Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1917 — Page 3

JULY FOURTH Make it the Fashion Day of summer. i \”. u !” av no Prettier honor on this great day, the (lay ot independence, than making it a real dress up occasion. . * J’ as never been regarded as woman's duty to add to ne M'auty and festivity of any occasion by her holiday atii e. Ami surely there never was a time when appreciation of our glorious inheritance of liberty should be so evitient as now. Ladies, do your bit, but make this Fourth the best ever. I or your footwear you will find us prepared to help you hs always. • Jjidies' White Shoes, High Heel $3.50 Ladies’ White Shoes, Low Heel $3.00 Ladies’ White Shoes. Low Heel $2.50 Ladies’ White Oxfords, High Heel $2.50 Ladies’ White Oxfords, Low Heel .... .$2-00 Charlie Voglewede Sells A Lot Os Them

WEATHER FORECAST I KXKTO3CC C'SiasiErjESISEnEJCSJ' A Fair tonight and Wednesday; little change in temperature. 1 . VV. Smith returned this afternoon tu Richmond after a visit here. Mrs. Philip Luley spent a short time in I’ort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Judge D. E. Smith returned yesterday afternoon to join his family at Rome City. The Misses Esther Pennington and Ruth Zerkel motored to Pleasant Mills to attend the flag raising Sunday. Mrs. Ernest Steele and children, ot Griffith, are here for a visit with the H. V. Steele and George Chronister families. Mrs. Huldah Loser Weimer, trainid nurse, has returned to Fort Wayne. She was in charge of Mrs. Fred Mutchler. Dr. A. D. Hickman, of Hammond, w ill come today to join his wife and son at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele. Mrs. Theodore S< hunim and son, Theodore, passed through the city yesterday afternoon enroute to Fort Wayne after visit at Schumm, O. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Beavers and family. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Black, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parrish ad family motored to Fort Wayne yesterday to spend the afternoon at Robinson park. We’ve often wondered if it wuzn’ a groat experience for a mother t’ eat at. a hotel an git waited on. Emblematic watch charms don’t git th’ business like they used to.—Abe Martin in Indianapolis News.

The Home of Quality Groceries I m muHMMguMumnuiujtjjiiML l .X.--U 1 iiiinum—l'wmuinTMWin—ir~ Lunch Set—Table Cloth. Napkins and Plates 10c Sour Picklesand Chow Chow in bottles 10c Sweet Pickles. Mason pint jars 15c • Sweet Sliced Pickles, large jar 25c Peanut Butter in glass 10c and 2ac Ripe Olives, can • • • 1'2 C Stuffed Olives 10c to 25c Plain Olives 10c, 15c, 2oc and 3 c Pure Fruit Jelly, large glasses • • • • • • Pure Fruit Preserves 1 )C and -;>c Enterprise Flour, 21 lb sack >I.OO We pay cash or trade for produce, Egga 28c Butter 25c to 30c M. E. HOWER .North of G. R. & I- Depot ’ l>hon il2LYoti can teach a parrot to say "JUST AS g I GOOD,” hut he won’t know what he is talking || ■ about. || || Ask for the E | "WHITE STAG"! I THERE IS NOTHING “JUST AS GOOD” I I Five Cents I I Any I’laee I

I The regular meeting of the city council will be held this evening. Dr. E. G. Coverdale made a business I trip to Indianapolis this morning. Andrew I). Artman went to Celina, 0.. today on business for the Schafer Hardware Company. Henry Sprunger and Leo Weber motored to Willshire this morning to attend to business affairs there. Bob and Tonk Meibers motored to Rome City this morning to sftend the Fourth at their cottage there. Mrs. Nettie Vaughn and daughter, Ethel, of foe, were guests from Friday until Sunday, of the Jesse Gil bert family. Harry Brock and family, of Huntington. who were enroute to Columbus, 0., stopped here for a short visit Sunday wth his uncle, B. W. Sholty and family. County Recorder and Mrs. Aaron Augsburger left tills afternoon for Berne to spend the Fourth. A Sunday school picnic is a big feature if the Berne celebration. County Auditor John Mosure will go to French townsip tonight to his farm to accompany home Mrs. Mosure who has spent a week there with her daughter, canning cherries. One good thing about a city is that you don't have t’ Jook at th’ same leadin’ citizen all th’ time. It strikes us that th’ modern little girl don’t play with dolls long enough.—Aoe Martin in Indianapolis News. State Entomologist Wallace warns all persons who highly prize maple trees for shade that unless they wash the trees with water within the next few days, the cottony maple blight will have such a start that spraying will be imperative.

I William Hoffman went to Fort Wayne today. H. M. DeVoss has returned from a business trip to Indianapolis and Fort Harrison. Mrs. Grover Odle and children, of Carthage, motored here to spend the Fourth with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lew Reynolds. The Misses Hallie and Gladys Flanders motored to VanW -.t yesterday to spend the afternoon with friends. Mr. and ,Mrs. Will Meyers and Mr. and Mrs. Harve Butler motored to Lake James this morning to upend the Fourth there with friends. Mrs. Dora Reynolds and children. Noble and Corrine, left this morning for ,'auluhig. u., to visit with iter patents, Mr. and Mrs. Ode McClish. Mrs. G. B. Jones ot Granville. 0.. arrived here Sunday. She will remain here with her husband, who is making a soil survey of the county. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Merryman and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Orval liarruff will motor to Celina tomorrow to spend the Fourth there, trying their luck at fishing. C. B. Smith returned to Detroit Sunday evening after a visit here with Mrs. Smith, who is still confined to her bed at the hope of her mother. Mrs. Sarah Hammell. Mrs. Charles Cooper and daughter. Maude, of Carthage. Ind . stopped off here yesterday for a short visit with friends enroute to Holland, Mich., t > spend a few days there with relatives. Miss Rosa Hager left for St. Louis Mo., to visit with a sister, Mrs. M. E. Bushore for two weeks. From there she will go to Effingham, 111., for a visit with another sister, Mrs. J. B. Sumner.

The regular meeting and luncheon of the Decatur Rotary cluJt will he held this evening at the Madison hotel. All members are requested to be present. The meeting will be at six forty-five o’clock. Enjoy the outing at Steele's park tomorrow. There will be hundreds of amusements for Doth young and old and a jolly good time is assured everyone. Hon. Claude Bowers, of Eort Wayne, will speak in the afternoon. Bring your basket and spend the day. The city of Atlanta, Ga„ where fifty blocks of homes were swept clean byfire a few weeks ago, due largely to wooden shingles, is planning wisely to rebuild. The burned area is to be laid out in home sites, parks, boulevards and in every way is to be made more attractive than formerly. Realty values will be enhanced, decent homes will replace shacks. It is better to lock the barn after the horse is gone than never to lock it at all. One can at least save the cow and the hayrake. Indiana’s fire loss for April amounted to $328.019 —a decrease of almost one million dollars from the loss in March. This remarkable decrease can be attributed largely to the fact that there were practically no very large individual losses during the month, whereas in March there wore six losses of over $50,000 each, totaling $042,000. There were two elevator fires during April, and only one school house fire, as compared

with nine for March. Seventy-nine barns were burned during the month. Lightning caused the destruction of fourteen buildings, entailing a loss of $19,235. Os the buildings destroyed, thirteen were barns, and one dwelling, none of which were equipped with lightning rods. Incendiaries became very active during April, as shown by the sixteen fires reported from this cause, compared with eight in March. The loss from these sixteen fires amounted to $19,075. The menace of the shingle roof continues to make its presence felt, with a loss of $49,383 for April, as against a loss of $52,521 charged to the wooden shingle in March. Dr. C. R. Baumgartner of Arcola left for Indianapolis this morning to (take the U. S. veterinary examination. He has been visiting here since Sunday with friends and relatives. /'A plan of marking highway routes throughout the state under the supervision of the Hoosier State Automobile association as a guide to automobile wayfarers was approved yesterday at the annual meeting of the association at the Claypool hotel. The

system will consist of poles marked' with danger signs where needed. It includes the painting of the last three poles before a turn is made and the similar treatment of the first three poles after the turn, and placing on each of the poles before the turn the letter “R" or “L,” indicating tn the motorist w-hether the road turns to the right or to the left. The propos-1 al has been discussed by members of the club and by individual motorists ffir several months, but yesterday was the first time it has been formally adopted by the organization. A G. Lupt.in of Hartford City, president of the association; M. M. Luecke of Ft. Wayne, first vice president, and M. E. Noblet. secretary, were named a committee to work out the system.

Mr, and Mrs. W G. Kist went to Fort W.tiyne today on business. Mrs. J. C. Archbold and Miss Etta Rinehart spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne. Miss Jane Long, of Bluffton, will be the guest of Miss Frances Mougey over tl>e Fourth. Misses Hazel Schnitz and Blanche Biggs will spend the Fourth in Rome City with friends. G. T. Burk left this morning for St. Charles, La., tor a ten days’ visit and business trip. Attorney D. B. Erwin has return ed from Indianapolis where ho attended to business. Frank Reed spent Sunday with his parents at Claypool. He is with the Alto Products Company. Fred Elzey, of the Fisher & Harris grocery store, is spending a week's vacation at Hamilton Lake. Jesse Niblick and Oscar Hoffman motored to Portland this morning to attend to business affairs there. Mrs. Clyde Beery and Miss Mabel Beery went to Peterson this morning to spend the Fourth at the latter’s home. The banks will be closed tomorrow. Practically every business house in tlje city will be closed in observance of the Fourth. Mrs. William Werling and son, Bill. Jr., returned to Bluffton this morning after spending a few days in this city with her parents. Work is progressing very rapidly on the Third street improvement. The street has been excavated to the Madison street crossing. Mrs. S. J. Oliver of near Tulsa. Oklahoma, who is here to spend the summer, went to Fort Wayne this morning for a visit with relatives. An ice cream social will be given Wednesday evening at the West Ward school building. You are invited to attend. The affair will be given on the campus grounds. This week is “Buy a Car Week” and is being observed by the incrasing of the automobile sales. Buy your car and apply for the license at the office of the Daily Democrat. Mrs. Dick Roop has gone to Union City to visit with her daughter. Mrs. Joe Linn. From there she will go to Marion to visit with a cousin and later to Anderson, to be the guest of Mr. Roop's sister. Mrs. Ed Murray. Bob and Tonk Meibess will motor to Rome City to spend the Fourth and will be accompanied home by their parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Meibers, and their aunt. Mrs. Anna Droppieman, who have been at their cottage there.

LARGER ATTENDANCE

“The atcndance in the high schools should be Increased, and more boys and girls should be induced to remain until their course is completed. A school year of four terms of twelve weeks each is recognized for the high schools, as for the elementaryschools. In the high schools adopting this plan arrangements should be made for half time attendance, according to the Fitchburg, Cincinnati, and Spartanburg. S. C., plans, for a large proportion of pupils as potsible. All laboratories and manual training shops in high schools should be run at their full capacity. In many of the shops work should be done which will have immediate value for the national defense. In all high' schools in which domestic science (sewing, cooking, sanitation, etc.), is taught, large units of time should be given in the summer and fall to sewing for the Red Cross and for local charities. Classes for grown-up women should be formed in which practical instruction can be given largely by lecture and demonstration in the conservation and economic use of food.”

RINGLING DAY ALMOST HERE The big event for which the youngsters and grownups have been impatiently waiting is drawing near, for >n Thursday, July 12. Ringling Brothers’ circus is to exhibit afternoon an 1 night in Fort Wayne. Expectancy never ran so high before and it is j likely that this district will send a large delegation to feed the elephants, Unusual interest centers around the gigantic spectacle. “Cinderella," with which the famous showmen are this season opening their wonderful main ' tent program. "Cinderella” is probably the best loved of all fairy tales* and to see it produced with more than 1090 persons, hundreds of dancing girls and glorious pageants, indeed gives promise of making “childhood's golden dreams come true." In tlic same great tent, will come the mar- | velous circus numbers in which 490 men and women performers, scores of trained animels and a galaxy of special features are introducted. The majority of the acts are entirely new to' Aiucrica. the Ringling Bros, having secured the pick of all European performers who have been obliged to seek eiigagtynents in this country. Ihe all-new street parade will Itjke place shop day morning.

J* Those Who Care for something a little different, something NEW AND EXCLUSIVE, will find it by coming to us. Our FURNITURE gives any home a refined, city air, which is hard to obtain outside of the city stores. Come in and see us. You are always welcome, whether you wish to buy or not. Gay, Zwick & Myers Furniture amd Undertaking MAYR’S Wonderful Remedy for STOMACH TROUBLE Onse dose convinces. The Holthouse Drug Co. and other reliable druggists.

Boschee’s German Syrup Why use ordinary cough remedies, when Boschee’s German Syrup has been used so successfully for fifty-one years in all parts of the United States for coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the throat, especially lung troubles. It gives the patient a good night’s rest, free from coughing, with easy expectoration in the morning, gives nature a chance to soothe the inflamed parts, throw off the disease, helping the patient to regain his health. 25 and 75 cent bottles. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk. —Advt. Howto Regulate High Blood Pressure. Take San Yak. It prevents a boney like hardening of the arteries at ages past 50 years. Dr. Burnham’s Sen Yak is the sure way to prevent Paralysis and Apoplexy. In its use you have prevented or cured bladder and kidney trouble. It is the greatest in use to prevent the clumsy stiff joints and muscles and for Neuritis or Rheumatism and Constipation. It has no parallel tor quality and results. HIRAM SHOWALTER x - of Angola, Ind. I suffered greatly for several years with bladder weakness and I am willing for the public good to let any one know that eight bottles of San Yak cured me. I find that a dose at times keeps my muscles from getting stiff and clumsy, and I surely feel fine. J. B. WARDEN of Angola, Ind Has this to say of San Yak: I have been troubled several years with heart and stomach trouble. San Yak has squared me away and I believe it would da the same for others if they would try it. I surely feel fine. GEO. SLACK of Angola, Ind. Says this for San Yak: I have had kidney trouble and rheumatism for six years. San Yak squared me away, and I can work without fatigue or the all in symptoms. 1 surely can boost for San Yak. E. L. THOMAS of Angola, Ind. Says of San Yak: I was surely bad off for several years with bladder and kidney weakness. I had tried doctors and medicines so much I had no faith in anybody. I was persuaded to try San Yak and let me tell you it is the right stuff for kidney and bladder trouble. JOHN BAKER AND WIFE of Laketon, Ind. Say. We are very old people and have Teen badly afflicted, and in trying out the San Yak we have found it to be a fine tonic and a wonderful reguallor for the bowels and stomach. F. H. LAMB Proprietor Lamb Hotel, Antwerp, Ohio. I suffeted the tortues front tuberculosis of the bowels eleven years with shattered aer.es and no health. Three bottles of San Yak cured me tv-0 years ago, and you are free to use this letter for the benefit it may be to others. DORY KING, of North Manchester, Ind. Says of San Yak: I wish I had the time to go and recommend San Yak to all who have stomach trouble. San Yak is a world beater for the stomach. We call tell you of more cures in Decatur. Sold by SMITH, YAGER & FALK DKCATI’H. INDIAN*

EVENTUALLY— Gold Medal Flour Why not now? We still have a few barrels of GOLD MEDAL FLOUR which we will sell while it lasts at Barrel $14.00 Half Barrel 7.00 19 lb. Sack 3.50 24*4 lb. Sack 1.75 I Indiana Board & Filler Co. Decatur, Indiana ’Phone 116 MIDDLINGS AND BRAnI EXTRA QUALITY I TRY THEM DON’T SELL YOUR WOOL UNTIL I YOU CALL US. | BURK ELEVATOR CO. ! VW Vlfr. ’ KJ' h k' otial B ank— B- ! achievement of modern finance—to greatest of a Great Govennneid W lea Great People—literalor &in the S ® j LujaLoo of general financial stress Fl \ — is al tout service oiikfliru channels _ 1 /pk.of&cNATJONALIWN^-'AA FIRST NATIONAL BAN W DECATUR., INDIANA Wi

GOOD PROPERTY BARGAIN. 1 am offering for sale the property on South Winchester street, known as the Park hotel. It is a valuable property and one that can be made

Buy Shoes At The Old Price Do you know that when you can buy !• lorsheim Low Shoes at $5.00 a pair or Thompson Bros.’ Low Shoes at $4.00 a pair, that you arc more than getting the worth of your money.’ But you can buy them at these prices as long as they last. We also have a nice assortment ol W hite and Palm Beach Oxfords at $3.50. We would not be able to sell these at the prices named, but We bought them before the advance in prices. The Shoe Store On the Square C. H. ELZEY OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE

a splendid money maker. It’s a real bargain for some one. If interested see Mrs. D. W. Myers. 121tf j DEMOCRAIWA.NT ADS PAY BIG.