Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1916 — Page 3

||uy Work Shoes by the days I jwear and not by the pair. j Our big work shoe business is built on the I most substantial basis, wear. No matter what j the price you pay here for a work shoe you arc | guaranteed the best value for your money. | Although leather is very high, you will be B - * I surprised at the values we are giving at || $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 parlie Voglewede I AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOR

■weather forecast y K.:::: " rcast tonight and Saturday cuol- ■ i night. * |H W. Hale was here this afternoon Making after business affairs. Celia Mayer went to Ft. |Kiyne yesterday afternoon over the jKuid Rapids and Indiana railroad ■ a days’ shopping tour. SBlugene Ice and Laura M. Freese of CJiiton, Mich., have married, with no apparent fear of the rigors of the winter. M here today for a visit with the J, Sutton family, eiyoute home a business trip to Chicago, made by the department ot agriculture put the 1916 beet sugR acreage at 768,500 acres. This is more than in 1915 and 254,- ■) than in 1914. B’ieccs of rubber sponge cover a new case in which soap can be carwater finding its way to the forming a lather that exudes Hough the sponge. ■H’lien the Bonaparte family beFrench subjects by the uniting JH Corsica to France, they changed Italian spelling of their name Bounaparte to Bonaparte. ■German scientists have invented a Kl for X-ray photography that abonly from 10 to 15 per cent of Mt rays, permitting much sharper pi* :ures to be made than heretofore, o’ period furniture, Miss ®wney Apple has bought a Mary an’ Min davenport, Th’ feller who used t’ ■eh in front o’ th’ bank now parks th’ court house. —Abe Martin.

The Home Os Quality Groceries! | Eastern White Table Potatoes, peck 45c I Sweet Potatoes, 3 lb. 10c; peck 35c • 1 Fancy Eating Apples or Cooking Apples, peck 25c | g| Domestic Onions, 4c lb.; peck 40c | Spanish Sweet Onions, lb 7 c 2 White California Grapes, lb 10c . I Pie Pumpkins, sc, 8c and 10c Each. I Our Famous Pickling Vinegar, gallon 20c ! We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 27c I Butter 20c to 27c I M. E. HOWER | North of G. R. & I. Denot ’Phone 108 | WHITE STAG! I EXTRA MILD g I CIGAR K ■ | is made from a combination of 1911 Pennsyl- mr II vauia Broad Leaf and genuine imported Vuel- & I (a Abajo Havana with a Connecticut binder w and an imported Java wrapper, they’re handI made and you will find one cigar just like the fe I other.

C. I). Murray of Wauwasee was shaking hands with his many friends here yesterday. Christ Egley of Fort Wayne was among those who were here yesterday for the Hughes speech and to visit his daughter, Mrs. Dan Tyndall. Several local republicans w?nt to Marion today to take part in the big rally advertised for that place. Candidate Hughes was the big attraction. Receivers of a busted Chicago private bank were no doubt surprised to find as much as sll9 in the safe. Why the managers overlooked this sum in the clean-up is something that may be explained in court. “Hain 1 th’ national anthem purty?” said Mrs. Tilford Moots, as she stool up when th’ band played “Yankee Doodle” at Melodeon hall last night. What’s become o’ th’ feller who used t’ say. “I won’t pay it; I’ll do without first?” —Abe Martin. Congressman John* A. M. Adair, ■niocraljc candidate for governor < f the great state of Indiana, will devote Monday, October 2nd, to Adams cdu.i ty. He will make a half dozen speech es, concluding with a night meeting here. Ktery voter should hear him discuss the issues of the campaign. Two boys living near Vera Cruz, each aged about 16. are suffering from injuries sustained in accidents A son of John Dubach accidentally got one of his hands in a silo cutter and the fingers were badly mangled, and there also were fractures of some of the bones of the fingers, and the injuries wii? leave him disabled for several weeks. A son of Samltol Kaehr sustained a severe injury to one of his legs while working with a corn cutter.

Elizabeth is the name of a girl baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ault of Niblick street. ’ Robert Blackburn Is again confined to his home on Winchester street as a result ot Illness. Mrs. A. R. Morton left this afternoon for Evanston, 111., after a visit with relatives here. Dr. J. W. Vizard of Pleasant Mills was here this afternoon to attend to business affairs. A few two to one best have been offered on Hughes but they are snapped up quickly by the Wilson backers. Mrs. Amend and daughter, Miss Lillian of Dayton, Ohio are here for a visit with Mrs. Amends brother John Christen and family. The regular weekly dance which was to have been given at the Masonic assembly room last evening was postponed. The regular meeting of the Knights of Columbus postponed from last Monday will be held Monday evening, September 25th at hall. The Rotary club will meet next Monday evening at the office of the Martin-klepper creamery Company. All members are requested to be present. Mrs. Hannah Sudduth of this city is very ill of bowel and stomach trouble, but was resting easier today. She is not yet out of danger, however. Will Hammell, Ed Ashbaucher and J. T. kelley will drive to Geneva this evening to attend the first Denny meeting in the county. Mr. Denny wil speak at Berne tomorrow evening. Ratch Blackburn "has gone to Chicago for a business visit. Mrs. James Fulton of Portland accompanied him and will go from there to Seattle to meet her son, who is returning from Alaska. Mrs. Eliza Amend and daughter, Lillian, of Dayton. Ohio, who visited at Marion with her brother, Robert Christen, and family, arrived last night to visit with another brother, John Christen, and family. The fall opening held today at the Mrs. M. P. Burdg millinery attracted hundreds of women who were anxious to see the array of the fall and winters fads in head gear. The opening was a great success and many fancy and new models in hats were shown. Abe Kauffman, one of the live wire traveling salemen for the Schafer Saddlery company has been laid up for a couple of weeks from a severe case of blood poison which started from a slight scratch on his hand and soon threatened to take his whole arm. He was able to be here today Io look after business and will get along nicely now. Merl Essex, living south of town, on the C. W. Hocker farm met with a painful accident Friday by falling off a fence he was climbing over sustaining a badly sprained right ankle so as to make it necessary to place that member in a plaster paris cast. Merl however, will be aide to get about with the aid of crutches in a few days.—Monroe Reporter. Miss Carrie Craig of Indianapolis is anxious that this city be represented in the Centennial celebration at Indianapolis next Month and makes the very splendid suggestion tlrat an auto float be placed in line, suitable decorated and arranged to represent the various books written bj’ Gene Strat-ton-Porter, the gifted Adams county writer. His suggestions are good and should be? used. Every county in tliw state but two have reported that they Vvill take part. Voters of county should register on Monday October 9th if they expect to vote in this years election. No man can afford to disfranchise himself, even if it is a little inconvenient some times to meet the laws requirements. Be sure to register. If you will be out of the city, or out of your precinct you can register by affidavit. If you wish to register by affidavit or know of some voter who does, see H. B. Heller, democratic county chairman, or write him at once. Yellow-backed novels of the thriller variety supplied the inspiration to Helen Fisher, arraigned in the Fort Wayne city court yesterday on the charge of having passed two forged checks on Fort Wayne merchants. She made no attempt to deny her guilt, waived hearing and was held to the circuit court under bond of SI,OOO Unable to give bond, she was sent to the woman's department of the county jail. Miss Fisher admits the is the daughter of respected parents in a littie northern IndianA town, hue she refuses to indicate the town or to reveal her real name. She was arrested at Grand Rapids, where she fled after passing two bad checks here, and sier arrest followed a similar attempt there. CANE MILL TO START Will start, ray cane mill Thursday. September 21. R. I£. Flaming, four! miles north of

PUBLIC SALE. An I have decided to go west and rent my farm, I will offer at publicauction at my residence, two miles east of Decatur, on Monday, Oct. 2, 1916. beginning at 10:00 o'clock a. m. the following described property, towit: Horses: Bay brood mare, 15 years old, in foal, weight about 1400; roan mare. 7 years old, in foal, weight about 1200; bay gelding, 2 years old. well broke; bay coach mare, 2 years old, broke, weight about 1100; bay coach yearling sorrel gelding. Cattle: 'Part Holstein cow. 14 years old, giving milk, 2 part Jersey cows, 7 years old, giving milk; Jersey cow, 5 years old, giving milk; 2 Jersey cows, 3 years old, giving milk. These cows are all good ones, and will freshen between March 25 and July 18, 1917; heifer, 2 years old, will freshen in December; heifer, 2 years old. will freshen in March; 5 one-year-old heifers; % Holstein bull. 1 year old. These heifers are Jersey and Holstein and are bred from good cows. Hogs: Five fullblooded Duroc sows, not bred; 2 fullblooded Duroc boars, will weigh about 200 and 160 Tbs., respectively; good ones; 19 head of shoals weighing about 60 lbs. each. Poultry: Fifty head Rhode Island Red hens and pullets. 12 Rhode Island Red roosters, a few Leghorns, 4 old turkey hens, 1.5 young turkeys. Farming Implements: Fouryinch tread Studebaker wagon, truck wagon, wagon box. set hay ladders, 4'hampion mower, disc harrow, spring tooth harrow, riding corn plow, breaking plow, 7-tooth cultivator, hay rake, cozy cab, spring wagon, 2 sets breeching harness,. 2 sets single harness, pair stable blankets, pair horse blankets, 4 collars, 3 sweat pads. 2 3-horse double trees, 2 long handled shovels, 2 scoop shovels, ditch scoop, ditch spade, seed sower, 2 soos, garden rake, wood rake, mat i tock. 3 pitch forks, 2 4-tined forus. ! grind stone, grain cradle, scythe, wooden fork. 2 cross-cirt saws, buck saw. broad-axe, fence stretcher, block and tackle, brace and hits, 2 hand saws, pruning knife, plane, spoke shave, 2 axes, level, stand of bees, 2 bee hives, 2 hog houses. Household Goods: Two beds with springs and mattresses, 2 sanitary cots, din-! ing room table, kitchen table, 8 dining room chairs, kitchen cabinet, chiffonier, wash stand, 2 book cases, I 2 rocking chairs. 30 carpet, library table, sewing machine, heating stove, range, baby cab, high chair, clothes rack, wash bench, 2 tubs, re ' frigerator .cream separator, cream can. 2 milk buckets, 2 lanterns, bug | gy lamp. Hay and Grains: Nine tons, mixed hay. 25 tons timothy hay, 100 bushels good Michigan oats, 20 bush-' els rye, 25 grain bags, 15 acres corn, some cut. balance on stalk. Fruit: Two kegs of vinegar, 25 cans corn.

40 Men Wanted For The Men’s Class I at the Presbyterian Church Next Sabbath at 9:15 a. m. Bring the wife and all the b children. Classes for every- ; one. . I i—■mm i mi; inn ~in hi rn:u-iZ-~'ir-_T~T.'.k:' v BOSSE OPERA HOUSE | THURSDAY, SEPT. 28 J The Master Minds of Minstrelsy! PRICE - BONNELLI Greater YORK Minstrels 30 'iS E ARTISTS 30 America’s Greatest Soloists . ONE GLORIOUS ROUND OF MIRTH AND MUSIC Big Street Paracl . PRICES 25, 35, 50 and 75 cents Scats on sale at ilolthouse Drug Co.

RALLY DAY METHODIST EFISWAI CHURCH Decatur, Indiana. Sunday, September 24th 1916. Every member and every friend of the church is personally and earnestly invited and requested to be present Sunday morning at Sunday School and enjoy a special program. Time 9:00 a. m., sharp. Also we want you to remain for the regular morning worship, time 10:15 a. m. Come and make this the beginning day of an active season of earnest work for the Master. It has been the endeavor of the committee in charge to make a personal visit and invite every family to attend these services and if by any error or mistake your home has been missed, we want you to come as well and enjoy these special services. COMMITTEE. Wear a Fall Rose or Aster.

I grapes, pickles, gooseberries and, i beets, 20 glass cans, two 5-gallon i jars, 4-gallon jar and other articles I too numerous to mention. | Terms: —For all amounts not exI ceeding $5, cash; amounts of $5 and i over a credit of 9 months will be ' given, the purchaser giving bankable . note bearing 6 per cent interest from date of maturity. Four per cent o i i for cash. No goods to be removed I until settled for. Dinner furnished by Decatur Evan1 gelical Ladies* Aid. S. C. CBAMfcR. | Harry Daniels, Auct. Jesse Swartz. Clerk. Democrat Wants Aris Pay

public sale: I will offer for sale at my residence, 813 Bush street, off of Grant street, the- following personal property and household goods, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916, beginning at 1:00 o'clock, p. m. One good driving mare, 1 light two-horse wagon, 1 carriage, 1 good storm buggy, 3 sets single bug"" harness, 1 set single w'ork harness, 1 double shovel plow. 1 single ilio.el plow, 1 garden plow, ton hay in mow, 1 lifting jack, cross-cut saw, post auger, 2 kant hooks, 2 sledges, 1 work bench, 1 carpenter tool box, 3 ladders, 1 boring machine, some carpenter tools, 1 broad axe, 1 hay k nift, 1 good derrick for barn aising with double blocks and pulleys and over 1,000 feet of rope, 1 pull chain 40 feet long, 2 log chains, mowing scythe and lawn mower. 1 wheelbarrow, 1 good repeating Winchester rille; Four dressers, 3 beds and springs, 2 mattresses, 1 set chairs, 1 Morris chair, 4 rockers, stand, carpet, pictures, 1 couch, 1 cupboard, 1 dining table, 2 kitchen tables, 1 heating stove, I kitchen table, 2 kitchen tables, 1 heating stove, 1 kitchen stove, dishes and kitchen utensils, fruit cans and jars, 1 porch swing and hammock. Many other articles too numerous to mention. Terms: —All sunis of $5.00 and under cash. Over $5.00 a credit of nine montbs will be given, purchaser giving bankable note with good security, without interest. Four per cent off for cash. £IMON E. BRANDYBERRY, m-w-t-f John J. Baumgartner, Auct.

— p..». — . Why Paini for Looks Alone? 3) Many property-owners paint for '. y ! beauty’s sake alone. Wise ones i » paint to preserve as well. The \ latter invariably use lead-and-oil paint, the kind that is made of ' Dutch Boy Z/ Eckstein . J White Lead and pure linseed oil, mixed on the job, < ' jf. M’. by the painter, to exactly meet sur- ’■* ■ face and weather conditions. Pair.', 1 :•< . made this way of these prime ma•I terials neither cracks nor scales. It \ j ' ! gives the utmost tn appearance and Zapr . ' protection, at the lowest cost per year. ; Jg Buy of us. A complete line of painting ( requisites always in stock. Prices right. Goods Az •''S* Ji JgjgTSlJjgy top-notch. ' ' ' ... — * . 1. HOLTHOUSE I' DRUG I COMPANY , £ ■ — > s i PHONE YOUR DEALER I TO OELIVER VOU A | Brick of Chocolate and Vanilla | I or Strawberry and Vanilla I 25 and 15 cent size ] I j MARTINWER CO. Makers of 100 per cent. Pure Ice Cream.