Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 May 1900 — Page 1

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MORE DEERE CULTIVATORS SOLD THAN ANY OTHER MAKE

Of summer views and^faces

taken with a kodak'are nice

souvenirs of a summer's! out­

ing. In our fine line 0f"0pti-

cal goods we have cameras

and photographic suuolies, as

well as[a full assortment of

Because they are good and suit the operator. We have SPRING GANGS same price. Come and we will show you why they are the best. A boy can do the work as well as a man.

H. R.Tinsley & Co.

A Sttap Shot^ jjjj

M. C. KLINE.

Ready to Put Right On!

AS TO THE WASH WAISTS.

SEPARATE SKIRTS READY TO WEAR.

MADE-UP

UNDER MUSLINS.

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Hundreds of thousands of them have been turned out this

season they'll all be sold, and the reason why is this: They fit better, they look better and they cost much less than the home-made waist. The proof of this is in the demand.

Who would worry and fret about the details of having a

skirt made when they're here ready-made for you and rightly made at that? Price saving fully one third.

Night gowns, drawers, skirts, corset covers, all bought in

the finished state: and more bought in summer than any other season. Summer sewing is a nuisance.

The Cheapest Prices la Crawfordsville.

MOLXNE.ILL.

Optician-

THE ENCAMPMENT.

Governor Mount Fixes the Date for July 23-28.

Special to the Journal. IndianaPOMS, May 10.-Governor

Mount has fixed the date of the state

militia encampment near here at July 23-2,S.

The Boers arc Flying.

Spccial to the Journal. .• NKW YOKK, May 10- A London cable

says that Lord Roberts informs thewar

oBice under to-day's date that he has

crossed the Zand river and that the

Boers are in full retreat.

HOME WEDDING.

The Nuptials of Edgar F. Swank and Miss Carrie Hall Celebrated Last Wednesday.

THE NEWS

From Graham's Busy Store

There's true economy in it or it never could exist—never could have reached its present immense proportions.

READY'TO/WEAR TAILORED SUITS.

READY'FORUSE

Summer Wrappers.

Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hall, of near Yountsvillo, occurred the marriage of Mr. Edgar F. Swank and Miss Carrie Hall. The home was beautifully decorated for the occasion with smilax and spring flowers, and one hundred and twenty-five guests assembled there for the happy occasion. At half past eight o'clock Miss Carrie Schlemmer began playing the popular march from "Lohengrin" and to the strains the bride and groom entered the parlor unattended. The bride, a very pretty girl, was attired in a becoming costume of blue silk, satin yoke and applique trimmings. The ceremony was impressively performed by

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Rev. A. E. Tinkham, and upon its concision the happy couple led the way to the dining room where an elaborate wedding collation was spread. The evening was passed most delightfully by all present, and the affair was a most pleasant one. The bride was remembered by her friends with a large number of handsome and useful presents. A large circle of friends extend congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Swank on their union. The groom is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Swank, and is one of the most successful and promising young business men in Craw fordsville. He has been operating a grocery store for some time with a most flattering degree of success. Airs. Swank is a charming young lady of many accomplishments and is a graduate of the Crawfordsville high school. The happy couple are now at home to their friends at 210 Bluff street.

Modern Woodmen, Attention! The local lodge of Modern Woodmen will go to Veedersburg on next Tuesday evening, having been invited to help celebrate with the Veedersburg camp on that night. A special car will be provided and the fare will be sixtyfive cents for the round trip. All the members that can possibly go are requested to report to Frank McCalip at once.

The ready-to-wear equipment was never more strongly represented in this store. The "madeup" business has proved an evolution that has caused a revolution. Great enterprises with millions of capital and employing the expert labor of tho world now cater to the "made-up" de-

Take the cloth, the linings, the trimmings, the cost of

making on any one of these suits, figure it out on the most economical basis possible, then deduct the price of the tailored suit, as here offered, and the actual saving will surprise you just a little.

No branch of the "made-up" industry shows its economy

more plainly than this. Every woman buys the wrapper or house gown ready built now.

All these Choice Readyto-Weor Goods and Many More Along the Same L,lr»e

GRAHAM'S BUSY STORE,

Women's Colored PETTICOATS

NOBBY TAILORED JACKETS ,,

VERY STYLISH SILK WAISTS.

MRS. J. E. FISHER DEAD.

Taken Suddenly III on Wednesday She Passes Away Early Thursday.

The many friends of Mrs. Joe 10. Fisher were Thursday surprised and pained to learn of her death which took pluwThutsday morning atSo'clock. Mrs. Fisher had not been in good health since she received a stroke of paralysis about eighteen months ago, but she seemed to be slowly improving and was able to get about her home and to attend church. Wednesday while at the supper table she was suddenly taken with a convulsion and continued to grow weaker until death came. The funeral will take place at the family residence on east Wabash avenue on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. The services will be conducted by Kev. S. W. Goss, interment at Oak Hill.

Mrs. Fisher was born June 22, 1851, at Waveland, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell. Her father died when she was quite small and the family carao to Crawfordsville to reside. She was graduated from the schools here and afterwards attended school in Terre Haute, preparing herself for teaching. She then took a position in the Crawfordsville schools and continued for a number of years one of the most.popular and efficient teachers ever in Crawfordsville. In May, 1892, she was married to Mr. J. K.Fisher, who survives her. Her mother, Mrs Epperson, still lives as do her brother, John Mitchell, of Marion, and her sister, Mrs. O. H. Jones, of this city. Mrs.

Fisher was a life long member of the First M. E. church, and was a woman whose acquaintance and friendship was lovingly cherished by a wide circle. In her home and in the church her life was a bright example.

STOCK LEVIED UPON.

The Yeagley Stock of Goods In Thorntown Attached to Satisfy a $15,532.22.

Lebanon Reporter: Sheriff Etter has levied upon the Yeagley stock of dry goods at Thorntowu to satisfy a judgment of $15,532.22. The judgment was secured April 2, by Jennie Baucrlein, of Tennessee, a daughter of Mr. Yeagley's. Frank and Cora Yeagley, of Thorntown, and Mrs. J. C. McClamroch, of Crawfordsville. The store has been closed and the stock has been advertised to be sold May 19.

For Sells' Show.

1-1. Baldwin was here yesterday and registered as advance agent of Sells' shows, which he says will be in Crawfordsville on May 22. This is short notice and there is some surprise on this account. Mr. Baldwin has contracted for hay, groceries and a number of other things.but as the bill board men have not been seen people arc guessing what it all means.

Made of silk, made of mereerizod cottons, made of fine soft

sateens, and made up to cost you just about the price of bare materials if bought over a counter. That's economy, isn't it?

Only a few of each, brand new this season, but broken as to

size assortments. Good for now, good for cool nights in mid-summer, good, in fact, for mo3t any season. Price reductions to sell them at once.

Those pay us a reasonable profit—a very reasonable profit but

they're right on the top crest of fashion's wave, and that's what you want when you buy a silk waist.

The Store that JC Divides Profits.

"BEN-NUR" IS A COLD MINE.

Kl.iw & Erlanger "ISestcd" (icn. Wnllncc iini the Syndicate.

Hillary Bell in New York I'trss: 1 Jen-Bur" ends its engagement, this week. When the Biblical story was produced last winter this journal made bold to prophesy that it, would run not, only to the end of the season, but would eventually mako half a million dollars. The first, part of the saying has been •substantiated and the latter part is in fail' way of fulfillment. "IJen-11 ur" has had 1!M performances. One of its weeks took in $l!),000, and during four of its early weeks its bo.\ olliee receipts were over $75,000. So far it has earned $4o0.000. This is for New York alone. When the play goes to the west, its author's country, what will the harvest, be? Half a million was too low an estimate. .1 edging by its earnings at tho

Broadway. "Ben-IIur" promises to excel even those famous money-makers, "The Old Homestead," "Shenandoah'' and "The County Fair."

No wonder the theatrical trust is breaking up. In this production Klaw & Erlanger outwitted allthoir partners. It was not a good year for the drama anyway. Worthy pieces were bard to find, and Charles Frohman was at his wits' end to furnish the stages of the trust with profitable mediums The motto of the partners in this monopoly had hitherto been that of "The Three Guardsmen," "One for all, and all for one,'' in other words, they had shared losses and profits with equanimity. "Ben-IIur,'' however, was a private deal with Klaw it Erlanger. They had negotiated with Lew Wallace for ton or twelve years, long before the theatric trust was established, for the dramatic rights of his novel, and when those rights wore finally secured they did not propose to let their partners share them. By an adroit move the responsl bility of the matter was placed on tho shoulders of Joseph Brooks, who was commissioned to close, the deal with Gen. Wallace. '"And where do wo come in?" cried the theatric trust anxiously, when ''Ben-IIur" was brought forth magnificently at tho

Broadway. ''Well,'' murmured Klaw & Erlanger, blushingly, "we don' know. You will have to see Joseph Brooks about it. 11 let us in and pei haps he may spare a little bit for you." Joseph was apologetic but obdurate. He referred the trust back to his superiors and they referred it back to him. Thus, running from pillar to post the trust did not idare to use its influence in the newspapers against the production, and "Ben-IIur" was fairly started at the Broadway before the theatric syndicate realized that Klaw & Erlanger meant to keep Lew Wallace's story to themselves. The discovery of this perfidy was a hard blow to trusting men, and A1 Hayman, Chas. Frohman, Nixon Ss Zimmerman, Rich & Harris have never smiled since. Tho spectacle of the Broadway Klondike has turned to curds and whey the milk of human kindness in their bosoms.

Because why? Because Klaw & Erlanger secured the piece for the next door to nothing. They paid $J 0,000 to Lew Wallace for the dramatic rights of "Ben-Hur," and engaged William Young for a nominal sum to make the adaptation. Altogether "Ben-IIur" cost less than $15,000 and it has been a gold mine.

A Negro Conference.

A notable conference is now in session at Montgomery, Alabama. It is composed of southern white men who aro interested in arriving at a rational solution of the negro problem. One of the principal speakers was Ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert. Among other good things he said: "Never was there such 'a blunder as in tho theory that suffrage would Jielp educate the negro. What the »negro wanted above all things was to know how to take care of himself so that he might develop. But hewas taught that tie had no friends oxcept-lamong those who wanted his vote. It ^was the carpet-bagger who drew the color line. But is not the negro distinctly and clearly improving in the white countic whore the white men predominate? Is not negro criminology largely^duo to poverty, want of education and of home training? Is not the system of industrial education as taught at Tuskegoe by that remarkablo man, Booker Washington, a key to tho situation? And aro there not so many thousand instances of negroes becoming orderly and faithful citizens as to load us to the conclusion that much of evil we now soo is the result of misoducation, and that in the establishment of more harmonious relations between tho races and bettor training for tho negro, we aro to look for the solution of tho problem."

NICE clean old papers AT THB JOURXAjL office.

PERSONAL MENTION.

Short Items Relative to the Comings and (jolngs of Crawfordsville People and Their Friends.

-Mrs. W. T. Whittington is visiting Bluff Mills. I. W. Gerard and wife returned Wednesday night from Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Laroy Cloro went to ndianapolis Thursday morning. A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. John Galey, oT Highland. -Mrs. llarry llanley returned to 'hieago Thursday after a visit hero with relatives.

The finest line of hammocks in the city at Gould, Oliver it Martin's. Prices and hammocks both guaranteed.

Harry Milligan was in the city on uirsday on his way to attend the Ful-lenwidcr-Crowder wedding at Waveand.

Jones U.ountree has rented the C. N Harding property on south Washington streot and will move here from New Ross.

John Ellington was called to North SalemThursday by a tologram announcing that his son-in-law,Chas.Chownlng, was not expected to live moro than a few hours. Mr. (,'howning formerly lived at Ladoga.

The following Crawfordsville people went to Waveland on Thursday to attend the wedding of Miss Grace Fullenwider and llev. John Crowder: C. E. Fullenwider and wife, Rev. S. W. Goss, Miss Jessie Fullenwider, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Ohavor and daughter Mary, Mrs, Lucy Kanouse, Mrs. Deborah Houser, Miss Mayine Spillman and Miss Lou MoComas.

The Wool Market.

To the Editor of iho Journal. The past few days has shown a great slump in the wool market. Local dealers who have made Crawfordsvill famous as a wool buying point, have for some time been fearing this condition. Buyers all over the country have been awaiting with much anxiety tho result of the London wool auction sales, which began May 8. These sales, at which millions of pounds of South American and Australian wool aro offered, as reported by cable May 9, showed the situation to be as follows: Wo quote: "London, May 8. Tho third series of the wool auction sales opened yesterday. There was a largo attendance. Business competition was only fair. Tho offerings numbered (,.'158 bales, most of which were taken by the home trade. Superior Merinos were ton per cent, lower, and inferior Merinos showed losses of from ten to fifteen per cent. (Jape of Good Hope and Natal snow white seven and one-half por cent declino, and greasy live to ton percent. Numerous foroign buyers wore present but thoy were merely onlookers."

The following from the Indianapolis JJrcsn indicates the fooling at the cajital city: "Owing to tho weakness shown in tho wool market at the London auction sales yesterday and the dullness prevailing in tho eastern wool market, local buyers to-day reduced their prices one and two cents por pound. There is much difference of opinion as to just how much American buying there will bo at the present London sales, but there is every reason to believe that it will be much larger than usual, as foreign wool at present values is comparatively cheaper than the domestic stuff."

Manufacturers are buying very sparingly, and eastern dealers aro not in the market at all, both classes anticipating a further declino in prices. Tho dull condition of tho goods market is another cause of depression. Fanners who marketed their clip early were fortunate, as there has been a declino of throe cents in the local markets this week, and a careful review of the situation indicates that another decline may bo looked for soon. X.

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