BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, 1900 Miss Craigie NORMAN, of Heltonville, spent Sunday in Bedford. F. T. SHERWOOD has been in bed with malarial fever since Saturday. Mrs. L. C. WIBLE, of Lincoln, Neb., is visiting her niece, Mrs. J. W. BEARD. Nathan LANE, of Heltonville, spent Sunday in this city, the guest of friends. Mrs. James JOHNSON has returned from a weeks' visit with relatives in the country. Mr. and Mrs. Dale HAGWOOD, of this city, were visiting friends and relatives at Norman Station. Marriage licenses have been issued to James L. HENDRICKS and Allie MEADOWS; Walter L. STIPP and Anna SHERRILL. J. A. ROGERS, formerly a leading photographer of this city, but now of Greensburg, was in the city seeing old friends. S. A. SNYDER and B. B. MARLEY have moved their office from the North Side to their rooms in front of the G. A. R. hall up stairs on the south side. C. S. BAIR, who is running the blacksmith shop west of the MAIL office, is putting in a lot of new machinery, including a tire shrinker, an upright Little Giant No. 4 drill and a tire bender. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DURHAM, of Bedford, will locate in this city about October 1. Mrs. DURHAM was Miss Ruby ALEY, a sister of Mrs. A. T. HERT. Mr. DURHAM is Secretary and Treasurer of the Eureka Lumber Company and will have an office in New Albany. – Jeffersonville Cor. Courier-Journal. John M. PHILLIPS, of Heltonville, was in the city on business. Mrs. C. A. KNIGHT was the guest of friends at Williams over Sunday. A. N. SEARS and wife were the guests of friends in the country Sunday. Dr. Bruce FREELAND, of Kurtz, was the guest of friends in this city Sunday. Chris DENNY, of Boone county, is the guest of William IKERD and family. Mrs. Emanuel SEARS has returned from Fayetteville, where she visited relatives. Frank WRIGHT, of Wyoming, is the guest of his grandparents, Capt. William DAY and wife. Mat DUNIHUE, of Rivervale, was in town Monday. He is being treated for telegrapher's paralysis. I. H. CRIM purchased a fine driving horse from Vol HOUSTON, paying the snug little sum of $175. Clarence McMAHAN, who lives about three miles north of town, is seriously sick with congestive chills. Miss Gussie SEARS, of near Williams, who had been the guest of Mrs. Newt SEARS, on West 12th street, has returned to her home. The night force is still on at the Hoosier and orders for stone are piling up. All the quarries are working all the men they can get. – Oolitic News. The City Council held a special meeting Friday night, but no business of importance was transacted. The ordinance regarding the placing of a watchman at the 5th street crossing was read and laid over until the next meeting night. D. B. GUTHRIE has gone to Bridgeton, Parke county, Ind., where he will be busy for seven or eight weeks, building gravel roads. HE says he will be at home all right on election day, to vote for McKinley and the full Republican ticket. A CARD. I wish to state to the public that after due consideration I have decided not to allow my name to be used on the Prohibition ticket for Commissioner of 2nd District. I am with the temperance people in the work, but believe I can serve the cause better some other way than by being a candidate for Commissioner. FRANK BAILEY. Horace Jones, of the State of Washington, arrived here Wednesday, to visit his sister, Mrs. John WILDER. Notwithstanding the very bad weather Wednesday night, the Republicans had a good meeting at Oolitic. Speeches were made by Hon. John C. CHANEY and Judge W. H. MARTIN.