St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 August 1891 — Page 3

j J 1 t ¥ r 'TSSI^^ ' f Wi|BBiO !\J :> J. ENDLEY, DRUGGIST. The existence of a first-class drug store in any town, is now conceded by every person, to be as necessary to the comfort and convenience of the people, as the dry goods, the grocery, the hardware, or any other kind of store. It is sufficent to say that in the drug store owned and run by Mr. J. Endly, the people of Walkerton and surrounding country, know full well, they can get anything usually found in a firstclass establishment of this kind, as he । carries a stock of goods that would do I ] credit to a first-class establishment of 1 thi s kind, even in the great city of r Chicago, and buying as he does, in ( such large quantities, he is enabled to 1 purchase at much better rates, than the < man who only buys small quantities at f a time and has to charge his customers 1 big prices to enable him to pay the exorbitant prices which the wholesale merchant charges him. Mr. J. Endly, on the contrary, buys in large quantities, gets a big discount, and shares the saving thus made, with his customers, who know that by trading with him, they save many dollars every year. As a consequence of this condition of things, Mr. Endly may be said to have a monopoly of the drug business in Walkerton. His place of business is stocked from front to back door, with a choice selection of drugs and druggist sundries, books and stationery, paints, oil. etc., besides a full stock of family groceries which are sold here at prices, to compete with any store in town. He usually carries a stock of goods amounting to between $3,000 and $4,000. Hence customers are sure to be able to get what they want here, and save money at the same time. The name of “Joe” Endly and the drug business in Walkerton, are so familiar household words with the people of this town and St. Joseph county, that very few think of going anywhere else when they need anything in this line. c. F. JAUCH. Has conducted his bakery and restaurant here since December, 1890, and is a citizen highly respected by the people here. For boarders and transients he has 11 first-class rooms, and those needing accommodation, will findeWrything first-class. -T^- J .\\ \ m • wMIr V\\V\ J • J z / * ANDREW REHM. Mr. Andrew Rehm, President of the Pottawatomie Fruit Co., was born in Alsace, France, in 1846, aud came with bis parents to America in 1852. Was a gallant soldier in the late war, and is one of the leading business men of Chicago. As a real estate owner and dealer he has proved a huge success. OJ CT JAMES FRANKLIN DUFFY. The intelligent and indefatigable founder and manager of the now famous Pottawatomie Club, is one of Chicago’s brightest minds, and is the owner of several hundred acres of Huckleberry marsh land, near Koontz’s Lake, besides sharing a live interest in the property there owned by the Club of which he is a conspicuous member. MR. ADOLPH MUUS, the secretary of the Pottawatomies, is one of Chicago’s rising young men, and is largely interested in paints, oils and glass. Born to wealth and influence, he has had every facility for a finished education, and graduated with the highest honors in some of our best institutions of learning.

d. w. PLACE. One of St. Joseph county’s solid men, is D. W. Place, who was born in Preble county, Ohio, some 41 summers ago. In 1851, when but a year old he came west to Cass county, this state, where he grew up on the farm, until 1881, when he came to Walkerton, engaging in farming, stock raising and shipping of hay on an extensive scale, having just then succeeded by purchase to the business of his respected uncle, Benjamin F. Place, who had the honor of shipping the first car load of wild prairie hay to Pittsburg away back in the 70’s, for packing purposes. He was the pioneer here in the hay shipping business, building up an extensive traffic in this line, which Mr. D. W. Place has largely added to in every 7 way. The East and South afford him a ready and good market for all he can possi bly ship, the natural gas and oil regions absorbing all the prairie hay that can be possibly procured, for packing purposes. Mr. Place owns extensive tracts of land on the Kankakee bottoms, that produce 14 tons hay to the acre, but in addition to this, he buys hay, etc., all over the surrounding country. Until recently, this gentleman lived at his very commodious homestead here in Walkerton, but within the pastyear, he moved his family to South Bend where he now makes his headquarters, although he spends more than half of his time at his office in Walkerton attending to his extensive business here, as usual. In 1884, he was elected County Commissioner for three years from December Ist, ’BS, when he duly qualified. He was re-elected to the same position in 1888. These things speak volumes for Mr. Place’s popularity with the masses. Mr. Place is an unflinching democrat of the stalwart order, yet agreeably tolerant of the views of others whether they agree with him or not, and being yet, comparatively, a young man, we doubt not but his party friends will soon call him to go higher up the political ladder of fame. Since his removal to South Bend last spring, Mr. Place has engaged extensively in the agricultural implement business, and as in his other lines of traffic, he is sure to make a success of this latter too. With the “Champion’ harvester and the “Coquillard” buggies and wagons, he has already made quite a record. His annual shipments in hay etc., last year, amounted to $20,000. This year they will be still greater. A. wHSi p M JnPOm D. W. BEALL & CO. Dealers in fresh meats, stock, hides and tallow, established their first class establishment here in February, 1889. Their slaughtering is done at home, near Walkerton, hence their meats are always fresh and juicy, and the people know exactly what they’re getting. The refrigerator at this establishment is well worthy of a first class establishment,even in the city of Chicago, capable as it is, of containing five tons of ice at a dump, cooling 3000 pounds of meat which it will preserve in splendid condition for 30 days, if necessary. Mr. D. W. Beall, the head of this firm, was born in Ligonier, Noble county, Ind., where he received the rudiments of his early education, and had grown to be quite a stalwart young man. In 1865 he went to St. Joe, Mo., where he spent two years at the milling business. Coming to Walkerton in 1867, he farmed several years, and still conducts his own magnificent farm of 300 acres, near town. CHAS. S. ROBBINS & CO. Dealers in wagons, buggies and agricultural implements, since 1888, when the above firm came into being. Mr. Robbins is one of the prominent educators of this section, having taught school during the winter season since 1883. This company handle everything in the agricultural line from a threshing machine to a garden plow, having more than doubled their volume of business since ’BB, and now in season carry a stock valued at not less than SIO,OOO. Mr. A. F. Young has been bookkeeper for this firm since 1888 and is a competent man. s. J. NICOLES. The old time well-known Justice of the Peace here for 8 successive years, has been a practising and successful attorney since 1883. He makes a specialty of “collections” and “Insurance,” and has built quite a reputation on these issues.

Mil IHLUV lOOULOi ROSS, BOSE & MCDANIEL. “Dealers in general hardware, agricultural implements, wagons, buggies, 1 carts, etc.,” have been established here in business since February Ist, 1891, and are building a splendid business in the above lines. All the gentlemen of this firm are well and favorably known to the people of this town and ; farming community round about. S. F. Ross has been here since ’73 and in business 15 years previous to this partnership, Jas. E. Bose is a Marshall 11 county boy, and is the very soul of [ 1 honor and business activity, J. L. Mcl. Daniel is veritably a Walkerton boy, I and has been always an industrious, I! honorable young man. This firm are i on the highway to a future business • prosperity. B. E. Williams is their efficient bookkeeper. 4

S - " HON. THOMAS J. WOLFE. The Clothier, Merchant Tailor, and dealer in boots, shoes, rubber goods, trunks, valises, hats, caps, and gent’s furnishing goods, is a product of Noble county, Ind., and is now just 40 years old. In ’(59 he came to Walkerton, and pursued dentistry until ’7l then clerked for Mr. Stephens till ’75, after which, under the firm name of “Stephens and Wolfe,” he operated a clothing store until March, ’B3, when he bought his partner’s interest, and launched forth, standing on his own bottom since, and coming to the front like a solid man. He carries, in seaj| son, a stock of $15,000 of goods. His merchant tailoring establishment is very complete indeed. In conjunction with his clothing, etc., he keeps on ( hand a well assorted stock of men’s jewelery—watches and charms exclu- ; sively. Mr. Wolfe has a nice farm of HO ( acres near town, and to the buying asd j shipping of hay he devotes a great deal ] of his time. His shipments in the past year being 150 car loads averaging 13 tons each, principally to the natural gas regions of Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. This traffic is growing enormously with iim, having now orders for 12 to 18 car loads prairie hay per week, for the season. On 32 acres of his farm this year, he has cut and cured 80 toi® of timothy hay. Mr. Wolfe served as representative* in the legislature of | 1881, and was mainly instruments in securing a $40,000 appropriation for the survey of the Kankakee 1 bottoms by the state authorities preparatory to draining this region. As his portrait j plainly shows. Mr. Wolfe is a silid, i whole-souled big business man, ai.d as i good a citizen as ever broke* bread. He ; has a good wife, a big family of fine children and a pleasant home to live I in. Walkerton is to be congratulated j on having such a man in her midst, i His able lieutenants in the* store are* j his son Irv and Noah Rensberger. JAMES QUINN. The subject of this sketch was born at Craigbally county Antrim. Ireland, A. D. 1850, where he liveel until 1867. lit 1 arrived in New York City, coining right through to his friends in LaPorle, Ind., on .Toly sth 1867 r In 1880, ,he paid a pleasant j visit to Ilie* “Ould Sod" remaining | several months, up to March ’Bl when I lie returned to Walkerton, when he en- | tercel into business, until 1885. Turning his attention to farming, he became ! quite successful, ami now owns a very j valuable tract 83 acres -of rich ar-; able land, within 10 mile of \ alpa-; raiso. In January 1891, Mr. Quinn I came back to Walkerton, ami has cast । his anchor here* for a permanent stay.l His sample* ami lunch room are con- ' ducted in a manner that begets the! kindest expressions from all parties, 1 who think there are* few better fellows than honest Jim Quinn. He never forgets that old Ireland is his native country, and is disposed at all times, i to aid her cause in every honorable manner possible, at the “drop of a . hat.” W. A. DAILEY. As a business man and brilliant attorney at law, Insurance agent, etc. Mr. Dailey has occupied a leading po-! sition here for the past 25 years. He now devotes his exclusive time to the ! law and insurance matters (since 1875) 1 in which fields he has been a huge sue- i cess and won well merited laurels. JOHN WOLFENBAROER. The well known livery, feed and boarding stable man, is in a first-class position to accommodate the travelling public with any style of rig etc. For 5 years past, he has successfully carried, on his livery business in addition to ’ his restaurant and sample room on the ’ main thoroughfare. Mr. Wolfenba'^er, has been here since 1855, and if rfe stranger desires any knowledge about this section of country, why ask John Wolfenbarger to drive you out in one , of his handsome rigs as the above cut 1 represents. Curt Wolfenbarger, a i brother, materially assists John in his - worthy efforts to cater to the public. i

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KENSBERQER A FITZGERALDS. linnl erS in dry groceries, n t. imtu and glassware, established the above co-partenership in 1888. The success of this firm in the various departments, has been phenomenal, their volume of business last year being s2o,ooo—the indications of this J ear, point a t least to an increase ° i '• 1 mA Cent ’ if not more over last > Am/;? Percent increase as compared nr a ^ ee years a ß°’ Their stock on hand being in value about SIO,OOO. iEhSIj Ki ■ । The PMadelphia store as the above cut show^ an imposing, two story feidtMptm'e 40 x 80 feet, both riioim^mg needed by this firm for /tie past year owing to increase of their trade. They propose adding a cloak department this fall to their dry goods end of the business and give the people an opportunity to purchase those goods at home as cheaply as in the city. Elias Rensberger, of this firm, is a man of more than 20 years business experience and I’. L. Fitzgerald VVu , ^4^ B' S'- ; t' ' ' A J I’. 1.. FITZOFIULD. I has had . over 11 years experience in ! dry goods, etc., ami so with the other | members of the firm. Joseph I'it gerI aid, bookkeeper, and Maurice I-'it/gi r- ! aid, of the grocery department, all are ' practical men, and as such are making the “Philadelphia Store” a great headquarters for trade ami traffic with . the people of Walkerton and St. JoI WJL A ’ X 1 v r ■ r E. L VINCENT. One of Walkerton’s really solid and { self-made men. Born in Mishawaka, this county in 1846, ho lived ou the farm until the age of 22 acquiring a knowledge of carpentering under the j instruction of his honored father, the | late B. H. Vincent. In the fall of 1869, Ihe came to Walkerton where he has i become a solid fixture ever since. Out ; of bis own honest sweat, he has built iup a trade as an extensive dealer in r house furniture goods, that many a ’ । merchant in a city with ten times the i population of this, would be proud to i i boast of. This has occurred since 1876, 1 , when be and his father first entered ini'to commercial business here—and since , the deal/ v of Mr. Vincent Sr., m 1883IT. J. bascontinned alone, adding an- * Dually to the solid basis originally es- ! tablishnd by him and his father. The } undertaking business he also couples [. with that of furniture dealer, and in this ( line he has shown himself to be a very , competent man. His hearse is as fine as any undertaker has in St. Joe county or anywhere else, costing S6OO.

WWm wr N 'v ' ’AV. N ' VCN I* C. W. N. STEPHENS. The above cut shows a very good out. line of the man who erected the first bouse within the present corporate limits of Walkerton. Mr. Stephens was born in Rhode Island, some 61 years ago. In 1845, he came to Indiana, with his parents and settled down to farming at the northeastern extren y of Koontz’s Lake, remaining there five years, when he embarked on bis future commercial career, in a little village called “Blissville” on the “Pike” between Plymouth and LaPorte, containing six houses and a blacksmith shop. Shortly after he came to “West York,” a baby village, one half mile southwest of the future Walkerton. Here he carried on a general merchandising business, and was instrumental in securing the first postoffice ever introduced in this section, and after several years at this place, he i moved his entire outfit to the new town j of Walkerton in 1856, when he built his new store and dwelling house—being the first on the scene of action. He was postmaster for a period of 32 consecutive years, up to the election of President Cleveland in 1884. Mr. Stephens, on coming to Walker ton, kept a well assorted stock of all kinds of goods, in which, to use a slang phrase, you could get from a a needle to an anchor. He was United States express agent here, for 20 years. His business increased vastly, sometimes as many as seventeen clerks being employed in his establishment, many of the present business men here having | graduated in his store. For many years, Mr. Stephens has i been an extensive buyer of wheat and other grains, paying out over SIOO,OOO annually for these products.

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His magnificent store as above shown, ; infilled from cellar to garret with al mammoth stock of sundry and any kind i of goods needed by the people of town or i country—from whom he has a most ex-, tensive trade, and is doing a splendid business. JOHN BRADEN. Was probablv the youngest soldier I 1 • * I who carried a musket from the beginning to the clo of the late “Unpleasantness,” between brethren of this glorious climate of America. When he enlisted on August 12ih, 1861, in Fostoria, 0., being “mustered in” at I Tillin in Co. E. 49th Ohio Infantry,, under Col. Bill Gibson, he lacked j three months and seven days of being i 15 years of age, but like a little man * he carried his musket from start to finish, and proudly marched as a cavalry man in Sheridan’s and Custer’s brigade at the grand review in Wash- . ington. Although wounded, he never , squealed, nor applied for a pension, but continues with his old time grit, to ■ hoe his own row. Since the war, he i has been engaged as a practical mil- • ler from Indiana to Texas, and has ■ succeeded in inventing what is known ■ as “The Braden wheat heater, with J steaming attachment,” now in use by ’ every first class milling establishment. 1 John is a modest man and without ’ pretensions. He runs his sample room ’ with as much grace and just as quiet- ’ ly as the dry goods man runs his place, and has a very big traffic. He handles, the South Chicago Brewing Co’s., beer in lots from six to ten barrels every week, and such is the quality of this beer that the traffic increases more and more every week. As a citizen and a thorough man, John Braden needs no apology —his record is engraven on his country’s history, in letters of gold. MISS O. H. MILLARD, MILLINFRY, ETC. This lady combines millinery and dressmaking in her establishment and has made a decided success of her business since 1885, with her sister, Miss A. Millard, who died on the 15th. of May 1890. Miss O. H. Millard always keeps a full stock of the latest styles in millinery etc. She will soon move into her new building 18x40, with a grand new fall stock of goods such as has 1 never been seen in Walkerton before.

DR. J. XV. ARLINGTON. This gentleman has been an honored practitioner of medicine in Walkerton for the past 20 years, and is thoroughly in accord with every effort on part of his people to move onward and upward to a higher plane of usefullness in every particular. The Doctor enjoys the esteem and confidence of the people here in an especially’ gratifying manner, and has been very successful in all those years, accumulating considerable wealth, and making hosts of friends who swear by him unswervingly. D. N. HVDELMYER. Dealer in lumber, shingles, lath, lime, stucco, brick and cement, sash, doors, blinds and mouldings, is the worthy’ successor to his honored father Mr. Sam Hudelmyer who has been in Indiana since 1854, and here in business since 1876. He started the lumber business in ’B3 and turned the entire outfit over to his son D. N. in ’BB, going into pleasant retirement himself from that date. “D. N.” is an assured success in the lumber business . and has a bright future before him. FRANK TISGHER. Manufacturer of wagons and buggies, with “repairing a specialty,” began ojierations here in 1883, and' is so much of a success that he cannot attend to the orders near as quickly as they come in to him. G. 11. LESLIE, Is the worthy assistant postmaster, and no more competent man could be desired, as Mr. Leslie is far beyond the average of men in general intelligence. Mr. (loit is to be congratulated on sej lecting so worthy an assistant as G. H_ Leslie. H. A. WOODWORTH. Formerly a medical practitioner, but in ’9O was admitted to the bar, and since, devotes his time to law and collections. Insurance and loaning money, as well ils attending to the obtaining of soldiers’ pensions, are amongst his specialties. DR. J. N. REECE. Is a son of St. Joseph county’, a gradlate of DePauw University. A stui dent of Rush Medical College, Chi- . eago, from ’B6 to 'BB—has been practicing medicine here and vicinity since February, 1888, and is fast climbing j the ladder of fame in his profession.

E. T. HENDERSON. The subject of the subjoined sketch was born in Kokomo, Ind., on May 6, 1856. There he remained, going to school, etc., until 1875, when he repaired to Valparaiso and spent one : year at the famous Normal School of I that sprightly city. For three years, after this preparation, he successfully taught school. In 1880, he returned I once more to the Valparaiso Normal, ■ where he pursued the higher studies for 16 months, graduating with high honors. In 1881, he came to Walkerton, and although a total stranger, it i was not long until his cultured man- ! ners and genial disposition begot him hosts of friends here. His first introduction here was as teacher in a neighboring school for a term in 1881, after which he engaged in the lumber business, until the spring of 1885, when he organized the 'Williams & Henderson Co., who handled on an extensive scale, hardware, agricultural implements and lumber, with a capital stock of S6OOO. । Their business transactions spread out i not only all through St. Joseph county, i but into extensive sections of Marshall, ; Stark and LaPorte counties as well. I All went well until the 19th of February, 1889, when their entire premises, with stock, was burned to the ground, entailing a loss of $7,000 to SB,OOO. there being no insurance. The company soon erected, on the opposite corner from the fire, a two story brick structure, 35 by 90 feet, witii plate glass front, and all the mod- ■ ern appliances. Plain and prosperous sailing once more seemed to favor their barque, until, on the night of February G, 1891, this beautiful structure too, with its valuable contents, was burned to the ground, entailing a second loss about equal to the first —both amounting to the sum of $15,000 at least. MISS IDA BEACH. This young lady who has been for several years with Mrs. S. L. Smith as head trimmer in this town, has recently bought out the entire stock of her former employer, and will run the place L in future on her own account. Miss ■ Ida is a very worthy young lady and J deserves a hearty patronage from all fhp ladies.