Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 February 1901 — Page 1

VOL. 54—NO. 7

Elwood

The best Fence that is made. It is stronger and better made and costs less than any other. We are

taking orders now.

Call and get1a nice Calendar and Catalogue

H. R. Tinsley&Co.

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The Finest Line of JEWELRY in the city and the most Reliable repair work Is done at our store.

Live Stock!

HOGS, SHEEP and CATTLE.

buy stock every day. Mv office is at the Quillen Liverv barn, on west Market street. James Quillen buys when 1 am absent. Call and see me.

My farm of 264 acres, at Yountsville, is for rent.

W. M. ARCHEY. A NERVY TRICK.

Evan Collier Arrested For Stealing Harness Under Peculiar Circumstances.

Evan Collier, a young Kentuckian who has been employed northwest of the city as a farm hand, was arrested and brought to jail by the horse thief detectives yesterday on a charge of stealing harness from Bishop Markham. The circumstances of the alleg1 ed theft are rather unusual and if guil4 ty as charged Evan is a young man of

monstrous gall. Mr. Markham went to j. church last Saturday night, as became I. a man interested in his soul's salvation and the neighborhood gossip, and hitched his trusty horse outside the sanctuary. (By the way who ever heard of hitching a horse inside?) When church' was out Mr. Markham discussed the sermon and the price of hogs for a little while and then got in his buggy and drove home. When he began to unhitch upon his arrival he made an appalling discovery that simply gave him a nervous chill. He found that instead of the brand new set of harness that was on his horse when he started for church the animal was adorned with a raggedy old set that looked as though it might have done service on the pampered horse flesh of i. liufus Wells or Andy Gray. It was all rotten and cracked, tied up with binder twine, and an old wire was doing the service of the bright new nickle plated buckels that were on the harness that went to church. Mr. Markham sat down on a chunk and for a few minutes dispensed to the unanswering winds of winter a little direct English that he hadn't garnered while peacefully sleeping in church that evening. Finally when he had thawed out the barnyard he waded oil through the mud to the house and went to bed. He began an investiga tion bright and early Monday morning, of course he didn't say anything about it on Sunday, and after inquiring about the neighborhood he came to the conclusion that Evan Collier had booked the harness while the services were in progress at the church. Collier was sporting new harness, anyhow, and no one had heard of him drawing any big prize in a lottery. Further investiga­

E S E 'bright winter days are fine for making pictures. If you haven't a CAME IRA get a good one—it's lots more satisfactory. We sell the EASTMAN kodak. It isn't a ki dak if it is not made by the EASTMAN Co. We have some fine instruments left over from the holidays' that we will sell at greatly reduced prices. Jg

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tion disclosed the fact that the new harness Collier bad was that taken from the horse of Mr. Markham, and further investigation proved beyond the shadow of a double that the old harness that Mr. Markham found when he reached home was that which Collier had had before he got-Mr. Markham's. Some unreasonable anc suspicious fellows in the neighborhood concluded that this demonstrated that Collier might possibly have made the swap with malice aforethought and on this flimsy pretext he was cast into jail. Information will be filed against him in the circuit court at once.

A CANNING FACTORY.

Chance to Locate the New Richmond Tomato Concern Here.

At the last meeting of the board of directors of the Commercial Club the matter of getting the New Richmond canning factory here was discussed and secretary Hulet was instructed to investigate. Yesterday Mr. Hulet introduced Wm. McCrea, of New Richmond, to a number of our citizens and talked over the project. Mr. McCrea is the manager of the New Richmond factory and wants to organize: a company here. The soil in that part of the country is not suitable for tomatoes except along Bristle Ridge and as that is the most profitable crop to cin it is desirable to move the plant to a location where the soil is more favorabie. The clay ground around Crawfordsville is well adapted to tomatoes and Mr. McCrea is confident that the factory would be a money maker here. It made money there, but on account of the soil the farmers were unable to raise enough tomatoes per acre to induce them to continue to plant the crop. If the company is organized here Mr. McCrea says the farmers will receive 18 cents a bushel for tomatoes. The factory will employ about 125 hands during August, September, October, and perhaps November, the average wages being about $6 a week. About one-fourth of the employes are men and boys, the remainder being women. Mr. McCrea wants $5,000 in stock subscribed, of which he will take $500 himself. He is experienced in the business and would manage the factory if desired. He says the New Richmond factory made money the first two years, but last year, on account of lack of tomatoes, lost some money. THE JOURNAL believes this a good opportunity to add a substantial industry to the town, and hopes that our citizens will look into the proposition of Mr. McCrea seriously.

Divorce Suit.

Mary Robinson has entered suit for a divorce from Frank I Robinson, with whom she lived until Wednesday. The complaint makes numerous allegations. She asks that hor maiden name, Marv Hai'WOOd, bo. tv.qtnrprl.

THE JOURNAL, omot) ior ]ob printing.

MAURICE THOMPSON.

His Death Occurs at an Early Hour This Mornl ng After an Illness Covering Several Weeks.

Montgomery county is again called upon to mourn the death of one of her most excellent and illustrious citizens. Only a few days since Governor Mount •vas called from his sphere of usefulness and honor and now Maurice Thompson, in the tiightide of his literary strength and success, is dead. A life that was peculiarly sweet and winsome is ended, a career that was honest, strong, and courtly is closed, but the inlluence that was ever for good while Maurice Thompson lived still remains and will remain in the copamunity for many, many year-. .Iames Maurice Thompson died this morning at 'i:20 o'clock after a serious illness covering several weeks, surrounded by his family and friends.

Mr. Thompson's illness dates back to abjut a year ago, although it was not until late November that he gave up his arduous literary work and all too late began the contest, to regain the ground he had lost. While in Tampa, Florida, last March, lie suffered an attack of the grip. 11 was not a severe case and its treatment was neglected.

It left him weaker than formerly and with an annoying cough to which, however, he gave little heed during the summer. As the fall advanced he became conscious of the fact that he would probably undergo an illness and consequently delayed his customary trip to the south. When once he gave

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up to his disease he grew steadily worse, and while the change could hardly be noted from day to day it was painfully perceptible from week to week. Hope was not abandoned, however, until late last week when alarming pneumonic symptoms developed, due to the fact that his lungs, already diseased and debilitated, refused in consequence to perform their proper func.ions. Saturday afternoon he grew very weak and his death was almost hourly expected all Saturday night.

Maurice Thompson was born in Fairfield, Franklin county, Indiaha, Septembers, 1844, his father residing there temporarily. His ancestry was excellent, his father's people having come to this country in the 17th century, participating in the colonial and revolutionary wars. Mr. Thompson's father, grandfather and great grandfather had all of them been ministers in the Old School or Predestinarian church. His grandfather was a politician as well as a preacher and figured conspicuously in the early days of Indiana. His son, Maurice's father, was Grigg Thompson, and the older people of this community still remember his truly remarkable manner, eloquent, forceful, and a power in his denomination. When Maurice was a lad of nine his father re moved to the Cherokee region of north em Georgia and bought a fine plantation in the picturesquely beautiful Coosawattee Valley. It was a place remote from cities, but Grigg Thompson maintained his home as did the best class of southern planters and Maurice enjoyed peculiar advantages, well suited to fit him for the successful life he led He was taught by private tutors and by his mother, a woman of superior attainments and education, to whose influence is directly ascrihable to a great degree the career of her son. Her maiden name was Diantha Jagger, and she was of the Dutch families of old New York. She instructed Maurice in the classics, in mathematics, and in civil engineering, the latter s^idy standing him in good stead in after years. He was a devoted student but did not confine his studies to the books that men make. -Where he lived

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nature's great book was open on its fairest page. It was a region of magnificent hills and mountains, cold streams of wondrous clearness and purity, and unbroken, fragrant forests wherein grew the rarest flowers and dwelt the birds that Mr. Thompson always loved. It was a country charming to anyone, but to a youth of Maurice Thompson's loving and impressionable nature it was an earthly paradise. Here he learned the secrets of the wood and stream and all their timid denizens. Here it was that he became proficient in the use of the bow and acquired that knowledge that made him a true poet of nature. It was an existence almost idealic which was rudely interrupted by the outbreak of the great civil war. The interests of the Thompson family were all in the south and they espoused the southern cause.

Maurice with the zeal and conscientiousness, that always characterized his actions, eulisted in I8U2 and served over two years as a confederate soldier, his military career coming to an end at Kingston. (Ja., where the command in which he served was surrendered. As a soldier his service was devoted and valuable, although he was not sorry when the end came. As he served he gave thought to the principles involved and his rapidly maturing mind reached the conclusion that the south was wrong and must fail. Said he on one occasion. "During the last year of the struggle the feeling was growing within me that we were battling against the 19th century and that wo could not drive back the ph.tlinx of progress.''

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In his well known poem "To the South,'' this same idea is more fully expressed:

"I am southerner:

1 love the south: I dared for lier To llfjht from Lookout to the sen,', 2KB With her proud banner over me: But from my lips thanksgivings broke." czn When God iu battle thunder spoke, Ma Anil that Black Idol, breeding droiurht.i 1 ^AruHlearth_of human sympathy |j BTZSS

Thoughout the sweet and seuuoussouth, Was, with its chains and human yoke,] t= Blown hcllward from the cannon's mouth,

While Freedom cheered lohind the smoke."

When the war was over the Thompsons found themselves confronted with a new order of things, not at all to their advantage. They still owned two plantations but they were like other southerners, "land poor." The devastation of war and the altered social conditions rendered their property practically valueless. Still Maurice took up his studies where he had left oil' and for two or three years continued his student life, earning money for needed books by the sale of game in the nearest towns. Finally in 1SG8, however, he took the advice of a friend and came toinuiana, landing in Crawfordsvilie without a dollar. The Terre Haute and Logansport road was being constructed at this time and Mr. Thompson's Knowledge of civil engineering secured hun a position with the company. He worked hard and was promoted. By strict economy he managed to save money enough to buy a law library, and giving up engineering, a profession never congenial, he began the practice of law here, being quite successful from the start. He was a good lawyer and might have risen to an exalted eminence at the bar had not his love of letters crowded out of his life the practice of law. He became a writer almost as soon as he became a lawyer, and the struggle between law and letters was a one-sided one. In 1871 he became acquainted with Horace Greeley, and Greeley published his first poems in the New York Tribune. They attracted favorable notice and a year or so later he became a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, Howells, Longfellow, Bryant and Emerson uniting in a favorable criticism of his work. Said Longfellow: "He is a new and original singer, fresh, joyous and true." His first book, "Hoosior Mosaics," appeared in 1875 and was favorably received, but was nothing in comparison to his Witchery of Archery" which took the country by

storm a year or so later. Archery clubs wore everywhere organized, and for a season all other out of door sports were relegated to the rear. Voung and old, men and women, all had bows and arrows and weut trooping over the fields shooting at everything that crawled, rau or tlcw. The success of his work conlirmcd Mr. Thompson In his literary labors, and in 1884 he finally threw his law books forever aside and ciosed his office, liis poems, stories and criticisms were in great demand and he wrote for many periodicals until

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wnen he accepted the position of literary critic for the New York Independent, a place he held at the time of nis death. This otlice involved much time and a great deal of hard and painstaking labor, \et Mr. Thompson still found time to write novels and to contribute occasionally for the Century and other periodicals. In the Ind(-jruilent., however, most of his work since lSS'.i appeared. Until the appearance of "Alice, of Old Vincennes" last fall the reputation of Mr. Thompson had rested largely on

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C.impaign'' and "At Love's Extremes" had been cordially received by the public. They were not known and loved, uowever, as were his poems. "Alice, of Old Vincennes" proved a signal success and placed Mr. Thompson at once iu the irout rank of American novelists. 1 ts criticisms were wonderfully lavoiab!e and the, pubLc took it mostkiudly.

Its sales during the holidays and since have far exceeded those of any other book on the market, and edition after edition has been exnausted. It is remarkable that a man should prove eminently successful on so many lincsof literary labor as did Mr. Thompson, lie was poet, critic and novelist and a master in each department. Mr. Thompson, while a student and scholar, was nevertheless keenly alive to his duties as a citizen and few men ever gave political and social problems more close or conscientious thought 1»han he. Until io'JB he was a devoted Democrat.

He served in the Indiana legislature and as slate geologist as a Democrat and iu 1888 was a delegate to the Democratic national convention. Locally he was consulted as a party leader and was frequently called upon to preside at county and district conventions. The last convention at which he presided was the county convention of 181)4, held in Music Hall, Two years later he sat in the same hall as a delegate, and when the resolutions denouncing Cleveland and declaring for free silver were introduced Mr. Thompson made an earnest and almost tearful plea against their adoption. The writer was present upon that occasion and can recall no more touching a scene in tho political history of the county. Mr, Thompson pleaded for "the only man who had led the Democratic party to victory in a third of a century, and who to-day is sadly maligned and wilfully mismider stood His address was short but was wonderfully impressive and during its delivery an uijusual silence prevailed, But the delegates' heads were set and they passed the resolutions with a whoop, while .Jim Elmore, of Ripley township, grote.-quely undertook to answer Mr. Thompson's logic. It was a scene not soon to be forgotten. Mr. Thompson took no stock in the new Democracy and said nothing during the campaign. When, however, thequestion of national expansion arose he was a pioneer in its advocacy and one of its most formidable champions. Some of his best poems and addresses .were devoted to the maintenance of his ideas on this subject. His address last June before the students of Boston University created widespread comment and was used by the Republican national comI inlttee as a campaign document. Mr.

Taompson's home life was an ideal one. In 1871 he was married to Miss Alice Lee, a daughter of the late Col. John Lee, and their companionship together was a wonderfully sweet and devoted one. Congenial in all things, thoroughly loving, they lived and worked together in constant companionship with a devotion that grew greater amid the increasing cares and labors of their later lives. The three children born to them are still living, Claude Lee Thompson and Miss Agnes still at home and Mrs. Albert Blair Ballard, of Tampa, Fla. The family home, "Sherwood Place," has been a home in all the word implies of domestic coacord and felicity. Probably no family ever lived in Crawfordsvilie more thoroughly and sincerely devoted than that of Maurice Thompson. The removal by untimely death of the beloved father is a blow to the circle which no outsider can reckon or conceive.

Announcement Party.

Yesterday Miss Lenore Barnhill handsomely entertained a number of her young lady friends at a valentine party which was In reality something more. The decorations in the dining room were eminently appropriate for the day and tho added occasion. The tables and walls were almost bidden by a profusion of floral hearts of red all deirced with golden arrows and tho table pesign conformed to the same suggestion. Dainty refreshments were berved and on the heart served to each guest as a favor wore the tell tale words "Will C. Hessler-Ora Mofl'ett. June." Arrows in blue and gold were also given as favors. It was a happy time for an announcement party and the manner of tho announcement was no less so. The party was a highly delightful affair.

Want His Scalp.

Several of the ministers went before the police board Wednesday afternoon and asked that Oflicer Doyle be removed because ho had given Bill Vancleave "a cussing" and had failed to follow his suggestion to raid a place where Vancleave had alleged gambling was in progress. No action was taken on the request. Officer Doyle has been regarded as one of the best and cleanest men on the local police force in years.

PERSONAL MENTION.

Short items Relative to the Coming* ao4 Goings of Crawfordsvilie People and Their Friends.

Mr.i. John Coiloy returned to Ltomnov Wcdiiesdiy A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. F.I lis Flora. —Mrs. A r. lutmsov left yesterday for a visit in Jacksonville, Florida.

A son has been born to Mr an Mrs. C. I,. Berry, of cast, College street. Miss Margeret Price left yesterday afternoon for a month's visit in New Orleans.

Mrs. J. A. Hornbook was called to Uotnney by tho illness of her daughter. Mrs. Simison.

Mrs. Mary ilowe and son. of Howe, Neb., are tho iiuests of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Binforcl.

Mrs. Schuyler Kennedy went to Stilesville Tuesday for a three weeks' visit with home folks. --S. C. Kennedy, who has been ill for some days, is able to bo at his olliee again, greatly improved in health.

Shipment of Fine Hogs.

John Stover this wejk shipped a line Berkshire hog to New York and another to Pennsylvania

Note Candidate.

L. W. otto, who has been absent from the city for several days, announ jud upon his roturn on yesterday that he. was not a candidate for the Crawfordsvilie postoflice.

Probate Court.

ti. S. McCluerhas been appointed administrator of the estate of George Oliver. ithoda J. Brandenburg has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Matthias C. Brandenburg, deceased.

Marriage Licenses.

Bert Kvans and Edith L. Mikels. Fred Had ford and Is Hie M. Kouth. Elmer A. Jolly and Nannie E. Fritz. Stephen E. Deer and Frances Welch. Harry M. Caplingcr and Jennie Fulwider.

Harry Nolan and Luella Gortrude Walker, House on Fire.

Ex-trustee E. M. Morrow of Coai Creek township had some excitement at his house Wednesday. Some bed clothes wore hung on a chair near the fire and were left with no one in the room. They took lire and were blazing merrily when discovered by a passerby. I lo gave the alarm and the bucket brigade did tho rest saving the house with considerable trouble.

Letter List,

Following is the list of uncalled for letters remaining in the postollico at Crawfordsvilie, Ind., for tho week ending Fob. I.'!, 11*01. Persons calling them will say "advertised flllkev, .1.

for llurki', S. ('. (Jhamlii'ri-ind, C. Comer. Wm. CI I tie, L. C. Foster, Lourie GreKsmyre, Lizzie Harris, Mrs. Lydiu A Henry, P. T. lleiiKliss. 1'erul

It win. Mrs. .1: Martin, S. P. Miller. Lulu Orinns, Lizzie Snyder, F. T. Stoner, WalUr Thomas, D.

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Wllliite, Jennie.

Happily Married.

Wednesday afternoon at the home of Rev. T^ullace Tharp occurred the marriage of Mr. Harry Nolan and Miss Luclla Gertrude Walkor, only tho immediate relatives being present The bride was attired in a most becoming traveling gown of gray broadcloth trimmed in fur. Sho carried American Beauty roses. The happy couple left immediately after the ceremony for a trip to eastern Ohio, and after March first will be at homo to their friends north of the city where they will reside. Both young people have a wide circle of friends and are justly popular with all who know them.

Obituary.

Mrs. Minerva Douglas McCain, whose death is recorded in another part of this paper, was one of the pioneer women of Indiana whose labors in earlier years laid the foundations of the institutions which we now all enjoy. Sho was born in Kentucky, her parents being Thomas and Rachel Douglas. At a tender age she moved with them to Adams county, Ohio, and as a young woman settled with them in Clinton county, Indiana. On March 7, 1837, she was married to Hugh B. McCain. Together they suffered the privations of pioneer life, reared a family of nine children and left their impress for good on the various communities of central Indiana in which they lived. Mr. McCain passed away Feb. 17, 189.'5. Mrs. McCain joined the Presbyterian church at the age of sixteen and at her marriage transferred her membership to tho Methodist church of which her husbar.d was an adherent. But all times she was a practical Christian woman, never a sectarian, and throughout her long life she was consistent in her faith. She was possessed of a strong, sweet and true character, and so impressed every one with whom she came in contact. She bore the pains and limitations imposed by old age with cheerfulness and was an example worthy of imitation of growing old beautifully.

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