Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1914 — Page 5

rx-ifc '7y v .. - ■■■ 1 '•’ ITS THE CLOVE FITTING QUALITIES AS JEWELL AS THE LONG WEARING RED RUBBER SOLE AND THE CLINCHER HEEL THAT MAKE TOP NOTCH ARCTICS SUCH BIG SELLERS. WANT TO SEE THEM? * CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE

WEATHER FORECAST I H Generally fair tonight and Friday. Rising temperature. Alpheus Roop left yesterday afternoon for Bucyrus, Ohio. The world is an iron ring on which everyone cuts his eye teeth. A twelve-pound boy was born yesterday to Mrs. Naomi Love. Steele & Nidlinger are conducting their annual invoice this week. Let the skunks alone, advise an eastern farm paper. Most of us arc quite willing to do so. Most knockers who think they are wielding siedge hammers are really armed with tack hammers. The skunk loves to be petted, says a naturalist. Couldn’t think of it; our slogan is safety first. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kurber ami family of Delphos, Ohio, are New Year's visitors at the home of John Schurger. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Jackson went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon for a visit with their son, H. E. Jackson, and family. Generally speaking, Haieyon Days are in the remote pasg or distant future, depending in what direction you may be looking. Mrs. Mary Merryman, formerly of this city, now of Indianapolis, is hen visiting with her son, Leonard Merryman, and family. A Kokomo firm is manufacturing barbed wire for the allies in France. It has barbs fully an inch long. There are four barbs to a burr and the burrs are only four inches apart.

jThe Home Os Quaity 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’ll buy of HOWER & HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 .—j . ----- ~* JJ IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. THE BOWERS REALTY CO. | REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. | | The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- g IBtract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent.* MONEY

| Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer was a Fort I Wayne visitor today. | Miss Lydia Miller is off duty at the J Fullenkamp store on account of ill ness. Mrs. John Hentzy left today noo.i for Indianapolis for a visit with her mother. Mrs. Charles Bailey and children x went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon for a visit witli relatives. Both armies now and then fall back, but so far only to find a better position and get a better foothold. Mr. and Mrs. O. I’. Edwards and daughter returned to their home at 1 Leipsic, Ohio, after spending tilt ? holidays here. Mother also believes she is entitled to considerable credit for inducing daughter to wear enough colthes to keep her from freezing. ’ Burton Niblick is expected home • from Coronado, Florida, today. Hr has been there with his wife, who is 1 spending the winter there. A nine-pound girl arrived Monday 1 evening to gladden the home of Mr and Mrs. Frank Hurst. This makes i two girls and a boy in the family. 1 About th’ finest Seelin’ ther is ’ comes with havin' a successful son. Some fellers seem t’ let ther furnace > go out jest t’ tell about it. —Abe Mar- - tin. y 1 Mrs. Kate Scherter and two sons of Seneca county, Ohio, arrived this : morning for a visit with Mrs. Scherter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John - Schurger. More than a hundred telegrams ' have been sent to Governor Ralston . urging him to appoint Dr. A. G. Em- . rick, of Fort Wayne, as state fish and I game commissioner, to suceed the . late George W. Miles.

Mr. Clarence [hill of Mountain View, Mo., surprised his aunt, Mrs. J. D. Andrews, by calling last evening. He will visit in this county several months. Officers in cities hereabout have received circulars in which a SI,OOO reward is offered for the delivery of Jake Silverman, a fifteen-year-old St. Louis boy, who has been missing from his home since September 15, last. When making griddle cakes of buttermilk, they will be much lighter and more tender If one small cup of very dry bread crumbs is added to each pint of buttermilk. Less Hour will be needed, and the dry bread will be utilized." —Home Department,” National Magazine for December. Roads and trails traveled by Abraham Lincoln when he and his parents migrated from Indiana to Illinois will be determined and suitably marked, provided a bill being prepared by J. W. Weik, a biographer, of Greencastle, is passed by the 1915 legislature which convenes at Indianapolis January 7th. Among the very important subjects to come before the general assembly scheduled to meet in Indianapolis next month will be road legislation and the taxing laws. Several representatives as well as senators have • announced that they will not favor t the repeal of the county highway superintendent act unless it can be shown that there is something much better to supplant it. Mollie Best, writing a story In the 1 January American Magazine entitled "The Sinews of Peace,” presents a character who comments as follows on how it feels to be eighty-seven; “‘I am eighty-seven, and I can’t remember when I couldn't knit. It's very strange to be eighty-seven; not sad, but just strange. Sometimes 1 couldn’t believe Jt was true if I hadn't my old papers to look over.” In the current issue of Farm and Fireside appears an interesting practical article on trapping, a neglected | source of revenue. The point is made I that many animals formerly thought : to be of no value are now of great value. Among such animals are, for example, skunks. The writer of the article tells how to trap suph animals ■ and following is a brief extract from ; the article: “Under present conditions, when the high £ost of living is always staring us in the face, no source of revenue should be overlooked. One of the good things that is often overlooked is trapping. Furbearing animals are frequently found in plenty in the fields and woodlands, and their hides will bring good prices.” The Delaware bounty Humane society does not know how to proceed in the case of a farmer near Yorktown, who, for eight years, has kept a horse prisoner in its stall. The horse when three years old ran away with the farmer and seriously injured him. In the eight years the horse iias not had any exercise except such as he might get in his stall. It 1 is said the long confinement in the barn has caused the horse to be extremely nervous and that he frightens at the slightest noise. The Humane ■ society's officers seem to doubt that I they could convict the owner of cruel I treatment of the horse, but may conI elude to file a charge. An effort I probably will be made to induce the I owner to sell the animal in order to ■ avoid being prosecuted. A submarine that will exceed in I si:;e and fighting strength any subI marine now in service in any navy in I the world is to be built for the United I States navy from funds recently appropriated by congress. This vessel is one of a class of powerful submarines to be known as “fleet submarines.” It will have a length of 300 feet, a displacement of 1,200 tons and a steaming radius of 3,000 miles at about 24 miles an hour, so that it will be able to accompany the battleship fleet on any voyage and to engage in offensive fighting on the high seas. It will be equipped with high-power wireless and with rapid-fire guns for self-defense, and will carry enough torpedoes to sink a fleet of dreadnoughts. This vessel is estimated to cost about $1,250,000.—Fr0m the January Popular Mechanics Magazine. —o — REJECTS BIG ORDER. New York, Dec. 31—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—Rather than do anything that might tend to prolong the ' European war, C. H. Howard, president of the Commonwealth Steel company, of Granite City, 111., and known as the “golden rule” steel man, has rejected an order for $2,000,000 worth of shrapnel to be used by the warring nations. “Our company would not accept an order for $15,000,000,” he declared. “Would it be a laudable thing to make these shells and then send them away so that men might murder ea, h other with them? No, a thousaid times no.” Howard is a Christian Scientist. LOST—A black cow-hide robe. Was lost somewhere on road between W. A. Fonncr’s farm and the Holthouse garage. Finder please return to this j office or the Holthouse garage. 303t31

FINE NEW YEAR'S PROGRAM. Manager Parent of the Crystal thea ter annonuces that he has secured exceptionally fine films for. tomorrow's program and that he will have a complete change of program both afternoon and evening. This evening the twelfth episode of “The Million Dollar Mystery” will be given. This episode is entitled "The Elusive Treasure Box.” These films continue to in- , crease in popularity and each is jmt a little more exciting and filled with more tense situations than the one before it. Don’t fail to miss any of them, in connection with this an Essanay comedy entitled, "Sophia's Legacy" will be given The price cf the Mystery will always be five cents tp every cue, so don’t be confused with the price of other serials being run in the city. o CROCHET HOOK ACCIDENT With the revival of chocheting, there have been many crochet hook accidents reported. The penetration of the flesh by the hooked end, and its inability to withdraw it, on account of the hook, has necessitated tho call of many a physician who is obliged to perform a little cutting before it can be removed. Another crochet accident is reported from the home of Samuel Butler, the victim boing little Miss Ireta. She was crocheting when some one threw a pillow as her in fun. It caused the hook to slip into her left side and a physician's call was necessary. o TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE County School Superintendent E. S. Christen will attend the teachers’ institute at Pleasant Mills tomorrow. _o FOR SALE--One rubber-tired phaeton for sale cheap if taken soon. Inquire at Decatur Democrat. 284tf —»

I Let Us Send You Your Christmas Money For 1915 | We invite you to become a member—without cost to you—of the most important Club in the 1 city. The benefits are large—the cost—nothing. THE THRIFT CHRISTMAS CLUB Offers the SAFE—SURE-EASY way to insure a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” I in 1915. Save a little each week—-total will surprise you. None Too Rich or Too Poor to Join This Club I „ — _— . 16 PLANS—TAKE YOUR CHOICE Class No. I—l Cent Progressive. Class No. 5 —5 Cents Progressive. Class No. 9—lo cents. Save 1 cent the first week, 2 cents the Save 5 cents the first week, 10 cents Sav ® 10 C(nts each week for ilft y second week, 3 cents the third week, fh «> second week, 5 cents the third wee-s making a total of $5.00, plus and so on, increasing your deposit 1 week, and so on, increasing your decent each week for fifty weeks, mak- Posit 5 cents each week for fifty Class No. 10—25 Cents, ing your last payment 50 cents. To- weeks, making your last payment Save 25 ce nts each week for fifty tai saved $12.75, plus interest. $2.50. Total saved $63.75, plus inter- weeks, making a total of $12.50, plus es t. the interest. Class No. 2—2 Cent Reducing. c . ass N i.eo Cent. Class No. 6—5 Cents Reducing. , was s no. n— 50 Cents. Save 50 cents the first week, 49 cents „ 4 .. ... eo Save 50 cents each week tor fifty . ,40 Save $2.50 the first week, $-.40 the weeks, making a total of $25.00, plus the second week, 48 cents the third second week> $2 40 the third week and thfi lnteregt week, and so on .reducing your de- so on, reducing your deposit 5 cents _. nn posit 1 cent each week for fifty weeks, each week for fifty weeks, making gave $1 00 each w(?ek f()r making your last payment 1 cent. To- your last payment 5 cents. Total sav- maklng a lotal o£ ?50 plug tfae . tai saved $12.75, plus interest. ed $63.75, plus interest. terest Class No. 3—2 Cents Progressive. Class No - 7—lo cents Progressive. Class No. 13—52.00. Save 10 cents the first’week, 20 cents Save $ 2 -00 each week for fifty weeks, Save 2 cents the first week, 4 cents the second week; 30 cents the third making a total of SIOO.OO, plus the in,the second week, and so on, increas- week , and go on> increasing your de . terest. ing your deposit 2 cents a week for posit 1Q centg each week for flftv class No. 14-$2.50. fifty week ? , making your last pay- weekg Jllaking our last payment I Save $ 2 -50 each week for fifty weeks, j ■ ment SI.OO. Total saved $25.50, plus $5 qq. Total saved $127.50, plus inter- making a total of $125.00, plus the J ninterest. est terest. Class No. 4—2 Cents Reducing. class No. B—lo Cents Reducing. „ „ C!aSS , N °‘ 1 , 5 ~ 55 ’° 0 ; , Save su.oo each week for fifty weeks, Save SI.OO the first week, 98 cents the Save $5.00 the first week, $4.90 the making a total of $250.00, plus the in- > second week, 96 cents the third week, second week, $4.80 the third week, terest. 1 and so on, reducing your deposit 2 and so on, reducing your deposit 10 Class No. 16—510.00. cents each week for fifty weeks, mak- cents each week for fifty weeks, mak- Save SIO.OO each week for fifty weeks, ing your last payment 2 cents. Total ing your last payment 10 cents. To- making a total of $500.00 plus the insaved, $25.50, plus interest. tai saved $127.50, plus interest. terest. Everybody Welcome—No Cost The purpose of our Thrift Christmas Club is to help all the people provide sufficient money for Christmas expenses, or for any other purpose for which certain sums are needed from time to time. You can join this Club to save money for your Taxes, Insurance Payments, Fuel Bills or any other expenses. TAKE OUT A CARD FOR EACH MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY I Parents often take out a card for each of the children. It teaches them to be THRIFTY and they will become so enthusiastic over the idea that they will work hard to keep their deposits up to date. Remember, there are no expenses connected with joining thisClnb, nor penalties if you can not keep up your I membership. All you have to do is make a small deposit of the amount called for in the class you select, each week during the Club period, and two weeks before Christmas we will mail you a check for the amount you have saved, plus the interest. We will be glad to explain the plan fully to you. Remember the Opening Date—JANUARY 2-1915 THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUSJ CO. bank of service I(i sAV ~ by 3 j s - av;ng ' s ® yk J I

HERE! AM YES I AM A REAL AUCTIONEER for Real\ Estate, Registered Stdck and farm sales. Highest possible prices secured. Inquire about me. I talk High and low German, Swiss and English. Book your sales with an auctioneer now as you will later on. See me or leave date at office of Frisinger & Co. Residence Phone 426 J. J. BAUMGARTNER CLOSE NEW YEAR'S. The Hoosier Packing company's meat markets and also Lichtle & Pennington will be clased after 9 o'clock a. m., New Year's. — o FOR SALE- Green bones, ground; just the thing for chicken feed; at the Hoosier Packing Co’s meat markets. 307t3

Bosse Opera House MATINEE and NIGHT-SAT. JANUARY 2nd. UNITED PLAY COMPANY (INC.) PRESENT Gertrude Ritchie IN BY H. S. SHELDON, AUTHOR OF “THE HAVOC” As PRESENTED at THE CORT THEATRE, CHICAGO rtrt/xjUf CHICAGO NEWS:- “Charming adventures and droll com-dy” pill IM “ TRIBUNE “Easy old time sentiment and comedy” “ EXAMlNHsl''Sympathetic and dramatic” Take Your Life Partner—to See The Theatres Sweetest Story of Marital Love. pDlpre MAT. Holiday Mat.—soo seats 25c lluLEd NIGHT.—2S-50-75C—A few at SI.OO SEAT SALE USUAL PLACE

LOST —Bracelet between Fred Sellemeyer home and German Reformed church, a week ago Sunday. Finder < please return to Lee Anna Vance or | O. L. Vance home. Phone 384. 304t3. "

PIANO TUNING—High class work, strictly guaranteed. Orders left at Gay, Zwick & Myers will receive prompt attention. —Harry Sawyer, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 240m-t-tf