St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 August 1891 — Page 1

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The Walkerton Independent is 17 y< ars old and is the best paper M alkerton ever had.—Bremen Enquirer. You're another, and yon das mt back it. . Tt is reported that Prince M. went a mile in 2:12 in his work at Detroit one day last week.— LaPorte Herald, Prince M.! Oh, excuse us. It was only a report. * General Thomas Browne, of Indiana . is dead. He died of hemorrhage of the lungs, one week ago yesterday. He was an ejxeHGnt lawyer and a great llTJih? i n • • —a man, with long hair and powerful arms and legs.—lndianapolis Sun. It’s a “horrid” man, we'll bet anything. Murder. The Walkerton Independent has now passed into its seventeenth volume, and, continues to be among our best exchanges. It can build up a burnt district many years sooner than ten of the best men of his town. The citizens of that place should (and we are told do) appreciate his services as an exemplary newspaper man — Milford Mail.

Avilla has a lad who, in his slumbers gives vent to such ejaculations as: "Hu! a narrow escape!” “Die, villain, die!” “I will rescue the beautiful maiden!” “Another redskin bites the dust!” etc., etc. We offer this as atestimonial of the efficacy of the yellowback novel.—Avilla News. Ont in Kansas they actually talk of running Senator Peffer for president next year. It is needless to say that this talk is exclusively confined to adherents of the Farmers’ Alliance. W. A. Peffer for president—Geewhittiker! What npxt?—South Bend Times. That’s almost as “Geewhittiker” and “What next?” as the Times’ mention of Dave Turpie was in that connection, made not long ago.

Did Walkerton have a foot race?— Bristol Banner. There was considerable of excitement here concerning foot-racing some time ago. A gentleman came here from Ligonier or vicinity for the purpose of running one of our boys for a few’ hundred “suscats,” but that’s all the information you’ll get out of us until we know your motive for asking the question. See? A carrier pigeon released at Warsaw reached its home in safety—Decorah, lowa, a distance of over 400 miles. As soon as released it made a few circles in the air and started in the proper direction. Twenty-four hours on the way. Wonderful instinct.—Argos Reflector. We had an item in our last issue concerning that pigeon, and an individual connected with this office argued that jt was intellect, that it was the reasoning faculties of the pigeon which taught it the direction home. We tried to argue with the fello.v for a minute but could not and threw him out of a rear window. We gave him an opportunity to exercise his “reasoning faculties.”

WAI. KE ETON. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUG. 1. 1891.

I.Oflt BRIKFB. Trade in Walkerton and you’ll be happy. Oar market has been crowded this year with all manner of vegetables from the earliest possible moment to the present. • — Pennington’s Air Ship machine is taking a rest, but the Air Ship Waltz, by Doles will travel to every city and town in the United States. What right has a steam threshing ' machine twenty rods long to drag its I length along our principal business streets, we are moved to inquire? Jerry Steel put down a twelve foot walk in front of his part of tho burnt district. He used white ash lumber that should have gone into extension

It is said that the Huckleberry Qneen put. in an appearance on the grounds this year, and that she seemed to possess all the acquirements of a perfect lady 1 Lon Philips, who lives on land owned bv Samuel Koontz, jr., in Stark county, threshed eight acres of wheat this season which averaged twenty nine bushels to the acre. Samuel Miller, of near town, has! been pretty sick for three or more weeks. The doctor reports his trouble to be in the back and left side. It is feared that an abscess may form.

It is now almost certain that three ( busim ss rooms, brick, will go up In j, fore long on the burnt district. AX ill I notify Bro. Groves, of the Milford Mail, the moment "we" begin tlnir erection. The huckleberry crop this year, we are moved to state, was not up to the maximum. They bore a correspondingly high price, however, and tin money consideration was not so much short as some of our exchanges might hope. _____ A copy of the fourth issue of the Mishawaka Democrat comes marked x. with you? We have led to x with rwvh r pitpwHiw I h* Democrat, do you ? Drunken men ! Lots of ’em ! As we write one sits across the street, asleep in the door way of a saloon, two more are stretched out in an alley close by, and the Lord only knows how many are stored away in out-houses sleeping off a drunk.—Winamac Bepubliean. Better by far be sleeping of! their drunk than working it off painting the town red. The horsemen of this city are all

much disappointed at tho way Prince M. came out at the Detroit contest. He wasn’t "in it” in any of the heats, and the feathers of our horsemen are down.—LaPorte Argus. This was no more than could have been expected. When a horse takes second in county races, what can it expect to do on a track with celebrities from all over tho country? Take back your nag, LaPortcans, and race him up and down your grass covered lanes. Change his name and call him Prince Dennis. — South Bend Daily Post. Ihe “Odd Fellows’ Grand March” and the "Air Ship Waltz” are two of the latest compositipns of Isaac Doles, 234 West Michigan St., Indianapolis, Ind. Both are musical gems. They

comprise live pages each, sheet music size, besides illustrated title pages, not difficult in execution but beautiful in composition, and sell at 40c each. By way of introduction Mr. Doles will mail them to any address on receipt of 10 cents each when accompanied by this notice. On Monday of this week Mr. P. Dever, editor of the South Chicago Free Press, Mr. John Braden, of this place, and the writer spent a pleasant day visiting with Samuel Koontz, jr., and taking in the points of interest in the wild wood surrounding that beautiful expanse of crystal water known as Koontz's Lake. One of the principal attractions of the visit, so far as “yours in haste” was concerned, was the delicious dinner served by Mrs. Koontz, whose ability to fully please the palate we no longer doubt. Many points of interest from the early history of that locality to the present time were gathered, detailed accounts of which will appear in our special edition of the Walkerton Independent.

I Os course you do- all your trading in Walkerton. Be virtuous, and trade in Walkerton, and you’ll be happy. Revs. Prentice and Mattox exchanged pulpits Sunday evening last. Mr. McCarty, of Walkerton, has put his Duroc mare in Quin Cram’s string for education. —LaPorte Herald. Miss Addie DeCouders spent the I past week visiting with the family of Mr. ' John Hilt, the great ice man, of LaI Porte. i The Noble county fair will be held nt Ligonier, the first week in October. It is said they have excellent fairs at that place. Religious excitement has caused 17 • persons to be sent to the insane I from Brown county during tho f® G

The Mishawaka Democrat is a nwm uncertain about getting around, | it i seems. Ont of four issues we have received two copies, the first and fou»h. The editor wrote a ball room ijin saying : “Her dainty feet wereencabd in shoes that might have been taken or fairy boots;” but the blundering cmpositor made it read: “Her dirty /et were encased in shoes that might Be been taken for ferry boats.” i Dr. Wilson, of Plymouth, spoil a I few hours here Sunday afternoon pd I evening while waiting for a train g<ng south. The doctor had been anmifni

ed to LaPaz to see a very sick pats and came around this way on his w-v home. He is a genial gentleman an, interesting conversationalist. John A. Little was a traveling aget and was putting up at the Hull House, Johnstown, at the time of ‘hi disastrous flood. Mr. Little x, drowned, and now comes his widow ni sues the South Fork Fishing ( bib I Tiftv thousand dollars. Should she t cover thousands of others will probal follow suit and up the spout goes t South Fork gentry. While at play in the barn tost un dav a little nephew of SamJ^ „mrr unTTM. i child s name is Morrow, ■ » ents reside in South ChieC^The little fellow was here visitii his uncle and aunt. Nothing is dtt%ly known as to how the accident oed-cd. It is thought, however, that a Ite did it. Mr. John Hilt, we are folwishos to purchase-ix head of horsj weighing sixteen hundred pounds upwards, for which ho offers to pay ti^ hundred dollars apiece. Horse raii haven’t you been mistaken all aloiL puttering with small horses? lL hoiscs arc always in the market I] always command a good price. H an’t cost but little more to raise a hie thana small horse. When millionaires beeometercsted in this locality as a summer you may begin to think that the, something brewing. Those genthjn who are visiting Walkerton and oontz's lake so frequently of late are p bums, but gentlemen, gentlemen oweultli and leisure, gentlemen who a seeking for a convenient and suital place to invest large sums of money “.building up a summer resort. Some of our exchanges arejlking about heavily loaded peach tri- the

MioLuwaha Enterprise for oniJjfeK back yender, you older rascal^^e : memember it well, it was jnhiujin this part of creation to see p^ch split oft' from the trunk of thetree ph their overload of juicy frnih affifhe ground under the trees literally CTered wit!i peaches, that one m^htbave for picking them up. The ol< lew Years that killed off all the ip^shms in these parts also killed be P^ch trees. There would be somethg wjmg about the season, it would. 1 very incomplete were it to pass y willout some young girl being tten b- a rattlesnake in each comiinity. ’Che Michigan City papers ke repotted their incident of *he kinchiready 'his year. Miss Harringto living tear that place, stepped out the doo) in her bare feet and was ben by a rattlesnake from which her-g swelled to mammoth proportionsnd her life was despaired of for a tir But she recovered, thanks to tl good old rye that the doctor put Jn her.

Potatoes are abundant in this market and at fair prices. Will some exchange tell how far it is from pillar to post? Even tho Knox Ledger begins to growl about the omni present tramp. The Westville Indicator can’t understand how a man can be fatally shot through tho window. Charley Knot t buys wheat at stations between this and Chicago. The wheat is shipped here and made into flour. Amos Stevenson has been quite poorly for nearly four weeks. A species of neuralgia is what he is supposed to be afflicted with. TheLnPorte Argus says that “Prince wasn't in it at Detroit’." That’s yubont the size of it. H -’s a great “boss ’ ? ' The Stark County Republican is roasting to a finish one of Knox's leading physicians. Physicians should learn to not monkey with a loaded newspaper. ’ We don't have to invite the farmer to bring Ids wheat to Walkerton. All farmersthis section know that they always could get tho highest prices for their wheat, in this market. A great Illinois preacher, Dr. Brooks, who has been an ardent prohibitionist for a long time, has abandoned the party. He assigns some excellent reasons for bis conduct. Argos is to have another bank. L. Rose, brother of our “Boses,” is the president, and the bank is known as i' the Citizens’Bank of L. Bose A' Co. A ii tine building is in process of construction for the purpose. i Now comes that Ih rrid Mishawaka ! Enterprise arguing that old maids are superstitious, more or less, and won’t start out on n trip anywhere on Fridhy, r or words to that »ffect. Those old 1 maids will rip you up the the back, r Bro. Jernegan. । The New Carlisle Gazette claims that ’ according to law a man should go fifty feet ahead of a traction engine traveling on the public road. This is required - that aecident^jjUlujJ.lLl^^ If it. i ’ >”■ -iT'I wr’’-.-. no reason to donbi it. if^nohlil be enforced. From the 20th day of December, to the first day of June following, in the state of Indiana, yon shall neither shoot nor pursue for that purpose any squirrel, and for the violation of which law in the fotmor ease, a tine of two dollars will be inflicted, and in the latter, a tine of one dollar will be assessed. D’ye hear ? There is considerable of horse stealing goingon all through northern Indiana and southern Michigan just now. Notices are being sent out by sheiiffs at various points describing the horses stolen and offering rewards. The Independent advises its readers in this section to be on their guard if they have horses. The Bremen Enquirer of last week in an extended article on fakirs of all breeds, including the patent medicine vender of course, concludes by saying: "Just why any city or town corporation lets them come into a place and fora dollar or two in license paid, gull the gullible and humbug the humbuggable and carry the dollars from the town does not seem very clear. The authorities should tix the license fee at about $25.00 per day for these fellows and thus rid the place of the pests.” L the license so high that the wunTtTlii wiUL_become extinct for the want of a field in’w’iHcTl to practice their bold stealing. Not one ot them ever yet did any community the least bit of good. On Sunday last Andrew Rehm, of Chicago, president of the Pottowattomie Club. P. Dever, editor of the South Chicago Free Press, John Braden, oi Walkerton, and the writer spent a portion of the day taking in the magnificent beauties of Koontz s Lake and tho , surrounding country. The Chicago visitors were highly delighted with the scenery in that locality and predict that the day is not far distant when this region will become one of the most famous summer resorts of Indiana. An excellent dinner was partaken of by the hungry gang at the home of George Warner. Without aiming at flattery of Mrs, Warner in regard to her ability ; as a first-class cook, Ave are hereby authorized in behalf of the entire company to say that they never more keenly relished a meal of xictuals. *

THE PHILADELPHIA STORE. Great tel Clmi M Commencing at 10 o’clock a. m, July 25, and continuing about Three Weeks$6,000 _ IVorth of Seasonable ZJSrchandise offered to the people of th aßerton and vicinity at a JIEMSIItKABLE RED ECTI(J^. Eone reserved. Stock cleaned out every season. Xo shelj-icorn goods. ITe carry no goods from season to season. You irho have traded with us before, know that the Philadelphia Store never makes an offer that is not carried out to the letter, ll'e shall demonstrate this fact more clearly than ever in the Great Sweeping Reduction Sale to begin July 2-5. Our great drive will be made oil DRY GOODS, Gents’Furnishing Goods, LADIES' & GENTS' SHOES! People, the opportunity is yours, to sret some great bargains, and you cannot afford to throw the chance away. Everybody comePhiladelphia Store! EVERYTHING GOES! lii the Line of Hals, Boots, Sloes, Trunks, Valises, Furnishing goods and Jewelry, FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DaVs, at a TREMNDOUS REDUCTION! H'e must close out our Summer Stock in order to make loom for Rail and H’inter Goods, ana to do so offer you ckc Great Bargains! which you will readily see by visiting us, and we aie assured of ycur patronage in ev ything in mir line after avail. Yours truly, I T. J. WOLFE, The Clothier and Merchant Tailor.

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