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ALL COONS LOOK ALIKE, The O. . $. Cake Walk a Bril liant Black Face Affair. Last Thursday night the song tooked for a stern Star cake walk was given at the armory in this city. It was at tended by one of the largest crowds ever gathered at a local entertainment and fun reigned supreme from start to fin ish. The walkers were all in costume and with faces as blacks as any coon. A large cake was the feature to be con tested for and when the walk started the spectators were given an exhibition that was better than any minstrel show. Eighteen couple went after that cake and the way they stepped it off would have put a genuine Georgia darkey clear in the background. The judges finally decided that Dy, Frank Luke and Miss Bessie Hunter were entitled to first prize, and Joe Nelson and Mrs. Nelle Adkins to the second. The walk was a success financially, the Indies taking in about $82. Socially it was more than a success. Every par ticipant exerted himself to the utmost to walk comically and make fun and they kept it up all evening. White shirts, colored shirts, working shirts and dress shirts in endless variety at Loeb’s stores. Wreck on the Big Four. Indianapolis, March 88 —A Big Four train on the Peoria Eastern division which left here last night, is in a wash out near Laura, Ohio. The engine went through a bridge, but the train is snfe. ‘The engineer, J. ‘I. Dwyer, of this city, had his leg broken and was thrown into the torrent, being carried down stream three hundred yards, where he lodged in acres. J.T. Fink, of this city, the fireman, was scalded and his feet crushed. Conductor Nice wander waded through a half mile of water to the telegraph station in time to stop an incoming freight. Surprised. The 16th inst being the 64th anniver sary of the birth of Mrs. Mary d. Barnes her friends thought it would be the proper thing to give the good old lady a surprise supper on the evening of sami day. A bountiful supply of dainties and luxuries was prepared and at theappointed hour the crowd wended its way to Mrs. B’s residence and en tered the parlor without being discovn ed. In a short time Mrs. Barnes en tered the parlor in search of some arti cle and was rendered speechless at sight of the crowd. However, she soon realized what it all meant and entered into the sprint of the affair with a right good wit. She was presented with a nice dress pattern as a memento of the occasion, by the surprisers, who enjoy ed the affair very much. Birth. Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Walker, on Friday afternoon fast, at 4:00 o’clock, March 15, 1898, a still-born boy baby. The little one did not live to see the light of this sinful world, but opened them in the beautiful city, the home of its Saviour, who kindly bid it welcome and gave it an everlasting home among those free from sin and taint of earth. To the Mad Stone, Mrs. Rosetta Clark, of Stone Bluff, took her little daughter to the mad stone in West Lafayette last Monday. Last week the child went to the residence of W. W. Luke, and do not notice a dog which was lying on the front porch. She had no sooner stepped on the porch, than the dog attacked her and bit her severe ly on the leg, his teeth penetrating to the bone. The dog was not considered mad, but Mrs. Clark desired to try the mad stone and thereby relieve the anx iety which might be with them con tinually. The child was seriously in jured by the brute. Wedding in Shawnee. A very pleasant wedding took place Wednesday eveningC at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George Foster in Shawnee township. The contracting parties were L. ‘l’. Vanester, of Kansas City, and Miss Elizabeth Reet. The wed ding ceremony was performed by Rev. Preston, of Newtown. After the cere mony a fine supper was served. The bride is well known in Shawnee town ship, and has been a member of the Foster household for a number of years. ‘The groom is employed in a bank in Kansas City, and is highly re garded. ‘They will have the best wish es of a host of friends.
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Covington Republican
Covington, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1898
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