Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1899 — Page 3

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Additional Locals. Bart France has recovered from the grip, and is again in school. Herman Yager was a visitor at Fort Wavne last Friday evening. H. M. Romberg transacting business at Fort Wayne last week. Elmer Johnson was at Union City bavin" horses several days last week. C. 0. France is at his office again after a week’s siege with the tonsilitis. Dick Townsend was calling on friends at Fort Wayne last Thursday. Conference week is nearly here, and everybody is getting ready to welcome the visiters. The tongue is about the only muz-zle-loading weapon that hasn't been discarded. John Nidlinger was looking after the horse market at Berne several days last week. John T. France was looking after legal business at Geneva the latter part of last week. The tramps who were run in last week did their first work on the streets Friday afternoon. More letters patent have been granted Thomas A. Edison than any other man in the world. Miss Katie Lang is at home from an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. Ed Lang, at Piqua. Ohio. The new regulations in regard to age limit in the army is from 18 to 35 years for enlisted men. Formerly the age limit was 30 years. The formation of a bridge trust would indicate that these things having occupied all the land and are now trving to get over the water. Bicycle salesmen with big trunks and stories of the same size, are putting in their appearance. The prices of wheels are materially reduced this year. Before the discovery of One Minute Cough Cure, ministers were greatly disturbed by coughing congregations. No excuse for it now. Page Blackburn. ts The telegraph lines in Chile are owned by the government. A message of ten words can be sent to any part of the country for about eight cents. The supreme court of Indiana has decided that kissing may be a fraud. Most people know that without having a supreme court decision to back up the knowledge. “Give me a liver regulator and 1 can regulate the world,” said a genius. The druggist handed him a bottle of DeWitt’s Little Earlyßisers. the famous little pills. Page Blackburn, ts Chalmer Schafer left Saturday noon for Marion, where he will join the Bloomington Glee Club. They will be out on the present trip about three weeks making Indiana and Michigan towns. A Frightful Blunder Will often cause a horrible burn, scald, cut or bruise. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the best in the world, will kill the pain and promply heal it. Cures old sores, fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, all skin eruptions. Best pile cure on earth. Only 25cts. a box. Cure guarrnteed. Sold by Page Black, burn druggist. The cigarette law is being rigidly enforced in every city of Indiana. It appears that people generally are not well informed on the law governing the sale of cigarettes and it is for this reason that many dealers are being picked up the state over. Cincinnati, Richmond & Ft. Wayne Railroad Company. Richmond, Ind., March 6, 1899. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Ft. Wayne Raliroad Company will Ire held at the office of the Company in the city of Richmond, Indiana, 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. It may not be generally known, but the longest war in recorded history was waged on American soil. It was waged between the Wrangel and Cbilcat Indians in Alaska. After going on for 600 years it has just been ended by a treaty of peace. I have been afflicted with rheumatism for fourteen years and nothing seemed to give anv 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 try 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. J m

YI-KI cures corns and warts. Its According to the automobile people after the horse is stolen or otherwise disposed of. the stable won'the locked, but instead used as a repository for those vehicles. Mayor A. P. Beatty and Marshall Harvey Hart were at Marion last Thursday, where they attended the second meeting of the Municipal league of Indiana. 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 Your Uncle Samuel is in the enjoyment of quite a respectale income from the Wall street operators these days to-wit: about 85,000 per day or say 8130,000 a month, all on account | of the stamp tax on their operations. If you have had the grip you need Foley’s Honey and Tar to heal your lungs and stop the racking cough incidental to the disease. Guaranteed 25 and 50c. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m The Indiana University Glee and Mandolin Club will give an entertainment at Bosse’s opera house tonight, which you can not afford to miss. Our young men will give a reception in their honor at Meibers’ hall, immediately after the entertainment. Walhalla, N. D„ Mar. 15, 1898. For loss of appetite, general dibility and convalescence after any illness, there is nothing so beneficial as Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthing Cordial and Blood Purifier. I am enjoying vigorous health from its use. E. A. Sharpe. Eor sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. m A Boston Sunday-school teacher not long ago gave her class a rather graphic description of how Eve was created from the rib of Adam. “Mamma,” said the youngest member of the class that same evening, pressing his hand to his side, “I'm afraid I'm going to have a wife.” That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for sick and nervous headaches. They make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health. Easy to take. Try them. Only 25 cts. a box. Money back if not cured. Sold by Page Blackburn. A seventy-five million dollar soap trust was organized in Cbiehago, and now the monoploy will try tosoftsoap its patrons. The concern hopes to make the trust national in its organization. There is only one way out of it, and that is not to wash, and the small boy endorses the trust. 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 A paper in a town not faraway printed an item to the effect that a certain resident of the first ward, whose name he did not give, had better stop kissing his hired girl, or he might be found out. Twenty-seven men from that ward gave themselves dead away by calling on the editor and threatened to thump him if he didn’t retract. ‘■l Was Weak, Nervous and Run Down.” I want to testify to the good Brown’s Cure has done me. I was weak, nervous and run down in vitality when I commenced taking it; it has done everything for me and I am now a new being. A number of my friends also speak with gratitude of the good your medicine has done them—it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully, Mrs. L. V. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. The Western Union telegraph company. it has lieen held by the appellate''court, is liable for messages telephoned to its agents and repeated over its wires the same as though the message were accepted at the office and written. The court holds further that there is no legal obligation to compel the company to accept oral messages for transmissor. Spain's Greatest Need. Mr. R. P. Oliva, of Barcelona, Spain spends his winters at Aiken, S. C. Weak nerves had caused severe pains in the back of his head. On using Electric Bitters, America s greatest Blood and Nerve Remedy, all pain soon left him. He says this grand medicine is what his country needs. All America knows that it cures liver and kidney trouble, purifies the blood, tones up ‘the stomach, strengthens the nerves, puts vim, vigor and new life into every muscle, nerve and organ of the body." If weak, tired or ailing you need it. Every bottle guaranteed only 50 cents. Sold by Page Black-. burn druggist. 1

THE KINDOFJLOTHING AND SHOES TO BUY FOR SPRING WEAR. (Most people will buy as indicated, below.) At the opening of the spring season we wish to extend an invitation to our friends and the public in general to call on us and see the finest display of Clothing and Shoes that we have ever had the pleasure of showing. Our stores are full of spring novelties and everything is bright and new. Our growth has been a hearty and steady one and we feel that our efforts to conduct our business on strictly business principles is appreciated. We attribute our success, and rightly too, to our established reputation for honesty and fair dealing. If you are a patron of ours we feel confident of retaining yon, but if you are not one of our customers let us here extend to you an earnest invitation to come in and get acquainted with us, see our goods, learn our principles and our way of doing business; we are confident of the result. IMAGINATION plays the leading part when it comes to buying clothing of a tailor. You imagine they are better because you are paying; more. Now we do not make to order, but we make to fit, | B It Afi. / (X. I}/ /y W ra To iWi / x (copyrighted) I COPYRIGHTED/ *D MI R*L W. C. SCHLEY ADMIRAL W. T. CAKP3CM and if you buy here we make you judge and jury; besides if the clothes do not wear, if they do not give satisfaction in every way, we give your money back. The most important point in a suit of clothes, after the quality of cloth is considered, is the care and skill displayed in making it. On that point alone is based the charges of the high priced tailors. In our new spring suits you will find skill, care and taste displayed to an extent far beyond the best previous standards. Clothing is cheaper than ever before. $7.50 for a suit of excellent serviceable quality. SIO.OO for better ones. $12.50 and $15.00 for elegant suits, of quality seldom excelled.

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MOST PEOPLPE Are particular about their shoes. We have shoes at all prices in all the leading styles and we feel that we can please the most fastidious. The shoe that we want to call your attention to now is our *3.50 line of shoes for men. The accompanying cut is a representation of one of these shoes made on the Dewey last .which like the distinguished naval hero for which it is named, holds a high rank. In this i class we have a fine showing of black and colored chrome,

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...THAT 80Y... Must be quite an institution in your family. Os course you want to dress him well. We would like to get the contract for doing it. If he is anywhere from 3to 8 years of age you will perhaps want a vestee suit for him. We have them in all styles and at all prices—in fact we are showing an elegant assortment. If he is about to don his first pants you ought to see what cute little suits we have for him. Our prices will not prevent your buying. If you want him to take good care of his clothes, let us furnish him with a Brownie pair of overalls—just the thing to play in—they only cost a few cents.

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WE REPRESENT BUT ONE of our ladies fine shoes here. It is of the famous Utz <fc Dun make and needs no intrdoution to the trade. It serves to show one of the leading styles that will be worn this spring.

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 To jump into the ring is the latest method adopted by sports to stop a fight. Corbett set the pattern, which promises to become popular. Billy Lavigne, brother of Kid. matched to fight Smith at San Francisco, resorted to this expedient when he saw the Kid was getting whipped. 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 A Co. m A Logansport jury has strengthened the opinion long entertained that the average juror don't know the Mexican war is over by giving a murderous Italian an inderterminate sentence for stabbing and killing another man. 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. The rage for ending female names with “ie” has come to a ridiculous conclusion. A farmer named Ake, christened his daughter Belle. She adopted the style of Fannies, Matties and Sadies, and had some cards printed “Bellie” and now she appears to a distracted world as “Miss Bellie Ake.” 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. The supreme court has held that county assessors had the right to examine the books of building and loan associations and that running, prepaid and paid up stock in building and loan associations is taxable, and the officers of such associations must give assessors free access to their books to the end. that the owners of stocks and the several amounts owned may be listed for taxation. 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 The letter-head of the Chilkoot Pass Hotel, 1222 Icicle avenue. Skagaway, Alaska, of which A. Richards is the proprietor, contains the following announcement: “Rates 88 per day—sleeping room, breakfast and supper. Guests must furnish their own blankets and lunch. Hot water and candles extra. Faro and studpoker games run by the management. Dogs bought and sold. Rev. E. Edwards, pastor of the English Baptist Church at MinersI ville, Pa., when suffering with rheumatism, was advised to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. He says: “A few applications 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 acts of the late general assembly when published will make a volume, it is estimated of about the size of that of two years ago. About twelve hundred bills were introduced in both houses and of this number some two hundred have been enacted into laws, which effect only a city, or town or single county. 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 81.00, and is sold bv Holthouse, Callow & Co. m When you see a young fellow who a year ago used to step up and order beer for the crowd with the utmost sang froid, patiently trundling a baby carriage along the street on Sunday afternoon and looking chop-fallen in his last summer’s hat, don’t it speak volumes for the refining of woman's society. 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, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrah that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrah Cure. F. J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscrib'd 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 testimonials. free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best, m

Forfrost 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. It’s their endorsement of a good article. Worthless goods are not imitated. Get DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Page Blackburn ts House act No. 175 authorizes “the judge of any criminal, circuit or superior court in the state to appoint a bailiff tor his court, whose per diem shall not exceed 82." It is “provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to counties in which criminal or superior courts are organized.” The act repeals all laws in conflict with it. It will not, take effect until the laws are published. Given up by four doctors Beaver I Dam, Ohio. My daughter, after beI ing 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 Col. Gunder of the One Hundred and Sixieth Indiana regiment, now at Matanzas, Cuba, by telegram recently requested the governor to use his influence to have the regiment when mustered out mustered out at Savannah, Georgia. Yesterday the governor received from Adjutant General Corbin a message saying the request would be granted and the regiment would be mustered out at Savannah. 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 happinessSold by Page Blackburn. Price 5c cts. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts. 117 One of the Pennsylvania coaches is to be equipped with copper siding instead of the wood now in use. This experiment will be watched with great interest by the officials, and if successful, it will solve a puzzling question. It is believed that the copper covering, though more expensive, will give more satisfactory results than anything yet tried. The copper will be oxidized and when properly finished and placed, will present a handsome appearance. 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 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 State Natural Gas Supervisor, J. C. Leach, has visited the scenes of nearly all the recent gas explosions to learn the extent of the damage and causes thereof. In the past month twelve people have been killed, more than thirty injured and property amounting to 8200,000 has been destroyed. The fatalities were Hartford City, four; Kokomo, one; Marion, two; Hamilton county, one; Walton, four. Three others of the injured are not expected to live. Witnessesto the Walton horror say that newspaper reports have not half described the calamity. 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: "You 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 Pepsin; take it according to directions 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 divorce and alimony both." m When postal cards were first issued, in 1873, they were treated disdainfully, they were accused of being vulgar and only 31,000,000 were sold. This is really the issue for two months only. In 1898 the number rose to 556,388,000. They are made by contract and cost the government about 33 cents a thousand. The contract requires that 20000,000 be always on hand, but the number available greater. In one day the manufacturers received and lilt'd an order from St. Louis for 10,000,000 and one from Chicago for 25,000000. It requires four freight cars to carry them. A Narrow Escape. Thankful words words written by Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. “Was taken with a bad cold which settled on my lungs; cough set in and finally terminated in consumption. Four doctors gave me up, saying I could live but a short time. I gave myself up to my Savior, determined if I could not stay with tio friends ~n earth, I would meet my a’ -ect s above. My husband wa- • > get Dr. King’s New Dis sumption, coughs, and < it a trial, took in all eig has cured me and than) saved and now a well healthy woman.'-’ Trial Page Blackburn’s drug lar size 50c. and SI.OO. or price refunded.