Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1899 — Page 8

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Eastern DispaUh. Our sick people are improving rapidly. Harry Elston visited the Willshire High school Monday afternoon. Last week the cold wave emphasized great emotion among our people. George Troutner of near Willshire. Ohio, died last week with a stroke of paralysis. Many of our educators attended the teacher's institute at Decatur last Saturday. The U. B. people commenced a re- j vival meeting at Pleasant Mills last Sunday night. Horrible agony is caused by piles burns and skin diseases. These are j immediately relieved and quickly | cured bv DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, i Beware of worthless imitations. Page Blackburn Peterean. Geo. Martin is shipping hav from , this place. James Spade while skating fell and i injured his hand. Praver meeting at Antioch church every Wednesday evening. The meeting at Zion Chapel necr this place is progressing nicely. Eva Gault. Ida Steele. John Brown and Stella Weldy are on the sick list. James M. Beery is one of the best essay writers of school No. 4, in Kirkland township. The tea?hers an zl students of our graded school attended the institute at Decatur Saturday. The jolly boys attended the fox ■ chase south of this place Saturday, j Thev report a good tine and one fox caught. Stoutenberry & Ward have moved their saw mill'on Mr. Zimmerman's' farm where thev will saw the timber for his barn. William Myers and Oliver Mills had a serious accident while driving to Decatur by their horse being frightened and running away. Mills was severely cut about tne face. Cured Bronchial trouble. Chas. E. Davis. 1074 W. Congress st. Chicago writes: I have suffered for years with

| NEW • SPRING • GOODS —NOW IN AT | I l_ I •4 CHE BOSTON STORE l» *.>= II ra§ yV =l~~ ~ ~ r "- ' . " r ' >■ I "—- =- 1 I | Each and every department of our store is packed with the choice designs, elegant new effects. >' Patterns which can not be duplicated again this season. I Now is the time to buy them, before they are all sold or the assortment broken. ' Don’t delay but make your selections early and get the best. --»= S | Tafetta Silks First Communions Dress Goods g for shirt waists. Confirmation Suits. Stock -- | We are offering l tit k • i Crepons, 75c to $2.50. | we are one.mg We have made special pren- tttkAn excellent assortment arationsand have a complete br(^s , to sl. | nnri nnrHnd ;« line of Wasll Goods in Pers- e will continue for one 3® of both plain and corded, in inn iflurnQ TnHin Ityiitiq i_ i x , , . . la^P s > I Jl aia ™s. week our Black Goods sale: to the new shades, American Organdies, Worsted goods XT of all kinds. 75c Novelties for f | Beauty, gu ,Ce se Special prices will be made 85c Novelties for 49c. I | at 50c, 75c and SI.OO. on ail suits of this kind. 65c Novelties for 35c. I I COME TO-— I THE BOSTON STORE.

bronchial trouble and have tried many kinds of medicines without relief until I began taking Foley's Honey and Tar. which cured me. It saved me doctor bill this winter. 25c. Holthouse, Callow Co. 47t3 Pleasant Mills. Mrs. John Blanev is quite ill with lagrippe. George Cowden and wife Sundayed at Decatur. Miss Maggie Hill spent Sunday in the country with friends. The roads are in fine condition and ' our teamsters are taking advantage of i them. Charles Bartling returned Saturday from St. Louis, where he had transacted business for a few days. Joseph Chronister occupied the pulpit at the U. B. church last Sunday , evening, in Rev. Jackson s place. Next Saturday will be special sale day of clothing at France A: Yager's. Everybody invited to attend these 1 sale days. At four o'clock last Friday morning the store building belonging A. M. Fuller and occupied by A. J. Wood, burned to the ground together with its contents. Mr. Wood has one thousand dollars insurance on his I stock, and Mr. Fuller has six hundred dollars insurance on the building. This is the second time within four vears these gentlemen have burned out. The amount of insurance will not,cover the loss. Linn Qrovt, Joseph Liddy and Forest Hoffman were at Bluffton last Saturday. Fred Bowman of Bluffton. Ohio, attended the funeral of his neice. Mrs. ; Charles Kaltwasser. of Bluffton Indi- ' ana. last, week and also visited his | brother Philip, of Linn Grove. Many of our people report that their houses and cellers were visited the last week and their flowers, vegetables and canned fruits were destroyed. Jack Frost is accused of the vandalism. Fred Bowman purchased an housekeeping outfit of our merchants and ■ moved the same on the Kaltwasser farm, near Bluffton, where he has accepted a position with Mr. Kaltwasser in his slaughter house.

The title of real estate has changed in the following report: 1' J to Ferdinand Stauffer. 4 .icn - >1,7(0. John Meyer? tc J hit voder. 40 acres. $ ITO. 'Eugre.e Mvi:<w_t Benjamin Banter, -0 acre?. Eli Bierie to Oscar Anderson. proper□of D i:."'". 52.000. As evidence of the zeal combined with energv. we chronicle the sale? • David Runyon, traveling agent, ana Joseph L. Tipton. local agent. > binders and five mowers were their sales at Camden during five days of last week. The secret, however, is that thev sell the Deering machine. Lagrippe is again epidemic. Everv precaution should be taken to avoid it. Its specific cure is One Minute Cough Cure. A. J. Shepherd, publisher Agricultural Journal and Advertiser. Elden. Mo., says: "No one will be disappointed in using One Minute Cough Cure for lagrippe. Pleasant to take, quick to act. Page Blackburm Monmouth. The weather is thawing some. John Magley spent Sundav with John Waggoner. William Lord left for the soldiers home at Marion. Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Kizer were visiting in Monmouth. Sunday. Miss Ellen Crabill returned to her home in Allen county last Sunday. Meeting closed at Concord one week from last Friday evening with four new- accessions to the church. Belle Evans announces that her school will give an entertainment at her school on Saturday. February 25. Several of our people are taking advantage of the ice harvest. G'beeryman Evans is putting up a.large plyWhile Henry Magley was driving a high spirited horse Monday morning the animal became frightened and ran away with no serious results. Dave Benter's bed room in the grocery store was the scene of a fire last Monday morning, but the department soon had the fire under control. A north bound freight train broke in two while passing through here Sunday night and left the caboose with a number of ears standing on the track for about an hour when the engine returned and rejoined the last portion, the engine and a part of the train having went to Hoagland. Mr. S. A. Fackler. editor of the Micanopy (Fla.) Hustler, with his wife and children, suffered terribly from lagrippe. One Minute Cough Cure was the only remedy that helped them. It acted quickly. Thousands of others use this remedy as a specific for lagrippe. and its exhausting aftereffects. Never fails. Page Blackburn.

Geneva. Oil 75 cents. , • -.-r i«•!v ill with Jacob Scheer i> seriously j lagrippe. ... „. n .! J W. Deitsch went to LaGrange i la?t Mondav on business. ! : ’ oil wells. . ;*: ■ ta-k ,««»■; ""■£ with us only a week. Business not satisfactory. Mrs Charles N. Brown of Richmond. is Visiting With relatives at this place during the week. J E Augsberger, artist, left, here last Fridav for Columbus Grove Ohio, where he will spend a month visiting. Anthonv Burdge. an old soldier living in Buffalo, is on the sick list, being laid up with rheumatism and a bad cold. Fred Pvle and Joe Pease have rented Pat Kinney's room and will soon open up a new hardware and novelty store. Quarterly meeting was held at the U B. church last Sundav. Rev. Mer rie Miller of Dunkirk. Ohio, presiding elder, conducted the services. Charlev Barr, the genial clerk who has been 'working in the J. J. Matson fruit house for the past yeanja taking a vacation lor a short timeConsiderable difficulty was experienced in keeping the rooms of the school house warm during the days of last week and the children suffered accordingly. About fifty of our people and voungsters attended the institute at Decatur last Saturday and all report a pleasant time, notwithstanding the very cold weather. Mrs. John Deffenbaugh who has been Iving sick at the Fort Wayne hospital for some time, has entirely recovered and is now at W arren visiting her daughter. Mrs. Grant Bears. Jesse Bricker was up before 'Squire Vealevfor insulting Mrs. 5 erna Finkbone. and also for striking her. for which he was fined and being unable to pav the same went to the Decatur jail to board it out. All this happened last Saturday. Lew Mason was his escort. All persons knowing themselves indebted to Pete Holthouse, will please come in at the Adams County Bank and settle book accounts either by cash or note, and all knowing themselves owing notes that are due. will please pay them or renew them satisfactorily. Please give it your attention and' fix up matters at once, as all unsettled accounts and notes will be left for collection soon. Respectfully vours. Pete Holthouse. 46tf

Pleasant Valley. .lame.-, Hendricks has purchased the Eli Ray f anu - Samuel Martz is again a resident cn Niblick farm. , e W Martz is attending court t . ; ''p7it juror from this township. Horace Bothoff will move back to Ple:i?ant Mills in the near future. Ira Baker has moved into> the house formerallv occupied by by WtU Johnson. Harrv Lefferson of Salem, visited his old'friend, Charley Martz, last Sunday. Elmer Elzev has moved back to Blue Creek township on the McDaniel's farm. Mrs. Walter Martz is on the sick list, also a number of eases of lagrippe in this vicinity. Mr Scheier and family and Elisha Reynolds of Decatur, visited last Sabbath at Elmer Cook's. J. A. Blossom has sold his farm of twenty acres to Wahmgton Kern of Union township, Consideration ~1,000. Walter Martz returned last week from a business trip to Marion. He will remove to that place in the near future. Mr. Mills, who bought J. M. Blossom's farm, is moving some of his personal effects and preparing to take possession. Robert Gould returned last week from Michigan, where he was working in a lumber camp. He reports twenty inches of snow up there. Has prosperity really left us? We believe it it has. for the Monroe correspondent to the Journal has . not said anything about it for a long time. Oh. thou promised prosperity thou art a delusion and a snare, and if thou hast left us we would like to be sure of it. The Pleasant Valley Literary Society will meet again Friday night, and everv Friday night thereafter. A ' good program for Friday night. The question for debate will be,"Resolved, That the signs of the times indicate ' the downfall of the American republic.” Affimative by Elmore Cook, Roy Gould and G. R. Martz: denied by Harlo Mann. Logan Wolfe and Shelby Ray. Everybodv invited. The protracted meeting closed at ■ this place Sundav night with no new : conversions. Rev. Holden conducted the meeting and preached the truth in all its purity. He preached holi--1 ness and sanctification and the sacred work of grace, and knocked the props out from under several nominal proI feasors of Christianity, and stormed the > citadel of the worldly, but take it all • in all. his preaching was a little too deep for the average mind to grasp

his ideas. But th,, meeting I be boixMl.wtll ;!llllK . i 4’J benefit to our-imnunity. Wl Coughing injur,. s an .i . , • I sore lungs. One Minute C, "iSil loosens the cold. ,dl ilVs heals quickly. Th,. i x . st fcr children, r ,.rf,.vtly harm) J Blackburn. Real Estate | Wm. H. Eachtrieb to Avat , I outlot 101 Decatur. *>7s --Piet | Frederick Bicknell to Frank u „ I 20 acres Kirkland tp. s], 1 Jaco.) Martin re Adam GilU. \ lot 68 Decatur, s 1 -jqij. uIUx M I J. N. Alexander to Simison4«u> I ner. 40 acres Jefferson tn I 433 “““»»■ * Noah Mangold.Aud l oDecatnrm Co., inlots 23 and 24 Geneva Noah Mangold. And., to’w Inv. Co.. inlot.ilGDK.atur.Slo?'® Noah Mangold. Aud., to iLj Inv. Co.. 27 acres Monroe tp tn-J Noah Mangold. Aud.. ££ Inv. Co.. 20 acres Hartford tp Noah Mangold. Aud.. to Big' L | Building association, inlot 87 Genm 513.64. \ . S. Reed to J. E. Moser, outlet 97 Decatur, SISOO. J. C. Omlor to M Marrical. inlre Buffalo. >75. Chas Barber to J. McGriff. 80 Hartford tp. SI. Aaron Stephens t Wm Klink, ft acres Union tp. >1275. Harry Daniel took charge of tl# Decatur Journal yesterday, having purchased that plant from Mean. Kenyon & Quinn.

MARKETS. CORRECTED BV J. D. HALE, GRAIN MH CHANT, DECATUR, IND, Wheat, new $ ft Corn, per cwt (mixed) old ft Corn, per cwt, new ft Oats, old J Oats, nevv I Rye ft Barley 35 Clover seed 3 00 g 338 TimothylM Eggs, fresh 2! Butte.r 13 Chickens 05 Ducks 0» Turkeys 03 Geese '-4 Wool Htofi Wool, washedlß and 20 Hogs 3« TOLEDO MARKETS, FEB. >.L3Op.X. Wheat, new No. 2 red. ca5h....5 J! May wheat | ’l Cash com No. 2 mixed, cash.. 33 Prime clover, March 3 30