St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 November 1893 — Page 5

IV al2<ei ton 3larkrt. Corrected eekly by Chas. M. Stephens. Eggs ..20 Butter...., 18 to 20 Lard 22 Hreen Hides 3 Potatoes 60 to 65 Corn, new 40 3 lover Seed $4.75 to $5 00 Wheat, 52 Oats 25 to 28 Beans $1.50 Rye 40

WALKERTON. Population, 1.200; 72 miles east of Chicago; nearest competing towns; South Bend, 22 miles, Plymouth, 14 miles-Bremen 18 miles; LaPorte, 16 miles- Fine brick business houses, neat residences, large flouring mill, extensive pickle salting works, 1 saw-mill, and creamery (soon to be re-built). Two railroads—the B& O„ running east and west, and the L. E, & W., north and south—making the shipping facilities excellent; good schools and churches; surrounded by good agricultural country. The best town for its size in northern Indiana. Au excellent location for factories and men of capital. LOCAL NEWS. T.J. Wolfe's ad this week announces a special sale of sixty days; be sune and see it.

Read Ida Hutcitings ad this week. Fresh oysters, bulk or can, at the Star bakery. Sam Cunningham was in Plymouth on Monday. Reach out for business by advertising in the Independent. Hard times give way when you go to E. J. Vincent’s for furniture. Mrs. Rev. Snyder is reported very sick at this writing—Friday. Vou can still get eight loaves of

Urenc! <it the St<ir bukery for 25 cents. Considerable wood of a good qualitj is being hauled to town at present. EdNarrigan will work at harnessmaking and repairing with X. B. Shoemaker. Monarch mince meat nine cents a package or three for 25 cents at Xoah Rensberger’s. Lunches of all kinds and at all hours at the Basement restaurant in Hudelmyer’s block. and Jlrs. OIIVFT Tb^Umrror’ nF Sunlight and Moonlight at the little I

red mill in Walkerton. j Warm meals at all hours at Snyder & Cunningham’s Basement restaurant in the Hudelmyer block. When you go to LaForte call at Lay’s European hotel and restaurant. Meals, 25 cents. I have a nice line of parlor furniture that will be sold at hard times prices. E. J. VINCENT. What's the matter with our Teegarden and LaPaz correspondents? They have failed to show up for two weeks. What an opportunity to get off that old gag about barbers raising the price for shaving democrats; but we refrain. T. J. Wolfe has the largest merchant tailor trade this fall he has ever witnessed. Good fits and low pi ices are sure to catch the trade. Will sell, or exchange for wood, an improved Quick Meal gasoline stove,

in good order. A bargain for somebody. Inquire of Chas. S. Bobbins. For Sale.—A brand new Studebaker canopy top buggy. W ill be sold at a bargain. Call at this office. The little son of Frank Paul was kicked in the mouth by a horse Tues<*gv noon, receiving a cut on the upvincr two front teeth knocked out. by Dr. Denaut, who reports the bo^ not seriously hurt. With 800 bona fide subscribers, representing 4,000 readers, every advertiser is sure of getting good returns for - the money he invests in advertising in the Independent. This is not mere talk, but a fact which good, all-round business men will not be slow to understand. A son of Farmer Delabarre, of near this place, while out hunting the other ~ »Y»an woa ‘4OPI-

day with other young men was accidentally shot. One of the party shot at a bird just flying from a brush-heap but missed the bird, one shot lodging i in young Delabarre’s hand and a few in his leg. The wounds were of a trivial nature. ______ A private dancing party was held at the Fry hotel Tuesday evening by a number of young people. The dining room was cleared and the participants danced until 12 o’clock. Landloiu Fry and wife made it pleasant for their guests, and all enjoyed a most pleasant evening. The music was furnished by Messrs. Snyder, lowngend and Rinehart.

V anted.—l,ooo cords of wood at the Globe clothing store. Full line of flour, corn and all kinds i of feed at X. B. Shoemaker’s. The reputation of the Walkerton Milling Co. Hour is gaining every day. Try it. How easily and gracefully a demo- ! crat now turns to the subject of the I “weather.”

John McDaniel is putting a brick foundation under his house and raising i; the kitchen. , Jim Cook and family have moved - into Mrs. Caswell’s residence near the ’ M. E. Church. ’ Advertising is not an expense. It brings money into the till, and that’s i what you are after. ’ Most men can be convinced that there is a contraction of the currency by feeling down in their pockets. Wakarusa had a SIO,OOO fire the other day. A SIO,OOO system of water works would doubtless have prevented SO milph Inca

do luuvil lOSS. According to the W^hille Indicator three members of a family near that place are dying from diphtheria, of a malignant type, one child being 17 years old. Ihe Lev. (’, B. Gillette will occupy the 1 resbyterian pulpit next Sunday . morning and evening. The morning subject, ‘-The things which we know.” Evening subject, “The brilliant young man.” The question of tire protection should be kept uppermost. It is a

matter demanding the serious consideration of our people. in fact, it has been a “burning” question with Walkerton for the last three or four years. A dance was given in Bender's opera house Wednesday evening under the ' management of Frank Ryder. There ! was a good attendance and pleas mt social time. The music was furnished by Messrs. Snyder, Muldoon, Rinehart and Platts. Avilla Xews: it is said that the well-known Jack Ryan, who was sent up irom this county some years ago and pleasantly at their home in Midi

igan City. A social under the auspices of the Epwt rth League was held in limb i j myer's hall last Wednesday evening. The occasion was well attended, and all had an enjoyable time. A nice lunch was served everybody at ten cents each, and the amount cleared from this, over and above expenses, was $14.10. This money will be used in relieving the necessities ot the poor. Undertaker Vincent was called ttake charge of the burial of Geo. F. Houser, living three miles south of Lakeville, last Wednesday. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Linville at the Giiead church tmd the remains were buried in the l air cemeterv. The young man died from intlammatiou of the bowels and was 20 years old. An engineer of the Lake Erie and Western road, says the Lal’orte Her ... ... . . J . * 1 )

aid, while oiling his engine at letup Friday evening, mistook the smiling , face of the moon for the headlight of an approaching locomotive which seemed to be coming around a bend in the road. He hastily jumped into the cab and was about to back his engine, for fear his train was going to be wrecked. He and his fireman went in and took sometluns before trainer nut^^ handled its immense passenger traffic without an accident of any consequence. Not one of its patrons was killed duringall this rushing business, which is a record to be proud of and one of which few raili roads can boast. The B. &O. compa--Iny are deserving of the praise and gratitude of the public for the watchful care they are exercising in avoiding accidents and looking after the comL ’ fort and safety of their multitudes of r patrons.

Frank Flowers, of Hamlet, upon complaint of M. D. Leßoy, was arrested and arraigned before J ustice Shoemaker last Monday charged with over-driving and cruelly to horses. On the 27th of October Flowers hired a rig of M. D. Leßoy representing that he wished to go to North Liberty, but it is alleged that he drove to South Bend where he left the horses stand jon the street till 11 o’clock at night without feed. A complaint was made against him and an officer made him put the team up at the livery stab’■. When arraigned in the justice’s court Flowers plead guilty to the chaiges above mentioned, and was lined $5 and costs, amounting in all to SLLIo.

T.J. Wolfe, the clothier, offers you bargains this week. See his ad. Rupture cured withour the use of the knife by Dr. Doud, Walkerton, Ind. “Buy the best” when you purchase rubber goods. T. J. Wolfe always has them. < all at the Independent office and g<’t a free sample copy of “ Womankind.”

A complete line of trunks and valises are always on hand at T. J. Wolfe’s. Choice, pure Ohio buckwheat flour at the red mill. Walkerton Milling Co. Ihe Star bakery is a good place to go to get a lunch or warm meal. Warm meals served there at all hours. “And now the naughty little boy To Sunday school doth veer. For he well knows that Christmas time I, slowly drawing near.” Mrs. Clem Studebaker was granted ' the World’s Fair medal for the finest H needlework in the Woman’s Building,!

u the shape of bed-room furnishings. A trivial gunpowder accident at W alkerton has discovered to the world a man named Crum Cole, and he hasn't applied for an appointment,—Elkhart Truth. Mr. Snyder has bought the interest iof his partner, Mr. Cunningham, in the basement restaurant and is now 1 running it alone. He reports having .' a nice little trade. Mr. and Mrs. L. C St rang hereby de- I sire to return sincere thanks to friends j and neighbors for their aid and many

kindnesses during the sickness and death of their mother, Mrs. Anna Lemert. lh<i following advertisement inser-I ; ted by one of Chicago’s business men ! in the daily papers, has been “ordered L i out;- “Having entertained nil known j relatives fvrthe world’s fair, relatives i hit he future must be identified; for- i eign papers please copy.” A chicken lined dropped a pocket- ' book m a Colander’s coop in South p Bend the other night, and the book 3 with its contents, one hundred doltartU' r.»»n4 ),,■ ,i. t• , ...... r was kicked on the side of the hetoi by I *

a coll last Tuesday evening nc«ivlngJpainful, though nd scrims. injuries '! ■ The boy’s left car was split open so that Dr. Denaut. the attending phy-p sician, found it necessary to take i several stitches to close the gash. Charles McCabe, the new blacksmith who has put up a building and opened I a shop on the rear corner us I . F. Townsend s lot, will be ready !> r bus!- j* ness by the middle of next week, t Having had four years of valuable ex- ’ perience in Chicago he is prepared to doall kinds of blacksmithing, including ; horsesh eing, to the satisfaction of all j who may favor him with their patron-1 age. This is to notify all those owing the , undersigned that their accounts must be settled between now and the 20th ; of this month, as on that date our ac--1 counts will be placed in the hands of l an attornev for collection. AS e must . ' wet our books straightened, and as we

have accommodated you in the past. we hope you will heed this our last re-1 quest to you to settle up. Ro>s, Bose A McDaniel. i — It is said that Edward Ditmus, a far-I mer residing near Ilion, in Marshall couutv, borrowed about three thousand dollars of his neighbors, or rather his went his wewutiry for that amount of money. Then he mortgaged his farm for live thousand dollars, and ... .

finally sold his farm to some one subject to the mortgage. When this was ..11 accomplished he took his f miily and departed for Kosciusko county, leaving the neighbors to hold the sack for the money borrowed. Old corn at 45 cents a bushel at J^ercer & .Neals.

Don’t forget that you can buy envelopes by the box cheap at this office. Call on Cripe for a neat hair cut.

fieattjakine I The only Pure Crem” ' " Powde^ —No Ammonia; No Alum. -j es —<3 Vears the Standard.

> Personal Points. { , I ' Charlie Knott was in town a few days . this week. > Benson Cook has returned home > from Garrett. ^Dr. Abner, of Grover town, was in town Tuesday. Mrs. 11. A. Caswell has retuaned from the Milwaukee. Mr. Southworth, of Plymouth, was in town on Wednesday. Mrs. Mart Wolfe visited in Chicago four or five days last week. Mrs. Hagen, of South Bend, has been visiting with friends in this place. i Chill ies M. Stephens took a car load ofclmgs to Chicago last Tuesday. »liss Mattie Kellogg-, of lowa, is u « e -W of F. Kellogg and other relatives. Wrs. J. P. Barnhart Ims been visiting wp l friends at Chicago Junction, Ohio IL Noble left for Ohio last Tues‘‘W ,n the interest of the Walkerton Mining Coni puny. Mrs. Otis Williams, of LaP ute, is

i vi liljug here with her parents, Mr. and M rs. John McDaniel. Lou Bose and little son, of Argos, wt re visiting with his brothers Ed and Charlie last Monday. ■Jr. and Mrs. Sinn Hndelmyer visited hi it week with friends at South Bend an d Sumption Prairie. j .A A. Brady ami family visited with I*’ktives at Harvey, HL. and attended th. i woald’s fair last week. S fra. Walter McCool has arrived here fre m Valparaiso, and Walter will 1.. ho ne i»h soon ns he j* relieved fr m bis du lies as guard at the world's fairf Ud Ewing returned on Friday even ,n # of hist week from a trip t > Craw for Lsvillo. Winamac and other points in that put of the state. pt 8. Fisk, of riynmnth. stopped o^r nt the Fry h t. I Tm-sdny i-i^ht. fooled on th.« night train that 1 to rnn south, having forgotten it it Iming dhcmiiinned. , 8. ForJo, of Auth ny. K in., visat the residence of N. V. !e o n day. Mr. p.»ole we, , mpl. •. d in < ■ ■ Miganu City Dispatch, N -v. 2. ill Hileman and Vern Ihrdcubr.. k '

L U |M . . MimvU 1, c , , i, , , f Hur A* the sickness and death of their nivl^T Mrs. Anna Lemert. , I Harry Riehr..oud and wife returm I ; the latter pait of last week from a visit I • of several weeks at Ciawfordsvthe, this , state. They mad.* the tup both v..iys| with a horse and buggy and rep rt the । [journey a very pleasant one. Ibey | brought with them ii tri, sting g« oh ■ i i I cal specimens gathered m ar Crawfordsville, the country stirroiu-linu the city i abounding in fine .specimens. —— ~ ~ j Major Orlando S. Witheiill. an old i ■ citizen and attorney of smith Bend. fell suddenly to the th or and expired at his residence last M nday w. ning. He had been in ill health since having a stroke of apoplexy about three years ago. He located in South Lend in 1855. His age was about 69. . 7 I

Chop feed, consisting c_ \com ana oats sti aigt^t, dollar a hnndi'ca a. ^r^eicet 5 J 74 s. SHINGLES. Hiving received two car loaus oi 'shikWvs. comprising six grades, I wish | to cjse them out within the next four wee»s, and in order to do so will sell

them at greatly reduced prices. lids is your chance to buy shingles at a bargain. Call and see. 1). N. Hudelmyer. Call at the Basement restaurant for your lunch. If you can afford to be annoyed by ■ :sick headache and constipation, don t use De Witt’s Little Early Risers for these little pills will cure them. Bellinger and B illiams.

.-oTeTbosserman & GO., 710 MAIN ST., LAPORTE, MEHIffiM. UNDERWEAR! por the j^aidksl 1 1 heie is one make of sanita ri/ andencear that physicians endoise and that is the LUZERNE All Wool Sanitary Underwear, 81.25 M'orih - $1.75. We have Warm All Wool Underwear at - 31.00 Jf'oith - 1.25. A Fine Camel’s Hair Underwear at - 50 cts. J!'orth - 75 cts. Also a Heavy Jersey Ribbed Underwear, 20 Cts IFcrth - 25 cts. Warm Underwear for the Men. . c i::c ]\ oc. [ ndei'ivear at = Si.oo, worth 1.25 nc.toy can:et s .lair e nde: zoear at yo cts., worth yy WARM UNDERWEAR FOR CHILDREN. Iu All Sizes ami at the Lowest Prices. T. ; Lar rt, and hiiy your Dry Goods, Shawls and Blankets of us. (ut thix Out and Bring it with You. A TJ LMQfRTE ABBB ~ person cutting this out and present^ ::: : it a; the store and trading 820 worth, ■ aaec their jare paid io Lafcrie and return by 0. E. f ßossern:au & Co. IT Pils : o 'its au *r ,

o1 O V • ' ■ xydffigw THE GARLAND, - the Best : 2'y IN THE WORLD. Th- ib re trade mark upon a stove or range is an absolute guarantee of > , 1 r t;.- verv 1< >t arti b f the kind that can possibly be made for the 11 111' Mt>M lOR PARLOR wood base heater has no superior. P A fall I’im of the above stoves, together with other makes, for sale by ROSS, JARRELL & CO. dry goods. CROC I’. RIES. p,OOI'S. SHOES.

NOTIONS, and WALT, PAPER AT HUDELMYER & HENRY’S. !gs • 5 3 Bootis Always as Represented and Prices that will Suit You. bb h h HUhest Market Prices Paia for Country Produce. Trade with us and wo will guarantee to giro you satisfaction. Hindcftufisv & the hotel fry Is now opened to the public. This new, elegant, fire proof hotel has been newlv furnished throughout, and the propne or " 1U ? neither time nor money to make this one of the best hotels m northern Indiana. Large and well ventilated locals, (Best Location in Lie City wfree bus to and welcome again w. F. FRY, Proprietor _ 7 V 2 S a Q. a r: A- , Z z-h- C 3 4- z-v X ’