St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 August 1891 — Page 5

Stye Independent. W! A. KNDLEV, PUBLISHER: WALKERTON, INDIANA, Aug. 1. 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 Egga Butter Lard 1 Green Hides • • ’ Potatoes Corn 50 to ^ Hanis ...»••••••••••••••••••**’ qq Wheat, new $$ b“‘’ s ;::yyy»s® i«® 5“ 50 to 56 >«‘° 22 LOCAL NEWS. Talk continuously and freely about the park. Paint up the church buildings and give them a respectable outside appearance at least. The open air concerts given by the cornet boys in their new 'band stand these evenings, are first-class. C. W. N. Stephens took in 800 bushels of wheat between the hours of 6 and 9 o’clock, last Tuesday, p. m. We affirm —never swear—that granulated sugar can bo purchased, plenty of it, in Walkerton at 5 cents a pound.

Wheat on Tuesday reached 85 cents in this market. All that was brought in in the forenoon was bought at that price. An excellent walk has been put down in front of Uncapher’s portion of the burnt district. At this writing there is but one joint left without a walk. The South Bend Daily Post of Thursday morning complains that the heavy rains on Wednesday afternoon fairly flooded their streets, that the sewer holes could not carry away the water fast enough. Some of the older citizens of this locality barely remember what is meant by the word rain. We write this Thursday, 11:30, a: m.

The idea has somehow got abroad that Walkerton don’t sell granulated sugar at 5 cents a pound. Whoever started the report should be sentenced three days in the pie house with a muzzle on. IPs a big lie. Granulated factory being put in here whose capacity will be sufficient to can all the canable products of this settlement, huckleberries, other berries, green corn, beans, and indeed everything that can be canned to any advantage. So mote it be. For Sale.—Your choice of two buggies—one brand new, one second hand. Price of new one, one hundred dollars —old one, sixty dollars. Time, one year. Note must be good. Don’t come prepared to jew. Can't get either of them for one penny less. Call at Independent office.

D. M. Petrie has accepted a position in a tailoring house at Watseka, 111., a town of about three thousand inhabitants, and will leave for that place about the middle of this month. He will sell a portion of his Pantatorium outfit to his new employer. Dave is one of Walkerton’s most intelligent and worthy young men, and the Independent bids him God-speed in his new field. There is no question but that many are allowed pensions whose afflictions are no more due to service in the army than our vast w’ealth is due to peddling peanuts in a grave yard, but who have honorable discharges from the government’s service performed during the late trifling misunderstanding, and which, in our opinion, is sufficient grounds for a pension. The Leesburg Standard claims that Mr. E. D. Carpenter keeps the grass and brush mowed and cut down in the town’s cemetery, and that he keeps it slick as a button. We’d like to know where your spooks rendezvous, That’s altogether a new idea to us. You should see the Walkerton cemetery and what a magnificent resort it is for ghosts, hobgoblins and spooks. Married, at the bride's home, 2 miles northwest of Tyner on Sunday, July 26, at 2 o’clock p. m., Simeon F. McKrill and Miss Nora M. Evans, Elder ■jiifalinrSer "officiating. A sumptuous dinner was served of which all partook heartily. On Monday morning Mr. and Mrs. McKrill left for their new home in Silver Lake, Ind., where Mr. McKrill has a lucrative business as carriage maker. The best wishes of many friends go with them. 1

Summer hats below the wholesale price at T. J. Wolfe’s. Clarence ATHough, humorist, dialect reader and impersonator, with the DePauw Quartette at Bender’s opera hall, Thursday evening, Aug 6. It is reported that Tex Bell, formerly aB. & 0. conductor who made his headquarters in this place, had one of his legs amputated, recently, as the result of an accident received on the Nickle Plate railroad. Prices of admission to the DePauw Quartette entertainment to be held in Bender’s opera house Thursday evening, Aug. 6, are: Adults 25 cents; 12 years and under, 15 cents. The Macy Monitor will enlarge to a six-quarto. Its space was all taken up with advertisements, which restrained the dashing pen of Editor Enyart. But poor Ben. Harrison will now have to take his medicine in allopathic doses. The Fahrney road cart is the best cart on the market. It is a neat, stylish cart, made throughout of the best material, and positively has no equal for easy riding. It is just the cart you want. Go and see S. A. Ullery, of near this place, who is agent for these vehicles. The Walkerton Independent says the Huckleberry Queen has become a bona fide resident oi civ*. tui» is a mistake. That distinguished personage is not numbered among the citizens of this place.—Michigan City News.

How is it that you don’t count her? She always counted one, and sometimes more, when she lived here. Bill Teeples has been given a pension of about five hundred and eighty dollars back pay and twenty-four dollars a month during good behavior. Bill no doubt thinks that comes pretty handy for a rainy day. As we have frequently intimated in this paper, we are glad to see every man get a pension who has an honorable discharge from the government service, whether he is afflicted or not. In a letter to Rev. Berry, of this place, Prof. Bassett, of Greencastle, who is well and favorably known to many of the citizens of Walkerton, has this to say regarding the DePauw Quartette, which will give an entertainment here August 6: “The DePauw Quartette is O. K They are fine singers all. The best and most popular musical combination which comes to Mehary Hall. They are, moreover, good Christian boys, both the managers and singers, and in every way worthy. They will give voq fin entertainment which for pleas- - — .. L. —-** anyAn expert drunk from North Liberty taught the amateurs of Walkerton some of the scientific principles of ami the proper method of conducting a modern “whiz” on our streets the other day. He had pulled his coat and put it in one of the stores handy by and was parading the sidewalk, twelve feet wide, and of which he required the whole, when ex-Marshal Fry gently told him to march into the store, put on his coat and march for North Liberty, all of which he did without a single protest. Everybody in town was a son of a b and he could shoot everybody and kill everybody and whip everybody without a struggle, until Mr. Fry reminded him that it was high time to leave town.

This is almost equal to “Little Drops °f Water,” which the preacher requested the sisters to start after services down on the Wabash. This incident occured at a choir rehearsal not long ago. They were preparing for the following Sunday morning a beautiful selection, the first words of which were, “I am a Pilgrim.” It so happened that the music divided the word pilgrim and made a pause after the first syllable. The effect was most amusing. The soprano sang in a high key, “I am a Pil—and stopped. The alto repeated, “I am a Pil—.” The tenor acknowledged he was a “Pil—,” and when the bass came thundering in with like declaration, “I am a Pil—,” it was too much for the gravity of the singers. ” — Goshen Democrat. A certain editor recently received a curious letter, concerning which he said: “It is from a lady who says she is my wife. I have made inquiries about her and think that, perhaps, she tells the truth. I have a dim recollection of having been married once, but am not positive. The work of the office absorbs my time so much that my memory has no room for these indefinite details. The lady says she was married to me a quarter of a century ago, that I have a baby who is about to celebrate his twenty-first brithday, and that she would like to have me present on the occasion. I dislike to visit strangers, but if the facts are as she states I suppose I will have to go. I have written that if she will prove her identity I will be on hand. But I hate to be bothered with these domestic affairs all the time.—Ex.

Summer underwear cheap at T. J. Wolfe’s. E. J. Vincent is selling his higherpriced baby cabs at cost. Get your fine suits and pants made at T. J. Wolfe’s tailoring establishment. He has a first-class tailor and will guarantee prices and workmanship. T. J. Wolfe will sell you men’s and boys’ shoes cheaper than anybody in northern Indiana. Call in, see his line and you are sure to purchase of him. A subscriber sending a remittance to a local paper says: “I might murder my grandmother, I might possibly flog my wife, I might smother a blind baby, I think I could steal gingerbread from a nigger baby—but I have not got so low that I can beat a poor devil of a printer.” Mrs. Rextraw, wife of W. E. Rextraw, of this place, died Sunday afternoon, July 26, of consumption. The deceased is survived by a husband and two small children. Brief services were held at the residence on Tuesday, Rev. Mattox officiating, and the remains were taken to Argos for burial. The preliminary work of our special edition is progressing very satisfactorily, and we will, no doubt, be able to issue the paper within the next two weeks, A number of our enterprising citizens appear to appreciate the benefits that are likely to come to Walkerton as a result of an effort of this kind, and are taking hold of the matter zealously.

STRIKE WHILE THE IRON'S HOT. Now is the time for the enterprising , citizens of Walkerton to make a start.> The time appears to be an auspicious j one; in that an opportunity presents to boom the town after the most approved style and latest and best known meth-1 ods of booming a town, after the plan practiced now by all towns of any life and energy, in that a largo factory ( stands ready at a moment’s warning to plant itself in our midst, that crops a.e\ excellent, that people here are comparatively out of debt, that we have plenty ; of mon who are able bodied just wait- , ing for the establishing of a manufac- ’ tory here to do the work, and for a । hundred plausible and cogent reasons, ] do we repeat, The time is auspicious, circumstances propitious. Strike, boys, strike, while the iron is hot and a hot- *“• TAKE NOTICE. | All accounts on my books arc now i past due, and the same, with all note* due, must be settled at once. business out of the store that tfiflSt call and senTP wTni my cl ri . B lam not in the store). I sha***m>t spend my time for the next 3Cday« trying to collect money, bnt wll put I all accounts and notes due aa not I paid by Aug. 15 in the hands of ompc- ] tent collectors to bo collected w)hout i further notice. Any persons willing i any extension past Aug. 15, must call I and settle by note that I can get dis- 1 counted at bank before Aug. 15, I mean just what I say and will aeUsc- , cordingly. Respectfully,

T. J. Wolk. The special edition of the Indfjendent, if proper encouragement is gven by those interested, will appear leek after next. Thore will be tire tl»usand copies containing a complete wtiteup of Walkerton, her principal busiless men, her railroad or shipping facilites, her undeveloped resources, such as eoal oil, soft coal, great huckleberry interests, and the unlimited products—spon-taneous-in the way of grass out of which binding twine will soon be manufactured, and even other twines, and of her forests, lakes and rivers, the former abounding in wild game, quail, duck, snipe, chickens, pheasants, coon, squirrels, opossums, rabbits, foxes, etc., etc., and the latter fairly foaming with fish of tho moot dvlivious varieties, sueb aS bass, perch, pike, pickerel, sun-fish, eels, etc. Where in all God’s creation, we would ask, can mortal man find, more of nature’s own to attract his attention, to invite him to settle down for life, and when he shall have done with this mundane sphere, when he shall have filled his mission upon this earth, by living a Christian life and propagating the species copiously, and when his Maker shall call him to give an account of the deeds done in the flesh, and he shall have read his title clear, and shall hear the happy response, “Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joys,” etc., what can give him more real enjoyment than to reflect that his body lies comfortably at rest in the cemetery at Wallerton ? Then why not let the outside world know of our attractions by gettfag out a “boom” edition of the Independent, that those remote from here may be enlightened, that those wiary and heavy laden and looking for a haven of rest am] happiness, may comeand share with us all these good tilings and also drop a few nickels in the geieral fund.

Pergonal Points. Jeff Reece was in Chicago Tuesday. 0 • W. N. Stephens had business in Chicago Tuesday. Miss Bessie L. Dillon is visiting friends in South Bend. Chas. James, of Chicago, is visiting old friends in this place. J. H. Myers, the jeweler, was at LaPorte Tuesday on business. John Brown, of Garrett, was in town about five hours the other day. Mrs. Minnie Holmes, of Chicago, is visiting relatives in this place. Mrs. J. W. Brown, of Garrett, Ind., is here visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Rogers spent Sunday with relatives near Plymouth. E. A. Platts, of South Bend, has been visiting his brother, Jacob Platts, of this place. Mrs. S. Hudelmyer, Mrs. Brubaker and daughter Loda, are spending a week in South Bend. Rev. Prentice has gone to Noble county to finish settling up the estate of his father, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. W. Sanders, of Hicksville, Ohio, have been visiting their son, fl. L. Sanders, during the past week. ? Miss Smyers, of Dayton, Ohio, is spending a few weeks with her cousins, the Misses Jennie und Mamie Place, of the Island.

Charles Knox, jr., of the firm of Reynolds Bros .& Co., of Toledo, 0., made the Stephens Store Co. a business call on Wednesday, Mrs. G. W. I. Jones and children, of South Chicago, spent a few days in Walkerton visiting Mrs. 11. A . Woodworth. They left Monday for Wolf Lake where they will spend several weeks with relatives. Miss Minnie Platts has returned home from a visit of several weeks’ duration with relatives and friends near the lake coast in Michigan. Sho visited Galien, Buchanan, Sawyer and other places during her stay.

We begin to doubt the truth of the saying that, “What you give to the poor you lend to the Lord.” We have been giving little by little for the past twenty-five years, and the Lord has not so much as paid the interest on it. Those business men and real-estate owners of Walkerton who neglect to take an interostin the present attempt to boom the town and becoming too critical and exact about the matter, will please Ibear in mind that the projectors of the movement are not going to get down upon their knees to persuade them to do ^u»«Unity presents. The special edition of the Independent will be one of vastly more interest than anything ever before published in Walkerton and those who fear an outlay of a few dollars and withhold their aid will solely regret their parsimoniousness when it is everlastingly too late. Lend a helping hand, gentlemen, you who have interests in Walkerton, and reap a sevenfold reward.

One of our exchanges says the beautiful and thriving town of Springfield, Ohio, has a singular epidemic. Ancient females, about to die, purchase a coffin, climb into it, and procure some one to baptize them while in the box. There have been four such cases there this summer. Do intelligent ministers of the Gospel sanction such exhibitions ? —Goshen Democrat. If there's a dollar or so in it, yes. CAN HA VE A LARGE FACTORY. We have received two letters lately from a gentleman of Marion, Ohio, who is seeking a location for the purpose of establishing a manufactory. Chief among the articles which he proposes to manufacture are a feed cutter and ratchet wrench, both inventions of his own. There are several other articles of less importance which he thinks would pay to make. He claims that ten thousand dollars will be required the wheels in motion, and that forty men will have employment the first year and eighty the next after which about one hundred and twenty can be employed to advantage. Our citizens can have this enterprise by raising the ten thousand dollars. If 40 men the first year and 80 men the second year, and but one hundred would he steadily employed after that, it would be a big send-off for Walkerton. We have written the gentleman two letters in response to his propositions and have promised him that if our citizens feel interested in the town enough to take hold and push matters that we will visit him at his home in Marion and investigate his inventions with a view to ascertain their merits before moving further in the premises. What will Walkerton do about it ? Shall we write the gentleman to hold up a little until we have time to deliberate upon the thing or shall we let it go by default? Talk the matter over, gentlemen, and decide, if you will, what the purport of our next missive to the Ohio man shall be. We patiently, or rather impatiently, await your decision.

JULY ATTRACTIONS JI AT THE BUSY, BUZZING BEE-HIVE, on Michigan Ave., LaPORTE, Ind., Through July we offer special inducements to our customers. We shall give tickets for the amount of all cash purchases, and when presented to us before Sept. 1, ißqi, in amounts of Twenty (Dollars, we will give the choice of A FOLDING TABLE, or one of our ‘‘Solid Comfort Louneing Chairs,” free of charge. PLATED SPOON SALE. Your choice of 1,000 pieces double plated Spoons, Forks, .Napkin (Rings, Salt and Tepper (Boxes and (Butter (Dishes for cents. Six Teaspoons worth sl. R R ° ne Napkin Eing “ Satin Li ° ed l| I 1)1(1 Box worth sl. Three Tablespoons worth sl. J H I \ Pepper and SaH Cellars - n SatiQ Pair Butter Dishes worth sl. / 111 |J HJa Lined Box worth sl. It’s such a comfort to have spoons enough. Come while the opportunity lasts at the (Bee-Hive. JULIUS BARNES & CO. THE STEPHENS STORE CO.

We offer for the next 30 days our entire stock of SUMMER FLANNEL SHIRTS! AT COST! Now is your lime to get a nice new shirt regardless of cost. Please call and examine our goods before buying elSPwner?, u/ur t mtllncca that we are Leaders of Low Prices I JFe also carry a full line of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, &c., in which we can not be beaten for prices. Please call and gice us a trial, and see what we can save you in your purchases. Yours to serve, TUI: STEPHENS STORE COMPANY. HIS NOBS The Picture Knob, the Door Knob and sundry other Nobby Goods are to be found, at reasonable prices, at the well known HARDWARE STORE of T. J. REECE, Where can be found a complete stock of (Builders’ and other Hardware, SASH. DOORS AND BLINDS, Latest Makes of Gasoline Stoves, Imperial Plows and Repairs. Tin- f ßoofiing done promptly by Competent Workmen. Nil work fully guaranteed. Paints and Oils, Brushes and all other Painters' Goods of first' class quality will always be found in abundance at our place. We have a full line of tinware and do all kinds of tin repairing. sign of m T DT7T?pT7 TRE LITTLE STOVE. 1 , J . IVUKbLj