The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 July 1920 — Page 5

r ■ i | f The Mystery of Hartley House J $ By CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND | Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS Copyright by George H. Doran Co. >*<

“JOHN!” Synopsis. — Dr. John Michelson, just beginning his career, becomes resident physician and companion of Homer Sidney at Hartley house. Mr. Sidney is an American, a semiinvalid, old and rich and very desirous. to live. Mrs. Sidney Is a Spanish woman, dignified and reticent. Jed, the butler, acts like a privileged member of the family. Hartley house Is a fine old isolated country place, with a murder story, a “haunted pool,” and many watchdogs, and an atmosphere of mystery. The “haunted pool” is where Richard Dobson, son of a former owner of Hartley house, had killed his brother, Arthur Dobson. Jed begins by locking the doctor In his room the very first night. Doctor John fixes his door so he can’t be locked in. He meets Isobel. daughter of the house and falls in love at first sight. In the night he finds the butler drunk and holding Mrs. Sidney by the wrist, lie interferes. Mrs. Sidney exJohn buys a revolver. John overhears Jed telling Mrs. Sidney he will have his way. In reply she says she will not hesitate to kill him. Mrs. Sidney asks John to consent to the announcement of his engagement to Isobel. The young people consent to the makebelieve announcement. Jed tries to kill John.

CHAPTER lll—Continued. Mr. Sidney never liked to hnye his vicarious drinking interrupted, but he always! was good natured. “Well, doctor.” he said, “what now? Is Jed drinking too much for my health?” At that moment no possible amount of liqtjor would have been too' much for Jed, The wretch must have thought I was a ghost. “Jed may drink himself to death, for all me,” I said. “That probably is the best end he can come to. I think he is gallows meat, but I want to talk to him when you can spare him.” “We can’t- spare Jed to have him hanged,” said Mr. Sidney. “He’s too useful. Who else could drink my wine of ah evening? Go along with the doctor, Jed, and see whttt he wants. It’s probably a matter of pills or powders for me.” , a Jed was recovering from his shock, but he still showed the effects of it. “No hurry,” I said. “I’d rather wait a half hour. I’ll be in my room.” I went there and wrote two letters. Beth were to one point. They related •circumstantially what had happened that afternoon. One I addressed to a lawyer I knew, and the other to Dr. Brownell. Jed knocked at the door as I finished them. He was still unnerved, “I have something I want you to read,” I said, and gave him the letters. He read them and moistened his lips. “You don’t need to talk, Jed,” I said. “I’ll do all the talking that’s necessary’ lam not going away. I am going to right here, and you’d better be very careful of my health. These . letters go out tonight. The men who get them will keep their mouths shut so long as I am alive. If anything should happen to me, whether you had anything to do with it or not, you’d have a difficult time with a jury.” “It was a mistake,” he said. “I would not do you any harm. I shot at a rabbit.” “Twice with a pistol, when you had a shotgun?” I said. “You did! I was the rabbit. CHAPTER IV. . Jed came to me the next day in one of his candid moods. "I did shoot at you yesterday,” he said. “I know you did,” I replied. “And you’re wondering why and you’re wondering if I intend to do it again.” “I don’t wonder at anything you do,” I said. “And you know that if you do it again, the evidence is prepared against you. I think lam perfectly safe. I know you are a coward.” “No, I’m not a coward,” he said, as if he were stating a fact and not making a boast. “I never do anything without a purpose, and when I have a purpose, I do it no matter what the consequences may be. The reason I wanted to shoot you was because you were engaged to Isobel. I intend to marry Isobel. Now I know that you are not going to marry Isobel. You are just the foolish fence that her mother thought she could build up around Isobel and keep me from trying to marry her. Isobel doesn’t want you. She is laughing at you. So we might as well be friends again.” “Yoii preposterous old fool!” I said. “You senile alcoholic! You are a violation of decency. You enfeebled, exasperating 'old goat! You would sicken the moral conscience of a mummy. If you ever associate your aspirations with the name of Miss Sidney again, I’ll cut your throat with a paper knife.” Jed smiled and made me feel ridiculous. “I am a more Intelligent man than you,” he said. “You are too simple for the complexities of life. You could not possibly be sufficient for a girljof Miss {Sidney’s character. She would die of boredom la six months. There is nothing preposterous about my candidacy for Sidney. I am older than I’d like to be, but that is all.” “You are a hideous old fool,” I said, “but I think I'can handle you, and I give you warning.” , “I am going to be quite friendly,” said Jed. “You flatter yourself,” I said. “Well, anyway,” he said, “I’m friendly.” He proved to be so. The life of the house went placidly from day to day. Isobel, with a sense of our posturing r goward each other, made mocking ges-

itures of affection which shocked her mother. She particularly delighted to demonstrate, when Jed was serving dinner. I thought she would end by getting me shot in the back, but Jed had rated me finally as unimportant, which did my egotism no good. For such a rascal to .discard me, formally ! betrothed as I was to Isobel, in his i scandalous pursuits of that beautiful girl, was preposterous. j If Mrs. Sidney had known that I was i idiotically in love with Isobel, she would not have sought relief from her distress by the arrangement which made me her daughter’s protective fiance. The only thing I could take credit for in this absurd situation was that Mrs. Sidney was not allowed to know the state of my feelings. I was as sensible as a corrupting romanticism would permit me to be. I knew that any affection I might place 1 in this fashion was a real and serious I emotional vice, which if not controlled might lead to unhappiness. That consciousness had steadied me, but it had ; not delivered me. Isobel walked brightly through the | old.house of tragedy—as surely it was, however hidden the tragedy. She was ■ the glint of sunshine in the aisles of ! the dark woods, the odor of roses against the wall. She had the charm of the hollyhocks, the freshness of the hepatica in the spring, the beauty of the wild rose in June. If I showed my feeling more than a liver sausage shows a soul, I hope I | may be punished. What I thought of Isobel was my own affair, so long as ! I kept it strictly my own affair. | I took myself hr hand with as much | energy and promptness as I could, fol- ; lowing the announcement of our eni gagement. I did not want to confess ' myself a fftol. I did not intend to da ;so if I could help it. ' * I overdid it. I became disagreeable. I kept as much out of Isohel’s presence as possible. I never willingly was alone with her. I did my best to avoid meeting her or speaking to her. Isobel met the situation with her natural frankness after I had been giving this ; demonstration of myself for some time. “Doctor,” she said, “this household necessarily imposes friendships upon the people in it. I wonder if we could not be a little more agreeable to each other,” I did not know what to say. I hoped not ti be a hypocrite, and I did not want to be absurd. “I shall be glad to be as agreeable as I can,” I said after some mental stuttering. “I want to be, but I am so awkward.” “I want to be, too,” said Isobel; “and if we both want to be, we shall not have to glower at each other every time we meet. Even mother does not require it and father would detest It.” . Without saying anything more, she made me see that I had used a cheap device to escape the consequences of a foolish affection. The girl in a very friendly fashion had shown me that my avoidance of her was marked, cool and unreasonable. It was wholly reasonable from my poor standpoint, but from no other. I saw that I was meeting my difficulty. by running away from it, and I not only did not like the timidity of escape in this fashion, but furthermore, I did not like the opinion Isobel formed of me because of it. I had to face the music, and after that I did. It ought not to have astonished me that I felt better instantly. I knew that a coward only increased his troubles. I imagine if I had not seemed such a professional stick, such a thing aloof from human emotions, Isobel would have been merely friendly and kind. As it was. she was tantalizing. She liked me well enough, but that meant very little. If she did not drive, ride, walk or play tennis with me, she had a choice of the servants. It was I j>r nothing. I was with Mr. Sidney a number of hours every day. They varied, sometimes seven or eight a day in different perio’ds, sometimes three or four. Very little of this time was occupied in professional duty. Life at Hartley house would have been intolerably lonesome if I had been there merely as a practitioner. And therefore I welcomed a routine that was outside my profession. Mr. Sidney had a delicacy of perception which told him when attention upon even so amiable an invalid might be drawing upon the physical reserve of the people waiting upon him or being with him. He always . managed that they never should feel the fatigue of it. We saw no company at Hartley house. We made no calls and received none. We extended no invitations and received none. The estate was baronial, and it had baronial habits, but it brought no friends to the doors. It was nearly always with regard to Isobel that the condition seemed unnatural. For an invalid like Mr. Sidney it was natural enough. Mrs. Sidney was wholly <i.evoted to him; I was I engaged in professional duties; and | for Jed and the servants in the house i it was natural to be content with what they had of life or with the performance of duties for which they were paid and which they might abandon at will. But this was Isobel’s life. She was young, vibrant, beautiful, but ' vistas opening into human prospects ! were closed to her. And she was eni gaged to a piece of professional dead wood who happened to be the only > masculine thing available when her I mother was in great distress. Later Isobel said that as a woman she knew of course that I loved her, I but this is evident fiction. She did j no such thing, and it would be an unkindness to her to think so. What was only comedy if I were, as she , thought I was, an Indifferent, unfeelI ing man, would have been cruelty If : it had been known that, the position ! wa_p mockery of denied hopes. v isobel used me to gain her liberty.

THE SYRACUSE AND LAKE WA WASEii JOCRXAL

She affected familiarities and called me “John” derisively, or worse “d?ar” or “old dear.” I protested, in more pain than she could guess. “We are engaged,” she said. “What should I call you?” “You might consider the fact that we are not engaged,” I suggested. ' “But we are. If we don’t act as if we were, you’ll nc|t be any protection against Jed. Don't you want me to call you John?” “Os course I dol” I said. “It’s perfectly straightforward, natural and proper.” “Then it’s the ‘dear’ and ‘old dear 1 you object to, and I perfectly delight in calling you ‘old dear.’ It fits so well—it is really wonderful. It is almost a complete description as well as a charming appellation. I adore it.” “I object to unnecessary freedom," I said. “But it helps tjo deceive Jed.” “Nothing deceives Jed. He was deceived only for a Short while. Then he tried to kill me. He apologized afterward for his mistake. He knows the character of our engagement.” “Just the same, he has not bothered mother since then as he did before.” »“That is because he is a coward and I have him where I can control him.” Mrs. Sidney did not understand her daughter.. That was not astonishing; Isobel was a you|ng American woman; Mrs. Sidney had Sixuiish traditions. Isobel came naturally, through her father, to a candor which never ceased to amaze and-f-occasionally—to distress her mother. Isobel said what she thought. Her frankness came from honesty of character. Her lovely mother regarded life as something to be managed by reticence and denial. Mrs. Sidney was esthetic, and if a fact were unesthetic, she denied it and put out of her consideration. It was, to her, the only proper thing to do. Isobel was a clever tennis-player and I a poor one. She beat me three or four sets every fine afternoon. She liked to drive a car and ride a horse. I drove and rode with her. When Isobel said for the first time that she wanted to take me for a drive in the car, her mother made a gesture of dismay. Isonel stood before her and smiled. “You know we are engaged, mother,” she said. I thought of the hen at the pond’s edge seeing her brood of ducklings in the water. Mrs. Sidney was not in a panic and she did' not flutter, but her distress was acute. She knew the girl had to develop and she knew that she had to live in North, not South America. But knowledge is not a complete anodyne to pain. Isobel took her mother’s hand and kissed it, and (then her Ups. She smiled in such an hbnest, frank, perceptive fashion —I kn<Uv that a smile can contain all the human understanding in ||! Mr ILL Il Isobel Used Me to Gain Her Liberty. the world, because I saw Isobel’s—and then, holding her mother’s hand, she allowed Mrs. Sidney to have the moment of distress with the intimate support of her own presence. It may seem a small struggle that mother and daughter went through, but it did not seem small to me who witnessed it, and it had no rhetorical and little emotional expression. Isobel knew her mother suffered, but she was jwise. Mrs. Sidney dreaded her daughter’s adopted mode of life, but knew her daughter. “Good-bye, mother,” said Isobel. “We sha’n’t be gone long. Come on, John.” That was the first time she had called mej John honestly and without comedy. I knew her finesse. She did it to give her mother the comfortable sense that she was not going upon a wild adventure of an automobile ride with an unrelated man but was within the strict intimacy of the family. We went driving, Isobel at the wheel. She liked to drive fast and I do not. I am timid. I do not think that locomotion js a genuine human pleasure. Possibly It is, behind either a fast or a plodding horse. I prefer the plodding horse. Locomotion then merely reveals gradually changing facets of the scene; one likes to see the manifold aspects of a landscape unfold. But an automobile driyen as Isobel wanted to drive it revealed no facets. It merely blurred the vision and gave the idea that the satisfaction sought was a certain amount of wind blown in the face. For such as love it, not for me! “That was a difficult scene, doctor,” she said. I that was what she would call me next —“doctor.” I came directly down out of the clouds. “I know it was,” I said, “and I admired the honest way in which you managed it,”

“1 think I shall continue to call you John just that way,” she said. “It seems more honest and decent. After all, we are, engaged.” Sometimes Mr. Sidney could be taken out in an automobile, of a warm, fair afternoon. It was not often that his strength permitted this, but whenever it did, I was glad not only to allow but to suggest that he make use of all opportunities. The most ’ beautiful of our river drives brought us, within the limitation of Mr. Sidney’s strength, to. the penitentiary at Alwick. It was f a hideous structure pf barracks, work-rooms and walls, of cells and armed guards; but it was in | lovely surroundings, and if we took the best roads, we came naturally to the prison walls. Mr. Sidney would look at the enclosure apd the guards in the turrets aS if interpreting his own life in the terms of prison existence. We may have taken this drive by the prison road ten times when, approaching it on another of our outings, Mr. Sidney had the driver stop at the entrance. “I feel very strong and well today, doctor,” he said, “and if you do not object, I think I should like to go inside. I hjave seen the outside so many times, I have a curiosity to see the inside.”' j • I consented, thinking that with Jed and me helping him —we acted as his legs, guiding and sustaining his feeble motions—he was strong enough to make the effort. I did not know whether it was good or bad pyschology to give him a sight of so many imprisoned men, but my instinct suggested that it 4ould, in his case, be good. He was a logical, reasoning man —a rare phenomenon in the human race. If he had been emotional and sentimental, I should ijiave had more doubt. Mr. Sidney was important enough to be knopm in the neighborhood. The warden of the prison came to meet him in the office as soon as we had entered. He was yeF?<cordial to Mr. Sidney, who himself never showed more his aristocracy of 7 democracy. I am a democrat. 1/ am most fond ? of an aristocratic democrat. Such was Mr. Sidney. Mr. Sidney visits the penitentiary. (TO BE CONTINUED.) “LOTUS” PLANT A MYSTERY Scientists in Dispute as to What Kind of Food Had Such Remark- ’ able Effects. What was the plant tha “lotus eaters” ate, which so destroyed their “pep,” strangers who visited their land and partook of the remarkable vegetable losing all desire to return to home and friends? There lias been no end of dispute on tlje subject. One thing is certain, however, is that it could not have been the Egyptian lotus, which within receiit years has .begun to be widely grown in water gardens. This plant develops tubers, deep in the mud, which are about the size of hens’ eggs and good to eat, but the eating of them lias no such deleterious effect as that above described. The Egyptian lotus is a kind of water lily, whose superb flowers look like huge pink tulips. Oncd upon a time it grew wild along the banks of the Nile, and the surmise is that originally it was fetched from India, where it is native. It was regarded anciently as the emblem of the Nile, and the symbol of the creation of the world from the waters. To the Egyptians it was a sacred plant. They cultivated it in ponds and tanks, wreathing their heads with the blossoms on festive occasions. The lotus has had a wonderful influence upon architecture. Its leaves and buhs appear in the capitals of classic columns and in every sort of antique decorative carving it is the motif most frequently chosen. The art work of Japan (into which country it was imported) is inspired by it to a greater extent than by anything elsa in na. ture. Flying Casualties. Revised figures from the war department show that there were but 583 casualties among American aviators in Europe during the war. Os this number 491 were among aviators with the A. E. F. and the remainder among aviators on duty with the British, French and Italian armies. The casualties are classified as follows: Killed in combat, 208; prisoners, 145; wounded in action, 152; killed in action; 41; missing in action. 29; injured in action, 25; interned, 3. Fox Squirrel’s Nests. In the South, instead of living in the hollow trees, the fox squirrels build big nests in the tops of the pine and other trees, usually of Spanish moss, says the American Forestry Magazine. In these they sleep, also carrying to them the pine cones. In the hardwood forests of the North, dry leaves take the place of the Spanish moss, and a conspicuous nest is built with an entrance hole at the side. Flat Feet. Symptoms of flat foot are pain along the instep or even in the calves of the legs, knees, thighs, hips or back, often mistaken for rheumatism or other troubles. The person stands with feet well apart and toes turned outward. The ankle bends inward and the weight falls On the inner line of the foot so that the entire sole rests flat on the ground. Every boy knows several men whom he Intends to whip when he grows up.

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Bicknell.—A driving hail storm riddled crops over an area of five square miles south of Bicknell recently arid considerable damage was done to both the growing crops and wheat in shock. Practically all of the damage was on the Knox county side of the White river. At the Milton Dugget farm 18 acres of fine oats were completely destroyed and tomato plants were clipped off at the ground. At six or eight other farms the corn and other crops were damaged and window panes were broken in the farmhouses. Huntingburg—Responsibility for an accident at a Southern railroad crossing near Huntinburg, in which a passenger train was in collision with a motortruck and eleven persons lost their lives rests partly oh the driver of the truck and partly on men responsible for the dangerous conditions at the crossing, according to the finding of Dr. W. D. Betz, coroner of Dubois county. Teh persons were killed outright in the crash and nine were seriously injured, one of whom died later in a hospital at Evansville. Indianapolis.—A fish and game protective association with 40 charter members has been organized at Lake Maxinkuckee, near Culver, A. E. Bodine, organizer for the state conservation, has informed Richard Lieber, director of the state conservation department. Officials of Culver Military academy took an active interest in the organization work and several academy officers and Instructors have been elected officers in the new organization. Alexandria—Because the county commissioners are unable to find a successor to David Harris, a constable in the justice of peace court in one of the Alexandria townships, J. W. Perkins, justice of the peace, will resign, and the township’s only court will be closed for a second time in the last two years. Mr. Harris, in tendering his resignation to the commissioners, said he was unable to make ■a living at the job. Milton. —The tangled affairs of the Farmers’ bank at Milton, which is in the hands of a receiver following the' death of Oscar M. Kirlin, the bank’s cashier, who killed himself, and the subsequent discovery that a shortage of more than SIOO,OOO exists, are being straightened out Slowly.’ It may be several weeks before the receiver will be able to make a complete statement of the conditions as he found them when he took charge. Indianapolis.—The shortage of coal will not hold up the wheat thrashing in Indiana, because most coal retailers of the state have enough coal on hand for thrashing purposes. R. R. Yeagley, secretary of the Indiana Retail Coal Merchants’' association, announced. Most dealers who are out of coal, have promises of a supply sufficient for thrashing purposes in their neighborhoods, Mr. Y’eagerly said. Muncie. —Muncie city council, onadvice of the city attorney, has' refused payment of in-and-out fees to the sheriff of Delaware J county, resulting from the confinement of city prisoners in the jail. The council also has refused to pay for board for city prisoners. The city attorney asserts that tlie care of all prisoners is a county obligation. Bicknell.—The third cavein at Bicknell within the last two weeks, caused by the collapse of coal mine entries and rooms under the city, occurred, and a large two-story house was tilted forward about two feet The doors cannot be closed; the plastering is cracked and the well has .gone dry. Other houses have been damaged. Wabash. —Coal for the public buildings of Wabash county will have to be bought in the open market and in such amounts as dealers can supply from day to day. The county commissioners instructed the auditor to buy coal on the open market when only one bid was received for supplying the county. Petersburg.—Civic pride caused the three banking institutions of Petersburg to bid in a §150,000 bond issue for the new Pike county courthouse at Petersburg. The bonds draw 5 petcent interest. The banks are receiving 6 and 7 per cent interest on loans. Hartford City.—The Blackford County Brotherhood of Thrashermen has completed preparations for the opening of the harvest season, which is expected to start in this county in a few days. Indianapolis.—H. A. Blackman of Marion, was elected president of the Indiana branch of the United National Association of Postoffice Clerks at the nineteenth annual convention. Coal City.—The Pennsylvania Wayne Coal company has bought about 1,000 acres of coal land adjoining Coal City, and expects to open a mine there soon. Valparaiso. —The population of Valparaiso is 6,518, a decrease of 469, or 6.7 per cent. Lafayette.—The Indiana Horticultural society, co-operating with the horticultural department of Purdue university, will hold its annual summer meeting, August 5, at the orchard of the Laurel Orchard company at Laurel. The orchard consists of approximately 200 acres of commercial varieties of fruit trees just coming into full bearing. Lafayette. —The Indiana State Soldiers’ home Recently celebrated the twenty-fourth anniversary of its dedication, Col. D. B. Kehl er, commandant of the institution, officiating. Terre Haute.—Hugh Gregson was instantly killed and Richard Gregson, age six, his son, was fatally injured when an automobile which the father was driving struck the second engine of a double-header Vandalia passenger train in West Terre Haute. Thomas Gregson, age four, Another son of the dead man, was seriously injured. Petersburg.—Although Pike county does not belong to the Posey-Gibson Cow Testing association, yet Pike county cows carried away first honors for the number of pounds of butterfat produced tn tfce montit of June,

Noblesville. —Farmers fn central Indiana are facing a difficult wage question as it concerns harvest help. In some counties laborers are demanding iss to $7.50 a day, and in a few locall- ■ ties men are asking as much as $lO a ' day. The farmers insist they are unable to pay these wages and, while they are submitting to any demand during wheat harvest, which is now in progress in this part of the state, they are refusing to pay such wages for hay harvesting. Many, who are short of help, have decided that rather than pay the wages which are demanded they will put up such hay as they may need for themselves and permit the remainder to stay in the fields uncut. A labor shortage, it Is said, will also affect the corn crop. Some estimates place the corn crop in this part .of the state this season at not more than 50 per cent normal. Lowell.—Three persons were killed and two injured seriously when a fast Monon passenger train hit an automobile at a grade crossing near Shelby, eight miles south of Lowell, in Lake county. Mrs. John Ahlbrin, who was driving the machine; Charles Ahlbrin, her son, and Francis Serios, small son of Mrs. Niel Serios,, died instantly. Ruby Serios, a sister of Francis Serios, is in a. critical condition, and Max Ahlbrin, the fifth occupant of the car, also is badly hurt. All of the vitims lived at Shelby. Columbus.—The Bartholomew county board of tax equalization placed additional property on the tax duplicates of the county to the amount of approximately §600,000. This increase was made in the face of reductions on assessments to the amount of §27.660. With the additional property placed on the duplicates by the board, the total taxable property of the city is §12,531,605, exclusive of banks and public utilities not resident in Columbus but doing business in the city. Greensburg.—-A big land deal was closed at Greensburg when J. Hal Hamilton sold 378 acres for §60,450 or §l6O an acre. The fflrmj which lies near Greensburg, was entered from the government by James. Hamilton in IS2I. He settled on the farm March 11, 1822, living inside a big poplar log for several days until a log cabin could be erected by him and his brother. The been in the Hamiltoh family for more than ninety-eight years. Lafayette.—George F. Lehman, age twenty-eight, a Purdue university graduate of the class of 1915, is dead at his home in Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. Lehman was one of the most prominent men in his class at Purdue. He was editor in chief of the Purdue Exponent and was a captain in the cadet corps. After his graduation he became associated with the Curtis Airplane company, and aided in the construction of the planes that flew across the Atlantic. Indianapolis.—Sixteen Indianapolis concerns are afnong approximately 300 Indiana corporations appealing, to the state board of tax commissioners for reductions in their assessments as fixed by the board at its first term, which closed late in May. The boahl began hearings on the appeals. It is in its third session, and will hear appeals until July 19. Lafayette.—Winthrop E. Stone, presof Purdue university, has announced that Dr. Herbert L. Creek of the University of Illinois will become head of the English department of the university this fall. Doctor Creek succeeds Prof. Edward Ayres, who died last winter. He is a native of Indiana and is a graduate of Butler college. Indianapolis.—lnvitations to deliver addresses to the farmers of Indiana on the Farmers’ Federation day at the state fair, September 7, were telegraphed to Senator Warren G. Harding and Governor James M. Cox, presidential nominees, by Lewis Taylor, general secretary of the Indian Federation of Farmers associations. Evansville. —The Vanderburg County Thrashing association has fixed new prices. The price for wheat is 9 cents a bushel and 7 cents a bushel for oats. This is an increase of 1 cent a bushel ou both grains. Posey county thrashers are charging 9 cents a bushel for wheat, while the price in Warrick county is 12 cents a bushel. Marion. —Grant county’s hitchrack, which has adorned the public square for more than forty years, was pulled up and meh begun excavations for improvements swhere the old rack stood. The improvements include a cement walk. Columbus. —John H. Taylor, of near Columbus, sold ten large poplar trees to a lumber company for §3,300'. The price received is, said to be the largest ever paid for poplar timber in this part of the state. Lafayette.—Striking transfer truck drivers in Lafayette and their employers reached an agreement and the strike that has been in progress for more than a month was brought to an end. Terre Haute.—Approval of a §200,00 bond issue to pay off the indebtedness of the city of Terre Haute has been given by the state board of tax commissioners. Indianapolis.—Judge Louis B. Ewbank was named by Governor Goodrich a member of the state supreme court, to succeed Lawson M. Harvey, who died recently. Harry O. Chamberlin was appointed to succeed Judge Ewbank on the bench of the Marion circuit court. He was formerly an Indianapolis attorney, Petresburg.—June apples are selling at §1.50 to §2 a bushel, and early peaches are bringing §3.50 a bushel in Petersburg. The peach crop will be the largest in the history of the county. Columbus. —Wheat harvest is practically finished in Bartholomew cotlnty and thrashing will begin. The yield will not exceel 50 per cent of a full • crop. Home-grown blackberries are on the market. The crop is the largest in the history of the county. Especially Is this true of the wild ferries. Groare paying from 25 to 28 cents a quart sot them. Indianapolis.—“ Dirty people make dirty towns,” according to Dr. J. N, Hurty, state health commissioner. Doctor Hurty is advocating “cleanup” campaigns for every city of the stat®.

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