St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 January 1893 — Page 4

Jniicpendcnt. WALKERTON, INDIANA. JAV. 7, 1893. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. When a legal holiday falls on Sun- ! day, according to Indiana laws, the i day folowing must be observed. Popularity or unpopularity is utterly worthless as a test of character.— Goshen Democrat, That’s a truth but little recognized. Bourke Cockran is said to be Mr. Cleveland’s favorite candidate for United States senator from New York. Isn’t Cleveland inclined to show a disposition to “turn the other cheek.” in this case? J. D. Rockefeller has given another million to the Chicago university. For a man who has always been considered only in the light of a “grasping moneymaker this is a very generous and public a as stapd 15 Republicans; house, 63 Democrats - and 37 Republicans. Total, 98 Dem- , ocrats and 52 Republicans. Demo* cratic majority on joint ballot, 46. The railroad companies, it seems, manifest no disposition to reduce passenger fare during the Columbian exposition. They evidently intend to make the best of their advantage, and the public can be d d. The property left by the late Congressman Samuel J. Randall was valued at $789.41. His life was one of unselfish devotion to the welfare of the people, and he had no time to look after his own individual fortunes. Indiana will be represented at the world’s fair by over 300 exhibitors, of whom nearly half are Indianapolis concerns. In northern Indiana the applicants for space include 22 from South Bend, 4 from Mishawaka, 5 from Kendallville, 8 from Fort Wayne, 6 from LaPorte. 3 from Michigan City, 4 from Elkhart and 2 from Goshen. In speaking of the all-important question of better roads Harper's Weekly says: “The knowledge of what is lost by the neob>£t 'to come a more and more pressing demand for action that shall remove what is not merely a hindrance to progress, but a blot upon our national character.” There is one demand of advertising j agents which the newspapers will be ! forced to combine against. That is the demand sos “top of column next to reading matter, first advertisement following full reading matter.” The columns of the average paper are not numerous enough to satisfy the demand of the advertising agent.—Elkhart Review. The suggestion of the Review is an excellent one, which the Northern In-1 diana Editorial Association might do well to heed and act upon at its next meeting. If the real sentiment of the people, individually, could be ascertained on the subject of extending the presiden- ! tial term six years, with ineligibility < to a second term, the voice favoring < an amendment to the constitution to that effect would be largely in the majority, without doubt.—Nappanee News. 1 The sentiment in favor of a single । term of six years in the presidency is, 1 1 as every indication strongly points, I ( growing rapidly in favor among the ( masses, and is also being advocated j by the leading statesmen who are not.« of the office-seeking stripe. Qn<> । year term would do away with the little scheming and political machina- ' tions to which presidents are some-, times wont to resort for a second term, i and thus the tendency to lower the : dignity of this great office to the level of pot-house politicians would be, in a great measure, removed. j —— / j Tne Evansville Standard puts the I proper phase upon the question of foreign immigration in a very few i words. It says: “There is no symptom of doubt in the minds of men who have given the question intelligent thought, that the , great river of immigrants flowing an- ■ nually into the United States must be diverted, dammed up, driven remorselessly back upon its source. Estimating our population at 60,000,000, one — obtains a fairly good idea of this problem from the fact that nearly 1 per cent, of it arrived in 1892, the exact , figures being 579,663. While a portion of this tremendous mass of humanity contains no undesirable characters, i a greater portion of it represents the utter absence of the qualities of good i citizenship. From every consideration ' of national prudence and safety, the gates at Castle Garden ( Ellis Island) ; should be shut.”

THE KNIGHTS of PYTHIAS HOLD A PUBLIC INSTALLV TION OF OFFICERS. ' A Fine Banquet is Spread, Followed by Toasts. Walkorton Lodge No. 263, Knights of Pythias, gave a public installation of officers in Bender’s opera house on last ' Tuesday evening, there being present quite a large audience. The interest ing ceremony began by the marching to their places, first of the retiring offi cers, then the whole delegation of Knights marched in to the strains of Isaac Bole’s K. of P. march, and were seated at the signal of Grand M. at A. Chuiles Knott. After the formal re iinquisnment of office by the retiring Officers the new oUieers were Only installed by Grand C. C. A. F. Young according to the impressive rituals of the order. These ceremonies were interspersed by songs from the quartette, Messrs, Pool and Clem, Mesdames Leßoyand Clem with Miss Ida Beach organist. Charles Pool aho favored the assemblWhii a trombone solo. ] Grand I 1 I'M. J CllllJ. • ' >sn Jpu; at A.; G. H. Leslie, Grand P. C.; W. A- Tank, Grand V. C.; James Cook, Grand K. R. and S.; Daniel Brubaker, Grand M. ot E.; Chas. Furver, Grand I. G.; I. 8. McDuffie, Grand O. G. The officers elect were: P. C., B. E. Williams; C. C., S. W. Goss; V. C., T. J. Reece; Prel., C. A. Pool; K. R. and S., 8. S. Cowan; M. of E., Edward Grider; M. of F., Walter Atwood; M. j at A., C. A. Bose; I. G., Daniel Bru- I baker; O. G., S. E. Koontz; Bepresen titive, J. I’. Barnhart. At the close of the initiatory exer i cises the Knights and their ladies, to | gether with the invited guests, repaired , to the Nichols hotel to partake of an ; elaborate banquet. There were seven- ' tv eight seated at the tables. The ' * menu was as follows : Roast turkey with cranberry in block, ■ Roast chicken with oyster dressing, Cold sliced ham with celery dressing, ! Cold sliced tongue, Egg salad, tomato catsup, Celery, cucumber pickles, Cold Slaw, White Mountain cake, chocolate cake, j Lemon cake, eocoanut cake, Oranges, Catawba grapes, bananas, ' Tea and coffee. ! At the dose of the batm.u.pL_i£^A^L mfwfrr^^llW’JrTtnon; ns fol lows: “Our Officers-Elect,” J. I*. Barn hart; “Walkerton,” W. A. Endley; “Value of Experience,” I. S. McDuffie; “Pythian Knighthood,” Walter Me Cool; “The Knight and the Ladies,’’ j 8. W. Goss; “Walkerton Lodge No. ! 263.” James Cook. After the toasts were concluded others were called on and responded with ' short addresses. The Milford Mail laid off last week. It is said that the present low price , of books is apt to be still lower in the future. President-elect Cleveland will be the orator at the opening of the world’s fair next May. The secret of the late political landslide is out at last. At a jollification parade in Utica, N. Y., a big transparency heading the procession bore the startling information: “Education is What Done It!” If it does not pay a merchant to advertise in a newspaper, it does not pay him to have a sign. If it does not pay him to have a sign it does not pay him , to have a prominent location. If it does not pay him to have a prominent location it does not pay him to c:”--" - stock of The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel writes: “S. H. Taylor, of Washington, and O. M. Packard, of Plymouth, are candidates for the position of bank examiner for Indiana. Mr. Taylor held this position under Mr. Cleveland’s administration. Packard’s chances are believed to be the best.” j , The Standard doffs its hat to Ken- i tucky genius. A poet from across the river writes regarding Christmas: Now pie awakes my drowsy lyre With inspiration bright and new; I'd fain invoke Promethean fire To bake for me just one or twoAnd many a man in Kentucky has ' been shot for a less offense.—Evans- I vill Standard. 1 • Frederick Tuescher, a Swiss baker, ■ who inflicted the fatal injuries upon | John K. Seltzer, of South Bend, in a 1 fight, is under bonds of $1,500 for his ■ : appearance to answer to the charge j of manslaughter. W. E. Barden one day last week gath- : ered about sl3 dollars worth of pro- ■ visions among the good geople of the Barber settlement as a donation to the widow Grennard, of this place, who is ■ in destitute circumstances.

COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE' r jT - Monopoly! need it. 1 " ant I ^ either do w e seek it. YOU don’t £ .jl j ; CompetiffE; * entir^ . got Wnti» <+. I, it is the I^^lS toke eP it—why? Beenu.se trade Ims ^ Ded ’°« need it. Our extensive comuetititav^^^ a .>°nßsHle of old established We tS ^Od .“X 8 >®» e-1- ftr ^jnisii 1 Ite awl mill' hlie “- w^tiva We Are hW sta * ! ti- Sb .

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