Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1914 — Page 3

GIRLS, AIN’T THIS A DANDY BOOT? I* Ok We’ve got them in * 111 both Patent and Gun IE Metal and I want to \ sa y that we are selling scads of these two -*■■- num bers. Little Girls $1.75 and $2.00 Misses Sizes $2.50 Growing Girls $3.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE

WEATHER FORECAST I Fair tonight and Wednesday. Colder. A number from this city saw Maude Adams at the Majestic theotre, Fort Wayne, last evening. Mrs. J. M. Miller and sister-in-law, Mrs. Henry Archbold, of Los Angeles, Cal., left today for Warren to visit with relatives. August Kinzle left this morning for his home at Miihigan City, after visiting in the city with his sister, Mrs. George Massonie. Mrs. Frank Schnepp and daughter. Mrs. Ella Schnepp, went to Ft. Wayne this morning, where they attended the funeral of their cousin, Mrs. Tillman. Sam Acker of Geneva announces a big bankrupt sale to start Thursday of this week and continue thirty days. Sam announces that he will close out and join his wife in Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Taylor left this morning for their home at Sturgis, Mich., after visiting in the city with Mrs. Taylor’s sister, Mrs. Drayton Hill, and niece, Mrs. John Scheimann. Th’ least harmful way o’ makin’ a livin’ without workin’ is teachin th’ mandolin. Business is a good deal lik several people I have known fer thirty years—alius feelin’ poorly.—Abe Martin. Mathias Kirsch went to Ft. Wayne this morning, where he will attend the first meeting of the newly elected board of trustees of the Reformed Orphans’ home. Mr. Kirsch has been a member of the advisory board of the orphans’ home for a number of years.

The Home Os Quality Groceries WE WANT TO HELP YOU GET READY FOR THANKSGIVING New Currants ... Cranberries 10c 3 for 25c Seeded Raisins . . -12 c Bell Flour apples . . 35c Not-a-seed Raisins 12 1-2 Greening “ . . 30c Figsloc Baldwins “ . . 25c Dates . .. 5 and 10c Celery . . 2 for 5c Pumpkins . . 10 and loc Green house Lettuce 12c Sweet cider, gal. . ■ 20c Onions lb. . ■ . . 2 l-2c 25 lb. Gran. Sugar $1.50 Slaw cabbage lb. . . .2c We nay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 28c Butter 17c to 27c HOWER & HOWER North of G. R. & 1. Depot Phone 108 IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I B REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, I" ABSTRACTS. I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- g stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience B Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

F. F. Mettler and C. C. Schug, the Berne automobile salesmen, were here on business today. A number of Decatur people attended the MauG Adams performance at the Majestic theater, Fort Wayne, last evening. Kalver & Sikes, the new local agents for the Ford, report the sale of a fivepassenger car to the Republic Stock Food and Medical Co. Elmer Darwechter, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Darwechter, is getting along nicely with his left arm, which was broken a week ago in playing basket ball. The Adams County Creamery reports the following market prices for butter during the week: Butter fat, No. 1,35 c; butter fat, No. 2,32 c; butter, wholesale, 35c, and butter, retail 37c. George Wilson of Bluffton was here yesterday afternoon looking up old friends and acquaintances. !!,■ for merly served as bookkeeper at the First National bank for several months. The play, “The Trail of the Lone some Pine,” pleased the large chowd at the Bosse opera house last evening Ray Snedeker, a former Decatur boy, took the leading part and proved to be a winner. Weighted down with extra clothing and a heavy raincoat, Alva E. Bugher, aged thirty-seven years, night operator for the G. R. & I. railroad at Howe. Ind., drowned after capsizing the boat in which he and two other men were fishing, about thirty feet from the shore. Bugher fought the waves of the lake for more than five minutes before he was carried down by the soaked clothing.

Miss Lena Meyer has gone to St. Henry. Ohio, for a visit. Earl Heffner made a business trip to Fort Wayne today noon. James Keiger of Indianapolis was a business visitor in the city today, A man is old at 80, a horse at 25, a hen at two years and an automobile in about three months. Mrs. Ward Cline went to Ft. Wayne this afternoon to visit with her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Baxter. Nell Brown and Mrs. S. E. Hurless passed through the city today noon enroute to Fort Wayne. Only thirty-eight more shopping days until Christmas. Do your buylr/l early and avoid the rush. T. B. Frazee, traveling auditor for the Indiana Lighting company, was here on business with the local office. Peter Nutz, president of the Nutz & Grosskopf Shoe company of Indfmapolis, was a business visitor in the city today. Eph Vail of Paragould, Ark., arrived in the city last evening for a few days’ visit with his sister, Mrs. Daniel Sprang. Miss Bertha Voglewede, bookkeeper for the Schaub-Dowling hardware store, was off duty yesterday on account of illness. A. S. Elzey of Ossian was here today to attend the funeral of Frank Linn, who was killed in an automobile accident in Chicago last Thursday. James Rupel of Bryant was a business visitor in the city today. Mr. Rupel was looking after matters pertaining to the opening of the Citizens’ Loan and Trust company, of which he is president. The Athletic association of the Decatur high school has rented the Niblick building on Madison street and the first game to be played in it this year will be Friday evening, with the Geneva first and second teams. Don’t fail to come up. Charles and Frank Lose, two of Decatur’s young, hustling business men. hope that by the first of the month they will be able to open their new and sanitary Parlier shop in the middle, downstairs room on the People's Loan and Trust company building. Mrs. William Wechter, who has been visiting with her brother, Eugene Runyon, and other relatives, left Monday for her home in Salem, Oregon. She will stop off in Chicago for a few days' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Kile, and from there will go to Colorado Springs to visit with the E. C. Sheldon family, before returning home A. L. Nichols of Coldwater, Mich., was here today looking after business and shaking hands with old friends. He is delighted over the fact that his county this year elected democrats to svery county office, excepting representative and treasurer. The republican representative was elected by but four votes. The re-election of Governor Ferris is also popular with the Michigan democrats, including Mr. Nichols. H. R. Mercer ,a slick-tongued traveling man, who cashed a bad check on a prominent Fort Wayne real estate dealer several weeks ago, is under arrest at Harrisburg, Pa., where he floated more bogus paper. The fellow, who was a chance acquaintance of the Fort Wayne man, gave the latter as reference when lie was taken by officers. Chief of Police Lentz received a message yesterday telling of the man’s arrest and asking that the Fort Wayne man be seen. It was then learned that the friend at Ft. Wayne had been biked and the information was telegraphed to Harrisburg. The prisoner will be tried at that place. H. A. Fristoe of Rochester sends us a copy of the souvenir program for a great six-day Thanksgiving Festival and Fall Chautauqua to be held in his city from the 21st to the 26th. It ’s a great program from point of printing and from point of contents and Al has a full page advertisement for his Economy store. The headliners for the celebration are Dr. Cook, Elbert Hubbard, Opie Read, Ronald Baggott and two dozen others of the great and near great. It will no doubt be a big week for Rochester. Mr. Fristoe also takes occasion to tell us how happy he is that Mr. Barnhart and Mr. Adair were returned to congress and that his old friends won in the election here. A few charred and broken bones of Private Samuel Parks of Wabash, Indiana, the orderly of Col. Taggart, who was executed last summer by Gen. Huerta’s troops, have been returned to the American authorities. There was nothing by which identification was possible, but additional evidence of his death was obtained from a Mexican and a Tejeria, a short distance from where the Mexican soldiers killed the American and buried his bo;'y. The Mexican said lie witnessed the ragedy. An American army surgeon and two assistants entered the Mexican lines by agreement with the Mexican government and recovered the fragments of Park’s body. The body will be taken [to Wabash for burial.

The grand jury will meet next Monday and the boys will have their turn at forgetting. The eldest daughter of Mr. anti Mrs. Jacob Hess, is said to be quite ill of typhoid fever. Miss Marie Patterson has accepted a position as cashier for the trustee In the Sam Acker store at Geneva and will begin he duties Thursday morning. Geraldine, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Everett, is ill of typhoid fever. Leonard Liby, son of Mrs. Everett, who had the fever, lias recovered and lias returned to school. Mercury ,the smallest planet of the sun’s satHites, was visible, but not with the naked eye, against the disc of the sun at sunrise Saturday morning. Through lenses of small telescopes the planet appeared as a black dot traveling across the western portion of the sun from east to west. It has been estimated by a student of Indiana University that twenty tons of paper annually are saved from total waste. This paper is collected from the waste baskets of the various buildings and baled and sold to a local man for $5 a ton. This nets the university one hundred dollars a year. The Indiana law compelling the installation of automatic firebox doors on all locomotives in the state by the first of next January is just now making a lot or extra work in all the shops of the steam roads operated in the state. Every one is affected and all were slow in getting started at the work. Mr. and Mrs. John Bolinger gave a dinner party Sunday noon in farewell to their brother, Eli Bolinger, and wife, of Columbia City. They left yesterday for West Palm Beach, Fla. to be there until next June, on account of Mr. Bolinger's health. Guests at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Steele, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker and daughter, Mildred. Clarence Bell, the handle manufacturer, left last evening for Pittsburg and New York, where he expects to land some business. Orders in his line have been rather scarce for a few weeks but tne "ousiness is again opening up and Mr. Bell hopes to land some business that will keep his plant running in full blast. The mill has been shut down for several days while the boiler is being repaired, but will open again within a few days. Physicians are advising vaccination at once to prevent the spreading of small pox at Bluffton which has now gotten a start in that city. There have been a number exposed to the cases already reported and these persons are being vaccinated. The people are slow in acting along this line of prevention, however, and one physician stated that he would not be surprised to soon see Bluffton in the grip of the disease like Hartford City is at the present time. The management of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad has published an order prohibiting the use of tobacco by passenger station and train employes and others in the service of the road whose duties bring them into contact with the public vjliile on duty. The order explains that it is not the purpose of the road to infringe upon per sonal privilege or to regulate the habits of its employes when the latter shall be off duty, but it continues that not only is the odor of tobacco objectionable to many persons, but the use of it detracts from the efficiency of the user. Zed Atkinson, employed as a clerk at the Cole grocery, in South High street, had a battle with a copper head snake, which he found in a bunch of bananas Saturday morning. He finally succeeded in capturing ,he snake without receiving injury, and now has the reptile on exhibition in a glass can. The snake measured abr/at two feet two inches in length. The bunch of bananas had been in the grocery for two weeks, crated up. The snake, was coiled around the stock, under the bananas. When the bunch of bananas was hung up in a warm room the snake crawled out. —Hartford City News. By plowing the ground now, although it is wet. and muddy in some places, the soil is loosened up for the entire winter. Hibernating insects, such as are destructive to the crops, brought to the surface and being dormant, will lie on top until freezing , weather comes. Then their exposure to the weather will kill millions of them. Besides this slaughtering of destructive parasites, the soil is benefited by the winter plowing. No hot sun will shine at this time of the year and the plowed ground will not harden on top. The loose soil will permit the water to easily penetrate the soil and the freezing will be deep. The freezing and thawing will push the ground upward, break up the soil into fine particles and at the same time its looseness will permit the water to penetrate the sub-soil without difficulty and be stored up for drouths of the next year.

FURNACE HEAT By putting up one of our Pearless Universal heaters you will receive all the enjoyment and comforts of . a furnace minus all of the hard d work and at a great reduction in price. The Universal is not only v superior in every point over other heaters but is so neat and attract- < appearance that it would add to the beauty of the most expensive home. The price of this stove U* * s so reasonable that you will be PEERLESS UNIVERSAL surprised. Come in and let us show you how to reduce your heating expense. Schaub-Dowling Co. WOOD FOR sale! sl-25 DECATUR to TOLEDO vy wood. Good for heating VIA purposes. May also be used in cook stove. Phone 322. CLOVER LEAF ROUTE 0. C. CHRONISTER _ Every Sunday HOGS FOR SALE —1 have for sale See J. H. THOMPSON, Agent Decatur several brood sows, with pigs by f or Information side. —C. H. Getting, Decatur, R. R. No. 1, or call Hoagland ’phone. 264t6 * ~ SPECIAL SALE 1 CORSETS We are installing a complete new line of P-N corsets, I the very latest on the market, and in order to close out I our old line of American Beauty corsets we will hold a j special sale on them for this week only. A Chance To Get A Comfortable Fit At A Bargain v AMERICAN BEAUTY’S / \ A jr — Regular Price 50c |L^. : L h l\\ r * ce Iz * ii? \ ■ i\\ Regular Price SI.OO 1 | Z )\ Sale Price 75c tg ' > I ‘ I T V if 1;If ' 1 f GrSETS >■/;• <&’ Regular Price $1,50 FWM I"" s ? c "oT Sale Price 98c h S' P-N corsets are well worth trying, cozy fitting, snug, long enveloping skirts that bring out the good points, and low tops giving easy freedom of movement. A relaxed figure is the fashion and only flexibly boned corsets can give it. P-N CORSETS AT 50c, sl., $1.50