Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-03-13
Murdered by Johnson on the
Night of Oct. %, 1883.

and Sne Wouil nave the family to run
over and play circus on her new car.
pet, and peaches and cream would
have cemented ancestral friendship.
The family living next to the cor.
ner and the family in the house with
a stone horse block had been friends
for years. A year ago the wife of the
stone horse-block man came out with
a fur-lined circular. She bought it
without consulting the other woman.
Indeed, she did not let on she had it
In the house for week after it came
home. Some one told the wife of the
man next to the corner that the stone
horse block woman had a fur-llned
circular.
81 don't believe it."
"But I've seen It,"
at isn't silk"
'Oh, yes it is."
"Then the fur is cheap"
"Oh, no, the fur is splendid"
'lt must De her daughters.
1T cant be; in fact she said it was
her own"
"Then she never came honestly by
1t, and | know ii. My husband earns
as much as hers, and l know we can't
buy such things"
She didn't mean anything, but her
remarks were carried to the other. who
replied:
"Well, l want her to understand
that don't sit up at nights to watch
my neighbors, and I never stole
hymn book outof church pew"
She didn't mean the least thing-I
assure you upon my solemn word she
didn't-but the fat was in the fire.
Up went fence twelve feet high be-
tween the houses. Complaints we're
made to the police Of smoking chin
neys, bowling dogs, bad smells, and
dozen other things. They are mad
yet. They hope each others children
will have diptheria, scarlet fever, meas
les, chickenpox, and various other
good things, and they no longer at
tend the same church, nor buy tickets
for the same Sunday school excur-
sion. n
How nicely peacemaker could have
patched things up. He could have
been told that the circular was bought
with the fifty dollars received from a
grandfather's will, and that the wife
of the man next to the corner had the
jumping toothache the day she spit
out her criticism. He would have
had them shaking hands and kissing
and wiping their eyes inside of five
minutes, and the stone horse. block
wife would have said to the next.to-
the corner woman: ~,
81 got it little large through the
shoulders so that you could wear it
when you went to visit your sister in
Dayton
And | am mad at the man on the
southwest corner of the block, and he
is mad at me, and it's all on account
of nothing at all. We bought man.
tie and CRATE just alike, and costing
the same price We had tiling of the
same pattern laid down by the same
man. For five years we were like
brothers. If | had sick horse I con-
suited him. If his dog seemed lit
tie off he consulted me- We went
over to his house to play old sledge,
and his family came over to my house
to play croquet Id have turned out
of bed at midnight on the darkest
night you ever saw, and walked twen-
ty miles through mud thirty feet deep
to bring doctor in case OF sickness.
and I'm certain he'd have done fully
as much for me.
In an unfortunate hour my brother.
in-law from Chicago paid me visit.
He said the mantle was very hand
some and the CRATE perfect beauty,
and added: = a a. - .
But you want a brass fender"
ono
Certainly you do. 1t will be an
immense Improvement.
A day or two after he returned
home he sent me brass fender from
Chicago. He not only sent it as
present, but paid the express charges.
Some one told the man on the south
west corner that l had brass fen.
der
A.
at cant bel"
"But he has,"
"I'll never believe it'll"
"But I've seen it. Nh
"Then he's scorndrel of the deep
est dayl Some folks would mortgage
their souls for the sake Of showing off
a little!"
When this remark was brought to
me | turned red clear back to the col.
lar button. called the southwest
corner man q liar and horsethief. II
said that his grandfather was hung for