BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL DECEMBER 26, 1902 Bob Wicker returned Friday p.m. from Ft. Ritner, where he had been visiting his uncles, and shooting quail. e says the high water has driven most of the birds into the timber. The Southern Indiana railroad has about finished a network of branches, switches and side tracks that will take in all of the important mines in the vicinity of Linton and a few in Clay county. Mrs. B. McCormick and Miss Mary McGinnis went to Louisville Friday evening, to hear Mascagni, the great Italian composer, and his opera company in selections from "cavallert Rusticana" and "Iris". Jesse B. Burton, on Mitchell, who made the race on the Democratic ticket for County Treasurer, will be Deputy Auditor when Walter G. Owens takes charge of the county Auditor's office, which will be the first of the year. Senator Beveridge is at Indiana to spend the Christmas holidays. He will make the annual address before the State Teachers' Association next week. Senator Fairbanks will not return to Indianapolis until January after the Legislature convenes. Dennis O'Connor, who for several years was flagman at the Monon crossing at the northwest corner of the square, and who became very ill several weeks ago, has recovered sufficiently to leave Monday for Indianapolis, where he will find a home with the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charitable institution.