Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1902 — Page 8

WALL PAPER H— «■■■► -BB*- -«■*- •«■*- <*"►■ We nqw bare ou display a great variety of new patterns, comprising all the latest colorings and designs of the season... We can lit out parlors, sitting rooms, dining rooms, bed rooms, halls and kitchens in any style of paper desired and at lower prices than ever before... We will be pleased to have you call and look at our assortment. : : : BLACKBURN & CHRISTEN Druggist >. Successors to Page Blackburn j Eastern Dispatch Rev. E. H. Peters dosed his revival meeting at Steele last week. Chauncey Lautsenliser went to Angola last Monday to attend school. Richard Ross has improved the! appearance of his farm by erecting a new wire fence. A few ]>eople from this vicinity attended the People’s livery sale at Decatur Monday. Charley Beam sold his personal effects at public sale last Friday having sold his farm. Smith at Elgin i Ohio, taking possession this Month. — Western Dispatch Miss Lizzie Hague, of Bluffton, is a visitor of Ada Fisher, Robert Mann left Monday for Marion where he will attend college. Miss Elvey Reid, of Cleveland. 0., is visiting relatives in this vicinity. J. C. Evans is doing the carpenter work ou W. A. Fonner’s new barn, i The entertainment held at district ; number seven last Saturday night was a grand success. Ten dollars was | taken in at the door. School at district number seven dosed last Friday. A big dinner was served at noon. In the afternoon | a program was rendered by the, scholars. Mr. Lower has closed one of the most successful terms of school j ever held at district number seven. By a large vote it was decided to ask ■ the trustee to give Mr. Ixiwer his old i school another vear. J J

Stt HI [n IM A”T THE n come vs AT the: BOBBINET RIFFLED CURTAINS LXIALLLIILILLLLLLLLXLL BOSTON STORE - . r . L| **** ■ ,w I i—m u i WZE HAVE in stock the most complete line ever brought to the city, consisting of Ruffles, Battenbergs. Rococo. Brussels, Netts and Arabians. SI.OO 50c r ,bc and yards long. Sold every- V . best curta,n - “ ls the where at 51.50. Our price One Doi- cur^ain that can be bought at lar a pair. the price—50 cents a pair Don't clean house unless you visit our carpet department. Special This Week.—lngrain Carpets, all wool both ways at 50 cents a yard. Linoleums, 4 yards wide, laid tree of charge. « BOSTON STORE, I. O. O. F. Block. Kuebler & Moltz Co. :

Brno. Dan Bailey is slowly improving. Sam Barber will move into his ! property. Miss Lena Reisen went to For) i Wayne Tuesday. Dr. Harry Emick was a caller at■ • Decatur Monday. Rev. Allebach preached at Wood1 burn last Sunday. Chris Egley was a caller qj New Grabiell, this week. It is rumored that there will be a ■ wedding in town Sunday. Miss Runa Adler of Fort Wayne was a caller here Monday. James Sullivan was a business caller at Decatur Monday. Miller of Vera Cruz, was the guest of friends here Sunday. Fred Wechtor bought the house of Noah Winteregg on Wabash street. Henry Kreg of Fort Wavne. was the guest of Berne friends Tuesday. Mrs. L.Simimks was very sick with, the measles, but is nicely improving. John Hartman of Bluffton, was here Monday looking after business. Frank Bixler and Rufus Stuckey were business callers at Decatur Friday. Thirteen were confirmed at the German Reformed church last Friday. Wallace Billman, little grandson of Sarah Spence, has been very sick this week. Enos Lehman of Woodburn spent a few days with his parents here this week. Jesse Kelley left for Valparaiso Tuesday for the purpose of attending college. The brick streets were accepter! last week, and Thompson is now collectj ing the money. ' Dora Sprunger of Fort Wayne, i spent Easter with her parents. Rev. I S. F. Sprunger. i Miss Ida Zepf and J. E. Amstutz of Bluffton. Ohio, were visiting friends in i this vicinity Monday. Mrs. Eugene Runyon will go to Decatur to stay with her parents until they can get a house. Dan Lehman bought the property I of John Ray on east Water street, and ! moved into it Tuesday. G. G. Burry and family will move to Pandora. Ohio, in the near future, where Mr. Burry is drilling wells. Sterling Hoffman and Harvey Opi linger passed through here Monday on their way to Angola to attend school. The Messrs. Edwin and Albert Schneck and Miss Rosa Welty of Fort | Wayne, were guests of Berne relatives [ Sunday. F.G. Haecker was seen on our streets Monday. He is going to open j a normal school at Liberty Center, in the near future. I

The election went 81 to 17. Os course there will Ire a road go through Berne since they have 81 citizens who were willing to vote for it. The corporation election was held for the purpose of determining wheth er the sum for the depot and freight house for the interurban road should I lie allowed by the town council. Fred Gerber died on Friday and funeral services were held Monday at the Reformed church. He was 701 ! years old. was born in Canton Berne. Switzerland, and came to America in ,1851. Mark Yager and Elmer Neuenschwander, both salesmen in dry j dry goods establishments have left their work behind the counter for the I farm. Both were pleasant and kind; and their faces will be missed by their ■ many friends. William* Chas. Kintz visited this place Thursday. John Hey was building a sidewalk last Wednesday. Miss Amelia Zwick was the guest of her parents over Easter. Mrs. 0. Robinson and Miss Alice Biggs were at Decatur Wednesday. The children of Wm. Biggs are improving after a severe cold and croup. H. Herb is working at Fort Wayne and will probably move to that city. Fred Hoeneisen and Arthur Hobbs were at home over Sunday and Monday. Henrv Scheimann left here last Saturday with a carload of cattle for Cincinnati. C 3 C 3 Herman Hortsmeyer of Ft. Wayne, was the guest of his many friendshere over Easter. Curley Radamacher and Henry Koenneman of Decatur, were on our streets Wednesday. Frank Laughrey visited the school last Thursday morning in behalf of his little son. Herley. Henrv Zwick and O. Robinson attended the public sale of Herman Ahren’s last Tuesday. Rollie Hedge left here last Monday morning for northern Hlinois, where he expects to stay for a while. Quite a number of this place attended the party at Wm. Berning's at Hoagland last Monday evening. School was closed last Friday for the winter. Harry Erwin was teacher ■ and the pupils were well pleased with their presents. Chas. Dirkson returned from Mt. Clemens last Friday morning, where he had taken his wife to take medical treatment for eczema. Harry Erwin of Decatur, received a fine evening dress suit last Friday morning which he ordered from Fred Kauffman of Chicago, through John Hey, his agent at this place. I L. and Wm. Biggs were at Decatur

last Thursday evening to get some h farming implements. I hey drove a « ~ne Icrse wagon and as the. got asj far as Frank McConnell’s the horse ]. became frightened and ran away. j. They found the horse the next Bay at 8 C. Galluiver's. Nobody was hurt. <■ Linn (iron Ella Nusbann was at Fort Wayne over Easter Sabbath. Several from here attended the il horse sale at Decatur Monday. C. V. Pierce and Arlye 1' rye of j Bluffuki were business callers here on , I Wednesday. ’ 1 Harvey Opliger and S. P. Hoffman 1 y deft Monday for Angola where they r j will attend school. Miller French and wife of Santa Ann California are visiting his mother i and other members of the family in , ' this vicinity. Daniel Baumgartner, Mason Hang- j ton and Lawrence Odliger were ex ; ( amined for teachers license at Deca , , tur Saturday. Anna Adler who haslteen employed ? at Fort Wayne for some time visited her parents here over Easter return-' f ing on Monday. |t Our remembrance carries us back f in the forties but the roughest Easter t weather during that period we attri- < ‘ bute to last Sabbath. David Yoder has opened up a bar tier shop in the south part the * building formerly used by Leo Her- ' man as a shoe shop this gives us two shops of the kind. About twenty of the young folks made a pleasant raid on S. P. Hoffman on Sunday evening to exchange t friendly greetings on the event of < departure for school. The first trip carrying the I . S. mail over the rural route from Bluff- , ton bv wav of Linn Grove was made on Tuesday the Ist. The Star route lietween this place and Berne is there-I iby abandaned. It would occur to us that l ude Sam is becoming conspicous for partiality as this favor extends only to the few. Frank Nelson is the , dispenser of mails on the new route. r i Willshire. Thomas Johnson transacted business at Toledo Saturday. John Beam has purchased a rubber ■ tire buggy of Tim Hartman. F. A. Detter who is working at Kalida, Sundayed at this place. Roy Calderwood of Fort Wayne is ' visiting friends in this city at present. B. F. Ridenour and family are vis iting at Delphos and Middlepoint this week. Miss Orpha Warner of Pleasant j Mills, Sundayed with Miss Dollie Cornell of this city. Miss Bertha Mills returned to Angola Tuesday, after a ten days’ visit ! with her mother in this city. John Longenberger was found not guilty by the court Thursday, and was at once re arrested on a similar charge. , Without a doubt Willshire has the best marshal she has had for several years. Mr. Beam has proven that action speaks louder than words. Mrs. Dr. Kohn returned to her home at Cavette, Saturday after a few ; days'visit with relatives in this city. ' She was accompanied bv her mother, Mrs. B. Mook. The stone quarry resumed operai tions Monday morning, after a few h weeks standstill. There will be no i stopping of work after this, as they | are rushed with orders. I .The following is the program to be rendered by the Crescent Literary SoI ciet at their meeting Friday evening lat 7 p. m. in the high school room: | Music; select reading, Georgia Bo bylia: oration, Ceara Ros.-: prophesy, i Fred Detter: queries, essay, Fannie ' Shock: ciphering contest. Leah Stog. I dill. Nellie Brown, Jesse Beam: I basket. Pearl Ross: essay, Edna I Weimer: speech. Prof. <Jatchpale; I Crescent sunlieams. Ida Weimer. Ail II are invited to come. Pleasant Mills. 11 The measles are in our midst. j Chas. Gage left last week for Seat I tie, Washington. I Charles Stott, the magnetic healer, with his family has removed to Toxas. Rev. Overholtz is conducting a series of meetings at the I'. B. church. Trustee Yager is erecting quite a i handsome baru at his residence west I of town. Rev. Scherick will fulfill his api pointment at the Baptist church Suu j day morning. Riley Morris of Middlepoint, Ohio, is the guest of his brothers, Delay and ■ Charley, this week. || Oto Martz and family left Tuesday I for Dunkirk, where they will remain I for a while at least. I Mrs. Joel Roe is at Decatur this I week at the bedside of her mother. I Mrs. Frank, who is very sick I Rev. John Freeman, former postor li at this place place, is assisting in the || meetings at the U. B. church. i M , rß ' ? I ’, Fu l |er "pent the past I week at Toledo, Ohio, the guest of her 11 sons, Albert and Burton Fuller. ’ Rev. Billy Miller, U. B. elder of I Sindey. Ohio, occupied the pulpit of . the L. B. church Sunday evening. Messrs. Herbert Winans and Wm Noli and Misses Daisy Roebuck ami M 'bd Winans i..ft Monday for Marion where they are attending school. i B. F Ehresinan. the merchant has | located at Bobo, and has removed his merchandise stock to that place where ho has erected n new store building. Prof. Smith and familv left last week for Columbus, Ohio,‘where they will make their future home. They

have our liest wishes for their future welfare. 4Mrs. Daniel of Fort Wayneßvife of lilder Daniel, was here Tuesday even | ing in the interest of the Home Mis- i sionarvsociety,and was quite sue-, eessful. _ Stopsthe Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets , cure a cold in one day. No cure, no pay. Price 25 cents. *» B g Fouc Seed Oats tor Sele Lust ye tr s yinld. 310 bu. from too bu. seed. S< ed sample at Hite A ; Evert grocery. Smith A Bell office and at the P. Rice farm. Price very reasonable. A. IL Bell. 51-8 Fur Sole. One of the best farms in Washington township, two and one half miles west of Decatur, 102 acres. 92 acres in cultivation, nearly all black soil. | For prices inquire of Fred talk or : write A. Holthouse, Jonesboro, Ar- I kansas. 52-6. 1 Notice to Persons Filing lortgage Exemption* i I. Abe B.x'h. auditor, hereby notify | any and all persons filing mortgage J exemptions, that there will lie no exemptions filed unless made according to law. As I have had a great deal of trouble in giving thecorrect exemp tion, all on account the affidavits not being correctly made, and I insist on ■ r each person to see that his or her exemptions are made correctly. Abe Both. 1 ts. A PPUINTMENT OF EXECUTOR 9. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned have In-vn appointed Executors of the estate rtf Simeon 11-tin. Sr . late of Adem-, county deceas'd. The estate Is probably solvent DYOXIS St It MITT. THOMAS 11URKIN Merryman & Sutton. Attorneys 4-3 Aprils. I9(B. pXECUTOR 3 s \LE. Notice is hereby c ven that the undersigned Executor sos th. will of Simeon Hain. Sr.. deceased s 111 offer lor sale at i’nbllc Auction at the ate residence of the decedent, three miles south of the city of Decline. In Washington township. Aliain*county. Indiana, on Tuesday, April 29,1902, the personal propertv of said estate, consisting of three borsea. tour cows, forty hogs, six head of csttle. thirty-nine head of sheep, about six tons of hsy, about two b ndr.d bnshels of oats, seveutr-tive bushels of wheat two-horse wamm. one buggy. Buckeye mower. gram drill, hay ladders, plows, harrows, and a lot of other farming irnplemen's. household and kitchen furniture, and various other articles. TERMS OF SALE: For all amounts not exceeding Bve dollars, cash in hand. For amounts of five dollars and upwards, a credit of nine months will lagiven Note tiearing six |a-r cent Interest after maturity, with approved security, and , waiving valuation or appraisement laws, will be required. DYONIS SCHMITT. THOMXi« J DURKIN Merryman A Sutton. Attorney*. 4-1 L_ I O N King of his kind, is black. Sire Brtio Chief. Grand sire What Care I British, Grand dame Jeane by Young Lord Alterdeen. Second dame Ster ling by Contender. Third dame Doi lie by Louden Tom. Fourth dame Jess by Dick Terpin. Fifth dame Bonnie by Scotch Chief Imp. His blood honest. Douold, dame Jess by Wellcom. SeconT dame Honest by Honest Sandy. Third dame Jennie by Qobert Hood. Fourth dame Fan nieby Commander. T A M F> A . A coach horse, is all that constitutes stoutness and ability to perform in freedom from tendency to’ disability. His stock has lieen wonderfully noted for immense and strong joints Jength and strength ot bone, magnifieient muscular development, permanent, square, massive built; mighty hips an<l <>xcelient barrel all knit together to form a most admirable frame, united to nervous constitution that reproduced itself in his descendants in a most wonderful degree. SHIRE HACKNEY, ’ Color, roan. His style and action good. His breeding the best. Sired by Abdallah; grand sire Gloster. Dame Silvertail. and grand-dame Almont. They are strong drivers of great bone, muscle and sinew. Lung i power of great end tirauce. These three horses will make the . season, 1902, at Eli Myers' livery ( barn, north second street, Decatur, Ind. Your patronage respectfully solicited. JESSE BI'TLER, Owner.. Allen’s ~ Lung Balsam The best Cough Medicine. ABSOLUTE SAFETY should be rigorously insisted upon when buying medicine. A°i n t depends one s ‘ CAM ALLEN S lung BAL. , SAM contains NO OPIUM in form * nd *• ”Nfe. sure t Cfii ,n cascs o< CROUP. UVLDS,deep-seated COUGHS. Iry it now, and be convinced.

■\n Holiest M 7 . I w-, WL IK W 11 ■ ■ I R i-niineii;. I P.W.Tucker. AIJ IV/// be in De: E| nt the BURT HOUSE, H Tlinrft Apnil R-! Four IV- - - Indiana Medic 1 nJ Surgical in.qiiiiil * 1 nnn The Oldest, The Lt' :- ■■ THIRTY YEARS i .

s.Maqy Imitators I . ■ i;oJ Permit us to call the attentionof W our readers to the important fact ■! that there are three essential H steps in the successful treatment® of disease. First, a correct ding- ■ ; nosis; second, the selection of K the proper remedies in their best ft possible form, and third, a thor-1 ■ ough knowledge of knowing how B to prepare these remedies and B their physiological effects upon B the human body, in ord-rtr> effect® a cure. In the three above named B facts Dr. D. W. Tucker has m B equal in the state of Ind: ma. fit B has treated many t: ".Hands 018 cases within the last thirty years.® If one-fourth of the people tbM® are now in the cemvtm had cos-® suited and been treat' 1 by some® good Specialist inst a ; of thdrß family doctor, they would hare® lived twenty years longer. Only® a Specialist who thoroughly no-■ derstands Chronic I’!- isos, cal J treat them successfully. Dr. ■ Tucker is without d 0..! : the ai>lest Specialist in this -rate, and K has treated and cur ; more® Chronio and Private I■ - ?■ than ■ all the other Special!.-1- in tna® state combined. B A doctor that ha.- restored® thousands to health. .u.-i canprtr® duce undeniable proof the fact® must be regarded wi’h respect® This is the record of I r Tucker.® which can not be e<pi.ii. >1 i'. v aB ?B other Specialist in the I nited® States. His success i- the result® of THIRTY YEARS of carefd® study, extensive res' : r< n. ' ; ‘' ser 'B| vationand remarkable ( xperienci® in the treatment and cure 0 || thousands of Chronic and I’rivat* ®« Diseases of the Brain, He*rt.W Lungs, Liver, Kidneys. Bladder,® Rectum, Gleet, Impoti-my. N‘ n ous Diseases, Catarrh. Piles,tud g cocele, Strictures, all Private Di* K ease of both sex. if Dr. 11 ' S can not cure you no of her ■ in the United States can. Heh* ■ deposited in bank OM. TtlOl'S' H AND DOLLARS that ne has treat" I ed more cases of Chronic Pieea*** ■ and performed more cures than anv THREE SPECIE I 11 a ISTS in the state of Indiana- I will not deceive you, and guaran ■ „ tees to cure every case he take I for treatment. He is vouch" 11 H by the best banks and cilia® 119 0 I. the state. E: The only Master Sp< ciali* t ,ntll ' I Htate of Indiana can be found m • r. at the Indiana Medical and > ■ cal Institute; st N‘>- K Wayne street. ■ ("all"" ■ DR. D.W.TIWj Fort Wai ne, India 118 ' |