Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 April 1884 — Page 9
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THE MAIL
A PATER FOR THE PEOPLE.
THE RAMBLER.
HOITO ANDfOBSERVATIONSlON JMATTEB8 ABOUND TOWN.
The color line is not entirely abliterat«d in this region, notwithstanding the dlataooe we are situated above the Msson and Dixon line. When the club of colored players arrived here from Chicago this week, objections were rsis^ «d—bat very sensibly overruled against allowing them to play with the home club. It would have been a line thing had anch a step been insisted on. But the height of foolishness was reached, when the dining room girls at the hotel where they were stopping refused to wait on them at the table, and some of the colored help had to be called in for this ^purpose. If this had happened in the lieart of Mississippi nothing would have been thought of it, but here in the most onlightened State in the country aeemed just a little odd.
The plan of organizing a citizens' league for the closing of the saloons and ball park on Sunday, and causing various other "needed reforms," is meeting with hearty encouragement—secretly from the Democrats. They see in it an opportunity of retrieving at the May election their disastrous defeat in this city this month.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented amount of building that is going on, and the other booms the city is experiencing, the merchants generally have never experienced a duller season at this time of the year than the past few weeks have brought them. It is aot confined to any particular business, but seems general. While the changeable weather is accountable for a part of it, there is no doubt but that the lack of good country roads causes the greater part of the stagnation. If the roads are impassable —as they have been, and are yet in var iaus parts of the country—the farmers and their /families can't get here, and the loss of that trade is very easily noticeable. The board of trade ought to take hold of this matter and work it up. The object of the board is to attract bnsineas here, and to further the business Interests of the dty and it could not be 1 better done than in this manner. Something certainly ought to be done, and as the gravel road movement has failed before this, owing to the want of proper organization, it la a legitimate field for fbf boar|.
Eviden
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inarms has* most ardent admirer who indulges in rhyme, Perhaps they all have, but one has moat certainly. One morning this week coming up a certain •treat—even the mention of its name night be what la slangily termed a "give away"—I found a card lying on the sidewalk. Pioking it up, 1 found in contained the following lines:
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4® And beauty, forsooth, Tls thus the young school malm's made A few idle fears,
Uncalled-for tears,—
Arjd this Is the jrounjj man's raftid," The card bore the name of a very well known gentlemfch, who is generally credited with too much dignity to indulgfe in love rhymes, even sueh modest ones. However, if he chooses to court the muse in this unmeasured way it's nobody's business but his own, buta wtrd of kindly advloe to the gentleman—and he shall be ever nameless—would be, either to present his poetical effusions to his lady love, or conceal them where they will be secure from public gase. The side walk is not a sate place,
A Polytechnic student and another from the High school engaged in a round, a la SuRivan, on north Seventh street recently, and it has escaped mention In the papers. There Was a young lady in the case—of course—and the Polytechnic boy thought the other had Injored him in the good graces of the fair one. It is said to have been very amusing, and has caused no end of talk la the different schools. The High school boy was left master of the field, although bis opponent left with the threatening remark that "the warm blood of the wrath comes through his veins, and he'd lay for him." -K&Mlk
The policy shop has had another demrved round in the daily press, but the establishment still continues the ttmmx taner of its way. With our bucket •hops, policy shops, etc., Terre Haute »n claim to be equal in the gambling line to any dty of itsaise in thecouarry.
Will the Clticens League attempt to attack the bucket sheps, and policy? Thousands of dollars are taken away from this city every month by these establishments, and the opeiaJ^9n| are increasing all the time. *•,
Thx new City Directory is out of press, and is now being delivered to subscribers. Time will not permit a thor-
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examination or space allow ex tended mention this week. A glance at the book, however, convinces us that C. •O. Kbel it Co. have excelled any former «ftbrt in this line. The book Is gotten up In good style, typographically, and amooR the new features is a valuable county map. There are 600 pages replete vwith interesting information. Its list dtisensof the county outside of Terre
Baute, with their occupation sad postoffice addresses Is very valuable.
Henry Deming started Thursday afternoon for Baltimore and other eastern
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PURELY PERSONAL.
F. H. McElfresh has moved to Paris Ills., to engage in the foundry business. Mrs. Theo. Hndnut and daughter, Mrs. Brynes, have retained from Florida.
Mrs.. E. A. Foote, of Los Angeles, Cal., is visiting her nkoe, Mrs. Will F. Arnold.
Mrs. EL B. Hamilton has returned from Jacksonville, where she has been quite ill for several weeks.
Mrs. Chauncey Warren is not yet able to leave her room, having been confined to the bouse the entire winter.
L. F. Purdue wants to find an owner for a fine, new umbrella. Inquire at bis office on north Sixth street.
W. C. Ball, of the Gazette is afflicted with malaria and is making a desperate struggle to keep out of a sick bed.
Thomas L. Jones, ex-trustee and an esteemed citizen, died at his home in Prairieton last Saturday morning.
Miss Mary Buckingham, of St. Louis, is in.the city, the guest of Mrs. Dr. Patrick and daughter, Mrs. Nellie Rice.
Ed Owens and wife have gone to housekeeping in the new house built by Mrs. Valliant, on north Eighth street.
Rev. Thomas Bacon, at the persistent and almost unanimous request of his congregation, has returned to his pulpit.
Capt. M. N. Smith has returned home. His wife is still at the home of her parents in Hamilton, Ohio, in very poor health.
Mrs. Spence H. Rice, formerly Miss Nellie Patrick, is herefrom Des Moines, Iowa, on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Dr. Patrick.
Walter 8. Allen, formerly of this city, is here on a brief visit. He is greatly pleased with 14s new home at Allardt, Tennessee.
Miss Eva Foote writes that she is having a most delightful visit in Montreal and will go on, in a few weeks, to visit her sister Mrs. Bacon.
Miss Maude Hosford will go east in a few weeks to visit relatives and take two years of elocutionary and dramatic training before returning home.
At a recent entertainment in Shelby ville, Kentucky, Miss Bertha Eppinghousen, of this city, was awarded most honor for a recitation of "Money Musk."
Miss Helen Jeffers will sing "I dream't dwelt in marble halls," in the scene from "Bohemian Girl" at Miss Fischer's benefit at the Opera House Friday night.
W. R.. Raymond and wife,' of Des Moines, Iowa, are in the dty visiting their nephew, Jas. Dodson, and the family of A. C. Combs. They resided here nineteen years ago.
L, Finkbiner, who in every way has proved a model trustee of Harrison township—honest, courteous and attentive, to the satisfaction of all parties —turned over the office to trustee-elect J. C, Reichert, on Wednesday morning.
Ira Grover is doing a flourishing business at Indianapolis and bis family are wonderfully improved in health. They are highly pleased with the sodal aad educational advantages of the capital dty,
Mrs. Bessie Eagles field Ashley, formerly of this dty, has been for some time engaged in business at Indisnapelis bat will resume her law practice In a few months. She will probably locate at Grand Rapids, Mich. She is admirably fitted by nature and education for this profession, snd her many friends in Terre Hsute feel assured of her success.
R. Forster, at his new furniture house, 320 Main street, takes particular pride In showing a very fine line of Parlor Suites, and some very handsome Mantel Mirrors.
Just as the train was pulling out from the depot yesterdsy afternoon, a well dressed gentleman, apparently^ |a stranger, called to the conductor to stop the train, to allow him the opportunity to say to the people within hearing that he had traveled a great deal, but never had he looked upon a finer stock of Spring Hats than he had seen that moralngatS. Loeb's on the corner of Fifth and Main.
Peter Miller has large stock of Whips, a nice lot of Lap Dusters and elegant Light Harness. For anything in the harness line, well mada, and at reasonable prices, mll at 506 Main Street.
There are few places more attractive in the dty or where an hour oan be more profitably or pleasantly spent than at Button A Oo.'s Central Bookstore. The visitor is always welcome there to look at the great variety of books, the beautiful pictures, the elegant ornaments for the household, etc. It is here, as is well known, can be fonnd the latest sgony in nobby stationery and a full liae ef blank books and commercial stationery of every description.
PIANOS.
STEIN WAY & SONS, DECKER BROS, J. & C. FISHER,
VOSE & SONS,
HAINES, and other well known makes of Pianos.
8 TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT.
Terre Haute Real Estate.
With much earnestness and entire candor What Nkxt urges upon its readers that the Western lands sold by Ben Blan chard are profitable investments—especially so for the man, who not having money enough to buy a dty corner-lot or aa Indiana farm, yet can buy whole sections of good lands out west. When one can buy a great many acres of desirable land for a very little money his chances for a handsome profit are certainly much better than on one fine town site costing the same money.
This is true, and yet now we propose to talk a little the other way, as we state with emphasis, that there is a dty where scores of little fortunes, and big fortunes too, wait for men to secure them within the next five, ten or fifteen years. Some one will make these fortunes, but who—you or some other one The dty is our beautiful "Prairie City.
The Terre Haute Board of Trade, which is the, aggregation of most of the good business sense of the dty, has among its designs, one to invite manu factories and all good dasses of dtizens to Terre Haute, and another to advertise, with other advantages, the splendid inducements offered to investors in its real estate. Our own knowledge of the real estate]of this dty and the judgment of others of longer experience enable us to second the Board even in Us most glowing representations. Terre Haute does offer remarl4|ble opportunities by its real estate to large manufacturers, rich capitalists and thrifty mechanics.
Why is it that such a thriving, rapid ly-growing dty as Terre Haute should have so many eligible, unimproved sites in or near the heart of the city and at old, very old prices no one can tell more than that it is so. A lot at |250 or $2,500 is cheaper in Terre Haute than the same amount in most other dties of the same size would be at the same price, because the fine, level, high and dry, gravel-bot-tomed prairie on which the city is built saves the munidpality thousands every year in grading and sewerage, saves the property holders the same and expenses for leveling his land. The first cost, as it were, being less, the advance in property will be greater than in other dties because Terre Haute's life and growth, ia these dull times are about a hundred per cent, greater than most dticis like it.
If a man were to come to Terre Haute to work at a trade, or in a factory, or at any kind of business, having fl,000 he didn't want to use, he would have in five or six years a home worth f3,5ft0 at least. We could show you land selling to-day for fl,000 that will double in five years—we put it low, for really we hope for more 17 Building and Loan Associations will be paying out $17,000 every month to go into buildings and lots, enhancing your land whilst securing homes for somebody else. There's the land, waiting for you, here are theSodeties saving for you, and with labor always employed our mechanics era rule are able to earry the Building and Loan, or Savings Bank's books.
Perhaps manufacturers have a better show from the real estate owners than others do, as a recent experience will illustrate. There are nhae railroads centering in Terre Hsute and on each, in the dty, are roomy locations for factories. When the Fish Brothers Wagon Works was loeking for a site, the following liberal offers were made to the company: "11
D. J. Mackey, for the E. fe T. H. R. R., offered 8 acres rent free for 99 years H. Hulman offered 8 acres as a donation, with 100,000 brick, water mains and fire plugs, together with a cash donation of about |6000 W. R. Mercer offered 10 acres on the Logansport road as a donation Richard Law offered 8 acres for $1000—there was an accompanying cash donation the Baiersdorf heirs offer 28 lots for 96000 there was with this a cash •donation of fOOOO. Each piece was desirable property, and on a railroad. The last offer was accepted and it is little to s&y that there is another $6000 profit in it to the company in five years. This is a sample of the Terre Haute feeling toward manufacturers. We are willing to aid them because there is money for the mills and for us by their establishment. There is land and money waiting for every practical enterprise. There is none for chimeras. While there is no dty so favorable to the prosperity of legitimate industries and honest men, we know of none where humbug and pretense fall so flat.—'"What Next."
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On south Forth street, has an elegant line of Ladies Fine Shoes and Slippers in great variety, including, Opera Slippers, Toe Slippers and Newport Ties and Button. Low prices the rule.
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ORGANS.
ESTEY, SHONINGER and
HAMILTON
Send for Our Catalogue, Tunes & Prices
J. A.. MARSHALL,
Spring Hats.
DUNLAP and STETSON'S
In Great Variety at
Sykes' Hat Store,
Main Street.
ef. W. Stout has the best fresh country butter all genuine, and new laid eggs.
Lowest prices ever reached at the Bankrupt shoe store for this week, 326 Main street.
A. P. KIVITS.
WHAT 1HE USE
Paying so much for Tin Roofing and guttering and spouting when you get it so much cheaper at
rish Point Embroideries, Torchdn Laces Oriental Laoes,
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Telephone your order for early vegetables and garden truck to J. W. Stout, the south forth street grocer.
Misses' front-lace hooked shoes, former price, $3.75 on the dollar counter for this week, at the Bankrupt shoe store, at 326 Main st.
A. P. KIVITS.
Madras Linen, India Lineu/ India MuUs,
Persian Lawns,
Cotton Foulards,. Chambrays, Plain and Printed Sateens, Cheese Cloths/,
Cotton Scrim, Checked Nainsooks,
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Silk, Lisle and Balbriggan vHose,"rv:
KID GLOVES,
Silk Gloves, Lisle Gloves,
Oriental Collars, Ties and Fichues,
Linen: Collars,
Lace Handkerchiefs.
TIDIES,
Pillow Shams,
Muslin Underwear,
ail of recent purchase.
Brant CiSH STORE
Sixth and Main Sts.,
TERRE HAUTE, I3CD.
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STOCK" OF
Slieet Music. Musical Merchandise and
Band Instruments.
328 Main Street.
J.T.H.
Eatpbllabed 18S8.
Moral Decorations, Window Shades,
AT HER71.
New Hoop Skirts and Paniers.
C." French Hand-Made Corsets.
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French "Vf oven Corsets. *. Domestic Corsets.
At Our Uniform Low Prices.
Spring Wraps and Jersey Jackets. Ready Made Suits. Children's Spring Dresses. Muslin Underwear.
Hosiery! Hosiery!! Hosiery!!!
Styles not to be found elsewhere. Prices matched nowhere..
Gloves of all kind and grades. Our 49c. 6 Button length Kid Gloves.
Are an extra Bargain.
Novelties in Neckwear.
BUTTONS, everything new and desirable, and very cheap. PEARL BUTTONS elegant and cheap".'
Parasols and Sun Umbrellas.
Must be seen to be appreciated!
." FANS!
The best 25c. Feather Fan in the world.
Embroideries, Muslin Trimmings
Our stock and prices speak for themselves. LACES, elegant and very cheap, Spanish
very cneap, Spanish Laces
Torchon Laces, Pompadour Laces, Oriental Laces, Guipure Laces, etc.--We never had such a stock and never had goods so cheap as now.
HERZ' BAZAE.
Patrons knd Friends:
Flour Mill, Work Our Specialty »*/•?,
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Haate. Repair and Jobbing Work given »peci»U»ttention., Write or call on as and tee or younelre*. 901 to 885 Iforth Ninth street, near Union Depot.
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656 Main Street, McKeen Block.,
Abo Anmt for the new I»d**tructibl« and D«coi-atJ»fts for the Ceillaif, Fprnltnre and Art object* on solid relief. XiinsrciR-crsT^ w^XiToasr. f.
Workmen aent to all parts of the country. Orders »oUclted by mail, In calling the attention of the citizens of Terre Haate.aod rfdnlty to my new Une^
tanking yoo for pact favors,
merit a oontinaance of tlie nuae. I am. Toon Truly, |C. AIB, 066pCata|&tn»et, MeKeen'*. Block.
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CLOTHING^
For Men, Youth, Boys and Chil~drens' wear.
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We invite your inspection."
The Beliable Clothier ane Merchant Tailors
522 Main Street, north side, near 6th street.
Phoenix Foundry and Machine Works,
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