The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-27

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loans make poverty; poverty makes
rags; rags make.
IIuntingburg Argus.
About II or IA pupils of Patoki
schools will try the graduates exam
ination, which will be held at Duff
school, No. 3, on Saturday, Feb
18th.
The second bi-monthly examina
ton will be held in the schools Of
Dubois county on Feb. I'd snd 3D.
At the Council meeting, Monday
night, very little business was rams
acted. George NJ. Bohnert, Of Oak
land City, was present and present
cd plans and specifications for erect
ing an electric light plant in this
city, which the Council took under
consideration.
The death of Heber Hargrave,
s)n Of Dr. NJ. +. Hargrave, a for
mer well-known dentist IF this city,
but now OF Evansville, occurred at
Fl. Wayne, Ind, at the Home OF
the Feeble Minded, on Wednesday
of last week. The deceased was
about II years Of age.
II C. f. Mandel has on exhibi-
bition a curiosity in the shape OF a
young chicken that has four wings
and four legs and feet perfectly
formed, preserved in alcohol. The
chicken came from the farm of Mrs.
Brinkmeyer, near this city, and was
taken from broken egg that lacked
two days OF Matching.
Mr.. Clement E. Doane, son q
the venerable editor of the Jasper
Courier, is here learning something
more about telephone exchanges
preparatory to taking charge of the
Hun.iagburg Jasper exchange as
sup. rintendent. Mr.. Doane is an
affable, intelligent young man and
we are sure will give the company
good service, and the public gentle
manly treatment.
From the Indianapolis papers We
learn that Co Supt. Geo. r. vii
son was honored by the teachers Of
Indiana at their recent annual as
ISOLATION at that city in that he was
elected chairman of its executive
committee. This committee Sc
cures all halls for the meetings Of
the association, collects all money,
pays all debts, manages all programs
and is "the power behind the
throne" in all the meetings Of Indi
ana teachers. The receipts and ex-
penditures run into the thousand:
and the various questions 20 handle
run into hundreds.
Mrs. G.. Ed. NORMAN received {
letter from her soldier brother
Thomas Edwards, Havana, Cuba
some days since and has allowed u
to make use of it. He writes:
Well, | am in Cuba at last, and
like this part of the world very well
1t isn't near as bad as thought i
would he. 1t is as warm here now
as il is there in July. Things grow
here he year round. There ar,
orange and lemon trees, and banan
as. Oranges are only twenty cents
, a bushel. All one has to do is JUS
TO go and get them.
We were five days on the ocean,
and lots of the boys got sea sick,
but | stood the trip all right. W,
took ship at Savannah, Ga, or
steamer Mobile. There were two
regiments on board; the 9th and
, 4th lii. Vols, about 2,20O men be.
, sides horses. We were pretty vel
! crowded, but made it all right.
Havana, Cuba, is alarge city, ha:
about 275, 900 inhabitants. There
are 30 600 U. ). soldiers here now
TIE people havn't got much to
live on, and you can't understand
, anything they say. They al. talk
, Spanish, but are nearly all Cubans.
One can see lots OF kids here
from FIVE to fifteen, naked as the
day they we're born; but there are
some Of the prettiest women here
ever saw, but they don't dress like
our people do, some Of the lade:
wear silk, and some wear hardly
anything at all. They don't max,
their clothes right, some way. Som,
Of them just wear skirts with waists
naked. 1t is fright, | must say.
If | ever get out of this place,
wouldn't take anything for my trip
in the south, and to Cuba. As We
came in on the ship we passed RICH
| by where the battleship Maine was
blown up. There is much Of the
shin opa cap aaa yat ahova unfair