Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1898 — Page 5

Additional Locals. For bargains call at Ellsworth, jfyers & Co- * rj n-iilv was transacting business a s. Wayue last Saturda - V ' 3 ffenrv Reiter, of Fort Wayne, spent Sunday with relatives and friends here. ” The W. C. T. U. will meet with yfrt W. J- Meyers Saturday 23 at 230 P. M. t W Place was taking care of hnsiness interests at Berne and Geneva Tuesday. International Pheno Cholera the rreat cholera disenfector. Sold by J. I. Heffner. f[f you want good beer go to Matt Schaffer. He handles the celebrated Huntington beer. 19-3 Mrs D. E. Smith, who has been risitiuir at Bluffton for several days. 2 returned home. One hundred piece decorated dinner sets for $6.75 at the New Fair Store. They are beauties. Miss Jessie Davis of Fort Wayne, is the guest of Mrs. J. W. Merryman an d other friends for a few days. LaPearl’s shows which comes here the 29th inst, have the reputation of haring the best circus band in the world. Twenty-six people were in the advertising’gang which was here yesterday billing the town for Ringling Bros, shows. Holthouse, Callow & Co. are headquarters for everything in the line of paints and oils. Rock bottom prices and goods guaranteed. A band concert will be given in front of Matt Schaffer’s saloon on Winchester street Friday evening. First door south of Chicago & Erie railway. International Stock Food , cures and . prevents hog cholera. Your money refunded if it ever fails. Sold by J. E. Heffner at Bremerkamp's mill. 19-4 Wanted —Experienced agents, desiring to canvass at home for most popular and best selling goods on the market. Address X-Ray Toilet Co., Marion, Indiana. Give your references, 19 2 Quite a number of our citizens are making arrangements to join the excursion to Detroit, August 10. The fact, however, that Ringling Bros, circus will be in town that day will no doubt keep many at home who would otherwise attend. Lockhart,s comedy elephants are presented as a special feature of the famous Ringling Bros, this season, and though they are a complete exhibition in themselves, they are presented in conjunction with the regular arenic performance without extra charge.

ii n ii u n ii ii n ii ii n H— H - [ k* H r* ! JiS. Bms &Co. H = £ H 11 H H H H h L Hj ‘ t uL 3 OUR CHAMPION binders and h mowers are the latest improved h 3 —no old stock, and the guar- h h antee on them is ;-uch that 3 avoids trouble to purchasers, |h h and guarantees that purchasers U h of Champion machines can al- >• h ways get repairs for any Cham- >- h pion machine sold here at any £ h time. Studabaker and Mill- >• h burn wagons—the very best on £ h the market, and warranted ful- >• h ly. We carry a line of the fin- j h 3 est surrys, canopy and extra h h tops,buggies, road wagons of 1 >• h I the very best makes, all fully h h warranted, binder twine, hay h h rakes, tedders and loaders, hay h h carriers and a full line of bicy- h i cles, New Home sewing mah chines, hardware, sash doors, h h blinds, machine oil, linseed oil, |h h i white lead and paints —full and h m complete line. Our prices on h h first-class goods are low, and h h if you contemplate buying, you h h will miss it if you don t cab h h and see our goods and get h Hi prices. B B h! hI - I r Join S. Bows 4ft I H I H I 21 ip "norii !Tn ■: :I T: n U ILjIC

“ le ’• toiateSatVStaS™ 0 ' "" We have the finest line of hammocks in the city. Holthouse, Callow Co. The New Fair Store has the finest line of umbrellas in the city. From bO cents up. Rainemlier the entertainment at Steele s park next Sunday. Go ont and cool off. Will Kunkle, of Bluffton, attended the funeral of Mrs. R. D. Patterson Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Emma Russel is acting as a * J-u . lU i k' C- Nieman’s Settler store at Chickamauga, Ga. Irene and Pansy Bell spent several days at Ft. Wayne last week returning home Saturday evening. Don t forget to attend the great mark down sale at the New Fair Store. Watch for hand bills. Buy one of those Electric Bug Exterminators for destroying all kinds of insects. Holthouse, Callow & Co. Miss Lucile Bryson left yesterday noon for Marion, where she will be the guest of E. A. Huffman aud familv for a few days. Jacob Kalverisky, book-keeper in a large wholesale house at Chicago is spending a few days with his father Barney Kalverisky, of this city. International Stock Food cures and prevents cholera. Y’our money refunded if it ever fails. Sold by J. E. Heffner at Bremerkamp mill. 19-4 Rome City—For the season May 15 to Oct. 31, ’IB9B, the G. R. & I. will sell excursion tickets as follows: to parties of 1 to 9, $2.35, return limit Oct. 31; to parties of 10 to 49, $2.00, return limit three days from sale; to parties of 50 or more, $1.65, return limit three days from sale. Ringling Brothers' opening tournament this season is the most gorgeous spectacular entry ever seen with a circus. In this magnificent display more than a thousand people, hundreds of beautifully caparisoned horses, scores of ancient Roman chariots and huge, golden tableaux, and 25 elephants, are utilized and the scene is a fairy spactacle of Oriental splendor. Wisconsin farm lands. There is a rush now to the choice unoccupied farm lands along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in Central Wisconsin. Good quarter sectionscan now be had for $7.00 and upwards per acre, one-third cash, balance on long time at current rate of interest. For further particulars address W. E. Powell. General Immigration Agent, 410 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, 111.

AT SANTIAGO. A Letter from an Adams County Boy in Cuba. Ont side the city of Santiago. July 2, 1898. Editor Democrat.—l Thought I would let you know that the Adams county papers not only go through the United States but Cuba also. I landed here Monday June 27 with the 33rd reg’t Michigan Volunteers and we were under the fire of the enemy for six long hours, yesterday. Our regiment was used as a decoy going along the coast to draw the fire from Santiago and to bring reinforcements out of the city. We were aided by the Flagship New York, the Yosimite and a torpedo boat destroyer. The ships poured a deadly fire into the forts and rifle pits with a loss of about 400 Spanish killed and 250 wounded. We lost two killed and four wounded by the explosion of a shell from the fort, one man from our company received a wound in the leg the ball passing through the butt of the gun first. For people that have never had the experience they can not realize the feeling that comes over one at the beginning of battle but we all did our duty to the best of our ability. I think we will be in the city of Santiago in a fe v days as the latest report that reached us is that the city has fallen. We have a small body of Spanish cut off from the rest of their forces the regulars on one side of them and we on the other. They will surrender before long as they cannot get anything to eat. The regulars have a few Spanish prisoners and it is about all they can do to keep the Cubans from cutting their heads off. They go round saying Spanot and draw their hands across their throats. The Spaniards that are captured say they are glad to be in our hands as they can get something to eat and at Santiago they are all starving. The mail came in this morning. I received a Democrat from my parents and a Decatur Journal from my sister and I can assure you I read almost every word in both as it is the first reading matter I have had for some time. From present appearances I don’t think the war will last long as the Spaniards are | starving to death and we have them in such a shape that they can’t get anything to eat. Every American army on the island had an engagement yesterday and the lost all told will number about 500 Americans killed and 200 wounded we have no way of telling the total loss of the enemy. lam feeling a little proud to think I am the only Adams county boy in the field of action but for my part wish it was all over but I will try my best to the last. The boys are anxious to be in America again as the heat here is almost unbearable and flies and mosquitos till you can't rest. You can see hundreds of vultures and buzzards flying overhead looking for dead bodies but they will not find them as all the force’s have their dead hurried by this time. Well that is all the news here at present so I will close wishing that your paper reached here every day. Yours Respt. Will Wertzberger, Co. I, 33rd Reg’t Michigan Vol. Obituary. Norman Acker was born in Genesee county, New York, June 20, 1832. and died at his home in Pleasant Mills, Indiana, July 15, 1898, aged sixty-six rears and twenty-five days. In the fall of 1837 he came with his parents to this county settling on what is known as the Acker farm, one and a half miles north of Pleasant Mills. November 27, 1856, he was united in marriage with Miss Loretta Carter, six children were born to Brother and Sister Acker, all of whom are living except Eva, who passed from us to the home beyond November 6, 1894. In 1857, he experienced religion and united with the United Brethren church in Pleasant Mills. Some twenty years ago he united with the Baptist church of which he was a faithful and beloved member at the time of his death. For a number of years a cancer has been developing on his face, and for the last three years has been slowly eating the life away. For ten months he has been confined to the house. Great has been his suffering but with Christian resignation and patience he has borne it all. His death came calmly and peacefully Friday morning at 10:20 o clock. One brother, two sisters, one half brother and two half sisters are left to mourn with his dear companion and his five children. Long and useful had been Brother Acker’s life, all but the first few years of which has been passed at Pleasant Mills. Greatly will he be missed. Who will take his place in the church and the community? Always ready for duty, faithful and prompt in his attendance at church, a noble Christian, a faithful citizen, a devoted husband and father. A good man has gone from us, but he leaves behind the influence of an upright Christian life, a monument more enduring than granite. His toils are over, the trials are passed, he sleeps with Jesus. The funeral services were held at the Baptist church in Pleasant Mills, Sunday morning, July 17. The house was far too small ’to contain the large number of neighbors and friends who came thus to express their esteem of one so long and so well known. A former pastor H. H. Smith preached the sermon. He was bnried in the Pleasant Mills cemetery. Everything at cost at Ellsworth, Myers & Co. Farmers, use International Stock Food, the great flesh producer. For sale only by J. E. Heffner at Bremerkamp’s mill. 19-4 You should attend the band concert at Steel’s Park Sunday. Many attractions will be on the gvound and you cannot help enjoying yourself.

I ■ I July Clearance Sales. | I I 5 Isl WASH GOODS and | | ’ I SUMMER UNDERWEAR. | I u u I W him Dimities and Organdies that were 15c, in H I all up-to-date patterns and colorings, your W * J choice 10R per yard. H 'I All French Organdies, in beautiful colorings Bl and patterns, a great bargain at 35c, this week 1/1 11 half price, 20c per yard. /7 n iin A fine lot dimities and organdies in all varII ill | iety designs that were I2ic, your choice Bc. 1 I 111 \ A nice lot dimities that were 10c per yard, Ji IIV str ’ ct l y fast c °l° rs > this sale 4^ c P er yardU # V Summer Underwear g I HQ A,cost I || Fine summer lisle and cotton vests and pants p! £3 11/rri/ that were 50c, this sale 38c. P |l| 1/ All fine cotton vests that were 25c to 35c, VU *” H your c h°’ ce while they last 21c. ” f| || All vests that were a bargain at 12JC, this h ! ILLI I sale only 9 cents. [g® A hne lot of vests, extra quality for price, that were 15c, this sale nc. 50 doz. vests, comes in all sizes, a great bar- ® P gain, your choice 4c. I > I | ' SHIRT WAISTS S AT LESS THAN COST. i i i I Q)/T\papy. j i I

At Decatur August 10. Ringling Bros.’ World’s Greatest Shows, now universally acknowledged to be the largest, grandest and most complete combined circus, menagerie and hippodrome on earth, will exhibit in Decatur Wednesday, August 10. Ringling Bros.’ supremacy in the amusement world has, in recent years, become so pronounced that the name of their marvelous exhibition is in itself a guarantee of its surpassing merit. The achievements of the past have, however, been notably eclipsed by the grandeur and striking novelty of the st upendous enterprise organized progressive managers for the present season. Colossal as Ringling Bros.’ grand exposition was last year, it was not to be compared with the magnitude of this season’s offering. There are twice as many railroad cars; twice as many elephants; twice as many new and rare wild animals; twice as many notable and unequalled European and American arenic specialists: twice as many really great features as there were last year; and the millions of people who are acquainted with the former triumphs of this show of shows will readily understand what such an augmentation of Ringling Bros.’ magnificent exhibition must have entitled in its organization and must involve in the way of expense. According to the most careful estimate the amount of capital invested in this vast enterprise is $3,700,000, while the average daily expense is over $7,400. There are five long trains of double cars, with a floor space or loading capacity equal to 130 cars ordinary used in railway traffic; 25 elephants, the largest number ever seen in the western hemisphere, 400 of the finest blood horses; scores of cages of wild animals; and hundreds of high-class performers and special features entirely beyond the reach of other arenic exhibitions. The performances are given in the largest canvas amphitheatre ever constructed, and absolutely impervious to the elements. There are five arenas, two big stages, three rings and an almost bewildering forest of mid-air paraphernalia for the absorbing arial displays; while the hippodrome races are run upon a great ellitpical racing course fully one-quarter of a mile in circumference, giving an immense area for the exploitation of the gloriously thrilling contests of the Roman Maximus and the hardly less impressive races of the modern turf, such as has not lieen known since the days of the imperial Augustus The subject of advertising is one that has been tested by many merchants and who have long testified to its merits and benifits by persistently indulging in limited newspaper space. Decatur merchants can profit by an era of everlasting advertising. Try an ad in the Democrat.

Prizes. The numbers which drew prizes at William Sheet’s ice cream parlors, Berne, Ind., July 4, are as follows: 3799, first prize, a rocking chair; 5642, second prize, a plush bottom rocking chair; 5117, third prize, a large French mirror. Persons holding these tickets will get possession of their prizes by presenting their tickets at my place of business as soon as possible, or if any person holding one of these numbers lives a distance away from Berne will inform me the same will be sent them prepaid. These prizes have not been drawn yet and those holding numbers should look them up at once. William Sheets, 19tf Berne, Ind. Clover Leaf Excursions. Lake Side, Ohio, July and August. All stations. Ind. Order of Foresters, Toronto, Ont., Aug. 24-27. All stations. Y. P. 0. U. of U. B. church, Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 1 and 2. All stations. League of Wheelmen, Indianapolis, Aug. 8 and 9, all stations. Winona As’bly, Winona Lake, Ind., until Aug. 15, stations Delphos to E. St. Louis. Imp. Order Red Men, Bloomington, Ind.. Aug. 16 and 17, Indiana stations. Conference of Friends, Richmond, Ind., Aug. 19 and 20, stations east of Frankfort. ‘‘All stations” denotes tickets will be sold from all stations, “Indiana stations” from Indiana stations only, etc. For rates, return limits and full information see any agent The Clover Leaf, in order to give its patrons choice of routes has. arranged a Niagara Falls excursion for August 15th, with choice all rail via Contenental on Nickle Plate or Clover Leaf to Toledo, thence D. & C. and C. & D. magnificent steamers to Buffalo, (stop at Put-in-Bay) and the George route. Tickets will be sold from all stations Sorento, 111., to Maumee, 0., at rates from SSOO to $9, according to distance. All rail tickets will be sold for day train No. 4of Aug. 15th. Boat tickets will be sold for Fast Line No. 6, passing Illinois night of August 15th., Indiana stations morning of Aug. 16. Sleeping car and steamer berth tickets should be reserved in advance. For folders, rates, etc., call on nearest representative of Clover Leaf or address C. C.

Rad What Your Neighbors Say. MRS. WINNES, corner Fifth and Jefferson streets. Decatur, Ind., writes: Havimr faithfully tested your Dr. Bayer's Cough Syrup and Penetrating Oil, I must say that Tam hfjhiy pleased with them and shall use no other >n the future. XAVIER M. MILLER, North Fifth street. Decatur. Ind., says: It gives me great pleasure to state that I can not praise your Dr. Bayer s Cough . yrup too higrny! n cured mine and my neighbor s bad cold very promptly, MRS. A. C. WAGONER. Decatur, Ind., says: T tT,»r vnnr Dr Haver's Cough Syrup. Penetrating Oil and Spanish Cross Tea are thetest remedies Fb.XTer u£l ftey do all they are recommenced to do. for pamphlets and samples at B. J. Smith's drug store.

A VACATION TRIP To the Seashore at Reduced Rates. $14.50 Round Tripfrom Ft. Wayne Choice of Ten Popular Resorts. A Delightful fUdsummer Outing by the Sea. Tuesday, July 18th and Wednes--1 day. August 10th, have been fixed ' as the dates for this season's general excursions to the seashore over the Pennsylvania lines. On those dates 1 round trip tickets to ten of the most popular summer havens along the Atlantic Coast will be sold. The rate will be $14.50 from Ft. Wayne, Pas- ' sengers may visit either Atlantic City, Cape May, Anglesea, Avalon, Holly Beach, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, New Jersey, Rehoboth, Del., or Ocean City. Md. Excursion tickets will be good returning eleven days, including date of sale. Train arrangements will enable excursionists to go through with out any discomfort. Sleeping cars running through Philadelphia at Atlantic City without change via Delaware River Bridge Route will be included in the through car arrangements for these excursions, which offer exceptional facilities for a delightful midsummer outing by the sea. For special information about time of trains and other details, and for descriptive matter of the ten resorts to which tickets will be sold, list of hotels at each, etc., please address Jno. E. Ross, ticket agent. Ft. Wayne “I Was Weak. Nervous and Run Down.” I want to testify to the good Brown’s Cure has done me. I was weak, nervous and run down in vitality when I 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 the good your medicine has done them it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully, Mrs. L. V. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown’s Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known for the liver, kidneys and bowels, a positive cure for dyspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, nervousness, constipation and loss of sleep. If you suffer try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price 75 cts. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts. 15c.