Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1914 — Page 3

A VERY BUSY WOMAN -—who aside from her household duties, has an official position that requires a great deal of walking about the city, says that she never knew foot comfort until she tried a pair of our Cushion Comfort Shoes. Now she has her mind on her business and not on feet. Ladies $3.00 Mens $4.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

WEATHER FORECAST I Eair tonight and Thursday. Mrs. James Bain went to Ft. Wayne this morning. Peter Forbing went to Ft. Wayne tins morning. P. W. Smith of Richmond was a business visitor here yesterday. Mrs. F. V. Mills and daughter, Margaret, were Fort Wayne visitors today. Mrs. Theresa Schafer went to Fort Wayne yesterday to visit with her sister, Mrs. Ed Engelking. Miss Lottie Lett, a student of the Wren high school, spent the week-end at her home near Bobo. Mrs. Francis Fuhrman of north of the city attended the funeral of Mrs. Oliver Sheets at Wren last Tuesday. Attorney William Reed of Fort Wayne was here yesterday to attend the funeral services of Frank Linn. The Moose lodge is planning an in door fair that will prove a center of interest if given. The boys are hustlers. Cleo Jackson of near Van Wert. 0., spent Sunday at the home of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Jackson, east of the city. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. France have gone to Muskoegee, Okla., where Mr. France will look after his business interests for a few weeks. Mrs. C. L. Meibers and son, Bob. have returned from Indianapolis where they attended the funeral of a relative. Miss Mattie Avery remained lor a longer visit.

The Home Os Quality Groceries WE WANT T 0 HELP \°oß UIANKSGIVING New Currants ... Cranberries 10c 3 for 25c Seeded Raisins ... 12c Bell Flour apples . . 35c Not-a-seed Raisins 12 1-2 Greening ‘ . . 30c Fia 3 ... 10c Baldwins ‘ • • 2oc Dates . 5 and 10c Celery . - t .2 for 5c Pumpkins . . 10 and 15c 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. K. & 1. Depot ph<)ne 108 ml -■ —~ IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. S THE BOWERS REALTY CO. J real estate, bonds, loans, E ABSTRACTS. Ij The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- g S stract Records, Twenty years Experience g Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. S MONEY

i F. A. Peoples spent the day in the [ “forest,” hunting. ■ Irvin Brandybei;ry went to Fort ’ Wayne today on business. Mrs. Samantha Dorwin went to her farm at Monmouth today noon. Mr. Braun, of the trucking company, went to Fort Wayne on business today noon. Mrs. Mike Miller and Mrs. E. F. Gass went to Elwood for a visit with the B. Weismantle family. Jesse Niblick and Rev. J. A. Seimetz have returned from a few days’ trip to Hammond and Gary, Ind. A number of theater-goers will see Fiske O'Hara at the Majestic theater. Fort Wayne, Thursday evening. Mrs. Florence Leiser and F. A. Mil ler, who attended the funeral of Frank Linn, returned today to Oak Harbor Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hubbard of Montague, Mich., arrived yesterday for a visit with their son, F. H. Hubbard, and family. Fred Rohrer of the Berne Witness was a visitor in the city today. He was enroute home from Elkhart, where he attended to business matters. Mrs. Charles Barnhart and children of Attica and Mrs. Dr. A. L. Hickman of Hammond are guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hubbard of Monthque, Mich., are visiting in this city with their son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hubbard. Arthur Mangold and Thomas Ehinger went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to attend the wedding of their sister-in-law, Miss Maye Rademacker, to Mr. Charles Wilt, which will take place this evening at the St. Peter's parsonage.

Morton Stults, former manager of the Herald, has accepted a position as day chemist at the sugar factory during the campaign and has begun his duties. Mrs. Shoemaker’s Sunday school class of the United Brethren church will meet Friday evening with Miss Mary Deam at her home on Ninth street. The Bluffton central school is closed because ten cases of small pox among the students. None of the cases are serious and school will reopen in a few days. The seven-months-old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Tise Baker is quite low of pneumonia and two other children art 1 also ill of the same ailment. Miss Josephine Krick is the trained nurse in attendance. The Fort Wayne Electric Works is planning a system wherein ail men seeking employment ’fith the concern will be required to pass a physical examination before entering the employ of the company. The Misses Iret;.i Erwin, Irene Smith and Florence Cowen went to Fort Wayne this morning, where they spent the day as the guests of friends. Miss Kathryn Egly of Berne joined them for the afternoon. Cass T. Wright of Greenville, Mich., and J. W. Pfeiffer of Edmore, Mich., directors of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company, are in the city today inspecting the local plant and, are guests of Manager F. H. Hubbard. Miss Frank Rademacker went to Fort Wayne this morning where this evening she will attend the wedding of her sister. Miss Maye, to Mr. Wilt of chat city. The ceremony will take place at 8:30 at the St. Peter’s parsonage. The automobile agents are busy sell ing ears for 1915 and evidently the prospects are good from the number engaged in the work. A 1915 Westcott made at Richmond and selling for sllsO was on the streets today and attracted considerable attention. Mr. and Mrs. William Kist have completed the moving of their household goods from their former home on First street to the Dan Myers residence on Winchester street, opposite the Park hotel. The residence on First street will be occupied by Mr. Pond. Delphos will continue to have but ten saloons, the result of the estimate of the tawn’s population by the United States census bureau. It is not believed that five thousand, five hundred persons reside there, and only one resort is permitted to every five hundred. Charles Becker, captain of the Huntington Business college foot ball team, asks us to announce in this paper that they would like to meet a Decatur team of 140 pound average, weight, with a guarantee of expenses. His address is 45 E. Market street, Hunt ington, if you want a game. 1 Miss Bertha Heller, who has been suffering from an aggravated attack of sore throat for a week past, is better and expects to be able to return to her duties at Indianapolis by the last of the week. She has been at the home of her parents, Judge and Mrs. D. D. Heller, since last Thursday. The town of Bryant within the next few weeks, or as soon as arrangements now well under way can be completed, is to assume a more modern attitude and will be able to boast of electric lights. The firm of Bowen & Son, a private concern, now operating a moving picture show at Bryant, is to install the necessary plant and equip ment. To work in harmony in the future instead of being at loggerheads as they have been in the past, is the underlying motive of a newly organised set of business men at South Whitley. It was decided that the business men would meet every Monday noon at the South Whitley hotel, where they would take dinner and talk over the welfare and conditions of the town. Fred Rohrer, editor of the Berne Witness, was here today a few hours en route home from Elkhart, where he has been looking after some property he owns there and which he is trying to dispose of. Fred is greatly improved in health after several months of ailing with rheumatism and a general run down condition. After trying various supposed cures, he bought an automobile and traveled over the county the past summer and says it did the work. Lester Stanley .assistant Western Union operator, received an aerial propeller and engine yesterday for his canoe and will now be able to skim up and down the river with the greatest enjoyment. This is the very latest mode of propelling a boat, having an engine and a two-blade propeller which works similar to that of an aeroplane, attaining a speed of sixteen miles an hour. This is the first engine of its kind ever seen in tills city and is attracting considerable attention. Lister expect to givei it a try-out tomorrow.

Earl Heffner of Fort Recovery, Ohio, Is in the city visiting with his grandfather, Peter Forbing, and family. Mrs. James P. Haefling and son, Janies, visited in Fort Wayne today. E. F. Watkins of Fort Wayne was heretoday on business. Intent upon ending her life. Miss Alta McCleary, aged 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. McCleary, of Oswego, swallowed an ounce of chloroform Friday evening while on board a Winona interurban car out of Goshen. The act of Miss McCleary was undoubtedly committed with suicidal intent as this was her second attempt to end her life within the last eight weeks. Meetings to discuss foreign and home mission work are to be held this month in the various cities of the Muncie district of the M. E. church. The same program is to be followed tn each city and includes a number of Interesting features. The dates for the meetings are: Noblesville. November 18; Alexandria, November 19; Anderson, November 20; Muncie. November 21; Hartford City, November 24. No matter how loud we applaud a high brow concert, we alius feel stund if they leave out “Annie Laurie.” One ordeal in connection with an election in which th’ sufferin’ public is spared is th' selection o’ deputies.—Abe Martin. Earl L. Foley of Convoy, Ohio, and Miss Clara E. Carpenter of Dixon, 0., were married yesterday afternoon at the court house by Justice C. M. Weaver.—Hillsdale Daily. The “No Hunting on Sunday” provision of the game law is to he enforced in this part of the state this year, according to instructions given by Commissioner Miles and given out in the form of a warning by Capt. R. (Fleming. All violators will be arrested, says Fleming. In the past this section of the law has not been enforced strictly, as it has been argued that Sunday is the only day the laboring man can go hunting. So many complaints have been received from farmers opposed to the practice that Commissioner Miles announced the change this year. Following the discovery of small pox in two more families, making five families under quarantine, with a total of seven cases of smXll pox, the city health and school authorities arrived at a decision to take drastic measures and exert every effort to stamp out the disease and prevent a widespread or general epidemic. With this purpose in view it was decided to close the Central school Monday evening for an indefinite period, probably a week at least, and in addition, by quarantines and vaccination and al.' other precautions possible, means will be adopted to stamp out the disease. — Bluffton Banner. After January 1 anybody who wants a railroad folder may be charged one or two cents for a publication that has been handed out free for generations. The presidents of the railroads operating out of Chicago passed a resolution to discontinue on January 1 all free folders in hotels and outside ticket offices throughout the country. This action was taken only after it became apparent that what was deemed a waste could not be handled by the general passenger agents because it was rumored that some of the latter were interested in the companies that controlled the distribution of the folders in hotels and stations. Walter Maddox of Van Buren entered a plea of guilty in the Howard county circuit court to the charges made by Floyd E. Wright, state supervisor of natural gas, for pulling the casing and drive pipe from a gas well in Howard county and failing to properly plug and seal the same. The minimum fine in such cases is one hundred dollars an.d the maximum fine is one thousand dollars, to which may be added six months’ imprisonment in the county jail. The judge assessed the minimum fine of one hundred dollars. The law requiring the plugging of abandoned gas weljs is intended to prevent contamination of fresh water by the rising of salt water, and to prevent the inflow offresh water from damaging the gas or oil bearing rock. The Indiana highway commission, appointed by Governor Ralston to study the good roads question in all parts of the state will be in Muncie November 21 and will convene in the Commercial club parlors. All the people of the county interested in good roads- are invited to attend. A representative of the U. S. department of good roads will also be there and a general discussion of the road question will be held. John R. Retherford. of Muncie, is a member of the advisory board to the highway commission. The five members of the commission are Addison C. Harris, Indianapolis, chairman; Thomas Taggart, French Lick; Leonard F. Clore, Laporte; H. H. O'Brien, Lawrenceburg; Prof. R. L. Sackett. Lafayette. Luke W. Dudley, of Indianapolis, is secretary.

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