Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1902 — Page 3

JggU*. DOCTOR J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. Hut Special Attention given to Eye, Ear, 1 Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Eitting Glasses. Thoroughly equipped for treating Eye, Ear Throat and Catarrhal cases. CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoflioe. V RESIDENCE -cor. Monroe and Ninth sts Office Hours- -9 to 11 a. ni. 2 to 4 p. m. Don’t miss this offer of watches at Bensley’s 271 f Call at Coffee & Mangold’s and learn prices. They are the lowest in the gas belt. 26-3 Foley’s Kidney Cure makes the diseased kidneys sound so that they will eliminate the poisons from the blood. Holthouse Drug Co. s Only as long as this stock lasts will I sell watches at these prices. They are all first-class watches at Hensley’s. 27 ts The most popular man with the trust and tariff barons is the fellow who wants to legislate against them but wants to put it off for awhile. Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No cure, no pay. Price 25 cents. ts I have One Hundred Thousand Dollars SIOO,OOO, to loan on real estate at 5A per cent interest. No commision. I). B. Erwin. ts Bald headed men are so numerous in Cincinnati that an audience in that citv is said look, when viewed from above, like a cobble-stone pavement. To Cure a Colp in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggist refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c. ts A woman is very much like a kettle, if you come to think of it. She sings away so pleasantly then she stops and. when you least expect, she boils over. Feed for pneumonia. Dr. J. C. Bishop, of Agnew, Mich., says, “I have used Foley’s Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumonia with good results in every case.” Refuse substitutes. Holthouse Drug Co. s The Huntington Indiana Business University is the best equipped and most highly endorsed business training school of Indiana. Expenses half that of other cities. Positions for graduates. Send for free catalogue. O. E. Hawkins, Pres. 22-10 Low Rate n f 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

Decatur National BANK. Decatur, Indiana. Capital . . . . ‘ . $100,000.00 Surplus 12,000.00 DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. P. W. SMITH. President. W. A. KUEBLER, Vice President. C. A. DUGAN, Cashier. E. X. EHINGER, Assistant Cashier. D. SPRANG. J. H. HOBROCK. JOHN B. MASON. DEPOSITS. July 28, 1597 77 July 14. 1898 IS&ISS June 20. 1900 SE’iS! July 15-1901 *».« f; July 18, 1902 .. 392,.>14 14 Bement Peerless Plows Look Out for \ Infringements ■ and Imitations VI I BEMENT PLOWS TURN THE EARTH Every quality and feature that could contribute in making a perfect implement is embodied in the construction of this plow. It is positively the lightest draft plow ever put in a field; it turns the most satisfactory furrow; it handles easiest; it is most durable, most rigid under the hand, STRONGEST HANDSOMEST AND BEST All materials are most carefully selected from the highest grades. Only skillful and experienced mechanics are employed under the inspection of practical and successful/manufacturing experts. F Bement's Sons For Sale by NIBLICK & SUMMERS <

Remember the first come first served, and the first served gets the cream of watches at Hensley’s. 27tf | Avoid ()f k . d or bladder disorder b* taking Foley’s |Mney Cure, lolthoufe Hg s You cannot afford to miss this offer « Hensley son watches if you have to borrow the money at eight per cent. 27tf J. S. Bower’s stone quarry is in oneration getting out wall bridge, range supply any amount. 124 m MarkE. Swan who wrote “Brown’s in town has written something het- » nf J“ eß . il “ A Runaway Match, and it will strike here tonight. For Sale or Trade:—l have some very good farms tor sale or exchange. Also a list of city property for sale at a bargain. Money to loan at five per cent. P. K. Kinney, Stone Block Decatur, Ind. 10- m 6. FRISTOE’S SMOKE HOUSE next P (>H h>flice, will be open Sept. 23-26 for the sale of tobacco and cigars, on account of the great North ern Indiana Agricultural fair. Al r nstoe, proprietor. 21tf Decatur Belgian Hare Company We have just bought the entire stock of the Fort Wayne Rabbitry, and are prepared to furnish hares, line rufus red, four red feet, at reasonable prices. Some extra fine young bucks we will sell at a bargain. E. H. Leßrun & Son, Mgrs. 4t Indian’s corn crop, which is estimated at 40,000,000 bushels, bids fair to rival its output of literature, which is only a few thousand bushels more than that, and everybody still busy with pen and paper. When you wake up with a bad taste in your mouth, go at once to Holthouse Drug Go’s drug store and get a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. One or two doses will make you well. They also cure biliousness, sick headache and constipation. s Indiana has 101,050 “old bachelors,” and 119,000 “old maids,” many of the latter being really handsome, intelligent and with every element of making good wives. That Indiana should have 18,529 more bachelor maids than bachelor men is very remarkable, for the state is distinguished for its beautiful and attractive women. His life saved by Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. “B. L. Byer, a well known cooper of this town, says he believes Chamber lain’s Colic, Cholera Remedy saved his life last summer. He had been sick with what the doctors call bilious dysentary, and could get nothing to do him any good until he tried this remedy. It gave him immediate relief,” says B. T. Little, merchant, Hancock, Md. For Sale by Holthouse Drug Co. s

C. L. Meibers and wife and Mrs. Charles Helm attended the Van Wert fair last Friday. I here lived’lti the city of Worcester A man who could crow like.a roocester; But as he He often caught cold, and then couldn’t crow as he urcester. 1’ oley s Honey and Tar is peculiarly adapted for chronic throat troubles and will positively cure bronchitis, hoarseness and all bronchial diseases. Refuse substitutes. Holthouse Drug Co. s Lawrence R. Cartwright of Portland, has been awarded the scholarship by the Indianapolis College of Law. The scholarship is for one years tuition in the Junior class. The cash value of the scholarship is $75.0q. Get a free sample of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets at Holthouse Drug Co’s drug store. They are easier to take and more pleasant in effect than pills. Then their use is not followed by constipation as is often the case with pills. Regular size, 25c per box. s It may require the experience of thecoming winter, when the poorman will have to pay prohibitive prices for coal and extortionate prices for food and clothing, to convince the people of the iniquity of the trust fostering policy of the administration. It may, but we doubt it. A New Jersey editor’s testimonial. M. T. Lonch, editor of the Phillipsburg, N. J., Daily Post, writes: “I have used many kinds of medicines for coughs and colds in my family but never anything so good as Foley’s Honey and Tar. I cannot say too much in praise of it.” Holthouse Drug Co. H Voters should remember that if they move from one township to another after September 5, they will lose their vote on November 4. In order to vote you must have resided six months in a state, sixty days in a township, and thirty days in the precinct prior to election day. Doctors could not help her. “I had kidney trouble for years,” writes Mrs. Raymond Conner of Shelton, Wash., “and the doctors could not help me. I tried Foley’s Kidney Cure, and the very first dose gave me relief and lam now cured. I cannot say too much for Foley’s Kindey Cure.” Holthouse Drug Co. s Matthews, which boasts of a population of 4,(XX) has not a minister, protestant or catholic. The United Brethren have a little building in which a congregation of six worship and the Prosbytotians have organized a congregation of 35 members but have no church. Feet swollen to immense size. “I had kidney trouble so bad,” says J. Cox of Valley View, Ky., “that I could not work, my feet were swollen to immense size and I was confined to my bed and physicians were unable to give me any relief. My doctor finally prescribed Foley’s Kidney Cure which made a well man of me.” Holthouse Drug Co. s Osteopathy in Decatur at Burt House on Monday and Thursday from 8a.m.t03 p. m. Examination free. Acute and chronic diseases cured. Head office. Ft. Wayne, Ind., rooms 24, 25, 26, Bass block, over First National bank. Graduate of Dr. A. T. Still, Kirksville, Mo., and licensed by the State Medical Board. Nearly three years in Ft. Wayne with best of references. 4-ts

Young Teddy is not lost in the shuffle by any means. On the day his father narrowly escaped death, he was driven off farms in Dakota by dogs alleged to have been set upon him by populist farmers. The next day his gun was accidentally discharged and the shot lodged in the clothing of a prominent official of the Northwestern railway. Cured Hemorrhages of the lungs. “Several years since my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hemorrhages,” writes A. M. Ake of Wood, Ind. “I took treatment with several physicians without any benefit. 1 then started to take Foley’s Honey and Tar and my lungs are now as sound as a bullet. I recommend it in advanced stages of lung trouble.” Holthouse Drug Co. s Notice to Contractor*. Notice is hereby given that the plans and specifications for a new church to be built by the German Lutheran congregation at the corner of Monroe and Eleventh streets, will lie ready for your inspection after September 3, at Holthouse, Schulte & Co.’s clothing store. We reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Henry Schulte, Wm. Linn and Crist Boknecht, Bldg. Com. A former LaGrange lady, who was a Christian scientist, was once asked by the hired girl for a week’s lav off, as her father was sick. The lady replied: “You must not say he is sick, you must say he thinks he is sick.” She let the girl go, however, and in a week, when the girl returned, inquired: "How is your father?" “Well, replied the girl, he thinks he is dead; we buried him yesterday. 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 headache, 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. Blackburn At Christen, ts

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Walling, Tenn., April 29, 1898. I was very bad, down nearly all the time Buffering with my side, back and kidneys. and would have been dead long ago without relief. After taking Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm a few days I found it was helping me, and by the time the second bottle was gone I was well and have been in good health since. James Fisher, Sr. For sale by Holthouse Drug Co. s The price of leather has advanced in the past few weeks and as a result shoes will cost more this winter than before. A dealer says that the present increase does not effect them very much and that the price of shoes here would advance only a few cents on the pair. Notice to Wheelmen. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 25 cent bottle of Henry & Johnson’s Arnica and Oil Liniment, if it fails to cure bumps, bruises, scratches, chafes, cuts strains, blisters, sore musles, sunburn chapped hands or face, pimples, freckles, or any other ailments requiring an external application. Lady riders are especially pleased with Arnica and Oil Liniment, it is so clean and nice to use. Twenty-five cents a bottle; one three times as large for 50cents. Page Blackburn. ts Articles of incorporation for the Montpelier Driving Park and Fair Association have been filed with the secretary of state. The association is capitalized at $170,000. An officer said this morning that the work of constructing the track would be commenced in the near future, and rap idly pushed to completion. Here’s your chance to buy you a watch and chain. I must have money and space for my other order of watches which has been given the same as last year, six thousand dol lars order. I will sell as long as they last my entire stock of watches for the following prices! must lie cash: My $25.00 watches for $21.25, $20.00 watches for $16.75, SIB.OO watches for $13.27, $13.50 watches for $12.00. $12.00 watches for SIO.OO, SIO.OO for $7.50. SB.OO watch for $5.50. Henlsly. 27tf Owes his life to a neighbor’s kindness. Mr. D. P. Daugherty, well known throughout Mercer and Sumner counties, W. Va., most likely owes hie life to the kindness of a neighbor. He was also hopelessy afflicted with diarrhoea; was attended by two physicians who gave him little, if any, relief, when a neighbor learning of his serious condition, brought him a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which cured him in less than twenty-four hours. For sale by Holthouse Drug Co. s

A new comedy by Mark E. Swan, author of many popular successses entitled “A Runaway Match” will be seen at Bosse's opera house tonight. It is something strictly up to the minute, with all the latest and most popular songs, dances and marches of the day interspersed together with a funny plot, which causes many amusing situations. A good laugh is in store for everybody who goes to the ojiera house tonight. Do this now. Do you need a cough medicine? If so send for a bottle of Marshall’s Lung Syrup, it will help you as it has helped others. Do this now or it may be too late, many eases of consumption have originated out of a slight cough, and you cannot afford to take chances. This medicine will cure any cough or cold, or any affection of the throat or lungs. Dr. Marshall's Lung Syrup is the l>est for lagrippe as it has never failed to cure. It is sold on a guarantee, and you will be satisfied if you will only give it a trial. Pric 25, 40and SI. By druggists. s The obliging clerk had taken down piece after piece of goods until he could hardly see over the pile on the counter: “I don't care to purchase today," remarked the shopper, as she turned away; “I was looking for a friend.” “There is one more piece on the shelf, madam,” said the clerk: “your friend may be behind that.” A remarkable record. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has a remarkable record. It has been in use for over thirty.years, during which time many million bottles have been sold and used. It has long lieen the standard and main reliance in the treatment of croup in thousands of homes, yet during all this time no case has ever been reported to the manufacturers in which it failed to effect a cure. When given as soon as the child becomes hoarse or even as soon as the croup cough appears, it will prevent the attack. It is pleasant to take, many children like it. It contains no opium or other harmful substance and may lie given as confidently to a baby as to an adult, For sale by Holthouse Drug Co. s

Mark E. Swat’s “A Runaway Match” funnier, brighter, better and breezier than Brown’s in Town,” or “Whose Baby are You?” will appear here for the first time tonight at the Bosse opera house. For Sale 210 acres, four miles from Fort Wayne,city of 50,000 inhabitants. Electric road through farm to city. All cars stop at farm. Two sets of improvements, fine springs. No better farm in Allen county. Price and terms reasonable. Address, T. J. Rittenhouse, Owner, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 27-1 Brim full of sizzling fun. bubbling over with pleasing* specialties and embellished with gorgeous costumes and magnificent scenery and effects the new Swan comedy, “A Runaway Match," willl make its first appearance here tonight at the opera house. Attention Teachers. Don t forget that the price of the Saturday Evening Post will be increased to $2.00 and the paper enlarged to twice its present size by September 10th. This is saying a great deal for it is already the best magazine on the market and you can use it to splendid advantage in your school room. Any person sending me the present subscription price, SI.OO, between now and September 10, 1902, can have the magazine sent to them for one year, fiftytwo issues. Don’t wait if you want a magazine bargain. W. O. Warrick, Bluffton, Indiana. 26-2

We have heard of men being so cross eyed that they could look into their ear and the tears would roll down the back of their neck when they cried; but now comes the sad story of a man who has so little hair on his cranium that ho tics a string around his head so he can tell how high to go when he washes his face. Good Advice. The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people of the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects, such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpation of the heart, heart-burn, waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow- skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food aftereating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you. Try it. Get Green’s Prize Almanac. Blackburn & Christen ts When the widow leaves home with the son and the daughter elopes with the father the fun has just commenced in “A Runaway Match,” the screaming comedy “hit” to appear here tonight at Bosse’s opera house for the first time. The company presenting this plav are made up of the very best metropolitan talent and is said to be an excellent one, special and elabor ate scenery will be carried for each and every act, something one does not see very often with the best of comedies. Wanted. We would like to askthrough the columns of your paper, if there is any person who has used Green’s August Flower for the cure of indigestion, dyspepsia, and liver troubles that has not lieen cured and we also mean their results, such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, habbitual costiveness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches, dispondent feelings, sleeeplessness in fact, any trouble connected with the stomach or liver? This medicine has been sold for many years in all civilized countries, and we wish to correspond with you and semi you one of our books free of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try one bottle first. We have never known its failing. If so, something more serious is the matter with you. Ask your oldest druggist. G. G. Green, Woodbury, N.J. ts Mark E. Swan has written some awfully clever plays including "Brown’s in Town,” “Whose Baby are You?” and the “Princess of Patches," but his best effort, acknowledged so by himself, press and public is “A Runaway Match” which will be seen at the opera house (tonight) Thurs dav. Sept. 11, for one performance only “A Runaway Match" contains more actual merit than anything else turned out by him and one of the commendable features is the manner in which he has handled all of the characters in this play and the lines he has given them to speak. Every character is natural and not overdrawn, the scenes are all well laid, and the ludicioushappenings are all of deep comedy plot. The company is a carefully selected one, made up of the very best metropolitan talent, the scenic effects, something not carried by the average company, are a pleasing acquisition.

Public Sales. Wm. F. Fulk will offer for sale at at public auction at his residence one mile east of Honduras and four miles south of Peterson at 9 o’clock a. tn., September 17th. The following personal property to-wit: Fourteen head of cattle, 5 cows, 4 year old Durham bull, 1 two-year-old heifer fresh this fall, 2 yearlings, and 4 spring calves; 2 work mares; one Berkshire boar, 1 year old; 2 sows with pigs at their side; 150 head of poultry; 1 Walter A. Wood binder, 1 Champion mower, 1 Tiger hay rake, l?Hake drill, 1 Thomas hay tedder, 1 riding cultivator, 2 shovel plows, 1 spring tooth harrow, 2 two-horse breaking plows, 1 corn marker, 1 heavy land roller, 1 twohorse Turnbull wagon, 1 old wagon, 2 log chains, 1 spring wagon, 1 top buggy, 1 road cart. 1 wheel barrow, 1 bob-sled, 1 fanning mill, 1 corn shelter, 1 feed cutter, 1 hay ladder, 1 adjustable hog rack, fence pickets, 4 pitch forks, 2 dung forks and 1 dung hook, 1 400-pound Steelyards, 1 240 pound groceryman’s scales, 1 three hole gasoline stove, 1 New Home sewing machine, 4 hoes, I mattock, 1 ax; 1 cross-cut saw, 13 acres corn in field, oats in bin, 22 cords of good dry wood, 1 cook stove, 5 rocm stoves, carpets, all house hold furniture, and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms: All sums of $5.00 and under cash in hand, over that amount a credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving approved security, 6 per cent for cash. William F. Fulk.

A person out west is offering for sale grass seed gathered from the path of rectitude. A religious contemporary - fears that the path must be sadly overgrown with grass, as it is so little traveled. Mme. X., a woman who was an inveterate talker, died recently, and following is the manner in which her son in law announced her demise: “My mother-in-law ceased to talk this morning at 7:15 o’clock.” Block Island had a swell smoker the other night. It started with a cigarette. According to the Philadelphia Press four hotels participated and tbo total cost was about J 150.000. The insurance companies paid the bill. Who can fathom the delights of a S5(l0,009,000 man and his “kid?” While the former is viewing apples of gold in pictures of silver, the latter can chew up greenbacks to make “spitballs” to fire at the teacher. There are advertisers who think they must get all that is coming to them in the space they buy and with this end in view’ Utterly jam words in their column leaving no white paper for purpose of contrast. Yet too many words are less effective than too few words. Wide spaces and lilieral blank places may be used very profitably at times. Certainly there are far more advertisers who err in writing too much than there are of those who write too little. Printers’ Ink. Esther, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charley Bonke, born June 13, 1902. Died September 3, 1902, age 2 mo. and 21 days. A bud the Gardner gave us, A pure and lovely child, He gave it to our keeping To cherish under filed. But just as it was opening To glory of the day, Down came the Heavenly Angel And took our bud away. Darling Esther, she has left us; Left us, yes. for evermore; But we hope to meet our love one, On that bright and happy shore - Cancer cured by Blood Balm. All skin ami Blood diseases cured. Mrs. M. L. Adams. Fredonia, Ala., took Botanic Blood Balm which effectually cured an eating cancer of the nose and face. The sores healed up perfectly. Many doctors had given up her ease as hopeless, hundreds of cases of cancers, eating sores, supperating swellings, etc., have been curl'd by Blood Balm. Among others, Mrs. B. M. Guerney, Warrior Stand, Ala. Her nose and lip were raw as beef, with offensive discharge from the eating sore. Doctors advised cutting but it failed. Blood Balm healed the sores, and Mrs. Guerney is as well as ever. Botanic Blood Balm also cures eczema, itching humors, scabs, scales, bone pains, ulcers, offensive pimples, blood poison, carbuncles, scrofula, risings and bumps on on the skin and all blood troubles. Druggists JI per large bottle. Sample of Botanic Blood Balm free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special medical advice sent in sealed letter. It is certainly worth while investigating such a remarkable remedy, as Blood Balm cures the most awful, worst and most deep seattsl blood disetw'-s. For sale and free samples in Decatur, By Holthouse Drug Co. s