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LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY. AUGUUST 2, 1894.

3 Kimmell News, BY MAURICE . - Farewell July. i - O. Bates and family spent Sunday in Etna. Miss Ola Fry is suffering with a very sore eye. | e C. O. Thompson. of Wawaka, spent Sunday in town. Miss Nellie Sparrow visited in town a few days last week. ‘ Isaac Growcock is haying all he can do at present. Ike is a hustler and does good threshing. R Mr: and Mrs. O. Kimmell, accompanied by Eli Stark and wife, went to Rome City last Friday. 5 A son of J. Mullen, of Cromwell, was brought to the Sparta cemetery for burial last Saturday. -A httle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Schlabaugh, of near Wolf Lake, was laid to rest in the Sparta cemetery last Thursday. Funeral services were held at 3 o’clock. : © Brimfield Warbiings, ' BY TOM AND JERRY. , C. F. Ford and wife, of Goshen, spent Sunday with friends here. Quite a number from this place are attending the assembly at” Rome City. Miss Effa Moore, of Albion, ecalled on her many friends in this place last Sunday. : S Mrs. C. K. Plank and .daughter Laura, of Rome City, spent Sunday in this place. ‘ - The wheat crop 1n this vicinity is averaging between twenty-five and thirty bushels per acre. . S. C. Hilliard and Will Griffin were at LaGrange last Wednesday where they assisted the Topeka ball team in a game with LaGrange. The new telephone at this place brings us into communication with Albion, Ligonier, Kendallville, South Miliordv, Rome City and Wolcottville, People who claim to be christians and sell milk on Sunday and say that they sell it in the name of the Lord, should deal more honestly with him— He will not object if the water is left out. C : Nawaka News Nuggets,

Billy says he is not in it.

Every dog has his own day. : The Ligonier fair is bound to win.

Threshing machines are in all cor ners now. ‘

Ice cream at Thos. Teal’s restaurant at all hours. ) .

D. F. Zirnmerman paid Kendallyille a-brief visit on Tuesday. -

Mr. Lamb, the Diamond lake ditch contractor, is pushing the work. - George Washington Billman is- now nightwatch at Mummert’s sawmaill, Several of our people will attend the assembly at Island Park this week. Corouner Seymoure was in Cromwell one day last week holding an inquest.

The latest fad in Wawaka is ‘“l'rash street.”” Who ever heard of the like?

Oakley Randolph has contracted to furnish and set five miles of telephone poles. T

Mr. and Mrs. Seymoure Heltzeil paid friends in Corunna a pleasant visit last week. ' - Several from here attended the funeral of Miss Alice Knox ot Albion on Monday. ' : Miss May Myers has just recovered from a severe attack of erysipelas in her face. :

Mrs. Isaac Penny is dangerously ill and the chances of her recovery are very doubtful. E Sl

The cows have certainly not been in the cloyer of late as butter is hard to get at any price.

Mrs. Jerry Brandeberry and daughter Katie were visiting in Wolcottville part of last week.

When people are talking up this and that they should speak a good word for the Ligonier fair. William and Sarah haye come to the conclusion that single harness is less expensive than double. - A rusty nail penetrated Wm. Teal’s foot the other day which 18 causing him considerable pain. So the boys are *scabbing’’ are they? If some people would contrive a plan to remove the wheels from their heads they could probably tell the difference: between a cow and an ox. N. Gibbens, ouf village blacksmith, 18 now setting wagon tires for $1.50 per set; buggy tires, $1.25 per set; horse shoeing, new shoes per span, $2.00; old shoes, $1.20, and all other work at reduced prices. 16-tf E. L. Watson, druggist, will tell you that Jobnson’s Magnetic Oil always gives satisfaction and is the cheapest. The parliament of Finland has passed a law prohibiting all railroad traffic and mail deliyery on Sunday. - - Awarded Highest Honors—World's Fair, . ‘DR MOST PERFECT MADE. - A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.?

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Hear H. S. Riggs, the warbler, next Sunday. , : . Farmers are busy threshing wheat and plowing.

- Frank Smith and Roy D. Keehn spent Sunday at Benton Harbor, :

Master Glen Engle has been dangerously ill the past week with liver trouble.

Dr. C. G. Keehn and family spent Sunday in this community, guests of ye scribeé v

Henry Buchtel is quite sick at this writing. He is lying at the home of his brother, John Buchtel.

Rob Earnhart and wife were guests of Mrs. Ann Crow, of near Cromwell, last Sunday. : o There will be no Sunday school at the Hopewell schoo! house next Sunday, but it will be held in the grove instead. - . .

Kinnison & Galbreth, of Ligonier, built a steel granary for Harrison Wood on the farm occupied by Geo. Keehn. This is the finest building of the kind in‘the country. : . There will be a bagket meeting in the grove near the residence ot John Wells next Sunday. The following order will be observed: Sermon by Rev. H. S. Rigos at 11 a. m.; 12 m., basket dinner; 2:30 p. m., Sunday school; 3:30, sermon by Rev. Riggs. Rev. W. F. Schrontz will assist in the services. Come everybody and bring your baskets and enmjoy a day in the woods. [

Wolf Lake Items.

BY SILVER KING

The wheat about here is nearly all threshed.

Robert Wiley’s baby is very sick at this writing. el ‘C. E. Depew is in Chicago this week on -business. | - o ¢

"~ Rev. D. A, Tucker and wife are at Island Park this week.

Whooping cough and measles are both guests of this place. . Guy Winebrenner and Josiah Myers made a trip to kort Wayne last week. Walter Klick and Donald Stangland start for South Dakota next Tuesday. Both schools will attend the picnic atwhe Merriam chapel next Saturday. ‘Miss Hazel Gray will play for the Buarr Oak school at the picnic Saturday. - .

Churubusco vs. Wolf Lake at the ball ground¥ here Thursday, the 2nd inst. } po

F. C. Moore and Anna Matthews, of Green Centre, are here attending school. .

Conde Hile commenced a select school last Monday. He has about twenty students. : The hotel is closed down. There is a very good opening for some man who understands the business.

The Wolf Lake boys crossed bats with the Nappanee boys last Friday. Score, 8 to 25 in favor of Nappanee.

A number from here attended 'the baptismal services at Port Mitchel Sunday afternoon. Four were immersed. e

Miss Berdie Simons in company with another lady from Swan, passed through here on their wheels last Saturday. The Elkhart Mutual Insurance company has proved to be reliable in these parts. John Reed and Ed Keister both got their checks in less than two weeks after the fires. ;

Mrs. J. B. L. Smith departed this life last Wednesday. Funeral services on Friday at the M. E. church at 10 a. m. conducted by Rev. D. A, Tucker. Interment in this cemetery. ; Some of our cutest boys are going beyond the bounds of the law. Last Sunday evening they unhitched a team from the rack and drove it while the owner was attending church. The team showed that it had received hard treatment.

WANTED.—A two days rain. To know who will be trustee. At least two men who have nothing to do, to come and take up their -abode in our town and talk about politics. Lhey must expect to meet some republican blowhards. Nine men to play ball. To know why Hayse is not in It. To know how Richmond broke his watch. To know when after haryest is. To know when you’re going to get married. Some one to curl his hair. Fifteen cents to go to the picnic. :

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Richville Items, 5

BY CATALNE,

J. V. Banta is on the sick list. Jane Fahl is under the doctor’s care.

~ Farmers are complaining about the dry weather. : George Fahl has been quite sick for the past few days. : Mrs, McConnell, son and daughter, of Ligonier, visited at John Harper’s Tuesday, of last week. ‘

- Several from Richville attended the funeral of Miss Alice Knox, of Ligonier, which took place at Albion, Monday. e One of the chief curiosities in this locality is a threshing machine that stacks its own straw. We did not learn the owner’s name.

- George Hire, of Syracuse, was home Sunday on a visit to his parents, He seems to be doing well at the barber trade, and his host of fricnds wish him success. L

Several of the young people from this vicinity, attended the Young People’s Union meeting at Solomon’s Creek, Sunday evening. The subject, ““True Growth,” was ably discussed by thé members, and an interesting paper was read by the leader, T. J. Prickett. These meetings are interesting and profitable. : : :

Some of our neighbors have been bothered almost daily by ia certain gang of ‘‘street walkers'’ from Ligonier. It certainly is a nuisance for parents to send children out” begging, when, if they would stay at home, they might provide for them: However the begging is not to be compared with their visits to the milk houses while the owners are gone.

It Would Not Work

The T.aPorte Herald tells of a mother residing at Bald Hill near LaPorte, who opposed: her daughter's going with a. young man, and one moonlight night while they were on. a stroil she enshrouded herself in a sheet which completely enveloped her tigure and appeared before them in a lonely spot, and with gestures most wierd endea: ored to cause the young: man to forsake his sweetheart. It was not to be; ior as ‘‘faint heart never won fair lady,’’ the lover stood firm, and not only protected his charge from the inbumzn being, but took the ghost captive and unmasked her before her trembling daughter. The would-be ghost. not at all daunted, is now making it warm for the young couple, who are firm in the belief that true love never runs smooth. S : |

Real Estate Transfers,

The following are the real 'estate transfers, as shown by the records, since our last issue: - William Shaffer and wife to Jacob Matthews, lot 4, nw % section 5 Orange township, 2 acres, consideration $1,150. - : Mary B. and Marvin H. Gesaman to John W, Miller, lot 8, Albion. Charles K. Green apnd wife to Samuel A. Folwell, lot 7 an:f 8, Brown’s add, Wawaka, consideration' $6OO.

* Lucius E. Goodwin and wife to Perry C. and Ella A Layenberg, ‘uts 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, Evans sub-divis-ion, Kendallville, consideration $5OO.

. Joseph Myres and wife to Mary Glosser, part of 8 w 4 se } section 12, Jefferson township, gonsideration $3O. Henry J. VanGorder -and wife to William B. VanGorder, se corner (s ot R. R.) partne }, section 36, Allen township, consideration $118.50. Margaret M, Fry to Emeline Banta, lot 22, Smith’s add, Ligonier, $700.— Albion Democrat.

The New, Weed Pest,

A weed has lately made its appearance in many parts of Noble county now known as wild lettuce. Some of our people thought the new Russian thistle had made its appearance; speaking on the matter an exchange says: “During the last three years the tarmers of the Mississippi valley especially Towa, Wisconsin and Illinois have had to contend with the new European, weed, the so called Prickley Lettuce, Lertuka Scariola. Ten years ago this weed was scarcely heard of in the Mississippi valley, though long known in Massachusetts, but now it may be geen coming up in streets, villages, lots, fields and gardens. : Prof. Morrow of the university of lllinois, has recently issued a circular calling attention to the pernicious character of the weed. A few years ago this weed was scarcely noticed in the streets in the village of Ames, but now there 1s hardly a lot' or ‘street in which ' this weed 'cannot be found. Prickley lettuce closely resembles the common cultivated lettuce, The stem is slightly prickley below, bristly, the mid rib on the lower face of the leaf is also prickly. It producessmall yellow flowers .in heads, the latter contains from six to twelve flowers. The seeds are flat with a long beak and at the end of this beak occurs the papus which allows the seed to be disseminated- The great difficulty in dealing with this weed is the fact that a_few plants maturing seed in a yacant place are sufficient to seed the whole neighborhood and as the weed is biennial it should not be difficult to remove them. , * That oily and rough skin cured and the face and hands beautified by Johnson’s Oriental Soap, medicated and highly perfumed. Sold by E. L.. Watson. : : : To the Public. . Thos, Prickett having sold a one half interest in his stock of boots and shoes, and book accounts to M. C. Pollock, the business will hereafter be ‘conducted on a CASH BAsIS under the firm name of Prickett & Pollock. Our motto being’ cash sales and small profits. Those knowing themselves indebted will please call and settle up at once. Thapking our many friends for their patronage in the past werespectfully solicit a contiuation of the same. PRICKETT & PoLLOCK. Ligonier, Ind., July 10, 1894. '

Where was Orndorf?

A tall, awkward, big footed guy blew in at Wakarusa recently and got a job in Kronk & Alford’s saw mill. The fellow was scmewhat of a blower and dropped remarks around that he was fairly dymn foia foot race and could clean out.a%l'yo e in those parts. Here was a pudding for Chauncey Frantz, a Goshen sprinter of muen local renown, came down to fasten the guy’s hide on the fence. The race was aranged for $lOO a side, and Chauncey and his friends went around and. captured many bets on.the side. for it'was a snap and they knew it. e Tuesday the race was run. The gawk of a stranger ran like a deer over the 100-yard stretch and easily made the remarkable time of 9 3-5 seconds, which was by far too fast for Frantz. The stranger’s name is Dawling; and it has since turned out'that he has a challenge in the New York Ciipper for a foot race with Ferrell, the great sprinter. It was an old game but it worked - like a charm.—South Bend Times. : e o

The Marion Soldiers’ Home,

Last year over 400 men, who made application for adwmission to the National Soldiers’ Home, at Marion, Ind., were refused for the want of room, says an exchange. They now have 300 more men than they had in' 1893. The barracks at Marion' are ¥vastly superior to those at any home in the country and an appropriation is now pending in congress for $24,000 to build additional barracks. The ‘in-spector-general recently recommended that hereafter all structures in connection with these homes should be *of a temporary ngture, as the maximum was reached, or nearly so, and that 1t would be unnecessary, as the veterans were dying rapidly. The board did not accept this advice as they did not care to endanger the present buildings by the erection of temporary structures in their vicinity. : ".

He Had Friends,

The trial of Conductor Agler for.contempt of court at Indianapolis, last Thursday, resulted in a continuance, The court heard the eyidence and continued the case until the 17th of September for argument of eounsel and decision. = Mr. Debs’ A. R. U. never lifted a hand or offered any service in ‘behalf of Mr. Agler, but left him in the mercy of strangers., The Knights of Pythias secured bondsmen and attorneys and we think he has no need to fear the result, We hear men on every side condemning Debs and his order for he succeeded in getting them into trouble and, as elsewhere, deserts them in their calamity.—Ashley Times.

An Octogenarian Wheelman.

A Portland mau was @ Sunford last week and reports that everybody is riding the bicycle there, from the toddler to the gray haired grandfather. He saw Mzr. George Goodall, the owner and originator of the plush mills-and: now about 80 years old, pedaling rapidly along the street on a pneumatic. It was not a bicycle,nor yet a tricycle of the old kind, but a special machine, undoubtedly built especially for the old gentleman. It was like any pneumatic tire safety, except that there were two rear wheels instead of one. They were about two feet apart, and of course the machine would stand alone. The chain passed around cogs on the axle between the two rear wheels. Mr. Goddall is doubtless the oldest wheelman in the state.—Portland Press. : T

Smallest Woman on Earth.

Since the death of Lucia Zarate, the ‘““Mexican midget,’’ the title of being the smallest woman on earth has fallen to Mlle. Paulina, a native of Holland. She is now nearly 18 years of age, is but 20 inches high and weighs a few ounces less than 9 pounds. Unlike most midgets, who are usually hideous monstrosities, she is remarkably pretty and accomplished, speaking four different languages fluently.—St. Louis Republic. -

Martha’s or Martin’s Vineyard.

Some of the antiquarians are trying to make out that the proper name of New England’s best known island is Martin’s Vineyard, instead of Martha’s Vineyard. It is plainly another attempt to keep the woman: inferior to‘the man, a revival of the rankest old fogyism, which will find little favor in this progressive age. 'We’'ll have none of it. To Preserve Purity, . ; Mr. Allen, Populist, of Nebraska, has introduced in the senate a bill bearing the title, ‘‘To preserve the purity of national legislation.’”’ The bill prohibits any senator or representative from dealing in speculative stocks the value of which may in any manner depend upon a vote of congress, and the penalty provided is expulsion from his seat in congress, together with indictment. —Washington Digpatch. ; The Height of Obliviousness. - ¢ Yesterday I met a worthy gentleman whom years ago I used to see in the Paris salons. A few ragid words of greeting were exchanged between us. - ‘‘Madame is quite well, I hope?’’ . ‘‘Quite well, thanks.”’ L Here my old acquaintance suddenly bethought himself and added: ‘‘Beg pardon, no—nothing of .the kind. I .forgot for the moment that [ lost her six months back.”’—Etoile, The British colony in Borneo issues its own coinage; cents, half cents and notes of $l, $5, $lO and §256. All accounts are kept in United States currency. o One of the most disagreeable duties of the Hawaiian police is the examination and arrest of persons suspected of having leprosy. : e Playing Cards. L & You can obtain a pack of best %ua{ity _playing cards by sending fteen cents in postage to P, 8. Eustis, Gen’l Pass. Agent, C.. B. & Q. R. R., Chicago, 111. ’ - N { Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder . World’s Fair Highest Award, .

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- IVOL. 9-NO 1.

HAILSTONE RECORDS BEATEN.

‘Huge Chunks of Ice Containing All Sorts | of Thingn In a Costa Rica Storm. - A gentleman conneoted with: the Museo Nacional (National museum) at San Jose, Costa” Rica, in a private letter printed by the Atlanta Constitution, tells a graphio story of the wonderful hailstorm which recently visited the southwest coast of that Central American republic. His letter in part is as follows:- : » ““The cloud cj:@ie almost directly from the west and was blacker than the proverbial ‘Egyptian darkness.’ We are now well used to tropical storms, with their accompaniments of real thunder and lightning, something grander than the folks in old Missouri have ever seen or heard, but in this case it seemed a thousand squalls, hurricanes and cycloiig%]combined in one. All of a sudden” there was a terrible roaring and splashing in the bay near the camp. I have since thought that the only thing that it could be compared with would be a shower of bricks and cobblestones ‘falling into the ocean. We had hardly time to take shelter in an immense hollow guave when that portion of th¢ cloud which was dumping its immenst load of ice into the salty water veered to the northeast and crossed to the treeless tract of mountains lying over toward- Hanfeta. It was not a hailstorm in the grand, true sense of the word—it was simply an -awful precipitation of thousands of tons of ice from the clouds. Some of ‘these lumps were not larger than one’s fist, but the majority of them were larger than full sized building bricks, and one which buried itself in the sand near our camp kettle on the beach was a jagged, three cornered mass of ice weighing ~23 pounds an hour and a half after the storm cloud had passed. As one of the boys afterward remarked, ‘Tt iseemed as if the cloud had been frozen solid to a depth of abput 6 or 8’ inches and then suddenly knocked to pieces and . thrown to the earth.’ But few of the ice chunks bore the least resemblance to ordinary hailstones. All were of jagged and irregular form, the majority of the pieces containing. some foreign substance, such as a ball of earth, wads of rotten leaves, sand, fish. amd frog spawn, etc. The head of a dead sunfish was found in one piece and a half dozen or a dozen of the ice slabs gathered up and put into our water jar yielded two live and one dead frog, a mass of kelp, or seaweed; three small pebbles, a sea shell and some queer black seeds about the size of buckshot.’’

IS SHE BEING COERCED?

Suspicion That the Princess Alix Is Not : Marrying Her Own Selection.

“There is a strong and growing expresgion of .opinion that the Princess Alix was persnaded—some people suggest coerced—into accepting the czarowitz. It is difficult to understand why that idea should get into people’s heads now, but it is undoubtedly there, and it will not be easy to dislodge it. The good people of Harrogate, where the princess is still drinking the waters and taking sulphur baths, have not the slightest doubt about it. She was pale and weak, they say, when she came and evidently loaded down with care. If the gossip of the servants’ hall and of the fashionable promenade is of any value, she suffered from sleepléssness and often appeared at the breakfast table with her eyes swollen from much weeping., She has greatly improved since she went to Harrogate —physically at any rate. Color has returned to her face, and the doctor’s visits are less frequent now. She looks strong enough to take a good long walk, but she does not do so. She is wheeled about the greater part of the day in a bath chair. - , : :

- It is only fair to mention, however, that the poor princess is hard at work learning Russian - and devotes several hours a day to a grammar and dictionary, which of course does not conduce to cheerfulness. Neither is the preliminary study of a great religion, upon whicl;\g%a6 is also engaged, calculated to impreove an invalid’s spirits.—London Lett-of. ; j

The Nonpartisan Trust.

The late Jay Gould always contributed to the campaign funds of both parties and boasted that he was a Republican when the Republicans w%e in power and a Democrat when th&§ Democrats ‘were in power. And though the Havemeyers are supposed .to bhe Democrats and Cord Meyer, Jr., as we know, was. the Democratic candidate for secretary of stato last year, and though some of those connected - with the trust are Republicans, not one of the stockholders is 50 obtuse as not to recognize the desirability of laying both parties under obligations, and not one is such a fool as to appear as a partisan. They buy politicians just as they buy raw sugar—a. little more delicately perhaps, but all in the way of business. And it’s so with the other trusts.—Rochester Post-Ex-press. « ' ' Qemterboards For English Yachts. It seems not improbable that the vexed question of the superiority of fixed keel or centerboard for racing in English waters may be settled this season. At any rate, it will be thoroughly tested in the 20 rating class, and the results will be watched with much interest. The form of the Dragon is so well known that it will be somewhat easy to judge whether the addition of a centerboard has improved her or the reverse, and as the Thelma, which Mr. Fife has designed for Mr. Walker, is also_to have a centerboard another oppOrtuni%y_will be: afforded of estimating whether or not this class of boat is superior to the fixed keel, which all English yachtsman have so long believed in, —London Telegraph. ‘Headache is the direct result of Indigestion and Stomach Disorders. Remedy these by using DeWitt’s Little Early Risers and your Headache disappears., The favorite Luttle Pill eyerywhere, EE. Reedh -~ . @