The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-09-25

! ouu W.T. Cu0IHlS, VI near IOItoIB
vile, visited Of Mr.. 4. s. Hobbs
last Monday and did some shop
ping in town.
DR.. Travlor and wife, and Ore
Cassidy and wife visited the Hunt
iugburg fair last week.
Bro. Estell and family have gone
10 Chattanooga, Tenn. to visit
friends for a few days. 1t was
their former home.
Quite q number OF people from
here attended the big revival meet
ing at New Lebanon Sunday.
Aunt Sophia Greene, an old and
we'll respected lady west Of here,
died last Monday morning; funeral
Tuesday at Hillsboro. She was the
mother Of ex-trustee Thomas H..
Greene.
James, Frank and Harry Black.
well, who work in St. Louis, are
here visiting their mother, Mrs.
Amanda Blackwell, and many
friends.
Ham Glezen, the horse Jockey,
who talked too much before the
races, was sick last Sunday. Some
said he had "Pacer's fever" others
that he had "Jockies colic," but
some others, who ought to have
known, said that Ham went so fast
in the races that the suction became
so great that he turned himself part
ly inside out, and that be was at
home trying to get himself in ehape
again.
Roy Hardin and Ralph Stewart
would have bten the champion
"dollar pitchers" last Sunday i
Phillip Steinhart hadn't .busted'
up the game.
i Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Sor
guis, q nice little girl. Isaac il
getting along as well as might be
Expected.
| DR.. McMahan, of Huntingburg
passed through town Sunday, and
stopped long enough to drop . let
ter in the slot in the door Of tn,
Post Office. We don't know JUS
what the learned Doctor said when
he heard the letter hit the floor, bu
hs doubtless enjoyed thinking that
his letter would wallow around OF
1.-THE Post office floor all day in the
,, dirt and filth.
Mrs. Emma Hardin has decided
to sell large portion Of her person
! al property al public auction befor,
leaving for Princeton. The dat,
Of sale will be given later.
If anybody wants to know VIII
+, writes these items they can find on
/, by asking Eddie Anderson, Post
: master Stewart or Ham Glezen.
Wild-woolly-windy- Pete, Of Hills
! boro Hollow, who attempted sons
/, weeks ago to drown himself in tw'
,, inches Of water because Hog Ely,
. Gle zen, Smokey Johnson, and thei
! Get, beat Pete and bis crowd sing
ling, was in town Sunday telling til,
boys who the Courier correspond.
ent was, and how he could have
taken bis high stepping, wind shak
en-, buggy plug bay and beaten
everything at the fair. But Wild.
woolly -windy-Pete has more noise
than money, 90 the sports say, and
We think they are right.
i My, oh myl how Charley did
!cry when Reasonable B. hit him In
the eye, and my, oh my! Iron Mill
did strut, because Reese threw that
green walnut.
/ Tom Houghland is in v~ry poor
health again and is confined to his
room at the Hardin house q good
portion Of the time. We wish him
. speedy recovery.
i Your Uncle Billy went to the
Fair last week, and took in all the
sights, from the Wild West Show,
down to the marshal. We rode on
the merry 60 round with the young
folks; and drank "red lemonade"
and "orange CIDER" golly! but it
il was good. We saw
Buster Jerry" and his motley
crew, old buck, young buck, little
lamb and eve. We saw
The man with the long tailed
coat, his kid. his mare, and his big
red shoat. We saw
Deacon Cooper, and Topsy c.,
the Cyclone driver and Cook Cass.
idee. We saw
O. G. Brittain's beautiful iron
gray get knocked out by Glenn
Doane's little bay. We saw
Dog killer Myers give 'em .
jolt with his fiea-bitten gray and his
cream coloied colt. We saw
Black John Morgan, still on the
Drag, with his big black jack and
iron gay nag. But Of all the fun
ny things we ever did see was Rea-
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