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Dr. Gray will be at Johnson's Hotel Mondays and Tuesday to treat all diseases. He is
agent for the great remedy for all female diseases. Ladies are invited to call and
examine this remedy. It cures the very worst of cases.
Messrs. P. W. Clifford and J. O'Keeffe, the former of Chicago and the latter, of
Valparaiso were in Chesterton Wednesday. Mr. Clifford was formerly a Valpo boy, but is
now a member of a Chicago legal firm and is traveling in the interest of his client on
legal business.
It is suspected that at Walkerton, counterfeit silver dollars are being coined. A number
of the spurious coins have been traced to that town recently, and the detectives believe
that some of the business men are at the bottom of it. For many years, about huckleberry
time the country is flooded with these counterfeits, but so far there has never been
sufficient proof to convict any one. We hope that gang may be ferreted out.
The weather, yes, the fickle, unstable weather, like some of the stars of Chesterton, it
seems useless to keep track of its pranks. The weather like the man acts very beautiful,
one day, may be two days, then zip, away it goes on another bust, and there it stays for a
couple of days, always taking from two to three extra days to taper off, and finally gets
back to the swearing off point and then a few more days of steady weather. To describe
the weather of the month of May would be difficult, but the nearest we can come to it, in
the fewest words, would be to say. "Just as uncertain as old Christianson."
Mr. Joe Jones, formerly of Hageman, but now of Elkhart, made this office a pleasant call
last Tuesday. Joe is now engaged in the hotel business, having recently purchased a hotel
in Elkhart. His little boy, Arthur, who some time since was placed in an orphan's
home in Chicago by his grandmother, Mrs. McDonald, was with him. Mrs. McDonald has denied
that this boy was in such a place, but the evidence of the boy disproves her statements,
and shows that The Tribune was correct in the statement made at the time of his
disappearance. Joe took his child home with him and says that from this on he shall have
a fathers care. The mother we understand, voluntarily gave up possession of the child.
Mr. Jones and Arthur left for Elkhart, Tuesday evening.
A marriage among the upper crust of the north side is advertised on the bills and expected
to take place in a few days. Of course, as yet its a secret, but between you and I, if
you won't tell who told you, we'll tell you all about it. Old Mr. Forbes is a
lonesome widower, just verging on the north side of his life, and Mary Brown is a dashing
widow, with an eye to thrift and beauty. Mr. Forbes possesses just those qualities and
Mary discovered them so when he came to plead his case, he found that it had already been
decided in his favor. Just as soon as Mr. Forbes can get to Valparaiso for the license,
this couple will carry the matrimonial yoke, so now you know why
The old man steps so light,
Why he acts so frisky,
For the eve of his wedding night
Is almost here, and so are the boys
with the whiskey.
Tom Mason, a well know character of Chesterton, has at last departed under a cloud, and
left for parts unknown. He left a week ago last Friday, and there are several in town who
have cause to mourn his absence, and long to see him, if only for five minutes. He has
boarded all winter with Jack Johnson and leaves a bill of $30 unpaid. The sneaking
dead-beat was so shiftless and poor that had he not been taken in he would have starved to
death and for clothes, he borrowed them all winter. This spring he worked a few days for
Nate Demos and on the Purington brick yard, but salted that money down. He owes Hylander
Bros. $36, Dick Johnson $2, Phil Muloon, $1 borrowed money and many others to hear from.
We pity the town that he concindes to make his home, for they will have one more first
class dead beat in their community.
On Saturday night about 11 o'clock, a rather peculiar streak came across Louis
Lindgreen, an employee in the Organ factory. That night he had a mania for cutting buggy
harness, and George Brown's horse and buggy happened to be conveniently at hand, he
let himself loose on that. It appears that Mr. Brown was in town that night for the
purpose of arresting Fred Stick, the butcher on a charge of obtaining a beef under false
pretense, and was waiting with a warrant to arrest him, as Stick was to leave on the 12
o'clock train. Brown failed to catch Stick that night, and as he was ready to start
home found the lines and traces of his harness cut. These were patched up, but another
part of the harness was cut, and soon after the places that had been repaired were cut a
second time. It was discovered that Lindgreen, who was a by stander was the perpetrator.
The services of Constable Tratevas and Justice Gonderling were called into service, and
resulted in Lindgreen being held in bonds of $50 to appear for trial the following Monday.
Before the trial the affair was amicably settled, Lindgreen paying damages and costs.
The imported French Norman Stallion will stand the Spring and Fall season of 1885, on
Wednesdays and Thursdays at George Morgan's barn, one mile east of Chesterton.
Dandy was brought her by his present owner at a cost of $3,000, an is one of the best
sires in the country. For further particulars address John Hearl.