Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1915 — Page 5

1 -■ ' ■ ■ - 1 ' — ■ * Hot i s i V' ' I®? ; w£* WSM I ■» R M This Rolled Edge, Snagless Duck Vamp and reinforced “Ronoc” Boot for Men, all sizes $2-95 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE

Innnnmmtmm:t:«:”nnnnna:man WEATHER FORECAST iiiiiiuwiMMiiii ll iiffTtTfflmfflinnn l Rain tonight turning to snow, (’older. Bill O'Brien made a busines trip to Tocsin. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hite went to Ft. Wayne today noon. To wear a cap without mussing his hair a man must be bald-headed. Walter Johnson changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne from Willshire, Ohio. J. W. Meibers is looking after business matters in Indianapolis this week. A lot of foolishness is the product of those who regard themselves as Serious Thinkers. There would, however, be a larger army of unemployed, if more men could afford to loaf. Mr. and Mrs. William Richards and Mrs. Mary Bertram went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. In a small town the marshal knows all thJ people so well it becomes a painful duty to arrest any of them. - As a rule, kite town man who doesn’t want to raise chickens, thinks he could do Stell on a small fruit farm. It is our, sartorial opinion that the derby hat and the mackinaw constitute the saddest combination in the winter scenario Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hamman returned to Mishawaka, after a visit at the lipme of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Lautzenheiser.

The Home Os Quality Groceries MMaMSMKnoE»«^ws®w iTiirwwMMKaK LOOK HERE! Good Things To Start The New Year Along. 10 lb. Pure Buck wheat 45c Qt. Cran Berries 10c Sackprep’d “ “ 10c Apples pk. 25 & 30c “ Pancake 10c Doz. Cal. Orn’gs 35c Qt. Pure Maple Syrup 45c “ Bananas 15c Bottle “ ‘‘ “ 25c Solid Cabbage lb. 3c White Syrup 10-15-30 & 50c Jersy Sweets lb. 6c | “ 10—25 & 45c Lettuce lb. , 15c 1 lb. Pure Apple Butter 10c Spanish Onions lb. 6c We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 33c Butter 18c to 28c HOWER & HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 —■■■ lll'IHHifllIII! 1 .1!JI I! IIIIII" 111 II II—miHMI—MITi IF. M, SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN I H President Secretary Treas. I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, W ABSTRACTS.” || The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- ■ » stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience R Farms, City Property, 5 per cent.' I MONEY I

Miss Mae Berling went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Wilson Lee went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Borroughs went to Fort Wayne today noon for a short visit. Mrs. D. T. Stephenson went to Ft. Wayne yesterday afternoon and remained for the evangelistic services, A number of Decatur people are planning to hear the president’s address at Indianapolis Friday afternoon. Ed Ellsworth left last night for Glendora, Cal., where he was called by the death of his mother, Mrs. Ed Ellsworth, sr. Lew G. Ellingham of Indianapo’is was here last evening to attend to .business matters, returning to the capital city this morning. Mrs. Carl Ahlers went to Fort Wayne from Pleasant Mills, where she attended the funeral of her grandfather, William Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Stetler returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after attending the funeral of their grandmother, Mrs. Henry C. Kotler. F. M. Schirraeyer will leave Saturday for Jonesboro, Ark., where he will attend to business matters. Mrs. Schirmeyer will leave in a few days for Coronado, Fla., where she will enjoy the warm climate for several weeks. Mrs. Flora Patten left this morning for Fort Wayne to be with her daughter, Mary, at the Lutheran hospital, today, this being her twenty-first birthday anniversary. Miss Mary has been ill two weeks of typhoid fever. Yesterday she was slightly better, but her temperature was still 102.

SESSIONJLOSES Commissioners Order Total of Fifteen Roads Sold at Next Meeting. ON FEBRUARY 2ND Allen County Board Here on Miller Road—Will be Let on February 10th. An inventory of the property on hand at county infirmary has been filed with the board and shows the following totals: Live stock, 13,924.50; machinery, 91.227; grain and hay, $3,. 238,40; supplies, $918.65; household goods, 81,370.20; dry goods. $14.70; clothing, $79.50; miscellaneous, $97; grand total, $10,364.85. Deputy Auditor Paul Baumgartner has completed the abstract which shows the appraised valuation and tl»e tax rate for each township and corport ation in the county and hps fojwarded same to the state auditfw as required under the law. The amount of taxes to be collected in 1915 Is $486,782.78. , Total value of realestate in the county is $10,014,425 and personal property, $7,276,961, a total of $16,537,095. On the Bowers macadam road Phil Macklin was named as engineer a.id Jacob Omlor and Frank Breiner, viewers, to meet at the auditor's office January 11. On the Yaney road, Mr. Macklin was named as engineer and Daniel Hoffman and C. C. Beers as viewers, to meet at the auditor’s office January 12. On the John Appleman road Rufus Schindler and Eli Ausgberger were named viewers to meet at auditor’s office January 13. John F. Hocker and 189 others filed a remonstrance with the board against the granting of a liquor license in Washington township and same was recorded. The time, for filing report was extended on the J. O. Sellemeyer, J. T. Lose, J. J. Hirschy, Samuel Teeter, I. G. Kerr, Benj. Miller and John Hessler roads. County Treasurer Archbold filed his report showing the amount of taxes collected from November 4 to January 1, and same was approved. The report of County Road Superintendent Jim A. Hendricks for the year ending December 22, as mentioned a few days ago, was filed and approved. The auditor was ordered to advertise for bids to be received on Tuesday, February 2, on the following roads, Fuhrman in Root township, James Fuhrman in Blue Creek, Yost in Hartford, Harlow in Wabash, Hisey in Jefferson, Depp in Monroe and Bunner in Monroe, and for the Fred Hoile road in Union on February 10. The board held a joint meeting with the commisioners of Allen county this morning, on the George Miller county line road. The auditor was ordered to for bids to be received on February 10. In the matter of .the William Anderson A al. petition for a drain, it was found that no remonstrance had been filed, the report was approved, assessments confirmed and Phil Macklin appointed superintendent of construction. — —o ORDERS BIG REDUCTION. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Judge Redman, of the circuit court announced today that he had ordered a reduction of the salary of Probate Commissioner Fortune from $3,600 to $2,400 and that the would soon take over all the work of the probate judge himself. This means that Fortune will soon be without a salaried position. While sitting as judge of the probate court. Fortune appointed C. O. Polliver as judge pro tem. Polliver then appointed Fortune and raised the salary. — ~o WILL ATTEND RECEPTION. Washington, D. C., Jan. 6 (,|peciil to Daily Democrat)—President Wilson today promised Senator Kern to attend a'reception at the Indiana Democratic club following his speech at Indianapolis Friday. 0 _ —— The Tri Kappas were delightfully entertained last evening at their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Bruce, Patterson. Mrs. Jesse Helm gave 8 paper on the subject of Woman Suffrage, which was highly appreciated. A delicious two-course luncheon was. served by the hostess.

SOT HIS BREAKFAST SQUIRREL had to work but HE DID IT. «*-»-**_*. • With the Aid of a Friendly Telephone Wire and Hie Wonderful Taii Little Animal Secured Supply of Provision!. You may have thought that the aqufrrel was just showing off when he walked the telephone cable all the length of the alley, says the Indianapolis News, and you may have classed him with the sort of foolish people that have walked wires over Niagara falls. The fact was that the squirrel wanted his breakfast, and, what was much more Important, his wife wanted her breakfast. The snow was so deep that the squirrel would only have succeeded in burying himself if he had tried to walk through it, and it was packed so tightly down next to the ground that he could not get to bis storeroom at the foot of the tree. He could not telephone to the corner grocery, because he had no telephone, and he could not borrow from the neighbors, because he had no neighbors. He could not fly, and he could not beg loudly enough to be beard. It seemed to him that if he had been anything but a squirrel, there would have been somebody to help him; but, as he was a squirrel, be bad to help himself, and be started bravely out to do it. He walked the slippery cable al! the length of the alley, and found some frozen bread in a garbage can conveniently near a telephone pole. Then he walked back again, and carried his wife's breakfast to her. It sounds so simple, and it was so difficult His feet were cold, and so stiff that they skidded. He was a fat little squirrel, and every inch or so he slipped so far to one side or the other that he almost lost his balance. If it had not been for his tail, he never jould have made it. How that tail did work! Now on this side, now on that, and now jerking steadily along Straight above the wire. The poor tail was heavy with snow, and ached with the üßaccusfomed exercise, but it went bravely on, balancing, correcting, catching, holding, and, indeed fairly pushing the squirrel along the wire. The squirrel probably thought that the wire was there for no other purpose than to afford him a passage through the air, and no doubt he had several things to say about the size of the wire and its slippery condition and the general lack of accommodation afforded by public service corporations, entirely forgetting that if the wire had not been there, he and his wife would have had no breakfast, and probably no lunch or dinner. The more dependent we become on public service corporations, the more fault we can And with them. Phrenological. Nelson's Encyclopedia says: “Os the system of phrenology advanced by Gall, Spurzhelm and Combe, two facts are sufficiently condemnatory, (1) The gray matter on the surface of the brain is not mapped out into thirty odd areas that correspond with such 'affective propensities’ as amativeness, combativeness and constructiveness, or with such ‘sentiments’ aa self-esteem, benevolence, hope and wit (2) The outer table of the cranial bones does not accurately represent the contour of the brain surface —tho thickness of the skull varies in different individuals and in different localities in the same individual; while in parts, air spaces, whose size and shape have no relation to the brain development, are interposed between the inner and outer tables of the bones. An attempt, however, has lately been made to advance a phrenological system that practically ignores the 'bump doctrine. Dr. Bernard Hollander In 1901 published a work in which he showed the association of certain types and symptoms of insanity with definite Fusions of particular parts of the brain. But. Dr. Hollander, instead of reviving Gall's doctrine (popular phrenology), gives the word phrenology a new significance.” Born Actors. The French are born actors, from the first to the last; they have from early childhood poses and motions that are not to be found outside of France, except on the stage. Their bearing is theatrical, their language declamation, their whole manner recalling scenery and footlights—and precisely the French produce fewer great tragedians than any other nation in the world. They are rich in talents for social drama and the comedy; they have the good fortune of seeing a Got and a Coquelin, a St. Germain and a Dieudonne, a Geoffrey, Hyacinthe, I’Heritier, Lassouche, act on tho stage contemporaneously, but they produce no tragical talents of the first older, geniuses who could bear comparison with a Devrient, a Dnwlsnn. a Kean, Booth. Irving, Rossi, or Salvlnl. —Max Nordau. Boeing Consistent. "Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Torkins, "what shall I do with all those feathers? I can’t find a thing in thia Helpful Hints article about them.” ; '‘‘How did you get them?” Why. you know, all helpful hints writeas tell you when yon buy a steak y«-s must have the butcher give you tho bones and fat and all the rest of tho trimmings. So when I bought this turkey I made them give me the feath sra.”

MILLION STAGS Is the Slogan Adooted bv The White Sta? Cigar Comnanv for Year. MADE AN INCREASE Os Nearly Two Hundred Thousand the Past Year and Are Still Going. There may be some who claim that business was rotten the past year, there may be those who prove it, but the White Stag Cigar company is not in that claci. The invoice of busi- | ness just concluded by the manager, Mr. Henry Thomas, discloses the fact that they made and sold last year exactly 571,551 White Stags, an Increase of 162.453 over the year previous when they sold 419,105. It means also a dandy increase over adverse circumstances and the managers have already started on the way for a still bigger 1915, carrying the slogan “A Million White Stags This Year,” and it's the proper spirit, one that will make them win and will make any community win if enougli business men follow it in their own lives. o NOTICE. We, the undersigned, agree to close our resective places of business at 6 p. m., excepting Saturdays, from January 1, 1915, to April 1, 1915: LEE HARDWARE CO. SCHAUB-DOWLING CO. HENRY KNAPB. CHAS. F. STEELE & CO. JOHN BROCK. SCHAFER HARDWARE CO. o HOUND LEFT AT MILL A hound was left by some farmer at the BTemerkamp Mill Tuesday. Owner rtnay have same by calling there. 5t3 o FOR RENT —Four furnished rooms, for light housekeeping, inside railroads. —B. W. Sholty, 'phone 521 Iff WANTED—GirI to do general housework.—Mrs. E. Woods, Monroe street. 5t3

BIG SHOE SALE < In order to reduce our stock quickly we have decided to put on a Money Saving Sale on the best shoes ever sold in Decatur. BEGINING FRIDAY, JANUARY BthMens $5.00 and $6.00 Dress Shoes go at $4.48 Mens $4.00 and $4.50 Dress Shnes go at 3.48 Mens $3.50 and $3.75 Dress Shoes go at 2.98 Mens $2.50 and $3.00 Dress Shoes go at 2.00 Boys $3 00 and $3.50 Dress Shoes go at 2.48 Boys $2.50 Dress Shoes go at 1.98 Ladies $4.00 and $4 50 Dress Shoes go at 3.25 Ladies $3.50 Dress Shoes go at 2.98 Ladies $2,50 Dress Shoes go at 1.98 RUBBER GOODS Mens $5 00 Guaranteed Boots go at 4.25 Mens $4.50 Guaranteed Boots go at 3.75 Mens $4.50 Sock Comb 3.50 Mens $4.00 Felt Comb 3.25 Mens First Quality Rubber Sandals 89 Boys First Quality Rubber S: ndals 65 Mens $3.50 All Rubber Arctics, 4 Buckle 3.10 Mens $3.00 Cloth Top Arctics, 4 Buckle 2.50 Ladies $1.25 Arctics go at 1.00 Ladies Rubber Sandals, Ist Quality 65 Misses Rubber Sondals, Ist Quality 55 Chiids Ruble? Sandals, Ist Quality 39 These are Genuine Bargains that you cannot as • | ford to miss. Remember the date FRIDAY, JANUARY Bth. TO JANUARY 30th. | C. H. ELZEY OPP. COURT HOUSE jg

!| HAVE YOU TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF I —OUR— I 7 ■ JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE ; Yet. Notice’a few of the sweep- I ing ; 'reductions. i ' FANCY SUITS Any Overcoat At I Exceptional Values One-Third Olf j SIO.OO Suits for $6.65 SIO.OO Coats go at ....$6.65 | $12.00 Suits so at ... .SB.OO $12.00 Coats go at ... .SB.OO . $12.50 Suits for ...... .$8.35 sls qq Coats go at .. .SIO.OO t $13.50 Suits for $9.00 sl , , n r ‘ t $15.00 Suits 20 at . .SIO.OO Coats go at .. 11.00 !- $16.50 Suits so at . .$ll.OO SIB.OO Coats go at .. .$12.00 >, SIB.OO Suits 20 at . .$12.00 $20.00 Coats go at .. .$13.30 t $20.00 Suits 20 at ~513.35 q, 99 r $22.50 Suits 20 at . .$515.00 Coats go at .. .$15.00 B $25.00 Suits go at . $16,65 $25.00 Coats go at .. .$16,65 ’ $6.50 Sheep pelt lined coat for $4.50 Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson 1

I ———— MANY LIVES ENDANGERED s ____ New York, Jan. 6, —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Thousands of lives were endangered and some were lost , in the worst disaster in the history oi j the New York subway today. For hours the entire system was stalled. Long trains filled to the point of suffication with passengers were tied up. At a part of the line they were in total darkness. In the section between 96th street and 114 the man persons were unconscious from smoke and as a result of a blow out and fire at 53rd street many pasengers were burned. Three alarms of fire brought all appartus to 53rd. street where the situation was the worst. A grating was torn loose and firemen reported that there was a train there. ’ The situation in the tube was desperate and the firemen could work only in five minute relays. • At 11:39 Fire Chief Kenton, who lias ' been in the subway at 59th. where 500 persons were rescued from dea*h ' following an explosion said that he ' did not believe there was. any one left in the stalled train. He said the

fire was out and no one was deal. One unidentified woman would prob- > ably be the only fatality of the worst , transportation tie-up In the history of New York. o— CASE WILL COME TO TRIAL. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—That the SIO,OOO damage suit of Miss Mabel Rogers, the Shoals, Ind., girl, will be brought to trial, was indicated today when the case was set in superior court for March 8. Miss Rogers alleges that while a freshman in Purdue seven girls hazed her, painting her in red ink and sticking her with pins so that her health was impaired. o « Democrat Wants Ads Pay. * MONEY TO LOAN * * ON * * FARMS * * JOHN SCHURGER * * ABSTRACTOR * itc**********:***