Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1897 — Page 12

fIOYAI ES3 4ij B n&n 9 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulnees. Assures the food against alum and all forms o adulteration common to the cheap brands. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK

HONDURAS. .11) Kreps is spending a few days a Niagara Falls. Rev. Mahan preached at Zion last Sunday. L. Reber is huckstering for J D Kreps during his absence. Henry il .uck who is very sick is not expected to live. V. S. Pease has been on the sick list the last week. E. and A L'by felt very proud taking their big log to Decatur, if it did take them two days to get it out of the woods Barnum's, or some other show, will be at Honduras Tuesdav evening. Sick headache can be quickly and completely overcome bv using those famous little pills known as •DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. W H. Nachtrieb WILLIAMS. Jason Hobbs is on the sick list. Misses Elizabeth and Daisy Jones visited triends at Monmouth Monday. Misses Hattie Baxter and Maggie Zeigler of Monmouth, visited with Os car Jones and wife Sunday. Grandma Lee ot' Paulding county, Ohio, is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Jason Hobbs. William Berning and wife Sundayed at Fort Wa> »e. Mrs. Liddie Jones is visiting relatives at Cherubusco.

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 and 10c. Ladies’ and children’s Mitts, 10c, 15c and 25c. Best 5c Socks you ever seen. Gent’s nice, fine Underwear, 50c suit. 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 Easins, 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.

1 Miss Sophia and Sena Ponneeof Aan | Wert county, Sundayed wsth relatives here. Frank Wisner of Bluffton, visited with Amos Biggs and iamily Monday jf last week. Willie and Henry Lnllermahn and family of Fort Wavne, Sundayed with Henry Zwiek and family. We notice in last week’s items of the Journal, that the Williams Cornet Band would hold a picnic August 1 In the kheimin Grove. This is all a mistake, is the baud boys have not decid ed vhen or where it will be held. Not only piles of the very worst kind an be cured by DeWitt’s Witch Haz?' Salve, but eczema, scalds, burns, bruises noils, ulcers and all other skin troubles an be instantly relieved by the same remedy. W, H. Nachtrieb. PLEASANT BILLS. Born, to Sam Smith and wife—a boy. Mrs. Samuel Smith is reported very ill and in a critical condition. Norman Acker has bought the Gulick oroperty and will make that place hie home. Wm. Hill left last Tuesday for eastern Ohio. Mrs. A'bert Fuller returned to her home ar Toledo. Ohio, Wednesday ifter several days visit here with rela ives and friends. B W. Yager wheeled to Decatur Monday evening. Rumor says Oran Fortney is soon to i b/jeome a benedict. Burton Fuller and Charley Ehresman left agaiu tor another sight-seeing trip Caar ey Winans, one of Pleasant Mills’ noble young men, left Tuesday evening for St. Joseph, Missouri, where ne will learn the art of photography. Many of his young friends congregated at tbe depot to wish him a safe journey. “They are dandies" said Tbos. Bowers of the Crocket, Texas. Enterprise while writing about DeWitt's Little Early Risers, tbe famous little pills for sick headache and disorders of the stomach and liver. W. H. Nachtrieb. LINN GROVE. Mrs. G W. Nichols is visiting friends at Holland, Michigan. Tne Orphan’s Home Praise Meeting held here on Sanbath evening w»s well attended and well received and was a very pleasant outing for the children of the home. Forest Hoffman made a business trip s to Bluffton on Tuesday.

Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, DR CREAM BAKING POWDIR MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free I “rom Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. — —— Lichty & Minger have added a eye lone blower attachment to their thresher. The writer hereof made a business rip to the eastern part of the county last. week. Rev. W. W. Hicks and W. R Barr of Bluffton he’d services at the Baptist church on the Sabbath. J. C. Hose and wife of Massilon. Ohio, Daniel Baumgartner and wife of Markle, Indiana, are entertained bv relatives here. The paitv who went to serenade Mr. and Mrs Eugene Van Camp one night last week denounce their captain Peter Baumgartner as unfaithful He is held as conceiving the action of newly mar tied couple in leaving the premises, then marshall his company for a tremendious serenade. In tbe meantime he bad Oral V. Hoffman to enter the house who personated the part of the groom and who was obstinate in yield log to terms in obedience to the captain's command. A second round was given with more vim than tbe first which would certainly bring tbe terms desired. At last *2 was offered by the feigning groom But S2O was his smallest money. Out with it shouted one. 1 will bust that 10 all to hades, but what their astonishment when finding that tbe married couple were miles remote. Peter is now unpopular as the leader of a serenade. Don't thin your blood with sassafras or poison it with blue-mass; but aid Nature by usiog DeWitt s Little Early Risers, tbe famous 1 ttle pills for constipation, biliousness and stomach and liver troubles. They are purely vegetable. W. H. Nachtrieb. BERNE.

The printers caused us to err last week in stating that Mrs. Hirschy delivered a sermon at the Mennonite church and that Peter Soldner has not got any wife at present and if he would ■ike to have one. but he surely would like to know it himself before the newspaper. George Holmes and family Sundayed with friends at La Sofa, Ind. Miss Katie Braun of Fort Wayne, Sundayed at borne with her parents. The ball game last Saturday between Berne and Monroe was too thin to mention. Amos Hirshy and family Sundayed at Fort Wayne. Amos returned Monday leaving his family for a few days visit. Rud Lehman left Saturday for Bav View. Michigan, where he will spend a a few weeks with his family at that place. Lorence Oplinger, clerk at Simi on & Soldner’s, left Friday for Wayne county, Ohio, where he will spend his vacation with relatives and frieuds. Marie Longacker is employed as cleyk at Simison & Soldner’s store. Don’t miss seeing the ball game between Berne and Chattanooga next Sunday afternoon. The game will be played on the Emmery place east of town. Tbirty-two was the number that took advantage of the excursion rates to Rome City Tuesday. Levi Atz of Bluffton, was in town Monday shaking hands with friends. Charles Haenne of Bremen, Ind., was in town the forepart of the week visiting relatives and friends. Charles has accepted a position in a large foundry at Syracuse, N. Y., and will leave Thursday for that place. Rev. Baumgartner of Lima. Ohio, addressed the congregation in the English language at the Reformed church. The livery barn will by next Monday be in the hands of the new managers, who will try to manage the business in a business like way. Dr. Hagerman was a caller at Berne Friday of last week. Dr. Stoneburner is attending a case of appendicitis east of Geneva. Joe Peel east of town is the papa of a little girl that arrived at their home Sunday morning. J. C. Moran Sundayed in French ! township. Tom Gallogly of Geneva, was in town Monday. Prosecutor Smith of Decatur, was seen on our streets Tuesday. Sam Riesen moved into his new dwelling Wednesday. J. C. Moran went to Fort Wayne Tuesday evening on business.

| The month of July closes our year s business. \\ e have done ? by far a much larger business than we expected to do and we are < now closing the year’s business by making prices that you never? before heard of. These prices will last during the month of July only j Any suit of clothes in the house (except OIH ftn satin lined) for-- ’ ’ wIUiUUi This includes all our fine English plaids and worsteds that retail the world over for sl2, sl4, sl6 and sio. They all go for SIO.OO* Any Man’s shoe in the house (except pat- 00 00 ent tans) for- - OuiUUi This includes all our men’s tans, calf, patent leather and cordovans. Remember, this means your choice of all our high grade shoes for only $3.00. They 7 formerly cost you $4 and $5. Any Ladies’-shoe in the house for UL O C/A This includes all our high grade goods that we have retailed at s3o° und $4 °O.. The above includes all our better goods. WE WILL SELL YOU An all wool suit for $3.85. A cheaper suit for $2.50. A boy’s short pant suit for 75 cents. Straw hats for 5 and 10 cents. Work shirts for 25 cents. Pants 50 cents. The best overall you ever saw, three pairs for SI.OO. Socks, six pairs for 25 cents. A lot of ladies and misses low shoes, 50 cents a pair. Men’s shoes 80 cents. Children’s shoes 50 cents. your Clothing and Shoes at the Big Stores. You can always do better at our places than you can at the smaller stores. Kerp, Brittsoi} & Beeler.

Amos Augsburger and family and fohn Shank and wife of Columb s Grove, and Isaac Burkhart and wife of Pandora, O lio, ars visiting friends and relatives here Paul Baumgartner and J A. Anderson, who are enjoying themselves at Chautauqua. N. Y . Niagara Falls and other points at present, will be here again by Thursday lor Friday of this week. Mrs. Amos Hirshy returned from a visit at Fort Wayne Tuesday. Aaron Augsburger—a boy. Miss Charlotte Malotte of Vincennes and Misses Harriet Burns and Margaret Eicher, of Decatur, were guests of Miss Cora Gottschalk Thursday. Six children and eight grand-children gathered at the home Mr. and Mrs. Chris Burghalter, southwest of town, recently, and enjoyed a family reunion. Some for ten. some fortwenty and some for thirty years have suffered from piles and then have been quickly and permanently cured by using DeWitt’s Witch Haz'd Salve, the great remedy for piles and all forms of skin diseases. W. II Nachtrieb. GENEVA. A large amount of the new wh at crop is being hauled to this market and the elevator is kept busy elevating night and day. The growing cirn is in the tassel, and soon the festive roasting ear will come from the boiling pot steaming hot. Henry Dickerson while at work on the street bolding down the corporation plow, had the end of the little finger of his left hand cut off bv getting it caught between the roller and plow beam. The surgeon put the finger together again with a few stitches, and soon it will be nearly as good as ever. Jas. Wheeler manager of the Javecki Supply House is quite sick with pleurisy and fever. Dan Booher of the St. Mary’s Ohio, branch, has taken charge of the business until Jim’s recovery. The Daughters ot Rebeckah held a benefit ice cream festival in Pat Kinney’s vacant business room last Saturday night. It was liberally patronized by the people of town and country, Davy Gunn, who has been in town a few days resting from his labors in the oil field, was placed under arrest by Marshal Barnes last Tuesday for mali cious destruction of property, and otherwise disturbing the quiet peace of the village. The walnuts of our separated couples (Fourth of July crop) still remain divided.

Frank Christman has resigned bis position fiom behind the bar of the Wegmi ler saloon, and will engage in other business in the near future. A number of tracts of weeds have baen mown down in the corporation recently, but the good work should not stop at that, as there are others Charley Bell has returned from his summer vacation, and has resumed his former position as clerk in the Bank of Geneva. Nathan Shepherd has commenced the erection of a substantial dwelling house on his lot in the Pyle addition. E. S. Callahan is the contractor and builder. The turnpike roads leading west from town are receiving their annual dressing up of grave'. The excursion to Rome City over the G. R. &I. R. R, given under the auspices of the M. E. church of this place last Tuesday, was largely attended by , our citizens. Dr Black, who has been sick for several weeks, is able to be on the streets again. A young man named Richardson, while monkeying around the machinery of a pumping station three miles west of town last Sunday, had his left leg broken a few inches above the ankle by getting too close to the fly wheel. Dr. Mattox reeuced the fracture and hopes to save the leg. George Buckey, the old veteran, has been quite sick with a case of flux. He is some better at this writing. The yards of the Geneva Hoop Works are filling up with timber, and soon the factory will be again running on full time. Aaron Baker of Briant, has purchased Jim Haviland's livery stock and wil continue the business at the old stand. Several new rigs have been added and the other stock put in shape. You may hunt the world over and you will not find another medicine equal to Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy tor bowel complaints. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by Smith & Callow. j Pete Holthouse & Co. have a new ad. today. They have something entirely new for you. Everybody Says so. Casearets Candv Cathartic, the most wonderful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, ’ cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box I of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 25. 50 cents. Bold and I guaranteed to cure by all druggists.

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