Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 July 1893 — Page 4

We have placed on our Counter

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Midsummer Sale.

This means Bargains for you. The Trade Palace always does as it advertises. Commencing

Tuesday Morning, Julj 25th.

We offer our entire stock of Goods at Cut Prices. Every Piece of Goods in our store goes and no reserves.

Silks, Dress Goods, Trimmings, Millinery, Spring or Fall Wraps, Notions, Cloths and Cassimeres, Draperies, Lace Curtains, Curtain Goods, Shades, Portiers, Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, and a store filled with the best stock of goods ever in Crawtordsville. They all go in this cut sale.

Half Wool Challies at 14c per yard.

Big Line Straw Hats 10 and 20c.

At Your Own Price, Regardless of Cost.

A lot of Linens, Towels, Handkerchiefs, Organdies, Demities, Monsleines, Crepes, Crepons, Swisses, Mulls, White Stripes, and Plaids, Satines, Satin Glorias, Etc., only slightly damaged by smoke

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And every yard goes out in this sale at what it will bring We opened the season with a stock of jgoods that surprised our competitors, and beat the record for beauty and low price. We will close it with a big stock disposed of and and the best pleased lot of customers you ever saw, as we

And the dollar you spend in this gale will go the farthest last the longest, get more style, more quantity, more quality and do you more good in service, worth and wear, than any meney you can spend this summer. So come early, Ladies, for the goods will be on the counter in the morning with prices that will make them go, and first come, first served. Respectfully,

McClure&Graham

NORTH WASHINGTON STREET.

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JULY 29, 1893.

SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTS.

Sixty-Five "Years As Officiating Priest At the Marriage AltarLast Sunday's Indianapolis Journal contained the following article concerning Elder Vancleave, it appearing under the heading of "Cupid's Rest Lieutenant":

It has long been conceded by the Indiana clergy that the chief dispenser of matrimenial joys ovists in the person of Mathias

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Vancleave, of the Primitive

Baptist church at Crawforesville. The "elder," as he is commonly known to his friends and neighbors, is a Hoosier product, being bom and reared in Brown township, Montgomery county. Elder Vancleave has spent nearly eighty-three years in expounding the good old "hard shell" doctrine and officiating at the marriage altar. That the Elder can with conscious pride lay claim to the matrimonial medal will not be disputed when it is known that one day last week he united in marriage hisseven hundred and sixtieth couple.

Elder Vancleave entfired the Baptist ministry at an early age and when just turned eighteen he performed his first marriage ceremony, uniting in marriage Thomas Doyle and Miss Mary Sarvies, prominent young people of Brown's Valley, Ind. With the launchiqg of these young hearts on the untried sea, the Elder begun a run on the matrimonial market has since made him a famous in. In the little library of his home he jealously guards a voluminous set of records which contain the names and correct dates of each couple whom he has bound with the oilken cord. Not unfrequently he iB now called upon to unite the children and occasionally the grandchildren of those he made happy in the younger days of his ministerial career and, strange to say, the major portion of the Elder's hymeneal knots have been tied in the cozy library of his own home- It is a rare occurence when he is called away from hiB home to officiate in his line.

It would seem that there is some strangely sacred influence which attracts the young swain to the door ot Elder Vancleave's study when the arrow of cupid has accomplished its work. To the blushing bride there is no scene half so pretty as the good old fashioned ceremony by Elder Vancleave, with no witness present save the kindly face of the minister's wife. It has been said of the Elder that his "Bless you my children" is laden with a mysterious incense which augurs a lifelong happiness. With him his record of marriages is a tender point and it would fellow indeed who would dare insinuate that the Elder has been "marking 'em up."

As to charges for his office the Elder makes none. He is happily content with the price, no matter how meagre, tendered him by the groom, and he has a choice fund of stories of the many curious ways in which he has been remunerated by newly-made husbands of limited purse.

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to begin housekeeping on small means they invariably take the first step by joining fortunes in the presence of Elder Vancleave, and to the matrimonially inclined sweethearts who are in haste to become one the domicile of the Elder is a Mecca. The good man delays not, but puts into swift execution the power with which he is vested. To the newspapers of his town Elder Vancleave is ever welcome, and no sooner has he applied the soothing remedy to a pair of restless, loving hearts than he hies himself to the office of the county paper, where he is usually greeted with -the query: "How many now, Elder?" The withered face of the old man breaks into a smile of appreciation as he proudly announces the last number of his wonderful list.

When he heralded the fact last week that his bookB registered 760 marriages, the statement was at once accepted by those who knew the old man's true and devout principles. His record as an fficiating priest at the marriage altar is truly startling and challenges the world. Elder Vancleave is the father of several grown Bone and daughters, one of the latter being the wife of the Hon. James itcCabe. recently elected totheSupreme Bench

Lillie Wants A Divorce.

Lime Manners Britton, of near Linden Thursday entered suit in the cir. cuit court for divorce from Jesse Britton, recitiag in her complaint the familiar story of cruel and inhuman treatment. She states that he obliged her tpsign a mortgage to their 80 acre farm and tg consent to the sale of all the personal property. He took the proceeds and their two- year-old son, Ray and left, She wants a divorce and $2,0u0 alimony John Southerlin, Sr., and JohnSoutherlin, Jr., of Putnam county, uncle and cousin, are made partiar defendants in the suit, they having recieved the tranBfered property.

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No sane per.-on will deny the fact that

JAKE JOEL

Sells Clothing' cheaper chan any bouse in the city. He especially prides himself on the fact that he has no old shoddy or shelf-worn goods in stock. Every article

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New and Stvlish!

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He is satisfied with straight 10 per cent, margin while others are trying to get rich on fabulous profits.

Live and Let Live is His Motto.

Main Street. Opposite Court House. .' Sign of the biar pants.

DOCTOR

LINDSEY'S BLOOD SEARCHER

For All Blood Diseases.

"My son had an abcess in his Bide, that dtscharced two quarto of matter. Dr. Lindsay's Blood Searcher cured him. J. K. BROOKS, PainesTille, O.

W. S. L'n«eott, ISiles, Ohio, had scrofnla lor thirty years, and Llndaey'8 Blcod SearcU«p «ared him. Isn't wonderful*

A lady in East Liberty, Pa., whose face wa* ered with sores, wns cured by using, one UotDr. Llndsey's Blood Searoker.

Ask your druggist for Dr. Llndsey's Blood Searcher. It will driv« out bad blood, glre you health amd long life. TRY IT.

xM'MULLiEN'S:-:

New Groom Store

105 SOUTH WASHINGTON STREET.

GOODS NEW

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STRICTLY FIRST GLASS.

CALL AND SEE US.

SAM C. SCOTT IS "WITH US.

A. J. M'MCLLEN & SON.,

CRABBS & REYNOLDS

Facilities superb and unequaled, and always the highest market price awaits you. Don't sell until you see them. It will pay you.

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New Spring Goods Now In

Beautifnl Patterns! Reasonable Prices!

Qolman & AJiirplajr, MERCHANT TAILORS.

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