Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1898 — Page 8

Royal Makts the food pure, wholesome and delicious. L©l gjhGPfljl ®AK|Hp POWDER Absolutely Pure ROY At BAKING POWDER CO.. HEW YORK.

PKTKH'ONe .Times Brown in wearing a badly cut arm. Trustee Brown supplied the seboo tfou«e with new desks last week. Miss Rose Johnson Was the truest ot her sister at D cvur over last Sundav. Quite a nutnherof young people spent Sunday with Dtniel and Miss Ora So* yi ne. The interest in the primary election is warming up Small pill, safe pill, b’St pill. DeWitt’s Little E <rly Risers cure biliousness. eons ipation. sick headache. W. 11. Nachtrieb. 8080. Some of our b >vs attended watch tne< ting at Salem Friday night. The two sons of J. W. Brodbeck returned to school last Monday, g-v-ral friends ate dinner at J. W Brodbeck s last Sunday. The funeral services of George Myers was held at Wien, Ohio, with interment at Mt Tabor. J ickson »"d Schell, two young men <T> Preble, visited our school Monday. Milton Hilp-rt returned to school atier a short vacation. O ir schools reopened Monday after a W"eks’ vtcttion. Clinton, son of Clifford Dsath, is sick with typhoid fever Sev-ral residents of this community aV<‘ * filleted with severe colds Y 1:1 ean't cure consumption, but, you can avoid it and cure every other form throat or lung trouble bv the use o' Qih Minute Cough Cure. W. 11. Xiiclnriidi

JiilVHOlTil. SxHii i.< the latest spoit in this tj. ighho.iliood I'r.J, 11 J'. K z-r of our schools spent Cliiisnnas at Ins home at Linn Grove. Dr. .1 0. Grandstaff, who lias been at'en ting rhe iredieat ca’lege at Cinluui.oJi. is speeding vacation with bis p.reols and friends here. ■I itin I in* end w.fa us Fort Wayne. Kfeiit N--" V-ars here with Julia Gliris j ten arm family L zz. i- h ia la-en hick fur the past v. (eks. T io P ierson of Dec i’nr, is spend I trg is vacation with .1 leiman Kunkle, i Harty "ilso’-if Krun*hum. Id, is VI -0 mx 'oiiit Ev »>.s and talldlv. Trie rt r, n ut Evans, " ildt i & Shinun h i-.e ti us ied llieir season vl poulu v s' Tpping. Hod Duighertv id’ Blue Creek town- . s.'up. epsiit Hie holidays wish idatives fcrie Tn-re is no need of little children be i fi’g lortni.d ny scald head, e ■/..■ma and nin eiunfjom. De 'ltt'nWjieti Haz-l Save gives install - r-lief amt cures per | tiairfiu... W • ( Naclitneo. ’ GENKI I. Tiiis ir Is): which promises to be I another prosperous year for the bustling 1 Hille city of Geneva. Af'er a week’s variation through the boddays. the Geneva school resumed its ses ion last Monday morriug with an increased attendance. Tiio-e of our citizens who have visited out of town during the holidays have about all returned. Miss Kit Miesse has resigned her po ettion as cashier at tbr Bolds store, and is ataiii a resident of Decatur. The roads are in excellent condition for battling, and the teamsters are enfoyinga baivest. Our streams and ponds are covered wi ll a smooth coating of ice. and the youngsters have enjoyed a week's ex CBHent skating. Curry Pyle, who has been in the real estate busme-s in Chicago for the past ea-uith, is in town taking a much needed rest. The Shamrock tit tel tinder its new m magetnent is doing a flourishing bus tn *ss. George Bucky. the old veteran, is absent on a month's visit at his old home in Shelbv county, Ohio! The hunting season *’*>over and our nimrods have bung up dogs and guns in the wood sbed'jwjjd gone into training for base ball. ;

I’he w*» Los Hi- new *1 E chinch re humiliated and the slaters have ■ »mmeiiced pu'ting on the roof. s. Cuo has tn >ve I his wagon reps l '* "lg sh >[> into Abe Shoem iker's foundry in w’es G‘ueva. whinn leaves a good pening tor a vehicle surgeon in the i-t, end Foreign readers of the Decatur Dem octi at are won feting what thit city > Teel coin n s-io ter is. "he” ‘ she or •11 ” Our d ct >rs are having plenty of time [tO reed Up tlOW’, and Will lie heltel equipped than ever to k >oek out all the ip-10- late complaints due in th i earlv spring time. Arin s’ior in" nil w-'l was shot, last Fr d .y at Admi C< ly’s n « Ron it n irth of t wn and Burley Pivnii'h R k roos ers advanced in price ac- , ct'dinglv. W th r’e opera house dark, and no big meetings going on through holida' w ek, tn ole tilings ven dull but created demand for hickorv nil’s. T h e opera house management are ar a gi'ig for a week’s stand with ih» ilovt Com-dv Company, which will ap ear here soon. As this's an excellent '■omnany. a nice trea is in store for 0111 music loving people. I.IXN GROVE. Fred Hoffmann and Wm Hall wnr< at P-troleutn and ottier points in Not tinghrm township ins ecttng some school buildings, as Mr Hall bas such a b lilding in couiempla'ion. W. A. Gottscha'k has purchased one half in'er-st in the mercantile busines with E i Bierie of Domestic Mesdames Polly lluffinin and E nm • Morrow took the train for Decatur 111., where they will be gues'S of sons and brothers. Died, on' Monday evening of this week, Waldo, youngest son of Dr. G W E crick. Aged about sx years The lemains were taken on board ot the one p. m. tr -in at Berne eurotiie to Orivdle, Ohio, for interment. Dr W. A. UioxHome of N ittingham. made sum- professional calls here during the 11st week. E C Clark of Geneva, assisted Undertaker Adler in embalming last Tuesday. Q ilte a compi'iv went forth on *sa'I unlay night to give our neop'e a N-w Years greeting by shooting and merry song, and although having been ne-u thirty live years since the d-iv wa--1 thus ushered in. yet tlie merry makers finale wound up with a boudy encounter. on- p ntv at the close s’and;mg in much need of repairs. Eirly on : on Munds' morning Henn E Wrote and 1 Sylvester Runvnti repaired in E q CowI at s "ho heard 'lieirgiieiance.se min--1 ized I heir wounds anil applied a caia : plasm in the way of tines and costs, ano .sent them away some poorer but wt ; trust wiser men. The following < fllcers were ins'all-d Wednesday evening at ttie Li in Grov lodge <>t I O O F: John Thomas N G Eugene Rmvon. V G; Win Wechter. sec't;Peter II >ff nsnti. tress Several of our people are putting ui> ice. Warning:—Persons who stiffer from coughs and colds should heed the warn ings of danger and save themselves suffei ing and fatal resubs bv using One Minnie Cough Cure. Ir js an infallible remedy for coughs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles W. 11 Nacblitb

BERNE. .1. A Anderson sp-nt his holiday vacation attending teacher's meeting at Indianapolis. S im Simison and family spent Saturday and Sunday with lelalives at Bluffton Fred Oechter and family returned home Fiiday from a visit at Muncie. David Stauffer is visiting relatives in Illinois. R-v. Ruff attended c!as-is at Decatur last Wednesday. Rufus Soldner was the lucky one to get the prize watch at the Witness. The Reformed Sunday was reorganized by forming the school into eight Classes. Rev. Ruff was elected sunt. At the business meeting of the church Saturday, the constitution was r« • vised, all old offijers were elected except treasurer, which office will be fl.led by Rudolf Lehman. Bob Michaud is hustdng fruit trees. A party of nineteen young people spent New Years eve at the Shamrock at Geneva, und an all-around good lime is reported. School commenced Monday after a week’s vacation. Barbara Riesen resigned her position as book keeper at Campbell, Erwin & Co. Ella Ray has quit her position as saleslady at Ilaecker & Neaderhouser, and has taken up her school books. The Berne Fire company at their regular meeting Monday elected the following officers for the coming year: J’ff Lehman, president; Emil Franz, vice president; Louis Schug, chief; J. II Hiltv, asst, chief; Sam Schindler, secretart; John W Craig, treasurer. John Nix of Decatur, spent a few days here at the Witness office.

Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, DR; * CREAM BAKiNC WWBIR MOST PERFECT MADE, s pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder, fret ■om Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.

ELFASANT VIU.ET James Patterson and wife returned >0 their home in Madison county Monday morning, after a week s vis: . John Jui es of Decatur, s attending church at th- \ alley. Cliailes Richardaon of Daleville, arrived last Satuiday on a visit wit! rieuds. Your correspondent and Jas. Swiger a''ended ttie pav "Fit \ rginia at th* Mawinic Temp e. Fort Wavne. Ne* Years eve. Our sctu o's have again commenced after a weras’ vacation James E L uiden and wife returned 1 .st week from an extended visit 11 Craw turd county. Ohio. A small child of Albert Duers is sick with brain fever John Harnett tias left our loca ity mil went between two days to the s >r* row of some. Mr Cram-r has moved on the Did Fucker farm. Gus Stevrly returned from Lima, 0., Monday. R-v. O’borne of Rindolph county, and Memiarnes Vaugn and Wright arnvrd last Tbuisday to assist in the t>viy»l. Calvin Johnson also arrived Sa uiday to assist Rev. Hollingsworth, ["lie meetings are growing in interest and attendance. John I’. spuller candidate for com mionei first district, and W. W. Briggs candidate forclerk, were here Tu-i-day looking up 1 heir chances. G-orge W. Hahn of Monroe, is veiling his brother in Jay county. You can’t afford to risk your life by allowing a Cold 10 develop into | neuluonia or consumption. Instant relief and a certain cure are afforded b» One Minute Cough Cure. W. H. Nacbtrjri.

Real Estate Transfers. Joseph Rich to Albert Erhart 20 A. Flench tp ? 330 Frank Arnold to EvaStarost inlot 234 Decatur 600 Joseph Rich to Elizabeth Bunner 20 A. French tp 270 Beier Girod to Noah Hostetter 20 A, Monroe tp 100 Peter 1’ Ashbaucher io A Gottschalk inlots 174 and 231 Bertie.. 500 John Bowman to Henry Hirscby 40 A. Monroetp 1000 Anna HirschytoJ hu Bowman 40 A. Monroe tp 1000 Farmers’ Institute. Be sure to attend farmers' institute Monday and Tuesday The lectures and suhj-cts hava been we 1 1 selected to mike an interesting time at the farmers’ institute Monday and Tuesday Die evening lectureon Monday even ingatthe court house promises to be very e te taming. Ev-nbody is in vited to attend. Rctuumber that this lecture is free as well as the exercises Monday and Tuesday. The sugar beet question will be thoroughly discussed at the farmeis’ institute. The program for the institute Monday and Tuesday is arranged to interest ladies as well as gentlemen. “I Was Weak, Nervous and Kun Down.” I want to testify to the good Brown’s Cure has done me, I was weak, nervous and run down in vitality when 1 commenced taking it; it has done everything for me and I am now a new being. A number of my friends also speak with gratitude of.jthe good your m-dicine has done them—it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours gratefully, Mrs. L. V. Craig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown's Cure, a Perfect Family Medicine, the i>est remedy known for the liver, kidneys and bowels, a positive cure for dyspepsia and all b >wel troubles, sick headache, nervousness, constipation and los of sleep. If you suffer, try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price 75 •vents. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts. 15c. Disfigurement for life by burns or scalds may be avoided by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, the great remedy for piles and for all kinds of sores and skin troubles. W. H. Nachtrieb.

Kern, Brittson & Beeler A BSOLLTE ly guarantee

To sell for 88 00. the sme or better Oyercoats or Suits as may be offered by other clothiers for 810.00. We are not only willini? out anxious t<> prove the truth of this assertion. Fry us.

We have just received a lot of Boy’s Overcoats that we are selling cheap. Buy your clothing and shoes of Kern, Brittson & Beeler.

OHIO SENATORSHIP. J.ej-inlatnre Wiw Orjf»nsr»*d In Opposition to Senator Hann*. ( olumbvs, 0., Jan. 4.—The senatorial contestin the Ohio legislature has become desperate. The combine of 10 anti-Hanna Republicans with the Dctnocratio members wou at the caucuses last Saturday night and again yesterday in organizing both branches of the legislature in the interest of the opposition to the re-election of Senator Marcus A. Hanna. Both sides spent last night, in close conferences. All th* changes that are being sought are anticipated from representatives. It is conceded that Sena- j tor Burke, one of the Republican semi- i tors from Cleveland who has not yet appeared, will be here to vote against Hanna. His attorney yesterday pie-, seated his c rtifieate of election to Lieu-1 tenant Governor Jones just before the senate convened. The senate will east 17 votes for Hanna and 19 against him. Ir Hanna ’s no stronger in the house I than the Boxwell ticket was. when B >xweil received 53 votes and Mason 56 for speaker, then Senator Hanna would have only 7i> votes mi joint ballot and 73 are necessary to elect. Notwithstand-' ing the results on the organizations of both houses, both sides seem eqnaliv confident in claiming the seuatorship on joint ballot. AWAKE FIFTEEN YEARS. Peculiar Condition of William Kelly of Kocklord, O. Rockford, 0., Jan. 4 —William R. Kelly of this city has gone to Philadelphia for treatment, for a peculiar dis- ‘ ease, by eminent specialists. Kelly! claims that for 15 years he has not slept I night or day. Thus far all the doctors to whom he has submitted himself for examination have been puzzled by his disorder. He aven, that he goes to lied I every night as does the ordinary mortal ] and closes his eyes, but that he is never in the state of unconsciousness which tests the brain. In his 11th year he suffered from an attack of nervous prostration, continuing for over six mouths, and his remarkable period of wakefulness dates from that time. Kelly is a confirmed tobacco chewer and coffee drinker, consuming about two ounces of the weed and a quart of coffee every day. ASSASSINATED. President, es a Southern College Shot. Ilown by Unknown Parties. Rodney. Miss , Jan. 4.—E. P. Tripplett, president of the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical college for colored people near here, was shot and fatally wounded by an unknown assassin. For several years there has been a great deal of discord in the college faculty. The trouble his been caused by some members of the faculty who have lieen trying to on.-t Mr. Tripplett for the purpose of personal aggrandizement, but the state bon rd of education has refused to remove him because they considered that he was the man for the place. Tripplett was universally esteemed by whites and blacks. He was a man of intelligence and good judgement. SURPRISE FOR BRYAN. He Will be Offered Fusion Nomination For Congress. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 3.—Political friends of Mr. Bryan have arranged a little surprise for him on hie return home in tlie shape of the proffer of the fusion nomination for congress from this, the First, district. Some believe he will accept; others say that he still confidently expects to be the Democratic standard bearer in 1900. This district has been represented by a Republican since Mr. Bryan retired. Ch. These Girls' Miss Westlake — I really believe George Benwood is weak minded. Miss Cutting—Why, dear? Has he been making love to you?—Cleveland Leader.

To sell for 59c the same or better work pant than is offered by other clothiers for 81.00.

The best proof of the statement is 10 tpke us to the test. How? Simply by comparing.

FACTS IN A FEW LINES. ; The bicycle as well as the Bible now firms a part of the missionary’s outfit About 2.000,000 canary birds are annually bred in Germany and sold for i $3,000,000. French railroads earned $10,850 per mile last year, of which 51.6 per cent was used for working expenses. One of Yale’s football players is a theological student who preaches to a suburban congregation every Sunday. A Massillon man has planted 40,090 frogs’ eggs in a pond near that place, and the citizens look forward to a lively spring. Fontainebleau's great grapevine produced 7,672 pounds of grapes this year, which, when recently sold at auction, brought in §715. Irish donkeys aro being sent out in large numbers to South Africa. Five thousand pounds his already been spent in three counties alone. j A breeder of Charlestown. Md., has a pair of golden fawn rabbits with ears that measure 21 inches from tip to tip and drag on the ground. | An American company is making es , timates of the cost of a cable road from I the City of Mexico to the sulphur de- . posits in the crater of Popocatepetl. A doctor says that in society one may always tell the girls whose parents have , risen from the humbler class to wealth - by the superior quality of their hair. I Several cases of bloomers were among ' the booty taken by tramps from a freight car at Chillicothe, O. The police are I puzzled to know what the marauders I intend to do with the garments. The camphor trees of Japan. China ■ and Formosa are beginning to fail, and the United States government h is tried the experiment of growing camphor in Florida with encouraging success. The little island of St. Helena is said 1 to be the smallest diocese in lhe world There is a bishop, Dr. Thomas Welby, whose annual salary amounts to only S9OO. There are also three clergymen. Two new asteroids have been discov- ’ ered between Mars and Jupiter by M. , Charlois of Nice, bringing the number , | discovered by him up to 86. Polisa, the j Austrain astronomer, has discovered 83. It is a well known fact that the tops of all such high buildings as the Eiffel tower will sway under certain conditions backward and forward, often to a i distance of several feet out of the perpendicular. A unique organization, called the Au- • tunmal Straw Hat association, has been 1, formed in Boston. Its object is to perr suade men to wear straw hats after • Sept. 15, provided the temperature r makes it justifiable. The great bridge at Montreal, 7,000 ! feet in length, built to accommodate 1 two railroad tracks, two trolley lines • and two footpaths, is to be erected by r American contractors and made of 1 American materials. The public schools aro the means of ' saving a great deal of property. It is r said that during the vacation the school children of America destroy, waste or damage property of variors kinds to the amoant of $1,000,900 a day. Switzerland’s bears were supposed to , be extinct, b. t seme chamois hunters in the lower Eagadine recently shot and secured one and report that another cs- ‘ caped them. This wiH add to the excitement of mountain climbing in the 1 Alps. g ■ Architecture and Building says there c is nothing about tbo Dismal swamp t in Virginia to create miasma. “All is j fresh amP sweet, aud tbo air is laden wth balmy odors.’’ The water is thought to possess certain medicinal qualities. The Penny Press of Middletown, Conn., says: “Walter Sneed pumps the organ in St. Stephen’s church, makes lhe fires and keeps the schoolhouse in order, peddles two newspapers and ha: I a position to fill at certain hours of th’

To sell for $2.25 the same or better rubber boot than other shoe men are offering at §2.50. This is no idle boast, but a sound and solemn pledge that we must keep.

day in the postoffice. He is about a years of age. That bey will succeed it life.” The Yankee has been headed off by a New Zealand John Bull. In freezir; meat the heat, lingers at the center aud ofti n ruins the whole. But a hollow cylinder may now be driven alongsid the bone. Through this the freezing agent passes, and the joint is frozen from the center outward, and all trouble is averted. The Louden newspaper that has bten dropping the letter “u" in words like labor and color and spelling “program" without the “me” is now overwhelmed with protests from nadirs against this surreudt r to a demoralizing Americanism in spelling. Buch butchery of the English tongue, they argue, should never be condoned. Au East Hebron (Me.) horse pioves bis wit in thiswise: Two nights in succession the nag slipped his headstall off aud pushed an innir door iu lhe stable open and slid the outer railroad door with his teeth und went into the field and helped himself to grass. He was detected by the prints es his teeth on the crossbars < f the oocr. ’lr. Nlabler ’nr* to Treatment ut I’nlarrli Doe* No Cood. Mr E M ,S abl-r. P»vne. O'lio, writes: ' 1 had catarrh of lhe head. I tried a local catarrh r me tv and it did m* no good: I tried two different catarrh snuff< and thev did m- no giaxt; [ Ti*d a cetiir’i ba'm and it did m-* no good; our Home d«>c or and his rnedi. cinw did me no good; I tried a Fort V avne doctor and he d> ’ •>«» good.

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I gave them al) up for thev were d o i n g me no giO't. A'l thev at re after ««« mv money, end t hey got it and that wa« all the’ wanted Then I got a I’e ru n)t liman c. I read

it all through and saw that I’e-ru-ns ■vas highly reconim-nded for cat-irih I took eight bottles and thev cur-'i mil - und and well. lam 59 years old and I can do a good dsv’s *oik tight alongI think I’e-ru-nais the best meltcine that was ever got up for catarrh. I tiink everv one that has catarrh should u-e it. as I believe it will do the same for others as it has done for tn-.” Send to the Pe-ru na Drug Manufacturing (kimpany, Columbus. Qliio, for Dr Hartman’s tree tiook on catarrb. A-k your drm/gist for a free Peru na Almanac so 1898 r X I Fori Wayne SM of M Opens January lllh, 1898. M'ssOtll'.a Hellen«leben. from therhir»F® Art In’titute, has been engHged as re-i» “ Instructor of drawing and painting. TERM—January 1110 June 11. 1898. DAY CLASSES:—AduIts. 1 lesson a p»*r term; 2 ieaflons a week. $lB per t r ®' lessons a we« k. per teun Chllrtren. 1 son a week, $6 pet term; 2 lessons per weei ? per term EVENING CLASSES-.—l lesson » week F per term; 2 lessons a week, $lO per term For further information and registration pupils, please apply at the studio. c« Lewis and Barr street, from 3 to ftp JJJ•• January ft. 7 and 9; also f rom 7toß PJanuary 4 and 6, or by mail to Miss kiitherine Hamilton, Z. M. I’tiirswend. ot Grosbeck, * rX ;’ .ays that when he has a spell <’f zestion. and feels bad and sloggi ß^- ® 'akes two of DeWitt's Little ® l,r Kisers at night, and he is all f'K ht 1 , •lext morning. Many thousand 8 othere do tbe same thing. On J° u ' H. Nacbtrieb.