Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1898 — Page 5

Hon. David T iirpie y U. S. Senator, Will address the people of Adams county at deoatur. Saturday Evening, Nov. 5. Everybody should hear this distinguished and eloquent statesman and orator.

Additional Locals. Xotice the display ad of the New Fair store in another column. The ladies of the Presbyterian chure h will serve dinner down street on election day. Remember that the ladies of the presbvterian church will serve dinner and supper down street next Tuesday. Found A package of leggings, bought from the Boston store. Owner can’have same by paying for this notice. For. Sale Fifteen Shopshire male lambs. You will have to speak quick i f vou get one or more. 1 ’rices reasonable. 33-2 J. E. Manx. \ll persons knowing themselves in-1 debted to Peter Holthouse, will please I call and settle at once. Office at the Adams County Bank. 30t! All parties indebted to the undersigned will please call and settle at once. The accounts rae long past due and must be settled at once. Charles Giemer. For Sale or. Trade My residence on north Second street. Decatur. Will sell or trade for small property- with cash difference. Address AA . H. Reed, Fort AVayne. 29tf For Sale or Trade—A house and three lots in north end of this city. House is new and first-class, has three rooms. AVill sell eheap or trade for other good property. Enquire at this office. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown's Cure, a Perfect Familv medicine, the best remedyknown 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 5c cts. Yi-Ki cures corns and yvarts. It 7

nnoL ~ir 1 Stoves! I Stoves! | Ranges, Heaters and Cook Stoves £ 3 H 3 Buy the "STEEL GEM." ;i The only Steel Cook Stove sold in the £ h i ••• city- - h ~d |h H [ I H ROUND OAK HEATERS. “See the £ T name on the leg.” None genuine h without this trade-mark. h j ~ £ HI H BUCKS' RANGES, Known as the “Great £ h White Enamel Line Also the lai- h h gest stock and assortment of other h h first-class ranges, cook stoves , |h 31 and heaters in the county. h 3 I Gas stoves a specialty. £ H — LHi I | H We will take pleasure ins h .° w * n fJ_ ou and your friends through this Mam h I moth stock of stoves, which eclip3 i ses any display in this line T ever exhibited in the city. - 4 - Ih 3| " ' ' | H | J. S. BOWERS E d & CO— T 4-rnryTT-nnnnnfc 11. It 11 x ~ g===

Wanted—At the Burt House, a young man to work as porter. Notice.- There yvill lye auction sales at Ellsworth, Myers & Co. every Saturday until their large stock of 'hardware, buggies, harness, stoves, farm implements, sewing machines, etc. are all sold. For Sale—Thirty-two acres of ; good land located one half mile east jof Preble. Here is a bargain as the I land is among the best in Adams county. Good timber laud. Frederick Koleeway, Freidheim, Ind. “I Was Weak. Nervous and Run Down." I want to testify to the good Broyvn’s Cure has done me. I was weak, nervj ous and run down in vitality when I I commenced taking it; it has done evi erything for me and I am now a new being. A number of my friends also speak yvith gratitude of the good your medicine has done them—it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully, Mrs. L. A'. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. The St. Louis Post Dispatch has the following to say of the Cameron concert company which appears at Bosse’s opera house tomorrow evening: 1 “Cameron” is a soprano, who came without preliminary announcement and turned out to be a vocalist of rich and varied attainments. Her merit was recognized instantly. It yvill not do to pause after mentioning the purity, freshness and range of her voice, for she has the added charm of an attractive style, a style that compels attention and commands admiration. The audience was sympathetic and generous with applause throughout the concert, listening yvith breathless interest to the dainty nuances of the piano number, showing an intelligent appreciation of the difficulties and the beauties of the violin soloes and rewarding "Cameron’s” unexpectingly brilliant solo with a double encore that was not far from tumultuous.

Foar Settlement, Tuscawaras County Ohio. AA hat is the Foar settlement? In October on his journey to Orville the writer ventured to see. It is a most peculiar place, founded upon the great principles of Plato, as laid down in his work, “The Republic.” Emigrants of Wintemberg and Switzerland brought these ideas over the ocean and founded that little state eighty years ago. The peculiar characteristic of the place yvas that the inhabitants had all things in common, except women and children. The government of the town lay in the hands of all citizens, being summoned and presided by over a king, who otherwise shared joys and troubles yvith the inhabitants and knew no prerogatives. Buildings yvere all put up by the community, church, school house, blacksmith shop, mill, hotel, saloon, brewery, etc., all yvere common property, and all inhabitants yvere working for the common cause and living out of I the common treasury. AA’e should say that this must have been a happy people, but they yvere not. They prospered for half a century, but since many years they have come to a regular standstill. As the community was growing, difficulties arose and many were of such a nature that they could not be overcome. The little town of Foaris at thepresenttime a mere picture of Midway Plaisance seen at the AVorld's Fair at Chicago. Houses are all very old and patched up in every shape and fashion. There is not a wind mill in the yvhole town, but the main well is pumped by an oil blind horse which seems to enjoy its study work, for it is fat and full of life. The most frequented place is the saloon, while the little path to the church door is overgrown yvith grass. The inhabitants seem to have declined in their intelligence and every ambition of coming forward seems to have died out. In the last few years nobody yvas willing to yvork and to obey, and after eighty years of struggling life, the people of Foar have come to the conclusion that community of all | things is but brain work after all and defiling and demoralizing to any community. This year the Foar people have resolved to seperate. They divided their 8,000 acres of land into 136 square shares. The 104 cows, 100 horses, 200 young cattle. 300 sheep and 300 hogs yvith farming implements and other movables yvere put on a public sale. This ends the history of ; the little state of Foar. The inhabitants are now commencing on neyv principles, each one looking out for himself. Unfortunately they are now > placed in a somew-hat fatal condition, ■ having their houses in town and not on their farming land, buttheir neyv ■ way of living and working will no doubt be a mighty impulse to future welfare and prosperity. • John Moser, Berne, Ind. Real Estate Transfers. AVm. Miesse to Paul G. Hooper et al, inlots 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7, Decatur, , S7OO. Alva Henderson to H. Bushnell, pt ; lot 256, Decatur 8376. H. Brandyberry to H. P. Brandyberry, 40 acres AVashington tp 8500. M. S. Buckmaster to A. Brandyberry, 40 acres AVashington tp §SOO. ' AVm Cline to Geo Longenberger, lot 19 Monroe, SIOO. T. B. Zerkle to Rosana Anner, | a, Root tp 8440. Catharine Bailey to E. D. Sheets, 80 acres Union tp. J. J. Hofstetter to C. Hoftetter, 160 acres, Wabash tp 85,000. C. Hofstetter to J. J. Hofstetter, 160 acres. Wabash tp $;>,000. G. M. T. Houck to Effie Stoutenberry, 40 acres Kirkland tp 8427. Effie Stouten berry to G. M. T. Houck, 40 acres, Kirkland tp $427. Martha Aldenderfer to Owen Lapp, 32 acres, AVabash tp 8700. Samuel Weaver to Geo Weaver, 32 acres, AVabash tp SBOO. Ella Weaver to Geo AVeave, 32 acres, AVabash tp SBOO. Nettie B. Robison to John Elzey, lot 721, Decatur S6OO. Carrissa Shank to Fanny Martin, lot 219, Geneva SSOO. Coffee Given Away. O’Donohue’s “Greater Neyv York Coffee” will be served and demonstrated in the store of Niblick & Co., from Monday, November 7, to Saturday, November 12. The method of advertising and introducing these famous coffees is certainly unique. There are three brands as follows: Fifth Avenue Mocha and Java at 35c per pound. Ankola, Java and Mocha at 30c per pound. Princess Java Blend at -:>c per pound. With every sale of one and one-half pounds of either grade one-half pound will be given free during the week of demonstration. Housewives should avail themselves of this chance of getting good coffee free. The Battleship AVisconsin will be launched in San Francisco, Saturday, November 26th. The Official Train carrying State Officials and the Christening Party will start from Marinette, Milwaukee and Chicago, Saturday, November 19th, going via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y. Stops will be made at St. Paul, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Denver. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, Dining Cars, Observation Cars for exclusive use of the party for the entire trip, under the direction of Mr. Reau Campbell. General Manager of The American Tourist Association. A limited number of tickets at reduced rats covering all expenses yvill be sold; they include Railway and Sleeping Car = fares, meals in Dining Cars, Hotels. Carriages, etc. For details address s the American Tourist Association 1124 Marquette Building, Chicago.

I ■ i I BIG BARGAINS «L " 1 I -> N - | I CAPES ' * I I CLOAKS I JACKETS I 11 The finest and best display ever shoivn in the city and our prices are as usual, all right. Remember, ™ I’itl the stock now in embraces all the latest styles and B 1 ? I colors. 8 I 1 I ail s iswi i m a® This will be your last op- p Jk portunity to secure these [ss "f -• goods, at such loav prices, this season. Special sales day Saturday. Come in II be f° re they are closed out. || g® Styles are up-to-date. M ral Yours, s A® f 1 1 i i aS I Niblick & Co. I I i

JgANK STATEMENT. Report of the condition of the Old Adams County Bank at Decatur. Ind.. In the State of Indiana, at the close of its business, on the 31st day of October, 1898. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts, 1402.892 63 Overdrafts 4.889 50 Stocks. Bondsand Mortgages 6.828 3o Banking house, 6.856 92 Furniture and fixtures, 2,826 92 Current expenses 1.01 4 40 Interest paid ■•• • • 2,435-4 United State Bonds SIO,OOO 00 Due from banks & bankers 74.0*2 66 Cash and cash items 28,875 33 $112,917 99 Total 1540,214 98 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $120,000 00 Surplus fund W.ooo 00 Undivided profits « II- £» Discount, exchange and interest 6. <9.> •- Dividends unpaid 900 00 Rent •••••■ -0 60 Ind’l deposits on demand..! 228.893 83 Ind’l deposits on time, 173.431 10 Total *540.214 98 State of Indiana, Count}’of Adams ss: 1, It. K. Allison, Cashier ot the Old Adams County Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. It. K. Allison, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 2nd day of November. 1898. „ James T. Msrhvman Notary Public. MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new $ 65 Corn, per cwt (mixed) old 38 Corn, per cwt, new 30 Oats, old 22 Oats, new 22 Rye 40 Barley 25 Clover seed 325 @ 3 50 Timothy 1 10 Eggs, fresh 14 Butte.r 16 Chickens 05 Ducks 05 Turkeys 08 Geese 04 Wool 16 to 18 Wool, washed 18 and 20 Hogs 3 25 TOLEDO MARKETS, NOV. 2, 1:30 P. M. Wheat, new No. 2 red, cash.... $ 71$ December wheat 711 Cash corn No. 2 mixed, cash.. 334 Prime clover, Oct 4 75 The Sure LaOrippe Cure. There is no use suffering from this dreadful malady, if you will only get the right remedy. You are having pain all through your body, your liver is out of order, have no appetite, no life or ambition, have a bad cold, in fact are completely used up. Electric Bitters is the only remedy that will give you prompt and sure relief. They act directly on your liver stomach and kidneys, tone up the whol ystem and make you feel like a new being. They are guarranteed to cure i or price refunded. For sale at Page Blackburn’s drug store only 50 cents per bottle.

THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK, DECATUR INDIANA. September 20, 1898. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts, - $186,459.16 Capital, - - - 000.00 Overdrafts, - - 3,426.31 Surplus, - - 7,500.00 U. S. Bonds and premiums 27.500.00 | Undivided profits, - 1,431.62 Real estate and furniture, 8,388.79 Circulation, - . 22,500.00 Cash and Exchange, - 73,041.55 Deposits, - - 161,384,19 $298,815.81 $298,815.81 DIRECTORS. OFFICERS. P. W. Smith. J. B. Holthouse, P. W. Smith, J. B. Bolthouse, E. X. Ehingek, J. H. Hobrock, President, Vice-President. D. Sprang, C. A. Dugan, C. A. Dugan, 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.

JAMES K. NIBLICK, THE. GROCER. Can supply you with all kinds of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and the prices can’t be discounted any place at any time. Goods delivered promptly to all parts of the city. Call and see us and permit us to place you upon our list of regular customers. James K. Niblick. Donovan & Bremerkamp's Old Stand. Read What Your Neighbors Say. MRS WINNES. corner Fifth and Jefferson streets, Decatur. Ind., writes: Having faithfully tested your Dr. Bayer's Cough Syrup and Penetrating Oil, I must say that I am highly pleased with them and shall use no other in the future. XAVIER M. MILLER. North Fifth street. Decatur. Ind., savs: It gives me great pleasure to state that I can not praise your Dr. Bayer s Cough Syrup too highly. It cured mine and my neighbor 8 bad cold 'cry promt t y, MRS A C. WAGONER. Decatur. Ind., says: t riravit tnnt rmir Dr Raver’s Cough Syrup. Penetrating Oil and Spanish Cross Tea are’tile best Xedms TLav’eTer ustd’ They do ali they are recommenced to do. Ask for pamphlets and samples at B. J. Smith’s drug store.