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Oil City Items. Farmers are busy plowingjfor wheat although it is very dry. The Berne blow ort was a great swindle and thieves were plenty on the ground and helped themselves to a few pocket-books S. Manser returned from Antwerp last Saturday. Mrs. Kate Kickner of Portland is the guest of her parents this week. Mr. J. Showalter was in Ohio last Tuts day, on business. J. T. Burley is wearing a long face all on the account of his wife leaving him. Berne Items. Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. Hopkins a 'OO y baby, last Saturday night. Frost slightly affected the corn in the prarie last week. Mr. Knarr, the balloonist made aline accension Sunday afternoon. He was sorry for having failed on Saturday. The Sullivan got the first money, in the pony race Saturday. The delegation from Berne were Misses Emma Heller and Cora Gottshalk and Mr Rev. Metzner of the Evangical church. They are to attend a convention of the A . P. A. held at Oakwood Park, Miss. Lina Fister of Columbia City was the guest of Mrs. Lavina Brown last week Mr. George Smith of Winchester, has returned home after a week’s stay in this town. Honduras Hootings. Farmers are busy plowing for wheat now. Wm. E. Fulk and wife of Decatur, Sundayed with relatives at this place. Davton Hower —a boy. Levy Johnson —a girl. Many of our people were at Berne Saturday. John Sovine has recovered from an attack of malarial fever. Died at this place August Ist Mrs. Blanche Pease, aged twenty-two years, five months, seventeen days. The deceased was a highly esteemed and well respected belle and daughter of Mr. and Mrs Mm. Graham residing near Monroe. At the age of nineteen she was joined in marriage with Vincent Pease of this place. 1 hey then went to Ohio, but soon returned and ■settled down on a farm near here and lived happily until she was taken ill. The remains were laid beneath the lillies in the Zion cemetery. ‘•Blessings on the head of Cadmus or whoever it was that first invented books. Also on the head of him who devised the scheme of getting up a dictionary that should have in it all the works that are in all of the books in the English language This dictionary is The Standard, p.ffilished by the Funk & Wagnals Co., N. Y The chief examiner of the patent office at Washington, D. C., says that it is not only the best dictionary in the English language but by far the best dictionary of any language. So if you want the latest and best get “The Standard.” S. W. Hale of Geneva, was in town last Thursday on business. Frank Crawford of Geneva, cashes up for the Press the best and only newspaper in Adams county. Over one hundred tickets were sold Saturday, the holders of whom wondered to Berne where they saw one of the largest crowds ever congregated in one body at one time. Mrs. U. S. Pease of Kirkland township, died last Thursday alt* 1 a short illness with dissentary trouble. The funeral took place Saturday with interment m the Mi. Zion cemetery.

IWU BOYB AND A COW. Hew Pete Found the Best Home He Had Ever Known. creatur* 0 ” BUak! C<ime along ’ good old Pete patted the shoulders of the cow he was about to drive to pasture It was squire. Hill’s cow, and the squire thought a great deal of it. He had a , arg ® farm > «n which he raised little tut horses, keeping only this one cow. the squire was passing, and stopped to give a more sturdy caress than 1 et. s hand had been. "If you ever let anything happen to that cow, Pete.” he said, "I’ll be likely to every bone in your body.” | ' esß *r, said Pete, as soberly as if 1. w ■ T'ls had not been accompanied with a genial twinkle in the squire's eyes. "You're the first small shaver I've ever let drive her.” "Yessir," repeated Pete, with an impressive shake of the head. “You’ll .always look out fur the railroad?” “Yessir— sure.” "And the mill. There's a mighty mean slope dowu to the log boom if an animal got started down." “Yessir—awful!” "And no fence along it." "Not a bit.” "Be sharp, then.” "Go ’long, Bunk!” Pete trudged after the cow, very glad and proud of being trusted with sueh an important duty. He was a poor little stray, who had turned up on the farm from nobody knew where. After hanging about for awhile, making friends with the animals, at'racting attention by his light-hearted, funloving spirit, he had gradually fallen into place as chore boy and general • convenience, rejoicing in every newlabor set him as giving evidence that he was gaining a foothold on the big farm, on which he soon came to have a home feeling. Bunker plodded lazily along until, ■ coming near the mill, Pete faithfully 1 tightened his hold on the rope by which he led her. The mill and its surroundings pos- ■ sessed a fascination for Pete. He had spent hours and hours lounging about 1 the old-fashioned building, taking a j kind of awe-stricken delight in its wonderful tangle of queer machinery. He had watched, with his breath held, the great saws eating their way through the logs which were hauled up an in- : cline by 1 • And gigantic hooks. The dam, the boom, every feature bore its charm for him. The q they of the squire's bugbears, the railroad, passed just beyond the mill, crossing the road. One danger passed, Pete always began looking for the other, always bearing on his mind the many stories told by the squire of valuable animals killed by locomotives. He usually aimed to get Bunker past the slope above boom as fast as possible. But just now he made a sudden pa use. “Hello, Billy! What you doing there?” Billy was a diminutive boy belonging to the miller. Pete had spent many an hour playing with him before his duties on the farm had become so well defined. Billy was playing truant, Pete knew at a glance. And not only that, but, the truancy was of a dangerous character. “Bitty, come here!” “Me ’on’t, ’ said Billy, with an obstinate shake of his shoulders, “Billy, you keep off that log!” “Me goia’ to sail my boat.” The small rebel held in his hand a block of wood, and, with the words, stepped out on the first of a number of logs which lay side by side in the boom. Pete fully appreciated the danger which the little rascal was braving. “Billy, I’ll give you some nuts if you’ll come hero." Billy stepped on the next log. “A whole pocketful, Billy.” As Billy set his foot on the third log it gave a little roll under him, but ha recovered himself by a quick step on the fourth. “Billy!" Pete’s voice took on a tone of desperation, “if you don’t come here I’ll thrash you within an inch of your life!’’. Billy hastened his step on the fifth log. Pete looked around in despair. No one was in sight. There were still two or three hours of the long summer evening's daylight, but the saws were •topped and the wheels quiet. What should he do? With every moment his frightened eyes perceived the increasing danger to the small boy. When he should reach the other log and attempt to launch his tiny craft — what then? Pete called-aloud for help, but was answered by only the hollow roar of the water washing over the dam. The miller's huu-e was beyond the mill, back out of sight. A switch "us so arranged as to back cars up for the convenient loading of lumber. Pete's perplexed glance fell upon a loaded ear standing on the track. With a rougher pull on the rope by which he was leading Bunker than that animal had ever before felt, Pete dragged her towards it. Another moment and he had secured the cow to eno of the iron step-ladders and was wildly rushing down the bank towards the logs. “Billy boy”—Pete said it coaxmgly, all the while realizing how gladly he would have carried out his threat of a thrashing—"if you’ll wait just one minute I’ll make you a boat with three masts. Honest, Billy!” Carefully he made his way over the logs just as Billy stooped to launch his boat Whether the catastrophe would have come so soon but for the friendly pursuit can never be known, but Billy, quickening his motions in fear of being prevented in his design, stumbled and toppled into the water. With a few swift steps Pete was at his side as he clung with a small, dirty hand to a cleft in the rough bark. But Vie grasp soon failed, and Pete was

Just in time to prevent his sinking in the cruel water. With loud cries he held tightly to Pete’s arms. “Stop, Billy! Wait till I get a good grip!" But Billy would not wait. Before Pete could secure any hold on the logs a desperate pull from the frightened child had caused him to lose his balance. The next moment he was pulled under water by Billy’s weight. M ith Pete’s first gasping breath as he arose to the surface he fixed one hand firmly on the rough log, then sought how he might best help Billy. It seemed as if both must go down together, but not once did he think of loosening the grasp of those small, clinging hands. W aiting until he had fully recovered his breath, he, by great exertion, contrived to pull himself partly up on the log. "No, Billy, I won't let you go. Say, Billy, just let go my arm, little fellow, so I can help you. Now, up! That’s it. Take hold here.” With an effort which brought rings before his eyes and a roaring into his head Pete at length drew Billy to a safe position on the log, and, still holding him fast, lay back for a moment, dizzy and faint. Then he sprang to his feet. Bunker must be seen to. With difficulty he restrained his impatience and carefully led Billy to a place of safety. All this while the small boy’s father and mother had been peacefully at work in their back yard, out of sight and hearing of the threatened shadow on their home. “Now, Billy, go'long to your mother, and don’t you never go on them logs again.” With the caution, half petting, half threatening, Pete turned and hurried to where he had left his cow. Gazing blankly about him, he gave a shriek of dismay, then shot away I like an arrow loosened from a bow. “Bunk!—Bunker! Le‘ go my cow, I say!” In his excitement and the rush and roar of the water Pete had failed to realize the dreadful thing which was happening. A freight train had backed I on the switch and coupled on the car ■ to which Bunker was securely tied. Bunker had started on a placid walk with the first pull on the rope, next had unwillingly hastened her footsteps —and as Pete's despairing glance reached her, was disappearing around a curve on a brisk trot. With repeated cries Pete followed at his highest speed, the cries gradually dying away as his breath failed him. The miller and his boys ran out of the yard just in time to wonder whether Pete had taken leave of his senses, and , joined in the chase. Rounding the curve, Pete •. uld see ‘ Bunker far ahead of him. Fortunate- i ly, the train was heavily laden and not moving' very last. The trainmen were all on the forward part of tl train and entirely unaware of w-hat was go- ■ ing on. Quickly out of breath, and exhausted by the compulsory speed, poor Bunker ■ once remitted her efforts, but the cruel rope dragging upon her compelled her to go on. It is easy to guess wjiat might have been her fate had not help appeared just as Pete was beginning to ! realize that his small legs were not I equal competitors in a race with a railroad train. A farm wagon was approaching the track 911 a road which crossed it. The eyes of two or three men in the wagon were attracted by the unusual attachment to the train, and the sight of Pete’s wild gesticulation. With halloos and waving of hats they brought the train to a standstill. "What's the racket?” The men gathered behind the train to find Bunker much the worse for her run. and a tatterdemalion of a boy, soaked and panting, sinking down beside her. “Oh, Bunk, Bunk!” he cried, with his first free breath, “what’ll the squire say to me now?" “What does it all mean?” asked the conductor. “Tell us about it, youngster,” observing that everyone but the boy seemed as puzzled as himself. “Who tied the cow? How did you get j so wet?” “I—tied Bunker—on to the earwhile I went to get Billy out o’ the water.” “Billy in the water!” exclaimed the miller, who had come up. “It wa n t my fault,” said poor Pete, possessed with the idea that in every feature of the calamity he must in 1 some way be held blameworthy. "No, I guess it wasn’t,” said one of the men, gazing with sympathy on the boy. "We were just passing, and seen the whole thing. Couldn’t get there till he was coinin’ up the bank with the little chap. It’s all along o' him you ain't goin' to have a funeral to your house this week, miller.” Une of the trainmen flung down a rough flannel shirt in which Pete gladly wrapped himself. “What’:< that you call your cow?" asked one of the men. “Bunk. That is. Bunk for short. Whole name’s Bunker Hill. 1 named her Bunker ’cause she's Squire Hill's ’ cow, you see!” “If we were a bigger crowd we’d give three cheers for you and Bunker | Hill,” said the conductor. “As we can’t —hold up his hat.” Pete’s eyes beamed in bewilderment jf delight as a rattle of small coins sounded in it. “If I had ray way, it would be a hat full of gold,” said the miller. The train moved on, amid cordial farewells to Bunker Hill and her faithful caretaker. “But 1 think he's too good to take care of cows,” asserted the miller’s wife. “I should never feel safe about Billy unless he comes here to be one of us.” So Pete—happy boy!—went to live at the mill, finding there, he assured himself every day, the best home that ever was known. It is pleasant to be able to say that Bunker Hill very soon recovered from the effects of her firstand last run with a railroad train. —Sydney Dayre, In j Outlook.

THE LARGEST LENS. The Splendid Achievement of an American Manufacturer. The Clarks have accomplished what has long been regarded as an impossible thing, and one which no European manufacturer of lenses could be induced to attempt. Thisis the making of a perfect lens of more than three feet across the face. No one but this American manufacturer ever thought of exceeding the twenty-six-inch lenses which are in use at several observatories on both continents, one at the naval observatory at Washington, through which Mr. Hall discovered the longsought satellites of Mars and many double stars. The highest power was supposed to be reached when the Lick telescope in California was put up with a thirty-six-ineh lens. The difficulties to be met in the production of a perfectly clear lens of great size are so many that the European observers who have wanted anything above the twenty-six-inch lens have had to take the reflecting telescope, which has a concave mirror. It requires, of course, a much ! larger reflecting telescope to get the same amount of light and the same magnitude of object. The making of this forty-one and a half-inch lens, says the New York Com- ' mereial Advertiser, is regarded as the crowning work of Mr. Alvan Clark's life. It is probable no larger lens will I ever be made. Under existing conditions a larger telescope than the Yerkes—the telescope of the Chicago university observatory for which the lens is made—would be of no great value. To increase the magnifying power is at the same time to increase the obstructions to clear vision. When the object is magnified the atmospheric ' agitation is increased to sueh a degree that distinctness is virtually sacrificed when the object glass is larger than forty-one and a half-inches. It is ; doubtful if the Yerkes will be any more useful than the Lick. Some day | it may be possible to remove the ob- 1 ' stacles to clearness in the case of a powerful lens, though the only reason for suggesting it is that Prof. Tyndall was aide to construct a glass by which thq blqe of the atmosphere was dissi- : pated in looking through a deep space. I If the Yerkes glass answers expect®- I tions it will enable an exjterienced observer to catch occasional glimpses of the Mars canals, which, though drawn I firmly on the Vatican maps, are vague ftnd wavering and almost imaginary ! through any glass. They can be seen j at all only by the trained observer. ] The great telescope will be most useful 1 in the study of double stars, which is f now a matter of special interest to ‘ many observers. — CURIOUS TREES. Several That Are Valuable, Gigantic and Historic, The largest orange tree in the south ■ is a gigantic specimen which grows out i of the rich soil in Terre Bonne parish, Louisiana. It is fifty feet high aud fifteen feet in circumference at the base. Its yield has often been ten thousand ! oranges per season. The "tallow tree” of China has a pith from one inch to two feet in diameter, according to the size of the | tree, which is composed of a greasy 1 wax, which is so highly volatile that it often catches fire spontaneously, consuming the tree to the very ends of its roots. The largest oak tree now left standing in England is “Cowthorp’s oak," which is seventy-eight feet in circumference at the ground. The oldest tree in Britain is "Parliamentary oak,” in Clipstone park, London, which is known to be fifteen hundred years old. The largest apple tree in New York state is said to oe one standing near the town of Wilson. It was planted in the year 1815, and it is on record that it once yielded thirty-three barrels of apples in a single season. There are four hundred and thirteen species of trees found growing within the limits of the United States. The curiosity of the whole lot is the black ironwood, of Florida, which is thirty per cent, heavier than water. Well dried black ironwood will sink in water almost as quickly as will a bar of lead. The “life tree” of Jamaica is harder to kill than any other species of wood ■ growth known to arboriculturists, It continues to grow and thrive for months after being uprooted and exposed to the sun. Mac’s Rejoinder. The captain of a Cunard liner one day while crossing the “herring pond,” found that his ship was not doing the speed he considered she ought to, and, putting on his best frown, he went down to the room of the chief engineer, a hard and dry Scotchman and an amateur violinist. The captain knocked at the door; the gay chords of a Scotch reel played on a fiddle was the only answer to his summons, so he burst the door open. “Mr. Mac,” he thundered, “what are you about? lam not at all satisfied with your engines; we go like snails, sir." Mr. Mac made a flourish with his bow, and, after a jolly chord, said: “Saif, my engines should has been in Liverpool these three days. 1 t’s vour slow old ship that’s at fault!” L’nhappy Comparison. Ministers cannot be “answered back” on Sunday, but on week days, sometimes, the case is different. “Why weren’t you at the kirk on Sunday?” asked a Scotch preacher of one of his parishioners. “I was at Mr. Dunlop's kirk,” was the answer. “I don’t like youi 1 running about to 1 strange kirks in that way. Not that I object to your hearing Mr. Dunlop, but I’m sure you widna like your sheep straying away into strange pastures." “I widna care a grain, sir, if it was better grass,” said the parishioner. Queer Comment Ly a Bishop. Os Bishop Bathurst, who was a great whist player, it is related that on hearing the name of a new appointment in . the chapter there was wrung from him the passionate exclamation: “I have served the whigs ail my life and now they send me down a canon who doesn't know clubs from spades!”

IN COMMAND OF THE ARMADA. Several of the Things Which Philip IL Forgot. In the Armada the crusading enthusiasm had reached its point and focus, says Froude in Longman’s Magazine. England was the stake to which the virgin, the daughter of Sion, was bound in captivity. Perseus had come at last in the person of the duke of Medina bidonia. and with him all that was best and brightest in the countrymen of Cervantes, to break her bonds and replace her on her throne. They had sailed into the channel in pious hope, with the blessed banner waving over their heads. To be the executor of the decrees of Providence is a lofty ambition, but men in a state of high emotion overlook the precautions which are not to be dispensed with, even on the sublimest of i errands. Don Quixote, when he set out to redress the wrongsof humanity, forgot that a change of linen might be necessary and that he must take money with him to pay his hotel bills. Philip 11., in sending the Armada to England, and confident in supernatural protec- ’ tion, imagined an unresisted, triumphal procession. He forgot that contractors might be rascals, that water four months in the casks in a hot climate turned putrid and that putrid water would poison his ships’ companies, though his crews were companies of angels. He forgot that the servants of the evil one might fight for their mistress after all and that he must send adequate supplies of powder, and, worst forgetfulness of all, that a great naval expedition required | a leader who understood his business. Perseus, in the shape of the duke of Medina Sidonia. after a week of disastrous battles, found himself at the | end of it in an exposed roadstead, where he ought never to have been, ninetenths of his provisions thrown overboard as unfit for food, his ammunition ■ exhausted by the unforseen demands upon it, the seamen and soldiers harassed and dispirited, officers the whole week without sleep, and the enemy, who had hunted him from Plymouth to j Calais, anchored within half a league of him. A WEIRD SEA TALE. The Deep Mystery of *n Abandoned Ship anti Its Missing Crew. One of the strangest stories about an I abandoned ship comes from the Indian ocean. In 1833 the British corvette Lizard was cruising off Ceylon. A ship ' came in sight with all sail set, and 1 making good speed through the water. , The officers took a long look, and one said: “There is something wrong about that vessel. Her crojack is loose and flapping, and there is no man at the wheel. We had better run down to her.” This was done, says the New York ‘ World, and when near it was seen that ' the ship had no crew, as there was no answer to the bail. When boarded there were no marks of trouble until, on raising a sail that was spread over the main hatch, the body of a man was found. He had been ironed to the lock-bars of the hatch cover, and had apparently been dead a week. On going into the cabin the body of an elderly man was found, fie had been stabbed to death. On examining the log-book it was on record that the ship was Spanish, from thy Phillippines, ®pd named El Frey Antonio; but, strangely, the last entry was six weeks past, and spoke of abandoning the ship at a point a thousand miles away, bound for Malaga. Spain. She was left on the road to China. A pitcher of water on the table was intaet. Could the vessel have come this long journey without meeting a storm, and how had the dead men got here? They had not been dead six weeks, and both were , Lascars. The Frey Antonio was taken into Madras, the Spanish government notified, and their answer only made the mystery deeper. The ship had sailed from Celebes more than a year before, with six Roman Catholic priests as passengers, bound for Spain, and had no Lascars among her crew. And this was all. And from that far away time until now the story- of El Frey Antonio is one of the secrets of the deep. HOW TO FIGHT INDIANS. A Recipe Given for the Benefit of Bloodthirsty Boys. Jack now took off his blue flannel jumper and overall trousers, fixed them artistically together and stuffed them out with the coarse grass growing everywhere around us. Then he held the I dummy beyond the edge of a bowlder ' in such away as to look as if the bulge of his own body were protruding, says Lippincott’s Magazine. The old, old ruse succeeded admir- ! ably, for instantly there came from the j cover, about thirty yards away, a hurtI ling shower of arrows; and as soon as , Tom and I had fired our decoy shots a | squad of hideously painted Apaches j i spring up, and with uplifted tomahawks and terrific yells, rushed toward | us. But not for far. “Now, boys!” shouted Jack, and at , the crack of our rifles the three fore- ] most braves went headlong down. For a few seconds the others stood bewildered, and then, as one after an- | other dropped under the storm of revolver bullets, fired so rapidly as to j seem like the work of a dozen enemies, ’ the surviving warriors darted off to i their ponies and scurried away. Napoleon's Death Mask. The death mask of Napoleon, which was taken immediately after the demise of the conqueror at St. Helena j by Dr. Automa rehi, was obtained under great difficulties. There was not an ounce of plaster of paris to be had on i the island, therefore the doctor scoured ; the cliffs in eveiy direction for a pjece of gypsum. This ho at last found and calcined until powdering was possible. Oh this account the work was very crude, but this notwithstanding he ha’d an offer of six thousand pounds sterling (about thirty thousand dollars) for the cast before it was a month old. Several of the replicas are now valued at twenty thousand dollars each.

R S. PETERSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR. INDIANA. Rooms 1 and 2. in the Anthony Holtbouse Block. 4. t. naacz. J. t. mebktmam. ■. p. FRANCE A MERRYMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, IND. Office—Nos. 1. 2 and 8, over Adams Co. Bank. We refer, by permission, to Adams Co. Bank. A. P. BEATTY J. F. MAKB MANN & BEATTY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW And Notaries Public. Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows buildinM. I 8080 & COFFEE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rooms over P. O. Decatur. Ind 11. F. COSTELLO. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office on west side of Second Street, over Teveres Hardware Store, Residence on west Third Street, between Monroe and Jackson. Calls DrouiDtly attended to day and night. Money to Loan. I have money to loan onthe Loan Association plan. No fees to be paid by borrowers Can furnish money on a few days notice. Buy a home and stop paying rent. Low rate of interest. Office over Donovan & Bremer camp. Central Grocery, Decatur, Ind. PA FL HOOPER GEORGE R. DICKERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Pensionsand Collections a specialty. Office In the John C. Hale Building GENEVA. ... - INDIANA. John Schurger. W. H. Reed. Dave E, Smith SCHUBGER. REED 4 SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Money io Loan at lowest rates of interest. Abstracts of tit le. real estate and collections. Rooms 1,4 and 3 Wellloy block. 38 AGENTS WANTED! To Take Orders. Trade established, position permanent, weekly pay. WE PA\ LIBERAL SALARY AM> EXPENSES TO S(’CI ESSFI L AGENTS. Now is the best time to start. For terms write quickly. ELI.U INGER X BARRY, Rochester,N.Y. JfuuHt Hope Nurseriea. Established 1840. J. ID. EEJLLK DEALER IN Grain, Seed, Wool, Salt, Oil, Coal, Lime, Fertilizers. Elevators on the Chicago & Erie and Clover Leaf railroads. Office and retail store southeast corner of Second and Jefferson Streets. Your patronage solicited. 1 I .E. H. LeBRUN, Titawj SHgia isi Hl, Decatur, Indiana. ’ 1 Office:—Corner Second and Madison street. Treats all Diseases of Domesticated Animals. making a specialty of Optical Cases. Calls day or night, promptly attended to. 26-ly Capital 1120,000. Est ablished 1871 THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking business, makes collections in all parts of the ’ dry. Buys town, township and county <>r Foreign and domestic exchange bough <>ld. luterest paid on time deposits. Officers—W. 11. Niblick. <. Studebaker, Vice President; R. K. Aih>.Hishier. and G. S. Niblick. Assistant < 'ashler A. L. DEVILBICS, DENTIST I. O. ( F. BLOCK. Professional Den:i><- Tilth extracted without pain. Especia ; :it bi ion giver, to bridge work like iihu’ n above. Terms reasonable. Office und street, over Rosenthall’s clothing . ore. 25-ly P. W. Smith, Pres J. B. Holthouse. V-Pres C, A. Pugan, Cash. E.X. Ehinger, Asst Cash Decatur National Bank Decatur, Ind. CAPITAL STOCK SIOO,OOO Directors—P. W. Smith, William A. Knobler. J. D. Hale, D. G. M. Trout, J. 11. Hobroch. C. A. Dugan and John B. Holthouse. This bunk I does a general banking business, Ina ns money ; upon approved security, discounts paper, i makes collections, sends money to any point, i buys county and city orders. Interest given . on money deposited on time certificates. Dr. G. V. CONNELL, lEliiiwy Swgeoa ui HL Decatur, Ind. ■ ; y Office I. 0.0. F. Block. Graduate of the Outarto Veterinary College and Toronto Veterinary Dental . School. Treats all diseases of domesticated animals. Calls attended to day or night. 18 .The great dress good sale takes place Aug. 8,9, 10, & 12. Come one. Come all. Jesse Niblick & Son.