Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1915 — Page 3

* I % A PARTICULARLY PLEASING COMFORT SHOE for the woman who wants to go—the minute she gets up in the morning, or who demands comfort, good looks and quick action. Easy on and easy off, comfort all day long from the first to the last day you wear them—all this and more, think of it—for $1.75 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

MMmmnMitmittmmrantMnn • WEATHER FORECAST | Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Fred Rohrer of Berne was a business visitor here today. The second July meeting of the city council will be held this evening. Mrs. Adam Deam and Mrs. Clifford Hakey spent the day at Hesse Cassel. J. A. Anderson of Muncie, who vj s . ited here, left this morning for Fort Wayne. Attorneys Schafer Peterson and C. C. Lutz were business visitors in Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Miller of Portland is here visiting with her daughter, Mrs. W. Staley, a week. Dr. H. E. Keller has returned from Oden, Mich., where he enjoyed a two weeks’ vacation at the Hentzey cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Myers and children, James and Rosa, of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here on their way to Fort Wayne. Robert Gerard will leave tomorrow from Fort Wayne for a trip to Niagara Falls. He will take the boat trip from Cleveland to Buffalo, and will have a delightful time. The inventive geious has quickly found away to combat the deadly submarine. High speed boats, heavily built, and set low in the water, are to he used to ram the undersea craft. The Misses Nevah and Naomi Laman of Battle ( reek. Mich., are here visiting with their grandfather, Al Steele. Their mother, Annah Laman Williams, who has been quite ill, is Letter.

The Home Os Quality Groceries Water Melons .. ...20c to 25c Lemons, doz 20c No. 1. Salt White Fish, lb. 12JAc Daisy Fly Killers 1 5c Home Honey, Square .. . IZJ'gC Magic Fly Killers 10c Extracted Honey, qt 40c Fly Swatters 5 and 10c Home Onions, lb. ........2!4c Fish Flakes 10c Home Cabbage lb ...2c Vienna Sausage 10c New Potatoes, pk. . . 20c Corned Beef 25c Get a Picnic Set 10c ' Napkins, Table Cloth and Plates. 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 J President Secretary Treas. I. I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I B REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS I The Sdrrmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- | stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

Attorneys C. J. Lutz and Shafer Peterson and Eli Peterson went to Fort Wayne this morning. Today is the last day to pay your city light and water bills. Better do so and avoid the penalty. Mrs. E. Woods has returned from a two weeks’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Polhemus, at Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Nilius left this morning for Milwaukee, having been called there by" the death of Mrs. Nilius’ mother. Mr. and Mrs. Walt Johnson and son a l, at Winona Lake attending the ccnvention of the Ohio Farmers' insurance company's representatives today and tomorrow. , Mr. and Mrs. John Vail and sons. Tom and Forest, and Mr. and Mrs. John Rice, left this morning by automobile for North Webster, Ind., where they will enjoy a week or ten days' outing. Paul Blackburn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Page Blackburn, left this morning for Fort Wayne, where he will take a course in the Fort Wayne business college. He was a member of the 1915 class of the Decatur high school, graduating in May. The overflowing of the Mississinewa and Wabash rivers at Peru, has brought fear of a repetition of the floods of 1913. A pari of the city and much land is under water, but people scarcely expect the water will rise to the height of two years ago. Great Britain’s war debt is leaping upward at the rate of fifteen million dollars a day. The interest amounts to $5.(12 per capita for every man. woman, and child of that government. In the United States the war debt interest amounts to twenty-three cents' a year per capita.

Miss pess Fisher has returned from a visit with Miss Clara Harris in Ft. Wayne. Miss Della Sellemeyer has returned from Toledo. Ohio, where she spent a week with Mias Lucile Masters. Tho girls were school mates at Angola. "My son,” said the aged and experienced man reflectively, "never eatlmate a woman's age by the date of her birth.”—August Woman’s Home Companion. The Kalvei'-Noble company has sold a Ford runabout to the Hoosier Packing company. It will be used in looking after the business of that successful company. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lewton and daughter, Eloise; Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Peoples are now at Home City, where they will spend two weeks at the Graves cottage. They went Sunday. T. M. Reid of the Waring Glove company is back at his desk after a several weeks’ vacation, spent at his Rome City cottage. He has a healthy color and says he feels as good as he looks. A number of people from Berne, Monroe, Geneva and Portland and the surrounding community are expected in the city his evening to attend the Alice Nielson entertainment at the Chautauqua. “Goody, Ike’s here, fer 1 heard a Ford door ” said Miss Fawn Lippincutt, last night, as she excused herself t’ a party o’ friends. Nate Tansey, o’ th’ Roosevelt club, is wearin’ his uniform ever’day.—Abe Martin. Denis O’Mara of Muncie and James Guffigan of Portland, the latter a former citizen of this good old county, and both as “hale fellows, well met” as you ever shook hands with, were here today attending to business of importance. They looked up their old friend. Attorney J. C. Moran, and a few others and enjoyed the day.

Tom Haefling, of Indianapolis, electrician at the state house, is here for a visit with friends and relatives, joining his family which came two weeks ago. Tom has made good at the state house, where he has made many friends and where they think he is the one and only electrician in the state—because he does his work and does it well. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. James Hurst have received word that they are enjoying themselves at the home of their son, Will Hurst, and family at Hock Island, 111. They also expect to visit at Moline, and Davenport, la., before returning. Prior to going to Rock Island they visited at South Bend with their daughter. Mrs. Albert Katterheinrich. Miss Grace Hurst, who accompanied them, remained at South Bend. Farm and Fireside says: "Samples of butter from Siberia have been imported into California. Few Americans are aware of the immensity of the dairy industry in that vast region stretching from Russia to the Pacific, and from the Chinese empire to tlie Arctic ocean—a domain as large as three Canadas. This Siberian butter was pronounced about second class. Some of it sold on the eastern markets last year for twenty-four cents a pound.” Virginia apples were sold in the Panama canal zone for the first time during the past season, the market agent of the Southern railway having put the growers in touch with the purchasing department of the Panama lailroad. which supplies food products t > the population throughout the zone. Many car loads of pippins and winesaps from orchards along the Southern railway, north and south of Charlottesville, were sent to the isthmus, weekly shipments, having varied from 150 to 500 barrels. Members of the local tennis club announce that a tenis tournament has been arranged for tomorrow afternoon between Bluffton. Geneva, Berne and this city. The tournament will be held on the club’s courts just south of the Erie railroad and everyone is cordially invited. It will be remembered that several weeks ago a similar tournament was held at Bluffton, in which the Decatur teams won second place, Bluffton carrying off the first honors. The local boys have been practicing hard since then, however, and feel confident that they can best all opponents. It will be a good scrap any way, so come out. The tournament will start promptly at 12:30. Andrew Idlewine of Geneva suffered a fracture of his left arm and hand Saturday evening when his horse kicked him. The small bone of the arm was broken just above the wrist and the bone in the hand leading to the small finger was broken. Mr. Idlewine is seventy-three years of age and the horse, which kicked him. is twenty-seven years old. The horse was leaning over a fence eating grass in a meadow near, the Idlewine home when Mr. Idlewine approached the animal from the rear and struck It as a chastisment for its breaking down the fence. The horse backed a few steps and then “let go" with its foot, showing great activity for its old age. Idlewine was unable to show the same j activity in getting out of the way.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Sheriff and Mrs. Ed Green left this morning for Richmond. They accompanied Mrs. George Krick of Elm street, to that place, where she will be committed to the hospital for treatment. Attorney J. T. Merryman tiled a partition suit in the circuit court for Cecile M. Miller vs. Jesse J. Girod et al. The land involved is a SIO,OOO farm in Wabash township. Jesse Carpenter has filed a petition asking court for a guardian for Mrs. Susan Carpenter, who account of old ago and infirmities of health, is incapable of managing her own estate. o FACES SERIOUS CHARGE. Detroit, Mich., July 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Alleged to have bene caught in a well-laid trap with $3,000 of Clarence L. Ay.er’s money in his possession, James F, Matson, publisher of an insurance magazine in Indinaapolis, faced charges of criminal libel in a justice's court here today. Matson was arraigned this afternoon and his examination set for July 30. On the extortion charge, bail was fixed at $2,500, and on the criminal libel charge at SSOO. He was unable to furnish bond.

HANDING YOU MONEY THE TIME FOR OUR SUMMER CLEARANCE HAS ARRIVED AGAIN. BEGINING ON Thursday July 22nd Ending Aug. 7th aaaaMk-uMMaiBBaiMMUKiaiMMaMaBaMMBKMaBBMaMwwaBaMMMMMnuaaaMmBMa waßaeeiMMaMHWKw «■ ■■ n———» ■■■■■■> We are going to dish out some of the greatest clothing bargains ever given in Decatur. Every man that makes a clothing purchase during this sale will have a portion of his money handed back to him. This applies to made-to-measure suits as well as ready made suits. 31-3 Cents GENTLEMEN S WHITE HANDKERCHIEFS 3 for 10c 3 1-3 Cents LOT NO. 1. j LOT NO. 2. 100 MEN’S FANCY SUITS 300 MEN’S FANCY SUITS SIO.OO Men’s Suits 4.95 SIO.OO Men’s Suits ..$ 6.95 12.00 Men’s Suits .. 6.95 /u/' / i 12..)0 Men s Suits .. 8.95 15.00 Men’s Suits . . 8.95 15.00 Men's Suits .. 11.95 18.00 Men’s Suits .. 9.95 18.00 Men's Suits .. 13.95 20.00 Men’s Suits 10.95 20.00 Men's Suits . . 14.95 25.00 Men’s Suits .. 12.95 25.00 Men's Suits .. 17.95 AIL BOYS SUITS HATS All s2.ao Boys Suits $1.95 \' 1 flr All Straw Hats halt price. All 3.50 Boys’ Suits 2.95 1 I All Panama and Leghorn All 5.00 Boys’ Suits 3.95 i1 X Hats, 20 per cent off. All 6.50 Bovs’ Suits 4.95 X Felt and Still Hats. ... r n- w $3.00 Hals $2.25 All 7.0(> Boys Sulls <>.95 J W jg, 2.011 Hals , MEN’S SILK SHIRTS I $ £ O » 1.20 $4.00 Silk Shirts ....$2.75 1. wl h3.50 Sil kShirls .... 2.00 S f jlMlp \\ Wo '’ a H’aeh Suits »7.00 > z|v # (utlLjV ™ Kuppenhcinier make 2.. 10 Silk Shirts .... 1.8.) JJ! f $7.50 Palm Beach Suits 1.. Silk Shil’ls .... 4.15 Copyright 1914 TheHoiue of Kuppeahcimer __ , Mens $5.00 Rain 200 Ide $1.50 Coats Shirts S 4OO 98c GfpM. ' » ,0 ° SI.OO caps t 11 b l nion Close Crotch I Underwear 75c * y.pui Odd Pants for Men al good reductions. VANCE&HITE DECATUR’S CLOTHIERS

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. * • Notice ii hereby given to all property owners and residents of the city of Decatur, Indiana, to cut down all weeds and remove all rubbish that may have accumalated and may become offensive or injurious to the public health, wit n in the next ten day. In event of failure to comply with this notice t n e street commissioner will have said weeds cut down and rubbish removed at the expense of the owner or occupant. DR. H. F. COSTELLO, 173t6. Secy. City Board of Health. — (. THIRD ENDOWMENT TO KINTZ. Henry A. Kintz, one of the best knowif farmers of this county, lias paid out his third endowment' life insurance policy in the Aetna of Hartford and received the money. The following letter written by him to tiie district agent, Mr. Orr, of Fort Wayne, explains itself and proves the thrift of Mr. Kintz: Decatur, Ind., R. F. I)., 7., July 19, To. C. W. Orr, Manager. Fort Wayne, Ind.: Dear Sir: —I want to acknowledge payment of my $2,000, ten-year endowment policy in the old Aetna of

Hartford, Connecticut. having this day received the company’s check for that amount with my ten years’ accumulated profits added to It. “In the thirty years that 1 have done business with the Aetna, this Is tlic third ten-year endowment I had paid to me by your company and they have all been ho satisfactory that 1 would take out my fourth policy but you say I am now too old. “I like the way you do business. You have paid each endowment the day it was due. “Thanking you for always giving my business your prompt attention, I am, "Yours truly, “HENRY A. KINTZ." C. A. Dugan went to Richmond this morning, where he is having his Westcott ear gone over at the factory. He will return this evening. The four clothing stores in Decatur are anouneipg special sales on all summer goods. If it's bargains you are hunting it will prove profitable if you read their announcements over carefully. o_— FOR RENT—Furnished room, strictly modern. Call Mrs. J. H. Stewart. South Third street. 174tf GIRL WANTED - For general housework in small family. No washing. Call either ’phones 606 or 705. 174t3

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