Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1898 — Page 5

. i.n -it the New Fair Store Bc. lapel* o at 9tf w C T T. will meet with Mrs. Jomiomor'rowat 2:30. , „„ an sret solid oysters and XXXX rkers at Coffee & Baker's. 44-ts New Fair Store will sell GranJash basins, next Saturday g at Sc. Uhbaueher & Bell’s line of buggies not be beat. Come and see for rselfA number of our citizens were reg>re<l at the Burt for dinner Sunday >ning« LVe take good paper in payment for L; e s Come and see us. Ashler & Bell. 6tf . [t finished bleached muslin for ’week at the New Fair Store, ten ids for 45c. 9 “ f vou have butter and eggs bring nf to the New Fair Store. They f t h ( > highest market prices. )tto Ehinger visited his brother, L rt at Van Wert Monday and esda’y. He reports a good time, the members of the new volunteer litia com pan v should not fail to end the meeting Friday evening at 8 armory. John W. Vail and W. H. Niblick tted for Cardwell, Mo., Sunday rht. They expect to stop over at Louis one day. Come and get a sample of our 10c ilk coffee. It is the best coffee for , money, on the market. No extra •sample. The New Fair. 9tf Wheat has gone kiting. May sells 51.75 per bushel in Chicago Mony and may possibly reach the §2 irk before the end of the week. Mrs. Ellen Touhey of Ft. Wayne, bow located in the city, having argeof the west end restaurant nnerly managed by Joe Bremernip. W. H. Niblick is remodeling the ilding occupied by the Democrat ice this week. A new front and the dug out of a stairway are the prin>al changes. Die Allison block, north of postice, is to be remedied next week by e building of a new plate glass mt. No city in the state has any tter looking buildings than Decatur. The city band is trying to get the ipport of the business men of katur to enable them to give band inverts on the public square one leningeach week. Help them along. Clerk Lenhart has issued marriage lenses to Charles E. Martz and Hila . Wagers, Elmer L. Elev and Loot io Martz. George W. Shotly and Frisia E. Tinkham.

Jnlin S. Bows & fa. 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 John S. Bowers &1.

Fresh fruint, nuts and candies ofall kinds at Coffee & Baker’s. ts Dan Beery is looking after the horse market at Chicago this week. Don’t forget us when looking for a buggy. Ashbaueher & Bell. sits Look here. We cannot be downed on a buggy deal. Ashbaueher A Bell. g tf \V e are headquarters on lace and embroideries. Come and see them. The New Fair Store. 9tf Miss lanthe Gregory left yesterday for Columbus, where she will visit friends for a few days. School will be out to-morrow and the small boy will no boubt be in evidence from this time on. A full line of table linens and fowling can be had at the New Fair Store, at the lowest prices. 9tf Have you seen our cheap road wagons. Ride as easy as a buggy and look better. Ashbaueher & Bell. 6tf All members of Camp 81 S. V. are requested to meet at G. A. R. Hall Monday evening May 15, 1898. Ire Lake Captain. The Star restaurant, under the management of Martin & Fahrenbach, is receiving a new coat of paper and paint this week. The addition to the residence of J. D. Hale on Fifth street has been completed and the appearance of the house has been much improved. The ladies of the Christian church will serve dinner in the court house hall May 24. This is the day of the republican congressional convention. Mrs. R. B. Allison transplanted some of her choice plants in a bed in front of her residence last week, and some unholy scamp stole the best of them. John Miebers is having the front of his business block on Second street remodeled with a handsome new front. The buliding is occupied by Henry Voglewede, the popular shoe man. Hiram T. Gregg, local editor of the Journal, has been quite sick during the past week with measles, but is now much improved and will very probably soon be back at his post of duty. It takes time, some day all the people will know alwut our proposition to meet any prices quoted by anybody anywhere on groceries. Better boa New Fair customer and be satisfied. 9tf Out of the twenty-one men who left here last Friday to join Co. B, at Indianapolis, only nine were able to pass the examination, and the rest were compelled to return home, notwithstanding their patriotic feelings.

Now is the time for bargains in buggies at Ashbaueher A Bell's. Gtf John Baker represented the firm of Coffee A Baker at Van Wert, Tuesday. Follow the crowd at meal time. They all go to Coffee A Baker’s ts The Michigan Buggy Co. line of buggies for sale bv Ashbaueher A Bell. 6tf M hat has become of Decatur's street fair? Are we going to have one? Don’t lose sight of it. M. V. B. Archbold is representing Archbold A Haugh in the several cities of the gas belt this week. Don't miss, when in Decatur, to visit the New Fair Store. You will find everything there from 1c up. H. A. Fristoe is in line this week with an attractive patriotic window display. The People’s restaurant are always up-to-date. Postmaster Andrews reports unclaimed letters for Mrs. Addie Ludy, E. N. Lee, George Clifton, John Barrett, John Judy. Mayor Cromer of Muncie, candidate for the republican nomination for congress, has been in the county this week, keeping up political fences. Judge Studabaker and R. B. Allison were at Marion attending a meeting of the board of directors of the First National Bank on Tuesday last. Veterinary Surgeon Ziegler is looking after business in Peru, Indiana, and takes this mode of informing his friends that he will not be at home for several days. Mrs. A. W. Rout of Cookville. Tennessee, is expected to arrive in the city today or tomorrow. She will pay an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer. John H. Lenhart and wife were at Fort Wayne Tuesday attending a meeting of the stewards of the Methodist church of the Fort Wayne district. Rev. W. H. Daniels also attended. The new military company recently organized in this city are drilling right along, and with the efficiency of Captain King will soon be a star in the line of military organizations in Indiana. A dispatch received last evening says that another regiment has been ordered from Indianapolis to Tampa, Florida. This will take either the first or the fourth, most probably the former. Al. Fristoe at the Peoples’ Bakery keeps open day and night which makes it quite convenient for persons going south on the G. R. A I. at midnight. Hot lunch at all hours. Opposite court house. J. L. Gay of the firm of Auten A Gay will be found at his new residence on the corner of Ninth and Jackson streets, one block north of Monroe. Night calls promptly answered. Telephone No. 60. 9-3 The members of the Masonic Lodge of this city will go to Ossian next Monday evening, where a grand feast and plenty of work is promised them. Lodges will be present from Bluffton and Fort Wayne. A musicale will be given at the Methodist church tonight, under the auspices of the Keuchman sisters, the well-known music teachers. You are cordially invited to attend. No admission fee will be charged. We lead and others follow. Wehave a beautiful couch full size that we are going to sell Saturday, May 14th for only §5.98, and is it not stuffed with wind or stove pipes, but are filled with springs andt ow. 9-1 An explosion of a lamp in the rear room of Frank Gast A Co.’s cigar store yesterday evening caused considerable excitement for a few minutes. The flames were soon extinguished, however. by a cool-headed employe. The new Fair store is again to the front with a beautiful and artistic show window. Mr. VanCleef, the proprietor, is an artist in decorating windows. It is worth your while to notice this attractive piece of work. Rev. Barton, pastor of the Methodist church at Bobo, will deliver the morning service at the methodist church in this city next Sunday and in return Rev. Daniels will conduct communion services for the Bobo congregation. Those who attended the oratorical contest at Muncie last Friday evening say that Miss Ethel King of this city, captured everything in sight by her beautiful singing. Miss King is certainly a star, and her many friends are proud of her success. The Marion Leader of this week says: Father Charles Dye, of this city, has applied to the Governor to enter the service as chaplain of the Fourth regiment. He served three years as chaplain with the French army Itefore coming to America. This is the last week of school and the small boy is happy accordingly. It was intended that there should lie two weeks of school yet, but at a meeting of the school board last Saturday it was decided for several reasons to dismiss the schools this week. A district meeting of the Rathbone Sisters. K. of P.. is announced to take place in this city May 28. Members will be present from Ft. Wayne. Portland. Wabash. Winchester. Marion and Bluffton. The members of the Decatur lodge wish the citizens to decorate their homes and business places with the colors of the lodge. Our city will no doubt give them a a I roval welcome. *

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The public schools will be brought to an abrupt close tomorrow, owing to a shortage of funds with which to continue them longer. The regular term would have lasted two weeks longer, but they could not be run on wind as a financial back ground, so they will close. Father Kron and Father Oschtring of Ft. Wayne and Bishop Radenacher of this district were in the city the early part of this week. They were overseeing the examinations at the Parochial schools, preparatory to the promotion and graduation of the children. Weather prophet Hicks says there will be some wicked, dangerous storms the last half of May and ten days or more into June. He also predicts a good crop year, believing that there will be ample moisture to mature all early crops over most parts of our country. Rev. E. T. Gregg, of Kokomo, came over last week and spent Friday and Saturday with his friends here. He reports the Gregg family as being in the best of health and that they are well pleased with their _ new home. Rev. Gregg made this office a pleasant call. The whole country is thoroughly enthused with the war spirit, men are leaving good positions to accept a soldier’s pay and fare. The nation always has patriots in the hour of need and those who do not feel at liberty to enlist should encourage the boys in blue. The house of Elijah Walters, four and a half miles east of the city, was entered and robl>ed by some sneak thief last Monday. Five dollars belonging to A. S. Walters and a few other trivial articles were taken. The thief is known and will very probably be dealt with accordingly. Several young men of Monrot' started out last Saturday night to celebrate Dewey’s victory, and wound up by getting on the outside of a good sized jag. They set off a stick of dynamite on one of the streets of Monroe; and succeeded in breaking all the window glass within several hundred feet. Superintendent Brandyberry reports that out of the forty students who passed examination under him about a month ago for county diplomas. nineteen were successful. A grade of 75 per cent, with the grade of no one study lower than6o per cent, was necessary to secure a diploma. Miss Helen Gould, of New York, has tendered the United States government a gift of SIOO.OOO to be expended on the war. Generous as this liberal donation may seem the lady’s fortune can stand’ this diminution and there will be plenty left in which to fit her out with summer milinery.

It has been decided to hold the next meeting of the Eastern Indiana Oratorical Association at Portland. It seems that only two cities in the oratorical district have an opera house or place suitable to hold the contests in, owing to the large crowds which attend. These are Portland and Muncie. Rev. W. I. Alexander, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church in this city, but now of Argyle, Illinois, was in the city the first of the week and was very busy shaking hands with his friends. Mr. Alexander reports that he is much pleased with his Western home and that everything is getting along nicely. Sheriff Ashbaueher left last Tuesday night for Jeffersonville, in charge of Amos Herrmann, who was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the reformatory for larceny. Peter stopped at Indianapolis on his return ami spent several days with his son Henry, who is a member of Co. B, 4th regiment, stationed at that place. James Waldron, who has been acting as day clerk at the Burt House since January 1, has resigned. He left last Tuesday for Chicago. Jim has a position in view in the largest hotel in the Yukon valley and will leave for that place in a few days. The Democrat wishes Jim all sorts of good luck in his new field of labor. Those who wish personal mention when they have entertained company, or when absent on a visit, or who have items of interest, are always welcome to send them to the Democrat. This invitation has been frequently published, and if such notices do not appear; place the blame upon yourselves and not upon the publishers. Edward P. Miller, who left this cityin charge of our military organizations as captain, has been promoted to the position of major. In this position he is required to have a horse, and on last Monday his father, L. C. Miller, purchased a handsome dark bay saddle horse of John M. Frysinger and shipped the same to Major Miller. The horse is a beauty, weighs 1,100 pounds, and is four years old. Major Miller will no doubt be the best appearing, as well as the most efficient officer in the service.

Read What Your Neighbors Say. MRS. WINNES, corner Fifth and Jefferson streets. Decatur. Ind., writes: Havinir faithfully tested your Dr. Bayer's Cough Syrup and Penetrating Oil. I must say that I am highlypieased with them and shall use no other in the future. XAVIER M. MILLER. North Fifth street. Decatur, Ind , says: It gives me great pleasure to state that I can not prslse > our Dr. Bayer's Cough Syrup too highly. It cured mine and my neighbor's bad cold very promptly, MRS. A. C. WAGONER, Decatur, Ind., says: I admit tnat your Dr. Bayer's Cough Syrup. Penetrating Oil and Spanish Cross Tea are the best remedies I have ever ue d. They do all they are recommended to do. Ask for pamphlets and samples at B. J. Smith’s drug store.

Bucklen’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 eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay required. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Page Blackburn. Notice. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25-cent bottles of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness, sick headache, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. Also will refund the money on aSO cent bottle of Down’s Elixir, if it does not cure any cough, cold, croup, whooping cough, or throat oi lung difficulty. We alsoguarantee one 25 cent bottle of either of the above to prove satisfartory or money refunded Page Blackburn. The boysand girls of our high school brought honor for themselves and our city at the oratorical contest. This was done first by conducting themselves as ladies and gentlemen at all times, while other schools were being held in obeyance by the city police, our boys exibited the truest spirit of manliness. For these reasons I most heartily evpress my appreciation. Boys and girls while our representatives won much honor for the city, for the schools and for themselves, you, as a body brought no less credit to the entire community. Most respectfully yours, W. F. Brittsox. A telephone message was received Monday afternoon asking that our fire department be sent to Wren, Ohio, as that little city was threatened with being totally destroyed by fire. On account of the distance, however, we were unable to get anything there in time to be of assistance. The fire originated in the hotel and quickly spread frcm there to surrounding buildings. It is reported that the entire business portion of the town, besides a number of dwellings and stables were totally destroyed, entailing a loss of probably $5,000 to 88,000. The origin of the fire is unknown but it is thought probable that it caught from a stove in the kitchen of the hotel. A brother-in-law of W. H. Reed is said to be among those who sustained less.