Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1914 — Page 3

■HERE IS A LOT OF SATISFACTION IN B — Knowing that you can put on B your shoes in the morning and keep I them on all day without hurting your feet. I CUSHION COMFORTS I ARE ALWAYS EASY | LADIES $3.00 I MEN’S $4.00 I CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

■ Bmmttnmnutnnns::::::::::::::::::::::: | WEATHER FORECAST J ■Fair tonight and Sunday. Mb————— Lewton vent to Fort Wayne 1 l»is morn in l, ■Louis Gehrig made a business trip 1 to Fort Wayne this morning. 1 ■Miss Mary Corbett was the guest 1 of Miss Inola Frank at dinner. J- H. Gentle left this morning on a 1 lew days business trip through Ohio. ' ■ Mrs. William Kukelhan returned from an eight days’ visit with relatives at Dayton, Ohio. HE Ceylon’s new college of tropical agrlpulture will be one of the largest institutions of the kind in the world. Kate Flox will arrive this eve- 1 ning from South Bend for a week's visit with her sister, Mrs. 1 Bernstein. ■■Cattle guards made of cactus planted in beds across the tracks are working successfully on a railroad in Arizorm. increase of vaccination along ißOdem lines in India has reduced Smallpox to a small place in the mortality returns. ■fclectrical ovens have been patented thn have wire glass sides to enable the process of cooking within them to bo watched. gjgTests of blood pressure in various -form- of fatigue alive shown that brain workers are more fatigued than physicial toilers. QfeAii excellent substitute lor horsehair in upholstery is being made in the Bahamas from the waste made in cleaning sisal fibre.

Thetiome Os Quality Grocerie! J In The Market Everything Is On The Advance We can still sell you at the old price nearly all food commodities. Not a bad time to buy. | Kellog toasted wheat biscuit 13c Macironi . . 10c We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 21c Butter 15c to 25c HOWER & HOWER I Norlh ofJL R. &1- D'l*” l I F. M. SCHIRMEYEK“XyXas. £ President I the: bowers realty co. I I real estate, bonds, loans, I • ABSTRACTS. I I Th.-Wurmever Abstract Company-complete Ab- i | stract Records, twenty y | Farms, City Pr”P” rt y- 5 per cent ’ I I money I

Mrs. J. C. Patterson and daughter, Marie, spent the day In Fort Wayne. Miss Dorothy Dugan left for Clear Lake this morning for a week’s visit with Miss Helen Jean Hunter. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Franke of Pittsburg. Penna, changed cars here today noon enroute to Fort Wayne. T. 11. Ernst went to Fort Wayne today to call on his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Hower, a patient at the Lutheran hospital. William Mougey of Toledo will arrive in the city Sunday for a week’s visit in the city with his parents and friends. Miss Iva Harvey left for Fort Wayne this morning and from there will go to Angola to spend Sunday with Miss Frances Zerkel. Mrs. Bothoff who has been with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong at Pleasant Mills, went to Fort Wayne yesterday for a visit. George Nachtrieb left yesterday afternoon for his home in Elkhart, having made the trip here with the Ellinghams from Elkhart. Rev. E. A. Bunner of Spiceland, who visited with his father, G. A. Bunner, left this morning for Winona Lake, Garrett and other places. Mrs. A. E. Rose, and daughter, Margaret, Mrs. Nellie Boyles and daughter, Velma, and Mrs. C. N. Wilson returned to Fort Wayne yesterday after attending the birthday party for Levi Barkley. ’’ ‘ John F. Patton of Ligonier; and his sons, F. M. Patton of Decatur, 111.; and Harry and Will Patton of Ligonier, have arrived, being called here by the death of their son and brother, Charles H. Patton.

Pearl and Huldah Johnson went to Fort Wayne this noon. Freemont Bowers of Union township visited in the city today. Mr. and Mrs. John Louks of Monroe were business visitors in the city today. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Crozier of Union township were visitors in the city today. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bown of Peterson were business visitors in the city today. Deputy Postmaster C. E. Hocker spent the day at his farm assisting in the threshing. Henry Gerke was off duty today at the Peoples & Gerke shoe store on account of illness. Frank Schneep and son Henry of Union township were visitors in the city this afternoon. Agnes Thompson and Alta Goodwin of Fort Wayne were visitors here, returning home at noon. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughter, Helen left today for Clear Lake for a week's visit. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Dibble of leansing, Michigan, arrived for a visit with Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Rainier. Henry Gerke is constructing an ingenius cricket cage preparatory to leaving the first of September for Rome City on a fishing outing. Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick and daughter, Helen, have returned from a three weeks’ visit in Yellowstone National Park, Salt Lake City, Denver and other places in the west. F. V. Mills, the grocer, has returned from a visit in Bladensburg and Newark, Ohio. He says it is very much drier there than here and corn and potato crops are short. Frank Lyons, superintendent of the Dunkirk water works plant, was arrested on a charge of profanity filed by Earl Soper. He was taken to Portland and released on bond pending his trial set for August 31. Street hawkers and peddlers are expected to give Newcastle a wide berth on acount of the high license provided for in a new city ordinance passed by the city council. Street hawkers will have to pay into the city $25 a day or $75 a week, and peddlers $lO a day or $25 a week. The license for transient merchants was placed at SIOO a day or S3OO week. The members of the Kunkel and Kleinnight families are looking forward with pleasure to the annual reunion which will be held Saturday, August 29, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kunkel in Root township. The reunions have been held each year for twelve or fourteen years and are occasions of much pleasure. The reunion was held last year near Tocsin. Dr. W. A. Winters, who recently visited here, father of Catherine Winters, missing since March, 1913; Mrs. Byrd Winters, her stepmother, and William R. Cooper, a former boarder at the Winters home, all of whom were arrested May 29 on a charge of conspiring to murder and burn the body of the missing child, have filed suit against the Louis Wein Detective agency at Indianapolis, m which they ask for $20,000. damages each. An anouncement was made this afternoon of the approaching nuptials of Miss Ida Elzey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Elzey, residing 1% miles north of Bluffton on the Fort Wayne road, and Mr. Jay G. Markley, of Laporte, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Markley, of Pleasant View. The ceremony will take place at the Elzey home, on ti?e evening of Thursday, September 10, and Mr. and Mrs. Markley will leave immediately after for Laporte, where they will- reside. Mr. Markley is employed at Laporte in the factory of the Cable Piano Company. Both are highly esteemed young people.—Bluffton News. Miss Elzey is a niece of Charles Elzey and Mrs. Abner Parrish of this city.

Three hoboes were riding in a box car on the Clover Leaf railroad Sunday night, headed for Marion. The ’boes started telling stories of their adventures to while away the -time. The first two told blowing tales of hardships endured and the like. The third bum thought he'd tell a true story. So he told his companions of how he and two other knights of the ties had broken into an Erie train and stolen valuable merchandise near Spencerville Saturday night. He showed his admiring friends a suit of new clothes and a pair of shoes he had taken. One of the envious bums slipped away and told a member of the train’s crew about the robbery. The brakeman telephoned ahead to Marion, locked the three bums in the box car and when the train pulled into Marion turned the trio of wearies over to Police Captain Campbell, Sergeant Brandon and Patrolman King, who met the train at the station. An official of the Erie road will take the robber, Richard Bonmemry of New York, into custody.

E. F. Watkins, of Fort Wayne, of the Public Savings Life Insurance Company, was here on business today. Miss Fannie Winch leaves to-day for a trip to Mackinac island, where she will spend ten days.—Ft. Wayne Jouru al-Gazette. Theodore Beerbower, James L. Foreman, Elmer Ludy, Abe Bebout. Sol Luginbill of Jefferson and Blue Creek townships, were here today on business. Folks who were goin* abroad if th’ war hadn’ broke out are beginnln’ t’ drop around. Gittin’ close t' th’ producer has resulted in lots of us giftin' next t’ him.—Abe Martin. Mrs. Ora Beall of Vincennes is expected to arrive next week to be the guest of the C. A. Dugan family. Mrs. Beall has many friends in this city who will be pleased to here of her return here. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Moses and daughter, of Lima, Ohio, who have been guests several days of Mrs. Julia Moses and daughter, Annette, continued their motor trip to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit. Dr. S. P. Hoffman motored to Fort Wayne this morning on professional business. He was accompanied by Miss Flo Blerie of Berne and Miss Chloe Studebaker of Bluffton, who are guests of their sister and cousin, Mrs. Hoffman. George E. Wemhoff, vice president of the national monumental dealers’ association, is at Milwaukee this week attending the national convention. A grand display of monuments, valued at $200,000 is being given in connection with the convention. The funeral of Oscar Fritzinger was largely attended yesterday afternoon at the German Reformed church in this city. Interment took place in the Decatur cemetery in a vault especially designed by Mr. Fritzinger and executed according to his wishes. The Misses Edna and Cecil Phipps are here visiting with their grandmother. Mrs. Captain Phipps. Miss Edna is on her vacation from the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis, where she is training for a nurse. Miss Cecil has returned from Valparaiso from her school. She will teach again in Andrews this coming year.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Crozier and. Mr. and Mrs. Erank Mclntosh of Union township wil Heave Sunday for Huntertown in the Mclntash automobile where they will visit with Mr. Crozier’s stepmother, Mrs. Anna Crozier. Mrs. Crozier will be eighty-eight years of age on Thursday, August 27 and the visit will be sort of a reunion. A. J. Smith of Decatur, a former resident of Whitley county, arrived in this city early Thursday morning to assist in the celebration of Old Settlers’ Day. Mr. Smith was born in Smith township and he left Whitley county thrirty-three years ago and this is the first time that he has. joined with the Old Settlers in celebrating the occasion. Mr. Smith has a sister Mrs. James Roach in Union township and two brothers John Smith of Smith township and Henry Smith of Union township. Mr. Smith spent the day in mingling with his many old time friends and during the day he renewed many old acquaintances.— Columbia City Mail. — o— - 1,1 • GENEVA GIRL ROBBED. City Marshal Tieben on Thursday morning received from Henry Dicker son, a justice of the peace of Geneva a communication, apprising him that while a daughter o' Mr. Dickerson was en route home on the northbound passenger train Wednesday morning, she was robbed of a pocketbook containing twelve cents in money and a moonstone locket, in heart shape, mounted in a gold rim and attached to a gold chain. The local officer was asked to make inquiry at any local pawn shops and ascertain if such a locket had been disposed of in this city in hopes that ft might be recovered. —Portland Sun. o— ——— —■ ED BRUSHWILLER MARRIED. Waldo Brushwiller received announcement today of the marriage of bis father. Ed Brushwiller. of Boulder, Colorado, which took place last evening, the bride being a lady of that city. Mr. Brushwiller formerly lived in this city, and was employed at the Winnes shoe store. His wife died some time after the family removed from here and he moved from here later moved to the west. —o — QUARTERLY CONFERENCE The second quarterly conference of the Decatur Methodist church ; will. be held Monday'evening. Dr. Beatty of Et. Wayne presiding. Rev. Stephenson will preach Sunday afternoon at the Pleasant Mills church, and Dr. Beatty Sunday mooting at the same place. ■■■l "0 '•* 111 "** Democrat Wants Ads Pay.

BE HATTED Your winter clothes may wait a bit, but a Fall Hat you must have! It is high time right now. We are showing the correct styles shown by the leading makers. Your fancy and your head can both be fitted. Stiff Hats All The Latest Styles In Stiff Hats at $1.50 to $3.00 Soft Hats The soft Hat is always a Fall Hat. They will be more popular this season than ever before. A variety of shapes and colors in Gray, Brown, Olive and Blue for SI.OO, $1.50, $2.00 and $3.00. VANCE & HITE

Dr. C. V. Connell VETERINARIAN Ph rm a office 143 rnone Residence 102 MEN our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade in few weeks, mailed free. Write Moler College, Indianapolis. 193t6 HOW TO LOSE MONEY. You have often heard that expression of money that went to the dogs. Well, here is an actual case of where it went to the calves. Mrs. R. F. Young, who lived near Greenbrier, Arkansas, was left a legacy of $2,000. She determined that she would carry it about her person. One day while walking through her barnyard, the safety pin which kept it in her pocket failed to do its duty, and . the handkerchief, containing the money fell to the ground. Before she discovered her loss three calves- worth about $lO each —chewed up all but $375 of her roll of bills. Mrs. Young Put the $375 in the bank. There are ten thousand different ways of losing money. There’s only one way of keeping it safely. For you that one way is to put it now in the First National Bank. FIRST NATIONAL BANK A Safe Place for Savings Decatur, Indiana a—— fiiiim mi iimw 11 STAB GROCERY Sweet Potatoes lb 4c Bananas dz 15c Celery, bunch 5c I SPanish Onions lb. 7c Apple 8 , peck •■ ■ 25c Marco flour 75c Strawberries in syrup 15c Blackberries in syrup 15c Seedless Raisins, lb 13c Tin cans, dz. 35c Pint mason cans 50c Quart mason can 60c Pure Cider Vinegar 25c ■ Paraffine wax 10c K Mixed Spices 5c ■ Will Johns,

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