Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1899 — Page 3

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Additional Locals. Mayor Beatty returned from Indianapolis last Friday. James Gerard made a business trip to Fort Wayne last Friday. Charles Henney. of North Manchester. spent Sunday in the city. The older a man gets the more he wonders how boys come to know so much. E. !’■ Menefee represented Smith A Bell at Uniondale the latter part of last week. C. L. Olds, of Fort Wayne, was shaking hands with his friends here last Friday. Hon. Richard K. Erwin was transacting legal business at Indianapolis several days last week, One thing may be said of the horseless carriage, it ean never be embalme I for soldier food, or made into sausage. As between the grip bacillus and the expansion germ, certain eminent statemen are having a very trying time this winter. Before the discovery of One Minute Cough Cure, ministers were greatly disturbed by coughing congregations. No excuse for it now. Page Blackburn. If Henry Lankenau is now a full fledged Decaturite, having remove'! to this city the first of the week. He is employed in Kern, Brittson A Beeler's shoe store. Foley’s Honey and Tar Cough Medicine is unquestionably the best remedy for the throat and lungs. Pleasant to take and is guaranteed. Holthouse* Callow & Co. m The moonshine distillery was captured in Arkansas the other day that has been running ever since the civil war without being disturbed. Rheumatism Cured in a Day. ‘Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents. Sold by Smith & Yager, Druggists. Decatur.

nnnn h n n vinn nn inr II uu r,u UOu .u: u AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE H (OST, i Every shoe that leaves our store is honestly worth the price asked. OUR ! SHOES 0)0 OUR UUU honest VALUE. I In order to make them so we buy of the best manufacturers at the lowest possible cost. We have placed on sale a lot of Women's Gl. Gr. shoes, lace or button, O sizes 3to 7, for-- UvV Q(| Also Misses Gl. Gr. shoes, lace \ orbutton, sizes 11 to 2, for / V , J(J The above are specimens of (HONEST ||A VALUE J - shoe leather. I |' They are the best I I \ ever offered, and you can not afford to //j 0 o p°\ leave these bargains pass you. MOUGEY The Foot Fitter.

Bosse's opera house tonight Two Johns. J. E. Ellsworth was looking after Geneva business last Friday. Father Ma joy, of Portland, was in the city several days last week, Dr. Boyers was a professional visitor at Fort Wayne last Friday. The Indiana legislature of 1899, is now a matter of history, having closed Monday. A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gets polished and no one calls it a moss back. A thritfy woman saves a thing ten years and then gives it away the day before she needs it. Miss Hattie Wertzberger is at Cincinnati for a few days looking after millinery styles for the coming season. There are in the United States over fifty distinct secret orders, with more than seventy thousand lodges and five million members. We should profit by the experience of the old lady who said: “Yes, dearie, I've had an awful lot of trouble in mv life, and most of it never happened.’’ Fried wasps are a Chinese delicacy. If they taste anything like the raw bee tastes in a bite of honey, we should prefer to eat red pepper pods stuck full of needles. The people of the United States eat more meat and eggs, than the people of any other nation. They average 147 pounds of meat and 133 eggs to each person annually. “Give me a liver regulator and 1 can regulate the world,” said a genius. The druggist handed him a bottle ot DeWitt’s Little Earlyßisers, the famous little pills. Page Blackburn, ts An exchange says that the “class of '99” sounds all right, but what will you do next year? Will it then be correct to speak of the “sweet girl graduates of naughty naught?” Not one child dies where ten formerly died from croup. People .have learned the value of One Minute Cough Cure and use it for severe lung and throat troubles. It immediately stops coughing. It never fails. Page Blackburn. ts

YI-KI cures corns and warts. Its Harry Waldmar, of Rochester, was arrested in Chicago and returned to Rochester to answer charge of forging his employer's name to check for 1*175 and decamping with the proceeds. If you have had the grip you need ! oley s Honey and Tar to heal your lungs and stop the racking cough incidental to the disease. Guaranteed I 25 and 50c, Holthouse, Callow & Co. • m A bill has been introduced in the I Connecticut legislature to provid that Sunday shall be observed as the individual shall see tit, so long as he shall not disturb or interfere with any other individual. \\ hen the American revolution ended the men who won it disbanded with very little cash in their pockets. In Cuba the the question of disbandment seems to hinge on the amount of money to be distributed. The gunboat Helena, which has reached Dewey, draws but eight feet, and will be of immediate service in keeping the lines clear along the river. Four other light gunboats will arrive at Manila within the next two weeks. Going down hill. People suffering from kidney diseases feel a gradual but steady loss of strength and vitality. They should lose no time in trying Foley's Kidney Cure, a guaranteed preparation. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m The Dean brothers, of Clark county, Ind., the largest fruit raisers in this part of the state, are of the opinion that their entire peach crop is ruined. It is claimed that all seed fruit, such as peaches, plumbs and cherries are killed. Abraham Lincoln, being invited to give a fund to buy a seedy lawyer some clothes, noted that the barrister’s trousers were sadly worn in the seat and wrote on the subscription paper: "I have nothing to contribute to the end in view.” Among the wonders of the West India Islands is the musical or whistling tree. It has a peculiar shaped leaf, and pods with a split or open edge, and the wind passing through these sends forth sounds which gives the tree its name. 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. A bill has passed and become a law allowing all incorporated cities and towns to provide an ordinance for keeping streets and alleys elean and pay for so doing either out of the general funds or by assessment against the property owners. The Marion Telephone company is building a new telephone toll line from Marion toMatthews,where a junction will be constructed this spring, giving Marion connection with a hundred northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana pionts. The best Salve in the World is Banner Salve. It is made from a prescription by a world wide known skin specialist and is positively the most healing salve for piles, burns, scalds, ulcers, running sores and all skin diseases. Holthouse, Callow A Co. in

An election was held in Butler county. Ohio, last Saturday to decide the question of issuing' $20,000 worth of bonds by the county, with which to pay off the indebtedness of the Butler i County Fair Association. The project ■ carried by a majority of over five hundred. Profane swearing, the Mississippi Supreme Court has just affirmed, includes the use of the word “damn.” unaccompained by any other expression. and is a subject to a fine. No other source of revenue would be needed by the state if that law was strictly enforced. Walhalla, N. D„ Mar. 15. 1898. For loss of appetite, general dibility and convalescence after any illness, there is nothing so beneficial as Dr. iJ. H. McLean's Strengthing Cordial I and Blood Purifier. I am enjoying I vigorous health from its use. E. A. I Sharpe. Eor sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. ’ m An iron bar, nut and bolt trust is I said to be forming all over the I nited I States, the object of which is to con- | trol the trade and drive out the coni cerus refusing to join the combine The movement is said to have been started by Colonel Colins, of Brazil, a well known iron manufacturer. For frost bites, burns, indolent sores, eczema, skin diseases, and especially piles, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve stands first and best. Look out for dishonest people who try to imitate and counterfeit it. ft's their endorsement of a good article. Worthless goods are not imitated. Get DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Page Blackburn if Young men and farmers will do well to ponder over the following: In Indiana alone there is sold annually from Indiana farms 100,000,000 dozen poultry valued at $4,800,0001 and 35.000.01)0 eggs, valued at $3,500, | 000. In the United States the pool trv product last year was worth $480,0()0,000 and the eggs $100,000,000. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown's Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known 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 w arts. It 7

It is queer how thing go by contaries here below. ‘Tis always too hot or too cold, and the prizes we miss, you know always appear to be better than those we’ve got. It is always too wet, dusty and dry, and the land is too rough or too flat there is nothing that is perfect beneath the blue sky; but its a a prettv good world for all that. Given up by four doctors Beaver Dam. Ohio. My daughter, after being treated by four doctors and being given up for lost, a neighbor recommended Foley’s Kidney Cure. Today she is able to walk several miles without fatigue. I feel we would have lost her if it was not for your medicine. Respectfully, Mrs. J. M. Bailey. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m The National league base ball season will open April 15, and President Nick Young has already drafted the schedule. It looks as if there will be no change in the twelve-club circuit this year after all. As a matter of fact, there are two schedules—one providing for four trips and 154 games and the other for three trips and 154 games. Recommended for lagrippe. N. Jackson, Danville, 111. writes: My daughter had a severe attack of lagrippe seven years ago and since then whenever she takes a cold a terrible cough settles on her lungs. We tried a great many remedies without giving relief. She tried Foley’s Honey and Tar which cured her. She has never been troubled with a cough since. 25 cents. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m

One of the convicts in the Ohio peni-! tentiary writes: “The people of the outside world who wish to visit this prison, and who cannot do so on account of a rule recently made, are perhaps greatly disappointed because they are outside and cannot get in; but their disappointment would be much greater if they were inside and could not get out.” As the season of the year when pneumonia, lagrippe, sore throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troubles are to be guarded against, nothing “is as fine a substitute,,’ will “answer the purpose,” or is “just as good” as One Minute Cough Cure. That is the one infallable remedy for all lung, throat or bronchial troubles. Insist vigorously upon having it if “something else” is offeerd you. Pageßlackburn. ts Some unknown patriot gets off the following: “I’ve licked adozen stamps to-day for telegrams I sent, I licked and stuck one on a bill with which I paid my rent. I licked a stamp to paste upon a note which I renewed, and then I licked another one to make the mortgage good. I’ve licked these stamps to show that I respect my country’s will, and now I’d like to lick the man that introduced the bill. “I Was Weak, Nervous and Run Down.” I want to testify to the good Brown’s Cure has done me. I was weak, nerv- ' ous and run down in vitality when I | commenced taking it; it has done everything for me and I am now a newbeing. A number of my friends also speak with gratitude of the good your i medicine has done them —it is indeed ! a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully, j Mrs. L. V. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. According to the exchanges which \ come to this office, the death rate in I Northern Indiana has been exceptionally large during the past few months, j The general prevalence of the grip and the extreme changes of the weather have had much to do with the increased death roll. According to the death notices which appears in the country papers, very few communities escaped. A notable thing observed is that people of all ages have been afflicted. Rev. E. Edwards, pastor of the English Baptist Church at Minersville, Pa., when suffering with rheumatism, was advised to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. He says: “A fewapplications of this liniment proved of great service to me. It subdued the inflammation and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain Balm a trial it will please me.” For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. ’ m The reason that a blow on the ear may do irreparable injury is that the air. being driven suddenly and violently against the drum of the ear, might rupture the membrane and cause incurable deafness. The ears should never be pulled nor meddled with in any way, except to wash them in the most gentle manner, the orifice being cleansed with a fold of the washcloth rolled into a little one. March Ladies Home Journal. His Wife couldn't Cook. So he declared to apply for a divorce, for he considered he had good grounds therefore. But the Judge, after hearing his complaint, scratched the bald place on the top of his head, looked over his specs at the poor fellow, shifted the quid of tobacco to the other side of his mouth, and said: “Y’ou don't need no divorce. You go home and ask your wife to forgive you. On the way stop at Holthouse, Collow & Co. and buy a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup j Pepsin; take it according to directions I and if you can’t eat anything in less , than a week from biled cabbage up. come up to me and I will give you a I divorce and alimony both.” m Cincinnati, Richmond & Ft. Wayne Railroad Company. Richmond, Ind.. March 6, 1899.

The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Ft. Wayne Raliroad Company will be held at the office of the Company in the city of Richmond, Indi ana, on Thursday, April 6, 1899. at 10 o'clock a. m., for the election of eleven directors and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. C. B. Liggett, 52-6 Secretary.

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., says: 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’s bad cold very promptly, MRS. A, C. WAGONER, Decatur, Ind., says: I admit tnat your Dr. Bayer’s Cough Syrup. Penetrating Oil and Spanish Cross Tea are the best remedies I have ever used. They do all they are recommended to do. 83!?“Ask for pamphlets and samples at B. J. Smith’s drug store. Decatur 7|v National Bank, DECATUFt, INDIANA. Capital and Surplus, $108,000.00. Re-organized Jan. 1, 1895. Average Deposits 1894, $ 91.447.00. Average Deposits 1895, 120.238.00. Average Deposits 1896, 123.570.00. Average Deposits 1897, 145,023.00. Average Deposits 1898, 184,029.00. Deposits Jan. 11, 1899, 202,259.00. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. P. W. Smith, President. C. A. Dugan, Cashier. W. A. Kuebler, Vice-Pres’t. E. X. Ehinger, Ass’t Cashier. J. H. Hobrock, D. Sprang, Jacob Colter. A general banking business transacted. Interest paid on certificates of deposits 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.

J. C. Stewart in the “Two Johns" at Bosse's opera house tonight. You should not miss it. I have been afflicted with rheumatism for fourteen years and nothing seemed to give any relief. I was able to be around all the time, but constantly suffering. I had tried everything I could hear of and at last was told to trv Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which I did, and was immediately relieved and in a short time cured I am happy to say that it has not since returned. Josh. Edgar, Germantown, Cal. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. ' m For an exercise to test the spelling abilities of those who think themselves the most skillful, read this aloud, and let them write it down: “The most skillful gauge I ever knew was a maligned cobbler, armed with a poniard. who drove a peddler's wagon, using a mullein stalk as an instrument of coercion to tyrannize over his pony, shod with calks. He was a Galilean Saducee and he had a phthisicky catarrh diphtheria and the bilious intermittent erysipelas.” Not a cast iron stomach. Os course you haven’t. No one need have. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a remedy prepared on purpose for stomach troubles, weak stomack, sour stomach, big stomach or little stomach, or any irregularities caused from indigestion or constipation. They can be permanently and throughly cured by the use of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, which is made in three sizes, lOcts, 50cts, and SI.OO, and is sold by Holthouse, Callow & Co. m A LaPorte minister has adopted a novel method of raising money for congressional needs. To each one of his members he has addressed a circular letter, enclosing in each a silver dime. The letter explains that the person receiving it is expected to in- ' vest the money to the best possible advantage, and at the expiration of sixty days the money, with what profits have resulted, is to be retureed. At that time a meeting will be held, and each will relate their experience '■ in increasing their investment. i State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath • that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, Coun- ; ty and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every ease of Catarrah that cannot lie cured by the use of Hall's Catarrah Cure. *F. J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subsenbed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. Gleason, (seal) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surface of the system. Send for testi- ' monials. free. F. J. Cheney & Co., ' Toledo. O. Sold by druggists 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best, m

Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. This remedy is intended ■ especially for couges, colds, croup, whooping cough and influenza. It has become famous for its cures of the diseases, over a large part of the civilized world. The most flattering testimonials have been recieved, giving accounts of its good i works: of the aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured: of severe colds that have yielded promptly to its soothing effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough has shown that it robs that disease of all dangerous consequences, Sold by Holthoue, Callow & Co. m Preparations are being made for weighing the mails, as done every three years. Every ounce of mail, carried by every road in the state must be weighed. The work will begin about March 15. Platform scales are placed in each car and a weigher takes the weight of each bag passing in or out of the car. There are about 100 applications for the position of weigher at the Indianapolis office, but men who have passed the civil service examination and are on the mailing list will be given the preference. How to Look Good. Good looks are really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver is inactive, you have a bilious look; if your stomach is disordered your have a dyspeptic look: if your kidneys are effected you have a pinched look. Secure good health and you will surely have good looks. “Electric Bitters" is a good alternative and tonic. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys, purifies the blood, cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at Page Blackburn’s drug store. 50c. per bottle. Mrs. Wm. Sheets, of Berne, left last Tuesday for Fort Wayne and Toledo, where she will remain one week to be in attendance at the first spring millinery openings of the season. She will select a part of her spring stock of millinery while at the above named places. An Enterprising Druggist. There are few men more wide awake and enterprising than Page Blackburn who spares no pains to secure the best of everything in their line for their many customers. They now have the valuable agency for the Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. This is the wonderful remedy that is producing such a furor all over the country by its many startling cures. It absolutely cures asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness and all effections of the throat, chest and lungs. Call on the above drug store and get a trial bottle free or a regular size for 50 cents and sl. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded.