Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1898 — Page 5

Additional Locals. Missouri Girl, March 4th. Now for bargains. The Fair. Wall paper cheap. The Fair. We move the 15th of March. The Fair. A. P. Beatty is on the sick list this week. Oyster stews the best it town at Coffee & Baker’s. 44tf 15th of March the last day, in the Stone’s building. Fresh fruint, nuts and candies of all kinds at Coffee & Baker s. ts Batch Blackburn is suffering from a felon on his thumb this week. Follow the crowd at meal time. They all go to 00111*0 & Baker s ts Attorney DeVoss was a business visitor at Portland last Saturday. You can get solid oysters and XXXX crackers at Coffee & Baker's. 44-ts Miss Fannie DeVil biss was a Fort Wayne visitor last Friday evening. All the new novelties in spring dress goods and silks at Niblick &Co. 50-4 Notice the ad of Mougey & Locke, the new shoe firm in another column. The family of Dell Locke arrived in the city last Tuesday from Waterlo.o Ladies, see the beautiful line French Organdies and Lawns at Niblick & Co 50-4 Miss Lena Barthel, of the Boston store, is the guest of friends at Tiffin, Ohio. Annual Mite barrel opening and Missionary Tea at M. E. church this evening. Major R. B. Allison returned from a several days visit at Indianapolis last Friday. Stoves at Cost Toelose them out. Call and get prices at Ellsworth, Myers & Co. 51-3 Jacob Martin was looking after the cigar trade at Willshire, last Monday and Tuesday. A fine assortment spring carpets, draperies, lace curtains and window shades at Niblick & Co. 50r4 Judge D. D. Heller attended to judicial business at Fort Wayne Monday and Tuesday evenings. Charles Zollinger, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday in this citv, the guest of John D. Hale and family. Jay Phillips, of Rochester, will stay a couple weeks with E. Franklin to help move the store to Rochester. The price of Indiana oil advanced ten cents last Tuesday and the boys are happv accordingly. “Let her go.”

Join S. flaws & ft Our line of Plows are adapted to our soil, and therefore it is no experiment when you buy a plow from us. Our line of Disc Harrows, Spring Tooth and Fargo V shaped tooth as well as the Sulky Spring Tooth Harrow, have been tested thoroughly, tried and found satisfactory. Don’t buy any of these tools until you see our line. A complete line of Buggies, Wagons and Surreys and everything else kept in a firstclass hardware store. Wire and nails have advanced, but we have not. Call and get our prices, they will speak for themselves. Champion mowers and binders, the latest and best on earth > Jofla S. Bowers & Co.

Missouri Girl, March 4th. Rev. Shepherd of the United Brethern church, conducted services at the Evangelical church last Sunday morning. Wanted —Boys and girls to call and get six Photos for 25 cents. Rear room Stone's building, up stars. 50-2 t F. B. Bartlett. Don’t forget that the Decatur high school will hold their primary contest at Bosse’s opera house next Monday evening. There is no discount on the “Missouri Girl.” If you want to see a show that will please you don’t miss this one. Arthur Fisher and wife, who have spent the winter at Hamburg, Germany. are expected home within the next month. Charles B. Bottenberg returned Sunday from a trip of several weeks in Germany in the interest of Fisher & Frysinger. Mrs. Burdge has moved her stock of millinery goods into the Bowers building, formerly occupied by the Winnes shoe store. For the best and cheapest repairing on boots and shoes call on N. Nix, north Second street, opposite Old Adams County Bank. 51-4 Call and see our new line of farm implements, new Osborn binder and mower, all ball bearing, runs like a bicycle. Ellsworth. Myers & Co. 513Hereafter the Decatur postoffice will be open on Sundays from 9 to 10 o’clock a. m. and 2 to 2:30 p. m. P. L. Andrews, P. M. Otto Ehinger was at Berne Tuesday taking orders for clothes for the merchant tailoring firm of Ehinger & Meyers. Ott reports excellent success. We have a lot of thread cases, mirrors, desks, chairs and lot of other things that you can use. Would rather sell than move them. The Fair. Several new advertisements will be found in this issue. Among them being the Boston Store, C. E. Doty. Ehinger & Meyers and the National Bank. An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Andrews of Monroe, died last Sunday morning of bowel trouble. The funeral was held Monday morning at ten o’clock. Unclaimed letters are at the postoffice for Lanie Rice, Effie Smith, Sam E. Slater, H. R. Studabaker, Leona Jones, Solomon Neuenschwander, F. A. Diager. The 15th of March is the last day of our stay in Decatur. If you want to paper this spring come now and get some bargains before we move. The Fair, Stone’s block.

Daisey and Zeke, March 4th. Dan Van Cleef will arrive Friday to make arrangements to open his new store in the Stone block. He will move his family here from Chicago about the middle of April. The curfew bell will ring in our city in the near future, and you may as well start to keeping the children off the streets now, and it will be that much easier to control them then. Chester Buhler and family of Ridgeville, spent several days here this week- Chet is an old Decatur boy and was kept quite busy shaking hands with his numerous friends. New circuit court cases filed since last week are The Decatur National Bank vs William H. Sehnepp, foreclosure, demand SSOO. John Berdan et al., vs Ike S. Rose, account 5100. The W. C T. U. will meet with Mrs. Allison next Saturday, March sth, at 2:30 p. m. The president requests all members to attend as she has some important business to transact. Ike Rosenthal has moved his stock of clothing, hats, caps, gents’ furnishing goods, boots and shoes into the old Yager stand, first door south of the Decatur National Bank. Call and see him. 48tf We notice by our exchanges t hat footpads are numerous in our neighboring cities. Decatur has had a round of pleasure from these dastardly mud-hens, the only consolation being that “there are others.” Daisey and Zeke am a comin back March 4th. When they were here Jan. 6th„ everybody laughed until they j couldn’t laugh any more, and lots of the folks that didn't laugh wanted them to come back so they could laugh too. Quite a number of our citizens took dinner at the Burt House last Sunday evening. Mr. Townsend is making a great success of these dinners and you should not fail to be his guest next Sunday evening. Dick will treat you right. Dyonis Schmidt, the popular meat merchant of this city, shipped three car loads of cattle to the eastern market at Buffalo last Saturday. Dyonis is a hustler in the cattle business and you can guess that he ships nothing but the best. The barber shop of John Riefer’s on Monroe street has been given a nice clean appearance this week by the addition of electric lights and new wall paper. John knows how to please his customers and hence all this expenditure of funds. The infant child of Eli W. Peterson died in this city last Tuesday morning. Mr. Peterson is a guard in the Northern penitentiary at Michigan City, and his family were visiting here when the death occurred. The child died from catarrhal fever. Clem Holthouse left last Monday for Delphi, Ind., where as stated in last week’s issue, he will open a large retail shoe store under the name of A. Holthouse & Son. His father will join him in a few weeks as soon as he has settled his busines in this city. Indiana oil is on the advance, now being quoted at fifty-five cents a barrel. There is one man in Adams county, Dan P. Bolds, who is wearing a broad smile of self congratulation. He still owns extensive oil interests and the advance in price means many dollars to him. Rev. E. T. Gregg conducted services at the Evangelical church in this city last Sunday evening in the absence of Rev. Wendell, who has been quite sick for some time. Rev. Gregg’s subject was, “A Divine Requirement,” and was very eloquent. A large audience attended. Indiana oil madn a gain last week of four cents, the market closing at forty-three cents. The oil producers of this county in all probability appreciate the raise as much as any one and are anxiously awaiting the five cent raise which is predicted for this week. According to the late Bluffton papers there is strong probability of an electric railway being built from Van Wert to Bluffton, passing through this city. The line would be a good one, and Bluffton will, no doubt, receive the required encouragement from our citizens. The Cecillian Musical Club will entertain in a very handsome way on March 15th. Quite a number of invitations have been issued and the event is being looked forward to with considerable interest. The social event will take place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Hensley. George Houser and daughter celebrated their birthdays Monday, the former being fifty-five years old and the latter twenty-five. A family dinner was given in celebration of the event. Those present besides the family lieing Maurise Hendricks and wife and Miss Haefling of Uniondale. Herman Tettman, formerly a Decatur citizen but who for several years past has been engaged in business at Geneva, will return to this city soon. He has accepted a position as clerk in the shoe store of Mougey & Locke. The Democrat joins with Herman’s many friends in welcoming him back in our midst. The following is a list of the renewals to the Democrat during the past week: S. D. Beavers, Harmon Sellemyer, Fred Neaderhouser, A. L. Gerboden, George Headington, J. H. Bremerkamp, Barney Meibers, Joshua Parrish, Chas Kizer, Henry Myers, Shelby Vance, Henry Hart. Charles Koiss, C. A. Neuenschwander, Lymon Hart and George Cole bin.

1 a H | Advance Sale New Spring Goods, i 3 ss d i j I I | | New Novelties in all Departments. I d H I ■ i I g I I j I d 8 New Novelty Dress Coods. In all the new colorings for spring, in plain and fancy wears, rang- ig ing in price from 25c, 50c, 65c, 75c, 90c and SI.OO per yard. We g can show yon the most handsome line that was ever brought to g -I the city, and a range of styles and colorings that can not be found g q outside of our store. h a tf= 0 ‘ | i New Wash Fabrics. id French Organdies and Lawns Madras Cloth, novelties in French g Ginghams, Toile du Nord, and any number of other nice Wash g Goods too numerous to mention. Make your selections before the § q assortments are oroken. b g 1 Spring Carpets, Lace Curtains, Draperies | and Window Shades. We are in position this spring to show you one of the handsomest | lines, and largest and most complete assortment ever brought to g the city of Decatur. Our line is complete of all Novelties. No g old styles, and prices we guarantee can not be matched. Carpets § at 15c. 25c, 35c, 40c, 50c, 65c and 75c per yard. A complete line of Wilton Velvets. Moquettes, Axministers. and Body Brussels g Our advance sales in this line has proven that no such line is 1 found outside of our store. We handle the best makes from most g reliable manufacturers. See us before you buy a new spring i Carpet, Draperies, or Curtains. b i I I I Niblick & Co. |

Jesse Dailey is quite sick this week and is compelled to be out of school. The fact that he has to miss school is quite a punishment for Jesse as this is the first time he has been either tardy or absence since he started to school some ten years ago. The record is a good one and few scholars can say as much. The following clipping is taken from the Tuesday’s issue of the Portland Sun: A party from Decatur composed of the following persons attended the Sousa concert Friday afternoon: Mesdames Lew Ellingham, Jeff Bryson, Fred Schafer, J. B. Rice. Messrs. J. B. Rice, C. S. Spencer, Fred W. Falk, Prof. Brittson and H. J. Yager. A. Holthouse takes this method of thanking his many customers and friends for their patronage during the past twenty-nine years of his business career. The memory of the pleasant relations existing between himself and the public will ever remnin bright. His successors, Mougey & Locke, are deserving and he solicits for them the same kind of treatment extended to him. The New York millinery store has been removed from the Welfley block into the Studebaker block on south Second street. Mr. Bailey has also put in a large stock of musical instruments, including pianos, organs, violins, etc., also a new stock of music. Their new store no doubt will be very neat and inviting and complete with all the latest things in millinery and music. The office of the Burt House has been handsomely refitted during the past week with new chairs of various colors and styles. They are beauties and the office has taken on the appearance of a Metropolitian hotel, as it is. Dick has also had a number of stuffed birds and animals placed in the hotel. They are up to date and add much to the home like appearance of the house. Fort Wayne Castle No. 2, Knights of the Golden Eagle passed through the citv yesterday on their way from Marion, where they had been in attendance at a meeting of the Grand Castle. There were about twenty-five of them and they were very jubilant over the fact that they had l>een successful in securing the next meeting of the Grand Lodge. They report an excellent time at Marion. Rov Huffman, of Ossian, was arrested in this city last Friday evening on a charge of attempt at criminal assault and taken to Wells county. The boy is the son of a minister of Ossian and the little five year old daughter of William Short was the victim. The crime is certainly a terrible one and the boy should, as he no doubt will if found guilty, receive the punishment he so justly deserves.