The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-03

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II see you brought supply of coal with
you." remarked a facetious friend of
Charles Mccullough the latter jerked
coal cinder out of his eye. Mack as he
sued to be known here, came to town yes
terday fresh from the coal fields of Brazil.
During the last State campaign McCul-
Tough was one of the confidential clerks at
Democratic committee headquarters. He
has now retired from active politics and is
performing the function of probation officer
for the juvenile court at Brazil. II believe"
said he yesterday, that next winter will
see coal up to higher price than 1t was
last winter. Our miners are working hard
to fill the demand now. The records of the
coal mined during July in our county shows
the biggest output of any previous July.
You see there's a shortage on account of
the famine last winter, and then the fact
that gas is failing causes operators to be-
lieve there will be big demand this winter.
The result is the miners working hard.
getting paid pretty well and Brazil is on
business boom.
And by the way" continued McCul-
Tough, applying handkerchief to the eye
that had SO recently held cinder. 1.-The
name Clay attached TO our county is no
miSnomer. We have in and around Brazil
seven big clay establishments that are
prosperous. We get the best of clay in our
county and we have the machinery to work
it up
'Pve been up in my old county looking
over some Of the scenes Of my boyhood,"
remarked an Indianapolis man who has just
returned from two weeks vacation. 1T
seemed mighty good to be up in old Jasper
county again, where used to plow corn and
fight rattlesnakes twenty-five or thirty
years ago. But the rattlesnake feature has
been almost eliminated. They are blowing
corn to beat the band, though, and are get
ting more land under cultivation every year.
Drainage has done the work for Jasper
county. drove out from Francisville along
the Rensselaer, road and saw prairie land
that used to sell for $40 and SIS an acre when
l lived there. Now 1t goes readily at SIS.
Over north of my fathers farm, about ten
miles east of Rensselaer,, there used to be
a tract of several thousand acres that was
called the Big Marsh 1t was under water
most of the time, and was full of rattle
snakes and turtles, and in the spring and
fall was fine hunting ground for sports
men, who went after ducks and geese. But
it's different now The Clifford Railroad
runs through it, and there are cOrnfields
and meadows on each side of the railroad.
An Illinois capitalist named Clifford bought
about thirty thousand acres of this land,
paying from cents to $50 an acre for it. He
has drained the most of 1t, and has built
railroad through it to the Kankakee river,
with the ultimate intention OF running into
Chicago. He has laid off this land into
farms, and rents the ground to tenants He
has built little railway stations here and
there in the marsh, and has constructed i'm
mense corn cribs at these stations. He's go
ing to either win or lose big, and most people
think he will win. Anyway, he has done
wonders in Kidding Jasper county of the
big marsh. "
Were soon goin' to have things like
them," observed Charlottesville man who
stood with his hands in his pockets at
Washington and Illinois streets and
watched yellow trolley car whirl around
the curve. He had come over on the Sun
day excursion and was taking in things
at this particular corner. "You see," he
continued, we've been having a lot of
trouble over there about which street car
company we'd let In first, but now things
have settled down and one Of the compa-
MES has built about mile of track Its
the sensation of the day with US. The peo-
pie love to stand and watch them laying
rails In the main street of the town. The
sound of the hammer pounding in the
spikes is music to our 1t has been
one of the dreams Of the average Craw-
louisville mans life to see yellow street
car in his own town and now that the
dreams about to be realized we're terribly
tickled. 1t is unfortunate, though, that the
line will not be done before our county fair.
for that's another thing we're proud Of
We have our fair in September and l guess
the cars won't be running till November
Well be as proud of the line as a boy
with a pair of red topped boots
XXX
The Night Owls Club held session on
the street corner while the members were
waiting for their cars, and the conversation
turned to things lost and found One of
the queer incidents brought out was that
of an Indianapolis woman who visited in
Anderson last winter and lost her pocket
book. containing a small sum of money and
her visiting cards. Efforts to find il were
unavailing and she returned to this city
and soon dismissed the matter from her
mind. Within a past week she received
an, stating that If she would call at GER
tain store and ask for the writer of the
card she could recover the purse. She went
TO the store and recovered pocketbook and
money. The young woman had been Wis
iting in Anderson at the same time and
Indianapolis woman she brought it home
with her. but forgot for months to notify
the loser.
One member of the club came in for some
mild chatting at this point by those who
knew the details of a story and finally
those who did not. He went into a saloon
with some friends, not long ago. and had
with him an unopened salary envelope.
He took the latter from his pocket to pay
BILL but laid il on the table beside which
which he sitting while he turned
around to respond to a greeting. When he
turned back, a minute later, the envelope
was gone No one had seen IL depart, and
neither envelope nor money was recovered.