Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1916 — Page 5

J.’ ■ r > ') fa ■NOT AT ALL to he A a ß 7. at ma 'V. eOple hav# the ‘h«t a cushion sole shoe has to be a clumsy affair. Not at all. Hundreds of our customers are wearing our Cushion Comfort Shoes for dress as well as for every-day wear. This cut shows one of the new ones, received yesterday. Ladies $3.00 CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE at the sign of the big shoe

■ | WEATHER FORECAST '- K: Fa >r and colder tonight. Saturday fair. K- . - SL Buri Green left for Fort Wayne' this morning. Hgsll ' U Murray Schorpr went to 1-t. Wayne’ :|ft. | this morning. | Mrs. John Mayer oi Monroe was a * C I business visitor here. Mr. and Mrs. J. \V Vail have re- ; I turned from Cardwell, Mo., where they spent a month. y J J Sanders reutmed to Fort i V I Wa > i!e this morning and from there Kto Ottoville, Ohio. Miss Mayme Terveer is able to bes out again after a two weeks confineKment on account of the grip. Howard Wisehajipt of Kingsland > I was here last evening for the C. E. ’ Kt social of the United Brethren church., Mrs. Ferris of Sharon. Pa., stopped > off here yesterday for a while before ' leaving on the 3:22 train on the G. R. & 1. for Rome City. The junior class of the Decatur high school presented the play, "The Hoodoo” and won success both finan- , cir.uy axid ai ilotivally'.—Vai. We.t Jhlll>ti:> x One-ball the world don’t know Low 1 th’ other half dodges taxes. "It used ; fc t’ be hard enough t’ wait till Tilden L wuz elected, but th’ new primary law 1 S is th' limit.” said Uncle Niles Turner I t’day.—Abe Martin. An old-time fiddlers’ contest will be E held in Dunkirk on Tuesday. March I 21. The town boasts of at least twelve E aged men, who used to ploy the old■time selections at dames and they Ife’ will assemble and compete for prizes.

fheHome Os Quality Groceries Succotash, 2 cans 25c Chili Sauce 15c Cut Wax Beans, 2 cans 25c Mushrooms 30c Green Beans, 2 cans ..25c Sweet Potatoes, can... 10c Cal. Yellow, Peaches, , 2 cans 25c No. 3 Can Dill Pickles 10c iiic Spaghetti, 2 cans..2sc Horse Radish 10c Pure Preserves, in large glass jars, Raspberry, Strawx berry, Blackberry 25c I Include a pound of “Best and Cheapest Coffee. ’ We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs J 6? Butter 18c to 27c M. E. HOWER North »f G. R. & I. Depot ’Phone 108 •’ ■ ■ “ - “• — “■ IF. M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. Pg THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS. ■ ABSTRACTS I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- H etract Records, Twenty years’ Experience || ' . Farms, City Property, 5 per cent, .i. I MONEY 1

Mrs. John Badders of Monroe was a • shopper here today. Miss Mary Burr left this afternoon 1 at 1:05 for Portland. The county commissioners concluded their work for the March session . today. j Mrs. Sanford Rail of Fort Wayne j is here visiting With Mr. and Mrs. T. ' C. Coots. | Muncie is holding a local option elec- | tion today and the campaign lias been ; the usual red hot variety for that kind of an election. John Mosure, democratic nominee I for county auditor was here today', meeting old friends and thanking ihe voters for his nomination. I March weather alright, the kind you have always looked for, snow and rain and wind and sunshine, mixed into a i perfect medley of weather. . ' Harry Straub is the fifth Adams county man to be sent to the penal ■ farm since the first of the year, which - ought to be a fair representation ?.t that unpopular place. John Stone of Indianapolis, an old timer in the fire insurance game and now state representative for the Palatine and the Commercial Union was here tod?. v ettenatvio- to business afi fairs. A new style of highway map has , iust been issued for free distribution by The Goodrich National Touring Bureau covering Indiana. This map . shows only the main or trunk-line ' highways of the Hoosier state z This : is practically the only map of its kind that has ever been issued and while not covering all roads in the state yet it is a most useful addition to the Touring Bureau of The B. F. Goodrich company.

Miss Ireta Erwin who has been vary Hl Is better and it it, now behoved that she will recover. Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne arrived from Fort Wayne for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger. The school board has begun plans for the annual commencement, There will be about thirty graduates Uns year. Mrs. W. A. Lower and Mrs. C. E. Bell are entertaining a company of friends this afternoon at the home of the former on Adams street. Miss Naomi Peterson returned to Fort Wayne after spending the week here at school. Her mother, Mrs. Alice Peterson, recently moved to Ft. Wayne. Gerald and Geraldine Smith left this afternoon for Fort Wayne, where they will spend Sunday with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs Herbert Lankenau. Mrs. Henry Schamerloh of Union township who was operated upon two weeks ago last Wednesday at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, was brought home this afternoon. She is recovering nicely. Mrs. James Johnson of Richmond., sister of Dore and Dan Erwin of this city, who is very ill remains about the same. She first had pneumonia, then leakage of the heart and kidney trouble, were discovered. Mrs. Will McCague went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to visit with Mrs. Henry Zuber who tomorrow will have an operation for gall stones and appendicitis. Mrs. Zuber was formerly Miss Clara Kintz. James D. Hoffman of St. Mary's township was in the city today, having bills printed and making other arrangements for a public sale to be held at his farm on Wednesday. March 22. Look for his ad later. Mr. and Mrs. Will Badders returned this afternoon to Monroe and from there will return to their home at York shire, Ohio, His mother, Mrs. Mary Badders who has been ill is somewhat better today. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henschen and son, Virgil, went to Fort Wayne today noon. Mrs. Henschen’s father, Absalom Ginter was taken to Pt. Wayne this morning to he operated upon, and they went to be at his bedside. Those who have looked "Heart Sengs" over are more than pleased with it and we have put out a number of them. We still have them on hand and you are invited to call and look at them. We are selling these famous books at cost, ninety eight cents and it’s up to you. If you want one, save five coupons and bring along the 98 cents. When. Howard Titus of Columbus, Ohio, was sixteen years old, Lincoln G. Titus promised, acording to the son. to give him SSOO on his twentyfirst birthday if he would abstain from the use of tobacco until that time. The son became of age last December and yesterday filed suit in the Franklin county common pleas court to reover the SSOO which he alleges his father has failed to pay. Howard says the agreement was nmde in writ ing and that he carried out his part of the bargain. Father and son live in Coulmbus. ELECTA BALTZELL. Is prepared to make out your mort gage exemption. Como to the audi tor's office where you can see with your own eyes that it is properly filed Any time during March or April as the law requires. to May 1 — o - --- FOR SALE. One set of heavy harness, 1 set of farm harness, 1 set of buggy harness all new, hand made. Harness oil right, as long as it lasts. Stop at 506 So. 13th St., and get the price. 12 f-s-4wks W. H. AMRINE. farmersT’equity meeting. The Farmers’ Equity will meet at the Elzey school house Thursday evening of this week. March 9th. Tom Lyons, organizer, wil speak. Everybody invited. No admission will.be charged. 57t2 ACETYLENE PLANT The undersigned wil sell a good Acetylene lighting plant at his public sale 1-2 mile east of Williams, Thursday of this week. 50t2 HENRY KOENEMANN I—HOTEL FOR SALE OR RENT. The Park hotel is for eale or rent A good opportunity tor the right person. Inquire at once of Mrs. D. W. Myers, Winchester street. 20tf PLEN FY OF MONEY. To loan on farms, 10 years’ time, without renewal, no commission, partial payments any time. 297tf ERWIN OFFICE. LOST —Purse containing $5 and small change, also other articles. Either on interurban car or on Marshall street, between Second and Fifth. Finder return to Miss Marguerite Burnett, or to this office. 42t3

MONGOOSE IS A PEST WEST INDIES SEEKING PLAN TC GET RID OF IT. Government Rewards Have Only Had the Effect of Adding to Their Number, and the Problem Has Become Serious. “The mongoose pest is becoming really serious; it is worse than ever, ’ writes a Trinidad correspondent to a British paper. Formerly, he says, the government gave a substantial reward for eacl/ body or tail produced, but no substantial reduction resulted. Some enterprising peasants were suspected of making a successful minor industry by breeding the mongoose, and in one ward It was established that an innocent warden had paid for the same tails over and over again. As soon as bought they were buried, only to he dug up and sold again In the morning. Another amusing, if expensive, thing occurred In this connection. In two adjoining wards an experiment was tried. At one they gave a flat rate — 75 cents each —male or female. At another the price was $1 for the female and 50 cents for the male. After some time it dawned on the official purchasers that there was a great preponderance of females in the latter ward. The simple peasant had again proved one too many for the authorities. Inquiry proved that all the females caught In both wards were sold in the one where the price was raised, and all the males vice versa. Then tho government got tirejJ of it, and no further reward was given. The mongoose, it may be recalled, was imported into the WeJt Indies in tho seventies of last century, to exterminate the rats which ravaged the cane fields. They did this most effectually, but, having destroyed .the rats, they turned their attention to poultry and birds. Then lizards fell a prey to their voracious appetites, with the result that the insects increased in an alarming extent. Finally the mongoose became as great a pest there as rabbits are in Australia. National Debt of France. The national debt of France listed before the outbreak of war was $6,436,129,000, (American Whitaker. 1915, latest figures available, 1913). Assuming that subscriptions to the French loan of victory reach a total of $1,000,000,000, the total debt of France *at tho present time would, according to the best estimate available at the moment, be in the neighborhood of $16,800,000,000. By the listing before the war, which is chiefly for the fiscal year ended in October, 1913, the largest ic-tliuiiai debt was that o* France, with Russia second, the United Kingdom third. Italy fourth, and Spain fifth. From the outbreak of war until October of this year Germany had been the largest borrower, Great Britain the second, Russia third, France fourth, and Austria fifth. Germany’s debt has increased by more than 500 per cent, Great Britain’s by about 160 per cent, Russia’s by about 50 per cent, while that of France* has increased by less than one-third. This does not, however, include the “loan of victory.”

Kipling No Lover of Cats. Rudyard Kipling, says the London 1 Chronicle, Is evidently no lover of cats, for the tale of “The Cat Who Walked by Himself” is based on the latest hostility between the cat and the man. He describes how the dog, the horse and the cat in turn are attracted to the cave of our ancestors and become domesticated, but the cat. still retains his,freedom. Even though he has fallen a victim to th'e tions of the fireside, and agreed to accept the terms imposed by the map and the dog, he never becomes really friendly. You remember the lines: “He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just as long as they don’t pull his tail too hard. But . . . when night comes he is the cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the wet, wild woods, up the wet, wild trees, or on the wet, wild roofs waving his wild tail add walking by his wild love. ’ Different Fish Story J. Clarence Harvey, the Lambs’ club wit, is telling this story about elimination: The proprietor of a fish store had a new sign. “Fresh Fish for Sale Here.” “Why say ‘here’?” said the first customer. “It’s unnecesary.” He painted “here” out. Said the second customer, “Why ‘for sale?’ Os course they’re for sale.” He painted out two words m6re. “Why ‘fresh?’” said a. third customer. “You wouldn’t sell them if they weren't fresh, would you?” At last the sign read just “Fish.” Along came a fourth customer. ‘What’s the use ot having that sign,” he asked, “when you can smell them a block away?”—New York World. The Germ Peril. “We know a great deal more about germs nowadays than we used to know.” “Quite true. And I think the knowledge has made tire average person less courageous than formerly.” "How so?” "For instance, by merely snaking your handkerchief in a man’s face these days you can alarm him almost as much as if the handkerchief were a ‘six-shooter.' ”

All IS READY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) votions. Conference business. 10:00 a. m.—Lay electoral conference, First Methodist church. Address, Rev. W. S. Bovard, D. D. 12:00 m.Adjournment. 1:30 p. m. -Joint meeting in interest of conference claimants, Bishop McDowell, presiding Address, Rev, George I'3. Elliott, D. D 3:30 p. m Intermission. 4:00 p. in. -The Asbury memorial hour, Dr. George R. Grose, presiding. Address, "Asbury's America and Our#,” Prof. Lynn Harold Hough, D. D. 7;30.p. m.—Conference lecture and entertainment. Musical program by Wayne Street church quartet. Lecturer, Bisho;) William F. McDowell, D. D„ LL. D. Saturday, April 1. 8:30 a. tn. -Conference session. Devotions. Conference business. 9:30 a. m. —Association of Preachers’ Wives, Widows and Daughters, First Methodist Episcopal church. 12:00 m.—Adjournment. 1:30 p. m. —Auto tour of conference guests. The courtesy of the Fort Wayne Realty association. 3:00 p. m. —Anniversary of the Home Missionary society, Mrs. J. C. White, presiding. Address* Mrs. Celestine Behnheim.

4:00 p. m.—Conference lecture hour, Dr. George R. Grose, presiding. Address, "The Dyamic of Religion,’ Prof. Lynn Harold Hough, D. D. , Saturday Night. (Wayne Street Church) 7:30 p. m.—Anniversary Epworth league. Rev. W. W. Martin. D. D„ presiding. Address, Rev. W. F. Sheridan. D. D 8:15 p. in. —Anniversary board of foreign missions. Rev. C. U. Wade, D. D„ presiding. Address, Bishop Jo seph C. Hartzell. First Church. 7:30 p. ta. —Anniversary board of foreign missions. Rev. F. A. Hall, presiding. Address, Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell. 8:15 p. m.—Anniversary Epworth league. Rev. C. H. Smith, presiding. Address, Rev. W. F, Sheridan, D. D. Sunday, April 2 9;00 a. in. —Conference love feast. In charge of tho Revs. J. K. Wlatz. J. B. Cook, W. S. Stewart. 10:30 a. m. —Public worship. Sermon, Bisho]) Win. F. McDowell, D. D., LL. D. a. m. —Pulpits of city supplied by visiting ministers. 2:00 p. m. —Memorial service. Sermon, Rev. C. B. Work. 3:30 p. m. —Ordination services. In charge of the bishop and district superintendents. (Wayne Street Church). 7:00 p. 111. —Aniversary of Freedmen's Aid society. Rev. L. G. Jacobs, presiding. Address Rev. P. J. Maveety, D. D. | • 8:00 p. m. —Anniversary board of education. Rev. F. M. Stone, presiding. Address, Rev. Thomas Nicholson, D. D. (First Church) 7:00 p. ni. —Anniversary board of education. Rev. B. E. Parker, presiding. Address, Rev. Thomas Nicholson, D. D. 8:00 p. m. —Aniversary' of Freedmen’s Aid society. Address, Rev. P. J. Maveety, D. D. Monday, April 3. 8:30 a. m.—-Conference session. Devotions, conference business, .reading of appointments. ’ADAiFfHANKFUr — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) know we are right.’ Congressman Adair is sufferig from a pretty severe cold. Te has lost some thirty pounds in his campaign and he wants to pick up about forty pounds before taking a fresh start. Leonard B. Clore says: "I was beaten because my vote was too small. 1 have congratulated Mr. Adair and did so sincerely. W» neither qf us have done anything incite carol iagn that we might regret. We have fought a clean fight. My vote was large where I am best known. That is gratifying. Now we must all get busy and see that the whole democratic ticket is elected. My friends have said "l have always been able to make two blades of grass, grow where one grew before. Now I am going back to the farm and grow three blades 011 that same spot so I can make up what it cost ijie to try to get a nomination.” 4, ; PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING. D. A, Gliliom (Professional) rebuild- ! er and repairer ot pianos ami sewing | machines, ana piano tuner. Dealer tn ‘both branches Write or phone 8. .Line P, city. Office at home. Real ' deuce, south end city limits, at G. R. ; & I. railroad crossing. At home on ; Saturdays. 293-ni-w-f-tf o— . FOR SALE—7O acres, with goou buildings, and handy to market for sale at SIOO.OO per acre by owner in Adams county; soil mostly black. — Jas. Stevens, Wren, O. R. R. 1, 4t6eod

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