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The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Mr.. C. K Cook having taken a
course in pharmacy at the Ada Uni
versity, is employed at the Butler
drug store. and Frank will now have
a chance to straighten up and take a
full breath.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
designations and Appoint
mentS.

At Council meeting, last evening,
Mr.. Edw. X. Campbell was appointed
Sinking Fund Trustee in place of
Mr.. E. J. Howenstine, resigned, and
Capt. J. D. Inskeep, in place of Capt.
7. L. Hutchins, resigned. DR.. J. H.
Wilson resigned from the Board of
Public Safety, and Mr.. ]. E. Miller
was made a member of that body.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

On Sunday, May "a. at go p. M,
Viola Lodge will hold anniversary
services at the A. NJ. E church.
Rev. Mr.. Broils will preach the ser
mon and the lodge of Marysville will
he present.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
EnumerdtOr Reports.

Rev. John Hawker, school enumer-
ator for the Third Ward reports 6s6
persons between the ages of 6 and 2l
years. This is an increase of SO over
last year.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

The Ministers of the city from tie
pulpits of the several churches, asked
the membership to open their homes
to entertain the Baptist Brethren,
who will soon be with us.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
$4,000.
The City Council To
The Rescue!

The City Council at its last meet
ing authorized the selling of bonds to
the amount of s24,O0o-sl2, 900 for
electric light works, and $4,000 for
gas works.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Bath Towels.

A big showing OF bath towels is
made at our linen counter, the 10c
quality shown at SIC; 1211c quality at
10c; the 15c quality at 121lc and the
20c quality for 15c; it is money saving
prices we are naming to you on this
class OF goods. H. M. ASSAT.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
r Claude Chambers,

Mr.. Claude Chambers, brother of
Mrs. J. r. Weller, of DeGrah, is to
be congratulated upon winning first
prize for having submitted the best
design for a catalogue cover for the
Cincinnati Art School, where he is a
student.-DeGraf Journal.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Twenty-Five teachers took the city
examination in Educational Hall Sat
urday-
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

The acream of the conference" held
in Bellefontaine last week was the
talk Thursday evening by Mrs. ID. l..
Williams, of Delaware, the National
Corresponding Secretary.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Tickets For Sale.

Tickets to the Messiah win be on
sale at the Cowman & Fawcett drug
store, at 200 o'clock, Saturday after
noon.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Mr.. Joseph Crawford has greatly
improved the interior of his grocery
by papering, painting and putting in
new shelving.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Corset Covers.

Four styles opened Saturday morn
ing, three at SOC and one at 25c, un-
doubtedly the foremost styles OF the
season; nothing in the market for the
price that equals them. All sizes to-
day in stock. III. NJ. ANNAT.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

A poor excuse is better than none
especially when itcomes to repub-
fishing five columns OF figures, on ac-
count of their muddled condition.
Index please copy.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Talk about the drudgery of house
cleaning, Mr.. Jo- Slower has been
cleaning the streets and ploughing
snow paths for the school children
for over 80 years,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Mr.. Frank COtter has accepted a
position as book-keeper in the 81. N.
Thomas insurance Office over Muir
docks store.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
GETTING Ready for the Brethren.

The Postoffice walls are being
scraped and will be cleaned and
tinted with Alabastine within few
days.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Spring Medicine

There is no other season when good
medicine is SO much needed as in the
Spring.
The blood is impure, weak and
impoverished-a condition indicated
by piinples and other eruptions on the
face and body, by deficient vitality,
loss Of appetite, lack Of strength, and
want Of animation.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

On the hills about PiCkrelltown
there is a good prospect for peaches
and Strawberries
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Delaware will vote next Monday,
on the wet and dry question.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Mr.. E ]. Howenstine has purchased
a fine ssbiken driving wagon that is a
beauty.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

We hope Supt. Alleshouse, Of Belle
Center, may be successful in getting
what he is looking for.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Rummdqe Sale.

Don't forget to bring everything
you can do without, to the Rummage
Sale, Friday and Saturday.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Born, May IL, to Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Green, of Richland township, nine
pound son.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Muslin Drawers,

A case OF % dozen ladies' muslin
drawers with hemstitched cambria
ruttlej an excellent article we'll made
OF good material, priced at 25c open or
closed. III. NJ, ASNAr.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

The coming marriage of DIR. Sidney
Foster to Miss Daisy Farley, of To-
ledo. June 5, has been announced
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Work Begun.

Work was begun yesterday on the
U. B. & N. Electric line, near West
Liberty.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Next Sunday, Union township will
hold S. 5. convention at the Lake
Branch NJ E church in the after
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

The Georgople Candy Kitchen is
one of the prettiest rooms in the
city with its handsomely decorated
electric lights. electric fans, large
mirrors and pretty furniture.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
For Sale,

$1,000 sweet potato plants. VIM.
jackson, near State Bridge.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
AIT Exhibit.

Several grades In the Central
School building are getting ready for
an art exhibit.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

DIR. G. L. Kalb will preach on the
Messiah next Sunday
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
COminQ to BelIefOntdine,

Mr.. Orr, of Huntsville, is reported
to be coming to Bellefontaine with
his mill, and will be interested with
Mr.. I'D Flickenger, of Gallon, Mr..
James Anderson, of Sidney, and
others in a new spoke aud handle
factory to be started in this city,
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
Hoods Jarsdpdriiid
and Pills

Make the blood pure, vigorous and
rich, create appetite, give vitality,
strength and animation, and cure
all eruptions. Have tie whole family
begin to take them today.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has been used in
our family for some time, and always with
good results. Last spring / was all run
down and got bottle Of 1t, and as usual
received great benefit" Miss BEULAH
BoYcE, Stowe, VT.
Hoods SarsaparIIIa promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

The groceries now keep open until
8 o. m.
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19

Sarah Ellen Miller has sued for
divorce from Clinton Dewitt Miller
The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-05-19
LOCAL BREVITIES

Yesterday was Big Four pay day.
The Republican., 1903-06-11

as it is long, and has domed top, as if
the feathered architect knew that the
arch is the strongest possible shape,
the walls are built of twigs, interviewer
firmly and filled in with clay; and so
substantially is the work done that,
when completed, a heavy man may
walk over it without injuring it in the
least. The house is built on a slightly
inclined surface, and the door is
placed at the lower end in order that
the floods of rain which fall in the
country may not pour into the dwell
ing.
The doorway is the smallest opening
possible for the bird to enter, and is
frequently so disguised that it is no
easy matter to discover it, even though
you may have first seen the bird dart
through it.
The outer doorway opens into a
small ante-chamber, which leads
through a small entrance into a larger
room, which in its turn opens by a
doorway into a spacious apartment
raised one step above the floor of the
other chambers and carpeted with soft
leaves and velvety moss. In the last
and choicest apartment the mother
bird lays from three to five snow-white
eggs; and there the little birds first
peep forth from their shells.-St. Mich
o1aC
The Republican., 1903-06-11
CLEVER FOX TERRIER.
He Has Learned So Many Tricks That
He Might Almost BE a Circus
Performer.

In Jamaica, New York, there lives
a very clever little fox terrier dog
who might almost be a circus per-
former, so many tricks has he
learned. But his star performance"
is one in which he shares the honors
with a tiny Maltese kitten. In fact,
1t is really the kitten that is the
star The kitten is dressed in
dolls clothes, and submits with
much grace while the buttons are
fastened and the strings tied. Then
the fox terrier is told to sit up"
which he does, without delay, bal
ancing himself on his launches.
Then the kitten baby is laid in his
"arms, and both keep perfectly still
till the command is given: Kiss the
baby gently"
Then the doggie bends over and
kisses kitty. Kitty does not like this
bit, but she submits with good
grace, only fattening her ears to
show her disapproval.
The minute the kitty baby is un-
dressed he shows her much less gal
lantry, for, with a joyous bark, he
starts to chase her. and the little
bundle of fur leads him a dance all
over the house, stopping now and
then to arch her back and spit at
him furiously.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The Republican., 1903-06-11
GLE GOLF" PLEASES FRANCE
Americas Favorite Game Has Taken
Strong Hold on the Followers
of Fashion There.

lie golf ought soon to have place
in French dictionaries. They have
golf clubs now at Deauville, Dieppe,
Cannes, Compiegne, Biarritz, Versail-
les and st. Germair. The Compiegne,
Versailles and st. Germain ones are
highly fashionable. and will probably
afford members with literary tastes
materials for novels, dealing with
those passions that lead to the di-
vorce court, says writer in London
Truth. Did | say probably? The
French word ''forcement" might be
more suitable. Those high flyers of
fashion cannot always be enthusiastic
about golf. The ladies will try to at
tract attention from the ball to them
selves. They will make the game a
tournament d'elegance so far as they
are concerned.
The Versailles or La Boulie links are
in picturesque outlet Of the PaIatiue
city of La Grand Monarque. pretty
chalet affords shelter on wet days.
around it in fine weather are grouped
chairs, on which tea and cakes-with
l L.
The wide windows of the chalet COM
mand fine vistus. La Boulie is patron
lied by the Rothschild8, the Castel-
lanes, the Labaudys and those young
duchesses who make such rows at the
Pavilion d'Armenonville. The st. Ger
main club has the misnomer of
L'Ermitage, and is just outside the old
royal town where the last English
King of the Stuart line vegetated in
I exile. The links are on the training
ground of NJ. Bussod, who prepared
horses there for the steeplechases. and
| the obstacles it presents must be try
ing to poor players.
Golf is dethroning lawn tennis. That
| game and cricket are now relegateG to
| the bourgeois of third-rate Watering
places, and, in the neighborhood of
! Paris, to those who have villas a AS
nieres and Bois COlombes. The road
to La Boulie on the days of grand
| matches reminds one of that of Hur-
| lingham when the West end went in
for pigeon shooting. Private carria ges.
drags, mail phaetons and stylish trans
| bowl along. Should the weather turn
out badly there is the resource of un
| tour de valse in ''le half of the chalet.
which is really very fine ballroom.
The dancing goes on to the cleaning,
and romantic situations arise.
The Republican., 1903-06-11
OF ONE WHO SANG GLADLY.

He loved the pageant of the spring,
The white cloud-banners of the sky;
He loved to hear the first lark sing,
To watch the golden year drift by.
His glad heart loved the ripping song
OF mountain rills that laughed and
rang,
And of their joy, through bleak days
long,
For all the weary world he sang.
He sang of hope, when hope was low
Within his own poor tired heart;
He sang of joy, and, singing So
Forgot joy had with him no part.
He sang of April when his soul
Was drenched with bleak November
rain;
And though he could not reach his goal
He raised a glad, eXultant strain
Oh, such heart as his, l know,
Now that the worlds wild stress is DER,
Now that the cold and bitter snow
No longer wraps his young souls door,
Sings through an everlasting spring
An April paean, loud and clear,
And all the birds of summer bring
Some echo of his glad voice here,
Charles Hanson Towne, in Youths s
Companion.
The Republican., 1903-06-11

put the contraption in the church Just
to test it, Along about the third hime
tune the sexton d pull lever back of
the pulpit. and in front of every body
in the congregation a little plate d
shoot out 1t would hit the children on
the head and the fat people in the stom-
achs, but she'd stay out till you put
coin in the slot You'd hear the nickels
go rattlin' down the trough. and then
the plate d fold back like something
human. 1t called attention to the tight
members and those what was asleep.
1t made Mcintosh so unpopular he had
to git out of town.
'Well, he called a bunch of us what
was anxious to see the country open up
livlier into his office one mornin>. The
dav after the conference we druv out of
town in a covered wagon. We went
bout a hundred and fifty miles, or
maybe sixty, west of New Athens, into
the country where they tell the story
bout the ranchman haulin' water.
When he was asked how far he had TO
pack it he said. Seven miles
why, good Lord man, says the
other feller, why don't you dig Well"
"'Whut's the use,' he answers, it's
jest as fur one way as the other!'
"McIntosh kept consultin' map and
finally he reckoned we'd gone far
enough. So we pitched camp and the
next mornin' proceeded to business.
'''The fust thing is to hold an cleo
ton says Mac.
The Republican., 1903-06-11
PROTECTING THE BIRDS.
Preventing Rnvages ON the
SOnEsters.

The protection of birds has been
carried so far in England that fruit
growers and farmers are complaining
bitterly of the ravages of thrushes.
blackbirds and bullfnches. These
winged beauties work great mischief
in gardens and orchards, says the New
York Tribune.
American readers of British books
recall with pleasure vivid descriptions
of the diversion of shooting young
rocks in the early spring with short.
range, small-bore rifles, and of the
succulence of the young rook pies
cooked by experts. But it now appears
that the English rocks have not been
thinned out with sufficient thorough
ness, and these birds do harm to va
rious farm crops.
East of the Mississippi in most of the
states north of the Potomac and the
Ohio the protection of birds of every
kind has been much underdone We
have no rocks or ravens here, but it is
certain we don't protect our winged
friends as we ought to protect them
The Republican., 1903-06-11

boxing appeared
- % o
nol a
gaow the picture shows The human be made
of his WIRE the of which
a
a ongf
a
$ in
andru handkerchief or a OF
The
violently repeed blow
1t amusing payhng and make the Brooklyn
fore the perfectly
The Republican., 1903-06-11
FEATHERED ARCHITECT.
Clever Little Hammerhead Builds
Regular Apartment House in
WiIds of Africa.

a great many other birds build very
elaborate nests or houses, but none
seem to have acted with quite the same
modern architectural spirit is the
hammerhead. Most birds, too, are con-
tent with providing warmth and shell
ter for their little ones, without hav-
ing any care for themselves; but our
bird seems much more civilized than
that. 1t is not a very large bird-not
more than - inches in length; yet it
builds a house nearly ten feet long
and lays it out in rooms!
1t selects a sheltered ledge of rock
when possible. sometimes choosing a
spot almost inaccessible to man, but
sometimes building also on the open
plain. The structure is half as wide
The Republican., 1903-06-11
AUTOMATIC MOUSE TRAP.

ness as the cat was wont to exercise
in former times. We show herewith
the latest idea in the trap line, which
comes to us all the way from Cape
Colony. This device is to be suspended
from the pantry shelf, and has an open
ing leading across what looks to be a
perfectly safe path to the bait inside
the cage. But woe to the mouse or
rat which attempts to reach that bait.
for the path turns out to be a fitting
platform, which at the proper moment
swings on its pivOts, releases itself,
tank beneath. The picture shows the
trap doing its cruel work.-Milwaukee
Sentinel
The Republican., 1903-06-11
COLOR ADO.
Summer Tourists Low Rates.

Western lines are now announcing special
low rates to Colorado points for the summer
months. This presents fine opportunity
for visiting a picturesque and interesting
section of the United States. The trip will
afford a realization of the wonderful
progress of the West in its commercial de-
velopment and particularly in its railway
service.
1t was no longer ago than in the strenuous
days of 81 that Colorado was first made a
territory and its capital city named for Gen.
j. W. Denver, a Kansas Governor 1t was
not until 1870 that the first Chicago, Union
Pacific & Northwestern Line train entered
the city, and six, years later, in' the year of
the Centennial Exposition, that Colorado
was admitted to the Union.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway
announces summer tourist rate of $4,000
for the round trip from Chicago to Colorado
points, and similarly low rates from all
points East.
The Union Pacific and Chicago & North
Western Railways maintain double daily
train service between Chicago and Denver,
only one night en- route from Chicago and
the Central States and two nights from the
Atlantic seaboard. The trains are equipped
with buffet. smoking and library cars. Pull
man drawingroom sleeping cars and free.
reclining chair cars. Dining cars, meals
la carte. The best of everything
The Republican., 1903-06-11
HAS A GHOUL-PRooF TOMB.
Body of Pennsylvania Man In cas- e d
in a steel ShrOud That
Has Lock.

The body of John N. Pursel, of VIII
Transport, Pa, lies intombed in
'ghouI-proof" vault which he himself
designed and built two years ago, says
the Philadelphia North American.
For 30 years this man had been
haunted by an ever-present dread of
premature burial. Latterly there had
been added to this a horror at the
thought of grave robbers and the
desecration of the tomb.
He read over and over again the
ghastly tales of Edgar Allen Poe that
dealt with this grewsome subject.
Accounts in the daily papers of body
snatching," such as recently Mortified
the citizens of Indiana, when the re-
mains of many young women were TAX
en- from the cemeteries to be sold for
dissection, seemed to fascinate him.
In his conversation he dwelt continu-
ously upon such dreadful themes.
But it was not in talk and appre-
hension alone that Pursels dread eX-
pressed itself. He set his inventive
mind to work devising some practical
means whereby his tomb might be rem
dered inviolate and the danger of
sutfOcation in his coffin be minimized.
And at last he devised most perfect
apparatus for the reception of his own
body and those of the four relatives
nearest to him in kinship.
The vault stands in Grandview ceme-
terry; its front of solid masonry care
fully laid up and cemented. 1t juts out
prominently from the hillside, which
rises up behind it crowned with forest
trees that look tall against the sky
line. The five receptaces for the dead
are in a row about three feet above
the ground. each having an opening
some two feet in diameter. These COM
partments are lined with solid plates
of cast iron and each extends back
nine feet into the hillside. Iron pipes,
which terminate in a central venti-
lator above, run from each of the com
| partments, insuring ventilation. Any
moisture that might in the course of
| time accumulate upon the metal is
carried off by carefully planned sys-
| tenn of drainage pipes.
Instead of coffin, Mr.. Pursels body
was wrapped in metal shroud-re-
posing upon a mattress and pillow.
/ The air circulating through the com
partment is not excluded by it, and
/ should the occupant after burial re-
turn to life it would allow perfect free
dom to the members of his body.
Mr.. PurcePs body was placed in the
central compartment. 1t was the work
of a few moments to apply the steel
head to the vault and bolt ana seal it
so that it could not be removed by any
normal force.
This head is circular. and is in two
sections one within the other. The
inner part is fastened to the outer by
means of a combination lock, which
is not visible from the outside.
Should the inmate revive he could, by
turning the knob which works the
combination, loosen the inner part
from the outer and gain his freedom at
once
A few years ago Purcell visited a
crematory and would fave arranged
for the burning of his body after
death, but his wife and family OBJ
iected. Then he conceived this novel
tomb, which. with the aid of his son
Thomas he afterwards built.
Purcell was rs years old when he
died of apoplexy after the third
stroke.
The Republican., 1903-06-11
LATEST MOUSE TRAP.
Any Boy Can Construct One and
Thereby Leave the Old Family
Cat without Occupation.

Years ago cats had value all their
own, according to their ability to rid a
house or barn of the rats and mice
which infested these buildings, but
with the introduction of the automatic
trap, the felines may possibly have
been the authors of the exclamation
recently attributed to the horse when
the automobile made its appearance:
MY occupation is gone!' However,
the cats still have the consolation of
being retained as pets. with an occa
sional mouse as a secondary considera-
ton. The trap has come to stay, and
goes on dealing out death to the rodents
with as much regularity and faithful