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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02
LITTLE LOCALS.

Wofford Bros. have moved their Of
fee into the bank building.
james Love, of Erwin, was in the
city yesterday for several hours.
After an illness of ten days M. Jack
son was able to be at his store q few
hours today.
Col. @. H. Nimson was down from
Cranberry Monday and spent several
hours in the city.
Miss Retta Lyle, of Johnson City, is
the guest of her cousin, Miss Carrie
Summers, in this city.-Morristown
Gazette.
The Watauga Lighting and Power
Co. are getting in lot of new poles to
be used in the extension of their line
to the new plant now being built at the
river.
@. Fl. Cooper has accepted a position
with lumber company at Bristol and
will reside there. Mrs. Cooper and
children went up to their new home
last Saturday.
Chancellor Smith held court here for
the first time this week. Although
not known very extensively in this
county, he has made very favorable
impression he has come in contact with.
-Sevierville Star.
Silas Cooper, the United States bank
examiner, was on train No. 80 yester
day returning from Washington to
his home at Jonesboro. Mr.. Cooper
has given eminent satisfaction as an
examiner. He is an East Tennessean,
and in every respect worthy of the
name. Bristol Courier.
W. 0. Dyer, chief engineer for the
V. & s., was in the city Monday and
informed us that o survey from the
main line of the above road has been
completed to develop ore beds in Doe
Mountain, and that he was now ready
to begin survey to complete the loca-
ton of the road from Mouth of Doe on
to Mountain City .-Tomahawk.
The Ladies's Aid Society of the Wa
tauga Avenue Presbyterian Church
will hold Bazaar and dinner Thurs
day Dec. IA. Booths will he arranged
with articles for sale suitable for every
day in the week. Come and buy q.
Christmas gift suitable for any time
from Monday morning till Saturday
night. Special attractions for the chill
dren at the close of school.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Any one interested in the best and
most sanitive manner of finishing floors
should drop line to Berry Brothers,
Detroit, Michigan, the we'll known
varnish manufacturers, who mail free
for the asking a neat and instructive
pamphlet on the subject, and finished
specimens OF wood. SCOTT.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Berry Brothers, of Detroit, the grea
varnish manufacturers, are making
floor finish of extraordinary toughness
to which they have given the name
s'Liquid Granite. Full information
concerning it and useful bints on foo
finishing are contained in a neat PAM h
let which Mrs. Berry Brothers sent
free for the asking. SCOTT.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

NOT so NOW.

Itused to cost considerable to get ready-to-wear
suit that bore the earmarks of custom made one but
not SO now Ny stock of suits represents the best of
the productions of the largest makers in this country
Thecost Of my suits is than you must pay for
inferior ones, but the wear is much greater. They are
guaranteed fhereare Others but good at the
price, twill cost you nothing to call and look them
over We are proud Of them We had hoped to be
ableto open on Nov. Ts but there is no telling about
freehts. However, our goods arriving daily and
~
will be ready for your inspection Saturday, Nov 4.
With thought for your comfort, consideration
for your cash. we'll welcome you at
......THE HUB.
Hart Block, Public Square.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02
SULLIVAN COUNTY.

Hon. VIM. Robertson, DR.. Nat Dula-
ney, Hons. Thos. Curtin, James Baker,
John Caldwell, Abe Mcclellan, G. J,
st. John, John I. Cox, J. A. Faw.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02
WASHINGTON COUNT,

Hons. H. H. Carr, E. @. Reeves,
A. R. Johnson, John Lyle, VIM. Bar
ton, Sam Williams, W. P. Brownlow,
Newton Hacker, ALI. Deaderick, Sam
Kirkpatrick, John Bowman.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

A car load Of salt glazed sewer pipe
just received at s. B. Whites.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02
DOES YOUR ROOF LEAK9
CHILL PAD SOMETHING NEW

Cures Chills without medicine; II ii fails we
refund your money 10000 to back our guar
antee. A sure preventative. If your druggist
does not keep the DR., King Chill Pad we will
mail you one on receipt OF price-Sl:00, THE
DIR. KING CHILL PAD CO., Memphis, Tenn
John T. Lyle, = Groceries, Phone
No. 78.
DR., e, E. Hunter came down from
Elizabethton yesterday.
The pension of David Brockwell has
been, increased from $40 to $14.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

The greatest variety, the purest and
freshest candies can always be found at
Jackson's.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02
JOHNSON COUNTY.

Maj. Joe Wagner, Hon. R. r. But
Ter, Hon. Chris. Collins, Hon. John
Upton, Hon. J. M. Simerly, Maj. Geo.
Folsom, Capt. Tip johnson.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Peanuts, fresh from the rooster, at
Jacksons.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

TRAVELLING MEN dasiring a sala-
BILE side line of we'll established staple
goods (not requiring the carrying of
samples) commission 30 and 20. Adj
dress Manufacturer, P. o. Box 1853,
Covington, Ky.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Chase & Sanborn's teas and cofees
Ore the best. You get them only at
Tdcksons.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02
FIRST REGIMENT
Will be Welcomed by Representative PEG


Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 30. - Hon. J..
W. Gaines, chairman of the meeting in
charge of the general arrangements for
the reception to the First Tennessee
regiment, soon to be received we're from
service in the Philippines, has made
appointments, from all over the state,
of prominent men who are to serve on
the reception committee. Additions
may be made to these lists, il counties
so elect.
The First Tennessee regiment is the
only one of the four regiments from
the state that saw foreign service in
battle. However, the Fourth Tennes.
see was in Cuba, making tworegiments
going from this state to foreign climes.
The First Tennessee is to be. given a
fitting reception. and Nashville is alive
preparing for the big event.
The following committeeman have
been appointed from upper East Ten
nessee counties:
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Pain has no show with DIR. Niles Pain Pills
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Gold Dust -four will please the
re>t OF You
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Kingau's dried and canned meats at
Jackson's.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

Headquarters for Ralston Breakfast
food at Jackson's.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02

-The,best -four is Gold bust.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-11-02
T he X COM EFT

The best soap is "Brag" at Jackson's,
Told Anst dour-best made.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
A BOYS ESSAY ON TOBACCO.

Tobacco grows something like cab
bage, but 1 never saw none cooked. 1
have heard men say that cigars that
was given them election day for nothing
was mostly cabbage leaves. Tobacco
stores are mostly kept by wooden
Injuns, who stand at the door and offer
them bunch of cigars, which is glued
into the Injun's hand and is made Of
wood also. I tried to smoke q cigar
once, and 1 felt like Epson salts. To-
bacco was invented by man named
Walter Raleigh. When the people
first saw him smoking they though
he was steamboat and was frightened.
My sister is girl. I don't know
whether she likes tobacco or not.
There is young man named Leroy
who comes to see her. He was stand
ing on the steps one night and he had .
cigar in his mouth and he said he did
not know as she would like it, and she
said, ''Leroy, the perfume is agreeable.
But when my big brother Tom lighted
his pipe, Nancy said, ''Get out Of this
house, you horrid creature; the smell
of tobacco makes me sick" Snuff is
Injun meal made out of tobacco.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
WHO Is TO BLAME.

Kidney trouble has become so prev
alent that it is not uncommon for a
child to be born afflicted with weak kid
neys.
If the child urinates too often, if the
urine scalds the flesh, or if, when the
child reaches an age when it should be
able to control the passage, and it is yet
afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon
it, the cause of the difficulty is kidney
trouble, and the first step should be to-
ward the treatment of these important
organs. This unpleasant trouble is due
to diseased condition of the kidneys
and bladder and not to habit as most
people suppose.
If the adult has rheumatism; pain or
dull ache in the back; if the water
passes in irregular quantities; or at ir-
regular intervals or has bad odor; if
it stains the linen or vessel the color of
rust; if the feet swell; if there are puffy
or dark circles under the eyes; your
kidneys are the cause and need doctor
ing. Treatment of some diseases may
be delayed without danger, not so with
kidney disease.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the great
kidney, liver and bladder remedy
promptly cures the most distressing
cases. Its mild and extraordinary effect
is soon realized. Sold by druggists in
fifty-cent and dollar sizes. You may
have sample bottle and pamphlet tell
ing all about ii sent free by mail. Ad-
dress DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton,
N. Y. When writing mention that you
read this generous offer in the The
Bellefontaine REPUBLICAN.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
Sheriff's Sale.

The Savings io1n ssdmdsnn Ruildns and Logan Common
Aoan Do"p""y' Pleas
Jacob A. Reyser ct al. case NO. 1870
BY virtue OF an order of sale to me directed
from the Court of Common Pleas of Logan
county, Ohio, ! will offer at public sale at the
west door Of the Court House, in the city OF
Bellefontaine, Ohio, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, A. D. 1899,
At about one o'clock, p. M. on said day, the
county OF Logan, and State of Ohio, and in
the city OF Bellefontaine, Ohio and being
part of Section No "a, Town 4, Range "A M. X.
s. bounded as follows: Beginning at an iron
pin in the center of Main street in the said city,
IS feet south of the southeast corner of the
James Walker lands Eeing 81 6-10 feet south Of
the north line of Carter street extended ;thence
east ut right angles with said street to stake
20 feet east of the east line of said street;
thence north parallel with said street 80 feet
TO the south line of said walker lands; thence
with said line s. W deg, 20 min, E. 3S5.2s feet
to a stake the northeast corner of the Sophia
Reyser lands; thence with east line of said
Sophia Reyser lands 2O6 feet to stone; thence
3. % deg. Al min. w. "a 5S-l00 feet to a stone in
the line OF Frank Butler lands; thence with
the north line of said Butler lands S. 20 deg. Al
min. w. "a 5s-l00 feet to a stone corner on the
bank of the tail race; thence N. 65 deg. IS W:
Butler lands in the center line Of said Main
street; thence with said line N 40 deg. 40 min.
east to the place of beginning. Also the fol-
lowing tract In >. E. u of said section "a, Town
4, Range IA bounded as follows: Beginning at
q stone $. W. corner to Silas Roberts land
and corner to Ella Bartons lands; thence N:
3 deg. 45 min, f. 1925 feet to a corner on said
section line marked nj. on plat on file in
Clerks Office marked A; thence 5. 81 deg, w.
66 feet to a stone; thence s. So deg, W.. 229. 6S
feet to a stone in the north line of Logan
County Agricultural Society lands thence
with said line s. n deg. So min., E. l06 feet;
thence s. 81 deg As mir, E. 80 feet; thence s.
~ deg, Z. s7.7s feet; thence N. deg, E. s9.76
feet crossing Blue Jacket Greek to a stone;
thence N. As deg, 30 min, E. 56.76 feet to the
place OF beginning, all of above containing
four acres more or less and also all the right
title and interest of said defendants, Smith X.
Thompson, Asenath Thompson, Jacob A.
Reyser and Sophia Reyser, q antors In and to
the mill race between said tracts above de-
scribed excepting lot AZ feet by 220 feet out
of the northwest corner OF said homestead
premises not herein conveyed.
Appraised O first tract 81 ,20000
Appraised End tract Sl50.00.
Terms OF sale cash.
PRESLEY SHAW
Sheriff Logan County, Ohio.
A. Jay Miller, Attorney.
By E. H. Shaw, Deputy Sheriff.
July Is, 1S99
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
TIMELY COMMENT.

William Swonger shot and killed
large blue crane on Mark Cox's farm
in Liberty township, this week, which
measured from tip to tip six feet and
five inches and stood five feet high.
Mr.. Swanger is seventy-eight years old.
West Union Defender.
The act was one of wantOnness and
though Mr.. Swanger's sight may have
been good his motive was bad. The
crane delighted in life, he was harm
less, and rather an ornament to the
landscape than otherwise. He spent
his happy days in fishing and medita-
tion. 1t is worth something to see q
crane absorbed in deep meditation. 1t
is no credit to kill crane. He can be
approached within few yards. Mr..
Swanger's seventy-eight years should
have saved the birds life.-Clermont
Courier.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22

nounced, and this is the result % sum-
married in its own columns:
Area of Pitsburg's Industrial Klon-
dixie, 1S0 square miles.
Number Of industries being operated
on full time, 11S.
Number of men employed in these,
embracing all classes, 100000.
Average wages per day, $2.15.
Range of wages, s1.75 to 81 per day.
Number of idle men, none, except
from sickness.
Number of mills and factories un-
able to run full time by reason of
scarcity of labor, CO.
Railroads unable to move freight
promptly because the traffic is 30 per
cent larger than all the freight cars
in service.
Gross daily value of trade in Indus
trial Klondike, $6,000,0O0.
The extraordinary increase in de-
posits in the banks, the tremendous
expansion in bank clearings and the
evidences that appear on all sides OF
the prosperous condition of the nation
ought to cause the free trade and free
silver contingent to hide themselves
In shame. They have largely disap-
peared from public view, and it is tc
be hoped, for the country's Welfare
that they have gone for good.-Phila.
delphia Press,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
Sheriff's Sale.

Michael Hauss' Logan Common Pleas
Ingle W. Rush ct al. ~
BY virtue of an order OF sale to me directed
from the Court of Common Pleas of Logan
county, Ohio, will offer at public sale, at the
west door of the Court House, in the city OF
Bellefontaine, Ohio on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 A. d. 1899,
at about one o'clock p. m, on said day, the
following described real estate, situate In the
county OF Logan, and State of Ohio, and In
Stokes township and known as the southwest
quarter of Section twenty-nine C29), Town six
OF the southeast quarter of Section thirty C3O),
same Town and Range. containing in all 24O
acres of land more or less.
Except the following sold to John Il. Adams
and by Jchn I. Adams to the Detroit and Lima
Northern Railway Company. to-wit: strip
of land across the premises described in the
petition of the plaintiff and answer and cross
petition of the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company known as the Rush farm
a distance of four thousand and eighty-four
400 plus "a to station 306 plus s366 feet In
width from station 306 plus S3 to 3l5 plus 81,
1866 feet In width from 3l5 plus 81 TO 31 plus 49, I'd
feet In width. All situated in Section twenty
nine COZ and thirty (30), Town six 90 south OF
Range eight east In Stokes township Logan
(s2D acres Of land on the present location OF
the Columbus Northwestern Railway now
known as the Detroit & Lima Northern Rail-
way.
Appraised at SS120
Terms of sale cash.
PRESLEY SHAW.
Sheriff Logan County, Ohio.
Stueve Connaughton, Attorneys.
BY f. II. Shaw, Deputy Sheriff.
July 25, 1899.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
THE ONLY RELIEF.
A Little Story With an Interesting sug
gestion In It.


gestion In It.
The railroads, for the first time in
a good many years, are about in a
position where they can dictate both
terms and conditions. The shippers
are wholly now at the mercy of the
roads. and can only get their stuff
moved when the roads can find time to
do it. This is true with every road
that runs through any extent of ter
ritory, and virtually true of good
many of the smaller roads that have
rich feeders. To be sure there are a
few of the small lines that have a car
to lend to the other roads now and
then, but they are the exceptions that
prove the rule.
For the most part all of the rail-
roads in the country have every pound
of freight they can handle. They have
been sending the stuff that must be
shipped Immediately and leaving the
other material until such times as they
can get cars and power to handle it.
Some of the shippers that have been
put off from time to time are now get
ting anxious and are pushing the roads
pretty hard to move the goods. There
| is not day passes that one of the
freight men of one of the big railroads
is not besieged with requests for cars
of some kind with which to handle a
consignment of goods. hTe shippers
are willing to take any kind of cars
on almost any kind of conditions, Sc
that they get their goods delivered.
1t may truthfully be said that every
piece of rolling stock on the roads is
in use. and that every bit of power is
being taxed to it's utmost to haul the
loads that are put behind them. One
| shipment is scarcely moved, and the
season for one commodity is scarcely
| over, before another one comes on to
| demand the attention of the RAIDS. The
| lines have been taxed t the limit dur
ing the summer, and now that the fall
trade is not far away there is very
little hope for better conditions.
| The freight men say that unless
there is vast change in the fall trade
from what there has been in the sum.
mer business that the roads will not
be able to cope with the volume of it
They point to the fact that the facili.
ties of the roads are taxed now, wher
it should be the light season, and ash
what they are going to do when 6
buster, livelier season comes on.
An interesting incident was going
the rounds yesterday that shows the
trend of affairs. One of the largest
coal shipping firms in the city called
up one of the traffic men and asked:
"How am 1 going to get cars to shil
my coal in?"
"Vote for Bryan is the only way tina
KNOW" was the reply. - Cleveland
Leader.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
Mortality In War.

The question of the possible mortali-
ty among those engaged in military
operations is one of great interest just
now to insurance companies in Ameri-
ca, and efforts have been made to learn
the proportion of the losses to the total
number of troops in the American civil
war. 1t appears that the number of en-
istments (reduced to three years
basis) is estimated at 2,32O,272, and
that the mortality is summed up as fol
lows: Killed and died of wounds, 10,
07O, or Al per 1000; died of disease,
224, $50, Or 81 per 1000; died from &C.
cident and all other causes, "a, 7S2, OF
II per 1000; total, $50, 528, or 155 per
1000 for the three years term. Thus
the average death rate per year among
those enlisted works out roughly at 52
per 1000 Hospital.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
ILL FATED.

This cals . to pass: The sky grew dark,
And rude waves smote laboring bark
And roared like fiends in revelry,
chen loud above the creaking szars,
The furious hell of storms discord,
A cry rang cut that sought the stars
The frenzied cry, Man overboard!'
The beetling seas bore hard behind,
Their SUBMITS capped with glistening
foam,
And screaming furies in the wind
Forbade the ship in "stays" to come,
And, bobbing there within the deep,
The rushing waters in his ears,
The man essayed TO cliseb the steep,
The vast and yielding hemispheres.
And there he swan alone with death.
Beneath the water sobbing slips.
How fiercely drawn his quick ming breath
Between his bloodless lipsi
And 10, like one who views the past,
Sweet vistas soon to be forsook,
He turned his head and for last
Heartbroken, lingering look.
A sun kissed stretch of yellow sand,
A dinpling waste of sunlit sea,
That lately roared when wizards wand
Disturbed the summer harmony.
A ravaged form there, dark and still,
Unmoved, unknown, forsook, forgot,
Yet once it braved the tempest's wih,
Creature OF circumstance-or what?
Fishing Gazette.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-22
SALE OF LOGAN COUNTY
O., BRIDGE BONDS.
AUDITORS OFFICE, LOGAN COUNTY
Bellefontaine, o., August IA, 1899. (

Bellefontaine, o., August IA, 1899.
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will
be received at this office until z O'Clock p; m; m
Logan county bridge bonds, as follows:
Thirty Logan county bridge bonds, S5OO.OO
each, due January L. 1910.
All of said bonds are dated Sept. 1, 1899, and
bear interest at the rate of per cent. per
annum from September /, 1899, interest pay
payable at the Treasurer's Office of said LO-
gan county. Said bonds are to be delivered
to the purchaser at the Treasurer's office, in
said county, on or before September 18th, 1899.
No exchange or express charges will be paid
by the county. Bidders are required to state
plainly and separately in their bids the exact
sum they will pay for said Bridge Bonds, to
which sum will be added interest for each
day after September l, 1899, until bonds are
delivered. No explanation of bids will be
permitted. Each bidder will be required to
deposit s25O.OO. cash, with the Treasurer of
Logan county, Ohio, before filing his bid, as a
guarantee that he will take up said bonds and
pay for the same by the time above specified
Said $4,000 to be forfeited to the county of
Logan for the use of the county fund, if the
bonds are not taken up by the time specified.
The right to reject any or all bids is reserved.
Address all bids to Auditor Of Logan county,
and mark same IBID for bonds"
All bidders will be required to satisfy them
selves of the legality of these bonds, as no de-
lays. will be granted for any purpose;
Said bonds are issued under authority of
Sections s71 and S72, r. s. of Ohio. and the laws
amendatory and supplementary thereto.
Bonds outstanding:
Building Bonds, $1,000
Ditch Bonds, $4,000.
Turnpike Bonds $4,000
Bridge Bonds, $4,000.
No other debt.
Logan county has never defaulted in pay
ment of principal or interest.
Assessed valuation of property for 1898, ovel
$l3,426,37O. Estimated cash value over so,
100000.
Population, census 1890, 1886. Estimated
population In 1899, over $4,000.
BY order Of Logan County Commissioners
9. d. CAMPBELL,
Auditor, Logan County, o.
Aug Is, 99-3t.