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The Penn's Grove record., 1894-01-19

Judge Dundy, at Omaha, Neb., SEN
fenced Louis de France to imprison-
ment for life for stealing one cent. De
France held up a mail carrier at Cor
don and only secured a penny. The
punishment is fixed by law, and the
Court, in pronouncing sentence, said it
was too severe, but he had no re-
course.
Three weeks of fasting in obedience
to an alleged revelation, has brought
Miss Ida Ruex, of Wannatah, Ind,
near to death.
George Wichman, a candy vender at
San Francisco, and Louis Greenwald,
of Victoria, b. c., are held at San
Francisco Tor smuggling opium.
Henry Sauer, a German farmer of
P~inchtown, Ohio, and his wife, were
murdered in their home, and their son
is missing. The house and barn were
fired, and it is possible that the son
may also have lost his life. Robbery
was the erebable motive of the crime
Seeking information is q moments
shame; but not to learn is surely o last
ing shame.
John Newton, son of a Methodist
clergyman, of Cadiz, KY, and a stu
dent at Bethel College, Russellyille,
KY, committed suicide fora unknown
cause, by using morphine. 8
Louis E. Redwine, ex-assistant cash
Ter of the defunct Gate City Bank, is
on trial at Atlanta, Ga, for embezzling
s105, 900 of bank funds.
Jumping the track at Missouri VAL
ley, Ia, a passenger car went down the
embankment, rolling over and killing
Mrs. F. M. Hensler.
El%ectrocution for condemned crimi-
mails is proposed ina Maryland legisla,
tive bill.
A lone highwayman held up the
overland stage near Bowie, Ariz., and
got $500 from a mailbag.
By the breaking of a carboy of sui
phuric acid on the steamer Kansas, at
Omega Landing, Ala, II of the crew
were terribly burned.
With three bullets in his head,
SdSuler ~. n. DdKef, OF tDe First Ma
tional Bank of Newark, o., was found
dead behind his house.
In a fog at Louisville, KY, the New
Orleans steamboat U. p. Schenck struck
and sank the towboat Fulton, with
$4,000 worth of dressed stone.
While apparently insane, Mrs. Sam
uel Ettinson, of Marshalltown, Ia,
leaped from a third-story window of a
big dry goods store at Kansas City
Mo-, and was almost killed. 4
Duluth will hire unemployed mar
ried men on public works at s1.25 a
day.
Having bathed and put on burial
clothes, Mary Riekert, of Baltimore,
took laudanum and died.
The lofty tower on the Chicago
Board of Trade Building Will be de-
molished, having sunk eight inches.
In a crazy fit a deaf ard dumb
Blackfoot brained Iron Thunder, near
Fort Yates, n, D., and was fatally hurt
in resisting arrest,
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THE NEWS
Eastern and Middle

William Hope and Nora Corcoran,
of Weston, Conn, were married in fun,
and now Hope refuses to give Up his
bride, claiming that the marriage was
legal.
Certain books belonging to Michael
l.. Meyers, of Newark, New Jersey,
coal dealer, were stolen from his Office.
Meyers had had his book-keeper, Mich
ael Byrne, arrested for ENLIGHTENMENT,
and the books we're needed in court.
William Fl. Curtiss, a former well-to-
do real estate dealer, of Buffalo, shot
his wife and daughter. The latter
aged 20 years, was fatally injured. Cur
tiss subsequently attempted to kill him
self by cutting an artery with a broken
eyeglass. .
BY a Boston fire, Scott Leighton, the
artist, lost $4,000 worth of paintings
and sketches.
In the burning of John M~ontals
house in Dickinson, N, Y, two boys,
aged A and G., were cremated.
A prominent veteran of the war,
John M. Call, shot himself to death
after sickness at Wollaston, Mass. 4
Unknown fiends blew up the tailor
shop of Pincus Cans, of New York, but
fortunately no one was hurt.
Cutting into NJ. Cochenthaler's jew
elry store from the adjoining premises,
Montreal, robbers got $4,000 worth of
diamonds.
Explosion of a locomotive boiler at
Belmont, N. H., crushed in Engineer
Bowles' forehead and scalded Fireman
Ballantine.
Forty heirs, including Coachman
Richard Savoy and Frank Addy, of
Forth Adams, Mass, divide the for
tune of Marshall Durand, of Baltimore,
getting 5000, 600 each. 5
Broken-necked Isaac Goerstein, 5
years old, of New York, can now eat
and may recover.
An impersonator of a postal in
spector has swindled a lot OF Connect
cut country postmasters out of abou
800 each.
Thin ice sent John Berry and Philip
Nadean, boy skaters of Providence, to
their death.
Hugh Markey's body is the latest re-
covered from the Newtown, IL. ~
bridge accident, and four more men
are missing.
Going to the wedding of his loved
one, Mary Calempe, Donnigan Fudora,
of New York, shot his successful rival,
Andrea Santino, dead at the altar,
During a thick fog on the meadows
just east of Hackensack, New Jersey,
a South Orange accommodation train on
the Delsware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad ran into and telescoped
the two rear ears of the dover express.
Nine passengers were killed instantly,
and about so were injured, two have
since died. 3
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Won the Bet.

s'Say, how many trained rats have
you around this hotely" was the
rather startling inquiry a travelling
man addressed to the manager of a
popular hotel a few days ago.
"Well, / notice you are still adj
dieted to the cup" was the reply he
received from the hotel man.
don't you believe it," answered
the travelling man. II Just came
from my room a moment ago, and il
I didn't see a rat with the initials OF
the hotel branded on his side / hope
/ may never sell another bill Of goods
In Cincinnati"
.Oh, you're talking through your
tile, replied the hotel man.
''I'n bet you that l can point out
such a rat in ten minutes" said the
drummer. Then they went upstairs,
and, sure enough, in the travelling
mans room was a big gray rat with
the hotel initials branded On its sides.
The hotel man gave the tourist one
sharp look and then led the way to
the barroom, where the bottle was
produced. The rat was a papier
mache rodent, and had been lettercd
by the travelling man.
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PENIS GROVE. N J. friday JANUARY 10. 1894.

| With $4,000 for Easton banks, CASH
Ter Pullman, of Asheville IN. CO.
National Bank, left town two weeks
ago and has not been since.
While riding on a handcar on the
Woodward (Ala.) Iron Company's rail-
road, Foreman John Neal, Louis Friz-
zle and James Owens were killed.
The trail of Lewis Redwine, at At
lanta, Georgia, for embezzling s10S, 600
from the Gate City National Bank.
terminated suddenly, the prisoner en-
tering a plea of guilty.. 5
A $4,000 reward will pay the man
who captures the five st. Joseph Mo.)
train robbers. /,
A snowslide at Boulder Creek, Idaho,
buried Cornelius McGrevy and John
Bollen, miners.
Two infant daughters of Philip s.
Hobson, of Des Moines, Ia, were hurn-
ed to death in their home.
William Sinnott and Robert Beaver,
were wounded in a fight with squatters
on Government land at WEIGH, West
Va.
William FISHER was probably fatally
wounded Saturday night at Wellsville,
Ohio, while attempting to escape from
3 policeman.
Sam Graves on Saturday, at Cedar
Hill, Texas, killed his cousin, Jim Hen
bricks, because the latter assaulted
Mrs. Graves last November.
His wife gone with James Evans
and his baby burned in the stove was
the terrible discovery of Benjamin Bry-
son, of Westport, Ky. l
For brutal whipping of Mary Schra-
der, near Columbus, Ind, Chris
Schneider, a White Cap, was fined
$400.
Cedar Creek County, Col, has made
its richest strike of gold ore in the In
dependent mine, a ton assayirg 1888
ounces
Train robbers tried to derail a Balti-
more and Ohio train near Bremen,
Ind, but only succeeded in causing an
hours delay.
For criminal assault on Mrs. Graves,
his Cousins wife, James Hendricks, of
Cedar Hill, Tex, was shot dead by the
outraged husband.
Charged with shooting Miss Mary
Driscoll, Mrs. William Driscoll, her
mother and Floyd, her brother, are on
trial at Sterling, Col.
After being eight times sentenced to
death for murder, Isaac Smith, of Pike
County, o., was sent to prison for life,
and now a pardon is asked. 2
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Pennsylvania Items

Burglars secured rich plumber i'll the
Lehigh Valley Railroad staticE at Par
sons
Friends in New York are looking for
William Sleesinger, who has been miss.
ing for several days.
Franklin and Marshall College, at
Lar caster, will soon open its doors to
women students.
Nearly $500 worth of goods was
stolen from U. S. Felix's store at
Schuylkill Haven.
Dentist William S. Sackett, near
Kittanning, has been prosecuted by his
si~ster-in-law Lottie M, Gray, on a seri.
GUS charge. 3
Falls of coal killed Michael Cheney
fatally hurt William Dengler in two
Shamokin collieries yesterday.
Stepping in front of his own train
at Selin's Grove Conductor Harry
Prince, of Sunbury, was cut to pieces.
Robbers carried away $500 worth of
clothing from Edward Muth's store
at Macungie, Lehigh Coun ty; Tuesday
night.
Three negro highwaymen beat Hen
ry Ehlers, of Swift Water, Monroe
County, and stole his watch and $23 in
cash.
Freight brakemen II. l.. Mitchell,
of Harrisburg, was struck on the head
by an overhead bridge and killed, near
Lancaster.
An application for a rehearing before
the Board of Pardons was yesterday
made in the case of Murderer Charles
Salyards, Carlisle.
The Frank /. Frayne Theatrical
Company stranded at New Castle, and
two bears were sold to buy railroad
tickets for the girls.
The new Board of Mine Inspector
Examiners will meet at Pottsville on
February II to examine candidates for
inspector to succeed the late Samuel
Gay.
Mrs. F. +. Haviland, of Sunbury
whose husband was burned to death in
the Higgins Hotel, Bradford, last sum-
mer, has sued the %proprietors for &c.
600 damages. 4
Scarlet fever has closed Harmony
School, nea Joanna.
While at work in the round house at
Altoona, Frank Make had his head
crushed to jelly by two engine tanks.
OF the 1900 men employed with the
poor fund on work in the Pittsburg
Park over half are Americans.
Serious injuries resulted to Joseph
Wargle and Stephen Waciska, by being
run over by a car in a mine near Halle
ton.
A runaway mine car at Forest City,
Susquehanna County, killed Michael
Yendetts and critically injured Joseph
Warren.
James Kapp and his niece, Miss
Ida Kapp, are in Lebanon Jail, accused
of having pretended to be husband and
wife.
A Philadelphia and Reading freight
tram smashed into a passenger loco
motive near Reading, wrecking both
engines.
A stage coach, carrying mail and
passengers between Mohrsyille and
Bernyille, Berks County, tumbled over
a bank into a creek, but no one was
injured. 5
Consumption which killed DIR. ]. A
Thompson, of Wrightsville, was caused
by cigarettes.
In a grade crossing Academia at South
Pittsburg, George Fdrdice was killed
and William Dunn seriously hurt.
In attempting 10 board a moving
train at CarbondAle, Frederick Wick
hiser, of Flowers, y. Y, was fatally in
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Charles d. Courtney, a native of
Philadelphia, and an inmate of the
Erie Soldiers Home, tumbled down
stairs breaking his neck.
Judge Stowe decided that ex-Sheriff
W. H. McCleary, of Allegheny County
was not entitled to $15, 600 a year sal
airy, instead of 5000, which he re-
ceived.
Proprietor W. S. Cleveland, of min
strel fame, was hauled into m Alder
mans office at Lancaster for assault
ing Billy Taylor, who carried the big
drum.
The two alleged murderers, Fana-
gan and Gallen, captured at Williams
port, will be taken to Garrett County,
Ind, for trial, They will go without
requisition papers. /
Coal gas overcome the family of Will
liam Culton, S%han'oSin, and the wife
may not recover.
A syndicate of capitalists is being
formed for the purpose of erecting a
large coal storage plant at Pottsville.
Eight-year-old Willie Eckjack, stole
$25 from his mother and spent $S,S so of
it in day riding in Pittsburg stEset
cars,
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. PLUcKY scHooL-TEAcHER.
dow Her Courage Defeated Two Desperate
Rnhbera, ~

In these days when railway trains
and express messengers are at the
mercy Of armed bandits q wonlan's
courage when she is confronted with
masked robbers is inspiring. A des-
perate attempt to rob a safe in the
banking department Of the Northern
Indiana Normal College was recently
thwarted by a remarkable display of
GOODNESS on the part of a young
teacher.
When the Office was entered it was
occupied by two women, m the
secretary and the other a teacher,
Emma Jones. 1t was in the middle
OF the afternoon and the buildings
were filed with students.
"heep quiet or you will be shot"
Kissed the two masked men as they
rushed into the room
One of them put a revolver in the
I teachers face, and levelled another
at the secretary. The other strole
toward the safe where he expected to
find $40, 000.
The school-teacher never flinched.
Instead of meekly surrendering, as
many express messengers and train
guards have done under similar cir
cumstances, she sprang forward and
with a quick, vigorous bl W Knocked
the revolver out Of the intruder's
hand. He had another revolver in
his other hand, but being dazed by
her unexpected resistance stopped inn
puisively to recover the weapon from
the floor.
The plucky girl was too quick for
him. Instead of snatching up the
revolver, as he had feared, she darted
for the door, calling upon her COM
panion to follow her. AS she passed
through the doorway a shot was
fred, but with such faulty aim that
she escaped unframed. Plunging
headlong down the stone steps she
screamed for help.
The masked men, hearing her voice
and perceiving that delay would be
fatal, followed her without robbing
the safe. On the ground they met a
man who had answered the alarm
signal. They brandished their re-
y0ivers and frightened IN out OF
his wits. Then they retreated across
the campus, and ESCAPED down the
railway track.
A swarm OF students started il
pursu t. reinforced by police oiic rs
and a SherifT's posse. The robbers
we're tracked for two miles. In then
desperation they fired upon a farmer
who was driving a load Of peaches to
market. He had a rifle and fought
them at long range W tn deadly eff
feet He killed Que and wounded the
other, delivering the prisoner to the
sheriff.
The farmer Grove to town aud was
the hero of the college. One en-
thusiast undertook to sci! the peaches
for him to a grateful community, and
turned over aliberal Offering of money
to him in recognition of his services.
The farmers risk had been slight
in comparison with the scho. l-teach-
er's. He had his rifle and was a good
shot. She was unarmed and In the
power of her captors, but she had the
courage and wit to defy them and to
raise the alarm. she really earned
the large gift of money by her hero
ism rather than the peach-seller,
whose craftsmanship had been sue
cessfully sted.-Youth's Compan-
ion
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who Get High salaries.

1t has been said that the worlo
pays most to those who kill-geneI
ais and great lords; next most to
those who amuse-singers and actors,
while those who preach, teach and
write for the papers come along some
where near the bottom OF the list
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An Aggravating Balance.

First Lady Manager of Charity
D ll--Wby, h.re's twenty-five dollars
after paying all expenses! Second
LAZY Manager Of Charity Ball DIM
patiently-Didn'tI tell you we might
put anoth7r ice on the menu as well
Is nnt2=Puck. IL.
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Men change their minds as well as
women, as eyidenced-by the fact th-t
the man wh3 called his sweetheart
turtle-dove after three years OF a
ried life may refer to the same IN
dividual as a snapping-turtie. -Ionk-
eTs Statesman.
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Mr.. Westside Slightly intoxlcatcd)
SHAY, you know anything about as.
tronomy? Mr.. E'stside-A little.
Mr.. Westside-well, then perhals
you cap tell me thic).if astronomers
use big dipper when they skim the
milky ay.-EXchange.
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Paying for Luxuries.

DIR. Helpless = How do you feel,
Mr.. st, Clair? You don't seem to be
very sick. Mr.. ST. Clair-l feel first
rate, sab; but 1 sent for you cause
you am the only man that calls me
mistah, and l like TO be called mis-
tab once 10 a while. How much does
I owe you, sah?-Truth.
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A New York dude travelling in the
West was violently kicked by a cow
boy, apparently without any provo
cation. "Why-ah-did you kick
me-" "Because 1 done forgot and
left my gun at home, "-Tex1s Slft-
inua
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s,The wall flower" remarked the
philosopher, sis often the only girl
in the fall.room who can cook a
dinner" Yes" responded Ma
WoIldling, 'and the girl who dances
Is the only one who can digest it y
D, troiJ Free Press.
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Applicant-You advertised for q
lan with q vivid Imagination, sir?
Managor-Yes Have you one'
81 have, sir. What Is the work."
"Making out bills for a gas com
pany."-Hsrlem Liie.
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Tuft Hunter (of London, England)
is it-aw-twue that youh
Amewican lndians-aw-cawn't raise
m~ustaches, dontcher know? Tony
Adams of Nebraska)-I don't think
they can. But what's the matter
with some OF the fine heads of hair
they rdise?-Truth
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NUMBER 26.
SPRINKLES OF SPICE.
HUMOROUS SELECTIONS FROM
OUR EXCHANGES.
Jokes of Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors, and
Editors-some of Them VERY Dry and
Others Somewhat Juicy-They VIII Aid
Digestion If Perused After Meals.


II think you might promise to
wat for me, Fife. I'm certain /
shall make Il fortune in ten years at
most" ''I'm very fond of you, Char
lie, and II Pm not married when
you've made your fortune-we l., 1
shall have waited for you."-Forset
Not.
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Young Lady-What be-e-autiful
chrysanthemums! What are they
worth? Dealer-Twenty-tive each,
ma'am. Young Lady-And what
are all those young men ranged along
the counter for? Dea. er-Those are
the l0-cent stems. Cleveland Plain
Dealer
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'tReins has a queer habit. When
ever he is out driving an he sees a
man standing onra corner he w1ips
up his horse and passes him in +
hurry" '1t's a force of habit; h
used to be a street car driver.
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A Coin Recovered Alter TAlrty Years.

A Coin Recovered AfScr Thirty Tears.
1t is not often that o marked coin
once put into circulation is returned
to the person who marked it. George
Troup, Superintendent of Forest Lawn
Cemetery, before he left Scotland, had
his name stamped upon q coin of the
issue of George III. 1t was done in
fun, and at that time he never Dreamed
that the coin would ever be returned
to him. The coin was put into cir
culation, and a short time afterward
Mr.. Troup came to this country.
More than thirty years passed by, and
he thought nothing more about the
circumstance. One day recently a
friend of his at lodge said to him: 81
lave u coin with your name upon it,"
II asked him to let me seethe coin, y
said Mr. Troup, ''and when ] looked
ut it I found it was the identical piece
that / had marked SO long ago. I
wrote to the man who was present
when the coin was marked in Scot
land, and he recalled the circumstance,
and / got the coin from my Buffalo
friend, and now / would not take a
good sum of money for it. Where
that coin had been dnring the thirty
ear no one knows, but it is a strange
coincidence that it should have turned
up to me in Buffalo, the home l had
adopted Buffalo Express
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Miss Artless-I think the the2et
is Just heavenly, don't you? Mr..
Blase-Weil-er-oh, l reckon so.
You know the stage has wings -
Washington News.
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A Truthful Witness.

Judge Duffy Ito witnass)-What IS
your father? Witness-IIe is dead.
"Nonsense! / mean what was he
before he died?" ALIVE Tie tas
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Gus De Smith-Do you know that
man over there? Mr.. Chumley-
Yes, know him, and I'd advise you
to steer clear of him. He is a man
who is temporarily embarrassed from
n years end to the other. -Ex.
change.
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Perdita-Ernest is awfully frark.
Penelope--And do you love him be-
cause ne il frankP Perdita-Eo;
because he is Ernest-Truth-
Connecticut western news., 1894-10-11
The Loon as a Dodger.

There is no denying that all the looms ever matched up to date have been ''artful dodgers" in superlative degree. The question is often raised whether they are quick enough to dodge bullet. once had guide who drew distinc- tion quite too fine, as I thought He claimed that loon could see the flash of percussion cap at the breech of muz- gle loading piece and could dodge, but admitted that, with the rife loaded like all modern ones, at the breech, no loon could escape shot rightly aimed For my part, do not believe the interval of time between the fire at the two ends of the barrel to be measurable by eyes of birds or men or anything short of ohronograph. a
 As to the question, however, it is possible to reason with tolerable confi- dence. We know the speed of rife bullet. Call it 1, 400 feet second. I'm agine your loon at that distance or nearer. Then reflect how slowly a bird s head must move to use up more than a second in dropping few inches under water. Gravity alone would carry it farther than that. It is easy to believe that if the wary bird happens to be look ing toward the hunter the rife flash suggests danger. A half second would give ample time to dodge, provided the action began promptly. It is safe to say that 1t takes looms weight in lead to kill him, and we may call it settled that, if loon does not dodge bullet, at least the lead goes down in the same hole in the water.-Boston Transcript.
Connecticut western news., 1894-10-11
German Tobacconist,s Joke.

The following fraud upon an insur- ance company, which we find in The Deutsche Tabak-Zeitung, is certainly just little too good to be true. A cun- ming fellow, who wanted to smoke the best cigars at the cheapest possible cost, bought 1000 cigars of the highest quail ity and corresponding price and imme- diately insured the whole stock When he had smoked the last of them, he de- manded 750 marks from the insurance company on the ground that the whole of his insured stock, 10 boxes of cigars, had been consumed by firel The Solo, monic court decided in favor of the plaintiff. The company then brought an action of conspiracy against the smoker, accusing him of having inten- tionally put fire to his own cigars and deliberately destroyed his property
 Hereupon the same wise court con- demned the insured smoker to three months mprisonment.-W Westminster GaZatta
Connecticut western news., 1894-10-11
Gold Lined Cups Not In It.

A tall young man, with a pretty young woman, sauntered across Inde- pendence square yesterday afternoon when Old Sol was at his hottest. When they came to the ice water fountain, the young woman stopped and picked up one of the tin cups, and scanning 1t ruefully shook her head at her compan- ion and laid it quickly down again. The next thing was to slip off small suede glove, and placing the pretty hand it fitted under the stream she filled its palm with water and drank from it three times. And the next thing was to see the young man bend over the same palm while he held her wrist to balance the novel cup, and five times it took to satisfy him. and right willingly did the pretty young woman fill it and place 1t to his lips. Both actors were perfectly unconcerned, and after the young man had dried the young wom- ans hand in his pocket handkerchief they sauntered in a down town direc- tion. on.-Philadelphia Record.
Connecticut western news., 1894-10-11
Ordained a Pastor.

On June Mrs. Hannah M Mullenix was ordained pastor of the Congrega- tional church at Grand Meadow, Minn After the examination was satisfactori- ly concluded Rev. c. D. Wright of. Aus tin offered prayer; Rev. J. E. MeCon- nell of Northfield gave the right hand of fellowship and the charge; Rev. Mr. Brown of Rose Creek gave the charge to the church. In the evening sermon was preached by Rev. D. c. Reid of Spring Valley, and the benediction was offered by the new pastor.