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'When you want a nice, good, well made, light running wagon buy a Birdsell. Corn Shellers, Feed Cutters, Meat Cutters, Lard

Presses and everything you need in

HARDWARE.

H. R.TINSLEY & CO

Are easy to select from the large stock of

Sterling* Silverware, Art Metal Goods, Clocks, Bric-a-brac, Bronzes,

JOE E. FISHER

The Hardware Man,

Onyx Tables, Lamps,

^'vj/lAud the great variety of Novelties I carry, ranging from the modest, and inexpensive article to the handsomest and most expenRive. I can suit everyone's purr-e Select now and lay aside before the rush. Yours Respectfully,

n. C. KLINE

Keep Warm!

We have the larges lme of

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120-122 S. Wash. St. Crawfordsville, Ind.

A LITTLE TALK ON THE SUBJECT OF

Boots and Shoes

Very few people are competent to judge the real value of Footwear when it is new. There are so many ways to counterfeit and imitate leather that it is eaBy to deceive a buyer. It generally happens that buyers have to take the shoeman's word for it in the end. So you see a good deal hinges on picking out the right shoeman. You will find the right shoes at

125 N. Washington St., O. B. Arms' Old Stand.

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VOL. 48-NO. 48 ORAWFOKDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1895.—TWELVE PAGES

INDIANA'S CENTENNIAL.

The .Proposed Show at Indianapolis IH Kather Vigorously Commented Upon.

Delphi Journal: All the boiler-plate argument that.can be freighted out of Indianapolis will not convince the people of this State that they ought to spend two or three millions of dollars celebrating Indiana's centennial in 1900 with a tidy and pumpkin show.

If these gentlemen who are urging this exposition with [so much energy were to go to Atlanta they would realize that the exposition fad has worked until it is stale, liat and unprofitable. The Columbian exposition discounted in advance all attempts in this line for the next half century. Unless Indiana can get up something new. absolutely new and novel, then let the centennial pass without any celebration.

Those gentlemen who inflate their chests and talk about it "being high time to advertise the great resources and achievements of Indiana" should be given an invitation to go into a nunnery. Indiana has been advertising herself for a third Jof a century, and how under the heavens a State convention of Shropshire sheep and brahma hens, yeller pumpkins and well assorted seed corn, with delegations from coal and natural gas deposits, could help the good work along, the Journal is unable to figure out.

The whole world knows the history of Indiana. There is not a well-in-formed child in the Nation that does not know what Oliver P. Morton and the Indiana soldiery did to preserve the 'Nation. How can you make it any greater by exhibiting a fat and juicy squash?

The whole world knows about our building stone. It is being sent to every State to be used in the construction of temples of commerce and trade and justice. George Vanderbilt. sent for it and is building his palace on the Blue Ridge mountains out of it. A few blocks set up in Indianapolis will not help the matter out..

And our coal fields. Not another market for another bushel of our coal would be made by this proposed '"fair"

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nor for our timber, our wheat, our corn, our oats, oui^ "jtaters"*' or our "pasnips."

And the "gas belt." How could a show at Indianapolis help that out? Are not the business men of all Christendom informed of this great field? Are not the factories of the Union coming to it?

Indiana docs not need any advertising on shelves, iu a building, in Indianapolis. It would be a useless waste of money. Her splendid school system, her great State House and soldier's monument, "Ben Hur," and Ben Harrison and James Whitcomb Riley, her drained swamps, her fine gravel roads, her beautiful farm houses, her delightful capital, her charming small cities, her pretty girls and manly boys, her all in all, from Lake Michigan to "the pocket" and from Illinois to Ohio constitute an exposition in session all the year, with free admission, which can not be added to nor subtracted from by any kind of a show at Indianapolis.

Indiana is getting all the credit she is entitled to, and those people who attempt to slur her simply advertise their own ignorance, She turns out the very best of everything, and educated and appreciative people know it, and they will not know it any better after going -to Indianapolis, walking through a lot of buildings filled with wheat shocks, corn fedder and black diamonds, and gazing in wonder on a few fellows bobbing around like handorgan monkeys with badges of gold and tinsel on their breasts.

Indiana is all right. If the State has a million dollars it wants to spend as an "anniversary offering," let her build an institution that will be a home for fatherless boys and girls or aged women.

A squash and pumpkin show? Never.

An Accident.

On Wednesday as G. L. Combs, a farmer living south of town was coming in from his home, he met with an accident near the corner of College street and Grant avenue. The kingbolt came out of the wagon and the wheels fell apart, Mr. Coombs falling down under the horses heels and the wheels. Had not the

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tle and stopped Mr. Combs would probably have been killed. As'itwasthe only damage was the smashing of six dozen eggs which he was bringing to market.

Unlversalist Church.

Rev. C. P. Bushnell will preach at the P. O. S. of A. hall next Suuday, Dec. 1, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. Sunday school at 2 o'clock every Sunday afternoon. All are cordially invited.

The Facts In the Case,

To tlio Editor Journal.

As an earnest that you have no favorites among attorneys, I trust you will publish the following, apropos the question of illegal tax collections reported to in your Tuesday's paper.

In the first place the fees in such cases are not so unusually large that any attorney will profit greatly thereby, if he succeeds in winning his case. During my six years' practice, I have never known the fees to be less, under similar circumstance—not even in cases brought by the firm in the block's or on the other corner's. When I first began the investigation of illegal tax collections, the questiong of fees was referred to other reputable attorneys, who said the amount was fair, in view of the investigation and work necessary and of the chances of success. I determined to make them equal for all. Several persons with whom I have conferred, referred to the fee as unusually large but when the matter was fully explained, they modified their views and gave me contracts. To one who refused to be convinced, because his amount was really large, I offered to" give one dollar of any fee in his case for every two dollars he would receive as his share as a donation to the Y. M. C. A. building fund but he said that he never mixed charity with business My offer still stands good in this instance. In the second place, if anyone who has received the voluntary information from me that he has been unjustly taxed will come to me, I will explain to his full satisfaction that THE JOUKNAL is in error as to how tl taxes recovered would be ultimately met by tax-

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the satne people who recovered them. Such is not the case at all. The tax is a property tax that should fall on other property than the property pf those who would recover. I This matter has been given considable "attention and work by me this summer, and while there may be some who doubt my conclusions, I am fully convinced that the direct taxation of property of those who do not get the direct benefit of it is unjust taxation and whether the method in which I have set about to correct the reform is correct or not, the purpose of the effort is an honest one and even if I shall gain no reward for my labor, the satisfaction of having corrected the evil will be mine. The method, however, is far more legitimate tuan to visit the county jail and solicit the ptoferences of poverty-stricken criminals in the choice of attorneys, who secure their appointment iu order to get a good, fat fee from the county treasury—a thing which I have never yet done, and hope that THE JOURNAL will condemn. The public, when evils have grown up that effect their pockets to the amount of only a few dollars, are prone to slumber on their rights, if they could more easily be awakened to them, than iu the way I have adopted in this matter, and in any fairer manner, at and less expense for the benefits to be derived in the future, they will goubtless consult other attorneys, who will reap the profit of some of my labor in this reform. I am truly,

JOHN L. SHKUM.

Of Interest to Teachers.

The State Board of Education, at its meeting in March, adopted the Reading Circle editions of 4 Studies in Shakespeare and McMurry's General Method as the basis for the examinations in literature and the science of education respectively, for the year beginning with the November, 1895, examination.

Questions will be prepared on these books for the first six months, as follows:

November, 1895—Henry VIII, history of drama, etc., and Act I MuMurry's General Method, Preface and Chapter I.

December, 1895—Henry VIII, history, introduction, etc., and

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and II McMurry's General Method, Chapters I and II. January, 1896—Henry VIII, history", introduction, etc., and Act II McMurry's General Method, Chapter II.

February, 1896—Henry VIII, history, introduction, etc., and Act6.II and III McMurry's General Method, Chapter III.

March, 1896—Henry VII, history, introduction, etc., and Acts IV and McMurray's General Method, Chapters III, IV and V.

April 1896—Henry VIII, history, introduction, and all the acts McMurry's General Method, Chapter IV.

Please give this information to your teachers through your local papers.

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For the Board of Education. D. M. GEETING, President. (Teachers, cut this out for reference.)

FOB calling cards see THE JOUBSALCo., PKWTKBS.

HIS WORK TOO MUCH FOR HIM.

SherllV Koacli, of tlie Supreme Court, Finds a Si nee tiro Kurduiiflotno*

Indianapolis Journal: The November terms of the Supreme and Appellate Courts began yesterday at 10 o'clock. Sheriff David A. Roach, who has no other duties than to proclaim the opening of court, and has this burdensome work only twice a year, at a fair annual salary, yesterday forgot the names he had to call. He is supposed to announce the fact that the court is ready to proceed with business and call the names of all the judges, beginning with that of the Chief Justice. He called them all but that of Judge Howard. He stalled when he reached that name, and some one present had to prompt him before the highest court of the great State of Indiana could legally proceed with its work.

Resolutions of Condolence.

LIBERTY CIIAPKI.., Nov. 23, 1895.—A committee composed of J. N. Sanders,

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W. Dewey, J. C. Jackson and J. P. Swank, members of the Union Detective Company have prepared the following:

WHEKEAS, our deceased brother, Nathan Quick, who departed this life Nov. 18th, 1875, was a member of good standing in this company, a good neighbor and a faithful husband.

Resolved, That we the Union Detective Company do extend to his bereaved family and relatives our heart felt sympathy in this their hour of bereavment.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolution be printed in the county paper and a copy of the same be sent to his family Nov. 25, 1895.

Death of Levi JLane.

Levi Lane, of Lebanon, died Wednesday at the age 78 years. He had been deputy clerk of Boone county since the second term of the county court and was the oldest deputy in Indiana. Mr. Lane was a highly respected citizen. Ho was an uncle of Mrs. Ed VanCamp, of this city.

Death of Milt Swislior.

Special to the Jouruul. WAYSETOWS, NOV. 27.—Milt Swisher,

a very well to do and highly respected citizen who lives one mile south of Wesley, died this morning of pleuropneumonia. Funeral services and interment Friday forenoon.

No PoHtponrannt.

The artificial ice company state that the blowing down of the wall of their building will not delay the beginning of their output of ice. The company expects to furnish ice at the openiDg of the Spring season,

House Burned.

P. L. Nicholson, living one and one' half mile east of Kirkpatrick, lost his house and contents by fire Tuesday night. Insured .for. .$400 .with A. S. Clements.

WAYNKTOYVN.

Mrs. P. M. Brown returned to her home Monday very much improved in health.

Next Monday night there will be three candidates for the 2nd at the K. of P. Lodge.

School dismissed here Wednesday, until Monday on jjccount of Thanksgiving and institute.

Rev. Brewer has been retained by the Christian church people as their pastor for the coming year.

A remonstrance against Tom Herron being granted a license to sell liquor here is being circulated and signed by those who are in favor of temperance.

The foot-ball game which was played here last Saturday between the Waynetown sons of rest, and the Covington kickers was red hot. The score stood 4 to 4. Wabash College was represented in the game by Clouser as umpire, McGuire line carrier and McClure time keeper and Hurt played full back.

There will be a debate at the school house Saturday night. Nov. 30, to settle the matter whether the government should own and control all the railroads. McBeth, of the State Normal and Fred McAllister, of Wabash, will take the affirmative and Fred Shankliii and Lon Dwiggins, the negative. Everybody invited to hear the young orators speak.

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John Steel is now a resident of our town. Jamuel Heath and John Ammerman are on the sick list.

John St. Clair, of Veedersburg, was here on business last Friday. Miss Kate Zuck, of Waynetown, visited Lucy Fishero last week.

Runyan, the stock buyer of Wayne, town, bought cattle hare last week. Walter Ham and Claud Stonebraker attended Sunday school at Ridge Farm last Sunday. i--

Revs. Cissell and Brown held services at the M. E. church last Sunday morning and evening.

J. P. Wirt and Chas. Hybarger attendeded the Sunday school convention at Wingate last Friday.

A rare treat will be given to the people of this community next Saturday night, Nov. 30, in the way of a musical and literary ontertainment. We have been aole to secure the Coppage Bros, who will be with us. The programme consists of everything to suit everyone.

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PART FIRST

THE PEOPLE,

Personal Uonnlp lUlatlve to Crawfordsville Foople anl Thutr Friends From Klnewhere.

—A great cut in prices now at the Columbia. —Prices to suit you and the times now on all millinery at the Columbia. —Alf Lookabill & Co. both buy and sell real estate. They have bought the fine residence property of T. W. Lawson at the corner of Market street and Whitlock avenue for G. C. Fox, Treasuier of the Boiler Compound Company, for $3,275. daw —All persons interested and assessed benefits for the construction of the Jas. E. Fleming who have not yet paid their assessments will please call at the county surveyor's ofiice at their earliest convenience and settle.

HARVEY E. WYNEKOOI',

Ex-Ofilcio Drainage Commissioner.

ARLINGTON.

W. T. Kersey went to Chicago Tuesday night. Earl Marlin is now placing the seats in the school building.

S. M. Miller attended court two days in Frankfort last week. John J. Kirkpatrick, of Frankfort, was here on business Tuesday.

Dan Lewis will settle the business of the late W. C. Kimler. Will Endicott and wife, of Indianapolis are here to spend Thanksviving.

A. A. Cornell contemplates the erection of a new dwelling near the brick mill.

Wash Bowman is doing duty as petit juror this term of court in Crawfordsville.

There was a sunrise prayer meeting at the M. E. church Thanksgiving morning.

V. E. Craig is now able to be up part of the time, after laying in bed three months.

Bill Hiatt was here one day last week shaking hands and talking sheriff to all he met.

School will if possible commence next Monday. We can't most always tell just what we will do.

Simeon Barton has ju6t returned from an extended western trip made in a wagon and accompanied by his son.

C. E. Thomson was taken suddenly ill Monday and his life despaired of for a time, but is better at present and will recover.

Frank W. Gowen will give a temper-1 ance lecture at the M. E, church Saturday evening. All r.io invited. Admittance free.

Tom Martin writes from South Dakota that he is reveling in snow eight inches deep and the thermometer at 10 below zero.

Rev. Eglof filled his regular appointment at the East Christian church Sunday, and immersed Mrs. Jason Phillips Monday.

The Friends held their regular quarterly meeting at their church, east of town, Saturday and Sunday. Revs. Jay and Hadley officiated.

Mr. [Johnson has completed the buildings-for the hoop works and returned to Sheridan for the machinerv. He will be here again next week.

The Fai mors' Institute of Franklin and Sugar Creek townships is entitled to two scholarships in the Purdue winter school. For particulars applv to S. S. Martin.

Good Citizens' League met Monday night at the Presbyterian church. If we judge our good citizens by the attendance at these meetings good citizens area scarce article in town.

Rev. Allen Jay, a very eminent di'vine of the Friends' church, was here this week in the interest of Earlham College, of Richmond, Ind., and was the guest of S. G. Kersey and sisters.

N. B. Couberly, at one time a resident of this township, but now of Waynetown, was here renewing old acquaintances last Friday night and Saturday and at the same time informed all that he would be before the county convention as a candidate for county clerk. Now we know him as a Republican. He is a full blooded one, a nice clever gentleman, and we wish him success as we know of no one we would rather see in the office than N. B. Couberly.

COTTAGK GKOVB.

Charles Harper is convalescent. Miss Anna Maguire is on the sick list.

Protracted meeting at Campbell's Chapel this week. Box suppers and pie suppers are raging in this vicinity.

Hog cholera has abated somewhat and the farmers breathe more freely. Miss Spargar, of Darlington, is doing domestic work for Mrs. Eugene Cook.

Rev. Rayle preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning at Potato Creek church.

Mr. and Mrs. John Booker entertained a jolly party of young people at their handsome new residence last Thursday evening. The evening was spent in social conversation, music and other amusements. Dainty refreshments were served. All present voted the party a decided success and thank Mr. and Mrs. Booker for entertaining them so royally. Tho=e present were: Misses Fanny Brown, Flo Harper, Lulu and Hattie Pittman, Laura Custer, Clara Mikels, Nora Casey, Nora and Lurie Tribbett, Miss Eshelman, and Messrs. Jack Boyers, Wiley Tribbet, Claude Snyder, Steve Fvy, Frank Custer, Frank Thompson,Raleigh Thomas, John Brooks and Frank Paddock.