Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1915 — Page 3

Tuesday Something New * A new creation is a Baby Doll Pump with a white and Black Bow and White Binding around the top. Growing Girls Sizes 2 to 6 $3.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

WEATHER FORECAST § Showers this afternoon and tonight. Wednesday fair. Mrs. Lonsa Shaffer went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit. Father Benzinger of Hesse Cassel was a business visitor here today. Attorney Shafer Peterson went to Fort Wayne this afternoon on business Mrs. David Liby will go to Fort Wayne this evening to visit with, relatives. Miss Saxon Dudley returned to Ft. Wayne this afternoon after attending to business here. The Misse Ode Fullenkamp anj Dorothy Schultz went to Fort Wayne this morning on business. The postoffice was flooded with white linen collars this morning, samples having been sent to each one of the carrers. Mrs. Olin Baker has returned from Canton, Ohio, where she visited with her sister. Mr. Baker motored to Canton Sunday, returning home in the evening with Mrs. Baker. There are about 12,000 cremations each year in the United States. Tiie first crematory was established in 1876, and during the eight succeeding years only twenty-eight human bodies were cremated. Mrs. Da! Moots (nee’ Pearl Gray}, who wuz married early in June o’ this year, wuz granted a divorce t’day tn ’Squire Marsh Swallow’s court an’ given th’ coustody o’ th’'presents. William Jennin's Bryan is t’er himself at any price.—Abe Bartin.

The Home Os Quality Groceries Mason Pt. Fruit Jars Doz 50c Mason Qt. Fruit Jars Doz 60c Mason Half Gal. Fruit Jars Doz 75c Golden State Qt. Fruit Jars Doz 90c Jell Glasses Doz. . 20 and 25c New Cabbage lb. .. 3c Texas Onions lb. .4c New Potatoes pk. . . 35c Old Potatoes bu. . 50c Strawberries Qt. ... 10c ; - We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 15c Butter 15c to 21c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I-Depot Phone 108 _ii^——iwn num 11oM»i—Ti—r" IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. ■ THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, Z ABSTRACTS’ The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- I stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

John Christen went to Fort Wayne : this morning tor a visit with relatives. Miss Blanche McCrory visited witli ; Miss Dora Hirschy at Berne over Sunday. Mrs. Ben Shroyer arrived today from Bellefontaine, Ohio, for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mutschler. Mr. Shroyer will come for a visit over the Fourth. Mrs. H. T. Pennypacker and cliilren of Buffalo, N. Y., are here visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sutton. Mr. Pennypacker who accompanied them here returned to Buffalo. Ovel 700 solid car loads of strawberries were shipped from the East Tennessee sections and south of Chattanooga to the northern markets, according to figures just issued by the Queen and Crescent route, which handled nearl ythe entire crop. Wesley Stults of Wren, Ohio; John Stults and son, F. M. Stults, have returned from Coldwater, Mich., where they attended the funeral of their uttcle, John Sheneman, held Sunday. They left here Saturday. The funeral was very largely attended. Yesterday a big seven-passenger automobile bearing the Indiana license number “13” passed through Decatur. During the years 1913-1914 Dan Erwin of this cltyjiad number “13." This year Mr. Erwin has number 13,000. He claims it as his lucky number. Fred Henchen of the Lose barber shop has returned from Huntington. his former home, where he completed the job of having his household goods packed and shipped to Decatur. Mr. Henschen has rented the John Colchin home on Fifth afreet and will move into it as soon as his goods arrive.

Merle Glendenning of Portland wa< here on business, Dan P. Shoemaker of Geneva waa a business visitor here, Mrs. W. W, Glendenning of Geneva was here on business. 1 Attorney D. B. Erwin left today noon for Fort Wayne on business. A list of uncalled-for letters by Postmaster Bosse; George Alfred. Earl D. Sipe, thirl Case, Orlow Chronister, Virgil Baker, Wood Case, Nathan Baisy, F M. Brocliey, Miss Vera Buchman. "F»t” Garlock, John T. Helm, Cliff Hill, Mrs. Jesse Kintz, Conrad Pelhman, John Schuricht, William Uttinger, John Welch, Miss Edna Well, Mrs, David Wynn, Mrs. Dwight Young. June thus far has been a cool month. Figures given out by the weather bureau show that the temperature has averaged three degrees below the usual for an ideal June day on each day of the month. Figuring on a basis of June days for the last thirty-five years, the average normal temperature should have been 66 degrees. It. was but 63 degdees. W. N. Steele, a Clover engineer residing in Charleston, was hor ribly burned about the face when a boiler check blew out on his engine, which was pulling an extra westbound freight train. Steam and hot water was thrown over Mr. Steele's face and head by the force of the explosion and the flesh was badly blistered. The accident occurred when the train was near Edwardsville and Mr. Steele rushej to the office of a physicia i, where his wounds were dressed. Joe Riley, member of the Hartford City band, who was struck by an Ohio Electric company’s traction car while in Union City playing in the parade at the firemen's convention last Thursday, states that unless the traction company makes proper settlement-for his injuries he will start action against the corporation. Riley was knocked several feet by the force of the car and his back was so badly skinned up that it was necessary for him to consult a physician two or three times since returning to his home. That the telephone is rapidly supplanting the telegraph in the operation of railroads of the United States was asserted by speakers at a session of the Association of Railway Telegraph Superintendents in annual convention at Rochester. N. Y. It was estimated by Barney A. Kaiser, of the American Telephone & Telegraph company that of the 252,000 miles of railroad in the United States ioO.OOH are operated by telephone. It was said that if the expense of installation was not so great more mileage would be operated by telephone. A sixty-thousand dollar fire occurred at Howe, Ind., the result of the wrecking of a G. R. & I. freight train. A car crashed into and burst open a large gasoline tank car. destroyed ten cars, an elevator, lumber and coal yards, damaged three houses and railroad buildings, and for a time threatened a goodly portion of the town. Only the ready response by neighboring farmers, who came in autdniohiles and helped form a Ipicket brigade, and hurry-up runs by the Lagrange and Sturgis, Mich., fire departments, the town from destruction, so rapidly did the flames spread. More than one thbusartd crates of green tomatoes and the car which contained them were destroyed by fire a few evenings ago. The ’car was in an eastbound Clover Leaf freight No. 192 and when the train was nearing Plaasant Mills, Engineer Murray glanced toward the rear of the train and saw flames leaping from the car. He stopped the train and the crew put forth every effort to extinguish the fire, but their efforts were of no avail. It is unknown how the fire originated, but it was either from spontaneous combustion or a spark from the engine. The car was set on a sidetrack at Pleasant Mills an d abandoned after the efforts of the crew were proven unsuccessful. The contents of the car were bille from Jackson, Miss., to Boston. • When the first plans were laid for the Erie railroad eighty odd years ago railroads in this country were not in general use. A few lines were in operation in mining regions with horsepower, and some coal traffic was done in Pennsylyania by the use of stationary engines; but the locomotive whistle was not heard in the land and the passenger coach was unknown. Chicago was y<t unnamed—it was a small settlement, clustered about Fort Dearborn; Buffalo and Detroit were villages, and Missouri was the only state west of the Mississippi river. Today the Erie owns, controls or leases 3.686 miles of track, and the management has spent since 1901, 1100,000.000. in additions and betterments, making it efficient: safe and comfortable. The history of the Erie is the history of the railroad business in America, for it was the pioneer that opened up the great west. Its present day enterprse is attractrng wide attention.

FED THE ELEPHANT; IN JAIL New York Visitor Couldn't Resist Ap(feallnf Trunk of Hungry Pachyderm. Giuseppe Rizzo's native generosity and kindness of heart got him into dins trouble the other day. Rizzo '•» a bgrber, twenty-three yean old, and lives on Claremont avenue, the Bronx. It was a warm and balmy afternoon, and Rizzo went forth. His course led him to the animals in the zoo. As be looked upon them, caged and unable to enjoy their freedom, the barber’s kind heart was touched. To express his sympathy he bought candy and peanuts and fed them. v Special Officer Fitzpatrick caught him in the act. He halted Rizzo's pea-nut-laden hand as it reached for the elephant's outstretched trunk. “Cut it out,’’ he admonished. “Don’t you see the sign—don’t feed the animals?" “But da poor elephants, he like da peanut,” pleaded Rizzo, as he stuffed the bag back in his pocket and walked away 1 . He was diKonsolate. He imagined he could see a tear in the pachyderm's eye. The pachyderm's trunk Stretched forth beseechingly, and Rizzo's kind heart could stand it no longer. Stealthily he crept to the cage again, a succulent goober clutched in his grasp. The moist tip of Jumbo’s trunk closed about it. He grunted in satisfaction. Fitzpatricle arrested Rizzo and took him to the lockup. He was charged with vandalism.—New York Sun. SEEKING TROPHIES OF WAR Amateur Collectors in France Are Holding Out for High Prices. Curio dealers from England and trom the continent are reported to be in the vicinity of battlefields in northern France endeavoring to buy trophies of the war which they hope In time may be valuable, the Indianapolis News states. They find, it is said, some difficulty in driving bargains. Amateurs who have come into possession of trophies hold them for high prices or will not sell on any consideration. It Is recalled that after the American Civil war came to an end a bookseller in the Bermudas, when the cargoes of the blockade runners in the harbor of Hamilton were sold at auction, bdught a number of package cases without the least knowledge of their contents. Among these were several boxes of brass buttons consigned to the Confederate army for use on soldiers' uniforms. Some twenty years later tourists discovered these old Confederate buttons. A New York dealer made a high bld for the entire supply. This bid was refused, and these buttons, for which in the succeeding years a small fraction of a cent was paid, have been selling at 75 cents and $1 each. Cold Storage a Blessing. Those poached eggs which you will have for your breakfast next Christmas morning went into the cold ator age house the other day. And you are lucky thtlt somebody is saving a couple for you. Our Industrious hens are now producing twice as many eggs every day as we care to eat. Months before December comes they will have gone upon ,their prolonged vacation. Without cold storage those two eggs for your Christmas breakfast would .cost as much as you will pay for a dozen. A solution of ammonia pumped through pipes in storage rooms does for you what the hen herself cannot do —distributes a supply of good eggs evenly around the entire calendar. We talk foolishly about cold storage as if it were a menace instead of one of the genuine blessings of a scientific age Mr. Hodges and His Grand Old Hat. “Spring’s official parade was observed Monday morning," reports the Olathe Register, “when Frank Hodges donned his ancient Milan straw hat, and made his way to the office. The parade formed at the corner of Elm and Water streets and proceeded with due pomp and ceremony to the Hodges lumber yard, where it disbanded and Mr. Hodges went to work. Dwellers along the way, who have been waiting anxiously to take down their heating staves and take off their heavies, noted its passing with satisfaction and a great wave of activity followed in Its wake. Mr. Hodges has been pestered with agents of new fangled hats who want to sell him a 1916 model, direct drive lid, with a self starter and a row of colored electric lights about the brim. But Mr. Hodges, with true conservative mien, clings to the old order. In these days of feverish rush to keep up with the changing times, it is a relief to see this calm, imperturbable spirit alive in our clammy midst.”—Kansas City Star. The Most Important Question. He was five and of a somewhat critical turn of mind—also analytic. He was left, at home with the maid. Just after he became hungry in the evening his mother called by telephone. He answered the phone, but didn t understand the conversation Before he had an opportunity to ask that the instructions be repeated, his mother insisted that he tell her whom he loved. He was thinking only of dinner, however, and nothing else. Thus it was that he interrupted the string of endearing inquiries to remark in a loud voice: "I don't know vffio I love. I want to know where I’m eoin' tn eat" ,

Through the Looking Glass. If you listen to two men discussing eastern races-the Chinese in particu-lar-you will invariably hear them remark with that weighty tone of finality in which people are wout to deliver their obiter dicta: "The Chinaman is an cntgmn, an Insoluble mystery; behind his Impenetrable mask there lurks We know not what curious variant of the human race.” But does it ever occur to us that in the "barbarian” or “foreign devil” the Chinaman finds a problem of even greater perplexity? The fact that nil onr books begin at tho wrong end nnd that our lines are printed horizontally instead of vertically is to him overwhelming evidence of the topsy turvyness of our minds; that we shake a woman by the hand is, in his eyes, most unseemly, while our dancing, with its lack of dignity and stately grace, suggests to him nothing less than a war dance of savages. The practice of walking with a stick shows us to be in very sooth a most ferocious and uncivilized people, for who would carry a stick save for the purpose of beating innocent folks! —Baltimore Suu. Finding His Bride. In one part of tho canton of Ticino, in Switzerland, a very quaint marriage ceremony prevails. The bride groom dresses in his “Sunday best" and, accompanied by as many friends and relatives as he can muster for the fete, goes to claim his bride. Finding the door locked, he demands admittance. The Inmates ask him his business, nnd in reply he solicits the hand of his chosen maiden. If his answer be deemed satisfactory he is successively introduced to a number of ma trons and maids, some perhaps de formed nnd others old and ugly. Then he Ls presented to some largo dolls, all of which he rejects with scorn, fimld general merriment. The bewildered bridegroom, whose impetuosity and temper are now sorely tried, is then Informed that his ladylove is absent and is invited In to see for himself. He rushes into the house and searches from room to room until be finds her In her bridal dress ready to go tc church. Thon are his troubles over and his state as a benedict assured. How a Zeppelin Is Made. The building of a Zeppelin is not the work of a day. The mere work on the vessel takes an entire year, and when that work is done another three months must be spent in testing. Stretched on a framework of girders there are from seventeen to twenty-five balloonettes from end to end. Over these and over the girders is an outer skin of proofed canvas. Slung under the great length is a series of cabins. Right in front is the station of the lookout man, who is in charge of the starting and the landing. He has anchors slung beneath him. In the first boat, which 13 entirely covered in, are two petrol engines. Behind this boat is the gangway, fitted up with sleeping berths for the crew. In the center is tho observation station. It is from here that the bombs are dropped, and it is in here that the marvelous steering and sighting apparatus is installer!, as well as the wireless plant—St. Louis Republic. Swine In Old London. We hear much today of the dangers of the London streets, but the inhabitants are spared some of the perils of an earlier age. The calendar of coroners’ rolls for the city tells how the many swine wandering about the streets were once London's greatest nuisances. In 1322 an inquest was held on a child who was attacked in her cradle by a pig which had wandered in through the open door of her parents’ shop. And a little earlier letters patent were issued to an Infant who lost an ear from the same cause. The letters certified the cause of the accident, lest later on the uncharitable should say that the ear had been cut off in the pillory by the knife of the law.—London Spectator. A Long Popular Vegetable. Asparagus has evidently been known during a considerable period, for it figures in the title of a seventeenth century play. Richard Brome, who started life as a domestic servant and in that capacity bad Ben Jonson for a master, became a popular dramatist, and one of the most successful of his comedies was “The Spnragus Garden." acted, according to the title page of the edition published in 1(110. "by the Company of Revels at Salisbury Court." One of the characters in this play expresses a wish to have “sparagus at every meale nil the yeare long.”—London Globe. Real Public Spirit. "Is old Millionbux usually regarded as a public spirited citizen?” “Oh, decidedly! Why, I have known that man to lend a big tract of land tc the city on the sole stipulation that the city should drain, grade and otherwise Improve it. and then hand it back.”— Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch. One Detail. He—You can't truthfully say 1 haven't supported you in the style t< which you were accustomed. SheYes, I can. You never hold me or your lap any more.—Judge. Superior Skill. Wallie — What’s the professor ot mathematics making the fuss about' Bert—He was just short changed by s banana peddler.—New York Mall. The Reason. TJllton (sternly)—What's the reasor that young man stays so late when h< Calls? Miss Bilton (demurely)—l am papa.—Judge.

S 1 I ’ TJAVE you got one of our special casse- y/ Al roles yet? Only $1.75 while they last. 1-, Made in nickle silver, with brown .Guern- || sey ware lining, very good looking. Bet- || ter get yours today. B Store Closed All Day July sth. ■ lKHrsjfflELßmoß3 2 “If its new, we have it.” ■Artistic Engraving Expert Repairi ! ; MEN’S OXFORD SEASON " You men who have put off buying your summer oxfords until now, are the men we want to read this ad. We have just received a new shipment of oxfords in all the latest styles, in patent, kid, cloth tops and in white canvass. Some with military heel, some with rubber sole and heel and others in the popular English style. We have them in all sizes. $3.50 to $4.00 | PEOPLES & GmE ■SffiU9HRHIHBRSIIBRSnn!F*9IinHKRR9iMH3BaBi Sunday Excursions from DECATUR to Bluffton, Marion, Kokomo and Frankfort via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE See H. J. Thompson Agent for Particulars 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. Preble Tennis Club ~BIG ICE CREAM SOCIAL At PREBLE MONDAY, JULY STH, GIVEN BY THE PREBLE TENNIS CLUB Everybody come if you want to have a good time, for the P. T. C. can show you. Big prizes will be given for all kinds of contests.