Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1914 — Page 3

SHOE SALE OPEN TONIGHT I TILL II O’CLOCK 'j To Give You All a Chance to Get in on the Good things. BRING THE FAMILY CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. H"* SELLS THE SHOES

| WEATHER FORECASrI ■ OWttßafflcmHtmaxruxaimaun . Fair lonigiit and Sunday. Peter Kirsch made a Im due s trip to Rochester yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. l-awreme tuner of Berne are guests of Dr. and .Mrs. 3. P. HoKnian today. Ed Kilin" r has returned from IndiBOapolis where he was looking after business matters. -. K.-Wuuoter and Mr. S< hint;, returned Crum Kokomo where they in stalled a grain elevator. Mrs. Joseph Hower went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with her sister. Mrs. Margaret Lout han. Mrs. Bert Cline and daughter. Norma, Returned to Fort Way tie after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Alta Moser. W. J. Herring id Fort \\ ayne. district superintendent for the Public Savings Lif« Insurants company, was here yeutenlay on business with the local agent, J. J. Magley.

***'*>'*' w *'* r ' daaBaMawaMMBiHHMW i'j ffi J >•- I ™E HOME OF I »' J?. j Quality Groceries | Eu-) Il WE COULD’NT ■ fS 1F WE WOULD |fl r M/^RB 1 ® Neither Would We &. If We Could Sell You, Inferior Goods. “QUALITY GROCERIES” OUR MOTTO Pure Buckwheat at 50c Fancy Head Rice 10c Prepared ‘, at 10c Fancy Jap Rice 7 l-2c Pancake 10c “ cracked hominy 3c Com meal 10c Hand picked beans 6c Rolled oats 10c Minute Tapioca 10c Oatmeal 12c Corn Starch 10c Com Flakes 10c Rice Pop Corn 5c We pay cash or trade for produce. Eggs 28c Butter 18 to 27c Hower and Hower. Njrth of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 1C" mi— niar. — ■ ■■ ii —giij I F.M.SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN p President Secretary Treaai K I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I R REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, * ■ ABSTRACTS g r| Tne Scbirmever Abstract Company complete Ab- I R strict Records, 1 wenty years Experience E E Farms, City Property, 5 per ceat f L 4 MONEY

[ John J. Hilty of Berne was a bus Hiness visitor here today. H Dan Beery made a busiuess trip tc I! Fort Wayne this morning. C. A. Dugan was a Fort Wayni business visitor yesterday. Mrs. O. 8. Fortney of Pleasant Mills was a shopper here today. Albert Spuller went to Kendallville this morning where he will look aftei business matters. Harry Fike left this morning for South Bend where he will visit with his mother who is seriously sick. Mrs. Perry Gandy of Churubusco arrived for a visit of several days with her parents ,Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Niblick. Mrs. Lawrence Schlegel and daugh ter, Helen, left today for Bluffton where they will visit with Mrs. Schlegel's sister. Mrs. John Smith, who is ill of tubercular trouble. o The Sturgis I Mich.) Times-Denio • crat gives the following among its marriage reports: Harrison D. Hakes , Adams county, Ind. and Josephine M Hower. Decatur. Ind.. January 2, 1914 at Sturgis, by Rev. E. P. Boynton.*'

William Frazier of Blue Crock township, the democratic nominee for county assessor, arrived here this morning from Columbus, Ohio, where he had been for two weeks visiting with his brother, George, who has been quite sick for nine weeks past, suffering from a stroke of paralysis. Van Wert friends of Dr. A. E. Smith, president of the O. N. U., at Ada,a Ohio, will be sorry to hear of the serious accident which befell Paul, the youngest son of President Smith. While working with his father’s automobile, the tire exploded and Paul sustained a broken jaw and the loss of all of his front teeth as a result of the . accident. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Biebrich of Union township had as their guests at Thursday dinner the following young people, Marie Schinler, Marie Smith, Amanda Werling, Clara Ehlerding, Herman Schindler, Ida Ehlerding, Lydia Ehlerdlng, Otto Wefel, George Scheuler, Theodore Scheuler. Emma Bieberick. Marie Ehlerdlng and Gustave Scheuler. The rest of the day was spent in a happy way and cards and music were enjoyed. J. D. Decker of Frankfort, an engineer on the Clover Leaf railroad, has been compelled to resign his position - owing to failing health. Mr. Decker s- has had the trun between Frankfort and Delphos for seventeen years. Mr. v and Mrs. Decker will move to Maumee. Ohio, the latter part of this month and Mr. Decker will engage e with his father. J. M. Decker, in conducting a large farm. it Last evening after the W. C. T. U. meeting at the Evangelical church, a e little conference was held in the base,r inent of the church and addressed by Rev. Harry G. Hill of Indianapolis and a movement started to have a ' r first-class Chautauqua in Berne next '' summer, lasting five days, with programs every afternoon and evening. >, Mr. Hill will lie here again next Tuess day to confer with the business men 5. of Berne. —Berne Witness As a result of the increase in use t- of bronze and other metal caskets, 1. railroads are considering the advisa- »- bility of collecting an extra charge of is transportation of caskets weighing more than 500 pounds, which contain dead bodies. No additional compensa- > s tion is now obtained on account of 8 weight. It is expected that a vote on J’ the question will be taken at meetings of the Central. Western and other pas- ■ senger associations to be held soon. , . City Clerk T. J. McDowell this aft- 1 ernoon expressed himself as satisfied of the safety of his daughter. Miss 1 Jessie McDowell, who is a missionary in the district of Japan which has I been subject to terrible loss of life front a volcanic eruption. One of the press dispatches printed yesterday l gives a list of missionaries who are , reported safe and Miss McDowell’s ( name appears there. Relatives here ( hope to receive a letter from Miss MeDowell within the next few weeks.— , Bluffton News. o VAUDEVILLE NEXT WEEK AT LYRIC. , Vaudeville of a strictly high class 1 will occupy the stage at the Lyric for the first three days of next week open- • ing with Monday matinee. It is not often that the management of o thea ter the size <>( the Lyric cares to take ’ j a chance on playing an act as expen ■ sive as the famous Musical DeWitts, i who Manager Long line engaged for ‘ net week. However. Mr. lx>ng says ' that nothing to too good for Decatur. The DeWitts have just finished a very ' successful engagement of vaudeville ’ in the east. They present a very refined musical offering. Their re per c < * i Mr I ’ B J 1 ■ i 1 toire of music ranges front the popular » ragtime to the heaviest classics. The < feature of the act to Miss Marie De- I Witt, America’s foremost lady cor- 1 uetlst. formerly soloist with the B<>« ton Lady Fadetten orchestra, the Na vassor taidies' baud, the Royal Orehestru Girls, and the Military Sex tette, from the singing girl of KII- ’ lapey. Mr. George DeWitt was the bisnd Yuaster o| tlv-Urttfrn Gale Park band‘and BrtFrmNto' for many year-' and was also with the Lew Dockstiider minstrels several seasons. • There will be three splendid reels of t pictures run In connection with the vaudeville. The pictures and musical ]

LYRIC I MATINEES DAILY MON-TUES-WED HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE THE FAMOUS MUSICAL DEWITTS A Strictly Big City Vaudeville Offering 3 Great Reels 3 OF PICTL RES Entire Change Os Program Daily DON’T MISS THIS loCENTAW TRY TO GET IN numbers will change every day. Arrangements have been made for Ute vaudeville offering to appear at 3 p. m., 7:15, 8:15 and 9:15 daily. — —o - PUBLIC SALE. — The undersigned will offer at public auction at his residence. 4ls miles south of Decatur, and lAi miles north of Monroe, known as the Nick Wagner farm, on the Decatur and Monroe road, on Thursday, January 29. beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., the following property, to-wit: Seven Head Horses; One black mare, 5 years old, weight 1500 tbs.; 1 buy mare 6 years old, weight 1450; sorrel mare, 6 years old. weight 1200; bay horse 10 years old, weight 1200: black gelding, coming 2 years old. weight 1000: dark gray niare colt, coming 2 years old, weight 1000; spring mare colt. Ten Head Cattle: One half Jersey cow. giving milk: 1 half Jersey cow, 4 years old, giving milk; 2 red cows, 5 and 7 years old. fresh soon: 1 roan cow, 7 years old, fresh March 1: one full-blooded Jersey cow. 5 years old, fresh by day ■ of sale: 1 full blooded Jersey cow, 6 years old. fresh soon: 1 fine Jersey hr'fer, fresh In Aprlf; 1 -prlng heifer be’..ar. fresh In April; 1 spring heifer calf; 6 brood sows. Farm implements. I One McCormick binder, 1 new Johnson mower. 1 disc with trailer, bought new last spring: 1 roller, 1 check row corn planter, with 100 rods of wire; i 1 J. I. Case Sulkcy breaking plow, 3! walking breaking plows, 1 BrownManly riding cultivator. 1 walking cul tlvator, 1 60-tooth harrow, 1 low down manure spreader, nearly new: 1 gotsl wagon, with triple box: 1 wagon, hay ladder, grain bed and hog rack com ' hined. 1 Yankee sled. 1 buggy, 2 sets' double work harness, 1 set buggy liarnogs, 1 wheel scoop. Grain and feed: soo bushels corn in <-rlp. 460 shocks of fodder, bay in mow. Six cords ot wood, also some new buggy robes and horse blankets, ami other articles not herein mentioned. Terms of Hale:—All sums of 16.00 J and under cash; over that amount a credit of 9 months will b<> given, wltu purchaser giving bankabio note. Four' per cent off for cash. E. L. HAGERTY. Letchty and BurUioad. Aucts. Geo. McMsnnma. Clerk. Mdles* Aid of the M. E. church oft Monroe wilt servo lunch. ,•»•-> ’«» ■ o ■—— _ - HOUSE FOR.RENT. Seven room house ou brick street. I three squares from court house, in | quire at thia office, or ’ptione 06. 14t J < ■ o " Democrat Want Ada Pay.|

I TEN DAY SHOE SALE This is your chance to buy good shoes at money saving’prices I Mens Florsheim shoes at $4.35 Thompson Bros $4. and $4.50 shoes at - 3.50 Mens good heavy $3. work shoe at - - 2.50 Boys best Hitops at 2.75 Boys dress shoes at - - - ■ $1.75 to 2.50 Ladies $3.50 & $4, shoes at - - - - 3.00 SEE OUR DOLLAR SHOES IN WINDOW ELZEY AND HACKMAN OPP COURT HOUSE

A (A WK Better Bread I han Mother Used to Make which is only another instance of what lovers of a good article really think of Martin’s bread. Y’et high sounding praise is not as con- , vincing as a personal trial. We want you to try our , bread, eat it, sleep on it and ■thinkon it* You will then say that it’s better than mother used to make. Martin’s bread for sale at S. E. Hite grocery and Brushwilier and Baker. — Jacob Martin

WOOD. Good cook wood for sale. Erwin's office. 'Phone 86. 6tf — - RENT—An 80-acre farm, three miles south of Decatur. See Harvey & Leonard. 307t3-e-o-d ANTED—GirI for general house work. Only two in family. Call 'phone 339, or Inquire of J. H. Stone, So. Second St, stf FOR SALE—Neat, five-room cottage. on the east side of lotli St. A 60foot lot in connection. Entire lot is well drained. Will sell cheap if sold at once. For further particulars inquire of Nele Philip Harmon, 'phone N&7M I3t::

STAR GROCERY Cod fish flakes 10c Pearl barley lb. 6c Amsterdams cookies 15c Cocoanut bars lb. jlsc Dried peaches lb. 10c Apple jelly 10c Spring wheat flour 75c Potato bread 10c Rio coffee lb. 17c Campbells soups Ute Lake white fish 50c Marco coffee 30c Kitchen denser 5c Will Johns. K

ATTENTION FARMERS Our price for Butter Fat for the week ending with Jan. 19th, is 34c Bring Us YourjMilk andjCream ADAMS COUNTY CREAMERY COMPANY AN HONEST LOAN Is offered you on Pianos, Furniture, Teams, Fixtures, Diamonds, Etc. Loan Time Total Cost $35.00 3 Months $4.80 Other amounts at the same proportionate rate in amounts from $5.00 Ito $150.00, or can arrange for longer time if desired. Payments can be paid monthly or weekly and they will be so small that you will not feel them. All diamonds and jewelry left with us stored in burglar proof vaults. Our agent will be in Decatur every Tuesday. Name Address Fort Wayne Loan Co. Established 1896 ROOM 2, 706 CALHOUN STREET HOME PHONE 833 « TIW. FORT WAYNE ’ IND * A Licensed and Bonded Company.

• FOR SALE--Ground bones for chick en feed, the best egg-producing food known to poudtry men. at the Hoosier Packing Co., and their markets up town. 15t6 LOST —A gray Belgian tame rabbit, amout seven weeks o Id. valued as a |>et by Marker Mount, son of G. C. Mount, on Fourth street. Finder please call 'phone 606. 1513 TO RENT—One front office room, one middle office room; two unfurnished liousekeepiug rooms.—J. H. Stone 7t3 SALESMEN WANTED—SIOO to S4OO per month selling high grade and general lubricating oils, greases, paints and exclusive specialties. Salary or commission.—Fairfax Refining Co., Cleveland. Ohio. Ut2

Calf Meal Tn 11 1 THE ONLY SUBSTITUTE FOR aailk E. L. CARROLL SPECIAL INTERURBANCAR Will Leave Decatur Sunday At I 0 clock For ST. JOHN’S For the purjioßeof taking friends anti relatives to- " the funeral of Mrs.- Henry Rodeirtjeck, *•* WILL RETURN IMMEDIATELY AFTER SERVICES The Fort Wayne & Springfield RAILWAY COMPANY.

MASONIS CALENDAR FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 24. Tuesday, 7:00 p m., January 20. Decatur Chapter, No. 112, R. A. M. Called communication. Royal Arch degree will be conferred by Bluffton Chapter. Friday, 7:30 p. m., January 23. Decatur Chapter, No. 127, O. E. S. Regular statist meeting. O in - WANTED—Dishwasher’ at the the People's restaurant. Apply at once, Jacob Martin.