Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1916 — Page 5

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Prices range from $1.75 to $3.00 Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

(weather forecast I l * t ??*mnf*!Tl!T!TVl ,,,l,,,,l,,wt * ? '- ll>,wwt w Fair tonight and Saturday slowly rising temperature. 4 • Mrs. F E. France went to Ft Wayne, this morning. Mrs. Isaac Zimmerman went to Fort Wayne this morning < - You will never be accused of cheating at cards as long as you lose. The double rainbow last evening about five o'clock attracted much at- ' tention. Miss Reba Wilhelm went to Wonmouth to attend the closing of school -fastivities. ’ Misses Sadie and Ocie Moser of Wren, Ohio, changed cars here today enroute to Fort Wayne. A healj-hy man and woman are king and queen in their own right; if unhealthy they are an unhappy slave. Loving a woman Is not the important thing. Getting along with her after marriage is the important thing. If a millionaire tells you that he was far happier .when he earned a dollar a day, remind him of what David said in his haste. Mrs Charles Rainier returned to Fort Wayne this morning after a visit here at the Dr. C. T Rainier home. Dr. Rainier shows no change in his condition. Stew Nugent dropped in on! his mother t’day. He says work is so plentiful out over th’ country that he may remain here indefinitely What’s become o' th’ ole-time flush we could see come an’ go?—Abe Martin

I he Home Os Quality Groceries You will want a crop of Potatoes. I Then plant good, pure seed, that will grow and produce. We have it at the right price: s Early Six Weeks, bu $1.50 Early Rose, bu $1.50 Early Ohio, bu $1.50 Early Cobbler, bu. $1.75 We have a full line of Package Garden and Flow- | er Seeds. Get your Onion Sets now, at th 10c Will have a line of late Seed Potatoes for you. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 19c Butter 17c to 27c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Denot Thone 108 I A Better Smoke than | the I “WHITE STAG” I EXTRA MILD? I “There Hain’t No such Animal” |

If It Is Strap Slippers we have a variety that is pleasing to look at. One, two, three and four straps or fancy cross bar straps like the cut shown | here.

Mrs. Kate Place went to Monomuth this noon. It is easier for the modern girl to knit her brows than darn her hose. Earl Hoagland, clerk in the F. V. Mills grocery, is off duty on account of illness. Mrs. Dan Hill and sons, John and Chester went to Monmouth this morning. Mrs. Dale 'Mickley of Huntington arrived yesterday for a short visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blackburn., Ansel and Ray Bremerkamp and Carlisle Flanders left this morning for Portland in the interests of the Rice Cereal manufactory of New Haven, advertising Kre-mo. Mrs. Chris Strebe and daughter, Mi'dred; Pauline Krick, Myrtle Wilder, Mrs. Dick Hill and daughter. Mabel; went to Monmouth on the 11:30 car to attend the Monmouth school closing festivities. Mrs. Charles Loch returned to Fort Wayne today noon. She was the guest of Mrs. Dan Vail, who with her daughter, Mary Louise, accompanied her to Fort Wayne. The Lochs attended the charity ball as the Vail', guests. Paul Tribolet, formerly of this city, is the manager of a large Five and ten cents store at Portsmouth, Ohio, and his family will move there soon. Re'cently Mr. Tribolet accepted the management of a store at Hanyiiond but left there for the Portmouth place Mrs Tribolet and daughter are at present visiting'Triends in this city and they will go to Portmouth soonBluffton News. Mrs Tribolet was formerly Miss Andrews and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Andrews oi near Peterson.

Mrs. E. L. Carrol went to Berne this f afternoon. 1 Mrs. E. 0. Coverdalo atent to Fort 1 Wayne tills morning. — ‘ w u Mrs, c R. Ford and. son went to t Herne o nthe 1:05 train. B Mias Lilly Gerard went to Portland for a visit over Sunday. I J. H. Gentis made a business trip ‘ to Geneva this afternoon. t Dan Erwin attended the commence £ mint at Monroe last evening. ( Miss Naomi Peterson returned to ( Fort Wayne t ospend Sunday. s Dr. A. D. Clark made a business trip ' to Fort Wayne this afternoon I Oliver Jones of Fort Wayne was a business visitor in the city today. Misses Leah Hartzog and Roxy | Stove went to Fort Wayne this noon. ( William Hardy and Homer Stanley < are Huntington guests at the Murray ’ hotel today. ! A. L. Shampe of Bluffton visited in ; the city today and was a guest at the Murray hotel. , W. J. Sisk and W. R. Wheat of Bry , anl were in the city today attending , to business affairs. 1 / I Mrs. Dayton Barkley returned tc ' Hoagland and was accompanied by 1 her sister Vera May. Mrs. Horace Snow left today noon for her home in Columbia City aftei a visit here with relatives. Mrs L. Holthouse, Mrs. Charles Pe terson and Mrs. May McMahon went , to Fort Wayne today noon The livest citizens live in the livost town. The reason is that live citizens make live towns. Mrs. Ralph Amrine who was open ated on two weeks ago was able to be out doors today for the first time. Edward Dirkson took his daughter, Martha, to the sanitarium at Fort Wayne today for treatment foi scrofula. Mrs. Mary Wemhoff and son, Franl left this afternoon for Indianapolis tc attend the wedding of Wai Wemhofl tomorrow morning. Mrs. C. B. Smith left'on the 1:OE train for her home in Portland. She visited here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C„ R. Hammell. Miss Alice Fitters, a student at the Sisters of St. Agnes Academy, return ed to her home in Berne this after noon, for bver Sunday visit. Garland A. Watts and Miss Lola E Brown of Bluffton. Ind., were married it the court house at Hillsdale, Mich. Wednesday by Justice C. M. Weaver The Kalver-Noble Garage Company today delivered to Mann & Christen a Ford touring car. This well known contracting firm now owns two Fore cars. Mrs. Ernest Cross and four child ren arrived from Rome City this as ternoon to visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs. John Sprangue of Eleventh street? Mrs. John Gerard went to Fort I Wayne to call on her brother, Curley Rademacher, who has been quite 11' ■ and who today was taken to the St • Joseph hospital. The public is again notified in the cleaning up of the city, the draymen will not cAcry away garbage, but only dry litter. Have it in barrels or boxes ready for the men. Misses Della ' Clark and Alms Brown will go to Huntington Satur day to visit with the former’s cous ms, Mrs. Howard Williams and How ard Hanauer, and also to attend the Honeywell meetings. FUNERAL TODAY. At Midland, Mich.—Body Not Brought Here for Burial. Owing to the difficulty in hearing over the telephone, and a misunder standing in taking the message by Wren. Ohio, relatives, from the fam ily at Midland, Mich., relatives here were disappointed in failing to get to attend the funeral of Earl Reichert, former Decatur boy, who met instant death in Michigan Wednesday. The death occurred at Mt. Clemens, Mich., when he fell from his work as a carpenter,' a distance of seventy feet, from a derrick to the ground. The telephone message stated that the body would be taken to the home at Midland, and in transmission, relatives at Wren understood that the body was to be brought home, hence the confusion. Relatives here expected that the burial would be here, but instead the funeral was held this afternoon at one o’clock at Midland. George McGill, of the G. R. & I- s * a ‘ tion, this city, had desired to go, but was prevented from so doing by inability to make the trip in time. I -—— GET ON THE CENTENNIAL BOOSTERS BAND WAGON (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) sharing of expenses, instead of laying all the burden on the business mon. some of whom were taxi’d a hundred dollars for the home-coming celebration four years ago, was a

free discussion after adjournment. I j There wore many suggestions for the] I providing of features that are edu- ; cational, instructive and interesting, t and yet require very little outlay of i money,; although considerable work i and time might be donated. t The organizing of churches and < lodges and societies as units, each i contributing to the fair, or parade, or t display, or music, or other attrac- I tlons, was suggested. In pioneer I days, the good times, the various 4 progresses made depended upon individual exertion and means and re- I sources from within, that cost no, or t very little outlay of money, and the i centennial might depend upon the t same. The cutting down of expenses appeal- t ed much to the women, and it is be- t iieved that if more women—-that ' class that fills the impoverished 1 church coffers —a splendid band of ’ workers, known as “The Ladies’ Aid < society;" the class that lets an escort i spend only a nickel when he wants i to spend fifty cents when she accom- i panics him; the class that nearly i has to file an injunction suit to pre- I vent the men members of lodges from using the last cent in the treasury i for an elaborate entertainment — i would take greater hold of the cele- I bration, the expenses could be cut i down greatly. < > • . « Certain streets might be given 1 over to districts or booths for each 1 ■ ‘ownship, or, if fear of rainy weather prevails, churches or lodges might ~ive over their buildings for each i ownshfp gathering, or unit of dis- 1 day. Let each township have its headquarters. Let each have a display of educational work; showing he progress of the schools in the past century; the churches might have a booth, showing the progress; here might be a cprio booth, or relic booth. Each township has some distinctive geographical, or historical, or igricultural. or educational, or social eatures, and let that be emphasized n the display. Each township has -,ome “oldest inhabitant” that is rich n reminiscences of days gone bytome, remembering things that hap>ened nearly a century ago. or it not remembering it himself, has received t from others by word of mouth. Let >ach township unit prepare its own irogram or form of entertainment; having “camp-fire” programs in. , vhich pioneers tell stories of early life; others furnish music; and others mtertainment features. Some one suggested that each ownship organize as a unit, with he trustee as chairman. Commit’ees for each department —the educational, church, social, historical, and ■ >ther departments might be appointd, and thus have the organization extend into every nook and corner if the county. Each chairman might hus report to the county chairman. Let each township take the responsibility of its “township building or lisplay” upon itself. Let a friendly -ivalry be created to excel each othar, and thus do away with the offering of expensive prizes, that create i large proportion of the “expense 'und.” As there are twelve townships, iome one suggested that there might be “township daMs,’’ when two or ‘hree would be given a day for special display or program, just as an luto day, or horse day, was a feature of home-coming. There could be Root ■ownship day; Preble towiiship day, ind qo on. The parades could be made a features. Ancient conveyances, from the ox-team and car, the “one-hoss shay,” the "spankey.” the springwagon, the "top-buggy.” the surrey, 'he intermediate carriages to the automobile, could be dug out from their ancient lairs or modern garages and used in the parade to show the ’stages of development. The farmtag implements from the flail and cradle to the modern improved machinery could be shown in the parade; the progress made in cooking and housekeeping could be exemplified; the progress in clothing, from the spinning, weaving, dyeing and dress-making; all the stages of development could be shown by each township, at little or no expense othor than the work of gathering the materials and their arrangement and display. The Log Cabin Display. The log cabin display, suggested by French Quinn a week ago, appeals strongly to the women and their imaginations have been working much, being a strong factor in creating more of the centennial celebration sentiment. Those who have visited Log Cabin park, or Palme# park, Detroit, Mich., have seen the log cabin that was the birthplace o’ Governor Palmer. It is preserved intact, and fur I nished just as it was in the day of j the pioneer. The grounds are in har-j tnony—the barn, the old well with its i moss-covered bucket, the rustic bridges, and so on The bringing of a log cabin to this city, where many lots would be only, too glad to receive it; the planting of ( old-fashioned flowers and vegetable gardens in anticipation of it; the furnishing with relics and curios and heir-looms that figured in pioneer days of Adams county, loaned for the dis-

play, would be a pleasure. If not the log cabin, some public room might be given olor to the display. There could be wax models dressed in garments from the trunks of our grandmothers or great-grandmothers and there are more in Adams county than one might suppose. Dan Niblick mentioned in particular the dresses that his mother wore more than a half-century ago, which are still kept in the family heir-loom trunks; and there are many more besides. There are old Indian relies that have been dng tip tn the plowed fields that would make the curio department of many a city museum look little. Some one has suggested that a small fee might be charged visitors to the relic or curio display, as Fort Wayne is doing. This would help defray expenses. Others suggested that women in pioneer dress might conduct a tea room in the log cabin, serving light refreshments of tea or doughnuts, that could be donated, served from historic dishes or ancient dishes of pioneer days, and thus contribute to the expense fund. Others suggested that candles might be molded at small cost from the candle molds that Mrs. B. W. Sholty has in her collection of curios and sold for souvenirs. An ardent worker in the curio and pioneer display department is Mrs. B. W. Sholty, who is, perhaps one of the county's most enthusiastic collector of antiques and curios. Another suggestion for the raising of funds is the selling of a little book lof county history or reminiscence; or the selling of souvenfrs or badges. Others have suggested that each township might defray its expenses by selling some little souvenir of natural product or makA from its own township, such as willow whistles, willow ware, rustic boxes and benches and chairs, or flowers, or plants, or vegetables, or “harvest home products.” on the general market plan. There are a thousand ways of ex-pense-sharing and the above are given. not as final arrangement, but suggestions heard here and there, that may help to bring about a stronger sentiment in favor of the centennial at little expense. Each business house or residence, it was suggested, could attend to its own decoration; each individual take ft upon himself to extend an invitation to home-coming friends for the celebration. Then, too, the matter of having a historical pageant was taken up. If some literary person in the county could write a historical drama, showing the progress of the county’s development in the past hundred years, and give.this over for production, the matter of the pageant would be fully covered. Some one suggested that this be done. Let everybody (jet busy and bring or write suggestions and then be 'ready to attend the next boosters’ meeting! Morris Co. Saturday specials: Ladies’ Bib Aprons only 19c; Cross-barred Lawn, fine, 10c yard. Many other specials not listed.

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