Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 July 1893 — Page 5

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Prizes For Items

THE JOURNAL still continues to offer each week a handsome book to the person furnishing the best country letter or item. The contest is open to all and all are cordially invited to take part. Remember that but one prize is given each w#ek so if you do not win at first do not be discouraged as your time will come later on. THE JOURNAL COMPANY.

P. S. Wm. Davis won the prize offered last week.

P4RKERSBURG.

Harvest is in full blast. James Akers and family were at J. T. Lookabaugh's Sunday.

Will Owens and wife were Sunday visitors at Dr. Hyten's. Work was begun on our new brick school house last Monday.

Albert Goodbar, of Ladoga, was seen on our streets last Monday. Sam Hester is .finishing up the residence of John Freeman this w^ek.

Miss Partha Lookabaugh called on Miss Lizzie Quinley last Monday afternoon.

Rev. Henry Ashley will fill his regular appointment here next Saturday and Sunday.

Press Johnson has improved his residence with a new veranda and a fresh coat of paint.

Quite a number from here attended the ice cream supper at Raccoon last Saturday night.

We are requested to announce in behalf of the members of the G. A. R. Post at this place, who will give an ice cream supper next Saturday night, July 15, that they will prepare the cream themselves and there will be plenty of it. No one need be afraid of being disappointed in procuring cream as was the case some weeks ago at the supper given by S. of V. lodge.

TIGER VAJLEEi.

The corn needs rain. Timothy hay making iB at hand. The S. of Y. are progressing nicely. Earl Perry is working Gib Wilson this week.

Homer Chambers spent Sunday with home folks. The threshing machine is in this neighborhood.

C. C. McClure went to the Shades on hie bicycle Sunday. Wm. Hobson is helping put up hay at J. Johnson's this wek.

George Hugleheim and O. Armstrong spent Sunday at the Shades. Subscribe for THE JOURNAL and you will get the news of the county.

W. G. McClure and family ate ice cream at J. M. Walkup's Sunday. Harvest hands are very scarce. They are being paid from $1.25 to SI.50.

Frank Croaker, of Mace, attended children's day at Flat Creek Sunday. Mrs. A. T. Abbott killed a snake last week that measured 8 feet 4 inches long.

Reuben Perry, Gib Wilson and OtiB Robbins will go to the World's Fair soon.

Charles Abbott says he will get enough out of his wheat crop to get a bed room set.

Joseph Abbott will take an agency for the Moline cultivator. Joe is a hust­

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In my use of the Royal Baking Powder I haye, found it superior to all others.

I recommend it as of the first quality?5^ C. GORJU,

Fred Martin and Homer Elmore, two sports from Pumpkin Ridge, were in this vicinity frogging this week.

Henry Morris and Davy Crockett have taken charge of E. Pickering's blacksmith and cooper shop.

Quite a large crowd from here contemplate attending the colored campmeeting at Darlington, July 16.

Everybody is invited to attend the ice cream supper at Mace to-night, given by the ladies of the M. E. church.

George Hugleheim was hit in the face by the big swing at th.s Shades last Sunday and will cany the scar for souie time.

The Abe Lincoln G. A. R. Post, of Mace, has changed time of meeting from every Tuesday nii?ht before the full moon to the fourth Friday of each month in the afternoon at 1 o'clock.

Spry Trout, our prominent young man of Yankeetown, is plowing his corn over the last time. He is dealing in hogs this summer and contemplates going to the World's Fair after his hogs get large enough to ship so he can take them along as he goes to the Fair.

KIRKPATRICK

Health good. Mrs. C. McDaniel's barn has been completed.

J. W. Kirkpatrick is hauling corn from h)B Wea farm. Mrs. Wm. Campbell is visiting her sister in Lafayette.

C. Baum has his new engine about ready for operation. Mrs. C. Baum's mother, of Ohio, is visiting her this week.

W. H. Gray visited Lafayette Monday on business. He has a fine trade W. W. Stroup, of Forest, -visited hie parents here Saturday and Sunday.

W. G. Grimes has returned from the World's Fair with flattering reports. Wm. Campbell and son Jake were in Frankfort Monday buying new goods.

Our merchant, M. Slauter, anticipates going out of business and seeking pastures new.

We are informed that Job Hamlin has rented the Thomas Ward farm near here and Lewis Worth the one near Linden.

J. C. Kirkpatrick and H. C. Shobe will make a trip to Chicago soon with several loads of cattle and will visit the World's Fair.

The temperance meeting Sunday, as usual, was a success. O. P. C. Evans, of Romnev, and Mr. Shirley were visitors and participants.

Elsworth Dain is erecting a fine residence in Shobe's addition, and we learn soon as the cage is completed, will capture the bird. A wise plan.

A Farm for Rent.

A farm of 270 acres in Jackson township, Boone county, Indiana one mile east of New Ross on the Crawfordsville & Indianapolis State road. Of this farm 200 acres are plow land, and 70 acres blue grass pasture, with everlasting stock water, a two story frame nouse of seven rooms, a good apple orchard, good outbuildings, a barn 50 feet square. 2(5-31 TIMOTHY LANE.

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iiLACK CHEEK.

Wheat cutting is all done. Dick Breaks has a new hay loader. P. G. Cowan has his wheat stacked. Cal Breaks has returned from the World's Fair. I Edna Snyder went to the World's

Fair Tuesday. Mr. Beach passed through our neighborhood Tuesday.

Al Rose and wife were down from Lafayette last week. Smith Swank and family spent Sunday with Jacob Swank.

Will, Frank and Murl Hutchings Sundayed at their grandmother's. Chas. Cowan, and family, of Coal Creek, visited his brother here last Sunday week.

Charley Steele, of Lafayette, was among old friends Tuesday of last week. Charley is on the Lafayette police force.

Last Saturday night Jacob Swank dedicated his new barn by giving the young folks a party in it. About an hundred assembled and Bpent the evening in party plays, cinch and dancing.

EIM)EN.

Wheat all cut .that is worth cutting. The potato crop will be short on account of the drouth.

Fletcher Osenback, of Dayton, spent Sunday here with tiie folks. C. A. Rosebaum returned from the World's Fair last Tuesday. His family will return Saturday.

J. N. Beach and family returned to Lafayette last TueEday after a short visit amontr friends hero.

Mrs. .Mollie Biljie, of Sugar Grove, drove up to surprise her mother, Mrs. Eliza Bennett, last Sunday.

On last Sunday Mrs. J. S. Bennett reached her 60th mile post while Mrs. Nancy Howard was 70 vears old on that day.

J. H. Bowman, who has been so long with the Monon, leaves the last of this week to take a better position with the Big 4 at Cleves, Ohio.

It is reported that A. S. Fraley will be the principal teacher and that Frank Elston will teach in one of the lower rooms. The primary teacher has not been hired for certain.

The G. C. T. cf Indiana, I. S. Wade, of Lafayette, is desirous of Wheeler lodge coming together on the night of the 18th at 8 o'clock for the purpose of electing delegates to the district convention to be held at WiliiamBport on the 8th and 9th of August, and other business that may come before the lodge. Let there be a good attendance of all members.

EGYPT.

Hay-making is the order of the day. Oats are good and almost ready to cut.

H. A. Miller will erect a new house soon. Mrs. Sarah J. Hosier is in very poor health.

Our bee men are not much elated over the honey outlook. The continued drought is Bhortning up the corn very materially.

F. M. Stoner and George W. Hinkle visited the World's Fair last week. E. M. Graves as postmaster at New Ross is the right man for the place.

G. Wilson passed over the eastern division of the Air Line last Sunday evening.

We understand that a certain man in New ROBS is going to be the Cyclone Annex for a threshing machine this summer.

With days fifteen hours long, and the driver seated behind a spirited horse, we can only wonder why a certain young fellow could not get around last Sunday evening to see his girl until after she had retired for the night.

EYE, ear and throat diseases only, Dr. Greene, Joel Block. Fitting of glasses a specialty.

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ROSS.

C. P. Lewis was in Indianapolis Tuesday. Wm. Bronaugh, of Indianapolis, is here.

Chas. Tavlor has returned from the West, Chas. Imel returned to Kankakee Saturday.

Harry Gott has returned from Greencastle. Mrs. Joe Booher rides a pneumatic bicycle.

Wm. Stertn, of Mahomet, was here Monday. Joe Routh, of Hempine, 111., was here Thursday.

Brain Mount, of Darlington, was here Wednesday. There are 48 horses training at tl« fair ground.

Wm. Yelton, of Thorntown, spent Sunday here. Miss ElHe Ronk is taking music lessons in Ladoga.

The K. of P. lodge installed officers Tuesday night. Miss Allie Best, of Jamestown, spent Tuesday at F. M. Alkire's.

The teachers have been selected for New Ross schools for next term. Sandy Bros, and Jackson Stoner shipped some fine cattle to Chicago on Tuesday.

Joe Ballard sold seven steers that brought him $612.10, an average cf $87.50 per head.

OAK GROVE.

Mrs." A. F. Needham is Buffering a severe indisposition. Painters are at work on the exterior of Arch Needham's house.

Mrs. Fanny Stewart is visiting her daughter in Hancock county. Mort Mount and wife, of Indianapolis, visited relatives here last week.

Mrs. H. C. Daughertv, of Lafayette, is down on a visit to her parents. Rev. Kinaig, of Lebanon, preached to the K. of P's. at Shannondale Sunday afternoon.

Misses Jennie Mount and Rua Miller have returned from a visit with Frankfort friends .,/.,

An infant son of Henry Cox died of brain fever and was buried at Shannondale Thursday.

It occurs to us in reading over these items that most everyone is visiting somewhere. However, that is about all this weather is fit for. But we're not a croaker, O, no

WAYNETOWN.

Dan Merrill is dangerously ill. Our town was serenaded Thursday by band of Italians.

A. W. Groves will start his threshing machines Monday. Mrs. Haas has sold her millinery store to Miss Lota Darnell.

Rome Biddle, of Benton county, visited friends here this week. William Rider has commenced the erection of two new brick buildings.

James Widner and wife, of Danville, 111., spent Sunday with his sisters here. Jonathan Fruits has made extensive improvements in his Main street prop ertv.

Our military company will go to Terre Haute the 21st to attend the encamp meut.

Rev. T. J. Shuev, of Waveland, delivered two excellent sermons here last Sunday.

Ed Kelly and Wm. Marks attended Rett Men's lookout Crawfordsville Tuesday night.

George Small has been acting as a smelling committee for the health board this week.

John York, of Hoopeston, III., has been attending his sick sister, Mrs. John Brunt, this week.

The penny social at the M. E. ohurch Tuesday evening was welt attended and highly enjoyed. Proceeds $16.

We think it about time the Possum Ridge man was saying something funny about us again. We do admire (lis wit,

Mesdames W. W. Tiffany, Theodore Templeton Charley P.ilio, of Wingate, were the guetts of Mis. Dr. Hurt on Wednesday.

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RABBIT ROUND-UPS.

How the California Vineyardiata Doal with the Pests.

\n Annual Gutlierliifj nt AVhloh Thouusiitds or .lack Ituhhltg Aro Corralled SUM! Exterminated.

"The people out in Fresno county, Cr.l., aiv. getting ready for their annual round-up and slaughter of jack rabbits." said a leading vineyardist of Fresno to a New York Sun man recently. "If it wasn't for this early spring systematic raid upon these destructive pests we would have scarcely a vineyard or an orchard left in southern California. On one day in March, generally between tlie 10th and I5tli, the grape and small-fruit grov.-ers collect together in their respective districts and beat the country thoroughly to drive the swarming jack ralbits from their hiding places into immense wire inclosed corrals, where they arc at the mercy of their pursuers, and are knocked in the: head with clubs by the thousand. I have known fifteen thousand jack rabbits to be slaughtered in this way in a few hours. More than that, these rabbits are such prolific breeders that every one killed in March or April means that there will be twen-ty-live or thirty less than there would have been if the rabbits knocked in the head in the spring had been permitted to live until the fall. These round-ups are the only means we have ever discovered by which the jack rabbit pest l:c.s been kept down. "The rabbits are unusually fond of the young shoots nf the grapevines, when they make their appearance in the spring, and of the tender bark of prune, plum and other fruit trees, when the sap starts. I have known twenty a*.res :f vineyard ruined i:i a single night by the chopping of the shoots by these animals, and whole orchards of valuable bearing trees killed by tho rabbits girding them. Poison, traps and guns failed to kill off the rabbits fast enough, and fruit growing in that part of California could necessarily have been to a great extent abandoned if a Fresno county genius hadn't evolved the corralling idea five years ago. The rabbits are driven into the great wire-inclosed pound by hundreds of people—men, women and children— closing in around them and preventing them from going in any other direction, except the one that leads them into the corral. Different districts have different days for setting out

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slaughter goes on through March and April. It is safe to say that one hundred thousand jack rabbits are thus killed every spring in that part of the state. As at that season of the year this big rabbit's flesh is in excellent condition and the animal is highly esteemed as fowl a two-fold benefit is derived from this great yearly slaughter. "The California jack rabbit is the biggest rabbit in existence, one five feet long being not uncommon. They are as fleet as the wind, but will sit still on

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COMMENCING

Friday, July 14.

AND ENDING

Saturday, July 29,

We will close out our entire line of Fine Tailor-Made Suits in Light

Weight, Light Color and Medium Shades, worth $io, $12, $13,

$14 and $15, at the rediculous low figure of

==$8.99

Never in the history of the clothing trade were such low figures

quoted a little more than half price from our usual low figures.

Remember, none are reserved, they all go at $8.99. In giving

this benefit to the people of Crawfordsville and Montgomery

Thus we will be able to increase our trade enough in the future to

at least partly compensate our losses in this great sacrifice sale.

Thanking you for past favors and soliciting your kind patronage

for the future, I remain, Respectfully Yours,

LEE 5. WARNER,

The One Price Clothier, Hatter and Furnisher,

Successor to J. A. and Eph Joel. Crawfordsville, Ind.

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their forms, or by the roadside, until you have almost grabbed them by their mule-like ears, but before you have closed your fingers on them there will be no rabbit there, but if you look Unity or forty yards ahead you will see what you think is another one humped up in a Huffy bunch, waiting for you in the same way. Hut it won't be another rabbit. It will be the same one. They are swift and sudden as the lleas that swarm on them as soon as the summer comes. These fleas get so thick upon the jack rabbit and are so ravenous that they have actually reduced the longeared, four-footed jumper to a skeleton by the time the fall rains set in. If it wasn't for these regular fall rains tho fleas would be of great service to us in destroying the rabbit pest, for the rabbits could not stand out many days longer against the assaults of the lively parasites. But the fall rains are fatal to the fleas. The water It ills them and washes them off the rabbits and the latter pitch in our vineyards and orchards and grain with sharpened appetites."

THE PAPERING OF WALLS.

An Aneleut Clilneie Method of DocoratLNFJ I1OUB«-H. Wall papers were little used in Europe before the eighteenth century, though they had been long before that applied to house decoration by the Chinese. Those that were lirst manufactured in the west were adaptations of design from Italian brocades, and at first they were used in an unobjectionable manner, just as hangings of the costlier material were employed, namely: To fill spaces between obvious structural lines and, so applied, no objection could be made to their use. On the contrary, the invention brought it within the means of almost every householder to fill blank wall spaces with agreeable tracery and harmonious color.

The cornice, frieze and dado remained intact coigns were protected with molding or plaster work, and the inmate rni^iit feel that he was living in a built room and not in a bandbox. 15ut gradually the wall features disappeared paper crept over everything except window and door openings, even into the very angles of the walls, and it is nothing uncommon now on entering a saloon of considerable pretension and proportions to find the walls closely covered with paper from floor to ceiling, save a narrow skirting board to protect the plaster from the housemaid's broom and a cornice reduced to a meager molding.

Worried 1 lie Speaker.

It is the petty vexations of life that perplex and annoy Secretary Carlisle. Big things disturb him but little. While he was speaker it became necessary for him to appoint two elevator boys, and the worry entailed on him in his endeavor to select the fittest two out of fifty applicants upset him more than any other event of his whole term of office. "1 wish that elevator would sink," he said one day, after running the gauntlet of a dozen beseeching mothers. "1 never could understand tho need of an elevator in the house, anyway."