Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1914 — Page 3

BABY DOLLS In Gun Metal, Patent, Black Satin And White Poplin Plenty Os Sizes Right Now

CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

|j WEATHER FORECAST jj Htiiiniwiiniu»a»n»nuan:;n;;:t::;u ;• Cloudy tonight. Probably showers and thunder storms. Mrs. D. B. Erwin spent yesterday in Fort Wayne. C. K. Bell made a business trip to Fort Wayne yesterday. W. W. Briggs of Geneva was here yesterday on business. Attorney Wilbert Ryan ot Mucie was here today on business. William Measel. Elmer Smelser, Vai Finch, were here on business yesterday. John Stark went to Fort Wayne yes 1 terday on business tor the Rex ' theatre. Mesdames William Ayres and J. 1’ Defer returned to Willshire. Ohio, 1 yesterday noon. W. M. Dorwin. city mail earner, attended Hie Elks' picnic yesterday and Om* r Butler, substitute, was carrying in his place. C. Duke, chief engineer for the Ft. Wayne and Springfield railway con pany. went to Ft. Wayne on busine yesterday. .Miss Minnie Orris, who is now in Fort Wayne, will go to Massillon. 0. 1 Friday for over Memorial day to vi-it i at the graves of livr parents. The Elks enjoyed their anuu.il pi <ni< tn the Werling grove near Preble yi> terday and it was a happy o . ... An ;utomobilo made the round tup r< gurlarly during the aay to give tlm <■ i who desired a chance to attend an i ritura ns they wished.

FheHome Os Quality Groceries Our old potatoes could be nu better bu . . . . SI.OO This week our last for pines_2i’s case 3.50 Eastern granulated sugar 25 lbs . . . . . . . 1.25 Fresh bread every day Decatur baked . . . 5 & 10c Red salmon . . 15c - Honey square . . 20c Pink “ . . 10c - Sweet pickles . . 10c Lemons doz. . 25c - Sour “ . . 12d We pay cash'or trade for produce, Eggs 16c Butter 12c to 22c HOWER & HOWER Northol G. K.I. Depot 108 *^—— —»** 1 ■W II ■ ______ I F.M.SCHIRMEYER FKE NCH QUINN 1 pedant Secretary Ireaa. p» I THE BOWERS REALTY CO, I P Er AL I STATE. BONDS, LOANS, w g ABSTRACTS K 1 The Schlrmever Abstract Company complete Ab-. I itrsctEecords, Iwcnty years Experience raimi. City Property, 5 per Mil I MONEY I

Junn Rupel of Bryant was a busl I miss visitor here yesterday. Homer H. Knodle of Fort Wayne wa-- a business visitor here yesterday. The front of the Steele five and ten cent store is being nicely repainted. M \ elma Butler, of the RunyonEngler store is off duty on account of an attack of tonsilitis. Dwight Peterson began working yesterday morning in the Robinson and Kirsch ice cream parlor. Howard Wisehaupt left yesterday afternoon fur Syracuse, N. Y., ou business for the Vail plant. Miss Ada Stevens was working al the Morris store yesterday in the place of Miss Eula McKinney. J. W. Hendricks returned to this city y ■ 'terday after spending several days in Portland attending to business. Mr- Albert Hartstein is assisting at the Steele five and ten cent store in the absence ol Miss Rose Klein lienz who is taking a few days* vaca tion. M>- Grace Gerard left yesterday aft- rnoou for Auburn to visit witli her brother. Ben Gerard. She was accompanied to Fort Wayne by her mother, Mrs. Al Gerard. Mis Mipnie Fleetwood of Berne who iia> been making her home for seme time with the A. D. Suttles family took seriously sick and had to be taken to her home near Berne. Great crowds of people visited Rob is"ii park at Fort Wayne last Sunday al t' e annual opening and the attract ions are said to be better than ever 11. i season. Many people from this ty w. re in attendance and reported tl ' time of their lives.

Oren Stults of Wren, Ohio, is the guest of liis grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William Wetter. Tho Misses Fanny Hammel! and Frances Cole returned to this city Monday after spending Sunday with relatives and friends in Portland. The comity commissioners will meet next Monday for their regular June session, at which time the usual routine of business will be taken care of. Miss Bertha Dauer left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. H. F. Dauer who will spend a tew days there. Newton Parrish aud daughter, Don na, Margaret, George aud Uoyd Kinzle, left yesterday on the 8:30 car for Monmoutb, whei'e they visited, with the Charles Johnson families. Mr. John Irvin and daughter, Lucile, returned to their home in Columbus. Ohio, after a several days visit with Mr. Irvin’s sister, Mrs. J. C. Patterson and their mother, Mrs. S. Q. Irvin. C. O. France of the Columbia City Commercial-Mail was here last evening for an hour and was busy shaking hands with old friends. He was ac companied by Messrs. Snyder, Dorii and Binder. Mrs. L. G. Ellingham and daugiiter Miss Winifred have gone to Annapolis Md„ where they are attending the commencement exercises of the naval academy, a triend of the family being .one ot the graduates. They will be absent two weeks. According to the June Woman's Home Companion invitations to eithei a home or a church wedding are now usually issued three weeks before the date of the wedding, and never later than two weeks beforehand. An nouncements are mailed immediate!) after the wedding, perferably the same day, certainly the day following. The Axtecs of Mexico were the first gum chewers known to the civilised world and Cortez reported it as eni ployed by the natives to quench thirst and relieve exhaustion. They gathet the sap by the same method as is em ployed in the United States in tapping the maple tree for sugar. Chicle has been used by the Mexicans down to this day and their country furnisher about sir sevenths of the entire supply consumed by us. The latest statistics of the depart meat of commerce shows that in the year 1913 the United States imported 13.401.500 pounds of Chicle, valued ai $5,119,500, which was nsed as the basis of practically all the chewing gum us ed in this country. Chicle is a word 1 of Artec origin of the sapnte tree botanieally recognized as the sapots za petal la, and indigenous to Mexico and other tropical countries. Will Freeman left yesterday foi Portland and Winchester where h» will visit a few days before starting for his home at Seattle, Wash. H« enjoyed his visit here immensely. Or Monday he went to Rockford in com 1 pany with French Quinn and J. 8 Peterson. They visited witli Will Christen and the four men wh< twenty-five years ago were insep>-rabl< chums, had a most delightful day. Traveling at the rate of forty five miles an hour on his motorcycle. •'Doc' Brown, aged twenty years, sen of Louis Brown, a farmer residing seven miles east of Auburn, Indiana, was instantly killed when he was thrown from his machine at the curve near the Cartner school house. Brown was rid ing tandem with a companion, Clyde Franks, who was also thrown from th< machine with terrific force, but ybo escaped without injury. The machine was totally demolished. The eight year old daughter of F W. Prescott, of near Columbia City, while In the woods where her father was cutting timber. became suddenly frightened and Mr. Prescott noticed the child in a dazed condition, seem ingly charmed, hurried to her side and was surprised to see a monster blue racer estimated to be ten foot long staring Uie child in the face with Ux tongue flashing like lightning. The noise of the appfoach of the father caused the reptile to make a hasty retreat. It entering a hollow tree. .When Presiuent Wilson signed the bill giving the city of San Francisco the right to use Hie water from th* lletch Hctchy Valley. Cherry Creek and Lake Eleanor, In the Yosemite Valley, that city was assured a per mancnl water supply sufficient to care for a population of from 4.009.000 to &.(wo.ooo. a supply many times in excess of its present needs. This vie tory for the western metropolis was secured only after a long contest, the big fight against the project being based on the assumption that a reservoir In the HetcJi-Hetehy Valley would spoil the wild beauty of that portion of the Yosemite National Park, although the project was fav« ored by many famous "cimservaUons." Now that the contest la settled, surveys and plans for an aqueduct are being rapidly pushed to completion — From the June Popular Mechanics Magatise.

Fred Mills and O. L. Vance are in Detroit. Mich., on business. Attorney Will Reed of Fort Wayne, attended the funeral of William Miller held here. Chas. Vogiewede has returned from Toledo wiiere he visited witli relatives for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Meibers and son, C. 0. Meibers, left today for Rome City for a two weeks' stay at their cottage. A number from this city will leave Friday morning and night for Indianapolis where they will attend the 500 mile automobile races. Mrs. O. L- Vance and daugiiter, Lee Anna, went to Koyt Wayne yesterday morning to visit with her mother, Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer at the Hope hospital. Dick Burdg Jias returned from Fort Wayne where he was getting Acquainted with the new duties of his position as collector for the National rating association. Miss Maggie Peoples returned last night to her home at Ayr, N. D. Site was accompanied as far as Valparaiso by her nephew, Guy Brown, who is returning there to school. Thoma? Malley who iia., been visitink in Chicago witli bis son Joseph, is expeefed home withip tho next few days. His son will move his family from Chicago to this city where they will make their home. Attorney Will Reed of Fort Wayne was here today to attend the funeral of his old friend William Miller. Mr. Reed practiced law here a number of years being a member of the firm of Schurger, Reed & Smith. Mrs. Ed Luttman and son, John, and her mother, Mrs. D. C. Wagoner, left this afternoon for Sturgis. Michigan, where they will spend the summer. Die Luttmans own property there and they go to take care of that. Dr. and Mrs. Perry Ferry, and son aud daughter arrived here at noon in their automobile en route to their home at Akron. Indiana, after a visit with relatives and friends in New York state. Dr. Ferry formerly lived at Preble and attended high school in this city. The business men held their regular session last evening but the weather was too warm and the attendance was imall. The committee who canvassed the merchants on the sales day proposition reported that practically ev■ry member had agreed to take part n the event. A special meeting will probably be held soon to complete arrangements. In the June American Magazine a former newspaper man, who became a victim of the opium habit and is now a convict in a penitentiary, writes / Iramatlc account of his experiences with the drug. He gives as follow, his idea of the power of the habit: “1 do not believe that any man witli in opium or morphine habit of years' standing can deny himself the drug if It is within reach. “I do not believe that any man, no matter what his previous character may have been, can use opium continuously and not have the impulse to be crooked. He may tot be crooked, he may lack the nerve or the necessity to Meal, but the impulse will be there, and if It ever becomes a question of theft or a 'habit' he will thieve. This is the history '>( every opium smoker I have ever known.'* Announcement is made by Marcus A. Dow. General safety Agent of the New York Central Lines, that accidents to trespassers on tiie New York Central A Hudson River R. R. continue? to decrease as a result of the campaign conducted by the Safety Department of the road. During tile seven months ending April :unh. 1914, there were 98 trespassers killed on the railroad as against 136 killed during the same period a year ago. a dec reuse of 28 per cent. There were 121 trespassers Injured during the past seven months as against 163 duiing life same period the previous year, a dr, tease of 2$ per cent. The railroad officials have noticed that there are many few er persons in certain localities who walk on the track* than heretofore, particularly In manufacturing di trlcta where men and woman of the wage earning claaa leave habitually disregarded life and lltnb by taking "abort-cuta** along the railroad. Thl» reduction In the numtier of persons Hi us exposing thmuaaives lu danger and the consequent reduction in the loss of human lives, baa been brought about through the pcrHiaJent campaign waged by the railroads la warning ami irtMiM treapunaerv. Sonictimrs fines have been Imposed, but in many Instances prison senteiues have been mated out. tiie term of imprisonment ranging from iu to W days The result* vo far have been ho encouraging Hiai the railroad announces its intention of continuing the policy to arrest and prose: ule persons In New York Htate who violate the Slate law by walking on its tracks, in the hope that still greater reductions tn deaths and injuries will result.

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BUGGY, CARRIAGE. AUTOMOBILE F*ainting LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES Holthouse Froof Garage $5.00 $5.00 Decatur to St. Louis and Return VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE Saturdays, May 9. 16, and 30. See 11. J. Thompson, Agt for Particulars LOW RATE EXCURSION VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTES ...T0... BLUFFTON, MARION, KOKOMO & FRANKFORT Every Sunday See J. H. THOMPSON, Agent Decatur for Information BARGAIN WEEK BABY DOLLS PATENT LEATHERS GUN METALS SIZES 2 1-2 to 6’s In Hand Turned and Welts $2.50 PEOPLES & GEKKE