Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1914 — Page 3

|A SHOE WAS ONCE ■ —just a shoe—a common necessity Today it is a work of art an indicator of taste and character. Our shoe styles are now recognized as being quite as important as those of dress or headwear and the women of taste and discernment are I coming to this store to be fitted. I CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE THE SHOE SELLER

STweather forecasF" ■ jjxxxxy t i j uti **«?x*st* ****** ■ Rain tonight. Saturday partly ’Cleudy. ■ A henpecked man never crows over ft ■ No man is as handsome as he thinks the girls think he is. John Loehe and son. Albert, went to Wayne this morning. SMrs. Dick Hill and daughter, Mabel, of Root township, were shoppers here tftay. man is soon forgotten after he is doth unless you happen to marry his widow. ■Shortly after marriage a man begins t<| realize that he talked too much during his courtship. Hjclin Barrone and daughter. Bertha, went to Columbia City this morning for a visit with relatives. ■George Wemhoff made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning in the interest of the Wemhoff Monumental company. 9 Mr. and Mrs. John Coii returned to Fort Wayne this afternoon after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. John Chronister. J. H. Gentis left this morning on a week-end busines trip, going from here to Fort Wayne, then to Monroeville and Van Wert, Ohio. Miss Kathryn Egley of Berne passed through the city this morning on her way to Fort Wayne, where she ■will take her weekly music lesson. Mrs. Philip Meihls went to Fort Wayne this afternoon where site will take an X-Ray treatment to see whether her stomach is healing as it should.

xHKiK' >. -■>V- .-.■.v».«aMWW l >» —»rr I she Home Os Quality Groceries I Pancake flour ... 10c Bananas doz. ... 15c I Buckwheat flour . . 10c Cranberries qt. . . 10c I New Meal 10c Oranges doz. ... 25c I Cream cheese . lb. 23c Apples pk 25c I Switzer cheese lb. . 23c Onions lb 3c I Lima beans lb. . . 10c Spanish Onions lb. .7c Navy beans lb. .. 7c Sweet potatoes lb. .3c 251 b. Gran, sugar $1.90 Potatoes bu. .. . 60c We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 22c Butter 15c to 25c HOWER & HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 BF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN 1 1 President Secretary Treas. fc I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- 1 ** street Records, Twenty years’ Experience £ Farms, City Property, 5 per cent.’ g i MONEY g

It takes two to make a bargain but -flflTy- one of them gets it. ( William Bowers is looking after business matters at Rome City. C. C. Schug of Berne was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Mrs. Dan Vail and daughter, Mary Louise, spent the day in Fort Wayne. The city council will meet in regular session next Tuesday evening at the library. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Borne have returned to Bluffton after a visit here with relatives. Miss Emma Schultz of Fort Wayne is here visiting witli her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schultz. Charlie Voglewede lias returned from Indianapolis, where he attended the shoe men’s convention held there this week. Ezra Archbold of the circulation department of the Fort Wayne News, was here yesterday on business. Mr. Archbold formerly lived here. Harry and Lucile Curran returned to Lima, Ohio, yesterday after a visit here with relatives, coming to attern the wedding of their cousin, Esther Corbett and Fred Fullenkamp. C. M. Myers and sons returned tc Celina, Ohio, yesterday. They attended the Corbett-Fullenkamp wedding Mrs. Myers remained for a weeks’ vis it with her mother, Mrs. Mary Fuller kamp. Mark Zolman, 9 of Warsaw, is believed fatally injured. In trying to climb into the rear of a moving delivery wagon he was caught in a wheel and whirled round and round his body being torn and bleeding when the wagon was stopped. His leg was broken in five places and amputation is thought necessary.

Mrs. Jennie Fuhrman of Marion, 0., visited here with friends. Dr. J. W. Vizzard of Pleaaant Mills was a business visitor here today. Attorney L. C. De Voss made a business trip to Fort Wayne today noon. Rev. Powell, formerly pastor of the Methodist church here, visited here witli friends. The Hawkins & Runyon sale in Blue Creek township Tuesday was one of the largest ever held in the county, totaling about 14,500. Mrs. George Brown has sent in a monster turnip for .'exhibition. It weighs seven pounds and is believed to be a record-breaker. Mrs. Dayton Barkley returned to Hoagland this afternoon. She visited with her sister. Miss Mabel May, who aas been ill six weeks of typhoid. She is somewhat better, but is still bedfast. Governor Ralston will speak here next Friday afternoon for the democrats, and the following week Congressman Adair will make a two days’ tour of the county, closing with a meeting here. L. G. Ellingham and J. C. Moran are , the speakers for a meeting at Berne this evening and at Monroe tomorrow evening. A number from here will attend the meetings. Miss Fawn Lipplncut says she never realized what war really meant until yisterday when she had t' pay an advance o’ 2 cents on a dozen skirt fasteners. Mrs. Tipton Bud’s uncle car- ■ ries a cane an’ married an ugly woman; still he’s not what you'd call great.—Abe Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Liniger of near Peterson went to Fort Wayne this ■ morning to be with their son-in-law, Bert Croyle, and family. Mr. Croyle . is seriously ill of Bright’s disease and if he is able to stand the trip, they will bring him here. He had been in the hospital for treatment and left there last week. While he is able to be up and around there is no hope extended for his recovery. Peru may become a war horse center. One of the foreign powers has representatives negotiating with B. E. Wallace to secure his monster farm and circus buildings for a mobilizing point for 1,000 horses that are to be gathered in the west and central west and prepared for service in the European conflict. The horses, if the deal is made, will be gathered there from all over and held in quarantine a month. It is now stated that the government engineers working on the Erie-Michi-gan ship canal will complete the reports of the preliminary surveys by next March, and will place their reports in the hands of the army engineers at that time who will in turn place the matter before congress. It is now being planned by the canal enthusiasts to have the matter presented in congress early next spring after the reports have been made and try and secure sufficient appropriation to complete the final surveys of the canal. The Louisville & Nashville and the Nashville, Chattanooga &- St. Louis have entered suits in the United States Court of Claims at Washington for 1184,204 and 46,739, respectively, sums claimed for carrying the mails since the parcel post was established. The petitions set forth the conditions of the contracts under which the roads carry the mails and allege tl by the addition of the parcel post the government has made an unreasonable addition to the quantity of matter carried in the mail cars and therefore has violated the spirit of the contracts under which the mails are carried. Nickel Plate railroad officials have received notice that a shipment of fifty carloads of automobiles for Europe, to be used in the war, will be made over the road within the next few days. The cars are now being loaded onto a special train at the factory in Kenosha, Wis., and will be shipped to New York, byway of Chicago and ' Buffalo. The final destination of the cars has not been announced, and it is supposed this is being suppressed in order to keep foreign patriotism down, to a minimum. The cars will go through on a special train, under rush orders, and will make as few stops as possible. Officials of the company were unable to state of what make or design the cars were. The shipment is to be turned over to the Nickel Plate at Chicago within a few days. — TO GRAND LODGE. A large number of Decatur Pocahontas members will attend the grand council in Indianapolis next Wednesday. Mrs. Rebecca Eady goes as representative from the local council, and will remain to spend the rest of the wedk with her sister. Mrs. Anna Buhler. Others who will attend are: Mrs. James Bain, Mrs. James Fristoe, Mrs. Al Burdg, Mrs. Charles Burdg, Al Gerard. —o HEAR BEVERIDGE AT THE COURT HOUSE, SATURDAY, 4:00 P. M.

NOTICt - OF PUBLIC LETTING? - Id the matter of the petition of 1 Dailey Wechter et al. for a drain. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned superintendent of construction of the Dailey Wechter et al drain, In Bluecreek township, Adams County, Indiana, will on Saturday, Oct. 24, 1914, at 10 o’clock A. M. at the office of Phil L. Macklin, County Surveyor of Adams County, Indiana in the Morrison Block South of the Court House, lr. the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana receive sealed blds for the construction of said drain in accordance with the report, plans and specifications therefor now on file in the Auditors Office In the City of Decatur, Adams County, Indiana, in said cause. Bids will be received and a contract let as follows: From station 0 to station 76 plus 68, both inclusive, which means the whole of said drain. The work is to be all tiled. Bidders will be required to file the’r bids as required by law upon forms furnished by the undersigned superintendent of construction, and each bidder will be required to make the necesary affidavit of non-collusion and that he is a bona-fide bidder: each bid must be accompanied with a bond in a sum equal to double the amount of the bld, for the faithful performance of the contract if the contract be awarded such bidder. Such bond to be approved by the superintendent of construction. The superintendent of construction reserves the right to reject any and all bids. No blds will be accepted in excess of the estimated cost of such work or <n excess of the benefits found. The time for the completion of the work will be made kaown by the sup erintendent of construction on the day of sale and the successful bidder will be required to complete the work within the time fixed in the contract. Dated this 9th day of October, 1914. PHIL L. MACKLIN, 9-16 Supt. of Construction. o NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS. Notice is hereby given that Monday, the 2nd day of November, will be the last day to pay your fall installment of taxes. The treasurer’s office will be open from 7 o’clock a. m. until 5 o’clock p. m., each week day and the books will positively be closed at 5 o’clock p. m. on Monday, November 2nd. All taxes not paid by that time will become delinquent and the penalty of ten per cent will be added. Do not put your taxes off, as they must be paid and the law points out the duty of the treasurer. Those who have bought and sold property and wish a division of taxes or wish to make partial payment should come in at once. Don’t wait for the rush. No receipts can be laid away for any one. So do not ask it. W. J. ARCHBOLD, 236t22 Treasurer Adams County. NOTICE TO HUNTERS. Notice is hereby given to anyone caught on my farm in Preble township, whether hunting or trespassing, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 243t3 WILLIAM WERLING. A lady with two children would like to rent two rooms in which to live during the winter. If you have such rooms for rent leave word at this office 242t3. e DON’T FAIL TO HEAR HON. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, SATURDAY, 4:00 P. M.

n n i uni nii i DIGESTER, TANKAGE (3OTTOIN SEED MEAL We have a Car load Guaranteed 60 per cent Protein Digester Tankage and a Car load of Guaranteed 41 to 50 per. cent Protein Cotton Seed Meal coming in next month, this Cotton Seed Meal is the best that is on the market and in quality is worth SI.OO per ton more than any other Meal averaging about 43 per ct. Protein. Now is the time to lay in your Supply and avoid the advance as all concentrated food Products are advancing. If you give us your order now and take same from Car when it arrives, we will allow you a discount of 50c per ton as it costs us this amount to haul & store it in our warehouse. E. L. CARROLL & SON

‘ STAR GROCERY Cream of Wheat 15c f > Marco Wheat Cerea1....... ,15c I Post Tanem Special 15c » » Ralstons Breakfast Food ...15c i Cane Granulated Sugar 8c Crlaco 25c Marco Fancy Coffee 30c Pop Corn, lb 5c Pure Cider Vinlger 25c Evaporated Peaches 10c Honey par lb 18c Sardines 5c Rolled Oats 10c Salted Crackers 10c Fancy Raisins 13c Will Johns, a LOST A gold watch and chain with a silver knife on it. Had my name engraved on watch. A liberal reward will be given for its return. Leave at this office or return to DICK BURDG. TRY A PAIR OF Lion Brand Shoes for every day wear They keep the wet out C. H. ELZEY Opposite Court House.

QTHI IFFFD’Q hand ‘ painted V<Jr 1 CKO CHINA DINNER SETS B. LMT ~ ua Done in White and Gold. Made especially to your order with any initial. Start a set now. They will add a touch of individuality to your table. PUMPHREY S JEWELRY STORE If Its New We Have It. ARTISTIC ENGRAVING EXPERT REPAIRING SAVED ALL HIS HOGS “My hogs were badly infected with cholera, some of them in such a bad condition that they could not eat or walk and I felt sure that I was going to loose a majority of them. I secured a bucket t of Hog Tonic from The Republic Stock Food Co., however, and following directions within two days after starting the treatment, the entire bunch I was getting back into the best of condition and [ were eating ravenously and not one of them died. I cannot say to much regarding the merits of the tonic and recommend it to all my neighbors and friends”. (Signed) HENRY HILL Republic Stock Food & Medical Co. LOUIS SCHROEDER North First Street. WE INVITE ALL ADAMS COUNTY TO VISIT OUR STORE AND SEE OUR LINE OF BLANKETS, ROBES AND STORM COVERS We say without hesitancy that the NORTHERN OHIO • MILLS make the BEST BLANKETS; that they are made of WOOL and the colors are guaranteed not to fade. Any person raising hogs and wishing to be successful should not fail to see our HOG HOUSE and let us explain the advantages and economy by using these houses. Don’t forget that this is the time of year to have your | harness repaired and oiled. CHAS. F. STEELE & CO. North Second St.