Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 October 1899 — Page 1

Every Day

For Every Day Wants

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The

Busy Store

When You Want the Best

SEED WHEAT.

Come in With the Rest of the Crowd and Save Your Money at Graham's Trade Palace =3

We have the Best Selected, Up-to-Date Stock of rn

•j Cloaks, Tailor=Made Suits, Silk and Wool Waists 25 g: Separate Skirts, Millinery, Dress Goods and Shoes

In Crawfordsville, Thia assertion will not be contradicted by any lady who gives us a look. We are selling these goods at

3 One»Half the Profit 5

They have ever been handled on in this city. The goods bespeak our "Popular Prices." The people like them, our Great success has made us like that way of doing business, until

^POPULAR GOODS AT POPULAR PRICES—"

-/Has become ''The Feature'at tha Trade Palace. The new goods are being unpacked every day. "OUR BUSY STORE" will be headquarters for Notions, Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery, Underwear, —2 Domestics, Linens, Merchant Tailoring, Draperies, Carpets. Mattings, Wall Paper, Window Shades, Oil Cloths, Linoleums and the thousand small articles that go to make up the Best Stock of Goods —in Crawfordsville.

The OLD TRADE PALACE is coming down the line under tremendous edergy, fired with renewed ambttion, and new inspirations, and the people are with us. Crowds have packed the aisles SIT of this Busy Store since we commenced

The Battle of the Prices.

It is hard on the other fellow, we know, but Quality and Low prices are the magnets that are drawing the trade our way, and we will continue to give 1G ounces of quality for every pound of price. Ramember. the Trade Palace is out of the Higti Price District and Warns Your Trade.

GRAHAM'S

TRADE PALACE.

mm imiimmmmmmim mm ut mrc Current Events

COOK STOVE

OR HE &TING STOVE We have the best goods. They are full weight. We have Oak Stoves, TJmpire Stoves, Hot Blast Stoves, Air Tight Stoves and Hord Coal Base Burners.

We Oan SuitYou

-If you want a good stove.

H. ]R.Tinsley & Co.

Three Leading Varieties at Bottom Prices.

Come Early.

Crabb ^Reynolds

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The

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Ancient Hostelry Closed.

/"\N Tuesday evening the Shermau House was closed and the proprietor, Major Boatwiight, fled on the wings of the morning to parts unknown. If he had money he took it with him, as his clamorous creditors were not satistied. Tuesday afternoon his gas and water supply was cut oil ou account of non-payment of rates, and as he couldn't ruu without these and had no disposition to pay for them he closed the house. All creditors looked alike to the gallant

Major at this stage of the game, and he ruthlessly turned down Gabriel Drake, his famous chef, as well as the porter, and the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker. He drew his pursestrings tighter at every call. The hotel has been well patronized and Boatwright has all lie ever took in, as he never paid a bill he could by any possible chance stand off. He has played every person he came into contact with for a sucker, and has landed most of them. Au revoir, Major. You are a prince among your kind.

Light Ahead.

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now begins to look like the Midland would would get into Muncie. The track is completed to the corporation line and to within a few hundred yards of the Lake Erie tracks, which will be the terminal for the passenger traffic of the Midland. Work has been commenced on a turntable and round house, and it really begins to look as if the dream of Harry Crawford's life was about to be realized.

Husic Hall.

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EXT Thursday night, Oct. 26, the the famous "Rag-Time" com pauy will be at Music Hall. This company consists of twenty-five spec ialty artists and from the comment of different papers they are giving a good show. Good music and a rich comedy with no plot but all fun.

On next Friday night, Oct. 27, we are to have "Brown's in Town" This is a farce comedy that will make you laugh till the buttons fly.

Elma C. Whitehead Dead.

MRS. ELMA WHITEHEAD died

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at the home of her brother-in-

law, George Hawthorne, near Shawnee Mound, last Tuesday evening of heart disease. She had suffered from this ailment for some years and her death was not a surprise. Mrs. Whitehead's name is very familiar to this section of Indiana because of her connection with the celebrated Petit murder case She was at the time of her death 45 years old. She was the daughter of David Meharry, one of the pioneers of Shawnee Prairie, and one of the wealthy men of this section. When very young Elma was married to W. C. Whitehead, a Methodist preacher, who died in 1876. She became her father's housekeeper, and a leader in the work of the Shawnee Mound M. E. church. Later on Wm. F. Petit became pastor of the church, and his coming was the first act in a tragic drama which unrolled successively covetousness, guilty lust, murder, the State's prison, broken family ties, a homeless orphan, and on which the curtain falls about the death bed of Mrs. Whitehead. The details of that trial are familiar to every person in a dozen counties and their repetition is needless. Mrs. Whitehead was arrested, but the case dismissed against her in order that Petit might be tried first. She fled rather than be a witness agaiust the man she had promis'ed to marry in case he was free from his wife. Petit was sent to prison for life, dying there within two years after conviction. Mrs. Whitehead returned home to her father and has lived in strict seclusion until her death. She had been suffering much from heart trouble, and only last Saturday had returned from Indianapolis where she had been taking treatment. On Monday she drove over to Mr. Hawthorne's and while tying her horse at the gate was stricken, and died Tuesday evening. The funeral occurred Thursday.

Interment at Meharry's.

Brown-Swearengin.

THURSDAYresidence

evening at 7 o'clock

at the of Harmon Hiatt, occurred the marriage of Hugh Swearengin and Miss Louise Bfcitt Brown, daughter of Mrs. Martha Brown, and grand-daughter of Mr. Hiatt. The wedding was a very quiet affair, there being only the immediate families and closest friends of the parties present. The ceremony was performed by Rev. A. B. Cunningham, and was the ring service. The groom is a prosperous young fanner of Ripley township, ajid the bride a well known school teacher, bright, successful and up to date in all her work. They left immediately after the ceremony to the farm home where they will reside in the iuture, near Alamo. It was a very business like transaction. They had the home all furnished and ready for occupancy, and at once took up their abode there. The wedding was in the nature of a surprise to many, but all congratulate the young couple and hope for them the best things life iiffords.

Sent To Boone.

OMETIME last summer Mort. Beckner was forcibly ejected from a train on the St. Louis division of tlu* Pennsylvania railroad at Amity, a small station between Franklin and Edinburg. He presented a Big Four Central Passenger Association mileage book to the conductor who refused to take mileage from it but bounced him from the train at this little station) from which he had to drive to Franklin, thus missing his train to Indianapolis and Peru, to which point he was bound. He had started from Edinburg for Indianapolis and had not time to get a ticket, and he desired the conductor to take the mileage instead, but the contrary man wouldn't take anything but money. Mr. Beckner brought suit in the Marion county court for $2,000 damages. The case has been venued to Boone county by the defendant.

Wants a Divorce..

AMONG

the late applicants for a

summary ending of marital joys is Mrs. Mina Brown. She charges her husband, Charles H. Brown, with being a bad, bad man, who has treated her in a cruel and inhuman manner, and she wants rid of him.

The schools of Wallace will give a mask social on next Monday night. An admission fee is charged all who do not bring something to eat, and a prize of a dollar given to the one who is unidentified all evening.

Judge Kent and Palth Cure. IT will be remembered that Joseph Chenoweth and wife, of Frankfort, were arrested a short time since charged with manslaughter on account of refusing to call iu a physician to atltend their sick child, but relied on a faith curist at Fickle, and the long range influence of Dr. Alexander Dowie, of the Chicago Zion. The child died as a matter of course, under the idiotic treatment, and the parents were arrested. It was hoped that a few more nails would be driven into the faith cure coffin by the civil law meeting out punishment to the cranks. Judge Kent stopped the proceedings in the midst of the trial and ordered tne jury to acquit the accused, saying: "The evidence clearly shows, without any contradiction, that the defendant was perfectly honest as to his method of treatment that he treated his child kindly, nursed it tenderly, and honestly believed he was doing the best thing possible for him. We may say his method was a hard one that it does not commend

Marriage Licenses.

T^HE following marriage licenses have been issued since our last publication:

Wm. H. Smith and Kate Lofland. Nathan Patton and Mary Pierce. Jas. L. Bradley and Martha Byrd. John Smith and Lilian Dazey. George A. Earl and Lena Elmore. Felix H. Willis and Ethel Barnhill. Henry McCollough and Jennie Van Leven.

George E. Himes an 1 Lottie Snyder. Oliver S Moore jnd Anna E. Fenton.

George Rutledge and Linuie A, Murray. Hugh Swearengen and Louise Brown.

Got Appointments.

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seems that the Crawfordsville contingent in the i-lth Infantry, now on the way to the Philippines, is in luck. Several of them have received appointments as non-commis-sioned officers. 01 lie Fry, Will Tinsley and George Maxwell now wear the stripes of a corporal.

Death of J. T. Wallace.

FRIDAY

last, at his home near New

^iichmond, occurred the death of James T. Wallace, aged 70 years. The deceased was born in Kentucky in 1829. He was a brickmason by trade and removed to Crawfordsvjlle from Kentucky in 1850. He was married here in 1861 to Jemima Ott who still survives him, together with four children all arown and married. The funeral occurred Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. H. C. Weston, of the M. E. church, at New Richmond. The Masons had charge of the funeral. Interment at New Richmond.

School Social.

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N account of the inclement weath-

held at the Mclntire school bouse, three miles west of the city on the Waynetown road, was postponed until next Tuesday night, Oct. 24th. Come everybody.

The Valley Dives.

ODNTRY people living north of town are growing exceedingly wearvof the low down dives' which are operated down in the valley. These hell-holes would disgrace the lowest corner of perdition, if half what is told of them is true. They are never bothered by the police though they are within the jurisdiction of the city. If there is a fight occurs there then the police get after them, but as in the case of Charley Annable, but very little evidence can be adduced to convict them. Men who pass there coming to town on Sunday nights to church, reputable citizens, are getting woefully tired of having profanity, the smell of stale beer, lewdness and prostitution Haunted in their faces and the faces of their families. Girls from the country have been inveigled into these places by their escorts and made drunk, and then made to furnish sport for the brutes in human form which congregate there. Some startling tales are told of the orgies held

itself to our judgment that it is a there by drunken men and lewd wosuperstition and foolish yet the fact remains that, from his standpoint, it was the proper thing to do, and most certainly there was no wilful neglect from the standpoint of the law."

This decision will be meat and drink to the faith curists here and elsewhere. The decision is very broad indeed, and under it man might slaughter his child as a sacrifice, if he had always been good to it, and honestly believed it was the best thing to do. Alfred Wells could have been cleared of the charge of murder under this ruling had he been declared sane. The people are crazy who try to cure lung fever, diphtheria and smallpox by faith or set broken legs by prayer. They may not be murderers for the reason that they are mentally unbalanced, but they should be^treated at an asylum.

men, to which the hoochie-eoochie dance and the can-can of street fair notoriety are tame. There is a well defined feeling among the thus insulted and outra affairs must go. It is no credit to any town or people to allow such monuments of devilishness as these road houses to stand. The town cannot afford to let them operate. Should they go on much longer forbearance will cease to be a virtue and there will be a similar stain on this county to that of Crawford. It will be well for the Mayor and police board, in the light of all the facts in the case, to close these places before something much worse than has happened there so far is pulled off. Already it is charged that the political influence of these fellows saves them. The party that will spare such blots as these is no better than the blots, in the eyes of a decent constituency. Better clean things up and save the credit of every body concerned.

persons

ged that these

Willis-Barnhill.

AT the Christian church Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, occurred the marriage of Felix H. Willis, of Illinois, and Miss Ethel Barnhill, of this city, Rev. Wallace Tharp officiating. The large auditorium of the church was filled with the friends of the contracting parties. The groom was a former student of Wabash College, and the bride the daughter of Mr. J. C. Barnhill, of the firm of Barnhill, Hornaday St Pickett. After the ceremony a reception was tendered the couple at the Barnhill home oil south

Walnut street. They will reside in the sucker state where the groom is in business.

Discovered Nothing.

THERE

was some mystery attached

to the death of Julia Botkin, at Wingate, some time since, and ^deas of foul play or suicide were rife. The physicians could give no well defined opinion as to the cause of death, and the Coroner set on foot au investigation. An" Indianapolis cher 1st was employed to make au analysis of the contents of the stomach, bat nothing in the shape of poison svas found. The real cause of the woman's death will perhaps remain a mystery forever.

Got Himself Elected. •"$

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the grand council of Red Men at Indianapolis thia week, L. W. Otto, of this city, was elected Grand Junior Sagamore, receiving 230 votes on the second ballot. On his return home he was met by the Crawfordsville braves who made lots of noise and engaged in a green corn dance in honor of the victory.

Venued to Boone.

JUDGE

J.<p></p>ROYAL

FRANK STOUT.

Teacher.

Absolutely

WEST has granted a

change of venue in the Booher divorce case, and sent it to Lebanon. It was granted on request of the defendant, Mrs. Booher. She is a native of Boone county, and thinks she will get a clearer case of undefiled justice over there than here.

Baking

POWDER

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ABSOLUTELY feuRE

Makes the food more delicious and wholesome

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