding go-cart, sujky cart, new rubber-tired velocipede. Jewel range, oak kitchen cabinet, gas plate and oven, kitchen table, child’s high chair, mantle clock, magazine, soft coal burner, lawn mower, Bany 1 washing machine, gasoline stove, tubs, boiler, canned fruit, jelly and fruit cans, kitchen utensils, pictures, 9x12 b Axminister rug, 9x12 velvet rug, 9x12 t ingrain rug, 7x9 Brussels rug and 5 . smaller rugs, and other articles too , numerous to mention. All goods pracb tically new. HOWARD BURDG. t John Spuhler, Auct. :, Will Hammell, Clerk. 77t5 S O PUBLIC SALE. f LT The undersigned will offer at public auction at the property on MarI shall street in the city of Decatur, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., on Saturday. April 5, 1913, lot 436, full size, 5 66x132, in the Nuttman Northwestern addition, to the town, now city of DeI catur, Indiana, formerly owned by ’ John Herman. House is 10 rooms and modern; ha* electric lights, bath, toilet, water, in good condition. Fruit on lot. Terms —Made known on day of sale. FRANK HARDING. John Spuller, Auct. • 73t9 ! o t CARD OF THANKS. > We desire to thank the neighbors - and friends who so kindly assisted us i during the sickness and death of our ! beloved husband and father, Ernst I Bloemker. Your many kind deeds i will never be* forgotten. MRS. BLOEMKER & CHILDREN.

■ it B I !I! 1 1 T"""" m*"" It.- ] II M \ nW I I 1 * IS-M MF IM ■rV 'I I II u l : ' in liiM FMionHintslßmU L^ th^)zX^7 St y feShcw 5 Materials in Wide Variety There is enough variety in the materials for Spring to suit most every woman’s taste. For those who like light novelty cloths there are many stripe and check worsteds in light colors that are extremely smart. Covert is back again in stripe and plain effects. Few cloths have the wearing quality that covert has and Bjschof predicts that it will be a general favorite J this Spring. tfy /yfrr, Bedford cords, too, are very good in both light and / «ol II dark effects, and with the still-popular whipcords, /' I / occupy an important place in the list of materials for /J *1 | coats and suits. p 1 I 1 l 't 1 Eponge, a sort of short-tufted ratine, is a new \ I J fabric that is used a great deal for the separate coat \ \ I for wear over light summer gowns. Bischof has made up several coats in the new" Mistral Cloth / —a material similar to loosely-woven etamine. In dark colors / fjE with a bright lining showing through, with handsome silk revers / U and frogs, these coats are remarkably beautiful for elaborate / dress wear. / For dresses, voile, lace, linen, crash, pique, embroidered net, / marquisette and ratine are the leading materials. Z Bischof coats, suits and dresses are always made in materials of the latest weave—fitted on live models and molded to the lines of the figure— not pressed into shape. We are proud to sell them because we can guarantee that you will have the latest, most distinctive style,, combined with perfect workman- ;• ship and fit. Don't fail to inspect these garments before you buy your Spring and Summer outfit. F=>RlOes SIO.OO, $14.50, $12.50, $15.00 to SIB.OO NIBLICK AND CO.

NOTICE TO TEACHERS. On account of the recent flood conditions, the state department withheld the teachers' examination questions and will probably send them out to the various county superintendents this week. You are hereby notified that the regular teachers’ examination will be held Saturday, and all licenses issued on that examination will be held valid and considered the same as though examination 11 had been held last Saturday, March 29th. L. E. OPLIGER, County Superintendent. — o NOTICE. As I am removing from the city, I 1 offer at private sale the following: . One 4-light dining room fixture, one 3-llght electric living room fixture, 1 . Detroit Jewel gas range, cost SSO; 1 '■ kitchen cabinet, 1 refrigerator, 1 11- ! brary table, 2 rugs, chairs, book case, ; books, hall tree, dishes, framed pic- ’ tures, bric-a-brac, 10 laying hens, lawn * tools, step ladder and miscellaneous ■ articles. Can be seen at residence, corner Madison and Fifth streets, Tuesday ’ and Wednesday. All been in use less than 1 year. Offered at less than onehalf cost price, in order to close out in a hurry. 77t2 W. A. RUNDELL. - o — FOR SALE OR TRADE—2BO-acre farm near Winona. Shannon county, Mo. Would exchange same for good clean stock of merchandise. For particulars see or write C. R. Dunn, Decatur, Ind. 67t6 At The Star Tonight 3 Reels of Motion Pictu ALSO r es Vaudeville Marko The Comedy Company and Dugan and Paige Singing and Dancing Change of program each night 5e ADMISSION 10c

FUNERAL OF INFANT. The funeral of the eleven-months-old baby girl of Mrs. Aaron Troutner was held this morning at the home of Mrs. Edington, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Iroutner, and was fn charge of Rev. Rilling. The infant died Sundty | morning. Burial was made in the Mt. Tabor cemetery.

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FOR SALE —Single comb Rhode Island Red eggs. From the best strain. Call on Mrs. Dale Moses, corner Indiana and Fifth streets. 69t3 WANTED—Agents to sell our complete book. Horrors of Cyclone, Storm and Flood. Told by survivors and experts; 50 per cent commission; freight paid; outfit sent by mail for 10c. Write now. Alexander Supply Co., 440 So. Dearborn St., Chicago.