Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1914 — Page 3

Take a look in our window and see the shoes and oxfords that you can buy for SI.OO CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

titffltntttTTTTntfflntwtttttntttTttntnnt t. WEATHER FORECAST | tstttttttuuxttnuttststntittu::::::::::::;! Fair and warmer. Robert Fritzinger went to Ft. Wayne yesterday. John Schug is home his weekly business trip. Homer Lawer of Warren was here on business today. Miss Jennie Gass of Celina is the guest of Miss Mayme Harting. Mr. and Mrs. Finley Bryan of Salem were visitors in the city yesterday. Rev. W. H. Gieiser has returned from the Bible conference at Winona Lake. Jesse Cole is able to be up and about again after a few days’ suffering from a high fever. The Peter Gaffer family went to Ft. Wayne today to attend the funeral of Grandma Gaffer. Miss Mabel Burns left today for Fort Wayne for a visit with Miss Alice Burns and other relatives. Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne arrived from Fort Wayne for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger. Lewis Flox of Plymouth will spend Sunday here with his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. I. Bernstein. William Mougey left this morning for Toledo after a week’s vacation spent in the city with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller came today from Fort Wayne to spend Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller and family.

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 Tin Lids 5c Mason Pts 50c Para wax, lb 15c Mason Qts 60c Sealing Wax 5c Mason Halves . . .75c Pickling Vinegar . . 20c Golden State Qts. . $1,05 We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 22c Butter 15c to 25c HOWER & HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 |F. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN || ; President Secretary Treas. o I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, U g ABSTRACTS. g 1 The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- gj | stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience || Farms, City Property, 5 per cent, g S MONEY g

Mrs. George Zimmerman went to Ft. Wayne today noon. Mrs. W. O. Dull passed through the city enroute to Fort Wayne for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Yeoman of Monroe were visitors in the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kline left for Auburn to visit wjjth her sister, Mrs. Joshua Miller. Dr. Miles Porter jr., of Fort Wayne made a professional trip to this city this morning. John Barrone, one of th well known farmers of St. Marys township was attending to business here this morning. The annual institute of the Adams county teachers will begin Monday and continue for five days with a good program. H. L. Confer, deputy secretary of state, of Indianapolis, is here for a day’s business. He will return Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Standiford and daughter, Wanda, are at Willshire, 0., visiting at the home of Mrs. Standiford’s mother, Mrs. Frank Miljer. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Dohnke and children and Mrs. D. Fields of Fort Wayne spent yesterday as the guests of Mrs. J. H. Railing in Union township. Jimmie Reichard, who has been working at Berne, is now spending a few days in Decatur with his mother, Mrs. Wiiiiam Reichard, of South Twelfth street. The rains of the past day or two have been welcome ones to the farmers, softening the ground for the fall plowing and helping the late corn considerably.

Mrs. Burt Richards returned ,to Churubusco after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fillmore Springer. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Pfettefsoli and Mr. and Mrs. Morton Stults and daughter will leave Sunday for Buffalo and Niagara Falls, Mrs. Susan Bell and granddaughter, Edna Lewton, who have been spending a week at Toledo, Ohio, will return home tomorrow. Decatur merchants should start their early autumn advertising. It's time to tell the people what you have. Start in Monday. The Ben El:;ey and Albert Arnold families have returned from a motor trip to Warren, Ohio, where they visited witli relatives. Irvin Fisher of Huntington arrived for a visit with his uncle, H. E. Butler and family and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Coat Cook. Only one week of vacation. It’s time to be getting the boys and girls ready for their studies which begin one week from Monday in the Decatur schools. Carl Pumphrey returned home yesterday morning from Chicago, where he had been attending the National Jewelers’ convention and display (Show for the past week. Nick .Miller, the well known barber, will leave tomorrow for Indianapolis where ho will enjoy a several days vacation, taking in the ball games at both the federal and association parks. Kryl’s famous band not only brought a thousand applauses but a million drops of rain. It will be remembered that it rained here last year on the night that Kryl’s band played at the Chautauqua. If it wuzn’ fer an occasional dark, rainy day, lots of us would never think. Th’ odds down our way are 15 t’ 1 that th’ Germans won't run on t’ any Russians takln’ a bath. —Abe Martin. The big Chautauqua tent will no doubt be packed this evening for children’s night. Three big parts of the program. Sunday will be a big day and will mark the closing of a successful week. Miss Grace Butler has returned from Angola, where she spent the summer in school, completing the teachers’ training course, preparatory to taking up teaching at the beginning of the school year. Harold Henneford, who has been spending his vacation at Vera Cruz, will spend Sunday here with his sister, Mrs. Dan Niblick. He will leave Monday for Spokane, Wash., where he will teach again tTiid' yAar. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dustman returned home late Wednesday afternoon from Lakeland, Fla., where they spent a few days. Joel Neuenschwander and Wesley Hoffman, the fatter of Decatur also came home with them. —Bluffton Banner. Mrs. Ed Chronister, who has been visiting Jim Chronister and other friends and relatives, has gone to Fort Wayne to visit before returning to her home near Wabash, Ind. She is news reporter for a Wabash paper. Her three little daughters were with her.

While transferring t he large filing cases to the vault for the night, Lynn Shoemaker of the Ward Manufacturing company had the misfortune last evening of having one of them fall over on him. A defective roller was the cause of the accident and Mr. Shoemaker sustained a badly bruised side and arm as the result. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Voglewede, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Meibers and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Knapke will leave today for Rome City where they will enjoy a ten days outing. Mr. and Mrs. Voglewede will probably remain during the month, their cottage "The Decatur” being one of the convenient and attractive ones along Sylvan Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tonnelier, daughter, Bess, and son, Dick, will go to Rome City tomorrow morning where they will spend a week anil entertain at a house party tn honor of Miss Helen Weber of Indianapolis, who is the guest of the Misses Bess Tonnelier and Celesta Wemhoff. The Misses Weber and Wemhoff and Mesrs. Wai Wemhoff and Theo. Graliker will also join the party tomorrow. And now comes the Information that even false teeth have been given a boost skyward. Not being content with the fact that food and staple articles are pumping the hurdle, the main and most important articles of mastication has also decided to get in the race and join fast company. Dentists in the cities have received notices from supply houses that the price on platinum, the njetal from which the tiny screws that hold the teeth are made, has greatly increased in price and that the quantity now on hand is very small. About 800 of these screws can be mad.? from a pound of platinum and the cost of each one has been advanced fifty cents Although the local dentists have not yet been affected by this advance, they are looking forward to it.

George Krick was at Huntington on business. Mr. and Mrs. I. Bender went to Fort Wayne this afternoon for a visit. Attorney Ed Myers of Fort Wayne was here this afternoon on business. Mrs. John Hill is a new Saturday clerk at the Baughman & Hayslip five and ten cent store. Mrs. J. S. Peterson visited at the Kunkel-Klelnknight reunion at Monmouth this afternoon. Mrs. John Watson of Monroeville Is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burr, at Monmouth. Mrs. John B. Kiracofe and daughter, Juanita, will return tomorrow from a visit with her parents near Warren. Ohio. Mrs. William Davidson returned to Fort Hayne this afternoon after a visit here with Mrs. Robert Fritzinger for a week. Miss Mary Winans, a trained nurse from the Lutheran hospitat, returned to Fort Wayne this afternoon a/ter spending her two weeks' vacation here. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Steele will leave Monday for Chicago where they will spend the greater part of the week. Mrs. Sadie Cowley will come from Fort Wayne to keep house for her sister during her absence. The condition of T. M. Reid, who is ill with a bilious attack and with symptoms of typhoid fever, remains about the same today. Mrs. Reid lias arrived from Rome City. Miss Margaret Essig returned this afternoon to Fort Wayne after a visit with Miss Frances Dauer. She was accompanied by Herbert Dauer, who will spend Sunday in Fort Wayne. Robert Quinn continues to remain quite low. Dr. Porter was here again this morning and administered the serum. Tlie lad spent a very poor night, his nervous condition being quite serious. \ Mrs. Mary Hortsook of Xenia, Ohio, and Almeda Hale of Celina, Ohio, who have been visiting their cousin, J. I). Hale, and family the past week, went to Geneva this morning to visit. S. W. Hale and family. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Lampke, Mi chael Gaffer and daughter, Mary, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. C. Schuckel of New Haven; and Mrs. Mary Duerr, of Milwaukee, returned to Fort Wayne this afternoon after attending the funeral of Mrs. Mary Gaffer. Col. S. B. Fordyce, Nathan Ehrnian and F. F. Freeh will leave Monday morning for Detroit, where they will attend the national G. A. R. encampment. Mr. Fordyce is a member of Commander Crampton s staff. Robert Peterson, who has been employed at this office during the summer as linotypf operator, will go to Auburn Monday morning, where he will look after the linotype for three weeks while the regular operator is enjoying a vacation. Bob will return to the state university the first of October. o ABOUT THE SICK. Mrs. S. S. Magley. of Monmouth, who has been ill since Monday, is still bedfast. She suffered r.n attack of indigestion and in vomiting suffered injury to her side from strain, which it is believed has affected the liver. Leo. aged eight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beery, who has been ill of typhoid fever three weeks, is better. C. M. Hower returned today to the bedside of his wife at the Lutheran hospital, after a short stay here since yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Hower is convalescing very well. Ben Smith, the druggist, of the firm of Smith, Yager & Falk, took seriously sick yesterday, having suffered from an attack of renal calculi or in other words from stones of the kidney. Mr. Smith had his first attack last week, but recovered from it, and was able to be up street again. He is now confined to his bed. Mrs. Henry Stevens, who was operated upon a week ago last Tuesday at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne, is getting along very nicely and will be brought home next Monday. o THE STORK'S STOP.

Marie Catherine is the name of tlie daughter born last night to Mr. and Mrs. John Fulk, living three miles west of Monroe. This is the second child in the family. The mother was formerly Miss Nora Norris and the father is a son of Peter Fulk of west of Decatur. A very fine girl baby arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reinking Mr. Reinking is auditor of the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway company. HOUSE FOR SALE—Small house on North Second street. Inuire of Mrs. Ed Johnson: 'phone 636. 201 tt

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GRAPES FOR SALE—Concord blue grapes for sale. Just the thing for canning purposes and making jelly. Large solid ones. Inquire of Mrs. Anthony Voglewede. Decatur R. R. No. 2 or Phone N-9. Dr. C V. Connell VETERINARIAN Pknnn office 143 X IlOne Residence 102 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.

STAR GROCERY Sweet Potatoes lb 4c Bananas dz 15c Celery, bunch 5c Spanish Onions lb. 7c Apple ß , 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 Mixed Spices 5c Will Johns.

CHOP FEED =llllllllll= at the right price, made from clean Corn and Oats and ground by our own mill. PROMPT DELIVERIES ASSURED E. L. CARROLL & SON

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