Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1915 — Page 3

VACATION TIME, WHITE SHOES There are no shoes like white shoes for hot summer days, to bring a feeling of coolness, and to give cool appearance. If you are going to the Lakes or if you stay at home, you’ll want a pair. Come in and see the many styles we are showing in Straps and Pumps. CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

| WEATHER FORECAST I Generally lair tonight and Sunday. Dr..C. C. Rayl of Monroe was here today on business. The banks will be closed Monday in observance of the fourth. Miss Kathryn Egley of Berne visited in the city today with friends. Miss Eleanor Ellis left today for Indianapolis for a visit of six week's with her brothers. Miss Etta Brandyberry left for Gaiy yesterday afternoon to visit with Miss Agnes Krick over the Fourth. Miss Fanny Frisinger and her guest. Miss Mildred Otto of Alexandra, were Fort Wayne visitors yesterday afternoon. Maters Daniel and John VVeikel returned today to their home in Fort Wayne after a visit here with re atives. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weimer will come from Fort Wayne today for a visit over the Fourth with relatives and friends. Mrs. Weimer was formerly Miss Huldah Loser. E. X. Ehinger cashier of the Old Adams County Bank has given notice of a stockholders meeting to ire held at bank on Wednesday August 3rd for the purpose of electing nine directors. Columbia City is contemplating placing flower pots in the center vs . street intersections to prevent eollisions at street corners. Some cities eri ect cement posts at intersections, and I Columbia City proposes to substitute tlie flwer pot fr cement posts.

The Home Os Quality Groceries Salt Crackers lbloc Domino Sugar pkgloc Venella Wafers 30 for 10c Milk .small 6 for 25c New Cabbage lb3c Milk tall 3 for 25c New Potatoes pk2sc .Mason caps doz2os New Turnips pk2oc Jar Ring 10c 3 for 25c Michigan Celery 2 for 5c Fancy Baskets 40c Sweet Cider can 10c Cucumbers 3 for 10c We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 16c Butter 15c to 21c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN | President Secretary Treas. I I THE BOWERS REALTY! CO. I REAL ESTATE. BONDS, LOANS, {S abstracts: I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- || stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience gj Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. gj MONEY

Charles Sowle left today for South Bend and Niles, Mich, on business. Ernst Doehrman and son of Preble | were business visitors in the city yesterday. Theodore and Herbert Rodenbeck went to Fort Wayne today noon for a visit. J. H. Brown of Geneva, of the Clifton Oil company, was here today on business. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller of Fort Wayne will arrive for a visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller over the Fourth. The Misses Ireta and Gladys Butler left today for Fort Wayne for a week's visit with their brother, Floyd Butler and family. Mrs. Cornelius Rodemaker and son Edward of Fort Wayne arrived in the city last evening and tomorrow will attend the Eiting-Omlor reunion whi'-h will be held in the Omlor woods. The reunion is an annual event. June 30 was the day set for the expriation of the appropriation of $lO.000 made by congress for the purchase of a postoffice site in Warsaw. Warsaw now lias neither a federal site nor an appropriation to look to. Mrs. Tom L. Smith of Phoenix. Arizona, who has been visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Henry Gunsett, left for Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon where she will visiit a day, before going to visit with relatives at Van Wert, Ohio. At a meeting at Bluffton a movement was started to have Wells county aid in raising contributions in the way of provisions for the Belgius. It is proposed to raise a carload of wheat in Wells county toward a ship load of wheat to be sent to Belgium.

Forest Thompson went to Ft. Wayne today nortn for a visit D. V Hteelo left thia Homi for JUttlca to visit with bis daughter, Mrs Charles Barnhart. William Kukelhan who had his thumb badly torn ttZa hay pulley, is getting along nicely. Mrs. Rebecca Eady and daughter. Vera, will visit in Fort Wayne over Sunday and ttte Fourth. Miss Irene Eady went to Bluffton to spend th* Fourth with the Misses Julia and Hertha Porter. Mrs. Mix who has been visiting at Willshire, Ohio, with her daughter, Mrs. Muter, left today for Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Randall Sprague left today noon for Fort Wayne and frem there will go to Fostoria, Ohio, for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Engeler and children will go to Bluffton this evening to spend Sunday and the Fourth ■with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Clayson Carroll and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Vail will motor to Lake Wawasee tomorrow morning to visit over the Fourth.

Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hathway and daughter Beatrice arrived this morning for a several days visit with relatives in Root township. Ever’ young man has a period when he tries t’ look like th’ picture in a clothin’ store ad. Ther’s too many new ways t’ git it. —Abe Martin. Mr. Harry Daniel of Chicago is here for an over Fourth visit with his mother, Mrs. Emma Daniel and his sister Mrs. C. C. Shafer and family. Mr. ana Mrs. F. V. Mills and daughter Victoria, will leave tomorrow for Milwaukee, Wis., to visit several days with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Milo McKinney. Mrs. Margaret Louthan returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit here with her siste r Mrs. Joshua Parrish who is quite ill. Mrs. Louthan and Mrs. T. R. Moore returned from a visit at the bedside of their brother. John Barnhart, who is quite 111. Jonas and Clair Coverdale of Nashville, Tenn., who are visiting with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hughes in Nashville, Tenn, are expected to arrive from Fort Wayne this week for another visit with their grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Cov erdale. Miss Maude Harper, who is working in South Bend, stopped off here for n short visit enroute to her home near Willshire. Ohio. She comes to attend the dedication of the new church and visit over the Fourth with her par ents. She was formerly employed at the Murray Hotel this city. Mrs. Peter Kirsch and daughter, Ly dia, will leave tomorrow morning for Holland. Mich, for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Van Eyck, who formerly lived here. They will accompany Mr. and Mrs. Glen Cowan as far as Grand Rapids and will stop off there for a short visit with Mrs. Fred Deininger. Mr. Thad Butler, former editor of the Herald and at present engaged with Paul Brown in the linotype business at Huntington, stopped off here yesterday fcr a few hours chat with old friends and to took after business. He and Miss Jean are summering at Lake Manitou near Rochester and are enjoying themselves fine. We .will appreciate it if you will tell us of any delay in securing your paper or of any discourtesy on the part of the carrier boys. We want them to serve you in a business way and we will try to see that they do so if you report. By this we do nnt mean that you are to necessarily find fault for, the boys have many trying experiences, but if you are not getting the paper promptly and as you order it. the matter should be reported. In the current issue of Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper published at Springfild, Ohio, a contributor writing under the title ’ Dumping Soil Into the Sea" tells how middle west farms lose eleven tons of earth a second. Following is an extract from what this writer reports: “Eleven tons of soil is carried into the Gulf of Mexico every second by the Mississippi River from its immense drainage district. This material amounts to 346 million tons every year, and is equal to the surface soil, 6 2-3 inches deep, of 346,000 acres." It is reported that a lady came to town the other day to have one of the clerks in a store measure her hand so that she might send the measurements to a mail-order house where site said, she could secure a pair of nice long white gloves to cover her sun-burned arms for the small sum of nineteen cents. The lady did not buy a single article in the store and evidently made the trip to town especially for the purpose of securing the proper measurement of her hand. How many people would exchange a trip to town and all the worry that is connected with ordering by mail for the small subs of nineteen cents that would be required to purchase a good pai? of gloves at home.—Berne Witness.

Mine Ruth Hanna returned to hei hoffie In Philadelphia yesterday aftei a weeks visit here with her uncle #ui aunt, Rev. and Mrs. Hanna. Mrs. David Smith returned to Ro cheater after a visit here with the Rev J. If. Rifling family. Miss Tillie Ilan sing nf Wabash will arrive this even Ing on the 5 o’clock car to spend Sun day ana the Fourth with the Hillings. Since the fifst of January ther< have been ninety-four applications ini enlistment in Uncle Sam’s navy al the Fort Wayne recruiting station, am of this number only a small per cent was accepted. Only one application was accepted during the month ol June at tlie local station and he war rejected at Indianapolis. The United States navy is now 600 below the com pletement. The 49th annual encampment of tlw Grand Army of the Republic, at whirl will occur the 50th anniversary of thr Grand Review, will be held in Wash ington, Sept. 27 to Ort. 3, next. This may be the last encampment of th< Grand Army. It will certainly be the last one for many of tlie aged veteram of ‘6l-65’. This historic event will lit of great interest to all newspaper read ers, and especially so to tlie old sold iers themselves. The Presbyterian Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary society will lie entertained Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. J. C. Patterson. All mVmbert are requested to attend. The follow Ing program will be given: Hymn: de votionals, conducted by Mrs. J. C Hanna; instrumental music—Miss Rose Smith; business period, hymn study. Miss Isaura Alban, topic being “The Child at School"; vocal solo, Miss Marie Patterson; social period; collection ; mizpah. David Grayson, writing his story "Hempfleld" in the July American Magazine, says: “It is a curious thing how people surprise us. In our vanity we begin to think we know them to the utermost. and then, one day, possibly by accident, possibly in a moment of emotion, a little secret door springs open in tlie smooth panel of their visible lives, and we see within a long, long corridor witli other doors and passages opening away from it in every direction —the vast secret chambers of their lives." For the use of motorists making long junkets and cooking their meals at roadside places along tlie way. a complete kitchen equipment, including a folding gasoline stove, has been brought out which may be carried on tlie running board of a car. Tlie outfit Is packed in a dust-tighe container which is neatly made and sightly in appearance. It is about 30 in. in length, 12 in. wide, and approximately 18 in. high. The special feature of the equipment is a two-hole folding gasoline stove that is built with an ample oven. The outfit is described with illustration, In the July PopuiLr Mechanics Magazine. Wfngshaped car invented by R. H. Roykin, division engineer of tlie Cincinnati division of the Erie, s to re adopted by four divisions under tlie jurisdiction of R. S. Parsons, general manager of Cleveland, according to a report given out at Marion, Ohio. After it has been used in the Meadville, Mahoning, Cincinnati and Chicago, divisions it will make a trip over the entire system. The car is equipped with a steel wing which projects from the side. As the car moves along the steel projection scrapes the dirt from the ties, giving an even roadbed and cutting the ballast and ditch lines in one operation. It is thought this will mean a great saving of both money and time. Mrs. John B. Best, aged fifty-two years, of Delphos, met witli a tragic and very sudden death, Thursday, when her throat was accidently cut as she fell on a pair of large shears, one of the blades puncturing the jug ular vein. She died within a few moments in the arms of her husband. The mishap occurred at the home of W. 8. McCaslin, where Mr. Best was hanging wall paper and his wife as slsting him, was also standing on a chair. Whether she slipped, or tell as the result of fainting spells, to which she had been subject, is not known. Mrs. Best had resided in Delphos since her marriage to Mr. Best thirty-two years ago. In the July Woman’s Home Companion Anne Bryan McCall writes an interesting “Tower Room Talk” about amusements and recreations. Site takes up dancing and the theater and other forms of amusements and dis cusses various forms of intolerance. Id the course of her article she tells the following little story about the prejudice t|iat existed in the mind of a Kentucky mountaineer: “1 knew an estimable old Kentucy niountaoineer who thought books little less than inventors of the devil, because his son having learned to read them had from that gone on to want a better education. and then developed a desire to go to the city. You kimjjome into mv house and welcome . he said to me, "but don’t you bring no books with you.”

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER “AND THEN SHE CRIED”

Rhe cried. Then she cried. And then she cried again. “Who?" did you ask?. Well.’it might fit most any woman. Sometimes I think if a man could cry as easy as a woman, he wouldn't get drunk any oftener. Albert Smith says tears are "Safety valves of tho heart, when too much pressure is laid on." If a man could relieve himself through tears, there would be less profanity and drinking. Tears do not seem to belong to any particular age of woman. They cry—from the youngest to the oldest. You will wonder why “tears” were suggested. Well, 1 know something ■about them myself, but 1 didn’t realize they were quite so general, till I happened into a store yesterday and the first thing 1 knew, I heard a voice talking about having felt bad and crying; and another answering that sometimes a good cry is the best relief, and then the first voice answered and said, yes. before she had her operation she cried about every day. I looked and saw a sad faced strange lady. And then I thought: “Well, maybe every woman cries more or less. I will keep my eyes open and see just what there is doing in that line. As a result. I say tears do not belong to any particular age of woman. They cry—from tho youngest to tho oldest; and for divers reasons and most often for no reason at all. There were the Joneese girl twins fourteen months old. One cried because she wanted a yellqw balloon. She let loose a regular howl —and got. the balloon. The other twin set up a howl because her sister did and she got a balloon, too. She didn't know what she was crying for and her surprise on seeing the balloon put in her hand was so great that she set up another how] to see what would happen that time, and she got a toy poodle dog. I didn't wait to see what the next howl would bring. Then, there was a little black-eyed girl three years old who fell down in a mud puddle and began to cry; and the little girl who cried because she had a toothache. There was another who cried because she was cross and slapped another little girl. The girl she slapped didn't cry nearly as much as the little girl who did the slapping and presently the little girl who slapped went up and kissed the girl she slapped and then both quit crying. Well. 1 went to write up a funeral and tha mother cried for her dead son. I went to write up a wedding and the mother sat in the midst of the splendid array of bridal gifts and the wedding finery, the dresses and veil and things, and cried for the daughter. I went to the interurban and saw a wo-

man going to Fort Wayne to exchange a wig for her husband. His wig had faded until it was a bright red and not at all the natural color of his hair, and the men guyed him. and lie said he wouldn’t wear it any more and the wife who felt sorry said she'd go to Fort Wayne and exchange it. And she cried because she felt sorry for her husband. Then there was the woman who cried because she was going to be married. I went to a lawyer’s office and there was a woman crying because she wanted to get a divorce. I saw another girl crying because her lover hadn’t written to her since the day before; and the next place 1 went the girl was crying because He had written and tlie letter was a page shorter than the one he had sent the day before and she thought he-didn't FOR SALE —Rubber tired phaeton, latest model, excellent condition, tires new. Call at Moses Greenhouse, or 'phone 475 or 195. 151tf LOST—Glass part of an automobile light west of the city. Finder return to this office and receive reward. 153t3 HOUSE FOR RENT —Corner of Fifth and Marshall streets. Modern, inquire Mrs. Elmer Sprague, Monroeville, Ind. 156t3

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

like her quite so well. The next place I went I heard about a woman who cried because her husband had left home that mornnig without kissing her. Another girl cried because some one had looked at her cross; another because some one bad said a cross word. The next place a girl was crying because a dear woman friend was leaving and had said so many kind things to her. 1 saw grandmother looking over her box of keepsakes. She unfolded a picture of her oldest son who had been killed in tho war. She was weeping. I went to a neighbor's and saw the mother was crying because little Johnny had just had his curls cut and was being taken out of dresses and put into trousers. Another woman wept because her little Mary's first tooth had come through. I heard another woman say she had cried every day of her life. Why, I don't know. She seemed to take a mournful interest in it; everybody else about her was mournful, too. “Tears, idle tears. I know not what they mean," says Tennyson. And, usually, in a woman, they do not mean very much. It is when a woman does not cry, that you may know the depths of her heart sorrow have been plumbed. You all remember that lyric in Tennyson's The Princess: “Home they brought her warrior dead: She ne'er swoone’d nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.’ ” All praises of the dead, failed to move her. then a nurse es ninety years sot his child upon her knee and the poet continues of the mother: “Like summer tempest came her tears — Sweet my child. 1 live for thee.” Elizabeth Harriett Browning tells it even more truly, in “Grief:” “I tell you. hopeless grief is passionless ; That only men incredulous of despair. Half taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access Os shrieking and reproach. Full desertness, In souls as countries, lieth silentbare. Under the blanching, vertical eye—glare

Os tlie absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man, express / Grief for thy dead in silent like unto death — Most like a monumental statue set In everlasting watch and moveless woe Till itself crumble to the dust beneath. Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet: If it could not weep, it would arise and go." While the majority admit that tears are the best thing for a woman, it goes without dispute that a weeping woman is more popular in the solitude of her own home. She is a very uncomfortable thing to have around, especially to a man. The current impression would be of course that the man had been abusing her, that he was to blame for the tears—and ten to one that is not so. She is just crying, well—O because! FOR SALE—Cheap if taken at once, large size go-cart. Call Phone No 54 9- ' 156t3. FOR SALE—An eight-room hotise and lot on Adams street. Size of lot, 70x200. See Dan Erwin. 139t24 ROOMS FOR RENT—Either for Office purpose or flat. Corner Monroe and Third streets. Inquire of Henry Krick. 157*6 FOR SALE -Two tine Shepard pups. Inquire of Ernst Doehrman, R. R. No. I—Phone Poe. 159i3

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Ua’» Work- When VouriStoreto Are Clogged. I CMttaUM rour fuU braia fewer bv ridding fouthcM at conetlp*1OD» blllouaoMa, uurt ouUoteorta alOokbox of Sentanal Laxative* iMjlght. Take one just before bed. BFU oleatf'oqt pour bowels, clear up the User, Ufeke you foul great 1 i Beutaxiel Laxatives are an ajl~voge« table compound put up In tablet form. Contain tu>« calomel, no hablt-formina drugs. Hvwty Ingredient a universal]? FnootOUZ nl remedy tar Constipation, torpid 11v-.t and all the ills that follow! Ju th Etartr yoyF UmUy pbyalctaa wrtte oa fava, conw r>f tM formula- Put te Tdn. WoTl stand by Ns deI Qtvd Sputanel Laxative* a try-out Bouight thono’your qruggM to send ftp a bat, JO dotes 10a. Or, if you prefer wrife ue tor trial package. ft’a Creo. The Rentanel Remedies Co.. MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of stockholders of the Old Adams County bank will be held at their banking house, Decatur, Indiana, at 10 o’clock a. m., on Tuesday, August 3, 1915, for the purpose of electing nine directors to serve for the ensuing year and to transact such other business as may come before them. E. X. EHINGER, 158t30 Cashier. — o —— JOR SALE —Top buggy, in good condition. Call on George Scheiferstein, Monmouth. Ind., R. R. 7. 155t4 Building for the future Many an industrious, far-seeing man can attribute his business success to the first dollar he deposited in a savings bank. That dollar can truly be regarded as the first stone in the foundation of his business structure. And many a young man today who is cultivating the habit of regular saving will have the same story to tell. Those wishing safe depository for funds ($1 or more) can find no institution more likely to safeguard t h eir interests than this bank. We solicit amounts or whatever size. Call any day. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA Members Federal Reserve Association. STAR GROCERY New Potatoes pk 25c Small Sack Flour 85c Spring wheat flour SI.OO Fresh Butter, lb .22c Quart Mason Cans qt 45c 2 doz. heavy can rubbers ...15c 2 Large Cans Milk 15c 7 small can milk 25c Soap, 6 bars for 25c Pink Salmon 10c Mason Can lids doz 20c Good Rio Coffee lb 15c 25 lb. sack of granulated J sugar at $1.65 Large Fancy Lemons doz. 20c Arbuckles Coffee, lb. 20c Old Reliable Colfe lb. 25c fl Will Johns,