St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 January 1891 — Page 5

®|je Snfctpen&ent. w: A. knoi.ey, publisher; WALKERTON. INDIANA, Jan. 24,1891, SPECIAL NOTICE. Readers of this paper are invited to pay particular attention to our advertising columns, and to read the announcements therein. Also to mention this paper when making purchases. Walkerton Market. Corrected Weekly by the Stephens Store Co Eggs 20 Butter 16 Lard 8 Green Hides .4 Potatoes 80 to 90 Corn 45 to 50 Hams 11 Wheat 88 to 90 Oats 40 Beans $1.25 @ 1.60 Rye 48 to 50 Clover Seed 3.70 to 3.80

A boy was born to the wife of James W. Huirfme^ 1 Jair. 19. The roads have been excellent in this vicinity, during the entire winter. No scandals in the air at present. Boss gossips said to be very fidgety. The force of carpenters on our print shop worked like “nailers” this week. See the all wool pants for $5, at the i Pantatorium. Made to fit you and good bargains. You will have to figure on the weather yourselves. It is so flickerty that we give it up. Several loads of wood were donated to widows in town this week. It is as bread cast upon the waters. The Chesterton Tribune believes that the milk train which runs between this place and Chicago, will be abandoned, sure. The Stephens Store Co. have a change in their display ad. this week, to which we call the attention of our readers. Books, novels, and school supplies in endless quantities at Endly’s drugstore. Prices lower than ever before known in Walkerton. D. M. Petrie, of the new Pantatorium, reports having all tho work he can possibly do. Is about two weeks behind orders to day, Thursday. According to Tom Wolfe’s cash offer, it reduces his sls overcoats to sl2 and Jhs $lO overcoats to SB, which is a loss to him. Bnt they must be sold. J. T. Hill and Lou Paul, jr., have opened a tin shop in J. Endly’s building, one door south of Swank & Williams’ grocery store. They have a complete set of tools for the manufacture and repair of all kinds of tinware. Jim Dayle and Con Murphy fo’ ght a desperate battle to a finish, Wednesday, near Hammond, Ind. Both m n weighed 160 pounds. Dayle was the winner. ♦Stakes, $325. Kickety-cuff-slaughter-house rules prevailed. The compositor and proof reader are frequently responsible for some very laughable errors in the newspapers. For instance, in an advertisement in the Sentinel last week, Chase’s Barley Malt Whiskey was warranted “absolutely poor.” The compositor and proof reader are still alive.—Rochester ♦Sentinel. The truth will bob up once in a while in spite of the proof reader. The force on our print shop this week consisted of E. Leibole, Ed McCarty, Levi McDonald, Chas Pool, W. K. White, Riley Ball, John Schwartz, Melv Wright, Noah Smith and Esquire George. They all worked dilligently but the last named, whom we consider something of a shirk on a job of the kind. Have discharged him. When we notified Sam Hudelmyer that we wanted to erect an office building and begin at once, it was discovered that they were short on some of the material and Sam bounced a train for Michigan City and had two car-loads on the ground in an almost incredible short space of time. That’s the kind of lumber dealers the Hudelmyers are. Father Yerrick, a faithful member ' and elder in the Presbyterian church of ’ this place, was 69 years old, last Thurs- 1 day, and in honor of the event and also ' as a token of appreciation of his faith- 1 ful services in the church the members 1 thereof made him a present of a nice ‘ little sum of money. The old gentleman ' hereby returns his thanks for the kind ' remembrance. There will be a lecture at the Presbyterian church, Saturday evening, Jan. 31, by Mr. Morehatch, of Persia. His subject will be, “Life in Persia.” There will be a mock Persian wedding ceremony, the parties a Walkerton boy and girl. There will also be for exhibition many Persian curiosities. Music by the Walkerton orchestra. Admission ten cents for adults, five cents for children under ten years, and babies free. Doors open at 7 :30 p. m. Tickets for Bale at the P. O .

Phillips’ Palatable Cod Liver Oil Emulsion, $1 bottles for 75 cents at J. Endley’s diug store.

See Tom Wolfe’s offer of special discounts for cash, until March 1. See change in T. J. Wolfe’s ad. this week. Great reduction in prices: Dave Bowers has traded his house and lot for Rob Hollyday’s mules and is now a mule conductor Watch the ad. of the Walkerton Commercial Bank for real estate bargains. Some new ones this week. $7.50 overcoats, now $6; $6.50 overcoats, $5.20; $5 overcoats, $4; $1 mittens, 80c.; 75c. mittens, 60c., at Tom Wolfe’s. Any newspaper that will persist in capitalizing bible and devil, and always failing to capitalize heaven, don’t know nothin’. Simon Becker, an old and prominent merchant of Plymouth, has rented a room in Chicago, where he will begin doing business, soon. Plymouth is making an effort to get

a pickling establishment there. Donations to the amount of S6OO have been subscribed to that end. One of the messiahs who are opperating among the Indians of the Northwest, got on a drunk the other day at Rushville, Neb., and broke his leg. sls Cassimere Suits, now sl2; $12.50 Cassimere Suits, $10; $lO Cassimere l Suits, $8; $7.50 Suits, $6; $6.50 suits, $5; and everything else in same proportion at Tom Wolfe’s. We have been so busily engaged in looking after the building of our newspaper shop this week that we have practically permitted our exchanges to edit this issue. By the way, we might add that it is one of our best issues for a long time, too. There is on an average over four car loads of ties shipped from this point every week.—Macy Monitor. That thing was tried here for a week, but what the average was we never learned. We learned that the fellow who did the shipping beat us out of two dollars, on an average. Look out for another swindle, says an exchange. “This time it is a canvasser pretending to be securing dates for a soldiers’ history. The questions asked are cheerfully answered by all as correctly as possible. After the information has been written out. the unsuspecting information is requested to sign it, being assured that it is only wanted as authority for publishing. After a few days those interviewed are furnished a sls history, and are surprised to find their signature to a contract agreeing to take the the book." The Walkerton Independent will soon have new quarters. The Independent is a success financially and otherwise, ami made so by Editor Endley’s indomitable pluck and original way of saying things. The moral standing of the paper is not quite up to that of the Monitor, bnt is “getting there” in good shape. The orthodox principles of the editor is yet a little shaky.—Macy Monitor. The new quarters are about completed, and we feel happy as a boy with new barn door pantaloons. No untoward circumstances the next issue of this paper will be printed in an office owned by the publisher, for the first time in the history of Walkerton. As to“olhodoxy”—we’ll see you later. A gang of five slick ducks, traveling men, were arguing about the size of the different towns in this section in one of our hotel offices a few evenings ago, when one made the statement that Nappanee had but a trifle more than five hundred inhabitants. We settled him by telling him that the last census gave Nappanee fifteen hundred. We now turn his nibs over to Editor Murray, of the News.—Walkerton Independent. We feel morally certain that this individual referred to by our contemporary is not a patron of Nappanee. He must have got a ‘’jag” on at Milford, our neighboring town on the east where they have no saloons. With some men it produces hiatus valde deflendus. — Nappanee News. You mean snakes, do you. I never saw a garment too fine for a man or a maid, there never was a chair too good for a cobbler, or a cooper, or a king to sit in, never a house too fine to shelter the Luman head. The elements about us—the glorious sun, the imperial moon—are not too good for the human race. Elegance fits man; but do we not value these tools a little more than they are worth, and sometimes mortgage a house for the mahogany we bring into it? I would rather eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all my life, than consume all on myself before I got a home, and take so much pains with the outside when the inside was as hollow as an empty hut. Beauty is a great thing; but i beauty of garment, house and furniture are tawdry ornaments compared with domestic love. All the elegance in the world will not make a home; and I would give more for a spoonful of real heart love than for whole shiploads of furniture and all the gorgeousness, all the upholsterers in the world can gather.—O. W. Holmes.

Personal Points. Rev. Jacob Rothenberger, of LaPaz, was in town, Friday. Mrs. Barns, of Elwood, Ind., is visiting with relatives in this place. John F. Strang has resumed his old position of general agent for Noit western Indiana for the Champion people. B. M. Seybold, of South Bend, was in town on business, Monday, and while here made the Independent office a social call. Dr. J. R. Abner, of Grovertown, spent a few hours here last luesday. The doctor tells us there are no measles over there, while we have them heal and to spare. The Misses Katie and Minnie Nagle, of Fort Wayne; also William Schmeltz, of South Bend, are visiting with the families of Chris, and John Schmeltz, of near uns-praee. "Mr. Eli S. Smith, a brntlmr of Isaac

Smith of the Island, is here for a visit of a couple of months. His home is in Nebraska, where he went, from this place, twenty years ago. Edward Curtis, of Belle Plain, lowa, prior to about fifteen years ago of this place, visited here a few days with relatives and friends. Mr. Curtis is a brother of Mrs. Amos Stevenson and also of Mrs. W. A. Dailey. Mrs. Beechgood, of Sacramento, Cal., and Miss Sadie Place, of Cass county, Ind., are visiting here with their brother, Commissioner D. W. Place. Mrs. Beecligood will leave here for her home, next Monday, and will be accompanied as far as Chicago by Mr. Place. The Plymouth Republican office was recently moved into new quarters. The Pleasure Club held an enjoyable little dance in Bender’s opera house, Thursday evening. Mishawaka knit boots and best quality heeled rubbers for $2.50 cash. Felt boots and rubbers $1.25 to $2 at T. J. Wolfe’s. At Lnntl The long expected illustrated History of Utah by the eminent historian, Hubert 11. Bancroft, has at last appeared. It is absolutely a revelation. After visiting the field in person taking testimony impartially from all sides, crit ically reviewing the enormous number of 1000 different authorities, and searching many of the secret archives ot the Mormon Church. Mr. Bancroft not? gives to tho world this wonderful and remarkable work, the only true history of Mormonism published. The work reads like a romance - the wonderful adventures of trappers and travelers, the bloody Indian wars, the thrilling accounts of massacres and miraculous escapes, the famous Dauite Association or Destroying Angels, the story of Brigham Young all this fresh from the pen of the brilliant and gifted author forms a narrative of exciting interest as fa mating as a novel yet true to the letter. Above all in surpassing interest is the unfolding of the great Mormon Question and the mysteries of Polygamy which will be read with eager interest by all classes of people throughout the English speaking world. The work is published in one large handsome volume of over 800 pages, bound in red and gold and grandly illustrated with steel plate portraits of tho gi 'at Mormon leaders, exquisite half-tone engravings and dazzling colored plates. It is issued by the great Publishing House, Cincinnati Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, and can only be procured through their authorized agents. We call attention to the advertisement in another coliufin, under heading of $25.00 Reward. A Communication. Ed. Independent : One of the reporters in bis rambles through the rubbish in and around the Independent’s new building with quick, magical optics, espied a common, ordinary tramp with his hands deep down in his pants pockets, and took him for one of tho workmen on the building, and assuming the responsibility immediately so reported to the chief contrac* tor, that one ot the workmen was wast t ing valuable time. The contractor a a glance, with a grin and a smile on his countenance, without reply, at once as’ sumed his duties by drawing further designs for the workmen. The report, er being somewhat puzzled as to the action of the contractor, at once rushed to and made a report of the situation to the proprietor. No doubt some innocent workman will be discharged, all on account of the inability of the reporter to distinguish the difference between a common, ordinary tramp and a real workman. Did think everybody knew a tramp when they saw one. Where I made my mistake, forgot the rusher for news. Outside Workman. Hon. 11. G. Thayer, of Plymouth, lectured on Pythianism at Bremen recently. A lodge of that order will soon be instituted at that place.

Barber bought at Teegarden $4,000 worth of eggs and $6,000 worth o cieam in the year 1890, for Schlosser Bros. Jarrett Lovell was born March 19, I^l9, in Mercer county, Ky., and died auuary 18, 1891, in Marshall county, Ind,, aged 71 years. 9 months and 30 days. He was a member of the Baptist church for many years. The funeral was held at the residence, 5 miles west of Plymouth, Tuesday at 9 o’clock, a. m -> Rev. Peter Hummer, of this place, officiating. Farm to Kent. 1 100 acres mow land, 20 acres clover sod fur corn. D. W. Place. Pay up and Save Cost. Ou Feb. 1 all notes and accounts duo , will be placed in the hands of a collector, to be collected as he thinks best, and in the quickest manner pos . T. J. Wolfe. | Communicated. 1 St the streets of Walkerton, MOTHtgy last, I was rather unceremoniously laid hold of by Mr. Ot Townsend, who told me he wanted to see me. My first impulse was to say I never said it; but when he told me to come with him I thought I should have to face the man. I was thinking of a nice way to smooth things over when he । opened the door of Mr. Tom Wolfe’s clothing house and asked mo to step in and remove my overcoat. I then found he was making the last move necessary to procure me a boa iful and very serviceable overcoat. Now as this not altogether a superfluity (I mean the overcoat; I thank all the generous contributors very heartily. B. S. I will wear said coat Sunday, leb. 1. I will try to come in a little late. Any one desiring to see how it fits is earnestly invited to attend church oil that day. O. l Jt Prentice ALL AT ONE FELL SWOOP. How a Wild Cat. n Fox, a Marten. a Wraael and a Mouan Were Caught. '*S]>eaking about pot luck.” said a veteran hunter and storv-teller one dnv this week to the Bangor Aetcx ‘Man About Town,” “I suppose 1 have had some of the darndest streaks of luck ever hnd in the state of Maine. Everybody knows how I once drove a liear up a tree and then felled the tree into the pond. where the beat was drowned, at tho same time scaring thirty or forty trout to death, which rose to the top of tho water; and the way I sat a bear trap snd caught a fel- " there io s eal sheep; nnouier time when I sot a trap for critters what was after turkeys, and ketched a young fellow that was hangin' round to see my darter Mary. Ami the story 'bout my going to the courts to prove that 1 hadn't ketched trout in close time by showin' that the line an' hook that trout was on hnd been left •tangling in the brook one day in the legal season when I was tishiu’ nr,’ got called away all of a suddent to drive the caws outer tho cohi. In the excitement of th > moment I forgot the hook and line ..nd when one day arter the law was on I was passing that way 1 found that the hook had captured a trout weighin' fourteen pounds and seven ounces. 1 reckoned by the appearance of things as the fish was oncommonly spry he had been hooked that very morniu'. but as it couldn't be proved I got off. "Yes. all these and more. too. are well known (loin’s on my part, but. as 1 said, the darndest thing of all happened not long ago. 1 took down the old rifle one day and told the old woman us long as there was nothing doin’ round the place 1 guessed I would take a walk. Wal, as luck would have it, I hadn't gone far when I spied what I surmised to be a wildcat. The critter probably got wind of me, for he cut and run a little ways in about the direction I came from, and then took a sneak along a mossy bank and hove in sight, only to disappear round a large stump at tho edge of my clearin’. I didn’t wait a second. I just up and let go, just as the cat got out of sight. The ball, I was pretty sure, hit him in the hind quarters. I went forward to secure him if possible and then and there I found out that he hadJ’t got wind of me arter all, but waAn a still hunt himself, and he got his fame just as my ball hit him. That cat had a fox, holden him with his teeth, and you may believe or not. the fox had ketched a marten. I could hardly believe my eyes, and looked again, and blowed if the marten didn’t have a weasel. Hold on, I hain't done yet. The weasel had a mouse by the hind leg and the mouse was trying to escape through a little hole in the fence of my back yard where he had been and robbed my hens of a kernel of corn, which stuck out of the little mouth. “One of the young roosters was trying to get the corn away from him. not that there wasn’t plenty more, but that is a rooster’s nature you know. Now, I had a hound pup, and the an- | tics of the young rooster made him i caper round arter him. and this stirred up the old cat, and she joined the dance by roundin’ up her back and spiiten at the hound pup. Meanwhile the youngest kid was trying to harness up the old cat and the ole woman came out with a broom to see what all the racket meant. She had heard the gun go off, too, and didn’t know by the rumpus but I had gone crazy and begun shooten the children and other domestic animals. While she was out the lire in the kitchen went out, but my lucky shot broke up the combination, besides loading me with game, and the only serious consequence was supper being about fifteen minutes late.”

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