Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1916 — Page 3

JOY NIGHT Tonight will be joy night for those who come here for low shoes. N ever were such handsome footwear for ladies sold at such a low price. Choice of any oxford, pump or strap slipper in the store at $1.98 Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

WEATHER FORECAST S Showers this afternoon, generally fair tonight and Sunday. Mrs. Vesta Springer and babe went with relatives. J. W. Merriman went to Fort Wayne this morning. W. A. Kuebler returned last night from a visit at West Baden. J. B. Dutcher, of Bloomington, is here visiting with relatives. Jesse Carpenter and daughter, Susie. returned to Fort Wayne to the eye specilaist this morning. Billy Myers who is employed in Ft. Wayne will be at home Sunday for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Myers. Mr. and Mrs. George Dellinger went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit with their daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Neptune. The fifth annual Redpath Chautauqua closed at Goshen Thursday. They have decided to have their sixth annual next summer. Simcoke, Mrs. Walter Kauffman and children have returned from Hammond where they visited with their daughter and sister. Mrs. Henry Fuller. Mrs. Daniel Estell and daughter, Martha, of Cincinnati, 0., who were guests of her sister Mrs. M. F. Martz has gone to that country to visit with another sister, Mrs. Joe Peterson. Mrs. Reuben Sprunger and children, Billy and Catherine, came from Willsall, Montana, to visit with her father, Henry C. Fuhrman, and to attend the Fuhrman reunion today at the Sam Fuhrman grove.

The Home Os Quality Groceries Red and Green Mangoes, doz10c; 3 doz. 25c Sweet Potatoes, lbsc; 6 tbs. 25c Indiana Sweetheart Watermelons3sc to 50c Oranges, Sweet Heavy F ruit, doz3oc and 40c Can Rubbers, dozsc and 10c; 3 and 6 doz. 25c Tin Top Jelly Glasses, doz2oc and 25c Tin Cans, Safe Seal, in cartons, doz4oc Our famous Pickling Vinegar, everybody uses, gal... .20c — We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 24c Butter 20c to 25c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot ’Phone 108 I SMOKE THE I WHITE STAG I EXTRA MILD I “A BUNCH OF WORDS I ADD NOTHING” |

Mrs. C. Burr of Monmouth was a shopper here today. The public schools will open for the term, Monday September 4. Barney Gentis went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend to business matters. Raymond Merrill of Crown Point, visited here a short while last evening with Miss Agnes Meibers. Miss Marcella Kuebler went to Rome City this morning to spend Sunday at the De Wald cottage. She joined her mother who has been there Cor a few days. Doyt McCrory returned home last evening from Angola after completing a summer school course. He will return there in about two weeks to take up a regular school course. An Overland five passenger touring car, Model 75, was sold and delivered to W. F. Guilder, living on the Bell View Farm east of the city, yesterday evening, by the Holthouse Fireproof Garage Company. Many will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow to attend the state Yeomen picnic at Robinson park. A special interurban car will leave the Decatur station at 8:30 for Fort Wayne, the round trip fare being fifty cents. “Bubs” Robinson want a good boy to work in the ice cream parlor. Apply today. Alex Sutton who has been working back of the fountain this summer has gone to Chicago with his father and brothers for a ten days vacation. A Ford five passenger toring car was sold and delivered to the Everett and Hite Wholesale grocers yesterday by the Kalver-Noble Garage company. They will use the Ford in their business to sell groceries in the neighboring towns.

Fred Rochstroh left for Ft. Wayne today noon. Cal Bowen of Berne was a business visitor in this city today. Mrs. Cora Milliban loft this afternoon for Berne for a visit. Tom Reid went to Rome City this noon for a visit at their cottage. Mrs. W, C. Graham of Panama, who is visiting in Monroe, was a shopper here today. Miss Lena Myers of the Runyon-yn-gelc r store will begin her vacation next week. Miss Eliza Carlisle returned today from “Detroit, Mich., where she has been visiting. ,Miss Betty Wilder returned to Monmouth this noon after attending the Chautauqua here. Cleo Roop returned home this morning after spending yesterday in Fort Wayne with friends. Mrs. D. M. Hensley and daughter, Leah, spent the day with Miss Veda Hensley in Fort Wayne. Mrs. John Badders of Monroe and Miss Bernice Ray of Berne were among shoppers here today. Mrs. Abe Whitright went to Fort Wayne last evening to spend a weeks’ vacation with the Jesse Simth family. County Recorder and Mrs. Aaron C. Augsburger went to Berne this afternoon for an over-Sunday visit. The Reverends Father Seimetz and Kroeger have returned home from Notre Dame after having their annual retreat there. Mrs. John Reichard and daughter, Birdie, went to Bryant this afternoon. They go to attend the Cox family reunion. Dr. Bob Schrock is expected home this evening or tomorrow from Omaha for a two weeks’ visit here with relatives. • Twenty-eight are talking the regular teachers’ examination here today before County School Superintendent E. S. Christen. Mrs. Miller Hendricks of Monroe was accompanied to her home this afternoon by her daughters, Mrs. C. W. Haggard, and children, who will visit there. Nathan Ehrman will leave tonight over the Clover Leaf for Kansas City where he will attend the national G. A. R. convention as a delegate from the local G. A. R. Miss Mayme Deininger will return tomorrow' from Cleveland, 0., where she has been attending the millinery openings for two weeks. She also visited at Cedar Point, O. Mrs. Rudolph Bauman and sons. Albert, Walter, Ernest and Irvin, left on the 1:05 train for Monroe, near which place they will spend Sunday with her mother-in-law, Mrs. Hildebrand Bauman. Mrs. T. J. Cook, accompanied by Mrs. Esta Liddy and daughter, Mildred. left this afternoon on the 1:05 train for Berne, where they will visit over Sunday with Mrs. Cook's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Stauffer. Herbert Dauer went to Fort Wayne to visit with his sister Frances, at the St. Joseph hospital,, and with his sister Mrs. Merrilat. Miss Frances is getting along well since her operation for appendicitis, but is still quite sick. Sometimes, after a long period o’ mental depression, we cheer up an' resolve that after all, life is what we make it. we git stung on another canteloupe. It’s a wonder tk*t more people are not run down by automobiles when we consider th’ way th' girls are dressin’. —Abe Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Coat Cook have returned from a fine western trip. They visited with relatives at Akron, Colorado, and having tourists’ tickets, went on to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and also visited at Kansas City and St. Louis. Mo. At Quincy, 111., they stopped with Mr. Cook’s sister, Mrs. Godfrey Gotts.

Boys couldn’t spite a watermelon in transportation from the open barred carload that came in on the G. R. & l. railroad yesterday, but somebody got a. slice just the same. Plainly visible from the depot, watchers could see well down near the bottom of the carload, a gleam of red peeping throu the bar. Somebody had taken a knife and reaching through had sliced out a plug just the width of the open barspace of the car. - — ——> FORT WAYNE ArtTD SPRINGFIELD TRACTION Leave uecatur. A. M—s:6o, 8:30, 11:30. P. M.—2:30, 6:46, 9:30. Leave Fort Wayne. A. M.—7:00, 10:00. P. M.—1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00. Freight car leaves Decatur at 7:00 a. m., and leaves Fort Wayne at 11 m. arriving in Decatur at 1:45 p. m. In addition to the daily service, extra service cars will be run as follows on Sundays ONLY: Leave Decatur Leave Ft. Wayne 1:00 p. in. 2:30 p. m. 4:00 p. m. 5:30 p. m. 7:00 p.m. 8.30 ij. m. HOMER RUHL, Agent.

k 7 E have never attempted to build racing - / Ar i y y cars. We have always contended that V) > I one mile a minute is more speed than UL/ if'■ any man can use with safety on* the open \ /fw/JSz. ( road. So, that is tnc maximum pace we < ~ / I guarantee to our owners. * \ / Nevertheless, Paige has been the winner in • ) / f?._, I many races. In the Phoenix-Los Angeles / \ race, for instance, it was a Paige that flashed J\ TmL 1 J'q across the line first. It had traveled 706 ) <Mu 4 miles aero:*; the desert beating a field of /’‘ywJ ■ • twenty cars—most of them acknowledged Vj ■'"p ‘ “racers” driven by American speed kings. / z The Paige won that gruelling contest—not be- A I cause it was the fastest car—but because it / ; V was the most reliable car. n ** I It went through without a single stop—without \ so much as opening the hood during the I entire 706 miles. That is why it won. That > is why Paige cars will always win if the L ' | race is only long enough and rough enough Ow i “T* \ to be a real test of endurance. ( That, also, is one excellent reason why your ( next car should be a New Series Fairfield q Oqj I I "•!±: mIBoAj ) PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR CO., DETROIT, MICH. A W. H. OETTINGER, “ f } MAG LEY, INMANA ) V at T / 4 V Z \ / / l ’ fc a- 'z... 'AW \ f —— : / i \ SB II \ \ NEV/SERIES FAIRFIELD S / / \ ••SIX-46” SEVEN PASSENGER / I $1375 f. o. b. Detroit / NEW SERIES FLEETWOOD ••SIX-38- FIVE PASSENGER 41090 f. o. b. Detroit IT ___ _ ,

RHEUMATISM Have you got it? Are you laid up with it and can’t work? No matter how bad off you are I can drive it out of you so speedily it will surprise you. You will be out and on the road to health in a few days. SEE ME. CHAS. T. BOURK, Preble, Ind. ■ ————————

10. ■ TU, Ip WJL / 2 ' ' , Korea power I ; ,i! X. _■*' Roadster Si. ■> Why Don’t You Get a Car? Stop putting it off. Don’t hold to th© old ful 31 1 j horsepower motor and is as fashioned idea that an automobile is complete as the most expensive cars an expense. It is not. It’s an economy. in the world. Take this splendid new Overland, for Also it uses very little gasoline, instance. It costs only $635. It’s a beauty. Large enough for your whole Bring your family in today and see tills family; easy to run; your son and Overland. It’s, the greatest value of daughter can do it;, has a big, power- the year. THE HOLTHOUSE GARAGE HE Th* VVillys-Overiand Company, Toledo, Ohio 1 "Mad® in U.S. A.”

B. C. HENRICKS D. C. YOUR CHIROPRACTOR Above Morris 5 & 10c Store. Phone 660 Residence 510 Cleveland Street i Office Hours Ito 5 7to 8 LADY ATTENDANT Decatur, Ind.

NOTICE To all persons assessed for the construction of the John W. McKean Jr. Drain. Balance of assessments for the above named drain are now due. Phil L Macklin, Supt.ot Construction John W. McKean Jr. Drain.