Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1916 — Page 3

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I»M«ssxx:«®»a E . 3 a CCCC; . 3! ..„ WEATHER FORECAST 0 < loudy tonight and Sunday probably snow and warmer. Miss Gusta Yager went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mrs. Dick Hill and daughter, Mabel, went to Monmouth this morning. Mrs. Will Bowers and Mrs. Wilson Lee spent the day in Fort Wayne Mrs. Fred Reppert and Mrs. Otto Kirsch were Fort Wayne visitors yesterday. Miss Vera Clark returned today from Fort Wayne where she has been visiting tor a few days. Mrs. John Niblick and granddaughter. Mary Suttles, and Mrs. Burton Niblick spent the day in Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Tom Andrews and two children went to Fort Wayne to visit with her sister, Mrs. Chauncey Lliamon. John Clark went to Fort Wayne last evening where attended the Basket Ball game returning this morning. Miss Amelia Weber returned last evening from a viist with her grandfather, John Weber, Sr. and family in Fort Wayne. Ole Santy Claus is th’ best advertiser an’, if you’ve noticed, he delivers th’ goods. A college.career is a tine thing t’ look back on, but it hain’t got nothin’ on ole boardin’ house days.— Abe Martin. J. Francis Murphy, the landscapepainter has not had to die to come into his own either in fame or worldy goods. His fellow academician. Elliott Daingerfield, writes about him in The Field of Art of the January Scribner. I

The Home Os Qua lityGrocerie s The best Cooking Potatoes you ever bought. A bushel is 60 tbs. Get it $2.00 Pork and Beans, can sc, 10c. 12*/zC and 15c New York Red Kidney Beans, can ..10c California Red Beans, can * 10c Fancy New Cal. Lima Beans, lb Me Western Blackeye Dry Beans, tb Pinto Striped Dry Beans, th Extra Fancy Hand Picked Navy Beans ■ .lie All High Grage Evaporated Milk, Pet, Carnation, Dundee and Beauty, per can ; >c and 10c “Best and Cheapest” Coffee is just what you are looking for: Flavor, Strength, Quality and Price suits your neighbor. It will suit you, too, a ib... c I We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggi 37c | Butter 25c to 32c I M. E. HOWER I North of G. R- & L Denol ’Phone 10*

CIGARS AND CHRISTMAS ARE SYNONYMOUS A man places a box of cigars above all gills and above all cigars he places the “White Stagextra mild. Put up in elusuy Christmas packages of 12’c, 25’s and solid cedar humidor packages of 50’s. Fill the Top of His “Sock” with “WHITF. STAGS and it will make ‘ his Christmas Merry. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS

* ,r - C. c. Rayl O s Monroe was here 1 on business. , Mr. and Mrs. J. s. McCrory spent last evening in Fort Wayne. i John W. Tyndall went to Van Wert, 1 today to attend to business for the 1 Krick-Tyndall company. Quite a crowd of young people from here went to Fort Wayne last evening to attend the basket ball games. Mrs. Charles Bonham returned to Avilla yesterday afternoon on the 3.22 train. She visited with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Rex. John Joseph and Ben Lang return ?d yesterday from Chicago where they contracted for their new furnishings and fountains to be installed in th-ir confectionary ad ice cream parlor. The City Council will meet in regular session next Tuesday evening at which time they will accept sealed proposals for the furnishing and installing of a condenser at the Light and Power plant. Where the trio went from Montpelier is the question. Representatives of the Monroe Fitch & Sons’ insurance agency were in Geneva on Thursday and paid loss incurred by the milling company, due to the robbery. Sleuths from several insurance companies, who lose by the robbery, have joined in the hunt for the burglars.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. In the Point of View of the January Scribner there are two little articles of notably personal and human interest. The author of “Alan Seeger, Poet, Killed* in France” and “The Poet of the Foreign Legion" is known to be John Hall Wheelock, a poet himself and a collegfe friend of Mr. Seeger, just published by the Scribners, shows him to have had a talent of high order.

Miss Mary Ikjlch of Monroe wait a’ shopper here today. I Vl.H?' D ’ E ' RlCh * r ° f PerU ’ lnd - 1H visiting a tew weeks with her sisiter. • Irs. Rev. T. H. Harman, of this city. I red Mayer and Robert Andrews of Mornroe were business visitors in Decatur this afternoon and called at this office. J * Carles Hayslip Is home for an over! Sunday visit with hlr, family after his regular road trip for the Delphos firm he represents. Miss Marcella Kuebler. a student at the Sacred Heart Academy, will ar-1 rive Wednesday to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. I Kuebler. ! B you know of any one in Decatur] who will not have a Christmas dinner, telephone 164 or notify any member] of the Elks lodge and they will be supplied. Skating parties are now much in favor here and each afternoon and evening finds a good sized crowd at Steele’s park the favorite place for the boys and *irte. The interurban cars are havi.ig their troubles these days but those in charge are finding solace in the thought that they will soon have tin new cars which are due the first of the year. Misses Nola and Fay Bryan of Blue Creek township were visiting here today. Miss Nola, who was a graduate of the Decatur high school last spring is teaching near her home and is get ing along nicely.

Judge Heller, who was stricken I with appolplexy Wednesday morning I of this week is still very ill, though I it is believed his condition has improv I ed slightly. He passed a comfortable I night and is conscious a part of the I time. I The Indiana Chiropractors Associa-1 tion are urging the passage of a bill I at the coming session of-the legisla I ture to provide certain standards for the profession and to prevent, further prosecution on charges of practicing medicine without license.

Frank E. France arnveu home last I night front a several weeks business I trip to Muskogee, Okla., where h> I looked after his numerous interests I He reports the past years business the I best in the hstory of hs nvestmentsl n that splendid western metropolis. The regular meeting of the Knigiitrl of Columbus will be held Monday eve-1 ning! A program, consisting of de l . bates by a number of members will] - be endulged. It still also be decided I at this meeting if a special car will I . be chartered for Tuesday evening for Fort Wayne to attend the reception to be given Supreme Knight Flaherty. A good attendance is desired.

Travel on all city lines in both directions was held up during the rush hour yesterday noofT when one of the big interurban cars of the Fort Wayne & Decatur Traction company jumped the track at the corner of Calhoun and Lewis streets, damaging the rails and breaking several rods and truck equipment of the car. The accident caused a delay which made hundreds of patrons of the city cars late in reaching their work. The car was I replaced on the rails and taken to the I local barns for repairs.—Fort Wayne I Journal-Gazette. j Francis Lynde’s serial, "Stranded ini Arcady,” that begins in the January I Scribner, is said to be different. It is I a new sort of Scribner story, a story I of highly romatic and surprising a J- 1 ventures, beginning at the very start! with the alxluction of a young mini and woman in an aeroplane and lea 7 -1 iug them stranded in the heart of theL Canadian wilderess. The way they! manage to live and make their way! toward civilzation affords the author! t

many quite thrilling incidents—and it develops into a mighty good love story. —o ■ ■— First Milling Process. The conversion of wheal into flotu was one of the earliest developments oi civilization, and even the primitive races in the dawn of history submit ted the grain to a coarse pounding be tween stones. Perhaps the oldest flom •■mills” in existence are the rude stone found among the remains of the an cient lake dwellings in Switzerland. 15; a mortar and pestle arrangement th< wheat was reduced to a coarse meal Crude as this inellwd was. it contains the genu of the modern Hour mill. ’ Not Quite Perfect. Tn this neighborhood there is one I little bov who seems so well brought I up and altogether so desirable a child (hat !■„!• tl time wo felt sure the neighbor women wouldn’t be able to think I of anything to say. but now we understand from a reliable source that its ~ perfect shame that ills parents are jeopardizing his whole ™ having his teeth straightened.—Ohio State Journal. Worth While Quotation. “Pleasure comes through 101 l and „.,t by self-indulgence and ill,ll ’ le, " e ’ When one gets to love work, bis life is a happy oue."—Buskin. I

AT THE CHURCHES ZION REFORMED CHURCH. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; M. Kirsch, superintendent. German preaching service, 10:30 a. m. Rev. J. F.’ Winter of Fort Wayne will occupy the pulpit. Since the pastor will be at Linton, Ind., to deliver the dedicatory sermon tor the dedication of the new Reformed church at said place, only the morning services will be held. We hope all our members and friends will be at the morning service to worship for the day. L. W. BTOLTB, Pastor.

EVANGELICAL CHURCH. Sunday school at 9:15; L. L. Baumgartner, superintendent. Preaching at 10:15 and 7:00. Y. P. A. at 6:15; topic, “Big Jobs Awaiting Us.” Fern Honeisen, leader. Mid-week services Wednesday evening at 7:30. All services on Sunday will be held at the old laundry building. A welcome for all. Come. J. H. RILLING, Pastor. ST. MARY’S CHURCH.

First mass, 7:30. High mass. 9:30. Christian doctrine. 2:00. Vespers and benediction, 2:30. REV. J. A. SEIMETZ, lastor. o PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 9:15. Sabbath school. 10:30, morning worship; sermon subject. "Riches.” 6:00 Christian Endeavor; “Big Jobs Awaiting Us." Ex. 3:1-14. 7:00, evening worship; sermon subject. "The Wonder of Cana.” “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto, thy name, O Most High." You are invited to join with us in the worship of God. JAY C. HANNA, Pastor.

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH. English service Sunday morning. Sunday school at 9:00 o’clock. A. W. HINZ, Pastor. BAPTIST CHURCH 9:15 Sunday school; Clarence E. Bell, superintendent. 10:30 Morning worship; them- 1 , 'Rock of Ages." 6:00 Young Peoples Meeting. 7:00 Evening worship; theme: “The Strength of a City." 7:30 Wednesday evening our mid week prayer service. Members, friends and strangers an always welcome and if you will “Conte with us we will do you good.” FLOYD G. ROGERS, Pastor.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH ) I —— . I Morning unified service, 9:30 a. m. >I to 11:15, including church school. 1 1 communion and preaching. Subject 11 of sermon : “The Man of One Talent Jor The Tragedy of the Napkin.’’ Junior Endeavor 2:30 p. m. I Evening services: 6:15, Christian I Endeavor. I Song Service and preaching al 7:00. I Evening services are evangelistic. Everybody welcome. I J. H. MAVITY. Pastor. UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH. I Sunday school, 9:15 a. in.; Ross I Hays, superintendent. Preaching, 10:30 a. m.; theme. "A Voice from Heaven.” Hear it. Jlev. 21:3. Junior Endeavor. 2:30 p. m.; Miss Viva Chronister, superintendent. A good program will be given by the Juniors. i Senior Endeavor at (1:15 p. m.; 5 theme, "Big Jobs Awaiting Us.” t Leader. Mrs. Roy Munima. t

■I There will be no preaching in the levelling as the pastor will be at Union I Chapel, where he is now engaged in I a series of meeting#. i Prayer meeting Wednesday evenI ing at 7:00. I A cordial invitation to all of these I services. T H HARMAN. Pastor. — o .—— * FIRST METHODIST CHURCH. I Loyalty is the slogan for every I Methodist. I Sunday school at 9:00 a. ni. Bright I and attractive for all. I Preaching at 10:15 a. tn. and 7:00 p. in.; subjects. “God’s Second Question to Man.” and “Some Phases ot the Christian Life.” The men’s chorus will give a sacred concert for the first half hour : of the evening service. This will be ■ Rev. Diefenbaugh’s last Sunday. z Junior League at 2:00 p. ni. Senior League at 6:00 p. in. Prayer meeting. Wednesday at 7:00 ]>. ni.; subject, "True and False Fires." A cordial welcome to all. Glass Eye Was Misbehaving. "Mrs. Murphy, have you seen my glass eye?” "Yes, sor; It was readin* one <>f your letters, and I hid it in the bureau. "—Lampoon.

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Tributes to the Departed. Obituary notices iu Australian pa pers are often, Lady Poore tells us, accompanied by poetic tributes to the de parted. These tributes sometime tumble into awkwardness, but she ’ quotes ax champion in that way . prose tribute in these words: "Mrs. ‘ B. has Just passed away at the age ol eighty-five. For some months she had been in failing health, but during the last few days, she approached thgrave in leaps and bounds,"—Fron “Recollections of an Admiral s Wife."

Was Looking for Easy Money. “I asked for alimony of SSO a week. 1 see wimmen are getting that righ along." “But, madam,” expostulate* the lawyer, “your husband is enrnin; only $12.” “What’s that got to do with it? I thought the government provide*: the alimony.” Uncle Eben. “George Washington was de father of his country,” said Uncle Eben; ":in he ata’ de only father whose folks got to tbinkiu' iley knowed mo' dan he did."

:n: as :::::::. ;«c:::::::: ;.t::::::::::::: astn::« «::::: tn: aa :a tn: tn: tn: tn: :::: rcaesa a&aansNQ I DO YOU DESIRE MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS? Here is a sure way to have that desire satisfied. V ou’re not : taking a chance. You can't lose a cent. You have everything to gain, nothing to lose by joining our | Christmas Saving Society and paying a certain amount each week, or on pay days, and then by next Christmas 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 J our money back just before Christmas. OBSERVE HOW IT CAN BE DONE ’ 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 2 cents deposited first week, 1 cents second w eek and 6 cents third week and so on for fifty weeks,will give you $25.50 5 cents deposited first week, 10 cents second week and 15 cents third week and so on for fifty weeks, will give you. .$63.50 50 cents deposited first week, 50 cents second week and 50 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 payment 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 amount each week, 25c, 50c and SI.OO weekly. INTEREST WILL BE ADDED to all accounts paid in full at the end of 50 weeks—just in time for Christmas. You may start any time after DECEMBER 11, 1916. Come in and let us explain. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA

PUBLIC SALE

As I .am going to move to Raima. I will otter at public auction at my residence, 4 miles south and 2 miles west of Decatur, ami 2 miles west and 1H miles north of Monroe, on what is known as the George Harnett farm, on Thursday. Dec. 21, 1916, beginning at 1A o'clock a. m„ the following property, to-wit: Five Head Horses: Roan mare, coming 5 years old, weight 1650; roan mare coming 4 years old, weight 1650; these two mare are evenly matched and a good team. Bay mare coming 4 years old. weight 1500; bay mare coming 4 years old, weight about 1500; this is a good matched team. Bay coach mare coming 5 years old. Nine Head of Cattle: White face cow, 8 years old, fresh in spring; red cow. 8 years old, fresh in spring; white face cow, coming 4 years old, fresh early in spring; rod cow, coming 3 years old; Holstein heifer, coming 2 years old; 4 spring calves, consisting of three heifers and one bull. Five Head of Hogs: Five young sows, will farrow first week in April. 1917. Grain: 900 bushels corn in crib. 40 bushels seed oats, about 5 bushels clover seed,

LESLIE H. BARNETT Bunn and Baumgartner, Aucts. W. S. Smith, Clerk. 5, 11, 14-1 B

NOTICE. Notice of election of oßicers of the Christian Church of Decatur, Indiana. This Is notify that there will be a Congregational meeting at 11:00 a. m., December 31, 1916 to elect oue

SILK RIBBON FLOUR NO BETTER MADE. IT STANDS FOR QUALITY. Manufactured By J. E. HEFFNER and V. L. FORBING, Ft. Recovery, O. FOR SALE BY: Kuebler & Co., M. Fullenkamp, Niblick & Co. Mangold & Baker.

YOUR 1917 LICENSE Number plates and licenses for Automobiles, Motorcycles, Chauffeur’s, etc., will be issued by the Secretary of State, beginning Dec. 15, for the year 1917. Applications may be made at the Office of the Daily Democrat We will fill out the blanks and send them in for you. Apply Early.

about 5 tons clover hay, 200 shocks corn fodder. Five doz. >ne chickens. Household Goods: Naw Uaivarsal range, hot blast heater. 3-hale oil stove, with oven, kitchen cabinet, new dining room tabla with Mt ot chairs, square dining room table, linoleum for two rooms, sofa, center table. rocking chairs, folding bed. two iron beds with springs, dresser, washing machine, some canned fruit, bath tub and other household articles. Farming Implements: Eight ft. Milwaukee binder, good grain diill, 5-ft. Milwaukee mower, P. and O. corn planter, clover buncher, disc and trailer. 14 inch riding plow. 3 sets ot harness, wagon with Leet rack. top buggy, 2-seated rig. lar<j prose, lawn mower, grindstone and numerous ether articles, consisting of tools, etc. Lunch served on the grounds. Terms of Sale: -Under 15.00 cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser giving note with approved security and bearing interest after maturity. Four per cent off for cash. No goods removed until settled for.

Trustee for the period of three years beginning January 1, 1917. 9-16-23 BlilT MANGOLD, Sec. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG