Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1915 — Page 3

A PROGRESSIVE FARMER IS A TOP NOTCH FARMER. THE "TOP NOTCH" BOOT IS A PROGRESSIVE BOOT. A whole lot of farmers and “Top Notch” boots' have been getting together here in the last tew days. NOT HEAVY BUT TOUGH FOR WEAR CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

> WEATHER FORECAST j Partly cloudy and wanner tonight and Saturday. Mrs. Harry Deam went to Fort Wayne yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Kist went to Fort Wayne yesterday. Wilma and Velina Dailey went i i Angola today for a visit. When they discard those freak shoes will the skirts come down? it is up to mother to invent a morn Ing self-starter for sleepy sonny. Don’t envy your fellow man when he motors, he may be merely jitney ing. They are finding the engraved turtle again. Now for the belled buzzard. Is ■ sauerkraut a vegetable or an odor’ Somebody says it’s a poison ous gas. Henry Legg and Manila Hoots were marreid in Steuben county. That’s kicking one’s way into matrimony Clark Siebold of Chicago and Lucile Sii bold of Hamlet returned home after a visit here at the Dr. Elizabeth Burns home. Friends have received word from Edith Miller and Josephine Lang, who are at Bay City, Mich., that they are camping at the beach, and having a finq time, the water being fine. They are guests of Miss Miller’s sisters. Fosters denouncing liquor have bean posted in Erie offices and some of the cabooses. Some Erie officials had them placed where the employes could see them so as to help remind them of the responsibility of the positions they hold.

The Home Os Quafty Groceries SPECIAL THIS WEEK A Double handle splint market basket worth 25c for 14c with a dollar purchase at our store. While it lasts:- One case of fine Imperial Tea at 34c lb. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 16c Butter 15c to 21c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 L ' * IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. g| M -fl, I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE. BONDS, LOANS, h ! ' ABSTRACTS • |g I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- I street Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

Scott Hughes of Fort Wayne was a business visitor here. Trustee Fox of Hartford township I was here yesterday on business. George Brewster of Jefferson township was a business visitor here yesterday. Mrs. J. C. Moran and children, Margaret and Richard, went to Berne yesterday. Douglas Dudgeon of Blue Creek township was a business visitor here yesterday. Ther must be sumthin’ wrong with General Car ran ze or he’d git shaved. A first-class matchmaker is alius unhappy or divorced. —Abe Martin. Mrs. Andrew Gast of Celina. Ohio, formerly Miss Emma Gillig, of this city, is here visiting with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Gillig. south of the city. Since Montpelier went dry there Remains only one wet spot between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. That is the city of Anderson, which is in a good way to join the dry column this fall. A very enjoyable day was spent recently by a party of Decatur people at Kekionga camp, along the St. Mary’s river. Turtle soup and other refreshments were in order. It is said that several automobiles left very unexpectedly and some were obliged to walk back to town, a distance of two and a half miles or more. A public auction of Shetland ponies will be held in this city on Monday. August 16, at the Decatur Horse sale barns. About fifty head of the fine little ponies wilt be offered for sale. If your boy or girl wants a pony, now is the time to get one at your own price. The ponies are owned by the Jones brothers, of Redkey, Ind.

Mrs. C. H. Colter went to Fort iWayne thia morning. Mr. uud Mrs. Harry Battenberg and Mrs. Arnes went to Vicksburg, 'Mich., yesterday. ( Clyde Butler left today for Eatou, iWhere he will visit with relatives for a week or ten days. Mrs. Andrew Gass.of ■Celina formerly Miss Emma Qulin of this city was dn the city yesterday visiting with Triends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Brite aud sou. John George, went to Fort Wayne, ,to call on their brother, Joseph Geels, at the St. Joseph hospital. Miss Ethel Fuhrman left this morning for Lake Wawasee where she will Join others from this city in attending the Evangelical Y. P. A. convention. William Frazier, County Assessor, spent yesterday at the home of his son-in-law, two miles from Willshire. Ohio, where he assisted in picking geese. John Gerard and Abe Morgan of Vincennes the contractors for the big Blue Creek dreadging project in this county were here yesterday looking after business matters Mrs Harry Williams arrived from Indianapolis for a visit with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Baltzell. She was formerly Miss Ruth Baltzell. H«r ■sister, Electa, will return with her to spend her vacation in Indianapolis. Robert Macklin son of County Surveyor Phil Macklin is indeed a happy boy over the fa»t that he won the little pony given away at the dog and pony show. He won it with a lead of several thousand over the second tnan. Figures show that 1,040,000 cigarettes are consumed annually by students of Wisconsin University at g cost of $7,800. The cigarettes, it placed in a direct line, would reach around Lake Mendota twice. ! There is enough paper in the cigarettes consumed to make 1,300 library books of 100 pages each. There are enough cigarettes consumed to supply every one of the 6.000 students with 170 cigarettes a year. Pursuing the campaign against accidents to pedestrains. in which connection instruction has been given to school children and appeals to keep away from the tracks have been made from the pulpit, the police department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has issued a poem, “Nevers for Children" for distribution in communities reached by its rails through school author!-, ties and otiier public officials. Orders for all patrolmen to salute American flag as it pass them in par adeS In the street at Los Angeles went < into effect there today by direction of Chief of Police C. E. Snlviley. “A military salute takes but a second,” the order reads" and does not deter from duty. It is a sign of respect appreciated by every one who witnesses the evidence of loyalty. At the same time it will set an uplifting example to ”yo|Ung America.” We are in receipt of a post card dated July 22, Avonmouth, England, from our friend, Ralph Drew, who left here a few weeks ago for parts unknown. The card bears the English postage stamp and is postmarked Bristol. England. Mr. Drew does not say what he is doing so far from home, hut states that he escaped the German submarines and that everything is strange and new to him. He will be back in the United States in about three weeks from the date of the cart! and directs us to send him the Herald at Newport News, Va., — Geneva Herald. Continued cloudy weather has retarded drying off the fields and actual plowing did not begin yesterday at the big Illinois tractor demonstration at Champaign. Nevertheless between fl.OOii and 7.U00 people were interested spectators and investigators in the new tented tractor city which lias sprung up in Miller’s grove just outside the western boundary of the city. With favorable weather from now on demonstration plowing is expected to be in progress Thursday or Friday. Should weather conditions warrant the demonstration will he continued all day Saturday, all the tractor men being anxious to stay over in order to give more complete exhibitions of what their machines really will do under normal conditions. In general this year’s war cost has equalled the ten-year expense of equipping and maintaining the armies and navies of Europe. It is equal to the cost of all previous wars since Napoleon first started to lead Europe and it compares with a cost of the Napoleonic wars, estimated at $6,700,000,006; with $5,000,000,000, the cost of the United States civil war: with $2,500,000,000, the cost of the FrancoPrussian war; with $1,165,000,000. the cost of the Spanish-American war; with $1,000,000,000, the cost of the Boer war; $2„500,000,000, the cost of the Russo-Japanese war; and $2,100,000,000, the cost of the two Balkan wars.—From "The Cost of a Year of War.” by Charles F. Speare. in the American Review of Reviews for Au- | gust.

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UXITAIHTI'R|.;s AX I) TAX LEVIES FOR THE YEAR 1»I6. The Trustee of Kirklaud Township. Adams County, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the. Advisory Board at its annual meetinsr to be held at the office of the Township Trustee, on the 7th day* of September, 1915, commencing - at two o’clock p. m.. the following estimates and amounts for said year: 1. Township expenditures, $927.38, and township tax. 8 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures, $1,970.69, and tax, 17 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special school tax expenditures, $1,391.07, and tax, 12 cents on the hundred dollars. 4. Road tax expenditures, $347.77, and tax, 3 cents on the hundred dolla rs. Total expenditures, $ 1,636.91, and total tax, 40 cents on the hundred dollars. The taxables of the above named township are as follows: Total valuation of lands and Provements $662,770.00 Total valuation of personal property 244,920.00 Valuation of railroads, express companies, palace car companies, telegraph lines, telephone lines, etc., etc., (estimated from last •year’s tax duplicate! 283,485.00 $1,191,175.00 Amount of credit on account of mortgage exemption 31,945.00 Net taxable property of township $1,159,230.00 Number of polls, 152. Signed. GEO. M. T. HOUCK, Trustee. Dated, August 4, 1915. O EXPEMMTI RF.S A\ !> TAX LEVIES FOR THE YEAR IttlU. The Trustee of Root Township, Adams County, proposes for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting, to be held at my office, on the 7th day <»f September, 1915, commencing at 1 o’clock p. m., the folowing estimates and amounts for said year: 1. Township expenditures. $1,159x0, anw township tax, 7 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition expenditures. $828.43, and tax, 5 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special school tax expenditures, $5,301.98, and tax, 32 cents on the hundred dollars. 4. Road tax expenditures, $1 ,325.19, ami tax, 8 cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Additional road tax expenditures, $1,656.87, and tax, 10 cents on the hundred dollars. 6. Poor expenditures for preceding ‘year. $225.41, and tax, — cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures. $10,272.57, and total tax. 62 rents on the hundred Holla rs. The taxables of the above named township are as follows: Total valuation of lands and improvements $1,007,715.00 Total valuation of personal property 12 1,045.00 Valuation of railroads, express companies, palace car companies, telegraph lines, telephone lines, etc.. etc., (estimated from last year’s tax duplicate) 271.135.00 $1,703,195.00 Amount of credit on account mortgage exemption 46,32 r ‘.oo Net taxable property of Township $1,656,870.00 Number of polls, 206. Signed. PHIL L. SCHIEEERS’I EIN. Trustee. Dated. August ■ 1915. o Democrat Want Ads Pay.

L. W. Frank went to Fort Wayne today on business relative to the contemplated purchase of an automobile. Henry Krick will leave Monday for California where lie will take in the exposition. He will join the other Decatur people wlio intend to go to California Monday.

| 1 1 . ANNOUNCEMENT ( The following prices f.o.b. Detroit, effective Aug. 2, 1915: - ■' Ford Runabouts39o.oo , Ford Touring Car 440.00 Ford Town Car 640.00 } ! j No speedometer included in this year’s ■I * equipment, otherwise cars fully equipped. There can be no assurance given against an advance in these f’ prices at any time. We guarantee, however, that there win be no reduction in these prices prior to Aug. 1, 1916. Profit-Sharing with Retail Buyers On August 1, 1914, we made the announcement that if we could make and sell at retail 300,000 Ford cars between August 1, 1914, i and August 1, 1915, we would share profits with the retail purchasers, to the extent of from S4O to S6O on each car. We have sold over 300,000 Ford cars in the time specified, and profit-sharing checks of SSO each will be distributed as rapidly as possible after August 15, 1915. Retail purchasers who have not yet mailed us , their profit-sharing coupons, properly endorsed, should do so without delay. Our plan to profit-share with retail purchasers of Ford cars during 1914-15 has been most successful. We thoroughly believe in it, but, realizing the uncertainty of conditions generally, makes it advisable to defer any announcement of future profit-sharing until a later date. U ' We are, however, confident of our inability to reduce costs for several months, and therefore can offer no profit-sharing for cars delivered during August, September and October, 1915. Il I II 4x2) DETROIT - I For Sale by, KALVER-NOBLE GARAGE CO. ■ , l 11 i' nil —————J-tfMnMry* 7 --raiaeii hi M—ai—ii* 'mu 1

Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Adams went lo Fort Wayne for a visit today noon. Mrs. Paul Reinking and babe went to Fort Wayne today noon. Mrs. Jay t line and son went to; Fort Wayne to call on her niece, Mis. i Adams of Maysville, who is a patient at the hospital.

Jacob J. Schwartz and children Reulu n, Uosina and liuldali, went to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Edith Gauze of Willshire, 0,. i < hanged cars here on her way to Fort Wayne where she will join the O. G. Schubert family in a trip to the lakes.