Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1914 — Page 5

T™ac^n C Earth’ ? st r £ e h S of ‘ fore. But be- J to be devoutedly thankful that the 1 great war has brought no heaA ' ache or vacant chair. If oU r 5 comes true this win th ‘ _ and happ, e8 t Christmas * « ; e • u 8 S' CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. • THE SHOE SELLER I

a WEATHER FORECAST! Fair tonight and Friday. Colder with a cold wave. Miss Mayme Teeple went to Fort Wayne this morning. Samuel Slmison of Berne was a business visitor here. If you knock a good deal your friends will finally catch it. A woman doesn’t mind a slight Illness, if the special scenery is suitably arranged. One way to keep friends is not to need them to go bail for you very frequently. Edwin Stevens of Fort Wayne is here for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stevens. Miss Leah Apt, stenographer for Hooper & Lenhart, has gone to But ler for a Christmas visit at her home. Milton Yager is home from Depauw to spend the Christmas holidays wit I his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ya ger. Well, if you didn’t do your Christmas shopping early as advised, you will have to do the best you can ane do it now. Alex, Murray and Harry Sutton left this afternon for Ossion for a Christ mas visit with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Alex* White. V. A. Lower of Toronto, Canada is here for an over-Christmas visit with his uncle, J- S. Lower, and oth er relatives. Mr. Lower has charge of a branch office for the Bowser company of Fort Wayne and is here on a vacation. He is a son of Rev. John Lower, of Bourbon, Ind.

The Home Os Quality Groceries A MERRY XMAS ANDA HAPPY ANO PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR IS THE WISH OF HOWEr&HOWER - ~~ „„ _ „ . Phene It’S JMIMIi IhH E M ir-?— r Tr.'-tB I ' |Tr^ IF. M.SCHIRMEYER FREN s C^y N Treas. | President Mc 1 THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I BEAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOA , I ABSTRACTS. < The Schirmeyer Abs^ act f s Experience I etract Records, Twenty t Farms, City Property, t> P er

>° Ple haTC the gift ° f v ; eving what they want to believe. a ; Facts and prejudices, you should a ! remember, are not always the same The Pythian Sisters will hold their d election of officers next Monday even F >ng. t] Mrs, Mary Smith went to Fort 11 Wayne to spend the holidays with her sons. t Mrs. R. D. Leimenstoll left today v for Woodburn for a holiday visit with v relatives. f Mrs. Tom Druley and son, Burnett est today for Ossian for a visit at her . home until next week. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Miller left to day for Warsaw to spend Christmas and also to attend the Miller reunion , Mrs. Frank Bogner, Mrs. Ed Kcl , ler and Mrs. Doy Lhamon left today , noon for Bellevue, Ohio, for a holidayvisit with relatives. Henry Gerke and son, Kenneth, at | tended the funeral of their uncle, Hen ry Marhenke, in Fort Wayne yester day. , Owen Edwards of the Hensley jew i elry store will spend Christmas witl his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Ed wards, in Fort Wayne. Elisha Reynolds and granddaugh ter, Pauline Reynolds, left this morn fng for Van Wert, Ohio, and other Ohio towns for a holiday visit. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lattin of Toledc arrived in the city today to spent’ Christmas with Mrs. Lattin’s sister Mrs. John Gerard, and family. Mrs. Herbert Burroughs, of Decatut arrived here this morning to spend the remainder of the week at the home of her mother, Mrs. Martin Stair, and also with other relatives in this city.— Bluffton Banner.

Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn were at Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Marie Gluting went to Attica „ a visit over Christmas with reintlves. Joe Burdg has gone to Marion, here he will spend Christmas with is brotlw - Will Burdg, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hanna of Fort Wayne are here to spend Christmas h h er parentg Mr uud Schultz. Mrs. A. A. Kist and son, Roliert, arrived from Pierceton to visit with Mrs. Belle Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Will Kist. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McMillen of ortland will be guests of Mrs. Mary ramer and daughter, Gusta, over vhristmas. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bockover arriv'd from their Ohio home for a visit until Monday with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Blackburn. The Misses Marie Connell an.d Ruth Patterson, students in Mrs. Blaker’s school in Indianapolis are here for their Christmas vacation. R- D. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Myer, Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn will he Christmas guests of the George Morris family at Bluffton. Miss Bess Schrock has gone to Bloomington, Hl., to spend Christmas with her mother, Mrs. Nettie Schrock, at the home of the Rev. G. H. Myers and family. Ralph Moses of Fort Wayne, a student in the college of osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., visited yesterday at Hie home of his grandmother, Mrs. Julia Moses. Miss Mayme Terveer will leave this evening for Toledo, where she will spend the Christmas holidays with her sister, Mrs. C. R. Uhl, ami family. Miss Leona Hunsicker went to Ft Wayne this morning on a short bus iness trip, accompanying her grand father, Conductor D. H. Hunsicker, on he 8:30 car. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Weaver and babe left this afternoon for Goshen where they will spend Christmas with Dr. Weaver's brother, Jess Weaver ind family. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Shoemaker, Gre tel Shoemaker, Agnes Kohne, Don Smith and Lynn Shoemaker will spent Christmas witli Mrs. E. H. Shoemak er’s mother, Mrs. L. A. Gwinn, at Mar ion. Also licensed to marry were George Sheler, machinist, born October 8 1887, son of William H. Sheler, ane Flora Ilona Sfepte®ber 17 896, daughter of Abe Rover. Slippery sidewalks are a good deal like slippery people, we’re liable to fall for both. Ther's too many folkt layin’ somethin’ aside fer th’ nickel the-ater instead of a rainy day.—Abt Martin. James S. Pedicord of the Wayne Coterie, who has been confined at thi Lutheran hospital with typhoid fever s improving as rapidly as can be ex sected. He is now believed to be ouf of danger. —Fort Wayne Journal-Ga zette. Laporte was as dry as the Sahara Sunday, all saloons being closed both front and back, for the first Sun lay in many moons. Laporte is in , deed getting to be a Puritan little vil lage and people are wondering why the sudden change or heart on til part of the republican administration Congress is to be asked at its pres ent session to take steps looking to wards the inauguration of a one-ceni letter rate. The campaign will br conducted by the National One Cem Letter Postage Association, whic’ has its headquarters in Cleveland This association has been steadil, growing in strength for several year, and now maintains a membershn scattered throughout the Unite' States, with representatives in near.; every village, town and city in all thstates of the union. ———— —O * “ SLEIGH TURNS TURTLE, While driving south on Second street, a sleigh occupied by Carl Murnhy and his mother, Mrs. Joseph Mur ;.y residing two miles east and two miles south of Monroe, caught in the tracks of the interurban, just in ft on 0( the station and turned completely over Mrs. Murphy was thrown ou wlth great force and was pinned un frightened and started to run. but wa. topped before gaining headway " M.WI.X ”• Z rrahant & Walters office, where <■ G . n was called. A thorough ex pity was uninjured. ■ baptist PROGRAM. nf the public is again call “ the Baptist church. at this office.

MYSTERY, FIVE CENTS. From tome mistaken idea or for other reasons, it has been told that the price of “The Million Dollar Mys tery” at the Crystal Is ten cents. Manager Parent wishes it to be announced that the price has always been and will remain until the end of the series at five cents, and no more. The eleventh episode of this thrilling story has been received and will fill the bill at’ the Crystal this evening. Tills episode ia entitled "In the Path of the Fast Express." Maurice Costello in “Bella's Elopement," will be given in connection. Saturday afternoon as a Christmas treat the management of the theater will pass in all children free of charge and will give a sack of candy to each one. Tomorrow the theater will be open all afternon and evening and a complete change of program will be given both afternoon and evening. The price of admission tomorrow will be the same as usual, five cents. o COURT HOUSE NEWS. Effie Case qualified as administratrix of the estate of her late husband, Robert Case. She gave 8700 bond. Real estate transfers; Peter Rich et al. to Joshua Yoder, 120 acres, Itfonroe tp., $1400; Peter Rich et al. to Christ Rich, 160 acres, French tp.. $18,800; also lot 27, Monroe, $1800; Peter Rich et al. to Nicholas Rich, 80 acres, Wabash tp., $3500. Ransom B. Smith vs. Christian Hilly. Case set for January 2. Ministers have a ten-cent cut on any marriage fee they may receive, this being due to the European war. It takes a ten-cent war revenue stamp for the certificate of the marriage return as made by the minister after performing the ceremony, the return being made by him to the county clerk’s office. A decree of quiet title for Morton House et al. against Thomas McGuire et al. was rendered and the ■lerk is ordered to make a transcript of proceedings for record in the recorder’s office. The costs are taxed to the plaintiff. John Schurger entei ■d appearance for a number of the parties. o AT TELEPHONE EXCHANGE. Julia Hentzy and Beatrice Heidemann New Girls. Miss Beatrice Heidemann and Miss Julia Hentzey of Cicero, who makes her home with her brother in th- « Laman residence, are new girls at the telephone exchange. Miss Mildred Coffee and Miss Kittie Fought are off duty an account of illness. Miss Edna Johnson, one of the employes, will resign Saturday and will leave Monday for Tulsa, Oklo. Mrs. John Potter has been assisting during the absence of several of the employes also. The telephone girls were recipients of a reat of fine somemade candy from Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Connell because “they had been good to them during the year.” o— WILL DISSOLVE COMPANY. Chicago, Dec. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) —More than 100 chorus girls, chorus men and principals faced a blue Christmas today, when they were notified by the Centruy Opera company that their services would not be needed after January 2. Milton Sargent Aborn, manager of the company, issued a statement declaring that the conditions had been such that the $150,000 to promote the singng of opera in English had been spent. o 7HRISTMAS STORK LEAVES GIRL. • A fine Christmas package was deliv■red by Special Stork this morning at 10 o’clock to Mr. and Mrs. Charles David, on Eighth street. There was no “Do not open until Christmas” mark on the package, so it was opened at once and proved to be a fine baby giri. The mother was formerly Miss Carrie Gallogly. 0 * - SELL MANY SEALS. The little Misses Gladys Flanders and Lois Connell are “some” salesladies. They had charge of the Red Cross Christmas seals sales at the postoffice this morning, for the Womans Civil League. In an hour they had soid a hundred seals. —o TO HAVE OPERATION. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hower left today for Huntington in response to word that their daughter, Mrs. Mary Dillo Waters, wife of Ben Waters, was quite ill and that she would undergo an operation next Tuesday. Her , brothers, Frank and Carl, will go tonight and a sister. Mrs. Lawrence Hakes, will go Monday to be with her.

Having just closed one of the most successful years of our career we feel that we would be very ungrateful indeed if neglected to make known to our many FRIENDS and PATRONS our sincere appreciation of their Patronage and Friendship. It has been the ever living principle of our business career to give value received for every dollar that passes over our counter; and it is on account of this fact, and this fact we earnestly anticipate the continuance of our most valuable associations. WISHING YOU A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year Yours Truly, VANCE & HITE ~A MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys - - 111 1 • ■ 1 11,1 — — Wishing you one and all a Merry Christmas; thanking our patrons for their past business and assuring you of our heartiest co-operation in the future. ch/, WE LEAD - OTHERS FOLLOW T ' > DECATUR. IND. MAY OLD SANTA BRING TO YOU AND YOURS THE GREATEST OF BLESSINGS AND HAPPINESS ON THE MERRY CHRISTMAS DAY * * ♦ FULLENKAMP’S