BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1900 George COSGROVE, who had been tending bar here for some time, has returned to his home at Washington. Miss Ruby DENNISTON, daughter of County Commissioner DENNISTON, is visiting friends in the city this week. Mrs. Howard FIELDS and baby returned Saturday from Cincinnati, O., where they had been visiting relatives. Shrewd guessers who guess from data say the census will show Bedford's population to be a little under 6,500. Billy REATH, who had been working in a barber shop at Oolitic for several weeks, has returned to this city. People in need of Hard and Soft Coal will do well to see H. E. PITMAN before placing their orders elsewhere. Al BEASLEY, Republican candidate for Representative of Green county, was in the city a short time Tuesday. Mrs. Sherman JOHNSON is lying at the point of death and is not expected to live, at her home on East 19th street. The Gospel meeting which had been conducted in the tent on 19th and G streets, for the past two weeks closed Friday. Janitor Dick FISHER, of the Courthouse, has found two coats and a vest which the owners can have by proving property. Miss Minnie ELLIS, who had been in Bedford for several months, has returned to her home near Rock Hill, Ky. J. W. PRUETT and daughters have returned from Terre Haute, where they had been to attend the Pentecost tent meeting. Rev. H. A. SEVERINGHAUS, who had been assisting in Camp meeting services at Guthrie, Ky., arrived home Saturday night. WANTED – To buy or trade for 100 Lawrence county farms. Farm loans 5 per cent. - B. B. MARLEY, North Side. We predict that the official census will give Bedford 6,250 inhabitants and Bloomington about 7,250. – Bloomington Star. Miss Cora FLYNN left Wednesday for Elnora and Odon, to visit relatives and to attend the Reunion and Old Settlers' Meeting. Mrs. James ACUFF, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. A. L. BOYD, in this city, has returned to her home at Bloomington. Dr. L. A. CRIM, of Indianapolis, who is in the insurance business, spent Sunday in this city, and left Monday for Bloomington. William BAILEY, the painter, and wife, who had been spending a week with their parents, in Salem, arrived home Sunday night. Rev. W. E. RUSSELL and family have returned to their home on North I street, having spent a few days with friends at Williams. The team hitched to the LANZ-FRY lumber wagon ran away Wednesday, tearing the wagon up some, but luckily did not hurt anybody. Mrs. John M. GAINEY and daughters, left Friday, for Dresden, Ind., to visit her father, James HANSFORD, and other relatives. Misses Pearl and Ivy GADBERRY and Miss Opal SEARS returned to their home at Odon, after a visit with relatives and friends here. Jim KNIGHT, a boy living in the country near town, had his foot crushed Saturday by a horse he was riding running against a tree. Mrs. E. L. PATE and son, of Indianapolis, visited in Bedford Monday, en route to Trinity Springs, where they will spend a week's vacation. Mrs. T. M. JESTER and family, who had been the guests of relatives here for several days, returned to their home at Clay City, Wednesday. Mrs. Lidia HITCHCOCK, Misses Mary O'CONNEL, Mary McLAUGHLIN, Mary RYNN and Rose BEEM went to French Lick Wednesday to be gone a week. Hon. Charles B. ROGERS, a prominent Shoals attorney, and Chairman of the Martin County Republican Central Committee, was in town Friday. Will DUNCAN came up from Campbellsburg Monday. He will return to Canada, where he is assisting in surveying a new railroad, in a few days. Fred MARXSON, W. A. WILSON, Mesdames DECKARD and LISTER, and Miss Stella DECKARD visited the party of campers at Dunihue's Bend Sunday. Edna and Grace HARTMAN, daughters of John HARTMAN, returned Monday afternoon, from a visit to their grandmother, in Bartholomew county. Hon. T. J. BUTLER, of Los Angeles, Cal., arrived in this city Tuesday, to visit his sister, Mrs. E. R. MURPHY, and other friends and relatives. The millinery stores of this city have agreed to close every evening at 6 o'clock except Thursday and Saturday evening, until Sept. 1st. Mrs. John M. GAINEY and daughters, Kate and Gladys, who had been visiting relatives at Dresden, have returned to their home in this city. Ed. COFFEE, one of the good farmers of Martin county, and an old soldier of the Rebellion, was in town Saturday to get his pension voucher made out. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. D. SENIOR and Miss Jennie LaFORCE, who had been the guests of relatives in this city, have returned to their home at New Albany. A dog owned by Henry ALBERTSON, corner 16th and E. streets, got to acting in a strange manner and was killed by Mr. ALBERTSON for fear of rabies. The concert to be given here Aug. 14th will be under the management of the old band. The new band is simply an organization auxiliary to the old band. E. M. YOUNG, the clever proprietor of Baldwin's music store in this city, has returned from Seymour, where he had been for over a week, on account of sickness. Rev. J. T. HOBSON, of Washington, Ind., arrived here Monday noon, and left for Fairview, to join his family, who have been visiting relatives there for some time. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. HAMER have taken rooms at Dr. J. H. McPHEETERS' until Sept. 1st, when their handsome new house on West 13th street will be completed. Mrs. Joe EVANS was called home from the big tunnel on the B. & O. S. W. Tuesday to see her daughter, who is very sick at the home of H. C. STONE, on Lincoln avenue. It is reported that McDANIEL and DAGGY have sold their farm near this city to the cement people for $11,000, which indicates that the cement mill will be a sure go. Sid BROOKS, who had just returned from Seymour, where he had been to do some ornamental stone cutting, went to Williams to do a special piece of stone carving, Friday. Howard FIELDS, William RYNN, John FELTNER, Henry WEIGMANN, John H. UNDERWOOD and George ISEMINGER were among the faithful who went to Indianapolis to help "notify" Bryan. The County Commissioners refused to grant Joseph KEANE a license to sell liquor at Mitchell, on the grounds that he is and has been a resident of Washington, Ind., for three years past. STRAYED. From my barn Aug. 4, a sorrel mare. Any one knowing of her location will be paid for their trouble by informing. W. H. WEST. The new stone front of the Seymour National bank is exciting much admiration. It is made of Bedford stone, and is probably the only front of its kind in the county. – Seymour Democrat.