Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1895 — Page 5

ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Harry Meiese was home j ester day. M. F. Rice is recreating at Warsaw. Frank Smith of Blnffton, was in town Monday. Bowen Hale of Willshire, was in town yesterday. Mr. Wildman of Geneva, was in our city Saturday. Sherman Mott spent a few days in town this week. Dan P. Bolds and wife went to Ft. Wayne to-day. Treasurer Bolds was a business' visitor at Geneva, Monday. The Rev. Gregg and family vis ; ited at Portland this week. Marions vs. Decaturs, Sunday, June ;»0, at Steele’s Park. * 1 Shaf Peterson went to Ft. Wayne M eduesday night, on business. 1 Tiie Misses Annaand Celia Smith , are at Warsaw visiting friends. Pendleton Rice and w ife are at I Marion visiting their daughter. Fred Falk made a business trip' to Wabash the first of the week, ] Mrs. M. B. Archbold visited re- ' latives at Fort Wayne over Sunday., j The first of August is the date 1 set for Max Romberg’s trip to Ger many. J. F. Mann will Sunday with his ■, wife and relatives at Pendleton. , Indiana. , Frank Christen and Francile ’ Battenberg were at Angola over Sunday. Charles Railing has returned from a siege at wairing in the re 1 gular army. 1 J. C. People and family of this i, city havetaken up their residence at Fort Wayne. A number of Vera Cruzians Sun dayed in this city at the home of Surveyor Fulk. ( Will Moon went upto Fort Way- 1 ne Saturday to look after his broter who is sick. Judge Studabaker will be home to-morrow from a few days business absence in Chicago. Nolin King petitions and prays the Hon. .Judge Heller to change his mane to Nolin Gay. Mi-s Zora Phillipps of Ossian, is spending the week in the city a guest of Miss Dess Foudy. The Musical Club promise their friends a reception at some convenient time in the near future. N. K. Todd and wife of Bluffton, , came over Saturday evening ami spent Sunday with relatives. Charles Brock was at Fort Wayne Saturday, taking a few addi tional instructions m music. J. W. Case and wifeare the proud parents of a new baby girl, which was born last Thursday night. Miss Roma Turner, ofGreenville, Ohio, is in the city visiting with her friend, Miss Katherine Meisse. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edwards was baptised at the Presbyterian church hist Sabbath morning. Miss Ella Schrock of Delaware, Ohio, was visiting in this city last week and over Sunday with Nellie Schrock. John H. Trostle, the Wells county campaign sin erand now county surveyor, was iu town a short last Friday. It can be very truthfully said that some people use one hand t<> 1 stop the devil, while he shakes his paw with the other. ( I. J. Meisse and daughter Kath- . erineand Miss Turner drove to Ft. Wayne Sunday. The former re- ; mained over several days. Mrs. Je-sie Townsend and J. C. Patterson and wife will entertain a few of their friends to-morrow . evening at the home of R. K. Allison. Agent Bryson of the Grand Rapids, and J. W. Vail with their families, will spend the month of August at some Michigan pleasure resort. On July the third and fourth the G.R.&I. R-R. will sell excursion 1 tickets to all local points at one • fare for the round trip good return- : ing July the fifth. The Elks Circus Carnival at j Lima, Ohio, July 4. The Chicago & Erie R. R. will sell excursion ' tickets at one-half rates for return , trip. For further information see . small bills or call at Erie station. ' There will be preaching at the < Christian church next Sunday, both morning and evening. The 1 morning subject will be “Our s Country a Christian Nation.” Ev- 1 ening topic : “Our Country; Some of Its Perils.” I

Mjsms Mary Former and Midge Smith are visiting relatives at Marion, Miss R. B. Patterson and Mrs. P. XX . Smith are visiting relatives at Bluffton. Mrs. Myers and daughter, of Ft. Wayne, are guests of David Hunsicker and family. A J Smith and wife leave to-day for < olen, Mich., where they will visit relatives and recreate for a week or t» o. Fred Rinehart, of Bluffton, was j here yesterday, distributing a few bills which emphasized the fact that Bluffton will celebrate the Fourth. Lake Chautauqua—Season excursion tickets now on sale to the above named resort. Remember the Erie Lines is the direct route landing passengersat the Lake with out change of cars. 36 4t Four Clover Leaf passenger conductors have been discharged this i week, for reasons not published in the companies terms of dismissal. Spotters have been on the conductors’ route tor a shoit time with this result. The Fourth of July is fast approaching. Coffee & Baker will be headquarters for fire crackers, tor pedoes, cannon bombs, and anything that will crack and at the kame I ime are harm less. —< loffee & Baker. If the Press contains any more news than usual this week, it is owing to the absence of the chief ; editor, who is attending the meet- ■ ing of the Democratic Editorial j Association, at Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind. Reiter Encampment No. 214, I. O. O. F., elected the following offi- I cers last Friday evening to serve until .Jah. 1, 1896: J. W. De Long, C. I’., Eli Crist, 11. P., Milligan Jackson, S. W., N. B. Suttles, J, W., D. Sprang, Scribe, and 11. Winnes, Treas. The T., St. L. & K. C. R. R. Clover Leaf route will issue special excursion tickets to Boston and return via various routes at greatly reduced rates account Y.P.S. C. E. and Knights Templar. Choice of nearly’ fifty routes. Ample return limit. Call on nearest agent. T., St. L. & K. C., Clover Leaf Route will issue low rate excursion tickets to Denver and other points in Colorado, July 3, 4 and sth., with return limittoSept, Ist., 1895. Choice of routes with privilege of going one and returning another. For further particulars call on nearest agent. Decatur has finally succeeded in organizing a base ball club, and the managers thereof claim to have secured the best talent to be had in this part of the country for money. The first game of the season will occur next Sunday at Steele's Park, and Marion will be the competing club. Marion has the reputation of being able to play some ball, and therefore you will see good ball played. Everybody invited to come out and encourage the management. No place in northwestern Ohio wiP offer more attractions to the pleasure seeker on the 4th of July than Spencerville, Ohio. Spencerville Division, V. R. K. of P., assisted by the citizens in geneiall have arranged for a monster celebration, the program including a grand industrial parade in the morning, horse races, bicycle races, tub races on the canal, game of foot ball, game of base ball between the fat and lean men, rope and slack wire walking, and a gorgeous minstrel show, both afternoon and evening, under a mammoth tent; closing with a magnificent display of fireworks in the evening. All to take place in the beautiful Keeth driving park grounds, Admission free to the grounds! Excursion rates on C. & E. R. R. J. W. De Long, agent. The approach of vacation days is a time for selecting some interestng place for a summer outing. A few places combine so many advantages that they quickly suggest themselves when vacation plans are being made. One of these is Bay View, rich in varied recreative delights, social and educational advantages, and growing more interesting every year. The summer announcements for this year are particularly attractive, filling nearly sixty pages < f the Bay View Magazine, and beautiful with a hundred half tone views. A package of the magazines has been secured for this place, andis at the G. R. & I. R. R. ticket office. Call for a copy. The assembly, with the finest talent obtainable from England and this country, and the great summer university, with its forty-five instructors from leading educational institutions, offer unsurpassed advantages. The G. R. &I. 11. R.makes Bay View pleasantly accessible, as all its passenger trains stop there.

Over Thirty Years Without Sickness. Mr. 11. XVettstein, a well-known, enterprising citizen of Byron, 111., writes: “Before I paid much attention to regulating the. bowels, I hardly knew a well day; Imt since I learned the evil resuits of constipation, I ') and the efficacy of U' AYER’S jHUf i Pills, 1 have not had one day’s sickness ' for over thirty years - — not one attack that did not readily yield to this | remedy. My wife had been, previ- i ous to our marriage, an invalid for years. She had a prejudice against cathartics, but as soon as she began to use Ayer’s Pills her health was restored.” AYER’S Cathartic Pills Medal and Diploma at World's Fair. To Restore Strength, take Ayer's Sarsaparilla, NOT AN INFERNAL MACHINE. Only a Harmless Little Hiner < lickins on Satchel LockA dynamo which furnishes the eleetrie light for one of the passenger trains between Chicago and Omaha on the . Milwaukee road was the cause of an j interesting episode in the sleeper the , other night, says the Chicago TimesI Herald. A stranger of rather mysterious aspect got on at Elgin on a west-bound train. He had a queer-looking satchel ■ with him, which he pushed under the 1 seat. When the porter came to make ' up the berths he put the satchel on an ; adjoining seat. Presently he paused in the midst of ! his bed-making, and, fixing both eyes ■on the satchel, stared at it. His orbs seemed to grow as he did so. Finally he cautiously approached the owner and said: “Excuse me, sah, but has you got any kind ob clockwork in dat grip, sah?” The stranger looked at him for a moment with evident surprise and replied that he had not. “Well, excuse me, sah, but .ley’s | clockwork ’round dis vicinity some- ! where, sah, and seems to me it bettah Ibe looked up. I’ve hearn of dem t'ings ! goin' off.” By this time two or three other pas- ! sengers and the conductor had come ' up, and became interested in the situa ; tion. The ticking was distinctly audible and seemed to come from the “in- ’ wards” of the grip. The stranger ■ seemed to be as much interested as 1 anybody, and remarked that his wife | might have put in the bedroom clock I instead of his collar box. He opened the satchel, but investigation into all | its recesses failed to solve the mystery. As he closed it up the ticking began ' again, and everybody was more puzzled than ever until the conductor noticed that the little ring which is at- ■ tached to all satchel locks to assist in ! opening was swinging to and fro with i the vibrations caused by the dynamo and so produced the regular “tick-tick” [ which had alarmed the porter. Then everybody laughed, and the porter went on with his work. CAT STOPS A MONKEY FIGHT. Simian* Hear the Feline Spit and Lose Ail ( ombativenens. > A battle royal between monkeys took . place one afternoon recently, says the . New York Journal, in the window of a downtown animal importer, to the great delight of all who could crowd near enough to the scene to see the I conflict. Six young monkeys were playing in a L cage behind a big plate-glass window. , Suddenly the monkeys took it into their heads to scrap. They sprang at ' each other in the wildest way and hair ’ flew at a live’v rate. I There wa sno apparent reason why the creatures should have gone at each [ other, but go at each other they did. A Donnybrook fair was not in it compared with the way these monkeys plugged and chewed each other. tach one seemed to be for himself and against all the others. “ The crowd of men and hoys on the sidewalk yelled with excitement for . several minutes. Finally a boy who is employed at a neighboring restaurant appeared with a big gray and black cat in his arms. . “Let me get near the window,” he cried, “and I’ll bet my cat will scare the life out of the whole lot of them monkeys.” The crowd let the boy through. The lad held his T lomas eat up to the glass, ■ j and instantly Mr. Cat straightened out his whiskers and commenced spitting. That was enough. The gang of monkey fighters heard ; the spitting and quit. Their fury was ! quieted in a jiffy, and they jumped to , 'I the farthest corner of the cage with a ■ unanimity that was as pronounced as their mutual aggressiveness had been. Place’s Ice Cream and soft drinks .' are sold everywhere. ‘ Dr. Christy was over from Willshire yesterday shaking hands ' with friends. Flour gone up, bread gone down. Coffee A Bakersells two large loaves for a nickel, and the size of the loaves are the same as before: When in need of Ice Cream or i soft drinks, call on J. W. Place and . get the best. We meet all reliable competition.

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CHESS AN INTELLECTUAL VICE Opinion of Black!) :n . the English Champion- Men Kutned by the Game. Mr. Blackburne, the Engli:*i chess champion, regards the game as a dangerous intellectual vice, which is spreading to rather an alarming extent. Discussing the matter he said: “I know a lot of people who hold the view that chess is an excellent means of training the mind in logic and shrewd calculation, provision and caution. But I don’t find these qualities reflected in the lives of chess players. They are as fallible and foolish as other folk who don’t know a rook from a pawn. But even if it were a form of mental discipline, which I doubt, I should still object to it on the ground of its fatal fascination. Chess is a kind of mental alcohol. It inebriates the man who plays it constantly. He lives in a chess atmosphere, and his dreams are of gambits and the* end of games. I have known many an able man ruined by chess. The game has charmed him, and, as a consequence, he has given up everything to the charmer. No, unless a man has supreme self-conti 01, it is better that he should not learn to play chess. I have never allowed my chil--1 dren to learn, for 1 have seen too much of its evil results. Draughts is a better game if you must have a game.” Having retired from the Boot and Shoe business, I take this method of notifying those indebted to call and settle. The accounts must be closed up at once, so call at the old stand where I may 7 be found at any time. A. HOLTHOUSE. Look Here I Binder Twine down from 7 to 6 cents. To those that have bought their twine of us, and every farmer that needs twine remember this is the very best twine you will find for the money. Don't be deceived, but come and see for yourselves. We will save you money on everything in our liqe. We iiieau it and don’t you forget it. F. Schafer & Loch. i I ■J I X l . 3 /Fl Right Arm Paralyzed! Saved from St. Vitus Dance. t “Our daughter, Blanche, now tis- : teen years of age. had been terribly I afflicted with nervousness, and had : lost the entire use of her right arm. We feared St. Vitus dance, and tried the best physicians, with no benefit. She nas taken three bottles of Dr. Miles’ Nervine and has gained 31 pounds. Her nervousness and symptoms of St. Vitus dan ?e are entirely gone, sue attends school regularly, and has recovered complete use of her arm. her appetite is splendid.” MRS. K. K BULLOCK, Brighton, N. Y. Dr. Miles' Nervine Cures. br. Miles’ Nervine is soia on a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. All aruggists sell it ai sl. 6 bottles for|s. or ! it will De sent, prepaid, on receipt of price Dy tne Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.

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