Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 March 1894 — Page 9
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TO COKItKSI'OXDKXTS.
Miss Rose King won the prize offered last week.
Uet your letters in by Wednesday if possible.
CINCIIVILI.K.
Will ISeck is iaid up with a lame back. tieorge Smith is doing- some ditching' for Keecher Dice. .lohn Alel'arty and John Hunt are cutting' wood for A. Loop.
George Hunt and Lou Jackson made a dying trip to Crawfordsville last Saturday.
.1. T. MeCarty and II. l-'inch called on friends at Crawfordsville last Sunday evening.
"Walter Hunt and his aunt. Alice Ray. of Chester. Neb., visited relatives at Advance Saturday and Sunday.
Oliver Peclc moved to Darlington last Monday and Ed I jinn and family will move into the house vacated by Peck.
As Dr. Northcutt was returning home from Linnsburg Tuesday night he was stopped by two masked men and told to give up his money. This he refused to do. He only had a nickel and a plug of tobacco.
Quite a sad accident occurred last Monday, as (!eo. Hunt was splitting wood, lie brought the heavy ax down with such alligator force that he split his toe in two instead of the stick of wood, lie was quickly removed to Crawfordsville and put under the care of Dr. Ristine. He is getting along as well as could be expected, but he says he don't care about his toe as he does about his shoe.
VAN GTS 10 KIA NG. Maud Livelihood is on tlu sick
Miss
list. .L II. Trimble seed.
has sowed his clover
Harold Stewart has been sick for a "week. We are ill need of a good blacksmith.
Will .lackman is a resident of Willow lira cli. }uiney Dixon has moved near Salem Chapel.
Frank Siebold has a horse in a bad condition. Henry .McDaniel will move in the new moon.
Andrew .1. Carroll has moved to I leckerville. Miss Dora Odell is staying-with Mrs. .1. A. Mount.
Isaac Odell is making molasses for .1. A. Mount. Henry Canary is ditching- is ditching' for.). \V. Lafollette. .lack Koyer will work for Fleshy Tribbett at S.1S per month.
The Yangtsekiang orchestra will give an entertainment soon. Joseph C. Moore Francis will work for Oliver Lafollette this summer.
Jefferson McDaniel chartered a car and moved to Iowa on Wednesday. The Franklin township teachers' institute. will be held at Darlington tomorrow.
Jessie Ciresliam Moore and Josiah Win lie Id Dixon are tending Joe Lafolletfs sugar camp.
Albert Dixon and Dick" lliggins. two of the lieckville councilmen. passed through here last Tuesday enroute for I larlington.
The question debated at the Yankeetown literary society meeting' last Tuesday night was. -'Resolved. That Religion Has Caused More Misery to the Jluman Race than War." The affirmative was ably represented by J. C. Francis and l'.renton Engle. The decision was for the •attirmative.
What they say: That E. Stewart will work at the carpenter trade: that J. II. Trimble has a line fruit garden that Cloud Milllan has sheared his sorrel pony that Joe Francis can eat more baked beans than any man in Yangtsekiang: that Albert Mullen, our weather prognosticator, predicts a late spring: that the roads are very bad that Mae I* rancis will be Peck's bad boy this summer: that Lawson Riddle is clearing up a piece of new ground for corn that Christopher Columbus Rhodes will tramp clods for H. F. Cox this summer that Ewel Engle should be appointed for supervisor of district No. 3 that Rev. Moody will preach at Flat Creek the 17th that THE JOUKNAI. Flat Creek correspondent is to be wedded soon to a Crawfordsville liveryman that bhannondale is negotiating for an electric light plant and we hope that they will be successful.
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THIC .lorU.NAI. last week contained more correspondence by actual measurement than all the rest of the papers of the county put together. The awarding of the prize was a difficult Blatter for the committee.
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31'ICKV1M,K.
Roads are in a bad condition. Last Tuesday was a very bad day. Sugar making is the order of the day.
Ambuster Williams was at New Ross Monday. Uncle George Duke is no better at this writing.
Homer Chambers is the owner of Rlack Beauty. The creek is higher than it has been for some time.
Crazy Conner says he got quite a bluff last week. Henry Roberts iias moved on the Vancleave place. (ieorge Clurk and wife visited at W. T. Clark's Sunday.
Miss Angie Xinbe was at Crawfordsville last Saturday. Mrs. (ieorge Mears visited at John Linn's last Monday.
It is a mistake about Clias.. -Clark moving to advance. Chicago Rill will work for James Stewart this summer. (!uy Evans will work for (Ieorge Switiier this summer.
William Clark is doing a fine lot of ditching this spring. Miss Minnie Evans is visiting her grandfather this week.
M. A. Conner is clearing a piece of new ground this spring. Frank Shaw and son attended meeting at New Ross Sunday.
Jacob Johnson will build a tine lot of wire fence this spring. W. T. Clark and family were at Crawfordsville last Saturday.
John Morris says that he will not touch another drop of liquor. Emmet Myers will work for J. Peterson in the place of Ed Brown.
R. Myers has rented the corn ground on the Widow liowman place. A. T. Chambers and Crazy Conner attended the fox drive last Saturday.
James Duke and family attended the surprise on Mrs. John Patterson last week.
Why is it that some people will not take TIIK JontN.w. but borrow it from their neighbors?
Dem McMullen.with all of his household g-ood. passed through here last week on his way to I'alhinch.
The present administration has knocked horse stealing in the head. Such animals are too cheap to steal. "When a man gets drunk and has to be taken care of and gets mad at the person who takes care of him ought to be left alone.
The applicants for graduation at Center are Misses Eliza liowman. Jane Chambers. Bertha Peterson, and Mr. Bert Peterson.
Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair
IIIHKHXI A.
Wheat is looking- fine. Four more weeks of school. May Wert has been quite sick". Jackson McCormack sold a milch cow this week.
Jennie Tate is on the sick list with whooping cough. A tramp slept in the school house one right last week.
Hal Stonebreaker is working for Jackson McCormack. Miss Nettie Pickett has had a very sore hand for some time.
James Hunter took a load of hogs to Waynetown Wednesday. John Wykle and daughter, of Ohio, are visiting Marion Watson and wife.
Jim Smith and wife, of Alamo, visited their father William Smith, Wednesday.
Our gravel road is in bad condition and should be scraped in at first con venience.
Grace Sweeney, of Yountsville. was the guest of Mrs. Jackson McCormack over Sunday.
Robert Stubbins and wife visited their father and mother. Joseph Stubbins and wife. Wednesday.
Cicero Rrandon is have more than a little trouble to get possession of his little farm that he purchased lately.
If Hicks' predictions for the remainder of the month come up to the mark as they have this week we may look for rough weather.
Sugar making- is in full blast now and the steam of the furnace is raising day and night. A good time to have a roast, boys, or a "taffy pnlliir." i^The robins have returned, the squirrels are out, the buzzards are flying, and nature has brought in spring. Ere long the flowers will bloom, the bees come out, the birds pair off and nest, the plowman turn the sod and all nature will seem to say, "Work while you may."
On Monday of last week the Hibernia school took their dinners and went to visit and surprise the Bunker Hill school. They had a general good
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The sick are better. Now is the time to sow oats. Conic aaain New Ross primp. Sugar making is kinder slim. Then.- is some corn to husk- yet. M. A. Conner was here Monday. Tramps are seen every day here. Three more weeks of school here. Hired hands are plenty this spring. Duely Ward talks of moving to Mace. Frank Faust sold a few hogs this week.
For World's Fair hogs call on J. W. Ward. A. Rutan was here last weel\ on business.
J- llobson has moved into our little village. Bruce Morris was in Thorntown on Sunday.
Frank ICennedy is improving at this writing. Gilbert Wilson was in New Market Monday.
John Perry was in Crawfordsville on Monday. 'J'lie young clover is nearly all frozen out here.
I). 10. Elmore was here buying horses this week". Ask A. Davidson if his goat is broken to drive yet.
F. Linn will open a new barber shop at Mace soon. Whiskers Johnson was in Crawfordsville Saturday.
A. J. Abbott was in Lebanon 'om day last week. 11. J, Thompson has the only single horse and buggy.
Mr. Kincaid talks of learning telegraphy this spring. Bert Remlev talks of getting a bicycle this summer.
R. E. Dice and wife were in Crawfordsville Saturday. Vesta Coleman is hauling his summer's wood this week.
There is more moving here, this spring than common. John Finch and wife broke bread at Ilarve Morris' Sunday.
The seltzer and skyrocket peddler was seen here this week. Dick McCoy and wife, of Lebanon. Sundayed at E. Snarley's.
C. C. McClure will buy stock for Issac Sperry this summer. The big ditch will be put through as soon as the weather permits.
The Thompson A, Weaver Wire Co. have shut down, hard times. Franklin Shuey was severely bitten by a horse one day last week.
Ode Woliver sas he has enough meat to last him until next Juvember. Ora Armstrong and Charley Edwards are putting up a fine lot of gates.
Jack McCartv and George Hand are cutting wood for A. Look this week. We wonder why Willie Morris was not in Crawfordsville Sunday evening'.1
II. Trout sold a horse last week for llow is that for Democratic times'.' James Pattison and Mr. Myers were in Crawfordsville Monday on business.
The play that was to have been given at this place soon has fallen through with.
We are all somewhat anxious to have a fox drive soon. They never were so thick since l.S-ll.
(!uy Evans got lost in his light over coat last Sunday night and when found he was hanging on the yard gate of (i. Swisher near Orth.
llillie Mish. of Mace, is studying medicine under Dr. Kndingtield. of that place. Hillie has a good education, is quite an industrious young- man. and has suggested that he would rather In a doctor than a blacksmith. We wish him success and believe he will make a good physician.
No. 1.—A jaw breaker, slide tongued individual, is always at the railway depot looking for a lady 011 the trains to speak to him. lie is about "i feet 10 inches tall, has a black mustache.black •yes and black hair: weight about pounds: is always handsomely dressed, lie has been on the hunt of a wife for the last twenty-two years. lie is an industrious young man: he has been known to go to Advance a few times but now takes the road for the southwest. lie is quite a gentleman and treats the ladies with the best respects that a gentleman should treat them. Any lady wishing to correspond with matrimonial intent will just address Kddie MeC'arty. Linnsburg. Ind.
KIKKL'ATKICK.
II. M. Ilarter was in town on business last week. Mrs. J. P. Culver is visiting Mr. and .Mrs. II. C. Shobe.
Ed Johnston will move to Romney the first of April. Tolten Burns will work for H. C. Shobe this summer.
The I.«0. G. T. lodge initiated three new members Monday night. The dead are alive, the lost are found and J. \V. Witsontis happy again.
Albert Nay supports a horse and buggy and Chas. Dain a gold watch. Messrs. Peterson, Horney, Rice and Hunt returned from Buffalo Tuesday night.
J. W. Wilson's cattle took a'trip for recreation last week and three are still missing.
Ed Stull is visiting his brother John this week and will probably work in this neighborhood this summer.
H. C. Shobe visited Indianapolis last week and brought homo three car loads of cattle which he intends feeding for the spring markets. •S. E. Horney, -Silas Peterson, Win. Hunt and Perry Rice stated to Buffalo with eleven carloads of stock last Friday.
Wm. Painter, of Linden, has bargained for J. T. Carrico's residence and blacksmith shop and will move here and follow his trade soon. Mr. Carrico will go to Dakota.
NKW KICUMIIM),
Everybody is moving this week. f-.X Miss Etta visited friends here last week.
O. E. Kelly preached at Smartbnrg last Saturday and Sunday. Thos. Foster -has bought the property owned-by 'I iv Roberts.
Clias. YanCleave. of Crawfordsville, was in town last Wednesday. P. M. Brown, of Waynetown. spent' the latter part of last week" here.
Dr. and Mrs. Burris and Dr. Payne, of Terre Haute, are visiting Dr. Black. Miss Rose drove is home again after spending tlic winter with her sister, Mrs. Bever.
The .New Richmond Dramatic lub played for the first time to a full house at Romiiey last week.
The back room of the Soldiers' Home is being repaired and will be occupied by a millinery store.
Those who are cm the sick list this week are Dr. Black, little Hazel Kellv anil the infant child of Mr. Mull.
Since the tire the men who were bitterly against incorporation are now loudest in its favor, having seen the need of it.
A yo:ng gentleman of diminutive size but with a pair of lusl lungs, has come to gladden the home of W. W. Washburn. .lohn 11. Phillips has returned from Gas City. but. as lie was well pleased with that place is not likely that, he will remain with us long.
Mrs. Betsy Smith, mother of Tlios. and Robert Smith, died at her home, four mih's north of here, on Monday night. She was si! -years of agi-. Interment at New Richmond cemetery.
ROTATO CKKKIv.
The sick are better.
Mrs. S. J. Dodd is on the siclc list. .1. A. l)odl went to I larlington Saturday.
Hathaway Harper is visiting 1'Vank Cook. Nora Stucky is working for "M"rs. Jennie Cook. .Mrs. Kate Custer spent Thursday at John Booher's.
Chas. Maguire and family Sundayed at Mart Little's. Mrs. Bell Custer spent Tuesday with Mrs. J. L. Brown. (ilee Irons spent Saturday with her sister, Mrs. Etta Ford.
Mrs. Ruth Graham and son. Ol. went Darlington Tuesday. S. K. Iilue and Frank Little went to Darlington Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. John l'ittman. went to Darlington Wednesday. Willie Smith will work for Whit Turnipseed this spring.
Charley Rykerand l'erry March went to Darlington Wednesday. Earl Peterson will work for J. A. Dood this spring and summer.
Mrs. Abbie Swinford spent part of last Sunday at .lohn llolloway's. Miss Tinnie Brook's spent Wednesday at her sister's. Mrs. Eugene Cook's.
The next contest will be March 10 at Bethel church for :id class silver medal. Plenty of gas on Sugar Ridge now Farmers can save their wood and burn is.
Mrs. Bell Custer spent Thursday with her mother. Mrs. Harriet Ma guire.
Mrs. Del Peterson called in her friends last Thursday and had a carpet tacking.
Eugene Cook moved on March :1 to his new home. Stewart Maguire als moved.
Jack Boy.iers will work for A! Tribet this season, lie commenced the tirst of March.
Mort Dukes contemplates going south in the spring—the southern part of Indiana.
Silas Peterson has not returned from Buffalo yet where he went with hojrs and cattle.
John Pittman and family
rspent
Sun
day at Mrs. Pittman's mother's. Mrs. Lucy Cook's. Miss Lillie Burkhart went to Thorntown Saturday to see her parents. She returned Sunday.
The contest Saturday, the 'id. was for a silver medal and Aric Paddock won it. There art- to be six silver medals given before any gold ones.
The Cottage (iiove school visited No. school in Franklin township, taught by D. V. Pittman. last Friday afternoon. The time was spent in ciphering and spelling.
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Fred Barr is oil the sick- list. Goben's school visited at Soap Factory Friday.
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Mr. John Tomlinson i.-^ from the grip. Ottis Thompson has go't left on hi? patent right.
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Ask Ottie Thompson how trailing- horses. Fletcher Davidson purchased sow of Doug Acres.
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Sam Thompson thinks there is nothing like a pie supper. Henry Walters lias twenty-six fat hogs ready for market.
James Jackmad sawed loo cords of wood for James Fleming last Wednesday.
Elmer Patton visited at Cherry irove last Sunday. Elmer is looking for a hat.
Frank Nolan drives down the lane every Sunday and two or three times a week.
There's a certain man at Cherry Grove that tries to run the school and teacher, too, and still he can neither read nor write, but he thinks he knows it all.
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Our Spring Stock
Is now complete in every department and they are Beauties. An extraordinary effort has been made in our
Boys'and Children's Department
To make it the handsomest ever shown in the city of Crawfordsville. We would kindly request the ladies to bring the little folks and fit them out.
Spring Overcoats
Come in play now. We have a choice assortment at low figures. Inspection solicited.
Until further notice we will present every purchaser of $2.50, or more, with a 251b. sack of Silver Leat Best Premium Flour.
LEE S. WARNER,
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Clothier, Tailor, Hatter and Furnisher.
Successor to Joly Joel.
Eagle Claw Cultivators.
Do you Know we have .special features in Eagle Claw Cultivators that no others can have for a few years. We save you from $3 to $5 on breaking plows.
Turnbull Wagons
Are still far superior to any other kind.
Deering Binders Mowers
Have bicycle bearings and will run one-half lighter than any other make and they received six world's fair premiums. Mote than all others put together.
Hardware and Stoves away down cheap. We wiil .save you lots
of money if you will call and permit us.
COHOON& FISHER
Look! Look! Look!
At Lee S. Warner's show windows at that big pile of Silver Leaf Flour to be given away.
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