Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1901 — Page 5

pristoe’s Smoke House. | • Next door to Postoffice. 5-13 The Celina and Decatur base ball dubs are scheduled for two games here on Dacoration Day. John E. Engle, the Winchester insurance adjuster, was here Saturday morning looking after business for his company. The city council met and adjourned Tuesday evening, thus giving the Masonic fraternity connected therewith, an opportunity to mingle with their brethern. F. M. Schinneyer contemplates remodeling his now very elegant Mercer street home, in which an addition will be built and many conveniences of a substantial nature added thereto. John Eawards fell from a ladder while doing some work at Meyer’s saloon Tuesday afternoon and was seriously injured. An ugly gash was cut in his forehead and bis right wrist was badly strained. Arlie DeVoss, who has been accumulating some cash at a pretty rapid rate in the Texas oil Held, has written home that he will make a short visit with friends here about June 5, if ho can arrange business so as to leave. Clum Baker who is taking treatment at Mt. Clemens, Michigan, for an aggravated attack of rheumatism, writes home that he is improving slowly. He will remain about two weeks longer and expects to return home entirely cured. E. P. Menefee and family went down to Geneva Saturday, being called there by the serious illness of Mrs. Menefee’s mother, Mrs. SocratusCook. Her condition has been serious for several weeks past, thereby giving her family no small amount of grave concern. The Hale oil company, of Geneva, shot their third well on the E. M. M ann farm, east of Geneva, Friday afternoon, and as a result have a well t hat will make at least 75 barrels a day. The Hale Oil company hold a block of leases just east of Geneva, and have been getting some good wells. Adams County Times. Notice— We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25 cent bottles or boxes of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, billiousness. sick head ache, jaundice, loss of appetite, sour stomach, dyspepsia, liver complaint, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. It is highly recommended as a tonic and blood purifier. Sold liquid in bottle, and tablets in boxes. Price 25 cents for either. One package of either guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. Page Blackburn. ts

SPECIAL SUIT SALE. Every garment sold at a sacrifice. Sale now in progress Some Rare Opportunities! Bargains Well Worth Seeing* i i FINE EADIE’S MAN TAILORED SUITS—Very latest styles in »black and colors, fine taffeta lined * jackets, worth $25.00; this sale vllivu /WTjA EXTRA FINE QUALITY SUITS that were $18.50 to $20.00, fine taffetta lined jackets, very newest -p I U shaped skirt and jacket; your choice this sale.. .JItiJU n I Vk MAN TAILORED SUITS in Black, Castor and Brown, taffetta lined jackets, new Hare skirts, a bar- _- 5 gain at $15.00; this sale. vIIiJU ALL TAILORED SUITS that sold from/11.00 to $12.50, | fine shaped jackets, new Hare skirts, your choice aq rn at this sale. JOiJU tfc * V BARGAINS IN SEPARATE SKIRTS—Finely trimmed black skirts, new Hare shape, a bargain at $7.50 Ar rA to $8.50; this sale WUiJU P All silk skirts will be sold at a great sacrifice regardlesss of I what they cost. j yf ■ Make Your Selections Early. NIBLICK & CO.

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peterson were at Bluffton yesterday afternoon at- , tending the Studabaker-Morrow wed- ; ding. Mrs. D. P. Bolds of Peru, Indiana, passed through the city last Satur- , uay, going to Geneva where she visit , ed relatives. Mesdames Henry Hite and J. T. Archbold went to Indianapolis the first of tho week, where they represented the Rebecca lodge meeting of that ' order. flood Residence For Sale. The Foreman property on Third street opposite the court house can be purchased at a reasonable price. For full information call on or address Samuel Doak, Decatur, Ind. 11-3 The following letters remain uncalled for in the Decatur pobtoffice: Lulu Wagoner, J. H. Cohn, Mrs. Sarah Mayer, Mrs. Clara Mcßarn, Mrs. Etta Leasure, Mrs. Elizabeth King and Gus Yager. The Randall hotel at Fort Wayne has been leased by Jones & Stevens, proprietors of the New Aveline, and will hereafter be run by them. This will give almost the entire trade to those two very popular men. The marriage of Miss Mary McLain to Mr. Floyd Smith was announced for the first time at the St. Mary’s Catholic church last Sunday morning. Both are popular young people and wo hereby advance our congratulations. C. S. Alleger as representative, and L. C. Helm as an officer in the grand lodge of Odd Fellows, are attending a stated meeting ot that grand body, at Indianapolis this week. The latter’s wife accompanied him and will enjoy a week at the state capitol. D. M. Hensley brought home with him from Rome City Tuesday morning a large dog fish, which he presented to the county and placed same in the court house fountain. The fish weighs about four pounds and while a curiosity here, is found in numbers 1 in various lakes. Ventillation in School Buildings. We believe it is policy for all school officials to provide ventilation in their schools that produces the correct re- ' suits without a direct draft, and as 1 the Miller system is endorsed by the 1 state board of education and board of ’ health and guarantees to hold the correct temperature—at 70 degrees, it would be a great boon to the children • and teachers of the state of Indiana if 1 they would have the system supplied and" used. It will lessen the chances [ of acute disease from -0 to 25 per cent. I and save its cost in fuel in' one year. r It is simple and will last a life time ‘ at one tenth the cost of any other and ’ is superior to aii. H. A. Miller, Patentee.

Wanted A first-class, experienced girl to do general house work. Inquire at this office. For Sale The Shields property on First street and three vacant lots in Cooktown. Price reasonable. Enquire of E. Cutting 10-4 Mrs. Ed Wagoner and son, Don, returned to their home at Nottowa, Michigan, Monday, after a very pleasant visit with relatives and friends in this city. W. W. Briggs, of Geneva, was in town Tuesday looking after business. He reports theoil industry as reviving, several wells with a good showing having lately been drilled in. The fishing tourists Bell, Neptune, Coverdale and Heller arrived home Sunday evening from Rome City, all looking healthy and feeling likewise. The boys enjoyed themselves to the utmost. D. J. Evans, of the Republican, and Caples Foster, of the Bulletin, were the newspaper boys who accompanied the Van Wert Masons to this city Tuesday evening and enjoyed the hospatility of the fraternity in this city. The regular meeting of the city council met Tuesday evening, but owing to the Masonic affair in progress at that hour, they adjourned until next Monday evening when they will take care of all business properly brought before them. A number of Decatur people were at Bluffton yesterday attending the wedding of Miss Morrw to Mr. Harry Studabaker. The wedding was one of the most elaborate ever given in our neighboring city. Both the bride and groom are well known here. B. J. Terveer will begin work on his new Madison street house next week and expects to have same completed within two months. The house will be a beautiful one with many of the modern improvements and will add materially to the appearance of his block of dwellings. Four years ago'the white scale was present in enormous numbers in orange groves on the left bank of the river Tagus, in Portugal, and threatened to wipe out the orange-growing industry in that country. The Calii fornia people, in pursuance of a farsighted policy, had with great difficulty, owing to the lack of food, kept alive some colonies of beneficial beetle, and specimens were sent to Portugal ’! which reached there alive and flourishI' ing. They were tended for a short t time, and then liberated in the orange . I groves, with precisely the same result .' as in Californa. In a few’ months the • scale insects were almost entirely deI stroved, and the Portuguese orauge--1 growers saved from enormous loss. - . Everybody's Magazine.

»-THEY GO-K T| FOR A SONGI a J K T TAVE purchased the remnants of a New York clothing manufacturers line jj(o| P of SPRING CLOTHING at LESS THAN ACTUAL COST TO MANU- •i® FACTURE and shall put them on sale at a littlo above ONE HALF of original.., value. These goods are all new, clean, up to-date and all sizes. ■ | — 2op men’s and young men's suits, in Cashmere, Worsted, 0C EfnW Cheviot and Tweed, worth regular price SB.OO to SIO.OO, go at dui JU 'ld id Fine Cashmere and Worsted Suits, regular price SIO.OO 07 EftT-gd to $12.00, goat - - - - - - - - Forty Fine Men’s Worsted Suits, originally $13.50 A A tosisoo, goat - - - - - - - - - OIUtUUvB A vast number and variety of fine Dress Suits in black, clay A® dress worsteds, venscian and thibet, made equal to finest custom tailoring, and at one-half that price. .’ M One hundred Men's Fine Alpacca Coats, worth SI,OO to /I Q ‘W $1.50, go at ---------- Two hundred Men’s fine Fur Stiff and Soft Hats, worth $1.50 QPL to $2.50, go, to make room at, each - - - - -. J/wC B Saturday only— For first-class Blue overalls, made with Wj A' wC patent buttons, loose pockets, warranted not to rip, worth 50c. H IZT y x-w I— With purchases amounting to $25 00, a pair of good Horse Fly Covers. ® FREE— I fine Thermometer, with purchases amounting to $lO 00. z® Call before buying and take advantage of the money saving. 1" 1 M Gus Rosenthal, I I DECATUR, IND. THE SQUARE MAN I ■ I

Indiana oil dropped one cent Thurs day and the market now stands at seventy-four cents. This is what has l>een expected and most feared. Oil operators have said that they would be satisfied so long as the market did not go below the seventy-five cent mark. That mark has been touched and the first slice taken off and those who are interested in the activity of the oil business are holding their breath, as it were, in fear of the con sequences. A Cashier Testifies. Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, 111. Gentlemen: After twenty years of aches and pains causeci by constipation brought on by sedentary habits. I have found more relief in two bottles of Dr. Caldwell’s •Syrup Pepsin than al) of the hundreds of other remedies I have tried, and I take pleasure in giving you this testi mony, believing you have the finest preparation made for stomach troubles. Very truly yours. D. F. Lange, Cashier Wabash If. R.. East St. Louis. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk. m Sciatic Rheumatism Cured After Fourteen Years of Suffering. “I have beeen afflicted with sciatic rheumatism for fourteen years,” says Josh Edgar, of Germantown, Cal. ‘‘l was able to be around but constantly suffered. I tried everything I could hear of and at last was told to trv Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which I did and was immediately relieved and in a short time cured, and I am happy to say it has not since returned.” Why not use* thisliuement and get well? It is for sale by Rolthouse, Callow & Co. m When a man keep a store, a shop or an office there is a presumptive evidence that he wants custom: but when in addition, be advertises in a public newspaper that he is ready to do business he issues a direct and particular invitation to come to him and trade. Everybody has had experience with merchants and professional men who seemed to be reluctant to attend to patrons, if not resentful to their presence. Therefore we all feel free to go to the stores and offices of those who invite us day after day through the newspaper. Advertisements are assurance of welcome and attention. • The home of l*yter Moser, in Wabash township, was onterd by thieves last Monday evening. The robbers made their way into the room where the old gentleman slept, and extracted S4KSO from the pockets in his panta loons beside his tied. Mr. Moser had just been in Berne and sold some wool for which he received the amount of money. A call was sent from an oil pump station not far distant, to Bluffton for a brace of blood hounds to run down the thieves. Strong suspicion is resting on some uneasy characters, well known to this community. Adams County Times.

SPECIAL SALE OF I I Window Shades ? . . . Lace Curtains. Pelt Shades, all colors - 3c Cloth Shades, ail colors 22c 50c Lace Curtains - -35 c $ 1.25 Lace Curtains .- 75c Come Eariv and Save Monev/ fl*' The New Fair Store.-.

D. M. Hensley enjoyed Sunday and Monday at his Rome City cottage. the time being put in angling for liass. He returned to the city Tuesday morning. A committee of interurban projectors from Chattanooga and Willshire, Ohio, Pleasant Mill" ami perhaps, this city, will visit Dayton tomorrow and pay their respects in person to the managers and promoters of the Fort Wayne, Dayton Cincinnati Traction Lines. At the time of the conference here with the Willshire and Chattanooga parties it did not occur to the minds of our people that this is the same company who some time ago was granted a franchise of several streets in this city for what was then presumed to ue a line from 1 Fort Wayne to this city. It now ap- ’ pears the company is figuring on a system running from Fort Wayne to this city south through Berne. Geneva, Brvant, Portland, Winchester, then either on to Richmond or east from Winchester to I nion City, Dayton to Cincinnati. In addition the same company will build a line from Dayton to delina, Chattanooga, Willshire, Pleasant Mills and this city on to Fort Wayne. If the line as projected ,is built, it will prove exceptionally ' advantageous to this city.

The postoffice department at Washington has just given out a complete statement of the rural free delivery routes established anti applied for up to April 30 of this year. It shows the stab' to have 320 established routes and 376 applications pending for additional route's. By congressional districts the report shows the first district to have thirteen routes and eleven applications pending, the second with four routes and six applications third with one route and eleven applications, fourth with nineteen routes and nineteen applications, fifth with nine'rbutes and thirty six applications, sixth With thirty routes and thirty-six applications, seventh with thirteen routt'h and sixteen applications, eighth withfortyone routes and forty-two applications, ninth with fifty routes and forty-five applications, tenth with twenty-four routes and twenty-one applications, eleventh with forty-seven routes and thirty-six applications, twelfth with thirty-two routes and forty-thfee applications. thirteetb with thirty-seven routes and fifty four npplieatuigs. It will thus be seen that tliefris^ jJHuu>ry of rural mail has stood the turtKjuTl is certain to some dav be univ«si;ily ap plied, although it will iatttf ■veral years to get it thoroughly Sstab fished. * -;uil