Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1915 — Page 3

DECORATION DAY —We, of all the great nations, are free to enjoy life—the rest are compelled to fight for the very roofs which shelter them; the very bread they eat. What would they give to dwell in free America? So, when we honor the boys who wore the blue—when we remove our hats, as the thin line of survivors files by—let us remember what they fought for and let us salute the flag. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE.

♦««*♦«*♦♦*•*♦*«••s*«**•*«***••••>«••*** t WEATHER FORECAST I Showers tonight. Sunday cloudy. Otto Miller went to Fort Wayne this noon. L. ('. Waring visited in Ft. Wayne Sunday afternoon. Otto and John Wemhoff visited in the city yesterday. kTjie John Colchin houses on Fifth street are being repainted. 11. H. Merry left Saturday’for Nottav.a, Mich., to visit over Decoaation day. Misses Jeanette and Bertha Kinney of Fort Wayne visited in the city yesterday. Fred Ostermeier and sons, Theodore and Otto, of Preble visited in the city Saturday. Miss Helen Judkins of Lima, who has been the guest of the J. S. Bowers family, left yesterday for her home. Walter Kauffman, salesman for the Schafer Saddlery company, returned home Saturday irom his regular business trip. Joe Johns has purchaser a ne>v Ford “racer" and intends to enjoy the summer motoring over the good roads ot Adams county. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Niblick are ex.pected home today from Chicago, where Mr. Niblick has been looking after business matters for the past week. Ed Ehinger will leave tonight icr Lake Manitau, Rochester, Ind., to ottpnd the annual meeting of Group one of the Indiana Bankers’ association. Mr. Ehinger is chairman of the association.

Fhe Home Os Quality Groceries CLEANING HOUSE? LET US HELP YOU WITH Bonami Brick 10c Lye 10c, 3 for 25c Bonami Powdered Washee Wafers • c Pride of the Kitchen 5c Vine-0 25c Sopolio 10® Carpet Beaters 10c Dutch Cleanser ....,10c Scrub Brushes 10c Porter’s Delight 5c Whisk Brooms 10c Ammonia 10c Fly Swatters 10c Brooms, Mops, Soaps, Borax, Soap Chip. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 15c Butter 15c to 23c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108

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Laurine Kell/- visited in Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Lulu Johnson spent Sunuay afternoon in Fort Wayne. Stewart Niblick is home from Chicago for a dew days’ visit with his parents and friends. Woll Mougey of Toledo is expected in the city next Sunday for a few days’ visit with friends. Paul Reiter left Saturday morning for Angola to be the guest of lady friends over Decoration day. Charles anj Tony Gluting of Attica are in the city visiting f with their brother, Raymond, and Mr. and Mrs. Tony Voglewede. Mr. and Mrs. Al Anker and daugh ter, Veronica, have gone to Danville, 111., to spend a week visiting with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nolan and children of Fort Wayne motored here yesterday and spent the afternoon with the Charlie Voglewede family. Among some of the Fort Wayne visitors last evening were Leland Frank. Clarence Fledderjohann, Raymond Hartings, Jesse Cole and “Pewee” Neptune. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Niblick and Mr. and Mrs. Frank France left Sunday morning in the Niblick automobile for Indianapolis to attend the big 500mile race today. Grover Hoffman and Curtis Campbell, traveling representatives of the Schafer Saddlery company, were >n the- city Saturday, closing up their weekly business trips. The Misses Matilda Berling and Marcella Kuebler have returned to the Sacread Heart academy, Ft. Wayne, after attending the graduation exercises of the St. Joseph’s school held Friday at the K. of C. hall.

Miss Bertha Johns visited in Fort Wayne over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Bauman went to Fort Wayne Saturday wfternoon. Miss Leah Apt left Saturday afternoon for Butler for a visit at rier home. Miss Bertha Kinney of Fort Wayne visitedMver Sunday with relatives and friends. As a rule, the sinner has to experience a physical and financial swat before remorse ever grips him. That the wheat crop is not very encouraging, but that corn and alfalfa are doing splendidly, is the latest news from Nebraska. After women secure their equal rights maybe they will allow women, instead of men, to make the fashions for them.—Hillsdale Dally. Mrs. Frank Weber of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Catherine Stein of Lima. 0., left for Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon after attending the Henry Stetler funeral. Charles E. Wright, deputy superinletiueul of the Mctrnpblftan Life Insurance company, who had been here two weeks with the local agent Jesse Kelley, returned to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. The Misses Anna and Memphis Wcikel left Saturday for their home in Fort Wayne. They were accompanied there by their cousin, Opal Graber who will visit with the D. I. Weikel family. The first gun in the expected local option fight in the city of Kokomo was fired Friday by the wets when a petition, calling for a local option election was placed in circulation. Copies of the petition were placed in several pool rooms. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at its convention in Cleveland endorsed state and national prohibition. This action was taken by unanimous vote of the 819 delegates, representing 74,000 locomotives engineers In all part of the United States ana Canada. This paragrapli from the Houston Post teaches a lesson in safety first; “The Ohio bride who jumped in a cistern and saved her life when her clothes caught fire had presence of mind. A women like that wouldn't shy at a bread tray or quail in the presence of a frying pan. There is a possibility that the cases against Marion Bunch anj other city officials of Muncie, under indictment for malfeasance in office, will be tried in Biackford county, according to a Muncie paper. In the event a change of venue is sought by the defendants it is stated that the cases will In all probability be sent to this country for trial. Finding it impossible to exercise ms building enough an ingenious blacksmith at Sheffield, Kansas, devised an exercising machine. Taking a wagon wheel he fastened it to the ground with a pin through the hub. Across the wheel he placed p board wit hthe ends protruding. With a short rope he tied the building to one end of the board. A cat. borrowed from a neignbor. was tied to The other end. The dog started out to rob the cat of seven lives, but fount? it just out of reach. Around they went to the delight of the blacksmith until someone reported to the Humane society. An investigation took the "incentive” back to the owner which stopped the dog and cat “pinwheel”. The production of 46,510 Ford cars in the twenty-six eight-hour working days of April, means a new car about ev ery sixteen seconds. Qf course., this is a new record even for the Ford Motor company. But the remarkable feature of this splendid manufacturing achievement is the fact that each car came out of the assembly lines of the factory and assembling plants at intervals of sixteen seconds and glided away under its own power was made. In the minutest detail, with all the infinite care and perfect design and the Ford progessive efficiency alone has made possible. While it requires about two months to build a Ford car the special equipment and methods assembled a complete Ford car as above stated, one every sixteen seconds. That the wooden passenger car i*rapidly becoming a relic of the past on American railways is indicated by the results of an inquiry recently completed by a special committee of the railways. Os 956 passenger cars under construction on January 1. only three were of wood, while 725 were being built entirely of steel and 228 were of the steel underframe tyre. Over half of the sleeping cars in the Country are now of steel. The Pullman company has been building stae! cars exclusively for its own sleeping car service for the past three or four years, and on January 1 it had 2,409 all -steel cars and 1.239 stpel underframe cars agaihst 3.335 wooden car;. The otal number of passenger cars -n service in the United States on January 1, was 62,112 of which 12,900 wore all -steel, 5,700 steel underframe and 43..512 wood, the increase cf Steel cars over 1909 being 1,951 per cent.

D. A. Gilltom, the piano tuner, we n’t to Monraouth. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steele spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Jacob Koos of St. Mary's township visited in the city Saturday. Mias Nellie Rllley of St. Mary's 's the guest of Mitin Florence Myers. F. M. Schlrmeyer has returned from Chicago, where he looked after business matters for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Will Ruckman and son, Robert, spent the day with the George Ruckman family north of the city. Mrs. Mada Robinson is suffering from a severe cold which she contracted while at the lake last week. Deputy Secretary of State H. L. Confer and Mrs. Confer are visiting in the city with relatives arid friends. Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne of Ft. Way le spent Sunday in the city with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. Deining -r. Charles Phillips and wife left this morning for Jackson, Ohio, where they were called to attend the funeral of Mrs, Phillips’ grandmother. Mrs. izzle Hoffman returned to Logansport after a visit here with relatives. She Was accompanied to Fort Wayne by her sister, Mrs. Mat Harris. Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart and sons, Meredith and Max William, motored to Warren yesterday, being called there by the illness of Mrs. Stewart's mother, Mrs. W. L Ruggles. Mr. Stewart returned last evening and Mrs. Stewart and sons will remain several days. Postmaster J. W. Bosse reports letters and cards remaining uncalled Tor at the Decatur postofflee for the following: Letters: George Clark, Crawford Kiser, Theo A. Milieu, Rosa Stauffer. Cards: Albert Dura. Leota Fuhrman, Fred Keifer, Nettie Lamb, Walter Mayer. When calling for these letters, please say, “Advertised."

Kaiser Wants Us To Stop Selling Arms To Allies A full account of Germany’s official protest against the sale of arms to the Allies by United States - manufacturers, including the graphic presentation of public opinion upon the protest, as exprest in the American newspapers, is given in this week’s issue of IHE LITERARY DIGESI, dated April ~thi. Every important fact in this critical development is shown. Italy’s Waiting Game The Future ot Constantinople Growing German Bitterness Against America —the reader also comes into close view of these other important phases in the great war-game. In fact no other publication tory week-by-week history of the war as does IFIE EIIEXAK.I UILiGmI. Secretary Daniels Under Fire Political Corruption in Terre Haute Treasury Department Charged with Conspiracy Federal Aid in the War on the Drug Evil Princeton’s Thrust at Billy Sunday are intensely interesting subjects that are also treated in a comprehensive fashion in this number. HON. BRAND WHITLOCK, U. S. Minister to Belgium: “I have taken THE LITERARY DIGEST for a great ' many years and I should not like to be without it. I think it is invaluable to one who wishes to know what is going on in the world, and it gives, I think, with quite as much of the impersonal feeling as is possible to human beings both sides of every question.” Men and women who read THE LITERAR’t DIGEST take an intelligent and authoritative part in any conversation anywhere. It furnishes all sides and shades of opinion upon every important happening in Science, Politics, Sport, Art, Literature, Religion, Education, Industry. It is graphically illustrated with the best cartoons and photos. Get the Issue of April 24th, From Any —lO Cents The Jiterary Digest FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK

BEN HUR INITIATION The Ben Hurs will leave this city Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock bv special interurban car for Ft. Wayne where \ initiation will be In order. There will be twenty candidates to receive the degree. The Decatur team will be in charge of the initiato-y work. The degree team will hold a special meeting this evening for practice and all members should be out. If fifty people can be secured to go on the speei;H interurban car. the special rate of fifty cents will be in order. All those who desire to go with the Ben Hurs, should see the committee Alva Stults or Adam Weis, who will be at the interurban depot at that time The car will leave promptly at 5 o’clock Wednesday evening. —o — FOR SALE. The Geary home on West Madison street can be 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. Close to churches and school. If interested see Simeon J. Hain at the City meat market. 105m-w-stf 0 WANTED—High class man to sell trees, shrubs, roses, vines, berry bushes, bulbs, etc. Good wages. Permanent. Exclusive territory. Brown Brothers’ Nurseries, Rochester, N. V. FOR RENT—New house, near North Ward school house. Phone 349. FOR SALE—Rubber tired open surrey, good as new. Inquire of Joe_ Martin, 'phone 329. llSt3 FOR RENT—fI-room house in south end. 'Phone 204. —S. E. Hite. 120t3 FOR RENT—Bam on Marshall street. —R. B. Gregory, ‘phone 151. 96tf WANTED—To do plain sewing. Call 'phone 691. —Mrs. Ira Bodie, South Tenth street. 123t3

FOR SftLE Two Autos. Inquire of J. G. Niblick at the Old Adams County Bank,

SPECIAL SALE ON LOCUST POSTS We have just unloaded a car ot exceptionally fine Locust Posts which we wish to move at once at a low price. COME AMD SEE THEM DECATUR LUMBER COMPANY LOST —A bunch of silk violets. Please return to Mrs. E. G. Coverdale. 1221.3 ~ICE" Use artifical ice, sold and delivered to any part of the city, Phone 101 Hoosier Packing Co.

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