Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 June 1899 — Page 7

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Jeweler and Optician. Opp. Court House.

A Complete jiarness and Buggy Store!

Clores Block, Crawfordsville.

We make our HARNESS from

Good Selected Stock.

A 1 Buggies bear the name-plat

of the maoufacturer, and are sold

uuder a ^strict guarantee. j,

The BEST Buggy and Harness

[ii, Store in the county.

RUBEN'S

Bates House Clothing Parlors.

GREAT BARGAIN SALE OP SHOES!

A Reputation For Integrity

Can only be maintained by truthful statements. Temparary advantage may be gained by deceptive announcements but it retracts. Customers are the only effective advertisements their indorsement carries weight.

Stripe Suits..

We are showing a full line of the popular stripe Suits in all the latest and richest patterns at extremelp low prices.

Botes House Clotlpg Porter.

110 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind.

For Uuf W.ek On'y. The following are few of our Bargains:

InfHnte' Dongola -ut lip Ch'liiV Glove Graii: Button, Missis Dongola Button, 13 to Lad its' Dongola Patent Tip. lit. iYoutbs* OHlf Ball. 12 to 2. wrti ..

•i. 2 to G, worth 30c, our price worth 81, our price.. ... 8.1 25. our price....

JBoys' Calf B«U, 3 to 5. worth 8 .. Men's Satin Calf. Coneress or Lace, 6 to ii, »o..« $1.50, our price Men's Kip Boot, 6 to 11, worth 81.75, our price

All heavy winter shoes sold at actual cost. Uon't forget the place.

STAR SHOE HOUSE

No. 128 East Main Street

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20 DAYS FREE

Ask ns to ahlp yon one of oar High Arm Sewln* Machine*

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arrival deposit pi„ expressagent of roar town, then TAKE THE MACHIKE HOME AND TRY IT FOR 20 DAYS If yon are perfectly satisfied with the machine, keep It, otherwise return it to the express agent, and he will etro you all your money back. Ii you prefer, wfl will ship brTrnlstat and draw on yoa through roor nearest ba&, «h»ft to ~™ienmaehin BUI of Lading. When machine comet pay draft, Md tan ttwch 1 ne frem station. Ifyoadoot limit, retnro It h| frMshUandwe wfll refand. wt rnarantee the machine forten yean. Kcmenber you take no risk. It don't cost you one cent unless you take machine. We have sold over IOO.OOO. and they are all perfect satisfaction. IT* IMOIAL fCATUftKSi are LS-Bearing, Light K«mnto«,Durk61e, S^Uy^perj^^Nolsel

Doable Positive Feed, Self Threading AottK Belf-Set

for^or'iobSpage catalogue. It ilsta everything need by mankind.

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A LITTLE TALK ON THE SIDE.

W. A. Craver, of Ripley Township,

Desires Speech with tl

Journal Han.

It may be best before printing the letter below to assure the editor of the Journal that the man whose name appears attached did actually write the same, attached a two cent stamp and addressed it to this office where it was received iu due course of mail. It is not from Tippecanoe county, but from Ripley township in the county of Montgomery. We are sorry that the gentleman has decided to criticize anything which appeared in the columns of the Journal, as upon his devoted head "yea though it wore a crown" will be launched the displeasure of the editor, who, while not the "whole works," believes that he is, and therefore above criticism. With fear and trembling for the result which will be broken friendships and lasting enmity, we venture to print the critique, washing our bands of all responsibility.

YOCNTSVILLE, IND.,

Now, my dear brother, you are mistaken when you said "popular hit." It is not popularity we are striving for, but a great moral principle. If we were working for popularity we would certainly come over to the Republican party. Popularity seems to be its only ambition at present, and to get it it has bowed before the idol of the rum power. V£'Y

Yes, that banquet was a cheap affair for several reasons. First, for the reason that they dispensed with a part of the bill of fare, without which a Republican banquet would be a failure, namely—liquid damnation of all ages, brands and colors, which add materially to tne cost of all Republican banquets. Second, because the men and women who attended were persons of moderate means. I might mention a great many more things which were conspicuous by their absence from that little meeting. There was not a single brewer, distiller, wholesale or retail liquor dealer, or Republican editor present. Not a person but who could and would be taken into the family circle and welcomed as a friend. It was composed of ministers and men and women of high moral standing in their communities. It was a very much higher toned gathering than the average Republican caucus, and the Journal editor knows it, yet he could not forbear throwing a little dirt and spitting a little venom on it, in the interests of the Republican party and McKinley's army canteen.

My dear brother, that chwip little gathering would have lwn as-.ife place for your boy or 'nunc. No mgor have po.-: ib!y hi .xiere unless he had Ixicome disgusted with G. O. P. methods. You say the rum power is ahead. Yes, you know of what you speak. It is still at the head of the G. O. P. The politicians and leaders are still going in and out of its back doors, building up their party. Our object is not to build up a party, but to propagate a moral reform, so that it will be easier than it is now for our boys to do right and harder for them to do wrong. When this reform is accomplished it will have more to do in bringing prosperity to this country than all the "protection," "reciprocity," "gold standard," "free silver" business we could have in 100 years. Will you please publish this in the Weekly Journal I am yours for right and fair play,

Crawfordsville, Indiana, Saturday, June 10, 1899.

June

ED. REVIEW:—

1, 1899.

Will you please allow me space in your paper to have a little talk with the Crawfordsville Journal man?

My Dear Sir:—I see in the Journal of May 26 an article like the following: "The Prohibitionists of the state evidently thought they made a great popular hit, and incidentally rubbed it in on the rum power when they sat down to a 50 cent banquet. The rum power is still ahead however for it is said that every saloon in Indianapolis maintains a free lunch."

W. A. CBAVEB,

Sec. Prohi. Co. Cent. Com.

/tarried.

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George F. Myers and Miss Emma B. Hunt, of this county, were married Sabbath morning the 4th instant, by Rev. G. W. Stafford at his residence east of the city.

FARMERS TO CONTROL PRICES. DEATH OF GEORGE THOMSON.

Innocent Granges Established All Over the Country are Means I

to That End.

Says the Brazil Miner: "An enormous trust is being formed, the like of which the world has never yet seen or dreamed of. The matter has been kept quiet for four or five years but it finally leaked out through one of the chief promoters who resides south of Terre Haute, near the line between Sullivan and Vigo counties.

The new enterprise may be styled the Farmer's Trust, for it is organized by them, and it is for their benefit exclusively. How such an undertaking has been kept a secret for the last several years may well be a matter of wonder, for it is known to many hundreds of farmers from Maine to California. It is a national affair Although it has not yet been organized, it will be within the next six months.

In nearly every county in the state farmers' granges are now established. The grange is to be made the nucleus of a vast organization which will within a very short time appear under a new name to the public. The granges have been organized under no assumed object it was formed for the advancement of the farmers'cause, and concorned itself with matters of minor importance. At the same time its real object was kept from the view of the public, as there are men interested in stopping such a movement, who might take active measures against it. Quietly yet rapidly, granges have been established in all principal agricultural sections of the country, until the number of farmers now on the rolls of the granges are well into the tens of thousands. It has been a noticeable fact that the men taken into the granges have been men of prominence mentally and intellectually and men who have much of the world's goods, who area power in their different communities.

The members are not told the ultimate purpose of the grange's organization, and a large majority of them are ignorant of its true object. Matters such as chinch-bugs and taxes and similar topics are taken up and discussed in the sessions of the grange, picnics are held and socials are given, but never is the true object of the grange given out. The organizer moves to another town where the same performance is gone through with, and in this way the country has become a veritable net-work of granges.

With true organization and intelligent direction the agricultural trust will regulate the production of grain, fruit and vegetables as well as the production of cattle and, in fact everything that is produced on the soil. Iu each county aboard will be placed to control all the product of the soil it will regulate the grain production, will take charge of the grain when it is produced and will dispose of it. The farmer as an individual will look to the board for his remuneration, and it is safe to say that the board will sell it at a price bigger than is ordinarily the ase. A board of directors will be chosen and wiU4iold its headquarters in one 'ij i'tcipal cities iu the country, lio.n wh c'.i oint it will direct the board in different counties for what price to s»ll the grain and other products. Not only will the products of the soil be governed by the board of directors, but ai-n cattle in fact everything that is to be, found on the modern farm.

Salvation Free.

Charles Stevenson objected to his wife Mattie belonging to the Salvation Army, and made that an excuse for mistreating her. He cut off her supply of pie and ice cream, and proposed that her diet should be carpet tacks and other equally digestible articles which would tickle the palate of an ostrich, but at whioh her nerves rebelled. He even went so far as to force a handfull of tacks into her mouth, and threaten to shoot her if she persisted in following the blood and fire banner of the Salvation Army. She went after a divorce in the circuit court and Saturday she got it. Her fears are now gone, as the former husband has no claims whatever upon her.

Tired of Life's Burdens He Suicides

in a Shreveport, Louisiana Hotel. Dr. George A. Thomson took his own life in a hotel at Shreveport, Louisiana, last Fridsy night by opening the large artery in his left arm with a razor. Dr. George A Thomson was the eldest son of Prof. Sam'l S. Thomson who occupied the chair of Latin sor many years in Wabash College. He was a brother of Mrs. Theo. H. Ristine, of this city, Mrs. Callie McLain, of Minneapolis, Mrs. Carrie McCaver, of Chicago, and R. S. Thomson, of Minneapolis, and Miss Mary Thomson, now in Europe. He was

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years of age and graduated

from Wabash College with the class of

1881.

His medical education was

gained in the University of New York, and he located in Chicago where he at once gained a lucrative practice. He was married to Miss Lulu Wilson, of Crawfordsville, several years ago. They had determined to leave Chicago, and she was visiting relatives at Terre Haute, while he was searching- for a location. The suicide wa3 not thought of by any of his friends and associates, though many of them knew the condidition of his health and the consequent despondency of the young man.

The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the residence of T. H. Ristine on the arrival of the train from the south. Interment at Oak Hill.

Election of County Superintendent. On Monday the township trustees met in the Auditor's office and proceeded according to layr. to elect a county superintendent of schools for a term of four years. The ballot was secret arid when the votes were counted it was found that Ward Walkup, the present incumbent, had received eight votes, and Howard Griest three. The five democratic trustees and three republicans had voted for Walkup. Kleiser, Lewis and White voted for Griest. An attempt was made to break the grip of Walkup on the democratic trustees, but as they had elected him before and he had given satisfaction, they were pledged to him again, and the votes showed that they kept their pledges. The situation is substantially that of two years ago, with the exception that three republican trustees this time supported Walkup since no caucus could be held.

Another Victim.

A dispatch from Ladoga to the Indianapolis Sentinel says: "Ed Hevenridge, a young man twenty years old, of this place, is slowly dying from excessive cigarette smoking. His system is thoroughly filled with nicotine poisoD. He has been in constant suffering now for seven days." This is only one more victim to the cigarette habit. The work still goes on and boy after boy is killed by the infernal things. No matter how many examples ar6 set before their eyes, boys refuse to see their danger. They are not in condition to work, are fit for nothing when once the habit fixes itself upon them. The only thing seems to be to let them go until death comes in oftentimes horrible form. It is the beginning of the end, for following it comes taste for opium, strong drink, insanity, death, the boy who will not be warned by the examples he sees, can only be let alone.

K. of P. riemorial.

On Sunday at Trinity M. E. church the K. of P. memorial sermon was preached by the Rev. H. L. Davis of that church. The church was appropriately decorated, and probably two-thirds of the members of the lodge here were present. The discourse was a most eloquent effort and was highly appreciated by the Knights, who thank Mr. Davis most heartily. The graves of the dead were decorated earlier in the morning by committees appointed to do this work.

Frank Smith's lost bicycle has been found. It was stolen several weeks ago, and all efforts to find it were vain. Campbell Tinsley found it in an old house on west Main street on last Friday, and returned to the owner. It was badly abused and had evidently been ridden a long distance.

58th Year, No 40

LITTLE LOCALS.

ABOUT THE MOVEMENTS OF PE0*

PLE—SHORT AND CRISP.

What The Public is Doing, at Home and Other Places Near by.

The Waynetown schools will be supervised by next year by E. E„ YanScoyoc.

Dr. Wolfe, of Quincy, 111., oc'cupied the pulpit of the First M. E. church Sunday.

The eight-year-old daughter of Otto Zeigler died at Shelbyville Friday of membranous croup.

There is anew management at the natural gas office. Messrs. McAlevy and Wasson retired and W- J. ^nos has the office in charge

The coroner could find no evidence that Wesley Vanarsdall had taken his own life. It was developed that he was subject to swooning spells and falling in one had perished.

The enumeration of school children in Montgomery county is 123 less than last year. The roster shows the names this year of 8,423 children. Last year the number was 8,546.

Sam B. Thomas is home from his European tour. He is all right with the exception of a damaged hand, which member was hurt by the carelessness of a porter in the New York custom house.

It was reported here Friday last that Ellis Pickering, of Darlington, had gone insane and was chasing the neighbors over the country with a pickax. No definite information can be obtained in regard to him.

Dr. W. L. May is entertaining this week Dr. N. S. Thompson and family, of San Francisco. Dr. Thompson was a druggist here in 1845, and later in the dry goods business. He Han been in California for a number of years.

A jury in the Mayor's Court heard the evidence and the oratory involved in the charge against Phronia Douglass, that she was a keeper of a house of prostitution, and after weighing well all of it, decided that she was guilty of nothing of the sort, and set her at liberty, "chaste as ice and pure as snow," with a character "proved" iu court and "sot on by a jury."

Stout Case Costs.

The costs in the case of the State of Indiana vs. Dr. Stout, charged with complicity in the death of Grace McClamrock through the result of a criminal operation, have been certified to the county Auditor from the Clerk of the Parke circuit court. It is a good healthy bill, and includes court costs only, amounting to 51,004,42. No attorney fees will have to be paid in this case as the defendant could pay his own bills. It may not end with this amount as the case against Dr. Stout still remains on the docket at Rockville. The bill is certainly a big one for all Montgomery county has to show for it.

Death of iVm, Biddle.

William Biddle an old and highly respected citizen of Waynetown, died at his home Friday night last. Mr. Biddle was one of the best known citizens of Wayne township, and a man, universally loved and respected. The funeral took place Sunday, conducted by the Masons, of which order he had been a member for many years.

No Right to Ugliness.

The woman who is lovely in face, form ancl temper will always have friends, but one who would be attractive must keep her health. If she ia weak, sickly aod all ruD down, she will be nervous and irritable. If she has a constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches. Ekin eruptiona aod a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulote stomach, liver aod Kidneys aod to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety ekin, rich complexion. It will make a good looking, charming woman of a run down invalid. Only 50 cents at Nye & Booe'a Drug Store.

During 1898 the number of persons who made Alpine tours necessitating guides in the Tyrol, was 13,000.

The best medicine money can buy for impure blood, nervousness, andvaU stomach and kidney troubles ia Hood's Sareaparilla.