Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1913 — Page 3

I Nice Weather Ain’t It? I p : . Want that pair of work shoes this week £ don’t you? Barkers Best can’t be beat K for comfort and wear, and business on them started off with a rush this morn- Ji W ing. Fellows who have been wearing 0 gh them won t have anything else and that & w is our best recomen lation. || I .. Best By Every Test | £ $3.00 and $3.50 I I Charlie Voglewede | ■ THE SHOE SELLER |

I WEATHER FORECAST | E Rain this afternoon or tonight. SunSlay fairer and wanner. ■ Dan Erwin made a business trip to ■tort Wayne this morning. ■ J. H. Gentis went to Hoagland this ■lorn ing to look after business. ■ Mrs. Mary Gross went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon for a visit. I Mr, and Mrs. T. E. Stalter of Marion were business visitors here Saturday. g Mrs. C. J. Lutz, Misses Jean Lutz •nd Rowena Shoaf were Fort Wayne visitors today. | Miss Flossie Erhart returned to Ft. Wayne this morning after a visit in Willshire, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bell and daughter, Elizabeth, were guests of A. R. Bell and family over Sunday. H. L. Confer, deputy secretary of state, left Sunday noon for Indianapolis, after a two days’ business visit t othis city.

| I J“Z OF | I C' I Q ua ‘*ty Groceries | I YOIR guests I Are interested in your I fine Table Linen, Cut I Ivl /' Glass, Silver Ware i Ei and Choice China I But the good things to eat more than interest They Please — They Satisfy. We have the g good things to eat. Buy them-Try them : 1 California Cherries, can 30c to 35c I California Peaches, lemon cling ’ ’ 25c I California Peaches, yellow ™ ’ok m California Apricots 20c to 35c | Asparagus Tips _ ■ • I Pineapple t 0 z£ c ffl Succatash I I Olives, Plain or Stuffed 10c to -oc | | WC gf O Bu r t a^2or27c Ce I I Hower and Hower. | I North oYg R &I. Depot. ’Phone 108 | B ~ _ r-.,Li ——Wl BF M SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN I | '' S Priident notary Treas ’ g I THE EBOWERS REALTY CO. | » rbal;estate, bonds, loans, g, S abstracts.; | I The SchirmeverJAbstract Ab- I I Farms”;CiW Property, 5 per cent g E money g

|' Pat Kinney was a Fort Wayne s>usi- > ness visitor today. fi Willie Barnard was a Fort Wayne L business visitor today. ’ Mrs. H. G. Schum returned to Fort I Wayne after a visit at Willshire. Mrs. F. G. Schinnerer of Willshire went to Fort Wayne this morning. John Lachot left on his weekly bus- • iness trip through the northwest part >, of the state. E. W. Johnson left this morning on s his weekly business trip, going from here to Finley, Ohio. •, Miss Leah Apt, stenographer for the ■ Hooper & Lenhart offices, went to Buti ler to spend Sunday at her home. Mr, and Mrs. Burt Miller of Dixon, : Ohio, visited here Saturday with her s father, Elijah Walters, and wife. John G. Hoffman went to Ft. Wayne this morning, where he will look after business and then go to Monroeville. Jesse Robinson, attorney of Granite City, Mo., is the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Robinson, for a [few days. Kadel Meibers went to Rome City • this morning w.here he will put the : Barney Meibers cottage in condition for the summer.

Orval Harruff went to Berne this morning on business. Dick Smith made a business trip to Berne this morning. Al Graham made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Dan Beery made a business trip to Albany, Ind., this morning. Wilbur Porter spent Sunday in Ft. Wayne as the guest of friends. Miss Mary Fonner and Mrs. Will ] Schrock visited today in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Willis McQueen has returned from a visit with relatives at Convoy, 1 Ohio. Loyal Woods and family have mov- ■ ed from First street to the Hunsicker, flat on Eighth street. ' Veigh Chronister and Bob Meibers I were the guests of friends at Fort Wayne Sunday evening. I Mrs. Veronica Smith has returned [ from Huntington, where she spent a week visiting with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson and son, Lester, spent Sunday with their uncle, Charles Burr, and family, at Mon-’ mouth. Frank Kanave of Holland, Mien., who has been visiting in the city with ' friends, left this morning for nis home. Mrs. J. W. Bears and Tillman Gehrig [ lef* this morning for Portland, Ohio, where they will spend the summer ■with Mrs. Bears’ sister. Miss Dorothy Irvin returned to her work at Fort Wayne this morning after visiting in the city over Sunday with her father and other relatives. Miss Leila Ruhl arrived Saturday 1 afternoon from a three months’ stay ’ at Galion, Ohio, and returned to her home at Middletown on the 2:30 car.' Mr. and Mrs. Bazzel Smith return- ! ed Saturday afternoon to their home 1 at Columbia City, after a visit with [ths W. L. Ounder family, east of the city. 1 Postmaster Lower reports letters remaining uncalled for in the Decatur postoffice for Eda Belle, John Blocker, [ John R. Brown, Frank Falvy, Inez' Fisher, H. L. Drake, A. G. Hiller, Lil-' Han Geat, Angela Lekson, Charles W. j i Jones, Milton Roop, Homer Tilman,' ■Finton Springer. I Rev. D. T. Stephenson, the new pastor of the Methodist church of this city, left this morning for his former i home at Goshen, where he will make arrangements to have his household goods shipped here. His family probably will not come to this city till the close of school. James P. Haefling, who has been checking up accounts in the office of the county clerk, at Terra Haute for six months or longer writes us that he will finish his work there tomorrow [and will then leave that city. Just I where he will be located by the state board of accounts is not known yet. “The Duty and the Man’’ is the title of a two-reel special at the Star theaI ter this evening. It is a story of life on the Canadian frontier, by the Reliance company and is one of the most [interesting films on the road according Ito those who have seen it. The price is five cents and you will be pleased. E. R. Wight of Kirkland township [has returned from Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, where he spent the winter with his sisters. He passed through Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio, oh his way home and was certainly very much surprised to see the damage done by the recent floods. The corn and oats.in Virvinia this year will be very good, he says. Mrs. Ward Sunier and baby of Ft. Wayne, arrived In the city last evening to spend a few days with hor I mother, Mrs. Martin Stair. Mrs. Sun- | ier lives in the Lakeside 1 addition of Fort Wayne and was put out by the flood. Mr. and Mrs. Sunier have been •staying with friends in Fort Wayne [since the flood. She will stay in Bluff'ton with her mother until her home is fit for occupancy.—Bluffton News. I Samuel Ralston, governor of Indi- ' ana, yesterday, proclaimed Friday, April 18, as Arbor day. In hiS proclamation he pointed out that the law on the subject enacted by the last legislature is not yet in effect. He, however, quotes from its parts which provide for appropriate Arbor day exercises in all the public schools and the givinlg of the honor to the "conservers of property and the founders of the study and conservation of Indiana forestry, and especially to the leading spirit of forestry conservation, Charles W. Fairbanks. The critic on the Milwaukee Sentinel says of “The Shepherd of the Hills,” the dramatization of Harold Bell Wright’s famous novel, which has Been made into a play by Its author, with the assistance of Elsbery W. Reynolds: “Those who love a quiet, restful story will rejoice in ‘The Shepherd of the .Hills.’ It is like a beautiful October afternoon, with the calm and beauty of summer,.tempered by the cold breath of the yet distant winter.” “The Shepherd of the Hills will be the attraction at the Bosse opera house on Friday, April 18.

Dan Niblick was at Fort-Wayne yesterday, where he attended the K. of C. Initiation. Judge J. T. Merryman is suffering from an attack of neuralgia and is confined to his home. Jacob Kelper is confined to his bed on account of illness, suffering from a I severe pain in his side. Fred Schafer, the veteran business [ man, who has been ill for two weeks from blood poisoning, is still suffering considerably. Forest Helm, Bernard Brake, FlorTan Starost and Henry Adler motored to Berne Sunday evening, where they i were the guests of friends. Mrs. Albert Romey and little son, | I Robert, of Ligonier are the guests of Mrs. Romey’s parents, the Rev. and I Mrs. L. W. Love, of the United Breth-, ren church. Mrs. J. D. Wisehaupt went to Bluff- ( ton for an operation. This will be for ! an affection of the bone of the forehead, which is said to be decaying. ! The bone will be scraped. The local Christian church announces that B. H. Bruner, t student at the Christian college at Hiram, 0., i will be here next Sunday to preach. Mr. Bruner will graduate from this | college in June after which he will enter the ministerial service at a regular charge. He comes as a candidate for the local pastorate. MORRISES BUY NINTH STORE. A deal was closed Friday by which J. A. Morris and Company of this city added another new store to their string of five and ten cent stores which they own in various cities. The ' latest addition to their string of stores [ [is located in Greensburg, Ind., county seat of Decatur county, about fifty miles southeast of Indianapolis. The Morris Company bought the Boston store, which has been in operation at Greensburg for eight years, from D. O. Mendenhall. They will put on a [sale to close out part of the present ■ stock, and then will stock up the place as a complete five and ten cent store. ■ It has not yet been decided who will be placed in charge of this store. The Morris Company now owns nine stores, located in Bluffton, Decatur, Hartford City, Elwood, Portland, Newcastle, Greensburg, Columbia City, and Hillsdale, Mich. The company started November 1, 1903, with one store, and by the tenth anniversary, November 1, 1913, it looks like they will have accumulated at the rate of a store a year.—Bluffton News. 1913—HORSE SEASON—I9I3. Eban, Belgian, No. 47014, American No. 3486, a beautiful bay, weighs 2400, sired by Major d’ Onkerzeeze, 10854, dam. Delta, 20539. Took first in class and sweepstakes on get at Van Wert county fair in 1910. Neron, Percheron, No. 68346. American No. 57210, an elegant black, with white star in forehead, weighs 2100, sired by Cassimer, 44206, dam Parlette, 45903. Took first in class and sweepstakes at Van Wert fair in 19101911, and at Great Northern fair in 1911. These horses are extraordinary movers, stand 1814 hands high, have good backs, joins are clean, and of good shape, well boned and are of the best stock of Europe. Will make season of 1913: Mon- • days and Tuesdays at home of keeper, two miles north and a mile west of Wren; Wednesdays and Thursdays at Thomas F. German’s, one mile west of Hoffman sawmill and Friday and , Saturdays at Wren. Terms: —$15.00 to insure colt to . stand and suck. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be [ responsible if any occur. FARMERS’ HORSE CO., Wren, Ohio. • W. W. Stewart, Keeper, apr-9-ju-lw CLEAN UP. Let me clean and whitewash your cellar with my new spraying machine. Also make a specialty of spraying trees. JIM COVERDALE. • i 75t6 ’Phone 448. ■ 1 - i FOR RENT. Roome to rent over the Vance & > I Hite clothing store. Inquire of J. H. ■: Stone. 78t4 ' I o NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSE* [To the Citizens and Inhabitants of the Third Ward of the City of Decatur, Indiana, and to the Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned, a male inhabitant of the State of Indiana, over the age of twen-ty-one, a resident of the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, and a qualified and legal voter therein, for more than one year, will make appli- ■ cation to the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, at their regular session in May, 1913, begin- ' ning on the sth day of May, 1913, for j a license to sell spirituous, vinous, . i malt and other intoxicating liquors in ■ less quantities than a quart at a time, | with the privilege of allowing the i same to be drank on the premises (where sold.

The precise location of the premises wherein I desire to obtain such license to sell such liquors is situated os follows, to-wit: Commencing four and one-half feet south of the southwest corner of inlot number 271, in the first addition to the town (now city) of Decatur, InI (liana, running thence south on the I east side of Second street, 22 feet, i thence east 72 feet, thence north 22 feet, thence west 72 feet to the place .of beginning. Said room in which I desire such license to sell such liquors is the front ground floor room of the two-story brick building situated upon the above described real estate. Said room is 70 feet long and 20 feet and 8 inches wide, and is 12 feet high to the ceiling. Said room is so situated that It [fronts on Second street, and is so arranged In the front thereof, with glass door and glass front so that the whole of said room may be in view from said public street. Said room has front and rear and side door entrance. Applicant also desires the privilege and right to keep a cigar stand in said room and sell tobacco and cigars therein. BENJAMIN KNAPKE, 14-21-28 Applicant. — — NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSE. To the Citizens and Inhabitants of the Third Ward of the City of Decatur, Indiana, and to the Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned, a male Inhabitant of the State of Indiana, over the age of twen-ty-one, a resident of the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, and a qualified and legal voter therein, for more than one- 1 year, will make appUcation to the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, at their regular session in May, 1913, beginning on the oth day of May, 1913, for a license to sell spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors In less quantities than a quart at a time, ■ with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises where sold. The precipe location of the premises wherein I desire to obtain such license to sell such liquors is situated as follows, to-wit: Commencing 24 feet and 2 inches east of the southwest corner of inlot number 273, in the first addition to the town (now city) of Decatur, Indiana, running thence north 70 feet, thence east 16 feet and 6 inches, thence south 70 feet, thence west 16 feet and 6 inches to the place of beginning. Said room in which I desire such license to sell such liquors is the front ground floor room of the two-story brick building situated upon the above described real estate. Said room is 70 feet long and 16 feet wide and 13 feet high to the ceiling. Said room is so situated that it fronts on the north side of Monroe street, and is soe arranged in the front thereof with glass door and glass front, so that the whole of said room may be in view from said public street. Said room has front and rear entrances. Applicant also desires the privilege and right to keep a cigar stand in said room and sell tobacco and cigars therein. WILLIAM HARTINGS, 14-21-28 Applicant. e— NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSE. To the Citizens and Inhabitants of the First Ward of the City of Decatur, Indiana, and to the Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana: Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned, a male inhabitant of the State of Indiana, over the age of twen-ty-one, a resident of the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, and a qualified and legal voter therein, for more than one year, will make application to the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, at their regular session in May, 1913, beginning on the sth day of May, 1913, for a license to sell spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors In less quantities than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises where sold. The precise location of the premises wherein I desire to obtain such license to sell such liquors is situated as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the center of the street on the eaAt line of inlot 335 in the southern addition to the town (now city) of Decatur. Indiana, thence west along the South line of the street 132 feet, thence south parallel with the west line, of Winchester street 40 feet, thence east parallel with the street on the north side of said lot 132 feet to the west line of Winchester street, thence north on the west line of said Winchester street 40 feet tp the place of beginning. Said room in which desire such license to sell such liquors is the front ground floor room of the two-story frame building situated upon the east part of the above described real estate. Said room is 60 feet and 3 inches in length, 24 feet in width, and 10 feet and 9 inches high to the ceiling, and said room is situated in said building and is on the west side of Winchester street in said city, and fronts on Winchester street. Said room is so arranged in the front thereof with glass windows and floor so that the whole of said room may be in view from said street. Said room has front, rear and side entrances. Applicant also desires the privilege and right to keep a cigar stand in said room and sell tobacco and cigars therein. JOHN SCHAFFER, 14-21-28 ’ Applicant. — . ■ o—--1 A-:"-*-’’ Decatur Chapter, No. 112, R. A. M., Tuesday evening, April 15. Called convocation work In .Mark Master's degree.

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