Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 July 1899 — Page 9

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We were all torn up the past week, painting, papering, etc., and found if. difficult to properly wait on the trade. But we are in first class shape now to close out the balance of our

Summer Goods I

At Unusually Low Prices

To make room for the great line now being prepared for us at our factory.

If you are going away, recollect we are closing our our line of Trunks, Traveling Bags and Telescopes at greatly reduced prices.

SEE OUR LINE OF BOYS' WASH SUITS FROn 50c to $i.oo.

The American,

Manufacturing Clothiers.

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A Car Load—The Best Wood Hay Rake Made.

Evfery Rake inspected before leaving the factory. The best bargain you ....have ever been offered... Square head, square tooth. rHi?iil«r pric« S4 50. Oor price, $3.35

Round round 3425. Our price,' $3.18 We have CHAMPION, DEER INC!. MILW A GK EF. and McCOKMICK Mower Knlvesatiess than list prices. We can save you 2d p^r cent.

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If you have any Wheat at all Bring it to..,.

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City Mills

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The Top of the Market.

Near Monon Station.

.WE FILL PRESCRIPTIONS.

Temporary Quarters 221 E Main Street. Robbins House Block. "JC We want your trade.

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FAIR GROUND ASSESSMENT.

Tlie Committee of mrctnrs Walts on the Couuty Ho:irl of Review.

The county board of review Saturday devoted its time to a consideration of the assessment of tbe realty of the fair ground association, which, it will be remembered, was raised from 82,000 to

$9,000.

After discussing the matter from all its standpoints the board decided to exempt forty acres of the ground from taxation and to tax the other fifteen acres at the rate of 8100 per acre provided the state board agrees that the action is legal. If the state board decides that the fair is not an educational institution then the original assessment of 89,000 will be maintained.

FACE OF FIRE POLICIES-

Senator Wants Full Payments When LOBS Is Total.

Senator Agnew, who represents Lake and Porter counties, is agitating the enactment of a law to compel fire in.surance companies to pay the face value of all policies issued by them, when it is shown that there has been a total loss of the property insured. At present, according to Senator Agnew, fire insurance companies will accept risks on property up to the full value of property, but in case of loss will send adjusters to force policyholders to accept sums based on the reports of appraisers as to the actual I06S suffered. In many cases companies will insist on being allowed to rebuild houses insured by them and will use as much of the old material as possible, besides often in other ways building much cheaper houses than the ones destroyed.

It i6 contended by Senator Agnew that, when an insurance company accepts a risk on a piece of proDerty and receives the premiums on a certain amount, the company, by that act, accepts the amount stipulated in the policy as the valuation of the property in case of loss aud should b« compelled to pay that amount without regard to the amount of money it would require to replace the bouse, or how much the property may have depreciated in value during the life of the policy.

Married a Kokomo Alan.

Kokomo News: Dr. LaMar Kneppie, of this city, and Mi66 Anna Tapp, of Ladoga, were married in the latter city Wednesday. The wedding was a modest and unpretentious one, marked for simpUci-.y and good sense. The only guest from this city was Mrs Dr. McClurg, a sister of the groom. Both bride and groom are favorably known in this city. The groom is the junior partner of the medical firm of McClurg & Kneppie and is a physician of much promise. The bride is a talented and educated voung lady. She has bean a resident of Kokomo much of the time for several years and while here made many friends. She is a winsome and popular young lady. The newly married will, after a season at the northern lakes, be at home in their own home, 86 north Washington street.

All Want to Go.

Major Travis while in Washington saw several thousand men who were all bent upon securing commission for army service in the Philippines. It was clearly demonstrated that there is no lack of men ready to 6erve in the work of the nation in that far off land:

Locates in Illinois.

Wm. M. Reeves has returned from Albion, 111 where he purchased a jewelry store for his brother, J. R. Reeves. It was the intention of Mr. Reeves to open a store here, but he could find no suitable location.

What a Mothor Says.

DECATUR, 111., Mar. 2, 1897.—Gentlemen:—For constipation I would cheerfully recommend your Syrup Pepsin. My little girl, aged 8 months, had been troubled since birth with constipation and reading of your remedy I concluded to try it, and I can recommend it highly to mothers for immediate relief. Only two l^Oc bottles cured my b*by. Mns, 0. FLOUKY.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 189U-TWELVE PAGES.

The association was repre­

sented by a committee composed of W. F. Hulet, P. S. Kennedy, M, li.Waugh, J. L. Davis, Isaac Davis, J. M. HarBhbarger, W. P. Herron, A. F. Ramsey, Paul Hughes, Henry Davidson and F. McOlure. Several of these gentlemen made vigorous speeches against the taxation of an institution that stood for the public good at private expense, and Mr. Kennedy spoke of the legal aspects of the case, arguing that the association was exempt from taxation on forty acres of its land as an educational institution. He read the law to this effect and cited how the associations of other countieB had long been exempted under it. The hearing occupied E& the morning and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the board met to make its decision.

COULDN'T STOP THEM.

William IIHUH, ol" Waynetown. Makes Vain Kllort To I'rev«ut tlie Marriage of 11 IK Daughter.

Last Saturday Wm. Haas, a leading citizen of Waynetown, \^as in the city and at the clerk's ofiice attempted to prevent tbe issuance of a license authorizing the marriage of his daughter, Nellie Haas, and George Kramer. As Mr. Haas thought, he was unable to discover any method by which he could prevent the license being issued, the girl being of age. Shortly after he left the ofiice George Kramer, accompanied by his brother, Harry Kramer, appeared and tbe license was applied for, While the papers were being made out the attorney of Mr. Haas came in and endeavored to get Harry Kramer not to swear to the affidavit. Failing in this he withdrew and the young men went away with the legal document. George Kramer, when interrogated as to the cause of the objections, said:

The old man and I had trouble over three years ago and haven't spoken since. He always was a little "bughousey" anyway. He drove the girl away from home because she went with me, and has tried in every way to break this thing up. If they had Rtoppod us here I would have taken her and left the Btate. We will be married to-morrow evening if things go as we now expect them to."

Mr. Haas asserts that Kramer is not a fit person to marry any girl and protests that he objects for the sake of the girl's happiness. He represents Kramer as being a perfectly worthless fellow.

Stamp Your Own Checks.

A Washington dispatch says: Commissioner Wilson, of the bureau of revenue, has issued a circular absolutely prohibiting banks from affixing Btamps to checks unstamped when presented, and requiring them to return tbe same to the drawers. In his circular to collectors the commissioner says: "You are directed to notify the banks that are guilty of stamping undamped checks that if the practice is getting him out of Bcrapes not immediately discontinued they will be reported to the United States district attorney for prosecution. "The instructions contained in treasury decision No. 19,600, under date of June 29, 1898, to the effect that there was no objection to the affixing by the bank of the requisite stamps to an unstamped check presented for payment, is hereby revoked. "This instruction was given to meet an emergency immediately preceding the taking effect of the stamp act on Ju% i, 1898, in order to obviatr* the necessity of returning by the banks thousands of unstamped checks issued by drawers in ignorance of the law. The law being now generally understood, there is no further need of such permission."

This action was taken upon information that certain banks had adopted the practice of not requiring stamps, as an advertisement to secure patronage aB against rival banks.

To Wtioin Indebted.

Hartford City Times: The farmers are indebted to several persons for this rural delivery service. First of all, to Hon. Perry S. Heath, first assistant postmaster-general around in this part of the state are want to call him "our own Perry," because he hails from Muncie and is well known here. His enthusiasm and wonderful persistence have obtained this boom for so many rural communities. Appropriation after appropri-! ation is made for rivjre and harbors and such never benefit the farmers, at least they don't see it often. This rural service is something for the farmers and they can see and use it every day. This ought to endear Mr.

Heath to every farmer, for Perry Heath is the one man who has fought for it so hard and strong.

Hon. Francis M. Dice, superintendent of the western division of the rural free delivery service, entered upon this work one year ago. He has done more probably than any other man in this part of the country. He has brought it to its present state of development and put the service upon its present practical busineBs basis. He is a Hoosier too. He is a resident of Crawfordsville and was formerly a lawyer in Indianapolis.

Where Harmony Exists.

Noblesville Democrat: T. E. Boyd, A. R. Tucker, L. S. Baldwin, T. J. Lindley, Judge Neal, T. E. Bowles, Will H. Craig and others. These gentlemen have the congressional "bee" in their bonnets, some of them badly. Talk about harmony. The young Republicans say they will see that the man from this county will have a clean record.

KISSED WHILE ASLEEP.

Mrs. leiirge Onlioru the I'lrat letlm of the Ovulatory Hug In Critwfordsvllle.

Mrs. Gi»orge Osborn, of north Washington street, has the unpleasant honor of being the first victim of the kissing bug in Crawfordsville. She was uot feeling well Sunday afternojri and went to her room to lie down on the bed. She fell asleep and was awakened by a terrible sting inflicted on lior lower lip. She arose hastily and found that the lip was rapidly swelling. All efforts to reduce the swelling proved futile and the pain finally became so excruciating that Dr. Keegan was summoned. He prescribed for the poisoned lip and the swelling waB finally stopped.

ROBBED THE STORE.

A Young Man of Kes|iectal)le Parentage Turns Kohher and Loots a Store.

The little store at Pawnee, which belongs to County Treasurer Johnson and his partner, Newt Gott, was robbed Saturday afternoon by William Servies, the e-oa of John A. Servies, a respected citizan of the south part of the county. Mr. Gott had been obliged to go to Ladoga and left the store in charge of his ten-year-old son, Owen. Just before closing up time young Servies entered the store and purchased a can of cove oysters. Having done this he expressed a wish to eat them and 6ent the little boy to his home near by to get a plate. When the youngster returned Servies was gone, and divining at once that all was not right Master Owen went to the money drawer and found that in his absence it had been broken open and the sack containing the store and postoflice money abstracted. He at once gave the alarm and several men summoned from the neighborhood gave search for the culprit. Although Servies had bad a start of not over five or tan miouteB he could not be found and no one saw him leave. He is a wild young fellow and if caught will be sent over the road, as his father is worn oat with

People &U night. The family feels that nothing but divine providence saved the boy's life. **+.

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thought there was le6s than twenty dollars in the sack but &B much of it was in small change it is likely that Servies was deceived as to the amount of hi6 haul.

A Serious Accident.

Thursday, July 13, John Pitman, a 12-year-old son of Fred T. Pitman, waB struck on the head in the barn of Fred Armentrout, by a gallon jug, which had been taken up into the loft with drinking water for the men who were filling the loft with hay. The boy had gone there with his father to help put up hay and was on the lower floor when the jug came down from a distance of about twenty-five feet,and the blow was so great that it broke the jug. He waB unconscious for a little time and the men feared it waB a death blow. A very bad wound was also made on one foot by a pitchfork which the jug knocked down. His father was immediately summoned from the field and the lad was taken home. Dr. Ristine was sent for. He dressed the wound and thoroughly examined the head, but has hopes that the blow will not prove serious. He ordered cold water cloths to be kept on tho head

The Biggest Acreage.

Montgomery county this year has tbe largest corn acreage in her entire history and the rains in the last few days have done much to inEure a big crop Cora prospects are now excellent especially in the northern part of the county where the corn is all in Bilk.

A Pension Granted.

Mrs. Mary E Mitchell has been granted a pension of 812 a month. Tho penttion dates from the time of tho application, November 17, 1898. Mrs. Mitchell i6 the mother of Harry Mitchell of Company M, 158th Indiana volunteers, who died In the hospital at Indianapolis.

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TRAOE-MARK.

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PASSING OF THE VETERANS.

Mine Is On Prying Tliein Oil' Mullets 1I(I iu the

Faster 'tiO's.

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To show how rapidly thoold soldiers are falling by the wayside, we give below a carefully prepared report of the number being annually mustered out. The Grand Army is dying at the rate of 100 a day, vet there are between 850,000 and H)0,000 union eoldiere alive to-day. Every fifteen minutes of the twenty-four hours the final tap sounds for some one who wears the blue. Each year puts under the sod more old soldiers than are enlisted in the United States army. Time is carrying them off faster in the '90's than bullets did in the 'GO's. The war lasted four years to a month. In those four years, S4,000 men fell In battle on the union side. But now between 35,000 and 40,000 die in the course of nature's each succeeding twelve months. And for every three union veterans who go to fame's eternal camping ground, two confederates are numbered with the dead.

A Minple Obesity Cure.

Chicago liccurtl: Not long ago a man of wealth and leisure who had tried various obesity cures without benefit hunted out six fat and lazy tramps and used them as subjects for his experiments in curing obesity by thorough mastication of the food. The results were BO satisfactory that after a few weeks he discharged the tramps and began taking the treatment himself.

His usual diet was not modified in any way. While treating himself for excessive flash he continued to eat corn cakes and cream for breakfast, plenty of potatoes and other starchy foods at lunch and dinner, and to drink all the beer he wanted. At the end of twelve weeks he had reduced his weight fifty pounds.

The treatment is simple in the extreme. Everything taken into the mouth is masticated till it slides down the throat without tho voluntary action of tho perbou eating. Nothing is forcibly swallowed. This may Beem impossible at tho first thought, but a single trial will convince any one of its practicability. Not only solid food is chewed in this way, but liquids of all kinds, tea, coffee, milk, beer, etc.

From the standpoint of economy this new method is very satisfactory, because in following it one cannot take more than half the amount consumed in the ordinary way. When the food is thoroughly masticated hunger is soon satisfied, and physicians have Baid for along time that people eat very much more food than is necessary to keep them in health and strength. The most remarkable thing about this obesity treatment is that it has exactly the opposite bffect on very slender people. A friend of the original inI vestigator, who was so thin that she was unable to wear a low-necked gown, adopted the method as a last resort in her effort to acquire ilesh.

The result was that she gained ten pounds in a few weeks, and she is still continuing the treatment.

The man who discovered this simple and interesting remedy sayB that it will cure dyspepsia and rheumatism, and that it has a very marked affect on diabetes and kidney trouble.

Won Ily Ills Name.

Will Work, late of this city, who has been appointed to a position in the Lafayette postoflice, seems to have won the place by reason of his name. A Washington special says: "Two curious names were unearthed here to-day in tho appointment of an additional clerl& in the postoflice at Lafayette, Ind. There were but two eligibles on the civil service list. One was Willie Work and the other Harry Doolittlo. The latter's name proved to be his handicap, and Work waB appointed, showing that there is something in a name."

New 1,1 very.

Joe E. FiBber furnished a complete outfit of buggies and harness, including three rubber tire vehicles to Jesse Goben & Son, to start a new livery at Linden.

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