Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 August 1885 — Page 5

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE

ProrLE.

THE RAMBLER

NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON MATTERS AROUND TOWN.

The events of the past few weeks have been enough to convince ibe most ardent admirers of the Metropolitan system 'tbe Rambler confesses to" have been one of tbem) that as run at present it has come to be a glaring failure. It cannot be denied that either tbe system is bad or else its bead is bad—and perhaps a little of each of these causes add to the conditions that exist at present. The "crab apple case," this week, was tbe last straw that broke the police camel (or elephant's) back, and rather than have the force made tbe laughing stock we bad better return to tbe old system, un•der which the spoils belonged to tbe victors. It would not be surprising if another attempt should lie made to repeal the ordinance, and if it is, the Republican members should do all in their power to help their Democratic colaborers in such a procedure. Tbe right feeling does not exist between the members of the force, and a person of sound judgment who has bad anything to do with the workings of a body of men (whether it be private or public service) knows tbaft the individual efficiency of tbe body can be destroyed by a lack of harmony. The petty jealousies that have arisen on tbe police force can never be eradicated, and it is the utmost folly to think otherwise. Tbe sooner, therefore, that the Metrojwlitan system is -done away with tbe better it will be for •the interests of all parties concerned.

It has been given a trial, has proved a failure, and that should be enough to decide its fate.

It was not exactly the thing for the patrol wagon to be culled out for tbe use it was put to in the crab apple case, but had the tight feeling oxisted among the members it would never have been -done. But then, afler it had been done, it was nonsense to call a meeting of the commissioners to act upon it. .Sergeant

Dundon is one of the best men on tbe force, has never shirked his duty, and is reliable, and to call him up "on the green carpet" for it, at a special meeting of the commissioners, showed conclusively that the supetlntendent hasn't tbe control of bis men that bis position ^demands. Between tbe reprimands given Dundon and Lawlor it is hard to decide which has the call, but it looks as if the police ordinance has received a blow that will come near causing its revocation. Now that tbe Democrats have control of the council, let them bavo their police force. If that force doesn't do its duty next spring there will be a change and tbe Republicans will battfK •chance to improve on It. If the Metropolitan plan bad glveu us better work and perfect discipline it would bave been all right. But it hasn't and ought to go.

Tbe presence in tbe city last week of "Col." Hughes East* Vice-president Hendricks' private secretary, reminds me of a scene I witnessed last fall in 'which he took part, and which ended in his discomfiture. It was in Indianapolis at the Blaine reception, when a huge delegation of Springfield, Ohio, people bad come down to pay their respects to the Plumed Knight. They were mostly "employes of the different manufacturing establishments of that live city, and strong protectionists. After the parade 'they had a sort of a love feast at tbe

Bates house, and during its progress •East edged his way into the crowd. It wasn't his day and be should have had Judgment to keep out, but didn't. After a strong protection speech bad been made East had tbe native "gall" to step •into a chair and attempted to answer 4he arguments made. He was listened to with respectful attention until he finished, when a colored minister from

Springfield mounted a chair and went for the Indianapolis politician in a way that was a caution. He attempted to answer it, but iu every point he raised hhi opponent bad the best of him, and by the time the argument closed East couldn have told thedifference between a tariff for revenue and the Chinese bill. It looked for a little while as if tbe roof of the hotel would be raised by the cheers for the colored man, whose speech was filled with Are and enthubiasm. .11 is white brethren raised him on their ehoulders, and would have paraded the streets with liitn had he not objected. In tbe confusion East sneaked out, and will probably never again engage in a tarUV argument with a man who is loaded for that sort of game.

"Jones." "Servant Girl," Mr». Ida Harper and tbe other talented writers who bave been writing so entertainingly on the different phases of the servant girl question, may get a pointer on which to add another chapter to tbe series in tbe action of a lady of this city who recently discharged a competent girl from her service because she failed to finish up her ironing before noon on the days set apart for that work—and this, too, in a family containing a large number of children, with all the work uocemitaUd hereby.

The superintendent police t« of tbe belief that the workiogmeu who get drunk shouldn't be arrested aid made to pay fines, as It often leaves their families destitute. To an ordinary ob-

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ont his fineon the rock pile. Sympathy is all well iu its way, bnt it should not be wasted on the man who will take the bread out of his children's mouths in order to get beer money. rm\MM

Judge Mack, fresh from his summer vacation, takes tbe school board and school teachers to task for enjoying their vacation and permitting the school boys to run at large to learn bad habits. Evidently the judge does not believe in tbe old saying that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"—except when it applies to the legal fraternity and judges of our courts. I,

THB St. Anthony benefit entertainment netted $491.50.

THE State Normal School opens for the fall term next Tuesday.

Jbe distillery will start up next Tuesday—pressing out 6,000 gallons of juice each day. ______

A WORSE landing, boatmen say, cannot be found the entire length of the Wabash than that of this city.

FxBES were absolutely necessary for comfort and health this week. So cool a temperature for August is remarkable.

D. C. HEINEB'S shoe factory haa outgrown his present quarters and he will move to one of tbe large rooms under Dowling Hall, where be can add steam machinery.

THE limited trains will be withdiawn from the Vandalia next Tuesday, it being found that though these trains bave been popular and have paid, the total passenger earnings have not been materially increased.

THERE arn the most encouraging indications that the County Fair will be tbe best exhibition we have had for years. The officers are enthusiastic in their work and putting forth every possible effort to make an interesting and profitable show.

THK Phoenix Foundry and Machine Works. Co. is having such a run of work as to give employment to one hundred and ten men, the largest force that has ever worked there. We are really glad to see this reward for the enterprise and industry of tbe proprietors.

CAPT. J. B. HAOER died at Branford, Conn., yesterday evening at six o'clock. The body will be brought home to-mor-row. A gallant soldier, a useful citizen, a genial, courteous gentleman, with the kindest of hearts, loved aud respected by the whole community, is at rest after along and hopeless struggle for a return of health.

TIIKKK skeletons, the bones of a man, woman and a girl of about twelve years, were found two feet below tbe surface at tbe Couover gravel pit, north of the city, ou Wednesday. There was a bole in the skull of the man, and the position in which tbe bodies were foqnd indicate tiiupder and hasty burial—probably the massacre of a family by Indians in the early pioneer days.

CHARLES L. MONNINQER, the saloonist, has invoked the courts to get from the T. H. A I. railway $5,000 damages because of an unpleasantness be had with a conductor on the 18th of this month. Mr. Monninger's complaint is that he purchased a ticket at Brazil for Indianapolis, nnd that it was taken up by comductor O. C. Curtis, who afterwards asked him for bis ticket, and was abusive when told that he had received his ticket.

THB band tournami nt will be inaugurated wit ha concert this eveulng at Hulman park, which IIHS been put in admirable shape for the convenience of musicians and the audience. To-mor-row morning the visitiug bands will attend church at the St. Stephens, aud in the afternoon each band will play at the park. A concert will follow in tbe evening. Monday, at 11 o'clock the uuited bands will parade on the streets, and the contest for the prizes will occur In the afteruoor. Fourteen bands are announced to take part, and it will doubtless be interesting and exciting.

M. M. JOAB, the well known attorney shot himself in his office Thursday afternoon, and the wound will in all pro bability result fatally. At the suggestion of his sister, Mra.'Mickelberry, who was in his office at the time, he was engaged in cleaning his pistol. For this purpose he borrowed Asa M. Black's can of coal oil, and sat at bisdesk to do the work. While so engaged one barrel was discharged. Tbe ball entered about half an inch above where the breast bone separates, passed throngh his body, and is supposed to be lodged under the lower edge of the right shoulder. Owing to Mr. Joab's recent troubles the general supposition was that it was case of suicide, but the circumstances go to indicate that it was an accident, or, if there was suicidal intent, it was formed only a moment before the pistol was discharged, after he began the work of cleaning it. Whatever may be the conflicting opinions, there is much sympathy for thi* unfortunate man, whom life the pa**

few

yearn has been

greatly embittered by domestic and ligai troubles. We sincerely hope he may rec-ner, though Dr. Swaff wd, hi* surgeon, gives tttt.'e hope of such result,

—Martha Rogers of Jasonvllle, Greene county, Ind., had a lo«* by fl»e Friday morning, of about {3,000 on barn, grain ery and content*, tu&ured with Riddle, Hamilton A Co.

—For tbe very best bargains in light baggy harness, fly wrt«, a:d dusters.

server it would seem that the man who you ahonlJ call on Peter Miller, whose, unlucky as to lose 1800 near Clay City will rub bis family to g«, trunk ought good* cannot be excelled, or prices list Wednesday—money he bad oolleotto be arrested and be coin elhcdto work beaten.

WITH the death of Capt. Jonathan B. Hager has passed away the last male member of that pioneer family, with the the exception of John R. Hager. They were a large family and identified with the early interests of the city but have left no male relatives to transmit the name except John who haa one young son. In another generation the name of a number of our oldest and most prominent families will have entirely ceased to exist.

Cooper Hannntn, son of the well know well-digger, Thomas R. Hannum, died very suddenly last Thursday evening. He was the former engineer of No. 2 fire engine, and was sitting with members of two's in fiont of their engine bouse on Farrington street, when he was seen to turn pale, press his band to the region of tbe heart, and immediately fall forward off his his chair on his knees. He was carried to bis home on south Second street, where he died at 8 o'clock. He leaves a wife and three children. He was a member of tbe 31st Indiana, and was looking forward to the reunion of the regiment with much interest.

UREL PERSONAL.

Mrs. H. O. Breeden oame home Mon day night. The wife of councilman Haslet riously ill. v'}

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Fred Ross, jr., has returned Lake Mills. Mrs. J. W. Bier has returned from the east.

home

Mrs. Barker has returned from a visit to French Lick. Miss Lizzie Hamill is home from an extended trip east.

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Duddleston are visiting in Chicago. y. T. H. Riddle returned from Indianapolis Thursday evening. .*

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Madison have returned from the north. Misses Alice and Kate Fischer Will vi8itin Rockville next week.

Fred A. Husted came up from Evansvill on a short visit this week. Marion Balue starts this afternoon on a ten days' trip through Kansas.

Miss Lou Peters entertained a party of friends Wednesday evening. Miss Belle Campbell, of Hoberg, Root A Co's., has gone to Niagara Falls.

Mrs. Charley Mellville is visiting in Indianapolis for a couple of weeks. Mrs. Abe. 8hewmaker and children went up to Maxinkuckee this week.

Mrs. Thos. Gist and Miss Nellie went up to Maxinkuckee on Wednesday. Col. Nelson attended an old settlers reunion at Crawfordsville this week

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S. R. Baker, and Will McClain will return home from Lake Mills to-morrow night.

Mis* Ida Aitf, of Montezuma, to visiting the families of Oaf Arn and'^uiW Mayer.

Miss Fortner, of Richmond, is in the city tbe guest of her cousin, Miss Emma Hudson.

W. T. Beauchamp and frank McKeen attended the races tt Lexington, Ky., this week.

Samuel McKeen has sold the Ellsworth flouring mill to F. H. McElfresh for $25,000.

Mrs. Lige Dodson has returned from Qreencastle where she has been for six months past. f'?

Mrs. I. T. Mills is d&ibgerously ill with typhoid fever at her residence, 506 north Eighth street.

John Han ley and family have return ed from Maxinkuckee, where they enjoyed camp life.

Miss

Flora Hovey has returned from

East St. Louis accompanied by her sister, Mrs. McElroy. Mrs, F. A. Beau man, of Oxford, O is visiting her sister, Mrs. Cruikshank, of north Ninth street.

Mrs. W. H. Brown and children are at home from Maxinkcuckee where tkev stayed four weeks.

Mia* Maude Pruett. of Marshall is in the city visiting Nellie Griswold, of north Seventh street.

Mrs. Henry G. Arnold and son Harry, of New Brittuin, Conn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bryan.

Alt Hoberg is again down with infiamatory rheumatism and his brother Max had to postpone bis his trip to New York.

Joseph H. Blake went to Cincinnati this week to get a new motor for his railway, tbe present one not being reliable.

Emo C. Blchowsky has sold his red deuce on Swan street, to John Callen for $4,000, and will Shortly move to California.

Mrs. Chas. H. and Mrs. H. H. Goodwin returned last night from a three months' visit to Massachusetts, much improved in health.

Mrs. Edwin Ellis attended the St. Anthony benefit, at tbe Opera House, Tuesday vening, being carried up the stairs by Mr. Fred Fischer,

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Dode Carr retired from the Weatern telegraph office, on Tuesday, to get acquainted with hii new position as money order clerk in tbe post office.

Dr. Worrell is potting material on the ground for be erection of a brick apartment building at tbe corner of Seventh and Ohio streets, to is: about |4,000.

C. C. Lackey the popular traveling salesman for Berne tr, Rea A Co., was so

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Miss Albro of Chicago is visiting the family of W. L. Kidder, on south Sixth re 4 4

Mrs. Robert Digges leaves to-day for a visit to her sister, Mrs. Burt, atPoughkeepsie.

Bliss Qllie Steuber, who is visiting Miss Carrie Baur, will return to Louisville next week.

Mrs. Curtis, of north Sixth street, went to Mattoon yesterday, where will hereafter reside. Sf*

Miss Alice Fischer will return to New York Sept. 14, to be absent a year and probably longer.

Mrs. Nellie Grover has returned home stopping at Greencastle to visit the family of Prof. Carhart.

Miss Laura Overholtz, has accepted a position as teacher in the Ash Grove college, at Ash Grove, Mo. py.

Mrs. E. W. Ross, Miss Grace Teel and Miss Sadie Gulick came down from Maxinkuckee, Thursday evening.

Miss Georgie Duncan has returned to her home in Omaha, accompanied by Miss Carrie Duncan, who goes to spend the winter., iStV

Miss Hattie Sooit anct Mrs. Fannie Burt have joined Judge and Mrs. H. D. Scott at Battle Creek and all have gone to Charlevoix.

Dr. J. L. Corning arrived home last Thursday, rested and refreshed by his summer trip. Miss Nellie will remain east until cold weather.

Miss Ollie Leggett has returned home from an extended visit among relatives and friends in Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and other points east.

Fen Dowling and Walter Dunbar returned on Thursday from Maxinkuckees, coming down the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers in an open row boat.

Mrs.JGeorge Bond, a woman highly esteemed for her many virtues, formerly a resident of this city, died at Crawfordsville last Wednesday, of malarial fever.

Miss Mae Fulwiter left this morning for an extended visit to Franklin, Tenn. She will accompany Miss Hettie Campbell of that place who has been visiting here.

Miss Emma Grover has been offered a position in Texas as governess and in Tennessee as teacher of painting in a ladies' seminary, both of which she will probably decline.

T. H. Riddle has reason to believe that boom in business is setting in. He has closed up several good trades this week, including the sale of 2,2200 acres of land for *42,000.

Mrs. R. A. Hastings, the milliner, went eastward last Saturday and wrote back from Indianapolis to her attorney to sell her goods in the McKeen block and close up the business.

W. T. Leggett is now in southern Kansas locating a large party of homeseekers, and will return last of next week and arrange, for his cheap excurjfrftapteSHfto all Kansas land points.

M. Walsli, a prominent grocer at Mattoon madt us a call last Saturday evening. He spoke of great changes in our city since he ran a popular grocery store on north Fourth street back in tbe war days. if ..

Harry Graham has so far recovered from his severe attack of typhoid fever as to be able to start with his mother, on Monday* evening, for Ocean Grove, where he will recruit his strength for a month.

Lollie Moore, tbe Terre Haute girl, who recently carried off the grand prize for singing, at the Paris conservatoire, has been secured by Edmund Geron to play Carmen in the Madrid Theatre Royal. "s

W. A. McFarland, lately with E. R, Wright, has purchased Black A Harrison's grocery store, 28 south Sixth street, and has filled it with a fine stock of groceries and table supplies. We wish him success in his new enterprise.

Senator Voorbeee, Hen John E. Lamb and Jobb G. Williams came in from Hot Springs Tbursdsy afternoon, all feeling-much benefited by tbe trip. Senator Voorbees will stay here until the meeting of Congress in December

Mrs. Mart. Hollinger and daughter started last Thursday fora three months' visit to Mr. Hollinger in Las Vegas, N. M. She was accompanied by Mrs. Adams who will also visit her husband, the well-known photographer. He has entirely recovered bis health, is stout and hearty and will remain in New Mexico for an indefinite time.

The most complete Bed Lounge yet invented is now on sale at R. Forster's furniture house. Mr. Foister has a few baby wagons left which be will close out at tbe purchaser's opn price.

Old men love tbe past, young men love tbe future, but if you want to tickle a girl's fancy, give her a present, something nice in tbe way of a book, a picture a box of elegant stationery or some of the many pretty things you will find at Button's elegant bookstore. The Central is always well filled with articles of this kind, together with blank books and commercial stationery of every desirable kind.

Tbe demand for groceries is not affected materially by tbe weather, as tbe people are compelled to eat, and Sam net Stone continues to supply tbem with the choicest frnita and vegetables to be had, and offers great bargains in groceries of all kinds, staple and fancy.

—The Caldwell $2.50 kid button boot for ladies at Mr. Griffith's Is indeed a beauty. French Kid Fir. voo should call' and see in ne solid mass, about 600 nairs. By «o ordering be gets jobber's! prices, which enables him to sell them —W. T. Leggett

COMPARATIVE: WORTIt

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GRAM'S (AlumPowder)*..I

BUIFORD'S,

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HAJTFORIKS, when £reeh....j

REDHEAD'S I CHARM (AlumPowder) #....|

AMAZON

(Alum Powder)*..J

CLE YELAIfDistort wtios.)

PIONEER

(SanFrancisco)....

CZAR

DR. PRICE'S. SNOW FLAKE

(GrofTa)..

LEWIS' PEARL

(Andrews A: Go.)..

HECTOR'S GILLEFS

ANDREWS A CO. "Regal" HUw&ukee, (OnnUlm Alum.) BULK

(Powder

sold loose)

RUMFORD'S when not fresbHI

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OF BAKING POWDERS,

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BEPORTS OP GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS AB to Purity and Wholesomeness of the Royal Bakinsr Powder.

I hav.j tested a package of Royal Baking Powder, which I purchased in the open market, and find it composed of pure and wholesome ingredients. It ia a cream of tartar powder of a high degree of merit, and does not contain either alum, or phosphates, or other injurious substances. E. G. LOVE, Ph. D.

It is a scientific fact that the Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure. I will go still further and state that the Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable Baking Powder offered to the public.

The Royal Baking Powder has been used in my family for many years, and these practical tests, as well as the chemical tests to which I have submitted it, have proved it perfectly healthful, of uniform, excellent quality, and free from any deleterious substances. WM. MCMURTBIE, E. M., Ph. D.

The Royal Baking Powder received the highest award over all competitors at the Vienna World's Exposition, 1873 at the Centennial, Philadelphia, 1876 at the American Institute, New York, and at State Fairs throughout the country.

No other article of human food has over received such high, emphatio and universal indorsement from eminent chemists, physicians, scientists and boards of health all over the world.

NOTE.—The above DIAGRAM illustrates the comparative worth of various Baking Powders as shown by the chemical analyses and experiments made by Prof. Schedler. A pound can of each powder was taken, the total leavening power or volume in each can calculated, the result being as indicated. This practical test for worth only proves what every observant consumer of the Royal Baking Powder knows by practical experience, that, while it costs a few cents per pound more than ordinary kinds, it is far more economical, besides affording the advantage of better work. A single trial of the Royal Baking Powder will convince any fair minded person of these facts.

While the Diagram shows some of the Alum powders to be of a higher degree of strength than other powders naked below them, it la not to be taken aa Indicating tiiat they b»v» anyVatae. All atom powderm, no matter how high their strength, are to be avoided aa daagerons.

The New Cutter at Ford)fc Owens

The Telling Effect of Having a Cutter who Can Fit a Customer with His Clothing

Mr. Knight, of Providence, R. I., the new cutter for Ford A Owens has already gained an enviable reputation here, and his work is telling its own story in the increase of orders for cus-tom-made clothing which the house is receiving daily. Mr. Knight fills the demand for a first-class cutter, add a full line of imported woolens in stock completes the requirement of a first-claes clothing establishment.

—Persons desiring insurance will do well to call on J. D. Bigelow, the Opera Housebuilding. Policies are carefully written, losses promptly paid and the interests of assured st all times protected. Policies in tbe Liverpool and London and Globe, the largest insurance company in tbe world, can be obtained at tbe lowest rates, furnishing absolute indemnity in case of loss.

—T. H. Riddle will run sn excursion to Kansas next Tuesday.-*^ jTht 1

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$2.50—$2.50.

—Buys a pair of men's seamless calf shoes in button or congress st our special sale of a large bankrupt stock of Boots and Shoes. 827 Main 8treet. :v

J. R. FISHER.

—W. T. Leggett offers for( sale on trade tbe noted Heady jack.

SCHOOL SHOES

And winter goods of every variety and style, of the best makes, at lowest prices, at A. H. Boegcman's boot and shoe store, 104 south 4th st.

—Riddle, Hamilton A Co., iiifure against loss by Cyclones, Wind Storms, Fire and Lightning.

—REMEMBER our special sale of a large bankrupt stock of ladies*, gents', misses' and children flue shoes. 327 Main Street. J. R. FISHER.

NO EXTRA.

Ladies' sboes made to order, just as low as you bny them ready made.

French Kid, Daisy Dangola, or Curaooa Kid, tbe best in tbe market at I. K. CLATFELTE R'8.

at f? Certainly no other boose can sions will be the 8th and 30th of Septem show up such a beavty tor f2»50. |Wi

next^i","**xct,r

HENRT A. MOTT, Ph.D.

When I aee a man and a good sla chunk of a gal setten on the front steps at 11 p. m., discussin' the surroundens, tbe thingness of tbe is, the wbereness of the who,evolution, the age of the atom, and a goodly quantity of the so, fourth, with their heads so close together that a mosquito could not squeeze in sideways, I can jest bet anything that tbey aint brother

and sister, and that there'll be a weddie" soon and that tbey's go to housekeeping and that Ed Wright, of the White Front, will have another customer, fur the fust thing a young married noupel thinks of nowadays, after the weddln'cememony, i«« tbe popular White Front grocery of Ed Wright's, where to-day may be bad Peacbea, P«a'-8, Apples, Orapes, Celery, Oranges. lemons, Damson Plutns, Red Plums, Sweet Corn, Lima Beaua. Egg Plant, Dressed Ducka, Chickens, Country and Creamery Butter, Choice White Clover Honey, Maple and Pure Sugar Syrup, Choice Tea and Coffee, fresh roasted, and many other things too numerous to mention.

PSORIQUE cures Itch and Wabash Scratches in 20 minutes. For sale by all druggists.

Insure now. Don't put it off until tomorrow it may then be too late. Riddle, Hamilton A Co., Insurance Agents.

—Whether tbe weather be warm or cold, the people like the choicest meats and they know these are to be had at P. P. Mischler's, who long has bad tbe best patronage, and has tbe best tbe market afford. His place is easy to find, on south side of Main street, near Sixth. _To destroy «he germs of disease within or without the body, use the Antizymotica. Pleasant, harmless and free from narcotic poison.

GOOD LIVING

Is Not a Difficult Problem If Joe Miller is Your Grocer.

He baa a most tempting array of nice things to eat and they are cbf»p, too: He has the

BEST FRUITS. THE FRESHEST V2GETABLE9, AND NICEST STAPLES.

THK"GEM"SHIRT, Hunter's make, $1.00, unlaundered, perfect fitting, any length sleeve, best in tbe market.

NOW'S YOUR CHANCE Boegeman is clearing out Summer wear of Boots and Shoes at marvelously low Price8-