Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1915 — Page 3

I DONT BLAME SOME OF YOU WOMEN - , that have to gel in the wet, for not wanting to weai heavy shoes, Ypu don’t need to wear them. We yp gQt a shv.e that looks like a dress shoe and it is soft and easy on the foot, but it will | stand most any kind of wear you want to put it to. Lace or Button $2.50 I CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. X AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

I WEATHER FORECAST | BLoeal showers tonight. Wednesday cloudy. ' . Beavers went to Clear latke for an outing. Howard WJsehaupt of Kingsland was a visitor here Sunday. IWrs. Shafer Peterson visited ye.terday afternoon in Monmouth. |i ; |Bej'Uty Surveyor Dick longshore spent Sunday with his parents near Ossian. i JJAiss Hazel Mat klin returned yesterday morning from Geneva where she visited over Sunday with her mother. I The Charlie Voglewede family niotK ored to Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon where they enjoyed a few hours at Swinney park. George Steele of Huntington joined his wife and children here for a visit over Sunday. Mrs. Steele and child-, ren were here a week. Hubert Schmitt, Raymond Gass. PoxParent, Leo Ehinger and Wilbur Por ter were guests of friends in Fort Wayne Sunday evening. .William McConnehey returned to his home in Fort Wayne yesterday’ afternoon after a visit here with his grandmother. Mrs. Yager. Dr. Clyde Baumgartner and Dr. Glock of Arcola are here for a short visit with tile former's parents' Mr. and Mis- L. L. Baumgartner. Mr. ana Mrs. C. (’. Schafer and family and Mr, and Mrs. Fred Schater motored to Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon where they enjoyed themselves at .tji.e parks.

The Home Os Quality Groceries Peaches This Week > Fancy Alberta Peaches:Free stone-good color-Firm-For Canning A good price, and a good time to buy Around $1.65 per bushel. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 16c Butter 18c to 23c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot PhOnC _ 10 *L I F QM. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN g| M President Secretary Treas? I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I H REAL ESTATE. BONDS, LOANS, [g ABSTRACTS ‘ |J The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- || stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience g Farms, City Property,’s percent. S MONEY I

Mrs. Dick Hill and daughter, Mabel, spent the day in Fort Wayne. Miss Bess Tonnelier of the Charlici Elzey store, is taking a week's vacation. It is John Hocker instead of C. E. Hocker, who has gone to Oden, Mich., for a visit. Joseph Hocker of Elkhart, formerly of Monroe, was a business visitor in the city today. Miss Nellie Blackburn has returned from a visit with her sister Mrs. Scott Bockover at Riley, Ohio. J. 11. Heller reutrned to Rome City, this morning to spend the balame of the week with his family. Mrs. Reaser and daughter. Eva. of Fort Wayne, visited with her stepdaughter, Mrs. James Watts at Monmouth. Dr. and Mrs. S. D. Beavers and sons, Ben. William and Wayne and Francis Stephenson motored to Huntington; Sunday where they called on friends. Miss Grace Gerard of DecaturJ who has been spending a few daysi at Angola, is the guest of Ben Gerard) and wife for a few days.—Auburn primes. Miss Lola Wood. West High street, will leave soon for Indianapolis where; she will enter a hospital to begin a 1 course in nurses training. Portland' Commercial Review, Miss Maria Robinson who is sick at the home of her brother Perry. Robinson with symptoms of typhoid fever remains about the same today. Dr. D. D. Clark is in attendance. Mrs. Frank Crissman, who, in sliding down a pile of hay at her home near Delphi, rammed a pitch fork handle twenty-three inches into her body, is "still alive at a Lafayette hospital.

Mrs. Fred Ruby and children have gone to Spartansburg, Pa., ?or a two weeds' visit with relatives. J. M. Rice of Cincinnati, Ohio, rcp-l resenting the Bischon' clothing house, Is jtere today at Niblick store. tyrs. Michael JJene/oriJ ausl son, Harold, of Vera Cruz are guest/, of their daughter and sister, Mrs. Dan Niblick. Miss Matilda Foos and nephew, William Sejienkel, of Fort Wayne are visiting in the city with and relatives. Mrs. Carrie Ehinger is at St. Mary's. Ohio, visiting with relatives. Her sou, Herman, will Join her Friday for an over-Sunday visit. An Oid Settler's reunion will be lielij at Ridgeville on Wednesday, Au gust 18. Special trains on the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad will be run to that place.

Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Mills and daughter, Victoria, left this morning for Bladensburg, Ohio, where they will visit for a week with Mr. Mills' mother, Mrs. Ophelia Mills. Miss Florence Cowan will leave Friday for Grand Rapids, Mich., where on August 29 she will enter the hospital to take a three years' nurses’ training course. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne returned to Fort Wayne this morning aher spending the night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger. They came by automobile. Ex-President Taft appeared under canvass at Rockville, this state, Sunday, an’ made a little pin money. What's become o’ th’ ole time swallow tail mustache? —Abe Martin. Raymond Koline left today noon for Fond du Lac, Wis., where he will 1 visit witli his sister, who is at the' convent. He will also take a little, boat trip, returning in about a week. Mrs. Andrew Moyer and children, Eva and Glendores, of Fort Wayne, who visited here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Meyers, went to Reuben Lord home yesterday for a visit. Miss Celesta Wemhoff of the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway office, lias gone with her brother, George, Wemhoff, to the national convention of the monumental dealers at Denver! Colo.

Th' 1 Jay county fair will be held on' the last two days in August and tlie! first two days in September. Onj Thursday, September 2, the Grand' Rapids k Indiana railroad will run a special train. A large photo received by Dan Nib-; Jick from his son, Omer, shows a good interior view of the variety store opened recently at I\larcus, lowa, by Omer. The picture is a dandy and shows Unit Omer has a store just as dandy. The southbound Grand Rapids passenger train due here at two three was over two hours iate yesterday arriving here at a little past four o'clock a. m.. It was a long wait for some of the boys. John Heller who with his family and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Miller of Indianapolis are enjoying a two weeks outing at Rome City came home yesterday morning for a days business visit at this office. Miss Marie Bultemeier of the Graham & Walters office, and Miss Frieda Witte, of St. Johns, will leave on Thursday for Watertown, Wis., wlieie they will visit with the Rev. 11. ’. Jaus family, formerly of St. Johns. Miss Bultemeier will be gone a week. She will also stop at Chicago to visit with her brother, Gus Bultemeier and wife. Miss Hattie Rieck of Indianapolis left Saturday for her home after a two weeks visit with the Charles Fuelling family. Her mother M'S. John Rieck and brother John who also spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. Fuelling returned to their home last Saturday. Miss Flora Berger accompanied Miss Rieck to her home and will remain for a week or ten days visit. According to talk among railroad men, Sousa’s famous band, which passed through this section of the country a few days ago, will be disbanded, and the members will go back to Europe to take up arms in the war there. This contemplated action was “let out by a band member who told the trainmen that after six days in Pennsylvania and New York the band would disband. Fred Bell. George Morris, Festus Rhoten and Charles Meyer of Niles, Michigan, made a triangular auto trip last. week, going to Toledo. Detroit. Niles, Mich., and thence home to Bluffton. Mr. Meyer remained at Niles. They made a short visit in Windsor. Canada, and report that the war spirit is rampant there and an argument is the easiest thing to find that there is. A number of persons who have been unable to give satisfactory explanations of their presence in Canada are now being detained. This is the result of the precautions taken following explosions of dynamite near the Windsor arsenal .several months ago.—Bluffton News.

Merryman & Fugate of Monroe were Jiere on business. Miss Vic Stone has gone to Chicago for an extended visit. Miss Margaret Todd has returned from a visit at Rome City and Niles, Michigan. John L. Downing claim adjuster for the Clover Leaf railroad, was here today on business. Mrs. Mary McCarthy returned today noon to Ind'unapolis after a visit hen witli Mrs. John Hentzy. M. W. Sweeney, deputy attorney general, of Indianapolis was here today on official business. Mrs. Leonard Troutner and son, Ray, of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here .today enroute to Payne, Ohio,

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell and Mrs. and Mrs. George Morris of Bluffton were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn. Mr. and Mrs. George Morris of Bluffjton will leave Thursday for a five weeks’ tour of the Pacific coast, attending the exposition also. Raymond Kohne left today for Fond du Lac. Wis. where he will visit with his sister, Stella, now Sister Frances Clare, who is at the convent of the Sisters of St. Agnes. He may also stop at Chicago to visit for awhile. Mi\ Joe Hower and grandaughter Georgia Dilley, went to Fort Wayne today to call o nthe former's sister. Mrs. Margaret Ixmthan. Their brother, John Barnhart, of Illinois, is also to be there. This is his first visit here in many years. Eli Blere and son Clinton went to Decatur Saturday to meet Mrs. Pedigrew and her sister of Delphos, Ohio, who are visiting at the Bieries. Yesterday Dr. and Mrs. S. P. Hoffman of Decatur also visited the Bieries. — Berne Witness. With the service Sunday night the annual summer meeting of the Indiana conference of the Evangelical church ended at Oakwood park. Lake Wawasee. The meetings have been in progress for two weeks and have been largely attended. Many from here went to the sessions. Lawrence Magley, of Toledo, Ohio, who lias been visiting here with relatives, left today for his former home at Kenton. Ohio, where he will join an excursion run by the Odd Fellows lodge of that city, of which he is a member, to Detroit, Mich. At Toledo he will be joined by his wife and son Donald,, on the trip.

Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Miller entertained at dinner and supper Sunday at their beautiful country home south of the city. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ulmbn and daughter, Mary; Mr. and Mrs Lee Myers, Mr. ami Mrs Elliot Ullman and daughter, Amelia; "Air. and Mrs. Charles J. Miller and children. Marcellus and Lucile, and Miss Mathilda Foos and William Schenkel of Fort Wayne. Many hotels have joined in the movement to induce patrons to write names sufficiently plain to be read. To the page of the daily register of leading hostelries is attached a red card with the words: “Your name clearly written insures you better service.” The register of a hotel is something of a study in chirography. Upon it any day may be found variations from the plainly and boldly written “John Hancock” to a scrawl which represents the signature of somebody, but whose identity is difficult to learn from the signature alone. John Rhine, eighty-two years old. rural mail carrier from the Montpelier office for many years, was instantly killed at 10:30 o’clock Monday morning when his Hupp auto was struck by the Union traction car due out of Bluffton at 10:57 at the road crossing on the Wells-Blackford county line one mile north of Montpelier. The car is said to have been traveling at a fast rate of speed and the automobile and the man's body were carried for some distance. Mr. Rhine was well known in Wells county, his route touching some of the southern townships.- Bluffton Banner. Mary Smith, the Chicago stenoggrapher, who recently gave up her work to accept the position of housekeeper for Janies J’ankhurst and wife, a rich McHenry county, Illinois,!farmer, is now down on the farm, tfnd according to reports has made a great hit., ghe has entered in,to the work with spirit and is catering to the pleasures of tjie old /oiks in every manner possible, and they are already “crazy about her,*' according to the newspaper perorts. This gi.rj is to receive per weeffi fpr keeping house for JJj. and .Mrs- 'Bankhurst. and the mother of Pankhurst. ant! when the old gentleman dies, she is to receive SIO,OOO from his estate. She is not to fool with the boys, but is to give ail her time and attention to the aged couple. As Mary’s old llame is i dead, she proclaims that there will j be no more love affairs and that she j will attend strictly to business. She j seems equal tc tlie task.

PETITION' FOK NAIAIHk KO All. State of Indiana, County of Adams hh Before the Board of Commissioners of the County of Adams. State of Indiana; We, tile undersigned, inn li and all of whom are adult resident fl ladders and voters of Wabash Township. In Adams County, Indiana,' respect! . •Is petition your honoiable body ami ask that you constrrfit and com plot.- a i,.,-- macadamized stone road In said township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing nt the n»rtliw< st corner of tlie Routlieast quarter of section twenty-eight (2S), township twentylive |2G) north, range fourteen (111 oast. In Adams County, indlann. thence In a southeasterly direction following whnt Is known ns the W Illium Burke gravel rond. and terminating nt tin Joseph Chrisman rond about ten rods east and about .'ll) rods south of tile northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section twenty-seven (27). township and range aforesaid. Your petltoners aver and sny that the improvement prayed for Is les* than three miles in length, connects at both ends witli a free macadam road In said townsliip. Your petitioners further aver and say that the highway herein sought to be Improved Is public highway already established and in use, Is one of the public highways of said Wabash Townsliip, and the same will lie of puldii •utility and benefit. Your petitioners ask your honorable body that said highway above deseribed lie drained and graded and that broken stone lie plneed upon the grade and that upon such broken stone there be placed, stone screenings. Your petitioners further ask that said highway above described be improved to tile widtli of 111 feet and that said highway lie graded to the widtli of twenty-four (21) feet and that broken stone lie placed thereon to a width 16 feet and to a depth of S inches at the sides thereof and to a depth of 12 inches In the center thereof and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of four < l» inches upon sin'll broken stone, and that said improvement lie imith- a single track and Hint the name of the same be The "Fri'd Minger Macadam Hoad." That to pay for said improvement we ask that bonds be Issued by the. County of Adams in the State of Indiana. payable In twenty semi-annual Installments or series and for the pay - meat of which we ask that a tax be levied upon tlie taxable property of said Wabash Township In a siiffi-imit-amount to pay tlie interest and principal of said bonds as they become due. That said improvement be made and constructed, and said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon the taxable property of said township in accordance witli the Acts of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, passed in the year 1905. beginning on page 550, and as amended in the Acts of 11)07, and as amen led in tlie Acts of 1909 now in force, providing for tlie extension of free gravel or macadam roads, and all other and any and ail amendments thereto.

Ac further aalc the board to tak** ail of the necessary steps required by law, to have said improvement const cut ted and made as petitioned for herein, that tlie same be constructed without submitting tlie question of building: the same to an election of the voters of said Wabash Township, and that the < board construct the same under the laws of the State of Indiana, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads by township taxation. I iesnectfully submitted. Fred Minger, George Ineichen, Orton F. Wheeler. ‘John A. Wheeler. It. C. Speicher. Russell Wheeler, .John F. Felty, Rachel Felty, Dani Beeler, R. B. Black, W. A Aspy, J E. Mann, Jacob J. Sprunger, Rufus M. Byrd. Joseph II Christen, Clide Dimm, J. C. Mann, Troy Macklin, John O. Kranor, Chas. Mann, George F. Fink. Clem Michaud, C. D. Stanley. John B. Stump. V. L. Stanley. John A. Didot, Ge... W. Ford. E. Conner, Adam Egly, The Farmers <KMerchants' State Bank, E. C. Arnold, cashier. O. M. Graham, Ab. Shoemaker, Nathan Shepherd. Aaron Bricker.. A. M. Jlf.. Manley, S. W Hale, SocraTFs’CoAK. Byron Ault, William Sold, Ll T. Connor. Noah Shoemaker. Eli Campbell, A. G. Hardlsou, Wm. Striker, A. Harlow, Philip Hirsch, John D. Shoemaker, Samuel Egly, Robt. E. Derickson, James Fenstemaker, G. W. Schafer, C. W. Muth, J. H. Armstrong, F. S. Armstrong, C. Armstrong. C Nelson, Henry Miller. Mary Miller, Frank 1 Ford. R. M. Beerbower, Henry Muth. J. N. Glendening Wm. F. Gue. T L Beerbower, Lona Nelson, E. J. Thornhill, Wm. 11. Bradford. Homer Pontius. Lawrence Watson. L. L. Neal, J no. E. Briggs. A. G Briggs. W. A Wells. John Studer. Ira C. Lybarger, F. M. Conner, E. S Callihan. W. J. Huter, W. D. Aspy. M. E. Hutton, 11. Ashton, Joseph W. Walker, G. W. Cooper. Mike Maier, F. C. Deitsch, Dr. Price, O. J. Whiteman, O. W. Ferris, J. O. R. Campbell. L. E. Carter, E. C. Arnold, C. C. Mosser, Fred E. Lindsey, H ?.l Asps. I J. B \\ liii.ic . ,l A Coolman, Thomas Drew. John W. Kelly, Preston L. Pyle. John Goff, James H. Kelley, B. O. Jones, Josephus Martin, Bank of Geneva. Geneva, Ind., 11, M. Sow telle, cashier: C. O. Porter, John Baker, Jesse Throp, O. 11. Fim h, M. M. Byrd, The Farmers & Merchants’ State Bank, Clyde W. Ki*aner, W. L. Thornhill. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, September 7, IJHS. at which time the taxpayers of Wabash Township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 190t2 T. 11. BALTZELL Auditor w Democrat Want Ads Pay.

nrinrTrwrnTrim»WßiwiiwwrMßMiMii!»Miiiiii iiiiinwiiißiiiiiiiiiii i mumiiii mi in h—imwii They’re Going Fast This will be the last call to you people who have not taken advantage of our 15 per cent discount on all OLD HICKORY and PARRY buggies and light and heavy work harness. We have made many friends in the past few days with these great bargains and the selections are getting smaller every day. t Don’t hesitate until the last minute but come in now. This is absolutely a closing out sale on this line of goods and we do not want to have a buggy or set of harness left in sfock. Schaub-Dowling Co.

GOW SftLE A! Stockyards In Monroe, On WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18th. Beginning at 1:00 O’clock P. M. Consisting of 35 head of fine Native Cows with Calves by their side. Also 2 good Springers. Some large Heifer calves A good registered, double gated driving mare . will also be sold. Terms of Sale made known on day of sale. MILLS & ATCHISON J. N. BURKHEAD, Auctioneer.

Coming In Fine:Up to this time we have collected in full from 140 of the 250 applicants of the Decatur Life Insurance Company. All those w r ho have signed applications are requested to call at our offices in the Peoples Loan & Trust Company block and arrange for examination. By so doing you will save expense for you and the company. “Be a booster for your home city-not a knocker. Get in at once.” J. S. PETERSON, H. M. GLUG, SECRETARY. PRESIDENT

Holstein Heifers For Sale I still have a few of those extra Holstein heifers for private sale at Kekionga farm.a mile east of Decatur. They are first class, almost eligible to registry, and all bred to tine full-blooded bulls of the best milk strain. First come, first served. I also have some registered yearling bulls from farm in Trumbull county, Ohio. In addition, I have 20 full-blooded Duroc sows, mostly bred. I will accept cash or bankable paper for any of this stock. J. M. FRISIiNGEfiT Dt_6/¥TfjR, IND.