Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1899 — Page 2

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Traxerse Citv. Petoskey and "lackinac Are the three principal objective points of the summer travel to Michigan. and in a certain sense their names signify the divisions into which Michigan resorts are naturally divided. The Grand Traverse Bay resorts. Omena, Neahtawanta, Traverse Beach. Edgewood. etc., are all reached by boat or drive from Traverse City. Bay View. Harbor Point. Harbor Springs. Wequetonsing and Roaring Brook are the handsome resorts of Little Traverse Bay, which are connected with Petoskey by suburban train service, while Mackinac Island is a summer principality of itself. The Grand Rapids A Indiana Railway takes you to these points on their direct line, | with fast vestibuled trains carrying through sleeping cars from St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and ’ Indianapolis. Dining car service between Grand Rapids and Ma’ckinaw City. Send for "Michigan in Summer," illustrated descriptive list of hotels and boarding houses with rates | and much information of value to summer visitors: also time foldersgiv- ; ing full information as to train ser vice. Copies will lie mailed free, on application to C. L. Lockwood, G. P. I A: T. A.. Grand Rapids. Mich. — Erie Excursions. Winona Lake and return, 15 day limit 81.95; season 82.60. Chautauqua Lake and return, season 814. Los Angeles, California and return S6B. Two special excursions on July 7 and 28. Return limit 30 days. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and return, one fare. To Young Peoples Christian Union. Tickets sold August Ito 5. Return limit August 15. Chicago and Return. Special Excursion Sunday July 30th via the Erie R. R. Special Excursion train leaves as follows: Decatur 5 a. m., j Preble 5:09 a. in.. Magley 5:13 a. m„ Tocsin 5:19 a. m..Kingsland 5:25a. m.. Uniondale 5:31 a. m ~Markles:4l a.m. Arriving at Chicago at 11 a. m. Train will not make any stops after leaving ' Markle. Rate one day tickets 81.25. Rate two day tickets -83.00 Plenty of coaches will be furnished and ample room for all without crowding. Re- i member the date. See posters or call or address, J. W. DeLong, Agent. G. R. & I. Excursions. Grand opportunity July 21. You can go to Island Park. Rome City. [ and hear the distinguised orator. William Jennings Bryan, on "Impending Problems." an afternoon lecture. . This supplemented, by a full program ; of music, elocution, etc., for $1.70. 19-3 i Tickets will be sold at G. R. & 1.1 dejwt July 27 to Island Assembly for ! Old Settler's Day. A great program | has been arranged. Round trip only 81.70, and admission to grounds for entire day and evening. 19-3 Low rate to Island Park and As-, semby from Decatur, Ind., and return I only 81.70. Tickets on sale after July 25. Good returning until August 19. Three weeks of a splendid program opens July 26. 19-3 Get a summer program. Call at the G. R. i I. ticket window for the artistic 32-page souvenir calendar. : discriptive of Island Park with program. talent and full information regarding the 21st annual session of this oldest f Western Chaut aaquas. 19-2 The Poor Man's Paradise. Did it ever occur to you that the summers in the south are more plea ' sant than in your own state. In order to convince you of this fact the Mobile and Ohio Railroad have arranged with their friendly connections to run specia’ low rate excursions to the Gulf of Mexico and return, on the first and third Tuesday of each month. June. July, and August. If you want to see the South at its best, make up a party and take a summer trip. Solid, wide vestibuled trains with ladies lavatory and gentlemens smok-’ ing room in all first-class cars. No charge for showing the country. The finest fruit laud on earth, no swamps | or malaria. Good crops and abundant rain-fall. For rates apply to your nearest ticket agent. Descriptive literature and full information, address. J. T. Poe, General Traffic manager, C. M. Shephard, General Passenger agent. Mobile. Ala. M. H. Bohreer, 1028 Majestic Bldg.. Detroit. Mich. Sunday Excursions Toledo, Casino Detroit and Put-in-Bay. Clover Leaf fast line No. 6 under recent change of time is scheduled to arrive at Toledo Union Station 8:45 a. m. Ou Sundays the Detroit Boat leaves foot of Adams St. 9:00 a. m., Put-In Bay Boot foot of Madison St. 9:15 a. m. Sunday rate from Toledo 50 cents for the round trip. Low Excursion tickets will Ire issued to Toledo and return nearly every Sunday during the Excursion season with the privilege of returning from Toledo 5.-00 p. m„ or 12:20 midnight. The boats returning from Detroit and Put-in-Bay reach Toledo 8.-00 p. m. in time for evening show the Casino, ilvcuisiou ticaets to the Casino are on sale at all stations at 15 cents additional to the Excursion rate. 14t2m

STORY OF PALESTINE. A DESCRIPTIVE LETTER FROM JERLSALEH. THE HOLY CITY. A Continuation of Hiss Hattie Studabaker's Descriptive Letters from the Famous Biblical Countries. i Howard’s Hotel. Jerusalem, Palestine. Here we are at last in the Holy City. We arrived here yesterday afternoon. The sun was shining bright- \ ly and as we drove from the station to the hotel everything looked very bright and pretty. Our hotel is outside the walls. No one but the poor people live within the walls. W e are near the Jaffa gate and the tower of David. This is the best hotel here but it is poor and very uncomfortable. Marble floors and no fire except in the evening and then in the smoking . room, which is also the reading and writing room. I find the smoking etiquette abroad is very different from what it is in America. We left Cairo Thursday at 11a.m. Were very sorry to leave the friends we had made at "the hotel. One. a Mrs. K.. whose husband is an officer m the British arm v.asked when we would be in London and said to send her a card before we got there and she would come to see us and take us about. Her husband is stationed in London : and on the staff and thev have invitations to everything. She said she would take us to the “trooping of the colors" at Osborne the Queen’s birthday fete, the grand military ball and other things that you can attend only on invitation. Os course we exchanged addresses. I also exchanged with a Mrs. and Miss 8.. sisters-in-law. Scotch people who have lived in Bom- | bay, India. Mrs. B. lived there fifteen years and they like it very much. Thev are stopping here three months on their way back to Scotland. I also i met some Americans from San Francisco, father and son. and a Mr. and Mrs. M. from Philadelphia. Thev are all so nice. And we, as Ameri- ’ cans, felt proud that thev are Americans. We like to claim as much of the treasures of the universe as possible. At table we were with some Hollanders. One who lives in the Hague told me there are a good many Studenbekers in Holland. He was acquainted with an artist by that name at the Hague. We felt almost acquainted, because he knew some one whose name sounded a little like mine and to whose family my remote ancestors may have been related. Ridiculous, isn't it? But distance from home often changes the relative value of things. Another Hollander we met lived in Java. A couple of English gentlemen lived in Colombo, Ceylon and Australia. It was very interesting to talk with all of them. That is one of the pleasures of traveling; we meet such nice people wherever we go. Ttie party we are now with seems real jolly. They are all English people. We are well pleased. There are seven ladies, including ourselves, and four men. without Mr. W. the conduc-1 tor of the party. There are Mr. B.; and his daughter Kitty, a real sweet ; girl; a Mrs. E. and her son and his wife, ytmng people; a Miss C. and we 'j three American women; two gentle-' men, one named A. who sees the funny side of everything, especially Miss C.'s reverence for the antique, and Mr. N.. an old gentlemen, gentle and kindiv to everyone.

Our trip from Cairo to Port Said was long but interesting. We passed through the land of Goshen which was given to Joseph's father and brethern when they came from Canaan down into the land of Egypt to dwell. I think it is about as big as Adams county. It is green and fertile even now. in distinction from the country 1 about it. The clover was knee high. Genesis, chapter 47. tells us that at that remote date it "was the best of the land" and a pasture for flocks. Farther on we passed the ruins of the i cities the Israelites built for Pharaoh, during the years of oppression. Later we came to Tel el Kebir. where there i was a battle in D'2 and the English soldiers are buried who were killed in that battle. The ground is surrounded by an iron fence, is planted in trees | and is a pretty, green spot in the desert. Great Britian looks well after her people everywhere, living or ‘ dead. Before this we had entered the i desert and left it when we reached the sea at Port Said. Aliout noon our | train stopped at away station. Among the passengers who alighted was a well dressed Arab who looked like a merchant. He was a devout Mohammedan. far he withdrew only about twenty feet from the railway track, spread a rug beneath the shade of a ; palm tree and knelt on the rug with his face to the east —towards Mecca. Here, in full view of the people on the waiting train, he performed his devotions. When he knelt, his forehead touched the earth, then he rose to his knees, then stood, all the time reciting something in an audible.tone. He repeated this many times, then when the horn blew for the train to start, he rolled up his rug, skipped over to the train and lightly sprang on the steps as it was moving away. Whether it was a bit of Phariseeism. or he was the only devout Mohammedan aboard, we could not determine. For many miles our road was para- ! iell by the “sweet water canal” which was built to convey drinking water to the workmen when the Suez canal was built. It also runs along-side the Suez canal and furnishes water for the i people who take care of the canal. ■ We passed the upper end of the Bitter \ Lakes which are supposed to be what ! was onee the upper part of the Red Sea and it was there the children of Israel crossed. The upper end of the I sea is now farther down, but at certain i seasons of the year, the wind blows

! the water back leaving the marshes i dry. , i i We reached Ismailia at four o clock and changed cars. There was a great rush to get in as there seemed to lx* more people than places. Mrs. Allison and I got in a compartment with two American ladies, and an Englishman and his wife. They apologized (the English people) for their hand baggage. They had hf teen pieces. Two pieces in the rack over our heads looked like tin tea kettles, without spouts, and I presume they were to heat the water for their bath tubs which were probably in the baggage car. Many English people take such things about the world with them. Our travelers were intelligent people and made themselves most agreeable. They were returning from India after a "twenty years sojourn there, and like our Cairo friends, had left their hearts behind them. They had been away so long they feared they would find many changes in England. From Ismailia we ran along-side the canal until we reached Port Said at eight o’clock. The canal is from 144 to 213 feet wide and very deep about 35 feet. It is a hundred miles long and extends from Port Said on the Mediterranean to Suez on the Red Sea.

We came on a French boat. "The Oronoque,” from Port Said to Jaffa, a good boat. Ever since Jonah made | his short but ignominious voyage along the Syrian coast, people have ; found it as’ difficult to land as the ■ sailors did to put him ashore. So I savs Charles Dudley Warner, and adds, that his safe but tedious method , of disembarking has not been followed j by later navigators. The town lies upon the open sea and has no harbor.', Near the shore the water is shallow i and great rocks stick their heads ( above the surface. Large vessels i anchor about a mile from port and : passengers go ashore in large row ■ boats. Sometimes it is too rough to ; land anyone. The big fish, you remember, found it too rough to land > i Jonah, and waited three days for the favorable moment. We made the landing easily, though we had been told dreadful stories of the difficulty | and danger. I saw a letter last week . from some people who waited in Jaffa : i two days before they could embark. I The opening in the rocks through 1 1 which the row boats pass is not more j than twenty-five feet wide. The i boats are large and four stalwart.' barefooted Arabs row them. The : oars are so long that they row on only ' ’ one side to pass through the opening.|' An overturned boat is a serious thing j 1 as the water is full of sharks. While in Jaffa we visited the house ; of Simon the tanner, ( Acts 9:43 and i Acts 10.) Jaffa (or Joffa or Joppa) is ; like other oriental towns. The streets ■ are narrow, crooked and very dirty. The house of Simon, as in the days of St. Peter, is on the sea wall. Whether 1 1 this is the house mentioned in the 1 1 Scriptures we do not know. There is 1 a well in the small courtyard which ‘ has an ancient windlass for drawing up the clear water. Mrs. Allison i tasted the water but I was content to i look at it. We each gathered a few < vines from the wall of the house to ; press. Have quite a collection of vines and flowers gathered from his- , torie places. We drove beyond the walls of the town between fragrant ' orange groves, to the town of Tabitha i Acts 9:36. A church is built over the reputed site of her house. The oranges of Jaffa are famous in the Orient. They are large, have a thick skin and are sweet and juicy. And by the way, on the “Oronoque" we had figs from Tunis which were by far the finest I ever ate. Large, soft and sweet. Quite different from the dried ones we get at home. Besides the house of Simon and Tabitha's tomb, there is little to see in Jaffa. We had lunch and left on the two o’clock train for Jerusalem. It was a fine ride. At first as we left the sea we crossed a level plain, then gently rolling ground and hills, but most of | the fifty-four miles was climbing the i mountains, for Jerusalem is nearly I 3.000 feet above the seashore. We passed through the Lydda(Acts 9:33) j and Ramleh, up the valley of Ajalon where Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still i Joshua 10:12.) The hills were covered with wild flowers. Mostly scarlet poppies and pink cyclamen. A gentleman from here, who was in the same compartment. got off at a station and got ime a handful to press. The compartment was the same in which Emperor W illiam of Germany journeyed when he was here last fall. We joked about it a good deal. During the afternoon Mrs. Allison remarked she had seen an eagle flying overhead.: W e said it was an American eagle but the others contended that it was a! Prussian eagle which thought the, emperor was still in the car. and it I would, no doubt, perch on the roof i and escort us all the way. This hotel I is the same in which Emperor William stayed and it is very expensive but very poor. Today we visited the chureh of the Holy Sepulchre, house of Caiaphas, of Annas, of Pilate, the Via Dolorosa and other places. The streets of old I Jerusalem are from thirty to fifty feet j below the present streets. The accu- ' mulation of the debris of centuries I have filled them in. The Way of Sorrow, and the different stations as ‘ shown in pictures in Roman Catholic ; churches, are marked on streets that ; are now fifty feet above the old streets. The Via Dolorosa is only a few feet of the old pavement way down underground. The lialcony of j Pilate's house, the Ecce Homo, has a i chapel built over it and we had to go down stairs to get to it. It belongs to the convent of the sisters of Zion in which there is an orphanage for . poor children. There is a chapel

some place in Jerusalem for almost everything vou can think of. In the chureh of the Holy Sepulchre they showed us a spot where Adam was created, also Adam's skull, his burial place, the center of the world, and other things they couldn’t possibly know. . When I read Mark Twain s "Innocents Abroad" years ago, I thought it , ridiculous and’ overdrawn. It is a ' much quoted book here among t°ur- ■ ists and I bought it in the paper edition. His ascension of the pyramids i is a true description, and yesterday in the train, Mr. A. read aloud what he said about Jerusalem. We enjoved it immensely and even more today while going around. We will go to church tomorrow and Monday morning start on horseback to Jericho, Jordan and the Dead Sea. Eighteen miles ride each day, reaching here Wednesday evening. So we want to rest up before we start. Today we walked every place. The streets are too narrow and crooked for carriages. We walked miles, climbed stairs and stumbled over cobble stones. We are all very tired. Hattie Studabaker. Monm )uth. John Magley. jr.. made a trip to Fort Wayne last Thursday. Rev. B. B. Uhl will preach at Concord next Sunday afternoon. All are invited. Mrs. Bessie Vaughn and Miss Fanny Rice of Decatur, were seen in our burg last Monday. Miss Bernice Peterson and brother. Tom, of Decatur, spent Sunday with C. D. Kunkle and family. Rev. B. B. Uhl and wife, formerly of North Baltimore, Ohio, are spending a few weeks vacation with John Christen and family. Mont Evans and wife spent Sunday at Robinson Park. Fort Wayne. While there they met their daughter. Belle, who came on an excursion from Angola where she is attending school. Linn Grove. Fred and Peter Hoffmann were at Bluffton Thursday. L. L. Dunbar made a business trip to Fort Wayne last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Runyon are the happy parents of their first born a daughter. Fred Hoffmann, of the firm of Hoffmann & Liddy, went to Portland Tuesday to place a bid for the erection of the Jay county jail and sheriff's residence. Those would-be men who leave town at a late hour of the night will be taught a lesson on fast driving before a justice’s court should they continue such abuse. Linn Grove was strictly in the swim on the Sabbath. A show, quarterly meeting and a picnic were the attractions. The former, however, was not open to the public. Wm. Meyers, an early settler and respected citizen, and Jesse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Gentis, both died on the Sabbath. The latter's age was about twenty years. The Carrie Stanley Burns show exhibited here from Thursday to Monday night inclusive. The fall of Santiago and the Contest for a Klondyke Claim were among the plays. Berne. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ray—a girl. Jacob Augsburger and wife —a boy. E. K. Ray was al Decatur, Monday. Fed Rohrer spent Sunday at Fort Wayne.

The bell for the Mennonite church arrived Monday. Charles Schug was a business caller at Decatur. Monday. A. A. Augsburger attended a jewelry sale at Winchester, Monday. John Schug, our traveling hardware i man, spent Sunday at home. Frank Ruf of Fort Wayne, was a caller at Berne over Sunday. Joe Stucky is so far the champion fisherman of our town this season. C. Egley's residence on west Main street will be one of the finest in town. Rufus Stuckey has accented a posi- i tion as clerk with Ehrhard Ac Runvon. Prof. Frank Welty of Newfon, Kan- i sas. is here visiting friends and rela- I tives. Peter Longacker and family moved ' to Noblesville on Thursday of last week. Sam Simison was at Portland last: i Friday and bought a fine driving horse. Fred Wechter went to Piqua, Ohio, | Monday, to attend the funeral of a ■ relative. Mrs. George Heller, who had the misfortune of stepping oh a pin, is' improving. Mrs. Chris Luginbull and family left. Monday, for their home at Mount Ridge, Kansas. Drav No. 2 changed hands again i Saturday, Jacob D. Augsburger disposing of same to George Moser. Misses Salma Augsburger and Lillie Egley are visiting friends at Woodburn and other places in Allen county. Surveyor Fulk met with the town council Monday night and laid before i them an estimate of costs for a brick , street. Miss Nellie Neaderhouser of Linn i Grove, is filling the place of Miss Emma Heller at Haeeker Neader- . houser’s. I The family of Peter Soldner left

Thursday afternoon for Oden. Mich.. I where they will spend the hot summer months. John Bireler returned, the latter part of last week, from Bluffton. 0., where he attended the funeral of his brother, Peter Bireler. David Eckrote and family went to Bluffton Thursday to the deathbed of the father of Mrs. Eckrote. The deceased was buried Saturday. The town council purchased a new Aermotor windpump of Lehman N Luginbull, who put it up Monday in place of the old town pump. The Mennonite congregation are building a tower to their church for a • bell that measures 54 inches across the bottom and weighs 3000 pounds. Rev. Zekiel of this place held quarterly meeting at Vera Cruz Sunday, and Rev. Anson Van Camp of Decatur fillexl the pulpit at the" Evangelical church here. Miss Cora Gottschalk returned last Wednesday from Lake Geneva. Wis. where she attended a ten days meeting of the W. C. T. U. She reports a very pleasant trip. Edward H. Vornholt. of Eaton, 0., who delivered a trial sermon at the Reformed church Sunday, was unanimously chose as their pastor, and will take charge as soon as possible. Miss Emma Heller left Saturday for Elkhart, where she will spend a few da vs visiting, and then will leave for Oakwood Park. Syracuse, where she will represent the Evangelical Alliance of this place at the convention. Pleasant .“Illis. Henry Jackson of Celina, called on relatives here Sunday. Mrs. Albers and daughter of Fort Wayne, are visiting relatives here. A colored minister entertained the people at the M. E. chureh. Sunday evening. Mrs. Peter Warner of Willshire, was the guest of L. Warner and family last week. Misses Lillian Noll and Maggie Smith visited at Decatur the fore part of the week.

Dr. Harper and daughter. Mrs. L. Warner, called on friends in the country, Tuesday. Mrs. Jacob Huston and daughter are spending the week with relatives at Delphos, Ohio. Mrs. Jacob Yager and little grandson of Decatur, visited relatives here the first of the week. Henry and Samuel Steele attended the funeral of their brother, Joseph, at Dacatur, Monday. Gilbert Thompson is now a full fledged mail carrier; he makes daily trips from here to Steele. Gillespie Lee Roe. son of Jesse and Ada Roe, was born August 14, 1897, and died July 13, 1899, aged one year, ten months and 29 days. Funeral services were conducted by I. Jackson. Interment in Pleasant Mills cemetery. The sympathy of all is extended to the parents of little Lee. "A little time on earth he spent, till God for him his angel set, and then on time he closed his eyes to wake to glory in the skies." Steele. Hauling has begun and we can soon expect another piece of good substantial road. Manuel Tricker has fallen back to the old time days and is harvesting his oats with a scythe. Gus Stevely and Millie Troutman of Pleasant Mills attended services at Steele last Sabbath. The stone quarry on Blue Creek is now running and turns out a good quality of crushed stone. Mrs. Flora Riley of Bluffton. Indiana, has been visiting with friends and relatives in the vicinity of Steele. Mrs. Nancy Vance and daughter visited in Monroeville last week, the guest of her brother Mr. Samuel Williams. A. J. Ray is building an addition to his house which greatly adds to its appearance. Andy is always abreast : of the times when it comes to improvei ments. On account of the heavv rainfall , Salem Sabbath School failed to attend I the picnic at Bobo. We were informed . that the picnic was postponed until ’ some later date. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Leferson joined i the Grange last Friday night. Let | the good work go on. Why not have the fanners organized as well as anv other class of men ’ The Steele itemizer for one of the local publications, made rather light ;of the colored brother, Samuel Culpepper, who lectured at Steele last Sabbath. Had he been there and I seen the large crowd, the extra good j attention, listened to the interesting discourse and helped swell the large collection taken for his benefit, he would surely feel ashamed of the write up he made concerning the same. We wish Bro. Culpepper Godspeed in his missionarv work in his native country of Venezuela. Low Rate of Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest. payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial pavments at auv interest paying time. No delay in i making loans. F. M. | Decatur, Ind. •84.00 a day. You can make it i Experience not necessary. For parj ticulars address Brodt Jaoan Co Hamilton, Ohio. To secure reply en- | close two cent stamp,

i BRADFIELD’S x FEMALE REGULATOR is for women’s diseases and irreeu ' laxities. It cures evervthing that is' ’ commonly called a female trouble ’■ < It acts directly upon all the distinctly ( feminine organs of generation, drj/ ing out weakness and imparting'' J strength; stopping unnatural drains* ' i, and regulating the monthly flow ' ;!> in every instance. It makes' sickly r 1 ( ; and weakly women strong and well \ again, fl a bottle at drug stores. ) h Send for a free book about it ' < J The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga HENRY B HELLER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, rooms 1 and 2. Stone Block. ODno,'t» court house. ” Collections. Notary Public. RICHARD K. ERWIN. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office. — Corner Monroe and Second streets General practitioner. Nojcharre for consul tation. JAMES T. MERRYMAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECAICR. IND Office—Nos. 1. 2 3. over Adams Co. Bank. I refer, oy permission to Adams Co. Bank. R S PETERSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR. INDIANA. Rooms 1 and 2. in the Anthony Holthouse Block. A. P. BEATTY j. f_ Mays MANN A BEATTY. ATTORNEYS AT LAW And Notaries Public. Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows building. i John Schurger. Dave E. Smith BCHURGER & SMITH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Money to loan at lowest rates of interest Abstracts of title, realestate and collections Rooms 1. 2 and 3 Welfley block. aS DeVilbiss & Archbold, DENTISTS. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Phone Office. 42. Phone , Ke yj denoe . j. ATTEND Fort Wayne Business College. For Thorough Course in Book-eepi ng, S h orthand, Typeirriti ng, Pen nt a nah ip, Banking and English. Write for part culars. 4'Jt.T-J FORT WAYNE. INDIANA. Baker & Christen, ARCHITECTS..... Have opened an office over Archbold & Haugh's Book Store, and are prepared to do any kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating build ing can save time, trouble and money by consulting them. Baker & Christen, Architects. MORTGAGE LOANS Money Loaned on Favorable Terms LOW RATE OF INTEREST Frivelege of Partial Payments. Abstracts of Title ('arefhllv Prepared F. M. SCHIRMEYER. Cor. 2d and Madison Sts. DECATI H. IS® Miesse DECATI B. IND. House. I. J. MEISSE, Proprietor. First-Class Hotel. ..BATES.. $1.50 and $1.25 FEB DAY. Opposite Court House. Capital $120,000. Established 18ffl THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking business, makes " lections in all parts of the codhTO■ town, township and county coders. and domestic exchange bought and sola, terest paid on time deposits. __ Offlcers-W . H. Niblick. President: D. baker. Vice President; R. K. Allison.cash and C. S. Niblick. Assistant Cashier