Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1913 — Page 3

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I •••••••••••••••♦•♦♦<♦*••»♦••♦♦•«4*•♦**••»*•. WEATHER FORECAST P Local thunder storms tonight or Tuesday’. Warmer Tuesday, Daniel Baumgartner of Linn Grove was In the city today on business. Lee Reod returned this morning from Portland where he spent Sunday at his home. Mrs. Fred Delninger arrived from Grand Rapids, Mich., for a visit here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Myers and children spent Sunday at Hoagland as tin* guests of relatives. Fred Steigmeyer and sons, Roma , and Carl, and Lawrence Geimer, spent Sunday in Fort Wayne. Lee and Lew Yager left this moi ing on their weekly business ti ? through northern Indiana and soul ern Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer left this morning for Wawasee, Ind., whe: they will attend the druggists’ convc u tion, which is being held Tuesdav, Wednesday and Thursday of t. >s week.

THE HOME OF I Quality Groceries I Going Picnicking? ‘what A POOR picnic 5 A Picnic Would Be r<t A Good Picnic Dinner!* We are Headquarters For Appetizing Picnic Delicacies! Olives plain, jars 10 to 30c Olives stuffed with pimentos celery and almonds, Pickles in bulk sour or sweet, mixed pickles in bottles, sweet, sour, mustard or sweet mixed 10 and 15c Peanut butter, glasses 10 and 15c Pork and beans or tomato sauce .... 5,10 c, 15c Marrow pork and beans 10c Fancy cookies and wafers. Switzer cheese and cream cheese. t We pay cash or trade for produce. Eggs 16c ■— 1 ~ ~ ; ”■ ■ ■ — Hower and HowerNorth of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phene 108

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: Mrs. Sarah Mercer of Williams was ■ shopping here today. Miss Gretle Shoemaker was a visit- ; or in Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. W .1. Vesey of Fort Wayne tranFaeted business in this city Saturday ! evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Weldy returned to Angola this morning after a visit here with relatives. Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne of Fort Wayne is here for a two weeks’ visit with i parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. Deiniuger. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Olmstead and daughter, Alglial, of Mendon, Mich, are in the city visiting with Mrs. H. i L. Merry. Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Miller and s<m, Marcellus, spent Sunday as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Steig- | meyer, of Union township. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Voglewede and son, Kedric, spent Sunday at Rome City as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. i John Voglewede and Mrs. Ben I Knapke. C. N. Christen and daughter, Germaine, went to Rome City this mornj ing, where they will spend a few days. I Mr. Christen will also look after some business matters.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Henchen of Huntington were visiting over Sunday with relatives in this city. Dr. and Mrs. R. L, Starkweather of Huntington were guests over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson. Miss Anna Clark and Ralph Amrine spent Sunday as the guests of Miss Blanch Harshberger at her home near Columbia City. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Malland attended the picnic of the Fuelling church yesterday. A very large crowd attended and a good time was in order. Messrs. Stoler and Weldy are engaged in painting thV Charles Christen home on West Monroe street, the same being a deep flesh color, with trimmings of white. Charles Voglewede was at Toledo, Ohio, Sunday where he attended the Alhambra degree work of the Knights of Columbus. Herman Yager of this city was one of those receiving the degree. Mrs. C. L. Meibers, daughter, Agnes and Miss Grove of Bluffton, went to Rome City Saturday afternoon where Mrs. Meibers will remain a month or so. Miss Agnes and Miss Grove returned last evening. Relatives have received word of the death of Mrs. Finley Studabaker of Ridgeville. She had been ill of stomach trouble only since Monday. Her husband, who died in 1911, was a brother of A. T. and D. D. Stubabaker of Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller and children, Dorothy and Richard, left this morning for Bay City. Mich, where they will visit with their daughters, Mrs. R. J. Kuebler, Mrs. William Nix and Miss Edith Miller, who has made her home at Bay City the past year. Mr. gnd Mrs. Fred Heuer left this morning from Wawasee Lake where they will attend the Druggists convention to be held there Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. They will also stop off at Winona Lake and other places of interest. Miss Victoria Stone has received a card from Mrs. Jennie Clever, of Westfield, N. Y., written Saturday, and stating that the condition of Mrs. Bailey is not improved over that reported a week ago. She says however that Mrs. Bailey is suffering no pain and seem in good spirits. Mrs. Emma Everett of Wren, 0., who spent the winter in Los Angeles, Cal., with her sons, John and Willis Everett, and who has been visiting the past seven weeks with her daughter, Mrs. E. F. Miller near Preble, has gone to Daisy, Ohio, to visit with another daughter, Mrs. Ed Feigart. Little Miss Portia Thomas who left last Thursday morning for an extended visit with her aunt, Mrs. A. J.Slagal at Marion, returned home Saturday evening, having decided that a few days at a time was all that she cared to indulge in on trips "made all by herself.” She was accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. L. C. Helm who has been with her sister who is ill.

Postmaster Lower reports letters remaining uncalled for at the Decatur postoffice for W. T. Beatty, Bernard Blake, Mrs. Emma Murphy, Mrs. Goldie Doenges, Mrs. Emma Dempsy, F. N. Havener, Joe Kemper, Mrs. Laura Musselman, Mrs. W. E. McMichale, Ben Mansfield, Ida Padgitt, Ed Robinson, Eleanor Robertson, Miss Wilda Rowe, Jas. Syracuse, F. M. Swing, Miss Netta Schultz, W. A. Warner, Mrs. Lettie Woods. It happened in Judge Tedford’s court, and the witness was a negro woman, whose reply to every query was “I thing so.” Finally the opposing lawyer rose and pounded on the desk. “Now, you look here, ho roared, “you cut out that thinking business and answer my questions. Now talk.” “Mr. Lawyer Man," said the witness, “Mr. Lawyer Man, you all will have to ’scuse mo. I ain’t like you all 'torneys, I can't talk without thinking.” The Berling & Moltz company report that the egg market is very poor, owing to so many bad eggs being sold by the farmers and others who sell to the huckster wagons. Mr. Berling makes a thorough tost of each egg that comes into the packing house and only 30 per cent of the eggs test enough for a first class egg. Incubator eggs and eggs that have been laying in the hot sun are also sold to local packing houses and if their loss still continues they will use measures to prosecute parties selling such. Irate contractors, one of whom it is said is a Huntington man, forcibly lifted O. K. Gleason, editor of the Andrews Signal, from his feet Friday evening shortly before 6 o'clock and “ducked" the Andrews newspaper man in a tank, containing water for mixing mortar, near the school building which is being constructed at Andrews. Although Mr. Gleason refused to speak to representatives of the Herald riday evening, well known Andrews citizens vouch for the truth of the tale that reached Huntington.— Huntington Herald.

John Steele went to Ft. Wayne this noon. Martin Jaberg was at Fort Wayne Sunday. Ray Christen spent Sunday in Fort Wayne. Clem Voglewede spent Sunday at Romo City. * Frank Gillig wasa Fort Wayne visitor today. George Houser left this morning for Fort Wayne. Albert Brittson was here today visiting with friends, John Colchin made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Amelia Weber is visiting with friends at Grand Rapids, Mich. Herbert Ehinger spent yesterday at Fort Wayne as the guest of friends. Henry Schlickman has returned to Decatur for a visit with relatives and friends. Dr. Elizabeth Burns will make a professional visit to Fort Wayne this evening. Charles Ernst was at Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon, returning on the G. R. & I. at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Jacob Baker, a well known Union township lady, is quite ill of nervous prostration. M. Burns of Fort Wayne was a visitor here last Saturday, calling on his sister-in-law, Dr. Elizabeth Burns. The hunting sesason for squirrels will open July first, and many are taking out hunter’s licenses. This is good for fishing also. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Schug of Hartford City were guests of relatives here over Sunday. Mrs. Schug will remain for a week’s visit. Friends here have received word from Westfield, N. Y., that Mrs. Ed Bailey, who has been very ill suffers no pain but is practically no better. Mrs. Veronica Smith and daughter, Miss Maggie, spent Sunday at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Smith remained for a longer visit, but Miss Maggie return? ed home.

Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Shoemaker will leave this evening for Chicago to visit for the balance of the week. Mr. Shoemaker will attend to business for the Ward Fence Co. Charlie Voglewede and son, Arthur, left yesterday morning for Toledo, where they will visit for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Uhl and daughter, Jerinette Terve?r. The Maccabees held their annual memorial services Sunday morning at the hall and then marched to the cemetery where they decorated the graves of their deceased members. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller and children left this morning for Bay City, Michigan, to visit with their daughters, Mrs. Bob Kuebler, Mrs. Will Nix and Miss Edith Miller. Miss Edith who has been making an extended visit there since last fall, will accompany them home. Mrs. Polly Barrone and daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Barrone, returned yesterday from Sturgis, Mich, where they had been visiting with the former's son, Isaac Barrone, and with the Isaac Taylor family and other relatives, since Wednesday. Mrs. Polly Barrone is one of tho well known aged ladies of the county, being eightyfour years of age. She enjoys traveling and visiting as much as many a younger one. Forest, aged four, son of Tom Gauze, corner Adams and Tenth streets who sustained a bad fracture of the elbow two weeks ago, is getting along well, and is able to play out again. It is thought the arm will bo all right, though such fractures are very serious and the outcome is always uncertain. Forest has been exceedingly unfortunate in his short life as he was badly injured a year or so ago when he was struck by an automobile. Charles Kurber. the prominent and wealthy farmer, living northeast ot the city, near the state line, is growing worse day by day from progressive paralysis. Saturday evening his condition became worse and his local physician was summoned at once. The lower portion of his body is useless and those in charge think that within a few days he will be entirely paralysed. Mr. Kurber is suffering great pain and is almost deprived of the use of his speech also. Everything is being done to relieve him of his intense suffering. The Holthouse Livery and Garage are adding to their facilities and convenience, a new inter-communicative telephone system with an ultimate capacity of ten phones. This system will add greatly to their already up-to-date methods of taking care of their patrons and will give double quick service. At present their will be a system of five individual telephones placed over the establishment and these may be used direct or on a trunk line. George Kinzle of the local telephone company Is installing the service.

| TAKE A DAY OFF | — Come in and help celebrate Decatur’s Biggest Day S I FIREMEN'S CONVENTION 1 THURSDAY, JUNE 26th. See the Monster Parade < • See the Water Battle See the Hose Lay Contest See the Famous Tyrones X SPECIAL:-Exhibition run and hose laying contest S S Between Decatur and Bluffton f BIG BAND CONCERTS f | EVERYTHING FREE f 1111111111111 l HllllHllllllllg

R isl<s of Her Life 3 REELS 3000 FEET Great Sensational Feature Picture Where a frail girl, unassisted, risks her very life many times to assist her sweetheart in preventing his great invention from being stolen by unscrupulous parties desiring same. Sensational Risks By railroad trains, ocean steamers, automobiles and electric wires, and last but not least, see the great scene. where she is ijerked from a horse by her hair catching in the limbs of the trees under which she is riding and trying to make her escape. A Truly Great Picture. And one that should be see n at any price. One that will give you many a thrill, and | you will wonder how she can | possibly do it. Don’t miss; seeing this wonderful feature. One Night Only Controlled exclusively by the National Film Company. Shown at STAR THEATER To-night Only. LOST—A $’ bill near the St. Mary's church. Finder please return to Germain Christen and receive reward. 148t3 No wonder! Ordinary cigars are enough to ruin your nerves altogether. Try The White Stag Extra Mild Mild, sweet as a nut fruity and wholesome and not a nasty after effect in a life times supply. TRY IT. The White Stag Extra Mild I I

Notice to Farmers We can Take care of 100 head of horses at the Sale Barn on First Street on THURS. JUNE 26th. Firomens Convention Decatur Horse Sale Company Vaudeville At The Rex Theater Tonight The Lawson Twins, two Petit little Ft. Wayne Girls in songs and dances will perform at the Rex this evening. Their songs and dances applaued everywhere. A weeks engagement at Empress at 1* t. Wayne grew a packed house Three splendid reels in connection The making of Pure Foods in Battle Creek, Special film “Paying for Silence” Nestor a dramatic hit “The Cowards Charm” Victor a dramatic novelty ADMISSION 10c Rex Theater, Don’t Miss It IB Aluminum Cooking Utensils K 5 Convention Day Only 1, ■ June 26th ■ 6 One hundred 3 qt. Heavy Sauce pans go gg ® at 55c each, Regular list price 95c. Other yF W sizes 30c up. 5 qt. tea kettles $2.29. Jhe $ W above articles at less than SSk. Wholesale Pricej^/ ? Aluminum 7 WUI.MARH .4.-/'' --JOHN BROCK--