Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1896 — Page 8

We Are Closing Out Our Merchant Tailoring Piece Goods at Cost. > - . ■"■ r..-« 15t ,. 1 .r 1 i.-« 1 -» ,t r-T «■" »...».1 u ■.,!■ ; • - * *"'■* ~ < , These goods consists of a line of beautiful English and Woolen Worsteds. We will sell you these goods in Suits or Pants Patterns and you can have them made up or we will make them up for you. We can sell you a Worsted Suit Pattern for $5.50. Or a Splendid Pants Pattern for $1.50. Come in and see how cheap we can figure to you a Tailor Made Suit of Clothes. Un nn Wehave about 25 Light colored Ulsters ab ba Fifty Children’s Over-Coats and Reefers worth Sih Ml that retail at $9 00, Tou can buy one Xu hU from 83.00 to 87 00, are being closed out at from l|lUeUUe this week tor §5.50. yViWWi SI.OO tO KERN, BRITTSON & BEELER. tjtl ■' hen > -4 • -4-4 • Wwr-4 .IwW > t asiiltßi 4 i 1»a 1 >W*n»4 >M

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CALVAKI. The pr<‘aclrtng services at this place Sun•d y eve.ninu was largely attended. a th r Middleton of Servia, is spending it ’ v<| A s visiting friends and relatives. , : n' ii Hawk who resided near the state line died Saturday afternoon and the fune iliook p’ace Monday forenoon at Mt. Tabor conducted by Rev. Reckard. Dehila Cowan spent Saturday with Isaac fsmith and family. Chancey and Kit Cowan spent Sunday with Fred Geier. The Christmas entertainment at Mt. Ta- | bor Christmas night was well attended. Lula Walters is spending the holidays ! with her parents. Isaac Smith It! MiE.N. _ .. Charlie D rkson was at Fort Wayne Xmi-. i vli> Suah Mercer visited at Berne Christmas with her daughter, Ida Evans. Cha-. Hostmver of Fort Wayne, visited with his parents near this place Christmas. Fred Fuiliing was at Fort Wayne last Thursday, Oscar Jones and wife spent Christmas with the latters sister at Warren. John Wisner who resides uear Biutften, is visiting with Mrs. Amos Briggs. Tli« 11imrods ate 11nite nuineruus in these parts. It seems that, we are blest with a few chronic kickers who are opposed to every thing that would dd to progress and future happiness of inanktnd. What we need at fhi.s place above all other things >• a new scho d house. The people of this district eomr mned the present school building by a unanimous vote at a meeting especially called tor that purpose by order of the trustees nearly three years ago. It is said that patieuoe endureth for ever bat in some cases it is like confidence, it runneth out.

PETERSON. — ■ ,*"• P. Spade returned Tuesday from a visit in Ohio. This town was struck by a terrible eyelone a few weeks ago which blew its last blast Tuesday. Clark CaMerwocd made his final settlement with the trustee last Tuesday. Protracteit meeting is being held at the Beery church.

G. W. Brown i- looking for another teacher for the graded sch •<>! at' Peterson.

Mud is plenty a cut Imre. The people | think they have in ovt dose. One’or two boys>>f <,<>r neighborhood feel pretty blue since tiie Zion meeting broke j up. Bob Beery was on the sick list last Sator- | day. Mag Welty was at Ossian Saturday. Wm. Brown met with an accident while I going home from tiie Beery church Tuesday night. He was there a horse back and ' his horse tried to run away In trying to I stop it be puded the nurse off tue end of a 1 bridge where he fell ten feet, shaking both i hr.isc an I rider up pretly well. i,fn otiovit Benjamin Sales of Delaware, Ohio, is ■ visiting his pare ai* here over the holidays. ■ Geo. Rice and son Frank, of Liberty Mills,, are here among friends. Dietl, on Christmas morning. Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stair, aged 15 1 years, 11 months and 1 day. Ida was a model for young folks to emulate and was the third rtleaaPer of this family to pass away within the past thirty months. Consumption being their ailment. She was buried from the Deciple Domestic on last S .bbath. Rev. Reichard officiating. Married, on Saturday evening last at the ho ue of the bride. Samuel I. Hall to. Ella E , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Runyon. The ceremony was witnessed by many invited gusts, and rendered by Rev. Reichard. A very pleasant gathering was held at the home es Father and Mouher Christian Augsborger on last 4Sabbathj when their I ehildren, twelve in number, together with their consorts and their children. Those from a distance were Amos and wife es Columbus Grove, and David and wife of Bluffton. Ohio, John Cos man and wife of Sterling, Ohio. Jacob Greider and wife and Fanlty Augsberger-irfOsburn, Ohio. In ail it was the .make up of a large gatlmring which would lutve been incomplete without-a Jacob, a Moses and an Aaron. Adam and John stair of Mt Eaton, and and Clem Stair es North Baltimore. Ohio. . were in attendance at the funeral of Ida Stair. > A Christmas entertainment wn« plvenn* j the Ewuiigeuic.ii ,in,| t hristinii ehuaches

Christmas eve and night which was enjoyed bv both young and the aged. A protracted meeting is in progress at the Christian church. PLBASAWT HIM*. The Xmas entertainment at tlin Baptist ehur th Xmas eve was grand. The Mite so"ietv will give a supper at Fuller’s hall New Year’s eve. Rev. D. B. will conduct a series of meetings at the Baptist church commencing next Sunday evening. Jacob Yager and wife of Decatur, spent Sunday herewith Henry Martz and wife. Frank Fortney and wife of Monroeville, are spending a few uays with Chris Furtnev and family ol Chis place. M rs. Lymbert Foreman of Celina, Ohio, is visit.ng Ler parent, S. B. Morris and | wile. Mrs. J. W. Vizard is visiting relatives and friends at Frankfort this week. AlbertJCuller. wife and baby of Toledo, Ohio, spent a few days here with A. M. Fuller and family. W, P. Porter and wife were called to Ft. Wayne Monday to attend the funeral of a i near relative. lames Smuck of Dixon Ohio, spennt the i past week here with friends. Rev Reckard prea died the funeral of I John Hawk last Monday at Mt, Tabor. Quite a number of our citizens attended. Court opened last Tuesday at Esq. Comer’s eith two new cases. J. W. Hili appeared for plaintiff in both cases. Pleasant Mills people are harden tramps. It was clearly manifested on Christmas evening when a peer, forlorn looking tramp I called at several places in our burg and ' asked permission to stay all night, ljut was refused each time. On investigation he was found to be one of our best citizens,, dressed in a tramp's garb and fitted out nicely for the occasion. We will not give your name this time Uncle Sam, but will just say. when you go out on another tramping expedition, you had better hunt a better location. Porter & Dowden the. blacksmiths and wagon makers, have their shop fitted up with a new set of fouls'and are now erepared t<> do the finest kind of work in their line. Give them a call. PLEASANT VALLLI. Protracted meeting is in progress at the Valley, conducted by Rev. Henshaw of Randolph county. May much good result ,rnm these meetings, and may many be able to see the light. » The Christmas .entertainment .at Oak Grove Friday night was well attended. Numerous presbnts were distributed from a boat ami many hearts were made happy. N. B.—lt wits not the boat we went op Salt River in I »st month. The Bros. Tharp of Ridgeville, were attending monthly meeting at the Quakers ! irvbi Lua n> . -viio ii i > > A-ii st >p pi ng *1

the Hotel de Ashbaucher in. Decatur, for the past ten days, was released from custody Monday. He having secured bail. .1. H Gould of Manon, arrived in this vieinityJSsturday on business. George Gilbert moved back on his farm last week, and thinks there is no place like the old home. We gladly welcome George back in our midst. Miss Lizzie Louden of Decatur, Sundayed with her parents here. James Hendricks has been afflicted for some time with rheumatism and is unable to be about. ", J. M. Anderson has rented his farm to Charles Crane. Married. Thursday of last week. Alva Strait and Miss Matte Mann. Here’s our congratulations, may they never regret the important step they have taken. John Haggard had an attack of heart disease and fell while doing his chores last Saturday qight, cutting a gash a tout three inches in his head. Dr. Rainier sewed up the wound and John is doing as well as could bo expected. Earl Br wniug and Weldon Cook concluded home was not g«nd enough for them and departed last week for parts unknown. Perhaps they ate on their way to join the Cuban insurgents. But wherever they go we are inclined to think they will tyng for home, and will be glad to return like the Prodigal son as of old. Time will soon usher in a new year and then it will be ttm ,to mike new resol u tions and to turn over a new leaf. If we make any resolutions let us stick to them. And girls, think of It, not until IM4 can yon exercise your privilege again. bßrnk A happy New Year the correspondent wishes all the readers of the Berne news John P. Baumgartner and wife were visiting relatives at Fort Wayne over Xmas and returned. George Hammel returned home Tuesday" night. Chas. Ilannev of New Bremen, was home over Xmas. Charles looks hearty and is well satistied with his new position. Mrs. Hella Cook of Geneva was the guest of L. f. Ray over Xmas. Miss Jenna Ray left Friday for Monroe A J Hawk was called to the bedside of his brother at Wren, Xmas Prof. B. F. Welty of Bethel College’ Ntitan, Kansas, is here visiting his relatives and will take partin the entertainment at the Menuonite church Dec. 31 and Jan, 1. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs Ben Hahpsger was burned Tuesday after-

Mrs. John HarCttd and Miss Etta Heller of Bluffton, spent Xmas here the guests of Mrs. I> L Schally and farni iy. Adolph Eichenberger of Youngstown, Ohio, is the guest of Fred Eichenberger : and family over the holidays. Rud Lehman who has been laid up j with rheumatism is able to be at the bank again. Last Sunday while skating Samuel Nussbaum, son of J. P. Nussbaum, met with the misfortune of fracturing bis limb just above the ankle. Dr. Fran! z dressed the fracture. Miss Cora Gottschalk is here spending the holidays with her parents. Miss Alice Bergman and Erma Harris of Woodburn, were here over Xmas ’■isiting friends and relatives. Walter Broughton, the kid, is spending the holidays herewith friends. J. A Anderson is attending the teachers association meeting at Indianapolis this week. Miss Katie Wening of Celina, Ohio, is here the guest of Mrs. Theo. Hopkins. Dan Gingick of Hamilton, Ohio, is here the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Oston Augsburger and family. Del and Amos Augsb l,r K er Bluffton, Ohio, were here visiting relatives the forepart ot this week. Mr John Kaufman and Jack Greider and wives of Dayton, Ohio, are here visiting relatives. Sam Shindler and fatnilv spent Xmas with their parents in the country. Shindler & Lehman bought a fine hearse wSile on business in Cincinnati last week. ' Stengel & Craig wish to thank their patrons for their patronage over the holidays and solicit their continued patronage. The German Reformed Sunday school elected new officers Tuesday evening Deputy sheriff McLain of Decatur, was in town Wednesday. — -r - Coffee & Baker will have a fine lot of evergreen trees for Christmas. They are the best nursery trees. All sizes g girl, age 12 to 14. to live infatpily of. two. Apply, at this office. * Don’t forget that Hensley has the finest stock of spectacles in gold silver or Steele, and he will examime your eyes and give you a perfect fit Remember Christmas is here. -

Hensley will allow you to select your presents and he will lay them away, for you until Xmas and you don’t have to pay foi them until you get them Xmas. 82tf

Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, •DR; vWCfy CREAM BAKING POWER MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free Nom Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. hoaF GOODS—. Tie FiMSI, The Neaiesl, ——Tiie Neral ■j ■ 1 Stock of Holiday Goods in the city is at . < ! , • v ■ ... .... Blackburn's DRUG STORE. DEOATUR, -