Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1898 — Page 8

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Pleasant Mills. Chas. Yager transacted business at Decatur Monday. Miss NoYa Smith of Decatur, Sundayed here wH-h friends. James Boyd and wife Sundayed at Convoy, Ohio, with relatives. The farmers are busy husking corn, and report a very good crop. Rev. John Freeman and family are moving to Logan county, Ohio. Quite a number of our people took in the sights at Fort Wayne last week. Mrs. Frank Steele of Ohio C ity. visited friends here a few days last week. Cromer, the republican candidate for congress, spoke at the hall Tuesday evening. Decatur will have a grand free balloon ascension and parachute leap next Saturday. Mrs. B. B. Winans and Mrs. O. J. Suman called on friends in the country last Sunday. Sylvester Tinkham and family of Blue Creek township, spent Sunday with A. M. Fuller and family. Rev. G. W. Pearce of Decatur, preached at the Baptist church last Sunday to quite a large audience. The appointments are every two weeks. The sermons are very interesting and everybody should hear them. Linn Grove. Henry Bricker, of Red Key, was on our streets Tuesday. Harry Emrick left for Chicago on Friday to attend veterinary college. Grand balloon ascension and Parachute leap at Decatur next Saturday, Andrew and TheodorejSchlazenhauf. B. F. Kizer, John Chrisman. David Studler, Frank Nusbaum and Peter

CONFIDENCE WHAT A WONDERFUL meaning there is in that one word, confidence. The business of the world hinges upon it. It applies to all walks of life, and the clothing and shoo business in particular. We are glad to say that our merchandise and^etho^ > are winning rot only the confidence but the friendship of the people as well. The Rosenthal stock is going fast. Every article is within the reach of anybody so far as price isicon cerned. 1 f you want to buy your fall and winter clothing very, very cheap, don t fa to attend this sale. We wont disappoint you. At the Rosenthal Stand. Merchant Tailoring. We have several pieces of beautiful Men’s fancy laundried shirts, doc. woolens that we have placed on sale. Men’s Negligee laundried shirts 35c. Vvf °° °/ We are making these up at prices that M S“ c fi y cSff s with whiteeollar S' STS:’ S T7™ T »S band. 25 cents. i them, with the best of linings and tnmMen’s unlaundned white shirts, three , > mings only. ply linen bosoms, 25 cents. I , Men’s all wool suits in Shepherd plaids, black schiviots r nilT > crnnd linpn rollars 25 cents. // and cassimeres. made to your order for $14.50, $i5 ; 25. ? good linen UOildlb ucixvq. and See our v * indow and ffet your sult made at Men’s boys’ and children’s suits, overcoats and caps a j- Kern, Brittson & Beeler’s. C £one?Vn n you before BoyS&l?™ hand - made SCh °°' been able to buy them. y It pays to buy shoes and clothing of hern, Brittson & Beeler.

Kizer attended the Fort Wayne street fair last week. John P. Stiner and wife are holding a fair, dating from Wednesday of last week. The patrons are mostly ladies and children. The principal attraction being a fair daughter and bids fair to number among the future fair ones. Judge Lotz spoke to our people! Friday night. His talk was very comnrehensive as well as impressive. At-1 torneys David Smith and Jacob Butcher also spoke on the issues now before the masses. The Linn Grove Cornet Band furnished the music. T. A. Dedrick & Co. have been operating a merry-go-round for some days past. During the storm on Monday night and while in operation the tent blew down, impairing the canvass much and beheading some seven of their wooden horses while others were halted with broken legs. For some months a party of campers. who hail from Dunkirk, have held forth on our river banks who have in their possession a very aged gray horse which was at times past locomotion. The boys having the animal in charge became conspicuous for the extreme cruelty to the shadowless brute, therefore some of our citizens gave them an urgent request to leave the community by the dawn of day on Friday of last week, which order was promptly carried out. Their camp effects were loaded and left one-half mile from camp site where their property was abandoned, including the old horse, when on the following night I some of our would-be citizens fired | the wagon, reducing the chattels to 1 ashes, by which as ever they failed to demonstrate that two wrongs make one right. Monmouth. Mrs. James atts is ill with malaria fever. ' Several of our population attended i the carnival at Fort Wayne last week. Mr. Erhart and family of Markle, have been visiting relatives and friends here. Decatur will have a grand free bal-I loon ascension and parachute leap next Saturday. Belle Evans spent Friday night and Saturday at Fort Wayne, the guest of Miss Bessie M ilson. Misses Bertha Crabill, Fanny Dutcher and Ida Magley attended church at Pleasant Grove Sunday evening. Misses Edith Glock and Mae Smith and Master Clem Smith of Williamsport, rode up on their wheels Sunday. They took supper with Belle Evans. ' There will lie a lecture at Pleasant , Grove on next Tuesday night, Oct. 18, I ' given by one of the African inission- • aries who escaped the horrible death

which was received by her companions from the natives. Admission free. Our schools aie progressing very nicely. Music is now one of the main studies and seems to be well liked by all students. Principal Laughrey says that he is going to haveeyery pupil in his room understand it thorI oughly. The gravel hauling season is nearly i ended with some good results. A I strip of gravel road from the Concord church south reaching nearly to McConnell's has been graveled and the gravel road between here and Decatur has been neatly repaired. Berne. Dr. Hagerman of Chattanooga, was a business caller here Monday. Jacob Atz returned Friday morning from a weeks’ visit at Kendallville. Fred Neaderhouser is preparing his yard about his residence to lay sod. We are glad to report that Mrs. John Saurer is rapidly improving. Eli Ray left for Greentow 11 Monday morning to attend the soldier’s reunion. Grand free balloon ascension and parachute leap at Decatur next Saturday afternoon. Bob Michaud received word from Monroe, Mich., that the fruit trees were not yet ready’ to ship. L. P. Ray and Dr. Shank are helping to improve the east end by adding new additions to their dwellings. A heavy rain storm visited this locality Monday evening and lasted 1 with all its fury until Tuesday noon. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Augsburger are the happy parents of a boy baby that arrived at their home Saturday evening. Yoder & Sullivan are building quite a fine barn on the formerly Waggoner lot. east of C. C. Yoder’s residence on east Main street, Ed Moser and Miss Marie Neuenschwander were united in marriage at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ellenberger i last Saturday, Rev. Ruff tying the I knot. J Chris Bauman and Miss Lavma ■ Schoenbeck were declared man and I wife by Rev. S. Sprunger at the Men- . nonite church Sunday afternoon. II Thev have lots of friends who will .! join us in wishing them a happy fu1 ture. 1 ■ Th a Bicycle Did It. Miss Countrycousin —What are ali ’ those badges that woman wears? ■| Mr. Wheeler —Each one represents a t i century. Miss Couutrycousin —Gracious! She - | doesn’t look to be 40! —Jewelers J Weekly

FACTS IN A FEW LINES. ■me nails on amputated fingers continm to grow. Wooden sleepers on railways a> about 15 years. Plate glass was first made in 1688, at Picardy. France. The marriage of minors in this country are 6 per cent. Italy produces mere wine than any country in Europe. One-sixth of the inhabitants ot France have bank accounts. In Africa wives are sometimes sold for two packets of hairpins. Physicians' carriages have the right cf way in the streets of Berlin In all Spanish-America the Indians form the great mass of the population. Matches to the value of $100,000,000 are annually consumed throughout the world. The washing of clothes for the queen s household costs more than $15,000 per annum. Fashionable Japanese young ladies, when they desire to look attractive, gild their lips. A monster sewing machine, weighing 314 tons, is in use in Leeds. It sews cotton belting. The London and Northwestern Railway company issues yearly 50 tons cf railway tickets. There are 1,000 submarine cables in use all over the world, which have cost about 8100,000,000. The London fire brigade is called out more frequently cn Saturday than on any other day of the week. Among every 1,000 bachelors there are 38 criminals. Among married men the ratio is only 18 per 1,000. The delivery to the bouse of commons postoffice is said to amount to between 7,000 and 10,000 letters daily Thirtv years ago there were only two dozen explosive compounds known to chemists; now there are over 1,000 The eyelashes are placed in front of the eyes to protect those delicate organs from the light and from the entrance of foreign objects. From China $450,000 worth of hu man hair is exported annually It comes mostly from the heads of malefactors paupers and dead people. The most costly tomb in existence i that which was erected to the memcr of Mohammed. The diamonds and rr. bies used in the decorations are wort $10,000,000. The Victoria lily cf Guiana has a cit cular leaf, from 0 feet to 12 feet in <:: ameter. It is turned np at the edge ilk a tray, and can support, according t its size, from 100 to 300 pounds Public drinking troughs ter horse are condemned by the ex-presidtnt 1.. the Royal College of Veterinary rut ; geons, on the ground that they propa gate certain diseases necu ■ ir rv !■ --e.

The Largest Stock Os Robes and Horse Blankets in the city. Not only the largest but the best. Bought too, direct from the manufacturers, saving you the middle man’s profit. These goods were made for wear as \\ ell as for sale. They are the very best made and are big money savers. Our stock of Harness and Horse Goods can not be beaten and our prices can not be duplicated. BURNS ThTdecatur national bank/ DECATUR INDIANA. September 20, 1898. RESOURCES. 1 LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts, - 8186,459.16 Capital. - - - §100.000.00 Overdrafts, - - 3,426.3! Surplus, - - 7,500.00 U s Bonds and premiums 27.500.00 Lnd ivtded profits, - 1.431.62 Real'estate and furniture, 8,388.79 Circulation, - . 22,500.00 Cash and Exchange, - 13,04 Loo Deposits. - - 167,384,19 8298,815.81 j 8298,815.81 DIRECTORS. OFFICERS. pw. Smith. J- B. Holthovse, I’. W. Smith, J. H. Holthouse, p x Ehinger J- H. Hobrock, 1 resident, Y ice-Presideut. n Sprang, C. A. Dugan, C. A. D>-gan. E X, Ehinger. H R. Moltz, Cashier Ass t Cashier. A general banking business transacted. Foreign drafts sold. Interest paid on certificates left six or twelve months.

There is one Christian minister for 1 every 900 cf the population in Great j Britain; eno in every 114,000 in Japan, ■ one in 165,080 in India, one in 222,000 | in Africa, and cue iu 437,000 iu the Chinese empire. A feature of the population statistics I of Western Australia is the large pro portion of males to females. The dis- ; parity is maintained in the arrivals by I sea. At present there are 45 females to every 100 males. In the island of Minora, one of the ! Philippines, the humming birds are pugnacious little creatures. Thousands . of them frequently attack huntsmen j without the slightest provocation, inflicting sometimes serious wounds on the face a”d nent-

Jack Tar at a Chrlatenlng. A sailor went up to the font to have his baby baptized. Sailors as a class i claim little stock in babies, and, naturally enough, this one presented the infant feet foremost. “The other way," said the minister, and, accordingly, Jack turned the in- | fant upside down. “Excuse me,” said the clergyman. "I mean the other way. ” So back came the embryo foretopman to the first po- ! sition, to the discouragement of everyI* body. “Wind it, Jack,” said the nautical j assistant, and with an “Aye, aye, sir,” 1 Jack promptly turned the baby end for : end, and it was duly christened head ; first.—“On a Man-of-war.”