Chesterton Tribune October 29, 1885 cont
PATENTS GRANTED
The following patents were granted to citizens of Indiana, bearing date
Oct. 20, 1885. Reported expressly for this paper by Louis Bagger & Co,
mechanical experts and solicitors of patents, Washington D. C.
Allen, D. M., Fort Wayne, Ointment.
Anderson, M. F., and W. H. Wilcox, Columbia City, Hame-tug.
Beverstein, D. E., Middlebury, Sash-balance.
Cobb, A. H., Frankfort, Carpet-stretcher.
Darr, E. Q., Shelbyville, Bridle-blind.
Deckard, S. J., Logansporte, Pendulum-level.
Dugsdale, J. K., Richmond, Washing-machine.
Holden, G. R., Michigan City, Machine for reducing quills, feathers,
etc., to fiber.
Jones, J. W., Somerset, Land-roller.
Miller, A. S., Riceland, Dumping-wagon.
Plummer, O. S., and J. M. Wovd, Richmond, Vehicle-spring.
Prickett, H. A., Columbia City, Breeching-stay for harness.
Robinson, D. C. B., Madison, Belt-stretcher.
Sargent, J. N., Aurora, Railway frog.
Stedman, Nathan, and J. N. Sargent, Aurora, Railway-frog.
SCHOOL ITEMS
The syntax rules prepared by Prof. M. L. Phares for the grammar classes
were very much appreciated by the pupils. They went into general use
last week.
The appearance of the high-school room is greatly improved by some fine
house plants. Wonder if the Prof intends to teach botany.
The program for the high-school room was put on green crayon boards and
a study program arranged for the B grade last week.
Mrs. Brummitt attended the Hineman-McDonald wedding last Thursday. Miss
Bird Dille teaching in her place.
The exercises of last Friday afternoon were very enjoyable to the
visitors as well as to the children. The visitors were Mrs. C. O.
Hillstrom, Mrs. Lindgreen, Mrs. D. Cassler, and Mr. Moorman. Hereafter
these exercises will be once every four weeks. Parents are requested to
attend and all are welcome.
Coal will be burned in the school this winter. The grates were put in
last Saturday.
The Week's Current, a paper published especially for schools, has been
substituted for the fifth reader, the Sense Reader for the fourth, and
the Wide Awake for the third reader. The scholar enjoy the change very
much, as reading in the reader so long is apt to become monotonous.
"Why Don't the Parents Visit the Schools," would be a very appropriate
song for our schools just now.
The roof is undergoing a much-needed repair.
"Please lick your own stamps" is the startling announcement posted up in
the Chesterton post office. The postmaster says that when he first
assumed charge of the post office he started the accommodation racket.
When a bright, blushing female of tender years bent over the counter and
timidly asked him to please put a stamp on her missive, you bet it went
right on. But after about three feet of his tongue, disappeared, worn
away as it were, and a long, lank, frowsy-haired, freckled face youth
walked up and asked for the use of the P. M.'s tongue, then, and right
there patience fell, and wrath assumed full sway. During that hour the
notice went up, and will doubtless remain until Mr. Taylor's tongue
grows to its original proportions. Chesterton's beautiful maidens will
doubtless be disappointed, for all things, there are few more bewitching
than to see a marriageable young man, with p.m. attached to his name,
take a letter and stamp from a beau-hunting maiden, and watch the
blushes chase one another over his manly countenance as he puts the
"sticking-salve on the stamp."
Editor Zimmerman, of the Valpraraiso Messenger, announces that his Big
Give Away will positively come off on Novermber 16th. Well it is about
time. Now if Little Zim will kindly announce when that other Big Give
Away. Postmaster Suman, will come off, he will do a decided favor to
many readers. We have a suggestion, and merely offer it. If Editor
Zimmerman will, while he is at it, collect all the big and little Give
Away's of Valparaiso, put them in a sack, shake em up and ship em off to
some subscriber living handy to Sheol or Oskosh, he would be ever after
recognized as a public benefactor.
The advices from the National Capital say the Treasury department is
busy sending small silver to all parts of the country which indicates a
better trade among the people, and points to an era of prosperity that
can not now be far distant. The present demand is very similar to what
occurred after the panics of 1873-4 and 1877-8, and must be regard as a
good omen.