Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 April 1895 — Page 5
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A NEW SWITCH LIGHT.
Crawfordsville's Electric LIkIUb Cause Supt. ltiley To Order a Change In Switch Lights.
Indianapolis News: The railroads are experimenting- with a flash light for the rear end of trains. One ,is in use on the Grand Trunk. A friction wheel, driven by one of the car axles, drives a mechanism by which red and white flashes are shown alternatively while the train is running ahead, red and green when it is backing, and a steady red light when standing still. The machine is costly.
A new switch light is looked for also, and the mechanics of the road are trying to find one. At street crossings where there is an electric light it is almost impossible to see the-[switch light, as the greater light hides the lesser. A few days ago a Peoria & Eastern engineer was callcd to account for going through a switch at Crawfordsville. His defense was that when the switch was thrown and the red light turned it was impossible to see it because of an electric light that was on a crossing1 nearly a square away. Superintendent Riley went over to Crawfordsville one dark night and watched that switch. The engineer was right. It was impossible to see the red light more than a couple of hundred feet away.
United States Weather Bureau's Report. In Indiana: Continued drouth during the fall and winter, continued low temperature during the month of January but especially February, were not beneficial to crops and pasturage, and at the end of the winter, wheat was only in fair condition, brown, not much advanced and winter-killed in' some fields. Pasturage looked brown and some old clover was frozen. Peach and cherry germs are reported to have been killed, but apples, pears, plums and other fruit are apparently safe. Cold, 'dry weather continued during the greater part of March, and the first of April, higher temperature prevailed and few local rains and snow were beneficial to crops and farm work. Wheat and grass are turning green and the ground being in good condition, plowing and sowing oats and other farm work advanced rapidly. Liye stock suffered during1 the winter from the cold, and stock wauer on many farms was scarce, many streams, wells and springs are low and almost dry-
Last Nelson Land Sale.
Greencastle Banner Times: The last of the Nelson land has been sold by Assignee Edwards for the benefit of creditors.*- R. L. 0'Hair, president of the Central National bank, on Saturday purchased 222 acres of as fine farm land as there is anywhere. The chance was one of a life time for Mr. O'Hair, as the land is located immediately across the road from his present farm, six miles north of the city. The price paid was $8,435, or §38 per acre. H. F. and Charles Hall bought forty acres of the Nelson land adjoining the above, paying 840 per acre. This clears up all the Nelson land.
Death of Col. W. H. Glenn.
Col. W. H. Glenn, who recently died at Hillsboro, 0., was a cousin of L. C. Ambrose, of this city, and a brother-in-law of Alex Meharry. Col. Glenn was the commander of the 89th Ohio and rendered distinguished service during the war. He was prominent in Ohio politics and at the time of his death he was serving on the military staff of Governor McKinley. His funeral was largely attended by the prominent men of the State, both Governor McKiniey and ex-Governor Foraker being among the number. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Meharry reached there last Friday.
A New Atlas.
Fred Hoffman and Herman McCluer are busily engaged in preparing a new atlas of Montgomery county, which will be complete in all its details. It will contain maps of the world, the United States, Indiana, Montgomery county, Crawfordsville and every township and town in the county. These maps of the townships will' locate all roads, school houses, churches, farms and farm lines, and will give the appraised values of all real estate. It will be a publication of great value and will be issued just as soon as the work can be prepared.
Au Old Money Order.
While looking through the papers of the late Fisher Doherty Monday Marsh Doherty found in a letter a money order for $1.50 which was issued twenty-eight years ago. Mr. Doherty had evidently forgotten to cash it a^'l putting it among his papers it remained until found by his son. It was issued by the postmaster at Allegan, Mich. Postmaster Voris was unable to pay it as he can take recognizance of no order over four years old.
sr. PADL UNIVERSALIS! CHURCH.
Constitution to lie Adopted and Articles of Kaltli—Names of the Members.
Good progress has been made in the organization of a Universalist church in this city. Already thirty-six names have been appended to the constitution which will be adopted in about two weeks. The preamble reads:
We, whose names are hereunto annexed, believing in the Church as an organization instituted by Christ for the special expression of Christian faith, and as a means of Christian' culture, do hereby associate to ourselves in church relations.
The first article names the organization as the St. Prul Uniyersalist Church of Crawfordsville.
The second article relates to membership and provides that any person desiring to improve in Christian character and life may become a member of this church by publicly manifesting such desire and confessing assent to the Universalist Confession of Faith, adopted at Winchester, N. H., in 1S03, as follows: 1. We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments contain a revelation of the character of God, and the duty, interest and final destiny of mankind. 2. We believe that there is one God, whose nature is love, revealed in one Lord Jesus Christ, by one Holy Spirit of Grace, who will finally restore the whole family of mankind to holiness and happiness. 3. We believe that holiness and true happiness are inseparably connected, and that belisvers ought to be careful to maintain order, and practice good works for these things are profitable unto men.
Such persons shall also vow to live a Christian life as God may help. The remaining articles refer to the oificers, meetings, funds of the church, aid to the sick and poor, and Sunday schools.
The following are the members: William Enoch, Milton E. Darnell, T. E. Ballard, Eva C. Ballard, Ray C. Ballard. Minnie S. Etter. Floy Etter, Elizabeth Myers, Maggie Gilkey, C. R, Britts, Elva C. Britts, Mary E. Enoch, Darwin S. Enoch, llhoda Long, Edith Long, William T. Harlan, Mattie E. Harlan, Abner P. Enoch, Sallie A. Enoch, Alma Enoch, Maud Enoch, Charles W. Gould, Blanch Gould, Grant Gould, J. D. Tracy, O'Neal Watson, Lida Watson, James H. Watson, Elizabeth R. Watson, Elmina Steele, William D. McClelland. Helen McMeclian, A. R. Bayless, Sr., Lizzie Fosher, Cora M. Shular, F. M. Humphrey. A number of others have signified their intention of uniting in the organization and it is expected that the church will be organized with a membership of at least fifty and probably more. It is the intention to employ a pastor and hold services regularly. A Sunday school will be organized in connection with the church and all the means instituted to lead men and women into holier and purer lives.
Sly Mr. Hobbs.
A. Hobbs went to Indianapolis Monday morning "to buy fruit" as he said. The fruit he bought grows in the county clerk's offices and costs two dollars. The sly Mr. Hobbs went over with Mrs. Nellie Paxton and they were married there in the Castle Hotel, only a few boarders witnessing the ceremony. They returned to Crawfords ville on the evening train.
AVants Damages.
George W. Oliver has sued the Clover Leaf railroad company for §2,000 damages. It seems that in 1893 Oliver was working as a bridge carpenter on the road and through the alleged negligence of the company's servants he had his right hand crushed and rendered useless by a jackscrew falling on it.
Will Be Held.
Ed Devine, the suspect arrested with new knives and razors in liis possession, was tried before Mayor Bandel last Monday. He was convicted of vagrancy and fined $15 and costs and given 25 days on the stone pile. An effort will be made during his confinement co find out where those goods came from.
Secured a Good Contract.
Myers & Swan have the contract for a handsome new brick block at New Richmond. It will consist of two store rooms and the second floor will be a Masonic hall. Work will begin in two weeks.
APRIL 12 1895.—TWELVEPAGES PART SECOND
A PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Crawfordsville, Which Vaunts Herself as the Hoosier Athens, Should Do Something to Substantiate That Claim.
To the Editor The Journal. Crawfordsville is never slow in putting forward her claim to intelligence and culture. In fact we are a little prone to brag on this point, altogether ignoring the glaring fact that the great mass of the public could not possibly substantiate it. There are in this town many men and women of wide and varied learning, but the majority have no means of acquiring it. This vaunt of ours must strike the stranger as inconsistent when he learns that the place has no public library and there arc not above a dozen private individuals in the town owning books enough to dignify the collection by the name of "library."
Books are essent-ial to culture and the growth of intelligence and therefore of vital necessity in a town like this. There is no means of improvement comparable to them except travel. All people are not fortunate enough to possess the means for travel, and the cost of books compared to it is a mere trifle. For a few dollars the reader can journey to the North Pole and back with Kane or Hayes or any of our recent explorers, or he can fol-* low in 'the track of Livingstone or Stanley through pathless African jun gles or wander at will through galleries, cities and cathedrals of Europe with myriads of writers. But if he have no books he cannot even do this
Crawfordsville is a large well-to-do town, and yet within her bounds are many book-lovers who cannot afford to become book-owners and are thus cut off from one of the most innocent sources of amusement as well as of wide information. A public library would be of inestimable value to the boys and girls of the public schools. The school library is small and necessarily technical in its character. There is no wide, general reading to be had there.
The college library is a fine one, yet its use is restricted to a comparatively small number, and rightly. Many of its books are not such as would be needed in a public library, but are essential for the use of students. It is not the province of the college to furnish the town with books, when she is fully able to do it for herself. Yet in this particular the college has been most generous.
Prof. Tuttle is to be commended for his move in this direction, and it is to be hoped there is public spirit enough here to carry it to a successful issue It matters little how a library is founded, whether by private subscriDtion, or at public cost, or both, so that it becomes an accomplished fact.
CAKHIK KKOUT.
A Mean, Cnbrotlierly Trick. Wilbert Gully is a mighty mean sort of a fellow and he placed a heavy mortgage on his chances of Heaven Monday when he played a mean trick on his brother William. The police knew Wilbert by the name of Will, so when they found him drunk and disorderly at the Monon station Saturday night they clapped him in jail and slated him as William.
When the affidavit was read to Wilbert Monday morning it was read as against William Gully, and Wilbert instead of lifting the stain from his brother's reputation, gave a foxy grin and let it go at that. He pleaded guilty under the name of William and is cracking stone under that name. It would probably never have been found out if the real, unadulterated William had not called at THE JOURNAL office on Tuesday to state that he was not in jail and had not been arrested. Wilbert should be ashamed of himself.
An .Enumeration of the Voters. In accordance with the constitution and the statute made in pursuance thereto an enumeration of the voters of the State must be made every six years, the purpose of which is to base the apportionment of Senators and Representatives in the State Legislature. The duty of making the enumeration devolves on the trustee of each township. This is the year that the work is to be done. Trustee Hartman has employed Warner Wilhite to make the enumeration in this township, and he is now making a bouse to house visit, taking the names of all males over the age of twenty-one.
A Card.
To the Editor of The Journal. It gives us pleasure to acknowledge a visit from a number of the friends of our Otterbein church a few days ago, by which we were both socially and substantially encircled, all of which we highly appreciate.
RKV. AND MKS. R. M. ZUCK.
NO INDICTMENT.
The CJraml Jury Takes no Action in the Hall Case, Although Convinced That Murder has Been Committed.
The grand jury adjourned without returning an indictment against Flora Hall, who is suspected of having murdered her infant child.
The grand jury members state that while they are satisfied in their ovvu minds that the girl murdered her child that they, do not believe a jury in the circuit court could convict her unless she gave testimony, and this she would not have to do.
Coroner Barcus' verdict was made public to-day. After a careful postmortem conducted by himself with Drs. Jones and Leech, and an investigation of the surrounding circumstances he finds that the infant found buried in Crawford's woods was Flora Hall's that it was born alive and regularly and that it came to its death by drowning at the hands of some person or persons unknown.
The charge of murder is thus specifically made, but the fastening of the awful crime on the guilty parties is another thing. The testimony of the unnatural mother before the Coroner was terrible and should be enough to send her up for a long term of years if not enough to hang her. It is, of course, unfit for publication, but it presents a picture of moral depravity almost beyond comprehension. The testimony in full is now on file in the county clerk's office.
Mis. l'hilbrick.
Mrs. Bertie Philbrick, nee Huff, whose sad death occurred at the residence of her father, Geo. A. Huff, in Chicago April 0, was born in this city Jan. 12, 18(57. When she was a child her parents moved to Champaign, 111., where she grew to womanhood and graduated with high honor at the University of Illinois in 1880. Shortly after this the family moved to Chicago and she taught there for two years in the city schools. Dec. 31, 1889, she was married to Alva Philbrick, a classmate, of Champaign, who located in Chicago. About three years ago he was promoted to the position of roadmaster of the southern division of the Illinois Central railroad and since that time their home has been in New Orleans. After an attack of malaria in February, she wished to come North, but the change did not avail and for the past month she suffered with congestion of the brain. All that medical skill and loving care could suggest was done to defy the grim enemy, but her young life yielded to the fatal disease.
With everything to live for, parents, husband, home, children and bright prospects, it is dilficult to be reconciled to the loss of one so young and promising. Yet she was full of faith and peace. Her husband, two little ones, Solon and Marie, her parents and one brother survive.
She visited her many relatives here in September, among whom are the families of Arch, William, Levi and"' David Martim, her grandfather, Abraham Huff her aunt, Mrs. J. N. Davidson, and cousin, Mrs. J. M. Waugh.
The funeral service was conducted at the residence of Arch Martin by Rev. E. B. Thompson, and by her request she was interred at Oak Hill cemetery, near the home of her childhood. Among those atending from a distance were Solon Philbrick, of Champaign, Miss Minnie Jaques and Mrs. Angie Weston, class-mates from University of Illinois Ethan FLiibrick and Mr. and Mrs Will Butler, of Chicago.
Chickamauga Commission.
Governor Matthews has announced the Chickamauga Battlefield Monument Commission, authorized under a law passed at the recent session appropriating $40,000 for monuments to mark the position of Indiana troops. The commissioners serve without pay, except for expenses. Their names are as follows: Gen. Morton C. Hunter, Bloomington, Col. William M. Cockrum, Oakland City Gen. James R. Carnahan, Indianapolis Capt. Milton Garrigus, Ivokomo, and Capt. Dyer C. McConnell, Logansport, Republicans Capt. William P. Herron, Crawfordsville, Capt. George II. Puntenny, Rushville Capt. Milton W. Thompson, Fort Wayne Capt. Maeellus M. Justus, Bluit'ton, and Col. R. M. Johnson, Elkhart, Democrats. Some of these were members of the commission appointed to go to the battlefield and locate the spots occupied by the Indiana regiments.
Whisky With Bullets in It. A special from Logansport says:' It is stated that Louisa Worden, wife of Harry Worden, who was sent to the penitentiary for seven years for shooting Warren Knowles, of Crawfordsville, with intent to kill, will to-mor-row bring suit for 82,000 damages against Nicholas Fries, saloonist,^.. She alleges that Fries sold Worden liquor which caused him to shoot Knowles. She represents that Worden was industrious and a good husband when sober, and her sole means of support.