Bloomington Courier, Volume 16, Number 10, Bloomington, Monroe County, 21 December 1889 — Page 5

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All 3.00 Satinets . - AH 4.00 Satinets, - - All 4.50 and $5.00 Chinchillas, - All 5.50 and 6.00 Storm Chinchillas, All 6.00 and 6.50 Cassinets - - All 6.00 and 7.00 Silk Faced Corkscrews All 6.00 and S7.00 Light Weights and all shades -

All 10.00 and $12.00 Wool Beavers - $8.50 to 10.00 All 12.00 and 14.00 Silk-faced Worsted and Kerseys $10.00 to $11,50

All $15.00 and $16.50 Silk-faced Worsted and Kerseys

$2.50 3.00 3.75 4.75 5.00 5.00 5.00

Light and Heavy Weight

All 3.00 Satinets, - AH 3.50 Satinets, - All 4.25 Chinchillas, - All 7.00 All-Wool, closing at - AH 7.50 and 8,00 AH-Wool, closing at -

13.00 to 14.50

S - 2.25 2.75 3.50 5.00 5.50

Mens' Suits

AH 4.50 and 5.00 Suits Satinet All 6.00 and 7 00 Union Cassinrere All 8.00 and 9.00 Cassimere All 10.00 to 12.00 Cassimere- -All 14.00 to 16.00 Cassimere All 18.00 and 20.00 Fine Suits

3.50 to $4.00 5.00 ttf 5.50 (5.50 to 7.00 8.00 to-10.00 12.00 to 13,50 15.00 to 17.50

Cotton Worsted Suits, now Satinet Half Wool Suits, now Wool Cassimere worth 6 and 7

,.- 2.75 3.00 h 4.00' - 5.00t& 5.50

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tvril sell at 25 ctsf -

Meus' Wool DiiJerf m at Csst si less.

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THAT KEPUBWCAN llOW.

is True that tlxo Vanbureu Bads, are "All Tore Up.

But it Didn't Begin in the "Amen Corner,'

The Anti-Harrison Organ.

Editor Courier : While sitting in the National Hotel during my last trip here about two weeks ago I picked up a paper and read with considable interest an article on the appointment of a Postmaster at

Editor Courier: I think you I n,ifnrfi Tf. av Han a nrnHdina

were somewhat mistaken in your pa- for f ailing to appoint one. Figuraper of the 7th inst. about the Post- j tively Speaking, it took Benjamin office matter starting in the Amen ftcr099 jts kne an(i blistered his corner. The trouble started by im- anatomy, jf anything does me good porting a Postmaster of South Un- iti8tosee the present fraudulent

ion from Indian Creek township, invnvwiv" '''miTn'(niot.rfl.fcinn at a

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A BRICK HOU

wonld make icood Holiday present, but It la too expensive, so the proUom of what to bay at a reasonable price is now solved. Of course you cant buy goods entirely -'

A Double Courier this Week.

But It's the next best thing to it What is nicer than a niece or a set of French China, plain or decorated, or a nice water or toilet aet?They would make suitable presents

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EVERYBODY.

Hort WMtaker has everything in the line of fancy ware for holiitrade, a hundred different articles. A nice lamp would make a smlable and useful present. CALL AMD GET ONE. For your wife, daughter or "best girl." Durlug the holidays you want A GoodjS qiiareMe al 9 Also. Mort Whitaker has all the ingredients, including everything in the Staple and Fancy Grocery linej also a big lot of candies, fruits and nuts, Go to the Durand corner and give Mort a trial; he wants your

trade, and will try hard to please all.

liereqfter aU notices of Church or other entertainments where an admission fee ts charged, and resolutions adopted bp societies, or other organizations, in the way of obituary notices or resolutions of respectniuat be paid for at one-half our regular local rates.

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Mrs. Durand writes f torn Charleston, SC., that the health of her mother is improving.

Local reading matter will be

found on both sheets of the Cour

ier this week. Don't miss any of it. Of all the evils here below There's nothing we can scan, That sickens like the mannish girl, Or worse the girlish man, A bushel of corn makes four gallons of whisky. It sells for $16 at retail. The government gets $3.60, the farmer 40 cents, the railroad $1, the manufacturer $4f the vendor $7, and the drinker all that is left delirium tremens,

The Courier of tuis week has eight pages 64 columns. Every subscriber is entitled to the full paper, and it will not be complete unless you get the two sheets. So

large a paper has never before been

printed in this county, except by

this office, The Courier is al

ways in the lead, and is going to keep pushing on. Look on the other sheet of this issue and read the advertisement which tells ali about the $150.00 in

prizes the Courier is going to give away to its subscribers. In making up the list of papers you are going to take f or 1890,don't forget the Courier, As a home paper, we don't propose to ailow anybody to get ahead of us.

Recently W. A. King and wife, and the wife and daughter of G. B. Moore, jr., of Ellettsville, were poisoned by eating "souce" that" had been cooked in a copper kettle, at the house of the widow Reeves. The parties were all in a serious

j condition for a short time but rccov

ered after a bad scare.

claiming that there was no Republican here worthy of the place, and at the same time they had a partisan Democrat for assistant postmaster.

Does this look like civil service re

form, if so, I confess I want none of it. As to falling out in the church, it was bible or no bible that caused the division. For instance, when an Elder called for a rising ote to exclude two members from the Church, in their absence, without ever letting them know anything a-

bout the matter,or bringing charges

against them, such is calculated to cause a falling out and it is contiary to bible teaching. In regard to shaking the school from center to circumference, the same faction that carted the Postoffice out of the township after night, and turned

two worthy and honorable citizens

(Dr. Rice and J. B. Hazel) out of

Church without a hearing that is

trying to shake the school teacher

The following pincers of Alexan

der Post G. A. R., of Unionvilk,

were elected for the ensuing year

Comraader, Joseph V.Rawlins ; Senior Vice Commander, Jos S. Harris;

Junior Vice Commander, Andrew Parks; Quartermaster, Wm. Peterson; Surgeon, J. K. Spencer ; Chaplain, Arch Fleeuerf Officer of the day,, Robert Prior; Officer of the Guard; Clem Alley ; delegates to Department Encampment, T. J Langley,Jos. N. Fleener; Alternates R, J, Miller, Milton Myers,

scoring.Then, again, 1 read in the same sheet : "The suspicious thing about the Morton saloon business was his denial." I rubbed my hands with glee, for both the President and Vice President got it.- Then the paper went on to score the Indianapolis Journal, the State organ of the Republican party, ThiB lick at the Journal that ran extra railroad trains to Chicago to help nominate Harrison, pleased me so well that I turned to see the name of the paper I was reading. I read in big trpe just below the heading of Bloomington Telephone. "The official Republican paper of Bloomington and Monroe county. I am glad, Mr. Editor, that you are having some assistance against the ruinous policy of the protection party, and the reign of corrupt politicians. As a life long Democrat, I congratulate the editor of the Tele

phone, and, extend him the right

put. Well may the Democrats stand hand of fellowships we Methodists

back and laugh, for they can see

the footprints of the Postofllce for twenty years to come. Anon, A sufficient number of members has been secured to organize a

Tribe of Red Men at Gosport, and!

it will be instituted soon by the Red Men of this city.

say, and hope he many continue to

grow in the faith of the FathersDemocracy. Democratic Drummer.

Ex-President Andrew DT White says : Strange as it may seem. I never yet knew a boy who habitually used tobacco to amount to much in after life. Tobacco grows worse even than ardent spirits in some people; it seems to take the vitality out of a boy. Yes, I have watched boys who smoke cigarettes along through the day andl have seen them, almost without exception drop out of the race early. I don't pretend to account for. this. I

merely state the iaefc. If a boy ft

college persists in smokiug you had better take him out and make a cab driver out of him Ho will thus have plenty of fresh aif and may possibly earn his salt.

The lnclianapous Journal gives

the following brief sketch of the

congressman from this district : George Wm. Cooper, of Colum

bus, Fifth DistrictjWas born in Bartholomew county. Indiana,' May 21,

1851. He received a preliminary education in the public schools, and

took a four years course at the

Indiana State University, graduat

ing in the literary ana law course in 1872. Since then he has practiced law, was prosecuting attorney

in 1872, mayor of Columbus in

1877, city attorney for four years

and was eleced to the Fifty-first

Congress as a Democrat, receiving 18,210 votes, against 17,50(1 votes

for Henry Clay Duncan, republi

can; 706 Votes for W. G. Beckett, prohibitionist, and 221 votes for

John H a fry man, 1 abor candidate

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Different things could be suggrested W.-WiM(

to our large stoeM of

We call your attention

Table Linens, Napkins, Torels, Dress .Goods

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Silks and Henriettas. A new stock o::

Ruffs!

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Several ladies were in town Inst week going from house' to house giving baking powder tests, rfhey are in the employ of a well-known baking powder firm than is fighting the "Royal,! It is a good scheme and works well, as there has since been a lively demand at ttieggrocer-

ies for the baking powder represent- (

ed by the ladies. Don't miss the Big Courier this Week 8-pages.

The "Bloomington bcrys" W'efe in town last Sunday night, and no doubt the fair sex of this place had a gay time vtiit them (Sosport Enterprise.

A private letter" from California' from a relatives of the Editor of the CoURE!?say : "A small company of us own the Selma Enterprise, daily and weekly We need a good live wide-awake Republican editor who will be a good business manager. The paper is established on a paying basis. We will sell him the plant at cost, and give him every assistance in the future,- or we will carry him for a year so that he may become satisfied that the busines is a good one. We simply want him to run the

paper in uic interest oi tue ko publican party, and be a good business manager. For further particu lars, address John R-, BairdSelma, California.

Ex-Coiigressmau Sfatsori ws at the Capitol to day. mingling with his old friends-. He is looking well and says he feels better fn private life than he did in public life. Washington Dispatch.

If you want to make a cfistant relative of friend d Christmas present one that will them a whole year send them tFvo CotrufER. If they are interested in the local news of this vicinity it will be appreei a ted.

; Mr; Wm. Kastouv a?nd wife, oj StiuesvlHe b'ive depar tied for Okla;- v homa amf eotrthevn Kansas to spend ; tue wiuter and riapvove their health' . f The; game law is force1 fromf"' fyecenber ) r year for i n ail and plieasaAts ; f rotev February t to November i fb witS ) turkey ; January 1 to; October -i fbsf r : deer ? FebtUa'ry tV September &

for prairie cbJckenfe ' ';-

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The rbadiers of newspapera sfcouM never let tlie advertisiug department escape their attention In nine cases out of eu the reader of advertisements Is fully repaid in some advantage he secures by such reading. The advertisers in a newsr paper, as a general thingirepresents the best, business men? who are in the field to stay and who will give dollar for: dollar in every trade mute wikfe-tfeeritrf

Now the proper timev oV givei' the following: recetpev tbQrbagliv: test : tot atorrVol coal take 15 to20s cents worttopf salt. , and dissolve it thoroughly iu vkterV With this sprinkle the coal as- completely asv" possiblev Tbe salt acts as- a soot; destrbyerv anct . ia saidv ioj leavoN atotes lids, pipes and chimneys1 clear as a whistled

Boirt throawayybur bW rbber boots aud; shoes; Save ttienc for the agents-of tbe chewing gum1, raarinf actor fes.wh o arb umr Bbyingr them up in aflpartB- of , ther q0mq try, Pulverized: rubber boots an& oveivshoes, ilavored witnr vanilla

; strawoerry rarer otuerv extracts;