Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 July 1895 — Page 1

BLOOM INGTON INDIANA. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY a, 189a.

May Save It.

An Effort Will' Be Made to Repair the Court Bell. The court house bell that was cracked on the morning of the 4th may yet be allowed to hang in the big tower and send forth its musical chimes of old. -I. O. Howe, the well known jeweler made an examination of : he bell in eompany with fire chief Gilmore on the morning of the 4th but did not arrive at any conclusion as to where the crack could be remedied. He will make another close examination to-day. Acid will be used to clean the bell so that the crack in its intirety will be distinguishable. A magnifying glass will also be called into use. If the crack does not extend, crosswise Mr. Howe has , hopes of repairing it; but should thusly, it will be impossible to repair it. He thinks it can be, at a cost of less than 850, made to do service as well as when new. The tone will likely be changed some what Mr. Howe is of the opinion that three men can do the work in three days. A number of small steel saws will be required to saw down the crack after but the bell has been turned bottom up. A small liole will be drilled at the upper extension of ther crack, and will thus be the means of checking any further extension of the crack. A DESTITUTE FAMILY. Dwell Together Uu-er a Cliff in Wretchedness on Stout's Creek. A characteristic family known to the citizens of Bloomington and vicinity is that of Weasel Collins ajad iiis half dozen children. They have lived in and about Bloomington .in wretched poverty for years. The boys doing odd chores now and then the proceeds of which went for cakes or watermelons. A square meal is a stranger to them, and their clothes are but the re mains of tattered rag3 and hardly hides their nakedness. At present they are living under a stone cliff on tout's Creek, northeast of the city. The father has almost succumed to the disease of dropsy. Dr. Potts, the county physician, went out to his wretched hovel Sunday to give the father medical attention. He reports him to be in a critical condition, and the habitation something beyond human comprt hension. How any family or human being can live in this manner the good Doctor can't understand. There is nothing to protect the inmates under this ledge or cliff. from the stormy weather. They have nothing hardly to eat and how they subsist is only a matter of conjecture. It seems as though some missionary work could be done to a good advantage in this case. The father should be by all means removed to the poor asylum that he might pass the remaining few hours of his life on a bed, something that is a stranger to him. The Faithful Rewarded. John T. Nance, of Harrocsburg. has received notice of his appoint ment as a guard of the Southern prison, under the new Warden, A. T. Hert. He will assume his

duties August 1, at a salary of $55 per month. He will remove hiss family to Jeff'eisoimlle the latter part of this month. Mr. Nance has been a faithful worker in the Republican camp, and has on several occasions been candidate for appointive office. He has at last received the reward of the faithful.

Post Office Affairs, "Will It Be Removed Is The Question Of The Hour. . The post ollice removal question is again in evidence. Yesterday Manager C. R. Worrall of the Hotel Gentry received a telegram from Prof. Henry B. Gentry which related to the proposed removal, and while Mr. Worrall would not give its contents, he stated to The World reporter that the office would not be moved and that the room would be rented to other parties. The removal question all along has been shrouded in so much mystery that it has been difficult for the public to tell just where "it was at." The Post Ollice inspector first stated that it would not be moved, and afterwards he changed his mind and recommended that it be removed. Thus matters remained until Hon. Geo. W.Cooper went to Washington in : the interest of Dr. S. K. Rhortr. As the result of his efforts Dr. Rhorer and friends are making no statements for pub lication. Now comes the telegram to Manager Worrall, who after reading it ?ays the room is for rent After full' investigating the matter from alpha to omega, The Woklb has unanminously come to the conclusion that it will either be removed or remain where it is. Our requests for money due us should be looked at from a business standpoint. It costs a large amount of money to publish a newspaper, and those who receive it should pay for it promptly. WANTS $5.00, The Owner of the GreenvmiUe Restaurant Wants TUat Amouut From Co . "H," Yesterday afternoon Cap't. Theo. J. Louden received a bill demanding So, the owner of the Green castle restaurant where the boys are alleged to have helped themselves on their way home from Anderson on the 5th of July. The bill itemize "four watermelons, one ice-pick and one miik mug." It was given by the restaurant people to Cap't. Fee who forwarded it to Cap't. Lou den. The restaurant people .stale that if the bill is not paid that they will have the entire company arrested. The members of Co. "II." claim that they did not take anything that they did not pay well for and there the matter rests. Blakely & Bridwell are -'The People" for anything in their line. PUBLIC NOTICE. When you go to Indianapolis ask Agent Helton for one way or round trip tickets via Vandaiia Line, our limited train leave Indianapolis 12 40 noon daily, and the wait at Greencastle Junction is but forty rive minutes. GEO E ROCKWELL, ) P A.

NEW CITY HALL.

A New City BuildingNeeded in Bloomington. Bloomington needs a new city hall, and needs it badly. The present building besides being unsafe, is inadequate for the use it is put to. The fire company have the lower floor, in which is stored nil the apparatus necessarily belonging to a first class engine house. The enpinc hordes are in the rear part of the room, and the amount of space allowed them is entirely too small. It has been necessary to build a little wooden structure on the east side of the building (a shed shape affair) for the hook and ladder wagon besides being too small by far it not a tasty ornament to adorn the prominent side of any pretentious building. The front upstairs room is used as a police court over which Mayor Buskirk presides and in which the city council holds its sessions. The rear room is where the firemen on duty bunk at night and the company holds its regular meeting. Improvised bunks have been arranged in the shape of cots for the fire ladders who must answer the night alarms. The building should be condemned, the flooring in the center of the Mayor's office and council chambers sways or sinks several inches that makes a person walking- across its carpet ed surface feel as though he was descending a sink hole. The joists just above the horse's stalls do not project into the wall more than two inches if that much, and the attaches about the building firmly believe that if a large crowd was to assemble upon the upper lloor it would collapse. A new building should be erected; one of solid stone commodious enough for the tire company and all of its apparatus under one rof. A large basement might be added that contains the heater,and where weights could bo suspended that throw the doors open. The second story sVuild contain the Mayor's office, council chamber and an ollice room for the city clerk that now has to be. rented. A different location should be selected one favorable to the fire company in reaching easily all streets. A new alarm will have to be purchased by the city. One of the county commissioners in conversation with Tiik Woisi.u reporter Saturday, stated that since tincourt house bell has been broken, the city must supply their own private alarm as they will not be permitted to use the new bell when purchased. :? Notice. Under the new Fee and Salary Law, fee? for recording will have to be paid in advance. It also makes the fee for recording Mechanics' Lien 50e. Satisfying Mortgage oi other liens on margin of records 2(c. J. W. Ja':sox, Recorder. Normal Items Summer Normal began yesterday with an enrollment of 50. This i.the largest first day enrollment in the history of the institution. Four counties other than Monroe are represented. I. U is well represented on the roll. Among ti ie vis i tors at the onening were W. P. Payne, J. C. Paris. Itev. Williams and Mr. Copehmd. The rooms in the west end of the old college building are used for

class rooms. Profs. K. O. Holland and F. M. Ingler use the first lloor and F. F. Tourner and U. II. Smith the second lloor. Greencastle is represented by J es s i e V a land i n gh a in . Bedford is represented by Misses McKnight and Mitchell. Several are preparing for the High School entrance examination next fall. The rain prevented those from a distance in the country from reporting but many are expected to port this morning.

Read the "Notice to Subscribers" published in this issue. We are puttingin new material to take the place of that destroyed by fire, and as our expenses are heavy we are calling on ALL our subscribers to pay up all j I jack subscriptions. Youthful Robber. Enters and Plunders a House and Effects Mis Escape. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Bud Jeffries, living on Prospect Hill, locked her house preparatory to attend to some business in town. She hid the key in a convenient place, a safe one as she thought, and went on her errand. In the j meantime her husband, who is employed atf" the electric light station, arrived home and was sur prised to find the door open Some boys who were playing near informed him that they had seen Harry Strange, a young boy well known about town, find the key and enter the house. J ust as Mr. Jeffries entered the front door the boys called to him that young Strange was escaping by the rear door. Upon examination it was found that ten silver dollars and seventylive cents in change was missing. Chief Owens was notified and together with Mr. Jeffries they gave chase on horseback. The boy when seen last by the ollieer and Mr. Jeffries disappeared lvjar Clear Creek. No trace could again be found of him and they returned to the city. About seven o'clock last night night they received word that he had been seen at Smithville, and 7 that he had on a new suit of clothes. Chief Owen notified the officials at Harrodsburg and they will likely effect his arrest as he passes through that town. It was discovered that he had seen Mrs. Jeffries hide the key. The stone that was laid in the New Temple house of the A ASR Masons at Indianapolis, on June Mih was unique in its way. It was quarried in the quarry owned by Mr Charles Lilly, at Siinesville, who is himself a Thirty second degree Scottish rite Mason. It was cut by Mr E W Eraoiy, Mr. Lilly's Superintendent, whose Masonic qualifications are probably higher than any in our community. His full titles were too long for this item so we give the initials o the different lodges to which he belongs, and those will be readily deciphered by the brethern of the Mystic Craft, as W. 11. A M., K. T., A. A. N. M. S., .v. A. S. R. It is probably the only stone that was ever laid in a building that came from a quarry that was owned by a mason, was cut by a mason, was designed by an. architect that was a mason, and was laid by masons in a building dedicated to masonic purposes.

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SLASH! BLOOD! While Everybody else in our line is closing out we thought maybe it was a good time to keep on "Sawing Wood." Watch Our Windows For some sample Bargains you can get at the EAGLE before our store is torn up, etc. THE EAGLE Dealers.

Charter Oak

All kinds of shaving; hair cutting; singeing; egg shampooing and dyeing Razor honing promptly done.

All kinds of tonics and perfumes.

According to the New Albany Tribune, a saloon keeper of that city was evidently very sore over the passage of the Nicholson law, which compelled him to clos-e his place of business on the Fourth of July. lie expressed himself by having a large banner painted which he hung out the window that read as follows: "The banner of liberty, freedom and right of the state of Indiana in the year of our Lord, 1895. The stars and stripes has vanished under a tvrannical. fanatical, and corrupt legislature that howl?. 'Bow down, you staves, bow down. Mayor Armstrong called upon the irate dispenser of mixed drink?, at the instigation of a number of prominent citizens who took exceptions to the banner, and requested him to pull it down. Thin lie refused to do saying that it expressed his sentiment to a T. Y. He was finally persuaded to remove the obnoxious banner, and tlrwi pence and harmony prevailed agairKin the city on the river. riee Blakely it BridweU's hand some toilet sets.

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SING OUT! Foreverl Barber Shop. Give us a call. John W. Mason, Proprietor 8. Y. P. U. Convention. Baltimore, Md., lulv 18-21 , Big Four Route, Otlicial Route 1 trom Indiana Unc rare to" the ! round trip. Tickets good going 1 July 16 and 17, and good return ing untu August 5 th. 1 he orhcial train will leave Indianapolis at 3:00 p m,July 16th, via the. Big Four Chespeake & Ohio Railways. For full information address Transportation Leader. , L. A. CLARK, Crawt'ordsviile. TO BALTIMORE. j July 16th and 17th, 1895, B. & 0. S-W. U'y will sell excursion I tickets to Baltimore at one fare for j the round trip, good returning until August 5th, account Fourth Annual Convention Baptist Young ! People s Union. Expeditious and Handsomely equipped train service guaranteed patrons of B. it 0. S-W. R'y. Ask nearest ticket agent of this company and connecting lines for additional particulars. Hammocks at cost at Lindley's City drug store. Raspoerries, home grown at

Jesse Huvve's.