Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1914 — Page 3

— CUSHION COMFORT SHOES MAKE LIFES WALK EASY LADIES $3.00 MENS - $4.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

| WEATHER FORECAST | tonight and cooler. Portland fair, August 31 to September 4. Jay County Fair, August 31 to September 4. Will Frank made a business trip to Fort Wayne. Alonzo Dutcher of Bluffton spent Sunday here. Mrs. C. V. Connell went to Fort Wayne yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McKinney are visiting with relatives in Georgetown, 111. Frank .Wechter of Blue Creek township was a business visitor here yesterday. Byron Waite of Grand Rapids, Mich., was the guest of Miss Bess Fisher over Sunday. Oscar McGraw returned to Swayzee yesterday morning after attending the Butler reunion. Miss Nellie Blackburn has gone lor a week’s visit with her sister, Mrs. Scott Boekover. Miss Stella Wemhoff returned to Fort Wayne yesterday after visiting in the city with her mother, Mrs. Mary Wemhoff. Tom and John Gallogly went to Sturgis, Mich., yesterday morning where they will enjoy a few days outing fishing. Whereever ther’s a court nouse th’ jail is hard by. Back t’ th’ bath tub, White Rose perfume is made in France.—Abe Martin.

|Thelioiue Os Quality Groceriei I In The Market Everything Is On The Advance I We can still sell you at the old price nearly all I food commodities. Not a bad time to buy. 1 Keliog toasted wheat biscuit 13c Macironi . . 10c Jersey Corn Flakes • • • • }& Spaghetti . . 10c National OatsJ2 C Tapioca . . 10c Shreaded Whole Wheat . . 15c Grape Nuts loc Maple Flake l^ c 1 Q^e( l heat We nav cash or trade for produce, Eggs 20c P Butter 15c to 25c HOWER & HOWER North of.G. R. SI. Depot phone 108 IF. M. SCHIRME'i'EIt FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. THE BOWERS REALTY CO. real estate, bonds, loans, ABSTRACTS. Tn,. Srhirmever Abstract Company complete AbT “ e startXrds, Twenty years’ Expenence Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

Felix Summers has gone to

Berne for a visit. Miss Rose Leyse visited at Fort Wayne yesterday. Miss Edith Miller visited over Sunday in Lima, Ohio. Have you seen the speed program of the Portland fair? P. K. Kinney of Fort Wayne was hero on business today. Mrs. James P. Haefling and Miss Bertha Voglewede spent a few hours Sunday in Fort Wayne. Miss Vera Eady returned from Fort Wayne where she visited with her sisetrter, Mrs Harry Kruge. Mrs. L. W. Love left Saturday afternoon for Huntington to attend the funeral of Henry Dinius. Miss Hazel Butler returned yesterday to her work at the Morris store after a week’s vacation. Mrs. Jacob Closs and Vivian and Johnny Closs have returned to Fort Wayne after a visit here. Jay County Fair has always given more than it promised and this will continue to be its practice. Peter Myers and Sophia Droll visited in Fort Wayne over Sunday. L. T. Brokaw went to Garret for a visit with relatives. Miss Pauline Bishop of Huntington arrived in the city Saturday evening for a few days visit wth Mr. and Mrs Ed Bleeke and famly. Mrs. Joe Crabill and daughter, Mildred Jane, returned to Fort Wayne yesterday morning after a visit here with her father, Will Jackson. Mrs. George Rupley of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Henry Hackman and son Frank of Toledo attended the funeral of Frank Hackman Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Joe Bentz of Bobo visited in the city Saturday with friends. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Shirk of Monroe were visitors in the city Saturday. Excursions on all railroads of the County Fair at Portland, Indiana. Will Anderson of St. Louis, Mo., is in the city visiting with Fred Smith. Miss Hazel Schnltz returned froqj Roanoke, where she has been visiting. Erastus Fritzinger made a business trip to Fort Wayne yesterday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ruhl have arrived from Georgia and will make their home in Indiana again. Gay, Zwfck & Myers have delivered a beautiful Schiller piano to Miss Frances Miller east of the city. Miss Bessie Wilder has returned from a several weeks’ vacation spent at Winona Lake and other places. Mrs. James Hendricks Sr., of Monroe was an over Sunday visitor of Mrs. Laura Crill and other friends. Miss Nota Strickler, the popular waitress at the .Smith restaurant, is spending the week at Rockford, Ohio. Charles Lamlin went to Woodburn to join his wife and daughter in a visit there with relatives over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Butler and family of Jonesboro, Ind., passed through the city on their way to Michigan where they will visit with relatives and trends. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Long of Fort Wayne who have been visiting with the Ed Bleeke family in Union township returned Saturday evening to their home. Mrs. B. E. Weaver and daughter, Norma, returned to their home in Fort Wayne after spending the summer here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Liniger. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bleeke of Union township and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bleeke have gone to Niagara Falls and oilier eastern points for a few weeks vacation. Miss Ella Bleeke has returned from Fort Wayne where she visited with friends and attended the wedding of Miss Gick to Rev. Pollack which occured last Monday. Mrs. Margaret Kurber returned today to Delphos, Ohio. She came to attend the funeral of her brother-in-law, Barney Meibers and remained for a visit with relatives.

Mrs. N. E. Vitz and children, Robert and Dorothea, returned yesterday to Defiance, Ohio, after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sellemeyer south of the city. City Postman Harve Rice is on duty again after a week’s vacation spent at Cedar Point, Toledo, Sandusky and other lake cities. Omer Butler, sub stitute carrier, worked in his place. Mr. and Mrs. John jEverett, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peterson and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Teeple spent Sunday at Rome City with the families of Charles Teeple and J. H. Heller who are spending a month or so there. Richard Harding Davis will write of the war in Europe in Scribner’s Mag azine. Whatever the war correspondents are permitted to see Mr. Davis can be counted upon to describe with the skill of long experience and in his vivid, picturesque style. Alva Nichols is on duty again at the Peoples & Gerke shoe store after a two weeks’ vacation spent at Rome City. Mrs. Nichols and sister, Agnes Mnier, who spent the last week at Rome City with him, have gone to Churubusco to visit for a while. Dan Cupid seems to have been pretty busy in Bluffton for the past few weeks and under cover of the European war news, lias been causing much devastation among the hearts of Bluffton's young and fair. To the already long list of newlyweds will soon be added, according to word from a reliable source, the names of Harry Johnson and Miss Edith Grove. —Bluffton Banner. The date of the Home Coming at Geneva this year is Aug. 24 to 29, inclusive. The Home Coming this year is in the hands of the business men and they say it will be better than ever. Todd & Pauls shows have been secured for the entire week with plenty of free attractions. The Geneva Band will play and also the band with Todd & Paul. Every one is invited to Geneva the entire week. Don't forget the date. Jules Guerin has a unique position as chief of color and decoration of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The whole Exposition, even the roofs of buildings, have been planned to harmonize in color and produce a series of color effects both by night and day. In Scribner's for September Jess Lynch Williams describes this unique scheme which is being carried out under Mr. Guerin's direction. Notable mural painting by Robert. Reid. Childe Hassam. and other famous American artists, which are a part of the general color scheme, are reproduced in colors, from plates made especially for Scribner’s at the Exposition,

J. H. Stone was a Fort Wayne visitor today. Mrs. Al Gerard wont to Fort Wayne this morning. Ted Battenberg was at Marion yesterday on business. Mrs. Nick Wagoner returned to Ft. Wayne today noon. Dr. S. P. Hoffman was a professional visitor in Fort Wayne. Miss Ruth Morris returned to Fort Wayne after a visit here. Mrs. E. M. Atkinson returned to Ft. Wayne after a visit here. Miss Jeanette Ehinger of Fifth street is ill of stomach and bowel trouble. Rev. D. T. Stephenson and family returned today from a month’s visit at Rome City. Atty. C. L. Walters is at Muncie today attending the republican Congressional convention. P. L. Andrews of the Herald is at Muncie today attending the republican congressional convention. Charles Voglewede and sons Arthur and Robert enjoyed a good time in Robinson park, Fort Wayne today. Mary Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Vail who has been ill of stomach and bowel trouble, is better. Mrs. M. P. Burdg and Mrs. Charles Elzey went to Fort Wayne to be with Mrs. Charles Hower during her operation. Miss Celia Gillig has returned from Fort Recovery, Ohio, where she visited with friends and relatives over Sunday. Leo Gillig has gone to Mount Clemens, Mich., where he will take the baths for a few weeks for his rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Felger and children of Fort Wayne are visiting Mrs. Felger’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Daue. Mrs. James Rice of Fifth street was quite ill of stomach trouble, the formation of gas reacting very badly on the heart. Mrs. Will Burdg went to JFt. Wayne to call on heir husband at the St. Joseph hospital. He is doing well and will probably be home the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne who visited here motored to Fort Wayne this morning and were accompanied by Richard Deininger. They will return this evening. The members of the W. C. T. U. are requested to meet in a body at the Methodist church parlors tomorrow morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. A. Steele which will be held at ten o’clock. It’s goin’t’ be purty hard t* remain neutral an’ pay war prices. Miss Fawn Lippincut sat thro’ th’ first act o’ ‘Ten Nights in a barroom” at the Nickelodeom last night. Too many reels. —Abe Martin. Mrs. H. E. McWhirter and daughters arrived yesterday afternoon frbm Kalamazoo, Mich., to spend a week with friends and relatives in this city. Mr. McWhirter will join his family Friday for an over Sunday visit. Ben Lang, Mrs. C. N. Lang and John Joseph motored to Coldwater, 0., Sunday and were accompanied home by Miss Josephine Lang, of the Niblick store, who spent the week there. They may motor to Earl Park to visit with Dr. Kortenbrer and wife the latter part of the week. Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Rainier who will go to Walbridge Park. Toledo, Thursday with the excursionists, will be met there by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dibble of Lansing, Michigan, who will return here for a visit over Sunday. The many Decatur friends o” the Dibbles will be pleased to meet them at tile Rainier home where they will be welcomed. s

The first steamship to pass through the Panama canal—the Christobal—made the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific in eleven and one-half hours. The retuni trip, however, was made in eight and one-half hours, which probably marks the average time that will be consumed by merchantment when all of the machinery is in smooth operation. .The canal was to have been officially opened Saturday, August 15. Steve Mendies one of the many gypsies infesting the territory about Warsaw now on account of the approaching trial for murder of the three Mendies brothers in the Warsaw jail. ’ was married in the Warsaw court house Friday. A strange thing about the marriage was that four children of Steve Mendies and his bride were present at the ceremony. Mendies explained that he was married six years ago according to the pypsy custom to the woman and was being married under the Indiana Idw now so that his property would go to his jvife and children in case anything happened to him. Mendies gave his occupation as a trader and his birth place as Brazil, South America, and his present resilience as Georgia.

t. 1 V Preserving Time Is Here Make your work a pleasure by using our Aluminum Kettles, Pans, Colanders, Strainers, SPoons and Ladles. Fruit or fruit butters may be boiled in a “Wear-Ever” Preserving Kettle over a low fire without stirring and without burning. Fruit steamed in the jars, by u»ing the “Wear-Ever” Roaster, remains unbroken, is beautiful in appearance and of superior flavor. Timely buying in every department of our business has enabled us to protect our trade against excessive war prices. The superior quality of our ware is easily recognized. JOHN BROCK SPECIAL TO WOMEN The most economical, cleansing and germicidal of all antiseptics is A soluble Antiseptic Powder to be dissolved in water as needed As a medicinal antiseptic for douche in treating catarrh, inflammation oulceration of nose, throat, and that caused by feminine ills it has no equal. For ten years the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. has recommended Paxtine in their private correspondence with women, which proves its superiority. Women who have been cured say it is “worth its weight m gold.” At druggists. 50c. large box. or by mail. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, Mass. LOST $2,000.00 J. D. Noble of Savannah, Ga., had scraPed together $2,000 which he kept in paper money. Noble lived over his store and kept his money in a bureau drawer. The other night the building caught fire, and the rush of the flames was so swift that Noble and his family barely escaped with their lives. In the rush the $2,000 was forgotten.. As the $2,000 represents ed the savings of years the family Is now down and out. In the future, he will keep his money in a Bank Account. When that fire comes will your money be in the First National Bank? FIRST NATIONAL BANK A Safe Place for Savings Decatur, Indiana agUKBHBHttSUBHHKSHiIiaDn STAR GROCERY Grape Nuts ...» 15c Corn Flakes 10c 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 10c Will Johns,

sl-25 DECATUR to TOLEDO VIA! CLOVER LEAF ROUTE! Every Sunday . See J. H. THOMPSON, Agent Decatur for Information LOW RATE EXCURSION VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE" ...T0... BLUFFTON, MARION, KOKOMO & FRANKFORT £ Every Sunday . See J. H. THOMPSON, Agent Decatur for Information SB.OO SB.OO NIAGRRA FALLS AND RETURN VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE August 16 and 3Oth, 1914 Lake Shore, Electric and Steamer Limit 12 days See H. J. Thompson, Agt for Particulars “The Most Likable Smoke In The Whole World THE “WHITE STAG” EXTRA MILD 5c EVERY WHERE 5c Bosse Opera House, Thursday, Aug. 20th. Sweet Singers unny ome^ans Clever Dancers wßf L 'W Orchestra NOONDAY PARADE * Tom Powell’s Peerless Minstrels Our Slogan = Our Slogan Prices 25-35- & 50 cents. Advance Sale Usual Place AUGUST SALE 10to 25 percent.off We will give from 10 to 25 per cent, reduction on Screen Doors, Window Screens, Wire Cloth, Lawn * Mowers, Fly Nets, Poultry Netting, ; Wash Boards and other articles too numerous to mention. JUST A FEW OF OUR REDUCED PRICES $6.50 Ball Bearing Lawn Mowers at $5.00 I $2.25 Screen Doors, galvanized wire at $1.60 I 5 ft. Poultry Netting at 9c per yard 35c Large Size Window Screens at 25c To make room for our new stock of whips we will | give 25 per cent, off on any whip in stock. C. F. STEELE & CO. NORTH SECOND ST. I