Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1913 — Page 5

■o Matter • : : : I Ml Whether you spend the 4th | 11 on your front porch or go a- I [ | visiting, you’ll want cool, | I i comfortable shoes. Our | White Shoes are the big sei- » ■■ sellers. Made on the neatest & I I toes with high or low heels. Ours are S h niade b\ shoemakers who know the art of H last j n S> they fit snug at the instep and b liltfi ank e llke a " ,,o<l slloc •hould. Open eVeningS until S °’ clock - 1Charlie Voglewede I

: OTHER FORECAST I lie ■■d UWnd.r storms >01111:: ! HMHBHp'ooier nBl mafic a bu-inc; this morning. BWtor in tile city todav t-W' 1 of Richmond w,. ;y at’-r ’< I he 1 Hl® #hoc -tore is enjoying .1 v.. ■ V> ft Gert ude Barber Baric Andrews and babe went ft Wayne this noon i* Ew&L Jj I jhire .1 H. Stone who has been weeks, is abb- to w - 1 t ’< ¥ *• ■* l,e ' t>< ’ i oi ,iiJ 14still tomewhat weak. MHHPC -sr>>;•—-’’yew,..,-..

*B fc ’[s 91 the home ° f I ; I Quality Groceries I HI'iiKAHFOR ’ Fourth Os JulY f~E * St! N 0 One | : - - ? CAX BE PATRIOTIC ®Oln Unappeased App tite. < >ur Good Grocerfe? Will Fire Your Enthusia-m T< • The Exploding Most Appropriate For It’.i. <>.' July Dinners! [ We will be closed all day oi the Ith. Buy Early In The Week. Ixtra fancy old potatoes bu 60c fancy lemons, doz 40c fin uhted sugar 25 lb. sack $1.25 I New potatoes, new cabbage' D rmuda onions. ! I Plenty of good country butter. iWe pay cash or trade for produce. Eggs 15c Blower and Hower. iort.| of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108 ~ “ F.mIscHIRMEYER- FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. | REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, t ‘ABSTRACTS. g The Schirmever Abstract Company complete Ab-■ str act Records, 1 wenty years Experience !| * . Farms,JCity Property, 5 per cent | > MONEY ||

Mrs. Serena Evans and daughter, "rs. Z'lla Shotwell went to Fort Wayne today noon for a several days’ Mr. and Mrs. 1.. A Holthouse are th? proud parents of a Gig baby girl born to them Monday, both mother and 1 babe are doing fine. -Miss Margaret Daniels, of the “Hello Girt lias begun a two weeks’ much di s> rv, J vacation. She left to day noon for Fort Wayne to visit with i relatives. Mrs. H. A. Hoffman and son, George, arrived from Foit Wayne this morn tig to atend the funeral of Iter brother-in-law William Conrad, of near Friedheim, held this afternoon, 1 lie iron foundation and cross-bars | for the new Sethers business block I were being laid today, the stone and cement foundation and walls for the basement having been completed, , Decatur will have at least one good attraction !> , the Ith of July that will . be worth your time and money to see and that will be the base ball game between Lou Scott's salary team of Bluffton ami the Decatur Shamrocks. ; Be sure to come and see our old base ball rivals.

William I>. Roop of Marion in visiting in the city with relatives. Mrs. J. H. Heller went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. John Moses of Chicago will spend July 4th here with relatives. < L. Melbers will leave tomorrow for Rome City for a week's visit. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schulte are visiting in Michigan with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fuelling. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Cushman are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. George Dixon of Belvidere, 111. Mrs. A. R. Hopkins of Chicago is visiting in the city with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Gentis and family. Ix-vi Barkley left this morning for Cromwell, Ind., where he will visit with ills brother-in-law, Mr. Kohr. Ralph Case of Indianapolis, is here lor a visit until tomorrow with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Case. Levi Barkley left this morning for Avilla where he was called by an illness of his brother-in-law, Chris Kokr. Mrs. Clifford West of inley, Ohio, was expected in the city today to make a visit with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Gentis. William Hayslip, of Dayton, Ohio, son of C. H. Hayslip of this city, is here to spend his week’s vacation at the Madison house. Mrs. Elizabeth Nussbaum of Linn Grove, Ind., arrived in this city this morning and is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Gentis. A new and modern electric fan has been installed in the Joseph and l-ang icr cream parlor giving all the fresh breeze you want while eating. Mrs. A. R. Bell left this morning tor Odgen, Mich., where she will spend the summer at their cottage. Mr. Bell has been at Odgen for the last month. Miss Nota Strickler and Mr. and Mrs. James Strickler and son, Harold, spent Sunday at Pleasant Mills with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Strickler and family. Miss Clara Fuerst of Toledo, O„ who has been visiting in the city with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Fuerst for the past week left yesterday for her homo. Carl Gotsch, of the Ward Fence factory, who had his foot injured two weeks or so ago, while operating a machine, is getting better and expects to be out in two or three days. Miss Dolores Ballenger returned to her home at Auburn Sunday. She was accompanied there by an aunt. Miss Florine Edwards whose guest she has been and who spent the day in Auburn. The Misses Helen Eberley and Georgia Fee returned to Waterloo after a visit with their aunt, Mrs. Charles Murray. They were accompanied to Fort Wayne this afternoon by Mrs. Murray, If women are goin' t’ wear flat heeled low cuts we might jist as well let 'em vote. Miss Tawney Apple is a lovely girl t’ meet socially, but a perfect snip at th’ bridge table.— Abe Martin. Mrs. L. C. DeVoss and daughter, Doris, of Decatur, went home this week after a several days’ visit with her brother and sister, George R. Hendrick and Miss ibby Hendrick, cf South Meridian street.—Portland Sun. George Dixon and family returned yesterday noon from a visit in Ohio since last Wednesday. They visited with relatives and friends in and near St. Marys, and were also dinner guests of Charles Hunter, editor of the St. Marys Herald. Tlie funeral of William Conrad, the Preble township pioneer, whose death occurred Saturday, was held this afternoon at the Friedheim Lutheran church by the Rev. Preuss. A large attendance characterled the funeral of this highly esteemed man. The Fourth of July Sunday school picnic, at Steele’s i>ark, this city, Friday, will draw many. Tile committees have outlined a good time for the day. Rev. Tracy and family are at the Mrs. Mattie Avery cottage, Rome City. Decatur Jieople will remember Rev. Tracy as the lecturer who was here •1 year or so ago. Mrs Sarah Andrews, of Decatur, her granddaughter, Mrs. Harry VanKirk ami baby of Ft .Recovery, who visited in Decatur, were In Portland Monday, spending the d«y with Mr. Van Kirk. enroute to Fort Recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Van Kirk will move to Portland this week, lie being employed as engineer at the power plant. Bud Stephenson is making fairs this season with a ’’Rube’’ advertising scheme similar to that which W. P. Wilkins put on here last week during the aviation meet and on show day. Stephenson lias arranged to advertise the Hlufiym street fair at every town h< makes during tile season./ Th/re is good money in the “Rube” advertising plan. Wilkins is reported to be the owner of real estate of a value of $311,000, at Kalamazoo. Michigan.— Bluffton News.

His Little Boy’s Pistol By THOMAS R. DUNN

This happened some thirty years ago. Manners in the far west are better now than they were then. Indeed, they are ns civilised there as anywhere else. A stagecoach drew up front of a tavern in a small town where gun law was the only law on the statute Itook. But even that was an unwritten law, for there was no statute books to write it in. A young man, dressed in the ordinary business costume of New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or any other eastern city, got out of the coach with the other passengers ami went into the tavern. He naked if there were any letters for him The landlord handed him one. He read it and hunted through his pockets for his eigar case. Not finding it nt once, he took out seven articles while making the search, among them a small pistol. Several men, denizens of tile country, were lounging about, among them a red faced man with a stubble heard •nd as many scars on his face as a German student member of a dueling corps. This man caught sight of the new arrival’s pistol, and it at once ex cited his interest. "Lemme see that, stranger,’’ he said. The young n*n handed bins the pts ♦ol, and he looked it over with evident pleasure and amusement. “Purty, isn’t it?’ he remarked. He continued to examine it, cocking •nd uncocking it. Meanwhile the stranger found his cigar case ami. lean ing a chair up on its hind legs against the wall, sat down on it, resting his heels on the front round and, lighting a cigar, smoked. "What do you do with it?” inquired tAe red faced man. Tlie stranger smoked on without ■miking any reply. His sang froid ex cited the attention of the bystanders, who commenced to move uneasily away. The man who asked the ques tion was Scar Joe, so called from the traces of his many tights. He was not used to asking questions and re ceiving no reply. He cast a single glance at the stranger and went on cocking and uncocking the revolver. "Goin' to make a birthday gift of it to your little boy?” he asked. Still no reply. "Will it shoot?” persisted Scar Joe. This third question eliciting no reply, the westerner took a quick alm at the stranger’s cigar and fired, and eigar and sparks left the smoker's lips. He didn’t turn pale He didn’t look at Scar Joe reproachfully or fearfully or any other way. He didn’t look at him at all. He simply took out another cigar, lighted it and went on smoking “Does shoot, don’t it? Shoots purty straight, don’t it? I wonder if I could do it again!” He fired a second shot with like results. The stranger remained as imperturbable as before, taking out tin other cigar and lighting it with as little apparent objection to this waste of cigars as if he were loaded down with them. Again Scar Joe sent it flying amid a shower of sparks. “Stranger," said the smoker in a soft voice, “you're one of tlie best shots I ever sow. That pistol I’ve brought from the east as a present for my wife. I've got another for my little girl that I’ll bet you can’t hit a silver dollar with at ten yards.” "Lemme see it.” The stranger thrust his right hand into his trousers pocket and grasped something that he drew out so clutched in bis fist Hint it was not easy to discern what it was. One of the lookers nil, with better or quicker sight than tlie others, seemed to get on to some-1 thing about to bapiien, for he ducked under a table. The stranger reached the thing out to his tormentor. It ex ploded, and Scar Joe staggered back ward, at the same time putting his band to his hip. The something in the Stranger’s fist exploded again, and the westerner fell dead. One would naturally suppose that those present would lie cbietb interest ed in the fallen man. So they were till they were convinced that he had received his last scar. Then all of a sudden their minds concentrated on the tiling in the stranger hands that had done the work. All eyes tuned toward him curiously. He bad returned the explosive thing to his pocket. "Landlord,” he said, “I'd like some thing to eat before I go. My wife writes tne that, she'll send a team for ine to be here at 2. It’s now 1. I’ve ■ Just time for dinner.” “I say, stranger,” said one present, j “would you mind lettiu’ us see what I that was you shot him with?" “I know whnt it is,” said the num wlio had sought safety under the table. "It's a bulldog. I seen 'eta before.' They're the ugliest weapon at short range they is goin'.” Tlie stranger took out a short, thick pistol with a very stocky barrel and al , lowed the party to examine it. “Wits t'other one really a gift for jour wife?” asked one. “Certainly. When I was called east I she asked me to bring her a revolver suitable for a woman.” While the stranger was dining the! body of his victim was being removed. When his team arrived and he was driving away one of the crowd who to see hint off cried out:. "MJuch oWoeged for got tin’ rid of Senr Joe. He was giftin' to be a nuisance." On the identical spot where this episode happened there is now a handsome hotel, lighted by electricity and having ail the modern improvements. I

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1913—nQRSfc SCA3ON—I9I3. Eban, Belg>au, No. 47014, American No. 3486, a beautiful bay, weighs 2400, sired by Major d’ Onkerzeeze, 108*>4, 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,

I vm w w 11 II *£«fe Jm f 0 With every McCalls Pattern we sell we j| = will give a large 20 cent McCalls Fashion || Book Free. Don’t fail to take advan- s tage of this opportunity as we have only jj a limited number of these Free Fashion is = Books. = 11 JJJJ «■» 0 THE BOSTON STORE I | DECATUR INDIANA | 11! 2S”—-8111 a—"" 1 fl £ s— « 9 a ■——— al£ a a alll a

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 18’4 hands high, have good backs, joins are clean, and of good shape, well boned and are of tlie best stock of Europe. Will make season of 1913: Mon- , days and Tuesdays at home of keep-

er, two miles north ami a mile west of Wren; Wednesdays and Thursdays ■ at J homas K. German's, one mile west of Hoffman sawmill and Friday and Saturdays at Wren. Terms:—(ls.oo to insure eolt to stand and suck. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, hut will not be responsible if any occur. FARMERS* HORSE CO.. Wren, Ohio. W. W. Stewart, Keeper, apr-9-ju-lw