Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1915 — Page 3

VYZixEN A Shoe enters an already vv crowded field and INSTANTLY takes the LEADERSHIP-— t ' iat leadership and INCREASES it every day-— There MUST be a REASON. OUR CUSHION COMFORT SHOE IS THE LEADER OF COMFORT GIVING SHOES. Designed and built by men who knew the defects and mistakes of the OLD FASHIONED shoes, they were de termined to end once for all the necessity of a new shoe COMFOST SHOES ARE Ladies $3.00 and Men’s $4.00. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE.

| WEATHER FORECAST I Fair tonight and Thursday. Father Benzinger of Hesse Cassel was a business visitor here. John Glancy made a business trip to Fountain City yesterday. Dr. S. P. Hoffman was at Fort Wayne on professional business at the Lutheran hospital. Mrs. E. X. Ehinger went to Bluffton today for a several days’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. Will Berling. Albert D. Lautenberg and Miss Alina Poirson, both of Fort Wayne, were united in marriage yesterday by Justice C. M. Weaver.—Hillsdale A fine baby girl arrived Monday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Frauhiger. There are now five children in the Frauhiger home, three boys and two girls.—Bluffton Banner. Ralph Todd | and Carl Bonham left this afternoon for Texas, where they will transact business matters. Herb Burrougs of Decatur will act aa manager of the Public drug store during the absence of Mr. Bonham—Bluffton News. Van Wert County Sheriff Gunsett was here yesterday evening tog call on Sheriff Green and to get the chickens which Willard Mathews, who was arrested here last week, is charged with stealing from Oliver Sheets of Wren. Mathews is alleged to have broken a lock to get into the coop and he will have a hearing on the stealing charge Thursday in a justics's court. The chickens were taken over to be used as evidence. They had been left here the day Mathews was arrested.

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THE SHOE SELLER

I Attorney J. C. Sutton has returned | froma business trip to Monroe. I Mrs. Dan Vail and Mrs. Claysci Carroll spent the day in Fort Wayne. James and Dewey Wisner accom- , panied their uncle in his automobile to his home in Michigan. Mrs. Ferd Metier and daughter, , Edith, and Miss Fanny Beitler of Berne were shoppers here today. Mrs. Will Ohler went to Columbus Grove, Ohio, to see the “foot doctor,” who has gained considerable renown. Mrs. J. E. Scheide of Van Wert, O, who was here on business yesterday left for Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon to attend to business before returning home. Rev. Wiley Tanger is goin’ t’ deliver a sermon in slang next Sunday t’ ' see if he can’t git th' organ paid fer. Ther’s no lenses fer a lack o’ foresight.—Abe Martin. The Charles Cooper family is moving from North Fifth street to the D. B. Erwin residence. 615 North Third street. The house they vacate will be occupied by Dr. C. R. Weaver and family who recently purchased it from G. C. Steele. Mrs. Henry Kunard and granddaughter, Selma Autenright, returned to their home in Kendallville this noon after a several days’ visit with Mrs Kunard’s daughter, Mrs. Jacob Atz. Mrs. Atz has been confined to her home with illness for several weeks, Lut is slightly improved. Dick Townsend left today for Paducah, Kentucky where he will take charge of the Palmer hotel, one of the best in that section of the country. It is a 115 room house and another hundred rooms are to be added at once. Mr. Townsend arrived here yesterday after closing up the deal.

Mrs. C. Burr of Monmouth was a shopper here today. Samuel Helm of east of the city was here today on business. Mrs. Malinda Dowden of Pleasant Mills went to Fort Wayne today noon. J. A. Smith who has been bedfast a week and a half on account of having the grip, and whose case bordered on pneumonia, is better and is able to sit up awhile. A Columbia City man has a freak egg. It is the same shape as any other egg, only it is about twice the size of a common egg. On one end there is a tail about three inches long and it is covered with a tfhell the same as the rest of the egg. Smitley & Company of Berne, agents for Adams county for the Maxwell automobile yesterday unloaded a car of these dandy machines at this place. Last evening they were taken to Berne after being displayed in front of the court house. The car sells for $750, complete, with starter and lights looks like the goods. Arrangements have been completed for the continuation of the Winona Assembly during the coming season, and the work of arranging the program is almost completed. It is beloved that hard straits in which the association finds itself financially may have a tendency to increase the patronage this year, as there are thousands of people who do not want to see an enterprise of so much worth go down for the lack of support. The management have an opportunity to make a good showing.

Frank Marina, an Italian, aged twenty-four years, employed as a section hand on the Clover Leaf railroad, was struck by the locomotive of a local freight near the Liberty street crossing, in Ohio City, this morning. He was hurled violently to the ground and suffered a fracture of the skull, at the base of the brain. Marina was attempting to cross the tracks at the time and it is believed he failed to note the approach of the locomotive. He was brought to the Van Wert County Hospital for surgical attention and is being cared for there by the county. There are more owners of Pennsylvania roailroad stock than ever before in the history of the company. On no other railroad in America —and probably in the world —are so many people dependent for a whole or patt of their income. On March 1, the latest date for which figures have been compiled, 31,865 people who live in Pennsylvania—l,799 more than on March 1, 1914—are part owners in the Pennsylvania Railroad system. In New York 15,712 stockholders reside, while in New England and scattered throughout the rest of the country are 32,726 stockholders. Mrs. C. V. Cowens received a let ter yesterday afternoon from her mother, Mrs. Joseph Brown, of near Calgary, Canada, giving further details of the oil well in which her father invested a few days ago and made a profit of $10,140. The well contains more oil than it was at first supposed and within three days, one thousand feet of high grade oil had risen in the well. The oil from the well is also of a better grade than other oil, with the exception of that obtained from the wells in Pennsylvania. Mr. Brown will retain a few of his shares, which he procured when he first went to Canada. —Bluffton Banner. The afternoon meeting on Tuesday was turned over to Mrs. McCombe for special work with her personal workers. The choir loft was well filled and both men and women have entered into this part of the campaign with great zeal and the result is telling in each after-meeting or in fact all the meetings being conducted throughout the city. There was a song service as usual and a short opening prayer, followed by Airs. McCombe’s speech and instructions with the use of the blackboard. Mrs. McCombe has proven her ability as a leader of most any enterprise and the success of her personal workers can be traced back .to ■the fact there is something besides her personal influence and that is the power and strength of the Almighty God. o— FOR SALE—Pure maple syrup. Made in new process steam evaporator. Looks nearly like strained honey. AH put up in 1-gallon screw top cans, labeled. State or other inspection invited. Crated in 3, 6 or 12 gallpn crates. Price, $1.20 per gal; 5 per cent discount on 12-gallon orders. Low freight. Cash with order. Season only lasts a few days.—Geo. Trlcker, Farmdale, Ohio. 69t12 FOUND —Bunch of keys on street. Owner may have same by calling at the Old Adams County bank, identifying them and paying for this ad. People who have had a look at some of our $16.50 suits can not understand how we can produce them at the price.—Elwood Tailoring Co. rear of People s Loan & Trust Co. 69,6

STEAM UP FOR LAST WEEK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) you and me to discuss is this—“ Where will we spend eternity, in heaveu or in hell, —A practical question. 3rd. I notice further that the question of this agitated jailor is a personal one—l have no doubt that lie had many friends and was interested in their welfare but the whole weight of his question turns on the pronoun ”1". What shall 1 do? Os course when a man becomes a Christian he immediately becomes anxious for the salvation of other people but until that point is reached the most important question is about your own salvation. What are my prospects for »he future? Where am 1 going? What shall I do to be saved? 4th. Once again, I notice that the question of the agitated jailor is a very important one. Men are alike and I suppose he had scores of questions on his mind but all questions for this world are hushed up, annihilated in this one luestion —What must I do to be saved? And have you my brother any puestion so important compared with this one? It is a question of business, you will soon pass out of that partnership in this world. Have you made any purchases for eternity? Is any question so broad as the one of my tex*? Is it a domestic question? You know that all relationships will soon be broken, all the loved ones and you will soon be gone. It is a question of whether you will take wings and soar or chains and drop. sth. Once more I notice that the question of this agitated jailor was crushed out of him by his misfortunes The falling of the penitentiary, his' occupation gone, besides that the flight of a prisoner was ordinarily the death of the jailor—do you think if the walls had not fallen he would have hurled this ret’ hot question into the ears of the apostolic prisoners. ■■No. You know as well as I it was the earthquake that reused him and it is trouble that starts a great many people asking the same question. Oh brother, Oh sister, the gravestone will never be lifted from your heart until Christ lifts it. Was it not the loss of your friend or the prosecution of your enemy or the over throw of your worldy estate, was it not the earthquake that startled you out to ask this stupendous question of my text —What shall I do to be saved? 6th. Moreover 1 notice that the question of this agitated jailor is a hasty, urgent and immediate one —He put it on the run. By the light of his torch as he goes to look for the apostles, see his face, behold his startled look and see the earnestness. No one can doubt by that look that the man is in qarnest. He must have the question answered before the earth stops rocking or perhaps he will never have it answered at all. Is that the way you are putting this question? It is on the run? Is it urgent? If it is not it will not be answered. That is the only kind of a question that is answered, it is the urgent and immediate question of the Gospel that Christ answers. A great many are asking this question but they drawl it out. The young man waits until middle life, the man >f middle age waits until his business is settled, the old man puts it off until the very last and kisses heaven. 1 confidently believe that ninty-nine out of every hundred death bed repentances amount to nothing. If my brother you have ever seen a person trying to repent in the last hour you have seen something very sad. There is not from the moment that life begins to breath in infancy to the last gasp, such an unfavorabe hour for repentance as the death hour, the last hour. The doctor and lawyer is there. The family is i.i consternation as to what will become of them. All the bells of eternity are ringing the soul out of the body, all the past is rising up before us and all the angels fly through the room: devils plotting for the overthrow. Death enters —Startled and dying man cries “I did not send for you” “No” death replies “No one ever ever sends for me.” What do you want? “Death answers, "I come to foreclose my mortgage.” “Here take my stocks and bonds, my real estate, take all.” But death responds, “1 come for

my own.” “But give me time to get ready" is the plea and death responds “You have had a life time to prepare, you have defied God-all your days, no time for prayer now." Oh don't blow that cold breath in my face, don't crowd me so close to the wall —Hurry you have only an hour to live, thirty minutes, ten, one-thirty seconds twenty.ten, I'll count them off. nine,eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, Oh, he is gone.

Bury him by the side of his Christian mother, she died singing Gods praise, he died crying. That man is a fool who procrastinates to his death bed his repentance. The most useless thing in all Gods universe is that any sinner should perish. Twelve gates wide operi Have you not heard how Christ cried;

April 4th. Is Easter

That’s the Time for New Things Men and young men are planning on a new outfit; we’re ready for you. Hart, Schaffner & Marx have made up for us some of the most beautiful suits you ever saw, new colorings and weaves; new styles that are sure to please you. If you want a braid bound cutaway frock, see us now; we’ll take care of you in time for EasterFor all the style thats going see the Varsity models $lB to $25

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“Father forgive them for they know not what they do? By his feet, blistered on the mountain way, by his back whipped until the skin came off, by his death couch of four spikes, by his sepulchre in which for the first time for thirtythree years they let him alone and by the heavens from which He this night bends in compassion offering pardon and peace and life eternal to all your souls, I beg of you, put down your all at his feet. “I saw one hanging on the tree, in agony and blood, Who cast His languid eyes on me, As near His cross I stood. “Oh never to my latest breath, Will I forget that look, It seemed to charge me with His death, Though not a word he spoke.” Oi WANTED—Two hustling salesmen to cover this territory with complete line of oils, greases and paints. Experience unnecessary. Write us today. Industrial Refining Co , Cleveland, O. WANTED—High class man to sell trees, shrubs, roses, vines, berry bushes, bulbs, etc. Good wages. Permanent. Exclusive territory.—Brown Brothers Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. When you order from us your measure is taken by an expert, a man who can cut and make a complete suit.— Elwood Tailoring Co., rear of People’s Loan & Trust Co.

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