Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1915 — Page 5

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WEATHER FORECAST g Generally fair tonight and Tuesday — - Miss Mayme Deininger went to Fort Wayne today on business. Miss Winifred Burk is at home from college for her Christmas vacation. Mjas Lorene Parr went to Fort Wayne for an over-Sunday visit with relatives. W. D. Coil returned this morning from Muncie, where he visited over Sunday with his family. Have your new license numbers on your automobile on New Year’s day. We will fill out and send in your applications at this office. The Christmas tree will be put up in the court yard tomorrow,. City Electrician Martin Mylott, the old reliable in time of need, will be in charge of the work, Which is a guarantee that it will be done right.

Only Four Days More Until Xmas. Remember You’ll Find Toys, Dishes, Handkerchiefs, and Fancy Towels the kind you want. .—AT--B/WGftMftN’S I East Side of Street || The Home Os Quality Groceries ALMOST THROUGH XMAS. SHOPPING Your Friends Would Appreciate a Gift Like J A doz. Cans Fancy Hawaiian Pineapple ... $2.00 A Fancy Shopping Basket 40c, 50c or 60c A Box of Fancy Stationery 25c A Quart Jar of Olives 25c A Tin of Ripe Olives 15c A No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern 85c Candies, Nuts, Oranges, Apples. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 30c Butter 20c to 27c ’ M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot ’Phone 108 num ii iiTßiiTnnm—n~~— ~ BF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN B p President Secretary Treas. |l THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I L REAL ESTATE. BONDS, LOANS, fg ABSTRACTS EE M The Schirmeyerj complete Ab- g fc street Records, Twenty years’ Experience p Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. ? MONEY —» u w.'t

ll Mrs. George Keller spent the daj I in Fort Wayne. I Attorney Cottrell of Geneva was a j business visitor in tffr- city today. Miss Hazel Macklin visited over Sunday with her mother at Geneva. Miss Helen Niblick, a student in ( hicago, is at home for her Christmas vacation. Miss Fanny Frisinger has returned from Columbus, Neb. for the holidays. She is teaching there. Mrs. N. Moon and Mrs. Del Lake and daughter, Glen, and Miss Hilda Mosse went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. It. Uhl and children of Toledo are expected in the city Friday to spend the holidays with the B. J. Terveer family. Mrs. Lilly Mann and children, George, Pauline and Frances Agatha, arrived this morning from Liberal, Kans., for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Peter Gaffer, whom she had not seen for five years. Her arrival was unexpected and was a most pleasant surprise.

ojhn Schug left for Auburn today noon on business. C. H. Hayslip left this morning for Wabash on business. Ralph Jahn is an extra holiday clerk at the Mills grocery. F. S. Armantrout of Geneva was a business visitor here today. Bruce Patterson left today noon for Columbia City on business. Glen Walmer, Messrs. Moon, Painter and Mumma of Bluffton visited here with friends yesterday. stroke of paralysis three weeks ago, is still very low and Uncle Ben himself is not feeling the best. Uncle Ben McLaughlin, old time citizen, and years ago a leader of the democratic forces, was in town today. Mrs. McLaughlin, who suffered a Miss Lillie Moran of Defiance, 0., i». oin the city visiting with the John Johns family and other relatives. Miss Moran formerly lived in Adams county. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Niblick and Edwin Winans spent the day in Fort Wayne, calling on their sister, Miss Mary Winans, a trained nurse at the Lutheran hospital. Ed L. Kintz, the well known cigar man, is considering very seriously becoming a candidate for county audtior and will probably make an announcement this week. The Masonic lodge will have work four nights this week, the Chapter meeting Monday and Thursday and the Blue lodge Tuesday and Wednesday. There are a large number of candidates now ’oing through. The Christian Endeavor service at the Christian church last evening was unusually good. Agnes Gillig was the leader and the excellent program as published was given with little exception. Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Edwards and babe of Leipsic, Ohio, arrived for a visit with the John Niblick family. Mr. Edwards returned home today, but Mrs. Edwards and babe will remain for the holidays. John F. Kienitz of St. Paul, assistant immigration commissioner of Minnesota. was here today and contracted with the Rex theater for an exhibit to be made here February 18th, boosting that state. Watch for particulars later. Chester Johnson and daughters, Thora and Marcella, returned to Gary today after a visit here with relatives. Mr. Johnson is rejoicing over the arrival of his fourth daughter, Martha May, who was three weeks old yesterday. H. L. Center returned to Indianapolis this morning. He was here as the special commissioner to pass upon the necessity of a bank at Preble, this being required now by the state board of bank examiners, before a charter is granted. The big home talent show, “A Woman's Honor,” under the auspices of the Decatur city band, will be given tomorrow evening. The cast is made up of local stars and the show will be worth your time and money, besides, it goes for a good cause. Be a booster. Postmaster J. W. Bosse reports letters and cards remaining uncalled for at the Decatur postoffice as follows: Letters: H. Ashton, Ed Johnson, jr.; Claude Laisure, Mrs. Sadie Leeth, C. F. Needham, Clan Pope, Amos Troutner; cards: A. Baron, A. J. Berkey, George Durbin, Leo Lafountaine, W. I). Peters, I. W. Lorning. When calling for this mail, please say advertised. Miss Lily Buhler, daughter of Jacob Buhler, will leave Thursday morning for Des Moines, lowa, to take care of her sister, Ruth, wife of Carl Beatty. Mrs. Beatty was operated upon Friday night for the removal of the appendix and also for the removal of a tumor caused by a fall from a horse when she was fifteen years of age. She is in the hospital at Des Moines and will remain there for two weeks. A special delivery letter received yesterday by the Buhlers stated that she will get along nicety. o DR. BURNHAM’S SAN-YAK Acts as a Living Antiseptic In the Stomach and Intestines. San-Yak prevents self poisoning, that serious illness from which so many persons of sedentary habits and advanced age suffer. San-Yak prevents clogging of the colon and caecum; hence its great value in destroying germs from undigested animal food which are a factor in the true cause of poisonous decompositions of the bowels, causing appendicitis, rheumatism, typhoid, dysentery and arterio sclerosis or hardened arteries. Heart trouble Is developed through self poisoning from the kidneys and bowels. To maintain health all such poisoning must be checked, and you can do so with the use of SanYak. Take San-Yak; it Js the greatest medicine yet known for man, woman or child. SI.OO per bottle. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk drug store, Decatur, Ind.

DEVICE FAILED TO FLEASE > r Old Gentleman by No Meano Grateful for Contrivance* Meant to Save . Him Tr6uble. A Staten Island man named George i Moorb recently Invented a rocking chair rocker that never reached the r patent office in Washington. The inventor was discouraged by bis grandfather, Samuel P. Moore, for whom he had constructed the rocker. i Moore the younger has always been known as a tlnkerer. Back of the house he has a workshop and for years ’ has whiled away many an hour putting things together that never brought him any return save the satis- • faction he felt In constructing them. j Grandfather Moore has always bad . the habit of violently rocking his rocki ing chair on the porch. First Grandson Moore Invented a rocker silencer, ’ so that the old man could rock away 1 to his heart’s content and never get ’ on anybody’s nerves. The elder Mr. - Moore, did not seem to take as much pleasure in rocking as formerly, out nobody commented on the fact at the time. . t., , ' _ A few days ago Grandson Moore, while Grandfather Moore was down at 5 the post office, attached a small motor to the rocking chair m such away . that by connecting the wires the chair . could be set going like a seasaw. . When the elder Mr. Moore returned and took his favorite seat the chair began to pitch him back and forth without an ounce of effort on his part. Did he feel grateful? Not at all. • He left the chair, kicked the motor I contrivance and told his grandson what he thought of it. , ’ Don't ye know my pleasure is in rocking myself?” he cried. J CATS AS DOMESTIC PETS ' Many Famous Men Have Been Fond of the Animals and Made Them 1 Their Companions. I From an esthetic point of view the Persian cat is a pe’rfect being. Its fine, long, silky hair might, if woven, serve to robe Queen Mab. The neck- ■ ruff, the “feathered” ears and feet, the falling whiskers and the squlrjpllike tail of a milk-white Persian tabby make it a thing of ideal beauty. The hand longs to stroke it down. As it is a creature of ready sympathies, and not suspicious, it is glad to be caressed. Perhaps ft is not so intelligent as the tiger-striped cat, but it is 1 quicker to lend itself to the ways of a kind master or mistress. French men are even greater amateurs of cats than French women, whc resemble them in so many things. A cat was suffered by Richelieu to nurse its kittens in his cardinal’s hat. Mazarin (but he was an Italian) used to stroke down a cat that he kept in his arms when dictating to his diolomatic secretaries. The only domestic animal Victof Hugo would allow in his house was e cat, because “domesticity did not cur tail its liberty.” He had at Guernsey a slate-colored Maltese, with a black muzzle and a black end to its tail which (the cat, and not the tail) used to sit on his desk when he was writing. The black cat is the least apt to scratch. It got a bad name when old women were burned for witchcraft, and sometimes, because suspected of being evil spirits in feline guise, shared their fiery fate. i Boat That Vanished. A mysterious thing about the Thames, which no amount of police supervision will destroy, is the “ghost” boats which have been, and are, frequently seen in various parts of the river. It is a fact that river police patrols have actually given chase to such ghost ships, to find there is noth ing substantial to be found on reaching the place where the ships had ' seemed to be. ' I One of the most curious stories of this kind is that of the mysterious I boat which was seen making its way- - the water toward London bridge one day, about a quagter of a century ago. As she neared the bridge there was a tremendous explosion, a vivid burst of light, and then —nothing! Not so much as a splinter of wood remained of the boat which had been, and the story of it lingers from that day to this as one of the hundreds of tragic unknown things which 1 form the secrets of river of mys- * tery. ' j River of Tragedy, T Just as no other river has quite J the same wonder as belongs to the ] Thames, so no other river is wrapped in mystery,'so surrounded with stories f of tragedy and crime, London Answers says. Many of the old waterside houses, which rise sheer with the river, contain rooms in which the floor is built I directly over the water —floors upon which one could stand in apparently q perfect safety while someone in an k adjacent room worked a lever which q caused the floor to open and their k victim to drop into the river. 4 A gambling club is said to have met in such a room once a year to play ( for tremendous stakes. The party ' played on until one of their members , was ruined. Then the rest of the m#n went away in silence, while the ruined man went down into the dark waters. Cruel Deception. “What caused the rift In the lutet’ , “She's a first-class cook.” "What did that have to dr. with it?" ' “She'd been making him think all along that she couldn’t boll waiur." 1 1

Sam Hite’s South End Grocery We are making lasting friends for our Store because our Policy has always been to give the buyer a little more than they expected for their money. We received today the largest shipment of “Rio Coffee” ever brought to Decatur. Our sales alone on this coffee last Saturday were 287 tbs. The reason lor this enormous output is in the quality and price, lb ..., 12 i/ 2 c 'Ac suggest that you buy your Christmas Groceries now. Extra Fancy Cranberries, ...qt 8>/ 2 c Extra Fancy Sweet Potatoes, pk 30c Extra Fancy “Pure” Honey 19 C L'on’t'be misled by cheap green Florida Oranges. We are headquarters for Fancy “Washington Navels’ fully ripened, at prices according io size. We have one of the largest stocks of Candy and Nuts in the City for you to select from. Our heartiest good wishes for the season are extended now to our many friends in Decatur and Adams County. SAM HITES SOUTH END GROCERY OPPOSITE ERIE DEPOT - - - PHONE 204.

WILL CLOSE dN CHRISTMAS. The following stores will be closed all day Saturday on account of Christmas: NIBLICK & CO. KUEBLER & CO. M. FULLENKAMP. F. V. MILLS. RUNYON, ENGELER & CO. S. E. If(TE. MANGOLD & BAKER. M. E. HOWER. WILL JOHNS. BURT HUNSICKER. JACOB BUHLER. I. BERNSTEIN. MRS. FRANK McCONNELL. FOR SALE. We are going to leave the city and would like to sell tlJe following pieces of furniture: Columbia graphophone, record cabinet, sewing machine, ice box, oil stove, bed, complete, a few chairs, kitchen table, child’s high chair and nursery chair. Can be seen any time, as we want to sell this week. 607 North Fifth street, second house north of water works. 30415 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Decatur, Ind., Dec. 20, 1915. Notice is hereby given that my wife, Ruth Drake, has abandoned me and my home; that I will not be responsible for any debts she may contract. 304t6 FRANK DRAKE. o POULTRY AND HOGS. • Save your hogs and poultry. Use the Republic Stock Food and Medical company’s hog anti poultry tonic, and have the best of success. For sale by O. F. Koenemann, at Henry Knapp & Son’s hardware store. 281-tu-th-tf —— o Democrat Wants Ada Pav

Those Christmas Gifts The Christmas shopping days are limited so if you have’nt selected that gifc for mother, father, brother, sister or friend, take your pencil and check one or more of the following useful and appreciated presents. Our store is full of beautiful gifts. Come in and we will help select the present. A list of gifts, Handkerchiefs, Silk Hose. Wayne Maid Waists, Gloves, Bags and Purses, Fancy Neckwear in assorted colors, Mesh Purses, Kimonas, Umbrellas, Scarfs of silk and wool, Blankets, Fancy Towels, Silk Petticoats, Infants Booties, Infants Toques, Carriage Robes, Dresses for Children, Fancy Skirts for Ladies. ' ' A LINE OF BEAUTIFUL FURS

IM ( £ SAVINGS cuvb~7( CHRISTMAS 1916 - The question of money is quite apt to mar the joys of Christmas giving. This problem can be easily solved for next year, however, by every one who will take out a membership card for this purpose in the , Thrift Christmas Club This club is one feature of the service offered the people of this city by t r e Thrift Department of this bank. The purpose of this department is to give organized assistance in the solving of all financial problems. The C n lrstmas money problem is common to all—old and young, rich and poor. It does not matter how much you wish to save for Christmas. There are so many plans available that you will find one to suit your needs. A XMAS GIFT—A membership card in.the Thrift l.'hib will make a splendid Christina., gift to some member of your family. Sixteen different plans. COME AND LET US EXPLAIN. NO DEPOSITS REQUIRED UNTIL AFTER CHRISTMAS. WE PAID FOUR PER CENT IN 1915. WE PAY FOUR PER CENT IN 1916. CLUB OPENS DECEMBER 27. 4 THE PEOPLES LOAN AND TRUST CO.