Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1914 — Page 3

’REPARE FOR WAR ....in time of peace. Prepare for wet when this snow goes off. Another shipment of good, fresh rubbers came in today. Rubber boots and sandals that were probably hot from the vulcanizing ovens less than a month ago. You know that fresh rubbers are better. There is nothing too good for our customers. Try us. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

j •WEATHER fORECAST 1 Hpa : >' and ii"! ho i"M !■.•:.! ai.-l Wndu* sday. mWfßr—— #ph»nk ('outer »a.- a Fori Wayuo busiKew visitor yesterday. KR. C l’oliiu: o' '• »u a biisiix- | today s*|Oh Staunlii nv o'. .... was < Wttsjiu M. J9B» Ruth Ball* II . "li.* - I jP Jtottf" r afternoon at i *«.ir </> i*.* !-: j (5. It. *.• mjf here she .spent -m; lay . aunt, Mrs. Leikauf. M'ff* ,Mt Jones, rot iro.l •• boat -wan and soldier. * > P*„ Mtclios what is !»r >* 11 mH uni.,' Sunday ?« • m Ur - haunt r- For twenty *>, • taught a clas in the Son ■ Jail. 'Duri.-.i- that time -w i*: pilfc, be i* quoted as sayr. . hanged and one other has Tutted of uiurder.

THE HOME OF | j | Quality Groceries | : Mm Quality Groceries Await You Here, THE KIND THAT MAKE » Hunger Disappear! Here The Pure Food Laws Obtain, And Those With Appetites On The Wane, Get Them Quickly Back Again! Eased Herring . . 20c English Walnuts . . 20c Chili Sauce ... 15c Fancy Cookies . 20c Pepper Sauce ... 10c Peanut Butter ... 10c Tomato Catsup . . 10c Table Mustard ... 5c Extra Fancy Slaw Cabbage .... 4c Importck Sardines in oil ... 10c White Clover Comb Honey .... 20c |We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 22c Butter 18 to 25c Hower and Hower. North of C. R& J. Depot. Ph 108 FMSCHIRMEYER FRENCH OUINN l President Seen t»-y Trees. I * THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I RFAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, fg ABSTRACTS. g Tht Scbinnever Abstract Company complete Ab- i strict Records, Twenty years Experience m farms, City Property, 6 per cent y MONEY 0

The Misses Jennie Long and Revti j Howard spent Sunday in Fort Wayne. Deputy Clerk L. L. Baumgartner, who suffered a severe cold, has recovered sufficiently to return to his worif again today. The bad weather which rame this week, played havoc with several sales. That oi' T. T. Druly was to have been held Monday but he postponed this until Saturday, Feb. 28. Rev. H. U. Diefenbach spoke at the Reformed c hurch at Vera Crus in the place of Itev. Schrorer. who was unable to preach. Rev. Schrorer has been conducting the meeting the past week. —Bluffton News. Miss .Nellie Krill arrived home Friday from Cleveland. Ohio, where she has been spending the week attending the millinery displays and also on busini ss for the Walrner fi Engeler department store.- Bluffton News. The Charles Boss family lias stored t ueir household goods and gone to Chicago where they will make their home, doing light housekeeping for a while. Mr. Ross has taken a position as order-man for the dry cleaning company, with whom he was formerly employed.

The condition of Miss Ruth Hub bard remains about the same. U. L. Colllas, manager of the Morris five and ten cent store, Is numbered among the ill. Cleiu Heidemann is numbered among those on the sick list, suffer ing from a severe cold. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs Henry Vlan Is seriously sick. A truin ed nurse is in attendance. Forest Helm, who lias been ill twe weeks, is suffering from symptoms r typhoid fever, and is quite ill. Attorney L. C. DeVoss, who ha? been ill two weeks or more, lias no! improved and his ailment is said tr have developed Into typhoid fever. Mrs. John Drummond is still quite sick from the fall she received a week ago Sunday and her arm pains her very much. It will be some time be fore she can use It. Postmaster Lower reports letter remaining uncalled for at the Deeatui postolflce tor Mrs. Helen A. Berry. Frank Beaugard, Miss Georgia A Foust, Sam Harrell. Mrs. F. Hoghton C. B. Snelder, Mrs. Asa Snell, Mrs. Martha Urick. A most enjoyable time is looked for ward to for tonight at the Kniglus of Columbus ball, when “Ye Old Time 1734,” Costume dance will be giver, for the members and their families and all those accompanied by a broth er knight. The parties will dress in the styles worn during 1734.. A little girl, about five or six years old. wearing linger gloves, came down town early today, and her hands were nearly frosen. She was taken into the Adams County bank to thaw out. and was given a pair of good, warm mittens to wear home. She seemed to be warmly clad otherwise. Harry Tourgte, passenger conduc tor on the Pennsylvania rsilroad, F! Wayne, who, with his wife visite-l in the city over Sunday, was one held up yesterday by the snow storm. He was due to arrive in Fort Wayne to go on duty Monday morning, but waunable to get out of Decatur until yesterday afternoon and his crew was held until his arrival. Insurance on many homes will lw* invalidated unless owners comply with the latest ruling of the fire mar siial department of thr state health board, which, among oher provisions, decree that no smoke pipe shall pass through the floor or roof of any building. There are many residences here where the room upstairs is heated by means of a drum connected with the pipe from the stove in the room below the pipe being run through the floor. If the law is not observed there Is a question if the insurance can be collected In case of Are. Luther Hower. Felix [tollhouse and John Stewart, who were snowbound Sunday afternoon and Monday, were given shelter and royally entertained Sunday night at the John Engle home in Washington township, near the Deßolt school. An attempt was made to reach this city yesterday morniug with the horse and storm buggy which Felix drovs out after the boys, Itut when they reached the John Holthous farm north of Monroe, the drive was given up on account of the huge drifts. The horse was placed in the burn on the farm, and the boys walked to Monroe to catch the morning G. R. tic I. train. It was just six horns late iu reaching Decatur. At Mouroe, County Road Superintendent Jim A, Hendricks, learning they were in Monroe, sent to tile station and invited them to come to hi* home for dinner, which they did. and the excel lent dinner provided by Mrs. Hendricks was greatly enjoyed. --o ' - LENTEN SERVICE. Lenten service at the Reformed church Wednesday night at 7:30. Topic. Thu ''Must" of the Cross. FUNERAL THURSOAV. The funeral services for Mrs. John Touu< Her will be held Thursday morning from the Bt. Mary's church, the Itev. Father Seluiet* officiating. The exact hour of the funeral haa not yet been set. owing to t tie fart that it is not known how long it will take to make the drive from the Tonnelier home to the church. Burial will be made in the Maplewood cemetery, SALE POSTPONED. The Joseph R. Moser sale advertised for February 28. he* been postponed to Saturday. February 2S. 46t3 ■ "■ O'— - LOST — Gray pocketbook containing ftve-dollar bill, three one-dollar bills and 20 cents in change Finder please return to this office and receive reward. 4<UI SLKIOII FOlt SALK Good one at right price. Inquire of Kit Meyers. 4213 POUND—Triple strand of blue bend* Apply ibh. oßicc. 4(11*1 (

NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE The undersigned Commissioner, by virtue of an order of the Adams Circuit Court, made and entered in a cause herein pending entitled Mary Falk VS. William E. Falk, et «1, and numbered 8643 upon the dockets thereof, hereby gives notice tliut at the Law Office of Dore. B. Erwin, Decatur, Inllana, on Tuesday, March 10th. 1914, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 3 o’clock p. m. of said day, and from day to day thereafter until sold, he will offer for sale at private sale md at not less than the full aporaised value thereof the following lescrlbed Real Estate In Adams County, Indiana, to-wlt: Lot Number Two (2) and Lot Number Three (3) In Section Number Sixeen in Township Twenty Seven (27) North, Range Fifteen (15) East In aid County and State as the same is teslgnated on the recorded plat of he subdivision of said Section Sixteen except from said lots the ground heretofore conveyed by one Samuel Acher for the use of a meeting house, school-house and grave yard. Also the following: Commencing at the Soutli West Corner of the South East Quarter t %) of Section Number Nine (9) in Township Number Twenty S-v-’i (27) North. Rr>r*!re F'*t-pn nn F.ast in Adams CVv.nty. Sta *' of Indiana, running thence East to the South East Corner of the South West Quarter of the South East Quarter of said Section Number Nine (9) ihence North to the South line of the right-of-way of the Chicago and Atlantic Railway Company, theuce West along said South line of right-of-way aforesaid to the center line running •lirough said section nine (9) from North to South, thence South to the place of beginning estimated to con•aln thirty seven and one-fourth (37U) acres of land. Containing in all i27ti acres more or less. Termc of Sale One-third Cash: one- third in one year and one-third in two years from date of sale. Deferred payments to bear 6 per cent Interest from date of sale and to be secured by a mortgage on said Real Estate. DORE B. ERWIN. 9-16-23-2 Commissioner. STAR GROCERY Holland Herring 3 for 10c Wiiite Lake Herring 50c Spiced Sardines 75c Mackeral each lor Mustard Sardines 5c Oil Sardines 5c Tuna Fish 10c Bloaters 3 for 10c Smoker Halibut. Tb 25c Pink Salmon 10c Medium Red Salmon 15c \ Soused Mackeral 18c Kippered Herring ... 10c Dried Herriug !b 20c Fisli Fluke 10c Cod Fish 10c Shrimp Wet Pack 15c Shrimp. Dry Pack 15< - Roe or Fish Eggs 15c Kill Johns. ESS SLICES OF ENERGY are cut from the bread that we bake at our model bake shop. Our breads are made from the best and most nutritious flour, and are sure to be muscle building and strengthening. Light, white and of delicious flavor that tempts the apjietite is the best and latest loaves baked by Martin’s Martin’s bread for sale at S. E. Hite grocery and Brushwilier ana Baker and Mrs. Anna CcConnell’s North End Grocery. Jacob Martin

j NEW SILKS f ij We Have Just Received A Shipment 01 New Silks § S In Silk Crop -> plain and figured, all colors. || 55 In Silk Poplins, plain and figured, all colors. S In Silk Crepes Meteors, in all colors. H 55 In Silk Ratines and wool crepes in colors. n „ ii II Cotton Ratines, plain and striped all colors. 2 Cotton Crepes, plain and striped all colors. 55 55 Cotton Voilsand Embroidery Flouncings. Cotton Poplins, Plain and Brocades. § All New, Come Early and Get the Choice Patterns. H jj — —= a | THE BOSTON STORE =

WAS FROZEN TO DEATH. (United Press Service) Wahtsh, Ind., Feb. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Eli Lacemau, 75, living in Huntington county, was found dead this morning in a snowdrift 300 feet from hi:; house. He had wandered from the path last nlglit while returning from the barn. Hi aged wife is believed lo be dying from shock caused by tbe news. BECKER GRANTED NEW TRIAL. (United Press Service) Albany, N. V.. Feb. 24 (Special to Daily Democrat) —By a vote of six to one the court of appeals today grunted a new trial to former Police Lieutenant Becker, convicted of the murder of Rosenthal, the notorious gambler, and sentenced to death. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN. A noteworthy performance of ev -y---body's favorite drama, “Uncle To-n - Cabin." will be given at the 11, , - era house, Wednesday, February - The production will it- pr • ctucci Leon Washburn*! Sict- m's “UnTom's Cabin” eompuay, campus * *1 actors and actresses of ability. “Uu cie Tom's Cabin" is over half a c -:i tury old, yet people are as vividly stirred by it now as those of the civ 1 war times and as the ouc-t in the d-m fifty years will be. A highly artbti,meritorious performance is assured. Q Democrat Want Ads P: • Dr. C. V^Connell VETERINARIAN Phone RA.irt.ni-. Ift)

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LOOK HERE We have a farm for quick sale of 173 acres 2 1-2 miles from good market, one mile to school; fair buildings a.id well fenced. This is an excellent farm for stock and mixed grain farming being a good producer of ha , wheatoats and grass. Pi ice $85.00 an acre. We have the Zwick store at Bingen for sale. This is a good live business in German locality. Right man can hnd good paving business, at once. W e have a large list of farms and city properties. Let us sqow you these before you buy. i | Erwin & Michaud. i to ST. LOUIS AND RETURN VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE SATURDAYS, FEBRUARY 7tb. AND 21st Get tickets and information of H. J. THOMPSON, Agent Decatur to Toledo and Return VIA CLOVER-LEAF-ROUTE Sunday February Ist and 15th and March Ist 15th and 2*Jth see H.J. Thompson Agt for Particulars