Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1917 — Page 5

ECONOMY | | “ECONOMY” as we see it rests NOT in cheapness of I I price, hut in getting your money’s worth for the money I ■ spent. Let shoes please by their look and fail in their serv- I I ice and you have "bought a pig in a poke.” No matter how ft ■ little the cost of a thing if there’s little conscience in it I I there’s too little of value. To GET we must GIVE and not ? ■be too selfish about it, either. The strife of life is strenu- L I ous—it pays to be generous and to look at the customer’s I I point as well as our own. This store believes in the motto, I He Profits Most I Who Serves Best. I (Charlie THE SHOE SELLER

■B&acc a a aaac ua a ::; Huanv | ■ SJ H Hr: ::r. ::r. ar. x« ::r wax x: oxar; •: ■Cloudy tonight: Wednesday probably fair; little change in tempera- ■ ' ' “* | ■Eugene Runyon spent the day at his tar- in Blue Creek township. ■Vincent Forbing. of Fort Recovery, ■ 0.. was here today on business. ■Mrs. A. D. Artman is confined to. Jier bed by an attack of tonsilitis. AMrs. Charles Baker went to Monnn Jth to spend the day with Mrs. Dick Hill. ■Mrs. Fred Schaub returned to Feit' Wayne after a visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs. J. H. Voglewede. ■The Do Your Best class of the United Brethren church will meet Thursda? evening with Mrs. Roy Mumma on Adams street. ■Mrs. Curtis Wolf returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a Wait here with her sister, Mrs. Ross Mall nee and family. ■Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fischer enter-' taiued the following guests Sunday: Mr and Mrs. Harry Schaffer and Mr. ami Mrs. Chris Hildebrand of Fort Wayne, Ind. ■After the war is over, Adams county: will be called upon to care far the incurables. Sanitariums must . built. The Y. M. C. A. proposes tr see that the inmates shall be reduced to the minimum. ■ Miss Tawney Apple has quit writin’ to her mother, as it costs so much. It's no trouble C git t’ th’ (font these days, whether you’re ambitious or not. —Abe Martin, in Indianapolis News.

The Home of Quality Groceries ■ Sweet Potatoes, southern grown, bu. (50 lbs.) sl-)0 Family Size Pkgs. Roiled Oats 2 _’ c 1 Gal Oil Cans, each ■ “ ’f Large Willow Clothes Baskets■ Evaporated Apricots, bright, large and new, lb-oc Roval Head Rice, worth 15c, today .. • • • • 1 lb. 4. oz. Jar Peanut Butter, cheaper than bulk, each . .-ot Corn Cake, Buckwheat and Pancake Flour. .10, la and 2ac New Corn Meal, sack 15c Applebutter, 2 !bs2sc Bouillon Cubes, ..2 for 5c Crisco, lb. can 30c Fancy Pkg. Figs 10e Comb Honey, square..2oc ; ‘ We pay cash or trade or produce. Eggs 10c Butter, 30c to 42c M. E. HOWER North of G. R. & I- Depot ’Phone 108 I THE ' I "WHITE STAG"! ■ EXTRA MILD CIGAR I I.nili of Old Clean Sound and Thoroughly Cured g Tobaccos and has a delightfully Mellow. Aroma. J. Perfect Burn and will hold lire eight minutes or B more. K) Can vou FIND ANY OTHER CIGAR THAT | WILL DO ALL THIS.’ B Then make the “THE WHITE STAG” your | BUY-WORD. 8

Dr. J. C. Grandstaff, of Preble, was here today on business. Mrs. C. C. Wilder, of Monmouth, was shopping here today. I Adams county at this time can raise 45,000 for the Y. M. C. A. and NOT SACRIFICE AT ALL. If Christianity means anything, it means service. The Y. M. C. a. i teaches men to be Christians. Stop blowing in your money for so many foolish things and give it to the ,Y. M. C. A. You will feel better. No man should belittle himself by fixing his standard of giving by what his neighbor does. Do your duty as I you see it. With the world engaged in slaughter, the times demand of Christianity not merely worship of the lip but the worship of the heart and hand. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Blew of Decatur, who visited over Sunday in this city with a son-in-law, Russell Fields and family, West Arch street, left Monday for their future home in Mechanicsburg, Ohio. —Portland Sun. Germany will capture thousands up- | on thousands of American prisoners. Germany will permit the Y. M. C. A. to feed them, give them proper hous- ■ ing. proper clothing, proper sanitation i and proper medical care. Some job • and the Y. M. C. A. needs your money to do it. A dispatch from Admiral Sims states that the unauthorized lowering of boats caused the loss of several lives when the Finland was torpedoed. The body of Newton R. Head, seaman, who was drowned, was picked up by the Alcedo. The two other seamen lost were Jas. W. Henry and Porter Hilton. Hilton was previously reported missing.

The Indiana University foot ball team received a surprise this week, when it was learned through Coach Stiehm that the team may take a trip to the sunny south in the near future. Plans are on foot whereby Indiana may play the University of Virginia at Hattiesburg, Miss., for the benefit of the many thousand Indiana. Virginia and Ohio soldiers stationed there. "True victory in this war,” it is said, "will not lie so much in the actual tactical gains on the battle fields today as in the quality of the men who have to carry on the work of the country after the war. We must economize our human material. The Y. M. C. A. sees that our soldiers are kept healthy and strong and endowed with character, for becoming valuable ctizens of the state.” Owners of elevators, flour mills and stockyards in every city in Indiana have been warned by the state fire marshal to take extra precautions against the work of Incendiaries. This warning follows one from Herbert Hoover, citing the fact that a widespread conspiracy exists to destroy grain and livestock, and urging that additional guards be placed about elevators and stockyards. The open firoplace is responsible for a pretty fair share of the preventable fire waste of our state and of the loss of life by fire. During the year 1916, over SIO,OOO damage was caused by this menace, and from present indications the loss from this cause will l>e much larger in 1917. Statistics are not available for showing how many deaths were chargeable to the open grate in 19th, but the number’s considerable. Efforts are being made to have a curtain raiser for the Indiana Univer-sity-Purdue game at Bloomington November 25. The first game may be played by two high school teams of the state, preferably one from northern and ontf> from southern Indiana. Kirkland high school seems to have the best team in the north ern part of the state, while the Bick nell high school eleven has defeated some of the strongest teams in southern Indiana. In the little town of Lyons, Ind., there are twenty high school girls who

are alive to the fact that war means self-negation. Last summer these girls, under the direction as Ada David son, now a student of Indiana university, put on a play, the proceeds <f which netted $52, twenty-five dollarsof this amount to be used for Christmas boxes for our I. U. men. To each of these girls is to be sent the name of a man in service and she will respond with a comfort bag and a personal gift just as the university girls are doing. The navy department has sent telegrams to its recruiting officers in all parts of the country directing them to begin an active campaign to enlist 7,000 firemen and 400 mess attendants by December 15. The quotas assigned for the various districts are: Eastern district. 2,000 firemen, 100 mess attendants; central, 2,000 firemen, 100 mess attendants; southern. 1,000 firemen. 150 mess attendants; western 2,000 firemen, 50 mess attendants. For firemen, men from 18 to 35 years of age will be accepted. No previous experience in firing is required, but men must be physically qualified for the work. Applicants for mess attendants must be not less than v lB nor more than 30 years of age. The use of coal in the production of electricity for non-esesntial purposes is curtailed throughout the United States in an order issued yesterday by Fuel Administrator Garfield. The order will prevent the lighting of advertising signs and other outdoor electrical display until 7:45 at night. Such signs will be forced to darken at 11 o'clock at night. It is estimated that this order will save 50 per cent of the fuel now used in maintaining this class of electrical display. Dr. Garfield is anxious to avoid interference with legitimate business just as far as possible, but he is determined to see that the industries essential to the conduct of the war and the domestic consumers of the country have the coal they need. The food administration at Washington has expressed to the Indiana Egg and Poultry association appreciation of the co-operation promised by the Indiana packers in the matter of shipping turkeys. Will Berling. of the Berling & Moltz company, a member of the association, attended the meeting at Indianapolis last week, at which the vote of co-opera-tion was taken. The local firm has received a copy of the telegram sent from Washington, as follows: “Washington, D. C., Nov. 7. Wm. Lgcks, Sec’y Indiana Egg and Poultry Assn., Indianapolis, Ind.—Appreciation cooperation by Indiana association with this department. Our views are to do business during November as iu past year. But limit the size of the turkeys you buy ou hens to be eight pounds and over and young toms twelve pounds and over. Please advise your members. (Signed), f’ood Administrator.'’

IS THIRTY-SECOND Lieut. Robt. Peterson Tells of Delightful Trip to Meridian, Miss. WHERE HE TOOK WORK Also Joined Shrine—Says Meridian is Best Town He Has Seen in South. Saturday, Dear Folks: — Well, 1 am back at wprk again and it is pretty hard to go to work after the great time I had the first part of the week. The papers and clippings enclosed tell all about the good time. as much as 1 could tell about it. Everything they say is true. 1 am a lull-fledged 32 degree anti shriner. And believe me there is a difference between the two, 32 and Shrine. A few things the taper left out. Camp Shelby sent more than any other camp 59 in all and our regiment was represented by more than any other. Five officers and seven enlistd men taking t)ie work. Our class was made up of men from W. Virginia Penna., Kentucky, Miss., Indiana and Alabama. , , Mother you did more for me than you thought you did when you furnish ed the $25 for my initiation into the Masons. For you started me on a good thing. The work from the 4th to 32nd is not only a great thing to he, merely out of fact that one wants to have all the work and be a 32. But if has some of the greatest teachings 1 ever listened to. The work is NOT better than the work of becoming a Master Mason in the first 3 degrees. But it is an enlargement and teaches and instructs one further in the first 3 degrees. A man living up to the teachings of Masonry need have no worry of a hereafter. One thing, help Dwight to the Masons as soon as he is 21. We had two solid days from Monday morning at 8:30 to Monday night at 10:30 and Tuesday the same up to midnight. Then the work changed entirely. The Shrine opened up for work Wednesday morning. Keith’s how was staged freo of charge, noon luncheon with lady friends, etc. The rest of the day was spent in a good time, except from 4:30 to 7:30, initiation ending up with dancing about 10 bells, which lasted-until 2 o'clock. A sad bunch arrived in camp Thursday morning at 8 o’clock. As we had a class of 75 and time was short they worked on but 25 of us. I happened to be in the 25, so I had all the thrills I care for. Meridian is the largest town in the state, about 35,000 population, and a real place compared to Hattiesburg. They tried hard to get the camp but failed. It's the best town I've seen m Mississippi. Love to all, ROBERT 11. PETERSON REV. BUYER DEAD Word has been received of the sudden death of the Rev. J. L. Buyer, former pastor of the Evangelical church at Linn Grove, which oecv-rt d quite suddenly at his home at Marshal 111. Details were not given in the first word received. The deceased has a son living near Berne and the body will be taken that place for burial. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse and Mrs. E. G. Coverdale went to Fort Wayne today. Ben P. Rice, of Seventh street, who has been ill for the past month of a complication of ailments, and who had shown improvement for awhile, has not been so well the past few days. The erect of systematic inspection by trained inspectors is seen in the reduced fire loss in mill and elevator property in Indiana since July Ist, when the 250 members of the Conservaltion Association of Indiana, made up of insurance company field men and inspectors, were turned loose upon this work. Since July 1, the fire loss to mills and elevators has been $16,000. an average of $4,000 per month. Th etotal for the first, six months of 1917 amounted to $142,600, which would average about $23,500 per month. The Y. M. C. A. stands for THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. It’s purpose is to carry the Christ Spirit every step of the way to the firing lines. The frightful slaughter must not be permitted to deteroriate into utter barbarism. The soldier boys must be saved from worse things than the bullets of the enemy. The Y. M. C. A. is determined to surround our boy;, as far as is humaiiily possible, with the Christian indm nees of home. May the leave i of love for God and man work on the hearts of our people in this hour.

ANNOUNCEMENT Regarding This Significant News Item Eord Will Quit Making of Pleasure Cars to Aid U. S. Washington. D. C., Nov. 9—(Spelial) Henry Ford will build no more pleasure automobiles until the war is over. He will devote his entire plant to the production of war necessities, such as tractors, ambulances, aircraft engines, and shells. Through his representative, C. H. Wills, he has offered to discontinue all the ordinary runabouts, touring cars and , small commercial trucks which his' plant is turning out by the thousands. —Chicago Tribune, Nov. 11. We have been unable to secure authorative information as to the corn ctness of the above report and therefore cannot answer the numerous inquiries concerning it. As soon as we know officially we will advise the public. However: We recommend to those intending to purchase pleasure or delivery cars, that they place their orders immediately, to avoid the possibility of our being unable to furnish cars, due to the reason mentioned above; or the general curtailment of the production of all automobile factories of this country, which was recenily announced and now in process of arrangement by the committee appointed for this purpose, and the government. Authorized FORD Dealer Kalver-Noble Garage Co.

CHILDREN Should not be “dosed” for colds — apply “externally”— p * Little Body Guard inYcrnr Home* _V II Democrat Want Ads Pay PALACE Keith’s 2:30-8:30 MAX GRUBER & CO. Presenting Minnie, the educated pachyderm. YATES & REED STEINDEL in ‘‘Double BOYS Crossing.” | Musical Wizards The Musical Comedy Favorites HARRY RICHARDS and BESSIE KYLE In ‘‘Club Night.” TABOR & I SPARKS, GREEN ALI 4. CO. In Songland. | “Kat-Tales.” NOTE.—Special limited engagement of this excellent show closes with Wednesday matinee. No vaudeville Wednesday evening, the house being turned over to San Carlo Grand Opera Company. COMING THURSDAY MMLE. BIANCA & CO. Late premier Metropolitan company, of New York City, in a series of artistic and spectacular dances. ED. F. REYNARD 1 Vaudeville's greatest novelty, “Before the Court.” PALACE THEATER Fort Wayne, Ind

FOR CHRISTMAS YODR PHOTOGRAPH A gift to strengthen friendship. A dozen of your photographs will make twelve appropriate gifts. Do it today and avoid the rush. Euwirs STUDIO Above Callow & Kohne Drug Store. Bring children in as early in the day as possible. A 1 ITTI F WANT AD *‘VUAAA\S HELP THE bill Lt, WAM AD MOST PROSPEROUS OF NOW AND THEN, WILL MEN. FARMERS DAY Saturday, Nov. 17 Will Be Farmers Day at Miller’s Cigar Store We want each and Every Fanner to visit our cigar store Saturday -—We Have a Treat For YOU- — RALPH MILLER MADISON STREET