Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1913 — Page 3

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| WEATHER FORECAST] WlllllllllUUH.uu>.Ka«::«::::;:::: ■Scattered showers tonight or | > ■y Not quite so warm. !l . R. Dunn of Bluffton was a visitor re Saturday. ■Miss Lucile Gillig went to Fort Wayne Saturday. ■Don Smith left Sunday tor Rons- ! (tty for ten days’ vacation. Bdrs. Frank Jones and children of F»rt Wayne visited here with rela t les. Lola Callow returned to Co.iviy. Ohio, after a visit with the J. A. Sbith family. and Mrs. George Stroughtou Md son, Gerald, of transport ar sts of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Coverdale. Bhiiss Catherine Hammett return. I Boi: Portland this morning, win r - •h- visited with her sister, Mrs. C. B 8n ith. ■Miss Laurine Keller went to F< t Wayne Saturday afternoon for a visit Os er Sunday with the Misses Margaret Hri. hart and Jeanette Kinney.

I ifiiirilsil THEHOKEOr I “ Q Groceries I SIB Wk HURRAH FOR ( I The Fourth Os JulY | No One CAN BE PATRIOTIC With An Unappeased Appetite. Our Good Groceries Will Fire Your Enthusiasm To The Exploding Point! Most Appropriate For 4th. Os July Dinners! We will be closed all day on the 4th. Buy Early In The Week. Extra fancy old potatoes bu 60c Large fancy lemons, doz -40 c G anulated sugar 25 lb. sack >1.20 New potatoes, new cabbage’ bermuda onions. Plenty of good country butter. j We pay cash or trade for produce. Eggs 15c Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108

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Charles Kurber was reported as being some better. Philip Ardner arrived from Toledo, Ohio, to accompany his wife and sou home yesterday. Hany Jeffrey arrived from Huntington, where he attended the Phi Delta Kappa conevntion. Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Meyers of Monroeville were visitors in the city, i making the trip in their auto. ■•'rank Bremerkamp has returned Horn Huntington, where he attended • the Phi Delta Kappa convention. A mail carried had a bulky parcels i . st p ickage this morning in the form 1 .1 a bicicle rubber tire in a rounding crate. Mrs. Pearl Beam and children of Fort Wayne who visited here with relatives and friends, went to Willj shire Saturday evening. Fred Hoffman went to Bryant this morning, where he will look after bus-ine.-s matters pertaining to the building lor which he has the contract. A marriage license was issued at Bluffton Saturday to William Otto Heitler farmer, of Adams county, a son of John Beitler, to wed Martha 1 < <-oper, daughter of Jacob Cooper.

D. I. Welkel made a business trip to Geneva this morning. Mrs. Peter Stein of Lima, Ohio, te the guest of her parents, Mr and Mrs. Henry Stettler. Miss Hanna returned to Loganspotjt after a visit with her uieoe, Mrs. H. Crownman. John Baumgartner has taken a position at the Will Colohin ice cream and fruit stand. J. P. Hoffman went to Monroeville this morning, where he will look after matters pertaining to his farm. Attorney Will Hammeii made a business trip to Monroe Sunday evening. The trip was made in an auto. Boost for the Sunday school picnic at Steele's park on July Fourth. There will be a big crowd and a good time. Get in and help yourself. Miss Iva May returned to Fort Wayne after a visit here. She came to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Chrlstena May. Mrs. J. R. Watson, who has been visiting with Mrs. Nelle Snellon Jack at Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to her home in Chicago. Mrs. J. S. Bowers and daughters, Ruth and Esther, left this morning lor Rome City, where they will spend a week's outing at their cottage. The Misses Agnes Costello, Mildred and Hazel LaDelle and Marguerite Gerard went to Toledo, Ohio, Sunday to visit with Miss Irene Gerard. Mrs. F. Schindler and son, Arthur, of Willshire, passed through the city on their way home after visiting with her father, John Roehm, of Ft. Wayne, who is critically ill. Mr. and Mrs. Sol David and two daughters, Kenneth and Virginia, left for Oden, Ind., where they were called by the sickness of thir son-in-law, Charles Cunningham. Miss Vera Dillman returned Saturday afternoon to Columbia City after a visit with Mrs. John Bolinger and Mrs. Ed Baker She was accompanied as far as Fort Wayne by Mrs. Ed Baker. The Misses Margaret Clark and Agnes Meibers went to Rome City Sunday for a cisit at Rome City at "The Tonk Cottage, yiss Clark will remain ;or a weeks' visit with Mrs. C. L. Meibers. The finest kind of weather for hay making has expedited that work for the farmer and the crop is more than half harvested. According to the statement of one farmer, the acreage is quite good, but the growth is short Postmaster Lower reports letters r< maining in th.- Decatur postoffict lor Miss Clara Bell, Mrs. E. E. Cop ley, Daniel Gouves, Miss Mary Hoff man. Roger James, Mrs. Sam Lang worthy, Harry Murphy, The Valles Tie & Lumber Co., Flossie Weis. A son of the late Levi Mock of Bluff ton, while here on firemen's con ven tion day. had the misfortune to have stolen his tine gold watch. The sanit was formerly the property of his fa ther and was given to him as a keep sake, for which it was prized as high ly as for its intrinsic worth . Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Goeke of Cinoin r.ati, who have been in the city visit ing with the William Harting family for a few days, left Saturday after noon for their new home at Cinci.n nati. Mr. and Mrs. Goeke were mar tied last week and made Decatur on« of their many stop-overs on their wed ding trip. The Egly-Doan elevator company has sold its south side branch on Fairfield avenue. Fort Wayne, to th. South Side Cereal company. The dea has been completed for several days but was not made public until yester day. The Egly-Doan company wll continue to operate the elevator we.sl of Fort. Wayne, near Lindenwooc cemetery. The Berliug & Moltz Produce com jiany still reports a poor business or the egg market as mauy bad eggs art still being sold by the farmers another persons selling to the buck r.ter wagons. Mr. Berling has prepar ed, an article on how to keep eggi from spoiling and the care tha' should be taken so as not to sell ba< eggs.—Bluffton News. Ed Keller is improving from the re suits of the accident which befell hiu and Harve Roop Thursday afternoor when the buggy in which they wert driving home upset in front of the Tin Corbett residence at the corner o Fifth and Second streets. The phy rlcian in charge thinks that nothing serious will result from the accident Mr. Keller was injured severely, wbih Harve Roop received minor injuries Miss Bertha Heller left this morn ing for Indianapolis to assume a plan as cashier in the new automobile de partmeut pf the secretary of state'i office. The appointment is for the bal attce of Mr. E.'hipgham's term, out year from next November.' Miss KaM Tcithey, a former Decatur girl, whosi home is now at Muncie, and who h«i been employed in the public account ing offices at Indianapolis, is also It the new department.

Mr. and Mrs, Harry Helm were at Berne Sunday, W, G. Teeple returned to Fort Wayne this morning. Tony Holthouse spent Sundiy afternoon at Fort Wayne. i Air and*Mrs _ Jaines ’stockanCof WisHams were shippers here Saturday. Miss Edna Bosse has gone to Lima, Ohio, to visit with her sister, Mrs. Noonan. Mias Ixiota Christy of Toledo, 0., arrived for a visit with relatives and friends, * C. D .Teeple and family and 8. B. Fordyce went to Rome City this morning for a three week-t’ visit along Sylvan lake. Guy Kidd is working at the Smith & Sons’ restaurant during the absence of Don Smith—who is at Rome I City for ten days. Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger and daughter, Adelaide, and Mr. and Mrs E. H. Kilbourne motored to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Josephine Krick returned to Fort Wayne yesterday noon after u visit over night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krick. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lachnit and daughter, Carolyn, arrived from Indianapolis for a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W R. Smith. T. S. Coffee and daughter, Mrs. Clem Voglewede, have returned from Indianapolis where they were entertained several days by friends. Judge D. E. Smith spent a day or two at Rome City, returning homo i this morning. His family is enjoying the summer vacation there. E. M. Wagner and Will Kremers went to Magley Sunday afternoon to, take a look at the beet fields, which , they report in excellent condition. Mrs. A. R. 801 l will leave Tuesday I morning for Oden, Mich, where she will enjoy the summer months. Mr.; Bell has been there for two weeks. Mrs. Catherine Fisher and daugh-| ter. Miss Catherine, of Montpelier,! Ind, are in the city visiting with Mrs. Fisher's daughter, Miss Alma Bowers. Mrs. Louis Dolch returned last evening to Toledo, Ohio. Her daughter, Ruth, will remain for a week's visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krick. Rev. Hessert left this morning for Berne, where he will preach the funeral of Mr. Mossman. Rev. Kattman ofßerne having been called to Indianapolis on business. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maley and children returned Saturday evening from Terre Haute, where they visited a week. Mr. Maley is ihe well known clerk at the Morris store. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. France and nephew and nieces, Dick aud Dorothy Durkin, and Catherine Christen, left today for Lake James, near Angola, for a visit at the France cottage. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler, Mrs. Mary Crawford, Mrs. Christens Niblick, aud son, Jess, motored to Churubusco Sunday in Jesse Niblick's auto and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Gandy. Mrs. Avon Burk and Mrs. J. J. Helm arrived home Sunday night from a trip to Lagrange and Mishawaka, Ind. They were met at Fort Wayne by Mr. Burk and Mr. Helm and came home in the automobile. Have you applied for an automobile license? If not you had better be at it. The new law goes into effect tomorrow and after the first two weeks it will be dangerous to run your ear without a black and yellow number plate. Rev. H. Theo Wilken left this morning for Union City, where he will attend the celebration of the twentyfifth anniversary of Father Baker as a priest. The anniversary mass was held Sunday morning and the jubilee took place today. Attorney Clark Lutz arrived homo Sunday morning from a two weeks' anting at Oden, where he was the guest of A. R. Bell. Clark brought with him a coat of tan about half an inch thick and a goodly supply of pickerel and the memory of a delightful fortnight. Dr. J. Q. Neptune, the well known dentist, attended in a most correct manner to a young fellow who was making his presence obnoxious in front of the doctor's house Thursday night. When the fellow refused to move along and became abusive, the doctor handed him an uppercut that made him about as docile as a lamb. The fellow got just about what was coming to him. The Misses Mildred and Hazel LaDello, Agnes Costello and Marguerito Gerard returned last night from Toledo, Ohio, where they were entertaiged during the dayAby Miss Irene Gerard. They were dinner guests at the Philip Ardner home aud at supper at the C. W. Lattin home. They also enjoyed 'visits to Walbridge park aud other points of interest in Toledo, aud iiada very delightful time.

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O. P. Grim aiul daughters, Vera an.l Florence, went to Ossian this morn ing. | ; Mrs S. J. Andrews went to Portland this morning to visit with her daughter. French Quinn and son, Robert, were at Rome City over Sunday, returning home this morning. Mr. and Mrs. B. Weismautle of Hiwood were visitors here Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gass.

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I Miss Clara Peters of Fort Wayne llsited here Sunday with friends. . j Mr. and Mrs. Flunk Bell of Foil Wayne were guests of Mrs. A R. Beil' r over Sunday. G. E. Mount, manager of the lo< ii Indiana Lighting company's plant, wa . at Fort Wayne Sunday on business. Mrs. Theodore Borne of Canton, (I, will return home tomorrow after n visit here. She will be accompanied 1 by Mrs. Otto Reppert, who will be her guest.

The cool country home of Mr. anti I Mrs. Dwight Wilder, north of Mt.nirouth, with its shady trees and bubbling springs nearby, was thrown oplon Sunday for a party of Decatur young people who spent the day there ’ atid had a delicious dinner at noon. I Guests were the Misses Eula McKin- | nt y, Rose Kleinhenz, Josephine Lang, Rose Colchin, of this city; Mrs. S. E. Krill and son, Ralph and daughter, Mamie. — DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIC.