Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 September 1896 — Page 9

VOL. 49—SO. 39

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How About That jp Boy of Yours?

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Have you got him all ready for school

with a good, 'stroDg suit of clothes that will

stand the wear and tear and snow and winds

of Winter. Our line for this season comprises

everything that is new and desirable, both, as

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Manufacturing Clothiers,

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How happy could I be cither Were the other dear charmer away/^

$ The ripest and sweetest leaf and the purest ingredients are used in the O manufacture of ^Battle Ax/' and no 0 matter how much you pay for a $1 O much smaller piece of any other high11 grade brand, you cannot buy a better i) chew than "Battle Ax/'

For 5 cents you get a piece of jj* O "Battle Ax" almost as large as the 0 other fellow's JO-cent piece.

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AFTERMATH.

TI10 Fair a Success From Every Standpoint anil The Management Is Highly l'leaned.

The Montgomery county fair was a great success this year in every particular and the management is not a little elated, especially in view of the fact that fairs everywhere else in this region have been big fizzles. The receipts pay all expenses and premiums and leave a neat surplus, just how much is as yet not known. The exhibit in all departments was up to the old time standard and in some classes, notably cattle and speed, surpassed any show of former years. The fair was the most orderly in its conduct of all the exemplary exhibitions in the association's history, and now when all is over there is not a thing to mar the whole effect and outcome. The exhibitors all left happy and content, the visitors were all pleased and no one has a kick coming. It was a fair that will work to the association's credit in after years.

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L. W. Otto carried off the honors in the jewelry display. There were about 14,000 people on the grounds Thursday.

The pool selling down town was conducted very quietly, and the out of town talent were about all who went against it.

Aaron Stewart, of Roachdale, took first money Wednesday on roadster, and yesterday sold the horse for a good price.

Que Allen had an off day Friday, but he is a great horse in spite of his defeat. Pew horses can show greater records as winners.

Miss Nelson lowered the track record for trotting Friday to 2:14%. The previous record of 2:15 was made in an exhibition heat by "Poem" two years ago.

There was less thieving and pocketpicking on the grounds this year than ever before. And this was with a smaller special police force than in previous years.

Mr. Cooley, the starter, received compliments on all sides for the prompt manner in which be got the fields off. There were no tiresome delays during the entire week.

Last year J. H. L. lowered the track record to 2:14 in the free-for-all pace. Thursday in the free-for all pace it was again lowered by Dick Wilkes,the mile being made in the 2:14 flat.

Supt. Insley, of the speed department, is naturally very much pleased with the races achieved in his department. It was a great exhibition all the way through from Tuesday to Friday, and was ably managed throughout.

The grounds this year both at day and night have been more orderly and quiet than ever before and that, too, with a smaller police force. This condition has been brought about by the falling off in the number of sideshows and fakirs.

While Jere Voris was drinking at the fountain Thursday .some pickpocket relieved him of his fine gold watch. He had no knowledge of the theft until he went to leave the grounds. So far no traoe of the missing timepiece has been found.

Que Allen sold 10 to 3 against the field, and very few could be found who had the nerve to take the field. After the race, however, there'were several hundred claimed to have pool tickets on the field, and who calmly asserted that they had known all along that Que Allen was a "dog." Before the race, however, they sang a very different ditty.

Muncie News: Alan, Marc Claypool's game little trotter, is making a wonderful reputation this season. Yesterday with Henry Mueller behind he captured the 2:27 trot in straight heats at Crawfordsville. This season's record for Alan is something oaly a little short of the wonderful. He has not been defeated once and has won every time in straight heats. He has a perfect record. His previous victories were at Covington, Elwood, Middletown and New Castle.

Quite a thrilling and horrifying accident occurred Thursday in the third heat of the 2:35 pace, and how two drivers escaped alive is a question in all minds. It was at the start and Braidetto, driven by Charley Henry came in close behind the bunch. She had on hobbles and catching in them gave a lunge forward upon the sulky of Johnny Brown who was driving Jewel Minor. Horses, sulkeys and drivers went to the earth in a confused mass, and hundreds from the circle hurried to them expecting to find both men dead. Beyond bruises, however, neither was hurt and Brown and his horse completed the mile. In the mix up Henry had a shoe torn from his foot.

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SPRING RACES.

A Project Oil Foot to Hold a Spring Kaee Sleet in Crawfordsville.

It is altogether probable that there will be a big race meet here next Spring and plaus for such an event are now actively on foot pushed along by men who know how to make things go. The success of the races here last week and the great interest manifested has had much to do with the starting of the plan, and the central location of Crawfordsville together with the beauty and accessibility of her grounds all give encouragement to the idea. The local horsemen and admirers of horseflesh are all enthusiastic and ready to take hold, while Gee Grimes, Dickason, Curtis and all the big string owners here last week are anxious for such a meet and promise their hearty co-operation.

The meet would probably be held in early June before work on ,the big circuit begins and many stables would be pleased with the opportunity to get their horses in training for the season. It is assured that more horses would come than ever come for a fair and some mighty fast blood would be here, too. The purses offered would be in excess of those offered by the fair association 'and this would be an additional inducement to horsemen.

One of the promoters of the meet speaking on the subject last evening said: "It will be a four days' meet and one of these days will be devoted exclusively to the jumpers. Running races are very popular in Indiana and a big field of them will draw immensely. We will have two or three other events out of the ordinary, also. We intend to have a free-for-all pace with every heat a race, the winning horse in each beat to go to the stable barred from further participation. A free-for-all trot of four heats with every heat a race and no bar will also be an event of the meet. We have every assurance of success and can draw elegant horses here by the score. People who C-Oiiie have the money and will spend it, and Crawfordsville can well afford to be hospitable and open up her doors."

liar Meeting.

The Montgomery County Bar Association met last Saturday, and a committee appointed that morning by Judge Harney to take cognizance of the death of W. F. Hunt, presented the following resolutions which were adopted:

WHEREAS, it has pleased Almighty God to call from us one of our most esteemed members in the prime of his early manhood and usefulness, and

YVHEKKAS, we feel deeply the loss of our beloved friend and associate, and realize that in the death of W. F. Hunt we lose a strong, sincere and honest man, a trusted and trustworthy friend and most promising member of our bar. and

WHEREAS, his life, character and* principles were worthy of our emulation, and in which there was much we all may follow with profit, be it

Resolved, That while we realize that our Heavenly Father doeth all things well, and wiser and. better than we know, and while we bow in sad submission to His will, in the taking of William F. Hunt from us we are deeply grieved, for we f»el that we have lost a true friend and beloved associate, for in him we saw manliness, sublime honesty and noble purpose, and we deeply lament the ending of a life so full of .promise as a citizen and a lawyer, and be it

Resolved, That the Montgomery County Bar Association unanimously feel a profound sorrow in this, the death of William F. Hunt, and that as a token of its high esteem in which we held him that the members of the Montgomery County Bar Association attend his funeral in a body.

FISANCIS M, Dice, JAMF.S WitionT,

-v CLAUDE THOMPSON, ALHEHT D. THOMAS, R. W. CALDWELL.

Feeling remarks were made by quite a number of the bar members, after which the meeting adjourned.

Foot Frightfully Crashed. 'ir'S

Last week James A. Taylor, of Lafayette, met with an accident at the Big Four station which will result in the loss of one of his feet. Taylor had had a peanut and candy stand at the fair and Friday went to the station to take the train for Indianapolis. At one time his knee cap had been fractured and when he attempted to climb on the train, which had hardly stopped, his knee suddenly gave way and he slipped down between the cars. One foot feel across the rail and a car wheel went over it, mashing it to a pulp. The unfortunate man was hastily extricated and taken to the hospital department of the county jail where Dr. Ensminger gave him medical assistance. On Saturday he was taken home to Lafayette where his foot will be amputated by Dr. Beasley,

Iteamy at Linden.

C. F. Reamy, Republican candidate for reporter of the supreme court, will address the people of Linden on the evening of September 24.

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A SAD DEATH.

Will. F. Hunt Dies Tin* Afternoon After a Painful Iilnugn.

William F. Hunt died about 1:15 last Friday afternoon at his room at the residence of Rev. W. H. Kerr on west Pike street. Mr. Hunt had been ill for several weeks in fact ever since attending the Chicago convention, but he was not confined to his bed until about four weeks ago. His illness was typhoid fever, and he seemed to have paused the dangerous period and to be doing well until Wednesday, when he took a turn for the worse and rapidly declined. Tlie funeral occurred Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence of Rev. W. H. Kerr under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity.

Few deaths have occurred here of late years which have caused more wide spread regret and sorrow than Will Hunt's. He had an acquaintance, perhaps, second to no one in the county,and all who knew him esteemed him. He was a frank and confiding character, honest with all men and with a heart open to sympathy and succor. His own struggle with the world was an onerous and arduous one, and in his success all who knew bim rejoiced. The difficulties hp surmounted were great ones and his life was almost romantic in its story. He was left a penniless orphan at an early age and added to this misfortune was an incurable lameness. He could walk and work but the effort was greater for him, except in spirit, than for men more favored by nature. He was raised on a farm as a common hand, and no one saw more of the rough and hard side of that life than he did. But he was resolved on greater things and he spent the long winter evenings in study. He well nigh educated himself and saw little of the common school room except as a teacher, he having taught several terms when a mere boy. Finally he came to Wabash College—desperately poor and with an address and presence which at first sight were all against him. But he won and went right through from Junior Prep to Senior year and was graduated with honor and distinction in the best class old Wabash ever put out, that of 1S90. He struggled hard and worked like a Trojan all the way through his course to make both ends meet and he did it. He made himself a prime favorite with all, students and professors honoring him alike.

Mr. Hunt was hardly graduated before he was nominated by the Democrats for the oflice of county surveyor and was elected by one of the largest majorities ever given in the county, running several hundred ahead of his ticket. He was reelected in 1S93 and tilled the oflice with great credit. He refused to make the race in 1804 and began the study of law with Jere West. He was soon admitted to the bar and rose rapidly in the profession. Lust year he formed a partnership with Hon. F. M. Dice and this continued until dissolved by Mr. Hunt's death. Mr. Hunt was au Odd Fellow, a Mason and a Knight of Pythias and took high rank in each order. He was a gentleman esteemed by all and in his death the community loses a good arid noble citizen.

The Immortal Jim Allen.

James Allen, of Covington, a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for the Blind, called on Governor Matthews last Thursday and gave him a box of strawberries, lie said George W. Merriman, a tenant on his place, is raising hundreds of gallons of fine berries and finds a ready sale for them in the Chicago market at SI a gallon net. The patch covers six or seven acres. When asked how such berries can be raised for fall market, he said: "After the first crop is picked the ground is covered with straw and then set The vines are all burned to the ground. Then by fertilizing the ground and irrigating it, the vines come up quickly and bear, not so much fruit as before, but just as fine in quality and saleable at a much higher price. Thpre are several farmers in northern Indiana who are pursuing this mode of berry culture for late market. We have keen having berries for three weeks at my house."

Sad Fate of Bas McFaddin.

Rockville Journal: A handful of Parke county Democrats met fewer than that from Vermillion county at Montezuma, last Thursday, and after a good deal of hard work persuaded

J.

S. McFaddin to accept the nomination for prosecutor of the two counties. Mr. McFaddin is a nice young man and an able attorney, hence it is a shame to send him to such a slaughter as he will meet at the bands of Prosecutor Maxwell at the November election.

PART SECOND

HAD PLANNED 10 ELOPE.

Colin Campbell, It Admitted, Wan Going Away With Another Woman,"'.'.'.'

Indianapolis Journal: The demeanor of Colin Campbell, Eilio Culver's betrayer, bus changed since he was given a term of four years by a jury in the criminal court. Until the very last Campbell was confident that ho would be acquitted, and had made all arrangements to take another voung woman of this city and ilee to Canada to avoid further prosecution, and to: avoid Lis wife. Other prisoners confined in the jail have told Sheriff. W otnack that Campbell had made arrangements with the young woman to go to Goshen, where Campbell's wife went after his arrest, and to steal Campbell's child. The young woman' who is accused of being in with this plot was present in the court room throughout the trial of the case against Campbell.

Previous to the trial and during the trial Campbell wrote to his wife occasionally, demanding money. Onetime his wife sent him five postage stamps and explained that she had not a cent of money to buy food for the children, and could not send him any. She said she had borrowed the five stamps. Campbell replied to this letter, informing his wife that it was her duty to provide for the children, and that he would expect her to do so.

All this time, according to the stories' of other prisoners, Campbell was planning to steal one of the children and to run away with another woman. Since the trial he has written a very different kind of a letter to his wife. He pleads for her to remain faithful to him, and makes promises of what he will do when he gets his liberty again.

MR. MOUNT'S MEETINGS.

He is Everywhere Accorded Ovations and IS Sweeping Things All Along the JLine.

Hon. J. A. Mount was home Sunday to spend the day. His monster meetings everywhere he speaks have caused him to feel that Indiana will go Republican this year by an unpre-' cedented majority. Not one of Mr. Mount's meetings, even those of rainy days, has been a small one, and everywhere he has great crowdB and great enthusiasm. On Saturday night Mr. Mount spoke in Terre Iloute and the Tcrre Haute Exjrress prefaces a five column account of the rally with the following: "When 2,072 people turn out in a parade at this stage of the. campaign, it is a prclty good evidence that notwithstanding the fact that a half dozen oi so Republicans have caught the tail of the free silver kite there arc others who believe the old Republican party will withstand every attack made upon her and in November ride to victory. 'Farmer Jim' Mount came to Terre Haute last night. He will remember the visit for many a day. For years the candidate for governor has been aware of the fact that he had many friends in this county, but not until last night was evidence given that he can depend on a good healthy majority when the voies are counted. James A. Mount is certainly a popular candidate. For years the farmers have known what he is and the city people are beginning to realize that he is a man in every way capable of gracing the office of governor of Indiana."

Harrison Declines Presidency.

It came to light at a meeting of the board of trustees of the new University of Indianapolis, that the Presidency of the university has been offered to ex-President Harrison, but that he has refused to be prevailed upon to accept. The question of a president has been "boiling" for some time, and the trustees hoped to have it settled in time to insure the new president being in oflice at the opening of the university year. The trustees were desirous that an Indianapolis man be chosen if possible. Gen. Harrison was accordingly waited on after the last meeting of the trustees and was asked to accept the presidency. To all of the importunities, however, he turned a deaf ear, and told the trustees that they would have to look elsewhere, and that while he would aid the project in every other way in his power he could not afford to think of accepting the presidency.

The Barbers' Combine.

The various barber shops of the city have united and issued a new schedule of prices. The only changes are: Haircut 15 cents and shampoo the same, whereas both have heretofore beea 25 cents. The price of a sha^ti remains the same. All shops close at 6 o'clock p. m. except Wednesday evening

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