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THE SMITHVILLE NEWS.

VOL. L

SMITHVILLE, 1ND!

ANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1908.

No. 10

LOCAL NEWS

CALEB POWE

The man that first made use of that saying that “what goes up must come down,” evidently didn’t have much trouble with the cost of living jin his day.

Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ead« were the guests of hi# parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Eads, east of Bloomington, over Sunday.

To Lecture at the Fair Grl) Un (J

Mrs. Louis Litz and Mrs. Tom Clark were shopping in Bloomington to-day.

Automobile Test Trip.

Friday, Oct. 9th,

Thirty automobiles, pasted through today from French Lick to Indianapolis. It was a test trip of the Indianapolis

Three Chinamen have struck BloomingRm and. are Plenty of for the police and mayor. One of theln tried to commit suicide by jumping off the I. S. trestle oyer the

I. O. Sutphin, the stock dealer, went to Harrodsburg this morning* on business.

Caleb Powers is to lecture Merchants and Farmers Carnivlq, a t the fair grounds Friday, Oct. 9th. 1 To see and hear Caleb Powers, will bile to see and hear a real martyr, one who |* T as imprisoned a* long in being implicated n the fame** Goebel murder easel in Kentucky. Mr. fewers, like Brylfe* f nsed to be a poor man, but from L; 8 notriety in being se unjustly punisbtjd, has earned quite a fortnne from his leieturcs and books. It would be w«Ln worth your while to go to hear that date. 1

Trade Association. One car that was

Mrs. Pink Zike and daughter Daisy, visited Mrs. Hainey and Blanche Wed-

near the lead, broke down in front of David Wright’s residence and had to

Mpnon tracks, as an engine was approaching, but the engine was stopped in time, to save bis “pig tail. ’ 7 Chinamen aie no good, except to eat rats, and they ought to go hungry while in Bloomington.

nesday

take the rear. Nearly every kind of a

car that is made was in the race

L. E. Dill man, post master and general merchant at Clear Creek, was here

Star Hits Nail on the Head

this morning on business

Ralph B. Carter, ef Smithville, is out as a Republican candidate for trustee of Clear Creek township. His principal claim is that he wants it, and needs it. worse than the present Democratic trustee. — ftlcomington Star.

John Keller, John Fox, Wm. Whis i a id and F aak Sylvester are rebuild ing their telephone line this week.

W. C. T. U. Have a Big Sup-

per Tomorrow Night.

The drought has been broken, and now it is going to break our pocket books to buy coal for this winter.

TheW. C. T. U. in whiek Mrs. Lizzie Litz, Mrs. Edith Bnwers, Mrs. Ida Clark, Mrs. Alice Fox, Mrs. Leu Leonard, Miss Edna Hainey, Mrs. Laura Deckard Mrs. Sarah Rhorer, Mrs. Ellen Johnson, Mrs.Maude iurirhart and Mrs. Sallie Elgan are some the active m embers, who give a supper to-morrow flight jin the lower room of the teleiphontl exchange building, recently keated t« Mr. Huffman. They will e cream and oy*ter soup, and pverybj s 'ly is invited to come and enjoy I ar d help the ladies in their

The Howard-Dersctt Co., playing i the Harris Grand this week, is said t| be the best eompany that bas playei in Bloomingteu for some time.

Editor Feltus generally “hits the nail on the head.” The ieal contenfon of my race it that the little salary for that office would help me to better the telephone service, and newspaper, by which the general township would be benefited, There would be no democratic victory in defeating me. and in electing me more people would get a benefit from my salary than possibly my opponent could give on account, that he dosen’t happen to be operating any public icivk;e utility.

Mrs. Cul Clark. Mrs. Dean M*.y, aud Mrs. Homer Hutnphery, spent the day with Mrs. Fred Cantrell, yesterday.

It doaen’t eok uaneh like there would be a coal famine here this winter with the side tracks full ©f coal cars and more comiiag. It desen’t seem so many yean age when any one that burnt coal here was considered extravagant.

Mrs. Jos. Forney has taken charge of the boarding house at Me Milieus Mill, fo me rally run by Mrs. O. C. Allen.

To correct an item an second page iij which ii'r th»V lor me -S* r ckarvu an nival, at the fair grounds the OI 9th., will say that on account of JHf on two not wanting to go, the P r bas been passed by. The consid^B ra( } for their services was not con^B. ac j[ 1 The loyalty ef the members (be other, in never to part, is real a tide.

Elden Fraiitz has completed a well on hflJdfP irhtt'a-ve«n, hut dynamite was need, the water will not be good to drink for a while.

Milton Pittman and wife,Mort Sciseoe and wife attended a basket meeting at Friendship Sunday. The Rev. Bruner had charge ©f the services.

ALL LINE now RF/M

The trains arc all running this road again, and order* have b en given*agent Thrasher to flag the “Cannon-ball when any one wants to get on.

* Kas Not Much Panic in Tm? , ■purk - A letter just received by JarnBj j s a hart, from his son Charley, B ga y S carpenter iu Fort Worth TexaHjtfcy ]j a tell Carter to send him the K r News. He also says in his ]K days he has not lost more than 5 Bj le gets work all this summer, and tlBiart is £3.50 per day. Charley BBi e Ella wall remembered here and nB 3) near Eads, a daughter of Eli I® Allens Crack. I

IN ALL DEPARTMENTS 'tier merchandise than ever at Lower Prices. Sec our

Mr. S. D. Huffman, who has rented the room i« tbe stone building will ©pen up his meat market at once and is now moving in part of his equipment.

$10 and $12 Suits

The Hot Air correspondent of the McMillen mill has become exhausted over this cold spell and his air pipes has completely froze up. We look for a thaw-out after the 3rd of November when Bryan comes in to start his machinery.

SEE THE ANNEX

— - Bed to be, Politics, i« not like politic® r j n fc. Q £ when you could give a mai*a nc j jead whiskey, a d-dlar, a ticke® e r voted him up to the polls and “■ the en-

Tohn Doe.” Neither is thl thusiasm and strife lhatthB when men would fight wvel argument. We are a rnul ucated people than in thol have the papers, telephoB reed the issues of the day I our silently and votfl the best opiniw* of the geiB without the “ jarty bosseB

c ||r magnificient display of Mer■■antjrailoring and Gentlemen’s ff urnishings.

IS/1V NEW

Fall and Winter stock of

MILLINERY

[ U P I, as tion

is now in and is a full and complete line of the latest up-to date styles.

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AND

ANNEX

Call and see my Stock

large amount of exciteme^^^^H or a avail nothing, ked fire chashedwith money, but^^^B l -vP ur " enthusiasm has to rise neral from the people, like tut^^^B a forlorn and neglected * n

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