Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 September 1898 — Page 1

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ORAV/FORDSYILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTAL HE I,

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A RECORD BREAKER-

It is (Generally (led Thut tli« Attrndiiiii oat tin I\ni' V« siorliiy Broke t.'.fi Hecord o! tlx? AssfH'tiition.

When the Crawfordsvilir. fair is favored with ideal weather as she was yesterduy there in going to be a jam at the grourds and that, is what there was .yesterday without any doubt whatever. At 6 o'clock in the moroing the people began to arrive at the grounds and they continued to come until 3 o'clock. Up until 1 o'clock the country people continued to arrive and from that time on the town folks occupied the attention of the gate keepers. It was a perpetual human river and while it didn't empty into the fair ground lake the association got the benefit just the same. All the old timers among' the directors declare the attendance yesterday will prove a record breaker and the appearance of the grounds certainly bears them out, The carriage space proved inadequate for the first time and buggies were packed fairly on top of one another. All over the grounds there was a crowd, and in all places where are matters of interest there was a tremendous push. The stand keepers are doing a great business and are smiling for the first time this year as every other fair in this part of the state has proved a first class frost. The grounds am in magnificent trim for the occasion and ttie customary curse of dust is not to contend with at all. The fair is in everything living up to its claim of "Best on Earth."

TllirilSDAY'S HACKS. 2:17 PACE—l'l It»g «)00

Frank l'atchen .. Ill Qlenvlew •_ Geraldine W 'J

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Egg-wood 2 111 St. Cyr 1 12 2C Dr. Clay

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Royal Kone 4 4443

Time—2:23, 2:19^, 2:19J,6. 2:20^, 2:20.

TUESDAY'S KACES.

Tuesday's races were gone on a heavy track, 60 heavy in fact that the horsemen entered in the 2:15 trot refused to go at nil, tut Bttil the two races that were put through were both good. The 2:35 paeo was even sensational and furnished the keenest kind

of pleasure for any one fond of hor6e racing. The fact that a Crawfordsville

horse finally landed first money made

the event all the more interesting and enjoyable for the crowd. The events resulted as follows: 2:25 PACE—ruitSE $200. D- P- fi 5 5 3 1 4 1 1 Geraldine W 2 1 1 4 4 4 Exa 3 4 2 2 1 2 3 Winnie A 1 3 5 3 3 3 2 Black Jim _4 245 Dispute _6 6 6 6 2:25Hi, 2:2t)H, 2:28,

Time—2:24'/}, 2:31^, 2:34'/i. 2:10 PACE—PURSE $300. Robert Wilkes Texas Lejk Deck Wright Slumber

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Time—2:18, 2:1!), 2:17^. WEDNESDAY'S HACKS The races.Wednesday outside the 2:30 trot were tame, the runs being of the old time fake order. The 2:30 trot, however, made up for other deficiencies and was for blood from start to finish. Nixon, the Crawfordsville horse, won and won on his merits. Oe was well driven and gave evidence of being a horse of both speed and bottom Tin- following is a summary of the racef-:

K1VK l:t-|U,OX(i '.ilX-Pfll^E 100. Susin Monmouth Upsand Down ..'J •_ Gasvon .3 3 L:niy IKnlcy .. 4

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Harry fCix•n 112 2 2 1 .... .. 13113 :i Van

Prance 2 2 3 3 1 A"«a A 3 4-1 4 4 Prost Wilkes.. dis

Time 2:22y, J:21, 2:32, 2:244, 2:29M. 2:25. M1I.E AND HEPEAT—PUUSE $100. I'psand Downs Lady Hunt J'et ..3 3 .Time—1:5114, 1:54^.

FAIK NOTES.

Nixon lowered his record nine seconds Wednesday. The Monon brought in nearly 600 people from both directions yesterday.

There were 1,200 more exhibits in 11 oral hall this year than there were last year.

Mrt-.. F. Height, of Lafayette, judged in Floral hall The 2:17 pace was a very sloppy exhibition of racing and certainly dui not merit the purse hung out

The Big Four and Vandalia excursions bt.th brought largo crowd-n. The westbound Fig Four train dropped 500 hqre.

Alabama had a very sore 1 oir sU'i--day tied consequently did not bhow up in good form. She shouid uot have been started.

The attendance oh Tuesday and Wednesday this year is double that of the corresponding days last year according to the gate receipts

The band in its new uniform of white duck trousers and uniform blouses looked decidedly swell. The music was the best article it ever put up.

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Representatives from nearly every fair association in the state are present. The state fair has two men here working among the exhibitors for entries.

Mr. Marsh, who drova Nixon Wednesday, is entitled to no little credit for the winning of the 2:30 trot. Lie brought out all thero was in his animal.

Burgess, of Illinois, and Lew Cochran are dividing honors in the horse massive piling of ferns and fl iwers department. The inside.of the grotto is quite real-

The free-for-all pace was postponed yesterday because it could not have b^en finished if started. It will be pulled off tho first thing this afternoon,

Protests have been filled against allowing Hans G. any of the money in Wednesday's race, the claim that he was distanced in the first beat being icsisted upon.

The air ship made two ascents yesterday. The air ship is a balloon with two or three big fans hung out as a bluff. As a feature it isu't in it with a parachute leap.

Dave Warren's horse, I). P. LI., won the 2:25 pace and in so doing won one of the hardest fought races ever gone on this track. D. P, LI, has tho best of staying qualities and is game clear through.

The exhibit of C. R. Rost is sadly missed this year from lioral hall, he bsing out for the first time in thirteen ysars. He was only prevented from display this year by a rush of work at his store.

The fruit display was never before so good but strange to say not an apple ,5* as on exhibit. The crop was a com !eie failure hereabouts. „The exhibit of Montgomery county peaches more than makes up for the apple lack however,

Prince Wilkes, which won the first

two beats o{ the 2:35 ace at

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made a

bead in the third, failed to get

any of the money, being drawn after the third heat because worn ou*. The third and fourth money in this race were not awarded.

The fact that there was not a case in police court yesterday argues weLl for the good order mantained during the fair. By barring immoral shows and grafters the management throws a wholesome protection about the patrons of the exhibition.

The outside fountain is surmounted by a giant figure of Uncle Sam and the figure is life like too. The old gent is attired in the approved colors and by his side is a cannon which is guaran teed to be not loaded. The decoration of the fountain is both unique and ap ropos.

The state fair at Indianapolis, which begins next Monday, will doubtless attract many of our people. The low railroad rates and tho interesting programme oifered make it an object to I visit the capital city during the week.

The night programme, tho battle of Manila, and display of fireworks will I eclipse anytning ever biio.vu iu the state.

Hans G., the horse that ghve Nixon a close call for first money Wednesday, was clearly distancid in the first heat but the fiagman was aileep and failed to call the driver corrcctly. The judgi accordingly permitted the horse to go on with the race although he was called as dibtauced from the stand after the conclusion of the heat il title to second money is called in question. I Kostan/.er's elegant display of furniture and rugs captured firsthunorsatid everybody agrees with the judges that in deserved the distinction. Tho firm took twice their usual space in floral hall and filled it full of the newest and

finest things in their line that the market affords. The same gocda only in larger quantities and greater variety can be fouD'' at their 6tore.

The fountain in Flora) hall is more ornate and beautiful than any yet fitted up there. A grotto is formed by a

Chas. Rountree and his Tunis sheep istic and there is a wealth of stalactites

A CHUMP CALLED DOWN.

are a prominent feature of the live and stalagmites of natural forms and essary to make good citizenship. Farmers with small capital to han stock department. [appearance. In the middle of the Everybody wai.ts the public f-c'hools die some bargain farms on easy terms. Congressman Landis was to have .grotto reBts the figure of a great swan in the common branches of educa- For particulars call at once on O. U. been here during fair werk, but is pre- from t,he upturned bill of which the tion to stand four square to all the Perrin, S. Green street, Crawfordsvested by reasou u! nlat-SS w&Wt. of thu fountain Dlay (world on a RU«-* foundation, but we ville, Iud, wS-10

DOII^IHH I,, rutnttm Vt'ircen tho Windbag ut tho l«ogan4iM»rf Sohm»lH.

Supt. Douglas, of tho Logausport schools, broke out tho other day with a wild tirudo against the non-6tate schools a.id against WalSash college in particular, backing his lies up with even wilder statements presumed to defend the state colleges which for yearn have been robbing the tax p*y-ci.-i of Indiana of hundreds of thousands dollars. Dr. 1*. Putnam, of Logan sport, gives tho following answer to Douglas through tho Logane-po-t h'c/jir(t:r: "Editor tho Raiortcr: l'lcaso allow me to say that some of us aro not a ittlo astonished at the manifesto of Prof. Douglas in your paper of Monday on the subject of 'State vs. Non-Stato' Schools. Some of his statomeuts are so extreme and one-sidod that I can not allow them to pass without challenge. He heads his list of what ho is pleased invidiously to term 'church schools,' 'sectarian schools' 'denominational colleges,' with Wabash college.

Now be it known that Wabash college is a self perpetuating corporation, chartered by the state of Iudiana, which has no connection whatever with any church in tho land. Neither is it under any sort of denominational control or direction. Lt was founded for the benefit of the peoplo by private benevolonco before tho state of Indiana had public school system worthy of tho name, and it ill becomes the state to conduct its educational ait'airs in such a way as to ignore and repress such private enterprises and large liberality as has founded and fostered such noble institutions as this and its like. Wabash and the other colleges mentioned do not a&k, and never will ask, direct assistance from the state, but they do demand fair treatment and a just recognition of thsir work. The state has no more right to form aneducational trust, supported by taxation, which shall drive out or repress private educational enterprise than it has to establish a monopoly of tho nursery business for the raising of young fruit treep. The professor 6aya 'The sectarian colleges are beggars, beseeching conferences, synods, associations and individuals for help.

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This is altogeth­

er a gratuitous fling and wholly out of taste. But let me ba out of taste also by retaliating that the state institutions are 'beggars' above all others and lobyists also 'beseeching' legislatures annually 'for help' to the tune of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars taken out of the pockets of the citizens by taxation. I3ow long and to what extent is the state going to allow these official 'beggars' to come to its treasury for the benefit of already largely endowed universities? L'rof. Douglas misrepresents when he talks about such institutions as Wabash college making an 'attack' upon 'the public school system of the state.' They have done nothing of the kind! A criticism of the management of a system is certainly not an attuck upon the system itself. In a certain real sense the public school system of this state may be said to be the child of Wabash college. Certainly it was a young professor of Wabash college (See in 'American Journal of Education,' 1881 a paper on 'Caleb Mills and Iudiana Common Schools.) who, more than fifty year6 ago, wrote an annual letter for six years signed 'One of the People.' and laid it on the desk of each member of the legislature, calling attention to the need of education in this state, uctil the people and legislature wero aroused to an interest which renulled in the adoption of one of tho befet public school systems in tho nution and Prof. Caleb Mills, 'one of the people,' h8s ever einca been known as the father of the public fccbool system of this stale, and this system has not now, and never has had, any better friends than Wabash college and Professor Mills' successors in oilica. "When Professor Douglas says 'there is only one cause for the attack of the non-state schools,' lio not only mLs-epresents the situation, but he gives a very narrow and biased view of the pending discussion. There aro other questions underlying this controversy as for example, how far shall the state go taxmg her citizens for the purpose of operating great universities where at the best only a few of her youth can receive the liberal education provided at tho expense of all? An educated man's education is his capi tal, his stock iu trade. Uow much stock in trade of this kind is the state justified in furnishing by taxation?

Nobody objects to so much as is necessary to make good citizenship. Everybody waiits the public pc'hools

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do not want »,his system to become top heavy by great and costly univoraities whose advantages ctiu bo etijoyod by only a few. Millions for the common schools, but a limitation somewhere to tho grants given these university 'beggars.' Thero are questions of this kind in this controversy which Prof. Douglus entirely ignores. "Again, when institutions,wInch are established and maintained by privato bonevolent enterprise are confessedly doing as good educational work as tho state universities, why should their representatives bo entirely ignored and excluded from the state board of education? Is tho state going to put a peualty upon private educational enterprise? "In my opinion Prof. Douglas haa como far short of giving a fair or discriminating view of the ponding controversy. I do uot feel myself prepared to deal with tho whole subject, but I could not resist tho impulse to point out soma glaring defects in hia presentation of tho matters.

OUOI.AS P. PUTNAM."

UNCLE ABE ESTES AGAIN.

Tlio AiiioioiiH Old Codger is Again in Our Midst tor a NLCO J.'at. Wit'o.

Uncle Abe Estes, of Hendricks county, who created such a furore here two or ttiree years ago by proposing to about half tho eligiblo women of tho town, is again with us. Unelo Abo blew in ou one of the cool zephyrs on Wednesday but tho zephyr wasn't cool enough to take tho warmth out of tho old gentleman's palpitating bosom, for he is on tho hunt of a nice, fat wife, just as he was on the occasion of his former visit. Uncle Abe wasn't successful before but he wasn't discouraged and finally managed after he left here to catch a bud at Bainbridge and married her off hand. What has become of this lady Mr. Estes doos not state. She may bo in the cold, cold tomb or she may have left with a handsomer man, provided of course that a handsomer man than your uncle Abo could bo found in darkest Putnam. Anyhow, Mr Estes is back and ho wants a brand new one, one that is fat and loving. He is busy to day taking the addresses that are being furnished him by his friends here and to-morrow he will begin to call on the ladies who have been recommended to., him BS suitable. Por the benefit of. all such THE JOITKNAI, is at liberty to say that while Mr. Estes is old he is active. He has some property and a heart big enough to afford a refuge for all the ladies who have not a suitable hiding piece already.

Gov. Mount's IllnoHH.

Indianapolis News: Governor Mount was uot able to be at his office to-day, and if the advice of his physician is followed, he will not return to his desk and will not see visitors at his home on business for some time. The severe pains in the head which proetrated him for a short time yesterday have not reappeared, and he felt much improved to-day. The prostration, the physician says, is tho result of overwork, and rest is prescribed as the best medicine. Until there is marked improvement in the governor's condition, he will not make any engagements for speeches. Tho Republican state committee was anxious to-day to make an assignment for him September 17, but was informed that he could not agree at this time to participate in the opening of tho campaign.

I'lKMirtainty About l.*,Stli.

There seems to be some uncertainty as to tho time of the return of the ITiSth and 159th Indiana regiments. It has been expected that they would return certainly not later than the latter part of tho week, but it may be that it will be more than a week yet before they leavo Ivnoxville. Lieutenant Waterman, tho United States mustering officer, suggested Tuesday that if tho two regiments could conveniently delay their departure until the latter part of next week, so as not to arrive at Indianapolis until the close of tho state fair, it would be a good thing to do. In accordance with the suggestion, Charles E Wilson, the uovernor'a secretary, telegraphed the two colonels, asking if it would discommode them to stay in their present camps a few days loDger.

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