BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, OCT. 26, 1900 J. T. STIPP has bought a farm near Pinhook. Alonzo ALLEN, of Guthrie, was in the city Saturday. Oscar KERN, of Fayetteville, was in town Saturday. Mrs. Isaac WILLIAMS, of Williams, was in town Saturday. Alex SIMPSON, a good citizen of Bono, was in the city Saturday. Miss Elsie BEAVER, of near Tunnelton, is here taking a term in music. Will IKERD, of Shawswick, was in the city Saturday, the guest of friends. A marriage license has been issued to Howard LEE and Maud DOWLING. Mrs. Enoch ETCHISON, of Williams, was in this city Saturday, shopping. Henry ACTON, of Indian Springs, was in the city Sunday, the guest of home folks. Prof. ROYER teaches violin, guitar, mandolin and cornet. Apply at 1127 West 16th street. Mrs. Lemuel SEARS, of Fayetteville, was in the city last Friday visiting friends and relatives. Buddy RAGSDALE went to Orleans Saturday, to sell a fine coach stallion for CROUCH & Son, of Lafayette. James TATUM and wife were in the city Friday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel SEARS, on West 13th street. Elijah CLAYTON and wife, of near Shiloh, were in the city Friday, the guest of their daughter, Mrs. Alice TAYLOR. A very interesting meeting held at Mt. Pleasant by Elder J. WILLIAMS, closed the first of last week, with six conversions. Mrs. Robert McAFEE, who has been living at Erie, and whose husband died recently, has moved to town, and occupies part of the house with her sister, Mrs. J. C. JOCELYN. S. B. INMAN, of Williams, was in the city Saturday. A part of the steel frame work of the new First Christian church is in position. Nelson HENDRICKSON, of Fayetteville, was in town Saturday, and called on the MAIL. STROUT & Son have just put a 9-radiator steam heating plant in Geo. M. FOSTER's house. Joseph SIMPSON, of Bono, was in this city Saturday. He is in better health than he was earlier in the season. J. W. WRIGHT, of Edgerton, Kansas, who had been visiting relatives near Springville, left for his home Saturday. Dale HAGWOOD and Marshall GIRDLEY are employed on the farm belonging to Emanuel SEARS, one mile west of this city. T. J. HUNTER and children, Ezra, Harrison and Emma, were in town from Norman Station Saturday, and called at the MAIL office. J. G. BROWNFIELD, who works on a channeler at the P. M. & B. quarry, went to his home at Heltonville Friday night, to remain over Sunday with his family. L. G. KERN was in town Saturday, on his way to his home at Lebanon, Ind. He had been at Fayetteville to visit his mother, Mrs. Ben KERN, who is 78 years of age, and very ill. Isaac HOLMES and family, who had been visiting Mrs. E. M. MATTHEWS, Cyrus BLACKBURN and family, and other relatives here, for two days past, returned Friday night to their home at Indian Springs. Dr. A. D. WILLIAMS, of St. Louis, an oculist, and a nephew of the late Elcanah WILLIAMS, of Cincinnati, will arrive in Bedford Oct. 29th, after an absence of 40 years, on professional business and to visit friends. Pension Attorney A. W. JONES has secured an increase of W. A. BURTON, of Mitchell, from $17 to $25 per monthly; for Samuel F. MARTIN, deceased of Mitchell, from $17 to $30 per month; for Jacob BROCK, of Leesville, from $14 to $25 per month.