Bedford Weekly Mail Bedford, Indiana Friday, January 17, 1902 The Brooks Oil Company shipped over two hundred barrels of oil out from this point in two days, to different parts of Indiana and Illinois. It kept Miss Edith COGSWELL, the bookkeeper, and a lady assistant busy making out statements and shipping tags. ================== The merchants held their regular semi-monthly meeting last week at BURTON & VANCE's office. The merchants are determined to put a stop to the endless chain of dead beating in Bedford. The meeting was well attended and very enthusiastic. ================== Mrs. Nancy FISH, who is visiting at the home of Col. ALEXANDER, east of town, has been ill with something like pneumonia, is now able to sit up and her attending physician states that she is entirely out of danger.---Bloomington Telephone. ================== HOSTETLER & COLEMAN, of Mitchell, have closed a deal with the Portland Cement Company for 200,000 feet of framing timber. They are to deliver the timber within the next 60 days. The timber will be used in erecting a wareroom 60x500 feet at the cement mills there. ================== JOHNSON-BATTERTON Mr. Walter S. JOHNSON and Miss Sadie BATTERTON were married Sunday evening, at the home of the Misses JOHNSON, 17th and J streets. Rev. Father BOGEMAN performing the ceremony. The wedding was a pleasant surprise to the many friends of both young people. The Mail joins with them in congratulations and well wishes for the future prosperity and happiness ... ================== BORN---To Mr. and Mrs. Homer DENNISTON, a son. ================== Miss Lillian WIRES is ill at her home on North I street......Newton ENNIS has returned from a visit at Martinsville......William DOBSON, of Indian Springs, was in town Friday......Mrs. Henry BENKE who has been sick for some time is much improved......J. M. POTTER, Ex Trustee of Indian Creek, is in town Monday on business......C. H. STRUPE, of the Daily Democrat, will probably be a Democratic candidate for Mayor......Mr. and Mrs. George GOLDBACK are the proud grandparents of an eleven and a half pound baby boy......Edith and Grace PORTER, of North I street, who have been on the sick list, are reported much better......Miss Jennie PENNINGTON and her neice, of New Albany, are the guests of Brooks BISHOP and family, of North Bedford. ================== I will sell all or part of 120 ft. of store shelving including 40 drawers at a bargain if at once. W. A. WEBB. ================== Frank TRUEBLOOD and family arrived here Friday a.m. from Indianapolis to remain. Mr. TRUEBLOOD and wife are both in poor health. ================== Marriage licenses have been issued to Jeremiah McBRIDE and Lora GUTHRIE; Noble TURPIN and Dessie M. SWANGO; Walter R. McDOWELL and Nora McDONALD. ================== Mrs. Polly CROTTS, mother of Mrs. Frank M. RUSSELL, is quite ill with abscess of the throat, at the residence of Mrs. John MARTIN, where she is making her home. ================== $10,000 STONE RESIDENCE. Carl FURST, the stone contractor, has begun work on a 13-room stone residence for himself at 14th and O streets which will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000 when completed. It will be a valuable improvement, and an ornament to the city. ================== Mrs. C. W. QUACKENBUSH, Mrs. W. W. QUACKENBUSH, Mrs. Frank QUACKENBUSH and Mrs. August SPLITGERBER went to Orleans Sunday to visit Mrs. John W. LINGLE and Miss Bessie LINGLE. The latter is in a very serious condition mentally as a result of nervous prostration from overwork in a telephone exchange. ================== John R. HUGHES has a force of men at work on his residence on O street between 17th and 18th streets, which he began some months ago and abandoned for a time. The building, which is well under way will be a handsome two story stone modern building with inside walls of brick, and basement underneath the entire building. ================== Henry WOOLERY, of Leesville, was in this city Friday......Mrs. Rett TODD, of Leesville, was in the city Friday......Rollie NUGENT, who has been seriously ill, is slowly improving......Mrs. James MATTHEWS is sick with fever at her home on North M street......Leland WICKER, son of Walter WICKER, who has been ill of pneumonia, is improving......Mrs. Dave FISHER who has been very sick at her home on East 16th street is slowly improving. ================== BORN---To Newton ENNIS, the South J street photographer, and wife, Friday night, a 10-pound girl. ================== B. B. MARLEY loans money. ================== Mrs. George SMITH will go to Salem Saturday, to visit relatives and friends for a week......W. R. BAKER, a young man of near Cale, Martin county, was in the city Thursday, on business......Al CONNER has bought the J. W. TRAINOR property on West 16th street and moved into it Wednesday......Mrs. M. C. ATCHISON and Miss Minnie ATCHISON, of Zionsville, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. ATCHISON, have returned to their home. ================== H. H. WALLS is prepared to loan Money on Farms in Southern Indiana. If you want money he can supply you with any amount. Volunteer: Velma Walker