Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1916 — Page 5

Look at Illi / This J Sole .. S ! na r C u* th x C bcst pure RUm an( l the heels are ■ the patent clincher type that makes an arctic wear as well m the bottom as the tops. Ask to See Our Four-Ply Arctics. \ . They are Better. z , Charlie Voglewede ■■ AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

acunr.. c*.: • I WEATHER FORECAST I OKXSsascn’isisossanac'.Jz-aaJ: Cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Probably snow. Little change in temperature. L. C. Helm was a Fort Wayne visitor today. Miss Esther Enos is able to be out again after a severe attack of quinsy. Mrs. O. P. Mills and Mrs. George Everett spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs.’A. E. McMichael and M. W. McMichael spent the day in Fort Wayne. G. C. Steele went to Warsaw today to attend to business relating to his farm there. Mrs. J. W. Hendrigks and Mrs. C. W. Hendricks of Monroe passed through the city on their way to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. H. P. Cowan, Catherine and Lucy Straubinger and Mrs. D. A. Foreman of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne. Mrs. E. A. Mann and Mrs. Peter Amspaugh went to Fort Wayne this morning to call on Mrs. Abe StoaeInirner and Mrs. Ray Jee.ple at the

hospital. Mr. ami Mrs. W. M. Wekly of Peterson returned this morning from Fort Wayne where they visited over the week-end with their son, Oscar Weldy and family. D.' V. Steele returned from Fort Wayne where he went to meet his grandchildren, Marline and Charles Barnhart. Jr. of Attica who came to visit here until after the holidays.

The Home Os Quality Groceries! The best Cooking Potatoes you ever bought. A bushel is 60 His. Get it *2-00 Pork and Beans, can sc, 10c, 12 ! ’C and 15c New York Red Kidney Beans, can 10c California Red Beans, can .* c Fancy New Cal. Lima Beans, lb 1 c Western Blackeye Dry Beans, lb j Pinto Striped Dry Beans, lb. Extra Fancy Hand Picked Navy Beans •••••••••••••• 1 1 All High Grage Evaporated Milk, Pet, Carnation, Dundee and Beauty, per can 1 “Best and Cheapest” Coffee is just what you are looking for: Flavor, Strength. Quality and 5 rice suits your neighbor. It will suit you, too, alb He e pay cash or trade for produce, 37c Butter 25c to 32c M. E. HOWM G, R. & I. Depot " SA S sure as the handle is on the | A outside of a jug—you get all t | your money back when you buy a I WHITE STAG | I EXTRA MILD I I Made in a size to suit you. I

Mrs. c. I). Lewton spent the day I in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McMahan wem i I to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Sarah Iranian returned from a visit with her granddaughter, Mrs. R. M. Kaough in Fort Wayne. Mrs. W. jj, Martt, Misses Everhart and Francos Mills and Mrs. John £1 z<’y of Monroe were shoppers here today. Mrs. Nicholas Yonkinan of Fort ayne arrived this morning for a visit with her mother. Mrs. F. Kessler near Monroe. The Gass & Meibers store did a thriving business yesterday and today on furs. A representative of a D troit fur house had his complete lira of samples here today. Mrs. Frank Ulmer and daughter Martha, returned home Sunday, after a four weeks visit in Decatur at the home of her parents, Mr. and .Mr John Rex and other relatives. —Bin ton News. Misses Ruth Parrish. Helen Kinzic and Florence Myers are now members of the office force at the Schafer Saddlery company. This firm has ad i ded a number of new lines includin’’ . automobile tires and accessories, , heavy hardware, electric supplies and

others which they are jobbing and which is causing the extra office ■ force. Miss Margaret Sherwood, of Sidn'-j (shio, has just received a note fro) Mirs May Dooren, of Patterson. N. stating that she recently purchas'd some eggs with the former's name on , one of them. Miss Sherwood claim; that the said egg is nearly four years of age as she wrote her name on it in March 1913.

Miss Cordula Welland is numbered among the dck. Mrs. Walter Kauffman went to Fart Wayne today noon. Ed Weisllng left today for Detroit adn Findlay for a visit. Lilly and Ruth Buhler apenl thafternoon in Fort Wayne. J- L. Kocher, Milt Hower and Robert Case were among the Fort Wayne visitors today noon. <’• C. Wilder, the West Monroe street butcher, is ill at his home In Monmouth of an attack of acute Indigestion. lh hardest tiling a farmer raises ls his help. Miss Tawney Apple his a ukulele , but no shredded wheat skirt.—Abe Martin. Barney Kalver went to Ft. Wayne this afternoon to attend church. IP "ill be at his place of business here however tomorrow morning. Mrs. Shaffner of Willshire, Ohio, and daughters, Selma Shaffner, Lucy Wykhoc and Mrs. Fred Handler spent 'the afternoon in Fort Wayne.

Mr. and Mrs. George Miller and Mrs. Lewig Miller left today noon for Fort Wayne to which place they tc moving. They will be located on Sattonfield street. Will Gross of Fort Wayne and les sister, Mrs. Anna Worley of North \ ernon were here today on businessj relating to the settlement of their! mother's estate. Gass & Melbers store is very pretty in its holiday decorations. The overhead trellises have been decorated prettily witli southern smilax. from the southland Interjiersed with blooming flowers. W. H. Sheeler is circulating a pi*ition to macadamize Cleveland stre’t which passes the Church of God in

the’south part of this city and is meeting with success. He already has more than enough to assure arti< 11 by the board, it is said. Several from this county will go to Toledo Thursday where they will bo guests of the Willys-Overland company for two days. Among those w’to are planning to go are L. A. Holthous - and Charles Schugg, agents here ar I at Berne, C. S. Niblick of the Old Adams County Bank and J. H .Heller of this office. The Overland factory gri> entertaining for twenty days, the time being divided for various states and the event is said to be an extraprd’n- ' ary one.

FOR FOLKS WHO LOVE COMFORT- . BUY GIFT SLIPPERS! USEFUL GIFTS! You’ll never have better assortment to choose from: Thousands of Christinas Slippers Await Marching Orders. Men's Slippers, leather and felt SI.OO : Woman’s .Juliets, fur trimmed SI.OO Woman’s “Comfy” Slippers, it’s like walking on velvet to wear them SI.OO to $1.75 Children’s Felt Slippers, in red felt, pair $ .54 Indian Moccasins, from child’s No. 4 io ladies’ No. 8. WINNES SHOE STORE Home of Good Shoes. | I SEVERAL ARTICLES ARE NEEDED f IN THE HOUSE | which make you the best and most ideal Christmas f presents, for the dining room, bed room, kitchen § and living room. We especially mv,t ®/ 0U i I come in to look over our stock of rugs. We | have them in all patterns, sizes and prices, rang- ■ g ing from eight to forty-five dollars. We also have | a beautiful line of wall pictures, s . cr ® e " s ’ | smokersand numerous 0 her^ rii f . es / nl e is‘ure fi flw best kind of a present. It wi.i be a pleasure » !i; us to have you call and look over our stock be- | E iore Thank tog you for past favors, wc remain, j Yours to serve, I BEAVERS &ATZ | I South Second Street.

.... _ — P. W. Smith returned to Richmond ’'JU this afternoon. Perry Jaines, of St. Johns, was here on business today. ,|i J. L. Aspy and daughter, Ethyl, of Geneva were here on business today, if Mrs. R. M. Kaough and soli, Edwin of Fort Wayne are here for a visit £ with the J, S. Bowers family. H Mr. and Mrs. Fred Springer of Slml-;fj don passed through the city on their H way to Chattanooga, Ohio, on busi- q ner.s. g J. M. MacDonald, of the Whines H shoe store repair department, Is niav-'tt > ing ills family here from Geneva, and g ; will reside near the south ward school-'g I house. lx L. C. Helm, local agent for thePeo-lg . pic's Health and Accident Insurance It . company of Grand Rapids. Mich, to-ip R day paid Louis F. Schroeder a draft for $14.06. covering eleven days dis-H ability as the result of a fall which ig ’■ he sustained three weeks ago at hisig y home. The company is prompt and it t liberal. ||

RED CROSS SEALS g A LA MOTHER GOOSE, g ’ I i ! Li « • -w»ww Hitmpty dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. F "I'll buy Red Cross seals from one an I t all. . | And do my part however small." j Said Humpty dismayed not at all. || o f NOTICE TO PUBLIC. ( We, the undersigned merchant: . i will keep our stores open every ever-.;

ing until Christmas: ' Niblick & Co. Kucbler & Co. : M. Fullenkamp. Runyon & Engelvr. Peoples & Gcrke. C. J. Voglcwede. Charles Elzey. , Whines Shoe Store. 294t1l IFOR SALE—EIm plank, suit1 i able for burn floors or hop i pens, ( heap, if bought quick; 1 also a limited amount of stove wood.—Bluffton Hoop Co. 29lti> o WANTED —Young man to do office work. Can use you ’■ several weeks. Inquire at Daily ' Demcorat.

u:uuu:ttt::u'.t:t:4c:»rzL..ftt'.«:ac:u'.t:::'u:;:r.'.u , .::r,:n'.:n trttrtmttr.-tr.-trtt-■•r^rtn'.nr-tr.tnuii'.trr/tr.tn'.ttr.nt'.ttt; DO YOU DESIRE MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS? | Here is a sure way to have that desire satisfied. V ou’re not taking a chance. Vou can't lose a cent. Vou have everything to to lose by joining our Christmas Saving Society I and paying a certain amount each week, or on pay days, and then : by next Christinas you will get the total amount of your savings and interest, if you are paid up in full. It’s the only way you can be sure to have the money for Christmas as you get your money back jjjst before Christmas. ! OBSERVE HOW IT CAN BE DONE I H i 1 cent deposited first week, 2 cents second week and 3 cents ? third week, and so on for fifty weeks will give you $12.75 4 2 cents deposited first week, 4 cents second week and 6 cents s third week and so on for fifty weeks.will give you $25.50 b 5 cents deposited first week, 10 cents second week and 15 E cents third week and so on for fifty weeks, will give you. .$63.50 P. 50 cents deposited first week, 50 cents second week and 50 H cents third week and so on for fifty weeks, will give you. .$25.00 Or you may begin with the highest amount and reduce your « payments for the same amount each week so that your last pay- « ment at the end of the fifty weeks will be Ic, 2c, or sc. We have » added another plan which is a separate payment of the same M amount each week, 10c, 15c, 50c and SI.OO, weekly. | INTEREST WILL BE ADDED I to ail accounts paid in full at the end of 50 weeks—just in lime g for Christmas. You may start any time after DECEMBER 11, 1916. g Come in and let us explain. g j FIRST NATIONAL BANK | DECATUR, INDIANA I rl I

NOTICE. Notice id' election of officers of the Christian Church of Decatur, lii,lia ;;i This is notify that there will be a Congregational meeting at 11:00 a. in., December 31, 1916 to cleet one Trustee for the period of three year beginning January 1, 1917. 9-16-23 BI'RT MANGOLD, Sv. FOR RENT —A nouse at 316 North! Fifth Street. Call or write Mil'on | Girod, Maghy. Ind. WANTED—A girl for general hou.v work. Call phone 255 or inquire at 1115 West Monroe street. L9ii:.

—iHHWllilllllllllll llm ~ ttvwbtwi"ti— ——■—lTT [electrical suggestions FOR XMAS An interesting place to visit is our Electrical Department. Here is found a variety of Xmas gifts that will please the whole family. Irons, tea and coffee percolators, toaster, vacuum cleaners, lamps, engines, flash lights, Xmas tree outfits, washing machines, scores of other articles. Portable Stand Lamps Electric Showers all prices Domes and Hall Lights $5.00 up to $16.50 $5.00 up to $25.00 Boudoir Lamps Electric Domes and Desk Lamps $7.50 up to $15.00 Come in and look around and when in need of any electrical goods such as wire, bulbs, sockets, globes and price on your work, Call on 6b. WJE 3TOZF

GREETING CARDS <£>-«-f C/fete These Gards areno.u in try general use inXi) ffl 1 E,‘.| polite circles andof course are greatly to bo1 preferred over (he time |&7j3 l/J the past. EIN KL We arc now displaying an unusually attractive MFzfJ ; \ line,also a stylish display of“ j ONOC, KA M STATIONER. | _/>z> :Z“V g»z- Gift THE DAILY DEMOCRAT Come in and look the line over. HARCOURT,ECO.