Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 August 1895 — Page 3
VOL. 48-NO. 32
fc morning,
An Extra Effort to Dispose of.
For more than a thousand insinuations, especially if the insinuations are inspired by. jealousy and defeat. It is a fact that the
Dovetail Buggies
Are Strictly
Hand Made
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Worth of Surplus Goods in 30 davs. Beginning Thursday August 1st, and continuing until September 1st. Below you .will find an array of prices heretofore unmatchable:
Best calicos, all colors, only 4c per yd. Best shirting prints only :.'%c per yd. (Jood yard-wide muslin only 3c per yd. (!ood heavy shirting only 4c per yd.
fcL Light and dark ground challies only 2'- ,c. Genuine Turkey Red table linen only 15e per yd. Good outing cloth only 4c per yd.
Wide linen crash only 4c per yd. Black Henrietta. 40 inches wide, only 22,'-Jc. 2.000 yds. double width cashmere, only 9c per yd. 10 pieces dimity. was 12lc, now 7J-£c. Tins one cent per paper.
fcr 10c curling irons only 5c. 2^ Ladies' silk mitts only 12c, worth 2.1c. Ladies' black seamless hose only 10c. worth 20c.
All our 35c China silks now go for 18c. tents' Balbriggan undershirts and drawers only 23c worth 50c. Our SI.50 lace curtains only 89c.
fcr In fact everything in the house will be sold at a great sacrifice as I must positivelj' reduce my stock. Anything in Millinery at any as it must all be sold. Respectfully,
Abe Levmson. 1
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ONE FACT COUNTS
Come in and see for yourself how vastly superior our Dovetail Buggies an. to others.
DOVETAIL COMPANY
Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers.
Crawfordsville, Ind., 116 S Washington St.
Joseph Binford Lumber Yard
aker
Bros
Did you ever get a five year guarantee on a wagon? No! Well, then ust come and see the wagon with a five year written guarantee if you want the worth of your money. Nothing else like it. Either steel or cast skeins, "ust as you like. Take your choice.
Lumber and all kinds of building material at reduced prices. The Imroved Goshen Pumps are just the thing for ease and durability. Lime, Lath, ement, Sewer Pipe and high grade Smithing Coal. No bad welds when you se it. Try it and you will have no other.
15-217 South Washington St., Crawfordsville, Ind.
Marrf by
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Funeral Director and Embalmer
a 11 Binford Block, 213 a. Washington St. All Grades of Work Furnished from Cheapest to the Best. Black and White Funeral Car. The only White Funeral Car in the County. Residence 415 S. Washington St. Crawfordsville.Ind.
J. B. SWANK, Assistant.
IND.,
Sept. 18, 1894. I was a sufferer with indigestion and sour stomach for three years. After trying all the medicines in my store that were recommended for such troubles I was permanently cured by taking two boxes of LYON'S SEVEN WONDERS.
L. H. RENKERT,
Proprietor Granger Drug Store.
GEORGE BREWER
Is Nominated for County Superintendent 15y tlie Keiiublii'im Caucus—Slietelies of All the New Township
Trustees.
Monday was the day the old board of township trustees turned over their otlices to the now board. The members of both boards were in town bright and early and the settlements progressed satisfactorily all the morning. There had been talk of Messrs. Dunkle and Hampton attempting to hold on to their otliees but the talk was groundless. They acted as gentlemen and surrendered their papers with all the courtesy possible. The retiring board has been an exceptionally efficient one. Its work has been marked by harmony and practicability in all lines of work. There has scarcely been a jar in any township in the county and progress has been marked along 2|11 lines. The men composing the board were gentlemen and business men.
The new board is one that promises to worthily sustain the reputation of its predecessor. It is composed of the following gentlemen:
CLARK.
M. Rhoads, the new trustee of Clark, is a staunch Democrat. He was born in Logan county. Ohio, in 1S4G, but came to Montgomery county with his parents in 18-18, residing here ever since. He was educated in the Ladoga schools and lived on a farm until 20 years old. He then opened a bakery and grocery store in Ladoga, following that business for twenty years. At the present time he is in the brick business. He was married to Miss Kate Parks in 188:.', and they have two children, a girl of ten and a boy of four. Mr. Rhoads is regarded as amexeellent gentleman in every way.
WAI.NUT.
C. A. Miunich, the popular new Republican trustee of old Walnut.'was born in New Castle, Craig county, Virginia in 18."2. He emigrated to Indiana in 1S72 and for twenty-three years has been a resident of Montgomery county and Walnut township. He lived in Virginia during the war when opportunities for education were very poor, at that time that State having no free schools. He has risen from obscurity by his own personal efforts. His father was taken away when the subject of this sketch was but ten years old, by the cruel effects of war. Mr. Minnicli is one of the conservative and substantial citizens of Walnut township. He has true Southern hospitality and is justly popular in the community in which he lives.
COAL CREEK.
E. B. Morrow, Coal Creek, was born near Elmdale, formerly known as Boston Store, on August 30, 1805, being the younger of two brother yet living of a family of eleven children. His entire life thus far has been passed in Coal Creek township as school boy, farm hand, mill hand and teacher, having followed the last vocation for eight consecutive years. His stock of knowledge was absorbed in our common schools and in old Coal Creeks's shady glens and clinched down by a ten weeks' course in the Ladoga Normal under the safe guidance of Professors Warfel and Crumpacker. He was married to Lizzie, the second daughter of L. B. McClamrock, on Thanksgiving evening of 1889. They reside one and one-quarter miles north of Wingate, on apart of the farm known as the Win. Henry farm. Mr. Morrow is, of course, a Democrat, and is a gentleman well liked by all. His school work will be of great value to him in his administration.
WAVNE.
Carlton Moore, the new trustee of Wayne township, was born Sept. 12, 1802. on the farm which he now owns, eight miles northwest of Crawfordsville. After receiving a common school education he went two terms at the Waynetown graded schools and finished by taking a teacher'^ course at the Ladoga Normal. He has been a teacher in the public schools of this county since 1882, except one year which was spent in Southern Colorado. Mr. Moore has been one of the Democratic wheel horses'in Wayne township for several years and is a most agreeable young gentleman. He has the qualifications of an excellent member of the newoboard.
SUGAR CREEK.
W. H. Custer, trustee of Sugar Creek township, was elected on the Repubican ticket. He was born in Walnut township this county on Nov. 10, 1841, and is a son of Robert Custer, one of the old pioneers of Montgomery county,. When the war broke out he enlisted under Gen. M. D. Manson in Co. B, 10th Indiana Infantry, serving three long years. After returning home he was married to the daughter of Joshua Cox, Jan. 2, 1807. To them were born
three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Custer resided in Darling for three years, being in the hardware business. He then moved to Sugar Creek township, his present home, twenty-three years ago. By economy and close application to busines he has accumulated a farm of
.'00
acres and
has a beautiful home with good barns and outbuildings, and latest modern improvements in water privileges. He has made his life a success and has made hundreds of admiring friends, won ay his straightforwardness, courtesy and hospitality. lie east his first vote for Lincoln for his second term in 1S04. He has been a zealous and ardent worker in the party ever since.
UNION.
Sam D. Symmes, trustee of Union township, was elected on the Republican ticket. He was born at Pleasant, Switzerland county. Indiana, on Oct. 20, 1S50. He is a son of Rev. F. M. Symmes, formerly of this city, and a grandson of Nathaniel Dunn, a pioneer settler of our county. Sam Symmes has resided in this city since September, 1S72, at which time he entered Wabash College, where he studied for two years. He has been connected with the printer's business most of the time since 1877. He has just completed a term as State President of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, and is now the junior State Past President and he was one of the State delegates to the National Session of this order in 1802, at Lebanon, Pa. He was the delegate last year to "the meeting of the InterNational Typographical Union which met on Octobers, at Louisville, Ivy. He was married in ISS.'i and has four children. He will discharge the duties devolving upon him in a straightforward, business-like manner.
MADISON.
James H. White, of Madison. Republican, was 4:5 years old on the 31st of last October, being born Oct. 31.
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He was born and raised on a farm adjoining Linden and for the past twenty years has been in the grain trade at at that point and showing that he has the confidence of all by his election to the office of trustee last fall, making the most remarbable race of any candidate in the county, his township being 17 Democratic yet he carried it bj17(5 majority. Mr. White enjoyed the privileges of only a limited education, attending only the common schools here, which, during his boyhood were not up to the present standard. He has been an eminently successful business man, however.
SCOTT.
G. \\. James, of Scott, Democrat, was born April 9, 1844, in Madison county, Kentucky, and came to Indiana with his parents when about two years old. He has lived in Montgomery county from that' time up to the present, except four years in Kansas. He married in Kansas to Henrietta Strepy in 1872. To them were born five children, all now living, four boys and one girl. Mr. James served in Scott township as Justice of the Peace eight years, as postmaster at Parkersburg nine years, at Lapland three years. His occupation is farming and merchandising. He has been prominently identified with the history of Scott township.
UliOWN.
C. A. Kleiser, of Brown, Republican, was born in 1857, at Waveland, Brown township, which place has always been and is now his legal residence. He acquired his education in the Waveland Collegiate Institute, directing his attention more particularly to those branches which would prepare him for the profession of a school teacher. Since the completion of his education in 1875 he has been engaged in this profession for nineteen years, teaching six years in the country schools of Brown township and twelve consecutive years in the public schools of Waveland. In 1878 he took a year's vacation in California and other Western States. He is a Republican in principle and was elected township trustee on this ticket in 1894. He is unmarried and is a son of Joseph Kleiser, with whom he resides at the old Kleiser homestead one-half mile east of Waveland. Mr. Kleiser is the handsome member of the new board and is an all around good man. fkanju.ij,-.
Daniel Lewis, of /Franklin, Republican, was born in Ripley township, four miles west of Yountsville, March 15, 1802. He moved to Darlington in 1870, and has since resided there. He completed a common school education at Darlington, spent one year in Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, and was graduated from a business college in Cleveland, O., in 1879. He was immediately employed by Bowers Tribbett in their elevator at Darlington, and was appointed telegraph operator at Colfax by the Vandaliaand
Big Four Hallway in October ls*l. He was appointed telegraph operator and station agent of the Vandalia at Darlington, Jan. l, 1n m, and resigned the same Sept. 1, lS'.i-l. When the Peoples' Hank of Darlington was organized in !!M he was elected President of the same. In August, lv.il, he engaged ii* dry goods and general merchandise business in Darlington wit a Albert Cox as partner. In lsn.j the linn of Cox »& Lewis built a new store room in Darlington 10x100 feet, which is conceded by all to be the finest and best arranged store room in Montgomery county. Mr. Lewis is a popular and progressive citizen and no man stands higher. mi'i.Kv.
Robert II. Weir, of Ripley township, Democrat, was born in Montgomery county, near Alamo, September 10. isrs, receiving the educational instruction iu later years that the township schools were able to afford. His vocation from choice has always been that of a practical farmer, and he lias been eminently successful, maintaining a high standing iu the township.
The ehief work of interest Monday was the caucus of tjie Repubican members of the new board for the purpose of nominating a county superintendent to 'take the ullice upon election, September 2. This action had been requested by the candidates as those who were to be defeated wished to obtain schools to teach. After the election in September would be too late for this. There were numerous candidates presented for consideration. They were W. W. Ewing, D. H.Gilkey, Fred Maxwell. Ceo. Brewer, Walter S. Slavens. W. 14. Rodman.-Ward Walkup. and E. E. Vanseoyoc. Arthur Fraley withdrew from the contest Saturday. The preliminary caucus was held in the morning and at that meeting a paper was given out to be signed by all the candidates pledging them to sustain the action taken at the afternoon caucus. The caucus then adjourned until 3 o'.clock.
At the appointed time the caucus met in Trustee Symmes' office and proceeded to ballot for a nominee. There were eleven ballots taken and on the last George E. Brewer, principal of the Ladoga high school, was nominated. On September 2 he will be regularly elected.
Mr. Brewer is a young man of line qualifications and will make an excellent Superintendent. He is a son of Ed Brewer, of this city, and will re--move his family to this city.
The members of the caucus refuse to state how the previous ballots stood.
It is known that Supt. J. S. Zuck will not surrender his ottice until next October, when the Supreme Court will pass on the validity of the superintendents' law. The newly elected superintendent will set up a rival office, however, September 2, and will be recognized by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who will forward to him the questions for the September examination and will transact other business with him.
Death of G. N. Meharry.
Greenlief Norton Meharry was born July 10, 1831, in Fountain county, Indiana, and was the son of James and Margaret I. Meharry. While yet a boy his parents moved to Montgomery county, to the old homestead near Coal Creek school house, where they lived until their death. Norton was next to the eldest of a family of four children, two sisters and one brother, all of whom survive him. He was always energetic and a willing worker at whatever he had a hand in. He united with the M. E. church in his boyhood, living a Christian life, and was a lover of the church and all work connected with it. He attended school at Asbury University, Greencastle, the Fall of '52-'53. Norton was united in marriage to Letitia Meharry, in Durham county, Ontario, October 22, 1850, living on the old homestead, where he died Saturday, Aug. 3, 1895. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn his loss. Their loss is his gain.
The funeral occured Tuesday at 3 o'clock at Shawnee Mound church. Intermeht at Meharry's cemetery.
Burglary at Yountsville.
On Saturday night burglars broke into the store connected with Snyder's mill at Yountsville. They abstracted a sack of flour, two razors, a lot of chewing gum and ther articles. The postoflice department was not entered. There is no clue to the thieves.
0
ui«l Not Close.
The stores which remained closedSunday week were open as usual
last
Sun
day. The Sunday closing movement when carried beyond the saloon in its application is not popular here. It is altogether probable that no further action will be taken.
PAUT FIRST
ARE YOU GOING
W'tlitlie Kniijlits Ti-mphir to r.oston—An ICIt'Kiint Trip Which All Should ItliiUu.
There has been no little talk regarding the approaching journey of the Crawfordsville Commandery of the Knights Templar to the Boston Conclave and many persons not members of the order will go along as the trip will be a delightful one and at a price bo low as to seem almost ridiculous. The round trip ticket is only $28 and when it is considered that this includes stops at the most famous places in the older part of our country it presents an opportunity never before offered. The tickets are good from August 21 to September 12 with stopover privileges for any point when stops are made returning. The tickets can be extended thirty days but not with stopover privileges.
The Crawfordsville Commandery and its friends will go on a special train together with the coiumanderies of Urbana, 111., Danville, 111., and Wabash, Ind. The train will be provided with sleepers and day coaches. The accommodations are not yet all taken and n"» allotment has been made. The train will pass through Crawfordsville at 1:53 p. m. Wednesday, August 21, and will reach Buffalo, N. V., at 0:18 a. in. Thursday. Niagara Falls will be reached at S: |5 a. in. and here it will stop until S p. m., giving all an ample opportunity to view the Falls from every angle and shoot the rapids if desirable. At ." a. in. on Friday the train will reach Clayton on Lake Ontario and here the partv will take a steamer for Montreal, which place will be reached at 0:30 p. m. The trip by water is the grandest in the world and is justly famed, passing through the most magnificent scenery anil wonderful rapids. The party will leave Monti eal at 2:00 a. m. Saturday by train and will pass through St. Johns, Montpelier and Wells River to Fabyans at the foot of old Mt. Washington, reaching there at 11 a. m. and taking dinner. At 12 p. in. the journey will bo resumed, Boston being reached at 0 p. m. Saturday. At Boston ample accommodations for the Crawfordsville party have been secured and a season of the greatest pleasure is Missured. There are all sosts of sights to be seen and all sorts of side trips to be taken to places famous in song and story.
The return trip is by a different route but is none the less fascinating. The party will proceed from Boston to New York by steamer and thence home via Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond. Va., Natural Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, Cincinnati and other places of more than ordinary interest. This is the opportunity of a life time and any one able to see his way clear should by all means avail himself of it. Further information can be obtained of George iraham, Major Foote or J. C. Wicker.
The Georgetown liand.
Ilolloway's Georgetown band that played for Scioto Tribe last week is one of the crack musical organizations of Eastern Illinois. The band is under the leadership of Dave Webb, who at one time was a member of the famous Montgomery Guard's band" of this city. Said Mr. Webb Thursday: "I am as you know, a graduate of Wabash College and have always considered this city as one of my early homes. I think that the Georgetown band is one of the best in this section and have for some time wanted an engagement to play in this city so here we are and you can judge us for yourself." The difficult concert music as rendered by this band on the court house corner at night was excellent and the great crowd was highly pleased.
IihIIhkii Figures.
The census bureau at Washington has issued an interesting bulletin on occupation by the States and territories. There are in Indiana (of the male population): Farmers, 225,294 lawyers, 3,199 doctors, 4,571 journalists, 051 clergymen, 3,122 government ofiicials, 2,587 locomotive engineers and firemen, 3,737 agricultural laborers, 84,074 saloonkeepers, 2,992 bartenders, 1,752 miners, 6,477 blacksmiths, 8,142 shoemakers, 3,114 butchers, 3,441 carpenters, 22,710 coopers, 2,808.
A Noble Purpose.
Waynetown Despatch-. Rev. F. M. Elliott, of Crawfordsville, was here over Sunday in the interest of thr? Children's Home Society. A local advisory board was organized consisting of two members from each of the various churches. The following officers were chosen: Pres., Edward Kelly Vice Pres., N. B. Couberly Sec., Miss Phcebe Earl Treas., Mrs. Geo. Anderson. The object of the society is to seek out orphan children and place them in good Christian homes.