Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 March 1895 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, MARCH 1,1895.

THE more that the new bonds increase in price the worse the sale looks for the Administration.

TWELVE Democrats in the House voted for the Nicholson bill, and sixteen Republicans voted against it.

IF the Legislature gets down to business now, it can do something that will be of real benefit to the people. The skies are beginning to clear.

THE Cleveland-Carlisle bond deal with the .Belmont-Morgan syndicate is alone sufficient to insure the election of a Republican President in 1996.

THE Senate has passed a bill changing the name of Jacsonville, Fountain county, to that of Wallace. This simply corresponds with the name of the postoffice.

GIL SHANKLIN is again being "mentioned" for a position, this time as a consul to Holland or Austria. There is no salary attached to the "mentioning" business.

GOVERNOR MCKINLEY says that Harrison's administration was a bond-pay-ing, not a bond-issuing administration. There is a wide difference between that administration and this.

REPRESENTATIVE STUTESMAN'S Congressional apportionment bill passed the House last night by a vote of 59 to 16. Two Republicans voted against the bill. The great pity is that it is not a better bill.

CONGRESS is now on the home stretch It will come under the wire, distancing all its predecessors as being the most shiftless, imbecile and perverse which the country has ever had. When its race is run the people will rejoice.

THE profit to the foreign syndicate on the new loan is 84,735,044, The profit to the jobbers in the bonds will be $3,583,113. The United States has lost by this secret bargain $8,418,757. The gold brick game was played on the President to perfection. It is a charitable view to say that is no worse.

THERE is an ill defined rumor at Indianapolis that the Democratic Senators whose time will expire with this session will resign rather than that the apportionment bills shall become laws. Another rumor is that there are six Republican Senators who will join with the Democrats and vote against these bills. Both rumors are probably without foundation.

THE Congressional apportionment bill, known as the Stutesman bill, was endorsed by the Republican caucus last night. By this bill Hamilton, Tipton, Carroll, Clinton, Boone, Montgomery and Fountain are made the Ninth district. THE JOURNAL has not changed its opinion of the bill since it was first introduced. It is a gerrymander pure and simple. Should the Democrats attack the bill in the courts it would be so decided. Gerrj'manders are gerrymanders whether they be made by Democrats or Repubicans. They are indefensible, vicious and wicked.

THE Indianapolis Juimial Monday surrendered six columnsto give the opinion of prominent Republicans and excerpts from the State Republican press as to the wisdom of the Republican legislative caucus action in taking the appointing power for benevolent institution boards oat of the hands of the Governor. The consensus of Republi can opinion is that such a step would be unwise and in the end will work great injury to the Republican party. So far as Montgomery county is concerned we have yet to hear of a single Republican who is in favor of breaking the party's pledge in this matter. The sentiment among Montgomery county Republicans is well nigh universal against the proposed action.

THE Republican caucus last night by a vote of 57 to 27 rescinded its action of two weeks ago to take the appointing power out of the hands of the Governor. A resolution was adopted, however, to the effect that there should be six boards of three persons each and that not more than nine of such persons shall be of the same political party. This will give each of the two leading political parties equal prominence, half of them being controled by each party. The caucus action will be heartily approved by the people of the State. This bill, when it is introduced, should be supplemented by the bill now pending, providing for the application of civil service rules and all employes should be appointed upon their merits.

MILLIONS FOR A SYNDICATE. Murat Halstead, lin the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, vigorously attacks the late bond deal andjdenounces it as a most glaring fraud perpetrated by the foreign syndicate of financiers upon the people of the United States. "Somebody," he says, "had to strike a blow at our 'coin'obonds. The President was induced do it. He did it, flagrantly in his two messages—written under false impressions that could not have been imposed upon a man with a mind of his own—writing his own views. He opened the gap between the coin and the gold bond. The competent banker knew they were the sameoto him. The incompetent President did not know. Was he cajoled or beguiled? Why did he play the game of the money lenders against the money borrowers when he was the representative of the people, and it was his duty to uphold the credit of the people? There was nothing the matte*- with it. Why should he say there was? He worked the trick for the financiers by his fussing about gold bonds, as contemptible and obvious a subterfuge as ever evoked the enthusiasm of the shallow and the approval of the few, who were helped to the disadvantage of the many. There ought not to have been one vote in Congress for a gold bond. The whole discussion was into the hands of the manipulating managers of the syndicate. Our 'coin' bonds had been taken at a lower rate of interest than the gold bonds of Europe. They would, as soon as out, be worth more in Europe and everywhere than any other bonds. The loan, any way «it could be put, was a picnic of the financiers. "The pretended scarcity of gold was a farcical fraud, and none knew it so well as the gentlemen who delt in it. It is not going further than the circumstances warrant to suspect that some of the shipments of gold were for the purpose of hastening the closing of the contract prepared by the President's old partner, that had the millions in it. "The President repeatedly urged the necessity of gold bonds, and put the case in every way to beat down the coin bonds and if he did not know, his managers did, that none other were possible. He is the man, therefore, who is responsible for the tremendons speculation in gold that has just been perfected. •'He need not talk about Congress, for Congress not only did nothing, but it was known that it could not have done anything and, more than that, it certainly should not have done the thing Cleveland urged that it must do, an urgency that was worth millions to the syndicate."

THE Lafayette Courier is decidedly opposed to the proposed Congressional apportionment bill. It says:

So far as Tippecanoe county is concerned the proposed rearrangement is decidedly and distinctly objectionable. There is no reason or sense in stretching a district out like a shoe-string, winding its sinuous ways from the suburbs of Danville, Illinois, to Chicago, taking in a long range of water front on Lake Michigan, and including many counties that have never had any social or political relations in common. The Legislature will probably pass the Stutesman bill, now that it has received caucus endorsement, but its chances of being made effective are not so well assured. Its constitutionality will be tested in the courts, and, even after all this commotion, the whole thing may be knocked into a cocked hat. '•.•i'j

THE income tax law provides that every corporation, no matter how small its income may be, is required to give details of its income during the year 1894, and the tax of 2 per cent, must be paid on the whole of its income, without any exemption of $4,000 as in the case of individuals. This will rake in all our banks, the Live Stock Insurance Company, the Dovetail Body Company, the Indiana Wire Fence Company, the Water and Light Compan, the Natural Gas Company, the JOURNAL Company, and probably others. They have until the 15th of April to make returns to the Collector of Internal Revenue.

GOVERNOR MATTHEWS has appointed three Republicans and two Democrats to serve as trustees for the State. Soldiers' Home at Lafayette. They are to serve without pay, and this may account for the Governor's liberality toward Republicans. The three Republicans are J. R. Carnahan, D. N. Foster and J. D. Wallace, the two Democrats are C. J. Murphy and 1. B. McDonald. It is a good board and shows what the Governor can do when he tries.

NEW YORK Trlhune: Democratic statesmanship was always opposed to great enterprises like ocean cables and transcontinental railways, and it was folly to expect it to reverse itself in the matter of the proposed telegraph line to Hawaii. Such projects are created only by nineteenth century genius and statesmanship—and the Bourbons are not dealing in those vintages.

THE Nicholson bill will undoubtedly pass the Senate. Neither party has made it a caucus measure, and while there are some Republicans who will vote against it, there are enough Democrats who will vote for it to make up the loss. Its passage in the Senate may therefore be set down as certain.

LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.

TWO DAYS' DEBATE ON THE NICHOLSON BM.L.

Friends of the Measure Out In Force. Mr. Nicholson Proves Himself a Good General—Review of the Work Accomplished During the Week.

[Spccial Correspondence.!

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 26. The most interesting event of the past week, and possibly the most interesting of the session up to date, wa3 the two days' fight on the Nicholson bill in the house. The friends of the bill had gathered in their forces from all over the state, and when the debate opened the lobbies were simply packed and jammed. Ministers from other cities had left their flocks for a day or two and were occupying seats on the floor by the side of their members. In the galleries and in the lobbies were women and women and women. The bill was np for second reading, and it was feared that efforts would be made to amend it to death. The friends of the bill stood like a solid phalanx, and young Mr. Nicholson suddenly developed into the Teal leader of the house. Notwithstanding the fact that he talks in a terribly monotonous, sing-song way, he was listened to with attention whenever he took the floor. Evidently he had put in any amount of hard study on the bill and prepared himself thoroughly on parlimentary practice. The opponents of the measure found him "loaded for bear" and armed at every point. He took things coolly and good naturedly, did not get flustered or excited and came out of the fight in good shape. Considering the faot that amendments were offered to every single clause of the bill, it came out of the two days' struggle much less mangled than many expected. In fact, none of its vital points were touched except the modification of the local option seotion. As ^this now stands it requires a remonstrance against each applicant, instead of permitting one remonstrance to shut out all saloons for two years.

Mr. Holloway of Evansville rather assumed the leadership of the opposition at the Rtart. but he was too frank in antnounoing himself as an opponent of the bilL It was soon apparent that the friends of the bill were largely in the majority and that they were willing to do just about as Mr. Nicholson might say. Therefore, though Mr. Holloway made two or three brilliant speeches, his amendments were squelched one by one. The man who was more effective than anybody else in amending the bill was Mr. Robinson, who always prefaced any amendment he might offer by declaring that he was a friend of the bill and wanted it passed in such shape that it would stand upon the statute books in spite of future efforts to repeal it or overthrow it in the courts.

The most exciting incident of the debate was when Andrew Jackson, the member from Carroll, declared in the (midst of a vehement speech that there was a barrel of whisky in the basement of the statehouse free of access to the members. There was wild and prolonged applause in the galleries and much confusion on the floor, which increased when Jackson declared that the •whisky had been placed there by the .liquor leagues to influence legislation. 'When quiet was restored an investigating committee was appointed to find out what nearly everybody already knew— namely, that an employe of the statehouse has ior years kept a bottle of whisky in his room in the basement and has frequently invited members down to take a drink.

Some of the ministers who lobbied on the floor for the bill were a little bit wild in their enthusiasm and anxiety. It was even necessary to station doorkeepers on the floor to keep them from joining in the viva voce votes that were taken.

It would make the hair of some of the constituents of senators stand on end if they oould see the reckless fashion in which business is occasionally pushed through the senate. One afternoon last •week over 80 measures were passed, and it was more by good luck than intent that none of them were bad bills. Not more than half the senators were in their seats more than two minutes at a time, and more than half of those who voted aye on the various measures knew nothing about them, but took some 'other senator's word for it that they wer? all right. "While the senate thus 'hustles business, in a seemingly wreckless fashion at times, the house goes to the other extreme and all signs point to a congestion of legislation in this branch during the last few days of the session, whioh are now almost here. There is much of a disposition to discuss in minute detail every proposition that comes before the house.

By all odds the largest lobby that has been in attendance upon the legislature has been the building and loan lobby, composed of the officers or agents of the various associations that are opposed to having the expense fund abolished, and they have been doing effective work. But a sudden surprise was sprung upon them in the house Wednesday night. They had succeeded in killing the Stotsenberg bill in the corporations committee and the committee had reported back a substitute bill to which the associations had no serious objection. This .bill came up on second reading at jfihe Wednesday evening session, when there did not happen to be one of the building and loan lobbyists present. (Mr. Remy offered as a Substitute the original Stotsenberg bill and it was sent (through to third reading with such suddenness as to make one's head swim.

During the past week the legislature jhas made considerable progress. The late of all politioal legislation has been [determined, and it now remains to put it through, along with the rest of the legislation that is in hand. It looks now *as though there would be a good deal kf congestion, particularly in the house, iwhen the last days come. I On Monday the senate determined the fate of the county superintendent's bill by voting upon it favorably. The house jpassed these bills: By Mr. Harris, providing for the teaching of the effeota of

alcohol in public schools. By Mr. Dinwiddie, to define prizefighting and to provide a punishment therefore. The house concurred in the senate amendments to the firemens' pension fund bill and the bill went to the governor.

On Tuesday the senate spent the day wrangling on the Newby bill to cut off the expense fund in building and loan associations and finally recommitted the bill. The house passed the Wishard legislative apportionment bill. The Nicholson bill was then taken up in the committee of the whole and discussed until nearly 5 o'clock. At that hour the soldiers' home bill was passed under guspension of the rules, with an appropriation of $75,000. The senate ooncurxea in tms amenametit ana the Din has since been signed by the governor.

On Wednesday the house spent the day discussing and amending the Nicholson bill. After it finished, the sections making it a misdemeanor for persons to be seen going in or coming out of a saloon at unlawful hours and punishing a minor for being found about a saloon at any time were stricken out and the local option feature was so modified as to require remonstrance against each applicant for license, the senate got down to business and passed 37 minor bills.

On Thursday, the day that ex-Gov-ernor Gray's remains were lying in state in the capitol, tlie legislature was in session but an hour anil transacted no business of importance.

O11 Friday the session lasted but half the day and the senate spent its time on committee reports. The house passed these bills: The senate bill providing for a superior court in Madison county, which now goes to the governor for his signature the remodeling the libel law, which has also passed both houses and goes to the governor the house bill to amend the road law so that commissioners may purchase a toll road without holding an election the bill to create a new judicial circuit for Vanderburg county the bill to regulate appeals to the supreme and appellate courts the bill to compel insurance companies to make more detailed statements to the auditor of state.

On Saturday with a small attendance the house advanced several measures, most of which were unimportant. In both branches bills were introduced placing state penal and benevolent institutions on a civil service basis. In the senate several new bills were introduced.

The joint resolution for a constitutional convention has passed the house and will probably pass the senate. It must pass another legislature before such a convention can be called. While there arc some strong reasons against such a move, there are also some strong reasons urged on the other side. One of the worst features of the present organio law, it is claimed, is the 2 per cent limit upon the indebtedness of cities. There is scarcely a growing city in the state that has not been greatly hampered in its efforts toward self improvement by this clause,

On account of trouble in securing a quorum, the house has passed a resolution offered by Mr. Leedy providing for a fine of $6 per day against such members as are absent without leave.

One of the out county members surprised the house a little the other day by announcing that some method ought to be adopted to "expediate" business.

They are telling another story upon Mr. Howe, the gentleman from Morgan, to the effect that he had prepared a magnificent speech of two hours' length upon a pending measure and waited for a chance to deliver it. Upon inquiry, he discovered that it had been killed upon adverse committee report a week before.

One of the chief difficulties in expediting business lies in inattention of members. This was very sharply illustrated in the house a few days ago when a bill to amend the charter of an old life insurance company came up and passed by an almost unanimous vote. There was only one man in the house opposed to the bill, and as soon as it had passed he moved a reconsideration and attacked the bill on the grounds that it had been slipped through without the members knowing what they were voting for. Every member knew that this latter claim was strictly true, and it frightened them when their attention was oalled to it. They immediately grew suspicious of the bill and killed it on the spot, while as a matter of faot the measure contained nothing vicious and had they fully understood its purport they would probably have passed it

There has probably been less politios on the floor of the house this year than during any session in the last decade. The Democratic minority is not large, but it has in it some excellent men and they have taken the tact that is likely to be the most successful—that is, they seek to avoid partisan lines in the discussion of any and all subjects. Thus they are usually given just as full and favorable hearing by the house as the members of the Republican side.

Pretty girls in the lobby invariably cause a commotion in the house or senate. There are a dozen members of either branch who will drop any business they have in hand to obtain an introduction to a pretty girl.

Chairman Allen of the ways and means committee has proven himgnlf one of the able and industrious members of the house. He worked almost night and day for three weeks in gathering the data to prepare the general appropriation bill, and in this time he has probably become as well posted upon the financial affairs of the various state institutions as any man in the state. Mr. Allen talks very little on the floor of the house, and by the same token he is usually listened to with attention when he does talk.

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was two years ago. This was amply demonstrated when the senate passed the Shively bill by a vote of 28 to 8, and the 28 votes did not include two of the three editors of the senate. They happened to be oat when the bill was called OP- UNO.

AT DOUGLASS' BIER.

Impressive Servioes Over the Dead Freedman's Remains,

COLORED PEOPLE MOURN A LEADER.

Distinguished Men and Women of the White Race Join Them in Offering Tribute Several Kulogiotio

Addresses Delivered.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Not since the unveiling of the Lincoln emancipation statue in 1878 has there been such a popular outpouring of colored people to pay tribute to a benefactor of their race than was witnessed Monday in and aboi^t the Metropolitan Afrioan Methodist Episcopal church, where the funeral services over the remains of Frederick Douglass took place. The body was taken from Gedar Hill, near Anacostia, the home of the deceased, at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning, and reached the church about 9:30. From that hour till 1:30 in the afternoon thousands of persons, including many white people, passed in double file through the building and viewed the remains, which were in charge of a guard of honor composed of members of a colored camp of the Sons of Veterans.

Moral Trlbut«i».

The altar and reading desk were covered with floral tributes, the most prominent of which was a magnificent shield composed of roses, orchids and palms, sent by the Haytien government, through Minister Hientjens. Another tribute was from B. F. Auld, the son of Frederick Douglass' old master, who is now captain of the eastern police station in Baltimore.

The Services.

The services were simple but appropriate. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. J. G. Jenifer, pastor of the church. He. took for his text: "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel." Rev. H. E. Stevenson, pastor of the white ohurch in Anacostia attended by Mrs. Douglass, followed with a brief address at J^e request of members of the fajniljfT Rev. J. EL Rankin, president of Howard university, also delivered a brief eulogy of the deceased.

John KaCoUBtOD'i Tribute. A letter from Mrs. Douglass asking that a place be given in the programme to Mr. John Hutchinson, of Boston, Mass.. was reed and served as an introduction to Mr. Hutchinson, white-haired and white-bearded, the last of the famous Hutchinson family of abolition singers, who, with his sister, acoompanied Mr. Douglass to England on his mission against slavery. Mr. Hutchinson told some touching little stories of his lifelong friendship with the deceased, and then sang two requiem solos.

Secretary Nicholas, of the Haytien legation in the United States, representing Minister Hientjens, a tall, very black man, delivered a brief eulogy in French, which was translated by Mr. Durham, ex-United States minister to Hayti. Secretary Nicholas expressed the sorrow of the Haytien government and^ of its legation here, at the death of Mr. Douglass. Bishop Wayman in his eulogy merely named the great men from a number of the states of the union, and wound up with the remark: "And last, but not least, Maryland lias her Frederick Douglass."

Tribute of the Suffragist*.

Miss Susan B. Anthony then arose, amid a stir of interest, to read a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton highly eulogistic of the deceased. Miss Anthony prefaced the reading of tlie letter with some remarks of her own. Mrs. Stanton, she said, was beloved by Frederick Douglass more than any other woman in the ranks of suffragists. On last Wednesday, as she sat with Frederick Douglass on the platform of the women's council, she had told him that he must be present at the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton on November 12 next, to congratulate her on having rounded out fourscore years. "I shall be there," he said, "and I shall be ready with my words." The letter of Mrs. Stanton recalled incidents in her association with Mr. Douglass and told of her grief at his death. Mrs. May Wright Sewall spoke feelingly of Mr. Douglass who, she said, had not only opened up the way to the emancipation of his own people but to the emancipation of women.

The hymn "Seeking For Me" was followed with an eloquent prayer by Rev. Anna H. Shaw, and then Bishop Williams, of the colored Methodist Episcopal church, delivered the benediction. The services lasted nearly three hours.

Home to the Train.

Mrs. Douglass and the children and other relatives of her husband filed out of the church and remained in a room below until the congregation had departed. Then the remains were borne to the hearse by eight colored letter-carriers and after the family, friends and others had entered the carriages waiting for them, the funeral procession moved to the Pennsylvania railroad station where the casket w'&s placed on board the funeral train. The train soon left for Rochester, N. Y.

Ice Is Breaking Up.

CINCINPRATI, Feb. 26.—The ice in the Ohio river is moving rapidly, and the gorges at the bridges and other places are breaking. The boats are all steamed up and whistling, and there is much excitement owing to the danger to the oraft. The paokets have all escaped damage so far, but the coal barges and other properties will evidently suffer loss before the break is tfvei

Heavy Low by Fire.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. —The Crown Lithographing company and the Housekeeping Publishing company at Seventh street and Firtt avenue south was totally destroyed by fire at 8:30 Monday afternoon. Loss, $30Q,000| insurance very light. It was the finest plant in the northwest.

OKAVELLY RUN.

A number of our citizens will makemaple molasses. Jonathan Fruits and family spent Sunday at Lebanon.

Miss Lucinda Johnson is the guest of Thorntown friends. Miss Maude Johnson is recovering from her recent indisposition.

The Whittier Reading Circle met Tuesday evening at R. W. Peebles'. Miss Ethel Lynch has joined Mayme Wilhite's class in elocution at Darlington.

Okala Hall will assist Charlie Butler with his farm work the coming sum-1 mer.

Miss Olive Weesner, of Darlington, has been the guest of her sister, Mrs.. A. D. Peebles.

Mahlon Butler and wife, Mrs. C. W. Pritchard and Miss Lillie Johnson attended Friends' quarterly meeting at Sugar Plain Saturday and Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Johnson and Miss Ratie Johnson attended the county S. S. convention at Ladoga last Friday. They report an exceptional good convention and the next one to be held atCrawfordsville the fifth Friday of next May.

In response to an invitation extended by Miss Minnie Marshall and her pupils of the Kingsley chapel school. Miss Ella Kline and the pupils of the Gravelly Run school spent last Friday afternoon at the former's school in aciphering match. Gravelly Run carried off the honors and voted Okalallall as the champion cipherer of the season.

WAl.NUT CHAi'EL.

Sugar making has commenced. Miss Lida Galey visited in Mace Sunday.

Our school school will be out in four weeks. J. M. Galey is clearing fifteen acres of wood land.

II. P. Linn moved in the vicinity of Mace this week. J. V. Martin transacted business in the city Monday.

Miss Viola Walker was the guest of Jennie Linn Sunday. Mrs. ulia Reed visited friends here the first of the week.

Op Edwards, of Crawfordsville, Sundayed with Wm. Harris. Cha*s. Hunt will' hop clods with Chas. Armstrong this Summer.

Wilmer Harris attended the stock sales at Lafayette last week. Mr. and Mrs. Childers visited their daughter, Mrs. Galey, Tuesday.

Ralph Harris and Curt Linn are con^ fined to their respective rooms with the grip.

We feel safe in saying that there are more coons in Tiger Valley than in any other region about.

Several of our old men, who are considered good judges, say that the wheat crop will be a failure if prox. is as bad as inst.

The participators in the play meet to-night (Friday) for the first time. Some one was rude enough to insinuate that the title thereof had a serious effect on the manager recently. Itwas undoubtedly untrue.

We have reason to believe that the rumor afloat in regard to Mr. Baker is gossip only. Mr. Baker lived in this vicinity several years and was always known as an honest, peacable young man. We do not believe Mr. Bakerholds any malice toward himself or any of his friends.

AVHITE CHUKCH.

Sugar making is here. Frank Johnson is on the sick list. Mrs. Shade Cook is about the same as last week.

Marsh Hampton and wife visited at. 01 Hamilton's Sunday. Johnny and Rosy Rettinger visitedv May and Ace Cook Sunday.

Mr. Benefiel, of Colfax, called 'on Miss Stella Johnson Sunday. We would like to hear from the Ladoga scribe. It seems like home.

Grant Cook and family will move in the house with his father, Shade Cook, this week.

Albert Iiarmeson and family and Lydia Harmeson visited their brother Noah Sunday.

Eld. D. C. Campbell delivered an interesting sermon from Proverbs 1:24-25 Sunday night.

Will Wilson, of Clark's Hill, and Bertha Dunbar attended meeting here Sunday night.

Edgar Rine, George Cook and Edith Rettinger visited at the home of Belle and Jesse Campbell Sunday. O Ira Fisher was at Crawfordsville Saturday. Perhaps next time he starts he will go as far as Ladoga. Why? Ask Ira.

Albert Harmeson moved on Frank Johnson's farm Thursday. Bert Dunbar will occupy the house vacated by Albert.

We extend our hearty congratulations to THE JOURNAL for the prize. It is true it is the most intelligent paper in the county.

Last Wednesday at high noon at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Saul Peterson, occurred the marriage of Date Kilgore and Mrs. Lulie Ermentrout, Rev. Jackman, of Clark's Hill, officiating. They have our best wishes as they journey through life.

WEST SCHOOL HOUSE.

James Mastin will move soon. James Mastin and family Sundayed in Smartsburg.

Mrs. Charley Myers visited in Rockville the past week. Fred Myers will work for George Myers this Summer.

Harvey Elliott will move to Darlington the first of March. Milton Moore has hired to John Stover for the Summer.

The meeting at Smartsburg has been well represented from here. Miss Fannie Long was the guest of the correspondent Sunday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Myers, of Indianapolis, are visiting home folks. Mrs. Mate Campbell and daughter, Cora, visited in Crawfordsville the past week,

Wm. Harp, of near I Alamo, and Wm. Long and family spent Sunday with Benjamin Long and family.