Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 October 1895 — Page 8
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ESTABLISHED IN 1845.
•FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1895.
RIDGE FARM.
'The sick are better. Fred Remley and wife visited home folks Sunday.
The schools of this neighborhood are "•beginning- nicely. Elbert Hughes is working at the :saw mill this week.
Simeon Peacock has his fencing ma•chine in running order. The coru husker of Ingersol Corner •was tried here last week and proved a ^decided success.
Chas. Hughes and Austin Bruner *will make no more trips to Crawfords--ville until spring.
Edwin Ingersol and wife, Andrew Herron and wife, and Miss Nellie Ingersol were the guests of Elbert •Hughes and family.
WALNUT CHAPEL.
S. W. Linn is husking corn near Linden. John Northcut has moved to Ladoga.
Rumor says that "it" will not be long. Joe Durbin is working for Lou Hipes. -Contractor Harris has our road completed.
J. K. Linn is having his barn roof repainted. C. W. Berry has purchased & fine milk cow.
Arch Rutan has the Harris contract -completed. Woolly Dice is working for James Armstrong.
Come to C. E. Society every Thursday evening. Joe Lynn has made 175 gallons of cider up to date.
Dr. Hipes will take up winter quarters near Mace. Arthur Vanscoyoc, of Linden, visited friends here Sunday.
Hayes Martin will resume operations in a few weeks. Anew fence to enclose the church is ^he present agitation.
Meat will be delivered at your houses cnext week by Harris Bros. The largest apple crop for a number of years has been gathered.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Simpson visited W. K. Harris' last week. Onr school was supplied last week with anew slate blackboard.
Misses Minnie and Clara Beck sojourned in Balhincb, Sunday. School is in a flourishing condition with twenty-six pupils enrolled.
Mrs. Lynn, of Mace, has moved into the house vacated byaM. Vanscoyoc. Chas. flunt has been suffering for several weeks with conglobated ab--sces8. 'Chas. McCoy is again on our soil after a two months' "tour." There's "no ,place like home."
Ralph Harris had his fingers mashed 'by getting them under the rollers while moving1 a building.
The meeting of the Elston Jones ^Saccharine Co., that was advertised to meet last week was postponed until •Saturday on account of inclement sweat hen.
Among the possessions of A. Martin 'that are valued as relics, are two large "hoot" owl. They live in the woods near this place, and their doleful voices ringing on the evening air furnish music for the surrounding country. Mr. Martin desires the sporting faculty to know they are considered iiis personal property.
SMAKTSBUKG.
"V. Clark has had a new well driven. Corn husking is the talk of the time .now. (Remember Rev. Kerr's appointment here.
Wayne Shelton went to Darlington JSunday night. Mrs. Will Sayers and daughter are "here visiting relatives.
Hurrah 1 They are talking of having the church painted. Our school is talking of giving a social in the near future.
Mrs. W. A. Russell has returned to Iher new home in Terre Haute. James Shelton is seen smiling from morning till night, all because he has a boy at his house. $jgy
Herbert Newkirk and Wavne Sheldon attended the show at Crawfordsville, last Friday night.
Mrs. John Mastin and Mrs. George Kennedy attended meeting at Young's Chapel last Sunday week ago.
The supper at West school house was not so well attended as as usual, it being a rainy night. Miss Nannie Cox, being the prettiest girl present, received the cake.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cox gave a surprise party Friday night a week ago in honor of their daughter, Nannie, to remind her 19th year. A large crowd -was present and enjoyed themselves 4intil a late hour and departed for home wishing Miss Nannie many more such happy birthdays.
WHITK8VILLE.
Mrs. Nettie Childers is on the sick list. C. M. Orissom and wife visited Ladoga relatives, Wednesday.
Peirce Rettinger and wife Sundayed with Bainbridge relatives. Miss Sallie Hornbaker was with Greencastle friends Sunday.
A. L. Byers and Isaac Childers went to Bainbridge, Tuesday, to buy apples. D. P. Rettinger and wife and Mrs. .Zeb Newman were at Crawfordsville, Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Hanifer, of Ladoga, visited her daughters here Monday and Tuesday.
The Lapland ball club will play our "boys here Saturday. Everybody come and see us salt them down.
Our boys crossed bats with the Laioga team again Saturday and were iefeated by a score of 10 to 12.
Wm. Luster, Sr., was called to Boone ounty last week by the serious illnc-ss his daughter, Mrs. Tom Lane.
Harry Huntington, Chas. Wysong and Wm. Kirk, of Ladoga, came up Saturday to see our boys defeated.
B. H. Flora, a Progressive Dunkard, of Flora, Ind., will occupy the pulpit at the Universalist church Saturday night, Sunday morning and evening, Oct. 19 and 20.
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Henry Bell is sick with rheumatism. Tom Ingersol has purchased a horse. Miss Swim, of near Wallace, is working at Samuel Heath's.
Miss Minnie Gilkey, of the city, visited home folks Tuesday. Dr. J. N. Talbot returned to his home at Cincinnati last week.
Frank Kyle, of Crawfordsville, is working at Ealy's livery barn. Albert and Robert Kelly, of Williamburg, are visiting at James Ealy's.
Roy Vanduyn is working at the blacksmith trade for G. W. Campbell. Elbert Titus is employed by the Wagoner Bros, in the butcher business.
Samuel Stubbens, of Waveland, is visiting relatives here and at Yountsville.
Stanley Heath, Bert Etter and Guy Bell went to Veedersburg on their wheels Sunday.
Dr. L. F. Brown and sister, Mrs. Chas. Rountree, spent Tuesday of last week in Indianapolis.
On Saturday, Oct. 19th, there will be a basket supper at the M. E. church for the benefit of the same.
The next township Sunday school convention will be held at Yountsville the first Thursday in April.
The time for prayer services at the M. E. church has been changed to Thursday night of every two weeks.
Walters, Smith & Stonebraker have completed a tubular well for Elijah Lowe, of Wallace depth ,162 feet, 125 feet of Water.
Misses Ida Stonebraker and Jessie McClure united with the Christian church Saturday night and were immersed Sunday.
Mr. Trotter and Mr. Archey.of Crawfordsville, were here Sunday to organize "home class work" in the Sunday schools of this township.
Miss Elva Michaels gave a party to quite a number of her young friends on Thursday evening of last week. A good time is reported by everyone.
Wm. E. Ham and Minnie Stonebraker were married at the home of the bride, 1% miles east of here on Wednesday of last week, Rev. Higgins officiating.
HEADLIGHT.
Clover most all hulled. Fairview has anew teacher, Wm. R. Maxedon.
W. H. Swindler's house is nearing completion. Frank Coons and family Sundayed at David Wray's.
Maning Vancleave will occupy a seat in the court room. Wm. Peters and family spent Sunday at Wm. Hampton's.
Mrs. Clark and daughter visited at Mr. Peters' Monday. Jesse Hicks and sister, Viola, spent Saturday night at Albert Seaman's.
Bruse Mahorney will leave Monday for his new home in Illinois. He was a good neighbor.
A nutting party of five went to O. Wray's woods Saturday, but did not get any nuts. Those present were: Messrs. Frank Loren and Claud Crist, and Misses Viola Hicks, Carrie Sweet and Lida Swindler. All had a pleasant time.
Bruce Mahorney, father and his father-in-law, Mr. Handle, drove through in wagons to Illinois. Mr. Mahorney is 82 years old and Mr. Handle is about 80. Frank Helsey, Linsy McMullen and wife, William Peters and wife and Mrs. Z. A. Hicks helped to pack up for Mr. Mahorney.
There was a surprise on Geo. McClain and Mrs. Sant Spencer at Chas. Saylor's last Sunday. Quite a number of relatives from Parke county came in early and about noon Mrs. McClain and family and Sant Spencer and family came and were greatly surprised to see such a large crowd. A long table was spread with an elegant dinner and all went home rejoicing.
HERRON SCHOOL.
The men are hauling out their land tax. The school has purchasedjthis year's library.
The school house has a new driven well. What is the matter with Gallagher's Gaswell?
Kelley Cunningham lost several hogs last week. Howard Birchfield is working for Kelley Cunningham.
I thank the JOURNAL COMPANY for the prize offered last week. Wtn. Middleton sold his fine Southdown sheep to Morton Liter.
Wm. Middleton bought a fine sheep of John Thompson last week. John Zoda sold his mare to Mr. Walters, of Crawfordsville Saturday.
The ice cream supper was quite a success, realizing therefrom nearly ten dollars.
Wm. Middleton sold sixty-five lambs to John T. Everetts, Tuesday, averaging 80 pounds each.
Misses Minnie Cunningham and Minnie Middleton attended the Dunkard meeting at Shady Nook Sunday.
Mis6 Kennedy met with quite an accident Monday morning. After pumping a bucket of water, in throwing it out she so sprained her back that, she now walks with a cane.
WELLSVILLE.
Hog cholera is around again. Newt Everson is on the sick list. Bill Kise is having his house plastered this week.
Allie Finch is sewing at Mrs. John Perry's this week. Hannibal Finch and Melvin Faust will start to Illinois Wednesday.
Bruce and Bill Morris still make their weekly trips to Thorntown. Harry Everson, of Ladoga, called on his sick brother at this place last Monday.
Wm. Chambers and Wm. Rhodes and families spent Sunday at Jacob Castors, in Yankeetown.
Misses Flora and Ditha Mhompson, of Mace, spent last Friday and Saturday with Allie Finch.
Sylvester Wilson and mother spent last Sunday with T. W. Sutton and family in Yankeetown.
Abraham Castor and family and Miss Lou Trimble, James Armstrong and family an Andrew Jackson spent last Sunday at John Finch's.
GALLAGHER GASWELL.
The dirt road is being renewed. Rev. Zuck filled his regular appointment here Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Barnhart is working for Mrs. .Welty at Crawfordsville. Mrs. Harriet Barnhart visited relatives at Darlington last week.
Mrs. Nettie Perkins, of New Market, is working for William Davis this week.
The convention at Otterbein was well attend and everybody reported a good time.
Fred Harrington and Mamie Bowerman attended the Y. P. C. U. at Otterbein Sunday evening.
Miss Emma Taylor, of Crawfordsville, accompanied Miss Lizzie Barnhart home Saturday evening.
Willie Davis will have a public sale at his farm three miles south of Cra nfordsville on the Greencastle road, on October 27th.
John Thompson will have a public sale at his farm three miles south of Crawfordsville, on the Terre Haute road, Oct. 21st.
MAPLE GROVE.
Emery Everson, of Whitosville, was the guest of F. Lawter, Sunday. Miss Mary Lovett, of Greencastle, spent last week at J.M.Harshbarger's, sewing.
A number of our people contemplate attending communion services at White Church the 24th.
Will Zimmerman, of Anderson, and Mrs. Mollie Hunt, of Ladoga, called in this vicinity Thursday.
Elder I. M. Gibson, of Illinois, will commence a series of meetings at Bethel church the 20th of this month. Services at
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p. m. Everybody invited
to attend. Mrs. Mary Himes has returned from Gadsden, and reports an 8-pound son born to C. C. Himes and wife last Thursday.
While preparing to move to their new home Monday, Mrs. John C. Himes fell down the cellar steps at Mrs. Burkett's and received very severe injuries.
John Hines and Miss Flora Bhoads were married at the bride's home at Roachdale, Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Wood of the M. E. church of Ladoga, only the immediate relatives being present. Many useful presents were received, after which dainty refreshments were served the guests. The groom is one of the most industrious and moral young men of this community, and is worthy of success in life, and by the start he had already made he will certainly win. The bride is a handsome young lady and well qualified to superintend a home. They have the best wishes of a host of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Himes were entertained at the former's home for a reception dinner. These young people will make.their home on Frantz Myer's farm west of Ladoga.
GRAVELLY RUN.
Ed Wilkinson rides in a new roadwagon. Miss Josephine Hays is home from an extended visit in Washington county-
Mrs. George Rumble and son Herman, of your city, were here last Saturday.
Francis Pritchard and wife, of Darlington, were with their son, C. W. Pritchard, Monday.
Miss Clara Seller left here several days ago to make her home with an uncle living in Iowa.
The funeral of Mrs. J. F. Butler was largely attended at Center last Tuesday by her friends and neighbors from this place.
Rev. Samuel Pitts and wife, of Williamsburgh, and John Tribbett, of Thorntown, have been guests at Joseph Johnson's.
Programmes are out announcing the Friends Quarterly Bible School conference to be held at the church here on Saturday, Oct. 26. An "intellectual feast" is usually the result of these quarterly gatherings.
Arthur Haycock of Darlington, John Thornburg and wife, Will McDaniel and wife, Miss Jessie Milner, Messrs., Ora Boyland, Elijah Cox, and Willard Binford, of Garfield, attended service here Sunday morning.
The past year has been one of prosperity to the people of this vicinity. Not for years has such on abundant crop of fruit, vegetables and cereals been gathered in, as is being done this fall. And as a special day is drawing near, which should be duly observed by all, let Thanksgiving day of 1895, be especially remembered.
NUMBER THIRTEEN.
Cribbing corn has commenced. Millard Buxton has recently taken a trip through Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Bannon visited in Parke county last week. Jacob Fulwider raised about 200 bushels of potatoes. Some very fine ones.
The JOURNAL'S subscription has been increasing extensively in this communitj
Perhaps Trustee Morrow has found the official sea not the smoothest sailing.
One of Mr. Buxton's horses had a couple of ribs broken. Balay did not like Sorrel.
Supervisor Beedle was laid up for repairs a few days on account of the kick of a horse.
Charley says that Billy's horse is all right now—he won't run at all. Ella thinks they can manage him.
Miss Lib Kerr, of New Richmond, has been spending a couple of weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. D. Thomas.
Rev. Joel Thomas and wife, of Arcanum, Ohio, who have been visiting in this community returned home last Saturday.
There is aa elaborate programme out for the Indiana State Christian
Conference at Pleasant Hill Christian church October 29, 30 and 31. See notice elsewhere.
There are flourishing Endeavor Societies at Pleasant Hill Christian church and at Center, the former under the leadership of J. S. Henry, the latter by Wesley Dazey.
There was an oyster supper at the school hpuse last Saturday night for the benefit of the school. Had a very good time and made some money. Gam Hormell and Charley Ocheltree were fortunate guessers of the cake containing the vegetable seed and divided it. The Bible boys got their buggy broke and Sam Ogle lost the tap off his buggy and walked his girl the rest of the way home.
RATTLE SNAKE.1!'
Working the roads is the order of the day. Miss Sarah Coons is better-at this writing..
The hog cholera is still rampant on the creek. Harvey Gray has moved to Crawfordsville.
James Hall is trimming hedge fence for Brack Cash. What has become of the Balhinch correspondent?
There's a wedding talked of on the Creek. Guess who. Geo. Davis has moved into the house vacated by his father.
Joseph Layson and wife went to New Richmond last Sunday. James Gilliland has about completed his work on the gravel roads.
John L. Davis will sell some of his personal property the 28th of this month.
Simon Davis and wife returned home from Illinois last Saturday where theyhad been visiting relatives
The pie supper at the Gilliland school house was well attended considering the rainy night. Miss Edith Branch carried off the basket of fruit for being the prettiest girl present.
Havercamp & Vancleave put down a four inch tubular well for Marshall Galey. A good flow of water was struck at a depth of 80 feet, and it stands 25 feet deep in the casing.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Fire at Loraine, 111., caused damage estimated at $30,000. At Columbus City, la., the post offioe lost 8100 in stamps by burglary.
At Danv3rs, 111., Alphonse Barbers, a farmer, was kicked to death by a horse.
Prairie fires are consuming large quantities of hay and grain in North Dakota.
Elba Depue. editor of the Franklin (Ind.) Republican, died Tuesday of typhoid fever.
The American Bankers' association is in session at Atlanta, with a large attendance,
At Lockport, 111., the 11-year-old son of Amy Powers was frightened to death by a dog.
Near Keota, la., the body of Oliver Heath, a farm hand missing for three months, was found.
The third annual session of the National Spiritualist association is in session at Washington.
A London dispatch says that Maj. Gen. C. B. Knowles has been appointed commander of British troops in Egypt.
In a head-end collision on the Vandalia rpad near Effingham, 111., an unknown tramp, who was stealing a ride, was killed.
Judge lngraham, of Mew York, has resentenced Thomas Kerrigan to be electricuted during the week commencing December 2.
F. J. Turnure, a resident of Mason City, la., since 1855, and a member of Company B, Thirty-second Iowa volunteers, fell dead in his yard.
W. W. Rupert, the ballplayer, was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a companion's eun* while hunting near Speneerville, O.
Fireman Jesse Baxter, of Buffalo, was crushed to death in a railway wreck at Eldred, Pa., on the Western New York & Pennsylvania road.
At Rockford, 111., the city council has decided to buy the Chick Milling company's plant for $30,000 and establish a city electric lighting plant.
At Chillicothe, Mo., Charles Stephens has been arrested charged with the murder of William E. Ellis, whose body was found in the ashes of some haystacks.
An appeal has been allowed to the United States supreme court in the case of Henry Craemer, who was to have been hanged at Seattle on November 1.
Ten thousand miners in session at Clearfield, Pa., have practically decided on a general strike throughout the central and northern Pennsylvania coal fields.
At Upper Stone Lick creek, near Milford, O., a surveyor found a prehistoric cemetery containing thousands of graves. Spearheads and many unusual trinkets were found in them.
The Cleveland chamber of commerce has arranged for a trip to the Atlanta exposition November 20, 21, 22 and 23, in furtherance of an effort by business men to forward Cleveland's trade interests in the south.
At Birmingham, A«a., State Mine Inspector Hillhouse predicts that the output of coal iu Alabama this year will be 6,000,000 tons and that the manufacture of iron will equal that of 1892, the largest yet.
REPORT DENIED.
British Troops Not Marching Through Brazil to Veuezaela.
LONDON, Oct. 16.—Inquiries at the foreign office Tuesday concerning the truth of a report published in the United States that a force of British troops was marching through Brazil to Venezuela elicited the reply that the story is undoubtedly a canard. The foreign officials declare that they know nothing about such a movement and do not believe there is the slightest foundation for the report.
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Do you want a Cook Stove or a Heater We have the line for you to select from.
Come and see us and be convinced that we have the largest as well as the cheapest stock of goods in the city.
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Wind Mills
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Iron Pumps of all kinds at the lowest prices ever named. Also pipe and well supplies. Tubular wells a specialty. All sizes from two to four inches.
Montgomery County Farmers
Having recently purchased the Rink Livery Barn I have refurnished and refitted the same with
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And even new help,-and now have the largest and most commodious barn in the city where you can drive in and feed your teams under shelter. Call and see me. I will show you good treatment.
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D. C. BARNHILL,
Funeral Director and Embalmer
New Binford Block, 313 8. 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.
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