Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1915 — Page 3

ITS IN THE FIT WE MAKE A HIT BE Someone said that low heeled shoes made your feet look like you were flat footed but they had not seen our “Dollie Dimple” shape. The fit of these shoes has made a hit with the girls. Neat, stylish vamps, snug fitting at the instep and ankle. New ones in Putty shade Cloth Tops to show you tonight. Girls $3.00 I CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER R*

• ~ I WEATHER FORECAST | ■tttnmiiMunncanxxirtrru :x: 'nttLt f Fair tonight, and Sunday. Warmer. I Mrs. John Heller and Miss Elizabeth ■Peterson were Fort Wayne visitors l<>Muay. I Mr. and Mrs. Henry Luttman went ■to Fort Wayne this afternoon for a ■visit. I Mrs. Charles Magley of Root towuKship is recovering from injuries re■|ceived in a fall. ■ Miss Dora Irvin of Winchester is ■here for a several weeks’ visit with ■ her sister, Mrs. J. C. Patterson. i Mrs. R. B. Gregory and daughter, ■Jirene, went to Fort Wayne to visit ■with Mrs. Gregory's sister, Mrs. Wil- ■ liant Fansler. Miss Myrtle Wilder returned to ■ Monmouth this morning after a stay ■ over night with her sister, Mrs. ■ George Simmers. Lots o’ family trees are sprayed with ■ whitewash. Th'' victory at Przemyc.l ■ may have been pronounced, but not I th’ fort. —Abe Martin. » it is declared that the great increase ■ in the number of automobiles owned | by farmers and others in this part of | the state is having the effect of cut- ■ ting in on interurban traffic to an apI preciable extent. Where farmers used I to board the interurbans to make trips from place to place, now they ■ use their own automobiles and take I their friends with them. Traction I officials all over the central west are ■ said to be wondering what will hapI pen in four or five years to the mI terurban and city electric I ice if the production of automobiles I keeps up at the present rate.

Theliome Os Quality Groceries ON YOUR TABLE They’ll Not Stay Long Asparagus Tips 25c Apricots, choice 15c Spinach 20c Apricots, fancy " Oc Black Raspberries 15c Apricots, Rosedale 25c Red Cherries 15c Apricots, extra fancy 3oc Strawberries ’sc Pie Peaches 'Oc Mushrooms, fresh 30c Peaches, fancy 20c Pineapple, sliced 25c Peaches, extra fancy 30c Pineapple, sliced ’sc Piementos 10c We oav cash or trade for produce, Eggs 16c P Butter 17c to 27c M. E. HOWER ■■■■■■■■XbX* IF.M.SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN B President Secretary Treas. H » THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- B stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

1 Mrs. E. B. Adams went to Fort E Wayne this noon. Mrs. Fred Busse went to Ft. Wayne j this afternoon for a visit. Miss Jean Lutz went to Ft. Wayne , this morning on business. Mrs. Henry Lankenau returned to Fort Wayne this afternoon after a visit here. Charles Sowle and son, Rex, and O. . H. Lamborn, went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Miss Huldah Johnson went to 1- jit Wayne this afternoon to visit with iter sister, Pearl Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Burnett and Ed Buck of Ossian will be the guests of Tom Druley and family. John Gerw'ig, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Rose and Marie Hale of Bluffton will arrive tomorrow to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Woods. Mrs. Wilson Miller and daughters. Elva and Ima Dale, returned to Fort Wayne this afternon. They visited here With her mother, Mrs. Steele. Jonathan Wilcox passed through the city this afternoon enroute from his home at Warren, Ohio, to Bluffton, where lie was called by the death of his uncle, John Temple. Miss Florence Bierie of Berne arrived in the city today to- spend Sunday with her sister, Mrs. S. P. Hollman. Mrs. Hoffman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bierie, will arrive tomorrow. Two hundred and fifty pounds of flour were shipped by parcel post by Hammond German-Americans to relatives and friends in Germany last Saturday. The shipments have been going on for two weeks. A ton of flour has been sent within the last two weeks in eleven-pound bags.

Mrs. Mary Doermer returned to Ft. Wayne this afternoon after a visit here. Mrs. A. M. Anker and daughter, Veronica, spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Kit Cowan went to Monroeville this afternoon lor a visit with relatives. Arthur Smith, Fort Wayne aviator, wno h«s achieved fame through his flights in various sections of the country, has received a telegram, offering him a place as an aviator with tiie Russian army. Smith probajily will not accept. Federal Judge Hunt at New York, has postponed until March 29 final pleadings to the superceding indictments charging twenty-one directors and former directors of the New Haven Railroad company with criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust law in connection with their administration of the road’s affairs. Charles Corso, twenty-four years old, drowned in two feet of water, near Mermille, when his motor truck skidded into a fifteen-foot ditch and overturned, pinning him underneath it. He was unable to get his head out of the water, and perished. His companion, Peter Carmillo, suffered a dislocated shoulder. The two were fruit peddlers for the Antonio Cangiomilla company of Toledo. S. D. High of South Thirteenth street lost a very fine thoroughbred Duroc sow yesterday from an overgrowth of liver. It had six lobes. Four of equal size and length, one half-size and the other just forming. Its weight was eleven pounds, enough liver for four hogs. Her symptoms were a slight coughing and shortness of breath. For the benefit of veterinarcans and farmers it can be seen at his place until Tuesday. Mayor Miles Standish of Lima, has received a letter from J. A. McClelland, of Taft, Montana, in which the latter announces he is looking for a wife. For the benefit of those who might be interested, McClelland describes himself as follows: “I am a hotel man, (Californian) aged 22 years; weight, 180 pounds; height, six feet; black hair and brown eyes; rather nice looking and make a good appearance. 1 am a member of the Baptist church.’’ The lifeless body of Valentine C. Jones, Delaware county farmer, living near Gilman, was found in the wheel of a corn crusher at his home Thursday evening. Every hone in both legs were broken, the man’s chest was crushed in, his head and shoulders were a mass of bruises and the body had been twisted about the spokes of the wheel. Evidently the man had been dead several hours when his body was found. There were no witnesses to the accident. o ADDITIONAL SHIPS JOIN FLEET. London, Mar. 27 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Eight additional warships have joined the allied fleet for a grand assault on the Dardanelles fort in co-operation with British and French land forces, according to dispatches this afternoon. Three British war ships, four French and one Russian cruiser, constituted the reinforcements. After a two-hour conference, three British and one French ship steamed slowly into the Dardanelles and the boom of big coast. BANK SUSPENDS BUSINESS. Noblesville, Ind., Mar. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The People's State bank suspended today, making the fourth financial institution in Hamilton county which has suspended business since January The auditor of state has ordered J. F. Hinsley, cashier, to take out of the institution three $5,000 notes and replace them with cash. The notes bore the signatures' of men Connected with the Hamilton Trust company of this city, which closed in January. o MEMBER FLNERAL PARTY. Prof. E. E. Rice, of Richmond, formerly of this city, telephoned R. D. Myers, from Lynn, that he would arrive in this city Sunday morning over the G. R. & I. railroad with tjie body of his brother-in-law. They will transfer to the Clover Leaf ‘enroute to Russiaville. FOR RENT—Four furnished rooms for light housekeeping, 609 Monroe street. ’Phone 521. —Mrs. B. W. Sholty. 25-t-t-s-ts FOR SALE—Six-foot show case. Apply at Clarence Baughmon store. 67t3 When wanting stucco work done, call on Geo. Baumgartner, Berne, Ind. 'Phone 220. 65t30* LOST—Small black purse near Geo. Zimmerman home, east of town. Contained $4 in bills and some small change. 'Finder please return to th’s office, or call 'phone 492. 56t6 FOR SALE—Duroc Jersey bred gilts, for March and April farrows. Pure bred Learning seed corn. —C. C. Miller, R. R. N, Decatur, Ind. 49t18

THE COURT NEWS Earl Thrailkill Sentenced to Indiana State Prison and Fined. GIVEN 2 TO 14 YEARS Attorney in McPharren Case is ill—Trial Again Interrupted. Judge D. E. Smith today passed sentence upon Earl Thrailkill, who was convicted of assault with intent to commit manslaughter recently. He was given a fine of $25 and from two to fourteen years in Indiana state prison. The sheriff was charged with the execution of the sentence. Thrailkill is thirty years of age, married and the father of five children. The crime for which he was convited by the jury, was committed March 10, when, after words, he shot at George Davis, the Pleasant Mills grocer. Judge D. E. Smith, who was ill yesterday, was able to be down to the court house today, but the trial which was interrupted yesterday by his illness, was not taken up again on account of the illness of Judge Olds of Fore Wayne, an attorney for the defendant. Mr. Olds became ill yesterday on the interurban car on his way to Fort Wayne and was unable to come back today. The case will Le taken up again Monday. This is the McPharren damage case against the Lake Erie & Western railway. Real estate transfers: Emanuel Lehman to Robert L. Sprunger, iot 16, Monroe, S6OO. The case of The Bank of Geneva »s. Thomas C. Craner was dismissed and costs paid. In the case of Sylvester D. Zeis, adtinistrator of the Martin Steele estate vs. The Indiana Lighting Company, all answers were withdrawn; answer in two paragraphs was filed. Rule to reply to the second paragraph; reply in two paragraphs filed. The case of Jessie T. Mills vs. Samuel B. Pauling et al was dismissed and costs paid. Lelia Francis vs. Charles Francis, divorce. Default of the defendant; rule against prosecuting attorney to answer; answer filed. o THE TEST REPORT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) in the near future. Below are given the best percentage made in each process by grades and the school making the best standing. To offer a basis for comparing the Decatur schools, with the best records made, is also given Decatur’s per centage by grades and process. Decatur’s percentage of accuracy, in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, respectively, is: Fifth, grade, 39, 62, 56, 77 per cent; sixth grade, 46, 65, 66, 68; seventh grade, 56, 69, 62, 85; eighth grade, 53, 74. 55, 74. The schools leading in percentage are: Noblesville in two; Kendallville, in two; Bluffton in eight; Columbia City in two; Rochester in one; Plymouth in one. Schools having lowest in percentages: Decatur yi four; East Chicago in three: Alexandria, two; Columbia City, two; Princeton, one; Rochester, one; Laporte one; Noblesville, two. o—■ FOR SALE —Four cows, 1 registered, Holstein, will be fresh in 6 months; 1 half-blooded Holstein, with calf by side. Other two are good ones.— Jesse A. Ray, 4 miles south of Peterson, Monroe 'phone. 73f FOR SALE—7O wiiite oak trees. Inquire of Samuel Helm, Decatur, R. R. No. 9, 'phone 12-E. 72t6 Parties wishing to purchase “Fornis Alpon Krauter Blutbeleber," the great German blood purifier, may do so by calling at 1010 West Monroe street, or telephoning No. 560. ?2t3 J. C. RODGERS CHAS. K. CUTLIF Rogers & Cutlip Real Esstate Co. We have a full line of farms for sale from $40.00 to $60.00 per acre. Railroad Station EAST ORWELL, OHIO Postoffice. COLEBROOK,OHIO Write Us For Descriptive Lift

IF every man in this community understood what this store is trying to do in the way ’of serving you in the important matter of clothes; and if you really knew what we knowaboutthe quality, style and character of BbKmBB HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX fiW CLOTHES We’d sell all the suits that are sold in this nBH town. - w W Because the clothes are right; and the ser- ®lw I vice is sincere at sls-$lB-S2O-$22.50 and $25. ■ ■ We offer unusual values in Spring Suits— /' WB Let us snow you— r ■rsrX— ■ Copyright Hurt Schafftwr it Mw. j HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys

NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. , There will be a sale of personal property April 8, 1915, at the residence . of Charles Dirkson in Root township, Adams county, Indiana, under a foreclosure of a chattel mortgage on said property by Conrad Gallmeyer, Theo. Scheumann and Liesetta Dirkson. This is a large sale of personal property on foreclosure of mortgage and the same will be had under the authority of the sheriff of Adams county, Indiana, but the plaintiffs in said cause will give time to the purchasers of said property for 6 months, without interest on all purchase made over • and above $5.00, by giving bankable notes. ( PETERSON & MORAN, , Attorneys for Plaintiffs. John Spuhler, Auct. Sam Butler, Clerk. 74tf . FOR SALE—Twin cylinder HarleyDavidson motorcycle, in good condition. Will sell cheap.—Louis Reinking. R. F. D. No. 4, Box 60. 74t3 WANTED —Married lady for magazine collecting. J. C. Mahan, Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, Ind. 74t2 Ttie METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. For High Class Insurance and LOWEST RATES Annual Dividends on all Contracts. J. M. KELLY, Agent.

The Peoples Loan & Trust Co. Decatur, Indiana I Wants every boy in Adams County between the age of 10 and 18 years to enter our Corn Contest. We offer the following Cash Prizes for the Best Acre of Corn Grown in Adams County during the season of 1915. Ist. Prize, Trip to Purdue Corn Show or $25.00 in Gold. 2nd. “ 17.50 in Gold. 3rd. “ . 12.50 in Gold. 4th. “ 10.00 in Gold. 5,6, 7 and Bth Prizes, each 5.00 in Gold. Rules Governing the Contest 1. All Contestants shall be between the age of 10 and 18 years. 2. The acre shall be rectangular in shape, one and one-half feet of cultivated ground outside the row on each of the four sides, which shall be measured as part of the acre. 3. Each boy shall plant, cultivate and harvest his corn. However, if necessary, h-s may have assistance in breaking and bedding his land and harvesting his crop. 4. Each contestant shall keep a record in detail of the amount of work done and the number of bushels harvested. 5. Each contestant shall write an account of how he made his crop and when ren rested shall read the same. 6. Each boy shall select ten ears grown on his plot and exhibit them at the above bank at the time cf awarding premiums which will be announced later. 7. Each boy who finishes in this contest but fails to win one of the cash pr'zes will receive a present of some kind when premiums are awarded. > Application should be made on or before May 1, 1915, and registration made at THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. Signature of Applicant Age Post Office R. F. DTownship Father’s Name

CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE Modern 8 room ho use full lot on north Third street at $2850. Good 7 room house, electric lights, citywater, good barn on south First street at $1950. Seven room house, electric lights, good barn on Mercer Ave. at S2OOO. Nine room house, modern, except furnace, on Marshall street $2200 Nine room house, plenty of fruit onTenth street at SI7OO. Eight room house, city water, electric lights, chicken house, barn 20x 36 at 2400. Nine room house on north Third street, will exchange for small farm. Eight room house, lot 160x190, plenty of fruit, good barn west Monroe street, at S4BOO. Eight room house, gas lights, good barn, drove well, plenty of fruit on on Tenth street, at SIBOO. Nine room house, good barn, on north Sixth street at $2650. Modern 7 room house, good barn, onwest Monroe street at S3OOO. 6 room house and lot on South Thirteenth street, will take S4OO. down, balance easy payments, at $750. If you are interested in buying, inves-tigate these properties. Harvey, Leonard & Co. OFFICE IN PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST COMPANY BUPILDING. REDUCE YOUR TAXES March and April are the months designated by law in which to file your affidavit of Mortgage Indebtedness. During this time I will be found at the County Treasurer’s office. Let me t fill them out for you correctly. MARIE PATTERSON Notary 1 "I-,! ".J!. LJl.'Uim 111 - J ... ■■ ■' ■ ■■—■■■■■