Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1898 — Page 3

Additional Locals. yi-Kl cures corns and warts. Its Oyster stews the best in town at to 7ee& Baker’s. «ts Eugen e Christen was a business visor at Fort Wayne last Friday. rh irles Bell made a business trip /Monroeville Sunday afternoon. Decatur is going to have a street t his summer. Are you going to Iggies, wagons and surries latest tv les and lowest prices at Ellsworth, ,I’vers & Co. Prink Baker left last Friday for 'ebraska, where he expects to make future home. Hem Holthouse returned to Delphi Thursday evening, after spending sev!al days with his parents here. j W. Place made a trip to Speneerille anil other Ohio towns last Thurs aT in the interest of his ice cream actory. To Cure a cold in one day. Take axative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All juggists. refund the money if it fails 0 cure. 25c. 26tf \ beacon of hope. To those afflictd with kidney or bladder diseases is Bley’s Kidney Cure. Guaranteed, lolthouse & Callow. a William Darwechter has accepted he agency of the Central Michigan iursery, and will now lie prepared to ell you anything in his line. X life for 50c. Many people have been cured of kidney diseases by takhie a 50c bottle of Foley’s Kidney Cure. Holtjiouse & Callow. a It is said that the longest lived people have generally been those who niade breakfast the principal meal of the day, as the stomach has more vigor in it than at any other time. There will be six eclipses this year three of the sun and three of the moon, but only one visible in North America and that is of the moon December 27th. Glass may be smoked later. Have you had the grip? If you have, you probably need a reliable medicine like Foley’s Honey and Tar to heal your lungs and stop the racking cough incidental to this disease. Holthouse & Callow. a A batch of fourteen prisoners were released from Jeffersonville prison last week under theindeterminatelaw. Among the number was Erastus Shields, who choked James Young to death in a Montpelier restaurant. Three men at Warsaw have em barked in queer business. They have leased about twenty acres of land and will plant it in onions. Employment will be furnished to about twenty-five men and boys nearly all through the planting and growing season.

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High grade bicycles at a low price at Ellsworth, Meyers & Co. 4-3 Charles M. Franco transacted le<ml business at Van Wert last Friday. Don’t give up the Decatur street air for a little thing like a war with Spain. Charles Zollars of Fort Wayne visited friends here the latter part of last week. The Chicago & Erie railway company have had electric lights placed in their depot in this city. Miss Celia Fitzniaurice of Winchester, who spent several days here with friends, has returned to her home. R. J. Holthouse, the popular traveling salesman for the Wolfe Bros, shoe house, spent Sunday with his family here. J School will close in this city five weeks from tomorrow’. This will no doubt gladden the hearts of many an urchin. Mrs. A. E. Huffman of Marion, returned home last Thursday, after several days visit with friends and relatives here. Glad tidings to asthma suffers. Foley’s Honey and Tar gives quick and positive relief in all cases. Holthouse & Callow. a The ladies of the Presbyterian church will serve a dinner May 24. This is the date of the meeting of the republican congressional convention. Rev. W. H. Mygrants, the newly appointed minister at the Evangelical church, arrived from New Paris last I Saturday, and delivered his first sermon on Sunday morning. The Toledo, St. Louis and & Kansas I City road earned in the first week of April $517.92. Since July], the road has earned $1,755,980.25, an increase over the corresponding period of the preceding year of $3,314.60. A new’ “lover’s alarm clock” strikes loudly at 10 o’clock, and two little doors opening reveal the form of a man in a dressing gown, holding in his hand a card bearing the words “good night.” Mayor Zeigler, by authority of the Montpelier common council, has offered SSO reward for the arrest and conviction of persons who broke the glass and otherwise damaged the Catholic church building in that town. Last Saturday, at Bloomington. Ind., William J. Bryan gave another | proof of the eloquent anarchy that is in him by giving $250 to the university of that place just as he did to the Ohio State university at Columbus. If you wish to reach Alaska it will be to your advantage to call upon nearest agent Clover Leaf route. Through tickets via San Francisco or ' Portland at lowest rates. Full parj ticulars upon application to C. C. 1 Jenkins, Gen'l Paas. Agent, Toledo,

Sheriff Webster turned the keys on Seelberg’s dry goods store at Van ” ert and will offer the entire stock for sale. This action is taken to satisfy judgments aggregating $9,857.4-4 in favor of the First National Bank of van Wert; Rebecca Wolfe and Caroline Steefel, of Fort Wayne. A man is often judged by the company’ he keeps. That is one reason why McKinley is supposed to be controlled by’ a gang of men, one of whom gave utterance to the following: “ hat does the loss of a few sailors amount to in comparison with the loss the stock market would sustain in the event of war?” A few months ago, Mr. Byron Every of \\ oodstock, Mich., was badly afflicted with rheumatism. His right leg was swollen the full length, causing him great suffering. He was advised to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. The first bottle of it helped him considerably and the second bottle effected a cure. The 25 and 50 cent sizes are for sale by Smith & Yager. f John C. Paige & Co., who spend more money in advertising than any other Boston insurance firm, have already given away 60.000 pictures of the battleship Maine and expect to distribute 90,000 more. One day recently 5,600 persons called at their office in two hours for these cards and police had to keep the crowds in line. Shrewd the advertiser who keeps his finger on the public pulse. A queer (?) medicine. There is a medicine whose proprietors do not claim to have discovered some hitherto unknown ingredient, or that it is a cure-all. This honest Medicine only claims to cure certain diseases, and that its ingredients are recognized by’ the most skilled physicians as being the best for kidney and and bladder diseases. It is Foley’s Kidney Cure. Holt house & Callow. a To the. Decatur base ball cranks it can be stated that the rules adopted to govern baseball for the year 1898 require two umpires. One must stand beside or behind the catcher and call balls and strikes, decide foul ballsand all points of play in running to the home platce. The other umpire must stand near first or third base and decide all plays at bases and in the field. Go to Mrs. Della Sheets’ milliner store at Berne, Indiana, to buy your spring hats. Prices lowest. Largest stock toselect from. I make a specialtv of trimmed hats where another such a line cannot be produced in Adams county. You will be surprised when you ask the price, and will go home in a good humor. Yours to serve, Mrs. Della Sheets, 3-5 Berne, Ind. Will Wood, of Pearl Bryan fame, also of the battleship lowa, has the gall to write a letter for publication in his home paper, the Lebanon Reporter. When it is remembered that this same Wcxxl was the primary cause of the execution of two men and perhaps the shameful death of an innocent girl, the extreme bad taste of such a proceeding cannot fail to strike and impress the averge American citizen. I have given Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a fair trial and consider it one of the very best remedies for croup that I have ever founk. One dose has always been sufficient, although I use it freely. Any cold my children contract yields very readily to this medicine. I can conscientiously recommend it for croup and colds in children. —Geo. E. Wolff, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Fernandina, Fla.JjSold by Smith & Yager.

The Peru oil field holds out better than the wiseacres predicted. The output of that Peru district is now six tanks, or 1,200 barrels per day, making the income of the well owners about S6OO per day. It is believed down there that there will yet be some first-class strikes in that territory. Only a few days since a 200barrel producer was drilled in on the Charters farm and this success is leading to further operations. Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Frederickstown, Mo., was troubled with chronic diarrhoea for over thirty years. He had become fully satisfied that it was only a question of a short time until he would have to give up. He had been treated by some of the best physicians in Europe and America but got no permanent relief. One day he picked up a newspaper and chanced to read an advertisement of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He got a bottle of it, the first dose helped him and its continued use cured him. For sale by Smith & Yager. f Hon. William J. Bryan delivered a lecture at Columbus last week, for which he was paid $250, and he immediatly turned over the amount to President Canfield, of the state University, for the use and benefit of that institution. Mr Bryan is a poor man, vet he did not permit that fact to stand in the way of giving substantial evidence that he is thoroughly in sympathy of such institutions as our State Universities. A Narrow Escape. Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton,! S. D. “Was taken with bad cold which settled on my lungs; doctors gave me up saving I could live but a short time.' I gave myself up to my Savior, determined if could not stay with my friends on earth. I would meet my absents ones above. Mv husband was advised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. I gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles. It has cured me and thank God lam saved and now a well and healthy woman.” Trial bottles free at Page Blackburn's drug store. Regularsize 50 cents and SI.OO. Guaranteed or price refunded.

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DR. J. W, YOUNGE. President American Association Medical and Surgical Specialists. —THE Ablest Specialist in the Country, WILL BE AT THE BURT HOUSE, ON Holiday, April 25, 1898, Dr. Younge has treated more cases of Chronic Diseases than any other three doctors in the state. We can cure Epilepsy.