Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1916 — Page 5

“DIO YOU BET YOURS?” Ladies tell us that we have the prettiest house slippers they have seen anywhere. The newest trimming is embroidery. We have five styles trimmed in this way. Soles are the cozy comfort kind. » Black, Brown, Wine, Smoke, Grey and Lavender Colors. Priced reasonable at $1.50 and $1.75. Other grades from 75c up. Charlie VogleWede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG^HOE

v KBCC’Xxacx ac ~oz I WEATHER FORECAST | K».ir and continued cold tonight. Saturday fair. — ~ “■ ■ - — Mr. and Mrs. Warren Jones were Fort Wayne visitors today. . % It you are going to shop, early it will have to bo early tomorrow morning. Will Dreher of Toledo will sp >ud Christmas in the city with friends and relatives. Eugene. infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Swallow, is dead at their home near Celine, a result of meningitis. Judg** D. I). Heller was not quite so well today. He passed a very restless night and was rather nervous today. Tom Vail returned from Marion -t evening where he visited Ids brother Forest who Is in the hospital at tii.it place. * Fred Ehlording and family of Preble township went to Fort Wayne today to attend the funeral of Mrs. Khlerdiug's brother. Otto Horstmaun, held today. Kenyon Walters has returned from Delaware. Ohio, where he is attending college and has begun his vacation with a job at the Fisher &. Harris grocery. Frank Hoosier. a colored Janitor at the Gauntt building, in Fort Wayne, has confessed that lie stole forty dollars from Dr. William Euxlen’s safe, with which he went to Newcastle to see his lady friend and presented her with a gold watch and chain as a Christmas remembrance.

The Home Os Quality Groceries! ORANGES California Navels, per doz 15c, 20c, 25c, 50c, 10c, 50c Apples, Talman Sweets, pk ;} -^' Apples, Seeks and Baldwins, bu $1.25 Sweet Potatoes, kiln dried, lb • • •} c Lippincott’s Pure Fruit .1 elly, per lb 1 ‘ - c Heinz Large Dill Pickles, doz ,•; l^ c A line of good Candies to select from. Best grade oi Nuts to be had. You buy satisfaction when you buy them. Oysters, Grapes, Cranberries, Lettuce, Celery. We paj cash or trade for produce, Eggi 37c Butter 25c to 32c M. E. HOWER | North of G. a & SDeoot ’l'honc 108 b

I “When, Santa Claus Comes” || A good time is coming, I wish it was here, jjl The very best time in all the year; I I'll hail, m) Ink

It cost W. O. Matin, of Wyandot county, Ohio, ten dollars and costs for killing a skunk unlawfully. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ellison armed from Fort Wayne this morning for a visit at the Andrew Baxter home. Miss Mary Ehlerding, of Ninth /treet, went to Fort Wayue today to attend the funeral of her uncle, Otto rforstman. Orren Crouse returned yesterday to Alexandria after a two days' visit with his sister, Mrs. P. G. Williams, and family. Hay Brown of Bluffton, assistant general manager of the Morris five and ten cent store, was here yesterday on business. * The Christmas trade in Decatur stores has been unusually heavy, a large force of extra clerks being necessary to wait on the trade. Mrs. Joel Reynolds went to Port Wayne today. She will lie accomp filed home by her daughter, Bereuclu Reynolds, a student in the business college there. Miss Kutli Patterson,- who is teaching at Syracuse, arrived home for her holiday vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Patterson. and family. Miss Esther Sellemeyer arrived home today from Oberlin, 0.. to spend her Christmas vacation with her parents. Miss Sellemeyer is taking ■;>> missionary work. Edward Piertgorff, of Mercer county 0., has a most narrow escape front fatal injury, when his clothing caught m a Hy wheel of a tractor. He would have been hurled to death had not bis clothing torn, releasing him. Ho was nearly denuded. One leg was badly mashed by a large wheel passing over it.

Will K renters and family will spend their holidays with relatives at Hoiittnd and other points in Michigan. C. B. Smith of Detroit will arrive in lhe city Sunday to spend the holidays with Mrs. Smith and her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hatmnell. Os English invention is a trumpet to he attached to a telephone receiver so its sounds can be magnified anti heard without holding it to the ear. To save space the top of a new phonograph cabinet slides to one side with the instrument it carries, giving access to the records it contains. On one side of a new electric porch light are grooves into which figures can Ito slipped to make it servo as a house number either by day or night. Attendants at Beulah Chapel will bo interested in hearing of the Christmas sermon which will be delivered Sunday morning at lO: 15 o'clock by the Rev. ltoy Gaunt. One more day to shop and then — the hard work will he over, the enjoyment of the Christmas may be partaken of without the horror of planning gift* to the nth power. Prof. L. T. Anderegg, teacher of science, *n the Helpline high schools, lias resigned to accept a position in the schools of Decatur, 111. His successor at Dclphos lias not yet been named. John W. Vail returned from Marion last night, where he has been with his son. Forest, who was so badly injured wheiftte was caught in the cogs at the Vail straw board factory Tuesday afternoon. George Inelchen of Wabash township. well known stock farmer ami stock man, was here last evening. George carried off a whole arm full of first ribbons with his cattle at the Chicago stock show. Workmen are still cutting ice at Steele’s pond and within a day or two the house there will be filled. Tie river ice is of good quality this season mil is about thick enough to cut. Mrs. E. A. Gobbler and Mrs. Alfred G< bluer went to Fort Wayne today to attend the funeral of their brother In-law, Otto Horstman. Mrs. Horstman was formerly Miss Cora Gobbler. Word bits been received from Mr. and Mrs. C. it. Uhl of Toledo, that after their long planning to spend the Christmas holidays with Mrs. Uhl’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. li. J.*Terveer that it will now be impossible fo' them to come, owing to the serious sickness of Mrs. Uhl) The residence of P. S. Howard, of Van tturen. was destroyed by fire on. Monday. The fire started front a do fective flue. The residence was a two-story fourteen room building and the loss was heavy. Mi. Howard Is a director of the Van lturen bank and a prominent business mail. Fred Beijtz. inspector of Berne “P" preceinct, in the recent election was reported as having spent $55.50 in U:c commissioners allowances of last ses sion when the amount should have been $59.50. The error was discover cd by the auditor this morning in checking up the lists. Ed Neueaschwander of Vera Crux rcatl about the Municipal Christinas tree here and sent two dollars to Attorney Jelui ('. Moran with instructions to give it for that good cause. Thats the right spirit Ed anil we hope and know that it will bring you much pleasure. Come up and see till' kids and the older folks enjoy it. Workmen engaged in building a bridge over the Auglaize River, Defiance. 0.. discovered the body of Jesse Swank,- of Williamsport, Ind., who had been missing since last Thursday embedded in the ice. Swank had fallen from the bridge anil drowned. Gillmrt Fox. of Lima, 6., is the fifth man to be found guilty on the charge of attempting to attack Sheriff Eley, of Allen county, with intent to lynch a prisoner. His case wag heard at Ottawa and he faces a sentence from one to ten years in the penitentiary. He may ask a new trial.

The high school students want a motto for the high school. Can't some of you people help them out? John W. Tyndall is attending to business at Warsaw today, where ho is representing the Kirick-Tyndßll company. Leonard Deininger arrived from his school at Rensselaer to spend the holiday vacation hero ivlth Ills parents. The vacation is until January 8. The soldier boys of the third luili- . ana will Christmas at Fort Benjs nin Harrison and will not be mustered out until the first week in January. Rev. Thornburg will arrive home im Saturday having been furloughed for over Christmas that lie may enjoy the season with his family slid assist in the services at his church. And you'll need that money worn* next year. Look a little ahead and become a member of one of the Christmas Saving clubs and have a portion of your earnings laid away for holidays. If you don’t nerd it then, let it. ride for a rainy day. Mrs. C. M. Hower, West High street left Thursday morning to visit her sister. Mrs. H. 8. laehot, at Decatur, anil will go on to Fort Wayne to spend Christmas with another sister, M-s. William Doehrman. Mr. llower will join her at Fort \Vay»e*the last < f the week. —Portland Commercial Review, , According to Ravelitigs the school board will meet soon and divide the location for the new high school building. The school paper altso predicts that the class of 'l7 will lie the hist to graduate from the old building. We hope they are better at predicting i n this greatly desired improvement than we have been. Joe Bremerkamp writes George Wcmhotr urging him to get busy in the converting of the old fair grounds into a park. Joe is in the hospital suffering ffom heart trouble. Mr. Wcmhoff lias long had in ntinil tiie park question and lias made considerable effort to get the question start, d but like many for the good of the public it moves slowly. Howard Wiisehanpt, who is now the musical director for Ed Courts, one if the great evangelists of the country, and is making good. He was here today visiting friends. The party have held meetings at lagans port and Montpelier, Indiana and will open : n i few days at Anderson. Mr. \\'<ishaupt is well fitted to this work and is enjoying it immensely. Thursday, December 21st, was Ihe shortest day of the near, the sun rising at fifteen minutes past seven o’clock and setting at eighteen minutes of five, making the length of the day nine hours and twenty-seven minutes, while the longest night was fourteen hours and thirty-three minutes in length. The days will now be gin to lengthen a few minutes each day until June 21st which is the longest day. The Wells County Medical Society held their regular senii-montbly meeting Tuesday evening, at the office of ~!)r. Louis Severin. ami on the even lug's program was the election of alii cers. The present officers were re elected for another year, and arc as follows: President, G. E. Fulton; First Vice-president. C. L. Blue; Second Vice-president, 1). ('. Wybottrn; Secretary anil Treasurer, i. N. Hatfield; Censors, F. M. Dickason, F. W. Garrett, C. L. Blue. Dr. It. G. Morris was elected delegate and Dr 1. N. Hat field alternate. In addition to giving their employes a neat salary bonus as a Christmas present, the board of directors of tin Western Union Telegraph Company has annunted a liberal pension sys tem for their employes, who become ill while in the service. The announcement specifies that any "in ploye who gets sick is entitled to full pay for a period of U! weeks. As! ‘r that time he is entitled to half pay, and providing lie is never able to re sume work lie will gel a pension, the minimum amount running about s2l a month. Each of the employes w.ill be given a vacation of two weeks. I each year, with full pay during their absence. A letter received tit this office recently from Harvey It. Hooker of j Fullerton, Cal., contains much interest l to his many Monroe friends. Mr. | Hooker is pastor of the Fullerton M. I E. church and is well known in AdI aims county. He states that the I weather there is’fine and all in the I best of health. Miss Cora Hooker, | who went to California with Rev. I Hoekor is attending school In the UnlI versity of Southern California prepraI tory to receiving a certificate for I teaching the high school of the state. I Site expects to complete h'*r course I In February, and will return 1o Berne I in March Site will teach in CaliforI nia next year. Rev. Hooke* sends ills I best wishes to ltts many friends here I fur merry Xmas and a Happy New I Year.—Monroe Reporter.

\A/E WISH VOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

Mariou Oliver, of Monroe, was here today on business. Miss Susie Carpenter went, to Fort Wayue this noon to call on her father. Jesse Carpenter, at the hospital. He was operated upon recently. Mrs. Oari>enter returned yesterday and stated that he was quite ill, but getting along' as well as consistaut. William Mertaugh, supervisor of track for the/Erie railroad company this city, lias received from the superintendent at Huntington a check for s2o# ibis being the second anual prize he has earned for having the best subdivision on the tracks west of l‘it>*burg. This is an enviable record and speaks much for the superintendent y exercised by Mr. Murtaugh. Charles E. Mamma arrived from Warren. 0., to spend a few days with Ills imrents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Muimna in Union township. This will is* his last visit at the old home farm, as his father recently sold the farm to Otto Fuelling. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mutuum will move to Hits city and will reside this winter with their daughter, Mrs.. l,eo Wilhelm, uti til they buy property in Ihe spring. They resided for thirty-eight years on their farm and gave it up only on account of the poor health of Mrs. Mamma. Huy a box of Aureniz’ candy for your mother, daughter or sweetheart. We guarantee il wiU please them Christmas morning. At Murray's Cigar Store. ,‘{()2(2

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IIAYS LEFT | beautiful gifts for ■ l please you, and the H ifts that have been ■ this season. 9 OR LADIES AND I frist Watches, Rings, I nities. Umbrellas, I: >oches, Lockets, Hat p fetWrK I er Chests, Shuttles, ■ t (Hass Water Sets. I [ilass Tall Stem Gob- I ort to do all engrav- ■ r as possible. & •LRY STORE I lit CONVENIENCE | •n 10c Sheet Music I