Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 July 1901 — Page 1

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It Is Said That Mr. Bonnell as Revenue Collector Will Recognize No Faction.

A correspondent of the Indianapolis News writing up the political situation at Terre Haute, says: "Postmaster Bonnell, of Crawfordsville, who is to succeed Revenue Collector Henry in November, has de. termined to steer clear of the Terre Haute factions in everything. He will not even take the chances of absorbing any of the combativeness that seems to impregnate the air. Hence his conclusion to keep his residence at Crawfordsville. He has been much sought since his appointment to succeed Judge Henry, and finds his task of harmonizing the discordant elements in the party here anything hut a labor of love. He has given out several changes which he will make in the administrative force of the collector's office, and is asked by the anti-Henry faction to make as complete a sweep as the law will allow. This he will not do. He intends to make only such changes as will be far the good of the service and in the interest of the party, as he sees it. He proposes to be courteous to all who are volunteering advice, but shall depend on hie personal judgment attd the judgment of friends who are without the warring circle, in th« matter of all ohanges. "BoDnell's pppaintment is supposed to have been made with a view to teaoh the Republioani of Terre Haute aod* Hhe Fifth district thai they muBt get together if thoy hope to have steading in the party at large. Judge Henry wasted to succeed himself. Nicholas Filbeck, the (Junulng leader of one of the factions) also waited the place. The rivalry wm such thM the breach would have beea widened had a citizen of Terre HaUle been named. Hence the appointment of an outsider. If the popu­

lar postmaster of Crawfordsville can so manage his official affairs, and act as a peacemaker who can make peace, then Senator Beveridge will have done the party a fine service by securing Mr. BonnqU's appointment.

The School Fund.

Frank L. Jones, state superintendent of public instruction, has completed the June apportionment of school funds to the ninety-two counties of the state. The amount collected from all the counties wa3 $1,131,959.34, and the total amount apportioned $1,113,693.52, leaving a balance in the state treasury of 833,550.70. The total amount apportionedmakes the distribution $1'.47 per capita. Marion county paid in $117,943 3S and received from the apportionment $70,296.87. Other counties, however, received much more than they paid in, Brown county, for instance, receiving $9,600.03, after having paid in only $8,295.84. The more populous and wealthier {counties paid in more than they received. Montgomery county has 8,400 children of school age. She paid in $15,914.78 and frets back $12,348.00.

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THE GLORIOUS.

A Great Crowd Here to Celebrate.

The Elks Carry Out Their Programme to the Letter and EvcrbudySVus Well Pleased.

The glorious Fourth dawned bright anil hot. Before it dn.wi.cd, hov.ever, scores of delightful small boys about, town had awakened the to a realization of the dsy's approach V-v shooting oil' countlesscannon lire crackers, whooping like savages afro- each ungodly explosion. For t.nc

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the early morning was S"ul satisfyirg By 8 o'clock crowds were as-ctnbiifiL on the streets enjoying 'ho antics of the only Carrie Nation a ad dodging devil chasers. Bands played about- here and there and Elks in white cap-! ar.d trousers were everywhere in evidence. It was half past nine when the parade to the grounds was made, the E'ks, three bands, the boys' ononis, and Carrie Nation's carriage eonM.itutSnsr the features. Carrie sat in the biazir sun without hat or parasol, and waved enthusiastically {it the ercwd wl-i.-h jollied her along ttio way. She wfis out for fun and didn't care who knew it.

Before the parade arrived at tl grounds there were many people assembled there and all morning the hacks did a big business in carrying the crowds.

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There was a large crowd on the grounds when Carrie Nation made her speech and the races and acrobatic performances which followed were not without spectators.

The event of the day probably was the marriage at 3 o'clock of Mr. Earl Shular and Miss Bertha Fay Ellis, the ceremony being witnessed by over 0,000 people. Owing to the fact that the stand in front of the amphitheater had fallen down under the weight of Carrie Nation's logic the ceremony was performed on the stand at flarai hall. The marriage was performed without a bobble exoeDt that when the floral bell had discharged its shower of flowers and the trap holding the doves in he

upper story of the bell had been opened tuo birds rtfused to lly out. The happy cjuple were driven to the stand in a c'osed carriage and mounted the stand while the boys' chorus of over lifty voices sweetly and loudly sane the chorus from "Lohengrin." Beneath thij floral bell the bride and groom met 1 Tharp, who conducted the lengthy vice in a most, impressive manner, ihn crowd giving a remarkably respectful attention The bride was a decidi'y pretty one and was attired in a gown of white, low neck and traine. She carried a shower bouquet of roses a:,d ferns and made an ideal bride. While naturally spectacular there was i,'idling ludicrous or amusing about the ceremony. It was probably the best cK'.duct.td public wedding ever wit-ii'^-eil in Indiana. After the, wedding a cat portion of the crowd left the rounds and catne down town, many goiul' to the ball

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The fire works display at night was a magnificent one and was greatly appreciated by the immense crowd which saw it.

The celebration was a great success •u'd t,he lilks cleared about $500 on the atrair after giving the most successful celebration in the history of the town.

CARRIE NATION.

Carrie Nation arrived in Crawfordsville on Wednesday evening and besides the committee of Elks there awaited her at the station a large crowd ..if sma'l boys who whooped with deiiiious joy when Came alighted frool the kivered cars. She wore a black bonnet and an over-dress of linen duster style, her only visible ornament except her sunny smile being a large tin batched pinned on her heaving bosom. On her way to the carriage she stopped

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to shake hands with the collection of noisy brats who thronged about her aud was evidently tlcitled nearly to death to get here. A large crowd assembled in front of the Crawford to these people Carrie waved tand smiled as she stumbled out and waded into the hostelry followed by a merry horse laugh and the Elka committee staggeiing under the weight of her numerous kindles and grips. In the lobby she »hook hands with a few and registered in a bold hand on two lines of the book "Carrie Nation, your only defender, Kansas." It took her only a jifTy to prepare for supper and as she ate at her table she was the cvnosure of all eyes. She went at the bill of fare with

a:i appetite as deadly as her famous itched and gobbled up two glasses of p.uicb. which was liberally ilavorod' with hated rum, but Carrie possibly didn't know that.

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tive accompanied by M. K, Foley and J. J. Insley interviewed tlie celebrated old girl in her room and were enlightened on many things. Carrie talks very much as any other garrulous and nervy old female and before one has been with her many minutes ho is impressed by the fact that ho is dealing with no fool. Carrie's fad is her business and she works it for all it is worth If the doubt could bo removed that she really is in earnest in her crusade, she would be reckoiul as one of the smoothest graTters that ever struck this town. I tell you 1 haven't any synopsis of my speech," she said glibly. "I never prepare myself beforehand. The Lord always tends me a message

or an inspiration 11 -.t before I go on the stand, sometimes not until I open the Bible at random and see my text right there before me: When I go hunting I go after game and always bring some thing down. Crawfordsville is my gamo this time. '"What ar6 these Elks, anyhow? that's what I want to know. Why do they name their society after an animal? I guess it is because it has the biggest horns. Isn't that it? Oh, you can't fool me. I want to know all about them and their 'horns,

Cftrrie expressed a wish to go out at once and visit the saloons, but Mr. Insley demurred, whereupon Carrie playfully pointed her finger at him and cooed: "Oh, I'm unto you. The saloon is your idol and you can't bear to see it disturbed." She seemed satisfied, however, when Mr. Insley denied the soft impeachment and gave as his reason for keeping her under cover the fact that if she was seen too much in public before her speech the desire of the people to seo her would be satisfied and the attendance cut down at the fair grounds. "Well, I guess that is all right," said she, "but I would dearly love to get out and stir these hell holes up. I think it would be a great drawing card, especially if I should take a mind to smash something. And I'm likely to do that very thing. Just ilet me see one of those nasty slot machines! You ought to see me smash 'em! Just see how strong I am." (Here Carrie worked her arms vigorously and had the boys feel her muscle.) "And then I'm so quick they don't know what I'm about until the thing is done. I can just pick a slot machine up and knock it into a thousand pieces. I've smashed many a one, glory be to God!"

Carrie then exhibited a lot of bottles of wine, whiskey, and beer that had been sent her by facetious saloon keepers and brewers over the country and stated that she wanted to get a drove of pure little children to smash them after her speech She went on to say that she had a morbid appetite for liquor herself, having once taken it as medicine. "Why, I should think then, Mrs. Nation, said one of her interviewers, "that you would be afraid to sleep in the room with so much good stuff."

Carrie's eye flashed fire and she simply swelled like a baloon as she replied "No indeed, I could sleep with it under my pillow for I am mistress and not servant. I'm mistress wherever I am."

Carrie retired early Wednesday night but was up at fonr next morning, and having washed her soiled clothes in the bowl hung these articles up in the front window to dry and then arrayed her ample form in a suit of white duck. She was

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PART FIRST

PERSONAL MENTION

S'icrt Items I^clntlvc to the Comings and Goings of Crawfordsvlllc People and Their Friends.

—No sodas like Whitenack's. —Chocolate Sundays at Whitenack's. Try Whitenack's cherry phosphates.

I'arker Willis was up from Cincinnati to spend the Fourth. —Miss Nelle Cotton, of Lafayette, is the guest of Miss Grace ICllis. —Mrs. Albert Vount wont to Alex« andria Wednesday for a visit. —-l\ev. C. D. Hills, of Glonavon, Pa., is visiting relatives in the city. --Mrs. W. K. Wallace went to Frankfort Wednesday for a two weeks' visit. •Mrs. Bcllo Speed and Miss Allen, of Louisville, are the guests of Mrs. II. S. Lane. •Miss Kate Johnson arrived home last Sunday from an extended visit in California. -Will Oneal is home from Kirksville, Mo., for a visit with his father,

Howard Oneal. —Mrs. J. W. Blake, of Indianapolis, is here called by the illness uf Mrs. Mary A. Kelley. -Dr. and Mrs. W, C. Hessler returned last Tuesday from their bridal tour through the east. -Mrs. G. F. Huggins left last Monday for Grand Haven, Mich., whero her husband is now located. •Mr. and Mrs. M. Scott went to Riverside Monday afternoon to spend a couple of weeks at their cottage. —Special lowpri .es on a big lino of spring and summer llanucl suitings at

D. I'. Smith's, 111 west Main street. —W. B. Nash will remove bis family to Indianapolis next week, his employment requiring his residence in that., city. —Mrs. Ann Rollar of Saint Joseph, Mo., is visiting a,t her brother, Dr. J. It. Duncan's family, on Washington street. —Miss Nadine Ilall, of Chicago, arrived here on Wednesday to spend the summer with her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Nicholson. —Master George Hays is here from Logansport to spend a few weeks with^ his grandpareiits, Captain%n3,'"Klrs. George R, Brown. —Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Himes, of Glenwood, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Himes, of Ladoga, spent Sunday with H. M. Harter and wife. —Mrs. John Bonnell, Mrs. Am Jones and Mrs, John McAIevy returned last Tuesday from an extended visit in Ft. Wayne and VanWert, O. —J. N. Beal, of Remington, is visiting in the city. Mr. Beal was raised here but left this place fifty years ago. This is his first visit since leaving. —J. M. Keeney, Sr., andJere Keeney went to Indianapolis last Friday, Tha former will spend the summer in Indianapolis with his son, Dr. Stan Keeney. —Johnny Wilcox, of the D. S. navy, is visiting his friends here. Io A few days he will leave to begin a service of four years on the cruiser Olympla in Chinese waters.

Marriage Licenses.

Carlos S. Inskeep and Goldie Boohed William H. Grlost and Lona H. Hays.'

Were Married.

William C. Cook and Melvina Bailey, of Darlington, were married Wednesday at ten o'clock at the office of 'Squire Stillwell.

Married By'Squire Stllwell. 'Squire Stilwell adjourned his court Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock long enough to unite in marriage David Bowen, of Bowers, and Miss Hortense E. Price, of Darlington.

Handsomely Remembered. W. O. Niceley, the retiring president of the Indiana photographers' association, was presented with a handsome silver coffee set and a gold headed cane as tokens of appeciation of his past labors.

Hitch Vour Horses.

After July 3 tho owners of all horses left standing on the streets unhitched will be arrested and fined. The police board has Instructed the officers to keep close watch for such horses and to make the arrests at once on detection^ To leave a horse standing on the streets unhitched is a violation of a city ordinance and hereafter the law will be enforced.

Letter List.

Following is the list of uncalled for letters remaining in the postofflce at Crawfordsville, Ind., for the week ending July «, 1901. Persons calling for same will please say "advertised": Boyd, Will, Rice, Florence, Burrows, C. L., Rowland, Wm. G., CaUerlin, G., Shafer, Sophia, Culborr, Mrs. Samuel, Sharpe. P. Miller, J. B., Shaughter. A.

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