Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 August 1895 — Page 3

VOL. 48-NO. 34

§i 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

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Worth of Surplus Goods in 30 davs. Beginning Thursday morning, 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 2%c per yd. Good yard-wide muslin only 3c per yd. Good heavy shirting1 only 4c per yd. Light and dark ground challies only 21-ic. Genuine Turkey lied table linen only 15c per yd. Good outing cloth only 4c per yd. Wide linen crash only 4c per yd. Black Henrietta, 4(5 inches wide, only 22}e. 2.000 yds. double width cashmere, only 9c per yd. 10 pieces dimity, was 12^c, now 7^c. Pins one cent per paper. 10c curling irons only 5c.

Ladies' silk mitts only 12c, worth 2."»c. Ladies' black seamless hose only 10c. worth 20c. All our 35c China silks now go for ltfc. Gents' Balbriggan undershirts and drawers only 23c worth 50c. Our 81.50 lace curtains only 89c.•

In fact everything in the house will be sold at a great sacrifice as I must positively reduce my stock. Anything in Millinery at any price as it must all be sold. Respectfully,

Abe Levinson.

ONE FACT COUNTS

Come in and see for yourself how vastly superior our Dovetail Buggies are to others.

DOVETAIL COMPANY

Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers.

Crawfordsville, Ind., 116 S. Washington St.

Joseph Binford Lumber Yard

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Did you ever get a five year guarantee on a wagon? No! Well, then just 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, just as you like. Take your choice.

Lumber and all kinds of building material at reduced prices. The Improved Goshen Pumps are just the thing for ease and durability. Lime, Lath, Cement, Sewer Pipe and high grade Smithiilg Coal. No bad welds when you use it. Try it and you will have no other.

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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.

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Proprietor Granger Drug Store.

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Funeral Director and Embalmer

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All Grades of Work Furnished from Cheapest to the Best. Black and White Funeral Car. The only White FuneralCar in the County. Residence 415 S. Washington St.

J. B. SWANK, Assistant

Crawfordsville, Ind.

A CHURCH WEDDING.

Two K\collint Young People United ill Matrimony at SmartsburK I.ast Thursday.

Last Thursday in the new Christian church at Smartsburg occurred the marriage of W. A. Russell, of Terre Haute and Miss Josie Green, the daughter of Mrs. Katherine Green. The handsome new auditorium of the church had been profusely adorned for the occasion with smilax and roses and presented a most attractive appearance. There were banks of beautiful flowers at the altar and the very effect betokened the happy nature of the affair. At S o'clock Miss Pearl Warren played the Mendelssohn wedding march and to this the wedding party entered. The groom was escorted by his best man Mr. Ora Enoch, and the bride by her maid of honor, Miss May Foust. The bride was attired in a most becoming costume of creme wonl and carried a large bunch of marguerites as did her maid of honor. Arrived at the altar the ceremony was performed in a most impressive manner by Rev. W. H. Kerr, of this city.

The church was packed to its utmost capacity by guests to witness the service, five hundred people being present. Immediately after the marriage the newly married couple were driven to the home of the bride's mother where seventy-five of their friends were tendered a reception by them. This affair was a decided social success and was perfect in all of its appointments.

On Friday Mr. and Mrs. Russell left for their future home in Terre Haute, where the groom is engaged in a prosperous business. Both are excellent young people and their many friends wish them all joy.

The Ideal Marshal.'

Delphi Journal: Horace P. Ensminger, who died in Crawfordsville last week was an ideal city marshal in the days of his activity. He held this office for years to the satisfaction of ev erybody except thieves and professional violaters of the law. He was a gruff, grim and fearless man knew a crook by instinct and if a depredation were committed in Crawfordsville Mar shal Ensminger could lay his hand on the guilty one's shoulder nine times out of ten. He studied the habits and peculiarities of local lawbreakers, knew the haunts of each and knew how eached worked. If a store were burglarized he would look over the situation carefully and then make a bee-line for the whelp he decided was guilty, and it was very rare that he was wrong in his diagnosis. He could give Sherlock Holmes cards, spades and the joker and then discount him him in the practical, every day philosophy of running down home criminals. Horace Ensminger was a law unto himself. He considered that he was the guardian of the city and he never bothered himsalf about "authority" or "warrants." He "bossed" the town and it would be as blessing if every city in Indiana had a marshal just like him.

No man was better able to distinguish between crime and "deviltry" that was not crime than Marshal Horace P. Ensminger. He was always on excellent terms with the students of Wabash college. To them he was "Uncle Horace." They never took advantage of him andhe always gave them wide range. Old students returning to visit the college never considered the visit complete without shaking hands with "Uncle Horace." He was always glad to see them and scores of the boys, scattered as they are from Maine to California, will hear with sincere regret the announcement of his death.

Death of Empson Cory.

The following from the Thorntown Argus is the first intimation received here of the death of Rev. Empson Cory, who was graduated from Wabash College in the class of 1885 and who was very popular in Crawfordsville society during his college career:

Chester Cory, of Jefferson township, has just returned from Wenena, Minn., and Benton Harbor, Mich., where he had gone on account of the death of Rev. Empson, Cory, at the first named place, and his burial at the latter named. Rev. Cory was but 37 vears of age and will be remembered by many, as he went from the vicinity of Shannondale to Minnesota about six years ago.

Lou Graham.

Lou Graham, a Crawfordsville boy, was in charge of the parade of Barnum & Bailey's circus Friday, and headed the procession in a fancy trap with Am Jones. Lou is one of the leading managers of the colossal show and the tent was filled with his old friends that evening. He is a popular man and an all around good fellow, competent to accomplish anything he undertakes, and his old companions rejoice in his success.

ORAWFORDSYILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2'i 1895.—TWELYE PAGES

HE DIED.

John Iti-ogli Who Lived Three Weeks With a HroUcn Neck Finally Suciumibs.

John Brogh, the young Swede of Wayne township who had his neck broken some three weeks ago by falling from a load of hay, died Sunday. II is funeral occured Monday. Brogh was a man of wonderful vitality and lived three weeks from that alone. All his body below his neck was numb and apparently dead although, of course, there must have been some heart .action. He could not take food and there was no chance of his recovering from the first. He lived for three weeks, however, strapped to a hard board and'was conscious most of the time although unable to talk. The case was one of the most peculiar of the kind ever met with and a post mortem would likely develop something of interest and value to the medical profession.

A Family lieunlou.

The Stout family held a reunion in the grove of Wm. F. Remley, of Wesley, August 15. Nine children of Wilson and Esther Stout, together with their children and grand children and other relatives, made a crowd of 120 all of whom were related to each other.

A long table of 150 feet in length had been prepared in the delightful shade and at the proper time the contents of five or six clothes baskets and and a dozen or two of market baskets were emptied upon the table and arranged in a most inviting way. To attempt to describe such a varied collation would be too trying to the appetite of the average healthy individual.

The Stouts and their descendants are all well described by their name, therefore, you may imagine that they did not eat as if they were afraid there would not be sufficient for all or in dread of the night-mare.

Jere Voris had kindly loaned his chairs, so they gathered around in a large family circle and spent the day in a comfortable manner. At 3 o'clock the contents of six or seven large cream freezers were dished out and another feast and raid upon the cake, of which there were about thirty different kinds, was begun.

Songs were sung and declamations recited by several of the children. Also a few remarks were made by Dr. B. F. Hutchings and W. A. Swank. A committee consisting of Mrs. Lucy Switzer, Clara Stout, Lulu Stout, Daniel Stout, Charley Stout, Frank Hutchings, and Will Swank were appointed to make out a programme and arrangements for the next annual reunion.

To say that all enjoyed theselves is putting it mildly. They all departed feeling that they had been blessed by such a happy reunion. X.

May GD With Crawfordsville. Lebanon Reporter: To-morrow night will be the regular time for the meeting of Rich Mountain G. A. R. Post. The meeting will be important.

Reports from different parts of the county as to the number expecting to attend the encampment will be received and if the reports are favorable the veterans will proceed to organize a Boone county brigade. If such an organizatiou is found to be impracticable the Boone county boys will go with the Wallace brigade of Crawville.

Promoted.

The friends of Mort H. Insley will be pleased to learn of his promotion in his work on the Pacific slope. In December he will assume the management of the Portland, Oregon, branch of the business of the firm of Ames & Harris, at a salary of 82,400 a year. This branch of the house does 8250,000 worth of business in a year and the position to which Mr. Insley is promoted is a most enviable one.

A Closed Town.

Rev. T. J. Shuey reports that at Waveiand during all the month of August everything has been closed tight on Sunday, the meat shops, groceries, drug stores, livery, and in fact all business closing their doors. The remarkable thing is the people continue to live. No one has starved for lack of opportunity to secure food. Then another peculiarity of the thing is that all are well pleased.

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Lafayette Call: It was most fitting that llev. \V. P.^ Kane should be appointed the guardian of the six little children of his dead friend, Rev. 11. J. Cunningham, now left without any near relative or protector, as was done by the court at Crawfordsville last week but there are not many whom even the ties of friendship would suffice to render willing to undertake such a responsibility.

l'robate Court.

Fannie L. Dunn has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Matilda G. Dunn, deceased.

An Kxciting Scene tn a CiiiwTorilnvillo Hoarding House—Tp lieforu the Mayor.

The Rosebaum boarding house on Pike street, the old Carrington place, was the scene of a very dramatic little incident last Saturday, which had a sequel in the Mayor's court. Mr. E. B. Sliackelton, a prominent merchant of Streator, 111., accompanied by Mr. Dick Bush, of Thorntown, arrived at the boarding house shortly after eight o'clock and proceeded to disturb the wonted quietude of the place. It seems that Mrs. Shackelton was there with a Mr. Otis Loning. a rustic dude, some years her junior. They arrived last Friday from Thorntown, where Mrs. Shackelton had gone to visit Mrs. Bush, her cousin. When she left, Streator she told her husband she wanted to take a little trip for her health. Her health, evidently, is of a peculiar nature. Loning, who is a discharged employe of Sliackleton, arrived in Thorntown on Friday and he and Mrs. Shackelton left at once for Crawfordsville to see the circus. Mr. Bush thought this was so very queer that he telegraphed to Shackleton, who came at once. They met here and proceeded at once to the Rosebaum boarding house. Mr. Shackelton lost no time in grabbing Mr. Loning and that gentleman's face testifies most eloquently that he was not sparing in his punishment. Mr. Loning screamed like a pug dog in a steel trap during the chastisement, and attracted by the cries of her paramour

Mrs. Shackelton started to fly to his relief, but was held by the affable and considerate Mr. Bush. When Loning had been reduced to a proper state of disfiguration Mr. Shackelton gave him a farewell kick and threw him over the ash barrel. By this time some fifty persons had gathered and just as the fun was most furious Marshal Grimes arrived and spoiled it all. He trotted the whole push up to the Mayor's office, where Shackelton and Bush were fined for assault, the former gentleman liquidating from a wad as big as one of those Chicago newspapers which can't be sold here on Sundays. "I wasn't excited," said he cooly, "or I might have used this," and he pulled a big revolver from his pocket. "I just wanted to teach the whelp a lesson. I feel this disgrace keenly, but shall take my wife home with me foi the children's sake." Loning was warned by the police to get out of town.

Ripley's New Trustee.

Samuel Gilkey, the new trustee of Ripley township, will probably be better equipped for his school work, so far as information goes at least, than any other teacher in the county. For the past twenty-three years Mr. Gilkey has taught in the Ripley township schools and has taught in every school in the township except the McCormick school. Nearly all the present generation in Ripley have gone to school to him and he still seems as young as a school boy and as chipper as a cricket full of dew. His schools have always been models of excellence and as he has a great head for details it is likely that Ripley will come right to the front in her school work. Mr. Gilkey is a self-made man and has taught school since he was seventeen years old.

Married.

At the residence of the bride, one mile of east of Brown's Valley, on last Thursday occurred the marriage of Mr. John H. Rice, of Waveiand, to Einma Galey, of Brown's Valley, Rev. P. It. Falk officiating. The bride is the widow of the late Carl Galey of that place. The groom is one of Wa7eland's leading citizens. Mrs. Rice is well known in these parts and has many friends. She is a nurse of great skill, and one of the foremost house-keepers of this county. Mr. Rice likewise needs no introduction. He is a citizen of sterling worth earning a competent and honest living at his forge and an vil. We wish them a long and happy life.

Deere Family Reunion.

The family of Joel Deere held its annual reunion last Thursday at his home near Bluff Mills. The morning was pleasantly passed here and at noon the family adjourned to the Garland Dell hotel where dinner was served. The day was a most delightful one for all present. One strange coincidence was in the fact that it was the forty-sisth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Deere and that there were just forty-six of their children and grandchildren with them on the occasion.

The Veterans' Association.

The Montgomery County Veterans' Association will meet at the City Clerk's office Saturday. Aug. 24, at 1 o'clock p. tn. By order.

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RATHER GAY. RAISED MOST OF THE COUNTIES.

The State Hoard of Tav Oommissonors Goes After Some I'atent Frauds.

The State Board of Tax Commissioners has completed the work of revising the valuations placed on Indiana real estate by the county board of review. In many counties the State board increased valuation from 5 to 25 per cent. In no case was a reduction made. About the time the local boards convened Captain Allen, of the State commission, forwarded circulars to the county auditors instructing them in the work of fixing valuations. The circular announced the policy of the fatate board to be against a lowering of values and advised the local boards to carefully revise the appraisements made in each township. As fast as the local boards completed their work they forwarded statements to the State board. Of the ninety-two counties gone over by the State commission changes were made in fifty-two. The State commissioners say that had the local boards of review followed the instructions set out in the circulars few changes would have been necessary. In many counties the board found ridiculously low valuations and members of the board intimate that in many instances valuations were reached without regard to equity. The work of the State board was largely based on the land appraisement of 1891. It is a matter of congratulation to note that the valuations placed by the Montgomery county board were permitted to stand.

A Quiet Sunday.

Last Sunday was a very quiet day in some regards and a rather lively one in others. Business was practically at a standstill and numerous hardships were worked which were never even contemplated by the Sunday law which was passed some forty years ago and. which has been a dead letter most of the time since all over the State. One could not buy a cigar, a glass of soda water, a dish of ice cream, a loaf of bread, a newspaper, or anything else. The Good Citizens' League declares that nothing of this kind was wished by its committee and that the technical enforcement was brought about by those who desired to make the law odious. The police made no arrests but took the names of all those who worked, some seventy-five in all, and will hand them to the League for prosecution. No prosecutions will follow, however. The police state that they have no discretion in the matter. They were instructed to enfore the law and are not allowed to draw arbitrary lines. All those who do work not absolutely necessary are guilty1 legally. There was much bitter feeling manifested on the streets and some rather wild talk was indulged in. It goes without saying that the condition of affairs maintained Sunday will not continue.

Below are published the names of those who followed their daily avocation, so far as the police detected. These names were sent in to the president of the Good Citizens' League. It is unreasonable to suppose that any case will be prosecuted:

LIVERY.

J. J. Insley Roland Kyle. Cud Cyle, William George, DauOrm, Cluw. Rogers. Doc Brltton. Chucky Foil, Charles McNeally, Henry Hummel, J. 1'.Walter, John Muhleisen, JoimToney. Win. Smith. EdToney, Charley Taylor, John Thompson, John Harris. Albert Irwin, Bljie llayless, James Heynolds, .''Isaac Oversteak, Hob Davis, George Bowman,

I'eter Eaglehorse. GAS WOllKS.

W111. McClelland, Geo. McClelland. AT WATEIl WOIIKK. Fred Willilte, Fred Liightcaj),

Frank .Seaman. 1117,S llAUN.

Charles McFarland, Chick Hollen, Haiup llitrley, Klick McFarland, Ed Williams.

IIIUOK. I.AYKHS.

Ben Myers, Dick Swan, Paul Myers, Nig Soring, Robert Burton, James Barr, William Hase. Chas. Reynolds, Bart Hall, William Matthews. '5.

JlKSTAliltANT.

John'Bale. Hugh Burns. Modoc Matthews, McClellan Jones, I'J'da LowalIon, Mary Lewallen, Nate Burton, Charley Smith. John Beard, Walter Bastion, Walter Bering. Charles King, i'

Tom Serin :. ICE ME.V.

Win. Martin, Jr., Wm. Martin, Sr. NEWSllOY. John lioskins.

Joined the Church.''

At the Methodist church Sunday four persons united with the church the Sunday previous five joined and the Sunday before that two were received into membership.

Death of An Infant.

The fifteen months old son of Lev Martin and wife died last Thursday at their home north of the city of membraneous croup. The funeral occurred Friday.

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