Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1915 — Page 3

CONFIRMATION SHOES Although Confirmation Day is some weeks away, we have already sold a lot of shoes for this occasion. Girls are taking to White Welted Boots and White Turned Strap Pumps. On account of wearing short pants the boys require very short vamp Veluer Calf in button. Bring In The Children, We Can Help You. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

fz lit It I XZt X XIXI X XItX XX X XTXt tint X ||| Itt | WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Wednesday. E. X. Ehinger went to Indianapolis on business. Mrs. J. Hentzy went to Ft. Wayne ►this morning. Mrs. C. V. Connell went to Fort Wayne today. Ainos Hirschy of Berne was a business visitor here. P. W. Smith of Richmond was a business visitor here today. Mrs. Vaughn returned to her home north of the city after shopping here yesterday. Jesse Johnson left for Imboden, Ark., where he will serve as a witness in a law suit. Women have been refused their request that one of their sex be appointed to the Paterson, N. J., board of education. Miss Nell Brown of near Willshire, 0., changed cars here on her way to Fort Wayne where she is a music student. Adrian Herman, who has spent a month at his home at St. Henry, 0., returned for a stay with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Myers. Civil serivice examinations for agriculturists, chemical engineer, and all other branches of public service will be held in Bloomington, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, LaFayette, Marion, Richmond, South Bend, Terre Haute and Valpraiso on various dates this summer. Further information may be secured from the civil service commission at Washington.

The Home Os Quality Groceries SAME STAPLES TO EAT Ex. Standard E. J. Peas.. 10c Caggabe Sc Ex. Sifted 12'/ 2 c Potatoe Sweet Pe3 . 15c Apples, peck 30c Standard Corn, 3 for 25c Onions, peck 25c Country Geneleman, Corn i2'/>c Lemons, doz 2— • Hominy, 3 for ••25c Oranges, doz••2sc Kraut 10c Lima Breads and 10c We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 15c Butter 17c to 27c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot ptlone 108 MffiMiiu uiittWM rm i htiwin r IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- i stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

Ellsworth Carter of near Berne was here today on business. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shackley went to Fort Wayne today noon. John Baker of Blue Creek township was here on business today. Mrs. Earl .Thrailkill of Pleasant Mills was in the city yesterday lodging after business rfatters. Fifty-four women have received medals and rewards for heroism from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission during the last ten years. Lloyd Beery and Cecil Cole accompanied the Honeywell party to Willshire last evening, attending the meeting held at that place. Henry Frickel and family left for Michigan, where they will make their home on a farm. Mr. Frickel’s son inlaw, Henry Fell, is also going. Dwight Archer is substitute today for Elmer Archer, rural mail carrier on route six, who is at Fort Wayne on business relative to supplies for his automobile. The menace of a “film famine,” which, because of the European war, threatened the American moving picture industry, has been banished. Moving picture film is being made out of skimmed milk. The wedding of Miss Tillie Weist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Weist. of Bluffton, and Wilbur Hay of Portland, took place Monday nt Bluffton. Miss Weist was employed as a clerk at the Morris store. Clara Meyer Franke, age 20, drank carbolic acid at Fort Wayne Sunday and' died an hour later. Grief over the fact that she was an adopted daughter, instead of natural r/; she had always supposed until told by neighbors just recently, prompted the deed.

Miss Doehrman of St. John's shopped here today. H. J. Yager went to Ft. Wayne this morning on business. Henry Colter of Robo was a business visitor here today. Mrs. Dick Hill and daughter, Mabel, visited in Monmouth. Attorney R. H. Hartford of Portland w’as here today on business. Father Benzinger of Hesse Cassel was here on business this afternoon. Scott Hughes of FT. Wayne was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Judge Robert W. Stein of Blufften waa in the city yesterday on business. Dr. Elizabeth Bums left over the Erie for Findlay, Ohio, to spend Wednesday with Mrs. Ed Lyons. Messrs, and Mesdames T. M. Reid, C. A. Dugan, D. M. Hensley and Geo. Flanders spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne. Miss Frances Burrell of Huntington arrived yesterday afternoon for a short visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blackburn. Miss Frances GauJt and Mrs. Frances Dettinger spent last week in Preble. Miss Gault, who resides in Peterson, has come to Decatur for a week’s stay. Wild pigeons were known to be the most voracious eaters of the animal kingdom in proportion to their sise. One consumed 1,000 grains cf wheat in one day. Mrs. Etta Barkley Stephens es Blppus changed care here on her way to her home from Hoagland, where she was at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Jacob Barkley, who has been 111. Friends here have been notified of the death of Mrs. Amanda Stewart, 74, mother of Mrs. Joe Woods, who formerly lived here. Mrs. Stewart resided in Ohio, near the edge of Adams county. Her son-hi-law, Joe Woods, formerly ran a blacksmith shop here. —Bluffton Banner. James Robson, the mystery man at the Kosciusko county infirmary, at Warsaw, completed his forty-first day of fasting Sunday. Although he has lost much weight his condition is fairly good. Water and a little lemon juice together with sups of wine are all that Robsoh will accept although attempts have been made to induce him to take chicken broth and other forms of nourishment.

The address of Vice-President Marshal will be 222 East 15th street, Indianapolis, Indiana, for an indefinite length of time. Mr. Marshall has a long Chautauqua schedule to carry, out during >e coming summer which will take him Into many parts of the country. He will receive S2OO per lecture, so the report is. Soon he will leave for California to attend the exposition and to appear at the formal dedication. Kendallville people who aided a beautiful young lady posing as a mute and working her way through college, have been the victims of an impostor, alleges H. C. McKellar, who says he knows the person and that she is a resident of South Bend. When she first arrived in the city she visited Mayor Case and presented her proposition in writing, and was given the assurance that she could make a general canvass <jf the city unmolested. She presented a card to her victims, and any person, especially a young man, could not help but offer her a dime or a quarter after reading the card. A piance at her smiling countenance was a supplication in itself. —Kendallville Sun. George Tricker, formerly of this city, but now manager of the Frisinger stock farm at Farmdale, 0., writes us a letter enclosing a check for 'a year’s subscription to the Democrat, and includes the following news item also: “Aaron C. Huffman, a well known farmer of Blue Creek township, your county, is visiting with us here in Trumbull county. Ohio, and while here has purchased a beautiful farm, a choice 50-acre tract, with all necessary buildings, fruit, etc. The farm is located on the Center pike road one and one-half miles west of the center of the town, of Gustavus, and is one of the choicest lots of the country. Mr. Huffman will probably arrange to move here soon and take up the work of dairying and the raising of pure bred Holstein cattle, and with milk selling here at two dollars per hundred, or butter fat in the milk at 60c per pound, Hoosiers are quick' to see how to make a few dollars.” - o —— THAW TRIAL STARTED. New York, N. Y„ Mar. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The state today began presentation of testimony against Harry Thaw and five co-de-fendants in conspiring to effect Thaw’s escape from Matteawan. The prosecution’s plans were bared to the jury by Deputy Attorney Kennedy. He said that Thaw was “illegally itsane,” but “criminally responsible” for his part. ■ ~Q— — FOR SALE —Ford roadster. Just like new. Has only been run eight hundred miles. For sale cheap. Inquire at this office. 5t3

BANK STATEMENT. Report of the condition of the People's Loan 4 Trust Company Bank, at Decatur, in th** Stat* of Indiana, at close Os business March 4, 1915: JsWies, RnpsH, President. W. A. lajww, Secretary. M. Kirsch, <’•shier. Rtaeercea. Loans and Discounts $ 70,612.16 Company’s Building 18,000.00 Furniture and fixtures .... 6,000.00 Due from Banks and Trust Companies 3,506.76 Cash oh hand 11,567.90 Expenses, interest paid... 1,857.74 Total Resources 1111,444.66 Liabilities. Capital Stock —pain in 550,000.00 interest, discount and other earnings 1,654.67 Demand deposits, except banks 49,272.08 Savings deposits 1,500.44 Special deposits 2,795.37 Bills payable 6,000.00 Insurance and rental 222.00 Total Liabilities $111,444.56 State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I, M. Kirsch, Cashier of the People's Loan & Trust Co., of Decatur, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. M. KIRSCH, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 9th day of March. 1915. PHILIP L. ANDREWS, Notary Public. My commission expires June 10 1916. o FIGHTING OUT SMUT. “Our greatest achievement the past year was fighting out smut,” writes F. T. Robbins, agent, Tazewell county, 111. In July, 1913, I secured samples of smutted oats. These were labelled with the percentage of smut and the estimated loss in dollars per acre. Late last winter articles were furnished the local papers calling attention to this loss. At the township farmers’ meetings these samples were passed around and also a twenty-five cent bottle of formalin with which 40 bushels of seed oats could be smutted. In some bases a demonstration in actually treating oats was given in the hall. In all cases it was carefully described. Then printed directions for doing it were passed around. Reports secured in May from each of the drug stores in the county showed that they hald sold 102 gallons of formal dehyde for oats last spring in excess of sales in other years, and no attempt was made to get a line on the amount which our farmers brought in from larger cities, but it was considerable.; Actual threshing returns were requested of all members and reports were sent hi for 141 fields of oats; ;i7 of these fields were not treated and yielded an average of 48 busheds per acre; 44 were sown with treated seed and averaged 55 bushels, or 7 bushels more. The 102 gallons of formalin would treat the seed for 13,000 acres, so the total gain was about 91,000 bushels and at 40 cents, the price for which most of the oats was sold, this oats treatment saved the county $36,090 worth of oats.” o SAVE YOUR POULTRY. Lippincott’s One Night Roup, Gapes, White Diarrhoea Cure. It has no equal. For Tsale by The Holthouse Drug Co., Rexall Drug Store, Enterprise Drug Co. 58t30 ■ ■ —-o FARM FOR SALE —A ten-acre tract of good land, with buildings as good as new; good location, 2 miles from town. Must be sold within ten days. For further information call at Democrat office. 53t6 FOR SALE —A twenty-five horse power Studebaker runabout in excellent condition. Owner has purchased a touring car and must sell immediately. Inquire at this Office. 58t3. LOST—Top part of a music rack, between the Fledderjohann residence on North Second street and Central /school building. Ender will please return to this office. 58tf.

We have installed one of the latest and most efficient Generators FOR •. < . Charging Storage Batteries HOLTHOUSE S GARAGE

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer for sale at his residence, I*4 inilea northwest of Decatur on the Decatur and Ossian road, on Thursday, March 25, 1915, beginning at 10 o’clock a. rn., the following property, to-wit: Thirteen Head of Horses: Bay mare, 5 years old, in foal, weight 1500 lbs.; bay mare, 3 years old, in foal, 1200; bay mare, 5 years old. lady broke, weight 1400; bay mare, 8 years old, in foal, weight 1400; gray mare, 9 years old, broke to all harness, weight 1500; bay mare 11 years old, in foal, weight 1000; bay gelding, 5 years old, well broke, weight 1400; bay gelding 7 years- old, well broke, weight 1100; roan gelding, 8 years old, well broke, weight 1500; gray gelding 9 years old. a good worker, weight 1400; yearling colt, a good one; roan colt, 2 years old, draft type; bay colt, 2 years oil, draft type, good ones. Nine Head of Cattle: Red cow, 5 years old, will be fresh April 15; Jersey cow, 5 years old, will be fresh April 1; red cow, 1 years old, will be fresh May 1; black, cow. 4 years old, will be fresh in May; black cow, 4 years old, will be fresh in May; red cow, 5 years old, will be fresh in June; red cow, 5 years old, will be fresh in June; red cow, 8 years old, fresh last of April; Holstein bull, 1 year old, a good one. Hogs and Chickens: One full blooded registered Duroc male hog, papers at hand; 9 brood sows, one with 8 pigs by side; others to farrow in April; 14 shoats, weighing from 40 to 100 !bs. each. One hundred or more good laying hens. Farming Implements: Two riding breaking plows, check rower, 4 double corn cultivators, 2 spike tooth harrows, knife harrows 3 walking breaking plows, clod crusher or roller, Milwaukee binder, Milwaukee mower, 6 ft. cut; hay tedder, hay loader, Thomas; hay rake, disc harrow, itertilizer drill, good as new; 2 clover bunchers, horse corn cutter, new ground plow, 2 sets dump boards, 3 good wide tread wagons, 4 good wagon beds, 2 hay racks, hog rack, pair bob sleds, mud boat, 2 single bug gles, 1 new surrey, sleigh, two-horse dray, in fair condition; one-horse corn drill, pair platform scales, pair beam scales, fanning mill, set hay slings, fence machine, scoop board, wheel barrow, 3 double shovel plows, cream separator, 4 iron kettles, copper kettles, grindstone, slop cart, two 18-ft. ladders, 2 oil tanks, a lot of good chains, saws, axes, etc; buggy pole, tank heater, bicycle; 2-gal ice cream freezer, lot of good lumber, 100 fence posts, set double driving harness, 4 sets single driving harness, 5 sets of heavy work harness, two of which are as good as new und are brass-trimm-ed: 4 sets fly nets, a lot of extra collars, hay in mow, coin in field, 100 bu. Dane seed oats, seed potatoes, household and kitchen furniture, including stoves, carpets, organ and many other articles too numerous to mention. Also, I will offer my farm of 127 acres at public auction at noon, on same date; terms made known on day of sale. I boosted your sale, please boost mine. Terms: —Nine months without interest, with approved note; 4 per cent off for cash: 8 per cent interest after maturity, if not paid. Lunch served by Ladies’ Aid of Mt. Pleasant. FRANK L. ROOP., Prop. Col. J J. Burugartner and Harry Bunn, Aucts. W. A. Fonner and Cliaa Niblick. Clerks. FOR SALE—Fine stock farm in running order, 120 acres. 96 acres cleared; rest young timber, all level, and county drainage. Good improvements, nearly new 8-room house, water connection in house. Will sell with stock or without. Location, Muskegon. Mich. For prices and particulars, Willis Johnson, Decatur, Ind. 58t4

BOYS CONFIRMATION SUITS The time is here for you to select your boys Suit for Confirmation Day and we want to show you the complete line of clothes and furnishings we have for this special event. Blue Serge is the most popular fabric for these suits, but ordinary blue Serge has no special appeal but when you think of Guaranteed All-wool and High Grade workmanship, you are thinking of the kind of clothes we sellBoys Long Pant Blue Serge Suits at $lO. and sl2. Boys Knee Pant Blue Serge Suits made in a great variety of Norfolk Styles at $5, $6, $7.50, $8.50 and $lO. Large assortments of Hats, Caps, Shirts, Ties and Belts for you to select from. We’ll be glad to show you these clothes any day--HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. GOOD CLOTHES SELLERS FOR MEN AND BOYS

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will hold a public auction on the J. W. Smith farm, 2 miles northwest of Pleasant Mills, 4 miles southeast of Decatur on Friday, March 12, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m., the following property, to-wit: Horses: Team of good work horses; % Belgian mare colt, 2 years old in April. Cattie: White Durham cow, 5 years old. fresh Ist of May: roan cow, 6 years old. fresh March 20; two ten-months-old calves, one Durham and one Polled Angus. Hogs: Four brood sows, farrow in May; male hog 10 months old; 8 shoats, weighing 100 to 125 pounds; 8 shoats weighing about 60 pounds. Poultry: Three Bronze turkeys, large; 1 Tom and two hens; 2 geese, 6 Black Langshang cocks. Implements: Two farm wagons, one narrow and one wide tread; combination beet and hay rack, combination beet, hay and hog rack. 14-16 Deering disc; New Century cultivator, good as new, Scotch Clipper breaking plow, double shovel plow, mud boat; many other tools and implements not mcn-

NOTICE! A First Class School Entertainment, “Ten Nights in a Bar Room,” the famous five act drama, and ‘ The Man from Germany” will be given next Thursday and Saturday nights March 11 and 13 at the Kinsey School in Blue Creek Township. The Cast of Characters is as Follows: Joe Morgan, the Drunkard John Feasei Sample Swichell, a Live Yankee Lee Mitch Simon Slade, the Landlord Chester Bryan Mr. Pomaine, the Philanthropist G. C. Lehman Harvey Green, the Gembier.. Carl Luginbill Willie Hammond, the Pride of the Village Floyd Meyers Frank Slade, the Example (Act 1,2, 3 Homer Malony Frank Slade, the Example (Act 4,5) Forest Ripley Mrs. Morgan, the Drunkard's Wife •• Maggie Llynch Mary Morgan, the Drunkard’s Child Marie Danner Mehitable Cartwright, a Yankee Girl Lesta Meyers Mrs. Slade, the Landlord’s Wife-- Cora Luginbill Anyone enjoying a good hearty laugh or scenes of joy or sorrow can't afford to miss this entertainment. The moral of “Ten Niguls in the Bar Room" will itself he.worth your coming, not mentioning the many other parts oi' music, etc. \ Remember the date and place. Admission, 15c. ' Net proceeds will be used to.erect a fence around the school house. 1 < 51

Terms: —All sums under $5.00 casn in hand; over $5.00 bankable note, bearing good security for six months; 4 per cent off for cash. No goods ~emoved until settled for. ASA SMITH. Harry Daniels, Auct. Chas. Winans, Clerk. o HEAVY CASTING FALLS. Gary, Ind., Mar. 9 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —One man was badly iajqr*Ml,. a. score bruised and cut and windows of the railroad station smashed today, when a heavy casting on the Toledo-Chicago fast mail train engine dropped today and plowed up the road bed and concrete platform for 200 yards. o TAKES NEW POSITION. Miss Eula McKinney, who for nearly two years has been employed at the Morris store as clerk, will resign Saturday evening. She will take a position as bookkeeper for her brother-in-law, George E. Steele.

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