Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1917 — Page 3

White IfIZ Is Right M f We arc selling scads vi®'' \ ot this high top White \ Shoe. The white uppers are made of shoe Zv X \ cloth, a cloth made pur- v yr J pose for footwear. The A’/*' / heels are covered Louis JW'* and the soles thin edg- »**■■> X r ' ed. Both high and low ff* / / /fl heels in this number at ® ■ $3.50 hb ih« Arch Charlie Voglewede Sells A Lot Os Them

IVQBKX®cxJEDaoac<xßoa<xxsr. • x WEATHER FORECAST I K ssecxxxxx;suas£33jj22H^xKS4 : .: Indiana—Probably showers and thunder storms'tonight and Saturday; cooler in northeast portion tonight. Will Helm went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Miss Vera Hower spent yesterday afternoon in Monroe. Mrs. John (Haney and daughter, I • Nedra, spent yesterday afternoon in Berne. Peter Bolinger and Herby Kern made a pleasure trip to Bluffton yesI terday. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Ayres of Berne changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne. George Squier of Kirkland township was in Ifecatur yesterday on business. Mrs. A. Votaw of Mt. Carmel, 111., arrived yesterday afternoon for a vis-j it with her niece. Mrs. Emerson Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McCrory and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Miller motored to Fort Wayne today, to attend the circus. Mrs. H. M. Roml.erg and daughter, Columbia, and Miss Weber, of Fo"t Wayne, were here on business yesterday. Mrs. J. E. Nickey returned yesttrday afternoon to Buffalo, N. ¥.. after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. Mary Christen. Miss Georgia Butcher returned to her work in Fort Wayne after a visit here with Mrs. John Burkhead o:> South Eleventh street, over Memorial day.

The Home of Quality Groceries Fancv Sweet Peas, can, nothing better in quality and price :...12'/ 2 and 15c Fancy Corn 15c and 18c Black Raspberries, solid pack, in syrup, can 15e Choice California Apricots, can .. .■ 15c Yellow California Peaches, can , . ,15c Red Pitted Cherries, solid pack, can 15c Evaporated Peaches, lb 12'/ 2 and 15c Santa Clara Prunes, the rich, juicy kind, 1b... 12|/ 2 and 15c We pay cash or trade for produce, Egp 340 Butter 25c to 32c M. E. HOWER North of G. It * I- Depot ’ |,| '°" c 10S I THE I I"WHITE STAG"! | EXTRA MILD CIGAR I This rich, smooth, mellow-smoke slips under K H your equator with a noiseless thud and your I H tongue telegraphs the smoke joy from pole to L g| P°l c ’ Try them a while and smile.

|| Roy Enos was a business visitor in ! Geneva yesterday evening. I Mrs. Jacob Buhler who has been ill I is better but is still bedfast. • Janies Fisher spent Wednesday in . Fort Wayne ami Decatur. —Huntington Herald. Mr. and Mrs. Sim Fordyce went to . Rome City yesterday afternoon to their cottage. Mrs. Joe Helm went to Richmond yesterday afternoon for a visit with her daughter. i Miss Hallie Leonard left yesterday morning for a two week's visit with friends and relatives at Frankfort and Thorntown. Mrs. Anna Laman of Battle Creek. Mich., is here for a several days' visit, attending to business and pleasure at tlfe same time. The Misses Bessie and Myrtle Wilder and Helen Fonner of Monmouth were in this city yesterday afternoon visiting with friends. j Miss Victoria Stone returned yesterday noon to Chicago after si •■nd- [ lug Memorial day here. She was the guest of Mrs. Noah Mangold. Postmaster J. W. Bosse has received the annual call for harvest hinds for western countries -Oklahoma where the wheat harvest begins about June 8 and Kansas where it begins about June 15. He has the bulletins at the postoffice for further information. Miss Sadie Barger, of Magley. former local telephone operator, has returned from Indianapolis, where die took a three months’ specialists’ course in nursing. She expects to go to Fort Wayne Monday to see about taking a special course there. —Bluffton News.

G. E Roop of Geneva was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Otto Keifer motored to Celina and other neighboring towns yesterday. Wayne Beavers and Adrian Lenhart went to Fort Wayne this morning to apply for a position ut the Lights. Mrs. Will Schuhmaker and children went to Fort Wayne yesterday afletnoon for a visit with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. 8, B. Fordyce went to Rome City yesterday afternoon to spend a few weeks visiting with the Charles Teeplo family. County Recorder and Mrs. A. C. Augsburgor returned from Berne where they spent Memorial Day with her father, Jacob Wulllman and othi r relatives. Mrs. Arthur Mangold and daughter, Helen, and sister. Miss Frank Rad<niaer went to Fort Wayne for a visit with the C. Rademaker family and tc attend the circus. Miss Jessie Magley of this oft're took In the Wallace-Hagenbeck circus at Fort Wayne today and she don t have to write a tiling about it. an unusual event for newspaper people and one occasionally enjoyed. Tell Binkley starts fer Californy in

, his” auto t’morrow, an’ he’s tryin’ t’ find a wet an’ dry map o’ th' western states. Th' honeymoon ends when th’ bride decides t’ visit her mother a week longer.—Abe Martin in tile Indianapolis News. Adatns county is far behind in tak Ing her share of Liberty bonds, ft being figured that our aiiottment accor.ting to our deposits is more than S3OU,00b. The bonds are as good as yoni government, i>ay 3 1-2 per cent, interest, are nbn taxable —a good place to put your spare cash. Mrs. Barney Meyers and daughter. Mrs. Clem Hake have returned from a two weeks’ visit with their son and brother. Lenus Meyers at Campbell, Mo. They report a most pleasant visit and say Lenus is getting along nicely in his western home. They brought along a sample of the wheat from his farm, the stocks five feet high and well headed out. Lenus has out thirtyfive acres of wheat. Samples are shown in our window’. Rufus Franks of Portland. Ore . who has been visiting his parents at Bluffton for two weeks past came over Tuesday for a visit with his cousins, George and Charles Steele and other relatives. Rufus wont west elev< n yeaiS ago and has made good, now Icing the owner of a high class grocery store in the western city. He cxpecia to return to Portland, leaving next week. He was born in Hartford township and for many years worked along the Adams-Wells county line. Employes of the Waring Glove factory, of this city, havd volunteered to hem the khaki arm bands, which will be placed upon all men who register next Tuesday. The material is being purchased and cut by severs 1 oi the women's organizations of the town, and the Waring Co. has donated the use of its machines and thread. Details of the Monday night program are practically complete and will bo announced by the week end. Rochester Sentinel. Manager Parent of the, Crystal theater is now able to announce definitely that he will present Lois Meredith, in the Pathe Gold Rooster play, “Sold at Auction” today. This picture was made in the California sunshine of the Balboa studio at Laid? Beach. The author is Daniel F. Whi;comb and the director is Sherwood MacDonald. The story is one of p>rticular appeal to women. While rich in dramatic moments, the story has been very carefully handled and it -is not likely to offend good taste.

Gold Medal Flour A car load of Genuine Washburn-Crosby’s Gold Medal Flour on the road, which we will sell while it lasts at Barrel $14.50 Half Barrel 7.25 19 lb. Sack 3.70 24*4 tt>- Sack 1-85 Car here in a few days. Only one car to sell at this price. Orders are coming in fast. Telephone your order at once or you may be too late. A large supply of this flour will always be on hand. GOLD MEDAL FLOUR always. Don’t forget. EVENTUALLY—Why not now? Indiana Board & Filler Co. Decatur, Indiana ’Phone 116

Miss Kittle Fought went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to attend the circus. Miss Merle Poling ot Pleas, mt Mills was a business caller in this city today. Herman Miller went to Fort Wayne this morning to apply for a position at the electric plant. Mr. and Mrs. 8. E. Hite and family motored to Fort Wayne this inornhiii to attend the circut. Mr Krum, night clerk at the Murray hotel, went to Hluffton this morning to attend to Ids school work. Mrs. Nettie Roop went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend to business affairs and see the circus. Yager Bros, and Reinking today delivered a handsome piano to the John Johnson home south west of Monroe. Ivan Baker and Charles Zimmermann went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the Wallace-Hagenbeck circus. Raymond Keller of Monroe passed i through this city this morning enroute to Fort Wayne to attend the circus. Mrs. Dan Vail and daughter. Mary .lamise, went to Fort Wayne this morning to see the circus held there today. J. B. Kaiver of Chicago will arrive in the city tomorrow to spend a few days with his brother, I. A. Kaiver, and family. Jim Niblick and grandson, Billy Holthouse went to Fort Wayne tins morning to attend the HagenbeckWallace Circus. J. 11. Schug returned home (hi aft ernoon to spent Sunday' with hi: family. afier covering his route for the Richmond Hardware Co. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Vail, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Vail, Mrs. Dan Vail and Mrs. John Rice motored to Ft. Wayirtoday to attend the circus. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Obcnaucr have arrived from their winter in Florida tor a several weeks' visit with re' .- tives here. They are guests at lite Burton Niblick home. Ruth Hammejl and Mary Patton returned this morning from Rome City where they had been at the bedside ot Mrs. C. B. -Smith at the Kneipp sanitarium. Plans are being made to move Mrs. Smith to the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne. If her condition war rants the change the trip will prob i bly be made today. The old fountain on the.court hous<corner has been torn down and the hole is to be filled up. Last year the iron boy that stood in the middle of it was removed and the I,owl planted in flowers, but this was pronounced as a nuisance and in the way so it was torn down. As soon as the hole is filled up a cement walk will be built over the site of the old landmatk. - o 7 —ri Democrat Want Ads Pay

*4.* + + + + + * + * + * + ;+ FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU + + ' * + Is there any farmer needing + <• help on his farm? + Is there any manufacturer + + needing help at his factory? + Have all the contractors all + * the help they need? 4. Are there any men, women, + girls or boys in this vicinity in + + need of work? + We have opened a free em- + ployment bureau at the city haft + 4- and have put R. G. Christen, of * 4i the electric department in 4> charge. Any one wanting work + 4- or any one needing help should + 4> file an application there and we * 4- will try and help them. + 4- CHAS. N. CHRISTEN, + Mayor, + 4.4.4.4.4-* + ** + ’*’ + *’ i ’

Economy g- Economy is not the low price that buys a car. R Economy is the low cost that ketjfc it. The minimum maintenance expense of the Chevrolet has excited public comment time and * again. You are assured of economy for economy i ,mr Nm. t> has been built into this car. This consideration «t'e“t r'i" ■■ has been uppermost in the minds of the builders, -j '‘a f 'NinetyTouring- Car, fitM ted with all K A car correctly built is easily kept. This means *72 by to ?j r a,mfl that it must be of light weight, and of lasting con- ’J;,'A 1 ' r a as a o yal Mail liu KX struction. Roadster, fully M equipped, |X(HI. Bi Su • Chevrolet eight M You will find these points in the Chevrolet. ’' For this reason, you will, also, lind it an econom- nr”*™ ~ ‘"7 ,'J ■ g!? ical car to keep. It is never a burden. We have Ts'' lin lii' 'p>hVs E& seen to that. And we have made sure of it. F. b. b. Flint. | ROY BROTHERS | 116-118 No. First St*. ’ Decatur, Indiana "Phone 763 fl FACTORIES: New York City, Tarrytown-on-Hudson; Flint, Mich.; Saint Louis, Mo.; Oakland, Cal., Oshawa, Canada; Fort Worth, Texas ifer * fcawLU *

VOTH 1: TO MIX -hi:sii»i:vts. The State ■of Indiana, Adams County, in the Adams Circuit Court, April Term, t»l7. Co„ a corporation, vs. Elsworth H, Carter. On notes and in attachment. it appearing from, affidavit filed in flu entitled cause, that iSlsworih 11. Carter, the above named defendant. is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hercdjy given the said Elsworth 11. Carter that he he and appe.,r before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the 3rd day of September. 1917, the same being the fust juridical day of the next rgeular term thereof, to be holden at the court house in the Ctiy of I>ecatifr, commencing on Monday, the 3rd day x»f September, A. I>., 1917, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, nr the same will be heard, and determined in his absence. Witness my name ami the seal of said court hereto affixed, this L’ith day of May, 1917. (Seal) WILL HAMMELL, Clerk. By John T. Kelly, Deputy. Hooper & Lenhart, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 25-1-8 ' ■ o Mrs. Fred Linn and sons. Bill and Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hitand family motored to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the circus.

2,000,000,000 United States Government Bonds 3/ Per Cent Liberty Loan These bonds will be issued June 15, in denominations of $50.00, SIOO.OO, $500.00 and up, I will be made payable in installments, are free from all taxes except inheritance tax, convertible into any higher rate bonds at par issued during the war. Additional particulars furnished by the undersigned whose services are freely offered for making subscriptions and attending to the details Liberty Loan Committee I FIRST NATIONAL BANK I I OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK I | THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST CO. |

| WHAT WILL YOU GIVE THE BRIDE? I A kiss perhaps if you are lucky, but you will also I want lo make a suitable gift. Our stock this year is more I elaborate than ever, ami our prices are moderate, because a we bought opportunely. - The bridal gift should be appropriate, substantial, I and dignified; we have kept this in mind. Our display of I Silverware Rings I Cut Glass Ea Vallieres I Clocks Pearls < ? Diamonds I \\ ill interest you. Our name stands for value and relia- | I bility. i PUMPHREY’S JEWELRY STORE | THE HALLMARK STORE I