Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1917 — Page 3

The Big Advantage -in this sale of g i r | 8 co m|)o . so | c bho( , s we have all sues .nd w idlhs. Girls who are economic and like stylish shoes arc buying two pays of these snappy shoes at $2.95 THE HAIR Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

e WEATHER FORECAST I I shsmmhbhbbcbsssssbmbsm Eair tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight. Miss Rose Limeiistuil went to Ft. Wayne to visit. Miss Frances EjAenhizer of Hoagland was a shopper here Saturday. Attorney J. C. Moran went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon On bui-i ness. Fred Mayer, editor of the Monroe Reporter was here today attending io business. Miss Cleophy Bueter of Ft. Wayne Is a New Year guest of Miss Mae Herting of tli is city. Ed llfillipa capie over front Princ« ton. Indiana where he is employed for a New Year visit with his family en ! friends. A hundred of our subscribers paid up Saturday. its a good lime and you save fifty cent* by doing it before February 15th. C. 1C Bell special r<-pr» sentali ve• i the Wells-Fargo Er pros con.pi'iiwas a guest of his parents het' y terday afternoon. An examination Tor rural earnis to be held soon in this city and a number of young men are prepari.ito take the test. The electoral college will meet on i January Sth to cast their bal'< s I president. ami vice president but tin votes will not be counted until tl. third Monday of February. However it is safe to predict that the resali will show 278 votes for Wilson n::l Marshall and 255 for Huglies and Fairbanks. ■ ■ ■ -■ L~

The Home Quality Groceries No. 1 Salt White Fish, large and bright. per lb 1- D' Extra Fancy Bright Duluth Salt Herring, per lb.. Fancy Hand Picked Rudebagas, lb - c Navy Beans lie Cooking Cabbage, lb. ..3c Fancy Pinto Beam... 12c ~ , (|win Appk . s , £ Lima Beans 10c 1,1 , (} Black-eye Beans 10c pr»k “Your potatoes are the best cookers and th', ki t waste I have bought this year." ’hat is v i every day—and we give 60 tbs. fora bushel. We pay cash or trade so? produce. . • die Butt,er 25c to 32c M. E. HOWER | North of G. it & I. ’ ‘-IMIT 11917 1917 1 'As we welcome the New ' , ui an( * old we waid to extend a word <»> • t in the friends ol ■ of good will and best wish*' the “White Stag.” I May the fondest desires of all be realize <• 1917. The White Stag Cigar Co. I

Mrs. Susan Hays returned Saturday afternoon to Williams after attending to bu dness here. Mrs .< . fr„. Ciuju all( | children rclurne d to Port Wayne after a week’s visit with the Gust Yager family. Mrs. Anna Droppie,rnn went to Ft. Mayne Saturday afternoon to spend N< w V ars with Hirn. Ike Weihers. Mr. Roger Gipe of Anderson was an over Sunday visitor In Decaitir, a guest at the J. M. Frisinger home. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Muray left lest night for Cambridge City where they will visit friends for several days. .Miss Geraldine Smith returned Saturday from a week's visit with irr aunt, Mrs. Herbert isnikenau Th'Em Wayn \ Watch parties were numerous 't. this locality last evening and many heard the oht year ring out and I’o new year blow in. Attorney Benjamin lb ahi, of G-s---hen, of the law firm of Dealt! & D'; 1 bl r as here Saturday on business wi ll Peterson & Moran. The members of The Masonic lo l ■■■ are holding a big initiation event toda yand from all appearances are enjoying ti immensely. | Robert 11. I’elt i.-on has return I from Bloomington and will be one of th< class to receive the third degree in Masonry this afternoon and even-. I ing. County assessors oi Indiana will go to Indianapolis tomorrow to attend the meeting called by the state lax board. All county treasurers and auditors are also invited the meetings beginning Wednesday and continuing until Thursday. Dan Link of Auburn will give the opening address and a good program has been prepared.

Maurice Ileinzy Ims returne d frnn a holiday visit with frienda at Toledo and North Baltimore, Ohio. Stewart Niblick returned to Chicago after spending his Christmas vacation in the city with tits parents. V. L. Forblng of Fort Recovery O. ’pent New Year’s in the city with ids father, Peter Forblng and family. Mr. and Mrs. James Breiner returned last evening to Tocsin after a visit with their brother-in-law Auditor John Mosure and family. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Patterson and <m, Junior, left this morning for Ft. Wayne to visit with Mrs. Patterson's brother, J. W. Donaldson and family. Mr. and Mrs. James Artman cane from Fort Wayne yesterday to sp ‘ ><l New Year’s with Hie A. D. Artman family, returning this evening to Ft. Wayne. Clifford Brown, formerly of this city visited here today and tomorrow will go to Fort Wayne where he has aeceptied a position with the General Electric Company. For the benefit of our eity subscribers who receive the paper by carrier we want to say that, no increase is contemplated. The increase effects only our mail suscribers. its a dandy good time to pay your subscription to the Daily Democrat. If you do so within the next six weeks the price will be the same as heretofore, $2.50 per year by mail. Mrs. Delnia Elzey and children, Gh-nnis and Adrian, left Saturday afternoon for Fort Wayne, for a visit over New Year's with her mother. Mrs. Amanda Baxter and family. I'ecil Cole who has visited here dur in:- the holidays will return to Ertv. Pa., Monday to resume his work in a large munition factory. He has been employed there for several months. Thomas Ilaltzell who has just r*. tired from four years as county a'ldi--1 >r will rest until spring when he may

<unelude to spi nd several months in Canada where he has a large farm. Walter Kauffman of the Sehhfer Soldiery company enjoyed Sunday nd New Years with his family h're. li • reports business extra good and ays December was the beet he has < ver had. A church in I’hilatfelphia lias a movbledeiter bulletin board illuminat'd by electricity. A switch control! d bv clockwork automatically turns die lights on each evening at 6:30 and tints off the current at 10:30. An electric hand mirror is now include.r among latest electric devices. It contains a battery in its handle and a small electric bull) just below the refl< eting surface, so as to throw the light on the face of the user. Joseph W. Walker, representative elect for Adams county, came up today from Geneva and was meeting his triends anil constituents. He .vdl go to Indianapolis for the opening o< the session in about a week. The din and racket- uuide as the New Year came in was about th.' most complete ever heard here and it laded full thirty minutes. Every whistle and bell in town was on the job and we didn’t know there were so many. Tiers Goodrich of Winchester, s in of James P. Goodrich, governor ele t was a guest at the ('. A. Dugan home Saturday afternoon and evening. lie was accompanied by his friend Dal Ruby also of Winchester and a student at Ann Arbor. A Lawrence (Mass.) young woman was surprised the other afternoon to notice some of her crocheting yarn in the mouth of her pet dog., and she at once began to pull it out. Yards and yards were forthcoming, but finally the end was reached, after much worriinent lest she should unravel the whole dog. The animal had eaten nearly a whole ball of yarn. Tour eclipses of the sun and three of the moon, the greatest number possible in a single year, will occur in lUI7, according to a memorandum issued bv the naval observatory. The last year in which seven eclipses came was early in the last century and the next will be 1935. On January 3 there will he a total eclipse <.f tpo moon by the earths shadow visible throughout the United States, beginning at 12:59 a. m. and ending <i( 4:39 a. tn. eastern standard time. Ib - Iween 2 ami 3 a. m. western time, the eclipse will be total. A deed from the Indiana Lighting compmty «> the Northern Indiana G.is and Electric company, conveying property in t’ass, Miami, Blackford, Jay, Wells and Allen counties, was filed yesterday with Recorder Charles E. Davis, in Grant county. No- real estate is described in the transfer as being located in Grant County, but it is regarded the company has personal holdings of easements or rights of v.ay in 'lnd county. The consideration mimed in the deed is $4,509,000. Both companies mentioned have holdins in Blackford > minty, although they ! are of little value.

Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Anuen went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit with the Will Doehrman family.| The condition of Judge D. D. Heller remains abou the same as it has for several days. He is still unconscious and very weak though some better than a few days ago. A slight cough has bothered him for twenty-four hours past. WANTED Single farm hand by the year. Good-wages.—A. J. Beavers. R. R. No. 2., Decatur. lid 'WWT « 4 STORAGES I B rat ftry J Getting to Know it Better The average motorist has learned that some attention on his part is necessary to . keep his battery sending out energy to his starter and lights. He knows that Willard ■ Batteries latt longer and are more reliable because they are backed by expert service. If you are not fully posted : ' on battery knowledge, drop ; in and see us. Ask us for I booklet “Your Electrical I System and How It Works.’’ | HOLTHOUSE I FIRE-PROOF GARAGE ■ ' We'll he glad to test your 4 battery at any time ■ ITJlard Storage. Bast fries ere for ■ sale Ky car dealers, guraefS and all ' 1 Willard Service Stations and I actory Branches. I: 1 ’ i d Soy? Little t -Sm fvQ "f7 A tnficrc: Willard ? a Batteries I J* S?' ? neve r start I anything ■ I the y cun t Q Ijy 1

i • I Get The Whole Family | Interested In Saving | f" THS the 1917 CHRISTMAS CLUB I ? CTf! of the j SgY FIRST NATIONAL BANIS I -Wil Can Be a Family Affair , A W*- Brother John will want something expensive and “classy.” Sister | Mary a new set of furs—maybe 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’ll join the k improved Christmas Club now and start with the rest. W zf*"! > Whatever you want is coming your way next Christmas, lhe whole / family will be fairly bubbling over with the Christmas joys that only a full X pocketbook can bring. .... I Take Out as Many Memberships as You Like H Choose from these six classes, if you start with 5c and add 5c more I each week to your last amount you receive $63.75 or if you prefer start g with $2.50 and pay 5c less each week, g | * Join the IMPROVED Club I b 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 whole lamE ’ty interested in saving. Let them help earn the Christmas money and appredate its true worth. Make next Christmas a glorious one. .loin tonight V* or tomorrow. | JfX JOHN TODAY I CLASS 2 CLASS 5 . . Ascending, starts with 2c and gels $25.50. Ascending, begins with 5c and is rewarded : CLASS 2 A w ’th $63.75. Descending begins with SI.OO and draws CLASS 5 A $25.50. Descending, first pays $2.50 then 5c less I CLASS 50 each week and receives $63.75. Pays 50c a week and receives $25.00. CLASS 100 CLASS 25 Pays SI.OO per week at the end of 50 weeks Pays 25c a week and receives $12.50. receives $50.00.

B THE OFFICERS I AND BOARD OF i H I DIRECTORS OF £ I I ii | OLD ADAMS j! 3 COUNTY BANK) l ——l I I H Extend to all a Happy New y H Year, with hopes that the :: I New Year may bring yon H a full measure of prosper- J ity- I n PUBLIC SALE. An 1 have sold my farm. 1 will offer at public sale at my residence, 5 miles south of Decatur, miles west, 1% miles seast of Honduras, on Thursday, January. 4. 1917, the following property, tpwft, sale beginning at 10 a. m.: Horses: Good work mare. Four head of rattle: Good milk cow, fresh Nov. 25; 2 yearling heifers, spring calf. Hogs: O. I. brood sow. will farrow in April; 7 shouts, weighing 50 to 100 lbs. each. Farming Implements: Binder, mower, Thomas hay rake. Thomas hay tedder, wagon, carriage, riding corn plow, disc harrow, pair of bobsleds, set of work harness, fanning mill, grain cradle, soft coal burner, good as new; some coni fodder in shocks. Other articles too numerous to mention. WM. L. BREINER. J. N. Burkhead. Auct. Jas. Brown. Clerk. Lunch will be served bv the Ladeis’ Aid. 19-27-jan-2-3 MOOSE DANCE THURSDAY. The regular Thursday night dance will be held this week as usual, at the . Moose hall. Don’t forget it or you forget an enjoyable occasion. These events are popular because every one who attends has a happy evening. Forget your cares and join the crowd. 277t3w-tf —■« ■■ ■ — 1 ■ O ■■ l ■»-- — ■■ THE WATKINS MAN. Customers desiring Watkins remedies may obtain same by calling at Whines shoe store. 30It* C. R. DUNN. 1

1017 Wflff’, 1017 A V X I SAVINGS 1 V I I REMEMBER It’s not how much you pile up, but it’s how will you handle what you get, that counts. Success in small things will lead to success in bigger things. Every small victory brings an opportunity for a more important one—facts of supreme, importance especially for all who are “Out to Win”. Join the Thrift Christmas Club while you have the chance. A few more days to enroll “The Thrift Way.” ...THE... PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST CO.

PLENTY OF a PER CtNT MONEY. Partial payments any time, without waiting for interest pay day. l2otf ERWIN OFFICII. NOTICE T<rFARMERS. We will pay the highest cash price for beef hides at the packing house. 2«2tf HOOSIER PACKING CO. $100,000.00 to loan on 20-year time, without commission. Payment before maturity allowed. Erwin's Office. 308t12 o— TO SETTLE ESTATE. Must sell 120 acres by February 1.

. fair buildings, stone road, o miles of I Decatur; S9O per acre.—Erwin’s Office. 3o#ti2 ; e .. .. ... NOTICE. In calling to settle for work done i in the past, you will find the undersigned at Ollie Heller’s shop on So.' First street. 299t12 J. A. BLEW, HOUSE WANTED—I would like to rent on satisfactory lease a modem house in Decatur. Will appreciate any information concerning same within the next week er two. — W. A”. KLEI’PER, Care Adams Co. Cream ery. 309t6