Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1914 — Page 3

SALE THIS WEEK LOOK IN OUR WINDOWS CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

WEATHER FORECAST |j mmmmmmsnmammnmmxunu •: Thunder showers tonight and cooler. Tuesday fair. Curley Buffenbarger returned this morning to Hoagland. Dr. J. W. Vizzard of Pleasant Mills was a business visitor here Saturday. Mrs. Harry Kooken and Mrs. F. C. Hoeneissen spent the day at Hoagland. Albert Knavel of Union township was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Emil Baumgartner went to Fort Wayne this morning where he will be employed. Frank Dibble returned today to Lansing, Mich. Mrs. Dibble will remain for the week. Reinhart is the name of the big nine-pound boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hauk. Ernst Schlickman went to Fort Wayne this morning, where he will visit with his sisters. Miss Bertha Fraizer returned to Ft. Wayne this morning after visiting in the city with her sister. William Mougey of Toledo arrived in the city yesterday for a week's visit with his parents and friends. Harold and Earl Cushman have returned from an eight weeks’ visit with their grandparents at Watertown, Wis Earl Heffner of Fort Recovery, 0, went to Fort Wayne this morning to take the regular treatment for his eye.

The Home Os Quality Groceries In The Market Everything Is On The Advance Fresh Spices of all kinds Ground of Whole. We bought before the advance. You can too. Can rubbers. . . 5&10c Jell Glasses . . 20 &25 Mason Caps .... 20c Tin Cans 35c Ti n Lids 5c Mason Pts 50c Parawax, lb 15c Mascn Q ts Sealing Wax 5c Mason Halves . . . 7ac Pickling Vinegar . . 20c Golden State Qts. . $1,05 We rav cash or trade for produce, Eggs 21c Butter 15c to 25c HOWER & HOWER North of G R. & I. Depot ph ° ne IF M SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN I ■ ’ president Secretary Treas. ■ I the bowers realty co. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, F I abstracts. t I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- I I street Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. i MONEY

i: Ralph Amrine and Robert Peterson have returned from Cincinnati, where ! they took in the Sunday baseball game 11 Miss Millie Stanley who visited here with Mrs. William Staley returned Saturday afternoon to Fort Wayne. Miss Kathryn Egly of Berne returned to her home after spending the - week-end as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Engeler. The explosion of the dust filled air of a Hamburg sugar refinery wrecked one of the largest industrial establishments in Europe. A lamp in which a candle furnishes the light and which can be straped to its user's arm to leave his hands free has been invented. The fibre of a plant growing extensively in Argentina has been found to possess qualities similar to the kapok of the Philippines. That he has discovered an antitoxin that gives immunity to the diseases caused by mosquito bites is the claim of a Chicago doctor. Mrs. D. E. Grimm and children returned to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. They visited here with her father-in-law, J. W. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Dearn and daughter, Mabel; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hakey spent Sunday in Fort Wayne with Alfred Deam and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Heller and children, Fanny and Dick, returned to this city this afternoon after a three weeks’ vacation at Rome City. Ben Welker returned today to Delaware. Ohio, after a visit here over Sunday. Mrs. Welker and son will remain for a week's visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner.

Dan Niblick went to Chicago to buy goods so rthe Niblick store, Mr, and Mrs. Jesse Carpenter went to Fort Wayne today for a visit. Mrs. Gus Hobrock and children of Hoagland were shoppers here today Fred Bloetnkor of Wells county was a business visitor in the city today. Dennison Krick of Van Wert was a business visitor in the city today. Henry Rodenbeck of Union township was a business visitor in the city today. Joe Myers and son, James,,of Willshire, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Isaac Peters of Bluffton, who has been quite ill, is reported to have rallied again Sunday. Mrs. Harmon Gillig and Miss Agnes Gillig have gone to Tiffin, Ohio, where they will visit with friends. Conrad Gillig has returned from Pittsburg, where he was called on account of the death of his sister. Mrs. George Hahn and Miss Ruth Hahn of Monroe changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne for a visit. Tlie funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Myers was held today from the St. John's Lutheran church by the Rev. H. C. Jaus. Mrs. T. F. Auten and daughter, Madie, returned this afternoon to Fort Wayne after a week's visit here and with relatives in the country. Missh Nota Strickler, the popular waitress at the Smith restaurant, returned to her work today after a week’s vacation which she spent at Rockford. Ohio. She also attended the fair at Celina, Ohio, Thursday. Miss Margaret Essig of Fort Wayne is the guest this week of Miss Frances Dauer. Miss Bertha Dauer has returned to Fort Wayne after spending the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Dauer. Mrs. Martha Fruchte of Magley went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon to visit with her sister, Mrs. Henry Hildebrand and family. Miss Bertha Westerman returned to Fort Wayne this morning. She was acompanied by Herbert Rodenbeck, who will be a guest of the Westermanns. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Geary and babes returned to Fort Wayne this morning after spending Sunday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. Dyonis Schmitt and family. Mrs. Lawrence Klelnhenz and sister, little Miss Jeanette Ehinger, went to Fort Wayne this morning, where they will be the guests of Miss Vera Goeke.

Dr. Elizabeth Burns went to Fort Wayne this morning, where she visited Mrs. Henry Stevens, who is at the St. Joseph hospital. Mrs. Stevens was operated upon last Tuesday for tumor. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaylor returned to Fort Wayne after a two weeks' fisit with their aunt, Mrs. Alice Reiger at North Manchester. Mrs. Kaylor is the daughter of Mrs. David Liby of Monmouth. Jule Spies of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived in the city Saturday to spend a week’s vacation with relatives. Mrs. Spies has been in the city the past week, being the guest of the W. A. Kuebler family. Mrs. Anthony Voglewede went to Fort Wayne Saturday to accompany her brother, Bernard Myers home. He was operated upon some time ago and had been with a sister at St. Wayne after leaving the hospital. Miss Mildred Bueter returned Saturday afternoon to her home in Fort Wayne after a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Heideman. She was accompanied home by her cousin Walter Colchin who will visit there. John Stewart resumed his duties as linotype operator at this office this morning after a four months’ vacation during which time he paid special attention to the sale of Ford cars, for which he and Luther Hower have the agency for this vicinity. “I once heard a tactless, shallow, married woman intimate to an unmarried friend of mine that she was single because she didn’t have a chance to marry,” says an exchange. “The quiet reply was: ‘I could have been married several times had I been wiling to accept a stick as you did." Dr. and Mrs. Oren Smith returned to their home in Indianapolis this morning after a couple of days’ visit in this city with Mrs. Smith's mother, Mrs. Nettie Schrock. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have been taking a month’s vacation in the east and stopped off here enroute to their home. Andrew Baxter returned home from Fort Wayne Saturday evening where he was the successful bidder in securing the contract for painting all of the buildings on the fair grounds, numbering a dozen, both inside and out. Mr. Baxter will leave for that place tomorrow with his optfie and will camp on the grounds until the job is comIpleted, requiring a week or ten days.

SET MODERN DINNER HOUR To the Duke of Wellington Io Owed the Feohlonable Time for Evening Meal, The connection between the Peninsular wars and having dinner at halfpast seven may, at first, seem somewhat puzzling. As a matter of fact, however, we owe the habit of dining at that hour to the Duke of Wellington. It was the custom of the iron Duke when on his campaigns not to sit down to table until the day's fighting was over, whenever that might be, and then he generally partook of a beefsteak pudding, which, he said, possessed two virtues. It was an appetizing dish, and did not spoil by keeping. On his return home he apparently brought this custom with him, and his officers brought the pudding to the United States Service club, from which it spread to other clubs. The duke's chef was named Felix, and it was he who hit upon the happy idea of Improving tho flavor of his master's pudding by the addition of mushrooms aud oysters. Many other interesting stories regarding the favorite dishes of famous men are told by Mr. T. H. 8. Escott, in "Club Makers and Club Meynbers.’* We learn, for Instance, that marrowbones clothed in snowy white napkins were always ordered by Gibben when he dined at Boodle's, and that Lord Brougham once drank seven tumblers of port wine during the course of a debate. During another he had his hat full of oranges beside him, sucking them almost incessantly, "and in an audible aside abused Bellamy as he came across a bad one." Bellamy was the maker of the pork pies for which Pitt expressed a wish with his dying breath when he ought to have been saying "My country! How I love my country!” SPARROW PEST IN ENGLAND In Many Country Places They Are Caught in Nets and Used for Food. In certain country places, especially near towns, a new source of food is being exploited, says the London Globe. At one stockyard after another you see village laborers stretching foldnets for sparrows, and the birds are being caught simply for food. They keep down the butcher's bill. The number of sparrows is now immense, probably greater than it ever has been. The regular winter population of one small stockyard near London is estimated by the farmer at over 2,000. These 2,000 mouths he fills largely with his grain. The sparrows have completely driven away almost all other varieties of birds except a few finches. The sparrow is said by the trapper to make an excellent stew, or pie, or soup. It Is a clean feeder, subsisting all the year, except for a month In the spring, on grain, and it takes from the farmer an enormous toll. Considering the enormous population of sparrows, it is not surprising that this source of food is being tapped. Rome’s Abundant Water Supply. The fact is probably not generally known that the citizens of Rome as far back as 300 A. D. were favored with a water supply amounting to 400 gallons or more per capita daily. The Romans had a full appreciation of the value of an abundant supply of pure water as ministering to the health of a city of 1,000,000 souls. The Romans of imperial days had a paseion for cleanliness and the stupendous public baths of Trajan, Diocletian and Constantine were capable of accommodating at one time from 1,600 to 3,000 bathers. The water in Rome was the property of the crown, and it was led to the private houses by thousands of pipes, which ran in every direction and under every street and were stamped with the name of the “concessionaire" to whom it was brought from the nearest crown reservoir. Mushroom Bureau. The little town of Tarrare, near Lyons, France, boasts of a unique institution, a mycological bureau, where expert Judgment may be had concerning mushrooms brought to it for examination. The country roundabout abounds with mushrooms of many varieties, and, of course, many of these are poisonous. Since the establishment of the bureau at Tarrare no one thinks of purchasing mushrooms without the bureau’s ticket of identification and guarantee. All the country people for great distances bring their mushrooms to the institution for examination. One result of the work of the bureau has been the discovery of scores of excellent edible mushrooms that formerly were considered dangerous. Small Duties. Don’t object that your duties are so insignificant; they are to be reckoned of infinite significance, and alone important to you. Were it but. the more perfect regulation of your apartments, the sorting away of your clothes and trinkets, the arranging of your papers —"Whatsoever thy hand flndeth to do, do it with all thy might, and all thy worth and constancy." Much more of your duties, are of evidently higher, wider scope; i'it you have brothers,isjsters. a father, a mother, weigh earnestly what claim does Re upon you, one half of each, and consider it as the one thing needful to pay them more and more honestly and nobly what you owe. — Thomas Carlyle.

~ . ft One half of one per cent.’ of f Puck’s circulation is in barber shops—< is that where YOU read it? JO Cents— Everywhere * MODERN LAUNDRY We have taken the agency for the Modern Laundry of Marion, Ind. Individual Laundry Bags and Sanitary wash cloth to each customer. Work called for-delivered and guaranteed. VISIT THE SANITARY BARBER SHOP AND BATH HOUSE Shining parlor and bath open on Sunday. First door west of City Hall on Monroe St. 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 handkerqhief> 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 „ w—iiiiiiinniiiiiii iiiniMri 1 STAR GROCERY I Sweet Potatoes lb 4c ■ Bananas dz. 15c I Celery, bunch 5c ■ ■*** B SPanish Onions lb. 7c ■ Apple 8 , peck .. . 25c ■ Marco flour 75c I Strawberries in syrup -.15c ft Blackberries in syrup 15c K Seedless Raisins, lb 13c f Tin cans, dz. 35c ft Pint mason cans 50c | Quart mason can 60c I Pure Cider Vinegar 25c ■ Paraffine wax 10c E Mixed Spices 5c I Will Johns,

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