St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 March 1891 — Page 5

Jnbcptn^enL W. A. KNDLEY, PUBLISHER, WALKERTON, INDIANA. March 28,1891. SPECIAL NOTICE. Readers of this paper are invited to p« y particular attention to our advertising columns, and to read the announcements therein. Also to mention this paper when making purchases. Walkertoii Market. Corrected Weekly by the Stephens Store Co Butter I® Lard 7 Green Hides -5 Potatoes $0 to 1.00 Corn 50 to 55 Hams 11 Wheat 05 to 9' Oats 4u Beans $1.25 @ 1.6 Bye 70 Clover Seed 4 -60 LOGAIi NEWS. PICKLE CONTRACTS. Parties wishing to contract to grow Cncumber Pickles this season will do well to call at our factory before April 11th . Please call and get contract at once. H- J- Heinz Co. New goods arriving every day at Tom Wolfe’s. Attorney Dailey and his wife have been quite sick for a few days past. Mrs. Dr. Smith has just received a stock of new spring millinery goods. 01 Fulmer is erecting an addition 20x. 40 to his already commodious store room. Joe Stephenson is hurrying the work on his new residence in the west part of town. There has been cosiderable of sick ness during the past few days in and about town. At this time, Thursday afternoon, Father Gregory is said to be still failing in strength. 480 men and boys wanted! to caP upon T. J. Wolfe and each buy a pair of fine shoes. Boss, Bose & McDaniel will move their stock of hardware in their new room next week. Ed McCarty is yu-Ring the vork au *. i ucr s n acuT ion. Dr. Kilmer, of South Bend, Ind., pays especial attention to all kinds of surgery and female complaints. * I have a good brood mare and top buggy that I wish to sell, or trade for real estate or cattle. Mare is heavy with foal. Orman Taylor. Lew’ DeCouders has bet i appointed assessor for Liberty township. Now there’s an appointment what is an appointment. Auditor Jones knows his biz. We are looking for a private letter from Brother Groves, of the Milford Mail, expressing bis disgust for old, dead towns like Nappanee, with but two mails a day. D. M. Petrie, manager of Bender’s opera house, is in communication with the Merle Comedy Co., and if satisfactory arrangements can be made that company will make a two-nights stand here at an early date. A ear load of McKinley sugar is lying under seal in South Bend to be opened any time after midnight March 31. It belongs to the wholesale firm of D. W. Buss & Co., of that place. There is about thirty-three thousand pounds of it. We stop the press long enough to ask our Milford, Middlebury, Bremen, contemporaries how * they like our “poultry” lay out this ’ week.—Nappanee News. We’ll never tell until w’e hear from Brother Groves, of the Garrett shops. In addition to the Bankrupt stock advertised by T. J. Wolfe in this issue he has just received over $1,500 worth of fine imported worsted and German cheviot suits which he is selling at ten to twenty per cent less than last season. An obstruction was placed on the track of the B. & O. near Walkerton, one night last week, with the evident intention of wrecking No. 7, the fast train going ^est in the evening. Luckily the train cleared the track of the same and a wreck was averted.—Albion New Eria. That’s altogether new to about eleven hundred people up this way. Place & Summers, who have leased the old Baptist church for an implement depot, are making some improvements to it, among them being a large platform for the display of goods.— •South Bend Tribune. The above means D. W. Place, of Walkerton, who formed a copartnership with Mr. Summers for the purpose of engaging quite extensively in the sale of agricultural implements. Mr. Place will move to South Bend.

Mrs. lachholtz was quite ill for a few days. Wanted. — A dog at the Philadelphia Store. Patrick Byan was pretty sick for a few days. A brother of Rev. Prentice was buried last week in Noble county. Harvey Yerrick was laid up three or four days with a stitch in his back. This paper has a correspondent who persists in writing on both sides of the paper. Would it be legal to kill him. Samuel Cuduey, Jr., will hold a public sale of personal property on Tuesday, March 31, at his residence, onehalf mile west and one and one-fourth mile south of Teegarden. Dr. A. F. Schafer, at Dr. J. A. Kettring’s old office, Oliver opera house block, South Bend. Diseases of eye, ear, nose an throat. Fitting and furnishing glasses a specialty. The Jones Pro-Memoria Society has drafted a very interesting program to be rendered at their re-union here in May, and the members are working assiduously on their respective parts. E. D. Boyer will sell a lot of personal property at public auction at his residence, one mile west of Koontz's mill and three-fourths of a mile north of the Oregon church, on Friday, April 3.

Father Gorseline, w hose life had been despaired of for several weeks past, departed this life Thursday about 3 o’clock p. m., at the age of about 86 years. Old age was the main cause of his demise. Obituary next week. J. W. Lanning’s last argument, througu the Independent, in favor of a low tariff, appears in this issue. H* seems to deem it useless to fuss much about the matter, and has concluded to let ’92 settle the business for the high tarifiites. Mr. Lanning’s off his base. There’ll be plenty of high tariff people to be knocked out by Gabi id’s trumpet. The stockholders of the Williams & Henderson Co. met on last Wednesday to consider important business matters connected with the company. It was decided that all notes and accounts now due them shall be paid or putin process of collection at once and that no renewal or extension of notes can be had, and that all property which they have will ’ A man by the name of Machan, who lived three miles north of LaGrange, suicided last Wednesday by hanging himself to the limb of an apple tree. He was a widower with several children, not very prosperous and heavily in debt.—Nappanee News. And, it is said, that almost every married woman in that locality is trying to get some of the seeds of that apple tree, wishing to raise one of that very kind.

The Independent is in receipt of the following brief communication from Rev. Mathews, formerly of this place, now of Winamac, which will no doubt be of interest to his many friends heie: “We have organized an M. E. church at Hamlet with 19 members, and have begun work on the church structure. We are building a frame church 26 by 50. When complete will cost SI,OOO. I have spent one week here and had good success iu organizing. I expect to go home tomorrow. My charge at Winamac is having a good' year. Every interest of the church is prospering. I had the pleasure of preaching, last Sunday, at 3 p. m., to iny old congregation at Oregon church,” had a splendid congregation uad good meeting. Yours truly, W. A. Mathews.” Death of an Old Resident. John Cotton, an old and respected resident of this community, died on last Tuesday of lung trouble and heart failure after an illness of but a few days duration. He was born on Prince Edward’s Island Dec. 24, 1822, and came with his parents to America at an early age. In 1868 lie moved from South Bend onto a farm near this place where he resided until his death. By his first wife he had six children all of whom are dead except J. Willis Cotton, of this place. His second wife survives him. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Hutchinson, of Macmout, at the M. E. church in this place on Thursday at 2 o’clock. At the Lincoln township teachers* institute held in this place Saturday, March 21, the following resolution was introduced by J. P. Barnhart and unanimously adopted by the members of the institute: "\Vhereas, Superintendent Moon is recognized by school men throughout the state as one of the leading county superintendents, and that the teachers of St. Joseph county have always pointed with pride to his work at home and abroad, Resolved, We, the members of the Lincoln township institute, consider his re-election next June would insure the continued success of our schools, J. P. Barnhart, ) J. H. Bair, ' Com. J. E. Steel, \

Personal Points. Ben Yerrick, of South Bend, was in town. Dentist Schutt has moved his family to Michigan City. The wife of Rev. B. H. Beall, of Argos, was here last week. O. D. Fuller, of LaPorte, is visiting relatives here for a few days. Syd Ewing, of Winamac, was in town a few days the forepart of this week. Mr. Spangler, jeweler and optician, of Plymouth, was in town on last Wed* nesday. Postmaster Dan Barber, of Teegarden, was in town on business Monday afternoon. Mrs. Smith, of Elkhart, daughter of Theodore James, is visiting with relatives here. Mr. Gorseline, of Fort Wayne, if here for a brief period on account cA his father’s illness and death. Rev. Mathews, formerly pastor or the M. E. church at this place, now of Winamac, was in town last Monday.

Congressman Shively and wife are at the Oliver house. South Bend. They arrived home from Washington last Wednesday. J. H. Myers, the jeweler who formerly did business here, has returned to Walkerton and opened up business iu a part of Seth Martin's grocery store. Rev. Prentice is in Noble county at the bedside of bis father, who is dangerously sick, and on account of his ab* sence no services will be held at the Presbyterian church here Sunday. The Nappanee News inaugurates its thirteenth year with an excellent edition of that booming journal. It sells out its interest in the “hen” business to the public for a ten thousand dollar hotel and several other tine buildings to be erected there this season . Were it not for the Garrett shops nt Milford, Nappanee would be the best town in all that section of country. The following stumper for Spiritualists appears in the Rochester Sentinel of this week: “ Iwo w eeks have elapsed since the murder of Michael Overmyei, and the whole circumstance is still shrouded in mystery. Now, as we have people in our midst who claim to l ave commui?* ication with spirits, why not have one . .wkwttnn who the murderers were// that we may at once bring them ju lice. This would serve the donl ’. purpose of apprehending the criminGand establishing the geuuiuess of spin it mil ism. lam somewhat skeptical on spiritualism, but if this mystery can 1 e unraveled through mediums the “sei-

ence” will be greatly strengthened, and what is now dark will be made plain as the noon day sun. Moses Hi 11. ” Such insinuations are very impertinent and are calculated to interfere with the progress of any system of religion. Ihe secret organization known as “ The Quilters” had an interesting session at the residence of Mrs. Tank last 'lhursday. This society meets once a week, transacting business of importance at each session. After the minutes of the previous meetign are read and ajiproved. then comes the initiation of new members, budgets of fun, with just, a sprinkling of quilting as a sort of an excuse. Ihe members—in good standing—at the last session, held at the residence of Mrs. Tank, were: MrsMate Arnold, Mrs. John Cripe, Mrs. Willia • Cripe, Mrs. Geo. Steele, Mrs. Ed Stover, Mrs. Ben Rinehart, Mrs. Dennis Rupel, Mrs. Geo Pommert* Mrs. Eli Knepp, Mrs. Sam Peffley, Mrs. Joe Cripe, Mrs. Geo. Barnhart, Mrs. John Dare, Mrs. Lattie Stover, Mrs. Geo. Clem, Mrs. John Shawoacker, Mrs. Maxey and Miss Ella Shawoacker. An industrions reporter for tinIndependent managed to secrete himself in their room during the last session and got onto a heap of the workings of this order. The Lake Erie & Western. [Michigan City Dispatch.] An immense amount of money will be spent on the road-way of the Lake Erie and Western system this year, and about the first of next month the work will begin. Besides the new line to connect Indianapolis with Fort Wayne, four thousand tons of steel rails will be put down on the Indianapolis and Michigan City and Fort Wayne divisions. The track between Indianapolis and Peru now is as good as there is in the west and most of the steel will be used beyond that point. One hundred and twenty-five wooden bridges will be replaced with iron pipes and masonry, twenty stone arches will be put in and there will be ten iron bridges with trusses and girders. There will be a great deal of ballasting done on the Sandusky division and considerable work on the west end. A great number of fills will be made and a steam-shovel will be kept busy during the entire summer. The cost of the improvements will amount to nearly $2,000,000. This sum does not include the equipments which ere already ordered

A LECTURE ON A SPOON. The Hired Man Got It, but Failed to Comprehend a Word of It. “I remember,” said the recounter of the party, “a dispensation of what might be called Spartan justice. It happened when I was a boy and made a lasting impression, as incidents of the kind do on a youthful mind. “Our folks at home had some old silver spoons that had been in constant service for generations, and were small and thin, and carried in their shallow bowls the makes of every tooth in the family. Each spoon had a history and an association, as spoons did have in those days, and they were looked after with the greatest care. My mother placed them under her pillow every night; and the whole family would be regularly awakened by a midnight clatter of rattling spoons, as they had a restless habit of falling out of bed; so their value was enhanced by the many sleepless nights they cost. “Well, one of those precious spoons was missing, and there was a great to do over it. The servants were all questioned, but no one had seen the “'missing spoon. That night a colored 1 girl, who had been taken in some months before by my mother, and who was a bright and rather precocious character, told of seeing a new hired man on the premises biding something in his jacket. She even essayed to find the jacket, and, sure enough, between the lining and the outside was found the lost spoon. “My mother was so happy in recoving her property that she wanted the man to go scot free. Not so my father. who was a solemn church-goer. •I will give him a lecture on the sin of stealing.’ he said, ‘and keep him, as he is a useful man. I am very sure he will never steal from us again.’ “I accompanied my father to the kitchen, where the man was raking ■ ashes over the coals of a hot tire and was preparing to go to bed. He sat I submissively still as my father appeared. carrying a large bible, and he listened to the lecture that was delived with an unmoved countenance. I slept and awakened several times before it was finished. My father's solemn, monotonous voice affected me like a soporific and I did not try to fathom the language he used. “The culprit was a German, and I have since learned he did not understand one word my father said to him. nor even the nature of the accusation against him. I thought then as I listened to my father’s bass tones in that grim monologue, that the punishment was adequate to the sin. I had been lectured myself, and would have confessed to almost anything to have escaned the consequences. •The lecture was supplemented by a prayer, in which my father implored i divine forgiveness for the offender. । The German took it all in good part 4 and remained in his situation, but was no doubt carefully watched. Some L the colored girl-acknowl-s jacket in order to get rid WMnT and gratify her love for mischief. As he .•never alluded to it in any way we could u not tell what he thought of tne services of that night, or how much of the long moral lecture had been comprehended. But 1 am certain, he never understood the criminal nature of the occasion.”— Detroit Free L'rcss. How a Bullet Behaves.

Howard Carr, a local authority on shooting, and a gentleman well informed on all matters of detail pertaining to the bull's eye. gave an Examiner reporter some interesting information on the queer actions of a bullet after being discharged from the muzzle of a gun. “A bullet." he declared, “sighted for 1.000 yards, has three separate and distinct motions, and in cases where the stubby and blunt express lead is used it has four. The first is its velocity or straight motion of journey; the second is the rotart’ motion, caused bv the bore of the gun, which makes it plough through the air, and the third is the trajectory motion, or drift, attributable to the attraction of gravity, which forces the bullet sideways. When the express bullet is used it follows a line similar to the edge of a corkscrew. The latter is ascribable to the extra friction on the bottom of the ball, which is constantly lowering. “I had this illustrated by placing sheets of paper forty yards apart on a level, and the course of the bullet could be seen by collecting the papers und laying them one over the other. “A ball has a very large drop when •traveling any great distance. For inptance, take 1,000 yards. The bullet, J keeping the course it originally darted out to follow, would land a /istauce of over 255 feet above the raU’s-eye. But it starts to drop iminediately after leaving the muzzle of the gun, and at between 550 and 600 yards the ball is over sixty feet above the line of the bull’s-eye, and a considerable distance below the line of sight. At 200 yards it has decreased in proportion, and the aim is only forty inches above the bull’s-eye, but at 500 yards it is over sixteen feet. “It takes about three seconds for a ball to travel 1,000 yards with an ordinary charge of powder behind it. The first second it travels 1,500 feet. In the next second, it travels only three-quarters of that distance, and in the third second it travels only onehalf as much as it did when leaving the muzzle. “I made the claim here a short time ago that a ball made more revolutions (that is, its rotary motion increased in proportion to the distance it traveled) as it approached the target than it did in the 100 yards immediately after leaving the muzzle, and I will explain. The friction of the atmosphere does not lessen the rotary motion as fast in proportion to the distance it has traveled as it does through the atmosphere, consequently, while in the last 100 yards the ball is only traveling at a rate just one-half of its original speed, the rotary motion is just as great, and, baying more time, makes more revolutions.”—San Francisco Examiner. Latest style hats just received at Tom Wolfe’s. Prices always the

THE NEW FALL STOCK —or CARPETS, DRESS GOODS, CLOAKS, JACKETS, Blatt, Li Mains, CHENILLE CURTAINS, FLANNES, UNDERWEARE — -And ad Sorts of Dry G-oods, Useful and Ornamental, are in full stiffly at THE BUSY BEE-HIVE. The joke of it all is, that it’s to be a “BARGAIN PICNIC” this Fall for our 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 in 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. the STEMS SM ft Bargains In GROCERIES, QUEENWARE, DRY GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES, Etc. Also we have in our Grocery Department a 5 and 10 cent counter hard to beat any place in the state. Dry Goods arriving daily, including all the late styles and patterns. Prints of all the latest styles, ranging in prices from 4to 7 cents per yard. Also a large line of watered Silk Shirts, Fancy Satines. All kinds of the latest styles in any kinds of Shirts. We also have in connection with our “Mammoth Double Store,” Flour, Feed etc,, where we do a regular exchange business. Please call and see us before buying elsewhere. No trouble to show goods. THE STEPHENS STORE 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 heating Stoves on the market, she genuine GROUND OAK STOVES^ BURN WOOD OR COAL, Zj tne best round stove manufactured, and requires less fuel tnan any other round stove in the market. (Remember, we have the exclusive sale of these stoves in this flace. 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 ine of tinware and all kinds of tin repairing. SIGN OF Irp T T) pp -p THE LITTLE STOVE] £ , J ,