Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 23 December 1895 — Page 3

Wilkins' Drug I

Store

For the largest and most complete line ot

Books, Albums, Toilet Cases

and in fact, almost everything suitable for Christmas presents. Come in and see our stock whether you want to buv or not. We are always ready to show goods.

W. A. WILKINS,

No. 21 West Main St.

L. A. DAVIS

FOR

II,

THE

Should be perfect, either bv the kindness of Providence, or prorei spectacles, in order that. &]! .i.v fui'y prtciate their

Christmas Grifts

Why not aid those failing e.yes by making your present a pair of uold, silver or alumnum spectacles correctly adjusted by

HUSTON

GRADUATE

IPTIE1I1

'Holly "W" reatlis

And

Oh-ristmas Trees •iss

i&M, Mi

We have always made it a specialty to handle all decorations suitable for the holidays, and this year we have made an extra endeavor to please our customers. Call in if you want Wreaths, Christmas Trees, Candies or Nuts. We are sure we can please ou.

Grocery

HARRY STRICKLAND.

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Opposifce Court House:

Local and Personal.

Cheap dolls at Spot Cash. The Watterson lecture to-nigh:. Read ttie write-ups of our merchants. Henry Watterson will lecture tonight. Ladies pointed toe overshoes at Spot Cish.

We'll liaug up our stockings to morrow night. Ladies line purses only 38c at Spot tsh.

Dsuny Hays, of Pittsburg, is here visiting relatives. W. A. Wilkins will sell you a $2.25 Oxford Teachers Bible for $1.48. tf

Hear the great lecture of Henry Watterson to-night. Born to Gib Clayton aud wife this morning, a girl baby.

Miss Alma Weed will spend the holidays at Fort\ ille. Ladies pretty handkerchiefs at 5c, 10c and 15c at Spot Cash.

Mrs. Chas. Millison is at Shelby ville on a visit to friends. The Straight Tip Co., one of the best traveling, will be here Christmas eve.

Beautiful moquett rugs at Spot Cash, $2. Large size $3.50. The Straight Tip Co. comes well recommended. Christmas eve.

O. L. Carr and family are visiting at Homer. Rush county. Clinton E. Walling, of Hamilton, Ohio, was here on business to-day.

H. D. Barrett has returned from his trip to the Atlanta Exposition. Wanted—Two roomers. Residence cenrally located. Call at this office. 20tf

W. A Wilkins will sell you a $3.25 Oxford Teachers Bible for $1.48. tf Miss Anna Shortel will spend the holidays with her parents, at Kokomo.

Buy your wife a fine pair of shoes lor Christmas. Spot Cash has the sweetest. W. A. Wilkins will sell you a $2,25 Oxford Teaeners Bible for $1.48. tf

The programs of the Christmas entertainments will be given in tomorrow's issue.

Leave your order for Christmas turkeys, chickens, or a beautiful young duck or goose. 23t2

There's nothing nicer than a pair of suspenders for Christmas presents. See Spot Cash.

Some tramps enjoyed a pleasant night's rest in the South school building last might.

For rent, five room3, centrally located, with bath, to small family. Enquire at this office. 301tf.

The case of Dr. Griffin against the estate of the late James L. Mason, was compromised today.

Otis Orr and wife, were at Morristown vesterday. Miss Verlie Towns returned with them to spend the holidays.

Claude Wilson, the vetenary surgeon, is making a tcur of the southern part of the state with a view of locating.

Something good to eat, for a particular occasion can be found at Thayer & Co.'s market. Meats that are not excelled anywhere, and poultry of the finest. 23t2

Saturday evening Elmer Wright and Nora Farley, both of this city, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony [at the M. P. parsonage by Rev. Martin.

Misses Jennie and May Duncan, of North Street, gave quite a pleasant party Saturday night in honor of Miss Stella Humphries, of Brightwood. Refreshments were served.

Persons who have a farm or town property for sale or rent, or persons|who want to rent or buy any kind of property, should call on Henry Snow & Co., 14 S. Pennsylvania street. tf

Did you see those Christmas steers with decorations ou them parading the streets? Well they are beauties and good enough forthe Queens taste, and they were going to Thayer & Co.'s market. 23t2

Walker & Walsh respectfully inform their customers that they are awfully hard up for money to pay their bills and parties ©wing them will confer a great favor by calling and settling at once.

Wait for the Straight Tip Co. This company will be at Richmond on next Monday night and will stop here Tuesday night. Wednesday night they play at Indianapolis. This is a first-class company.

County Clerk Sample issued the following marriage licenses today: Arthur Wales to Ida Leighton Willis Fredrick to Viola Murphy Bent Vanmeter to Nora L. Johnson Charles E. Clark Jto Anna L. Windcliff M. A. Gustin to Rebecca Kramer.

We would like to offer a suggestion to the people of this city for this winter. Don't ship a big box of clothing and provisions a thousand miles away when there is a little boy freezing just around the corner, probably within a dozen yards of you. It is right to help those abroad but take care of the destitute at your own doors before going any further away.

The Supreme Court Friday in reversing the decision of the Kosciusko Circuit Court in the case of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway against Martin Patterson, held that a railroad company cannot be held liable for Injury where a tresspasser is forced to jump from a moving train and Is killed thereby.

Now

In at our window and

eethe pretty things we

are getting ready for

your Christmas presents

but do not stop there

com inside and you will

find that we have a

much larger stock than

ever before, and at

prices that will sell

them. They will go

fast, so come early and

get first pick.

C. QUJLGLEY,

MODEL DRUGSTORE

Opposite Court House.

Spot Cash Druggist

GREENFIELD

OPERA HOUSE

WILL A. HOUGH, Manager.

The Next Attraction

Oliristmes Eve, Dec. 24

Popular Prices.

THE OLD RELIABLE

HAND LADNDRY.

Is now in I would thank your patronage.

order and

you all for

First- class work Guaranteed

59W. Main St., Gant block.

LOUIE L. SING, Prop

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A Christmas Eve Ball.

A ball willjbe given at Garit's hall on Christmas eve. Music by Montana brothers. Phil Duffy floor manager. Ladies free, gents $1.00. 22t4

New Shoe Shop.

I have opened a shoe shop at the corner of Mechanic and Osaga streets, and will be pleased to have you give me a portion of your patronage. Work on ladies shoes a specialty. Nothing but the best of leather used. Prices reasonable. 20t6 N. N. COONEV.

The Problem Solved,

If you are wise and dosire to regain your health, then you will heed the advice of thousands and use the finest flour on earth. To do this you must [use the "Leader Brand" where you get purification. Ask your physician.

NEW BROS.

The Sunday Schools. -v'

Sunday, Dec. 21th, 1895. Attend'e. Col Christian .'. 147 '-^«2 65 M. E. Church 264 H',5. 72 Presbyterian 130^£f|js5. 85 Friends 44.50 M. P. church 132 5. 75 Totals 717 820. 47

DIFFERENCE.

Tennyson could take a worthless sheet of paper, write a poem on and make it wortn $65,000. THAT'S GENIUS.

Yanderbilt can write a few words on a sheet of paper and make it worth $5,000,000. THAT'S CAPITAL.

The United States can take an ounce and a quarter ofgold, stamp upon it an "Eagle Bird" and make it worth $20. THAT'S MONEY.

A mechanic can take "material' worth $5 and make it into watch springs worth $1,000. THAT'S SKILL.

A merchant can take an article worth $1 and sell it for $1.50. THAT'S BUSINESS.

Some people will go to Indianapolis to buy goods when they can save money by trading at home. THAT'S FOOLISHNESS.

A laborer works ten hours a day for $3 per day. THAT'S LABOR.

The writer of this could write a check for $800,000, but it wouldn't be worth auything. .THAT'S ROUGH.

But when we sell you dolls childrens sets of dishes, china, glassware, lamps and fancy baskets below all competition at home or abroad, and have the best line to select from, THAT'S REALITY.

F. S. HiBSEL'S CHINA STORK.

Tfr-E SIN EATER.

A Curious Funeral Kite Whicli Formerly Obtained In Wales.

The priucipality of Wales has within living memory possessed an official known as the "sin eater," says a London journal. It was the practice for a relative—usually a woman—to put on the breast of a deceased person a quantity of bread and cheese and beer, and the sin eater was sent for to consume them and to pronounce the everlasting rest of the departed. It was believed that in doing this he absolutely ate and appropriated to himself the sins symbolized by the viands, and thereby prevented their disturbing the repose of the sinner who had committed them. Such an arrangement would obviously leave nothing to be desired on the one side, but how it worked on the other we are not told. What was supposed to be the condition of this spiritual undertaker after the ceremony was concluded? Did his "appropriation" of the dead man's sins imply a sort of moral assimilation of them, answering to his physical assimilation of the bread and cheese? The question would obviously be one of some importance to a sin eater in large practice. If the responsibilities of his profession were as great as they would appear to have been on this hypothesis, he would need to retire from it early and to devote a considerable portion of his closing years to repentance and good works.

Again, it is natural to ask what happened at the decease of a popular or "fashionable" sin eater. Would anyone among his professional brethren undertake to eat his sins, even in the first flush of satisfaction produced by stepping into his shoes? If so, then, indeed, has the epithet of "gallant" been rightly bestowed upon little Wales. It is as though one doctor succeeding to another's practice should consent to assume the moral responsibility for his late colleague's treatment of all his deceased patients in addition to his own similar burdens.

We yield to none in admiration of the quiet and homely heroism of the medical profession, but we doubt whether it would enablt# them to face such an ordeal as this. As to the Welsh practitioners to whom we have compared them, we shrink from pursuing the analysis further. It is evident that, as in the schoolboy game of "conquerors," where a stone which can smash the smasher, of, say, 43 other stones takes over all its conquests, and becomes itself a "forty-fourer," so the responsibilities of these unhappy men might accumulate at an alarming rate. One hardly dares to contemplate the internal condition of the sin eater of a sin eater who had in life attended a long series of other sin eaters. The cheese would be almost converted into Welsh rabbit before he had sot it down.

A Word About Bloomers.

Now, what do we mean by this tirade against the bloomer costume? We sneer, we swear, we ridicule, but why should we be double barreled idiots on this subject? We like long dresses because, so to speak, we were born that way. But why shouldn't a woman wear olothes that fit the occasion, provided they are becoming? I draw the line there because to be unbecomingly dressed is a crime. The women of China, Turkey, Persia, all wear short clothes—that is, about 200,000,000—and why should we raise such a howl if a few American girls do the same thing, eh?—New York Herald.

Identifying a Warcloud.

"Better git them ducks out," said the barkeeper to the bouncer, "before they git to figlitin."r

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St. Louis Is waking up'."' An 10 Btory building will soon be erected, $22,000,000 will be spent in Improving the business district east of Main street, and Colonel Abo Slupsky is going to get married.— Kansas City Packer.

Indispensable

EARLY'S

BIG DOUBLE DRUGSTORE!

We have both our stores packed with

A mammoth stock ol Toys, Hobby Horses Sleds, Fancy Dishes, Drums Games, Albums, Toilet Sets, Perfumery, Cigars, etc.

A nice line of Christmas books—juvenile and standard. Our stock of Fancy Candies is immense.

Get our prices before you buy.

SHOE

I L. y's Big re,

Odd Fellows' Building and 25 W. Main St.

Misses, 11-2, 75 cents, regular $1.50 Shoes. Child's 7-10^, 50 cents, regular $1.00 Shoes. Men's Fine $1.5© Shoes _±__95 cents Men's good heavy shoes 88 cents Thirty-thrpe pairs boys $1.50 shoes 98 cents Fifty-three pairs men's $2.50 and $3.00 shoes $1.28

These are equally as good ibargains as those of our last annual sale, and most of the ladies* goods are patent tip and up-to-date in style. These goods will be put on sale SATURDAY and will continue until all of them are sold.

REMEMBER Our Neckwear, Ou.r Hats,

Our Umbrellas, Our Suspenders, Our Underwear,

Any of which makes a handsome Xmas present#

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REDUCED

from

GOODS

$8.00

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