Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 March 1899 — Page 9

^OL. 52-NO. 9

Any 50 Cent Shirt

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Any 75 Cent Shift

This Week,

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Be quick or you will be disap­

pointed, as some sizes are scarce.

We still offer any overcoat in oui\

store at 50 per cent.' less than the

cost to manufacture.

THE AHERICAN

Manufacturing Clothiers,

Corner Main and Green Sts., Crawfordsville, Ind.

5H0E VALUES.

iv, Women's glove grain Shoes worth $1.25 at $1.00 Women's calf lace shoes, worth l-76at 1.36 Women's felt stioes worth 1.B0 at 1.10

Men's veal calf, lace or congress, worth 1.25 at l!oo Men's satin calf, lace or congress, worth 1.76 at 1.85 Youth's veal calf, sizes 18 to 2, worth 1,25 at ^90 lioy8* veal calf, sizes 8 to 6, worth 1.86 at 1.00

The above are the best on earth for the money. "We are the headquarters for the cheapest Rubber Goods in the town. Can give ....you prices that will interest you....

The STAR Shoe House,,

128 Bast Main Str»eet.

WE FILL, PRESCRIPTIONS...

J'rescription Druggist. 200 East Main St.

FOR MARCH

Sov aultless IStock Food makes the milk cows feed better and give more milk 6 centq Food will make the pigs grow and keep them free fJom disetsl cents per pound. I' fruitless Poultry Food prevents disease, cures disease and nrnrhmna eggs. Eggs are scarce and high In price. Feed this food and get more eggs lOc per pound

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$ HANDSOME NEW

N°. 2—New York and Boston Limited, dally No. 6—tFast Mail, dally 7. No. 74-Local Freight, except Sunday No. 4—BContlnental Limited, dally No. 24—Atlantic Express, dally

J. H. WHITENACK,

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No. OOING WEST. 9—SprlDgfleld Accom'n, ex. Sunday -Local Freight, except Sunday -Continental Limited, daily 7-Kansas City Cannon Ball, daffy.'.'.'. 5—Fast Mail, daily 3—St. Louis Limited, daiiy OOINO EAST.

Accommodation, except Sunday, arrives.

EKxcept that No. 4 will not run Sundays between Peru and Toiedo." fNo, 6 will not run Sundays between Peru and Detroit. THOB« FOCLRN, Pass Agta Lafayetto

0:50 a.m. 11:20 a.m. 1:19 p.m. 1:55 p.m. 8:87 p.m. 11:35 p.m.

8:07 a.m. 8:43 a.m. 11:20 a.m. 2:10 p.m. 8:07 p.m. 8 87 p.m.

Ind.

lteportof the Auditing Committee of the Supreme Tribe Ben-iJ-r Tor the Fiscal Year Knding January CTLI, 18!)!).

The laws of the Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur provide that the books and accounts of the order shall be carefully examined in the month of February of each and every year by a supreme auditing committee to be selected at each session of the Supreme Tribe. The present auditing committee consists of John C. Wingate, Wingate, Ind., James T. Roney, Chicago, 111., andD.M.Mills,Cincinnati, O. Last week they examined the entire business of the Supreme Tribe and below is their detailed report for the year 1898. It is a magnificent showing for this young and prosperous order. The following is the report in full: "To THE SUPREME CHIEF AND MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE OF BEN-HUR:—As provided by section 34 of the laws, ruleB and regulations, we submit the following report of the receipts and expenditures pertaining to the benefit and reserve funds of the Supreme Tribe: Receipts from monthly payments from Jan. 1, 1898, to Jan. 0, 1899, inclusive $165,466.60

For benefit fund .8140,646.60 For reserve fund 16,546.65 For management fund 8,273.32

Total 1106,466.50 BENEFIT FOND. Balance Jan. 1, 1898 66,618.90 Receipts from payments 140,646.60

Total 1116,005.50 "We find that the supreme keeper of tribute is under bonds for $50,000 and the supreme scribe for 85,000, which we consider ample security. "The securities listed in above report have all been carefully examined by us and found first-class in every respect. "We are pleased to add that our order is in a most healthful condition and flourishes as it never has before. The labors of this committee have been made less arduous by an improved system of keeping the accounts, which is simple, effective, comprehensive and accurate. "Your membership is to be congratulated on the increasedisteady growth of the order. Notwithstanding the heavy death rate experienced in all parts of the country during the past year, we find a net gain in the reserve and benefit funds over last report, of 838,738.32, and an increase in the beneficial members from 13,695 on Jan. 1, 189S, to 18,021 on Jan. 1, 1899, a net gain of 4,326. This is a most satisfactory showing and should prove very gratifying to all the members, and certainly bespeaks a bright future for the order. Signed JOHN C. WINGATE, 1 JAS. T. RONEY,

GEAWTOEDSYILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 189 U—TWELVE PAGES.

Total $196,265.50

Paid for cash claims $119,200 00 Balance In benefit fund $ 77,065.50

Total $190,265.50 RESERVE FUND. Balance Jan. 1, 1898 $ 21 648 28 Receipts from payments 16'646.C5 Receipts from interest 1845.95 Less amount paid out for

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interest, insurance and improvements 100.88

1 745.07

Total available for death claims.$116,005.50 Which we find deposited in batiks and invested as follows: Money in bank S 56,232.49 Invested in bonds 37,578 01 First morl gage real estate loans... 18,700.00 Invested in real estate (home of the order, representing a 4 per cent, investment 8,500 00

D. M. MILLS, Auditing Committee.

Crawfordsville, Ind,, Feb. 23, '99.

Crawford wille Alan Worsted. New Richmond Enterprise: "Dick" Bible, who scours the country for dead animals for the "stink" factory at Crawfordsville,made the rounds in the country north of here last Thursday. He gathered up a load of defunct hogs and horses and driving to just outside the north corporation line, unhitched his team and tethered them at the side of the road while he came on to town. The team broke away from its moorings and wandered up Broadway, where Marshal Work nipped them, and soon they were resting in comfortable quarters in (the livery barn. Bible hunted high and low for the team but could find no trace of them until the next morning, when he was informed of their whereabouts. It cost Bible 81 to get the team out of durance vile.

To Anderson.

A special from Anderson,says: "The Crawfordsville plant of the American Wire and Steel Company will be removed to Anderson and consolidated with the plant here operated by the great trust. The decision of the trust to consolidate was confirmed this morning by Manager O. M. Gregg, of the Crawfordsville plant. The Crawfordsville plant is one of the oldest if not the pioneer in Indiana to manufacture wire nails. The barbed wire and wire nail departments will be dismantled and the machinery brought to this city."

JOHNSON SKINNED.

fllr. LaudiH Again Applies the Whip to the Wild Boy From Wayne County.

A dispatch from Washington

sayE:

Representative C. B. Landis removed some more of Henry U. Johnson's cuticle this afternoon. The operation was of brief duration, but interesting while it lasted. It brought members running in from the cloak-rooms and filled the galleries as by magic. Mr. Johnson had finished a malignant attack on the President (the second of of the series), and after some little time Mr. Landis obtained recognition for a reply. The member from Delphi said he had no wish to prolong a quarrel, if it could be so called, with the gentleman, but he felt it to ba his duty, in view of Mr. Johnson's uuprovoked and violent assault on the President and his pretense of voicing the sentiment of his district, to furnish proof that the member from the sixth district did not represent the Republicans of Indiana or any part of them in the position taken. To be certain that he was not doing Mr. Johnson any injustico, he had telegraphed the editors of the Republican newspapers in the sixth district, and had received replies from all but one (that one being Mr. Johnson's personal appointee for postmaster), repudiating in toto the Johnson sentiments of hostility to the administration policy of expansion. These telegrams he proceeded to read, to the intense enjoyment of the great audience in the chamber and galleries.

Mr. Johnson snapped back that he did 'not care what hiB constituents thought about his views, and that he cired more to be right than to win popular applanse. Mr. Landis was too soft-hearted to suggest that he could neither be right nor win popular applause, but when Mr. Johnson closed his remarks with a sneering allusion to the "diminutive number" who professed to represent the real Bentiment of Indiana, he could not refrain from calling attention cleverly to the measure of the man who, "by his owrr admission and in his own estimation, is a giant on the floor of the house."

The correspondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel speaking of the tilt, says: "After Mr. Johnson ceased, then arose Mr. Landis, of Indiana, who 'pumped' it into his colleague for about fifteen minutes, and to his credit, it must be said, he did it well and added to his reputation as a speaker and debater."

Death of Mike Gerbrick.

Last Friday night at 12 o'clock Mike Gerbrick died at the county poor house where he had been for Bome time in declining health. Gerbrick was one of the well known characters of Crawfordsville and was the father of a large family of children, no one knows just how many. They are scattered everywhere and not one of them visited the old man during his ilast illness. Gerbrick was supposed to be (over eighty years old and hadj resided in Crawfordsville for many years, being engaged in various livelihoods.

The funeral occurred last Saturday and the old man was not buried in the paupers' field by any means, but in Oak Hill. There is quite a little mystery connected with this departure from the ordinary pauper burial. Some months ago a stranger who positively refused to give his name walked into the undertaking establishment of D. C. Barnhill and contracted and paid for all the funeral expenses of Gerbrick, including a lot in Oak Hill. The paraphernalia provided was all first class and Mike was buried like a gentleman. Whoithe man was who took such a kindly interest in him can only be Burmised. He did not stop in Crawfordsville except for a few hours and did not even visit Gerbrick at the poor farm.

Sadness for Sammy,

Mrs. Minnie Coombs has entered suit for divorce from her»courtly and winBome husband, Sam* Coombs. She alleges that he was prodigal with kicks and curses but miserly with money and things to keep the wolf from the door. She 6ays that he is the champion drunkard of Crawfordsville and as a female fighter has DO peer in this good commonwealth. Her married life was exciting but the excitement was that experienced by the man who was blown up by dynamite while running away from hungry bloodhounds and heavily armed policemen. If Sam wiBhes to retain the high reputation for uprightness and austere morality he has always borne while asleep he will have to come into court with a stiff denial.

For the Plaintlfl".

The jury in the case of the First National Bank against Howard Dewey last week returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of 850.

EXPLAINS HIS VOTE.

A Statement From lion. A. M. Scott or Ills Position 011 the Two-Cont Fare Hill.

To the Editor of tlij Journal. INDIANAPOMS, Feb. 22, 1899.—You will see by the Indianapolis Jownal that I am reported as voting against the two-cent mileage book yesterday. (House bill 610.) I wish to Bay that I voted against the straight two-cent fare bill some days ago because forty thousand organized luborers, or railroad men, filed remonstrances against said bill, and knowing tha^i many railroads are now in the hands of receivers and their employes in many cases have not received their pay for several months, etc., and if these roads can't Day their employes under present conditions, they could not with revenues reduced one third. But I favored the bill for the five hundred mile ticket book. I voted for it on engrossment and would have voted for it on Dassage had I been in the house when the bill was passed. The bill was taken up out of its regular order yesterday afternoon while I was temporarily absent from the house. I had just gone down into the office of the secretary of the soldiers' monument commission to got some figures and data to use in support of the monument appropriation and the bill was passed during my absence. I would have voted for the bill had I been in the houBe when the vote was taken because I believe this bill will work no special hardship to railroad companies, as they now sell one thousand mile tickets at same rate. How I came to be recorded as voting on the measure either way I cannot account for except that frequently when the roll is being called there is so much confusion in the house that the clerks do not hear correctly, etc. I do not write this by way of apology for my vot6s but simply that I may be set right on these measures. Yours truly, ______

A

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SCOTT.

Card From Mr. Cochran,

To the Editor The Journal. Owing to several misstatements being made concerning the condition of my wife, I consider it best to state the following facts:

On Dec. 17, 1898, Mrs. Emma Cochran was adjudged insane and committed to the hospital at Indianapolis for treatment. She felt that only death would relieve her and was constantly seeking some means to end her life. On Monday morning just after the attendants had unlocked her door Bhe arose, and, unobserved, quickly ran to one of the large windows, raised it, placed the long prop under it and laid her head on the sill. Then she withdrew the support and the heavy sash fell, striking her across her nose and cheek, producing serious injuries. The attendants, attracted by the ciash and scream, quickly arrived and everything possible was done for her relief. I was immediately notified and at once left for Indianapolis, but arriving was not permitted to see her. On Wednesday I was allowed to visit her and found her slightly improved physically. She seemed perfectly Bane and made a full statement of her attempted suicide. On Feb. 25 an operation was successfully performed on the bones of the face, and the attending physician had some hope of her recovery. JOHN L. COCHBAN.

A Farewell Party.

Last Friday night week about fifty neighbors, relatives and friends of W. B. Coyner and wife met at their residence to bid them farewell before their departure to Iowa. The evening was spent in playing games and music was furnished by the Kirkpatrick orchestra. The south parlor was prepared purposely for the young folks and the sitting room for the older people. Before the young people •began playing the orchestra was seated in the south parlor, where it played for about thirty minutes, after which the gameB followed. The friends departed about 12 o'clock after a very pleasant evening, all Ridding farewell to Mr. Coyner and family and hoping that they would prosper in their future home.

On last Tuesday night week a number of friends and relatives of William Coyner and family gathered at the home of 0. P. Crull to spend the last evening with them in Indiana, before departing for Iowa. A very pleasant time was spent and a lovely supper was served at 8:30. The friends and Mr. Coyner and family departed about 12 o'clock for the 2 o'clock train at Linden.

Maklug an Inventory.

The county commissioners went to the county poor farm Monday to take an inventory of all the property there belonging to the county. This is something which has not been done for some years, but the present board announces that hereafter it will be done each year.

PAHT SECOND

TO THE FAITHFUL.

The Census rromitteH Various 1"laces of Reward Next Year.

Those who wish tbe job of taking the census in Montgomery county should begin concentrating their influence. The taking of the census will shortly begin and it will afford employment to several patriots.

The census will not undertake to be so comprehensive as that of ton years ago. The inquiries of the census proper are to be restricted to population, mortality and manufacturing, mechanical and agricultural industries and products. It is true tha* many details are embraced in these

ueneral

divi­

sions. Thus, the population schedule includes names, age, color, sex, conjugal condition, place of birth and place of birth of parents, whether alien or naturalized, number of years in the United States, occupation, months employed, illiteracy, school attendance and ownership of farms and homes.

The agricultural schedule includes the name and color of occupant of each farm, its tenure, acreage, quan* tity and value of products, and number and value of live stock. Inquiries about manufacturing and mechanical establishments muBt embrace their name and location, form of organization, date of beginning operations, character of business or goods, capital, number of owners, officers and employes with salaries and wages, materials, machines and power used, miscellaneous expenses and time in operation during the census year.

An Elegant Country Wedding. Tn the presence of seventy-five invited guests occurred the marriage on February 22nd of Mr. Bunn Sumpter and Miss Rosa Miller. The wedding occurred at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs Joseph Miller, near Cason. At 8 o'clock, the appointed hour, the bridal party entered the south parlor and took their station before a bank of smilax and plants wherein the ceremony was performed to the strains of Mendelssohn's wed ding march, played by Miss" Lillian Doyel, of Brown's Valley. Rev. F. P. Trotter, of the Christian church of Lebanon, was the officiating clergyman. With a brief but impressive service the happy couple were united. After the ceremony the wedding party led the way to the dining room which was handsomely decorated with smilax and cut flowers. The table was Btrewn with cut flowers and from the chandelier white ribbons and smilax drooped from the four corners of the table and an elegant wedding supper was served. After supper congratulations were extended. The bride was handsomely dreBBed in a costume of white organdy trimmed in ribbon and lace with a train and carried a boquet of white roseB. The groom was dresBed in conventional black. The bride is one of the best known young ladies in that portion of the county. She is the daughter of ex-Sheriff Miller, of Boone county. The groom is a son of Scott Sumpter, a prominent farmer residing in the same county. Both young people have many friends who wish them unalloyed happiness. The invited guests from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Luckett, Mr. and Mrs Sherman Trout, Mr. and Mrs. C. H,' Bruce Misses Laura and Pink White, Miss Phoebe Beck, of Crawfordsville G. R. Blaydes and family, of Danville M. Kearden, of Indianapolis, Mr. and Mrs. 0. F. Martin, of Orth Hon. S. M. Ralston and wife, B. F. McKey and family, Miss Lulu Scott, Miss Lizzie Farlow, Chas. Orear, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Clark, Miss Ruth Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. James McDaniel and Master Walter, of Lebanon Miss Sallie Eads, of Roachdale Miss Ida Mote, and Joseph Shaver, of Darlington Misses Helen and Lela Kirkpatrick, Miss Maymie Rogers, of Frankfort Misses Scott and Kate Orear, Ol Orear, of Jamestown. Mr and Mrs. Sumpter were the recipentB of numerous presents which were displayed in the north room.

Why They Reft-alu.

Printer's Ink-. Some publishers refrain from furnishing circulation figures, alleging as a reason that their competitors are so unscrupulous that they can not attempt to compete with them in lying. The publishers who take this position are, as a rule, the greatest prevaricators in the business. They are mainly to be found in the offices of moribund publications that have once been ipfluential.

Divorce Granted.

In the circuit court to day Judge West liberated C. W. Hawkins, at his own request, by severing the silken matrimonal cords that bound him to Minne Hawkins, and where formerly two heartB beat as one 6ach now has itB own separate beat.