Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 December 1901 — Page 2
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1901.
COURT EXPENSES.
Extra Items Which Judge West Ordered Paid, That Came Up During the September Term of
Court.
The September term of the Montgomery circuit court has been closed and the various court officers have submitted their bills for extra items of expense, which Judge West has ordered be paid. Miss Matie K. Keeney was allowed $230 for services as court stenographer, and Taylor Thompson was allowed $162 for services eighty-one days as court bailiff.
Sheriff McCullough submitted the following report of expenses: Geo. W. Wasson, riding bailiff, 81 days...$202.50 Sheriff, attendance court, 81 days 162.00 W. J. Phelps, state work, 81 day? 50.00 Petit jury, meals 96.40 Stationery, etc., for court room 12.00 Stamps 7.00 Telephoning 90
Total J470.80 County Clerk Kennedy's expense bill was as follows: Court deputy, 81 days $162 00 Postage, cards, etc., from June 26, '01... 9.70 Making estate claim docket 16.5(J Making copy September dooket for printer 17.70
Total.. .1 $205.90
Elevator Robbed.
The Big Four elevator of Gray Bros, at the corner of the Big Four railroad and Grant avenue, was robbed Sundaj night and twenty-five pennies taken out of the cash drawer. Nothing else of value has been missed.
Will Work for Anderson Firm.
E. £. Bell has accepted a position for the coming year withGedgeBros., Iron and roofing company, of Anderson.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Melvina Quillen vs. Joseph M. Britch. Appeal. Motion for new trial over ruled, bud plaintiff given possession of real estate and judgment for damages in the sum of $9.00.
Sheriff McCullough files statement of mileage and per diom of petit jurors and the same is approved.
Saraji E. Petro vs. Samuel E. Petro. Pl&lritiff given divorce and custody of Child,
Matthias Rapp vs. Christian H. Lambert and the Crawfordsville Trust Co. Damage on bond. Dismissed.
Mary E. Robbins et al. vs. Isaac M. Davis et al. Complaint. Court finds for plaintiffs, that they recover from Isaac M. Davis $688.85, and that garnishee, Jno. L. Davis, is allowed to retain out of the money In his hands $125 and that residue of said money be paid to plaintiffs amounting to $358.91.
Robt. J. Glover vs. John T. Penn. On note. Court finds for plaintiff in the sum of $279.35.
Frank Thewlis vs. Margaret Thewlis. Plaintiff granted divorce. Mary H. Kelley vs. Wm. J. Ivelley. Divorce. Dismissed.
W. W. Morgan and Liucien A. Foote appointed jury commissioners for next calendar year.
Board of commissioners petition for special session declared lawful and proper. Board called to meet December 31. to settle claims, etc.
Wabash college vs. Basil T. Merrell and W. M. White. Injunction. Court gives judgment for plaintiff that taxes had been paid,
Information Wanted.
The manufacturers of Banner Salve having always believed that no doctor or medicine can cure in every case, but never having heard where Banner Salve failed to cure ulcers, sores, tetter, eczema, or piles, as a matter of curiosity would like to know if there are such cases. If so they will gladly refund the money.
Cold Comfort From Doctor*. Doctors say neuralgia is not dangerous. This is poor consolation to a sufferer who feels as if his face were pierced with hot needles and torn with a thousand pairs of pincers. A word of advice to him: Stay indoors and use Perry Davis' Painkiller. The blessed freedom from pain which follows this treatment cannot be told. There is but one painkiller, Perry Davis'.
IT'S the little colds that grow into big colds the big colds that end in consumption and death. Watch the little colds. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup.
AROUSED THEIR IRE
Representative Robinson's Move to Cut Down Expenses Creates a Storm. site" WBflki.,. -'.v.
THE CLERKS ARE UP IN ARMS
A
Resolution to Do Away With a Time Honored Abuse of Uncle Sam's Good Nature Is the Cause of It All—Geo. Lockwood Gives Some Startling Statistics on This Point, Together with Much Interesting Gossip Anent Things at the National Capital.
[Special Oorn'spMiulenoc.]
Washington, Dec. 25.—Representative Robinson of the Fort Wayne district is about as popular in civil service circles just at present as is the free silver doctrine in the Columbia club—and all because of an innocent looking measure introduced by him wherein it is provided that the sickleave privilege that has seen such long and arduous service in the departments at AVashington. shall be abolished. It is even hinted that clerks in the classified service will raise a fund and ship it out to Indiana to be used against Mr. Robinson in his next campaign for nomination or election, just as a similar fund was employed against Mr. Dockery of Missouri, when he proposed a salary reduction bill some years ago.
Yet the enactment, by congress of Mr. Robinson's measure would be a manifestation of sound business sense. Every clerk in the government service at Washington is given annual leave of 30 days with pay. To this may be added a sick leave not exceeding 30 days in length, and Comptroller Tracewell, another Indianian, was severely criticised for his decision a year or two ago that this SO days was not exclusive of holidays and Sundays. Statistics gathered in one of the largest governmental bureaus some time ago shows that the aggregate time lost annually by each group of 500 clerks in the executive departments equals all the time one clerk would give the government during a working lifetime of CO years. As there are 23,000 employes in the departments at Washington, the total time lost in this way aggregates annually over 2,700 years, at a cost to the government of nearly $3,000,000. When it is remembered that six and a half hours make a day's work in the departments, that in certain of them a Saturday half-holiday during the summer months is added, that on every public occasion of unusual importance business in the departments is suspended, that under the system of life tenure the number of septuagenarians and even octogenarians in the departments is annually increased that the salaries of all these employes average twice the amount paid for the same work in ordinary business life, and that at each congress there is a flood of recommendations for increases in compensation and number of employes, it will be seen that Mr. Robinson has taken only the first step in the direction of a new variety of civil service reform—a kind of reform for which there is a present crying need, if it is hoped at any time in the distant future to transact government business on a business basis.
Mr. Robinson is not likely to have the support of any organization in his crusade against an evil which is costing the government so heavily, and it may be that the campaign £und against him which is talked of in civil service circles may materialize, but he has at any rate called attention to conditions that are likely at some time in the future to become the subject of genuine reform.
Modern Methods Unpopular.
Public Printer Frank W. Palmer, a former Indianian, is also entitled to classification with those who have recently achieved unpopularity in the great army of the classified. There is a rumor on foot that typesetting machines will be introduced into the government printing office. The magnificent new building erected by the government for this bureau will be equipped with the most modern machinery, and it is natural to suppose that along with it will come the Mergentlialer, which is used as a measure of economy and convenience in every printing establishment having in hand an amount of work approaching that daily done in Mr. Palmer's big plant. The installation of the typesetting machines, however, would result in the displacement of 300 or 400 government employes, and there's the rub. The use of the machine was successfully resisted several years ago, and if Mr. Palmer tries to put them in a vigorous fight will be put up against them. Under present conditions the government could do most of its work by private contract cheaper than it is possible to do it in its own establishment, with interest on the investment left out of the accounting. This, of course, is not a new condition that has arisen under the management of Mr. Palmer, who is one of the most efficient bureau officials in Washington.
Hoosiers In Uncle Sam'b Employ.
The recently issued Government Blue Book shows that 588 Indianians are employed in the departments at Washington, and that they draw salaries aggregating $703,759.20 annually. Comparison with other states shows that Indiana about holds her own, even with Ohio, in the matter of government appointments. She is not In it, however, with Maryland and Virginia- Virginia is represented by
J,399 employes, with aggregate salaries of $1,225,143.85, and Maryland by 1,603 employes, with aggregate salaries of $1,490,804.55. Yet a good many Indianians who have succeeded getting on the eligible list have been met with the statement that the Indiana "quota" in the particular branch of the service to which they might be appointed, was full.
The Indianians are distributed among the departments as follows: State, 2 treasury, 119 war, 38 navy, 4 postoffice, 30 interior, 262 justice, 5 agriculture, 14 government printing office, 98 bureau of labor, 23 District government, 14.
In the consular service Indianians are scattered pretty well over the earth's surface. There are Hoosier consuls at Zanzibar Santa Maria, Colombia Paris and Calais, France Dusseldorf, Germany Plymouth, England St. John, New Brunswick Winnipeg, Manitoba Nagasaki, Japan Nogales and Vera Cruz, Mexico St. Petersburg. Russia and Valparaiso, Chile. Hubbard T. Smith of Vincennes is the only Indianian in the limited corps of consular clerks. Just at present he is in Washington. He is. an inveterate globe-trotter, however, and is likely to be heard of next, at Teheran or Tagonrog.
Bundy and the President.
C. II. Bundy, formerly of the Marion Chronicle, recently appointed a member of the Indiana prison board, was in Washington last week en route from New York to Indiana. While here he hunted up Representative Wachter of Maryland, and renewed an acquaintance formed while both these gentlemen were sojourning at the Indian mineral springs some months ago. Mr. Wachter is chairman of the house committee on enrolled bills, and upon him falls the duty of carrying to the White House for the president's signature hills which become laws in the house. Mr. Bundy accompanied him on his first mission of this character, and saw President Roosevelt affix his signature to a resolution providing for the payment of the salaries of employes at the capitol, which he did with the Remark that "the boys ought to have their money." Mr. Bundy was impressed with the president's splendid physical condition. The duties of the presidency seem to make no impression on his unusual physique—a fact to be ascribed to his habit of outdoor exercise.
Rathbone Has an Experience.
S. B. Rathbone Jr.. the special agent recently placed in charge of the central division of the rural free delivery service, with headquarters in Indianapolis, had an experience with the Pennsylvania floods during a trip to Washington last week. The journey occupied the greater part of two days, and Mr. Rathbone says that he traveled on all kinds of rolling stock from a sleeper to a handcar. And speaking of sleepers reminds one of a story told of Mr. Rathbone's last visit to Washington by a bureau official. The two were returning to Indiana together, and decided as a measure of economy to travel in a day coach to Harrisburg, Pa., taking the sleeper there. On arriving at Harrisburg they discovered that the Pullman fare from that point, a six hours' trip from Washington, is the same as from the capital. By taking turns at the job the gentlemen were not compelled to kick themselves.
Mr. Rathbone came on to attend a meeting of special agents in charge at which plans for the next year's work were discussed. He says that for the time being he is a Hoosier and that the state of Indiana will get all she wants in the way of rural free delivery service after the next appropriation is made. Four or five counties will come in for complete service, such as is now in operation in Marion. Delaware and Bartholomew counties. Grant county is next on the list for this system. While here Mr. Rathbone was interviewed by Louis Ludlow, the Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel. He declares that he has seen newspaper men perform a great many acrobatic feats, but that Mr. Ludlow is the only one he over saw who was able to twist one leg twice around the other while engaged in pumping someone supposed to have news inside.
Indianians and Agriculture.
Dr. H. W. Wiley, formerly of the Purdue university faculty, now chief of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture, has returned from a week's lecturing tour in Canada. He delivered two lectures at Guelph, under th«
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auspices of the On
tario Medical college and one at Toronto, on the chemical and agricultural problems connected with the beet sugar industry. Dr. Wiley is one of the most efficient experts in the department which has done so much to advance American agricultural interests during the past decade. A proposition is now before congress for a newagricultural building, to cost $1,000,000. The present departmental buildings, erected when agricultural inter ests were looked .after by a bureau, have been entirely outgrown as the work of the department has developed. Among other Indianians who take a prominent part in the work of the agricultural department are Guilford L. Spencer, who came with Dr. Wiley from Prudue as an assistant Joseph A. Arnold of Bartholomew county, associate editor of the Farmers' Bulletins, publications which have been of great value to the farmers of the entire country. Walter H. Evans of Montgomery county, botanical editor fa the office of the experiment stations, and Edward B. Jones of Indi anapolis, assistant chief in the inspection division of the bureau of animal industry.
GEORGE B. LOCKWOOD.
[Copyright, 1901, by Willis B. Hawkins.]
Her Christmas Is not like the rest, Which last a single day Or possibly a week at best
Lives in another da v.
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And then are put away ,, To be forgotten for a year, Until good will toward rncn Conies round, as fashions reappear,
And is in style again.
All time is grandma's Christmas time, All seasons hors to hear Thn echo of a Yuletide chime
Of voices ever dear, Of voices hushed to all but her As through a mist of tears She sees child faces as thev were
In loner departed years.
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Now, dreaming o'er her needle's flight. She croons a song of joy And weaves a thread of heaven's light
Into some Christmas toy. Now- softly up the attic stair Alone she creeps away And o'er the Christmas treasures there
Vet, though mid shadows of the past Fond memories inoy grope, She stands in the effulgence cast
By never dimming hope, And, peering through the gathering night, She views the narrow way That bridges over to the bright
Eternal Christmas day. M-
All time is grandma's Christmas time, All seasons hers to hear The thrilling of a chord sublime
Of voices coming near, As in her simple faith she waits The coming of the morn When past the open pearly gatea
She'll greet the Lowly Born.
No Longer a Bottle Baby.
j5h|| Santa Claus (thrusting tfv jv* his head through the door)
—Sorry for you, kid, but
it's the only present I
have left.
SIX W1SKU KILLED
Accident to Trolley Car at Allentowr Has Dire Result. Allentown, Pa., Dec. 24.—Six per sons were killed and a number injured last night by an electric car jumping the track at a sharp curve at the foot of a high mountain between here and Coopersburg. The accident was duo to the wet rails and snow.
Motorman Stocker tried hard to stop the car when it slipped on the steep grade, but the car flew around the curve and swung against a guy pole which tore off one side of the car and the roof. Those killed sat along the broken side of the car and were crushed by the post. The new Coopersburg line on which the accident occurred opened only last Wednesday.
Seven Itiirned In Tunnel. Liverpool, Dec. 24.—An explosion in a fuse box set fire to a train on the Electric Overhead railway at Dingle station yesterday. Several of the railway employes were terribly burned and seven were killed. The burning train entered a tunnel stored with stacks of creosoted railroad sleepers. These were also set on fire and the tunnel became a blazing furnace. The fire brigade had the greatest difficulty in extinguishing the flames. The corpses of the seven men killed were carried from the tunnel.
P" Oil Car Exploded.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 24.—A tank oi oil on a car in the lower part of this city caught fire and exploded yesterday, killing Buck Wakefield, a machinest, and slightly injuring several other persons. Thp flaming oil set fire tc and destroyed a trestle on which the car was standing and several shanties in the neighborhood, entailing a loss of $20,000.
Oana'ht By the Knaine. Osceola, Mo., Dec. 24—George Moliler and his wife of Mohler City were illed by a train here. They were hurrying to the station to catch a train and stepped in front of an engine.
CHAS. REPLOGLE, Atwater, O., was in very bad shape. He says: "I suffered a great deal with my kidneys and was requested to try Foley's Kidney Cure. I did so and in four days I was able to go to work again, now I am entirely well^ "I had a running, itching sore on my leg. Suffered tortures. Doan's Ointment took away the burning and itching instanly, and quickly effected a permanent cure." C. W. Lenhart, Bowling Green, O.
ACCIDENTS come with distressing frequency on the farm. Cuts, bruises, stings, sprains. Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil relieves the pain instantly*. Never safe without it.
READ the Peoples' Exchange column in this paper for bargains.
MONON ROUTE.
SOETH. SOUTH. No.*18—9:41-a. No.*17—4:26 p. m. No. 6—1:20 p.m. No. 6—1:10 p. m. No. 4—2:09 a. m. No. 8—1:40 a. m. No.*44—2:65 p. No.»4»—8:86 a. m.
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TIME CARD.
(In effect June 2, 1901.) NORTH BOUND.
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C. H. WASSON, Agent.
How Crops Grow in KANSAS
In 20 years Kansas has raised 2,996,000,000 bushels corn and 691,000,000 bushels wheat. From 1896 to 1900 Kansas ranks first in value of wheat and corn, $378,000,000. For 1900 Kansas is first in wheat, $45,000,000 first in corn and wheat, 898,000,000 (or $66.50 each person) fifth in corn, $53,000,000. Above figures are given out officially by Uncle Sam. There's nothing the matter with Kansas. Other facts in pamphlet entitled "Kansas Resources," mailed free. Get a home for yourself or son in bountiful Kansas, and share in next year's prosperity. The way to go—
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General Agent Santa Fe Route. 108 N. Fourth St. St. Louis, Mo
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