Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1915 — Page 5

MY LANDS LADIES you that liave’nt been able to B attend our big January sale, still have the opportunity. You will be surprised to see the big values we are showing at H $1.95 $2.45 and $2.95 9k Come in while the picking is good and take a pair along home with you. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE THE SHOE SELLER

I WEATHER LORECAST | KBKBMMmxxnxnri’iiinrjur-.nr’r::;. Partly cloudy tonight. Thursday fair. gCMrs. John Heller went to Ft. Wayne this morning. Mrs. H. L. Buuck of Preble left y< terday afternoon for Fort Wayne for a vMt. Mrs. Jared Reed and son arrived from Fort Wayne for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wertzberger and family. A woman thinks her wash look very white and clean until she hangs it out against a background of the "driven” snow. Henry Thomas of the White Stag Cigar company left early this morning for Indianapolis to look after business for the company. ’Bout th’ only combination in th’ interest o’ th’ plain people is buckwheat an’ sausage. Th’ sugar camp at Washin’ton never closes. —Abe Martin. Mrs. T. H. Baltzell and daughter Crystal, and Mrs. Marion Andrew have returned from Granite City, 111. where they visited with Mrs. George McKean. w Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Gross ol Nt wago, Mich., who visited here witli the George Teeple family and others, left yesterday afternoon for Fori Wayne for a visit. Peter Gaffer and Pat Wilhelm left last night for Indianapolis, where th. y will attend the state convention of painters of Indiana, which association is now holding a four days’ session

The Home Os Quality Groceries} Maple Syrup qt. . . 45c Catsup . . . .10 & 15c “ Bottle 25c Chilisauce .... 15c Pure Fruit Jelly . . 10c Pepper Sauce ... 10c Apple Butter Jar .15c Peanut Butter . .10 & 15c ? “ “ “.. 20c Table Mustard .. 5 & 10c “ “ “.. 25c Dill Pickles Doz. ... 15c ; ? “ “ lb. 10c Large Sour Pickles doz 12c Maple Butter ... 25c Sweet “ “10c Crisco 25c Sweet Mixed .... 10c We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 32c Butter 18c to 27c HOWER & HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 MM—lii 11 it. .ii rT'-'r~~iTnrniMii i IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN £ President Secretary Treas. I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO, I i REALIJESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, £ • abstracts; * fl The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- I itract Records, Twenty years’ Experience II Farms, City Property, 5 per cent; £ MONEY ■

Dan Sprang went to Fort Wayne to day noon. L. A. Graham made a business trip to Fort Wayne today noon, Louis Selking of Preble was a business visitor in the city today. Jacob, Robert and Harold Scheuler of Preble township were business vis itors in the city today. Miss Gabriel Strebig returned to Ft. Wayne this morning after a visit here with tlie Misses Irene and Marguerite’ Gerard. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gallogly returned from a visit at Bartlesville, Okla., with their daughter, Mrs. Elmer Sark, and family. Mrs. John Sauer and children passed through the city today noon enroute to Fort Wayne from a visit at Schum, Ohio. Mrs. Wert.'ibaugher returned today noon to Fort Wayne. She visited here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brothers. Miss Alma Andrews returned today noon to Fort Wayne after a week’s visit here with her aunt, Mrs. Mattie Schlegel, on North First street. Mrs. Burton Richards passe< throng hthe city today noon enrouTb it Churubusco, from' Wren, Ohio, after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fillmore Springer. Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer has gone t< Florida for a several months’ stay, thus missing the storms and wind and rains of spring that usually make * unpleasant in this section. Miss Marcella Kuebler, a student al the Sacred Heart Academy, is at hom< for the remainder of the week, wit!, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kueb ler. while she is having dental work done.

W. Parker went to Fort Wayne today noon. Dr. S. P. Hoffman made a business trip to the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, today. Solomon Linn, who has been very 111 of leakage of the heart, and who suffered a relapse Sunday, is said to be not so well today. Mr. and Mrs. Will Patterson and H. P. Moses returned to Fort Wayne last evening after attending the funerof 11. D. Patterson. Mrs. .Perry Brooks lias filed a’ suit for $5,000 damages against the city of Bluffton for injuries received in a runaway. She claims her horse was I tightened at a piece of tin in the street. It is also reported that Mr. Brooks may file a similar suit. Eighteen women appeared in court at Frankfort to apply for a five-weeks-old baby birl, abandoned by its mother, who left it on the doorsteps of the Benjamin Mundell home. The court awarded tlie child to Mr. and Mrs. Earl llearth, who have lost five children of their own. They are well-to-do and own their own home. About tlie busiest place in Decatur today was the Madison street room of the Schafer Hardware company, where the fire sale was in progress. All day tlie crowds filled the big room and kept the clerks busy. The sale will continue until the goods have been tjis--1 posed of. As s.oon as possible the company will reopen in the Second street block, but until they do .so they will continue in the Madison street building. Yeggs blew open the safe in tlie office of the Valley Trust company at Huntington Sunday morning and es«ped with $165 in money and several watches and chains. Tlie police have no clue, although the manner in which the Job was pulled off, it is believed to be the work of professionals. The robbery was found when a chiropractor who has an office in the same building opened his office at eleven o’clock and found the window glass broken in tlie trust company’s apartments. According to A. H. Hawley, grand secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginement, forty-seven per cent of the locomotive firemen running on the western railroads die with their boots on. According to the same authority, of 1,224 disabilities, including many resulting from ordinary diseases, 691 were caused by blindness and imputation, due in the majority of instances to railroad accidents. In 1913, the statistics for 1914 not having been compiled as yet, there were thirty amputations among the firemen of the section in question, twenty-four ‘ of which were necessitated by railroad smash-ups and twenty cases of blindness, ten due to similar causes. In the same year disease caused the deatu of 295 firemen and railroad accidents, the death of 243 and the ratios vary little from year to year. Mr. Hawley contends that the hazard of the fireman’s occupation is far greater than that of any other trade or craft. In the February Woman's Home Companion, a spinster, who says she is several years on the shady side of fifty, sets down or records some of her very pronounced ideas on the training of childrens On the subject of teaching children to eht what is set before them, she says: “In my own childhood I ate what was on the table for the family, and I don't ever remember expressing, or being asked, my preferences. It is now very advantageous to be able to ‘eat anything, anywhere!’ On asking a young girl recently what cite particularly objected to, when she said she could not eat bacon, she replied, ‘I don’t know —I have never tasted it!’ On the occasion of a picnic supper a friend was eating slices of canned tongue, cut lengthwise and said, ’how delicious this ham is—is it deviled, I or what?’ ‘lt isn’t ham at all,’ I rei plied, ‘it's canned tongue.’ ‘Tongue, said the aforementioned person. ‘I i can't eat tongue!’ Down wen the plate on the grass and not another morsel was touched.” o DRAFT RULE IS GAMBLING. Chicago, 111., Jan. 20—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The draft rule was termed “gambling, speculating and pernicious practice, striking at the very heart of cur American institutions,” by Keene Addington, attorney for the federal league in his arguments before court i’hen the suit to»dissolve the American and National Leagues opened today. The suit is brought under the anti-trust law. “By means of it both major leagues send one playor to the minors to be tried out and then get a better player for him or take the same man back.” He declared the powers of tlie national commission were absolute and wielded without mercy until the players’ fraternity worked reform. He pointed out that, in 1913 fifty-one appeals were denied ' out of of seventy-six. Democrat Want Ads Pay. I

MORE FOR THE MICROSCOPE i Now It Is the Eternal Question of the “Poor" That la to Be Investigated. 1 Commenting on the fact that an investigation of New York’s poor—an in- ■ quiry, back-d by millions of dollars, into the whys and wherefores of the countless troubles of those thousands who are always "up against It"—is to be made by the Rockefeller foundation, a New York newspaper writei says: When you have the money you can do things so promptly. No matter what it is you want to know about—whether it is germs or phobias or industries or the tariff or a square deal, no matter what—if you Just have the money you can go for it and compel it to unfold, Now we are to find out about the poor. When a man works industrious ly all the year round, there must be something wrong if he continues to be poor. Some one must be to blame for it. No guilty person shall escape Maybe they like butter gravy on their beefsteak; likely as not. We shall see. Different persons before now have taken a hand at this investigation, but merely in a cursory, impersonal way. The metaphysician says poverty is of the spirit; that what we bring out Is but the manifestation of what wc harbor within. The Socialist studies from an entire ly different angle. He says the rich beat down the poor and that the money with which the foundation is made up should be paid out to the worker in the beginning, and then there would be no need of any invest! gation. The impudence! Orthodoxy bids us all be patient under Inflictions and know that we deserve all that we get, in order to test' us out. The theosophist says we are working out the derelictions of a previous incarnation and that we better hurry , about it, be brave and uncomplaining and maybe things will straighten out suddenly. The anarchist carries a bomb up his sleeve, and when we start talking about the poor he makes a persona! matter of it and either throws the bomb or arouses our suspicions. Those of us who have troubles oi our own pull together on the point that even the Master was reconciled and said we have the poor always with us. The same old “poor” that lived in thf Master’s day! About Kentuckians. Irvin S. Cobb is a Kentuckian and proud of it, though he can’t resist poking fun at the Blue Grass state once in a while. He joshed his fellow Kentuckians at a banquet in New York one time, telling them that every one of them cried or applauded when the orchestra played “My Old Kentucky Home,” but that not one of them could be taken back until the extradition papers had been fought through every court. Cobb delights in stories that have a Blue Grass flavor, that portray some of the characteristics Kentuckians have or pretend to have. Here is one of his favorites: A Kentucky colonel always closed his eyes when he took a drink. When questioned concerning this habit he readily explained: "The sight of good licah, sah,” he said, "always makes my mouth watah, sah, an’ I do not like to dilute my drink, sah.” Resourceful Interpreter. While we were talking with the people of Crecy, what appeared to be a cavalryman rode up. From his uniform it would be impossible to tell to which army he belonged, as part was French, part English and the rest heaven only knows what. He said he was an interpreter with the British forces and invited us to accompany him to headquarters, where we would be permitted to explain our nearness to the scene of operations. When I assured him this was exactly what I had been trying to do all day he became friendly and informed us that he was the marquis de Villenau, spoke seven languages, had been through five wars, was a blood rela tion of the king or queen of Greece— I don’t just remember which—and that he was the hardest worked interpreter in the army, in which fact he gloried. —John Robert Clarke, in Collier’s Weekly. , A Little Off. Jerome D. Green, the secretary of the Rockefeller foundation, was talking at a dinner in New York about the foundation's world-wide inquiry into industrial conditions. "This inquiry,” said Mr. Green, “will afford us, I am confident, astounding revelation. Some of our present ideas may prove, as a result of it, as erroneous as the little boy’s ideas of Solomon. “ ‘What do you know about Solomon?' this little boy was asked. “ ‘He was very fond of animals.’ “‘Very fond of animals? Humph! And why do you say he was very fond of animals?’ “ ‘Because,’ said the little boy, ‘the Bible tells us he had a thousand porcupines.’ ” Globe Trotting. The record trip around the world up to date is held by .1 H Mears. Commissioned by a New York newspaper, Mears left New York July 2, 1913, and completed the trip of 21,066 miles in 31 days 21 hours 35 minutes. The best previous time on a similar trip was 39 days 19 hours 42 minutes, by I Jaeger Schmidt, in 1911,

|jl OIGHT here, rightnow where you can || Set a Big Dollar’s worth of shoe leather for your G-w- Dollar. It’s our Clearance Sale time and we are offering our entire stock of Shoes and Rubbers at a discount. Shoes for Men $1.98, $2.24, $2.98 $3.48 Shoes for WomanJ9Bc, $1.48, $1.98. $2.24 $3.48 Shoes for boys, youths, Misses and children at a bargain, to clean up all lines Cut Prices On Shoes For Everybody. THE WINNES SHOE STORE Better Secure Your Share Os The Bargains at Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson’s before their sale closes. They invite comparison of prices and merchandise. Any Overcoat in the store at ONE-THIRD OFF BOYS KNICKERBOCKER MEN’S FANCY SUITS SIO.OO Coats go at ... .$6.65 FANCY SUITS ONE- THIRD OFF $12.00 Coats go at ... .SB.OO $15.00 Coats go at ...SIO.OO ONE-THIRD OFF SIO.OO Suits for $6.65 $16,50 Coats go at ... .11.00 . $12.00 Suits go at ... .SB.OO SIB.OO Coats go at .. .$12.00 $ 3 - 00 Suits go at $2.00 $15.00 Suits eo at . .SIO.OO $20.00 Coats go at ...$13.30 $4.50 Suits go at $3.00 $16.50 Suits so at ..$ll.OO $22.50 Coats go at .. .$15.00 $5.00 Suits go at $3.35118.00 Suits go at . $12.00 $25.00 Coats go at .. .$16.65 $6.00 Suits go at $4.00 j sSiS Io at ! .'SSIW These are real bargains, come and see for yourself. Sale will soon close. Buy now. TEEPLE, BRANDYBERRY & PETERSON Cater to the Man Who Cares

$8 Making that much money weekly? Os course you want to make more—will make more —just as soon as you are worth more. Why not take 10 per cent of your present earnings and keep them in a First National Savings Account? That is 80c a week. Not much? | No—but in one year you will have here $41.60 —and the interest we pay you at the rate cf 3 per cent. The more you bank the more you will be worth to yourself. The more you are worth to yourself, the more you will be worth to your employer. More people get ahead in the world by lopping off unnecessary expenses than by earning large incomes. FIRST NATIONAL BANK A Safe Place for Savings Decatur, Indiana PIANO TUNING —High class work, strictly guaranteed. Orders left at Gay, Zwlck & Myers will receive prompt attention. —Harry Sawyer, Ft Wayne, Ind. 240m-t-tf 0. BRADLEY CHIROPRACTOR Graduate of two schools Over Charlie Voglewede Shoe Store Hours 1 to 5 & 7 to 8 p.m. Lady Attendant.

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