Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1916 — Page 5

wl I “Top Notch” MEANS MORE WEAR Our Basket Ball Shoes are made by ‘‘Top Notch workman. Suction Soles, Black trimmed white uppers $3.00 Gymnasium Red Sole White trimmed uppers $2.00 All White Soles and uppers - - SI.OO Sneakers Black or White ... ,75 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

WEATHER FORECAST I Rain in south; snow or sleet in north portion tonight and Wednesday. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Fred LaDelle visited in Fort Wayne today. C. E. Bell hnd son, William, went to Fort Wayne today noon. Eleanor Forbing and Stella Smith visited in Fort Wayne today. Albert Anker left Sunday for Danville, 111., where he will look after business matters for a few days, John Hoover left Decatur today to go to Monroeville and vicinty to represent a local firm in the sale of harness and hardware. Peter Ix>she, of Union township came to Decatur today and brought a new team harness of the Chas. F. Steele and Company. Attorney C. J. Lutz left last night for St. Louis and Kansas City, where he will attend to important legal matters. He will be absent several days. The public sale of household goods at the Neuensijiwander residence on Elm street which was advertised for nest Saturday, January 12th has been postponed indefinitely. Owing to omission of a line of cony in the article on those who attended the funeral of Mrs. Samantha Dorwin, the names of Dr. Miles Porter, Dr. Charles Beall, Mrs. Kate Beers of Fort Wayne, were omitted. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hahnert of Monroe called at this office early this morning and renewed their subscription to the Dkily Democrat and also received one of the useful bill folds that goes with all renewals this month.

(he Home Os Quality Groceries WBMWBWWMBMaMIII Wl—ll IM il. U 111 fa ilTWffl 1 II 'VMffW’WgSBBiEaWECS Ripe Olives, tin 15c No. 1 Salt White Fish, tb...15c Ground Sweet Chocolate ...30c Sun Maid Cluster Raisins... 15c Fresh Horse Radish 10c Golden Dates, Pkgloc Dressed Dried Herring, tt> 20c Figs, Pkgloc 5 tt>. Pail Salt Fish 50c Shelled Pop Corn, tbsc NOTICE! Our store will close at 6:15 every evening except Saturdays and Mondays, until tuithei notice. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 28c Butter 20c to 27c M. E. HOWER North of G.R.& I- Depot ’Phone 108 IF M SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. ■ THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL estate, bonds, loans, ABSTRACTS ■ 71-e Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- I I stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience - Wj Farms, City Property, 5 per cent. MONEY

John Hocker of Monroe was a business visitor in the city today. Dr. Burt Mangold, the dentist is absent from his office on account of illness. Miss Jessie Magley of this office was detained at home today with the grippe. Mrs. Amos Fisher was called to Ft. Wayne this morning on account of the serious sickness of her sister. • R. R. Schug the Berne banker who is contemplating building a business block on his lot in this city, was here this afternoon. Miss Laura Alban was up street today for the first time in ten days, being confined to her home in the meantime with the grip. John. A. Harvey the real estate man formerly of this county and now liv'ng at Celina, has been here for several days attending to business affairs. While paying off and getting ready for the new year don’t forget that it costs money to conduct a newspaper and that it might be well to settle your subscription occasionally. Mrs. Elsie Thomas is visiting with her daughter, Mrs, John Pifer, seven miles south of Willshire. Mrs. Thomas had limb broken some time ago, but is now able to get about with the aid of crutches. Be sure to read the “Trade at Home” page in todays issue of the Daily I Democrat. The article is written by Mr. Sullivan recognized as the best in the land in that field. It will help you and help the community if you read and remember what he has to say—and don’t forget to read the advertisement of the local merchants who are behind this plan of reminding our people that they ought to patron ize home concerns when ever they can.

Mrs. Clint Cloud went to Fort Wayne today to visit hor husband at the Lutheran hospital. Mrs. C. A. Dugan who has been quite ill from pneumonia for several days is reported some better today. William Baumgartner of Berne was hero today and passed out a few cards for his son Grover who is a candidate for surveyor. The ninth anniversary of Miss Mary Macklin was celebrated today at the home cf her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Macklin. At the the average person prefers this weather to ten below zerou, though the ice man prefers a week or two of the real thing. The Odd Fellows encampment branch will install their o cers for the coming year at a meeting to be held Friday night. Dr. J. W. Vizzard of Pleasant Mills was a business visitor here today. He reports the health of his community to be average good. % Better hurry if you are going to join a Christmas club. This is the last week. Its the easiest way to insure a merry Christmas. Ida and Caroline Christen of Berne Indiana, who were here for several days visiting their sister Mrfs. L. D. Jacobs, returned home this afternoon. Tlie covering for the reception room of the Masonic hall, that will protect the floor has arrived and will be used Thursday evening when the card party is given. The candidates for county offices are hustling. They are already out on the road and there is an eight weeks grind ahead of them. The date is March 6th. George E. Steele, who conducts the big five and ten cent store at Huntington and who formerly was in in business here was here today looking up his many friends. Charles Dunn the local agent for Watkins remedies is busy these days looking after the trade in Adams county. He arrives here several evenings each week and says his business, is assuming old time conditions. County 'Clerk Herman Lesh and wife are entertaining a new baby boy, a hearty young fellow who tipped the scales at 10% pounds. It goes without saiyng that the county clerk is letting Deputy H. L. "Wisner run the clerk's office today while he gives particular attention to the new member of his household.—Bluffton News. Mr. Kerr, in the office at he sugar beet plant received a teleihcne message from his home at Ottawa, Ohio, that a sister who has been Il with typhoid fever for ten weeks had taken a turn for the worse and 't was feared the end was near. He left this morning hoping to reach her bedside in time to see his sitster alive. The Northwestern Ohio Threshermen's Association has been organized it Lima for the purpose of safeguard heir interest in the matter of the use >f the highways. Legislation was tried by Good Roads Associations some time ago to bar the traction engines iff the highways. Feeling that would work a hardship upon the farmers who ire forced to have their grain harvest'd annually, the threshermen are takng precautionary measures and preparing a defense against such legisla'ion that may be introduced in the uture. The heavy engines have been pulled off the roads in several of the Eastern states and many difficulties have come up in regard to the threshing of the grain. , Members of the Indiana public service commission will be m Portland in Tuesday. They have been called here by petitioners who have asked that the Rapids and Indiana railroad be compelled to seperate the grade on Seventh street. Plans are on file for a brick road from Meridian street west to the cemetery and the plans show an underground passage beneath the railroad. The G. R. & 1. filed a remonstrance with the commissioners alleging that it will cost $60,000 to make the change. The members of the commission will make a personal investigation of the matter and will hear the evidence of the interested petittioners and representatives of the railroad. Portland Commercial Review. Trade at home as a slogan would gain an impetius if the average reader would analize the catlogue recently sent out to people here by a large mail order house of Chicago. On the front page you are offered twenty-five pounds of sugar for a dollar, if you buy ten dollars worth ors groceries. In other words, you have to spend ten dollars to save fifty five cents—But there! we did’nt figure the freight! Along in tlie pages of the catalogue we find you can buy a sack of sugar for $.154 just a cent below our merchants, but add your freight and sec where you’re at. Other goods, canned goods, for instance, if judged side by side with local realers goods, will sell for about what you pay for it here, and you still pay the freight,

FARMS FOR SALE. 80 acres, 3 miles of town, good level soil, well tiled, 9 room modern house, new barn, 36x66, acetylene lights in house and barn, corn crib, garage, oats made this year 84 bu., wheat 41, corn 65 bu. to the acre. Price if taken soon, $11,500.00 80 acres, 3% miles of town, good level soil, well drained, 8 room house, barn 36x70, acetylene light in bouse and barn. Price, $10,500. 80 acres, 1% miles of town, German church and school, good soil, 8 acres timber, well fenced, two houses, one 6 room with cellar, and one two room, good hip roof barn, 40x60, corn crib and shed, 24x30; $3,000 down, balance long time. Price, $10,000.00. 20 acres, extra good soil, 7 room house, good barn, plenty of fruit, close to school and church, 4 miles of market; $2,000 down; balance long time. Price, $4,900. 40 acres, good leved soil, well ditched and fenced, 6 room house, small barn, good drove well, will take city property as part pay. Price, $6,500. The above farms are nargams and must be sold soon.. 1 have a large list of farms for sale. Office over People’s Loan & Trust Co. bank. D. F. LEONARD. —- o— SHERIFF’S SAI.E. The State of Indiana. Adams County, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana. Otto F. Hildebrand vs. John H. Elick No. 11028. By virtue of an order of sale to me directed by the clerk of the Adams circuit court of said county and state. I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale nt public auction at the east door of the court house in the City of Decatur. Alains County, Indiana, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m and 4 o’clock p. m on Thursday, February 3, Will, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate, situated in Adams County, Indiana, to-wit Commencing fourteen ill) rods nortli of the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section four <4>, township twenty-seven (271 north, range fourteen (14) east, thence south fourteen (14) rods; thence west eighty (SO) rods, thence north twenty-one (21) rods, thence in a southeasterly course to the place of beginning. Containing eight and seventy-tive-one-hundredths (8.75) acres. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of judgment, interest thereon and costs, I will at the same time and in the same manner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as tlie propertv of John 11. siqi apis jo jopao pies Xispes o) n-><i:-I 11th day of January. 1916. 11-18-25 ED GREEN, Sheriff. ELECTION NOTICE. Decatur, Ind., Jan. 4, 1916. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the People’s Loan and Trust Company of Decatur, Indiana, will be held at the banking house of said Trust Company in this city, Tuesday, January 18, 1916 at 10:30 a. m., for the election of directors of said Trust Company to serve the ensuing year and until succeeded. f W. A. LOWER, 3tf. Secretary. o MASONIC CALENDAR FOR WEEK ENDING, JANUARY 15. Tuesday, January 11, 7:00 p. m, Master Mason’s degree. Thursday, January 13, 7:00 p. m. Royal Arch degree. Friday Evening. Eastern Star. stated meeting. DAVID E. SMITH, W. M. o NOTICE. The Ladies’ Aid society of the United Bretren church will meet with Mrs. Frank Fisher, at 512 South Thirteenth street, Thursday afternoon at 2:00 p. m. A large attendance is earnestly requested. The invitation is extended to ladies in general, whether members of the society or not, to be present. 7t4 John Webber, Sr., for half a century a resident here and fror many years a business man at Fcrt Wayne was here this afternoon attending to. business. The black and white tags which denote that auto owners have complied with the law and secured a 1916 license aije becoming numerous. Tlie numbers are in great contrast to those of last year and are easily distinguished. John T. Gillie, a former Decatur boy now employed as a government architect was here over Sunday, leaving last night for LaJunta, Colorado, where he has been located for several months. He stopped here on his way from Washington where* he attended to business. He hopes to be given a location nearer home soon. Mrs. Glllig and the baby are visiting in Kentucky at present. LOST —SMALL cap off the radiator of a Ford car between town and Bellview farm. Leave at the Kalver <fc Noble garage. 9t3 democrat"want ads PAY BIG 7 •

IMPROVED BY MORE SLEEP London Schoolchildren Recently Made the Subject of Some Interesting Experiments. There are some interesting conclusions In the first report of the recently appointed official psychologist to the London county council —a post which is, I believe, unique in this country. Mr. Cyril Burt’s chief work is in applying tests to backward children in the schools to ascertain whether or not they are suitable for tuition in the special classes for the mentally defective. Mr. Burt has examined over 2,000 children—4oo subnormal children, 200 certified mental defectives and about 1,400 normal children. The great majority of the 400 children who were presented by the teachers on the ground of mental insufficiency were found to suffer from mere dullness, backwardness or special and limited defects rather than from mental deficiency. Only 24 passed the medical examination for admission to a mentally defective school. Mr. Burt says there Is a striking disagreement as to where the lino between the defective and the ordinary child is to be drawn and remarks that school progress is only a very Indirect measure of mental ability or defect. His conclusion is that there is no one definite or constant mental characteristic in which children classed as mentally defective resemble one another and differ irom ordinary children. In intelligence, as in every other quality, they overlap enormously with ordinary children and are not a separate class or species, but largely simply the Inefficient tailend of a more comprehensive normal group. Mr. Burt’s report suggests the need of more delicate discrimination in the selection of children to ba classed as mentally defective. He carried out an interesting investigation to show the influence of loss of sleep upon school work. In one school the children were divided into two groups. One group were allowed to sleep for two hours daily in school, the other group worked in the ordinary way. It was found that among the children who w’ere allowed to sleep those who suffered most from lack of sleep at home gained greatly in general ability. In the worst cases the gain more than made up for the loss of time. Experiments of the same kind are going on, which Mr. Burt says may show that lack of sleep may be as damaging to school work as lack ot food. —London Mall. Brains and Colds. It is believed that by the discovery oi causes of “catching cold” which has just been' made by Dr C. M. Richter, It has been determined that the quickwitted and those who use their brains a good deal catch cold much more easily than those whq do little brainwork and are mentally slow. Wherever a case was found of someone who was extremely susceptible to influenza or even simple cold, cither that person was engaged in some professional work, or there was considerable. tax upon him in factory or in office, or else his work required some especially keen exercise of the mind. The mentally heavy, slow-going kind of person very rarely has a cold. In working out this problem it was found that resistance to cold is not so much a matter of what one wears as of what one is. It is those people who suffer most keenly when it is very cold or very hot, who have a headache when they face a high wind, whose hair crackles with electricity when they comb it—in a word, it is those who are nervous and highly organized who most readily fall victims to the Insidious “colds In the head.” a_ Killing an Exact Science. Said a man who knows mechanics as an open book: “The acme of preciseness and the perfection of all mechanism known to the human race is devoted to tho art of killing men.” I He was talking to me about the ex- > treme exactness of range-finders for big guns—of which he bas been asked to construct 100 “1 know of no other thing in the wide domain of mechanics,” said he, “ that is worked out with so great care as these rangefinders.’' He told me that with that instrument it is possible to plant a shot within one yard of the desired target ten miles away. When 1 remarked that tnat required unusual delicacy, this scientist replied: “No, not delicate, because one of these finders weighs one hundred pounds, but they must be mechanically exact and* perfect.” One might almost be tempted to say that killing men in war has become an exact science.—Philadelphia Ledger. The Ultimate Condition. A soldier of the allies was dodging German shells; it couldn't have Ijeen hotter along the Dardanelles. The gun which did the business was somewhere on the Rhine, but every time it thundered it hit the allies’ line. The soldier burrowed deeper within his little trench; he watched the counter missiles responding from the French. The range was something awful for shooting cn the Uy, and shells as big as barrels were arching through the sky. The soldier thought of Caesar, who once divided Gaul; he thought of Agamemnon before the Trojan wall. He thought about the progress in military craft, and in the din of battle he actually laughed. ’ “It •won’t bo long,” he reasoned, “until we shoot it all; the Briton on his island, the Frenchnian in his Gaul. We ll all set up our cannon upon our native loams, and hammer one another from our respective homes.” . . - ..

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