Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1915 — Page 3

Some Fellows Don’t want fjffN * to put much money in a rub- & | ber boot at this time ot the .jjßf; 1 year and you can’t hardly get 'M along without them this kind o£ weather. This Ronnoc boot fills the bill nad it is just mKsj&SBS/ as good as it looks, snag vamp, rolled edge re-cnto:-ces at the edge and only $2.95 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

aiaunaan:?::::: mart;::::: a I WEATHER FORECAST j Cloudy and showers tonight. Thursday fair. John Hesaler lilt today noon lor his home in Fort Wayne. J. D. WinloroL'K of Dime was her< yesterday on business. Oscar Hoflman went to Fort Wayne today noon on business. Samuel 3hackley went to Ft. Wayne today noon on business Miss Freda Khlerdinfe of I’rebio ’ was a shopper in the cit>~yesterday. Miss Vera Eady lias gone to Fort Wayne for a two weeks' visit with her sister Mrs. Harry Kruge. Julius Reinking. of South Bend is the guest of his brother, Paul Reinking and other relatives. Miss Georgia Faust of Chicago arrived for a visit with Iter parents. Mr. and Mr 6. Homer Faust. The residence of Mrs. Anuah Daman Williams, corner of Fourth and Madison streets, is being repainted. Mrs. Daisy Bailenger was unable to be at the Baughman five anti ten cent store today o naecount of having a bad cold. Mrs. Otis Dibble and son of Lansing, Mich., have arrived for a visit with Mrs. Dibble’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Will Butler. Mr. Dibble will probably arrive the datter part of the week. Miss Irene Gerard has been having a delightful vacation visit at Gallon, Ohio, and will leave there today for Toledo, Ohio, for the rest of her two weeks’ vacation. She is stenographer for the Erwin law office.

[he Home Os Quality 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 ease 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 (i. R. & I. Depot Phone 108 HF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN | If President Secretary Treas. p I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. § tl REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, i | ABSTRACTS man * b I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- || |f stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience si Farms, City Property,'s peifcent.' i MONEY f

' ’ T" 1 1 John Messier of Fort- Wayne was a business visitor here today. Miss Elizabeth Kintz left for Fort ! Wayne this morning for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fritzinger went to Monmouth this morning. Miss Florence' Mover went to Fort i Wayne today for a visit with relatives. Cheer up, this little rain will settle the dust that has grown within the past two days. The business men's association held their regular session last evening at the public library. The Dick Miller family of Indianapolis have joined the J. H. Heller family at Rome City for a ten days outing at the lake. The Misses Agnes Krick. Alice Brandyberry and Mrs. Louis Dolch left this morning for Crooked Luke for a visit until Saturday. Donald Patterson left this noon for an extended visit with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wissdrt a* Morgan, Colorado. Bernard Brake formerly in charge of the Adams express office in this city has gone to Detroit where lie lias accepted a position. Miss Bertha Dauer of Fort Wayne, who is spending her Vacation with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Dauer, went to Fort Wayne for the day. Mss Dorothy Schultz who vsited in Detroit,, has returned to Fort Wayne and will be the guest of relatives there the remainder of the week. \ To break the monotony of three nice sunshinny days the weather man sent an all day rain to this vicinity undoubtedly to prevent the farmers from over exerting themselves in the harvest fields.

E. D. Ungelar loft today norm lot Fort Wayne on business. I Miss Agnes flilllg was the guest ol Mrs. Mttry Steele at dinner today. Orden Parrish has been confined L his home on Eighth street with ser ioiis illness. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Weber of Fort Wayne spent Saturday at the John Weber home. Mrs. Sol David and two youngest children have returned from a visit with her daughters in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. 0. Cherryholmes left today for their home in East St. Louis after a visit of a week witli relatives here. Miss Agnes Krick of Gary, who has befeu visiting with her parents, Mv. and Mrs. Henry Krick, left today lor Crooked Lake where she will visit until Saturday. Mrs. Clarence Baughman and daughter, Bertha, have returned from Toledo where they were since last Friday. They bought goods for the Baughman five and ten cent store and also attended the convention of the Five and Ten Cent Retail Merchants’ Association. The winter quarters for a number > of circuses at Peru may never be used again, according to Col. B. E. Wallace 1 owner of the estate. None of tile contracts with the circuses have been renewed and it is not likely tlyit any will l>e. The big farm will be turned into a stock farm. J. H. Hooper, recently declared a leper by authorities at the University of Michigaij, is unable to find a home and is shunned by friends and relatives. Authorities at St. Joseph and Cass counties, Michigan, are quarreling over the legal residence of Hooner, because neither want to care for him. The live prisoners in the Elkhart city jail, who were placed on a bread and water diet when they refused to work on the streets, were lined up before Judge Sawyer and told that the time they were spending in idleness did not apply on their sentences. Four decided to go to work and th* fifth stated that he was not able to work. Tile little card hanging on the wall of nearly every business house and office of North Manchester bears these words- "We are members of the North Manchaster lndustral accosiation and have agreed not to subscribe to advertising schemes or to any proposition to raise money by public suitscript ion unless endorsed in writing by the secretary of the association.’’ Charles A . Greathouse, state superintendent of public Instruction, has completed the course- of study for the public schools of the state. The curriculum includes a course in Indiana history to be studied from the third to the eighth grades as recommended by the inmana centennial commission. Tlte high school work will remain about the same as in previous years. Milton Kenworthy, for the past sevearel years employed as chauffeur for A. J. Smith, has resigned his position and will go to Elkhart where he has accepted a place with the G. C. Coon horn factory. Mr. Kenworthy will be succeeded by Cecil Cole, formerly employed as book-keeper for the KalverTs’oble garage. Roy Kalver will have charge of the books at the latter place until school opens. At Champaign, 111., last week the Illinois Tractor Demonstration was tin unqualified success despite heavy rains that rendered impossible, the extensive plowing tests planned. Os the S! companies entered. 31 were there •with exhibits and each gave satisfactory demonstrations in actual field work on Wednesday and Thursday. Ovfer 100 tractors were taken to Champaign and exhibited in the parked area just west of the city limits. According to word received here from Linn Grove, Prof. L. E. Opliger, formerly county superintendent of Adams county, will be the new principal of the Linn Grove schools the coming term. He has been a teacher and educator for the past fifteen years, and Linn Grove is his old home town, he having taught there shortly after he completed his education. and previous to his election as county superintendent. At Linn Grove he will succeed Prof. E. E. Roberts, who has been engaged to teacli at Liberty Center.—Bluffton News. "The Blue and the Gray" Is the title of a historical booklet Issued by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad descriptive of battlefields on or near its lines, and which bears evidence of bitter conflicts which stirred the American people in Revolutionary and Civil war times. The booklet is attractively prepared ami elaborately illustrated by views of points of historic interest, in the cover dosgn embodying the emblem of men who wore the blue and those who wore the gray'. The booklet is being distributed free to students of history and to tourists through the passenger department of the railroad.

>r William Brokuw left today noon for Fort Wayne on business. 11 Tony Hackman returned from Detroit, Midi., where ho visited wUji the o I). M. Reid family, Mr. and Mrs. (’. E. Stauffer of Berne changed cars here enroute to Fort 1 Wayne on business n Mrs. William David went to Decatur t last evening to visit in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Willis Whltenber--1 ger. , Work lias been started at Franklin a 011 the new Masonic home buildings s to be erected anp equipped at a coat of $200,000. Buildings to be construct- # ®d are the administration building , two cottages, hospital, laundry and power house. r t Pinky Kerr joined th’ Palm Beach t lull, yisterday, an' wuz sworn t’ secrecy, However, we’re reliably informed that he paid $4.99. Speakin o' little animals that know tlier business, not ' * single ruler lias been killed in th’ European war.—Abe Martin. i A movement started by Arthur Lor . ant, a “dry” leader, hacked h ytlie endeavor societies of the’Presbyterian , and Christian churches, as well as the I Baptist Young People’s Union, is for , an automobile imrade of 3,000 ma- , chines, whose occupants would wait , upon the county commissioners an-i , ask them to grant liquor licenses in Center township to men who would not operate saloons. The township voted "wet” last week. The Freneh-liunyon reunion will be held Sunday, August 15, at the Meschberger grove at Stop 65 on the B. *3. * C. traction line. Prof. M. M. Dunl»ar, Judge Smith of Decatur, and Ben Heil, of Linn Grove, are on the pro gram prepared by the officers. Tin Linn Grove band and tiie Linn Grove male quartet will b ein atendance. A big dinner will be served free of charge and a good time is guaranteed by Chester Hall, secretary of tile organization. The Pennsylvania gave orders Satur day for ninety-four locomotives in the Juiata shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona. There will t>e twenty-six of heavy freight type and sixty-eight for shifting work. These ninty-t'our locomotives w il, cost about $1,350,000. Last March the Pennsylvania Railroad system require ments for new locomotives this year were announced. All for replace ments the number was 194. Os these 100 were put under construction in April, half of them in the Juniata shops. “Be on the look-out for a thief driving a new Ford car with serial number 36132,” This *as the message night policeman Reynolds received from Charles Lenz, chief of police at Fort Wayne, late Monday afternoon The car was stolen right under the nose of the police,” added the Fort Wayne official. Local authorities wre on the lookout for tlte auto thief, hut saw no one driving the machine here. A policeman was standing near the machine when the thief stole the car, and at the time paid no attention to the proceedings thinking it was the owner of the car. Shortly afterwards the real owner of tlte car turned up only to learn his car had been taken. SULPHUR DRIES UP ECZEMA AND STOPS ITCHING This old time skin healer ia used just like any cold cream. Sulphur, says a renowned dermatologist, just common bold-sulphur made into a thick cream will soothe and heal the akin when irritated and broken out with ’Eczema or any form of eruption. The moment, it is applied all itching ceases and after two or three applications the Eczema disappears, leaving the skin clear and smooth. i Fie tells Eczema sufferers to got. from any good pharmacy an ounce of boldsulphur and apply it to the irritated parts the some as" you would any cold or cam. For many years common bold-sulphur has occupied a secure position inf the practice of dermatology and cutaneous , affections by reason at its parasito-de- | stroying property. It iH not only para- i sitleidal, hut. also antipruritic, antiseptic and remarkably healing in all irritable and inflammatory conditions of the skin. While not always effecting a permanent cure it never fails to in stantly subdue the angry itching and irritation and heal the Eczema right up and it is often years later before | any eruption again appears on the skin. THE,ART OF SELLING Full CASH— This little brochure explains fully how we can sell your real estate or business for cash; no matter where located. We mean it. Write today describing what you liavo to sell, buy lor exchange, and receive this booklet free.—tß. F. Loos Co., 403 W. Walnut St., Des Moines, lowa. m-th-175tt

i- j nBMnHWKnmrtumLtMHaaBnHnaHnBBaHanHHgHHWMHHHBHBi August Reduction Sale On Buggies and Light and Heavy Harness ! Having decided to reduce our extensive line of Old Hickory and Parry Buggies, also all of I our light single and and heavy double work harness, we will give a 15 per cent discount on the above named goods during the month of August. This is all seasonable, guaranteed merchandise and is one of the greatest bargains of the year. Schqtib-Dowling Co.

GLASS OF SALTS CLEANS KIDNEYS If your Back u aching or Bladder bothers, drink lots of water and eat less meat. When your kidneys hurt and your back feels sore, don’t get scared and proceed to load your stomach with a lot of drugs that excite the kidneys and irritate the entire urinary tract. Keep your kidneys clean like you keep your bowels clean, by flushing them with a mild, harmless salts which removes the body’s urinous waste and stimulates them to their normal activity. The function of the kidneys is to filter the blood. In ”4 hours they strain from iT 500 grains of acid and waste, so we can readily understand thq vital importance of keeping the kidneys active. Drink lots of water—you can’t drink too much; also got, from any pharmacist about four* ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water I before breakfast each morning for a few days and your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithin, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate clogged kidneys; also to neutralize the acids in urine so it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep their kidneys clean and active. Try this, also keep up the water drinking, and no doubt you will wonder what became of your kidney trouble and backache. oNOTICE. We will start our cider mill August 3, 1915, and will make cider every Tuesday and Thursday until further 1 notice. Factory, North Third street. 182tf PETER KIRSCH.

I BIG CUT | |ln Summer Dresses I II ——II £ Any $6.00 Summer Dress goes at $3.89 s j] “ 4.50 “ “ “ “ 2.48 fj s “ 3.50 “ “ “ 1.98 M f. “ 2.50 “ “ “ “ 1.65 = II “ 1.75 “ “ “ “ 1.25 II | “ 1.25 “ “ “ “ .89 I THE BOSTON STORE | ** Dry <fc Groceries.

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