Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1897 — Page 8

EWBER Absolutely Pure, CelebrAul for its gir-if leavening Strength ■ t bt'.rlb'Assurethe food ug-.iust alum and a’l forms o adulterati > ’ common t ' the ch«ap brands. ROY ALBA KI NG PG W1) ER CO..NE-' YORK. MONKOI' Harve Kessler shot a large blue races south of town one dayjatjt week At a baseball game at B >yd Daugherty's, between Monroe and Salem. Monroe was badly beaten. The score was 12 to 60. Monroe bas been making some im provements toward sidewalks. The United Brethern church will hold a basket meeting at Rivare. July 4. Rev. Kieter and others will speak Everybody invited. Come with well filled baskets. C. W. Hocker started his mill Tuesday. Rev. Schafer filled Rev. Barton's ap pointment at Monroe Sunday. G. II Laughrey and wife were in Monroe Monday visiting friends Sick headache can be quickly and completely overcome bv using those; famous little pills known as “DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. \V. 11. Nacucrieb IN'ION TOWNSHIP. D. A. Helm fed wife—si girl. Mrs. John N'dlitic-r is very ill at this writing. Rev. Mahan of near Pleasant Mills, delivered an interesting theological sermon at Pleasant Grove last Sunday. John A. Smith and wife of Decatur, attended the children's meeting at Salem last Sunday. Lewis Swartz and George Trick r visited«friei,ds at Midd etown last Sunday. Misses Elsie Berber, Mary and Eva

Sprang & True . Are making very low prices on goods of all kinds in their line Good Calicos, 3|c and 4c per yard. Best Prints (short ends.) 4c per yard. Yard wide heavy Muslin, 4c and 44c yard. Best soft finish Shirtings, 6c and 8c yard. Outing Flannels, 5c and 7c yard. Chailies, 34c per yard. Fine, wide French Lawns, 5c per yard. Fancy thin Summer Goods, 8c to 12<c yard. Fancy Linen Crash. 5c per yard. Fancy wool Dress Goods, 10c and up. Ladies' nice Sun Umbrellas, 75c. Silk Ribbon, cheaper than ever. Ladies’ and children's fast black hose, sc. The best 10c Ladies’ Hose in town. ® Ladies' Ribbed Vests. 5c dnd 10c. Ladies’ and children's Mitts, 10c, 15c and 25c. Best 5c Socks you ever seen. , , Gent's nice, fine Underwear. 50c suite. Don’t miss seeing the Immense Values we are offering on OUR 5c AND 10c COUNTERS. You will be surprised what you can do with so little money. White Granite Plates. 35c per set. White Granite Teas. 30c per set. 8 inch fancy Glass Dish, 10c. 6 inch fancy Glass Dish, sc. Nice, plain Glass Tumbler. 15c per set. Sugar. 4c, 44c, 5c and 54c. Package Coffee. 13c. Extra nice Prunes. 7c. Nice, large Rasins. 7c. Two pound can Baking Powder, 25c. One gross (200) Matches, 10c. Large yellow table Peaches, 15c; two cans for 25c. Fancy Rice, 6c. Canned Corn, Peas. Beans, Apples and Apple Butter, 5c per can. Lima Beans. 4c. Best Lard 6c. Hand picked Navy Beans. 24c, Best Ginger Snaps and Crackers, 7c. Splendid Tea. 25c per pound. Good Laundry Soap, ten bars for 25c. Best Carpet Tacks, 10c per dozen. The above are a few prices giving you an idea of how cheap goods are. and we are prepared to give you anything our advertisement calls for; and we are here to back up everything we say to you through the Democrat. When you need anything in our lines, give us a trial and you will be satisfied. Yours, SPRANG & TRUE.

D. ay per were ttie guests of Miss Bertie Swartz last Sunday. Henry Hill of near Bobo, was in our district Sunday evening Wil! Bunner of Bobo, was here Saturday on business Tekkible Accident. —It is a terrible accident to be burned or scalded; bur trie pain and agony and the frightul disfigurements can be quickly overcome without leaving a scar by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. W. H Nachtrieb BERNE. E. M Ray returned Friday from Angola where he has been attendin. school. J ones- Sprunger has left the hot school room at Oberlin, Ohio, and returned home Friday. George Heller and Henry Stuckey were looking after their oil interests in Hartford township Saturday. Several from here attended the teacher's examination at Decatur Saturday. John Hilty and G. G Burry moved the calaboose to the southwest corner of the town lot, and after our marshal has cleaned and whitewashed it, will then be be quite a nice looking little prison. Chas. Braun and wife Sundayed with Peter Burk and family at New Corydon. Jacob Atzand family Sundayed with friends at iiluffton. T. G. Hopkins and family attended a family reunion near Camden last Saturday. About 110 relatives and friends were present. Prof. F. G. Haecker returned home Saturday. Mrs Peter Ashbancher of Decatur, is visitii g friends in and about Berne. Miss Minnie Sprunger of Fort Wayne, is here on a weeks’ visit with her parents and relatives D. A. Gilliom went to Woodburn Tuesday to look after the music business . Mrs. Milo Harris is lying quite low at this writing. Sam Simison’s family left Tuesday for Ogden, Michigan. Sam accompanied them to Fort Wayne. Miss Lizzie Moser left Monday for Auburn Junction, where she will visit her'uncle and family a tew weeks. Louis Sprunger had Ben Gerber arrested last Tuesday for provoke, and was fined SlO by Squire Riesen. Louis Sprunger. son of David Sprunger ot near the Oak Grove school* house, had the misfortune of getting his hand in the pulley of a ,hav carrier, while unloading hay. Dr Kiesen was called

Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, •DSL’ YV>*KJ BAKING POWHR MOST PERFECT MADE.' A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free ‘-om Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. who amputated two fingers, leaving a ciipled band Isaac Lehman is the happy papa of a young son. which arrived at their home Tuesday morning. Dr. Franz and family visited at Monmouth Monday. The finest lot of machinery that Berne ever witnessed was presented bv our hustling machinists, Moser & Baemgartner. Wednesday, which consisted of engine, thresher, clover huller. hay baler and water tank, making a fine display while passing through Main street on the road to Moser & Baumgartner's shop. W. B. Johnson. Newark. Ohio, says: “One Minute Cough Cure saved mv only child from dying by croup.” It has saved thousands of others suffering from croup, pneumonia, bronchitis and other serious throat and lung troubles. W. H. Nachtrieb. MONMOITH. Mrs. Mary Ling who has been visiting relatives here returned to her home at Fort Wayne. E. S. Christen went to North Judson last Wednesday on business, Oar supervisor has been putting in new culberts’along our streets, which have been long needed. Anybody wishing their faces shot at just go to Harry the photographer; he. with his outfit can show you some new experiments. Several ot our young folks attended the social at Bingen last Saturday evening. Dr.-Frantz and family of Berne, visited John Christel and family Monday. Jim Watts and family have been visiting at V in Wert. Chauncy Wilder and Wesley Watts report having picked over one hundred bushels of strawberries this season. G. A Christen returned from Terre Haute last Fridav. Isaac Bear and family and Miss Annfl and Solomon Luginbill of Berne, Sundayed with Sam Luginbill and friends Mrs. Albright Christen and daughters Maud and Bessie, accompanied by Miss Maud Nickey of Churubusco, visited with relatives here last week. Some for ten, some for twenty and some for thirty years have suffered from piles and then have been quickly and permanently cured by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the great remedy for piles and all forms of skin diseases. W. II Nachtrieb. LINN GROVE. Mrs. M. Taylor of Rochester. Infi.. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Leiter of this place. George Nichols returned last week from Holland, Michigan, where he had visited bis maternal home. Snyer and Bachelcr of the Bluffton Baptist church, filled the pulpit at the Baptist church here Sabbath afternoon. The A liance campmeeting is yet in progress. and is located on the same quarter section of laud where the base ball grounds are located, both in sight of a minister's house and both are well attended on the Sabbath. Clayton Shepherd moved into his new home in west Linn Grove Tuesday He making the second resident of the place. E. C Evarts of Domestic, moved here Tuesday, occupying the residence vacated by Clayton Shepherd, and in which he lived some sixteen months ago Our home nine played the Geneva club last Sabbath at the former's grounds. The score standing 19 to 51 in favor of Geneva. It is a matter of conjecture whether our boys will next challenge Baltimore or ball-no-more. Children's Dav wks beautifully observed at the Evangelical church last Sabbath evening. The pinacle of eni joyment was reached by the young. Charles Crisman prides himself of i having ten stands of bees from two stands owned this spring. Edward Heller also has four from one. Bees pay when not too familiar with them. John and Frank Mundbank are building a barn on the old homestead southwest of town. Mrs. Kessiah Carey has her new barn about completed in the ■ same locality. Peter Hoffmann and Lewis Reynolds made a business trip to Geneva Saturday. Oscar Hoffmann, clerk in a Geneva I drug store, was visiting bis parental i home over Sunday.

■a no and WIND-UP! I O The month of July closes our year's business We have done g| -ftW bv far a much larger business than we expected to do and we are fl O now Closing the year's business by'naking pnees that you never ■ flg before heard of. These prices will last during the month of July only S| H Any suit of clothes in the house (except OD I satin lined) for-- ’ ’ uNsl Ji I H This includes all our fine English plaids and worsteds fl that retail the world over for sl2, sl4, sl6 and $lB. fl They all go for SIO.OO. fl RW — ——-— —| O r- — —fl Any Man’s shoe in the house (except pat- 0Q Aft fl O ent tans) for-- - * - - OU.UUi 1 This includes all our men's tans, calf, patent leather fl Ol and cordovans. Remember, this means your fl ■g®' choice of all our high grade shoes for only $3.00. fl O They formerly cost you $4 and $5. fl ■ - —. 1 i Any Ladies’ shoe in the house, foi dL O I This includes all our high grade fl RfejSj goods that we have retailed at $3 00 and $4 00.. fl H L —— I SB The above includes all our better goods. fl S I WE WILL SELL YOU 9 An all wool suit for $3.85. A cheaper suit for $2.50. fl A boy’s short pant suit for 75 cents. 9 Straw hats for 5 and 10 cents. fl Work shirts for 25 cents. Pants 50 cents. 9 The best overall you ever saw, three pairs for SI.OO. I ’ Socks, six pairs for 25 cents. 9 A lot of ladies and misses low shoes, 50 cents a pair. fl ■ 'Men’s shoes 80 cents. Children’s shoes 50 cents. fl — — — fl Buy your Clothing and Shoes at the Big Stores. You can fl always do better at our places than you can at the smaller stores, fl g Kerp, Brittsop & Beeler. I

“They are dandies” said Thos Bow »rs vs vbe Crocket, Texas, Enterprise whil« writing about DeWitt's I.i’tle Earl- R’sers. the famous little pills fol sick headache and di-orders of the stomach and liver. vV H. Nachtrieb Not only piles of the very worst kind can be cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, but eczema, scalds, burns, bruises boils, ulcers and all other skin trouble? can be instantly relieved by the same remedy. W, H. Nachtrieb. EASTERN DISPATCH. John Cottrell bas been engaged for some time in erecting a new school house near Bryant. A B. Riley movedin his new house last week. Prof. G. W. Hurless has closed his school at Willshire. H, A. Durr has moved in his new residence. Bert Wells of Blue Creek township, while working in the Tumbleson stone quarry met with a fatal accident. A flying missle struck him in the eye and ruined the sight. Samuel Histanhouse is contemplst ine going to Pennsylvania this fall to see his folks He is unmarried and has not been home to see Rs parents since 1882. Eflie Boyers of Delphos, Ohio, visited her parents over Sunday. Several people of this community, transacted business at Decatur, Saturday. Frank Smittley and wife of near Chattanooga, Ohio, visited John L. Cottrell and family Sunday. John Moore of Columbus, Ohio, is shaking hands with his many friends and relatives in this vicinity. B. Everett passed through this community Sunday. George Strickler's mother is very sick and her recovery is doubtful. She is 94 years of age. Green Tumbleson is doing a hustling business in their stone quarry. George Jacobs of Blue Creek, township, is able to be around again. J. S. Riley transacted business at Willshire, Ohio, Monday last. Wm. Lfons and wife visited Aaron Lautzenbizer last Sunday. Joseph Dailey and family spent Sun day evening with D W. Rise and wife. Mrs. W m. Strickler has been quite sick the past few days. T. B. and Barney Everett made a flying trip to Bluffton Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Joseph Hopple of St. Mary’a, Ohio, is visiting relatives here.

• ORITIAUV. I John Crawford was born in Waynesburg. Pennsylvania, September 4. .1816, and died in Decatur. Indianu. June 20, 1897. aged 80 vears. 10 months and 6 days. During bis boyhood be clerked for a time in his father's store, and at < the age of 20 years was employed as a clerk* in the collecting office ot the Pennsylvania Canal Company, at Alle ghany City and was employed for one year. Then during the year 1840 he was engaged in clerking on the steamer Marion on the Ohio and Wabash rivers. In the fall of 1840; he came to Adams county. Indiana, entered a piece of land and eng-iged for a time in raising and dealing in stock. In 1851 he was elected a representative in the In- : diana legisl ture, this being the first term after the new state constitution was adopted. In 1852 he was elected t'easurer of Adams county and was reelected in 1854 It was at the beginning of his term as treasurer that he moved to the city of Decatur. Besides these he held several offices in township and city filling each position ’with ability and marked faithfulness. In 1858 he engaged in she mercantile business with John D. Nutman. this firm continuing until 1866, when Jesse Niblick became the successor of Mr. Nutman. He continued in the business until a few vears ago. September 14.1843, he was married in Wabash township, to Mary A. Abnet. daughter of Jacob Abnet one of the pioneers of Adams county. She died in Decatur April| 14. 18-56. Eight children were born to them, tour of whom are living. Caroline, wife of Millen Burns, Mary A. Congleton. Frank and William H. Mr. Crawford has occupied a prominent place among the citizens of this county, an 4 well deserves the respect and esteem in which he was held by all who knew him. He belonged to that class of men to which this country owes so much of its glory, who place principle above gold and who believe they serve their own interests and their country best when they make honesty and justice the guiding principles of their career. He has passed from this world of sunlight and shadow, as we believe to that brighter world beyond, leaving a record behind him of integrity and faithfulness, such as any man might w ell envy. Bucklen'R Arnica Salve. The best salve io the world for cuts. ; bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Page Blackburn.

HEAL ESTATE TRANMW. Chas Miller to Samuel J John- I son w >i inlot 197 Decatur.. ?-it| Albert E Michaud to Hann Michaud wd ne iulots 51 and ; 52 Berne Benjamin Morningstar to Jacob Baser w d pt sec 1, tp 25. r 14 2 A ■ Fredrick Norwald to Fredrick I Eickhoff wdfr pt sec 14. tp I 28, r 13, 10 A * John Wittwer to Christian Branchy w d se i se t sec 20, tp 26. r 14. 40 A Iw ' Albert N Steele to William A Lower w d fr pt sec 36, tp2B. r 14. 10 A q Matthias Kirsch to Barbrah Guenthuer adrn d, und i swi ! sw i sec 24. tp 28. r 13 Simon Weiand to John Weisnd wdnwinwi sec 33, tp 28, r I 14, 40 A,■ ■ 'n Peter P Ashbaucher sheriff to Aetna Life Insurance Co & A. St Mary s tp ... • n Dallas G M Trout to John Kunz 8 A, Wabasb tp ■ Fred Wechter to Daniel D Moser inlot 233 Berne Henry Cottrell et al to Rebecca A Weaver 80 A. St M irys tp - Jacob Miller to Lulu Miller et al qc d part outiot 156 Ueca- I tur ...' .. ’-" ' I Gerhard H Voglewede to Gerhard Voglewede, will, 40 A. Washington tp E<locate Tour Bowels With Candy Cathartic, cure con ?‘ 1 f„;„ !I doiy 10c. ZSc. If C.C C. fail, druggists™® 0 j Don't neglect a cougTbeceH weather is pleasant; before t e q storm rolls around it may deteo. a serious difficulty beyond rep*' l 1 Minute Cough Cure is easy to -<* 1 will do what its name implies. Nachtrieb. Don't thin your blood wit b or poison it with b De- nii ‘ s S' J Nature by using DeWitt s - I Risers, the famous htUe Pi ' 8 J stipation, biliousness am 80 J liver troubles. They are P u table. W. IL J The G. R. A I. wiH run north morning of July oleave Geneva 6:38, Berne ”■ J 7:06, Decatur 7:18, T'J land 7:39. Fort Wayne y • j Rome City 9:87. A!so 8 1 ’ south leaves Rome City u- r Warne 7:25, Hoagland <■ gJ 7:56. Decatur 8:12. Monroe Ttie ” 8:36, arrive Geneva 8:4 j be one fare for the round tri points “4th of July- d-