St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 July 1893 — Page 5

Walkerton Maiket. Corrected Weekly by Chas. M. Stephens, Eggs 13 Butter 14 Lard 12 Green Hides 3 Potatoes 75 to 90 Corn, new 45 to 48 □ lover Seed .$5.00 to S6.CO Wheat 52 to 54 Oats 30 Beans sl-75 Wool 10 to 13 LOCAL NEWS. Always read T.J. Wolfe's ad’s. Farmers are in the midst of threshing- __ Salt 90 cents per barrel at Noah Rensberger’s Walter Atwood is keeping books at the pickle works. The front of the Rensberger block has been freshly painted and penciled and it is a great improvement. Rev. Geo. L. McNutt, of California, will preach at the Presbyterian church in this place Sunday. All are welcome. A peanut and banana stand has been erected between the L. E. & W. depot and Avenue F. The proprietor came from Plymouth. The bicycle tournament at South Bend to-day—Friday—is drawing professional riders from all over the country. The prizes amount to over $1,200. Miss Exie Smith, formerly of this place and who has a great many friends here, was married on Wednesday at Marion to a gentleman of that city. We were unable to get further particulars for this issue. We have sent out statements to all subscribers who are delinquent, and hope they will not forget us when they have a little money to spare. We are in no special hurry about the money, but would just like to get our “books balanced,” you know. Mrs. McDaniel, wife of Ed McDaniel, of this place, died on Thursday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hooten, near Tyner, where she was taken about eight weeks ago. The cause of her death was quick consumption which was the result of an attack of grippe last spring. Iler age was about 20 years, and she had always enjoyed good health until recent-

ly. We extend our sympathies to the TV# Lave not h’Hined when or where the burial will take place. John McDaniel, the express agent received three carrier pigeons last week from parties in Buffalo, N. Y., with a request to let them loose the first favorable morning, the object being to test their speed on their return home. The pigeons were set at liberty Monday morning, and after a little manoevering in the air they settled on their course and rapidly sped away in the direction of home. Up to date nothing has been heard from the little messengers. “Dr. Charlie,” who was in this place nearly four years ago with a troupe representing the Kickapoo Medicine Co., is again back to Walkerton with a company and will give a lecture and concert every evening under canvas during his stay here. He has an excellent company of artists with him and gives a first-class entertainment. “Dr. Charlie” by his courtesty, genial ways and honest dealing made a favorable impression during his former visit at this place, and he has a great many friends here who are glad to see him again. The doctor is now introducing the Great Scotch remedies, of which he is manufacturer and proprietor. He is an experienced chiropodist and specialist in the treatment of all troubles of the feet, and all afflicted in I tuis lecture and entertainment will be given this evening—Friday. The following dispatch from Akron, 0., dated July 25, gives particulars of a bad wreck on the B. & O. “A horrifying railroad accident occurred this morning eight miles east of Akron on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The train was a passenger filled with world’s fair excoursionists from Baltimore, Washington and other eastern points. When eight miles east of here and while running at a good rate of speed the heavily laden train was thrown from the track by the rails spreading. Several of the cars were precipitated down a embankment and timbers and human- ’ ity mingled in a mass of ruins. The cries of the injured were heart rending. Aid was at once commenced and ; the rescuers did rapid and brave work. Up to this hour the number of injured is 21 according to one report and 30 according to another. No less than five people are fatally injured.” Will Augustine and wife, who arrived here Tuesday, were in the above wreck but received only slight injuries.

Noah Shoemaker is having an addition 16 by 30 feet built on to the back of his store room. Have you a horse, buggy, or farm for sale? If you have try a notice in the Independent. The funeral of Mrs. Ed McDaniel will be held to-day at 2 o’clock in the U. B. church at this place. Attend Dr. Charlie’s lectures and entertainments. They begin this evening—Friday—under canvas. Thos. E. Casey, formerly a prominent citizen of Ligonier, died a few days ago at Logansport, where he was taken nearly a year ago for treatment. Dr. Charlie’s company gives an excellent entertainment. Go and attend. Concert every evening(except Sunday) under canvas on the L. E. & W. grounds. Mrs. Ed Koontz's Sunday school class picnicked in Place’s grove last Thursday, and enjoyed the day with swings and hammocks and an excellent dinner. The annual festival of the Junior Epworth League will be held next Friday evening. The place will be announced in good time. Let all attend and encourage the little folks. A cool wave struck us Wednesday evening sending the mercury down ten or fifteen degrees. The change from the burning heat will be of some benefit to the crops even without rain. A donation social was held at the residence of Rev. S. S. Snyder on Wednesday evening by the members of the U. 8., M. E. and Presbyterian churches. A pleasant evening was enjoyed, and a very handsome donation was made the worthy pastor, for which he returns his warmest thanks. Noah Rensberger, the dry goods merchant, placed an ad in the Independent July 15 announcing a five days’ clearing sale, and the way the people rushed in to buy goods after the papers were out was a caution. The ad brought them from far and near and those who didn’t see the ad were told about it by their neighbors and the consequence was that the news of bargains was well circulated throughout the adjacent country. Mr Rensberger realized big results from this single ad and also brought many

people to this place to trade who i night hsivo gone <•!««*v» Wo »i»i ply cite this one ease to show “doubt ing Thomases” that there is something in advertising. An exchange says: “It is univer sally admitted that there is no more healthful meat than mutton. And yet, for some unaccountable reason, mutton is thoroughly disliked by a surprisingly large number of people—in nine eases out of ten from sheer prejudice. There is no cleaner animal for food purposes than the sheep. Properly prepared, and served fresh from the pan hot, mutton is a very palatable dish. Lamb chops are relished by people who are accustomed to the finest sort of living. Mutton potpie is considered a treat. At the present high price of beef it would be a good thing for the country if a systematic effort were made to popularize mutton in the American kitchen. Every farm ought to have some sheep from a half dozen to a hundred. It would be an excellent thing for the farm in several respects, eqally so for the farmer and his family. How To Kill Your Town. The following prescription for killing your town will have the desired effect if followed according to directions: Buy of peddlers as often and as much as possible. Denounce your merchants because they make a profit on their goods. who has done much to build up the town. Make your town out a very bad place and stab it every chance you get. Refuse to unite and scheme for the betterment of the material interests of the people. Keep up divided public sentiment on the best method of increasing business. Tell your merchant that you can buy goods a good deal cheaper in some other town, and charge them with extortion. If a stranger comes to your town tell him everything is overdone, and predict a general crash in the near future. If you are a merchant don’t adver- ; t ise in your home paper, but buy a i rubber stamp and use. It may save ! you a few dimes and make your letter heads, envelopes and wrapping papers । look as though you were doing busii ness in a one-horse town. If you are ; farmer, curse the place where von trade as the meanest on earth. ’ Talk tins to your neighbors and tell them the business men are robbers and thieves. It will make your property much less valuable, but then perhaps you don’t care.

Mrs. H. H. Brown, who has been very sick, is reported better. A number of onr wheelmen other citizens attended the cycH c ® tournament at South Bend on Friday • The Walkerton Milling Co. have tended their wheat-buying territory by purchasing Johnson’s elevator at La" Paz. The latest fad is for young ladies to tip their hats to gentlemen friends. The fad, however, is too senseless to ever become general. Bro. Endley’s Walkerton Independent is eighteen years old. There is a lot of good work done on the paper, and it is one among our best ex- . changes.—Nappanee News. The Studebaker wagon works at South Bend, which closed the first of July for repairs, intended to start up last Monday, but it is now announced that it is uncertain when they will re 1 sume operations. 1 The Elkhart Truth says: “Bev.! Fulmer’s little danehter. Fay, who willl be ton years old in December, met with’ 1 a painful accident at the Island this I afternoon. The Baptist Sabbath school ’ is holding a picnic and Fay had just finished dinner and started to walk around the improvised table. She slipped on the grass and fell, her right elbow striking against a board. The joint was dislocated and the physician, after a hasty examination, thought ^he bone had been slightly fractured.” A Good Property for Sale. The Bender brick block, we are informed, can be bought on long time at a fair price. This building is located on the best corner in Walkerton j and is right in the business center of the town. The building is 40 xBO feet in dimensions, two store rooms below and a large hall above. Being so well located there is never any j trouble about renting the rooms and at a good fair price. The building has recently been repainted, re-roofed, and ■ otherwise improved, making it one of the most desirable business properties in town. Any one wishing to buy property as an investment would no doubt make a profitable deal by pur chasing the Bender block. The Book Social The book social and ice cream festi- j val given by the Christian Endeavor I society of the Prenbyteriau church at the Nichola hotel Inst Sa’uftUy even * ing was well attended and proved s most interesting and enjoyable ocea-I sion. Each member of the society was dressed to represent the title of sonic ; popular book. The representations! were as follows: Ella Holliday. Haw thorne, Scarlet Letter; Maggie Miller,! Bret Harte, Bret Harte’s Poems; Mrs. Gulu Wolfe. Sir S. W. Baker, Cast up, by the Sea; Ehr Wolfe, C. Black, The I Heathens; Bee Wolfe, F. L. Gillette, Cook Book; Belle Wolfe, C. H. Mon tague and C. W. Dyer, Written in Red; Verne Wolfe, Bill Nye, Baled Hay; Addie Wolfe, Fannie Fern,Sun Leaves; , Rose Nichols, Lousin M. Alcott, Rose in Bloom; Lulu Nichols, Louisa M. Alcott, Lulu’s Library; I’earl Nichols, Edmund Spencer, Fairy Queen; Florence Drake, Cooper, Chain Beaver; Irma Decker, Dickens, Pickwick Psapers; Cert tide Peterson, Holmes, Sunshine; Nellie McDaniel, Holmes, Shadow; Margie shoemaker, Fairy, Tales, lied Riding Hood; Earle Keeley Mother Goose, Little Boy Blue; Addie Ball, Mother Goose, Bo Peep; Callie Blaine, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass; Mrs. Will Tank, Bible, Ruth; Mr?. Townsend, Wilkie Collins, Wo-! man in White. Table Decorations were: J. F. Coop ] er, Pioneers; George Elliott, Miil on ; the Floss; George EliiotU Middle -T’ — — . — Chestnut Bur; Geoffrey Chaucer, i u>wcr nnd Leaf; John Ford, Broken I Heart; J. Fennimore Cooper, i*»thl Finder; Elizabeth S. Phelps, Hedged In; D. T. S.. Mustard Leaves; Newton, Pebbles from the Brook; W. H. Y. Kingston, Salt Water; Thomas Hughes, A Star and Heart. If you can afford to be annoyed by sick headache and constipation, don’t ■se De Witt’s Little Early Risers for these little pills will cure them. Bellinger and Williams.

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— —— Pergonal Points. A. D. Swank was in LaPaz on business Wednesday. W. E. Peterson, of Plymouth, was in town the fore part of this week . Willie Reed is here a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Reed. Ed Grider and Dan Brubaker were in Plymouth on business Wednesday. Miss Ida Beach attended the wedding of Miss Exie Smith at Marion last Wednesday . Samuel Beall, of Michigan, is visit- | ing in this place with his brother, Allen Beall, Sr. Mr. Clark and Miss Lenora Halter, of LaPorte, spent Sundry with friends in this place. Mrs. Charley Orr, of Rochester, Ind., is visiting with her cousin, Seth Reed, and family. Mrs. Louis Lubs and children, of sMichigan City, were visiting here with priends this week. I Miss Pearl Noble and Miss Mamie were visiting in South Bend the ®>re part of the week. Fa. G. Baker, of the Bremen Standard, jwhile in town last Saturday made the Independent a pleasant call. Rev. S. S. Snyder and wife drove to South Bend on Thnrday to visit with friends until the last of the week. Mrs. Wells, with her sons, of LosAngeles, Cal., is visiting here with her sister, Mrs. Giberson, ami other relatives. Mrs. William Rupel and Miss Ella Throckmorton, of South Bend, were guests of Mrs. W. A. Endley last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Robert Kennedy, wife an^l daughter, Mrs. Firestone, and twogranddangters, of LaPorte City, lowa, are here visiting their old home. IL Nelson is employed with the Rochester Bridge Co., who construct iron J bridges. He is at present helping to I put down a bridge near Plymouth. Dr. T. O. Keator, of New York state, stopped off here last Sunday to visit nilh lied Decker and family. The ;doctor was enroute home from the ■ world's fair. Lx Sheriff Zach Johnson, formerly |of this county, was in town on Friday, representing n patent, of which he is proprietor He is now a resident of Englewood, 111, • j Mrs. Hairy Owens, who lias been ■ her parents. Mr. and Mrs. I David Swank, L ft on TlmrsJ tv for her new home in Muncie, this state, where her husband recently located in business. Actor Harry Richmond and w ife have signed for the season with Gallagher A Swafford’s Comedians, and will join their troupe the last of August. Mr. Richmond will star in the piny entitled “Uncle Joshua Whitmore." Allison Cole and Lis brother, John, i of Palmer, Nebraska, were visiting with friends and relatives in this place ami vicinity several days last and this week. They were formerly residents of this i place, having left here for the west about twenty years ago. Ex County Superintendent Bailey, 'of Plymouth, was a caller at this office Tuesday evening, and we had a most i enjoyable visit with him. He is genj era! agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Co., his territory embracing a large portion of northern Indiana. Misses Edith and Ella Cunninghan), Grace Lamson, Minnie Berger, Maude Hollar, Lillie Fosdick, ami Messrs. Jim Ball, Craton Huber and Chas. Neil, of Walkerton, attended the social gather ing at thj home of Mr. Lee Kendall last Thursday evening. At 7:00 o’clock । a grand supper was partaken of.—Ply - .mouth Republican. J Cheap Home Visitor's Excursion, Thursday, August 17th, 1893. 1 On the above date the Lake Erie & Visitor's Excursion to Cmcm|nati, Dayton, Columbus, Ohio, and inftermediate points. The rates are so row that it would be cheaper to go on I this exclusion than to stay at home, ' thus giving everybody an opportunity to visit their old home and friends ! throughout the states of Indiana and I Ohio. Tickets good for thirty (30)days from date of sale. Excursion will pass Walkerton at 5:24 a. m. For further information, call on Ticket Agent L. E. &. AV. R. R.

THE CCSMCPOLIWr MAGAZINE AND THE WALKERTON INDEPENDENT Both for $2.25 a Year! nilie Great Illustrated Monthlies have in the past sold for $4.00 a year. It -*■ was a wonder to printers how tlm Cosmopolitan, with its yearly 1536 pages of reading matter by the greatest writers of the world, and its 1200 illustrations by clever artists, could be furnished for $3.00 a year. In January last it put in the most perfect magazine printing plant in the world, and now comes what is really a wonder: will cut the price of the Magazine in. half for you! Think of it, 128 pages of reading matter, with over 120 .Uustrat.ons-a volume that would sell in cloth binding at Ifl.oo FOR ONLY 12^ CENTS. The WALKERTON INDEPENDENT both rou om.v sa.sa * vesb CALL ON BELLINGER & WILLIAMS FOR Fine Ferfnmest 'Toilet ^rtiefes. We carry in stock the following brands: Orchids of Roses, Smilax, Crab Apple Blossoms, Locust Flower, White Lilac, Jockey Club, etc. FIVE TOILET SOAPS, TOOTH BRUSHES, STATIONERY, ETC. We carry in stock a full line of Patent Medicines, Tobaccos, Cigars, etc. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Call and see ns and you will save money. Hutlelmyer Block. Ave. F. GENERAL HARDWARE, GASOLINE STOVES, PAINTS AND OILS, fools of various kinds, a general line of Tinware, and in fact everything usually kept in a complete hardware stock, for sale by ROSS, JARRELL & CO. “Live and let live,” is onr motto, and an investigation of our prices will prove this to you. PLEASE CALL AND SEE US. "How Pretty the Goods are this Spring,” is the spontaneous and familiar exclamation heard from those who know a good thing when they see it. THE BEE-HIVE invites attention to DRESS GOODS, SILKS AND VELVETS, IN GREAT VARIETY. We are showing some exceptionally good values in Dress Goods, Carpets, Maquettes, Brussels, Three Bly, Extra Supers, Straw Mattings, at Popular Prices. Lace Curtains in Brussels, Irish Point, Nottingham, Chenille Port ierres and Silk Curtains, Curtain Shades, Millinery, Spring Capes and Jackets. We expect the Capes will have the “call” this spring. Very stylish, from $3 to $lB. We have cleaned house and are ready to help our friends put the home in order, at THE BUSY, BUZZINGBEE-HIVE, With $25 of goods purchased we give a picture handsomely framed worth $3.50. Julius Barnes & Co. MICHIGAN AVE., LAPORTE, Is now opened to the public. This new, elegant, fire proof hotel has been newly furnished throughout, and the proprietor will spare neither time nor money to make this one of the best hotels in northern Indiana. Large and well ventilated (Rooms, (Rest Location in the City «^*FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAIN'S.^ TRY US AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN W. F. FRY, Proprietor. These LENSES ofter being properly fitted are GUARANTEED by TOLLEY BROS & CO.. 113 ADAMS SU CHICAGO, to never leave the eyes, opif they should do so at any time the purchaser will be furnished a new pair of LENSES FREE OF CHARGE. As in a very large majority of eases Lense* should be scientifically adjusted, this firm sends a skilled oplican to visit with their agents several times during each year, to scientifically adjust their Finest Brand of Spectacles and Eye Glasses. Special attention given to Children’s Eyes. Perfect fit guaranteed in every case. Notice his paper f«r date—the Optican will be here. Complete assortment always found with their agent. IDA A HUTCHINGS, Walkerton, Ind