Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 4 July 1912 — Page 5

Mr. Bunion Man If you’ve hv! ttuuble finding a -'1 ’■> fit I want to show you mv bunion '■hoe. Ti e uppers are of Chrome b •ngo.'a Jtr.i.tr. si ft as a glove, the last has the exact u i Ins of a bunion foot, raised at th-* j >in f ’’t ii_-re you want relief, has cushion in suits tni’. conform to the bottom of the foot and releive any corns or callouses. I want every Bunion Man to try on a pair of these I shoes, no obligation to buy. just satisfy your- ■ self that there is a shoe made for you. I Mens $4.00 I I Charlie Voglewede I *; THE SI-HOE SELLER | T On The West Side Os The Street S

! WEATHER FORECAST j ♦ ♦ | j. t j. ~+ 4 ++++++++++++•!■++)■ F Lors! showers tonight and Thursday. — " " —’~ i Charles Lose will spend the Fourth at Celina. Ohio. Miss Mamie Harting will spend the, Fourth at Celina, Ohio. Mr. Hilty of Berne, the late post- I master, was in the city today on busi- ( Dr. and Mrs. John C. Grandstaff of. Preble were business visitors here to- ’ i day Mr. and Mrs. John Moran will go to St. Henry, Ohio, for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Herman. A baby girl, who has been named ; Irma Venese, is a late arrival at the, home of Mr. and Mrs John Singleton' in Root township. J. H. Weldy, a former Decatur boy, has been hired as principal and instructor in physics .'or Angola school term 1912-13. • — ——■ —

1 1 THF HOME 0F ■ Q ua ’’ty Groceries ; Z J|ra Ij, wnswaoßK! ?»« .J W 7 ' W HURRAH for The Fourth Os July! J N° One p 77 -"' '•-" Can Be Patriotic | With an unappeased Appetite. Our good grocer- i ies will fire your enthusiasm to the exploding point’ Most appropriate for 4th. of July Dinners! Would These Help Your Picnic Dinner Sweet pickles. Sour pickles, Sweet mixed pickles Olives, Peanut butter, Canned meats, and cream or switzes cheese, and plenty of good country butter. Our store will be closed all day on the 4th. of July. \ve pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 16. Butter 19 to 25c j Hower and Hower- | North of G. R. &I. Depot. Thone 108. j E JNO. S. BOWERS I « President V.-Pres t & Treas. * fi FRENCH QUINN | ! s Secretary I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. | REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. g ■ The Schirmeyer Abstract Company compete Al- k, * street Records, twenty years Experience I Farms, City Property, 5 per cent S I MONEY ■ jE . jqBHB

Mrs, Dan Hill went to Monmouth for a visit. ’ ll.*' Mrs. Cbalmer Schafer and daughter were at Fort Wayne today visiting. Charles Sether made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. William Biberstine left today for Battle Creek. Mich., to visit after being here for several weeks with relaI tives. i An Italian orchestra, comprls’ng harpist, two violinists and a flute play--1 er, rendered exquisite music on the I streets of the city today, and were royi ally greeted. On account of Thursday being the i Fourth of July, the Ruth Circle meetI tng of this week will be postponed un- | til Thursday of next week, when Rev. | and Mrs. George Owen will entertain. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Gates of Willshire changed cars here this morning enroute to Fort Wayne. Mrs. Gates I will enter the Lutheran hospital, where , she will probably undergo an operai tion The Misses Ethel Ehinger, Catherine Holthouse and Stella Kohns, who have been students in the convent of the Sisters of St. Agnes at Fond du lac, Wic., have arrived hame for a two weeks’ visit with their parents.

J. A. Brown went to Fort Wayne this morning John Lachot was a business caller at Williams today. Mrs. Jeff Addy and babe of Root township were In the city this morning. Dr. Costello made a professional business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. George Brewster and Albert Butler were business callers at Monmouth this morning. Mrs. D. 8. Barkley returned to her home near Hoagland this morning after shopping here. Miss Lilah Lachot left this morning for Apple Creek, Ohio, for a visit with relatives. Miss Clara Bultemeier will spend the Fourth in Fort Wayne the guest II of her sister, Mrs Ernst Nahrwald. I Mrs. Sadie Cowley and daughter, Maude, of Fort Wayne are here for a visit over the Fourth with the C. J. Weaver family, Mrs. John Crone of Winchester, Ky., who has been a truest of the J. H. I’remerkamp family and others, left this morning for St. Mary's, where she will visit before returning home. Lilah Lachot left today for Orville, Ohio, after a short stay, and from there will go to Apple Creek to visit with her uncle, G. K. Lachot, and her brother, Dwight, who is working in a large rubber house there. Mrs. William Hurst and daughter, Helen, of Rock Island. 111., who have been visiting here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Conklin, left Monday evening for Decatur, where they will visit with relatives.—Bluffton News. Mrs. Florence Tyndall and two children of Pennville, who have been visiting with her brothqr-in-law, J. S. McCrory, and family, since Saturday, will leave this evening for Van Weit. Ohio, where they will be guests over the Fourth. Bluffton will not have a street fair this year as has been its custom in past years, but is making preparations to hold a big chautauqua, covering the week of July 12-19. which will bring to that city some of the very best lecturers and entertainers. Dr. J. N, Hurty says that when locking for a summer resort, the question you should first settle is, has the resort good sewerage, pure water and no flies. Without these conditions Dr. Hurty says you take a long chance of closing your vacation with an attack of typhoid fever. William May of Cleveland, Ohio, is 1 here for a visit with Ms mother, Mrs. I Boyd May, who has been ill for sometime. His grandmother, Mrs. William Harden, who has been sick for some time, is in a serious condition, and he will also visit at her bedside. — | Bluffton Banner. I At Hartford City Della Cheney, aged | fifteen, applied for divorce from her I husband, Fred Cheney, but Judge Sturgis refused to grant the divorce on I the grounds that the girl lied about i her age whfti she married a year ago. I She declared she was fifteen, when she was but fourteen. Earl Sowards, proprietor of the I Madison street garage, left this morning for Detroit. Mich., to secure a Hup touring car, which he recently disposed of, and will drive it through to this city. He expects to reach home by 9 o’clock this evening, if everything goes well, and he meets with no accidents. Russell Harruff. an electrician at the Fort Wayne Electric Works, sustained injuries to his back in his efforts to lift a motor boat off a sandbar at Lake James. He was able to get down to the shop this morning but is very badly crippled. Maurice Steele was with Mr. Harruff at the lake. —Ft. Wayne Sentinel. I Two deaths resulted from the severe storm In Allen county, in one case a horse being struck by lightning and in the other a Jersey cow meeting death from the same cause. The I horse was the property of William I Crabbs, who lives near Norton Crossing, on the Decatur interurban. The cow belonged to Henry McMacken, near the golf grounds. The funeral of Mrs. John McCague, a life-long resident of Bluffton and Wells county, was held Tuesday afternoon. Her death occurred Sunday morning from an extended illness with cancer of the breast. Her maiden name was Mary Diana Sutton McCague. a daughter of Oscar and Margaret Sutton, and she was born on the old Frees or Sutton farm near Murray. She was sixty-two years of ' age. She is survived by her husband : and three children. Rert Tucker and Jacob Moser had a collision with their bicycles on East Main street Saturday evening, by which Bert was thrown to the brick pavement with sue* force that he was picked up for dead, and he did not regain consciousness until Sunday afternoon. He has a big gash on his head and until yesterday was still unable to give an account of himself and had not yet fully realized what had happeneu to him. Mr. Moser escaped without l.jury.—Berne Witness.

Miss Inac* Ray went to Chicago to ' visit for a while. John Omler of Root township was a ; business visitor here today. Miss Treva Ray went to Monroe ( to »i>end a few days with her grand mother. J. P. Haeflfng will arrive from Rochester today to spend the Fourth with his family. Miss Dorothy Erwin of Ft. Wayne, will spend the Fourth with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Erwin. Mrs. John Lachot left at noon today for Berne to attend the Sunday school picnic to b-* held there on the Fourth. Mr. And Mrs. Clem I’hl and daughter, Jenette, of Toledo. Ohio, who visited with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Terveer, have returned home. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Brown and daughter of Coffeyville, 111., transferred here this morning on their way to Kalamazoo, Mich., to visit for a week or so. The glove factory will close this evening for the remainder of the week, thus allowing the employees a vacation of several days as well as over the Fourth. F. V, Mills writes friends here that he enjoyed the convention at Baltimore much, and ts now visiting at other points in the east. He will probably return Friday. Merl Burdg left this morning for Sidney, Ohio, on business, after visiting here with her parents She was accompanied by her brother, Dick, who will make a visit with her. The families of County Clerk F. Bleeke and Glia Relnking, will spend the Fourth in Fort Wayne, where they will attend the opening and dedication of the new Foster park The Mieses Edith and Velma Erwin will leave tomorrow for Delphos, Ohio, where they will visit. Miss Edith will return Sunday evening and Velma will spend a week with her brother, Ralph Erwin and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schulte and son, Frederick, and Louis and Herman Boehne of Union township, are at Cincinnati, and today attended the wedding of Lottie Mueller to a Mr. Wolfrang, well known young people. Miss Rena Butler arrived from New Castle for a visit with Ray Collins and family over the Fourth. Miss Butler was a former clerk of Mr. Collins. wb" bad chr.:ve of a five and ten cent store there before coming here to manage the Morris store. The school board, which was .to have met this evening to receive bids for the frescoing of the school house rooms, has -postponed its meeting, on account of the aosence of several members, F. V. Mills being at Baltimore attending the convention, and O. L. Vance at Rome City. Word from the Eugene Runyon and J. Q. Neptune families, who arrived Monday afternoon at 3 o clock at Lake James, is that they reached there safe and were having a good time. When the card was written, immediately tipon their arrival there, they had had fish for a meal already. They didn't say whether they caught them. The fourth annual old settlers' meeting of Adams, Jay and Wells countiis will be held at Linn Grove July, 19, 20, and 21. Prominent speakers are being engaged for the occasion. The secretary, Nelson Bricker, states the program will soon be completed. The ground selected for the affair is situated along the line of the B. G. & C. traction company, which will add to the convenience of getting there. Various attractions are being secured, such as ballcij ascensions, merry-go-round, and contests are being arranged. The attendance will doubtless be large. O I BASE BALL DOPE. Lovers of base ball are asked to bear in mind the two games to be played here July Fourth between the Decatur Shamrocks and the Fort Wayne Crystals. The first game will be played at 9:45 in the morning, and the second at 2:30 in the afternoon. o RUTH CIRCLE NOTICE. The Ruth Circle will meet this evening at the home of Mrs. Noah Mangold to perfect arrangements for the Children’s day exercises it the Christian church. POLICE COURT NEWS. A case which has been pending for some time in Squire Stone’s court In which Miss Leota Ross charges Noah Baker with bastardy will probably be called in the near future. Lately the officers located Baker in Detroit and this morning the Deputy Sheriff left for that place where tie will secure him and return him here for trial. WANTED—Boy in interurban candy kitchen. Inquire at rn.-e. 144tS Mail order'- filled ty the Bloodine Corporation, Boston, Mass. 25c a box. Holthouse Drug Co., special agents. FOR SALE—Carpet. Inquire at National bank or 636 North Third street. 151tf

i z /) i ''■7 ' M ill' lmM’ V'-J" ''i "’’x /ah WW HU a p m.i li ©r . i y ra f L-„j ■ -. ' nV ■ > I/- : ! L_ . ■ ■ ' Copyright Hart Schaffner &c YOU can just as well have a “sane 4th.” as any other kind; the idea thatjthe only way to celebrate the Day of Independence is by making all the noise possible, is beginning to loose its hold on the public, a quieter method is being approved pretty generally. You can have a sane 3rd. c. 2;;L Ui any oihtr date by coming in here on any daj and asking us to fit you in a HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX suit; you’ll like our showing of fine suits in styles that will please you; new blues, grays, tans and browns. We have suits to fit any man and prices to fit also. H. S. & M. Suits 516.50 to $25.00 Straw Hats, Negligee Shirts, Cool Underwear will help make the 4th. a pleasant holiday. Our Store Will Be Closed 4th. Os July All Day HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & COMPANY GOOD CLOTHES SELLERS FOR MEN AND BOYS

MEETING Ort STOCKHOLDERS. Notice is hereby g’.en that the annual meeting of stockholders of t.ie Old Adams County bank will be held at their binking house. Decatur, Indiana, at 10:00 a. m., cn Tuesday, August e, 1311, for the purpose of electing seven directors to serve for the ensuing year and to transact such other business as may come before them. 157t30 E. X. EHINGER, Cashier.

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MISS MEIBERS RESIGNS. Miss Tillie Meibers has tendered her resignation <x= clerk at the M. Fulleni kamp store, the same to be effective July 15. Mist Meibers has served as clerk at this place fcr ten years, and through the courtesy and efficiency has become popularly and favorably known to all in this section of the countryDerrocra* Wan* Pa>

BUYS OHIO FARM. H. T. Scherry has bought the beautiful farm of Dr. Morgan in Van Wer* county for the neat sum of $9,000, and. which Mr. Scherry intends to maSe a stock farm. Mr. Schert-y also sold three properties to Done M. Morgan of Van Wert, the deal being made through the H. E. Yocum real estate agency. DEMOCRAT WANT ’ADS PAY BIG