Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1917 — Page 3

Next Monday and Tuesday i \z Prof. Mitchell, a iloot specialist, from Chicago, will be at our store. Every one having any foot troubles is invited to consult him free of charge. Charlie Voglewede Sells A Lot Os Them

| WEATHER FORECAST jj Probably showers tonight and Friday ; cooler tonight north portion. Mrs. Janies Ernst went to Ft. Wayne this morning. Mrs. A. Kohne spent the day in Fort Wayne on business. Mrs. Lawrence E. Archbold left for Lafayette yesterday afternoon for a visit. Miss Arvilla Hendricks returned yesterday afternoon from Portland where site visited with relatives. Miss Marcella Kuebler left today for Fort Wayne to enter the Sacred Heart academy for her third year. Miss Martha Hossman of Fort Wayne went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon where she will take a case of nursing. Miss Tillie Weis left on the 3:22 train yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne to visit with her sister, Mrs. Janies Spade. Mrs. Charles Teeple and daughter, Alta, returned yesterday from Rome City where they spent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Sim Fordyce have remained there. Mrs. Margaret Brokaw and daughter Virginia Anne, who visited here return ed to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. They were accompanied by Miss Lorene Parr who will visit there. Mr. an’ Mrs. Lase Bud have thought some of attendin’ th’ state fair, but they have no relatives in Indynopbis Mr. an’ Mrs. Tipton Bud wish t’ thank all who assisted in th’ marriage o’ ther daughter.—Abe Martin, in Indianapolis News.

The Home of Quality Brocories Hipolite’s Marshmallow Cream makes a perfect Cake Frosting, and the cheapest Whipped Cream you can get, in glass Mason pt. jars 25c Bunte’s White House Cocoa, «/, lb. tins 25c Saxon Wheat Food Life of Wheat 15c Salt Herring, lb U® Jelly Crab Apples, pk 20c Hand Picked Eating Apples, pk 25c Our Famous Pickling Vinegar, gal 25c Ws pay ewh or trade for produce, Egg* 35s Butter 30c to 35a M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I. Depot ’Phone 108 ... I ■■ . ’Course There’s Something in a Name! h It’s all well enough to say there is nothing in I S a name. The saying is a fallacy; names count. H II In cigars the name “WHITE STAG” is a B guarantee that the cigar must satisfy the smok- g ■ er or we will refund his money. I THE I |"WHITE STAG"! a Cigar Co. a

Misses Fay and Naomi Stults spent [ the day in Fort Wayne. [ Miss Margaret Mills has taken a I position as cashier at the RunyonEngeler store. Mrs. C. E. Lhaman and brother. Albert, of Fort Wayne, are here visiting with relatives. Miss Pearl Cline, bookkeeper for a doctor at North Manchester, is here visiting with her parents. Misses Vera and Pearl May went to Hoagland to visit with their sister, Mrs. Dayton Barkley near that place. Mrs. Elvina King and grandson, Fred, motored to Van Wert this morning to attend the fair held there this week. C. Warren Cole, who is now stationed at Grand Rapids, Mich., is home for a visit over Sunday with his parents and other friends. Mrs. William Ramey and son, Ralph, Mrs. John Barnett and son, Harry, and Isaac Lichtensteigpr motored to Van Wert this morning to attend the Van Wert fair held there this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Magley, Mrs. C. D. Lewton and daughter, Eloise, and F. A. Peoples returned last night from a motor trip to Kenton, 0., where they visited with Mrs. Annie E. Magley. Among the visitors at the Van Wert county fair today were, Charles Weber George Colchin, Joe Kortenbrer, Howard Atz, Kadle Meibers, Wilbur Porter Merle Ross, John Debolt and August Sprague. French Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Morris, was operated on at Fort Wayne this morning for the relief of a hernia and as a precaution against a second hernia which it was feared might develop. His condition following the operation was satisfactory—Bluffton News.

Roy Enos attended the Van Wert fair today. Dan Falk was a business visitor In Fort Wayne today. Huber De Voss was a business visitor in Fort Wayne today. Dr. D. D. Clark made a professional trip to Magley this morning. Wm. Deihl made a business trip to Decatur today.—Bluffton Banner. Mrs. Clyde Noble returned home this afternoon after a few days’ visit in Pierceton. Misses Fanchon and Jessie Magley attended the fair at Van Wert, 0., this afternoon. Miss Lottie Stengel returned from Decatur yesterday afternoon after attending the teachers’ institute at that place.—Berne Witness. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Ijehman and son, Bobbie, motored Miss Ida Lehman to Decatur yesterday morning where she took the train for Pandora, Ohio. —Berne Witness.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ford and son, Arthur, Jr., and Mabie and Alton Hower have returned home from a several days’ motor trip to Muncie, visiting with friends and relatives. Miss Virginia Cravens, the English teacher at the Decatur high school, has arrived in this city to resume her duties after spending her summer vacation at her home in Hardinsburg, Ind. Miss Anne Rackstraw has returned to this city to resume her work as the music and art teacher at the Decatur high school after spending her summer vacation at her home in Bay City, Mich. Howard Atz has returned home from Akron where he is employed, for a short visit with his parents and other friends. Bill Rooks, of Akron, returned to this city for a short visit with him. Miss Lillian Gerard returned to her home in Fort Wayne last evening after spending the day in this city. She came down to see her brother, Lawrence. off for Fort Harrison with the other members of company A. Mr. and Mrs. Elzey and family, of Ossian, and Bill Linn, of this city, have returned home from a one w’eek’s motor trip through the east visiting with friends and relatives at Niagara Falls, Buffalo and other places. Mrs. Alma Hixon and son, Howard, visited at Hartford City, Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark. Howard Hixon left this morning for Indianapolis with the members of Company A, from Decatur.—Bluffton News. Robert Grove, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dowe Grove, has been transferred from Ft. Monroe, Ga., to Ft. Wheelen, Ga.. and expects to be sent to France soon. He is -with a hospital unit and is greatly pleased with the army life. —Bluffton Banner. Homer H. Knodle, a chalk talker of Decatur, was in the city yesterday afternon arranging a date for an entertainment here at one of the

church auditoriums, the proceeds of the entertainment to be devoted to charitable purposes.— Fort Wayne . Journal-Gazette. Gerard Wayne Liggett, fifteen-' months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray] Liggett, was drowned in a bucket of j the home of the parents, one and onehalf miles south of Bryant, Tuesday j forenoon at about nine o’clock. The child was dead when found by the mother. —Portland Sun. Robert Cummins and A. R. Huyette were runners-up into the finals of the big tennis tournament held at Hunt-| ington, Day, a Fort Wayne' team being the winning players. Cum-, mins and Huyette defeated Hite and> Mangold and Weaver and Engeler, -ill of Decatur, in matches and lost in the final round to a Fort Wayne team. Kenneth Huyette and Howard Ullman lost in their first match to Bippus and ( Caswell of Huntington. —Bluffton News. o - 1 Uncle Pennywise Says: I’ve often heard a man offer tn whip another with one hand tied be-1 hind him—but I’ve never seen it tried. —Kansas City Journal. BEULAH CHAPEL PICNIC. The Beulah Chapel Sunday school picnic postponed from August 30 on account of the rain will be SaturayJ September 8, in the Lewis Goldner grove, south of the church. Sunday school superintendents are invited to come and bring their schools and 1 take part in the program. Everybody is invited to come. The ice cream social which was to have been given in the evening has been indefinitely postponed. 205t3 "democratic COMMITTEE Notice is hereby .given that the Democratic City Central committee will meet at the office of the Daily Democrat at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening. September 6th. All members] of committee and all candidates a.e urged to be present. Business of importance. 2t T. J. DURKIN. Chairman.

FOOD CONSERVATION TO HELP WIN WORLD WAR. Washington, D. C„ Sept. 6—"lmportance of food conservation and the value of the work of the soldiers of the soil in winning the world war has never been more startingly stated than by Former Ambassador Gerard in ‘My Four Years in Germany,’ in the Philadelphia Public Ledger," said Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National Emergency Food Garden Commission today. "Here is what he says and well may the people of this country heed the picture he draws of the mighty power of the foe who realizes the value of food:” “ ‘There is far greater danger of the starvation of our allies than of the starvation of the Germans. Every available inch of ground in Germany is cultivated and cultivated by the aid of old men, the boys and women and the 2,000,000 prisoners of war. The arable lands of northern France and of Roumania are being cultivated by the German army with an efficiency never before known in these countries, and most of that food will be added to the food supplies of Germany. Certainly the people suffer; but still more certainly this war will not be ended by the starvation of Germany.’ "That picture of what is being done by the enemy to feed his soldier," Continued Mr. Pack, “is one well worth heeding. Will the people realize it before it is too late? The National Emergency Food Garden Commission has been campaigning for six months for the planting of food gardens. It is now in the midst of a drying and canning campaign which is nation wide. We are offering $5.000 in prizes for the best canned vegetables grown in war gardens. We are distributing the second million of the canning and drying manuals which we are sending free anywhere in the nation. “We are living in a land of plenty, but what of the future with the picture Mr. Gerard paints for us? He says that starvation of Germany will not end the war. Then in the name of democracy for whose world safety we are fighting, I urge the conservation of food on a scale never before known in this country. In other words we must Tight this war by providing enough food for ourselves and for our allies. “Remember this. When the hero of the air comes down from his battle above the clouds he must eat; after the gunner’s trained eye has I left a trail of boiling oil over the stricken submarine he must eat; after your husband or your son goes "over the top’ behind the stars and stripes the mess wagon must come ,along or the next trench will be lost. “But what if there be no mess I wagon ? This is a war of food as ! Gerard well points out. What are you going to do about it? The Nai tional Emergency Food Garden Commission is ready to help you. Send 1 for its food conservation data which 'is free, organize a canning club and 1 plan to exhibit at the war garden fairs that will be held throughout the country, become a soldier of the 1 soil and in the name of democracy, :\the flag and your country, help Uncle Sam to feed a soldier by feeding I yourself.” POTATO '“DONT’S” I 1. Don't injure the selling and stor1 ing quality of your potatoes by careless digging. I 2. Don’t glut the fall market and | injure your winter market by placing large quantities of ungraded stock on the market at harvesting time. | 3. Don’t ship any frost-damaged potatoes. It is disastrous. I 4. Don’t demoralize the already overburdened transportation facilities by shipping cull potatoes. Unless potatoes are extreemely high in price, culls will not bring transportation charges. 5. Don’t overlook the advantages of “machine sizers.” They are proving of great value in many shipping I sections. | 6. Don’t expect machine sizers to grade for quality—only human hands [can grade out the defective, tubers. 7. Don’t mix No. 1 and No. 2 grade potatoes. There are customers who desire each seiiarately, but do not want them mixed. | 8. Don't overlook the potato grades recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Food Administration. | o LABOR UNIONS AID CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. Organized labor throughout the country has been urged to lend its aid in the campaign undertaken by the United States Commissioner of Education to secure the greatest possible school attendance this year. In a letter addressed to state and city labor bodies throughout the United States, ’ Commissioner Claxton says: “For the protection of our boys and girls against unusual temptations to fall into delinquencies of many kinds, and that they may be prepared more fully for the work of life and the du-

FEED THE TROOPS Red Cross Chapters Complete Preparations to Serve Rations IN EMERGENCY CASES To Troops—Given Advance Information of the Soldiers’ Movements. Red Cross chapters in many cities have completed their preparations to serve light refreshments and emergency rations to the troops of the national army who will be travelling to the cantonments today. The Red Cross will co-operate in every way possible with the war department, both in caring for the comfort of troops at mobilization points and at the stations where the troop trains are scheduled to stop, and in supplementing the service of the railroads by having reserves of food ready for use in case of any accident or delay which disarranges the plans for feeding the men enroute. in many places the chapters have actually been doing this during the past week. Their machinery is in running order of the heavier demands which will be made when local quotas of the 200,000 men who will be mobilized during the next few days start to move The Philadelphia chapter has wired Foster Rockwell, Director of Canteen Service, as follows: “Chapter prepared to feed in Philadelphia 1500 troops a day as long as you wish.” In Boston such food supplies us could be stored have been purchased by the local chapter and kept in reserve for nearly a week. All over the country, chapters of the Red Cross, which now number 2400, have marshalled their resources under the direction of the thirteen division managers and have enlisted workers in their refreshment units.

While general plans for the handling of emergencies, in co-operation with the war department, have been made at Red Cross national and division headquarters, the local chapters are charged with the responsibility of discovering just what needs of the troops they can help to meet and of taking appropriate action at once. The war department has authorized railroad officials to give accredited representatives of the chapters the necessary information as to prospective movement of troops in their districts at intervals of twenty-four hours. ties and responsibilities of citizenship, it is of the utmost importance that our schools shall be maintained in full efficiency, both as to attendance and standards of work, during the continuance of the war, and everything possible should be done to increase their efficiency in both respects. “The various labor organizations and their members throughout the country can render most valuable help in this respect. I am therefore appealing to all these organizations to use their influence and to urge their individual members to do all they can to the end that the standards of the schools in the several states and cities shall not be lowered in any way, and that no children of school age shall remain out of school except because of absolute necessity.”

Division to Two-Milo Trench. A division, which Is the largest body known in the organization of the American army, will fully man two miles of trenches. The regulation distance In the manning of a trench is a yard to a man. There are three lines, however, needed to fully man such defenses —the firing line, which is down in the trench, a yard behind each man; the support, which Is back a short distance, and the reserve. Turns Eyes Inside Out. The garden snail's eyes are on the very tips of a pair of very long tentacles and it has an additional pair of shorter tentacles with which it smells. When any danger approaches the eyes are drawn down within the tentacles and the tentacles themselves are pulled Into the body in exactly the same wav as you would pull a glove finger inside out.” Sense of Neatness. “Doesn’t it annoy you to be «/hiig<d to get under your automobile and try to adjust the mechanism?” “No,” replied Mr. Chuggins. “I don’t mind that part of it. But I don't think it’s right for my wife to make me stay there in hiding till dark, so that people can’t see how mussed up I am.” Answers the Purpose. “Your true lover is often st a loss for words.” “But nature makes that up to him by supplying him with an extensive vocabulary of gurgles, sniffles and sighs.”—Louisville CourierJournal.

Temperance Case In North Room Os The Murray Hotel Bright, New and Clean. OPEN NO W A cumpletc line of soft drinks, including “Bevo,” near beer, “That’s It,” pop, ginger ale, appalla, and a dozen others. Also a complete line of cigars and cigarettes. A welcome for every one. Give us a call. MURRAY HOTEL

PUBLIC SALE. We have purchased the DowlingShuey company hardware store at Decatur, Indiana, and find wo have an overstock of several lines of goods—all useful articles —which we will sell at Public Auction on SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1917 at 12:30 o'clock sharp at our store The goods to be sold include Wood, Coal, Laundry, and Cook stoves, Washing Machines, Churns, Wheelbarrows, Post-hole Augurs, Scoop Shovels, Rakes, Forks, Neckyokes, Singletrees, two, three and four-horse Doubletrees, Sugar Kettles, Lanterns, some Baskets, Farm Gates, secondhand heavy buggy Harness, one new Storm buggy, and various other articles not mentioned. Terms of Sale: All sums of $5 and under, cash; all suras over $5, a six months’ time on approved notes, interest at 6 per cent after maturity. A discount of 3 per cent, for cash where entitled to credit. No property to be removed until terms of sale ire complied with. SCOTT & SILCOX, Props. JOHN STAROST, Clerk. JOHN SPULER, Auctioneer. 2t — MOOSE DANCE THURSDAY Beginning Thursday, Sept. 6th. the regular Moose dance and dancing class will open at the Moose hall. Fred Schurger will be in charge, and will give lessons to the, class at seventhirty. Dance will begin at eignt o’clock. Every body invited and the usual good time assured. Come and enjoy the evening. -t

Fitch & Sons HAVE MOVED THEIR BRANCH OFFICE From the People’s Trust Bldg, to Frisinger & Co’s Office. 'Phone 135 or call M. A. Frisinger, ’phone 706, residence. Bargains in farm lands a specialty.

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ATTENTION FARMERS and STOCKMEN JOHN SPUHLER the Live Stock and General Auctioneer, is now ready to book your sale. See him for dates. ’Phone 531. 803 N. sth St. DECATUR, INDIANA A Bear’s Diet. A benr will ent anything from green grass to elk steak. Favorite foods are fish, berries, roots, insect larvae, honey, frogs and all kinds of flsh. ■ Thousands Os Satisfied Users in city, town and '■B*™* U country testify to the W a wonderful efficiency and M a economy of the Caloric % ! Pipeless Furnace. » a We’ve a book of remarkable > a letters written by Caloric owners * I and not in one is there a word of 1 a anything but praise for the Caloric. 1 I We'd like to show you the ■ The Original Patented Pipeleu Fan.re and have you read some of the letters in this book. Come in and investigate this furnace Beau through one [tar. It, a wonder! happy owner say. he ret 70 degree* up- • by 7 A. M. and in fuel bill ii a third cm than formerly. ■ 4ow would dut K uit you ? K Remember, (be f -alone is guaran- * teed to do every M thing we wy~ # muat do it or K do one is g asked to > buy it. < COME A IN ADms HENRY KNAPP & SON