The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-30
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please give me space | will try 10
interest some readers a little bit. As
% farming people are commencing
TO stir the dirt in places. Some
oats is being put IN n fast as can
be done, and some potatoes have
been PLANTED, and some other work
is being done in the way OF rebuild
ing the Ham. IL has the second
store open again, and this will make
things move more lively. There are
some good business men up here.
Last week Clapp and Morgan put in
some eight wagon loads of goods,
and have more to come yet.
Now as a new beginner | hardly
know how 10 commence our epistle.
Since Nick has wrote such "A nice
piece don't expect to get up the
excitement this man has. | have
not got the brain that he has, MOI |
can't touch bottom no place. But
II will do as well as | can. He SAYS
to G.. o. p. friends did YOU see
what our Democratic friends did in
their Convention; they picked their
Hickory Pole right at the roots of
one OF the best old yaller poplars in
Columbia Tp." Jesus Christ have
mercy, Can this ne so? If it is
God pity the rest of the human
family. beg t. differ with you
Nick, there. Why his wife says,
nov Frank Vii 60 out and lose an
other Who'll cop to get his dirty
Bill out OF another dirty scrape. IL
lid before, and he will now. She
says there are people that are old
e. than Nix or |. either, that con
.lcok back some years and see
where Nick Is wild in rating this
man with as nice a man as Net has
always been. God forbid, this
won't do. | have been at Nets
home in time past, anl never saw
his wife have on the suspenders
nary time. She is a lice oma
Frank can't get trere; uncle Ben
"a, : that he will upset this, and he
can do il, and as to this Hickory
pole that we picked out, the is
Just no question "a TO his character
at all. He attends to his own buSi-
ness. and j. not mixed in no calico
scrapes, nor going into nobody's
smoke house bnt his own, and i
not charged with using dirt any way.
H. will get there, too, Joe says.
That is what we want to see, and
we Just hear that poor Sucky is
coming ont against Willard for as
SCISSOR. Well, he j. ''out' to stay
out" We know him from away
back. The moss back Democrats,
a. they are called by soma, will get
there. We think We will help that
way any how. HANNIBAL.
4 number of years back, when
Robert G llgsrsoll wa practicing
lay in Peoria, he committed the in
discretion Of offering some gratui-
tous advice TO Judge P,iterbaugh in
the case OF a person standing in con
tempt of coust. The Judge sad
that when he had need Of counsel
he would send for the gentleman.
~ingersoll responded W tn an intima-
ton taat when his honor was fish
ing for the ermine'' he had not
manifested 80 much distrust of the
opinions of his friends. To this
the answer Of the Judge was an or
der Of the Clerk to enter a fine of
$40 against Mr.. lngersoll for con-
of court. Ingersoll %investi
gated his pocket a moment, then
walked up to the bar with out
stretched hand and said. .'Puter-
baugh, lend me $10," The stern
expression of the court never relax
ed for an instant. Turning to the
he said: "Mr. Clerk, let the
record show that Mr.. Ingersoll's
fine is RENTED. Peoria county can
better afford to lose SO than | cam
It's a regular summer day picnic
to revel IN the bargains and de-
molishing prices offered by The
COURIER advertisers.
r15~The way to wealth is as plain
as the way to the corner grocery.
Have the things to sell and adver-
a. Ill