Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1899 — Page 5

Glass fruit jars at 3J to 4 cents at Coffee’s Bazar. 22-4 Closing out sale of jewelry, &c., at Closs Jewelry Store. 26-3 A Bargain—A $50.00 Hudson bicvele. Inquire at this office. ts Excursion rates on all railroads to the Jay county fair at Portland, 26-3 Tom Ehinger left yesterday for Rensalear, where he is attending college. For the best meal or lunch stop at Jacob Martin's Star Bakery and Restaurant. 26-4 Attend the social at Lower's grove Saturday evening given as a benefit to Solomon Schnepp. We carry a full line of cheese, such as Wisconsin Swiss, limburger. brick and full cream. Coffee & Baker, lltf Mrs. Ed A. Phillips and her sister, Mrs. Kate Wilmington, spent Sunday with friends in Bluffton. The Portland fair association has a new regulation racetrack. Over $2,000 in purses on the races alone are offered 26-3 Solomon Billman is visiting his daughter at Aheghaney. Pa., having taken advantage of the G. A. R. excursion last Saturday. Call at Blackburn's drug store and see the new line of five cents school tablets and composition books. They are fine for the price. 25-4 For Sale Cheap—A farm of forty acres of good land, «ith buildings on, one mile east of Geneva, for particulars address, P. B. Manley, Marion, Ind. 24-3 m The mammoth awning for Kern, Brittson A Beeler's Big Store was placed in position Tuesday afternoon and at 5:30 o’clock was operated for the first time. The annual old settlers association of Ohio and Indiana will be held at Huntington on Tuesday, September 26. It being so close to this city, the old settlers of Adams county should attend. 24-4 An ice cream social will be given at Lower’s grove, east of the city, next Saturday evening, the proceeds to go to Solomon Schnepp. who has lieen sick for several months. Go and help a good cause along. Don’t buy your insect destroyer, Paris Green, London Purple, Hellebore, etc., of petidlers and pay two prices for it. You can save money by buying it of Smith & Yager at the old Dorwin drug store. ts Claude Roebuck will leave next Sunday for Austin, Linn., where he has accepted a position in a leading hotel and where he expects to reside in the future. His parents have been living in that city for several months and are well satisfied with their new home.

I Great I New Au,umn Dress Goods - 3 | j Chevoits Storm Serges. Fancy Corded Silks Satins. | |f ■ ■■ || We have a complete line of the Colling-wood mills In this department you will find everything that is ||] II m| steam shrunk Serges and Chevoits, that will not stylish. Ihe new corded stripes and plaids and the gU FO|| fera spot or shrink, and the best wearing plain material plain corded silks and satins in all colors, and just A fll> that you can buy. Ask to see them. No trouble the proper styles for waists. We have styles that z# o IMM O to show you. can not be found outside of our store. g IH. 1 I i l SuOWin?. New Golf Plaisfs, Chevoif Plaids, Vl (Reversable.) (GO in. width.) | | Camels’ Hair Plaids. | xx vk We can show you any style plaid you may want, as we have the most complete line in the citv, and you jfy; s k can easily be suited. We have the famous Golf Plaids gji B that are reversable, ane you can use either side. Also gg S hT<|M W the Chevoit Plaids, that are sixty inches wide, and g; P styles that are exclusive to our store S’] Jll r I ...BLACK CREPONS... NEW GOLF CAPES. BHU LU UAIW in all trades and beautiful designs which make a Complete line of Plush Capes New Cloaks arnvI fII If | vprv New Homespuns in grays and ing and we will be able to show you a complete | H ■ || browns\hat are very stylish and make pretty tailor- as in former seasons. Workmanship and fit guar | g made suits that are very durable. anteed. f Styles' l NIBLICK & COMPANY. I

Jell and water glasses 18e. per, dozen at Coffee’s Bazar. 22-4 For Sale—at a bargain— a $50.00 bicycle. Inqiure at this office. Attorney J. W. Hill, of Pleasant Mills, was a business caller here Wednesuay. Attend the iee cream social at Lowers grove, east of town. Saturday evening. J For the best meal or lunch stop at Jacob Martin's Star Bakery and Restaurant. 26-4 Closing out entire line of watches, clocks, jewelry, silverware, &c., at cost. Closs Jewelry Store. 26-3 Hiram M alters, of Alexandria, a former Adams county boy, is visiting relatives and friends 'in the city. Godfrey Christen and son, Bruce, are at Philadelphia this week, having left on theG. A. R. excursion last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Confer will leave Saturday morning for West Baden, Ind., where the latter will take a course of baths for her health. A flock of quail alighted in the court house yard yesterday afternoon and caused quite a commotion. They were so tame that several were captured. Order your plums now, they will be delivered within a few weeks when thoroughly ripened. The supply is abundant. First to order first served. A. M. Fisher. ts P. W. Smith and family will leave next week for a pleasure trip east to Cleveland. Boston, Niagaria Falls, Philadelphia, Washington. D. C., and New York. The trip will be a very enjoyable one. In addition to the complete up-to-date exhibits in the various buildings, the Portland fair has secured the most exciting special features ever exhibited on a fair ground, the daring and captivating Bickett family each day of the fair, September 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. 26-3 Otto Bremerkamp left Monday for Collegeville, near Rensalear, where he will enter upon his second year’s work at the college at that place. Anson Bremerkamp who has already’ taken two years work in the same school willassist his father this year at the Fornax mill and will enter school again next fall. Louis Holthouse has accepted a position as collector and book-keeper at the Old Adams County Bank, having entered upon his duties Monday morning. Louis is a splendid young man with excellent habits and his success at his new work is assured. He is a graduate of the Catholic schools of this city and also of the Fort Wayne Business College and will no doubt make an efficient clerk.

School books and school supplies of all kinds at Blackburn’s drug store. 25-4 For the best meal or lunch stop at Jacob Martin's Star Bakery and Restaurant. 26-4 The building lately occupied by King Bros, saloon on Monroe street is being remodeled. Jacob Y’ager and John Kline are at tending the G. A. R. national encampment at Philadelphia this week. Charles F. True is at Chicago buying his fall and winter stock of dry goods. Look out for bargains when he returns. Leo Haas, of Chicago, a former salesman with ‘‘The Hub”of that city, has accepted a position with Rosenthal Bros, in their large clothing house. Clem McLean will leave for Washington Sunday, after a ten days visit with relatives here. He will stop at Cincinnati on his way for a few days. Blooded horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry, in numbers larger than ever before, will be on exhibition at the Portland fair, September 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. 26-3 Frank Wemhoff left yesterday, for Rensalear where he will enter upon a four year’s course of study. Frank is a bright young man and will no doubt stand high with his fellow students. 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 payments at any interest paying time. ~ No delay in making loans. F. M. Schirmeyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf Garrett Berling, Curley Rademacher and Charles Niblick left Monday afternoon for Fort Wayne, from where they left Tuesday morning for a trip through the east. They will visit New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other cities of note and will be absent several days. They will also look after some business interests while away. William Dye, for many years a citizen of Decatur, has removed his family to Jonesboro, Indiana. Mr. Dye has been working in that city all summer, where he has the contract for the construction of a large ditch, and as the work will keep him there several months longer he concluded to become a resident for the present at least. The bond of Recorder-elect Gallogly has been filed at the auditor’s office and approved by the commissioners. It calls in amount for $2,000 and bore the signatures of Samuel Fetters. Jacob Tester, I. D. Booher, P. J Bryan and Isreal Peterson as sureties. The bond is as good as gold and will permit the recorder-elect to enter upon the duties of his office, which he will do.

Miss Blanch Hendricks of Geneva, is visiting relatives in the city this week. Building rock, the equal of the Buena or Markle quarries, for sale by J. S. Bowers. A large stock of bridge and foundation stone on hand. Also crushed stone in three grades stone screenings, medium and coarse. The daily capacity, when plant is complete, will lie 150 perch of foundation stone, 75 yards of screenings, 75 yards of medium and 75 yards of coarse crushed stone. Hercules stump powder for sale in connection with stone. 23-3 m J. S. Bowers. Clerk-elect Elmer Johnson has selected his deputy in the name of James Haefling, and both are now spending much of their time in the office, learning the ropes and getting ready for the administration of Clerk Johnson, which will actively begin some time the first of November. The selection of his deputy is giving unalloyed pleasure to his many friends. Jimmy is both competent and deserving, and when you hitch the team together business at the clerk’s office will move along without a jar or interruption. McClure’s Magazine for September opens with a poem on the Dreyfus affair by Edwin Markham which proves that the mark reached by Mr. Markham in “The Man with the Hoe” was not beyond his reaching again. It is truly a high and noble strain which he strikes here, exhibiting in apt, strong, rhythmic phrase the inner, universal import of the most singular episode of recent history. Following this comes a character sketch of Admiral Sampson, by Ray Stannard Baker, giving many interesting indidents and anecdotes of the Admiral’s life as boy and young man in his home town of Palmyra, New York, and estimates and reminiscences of him by his associates in the navy. It is illustrated with a series of portraits of Sampson and various other pictures. The marriage of Miss Hattie Hall to Mr. Harry Daniel occurred at the home of the bride’s parents at Bloomington, Illinois, yesterpay morning at ten o’clock. Only the immediate friends and relatives of the bride and groom were present at the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. J. H. Gilliland, pastor of the Christian church. After an enjoyable wedding dinner the happy young couple left for an extended trip to various metripolitan cities. They will return to Decatur about October 1, and will be “at home” to their hosts of friends here after that date. Mr. Daniel is the editor of the Decatur Journal and has many friends here who will gladly welcome himself and wife into our midst. Among those who attended the ceremonies from this city were the groom’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. Daniel, and daughter, Miss Grace, and Mr. Chalmer Schaffer.

NEW STYLES In Men’s, Boys and Children Clothing-, Hats and Caps, now here and we are by cash purchase and cash selling enabled to offer all goods, regardless of their Superior Stylesand and Quality at Exteremly Low Prices. To clear up our stock we offer choice of all Men’s Summer Suits, worth up to $12.50, at $5.00 each. Boys School Suits, sizes 7 to 14, worth $1.50, go in this sale at SI.OO each. A large lot of Children’s Knee Pants worth 25 to 35 cents, go at 15c a pair. It's a treat for mothers to call and see our stock of little fellows Vestee Suits. I hoy have the Styles and the Finish and are one of our best values. Rosenthal Bros.