Sumner Press, The (Newspaper) - August 16, 1900, Sumner, Illinois HEAR IF PAID IN ADVANCE IUI A YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE uhf A BLUE MARK t wilt l ONE on T H SEED Publisher SUMMER ILLINOIS THURSDAY Cm IB 1900 VOL XXV NO TICKET For Vice THEO Y W A NORTHCOTT years ago in a speech nl Maryland page in Bryan's book The First Batile and see tbat we have quoted July 31 HWO T H some of the boys of Kroni Our I I PERSONAL Concerning People VKo Come and g mm BARNES HOWES mm g For Lieut JAMES A ROME O Kor Slate Auditor JAS s MCCl H J Yor B A For For of H C AN For For Circuit Clark E O For State's For Corone DR Kor Surveyor C E If we win this fight now will begin at once if we are defeated in this campaign there IB nothing before the but four years more of harder times and greater agitation and then tbe victory will come Oni opponents say they to restore confidence bnt the Republican parly cannot prosperity in ill IB as long THE Republicans will open their in state September 1st with meetings in ever iu the state THE Populists are preparing to notify Bryan at Topeka Kansas by their party president August 23 the day pet for the emony DEATH is BO respecter of persons Great riches does uot prevent it C P the died suddenly of heart disease Monday night at his summer home in the mountains New York years ago in bis cation speech mid that question is settled all other are insignificant The other dar at Indianapolis the silver question was left tte was certainly wrong in 1896 or 1900 iu his speech at IndianApolis said trusts were the logical result of our hateful tariff laws How about the ice in NBW Vori City in leading Democratic of thai city hold stock? Doubling the price of ice cannot be laid allied agreed that Vua that prosperity is doled out to as by foreigners who profit by our distress business bad 1 warn them business cannot be improved by following out the financial policy which has brought business to Its ent I Is it not possible tbat a man who would be so mi taken in bis predictions about harder times coming might also be mistaken about imperialism being the paramount his notification apolis Wednesday of last week W J against imperialism said that our republic is now to become a world power In tbe highest the Declaration of has bee a in all its past a world power In the sense used by imperialists the expression is one of terrible cance It necessitates the methods and equipments of monarchies It means the creation and by our republic of standing armies equal to those of tbe world powers of At no less coat can we hold place as a world power study existing in European nations and know what all this to na It means ation to the of despair as has been truly said that every some interesting letters perhaps some oi tbe PRESS readers would be interested a letter from Cuba After my enlistment at Vincennes Ind together with Kent Beavers ami Guv who enlisted with me we were sent to O and ing there two weeks were sent to New Go Who Visit Are I Being Visited Mrs Harry Koach visited j friends Sunday Mrs Oscar Fyffe caine from Friday on a visit Clearing Sale where we joined tbe 10th Infantry stationed at Matanzas We remained there for four moths to straight guard waa very easy as the Cubans are fast ing the good features of being pendent citizens After the elections in June which were very anJ well conducted we were tn relieve Infantry then stationed at this place We barked on U S Transport line and arrived here tbe 20th of Two companies of battalion nre equipped as cavalry as mounted troops are necessary for patrol duty and as the poet is sis miles from Santiago there is a call for mounted troops Co tJ to we belong and Co tbe favored companies so although we belong to the infantry we get cavalry life The quarters are built the highest Morro hill and m Castle the guard fort of Santiago Harbor A few hundred feet from the castle is the old wreck of tbe Merrimac sunk by Lieut Hobson just before the capture of fleet by Admiral Some very interesting places are near ns among them being tbe cell in which was heW a prisoner San 1 nan where the hardest fight around Santiago was fought and the mil fortified atiri showing traces of that memorable struggle of otd America in her just in- for the freedom of an nation Tbe Cubans they hawe soma odd customs are fast becoming his back be goes To hundred school from All teaches tbat the cornerstone of imperialism is the of a parts of the island have at the expense of Uncle a fnr been sent to the who is Germany's greatest general have the supreme command of tbe troops iu China The Marshal is still in and it is to be hoped the trouble will be over before can reach THE allied armies continue their in and are now over half the distance from Tien Sieo So far the Chinese are not ipt conscription laws under which every able-bodied man is compelled o serve in regular army from the time he is to 25 yeara of age and one month in the year for years longer and to be subject to call of for 15 years but in ica we have no laws nor is The hul is much cooler hy the winds from the sea 1 trout Morro hill in beatr in tbe To tbe south is the Hea while to all other points is a background of and mountains covered with a shrubby undergrowth presenting and in the glare of the tropical son Fruits are very plentiful and of resistance At last ad- vices ministers were still alive When they remove from Pekin all native Christians must also do so To certainly invites destruction any one proposing U enact such laws Furthermore should ome be fool UNTIL within recent years when a large loan was wanted for government municipality or railroad corporation it was customary an agent to either England or Holland to negotiate the loan Last week ibe English wanting a loan of dollars one-half of taken in this country the other half at home in land Verily changing So FAR as taken the census shows no great increase of population in many places a decrease where there in the district enumerated Tbe cause for this may be found in the fact that saving machinery among the farmers is on tbe thesa to run their farms with less help throws more people into the towns to do one of two things would would either saeet with violence or else would be com palled to leave the Such talk frein a candidate for chief magistrate of this country is silly and will repel Instead of attract people who think for He in his long speech at Mr Bryan said not a word about silver He may touch upon that hereafter if he doesn't get scared too bad He ex- plains iie was compelled to touch up the paramount issue first His position recalls a story told lately in connection with the political situation in Kentucky A colored man was going home with a huge turtle hanging over hu shoulder A who was by the side exercised his powers the tle carrier heard from the snapping of bis burden the singular query I do cot think the troops will remain here long and we are all only waiting for a chance to follow the other boys into the east Yours verv respectfully Charter of A F ft A K A VERV bad accident on tbe Four R R Monday a freight train going through tbe bridge over Cache near City Every man train was killed or badly hurt AM live in Mt Kim Whalen was killed outright while Conductor John Engineer Grant and Fred Arnold brakeman were badly bruised and jared Froelke being tbe least hart of the Tm legislative tion in the 43rd district wt split over the business each faction nominating a candidate If the to over which is the party's head cook Cullom or Tanner they might as make up their minds the Mxt will be Democratic are any number of men in the party who will make just as good senators as either of them For onr part we think the party should ignore both and when the legislature meets choose some one else for senator Congressman Mitt Hopkins or Cannon with ot others would make just creditable The party stop fassing if they to win IP n prent IM i jf how can he reconcile the of our country to-day with the following prediction made by Mr Bryan four Whah you takin me He turned in surprise bnt discovered ing Again tbe turtle said Whab you takin and again the colored man looked at the turtle ia wonderment The third time the question and no he was scared He dropped tbe turtle and said in 1 I don trapped Can jt be that Bryan has Tribune There to Be Clob The death of b K Knox at Eureka Springs Ark Monday caused some talk as to who were the Charier bers The charter of Lodge was issue October 3rd Ira W Buck wac grand master and H G secretary The names in order they appear in tht charter Wro K Hite Banel Skillman Judy Joseph Evans S K Hea ry Boon Isaac Evans James Irwin John W French M Wright Wm 8 Hue waa appointed the first master Banel Hill senior warden and Judy junior den Of the eleven charter members named bnt one we are informed is now Hill a worthy resident of Lukin town The early middles of the lodge are oat but we learn that Caleb Hoopes John Irwin J C Judy and David were also charter mem be re whose names are not on the tei Of these all are alive except Jot Irwin is desire of those who voted for nor of Illinois Ho 1800 a Yates Veteran ill be a meeting held for that purpose at 1 00 o'clock p in Aug 24 or Friday the third tbe in tbe county court room at Lawrenceville who cannul in requested to tend in his name for membership By order of the Yatee committee A meeting will be held in tbe ic ball Friday 24 1900 for the purpose of organizing a Re- publican dob for the campaign A cordial is extended to all of Christy township and thoM support tbe lican principles in tbe coining J I In the At the beginning of week of the normal at after the members of tbe class in penmanship had written specimens of best writing they were informed tbat at the close of the term the specimens of the six making the greatest improvement during the term would be placed on exhibition in the cut's office After a careful examination of tbe first and last specimens written it was decided by Hostel tier and Meen dome by Sprinkle and McCleave that the est improvement had been the following and in the order in which the names Alva Moore N O Catterton W J Wiswall V Watts Mont and Bessie Jones Any one wishing to see what im- provement can lie made in writing in four weeks by industrious who are crowded with other work examine tbe prepared by the above named ladins and It i i ion ol i i o 1 11 1 1 ci well It j ill hold in 50 and sizes For sale by ail Erama A was born December 17 1870 at ty III married to March To u ion were born two irR and lie M K in- r waf IB f lit n mid 1 i- mil four ters tun brothers many to mourn her loan Interment at John Burgart made a business trip to Olney Wednesday Alex Baird made a business trip to Mrs C A Finch went to lola Friday to visit Mrs Delia of- Bridgeport was visiting here Clarence Petty visited Noble friends from Thursday to Saturday Tuell of Wabash came on a Dick Manley of Mt Carmel Mrs Julia McClure Combs visited Bridgeport ana Tuesday Reductions i that will do you good to investigate S Shirt Waists went to Keens burg IP visit of Miss Flu Combs over Sunday J H Jones and daughter Miss Eva were in Lawrenceville yesterday Kd C Wilson of Olney visited mer friends Sunday and Monday Miss Kate Clark went to Albion day to attend the teacher's institute Mamie of Olney is iting Misses Cora and C C Boyer and wife of stopped here to visit relatives Jacob Kronmiller returned Sunday from a visit with his daughter at Clay City f e New Friday J M Claremont waa Mrs Redman at Saturday Monday jr came Friday night from Indiana on a short visit with his parents Jennie of Kingfisher Ok is her Uncle David Sanders Mies Koach e Our Entire Line of Ladies Shirt Waists Regular price Waists reduced to it i f u 91.00 1.50 91.00 2.00 1.50 W FIBS Beits Sickles Pins SMrt Waist Sets Lues Ribbons Silk Mitts Vests ffi Wash i goods stripes and fancy dots Piques regular goods reduced to 100 Pairs Ladies Oxford Ties and Slippers ia tans and blacks regular and reduced to BOc and TOO Pairs in tens and blacks regular 91.00 and 91.25 reduced to and of ia bef upending Miss Belle Waller with Mrs Wm Anderson of Landes went to cennes Mrs T M Stevens visited her brother S B Jones at the Olney Thursday Mate Sheridan was called from Tuesday by the illness of his father Sheridan Mrs Oscar Baird went to ville Tuesday to viait the family of faer uncle Whitaker worth more than we are asking at and fv Plaid Ginghams and Apron Checks at yard Striped and Flaid at Oc yd and twist Staple Groceries Stoneware Fruit Jars and Salt at Lowest Prices CASH PRICE FOR PRODUCE Vincent Dobbins A B Carrer aad John Ackley went to yester- day to attend tbe reunion Glen May stopped off here while from Eaat St Lows to New York on a business trip Misses list a Jones and Ethel Carter went to Sunday for an extended visit with relatives and Mrs C H Fearhiley of Mt Carmel came Thursday to visit her mother Mrs Jas in Petty town Mrs day from a visit with her sister Mrs T C in Mrs Margaret came from Ohio Tuesday and we are in- formed will resume her residence here Pence came home frowt St Louis Sunday having got hart ally He remain until able to work Mrs P Groves and son Cooper Graves went to Evansville day to visit her daughter Mrs lit Oakley Ed and son Glen of were here Thursday prospecting so we are informed with a view ol ing a honne here Mrs Snodgrass wild her sisters who nre visiting bor Mrs W Jeffera and Mrs of Ohio all went to Clay City Monday to visit Mm Mrs Paol Sheridan who has been visiting ner granddaughter at tnc home son Mate ia called home Monday by tbe serious illness of her husband J H Burnside wife and babe re- turned to their home at 3218 ery street St Louis and Uke sensible gave a special ion to to visit them Thursday for the next year M- 4 YOU'LL MAKE NO MISTAKE H it's wagon that delivers your We are always careful to see that quality is in our The next consideration is That's always right too H At County Soldiers onion last JM soldiers regIstered 84 being at Spanish War beini Co G Ilia er and j It Hn AH T oil I r ri p p FURNITURE When you Furniture von want that be ii durable and ornamental That's the kind you always gor The Souia Sit 2 Ft I nnp rni e T I Comf iet r o very it I- tin r i -ant n fine finish they se the honsp occupy ot the space of the oh tyle A h Bedsteads Cm Pi n Coffino -I r t p nirf ri fin I bet half of Hend for OT 91 bottle U any
