Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1917 — Page 3

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Charlie Voglewede

j WEATHER FORECAST j ln»cmitttmnr.a::;ts.-n::»:;:r.a: , .;a Fair tonight and probably Wednesday; little change in temperature. C .A. Dugan went to Indianapolis yesterday morning on business. Mrs. G. B. Robinson came Chester yesterday afternoon to visit here. Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Aurand returned yesterday afternoon to Monroe after shopping here. Miss Jessie Markley returned to Hoagland yesterday afternoon on the 3:22 train after shopping here. Velma and Gladys Peterson returned to Portland yesterday after a visit with the N. H. Wagoner family and others. Mrs. Richard Stoneburnes, of Lexington. Ky., who visited at Hicksville, 0., is expected here for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. George Oswald. Mrs. Charles Bonham and baby, ct Avilla, stopped here yesterday afternoon for a visit until today. They were enroute home from a visit at Bryant. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clay and daughter, Hilda, left yesterday afternoon for their home at Dunkirk after a visit with their brother, Roy Uhrick and other relatives here and at Monroe. Miss Frances Dugan left Sunday for Omaha, Neb., where she will teach >n Bikwnell hall. Miss Dorothy Dugan left Saturday for her trip east to Vassar college. She was accompanied to Fort Wayne by Miss Winifred Ellingham who returned home after a several days’ visit with her here.

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Mrs. G. T. Burk and daughter, Vivian, spent the day in Fort Wayne. T. J. Sowards, president of the Tocsin bank, was in the city today cn business. Lozier Funk and Lloyd Myers, of Bluffton, visited here with friends last evening. Mrs. L. C. Helm, Mrs. Henry Thomas and daughter, Portia, and their sister, Mrs. A. J. Slagal, of Marion, went to Fort Wayne to spend the day with Mrs. E. C. Smith. Mrs. J. S. Peterson and daughter, Lois, returned home last night from. Indianapolis. They visited with their son and brother, Lieutenant Robert Peterson, at Fort Harrison. John Keller and son, Floyd, were among those who spent Sunday at Fort Benjamin Harrison, going to see their son and brother, Bernard Keller, and Lohnas Mclntosh, who are members Os Company A. Mrs. George Combs and children, Eva and Margaret returned to their home at Alma, Mich., yesterday afternoon. They were accompanied to Foit Wayne by Mrs. N. H. Wagoner. Mrs. Mary Schoenlein and son, Woodrow, who will visit with Mrs. Fred Kitsrin. “I wouldn’t trust th’ feller that’s keepin' still these days as fer as I could throw an anvil,” said Constable Plum t’day. Mrs. Lase Bud paid 30 cents fer a dozen mango peppers t’day an’ is still patriotic. —Abe Martin in Indianapolis News. Clark Click twenty, of Ft. Wayne, employed in a Muncie, Ind., wire mill was burned to death when the C. & 0. restaurant was destroyed by fire. He escaped once from the burning building but on returning to get some clothes, was overcome by smoke and firemen were unable to rescue him.

Mrs. Dayton Hower is getting along wel, though she is still somewhat weak. Mrs. Olive Ross and Mrs. Henry Brunstadt, of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne. Reports to the adjutant general’s office show that enlistments for the regular army on September 12 amounted to 551, making a total of 209.073 accepted enlistments since April 1, 1917. Mrs. Henry Moyer has gone to Bluffton for the remainder of the week to take care of Helen, adopted daughter of her brother, Levi Linn, the little girl being ill. Wells county raises money by general taxation to pay premiums at the annual street fair and agricultural exhibit which will be held this year September 25 to 29. On the third day of the fair the Wells County Swine Breeders’ Association will conduct a sale of thoroughbred hogs, each breeder donating one hog for the sale and adding the money proceeds to the regular premium list. Night Policeman Joel Reynolds and wife of Decatur visited with the former's sister, Mrs. Will Raudenbush, and family last week. Friday Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Will Raudenbush and daughter, Alma, were royally entertained at a twelve o'clock chicken dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Raudenbush. The afternoon was spent in a social way, eating watermelon.—Berne Witness. The popularity of the easily accessible wrist watch was doubtless what inspired the production by Parisian jewelry designers of a ring watch. It consists of a tiny timepiece mounted on a finger ring and, if desired, embellished with precious stones. The beauty of the little dial, which might be easily mistaken for a large stone setting, is shown in an illustration in the October number of Popular Mechanics magazine. At a meeting of the retail food committee of the United States food administration yesterday it was decided to start a campaign to cover months of October and November, when all the wholesale an dretail grocers of the country will be asked to urge upon the consumers the wisdom and advisability of buying and storing in their homes potatoes in sufficient quantities to carry them over the winter months. The idea back of this move is that the more general consumption of potatoes will affect a saving in wheat flour and meat. R. M. Wynn, wife and daughter, Mina, and their son, R. 0. Wynn, wife and son came home Saturday evening from a two days’ visit at Ft. Harrison, where they saw their son, Medford, a member of Company A. as well as the other boys. They had a delightful time and say that the boys are doing fine. They look good, feel good and make good all the time. Not a man has been in the guard house and they attract attention whenever they drill. The boys think well of their officers and will. fight for them, a good indication that everything is iovely in a military organization. Information has just been received by the department of agriculture that specimens of pink boll worm have been found near Hearne, Tex. The information is conveyed by department experts engaged in the work of observation and quarantine. The department is advising the Texax department of agriculture and the agricultural and mechanical college to join a representative of the department, who is ordered at once to Hearne, in an effort to establish, by voluntary action, a quarantine around the particular field or fields where the pest has been discovered, in the hope that it may be eradicated at once. The war department has been informally advised by the Red Cross that the latter organization had received a cable giving supplemental information relating to the casualty list resulting from the air raid on base hospital No. 5 on September 4. R|d Cross advices are that First Lieu. C. A. McGuire. of Kansas City, Mo., previously described as moderately wounded, was “very slightly” wounded. Also that Private Aubrey S. McLeod, of Marlboro, Mass., reported as severely wounded, has lost both legs. The Red Cross report also shows that only the Harvard unit was affected by the air raid and the St. Louis unit was not involved. Before stoves and furnaces are put into service for the winter months,” says the Indiana State Fire Marshal, every property owner and tenant should ascertain that flues, stove pipes and heating apparatus are in perfect order. The large number of fires that occur every fall and winter due to dirty or defective chimneys can be reduced if the householder will take the time and pains to make a careful inspection to see that his chimney, stove pipes, furnace, stoves and any other heating a'pparatus are in good condition. and that all soot is removed from flues and pipes leading to the tine. Soot-destroying preparations may be obtained at most any hardware store.

8. W. Hale, of Geneva, was a busiIness visitor here today. F. E. France has returned from James laike where he summered. Be sure to do your bit for the parade and celebration for the national army men Thursday night. Frank Stone an old Decatur boy was here today selling hardware. He looks good and says he feels just that way. Mrs. Ben Hoagland and daughter, Rosamond; Mrs. Roy Mumma and Mrs. Louis Jeffers went to Fort Wayne this afternoon. Reports now are that company A and the Fourth Indiana will probably not go to Hattiesburg for a week or ten days. Alpha King, of Sanford. Mich., will arrive tonight to work for his brother, Elgin King, the newsdealer and confectioner. J. S. Peterson returned last evening from a three days’ visit to Fort Harrison. He says the company fellows are getting right along. Mrs. Joseph Luginbill and daughter, Harriet; and Miss Lucinda Girod returned this afternoon to Vera Cruz. They were shoppers here. Judge R. K. Erwin is better and yesterday himself expressed the belief that he would recover. Prior to that time he felt that he would not and the change is considered very encouraging. Funeral services for Mrs. Herman Sellemeyer were conducted this morning from the Reformed church, the Rev. Stolte and the Rev. Henry Vitz, of Indianapolis, having both German and English service. William Frazier, county assessor, went to Geneva and from there to Jay county to appraise a farm for inheritance tax purposes. The farm is in Jay county, but is part of an estate that is being settled in this county. o LEAVING NOTHING BEHIND. Germans Seining Streams for Fish Before Leaving France. • United press Service) With the French Armies, August 29' (By Mail) —Germany's latest effort at sucking dry every inch of the invaded regions of France before she is obliged to evacuate them has just come to light in the discovery that the canals and rivers of northern I France are being seined lifeless of eat-1 able fish. The discovery was only I made when the French recently under ! took the task of rendering these water ways navigable after the German destruction of bridges, locks, embankments and barges. The necessity of draining dry many of the canals and portions of river beds rendered unusable by the Germans has brought to light the numerous fish traps, seines, barriers and other appliances used by the Germans in order to catch absolutely every fish. Evidence has also been found of he use of explosives for stunning the fish and bringing them to the surface where they were raked in with hand nets. Previous to the German invasion cf the canals, rivers and waterways of France had been brought to a high state of fish productiveness both by stocking them and by the enforcement of practical laws regarding fishing. The idea was to keep the productiveness of these streams up to their highest pitch at all times. River fishing] constituted one of the very important industries of the country, and a careful observance of the fishing laws in-, sured the permanency of the river, stocks. votive OF t OSIMISSIOVEHS’ sale. OF HEM. ESTATE. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned commissioner, appointed m ! an action for partition in the Adams circuit court of Adams county Indi-I ana. wherein William A. Sipe is plaintiff and Alice Foreman, Sarah Elisabeth Hoze. Rosa Harden. John Passon, David Passon, Hatty Waggoner. Itobt. I'“reman. Daniel Bozo. Milo Harden Mary C. Passon, Minnie Passon and Allen Wag'g’oner, are defendants, for the partition of certain real estate therein described, to sell the real estate described in the complaint. in said cause, 1 will as such commissioner, on Hiitiirriny. Hie «1 li Day of October, UH., between the hours of ten o clock a. rn. and four o’clock p. m., of said day. at the office of Clark J. Lutz oyer the First National Rank, on Second street in the City of Decatur, Adams County. Indiana, offer for sale at private sale to the highest and best bidder the following described real estate in said County of Adams and State of Indiana, to-wit: The northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section six (6). township twenty-live (25) north, range fifteen 115) east. In Adams County, Indiana, containing forty-two 42) acres, more or less. Terms of Sale. One-third cash on day of sale, onethird in nine, and one third In eighteen months from day of sale, deferred payments to bear six per cent interest from date and to be secured by mortgage on tin- real estate sold. The purchaser shall have the option to pay all cash. Said real estate will be sold free, of Hens. Said sale will be continued from dav to day until sold, and no bid will lie considered or accepted for less than the full appraised value. CLARK ,1. LI TZ. Commissioner. Dated Sept. 10. 1917. 11-18-25 NOTICE OF IT'.'.l SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. Notice Is hereby gl-.'en to the creditors. heirs and legatees of Mattle A.eiv, deceased, to appear in Hie Adams circuit court, held at Decatur. Indiana, on Hie Illi da' of October, lilt", and show cause. If any, why the linal settlement accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and raid heirs are notified In then and there make proof of heirHbln and receive their distributive ahat-ea. MAY MEI BEKS, Executri:.. r»*.atur, Ind Sept. 11. 1917. Peterson & Moran, Attys. 11-13

COLDS Head or chest—are ue«t — treated "externally” / ■ T pE N Little beGuard tnltor VtoVAPORUgg BANK STATEMENT. James Rupel, President. H. M. Gillig, Vice President. W. A. Lower, Secretary. M. Kirsch, Cashier. Condensed statement >X the condition of The People’s Loan & Trust Company at Decatur, in the State of Indiana, at the close of Its business on September 11, 1917: Resources. Loans and discounts $242,017.22 Overdrafts 514.76 Bonds anti stocks 1,871.90 Company's building 19.000.00 Furniture and fixtures .... 6,000.00 Due from banks and trust companies 29,078.97 Cash on band 9,893.47 Cash items 197.73 Taxes and interest paid .. 5.303.64 Current expenses 4,311.09 Total resources ..$318,188.68 Liabilities. Capital stock —paid in $ 50.000.00 Surplus 500.00 Undivided profits 1,044.23 Interest, discount and other earnings 9.497.66 Demand deposits, except banks 234,314.35 Savings deposits, except Due to banks and trust companies 4.040.14 Cash —Over 116.72 Bills rediscounted 10,000.00 Total liabilities $318,188.68 State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I, M. Kirsch, Cashier of the People's Loan & Trust Co., of Decatur, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. M. KIRSCH, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 18th day of September. 1917. DORE B. ERWIN, Notary Public. My commission expires September 4, 1921. SURECURE OR KILL Wae the Effect of Cough Medicine Taken by Engineer. (United Press Service) Aurora, 111., Sept. 18—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Cough medicine, which an engineer had been taking for a heavy cold, was believed today to have been responsible for the wreck of two stock trains on the Burlington railroad near Earlville. 111., early yesterday, resulting in the death of seven persons 'and injury of a half-dozen others. A. C. Carlson, engineer of the train which crashed linto the rear ot' another, told the coroner last night that he was asleep when lie ran past a block signal and blamed the “cough medicine” for his j| ' OFFICE tfeW'L COME IN and consult with us on your next bill of FURNITURE. Our MODERN, WELL-BAL-ANCED STOCK of HOUSEFURNISHINGS is evidence we are in a position to serve your most minute wants, and OUR PRICES are such that you will be able to save quite a bit on your next bill. Remember we are now located in our new quarters in the Weber building across the street from our former place. Gay, Zwick & Myers Furniture and Undertaking 1 bis Stove YOU®! Should XT'S different I others because more is taken in the and the materials used are higher grade. Black Silk Stove Polish Makes a brilliant, silky polish that does not rub oft or dust off. andthoslilnelasts four titties as long as ordinary stove polish. Used on sample stoves and sold by hardware and grocery dealers. All wo n«k Isa trial. Useit on your cook rtove. jfcur parlor btovo nr your gas rang«'. If you don't find it the boot .tov» ooll.hvoucwr itt-crt. your dealer auinori<c.e«J to h "" money. Inaiat on Black Silk Stove I oiuu. Maae In liquid or paste—one quality. ? Black Silk Stove Polish Works I Sterling, Illinois l Uw Black Silk Alr-Drylng Iron I | i grate*. - Prrventti ruafing. ■ ] Un mack •ilk Metal Polish for silw.jHw-j . or brass. It has no equ&i for use on I I hi t ■ j |i»i jwyt i] i7i 1

REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT DECATUR, INDIANA, IN THE STATE OF. INDIANA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS SEPT. 11, 1917 RESOURCES Loans and discount! $723,111.55 Overdrafts, unsecured 609.62 U. 8. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) 50,090.(10 Liberty Loan bonds, unpledged 36,550.00 Bonds other than U. S. bonds pledged to secure postal savings deposits $ 4.000.00 Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including stocks) owned (unpledged 10,510.95 Total bonds, securities, etc 14,510.95 Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription).... 8.600.00 Furniture and fixtures 5,000.00 I-awful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 53,000.00 Cush in vault and net amounts due front national banks 102,672.25 Checks on other banks in the same city or town as reporting bank (other than Item 17) 318.32 Total of items 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 $102,990.77 Checks on bunks located outside of city or town of reporting bank and other cash items 21.40 Redemption fund with U. 8. Treasurer and due U. S. Treasurer 2,500.00 Total $991,894.29 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in $100,000.00 Surplus fund 20,000.00 Undivided profits , $10,874.08 Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid 6,277.43 4,596.65 Circulating notes outstanding 50,000.00 Net amouuts due to banks and bankers (other than included in 28 or 29) 71,075.88 Totals of items 28. 29. and 30 $71,075.88 Demand deposits subject to Reserve (deposits payable within 30 days): Individual deposits subject to check 219,994.58 Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money borrowed) 504,521.13 Total demand deposits subject to Reserve. Items 31, 32, 33, 34. 35. 36. 37. and 38 $724,515.71 Postal savings deposits 2,363.64 Other time deposits 19.342.41 Total of time deposits subject to Reserve, Items 39, 40. 41, and 42 . ..„ ...$21,706.05 Total $991,894.29 State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I, C. A. Dugan, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. C. A. DUGAN, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of September. 1917. EARL B. ADAMS. Notary Public. My commission expires September 18, 1920. W. A. KUEBLER, DANIEL SPRANG, J. W. VIZARD, Directors.

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