Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1900 — Page 5

MANY peoplehav’e bad blood. That is because their Liver and Kidneys are sluggish and fail to carry off the waste matter. When this happens the blood is poisoned and disease sets in To keep your blood pure take MH-McLean-s [wsKWiih a quick relief and sure cure for disorders of the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. Thousands use it in the spring especially. Your druggist has it. Only SI.OO a bottle. THE OR.J.H MCLEAN MEDICINE CO. ST. LOUIS, MO. For sale by Holthouse. Callow & Co.

House for Sale Enquire at once of Daniel Schlegle. 47m2 X Van Camp has taken entire control’ of the Oak Mills on First street. Will Keubler, of the Boston Store, is s till quite ill and unable to attend to business duties. Mrs. Frank G. Christen is at Fort Wayne, where she will be the guest

of friends for several days. John Mougey. the shoe dealer, has been enjoying a wrestling match with the old monster, grip, this week. Mrs. James K. Niblick is the guest of her daughter, Mae, whois attending the Conservatory of Music at Chicago. Dr. A. L. DeVilbiss, who has been quite sick for several days, improves slowlv and is still confined to the house. You will be mad at yourself all your life if you don't take advantage of that watch bargain at Hensleys this month. 49-6 w The snow sleet and rain storms of the past week have been the most severe of the winter, and reports from various parts of the country prove it to have been a general one. Miss Grace Peterson and Mrs. Lydia Smith left Tuesday morning for Indianapolis, where they go to select the spring and summer stock of millinery goals for the Big store. They will be absent about a week. Schafer. Son Loch are are receiving the largest shipment of bicycles ever shown in the citv. They will have seventy-five wheels on their floors one time, including Hudson. Stearns, Cleveland and other first-class makes. The oil boom promises to reach Decatur in earnest during the coming summer. The advance in the price has caused many capitalists to open their eves and already several leasers have been here to look up the situation. "Three Musketeers” is booked for Bosse’s opera house next Wednesday night and is said to be one of the best things on the road. “Quo Vadis” will appear April 20th, and several good ones will keep the boards filled in the meantime. For sale. —Sixty-six acres of land, located four and one-half miles southwest of Peterson near Honduras. Fifty-nine acres improved, good buildings, orchard, well, etc. Will sell at bargain and on long time payments. Call on or address Fred Voigt. J. E. Moser is at Indianapolis this week attending the annual meeting of the Indiana association of photographers. The meeting of the snap shot men was convened Tuesday and will continue several days. Mr. Moser is considered one of the best photographers in the state. Mr. L. C. Hughes left this morn-| ing for Martinsville, Indiana, where he will undergo treatment for rheumatism, from which he has been a constant sufftrer for the past several months. His many friends hope to see him return in his former good health. . H. Shepherd was in the city the first of the week looking after business matters in which he is interested. He has been spending some time in the oil fields of Wells county and Blue ( reek township, this county, and has acquired some territory that has promise of the glittering crude, and he may organize a company with a view °f developing the same. The "Old Si Stebbins” company, which showed here Saturday night, were quartered at the Hotel Miesse and spoke in the highest terms of the treatment received by them at ‘ e hands of Landlord Miesse. They remained here over Sunday and seemed not the least backward in tieir expressions regarding the hosPitahty of their host. Dick Townsend, of Decatur, expects 0 get up a crowd to go down to the U' L n jj, nes °f the Dahlonega Consoliated Gold Mining company, at Dah- ' nego, Georgia, some time during the ext week. A number of F. Wayne Ivt t “ ave * ?ecome intesested to the in '.'l " mav place capital ‘Q the enterprise. One mill of 120 ad| ps is in operation and another -r, 0 be built, Mr. Townsend savs. ( t Qeor « exhibited by Mr. Townsend • «•<„' ArS? an 'd certainly if it i ,i a ‘k* 3 the sample the stockre;ilize a big thing.— r °rt Wayne Journal.

Mrs. C. F. jAlleger returned from Manon Saturday evening. Mrs. J. Radabush, of Hoagland is the guest of Mrs. L. C. Hughes. The cheapest articles ever sold in Decatur is the watch at Hensleys this month. - 496 w Dan R. Vail is kept in-doors this week, on account of a severe ease of mumps. Elmer Johnson is at Pittsburg this week looking after his interests in the horse business. The Chatauqua club met with Mrs Harry Moltz at her home on Fifth street yesterday afternoon. Frank Bell, a popular hardware dealer of Buffalo, New York, is registered at the Burt House. The meetings at the M. E. church in this city are still being held and much interest is being manifested. Miss Louise Bradley of Chicago, is in the city the guest of her friends. She will return to her home Saturday. The Burt House was well filled with guests last evening, every room in that popular hostelry being occupied, Dick Townsend is at Fort Wayne arranging to take a party of capitalists from that city to his southern gold mines. Elias Crist, assessor for Adams county, is attending a meeting of the state board of tax commissioners at Indianapolis this week. Ora Moon is closing arrangements to open a first-class hardware store at LaGrange and expects to be doing business within a month.

Ansel Bremerkamp is at home from < Chicago where he disposed of a car I load of fine horses for the firm of 1 Beery, Andrews & Bremerkamp. 1 George Woodward, the furniture dealer is bracing up today and trying to get himself in shape to ride the 1 Masonic goat, which he will attempt 1 tonight. Mr. and Mrs. James Rice enter tained a party of friends at dinner ' last Friday in honor of Mrs. John : Meyers and Mrs. A'anOstendorff of Grand Rapids. Mrs. H. C. Duckett is improving ‘ again after a several months illness , and if the weather does not continue : too severe, she may soon regain her ( former good health. The condition of Henry Krantz ; continues to improve and within a few’ days he will be able to be out unless serious complications should yet , arise, which hardly seem probable. W. H. Niblick and John W. Tyndall are contemplating a trip to Jackson, Michigan, for the purpose of investigating the Portland cement plant i being organized there. Mr. Shenneman of the company will pilot them, i Communion services were held at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and were well attended. Rev. Duckett delivered an eloquent ' sermon, after which a number of members were taken into the church. ’ Calvin Miller, the gravel road con- i tractor, has been busy this week, moving his family into the Terveer house on First street. The H. A. Fristoe house, which he has occupied heretofore is to be used in the future by its owner the cigar man. Wanted men to learn barber trade. - 500 positions at 860 monthly waiting our graduates. New field, two months complete, can earn tuition. All information with handsome 1900 souvenir mailed free. Moler Barber College, Chicago, 111. Frank Schumaker, the tailor, was landed in jail Tuesday night as the finishing touches of a several days drunk, in which he tried to remove his family out in the yard in order that the house might be large enough for him. Landlord Miesse was tangled up with lagrippe the first of the week, it at one time having a little the better of the argument. However, persever-, ence and other concoctions will re- j lieve the stringeing and bring Mr.: Miesse out on top. Go to J. H. Elick for all sizes of drain tile. The cheapest and best drain tile in the county. Reduction on prices for the next thirty days, either cash or all the credit you want. Factory in the west part of Decatur along the Chicago & Erie i railway. ■ Frank Foreman of Berne, was in ■ ’ the citv last night and it is rumored ’ that the boys made it warm for him. 1 At first wedoubted that fact, but since i we have discovered that his business ' here was to be initiated as a memberof ’ the Red Men’s lodge, we are inclined to lielieve the story. Our merchants are beginning to , clear the decks for the spring trade. > which, ere many weeks, will be upon ’us in all its glory. The subject of ■ discussion should lie their advertising. i There is nothing that pays a better margin upon the investment than i goal sober business advertising. The oratorical contest at Bosse's : opera house tomorrow evening, i promises to be the best attiaction i of the season. It is the time when the different schools of the county . will battle upon the stage for honors. , Much interest has already been , , manifested bv the different schools , interested, they being Monmouth. Pleasant Mills, Peterson, Berne, I Bobo and Monroe. The sale> of ■ tickets indicate a lively crowd winch will test the capacity of the opera house, and will cause Manager ' Bosse to think a few wings would ■ not be a bad thing. The routes will be managed under the critical eye of Supt. Brandyberry.

, Tax Payers-Notice. Don’t pay tax on your debts. Now I is the time to make application for: your mortgage exemption. This must be done before May let of each year. Many are now saving more than 820 annually on their taxes. Come at once that it may not be overlooked. Ed Coffee, over postoffice, Decatur, Indiana. 51-3 t Five new cases nave been filed since • our I ist report, and are scheduled : as follows: Thos. Harris vs Ellen Harris, divorce. Mathias Kirsch, August Sellemeyer vs Aso Engle, note, demand 875. John Mooman vs Peter Kinney, complaint on contract, demand .‘'3oo. Simion Froester vs Laura and Winifred Dudley, ; quit title. Ansen Van Camp vs Jeremiah Bucks and Cora Bucks, petition for partition. Mrs. Mary Bubb. Curtis Brown, J. L. Bowers. E. M. Holmes, Mrs. Mary Gayer, Mr. George Dups, Edith Smith, C. S. Smith, John Welferinger. Mrs. P. S. Winans, Miss Mollie Rush, Casp J. L. Rosser, Miss Mollie Miller, Mr.:. Jasper Miller. Mrs. Sarah Linch, Mr. Al McNece, John T. McDonald, Mrs. C. T. Kurtzholz, Mrs. L. G. Willid are the names given out by Postmaster Andrews as having unclaimed letters at the postoffice this week. We have saved many doctor bills since we began using Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in our home. We have a bottle open all the time and whenever any of the family or myself begin to catch cold we begin to use the cough remedy, and as a result we never have to send for a doctor and incur a large da-tor bill, for Chamberlain’s Cough remedy never fails to

cure. It is certainly a medicine of great merit and worth. D. S. Mearkle, General Merchant and Farmer, Mattie, Bedford county, Pa. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. m Christ Amstutz will offer for sale at his residence, three mile south of Decatur, between the mud pike and Monroe roads, at 10 o'clock a. m. on Tuesday.March 20,the following property: Two work horses, fresh cow, six weeks old Durham bull calf, new Troy wagon, new top buggy, double set work harness, buggy harness, shovel plow, spring tooth harrow, double shovel plow, two tons of hays, male hog. thirty head of shoats. five brood sows ready to pig, 400 shocks of corn foder, two dozen chickens, corn in erib and numerous other articles. The school board had a meeting Monday evening, at which time considerable business of importance was discussed. Without any desire to throw sweet-scented boquets, we feel it “our plain duty”-we steal that from the president to congratulate the school board and the superintendent upon the successful management and the strict discipline that has marked the course of the schools during the present year. Not a murmur of complaint has found itself parading the gossiping channels, but in its stead has come praise and good feeling. It speaks well and means much. Under this kind of tutorship will our schools ever grow and flourish. Keep your Eye on this Column. If you want to buy, sell, rent or trade a house or farm, let us add your wants to our list. Call at our office. Brock Building, east side Second street, Decatur, Indiana, for full particulars. Following is the present list for sale: Lots 873, 874. 875, Decatur, 8350. Lot 920, Decatur, 8400. 80 acres, Washington tp, 82,800. Good residence on 9th street. FOR SALE OR TRADE. Lot 561, Decatur, 8450. 158 acre farm, Logan county, Ohio, to trade for stock of merchandise. Good residence property in Marion, Indiana. Harreff & Lenhart. The Experts’ Report. The experts who have been making an examination of the public records of Wells county, finished their work and Tuesday made their report to the commissioners. The examination dates back to 1888. and covers every item of public business transacted in j all this time. The experts began ! their work last April and will cost the comity 84,500. Their report is as follows: John Stine, recorder, $735.55. R. F. Cummins, clerk, 81,102.15. A. Oppenheimer, clerk, $136.49. George W. Studabaker, auditor, $313.50. John H. Ormsby, clerk. 833.25. John P. Deam. treasurer, $250.16. B. F. Kain, treasurer. $386.09. J. E. Sturgis, treasurer. 83,526.75; principally due to errors in footings. William Cover, treasurer, $2,423.69. Errors were also discovered in other accounts, but of a minor character. George W. Huffman, sheriff, $960.60; fees received, but not reported. William Higgins, present sheriff; the earnings of the office lack $536.95 of equaling the salary. J. C. Hatfield, present clerk: fees collected, SIBB.IO. not vet turned over, up to Mav 31. 1899. Eli C. Bierie, present treasurer, at the same date was 82.18 ahead in his accounts. A number of the records were found to be correct, with the officers' accounts balanced. Messrs. Boltz and Wallace make no charges of attempted fraud, and in the cases of Clerk Cummins and others it was known that there would be an apparent shortage, because of pending litigation to determine if the fees belong to the officer collecting them, or to the county. It is not known what action the county coin missioners will take, but it is thought that the investigation will not more than pav for itself. Messrs. Boltz and Wallace have gone to Shelbyville, to begin an investigation of the official records of that county

JOHN T. BLOCKER. An Old Adams County Boy Distinguishes Himself at Peoria. Among the pleasantest incidents of the banquet of Thursday night was the presentation to Captain Robley D. Evans by the Creve Coeur Club of a beautiful model of the battleship lowa, designed from a photograph furnished by the secretary of the navy and made of cake, candy and confectionery gum I paste by J. T. Blocker manager of the club. This remarkable creation, which was the result of much research and eight days of hard work on Mr. Blocker’s part, is not only a thing of I beauty, but a triumph of ingenuity and skill. The photograph from I which it was designed gave little information as to the detail and arrangement of the ship, and it was only after long and patient search that Mr. Blocker succeeded in finding a twoinch deck plan and some measurements at the public library, which would assist him in his task. The malel is 56 inches long and 11| inches broad at the water line and weighs 71 j pounds. The entire hull up to the gun deck is made of white fruit cake which was baked in five sections, each 14 by 18 inches in size. These were fastened together by sterling silver rods and then trimmed down to the required shape. The turrets, funnels, flag-staff, guns and conning tower are all made of gum paste, and after they were added the entire cake was iced with three coats of toothsome frosting, two of which were put on with a palette knife and the third with a brush. The port holes are backed with blue silk and glased with isin glass as are also the windows of thecabin. The guard rail is a fine rolled gold chain and the standards are also of rolled gold, every bit of metal used about the ship being either sterling silver or gold plate in order not to injure the quality of the cake. The crowning glory of the malel, however, is the fine electric search light and the lights for the cabin, which can be turned on at will by touching a button concealed in the carved oak base on which the ship rests, and which diffuse a soft, rosy glow really beautiful in contrast to the white ship itself. These lights are what are called the pea-light, being just the size of a pea and are respectively of two and three volt power. The power is furnished by two sets of tiny, dry 1900 batteries and is carried by insulated wire bound in paper which pass up through the vault under the funnels to the cabin. Captain Evans was naturally much pleased with the beautiful and appropriate gift, and requested that it might be sent to him at Washington. “I must have it there,” he said with enthusiasm, “even if there is risk of breaking it. I want it if there is a crumb of it left.” The gift was a timely and graceful one and reflects great credit on the club and its skillful and artistic designer and maker. --Peoria, (Ill.,) News Washington Township Institute. The eighth institute of Washington township convened at District No. 7 on March third, 1900. The house was called to order by the president, who made a few interesting remarks about the success of the institute this year, which shows that they have been equaled by none in the county. Roll was called by the secretary, which showed 100 per cent. The first subject was Organic Education, by Mr. Mallonee and Miss Steele. They told the members the benefit of organization in the schools and that civilization was necessary for superior organization. A general discussion by the institute followed, which was quite interesting. Music was conducted by W. F. Beery. He took some of the questions of the last teachers' exexplained them thoroughly to the institute. Recitation by Miss Florence Johnson. Next was How to Teach Reading, by M. E. Hower. He showed that significant chances in rhythm are due to emotional chances. A general discussion bv all present showed that they are all doing well in bringing out the essential thoughts in reading. It being twelve o’cla'k the institute adjourned for dinner. At 1:30 the institute was called to order by the president. First was a song by the school and institute. The next subject was The Valve of The Teachers’ Reading Circle Examination, by T. J. McKean. He brought out several reasons for the value of it, also showed the progress that the average teacher has made since we have this valuable opportunity to compete with the town and city school systems. And that the young peoples’ reading circle work is based on the teachers’ reading circle work or a stepping stone to that course. Recitation by Miss Edna Barnett. Adolescence, by Miss Hower and Mr. Graber. They divided the subject and talked for "their own sex respect fully. Both of them gave a very good discourse about what they thought necessary for their sex. This was discussed by the institute. Exercises by the school conducted by Mr. Graber. They did well and the audience was well pleased. They had a “Webster” with them, who will prove to be alright in the end. The members of the institute wish to tender their sincere and heartfelt thanks to J. D. Hendricks and family for the dinner and hospitality shown us during the noon hours. Dissolution. The co-partnership existing between A. Van Camp and J. W. Bucks is this day dissolved bv mutual consent. All; claims against the firm should be pre-1 sented at once for payment and all: accounts owing the firm now become I due, and prompt payment is respect- I fully requested. Jermiah W. Becks, Anson Van Camp.

UUjLr-V, One Swallw don’t Bring summer, BUT the abundance of fine and tasty men’s boys and children’s apparel for spring and summer wear, in our store indicates the near approach of the sunny, season, EASTER IS NEAR and for it we have received a large line of goods for our friends and patrons, which combine taste, value and lowness in price.... I invite your early inspection. Gus Rosenthal CfVPITfVL 5100,000.00. SURPLUS §9,000.00 TftE Dec/vtur NaTIONM. B/W. (ffe-orgaqized JaqUary I, 1895.) DIRECTORS. P. W. Smith, President. FT' IVT f \ F? W. A. Kuebler, Vice-President. L/Lvii I (Jl|, C. A. Dugan, Cashier. E. X. Ehinger, Assistant Cashier. J. B. Mason. ?.h e h».”«T iNDlflrNflr. JUNO IB=£S==B=

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