Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1913 — Page 5

I White Duck Shoes I I For girls are selling strong this week. You’ll like I m toe style ul oiiib, short vamp with tip, medium J high tops with fancy Milo buttons b.sto 8 $125 C ■ 9to 11 1.50 k 12 to 2 1.75 » I Charlie Voglewede I | THE SHOE SELLER g

• WEATHER FORECAST i Fair tonight and Thursday. Slight! frost tonight. »■« r— . Mrs. E. I*. Carroll went to Ft. Wayne ’ for the day. J. H. Koenig of St. Mary’s, Ohio, was here today on business. Mr. and Mrs. William Kipp of Del-' phos, Ohio, went to Fort Wayne this. morning. Miss Martha Schinnerer of Willshire, Ohio, changed cars here today enroute to Fort Wayne. Mrs. John Gerard will go to Toledo this evening to visit with her daughter, Miss Irene, and sisters, for a few days. Kelson Gentls of Decatur is spendlag a few days in this city visiting with friends and also on business. — Bluffton News. Elmer Sark returned to this city ( this morning from Decatur where he spent Monday looking after business affairs—Bluffton News.

immmm— ■ i»'wn a II THE HOME OF ! I IQ OB Gr ° wries I iHK There Is jaWa-Am A PLACE, A SEASON flB&F .'== ANO A REASON H For Every Thing! This Is The Place For Every Seasonable Thing InlThe Grocery Lire And There’s A Reason Why We Sell Them THE QUALITY Extra fancy new cabbage lb Fine solid old cabbage lb. . ■ • New Berrriuda silver skin onions lb• Early Rose seed potatoes 40 ' PINEAPPLES TO CAN Size 30’s per doz'/./ - n I “ “ “ caste S “ 24’s “ dozl “ “ “ case * ’ We pay cash or trade for produce Eggs 16. Butter 20 to 28c Hower and Hower* North of G. R. & I. Depot. Phone . .. F.M. SCHIRMEYERXS FREN £? re S Treas. President otxicva 3 THE BOWERS REALTY CO. REALJESTATE, BONDS, LOANS. | ABSTRACTS.. The SchirmeverJAbstract Company complete Ab- « stract Records, Twenty years Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent MONEY

11 Mrs. Waller returned yesterday to her home at Convoy, Ohio, after a visit ; with her sister, Mrs. Lavina King. ; Attorney L. C. DeVoss left this 1 morning for Van Wert, Ohio, where I he will look after professional business. C. K. Baughman of Homer, Mich., who has been in the city on business, ! and visiting friehds, left this morning | for his home. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Burroughs were J visitors in Bluffton yesterday, Mr. I Burroughs attending to business for ' the Enterprise Drug company. I R. L. Gearhart of Fort Wayne, district sales manager for the Imperial automobile, was in the city last evenling transacting business with Vaughn /Murray, local representative. I The G. R. & I. pay car will arrive -here Friday in accordance with ’he | new law, which the recent Indiana . legislature passed, that all railroad ' employes must be paid twice a month. ; Frances Miller went to Fort Wayne |to visit with her brother, J. W. Miller. The two children of her brother’s fam--1 ily, who have been ill of typhoid fefer, are better. The little son of Frank Jones of Fort Wayne is also better.

I Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly was at | Geneva today. J Mrs. Henry Schroeder of St. John's I was shopping here today. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Steele will leave I tomorrow for Peru and Logansport on business. . Mrs. D. Costello has arrived from | Chicago to visit with her parents, Mr. I and Mrs, J, Brunnegraff. Mrs. William Wesson returned to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Scherry, at Preble. ! I C. R. Dunn, who recently sold the Watkins agency to Mr. Chapman, 1■ moved yesterday to Bluffton, where I they will reside temporarily. I Mr. and Mrs. Otto Green, who were I married In February, went to houseI keeping In the Fruchte residence, formerly the Joe Harris property. Tenth I and Monroe streets. I Edgar H. Kilbourne of Ft. Wayne I left yesterday for Dallas, Texas, to attend the annual meeting of the Imperial council of the Mystic Shrine. He is a son-in-law of U. Deinlnger, this city. I Alexander Tanvas and Henry Gamp, rof the Schafer harness shop, have started on a wagon trip to Saginaw, I Mich. They expect to be gone a 1 month and will stop along the way at ■ the lakes. Herbert Borroughs of Decatur was a business visitor in this city todav. “ Mr. Burroughs has charge of the En-1 ' terprise drug store in Decatur, which is owned by Bluffton gentlemen.— , Bluffton News. R. C. Minton, of Indianapolis, at- ; torney for the state anti-saloon league arrived last evening and will be here , during the hearing of the remonstrance. ’ I Clarence Baughman returned th's morning to Lansing, Mich., where he will join his wife. They have decldI ed not to move back to this city for the present. , i Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Smith will arrive this afternoon at 3 o’clock over the Erie from Chicago, returning from their two months’ stay itv California and the Hawaiian Islands. i —_ II A check from a Fort Wayne creamery, made payable to T. A Hendricks, for morethan eighteen dollars, was ! found at the Morris store, this city, ■ by one of the clerks. Thus far the ’ check has not been called for. j Nearly all the counties around us show a loss in. school children this year. Besides those of Wells and Jay i counties, mentioned yesterday, WhitI ley county reports a loss of 57. Ad- | ams county had a gain of forty-nine. I Lola, Dorothea and Gossard Dunn I of Decatur arrived in the city this I morning to start their studies in the I local schools. They are the children I of Charles Dunn and wife, who will [ move here this week. —Bluffton Ban'ner. i The case of Clara E. elton vs. Peter Felton, for support, was dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff at Decatur Monday. Since the suit for support was filed Mrs. Felton secured a divorce at Fort Wayne.—Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bedell of Toledo, Ohio, who arrived in the city Monday to attend the wedding of Miss Irene Schirack and Peter Gabel,.which was solemnised yesterday from the St. Mary's church, left this morning for their home. * Albert Scheumann, general freight and passenger agent for the interurban, is the proud possessor of a new Meerschaum pipe, received from a ■ Fort Wayne friend as a birthday gift. I 'Any one desiring to see the pipe may I do so by calling at the office. I Mrs. W. H. Gleiser and her aunt, Mrs. Coffin, and her grandmother, Mrs. Hyde, of Richmond, who have been making a several weeks’ visit I here, left today for Covington, Ky., | where they will visit with friends. iMrs. Gleiser will be gone a week and ■ the others will make a more extended visit. The Misses Juanita and Lola Boch * lef this morning for their future home in Fort Wayne. Their popularity was attested by the large number of school friends who accompanied them to the station and waved them farewell. The rest of the family went to Fort the first of the week. They have leased the Dan Erwin residence in Lakeside. The five iady employees of the Ward Fence company, formed a walking club yesterday and this morning decided to take their initial trip, so about 4 o'clock all met at a prearranged meeting place and started on. the hike. Everything went fine and dandy until entering a woods north of the city, when an innocent little garter snake. Just making its first debut from a long winter sleep, crossed their path. It is needless to state that the ’’club” retreated in dc■feat, in fact according to the report from an eye witness he was seriously thinking ot having the young ladies arrested for breaking the speed I laws.

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Mrs. Charles Deems and three children left this morning for Stroh to join her husband in making that place their home. Mrs. Deems is a daughter of Mrs. Emily Sideler and a sister j ; of Mrs. John Lahey and expects to re-j ■ turn here in two weeks for a visit. j STAB GROCEWV ( I Succatash 3 for . . 25c i | Sugar corn 3 for . . 25c ( f Hominy 3 for . . . 25c ’ I Sour krout 3 for . .25c it l. > 1 t Mustard sardins 3 for2sc g > I Red seal lye 3 for . 25c I E Santa Claus soap 6 for 25c g f Lenox soap 6 for . . 25c | ■ Day light 10 for . . 25c g ’ Raisins 3 lbs. . . . 25c : Shreaded wheat 2 ! for 25c ’ Matches 6 for . . . 25c [Will Johns. P P E

A home-made motorcycle caused much excitement on the street this morning when it came chugging

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along at a merry clip, guided by Frank Parent. The engine of another disabled motorcycle was placed upon

the frame of a ladies’ bicycle and formed a great combination.