Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 September 1900 — Page 3

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First Prize of Indiana for Fine Photographs—1900.

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THE FAMOUS

Ivorette Cabinets $1.50 Dot.

Regular price $2.00 per dozen. They are waterproof and will last a life time.

The Willis Gallery.

.'A car load just received. This is a bearded wheat.

All Important Prices

First on Cabinets

First on Artist Carbonettes.

Prize of

PENNSYLVANIA RUDY SEED WHEAT.

$ 1 1 0 us he

A Small Amount of Fultz Seed Wheat Left.

S1.00 Per Bushel as Long as We Have It.

CRABBS S REYNOLDS.

To My Fawner Friends....

stock of groceries ha3 beea moved to the corner of Main Water streets,Barnhill, Hornaday & Pickett's old stand, and want all your farm produce at the highest market price. My stock is large a ad prices the lowest in town, be cause of less expense. On the east side of my store you

Can Hitch Your Horses....

where they will be in the shade all the afternoon, Make my store your headquarters and I assure you of courteous treatment, low prices and honest goods Learn our prices before you buy or sell.

Corner Main and Water StsA A-'X

For Waists.

I'robably you have In micia the pur eha-ie of a silk or flannel waist—perha^s several of tliea^ for they will be extremely popular this fall. We would like to show you some of the beautiful garments we have selected for our customers.

A nice llannel

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for $1.49

81.98 buys one of oar bestllinnei waists in ail colors. Get in line

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one of our fiuesilk

waists for $2.98. A beautiful silk waist, In fancy colors ai'd black for S3.98

Don't buy until you see our bargains

For Dress Skirts.

Our ready-to-wear dress skirts are superior to dress maker made at about half the cost. The manufacturer buys his goods in large ciuantitles and economizes Ills expense. Then we p»ss the goods to our customers with a small profit, added than accounts lor eu.h prices.

Ladles' rainy day skirts, all wool, In frrev. blue, and brown, with 10 rows of stitching, only t^.98.

A nice black dress ^kirt for $1.98. A fine black crepon skirt made of the finest crepon, only $3.49.

The best goods for the least price

For Wrappers.

We have every thing in wrappers. You can buy one here for 39c If vou don't care to pay more, or we have them to please the most fastidious taste. 39c bu ?s one of our nice wrappers

R. C. Poole.

8 Eg i. Ready-to-Wear Garments

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Were awarded the Willis Gallery at the fair last week

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Fini? Retouching—1300.

Quality is line, Couiecjuiek because ,..it.,wlil .nut last long

A nice trimmed wrapper with rutlles and braided, for 69c. A nic- lleece lined wrapper for 98c.

A fancy wrapper, fancy yoke and trimmed, $1.39. Our prices are hones'. NVe are in the lead.

Nobby Fall Hats.

Hats for early fail wear-a remirkable reduction. Some '250 hi^h grade ready-to-wear liits. selected from a dozen or more lines that recently sold for very much more, all at one special price

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while they last, are the leaders in the millinery line. Watch torour fail line of fine hats

For Underskirts.

Underskirt making is a business In itself, and the manufacturer gives his Wjhole attention to this business, and can produce nt a cost which permits us to sell them to our customers much cheaper than they can be made at home

A nice black underskirt for 69c. 98c buys one of our fine skirts in black, blue and red

A ni 'e, fancv skirt in plaid colors and plain, tho best material used, for $1.98 up to $2 98

Look at our lit!) of underskirts and you will be delighted with these styl ish garments at little prices.

§THE GOLDEN RULE.jj

MATTHIAS ELMORE.

A Pioneer of Ripley Celebrates His Ninety-First Birthday—Interesting Recollections.

Matthias Elmore celebrated his '•'1st birthday Wednesday at his home in Ripley township. Although so old, he is still splendidly preserved and can see. hear, and work remarkably well for his years. He was a euier at THK JOURNAL ollice a few days ago and gave the following story of his early life here: "I was born in Warren county, ohio, September 2it, 18i9." said he, "and I

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came to this couut wth my fa. Iiei4, I Jacob Klmore, in 182."), just four

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log houses. 1 remember when it Nvas all

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a big deadening, with

fallen timber all over it. I was here when they buraed it oil', and it surely made a grand sight. The first stores were pretty tolerably poor. They didn't have anything in them hardly except a few poor tools, some ugly prints, and a feNv other things. The sugar was poor and mighty little

sold, because we could make better tree sugar. Whiskey was the best thing sold in the town by a long shot, and it Nvas not only good but cheap. They don't make such good whiskey now. There were some mighty good men here then,and I can remember hall

For Jackets' and^ Capes.

We are looking for a big cloak trade this fall. To simply say that our Jackets are better than any of those elsewhere may not be very convincing. Hut when we show you 'he garments the proof is strong enough.

New fall golf c*pes. 25 different styles to select from, remarkable offerings. correct coiors-13 98 to $7.50.

A fall jacket, different colors, $4.98. |6 98 tn $10.00 buys our best jackets inallcoiors with (.r without s'.urm collar.

We have o. rotiplete line of plush capen. jackets and furs at the lowest price.

Blankets.

3.000 aairs b-st California and sample blankets secured months ago ai an enormous reduction from America's best mills, ia this sa'e at le:s than to-day's mill prices. The lot contains finest, all wool and cotton warp IVankets at a saving of from 25 to 40 per cent on equal grades elsewhere Blankets in all sizes-98c, $1.50. $2.95, $3.98. A O, $7 50.

We lead—others follow.

Shirts.

Shirts now go. All reduced to go now. Final reduction to clear every shirt.

Swell Negligee Shirts, were $1.00, now 47c. A nice dress shirt, was 76c, now 39c.

Men's working shirts in all colors, 23c to 49c.

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after the tirst settlement bv Win Oflield. We settled across the

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from Ollield's place, near when. Hibernian mill stands—in that bottom —and you can bet we bad a time getting along for the firs' years. Life was no joke then, father oNvned liiO acres of land ing it in old Ripley, and I still acres of this. We had a hard time at first, as I said, and I remember hat for six weeks once

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thing to eat except potatoes and a occasional half starved rabbit thai we could knock over in the snow. We could have had corn meal, but the creeks were frozen up so that they couldn't grind. I came clear to Crawfordsville to get a bag of corn ground, there being a mill then at the foot of the hill where the Monon station stands now. The hill side was covered with sleet so that I had to slide the sack doNvh, but even then I couldn't get it ground. "I tell you Crawfordsville wasn't very much of a

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a do/.en old revolutionary soldiers. and then the dog rushed in. The bear knew them weil. and used to love to! hugged him tight and while it was listen to their 'ales of George Wash-1 doing so'Miah grabbed up his ax and ington with the leather in his cap and rushed up. lie hit the bear across the his prancing war stud horse. There back and simply uncoupled him, the were Sims. W.irren, Miller. Weir, ux going clean into him severing the Fru.ts, and some others Old man spine. The bear started to run but fell Fruits lived to be way over a hundred and then they killed him. These years and was a perfect giant of a man. same fellows were out deer hunting in He was the ancestor of all the Fruits'I a boat one night and wounded a big in this county and was a powerful good buck that jumped into the dug out and

'"Do I remember the lirst election at men. I which I Noted? Well, I rather guess 1 "There

I Jackson Nvas running for I 'resident, and an odd gi ave. A big poplar hadjj'been I was a great big overgroN\n boy look- cut down and a section cut out. Below ing to be twi.nty-one. 1 went- over to this the wood was hollowed and then

George l'ruits' house here the Wipley the dead baby was put in and the „seetONN nship election was and 1 plunked tion returned, closing the trey trunk her straight, for Andrew Jackson, This up tight. We opened it once and there was Island I voted for the general

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upset it mighty near drowning both

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do, young man, for 1 Nvasn't old enough and when Nve lirst came there was a to vote tint I did it anyhoNv. on see little Indian's grave doNvn at Indian General Jackson—the ureal General I Ford Nvhere they picnic

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again |S.!2. Flections were dilleivnt the dead one. The Indians used to then from

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all right Later on 1 went back on the Yountsville bridge and got- mighty general because he knocked out the

United -States bank, and 1 turned t() lie a company privilege to use it." Whig, but then 1 got to be a Democrat I Mr. Klmore is the father.of the poet again before war times and I'm one of Itipley, James B. Klmore, and is ... .:J_ n)N\. 1 II be one as long as 1 live unless quite an admirer of his soil's verse.

Bryan, The Prophet.

"When prices are falling and money is rising a man Can better affoid to lock his money up in a vault and gain the rise, than invest it in property. on are making property not worth having and everybody is trying to turn their property into money, and while the //,/ stiouhml hiKts that rmiditinti must remain, and times mu*t hr hard, and hard times mean more idle men and more destitute men." Bryan at Jlalcii/h, X. C'.. Sept. IS!"

In concluding a speech at Baltimore. Sept. Ill, ISiiii. Mr. Bryan said with marked emphasis: "If we win this light now, then the reform begins at once. If wo are defeated in this campaign there is nothing before the people but four years more of hard times and greater agitation, and then victory will come."

lime has demonstrated that the direct opposite of these predictions has come about. The gold standard remains and is more fixed than it was four years ago. Property of all kinds has increased in value and money is seeking property. The army of unemployed has practically disappeared, wages of labor have increased, employment has become more constant and general prosperity is upon every hand. 4

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is to return to bimetallism.

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the Democratic party dies first and don't you go to calculating on that. '"I claim to have been the first banker in Montgomery county and my bank was a hollow beech stump. I was working for twenty-live cents a day and I got my pay every week in silver half dollars. These I tied up in an old sock and hid in the stump until I got tuo hundred of them. Then I bought me a farm. Yes, farms were cheaper then than now because we bought them at the land office. I did my banking at night because some pesky fellow might have seen me if I had deposited in the day time and then the Crawfordsville stores would have sold a heap more whiskey and tobacco but Matthias Klmore wouldn't have had any farm so soon. "There were lots of snakes about here then and at the old rock meeting house on Sugar Creek (the 'meeting house' is a ledge of rock overhanging Sugar Creek on the Joseph MeMaken farmj there were thousands of snakes of all kinds wintered. From there they crawled out over all the adjoining country in the spring. One spring the farmers all pitched in and hired dare devil Sam Havens to go down to the wintering place and kill them as they came out. The first warm day he was there with a long hickory pole and he just mowed them down. I went down one dav in a boat and saw piled up on the bank three piles of dead snakes, each pile as big as a large hay cock. The snakes Nvere of all kinds, mostly copper heads and rattlers. Sam got a dollar a day for his work, high wages then, but he cleaned the snakes out and some people called him St. Patrick for driving the snakes out of Ripley. "There were many bears about then and I saw one good tight. J. Watson Kainsey and 'Miah McKinsey wont after a bear that had crawled in a hole in a big poplar and I went along to see the fun. 'Miah cut the tree down and it burst open when it fell and the bear walked out. I^s,tns6y first! but missed.

Indians here then too,

At the tirst ejection I come big crowds from up about

the members of the board sat around in Thorntown down to Nvhere Jim lhtrithe house watching everything hut the kins lives now to make sugar in the ballot box and talking and playing. Old spring and one time they left a pet pig .Jim Gilk 'V was there sitting on a box there. When tliey were gone Josh and he wrote out the ballots with a Bland tound it and he got his start in goose quill pen and pokeberry ink for pigs from it, the pig making a Line, eNeryone that came to vote. Jim was brood sow. powerful handy with his pen and aj "In ls2f, 1 helped make the lirst road mighty acci modating man. I wasn't of from where Yountsville now is to age the lirst time I voted but as it. was Crawforrtsville. It is the road used for

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to stop this constant issue of bonds, and that

'—Bryan's First llaJtk, paqc o7(i.

"The Republican party is pledged to continue the present financial system, which means a continued issue of bonds."—

Four years of gold standard system since this prediction has -hown it to be utterly false, for we are farther away from the issue of bonds

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lots ol heads and trinkets in with

I also subscribed to build the

angry when the county gave the toll

bo no return to prosperity in the United States until we

stop the appreciation of money by giving the people more standard money."—LLCINUAT IUUHSIKI, MV.S.. Sipi.,: is:n 1 here can be no general prosperity in this country until we stop the conspiracy nf those who would make gold the only standard of the world."'- Ili'i/dn'.- Fii.-'i llnitlr, pttt/t ./.

"There is no end to the gold standard. You think you have suffered enough, your sullering has just begun. You think there has been enough depression, but depression has just commenced.llriian at Whtrlimj.

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A FINE ADDRESS.

Congressman Kerr, of Ohio, Speaks to a Crowded House Monday Night.

The Republicans' first night meeting of the campaign in Crawfordsville was a most pleasing one as the court house was packed to hear Congressman Kerr, of Ohio, and so remained during the tNvo hours he spoke.

The Morton club and the First Voters, club met at the Republican headquaters at half past seven o'clock and to the mtific of tho band and of the fife and drum corps marched to the hotel for the speaker and thence to the court house. There were several hundred: men in line and the demonstration was a most successful one. Arrived at the court house the colored glee club under I the leadership of John 1'atterson, sang a couple of fine selections and were loudly applauded. Mr. Kerr was then introduced by Major Travis and proceeded with a most masterly discussion of the issues of the day. Mr. Kerr is a clean cut and convincing speaker and he handled his matter to the satisfaction of all present. his remarks being constantly applauded. His expose of! the hypocritical conduct of the Demo-' crats in the present congress on the trust question being especially apt. I Asa body almost they voted against! the anti-trust legislation proposed by I the Republicans, although the legislation was exactly what Bryan one year ago in Lis Chicago speech declared the country needed. The vote of the Democratic members defeated the bill.

Death of Miss Babe Cox.

Miss Mary KUen Cox, aged seventeen years, died Wednesday at the home of her parents at 10 Fremont street, after a painful illness of several weeks. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, interment at the Masonic cemetery. Miss Cox's many friends will be saddened to learn of her

A HARROWING SIGHT.

TIioiiuis Hall Struck By a Monon Passenger Engine In the Presence of Many People.

Those persons at the Monon station Tuesday afternoon aNvaiting the arrival of the south bound passenger train wore treated to as tragic a sight as one ever happens on. The train was a little late and came sweeping across the till at its usual goodly speed. Just a little way beyond the north end of the station there is a path crossing the track from east to Nvest and along this path from the houses on the east side came the old man. stepping upon the track just in time to he struck fairly by the engine.. lie is i|iiite deaf, it is said, but the approaching train was in full view. He. however, was intent on looking at the people on the platform and consequently neither saw nor heard. The pilot, hit. him with great force and he was thrown upon it in an instant Agent Wasson saw the whole tiling from the station

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ami sa\s of the sight: lie simply doubled back on the pilot when struke ami I stood there almost paralyzed. I looked eNery instant for him to roll off under the wheels and be ground to peiees before us all. and once he started to roll but luekilv went down against. the Mag stalY and stuck there. Kngineer IC.inan did not see hm hit, he looking out. of the

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of course, but ii.a fireman did and yelled frantically. The engine went about a hundred vards after the accident and stopped right in front of the station with the old man sticking on I'hn [I'loU"

When the train stopped the bystand-' ers lifted the unconscious and bleeding form from the pilot and laid it on a truck. 1'illows were hurriedly brought from the adjoining houses and Dr. Ensminger, the road's physician, was summoned. Hall was found to be suffering from a compound fracture of the leg and an ugly scalp wound. I Thos. Hall Nvas an old resident of the county and was at one time in»good circumstances. 1 le was a brother of Joseph

Hall, of east of the city. He resided until recently with Jim Irons, near tho Iron bridge, but more lately has lived with the widow llansdell, beyond tho till. He Nvas a widower and was said to have no children.

HE DIED.

Thomas lloll Dies From the Injuries He Received at th« Monon Station.

Shortly before five o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Thomas Hall, the old man struck by the south bound Monon passenger train at the station Tuesday afternoon, died from the result of his injuries at the home of James Clouse on east Wabash avenue. Nvhere he was taken about three o'clock. Besides the fracture of his leg and scalp wound he had suffered internal injuries not at first noted. His advanced age too

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against him and he failed rapidly after being taken to the Clouse home. Mr. Hall was born in Madison township about seventy-five years ago and had lived here all his life. He was married three times and his wives and all his children lie buried in Oak Hill, at which place his interment occurred I Wednesday after funeral services at the Clouse residence.

CKANVi.'oitDSViLr.K, Ind., Sept. iM, 19U0.-I wish to say through the col-

umns of your paper that the loss of my I house and part of tho household goods by fire Sunday, Sept. I(, 1900, was insured with A.S.Clements in the Home

New York Insurance Company, has this day been adjusted to my entire satisfaction, and 1 wish to add another name to his list in recommending his company to the insuring public for fair* treatment and quick settlement in case of loss. O. M. DKLASHMIT.

Osborn's Attorney.

John M. Bailey,of Indianapolis, was in the city Tuesday, consulting with Fred L. Canine in regard to the defense of Jim Osborn, who is charged with tho" murder of Howard Kliis. Mr. Bailey will assist in the case.'

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