Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1914 — Page 3

BAQUEMUCHKEIT schuhe FUR MANNER und FRAUEN Eteanz Baquemhehkeit, di® E - 11 sehaften sind v ereint |f| ’ seren feinen Cu s hi„ n Schuhe. Frauen $3.00 Manner $4.00 KARL VOGLEWEDE DER SCHUHE verkaufer.

—■sesfisu 1 i _ I WEATHER FORECAST | Hniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii in mi ii 111 in Warmer south portion. Tuesday, rain. Your friends don't need to find you out; they know. The world is becoming full of college graduates and poor spellers. It is not, however, the noisy boy who gets into the most mischief. As a rule, the proudest moment of a man's life happened when lie was a boy. Dan Niblick and family spent Christmas at the Michael Henneford home in Vera Cruz. Miss Helen Diller has gone to Montpelier to visit with friends and relatives for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McMillen returned to Portland after a visit here with Miss Gusta Cramer. Clark Seibold arrived in the city Saturday for an over-Sunday visit with his aunt, Dr. Burns. Misses Bertha Heller, Kate Touhey and Carrie Craig left this morning for Indianapolis, where they will resume their work at the state house. Miss Allie Burrell came down from Fort Wayne to spend her Christmas vacation and Sunday with relatives. G. J. Barthorpe of Chicago arrived in the city to spend the week-end with his wife, who is at the home of Mrs. Dr. Burns. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Ellingham. daughter, Miss Winifred, and son, Miller, returned to Winchester last evening after a pleasant visit here. They will return to Indianapolis today.

The Home Os Quality Groceries A GOOD RESOLUTION does no one harm. If you break it resolve again. Resolve to begin the New Year right, by placing your grocery orders where you get most of Quality for the price, and stick to it. Then You 11 buy of HOWER & HOWER ~ North of G. R. & 1. Depot I F.M. SCHIRMEYEK FREN f H ’Sr\. a -. I I President Secre*"’ 1 I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, abstracts. I The Schirmeyer Abstract Compan? c ° ? ce I S Btract Records, Twenty^ Expene Fanns, City Property, 5 per- 01 ' 1 • MONEY I

I- - xxr ■ ' XT! retUnie<l t 0 Warsa ' v Mrs. E. Woods’"’ W ‘ tb m ° ther ’ 1 h ?‘ SS Ml «*r has returned to work at the Bernstein store aftor . a weeks illness. Mis Orpha Ayres, a teacher in the ’ ero schools, is here visiting with her sister, Mrs. Charles Yager. f evm MrS ’ WeS ' ey Shepherd and i children returned to Anderson after a visit here with the J. w. Edwards family. * [ c lark Brothers arrived from Hamlet, Ind., where he spent the Christmas holidays with his daughter, Mrs George Deßold. The Misses Fanny Heller and Alta Teeple spent the day north of Mon , mouth with the former's aunt, Mrs. Bernice Magley. r Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Minear of Logansport arrived in the city Saturday for an over-Sunday visit with relatives and friends. , John Polhemus returned this morn- , ing to Fort Wayne after a visit here at the Woods home. Mrs. Polhemus remained for a longer visit. i , Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sprang returned to their home today after having ( spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wilcox at Grass Lake, Mich. i Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller, and Sam Miller have returned to Fort Wayne after spending Christ- ' mas with the Jacob Miller family. t Mr. and Mrs. Ceph Melchi returned home last evening from Convoy, Ohio. i. where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Melchi's brother, John Hilton.

hers today'””* WaS " bw,ne « ih?r7to<^ rae was a bU9lneM returned t 0 ln ‘ here. morning after a visit <cr T 'l, e avTr Se t 8 Roß ° aDd Margaret Con ‘ Wayne. r “ ed ,rom • visit in Ft. Weber May ' Norn and Bessie holla r urned ,0 p ort Wayne after a holiday visit here. ten'Xnt a Rt Khnia . n & Haysllp flve and turned B ?'' MrS ' Ered SchaUb ,lave returned " nd Mrs ' Fred Deininger rea visit 1 rand Rapid8 ' Mlch - “Her a vlsit ere with relatives. a t < Tn ?’,, Lattta returned to his homo will r( m°’i Ohl0 ’ Sa,urday - H >s wife retnain until Wednesday. Hemv aD<l , Mr8 ’ A ‘ bert Butler and 8on > tertow’n re ft UrDed today noon t 0 HunOwn aler a visit at Wren, Ohio Miss Agnes Krick of Gary is here M anT™ ° n VlSit With her parent8 > rema d Krlck - and Will remain over next Sunday. °. P. Edwards of Leipsic, Ohio, who visaed here at the John Niblick home over Sunday, left for Chicago Sunday. He will return here tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Jared Reed and son, sinh, returned to Fort Wayne this morning after a Christmas and week•ml visit with the Anthony Wertzberger family. Mrs. John Houk was called to Fort Wayne Saturday night by word that her mother, Mrs. Ridenour, was very low and not expected to live over ! Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hubbard arrived ;

home last evening from Holland, Mich., where they attended the funeral of Mrs. C. W. McLean, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Hubbard, which was held Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Millie Hastings and children, Virgil and Charles, from St. Mary’s, Ohio, who came for a Christmas vacation with their uncle, L. F. Schroeder, and family on North First street, will remain until Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. French Parrish and daughter, Helen, of Delphos, Ohio, came to spend Christmas and several days with his mother. Mrs. Mary Parrish, and other relatives. They were accompanied here by Miss Ruth Parrish, who visited there three weeks with them. Mollie Best, writing a story entitled The Sinews of Peace,” in the January American Magazine, presents an old lady who makes the following amusing comment on her husband: “He was a very good man, my husband, though he would often say, “Don't make me go to church too much, Hattie; it takes my mind off religion." ’ ” Big tots, lit/& tots, fat tots and skinny tots, all joined together Saturday afternoon and filled to overflowing the Crystal theater, where they were admitted to the show, free of charge, and were given a nice big sack of candy besides, as the Christ- , mas gift of Mr. and Mrs. Will Parent. To say that the little “kids” enjoyed the show is putting it mildly as only the shouts of joy and happiness that arose from the big “little" audience could describe the occasion. With Fort Wayne to the north— Decatur to the east—Bluffton to the south, with automobile hearses, Ossian will not be outdone, but has proven to fall in with other towns. Mr. A. S. Elzey, the undertaker of little Ossian, has complied with the wishes of the public and has ordered an automobile hearse to be delivered some time this coming spring. The hearse will be one of the most modern and up-to-date and will cost $2,400. Mr. Elzey has been instrumental in helping Ossian in many ways. He has erected more business build- < ings than any other man in town and has alwavs stood for the best of ev- 1 ervthing, and it is his desire to satig fy the public which he so well serves.—Ossian Journal. How much damage a steel ship can sustain and still keep afloat for a time was illustrated when the passenger steamer “Metapan, from Colo.i bound for New York, was rammed in a dense fog off the entrance o Neu York harbor by the freighter 'lowan. ] The stem of the freighter struck the , passenger vessel about 30i fee, of the bow on the port quarter, plow , inc a deep hole through the steel nS frames. As soon as it was Plateb fliat the “Metapan” was filling, ( . ii headed for shoal water ltS / ,aP able to reach a spot where “ depth was less than forty feet beX the Ship sank. All of the sevenn nassengers and the crew . ty. B even passeng W ’ er t e ed ta on e the bottom, the water rlsnnlv to the main deck forward, , chauics Magazine.

W. A. Wella of Geneva was here on business and left at noon for his i home, going byway of Fort Wayne. Ray Collins, manager of the Morris store, will go to Portland this afternoon, where he will assist in the Invoice at the store there. The Decatur store is preparing for the invoice. Mrs. A. J. Rop and children returned to their home this morning at Toledo, Ohio, after a few days’ visit with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Roop formerly lived here. They moved to Toledo a few months ago. Postmaster J. W. Bosse reports letters remaining uncalled for at the Decatur postoffice for the following. When calling for these letters please say ‘‘advertised:’’ Mrs. Mary A. Bartram, Miss Mary Bohnke, W. D. Coffman, Mrs. C. C. Johnson, Mrs. Elsie Johnson, Dr. C. E. Kenney, Frank Lucas. Ward Williams, Mrs. Lucy Wright. They had but recently arrived in Washington, and in order to fit themselves to shine in diplomatic circles were taking especial pains to acquire a certain fluency and understanding of foreign languages. Little Willie had heard so much about the “getquick foreign language" habit that when hb and his little neighbor were called upon to give an exhibition of their progress in modern languages, they were quite ready to do so. Doting fathers, uncles and aunts sat about, and when the lesson had been completed, and proper praise had been bestowed, little Willie looked confidently at his audience, and with a shake of his curls, said, “Reservoir!’’ There was a general disposition to laugh, which culminated in a universal guffaw when little Katrina, equal to the emergency, piped out, “Tanks! T'anks!”—“Affairs at Wash ington, Joe Mitchell Chapple, in National Magazine for December.

o— UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. i Ole Mis’ Huggins sez Mr. Holten hezn't spoke since. She didn't know why. But in checkin’ up her Kristmus list she found she giv him th’ bargain box uv cigars. Th’ soft an’ soothin' voices uv wimmun y’ rede about en old poetry nevur , bed t’ run up in kompetishun aginst ] any uv th’ present day machinery. , f T’ sum, th’ whole pleasure uv life , ez th’ gamble uv whut's a-goln’ t’ t happen next. f

Doc Uvenomore reaped a harvest Kristmus practicin' un th’ men whose wives give 'm boxes uv bargain cigars. He thinks he kin pull ’em through this time, but sez thet et musn’t happen agin. Lem Hopkins ez walkin’ down backstreets these days till th’ neck-tie his wimmun folks picked out fer him fer Kristmus wears out. When lie reaches his uffis he puts on wun uv his own before he dares show his face fer trade. Nine wimmun out uv ten love a man not fer his good qualities but fer his faults—jist like they pity an’ love th’ child th’ most thet gives them th’ most kare an’ worry. o CANADIANS KILL AMERICAN. Buffalo. N. Y„ Dec. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Canadian soldiers, patroling the frontier near Fort Erie today, fired upon boats containing duck hunters, killing Walter Smith, a lake fireman of Buffalo, and seriously wounded Charles Dorsch, also of this city. It is believed the shooting resulted from the Canadian order prohibiting the transportation of firearms into Canada. The hunters were in Canadian waters. o KERN PRAISES DAILEY. I ■■ I Washington, D. C., Dec. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Senator Ke-n commenting today on the Terre Haute case, said: "It was known to the Indiana senators when Dailey was selected that he was not only an able lawyer but fearless and Incorruptible. I feel sure that Mr. Dailey was impelled by a sense of duty in what he has done, though I have not had time to look into the matter." I APPEAL IS GRANTED. New York, N. Y., Doc. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Lewis Marshall, attorney for Leo Frank, announced today he had received word that Justice Lamar had granted the appeal for a writ of error asked in belia’.f of the man condemned to death for the murder of Mary Phagan. IS GETTING ALONG WELL. Sam Yost, who has been at Albuquerque, New Mexico, <for several weeks for his health, is getting along fine. The weather, however, has been somewhat against him. It rained for two weeks, a very unusual occurrence, aud this was followed by a frost. The change was not the best for h's health.

Giving Away MoneyIf we advertised that we’d give to every man who comes to us in the next few weeks $3.00, $5.00 or $7.50 every man in a radius of a hundred miles would come But when we quote such reductions as these on our Tailor Made Suits it amounts to giving you just that much money--Our Tailors must be kept busy so we have placed on sale about 35 suit patterns that we will make you a suit to your order from a reduction of $3 to $7.50. Remember these clothes are all cut, trimmed and made in our own shopDon’t miss this opportunity, Let us show you the woolens, See our Show window— HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Merchant Tailoring Dep’t.

CALENDAR FOB WEEK ENDING JANUARY 2, 1913. Tuesday, December 29, 1914. Decatur Lodge, No. 571, F. & A. M. Called meeting for work in Master Mason’s degree. oNOTICE. The Church of God will begin their revival meeting at their meeting house on Cleveland street January 2, where the pure gospel will be set forth in its fulness. Brother O. Lines will be present, also other able ministers. One and all are cordially invited to attend these services. 304t3

o . NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. I By order of tne common council, the city treasurer will not do any outside collecting. All light and water bills will be payable at his office, which will be open from 8 to 11:30 a. m„ and 12:30 to 5:00 p. m. This change to become effective January 1, 1915. J. d. McFarland, 287t21 City Treasurer. o FOR RENT —Modern four room house on Marshall street; has electric lights, hard and soft water. Inquire of Mrs. Gregory, 'phone 151. 304t3 SPECIAL TO WOMEN The most economical, cleansing and germicidal of all antiseptics is A soluble Antiseptic Powder to be dissolved in water as needed As a medicinal antiseptic for douche In treating catarrh, inflammation oulceration of nose, throat, and that caused by feminine ills It has no equal. For ten years the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. has recommended Paxtine in their private correspondence with women, which proves its superiority. Women who have been cured say It is ‘‘worth its weight in gold.’’ At druggists. 50c. large box, or by mail. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, Mass

Notice To Consumers o? On and after January 1, 1915, all afc-JHBI-X -ij accounts due on Electric Lights and Water must be paid at the office of the City Treasurer by the 20th. of each POPULAR month. AlO per cent penalty will be MAGAZINE a( f<ted to all accounts that have not For Father and Son been paid after this date. Treasurers Two and a half million readers find it o* office open from Bto 11:30 A. M. and absorbing interest Everything in it is 1 O.Ofl x_ rT) >r Written So You Can Understand It JtZS.DU CO uJt * iVI, We sell 400,000 conies every month without giving premiums and have no solicitors. Any newsdealer will show you a copy; or write the Tl ’ — publisher for free sample —a postal will do. 91.50 A YEAR~ 15c A COPY |U| I V I /*VT" "* I* Popular Mechanic* Magazine IVI ■W ■ IVI T I »| Superintendent City Light & Power Plant.

FOR SALE. The Peter C. Steiner 80-acre farm, % mile west and 54 mile south of Linn Grove, in Hartford township, Adams county. Also 20 acres of timber land, belonging to the same party, 1% mile south of Linn Grove. For information see John Neuhouser, Berne, Ind., or John P. Steiner, H. R. No. 8, Bluffton, Ind. 27-4-11-18-25-1 o NOTICE. Hawkins Rheumatic Liniment is the best medicine on the market for rheumatic pains, lumbago, sciatica, headache, asthma, hay fever, relieves pain instantly. Price, 50c. Prepared and sold by A. Hawkins, R. R. No. 10, Decatur, Ind. For sale by Williams & Sons, and L. G. Williams, where I make my

home. 284 t« o — LOST, END-GATE. Lost, end-gate from wagon, within short distance of home. Finder please return to C. M. Syphers, living a mile west and three-quarters of a mile south of Pleasant Mills. 302t3

We have opened our office in our Madison Street Building, our Buggy sales room. We kindly ask all persons knowing themselves inbebted to us, to please call and settle either by cash or note, at J| once. We will greatly appreciate this favor at this time. SCHAFER HARDWARE CO.

CLOTHIERS’ CLOSING CONTRACT. We, the undersigned clothing mer- • chants of Decatur do hereby agree to close our respective jrttces of business at 6 o'clock each evening of the week during the months of January, February and March. Beginning April 1, we agree to close at 60'clock each evening with the exception of Monday, on which evening we will remain open until 8 o’clock, same time of clos'ng to continue until two weeks before Christmas, after which time each merchant may close whenever he chooses. It is understoond that the above agreement does not refer to Saturdays. VANCE & HITE. TEEPLE, BRANDYBERRY & PETERSON. HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. THE MYERS-DAILEY CO. 302»6

o , . FOR SALE-'One rubber-tired phaeton for sale cheap if taken soon. Inquire at Decatur Democrat. 284tf Have your harness oiled by C. F. Steele Harness & Hdw. Co. 288t3 FOR SALE —Good Duroc sows. Will weigh about 180 pounds. Inquire of Harry Suman, R. R. 9; ’phone H-A