St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 July 1886 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT. WILL A. ENDLEY, Editor. Entered at the Walkerton Postoflice as second-class mail matter. SUB?CB!FTION: For One Year . . . * . . . 81.50 For Six Months 75 For Three Months 50 WALKERTON, IND., JULY 31, 1886. It is reported that J. B. Stoll, editor of the South Bend Times, yet has a prospect of being appointed public punter. Michigan City announced a grand reunion, but hadn’t the “sand’’ to make the necessary arrangements and the windwork was all there’ll be of it. The Walkerton Independent in an item says that Rayon Beall and brother sold Tom Foster, of this city, over fifteen hundred dollars’ worth of melons last year. --LaPorte Argus. What’ll you bet a dollar that the Independent said “LAbT year?’. Young men out in Minnesota are offering from ten to twenty dollais apiece tor wives, and in Dakota and Montana they even offer to swap a tolerably fair mule even up for wives. Where there is great loss there is usually some small gain. If the dry weather continues much longer corn whiskey will necessarily advance, and the holders thereof net a gain. Old cars are burned and the scrap iron of six traded for a new car. The I. P. & C. in the last few days has served one hundred cars in this way for the Detroit Peninsula car works.—Peru Republican. Yes, since the I. P. & C. has got to advertising in the Independent it’s picking u^ wonderfully. Earthquakes to the number of 246 were recorded during the year 1885. The United States only furnished six of them. The truth is the United States was too busy last year to furnish anything like a fair crop of earthquakes. P. T. Barnum is making his farewell tour in this country. Ue has made arrangements to transport his. the greatest show on earth, across the Atlantic. Europe must have Barnum, you know. Well, America sends Europe many great things. It already has our Joseph Medill, Beecher, etc., and now wants our Barnum. Can't make a non-partisan paper, eh? The fellow who said that must have based it on the broad principle thatHt’s a difficult matter to keep your nose out of other folks’ business. It is a tenfold easier matter to make a non-political paper, from the very fact that an editor of a partisan paper must lie —and that we can’t do. The Walkerton Independent says Walkerton has a store building 139 ieet long. We suppose that the back end of the building stands out in the country unless it stands lengthwise of the town. — Bremen Banner. It stands crosswise, thank you, and the w’hole thing in town at that. But then, it would be pref, erable to have the back end run out in the country than into a German lager beer saloon. Stephen Brodie, once a newsboy and bootblack, last Saturday Jumped from the Biooklyn bridge, a descent of 120 feet, into the wa. ter below. Steve is now the hero of the bootblack society of New York Dilligent search is being made by the society for the hole Steve made in the water, with the intention, if it can be found, of pickeling it to swell the numb " of Barnum’s wonders on his European tour. The LaPorte Argus, in the course of some remarks upon judicious investments in reference to manufacturing enterprise’s, says, “A few hundred dollars donated to an enterprise that has a substantial basis to work on would be worth more to the city than tens of thousands put into a wild cat scheme that offers no reasonable hope of success.” The Argus man is right—and if he can induce the citizens of LaPorte to invest their money in pickle salting factoiks, slat factories and the like, the old dull round of things may yet be changed in that quiet town.

Over in Michigan good milch cows are selling for ten dollars apiece. The drouth is killing all vegetation. The Philadelphia Inquirer spt s ot the Cincinnati Enquirer as “our esteemed Cincinnati contemporary which does not know how to spell its own name.” Inter Ocean: Nothing has so increased the estimate of the Kansas City Times of the Rev. Sam Jones as the fact that “he passed through St. Louis in the night.’’ Graham the Aleck who went over the rapids in a barrel, is about to start a saloon. Bai num is negotiating fur the bung-hole to the barrel tor exhibition in Europe. The editor of the Peru Sentinel tells a snake story fifteen feet long and as big as a telegraph pole. He has only seen\he track cross the road, but hopes to overlake the reptile before many days.—Mentone Gazette. Peru never did handle a decent article of whiskey. “SUotilil be Given u Good Ssipport.” [From the LaPorte Argus ] Wiil Emiley, who lately started the St. Joseph County Independent at Walkerton, is getting up a spicy paper and the people of that locality ought to apreciate his efforts by giving him a good support. In Baltimore one person out of every 14,900 commits suicide; in Boston, one out of every 9,000; in New York, one out every 6,500; in Chicago, one out of every 5,700; in San Francisco, one out of every 2,800; in Walkerton, one out of every—well, we haven’t heard from a few of the back wards yet. Frank Molloy and Mrs. Rose Stern, of LaPorte, were drowned on last Thursday a week while boating on Pine lake, near that place. Frank was sixteen years of age, and was the son of Ed. Molloy, editor of the Herald-Chronicle, of that city, and Mrs. Emma Molloy, the temperance lecturer. If the reports be true, Pretty Lake, three miles west of Plymouth, is getting a reputation nearly as bad as the “Huckleberry Marsh.” Last Sunday there was a jockey boat race, and various other games, a couple of knock downs, a large amount of beer drank, the whole resulting in a general hilarious time. —Plymouth Democrat. Three miles from Plymouth, eh’ That’s closer than the huckleberry marsh is to Walkerton, and don't you forget it. Frank Brown returned Monday evening for his summer vacation, and expects to remain at home a month or more. — Buchanan Record. A mistake, Bro. Holmes; Frank Brown has been taking no vacation. The last week he has been in Elkhart and Goshen selling the double acting, self grinding, self tightening, patent flop-over shears, and on Tuesday, he went to Walkerton as one of the champion base ballista, of this place, to help mop the ground with the Walkerton boys. —Nappanee News. Yes, we can vouch for veracity of the above for we can still hear Frank’s gentle “How’s-’at!’’just before the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand, floating in the air.— Bremen Banner. To help mop the ground with the Walkerton boys, did you say? Yes he mopped—the sweat off his face. Did you hear his gentle “How’s at!” when he returned to Bremen with 11 to 10 in favor of Walkerton? Additional Local News. ’Squire Townsend has. a last year’s pumpkin preserved in good condition. Now, if the ’Squire can trot out re last year’s bird’s nest in an equally good state of pre servation he can have a chromo. Attention is called to the “ad” of Dr. Dowell, the dentist, in this issue. Go to Woodworth’s for your clothing, And see his big long store, G et the full worth of your money, And fool with little shops no more. You can buy mens’ valises of Tom Wolfe for 65 cfs. 11. A. Woodworth seems to be having the largest clothing business. Os course the time he devotes to his business and the prices be sells at entitles him to it. 3jyl For first-class harness go to A. B. Rupel, at the old stand. For first-class goods trimmed according to the latest New York and Chicago styles, please call on Mrs. J. W. Biown. Hats and caps for men, boys and children, 25 cts. to $5, at H. A. Woodworths.

WORTH LIBERTY. Repoi’ted by the Independent's Correspondent. S. B. Davis, <• liter of the McCombs Herald, McCombs, Ohio, vi&ited here during last week. D. R. McKenzie and wife and Daniel Flood went to Chicago last Saturday and retured the Tuesday following. Ac Adam Shultz’s a pair of twins, girls, July 27. At, Geo. Wey’s, a girl, July 19. Rev. Kemp, of Plymouth, held services at the Episcopalian church last Tuesday evening. D. C. Cole will return to Arkansas within a short time. Mrs. Ollie Wilson has been quite sick for some time. Allen Nelson and wife visited at New Carlisle during the past week. Otis Beahm’s sou-in-law and family, of Missouri, are visiting himself and family. Geo. Flood and Dr. J. A. Varier have placed new walks in front of their places of business. The 11. Bowen mill will be in running order within a few days. The 42 x 60 foot business block is fast approaching completion. David Steels children are improving. John H. Geiger was here with his family over Sunday. T. J. Reece will take charge of bis father’s farm soon. He has rented his LaPorte county faun to John Tinkey. rlames N. Reece wiil move his family to this place soon. He is arranging to take a course of medical lectures at Chicago this tall and winter. Capt. Geo. A. Bettcher is at home from Arkansas for a short time. lie will move Lis family there this fail. TWER CiTY. Reposted by the Sndependeait s Coi ricNpondciH, The people in Tyner are sofUring dreadfully on account of the neat, so much so that they nearly all gather around the depot in the shade discussing the probabililies and liabilities of rain and from the noise in discussion and prediction one would naturally think a .bunder storm nut tar off, as the agent has got to sometimes come out ami quell them. Mr. Town, the blind broom maker, was in town Thursday selling brooms, and after he gave them a lew pieces of his talent in vocal and instrumental music they bought all ot bis brooms. Noah Miller has been to Kansas visiting bis daughters, and says he is well pleased with the west. He says that while there be saw a murderer bung. Mr. Sewel, of Allen County, is here visiting his daughter, M.S. \\ m. Wallace, ot tins place. Dr. McCool is having his drug store fitted up in good style, and when he gets through he says he will need lest, as his weight is rather burdensome this hot weather, he weighing 230 or more. Joe Burnside has moved into the Bissel house, and therefore has become a Tynerite, be having sold his home in the country. Geo. Smith, late of Plymouth, has bought himself ami better-half a home in Polk township. It is only a small farm of one acre with a house on it, and cost SBO. Mr. Neff is paying 77 cts. for wheat, but thinks it will be $1 before ’B7. Hank Nell returned from North Carolina last Wednesday evening, and relates many curious incidents of that southern clime. Bill McKesson has taken the agency of selling fanning mills of Puik township, in connection with the pump-driving business, and thinks bis wind will hold out better for fanning mill business than for driving pumps. Mrs. Jennie Tobin, of Indianapolis, is here visiting her friend, Mrs. Sherwood. Dr. Richardson has gone into more lucrative business than tend ing to the doctor’s business, since Dr. McCool has set up here. He has since then bought a Jersey bull for SBO. Tom Hupp, of Plymouth, is canvassing the county with ihe Adams impioved plow, and says he has sold quite a number this week in this township. Well, everything moves along in this town as usual since the collision on the Wabash road. GROVER S OWNRcported DtSae independent's € orrespondent. [The following items were intended for last week’s issue, but came too late for publication.] A new improvement in town. Isaac Morrow has built a barn.

The Misses Emma and Lilly Yeager and Ida Groshans are attending the normal at Knox. That brick store building is quite an imposing structure. Crops around here will not amount to much unless we get some rain soon. There is strong talk of a creamery at this place. Sam Boots lias the nicest oats in (his vicinity. Sam is a first-class fanner. Persons wishing to enjoy good health will find Grovertown a good place. M. D. 4 STCCESSFUE IXSIRAVCE comp The American Mutual Life and Accident Association, of South Bend, was organized September 19, 18d0, and incorporated under the laws of the state. Since then it has steadily advanced, through its merits, in popularity, and to an enviable position among the successful and reliable insurance companies of the west. Its business lias been marked by a steady, healthy growth from the first, and at present, extends over a vast amount of territory. In South Bend alone, right at its own home, where it is so well known and enjoys the confidence ot all, both the laboring and business classes, the company wrote, June 19, $200,000 worth of insurance. This fact alone is a recommendation for the company. Its officers, the following gentlemen, are among South Bend’s most prominent and trustworthy citizens: Mayor George Loughman, president; Hon. Andrew Anderson, chairman executive committee; Elmer Crockett, treasurer, and Dr. C. A Dougherty, medical director. The system of this company furnishes insurance at exact cost upon the actual mortality instead of upon an Resumed death rate. All surplus accrues to members only. The conditions of membership are as follows: Each applicant for membership must make and sign a written application and submit to a thorough medical examination, and will then be required to pay an admE.-ion fee and the tee for the medical examiner. The fee for admission ami medical examination is payable once only. Certificates of membership in this association are exempt by the laws of the state of Indiana fr m claims by creditors, ami cannot be seized to pay any debt or liability of a deceased member. This statute applies to •: H the member^. There aie no stockholder.^ to absorb the profits; ami no sin plus is divided among it < < flic, is or dilectois. Under their system one half the cost is saved to its mem bers of what equal indemnity would cost in any stock company. The South Bend papers have the following to say respecting the association: South Bend Register: This apparent confidence ot the public in the American is not misplace d. The managers of the association are doing everything that competent and honorable men can do to win it ami merit it. Every detail of the bu iness is closely scrutinized by the board of directors and conducted in strict confoimity to the laws of the state, which gives ample protection to policy holders, and every claim is promptly adjusted and paid, as a long list of certificates will attest. The object us the company is perpetuity ami the upbuilding of an institution that will be a credit to the managers and the state under whose laws it is operated and afford protection to policy holders at reasonable rates. South Bend Tribune: The officers of the company are pushing' the work vigorously and intend to build up the largest insurance company in the west. Every detail is systematically managed and given the closest scrutiny. No honorary officers or directors but every one a worker and alive to the interests ot the company. We predict for the American a record of success in the future that will class it among the best in the country. South Bend Times: This company is to be “the” insurance company of the great west, and the people of this city are proud of its surprising progress. S. H. Kahn, general agent for the association, has appointed Dr. C. W. Moore, medical director at this place, and Geo. Paul, agent, who is at present organizing a local board in this place. Tho^e de siring life or accident insurance in a fair and square company can transact sm h business by calling ol< Geo. Paul. ACTIVE, PUSHING AND RELIABLE. Dr. Arlington can always be relied upon to carrv in stock the purest and best goods, and sustain the reputation of being active, pushing and reliable, by recommending articles with well established merit and such as are popular. Having , ! the agency for the celebrated Dr. King's New Disi covery for consumption, colds and coughs, will I sell it on a positive guarantee. It will surely I cure any and every affection of throat, lungs, or chest, and in order to prove our claim we ask you to call and get a Trial Bottle free

HUMAN BEAUTY. It Is All Well Enough, But Doesn’t Last LongJennie Chamberlain is now generally quoted as the beauty of the day. It seems unfortunate that she was not here in New York when Forepaugh advertised for the handsomest'woman, since she might have carried off the SIO,OOO prize. As she is now, however, surrounded by titled admirers in England, she may do equally well. Her portrait has been painted by a London artist, which certainly is important, considering the evanescent character of the original. Beauty, alas, is so shortlived, and then what an effort it must be to resist the inevitable change which time so cruelly brings! This leads Young to rather unkindly exclaim: Ah! Why so vain, though"blooming in tho Spring, Thou shining, frail, adored and wretched thing, Old age will <■ me, disease may come before, Fifteen is fun as mortal as three score. Another poet (Blair), who is still more severe, writes thus: Beauty! thou petty plaything—dear deceit. That steals so swiftly o’er the stripling’s heart, And gives a pulse hover known before, The grave discredits thee. When tiny ofte expects to travel through life on good looks there must be a fearful consciousness of what Pope says: Years following years steal something every day. And in view of this sad result, he also exclaims: Was it for this you took such constant care The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare; For this your locks in paper durance hound, For this with tori uring irons wreatlu d around, For this with iillets strained your tender h :id, And bravely bore the double loads of lead? Methinks already I your o ars survey, Already hear the horrid things they say. Johnson’s ideas. Johnson viewed beauty (as ho did everything) from the darker side of experience, as may be seen from the following extract from the "Vanity of Human Wishes:” The teeming mother anxious for her race. Begs for each birth Hie fortune of a face; Yet Vane could tell what ill from beauty spring, And Sedley cursed the form that pleased the King. Pope, in his epistle to Fanny Blount, moralizes thus: Trust not too much your now resistless charms Which age or sickness soon or Into disarms. Love raised on beauty will like that decay. Our hearts may bear its slender chain a day; As flowery bands in want nness are worn, A morning's pleasure and al ev •ning torn. He repeats tills idea in another place thus: Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll. Charms strike the si :ut, but merit wins the soul. This leads to the remark that often the highest order of attractions is found among plain-looking persons, or in other words, that true beauty is charaeter expt ’ssed throu rh the tea'ures—an idea tlius neatly rendered by Young: Waal's female beau y, but an air divine, Tlncug l ; whie'i tile w ads oil go.itle graces shine. llot'c-' men are < fton cap ivo of a face They not wi,y—■ t n > p 'vu'iar .o nce. That this is often lite ease is often prov. l ia tho mnfleet endured by the doll-faeed beautu t when under that rivalry which the poet so neatly described in the above ex'u act. -■ " .a- --< i in tiu ciu ri' ‘ rat. Fun with the New Mac!:hic. The police force have a good joke on ; a new member. It appears that the | laic addition t • "uic lines:" was fur- | nished with a tire-aiarnr Ley, and m ver having seen the in.-dde id' one ot ihese | boxes thought he w< ui<l ca ..■■ten him- ' self as to the I ; ■ 'll wards < o' I iiese bv means < I -k y. H ■ >t im box open all r:cL m . "’r u be h id dosed the box again he was norritied to iiud | that he curnd m>t extra . key. A brother idie. r coming alang kindly informed the v>■ : !U (mit it would be as much as his lil'e was worth to go away ami leave the key in tne box. as some fellow might com.' ahmg amt turn on a lai - ■ ii'arm. So the new man "iingered near," iix " Mary’s little lamb after tho tea.'he" ha I pd it out. till Stq crinb ndent Coilce eould be ' .und. The policeman need not feel sore over the matter, for there is a young man in town who rushed to a box to turn in an alarm, but who, when he had opened the box. did nothing but stand and shout tire into it as if ii wore a telephone, V regonian. LOCAL NEWS. The Rich and Poor will all be served alike, by receiving a statement for amount they owe me. If they don't pay the same the first of the coming week, after getting the statement, then look for the constable, as I must collect what is due me. T. J. Wolfe. According to the Plymouth Democrat the hail storm of last Monday knocked things in Burr Oak Flats flatter than the man is who don't read the newspapers. । Rumor has it that they had a ’ pleasant little boxing match at the dance Thursday night. A few hot boxes. I James Ryder, aged 14 years, son of Daniel Ryder, was driving on a mower when the team was attacked by a nest of bumble bees ' and ran away inflicting quite an extensive injury upon the lower part of the abdomen, Dr. Arlington reports. COLD CLOTHES! The beA gradle of seersuckers coats and vests at Tom Wolfe’s, , for $1.50; cheap grade, 75 cts. Ask Dave Petrie to show you 1 the latest style cut in bustles j24y i , WONDERFUL CURES. W D. Hoyt & Co., wholesale and retail druggists of Rome, Ga., say: We have been selling Dr King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters and Buekleu’s Arnica Salve for two years. Have never handled remedies that sell as well, or give sueh universal satisfaction. there haw: been some wonderful cures effected by these medicines > in this city. Several cases of pronounced Con- - sumption have been entirely cured by use of a I few bottles Os Dr. King’s Now Discovery, taken - in connection with Electric Bitters. We guarj antee them always. Sold by Dr. Arlington. H. A. Woodworth, the cheap and * reliable clothier.

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