Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 November 1898 — Page 7
ESTABLISHED 1841
No. 207
JEast Market Street.
RINK'S
IT WILL BK BARGAINS FEOMpOWTJLL CHRISTMAS.
JACKETS—Tan, Black, Castor, $8.£0. Reduced from. '$14,50. JACKETS—Tan, Castor, Black, $10,00. Keduced from $18.50 JACKETS—Tail, Blaek, Castor, Blue, $12,50. Reduced from $20.
Cut deeper than all—The Fur Collarettes, Capes, Jackets and Neck Scarfs. We warrant all onr American Seal Jockets for two years. Repairs free.
RINK'S
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.
Uncle Sam
has on his glasses watching the interests of Cuba with a just eye. If vou are watching your own interest in house or in office, you can't do it properly without your eyesight is perfeet. If it is affected in any .way have your eyes fitted with the proper glasses. "We will furnish you with glasses that will make you think you ave a new pair of eyes after we have tested them.
KLINE.
Jeweler and Optician. Opp. Court House.
Summer
108 South Green Street.
YOU GI5T
:N Better Beer from a half barrel than from a fourth of a barrel. You also get better beer from a barrel than a half barrel. We are now tapping fromjbarrela exclusively.
"THE LODGE."
wasturle:
CRAWFORDSVILLE. INDIANA, SATURDA NOVEMBER 2(5, 1898.
CATTLE STOLEN
And Recovered by the Prompt Work
of the Detective Association.
Sunday night a thi«f broke into the pasture attached to the farm of Mrs. Sarah Cowen, some five miles north of town and took therefrom three head of steers. Mrs. Cowen discovered her lose next morning at feeding time and promptly notified a number of members of the horse thief detective association. The steers it was soon discovered hud been driven in a north course, and a number of the detectives started io that direction. In a few hours the cattle were found on a road some four miles Bouth of Lafayette where the thief seems to have abandoned them and fled. They were returned to Mrs. Cowen the same day. The thief is unknown, but two or three individuals, we loarn, are suspected, but no arrests made.
Badly Burned.
Ed Voris met with an accident last Saturday evening, at his house on west Main street, that came near costing him his life. Some time during the evening the gas in his furnace had gone out, which has often occurred during the present irregular pressure. About 8 o'clock the family detected escaping gas and Mr. Voris hastened to the furnace in his cellar to find the gas escaping rapidly. He turned it off and th-n withdrew for several minutes to give the gas time to escape. When he returned to the cellar he could scarcely detect the odor of gas and struct a match to re-light tho furnace. Instantlj tbere w*s a loud report and Mr. Voris
nearly twenty ieet
by the explosion. His eye-brows, eyelashes, mustache and moat of his Hair burned, while bis face and hands wera badly blistered. A doctor^was hastily summoned and dressed the wounds but Mr. Voris was confined to the house most of the present week.
To Reimburse Soldiers. According to several members of the legislature, a bill will be passed, on the recommendation of the governor, to reimburse the soldiers of the Spanish war for the money they had to expend for second-h ind clothing. When the war broke out, the national government was not prepared to uniform all of the soldiers of Indiana, and they were supplied with old elothos that were piled away in the basement of thestate house. When Indiana filed its claim against the government, a pretty stiff price was charged for this old Jilunder, on the theory that the government would cut. down the figures. Instead the government charged the price up to the clothing account ot the soldiers, and thus the troops had to pay a largo price for the cast-oiT uniforms. The idea of the bill is to pay the soldiers what the government charged them, which will amount to about $7 for each enlisted man.
May Be Cut Oft.
Rumors of Darlington and Thorntown being shut off the gas line aro rife. We have good pressure hero and enjoying the luel but it would bv.- much better l'or the town financially if it had never been introduced. The money spent each month for gas and sent out of the country would, if expended for wood and coal, circulate in this vicinity and be of great ben lit to the laborers who prepare the material.-—Darlington Echo.
Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving had about the usual observance this year that is usually attached to it. During a portion of the day most of the business houses were closed, religious services were held at some of the churches, turkey was the principal subject of uiscussion and digestion at many tables, and fellow thirsting for a hot drink found the back door open to some saloons.
School Board.
The county school board was in session on Monday. All teachers present both days this week at the Teachers' Association will receive one day's salary. Those who failed to attend will have one day's salary deducted
Completed.
The brick work upon the JJiachof building will be about completed this w«ek. After the roof is placed in position the plasterers will next take it in chartre.
Open To-day.
John Wampler will open his confectionary store in bis new place opposite tbe Bischof Ouilding, to-day. The old building occupied heretofore by him will bo torn down next spring.
Widow's Pension.
'Squire Stiiwell has sucured a pension of {12 per month for Mrs. Elizabeth Spinning, widow of the late Wm. Spinning of Wallace, Fountain county.
Our "Jim" for U. S. Senator. The tfayette Leader has the following to say ivynrii the matter of a Senator to succoed Turpie:
That within two months a resident of Lafayette will be governor of Indiana! He referred to Hon. W, S. Haggard. He expressed the opinion that there was an hourly gathering force in the rural districts that would nominate the present governor for UnitedfStates senator. The cry is beiog raised that the bar has represented toe state for many years, to the exclusion of the other professions as well as the agriculturists.
Wm. S. Haggard, continued the wise man is as certain to be Indiana's executive as the legislature meets. It's in the air, and no power can head off the onward march.
The prophet may be right,"Jl am certain he is sincere. When I remember the extensive acquaintance of Governor Mount throughout the state, and recall the fact that in every county delegation in the republican nominating convention there were from two to a dozen delegates who personally knew and spoke of "Jim" .Vlount, I can comprehead that the farmers have a strong pueh if they combine. j.
To Consolidate Schools. State Superintendent Geeting sees numerous advantages arising from the consolidation of small schools, and in his report gives good reasonsjfor doing away with the smallest ones. It is held that the movement enables better grading and classification of pupils, that the pupils can work to better advantagethat more time can be given to recitations. Mr. Geeting also thinks that it would result in longer terms of school and the employment of .better teachers at higher salaries, and would result in discipline and training which would be invaluable. The plan, he says, also affords broader companionship and better attendance. He thinks it would lead to better school buildings, better equipment ana a larger supply of books and apparatus and would quicken public interest in the schools. The report says that where a township maintains ten schools where six would as well answer the purpose, the combining of the ten into six would mean a savin of money and would do away with the general waste where a school has only eight or ten pupils Statistics sent to the department of public instruction show that under the present, plan the township schools have the shortest terms and the teachers are the poorest paid.
It is recommended that only the smallest schools in a township should be abandoned and the larger on(*9 continued. ....
Nickum Indicted.
At the late session of the U. S. grand jury, Nickum, of Logansport, who pretended to have discovered and invented a perpetual light, was indicted for using the mails fraudulently having disposed of 'Tights" for the use of his "light" in several States, using the mails in the transaction of the business. He seems to have counted his chickens before they were hatched, as his invention, if he has one, has not been patented and neither has any responsible persons seen it in operation. This is doubtless the linal explosion of the 'perpetual light" business.
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Poor Bill Distributor.
Concerning the distribution of bills advertising thoir business in neighboring by towns merchants, the Waynetown Dispatch last week says: "Wnen they see it in the Despatch they know it's so, but when, you place it in a lot of bills that are rolled up together and tied with string, and the bills are thrown on the street or over the front yard fence, they don't know anything about it, for they never read the bills. This would bo a good iti for Crawfordsville business men to read who distributed lulls here on Wednesday."'
Beautiful Sea Shells.
livery one admires them, feinco coming south I have received numerous inquiries from northern people for sea shells, and now I am prepared to answer yes. I can nd you shells, for I have made quite a collection of lovely shells, both from our own coast, the coral reefs, and some beautiful ones from the West India Islands. I will mail a dozen or more different kinds, no two alike, to any one who sends a stamp for postage. MRS. F. A. WARNKK.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Miss Flora Schaltz hufreturned from Pboenii, Ariz.
Foxy Country Boys.
Speaking of the Senatorial race the Indianapolis Sentinel says: "John Wingute.and John Bonnell and Sid Conger and the rest of the Montgomery county coterie are busy about something. They rush into town with their boots blacked, whisper something with each other, receive notes, hurry out without tipping tte waiter and do all sorts of things like that every few days. They remind one of a Hock of farmers with fifteen acres of hay down and a rain storm coming on. What they are up to has not developed yet.
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while some bave started from the barn ^ould they like to see Governor Mount
lot for the senate, they have invariably traveled by the legal route, ard the farm and its multiplied interests have ever been viewed through the lens of a lawyer. It is now proposed, continued my prophet, to transplant from the well tilled fields of Montgomery county a genuine tiller of the soil—a farmer in practice arid one who had notjbeen so long from the fields as to get his farm knowledge by hearsay.
in the senate? He livGs in Montgomery county, doesn't he? Well there you are. "But these Montgomery and Shelby county people are not saying what they are up to. That they are busy everyone knows, but just what they mean by all of this undue industry in winter time when the farmer is supposed to do nothing but chores, has been worrying the city chaps not a little. Everybody is lookiog for something to drop pretty soon. It looks a little as though they were wrestling with the governor trying to make him throw off that prudish attitude and come right out, spit on his bands and start for the other end of the row with his hoe handle steaming-''
The LaPearl Creditors. A meeting of several ot J. H. LaPearl's creditors was held esterday, attended by M. Donaldson, the Cincingati lithographer, and a settlement was made by all the creditors who did not sell their claims a few weeka ago. In the circuit clerk's office the judgments of Charles Hecht amounting in all to 19,196 M. S. Plaut amounting to 11,018 and Frank Lindley amounting to$l,100 were recorded as assigned to tli--Donaldson lithographing company. This means that Mr. Donaldson has purchased all of the claims and will be the principal owner of the LaPearl show.—Danville Press.
Plenty of Qas.
It is a well known fact that the natural gas supply foi Crawi'ordsvillo is inadquate to the needs, and when some one circulated the report the first of the week that Thorntowri was to be shut off for Crawfordsville's benefit, it created quite a Hurry. A sober second thought set all aright since it is certain that before no court could such methods prevail. Thorntown has been favored with plenty of gas from the start and being nearest the fountain head is sure to fare better than our less fortunate neighbors.—Thorntown Argus.
Teachers' Association.
The 14ih annual meeting of the Teachers' Association ot Montgomery count}', convened at the College Chapel yesterday morning .at 10 o'clock. About 200 teachers were in attendance, and the program has been strictly carried out. The addressess by Col. TIolp, of Chicago, Profs. Reynolds and Thomas, Pres. (I. S. Burroughs and others, were listen ed to with interest by the teachers and much appreciated. The meeting adjourns this afternoon.
Great Corn Shucking Feat.
Near Birney, Ind.. a few days ago a young farmer accomplished the feat of shucking l.'it bushels of standing corn io 9 hours and 10 minutes. If anv of our farmer acquaintances know of any one beating this in the corn shucking line or equalling it we would be pleased to publish the fact. It is likely that this however, has never been equalled heretofore in corn shucking annals.
K. of P. Entertainment. The members of DeBayard lodge, of I'., will present the play "Damon and Pythias," at Music IIMII on the evening of Dec. 15. The play will be staged ty home talent and will be under the direction of a Mr. Webber, a man of considerable experience in that line.
Want Him for a Dark Horse. "Knrnal" .John Wingate and John Bunnell are quietly grooming' (Jen. Wallace, it is silid, to act the dark horse in the race for Senator before the legislature in January. No doubt Wallace is perfectly willing to be groomed.
Big Shipment.
The Indiana Wire and Xail company of this city, shipped twenty car loads of nails to Knoxville and Chattanooga this week by the Monon, and has several other large orders to be filled.
Sudden Death.
"kdwari Cord, a driver for the Standaru On Company died quite unexpectedly on Sunday night after a short illness and was burried on Tuesday.
Lydia Weakens. ^v-.
Th6 divorce suit of Lydia J. MyerB against her hueband, Harry Myers, has been withdrawn. The parties made up and will try it a while longer.
Smoke the "Hoboe."
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58TH YEAR.-NO. 12
ASH GROVE.
Health good.
Mrs. Haines and Ivy are on the sick list.
frank Mahan's house is nearly com*, pleted. jf
Grace Elmore would like to see Win% gate eople.
Bruce Haines has gone away to attend school.
I he Ash Grove scribe has been ill for some time. I think Edgar Marcrum will soon learn to sing if he keeps on with that little canary who has been trying to teach him.
Two of my associate3 .at school says Ida Elmore has got the wings but don't know how to use them. Pay no attention to Ida. Marcrum she likes to ride ride horseback.
I want to say the next time the bdya come to Liberty church I want them to bring some gum so they will have something to do instead of marking up th® church ssats. And when they bring their girls be sure to bring a fan so these old, nervous, gray haired, married men will not bave to fan them, $haroQ boys,
The otaer Suuday evening I was standing at the gate and I heard a verjr strange noise, as I turned around I saw Prank Woods coming down the road screaming with all his might, "O, Ida come here quick" and of course Ids came out to see what was the matter end as Praak drove up she said, "what is tbe matter, Frank'' and he said nothing only ho wanted h.jr to go out riding and get use to the night air.
Bribery in Indiana.
Leon O. Bailey, the Democratic can* didate candidate for the seventh Congressional district in Indiana, who was defeated by Jesse Ovorstreet in the recent election, was at the Auditorium yesterday. He has many severe things to say of the corrupt methods of Republican politician in that state. "I venture to say," said Mr. Bailey yesterday, "that never was there an election in Indiana whore there wa8 more wholesale bribery than in theVon© where I was defeated. My opponent*" bribed thousands of Democrats to stay at home. 1 was deieutod in the Democratic wards of Indianapolis where I though I was strongest. In the Republic u.i \\ards 1 ruu 'J,000 alidad of my oppenent.
Hugh II. Manna was at tue bottom of the whole deal. He is rapid Iv eclipsing his Ohio namesake as a corrupt political manipulator. I know that he personally iciined 5*7,000 for the campaign and his county committee raised 810,000 1 havu every reason to think it was all spent.
To Hake Room.
I'or their spring line uf implements Voris A Cox will sell Old Hickory wagons for cash at Sol). Any one anticipating the purchase of a Wagon would do well to investigate.
Rented.
The old grocery stand south-west corner of Washington and Pike streets has been rented by T. J2. Albright for his bakery, and it will be fitted up fop that purpose.
See Miss Wray lor millinery.
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J. 11. Watson was in Chicago I week.
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No daily papers were issued Thanksgiving day.
Mrs. E. M. Ilenkcl, of Brazil, s^ent Sunday in the city.
James Razor, of Wingate, .was.a caller., at THE REVIEW Monday.
Gen. and Mrs. Lew Wallace have gone to Indianapolis to spend the winter. The December session of tho county commissioners' court convenes on the 5th. ..
Joseph Grimes was called to Russell* villo this week by the illness.of a relative.
A1 luastlack has disposed of his farm, near Hillsboro and will return to this city. ._
Miss Nelle Morrison, of Ladoga, was tbe guests of friends in the city this week.
Mrs. Lizzie Drake, of Pasadena, Cal^ is the guest of her brother, Ed. VanCamp.
Merchants aro buying considerable stocks of goods, and anticipate a good holiday trade.
Elder B. T. Quary, of Illinois, preached at the Primitive Baptist church last Monday and Tuesday.
Tbere will be nine or ten applications for retail liquor license at the next term, of the commissioners' court.
Mr. and Mrs, S. H. Gregg have issued invitations for a reception in honor oC Mr. and Mrs. George Gregg for Thursday evening, Dec. 1, from 7 to 11 otolook.