Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1898 — Page 8

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Williams. Lizzie Berning is seriously ill with measles. E. Biggs was at Decatur Saturday on business. G. F. Mercer visited at Fort Wayne last Sunday. The Williams Cornet Band will reorganize in the near future with several new members. Louis Shrader and Henry Silking are each preparing to build a new barn this summer. There will lie communion services at the C uncord church Easter Sunday conducted by the pastor, Rev. Friburger. Notwithstanding the large amount of eggs that are being marketed, E. Biggs & Co, are still paying 7c per dozen at their grocery. Eastern Dispatch. Mrs. Boyer js recovering from sickness and an operation. The Pleasant Valley people are contemplating giving an exhibition April Bth. The young people who'have been having debates at Pleasant Valley this winter, closed the meeting last Friday night. The Willahire high school will close April 22, having four graduates. The commencement exercises will take place the same avening. A fatal accident occurred at Willshire Saturday afternoon. Mr. Rowe, the miller in Hale Bros, grist mill, stepped into the engine room to put on a belt, the engineer being out at the time, and by an accident was caught in the belt breaking both legs and mangling the body horribly. He leaves a family and many friends and relatives to mourn his death. The remains were taken to Bluffton Monday for interment. Linn Grove. J. C. Slawson and wife were at Indianapolis last week. Frank Morrow moved to Hanesville. Wells county, the forepart of this week. Revs. J. W. Daugherty and Otto Bolds Steinarant, evangelists joined the Holiness people in their labors over the Sabbath. Frank Morrow and Miss Emma Eckroat were united in wedlock at the residence of Daniel Eckroat on Thursday evening last. Rev Spangler officiating. The corps of evangelists are doing < ffective woij: in this community. But ■ in tlia Apostelic age the vicinity la> been set in an uproar because th ase that are turning the world upside down have come here also, nevertheless the mission is a rightous one namely, preaching salvation to men and gathering the people of God together in unity and a oneness in the plan of redemption to harmonize sectraianism, thereby binding into one l>*ly ail that, are born into the church of God; the many members of which by that birth should be one mind and faith. Bobo. Sidney Chapman has move east. B >l)o was pretty weii represented in Decatur last Saturday.

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ARE NOW READY to fit you all out with your entire Spring wants. They are prepared to supply you in everythtng in the Dry Goods and Notion line at the very lowest prices possible, and from the largest and best selected stock they have ever shown. We give a few prices for your consideration: Yard wide extra heavy brown sheeting. 4 cents. Yard wide fine bleached, free from dressing, 4c and 4Jc. Yard wide extra quality, free from dressing. sc. Staple or fancy ticking, Bc, 10c, 12|c and 15c. All tickings are much cheaper fhan ever before. Checked fowling 31c per yard. Heavy linen fowling 5c per yard. 58 inch Turkey red table damask. 15c. 58 inch all linen table damask, 25c. Extra staple apron ginghams, 5 cents. Nice fine zephyr dress ginghams Bc. Standard prints, 4c. Immense line percales, 8c and 10c. Don’t pass our cheap line of fancy plaid dress goods. They are going rapidly at 121 c and 15c -they are hummers. We also have an elegant line of wool dress goods at 25c. 30c. 40 and 50c. All popular stuff and up-to-date; and then for the better goods we cando you good. We have an endless variety of these, many of which we have in single patterns. giving the advantage of only one dress of a kind. We have a most beautiful line of silks for waists and trimmings prices 40 cents, 50 cents, 75 cents and upwards. UMBRELLAS of all kinds and styles to suit everybody. Prices 50c, 75c, SI.OO and upwards. Ribbons are in great demand this spring—■ there never was such a demand for both plain and fancy. Wide sash ribbon, No. 40 and 60 ribbon, at 25c per yard. We have best line of men's ladies' and children's hosiery we ever have shown and we can meet all your wants in this department. You will find our stock of ladies', gent’s and children’s uridewear complete in all the new and desirable goods—prices from 5c to 50c,

Ed Koose called on Clarence Brodbeck last Sunday. W. H. Brodbeck sawed about ICO cords of wood last week. George Chapman went to his old home, last Monday, on a visit. The St. Marys river is Booming. The only conveyance across is in a boat. Davis Daily had some of John FryI singer’s horses at Bobo, last week on i exhibition. Will Bunner and Howard Chapman tried the teachers' examination I last Friday. Maynord Gephart of Rockford, is visiting relatives and friends in this neighborhood. C. W. Brodbeck and Milton Hilpert went to Huntington last Tuesday, where they will attend school. Last Friday closed our schools, i The primary teacher and his school called on J. H. Steele's school in the afternoon. A few declamations and songs concluded the exercises. A pleasant time was enjoyed by all. Mon month. John Peoples jr.. and wife —a boy. Sam Magley moved to Decatur last Saturday. Sam Harkless and Nora Stultz Sundayed at the latter's home. Godfrey Curt moved into the house formerly occupied by Sam Magley. Della Robison of Berne. Sundaved with Jake Neuenschwander and wife. John Dutcher left Monday for Angola, where he will attend summer school. Fred Peoples, who has been attending college at Fort Wayne, is home spending his vacation. Rev. Freiburger preached his first serman as a pastor last Sunday, and gave good satisfaction. John Grandstaff of Henry county, Ohio, is at the bedside of Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff who is very low. The entertainment which was given by the Monmouth Show Co., at Knappe school house was a grand success, and was one of the best ever given at that place. John Christen and son Bert, returned Wednesday from Larwill. Ind., where the former is taking treatment of Dr. Gutcher, who is well known for his wonderful cures. The property formerly known as the Monmouth Baptist church property, owned by Lyman Blossom was sold to Solomon Neuenschwander. Jacob Neuenschwander will occupy the house. Miss Amelia Christianer. who has been an inmate of the Richmond insane asylum for nearly twelve years, died at that place, on Tuesday and was buried at the German Lutheran church on Thursday. She was a sister to Martin and Gus Christianer. Berne. Al Marker made a flying trip to Decatur Monday. Mr. Shepherd of Linn Grove, was in town Tuesday. Mrs. Jacob Atz is visiting her parents at Kendallville. Dr. Franz and J. Habegger made a call at Decatur Friday. John Baumgartner was a business caller at Decatur Friday. Mrs. Eli Myers is visiting her parents at Decatur this week. Attorney France of Decatur, was in town last Friday on business. Pete Longacher made a business trip the last part of last week. Miss Annon was visiting her parents in Kirkland township over Sunday. Forty voting people will be baptized at the Mennonite church Good Fridav. Rev. Ruff paid a visit to the ReI formed Orphans Home at Fort Wayne i Monday. One of our yotmg men partook of a ' hearty supper Monday night by mastering seventeen raw eggs and still claimed to be able to take more.

Awarded Highest Honors -World’s Fair, •DR* F CREAM BAKINfi POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free <r om Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. Sam Simison was at Fort Wayne Monday and Tuesday transacting business. Joel Kirchhofer has started a bicycle repair shop in the rear end of the book store. We are glad to report that Mrs. D. L. Shally was able to be up town again last Friday. The congregation of J. A. Sprunger baptized twenty-five converts in the Wabash river Monday. The town council bought a new sucker hose for the fire apparatus. The old one was worn out. J. A. Sprunger is building a barn on the Orphans Home lot and intends to keep a number of cows. Rev. Pierce left Monday for Louisville. Kentucky, to attend the conference of the Evangelical church. Charles Swartz, Fred Gerber and Joel Hirshy took the building now occupied by Campbell & Ervin off the hands of the Berne Produce Company the latter reserving the right to buy it back again next spring. Ed Luginbill while going after some stock at Linn Grove very near met death In the swollen Wabash river. The horse lost the road and Ed could do nothing betrer than jump off into the water. He landed safe hut will not again try to cross a raging stream. Pleasant Mills. School No. 2, will close one week from Friday. S. B. Merris is confined to the house with rheumatism. Mrs. B. B. Winans has been quite sick the past week. Horace Botthoff is moving to the country this week. Robert Boyd moved into the house vacated by Henry Martz. Our merchants have started their huckster wagons on the road. Mrs. Al Fristoe of Decatur, called on her parents, S. B. Merris and wife, j last week. Mrs. Cora Wisner of Fort Wayne, is at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. W. P. Porter. Mrs. William Porter is growing. worse, and also Norman Acker is becoming very feeble. Harry Worden and family of Frankfort, came Tuesday and are visiting relatives and friends here. Lambert Foreman and wife of: Celina. Ohio, are the guests of the latter’s parents at this place. Henry Martz moved to his farm onehalf mile west of Pleasant Mills, known as the Thompson farm. The Misses Carrie Botthoff. t Maude and Mary Fuller broke bread with B. B. Winans and family last Sunday. Services were dispensed with at the Baptist church Sunday evening on account of the inclement weather. It is reported that some of the young men of this place and vicinity ' were out skylarking Sunday night. 1 and carried off some of their neigh bor's chickens and had a roast and what they term "a general good time or picnic.” A few of them are candidates for baptism, we presume they need a little cleansing.

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Real Estate Transfers. Margaret M Lawson to Anna B Rny, 40 a. Blue C'k tp .-S 290 OU ; P P Ashbaueher .Etna Life Ins Co., 106 66-100 a, St Mary’s tp. 2300 00 > Hiram Pine to J C Lyberger, 40 a, Hartford tp Wm Chrisman to David Meshbarger, 20 a, Hartford tp 1000 00 . Wm Dunlap to H Claycomb, 50 a, Wabash tp • 1500 00 J Riechart to C B Andrews, i 20 a, Washington tp yOO 00 Montana Henslev to K of P Lodge No, 65. n 44 ft inlot 48. Decatur — *’9 80 D Dilling to J Klopfenstine, _ lot 1. Preble 512 50 T Woodruff to W H Niblick. 52 a. St Mary’s tp . 100 G J Bippus trustee, to J M Stewark. pt out lot 18, Decatur - > OO 00 , S Chronister to Mary E MeGath, 30 a. St Mary's tp. 600 00 ‘ J A Hartman to D S M ittwer _ 1 lot D2and pt 181. Berne 625 00 Buckfen s Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands. • chilblains, corns, and all skin erupi tions. and positively cures piles or no pay required. Price 25 cents per box. r For sale by Page Blackburn. 1 ’ ——— On April 5 and 19. the NorthWestern Line Chicagi > & NorthWestern Ry will sell Home Seekers' ‘ excursion tickets at exceptionally low rates to a large number of points in i Northern Wisconsin. Michigan. North- . Western lowa, Western Minnesota, Nebraska. North Dakota and South i Dakota, including the famous Black j Hills district. Better own a farm! Start now! Apply to nearest ticket I agent. 3-2 A new idea in jail deliveries was ' tried, with highly successful results, ‘ by a couple of convicts in the house of ; correction at Deham, Mass., the other day. They sawed their way out of j their cell, and overpoweringandblind- ■ ing the guard toolt his keys and ' opened the safe in the office. This i1 contained about 82.500 belonging to ' the officials and various prisoners. The ■ escaped men took all of this, as well ■ as three revolvers lying near and made • I their escape in safety. If a hen lavs soft shelled eggs, as they are liable to do this time of year." ! says Texas Farm and Ranch, “seperate them and feed carefully andfsparingly for a few days until the digestive ap- ’ paratus becomes normal and active — nature will do the rest.” We know of a better remedy than that. Feed cooked or scaled cut clover hay in the mash and always have a box of crushed oyster shells within reach of the fowls. A Few Hens. The wheelman of California will be , the first to have an elevated cycle path. Work is now underway on such a path between Pasadena and Los Angeles, a distance of nine miles. It will be at an elevation of from eighteen to fifty feet, with a width of twelve feet, the surface to be of wood. A toll of Scents is to be charged each way to all who use it. It will be lighted by electricity I and divided in the center. A cyclists’ pavlilion is to be built half way along the path. We fail to see the justice of taxing the dogs and allowing the cats to run free. Any person who has been kept awake for two hours in the middle of the night by the unearthly yells and hisses of a cat fight, will certainly be in for putting a tax on the offending felines. Once in a while a hound will bay at the moon but such a sound is a I celestial symphony, compares! with the noise made by an aggregation of > cats as they gambol about in the back yards. Yes, tax the cats. The idea of the Spanish that should war be declared • against the United States, they would immediately land their troops in Florida and proceed to take Washington, reminds one of the dull witted Englishman who once asserted in the house of Commons, that . the English could destroy all our coast defences and cities in ten days. I Another member of the same body ■ thoughtfully asked the gentleman how far inland he thought they would be ■ able to get in ten years. But, time jdoes'nt seem to trouble the Spanish.

— ' _==s I Be Early if you would—piel\ prizej. The choicest patterns are always to be found at the opening of the season when stocks are unbroken. The show- | ing for spring is now at its best. Our stock is complete, so now is the time, the advantageous time, to select Your Juit. Come and sec our unlimited variety. Come and see our matchless qualities Come and see our faultless styles. Come and see our unequaled makes. Come and see our suits for 11 JB.OO $12.00. j We say that we give the public better clothing for less money than any other house in the trade. Let us prove to you what we say is true Brittsop 9 Beeler. . I se a .w S

MARKETS. ' COHRKCTBD BT J. D. HALE. GRAIN MIRCHAHT DECATUB MARKET. Wheat new * 90 I , Corn, per cwt(mixed) 40 i I Corn, yellow, cwt 40 Gate, old 23 Oats, sew 23 Rye 40 Barley.,, 25 : Clover seed 2.35 ! Timothy.. 1.10 1 Butter.. H Eggs, fresh 09 Chickens #s Ducks 06 Turkeys . os Geese [4 i Wool 16 to .181 Wool, washed 18 and .SO Hogs 3.75 Toledo markets March 30.1:30 p. m. Wheat new No. 2 red, cash ? .95}$ July wheat 791$ May Corn No. 2 mixed, cash 30 Prime Clover, March.... 2.87}$ To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candv Cathartic. 10c or 23c. It CC.C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. Stone! Stone! ! Stone! ! ! For foundations, bridges, buttments and crushed stone. Hercules powder, cap and fuse for stump blasting. 50m3 John S. Bowers. Educate Tour Howels With Cascarets. .sS and]r Cattartie, cure constipation forever. Ute. 25c. ItC C C. fail, druggists refund money. ‘ I To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. . uC.C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.

GLOVES—SiIk, Cotton and Kid—We can do vou a world of good. ’.I carry the new’ desirable things in stock and everv pair fuliy and on a few days notice we can get you anvthing vou may need match any piece of goods you may desire, and no extra charge. "ii largest lace season for years and we are in position to all your wants, for as you all have learned that we are head ( l for lace. We are showing an elegant line of ladies’muslin and bnc underwear, all very nicely made at about the same price.’ would pay for the material. We are no back numbers In our grocery department. We always pav the very highest for produce, as we do our own shipping. We make two ship ol . each week, our stock therefore is fresh and small amounts comp«" to regular produce shippers, therefore we alwavs get the highest Km the eastern markets, and we are always readv to give vou the ht. We give you a few prices: Good bulk roast coffee, 8c lb. Package roast coffee, 10c lb. Extra green coffee, 19c lb. Extra fine prunes, 5 cents. Extra fine raisins, 5 cents. Strictly pure gilt edge soda 5c lb. _ t i . Guaranteed baking powder, t* Lima beans, 4c. Hand Nav y beans. -. 1 lb package gloss starch, sc. 1 lb. package corn starch, sc. 3ib can yellow table peaches, lOe. " 3 lb can pumpkin, 5 cents. - lb can extra good sugar corn, Bc. _ 10 cakes good laundry soap, 25 ceu . j l ’ 4 ounce bottle pure machine o u > v

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