Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1916 — Page 3

We Want Your Feet 1 In a pair of Top . Notch rubber boots 1H this kind of weather |k | H Don’t you think, - you had better get ' a pair. Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

WEATHER FORECAST n Rain dr snow tonight. Wednesday cloudy and probably snow in north portion. 1 J 1 . / Ralph Kennedy of Bucyrus. Ohio, was a Chrishinas guest of 11. F. Bauer. , Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Morton of Chicago were guests of the C. A. Dugan family over Christmas. Will Dreher returned to Toledo last evening after spending Christmas in the city with friends. Joe Smith, who is employed at Farmland, came home to spend Christmas with his family. Ray Houser of Indianapolis Is here for a Christmas visit with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Houser. Miss Grace Neiford of Glenmore. Ohio, who was the guest of Miss Minnie Dull, left for Fort Wayne to’ visit. Miss Rath Daniels, employed in a railway office in Toledo. Ohio, spent Cl.iristmas with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. Will Kremers and daughters, Amy and Margaret, went to Holland. Mich., to spend the holidays with relatives. Clark Sphar, who is employed in Detroit, Mich., arrived home yesterday to join his wife and babe in a visit here for two days. Tom Peterson returned to Gary last night after <f visit here with relatives here. Mrs. Peterson will remain for a fewj days’ visit. Reba Bowers and Fern Shackley' went to Fort Wfeyne to visit with their grandmother. Mrs. Howard Shackley, and family, over Christmas.

The Home Os Quality Groceries 70 lb. Cloth Bag Meat Salt 75c 6 five cent boxes best Matches made 25c Dried Corn, pkg 10c Red Seal Lye ...3 for 25c Sun-Made Raisins, lb. 15c 5c Toilet Paper, 6 for 25c Not-a-Seed Raisins, lb. 18c 10c Toilet Paper. 3 for 25c Kraut 2 for 25c 25c Corn Popper 20c Hominy 3 for 25c Bulk Pure Jelly, Monarch Brand Cut Wax Beans, Green Bean or Succotash 15c We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 37c Butter 25c to 32c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Deoot ’Phone 10S

ITS TIME TO THINK UP YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION “SMOKE HOME CIGARS DURING 1917” The “WHITE STAG” Extra Mild at scts saves as much as it co&ts. Ask your Dealer for ’em.

i Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Habegger amt ! children of Monroe changed cars here | enroute to Fort Wayne on business. I Rev. Hinz went to St. Johns on the 8:30 car to assist in conducting the services at that church this morning. Mr. and Mrs. ('. B. Smith returned ; this morning to Detroit after spending Christmas with the C. R. Ha.nmell family. Mrs. Sylvia Stevens went to Grabil this morning to visit a week or ten days with her brother. Will Workinger and family. William Mougey returned last evening to Toledo after spending nis Christmas with si parents, Mr. amt Mrs. Pete Mougey. Mr. and Mrs. A. ,Jt. Morton returned Io Chicago tills morning after attend ing Christmas here with her parents. Mr.*and Mrs. C. A. Dugan. Mrs. C. T. Rainier ami daughter. Ajf nes Andrews. Miss Celia Andrews and Vane Thompson spent Christmas with the W. F. Rosenwinkle family ni Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Lizzie Moore was accompanied to her home in Fort Wayne this mo-.i ing by her little niece, Ida Potts. Mr. and Mrs. Moore spent Christmas h with her sister Mrs. Hiram Potts. You're more apt t' he remembered if you don’t give somebuddy somethin’ Christmus than ybu are if you. do. It’s no reflection on a feller these days t’ say he can’t stand prosperity. —Abe Martin. tyfiss Ida Reinking received a letter from her uncle. tld Bleeke, who lias been at Redlands, Cal., for the past eight year* He said they had a slight frost there recently again, but everything'is doing fine. He wishes heartily that he might be with his Adams county friends during the holidays.

The Baughman and Mills stores were making their annual invoice tOi day. Mrs. Dun Niblick went to Vera Cruz and Bluffton tpday for u visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs, A. 8. Ayres and children returned today noon to Ft Wayne They spent Christmas at Pleasant Mills. Mrs. A. R. Bell suffered from an attack of biliousness Christmas morning and was quite ill. She is better today. The Misses Doria Erwin and h 'ay, Stults have gone to Columlms, Ohio, to spend 11 week with theFlcdderJoiiann family. Clellaml Ball, student at Depauw university, is at home for a two week vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ilall. Herb Bremerkamp returned to Froemont, 0., after spending Suhday and Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bremerkamp. Will Mougey returned last evening* to Toledo, Ohio, after spending his Christmas vacation here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mougey. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Deininger of Alma, Mich., are spending Christmas holidays in the city with the U. Deininger and Milliard Cowan families. Dwight Archer returned from Toledo Saturday evening to flpchtl his Christmas vacation with his parents. He returned to his w'ork last evening. Mrs. Caroline Scheuinann left on' the 8:3(1 car for her home north es the city after spending Christmas with h<T son, John Scheuinann‘and family. Dr. and Mrs. Will Kortcnbrer of New Haven, were at home for the, Christmas holiday with their parents, the C. N. Lank and Kortcnbrer families. . , Charles Sowle returned today noon to Jackson. Mich., after spending his' Christmas vacation here with his family. Ho is employed at the Globe Pattern Works. Next Saturday is Auto Day in Depatur. You will want to be here. The merchants are offering special inducements. Its a good time to buy Everybody invited. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Prosdorf of 1.0Grange were guests Sunday of the J. 1). Myers family. They were enroute to the home of Mr. Presdorf s parents west of the city for over Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Uhl and children of Toledo are expected in the city Saturday to siwnd New Years with the B. J. Terveer family. Owing to Ihe serious sickness of Mrs. Uhl they were unable to come here for Christ nias. Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred France are here for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. F. E. France. J. Fred France, who is'an old Adams county boy, is clerk of ( the supreme court of Indiana, and one of the few democrats who will 1 eontnue to serve the state for at least two years. Lester Stanley, who is serving as Western Union operator at Helena. Montano, sent his mother a quantity of fyie apples, and the Daily Democrat was remembered with a sack of them. They have the taste ami the. qualify and we appreciate being remembered. Forest Steele of Fort Wayne visited yesterday with his mother, Mrs. D. V. Steele who had been ill of a deVero cold but is able to be up again. Forest left last night for Boston where, he will be employed in helping to lay a marble floor for tt new building at that place. Clark Spahr who is employed in Detroit Mich, and came to spend Christ-; mas and today with his wife and’ daughter Virginia, missed a part of the Christmas day festivities, not arriving here until evening. Hr was dlayed by the wreck of a freight train ahead of his i*usengcr train on the Wabash yesterday morning and was obliged to come by another route. ADAMS COUNTY INVESTMENTS. Dear Friends: — f If you contemplate buying a farm or city property, won’t you call on us and see what we have to offer? Our business is that of dealing In real estate and loaning money and making abstracts of title. We are offering farm loans ttnW as 5 per cent and at 5 1 /, per cent atid at. 6 per eent. This 6 per cent loan is ext optionally good. The rate is higher but there are other considerations. Ask us about it. Our abstract business has an established reputation for correctness and ext ( lienee. Please call on us, write us, or ’phone us. Respect fully, THE BOWERS REALTY COMPANY Frank M. Schirmeyer. French Quinn. 299t3 —o Function of Manners. Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.— Chesterfield. Order a brick of Kleppcr’s ice cream at W. Colchin’s. 30116

FOR THE STATE PARK. 0 — ■■ — Indianapolis, Ind., Dee. 26—The joint appeal sent out from this city November 24 lust by Governor Rab’ stop and Governor-elect Goodrich, in behalf of the state park movement, is beginning to bear fruit. Corydon, Jackson county, the site of Indiana’s first state house, made immediate response by raising the amount asked of that community, $3(10. From Fort Wayne the response also was gratifying. Us two of its citizens, Samuel M. Foster and Stephen B. Fleming, con tributed SSOO ami SI,OOO respectively. A six-dny canvass, conducted In Fort Wayne last week, brought an additional SI,OOO from public-spirited citizens and the campaign there is to be continued until the goal of $2,600, the amount fixed for Allen county, has been reached. An appeal sent through the malls of Foft Wayne brought SBS last Saturday morniiig as Christmas presents to the fund. The state park memorial committee, of which Richard Lieber is the chairman, will assist the counties, as far as possible, in the matter of raising funds, to be applied on the Turkey Run and McCormick creek canyon purchases. o—“WAR’S WOMEN” Comedy has no place in "Wars’ Wo-, mtn,” the attraction at the Crystal flit ater Friday. Countless playwrights and producers have advanced the theory that a play, no matter how seriotis in character, could not survive, unless touches of humor were incorporated. “Wars’ Women” procs the exception as Metropollton critics have unanimously pronounced it a wonder of the age, despite the deviation from dra-> hiatie regulations. The play is a mighty appeal to the civilized world for preparedness. Terrors of wir. seldom touched on. is the theme if the spectacle. .... ... ... IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Matilda Martz was bprn Mart h 16. 1830. and died December 17. 1916. benfg 8(1 years. 9 months and 1 day old She was born in Brown county. Ohio. She was the daughter of Epbriem ami Elizabeth Jacobs, and wi'h her parents settled |n Blue Creek township. Adams county. Indiana, in 1838, where she continued to reside until she was married to Philip Martz, oh January 29. 1860. To this union were born five children—one son and four daughters, all of whom preceded .her in death. They went to housekeeping on a farm in Mercer bounty, Ohio, where they lived until about twenty-four years ago. when they moved to near Salem. Adams

ar a: ar xr.:m:aot::n::mi»xnsa I Get The Whole Family I Interested In Saving •• 1 I F r*Tl THE 1917 CHRISTMAS CLUB L >,§ °f the I I Js FIRST NATIONAL BANh Can Be Made a Family Affair A J?' Brother John will want something expensive and “classy.” Sister Mary a new set of furs—may be the whole family will want a new Car and will combine their Christmas money. . . | You can have what has been just out of reach bet ore if you II join the gF I improved Christmas Club now and start with the rest. W z— Li | Whatever you want is coming your way next Christmas. The whole j family will be fairly bubbling over with the Christmas joys that only a full \ pocketbook can bring. 1 ' Take Out as Many Memberships as You Like / Choose from these six classes. If you start with 5c and add 5c more each week to your last amount you receive $63.75.0r ii you prefer start Ci with $2.50 and pay 5c less each week. I *’ Join the IMPROVED Club | Join the IMPROVED Club and teach the family by the method that’s ? nearest like the regular Banking way. Come in and pick your Clubs from these classes. (Jet the whok family interested in saving. Let (hem help earn the Christmas money and appredate its true worth. Make next Christmas a glorious one. Join tonight i \~ or tomorrow. f f JOHN TODAY CLASS 2 (’LASS 5 Ascending, starts with 2c and gets $25.50. Ascending, begins with 5c and is rewarded ’ CLASS 2 A with $63.75. Descending begins with SI.OO and draws CLASS 5 A $25.50. Descending, first pays $2.50 then ->c less CLASS 50 each week and receives $63.75. Pays 50c a week and receives $25.00. CLASS 100 CLASS 25 l >a ys SLOO per week at the end ot .>0 weeks Pays 25c a week and receives $12.50. receives >50.0p.

Did You Have a Merry Christmas? WE HOPE YOU DID and that you will start now to provide for a pleasant Xmas in 1917. We are enrolling members in our THRIFT CHRISTMAS CLUB every day. Have you secured your card? If not, come in and be one of the Thrifties. 16 Different Classes 16 / 4 PER CENT INTEREST ADDED TO YOUR MONEY THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST CO.

county, Indiana, where she died. Her husband died on November 15. 19(16. Slit! leaves one sister, Mrs. Zoa Clauson. and several distant relatives, and many friends. When a young woman she united with the Baptist hurch. Alter going to Ohio, not be ing any Baptist church near, she unit’d with the United Brethren church and when she came to Indiana last, she cast her lot with the Methodist church of Salem, where she remained a member until called away. The funeral took place at Salem M. E. church, Tuesday, December 19. The Rev. George L. Cpnwjiy pruachcd the sermon. Democrat Want Ads Pav

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