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The Waterloo Press from Waterloo, Indiana • Page 5

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Styles Finest Points THE really fashionable woman is she who, while dressing correctly to the crossing of at also selects the exact style offering best suited in cut and coloring to her peculiar lines and graces. When you (tome to inspect our array of just arrived suits and coats, you observe that we have assembled a variety more than extensive enough to meet the precise angle of every feminine viewpointextreme or studiously modest bu all dependably correct and modish. Price requirements too will be satisfied to a dot Sfrom $10.00 to $30.00 rom $5.00 tO $30.00 PERSONAL MENTION Uiss Ethel Hallett spent Sunday with friends in Co run a. Joe Bowman came home from Fort Wayne for over Sunday. Mrs.

H. P. Stroh visited over Sundsv with G. E. Roop and family, at Geneva.

Ind. Rev. S. F. Harter is attending the annual conference of the M.

E. charcb at Huntington this week. Eli Walker has been quite poorly for some time, and he does not improve as fut as his friends would like. Mrs. Ira Burns and Mrs.

Jacob Burns and little daughter, of Auburn, were guests of Mrs. Lisle Bamhart last Tbursdsy. Mr. and Mrs. George Ulph, of Detroit, have moved into their new home that they recently built, at 102 Pacific in that city, and have changed their street address to the new namber, Married, at the parsonage of and by Rev.

August Geist, Mr. Valentine Ken nedy, a fanner of City, and Miss Candaee Leas, daughter of Mrs. Obe Leas, of this place, on March 21. The eouple will live on a farm near Maple City. Tbev have the con gratulations of their friends.

Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR! A Speciall This offer is for during xhe month of April only. Only $1.50 Babies don't cry when in a Rock a bye. Every move of their little bodies sways the swing and keeps them interested. They Ret exercise. They're kept off the cold floor and out of dirt.

They can't get ino mischief, Pick un thincs from the floor which might prove dangerous, or iaii out and hurt themselves. The Rock a Bye Baby Swing is made of heavy, washable duck on strong, steel frames. It" has reinforced strap hangers and screw hook. Can.be hung in any doorway, from porch ceiling or tree branch. Get a Rock a Bye For Your Baby Send $1.50 now and if you don't think it's the greatest baby entertainer ever we will return VAn.

1.1 i jvui iiiuuey wiuiuut question or quibble. McMANAMON MFG. CO. Lansing, Michigan Branch Office Mrs. J.

E. Showalter entertained the Needleeraft club last Tbursdsy after noon. Several guests were also pres ent. Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Terry and chil dren, of Nevadah Mills, visited last week with her brother, Robert Patterson and sisters, Misses Jennie and Lou Patterson. Tbos. Condon, of the Indiana Utilities is away this week tracing coal being shipped to the Utilities Co. at Angola. Tbe power company find's it necessary to follow up all of their coal shipments in the best way possible in order to keep enough fuel on hand to run their plant.

Lawrence Park is reported as getting along as well as could be expected. He suffers considerable pain from injuries sustained in a strain of his back in ad dition to the broken leg. He only had one leg broken instead of both, as wss stated in last Thursday's Press, which report was so given out at first. G. O.

Denison and wife, of Auburn, are camninir out on tbe Denison farm just southeast of town, and they have taken their residence lor the time in an old log cabin in the woods where Mr. Denison has openfd the "sugar bush" and he spends his time in gathering aap and making maple syrup. They enjoy their rustic life and entertain eompany frequently as their' children I and other relatives visit them in their camping out borne. i 1 1 1 1 ii it iiii ii KB I i i 11 II I II 1111 II I Ii I 1 11 I III till II Ml i ii tlffi WATERLOO PHEE3 MARCH 28, 1C17. Arthur Beidler, of Toledo, hat been visiting bis parent.

Mr. and Mr F. N. Beidler, this week, while he is recovering from the recent in juries that he sustained in a fall. Wm.

H. Leas and Mr. and Mrs. E. D.

Leas went to Ft Wayne on Tuesday evening of last week to help Mr. and Mrs. R. Earl Peters celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. Mrs.

Peters Is a daughter of the former and sister of the latter Mr. Leas. She served a very elaborate dinner in their new home in that city. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES. The Ladies Guild will meet with Mrs.

Frank Fisk this afternoon. Presbyterian Sunday school next Sonday at 9:30. VA11 invited. A penny supper will be given in the M. EL church basement a week from Friday evening.

Don't fail to attend. The Aid society of the M. E. church will hold a bake sale Saturday forenoon at the Byers Cbilds furniture store. U.

B. church Sunday school at Preaching at at 6. 00 p. preaching at Prayer meeting on Thursday evening. Everybody wel come.

PLEASANT LAKE NEW8 Special Corraepondeno. PLEASANT LAKE. Mar. 28 Miaa Maud Scovell of Angola, was the guest of ner sister. Mrs.

Geo. Fairfield, Sun day. Miss Rachel Kohl was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Waldo Smith, Sunday and attended Baptist church. Virgil Lemmon is again able to eut after a long siege of pneumonia.

Gavlord Gilbert, who is teaching at Sturgis. spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gilbert The last number of the lectures oc I cared Monday evening at the School Hall.

The course was a success every way and next years course is well under way. The ice has disappeared from our lakes. A stock shipper Association 'of Far mers was organized here with James Harpham as its manager, last week James Mataon spent Sunday at home. Our new bakery is turning out a fine I product. Everybody delighted.

Mr. and Mrs. John Willennar have returned from spending the winter in Florida. LOCAL AND GENERAL A ease of scarlet fever is reported at Ashley. A coating of snow covered the ground Tuesday morning.

Wind Mills of Holland at Town Hall next Thursday eVening. Don't forget the date. Tbe farm bouse of Henry Diehm, mile west of Summit, was destroyed by fire last Thursday. Frank Schloaser has been appointed administrator of the estate of his mother, Catherine Schlosser. Watch for date at Lyric Theatre of "Tiilie's Punctured Romance with Charlie Chaplin and Keystone.

The Belford troupe of acrobats will travel with Barnum Bailey's circus the coming season, having signed a contract with them. Former Postmaster Thomas Kudd of Butler, who moved to Auburn some time azo. has decided to move back to Butler to make his home. Tennis will soon be the order of the dav and The Press Bookstore has re ceived a new line of Tennis Rackets and balls. Prices range from $1.00 and up.

W. H. Hinman has sold the second tractor to Archie Bowman, which he snipped to Michigan t3 be used on the farm by his son, Ray, who Uvea near Vicksburg. Mrs. C.

W.Flanders has contracted to sell her DroDertv on Union street to Clear Your Skin In Spring. Spring house cleaning means cleaning Inside and outside. Dull pimply skin an aftermath of winter inactivity." Flusa your intestines with a mild laxative and tiean out th accumulated easy to take, they do not gripe. Dr. King New Life Pills will clear your com nlexion and briKhten your eye.

Try Dr. King's New liie reus tonignt and throw off the alugglsn winter shell. At druggists, 25c We have just been informed that the First National Nurseries of Rochester, N. Y. are anxious to secure either ladies or eentlemen to represent them in this section, in the sale of their com plete line of ornamental tree, shrubs roses, vines, bulbs, fruit trees, berry bushes: etc; They inform ua that with out previous experience It Is possible to make srooa watres every wee, adj nna nut of emolovment or desiring to tk tin work of this kind will do well to write them for terms and In doing so enclose this notice.

ot (Advertisement) The Gleaners will meet this, evening at the home of Waldo Sattison. north east of town. Remember the annual maple sugar festival at the G. A. R.

hall tomorrow evening. AH invited. Kendallville has decided to motorize their fire department, and will soon purchase a new auto truck. Governor Goodrich will deliver an address at a joint meeting of farmers and business men to be held at Kendallville April 6th. the title of the musicale and worth hearing.

With the roads getting dry the auto mobiles are beginning to get more numerous and it wilt not be long until the dummy traffic policemen will have to be on their jobs. Hon. Newton W. Gilbert, formerly of this district, former vice governor of the Philippines, has associated himself with Judges Wood and Meyers in a law firm to practice law in New xork Uty. The first and best pictures taken, of the N.

Y. C. wreck esst of Waterloo hut 'week Wednesday can be had at The Press," Bookstore for five cents each. A set of views for fifty cents. In getting op the wreck story in last Thorsday'a Press a number of "live" items of news were crowded out.

This may account for the non appearance of some items that some readers were looking for.v Mrs. Lewis Days, of Ashley, fell over dead while walking on the street going to Hudson, on Tuesday of last week. She had been in usual good health and ber sudden death was shocking to ber friends. 'v There hss been a sort of a damper on the maple syrup business the past week, owing to the warm weather. A little freezing this week would prolong the season, and if warm weather would con tinue the season will close.

Tbe annual maple festival will be held at the G. A R. Hall on Friday evening this week. A good time will be had. Warm maple sugar will served, besides otbr delicacies.

Begins at seved o'clock and the public is Invited. John Woods, Auburn laborer, is satis fied that three montns of married life is sufficient for him. He is asking a divorce in the DeKalb circuit court. Three months ago he was married to Mabie Beard, who deserted him in February. Tbe DeKalb County Better Farming Association' will have charge of the free fall festival to be held at Auburn next October.

It will be made a county affair instead of an Auburn, enterprise, as heretofore conducted bo the Auburn Commerical Club. The storm which visited this section last Friday afternoon was the tail end of the tornado that struck south of here and also at New Albany, doing an immense amount of damage to property and reaping a death toll of nearly two score of lives. The wind blew fiercely for a short time here and the rain 'came down In torrents. There has been some neglect on the part of some one officially responsible for the condition that Lincoln street. Just west of Center street, has been in this spring.

Water has stood along side of he street for a distance of a hundred feet and it has caused a bad mud bole in the street. Later the water has been drained off andthe street is getting better. The free motion picture shows at the Lyric theatre and Saturday afternoons brought out good sixed audiences. The pictures shown were those of tbe mechanism of an Overland automobile. M.

F. Long, of Butler, the Butler Waterloo agent for Overlsnds, hsd charge of the pictures, and films made for this exhibition vera full of real in ft mrA 11 fm aa.tnir a ntl. to town, and Mr. and Mis. Flanders i "7 7 will leave Waterloo.

M. F. Long sold a new Overland automobile to S. L. Goodwin and.C V.

Reed, and the two gentlemen will as the car in making their daily trips to and from Ft. Wayne. Frank Conners, tbe chef at Hotel Christmas, Bryan, Ohio, was in town last Saturday. He ssid he thought Waterloo had pretty wide sidewalks from the looks of tbem He is a jolly big fellow and felt a little more jolly than usual while here. The above picture was taken some time ago of a Mogol tractor as it was pulling two wagons loaded with hay to market.

Delbert Bowmsn. is driving the tractor and the picture was taken on Wayne street in front of the brick block on tbe east side of the street be tween Van Vleck and Marion streets. an automobile is made and what makes it run. The remains of Joseph W. Norton were brought to Waterloo Tuesday afternoon and were taken from Train No.

10 to the cemetery where they were interred on tbe Jacob Brand lot. Mrs Norton accompanied the remains to Waterloo and expects to make her home with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Solomon W. Beidler.

Mr. Norton died at Kansas City, Feb. 2, and tbe body was placed in a receiving vault waiting such time as they could be brouaht to Waterloo for burial at his boyhood home. Mr. Norton was a fos terson of tbe late Jacob and Mrs.

Brand, of this place. The Store That Does Things The App The fsrm re sidncs of John Reever, in Butler township, wss destroyed by fire last Sunday. The cause of the fire is unknown. The bouse wai built of brick with a slate roof. The! lose will reach $3,000 with $1,200 insurance.

Most of the contents were saved. Byron Leas, one of the enterprising farmeia of Grant township, who lives west of town, brought his i team of horses to town Monday morning and hitched onto the town scraper and grad ed the road between Center street and his farm west of town. Mr. Leas ssys that he is dad to donate this much time each year to keeping up a good road to Waterloo. MORTUARY RECORD.

John M. son of Chas. and Sophia Campbell, was born on the old borne farm Sept. 19. 1905, and departed, this Jife.

March 20, 1917, aged 11 years, 6 months and 24 days. He was a bright bov with a sunnv disoosition. who bad endeared himself to all who knew him, He leaves to mourn his loss, the father and mother, one brother, two sisters snd a trreat circle of relatives and friends. i I He lives in all tbe past He lives nor to the last Of seeing him again will I despair. In dreams I see him now.

And on his angel brow I see it written, "Thou Shalt see i There." Card of Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Chas Campbell desire to express their thanks to their many friends for the kind acts and sympathy xnressed durinf the death and Luriil of their son, John. TWO WRECKING CREWS PERFORMED A BIG TASK Continued from Page One) which were cut in two, and in some in stances where the stock was alive but suffering injuries sustained. Live stock wandered about the surrounding fields adjoining the wreck, and after a while the stock was corralled in an improvised pen.

There is no telling how piuch such a wreck will cost the N. Yj railroad company, but there is no doubt but that the damage resulting will exceed 10O, 000. I Engineer Charles Moulton. who wss removed to the Lakeside hospital KimU1IvUU after the wreck, has been Imorovino; a little each day, and it is be lieved thst he will recover. His wife and daughter have been with him at th Remember the musical by the high mvl IVTinn' school at the Town Hall next Thursday vUCS CU1U lYllOCO evening.

The Wind Mills of Holland is will be hosDital. helping to administer to his Th engineer in telling of the wreck, ssid that he was running at Mrh rata of need, bavinff leil very uiku vi i roaching spring Finds us with the newest thing in Coats, Dress Skirts, Waists, Waistings, rimmi ngs, aces etc Big' line of Corsets, Curtain Nets, Made curtains, Curtain rods Linoleums and Carpets in the roll. Latest styles in Undies Misses Shoes Call and See llllllllllllllllllllilulilillllU I P. W. M'ENTARFER DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I Don't Fail to 1 See The Wind Mills of Holland To be giveu at ths Waterloo Town Hall, Thursday Apr.

5 Under auspices of the Waterloo High School This is a comical operetta and will be given in cos tnmes of the Dutch, even to wearing of wooden shoes. Lots of fun and hearty laughs. Proceeds to be used for final payment on the Victrola and to create a fund for a new piano. Come and help and get your money's worth. Admission 25c I 1IIIIIIIU11 Toledo an hour late and he was trying to shade the time on reaching Elk hart.

The stretch of track where the wreck occurred is one of the best on the entire New York Central lines, and it was a perfect roadbed. Wilbur McCann. of Butler, the sec tion hand who was injured while clear the wreckage just before the wreckers arrived, was removed to Ken dallville where he was taken to tne Lakeside Hospital. Both of his legs hrrtlon below the knees. He is reported as getting along very nicely.

Boy Caught In Windmill A four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Miller, who reside on the Georgia Miller farm, three miles south of Ash lev. sot into a slight altercation with i otintiTiiil voatordav forenoon, with the result that he has a "green timber' fracture of the right leg. half way be tween the aakle and knee.

He was considerably bruised and the clothes were nearly all torn from his body. Dr. B. A. Tracy, of Hudson, was called and the little boy is doing as well as could be expected.

Tbe little fellow thought the wind mill a wonderful piece or machinery. and was making a thorough examination, when the wind found the gear thrown in, got busy, with the serious results above named. That he little fellow was not killed is remarkable. Ashley News. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years always bears tbe Signature of Spring Suits and Spring Overcoats FOR MEN, YOUNG MEN AND BOYS Here you'll find the largest and most complete stock of fine clothing shown in any store in the state.

Suits and coats of eVery destription Models and Sizes to correctly fit every man. Clothes That Are Guaranteed to be Absolutely Correct in Every Detail. Pav What You Like 75 s12. $15, $17, or up to $45 You'll find abV garments the BEST yJur money can buy One whole floor devoted to Men'sand Young Men's Clothing. Aether to Boys' Clothing, and another to Men's Hate and Furnishmgs.

We want you come to Fort Wayne r.r. AND VISIT INDIANA'S GREATEST AND MOST COMPLtlt LLUimnu aiurtc Patterson Fletcher Company I Wayne and Harriscn I 0 1 i i a.

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