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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30

The Chicago, indianapolis & Louisville
earned in the third week of May $59,S07.
against $50, 400 in the corresponding week of
1897. Since July the road has earned ST.
249,259, against 81 S74 in the corresponding
period of the previous year.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
third week of May s65 Alb, against $61, 1886 in
May, 1897. and against $65,26O in May. 1896.
Since Jan. 1 the road has earned 81, 3Ol 222.
against 81 ,243,77S in the &C responding period
last year
The Evansville & Terre Haute earned the
third week of May $24,951 against 1857 in
the corresponding week of 1897 Since July
the road has earned $1,103,994, against
$90S, 424 in the corresponding period of the
previous year.
The following is a statement of COMPARE
son of earnings and expenses of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company for the month
of April, 1898, and for the four months end
ing April 3d. 1898, with the same periods of
1897. Pennsylvania Railroad, month of April,
1898. lines directly operated: Gross earnings,
increase. 1882 expenses, increase. $S33,3O0
net earnings, increase, $4,000. Lines west
of Pittsburg and Erie directly operated :
Gross earnings, increase, $474, 500; expenses,
increase, $417 800; net earnings, increase.
$57 600. Four months ending April 80, 1898:
Gross earnings. increase. 81 1896, 600; expenses,
increase, 81 ,275, 800; net earnings, increase,
1921 300. Lines west of Pittsburg and Erie
directly operated: Four months ending April
30, 1898: Gross earnings, Increase, 1887 800
expenses, increase, 81, 2SS 900; net earnings,
increase, $549, 200.
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National League. =
ST. PAUL TO-DAY.
Champions VIII Meet Their Great Ri
walls in Two Games.

There will be two games of baseball at
the East Ohio-street park to-day, with that
aggregation of professional "kickers'
known as the st. Paul Baseball Club, head
ed by Comiskey. Cross and Glenalvin, for
merly of the local club, are members of the
st. Paul team, as are Jack Glasscock, Gil
len, Hank Spies, Shugart and big Roger
Denzer, all familiar faces The new men
on the team are Burke formerly of Cincin-
natl, and Geier, of Philadelphia. 1t is likely
that Cross and Frieken will pitch for the
visitors and Scott and Foreman for the
home club
Aliens men will try hard to take major
ity of the series, as by doing SO they will
start on the trip West next Wednesday with
a good lead. The fans should be on hand
as they may be needed TO help pull a
game out. The morning game will be called
at 10 and .the afternoon game at 3:45. Box
seats are now on sale at Chas. f. Meyers
cigar store. $50
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The Northern Pacific has named its new
train the Copper City limited.
r. B. F.. PIERCE, receiver of the Toledo. St
Louis & Kansas City, has gone TO Omaha.
S. NJ. FELTON,, receiver of the Queen &
Crescent, is spending couple of weeks in
the East.
c. c. Divine, travelling freight agent of
the Kanawha Dispatch at Kansas City. has
been transferred TO Memphis, Tenn.
Harry G. Dow has been appointed travel
ing freight agent of the Great Northern
with headquarters at Buffalo, n. Y.
Frank Wade. travelling agent of the Gin
cinnau, Hamilton & Dayton, yesterday left
for Omaha, to be absent several days.
The Big Four and the Wabash are Jointly
erecting new transfer shed at North Man
chester in place of the one burned last sum-
mer.
The new $1,000 depot the Big -Four is erect
Ing at Marion, Ind, will be completed in
thirty days, and is a much-needed Improve
ment.
H. b. Pierce, one of the older of the pas
senger conductors on the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie. has been appointed assistant train
master
The question of the brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers establishing an INDECENT
fund has been deferred until the next bien-
NAL meeting.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
mas announced that the net rate from San
francisco TO Chicago. second-class, would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30
CHESS TOURNAMENT.
Great International Contest to Begin
in Vienna This Week.

NEW YORK, May 29.-According to news
received in this city to-day from Vienna
everything is ready for the great interna-
tiona chess masters tournament. the first
round of which contest will be played next
Wednesday Steinitz arrived in Vienna on
May 13 d. G.. Baird got there last Tues
day. Showalter was expected in the Aus
TRAN capital on Friday, while Pllsbury ar
rived at Liverpool on Friday. being due at
Vienna either to-day or tomorrow morning.
On Tuesday all the contestants, twenty in
number, will have to assemble at the
Vienna Chess Club, the scene of the COM
ing battles over the checkered boards, in
order to fix the schedule for the tourna-
ment which will be played in thirty-elght
rounds each player having to play two
games with every other player. Following
is the list of players, finally accepted
by the tournament committee:
America-Steinitz, Pillsbury, Showalter
and d. G. Baird
Great Britain--Blackburne Burn and
Caro-.
France-Janowsk.
Observation-Disclosures Schiffers and Alapin.
Germany--Tarr. Walbrodt and Lipke
Austria-Marco Schiechter. Hallprin and
SchwaIz.
Hungary-C harousek and Maroczy
The tourney will be played at the rate
of five rounds per week sundays and
Thursdays being off Gays. The committee
will however. try to have a regular round
played or next Thursday.
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MIXING MILLS DESTROYED.
One Man Killed and Another Injured
at Dupont Powder Works.

PENIS GROVE. n. j.. May 29.-By the
explosion of mixing mill at the smokeless
powder works of the Dupont Company. at
Carney's Point, near here, yesterday, Will
liam Brown, workman, of PENIS Grove,
was killed. Thos. Shoulders. of PENIS
Grove, injured, and three mills destroyed.
The explosion is supposed TO have been
caused by a pebble in the mixing trough.
The mill took fire and the flames were COM
municated to two other mills near by and
they were also destroyed. Francis q. Du-
pont Alexis Dupont and Pierre Dupont SUI
perintended the work of putting out the
fire While the sparks were flying about the
Duponts dashed into a small store house
near one of the burning mills and removed
two hundred pounds of gun cotton 10 q
place of safety at the risk of their lives.
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in THE COURTS.
THE COURT RECORD.
Superior Court.


Room John L. McMaster, Judge.
Martha Wilcox VS.. Lewis Wilcox: divorce.
Finding and decree for plaintiff. Judgment
VS.. defendant for costs.
Anna Cox VS.. Charles Cox; divorce. Find
ing and decree for plaintiff. Judgment VS..
defendant for costs.
lone Shockley VS.. James Shockley. Divorce
granted plaintiff, prohibiting marrying for
two years
Samuel Gray VS. Matte Gray; divorce
Finding and decree for plaintiff at his cost.
Alexander Wilson VS. Dollie Wilson; di-
vorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff at
his cost.
Room dawson NJ Harvey, Judge.
William S. Shellhouse VS.. Adele She'll
house; divorce. On trial by court.
Emil Wulschner q Son VS.. Vastine w.
Williams; appeal. Plaintiff dismisses appeal.
Judgment VS.. plaintiff for costs on appeal.
Room 3-Vinson Carter. Judge.
Harmon II. Friedley VS.. Charles f. Cleve-
land; note. Finding and judgment VS.. de-
PENDANT for $511.62 and costs.
Jacob NJ. Hollingsworth VS.. the Town of
Haughville; damage, Dismissed and costs
MaIinda j. Hollingsworth VS. the Town of
Haughville; damage. Dismissed and costs
William w Hudson vs. Ellen Hudson Di-
vorce granted plaintiff judgment VS.. plain
IN Matte att eq HaiI vs. William T. Hall Divorce
granted plaintiff and maiden name, Matte
Melvin, restored. Judgment VS.. defendant
for costs
Joseph Ley VS. Maria Ley Divorce grant
ed plaintiff. Judgment VS.. plaintiff for costs.
Circuit Court.
Henry Clay Allen, Judge.
Edward Owens VS.. Arab Owens. Submitted
to court and. evidence heard. Finding for
defendant on her cross-compaint Decree
of divorce and maiden name. Arab Heck
man, restored TO defendant. Judgment VS..
plaintiff for costs.
Board Of Childrens Guardians VS.. Edward
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HEAVY TRAFFIC FOR MAY
MOVEMENT STILL EXCEEDING 10000
LOADED CARS A WEEK.
The j. It. A. Makes a New Ruling as
to Party Rates-Earnings of the
Pennsylvania Lines.

The train records show that there were
received and forwarded at Indianapolis in
the week ending May2 IS a total of q 167 cars,
20,556 being loaded. This is 42S fewer loaded
cars than were handled at this point in
the week endning May q, and really the
lightest business in any week of the last
four months, but still, until the last ten
months, above what has been considered a
maximum business-20,OO0 loaded cars. The
loaded-car movement of last week was 2,256
cars in excess of the corresponding week
of 1897, and 4,9S4 loaded cars in excess of
the corresponding week of 1896; going back
to 1895, there were 1926 more loaded cars
handled here than in the corresponding
week of that year. From the above state
ment it will be seen that there is no occa
sion for complaint of the present volume
of business as the loss of last week, as
compared with preceding weeks, was wholly
with the Vandalia and the Chicago division
of the Big Four. The Pennsylvania lines
and other divisions of the Big Four are still
doing an unprecedentedly heavy business,
especially the Panhandle and the Louisville
and Chicago divisions of the Pennsylvania.
Last week the movement of empty cars
westward was unusually large, and of the
66l1 empty cars handled fully Is per cent.
were sent West and Northwest which
means that freight traffic will be heavy
for some days to come. There was
marked falling off in grain shipments and
cereal1ne products while the shipments of
provisions, dressed meats, lumber, hides and
live stock were quite heavy. AS usual in
the latter part of May, the tonnage of the
higher class freights falls off. But in the
lower class business. such as heavy staple
groceries, glass, nails and iron structural
work, the tonnage is in excess of last year.
The floods of the early spring carried away
many bridges in Southern and Western
states, and in most cases iron bridges have
been purchased to replace them. Inc ship
ments of harvest machinery, mowers reap
erS and threshers, the last two weeks, have
been large, so promising are the crops. This
class of business, however, is largely local
in its character and local traffic is at the
maximum for May. The wholesale mer-
chants, the commission men and majority
of the manufacturers are shipping more
goods than in any May for several years
past. 1t will be noticed that north-and-
south lines make favorable exhibits. 1t is
stated that never has there been time
when the business of the north-and-south
roads in both directions has been as heavy
and well equalized. Below is given the car
movement Tor the week ending May 28 and
for the corresponding weeks of 1897 and
1SQ6.
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New York Commercial Advertiser.
The public mind begins to take on an ag-
nostic humor toward war news and il is
right That should have been our temper
all along. We do not know where Admiral
Samson is we do not know where Com
modore Schley is we do not know where
Admiral Cervera IS. 1t is doubtful if the
Navy Department knows where the Span
tell The men behind the guns and the men
on the quarter deck are doing the work.
The men at home have nothing to do but
throw up their hats when it is done. The
three American and one Spanish squadron
cruising through the West Indies will have
to meet soon. they are like a magnet and
there will be news far more thrilling than
even that of the Manila fight. Until then
we had better be calm and watch the base
ball scores.
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Tightening the Reins.

Commissioner Blanchard. of the Joint
Traffic Association. has issued circular
in which he states that lines in the Central
Traffic Association will not be allowed here
after to advertise rates for special parties
unless given special permission by the asso-
citation. This action was taken by the Joint
Traffic Association to stop the practice of
Central Association lines, which includes
those running west of Buffalo. Pittsburg
and Salamanca from advertising rates of
one fare for round trip for special parties to
conventions, meetings etc.
Roads in the Trunk Line Association
charge a fare Of l 1-3 for round trip for
such parties, and they have suffered from
the hands of Western competitors by meth
DDS employed by the last named. 1t has been
the practice of west-bound lines to trespass
on trunk line property and advertise one
fare excursions.
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Divine, age ten years. Decree in favor of

Divine, age ten years. Decree in favor of
board
Criminal Court.
John F. McCray, Judge.
The State of Indiana VS.. John Gardner:
petit larceny. Tried by court and taken
under advisement.
The State of Indiana VS.. James Hester;
burglary and grand larceny. Defendant
withdrew plea of not guilty and pleaded
guilty. Taken under adVisement.
New Suits Filed.
Emma Watson VS.. Oliver. Watson; suit for
divorce. Superior Court Room /.
Indianapolis Chain and Stamping Com
pany VS.. Samuel c. Nessler eft al. suit on
account. Superior Court, Room 3.
Clarence l.. Brown VS.. Government Build
ing and Loan Institution, No. 3 suit to re-
cover money. Superior Court. Room l.
William Iron VS.. Charles E. Jones; COM
plant for libel. Circuit Court
William Iron VS.. Zimri c. Lewis; COM
plant for libel. Circuit Court
William Iron VS.. Samuel L.. Dunning;
complaint for libel Circuit Court.
William Iron VS.. Jessie NJ. Conklin; COM
plant for libel. Circuit Court
William Iron VS.. Elizabeth J. Marshall;
complaint for libel Circuit Court
William Iron VS.. Harry Cribbs complaint
for libel Circuit Court.
James S. Cruise VS.. Lena Petsch ct al;
attachment and garnishment. Superior
Court, Room 2.
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- - - R-s~a
Interstate League.

Toledo 40 Gal o e-s il 8
Mansfield 40 / 20 0 l 0 0 % 5
Batteries-Kenan and Arthur; Miller and
Belt.
At Dayton, o. r. H. f.
Dayton ....5 0 O. 0 0 0 0 O-5 5 2
Youngstown % 0 . 0 / 0 0 "a { 2
Batteries-R and Byers; Brodie
and Zinram.
At Springfield, o. RHE
Springfield 80 10 1-6 II 8
Batteries-Crabill and Gfaffius; Guese and
Barclay. .fjesN a@ff
At Fort Wayne. Ind RH.E.
Fort Wayne. % 0 0 o 2 0 o. 5 0
Batteries-Lucas and Cole; Alloway and
Campbell.
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MUSICAL.
AUCTION.


AUNfION-Sale OF II. Lieber Company's art
goods left in No. 80 South Meridan-street room,
amounting to s., GOO, on Wednesday, June l. at 10
a. M, consisting of very large stock CT looking
glasses. bar mirrors, pier glasses small mirrors
in French German and American plate glass
iron safe, oil paintings. chromos, desks martel
mirrors, barber mirrors. art goods. store fixtures
frames of all descriptions the above goods are
fire and sold only for want OF room in our new
building. Sale will continue until all is sold
VIII be sold in lots to suit buyers j.. SEMANS
Auctioneer. THE II. LIEBER COMPANY.
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Our Dead.

Not alone the fairest garlands OF the May;
Bring nobler tribute for our dead to-day.
Bravery asks honor only of the brave.
What avails II towards deck hero's grave?
Greet this sacred morning with the solemn VOW
Freedom fallen vanguard. We will serve heg
now.
''Sleep In peace. martyrs. faithful TO the last,
We viii make present worthy OF your past
-Harpers Bazaar.
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removed to location more central and re-
organized as a public charity. Not that |
believe its present location is unsanitary or
otherwise Objectionable, but l believe the
work would be more effective. The fact
that it cares for homeless dogs and cats
is not the only good it accompanies. Most
of its visitors are children. most of the ami
mails are brought there by children, and its
greatest effect is in teaching the rising gen.
Grafton to have compassion for dumb brutes.
have not time nor space to carry this
argument to a conclusion, but the facts
are if we had more of these institutions we
would need fewer warehouses. jails, peni-
tentiaries and a smaller police force.
Indianapolis, May %. DAVID GIBSON.
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Belt Road Traffic.

In the week ending May 2S there were
transferred over the Belt road 1859 cars,
against 1861 in the preceding week. Belt
road engines handled at the yards 939 cars
loads of live stock, against 1,263 carloads
in the week ending May 81 and handled for
private switches on its line Sl3 loaded cars
against 800 in the week ending May II, and
754 in the week ending May II.
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BATTLE OF THE GIANTS
CHAMPIONS WILL MEET THE ST.
PAUL MEN TO-DAY.
Battle for Supremacy Likely TO BE a
Lively One-st. Paddi and MiIwau-
kee the Winners on Sunday.
st. Paul. 49,. 4-COIumbus 3
Milwaukee -. z-kansas City. g
Games Scheduled for To-Day.

Games Scheduled for To-day.
Western League
St. Paul at indianapolis 1.-TWO games.)
Omaha at Columbus
Kansas City at Detroit.
Minneapolis at Milwaukee.
National League
Chicago at Boston.
Cincinnati at Brooklyn.
Cleveland at New York.
Louisville at Philadelphia.
Baltimore at Pittsburg.
st. Louis at Washington.
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Terre Haute After Ball Club.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, May 29.-The
Terre Haute baseball managers have re-
ceived word from Manager Torreyson, of
the Grand Rapids team, that there prob
ably will be change in the Interstate
League and that the Grand Rapids team
will leave that city. Manager Torreyson
wants it to come to Terre Haute The only
obstacle is the distance of this city from
the Eastern towns in the league.
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Cicero's Fifth Straight win.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
CICERO Ind, May 29.-The Cicero ball
team won its fifth consecutive game to-day
in very interesting game with Arcadia.
1t was battery battle and resulted in a
score of Z to l. Batteres-Fipps and Curtis,
for Cicero; Tudor and Layton, for Arcadia.
Hits-Cicero Z; Arcadia, q Errors-Cicero,
2; Arcadia, g. Struck out-By Fipps, II; by
Tudor, S.
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~~>~>~~~~N<>~~~~N~~~~~- ~~~~~o~~~~4~~~~~~~~~~
Headquarters Encampment No. 50. Union Veteran
Legion
Attention, Comrades! You are requested to as
semble at south front of soldiers monument at
o'clock sharp this afternoon for the purpose OF
participating IN the ceremonies of Decoration
day. Full attendance desired. By order OF
FRANK r. NEW, Colonel
W. B. DOwNEY. Adjutant.
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outings Won in the twelfth.
,ial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
3 ELWOOD Ind. May %. - 1t required
twelve innings for the Outings. of Indian
apolis to defeat Elwood to-day, the winning
run being made with two outs. The two
teams play Tomorrow Score:
Elwood % 2 90 90 O 0 0 O-5 u 8
Ind pols..0 0 3 1 o 90 0 0 10 13 4
Batteries-Elwood, Patterson and Jessup;
Indianapolis, Lehr and Duly. Struck out
BY Patterson, Ia by Lehr, 6.
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Baltimore American.


An alarm comes from literary sources that
the public is threatened with a fad for
Welsh dialect stories. TO start a fad like
this on people already excited by plunge
into the horrors of war is little less than a
crime.
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WANTED--AGENTs.


4WANTED-Agents. 10 cents brings you samples
and catalogue of patriotic emblems. etc., by
turn mail. Quick! MANUFACTURERS, Box 1875,
boston, Mass.
agents WANTED-Murat Halsteds great war
book, "Our Country in War; All about armies
navies, coast defenses, Maine disaster, Cuba,
with Spain, and relations with foreign nations;
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magnificent colored illustrations. Agents making
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Cowboys, Errors Were CostIx.

MILWAUKEE,, May 29.-Kansas City lost
the fourth game of the series with the
Brewers by costly errors Score:
r. H. E.
Milwaukee ..3 900 o 0 2 AZ 10 0
Kansas City..0 o 0 20 3 0-6 II Z
Batteries-Taylor and Speer; Sullivan and
HenSen.
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LOsr.

~~N~~~~~N~~-~~~N~N-~-~~N ~~~~~~~-~~>~~~~~~-~
LOST-Young female collie dogs brownish yellow
with white streak in face and two white fore
feet; wearing collar bearing address III. s..
New, 1902 Capitol avenue" Finder return and re-
ceive reward.
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sTOR

S<N|N~e@>@~~~~N~>S~0~~>
STORAGE-INDPL WAREHOUSE CO.
W. X. Kurtz Pres. H. A. Grassland, MRr
lNew) 517-523 S. Penn. Phone 1913.
WE STORE. PACK AND HAUL.
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The need of a good spring medicine is al
most universal, and Hoods Sarsaparilla ex- |.
actly meets this need BE sure to get Hoods.
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saints Batted at Right Time.

COLUMBUS, o., May 29.-St. Paul won
from the local team to-day by timely bat
ting, assisted by errors. Score:
e4s r. H. E.
Columbus $50 0 01 0 2 0 0 O-3 3
st. Paul .......0 0 0 0 2 0 / *-4 L
Batteries-Friend and Buckley; Phyle and
Spies l0ne
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NOTICE.

NOTIFICATIONS 10 become lawful doctors or
dentists. with protection in practice. Lock Box
49, Chicago.
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G. E. KREGELO, FUNERAL DIRECTOR. has
resumed business at his old establishment, 223
North Delaware street. Everything new and COM
plete. Office telephone, No. $50; residence tele-
phone, No. 232S.
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wANTED-MALE HELP.

WANTED-At st. Charles car works. St. Charles
Mo-, i've good blaeksmiths on passenger car
forgings.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-01-13
PROFESSIONS IN THE WEST.
In the Good Old Days Man Had
Several.

In the life of a modern business COM
munity a man must beware of too much
wisdom. says the Chautauquan. The
specialist is the man who Succeeds and
having once set his hand to an Cccupa-
tion one dare never leave it under pen
atty Of failure in what he has chosen as
mis- life work. In the west all this was
different. Versatility was a necessity.
The successful man must know how to
do many things. The gleanings of any
one field of activity were too small to
afford living of themselves. This fact
was accepted by the citizens of the
country. sometimes with a grim humor
which marked the west.
4 young lawyer in a western town
had out a sign which read: John
Jones, attorney-at-law Real estate and
insurance. Collections promptly attend
ed to at all hours of the day or night.
Good Ohio cider for sale at five cents a
glass" \ stOrekeeper had on his win
dow the legend: Wall paper and mar
rage licenses" thus announcing two
commodities for which there was 4
very small demand One of the prom
inent citizens Of such a town was a
gambler, "A farmer, fighter and a
school teacher all in one. There seemed
to the minds of the Inhabitants of the
country nothing incongruous in this
mixing up of occupations, it being
taken for granted that a man would
endeavor to make a living in the ways
for which he seemed best fitted.