Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1916 — Page 3

BENDS WITH THE FOOT This welted work shoe is so flexible that it bends with the foot and makes walking easy. We have them in plain toe or tip, black and tan uppers at * $3.50 and $4.00 Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

rWEATBER , '^ORECMT a | Showers and thunder storms this afternoon or tonight, Thursday fair and colder. ♦ Mrs. Maggie Dulin returned to Monroe this afternoon. Miss Dorothy Dugan was an over Sunday visitor at Wiuchestcr. Mr. and Mrs. Burlin Gauze went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Starr of Bluffton were visitors here yesterday. Will Barr of Bluffton was looking after business affairs here this morning. Lawrence Lord went to Sturgis, Mich., this morning to accept a position which was offered him last week. John Clark is doing reportorial duty on the Daily Democrat. If you have any items of interest give them to him. Mrs. C. S. Niblick and daughters left Sunday afternoon for Chicago for a several weeks visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Mary Steele and son, Morris. returned Saturday night from Williams county. O , where they visited with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Schawb and daughter Miss Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and daughter of Auburn, stopped here Sunday on a motor trip to and from Van Wert. The boy scouts will be reorganized here if plans now under way mature Dr. Fred Paterson is being urged as master with Lawrence Archbold ind Dr. Bea Beacers as assistants.

The Home Os Quality Groceries ■■■■■■■■■HnHBMWHMHMBeSBnNmSBKSMiCSBSnsasaSBS Bulte’s Best is a Red Turkey Hard Wheat Flour, guaranteed to make six loaves more than the ordinary flour. 24'/ 2 lb. Sack 90c WE SELL IT! YOU TRY IT! ; Plenty of good Dairy Butter all the time. New Potatoes, New Cabbage, Strawberries, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 19c I Butter 17c to 23c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. &I. Deoot ’Phone 108 I ' A I g To Get Smoke Satisfaction From Tlie | I WHITE STAG ■ EXTRA MILD | I CIGAR I I 5c - Every Where 5c S

Katch Blackburn attended the picnic at St. Johns yesterday. Leo Wilhelm has returned from a visit of several weeks in Arkansas. Mrs. E. L. Carroll and Mrs. Dan Vail spent the day in Fort Wayne. Dr. Burgener made a profession'll business trip to Geneva this morning. Clyde Noble visited in Pierceton over Sunday with friends and relatives. Miss Ruth Whipple of Portland motored to Decatur yesterday and was the guest of Miss Agnes Kohne. Many young people from here attended the special services at Berne last evening making the trip in their autos. Mrs. W. A. Kuebler and daughteb. Marcella, went to Fort Wayne to spend the day at Sacred Heart Academy. Robert Peterson came down from Fort Wayne Sunday for a visit with his parents. He is employed on the Journal-Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hite and babes. Miss Dora Davis and Mrs. 'Wherry went to Rome City yesterday for a two weeks varaflon. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Venis and family of Bluffton arrived this morning fc l ' the funeral of Mrs. M. S. Venis which was held this afternoon. Elmer Miller and Ralph McCrory motored to Ossian to visit with Misses Marguerite and Pearl King. From there they motored to Fort Wayne and attended the show at the Palace. Miss Della Clark returned last evening from Bluffton where she visited with her sister. Mrs, Ed Mosure. She also visited with her niece, Mrs. Homer Tinkle at Liberty Center.

Ray Weiler, of Portland, visited here Sunday. Miss Celia Nesswald visited in Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon. George Heiner and Aloysius Schmitt were Berne visitors last evening. Guy Kidd of Chicago is here for a week’s visit with the C. J. Lutz family Page Burrell and family have moved to Huntington, leaving Saturday night. Mabei and Georgia Youse of Monroeville are guests of Misses Irma and Thelma Houk. Mr. and Mrs. Whipple and daughter. Ruth, of Portland, motored here Sunday for a visit. Iva and Treva Ray spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. Jack Klingenberger, in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Biggs and daughter, Wilhelmina, went to Roanoke for a visit over Sunday. Misses Ina Wright and Ella -Westermaun of Fort Wayne were guests Sunday of Miss ’Tonk” Meibers. Miss Eva Acker went to Geneva on the 1:05 train to visit until tomorrow with her sister, Miss Minta Acker. Miss Bessie Wilson left on the 1:05 train for her home at Greenville, 0., after a visit here at the Ben Devor home. * Mrs. Helen Pulley of the Harting & Wilson restaurant, went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon for a visit over Sunday. Mrs. I. A. Kalver and Mrs. Max are visiting fn Monroeville today. Roy Kalver drove them through in the Kalver Sedan. Stanford Badders left on the 1:05 train for Monroe after a visit here with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Frank. Miss Betty Fisher has returned from a visit at Marion with Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Aeschlemau and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Billings. Mrs. Tannehill and mother, Mrs. Goeke, of Fort Wayne are visiting in this city with Mrs. Carrie Ehinger, and family this week. \ Mrs George Garringer and children Viola and Luther, of Ridgeville, spent Sunday here with her daughter, Mrs. Lester Baughman and family. Kenyon Walters left on the 1:05 train for Muncie to join his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walters in a visit at the Rev. D. T. Stephenson home. Mrs. Barney Meibers and daughters Tillie, and Lollie, will leave this afternoon for Rome City to join their son and brother, C. O. Meibers at their cottage there. A. V. Powers and daughter. Helen, and Mrs. Florence Bradbury returned to Fort Wayne after a visit here with their sister, Mrs. Andrew Welfley. Mrs. Weltley is improving in health. Miss Fawn Lippincut says that th' trouble with bein’ a war bride is that your husband is liable t’ come back. We ll never know all about Candidate Hughes till he gits shaved. —Abe Martin. Wiley Austin of Van Wert former day clerk at the Hotel Murray was here Sunday saying good bye to his friends before departing for the front. His company will go to Columbus on Wednesday. Mrs. William Burke of Ossian, who was operated upon at the St. Joseph hospital some weeks ago, was able to return home yesterday. She was accompanied by ner parents, Mr. and Mrs. Finley Bryan. Mrs. Harry Williams and daughter, Harriet Jean, returned this afternoon on the 1:05 train to Indianapolis. They were accompanied by Mrs. William’s sister. Miss Crystal Baltzell, who will visit there Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Smith returned to their home at Portland last ewming after a visit in the city with their parents Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hammell, and their Uncle Harrison Hammell of Petaluma, Cal. Postmaster J. W. Bosse reports letters and cards remaining uncalled for at the Decatur postoffice as follows: Letters: John Oehler, Jacob Boor. Cards: Miss Ruth Longhenry, A. J. Rerk, Henry Thompson. When calling for this mail, please say "Advertised.” William Scholl of this city and Dr. L. P. Myers of Monroeville, formerly of this city, who were operated upon at the St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne, last week, are getting along fine. Decatur friends, including Charlie Voglewede and B. J. Tcrvcer. visited' them at the hospital Sunday. Helen Voglewede, who is at the hospital, showed signs of improvement yesterday. Charlie Voglewede and daughter Mary Margaret, B. J. Terveer md daughter Mayme ' motored to Fort Wayne Sunday and spent the day with Mrs. Voglewede and daughter Helen at the'St. Joseph hospital. They report some signs of improvement in the condition of Helen and think that if she continues to get along as well in the next few days she will be out of danger.

OECftTUR BUSINESS MEN’S “BUY AT HOME” OEPARTMEST

WHEN IN DECATUR VISIT THE * Crystal theater. Best of films, most always a feature play of merit. Cool place to spend an evening. Enjoy the world's best photoplays here. Try it tonight. TO THE CONSUMERS OF FLOUR, when you want winter wheat flour, buy our brafld. We make the best. Our mills are right here In town and we can please you. The Fornax Milling Co., Decatur. CARUSO SINGB TODAY AT THF, Holthouse Drug store. Sg do all •> er famous artists on Victor and son records. Diamond discs. A full line of drugs and medicines, i Hollhouse Drug Co., Decatur. THE REXALL STORES ARE Always reliable and leaders in the drug line. See our large line of specialties. We also carry a full line of druggists’ sundries. Sick room and phy£iian’s prescriptions a specialty. Smith, Yager & Falk. WE HANDLE LADIES’ READY-TO-wear clothing exclusively, and carry a large stock. See our prices on furs to close out for this season. It will pay you to trade with us always. Gass & Meibers. REX THEATER—THE MUTUAL playhouse. Change of program daily. See the best shows here. Best of the Mutual Masterpieces are shown at this theater, featuring the worldknown players. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Decatur does all kinds of legitimate banking in all its branches. Pays interest on time deposits. Capital alid surplus one hundred and twenty thousand. WE ARE THE FIRST TO DISPLAY the latest creations in hats and millinery goods and carry a large line oftrimmed and untrimmed hats. We are boosters for home trade. Mrs. Kate Burdg. TEEPLE, BRANDYBERRY & PEterson are ready to show you a complete new spring line of clothing and furnishings at reanonable prices. Call and see them.

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS IN DEcatur for all kinds of electrical goods, and do wiring in all its branches on short notice. We carry a large line of everything electrical. A. C. Lawrence Electrical Co., Decatur. ALWAYS TRADE IN DECATUR for anything in the furniture line. Y'ou can get honest goods and fair treatment at our store. A large assortment to choose from and right prices. ' Beavers & Atz. WHEN IT COMES TO DRY GOODS our reputation for fair dealing is our guarantee. We know and want you to understand we can do better by you than any catalogue house. Niblick & Co. HOW ABOUT LUMBER AND building material. We want you to see us first. We can save you money on anything in our line and want you to get our prices first. ’Phone your coal orders. Kirsch, Sellemeyer & Sons. BUY AT HOME. YOU WILL ALways come out ahead by buying Guaranteed Clothes of Holthouse, Schulte Co. DO YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE leaders iu furniture, pianos, organs and musical goods, and are well equipped for funeral directions. We are boosters for home trade. ’Phone 61. Gay, Zwick & Myers, Decatur, Ind. THE FIVE AND TEN CENT stores are a great convenience in any locality and are a boon for any community. We carry a large line of household necessitives. C. E. Baughman. Decatur, Ind. BRING IN YOUR CATALOGUES. Just give us a chance to quote you prices on hardware before you send off to the mail order house. We will convince you that we can do as well. Lee Hardware Co. STOP, LOOK, LISTEN. WE ARE agents for San-Tax household remedies and carry a full liqe of drugs and medicines. Located on cast side of street. See us. Callow & Kohne, druggists, Decatur, Ind. THOSE OLD PICTURES OF father or mother are very dear to you. Priceless, rn tact. Just bear in mind that you- children would cherish just such pictures of you. Erwin’s studio. Decatur.

BIG INTERESTS SWAY OPINION Residents of Small Communities Main Suffers MAIL ORDERS PERNICIOUS One Chicago Concern Did $100,000,000 Worth of Business in Year Just Closed and Paid 17 Per Cent Dividend—Small Consumers Should Unite.

[Copyrighted, 1914. by Thoma* J. Sullivan 1 Commerce lias made all winds her messengers, all climes her tributaries, all people her servants. A statesman may do much for commerce—most by leaving it alone. A river never flows so smoothly as when 'lt follows Its own course without either aid or check. Let it make Its own bed; it will do so better than you can Perfect freedom is ns necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it Is to the health and vigor of citizenship. For years the men who sway the minds mid mold the opinions of the public—the magazine and newspaper writers and political leaders—have with all the power and Invective at their command pointed out the nefarious practice of what they termed “big business” and "the Interests.” These titles were liestowed upon them simply to designate them as concerns which combined their capital for the purpose of Illegally controlling either one industry or another V/riters Should Look Further. No man will dispute the fact that residents of small prosperous com munities where a general business Is carried on do not enjoy pronounced advantages over the people living In cities where the population is con gested. But the publicists who are holding the “big interests" up to the scorn of human mind should look further, as there Is a new “big interest" appearing upon the financial horizon which threatens to eclipse anything which has yet appeared. We refer to the catalogue and mnll order retail traders. As an example we will take one of the large mail order houses of Chicago, and a little meditation will show what its business means to the small town. It is capitalized at the enormous amount of $50,000,000, sold at SIOO pet share; $10,000,000-4s preferred stock, nml $40,000,000 is common stock. Paid 17 Per Cent Dividend. We are credibly informed that this concern did $100,000,000 worth of business in the year 1913 and paid a dividend of 17 per cent. Wouldn’t these figures appall you? Ought that not to be material for the pen of the "muck raker." or are tile mmnizinua WE’LL WASH EVERYTHING BUT the baby. And we guarantee you satisfactory work, or it don’t cost you a cent. Decatur Laundry. DON'T BUY YOUR TIRE OUT OF town until you get our prices. We can do just as well in prices as any one anywhere. Be a home booster. Kalver-Noble Garage Co. HAVE YOU EVER SMOKED A Masterpiece cigar? If not, why not? Try one and it will convince you that it is one of the best that money can buy. John H. Lose. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF ANY work in my line, just call ’phone 739. or 765. Furnace, roofing, spouting, lightning rods, and cornice work. I guarantee all my work. A. R. Ashbaucher, WE CAN COMPETE WITH ANY mail order house. Bring in your catalogue and make us prove it. We deal in harness, buggies, carriage, hardware, etc. Repair worl/ done, Chas. F. Steele & Co., Decatur, Ind. HOW ABOUT YOUR BICYCLE OR motorcycle. If it needs enameling, just bring it in and I will make it look like new. Omer Parent Supply House. WE DO SANITARY PLUMBING. Steam and hot water heating, vapor and vacuum heating a specialty. Seo us tor estimates. We guarantee all our work. P. J. Hyland, 222 Alouroe St., Decatur. Ind.

by the counting receipts’ for advertising? “Where did' this $100,000,000 come from? It came from the consumer everywhere between the waters of the Atlantic and the shores of the Pacific, from people who prefer buying “cheap goods" from a picture book rather tlinu good goods over the counters of their retail merchants. And what return does the big corporation give the local town for the money that It takes out of it? None It delivers the cheap goods, and that Is till. Cash Controls Shipments. It sells only for cash. If money does not accompany the order the goods are not shipped. Your financial reverses, sickness or other misfortunes do not concern it. Mall order houses are merely leashes in the side of industrial humanity. They drain the small community of its dollars, and. weakened by the loss of its financial strength, the local town totters and falls a victim of the greed of the “new big business." Many persons lose sight of the fact that u business enterprise is not neces sarlly an octopus simply because it is engaged in what is sneeriugly called by many “big business” or because it employs a large amount of capital. A mammoth corporation may be conduct ed on as correct business principles and can be ss regardful of the rights of competitors and the general public as Is the humblest establishment owned and conducted by an individual. It is the motive that Inspires the manage ment In each case and the methods adopted in carrying out the controlling policy that*determine the morality or immorality, the right or wrong, the justice or injustice, of its claims to public confidence and support. Should Unite Against Evil. But the case is not a hopeless one Let the business and professional men —the merchants, lawyers, doctors, teachers, preachers, farmers and laborers—join in spreading abroad the ev.'in gel of ethics in business, fair dealing and rational co-operation, and great progress can and will be made toward the settlement of the vexing questions that now confront the business world The evil which is bound to follow in the wake of the "new big business' ought to furnish food for thought and cause the heedless mnll order buyer to pause and consider before again of fending DRY CLEANING. WHEN YOU think of Dry Cleaning, think of us. Decatur Dry Cleaners, opposite the Murray Hotel. BUY YOUR PAINT BY YEARS, and square yards, not gallons. If you can’t own tho best house in town, you can at least own one of the best painted ones, if you buy Patton’s Sun Proof Paint from Schafer Hardware Co, T. A. LEONARD IS LOCATED ON Madison street, and his 'phone number is 374 if you are in need of any kind of tin or furnace work, just call him up. COME IN AND LOOK OVER OUR large stock of trimmed and untrimmed hats that we ire closing out at cost. All the latest styles. Mrs. A. Boese. WE WANT THE RESIDENTS OF Decatur and Adams county to know we handle the best pianos, organs and musical goods and can save you many a dollar. Scherer & Rick. Decatur, Ind. WE _ HANDLE DOMESTIC AND imported cigars. Pipes and smoker’s articles. Sole agency for La Preferencia cigars. A fine billiard room in connection. Ed L. Kintz, opposite court house, Decatur. BE A HOME BOOSTER WHEN IT comes to anything iii our line, we will compete with any mail order house. Farm implements of all description. Dowling-Schuey Co.

HEADQUARTERS FOR ANYthing in furniture at prices right. We can save you money on the piano you must buy. See us before buying.— Yager Bros. & Reinking. A FIRST CLASS GARAGE IS A boon to any community. We have every facility to take care of your automobile. Carry a large line of accessories. Prices right. L. A. Holthouse. Fashionable Livery. DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBIiM what you shouldn’t forget, Smoke thfr • WUite Stag extra mild. Yl's made at home. THE MADISON HOTEL UNDER new management, the favorite stopping place in Decatur. All modern, electric-lighted, steam heated, borne cooking, near business center of town. American or European plan. William Heiner, Prop. I CAN’T MAKE ALL THE BREAD jrsed in town, so I just make the best of it. My bakery is open for inspection at all times. Decatur Sanitary Steam Bakery. A WORD ABOUT CLOTHING IS now in line. We want every one to examine our large stock and get our prices before you buy. Our prices will keep your money in Decatur. Tho Myers-Dailey Co. THE KUEBLER CO, BOSTON Store, will sell you any kind of dry goods as low as any mail order house. Buy your dry goods at home and see what you are getting. The Kuebler Co., Decatur, Ind. GET ALL THE MILEAGE YOU CAN. We can help you. Have your old tires, rebuilt ana double-treaded. carry a large line of harness, buggies, etc. Repairing a specialty. A. W. Tanvas, Decatur, Ind. COME IN AND SEE OUR Display of Easter hats. Trimmed hats from $1.50 and up. U. Deininger. GET THE HABIT OF SMOKING Decatur made cigars. To ooost home trade, try our N. H. C„ a leader, and our 104 La Sena, straight 10c. H. A. Colchin, Decatur, Ind. MAIL ORDER HOUSES CAN GIVE you a fit, but not in shoes. For up-to-the-minute styles in footwear, just call on Peoples & Gerke. <5Ld ADAMS COUNTY BANK IS the oldest and strongest financial institution in Adams county, and pays interest on still accounts. Come in and get acquainted. We want your account. THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST Co. does a general banking business and our depositors are protected by insurance. See our list of responsible officers and directors. Safety deposit boxes for rent. SEE US FIRST FOR PRICES on monuments, marble, granite, art statuary. We can please you and serve you well. Wemhoff Monumental Works, ’Phone 395. Decatur, Ind. GET OUR PRICES FIRST IN hardware, implements, automobiles and vehicles, 17 series. Studebakers, just out. Buy it because it is a Studabaker; 40 horse power, $845; 50 horse power, SIOSO. Henry Kuapp & Son, Decatur, Ind. DECATUR’S RESIDENT CHlflOpractir. There is only one resident chiropractor in Decatur, or Adams county. Only one chiropractor that pays city and county taxes. Only one chiropractor that does his purchasing from your home merchants. Help him help your community, O. L. Burgener, D. C., over Vance & Hite’s. AUBURN IS YOUR CAR. AND talking about "Trading at Home,” why not decide on the Auburn cur. It’s made in Indiana by men who knaw how and, who will back up anything they say about it. T. J. Durkin, Decatur, Indiana, resident agent. ATTEND OUR SPRING OPENING sale and save money. Bernstein’s. OUR FIFTY YEARS IN THE SHOE business should be sufficient proof we are there with the right, kind of goods and treatment. See us for all kinds of footwear. Winnes Shoe Store. REYNOLDS' ASPHALT SHINGLES will give you a lower rate of insurance' on both house and contents. Their beautiful soft tones make them harmonize with your building, give personality to your house and add to the value of the property as a whole, For sale by Decatur Lumber Co.