Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 September 1894 — Page 8

WEEKLY JOURNAL

ESTABLISHED IN 1845.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1894.

GENERAL GOSSIP.

it Concerns Everything and Everybody and ,1B, Therefore, of Interest to All of Us.

—Miss Sallie Newton returned last night from a visit in Terre Haute. —Miss Effie Bay less is the last addition to the clerical force of Myers & Charni. —Mrs. P. H. Fink and daughters, Dena and Dora, have returned home from Lafayette. —Mrs. Mary B. Thomson left on Wednesday for Minneapolis where she will spend the winter. —Miss Opha Bryant returned to her home in OxfordWednesday after a visit with J. R. Bryant and family. —Miss Fannie Price, who has been the guest of Miss Minnie Fink, has returned to her home in Rockville. —W. J. Buskirk has resigned his position at the Monon station and will be succeeded by A1 Parrish, of Orleans. —B. A. Saulsbury, the father of Mrs. C.M.Travis, was married the other day to a lady at his home in Urbana I1L —About twenty-five went out from Crawfordsville, on Tuesday to attend the funeral of R. M. Bible at New Richmond. —The wedding of a well known lad3' musician to a prominent citizen is rumored as among the probabilities of the near future. —Next week the fast trains on the Vandalia will be taken off for the season. At the time they are taken off a new time card will go in effect on the road. —Clyde, the eleven-year-old son of I-\ W. Campbell, of Darlington, died Tuesday of typhoid fever. The funeral occurred Wednesday at 2 o'clock. —Lew Woods, the bottler at the bottling works, Tuesday turned on the natural gas before lighting it. He will profit by the experiene. lie is shy his mustache, eye brows and hair. —Miss Jessie Davis has returned to Wellesley college. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Julia who will enter Walnut Hill school at Natick, Mass, in order to prepare for Wellesley. —The Seagle sale of hogs at the Big Four yards Tuesday was adjourned as prices offered were too low. The5' will be shipped to Lebanon. Nebraska hogs are not wanted in Montgomery county. —The A. M. E. conference at Kokomo closed Tuesday I Pettiford is returned here while Martin Coleman, formerly pastor of the Crawfordsville •church, is moved from Bloomington to Rockville.

State Tax Commissioners.

After being in session nearly two months the State Board of Tax Commissioners have completed their work, and have submitted their report to the Auditors. The Board made some few changes, but in the majority of the cases the tax was allowed to stand as returned by the assessors. The Toledo. St. Louis & Kansas City railroad will pay taxes at the rate of 812,000 per mile for its main track, a reduction of $1,500 per mile. The hard luck stories of the several gas companies throughout the State had little or no effect upon the Jioard, and the assessments have been allowed to stand as returned by the assessors.

A Surprise Uinner.

Danville (111.) Prass: Friends and relatives of A. J. Quick suprised him at dinner yesterday noon at hi.= home, corner of Lincoln and Grant streets, in commemoration of his 43d birthday anniversary. The surprise was engi neered by his wife and children and was a success both in arrangement and happy result. Among the guests were a number of Mr. Quick's relatives from Crawfordsville, Ind., whose presence in the city was unknown to him until dinner was announced.

To Indianapolis Next Tuesday. The Morton Club will run an excur sion train to Indianapolis on next Tuesday, Sept. 25. Fair for the round trip 75 cents. The two rear coaches will be reserved exclusively for ladies and their escorts. The train will leave Crawfordsville at 8:30: Mace, 8:40 New Ross, 8:50. Returning will leave Indianapolis at 7:00 p. m. Tickets good returning on any regular train during the 20 th.

The Loan of $10,000.

The city has made the loan of 810,000 authorized by the Council Monday evening. It was completed Tuesday afternoon, the money being obtained from the Citizens' Na+ional Bank at the rate of 5% per cent.

Letter List.

Following is the list of letters remaining uncalled for in the postoffice at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the week ending Sept. 18, 1894. Persons calling for these letters will please say advertised:

Urown John Corine Can Ik ins A Dodds Wm Ferguson Jas Jlover John

Hill Miss Kate Harrison Lizzie Indi'na Chemical Co Jones Margaret Pittman Ben, Riley Elma

Sabill & Ott. ED. VOKIS, P. M.

Too Drunk To Kill.

Monday evening Sherman Trout and Frank Titus left Darlington for home shortly after 8 o'clock. When half a mile out they found in the ditch by the roadside an overturned rig. The buggy was upset and the horse, held by the harness was powerless to move. Under the debris lay the apparantly lifeless body of a man, the bloodstained and pale face showing ghastly in the moon light. They lifted the buggy and dragged what they supposed was a corpse out on the bank. Suddenly the eyes popped open and some inarticulate words were muttered. In five minutes the corpse was sitting up while its rescuers put the rig to rights. The man was citizen of Crawfordsville and was beastly drunk—too drunk to be badly injured in the smash up at the bottom of the ditch.

Going to Crawfordsville.

Lafayette Call: Lafayette Division No. 1, U. R. K. P., held a well attended meeting last evening, and accepted an invitation and will attend a grand anniversary celebration of Pythianism at Crawfordsville, on the 27th inst. This meet will be an important gathering, as all the divisions of the Eighth Regiment will be present, besides a number belonging to other regiments of the State, and many of the Supreme Lodge officers are expected to be in attendance. A grand street parade will take place at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 27th, and in the afternoon there will be horse and bicycle racing at the fair grounds, and speeches by promiPythians. In the evening there will be a grand display of fireworks.

Hooked a lJair of Lines.

Walter Miller and Frank Miley, a couple of Waynetown beauties, have been arrested for stealing a pair of lines, of the value of one daddy dollar, from Mr. Ariel Boyland. The gentlemen assert that they were under the influence of spirituous,malt and vinous liquors at the lime of the commission of the theft and really meant no harm. Mr. Miley repines in the fastness of the county jail, however, and will have a chance to make a blackboard demonstration of his innocency before a jury of his peers. As he :s a poor, dead broke fellow without any plutocratic relatives or friends the court has considerately appointed Crane & Anderson to defend him.

Our New Industry.

The stockholders of the American Incrustation Preventive Company held an enthusiastic meeting Tuesday at the law office of O. U. Perrin. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows:

E. C. Nolan—President. O. U. Perrin—Treasurer. T. J. Griffith, E. W. Ream, C. L. Rost, D. W. Yeagley and G. C. Fox, directors.

The company will commence business at once and THE JOURXAL predicts for it a bright and profitable future.

A Goodly Judgment.

The suit of Hulda Gerard against W. M. Reeves, the administrator of the estate of Sarah Humphrey, was tried in the circuit court Tuesday. The plaintiif asserted that she had cared for the decedent for seven or eight years previous to the decedent's death. She asked a judgment for $1,350 and the jury gave her SI,250. The plaintiff will not be able to realize all of the claim awarded her, however, as the estate is said to be worth only about 8700.

Miss Wise Resigns.

Miss May me Wise resigned her position in the Mills school building Tuesday and is now sick. The school she is over is a very large one with fifty-four pupils, some quite unruly and others too large for the grade. Dr. Cowan and Supt. Wellington went to Yountsville Tuesday evening and secured the services of Miss Sally Hornbaker, who began her administration Wednesday.

Increase of Voters.

Thirty counties have made returns to the State Election Commissioners regarding the number of voters who will go to the polls in the coming State election. An increase over the number of 1892 has taken place in every county which has thus far reported. The average increase in the number of precincts in each county is three. From 150 to 250 additional voters are reported in the average county.

County and Township Ballots. All the ballots for county and town' ship elections must be prepared by the county board'of election commissioners composed of the clerk of the circuit court and two others. All committees, county and township, of all parties, should now file in the clerk's office certificates of theironomination.

Will Move to Oxford.

Rev. J. T. Hale and family will remove to Oxford, Ohio, this week in order that their daughter may enter the Oxford Seminary, while the sons will enter Miami University. This is only one of many instances where we lose good citizens for lack of co-education in Wabash College.

BIKDSELL farm wagons sold onlv bv H. R. Tinsley & Co.

Join The* Journal procession, five cents to Jan. lv 1895.

IT pays to trade at of Louis Bischof.

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'The Big Store"

Coeducation at Wabash.

Many years ago when Mary Hannah Krout and a coterie of young ladies applied for admittance to Wabash College they were firmly refused. Ever since that day, however, the granite of prejudice has been crumbling and there is now a big crack in the giant boulder. A lady is attending recitations in Wabash College. When Prof. I. B. Baldwin of the Quincy schools came to Wabash for special work his young wife came -with him. Mrs. Baldwin is a progressive young lady and became imbued with a desire to take the course in Biblical literature under President Burroughs. She applied for permission to attend the recitations and it was finally granted. Mrs. Baldwin is now a student at Wabash and while her name will not appear in the catalogue she is receiving all the benefits of the study she is pursuing. It is a big step toward the inevitable.

NORTH UNION.

Bicycle riders are quite numerous. Wheat sowing is the order of the day.

Miss May Foust is attending school at Lebanon. Alf Shepard has been drilling wheat for James Caplinger.

Jasper Whitsel and family spent Sunday at New Market. Charley Stevens and father are cutting corn for James Caplinger.

Charley Davis, of Crawfordsville, was seen on our streets Tuesday. Ask George Thomas if he don't think high wheel bicycles are dangerous.

Milt Xirkendall, of Waveland, has been visiting his brother, Dave, this week.

James Foster and wife returned home Monday after a visit in Broivn's Valley.

John Harding and wife, of Crawfordsville, were guests of R. A. Smith Sunday.

Dave Kirkendall has opened his sorghum mill and has made 30 gallons of molasses.

Roy Thomas and Charley Stevens are the champion melon eaters of this neighborhood.

Ed Saunders, of Lebanon, agent of Montgomery county for S. F. Baker & Co., medicine, was here Tuesday.

Italian peddlers were in our midst Monday and did not fail to call on R. A. Smith, our genial watermelon merchant.

Charley Stevens returned home Monday from Boone county, where he had been a few days on a business and pleasure trip.

Michael Rush, our exsnerchant, left a box of potatoes when he moved to New Market which he can have by calling on Joseph Thomas.

We would say to the Dreamland scribe that you are getting in the suburbs of North Union to get your its items, which we think is hardly fair.

School opened Monday with an enrollment of fourteen. Miss Hannah Johnson, of Crawfordsville, is teacher. Miss Johnson gave universal satisfaction last term and it is to be hoped she will be as successful this term.

After an absence of a year we again join THE JOUKXAI, ranks, hoping that we may have some news that will be of interest to its many readers. We are sorry we were too late for the reunion but our best wishes were with you and we hope we will have the pleasure of attending next year and that the reunion of

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will far excel that of this

year. Mrs. Ras Seaman, while on her way to the Crawfordsville fair, was relieved of her pocket book at the depot, and was very much surprised a few days later to receive the pocketbook by mail, with a note saying that they would return the pocketbook as they thought, perhaps, it was a keepsake, and that they were sorry they had spent the money. No name was attached to the note.

XUMIiEK THIKTKKX.

Nominate good men for the minor offices. Uncle Jimmy Bannon and wife visited in Parke county this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Charley Thomas have an addition to their family, a boy. Mrs. Lena Holley, of Indianapolis, has been visiting in this community.

Lewis Bannon some time back found a silver dime in the field, bearing the date 1825.

Henry Petro, in addition to the An derson place has rented George Westfall's farm.

Last Saturday evening Jacob Ful wider's gave the boys a farewell social before their starting to college. On Sunday dinner was served to sixty guests.

Wm. Marshall, of Kingman, was in this community a week ago and took home with him a wife, in the person of Miss Carrie Calhoon.

The Wilhite graveyard has been put into the hands of a trustee. A wire fence has been erected around it. No doubt it will be a permanent burial place.

The George Williams, of Bristle Ridge twenty-five years ago, came in from the burned regions of the northwest one day last week and stopped at Jake Fulwider's.

Walter and Ben Fulwider went to Merom to school this week. They want the home news and therefore ordered THE JOUBNAL sent to their address. Ben wants news from Number Thirteen every week. We are afraid not, Benny.

As one of the members of the executive committee of the Correspondents Association we fully agree with the Secretary, the Wingate scribe, that we abide by the rules adopted by the Association. We think an after harvest meeting not necessary.

The words of kindness and grateful expressions of appreciation in regard to the correspondents' late banquet are doubtless very gratifying to THE JOURNAL COMPANY, and no less to the correspondents themselves. The occasion will long be remembered.

Richard Bible died at his home Sunday, Sept. 10, aged 46 years. The fun-

eral was held at the M. E. church at New Richmond on Tuesday, Rev. Appleby officiating. The funeral was conducted by the K. P. order of which he was a prominent member. The funeral was largely attended.

Ora Coombs, formerly a baker in Crawfordsville, came through from Garden City, Kansas, with his family in a wagon, arriving here tlie middle of last week, and stopped a day or two with friends. Ora had a good business in Garden City but thought it best to go with the crowd.

Mrs. Catherine Vanscoyoc, wife of Ebenezer Vanscoyoc, died September 15th of consumption. She was 44 years old. She had been a Christian twentysix years and died the death of the righteous. During her long illness she did not complain but waited patiently until the change came. Funeral at the home by Rev. R. H. Gott.

KUSSKLLVIIXE.

Fred Leonard is reported convalescing. Corn is an extra crop this Never better.

year.

Dr. G. W. Pool will move to Greencastle next week. The Kickapoo Indian medicine men are in town this week.

Aaron Graham will move here next week for the winter schools. School commenced here this week, Prof. Odel Whitenock in charge.

Inge Ross & Co have begun the erection of a new brick store building. Farmers are nearly through sowing wheat. It will be a small acreage in this vicinity.

Mrs. Rachel Sinnet has moved to Crawfordsville, Robert C. Edge haying ren'. °d her farm.

Thos. Grider ships about 2,000 dozen eggs and near 3,000 pounds of dressed poultry to Boston markets each week.

Hon. Mr. Overstreet, Republican candidate for Congress, will speak here on the 25th. He is whooping up the unwashed G. W. Cooper.

Dr. J. W. Straughan has been'inaking some propositions to rent property and move to Russellville. Come in, Doctor, a few more Republicans will do no harm here.

KATTLKSNALK.

Wheat sowing nearly done. Miss Sarah Coons has been quite ill but is better now.

Harley Swindler is hulling Mr. Martin's beans on his machine. Miss Sarah Busenbark has the typhoid fever. She is improving at present.

Harvey Gray is busy taking care of his vegetables. He has a large quantity of the best quality.

Joseph Stith and son have moved on the George Wert farm which they have rented for the next year.

Miss Eva Layson and husband visited home folks last Saturday and Sunday and returned home on Monday.

Alex Harrington attended the reunion of the Eighty-Sixth regiment at Attica this week. He said they had a grand time.

will save 3 ou money.

Simon Davis and wife have gone to Illinois on a visit. Simon expects to capture quite a lot of wild chickens while he is gone.

The Possum Ridge scribe was on the fair grounds on Thursday of the fair putting up hand bills of some kind. We just suppose he was going to have a sale of some kind.

There is a log house on the creek that was built by John Coons, Sr., in 1830, sixty-three years ago. The farm it stands on is owned by W. B. Galey and son. There is a graveyard on the place where several of the first settlers of this neighborhood are buried.

Now brother Swamp College scribe, suppose the Lapland scribe did call you a dandy, don't you think there ought to be one dandy amongst so many scribes of as good a paper as THE JOURNAL, and why not you be that one? Now brother, don't kick, there is lots of glory in it.

BOOTS SCHOOL HOUSE.

School began Monday. John Harriman is the capital singer. Anew scribe from this place last week.

Laura Thompson is working for Mrs. Shade Cook. Where does Simon Bowen go up north so much?

The lawn dance at W. M. Martz's was quite a success. S. W. Peterson is repairing the gravel roads near this place.

Look out for the double wedding when the new house is done. Ira Fisher took a flying trip to Ladoga last Saturday to see his best girl.

Girls, look out for that young boy that drives the little black to the log wagon.

Elmer Stewart and Miss Gail Vaughan passed through this vicinity last Monday.

Gill Rakestraw lias been repairing the school house at this place. It did not get it before it needed it.

Gill Rakestraw and John Harryman and Miss Fannie llarmeson and Miss Lulu Ermentrout went to the Shades last Saturday.

MAPLE GKOVE.

Miss Olla Peiliey left Wednesday for a visit with relatives at Delphi. Dr. Gregory was in this vicinity Monday testing Mrs. Mahorney's eyes.

School began Monday at Maple Grove with Miss Lillian Wilson teacher. Mrs. Teague, of New Ross, visited her brother Abe Pettiey part of last week.

C. L. Canine, of Waveland, visited his daughter, Mrs. Eva Harshbarger Sunday.

Some of cm people have been attending protracted meeting at Mt. Pleasant.

The sale at the residence of Daniel Himes, deceased, occurred Monday and was well attended.

Miller Myers will leave for his Kentucky home after spending the summer with relatives here.

Frank Huffman and wife of Leba­

HAVE-

Silver Linings.

The dark clouds of business depression have had their

bright lining in our store. At no time during the cry of hard

times have we failed to buy the late novelties as well as the

usual amount of gtaples. We have not been once discouraged

or disheartened by the outlook, and our ventures have been

successful, even beyond our expectations. We have not been

bothered by the dark clouds, but have been overwhelmed by

business, and our friends and customers have had the benefit

of the silver linings. And now that the dark clouds of busi­

ness depression are raising and fading into mist we are to the

front with the best selected and best bought stock ever shown

the trade of this and adjoining counties, and at prices that will

command your attention and the respect of our competitors.

We are a trifle later this season than usual in making our fall

announcement because of the delay of the new tariff bill in

becoming a law, as we delayed our shipments until prices

were settled, thereby saving a considerable per cent which

will be given our customers. But we are

Now Ready For Fall Trade

Come to us for your smallest wishes in our line,

"It Pays to Trade at the Big Store."

LOUIS BISCHOF

127-129 E. Main St. Crawfordsville, Ind.

non, have been spending a few days with his brother Isaac. A party at D. II. Peffley's Saturday night. A reminder to B. E. Peffley that it was his 19th birthday.

Maple Grove schoo-l house has been undergoing some much needed repairing and now presents a very nice appearance.

For the benefit of enquiring friends we will give some information as to where we are and what we have: Maple Grove is situated two miles north of Ladoga and five miles south of Mace. We have one blacksmith shop, one tinkerer, one carpenter, one fruit grower, a stock farm, a preacher, a doctor, a school director, one church, a score of excellent cooks, many fine farms and as good farmers as can be found anywhere, noted for their enterprise and sociability.

BOITLDEK VALLEY.

Mrs. Smith and son visited in Boone? county Tuesday. A great many from here attended the State fair this week.

A. J. Stone and siafcer and Mrs. Imel and daughter visited ait Whitesville Sunday.

Walter Hunt thinks the merry-go-round at the fair was as bad as "old bourbon" On an empty stomach.

Mr. McCarty now sleeps with his pants under his head since a sneak thief relieved him of his extra cash one night.

Tom Wright's new house is nearing completion and the young folks are expecting a nice social, as Tom is the one to give them.

A small child of William Hays died Monday night and was buried Tuesday at the Harshbarger cemetery.

Their little rose bud for earth too lair, Hath gone to heaven to blossom there. We saw a picture of TIIE JOURNAL correspondents at floral hall at the fair and pronounce it good and hope by next year we can be with them.

Mr. Homer Markley and Miss Ada Mote were quietly married at the home of the bride son Wednesday evening. May their pathway be strewn with fadeless tfowers.

llON'KVILLE.

Francis, Cook is visiting friends in Clay county. Jimmy Williams' children have the whooping cough.

Ira Fisher and Edna Holsinger were in this viainity Sunday. Maude Stringer is staying in Ladoga. She visited home folks Tuesday.

Ask Lulu Call how she happened to lose her letter and why she was so eager to find it.

John Caylor and wife and Dan Smeltzer and son, of Noblesville, attended meeting at Mt. Pleasant Sunday.

The school at No. 9 in Boone county will not commence until next Monday on account of the scarcity of books.

Rev. B. Trout delivered a very interesting sermon last Monday night to a large and attentive audience. The text selected was Judges, 19: 17. "Whither goest thou, and whence comest thou?"

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