St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 September 1893 — Page 5

Walkerton Market. Corrected Weekly by Chas. M. Stephens. Eggs 13 Butter... 16 to 18 Lard 10 Green Hides 3 Potatoes 50 to 60 Corn, new 45 to 48 Glover Seed .$5.00 to $5.25 Wheat, 58 to 60 Oats 22 to 25 Beans $1.75 Wool 10 to 13 LOCAL NEWS.

T. J. Wolfe’s ad this week announces a special sale of sixty days; be sure and see it. Take your poultry to Stephens. Fresh oysters at the Star bakery. Isn’t it about time for Walkerton to have another fire? Fresh bread, buns, cookies, etc., daily at the * bakery. Jack Cattling has rented his farm and will move to town. The Salvation Army will soon turn its guns on LaPorte. First-class timothy seed for sale at N. B. Shoemaker’s. Wanted: —1,000 chickens and 500 turkeys at Stephens’ grocery store. Still we cry for wheat. Haul it to us and get the highest market price. Walkerton Milling Co. ,An infant son of Jerome Stump, residing one mile north of Teegarden, died last Sunday and was buried on Monday from the Stump church. Louis DeCoudres was awarded first prizes at the South Bend fair on his three year old Cleveland Bay, his three year old colt, Elector K., and a two year old grade draft colt. An old man over 60 years old, who was under the weather, when asked the nature of his trouble on the street the other day replied that he had a severe case of the “cholera infantum.” Al Hardenbrook’s new barber pole, which he had made for his son Harry, is completed. It was made from the branch of a tree and is striped and bronzed in artist ic style. The work done by Harry Richmond and was

original with him. The state board of tax commissioners have rendered their decision in the Michigan City car works assessment case, in which they sustain the action of the county board of commissioners and set aside the petition of Treasurer Bosserman. It is thought that this may settle the mooted question. Daniel Heaton, father of Mrs. Willis Wright, of near this place, died at his home in Bristol, Elkhart county, last week. The old gentleman was a pioneer of that locality, and a highly intelligent and influential citizen. Mrs. Wright was at the bedside of her father during his sickness and death. Miss Agnes Quirk, who for two years past has manipulated the instruments in the Western Union Telegraph oilice here, has been promoted by the company and will take the management of the office at Gas City. She leaves Monday for her home at Walkerton for a week’s visit there and at the world’s fair, after which she assumes her new duties at Gas City. Miss Quirk, during her stay in Kokomo, made many friends, all of whom greatly regret her departure.—Kokomo Gazette.

A rear end collision of two B. & O. freight trains occurred at LaPaz early last Sunday morning. Both trains were, west bound. The one was setting off a car onto the side track when the other train came along, ran into it and set five cars off into the ditch, making a bad wreck. The cars were empty. A man by the name of Darling, who was on the head train enroute to South Chicago, received injuries from, which he died about 10 o'clock Sunday morning. Except a slight injury to the engineer, in which his back was strained, no one else was hurt. The operator at LaPaz Junction, it is reported, is partially blamed for the accident and was discharged. The LaPorte Herald tells a story which is of a very peculiar nature. A few days ago two men, each in charge of a team of horses drawing a hay wagon, drove down on the Kankakee marsh to bring a couple of loads of hay. In going across one section of the marsh the wheels, under the pressure of the load of hay, cut into the soil which seemed like a crust, flames issuing forth which set the load of hay on fire. Like a flash the entire load was a mi. sos flame. It appears that the heat under the upper crust had been smoldering for some time and when vent was given it flames burst forth as stated.

Oyster stews at the Star bakery. An Elkhart merchant advertises ; “undershirts one-half off.” Mercer & Neal are selling the best grades of flour at $1.70 per hundred. Inks, slates, tablets and all kinds of school supplies at Bellinger & Williams.’ The highest price in cash paid for eggs, chickens and turkeys at N. B. Shoemaker’s. Drop in at Townsend’s barber shop, near the postoffice, when you want a

slick hair-cut or shave. i . Farmers, Attention. —We want wheat for 600 barrels flour now sold. Walkerton Milling Co. Mrs. Ed Koontz gave a tea party to her young lady friends Thursday evening. An elegant supper was served. A disease simulating the grip is prevalent at Goshen. Are we to be pestered with this scourge again this winter? An infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Cripe died Thursday morning of summer complaint. It was aged 3 months and 9 days. The funeral was held from the house at 2 o’clock p. m. Friday, Rev. Snyder conducting the services. A reception was tendered by the Epworth League to the new minister, Rev. Stockbarger, at the M. E. church last Saturday evening. Rev. Goss and wife were also present and bade farewell to their friends. There was quite an attendance, and the occasion proved a pleasant one. A bird of the owl species, and a rare specimen in these parts, was shot on the Island last Tuesday. Its feathers are of a delicate golden hue and the bird is one of the handsomest ever seen here. It was bought by Joe Endly who is having it mounted. A little daughter of Walter Morris, residing six miles north of this place, died last Wednesday and was buried Thursday at 11 o'clock a. m. from the Center church, Revs. Hilderbrand and Rupel officiating. The deceased was aged 5 months and 20 days. Miss Lilia Fosdiek, of Walkerton, formerly of this city, and her

cousin, Mrs. Chas. T. Allen, of Valparaiso, were on the Valparaiso accoiu modation, which collided with the world's fair special on the Pan Handle, near Colehour, Sept. Bth. Miss Fosdick was on her way to Chicago to attend the fair and to purchase her fall stock of millinery.— LaPorte Herald. A head end collision between a passenger and freight train occurred on the Wabash road near Kingsbury Friday morning. It is reported that several people were killed. Ed Stover, of near this place, who was firing on the freight engine is said to be injured, though how seriously could not be ascertained at this writing. Later.— Since writing the abovt Ed Stover telegraphed his folks that he had not been in the wreck and is all right. It is reported that about ten people were killed. Stories have been going the rounds recently of female animals taking charge of young ones not of their own species and giving them the care of a mother, but Will R. Baker has a female Scotch terrier - hat puts all other stories of this kind in the back-ground. Two orphaned maltese kittens applied at the Baker homestead the other day for admission and were taken in

charge by the dog, which now’ nurses them as well a 3 an y feline mother could. The kittens seem contented with their dog mother.—South Bend Times. Reform in funerals is being proposed, and the following changes are advocated: The procession to the grave should only consist of the preacher, the hearse and the pall bearers. This would save much expense and would give the family needed rest. Dead bodies should not be taken into churches, and funeral sermons should be delivered after the ! body had been consigned to the grave. The family and friends should take leave of the dead at the home, and there should be no public parade or show. The Indianapolis Journal says that “statistics of the war show that Indiana troops participated in 398 engagements, of which 90 were in Virginia, ; 51 in Tennessee, 41 in Georgia, 24 in Mississippi, 19 in Arkansas, 16 in Kentucky and the remainder scattering. The first engagement in which Indiana troops were engaged was the battle of Philippi, W. Va., June 3, 18G1, and the last was the battle of Palmetto Ranche, Texas, May 13, 1865. This was the last battle, of the war, being more than a month after the surrender | of Lee.”

Stephens’ grocery store is head- , quarters for poultry. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs, Wil! Clem, Wednesday, September 20. South Bend has sold $25,000 worth of 6 per cent bonds to eastern capitalists. Nearly two weeks have elapsed since the Noble county train robbery and no trace has yet been found of the robbers. Lovers of fine horses will find much to interest them at the LaPorte fair Sept, 26 to 29, inclusive. The races will be of especial interest. We are running the mill nights. Help us to keep the wheels turning by bringing us wheat. Walkerton Milling Co. Sheriff Shauck, of Noble county, in a recent interview expressed the belief that the train robbers are old hands at the business and that they are now many miles from the scene of their I bold robbery. He seems to have little faith that they will ever be captured. The annual convention of the St. Joseph County W. C. T. U. will be held in Mishawaka Sep. 25 and 27, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m. There will be a gold medal contest Tuesday evening, and a lecture Wednesday evening by Mrs. E. L. Calkins, of South Bend. Subject, “A Question of Patriotism.” A cordial invitation is extended to all. Rev. J. M. Leonard gave an interesting informal talk to a fair sized j audience at the Presbyterian church : last Wednesday evening, describing his work as a missionary in Japan and i giving many other points in regard to I that country, the customs and peculiarities of its people and the progress that Christianity is making there. Mr.. Leonard's talk was entertaining and ' instructive, the audience being well pleased with it. After an absence of i five years he seemed happy to be once more in the pulpit of the church (perhaps for the last time) with whose early struggles to become established he was so intimately associated. Mr. i Leonard spoke feelingly of. the church ■ and said that the little church in i Walkerton, where he performed his first pastoral work, would always hold a warm place in his heart and its associations never cease to be sacred to him. TAX £5 The County Treasurer will be at Walkerion, (let 2nd, New Carlisle, Oct. 4th, Mishawaka, Oct. 6th, 1893, to colleetdhe second or November histallment taxes for the year 1892. Our Great Country. It has been recently discovered that! on American soil the sun never sets.! The British have for years sung a song in glorification of the fact that the sun never sets on the soil of that clime. But, .5 ! now comes the stars and stripes, which are never out of sight of the sun. The exact situation of the I geographical center of the United , States is Quoddyhead, Main; the west- ’ ern, Attoo island, Alaska; the most j northern, Point Borrow, Alaska; the: most southern. Key West. The center i of the quadrangular figures formed by , uniting these four points is located at crossing of 55 degrees north latitude and 110 degrees west longitude, about 420 miles north of the north Hue of Montana. It is also true of the United : States as of Great Britain that the sun never sets on our territory, for when it is 6 p. in. on Attoo island, Alaska, it is 9:36 a.m. of the following day at Eastport Me. — Ex. U I DeWitt’s Witch Hazel SalvJ* cnres 1 piles. De Witt s Witch Haz^j Salve cures burns. DeWitt’s Wit^^Hazel Salve cures sores. De Witß Witch Hazel Salve cures ulcers. Bellinger and Williams. MILES’ NERVE & LIVER PILLS Act on a new principle—regulating the i liver, stomach and bowels through the . nerves. A new discovery. Dr. Miles’ i Pills speedily cure b biliousness, bad ’ taste, torpid liver, piles, constipation. ’ : Unequaled for men, women, children. Smallest, mildest, surest! 50 doses, 25 cts. Samples free at J. Endly’s. First class work guaranteed at Townsend's barber shop, near the I postoffice.

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Personal Points. 1 Attorney Robbins, of Knox, was in town on Friday. I Chas. M. Stephens attended the bijycle races at Peru last Thursday. Charlie Knott was looking after busiceas matters in this place several days Ais week. ’Mrs. R. Rupel, who was visiting for several weeks in Chicago, returned home last Monday. Rev. Jacob Rothenberger, of LaPaz, was in town two or three days this week on business. Miss Clara Butcher, of Plymouth, was visiting with her Walkerton friends a feV days this week. cuU Robbins and wife and Misses Ella a|nd Edith Cunningham leave this mornjLg (Saturday) for a week’s visit at t!W fair. H£n. James A. Gilmore, cashier of the Y' rst National bank, of Plymouth, waamW guest of Thompson Turner on Thursday. jffc Mary Turner, of New York City, and *is. Lizzie Devaney, of Ellenville, N. 17 are visiting with their brother, Fred Decker, and family. Fr ink Nicoles, wife and child, of Spooner, Wis., are visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Nicoles. They expect to remain until next Thursday. The Misses Aggie and Lizzie Quirk, who spent the former part of the week at the world's fair, returned Thursday accompanied by their sister, Miss Mary, of Chicago. D. IL Kellogg, of Walkerton, who has been spending the summer here with his sou, Lester, and his brother Hn law, Gilbert Vanderhoof, lias returned home.—South Bend Tribune. Henry C. Pressler, publisher of the Albion Democrat, dropped in to see us i Tuesday morning while waiting to take a train for Indianapolis to attend the state fair. Mr. Pressler and his sons arc making a newsy paper of the Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. John Schwartz, Mrs. D. N. Hudolmyer and Mrs. Fred Ross . wont to Chicago Tuesday morning to spend aoveial days at the fair. D. N. Hu delayer and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Williams will leave Saturday morning for the fair to join the party. Jacob and B. F. lamg. Rev. Amos Peters, Levi Miller, David Steel and j son, Mrs. Pierce, Daniel Kebert, of this place, Adam Miller and Charles Kitter, of Nappanee, who accompanied ; a party to North Dakota about two ' weeks ago, returned Friday morning. Those of the party who remained in North Dakota are William Wayner, Emanuel Cripe, Mr. Waiterhouse, । George Pitman, William Daugherty, jJ. L Miller, William Miller, William Riggle, F. Pepper, William Kesler, Janies Kesler, Bert Holland and* A. Gordon. Most of the party have • bought and taken up homesteads near i Cando, and those who have not already located there, will move to that couui try next spring. Rev. J. M. Leonard and wife, who i recently returned to the United States ' from Japan, where they were in the ■ missionary service of the Presbyterian ; church for five years, visited with their ’ Walkerton friends a few days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard went to | Japan for the purpose of remaining ten I years but on account of tueir health . were advised by their physician to re- ' turn to this country. They hope, howI ever, to return to their missionary i work, at some future time. Their j visit proved a most pleasant one to । their Walkerton friends, who entertain a very warm rt gard for Mr. and Mrs. Leonard. Indiana's Hustling Correspondents. An enterprising citizen of Northfield. Minn., writes that he • would like to act as regular correspondent of the | Chicago Tribune at that point. “This ; is a great field,” he goes on to say. j “There are probably more murders, j suicides, elopements, horse stealings, ' arsons, and cases of bigamy in North- ; field than any place in the state.” The ; Tribune replies that it would be obvi- ! ously impossible for any paper to i publish all the news from Northfield ' and at the same time do justice to l Goshen, LaPorte, Warsaw, Wabash j and Valparaiso.

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