Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1898 — Page 8

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Berns. Joel Welty of Fort Wayne, was a business caller here Saturday. Clark J. Lutz and Lew Ellingham were callers here Monday afternoon. Chas Brown has again moved back to Berne, after a six month’s stay at Woodburn. A. Gottschalk and wife ami M. Rose and wife are visitors at Botkins, Ohio this week. Berne has two voting precincts, one west and one east of Jefferson street. Town hall and hotel. Election is drawing close and nobody are to take it light and think no matter if I vote. Go to the polls and do your duty as a citizen. Dr. James I. Good, of Philadelphia, Pa., will give a lecture at the German Reformed church on Tuesday. Nov. 1, at 7:30 p. m. The subject will be Switzerland and the Rhine, illustrating the same with stereoptican views. Mr. Good is a noted speaker and will be well worth hearing him. Honduras. Winter is coming on, so try our home store for underwear. John E. Captain has been spending a few weeks in Decatur as juryman. The farmers of this place are taking advantage of the present good weather. H. E. Diehl and H. Hilge transacted business in Decatur last Tuesday. D. V. Sovine of Land, Indiana, spent last week with relatives at this place. A noisy crowd gathered a little distance west of this place last Monday evening. Our new macadamized road is nearing completion and our citizens are wearing broad smiles over it. Henry Dilling of Peterson, says he

A - DAVS JT PAVS 11 Rs gs.-~™, ' ,w t > Like to Have.. f”Z=?| —.-. - ffij " . Ec Bi Them come in. We mean those people who can never find a shoe that will wear their eg PS boys and girls all winter- Our line of hand-made School Shoes never fails to give satisfaction. |8 They wear well; they keep out the water, and the persons who buy them pay one-half less gg fc; for footwear in a year’s time than those who buy cheaper goods. You may think that we get gj enthusiastic o i this subject. We have a right to and we have customers who are just as enthusiastic as we are. They are the best shoes made for hard wear, that s why so many people buy them. g s § I Youths’ School Shoes I Misses School Shoes I Bov’s School Shoes | & B* Hand made, sizes 9to 12| || Hand-made, oil grain, pegged or sewed, Hand made, sizes 3to 6, || gvS | I sl-2. 5. I $1.50. | $1.75. I g m | Women’s Hand-Made Shoes I Men’s Hand-Made Shoes ® Women's Hand-Made Shoes g h) B Oil grain, pegged or sewed, Pegged or sewed bottoms, Calf skin, pegged or sewed, buttons ® I $1.75. | *2.00 to $3.00 I $2.00 |g I®..®. . , . . KS Buy Hand-Made Shoes for your family of __. J|| | JSH Kern. Brittson & Beeler. K KERN. BRITTSON W2J & BEELER. > _ > ~Z

has plenty of Irish potatoes to sell this year. Henry has the finest in that line. Win. Cline will soon leave us and go to Bluffton it is rumored. We don’t like to see him go as he has been a worthy citizen of this place. Overcome evil with good, overcome your coughs and colds with One Min: ute Cough Cure. It is so good children cry lor it. It cures croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe and all throat and lung, diseases. Page Blackburn. Pleasant Mills. Dr. Harper is on the sick list. . Amos Smith and wife a giri. Brass Mathewson and wife a girl. L. Warner is repairing his residence. Perry Carter of Berne is calling on friends here. Mrs. John Ehresman is in very feeble health with an affection of one of her eyes. Austin Acker left Monday for Arkansas where he expects to make his future home. Rev. Pearce could not be with us last Sunday on account of being called to preach a funernal. Quarterly meeting will convene at the M. E. church next Friday and continue over Sabbath. Quite a number of this place attended the funeral of Alta Cowan at Mt. Tabor Tuesday morning. Otto Martz ami wife and Thomas Noll spent Sunday at Celina, Ohio, with Henry Jackson and family. The little son of Al Bonner is still in a critical condition. He will go to Fort Wayne once a week for treatment. Late to bed and early to rise, prepares a man for his home in the skies. But early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill that makes life longer and better and wiser. Page Blackburn. Linn Grove. Our graded schools will observe Arbor Day on next Friday. E. C. Evarts of the Warren oil fields was home a day or two last week. Emil Leichty, wife and son are making an extended visit to a sister at Bluffton, Ohio. Died, on Sabbath night an infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Markley, aged about eighteen months. F. A. Detrick took down his merry-go-’round wheel on Monday and stored it away for the season. Three oil wells are being put down south of town located on the Abram Egley, Fred Dreyer and Aaron Zigler farms.

Trustee Hall lost his glass eyes between his home and this town. Ike finder will receive thanks should he or she report. Charles Fonts has moved into the south residence on his father s faim and Willis Van Camp is domiciled in a portion of the Dr. Haughton residence in town. Those afflicted with hernea should examine Dr. Smith's Honest John Truss. They arc an ideal of this age. Oa sale at the stores of Hoffman A Gottschalk at Linn Grove and Berne. When vou ask for De\\ itt s\\ ich Hazel Salve don’t accept a counterfeit or imitation, there are more -ases of piles being cured by this, than all others combined. Page Blackburn. Hon roe. Ott Smith and wife a'boy. Mrs. Joseph Wistler is recovering slowly after a few days illness. Dr. C. T. Ranier who has been veryill for several days is recovering slowly. Homer Oliver who has been sick the past two weeks is slowly improving. John Elzev a citizen of Pleasant Valley, will' soon be a resident of Monroe. Democratic meeting on Friday evening. Come out and hear the Hon. A. N. Martin. John Moran, the deputy prosecuting attorney, of Berne, was drumming up business in our berg last Monday. W. S. Smith, our merchant wno has been confined to his room for the past two weeks is able to attend to business again. Trustee Schug’s eldest daughter wh i has been dangerously ill for the past two weeks is no better at the present writing. C. E. Bollinger a prosperous farmer living near Monroe, has erected upon his farm a very- large cattle barn. He expects to handle first-class cattle. The traveling public will certainly appreciate the new hotel. The building has been remodeled inside and out and under the supervision of C. T. Ranier one will find everything first class. On last Monday night a week ago, Jacob Wable, while in an intoxicated condition, l>eat his son with a stick of stove wood. M hich caused a verysevere scalp wound. After soliering up Wable left for parts unknown. A cough is not like a fever. It does not have to run a certain course. Cure it quicklv and effectually with One Minute Cough Cure, the best remedy for all ages and for the most severe cases. We recommend it because it s good. Page Blackburn. The Monroe school will give an oys-

ter supper on next Friday evening, October 28, at the school house, for the purpose of purchasing books for the library. Among the attractions will be a fish pond, good music, phonograph. refreshments, etc. < ome one, come all, and enjoy a hot time. Geneva. Oil 73 cents. Mrs. Minnie Walsh and children are at Richmond, Indiana, this week visiting relatives. Mack Dickerson, one of our energetic carpenters is at Decatur working at his trade. Oil prospectors are arriving on ei - ery train and our hotel and livery men are doing a land office business. Rev. B. F. Aspv of Eaton. Indiana, is holding a series of religious meetings at Elm Grove church this weea. Ike Weible of Bryant has moved his livery outfit to town and occupies the George Pyle barn on Line street. Rev. Shawley, late manager of the Shamrock Hotel, moved into Fred Pyles residence building last Monday. Messrs. Bretz & Starke of Celina, Ohio, contemplate opening an extensive clothing store here in the neai future. Mrs. Art Coolman accompanied by Miss Callie Sheer, are absent on an extended visit with relatives in northwestern Ohio. George Buckev, an old veteran of the civil war, who has been quite sick with low grade fever, is able to be out on the streets again. Attorney S. A. M. Butcher has purchased the fine surburban propertv recently built in the west end by J. C. Little the oil producer. J. B. Carpenter, late foreman of the Geneva Heading Works, is the new landlord of the Shamrock Hotel, having taken charge last Monday morning. Joe McCroskey, who committed the murderous assualt on Byron Ault some time ago. has lieen traced to Hartford City, but is reported to be still on the run. On account of repairs being made on the line, the gas supply was shut off Monday afternoon and the way the busy housewife wrestled with store boxes and barrel staves, was a refreshing sight to the loafer with summer , clothes on. Frank Barr, while working in the woods west of town, getting out timber, one day last week, had his right eye injured by a Hying piece of steel from the wedge he was driving which it is thought will destroy the usefulness of that member. • Lookout for “A Breezy Time."

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 well 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. TheTecatur national BANkT DECATUR INDIANA. September 20, 1898. RESOURCES. ! LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts, - $186,459.16 Capital. - - - $100,000.00 Overdrafts, - - 3,426.31 Surplus. - - 7,500.00 U S Bonds and premiums 27,500.00 I ndmded profits. - Real'estate and furniture, 8,388.79 Circulation. - . 22.500.00 Ctsh and Exchange, - 73.041.55 Deposits, - - 167,384,19 $298,815.81 $298,815.81 DIRECTORS. OFFICERS. P. W. Smith. J- B. Holthol’se, P. W. Smith. J. a. Rolthouse, E X EHINGER, J. H. UoBKOCK. President, 1 iCH-Pi'Mideut. D. Sprang, C. A. Dugan, C. A. D’-gan. E X. Ehingek. H R. Moltz, Cashier abs’i Cashier, A general banking business transacted. Foreign drafts sold, Intersil paid on certificates left six or twelve months.

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