Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 December 1900 — Page 3

Bargains at The Fair

Joel Block. South Washington Street.

Store Closes at it p. m.

BARGAINS IN HOLIDAY

Sterling Silver Mounted Ebonized Novelties, 10c each. 13-incli Kid Body and Bisque Kead Doll for '20c. Pearl Handle Pen Holders, 15c. Crokonole Boards for 98c. Natural Wood Smoking Sets. Opal Smoking Sets, 4 pieccs. 49c. 25c and 50c'Warranted Rings. Toys of all kinds. Come and see us.

..Whitenack's Drug Store..

The Big Buggy and Harness Store

FOR SALE.

JOE E. FISHER will close out his stock of Harness, Buggies, Robes, Blankets, Harness Sundries, Tools, Store Fixtures, Etc., by December 1,1900. COMB AIM GET BARGAINS.

The Pair.

Yowr Prescriptions Rilled

RigHt at Right Prices,....

JOE E. FISHER

Special Prices on

Your Sale Or Stock Bill

"WyiLL fee printed right at this office on any kind of paper yoa desire, and in addition we will print free a notice of the sale in our column of sales. Thus yots get the benefit of newspaper advertising in 3,300 papers, in addition to your hills.

Isn't That Worth Something?

The Journal Co.,

Printers.

Gloves and Umbrellas.

$1.00 for women's best Kid Gloves. Choice of all colors, in such high grades and wellknown brands us "P. & P.," and Roeckl's famous 3-clasp. Every pair warranted. 75c for women's tine Kid Gloves. All the new and popular shades in two and threeclasp Gloves in kid, street and dress gloves. Regular $1.00 quality, special this week

75 Cts,

69c for misses' 2-clasp line Kid Gloves in red, tan, brown and white, with pretty embroidered backs.

Holiday Umbrellas at one-half price. All line union taffeta and English gloria Umbrellas, men's and women's 26 and 28inch sizes, with cases and tassels to match, with line handles of English furze, natural wood, buck horn, ivory, and gold. The entire assortment this week in three lots, at

98c, $1.98, $3.98

Phenomenal Bargains In

Handkerchiefs and Mufflers.

lefor children's fancy figured white and colored border, hemstitched and initials, 5c for women's initial handkerchiefs—Irish handworked, pretty initials on line sheer linen and mull. Big bargains at 15c, 10c. and 7c now 5c.

Women's fancy Handkerchiefs, newest effects in French and Irish linen, also beauti

We are making some special low prices on Ranges for the holidays that are worth investigating. We handle the STEWART, PEERLESS, and other all steel ranges, and the prices range from 825 up. They will last a life time, are economical, and would make a very timely Christmas present.

Gould, Oliver & Martin.

120-122 South Washington St.

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I Holiday Goods Given Awayf

Every Day at Joseph's Bargain Counters.

Cheapest place in all the world to buy Holiday Goods. To give everybody a chance to shop we will keep this Bargain Store open every evening until Christmas, with an extra force of help.

ful swiss embroidered, scalloped and drawn work. Greatest bargains in she city. Divided into four lots, at 25c, 19c. 15e and 10c. '25c for men's silk handkerchiefs, beautifully worked initials on best Japanese silk, plain white and newest colored borders. Regular price 50c, now 25c. 39c for silk Mufflers, newest styles. Nowhere as cheap as here. Special bargains at $1.25, 98c. GOc. and 39c.

An immense variety of Dolls, Chinaware, Sterling Silver Novelties, and Books. A wide range of extreme Bargain Prices:

Dolls.

10c for a 30c kid body doll—great bargain. 19c for a 12-inc.h doll—regular 25c kind. 39c for a 69c jointed doll: others, 19c up. 49e for a 15-incli fat kid body doll, fine bisque head and long, flowing hair. 98c for a $1.50 doll with fine bisque head, light or dark hair, the kind that will open and shut its eyes.

Also the Esquimaux doll, clad in his cold weather suit with sword and gun. for 75c.

Captivating Sale of

Books.

We have a complete line of Books for the young and old at the very lowest pricesbooks that sold for 25c. all for 5c, and books that sold for 50c at 10c.

THE ARRESTS BEGIN.

The Floaters Are Being Brought Before Judge West—Cases Continued.

Last Tuesday Deputy Sheriff Barton began the arrest of the forty-three floaters against whom information was filed in the circuit court. The first first man up was Charles E. Hays. Hays seemed to take the whole thing ass. huge joke and offered to' plead guilty on the spot. Judge West, however, ruled that he would not allow tho men to plead guilty at present and set the case down for a hearing on January 28. Next morning the arests began to be made more rapidly and up to noon the following high toned gentlemen had been brought up: Rufus Wells, Malachi Bill Scott, Bill Hall, John Rankins, Scott Ransdell, Charles Wells aud Roy Nichols. Their cases were all set down for January 2S. On Wednesday Judge West concluded that he would allow the men to enter a plea as to their guilt or innocence and Bill Rogers, the first man arrested after dinner, promptly pleaded guilty. Sentence was suspended.

Irwin Dwiggins on Wednesday stated to the court that he wished, as pauper attorney, to appear for all the accused who. wanted to stand trial. In his opinion the Caraway law is unconstitutional because the statutes provide that only a man convicted of an infamous crime can be disfranchised. Of course a little Sunday school pastime like selling one's vote would not come under the head of infamous crimes.

POLICY OF EXPANSION.

The Home Telephone Company Plant to Greatly Increase the Value of Its Service.

The Home telephone company already has one of the moBt excellent telephone plants in the country, but is planning to make it even more valuable to its patrons. In the spring the plant will be extended to include the surrounding country for a distance of six or eight miles. Lines will be run out on all the roads and the rural patrons will be hitched on to the Crawfordsville exchange. The toll desk for this addition will be abolished. There are now 700 'phones and more on the company's exchange and the rural addition will increase it several hundred. The negotiations for the needed supplies are now under way.

THE CEAWFOHDSYILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

Gov. Mounf Message.

Governor Mount began the preparation of his message to the legislature Monday. He says it will be brief and that he will recommend measures to prevent lynching. He also says he be lieves the county should be held responsible in damages for every lynch' ing that occurs, said damages to be paid to the relatives of the person lynched. He will also recommend a change in tho circuit court districts so as to establish an entirely new set of circuits.

Farmers' Institute.

The Montgomery county farmers' institute to be held on Dec. 28 and 29 will be largely attended. The management promises the most interesting session ever held.

JELL-O, THE NEW DESSERT, pleases all the family. Four flavorsLemon, Orange, Raspberry, and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10c. Try it to-day.

A fine line of Bibles for 75c. A fine line of index cover for 98c.

with Morocco cover

Bibles with Morocco

We cannot name our this space, but we want convinced.

variety of Books in you to come and be

Jewelry, Manicure Pieces, 0

and Lamps.

Sterling silver, manicure and desk pieces. 925-1.000 fine. 8c for 35c nail files or cuticles 8c for 35c Tooth Brushes, Be for 35c envelope openers, 8c for 35c envelope seals, 8c for 35c paper knife, 8c for 35c Table Bells, 8c for 35c Shoe Buttoners.

And a thousand other things we cannot mention in this space. Seeing is believing. Just look in our east window .at a few of the many articles we haze.

Lamps.

Don't hurt your eyes by reading in the dark when you can get a lamp worth Jj.oo for 98c at The Golden Rule.

A lamp 26 inches high, with a 1'1-inch bowl, regular value $5.of). Remember, we have only a few of them, and they will go fast, so you do not want to be late.

The Golden Rule 8

BUT ONE DEGREE.

Hereafter All the Graduates of Wabash Will Be Bachelors of Art.

The Wabash College trustees were in semi-annual session Tuesday at Yandes Hall, Trustees Daniels, Stimson, Paxton, Haines, and Mcintosh being tho out of town members of tho board present. The morning was devoted chiefly to a hearing of reports. An important recommendation made by President Kano some time ago was adopted. By its provisions all the graduates of the college hereafter will be bachelors of art. In the past, only those who took a rigid course, in tho classics, including Greek, were eligible to the degree. in future those who do a certain amount of work will obtain it, and the courses will be more elective than in the past. The degrees of B. S. and I'll. B. will no longer be conferred. Wabash was one of the last colleges in the country to come to the one degree system.

The mid-winter session of the board of trustees of Wabash college closed last Tuesday at 4 o'clock. A resolution was adopted by the board and a committee appointed to investigate the possibility of reducing the living expenses of the students of the college. The board appointed on the committee President Kane, Rev. T. D. FylYe and Benjamin Crane.

A resolution was also adopted instructing the executive committee to co-operate with the Presbyterian church in its twentieth century movement to secure an increased endowment for its educational institutions.

The trustees adopted the following resolution: "The board of trustees of Wabash college desire to place on record its grateful remembrance of the services of Alexander Thomson, who departed this life August 5, 1900. Mr. Thomson was a trustee of the college from 1840 to 1898. and treasurer of the institution until 1891. During all this period his duties were faithfully and conscientiously performed. He died full of years and with a reputation without spot -or uiemish. He rests from his labors and his works will follow him."

Several nominations were made for honorary degrees but no action will be taken on these until the spring session.

After the adjournment of the session the board visited the new residence of President Kane, now in course of construction, and expressed themselves as highly pleased with the progress of the work and the beauty of the structure. The building will be ready for occupancy in the early spring.

QUAIL LAW UPHELD.

Supreme Court Says the Measure Is Constitutional.

The supreme court held Tuesday that any one who has quails in his possession during the "closed season" is liable to a fine, without regard to when the game was killed, or when he obtained possession of it, and the game law on that subject is constitutional. This was in the case of William H. Smith vs. the State of Indiana. Judge Hadley wrote the opinion, and Judge Jordan dissented.

Smith, who runs a restaurant in Indianapolis, was arrested for having a quail in his possession on the fifth day of last February. He admitted the charge, but declared that he bought the quails on the 30th of December and kept them in his ice box the intervening five weeks. Judge Alford, of the Marion county criminal court,held that this made him guilty of a violation of the law, imposed a fine of $1 and ordered him to pay the costs, amounting to $22.50.

In affirming this judgment, Judge Hadley entered into a discussion of the habits of the quail and its value as a game bird and an article of food. He asserted the right of the state to protect it from extinction by drastic police measures, and pointed out that it has been the uniform policy of the state for nearly fifty years to protect its fish and food birds from destruction.

The principle was laid down that the individual has no natural right to take game, or to acquire property in it, and all the right he possesses or can possess in this respect is granted to him by the state. From this he argued that in giving its citizens the right to take quails at all the state could impose such conditions as to the time and manner of taking them and keeping them after they were taken, as the legislature sees fit.

Good Advice.

The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people in the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects: such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpitation of the heart, hearu-burn, water-brash, gnawing ard burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of August Flower for 75 cents. Two doses will relieve you. Try it. Get Green's prize almanac. For sale by Moffett & Morgan.

HALF the ills that man is heir to come from indigestion. Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens and tones the stomach makes indigestion impossible.

WILL KERR DEAD.

A Popular Citizen of Coal Creek Township Dies After a Short Illness.

The sad word was received here on Wednesday of the death of Will Korr. at his home in Wingate. Practically no one in Crawfordsville had heard of his illness, which was short, and tho word that he was dead came as a shock to those who knew him. Mr. Kerr was a man of many parts atul although comparatively young was rated as ono of themost substantial and influential men of tho county. Possessed of a kindly heart and a cordial manner he made friends wherever he went. With a hand as open as the day for molting charity, an earnest desire for tho establishment and maintenance of all that was good in both home and state, an energy that was tireless and a koon appreciation ol the rights and sensibilities of others, he made a model citizen. The following sketch of his life has been roeeived from Wingate: "WIXOATK, Ind., Dec. li). -Wilber

Kerr died at his residence in this place at 10 o'clock last night, after an illness of ton days, first with grip, which terminated in a disease of the brain. Mr. Kerr was a son of Samuel Kerr, who came to Fountain county from Butler county, Ohio, with his parents at the age of nine years, and settled on a farm two miles northeastof Nowtown, where ho still lives. Here Wilber was born Sept. 2.'i, 1857, and grew to manhood. He was married to Celesta Coen March 12, 1891. He leaves a wife, father, two brothers, Charles andGuy,r'f Newtown, and one sister, Mrs. Ed Milligan, of

Waveland, also a niece, Miss Celesta McCauloy, who has lived with him since childhood, and who was as much attached to him as any daughter would have been. Mr. Kerr was a member of the Presbyterian church, the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, and was a member of the board of town trustees. He was also a member of the Republican county central committee, and had large business interests. He was the senior member of the firm of Kerr, Grenard & Co., ono of the largest firms of stock dealers in the county, doing a business of over $200,000 a year. He was once president of the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank, of this place, from which he retired about three years ago. His death will cause a vacancy in many places that will be very hard to fill. The funeral will occur at the M. E. church at this place to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Services by Rev. C.

W. Postill and interment at Newtown, the Knights of Pythias taking charge of the remains.

Ben-Hur In Philadelphia.

"Lounger," in Philadelphia J'ress: The final week of Ben-Hur will bring to an end the most remarkable run of a play in Philadelphia. Other productions have had more performances, but all records in the United States for the receipts at the same prices during ten consecutive weeks will have been broken on Saturday night. At the very outset, in face of a discouraging opening, I confidently predicted the popular and financial success of this amazing production, which has been fully realized. Whatever may have been true of New York, the success in Philadelphia has been along the lines on which I insisted with most emphasis, namely, that it was the dramatic impressiveness and vital strength of the play, coupled with its strong appeal to those who are usually the nontheatre going portion of the community that would bring a constantly increasing stream of patronage, moro than the spectacular and mechanical effects, marveious as they are, which gratified only the eye. So it has turned out, and the proprietors of Ben-Hur understand the cause of their success here. The receipts for ten weeks will probably exceed $170,000. For slow Philadelphia this is not so bad. BenHur could undoubtedly run at the opera house through the season, but the removal of the production to New York to opon the season there is imperative.

Notice to Hunters.

We, the undersigned farmers, south and southeast of Crawfordsville, deem it advisable to allow no hunting on our farms without the consent of the owner, and have by mutual consent decided to enforce the law on all persons violating the same for a period of five years: P. H. Mag ill, J. T. Hunt, W. M. Layne, W. li. C'arr, W. Snyder, ,, Pled Combs, J.Hutchison, J. B. Robinson, C. M. Brant, A.C.Oliver. G. W. Marliley, J. 1*. Walter & Bro.. Amazon Ward.

W. G. White, H. T. Hosier,* K. R. Clossin, J. F. Chesterson, E. Simms, G. F. Johnson. C. E. Mack, D. W. Talbot, Jackson Oliver, Arch Martin, Smith & Duckworth, J. J. Wingert, .James P. Grimes. •,

State Teachers' Association.

The forty-seventh annual session of the Indiana state teachers' association will be held in the state house at Indianapolis on Dec. 26, 27 and 28. Quite a number from this city will attend.

L-'or Hoarseness.

Benj. Ingoreon, of Hutton, lnd., says he had not spoken a word above a whisper for months, and one bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar restored his voice. It is largey used by speakers and singers. Take no other. Nye & Booe.

To tin' Editor The Journal.

MORE PLUNDER FOUND.

The Lootings of a Gang of Burglars Found Near the Junction.

When tho police jailed the men who were caught on Sunday attempting to sell watches and knives, it was expected they had other goods hidden somewhere near. Their hiding place was discovered last Monday by a small boy who was playing about a lumbor pile near the unction. He found, carefully wrapped up in an old cloth, over twenty new knives, seven razors, several revolvers, irul four watches. They correspond with the goods the police had taken from the men they had arrested on Sunday, and they had evidently been stolen from some country store. The men deny all knowledge of the goods, but Monday night a tramp was run in who had in his sock a razor of the same pattern as those found and on being questioned he stated that it was given him on Saturday by some fellows at Veedersburg who had plonty more. He described the prisoners to a nicety but was not allowed to see them. The police are endeavoring to find where the burglary was committed.

The Belgian llore. (Article 3).

In a late issue H. M. Billlngsley says that "T. launches out in high praise of tho hare." I was not aware of it. I think a fair reading of my articles 1 and 2 should show my objoct was only to state facts for the general information of your readers as I found them: almost all. that I have said being condensed statements of others, not having named authorities quoted to economize space.

B. further says: "I. probably should keep quiet, for it would seem a pity to throw cold water on so line a boom." Yes, brother B, it would have beon better than to talk without some knowledge of the facts. The only fact ho seems to be aware of is an item in the Conntri) Gentleman of Dec. li, about the hotels in New York not serving hare. Had he read up he would know that item had floated around the country for months before the mossback paper he quotes happened to see, and as to hotels, if he had had a trifle of my 40 years' experience he would know that hotels are the last to add to their monu. Even the best of them fall into a dull dyspetic routine. He should experience the rebuffs an innocent traveler meets when he asks for anything extra or different. I don't want anyone biased by anything I have written, but simply want our country not to be mossback, but posted up on what is going on around them. As my wife had (like many ladies) learned of them and wished to r&i§§ a few, I have bgen stud-? ying them. To ray astonishment found an industry grGWlng all around us and not a word in our papers. In & conversation I was asked by tho editor of THE JOURNAL to write of the hare, and now I cannot do better than close these articles by taking his advice— hitherto partly neglected—to quote names of authorities.

Anyone desiring further information will do well to subscribe for The Itabbilry, published at 12 Pearl street, Indianapolis, twice monthly, 50 cents a year single copies five cents. A twenty page quarto on line paper. There are 39 large and small advertisements hares for sale from Indiana firms alone. Some with an investment of $10,000 and many outside ads. Last week there was a show of hares at Tomlinson hall and prizes awarded. Another will probably be given in February. A society of Indianapolis breeders have been organized for mutual help. We ought to have one here. All in favor of it please address T, care JOURNAL.

The "Dictionary of Useful Animals" says England imports ono and a half million weekly from Ostend. France consumes 70 to 80 millions annually.. Paris alone ten million pounds. The "Brittannica" states tnat 200 tons are imported into London every week during the colder months. The pelts are valuable: 60 millions being sold every year in France, 30 millions in England,\ 5 millions in Leipsig, (Germany), 4 millions ii. Belgian, etc., besides large^ numbers are imported into the United States to make felt hats. These figures aro based on official dates and are reliable. A conservative writer estimates that fully two million dollars are invested in the industry in the United States, and that Denver breeders shipped in 1899 above $30,000 worth of hares to Los Angeles, Cal.

The above I quote from The ItabhHry, and again: "The poor who have the time —and they are the ones who will give it attention—will be the last persons to find it out. The rich and retired man knows about it the successful business man's attention is occupied, the poor are still looking. Of course many will engage in this and make a failure. Why? Because they have not made the proper preparations."

In conclusion I will say, "I practice what I preach," having invested in hares and in the spring will build a building for them costing about $200.

PUTNAM Fadeless Dyes are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by Moffett & Morgan.