Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1912 — Page 5

Ep’ ' ■ Mens Tan Shoes At $2.85 F F K We boughtanice bunch of simple shoes K made of Fan Russia Calf on aver. blunt I. high toe, new golf pattern with perfor- ( ations, four lower buttons bunched and * JL’ upper button spaced, high heel and a j || snappy pattern. The rise s run from 5 ft to 8 only. If you wane a snappy shoe *7 i at a low price get in early on these. I $2.85 I ■ Charlie Voglewede I ■ the: shoe seller . - - ■ » W—— .— I ■ »l — .11 .. - . _ I

-- - — - • Bw 2 » -ItIF.R FORECIST ‘ - -i. <,. « . - *,:.*0.’l gßUnsettled weather with probably «|w or rain tonight or Thursday; somewhat lower temperature Thursday. Mars. Eli Sprunger was at Berne today visiting with relatives. | E M. Wagner nas gone to Monroe to hook after some business matters duflng the day. ■ Dave Stauffer of Berne, who was here yesterday ou business, left this" morning for his home. Mrs. William Bradford of Geneva was in Portland Tuesday on a shopping trip.—Portland Commercial Revie" About 100 volumes of books to be sold at Baumgartner’s sale Friday. Miss Lydia Bleeke returned yesterday from Fort Wayne, where she visited with her sister. ~’ Mr. and Mrs. Mcßarnes and daughter, Mrs. George Kern, and children of [Detroit. Mich., returned yesterday afternoon from Fort Wayne, where they visited with relatives. ’ J. S. McCrory and family are moving into their new home on Monroe street. This was formerly the Hart homestead, which was purchased by Mr, McCrory and remodeled, nv 'd ig a very fine and thoroughly ur-to-date residence.

38 Pairs Boys Shoes TA to $1.50 & Former Price $2.00 to $2.50 WINNES SHOE STORE IT&p~ »• «• • Viw *-• 8 ■ 1 2 | 8 The Bowers Realty Company has some excel- O 3 lent bargains in city property and Adams count & ■ farms. The company would be pleased t) na _ ® 2 you call at its office and see its offerings. the co ■ pany has plenty of X • ■ titL - Twenty ■ II years experience, complete records. t O ■ * 5 2 The Bowers Realty Go. ■ I French Quinn, Secty. o OIOIOIOIOIOIOMOIOf oIOICMOT

Mrs. Shafer Peterson spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mrs. A. Koiine is improving from I her attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Dick Hill and daughter, Mabel, went to Monmouth today. John Hilty, postmaster at Berne, was here todav ~n business. Gilbert Strickler made a business, trip to Port Wayne this morning. Miss Pearl Purdy shows no improvement from her attack of rheumatism. Mrs. H. F. Costello and daughter, Agrfes, will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow/. ; Ed’balltneyer of Bingen was num- , bered among the business callers in the.city today. John Sullivan and John Lally of Union City were in the city today, the guests of Fred Schaub J. M. East of Marcellus, Mich., was a business visitor here today with Frisinger & Sprunger. 4 , Eli Sprunger, who is at Mt. Clemens, Mich., taking treatment for rheumatism, sends word home that he is stil (about the same, there being no change noted, and he still experiences| some difficulty in getting around. Word received from W. A. Kuebler, who is at Shelby, Ohio, for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Frances Kuebler, who has been on the sick list for some time, states that she is somewhat weaker, than when be first reached her bedside, and no improvement is shown. _

' Mont Evans is visiting here with relatives. • Ed Magley made a business trip to Fort Wayne tills morning Charles Schug of Berne was here today looking alter business affairs Frank Cottrell of Berne was num I bered among the business c allers in the city today. I | A trained nurse arrived yesterday | afternoon from Fort Wayne to attend j Samuel Laman, who has been sick ' since Sunday with pneumonia. His condition is said to be quite bad. The many friends of Mrs. Electa II Blossom of Willshire, Ohio, will be I grieved to hear that Monday morning I about 7 o'clock she became very ill and for a part of the time was unconcsious, but soon became better. I Joe Hess, who has been ~0. :ing at I Bennett, Montana, retut tied home for Na visit with his mother, Mrs. Peter ! Hees, of this city. Mr, Hess is eraI ployed as a fireman on one of the I western railroads anti is making good. I Mrs. Jerry Andrews, Miss Deborah Andrews and Mies Elsie Andrews, t:< | last named of Kokomo, went to For: I Wayne this morning to call on theii I i son and brother, Franklin Andrews, a 1 patient at the Lutheran hospital. He is reported as getting along well.Mr. and Mrs. William Parker, who have been visiting with John Wil Hams and family, returned to thcl home at Columbus, Ohio, this morning. This is the first, time the relatives have met in forty-four years and al! were pleasurably surprised in seeing each other. Mrs. Amelia Hoagland has received i word from her son, Will, of Detroit, : Mich., of the serious illness of his wife, who was Miss Vesta Dibble, of this city, before her marriage. She is quite ill with inflammatory rheumatism, which has affected the heart, and she has been taken to the hospital there for treatment. A "new missing" word contest has just appeared. It Is as follows: A good church deacon sat down on the pointed end of a tack. He at once sprang up and said only two words. The last was “it.” Any one guessing the first word and sending a dollar in cash will be entitled to this perodica! lor one year.—Lippincott’s. Jeff Klopfenstein and daughter, Hai zel, of Preble, went to Fort Wayne this ' morning to call on their wife and moth- ! er, who has been at the Hope hospital J since last Monday. Mrs. Klopfenstein I is suffering from a healing in the head, the result of an attack of the grip and i she was taken to the hospital for treatment. It is not known whether an op--1 eration will be needed. Ed Ehinger, a Wabash switchman, accompanied by Mrs. Ehinger and . their son, Russell, will leave next Saturday for the west, to be gone three months. They expect to Spend a good portion of the time on the Pacific cost, where they have some relatives and friends residing in Los Angeles and other cities. The trip is to be made in the hopes that it will be beneficial to Mrs. Ehinger, who is in poor i health.- Fort Wayne Sentinel. Charles Tremp will move to this city from Linn Grove within a few days to take his [dace as successor of Ralph Haifley in the East Market street garage, which Haifley and Hugh Dustman have been operating. Mr. Tremp will become the partner of Mr. Dustman. Mr. Haifley and Vernon Gilllom” are making arrangements to give their attention the coming season to well drilling and ditch digging, in which lines they have formed a part- , nei ship, with Improved machinery.— 1 Bluffton News. Mrs. Naomi Ursell, aged seventyfive, of East Connersville, since 1862, I has earned $9,250 at the washtub. She : [ recently balanced her carefully kept ' books. She was born at Great Dur-' ham, England, and came to America when a child. In 1847 she settled in | Cincinnati and in 1892 she moved to | East Connersville, where she has since lived. Mrs. Ursell began washing for I the public in Highland county, Ohio, i in 1862, and has continued unremit-1 tingly to the present time. Her work , has averaged from six to eight wash-' ings every week during all those years. | During the years of her washing Mrs. I Ursell has reared a family of seven ! children, who were left fatherless | while the youngest was a child. I Horace Callow and John Falk, who ' I left Jonesboro, Ark., last Sunday with j Mrs. Callow, arrived at the Hope hos j pital, Fort Wayne, Tuesday afternoon, where she will be left for treatment. . It will be remembered that the Callows left thir home at West Plains, Mo., several ■weeks ago, to come to Fort Wayne, where Mrs. Callow was to enter the hospital, but that when they reached Jonesobro, Mrs. Callow's strength was exhausted and she was taken to the hospital there, to remain until she was able to continue the journey. They went there a year ago, hoping the of climate would benefit Callow’s health. She gradually grew weaker, however, and her condition is very serious, indeed, no hopes for an ultimate recovery being extended.

You’re Missing Something It's really a mistake on your part if you fail to take advantage of the special clerance prices we’re now making on suits and overcoats. You don’t need to be told that Hart Schaffner & Marx and Clothcraft clothes are the best made; if you’ve worn them you know that you get more real value for the money than ever before; and if you have’nt worn them you have’nt been fair to yourself—lt’s our clearing time and you ought to take advantage of the special prices. SIO.OO F ancy Suits and O’Coats Now $ 8.00 $12.50 Fancy Suits and O’Coats Now SIO.OO $15.00 Fancy Suits and O’Coats Now $12.00 SIB.OO Fancy Suits and O’Coats Now $14.10 * $20.00 Fancy Suits and O’Coats Now $16.00 Study these prices; better still come in and let us sho w you the merchandise t’is well worth your while. HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CQGOOD CLOTHER SELLERS FOR MEN AND BOYS

CLAIMS INNOCENCE. (United Press Service.) Pittsburg, Pa., Jan 17—(Special to; Daily Democrat) —The Rev. B. McFarland, under indictment for performing a criminal operation on Miss Elsie Dodds Coe, causing her death, protest ed his innocence in jail at Greenville, Tenn.,, where he spent last night after being arrested. He is being brought here this afternoon. The aged minister waived expedition. Bernard Meyers returned Monday afternoon from Fort Wayne, where he visited with his daughter, Mrs. Clem Hake, who has been allowed to return to her home there from the St. Joseph hospital after an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Meyers stated that she was able to walk about the house a little, but is not ii> very good health. Abe Whitright, Jr., seems to have all the bau luck going. He had just recovered from a sprained ankle re ceived in putting up ice, when a cakt slipped and fell against his ankle, and had returned to work, when Monday he became the victim of a similar accident. He was helping load ice when in some way the chute let another cake slip and it fell against the same ankle, bruising it badly. o FOR SALE. 11 Property on So. Tenth street for sale or will trade for land. 13t6 MRS. ALICE PETERSON. ; Democrat Want Ads Pav

I k —yr——i i "tt— — i =3 Ej [zero weather clothes at hot weather prices ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ I JUST WHEN YOU NEED THEM This season has been one greatly to the advantage of the buyer, the cold weather coming at the time I when yye must reduce our stock. Buy now if you need clothes and would save money thereon. The sale will §opn be over. Take another look at these prices now in vogue in our big g fi ''o 1 PRE-INVENTORY SALE:Boys knee pants 19c. Mens dress sox Bc. A lot of Men’s suits at half price. A $20.00 suit for $15.00 Boys Suite, all sizes at one half price I 35 duck coats worth $1.50 this sale 7£>c J MENS OVERCOATS I “ F~“ “ “ All $25.00 Overcoats go at this sale at SIB.OO BOYS OVERCOATS “ 22.50 ■“ “ “ 16.50 | n“ 20.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ 15.00 All SIO.OO Overcoats go at this sale at $7.50 « 18.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ 14.00 “ 8.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ 6.00 : a « 16 50 “ ““ ' “ “ ‘ 12.50 ! “ 7.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ 5.00 ' j « 15 00 - « « “ - “ 11.00 “ 6.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ 4.50 “ 12 . 50 “ - “ - “ 9.50 “ 5.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ 3.75 , H “ 10.00 “ “ “ - 8.50 “ 4.00 “ “ “ “ “ “ 3.00 ft U goo “ “ “ “ • “ 6.50 3.50 “ “ “ “ “ “ 2.50 i ■■ ......—i»■■ —■ ~~~~——■■■■ ————————~ THIS SALE IS FOR CASH ONLY [ I VANCE, HITE AND MACKLIN I ik J

ONLY 10c A COPY. All the big hits and latest in popular music just arrived at Yager Bros. & Reinking’s. 15t4 500 copies of latest in sheet music, just arrived; 10c copy—Yager Bros. & Reinking. I&t4 WANTED, TO RENT—A four or five room house, in fair condition. Inquire at this office. 14t3 FOR SALE)—ISO feet of linoleum, two yards wide, good as new; will sell for half price. Inquire at Joseph & Lang candy kitchen; ’phone 512. 14t6 FOR RENT—Eleven room house on Mercer avenue; water and lights in house; also cellar; phone 227. 14t6 Just arrived, an entire new lot oi sheet music; 10c a copy.—Yager Bros. & Reinking. 15t4 Remt mber the George Colchin Sale Monday Jan. 22nd. 3ts. FOR_SALE BICKWHEAT FLOUR Inquire of John Hessler Rural Route 2 and Phone 10 on N line, or leave orders with Smith, Yager & Falk.

{ THE HOME OF I Quality Groceries I EVERY DAY IS A BUSY DAY U WITH US MAKE THEM A LITTLE BUSIER Bv ’Phoning y our Order FOR QUALITY GROCERIES ■ This cold snappy weather is credited with dull business. Not so with us. Proof that !our quality groceries and courteous treatment pleases all. Try them. We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 27c Butter 20 to 27 j Hower and Hower. 1 North of G. R. & I. Depot. ’Phone 108.