Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1916 — Page 5

Welted Work I Shoes Are Working se£™$ e £™t y J nt^ he favor of a lot 0 r£f^ me^ S ‘ J le *Y say they can do a better days work when their feet are at ease. No tacks, no nails, no threads to hurt, just soit flexible long wearing leather. Men’s $3.50 and $4.00 Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

| WEATHER FOBECASn S titniiinimxaßtianiut'mntr ...ssnsS fair tonight ind Friday J. W. Merriman returned yesterday afternoon from Berne. An informal dance will be given at the Mopse hall tonight. John Christtmr is l>r»a>aring to move ort *a farm out of Geneva. Attorney C. 4. Walters left today noon for Fort Wayne on businete. A jolly crowd attended the we. kly dance at the Ma ionic hall last ev«; ing. Mrs. C. L. Meili.rs and Mr-, Anita Droppieman spent the day tri Fort Wayne. Mrs. Flora Harper of Plymouth is here visiting with her mother, Mrs. C. H. Hayslip. B. F. Breiner w> d' to Fort Wayne to attend the Metnodist conference' as a lay delegate from the Decatur M'thodist circiiit.’ John Hoover was -n the vicinity of| Cj-aigville yesterday where he sold a quantity of goods for tin*' firm for whom he is working. Mrs. William Do Eng, who has been seriously sick for the past few days, is resting easier today. A curse is in attends, ce. Mrs. G. E. Steele Went to Ft. Wayne a> d wWle thbre met her sister. M: Franklin Andrews, of Com. ■ Ohio, who went to Fort Wayne from a visit here. The* entertainment committee appointed by the St. Vincent de Paul society, is making . ance <l I preparations for the Easter ball to be given Tuesday after Easter at the K. of C. hall. Extra music and pleasant surprises will be famished.

(he Home Os Quality Groceries HEADQUARTERS FOR SEED POTATOES Genuine Seed Stock, from seed growers. Just what yon want. PRICE. Early Ohio—Red River Valley Stock, bu Early Rose, bu S2JIO Eariy Bliss Triumph, bu sn e o Early Six-weeks. be SI 75 Irish Cobblers, bu. " WILL BE HIGHER. Full line of Package Garden and Flower Seeds. Onion Sets, Yellow, thi> veek. toe- qL — W« nay cash or trade or produce, Eggs 16c Butter 18c to 2to M. £. HOWER North of G. R. M. Depot ■■■ IF. M.JSCHIRMEYER FRENCH Q U * NI S I President Secretary Ireas | THE BOWERS REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOAN&. Lj g ■ ABSTRACTS I I The Schirmeyer Abstract Wf A1 ” I ■ strect’Recards. Twenty years Farms, City Property, 5 per cen . g money |

I Sam Wyatt left on the 1:05 train || this afternoon for a trip south. 1 Martin Haugk of Preble was a bust i iness visitor in the city today. Harry Ramsey of Convoy, Ohio, i was a business visitor in the city to- • day. Julius Heidemann was in the city |. this afternoon looking after business : affairs. Mr. and Mrs. James Crozier of Uni ion township were shoppers in the city today. C. S. Peterson who is here for a visit with his parents is nursing a case oi lagrippe today. Att< rm y Leonard of Fort Wayne :s here today looking after legal business in the Adams Circuit court. The regular weekly dance Was given last -evening at the Masopic hall and was enjoyed by about twenty couple. „ ,M. I’. Hower is installing a 509 lon gasolene tank at the corner just outside his grocery on west Monroe street. ‘‘On the Firing Line With the Germans," the greatest moving picture I film produced' since the war, will be . shown in this city soon. We still have on hands a few copies of "Heart Songs’ and if you want one you should be getting your order in. I They cost but 98 cents and five COUjpens. Mrs. Claude Caton and babe arfiivcd this afternoon on tlie 1:05 tr.rn from LaGrange to visit here with her i sister, Mrs. Mel Butler and other relatives. The fourth number of the high school Raxejjngs wag delivered today ' and the students -and other subscribers are enjoying them. The book is I one of the best ones in this part of the ‘ state. Two more numbers are to be , published before school closes.

I' red Bloomker of Magley wan a business visitor in the city today. Mrs. If. e. Baxter of Union town--hip was a shopper in the city today. I'- McConnell returned on the 1:05 • ruin from a business trip to Fort Wayne. George Wemlioff will go to Chicago this evening to attend to business cf importance. Sheriff Ed Green made a business trip to Herne this afternoon on the 1:05 train. " J. Myers and wife have gone to Port Wayne to attend the Methodist conference which is benig hold there. I lie Daily Democrat will present a wonderful moving picture soon, “With the German army on the firing line.” " atch for it and don't miss it. American soldiers are in Mexico and if you want to know something of Mexico you should hear Chas. W. Payne in his Illustrated lecture next Monday night. Gus Rosenthal, now located at Boscabel, where he is in business writes an interesting letter to Hugh Hite in which he says lie is geting along very nicely. Mrs. Martin Beery, Mrs. C. H. Colter, Mrs. D. F. Leonard, Mrs. John \ ail were among those who went to Fort Wayne today to attend the Meth odist conference. Mrs. Frank Ramsey of Spencerville. 11 ••. who visited here with her brother. Robert Green, and wife, left yesterday afternoon at 3:22 for Kendall ville on a visit. M. E. Hower, the up to date grocer has contrai ted for his regular space on the local page of this paper and his advertisement will appear there for another year. Plans for the Adams county centenial are going along though not as fast as we would like to see it. However is seems assured shat we will celebrate the event. ■ W. A. Lower who has been quite ’ll for several weeks is now able to sit up 1 part of each day and hopes to soon, be back on the job at the Peoples ’ Loan & Trust Company. The Schafer Saddlery company have added three new salesmen in Ohio and Michigan and their big plant northwest of town is running steadily to keep up witli the orders. B. C. Henancks, live chiropractor, made his regular weekly professional trip to Fort Wayne today. He also wept on consultation with Dr. Ross regarding two es his patients ■ here. - , Fred LaDelle, the piagieian, 4s plan114... a trip over the middle west and will give entertainments for churches ’ and lodges. He expects to get startr ed within a few days, and is now making contracts. Tlie spelling match tomorrow evstni ing promises to be a very interestingr event. The high school students are determined to win back’the champion* ■ ship and the business men. are just as determined dhat they shall not. Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Nidlinger, prominent residents of the county, have rented their farm east of the . city to their son. They have purchased a small farm pear Winona Lake and will go there to makettheir future home. Misses Rose Fullenkamp and Dorothy Schultz called at the Lutheran ’ hospital yesterday in Fort Wayne awd visited a while with Mrs. Fred. Blehz, formerly of Union township, and with Mrs. William Klink of that township, who are patients there. Mrs. Tipton Bud has returned from Bloom Center, where she attended tti' weddin’ o’ her niece. She says it ' wuz one o’ th’ swellest weddin's in i th’ history o’ th’ state, only th’ whites o’ th’ eggs bein’ used in th’ cake. A Mexican must look like a toadstool t’ a aviator.—Abe Martin. Mrs. Levi Baker of North Second street was able to come down town for the first time in, three weeks yesterday. having experienced an attack of heart trouble three weeks ago. She made the trip to and from home, however, by riding, but stood it well. She attended the Gass & Meibers opening while down town. * Fred B. Fisher, general secretary of the Layman’s Missionary society took Bishop McDowell’s place on the program for the M. E. conference Tuesday. Secretary Fisher is a plump, well groomed and contented man of middle age and considerably less and jumped into immediate fa-1 vor. He said that he had just come from Mexico and was glad that he did. When he left Jaurez, Mexico, a few weeks ago, wdtere races and i tights were in progress, he was Accosted Hl El Paso, at the American end; of the bridge, by a fellow who asked | him how much he had “cleaned up | m Hie races. His questioner mistook j him for an absconding bookmaker.i From Fl Paso he came to In<ilaua P’i olis. where he was soon e:”aged in: a friendly conversation with a man ; 'who he discovered shdftl.V mistook him for secretary of the bartenders’ ( union. Now he came to Fort Wayne j and had to represent a bishop. The speaker’s sallies framed up the audience and provoked general laughter. ■

ODD WAYS OF KEEPING TIME Lonely Australians Have Many Methods by Which They Compute the Passing of the Hours. On the Immense sheep ranches in Australia each of the boundary riders has a district to look after, in which ho has to keep the wire fences in rapair and see that tho sheep come to no harm. It is a hard, lonely life, in which the rtder rarely sees another human being. Many of the men have strange ways of keeping couut of the days. One rider, who had lived for thirty years in the back country, used two jam tins and seven pebbles. Ono tin was marked "This Week” and the other, ‘‘Last Week.” On Sunday morning he was accustomed to take a pebble out of “Last Week” and drop it into “This Week.” This operation ho repeated every morning until “This Week” had used up the seven. They were then returned to “Last Week," one each day; and the old fellow knew when another week had passed. Another rider, named Eagan, tried several plans to keep count of the days, but always failed. At last he Jiit ob a novel and attractive method. *le made a big damper—the name the Australians give to a cake of flour and water with a seasoning of salt —on Sunday and marked It into seven parts. Each section was a day’s allowance, and the slices that remained told him the number of days that must pass before Sunday came again. For several weeks this method never failed him. Unfortunatley, one Tuesday he fell th with a fellow rider who was very hungry. Eagan stinted himself, in order that the ravenous one might be satisfied with that day's section of the damper. But it was no use. The host saw the knife cu-t th® boundary line and the hungry rider carve into the alma-nac. He emaW i stand it no loagc-r. “Stop, now, stop!” he-'y-elled, as tee clutched tho remains of tho dawper and glared at- his visitor. “There,” he | continued, “you’ve eaten Tuesday a-nd ‘ , you’ve eaten Wednesday, and now ye® ! wbnt to slice the be-st of th® Ewo-rnin’ off Thursday! Not if. I can sto® it, sonny! I wne’t be knowi-ag the d>a-j of the’week!" —Youth’s Co-mpa-nfc®. STR'ERSTH I'N BESEWE Century Plant Coestrvea Energy t? the Tissue When l-t S-haill B!to®i& In Fall SplendfO'P. For a iraer-e ptant, the century fl-a-nl exhibits an t»usu-a-l amount of good sense. Nature decreed tha-t it-s tiessomfeig process be f-a-st a-nd fu-rtau-s So tlie plant spends a H-fetim-e after ing up reserve strengt’h far the day whs® it puts farth its flewe-rs. S-owe-times it spends fifteen years ge-t-ti®ig ready foe its flower seasesi, some-times loK-ger. That’s why v.-e'v-e n-a-meid- ft tho cestwy Before it is ready t® bte-ssoea, ths century plant is a dense cluster oi: rigid,- thtek leavtss, with a therm am tin tip of each leaf. It grows in M®x- ! ico -and en the western desert. In Mexico it is extensively cultivated awl; is put- to several .uses. An extract i-s made f-ro® the 1-eaws ahi. used for soap Whe-n tho plant i-e ready to bios sc®, the sap is take® from the stem and made into a drink, which the Mexicans call pulque. After the flower withers, th® stem is cut; into slices to form razor strops. Finally, the leaves prod-ucu fiber, wfcfck fs Bsad* into thread and r®s>®s-. Trlcfcy. A senator was talking a-ho-ist b®tional preparedness. “The man who would aaa-h.e political capital out of such an intportani question as preparedness," he said, “Is as selfish and tricky as the chap i® tbe station bar. “A chap hustled into a static® Mt. i He had bnly a minuto or -so to catch his train. But the bartender was busy, I and the chap sa.w that he stood t® koae I out on being served. “Two gentlemen, each 'with whisky 1 and -Soda before him, were conversing pleasantly before the bar. Well, What does this chap do but reach over, grab one of the whiskies and toss it off. “Tire owner started back. “‘How dard you,!’ he Spluttered. ‘The idea! Why, that wasn’t your' whisky!’ “ ‘Wasn’t it?’ said the chap. ‘Then I guess this one must be mine, eh?\ “And he tossed off the other gentleman’s drink and dashed out and j caught his train just as it was moving off.” » Reversion to Type. An English traveler in Baluchistan had from a holy man in that country j a story about Moses, which does not i appear in the Scriptures, yet which has its pertinence to this matter of politicians proposing to do away with ! all the eviis of the human lot. The patriarch was sitting in his house very sad, and the Lord said to him: "Prophet Moses, why art thou ; cast down?” “Alas!" said he, “I see so many peo- , pie sorrowful. Some are unclothed,! ; and some are hungry. I pray thee i make all happy and contented.” The Lord promised it should be bo. ‘ But soon Moses was again disconso-1 i late, and once more the Lord asked i ■ the cause. "Lord,” cried the prophet, “the upper story of my house has fallen down, and nobody will come to mend it; they ! are all too busy enjoying themselves.” | "But what am Ito do?” i “Lord, make the people as they were before!”

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A PQ.PU'k.A'R DELUSKX4 GON- t efiß-N-INiG A>» ©LE> SOWS,, f. Thro’ the Kye”— a-» "nsw f printed a-M-d wsuaUjr atteFibnted . t® Robert Items —Iw-t »s a loartter «t ; t fact, wily tlie first four tinea are by » Burak, the remeimler imvimg bee® a-4- ‘ ded by J&lin Walter, a-n Ediabers ' Ician a-H-d music sv 'rk-’F, wi-i-® la-tc-r mor- t ed to Lewd®®. < Ttee air to wkiefc “Ceraka’ Th«>’ the t Ry®” hM become familiar to tkovsMde ‘ of Aru*-ricaaa — and te whi-efa it is mow t ewes, — i-s an old i®ek>dy. "The Millev’s Daughter”— iwawwhat »o«Lified by Walter. Pe®pte g-c.®i®'F*l'l'}', Mi'd tlw artist , eem-m-c'Ht-atoiF who bav-e f-eltowed sert, t have takes it tor granted that the song . re-fer-red t-® ersssteg a fieid e4 rye. But c I the authentic versic®, Itowever, shows I that it refers to the fordiug of the j : River Rye, wiie-re eerta-i® stepspisg s stones allowed the barefooted High- t ■ land lassies to cross none the worse v

FOLLOW THE CROWD SPRING OPENING SALE BERNSTEIN’S Two Dwfs fetifh of Interurban Station fttcMr, M. Studebaker Bieck “BUY NOW AND SAVE MONEY.” Tfee best stack we ever had. Never before have we had such splendid asswtrnentt. Our store is full of all New Spring Goods. We are giving special prices right when you need thegoodsthe most. The heaviest redwetiom will be on Shoe®, Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishings, Dry Goods, I. Utt Cnriains, Knit Underwear, eic. Fellow the crowd and save money.

LAWNS, sc. A new spring line of Fancy Lawns, in light or dark patterns, striped or figured, special for this sale, yard 3 ‘mSN’S RUBEir SOOTS, 92.75. - | Men’s good quality Rolled Edge Rubber Beale, duck vamp, only $ 2 - 7i L.ADISS’ SHOES, 'Special! Ladies’ Vici Kid Shoe, special (pr this sale sl-4' I Ladies’ Vici Kid Shoe, button, cloth I top, special for this eale $l.B $2.50 Ladies* Vici Kid. Gun Metal or Patent Button Shoe, Spring Opening Sale sl.9f $3.00 Bedies’ Patent Button, Cloth Top Shoo, concave heel, plain toe. Spring Opening Sale $2.41 Special prices on Boys’ and Chil ■ dren’s Shoes. Come in and save money. MEN'S SHOES. $2.50 Men's Vici Kid, Gun Metal or Box Calf Shoes, all solid leather, I Spring Opening Sale $1.98 IA good Satin Calf Shoe for $1.85 $3.00 Men’s Gun Metal Button or Blucher Shoe, Spring Opening Sale $2.45 $3.50 and $4.00 Men’s Goodyear Welt, button or blucher Shoe, all new spring styles, Spring Opening Sale $2,98 A good Men’s Heavy Work Shoe, all sizes, 6 to 11, only $1.98 $2.50 Men’s Elkskin Shoe, all sizes, I 6to 11, Spring Opening Sale $1.98 CORSETS! CORSETS!! i Special prices on C. B. ALa Spirite i Corsets: '51.50 Front Lace Corset, only 98c isl.oo Corsets, only 89c '$ .50 Corset,-only 42c LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, 93c. A new lino Ladies’ Shirt Waists, all new 1'916 styles in silk, cotton voiles, any waist you pick is fully worth si,so, Spring Opening Sale 98c

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YOUR SPRING SUIT will mean a whole lot to you, if you can come in and select it while the selections are fresh. They’re ready—-with the finest line of smart new 1916 MODELS you ever saw—made up in the finest -i Imported and Domestic materials, PRICES sls to $25 Have you seen our New Spring Hats? the newest shades and shapes quality guaranteed. Prices $1.50 to $4. Suits made to your measure from $13.50 to $35.00 AT

tor the shallow water that swirled abe-at their pretty ankles. This w-orl-d-famous me-ledy is to 1 e found in th® wonder-fial collection entitled “Heart So®§3" — now offered by tliis paper to its readers e® terms that ®ia-fe: it praeti-eaMy a gift. Efeewhere in today’s issn«? is printed the coupon with music border that expla-iM how this book ®ay be obtahaed. We eo-maicnd to every subscriber this en-usn-al ©'pportninity ©f procuring a book that will be a aonree of pleasure in 1 11 the years to eo®®. CLAY BA R« A BCE—MASTER ©F MIRTH IN ISJ-USIC America’s Master ©f Mirth is the loving title given I® He-nry Clay Barnabee, known i>n American and Europe as one of the mo-s-t active singers of opera roles of his time. He was the orig-nial sheriff of Nottingham! in “Robin Hood,” and player Bir Joseph Porter in “Pinafore,” the first time it was presented in America. He was for over sixty years known as

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1 the only man who could song “The Cork Leg” and the ballad “O Loving Heart. Trust On,” written for him by Gottschalk, the famous composer. t Shortly after the civil war Mr. Bar- ( n-abee began playing with the Boston ( Museum company and later began his , work as an entertainer, making a cirs c«it of minor cities and towns, combining music and demlamations. Mr. . Barnabee was a leading spirit of the ! old Boston Ideal Opera company, which continued for many years as one of the most popular musical organizations ever known to American op- ; era lovers. In later life he retained »| his sp'endid quality of voice still sing- - ing many of the songs which he made - famous. "O Loving Heart, Trust on,” and ; others of the Barnabee songs are to ii be found in that beautiful volume, - 'Heart Songs", now being distributed t by this paper. Look elsewhere for : the coupon giving the terms to our s readers.

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