Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1915 — Page 3

■This Peggy Pump * 1 ' 1 p=- 9 I s*bMP —ls one of the new arrivals today. It is made with I a light flexible sole and Dull Kid uppers with green | satin lining. Something different, something excluI sive. See them in the window tomorrow. \ $3.00 ■UMMMacMUMDSaMBa CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

■ . ♦ > ♦ ♦* A A AA, AA Ao* A * „ .. g WEATHER FORECAST | ■4 3 4* <>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« El Showers tonight and fair Tuesday. Itl Mr. and Mrs. D. F.' Quinn were Fol Bvayne visitors Saturday afternoon. M Mrs. Anna Buhler returned to Indafter a visit here with relaHi ves. Walter Robison motored to Fort ■Wayne, where he looked after business matters. H| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howell went Ho South Whitley for a visit over SunK..y with friends. M Edgar and Allen Bleeke went to Ft. ■Vayne Saturday morning to visit ■over Sunday with relatives. fil Walter Kauffman, traveling sales■nan for the Schafer Saddlery corawas homa-for his regular overHSunday visit. IH Mrs. J. C. Sutton and sons, Cary Harry, were in Ossian for a visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex iite. over Sunday. |B J. H. Railing, northeast of the city. Union township, is remodeling his When, compil 'd it will lie as By as any home in the country. Mrs. E. W. Petersen and daught r and Mrs. Shafer Peterson went S<> Fort Wayne Saturday morning to with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Majors. ■ The Misses Tena and Agnes C< nand Blanche Ervin went to Fort Saturday noon. Miss Ervin for an over-Sunday vis't. *1 J. S. Lower went to Warren SaturBli :■ morning to visit with his son, HoK ter, and family, and to inspect the ■’i neral store in which he is interested there.

| The Home Os Quality Groceries I Chick feed and hen feed pkg. or bulk, lb 3c I Extra good table potatoes, bu 60c I Green Onions. 2 bunches ..5c Old Onions lb 3c I Rheubarb, 2 bunches ......5c Silver Skins lb 7 1 ~; c g Lettuce, per lb 10c Old Beets, lb 2c I * E Include a package of ‘‘Best and Cheapest Coilee 30c I PORK AND BEANS SPECIAL SATURDAY I We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 17c | Butter 17c to 27c I M. E. HOWER I North of G. R. &I. Depot Phone 108 F. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN t President Secretary Treas. g || • f ■ I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. f [ REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, |« ABSTRACTS. fl The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- p stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. || MONEY

>1 Fred Dubmil wont to Fort Waym , today noon. * The city council will meet tomori row evening. Professor Withaus of Berne was in • the city today. Raymond Gass visited in Fort Wayne Sunday! Deputy Surveyor Dick Longshore ■ spent Sunday with his parents near Ossian. Miss Lucile White left today for . Marion, where she will attend normal school. Miss Celia Andrews went to Fort . Wayne this morning for iter pipe organ lesson. Miss Irene Evans returned to Camden this morning after a visit here with friends. Mrs. Effie Case has taken a position . as second cook at the Hartings & Baker restaurant. Bluffton has a gain of fifteen school children thig year. Portland has a loss of twenty-one. Elmer Viland of Michigan, who has been visiting here, went to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Packard returned to Fort Wayne after spending the week-end here with Mrs. Lulu Johnson. Earl Martin of Kirkland township is the owner of a fine new Ford. The car was delivered Saturday by the Kalver & Sikes agency. Mrs. Reason Shaffer and grandsons, Harry and Oliver, Minor Shaffer and Mrs. W. A. Hamrick went to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Mayme Deininger went to It. Wayne on business today. She wa; accompanied by Miss Grace Horton who spent Sunday here with Miss Frances Deininger.

Chester Johnson of Gary visited here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell of Bluffton motored over Sunday. Cecil Cole and Lloyd Beery visited in Fort Wayne last evening. John Wcmhoff of Fort Wayne Sunday in the city with relatives. Mrs. D. T. Johnson returned to Ft. Wayne from a visit at Wren, Ohio. Mrs. Arthur Kolver of Ft. Wayue arrived in the city Sunday for a few days' visit witli Miss Bess Tonnelier. Mr. and Mrs. John Barnhart entertained at dinner Sunday, their guests being Mr. and Mrs. Riley Christman and children. Mrs. Christens Niblick and son, Jesse, and Nick Miller enjoyed the show at the Palace theater, Fort Wayne, Sunday evening. Mrs. Charles Griebel and daughter, Bessie, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne from Willshire, 0., where they attended to business. Mr. and Mrs. Lymen and Miss Hel’n Weber, of Indianapolis, who motored to this city last Friday, left tills morning for their homes. Among Fort Wayne visitors Saturday were Mrs. James Moses, Caroline Gerber, Genevieve Spuller, Mary Cowan, Edna and Hope Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. John Ballard. Miss Helen Weber and a party of , lndianapolis»friends and relatives motored to this city lor a few days’ visit with friends. Miss Weber wi’l . Tie a guest of Miss Bess Tonnelier during her visit here. Owing to the fact that two funerals will be held at the St. Mary’s church in this city Wednesday morning, the ( first one will be held at 8:30 and the , second one at 10:30. The funeral of John P. Baker will be at 8:30, while j that of Mrs. Touhey will be at 10:30. ( Father Seimetz and Father Kroeger will officiate. , if reports are true Rome City is to be the terminal for a number of , jitney bus lines this summer. The ( other terminals include Kendallville ] and Sturgis. It is understood that a firm has made amfngements to or- ( tablish hourly services between Sturgis and Rome City, this being brought about by the dry wave which swept jjver Michigan. For persons |f that -ection Rome City will lienee be a veritable oasis. < Hon. John H. Baker of Goshen, for half a century prominently identified with the political and judicial affairs ’ of Indiana, three times elected to congress, urged by- Garfield to be assistant postmaster general, and for ten years United States district jyl ge for the district of Indiana was ar- j rested on Thursday and when lie was arraigned in Justice J. A. Wood's court on Thursday afternoon, was fined $1 and costs, amounting to s7.<>s more for operating his electric cir without a 1915 license. Judge Baker appealed the case to the clrsuit court. The state on last Friday began the issuance of warrants to pay farmers and stock breeders of Indiana for losses during the recent epidemic of tlie foot and mouth disease. The last legislature authorized an expenditure of $125,000 to defray sucli expenses of the state’s half of the total cost of the animals killed in stamping cut tile disease in Indiana. It was expected that all pie warrants would be issued by today. Approximately SIOO,OOO worth of bills are to be paid in two days,, according to Dale J. Crittenberger, auditor of state. Approximately 150 separate payments are to be made. On returning home from an auto ride with her father, little Beatrice Erp was very pleasantly surprised to find the dining room filled with sever, of her little girl friends to remind her of her eighth birthday. The afternoon was spent in games, then lunch was served. The birthday cake was lighted and eight candles burned brightly, while the little guests talkled anj partook of the other gpod things that go to make a delicious luncheon. The table decorations were pink and white with a large bouquet of white carnations. She received many beautiful presents and gave each little guest a doll as a souvenir of the occasion, all returned home wishing their little entertainer many more happy birthdays.—Contributed. Chicago sports are> building a' speedway which is claimed to have some pronounced advantages over the great speedway at Indianapolis. Tlie annual races at the Indianapolis track take place on the 30th day of May. and tlie Chicago sports expect to have the track ready for th'e 19th day of June, when international races are scheduled. Five hundred nun are now working on the track m three shifts of eight hours-each, ami it is the intention to double tlie number of workmen just as soon as it can be done. Tlie plan complete is to cost a million dollars and is a money-making project. The track will be t-wo miles around and the probability is that it. will be plenty dangerous enough for those who enter the races from year to year.

Bernardino and Germaine Christen nnd Margaret Mylott went to Monmouth to attend the picnic of the Leah Hensley Dancing class Saturday afternoon. Fred Schaub, who has been 111 since Thursday of the grip and stomach trouble, came down to the store this morning, but was advised to .’eturn home again by his physician until he more fully recovers. Bernard Brake, Hubert Schmitt. Arthur Klelnhenz, Haymond Gass, Fred Braun, Veigh Chronister, Eugene Bremerkamp anj Box Parent were among the boys who spent Sunday evening in Fort Wayne. Postmaster J. W. Bosse reports letters and cards remaining uncalled for at the Decatur postoffice: Cards: John W. Amspaugh, Eva Eady, R. C. Gallager, Mrs. Roy George, Catharien Hoeffen. Robert Hudson, Henry Kee, Lila Mumma, Kathadine Peebles. H. H. Roberts. J. S. Smock, Emma Freeman, F. S. Williams; letters, I d Schultz. When calling for these cards and letter, please say “advertised." —o FARM CATES FOR SALE. 1 have taken the agency for the • Peerless self-raising farm gate, formerly held by> my father, Howard Shackley, now deceased. Any one desiring to purchase these gates, or any information on them, kindly 'phone 10 on H. Decatur ’phone or the Preble ’phone. Shipment will be here in ten days. 88tl2 SAMUEL KA SHACKLEY. BARBER OUTFIT FOR SALE. We have five chairs and everything to go with them, which we will sell all together, or singly, at a bargain price. Inquire of John Lose at the Lose Bros.' shop in the Trust building. Bitt 0 FOR RENT —Two houses. Each part ly modern. On brick street. First class condition No deadly railroads to cross. City and soft water. Good neighbors. Good gardens, no chickens three blocks from the court house. Call phone 65 or inpulre at 402 Mercer Aye. 100t3. FOR SALE—at 223 N. 10th. St. one wood or coal range, kitchen cabinet side-board, center-stand, 2 rockers, : sofa, 2 sets springs and 2 beds.ln good condition. ’Priced reasonable. 101t3 ( Get your early cabbage and tomato plants from Fullenkamns. 105t3 |

I New Rug Arrivals In Both Small and Large Sizes IS -■» We have just received from the largest manu--*L W-L II facture of Rugs in Tapestrys, Velvet, Ax- " ' minsters and Wiltons in sizes from 6by9 to 12 by 15, Special Values Velvet Rugs Sizes 9x 12 for SIB.OO ands2o.oo * W B'X Size 11 3 x 12 “ $25.00 ‘ ‘ Size 27 X 54 “ $1.50 Linoleums in printed patterns in all widths, 2 yds. 3 yards and 4 yards wide. New line of Curtains and Curtain Materials in all grades, in the newest designs Curtains from 50 cents pair to $7.00 pair Curtain Material 10 cents yard to SI.OO yard. WE INVITE YOU TO INSPECT OUR LINES AND GET OUR PRICES See our window display of SIMPLEX ELECTRIC CLEANERS. A thoroughly practical cleaner, scientifically designed, mechanically built and popularly priced. Special at $19.75., > % NIBLICK & COMPANY

Wednesday Evening, May 5, Regular meeting. Work in past master degree. 0 . - - JAIL BREAKER CAPTURED. Grant Cumerford, the eldest of the three men who sawol their way out of the Wells county jail at Bluffton last Monday, was captured about 8 o'clock last evening in a thicket near Muncie. One of tlie other prisoners with Cumerford at the time managed to make his escape. It seems yit Cumerford has a sister residing in Muncie and hud called there yesterday to secure some money. A plain clothes man saw Cumerford enter the residence ana recognized him. He called assistance and trailed Cumerford to a thicket on the outskirts <>;’ tho city where his companion was waiting for him. After a sharp skirmish Cumerford was captured, but his partner escaped. CONDUCT PROHI MEETING. J. Raymond Schmidt, state prohibition chairman, and M. A. Stipp, state worker- and singer, arrived this afternoon and at time of going to press were conducting a prohibition meeting in the court room. Mr. Schmidt gave an excellent talk arid Mr. Stipp sang. Tlie attendance was somewhat small, but those who attended were well repaid. 0 - FOR The Geary home on West Madison street can lie bought for a very low price, if taken soon. Nice large lot, eight rom house; buildings for coal, wood, ’chickens, and cow stable. Good drove well, cistern. Plenty of fruit. Nice shade trees. Cement walks, dose to churches and school, if interested see Simeon J. Hain at the City meat market. 105m-w-stf 0 WANTED —$20 to $35 per month extra mcney to any employed person without interfering with regular work. No selling ,no canvassing. Positively no investment. Unemployed need not apply. Addfess The Silver Mirror Co., Inc., 123 W. Madiscn St., Chicago, 111. 105t4. Get your early cabbage and tomato plants from Fullenkamps. 105t3 |

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