Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1913 — Page 3

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WEATHER FORECAST ! ' nlttttttl.limi tlttß*;?;;; ****'****•■• Colder with probably thunder show era tonight and Wednesday. Mr». Perry Andrews of near Mo iroe was shopping here today. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rice have returned from their wedding trip. W. H. Fledderjohann, went to I’.. :■ land yesterday afternoon where he will look after business. The change in the weather was w corned by the average citizens for it at least made sleeping more comfort able. Mr, and Mrs. W. A. Lower and Mr.Fannie Peterson visited with Dick Peterson and family at Bluffton o Sunday. W. C. Kauffman left yesterday ernoou on his weekly business tri] in the interest of the Schafer saddle-. company. Grover Hoffman spent Sunday . home after a week's business tri i . the Interest of the Scha. r S . company.

A - .’S'.-.-. ■ - I | THE HOME OF I Q ua W Groceries | Going Picnicking? WHAT A POOR PICNIC - A Picnic Would Be G cod Picnic Dinner! We are Headquarters For Appetizing Picnic Delicacies! Olives plain, jars .... 10 to 30c Olives stuflea with pinivnt.; c. Dry and almonds, Pickles in bulk sour or sweet, mixed P in bottles, sweet, sour, must; i s - weet mixed 10 and Idc Peanut butter, glasses . Fin i- C Pork and beans or tomato sauce .... a, 10c, lac Marrow pork and beans lUc Fancy cookies and wafers. • Switzer cheese and cream cheese. We pay cash or trade for produce. r Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. Phene 108

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M. IL Cook and little son, Lester, went to Fort Wayne this morning. Ruth Hubbard left this morning with Mrs. William Kremers for Holi land, Mich., where she will vsit with ; her grandparents. Mrs. William Kremers and two chil- ' iron, Margaret and Amy, left this I morning for Holland, Mich., where ' 'hey will visit with relatives. Mrs. S. L. Boyers and son of Dex-t-r, b wa, who have been visiting in i tie city with Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boy- . > this morning for ther home. Mrs. A. Votaw of Mount Carmel, 111., who has been visiting with her niece, Mrs. Emerson Bennett, will go to Bryant and Pennville this week before returning home. Miss Maria Valentine, who makes her home with her son, Warren 'ones, in Blue Creek township, went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend to business relating to her property. Monday the summer change in the - iu i 1<? went into effect on the G. R. I & I. railroad. The only train that v. as affected here was the afternoon train due here at 1:11, which Was ’ < han-'.-d to 1:20, a difference of nine minutes.

Harve Sprague and Clem Knott have accepted positions at the Crable & Cowan barber shop on Madison street. C. W. Campbell traveling salesman for the Schafer Saddlery company left on bis weekly business trip yesterday through Ohio. French Quinn and Frank Schirmeyer left yesterday afternoon for Indianapolis where they will look after business matters, C. O. France of Columbia City, sent word that he will join the crowd from there to attend the firemens convention here on Thursday. Gert Reynolds, who was operated upon a few weeks ago, and who is ill of liver trouble, Is recovering slowly and. is still very weak. Mrs. Phil Salisbury of Chicago who has been visiting in the city with her mother, Mrs. Celia Ehinger left yesterday afternoon for her home. "Yes," said Mrs. Twickembury, “I had a dreadful fall on the consecrated sidewalk in front of the church. Why, 1 was unconscientious for two whole hours." The Masonic building committee will meet at the offices of L. C. Waring this evening to discuss further the plans. The boys are determined to figure it out. W. D. Henderson and daughters, •Josephine and Erma, motored from Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon and spent the day as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler, Miss Fawn Lippincut says spoonin’ is only th' curtain raiser t’ th’ tragedy o' marriage. Live so you kin have a few friends without askin’ 'em fer anything.—Abe Martin. Mrs. A. Votaw, of Mount Cramc), 111., who has been visiting with her niece, Mrs. Emerson Bennett, will go to Bryant and Pennville this week to visit before returning home. Hay making began In earnest yesterday and another week will find the greater part of it down and taken care of. The wheat is turning and will be ready for harvest by the Fourth. Martin Beng of Hillisbury, Ind., was in the city yesterday on some real estate business he figuring on buying some land in this county. He returned to his home yesterday afternoon. We have received a few copies of acts q£ 1913 for those to whom they were promised and did not get them from the previous shipment. If you are one of these come in and get one. The menu for the twenty-five cent chicken dinner to be served by the W. R C. Thursday, can be found in another part of this paper. Patronize the ladies and also do yourself a good turn. Contractor E. Woods is having the curb set on Ninth street, between Monroe and Nuttman avenue; also on Rugg street between Merver avenue and Winchester street, in readiness for the brick paving. The decorations for the firemens convention give a bright look to the city. The building of stands began yesterday and everything wiP. be ready to hum Thursday morning. Its to be a big day alright. In a southern city a colored man, Sam .Jones by name, was on trial for felony. The judge asked Sam if he desired the appointment of a lawyer to defend him. "No, sah,” said Sam. 'Tse gwine to throV myself on the ignorance of the cote.’’ Mr. and C. IT. Dor win who have been visiting in Los Angles, Cal., left last Thursday for the northwest. They expect to visit at The Dallas, Oregon, and also in Washington and Wyoming. They went by boat from Los Angles to Portland, Oregon. David Miller and wife of near Fremont, Ohio, are in the city for a few days, guests of the former's brother, William Miller, the former commissioner. They have been to Chicago, where their son graduated from college and enroute home aie visiting here and elsewhere. t Miss Lena Dickinson, formerly of Decatur, now in Glennwood hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, studying to 'be a nurse, has successfully passed examinations, mailing the best grade of any in her class. Since being in the hosptal, Miss Dickinson has suffered ill health and has lost the sight of one eye. Charles Siple, expert pressman, representing the Goss Printing Press company of Chicago, who has been here three weeks, putting up the new webli press in this office, will leave this evening. He is a hale fellow, well met, knows his business, and left this office with all the boys feeling that they had known him a hundred years, more or less. Miss Agues Meibers has returned from Rome City, where she spent Sunday and Monday. The C. L. Meillers family has built a new cottage at Rome City .adjoining the cottage of Mrs. Meibers' mother, Mrs. Mattie Avery, on the main land. They have r. new eight-passenger launch and other equipments that make life at this summer resort most agreeable, m>l-i I .* •• ,J-T —•-• - ***■

Forest Helm is working In tho Artman & Hess Case. P. W. Smith of Richmond was a business visitor in the city today. George Baker has taken a place in Ute Girod & Baker restaurant during the summer. Beas Tonnelier is off duty at the Elzey & Hackman shoe store as the result of a severe cold. John Brake of Chicago is at home for a little visit with his mother, Mrs. Catherine Brake and family, J. P. Baker will leav 1 Friday for Barberton, Ohio, where he will visit with relatives for a few days. Mrs. B. P, Rice and grandson, Benjamin, went to Berne this afternoon, where they will visit for a week or so. Mr. and Mrs. John ilfie went to Celina, Ohio, today where they will visit a few days with friends and relatives. Painters are at work on the redecorating of the front of the Terveer building, occupied by the Auth Jewelry store. C. Carleton Guy of the Guy Stock company went to Huntington today, where he will arrange for the next week's stand. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Engelcr and Godfrey Ashbaucher and family motored to Decatur Sunday afternoon. — Bluffton Banner. Attorney A. P. Beatty has returned from a business trip to Indianapolis, where he attended the meeting of the state board of pardons. Electric lights are being put across Second streets for the purpose of lighting up the thoroughfare for firemen’s convention day Thursday. Electricians were busy today wiring the stands for the different attractions for Thursday and also putting up strings of lights along the streets. Mrs. Ed N. Vancil of Decatur was in the city Monday on her way to Fort Recovery, Ohio, for a visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Money.—Portland Sun. Mrs. George Lichliter and children of Decatur were in the city Monday on their way to Fort Recovery, Ohio, fora visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reason Boggs.—Portland Sun. The Misses Helen Freiberger, Hortense Grimme and Marie Michels of Fort Wayne will comi> down tomorrow to be the guests of Miss Frances Deininger at the St. Joseph picnic. A large crowd witnessed the opening show of the Guy Players entitled "The Land O’ Cotton, which was staged Wednesday night. Tonight the well known play, “Ishmael,’’ will be given. The annual school picnic of the St. Joseph's Catholic school will be held tomorrow in the Henry Eiting woods one mile and a half southwest of the city and an invitation is extended to everyone to attend. Reports from the bedside of Miss Rose Fuhrman, who was operated up on for appendicitis at the Lutheran hospital last Wednesday, are to the effect that she is improving nicely and will soon be able to be removed to her home. A special notice has been published by the school board to receive sealed bids for two hundred tons of White Ash domestic lump coal for the coming winter supply of the public schools. All bids must be in by June! 15th. T. M. Reid is here for a day to at- [ tend to business and you can tell byglance at his weather-beaten face that be has been a consistent fisher. He will return to Rome City today for another ten days, concluding his stay for a while at least. The Ringling Bros, circus will be at Fort Wayne Saturday, July 12. Many of the local members of tho Phil Delta Kappa fraternity arc planning on going to the convention at Huntington, which wiH be held there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. Representatives arc in the city’ planning for the taking of pictures of the events here on Thursday, the firemen's convention. These will be made into films and showed in each of the cities represented at the meeting. They will be shown here three days it is stated. A merry-go-round on East Madison street, a Ferris wheel on the lot near tho Star theater, stands everywhere, tho band pavilion on West Court street, and the platform for the Tyrones near the Holthouse, Schulte & Company's store, are convincing evidence for the average boy and girl that there is to be something doing here. The committee recently named by the Masons to consider the proixfsitlon of building a new temple in this city, met at the offices of L. C. Waring last night and discussed the question for an hour or two. , It was decided that the chairman appoint a sub-commit-tee of five to solicit the members of the lodge for subscriptions for bonds or for donations in order that the exact feeling of the membership might be thus obtained. They will report soon.

— | TAKE A DAY OFF s Come in and help celebrate Decatur’s Biggest Day i ■ FIREMEN'S CONVENTION ' THURSDAY, JUNE 26th. See the Monster Parade See the Water Battle See the Hose Lay Contest See the Famous Tyrones S SPECIAL:--Exhibition run and hose laying contest B Between Decatur and Bluffton f BIG BAND CONCERTS ’ | EVERYTHING FREE ■,||IHIIHI|II»

■ si A Treasure Sweet And Precious is what all good judges pronounce our chocolate layer cake. The same praise can justly be given to any of our bakings of the various kinds of cakes and pastry, for we exercise the greatest care in the preparation of our products. Fresh, pure ingredients, careful baking and above all thorough sanitary surroundings. Jacob Martin “Little Red Hen” POULTRY TONIC 100 thousand chicks die every day during June in Indiana. This tonic cures and prevents diseases of chickens and turkeys. Chickens fed this tonic grow one-third faster. No sick chickens, but hearty, plump fellows. Commence feeding now. Buy of SMITH, YAGER & FALK Druggists Decatur, - - . Ind. No wonder! Ordinary ci-i gars 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 plyTRY IT. The White Stag Extra Mild

Notice to Farmers We can Take care of 100 head of horses at the Sale Barn on First Street on THURS. JUNE 26th. Firemens Convention Decatur Horse Sale Company ■■ J F. I «.&• / / 41xitv v.i 4- 9 I .JM X ; , I. A Kalver, Agent. Phone 581. ‘"—■••••I ’ , ! Aluminum Cocking Utensils 1 ® Convention Day Only > ffl June 26th ® § One hundred 3 qt. Heavy Sauce pans go fcat 55c each, Regular list price 9dc. Other lIL sizes 30c up. 5 qt. tea kettles $2.29. the w above articles at less than aw Wholesale Price --JOHN BROCK--