Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 June 1889 — Page 5
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Summer has at last arrived, and it will not be wise to put off buying your clothing any longer. The crowd that will fill our bargain giving establishment this week will make you think of a "run on the bank" during a panic in the money market with the striking difference, that in one case people are anxious to get thetr money out, while in this case they will be anxious to get it iuto our money drawer in exchange for goods which will be sold at such low prices that will confirm our already well earned claim of being the only house in this city where bargains are given as promised. Another advantage to our customers, you can select from the
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THE CRAWFOfifisViLLfi WijfeKLY REVIEW
In the city of Crawfordsville we have a noble and magnanimous set of men occupying positions as councilmen. They are men to whom the word "grabber" can be applied without straining the meaning. Take for instance the draymen and drivers of express wagons. These magnanfmons guardians of public welfare compel each of them to pay a license for the privilege of plying their vocation upen the streets. They are as much a part of the city's business as the man who sells dry goods, groceries or drugs, and have a God-given rijjlit to earn bread without being taxed for the privilege. They now propose to levy a tax on the man who comes from the country with produce which he sells from house to house, and make him pay for the privilege of his freedom or take for his goods whatever may be offered by the dealer* who can then fix his own price to the consumer. In other words they are applying national ideas in local affairs. They are legislating to protect the dealer and starve the consumer. They collect taxes from the whole city and in order to get rid of the collections raise the salaries of city officials. The city has banished from its borders the cow of the poor man and forces him to buy milk for his children. The gutters of half the city are in a miserable condition and the city is too poor to cl6an or repair them the taxes collected have gone for other things and the property owner must pay the bill himself, or he is at once forced to pay costs for having the same attended to.
The city government is simply a figure head which goes nothing for the people's benefit, excepting of course, in the way of schools, and we need not thank the narrow-minded pennywise City Council for that. A liberal county and Stave Qxes the status of the schools. The city reaches out its hand and takes from the drayman and moving wagon owner his license fee. It reaches out after anyone who brings us what we want, and forces
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kets when the seller is allowed to treat us just as he pleases. This system can as well be applied to regular dealers, and no doubt will be when the present system succeeds in driving all other sources of revenue from us. The complaint is heard everywhere, "Why is Crawfordsville so dull?" "Why are there so many vacant business rooms?" You can read the answer in the ordinances of the city council. They have succeeded in fencing the city in so completely as is the metropolis of China. They talk of our beautiful city, and forget as a gen eral rule a corpse is fairer than the individual it represents was in life. The blood of trade is gone, and we have left the pale and bloodless consumptive, a thing of beauty maybe, but something that will soon fall into everlasting decay. We have idle men and stagnant business. They have in their wisdom allowed an ordinance to be passed which places the city at the mercy of a grasping corporation, in the shape of the water works, every individual is forced to pay whatever is charged and there is no remedy, no "balm in Gilead." If the present state of affairs continue and the same array of block-heads'or their counterparts are kept In the council, in five years' time the city of Crawfordsville will become like Covington and Rockville, so dead that the truinp of Gabriel will not awake it. The only salvation for the city and its people is to incontinently fire out, at the next election, these old-idead, moss-covered mudsills, and if possible put men in their places who have ideas in advance of the age of stone, men who dislike to see a city die and its people become mummied, who have no pet and Infamous theory of protection to kill and blight the city. Protection's effects are seen in Clay county among the miners who visited the great Benjamin last fall and voted for just what they are getting. Ita effects are seen in Crawfordsville through the alleged wisdom of a 23-calibre council in applying its principles here. God pity the city council of Crawfordsville, and in Thy unbounded Providence and Mercy save the city from destruction at its hands! ....... JOHN SMITH.
STATE NEWS.
Organized gun club at Marion. Goshen will buy an electric light plant. Mason Long is trying to reform Kokomo. Ellwood is raising $7,000 bonus for a paper mill to locate there.
Knox county wheat crop will be about threequarters the usual amount. Will make no more effort to find gas at Shelbyville. Will probably pipe it there.
Cloverdalo picnic association will have horse racing as a feature of the picnic July 25Allen M. Eldridge catches the p. in, pluui that drops to Delphi. Appointed Tuesday
A 13-year-old LaPorte giri has just become a mother. Her father skipped to escape jail.
Sensible shoe merchants of Muncie have con eluded to close stores at 8 p. in. Should make it earlier.
Harry P. Johnson, Brazil, is the author of a book entitled "The idea of bell." Wonder where he got it.
Fellow swindling Indiana women on a "tailor system" of cutting dresses. Gets the ten dollars but don't deliver the system.
Northern Indiana farmers are holding their corn. They think the out look for a poor crop is too sure and that the price will go up.
TUo Slarkets.
CBAWFOBDSYILLE.
Wheat 70 Corn 82 Hay $7 Oata 25 Butter io Egfts ii Apples 00 Potatoes 70 Young Chicks io
INDIANAPOLIS..
Cattle—We quote: Good to choice shipping steers of 1,500 to 1,600 pounds .f4 00@4 15 Fair to good shipping steers of 1,800 to 1,450 poundB 8 60@8 80 Fair to good shipping steers of 1,100 to 1,800 pounds 3 20@3 75
Hogs—We quote: Good to choice heavy $4 20@4 25 Fair to good mixed 4 25@4 35 Good to choice light 4 40@4 50 Roughs 3 25@3 75
Wheat—Firm—We quote: No. 2red 78V No. 3 red 76% Rejected 751^
Cora—Steady—We quote: No. 1 white $ 85^ No. 3 white 85% No. 3 mixed 85.%
I am at the front again with the finest line of Hardware, Stoves and Farm Implements in the Market. Lowest prices, call aud see.
DARLINGTON.
Miss Ward is reported to be better. Billy Durham could not ride the little mule. Miss McNichol went to Frankfort Wednesday.
Uncle John Hulet sports anew driving road cart. Enoch Thompson and wife spent Sunday in Frankfort.
Mrs. Mat Griffin was hooked by a cow a few days ago. Mrs. Frauk Guntle is very low and not expected to live.
W. H. Endicott has his new slaughter house in working orfier. Steve Ward is selling clover hay in the meadow for $ 1 a load.
Ed. Smith arrived here Wednesday to see Pa and Ma beforo getting married. Claton Kimler has bought Silas Booher's interest in the hardware business.
A. W. Booher will rnn J. A. Marshall's threshing machine this season. Elwood Harris will take Ed Booher's place in the livery stable and work for Cy Booher.
A little brother and sister of Mrs Aniel Booher from Kokomo, are visiting here this week. How many will have on the wedding garments when Ed and Clara come? We can't say.
News reached here of the death of Mrs. Henderson Gunkel who formerly lived near here.
One week from to-night Rev. Stafford, of Crawfordsville, will preach at the M. E. church here.
Young chickens are ripe and bring in the market nine cents per pound and scaree at that.
A little child of Charley Maguire had her arm broken last Saturday by falling from a wagon.
Miss Bertha Booher is visiting at Thorntown and Lebanon this week and will return home to-day.
Mrs. Ira Cadwallader and two other ladies, of Crawfordsville visited at A. H. Bowers last Tuesday.
Mrs. Sam Hampton is very bad sick and baa been so for some time. It is feared she will not recover.
Sam Booher and family dined at Geo. Kashner's last Sunday, and Ira Booher and wife at Dan Black's.
Wm. Hyet and A. W. Booher are mourning over the loss of a fine Jack which died one night last week.
J. H. Hollingworth has sold his pacing mare to Wm. Hyet for $300. She will be trained at Thorntown.
Lee Black who has been confined to his bed for two and a half months is no better and will not likely live much longer.
Business is dull. The merchants in Darlington are having a good rest and plenty of time to take a nap after dinner.
James Williams went to Illinois last Wednesday to remain there for sometime. We think James is looking for a wife.
Oats are good, and the corn is coming on wonderful since the rain is over. We will forget we bad a flood in a short time,
On last Tuesday evening several of Mrs. Snyders friends gave her a surprise—had icecream and a good time it being her birth day.
George Welty and Frank Elston, were seen on our streets this week, George paid close attention when he passed the millinery store.
I. Willi! te is cutting shingles and is going to make them last a life time by dipping the shingles in oil that comes from Terre Haute oil well.
Ed Booher and T. C. Thompson went to OberliD, Ohio, last Monday to learn telegraphy They will be gone eight months if they don't get home sick.
It is strange but true the post mistress could find no one more entitled to be called Editor in Darlington than the REVIEW correspondent and he recieved the ticket.
The farmers are busy this week plowing corn, making clover hay and getting ready to harvest their wheat. There will be some wheat cut Friday and Saturday.
Last week Fill Johnson and a Mr. Ham, of Shannondale came to town, got too much tan-gle-foot and had to lay in the box all night. Next morning they were fied $8 each by Squire Armstrong.
A young man reported to be from near Rom' ney was locked UD by our town marshal last week for being drunk. While he was in the box he called loud and often for Billy but no Billy came to his relief.
The little green bug that baB been on the wheat, talked so much, has not done much damage to the wheat in this part of the country. There will be some very fine fields of wheat harvested here the first of next week,
Ed Booher, who is at Oberlin, Ohio, wrote back to his folks that he was very lonesome Sunday uight, aud after he had retired to bed a lady in the parlor began to play "Home Sweet Home" aud that made bun sicker than ever.
The writer of REVIEW items at here received a ticket admiting him to the Garland Dell springs, for the season of 1889, for which he is highly pleased as they took your humble servant for an Editor. We shall use the ticket as the proprietors urged the Editor to do so.
A great many people in this part of the county are talking of going to Garland Dell springs as a place to rest. We urge upon you all to go and see the finest place of resort in this country and a good hack line running from Waveland to the springs meeting every train on the Vandalia.
Ed Smith, train dispatcher of the Vandalia, at Terre Haute and Miss Clara Moore, of Thorntown were married at the bride's parents in Thorntown last Thursday. They came to W. H. H. Smith's of this place Friday, and had a grand reception. Ed aud his beautiful young wife will return to Terre Haute the Grst of the week.
L. T. VanCleave was billed here last Wednesday a week, to give a lecture, in which the leading points of interest In England. France, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Austria, Germany, etc. were to be presented by 150 pictures, but he was met by our town Clerk and asked to pay a corporation license which he refused to pay and went away and did not lecture. We say Mr. Vancleave had no more right to take ont corporation license than a minister has to preach. In fact Rev. Vancleave is a minister himself and had perfect right to lector*. No other town ask him to pay license l)nt Dar-
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