Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1900 — Page 2

Attend Mouge/s Closing Out of footwear. You should not fail to supply yourself and family with anything you need in the line of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, during this sale. Come in and we will show you where your dollar will double in value. Remember, no old, shelf worn goods, but everything fresh and ep-to-dyte. All goods CASH, John H. Mougey.

Attend tomorrow's races at Steele’s park. If you want to see a classic drama, go to the opera house Sat. Oct. 6 and see Quo Vadis. If you are overworked, exhausted by sickness, despondent or debiliated in any way, Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier is the remedy for you. For sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. o Phillips Brooks says: “No man or woman of the humblest 'sort can really be strong, pure and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existance of his goodness." It heals the lungs when suffering from a racking cough, take a dose of Foley’s Honey and Tar. The soreness will be relieved and a warm, grateful feeling and healing of the parts affected will be experienced. Holthouse, Callow & Co. o Philip Hale has discovered the following in a Western newspaper: “She has undoubted talent and a lagato and does not portamento in yawps, but floats through the concert room like the rustling wave of bluegrass in the summer breeze.” A new remedy for biliousness is now on sale at Holthouse, Callow & Co’s, drug store. It is caller! Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. It gives quick relief and will prevent the attack if given as soon as the disease appears. Price, 25 cents per box. Samples free. o 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 Every German cavalry regiment is now supplied with two Dials made of water proof canvas, which, when not in use, can be folded up. Each boat will carry from six to eight men. and two boats bound together from a raft capable of bering from twenty-five to twenty-seven hundred weight. * “For three days and nights I suffered agony untold from an attack of cholera morbus brought on by eating cucumbers,” savs M. E. Lowther, clerk of the district court. Centerville, lowa. “I thought I should surely die, and tried a dozen different medicines but all to no purpose. I sent for a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and three doses relieved me entirely.” This remedy is for sale by Holthouse, Callow & Co. ’ o

.JACK. ' ;g. r - OF •f All Trades. ..' Jfc Sty *- ,/5x,3 { Just the thing for /the farm or where *"Y .-aw.jk** - .. needed. Wv-» * —v I can pump water, saw wood, shell corn, grind feed, churn butter, run washing machines, ventilating fans, dynamos, and am handy for a hundred other jobs in the house or on the farm. 1 run with gas or gasoline. Can work 24 hours each day, weather does not effect my work—hot or cold, wet or dry, wind or calm, it’s all the same to me. I HAVE THE STRENGTH OF FIFTEEN MEN It costs nothing to keep me when not working. I am self-oiling and need no attention. You can start me in the morning and stop me when you please—l will do the rest. I can do more than any wind-mill or horse power you ever seen. See me running at Indiana. ROSE & BELL'S.

I A production for excellence Quo Vadis, opera house Sat. Oct. 6. Quo Vadis the fine scenic production that played here last season will play a return date Saturday Oct. 6, at the Opera house. Carpenters’ Quo Vadis is the finest production on the road today they carry every piece of scenery used in the play with mechanic 11 and electrical effects. You cannot afford to miss it. To First \ oters. You are young men casting your first ballot. We congratulate you. We also call your attention to Dr. Caldwell's Svrup Pepsin for constipation, indigostiuu, sick headache and stomach trouble. At Smith, Yager & Falk's. o Several of the agricultural fairs held in northern Indiana lately have proved financial failures and their failure is attributed to the many street fairs that have been absorbing the interest and financial resources of the people. Bright's Disease. High living, intemperance, exposure and many other things bring on bright's disease. Foley’s Kidney Cure will prevent bright’s disease and all other kidney or bladder disorders, if taken in time. Holthouse, Callow & Co. o Every farmer should protect the quail which may nest on his farm. Take a little trouble to provide the little birds with food and shelter in the hard winter weather. The quail is a feeder on weed seeds and insects and as such deserves protection at the hands of the man whom he benefits. When you have no appetite, do not relish your f<x>d and feel dull after eating you may know that you need a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Price, 25 cents. Samples free at Holthouse. Callow & Co's drug store. 0 The telegraph conveys the information that all the large telephone, telegraph and cable companies of the United States are about to form a gigauic trust to be known as the National Telegragh company. J ust how this will effect the price of communication remains to be seen. At a recent school examination for girls this composition was handed in by a girl of twelve, says a Missouri paper: "The boy is not an animal, yet he can be heard ’ quite a distance. M ben a Ixiv hollers he opens his big mouth like big frogs, but girls hold their tongues until they are spoken to, and then they answer respectable and tell just how it was. A boy thinks himself clever because he can wade where it is deep. When the boy grows up he is called a husband but the grown-up girl is a widow and keens nouse.”

Manager Bosse guarantees Quo Vadis, as being as fine a production as ever opened in this city. In Ohio 2,636 persons were natural- j ized last year, a decrease of 230; 2,51- . joersone were sout to insane asylums, i an increase of 190. And still we won der at crime. A Card. The manufacturers of Banner Salve have authorized the, undersigned to guarantee it for burns, cuts, sores, ulcers, tetter, eczema and all skin diseases. Your money back if it doesn't do all it claims. Holt- 1 house, Callow & Co. o Austria is the one country in the world which never puts a woman in prison. Instead of giving a female so many months in jail she is sent, no matter how terrible is her record, to one or other of the convents devoted for the purpose and kept there during the time for which she is sentenced. Couldn't Translate It. We received a letter recently we were unable to read. We failed to determine the nationality of the writer. The only words we were able to make out were, “Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin cures indigestion.” Smith, Yager & Falk.

With the gradual approach of winter a large percentage of men are contemplating a growth of whiskers. It is said that over 60 per cent decide to grow windteasers, but about half this number change their minds or have them changed by their “women folks.” To the Deaf. A rich lady cured of her deafness and noises in the head by Dr. Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drums, gave SIO.OOO to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure Ear Drums, may have them free. Address No. 2616 The Nicholson Insti tute, 780 Eighth Avenue New York. Uvl If the country editor were to snap up all the inducements held out to him, he would soon be a millionaro. If he runs a paper in accord with the popular notion he would soon be in the alms house. If he published all the items sent him he would be in jail half the time and in the hospital the other half. Mrs. John Mayer has accepted the agency for the Colonial Book Company and has been assigned Adams county as her territory. She will call on you during the next three months very probably and the books and prices deserve your attention. If you are looking for books for holiday gifts buy them of Mrs. Mayer, who is a home lady and who has something to interest people of all ages and temperament. Legal Advertising. APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of Resena Merer, latent Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. Jacob Kackman. Administrator. Sept. 28, 1900. 30t3 Schurger A Smith. Atty's QOMMISSIONL.-' ALLOWANCES. Ordered by the board of commissioners of Adams county. Indiana, that the persons named below be allowed the amount set opposite their names and for the purpose therein specified: WE Fulk. Eng of G C A- W Tp Gr R sll .54 W E Fulk work on I) A M Gr. R 3 5u W E Fulk, work on l> A- M Gr R 1 00 W E Fu'k. w< rk on W Wash GrR 7 00 W E Fulk, work on bridge 7 5> W E Fulk work on bridge 4 50 W E Fnlk, work on F. Wash Gr R 10 50 W E Fulk, work on E Wash GrR 1 Ou W E Fulk, work on G CA- W Gr R 38 55 J DNeldlinger. Heinz arch and Krick abutments. 24 00 Peter M Fulk, Niblick bridge 18 00 Irvin Brandvo-rry. postage, etc 8 00 Smith. Yager a Fulk, 3 gal tioor oil 1 50 Kirsch A Sellemeyer, good- for Jail 1 30 " court house 1 25 W R Lenhart, making new booth 3 25 Shafer Son & Loch, goods for c h 12 43 CS Clark, case of Jas Bell 13 uo C S Clark, case of Cath JcSe- 10 10 C S Clark, case of Milton Breiner 13 00 J J Magley, collecting insolvent lax 11 54 Cbas May, cleaning cistern aj jail 2 00 I. the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing statements are true and correct as found among records in my office NOAH MANGOLD. Auditor Adams County.

'yOTICE OF INSOLVENCY. In the matter of the estate of Joseph Parent, deceased In the Adame Circuit Court. No. "as. Notice is hereby riven that upon petition fl let! in said court by Phoebe A Parent, administratrix de Ixmis non of «ald estat" setting up the insufficiency of the estate of -aid decedent to pay the debts and llablli’ies thereof, the Judge of sa d court did. on the 24 th day of September. IflUO. find «aid estate to fie probably insolvent, and order the -ame to tie settled accordingly. The creditors of said estate are therefore hereby notified of such insolvency, and required to tile their claims against said estate for allowance?" Witness, ibe clerk and seal of said court (Seal; at Decatur, I n llat'a. this Hit L day of September. 190 b. ELMER JOHNSON. Clerk W-S By James P. Haeflmg. Deputy. KTOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. State of Indiana, county of Adame, ss: In the Adams circuit court, September term 1900. John Earwaiter et al. vs . No. fil49. Melissa Miller, 1 Vrial. Miller, [ Petition filler. I For Partition Silvey Ring, Mora King. Adie Everett. It appearing from affidavit filed In the above entitled cause that Silvey King, one of the above named defendants Is a non resident of the state of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Silvey King. that be be and appear before the Hon. Judge of tto Adam* circuit court on theSßtb day of November. USB. the same being the lth Juridical day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the court house In the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 19th day of November, A D.. HUB. and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined In his absence. Witness, my name and the seal of said court

| The Fair Store. Opp. Court House, Decatur, Ind. 1 - I I THE CHEAPEST STORE IN ADAMS COUNTY. ( • Remnants! Remnants! ; Special sale of short lenghts of all kinds of Dry Coods, of the most extensive manufacturers at 50c on thesi, ■ Short lengths light Cali- Underwear. I price VTour price 3zC FII Y fl Children s extra heavy i price sc, our price U<fU , U fleeced ribbed shirts, i Short lengths dark Cali- I Lorn, ''.' Rn cos, ito io yard pieces, A I Worth double. Jf/L ) I warranted the best 4 1 n viiuu* <• , n . i I made - at We Closed Out a pants, perpair.... |2sC .1) n ftp r ' ‘ aSkS . 7C ’.42C of Children and -rth 35 ‘ ” 25 C Hosiery Short lengths of Cotton Baby BONNETS in , , , , Flannel, regular price 4 « Child s fast black r 6|c, our low price.... TU Wool and Silk and hose, only J c | Short lengths of white , ... , Ladies fast black 7 | Shaker Flannel, regular Wml - ,4e hose - ° nl V I c j tes rprice .nc d^s re M e om un - Short lengths Cretonne, 50 cents on a do!- ari ' I suitable for furniture cov- ’ | | crings, comforts, etc,, /ar..„ Come and Buy your Oil Cloths and j regular price io cts., gft Linoleums from us; we now Qu see them.,.. We will save you money. C? tc . h i‘ if L ou C r n s > from Blankets and Comforts. ' Short lengths of dark We carry a complete line 1 | Cashmere, 36 in. wide, /0 cents at prices lower than j regular price 35c, nn n the lowest. Cfl j our very low price ZUy From 3U C Up ! I are paying 16 cents for Butter and Eggs. j | DAVE VanCLEEF, Proprietor. J

[Seal 1 ; hereto affixed, this 2nd day of October. 1900. • Elmer Johnson. Clerk. By .Tames P. Hselling. Deputy. A. P. Beatty, Atty, for plaintiff. 2d-3 V OTICE TO l ONTRACTORS Sealed proposals will be received at the Auditor's office in Decatur. Adami, county, Indiana, up and until 10 o'clock a mon Thursday, October 25. 1900. for the construction of a macadamized road, commencing at the south-west corner of Wabash township, on the south east corner of Hartford township, in Adams county. Indiana, thence north on the township line dividing the said townships of Wabash and Hartford to the intersection with the Pontius Grave! Road at the north-east corner of the southeast quarter of section 25. township 25 north range 13 vast, and there to terminate—a distance of faro feet Known as the Wm. Shoemaker Macadamized Road. The work will he let in sections and the length divided in two equal parts. The grading. macadamizing, clearing and culverts etc., all to be included in the bid according to specifications Each bidder will be required to inclose a bond with good security with his - proposal which will lie forfeited to the order of «aid countv commissioners provided he tails to contract with them for said work after the award is made. The bond shall be tor the sum of three hundred dollars. Profiles specifications, etc , can be seen at the auditor's office in Decatur, Indiana The said board of county commissioners reserve the right to reject any and ail bids. Samuel Doak. ) Josiph E Mann > County Inn. itappsHT. j C mmlsaioncrs. W. E. Fulk. Engineer. » 3i).g kJ H ERIFF 8 SALE. State of Indiana. Adams County, as: In the Adams Circuit Court of Adam« County Indiana. George Rolling 1 vs No. 2383 Fredrick Dreyer Caroline Dreyer. By virtue of an execution to me directed by the clerk of the Adams circuit court of said county and state. I have levied upon the real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east door of the court house in the city of Decatur Adams county. Indiana, between the hours of ten o clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m„ on Saturday. November 3, 1900, the rents and profita fora term not exceeding •even yea-s. of the following described real estate, situated In Adams county, Indiana to-wlt: ’ Commencing M the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section thirteen (18) township twenty-five(2s) north, range thirtp»*n ea*t. thence west one hundred and sixty ilfiin rods. i hence south eighty (80 rods thence east one hundred and sixty (l«b rods, thence north to place of beginning; also commencing at the southeast corner of said section thence north eighty (80) rods, thence west eighty (80i rods, thence south eighty >80) rods, thence east to place of begtrnlng. containing one hundred qf acre " ln Adams county. State And on failure to readze therefrom the full amount of Judgment. Interest thereon and coats. I will at the eatue time and in the same n’khner aforesaid, offer for sale the fee simple of the above described premises. Taken as the property ol Fredrick Dreyer Octotar.'llO? * * McuMOB ' ,hl " !ad I*)' of Daniel N. ERWIN'. Sheriff J. F. Hodebnugh, Att'y. for Plaintiff 3C-3

jq-OTICE OF PI'BLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the board of commissioners or Adams county, State of Indiana, will receive sealed bids for the construction of the macadami?«d road in said countv. known as Monroe Township Central Macadamized Road, and also for the construction of the macadamized road in said county known as the C. E. Bollinger Macadamized Road, and also for the construction of the macadamized road in said countv known as the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove Macadamized Road up and until 10o’clock a. m. on Thursday, October 25, 1900, at a special session of the said board of commissioners. called for that purpose, to be held in the city of Decatur, Adams county. Indiana. Separate sealed bids will be received for the construction of each of the said roads in accordance with the plans and specifications and report of the viewers and engineer, which are now on file in the auditor's office of said county, said roads to be built of . rushed stone alone. A lx.nd must accompany each bid in twice the amount of the tbld upon each respective road upon which bids are offered, conditioned for the f. ithtul performance of the said work and that the bidder will if awarded the contract enter into contract theretor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid tiled. All blds shall lie made so as to give the amount at which each separate road will be constructed for cash, pavable on eatimates to tie made by the engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent of any one estimate, out of the fund to he hereafter raised by the sale of bonds as required bv law. Each bidder win be required to file affidavit as required by The said board of countv commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. NOAH MANGOLD. Auditor. \ OTICE OF HEARING OF DITCH -sN PETITION In the matter of the petition of Mathias i ost. Notice Is hereby given that a petition fias been tiled with the Auditor of Adams County State of Indiana, and viewers have been appointed who have viewed and reported said view, which Is on file in my office. The hearing of said petition upon ita merits will be on Wednesday Nov. 7. 1900. the same being the 3rd day of the November term, 1900, of the board of commissioners of Adams county. Indiana. The prayer ot said petition is that a ditch be constructed on the following route, to-wft: Beginning at a point twenty (2ffi rods west of a point which is seventy-eight (78) rods north of the southeast, corner of the southwest quarterof section twenty-two (22). township twentv-flye <25) north, range 13 east, in Adams county, Indiana, and running thence 59 degrees, east II rods; thence east twenty (20) rode: thence south 314 degrees, east 7 rods; thei .v' e .K. u,l ‘’** de * r< ”‘ s - •'«<.;*) rods; thence south M.degn oi, east 12 rods: thence aouth 81 degress, east la rods; thence south 50 degrees east U rods, thence north 11 degrees, east 24 rode; thence north 80 degrees, east 18 rods' thence north si degrees, east 18 rods; thence south 48 degrees, east 12 rods; thence eoiub 42 degrees, east 22 roda; thence north 80 degrees, east m rods; thence north 72 degrees, east 4* ro ‘ ,; them-e north 7# deg-eea east 42 roda. 10 ,lK “ 18r F e ,lraln heretofore located and known as the Sullivan Ditch at a point twenty-seven rods south of a point that is twenty-eight and cne-half rods east of the southeast corner of the northwest quarterof *.!?.’* 'l uart * r of section twenty-three . p heretofore mentioned and there to terminate. ®bd also affecting the lands of Edwin ( . Martin. Alexander Bolds, Pheobe It Moore, Mathias 'ost. Esther Fouls. Anna mi Tost. Hnuth Shoemaker. Osa Sullivan George F. Pontius and Hanford Township tor public highway. noah mangold, Auditor Adams County.

VOTICR OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. Notice is hereby give to the creditor*, heirs and legatees of Joseph A. Parent decea ? ed.to appea. »n the Adam* circuit court, held at Decatur. Indiana, ’on the 25th day of October. 1900, and show cause, if any. whv the final settlement accounts with the eutateof said decedent should not be approved: and said heir* an* notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Phoebe A. Parent. Admr’x. Decatur, Ind., Sept, 24 1900. 29-2 /"I H ANGES IN VOTING PRECINCTS AND V ESTABLISHING NEW PRECINCTS IN ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA. Made at the June term of the commission* ers court. 19U>. Be- it remembered. At the regular session of the board of commissioners of Adams county. Indiana, begun, held and continued at theauditor’s office, in the city of Decatur, "n Mon day, the 4th day of June. 1900, present Samuel Doak. Joseph E. Mann and Rred Keppert,c >mmtssioners. and Noah Mangold, auditor, an ! Dan Erwin, sheriff, the following proceedings were had on the 2nd day ot June. 19ii" It appearing to the satisfactory of the boar ! that public good and public convenience requires that the toundaries of preci un “A and precinct °B ’ Geneva, in Wabash township, be changed, it is therefore ordered the board that the boundaries of precinct‘A Geneva. Wabash township, be changed, so as to include the following territory, to-wit All that part of Wabash township laying south of Ceylon precinct and east ot the Grand Kap- , Ids and Indiana railroad outside of the incorporated town ot Geneva, also including that part of the incorporated town of Geneva, tcwit: All south of Lino street and west to!*catnr street, thence south on Decat ar street to Sixth street, thence west on Sixth street to Main street, thence south on Mam street to tho sou tb <n »rp«»rut ion linv of said town i hence east on said corporation line to the ra< corporation line of said town, and the voting place tn said precinct shall be at the town prison in said incorporated town ot GenevaIt is further ordered that the boundaries or precinct “B,” Geneva Wabash township. •* changed to as to inHude the following territory to-wi: All that part of Wabash tow osofP lying and being south of Ceylon precinct in said township. and west of the Grand K«P ia! and Indiana rai road, outside cf the incorporated town of Geneva. In said township. A.*’ all that part of the incorporated town ot ~,n; eva not Included in precinct A " Geneva, o* said township, and the voting place shall • the school building In said town. , . . It Is hereby oi iored and determined by tne board of commissioners that the following named persons have been appointed inspect ors of election in the various precints in aqams county, Ind,, to-wit: INSPECTORS. Union, inspector, Jno. D. Nidlinger. Root, K precinct. Wm. Tieman. Root, W precint. !«. W Lewton. Preble. N precinct. Conrad Dohrmtn. Preble. 8 precinct. Lewis Fruchte. Kirkland precinct. George W. Brown Washington, w precinct. J nn. HesslerWashington. K precinct. Jno. Steele St. Marys. N precinct. D. S. Manlier. St. Marys. S nrecinct, W. W. Smith Blue Creek, N precinct, Jacob wechter. Blue Creek, 8 precinct. James N. Haem -u Monroe, N precinct. Manon L- QiiJ«£« Monroe, middle nrecinct. Win. F. Schug Berne. A precinct, Phil Schug. . Berne, It precinct, Fred Kichenberger. French Jno. P. Steiner. „ Hartford. N precinct. Peter HoffmkfiHartford. 8 precinct, Wnw nidi. Wabash. N precinct. Martin L. Smith. Wabash. Ceylon precinct. Jno. Brown. Geneva. A precinct, Henry Miller Geneva. B precinct, Jno. IL Runyon. Jefferson, E precinct- Frank . .. Jefferson. W precinct. W, V ' Decatur. A precinct. I! *t ''ihL-’no L> n# Decatur. B precinct Ist '' m u Decatur. A precinct. 2.1 Wtr’. J»». “J X Decatur, B pr.-cinct, 2.1 Wa. 4. h • ■ Decatur. A p-eclnct. 3<l Ward. M Kir" h ", De.-Htur, H precinct. 3d Ward, Wm. K l ’ SAMCILDOAK. | JOB. E MANN. Co. Comm r FRED KEPPERT. I