St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 January 1892 — Page 5

Walkerton Market. Corrected Weekly by the Stephens Store Co. Eggs 22 Butter 16 Lard 7 Green Hides 4 Potatoes 30 Corn, new 38 to 40 Glover Seed $4.50 t 04.75 Wheat, 85 Oats 27 to 28 Beans SI.OO @1.40 Rye 70 LOCAL NEWS. A good stock of candies at the Star bakery. When you want a good cigar call at the STAR bakery. For Sale. —Three fresh cows. Enquire of Willard Place. See the prices qu *ed by the Stephens Store Co. in then new ad in this issue. J. W. Arlington, M. D. Office one block east of Vincent’s furniture store. Calls answered promptly, night or day. Nobody need suffer from languor and melancholy if they take Simmons Liver Regulator. Tom Daugherty, agent for the Star wind mill, has sold about sixty wind mills in this locality during the past year. The Independent has been running a sick list for the past few weeks but so many have been sick that it was impossible to get the names of all. The work on the new boiler at the Knott flouring mill has been completed and the mill has resumed operations with a full force of hands on deck. The law prohibits the shooting of squirrels during the months of January, February, March, April, May and June. Our sportsmen should make a note of it. The L. E. & W. railroad will sell tickets to Indianapolis and return for one and a third fare from Jan. 19 to 25, on account of the state poultry show to be held there. The Winamac Republican says that a grandson of John Hancock, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, died last Friday near Monon, at the advanced age of 104 years. George Kern, of South Bend, purchased the Beall bakery and restaurant

the same. Mr. Kern is an experienced man in his line and will no doubt make a success of the business here. The reape., Death, has been busy for the past week or so cutting down eitizens of this community. There are eight deaths recorded in this issue of the Independent, all of which occurred in Walkerton and within a jradius of a few miles of town. Drs. H. Cliffordius and J. Paul, the celebrated German specialists, of Chicago, late of Berlin, will be in Walkerton at the Florence Hotel Feb. 1, for the treatment of diseases. The Drs. come highly recommended as experts in their line. See their ad on the first page of this paper. Mrs. Harvey Jackson died at the family residence on the Island last Friday and was buried on Sunday in the Walkerton cemetery. The funeral services were held at the house Sunday at one o’clock, p. m. Mrs. Jackson was about 60 years old, and was a lady highly respected by her many friends and neighbors. The Independent is without further particulars. Rev. Goss’ series of protracted meetings at the M. E. church closed Tuesday evening, the result of the work being about twelve conversions. The meetings were well attended each night and considerable interest was awakened in matters religious. Rev. Goss will conduct protracted meetings at the Oregon church, beginning this evening—Saturday. In the notice of Patrick Ryan’s death we stated that Rev. Sanders, of Door Village, preached the funeral sermon. It was arranged to have him, but word was received from him later on that he was sick and could not come. The services were conducted by Rev. Goss, of this place, and the Masonic order, of which the deceased was a member, took part in the ceremonies. Allen Farver, son of Jacob Farver, died at his home, about seven miles northeast of North Liberty, Wednesday forenoon, of lung fever. He was twenty-one years old and had been married only a little over a year. He leaves a young wife and an infant child. He was a cousin of Charles Farver, of this place. The funeral services were held on Friday at 10 o’clock, a. m., at the Lutheran church, about four miles from his home, Rev. Gettig officiating. The remains were buried in the cemetery near the church. '

Personal Points. Mrs. James Curtis and Mrs. H. Woodward visited in Wellsboro this week. Miss Maude Ewing has returned home from Oxford, Ohio, where she has been studying music. Miss Laura Koontz returned on Wednesday from a visit of several days with friends at Nappanee. Miss Methel McKee is visiting with the family of W. T. Rogers, taking instructions on the violin and organ. James O’Keefe, of Chicago, is working for O. F. Townsend, the tonsorial artist, Bentien having gone to Elwood to work. Monte Fulton, of Zanesville, 0., is taking Dan Fitzgerald’s place as day operator at the B. &O. during the latter’s absence from town. Agent Hayden, of the L. E. & W., has been promoted to a position as bill clerk and operator at Kokomo. He will take charge of his new position next Tuesday. Use Wolverine Blood Purifier and Wolverine Liver Pills. Ask your druggist for them; take no other. The best. Lost—A gold enameled pin with the letters “O. M. A.” and “G. O.” Finder will please return to Independent office and receive magnificent reward. Dr. H. Cliffordius and J. Pai 1, the celebrated German specialists of Chicago, will be at the Florence Hotel in this place Feb. 1, to treat diseases in their line. The attention of our readers is called to their large advertisement on the first page of the Independent. Sylvester F. Martin. Sylvester F. Martin, who departed this life Jan. 21, 1892, was born July 8, 1833, in Pennsylvania. His age was 58 years, 6 months and 13 days. He came to this country when quite young with his parents. He was married to Miss Nancy Brown, April 17, 1856, and to them two children were born who survive him. Nov. 10, 1865, his wife died, leaving him and the two little girls alone. Finding it impossible to keep house ho fnund homes for the children, and in 1871 he was married a second time, to Miss Polly Brown, the two girls then being baought back home. The eldest, Mary E., was married to D. M. Barber Nov. 11 1099 -1 1-- - J v - " -*

ing January, 1878. Hattie A. kept ; bouse for him until Sept. 9, 1878, when she was married to D. M. Rickel. • Mr. Martin made his home with his ’ son-in-law, D. M. Rickel, until Decern - 1 ber, 1891, when he moved to Portland, 3 Tennessee. f He had a nice farm of 120 acres near - the Barber church in Polk township. l He tried keeping bachelor’s hall, until one day a neighbor found him in a > dying condition with the grip, and re- . moved him to D. M. Barber’s in Teegarden, where he died the same night. . Mr. Martin was a good neighbor, always ready to relieve the poor or suf- ( sering, a man always ready to oblige a neighbor. He was a man who kept his own secrets and would not betray a friend. The funeral took place from the Center church, conducted by Rev. Mattox, and the remains were laid to rest beside his two wives in the Center cemetery. The large concourse of people present showed in what esteem he and his bereaved friends were held. Reporter. SLEEP ON LEFT SIDE. Many persons have a certain dread of going to sleep laying on their left side and this has long been a puzzle to physicsian, but now the metropolitan newspapers speak with great interest about an eminent specialist in nervous and heart diseases, Dr. Franklin Miles, of Indiana, who not alone claims, but proves that this habit generates from a diseased heart. He has examined and kept on record thousands of cases, His New Heart Cure, a wonderful remedy, is sold at J. Endley’s and thousands testify to its value as a cure for Heart Diseases. Mrs. Chas. Benoy, Loveland, Colo., says its effects on her were marvelous. Elegant book on heart disease free. for Sale at a Bargain. Having sold my saloon I want to sell a good span of mules, three years old, 1 black mooley bull, 11 thoroughbred sows and pigs, and 35 acres of land, all cleared, with 5 fish ponds stocked with carp; come and see me or address, A. D. Johnson, Tyner City, Ind. STOCK MEN, NOTICE. I have a thoroughbred registered short horn bull which may be seen at my farm at any time by those interested in fine stock. I have also a registered Yorkshire boar. Chas. McCarty. Hall’s Hair Renewer enjoys a worldwide reputation fur lestui.iig 11." ’ sir to bald heads and changing gray hair to the original color os vouth. ‘ 1

DEA TH OF MRS. PETER HUMMER Mrs. Eliza Burk Hummer was born in Steuben county, Ohio, April 22, 1813, and died at her home in this place Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1892, aged 78 years, 9 months and 22 days. When she was ten years old her mother died and the father broke up housekeeping, the children going among relatives to live. When fourteen years old she went to Steubenville, Ohio, to make her home with her uncle, Robert Burk. When fifteen years old she spent six months with her mother’s folks at Wellville, Ohio, where she became acquainted with William Black, to whom she was married April 23, 1829. They went to housekeeping in Wellville. In June, 1829, husband and wife both joined the M. E. church. They resided in that place five years then moved to Carroll county, Ohio. In 1839 they moved from Ohio to Allen county, Indiana, locating at Flat Rock, twenty miles from Fort Wayne. There the husband bought land and built a cabin. The country was new’ then and they had to contend with the hardships of a frontier life. Mr. Black worked at the carpenter trade in addition to the labor of clearing his land, but as there was not a great deal of carpenter w’ork there they moved to Adams county where he could do better at his trade. There he took sick and died of lung fever after a two weeks’ illness. Ten children had been born to them, nine of whom were living at the time of his death. The widow kept her children together as best she could, some of them being old enough to render considerable assistance. After the death of Mr. Black she moved back to the farm. Her oldest daughter taught school and her oldest son worked on the farm with the help of the smaller boys. She sold the farm and in 1854, came to St. Joseph county and bought twelve acres of land and a house and lot in what was then called West York. In August, 1855, she married Dennis Stowe and by him had one child—Dennis L. They moved to Henry county in 1858 and settled in Greensburg, residing there until the war broke out. Four of her sons entered the army—John 8., James J., William T. and Cyrus M. Black. William T. was wounded May 6in the battle of the Wilderness and died May 7, 1864. James J. was mortally wounded upon the rebel fortifications near Marietta, Ga,, June 18, 1864. John B. and Cyrus M. Rlaek

I '• H?r son, Charles W. Black, died tn April, 1873. Hannah Amanda Goddard died in November, 1854. Cassandra Don- ( aldsdn died May 7, 18G7. Mary Catharine Burk died April 8, 1878. Her husband, Dennis M. Stowe, died during the war, and the subject of this . sketch then returned to Walkerton and started a millinery shop. March 28, 1870, sho was married to A. T. Mitchel, a promment and honored citizen of Walkerton. He died Jan. 8, 1885, very suddenly of heart disease. She then married Rev. Peter Hummer March 26, 1886, a Baptist minister of sixty years’ experience, and by whom she is survived, together with three children—John B. Black, Cyrus M. Black, of Missouri, and D. L. Stowe, of Chicago. Mrs. Hummer was a true, Christian lady of almost a life time’s devotion and her daily life through all these years has been consistent with her professions of Christianity. Generous hearted and kind to all with whom she came in contact, she was universally respected and loved by the people among whom her life was cast. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church on Thursday at 2 o’clock, p. m., Rev. Goss officiating. The remains were buried in the cemetery at this place. A MUTE RECOVERS SPEECH. Alphonce Hemphling, of Summitt township, Butler Co., Penn’a, made an affidavit that his twelve-year-old son, suffering with St. Vitus Dance for twelve years, ’ost his speech, but after using three bottles of Dr, Miles Restorative Nervine, was completely cured and recovered his speech. Thousaads testify as to wonderful cures from using it for nervous diseases, dyspepsia, nervous debility, dullness, confusion of mind, headache, etc. Four doses of this Nervine cured Mrs. W. E. Burns, South Bend, Ind., who had been suffering with constant headache for three months. Trial bottle and elegant book free at J. Endley’s. LAUNDRY! The Walkerton Steam Laundry is now turning out good work and is giv ing good satisfaction. Try it, gentlemen, and if you are not satisfied it will not cost you one cent. C. M. GOODRICH, Proprietor. Noah Rensberger will move his stock of goods into E. Rensberger’s new building Feb. Ist, where he will continue to sell all winter goods at i cost in order to reduce his stock. 1

Mrs. Anna E. Kellogg. Mrs. Anna Ellis Kellogg was born in the state of New York, March 14, 1812, and died at her home in Walkerton Sunday, Jan. 24, 1892, aged 76 years, 10 months and 12 days. When six years of age she removed from that state to Ohio, and thence to Indiana Sept. 10, 1838. For some time she resided in Marshall county and from there came to St. Joseph where she lived until her death. In 1832, on the 14th of March, Mrs. Kellogg, nee Anna Ellis, was married to Daniel R. Kellogg. This utiion of heart and life continued through sixty years, when death broke the sacred tie. To Daniel and Mrs. Kellogg were born nine children—Levi A., William, George J., Charles, Eliza Ann, Lester S., Nancy Hellen, Flemming W. and Mary Frances. Os the six are living —Levi A., of Davenport, Iowa; George J., of Warsaw, Ind; Charles, of Kingsbury, Ind.; Lester S., of South Bend; Nancy Hellen, the wife of George Goodrich, and Flemming W., of Walkerton. Also Mrs. Kellogg has surviving her twenty-two grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren; also three sisters and one brother—Mrs. Vanderhoof, of South Bend; Mrs. Fred Thumm, of North Liberty; Mrs. B. Vincent, of Walkerton; John Ellis, of Plymouth. At the age of thirty-five Airs. Kellogg joined the Baptist church, with which she remained faithfully to the hour of her death. She said during her sickness that she wished to go and that she believed her last hours would be the brightest. The funeral services were held at North Liberty, Tuesday at 2 p. in., Rev. S. C. Fulmer, of Elkhart, officiating. Sho Had Hirn There. He was one of those “real men" traveling men, with a supercilious smile and a long, low, rakish mustache. She was a dear little thing in a pink dress. Ho stood for two min- [ utes watching her try to put a letter , into a fire-alarm box and, just as she ’ discovered her mistake, he edged over and inquired: , “Where is the firoP” She blushed and said there wasn’t r “I was going to suggest that If you left a note the department might not • get it until to-morrow.” bo murmured - Apologetically. “Dou't trouble yourself, sir,*’ ebe . snapped. “I wanted to call out the

Tribune. Water an a Disinfectants ft Is a fact that appears to be not generally known, perhaps because it may not be generally credited, that pure, fresh cold water is one of the most valuable of disinfectants, inasmuch as it is a powerful absorbent. Every sick-room should have a large vessel of clear water, frequently renewed, placed not far from the bed, ■or even beneath it. This not only absorbs much of the hurtful vapor, but by its evaporation it softens and tempers the atmosphere, doing away with the drynesa which is so trying and depressing to an invalid—or even to well persons, for that matter. It has frequently been shown, by actual experiment, that troubled sleep and threatened insomnia are corrected by so simple a thing as the placing of an open bowl of water near the sufferer’s couch. Os course, it hardly need be said, after these matters have been considered for a moment, that water which has stood for any length of time in a close room is not proper for drinking purposes.— Good Housekeepings _____ DON’T FAIL TO SEE Rahorsel W Wets J ® I - k i everybody wants one. Two or three dollars for a Hors« Blanket will save double its cost. Yout horse will eat less to keep warm and b< vorth fifty dollars more. our mammoth Une of ROBES & BLANKETS, The 5A in all grades and styles. I am prepared to furnish you with the finest line of Horse Clothing ever brought to Walkerton. F. M. AKE.

Clearance Sale! AT THE BUSY, BUZZING Hi Hi" H I V Ji, OF CLOAKS, CARPETS, MlLLlnery, Underwear and Dress Goods, Commencing Tuesday, Tec. 2g, we shall make a two weeks ' sale of above goods to reduce stock before invoicing. A lit= tie cash will go a great ways at this sale. The Busy Bee-Hive, on Michigan ave. ; LaPORTE, Ind/ JULIUS BARNES & CO- ”"* " *' " ' ' « wiiiw— winawaj—i »■ 1 iuliji n-rnnrarriin I J JACK FROST! 1 fl ~ 2 t » ST »I" i ■ r t 1 s'

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