St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 October 1888 — Page 3

Town and Oonn tv» Try Reid’s eigarti. “Thay’reall right.” Scarlet fever prevails in Kendallville, this state. Why don't the Marshal excuse us, there is none. More street lamps is what we want. Let there be light. Bremen will hold a township fair on the 24th of October. The law permits the slaughter of quail until Dec. 20. After the first Monday in November taxes become delinquent. All goods new and fresh and warranted strictly pure, at Reid’s. Last Tuesday ended the series of low-rate excursions to Chicago. There are three females in the Noble countyya.il. That's tough, don’t it. 'The “Peri Pearl” writing paper —also fine box paper, at Reid's new drug store. Dr. Arlington has the hearty thanks of the Independent for favors conferred. Emmett Nichols is empk yed as bartender in J. W. Brown’s saloon and Billiard hall. Fresh peaches just received from Michigan. at Elwood McDaniels. Price per bushel, .$2 Hog cholera is said to be killing off a great many swine in the south part of Marshall county. We can say to you, that of our citizens riot a few, went down to Peru, to attend the barbecue. Wolfenbarger Bros. have torn down .the,old barn in which they formerly kept their livery stock. Note heads, letter heads and bill heads neatly printed and put up in tablets at the Independent office. Numerous hunting parties are going to the KankaK.ee marsh in quest of ducks which are getting to be plentiful. William Crews, one of South Bend's ■oldest citizens, died Tuesday. He was .at one time city marshal of South Bend. If you want a monument for your friend's grave call at A incent’s furniture store and see designs and learn prices. The Lake Erie & Western pay car ■distributed a portion of its wealth among the jailroad boys at- this place last Tuesday. The voter who has moved from one precinct to another since the Bth of October will not be allowed to vote at the election. .The protracted meeting which began at the Advent church last week is still in progress. There is a large attend■ance each evening. We heard a man say ( . man who reads) that the B, A O. had more wrecks than any other ten roads he knew of. It has less time cards, too. You will please lobk bvei the advertisement in this issue of McDuffie A - Blue, the enterprising real estate and e loan agents of Plymouth. Call and sample our fine perfumes— Lotus Flower, Fraugipannii, White Rose, jockey Club and Letlow’s goods at Reid's new drug store. Mrs. Dr. Smith has just returned I from Chicago with a fine and carefully selected stock of fall and winter goods. ; Ladies please .call and examine. Mrs. Brown has just received another new lot of Fall and Winter goods, including the latest novelties in fancy feathers, felt crowns, plushes, ribbons, etc. Every one who buys 10 cents worth of tobaefco gt Adam Baugher's has a chance of. drawing a fine new double barreled shot-gun which cost $22.50. The drawing will take place in ninety days. Millards’have received a large stock of brand new styles fa winter goods, such as hats, trimmings, fancy goods and the like. The Judies will find a large and fine stock to .select from. Dr. Cooper, the dude dentist, of South Rend, who was recently held to the St. Joseph county circuit court, to answer to the charge of t ml czzlement, was discharged by Judge Noyes ia t 3Tomlam

Typhoid fever is prevalent at LaPort e, the Post says. Dr. M. A. Schutt, dentist, guarantees all his work. Office with Dr. Endley. Sum Robbins has purchased the Richard Goit property in the southwest part of town. Just go to Vincent’s furniture store । and see yourself in those new style mirrors, which he is selling so cheap. No place like Vincent’s to buy furniture. Why, people come from Garrett, Plymouth and other towns to buy of Vincent. I keep for medical use only, pure whisKies, wines, brandies, gins, rum, etc. When in need of such call and see me. J. F. Reid, Druggist. The Prohibition party has tjuite a following at New Carlisle, and the Prohibitionists there are doing some vigorous campaign work. The campaign will soon be over and then people will settledown to business and Walkerton will then be very much in need of a bank. “By old 46 run clear through into her sand-box,” is what we overheard an Exterminator employe say about the wreck at Tracy’s Siding. An “Empire State” potato weighing four pounds, and raised by Frank Smeltz. of near this'place, is on exhibition at Adam Baugher’s grocery. Don’t fail to read the advertisement in this paper of the Stephens Store Company. Some pointers there. The judicious advertiser is the one who generally does the busim -s. There has been no school in the high school department since Wednesday forenoon, on account of Prof. Barber being called away byji telegram to the bedside of hh sister, who is seriously ill. Senator James Willard will address the people of Walkerton and vicinity Friday evening, Oct. 26, at Bender’s hall, on the issues of the campaign, from a Democratic standpoint. Everybody cordially invited. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give a New England Supper Wednesday evening, Oct. 24, in the Presbyterian church building. Admission including supper 15 cents. Everybody invited. Bill Hileman caught a pike in the mouth of the Little Kankakee, weighin ■i ' ’ pounds. We would think that it .. ould require the Big Kankakee to have a month Darge enough to hold such a fish. The LaPorte Herald-Chronicle, is a mammoth paper, publishing as it does twelve pages, eight columns to the page, every week. The Herald-Chron-icle is doing yeoman service for the cari&cof Republicanism in this campaign. Dan McDonald, editor of the Plymouth Democrat, returned to his home at Plymouth a few days ago from Washington, where he holds a position as clerk of one of the congressional committees. He will return to his official duties upon the convening of Congress in December. Charles Pool is preparing to erect a very good styled and commodious residence on Place's addition. The extension of Seventh street through Mr. Places possessions has already been the cause of the addition of several new and quite respectable residences to the town of Wa'kerton. The Exterminator, we would have you to know, played us a dirty, nasty trick; used the Independent about as mean as it has some of its employes, and to be horrid mean is something to which that company is by no means a stranger. We therefore propose to never let up on recording its wrecks and exposing its mean tricks until they apologize or kill us, and to effect the latter we do not believe they will have to use a shot-gun if we ride w ith them very often. We want it distinctly understood that the Three I road is not a dead letter by any means. It is believed that the great Saute Fe Company will sooner or later control that road and extend it to Walkerton for the purpose of connecting it with the Baltimore & Ohio. In that event Walkerton would almost double the population in one year. Parties who have a little surplus money (this should not involve the tariff question) on hand would better purchase town lots and erect suitable rental buildings thereon at once. The whole truth is it would be a good investment anyhow. 'Three I road or not. The town has a healthy growth but is yet far behind the demands of the surrounding .country. Electric Bitters.— -This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.—A purer medicire does not exist and iLis guaranteed to do all that it is claimed': Electric Bitters will cure all dis eases of the Liver and "Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood.—Will drive Malarial from the system and prevent as well as cure ah Malarial fevers. —For cure of Headache, Constipation and I Indigestion try Electric Bitters—Entire ■ satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. —Price 50 cents and SI.OO per bottle at J. Endley’s.

. Read the American Farmer. Dr. Arlington answers calls night or day. Office at his old stand. To sell or trade. —A second-hand drill in good condition. Inquire of J. Wolfenbarger. Whether or not the rain was sent in judgment on the Democrats on barbecue day at Peru, is not fully known. One hundred and thirty tickets were sold at this place for Peru last Thursday. My way of doing business is to buy cheap and sell cheap. E. J. Vincent. The American Farmer will be furnished free to advance subscribers of the Independent. Sample copies can be had at this office. Wanted. -Six cords of four foot wood. It must be dry and all clean body wood. Sugar prefered. J. G. Bender. Inquire of Behrens Brothers. EILERT’S DAYLIGHT LIVER PILLS are a boon to sufferers from Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, Torpid Liver and indigestion. Sugar-coated, pleasant to take and warranted to go through by daylight. Read the American Farmer, one of the best farm and stock papers published. Furnished free for one year to those who pay the full subscription price of the Independent one year in advance. Tht' American Farmer is conceded to be one of the best and most reliable farm monthlies published. It will be furnished free for one year to all who pay a year in advance for the Independent. In raiding South Bend houses of illfame, one of the inmates capured the other day, was a six teen-year-old girl named Nettie Brown. [She elaimedjto have been enticed away from her home at Nappanee. The latest thing out is the cow alarm. It is;ajlittle bell attached to the buggy wheel and so arranged that by pressing upon a button an alarm is sounded which would frighten anything. These alarms promise to soon become in general use. A large amount of personal property will be sold |by Mrs. M. J. Dodge at public^ auction to-day -Saturday at 1 o’clock p. m., in the tow n of Walkerton, opposite the Chas. Robbins A Co. agricultural room. L. B. Hummel will do the talking. Next Tuesday will be the big Republican day at Plymouth. Gen. A. I*. Hovey and Corporal Tanner will address the people. A log cabin hauled through the streets by thirty-eight^yoke of oxen will be an interesting and curious feature of the occasion. Many Republicans will attend from here. There were some quite w roth Democrats in town the ot. day. The Republicans had up and played them a dirty trick, they said- We heard some of the Democrats themselves say that “no Democrat would be guilty of such trick.” Boys, honestly, isn’t there a heap of dog eat dog about the whole business? Aint you both trying hard to be the top dog of the play-house ? An exchange exposes a swindle in the following words, and we hope our farmers w ill be on their guard : Now that the time for cutting fodder has arrived it may not be out of the way to warn the farmers to beware of the “corn binder” agent who is going about the country getting postal card orders for one binder and then raising them to one hundred. The “binder” is a small wooden stick, about 18 inches long, , with a brass ferule on one end on which there is a slot for fastening the string which binds the fodder. There is a politician living not far from town who is so well posted that he won’t stoop to argue with common gentlemen. He tells them to just ask him questions. In instructing Patrick Ryan the other day, he told Patrick that Pennsylvania was the greatest cotton raising state in the union, and that the tariff had just been taken off of wool in Massachusetts, and one otherstate, he had just then forgotten which one. He said that immigration to this country'was all right, but those coming should be divided into classes of ten or twelve and instructors like himself hired to teach them the polities of this country for twenty-one years, after which they should be allowed to vote. Is Consumption Incurable? —Read the following: Mr. C. H, Morris, Newark, Ark., says: “Was down with Abscess of Lungs, and friends and physicians pronounced me an incurabio consumptive. Began taking Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is the finest medicine ever made.” Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says: “Had it not been for Dr. King's New- Discovery for Consumption! would have died of Lung Troubles. Was given up by doctors. Am now in best of health.” Try it. Sample bottle' free at J. Endley’s. Eilert Extract of Tar & Wild Cherry is a safe, reliable and pleasaut remedy for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, and all throat troubles; will relieve and benefit consumption. Try it and be convinced. Every bottle warranted ; price 50c. and one dollar per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Prepared by the Emmert Proprietary Co., Chicago, Hl,

Papa Corner had his watch gobbled at the Peru ox-roast. Milk tickets, bread and meal checks, etc., furnished at this office. Farm for Sale. —Black Grove farm, 105 acres. For terms apply to W- A. Dailey. Doctor Arlington’s office at his old stand. Night bell at house. John Yoder had his watch and ten dollars in money nipped at the great Peru ox-feast. Rain, slop, mud, hurrahing for Cleveland, and ridiculing free whisky was the order of the day at Peru on the 60-ox-roast occasion. It is said that forty thousand people were in attendance. It seems that quite a number of pick pockets are following Blaine in his travel over the country. Old Mr. VaMSkyhawk, of this place, while attending the Blaine demonstration at Goshen Wednesday was relieved of his pocketbook containing a check for $l3O. Mrs. W. D. Wright also had her pocket-book taken. Reports’come from neighboring towns of different persons who became the victims of pick-pockets while at Goshen on tiie same day.—Bremen Enquirer. A B. & O. employe, and an eyewitness of the following horror, sends the Independent the particulars of the accident. Freight train No. 93 on the B. A O. ran over and killed Ernest Quaid, a section hand, near Whitings. ten miles east of ^SonthJChicago, on the morning of the 16th. Quaid was standing beside the track and seeing a shovel on the track foolishly tried to get it before the train reached him, but he was too late, the engine struck him and he was carried beneath the wheels of the train and crushed to a lifeless mass.*"[Qunid was about twen-ty-six years old and unmarried, He leaves a widowed mother who] was dependent upon him for support. A passenger train that leaves this point every morning at 6:20 o’clock, and known as the milk train, was run into by a through passenger train last Saturday morning, at Tracy's siding about six miles west of Walkerton, splitting the rear couch almost “in twain. The fust train was due here about 4 o'clock, but was late. The nrilk train had stopped to let a lady passenger off (it stops wherever it can find milk) when the fast train came up in its rear and as the engineer expressed it, “hammeringit down for all there was in it,” burying its engine in the milk train up to “her sand box." No body was hurt, but some of the ladies aboard were so badly frightened that they cheWod their gum ill three different languages. Fatal Accident. Mrs. Charles Plumbeck, Sr., was killed by taring struck by a west bound passenger train on the Lake Shore road at about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. The old lady had been suffering from some nervous malady for the past two years, and it was noticed about a week ago that she was losing her mind. The best of care was given her and a watch was kept over her actions for fear she would do herself bodily harm. Early this morning her attendants relinquished their watch, thinking no possible harm could befall her, but, unknown to them, she arose and dressed herself and went down to Clear lake crossing the Lake Shore tracks. On her return a freight train was standing on the siding, and, crossing at the rear of it onto the main track, she was struck and killed instantly, as detailed above. Whether it was an accident or suicide will probably never be known. The old lady was respected by a large circle of friends who will iqorn her untimely death. She was the mother of Mrs. Jas. Haverly, Charles and Councilman Wm. Plumbeck, who have the sympathy of all in their breavement.—LaPorte Daily Post. Mothers will find Dr. Winchell’s Teething Syrup just the medicine to have in the house for children; it will cure Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, and regulate the Bowels. Try it. The Great Crop in Kansas. The crops in the state of Kansas promise a greater yield this year than has been known in the history of the state, and the prosperity of its farmers is assured. The large number of farmers in the eastern states who wish to see the country at harvest time and immediately after, has induced the “Santa Fe Route, ” the great railway system of Kansas, to make exceptionally lowrates from Chicago and other stations, to all points in Kansas, and the lines east of Chicago will make correspondingly low- rates up to Chicago. Ask your ticket agent for particulars or write to Emmons Blaine, General Passenger Agent “Santa Fe Route,” Chicago, and you will be sent an accurate map of the state of Kansas, together with desired information. Excursion starts on Tuesday, September, 25th. UNCLE SAM’3 NERVE A BONE LINIMENT will relieve Sprains, Bruises, Neuralgia and Rheumatism. Sold by all druggists, Aotice. All persons indebted to the Philadelphia Store will find their accounts in the hands of Squire George who is duly authorized to collect and receipt for same. J. S. Bender.

PERSONAL ITEMS. Arrivals and Departures. Jeff Reece and George Ross were in Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. J. Endley is visiting with relatives at Fort Wayne. Sol Fa in attended a ball at Plymouth Monday evening. ’Squire George made a business trip to Plymouth Tuesday. Jolin Yoder, of Union Mills, was in town several days this week. Miss Dora Fulmer visited u few days this xveek with relatives at Chicago. Pat. Fitzgerald, jr., of Warsaw, visj ted his parents at this place over Sunday. Arvid Rupel, who lias employment in Chicago, was at home over Sunday with his family. Mrs. Noah Shoemaker visited two or three days this week at Peru. She was accompanied by Mrs. John Young. Mix,"John Young,^of (Peru, Ind., is visiting in this place, the guest of her parents, Mr. end Mrs. Silas George. The Misses Hattie and Mamie Hardy went to Chicago Tuesday morning, from where they will take a trip through Illinois. Mrs. Pepple and Mrs. Umspaugh, of Albion, ’ u hnve been •visiting here the past week with their sister, Mrs. John Schwartz. Mrs. Doc Dowell returned home last Saturday from Ligonier, where she had spent five weeks visiting with relatives and friends. Mrs. James Curtis spent several days tlm latter part of last and the fore part of this week visiting relatives at Union Mills this state. Mrs. Dr. Smith was in Chicago this week and purchased a large stocK of the latest styles in fall and winter millinery goods. Joe, Fitzgerald, was in Zanesville. 0., several days this week, looking after some business connected with his father s property at that place. Grandma Reddick has gone to Riverton, Nebraska, to visit with her ion, Rev. Geo. F. Cook Jw ho is jmstor of the M. E. church at that place. Dr. A. W. McCool, of Walkerton, has located in New Carlislefor the prtwtiee of medicine and surgery. Dr. McCool practiced in Three Oaks many years ago but for past ten years has been loeated in Walkerton. Ln locating here he comes in the midst of an old practice and bis reception has been very gratifying to him.—New- Carlisle Gazette. The other evening about a thousand of Walkeiton's “kids” had collected on the sidewalk in a prominent part of town working oft’ their surplus of shrewdness, w hen a young man from the country passed along. The “kids” made a break and began to “guy” “his nibs" in!an uproarious and very indeent manner. “His nibs" however, cut loose upon the “kids” ferociously, and it was discovered by the time “his nibs” had reeled off a concatenation of expletives about as long as a clothes-line that he had been loaded. The smart Walkerton boys stood awe stricken, while the young man from the country was exploding, each one undoubtedly wishing himself at home with his ma. Boys, even young men fi om the country sometimes resent insults. ' Several letters of inquiry as to the advisability of starting a bank in this place have been received by different ones of ou’" citizens. It would seem as though a tnriving busy town of ten or twelve hundred inhabitants like WalKerton, surrounded by a passably good farming country, with no competing towns nearer than fourteen miles, and that in but one direction, and the dis tance at all other points of the compass varying from sixteen to twenty miles, ought to be a capital place to put in a , bank. The man or men who start a bank in Walkerton will undoubtedly make a happy hit. There are hundreds of people here who’will borrow money of a bank if one comes and will not bother the owners about giving security either, if not insisted upon. PUBLIC SALES. William Brown, residing five miles northwest of Walkerton, will hold a public sale of personal property, Monday, Oct. 22, at 10 a. m. Booms to Rent. Visitors to Chicago during the Exposition, who intend to remain in the city several days, can secure pleasant furnished rooms at No. 409 N. Clark street, at reasonable rates. UNCLE SAM’S CONDITION POWDER will cure Distempers. Coughs, Colds, Fevers, and most of the diseases of which Horses, Cattle, Sheep. Hogs and Poultry are subject. Sold by all druggists. Pay Up. All those knowing themselves indebted to S. F. Ross A Co., either by note or book account, and the same being due, are requested to call and settle at once, or the accounts will be put into the hands of a collector. S, F Ross A Co.

D. M. PETRIE, MERCHANT TAILOR, NOBBY SUITS AND FINE TRIMMINGS Made up in style by first-class workmen, and A PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. HUNDRED STYLES TO SELECT FROM Suits made up in style to fit jou for S2O and upward. Pants to order, from $5 and upward. Please call and see me. Kooins upstairs in Rensberger’s Block. T. J. REECE, (SUCCESSOR TO S. F. ROSS & CO.) Dealer In HARDWARE, TINWARE, STOVES, DOORS Sash and Blinds, Paints and Oils^ iron and wooden pumps, etc. lam making a SPECIALTY of TIN AND IRON ROOFING. SMC ODA AND BARB WIRE, Gasoline Always on Hand. A Full Line of Cook and Heating STjOVES! Il EAT IE G STOPES—--Both coal and wood Always on hand, and everything usually kept in a FirstGlass Hardware Store. Last but nat least The Superb Lamp Filler. Please call I and examine our goods and learn prices. Hoping by fair dealing and low prices to merit a reasonable share of the public patronage, I am very respectfully, T. J. REECE. J. Willis Cotton. AGRICULTURAL Implement s ONE TWO-HOIIHE Wagons, Buggies and Carts, Sewing Machines, TVEEJOIjiIES, OILi Reed’s Spring-Tooth Harrows, Fairfield Chilled Plows, Bissell’s Steel Plows, Empress Steel Plows, Fairfield Steel Plows, Bissell’s Chilled Plows, - Bradley’s Steell Wheel Rakes, Moline wood wheel Rakes. Call and see Them.