Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1915 — Page 3

jHSp | OUR LADIES DEPARTMENT is a busy place these days. The seasonable and stylish footwear at the most reasonable prices is the reason. Take a look into our windows or better yet, come in and try them on: CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

| WEATHER FORECAST I XX •TZZw♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦*•«♦♦* ♦«♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦» *?♦♦ ♦♦♦•z»*>«»♦*>• * Fair tonight and Wednesday. Mrs. M. Muhn returned to Fort Wayne after attending to business here. It may be true, but a lot om men hate to admit that competition is the life of trade. The patriot who waves the flag a good deal isn’t always willing to follow it into warm places. Economy isn’t always that. Ask the man who had a 39-cent article repaired at a cost of 75 cents. Mrs. Jim Rutledge and family of Rockford, Ohio, are guests of her mother, Mrs. Minnie Teeple. Mrs. Ehrman and daughter, Pauline, of Fort Wayne were guests Sunday of Mrs. John Myers and family. Mr. and Mrs. Eph Bollinger went to Rome City this morning where they will spend several weeks at their cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cornthwaite and two daughters, of Logansport, will return home tomorrow after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kitson. Mrs. George Quidon and daughter, Frances; Mrs. Jim Rice and daughter, Georgia, spent Suday at the home of their niece and cousin, Mrs. Maunie Coppess and family, southwest of the city. Milt Girod, former restaurant man [of this city, now owner and manager of a farm west of the city, was in [town on business. He is looking hale and hearty, and brown as a berry, [showing farm life agrees with him.

tj. i! wmuLiw ib ii J 1 Ai. The Home Os Quality Groceries CLEANING HOUSE? LET US HELP YOU WITH Bonami Brick 10c Lye 10c, 3 for 25c Bonami Powdered I° c Washee Wafers 10c Pride of the Kitchen 5c Vine-0 25c Sopolio I° c Carpet Beaters 10c Dutch Cleanser -10 c Scrub Brushes 13c Porter’s Delight 5c Whisk Brooms 10c Ammonia 10c F| X Swatters 10c Brooms, Mops, Soaps, Borax, Soap Chip. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 16c Butter 15c to 21c M. E. HOWER North of G. B. & I. Depot Phone 108 IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab-1 stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

Mrs. Dan Erwin went to Ft. Wayne. Miss Kate Ramer went to Ft. Wayne today noon. Will Colchin went to ForfWaya-? on business today. Stephen Miller and son, Otto, went to Fort Wayne this morning. F. V. Milles and daughter, Victoria, were Fort Wayne visitors today. Mrs. Charles Yager and Mrs. R. B. Gregory spent the day in Ft. Wayne. Eddis Johnson spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. Mary Quigley, near Monroe. Misses Bessie Wilder and Iva Spangler went to Angola where they will attend college. C. C. Schug and Ferd Mettler, the Berne Overland salesmen, were~here on business yesterday. Jack Connoley of.Fort Wayne, local Metropolitan Insurance agent, was beer today on business. Over SSOO was paid in fines by game violators in northern Indiana last week. Sixteen persons were arrested. Hazel, Billy and John Wolford cf Monmouth were shopping in the city this morning, returning on the 8:30 car. Mr. and Mrs. Fred LaDelle went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with some friends with the 101 Wild West Ranch show. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller and daughter, Ocie, went to Fort Wayne today to call on Mrs. Miller's sister, Mrs. Gilbert Hinkey, at the Lutheran hospital. Miss Celeste Wemhoff of the interurban office is suffering from a severely cut thumb, the result of an experience in assisting in canning pineapple.

Amos Hlracliey of Berne wae a business vtoitor here. Mrs. Roy Butcher of Geneva was here today <m business. John Counts of Indianapolis is visiting his sister, Mrs. Harvey Todd. Mrs. McCavit of Edgerton, Ohio, was here today ou legal lioeiness. O. B. She ler and son of Bluffton were Decatur visitor Monday afternoon. Mrs. Lester Baughman is clerking at the Baughman store In the place of Daisy Ballenger who Is taking a short vacation. Mrs Oscar Fritzinger and granddaughter, Helen Fritringer, returned to Monmouth this morning after a visit here over night with the Charles Fritzinger family. At the next regular session of the city council, which will be held a week from tonight, objections against the preliminary assessment roll on the Tenth street improvement will be heard. Miss Winifred Burk, a student in the college at Jacksonville, 111., is at home for Her summer vacation with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Burk. She stopped off at Joliet, 111., for a visit with a friend before coming iiere. Miss Tawney Apple lias a new green veil, but no friend with an auto. Some folks pretent not t’ hear you th' first time you tusk ’em somethin' so they’ll have time t* frame up an answer by th' time you ask 'em agin.— Abe Martin. The Zion Lutheran congregation will have its annual picnic next Sunday afternoon at the St. John’s grove north of the city. A special interurban car will run out at 1 o’clock and return about 6 o'clock. A good time is anticipated. Rev. T. H. Harman and son leave this evening for Marion and will then go to Elkhart to attend a Christian Endeavor convention which convenes in that city Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. They will return about the middle of next week. Under the provisions of the Harrison anti-narcotic law, 5,000 physicians, druggists and veterinary surgeons are registered in the' sixth internal revenue district of which Adams county is a part. The law went into effect March 1. There are fiftynine counties in this district. The Joe Tonnelier family motored to Fort Wayne today, where they spent the afternoon visiting with Mrs. C. S. Clark, who was operated upon last week at the St. Joseph’s hospital. Mrs. Clark is getting along nicely and if nothing unforeseen develops will be be able to return home within a short time. John L. Umphress, Huntington county farmer, was instantly killed, his wife and two daughters, May, 16. and Helen, 11, and Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Rees, of Huntington, were seriously injured, when Umphress drove his five-passenger Maxwell touring car directly in front of a westbound M. 3. & E. traction car at the Conwell crossing, one mile west of Warren, at 5:41 Sunday evening. The automobile was struck squarely in the center and badly wrecked. The six occupants were pinned in the wreckage. During an electrical storm a bolt of lightning at 8:30 yesterday morning struck Tank No. 55, a 35,000 barrel tank, in which there were 7,000 barrels of oil, located just north of Montpelier, east of the interurban line. The oil and tank were entirely consumed, with a loss of about $15,000. The tank and oil belonged to the Indiana Pipe Line company. Five other tanks, containing 165,000 barrels of oil, were endangered, and one of them became so hot that wet blankets had to be used to keep it from catching fire. The burning oil made a great fire. The courts of Seattle are up against a poser. In the trial of a criminal case, the jury, of which a prominent woman was a member, disagreed. The judge refused to discharge the jury and ordered it locked up. “incommunicado," for the night. Tlje lady member had a two months' old infant that hungrily insisted upon an interview. Daddy at home procured a taxicab, took the youngster to the court bouse and the judge sqjjt it up to the jury room by a deputy sheriff. Now the defendant claims that the law was violated in admitting a person, not a member of the jury, into the jury room. What’s your idea about, it? The following took dinner at the Alpine hotel yesterday noon: Frank B. Jaqua. the Portland silo man, his wife and daughter, Anna, and their guests Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Copeland of Washington, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Niblick and two children; Jesse G. Niblick, Mrs. C, R. Niblick and Nick Miller of Decatur; at supper, D. W. Boer?'. Mr. and Mrs. Selletneyer and children, Mr. and Mrs. M. Kirsch, Mrs. J. D. Dailey of Decatur; H E. McFarren and family. Dr. and Mrs. Louis Sevin and child, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Robinson and children and Mr. and Mrs. Ge'fgß Morris end children of Bluffton.—Berne Wit- ♦ ness. I

A Strung* Punishment. Professor Petrie, the eminent Egyptologist, while exploring about thirty Ove miles from Cairo, discovered a tomb of tiie twelfth dynasty that thieves had broken into thousands of years aga A tragedy attended the robbery, as Professor Petrie also dis covered. The Bunday School Times culls it "a tragedy of providential justice.” “It appears,” says Professor Petrie, “that the plunderers removed only a few bricks, so that a man could crawl into the tomb. One of the men entered, oi>eued the coffin, lifted the mummy out end laid it across the coffin, so that be could easily unwind tho bandages. Ho first found a collar of beads, which he passed out into the shaft, where we found it. Then he came to the jewel (a beautiful work of gold and colored gems), and took it from the body. Before bo could do anything more the roof apparently fell in and crushed him and tho mummy. The other robbers, seeing the fate of their accomplice, abandoned the tomb and filled in the shaft to hide their guilt” The explorers found the skeleton of the robber beside that of the mummy. Homemade Barometer. To make a cheap but effective barometer take eight grams of pulverized camphor, four grams of pulverized nitrate of potassium, two grams of pulverized nitrate of ammonia, and dissolve them all in sixty grams of alcohol. Pour the whole lotion in a long and slender bottle, the top of which should be closed with a place of pig's bladder —which your family butcher will give you gratis—containing a pin hole to admit air. When rain is about to visit you the solid particles of your liquid barometer will’ tend gradually to mount, little star crystals forming tn the liquid, which otherwise would remain clear. Should high winds be approaching your barometer will become thick, as if fermenting, in addition to which a solid film of particles will form on the surface.. Fair weather is indicated by the liquid remaining clear, with the solid particles settling tab) a firm sediment.— London Answers. Beavers as Engineers. In “The Romance of the Beaver” A. R. Dugmore, the author, tells how he watched a colony of beavers in Newfoundland building a dam across a swift stream about forty feet wide: "Before the work woe quite finished, so that the dam had not yet settled enough to gain its proper strength, there came a great rain, which continued for several days and Hooded the country. The beavers, seeing that their new dam was threatened with immediate destruction, came down during the night nnd made a large opening by cutting away the sticks. This allowed the water to escape, and so the dam was saved. No sooner had the water resumed its normal level than the little engineers closed the break they had made and continued the structure.” The Habeas Corpus. The substance of habeas corpus was given in the famous Magna Charts of 1215, but as today understood the habeas corpus refers to the act of 11579. This act provides that any man taken to prison can Insist on being brought by his accuser before a judge, who shall immediately decide whether or not ball Is to be given; that the accused shall have the question of his guilt decided by a jury of twelve men and not by a government agent; that no one can be tried twice on the same charge; that every one may insist on being examined within twenty days of his arrest and tried by jury the next session; that no defendant may lie sent out of the county for imprisonment—New York American. Versts and Miles. Many people know that to multiply any number of French kilometers by five and divide the product by eight Is to get an exceedingly close approximation to tlie number of miles in the same distance, but it is even easier mentally to convert versts to miles, as one of the former Is equal to 0.(533 of the latter, or almost exactly twothlrds. Trees and Chimneys. The existence of tall pla’nts and trees depends largely on the wind force. A tree with square trunk and branches would offer so much resistance to the wind that it would be continually having its branches snapped. Engineers build tall chimneys and piers for bridges round in preference to any other form. Not Practical. “Did you attain the high ideals you set for yourself when yon were young?” asked the friend of his boyhood. “No,” replied the millionaire, “and I’m glad I didn't. I see now there was no money in them.” —St. Louis PostDispatch. Transparent. The Toucher—l'm going to work next •week, but I'll need a few dollars to live ou till pay day. Can you see me through? The Wise Guy-No, but I can see through you.—New York Globe. Subconscious Cerebration. “The bridegroom appeared cool and collected.” “Yes, he didn't seem to realize that he was losing control of himself.”— Philadelphia Ledger. Very Poor Taste. “I bate that girl.” you lend her your clothes.” “Yes. and she has the bad taste to look better Ln them than I do."—Kansas City Journal.

Rainy Weather Sale Owing to the extreme wet season we nave had, we have been unable to dispose of our large stock of suits and coats. Our summer and fall goods will soon be in and we have no room for it. In order to move our spring stock we are putting on a special one-half price sale and which will last for only a short time. These and coats are ail of the most stylish design, in ail of the latest colors and the most up-to-date materials. This is the chance of your life time to get a suit or coat at half-price. SUITS COATS $25 suits go at - $12.48 sls coats go at - - $8.50 sl6 suits go at - - $ 8.00 coats go at - - $5.00 $ 6 coats go at - - $3.50 One Lot of Ladies and Childrens Raincoats at Reduced Prices. FULLENKAMP’S

EVANGELICAL CHURCH. Wednesday evening at 7:30 is midweek service at the Evangelical church. Messrs. Charles Teepie and Eugene Runyon will speak at this service. A good meeting awaits us. The public is cordially invited to attend. Bring your tabernacle song books. J. H. RILLING, Pastor. (. REGULAR MEETING TONIGHT. The Retail Merchants' association will hold their regular semi-mouUily meeting at the library at 8 o’clock this evening, at which time plans ior the big sale proposed for June 22nd to 24th will be made. O'..'- — Miss Weimer of Willshire. Ohio, is here today on business. Ben Kuapke today began work on a new home in the Fullenkamp addition where he will be at home after next fall. It will be a modern cottage and will add to the appe-arance of tliat section o fthe city. Anna Laman Williams, of Battle Creek, Mich., wiio has been here on business, returned today from Fort Wayne, where she visited over Sunday with friends. She is here to attend to the painting and other improvements on her residence, corner of Madison and Fourth streets. o FOR SALE —A nouse and lot in a good location, on a brick street. Will consider an exchange on other property. See Henry B. Heller. 85tf

y • wj mi ■ ■ s 11 still have some of those p 0 V v nice Gingham and Per- || s cale Dresses at - - - $1:00 = s = || And a new line of Middy || 1 Blouses at •■ • • SI.OO g «■» II II 2 All sizes and colors of those nice - 5 big 50 cent dress aprons. . n II 1! s Sun Bonnets and Bungalow Hats = I- = THE BOSTON STORE f

Sunday Excursions from DECATUR to TOLEDO via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE See H. J. Thompson, Agent, for particulars. ■ ■■■ I. ■ I I—.!. !■ ' »■■■ ■' . 1 " ".’-"I —' ■ — Sweet Potato and yam Late cabbage and tomato plants.—Carroll’s warehouse plants at Fullenkamp’s, 25c Late cabbage and tomato a hundred. plants at Fullenkamp’s, 25c Sweet Potato and yarn a hundred. 134,3 plants.—Carroll’s warehouse SPECIAL VACATION TOURS VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE TOLEDO, DETROIT, CLEVELAND, CEDAR POINT PUT-in-BAY, BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS Tickets on sale every Saturday at Decatur during the Summer at greatly reduced fares RETURN LIMIT 15 days. See H. J. Thompson, Agent, or address Chas. E. Rose, A. G. P. A.