Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1915 — Page 5

YOU MIGHT As Well Build A 1 House On A Sand Pile —as to build a good shoe without good shoemaking. It is not so much what a shoe looks like when you buy it as what it looks like after you’ve worn it three weeks. OUR SHOES ARE BUILT BY MASTER-SHOE-MAKERS AND WILL STAND THE TEST OF WEAR. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

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Showers tonight. Coo.er. Mediocre talent properly advertised will discount genius every time. A wise man never writes a foolish iove letter. He never writes any. Nothing kindles the lire of suspicion quicker than the unnecessary explanation. The musical ear. of course, always suffers most from the effects of the near-musician. A woman may not be a very good cook and still be able to properly roast her husband. Ignorance of the cheap scandal of the neighborhood does not damage a man to any extent. Sympathy is extended to the widow in many cases where congratulations would be more appropriate. The fellow that travels the pace that kills has been known to give the innocent bystander a bump, too. In most cases the pace that kills does not finish the subject quick enough for the good of the community. It's been many a day since anything dripped out o’ th’ public mind with such velocity as th’ Havana prize fight. Some fellows never lend a hand without a sting to it. —Abe Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Milo McKinney who left on their wedding trip immediately after their marriage here are at Milwaukee, Wis., and expect to locate there. Mrs. McKinney was formerly Miss Margaret Mills.

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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Have been made with the Factory on Soap and Washing Powder. ■ For a few days a limited number of cases will be sold as follows: 4 Bars Rub-no-More Soap | „ 1 sc-pkg. Rub-no-More Washing Powder j- JHO 1 sc-1 oaf of Bread J ■ * We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 19c Butter 17c to 27c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & 1. Depot Phone 10K

F. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. THE BOWERS REALTY CO, REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Abstract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

Miss Weed went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Mrs. Daniel Sprang spent yesterday afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Malinda Fronfield returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. William Reinking returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Sarah Perrin went to Fort Wayne to visit with her son, J. C. Gordon. Roy Girod left this morning for Magley to visit his brother Milton who is farming in that neighborhood. —Berne Witness. Mrs. John Moran and little son Richard visited here Tuesday with Mrs. Moran’s mother, Mrs. Lena Yager.—Berne 'Witness. Mrs. Tom Trim and children, of Sturgis, Mich., who visited here left yesterday afternoon for Poe for a visit with her brother. C. C. Stucky of Hesperia, Mich., arrived here last night to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law, Noah Baumgartner.-r-Berne Witness. Mort Stults, field man for the Hol-land-St. Louis Sugar company, was business visitor in the city today, c, tending a meeting of the field men in the various sections of the state. Those who took Easter dinner at Don Baker <vere: Ed Bollenbacher and family, Ben Morningstar and son Henry, Charley Morningstar and family, Fred Wlllrath and family, John Morningstar and family, Harry Morningstar, Mrs. Sam Sunday and family of Decatur, Peter Bollenbacher and family. They all ate a big dinner and returned to their home in the evening wishing them many more happy Easters. —Contributed to Berne Witness.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fledderjohann wee to Auburn to attend the Methodist conference. Mr. and Mr. J. J. Roughly went to Auburn this morning to visit with Mr. Foughty’s sister and to attend the Methodist conference. Bob Allison of Indianapolis, who has been looking after business matters In the city for a few days, left this morning for his home. German uses almost twice as many postcards for domestic correspondence as any other nation. Japan ranks second and tho United States third. Thomas Durkin, agent for the Auburn automobile, and Charlie Voglewede motored to Auburn, Ind., yesterday, where they looked after business matters. C. H. Jessup of Alma, Mich, left this morning after attending to business here. Mr. Jessup Is working in the interests of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company, his territory being Morrocco, Cashier E. X. Ehinger is expected home today from Indianapolis, where he has been attending a meeting of the Indiana Bankers’ association. The association is getting ready for its annual convention. The railroads placed orders for 267,000 tons of rails, 22,000 tons of bridge work, 1,634 cars, of which 634 were all steel, placed with the Pullman company; 1,820 cinder frames and 110 locomotives during March. The police of Lima are to have new uniforms patterned in style and color after tlie army types. Aside from being more comfortable people will be able to distinguish the men from so many other employes uniformed in blue. Frank J. Sherlock, special supreme agent of the National Council of the Knights of Columbus, will be in tlie city next Mcnday and attend the regular meeting of the local Knights of Columbus. It is the desire of tlie lodge to have every member present. Mr. Sherlock will talk on several important matters. The martins, the popular bird which feeds upon insects in the air, have put in their "appearance in this section of the country. Their return is regarded the real prediction of the arrival of spring, it being known to observers of birds that the martin never comes north until the winter is past, being dependent upon weather conditions that invites insects to take to the wing. Chickens are a nice thing to have about. They look nice. They are useful. The roosters wake up in the morning and tell us when there is to he a change of weather, while the hens lay nice eggs and hatch broods of downy chicks which develop into spring fries, and when the old liens zecome veterans because they have been pets they are shipped to large cities as “springers.” The following is taken from Farm and Fireside: “There are still farmers who consider the hen as a means of income a joke. Judged from these figures made public by the Southern Railway company .Tennessee hens are ’jokers’ worth cultivating. One shipping point (Morristown Tennessee) consigned 325 cars of eggs in 1914, containing 130.000 cases, or 4G,800,000 eggs. In addition to tlie eggs 175 cars of live poultry and 53 ears of dressed fowls were shipped from the same point.” Ten years ago, Kenneth Boucher, twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson H. Boucher of Fort Wayne, swallowed a small nail. He felt no ill effects from the misfortune until some weeks ago, when he was seized with severe hemorrhages. X-ray pictures from all parts of the lung de veloped the fact that a nail was imbedded in the organ and arrangements were made to remove it. Kenneth was stricken with appendicitis and if he recovers from tlie a.?aek of appendicitis, the operation will be performed and the nail removed, it possible. In the April American" Magazine, James Montgomery Flagg, the famous wit and artist, does an amusing piece in words and pictures, satirizing visitors and visiting. In the fol lowing extract taken from the piece Mr. Flagg describes how a woman plays poker: “After dinner a game of poker is suggested. It remains for Mrs. Mac to protest that she hadn’t played poker since she went to boarding school, or since she was a midshipman at Annapolis, or since she drove the first prairie schooner across the Mojave desert in ’49, or some such excuse. Well, if she did play we must all be patient with her if she made mistakes. Need I say that she ever anted until the gang idank was up and the jack pot in midstream on each occasion? That she dealt, six to every one when it was her deal? That siie asked what beat a straight and why did she have to put up eighty cents in tlie round cf whangs? That she thought bridge was much finer —really called for intellect? And that she quit the big winner?”

The Dr. Thomas office In the Alison block is being repapered and repainted. And still they like to roller-skate. The kiddies and even grown-ups think it is awful to make them stop the healthy sport. Tho price of eggs went up two cents on the dozen yesterday, making the price twenty-one cents. Not so bud, since the Easter boxes have already been filled. Isaac Peterson of First street, who has been critically ill, is better today and was able to sit up awhile this morning. Mr. Peterson is nearing his eighty-sixth birth anniversary. At the meeting of the Walther league last evening In the Zion Lutheran school house. Ed Boknecht was selected delegate and Miss Ma; le Boese, alternate, to tho state convention to be held at Seymour, May 30-31. The society will give a literary program a week from Wednesday evening—April 21. Another barber chair has been ad-I to die Lose Brothers' barber I shop at the rear of the People's Loan j & Trust company bank on Madison I street. The patronage of the place has grown to such an extent that the Loses could not take care of their many cusctomers with their equipment, and therefore, another chair was needed. Robert Myers has also installed a shoe-shining chair in the place. President Underwood, in handling I the Erie railroad, has recognized that the prime solution was to increase the train load. It costs nearly as much to move a freight train of 400 tons as it does to move one of 1,000 tons; hence an increase in the load has obvious importance. But heavy trains cannot be moved without g<\i rolling stock, heavy rails and ballast, and low grades. To move them rapidly requires ample track and terminal facilities. While riding south on his bicycle with a large bucket of candy, a boy, whose identity was not discovered, was forcibly thrown to the pavement in front of tlie Beavers & Atz store this morning when his bicycle caught in the interurban tracks. A delivery wagon driven by Wa|ren Buckmaster, was going in the same direction and the boy was thrown directly in front of the team of horses. Fortunately the horse made a jump to one side and barely missed tlie boy. A narrow escape from causing the death of a fifteen-months-old babe was the experience of Denny (Tern, agent for the Germ? a Reliable Medicine company of t .is city, Wednesday evening. Mr. Clem was driving south on Mercer avenue with a horse end buggy when a number of screams from a little girl on the sidewalk at traded his attention. He stopped his rig and looking back saw the little babe sitting in the center of the street, directly in the path over which he had driven. By a miracle the horse had stepped over tlie little tot without so much as disturbing its dress. ‘ As a farewell to Dell Locke, until recently proprietor* of the Bliss hotel, and as a welcome to his successor, W. R. Swinford, fifty business men will banquet at the hotel at 7 o’clock Friday evening. There will be several three minute after dinner speeches from some of the guests and a very mjoyr.ble t : mo is looked forward to. As previously announced, Mr. Locke goes to Bryan, Ohio, to take charge of the Christman hotel in which lie has been interested for twenty years. Mr. Swinford took charge of the Bliss hotel on April 1, coming here from Kendallville. —Bluffton Banner. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fisher arrived here last evening at 8:45 after an absence of over eight months. They left here last July and went to Burdette, Kans., where Mr. Fisher owns several large farms and where they remained until fall. In September Mrs. Fisher went to Dallas, Texas,, and Mr. Fisher joined her there in Octo her. They enjoyed the winter in the soutn and came ho-/ feeling fine and glad to get here. The west and the south are great and Mr. Fisher i/ especially jubilant over the farming opportunities of Kansas, but Decatur and Adams county, of course, look good and they are glad to meet their old friends. . ——o, ■ — PASTRY SALE, Attention of the public is again called to the pastry .sale to be held Saturday morning at the gas office by the Evangelical Ladies’ Aid society They will have bread, buns, pies, cakes, potato salad, baked beans, cookies, cake, doughnuts and other good things for sale. AND STILL THEY GO. Kalver & Slkt s. Ford agents. unleaded another car loan of six new Fords here yesterday. One of the latest purchasers was Jeremiah Barton •f Kirkland township. E. A. Mann, of Mann Christen, has also purchased a fine car.

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; Decatur ♦ \ »o«Nv«a 131 AM ISAMCI»CC> Jff Message No. 6 \f xM/ To the Business Men of Decatur When a run-down salesman calls on you, do you buy his goods? Aren’t you afraid of his line because he looks as if no one ever gave him an order ? Same thing is true of a seedy town. To be prosperous we must look prosperous and show local pride. Clean streets, nice stores and well-painted buildings pay because they bring business. Paint-hungry buildings are least excusable, for paint made of Eckstein White Lead (Dutch Boy Painter Trade Mark) and pure linseed oil pays its way by protecting buildings against rot and decay. Let us estimate on your painting job. We have all good painting requisites. Call us up today. THE HGLTHOUsE DRUG CO.

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