St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 March 1891 — Page 5

.Independent. Wl A. KNDLKY, PUBLISHER. WALKERTON, INDIANA. March 7,1891. SPECIAL NOTICE. Readers of this paper are invited to pay particular attention to our advertising columns, and to read the announcements therei". Also to mention this paper when making purchases. Walkerfou Market. Corrected Weekly by the Stephens Store Co Eggs 14 Buder 16 Lard 7 Green Hides .4 Potatoes 80 to 90 C0rn.......... 50 to 55 Hams 11 Wheat 90 to 95 Oats 40 Beans $1.25® 1.60 Rye t 65 Clover Seed. (Li.1... . .3.80 to 4.10 LOCALNEWS. Call at Tuttle’s barber shop for a fashionable hair-cut or shave. Joe Stephenson is building a new tesidence in the west part of town. Chas. Albright, residing near North Liberty, died on Thursday, March 5. Tom Wolfe has four cords, running measure, of men’s and boys’ fine shoes. Albion is having a theatrical performance every night this week, by the Modern Theatre Co. Send them up here. Dr. C. B. Parsons, veterinary surgeon; office in the Steele building Special attention given to chronic lameness. Thirty six pupils, members of the following schools, W Ikerton, the Island and Hill Grove visited Chas. Robbins’ school last Thursday. There is an old woman aged one hundred and five years who has been an incessant smoker for fifty years, and it is beginning to be feared that tobacco will be the death of her yet. Dr. A. F. Schafer, at Dr. J. A. Kettring’s old office, Oliver opera house block, South Bend. Diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat. Fitting and furnishing glasses a specialty. Farmer Lou DeCouders, is believed by the Independent force, all the way from the editor up to the office cat, tu be * little off. He brought to this office a first class load >f wood. Our town, through some mismanagement, had run down to but three sa loons, and the citizens were compelled to worry along the best they could for some time under such inconveniences. This week, however, the fourth one blossoms out and everybody has again assumed that cheerful aspect of former days. Tom Wolfe just received an invoice of men’s and boys’ fine shoes, 25 cases, in all 336 pairs, direct from an eastern factory. We noticed written on the bill, “Will send balance soon.” Wonder if Tom has ordered the earth. ■With this enormous amount just in, added to bis previous large stock, we would think that he could please any and everybody. The firm of Whitlock & Co. has dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Whitlock retiring and J. V. Astley & Sou continuing.—Plymouth Democrat. We noticed Whit perambulating our streets under the guidance of one of our citizens who knows the town pretty well. Things have so changed and so many improvements have been made since Whit left this place, that he appeared like a boy at a husking. In this issue will be found a short article on the tariff question written by farmer J. W. Lanning, setting forth some of his views on that much talked issue between the two great political parties. It does not appear from his talk that he is a free trader, but rather ' argues in favor of a tariff. The only 1 question to be decided is, on what articles shall a tariff be placed and how high. Men never will agree on that part of the tariff argument. As the stars differeth one from another in brilliancy, even so will men differ as to the tariff rate. As announced in last week’s Independent, a Patrons of Industry meeting was held in Bender’s hall Thursday evening, March 5. The attendance was good, considering the bad weather, and much interest manifested. J. B. Witwer, organizer of the association for St. Joseph county, addressed the meeting. A permanent organization was effected, with 26 charter members. The following officers were elected: Geo. Pommert, Pres.; Abraham Spitzer, Vice-President; P. L. Fitzgerald, Sec.; Joseph Gearhart, Treas.; Grove Vosburg, Sentinel; Eli Kring, Guide. The new organization will be known as Lincoln Assembly. The next meeting of the assembly will be held in Bender’s hall, Saturday, March 14, at 1:30 p. m.

Personal Points. C. W. N. Stephens went to Plymouth, Thursday, on business. James McCabe, of Center township, this county, was in town on Tuesday. Lawrence Hardy, of South Bend, Sundayed over with his parents, of the Island. J. W. Nieukirk, M. D. of Union Mills, made a business trip to our place Wednesday. John Yoder has been granted a pension of $6 per month, with back pay dating from last July. J. H. Buck, fruit tree agent, was in town this week. He has a notice elsewhere in this paper. Rev. Mr. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Union Mills, was a guest of E. Leibole and family on Friday of last week. Miss Minnie B. Finch, formerly of this place, now of South Bend, was married to Mr. D. G. Buck, of that city, March 1, at the Reformed church parsonage. Mi* and Mrs. O. L. Fulmer went to Plymouth on Wednesday to attend the seventy-fifth birthday anniversary of Mrs. Fulmer’s father, Mr. Miller, of that place. Noah Smith, who is clerking for Sid Ewing at Winamac, was intown Monday and Tuesday. He says they are having an excellent trade, and that they are both kept busy most of the time. The Orphans Home, formerly locat. ed at Mishawaka, has gone to LaPorte. Dr. Kilmer, of South Bend, Ind., pays especial attention to all kinds of surgery and female complaints. Farmers, I have positively the best line of collars ever shown in Walkerton. Cull and see them. F. M. Ake. The Nappanee News is going to advertise the accounts of its from three to eight year delinquents for sale. Anything off for cash ? D. W. Place read an excellent paper at the Farmers’ institute in South Bend last week. It advocated better roads, and offered many good suggestions relative to procuring them. George Leslie and Bert Williams took a scoot up to Hammond and South Chicago and various other places this week. If anybody can find out what they were after they can do mole than this paper can. Samuel Koontz, jr.’s, flour and feed exchange, remember, is located at Swauk& Williams’grocery store, where yon can obtain at all times the Koontz flour, which is as fine an article as can be found anywhere. You will also find there anything in the feed line. At the Presbyterian church on last Sunday evening the congregation was entertained by a lecture from Rev. Mr. Wi’Hams of Wales. The subject, Results of the Excavations at the ancient city of Babylon and their relation to Bible history, was treated in an earnest and conscienscious manner by the enthusiastic Welshman. The geography contest held at the Mt. Vernon school house Friday night, Feb. 27, was a complete success, notwithstanding the disagreeableness of the weather. There was a great deal of interest manifested, and an attentive person could gain more instruction during the evening than at a dozen spellingschools, as they are now conducted. One noticeable feature was the large number of patrons and teachers present, all of whom expressed a desire to attend another contest in the near future. The questions were well selected and all who assisted did exceedingly well, a number of the home school not missing a question. One Who was Present. Walkerton’s Jeweler, Mr. Drawns has up and done and gone. Just what the fracas was we are unable to state positively. This town surely ought to support a jeweler. There are about eleven hundred inhabitants here, almost all of whom carry watches, wear jewelry, fancy “fixins” of various kinds, and mostly of that grade which would natura’ly require repairing quite often, especially the watches. The watches carried by the average Walkertomte will probably range at first cost at about a dollar sixty-two and a half cents and we would think that a jeweler might be kept quite busy tinkering at them. Then there’s the country -watch and things which, of course, come in for their share of tinkering. Should this notice come under the observation of any ingenious tinker who has a pair of pinchers, a left handed monkey-wrench, a rat-tail file and having a desire to locate he is hereby notified to come well dressed, with a change of shirts and well prepared to pay board. 100 Cords of Wood! I have 100 cords of good dry wood that I will sell from $1 to $1.50 per cord, delivered. L. DeCoudres.

One of Walkerton's Leading, Busy and Enterprising Houses.^.. , A representative of the Independent in making his rounds for news a few evenings sir e dropped into the large double establishment known as the Philadelphia store. In the dry goods department this firm carries as fine and complete an assortment perhaps as can be found in any town the size of Walkerton in Northern Indiana. In 3ress goods they carry henriettas, sefges, brilliantines, flannels in all shades, stripes and plaids, salines, ginghams, gipsy cloths, etc.; French percale for boys’ waists, white goods consisting of dress goods, linens, napkins, embroideries, flouncings, yoking, tucking, muslins in bleached and unbleached, white cambrics, and a complete line of the best prints. They have a good line of ribbons, hosiery, kid gloves, fine cashmere and jersy gloves, silk mitts, umbrellas, buttons to match all shades of dress goods; fine rugs, lace curtains, cameo drapery, fl ne undevWcar. fine stockinette jackets, handkej^P®^ shawls. In the gents’ furnishing goods department they have a nice selection of the latest styles in neckwear, including a fine line of white shirts, fine flannel and cashmere shirts, socks, suspenders, etc. Their shoe department consists of an extensive line of ladies’ shoes in all styles, and prices, fine kid and dongola, j gents’ shoes to suit all tastes, misses and children’s shoes and gents fine calf boots in all sizes, widths and prices. In the grocery department, which occupies ane entire room 20 by 80 feet, they carry a full line of grocries and provisions, fruits in season, everything in the line of canned goods, crockery and queensware, fine stand and hanging lumps, etc. In looking over this mammoth establishment one can scarcely realize that this firm begun business in a modest way less than three years ago. But such is the fact. By enterprise, fair and square dealing, using everybody well, and judicious advertising they have succeeded in building up their present large business. The boys invite you to call and see them when you need anything in then* line. They don't want the earth, all they ask is a fair share of the public patronage. Death of an Old Pioneer. The following obituary of Asa Knott, a notice of whose death was in the Independent of last week, we take from Mouth Bend TimM: Mr. Knott was born in Ch ven county, Ohio, May 27, 1834, and was therefore in the 57th year of his age. His father removed to Marshall comity, this state, in 1839, when Asa was but little over four years of ago. The father followed lumbering until 1843, when they returned to their Ohio home, where they remained only a few years, when they again moved to this section, settling on the farm where the deceased resided at the time of his death. Asa Knott has seen the country change from a howling wilderness populated with all sorts of wild animals to the blooming and flourishing conn try of to-day. In 1868 he was married to Caroline E. Duffield, daughter of John and Sarah Duffield, living at the time in this city, and to them were born four children, three of whom are still living, as follows: Cnarles, William and Nellie. Deceased was engaged extensively in farming and stock raising, and at his death was the possessor of 1,200 acres of land, mostly under cultivation, and owned a valuable mill property at Walkerton, which is at present under the supervision of his son Charles. During the war of the rebellion he enlisted in Co. B. 48th Ind. Vols., of which company he was first lieutenant. He was also a member of the G. A. R. post at North Liberty. In politics he was an ardent republican, but never held any office except serving as ditch commissioner under the late_^udge Stanfield. He was for a long£time treasurer of the Farmers’Mutual Insurance Co., of St Joseph county, and at the time of his death was president of the company. Death of Capt. Cole. Capt. L. A. Cole, a well-known attorney of LaPorte, was taken to Logansport hospital for the insane some months ago, and died there last Saturday. He was a native of Schoharie county, N. Y., where he was born in the year 1834; came with his parents to Indiana in 1835; studied law with Judge David Turpie, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and enlisted in the war in 1861, serving until December, 1864. He was on the staff of Gen. “Pap” Thomas, and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chicamauga, etc. He was a Free Mason and a member of the Presbyterian church.—South Bend Times. EILERT’S DAYLIGHT LIVER PILLS are a boon to sufferers fron Sick Headache, Sour Stoamch, Torpid Liver and indigestion. Sugar-coated, pleasant to take and warranted to go through by daylight.

FARMERS' INSTITUTE Editor Independent—l was told that the farmers had a ‘Hie time at their institute in South Bend last week; that the attendance was good and all enjoyed themselves very much. It is said that all the papers read were very interesting and instructive, and it was brought out by one of them that plaster is found between two layers of stone, and that it pays better to put it on the market for building purposes than to sell it to the farmers for their land. As a substitute the upper and lower layers of stone are ground up and sold to the farmers. That is why the plaster, as we call it, is not as good as it used to be. The second day in the afternoon the business men and manufacturers of the city were invited to participate, and a number of them did so. It is said that a result of the discussion was that a committee of ten was appointed in behalf of the farmers, to meet a committee of like number of the manifacturers to fix a time for all of the farmers to meet at South Bend and go through the shops and see how wagons are made. I suppose that everyone accepting the invitation will be presented with a wagon or plow—lF HE PAYS FOR IT! B. F. Rinehart and wife constitute the committee for this part of the county. Why, Mr. editor, can't w’e have an institute in Walkerton—not on ns । large a scale as the one at South Bend ■ —but a kind of primary, and thus make arrangements to have a full fledged institute next year? A Farmer. [We see no reason why an institution of the kind couldn’t be organized right here in Walkerton.—Ed]. We understand that a certain lady has declared her intention of stopping the Independent because it sees fit to believe the Bible! We don’t want anybody to read the Independent who don’t believe the Bible. It makes Moses a murderer in plain and unmistakable terms, and the Independent believes the Bible. Sa 1 indeed is it to look upon the poor unfortunate individual whose reason has been dethroned as a result of the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, pecuniary losses and the various other causes which bring about such results. But still sadder is it to look upon the unfortunate the dethronement of whose reason is the result of religious excitement. Numerous cases of dethronement of reason are being reported from various quarters brought about by urging and urging and almost forcing weak minded persons to a degree of nervous tension which ends in insanity. For the former causes of insanity the sufferer is largely to blame himself; but the over enthusiastic friends (?) are to blame in the latter. Hence, we say, these cases are still sadder. Notice. All persons having claims against the estate of Asa Knott will present them to me, and all indebted to said estate will please pay at once, as the accounts must be closed. Chas. Knott, Adm’r. A Curious Calculation. A rapid penman can write thirty words in a minute. To do this he must draw his quill through the space of a rod—l 6 1-2 feet. In forty minutes his pen travels a furlong; and in five hours and a third a mile. We make, on an average, sixteen curves of the pen in writing each word. Writing thirty words iu a minute, we must make 488 to each minute; in an hour 28.800; in a day of only five hours, 144.000; and in a year of 300 d^ys, 43,200,000. The man who made 1,000,000 strokes with a pen in a month was not at all remarkable. Many men make 4,000,000. Here we have in the aggregate a mark, 300 milas long, to be traced on paper by each writer iu a year. In making eaca letter of the ordinary alphabet, Wc must make from three to seven strokes of the pen—on au average, three and one-half to four. She Was Quite Practical. He was deeply in love with her, but she, while she liked him, did not like him quite so much as to run a risk of starvation to oblige him. She was quite practicable enough to identify at a glance on which side her bread was buttered, and rather than look for plain dry bread in preference it was more in her line to keep her weather eye peeled on the jam dish. His arguments were much more passionate than forcible, while her replies were evidently the dictates of cool and deliberate judgment. “But look here,” he remonstrated, eagerly, “there can be no really good reason why you should not marry a fellow who has a good salary, just because he has no capital. If you go far enough bac’k you’ll find that Eve married.a gardener without a halfpenny in his pocket.” “What’s the idea of your bringing that forward as an illustration? Do you not remember that the next thing he did was to lose his situation!”—Scottish American. Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given, that the-undersigned has been appointed by the Cleric of the Circuit Couit of St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, Administrator of the Estate of Asa Knott, late of St. Joseph County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. CHARLES KNOTT, Administrator. Lucius Hubbard, Atty, for Adm’r. Feb. 26, 1891.

THE NEW FALL STOCK —or CARPETS, DRESS GOODS, CLOAKS, JACKETS, Blankets, Lb Mis, CHENILLE CURTAINS, FLANNELS, UNDERWEAR And all Sorts of Dry Goods, Useful and Ornamental, are. in full supply at THE BUSY BEE-HIVE. The joke of it all is, that it’s to be a‘’BARGAIN PICNIC” thia Fall for onr customers. Space will not admit of telling you all the story, but don’t you see? when you call in at the BEE-HIVE, you’ll take iu the idea that it’s a home-like place, a money-saving spot, for the purchase of your fall and winter supplies Oh yes! at the BUSY BUZZING BEE-HIVE, Michigan Ave., opposite Postoffice, LAPORTE, IND. JULIUS BARNES & CO. We Are Ready! To Show vou a fine display of STOVES! Have just added to our stock an immense line of the best Cook and Pleating Stoves on the market. The genuine GROUND OAK STOVES> BURN WOOD OR COAL, Is the best round stove manufactured, and requires less fuel than any other round stove in the market. (Remember, we have the exclusive sale of these stoves in this place. THE GARLAND Cook Stove, the world’s best, always in stock A full line of Paints and Oils, Brushes and all other Painters’ Goods of firstclass quality will always be found in abundance at our place. We have a full line of tinware and all kinds of tin repairing. sign of -p T DPT?PT? THE LITTLE STOFE. £ , J , JALjILUJ-L Try The mWEnDW OWME FOR JOB PRINTING. Prices and Work Guaranteed to give satisfaction.