St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 13, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 October 1887 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENTA NEWSPAPER, NON-PABTISAN. WILL A. ENDLEY, Editor. Entered at the WaKertoxv Postoflice at second class' rates. Subscription: For One Year 1.50 For Six Months 75 For Three Months .40 If paid promptly in advance a discount of 25 cents on the year will be allowed. XA cross marked with a blue pencil on the margin of your paper indicates that your term of subscription to this paper has expired. If you are in arrearages please settle at once, and notify us promptly if you wish the paper continued. W. A. ENDLEY, Plbushkk. WALKERTON IND., OCT. 8, 1887 We arc in receipt of the annual report of Commissioner Black, of the pension department, for 1887. The Farmer’s Review, of Chicago, estimates the porn crop of 1887 at thirteen hundred million bushels. - Cleveland should have remained at least three days in Chicago. He probably did not have the time to visit any of the dime museums. The wheat crop in Indiana, this season, amounts to about 40,000,000 bushels, this being about the largest crop of any state in the Union. Democrats and Republicans alike seemed to be anxious to see President Cleveland at Chicago. Even anarchists manifested an anxiety to see him President Cleveland, the lucky man, we venture, saw the biggest crowd in Chicago last Wednesday that he ever saw in his life. Wonder what he thinks of the rural district by this time. A New Yorker has invented a vacuum but the authorities in Washington refuse to grant him a patent on it. They say his vacuum is a bare faced infringement on the dude’s head, —Norristown Herald. The Indians on the San Carlos reservation, in Arizona, have gone on the •war-path. No lives have been lost, but much stock is missing. The troops at Nogales have been ordered to pursue and bring in the savages. .The LaPorte Herald-Chronicle of this week is out with a great long editorial on death, and wants everybody to take good care of thqmselves and not die, or be sure and be ready for it when it does come. So now lookout. President Cleveland is the first Democratic President to visit Indianapolis since Martin Van Buren was there, the latter having made a tour, including that city, and traveling in a coach, no railroads traversing the State. The Soldiers’ Encampment, the ex- ' position and the low rates on railroads drew an immense crowd to Chicago this week. A great many of the visitors also took a look at Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, inasmuch as they dropped in on them. President Cleveland made an excellent and appropriate reply to Mayor Roche’s speech in receiving him at Chicago Wednesday morning. We did not hear the Presidents' reply, but learn on good authority that it was couched in language appropriate to the occasion. The President states that he is not to be considered as preparing a bill for ■ the reduction of -tariff duties, as he does not care to be placed in the attitude of interfering with the powers and privileges of the legislative branch of the government. He says, however, that he regards the highest duty of the •Democratic House to be the reduction of taxes, and when the proper time arrives, he will plainly express himself on the subject. A Washington Dispatch says that the states of Ohio and Indiana filed the highest number of original applications for pensions and received the highest number of pension certificates during the month of August of any two states in the Union. The number of , original applications (each class) filed , from the state of Indiana during the , month of August were as follows: 482 invalids, 98 widows, 35 minors, 22 mothers and 5 fataers—total, 642. The ( number of certificates of each class is- . sued to applicants from Indiana during , the same period were 260 invalids, 43 ( widows, six minors, 18 mothers and 7 fathers —total, 334. Don’t be ashamed, my lad if you have a patch on your elbow. It is no marx of disgrace. It speaks well for your industrious mother. For our part we would rather see a dozen patches on your jacket than to know you were dishonest, No good boy will shun you because you cannot dress as well as your companions; and if a boy sometimes laughs at your appearance, say nothing, my lad, but work on. We ~ know many rich and good men who . were once poor and friendless boys; and if you are poor and upright you will be respected a great deal more than if you were the son of a rich man and addicted to bad habits.—Ex.

Sic Itur Ad Astra. Thou selfish one who seekest heaven Through fear of final fire, And never had for heaven itself The first sincere desire. (i Supreme unselfishness alone Can for the skies prepa re, And he alone may hope for heaven ' Who loveth what is there. Thou asking God to grant the boon , . Thou has not tried to win, Beseeching his forgiving grace, Yet never hating sin.' .( And, coward, whining for the heaven Where only brave souls are— Whoever in the realms of space Resolves that happy star. 1 The object of the good man's hope And goal of all his quest; 1 Bright sphere of life and growth and joy, And work that givelh rest— That place of earth is nearest heaven Where the unselfish dwell, And where there is but selfishness There needs no other hell. And thou who deemest 'f is decreed, 1 By mandate of thy Ged, That thou be favored in His sight And spared the fateful rod. Which thou dost think is wholly right For those despised by thee, And therefore doomed by Him to wrath To all eternity— It was a fratricide declared His brother not his care, And he alone is sure of heaven Who leads another there. —[Aella Greene. Simon Cameron is now the oldest surviving United States ex-Senator. He was born in 1799 Next to him are Jefferson Davis, born in 1808, and Hannibal Hamlin, born 1809. J' M. Bailey, once famous as the humorist of the Danbury, Conn., News, is having a hard time in the domestic matters. His wife is insane and demands his entire attention. He is obliged to dress her, arrange her hair and attend to all her wants. His devotion is said to be heroic. The President and his party will not violate the interstate commerce law during the impending tour, but will pay their fare as they should do. The cost of the trip, it is estimated, will be $1,500, and not SIO,OOO, as some excitable newspapers Lave stated. A California millionaire, who died uot long ago, bequeathed $1,600,000 k> the two daughters of a lawyer at Nashville, Tenn., ns a testimonial of gratitude to the lawyer at Nashville, as he loaned him SIOO when he went to California and was greatly in need of funds. The Colored Masons of Greenwood, Miss., in order to regulate the affairs of their own people who violate the laws, have recently lynched Henry Taylor and his wife, accused of murder. They are also credited with having hanged George Evans in July. It is said that they have taken an oath to avenge the death of a brother Mason. Richard G. Cooper, cashier of the Farmers' Bank, of New Castle, Del., is made of the proper material. Early Friday morning the bank building was entered by masked burglars, who leveled a pistol at Mr. Cooper, and ordered him not say a word.- The cashier remarked that Ue would not, and at the same instant drew his revolver and fired, wounding one of the wouldbe robbers, who was dragged out by his companions and carried away. Camp Colfax. In naming the same after the late Vice-President and genial fellow townsman, the executive committee of the soldiers’ reunion have paid a tender and fitting homage to his memory. In the shadow of his tomb there will assemble old veterans of the late war. The famous Camp Colfax of ’6l, the rendezvous of the gallant 9th Indiana at LaPorte, will reopen at South Bend in 'B7, there to receive in the light of peace the survivors of that and all other regiments and commands of Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana, and they will all look back with tender reverence to the memory of that man who used his best endeavors in behalf of those who stood four years between the country and the country’s life and who will one by one join him in the Camp of Rest.—Sou*h Bend Times. The following is the actual production of a boy who who was directed to write a composition, and selected the subject “Water,”: Water is found most everywhere especially when it rains, as did the other day till our cellar was half full. Jane had to wear father’s rubber boots and get the onions for dinner. Onions make your eyes water; and so does horse-radish when you eat to much.—There is a good many kinds of water in the world; rain water, soda water, well water, holy water and brine. —There is a girl in our school named Waterman. All the boys say, “Water man you are,” and then she gets mad. —Water is used for a great many things. Sailors use it to go to sea on. If there wasn’t any ocean their ships couldn’t float, and they would have to go ashore. Water is good to make dams in, and to fire at the boys with a squirt gun, and to catch fish in. My father caught a big one the other day, and when he hauledit up it was an eel.—Nobody could be saved from drowning if there wasn’t any water to pull them out of. Water is first rate to put out fires with. I love to go to fires and see the men work with the engines. This is all that I can think of now about water —except the flood.

— PERSONAL. POINTS. Geo. Ross went to LaPorte last Monday. Charlie Granger went to LaPorte Tuesday. Mrs. S. F. Ross and daughter Jessie are visiting at Ligonier. Miss Ella Swank is learning the dressmaking trade in Chicago. Attorney H. R. Robbins, of Knox, called on us while in town last Tuesday. George Firestone, of LaPorte City, la., was the guest of H. H. Brown here this week. Mrs. Addie Williams is visiting with her sister, Mrs. A. B. Decker, of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. A. Petrie returned from Chicago last Thursday, after a visit of two weeks in the city. Bert Briggs, of Brimfield, this state, is employed as night operator at the B. & 0. depot, for a short time. Harvey Webster and his sister, Miss Jennie, of near South Bend, were in this place this week visiting friends. Rev. Peter Hummer and wife left here Wednesday morning for Jamestown, 0., where they will make a visit of about two months with relatives. Doc. Arlington and Esq. Roderick were summoned to Plymouth Monday as witnesses in the Syl. Martin trial which is set for the 11th of November. Charlie Leßoy has returned to this place from Central City, Neb., and will remain here until spring. Miss. Exie Smith and Mrs. Poffenberger of Mentone, Ind., stopped off here last Monday while on their way to Chicago to purchase their stock of fall millinery goods. Mr. Barnhart, of Walkerton, in company with his brother-in-law, M. G. Walter, paid us a pleasant visit last Friday. Mr. Barnhart visited several days here. —Bremen Enquirer. The following Walkerton people went to Chicago this week : Attorney Dailey and wife, E. J, Vincent, S. F. Ross, Joe Endlev and wife, Dr. J. F. Endley and wife, Jake Taylor, Sam Hudelmyerand wife, Mrs. Dr. Smith, Mrs. Theron Wolfe, Ed. Henderson, Miss Ida Beach, W. T. Rogers and son, K. C. Kneisley and wife, Sam Smith and wife, Dan Brubaker and wife, Eli Rensberger and daughter, the Misses Millard, Miss Lizzie Arnold. NEIGIIWIIToOIT NEWS. ISLAND ITEMS. Last Sunday was a beautiful day. The new sown wheat is up and looking splendidHot Dare is attending school in Walkerton. Addison Snell made a flying trip to the Island last week. A good many from this place attended the fair at LaPorte. A few of the finny tribe are being taken in at the Kankakee. Lee Kirtsinger has sold his personal property and will start for Kansas in about a week. Postmaster Taylor's wife and son, of Stillwell, were on the Island last Sunday. Mrs. Charlie Wisenbaugh, of New Puns, 0., is visiting relatives in this vicinity. Mrs. Phillip Weller and son Louie, who have been visiting relatives in LaPorte for a week past, have returned home. The prayer meetings at the Island Church have been changed to Wednesday evening for the benefit of the pastor, Rev. CainThe editor of the Independent says, “Why uot have a fair in Walkerton.’’ So do (eye). That’s right—who next? Say, Coon, Dick says you don’t know anything about his getting left, but you are a good guesser just the same. Walter McCool taught school last Wednesday for C. S. Robbins, Charlie being laid up with a sprained foot. The graveling that has been done on the LaPorte road between the Island and Walkeiton was donated by the farmers and not done by Trustee Ross, as stated in last week’s Independent. If we don’t donate our work we can’t have graveled roads out this way, That’s right, Mr. Editor. Tyler TYNER CITY. Lonnie Fink is home again to spend a few weeks. There was a law-suit in town this week, all on account of some HillsGeorge Morris feels, oh! how pleased to think it's a girl this time. Our select school closed Tuesday. Did not learn the reason why. What's that you say? A new girl baby at Bill McKesson's? How is it, Bill? Now what can the matter be? The M. E. church bell has not been beard for several months. There were two young ladies on our streets last Thursday using rather profane language for ladies. There was a dance at Johnson’s hall Friday night, and a lively fight during the time of the dance, we hear. John D. Troyer was seen flying around Tjner Saturday. Come often, John, she gets lonesome without you. Mr. Neff, the agent, has gone to Peru to spend a few weeks. He has been in very poor health for some time. Dr. Moore has his store-room almost ready to move into. The second coat ol plaster is being pat on to-day. We are sorry to see so many of oui young ladies quarreling on the street on Sunday. Girls it looks bad to whoop and yell at each other on Sunday. Hope we won’t hear of anything of the kind again. Rollo. MARSHALL COUNTY ITEMS. TWIN LAKE. The people are still sowing wheat notwithstanding its low price. A belling at father Bergner's in honor

of-Cyrus Zehner and a Miss Bergners. j Norman Myers, a boy 12 years old, ac eideirtly shot himself in the thigh with a little pop. Through the unceasing energy of Grube & Shively we succeeded in getting a post- . office at Twin Lakes. Steve Hampton is building a new house 1 while Mr. Fletchner is erecting a new barn ] and Mat Lowry is overhauling his house, । and so goes the world. Sam Miller took a lot of sheep to Chicago for his pa. P. I. Giube thinks the Independent is„ the boss paper for continued stories. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hohn took a view of the Chicago exposition two days last week, while Gus Seider is taking it in this week. Francis Kepler moved into his grandma’s house. Pete Holin bought a 15-acre home for one of his boys for SSOO. Charlie Anderson is peddling beef for Crawford & Co. Charlie Stuck is fattening hogs on shares. P. I. Grube has bought a new farm too —4O acres of land for $1,500; will move on it the first of November. Jeff Nickels and family, of Koontz's Lake, is here at Pete’s house on a vis- , it and fishing and hunting expedition. Found between here and the late , postoflice a noble reputation; the owner can have the same by applying to Sam Miller and paying for this inserr tion. ' 4 • A fur dealer could do well by calling , on Bill Bliffner as - he has lately dispatched three cats that were snooping in his cellar and helping themselves to ’ milk and cream. Lost^saya one, I lost, sight of Cleveland in Chicago while he was parading - the streets with the boys. ‘ WANTED, IN WEST TOWNSHIP AND ELSKf WHERE. A few Old maids to deliver the mail _ to distinguished parties from our new postoflice. t A competent man to paint the Twin 1 Lake church. Seven old grass widows to deliver t drugs, medicines and perfumery for , the editor of the Stunner of Walkerton. I a A wise man to induce Joe Endley to I continue editing the attractive Stunner 1 as all seem to think of stopping their i paper (the Independent) if the Stunner , does nut accompany it. > An experienced bootblack to black i our new postmaster’s boots twice a day. । A smart man to engage with P. I. 3 Grube to learn to put on weather strips as he now feels like retiring from the business with plenty of cash. • A lot of little boys to hunt up jobs lor Si Kepler as he does uot kuow what to engage in.

Bill Bliffner The People. Os Fort Wayne Wild with Excitement Over Assessor Schroeder’s Report. Messrs. Dreir X Bro., Druggist, Fort Wayne e Ind.: Gentlemen—This is to certify that I suf- * sered severly this spring with intlamatory rheumatism. After trying quite a’number r of rheumatic remedies and getting little or no relief, by your reecommendation I . tried Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and plasters with the happiest results, .curing f me entirely in about ten days, and have had no return of it since- I cheerfully rccomf mend Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters to my suffering friends. ■ • Cbas. J. H. Schroeder,- '* ’ j. 97 Brod Way. Hibbard’s lUieumatic ' Syr.up is put ’ up in large packages. Its peculiar comr bination makes it a specific for all Blood, Kidney and Liver - diseases. lor 1 a billions or a constipated person it y has no equal. Read our pamphletaud '• learn of the great medicinal Value of the remedies which enter into its composition. For sale by J. Endley. Price l ’ one dollar per bottle; six bottles five 0 dollars. ' Additional Local News. t The B. &O.R. R. Co. will sell round - trip tickets to Chicago at low excursion rates, from Oct. 1 to 20. j Don’t forget it, Vincent wont be uns der sold in furniture. 1 — t New goods are being received at Vini cent’s mammoth furniture store. If you need pure wines and liquors for sickness go to Craft’s Drug Store and get the best. MONET TO LOAM. Several thousand dollars to loan. One to five years time on first mortgage real estate security, at 7 per cent ’’ per annum. D. W. Place. o Dr. Arlington’s office next door to Rensberger's grocery. , i ■ , — _. Call at the Independent office and get a sample copy of the American Farmer. . ' The Independent office is prepared ] to do all kinds of job printing neatly, and at low rates. r If you want an excellent farm journal free, pay your subscription to the IndeU pendent one year in advance. g That hacking cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh’s cure. We guarantee. e WILL YOU SUFI ER with Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is guaranteed to 0 cure you. y SLEEPLESS NIGHTS made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the remedy for you. t £ CATARRH CURED, health and s w eet breath secured, by Shilosh’s Catarrh Remedy. Price 50 cents. Nasal Injector free. Sold by G. R.Craft. r a 1 Wives! Mothers! Daughters! e BE YOUR OWN PHYSICIAN! A lady who foe years suffered from distressing female complaints, weaknesses, etc., so common to her sex, and had despaired of a cure, finally found remedies which completely cured her. Any sufferer can use them and thus cure herself, without the aid of a physician. Two recipes, treatise and full directions free. Sealed. Address MRS. W. C. HOLMES, SSB Broadway, N. Y. (Name this paper.) yi3n!2[Xi r

REPORT FROM WARSAW, Ind. ' Alex Crip®e Says There is Nothing * Equal to Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup. I. D. Webb, Drug., Warsaw, Ind. Dear Sir—l take great pleasure in thanking you for advising me to try Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters. I have ( been effected with rheumatism, more or less, all my life. I have used six bottles and four plasters, and am now nearly wellI received wonderful benefit from the very first. You need not hesitate to recommend these remedies, for 1 believe them to be of , great value. Yours truly, July 14, 1887. Alex Crispe. Hibbald's Rheumatic Syrup in put up ( in large packages. Its peculiar combination makes it a specific for all Blood, Kidney and Liver diseases. For a billions or a constipated person j it has no equal. Read our pamphlet and learn of the great medical value of the remedies which enter into its composition. For sale bv J. Endley. Why will you be troubled with Sprainsand bruises, Old sores and ulcers, Neuralgia and toothache, Salt Rheum or Eczema, Scald head and ringworm, Pain in the back and spine, Swelling of the joints, and not try Beirgs’ Tropical Oil, if it does not relieve it will cost you nothing as we warrant every bottle. Geo. Craft, Druggist. Dr. Arlington’s Office next door to Rensberger’s grocery. Galls in town or country promptly answered. THE~AMERICAN FARMER free for one year to cash in advance subscribers of THE INDEPENDEx T. Geo. W. Huntoon, of LaPorte, is agent for iron fences for cemeteries and other purposes. Call at this office, or address Mr. Huntoon at LaPorte for particulars. Dr. Arlington intends to remain permanently in WalKerton and in the future will devote his whole attention to the practice of medicine aud Surgery. Calls promptly answered night or day. Office uext door to Rensberger. "HACKMETACK" ft lasting and fragrant per fume. Price 25 and 50 cents. SHILOH’S CURE will immediately relieve Croup, Whooping Cough, and Bronchitis. FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shiloh's Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. A NASAL INJECTOR free with each bottle of Shiloh’s Cataarh Remedy. Price aO rents. Sold by Geo. R. Craft. Just received at Vincent's, a nice line of all kinds of furniture.

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Great slaughter oft 9 I Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, shoes, d I have removed to the NEW BRJw BLOCK and have opened up 1 with the LARGEST and BEST SELECTED st^ of goods in my line ever seen in W akerton-1 Come and see the New GoodJ| AND - » ♦ Low Prices! fl Broken Suits, heavy Underwear, Kip etc., at cost. Odd Coats. Hats and Caps regH lessof cost. 200 Boys’ Vests at 10 and2o Tom Wolfe, ii. 1......। '■ 11 ■■ ■ »—■ —— ? J. WILLIS COTTON, Studebaker wagons and bu^MH Roller Grain Drills, Reed’s spdH tooth harrows, spiral sprid^H Buggies IS Staver buggies and carriages, Wia* kler Bros.’ South Bend buggioE New Home sewing machines, American Sewing Machines Bissell’s plows and extras, Fairfield plows m repairs, Moline Steel Empress plows, steel harrows with 40, 60 or 80 teeth. Prices W 88 to 815- Sewing machine needles, oils^ extras. Your trade respectfully soliciw^ "■ ■ ■ J. WILLIS COTTON, Walkerton, Ihd.^ft^ a r M i i j Hfl We Don't Want the EartllißH MODEST PRICES WILL SATISFY US. wIIFN -IN ANYTHING IN THE HARDWARE LINE IT WILL INTEREST TO GIVE US A CALL. WE ARE SELLING THE BEST GASOLINE STOVEsflft IN THE MARKET—THE GOLDEN STAR AND JEWEL. 3- 1 I ARE ECONOMICAL, SAVING MUCH FUEL ANM DURING THE HOT SUMMER MONTHS. THEY ARflflfl VENIENCETHAT EVERY HOUSEKEEPER SHOULD CALL AND SEE THEM. WE CARRY A FULL STOCK OF BUILDING ANPljfliP MATERIAL, PAINTS AND OILS, fl DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, IRON AND WOODS# • > TINWARE, etv., etc. CALL AND SEE OUR FINE LINED STOVES. REPAIRING TINWARE, AND ROOFING ,y - I ■w? S« F. Ross |H| V