Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1913 — Page 5

I OUR SHOE I I I I SOMETIME I ft; I | WHY NOT NOW? | d Charlie JVoglewede | P THE SHOE SEEL.L_t£F?

■ — c F i‘ WEATHER FORECAST:, 4 ♦ •>-• r S I Fair tonight and Friday; colder tonight. * Curley Radeinackei: spent yesterday < afternoon in Fort Wayne. ' John Tyndall made a business trip to Fort Wayne thia morning. Miss Naomi Dugan went to Fort Wt-yue this morning to spend the day. ] The Missee Louise Hvurock and Let- < tie Lang spent yesterday in Fort < Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer J spent yesterday afternoon in Fort I Y/ayne. J. F. Lachot left this morning on a business trip to Eerro and from 1 theie to Bryeat and oCier places far- 1 tlier south. 1 G. H. Gentle left this morning for Indianapolis, whre he will attend the n <• ng of the county assessors and i commissioners wbicu is being held : there the 2nd. 3rd an* 1 4th of this week.

i THE HOME OF e Er V I Quality Groceries i 11///km I I IT IS DUE I k Y// JM / fi 30 l'TS<7jAvfiS3 / /ffl ac tive selling i W L O w I OFGOODGOODS I Wll. iti That Our Stock Ils Kept Fresh and Clean. They Are Coming and Going Continn'ly. Our continuous increase of business is due to the Qualitp of goods and the up-to-date facilities tor handling the trade. » . The New Year would be a good time to begin business with a goods ■ ore. Try us. We always pay the high price for country butter We pay cash or trace for produce Eggs 20. Butter 19 to 25c | Hower a d Hower. | North of G. R. &I. r ’Phone 108. I F.M. SCHIRMEYER FRENCH QUINN President Secretary Treas. H| I THE [BOWERS REALTY CO. | . REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ABSTRACTS. I 1 ■ The Sehirmever Abstract Company comph (4 stract Records, T wenty years Experience ‘Farms, City Property. 5 ner cen+ ,* MONEY

Mrs. Levi Miller went to Berne yesterday to visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hoffman were visitors in Fort Wayne yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bailey were Foil Wayne visitors yesterday afternoon. Miss Esther Enos returned last evening from a week's visit in Monroeville with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn and daughter, Reba, were Fort Wayne v isItors yesterday afternoon. A. J. Smilhjleft this morning for Bellefontaine, Ohio, where he will look alter business matters. Miss Bertha Loser returned to her home at Fort Wayne this morning after spending New Year’s as the guest of Mrs. Lee. Sir. and Mrs. Jesse Dailey, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Seilemeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Vail attended the show in Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Uhl and daughter, Jeanette Terveer, returned to their home at Toledo this morning after spending New Year's with the B. J. Terveer family. Mr. .and Mrs. Otto Kirsch and daughter. Helen; Mr. and Mrs. Mat Kirsch, Sir. and Mrs. Peter Kirsch and son. Harold, were guests of Fort Wayne friends on New Year's day.

Mlaa Nell Brown went to Ft. Wayne i this morning. Judge LaFolletto of Portland was . here this morning on business in court. • Mrs, Clarence Cornthwalte of Peru, Is the guoU of hrv parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kltsc«i. || Miss Huldah Bauer returned this il morning to her teaching at St. JohtV"- ;■ The school resumes after a. week's i vacation. y The Decatur schools had a Now | Year's holiday of one day yesterday, i This was In addition to the vacation jof the preceding week. Mrs. Horace Bothotf returned this morning to F&it Wayne after a v’slt with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Armstrong, at Pleasant Milts. J John Stadler returned from Bucy-; rus, Ohio, he spent Christmas ' and New Year's. Mrs. Sptiller and i I sister. Miss Ruth Mayer, will return I the last of the week, Burt Christen of Toledo, Ohio, and Jesse Christen of the Christian phar- j maey, Fort Wayne, came down to i spend New Year’s with their parents, i Mr. and Mrs. John Christen. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griebel and daughter, Bessie, and nieces, Rhea i and Geraldine Harshman, returned to , Fort Wayne this morning after spending New Year’s with relatives in Will- ‘ 1 shire, Ohio. James Everett es Barker Creek, Mich., arrived this morning for a visit with his cousin. John Everett, and ■ other relatives and friends. Mr. Ev- ■ erett is a fruit grower and farmer In j i the Wolverine state. Miss Nellie Neiderhauser, of TJnn j I Grove was in Bluffton this morning | 1 on her way to Marion, to look after : business matters there and for ashort visit with her brother, Homer j Neiderhauser. —Bluffton News. John Ul-i k ft this morning for his i home at 171 kb. t. Ind., after spending! New Year's with his daughter and j son, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Case. Mrs. | Case accompanied her father to his home and will visit there for a month. Bert Christ i of Toledo, Ohio, Is visiting here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Christen. He was de- ' layed in his arrival here until late ’ New Year's a! moon on acrour: of a wreck on th Pennsylvania, wheat ■ their train le f t the track near Toledo, I Ohio. 1 Miss Jts s'agley made a short 1 New Yer-'s ' ’! yesterday afternoon' 1 at Fort W;v on her cousin, Mrs ! 1 Harry Ch' ' and her new baby son. | Mrs. ChrU ' .-.as M’ss Nettie Buck-| intrhnm. and a granddaughter of 1 Henry Mi'i» - near Geneva. Frank Mills, v.ho is spending a week with his parr \ Mr. and Mrs. F. V Mills, will Je- Saturday evening for ' his work a nneapolis, Minn. He I lis employed it he Northwestern Tele-' ' phone comps- 's office. When Frank i ! left sleigh-rid' < was being enjoyed I there. Mart’’ P has returned from a ; visit with ♦ • of his daughters, who ’ live at P.<« ' Mich. Ho spent ten ; days there h his daughters. He | says that tl ’weather in Michigan j during tbs t'u a he was there was i about the sa- o that we have been 'having in Ind ana.—Bluffton News. Heiny Gass, the popular little newsboy, i s -also 1 a,captain of a basket I ball team, and it's some team, too, I don't ovorlook that fact. They de- | fr»ated Dick 1 ! oiler’s northenders and p they wall" d Winfield Maddy s s, scuthwa;der‘- so Dick Archbold organised a new central team, and secured <t mat Wednesday, but it’s the same old story. Heiny’s team “eats I ’em alive.” The St. Joseph boys won ■ by a score of 12 to 1, and now they are gettiner so chesty that if somebody don’t stop them they will be challenging t • • city all-stars. | Tt has been aid that the reply of a child Is verv much akin to a woman’s mind: you never quite know what turn it is going to take. It Is frequently dogmatic. A small girl was drawing a picture “out of her head.” ‘‘What are ’ou drawing?” asked her mother. "God,” replied the child, stmn’y. "F yon can’t draw God,” ■protested th' mother, “because you have never coen Him, and no one has : ever seen H and no one knows j what He is llkft” The small child licked her nonoH and put on another touch “Th"v will know when I've finished P ” -tbei said. —The Strand. Mr p’red '"ers, who comes here with “The G 'I and the Drummer.” on next Friday tit, got in bad with one I of the news - users in an lowa city a I few years p > Mr. Byers had occai sion to nr." i local newspaper in the I second act <•■' the play they were pre- 1 J sentir.g. T’» next day the reporter who review' ‘he per'ormance said: ; ' "In the second act, -where the scene i is an EmrllFh drawing roofn, Mr. Dy- 1 lersIers snatched in a copy of our paper with our baci- page in full view of the 1 audience, and snoke of it as the London Times. We would like to ask : Mr. Byers what grievance he has against our office? Mr. Byers appears i here Friday. January 3, with “Tho Girl and the Drummer.” at the opera house

Ur. £. V, Canell VETERINARIAN rnon«i R«ddence 102 ——Ufc—lman mi— an« phonr ’ Office '■>**<* rHONE ] Res. 297 Dr. Sterling P. w Practitioner of General Medi- ; cine and Surgery i Office Over Interurban Station Res. 223 N. Fifth St. i ! Michigan Farms , _— i T you are interested in Mich' . igan farms or real estate write HAIGHT & HICKS Howard City, Mich. VV e have the Bargains from $lO. per acre up. Blankets Robes Big deduction in Price of Winter Goods i — Special on full line Burlap Stable blankets 90c Bargains in Wool Plush Robes pecial sale on Chase’s Rub-, ber Interlined Robes CHAS. F. STEELE I WilW For The New Year’s Festival we have prepared a delicious i assortment of Cakes and pastry that cannot fail to meet the and the appreciation of all who require these articles to be of unusl ual merit. They can be relied upon to excel in purity i of ingredients and excellence • and skill in baking produc- ' ing result that cannot be sur- ! passed. i Jacob Martin ■ y ■—■ . — Start ttie IsJew Year Right Get all your bflls into one. We will loan you the necessary money on your household goods, piano, fixtures, teams, etc., et«., without removal. We give you a written statement of your contract. Also allow extra time without charge in-case of sickness or loss of work. ' ' 84c is the -weekly payment on a $35.00 loan for fifty weeks. Larger '.or smaller amounts at same proportion. If you need money fill out H and mail us this blank and our ■ Agent will call on you. , q Name ■ J Address - ■ S Amount wanted ■ ■ 8 Our agent is in Decatur ev- n H ery Tuesday. ’’ Reliable Private - '*s Established 1896. Room 2, Sec- . § ond Floor, 706 Calhoun Street I d Home ’Phone, 833. 1 Pnr*

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Louis Scheumann visited with , friends in Fort Wayne yesterday. I F. H. Hubbard, manager of the Hol-land-St. Louis Sugar company’s local plant, returned thia morning from a i visit in Michigan. I o— I WANTED—Salesmen, to look after our interest in Adams and adjacent | counties. Salary or commission. Ad-1 dress Lincoln Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio.—Afivt. 2t2 | ’ < Help us make January our | J biggest subscription month '.by paying yours to 1914 and J secure one of the souvenir ; knives.

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Smoke only cigars made under sanitary conditions, ci.r ,»s that are not half import duty half tobacco. The “White Stag" Extra Mild cigar is a home grown product and made c the finest domestic tobaccoes skillfully blended with Vuolla Abojo Havana and mat ea dandy smoke and if you s»«t the “White Stag” habits it will keep the nickels at home and every little bit helps. Try it once.