Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1912 — Page 5

IN | This store you find new ways of doing busi- £ ness; we put your interest ahead of ours. We E want you to be satisfied when you buy our shoes and to stay satisfied with them afterwards. You will realize this when you see the styles we show you, the quality we give, the care we S take to get just the right shoe for your foot I I Easy to buy here, we do the worrying, try us. L —— ——' ■ Charlie Voglewede i £ THE SHOE SELLER * On The West Side Os The Street

0 ♦«♦«»»<••■»♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦>•»» g i WEATHER FORECASTi t : i* >+-* ♦«♦♦♦+***♦«•♦++♦++ B Fair tonight and Thursday. Mrs. Robert Blackburn went to For; Wayne this morning. Miss Mae Berling will entertain the bachelor Maids Wednesday evening Mts Will Rupdell went to Fort i ;< :.e this morning to spend the day th friends. Dr Rayl, the well known .Monroe fiitsician was a business visitor in • latur yesterday afternoon. Hiss Electa Glancy is spending the day in Fort Wayne visiting with •fiends and taking her weekly music lesson Mrs. Jesse Williams and son, Dar- ;•>!!. s"ent the at the home of her treats, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deatn, in Root township Mrs. Henry Krick has returned •■om Marion, where she accompanied babe to the orphans’ home, Mrs. Krick being a member of the chilMett's board of guardians.

HMM i THE HOME OF g I Quality Groceries G There Is A Place A Season ?nd a reason For Everything This Is The Place For Every Seasonable Thing In The Grocery Line And There’s A Reason Why We Sell ThemTHE QUALITY Qt. Jar Olives 25c. Qt. Jar Sour Pickles 15c Canned Soups 10c Extra Fancy gHoney 18c lb. Fancy Michigan Celery alway Freshs Fancy cakes and wafers in packages or bulk. F u line of breakfast foods to select from Cream anc Switzer, cheese. Let us supply you with good country butter. We pay cash or trade for produce . Eggs 25. Butter 19 to 25c Hower and Hower. North of G. R. & I. Depot. JXO. S. BOWERS F V M ’p S rp H President V.-Pre a t& lreas. o | FRENCH QUINN 2 Secretary H THE BOWERS; REALTY CO. I REAL ESTATE. B ABSTRACTS. I The Schirmeyer Abstract CompanyTcomplete’Ab- & stract Records, Twenty yearsJEXpenence ■ Farms, City Property, 5 per cent MONEY ®

| Mr. and Mia. HA. Snider left lor , Etna Green, Ohio, where Mrs. Snider [ will visit with her father and mother. > Thomas Teeple was a Fort Wayne J business visitor yesterday afternoon, I going to contin-e treatment for his eyes. J. H. Vogk ede will leave tomori row morning for Indianapolis to visit ■ ' relatives and to hear Woodrow WilI son speak. ■| Mrs. Charles Miller ami son. Walter, • returned yesterday from Rockford, () , :! wh-te they visited with her son Er- , I vin Millet and wife. I Mr. and Mrs. Mann Andrews will leave today for Kansas City, Kans., i< where Mrs. Andrews will spend a couI pie of weeks visiting with her father, . who is very sick. , The members of the Baptist church ; held an interesting cottage service at ! the home of Mrs. H. L. Coverdale last evening. Mrs. Coverdale is recover- • ing from an illness, during which t me she was unable to attend church. Miss Ella Parsons, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Lena Flurer, retnrned to her home at Woodburn this morning, being called | sbere th< illness of her mother, Mrs. Henry Parsons.

Paul Miller, jr., went to Ft. Wayne this morning. Albert Schlickman has taekn a position as clerk at the Schlickman ft Bailey restaurant. A fellow named Wood was brought up before the mayor on a plain drunk charge and pleading guilty drew a fine of |5 and costs. Mrs. Ed Johnson and son. Lester, Mrs. Dan Hill and son, John Edward, were guests today of their sister, Mrs. John Ballard, in Root township. While wrestling with a Schnepp boy on the Laman farm east of the city, John Spahr, a boy about sixteen years old, had the misfortune to have his left elbow dislocated. Members of the committee on the decoration of the Ollie James meeting sre requested to meet at the office of County Surveyor Ernst in the interurban block at 8 o'clock this evening. * John Spuller and Noah Frauhiger were the auctioneers at a big sale of dairy cattle at the Kindel farm near Fort Wayne Tuesday. The sale was a most successful one, fifty head of dairy cows and thirty heifers being disposed of. The cattle averaged sixty dollars per head. Tuesday night the proposed citv basket ball team held a meeting at their hall on Madison street and the following players were picked for the season: Core and Shoemaker, for-1 wards; Biggs, center: Burk and Beery, guards: Brenterkamp, substitute. After the team was picked the election of officers was held, the resvlts being Burk, captain; Beery, treasurer; Schmitt, manager. Manager Schmitt has a game booked with C nrubusco for Wednesday during Old Home Week, and the boys will be around selling tickets in a few davs. From this line-up it can be seen that i > team is a strong one, and that they will put up some good and fast games. The fust number of the Geneva high school patter. The Informer, was distributed today. The editors are Forest Fike, editor in chief; Ralph 1 < tins, senior class; Doris Acker, junior class; Virginia Pyle, sophomore class, and Mary Hoskinson, freshman class, as associate editors. The high school this year numbers

• vry-Sve. the largest in the history of the school since it has received a commission. It ha senrolled a number of students from surrounding towns where they only have a threeyear course in the high school. The school\s under the direction of H. M. Griffey, as sujierintendent; S. V. Millikan, principal, and Miss Myrtle Lung, assistant principal. —o (Advertisement) TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Notice is hereby given that Clara Brandyberjy, my wife, has left me, and that I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her. Please take notice of this. Advt.-233t3 WM. BRANDYBERRY. (Advertisement 1 WANTED —Boarders 'ind roomers at 411 N. 2nd St. 2»t6* o—(Advertisement) WILL DECORATE RESIDENCES. (Advertisement) Seifert Bros., who will do the decorating in Decatur for Old Home Week, will also decorate your dwellings if you desire it. Practically every business house in the city will be gaily ribboned and flag-covered, and the dwellings should not be neglected, prices and information given on application at our headquarters, three doors south of interurban station. 235 t 3 SEIFERT. BROS. THE GRIM REAPER Nelson Steele, Former Adams County Boy, Died at Bluffton. TWO BABES DIE Widow of Rev. A. J. Reynolds Former Decatur Man, Dies in East.

Nelson Steele, brother of Charles Steele of this city, and son of David Steele, formerly a prominent farmer of Kirkland township, died at his home in Bluffton Tuesday night at about 11 o'clock from heart disease, with a dropsical trend, his lungs filling up with water. I He had been sick for some time and had been at the point of death for several days. He formerly lived in Kirkland township on his father's farm and is well known in this county. The funeral will be held from the M. f I-;, church at Bluffton Friday at 2 p. m.

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F. V. Mills reeeiv d word this morning from his brother-in-law, Rev. C. G. Reynolds, of Elizabeth, N. .1., of the death of his me'her, Mrs. A. J. Reynolds, which occurred Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Sharpe, at Blairstown, N. J. Mrs. Reynolds was the widow of Rev. A. J. ’Reynolds, who about twenty-eight years ago was pastor for five or six years of the Presbyterian church tn this city and is remembered by many here. Besides Rev. C. G. Reynolds and Mrs. Sharpe, she is survived by a daughter, Miss Grace Reynolds, at Blairstown, N. J, and Rev. Walter H. Reynolds, of Greensburg, Ind. The funeral will be held tomorrow at Norwood, Cincinnati, Ohio. With the telegram came word that Miss Mary, daughter of Rev. C. G. Reynolds, who has been in poor health for some time, is very low. Funeral services were conducted

this afternoon at the John Meriea home by the Rev. T. L. Jones of the Baptist church, for the little stepgranddaughter of Mr. Meriea, whose death occurred Tuesday morning. The babe was four months old, and is one of twins, the other dying some time ago. The girl baby born Saturday night to Mr. and Mrs. Noah Baker, died this morning. The mother was for- j merly Miss Leota Ross. Henry Schmidt, a civil war veteran,, aged about seventy-five years, passed away at 11 o'clock today at the home oi his step-daughter, Mrs. Schwartz, mar Freidheim, from infirmities at-' tending old age. The funeral ar-: langements had not been decided upon at time of going to press, other services will be held at the i’dieffhelm lA’theran church.

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