St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 11, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 October 1892 — Page 1

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VOLUME XVIIL

C TYNER CITY. There was a suprise on Miss Bennett, Tuesday evening. About eighteen couple of young people were present. All had a good time. There is a case of dyphtheria in Tyner. There are several cases of typhoid fe* *in this locality. Glass & Powell threshed at the county asylum on Tuesday. The old feud having been recently adjusted, the organ again sends forth its melody. Great preparations are being made by the dems of this place to attend the barbecue at Argos on the 4th of next month. The would-be Corbett and Sullivan pounced upon poor old Sam last Sunday and he is now wearing his eyes in mourning. Frank Miller is very, very happy now. Ask Miss Hettie the cause. E. J. Robinson has returned from a week’s encampment at Seymour, Ind., and reports a good time. The U. B. Sabbath school picnics at Tyner next Saturday. The Bird has flown and the doctor is lamenting the flight thereof. Simon Snyder is making quite an improvement to his property. Robert Monroe is staying in Chicago this week learning to operate the No. 9. Frank Johnson has taken care of his oats and is now erecting an addition to his once commodious dwelling. By the way, Frank is our constable, too. H. L. Jarrell has bought a part of Chase Keller’s farm. Sunday school was reorganized at the M. E. church last Sunday and the time changed to 2:30 p. in. instead of 4 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Waiterhouse started the morning of the 27th inst. for St. Joseph, Mo., to visit friends there for the next twenty days. Scliooi opeueti here Monday with E. ~ ’R. Monroe as teacher. Attendance, , 66. Look out for a case matrimony down near South-er-land. There was a large attendance at the L. B. quarterly meeting here last Sunday. Nel Rupel, of North Liberty, was in town Tuesday looking after stock. There was a sparring match here Sunday between Bill Beagles and Frank Miller. In three rounds Bea gles broke Frank’s ear and Frank broke down the fence to get away. Jay Southerland drives a new buggy. We guess he got it of those fish eaters. J. H. S. TEEGARDEN. E. S. Webb, who has been quite ill, is rapidly recovering. One of Monroe Maurer’s children is quite sick at present writing. Edward Fulkerson, who has been working in Clinton county, this state, has returned home. Some person intent on burglary I broke into Mrs. Mary Gensinger’s house last Saturday while the family, were all at meeting. Nothing was taken, as the money they expected to find was not there. Suspicion points very strongly to the person that did it for the reason that a certain person was observed prowling around the premises acting like a sheep killing dog. John has purchased a Gatling gun and expects to be prepared to welcome any more sneh visitors. John Rensberger and girl are visiting in Elkhart. Erastus Brown, who moved here from Missouri this spring, has moved to Hamlet. Schuyler Clark, of Chicago, was visiting here Friday and Saturday. Our schools all began Monday except the Morris whose teacher, E.S. Webb, is on the sick list. The following is a list of teachers employed: Tyner, E. R. Monroe; Boyd, Truman Duckett; Richards, Minnie Yockey; Cushman, Maggie Frazier; Cudney, C. E. Watkins; Miller, Cecelia Biggins; Barber, J. E. Myers; Shiloh, B. W. Ross; Teegarden, Mrs. M. W. Ross; Birch, Henry Haag. Jack. ———♦ Have tried almost every known remedy for itching piles without success, finally bought a box of De Witt’s Hazel Salve, and it has cured me. C. D. Haskins, Peoria, 111. J. Endly.

All patent medicines sold 2 cent/ per bottle less than any other druggist in Walkerton. J. ENDLY.

LIFE’S LESSON Through trials man attains to triumphs. Nations struggling for liberty mourn over heroes slain and anon rejoice for freedom achieved. Pioneers founding states in a wilderness endure sore privations as the price of smiling fields, happy homes and beneficent institutions. Such was the experience of the Pilgrim Fathers. Such were the griefs and gains of the men and women who encountered savage beasts and more savage men as, decade after decade, the great West was conquered by hardy yeomanry. It is even so in the personal lives of the majority of individuals. There are difficulties, disappointments, bereavements in our earthly lot. But if bravely borne they prove themselves to be only refining fires that purge away the dross and bring us to the possession of unalaloyed gold. Character comes by conflict. Whatever is worth having is costly. No one knows how to laugh who has never learned to weep. Life’s gladness is never perfect unless it is set in some shadow of life’s gloom.—New York Press. INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCE. There is much to encourage and fortify in the following little sermon from the pen of a New York Ledger writer, and each one of us might profit by the advice it contains if we would give it a trial. “Some people fall discouraged on the highway of life because they cannot be this or that great or eminent person. Why should they not be willing to be themselves? No person is without influence. Why not make the most of what you have? Since you cannot grasp that which you wish, why let what you have slip through your fingers? No person in the world is exactly like you. You have your own faults, but you have also your own excellencies, individual to yourself. Give them air. Because you are not a poet, should you not be a good merchant? Because you cannot go to college should yon therefore forswear the alphabet ? Because you cannot build a palace, should you not rejoice in your own humble roof, and that because it is your own ? Will not the sun also shine into your windows if you do not obsti nately persist in shutting it out? If you cannot have a whole hothouse full of flowers, may yon not have one sweet rose? Accept thankfully whatever blessings you have and try to make the most of them.” A Lean Dog for a Long Race. "He is little, but O, h—1!” There is a good deal of comment upon little bit of men, but when you come to test them there is more there than you thought for. There are a good many odd things in the human race, and there are a good many “qualifications” where you would least expect them, in both women and men. And now here is a defense of small men that ought to be quite complimentary to the thousands who are regarded as under size: Mr. Philip Kent, presumably for his own consolation, has been searching the records to see how many men small in stature and light of weight have helped to move the world. He says that smallness of body has nothing to do with greatness of brain. It is rather surprising, too, the number of men he brings forward to bolster up his assertion. He says the world’s greatest soldiers have been little men, but one cannot resist the inference that to make this point he has omitted the names of the well grown generals. We find, however, that Attila the Hun, the “Scourge of God,“ so named from his fierceness, was a little bit of a man. Sir Francis Drake and Frederick the Great were short men. Napoleon Bonaparte was only 5 feet 1$ inches. Wellington was 5 feet 6. Lord Nelson was 5 feet 4- Among writers Milton was short, and Lord Macaulay was dumpy, apparently not nearly so long as some of his own sentences. Mrs. Carlyle speaks of “poor little Dickens,” Pope and Voltaire were mere mites of men, while John Stuart Mill was 5 feet 8. John Calvin was a very small man. So was the artist Turner. The great French statesman and auth- ’ or, Thiers, was 5 feet 3, “soft and saussagelike,” while Gladstone himself is only 5 feet 8. On the whole, by properly leaving ’ out the big men who have been great, ' Mr. Kent makes a good showing as to the quantity of brains that may go with scant inches.—Ex.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCT. 1. 1892.

LOCAL BRIEFS. Get your job printing done at the Independent office. A great vegetable substitute for pills is Simmons Liver Regulator. Cures sick headache. Nappanee has been selected as the meeting place of the IT. B. conference in September of next year. Ladies, before buying your fall hats, call and see the fine new assortment of hats just received at Ida Beach’s. The fine r —fly represented by the Glc'^~ Laundry leaves promptly every Tuesday morning and returns the same week. It’s getting wet, and you may need rubber boots. If you do, buy them of T. J. Wolfe, as he carries the best boot on the market to-day. Mrs. John l’arker met with quite a painful accident last Sunday evening. While milking the cow it suddenly kicked her fracturing one of her knees.

The deal between S. Davis, late proprietor of the Knox Republican, and Simon Bybee for the Norm- ~ dson News has fizzled. They had some kind of a misunderstanding. Call and see the Ideal grain drill, a new and improved implement, at A. Cunningham’s. It will be greatly to your interest to examine this implement before purchasing. The Independent acknowledges the receipt of a complimentary to the Farmers’ Union Fair which will commence at New Carlisle Oct. 5 and close Oct. 7. The managers guarantee the public an honest effort on their part to hold a first-class exhibition. The residents of Davis township, Starke county, held an election last Monday to decide the question of levying a tax to raise a donation of $6,000 to secure the Three 1 extension through that township. The rote ww 74 for and 23 against the iwhvnw. r Hamlet the victory over Grovertown in securing the road. The New York Sun nearly forty years ago prescribed the following for a sure cure for cholera: Take equal parts of tincture of cayenne pepper, tincture of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint, and spirits of camphor. Mix well. Dose, 15 to 30 dtops in a little cold water, according to age and violence of symptoms, repeated every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is obtained.

The following is said by those who claim to know to be a first-class recipe for the manufacture of a pure article of scandal: Take a grain of falsehood, a handful of runabout, the same quantity of nimble tongue, a sprig of the herb backbite, a spoonful of don’t-you-tell-it, six drops of malice, a few drams of envy; add a little discontent and jealousy, and stran through a bag of misconstruction; cork it up in a bottle of malevolence, and hang it up in a skein of street yarn; keep it in a hot atmosphere and shake it occasionally for a few days, and it will be fit for use. Let a few drops be taken before walking out and the desired result will follow. In speaking of the evangelistic work of Rev. Keeley, pastor of the Presby- * terian church of this place, the South Bend Times of last week says: “Rev. H. C. Keeley, Presbyterian Evangelist of the Logansport Presbytery, has been holding a two weeks’ meeting at Rolling Prairie with marvellous success. So far thirteen men and boys have confessed faith' in Christ and the work is spreading throughout the surrounding neighborhood. Mr. Keeley is a preacher of extraordinary ability, possessing a vivid imagination, great descriptive powers, and resistless logic, which are all called in play to win men to Christ. His sermon to men last Sunday evening on “Sowing and Reaping,” is pronounced the ablest sermon ever delivered in Rolling Prairie. This brilliant man is doing a great work for the Master. From there he goes to Monon, Ind. Rev. O. L. Prentice is the pastor of the church at Rolling Prairie, in which these meetings are being held, preaching there and at the Second Presbyterian church in this city upon alternate Sundays.”

Extra copies of the Independent in wrappers i eady for mailing for sale at this office. Try T. J. Wolfe for jewelry when you need anything in this line. Anything not in stock will be got on short notice. A. D. Reynolds lost his trotting colt, the other day, from congestion of the lungs. The animal was valued at S3OO. Attorney O. M. Cunningham, of South Bend, is the nominee of the democrats of this district for prosecuting attorney. The Misses Millard have received a new invoice of ladies’ fall hats and other millinery goods, and invite the ladies of Walkerton and vicinity to call and examine their fine assortment. Mrs. Marion Ballenger has opened a dress-making shop in Ida Beach’s millinery establishment, and invites the ladies to call and give her a trial when in need of anything in the dressmaking line. C. E. Holdeman dumped a head of cabbage into our sanctum on Wednesday that weighed over fourteen pounds. It was a whale, but e says he has cabbage heads on his place that will weigh as much as seventeen pounds eac.h Frank Barnhart carried off several premiums at the South Bend fair. He was awarded first and second premiums on White Cochin chickens, first premium on largest and best cabbage and first on Mangel Wurzel, a vegetable belonging to the beat family -and used for feeding stock.

HE REJOICETH! Why? Let us tell you that he has freat cause for his exuberation of spirits. or years one of Dyspepsia’s victima Remedy after remedy was tried—no relief. At last the key-note was struck, the chords vibrated harmoniously—he is a well man and thankful. What did it? Simmons Liver Regulator. It will do you good, too. Try it. Why go through life a sufferer from D-spepsia, Indigestion, or Malaria? Follow our friend’s example, and you, too, will be a new man, your ailments vanished and you will desire to join in the rejoicing. Simmons Liver Regulator has thousands of friendi! made so from its action in curing their ills, and the friendship made by and through severe tests is found to be maintained. Never been Disappointed. “As a general family remedy for DysTepsia, Torpid Liver, Constipation, etc., hardly ever use anything else, and have never been disappointed in the effect produced ; it seems to be almost a perfect cure for all diseases of the stomach and bowels." W. J. McElroy, Macon, Ga. —MANUFACTURED BV— J.H. Zeilin & Co,, Philadelphia, Pas

J ENDLY. DRUGGIST, Don't forget that lam not to be undersold, but that I can undersell any other druggist in St, Joseph county. I pay no rent, but get rent, and have sufficient means to carry me through, J. ENDLY.

EMPTY is the cradle ■ * -"--ZY = J FREDDY’S GONE To T. J. WOLFE’S 4. I gWHW f WALKERTON OR NORTH LIBERTY, To get him one of those Nobby CHILDREN'S SUITS Which he is now showing. Though Freddy is only four years old they fit him as perfect as a man. T. J. Wolfe always has a large and well selected stock of all kinds of Hats, Shoes, Furnishing Goods, TRUNKS, VALISES, ETC., But is just now showing some fine and attractive BALL AND WINTER f==G ODD S=s=ll AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES-

His line of fine Suits, Fall and Winter Overcoats, Fancy (pants, etc., is beyond comparison. In his Tailoring Dep’t ♦ You can see all the latest Designs for Overcoats, Suits, Fancy Pants, etc.. Both in style and goods. Call and see him and learn his cheap prices, and T. J. Wolfe IS THE MAN YOU WILL BUY OE.

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