BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL DECEMBER 26, 1902 Brakeman Squeezed While coupling cars in the southern Indiana yards in this city, about 3 o clock Tuesday, a.m., Lawrence Hackett, a young brakeman some 20 years olds, was severely squeezed between two cars. He went in between them on the inside of a curve, to make a coupling, and the care were brought so close together by the curvature of the track that there was not room for his body. Hackett suffered considerable. Marriages licenses were issued to Felix M Smithers and Pearl Scoggan; Thomas H. Allen and Ethel L Lewis. Over 2500 acres have been leased in the south part of Monroe county to prospect for oil and gas-Bloomington Telephone. LOST- small linked log chain about 18 feet long, between Bedford and Leatherwood bridge, east of Bedford.. Finder please return to John Knight, J D. Knight place, 1 mile east of Bedford. Married at the the Baptist parsonage, Dec. 18, 1902, by the pastor, Rev. Wilson Whitney, were Robert McLaughlin and Miss Lucy Neely. By the same at the same time and place were Felix Smithers and Miss Pearl Scoggan. Tom Owens father, returned to his home in Robinson, IL Friday after spending a week here with his son. B.B. Marley, the real estate hustler, saturday6 sold tow houses and lots in Oolitic, for L. Hert to Sam Smallwood. Mr. and Mrs. John Solomon went to Coxton Saturday, to visit relatives. Mr. Solomon will hunt while there. Miss Mary Faulk, who has been in Indianapolis for the past three months, has returned home to spend Christmas with her parents. County commissioner, Absalom Wood will take his seat on the board to succeed commissioner H. C. Trueblood the first of January. J.G. McGurdy, of Ohio, was in Bedford this week, and is so favorably impressed with the Stone City that his has arranged B.B. Marley to loan $18,000.00 of his personal money here at a low rate of interest. Mrs. A B. Tumey, stopped over here Thursday, the guest of Mrs. Julissa LaForce and Mrs. W.C. Elliott, on her way from Louisville to her home in Chicago, for which city se departed next forenoon. Mrs. Alice Fields and daughter were the guests of Mrs. John Summers, Friday enroute to their home in Bloomington from Heltonville. They had been there to attend the funeral of Mrs, Fields' Father, John Tannebill. Marriage licenses have been issued to Shelby R. Foster and Ada J. Stone, Charles P. Judah and Ida Bishop; George W. Anderson and Lina Carter; August R. Allison and Beulah Mc Brayer; Ciell Hackney and Lora Flinn; William Ray and Frances Burton; Victor J. Neal and Cora E. Scoggan.