Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1915 — Page 3

LET YOUR BABY’S FEET —grow the way the Lord intended them to grow. Our FIRST STEP shoes for baby are made on footform lasts, very flexible turned soles and soft pliable uppers. White, black or Cloth tops in sizes up to s’s. They’re cute, so everyone says. Want to see them? CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

WEATHER FORECAST | Showers tonight. Tuesday fair and cooler. J. W. Tyndall left this morning for Fort Wayne on business. Mrs. Jennie McConnehey of Fort Wayne spent Sunday here. Mr. Wolfe was the guest of Mrs. David Liby at Monmouth Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I. Bernstein returned from a visit at South Bend and Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hoffman and children visited in Fort Wayne last evening. Mrs. Mary Cramer and duaghter, Gusta, returned last evening from a visit in Fort Wayne. Charles Getting, a hustler from the St. Johns community, was looking after business afairs here today. Mr. and Mrs. Buel Nye of Rockford, Ohio, spent Sunday with their son, Fred Nye, and wife in Root township. Mrs. Harry Krugge returned to Ft. Wayne Sunday evening after a visit here with her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Eady. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Neeman of Toledo, Ohio, have arrived for a several weeks’ visit with their sister, Mrs. Je Brunnegraff. Lemuel Fisher and family of Huntington were here yesterday and attended family reunion at the Water Works park during the afternoon. Mr. Fisher was gored by a bull several months ago and for weeks it was sea--ed could not recover. He is practically well now and again able to work.

The Home Os Quality Groceries Are You Still Canning? Then pet our prices and you’ll get our Extra Alberta Peaches, bu .$1.15 Other varieties, much less per bushel. Large, smooth, ripe tomatoes, bu 45 25 lbs. Granulated Sugar, sack 1.50 That famous Pickling Vinegar, gal .20 Red, Yellow and Green Mangoes, doz 7’/2C We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 22c Butter 18c to 25c M. E. HOWER North of G.R. &1. Depot Phone 108 IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. ■ THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE. BONDS, LOANS, f I ABSTRACTS The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- ■ stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. J MONEY HI

Banker Joe Winteregg of Berne was looking alter business matters here today. Guy Dorwin of Fort Wayne spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Dorwim Dwight Peterson left last night fcr Bloomington where he will enter the state university for a four years course. Carlisle Flanders who was so seriously ill for several days last week it able to be out and Sunday enjoyed an auto ride. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Pumphrey and daughter, Mildred, of Delaware, Ohio, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey and daughter. Banker C. A. Dugan has returned from a week at Oden, Michigan. He made the trip home with P. W. Smlth ( in the latters WescottRev. J. C. Hanna left this morning for Albion to attend the presbytery. Mrs. Hanna accompanied him to Ft. Wayne to spend the day. Mr. and Mrs. John Christen, Mrs Mary Christen and Mrs. Eliza Amend of Dayton, Ohio, spent Sunday in Marion with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Christen. French Quinn who has just returned from a trip to the Pacific coast says that the party enjoyed one da> most delightfully as the guest of Will Freeman at Seattle, Wasli Fifty automobiles, each well loaded' and bearing signs which announced they belong to the Fanners Exchange at Rockford, Ohio, passed through here Saturday enroute to Fort Wayne and return, to attend the first annual cooperative festival, held at Lawton park. The heavy rain drove them out early and several cars were back here by three o'clock in the afternoon.

Miss Marie Johnson went to Fort Wayne today noon. Mrs. Lulu Johnson Jones went to Ft. Wayne today noon. Mrs. Margaret Louthan ct Ft. Wayne was here today as a witness In the circuit court. Miss Charlotte Koenig returned to Fort Wayne today noou after a visit at Sebum, Ohio. Mrs. Eli Girod ana babe went to Hoagland to visit with her sister Mrs. Dayton Barkley. Mrs. Troby Cramer whe is ill of typhoid, is eoncalesciug having bad no fever for live days. Chester Johnson of Garjf was here over Sunday, the guest of his brother Walton and family. Miss Genevieve Bremerkamp has begun work for the season at the Deininger millinery store. Thomas Durkin has delivered new 1916 model Auburn cars to George Geels and Frank Biens. Milton Miller, of Geneva a former attorney here, was looking up old friends in Decatur this morning. Mrs. Lavina Acker of near Pleasant Mills is the guest of Mr and Mrs Sam Acker on north Second street. R. E. Heller is advertising his public sale and its a good one- Head his advertisement in The Daily Democrat. John Parrish is getting ready for hie annual stock sale the latter part of October. Watch for his announcement. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Frank and son, Myron, motored to Fort Wayne Sunday where they called on Mrs. Minnie Lewton. Mr. anu Mrs. Chris Hofstetter, the Misses Huldah and Alma Hunsicker of Fort Wayne were here today on business. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Suman aid children of near this city were guests at dinner of the U. S. Drummond family Sunday. Mrs. Adlo Cron and son has arrived from Hot Springs, Ark, for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bremerkamp. Mrs. Guy Majors and niece, Mary Wolford, returned to Fort Wayne today noon after a visit here with Mr. ana Mrs. Shafer Peterson Walton Johnson was at the office this morning for the first in five weeks, since his attack of appenditims and the operation therefore. Trustee Ed France of St. Marys township and a wfll known Pleasant Mills business man,, was here this morning looktttgmfter business. f Oscar Fuhrman, son of Mr. and M s. John Fuhrman, who has been bedfast six weeks, is improving When he was put to bed, his fever was 102 and it is now down to normal. Henry Bremerkamp left Saturday night for St. Louis to meet bis daughter Mrs. A. D. Cron and babe 01 Het Springs, Ark., who will spend a several weeks visit in the city with her parents Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bremerkamp. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Terveer and daughter Mayme left last evening from Toledo where they enjoyed a three weeks visit with the C. R Ulil family. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Voglewede joined them yesterday returning in the evening. The following letters and cards remain uncalled for at the Decatur post office: Letters—Mrs. Roy Young, Mrs Edna Linsey, Mrs. Thomas Bryant, Cards—Dan Adams, E. B. Boyle, Erma Folk. G. W. Erwin, May Grase, Charles Patterson. Whatever else you may say, you cannot truthfully dispute the fact that the great Adams county fair is well advertised. Everybody for forty miles around knows that next week is the time for the biggest show ever given here. True Fristoe and wife, who are members of the Big Boyl Woolfolk LaSalle Musical Comedy company, who are touring the south, sends a copy of the Birmingham Bulletin, an advertising sheet, issued by his company for circulation in the Alabama city. It is headed “U. S. Halted on the Brink of War," and contains a first-page make-up that is certainly attractive and interesting. The sheet is unique as an advertising medium and some one who knew how did the editing. — o ■ . OPEN MILLINERY STORE Miss Gladys Bowers left this morning for Indianapolis to assume' the ownership and management of an up to date millinery store in room number one of the Stewart and Fowler Co. at eight and a half east Washington street. Miss Bowers clo.'ed the contract for the business last week. Toe, hat store is one of the best known in Indianapolis and enjoys a splendid patronage. She will manage it herself. Miss Alma Bowers will be in charie of the Bowers Millinery store in ths city.

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER POOR CIGARS AND CHARM HALOS

It haunts me still. What? That bright smile of poetic fame* O, not It was anything but a smile. It was the forlornness of her. If anyone unfitted for her job, it was she. It was last year at a fair that I saw her. I little thought then, I should write about her. But up she bobs into my mind, at the least provocation to prey upon my sympathy. I wonder where she is now. The ghost may be laid, like many another, by turning on the spot-light—so here for it. ♦ »•**• Not the "fairs” themselves, but the people attract me. I like to walk up one busy “street” of the booth line or the concession “midway”—or whatever you might call it, and study the people. Like many another, I go. not exactly to scoff, but I always remain to pity. Have you ever noticed that the concession people who make it a business to follow carnivals —from a business standpoint, 1 mean—are those who expect to reap financially not for what they give, in actual value, but for what they can make the people think they give? The orange-ade must not contain too many sacrificial oranges’ juice; the hamburgers must not be unmixed with flour, nor too thick, the pinwheel of fortune must not always give out a knife or a vase or a basket of fruit that lies on too thin a bed of cotton; nor must the “babies” tall down too easily before the on-coming shot of the would-be cigar smoker; if. the concession man would continue long in business. The first day will put him down and out unless he can throw a veil over the people’s eyes. Take any ordinary ferocious man, throw a hair robe over him and exhibit him for a “Wild Man of "Borneo” and they make money just as easily as though he were the real thing. But the thing they must ho is to make the people think they are going to get the real thing. People want to be illusioned, and therefore, charmed. In fact, they think they are cheated at a fair if they are not charmed. ****** Well, this is just what that poor woman who has unknowingly been preying upon my mind and sympathy for, lo these many months, failed to realize. We were walking about at the fair, listening to the barking on the part of the concessionaires, and seeing the biting on the part of the attendants at the fair. And then I met her, ear to ear, and eye to eye. I was first atracted by her “barking:” “A-w-w-w-w-1-1-1-1 ready boys,” the strident tones were screaming, as the little, thin, sallow, brown, woman, of uncertain, though well-uppity age brandished in a hand at the end of a scrawny, black-elbowed, arm. three little balls. Her tones informed them, at the top of her shrill voice, as she ran out playfully, that the balls would cost a quarter and that they were for the purpose of throwing at the rag doll babies standing upright under the open tent, at her right. If the babies fell, the thrower was entitled to more or less, pale, sickly, y ollie*’, long, loose ( and flabby cigars, that sputtered and fizzed when lighted and finally gave out a weak, insipid smelling smoke. This, although 1 am not an able describer, nor judge of cigars. ****** She screamed in a voice as musical

MASONIC CALENDAR FOR WEEK ENDING SEPT. 25. Tuesday, September 21, 7:30 p. m. Decatur Chapter, No. 112, R. A. M. Special called convocation for work in Royal Arch degree. Friday, September 24, 7:30 p. m. ' Decatur Chapter, No. 127, O. E. S. Regular stated meeting. — o - NOTICE. We will etart our cider mill August 3, 1915, and will make cider every day in the week until further notice. Factory. North Third street. lS2tf PETER KIRSCH. o Democrat Want Ads Pay.

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as one that has bucked up against a printing press, or a cannon-charging, or a saw-mill, for a score of years; she was as ugly as the proverbial mud fence; and she didn’t even'attempt to "pretty up” by painting, or powdering, or frizzing her little wisp of hair; or even by wearing reasonably pretty clothing. She was as prideless as many a woman who has got her “man” and is sure that he will outlive her. ****** Well, we stopped at long intervals on our walk and return —just to watch and hear her. It was the funniest thing to our unthinking minds, on the fair grounds. We thoughtlessly : laughed, we joked -and then I nearly cried when I thought and realized the pathos of the case. For there were ! just as many others who stopped to laugh at her. The little woman ran out and shrieked her wares, calling, jeered and laughed as they passed. I didn't see her charm one of them into taking a shot for the cigars. At intervals she would stop and go over and talk to her neighbor, probably about how poor business was. She grew more despondent looking. At last, not content with just passing on and laughing at her, some of the boys, when her back was turned, swiped the balls and threw them rapidly at the rag babies, knocking them all down, and even breaking one of the upright pieces. The next time we passed that way, she was crying and didn’t seem to have enough interest to call in a medium shriek. She seemed to be wilted, and probably was about to shut up shop. All this time we could see “the boys” passing on and stopping to take their chances for cigars with the prettier “barkers.” ****** What brought this more vividly to mind at this time, was a carnival we saw recently. The star attraction was a pretty girl, stylishly dressed, befrizzed and furbelowed in the latest styled silk gown, who called on the boys with a musical voice to “knock down the kitty-kats," for more or less chance on the cigars. As far as 1 ’could see, the cigars had nothing over’ those of the fair, as far as sickly yellowness and flabbiness were concerned. The rag kitty-kats didn’t look any more alluring nor charming than the rag babies of the poor fair woman, yet the boys fairly tumbled over each other to get to buy the chance to get the cigars. There was a “nigger” employed to pick up the kitty-kats and do the "manual labor.” All the girl had to do was to smile and chatter and hand out the shots and the cigars and compliment the boys when they won, and look as pretty as she could. And the boys all rushed up, not for the cigars. I am sure, but to get a smiie and be patted on the head by a preiiy gill, figuratively speaking. ****** Well, about Tiuff said. I am sure the poor fair woman would have been quite successful at baking bread, or washing, or "plain sewing.” or gathering ami writing news, or sweeping out offices, or the hundred and one good, plain, honest things, where you have to give real worth for real worth, and not depend upon charm and prettiness to cover the poor cigars with a Havana halo.

RED CHIEF Seed Wheat ADAMS COUNTY GROWN For Sale At The Burk Elevator Co. Phone No. 25

Season Tickets For Adams County Fair SEPT. 27 to Oct. 2. On Sale At Vance & Hite Enterprise Drug Co* Te &Peters? berry Smith ’ Yager&Falk Myers-Dailey Co. Holthouse Drug Co. Holthouse, Schulte. Callow & Rice. REGULAR ADMISSION Tuesday 50c Thursday 25c Wednesday 25c Friday 25c Season Ticket 75c BUY IT NOW Auto Races Tuesday Instead Os Saturday. ADAMS CO. FAIR ASS’N. Notice Automobile Owners We are Double Treading Auto Tires. Or making one good one out of two poor ones. Don’t throw away your old Tires, bring then in. After they are stitched together they will last longer than any new ones. Prices from $2.00 to $2.50 A. W. TANVAS NORTH SECOND ST. | "7 PEACHES--PEACHES A car of fine Elberta and Crawford Peaches Will arrive Tuesday morning SEPTEMBER 21st. Prices 80c to SI.OO Phone No. 45 Early, as they will go fast. TuNSICKER & MILLER

+ <• + * 100 CORDS * * of good dry ash cook wood. * * Call + * BENNETT’S COAL YARD + * ’Phone 199. ♦

Notice To Auto Owners Bring your machine to our factory for repairs. We are prepared to grind cylinders, cut gears, weld springs and to do all kinds of repair work by Expert Machinists. All Work Guaranteed; PRICES REASONABLE. WARD MFG. CO. DCGdtIH, Iqd.

NOTICE TO PUBLIC. Owing to the low price of the season tickets this year, each ticket must be confined to the original purchaser. 223t3 ADAMS CO. FAIR ASSN.