Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1898 — Page 3

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Additional Locals. Xlie Bluff ton street fair was a pronounced success. Kern Brittson <V Beeler opened up their >15,000 closing out sale last Saturday. yiss \bbie Keuchmann spent sev-1 er ‘l days last week with her parents I at Muncie. Don't marry a girl who isn't afraid j of a mouse or you will be kept busy regretting it. Don’t get the idea in your head that a baby cuts teeth; its the teeth that cuts the baby. Corporal Steele and Private Ashbaucher returned to their regiment at Lexington, last week. First Sergeant Archbold, of Co. G. Fort Wayne, was the guest of M. V. B. Archbold several days last week, Privates Lee and Foreman of Company B. are spending a seven day's furlough with friends and relatives in this city. A number of Adams county people took in the fair at Bluffton and Port land last week. Both were quite interesting. Ft. Wayne is to have a union depot at a cost of £175,000. It will be located near the site of the present Pennsylvania depot. For Sale—-Fence machines for the weaving of farm and lawn fence. It is the best and cheapest fence in the market. Address Harry Karr Monroe Ind. ' 21m6 Old fashions in dress may be revived. but no old-fashioned medicine can replace Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by Holthouse Callow A: Co. o Mrs. A. B. Morrison and daughter and Miss Hattie Studabaker returned Friday evening from Bay A iew. Mich., where' they have been spending the summer months. A Short Sad Story. A cold. Neglect. Pneumonia. Grief. Had Foley's Honey and Tar been used, this story would have had a happier ending. Holthouse, Callow & Co. o A rattlesnake eight feet long, weighing thirty-two pounds and having seventeen rattles, was killed a few days ago in Jackson county, near Brownstown. It is said to be the largest snake of the kind ever killed in that county. Truth wears well. People have learned that DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are reliable little pills for regulating the bowels, curing constipation and sick headache. They don't gripe Page Blackburn. By giving all tramps captured iu the city, employment for ten days, cracking stone. Huntington has been able to rid itself of the tramp nuisance. If there is anything above water that a tramp despises it is to work, and he will do most anything to avoid it. A student recently asked the president of Oberlin college if he could not take a shorter course than that prescribed by the institution. "Oh yes." was the reply, "but that depends upon what you want to make of yourself. Mhen God wants to make an oak He takes a hundred years, but when He wants to make a squash He takes six months.'’

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Try an ad. in the Democrat. YI-KI cures corns and warts, ltf The Fort Wayne Street Carnival is jin its glory this week. Mrs. Dr. McMillen visited friends | at Fort Wayne last Friday. ! Miss Josie Congleton is serving as I clerk in Kern, Brittson & Beeler’s clos- | ing out sale. ! Don’t ask a woman questions. Give | her time and she’ll tell you all you want to know. Dr. S. W. Yizzard of Pleasant Mills, made this office a pleasant and profitable call las; Saturday. The salt water candy kitchen on Court street has been doing a spleu- j did business here for several days. Negro song tunes have become the fashionable dance music, and society now trips the light fantastic to “rag time.” Anyone who mutilates a gold or silver coin is liable to a fine of £3.000 j and three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Wanted. -Salesmen to sell lubricating oils from samples, on commission. Liberal terms. The Euclid Oil Company, Cleveland, Ohio. It is estimated that £IOO,OOO was spent in Bluffton last week, and still our merchants are afraid to invest a few dollars in a street fair. You ought to know that when suffering from any kidney trouble that a j safe, sure remedy is Foley’s Kidney {Cure. Guaranteed ormoney refunded. Holthouse, Callow k Co. o ! In this country last year the number of milch cows increased about 25 j percent, and the numberjof other cattle over 30 per cent, while the number ' of sheep and swine slightly decreased. Never Say Die. Many desperate S eases of kidney disease pronounced | incurable have been cured by Foley’s j Kidney Cure. Many physicians use it. Holthouse, Callow k Co. o The American Oil Co. has sold all of its Indiana holding to an eastern | syndicate. Twenty-six producing wells were purchased. The amount jof money that changed hands is said to have been £20,000. If green tomatoes, fully grown, are | picked as soon as frosts come, and are j wrapped in paper and laid away in a cool dimly lighted place, they ripen slowly and fresh tomatoes will be ! supplied for weeks after those out of I doors are killed. You invite disappointment when j you experiment. DeM itt’s Little I Early Risers are pleasant, easy | thorough litle pills. They cure eon--1 stipation and sick headache just as | sure as you take them. Page Black- | burn’s. A Lima business man is entitled to j honors for a scheme to attract atten■l at the countv fair. In his display are the bones of a horse that passed ■ through the battle of Santiago. The newspapers of that town fail to tell how the skeleton reached Lima. Possibly it walked. More than twenty million free samples of DeWitts Mitch Hazel Salve have been distributed by the manufacturers. What better proof of , confidence in it’s merits do you want . It cures piles, burns, scalds, sores, in the shortest space of time. Page | Blackburn.

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. Personally conducted tours to the Hawaiian islands are destined to become popular with Americans. Two are alreadv being advertised, November 5 and January 21. It requires thirty-three days to make the trip from this territory, the distance to be traveled being about 9,000 miles. One Minute Cough Cure surprises people bv its quick cures and children may take it in large quantities without the least danger. It has won for itself the best reputation of any preparation used to-day for colds, croup, tickling in the throat or obstinate coughs. Page Blackburn. There are only two meals a day in Porto Rica among the well-to-do; breakfast, served at 11, and supper served at 6. Os the two, breakfast is the more pretentious, being taken with great deliberation and solemnity, introduced with soup and aecoinpained by wine of Spanish vintage, as a matter of course. DeWitt’s Wich Hazel Salve has the largest sale of any Salve in the world. This fact and its merit has led dishonest people to attempt to counterfeit it. Look out for the man who attempts to decieve you when you call for DeM’itt’s Witch Hazel Salve the great pile cure. Page Blackburn. For Sale —I have vacant lots desirable for building purposes and improved farms on long time with low rate of interest. Improved city property to trade for farm property, will pay difference. Call and see me before investing. 12tf R. K. Erwin. It is not generally known that the vanilla bean is the costliest bean on earth. It grows wild and is gathered by the natives in Papantle and Misantla, Mexico. When brought from the forests these beans sell at the rate of £ls per 100, but when dried and cured they ean command about that much per pound. There is a wonderful mineral found in Iceland that possesses the strange property of producing two images of a single object. On looking through it at a pencil, for instance, you will see two pencils, both of which will lie clearly defined. The mineral is translucent and crystal-like and goes by the name of Iceland spar.

Indiana’s claim for §BO,(XX) in round numbers for expenses incurred in equipping volunteers for the war with Spain is being rapidly adjudicated by the auditor of the war department. The auditor said the clerks were now engaged in going over the items. The first claim to be paid will be that of the state of Mississippi. Several inquiries have been received at the postoffice department at Washington as to whether a postmaster may be a candidate for office and retain his position.Mr.Heath,assistant postmaster general,says that there is nothing to prevent this being done but that postmasters must exercise discretion and not use their positions for political purposes. It Hits the Spot. When suffering from a severe cold and your throat and lungs feel sore, take a dose of Foley's Honey and Tar, when the soreness will be at once relieved, a warm grateful feeling and healing of the parts affected will be experienced and you will say; “It feels so good. It hits the spot.’’ It is guaranteed. Holtbouse, Callow &Co. o A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says: One of the seven bullets received" by the notorious desperado, Marvin Kuhns, before the officers succeeded in arresting him at Churubuseo, Ind., a few years ago, was cut out of his side by the penitentiary physicians Saturday. The operation was a verv dangerous one, but the man who lived after being almost shot to pieces will probably survive it. Farmers’ exchange telephone systems are being operated with marked success in a number of southern Indiana counties. The farm houses are furnished a telephone at §lO a year, and wherever they have been introduced in a community they have been found to be such a convenience that they have come into general use among the farmers throughout the southern portion of the state. It may save your life. A dose or two of Folev’s Honey and Tar will prevent an" attack of pneumonia, grip or severe cold if taken in time. Cures coughs, colds, croups, lagrippe, hoarseness, difficult breathing, whooping cough, incipient consumption, asthma or bronchitis. Gives positive relief in advanced stages of consumption, asthma or bronchitis. Guaranteed. Holthouse, Callow & Co. o In some parts of Davonshire, England the people lived to be very old. An old man of 90, living quite a distance from the nearest town, reqmrinrr gome groceries, sent his son, a man of seventy odd years of age. When the son failed to show up with the provisions in time, his grandfather a centenarian of 108, said peevishly: “That’s what comes from sending a kid.” Working Woman’s Home Association. 21 S. Peoria St., Chicago, 111., Jan 11, 1896. Our Working Home Association used Foley’s Honey and Tar six years ago, and are using it to-day. It has'always lieen a favorite, for while its taste is not at all unpleasant its effects are very beneficial. It has never disappointed us. Wishing you all possible success, sincerely yours, Laura G. Fixon, Mgr. Holthouse, Callow & Co. o

Cloak Opening. BOSTON STORE. Pur Collarettes,^ 1 JSi Boas and Scarfs. We M’ill have a line direct from the j/ manufacturers, and the prices will be JgSgli guaranteed. JACKETS.—Complete of the Vi October 14 and 15. BOSTON STORE.

Keeps Folks Well. It is better to keep well than to get well,although when one is sick it is desirable to get well. When considered that eight-tenths of the ailments that afflict the American people are caused by constipation, we shall realize why it is that Baxter's Mandrake Bitters “keeps folks well,” or if sick, enables them to get well. Baxters Mandrake Bitters cures constipation. Price 25 cents per bottle. Why not step in and get a bottle and by using it be assured of good health through the trying hot months. We sell it and guarantee it to give satisfaction or money refunded. —Page Blackburn, druggist. The youngest member of the 160th is a Marion boy. He is George R. Hill and lives when at home with his parents at Thirteenth and Meridian streets. He belongs to Co. E. having enlisted at Bluffton, June 22nd, under the second call. At the time of his enlistment he was not yet seventeen. He applied for admission in the army five times and finally succeeded in getting in. He was a school boy and soldier in the same month, having graduated from the common school June 4th. How to prevent croup. We have two children who are subject to attacks of croups. Whenever an attack is coming on my wife gives them Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and it always prevents the attack. It is a household necessity in this county and no matter what else we run out of. it would not do to be without Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. More of it is sold here than of all other cough medicines combined. J. M. Nickle, of Nickle * Bros., merchants, Nickleville, Pa. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. o An exchange says that Jews, who have been hurt by the report that the members of their nationality have failed to show their patriotism by not enlisting under Uncle Sam in the Spanish war, point with pride to the press dispatches that President McKinley has authorized that the 4,(XX) Jewish soldiers in the army will be given a furlough in order to allow the men to participate in the holiday service now in progress. This shows that there are a large number of Hebrews in the ranks. Ten million Wheelman. It is stated by competent authorty that there are ten million people in America who are bicycle riders. Probably each one gets an average of one hurt in a season, and that is just when Henrv & Johnson’s Arnica &Oil Liniment gets in its good work. Nothing has ever been made that will cure a bruise, cut or sprain so quickly. Also removes pimples, sunburn, tan. or freckles. Clean and nice to use. Take it with you. Costs 25 cents per bottle. Three times as much in a 50 cent bottle. We sell it and guarantee it to give satisfaction or money refunded.—Page Blackburn druggist.

... FOR ... PALL AND .. 1595.. Our stock is complete,, Our prices are right; We will fit you neat And treat you white. Yours Respectfully, EHINGER & MEYERS, The Leading Merchant Tailors. GIVE US A CALL.^ Above Kern, Brittson & Beeler's Clothing Store.