Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1914 — Page 3

Barefoot Sandals FROM MENS TO BABIES 49c to 51.75 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

8 WEATHER FORECAST | TT OAOOAXAa. a-.. . - - - - fyyjmmiimHttWtTTlᯮ Probably thunder atorms. Colder. I Jeff Klopfenstein of Preble was iu the city yesterday on business. Mrs. Finley B.yan of Salem was j business visitor in the city yesterday. Mrs. Theo. Uhl of Preble was a business visitor iu the city yesterday. , Mr. and Mrs. George Dilling of Pre hie were visitors in the city yesterday. Henry Selking of Preble township attended the semi monthly horse sale yesterday. Jess Niblick left this morning for Indianapolis to attend the 500 mlk automobile race. Mrs. Fn d Hockmeyer and children of Flat Rock. Allen County. Indiana, were visitors the city yesterday. Mrs. W. H. Merry left yesterday afternoon for Mich, where she will visit with friends and relatives for a few days. A num tier of Decaturs race lovers left on the two o'clock Grand Rapids train for ladianapohs to attend the sw> mile race. We taka this means in thanking our maay subscribers in complying with I our request to pay the news-boy for the paper on Friday evening. Walter Kauffman is home from hb weekly business trip in the interest of the Schafer Bad<i>ry company to spend Sunday with his family.

The|Home Os Quality Groceries Our old potatoes could be no better bu . . . . This week our last for pines 21’s case o.uU Eastern granulated sugar 25 lbs • • • • • • Fresh bread every day Decatur baiied . . .u & luc Red salmon . . 15c - Honey square . . 20c Pink “ !. . 10c - Sweet pickles . . 10c Lemons doz. . 25c • Sour • • l-o We pay cash!" >r trade for produce, Eggs 16c Butter 12c to 22c HOWER & HOWER North o( G. F. & I. Depot 8

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| Reuben Robinson went to Ft. Wayne | today- on business | Miss l.eota Bailey lias gone to Berne II for a visit with Mrs. Beftler. E. J.Bailey has gone to South Bend j where he has taken a position Miss Bernice Andrews went to Fort ’! Wayne this morning to visit over i Sunday. Hugh Hite left yesterday for Indianai polis to attend the SUO-mtle automobile race. I Mr. and Mrs. John Hessler returned to Fort Wayne today after a visit here with relatives Mrs. W. Wilmington of Grand Rapids, Mich, is here for a visit with her sister. Mrs. Ed Phillips. ' Mi-s Elisabeth Genthner of Fort Wayne arrived for a visit with Miss Lydia Kirsch over the week-end. Over one hundred automobiles past'd through the city late last night on their way to Indianapolis to attend l the speedway races today. Mrs. J. S. Bowers and family will return tomorrow evening from Rome . City where they spent the week getting their cottage ready for the summer. Dr. I). D. Clark left this morning for New Haven where he will attend tlie funeral of his brother Dr. Battle Clark whose death occurred Thursday i morning Decoration Day did not stop the large force of the schafer Saddlery , company from continuing their heavytask of moving their saddlery factory from Madison street to their spacious new building in the north part of the city. Their new plant will be ready 1 for men to go to work within a short time.

Ehno Smith went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to take his weekly vocal lesson. Noah Mangold has returned from his weekly business trip to spend Sunday with life family. n hNlt PttG *••...( ETAOIN N Mrs. John B. Rice went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Little Miss Louise Long left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne for a two weeks’ visit with relatives. Omer Niblick was among those who went to Indianapolis this morning to attend the 500 mile automoile race. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burr have returned from a visit with their daughter, Mrs. John Watson in Monroeville. Mrs. Amos Barrone and children, Otha and Bessie and Mrs. Polly Barrone, left yesterday afternoon for Antwerp, Ohio, where they will visit over Decoration Day with Mrs. Barrone's relatives. The work of improving the Catholic parsonage is nearly completed and the large and beautiful brick porch that was erected in front of the house is ready for the use of Father Helmets. The large arc lights will be erected within the near future. Tiie books in the automobile department of Secretary of State Elllngham’s office showed today that nearly 50.000 automobiles have been licensed thus tar in 1914. The total was within 125 of the 50,000 mark. There on the file to be fled at once requests for nearly 7,000 more automobiles in Indiana show that there are at this time nearly 7,000 more automopiles in Indiana now than there were at the close of 1913. The state has collected this year in licenses from automobiles, motorcycles and chaffeurs, more than $250,000. The total collected last year while the new law was in operation was about $200,000. It is estimated that the secretary of state will issue more than 60,000 licenses this year and that he will collect in fees for the state more than $140,000. When Jules Goux sent his machine around the speedway at Indianapolis in the preliminary try-out and did it iu a little less than a minute and 33 seconds, everyimdy who is at all Interested in the coming great 500 mile event, at once concluded that the wild Frenchman had set a mark for other speed bugs to strive for, and to strive for in vain: but there is another Frenchman there and what he did to Mr. Go’s recoil was enough. This other French gent is called Georges Bolilot, and you can pronounce the name to suit your own pleasure. It might be "Hoil-it”, or ’’Belo," or “Below," or ’’Boil-O.” Anyway when the stop watch stopped after Boillet had completed one round of the track. It disclosed that his time was 1 minute 30.13 seconds. Ou the stretches he sent his Peugeot racer along at a speed of 125 miles per hour, or better than two miles a minute. At many points on the Atlantic coast as well as In English beys'and harbors, a popular sporting event Is "yacht” racing witli little flat-bottomed tioats as the coatending craft. For the true waterman there is almost as much sport in a race of this kind as In sailing a much larger vessel or even watching the big 90-footers compete for the “America's" cup. Nothing could be simpler to build, rig and sail titan these little boats, the merits! <>f which are well portrayed in -tlie handsome cover design of the June Popular Mechanics Magazine Pointed at both ends, witli sides 14 in. to 1$ in. deep, they are ordinarily built about 14 ft. long and 3 to 4 ft. across at the widest part, amidships. Os course, such a craft Is not designed for seaworthiness and is intended primarily for rowing In still, shallow waters, but rigged with a short mast and .<1 sprilsail. there Is a fair degree of safe ty and much sport to be had even in fairly rough water. Tlie certainty of a thorough wetting adds to the excitement. In the June American Magazine! "Eddie" Collins, second Itasenian fori the Philadelphia Athletics, wriiea u highly Interesting baseball article entitled "Connie Mack and Hl* Mack men." in which he describes Intimately the wonderful Philadelphia base ball manager. Culling Is the man whom "Johnny” McGraw of the New York ultfnls calls the greatest ba*eliall player In the world. Following is an extract from the*article: "Every morning al ten, we gather in tho club house; If the team i* on the road, we meet iu Connie's room In the hotel. We are never In session lea* than ten minute* or rarely more than half an hour. But In that time the game to bo played that afternoon Is sometimes won. Every point of the defensive and offensive strength of the opponimt team I* diacussed Mark will mention lhe pitcher that our opponents will probaldy use. and instantly a scheme of attack is devised. This attack varies as we m**f different pitchers. Always in those morning meeting Mack gMM aver Hie entire situation, plana the battle. '

Dee Lewton returned home yesterday afternoon after a several days’ business trip througli tlie southern part of Indiana. A rig has been built on the Bell farm near Geneva and tlie tools moved in and drilling is to be commenced at once. Unless tlie market takes an unexpected slump, oil operations here in tlie near future will open up. Tills well which is to be drilled is within a mile of producing territory and should make a good well. Tlie Clifton Oil Company, which lias extensive holdings in tills field, is contemplating putting in one or two strings of tools to drill out their leases here. Since the price of crude oil took a leap dow uward, oil operations have practically been at a standstill, operators waiting to see whether tlie price would drop lower or slowly creep upward again after a time. The theft of SI.OOO worth of jewelry from the home of John Weiss at South Bend last Friday became known for the first time, even to the owner of the gems Wednesday, with the arrest of Frank Howard, a cook at Michigan City. Howard was arrested on suspicion when he attemp. : to d.. pose of an attractive eoilectiu.. cf rings, watcli chains and the like in a Michigan City pawn shop. He promptly confessed. The gems, the property of Mrs. Weiss, were stolen from the ice box in tlie Weiss home. Mrs. Weiss had placed them there for protection, she thought, while engaged In house cleaning, Howard, in prowling about the house, came on the jewels accidentally, acording to Ills story, and then left the city. Tlie old adage "We All Fall” was again proven when a fair young girl soliciting subscriptions for magazines lighted in Rochester Wednesday. The girl claimed that she was getting subscriptions for the magazines in or der that she could go to college, each magazine she sold counting so many votes. She approached about ten young men with the' proposition, all of them taking it and giving her 49 cents as the first installment. Most of them got a date with her for about eight o'clock that evening. When they called at the Arlington Hotel for their date* they found out that she had left in the afternoon for Logansport in company with a young man wiio was also working tlie magazine graft Landlord Bonine wore out tlie plioin explaining. o DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

| Big Suit And Coat Sale | 1, 2 : r ■ * l : «$ r One-Half-Price I""t’' ' B \vW Nobby cloth Suits all this ; i lio seasons best values Never so early in the season have such suits been sold at hail price. 5 Nothing reserved. Every suit must be sold no matter how good value it I may be. Selection is still good but come early while stocks are complete. * II 515.00 SUITS 57.50. 525-00 SUITSSI2.SO. $22.50 SUITS 310.50 ■ AllJSpring coats at Manufactured cost. New line white wash dresses ■ all prices. Nobby line wash skirts from sl. to $4.50 all sizes. I NIBLICK AND CO. i li~,, -1 e=3 r-"""—1 1, 1 e=se=3 d

ÜBRfiRY_STRUCK Sheet Os Lightning Passes Through Window Top— Shatters Glass Door DURING THE STORM Freak Bit Os Lightning-Li-brarian Stunned For Short While A freak bit of lightning miring the electrical storm at 6:45 o’clock, lust I evening, that followed tlie wind storm, I entered the top of a southwest lowered window in the reference room of the library, in tiie form of n sheet or bolt of flame, it passed through shattering the large giass window in tlie door between tlie reference and main library rooms into a million fragments. The switchboard iu the room at the northwest corner went est with a roar and the library was left in darkness. Miss Annette Moses, librarian, was working at her desk and she was partially stunned; her mother, Mrs. Julia Moses, in the northwest room, was also partially dazed and it was fully an hour before they recovered from tlie awful efforts. o BUYS OLIVER HOTEL A telegram was received this morning by Mrs. Dick Townsend from Mr. Townsend who at present is in Chicago Mating that he had completed all arrangements for tlie purchase of the Oliver hotel at South Bind, Indiana and would probably take possession next Saturday. The Oliver is the finest and largest hotel in that city and has a wonderful patronage. Colonel Di<k, holds tiio envious reputation of being one of tlie best hotel managers In the country and every proposition he has taken iitjld of lias proven a winner. Mrs. Townsend lias been visiting for several months with her mother, Mrs. Gregory in this city and will join Mr. Townsend next week. — ' —o 1 ■... •OR RENT—Large Furnished rooms for light bouse-keeping. 115 South First st. 114tC

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