BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1900 COXTON The Bedford and Williams gravel road is now complete and has been received. Mr. E. HAXTON, Trustee of Jefferson township, and William RECTOR, of Worthington, one of Fide COX's bondmen, were here and settled up all claims. The rock crusher is being moved to Orange Co. …. T. W. SMITH, wife and little daughter, of Rivervale, were the guests of G. C. SMITH and wife Saturday and Sunday. …. Joseph ANDERSON, of Guthrie, called here on business Monday. …. John P. FOSTER drove to Dark Hollow Wednesday, with a load of fine musk melons. …. Alton NICKLESS, formerly of this place, is now at Newton, Ark. He writes back of the great amount of game and wild deer in that county and claims it is a great place for all that enjoy sport. His brother James will leave here in a short time for that place. …. M. R. BOYD has an unusual large crop of hay this season. On Monday he called several of his neighbors to help him when they discovered that he was acting very queer and was in such an excitable frame of mind that while splitting kindling for a fire he broke the blade of his knife what he had always treasured very highly. When he had built the fire the neighbors discovered a peculiar odor coming from the stove and on investigation they found he had used his old hat to build the fire with. By this time Mr. BOYD had gone to the barn and harness his team by placing the long harness on the short horse and the short harness on the long horse and was whistling like a mocking bird. One of the men appeared on the scene and inquired what the cause was of his unusual excitement. He informed the gentlemen that building fires and such like would soon be a thing of the past with him as a male heir had arrived at his house that day. And that was all the exclamation he thought was necessary. …. Foreman Geo. PURDUE, of this section, has had a large force of men at work all this week, raising the S. I. track east of this station. …. Daniel SOLIDAY, of Worthington, discovered some beautiful flowers in a pond on the Ambrose SEARS farm, which he claims are the Italian lotus blossoms. They are about the size of the magnolia and are very fragrant. He has taken some of the plants home with him to Worthington. …. Reed McGINNIS is spending a week at Elnora, visiting his brother George. …. Fred JESSUP, of Worthington, was here on business last week. …. Dan BEASLEY has been hauling a load of melons to market nearly every day this week. …. S. B. POSTLEWAIT, traveling salesman for the Chicago Portrait Co., is taking quite a number of orders through here for pictures.