Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1918 — Page 3

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| WEATHER FORECAST | Part cloudy tonight and Tuesday, probably showers and somewhat coulter in north. Mrs. Groves, o£ Fourth street, has gone for a visit in Ohio with relatives i Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Miller, of Fort Wayne, are here visiting with relatives. Mrs. Ward Cline left for Fort ' Wayne Saturday afternoon to be with her daughter. Mrs. Clarence Baxter. t Miss Clara Heckman went’to Lake George Sunday for the day, going j with the Moellering families of Fort ■ Wayne. ( Miss Mildred Groves, who is taking a business course in Fort Wayne, spent the week end at her halue on ] Fourth street. The following letters remain uncalled for at the Decatur postoffice: Mr. Orval Sickler, Mrs. E. G. Blessing, Miss Evah Graver. Dan Tyndall and family, Mrs. J. W. Tyndall, Mrs. D. D. Heller and Miss Bertha Heller motored to Celina yesterday where they enjoyed the day at Edgewater park. The Liberty Guards will hold their regular drill practice tomorrow evening. Every member should be present and anyone desiring to join may still have an opportunity of doing so. “You couldu’ hit a flock o’ hospitals,” said Tell Binkley t’ Pinky Kerr, who started out early this mornin’ t shoot a few squirrels. T’morrow’s Sunday. Stop, look au‘ listen!!!. — Abe Martin in Indianapolis News. <

The Home of Quality Groceries WE HANDLE ONLY ONE LINE GROCERIES Quality. Price and Service are three things no sensible buyer like you can afford to overlook. Your food is something you should be especially particular about. They must be tempting in quality and price. New customers every day indicate pleased patrons- TRY US. 15c bottle High Grade Extracts, any flavorloc 3 10c boxes Quaker Corn Flakes2sc 30c Pure Fruit Preserves, berries or fruit2sc Lippincott’s Pure Fruit Jelly, all kinds, 8 oz. glasses, doz. . .$1.65 California Apricots, canned in syrup, large can, d0z52.75 California Peaches, canned in large cans, dozs2.lo Our Famous Pickling pickles, gal3oc “Best and Cheapest” Coffee pleases others, try it, lb2Bc Apples, Melons, Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions, Oranges, Lemons We nay cash or trade for produce: Eggs, 37c; Butter, 25 to 35c. M. E. HOWER North of G. K. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108 » ■ J2JJ— . .?***—77 ....... . *.'.'JL7LIJ— I Mr. Smoker: < ’ Unde Sam knows you. He demands that ra you be thrifty about your smokes. Every time || you save a quarter (that’s a Thrift Stamp on the |S price of your cigars you help Uncle Sam. Smoke the ® "WHITE STAG"! SUGAR I FIVE CENTS K Same Old Quality Same OLD PRICE ffi

I A number from here attended the I Chautauqua at Monroe yesterday. C. S. Mumma, of Union township, was a business visitor here today. Miss Ida Gunsett was off duty at the*Niblick store today on account of illness. Miss Mary Catherine Uhl, of Toledo. 0., is here visiting with relatives. Mrs. J. M. Frisinger is visiting with friends at Rockford, Ohio, for a few days. M. Kirsch of the People’s Loan & Trust company, is enjoying a week at Winona Lake. Otto Wemhoff returned this morning to Fort Wayne after a visit here with his mother, Mrs. Mary Wemhoff over Sunday. Miss Mabel Burns went to Fort Wayne Saturday afternoon for a visit until Wednesday with her aunt, Mrs. John Hilker, of Crescent Avenue. Mrs. Clarence Hoblit and Mrs. O. Kiefer, of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne to visit with their brother, Jesse Harper. Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger have returned from a two weeks’ stay .at Rome City. They had a splendid time and as fishing was good they enjoyed fish fries every day but four that they were there. Miss Mayme Deininger will go this afternoon. Thurman Porter and family returned to their home at Muncie after a vacation visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Porter. His sister, Mrs. Velma McGill, a clerk at the Steele & Bleeke store, who is taking her vacation this week, accompanied them home.

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/ Mr, and Mrs. Walter Deitsch of Celina, Ohio are here visiting with relatives. Ishmael Macy of Elkhart was on over-Sunday visitor with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Macy. Robert Colter, who is working at Mt. Ayr, ind., is home for a few days’ visit with relatives and friends. C. A. Dugan was on over-Sunday visitor at Lake Hamlet where Ms family is enjoyin/ a week’s outing. The Misses Marie Connell, Mayme Harting and Vera Hower, who west to Detroit last week, returned Saturday night, preferring not to be vaccinnated. one of the requirements to secure employment there. A rumor that the allied army had captured 150,000 Germans was spread over the country Sunday evening and £n many places, celebrtetjons were conducted. Delphos. Van Wert and other cities near herq/ had an allnight jubilee. Charles Merryman, of Cardwell, Mo., is the guest of his parents. Judge and Mrs. J. T. Merryman. North Second street. He has been suffering from malaria for several weeks and came here to recuperate. He expects to be as good as ever within two weeks. j The sugar beet, growers of California are to be offered a choice of contracts for the sale of their 1918 crop of sugar beets as the direct result of a proposal made to the refiners by *he United States Food Administration. f After a series of conferences with food administration officials the refiners have agreed to pay according • to existing contracts or to make new contracts based on the findings of the L Federal Sugar Beet Commission for . California. The growers will now have an opportunity to make a choice based upon their understanding <>£ present conditions in the industry. The National Canned Foods and Dried Fruit Brokers’ Association is cooperating effectively with the Unit- , ed States Food Administration i.-i. making its wheat-conservation plans > effective by popularizing wheat substitutes and stimulating their con- i ■ sumption. The food administration i prepared a number of recipes embody ' ing their use. The Brokers’ Association had these recipes printed in folder form, and forwarded copies to the , members, who were asked to distribute them. James M. Hobbs, secretary of the Brokers’ Association, has requested members to write him at Chicago, giving the number of copies they can use to good advantage. Quite recently Braxton Beacham, ’ federal food administrator for Florida. was advised that the accumulated substitutes in the hands of the deal ers, particularly rye and barley flour, was in danger of loss during the heated period of the summer. Because it could not be consumed by the people , of Florida in April, a short extension of time for the use of rye flour as a, substitute was given to bakers. Later they were given an extension to June 1. There is still a large quantity of barley and rye flour left in Florida, and the food administration is anxious for the consumers to use more if . them and to acquaint themselves with the prime value of these flours as a food. Pigeons may be an excellent sub- . stitute for beef, but they should not be killed indiscriminately. Hunters ( especially are urged not to shoot these birds in the air. for they may be homing pigeons being trained in . many parts of the country by the Sig- > nal Corps of the United States army ; to carry messages across the battle , fields. The pigeon section of the Sig- , nal Corps buys mature homers havI ing satisfactory pedigrees, breeds ! I hem and trains the young birds, as ! the homing instinct of the old birds I is already established and can not be changed. Only the young birds thus trained can be used for military communications. The are one of the surest means of conveying word across ' the battle fields. Persons desiring to furnish the war department with homing pigeons should apply to the chief Signal Corps officer of the nearest cantonment. A new brand of German propaganda has come to light. It is direct. (I against the automobile industry. A number of alarming and malicious stories have broken loose simultaneously in a dozen or more of the large cities. One story that has been Industriously circulated wa's , 'thpt there would be serious shortage of tires as a result of the embargo on crude rubber. That, this report is unfounded is proved by the following information offered by the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company; backed up by Great Britain. Uncle Sam has promised the rubber trade in America 100.000 tuns of “overseas” rubber this year. Last year American manufacturers used 57.000 tons above 100,000. It is estimated the reserve stock on hand in America, the first, of the year amounted to 80.000 tons- so added to the 100.000* tons guaranteed here America is really belter fixed now than last year.

Mrs. Dayton Barkley returned tc her home near Hoagland on the 11 :’l(] ear. She visited here with relatives, Hugh Rout, of Nashville, Tenn., Is the guest of his sister, Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer and is calling on old friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barthol and daughter, Helen, have gone to Mansfield, 0., for a several weeks' visit with relatives. At the meeting of the Evangelical Indies' Aid society with Mrs. L. A. Jaeksqn. 216 South Eleventh street, a special program for mothers will be given. Mrs. C. C. Myers who was a guest of her brother-in laws, R. D. and John Myers and families, went to Portland on the 1:05 train to visit with her parents before returning to her home at Tulsa. Oklahoma. “The threshing and buying of damp wheat is absolutely contrary to the desires and purposes of the food administration and is contrary to the principles of food conservation,” said Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana today. “Wheat should not be threshed or purchased containing over 14 per cent moisture. Dealers who purchase damp wheat and permit it to get out of condition will be considered guilty of contributing to the destruction of food stuffs.” inspectors in charge of meat insp-ic tion have been auihorized by the bureau of animal industry. United States department of agriculture, to select women as "assistants in meat inspection” at all stations where men are not available and it is possible to utilize the services of women. Because of war conditions the bureau is experiencing difficulty in obtaining men as lay inspectors and at a number of the larger stations women already have been employed as assistants. “It has been demonstrated,” says a bureau of animal Industry statement, "that they are able to do efficient work in supervising the shipment and the receipt of products, leheling, branding, assisting in the sausage, canning and oleo departments, and other similar duties.”

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Many foreign women who have received training in food conservation from home-demonstration agents of the United States department of agriculture and the state agricultural colleges are volunteering for special canning work. One canning class held in Massachusetts was composed of four Finns, two Swedes, two Italians, and two Armenians. These women all understand English, and will spend a large part of their time this summer giving demonstrations and helping people who speak their languages witli canning work *

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Jacob Tester has returned from Napoleon, 0.. where he visited with his mother. Mrs. Sophia Tester. His wile remained and will accompany her mother-in-law here tomorrow.