The Columbus journal., 1893-09-06

Mrs. o. F. Merrill's house has been
raised, a brick foundation put in place
and other improvements made which add
considerably to the good appearance of
the premises.
wv will cld(a out our s6til\ stdfk
of watch p cloAkA jewelEs, speftacIes
and silyefNa re atNed& thai cost. LCo4e
at once. SHE'S copmNpee at 10 O'clock
each day. An. Arnold.
Aug. Boettcher started yesterday
for q trip to his old home in Wisconsin,
where he has not been for twenty years.
He expects to he gone a month and will
add business to pleasure.
Married, at the residence of the
brides parents, August 80, by Rev.
Crawford, Mr.. Burton Stevenson and
Miss Eliza j. Drinnin. The JOURNAL
wishes them much happiness.
The Fremont high school has been
provided with an electrical machine,
dynamo, battery cells, a powerful mi
croscope and other practical appliances
for illustrating in school work.
The best praise a citizehr of a town
can bestow upon a Newspaper is to
subscribe and pay for it. Talk is all
right, but the newspaper man appreciates
A. nosl nm er1opnn
The lady elected to succeed Mrs.
A. C. Ballou as principal of the high
school is Mrs. Belle Merrill, and she
comes very highly recommended. Sew
~enty-five dollars a month is her salary.
A short bridge three miles east of
the city on the Union Pacific, was
burned down Monday, delaying the v
ming passenger q few minutes. The grass
was fired, and the bridge caught the
blaze.
The regular meeting OF the w. G.. T.;
q. will be held Friday afternoon at .
o'clock at the Congregational church,
Mrs. Rev. Crawford will give a report OF
the district convention held at Fullerton
last week.
e. G. Pearson of Ellis, Kansas, re-
turned to his home Thursday after sew
eral weeks visit with his friend, A. ID.
Adkins. While here, Mr.. Pearson rem
dered some fine music before the public
on the cOrnet.
-Omaha's city council had cansidera-
| BILE fun over the discussion of the due OBJ
seryance of the Sunday law with refer
ence to shaving. The speeches as repor-
ted in the WOrld-H Herald Of Friday were
pretty interesting reading.
Charles Schroeder returned Friday
from Texas, where he had been two
| weeks. He has taken the agency for
| the sale of 1900 acres of land in the
| Wichita valley, and is going to Chicago
| this week to make further arrangements.
james Finney, n night last week
had two hundred watermelOns stolen
from his place. One he was feeding with
water to see what could be accomplished
was q inches long, and coming in fine
I shape. He brought some fOrty-pounders
to town.
1~s1 eve just1 Sesi1vNfin fine linz of
gSbus froA Chicago Wat vii be a s%-
Prise to ou( customerA when they LEAH
how cheap re do sell them. please caa
and 81 our al and viii er std(k before
purchsAl ing eewhere. M<Yofk>Aillin-
cry on EAxsnth street.
There are some young boys in this
city who are surreptitiously getting beer
from the saloons-probably unknown to
both their parents and the saloon-keepers
too. If these lads 60 along on the road
they are now travelling they will surely
| come to some bad end.
Lena FEELING aged thirteen years
was buried last Saturday in the Catholic
cemetery. She died at Columbus on the
9th of August. She had undergone an
operation with the hope OF deriving ben
| lift but the disease had too firm a hold
on her.IMsdison Reporter.
Columbus experienced q small sugar
famine last week, several Of the grocers
being out of that valuable household
dainty. Even Chicago suffered, both
Wholesale and retail dealers having none.
The cause is the same a stops factories,
not money enough to pay men to work.
Invitations are out announcing the
marriage Of DR.. W. NJ. Condor and Miss
Nancy Otis, both Of Humphrey, to take
place tomorrow at 9 O'Clock a. m, in the
Catholic church at that place. The
JOURNAL extends congratulations and
wishes the young couple many years of
welded JOY.
Why 20 much worship of gold? It
is just a much Of a commodity as silver
is, o r wheat, or corn, For a given num-
Der of cubic feet, it is worth more than
wheat, ordinarily, but if a man was star
wing and had within reach, only gold or