Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1915 — Page 5

|YOU NEED’NT KNOW the size to buy Christmas presents here. Get what suits you or what you think will be appreciated by your friend and if they do not fit. you can exchange after Christmas. I SEE THE CUTE LITTLE I RED BOOTS FOR KIDS ■Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

|| WEATHER FORECAST I | Rain or snow tonight and Friday; ■colder Friday. I I Mrs. Anna Droppieman went to Ft. ■Wayne today. J I C. H; Hayslip was a Fort Wayne ■visitor today. ; I Mrs. Claude Coffee visited in Fort ■tVayne today. Elbert Bieberich went to Fort KWayne today to call on his sister, .Mar■th?. Reinking. I Johny Stults has taken a ]>osition L at , the Boston store grocery, succeeding Arthur Mangold. I Mrs. Fred Bandtell of Fort Wayne jyn ived this morning to visit with ■ her parents, Mr. and,Mrs. J. A. Smith. K. It’S fun t’ listen t’ th’ feller who ■pever even had a gocart complain o’ vibration o’ th’ four-cylinder auto. fc'Ther’s no market fer a personal I grievance.—Abe Martin.

I Mechanical Toys, Trains On Track, Tool ■ Chests and Work Benches For ■ Your Boys. I AT I BAUGHMAN’S East Side of Street < I (he Home Os Quality I T-yflipwwiwt sya ~ x’*««iSMra®ssti■ I ALMOST THROUGH XMAS. SHOPPING j I Your Friends Would Appreciate a Git Like I A doz. Cans Fancy Hawaiian Pineapple ... $2.00 I A Fancy Shopping Basket4oc, 50c or 66c ■ A Box of Fancy Stationery2sc ■ 2k Quart Jar of Olives 25c I A Tin of Ripe Olives 1'} C I A No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern 85c I Candies, Nuts, Oranges, Apples. | We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 30c I Butter 20c to 27c | M. E. HOWER I North of G. R. &I. Depot ’Phone 108 » T - ■’'* IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN || President Secretary Treas. || I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I K REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ■ ABSTRACTS 9 The Schirmeyer Abstract -Company , complete Abft stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience lg li Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. K MONEY

Mrs. F. E. France was a Fort Wayne visitor today. Mrs. A. D. Suttles and Mrs. John Niblick went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. James Archbold, Mrs. Jesse Swartz. Mrs. T. D. Kern and Mrs. Amos Fisher went to Fort Wayne today. It rained at five o'clock, and by six o'clock this morning the rain had turned to sleet leaking the walks slippery. Mrs. J. D. Wisehaupt of Kingsland was a visitor here yesterday, spending the day with her sister, Mrs. Elias Crist. You can get your 1916 automobile blanks filled out at this office, and you should secure your license before the first of the year. Tcnight the second rank work will be conferred on a class of candidates at the Knights of Pythias. Another class is in preparation for the work, and indications are that the lodge will be giving the work at every regular meeting this winter.

Forest Vai! went to Fort Wayne today noon. H. R. Moltz was a Fort Wayne business visitor. Mrs. H, L. Smith spent tho afternoon in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Wesley Hoffman and Mrs. J. (!■ Neptune spent the afternoon in Ft. Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Daniels returned to Monmouth today noon after shopping here. Mr. Huffman, a Fort Wayne efcetrician, was here last evening looking after business affairs. Join one of the Christmas dubs and have money for Christmas next year. At either of the local banks. Art Shady of Magley was in the city today making arrangements for holding a public sale on his farm. January 4. 1 ou have but another two weeks in which to get your New Year’s resolution ready. Be sure to include one that will be a booster. Two candidates will receive the work at the Ben Hur.meeting tomorrow night, and the first nomination of officers will also be held. Mrs. M. Bieberich went to Ft. Wayne to call on her niece, Mrs. Flora Getting, who is a patient at the hospital, having undergone an operation. Mrs. John Meyers and son, Homer, and daughter, Mrs. W. W. Acheson of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne today noon. Fred Bloemker and wife, Louis Conad and Mrs. Fred Schneble left this afternoon for Louisville, Ky., where they will spend a week visiting with relatives. Your Christmas shopping is important just now. Y'ou can’t shop early, but you will find the stocks large and classy and the clerks anxious to wait on you. Do it this week. Attorney Frank P. Foster of Anderson, who was here today looking over the field, will be a candidate for J. A. M. Adair’s place in congress. He left this afternoon for Portland. The club’Ntooms ot the new Masonic hall are now open and are becoming a very popular place for the Masons, Eastern Star members and friends. They are comfortable and the boys in charge always welcome visitors. A number of local boys and girls who attend the vraious colleges, will arrive during the next week for the Christmas vacation. A number will be here this week, while others will not come until the middle of next >veek. The local schools will not start vacation until Thursday of next week. The Jacob Isch farm sale held yesterday totaled $3,914.83. A large crowd was in attendance and the bidding was lively. The highest price for one cow was $99.50 and the highest for a horse was $lB5. The Iseh family will move to East Wabash Street, this city. He recently purchased an interest in the Bluffton Implement company.—Bluffton News.

PUBLIC SALE

As I am going to move from my 'arm ami go into other business I will offer at public sale, regardless of price, at my residence on Mud Pike, s t outh of Decatur, next to the old County Fair Grounds, on what is known as the Hank Meyers farm, on Thursday, December 23, 1915, beginning at 9:30 o’clock a. m„ the following property-to-wit: Seven Head of Horses: One gray mare, 8 years old, sound, weighing 1500 lbs.; sorrel mare, 4 years old, sound, white main and tail, weighing 1250 lbs.; sorrel mare, 4 years: old, weight 1350 lbs; gelding, 3 yrs. old, iron gray, sound and an extra good one; bay mare, 12 years old, work in all harness, family mare, weight 1400; one driver, 4 years old, lady and city broke. Eighteen Head of Cattle: Ten head of extra good Durham milch cow’s, red cow, 5 years old, extra good butter cow and fresh; Jersey cow, fresh, also a good butter cow; roan cow, fresh; spotted cow. fresh, 4 years old; spotted cow, fresh, 8 years old; red cow, 5 years old, will be fresh in May; red cow, 3 years oid, fresh in May; red cow, will have her second calf the first of March; red cow, 6 years old, will be fresh in May; red cow, 4 years old, will be fresh in June; 3 extra good 2 year old Durham heifers, 5 head of younger cattle. Seventy-five Head of Hogs: Nine brood sows, bred to have ' pigs from Ist to 15th of March; Berkshire boar, 62 fall shoats, weighing from 40 to 50 lbs.; 950 shocks of good yellow corn in field, 50 big fodder shocks, 12 ton of hay in mow, 6 ton of Clover hay, the balance good mixed hay; 1 Round Oak Base burner, good as new, and other household goods. Farming Implements: One Turnbull wagon, hay ladder, corn bed and stock rack combined, good 20th Century manure spreader, Keystone hay loader, Thomas hay tedder, Mil-,

JOHN J. LIMENSTOLL J. J. Baumgartner and Harry Bunn, Ossian, Aucts. W. A. Lower and Willis Fonner,Clerks. Lunch will be served on grounds. 1

>• O. M. Ramsey of Convoy, Ohio, were visitors in the city today. i- Jesse Carpenter and two children spent the day in Fort Wayne. •- Mr. and Mrs. Ed Meyers of Preble were business visitors here today. f. Mrs. Carl Hanna of Fort Wayne is . here today visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schultz. i- The time is up for you to get your r house number and it you missed it you will have to stand for the extra charge ~ for putting same up. 5 Orval Harruff, candidate for the democratic nomination for surveyor was I at Berne yesterday conferring with , friends regarding his race in the democratic primary. , Take the Daily Democrat when you ~ go shopping or be sure to look it over . carefully before you start. The Decatur merchants nearly all advertise t in the columns of this paper and you can make up your mind as to article and price by watching this paper. The democratic primary will open s early in January, according to all indications at present. Several candidates who have made up their minds to get into the race will announce within the next couple of weeks and the big battle will be on soon after New Year's day. ’ Rubber sheaths designed to be fitted over the fore part of the fingers • are being made as nail and finger tip f protectors for typists. They are in- ’ vented to prevent the wearing and , breaking of the nails and also to keep ■ the fingers from being stained by the i frequent handling of ribbons and car- ! bon paper. The feeling of awkwardi ness disappears after they have been used for a short time, it is said.—From the January Popular Mechanics Mag- , azine. Johnson writes us from Langdon, North Dakota, where he is again located, having accepted the position as state representative for the Mieheund Grocery house of St. Paul. When here a week or two ago he expected to remain in this part of trie country for the winter, but got such a good offer from the St. Paul firm with whom he had been before that he decided to return. He says he can probably use several assistants from this section soon. • Mr. Herbert P. Warren, state manager of Indiana for the Peerless Casualty company of New Hampshire, was in the city last evening and today attending to business and we enjoyed a happy visit with him. He is a clever chap, well posted on the early history, in which his ancestors and his country took a prominent part and he can tell it in away that makes one glad to hear it. He carries a number of interesting souvenirs and soon gets you thinking of the days when such men as General Putnam, Paul Reviere and George Washington were leading figures of this nation. WANTED —At once, a good girl to do general house work. No washing. Apply to Mrs. J. W. Tyndall, 415 Monroe street. 301t3

waukee mower, 6 foot cut, six foot cut clover buncher, nine hole disc, John Deere corn planter, used two seasons, fertilizer attacher, can be used on any corn planter, new side delivery rake, good double disc, good fanning mill, good land roller, set of dump boards, John Deere walking plow, Oliver Star walking plow, 2 good spring tooth harrows, 1-horse corn cutter, 60 spike tooth harrow good spring' wagon, Union City sur rey, top buggy, with storm front; Jamesville breaking riding plow, 2 corn cultivators, corn sheller. a pair of good bob-sleds, 800 pound platform scales, 2 good sets of heavy work har ness, 1 double set of driving harness, set of harness, and some good collars of all sizes, 4 good hay slings, 140 gal. of good apple cider vinegar, 100 gal. hog fountain, 5 hog sheds, 3 lifting jacks, 1 ten font and 3 six foot galvanized hog troughs, sev-enty-five gallon feed cooker, self hog feeder, double shovel plow, float, single shovel plow, 40 rods of hog fence, 1-horse cultivator, good vise and work bench combined, good grindstone, 2 good gasoline and oil tanks, grain cradle, log chains, double trees, 3horse eveners, 4-horse eveners, neck yokes, shovels, spades and rakes, forks, scoop boards ami hog hanger, two-wheel cart, hog chute, hay fork, •rope and pulleys, hog slop barrel, wheelbarrow, good porch swing and numerous other articles not mentioned. Terms:—All sums of $5.00 and under, cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of 12 months will be given, the purchaser giving note with approved security, the last 6 months only bearing 6 per cent interest; 4 per cent off for cash. No property removed until settled for. /*

—M—— Mini I I in —-- WI |m M ■■MMMMMMBMmaMaMmaMMMMMMMaMMMBMMMHMMaMMaMaBMMMIBMMaI Another Christmas Will Soon Be Here. What Are You Going To Buy Him? Our Stock is Complete and Awaits Your Inspection. Any one of the following will be a very appropriate and useful gift. Suit or Overcoat....sl2 to $25 Shirts..soc to $3.00 House Coatss.oo to SB.OO Fur Gloves A.. .$1.50 to $3.00 Hosieryloc to 50c r i • . Dress Giovessoe to $2.00 traveling Bag ..$1.50 to $12.00 Sweater Coalssoc to $8.50 Suit Casessl.oo to SIB.OO fancy box 50c to SI.OO l T nderwcar9oc to $5.00 Lounging Kobe . .$2.50 to $8.50 Wool Shirts ....SI.OO to $2.00 Come In and See Our Christmas Tables Covered With Xmas Gifts. We have the largest line of Neckwear in Decatur, all styles at popular prices, also many other articles that we have not the space to mention. No trouble to show goods.. This is a part of our busi- IfflL ness. Leave your packages here until you are ready to go home. * Big Line of Wo»i Shirts and warm Underwear that will prevent Chills and ' 7 save Doctor Bills. ~ Xn ' -z.. _. * _ Cwvr-k/4. /9/5, APItS-lOCUESTEn REMEMBER TEEPLE BRANDYBERRY & PETERSON Cater to the Christmas Shopper.

CLOVER LEAF HAS SPECIAL TRAIN OF AUSTRALIAN WOOL W. R. Grace & Co. of San Francis co brought from Australia by their steamer “Aztec,” which sailed November- 2, the largest single cargo of wool ever shipped from Brisbane, the big wool port of Australia. The cargo consists of 13,800 bales and arrived at San Francisco December 3, and moved from there in one train of 126 ears, being the largest train ever moved out of any Pacific terminal. The shipment was split at St. Louis and will be handled through to Boston. New York and Philadelphia in solid trains lots, the Cover Leaf hand ling the Boston train of fifty cars in

$250.00 Int 4.95 Total Check 254.95 Imagine if you were the happy recipient of the one check issued by us for the above amount— BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF THE FOLLOWING: $2.59 ’.-cr week or check for $127.47 $2.00 per v c : . or check for $101.98 SLOO. per week or check for $ 50.99 $ .5 t £ cr week or check for $ 25.49 $ .25 per week or check for $ 12.75, $ .10 per week or check for $ 5.10 10 c tits progressive $129.22 5 cents progressive,... $ 6 ’.61 2 cents progressive .....: $ 25.84 1 cent progressive $ 12.92 1 cent reducing $ 13.09 2 cents reducing $ 26.18 5 ce ts reducing $ 65.45 10 cents reducing: $130.90 It will do you good to compare these figures with other systems. The 1916 club opens Dec. 27th in all its gbry on above terms. WE THANK OU. THE PEOPLES LOAN AND TROST CO.

connection with the Erie and Nev Ha'\n railroads. The. cargo is the clip of approxi i lately 500,000 sheep and is equal tc about one-half of the annual produc tlon of the entire state of Nevada. W. R. Grace & Co. are the general .• gents at New York, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle of the Atlantic & Pacific S. S. Co., operating large cargo steamers between New York and Pacific coast ports via Panama canal. One of these steamer, “Santa Clara,” holds the speed record from New York to Ca'ifornia. having made the voyage in 16 days, 22 hours. Other notable world's records made by Grace r.ier.mers arc “Santa Cata-

• ine,” which recently made-new West oast loading record by taking on at Xntofagaata, Chile, nearly 6.500 tons titrate of soda in one day, steamer tow being enroute to New York via ■.traits of Magellan. Their steamship “Colusa," sailing from Santos, Brazil, November 14. lifted 50 000 bags of coffee for this firm at San Francisco, which is the largest cargo of coffee ever handled from Brazil to this port in one bottom. • Fresh cat fish, red salmon, pickerel, yellow perch and herring at Fullenkamp’s Friday and Saturday.