Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 September 1897 — Page 1

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DISCUSS FARMING.

Meeting at St. Paul of Farmers' | National Congress. '

Proceedings Formally Opened by President B. F. Clayton—A Good At= - tendance Expected. ‘

St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 1. — The seventeenth meeting of the farmers’ national congress of the United States was called to order at the capitol, in the hall of representatives, by President B. F. Clayton, of Indianola, la., Tuesday morning. The opening session was not largely attended compared with what was expected for Wednesday. But Secretary Stahl’s advices warrant the prediction that the congress will be very well attended when the high-water mark is reached.

The delegate representation in the congress does not at its maximum exceed 500.

The morning session was devoted largely to the matter of a formal welcome and, following an'invocation by Archbishop Ireland, the congress was greeted on behalf of the city of St. Paul

472 = | =B\ ; ”‘? Y T . 3\ L w A\ ks Y B e N o o e S W iy T B v NN\ v UM/ L X - A ‘\‘ ‘ / 3 PRESIDENT B. F. CLAYTON. by Mayor Doran; on behalf of the State Agricultural society by President Weaver, of that organization; on behalt of the state by Gov. Clough, and to these addresses, respectively, responses on behalf of the congress were made by John M. Stahl, of Illinols, secretary of the congress, and Hon. B. F. Clayton, of lowa, president.

President Clayton’s Address,

The morning session closed with the annual address of President Clayton. After introductory remarks of greeting and welcome, Mr. Clayton said in part: ‘“The farm lis the foundation of wealth,. and the main source of national and state prosperity; but to the dueand adequate success of the farm and the farmers there are issues pregnant with profound thought. In your deliberations, I am sure that important economic questions can and will be resolved to the advantage of agriculture, Changes in thelawsof common carriers,and especially In the more just and equitableinterpretation of such laws, are not only demanded as due to the common rights of the people, but are of vital and substantial concern in making for your labor and the products of your labor a market and g corresponding reward. Loyal to the Govermnment, '

‘‘Gentlemen of the congress, there is no class of men more loyal to his government than the American farmer. We have not assembled as disgruntled agitators—an assembly of disappointed political aspirants for the purpose of ventilating some fancled grievance against the present or some former administration. This is the seventeenth annual session of a great organization representing a great interest of a splendid nation.

‘‘There are many questtons upon which we should take action. Notably among them is the enlargement of the agricuitural department, giving it the power and the means by which it can open up every posgsible avenue of trade for American farm product, and to extend to it the same protection accorded to other interests. “The amendment of our interstate commerce law and anti-trust measures, giying the proper officers the right, and to make it his duty to send for persons and papers and compel the attendance of witnesses or to place them behind the prison bars regardless of the millions they may possess. The extension of free mail delivery to the rural districts, the enlargement of the weather bureau, a more systematic crop statistics, the reclamation of arid and semi-arld lands, and to restrict boards of trade to a point where they will prevent fraud in dealing in options and to entirely stop the bucket shop disgrace,

~ ‘““We should ask the congress of the United States to make sufficient appropriation to prevent the importation of infected live stock, and to stamp out existing diseases. You, gentlemen, hailing from all parts of the country, know much better than I can tell you the importance of urging prompt action regarding every obstacle preventing the success of the farmer. The congress of the United States when placed in possession of factshavebeen quick to eradicate existing evils. We should demand neo legislation; we should seed to do no damage to other legitimate enterprises, but we should insist uwpon the recognition of our interests, and we should be satisfied with nothing less.”

- It had been intended to appoint the committees during the morning session, but the other routine filled all the time and more. The matter was laid over until two o’clock when the afternoon session began.

Secretary Stahl’s Report.

In his annual report Secretary John M. Stahl, of Chicago, said:

‘““Your secretary, who has led the fight for free mail delivery, gratefully acknowledges the steady and hearty support of this congress, and already the press and the people are almost unanimously in favor of fyee rural malil delivery, and the post. office department is conducting the experiments we haveé asked for. This congress has always done all it could to secure pure-food legislation, and in many cases its efforts have resulted in wise laws of benefit to all classes, This body has always been the foremost agricultural advoeate of good roads. At eur last meeting we were addressed by Gen. Stone, chief of the good roads bureaw of the national government, and Otto Porner, chairman of the highway impyovement committee of the L. A. W., lng the good roads resolutions presented were adopted without change. During the winter your secretary, at the request of good roads advocates, particularly the L. A. W. argued for good roads legiglation before several state legislatures. I am happy to be able to state that the influence of this congress has been powerful in #ecuring needed good roads legislation in several states, and also other legislation m neficlal to the agricultural and to all A e B e & e

LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1897.

RATHER COOL FOR CORN.

More Hot Weather and Rains Needed in Many States.

Chicago, Sept. I.—The reports as to th> condition of the crops throughout the country, and the general effect of the weather on the growth, cultivation and harvest of the same, were Tuesday made by the directors of the several elimate and crop sections. The reports received at Chicago were as follows:

Ohfo—Generally favorable week for crops and farm work. Tobacco cutting continues with good yields. Early corn maturing nicely, but nights a little too cool. Early hardening, and some will be ready for cutting in two weeks. Late corn slow. Garden truck plentiful, pastures fair and ilate potatoes improved. Considerable wheat ground harrowed. Grapes ripe. Michigan—Corn maturing very slowly because of cool temperature. Soil rather hard l and dry for plowing. Rain also needed for pastures and potatoes. Beans a fine crop and pulling begun. Buckwheat remains promising. Fall seeding commenced. ~ Indiana—Nights too cool for corn, and beneficial rains fell only in localities of the central and northern portions, and corn in general needs rain. Early corn is malturing well, late corn is yet small. Potatoes are a 'failure. Good crops of clover ' seed and millet secured. Fall plowing retarded south by progressing well north. . Illinois — Temperature below mnormal in northern, nearly. normal in ex- ’ treme southern, and about normal in central and south central” coun- ’ ties. Only light scattered showers, and good general rain much needed in all ‘ gections. Corn making slow growth, some ripening prematurely, and dry weather and bugs have damaged many fields. Po}ta.toes and pastures are poor; but little plowing can be done; fruits and melons igabundant; fair crop broom corn being icut. ?

Towa—Warm, bright days, cool nights, and drought generally unßroken. Corn on dry uplands badly fired and early planted flelds making rapidly. Late corn needs more moisture and warmth, and rain much needed for potatoes and pastures. Weather favorable for harvesting prairie hay and quality superior. ‘Wisconsin—Dry weather and cool nights retarded growth of corn. Early plantings and varieties will mature in about twg weeks, but bulk of crop requires from three to four. Cranberries late, but promise well. Vines heavily loadged. Picking will begin in ten days. E!’otatoes poor. Pasture short and rain needed.

GREETED WITH A BOMB.

President Faure’s Narrow Escape on Returning to Paris.

Paris, Sept. I,—President Faure arrived at the Northern railroad station, from Dunkirk, at six o’clock Tuesday evening. He was received there by the president of the chamber of deputies, M. Brisson; the president of the senate, M. Loubet; the general in command of the Paris garrison and his staff and municipal councillors. After listening to short speeches of welcome, the president entered a landau and proceeded to Elysee palace, by way of the Rue La Fayette, the Opera, the Madeleine and the Place de la Concorde.

Enormous crowds of people lined the roads and the president was warmly acclaimed. All the balconies were filled with spectators and the waving of handkerchiefs and flags was to be seen on all sides. i

Three minutes after the president had passed the Madeleine a bomb was exploded inside the railing around the cburch. Two arrests followed immediately and the railed inclosure was closed by the police, who began an active investigation into the outrage. Nobody was injured by the explosion, but the affair, following so closely upon others of a similar nature, caused the greatest excitément. The persons inside the railings were minutely examined by the police before they were allowed to leave.

The fragments of the bomb found by the police’ resemble those in the Bois de Boulogne on June 13 last and on the Place de la Concorde on June 16 last. It consisted of an iron tube filled" with an explosive and loaded with nails.

On French Soil Again.

Dunkirk, Sept. 1. — President Faure and M. Hanotaux, the French minister of foreign affairs, landed here at 9:45 a. m., from the French cruiser Pothum, on their return from Russia. They were met by the premier, M. Meline; the minister of war, Gen. Billot, and the minister of marine, Admiral Leonard. M. Meline, in tendering the president the congratulations of ‘the cabinet, was warmly applauded, and the immense crowd present enthusiastically cheered the chief magistrate of France.

Catholic Order of Foresters.

Green Bay, Wis., Sept. I.—The Catholic Order of Foresters began a two-days’ convention at Green Bay Tuesday. The morning was taken up with an address by State Chief Ranger Thomas J. Callen, of Milwaukee, the celebration of solemn high mass by Bishop Schwebach, of La Crosse, and a sermon by Bishop Messmer. In the afternoon, Thomas J. Callen, state chief ranger, read his second annual report. - :

Sends a Missionary to China.

San Francisco, Sept. I.—The Cumberland Presbyterian church has begun mission work in Central China. The first representatives of this denomination to enter this vast empire will be Dr. O. T. Logan and wife, of Illinois, Rev. H. L. Walker and wife, of Alabama, and Rev. T. J. Preston, of ’{‘*fi‘:as."l‘hey are to locate near HankowW, some 400 miles up the Yang Tse Kiang river from Shanghai.

To Banish All Anarchists.

Madrid, Sept. I.—The Spanish gowernment is formulating a plan to brimg about the banishmem of all anarchists from Spain. It is announced here that anarchists will no longer be allowed te land in England, and that, therefore, the government- of Spain must depert them to some American republic or to a distant Spanish possession. _

Bank at McPherson, Kan., Faifls.,

MecPherson, Kan., Sept. I.—The First state bank of this city, of which Senator Royal Matthews is president, faited with liabilities amounting to $2%,000. The bank is now in charge of Bank Commissioner John W. Breidenthal! %,Get'youxqub: printing done at Tne ANNER office. First-class work at the most reasonable prices. =0 ! = G a el e

JAM BROKEN.

Miners Succeed in Moving Outfits Over the Skaguay Trail

Alaskan Editor Writes That Stories of Great Finds Are True, But Warns Against the Mad Rush.

Seattle, Wash., Sept. I..—The following letter, dated Skaguay, August 23, reached here per steamer Utopia on Monday: = The jam is broken on the Skaguay trail. A number of outfits Lave gotten over and there is a steady stream of moving humanity mixed up in an almost indescribable mass of horses of all sizes, ages and conditions, mules, steers, milch cows, goats and dogs; also vehicles of every kind and description to be imagined. A new sawmill got up steam for the first time this morning. Rough lumber is worth $27 per thousand, but it cannot be got half fast enough. The city of tents is not being displaced, but reinforced by a city of “shacks” of all sizes and degrees. Skaguay is the boom town of Alaska. Every man whose heart failed him when he encountered the first hardship has turned town site boomer. Four weeks ago Skaguay was not known; to-day there are not less than 4,000 people in addition to those on ships in the harbor. They have surveyed off the town site, the first comers having first choice.

There is no danger of famine here, though there may be shortages in certain lines. On all sides “smiling plenty as is conjured by some enchanter” hereabouts. Great piles of hay, grain, flour, bacon, sugar and all the necessaries of life are in stock, apparently for some time to come.

An Alaskan Editor’s Advice.

Chicago, Sept. I.—ln a letter just received in this city E. Otis Smith, editor and proprietor of the Sitka (Alaska) Alaskan, writes as follows: “Yes, all the tales of great finds in the far north are true, but people should not rush headlong into that region, for I predict untold hardships the coming'winter. People are now rushing in by the thousands without:stopping to consider the long, cold winter that will come suddenly upon them, sending the mercury down to from 20 to 70-de-grees below zero and keeping it there for months. The Klondike is over 700 miles from Juneau, and the people now going in should go prepared to buy a do any prospecting this year. Those going in should go prepared to buy a claim already staked out, or go with a view of prospecting new fields, and enduring the extreme winter’s cold and summer’s heat, and contending against black flies' and mosquitoes that render life almost unendurable. While great fortunes will be made by some, the masses will be bitterly disappointed, unless they know something of placer mining, and where to look for undliscovered gold. All those who come out with.gold will tell you they had no picnic. As for myself, I have found. a couple of fairly good quartz ledges: here and hope to get my future wealth.out of them.”

Administering Justice in Alaska.

Victoria, B. C.,. Sept. I.—An evidence of how the law fis administered in the Yukon country is given in a letter recelved here. A packer mnamed Rice contracted to take a man’s outfit over the Skaguay trail if the . man went to work on the trail. The man went to work, but when:it was finished Rice refused to fulfill the comtract. When Rice’s train reached the summit with a load it was seized by the mounted police and a vigilance committee and was unloaded. Rice will not be allowed to do any packing:until he fulfills his contract with the man who worked on the trail.

A Warning,

Seattle, Wash., Sept. I.—The chamber of commerce has received a letter from the miners at Skaguay, warning people of the futility of trying to reach the Yukon by that route this season and asking some amodification as to duty. It was sigmed by D. J. McKinney and W. A. Saportas, secretary of the Miners’ association.

Dentist Objects to Bloomer Patient.

San Francisco, Sept. I.—Mrs. Annie Kirk and her husband, W. 8. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwood, a dentist, for $250 damagesallegedto have been sustained because he positively refused to examine the lady’s teeth after he had agreed to put them in good comndition. The reason for his refusal was that she came to his office on her bicycle and wore bloomers. She complains that he drew the line at her attire ‘and expressed himself too freely before other people in his reception room. v

\'_‘wo Killed by Exploding Engine. { Warren, 0., Sept. I.—A Cleveland, Fkron & Columbus engine No, 27 attached to a south-bound freight train on that road exploded at Fredericksburg Tuesday morning killing the engineer and fireman and badly scalding H. E. Shank, the brakeman. The <dead are: William Thornley, engineer; Louis Brown, fireman, both-of Mt. Vermon.

President Slocum Deélines Call,

Colorado Springs, Col., Sept. I.— President William F. Slocum, of Colorado college, in an open letter to the friends of the institution, has anmnounced his decision to decline the call to the presidency of Oberlin college.

! Motor Car Race to St. Petersburg.

~ Paris. Sept. I.~—As one ofthe results of the announcement at Cronstadt of ‘the alliance between France and Ruswia, the Auto-Mobile club is organizing @ monster race of motor ecars from Paris to St. Petersburg. CASTORTIA. ' ?' T, ) grm— s o imile P AR L T " ‘ _. ».‘({. .;.- ‘»&

' COKE MAKING. : Large Returns Obtained From the Bye products That Are Secured. The chief of the byproducts utilized by the byproduct oven systems is ammonia. Hitherto the sole source of supply of ammonia in the United States was in the illuminating gas plants, but the use of electricity and of water gas has decreased the production of the article while the demand for it has been on the inerease. Ammonia has many uses. It is an essential material in ice manufacturing, in electrical batteries, in chemical manufactures, and in the manufacture of fertilizers it is substituted for nitrate of soda. The yicld of ammonia from regular coking coal is about 20 pounds per ton of coke produced, and at the minimum value of $2O per ton this product alone would be worth 20 cents for each ton of coke. .

Two kinds of gas are obtained from coal by means of the retort coke oven system. These are illuminating gas and manufacturing, or fuel, gas. The latter makes a very good substitute for natural gas. The production of illuminating gas in the retort oven involves a change in the operatlon of the oven, so that ordinarily produced gas, with the recuperation of both gas and air, may be burned in the flues instead of the rich coke oven gas. It has been estimated that for each ton of coke produced upward of 8,000 cubic feet of gas is given off, and the entire product yielded annually in the United States by the coking of coal, allowing one-half of the product to be consumed in the coking process, is upward of 60,000,000,000 cubic feet, or but little less than one-fourth of the annual natural gas production during the height of that excitement. . Byproduct oven tar is superior to the tar which comes from the gas works. It contains less pitch. The yicld for each ton of coke varies from 40 to 100 pounds, acoording to the amount of volatile matter contained in the ceal. It has a fuel value equivalent to $5 per ton, or that obtained by coking a ton of coal is worth from 10 to 25 cents. As a roofing and paving material this tar has a value of about $8 per ton.

As a material for the manufacture of fuel briquettes, coke oven tar stands preeminent. In addition to the above uses this tar, after passing through the complex processes of modern chemistry, comes to us in form of aniline dyes, saccharine, benzol and other ixroducts.——William Q. Irwin in Cassier’s Magazine For September. - : .

GOOD AND POOR LIVING.

A Great Deal of the Latter and Little of the Former In the South During the War,

But the frightful mortality of the camp, says Professor B. L. Gilderslesve in the September Atlantic, does not strike the imagination. so forcibly as does the carnage of the battlefield, and no layman cares to analyze hospital reports and compare the medical with the surgical history of the war. Famine, the twin evil of pestilenoe, is not so easily forgotten, and the dominant note of Aristophanes, hunger, was the dominant note of life in the Confederacy, oivil as well as military. The Confederate soldier was often on short rations, but the civilian was not much better off. Ido not mean those whose larders wero swept by the besom of the invaders. “Not & dust of fleur, not an ounce of meat, left in the house,’”’ was not an uncommon cry along the line of march, but it was heard elsewhere, and I remember how I raked up examples of European and Asiatio frugality with which to re-enforce my editorials and hearten my readers—the gcanty fare of the French peasant, the raw oatmeal of the Scotch stonecutter, the flinty bread of the Swiss mountaineer, the Spaniard’s cloves of garlio, the Greek’s handful of olives and the Hindoo’s handful of rice. v

The situation was often gayly accepted. The not infrequent proclamation of fast days always served as a text for mutual banter, and starvation parties were the rule, soclal gatherings at which apples were the chief' refroshment. Strange streaks of luxury varied this dead level of seant and plain fares~ The stock of fine wines, notably madeiras, for which the south was famous, did not all go to the hospitals. Here and there provident souls had laid in boxes of tea and bags of coffee ‘that carried them through the war, and the chief outlay was for sugar, which rose in price as the war went on, until it almost acquired the poetical character it bore in Shakespeare’s time. Sugar, tea and coffee once compassed, the daintiness of old times occasionally came back, and I have been -assured by those who brought gold with them that Richmond was a paradise of cheap and good living during the war. :

The Milkweed and the Bee.

Two months hence an occasional silky messenger will float away from the glistening olouds about the open milkweed pods, but whoever thanks the bees of June for them? The flower is but a bright anticipation—an expression of hope in the being of the parent plant. It has but one mission. All its fragrance, all its nectar, all its beauty of form and hue, are but means toward the consummation of the eternal edict of creation, ‘‘lncrease and multiply.’’ To that end we owe all the infinite forms, designs, tints, decorations, perfumes, mechanisms and other seemingly inexplicable attributes. Itsthreshold must bear its own peculiar welcome to its insect or perhaps to its humming bird friend or counterpart. Its nectars must both tempt and reward him coming and its petals asgist his comfortable tarrying.—William Hamilton Gibson in Harper’s Magazine For September. : :

Wires a Protection Against Lightning,

‘‘People living in cities are prone to believe that the increasing number of telephone, telegraph and trolley wires increases the danger from electrioc storms,’’ writes Kdward W. Bok in the September Ladies’ Home Journal. ‘“On the contrary, the maze of wires is a protection and lessens the danger, since it is shown that where the wires attract the electricity they hold it and discharge it only at the end of the wires in the central station. The faot is that of the 200 lightning accidents every .year only an average of 40 ocour in the cities. The tress in the country are a far greater danger. They acoount for the proportion of four cases in the country to one in the oity.”’ :

Campbell, comparatively unknown, received $18,500 for the ‘‘Pleasures of Hope,” though Burns, less fortunate, was paid $125 for the first ‘Kilmamook edition of his poems—single copies of which now sell for far more—and $4,860 for the second edition. ,

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The Markets

The reaction in wheat during the‘ last week was to be expected after the phenomenally rapid rise from 6ic to $l. The market is now in a natural condition and henceforth may be expected to be governed by crop conditions and demand and supply, as they exist and change from day to day. = But even should wheat not rise permanently above the 90c range, where the December option now is, the farmers of this country are in a position to reap almost incalenlable benefits from the great enhancement already secur~ ed. With corn at 30c or more per bushel the immense supply of that cereal has a value not known for many a day, and the moving to market of so vast an amount means large increase of freight earnings both ways by the railroads. as much of the money obtained by the farmer for his wheat and corn crops will be again put out for manufactured products, necessities and luxuries which must come to him by rail. . This prosperity of the grain belt railroads has already set in, every available car on such lines being now in use. Their securities haye risen greatly in the last two months, in some cases a 8 much as 50 per ‘ceat, and yet their top price is not thought to have been reached. 1t 1s the same with securities in all forms of incorporated business enterprise. : Schwartz, Dupee & Co., whose business embraces stocks and bonds as well as grain, report that not only in this country but in Kurope as well there is no doubt in the minds of financiers that the United States is entering upon an era of good times. There is no longer the feeling of uncertainty as to the financial policy of the goy~ ernment that obtained last fall when the question of the presidency was unsettled, and this has worked wonders in the way of attracting foreign capital to this country. Money was never cheaper in Europe than now, and 1t is being attracted” here by the good earnings and comparatively low prices of our western railroads. The reaction from an unnaturally low and torpid market has come, and our securities in which capitalists of other nations inyest are again on a natural basis, although not a high one. - The grain market was steady today. Official predictions of dry weather in the corn belt for the next thirty-six hours indicated that no immediate improyement in that grain was to be expected, All reports are that for the last week the drouth has seriously injured corn. There were practically nc acceptances of bids sent out Saturday ‘night by prominent corn houses. This indicates that the farmer has found his ‘corn in a precarious condition, depend ent upon Immediate rains to make a good crop, and he does notcare to sell at present prices, although they. are well above those of a month ago. With such an outlook it seems ecertain that present prices will be maintained and very likely improyed upon. The following table shows the range of prices last week and the close today of the principal commodities dealt in on the Chicago Board of Ttrade:

g : Close ; 3 Range last week, Today. Wheat—Sept...o.. .... 91 a51,03%5 89 —PDec........... 881a$l.00 L 8935, Corn—3Bept..ceceenaan. 2838 33 07 - —DeCeanrvnannan., 30 a 35k . 3% Oats—Sopt..eia-nvee.e 18 8 20% 1834 —DeC....coia.. 19%a 224 20 Mess Pork—Bept.....sB.3o a 3.95 $3.87 —0ct..... 8.47%a 9.0217 8.93 Lard—5ept........... 4.5 b a 4.8713 482 . —00 Ct............ 460 & 4.95 4.87 RlDS—BePtocnae..oo.. 520 & 51744 5.75 ~OoCtucererennn.. 520 & 575 5.70 5 New Postal Regulations. The postoflice department at Washington has issued a new order amend-~ ing the postal regulations as to how matter must be presented for registration. The order is of importance to all persons sending registered matter through the mails and is as follows: - “Postmasteis before receiying matter for registration must require the sender to have it fully, legibly and. correctly addressed, the name of the gsender indorsed upon it and, if letters,’ all the contents placed in a firmly: sealed _envelope strong enough to safely carry inclosures in the mails, and to have aflixed the necessary stamps to pay postage and fees. Postmasters and their employves are forbidden to address the matter. place the contents in the enyelope, seal it or affix the stamps. Third and fourthclass matter must also be marked ‘third-class’ or ‘fourth-class,’ as the case may be, and be so wrapped as to gafely bear transportation and easily admit of examination, which the postmaster should make before registering. «‘Many complaints haye been received at the department in relation to losses of contents of registered letters, which inyestigation shows were caused by the poor quality of the envelopes covering the matter registered. Post= masters should require stronger envelopes when the letters presented at registry windows evidently contain coin or bulky matter than would be demanded if the inclosures were apparently of such a character as not to severely test the quality of the envelopes.” e g ‘ This order introduces some decided changes from the former rule. =

A Solemn Truth,

The Columbia City Post hits the spot when it says: ‘“Nearly all business men are at times thrown into competition with firms that are not ens gaged in a legitimate business. A legitimate business is one conducted in such a way that the profits enable the proprietor to pay all debts contracted by bim; to pay taxes, to pay rent, to pay his help, and to meet any obligation to which his word is pledged. The man who does not do this is not doing an honorable business, for in time he fails and somebody must bear the loss.” An establishment in any town conducted on an unprofitable basis is a dama‘ge rather than a benefit to that town.”” The sooner this truth is gens erally recognized in busimess circles the better it will be for the community,

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Wawaka MNews Nuggets. . "- BY ALTA VISTA. - “C. F. Brandeberry was at home over Monday night. - .. Verlie Holey went to Cromwell Sunday on a visit to his parents. ‘ Dr. A. W. Johnson is suffering from a severe attack of biliousness. o - Charles Crane is up from Adams county on a visit to his brother. Alva Hostetter of Jefi;*)n township transacted business here'Saturday. _ Miss Lillie Dotson of Elkhart is visiting ber friend, Miss Nellie Piggott: Miss Maggie Horne of Ligonier 1s gpending a few days with her sister at this place. Mrs. Jacob Lower and stepdaughter spent Saturday and Sunday in Goshen with relatives. . County Surveyor F. B. Moore was in this neighborhood Saturday on ditch business intent. Mr. Calvin Sevmoure of Wollake was the yuest of Miss Pearl Penny last Sunday evening. ‘ Lemon Ebey just couldn’t stay away any longer. He had to see the dear Corunna girl Sunday. . T. C. Smith of York township was in the burg for a short while Saturday on important business. . . A good and much needed rain fell here last Sunday eveuing, bringing joy to the ripening corn. :

‘We are glad to state that Wm, Knepper is recoyering from a serious attack of hemorrhage of the lungs.

~ Miss Edna Mawhorter of Mairmont is in the yillage visiting her sisters and and her cousins and her aunts. Mr. John and Miss Amanda Smith of Arcanum, 0., are visiting the family of W. C. Mummert and family, Harry Williams from Toledo arrived in town Monday to yisit his father-in-law, John Haid, for s short time.

Mr. John Whitcomb of Goshen was in town quite a whi'e Jast week. He is looking up a good location for a meat market.

Mr. and Mrs, C, A. Brant of La Grange, and S. A. Brant ot Madison, Wis.. were the guests of Dr. Seymoure and family recently. e

Henry Haid and Charley MeDonald, popular Lake Shore railroad men, stretched their tired limbs in ‘our burg Saturday. They have many friends here. '

. Those¢ from this vicinity who went on the Grand Army excursion to Buffalo returned Thursday evening, pretty well fagged out, I thank you, but well pleased with the trip. The long winter nights are coming on gradually. This is the time for fireside games, reading and general conversation. Your steck of winter reading ‘will not be complete without The Banner. . .

- We are sorry to chronicle the serious accident that happened to Mr. William Stewart last Friday evening. He sustained a dislocation of the shoulder which Dr. Seymoure reset. The injured man 18 getting along nicely.

We are not dead ‘-intirely;’’ we progress surely but slowly. Dr. Seymoure and Mr. W. C. Mummert have placed new sidewalks along their property. It is sincerely hoped that some others may be mnclined to go and do likewise. . 'I. J. Forrey and family left last Saturday for Clyde. 0., to makea two weeks’ yisit with his parental relatives. - Mr. Thompson takes the responsibility of seeing that eyerything in the drug store will be done according to Hoyle—or /sculapius, as the case may be—during his friend’s absence. S s

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Catarrh is capable of changing all the life-giving -secretions of the body into scalding fluids which destroy and inflame every part they come in contact with. Applications to the places affected by catarrh can do little good save to soothe® or quiet disagreeable symptoms. Hence it is that gargles, sprays, atomizers and inhalants only gerve as temporary relief. An{ medicine to effect a cure must be taken into the system. So long as the irritating secretions of catarrh continue to be formed so long will the membranes continue to be inflamed, no matter what treatment is used. There is but one remedy that has this most desirable effect and that remedy is Pe.ru-na. This remedy strikes at once to the root of the catarrh by restoring to the capillary vessels their healthy elasticity, Pe-ru-na is not a temporary palliative, but a radical cure. Send for Dr. Hartman’s latest book, sent free for a short time. Address The Pe-ru~na Drug Manufac~ turing Co., Columbus. Ohio. ;

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