Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1917 — Page 5

Charlie V SELLS ’EM ] . *lasaassEaßßKßSSKKcr. ::::... 1 WEATHER FORECAST | H*‘4»S«:ar.ar.u:::::: Part cloudy tonight and Friday, colder Friday. Vincent Fording, of Furt Recovery, 0.. was here today on business. Mrs. J. S. Beyers and daughter. Betty, were Fort Wayne visitors today. The Tri-Kappa girls distributed gifts of candy at the county farm on Christmas tray. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Deininger returned to Alma, Mich., after a holiday visit here with relatives. Mrs. Howard Burdg and son returned to Fort Wayne yesterday. They! visited here with the Jacob Tester family. Misses Zelma Nelson and Mary Aurand, of Decatur, arrived iiere today to visit Miss Glanta Elzey. north cf the city.—Bluffton Banner. Mrs. O. C. Poling and daughter, Delight. returned to their home in Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit hare with the K. W. Poling family. Mr .and Mrs. Harry Kuatz returned to Fort Wayne this morning. They were guests of her mother. Mrs. William Kreutzmann at Magley over Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McGill and Misses Frances anl Elizabeth Weterick spent Christmas at Vera Cruz with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Weterick. —Bluffton News. It seems t’ be impossible t’ be an ideal husband without wearin' a made up necktie. Christmas is over, but th closed season for givin’ don't begir till we’ve licked th’ Huns. —Abe M, tin in Indianapolis News.

5 The Home of Quality Groceries I —■ si.fis Enterprise Flour, 21 lb- s ack .$1.70 Polar Hear Flour, 24'/: !b. sack 25c 3 10c pkgs. Cliniaienc 25c 2 15c pkgs. Bran-Eata '"’’,’..sl.oo 70 lb. sack Diamond Crystal 25c 6 5c Rolls good Toilet Paper ' n c Bleached Seedless Raisins, lb. ••••••" ...10c Eggine is equal to 1 doz. eggs in baking 2m Potted Meats for your lunch pail, can , ,20c * M. E- HOWER We pay cash ** ’Phone 108 I "WHITE STSO'I 1 extra 1 has just “That Tasty| I les the Tonxue^^^^j

0N AND easy off •e is a legging that will 1 to the fellow that want to take the trou,ac‘n K that has to be on the old-fashioned S| ip the spring into sua|) two automatic os and you’re done. % oglewede IN DECATUR Mrs. r t. Kinna returned this morn I mg to Fort Wayne. Groter Hoffman returned this morning to Fort Wayne. Adolph Holfman is ill 0 f uric acid poisoning but is better again. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Hinton, of Union township, left yesterday afternoon for! Port Wayne for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Burroughs were here from Decatur to spend' Christmas— Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Kist left this morning for southern Indiana where 1 ■ their next field for advertising is. Mrs. C. E. Crum anil Mrs. C. H. Houck returned to their home in Fort ■ | Wayne this afternoon on the four • J o'clock car after attending the funeral' • of their cousin, Frank Arnold. Peter Forking and granddaughter. ■ Monica Johnson, returned to Fort I - Wayne yesterday afternoon after a i visit here with relatives. Rosemary; Smith accompanied them home for a! visit. t Donna Parrish spent the (lav at th" i Charles Johnson home, in Root towil- - ship, going out to skate, Lois and Ethel Hammond also went out to visit 1 with their sister. Mrs. Kurt Fritzing-. f er. “Lightless night,” according to rer ports from the larger cities in lindiana is being generally observed on Thurs- ;- days and Sundays as ordered by the It national fuel administrator in Washh ington. In Indianapolis, the assistant t- county fuel administrator, George E. Stewart, has been checking up on the n careless and has discovered that one ( e- 1 notice to a violator is enough to' ‘ arouse his interest in the matter. A n 'second violation, under Stewart's plan! r- of action, endangers the offenders I supply of electricity.

J W Merriuian weut to Ft. Wayne l nils morning. 1 ,k ’ rn »tejn was a Kurt Wayne busi ' ness visitor today. , Mr ' !l " ,, i,rs ' Grover Butcher visitoa in Fort Wayne. Samuel Slmisun, of Berne, was hero today ou business. Mrs. Ell Gifod aud daughter. Ruth, went to Fort Wayne for u visit. Mrs. Shafer Peterson went to Fort Wayne to visit with her daughters. •Mrs. Dun Erwin who has been eonhoed to her bed for a week is better iming able to sit up awhile today. Samuel Shackley and little son, Dav>‘l. spent the day in Fort Wayne with his mother, Mrs. Howard Shackley. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Ray and daughter. Helen, who visited here with Uie Andrew Hay family, returned to Fort Wayne. Miss Martha Schult who has been the guest of Miss Mary Patton for a week, returned this morning to Fort' Wayne. i A notice posted at the postoflWe states that the income tax man will bo' at that office from January 2 to January 19. j Mrs. Wilber Poole left this noon for her home in Anderson after a visit 1 here with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. I). D. Clark. Edna and Hattie Yaney, of Geneva, changed cars here today enroute to Fort Wayne to visit with their broth-* er, Jesse Yaney and family. i Mrs. W. F. Rosrnwinkle returned I this morning to Fort Wayne. She was 1 (the guest of her mother, Mrs. C. T. Rainier and other relatives over, Christmas. Harold J. Saurer. well known sing--1 er. who has been at his home at Mar-j hie in waiting for the call of a hospital unit which he joined at Chicago.! "ill go to Salt Lake City, Utah, this 1 week, where he will be the baritone soloist in a recital of the Messiah.— Bluffton News. Mrs. John Johns tells of an attempt made to break into their home i Saturday night. The attempt was made by a ntan from the roof of a kitchen who tried to break open the shutter of a window in a room of the ] second story, for the purpose, as she believes, of stealing her son's | clothes. Hearing the creak of the shutter as it was broken open,, she arose and the would-be invader was ' frightened away. i Wounds were being dressed with sawdust in Roumania when the American Red Cross commission to that country arrived' there in July. Upon recommendation of the commission, medicines, surgical instruments. hospital supplies, bandages, 1 bed linen, collodion, wax paper and iodine were shipped by the Red , Cross to Roumania. There was also appropriated by the American Red , Cross $1,518,000 for work in Rouniania. More than one thousand cars of relief coal were asked for last week in the office of the federal fuel administrator for Indiana. This is by far ' the high record and it indicates that the recent cold weather very generally' used up the reserve supply of coal. For the current week, requests for 600 cars were received, showing that the situation continues very grave. Representatives of the mine owners were in conference Monday morning with Evans Woollen, the federal fuel ad-' ministrator, endeavoring to figure out away to meet the heavy orders. Vl \v. Collett, fuel administrator for f Cass county, is organizing his forces ( for a survey of the wood supply in his county. Once having the fullest information on the available supply. Mr. Collett is going to call on all citizens to join him in a series of “wood choppin' bees” whereby ho hopes to materially reduce the coal consumption in cass county. Other fuel administrators who arc putting on vigorous wood-cutting campaigns are Clarence E Bell in Adams county, Chas. W. ' Mouch in Henry county, C. F. S. Neal ' in Boone, Grosvenor I)awe in Fulton. When it comes to burning wood for fuel it will be some time before Brown couuty is robbed of first honors. \n appeal to Washington. I). C„ in tll( , pope of augmenting the movement „ f anthracite coal into Indiana has, brought a statement of the anthracite situation which leaves very little hope, j, |)o ints out that the east ami New England, where war activities are holing rushed night and day. must depend in large measure on the anthracite l |U , 1(lf |i states that the demands are l far beyond the supply and indicates vcr y dearly that the most helpful 'thing Indiana can <lo at this time Is to * make strenous effort to take care of In'rself from the bituminous coals she ' , nav hr able to get. it. has reached th( . place, practically, where every car |oa(1 0 f anthracite coal coming into ludialW robs some industrial concern in ,hc cast which is engaged in making munitions, guns or materials lies- ■ , ;y ihe hip fleet Which the Unito l States must have early in the year.

Mrs. U. B. Thomas spent the day in j Fort Wayne. | Mrs. C. v'. Schafer was a Ft. Wayne j visitor today. Mrs. A. R. Bell was a Fort Wayne visitor today, Mrs. 1. A. Kalver was a Ft. Wayne' visitor tills afternoon. Mrs. C. It. Bo Unger, of Monroe, was u shopper here today. Mrs. Jake Grimm and daughter, Zenana, have returned from a visit at Huntington. S. E. Hite, Adams county food director, went to G_eueva on food business tills afternoon. Mrs. Homer Krick, of Fort Wayne, is visiting with her mother, Mrs. David l.iby a* Monmouth. Mrs. C. O. McKean of Monroe has returned foom a visit with a sister. Mrs. John Elson, at Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bockover returu|od this afternoon to Reiley, O. They were guests of her mother, Mrs. Sarah I Blackburn ami Miss Nellie Blackburn. Mrs. Kate Thompson and granddaughter. Helen Dorwin. went to Monroe to visit over New Year's with I their daughter and aunt, Mrs. Jim Hendricks Elmer Darwechter and Heiuey Gass left this afternoon to report for duty jat Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg. Miss., i after a Christmas visit with their rel- ' itives here. 1 Mrs. Charles Oriebel and daughter, | Bessie, who visited at Wiilshire, 0., were accompanied to their home m I Fort Wayne by Mabel Troutner who iv. ill be their guest. We are being regulated and without • any great inconvenience. If you live j in town or city you can buy from two !to five pounds of sugar or from an j eighth to a fourth of a barrel of flour, | if you live in the rural district you can j buy about double that amount at a time. Grocers must keep an accurate account cf sales of these itennt. You can help by not trying to make hi.a violate tiie law. It’s serious business. o PUT LIMIT ON FLOUR Indianapolis, Dec. 27—The new , limitations of from one-eighth to oneI fourth barrel of Hour per sale to city and town customers and from onefourth to one-half barrel for rura' customers, just promulgated hv the federal food administration for Indiana. Dr. Harry E. Barnard, is expected to put an end to an abuse reported from various sections of the state, in which retailers and millers are permitting an over-supply of wheat flour to go out to customers. This regulation is pointed out by Dr. Barnard and the Indiana State Council of Defense as one of the most important and essential to a proper food conservation and patriotic citizens are asked to assist in the administration of the regulation by reporting all violations promptly. — o BOOKS ARE FREE Indianapolis, Dec. 27—Twenty thousand War Service leaflets have been received by the Indiana State Council of Defense and the Indiana Food Ad- . ministration for distribution in support of the food conservation movement. I The leaflets, appropriately printed and prepared, contain practical suggestions for home service including the conservation of staples, substitution of nutritious foods, why fats and sugar as well as wheat must be saved . and what must be dene to prevent a milk famine. “Follow directions” is the bugle call | that appears in conclusion, as the host advice available for the “folks at home” who want to help defeat the 'central empires in the great war. NO WITH BREAD Indianapolis, Doc. 27— Premiums, bonuses or rebates offered to stimu-j late the sale of bread are frowned up-, on by the Federal food administration for Indiana, Dr. Harry E. Barnard. Members of county councils of defense ami other interested patriots are asked to assist, in preventing this effort to provoke overbuying, by reporting promptly any such instance as may come to their notice. As it becomes apparent the price of bread is too high or too low to be consistent with natural influence-, • they will he regulated promptly by tho food administrator. — o MISS FIFE A NURSE I Miss I.innie Railing, of (‘list of tho ; city received a letter from Miss It. • Fife, trained nurse, Hope hospital, Ft. < Wayne, who is now in Ft. Worth, 1 Texas, as Red Cross nurse. She sajs i she is certainly working hard. At one f time there were 2«on sick soldier boys 3 with 40 nurses in charge. Now about 1 1200 arc ill and 85 nurses, but all arc r still bflsy. She says she has 40 pa - tients. Miss Fife also sent 3 pictures i one of herself, one of her ward in tlu - hospital there, and one of the front i- of the nurses quarters. Miss Fife left • last November for Texas. She is well \ known around here.

You Are Invited to Become a Member of Our Christmas Savings Club -■ r -■ .. — * The Easiest, Simplest and Surest Sayings Plan Come to this Dank, deposit lc, 2c 5c or 10c and increase the same amount each week for 50 weeks —or deposit 25c, 50c, SI.OO or $2.00 regularly each week for the same length of time—According to the following classes: Join as Many Classes as You Desire Class 1 and save $12.75 Class 10 and save $ 5.00 Class 1-A and save $12.75 Class 25 and save... . 12.50 Class 2 and save $25.50 Class 50 and save 25.00 Class 2-A and save $25.50 Class 100 and save 50.00 Class 5 and save $03.75 Class 200 and save 100.00 Class 5-A and save $63.75 Class 500 and save 250.00 ~ " " ‘ Enroll Yourself—Enroll Each Member of Your Family Get Your Friends to Join Set Your Children a Cood Example—Teach Them the Saving Habit * Encourage Your Empleyes to Have Bank Accounts Everybody is Welcome OLD ADAMS COUNTY DANK DECATUR, IND.

■ ————— NO SLICING OF "MELONS." Indianapolis. Dec. 27 —(Special to. Daily Democrat)— Indiana melon j growers, in considerable numbers are voluntarily foregoing their 1918 crops] and recommending that other growers be asked Ytr'do likewise. Letters . i

— DO YOU DESIRE MONEY FOR ] CHRISTMAS? Here is a sure way to have that desire satisfied- You’re not taking a chance. You can’t lose a cent. You have everything to gain, nothing to lose by joining our Christmas Saving Society and paying a certain amount each week, or on pay days, and then by next Christmas you will get the total amount of your savings and interest, if you are paid in full. It’s the only way you can be sure to have the money for Christmas as you get your money hack just before Christmas. OBSERVE HOW IT CAN BE DONE 1 cent deposited first week, 2 cents second week and 3 cents third week, and so on for fifty weeks will give you $12.75 2 cents deposited first week, 4 cents second week and 6 cents third week and so on for fifty weeks, will give you *25.50 5 cents deposited first week, 10 cents second week and 15 I cents third week and so on for fifty weeks, will give you. .$63,75 Or you may begin with the highest amount and reduce your payments for the same amount each week so that your last payment at the end of the fifty weeks will be lc, 2c, or sc. , 10 cents straight for fifty weeks will give you 8 5.00 25 cents straight for fifty weeks will give yon 812.50 50 cents straight for fifty weeks will give you $25.00 1 $1 straight for fifty weeks will give you $50,00 3 ft INTEREST WILL BE ADDED [ to all accounts paid in full at the end of 50 weeks just in time | for Christmas. i, You may start any time after DECfcjWBER 10, 1017. * Come in and let us explain. j First National Bank ; Decatur, Ind. P » ,1 » "

are being received daily by the Indiana State Council of Defense and the food administrator. Dr. Harry i . < I Barnard, stating that the melon grow 1 'ers who as part of their regular pro 1 I gram plant rye in the fall, to be turn ; 1 ed over in the spring, be urged to let l 'the rye stand and mature. The rye); ■■ 1

would require no attention until harvest time, whereas the melon planting cultivation and harvest although perhaps more profitable, would require a large manpower, which may nth ho available at the time. It is likely the matter will be brought before the .tale council soon for formal action.