St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 July 1890 — Page 1

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WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 12. 1890.

Jones says “a big nose is a sign nt intellect; a big mouth, character; a “ n > Gourage; and big ears, generosity.’’—Ex. faking the month sign as a basis, we ha\e more character than we knorv what to do with. The Milford Mail thinks that Goshen is an excellent newspaper town because there are three papers there and all tilled with news. When the preacher inns away with a parishioner’s wife , don’t it afford a juicy item for all the papers should there be fifty of them, same as one? What aro you talking about. The Walkerton Independent has started ou “sweet sixteen.” Our friend Endley has beenits editor and manager uuring the Hast four years, and under Ins energetic management and editorial ability the^ Independent has taken high rank. It is one of the very best of our weekly exchanges, and we heartily congratulate its publisher on his marked success.—Now Albany Tribune. General Packard has lost none of bis acumen by going down on the Ohio. He knows a good thing when be sees it, just as quickly as ever. Editor Endlev, of ths Walkerton In-« dependent, is not a huccosh as a “shipper”, judging from the following. But who could have thought of sending to M ulkerton for a carload of honesty, etc. He says: “We would rather undertake to fill an order for a car load of hen’s teeth, tbau one of men and women strictly honest, free from deceit. selfishness and envy.”—Argos Reflector. We would rather locate at Macy, desolate as that place is, and agree to supply the whole world with w’oodchucks and frogs. The mortal wounds recently inflicted on Raiu-in-the-Face, chief of the Sioux Indians, by his squaw, brings to mind the fact that this fellow is credited with having been the one who killed Gen. Custerin the noted mussacre. Mr. A. Beal, of this office, owns the belt that was woru by this jlndiun when the savage slow the brave general. The relic wits sold by the squaw who has just stabbed the chief, and was secured by Air. Beal when he was among the Sioux at Fort Bennet and Sully, Dakota, four years ago.—LaPorte Herald. The Walkerton Independent has entered its sixteenth volume with a much brighter prospect, iu appearance, than has ever been its lot before. Mr. Eudley is doing all that the people of t hat place could possibly ask, in giving them a good, newsy paper.—Nappanee News. If there is one good trait that churactoruesj^ro. Murray, editor of the News more than another, it is the strict adherence to the truth, in proof of whichj you arc referred to the above paragi itph. Bro. Murray has been known to travel' miles and miles on foot to get it—the truth, we mean. Our Übe! Sult. The South Bend Times, Walkerton Visitor and several other of onr exchanges, seem to have gotten the impression that the malicious libel suits against The Republican by Simons have all been withdrawn. And recently we have been asked by several of our readers if such is not the case.— Plymouth Republican. In the above the Republican means the Walkerton Independent. Following the above paragraph iu the Republican is a long article concerning the libel suits against it and denying that they have both been withdrawn. Well, we don’t know where the Tinies and other papers obtained their information, but if we didn’t get ours from the Republican itself, we will yield a decade of our time in that happy future of milk and honey, to the poor, forlorn, lost editor of the Macy Monitor. The Walkerton Independent consoles the citizens of that town, who were disappointed in the census showing, by assuring them that, what they fall short of in numbers is fully and satisfactorily compensated for by quality. A good idea; this life is about what one makes it, anyhow.—Nappanee News. While it is a fact that Walkerton is a good, fairly live business town, and having gained almost fifty per cent, during the past decade, wo are compelled to humbly bow to the astonishing growth and enterprise of Nappanee. Fifteen vears ago that town was laughing stock for Walkerton, and it was confidently believed by the average Walkertonite that Nappanee had no future, It must be acknowledged, however, that it is the most flourishing and the best small town in northern Indiana. “Truth is mighty, and will prevail.”

LOCAL NEWS. The population of Valparaiso is 5,800. Was there ever a throat cut that wasn’t cut from ear to ear? A party of young people from this place celebrated at Warsaw on the Fourth. The Macy Monitor is dumb ns an oyster about the population of that rural. There were a few’ quiet drunks in town the 4th. Quiet because too drunk to disturb anybody. No accident occurred worthy of mention during the great day’s doings in Walkerton the 4tL. Elwood McDaniel put up a windpump at his hotel. Water, he thinks, is a good thing to put out fire with. The editor of the Macy Monitor, M. Lew Enyart, says he went to church! I I ! ! Did ynu take your hat off? A young man who recently kissed a lady without her consent was fined i? 10. It didn’t happen in Walkerton, mind you. William Wise was killed the other day by the bursting of a pully. The accident occurred three miles west of Bremen. Burglars made a raid in Milford the other night, gaining entrance to several business placets, among others the postoffice, and getting but little plunder. The Fourth was a cool day, and therefore but one individual got sufficiently hot. to demand Marshall Fry’s attention with his cooling process, Harry Granger’s horse by some means got an advantage of him and ran away, throwing Mr. Granger from the wagon and bruising him up considerably. C. K. Hind, of South Bend, has put a notice in the papers requesting the citizens to help take the drunk out of him. He’s doing bis level best to get sober. The Walkerton Independent began its sixteenth volume last week, apparently prosperous and contented. It is a good local paper.—Mishawaka Enterprise. Oue American and one Singer, second band machines, as good as new, with complete attachments at $15.00 each. Cull and see them. Singer Office, Bender's block. Walkerton has no fault to find with its census taker, Frank Hostetter. He did bis work well. It’s the old dogan of bachelors, and old maids, Frank says, that’s to blame for the shortage. Did anybody ever hear an old stager talking about the good old times way back who didn’t claim that he got better "wisky” for three cents a glass than he gets now-a-days for ten? And then didn’t it always run down like oil? A boy named Joseph Lower was drowned in White Horse lake the other day. Some boys were diving from a boat some distance from shore and Lower was kept away from the boat so long that he became exhausted and drowned. The Lake is iu Marshall county. One third of the fools of the country think they can beat the lawyer in expounding the law’, one half think they can beat the doctor healing the sick, two thirds of them think they can beat the minister preaching the gospel, and all of them know’ they can beat the editor running the newspaper. —Ex. The Walkerton Independent has entered upon the sixteenth year of its existence. For four years that paper has been under the management of Bro. Endley, ami is but truth to say that it has been steadily improving editorially, reportorially and mechanically. It is, in fact, one of the best village papers iu the state. —South Bend Times. That’s just what we told sis. About fifty Knights of Pythias, including the uniform rank and the band went to Walkerton last night to institute a lodge of thirty-two charter members. The visitors were royally entertained at an elegant banquet early in the evening and retured at eleven o’clock. The Walkerton boys are a wholesouled, generous set of fellows and their hospitality will long be a byword with the Plymouth Knights.— Plymouth Democrat.

T9ie Fourth tn Walkerton. Walkerton changed the program a i little from the old threadbare method of celebrating. There were no old tedious industrial parades to keep the people craning their necks and straining their weak eyes out at; neither did it 1 root up and practice that stale chestnut of orating and reading the delaration of independence. But Marshal Fry mapped out a program altogether unique, . pleasing and highly entertaining. And, by the way, before forgetting it, to Marshal Fry is duo the complete success of the day. Had it not been for him Walkerton this year would have been numbered with our comparatively dead neighboring towns. The Walkerton Cornet Band furnished excellent music a great portion of the day, and Malv Wright’s drum and fife band did the fair thing from early morning until among the last of the exercises. Some very exciting horse trotting was permitted on A venue F, the first being the 1 great trotting match in which the time was declared to bo not less than eight miles an hour, anyhow. Cole Woodworth bagged the money, throe dollars Several running races followed, there being ns many as five horses on the track at one time. The most exciting race was the one in which two little girls rode ponies, one of the riders barely escaping an untimely end. She probably saved her life by jumping from her treacherous pony when under a high rate of speed and about to hurl her to eternity by wrapping her around a tree, as we onco saw a man w’hen riding a running race, instantly killed. Thore were numerous sports such as lat man’s race, wheelbarrow’, obstacle, sack, blind man’s, climbing the greased pole, etc., the successful ones all being remunerated with a prize of some kind. There was a magnificent display of fireworks in the evening, which was witnessed by an immense crowd of people, alter which those tired of the day’s doings repaired to their virtuous sheets, while many repaired to the A No. 1 dance which took place as a windcrup at the large Bender Hall. The Williams & Henderson Co. store building is about completed. Bill Nye advises everybody to live well while they do live, for they will be a long time dead. Not aiming to be inquisitive—but why don’t the Michigan City Appeal ch ange its form to a quarto? Mr. Tidd, of Brimfield, Noble conn' ty, this state, is putting up wind pumps hero, of the Kendallville manufacture. The Lake Erie ground in the centre of town is not so much of a nuisance as it was. Mountains of trash have been removed. Druggist J. Endley is painting his dwelling white! When everybody else points with colors Joo uses white, and vice versa. John Roland, infant son of Mr and Mrs. Richard Roderick, died on last Sunday, and was buried at North Liberty on Tuesday. Its age was five months and nineteen clays. “An open confession is good for the soul.” This paper is not like George Washington, who could not lie. This paper can lie, but won’t. The population of Walkerton will not reach 1200. It won’t reach eleven hundred—but near it. Rev. Hester closed his series of tent meetings last Sunday night. He kept them up two weeks, having the assistance of a couple other gentlemen, one colored, who led in singing. Some accessions were made, but we are not informed as to the number. Bro. Brown, of the Columbia City Times, says “One term and no more ought to be the rule in the presidential office.” That is what Tilden and Cleveland said, and that is what an overwhelming majority of the people believe iu.—South Bend Times. That strikes this publication as being about the right thing. Excuse us, however, we’re not in politics. The Appeal extends congratulations to the Walkerton Independent upon having readied its fifteenth birthday. It will soon be of age. —Michigan City Appeal. The office has not missed an issue during the past four years, and but , very few during its whole lifetime. It had night-sweats and its existence hung upon a slender thread for a long time, but is enjoying the best of health now, thank you.

NUMBER 3.

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