Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1914 — Page 3

A few pairs of Mens English Model, black and tan oxfords, rubber heels attached, sizes 5 to 7, only $2.45 CHARLIE VOGIEVEDE THE SHOE SELLER

WEATHER FORECAST! Fair tonight and Saturday. Brains can make money, but money can’t make brains. Most of us can see a sorrow twice as far away as a blessing. There’s always room at the top for those who prefer an attic. A man is never too busy to listen when the lady on the dollar talks. To start things coming your way pretend that you have already an abundance. If a young man has money to burn any number of anxious mothers try to hand him a match. Pronouncing the names of those Mexican towns must be worse than taking them by force of arms. , Mrs. Harry Leeper and son, Harry, returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit here. Miss Della Miller of Newcastle is here for a visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. T. E.Miller . A touch of nature may make the whole world kin, but some folks always.get in the poor cousin class. Miss Grace Butler is at home from school at Angola for a visit over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel Butler, and to attend the Butler reunion. Herman W. Rippe, stenographer m tile Fort Wayne postoffice, lias been granted a leave of absence, during which time he will ba married to Hazel M. Lenhart.—Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette.

The Home Os Quality Groceries A GOOD TIME To lay in a supply; when the price is low. You will make no mistake on a supply of FLOUR BEANS LARD SALMON SUGAR SARDINES TEA LEMONS We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 19c Butter 15c to 25c HOWER & HOWER North ofjC. R. & I. Depot H»ne 108 . —————— ~ ~~ - IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN g President Secretary Treas. ij I THE BOWERS REALTY CO I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. g I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- I S stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience ’u Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY 1

Many a man’s reputation is based on what isn’t found out about ihm. George C. Steele made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughter, Dorothy, spent the day at Fort Wayne. How many Americans would recognize the Mexican flag if they saw it? Mrs. William Kukelhan left yesterday afternoon for Dayton, 0., on a visit. There's no use in worrying, and there’s no use in telling people there is no use. Guy Brown lias returned from Valparaiso where he lias completed his college course. Tlie Misses Albina and Oliva Ardner of Tiffin, Ohio, are the guests of Miss Agnes Costello. Attorney J. C. Moran and Sheriff Durkins have returned from Indianapolis where they were called on business. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Killing left this morning for Lake Wawasee where they will attend a Y. P. A. convention and visit over Sunday. Mrs. Annie Chilcote of Newark, 0., and Miss Katie Meyers of Dayton, 0., left yesterday afternoon for Dayton, 0., after a visit here with their brother Herman Tettman, and wife. Ike Soles an’ wife are back from Kansas an’look almost poor enough t’ have ten children. Speakin’ o’ harness records, Tilford Moots an’ wife ’ll celebrate ther golden weddin’ t’morrow. — Abe Martin. Mrs. Frank Tressler and daughters, Mrs. Otto Reemizer, of Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. Ed Beeker, of Fort Wafne, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart of South Third street Wednesday and Thursday night.

John H. Schug made a business trip to Hoagland this morning. A. J. Smith left thia morning on a business trip to South Bend. C. H. Hayslip returned this morning from his weekly business trip. The wireless telephone is almost here. Inventors should go to work on the wireless dictaphone. Miss Bessie Boyers left this morning for Lake Geneva where she will spend a two weeks’ vacation with friends. In the September Woman's Home Companion appears a department entitled ’’The Exchange," In which contributors give practical housekeeping suggestions. A New Jersey woman tells as follows how to sharpen scissors: "To sharpen scissors take a bottle and cut with the scissors as if you had to cut the neck off the bottle. This is effective. Wiliam Sleppy, milk dealer, will answer to charges of assault and battery referred by F. W. Luttman, another milk man, in the court of Squire J. K. Rinehart. Luttman may also face the charges as the result of the fracus between the two men Tuesday morning. A quarrel over milk bottles took place in Sleppys place of business and Luttman was put out of the building.—Bluffton Banner. In defense of what he believed was to be a raid on his watermelon patch, Charles L. Cushing, a market gardener, aged fifty-five years, of near Kendalvllle, shot and almost instantly killed Howard McLaughlin, a six-teen-year old boy, whose home is at Lansing, Mich. McLaughlin, with three companions, came to Kendalvllle on a freight train and were on their way to Elkhart to visit a relative of one of the quartet. The Southern Pacific Company recently issued a circular advising the agents that “automobiles stages have now replaced the horse-drawn stages in Yosemite National Park. The government recently granted permission for this charge. This reduces the time from four to one and onehalf hours in each direction between El Portal, the railroad terminus, and the park. The road has been widened and otherwise improved by the government and is now a broad, smooth boulevard, sprinkled daily during the summer months to keep down the dust." In tlie war between the Standard Oil company and the Indian Oil company at Goshen the retail price of gasoline was reduced from 18 cents per gallon to 9 cents. Every garage in the city became involved in the fight. The Standard company Installed a curb filling station at the Kelly garage to evade a city ordinance the equipment was placed at night and Injunction thereby avoided. The next day Mayor Spohn ordered the station removed and his orders were ignored Leon Kelly, ow-ner of t]je garage, was arraigned before the mayor and fined. An appeal has been taken to tht circuit court. In the meantime the gasoline war continues. In the “Home Problem” department of tlie September Woman’s Home Companion a girl who is going to be married soon wants to know what the bridegroom's share of the wedding expenses are to be, who orders the carriages for tlie wedding party to drive to the church, and wno selects the clergyman. The editor of the department responds as follows: “The bridegroom pays for his own carriage to ride to the church and is accompanied by the best man. The same carriage is used for the bride and groom when they leave the church. The groom also provides the clergyman's carriage, pays for the license and the minister’s foe, which is anywhere from five dollars to fifty. The groom sometimes provides flowers for the bridesmaids and maid of honor and always sends the bride her bouquet. It is customary for him to give to his best man and the ushers presents, which usually take the form of scarf pins or cuff links. He also gives the bride as lovely a gift as he can afford.” “Jerry,” the parentless thick that hatched out in the Schlosser Bros, room on South Main Street four weeks ago last Monday, is growing up to be a fine specimen of barred Plymouth Rock, and he is a fly catcher that beats all your sticky fly paper, poisons and the like. Jerry simply walks around and nabs every fly that lights anywhere near him. After he has wiped out the crop around on the floor, Manager Dave Grund tosses him up onto the window ledge and he just picks the files up about as fast as you can count. He is so acurate that it is seldom that a fly escapes The flies light on the window and Jerry walks along and snips them. He will eat flies until his craw sticks out like he had swallowed a walnut, but if is evident that he has entered heart and soul into the “swat the fly" movement and he deserves the ribbon. Flies constitute the principal article of food on • “Jerrys" bill o’ fare but he is thriving and has already started a glorious pair of wings.—Columbia City Post.

CAR LOAD OF MULES. We have for sale at the Decatur Horae Sale Company’s stabler 16 head of choice Missouri Mules which we will sell at private sale to farmers or anyone needing teams to do all kinds of work with. These mules are all well broke and range In size from 1100 to 1300 pounds and are from 3 years to 5 years old. They are as good a bunch of, mules as you ever looked at and you can buy them at a big bargain. ' Come in and look them over. BEERY & AHR. 191t6 <>■ —— ■ FOUGHT BLOODY BATTLE. WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 14.— (Special to Daily Democrat) —The bloodieat battle of the Mexican revolution wai reported to the navy department today. Admiral Howard at Mazapian said that one regiment of 800 Indiana had charged across a field heavily mined and covered with barbed wire, into the face of a concentrated fire from the federal artillery and shot from the gunboat Guerrero. At the close ot the engageinent 1 only 22 Indians were unhurt. 500 had been killed outright and 178 wounded. o BARN ON FIRE. At 2:15 o’clock this afternoon the city fire department was called to put out the fire which started among the boxes and old oil barrels stored in the bam back of the Waring Glove Co. building. The flames spread throughout the building, the floors and walls. The loss to the building will reach about $75.00. Tlie building was used as a sort of a store house by the Waring Glove Co. It is thought that the fire started from spontaneous combustion. ., ..._.o JURY INVESTIGATION. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 14— (Special to Daily Democrat) —A grand jury investigation of the increased food prices in the District of Columbia was begun today, directed by the United States District Attorney. Local heads of packing companies, wholesale grocers and hotel proprietors were subpoeneaed. 0 COURT HOUSE NEWS. Atorney L. C. DeVoss, for Emma Gerke, wife of Martin Gerke, this afternoon filed a suit in the circuit court against Sheriff T. J. Durkin, Martha E. Ahr, Fred Bentz, and Henry Gerke, for replevin of property valued at $775 and for SSOO damages for the retention of the same. The goods which was seized by the sheriff to satisfy a claim was supposed to lAtong to Martin Gerke, but are ciaimed in this suit by his wife. The property includes 40 tons of hay valued at $320; 400 bushels unthreshed wheat, $280; and oats, $175, all detained in the Martin Gerke barn in Root township. All depositions on file in the case of C. B. Aldrich vs. Zenith Stamet were ordered published by an order made today in vacation time.

It looks like th’ siege o’ Mexico City has been called off on account o’ too much opposition. A mountain goat hain’t got nothin’ on a movie actor when it comes t’ climbin’ around over rocks. —Abe Martin. In the September Woman’s Home Companion which is called the “Fashion Forecast Number" the statement is made that fashion has taken a sudden turn and changed the size and shape of coiffures and hats. Both are growing higher and higher and narrower and narrower. There are whisperings, however, that the big hat with the low crown is also being worn in Paris. The white satin hat with black feather trimming will be very smart this fall. The woman who wishes to be in style this fall will find that she must dress her hair high. Last spring an attempt was made to get all the hair oft the face and ears, but as it was most unbecoming to the average woman a compromise was made. To give height, the hair Is built over a light wire mold. Let us hope they will stop before fashion dictates that we wear headdresses .ike those worn in the eighteenth century. Then they were so large and heavy that the iaif ladies had to hold their heads down, getting into their carriages; often being forced to kneel on the floor when driving about. — o —— FOR SALE —5 acres of good fanning ground. House and bams Included. 1 inllo east of Preble on Preble road. Inquire ot P. V. Lewton. Decatur Ind. ts WANTED—GirI to do general house work. Inquire A. D. SUTTLES, Phone 59 or 6V. ULOST —Gold band bracelet with name “Lottie” engraved on top. Lost on road between state line and Rivarre Suudaj night. Return to this office. 2t FOR SALE—Have some large wooden packing boxes will sell cheap Call at Bernstein’s. 191t3

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS ALONG TENTH STREET. Notice is hereby given that the common council In and for the city of Decatur, Ind,, did on the 4tli day of August, 1914, adopt a preliminary resolution ordering the improvement of Tenth street from the north line of Monroo street to the south line of Nuttman Avenue, as per plans and specifications on file In tho office of the city clerk, which said plans and specifications may be seen by persons interested. Notice is also given that the said common council will on the Ist day of September, 1914 at seven o’clock p. m. at their council room in said city receive and hear remonstrances of all persons interested or whose property is liable to be assessed in the proposed improvement and will then determine whether the benefits to the property liable to be assessed will be equal to the estimated costs of said improvement. Said proposed improvement is intersected by the following streets, to-wlt: Monroe, Jackson and Nuttman Ave. Witness my hand and seal this 6th day of August, 1914. H. M .DEVOSS, 7-13 City Clerk. o LOST—A coral head breast pin with gold band on Second street. Findet return to this office. ts Dr. C. V. Connell VETERINARIAN Phnnn office 143 rnone Residence 102 A WORKING GIRL Twenty-seven years ago a young girl came from Germany and ever since has been living with one Baltimore family. Now she is returning to the Fatherland with the sum of $lO,000 accumulated by saving her earnings. *" She may not have had as many fine clothes or as much fun as some other girls, but she has enough money now so that she need not worry about her future in comfort. The First National Bank invites working girls, and girls in moderate circumstances to open a Savings Account here. It doesn't cost you anything to do this and you get your money back any time you need it. And it doesn't require any “know how.” All you have to de is to bring us any sum from SI.OO upward and we open the account for you and give you a book showing the amount of money you have here and that it is in your name.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK A Safe Place for Savings Decatur, Indiana STAR GROCERY' Grape Nuts 15° Corn Flakes 10s Pink Salmon ~.loc Red Salmon 15c Potato Bread 10c Fresh Mackeral 20c Sweet Potatoes 10c Sweet Pickles, doz. 10c Prepared Mustard 5c Maple Flake 10c Marco Macaroni 10c Peanut Butter 10c Salted Crackers, lb 10c Marco Fancy Coffee 30c Oil Sardines 5c Potato ChiPs -10 c Will Johns, ggq

| MESH BAGS £ || Repaired, Refinished, and Relined, the cost will L S be a pleasant surprise to you, when you see how fine I H they look after they have been entirely gone over. 1.-j B You cannot tell them from a new Bag, bring I U your’s in now, while you think of it. I Pumphrey's Jewelry Store I || “If its new, we have it.” ■ Artistic Engraving - - - - Expert Repairing ■ *aa . -■ ••■■■■.•■■a. a— — fife '"' I A Dollar Saved Is A Dollar Earned! There Is No Surer Way Os Saving Several Dollars Than By Buying Your Winter’s Coal At Summer Prices! Come And See The Best Hard Coal In Town E. L. CARROLL FOR RENT —Riverside barn. Possess- WANTED—A small Beagle rabbit ion Sept. Ist. Inquire of John!hound. Young pup preferred. Chas. IL Smltley, 221 No. Ist. street. ts. iKolin, Care of Paris Dye Works. 190t3 I . Aimoimcement | I ? . . $ s' t I This is to announce that [pl L. A. HOLTHOUSE I | : 5 | Decatur, . . Indiana. I will now supply all motor W car owners °f th* B com- 11 with firestone i [ Tires ■ I Tubes and Accessories Bwyjl An ever growing demand for Firestones in this locality and ■B'Nwil every locality where quality is | appreciated has made it necessary to establish headquarters here. WH . I Ml The Firestone factory—the Largest Exclusive Tire Factory in the f ■ World —has again increased greatly E and the output has jumped 78%. £ This enormous output, made under wASM perfect factory conditions, makes it ■ ® possible to sell Firestones at a price ■ vPtS no 2 reater lhan others are forced K I* to charge tor tires made in less 1 wW economical factories. • Call at Firestone Headquarters Above for Biggest Tire Value gi U Firestone Tire & Rubber Company •£ Akron, Ohio —Branches and Dculers Everywhere ■ H “America Largest Exclusive Tire and Run Mahtni 1 *