New Richmond Record, Volume 5, Number 22, New Richmond, Montgomery County, 6 December 1900 — Page 1

New Richmond Record.

VOLUME V.

NEW RICHMOND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900.

NUMBER 22.

At The Big Store.

FIRE COMPANIES RABBIT HUNT.

ANOTHER CHANGE IN SCHOOL BOOKS.

At the regular meeting of the New Richmond Volunteer Fire Company on Monday night it was decided that the entire membership of both engine companies, together with the members of the hook and ladder brigade, should participate in a rabbit hunt on this (Thursday) afternoon, Promptly at 12 o’clock, noon, the company will meet at the engine house and pair off and proceed to put in the afternoon in pursuit of the festive cotton-tail. At 6 o’clock the members of the company will again assemble at the engine house, bringing with them all rabbits they have killed; and the side having slain the least number shall dispose of the rabbits and invest the proceeds in eatables for a supper for the entire company, their wives, children, and sweethearts.

Why it becomes necessary that any individual elected to public office must find himself so important a cog in the revolutions of this mundane sphere upon its axis to do something awful, to upset a part of the smooth working’s necessary to lesser mankind, to erect a cold marble slab to stand as a memoir of his great official fitness or unfitness, is answerable only too plainly by the fact that such acts of official greatness only help to swell his small allotment of “pin” money and aids much more, to fill the coffers of those who have been so lucky to pull the wool over the eyes of the man with both hands behind his back—the people’s servant. We have known of trustees meeting with just such obstacles, of buying everything from School crayons to school heating furnaces, all unawares; but when every man in Indiana reads that another gross change of school books is imminent, he'll think strong thoughts, and marvel strangely at the eternal fitness of these things as he reads. The spellers, histories, physiologies and grammars now used in the public schools of Indiana are being revised. Frank L. Jones, state superintendent of public instruction, recently returned from Chicago, where he met with the committee having the work in charge. The work will bo complete and thorough he says and is expected to be made in time for the change to appear in books furnished the pupil next fall.

Mr. Jones says the revised grammars will contain at least a year and a half more work than is found in the present books. The revised histories will be up to date and will contain a complete history of the Spanish war and of important events that have happoned since then. Decided changes will be made in the spellers and physiologies.

Thanksgiving Has Come And Gone

And we are now looking forward to the Holidays, which are near at hand.

Everybody is interested in knowing where to buy and what to buy.

Come ty our store and we will help you to find just what you want.

Following are the names of the captains and their aids, they being paired off to hunt as given below, a member from each side hunting in company:

We are making great preparations for the Holiday trade and every day from now on will bring new goods to this store. For that occasion our store will be beautifully decorated and you will see a handsome display of Christmas goods.

E. W. Hardman, Capt. Joe Wills, Capt. A. D. Snyder, John Foster,

F. E. Campbell, Tom Kirkpatrick, Claude Work, John Patton, Charles McLain, Walter Harriman, Elston Phillips, Charles Shobe, W. P. Coffman, Charles Boyland, Ellis Clark.

The date for the supper has not as yet been set, but will occur in the near future.

Claypool & Fry.

A FEMALE HAVEN.

SUCCESSORS TO Washburn, Kirkpatrick & Claypool.

We learn that old Uncle Bill Thomas has resigned his position as pen pusher on the staff of the Linden Leader—the management having stopped his pay and he declined to serve longer, that was all —and since then the whole push of the Leader force are ladies, Miss Rose Shotts acting as proprietress and editress, her forelady, deviless (e’en down to the office cat) and all are the meekest femininity. Such a change proves that in the event of the adoption of their suffrage nothing would be impossible with the women, but when we come to think of it it seems so strange too. Our thoughts reflect to that dear old office towel, that hard emblem of harder work, upon which the whole force from manager down must dry their hands and there leave the day stains of weary thought and weary toil. It is an old tradition long handed down, from Franklin himself, that it is both unlucky and unwise to cast aside one towel for another until it can stand alone; until then we’d dare not consign it to the wash —it would not burn. Printers will rever such long associations; but think of our Linden Leader ladies that they must stoop to this. Then, it’s almost as impossible, it is claimed, for a printer’s devil to pass his apprenticeship and without learning to-er-to swear as it is “for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.” Oh, well, we know our Linden Leader ladies wont do that, and thus the case, what an almost perfect paradise a newspaper office operated by women must be. It must be next to heaven.

WILLING WORKERS.

game in the country and that the tired toiler of the field wants all the shooting for himself and is having quail on toast while the citizens of the towns and hamlets have chuck steak and weinewurst. -Sunday Star.

The Willing Workers Aid Society of the Christian church gave a festival in Hollin’s hall on Wednesday evening of last week from 5 till 10 o’clock, serving full supper, in the menu there being turkey, chickens, Belgian hare, oysters, ice cream and cake, etc. The net proceeds of the evening amounted to $39.00. The ladies were liberally patronized, many people including some of the merchants and their clerks did not go home for their supper but ate their supper with the Christian church ladies, and thus aided a worthy cause.

EXCURSION RATES.

On all our first prize photographs during the Holidays, commencing December 1st. Nicholson’s Sons, 110 1/2 E. Main st., Crawfordsville, Ind.

THE CONKLINGS.

The Conkling Family gave a very creditable show at Hollin’s Hall last Friday night and were greeted by a very good audience. The Conklings as they appeared here are the man and wife and four young daughters, all of the latter being acrobats that are first class, the two younger ones being very perceptibly the best, the youngest child, a little girl of possibly five years, doing several acrobatic feats which were simply wonderful, besides being a fearless walker of the slack wire. Seeing the wonderful feats of this little child wonder was alone worth the price of admission. Besides acrobatic and athletic feats, the evening’s entertainment also included specialties in polite vaudeville by the Conklings, and some of them very good. The home of the Conkling Family is at Veedersburg. Following a tour of the neighboring towns here, we hear that the company will probably go south for the remainder of the season.

STEWART-KELLERMAN.

Through our columns the ladies of the society extend their thanks to the general public for their liberal patronage and to those who lended their assistance in the festival.

The hospitable country home of Mrs. Lida Brown, 3 miles west of Romney, was the scene of a very pretty and happy nuptial event last Tuesday evening. The principals in the wedding ceremony were Miss Anna Maud Stewart, sister of Mrs. Brown, and Millard Kellerman of Kansas City. The officiating clergman was Rev. J. J. Claypool, pastor of the Methodist Church at Romney. The ring service was used. Mrs. Bennett Taylor presided at the piano and played “During the Rite.” The bride and groom were unattended, but the wedding was witnessed by a large company of relatives and friends. The house was handsomely decorated with white and pink chrysanthemums and presented a very attactive interior. Following the ceremony an elaborate repast was served, after which the remainder of the evening was devoted to conversation and music. Mr. and Mrs. Kellerman were the recipients of some very valuable presents. They will live in Kansas City, and left for that city last Saturday. The bride is a daughter of James Stewart at Romney and is a charming and popular young lady. The groom is a young man of excellent character and a very clever gentleman. The bride will carry the best wishes of a large circle of friends to her new home in the West.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye/1

FARMERS ARE UNITED AGAINST CITY HUNTERS

LEAVE YOUR MEASURES WITH

Nick Washburn

Farmers are making it unpleasant for the game hunters from town by posting notices informing the world and the rest of mankind that no shooting will he allowed on their places. By this means shooting is prohibited on large sections of the country amounting to whole townships and pretty soon at the rate this embargo is being put on there will be no public shooting grounds at all. It is claimed by the true sportsmen that the chief evil shooting is by the farmers themselves and that the reported instance of damage to live stock is at hand of the lusty farm boys themselves. Since there have been stringent license laws adopted regulating hunting in Illinois and other states there is little open country for hunting except in the extreme west. Dealers in firearms say they are selling an unusual number of rifles and shotguns to the farmers themselves and very few to the town folks. This would indicate that there is plenty of

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They have hundreds of samples of Fall Woolens to

Darlington enjoyed her first labor strike last week when the telephone line men climbed down and demanded an increase of wages, and refused to climb for less than 20 cents per hour. There was a hurrying to and fro of the bosses, and the two rival lines almost came to be on speaking terms. But in a short time up went the price, and soon up went the boys and to-day all is lovely.—Crawfordsville Journal.

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“Say girls, what shall we do, in the beautiful realms above, Where there will bo no nice young men with whom to fall in love? Where we must always float on the clouds, wont it be awful then; Always to tarry, And never to marry, For there are no angel men.”

Call in ! Call in !

Geo. W. Clough was home, from Friday till Sundny, from Putnam county where he is canvassing for a complete atlas of the world and is meeting with very good success.

O. W. Mason was in LaFayette Saturday and Sunday to attend the thirteenth annual state convention of the Christian Endeavor Union.

Co the jn and get a handsome 160 page stock book free. Tells you how to grow 300 pound pigs at 6 months old. F. M. Johnson.

Pholographs at $1.50 a dozen and up until after the holidays. Nicholson Sons, Crawrfordsville, Ind.

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