Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1914 — Page 3

|ANY AN OLD SOLDIER ■...wi1l tramp, tramp tomorrow and ■his feet will be comfortable in our ■Cushion Comfort Shoes. Make our ■store your headquarters, come here ■to rest and let us take care of vour ■packages. | ALWAYS WELCOME I CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. I THE SHOE SELLER

■Hnuntttutmnjaj::::::::::::;:::;;;: Beather forecast i ■ thunder storms. Colder. Mr and Mrs. O. G. Spliar spent the Kort Wayne. Boch of Fort Wayne was a Ins itsfl visitor in the city today. Mr, William Bfeberich of Prebl. ent to Fort Wayne yesterday afterand Ferdinand Reinking <>: township were visitors in i Butler will leave tonight for llttll ipolis to attend the five hundre I race. Carpenter and daughter Su .. Harry of Washington town visitors in the city y< t« r Geutis made n bu m Wayne this morning in the of the International Harvest) mMny. Sowers left this mornin. lis where he will attend thautomobile race on la Mrs. Tom Reid and Mr and Pnrrieh and bnbe v ’ ity this morning wl • i> t a few days outing at th< !■ ttage. Thomas Coats, aged eight} forty years a minister < It Churvh, U dead at his hoc Hie funeral and her . d at Rockford, Thursday.

yeHome Os Quality Groceries Bur old potatoes could be nv better bu . . . . SI.OO Bn is week our last for pines 2 I s cast 3..»0 B o tern granulated sugar 25 lb? •••••• Brcsh bread every day Decatur baked . . . o X Ivc a Red salmon .. 1& - Honey square . . ?0c M . 10c ■ Sweet pickles . . 10c I j Lemons doz . . 25c - Sour “ • • 1-d I j We pay cash« )r trade for i reduce, Eggs 16c B Butter 12c to 22c I HOWER & HOWER ■orlh vs G. R. & I. Ccpot l ’ ll,i " 1 ' If.M.SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN I | Pnddeot >ecreur7 Treu. I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I I BEAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, I abstracts BTbe Schlrmever Abstract Company compete Ab- . I strict Beeords, Twenty yea™ Experience | Hrmi, City Property, 5 per eeii E MONEY

|i Miss Sylvia Rayl of .Monroe was a shopper in the city yesterday. I -Mn-s Grace .Miller has returned from || Geneva where she gave her weekly I vocal lesson. Mr. and Mrs Harry Braden left this morning for Elkhart where they will . > visit for a few days with friends and , relatives. the I). M. Hensley family will go ' to Rome City next Thursday where I they will occupy their cottage during , I the summer. . The Democratic Central Committee will meet in this city Thursday of ,| next week, at which time business of much importance will he transaebsi If you miss paying the paper boy . | this evening have your dime ready to--11 morrow noon. It is a matter of great importance to the boy though it may not seem so to you. Miss Mary Patton, in training for ; a nurse at the Lutheran hospital I school, arrived home yesterday afterI noon for a visit witli her parent*, Mr. ' and Mrs. Charles Patton. Mr. and .Mrs. G. C. Haughton of Dawajack. Mich„ have arrived in the city and an moving their household I furniture to the home they have rent ied on Eight street. They will make this city their home. I In the June Womans Home Cum - entitled 'Red Head,' by George Wood Paugborn. in which one of the characters says: ■ Ah, Berlin’. yer own kitchen and yer own man and yer own childer--yes and all the world's happiness in a turf hutßut other people's I kitchens, no matter how splendid—'tis 1 1 sad sad pU< >they are for them that

Oliver Schug of Hartford City was a business visitor her. Attorney F. M. Cottrell of Berne was a business visitor here yesterday. Oliver Schug of Hartford City, is here visiting with relatives and attending to business matters. Love is wonderful stuff. It will make a girl marry a man who is cross-eyed and has red whiskers and make her believe all the other women' are jealous of her. At the meeting of the city council next Tuesday evening a member of tin school board will be chosen to HUccgcd Irvin Brandyberry who has served for three years. Several names have been mentioned in connection witli the office. A freezing temperature of 26 de-! ■fees at Flagstaff, Arizona, Is shown on lust Thursday's weather map. Low temperature lines extend from Flagstag eltherway to tile oceans, showing temperature of 30 and 31 degrees. Thetemperature shows steadily warmer toward the north. It is reported that there will be only half an apple crop this full. It ie claimed that the recent heavy ruins destroyed the buds of the last apple trees and that there will be no late crop. The prospects at the beginning of the senson were exceptionally bright for an extra large crop. Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Peterson left this mornlug for Indianapolis, where they wili attend the races tomorrow. They will remain for several days while Mr. Peterson will attend to business matters of importance. Their daughter Ixtis will accompany them as far as Richmond wiiere she will visit with Rev. Parker and family. Tlie Knight of Columbus from this city will go to Indianapolis Saturday night on a special sleeping car having arranged for the party over the G. R. A-. I. They will return Satolay night. Ten candidates from here will take the fourth degree and fourteen of the brothers who have already taken the degree will accompany them. A newly devised deck of playing cards makes it possible for those who have lost their sight to play aimpl*< card games. At the top and Itottom of these cards there are holes punched in groups corres|M>uding to the Bralllo characters, or raised letters which the blind are generally taught to read.— From the June Popular Mechanics Magazine. With tlie temperature boiling above the 92 mark yesterday in Chicago and vicinity, it afforded scant refief to read of the severe cold wave and snow over Southeastern France. Outside of Chicago the heat was more intense. Evansville, Ind., reported 101. and the 100 mark was reached ut several places. In the Great Ijikes region considerable relief was afforded by occasional clouds which broke tlie force of the sun's rays. The humidity was also low—about 50—which averted much suffering. Professor Pauline Mariotte Davies, head of the French department it Purdue university and one of the best known edueators in the middle west. I has announced her resignation to take effect in June at the close of the school year. She has c.omplotod eighteen consecutive years as a member of tlie Purdue faculty and tor more than fourty years has Iwen a teacher of French In different schools in the t'nfted States. She is retiring from active touching under the Carnegi Foundation for advancements of teaching. Mrs. Hugh Eddington, whose home is near Toscln, submitted to an operation at a Ft. Wayne hospital Tuesday afternoon, made necessary by tuberculosis of the bone, which hid seriously diseased one of her knees. The limb was amputated about four tnciies above the knee, latest reports from the hospital today were that Mrs. Eddington had rallied very satisluctorlly from the operation, and her condition wan as good as could Im expected and tlie attending physicians are very hopeful of her complete recovery. She was reported to have considerable fever this morning, but the doctors explained that this was expected under the dreumstaacaa. "It takes the average man a long lime alter marriage to realise that Ills wife la a human being, much like himself, with the addition of some nerves, some superstitions, some pre Judices, and some finer amotions of which ho knows little or nothing. Mot many men have reached the state of marriage in as complete Ignorance of women as I did. I had bean rather bashful and shy witli them as a Im>> and too busy to pay mm li ut tent lon to them as a man. Living in cities in which I was a stranger I had no oppor tunlty to meet the nice once and no Inclination to aaaociatr with the other kind. Being strong, healthy ami normal. I knew nothing of nerves und had sennt tmtieiico with their various man Ifcstiitiona. ordinarily attributing pho Immiemi due to nerves toother rauaea.'' — ‘A. Hubbard." in ihe American |msrmiu«.

i Miss Nota Strickler spent yesterday in Fort Wayne. i Mrs. ('. Ray went to Fort Wayne . this morning. i J. B. Lower went to Fort Wayne - tills morning on business Mrs. Dick Hill and daughter, Mabel, I returned to their home in Root towni shii» after shopping here. 1 George Scheutnann returned to ills 1 home north of the city on the 8:30 car after attending to business here. * Vaughn Murray and Cluyson Carroll 1 will leave this evening for indlanapo ’ lis where they will attend the 500-inlle ’ race on Decoration day. Miss Mary Erwin, Arthur Holthouse ji mid Jesse Cole will spend Decoration Day at Pleasant Mills as the guests ' of Miss Gladys Mc.TSlen. Mrs. Clarence Cornthwaite and daughter, Dorothy, left yesterday for Frankfort, to visit with relatives. They ’ visited here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kitson. Mr. nnd Mrs. Lawrence Leaser. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller left yesterday afternoi n for Ouk Harbor. Ohio, after attending the funeral of William Miller. Meadnmes Hughe.- . Justus, i'oughty , of Ossian and Mrs. Mat Gorrell of Deliphos. Ohio, were here yesterday to call on their sister, Mrs. C. J. Weaver who is very low. Mrs. J. S. Kiefer who has been In the Hope hospital. Fort Wayne for treatment, was taken to her home at k Willshire yesterday. She is not getting lietter. and in fact is believed to be even weaker. The Schafer Saddlery Company who are moving into their commodiu •• new building on the site of the auto-' mobile factory find the task a big one. It will require all of next week io complete the job. Mr. and Mrs. John Hendricks will leave the first of next week for Odon. Michigan, where they will enjoy tlie summer months at their cottage. The Daniel Sprang family and A. R. 801 l expect to join them soon as members of the colony, they also owning cot cages there. Mrs. T. F. Freese, formerly Miss Minnie Griswold of this city, is here visiting with friends Site came from Georgia and is now going to Dallas. Texas to join her husband in making ' that place their home. She ie visiting with a sister. Mrs. Ix-wis Swoveland at Wren. Ohio, and will also go to Lorain. Oliio. to visit with n brother..

p 1 -■■■* lt=g~ir 11 Big Suit And Coat Sale | j One-Half-Price p '* □’ ABt JHi ft Nobby cloth Suits all this > Vi ■ r i U'il seasons best values Never so early in the season have such suits been sold at half price, . , Nothing reserved. Every suit must be sold no matter how good value it II may be. Selection is still good but come early while stocks are comple-1| te. |] fl 515.00 SUITS 57.50. 525 00 SUITS 512.50. fl : ; 522.50 SUITS 510.50 AUJSpring coats at Manufactured cost. New line white wash dresses 1 all prices. Nobby line wash skirts from sl. to $4.50 all sizes. I BBHBBMBHHBBBBBBBBBBBBHBBBB NIBLICK AND CO. I*3 k 4 E=. u». -> JCZ3ZZ3ZZ3 IZmZhSZZZ3 X!Ziwb!Zbm3 EZZZZZZhZZX CmZHmSZS El 1

Fords! Fords! ■ - 1 WW, counts isn’t what you pay-but what you get for what you pay. The Ford buyer gets the most value for his money. Big production, skilled workm 31 and best materials make Ford quality high and Ford prices low. TOURING CAR $565.00 ROADSTER 515.00 DECATUR AUTO COMPANY STEWART & HOWER, Salesmen. PHONE 739 - E. MONROE ST.

Omer Niblick left today for Indianapoliß where he will attend the races. Ralph Howard, an employee of the handle factory, has gone to LaFount-; taine to visit with his mother. Miss Amanda Scheumann of St. I Johns was a shopper here today, returning home on tlie 11:30 car. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Heller left this morning tor Indianapolis, win tlmy will attend the 500-niile race at that place on Decoration Day. The Knights of Columbus will hold their regular iuevtmg on next Monday evening. This meeting v ill be the only one during the month of June, it being a rule to liciu only one nr"t ing ti month during, the summer. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

ATTENTION FARMERS Our price for Butter Fat for the week ending with May 30th. is EXTRA No. No. 2-25fcc Butter 27c Bring Cs Your Cream correct weights end tests guaranteed ADAMS COUNTY CRtAMERY COMPANY