BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, AUG. 31, 1900 Capt. Geo. P. BROWN has received an increase of pension, to $24 per month. Attorney E. M. C. HOBBS, of Salem, was in town on legal business Monday night. S. K. HOGAN has a nice new coal and wood sign in front of his office on the West Side. James M. HANDY, of Red Cross, has received an increase of pension to $16 per month. Mrs. Henrietta TENNEHILL, of this city, has been granted a widow's pension of $8 a month. The business men of Washington have decided to have their street fair early in October. L. C. GILCHRIST is again able to attend to business at his barber shop, after about six week's illness. Levi B. KEITHLEY, of Heltonville, was in town Tuesday, on his way to Medora, to buy lumber. L. A. SHARP, a stonecutter from Washington, who has a job on the S. I. shops, will move his family to this city. Leander SMITH, of Jonesville, is visiting the family of J. B. ABLE, on the old DOBBINS farm, near Bryantsville. JOHNSON's Bill Posting Company have put up a new sign in front of their place of business on the South Side. Henry IRVIN, who has a chair in the barber shop of L. C. GILCHRIST, has moved his family to this city from Bloomington. Hon. P. R. WASDSWORTH, Republican candidate for Congress, will speak at the Soldiers' reunion at Chapel Hill, Sept. 1st. MARRIED-At the Clerk's office, last Saturday, by Judge CHRISLER, John GOODMAN to Pearl SHERRILL, both of Peerless. Henry WILLIAMS and family, who had been the guest of relatives in this city for several days, have returned to their home near Kurtz, Jackson county. If you want to know why Samuel WIRES is wearing so many smiles just ask him what his relatives in Ft. Scott, Kansas sent him for a birthday present. Charles P. WALKER, wife and children left Friday morning, for Sullivan in response to a telegram announcing the probably fatal illness of Mrs. Walker's father. Geo. W. HUDSON sold three hogs to A. H. COLLINS, the butcher, Friday morning that weighed 960 pounds. The heaviest of the three weighed about 400 pounds. There is some discussion of the matter of rebuilding the Southern Indiana Normal College in Bedford, if Mitchell people do not care to keep the institution there. E. S. DARLING, of Orleans, was in the city on business Monday night. Prof. Geo. P. PARKS has returned from a professional trip to Seymour. Curt HAWKINS and wife, of Pleasant Run township, were in town Tuesday. W. A. WILSON, of the Bargain Store, has returned from a trip to New York City. A. NICKLESS was assessed a fine and costs of $9.50 for intoxication, which he paid. Capt. L. DUNCAN has our thanks for some fine Niagara grapes of his own production. William EAST, who is in business at Haven, Kansas, is visiting in Bedford and at Heltonville. John OSTERMEYER, of Evansville, is in the city, the guest of his friend, George SMITH, of the S. I. Shops. Jacob ELROD, of Washington county, was in town Tuesday noon enroute to Raglesville, to visit her brother, Dr. ELROD. Mrs. Geo. M. DODD and son, Kelly HOUSTON, left Tuesday, for Chicago, Milwaukee and Valparaiso, to be absent some time. Misses Emma and Mean BENZEL, of Goodthunder, Minn., are the guests of their many Bedford relatives and friends. Miss Maud SHARUM, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ralph BRAXTAN, corner 14th and P streets. The West End Nine and South Side Club played ball at Washington Park Sunday evening. Score 18 to 2 in favor of the West End. Prof. L. D. OWEN, who has been spending the summer vacation here, will left (leave) Wednesday morning for Elwood, Ind., where he has been re-elected Principal of the High School. Hon. Nicholas ENSLEY, who had charge of the Indian Pension office during Harrison's administration, was in the city from Indianapolis Wednesday. George STOESSEL will open a bakery on the West Side; Charlie STOESSEL will move his barber shop into the room occupied by F. LANGE; and LANGE will move in behind the bakery. Miss Myrtie CARR, who had been visiting the family of her uncle, W. F. BREWER, left Tuesday, for her home at Utica, Neb. She was accompanied by Miss TRUEBLOOD, of Washington county. Geo. K. OWEN was kicked by one of Hugh BAILEY's mules, last week, while shoeing the animal, and had his right knee hurt, and his left cheek and right wrist cut. The injury to his knee laid him up. Elijah McGINNIS is working at Indian Springs. A marriage license has been issued to Clarence JACKSON and Eunice INMAN. Misses Mabel CLARK and Bessie ALLEN are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. ALLEN. W. F. CROSS moved his family into Curtis FISHER's cottage on East 17th street Wednesday. John BRIGHT, who lives south of the city, has bought the White Oak Farm Dairy of Charlie FARMER. George STOESSEL has sold his barber shop to his brother, Charlie, and will go into the bakery business. A special meeting of the City Council was held Friday night to select and purchase a location for a new city building. Nothing definite was done in the matter. Dr. Joseph GARDNER offered his large brick building, lot and all, on West 16th street, for $4,500 and James O'CONNELL offered his vacant lot on 16th street, east of the MAIL office for $3,600. J. W. McCONAUGHEY, a leading merchant and business man of Mount Carmel, Ill., was in town this forenoon on his way to Indian Springs, to visit his cousin, Dr. WRIGHT. He expressed himself as wonderfully pleased with the Stone City, and said that the businessmen here should greatly appreciate the railroad facilities afforded here, as it gave them easy and quick access to good markets at Chicago, Louisville and Cincinnati, and the competition insured a low freight rate for shipments of merchandise. Mt. Carmel is almost twice as large as Bedford but merchants can not ship their produce to any good market without going on two or more roads.