Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1914 — Page 5

JSPECIAL I Felt house slippers, black felt upI per neatly bound, grey felt soles, ■ jusa the thing for evening wear, g Get yours while they last. I Men’s and ladies sizes -40 c ■ Misses sizes - - . . gQ c I Little girls and boys -25 c | CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. r the shoe seller

| WEATHER FORECAST I Probably rain tonight and Tuesday. A last year's hat is a woman's notion of self-sacrifice. I Miss Esther Straub went to Fort Wayne this morning. ■ Otto Wemhoff of Fort Wayne visited in the city yesterday. B Mrs. Will Kremers spent the day visiting in Fort Wayne. | Mrs. Albert Walliser of Reed, Ohio, E is the guest of the George Keller family. ■Smiling brings sunshine into the home, and washing the windows helps some. 55 Bob Meibers, Bernard Brake and Harold Murray visited in Fort Wayne yesterday. Mrs. Elva Cook of Greentown passed through the city this morning on her way to Lagrange. R. W. Carson, who visited at Wren. Ohio, changed care here today enroute to his home in Chicago. Miss Mayme Tcrveer spent Sunday in Toledo as the guests of her sister. Mrs. C. R. Uhl, and family. Joe Meyers and son, James, of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here this morning enroute to Fort Wayne. John Wemhoff returned to Fort Wayne last envieng after spending Sunday in the city with his mother. Mrs. Julius Hangk and daughters, Edna and Molly, went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon for a visit over Sunday with relatives. She will call on her sister, Miss Huldah Kiefer, who was operated upon at the Lutheran hospital.

iwiiMiißiiißiii—miiiiMiiiinin i mu The Home Os Quality Groceries SPECIAL ON PBUNES THIS WEEK Fancy Santa Clara Prunes lb • 10c Fancy New York Baldwin Apples bu. SI.OO Pure Buckwheat Flour 10 lb. sack ... 45c Sweet Cider, Gal 30c Dates Sweet Potatoes, lb 3o Figs • _ Not-A-Seed Raisins 12/zC Currants /2 Seeded Raisins 12c Grape Fruit 8c SEE OUR LINE OF CHRISTMAS CANDIES. We nav cash or trade for produce, Eggs 32c Butter 17c to 27c | HOWER & HOWER North of G. K. & 1. Depot PhoneWOj I"“ s ™|g'“ I I I the bowers realty co. I real estate, BONDS, LOANS, g ■ abstracts, I I„, a qphirmever Abstract Company complete Ab- 1 - rtSUds, Twenty years’ Experience I , farms, City Property, 5 per cent. g MONEY I

I VV. Parker went to Fort Wayne today noon. 1 he obituatry is said enough without [ adding amateur poetry. And again in doing good you are often starting something. 'A hat, we desire to ask, is the idea of raising bantam chickens? If a man is permitted to talk about l.imself the conversation will not dra; perceptibly. Lee Reed returned this morning from Portland, where he spent Sunday with his family. Simon Traster, who lias been seriously ill, is reported as not being so well Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Dick pill and daughter, Mabel, went to Monmouth to visit with relatives today. H. E. Stephens, from the Buster Brown shoe house, St. Louis, MO., was here on business today. Mrs. Robert Gephart returned to Huntington yesterday after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Page Burrell. Mrs. D. V. Ruckman and daughter went to Hoagland this morning where they will visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Todd. M. McCullough of near Pleasant Mills went to Fort Wayne today noon being drawn as a member of the federal jury, which convenes tomorrow. J. A. Smith, Horace Callow and son. Stanley, called on their wife and sis ter, Mrs. J. A. Smith, at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, Sunday. She is recovering nicely from her operation. Earl Hoagland, who lias been off duty for several weeks, since an operation for appendicitis, will begin work Wednesday at the Mills grocery, where he has been employed for a number of years.

E. M. Ray of Berne was a business visitor here today. Sherman Fonner of Monmouth was ' a shopper here today. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Fruchte. went to | Fort Wayne tills afternoon. Frank Williams visited over Svtndav witli hig parents near Monroe. Burt Hunsicker made a business trip to Fort Wayne today noon. Miss Emma Keller will spend several days with friends in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Otto Haubold will leave tomorrow for her home at Prescott. Ariz. Miss Kate Geary is here for a short visit with friends, and to attend to business matters. Mrs. Homer Mathewson passed through the city today noon enroute to Fort Wayne from a visit In Toledo, Ohio. Miss Marie Patterson began duty tills morning as an extra clerk at the Pumphrey jewelry store during the Christmas season. Daniel Sprang will go to Fort Wayne in the morning, having been drawn as a member of the federal jury, which will convene there tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fuhrman and son, Jesse, returned today from Celina, 0., where they visited with their son, Charles Fuhrman. Their son, Clark, of Lima, Ohio, was also thejre over Sunday. Mrs. Fred Deininger arrived from Grand Rapids, Mich., for a visit over Christmas with her father, Millard Cowan, and family and the U. Deininger family. Her husband will join her for Christmas. Henry Mailahd of near St. John's was here today on business. Mr. Mailand. who lias been suffering from cancer of the face and has been taking treatment for same, is recovering nicely, the cancer being now all removed. Mrs. Janies Bain ana Mrs. Rebecca Eady are extra assistants at the Gass & Meibers store during their "Heart O’ Season” sale. The store is gaily decorated O’ Season” pennants and tlie clothing displays were never, more attractive. J. B. Drummond, who has just returned from a trip to Oregon tells about several fine hunting trips he made there. They hunt from automobiles, covering fifty or a hundred miles in a day, and securing many pheasants and a few squirrels. With the auto they slip up on the birds and get a good siiot at them before the pheasant has a chance to fly or hide. Members of the Christmas club of the Old Adams County bank will be made happy within a few days by the payment of the amount of their saVings, together with the interest. The weather is so sticky that it’s no wonder we met several people out cf humor today. We don’t believe they mean everything they say on days like these, especially after seven or eight such days in rapid succession. The Scientific American has sent us a lithographed production of a shell used in the 42 centometer German guns. It is displayed in our window and lias attracted considerable attention. With power enough behind one of these immense shells to carry it three miles it is not surprising that they will destroy the strongest fortifications. The Scientific American lias been giving splendid information on the modern instruments of warfare. Mrs. C. K. Lliamon returned to Fort Wayne Saturday after attending the funeral of her mother, Mrs. David Gessinger. She was accompanied by her brother, Frank, who is employed in Fort Wayne and makes his home with her. Her younger brother, Albert, also accompanied her and will make his home with ills sister, going to school in Fort Wayne. Mr. Gessinger will reside at the home here, his daughter, Mrs. Tom Andrews, and husband moving into the home with him. The Gass & Meibers store is a busy and attractive place these days, the big Heart O' Season sale being in prog-i ress there. It opened last Friday and has been a continuous success, with crowds coming and going and everybody busy and pleased. A feature is the decorations, a thousand pennants flying from the ceiling and adorning the windows, calling attention to the occasion. In the crowd today were a number of buyers from Mendon, Celina, Rockford, Wren and other points in Ohio. The sale will continue, Mr. Gass announced, for some days to reduce the b>S stock which has failed to move because of the warm weather. An agreement was made a short time ago between the railroads, nil common carriers and tlie eating places along the lines to boost the prices of meals. Table d liote meals at all eating houses and on all dining cars on the railroads throughout the United States will cost a minimum of seventy-five cents a piece. The meals could be purchased on most dining cars and at most restaurants and eating places throughout the United States for fifty cents previously to the agreement. Tlie sudden rise in the prices will effect the pocketbook cf the traveling public # yrcat deal and for this reason is not received with the preatest of pleasure.

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S long as Calista's money held out she went gayly about her Christmas shopping. When she found that her tiny purse wus empty, she stopped buying—wherein she showed greater wisdom than many grown-ups—and with a soul replete with satisfao tlon she left the store. ‘‘l’ve got pretty much most everything, 1 guess," she said to herself, hugging her bundles close as she tripped along the country streets. "But I’ll know for sure when I get home." And when she reached home the very first thing she did was to array the gorgeous gifts upon the white spread of her little bed. Christmas was two days away. Therefore It was Imperative that she begin that very moment to put them in order. Then like an embodied cyclone she burst

Into her elder sister’s room, intent jipon tissue paper and seals and all the other necessities for making beautiful Christmas bundles. What Callsta saw there made her freeze in her tracks, as if the high wind of Destiny, which had borne her thus far, had suddenly become a dead calm. Margaret, her beautiful, lovely Margaret was standing with tightened , lips that twitched and quivered. In her hand, which ■ hastily dropped to her side, but not before Calista had seen, was clutched a photograph. And the whispered words on her lips repeated themselves over and over i* Calista’s mind, while amazement held her dumb. “It grows worse, the ache —worse as the days go by.” Not until Calista had interpreted the meaning of those words did she find her voice; then she said blandly: “I came so I’m wrapping up my Christmas bundles.” Seeing what sha wanted lying on Margaret’s desk, she went for them. Meanwhile, a brave control touched the quivering lips of the elder girl. She was Indeed fortunate, she thought, that It was only Calista who had discovered her momentary aberration. iFor that was what it was. How could It be anything else? What girl with any pride would allow herself to — No, she hadn’t cried! The man did not live who could make her weep for him. “You’ll return what you don’t need, Calista, dear?” she said, sweetly. “Yes,” answered Callsta briefly, and went. And then, just to prove to herself that she had regained her sanity., Margaret Wesley looked again at that picture in her hand —looked, and felt a quick contraction of the throat, a sudden piercing sting upon her eyeballs. And down upon the picture dropped a tear. Calista, on the other side of the door, was saying to herself: “She was going to cry Her eyes were teary. It was Jasper's picture she was trying to hide.” And then, childlike, In spite of her surprise the gathering forces of her sympathy were completely overwhelmed to the demands of Christmas. And why not? After a!!, Calista's mind was too youthful to be deeply concerned about lover's quarrels and broken engagements and such things. And she had ma.de such marvelous purchases. Indeed as they lay spread out on the bed It did seem as if only a genius or a little girl could have reached such decisions. There was a really lovely box of handkerchiefs, embellished with the pinkest of pink paper, for mother. That gift had put a tremendous hole in her pocketbook. And a pair of suspenders for daddy. These two presents were the first purchased, and while Calista still held the leash in her fancy. Afterward, let the sad truth be revealed at once (but then Callsta was such a little girl, how could she be expected to prove bigger minded and stronger than grownups?), she succumbed to this ini oxication of glittering, gleaming, glowing displayed wares. "For brother Jim —that nice green tie,” Calista hummed softly to herself —a tune improvised for the occasion. “For sister Nell—that story book. I hope she reads It all to me And baby boy can have that rattle. Uncle Fred that nice glass pitcher.” She paused and added sotto voce: "I got It in the beautiful Ten Cent store. And he’s going to be married, so he can use it.” Then the song went on—- “ And Auntie Madge that box of soap." That was from the Ten Cent store also, but then each cake was done up in shiny red paper, and there were three cakes in a box. “And sister Kate a string of beads. “Once more the song reverted to everyday speech: "Maybe she’ll lend them to me once in a while 'causee I gave them to her." "And sister Margaret —” Calista paused aghast. The one thing that

bad not been apportioned waa a tluy set of dishes—also from that beautiful Teu Cent store. She looked over the gifts. Some were already wrapped, for all the while she sang her nimble fingers had been busy. But her genius solved the problem. "Well," she said reflectively, "she can use them for an ornament on her desk maybe, and I'll promise to dust them for her. I like little dishes.” But having cleared that hurdle another presented Itself almost immediately. On a flooding onset of memory Callsta remembered that she had fully intended when she started out to get something for Jasper—the brother that was to have been, but now wasn’t to be, as she explained it to her mind. For In Calista's loyal little heart burned a steady flame of liking for the man who could treat little girls with the consideration he had bestowed upon her. This was a dilemma. And for the moment Callsta actually thought of robbing her real brother Jim of the glorious green tie. Jim, just two years older, was a "pig" to her sometimes. But then she remembered that Jasper never wore any but black ones on account of his red hair, as ho had explained to her at one time. It was Indeed a perplexing problem to say the least. For had it been any one but Jasper she might confide in some one —her mother, or even Margaret—and negotiate a loan. "I guess he’ll have to go without,” she concluded almost sadly. And curiously a dusk of dreams crept into her blue eyes. “Unless —unless I give him something of my own.” But a mental review of her most cherished possessions failed to reveal anything suitable for a big grown-up man. Then even as she gave up the problem her despairing musing awoke to life with a delighted, "Oh!" As she pondered she had been gazing directly at the framed picture of Margaret which stood on her little dresser. Callsta was nothing if not .masterful in the manner in which she reached ultimate decisions —and then lived up to them. Less than a minute after she had allotted Jasper that forget-me-not framed face she was also promising him a note. For Callsta really had a fellow feeling of understanding for the man —especially about that picture. ! "Dear brother Jasper, that was to have been,” her letter ran. "I am sending you for a Christmas present the picture of Margaret which you returned when you sent back the other presents she gave you. I know you will like to have it again. 1 know how you feel. Just most like the day I threw the peanuts at Kitty Marshal's head when she put them in my lap and I was mad at her. Only being a big man and not a little girl you can't do 'xactly what I did. Os course Hln tew L vTt l ''' y--~ tw .... sA It Was imperative That She Begin tc Put Them in Order. I was mad—but I did want the peanuts. So after she was gone and nobody was looking I picked them up again. Nobody’ll know you got the picture, 'cause I won't tell. Anyway Margaret's got one of yours she didn't send back. I guess ’cause she ain't such a maddy cat as we. It’s our red hair. “Your faithful and loving, "CALISTA.” “P. S. A merry Christmas. If you want to send me a present send it to Margaret instead. Without being unfaithful to her, I will close by just saying her ache grows worser with the days." The gift and the letter were done up and duly delivered the next morning. Amid the stress of holding preparations Callsta did not experience the necessity of being secretive. Slid walked up to the Hemingway's door, a little girl bursting with the season's joy, and said to Jasper's mother: “It’s—it's my Christmas present to Jasper! No reason is there? why 1 shouldn't give my dear Jasper one?” And with a shy little laugh she scampered off. And then the wheels of Fate spun round and round, having been given a very vigorous start by Callsta. Christmas morning dawned clear and white-bound. The drifting cloud banks had left the heavens during the night and settled with feathery lightness on the earth, had made Calista's world a beautiful amphitheater, snowmuffled to an echo, wherein sleigh bells tinkled merrily and joyous voices rang gladsomely. It was an ideal Christmas Day. And perfect it proved to Caltsta.

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