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VOL 15

BLOOMING I ON, INDIANA, AUGUST 1. 1893.

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LOCAL NEWS

The In 'liana wheat crop is estimated ;it forty five million bushels. Drs. Farr and Spencer have rented an office in the Masonic building. This is a good time to take esfepscial care of kildren and save doctor biljs. , Mrs. Hrry Barnett, Maple Heights, is recovering from A CNfU spell of sickness. Mrs. M. V. Saddler, of Spencer,

is in the city visiting friends andj relatives for a short ttni

Linv price. sw m i ;vc struck everything but Hickberry crop. I' laks 10 c:ui- to buy a gallon. Dr. Um wl Westtiekl, Indiana, is in the city, and it is his intention to rent a house and move to Bloomington. The Monon railroad checks are being cashed. It takes about 5,000 to pay the men who have headquartets at this place. . It is the intention of Thomas N. Matherto occupy hi? property in South Park as wiou as it is vacated by H. A. Lee, which will be some time next weak. It is stated that the management of the Monon has decided to cut down expenses, and is looking about to see where someting in that direction can be done. The soldiers are now becoming uneasy as it is uncertain when their pension will be stopped It is understood that several Monroe county soldiers have lost their pension. The report from wheat which is threshed indicates that the grain is unusually good, but the t yield not so goodtas last year. Company "tl," while in camp, had a picture of the com pany taken under their mess tent. It will be quite a souvenir for the boys and they all possess one. In the will of the lace Parker Thompson, lib wife is made executrix and bequeathed eveiything. After her dth $500 go to the M. E. Ministerial Aid Society. At the teachers' examination last month thejc were 31 applicants. Out of these there was granted one for 36 monlis, one for 24 months, 3 for 12 months and 2 for 6 months, making a total of 7.

Stories of the Sea.

Tom Stevenson, of Ellettsville, has been in the city on a few days' visit He will not enter school this year, as it is his intention to attend the Methodist Indiana Conference and take charge of a circuit. Orders have been given by General-manager McDoel, of the Monon, to stop work on new shope, new yards, new depots, etc., until further orders. The Monon, like other roads, is taking in sail. Jackson Misener has returned from a ten days' visit to the worid's fair. While there he stopped with his son John, who has an excellent position iA the American express office. William Whisenand, Smithville, btarts Monday to canvass the State with his patent black board for the school house. It is an invention of his own, and he hsis met with good success in the tew years which

he has traveled.

The Board jf Review has raised the assessments of tbe following quarries as specified: Enterprise Stone Co. $ 800 Bedford Stone Co. 500 Moatoe Oolitic 2,100 .Mftrtm C. Hunter 3,300 MMcf Iwdmwi 3,000

To the Editor of the Telephone: HvnvBiY Cedars. X". J.. Jri.v. 10. '03. An object of special interest to a landsman on the coast hero is Barnegat Lighthouse. A circular tower of briek,about 4 feet in diameter at the base and 150 feet high, the

lower half painted white and the

upper half red; it stands a conspicu

ous object by day, and at night its great flash-light can be seen I believe far 50 miles at sea. It was a BWttW of great interest to me to learn how sailors could tell wher3 they wen when they saw a light. The Bai negat light is called a tenseconds light that is it waxes and wanes in brightness and from one period of its maximum brilliancy to. anoiher is exactly ten seconds. The lamp itself is an oil lamp with five circular wicks one inside the other. The inner wick is one inch, the outer wick seven inches in diameter. Imagine a great glass globe surrounding this lamp; the globe instead of being circular in

form has a large number of faces

which aie really discs.

j wreck occurred and just one man

was saved and he more dead than alive. Just one piece of baggage was washed ashore, a little trunk. When the sui vivor saw it he said, "Boys, that's ray trunk." Tho keys were still it his pocket and then he opened it and found it held

just what he told them. To-day has l3een stormy. The j surf is just one vast stretch of snow i white foam as far as the eye can I

see up and down the teach. The

great waves arc chasing one another up the beach, imd tossing their white manes like wild horses in a mad race for tho lead. Listening to these tale& of the sea to-day, and to-night listening to the ceaseless roar of the surf, it sounds to me like the roar of a great beast hungry for its prey, and I oaa n t but think of that glad time when the first haven and the first earth shall have passed away and when there shall be no more sea. S. It. Lyons.

AN ELEGANT NEW

At the coming meeting of the council the interesting question will be the extension of time for the

This ureat water works. Under the franchise,

globe of glass revolves bv dock &e plant was to have been corn-

work so that fiom whatever point pleted by Aug. 1st. but owing to a of tbe compass vou look one of j complication of troubles this has

these discs passed in front of the light every ten seconds. When the light makes a perfect focus through the disc there is a brilliant flash. Other lights on the coast may be five-seconds or fifteen seconas lights. Seamen know the lights and of course know by the light where they are. But it is in the dense fog or the blinding storm, when the great light can not be seen, that the danger ties. Then the great ships may be driven helpless on the sands and broken nin pieces by the sea. Strange sad talett they tell of ships wrecked and lives lost on this beach. Old Captain Gaskell, a genuine old character, now some 90 years of age and well-known along the shore, could hold you by the hour with his thrilling tales of the sea. Years ago he tells that one nigh t in March, a night terrible with storm and cold, a German emigrant ship the Powhatan, with six hundred emigrants on board, was wrecked just off shore. Then there were no people living on the beach. The nearest dwellers were two miles across the bay. Before any of them reached the scene all was over and not one life of the six hundred was saved. The beach was covered with the bodies washed ashore. The old captain was the first to reach the scene. It was terrible. "In one place," he says, "I lifted and laid straight side by side twenty-two beaut ful, young flaxen-hailed girls, every shred of clothing torn from their bodies by the waves, and all frozen stiff." And tears trickle down the old man's cheeks as he tells the story. A little farther up the beach he noticed a track over the sand, leading from the surf toward shore; following this track, which appeared to have been made by something dragged over the sand, he soon came to a little clump of low bushes and there lay a dead sailor wrapped m his pea-jacket and inside the jacket lay a little child dead. It icijuires no imagination the captain thinks to see that sailor on the long voyage, fading in love with some sweet-faced child and when the ship struck, buttoning the child up dose to his own warm breast and then bathing with the cruel waves for its little life and his on. fn the same month another

not been done. A clause in the contract provides that in case of strikes, then the limit shall not hold good, and it is uudex this clause that the extension will be asked. Since the labor difficulty of a few weeks ago, the work has been progressing rapidly and very satisfactorily to all concerned, and it will not be long until the company is ready for the test. About 1,200 fet of additional mains are being placed in the southeast part of the C'ty. Florence Carter, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carter, or' Stanford, died Saturday evening. She had been in bad health for some time, but until last week nothing serious was expected. As the latter part of the week passed it was evident she could not live and her brother Ira, left here for her bedside. She was sixteen years old and held in the highest esteem by all who knew her. She was a n exceptionally bright girl. The burial took place Sunday evening at Stanford. Dr.-H. S. Herr has rented the B. B. Smith property on east 4th street, and B. B. Smith and family will occupy the house with Mrs. Slocunib, corner of Washington and 3rd. Dr. Herr comes from Westfield to educate his children, and will make a valuable addition to the city. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howard have closed an engagement with the "'Squire Haskins" company, in which Mr. Howard takes the leading part as the old man, and Mrs. Howard will play the leading lady. They start Monday for New York and the company goes on the road the 15th. L O. Sutphin states that the price of cattle is still dropping; $2.05 was the best figure in Indianapolis Friday. Cattle men are losing money on account of having engaged cattle ' last winter at $3. 50. Ilarrjt Cookerly, a well known Bloomington boy of former days, is spending a week in the city with his relative and friends. He is now located at Topeka. Kansas, where he is connected with the machine shops. Mrs. Morris, of White Hall, is quite sick. She is now 83 years old and has been in comparatively good health.

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We are getting Ready, That is we are preparing for a big Fidl trade, but for our Fall and Winter stock we must have R O O J L. How are we going to get it? If we don't get rd of ALL that medium and light weight goods? And how are we to sell it These Hard Times

if we don't reduce the price That is

to almost wholesale figures?

Just what we have done and its bound to go. Yon come and see us and we will do the rest. THE

CLOTHING HOUSE.

J. W.SIMMONS & CO.

The Spencer fair is Aug. 15th to 18th.

The Indianapolis mills are paying r4 cents for wheat.

A wedding is on the program

for north Walnut street. The long dry spell is doing great damage to th growing corn. Rev. Cr. N. Luccock and family are expected home by the 6th None do good work cheaper than the Telephone job office. Joseph Thornton, who has been, very sick, is reported much better. Will Halstead,whohas been very sick for some time, is able to W out again.

Mrs. Hight, of Spencer, is the guest of Joe Alexander and wife,

! town.

When there is any job printing of any kind always give the Telephone office a call L. M. Grimes has returned from Chicago and Moutiieilo after a few

days' visit at each place. Joseph Urmoy has gone to Martinsville to take advantage of the artesian water for ten days. Charley McPheeters has returned from Spencer, where he has been "tin the t a tesian water. Miss Cad Slocivnh has gotie to Chicago to spend a week at the fair. She will be joined by a party of Texas friends.

John Morgan, who is agom for farming implements of ad kinds, succeeded in selling tU mowers and binders this season. Charfby Mitchell, of the Bee Hive, lef t tc - lay for a two weeks" vacation at West Baden Springs. He was accompanied bv his family.

The family of J. A. Shields, from Bloomtield, have moved here, and it is the intention to make this their futura home. They occupy the property vacated by L. A. Clark, west 6th street. John Bay ran is visiting relatives

in the city. He came from Washington and has been spending some time at Martinsville. He will go to Indianapolis, where he will learn the dentist's profession. Rev. J. E. Brown, editor of the Herald and Presbyter, has returned to Cincinnati. While here he prepared an interesting historical sketch of the Walnut Street Presbyterian church that will appear in a short lime.

The annual memorial meeting will be held at Mt Salem on Saturday and Sunda, Aug. 5th and 6th. Rev. Stackhouse will p teach on Saturday, at 10:30 o'clock, also at 2 o'clock. The funeral of Wilson Ross' children will be preached on Lord's day, at 10:30. Ekl L. T.

VanCleave will preach at 2:30. Everybody is invited to attend these meetings. By Order of Committke. Congressman George W. Cooper was in the city for a short time this morning. He was called to Nashville on business, and could not resist the temptation to visit his Monroe county friends. Mr. Cooper has been away from Washington for the past three weeks, which time he spent at Chicago and in the northwest. He stated that ho would be in Washington in good time tor the coming extra session, which convener Aug. 7th, but though the weather entirely too sultry to discuss politics with the Telephone.