Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1919 — Page 5

I Vacation | | Money | I Vacation money is well spent when you use a E part of it for a pair of Boudoir Slippers to take || E with you. Just received some pretty ones in M Grey, Pink, Blue, Lavender, Brown and Black bU | CHARLIE VQGLEWEDE | E- Outfits Your Feet gj

• WEATHER ♦ E Fair tonight and Wednesday; cool'er tonight. ■ J. H. Stewart and son. Meredith, . : ‘W re at Huntington Sunday attending the funeral of Mr. Stewart’s John Miller, whose death Mb< i urred last Thursday night following a stroke of paralysis three weeks ■ago. Mr'. Miller was eighty-four years Hold, and during the last few days of hi illness his suffering was great. I Miss Mary E. Brodbeek has returnBed from a visit at Cleveland, Ohio, ■with her aunts and cousins. She also ■visited at Elyria, Ohio, with her ■nephew, Dr. jQ. E. Brodbeek and fa- ■ mily. Crops are not very good at* ■some places in that community and ■ fruit is a total failure. MK Charlie Voglewede the shoe seller ■ returned from Chicago where he took Ba post-graduate course in Practipe-| ■ dies, a science in fleeting shoes and ■ foot comfort appliances. I Dr. and Mrs. C. IL Weaver return■ed from Chicago where they attenu■ed the national convention of the ■ American Osteopath association. The ■ convention lasted one week and many ■ things of interest, including the hold■ing of clinics were discussed. In one ■ instance, Dr. Weaver stated, a pa- ■ tient had his eye ball removed, treatled and then placed back into the ■ socket, without the giving of an anes- ■ thetic. They also visited at MonteBcillo, Mo., with Mrs. Weaver’s mothfi er. ' — ——w— ■ I ■

I at: at:;:s i.::: :t:: ;:x: :::::::i::::«at: :u: ::::at: •* I EVERSHARP PENCILS | In GOLD—SILVER—PLATE and NICKEL I — The point is always sharp, never sharpened, loi H |.| the Eversharp sharpens itself. No whit I ling, no « II lost motion, no interrupted thought. lhere is u I I enough lead in each pencil tor one-quarter ol a mil- y I | lion words, and refills al long intervals cost 2.) els. :: I I There is a handv eraser, under cover until needed. « ~ i | | Price SI.OO Io $6.00 I PUMPHREY'S JEWELRY STORE | 1“ I The Hallmark Store Brunswick Phonographs H :: A delightful smoke : :: that is worth while \ fr : I > I The ' “White Stag” ; 1 I 1 I > J < • 1 I » I •• Extra Mild Segar ;; I 1111111 111 1 111' 11 1 11 * "" •

VI 1 Our old friend Jim Beery who was three times elected auditor of Medo- ( ra county, N. D., has resigned to ac-j cept a position on the North Dakota tax commission. Elmer Moots has been missin’ since Friday. He wuz heavily involved in a couple o’ silk shirts an’ had been despondent o’ late. A good talker is alius a poor listener. —Abe Martin in Indianapolis News./ Mrs. Clark Spahr and daughter, Virginia, returned to their home in Detroit, Mich., after a several weeks' visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Nichols. Henry Schmitz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adang, Miss Constance Schmitz, of Columbia City, spent | Sunday with the Frank Schmitz fa- | mily of S. Fourth street. Amos Latelle Roop, of Ft. Wayne, who is representing the Ft. Wayne I News and Sentinel in this community, and others of this section of the i state, is here on business and is {stopping with his sister, Mrs. Samuel Acker of N. Second street. Much Interest attaches locally to I the case of Ernest Isch. who Is the first man to be treated in Wells ■ County with that powerful mineral, ■ j radium. His first treatment was ad- ■ ministered Saturday by Drs. Caylor ' and Hickman, of this city, and appears to have been entirely satisfac- ■ ! tory and the further progress of the treatment will be watched with the i deepest interest. Mr. Isch has suf- ■ sered for a number of years, as his many friends have been aware, with {a cancerous growth of his lower lip, | and is to check the further spread

’ DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, JULY 15,1919.

A FAIR AVERAGE I C. 11. Doehrman, Preble Township, Gets 26 Bush- , els of Wheat to Acre * i HAD TWENTY ACRES ; — 9 I And Threshed 520 Bushels —Well Pleased With Crop —Others Not So Good. C. H. Doehrman, well known resident of Preble township, living on jthe old Lew Koenemann place, visitj ed with us for a few minutes yesterday afternoon and stated that he had just finished threshing on his farm and that he was well pleased, in view of the existing conditions, with his crop. Mr. Doehrman had twenty acres ot wheat from which he got 520 bushels or an average of 2G bushels to the acre. Owing to the drought this season the wheat crop in this county will be far below the average and Mr. , Doehrman’s record is so far the best Iwe have heard of. No doubt he would have had a recofd-braking crop if conditions had been favorable.LEASE MARKET AT MONROE The John Badders meat market at Monroe has been leased by the Schmitt Brothers of this city, proprietors of the City Meat Market, the ’ shop being thrown open to the public today. Abe Stucky of this city, who was formerly a salesman for the Hoosier Packing company will be in charge of the Monroe market. The * Schmitt Brothers since taking over 1 what was formerly the Hoosier Meat - Market have built up an excellent ■ trade here and have a first class shop. MOTHER IS ILL Mrs. John Kpuffman left this morn- ’ ing for her her return to her home ’ { at Smithville. O. She has been with her aged mother. Mrs. Christ Augsburger, who is ill at her home in ’ I French township. Mrs. Augsburger, ' who is seventy-seven years of age is 5 suffering from high ■ blood pressure •fare other ailments / incident to old i ■ * ’ age. She is the mother, also, of { County Recorder Aaron C. Augsburg- ‘ er. -of this cancerous attack that the ra- ’ dium treatment is being tried. While undergoing the treatment Mr. IschJ 3 { whose home is east of Bluffton, is 1 staying at the home of his brother, ■ * John, in this city, and Mrs. E. J. lj Borne is in charge as nurse. —Bluff-; jton News. L Harold and Paul Saurer are both ? heme from the army, and accompanI ied their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edt ward Saurer. of Markle, to Bluffton | Sunday to spend the day with rela- | fives, Harold Saurer has been ovj erseas as a member of a hospital 3 unit and was a member of a quartette 3 which for the past three months gave t concerts in the army camps in 1 France. He expects to spend a coup- | le of. months of well-deserved rest- | ing at Markle. Paul enlisted in the I aviation branch, was also in overseas 3 service and took part in the battle of 5 the Argonne Forest. Before receivt ing his discharge he helped take care |of the R-34. the British dirigible, which on Saturday arrived safely on | its return flight to England.—Bluff--1 ton News. 1 Miss Marie Boese. of the Niblick 0 . store, is taking a week’s vacation. 4 during which time se is visiting in 5 Toledo. Cleveland and other lake citJ les. Miss Ida Qunsett is clerking in *. her place. ~ | Chalmsr Porter left on a week’s trip through northern Indiana and i Ohio as traveling salesman for the f Decatur Supply Company Chaltm r { recently returned from overseas serv--1 ice. . An automobile belonging to E. W. , Hobitzel, which was stolen from where Jit was parked on Jefferson street 1 Saturday evening between 6 and 10 K o'clock has been recovered by Sheriff ; Sells and it is hoped tliaTefforts to--1 apprehend the criminals will result • favorably—Van Wert Daily Times. ; MEETING CF STOCKHOLDERS I Notice is hereby given that the I annual meeting of the stockholders J of the Old Adonis County Bank will ! be held at their banking house. Deca- ' tur. Indiana, at 10 o’clock a. m.. on ’ Tuesday, August 5, 1919, ’ for the purpose of electing nine director., to serve for the ensuing year J I an dto transact such other business I as may come before them. ; ; E. X. EHINGER, Cashier. , e. d. Aug. 5.

SPAN OF LIFE LENGTHENED iU No Doubt That the People of Today U Live Longer Than Did Their p Ancestors. ri When reading of people who lived 0 long years ago and especially when ii reading about the length of their Ilves, “ we are told that In the old days peo- a pie lived longer than they do now. U Some of the early historical records " speak of single individuals who lived j. hundreds of years. There is great 3 doubt as to whether these statements g are founded on fact. In thinking about U this we must first take Into eonsidera- nJ tlon that these records of long ago 3 were recorded at a time when man Jj had no accurate idea of the actual passage of long periods of time such |i as a year. They did not have our cal- 3 endar as a. basis for figuring at all. ? Learned men now tell us that the act- LJ nnl age of men who lived at the time m these records of gn at ages were re- g corded probably lived shorter Ilves 3 than we do now. and that what they recorded ns a periad of one year was r probably a much shorter period than one year. 2 It Is true beyond the question of a doubt Hint the people of today live [I longer on an average than people who g lived ten, twenty or more years ago, <■ observes the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. E In other words, the average period of L life has Increased steadily. This Is ? due to tliu fact that we have taken c greater care of our bodies : have ini- ■ proved the conditions in which we live, 1 and made them more sanitary; have j_ learned to fight ami check and eradl- - cate diseases which only a few years L ago we could not prevent people dying L of when they once contracted them, “ and we know from the records which j we keep that actually people live long- ■ er on the average today than only a & few years ago. ami it is safe to say [ that they live longer now on the over- - age than at any time in the world's his- c tory. * STRICT ETIQUETTE IN CHINA J ——. Matter of Tea Drinking a Thing of j Much Importance in the Flowery ■ Republic. The etiquette observed In tea drink- p Ing in China is very curious. If a j lady asks you to drink tea with her— , and especially if the tea be sweetened E —you can count yourself as well re- | reived and much liked. If she does ■ nor iike you, the tea i« bitter, and | report has it that In cases of this sort , drainings are often used. After one sip of such tea Hie unliked visitor ( makes a prompt exit! ■ When making a all. if the servant J should bring in a cup of tea there . Is no need to take any particular no- ; tiee of it. Allow the servant to place . It where he likes , near you. and con- ; tinue your conversation as though • nothing had happened. If your business is pleasant and agreeable to the i mistress or the master of the house, ’ he or she will pass the beverage to you; if not, you are expected to leave I it untouched, otlu rwise you are likely to have a quarrel on band, and a Chi- ■! nose quarrel —either with a man or a ; woman —is unpleasant. Ancient Asbestos. There was a winding sheet of amianthus in the Vatican library, soft and i pliable in the hand, showing Indica- . | Hons of ignition upon one corner. The ‘ cloth, however, did not suffer. This i burning is taken as showing that some 1 combustible fiber hud been intermin- ’{ gled. Marco Polo, in the thlr- • tcenth century, reported a cloth which I the natives of territory now included > in Russian Siberia claimed as having J been made of salamander skin I Marco Polo satisfied himself, so it *1 seems, that he had to do witli a mln"i eral substance. In fact, lie found out ( ’ something as to its manufacture. . ’ In this same general region of country ' = { asbestos is today known to exist. / We are not to regard asbestos as a ; single, definite mineral. Nor are we . J to understand that there is a fixed { chemical constitution. Certain forms , ’ of hornblende and serpentine, If J 1 fibrous, are regarded as asbestos. < « Fully Qualified. • £ They were arguing about quallflca- ; • tioiis for successful careers, and a fa- ■ 1 molts playwright, who was one of the e - party, maintained that the stage of- . t fired the easiest opportunities for J I beginning. As some doubt was thrown • ' on this claim, he prodm ed a letter ; ’ from a man who wished to be en- ■ 1 gaged for his new play, which was J ' alioiii to lie produced. The letter ran • r as follows: < J -Keverend Sir: Wishing to go on ■ i the stage, would like to appear in , I your play. Have been a market gar- ■ ■ ileiier for some years, but. having , gone bankrupt, have decided to take ■ v.p acting, the same requiring no cap- , 1 Ital. I am no longer young, but 6 ■ feet 2 in my stocking feet. Have J nn Mered a book on elocution, and am • \ fond of"late' hours.*—Windsor. | t Scotland’s River System. ; [f there lie one place north of the • Tweed where, at a single glance, one , may view and comprehend Hie chief ‘ river system of Scotland. Stirling is , that place. From this point oho notes ; the main stream® the affluents, and < the gathering of the waters, which make the Clyde, the Forth and the ■ i Tay. He can then realize how great J ' and important in the political and ■ I economic history ot Scotland lias been ' that great central valley, which ; stretches from the North sea to the ' waters of the Atlantic Ocean. —William Elliot Griffis, in ‘'Bonnie Scotland.”

THERE’S JOY I : IH TOWN JiL : I FOR SURE! ! * (Sb 1 I | MJ I ! | H-PFR-Nfl is now Vt\ I |LU ULR IW so i d in J V | | bottles as well as at the & | ® fountains. It’s the most 1 refreshing thirst quench- ‘‘’'xxW’fr I ler for home use or for </. | I picnics. Order a case to- .SgWj | | day from the bottler. g ® 1 I Confer’s Ice Cream Co. 1 | Phone 92 | s Lu-cer-no is made in Decatur by Also Products Co. ? *l* i I I* I i ii | Complete New Line of White | | II Wash Skirts i{! Summer Voile and Gingham Dresses | t+ I + :: * a Mt V* I $ I ft :: : t J I I H 1 •’ t ♦ * it .I 1 Il P We have just received a new line of White Summer * t II II Wash Skirts, prices .... $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.50, X X and $5.00. t X it II One Special Lot of White and Colored Wash Silk Pop- til P P lin Skirts, nicely embroidered, worth, $5.75, this tit P P sale, while they last $4.35 XI * P One lot of Voil Dresses, just received, extra good til ■; ;; values, $7.50 and $8.50 tI d Pt .til ■ • ;; New Gingham Dresses, latest styles, well tailored :: at $6.00, $7.50 and $8.50 til 11 : P All Spring and Summer Coats and Suits at Sale Prices. j g P P Every garment We Offer is This Season’s Choice Style |I • P and You Will Be Well Paid to Make Your Selections. t I • tl: A ■ I NIBLICK & CO. :: I h Where Fashion Reigns 113 - • S 5 8 + p|p ,:|i X ’..’SLW- ■■■■ ■■■■■■l " j

Page Five