Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1916 — Page 5

I Mik I Don’t Take An Expert to tell why these Four-ply Arctics wear so long. Look at the Clincher Heel, look at the Armored Toe Cap, look at the Pure Gum Soles, see how neat they fit your shoes. Make the next pair “Top Notch.” * IMHMHBHKIKUWWV « * piarlie Voglewede I AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

I WEATHER fSeCAStI Stuttm ttxxtttstiU ■ Fair tonight, Friday fair and warm I ■ ■.Peter Forbing went to Indianapolis «i business. ■ Mrs. Anna Droppleman visited in Ft. Wayne today. ■Miss Goldie Springer was a shopper in the city today. ■Mr. Walker, town clerk of Geneva, was a business visitor here this morning. Miss Lydia Norman of Freidheim went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Charles Nicolet and son and Miss Emma Best spent the day in Fort Wayne. Your attention is called to the January sale advertisements appearing thesjb days in this paper. It’s a great for you to secure real barBoch of Fort Wayne is here tolattend the first horse sale of the Deratur Horse Sale company, with whom he was connected for a number of years. ■■'The trustees of the various townships were here today and filed their annual reports with the county auditor. They will be published during the month. E The water fell three feet last night, it was reported, which is going some, f The fires will be placed under the pfeeiiers at the sugar factory this evWning, it is believed, and by Saturday Cthey expect to be running in good esi .ape again. The week has ben a neBere strain, but it could have been Brorse and the men in charge are feelKng thankful and hopeful.

11 he Home Os Quality Groceries| I Extra Standard Corn, 3 cans 25c I Extra Tender Early June Peas, 3 cans 25c 1 No. 1 Hominy, 3 cans 25c I Solid Pack Kraut, 3 cans 25c I Domino Crystal Syrup, 1 lb. cans 10c | Country Applebutter, >/ 2 gal, 40c gal. 70c | Cod Fish, 1 lb. bricks* 15c i No. 1 Large Salt White Fish, lb 15c t We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 30c ► Butter 20c to 27c | M. E. HOWER I i North of G. It &I. Depot Thonc 108 | 1 F. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN H President S< cretary Treas. g I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I B REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, | ABSTRACTS H The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- m I’' stract Recoids, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. | z MONEY

Mrs. Fred Ehlerdlng of Preble was | a shopper in the city today. Attorney F. S. -Armantrout of Geneva was a business visitor here today. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Kelly, on January 2, a boy.—Berne Witness. The People’s Loan & Trust company will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday, January 18th. Miss Ruth Hubbard entertanied a number of her boy and girl friends at her home on First street last evening. The first horse sale of the season will be held tomorsow at the First street barns and a big crowd is expected. Charles Bale?, of Fort Wayne, a traveling man, who has been coming here for a score of years, was smiling and shaking hands with his many acquaintances in Decatur today. The Barger trial, now on, is attracting considerable attention, the court room being filled during the hours when court is in session. It is not unusual to see not’ only the visitors smile, but now and then the jury, the court and even the principles show a desire to laugh. We are in receipt of a photograph of Senator Beckman of Kentucky, sent to us through the kindness .Z Dick Townsend, now manager of the Paducah Hotel and for which we are duly appreciatice. The photo will be framed and added, to our gallery of fanfous men. Tomorrow is the last day for filing as a candidate for governor, senator, congressman or president, so if you want to get it on any of these jobs, you had better be getting busy, and by the way, so far there are several supposed candidates who have not filed their announcement with the secretary of state.

Frank Mclntosh of Monroeville was a visitor here today. Fred Kolter of Magley was a business visitoi- in the city today. Lewis Adler of Preble was looking after business interests here today. W. W. Whlttenharger of Monroeville was a business visitor in the city today. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kline of Ohio City changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne. Miss Flossie Ehradardt of Willshire, Ohio, returned to Fort Wayne after a visit at her home. Miss Leah Hartzog of Willshire, 0., returned to Fort Wayne after a holiday visit at her home. Miss Rose Kauffman of Berne is visiting with the John Stewart family on South Third street. Mrs. B. Flock and daughter, Eleanor, returned today to Fort Wayne after a visit here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hite went to Fort Wayne to call on his mother, Mrs. Sam Hite who is very ill. Miss Luella Bultemeier attended the funeral of her uncle, August Schroeder south of Fort Wayne this afternoon. There will be a meeting of the Odd Fellows’ Encampment night, at which time the installation of officers for the coming year will be held. A special meeting of the Ben Hur lodge will be held tonight for practice in the degree work. At the meeting tomorrow night the work will be conferred on a class of candidates. A page announcement for the Overland company will appear in the Daily Democrat Saturday announcing their $695 ear. Its some car and some company they will use considerable space in this paper during the next few weeks. The "Home Trade” department of the Daily Democrat promises to be-' come a very lively one. Practically every business man is backing the proposition which will start next week. Whether you join or not, boost for every one to trade at home. It pays. Four hundred horses will be sold tomorrow by the Decatur Horse Sale tompany at the barns on South First street. Buyers from all over the •ountry are arriving in the city today o attend the opening sale at one of the biggest horse centers in the midlie west. The horse sales will be held every two weeks as in former years. A meeting of the trustees of the /arious townships of the county was held at the office of County Superintendent Ed S. Christen this morning to take up their annual reports. They also talked over plans for helping the school work in reading during the coming year. Thursday they will hold a meeting at the office of Washington Township Trutsee Ed L. Augenbaugh to take up matters pertaining to the Holthouse ditch. "What causes lack of coiTffdence in railroads?” This question is asked the public in a bulletin which has been issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the form of a poster. Copies will be prominently displayed in waiting rooms, ticket and freight offices, and in other public places on the Pennsylvania System. “The management of this railroad wants to get at the causes, whereever they exist, and remove them,” says the poster. "The starting iroint is to get the people who TTo lack confidence in this Railroad to say so and tell why.” The poster invites serious suggestions from all railroad patrons as to ways in which the service may be improved and a better understanding brought about between those who use the railroads and those who manage them. Every • reader is told that his candid and thoughtful views upon this subject are sought by the Pennsylvania Railroad System, because, as the poster says, “It needs your confidence. It wants your cooperation. It asks for your friendship.” ANNOUNCEMENT. « Ed L. Kintz of Decatur authorizes us to announce his name as a candidate for auditor of Adams county, subject to the decision of the primary election to be held on March 7, 1916. 310t6 POULTRY AND HOGS. Save your hogs and poultry. Use the Republic Stock Food and Medical company’s hog ana poultry tonic, and have the best of success. For sale by 0. F. Koenemann, at Henry Knapp & Son's hardware store. 281-tu-th-tf POTATOES MAKE JUMP Potatoes jumped from 80 to 95 cents on the retail market today. Wholesalers say that there is a great scarcity and that they are paying SI.OB at present. o— PLENTY OF MONEY. To loan on farms, 10 years’ time, without renewal, no commission, partial payments any time. 297tf ERWIN OFFICE.

PRESERVED IN GLACIER GRASSHOPPERS ENTOMBED IN MOUNTAINS OF MONTANA. Story Which Hao Long Been Considered to Be a Myth Found Correct, and Explanation le Made by Scientist*. Grasshoppers on ice, in ice and of ice Is the phenomenon to be found in Grasshopper glacier, once considered a myth, but the existence of which as one of the wonders of the West has been confirmed by geologists, natural forest officials and prospectors who have reached the upper headwaters of the East and West Rosebud rivers in the Beartooth mountains of Montana. Investigation has shown that the "myth” of Grasshopper glacier Is a fact. The grasshoppers, myriads of them, are frozen In a solid mass of ice. Many of the specimens are as perfect as if preserved in alcohol for exhibition. In the opinion of scientists who recently made a first-hand study of the fabled glacier the insects were caught in a periodic southward flight and succumbed to the cold In their attempt to cross the mountain range. The huge Ice mass, under whose crust the grasshoppers are burled, Is virtually under the shadow of Granite peak, 12,842 feet high, the highest in Montana. Only recently has its existence as a perpetual glacier been verified, though as long as 40 years ago It was traditionally known in early Montana mining camps and mountain towns. It was considered then merely a fanciful tale of pioneer prospectors and fur trnppers who had penetrated to the upper reaches of this branch of the rugged Rockies. J. C. Witham, deputy supervisor of the Beartooth national forest, one of the few men who have seen the Grasshopper glacier, brought back to civilization a small vial containing the nearly perfect remains of several grasshoppers found embalmed in the ice. Those were forwarded to the Smithsonian institution, Washington, but unfortunately were badly broken in transit. The Granites of Caribou county afford perhaps the most picturesque alpine scenery to bo found in accessible parts of the United States. The Grasshopper glacier, which is one of a number discovered by the James P. Kimball survey, is thus described by Doctor Kimball: “From observations made during the survey it was determined that grasshoppers brought to life on the prairie, when in periodic southerly flight in a direction toward the mountains, are compelled by successive stages to rise and surmount the massive barrier of the mountain range. On the summits they are combated by head winds and frequent violent high mountain air currents, the occasional terrific force of which to be thoroughly appreciated must be encountered on the summits of the range. "Such portions of the grasshopper flights as are so unfortunate as to be compelled to settle on the glaciers in order to seek shelter from the opposing insurmountable winds become chilled by contact with the snow and ice surface of the glacier and are overcome, remaining unable to rise for newly attempted flight. The glacier then becomes their sepulcher.” Creusot, the Krupps of France. The celebrated works of the Creusot, similar to Krupps, Germany, were originally organized for engineering purposes by William Wilkinson, an Englishman, in the year 1786. The works then belonged to a company, in which Louis XVI had an Interest, and were known as the Royal foundry. During the revolution the Creusot works were nationalized by the government, and during the empire Napoleon kept them running for guns and ammunition for the army. After 1815 armaments no longer paid at the Creusot and it became bankrupt. A new company, assisted partly by English capital, was formed, and maintained the works until the present proprietors, who have a name more Teutonic * than French —Schneider —acquired them in 1836. It is now the third generation of the Schneiders who control the Creusot, and, like Krupps, they have established several allied undertakings in connection with the production of armaments and engineering machinery. Smile in Court. 2>t a recent trial one of the witnesses was a green countryman, unused to the ways of the law. but | quick, as it proved, to understand its ■ principles. After a severe cross-ex-amination the counsel for the prose-] cution paused, and then, putting on a look of severity, exclaimed: "Mr. Kllkins, has not an effort been made to induce you to tell a different story ?” i "A different story from what I told, sir?” "That is what I mean.” "Yes, sir; several persons have tried to get me to tell a different story from what I have told, but they couldn’t.” "Now, sir, upon your oath, I wish to know who those persons are.” "Well, I guess you’ve tried ’bout as hard as uny of them.” —Chicago Herald. Jonah the Pioneer. ' We don t know who invented the submarine, but Jonah was the first to become familiar with one.—Columbia State •

January Big Clearance Sale ' Wil! Be In Full Sway On January 7th. I will offer my entire stock at a greatly reduced price consisting of: Whips, Blankets, Robes, Collars, Pads, Halters, Harness, Buggies etc. Compare these reductions with those? of any other store handling goods of the same high order as these Blankets formerly $5.00 and $5.50 now $4.00 Blankets formerly $4.00 and $4.50, now $3.00 Blankets formerly $3.00 and $3.50, now $2.00 Blankets formerly $2.50 and $2.75, now $1.75 Buggy and Auto Robes, formerly $20.00, now. .$15.00 Buggy and Auto Robes, formerly $15.00, now. .$12.00 Buggy and Auto Robes, formerly $12.00, now. . $ 9.50 Buggy and Auto Robes, formerly SIO.OO, now. .$ 8.00 Buggy and Auto Robes, formerly $ 7.50, now . . $ 6.00 Buggy and Auto Robes, formerly $ 7.00, now. .$ 5.50 Buggy and Auto Robes, formerly $ 5.00, now $ 4.00 DOUBLE TEAM HARNESS $60.00 Set at $45.00 $55.00 Set at $40.00 $40.00 Set at $32.00 COLLARS. $6.00 Collars now at $4.50 $5.50 Collars now at $4.00 $4.00 Collars now at $3.00 $2.75 Collars now at $2.00 $1.50 and $1.75 Collars now al SI,OO SWEAT PADS. < 85c now at 65c 50c now al 35c 35c now at w 25c Balance Os Stock Range 25 to 50 per cent Off A. W. TANVAS PHONE No. 471. Repairing and Oiling of Hamess at a Reduced Price Daring January. « — — . --— — — I THINK About it SERIOUSLY We wish to remind you I that the enrollment in OUR LANDIS CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB .- _ .. • I Mj . I Will close within the next few days. X 1 % If you have not become a member, We suggest that you consider seriously doing so N-O-W. I We me so thoroughly convinced that it is a “good thing” for everybody that we a v e enthusiastic and are anxious to make the Club a Banner Club m point of membership. We would like to have you and your friends among those to j whom we will issue checks just before Christmas. Consider the proposition now. Get all the particulars—then decide positively. - would be glad to have you enjoy this Landis privilege. Old Adams County Bank.