Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1901 — Page 3

Mrs. Wash Gilpen was the guest of friends at Van Wert over the Sabbath. Judge Studabaker was lookingafter the banking business at Marion last Friday. Fred Spooler is now ready to trim fruit trees and grape vines, and graft jug al) kinds of trees. 12 Miss Edith Albers, of Fort Wayne, W n*s the guest of Mrs. C. K. Bell and other friends in the city last week. R. J. Holthouse left Monday for a six week's trip trhrough southern Indiana for the Wolfe Bros, shoe house. Only 50 gold watches left out of 7C4 at Hensly’s, all will go at the same reduced rates as long as they last. H After a woman passes twenty-six vears of age, she would just as soon get married on Friday as any other day. ’ Decatur boys who are attending the Fort Wayne Business college, returned Monday after spending Sunday with their’parents. Seventy-five applications for divorce will be made next month because the husbands did not buy their wive’s one of Hensly’s gold watches. ts Mrs. J. E. Moser returned home Friday from Willshire, where she was called on account of the very serious illness of her father. See that vou get the original Witch Hazel Salve when you ask for it. The genuine is a certain cure for piles, sores and skin diseases. Smith, Yager & Falk. m Notice is hereby given that theoffiee day of the trustee of Kirkland township will be Monday of each week at my home. Wm. D. Hoffman, Trustee. 39m(> Warm salt and water held in the mouth will sometimes banish tooth ache and at least make the affliction lighter, while it is both safe aud easy to try. Cheap Insurance. Many a man has been insured against Bright’s disease, diabetes, or other dangerous ailment by a fifty cent tottle of Foley's Kidney Cure. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m Mary had a little calf it was so very lean that everywhere that Mary went it hardly could be seen; but Mary got a pair of pads which she put within her hose, and now the calf is plainly seen wherever Mary goes. Mrs. C. E. VanDeusen, of Kilbourn, Wis., was afflicted with stomach trouble and constipation for a long time. She says: “I have tried many preparations but none have done me the good that Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets have.” These Tablets are for sale at Holthouse, Callow A Co's, ’drug store. Price 25 cents. Samples free. m

The Oldest, the Largest and the Best. Incorporated. Capital *125,000 _L.JL.Xj _l—/ _IJUZX._I_N I A fttal aifl Su®3l Misc No. 10 W. Wayne Street. i DR. J. W. YOUNGE, Mz MSr* 'Juxv President American Association I# Medical and Surgical Specialists kJ- ./? This ablest Specialist in the country WILL BE AT THE £gSß|®Cn||4oi MIESSE HOUSE, Monday, March 25 r &0 Dr. Younge has treated more cases ’ Di-ea-,-. lli.in etliei three do< tors in the state. 1 can cure Epilepsy. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE. DR. YOUNGE has treated over 40,000 patients in the State of Indiana since 1872, and with perfect success in every case. A STRONG STATEMENT.- Dr. Younge has deposited One Thousand Dollars in the bank as a forfeit that he lias treated more cases of Chronic Diseases and performed more remarkable cures than any other three specialists in the state of Indiana. • New methods of treatment and new remedies used. All Chronic Diseases and Deformities treated successfully—such as diseases of the Brain, Heart. Lunxs, Throat, Eye and Ear, Stomach, Liver, Kidneys (Bright’s disease), Bladder, Rectum. Female Diseases, Itn potency, Gleet, Seminal Emissions, Nervous Diseases, Catarrh, Rupture, Piles, Stricture. Diabetes, etc., etc. Consumption and Catarrh can be Cured. Cancers and all Tumors Cured without pain or use of knife As God has prepared an antidote for the sin-sick soul, so has He prepared antidote; for a diseased-sick body. T hese cau be found at the Younge’s Medical and Surgical Institute. After an examination we will tell you Just what we can do for you. If we cannot benefit or cure you. we will trankly and honestly tell you so, Patients can be treated successfully at a distance. Write for examination and question blanks. tWStreetcars and carriages direct to the Institute. Call on or address J. W. YOUNGE, A. M., M. D., President L. J. YOUNGE, M. D„ M. 0., Manager. No. 10 W. Wayne St. FT. WAYNE, IND.

I Harry Miesse of Grand Rapids was I loo “ ln Sr after business hero the latter 1 part of last week. , • iTk Mrß ’ Chahner Schafer ! visited at Chicago several davs last week, arriving home Friday. ' How are you. any way ? Dr. Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin is a perfect laxative. Sold by Smith, ¥nger& Falk, in About five per cent of the men of this country are brokers, and most of the other ninety-live per cent are dead H. M. Romberg returned Thursday from a several days trip to Ft. Wayne and Cleveland, where he attended to important business. All those indebted to M. Fullenkamp, are requested to call at the Old Adams County Bank, and settle same with Charles Niblick. 51tl A. J. Smith did some lumber buying the latter part of last week and was also look up a good fishing place for the season of 1901. W hen you are bilious, use those famous little pills known as DeWitt’s Little Early Risers to cleanse the liver and bowels. They never gripe. Smith, Yager A Falk. m If there is any girl in Adams county that would marry a man that don t carry one of Hensly’s gold watches; hold up your hand, uot one. ‘ ts The Count and Countess De Castallane have sailed for this country, on the La Champagne. Money affairs, it is intimated, are the cause of the visit. Their promptness and their pleasan) effects make DeWitt’s Little Early Risers most popular littlejpills wherever they are known. They are simply perfect for liver and bowel trouble. Smith, Yager & Falk. m Mrs. Nation’s favorite song is, “I —ant to be an editor, and with the editors stand.” If she know how precautiousthefooting often is,she would probably prefer standing where there was less danger of falling. The lingering cough following gripph calls for One Minute Cougn Cure. For all throat and lung troubles this is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate results prevents consumption. Smith, Yager & Falk. m •530.00 Chicago to Portland, Seattle Tacoma and North Pacific Coast, via Chicago & North-Western Railway, optional routes via St. Paul or Omaha. Tickets on sale each Tuesday, February 12 to April 30. Shortest time enroute. Finest scenery. Daily tour- ! ist car excursions personally conducted [ semi weekly. For tickets, illustrated pamphlets and full information inquire of nearest ticket agent or ad dress Chicago & North Western R’y, 22 Fifth avenue. Chicago, 111. 49-6

Visit Hensley’s watch sale this month or you will kick your self to j death ua.xt month. ' 48tf | Charms Rittenhouse of Angola, was here last Saturday calling on friends and attending to some business. When a boy swallows a nickel and the doctor makes him cough up $2.00, it's a good investment for the doctor. S P. Beatty is at Portland. Redkey and other gas belt cities this week re j presenting the Maryland Casualty 1 Company. Barney Kalver At Sqn, four doors south of Peoples’ livery barn, pay the highest prices for hides, pelts, furs, iron, metal, rubber, rags, etc. 25tf A erily, the Chinaman is becoming Americanized. Tip Key, a Celestial has invented a type writer. It takes only four men and a boy to operate it. Pneumonia follows lagrippe, but never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tar, the great throat and lung remedy. Take no substitutes. Holthonse, Callow A Co. m J. H. Word, Justice of the Peace of Kirkland township, will make out your exemption blanks in proper form. Collecting promptly attended to. Call and see him. 2 4 James W. Place of Ice Cream fame was a business visitor at Chicago, last week and wore a satisfied smile when returning so we presume things came about right. Banner Salve. Tetter, eczema and skin diseases yield quickly to the marvelous healing qualtities of Banner Salve made from a prescription of a skin specialist of world wide fame. 25c. Holthouse, Callow & Co. m $34.50 to California. The Chicago A Erie R. R. will make low rates on Tuesdays to points in the west and sout and extremely low rates will be made to California points. M. A. Hamm, Agent. 49 6 We want a representative for Decatur and vicinity, man or woman. One willing to work can have steady employment at good salary. Call or write B. A. 21, Pixley-Long Block, Fort Wayne, Ind. 1-2 The Indianapolis News is putting iu additional presses, that will give it a total capacity of 96,000 twelve-page papers an hour. Two of its double supplement presses are I.>eing converted to quadruple presses. Headache often results from a disordered condition of the stomach and constipation of the towels. A dose or two of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets will correct these disorders and cure the headache. Sold by Holthouse, Callow A Co. m As a dentrifice. common salt may be relied on. By its judicious use the teeth are kept white, the gums hard and the breath sweet. When the gums are spongy, the mouth should be washed out twice a day with salt water. Horseless carriages, fuelless engines and the wireless telegraph are the greatest innovations. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is next aud cures constipation, indigestion, sick headache and stomach trouble. Sold Wy Smith, Yager A Falk. m Low Rate of Interest. loaned at pAnt. 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 United States revenue officers seized 19,250 pounds of butter in the warehouse of the Hudson Produce company at Union City. In this lot there were Si tube of oleomargarine which had been manufactured without a license.

Changes in the weather means slight ’‘spells” of headache or affect your appetite. Irregularities in eating cause dyspepsia. Take Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and feel good regardless of these elements or habits. Sold by Smith, Yager A Falk. m Writing from Michigan to the Kan sas judge who sent Mrs. Nation to jail in default of bond, a woman makes this portentious threat: "We now propose, if Mrs. Nation is held longer, to raise the greatest army of women the world has ever known and wipe man off the earth.” Walhalla, N. D., Mar. 15, 1898. For loss of appetite, general debility and convalescence after any illness, there is nothing so beneficial as Dr. -I. H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier. lam enjoying vigorous b»-dlth from its use. E. A. Sharpe. For sale by Holthouse. Callow A Co. m Horace Greeley was lavish in his gifts,often to most unworthy recipients, and was most sensitive when admonished on the subject by even his closest friends. He loaned thousands of dollars to a scapegrace son of Commodore Vanderbilt, ami when Vanderbilt appealed to him to stop it, Grcely curtly closed the conversation bv saying he did not expect the Commodore to pay the loan. Strkea • Rich Find. “1 was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and nervous debility," writes F. J. Green, of Lancaster, N. H. “No remedy helped me until I liegan using Electric Bitters, which did me more good than all the medicine I ever used. They have also kept my wife in excellent health for years. She says Electric Bitters are just splendid for female troubles; that they are a grand tonic and invigorator for weak run down women. No other medicine can take its place in our family.” Try them. Only 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by Page Blackburn. m

[the ainsl tl • Saturday Only-CASH SALE. | IF■ i i fib /A W' S* . fez 4 @3 I W IJHS ■ 5t * t ! FF : OtJ* i L Snra | Mil 4 ’ ® f L v.-.. — * / g Goods Department. Shoe Department. gS Umbrellas, regular $1.50 kind, mercerized, C 0 zLQ rod, ivory handle, These are beauties; Choice of rubber boots TCe/ 25) perfectly new and correct in style. Don't This includes full snag proof, snag proof romp this sale. and rolled gum boots. New goods and St lited to one Umbrella to Each Person. guaranteed first quality. ESI , , r-. . . Any woman’s sandals. Saturday Q Q :hing Department. only uOC >out 75 sample Hats’ Soft hats, all styles Moccasins lOC sell regularly at from $1 to $2, Trirnnieil 1 i&Soui’ ai P.if Ti« lOp 15c | lly ,ll, ; ' ii ’ i u ■"; > Grocery Department. @ an s sox that sell at 8 cents a pair, and are ' r X values at that,Saturday only, 12 Best Ginger Snaps, fresh goods, W forSaturday only *v ]b eS nda» rS Saturday I th 16 MarCh 16 J

After LaGrippe What? Usually a racking cough and a general feeling of weakness. Foley's Honey and Tar is guaranteed to cure the “grippe cough” and make you strong and well. Take no substitutes. Holthouse, Callow A Co m Investigation of tho U. S. H of Representative pay rolls shows many abuses. In one instance an employe has drawn pay for four years, and yet has not worked over six months and has not been in the city for about a year. “I had a runmug sore on my leg for seven years," writes Mrs. Jas. For est of Chippewa Falls, Wis., "and spent hundreds of dollars in trying to get it healed. Two boxes of Banuer Salve entirely cured it." No other salve so healing. Holthonse, Callow & Co. m

The coffee war is at an end. The Arbuckles and the Woolson Spice company have come to an agreement, and the people who have been buying coffee at low prices for a year or two may now expect to make go<xl the losses of the coffee roasters. The Woolson people advanced their coffee a half cent last Friday, Other advances will follow in due time. Like Oliver Twist, children ask tor more when given One Minute Cough Cure. Mothers endorse it highly for croup. It quickly cures all coughs and colds aud every throat and lung trouble. It is a specific for* grippe and asthma and has long lieen a well known remedy for whooping cough. Smith, Yager A Falk. m A French doctor charges appendicitis up to the grip. The savant called attention to the fact that an epidemic of appendicitis has ever followed a grip epidemic, or that the two often coexisted. He then demon strated that appendicitis is but a localization of the grip, affecting the intestines and often the appendix itself. Appendicitis resulted most frequently when an improper diet had been pursued by the patieut Indore grip set iu. Remarkable Cures of Rheumatism. From the Vindicator, Rutherfordton. N. C. The editor of the Vindicator has had occasion to test the efficacy of Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice with the most remarkable results in each case. First, with rheumatism in the shoulder from which he suffered excruciating pain for ten days, which was relieved with two applications of Pain Balm, rubbing the parts afflicted and realizing instant benefit and entire relief in a very short time. Second, iu rheumatism in thigh joint, almost piostrutuig him with severe pain, which was relieved with two appliea tions, rubbing with the liniment on retiring at uight, and getting up free from pain. For sale by Holt house, sCallow A Co. m

Eugene J. Hail, the poet and publisher. says that one dose of Honey and Tar restored his voice when hoarseness threatened to prevent his lecture at Central Music Hall, Chicago. Nothing else as good. Holthouse, Callow A Co. m We live and learn We had sudposed that bravery, executive ability and knowledge of navigatior were the principal requisites for a commission in the navy, but Admiral Sampson has written a letter declaring social status to be the prime requisite. Counterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve are liable to cause blood poisoning. Leave them alone. The original has the name of DeWitt’s upon the box ami wrapper. It •is a harmless and healing salve for skin diseases. Unequalled for piles. Smith. Yager A Falk. m Pocket Map of China Latest indexed map of Chinese Empire, with enlarged map of portion of China where difficulty exists, and other valuable information relating to present crisis. Copy mailed on receipt of two cents in postage by W. B. Kniskern. 22 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111. 52 6 If vou meet a stranger on our streets speak to him. If there is anything that advertises a town it is a friendly, cordial class of citizens, and we can speak from experience, that it is anything but pleasant to stop in a town where people pass one by with a vacant stare, perhaps without even the stare. Be friendly. The Texas capitol is the largest state building in the United States, aud the seventh in size among the buildings of the world. It is a Greek cross of red Texas granite, with a central rotuuda covered by a dome 311 feet high. It was begun in 1881 and finished in 1888, having cost alxiut $3,500,000. It was paid for with 3,000, 000 acres of public land, deeded to the capitalists who executed the work. A Good Thing. German Syrup is the special prescription of Dr. A. Boschee, a celebrated German physician. and is acknowledged to lie one of the most fortunate discoveries in medicine. It quickly cures coughs, colds and nil lung troubles of the severest nature, removing, us it does, the cause of the affection and l< aving the parts in a strong and healthy condition. It is not an experimental medicine, but has stood tne test of years, giving satisfaction in every ease which its rapidly increasing sale every season confirms. Two million bottles sold annually. Boschee’s German Syrup was introduced into the United States iu 1868, and is now sold in every town and village in the civilized world. Three doses will relieve any ordinary cough. Price 75 cis. Get Green's Prize Almanac. Page Blackburn, druggist. ts

A Woman's Words of Praise. Neosho Falls, Kans., Nov. 13. 1900. Pepsin Syrup Co.. Monticello, 111. Dear Sirs: For almost fifteen years I suffered from indigestion, and last winter thought I would die, when my doctor, Dr. A. J. Lieurance of this place, advised me to try Dr. Cald well's Syrup Fepsiu, which I did, and two bottles cured me. It not only relieved me. but it cured me so that I have not been troubled since. If any one should offer me SSOO for the good Syrup Pepsin has done me I would not think of taking it. No one can take your medicine without being convinced of its more than wonderful cures. I recommend it to all mv friends as a laxative and stomach remedy. Yours with gratitude, Mrs. J. Morgan. Sold by Smith, Yager A Falk. ’ m Judge Watkins of Huntington, thinks he is the youngest soldier that did actual fighting service in the army during the civil war. He was but fourteen years and seven months old at the time of his enlistment, and served all through the Atlanta campaign, and when discharged was scarcely sixteen years of a;e. Columbia City Co nmercial.

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