BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL DECEMBER 19, 1902 The little three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Huff, is quite ill. High-class furniture at just prices at Hamer & Day's. Mrs. John S. William came over from Mitchell Saturday forenoon. Monon engine, 216, of the south end, is in the round house at Lafayette for repairs. The rivulet of bargains in holiday furniture flows steadily on at Hamer & Day's. John Beaslely, the Buddha merchant, was transacting business in this city, Thursday. John Short, who lives on 14th and O streets, is suffering from the effects of a fall on the ice. You will find in Hamer & Day's furniture that indefinable and indispensable thing called style. The finest line of furniture of all descriptions ever brought to Bedford at Hodge & Ferguson's. The W.S. Richey Co., has sold the J.C.. McKinney grocery store on the north side of the square to M.F. Allen, the dairy man, who will continue the business in the same location. See the new pictures in Hodge & Ferguson's window. The Acme Bedford Stone Company has closed a contract for furnishing the stone for a large building in Washington City, amounting to about $12,000 to be completed by March 15th, 1903. The First Christian Church has arranged for a Watch night meeting on the evening of Wednesday, DEC. 31st. There will be a roll call and reception and reports from the different societies. There will also be a program of entertainment. Every member is cordially invited to be present. Express officials say indications hat the companier will do a much larger bus9ness during the coming holidays than ever before and are suggesting to the public that their Christmas packages be forward in time to reach destination about one week before Christmas, and that they bear a label, which the company supplies, reading, "Do not open until Christmas". The congregation of the M.E. church at Ellettsville undertook to build a new church to cost $10,000, and to which Mrs. Emily Elrod contributed $5,000. A canvass among the members and citizens only realized $1,000. which the congregation will try to raise during here absence. Barb Lee