Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1915 — Page 3

Goodness Sake don’t wear a work shoe that hurts your teet when you can buy this bark taned outtmg shoe. Some fellows say they are as comfortable as “an old sock” any way they are easy on the foot, keep out a lot of wet and are as near manure proof as it is possible to make leather and only cost you $3.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

[ WEATHER FORECAST | Partly cloudy tonight. ■" Miss Grace Butler spent the day in Fort Wayne. J. S. McCrory went to Fort Wayne this morning. Dan Sprang went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. Miss Marie Bultemeier of the Gra ham & Walters office was at Fort Wayne today. Mr. and Mrs. Christian Hofstetter returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit here. Milwaukee has installed twenty-five of the finest type of.pool or billiard tables, in its public school buildings. The Misses Lucile White and Mary Laughlin have gone to Muncie to attend the normal school for the summer. Mrs. Swasno and Mrs. Anderson returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit here with Mrs. T. R. Moore. Mrs. C. H. Colter and daughter, Leah, left yesterday afternoon for Ossian for a visit with Mrs. Rex and daughter, Effie. Tell Binkley says a nickel segar ’ll last twice as long with the wind shield up. Let’s all quit mentionin’ Bryan an’ see how long he lasts. — Abe Martin. Sheriff Ed Green is at Van Wert, Ohio, today as a witness in the trial of the man who was caught here trying to sell stolen chickens a number of weeks ago. Members of the Reeling Company where he tried to sell the poultry, are also at Van Wert.

TheHomeOfQuality Groceries Extra Quality Old Potatoes, 50c _. „ IQc Fancy Head R:ce, tb Extra Fancy Japan Rice, tb 7 ' / ’° 7c Hand Picked Navy Beans, tb ♦♦ lOc California Lima Beans, tb „ 8c Scotch Dry Peas Tb 7c Salt Fish Strawberries, Oranges, Bananas, Lemons, Pineapples, Cucumbers. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 16c Butter 15c to 21c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 1 08 BF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, I ABSTRACTS The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- I stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

Eli Bieri of Berne was in the city today on business. Miss Victoria Stone went to Fort Wayne today noon. to Chicago and Reedsville, Wis., for a two weeks’ vacation. Mrs. D. M. Cushman and Mrs. C. L. Phillips spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Jim Gauze and daughter. Edith of Willshire, Ohio, paid their shopping visit here today. Miss Mary Winans returned to Fort Wayne this noon after a visit here with her parents. Miss Winans is a trained nurse. Miss Leah Apt, stenographer for the Hooper & Lenhart office, left today for her home at Butler. She will join her sister there ana they will go Miss Bertha Schultz has taken a position as stenographer for the L. C. DeVoss law office. Miss Schultz was graduated from the high school this spring. Scott Ellis arrived last night from Indianapolis and today accompanied his wife and daughter, Chrisanna, to their home. Mrs. Ellis and babe have been visiting here for some time. Miss Genevieve Bremerkamp was struck by some falling plastering this morning while in a local dry goods store shopping. The side of her face was struck and cut and bruised m several places. Flour prices have dropped SI.OO a barrel inside of two weeks. Millers in the northwest cut prices 20 cents to $7.30 for standard spring wheat patents. Brilliant wheat crop prospects and a falling off in the trade, combined with a decline of 9 cents iu spring wheat values at Minneapolis, were responsible for the late reduction in flour.

I Clark Brothers, who has been ill, is cot so well again. Pat Kinney of Fort Wayne was a business caller here today. A flt;? raj j ground and large gold letters, was hung for the Baughman five and ten cent store yesterday. The sign is very attractive, as well as being a good advertiser. The home of Mrs. laiurp Stewart near W ren, Ohio, which Is being rebuilt on the site of the old one destroyed by fire recently, is rapidly Progressing in construction, being nearly ready for the plasterers. The Morris company is having their store front in this city painted a pretty cherry red This is the firm s adopted color for their stores, and their thirteen stores in as many cities all have fronts of the cherry red. - Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman and daughter. Celia, have moved to Russell street, this city, from Root town ship. Mr. Hoffman resigned his position as drayman at the B. J. Wagoner dairy and will go to Oklahoma, Kansas and other points in the southwest this summer. K. O. Anderson of Devil’s N- D., about to leave town for his marriage, depended upon the town clock. The timepiece was slow, Anderson missed his train, was late for the wedding and was rejected by the hanghy “bride”. Anderson has sued the city for $25,Q00 damages. Do you know that an editor or a reporter for a newspaper can in h'S rounds stop and ask a hundred persons “what is the news ” and ninety out of the hundred will reply, “Nothing special,” and yet fifty out of that number know something that, if not 5 found in the next paper, will astonish them more and perhaps make them madder than hornets. Don’t be afraid to let the newspaper know it. —Monroe Reporter. Van Weft may be visited by a number of high power aeroplanes this summer if the plans of the Aero club of America prove successful. A transcontinental race is being arranged from New oYrk City to San Francisco, and the Lincoln highway has been selected as the route to be followed. ,The principal purse will be twenty thousand dollars, and it is believed that the leading birdmen of the country will participate. Judge Sol Wood of Fort Wayne, referee in bankruptcy, has approved the appraisement of the property ol Winona Assembly and Summer School association, which totals $100,589. The appraisement was made by Ralph Magee of Fort Wayne, C. Edwin Stout ana William Rogers of Warsaw, byorder of the referee and of the trustee, Lloyd C. Claycombe. It is expected that the sale of the property will take place soon after the close of the season. In every one of the fifty-four grammar schools of Portland, Ore., there is? a Parent-Teachers' association. Men as well as women are members of these associations, and three have business men a president. School excursions form an important feature of the work. Brick yards, lumber yards and chair factories are visited by the pupils. A committee of sixteen men has special charge of this work, one of whom accompanies the children on every trip. 1 Commercial Agent C. A. Rose of the New York Central, in charge .of the Toledo territory, will dispatch to New York what will be onp of the longest, if not the longest freight train ever operated on an American railroad, made up more than 125 cars, all loaded with automobiles consigned by a local factory, to its metropolitan agency. Two of the largest mogul locomotives will haul if and its lading represents a value of approximately $500,000. The attention of the postoffice patrons is being called by postpl authorities to the fact that when it is desired to send a letter through the mail with a parcel the letter may be tied to the parcel and sent in the same man, ner so long as the postage on both parcel and letter is fully prepaid, it is not permissible to enclose a letter in a parcel at fourth class postage rates. If a letter is tied to a parcel care should be taken to have the address on the parcel and to see that the letter does not interfere with the reading of the address on the parcel. Getting out among the fathers and mothers of the state is the method pursued by Prof. D. R. Haworth of the East Tennessee State normal, ’or arousing interest in education. Pro- 1 fessor Haworth and his party recently completed a “campaign" during wh ch they drove 476 miles through eight counties; talked to 21,400 people in forty rallies; slept in barns or in the school wagon, frequently far from the main road. The educational campaigners had with them a male quartet, a string band and three pieces of demonstrating apparatus of practical value _ a m iik tester, a farm gate, and a model of a beating and ventilating system.

For Wayne & Springfield Ry. Company. TlMft TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur at 1:50, 8:80 11:80, 2:30, 6:45, 0:30; arrive at Fort Wayne at 5:53, 8:40. U:4O, 8:40, 6:56 and 10:40. Southbound. Leave Ft Wayne at 7:00,10:00,1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived In Decatur at 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 5.10, 8:40,12:10 Connections are made at Fort Wayne with the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Co., The Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Company, The Ohio Electric, and Indiana Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nickle Plate, L. 8. & M. 8., C. H. & D„ and G. R. & I. railroads. Freight Service. Freight service consists of one train each way dally; Leaving Decatur at 7:00 a. m. end returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. This enables shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOH ANN, General Manager, • - Decatur, Ind. Q FOR SALE —Label your fruit and jelly; 200 assorted labels, gummed and printed. Price 15c. Send orders to Albert Kidwell, Decatur, Indiana, R. R. No. 5. 137t3 Sweet Potato and yam plants.—Carroll’s warehouse FOR SALE —Yearling mare colt, In quire of Henry Lee, R. R. 2. 13513

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IWiIlliW Moline Pitless For General Scale Weighing " ' 5 tons capacity. Platform 14 x 8 feet with Compound Beam Main Frame (all four sides 8 in.) Wt. 530 lbs. / J t Platform Sills (Each Double). Wt. 390 lbs. Timber Filler. Weight 80 lbs. f Zu Scale Levers and Box. Weight .... 690 lbs. .. N. Total Weight of Moline Pitless Scale Less Platform 1690 IDS. J Fairbanks, Morse & Co. ’ Sills made up of 3 x 5 in. 900 S. Wabash Avenue timber bolted between CHICAGO two 5 clianne^3, (2165-48 K _________ REMODELING? You would be surprised if you knew the great majority of paint sales we have made this spring to people remodeling their homes and want to make them look like new. A large number of these sales were made to people who had bougnt Capital City paint of us before and knew from experience that Capital City paint, goes farther, wears better, looks nicer and costs less than any other paint on the market. Capital City paint is guaranteed and our customers who have used it are our best advertisement. Ask some of them about it, then try it on that house or barn of yours. IHffisT

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