Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 September 1898 — Page 12

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1808.

IK Texas Democrats will not follow the lead of Representative Bailey of Texas, why should the Democrats of other states?

TKKRE area great many people over this country who believe that Benjamin Harrison is the right man for secretary of state.

ONK of the best evidences that the war is over is the fact that we again hear of speeches being made by Wm. Jennings Bryan.

GKN. PANDO says there are :'00,000 Spanish soldiers in Cuba who have never seen an American uniform. Those at Santiago who did see it never want to see it again.

POWKHLKSS to escape it, the three leading express companies announce that they have become reconciled to the stamp tax, which they have endeavored in vain to unload on their patrons.

Cm.. BHVAN, of the "Silver Battalion," has asked that his regiment, the third Nebraska, be mustered out at oncc. He declares that if it isn mustered out that he will resign. His fol lowers in the ranks can't resign.

TnK individual deposits in the banks of the country have gone up 11 per cent, in a year, and the comparative gain is the largest in the south and middle west. People who declaim against the gold standard are not mentioning such facts.

A NATION that can breed such scandals as the Panama canal swindle and the anti-Dreyfus forgery—scandals that besmirch the civil, military, judicial and legislative life of Franco— would better refrain from meddling with the affairs of other peoples and devote itself to the work of setting its own house in order.

THK ollicial statistics of the United States treasury show that at the beginning of July, the total volume of money in circulation in the United States was $l,843,43f,74'.i, The increase, compared with the corresponding date in IS'.IT, was 8107,400,000. That is about equivalent to a gain of 12 per cent, and we haven't cheap free silver, either.

IN referring to the military forces of the United States President McKinley said in his address at Camp Wikoff: "All have served their country in its need, all will serve it so long as they may be required, and all will forever have the thanks and regard of a grateful people." The heroism of tlioBewho waited to go is recognized as equal to that of those who went and stormed every position in their front.

KUIIOMO Trihunc: It is a notable loss the Democratic party of Indiana has suffered in the desertion of Maurice Thompson, the distinguished author and critic. He stood high iu his party, having been chosen to the offico of state geologist as a Democrat, and in other positions conspicuous in its leadership. He is weary of the free trade and cheat money policies of that party and in disgust at its cowardly attitude relative to the foreign policy of the country.

TJIK registers of the Tinted States laud offices throughout the state have just made a special report to the commissioner of the general land cilice in reference to the lands in their districts. In these reports the lands are specified as follows: Unappropriated and unreserved, surveyed and unsurveyed, reserved^,, and appropriated or entered, and. the figures disclose that in round numbers South --Dakota has the enormous total of nearly 11,000,001) acres of land which is now subject «to entry by qualified applicants. TLA quality o£ this land is, however, by no means first, class.

ST. Louit- GNi/jC-i'Crticcral.- Brian's desire to go home to take part in the canvass in his stato was expected, of course. First, lsst and all the time Bryan is a politican. He is the only political colonel in the nrmy, and his military service can bring him no glory, (a the other hand absence froni home is particularly dangerous for him in these days of shiftincr political issues when the poor I'opocrals -.-can not toll where they are "at.V It would be very easy for his pttrty to forget Bryan if he should be out of its bight for a few months now. This is a _peril which ho is anxious to a.oid.

A REMINDER.

Some of the Democratic members of the lower house of congress have been busy making personal assaults on the Republican 'administration by reason of many supposed irregularities in the war and navy departments with reference to the purchase of supplies and contracts entered into for the movement of the army and the chartering of vessels. It is a strange anomaly to an intelligent citizen that in the same number of the Cowjrcssiuiuil Rcninl in which may be found charges of the character above referred to, there will also be found the following resolution, for the immediate consideration of which unanimous consent was asked by the Republicans: "Resolved, That the committee on military affairs have power to sit during the adjournment of congress, and make such investigation as to the organization and equipment of all branches of the army as it may deem advisable, and report to the next session of congress."

If the Democrats were sincere in making their open charges of fraud and irregularities, why should they oppose the passage of the foregoing resolution, which would have given the military committee of the house power to investigate any of these alleged abuses'.' Furthermore, the committee proposed to serve without any additional compensation or without expense to the government. After several of the Democrats had manifested opposition, Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, a leading Populist, openly objected and the resolution failed, as it was in the closing hour of the second session of the fifty-tifth congress.

AI.I. their efforts to discover a new issue with which to go before the country in the congressional campaign with a reasonable promise of success having proved fruitless, the Democrats have now, reluctantly turned to free coinage of silver, Bryan and the cross of gold and the crown of thorns. They have no confidence in its success now, but what can they do'.' They must keep up the organization by some means and no others are now on hand, the masses of the party being in no mood to suffer a general mud-slinging against the President and the administration on account of the management of the war, or to take up the cry of anti-annexation.

ACCOKIUNC to a cablegram from Madrid no arrangements whatever were made in Madrid for the comfort or even food supply for the troops on their return from Santiago. There were no ambulances for the sick and the poor victims of disease had to rely on the charity of persons who hired cabs to convey them to the hospital.

GKKAT HI'.ITAIN was a little slow about it, but the slaughter of 15,000 Dervishes at Omdurman pretty thoroughly aveBges the assassination of Gordon at Khartoum.

PORTO RICO has a population of over 700,000, and all are waiting to jump up and move that annexation be made unanimous.

Ii»lianapoli» iu Kuiiio.

Commodores Lookabill and Darter have sold 21 lots in Indianapolis, south Meridian street, for Julia Hoefgen to George W. Stout. Price 81a,U00.

LINDEN

Mrs. Fink is visiting relatives in Ohio for a few weeks. Some sickness in our town among old as well as young.

Forty-seven people went from here to Marion on the excursion. V. Fuller, of Frankfort, was with our merchants the flr6t of the week.

The atrent sold 20 tickets to the Lafayette fair the day the thermometer was 93 in the shade.

Mrs. Newt Staley was called to atteud the funeral of her niece at Stringtown iu Coal Creek last week.

Mrs. Daisy Fraiey and Mrs. Pearl 1,'ush wont to Stock well the first of the week to see their aunt, Mrs Kirkpatrick, who is quite ill.

Some of our people had the nerve last week as hot as it was to go to Marion on the excursion. Oaiy 47 tickets were sold here.

Iieckel Smith has a votei at bis house if he lives twenty-one years. He came to town last week. Mother, boy and Beckel are all doing well

The people will not nave to wade the mud and slush along Main street much longer as cement sidewalks are being put in on the east side.

The grass and weeds are getting pretty thick along the sides of the streets and in the alleys. Why is not our weed ordinance enforced?

The business houses here are not all vacated nor are they likely to be, Some people are jealous of us /or fear wo will get a larger manufacturing plant t/ir.n they have.

The boys bad better be a little careful how they get p:-aches from a widow's peach orchard as some of them wiil shoot and we would hate Cor the word to get out that some of the citizens of ti\is place had been shot while stealing peaches.

H. D, Galbreath and daughter, who left, here in Auirust for Pueblo, Col., for his health, writc-s. back that he is breathing easier than when be left here. We.hope that he may got over his trouble and return aRound man but the chances are against him.

THK students of the Union Business Coli• at Lafayette learn by doing bllftiiinfcf. RH ?t. is done in t-ha hiisingcc world, and they go directlv from college to positions in banks, railroad oifices, etc.

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Or 11 ARMY AXI) NAVY.

THE 0!\£ WAS READY, THE OTHER UNPREPARED.

The Creation of a Lnr^e Army In a F«w Months Involved Some Defeats— Strictures of Censorious CriticH Condemned and llefnt.ee].

The army and the navy have been most unfairly compared by lay critics of the war who sec the surface of the problem presented and fail to grasp the essential conditions which create a difference between these two arms of the service.

The navy was ready. The army was not. Lucks existed in the army. None appeared in the navy. Therefore, is the conclusion of a number of papers, the war department has been ill managed and the navy department well managed.

This comparison reads well iu theory, It shows crass ignorance of tho facts. The navy was expanded about 00 to 70 per cent, the number of men enlisted being increased by this amount. Tho army was increased over tenfold. The staff machinery whiok was equal to our naval peace establishment could well enough handle two-thirds more men. The army staff which cared for 2G, 000 men broke down iu the handling of 280,000. Is there no difference in the test in these two cases?

A ship of war is necessarily always ready for war. Its complement of men is slightly smaller in peace than in war, hut tho guns, the ammunition, tho organization, are unchanged. Our regular regiments were no one of them ready fur war, and tho volunteer regiments had to bo made anew. In the navy no single new appointment had to bo made of men higher than lieutenants. in the army new generals had to bo selected by the score and new colonels by the hundred. Imagine the navy expanded tenfold and new rear admirals, commodores and captains needed on this scale! Does anyone imagine the navy would have worked as smoothly as it did with no man of flag rank who had not had years of flag service!'

The real, bottom fact which the critics of the army and of the war department constantly forget in their anxiety to make a personal attack is that the United States had tho navy it needed, and it did not have the army. It bought no battleships. It added no armored cruisers. The Gloucester is the only vessel acquired since war was. declared which has lignml conspicuously in an engagement. Both battles at Manila and .Santiago could have been fought without buying a vessel or enlisting a man, but an army the United fc'tates did not have. It had only one-third of the men it has transported over sea, and it had only oue-renth of the men it needed for tho effective prosecution of the war.

In tiO days these, men were raised. In "JO days they had fought and won a war which every trained observer at home or abroad thought would take a year. Blunders were made. Defects appeared. A host ol' errors were. made. Some cost human life, alas! All cost something in health, in strength or efficiency. Which is best ami which is just—to unite in a loud mouthed personal hunt in full cry for a scapegoat, yelling and shouting that the only man responsible for all lacks in creating an army of 280,000 men in two months was the secretary of war, or soberly to see that the lacks, defects and blunders are at bottom due to conditions for which no one man was wholly responsible and to demand a full, searching military inquiry which shall properly apportion responsibility and show of the three causes which were responsible and in what share, an army too small, an inefficient staff or the, management of the war department?

Such an investigation would mean justice for all concerned and such information and reform as would prevent future collapse. Instead there is presented tho pitiable spectacle after a great national triumph of a scandal hunt by a newspaper pack more anxious to find a personal victim than to improve the leture of a brave and victorious but badly organized army. Philadelphia Press.

Tho Soldier^ Love Kor I'ie. What is it in a militaiy career that inspires a taste for pie? Some experienced army surgeon may carry the explanation locked iu his brain, but up to the. present the phenomenon is as dark as it is undeniable, if it were the New England regiments alone that evinced this dietetic peculiarity, it might be set down to the score of heredity—the birthright of the. stock from whom came- Emerson, who habitually wrote poetry after eating apple pic for breakfast, and it wasn't, dyspeptic poetry either. But all the soldiers at Camp Wikoff, from tho colored troopers to the Hew York boys of the Seventyfirst, prho tW pic. They will tramp all tho way to the station to ger it, and they will make hash of the laws against profane s-wearing when they discover that tljQssapply is cut. asot is usually early The lie".:,' restaurant near -X-uw.jpa-per TOW laid in a supply the otlK day and raked 'in choice profit by tilling out at in et-U per cut, —IU cents a pie.—New ,-r.u.

A. Sues IS.x aujtfS uf .Ji-orr.. The IleVi F, Yi. JMr re, a minister of the Upiti i-'reiLii ti Hag r— tovji, loo., has bought suit again.--! the Central Union Te)ephono»c.ompany for $3,500 damages? The. ground of his complains is. the failure of the telephone. company to properly convey a nu -s:u,'e in hich he wu.i solicited to come to I-aUnomh to preach a i'unerrJ im.m.

A(tr receiving the message tho complainant \vu:r to Faiiuourh, but upon arrival there found that, tho information conveyed in the message was erroneous and that there was no funeral ia that part of tho county. On account of the levity indulged in at his expense by persons who learned of the peculiar mistake the minister was subjected to I annoyance, he says.

FREE PiiJUAL MAILS.

GOOD ROADS WILL MAKE BETTER DELIVERY FACILITIES.

Another Strong Inducement to tlie I$ettoriiient of Highways—Plun by Which Country Districts Would Uo Greatly

Benefited—Delivery at Schools.

In prosecuting my work as special ageut and road expert, writes E. G. Harrison, I am frequently called upon in an advisory way to designate roads to be macadamized or improved in other ways. In determining this I consider which will give the best results to the greatest nun. her of people.

I was pleased to see in the recent roport of the Hon. Perry S. Heath, first assistant postmaster general, his approval of rural free delivery of mails and his determination to extend it as far as the appropriation would permit. In this direction I see an opportunity for the road inquiry to work in harmony with the postoffice department. The ob-

A SMOOTH ROAD LESSENS SPACE.

jects of the postoffice department and the road inquiry of tho department of agriculture are similar iu this:

To promote the business, social and educational interests of the people. In selecting roads to be improved wo take those that will give these results as far as possible.

Wo give preference to roads leading to important centers, through villages and thickly settled portions of the country.

Roads upon which star routes or messenger service to carry the mails have been established.

Roads passing by or near schoolhouses, public halls, churches and industrial establishments.

Villages are built up from the necessities of rural communities, and the interests of both are promoted by close intercourse.

On permnuent roads—those which are hard, smooth and fit for use at all seasons of tho year—mail can be carried at much less cost and less time than on other roads. Rural free delivery of mails may be substituted in many cases on these roads for star routes and messenger service yith saving in cost and better service.

The advantages of delivering letters to factories and other industrial establishments, particularly where large numbers are employed, need not be dwelt upon. The mails left at public schools can be distributed to a great number of families through the pupils living remote from postoffice and carrier routes. Letters brought to the nearest school for mailing can be taken by the rural letter carrier to the nearest postoffice for mailing. Teachers can use these letters as object lessons in giving suggestions and instruction iu regard to proper, plain and neat addressing, etc. In schools remote from postofliees tho teachers might with advantage bo made stamp agents and in this way families far away from postoflices can be supplied with stamps,-stamped envelopes and postal cards. This will promute letter writing aud use of mails and will also insure more regular attendance.

I would respectfully recommend that in the selection of roads in the future for improvements the above suggestions be considered and that the postoffice department in establishing routes for rural free delivery use the improved roads whenever possible.

The carrier whenever practicable should be allowed to arrange with the officials having charge of tho improved roads for himself to act a:-: inspector or care taker of tho road over which his route runs. In this way he could many times prevent waste and damage to tho road from sudden showers or thaws, ami ho could" a'su report promptly to the road officials all washouts or other damage of importance requiring immediate attention. Ho should be allowed to receive such compensation as he and the road officials may agree upon. This compensation would enable him to equip himself for tetter service and iiool not interfere with tho prompt delivery oE mails, and at the same time would help to secure proper maintenance of tInroad.

I would resp&ctfully suggest that the road inquiry of the department of agriculture and the postoffice department work in harmony on the lines above mentioned to su uro the best possible advantages tor tho business, social aud educational interests of tho people.

WEST POINT.

Mrs. Mecnach ia working- for Cbcs. Williams. Mrs. Alexander lias been in Urown couuty for two weeks.

Frank McCormack acd wife called on uncle Hob Stump Sunday,

Mr. Gohmau's little boy had a runaway Monday but r.o one was hurt.

Mr. Gob man went to Brown county last week to get peaches and bring home his parents.

Elmer Branch has a stray bog at his house. It is a black sow with a few white spots on her head. Owner can have by proving property.

TKRKIHLK plaguep, those itching, pestering diseases of the skin. L'ut an end to misery. Doan's Ointment cures, At any drug store.

TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON XI, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. 11.

Text of the I,esKon, AIIIM ri, 1 -K (Trm perauce Lesson) Memory Verses, U-G. \»oUirii Text, lr:. xxviii, 7—Commentary tor the Kcv. I. 31. (Stearns.

1. "Como and let us return uiitbl.be Lord, for IIo bath lorn and lb' will heal us He hath smitten and Ho will bind us up." Tho topic of this lesson is "Sinful Indulgence," and if is assigned as the quarterly temperance lesson. It is possible that the committee meant the first eight, vorses of chapter vii, for there is a reference In verso 5 to bottles of wine. But wo shall in our meditation upon these verses consider the hook as a whole and thus gather what we can of the mind of tho Lord. Ilosea in Israel was contemporary with Isaiah in .Tudah, as will appear by comparing Isa. 1, 1, with llos. i, 1. Tho great sin of both .Tudah and Israel was that of turning away from the Lord, as is simply stated in .Ter. ii, 13, and God's constant cry to them was that thoy should turn to llim again. Seo .Tor. iii, 1, 7, 13, 14, iv, 1, etc. This llesea urges them to do in the first verse of our lesson, identifying himself with them in their sins, as did all tho prophets, typifying our Lord Jesus, who took our sins upon Him that lie might savo us. Sec! !)••$ is, 5, ti, 8, etc., and II Cor. v. i-'l I 1'et. ii. i.'t. 2. "After two days will lie re vivo us, in tho third day lie will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight." All prophecy is full of a glorious future for Israel when their sins shall be blotted out, and they shall be a righteous nation before God in the midst of the earth (Isa. Ix, dl Jer xxxi, o4). In Ezek. xxxvii. I:.\ Hi, and Dan. xii, 1. this restoration of Israel is associated with resurrection. It. is possible that in this verse there is a looking back to Isaac being given back to Abraham on tho third day. looking forward to tho resurrection of Christ on the third day and to the restoration Israel two days or 2.not! years after t-ii .scattering Note nlso tiie references to K'.: !bird day in the life and in the teaching n! our Lord and take as a constant pray, That 1 may know Him and (lie power of His res urrection" (l'hil. iii. 1 o), ii. "Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is pre pared as the morning." It is written in .John vii. IT. "If any man will do His will, hi!-shall know." There must be a forgetting and a pressing on if we would know Him l'hil. iii. 111). Israel grew weary of llim and of His teachings ami gliidings. md they left off to take heed to tho Lord, forgot His Jaw. joined themselves to idols and dealt treacherously igainstthe Lord (chapters iv, 0. 10 v. 4, 7) All internperanco in meat or drink or in the pleasures or occupations of life is doe to a lack of the knowledge of God. His coming in glory, whieh is doubtless included in His "going forth as the morning" is the purifying hope of .John iii. :J. •1. "O Kpliraim. what shall I do onto tliee? O .Jodah, what shall I do onto thee: For your goodness is as a morning cloud aud as the early dew it gocth away." IOphrnim stands for Israel, the ten tribes. God tried every way to win them, but their piety was transient as a morning cloud dispersed by the rising sun (xiii, !i). They cried unto tho Lord, even howled upon their beds, but. it was not with their heart, and when they assembled themselves, apparently to worship God, it was really for corn and wine or, in other words, to eat and drink for their own pleasure (chapter vii. 11). They did not know that the Lord gave them their corn and wine and silver and gold which thev used upon liaal. 5. "Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets I have slain them by tho words of my mouth, and Thy judgments are as tho light that gocth forth. They considered not that all their doings were before God's face (vii, 2), and that He saw their divided heart (x. ^). Through the prophets by His word, which is like afire and a hammer that breaketh tho rock in pieces (.Ter. xxiii, lit)). He had sought to break their pride and their rebellion, but their doings would not sutler them to turn unto their God (chapter v, 4, margin). Many know what they ought to do and know of God's love to them and claims upon them, but they stop their oars and harden their hearts and prefer their pleasures of sin for a season. They will not believo that as they sow so shall they reap, and they that

BOW the wind shall reap the whirlwind (chapter viii,7). i. "For I desired mercy and notsacrilicc, and the knowledge of God more ban burnt offering." Sacrifice was instituted when God in mercy gave to man redemption garments (Gen. iii, dl), thus foreshadowing tho sacrifice on Calvary herein was manifest the greet love of God to sinners God desires no? sacrifice, for the blood of bulls and goats cannot rake away sin I's. xl, (5 li, 10 Ileb. ix, 1^')- lie does not ask gifts nor religious favors from lhose' who fancy themselves righteous, but lie desires to give redemption freely, by the sacrilico of Himself, to till who will receive Him. When we learn to know God and His love and His way, we never think to offer Him anything to win His favor or in tiny way propitiate Him, but accepting His propitiation, Jesus Christ our Lord, we yield ourselves to llim, a living and will sacrilico, bought by His blood. 7. "Huuthoy, like Adam (margin), have transgressed the covenant there have thoy dealt treacherously against me." On God's part till is perfect.—perfect hive and grace and faithfulness for the undeserving. The break and tho failure are always'upon man part. Vet God changes nut Ho ahidc.th taithlul and ise,ver toe saute (JMal.. iii, 0). Although they were guilty of -«1Jmanner of sin as recorded n: the noSt" chapter ai.d i)«"wbci*o, ?s.o His uj ut them was, "O Israel, return, unto ths Lord lav G«d I ul heal thw. backs 1Kb: ing I wilt love teem ireely '. icluipiei'xivj 1, 4).

Gib id is uit ot t! thHt'veiK •'iniquity, :ul is polluted «uh blood', Gile.ui was noted for.

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xxxvii, Jer. m. but -now .'J v\as anything but a pleasatilbdur to.Ood. iv.en the priests '.vero full ot iniquity* as stated' in the next verse, and yet they soUEbt- to cover lip their iniquity hv tht-ir^acruices as if God could nut read Vlicit, neart. Got! will receive a sinner, however .great his sins, if only tho shiner will coin ess. lilt, sins and turn Irom them to God. "Only acknowledge thine iniquity turn, O backsliding children," entreaties to Ilis erring peopio (.Jer. iii, s1!, 14). With cords of a man and bands love (Hos. si, 4), even His groat love in the man that is. His fellow (Zech. xiii, 7) did God seek to draw this peopio to Himself. If oniv wu can be broken down to seo our own hclplessncss and nothingness ami in our weal ness take hold of His strength, ail will bo weil.

EAST GARFIELD.

Hurrah for Hicks, The grape crop is very large. Kupbema Fou6t is sowing for Mrs. Ruth Hutltr.

Lizzie Biuford has returned after a year'ii visit, Kansas. Charles Morrison has erected a summer kitchen and a wood house.

Henry Swindler is exhibiting a fine bunch of sheep at the fair this week. Jere Moffett will move to the Jim Fjiiiinigan farm, near Thorntown, next week.

Ed Wilkinson and wife attended the Sunday school convention at New Richmond Friday.

Marcus Mote started to Dakota Monday to tpecd a few weeks in helping thresh the big wheat crop.

Wo are informed that the reunion of Co. H, 120th regiment, will not be held at G. W, Hoylard's, as was expected.

Now that the war with Spain, the extreme hot weather and the Crawfordsville fair are over, let us all work for the ad vaucement of our own neighborhood.

The decedents of Elijah Cox held their family reunion in the grove near the Friends church at Darlington Monday, Aug. 2!itb. There were present six children, twenty-three grandchildren and fourteen great-grand-children. All relatives present numbered 96. There were 25 voters present and all of them were Republicans but two, a/id those two were only related to the Cox's by marriage. The day was spent in a very pleasant manner. A splendid dinner was served at the noon hour, to which all did ample justice

KELLISONSSCHOOL HOUSE. Corn crops in these parts average vary heavy.

Mrs. Nancy Paxton, quite aged, is seriously ill.

Mrs. Sharpe will teach here the approaching term.,. Eider Plunkett nreached to a large congregation at Young's Chapel Sunday evening. This is a progressive church

Mrs. Geo King is able to be out again after several weeks' sickness under care of three doctors from Darlington.

Jonathan and Albert Ames and families. enterprising farmers from near Eimdale. spent Sunday here the truests of S. D. Kellison.

C, W. Kellison, a teacher of Belt, Mont holding a responsible S85 per month position there, is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Kellison. He will circulate among relatives aud friends in old Montgomery one week, returning to his Iiocky Mountain home Saturday. The best wishes of many a Hoosier go with him to the west.

Last Saturday night the most successful festival of the season tcok place at the farm home of Samuel Blanton. The proceeds, 830, were given to the Sunday school of Campbell's cnapel. Several score of the neighbors gathered on the lawn which i6 over-cano-pied by the dense foliage of thrifty maples. Mrs. Blanton and Robert Jackson by turns presided at the organ while Wm. Dawson led the string band. Soon all were in a clearer, brighter, happier sphere, gloom and cares dispelled and dismissed. While the church treasury was filling, the higher sentiments were cultivating and local ties strengthening and all in all everybody was the richer for attending. Give us another Mr. Blanton.

MANILA.

Dora Hale has the hay fever. Eli Burke is in Terre Haute. Rev. Riley and wife are attending conference this week.

Miss Haliie Elkins is spending the week in Crawfordsville. Quite a number from here went to the fair grouuds last Sunday.

Miss Jane Hale took a flying trip to Ladoga last Thursday night. Melvin Peterson went to Cincinnati last Monday on the excursion.

Grandmother Weaver visited her son in Crawfordsville last Saturday. Wm. Misch has improved the looks of his property by filling up the yard.

Several of the young folks from here spent Sunday with Ross Myers and wife

George Hugelheim and father were at the Terre Haute fair ond day last week.

Mrs. Martha McCiure has moved into the house vacated by Geo. Hugelheim.

Walter Edwards, of Missouri, is visiting his grandfather, Joseph Moody, this week

Supc. Waikup and family, of Crawfordsville. spent Sunday with Robert Hemphill and famiiy.

Jessie Decker, of Darlington, spent Saturday night and Sunday with' Theodores Petermati ai.d family.

MTF. Sarah Burke, who bus teen staying with rs Mary Durbin, has returned to her home in CrawfortUvilie on account of sickness.

While removing his furniture from the house now occupied by Mrs Julia! Armstrong, Tom McNeil presented Ida Galloway with a beautiful lamp,

School will open a week from next Monday. The instructors will be Elmore Hobson for upper room and Miss Jenniy Hall, from tbe city, the, lower* ro-jm.

LOCUST GROVE.

Health generally gocd. Taylor Hunt is working for Larkirt Branch

Frank Coons takes his best girl to the parties Frank Coons went to Crawfordsville last Sunday.

James Gilliland and wife, went to the Lafayette fair last week. Bert Johnson and wife went to tho association at Barnard last Wednes' day.

Nan Vancleave's family attended the Miller reunion, near Ladoga, last week.

James Graham and family, of near Round Hill, ana Tom Pn.tt.nn and wife, of near Brown's Valley, visited Cnrt Busenbirk last Sunday.

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