The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-03-04
IRELAND ITEMS.

'Ras ssF11t az W.
i'll with scarlet fever; he is better a,
this writing.
The protracted meeting is con,
tinuing at the NJ. +. church with
much interest. Revs. Bean and
Whitfield are doing some able preach.
ing, and making eloquent pleas be-
fore God for human souls. May the
meeting be a grand and glorious one
for the Lord is our wish.
Judge Sweeney left last Tuesday
morning for Cuba, Klondike ard
all points of journalistic fame, and
his fair one is in deep mourning.
Monday night Rev. Bean was
forced to pause in his discourse at
the M. X. Church until the large
crowd OF unthoughted or ungentle-
manly fellows that had congregated
outside the church, and we're hav-
ing a great time laughing and talk
ing, could be sufficiently quoted,
so that the audience on the inside Of
the church could hear him. Now,
boys, this may be total unthought-
edness on your part, but it greatly
disturbed the speaker and his
audience, and also shows ~irrever
ence for the house Of God, and we
hope 1t will not occur again.
We feel it a duty to speak of the
splendid condition of the schools in
Ireland. Prof. Evrard and his as
sistants are sparing no trouble or
pains to make and keep them sec
ond to no graded school in the
county. Every Friday evening in
teresting debates are held in the
two highest rooms, which are warm
ly contested and are very instructive
to the scholars. Parents visit the
school in large numbers, and are
well pleased with advancement
their children are making.
Mr.. Tom Johnson is suffering
with a complicati IN of diseases,
contracted in the late war.
DR.. L. B. Johnson, of poetical
correspondence fame, made his
regular trip to Huntingburg We'd
nesday.
Mr.. VIM. Wilson has converted
his real estate about two miles south
west of here into a pugilistic arena,
with himself as the champion feath.
er-weight OF the world. j. N. Har-
rison acc pied his challenge, and
Bal Myers was chosen as referee,
and Johnnie Harrison as timekeep-
er, and the aspirants for pugilistic
shook hands at 8 o'clock.
called the contest a draw
somewhere between I'd and 50th
round. There was no side bet-but
Kellams got the purse.
The Democrats of this township
met in mass convention last Mon
day night at Ireland, to prove to the
Jasper Ring" that they are capa-
BILE Of running their own affairs.
of the 60 Democrats in
The township were present. Their
was to force County Chair
man Koerner to recognize Leroy
Cave as their precinct committee
man, but Koerner failed to see it
heir way, and Melchior is still the
Committeeman. Cave had been APP
pointed by the precinct chairman,
who had moved away, to fill the
place till a successor was ele cted,
Ind at the recent county meeting
Koerner had appointed Melchior,
hus taking away the right of the
precinct to select its own committee
nan. 1t was said in the Conven-
ion that Koerner's and Melchior's
sympathies caused the
Inference.
Joe Kunkel sold his interest in
he |. Y. l.. Planning Mill to Andy
'triegel and Joe Stenftenagle Mon
Bud Austin, of Jasper, il the
'uest of Robert Yates this week,
Alder. Rose, Of indianapolis, is
lere visiting his mother, Mrs. Julia
Rose.
Did you know that Mike Swet ney
; the "only pebble on the beach"
or county auditor in this precinct,
nd that Koerner is the ''only tur
lie in the soup?"
Will Deweeze went to Princeton
tuesday, to work this summer.
George Fierst and wife, Of Jasper,
1ere the guests Of their parents, T.
Johnson and wife, Sunday.
Joseph Kraft, ST., candidate for
was in town the first of the
,eek. Joe is a good man and de.
erves the support Of the people, he
laving had the misfortune to lose
he fingers Of his left hand while
,orking in the Jasper furniture fac.
Dry. Joe has always worked hard