St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 24, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 December 1893 — Page 5

Walkerton Market. Corrected Weekly by Chas. M. Stephens. e DR PR O e e 7, e BIGE . oD Faotatoes .- v, .. .. 0. ..60t0:6D ' SR e ee A0 Jlover 5eed.............%5 00 to $5.25 Mheat o 0 L eY BD B i s i 2B eBB e e e e b e O e e i s 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 resi- | dences, large flouring mill, extensive pickle salting works, 1 saw-mill and creamery (soon to be re-built). Two railreads—the B & 0., running | | east and west, and the L. E, & W., north and : south—making the shipping facilities excellent; good schools and churches; surrounded by good agrieultural eonntry. The best town for its size ) in northern Indiana. Anp excellent location for :

. factories and men of capiiaf. e ——————————— P ¥ J . lOCALNEWS. £.J. Wolfe’s ad this week announces a A ‘il sodeofsixty days; be sure and sed ~ TEasels at Vincent's. . Rather tame holidays. Parlor suits at Vincent’s. Ladies’ calling cards, blank or printed, at this office. Mrs Ed Koonfz gave a tea to a party of friends on Tuesday evening. You will find a good line of candies for Christmas at the Star bakery. The next state G. A.R. encampment will be held at Lafayette. Tresh bread, cales, pies and cookies daily at the Star bakery. Attend the band beneflt in Bender’s opera house Friday evening, Jan. 5. For a good warm meal or lunch call at the Star bakery, served at all hours. Attend the New Year's ball next Monday evening. Good music will be furnished.

It is reported that the Koontz windmill factory at South Bend will be removed to Porter. For SALE.—-A brand new Studebaker canopy top buggy. Will be sold at a bargain. Call at this office. Go and enjoy yourself in the “mazy waltz” at Bender's opera house next Monday evening. Good music. | Melv Wright shipped 30 pounds of‘ “ bone factory at Three Oaks, Mich. The INDEPENDENT hereby acknowledges the receipt of a box of choice wedding cake from the - Beall-Nash nuptials. The dancein Bender’s hall Dee. 26 was well attended. It was under the management of Frank Ryder, and the music was furnished by the Walkerton orchestra. Help the band boys by patronizing the Love DBros.” concert in DBender's opera house next Friday evening. The Love Bros. are well known specialists and give a fine entertainment.

The Walkerton cornet band has se- I cured the Love Bros. who will give a concert in Bender’s opera house I'riday evening, Jan. 5, for the benefit of the band. The Love Bros. are celebrated singers and musicians and give a first-class entertainment. Turn out everybody and help the band boys. The INDEPENDENT, Womankind and American Farmer all for $1.50. This is a special offer that will hold good only until the first of January. Come in at once and secure the benefit of this liberal offer. ~ Three good papers one year for $1.50 is ridiculously cheap and you can not afford to miss the bargain. l A program entitled “Chrismas Stars” | was given at the U. B. church last Sunday evening by the scholars of the U. B. Sunday school. The program, which comprised recitations, vocal and instrumental musie, was well rendered and proved very interesting to the ! large audience. The teachers presented the members of their respective classes with presents and vice versa. An exchange says that the removal of rock from the channel of the Kankakee

river at Momence, 111.,, near the Indi- ‘ ana line, will. it is claimed enable farmers living along the Kankakee river | in Indiana to drain their lands into the ‘ river. The amount of land that may be reclaimed is estimated at from 500,000 to 600,000 acres. 'The drainage could not be secured until the rock at I Momence was cut out. The blasting of the limestone in the bed of the river l began last summer and fully 67,000“ cubic yards have been removed. There ig room for further improvements, the commissioners say, by straightening the river near the Ilinois line or above \Kexcavations. |

A happy New Year. Shoofly rockers at Vincent’s. Fancey rockers at Vincent’s. ’ See that new folding lounge at Vin- ) cent's. . Fresh apple-butter for sale at Sny“der & Son’s restaurant. Attention is called to the new ad of the Globe elothing store. - Edward Nacragan has sold his harness shop to Frank Ake. A New Year’s ball will be held in Bender's opera house on next Monday evening. The “swearing-off” time is drawing near. Are you going to take advantage of the occasion ? Miss Laura Koontz entertained a number oy her friends from town to a

fine dinner on Christmas day. George Smith is the INDEPENDENT'S authorized agent. All subscriptions and orders for job printing and advertising given him will receive prompt attention. o hea Rob Hollyday celebrated Christmas by moving to bis new house built to replace the one burned in September. They are ready to see their friends at the old stand. Presents were distributed among the children of the M. E. Sabbath school last Sunday morning. Rev. Stoekbarger delivered a sermon appropriate to Christmas both morning and evening, and singing was furnished in the morn- l ing by the Junior Epworth League and in the evening by members of the Senior League. The Pastime Club held a banquet in Hardenbrook’s hall last Tuesday evening. The menu consisted of roast pig and turkey and other delicacies. Following the supper the guests were entertained with a spirited though friendly boxing mateh of four rounds by Vern Hardenbrook and Benson Cook., DBoth are exceedingly

v AR Pit S SR PR e7 B 0 R S oa Sar o e G e i2y Rl | clever with the gloves and this feature | of the evening proved a source of much interest to the {.fuests. A big ditch to be constructed in Kos- ‘ ciusko and Marshall counties, is to be a little over 20 miles in length. Aeccording to the report of the viewers there are 790 owners of tracts of land assessed. The estimated cost of construetion is in the neighborhood of $40,000. At its widest point the wvro-pussu-wors Wil be about.ou-feet wide. Thousands of acres of land will be redeemed by this big ditch. The Lake Erie & Western has four suits for damages to try in the federal courts at F't. Wayne, growing out of the appalling wreek at Peru about a year ago, in which two persons were killed and several maimed for life. The suit of Adolph Wortheim, of Peru, is set for this week. He sueés for §15,1000 damages. W. M. Wright, the | traveling insurance adjuster, of Ind- ‘ | ianapolis, is suing for §25,000; Willett Fisher and W. T. Bryson ask $15,000 | damages. |

I Brief Christmas exercises were held at the Presbyterian church last Sunday evening. Rev. Gillette spoke on the birth of Christ and the ecircumstances surroundiug that event, and Henry McCool also made a short address. A number of pieces especially selected for the occasion were sung by the choir and presents were distributed among the children. Grandpa Yerrick, a faithful and devoted member of the church, was presented with a five dollar gold piece by S. J. Nicoles in behalf of the school. D. W. Place, dealer in baled hay and straw, received from the men in his employ a fine Christmas present in the form of a gold pen with a handsome | gold and pearl handle. Mr. Place appreciates the present very highly, and will use it only in quoting prices on A % No. 1 timothy hay, using a common, every day steel pen in his ordinary correspondence. The names of the donors are: M. Branaman, John Demyer, William Creager, B. Rineh:lrt,! John Steinke, C. Jackson, E. Hostetter, William Cook, Frank Reed, S. Baker and C. L. Granger. | Charley Wood, the ex-deputy post-

l master at LaPorte, who was seatenced l to serve a year in the northern prison | for embezzlement, will be released ‘ January 17th, 1894. He will be taken to Indianapolis and discharged under the poor debtors’ act, after which he will return to his home in LaPorte, where he has a situation promised him. Wood was recently interviewed by a Dispatch reporter regarding LaPorte postoffice affairs and he tells a story which if repeated before, the United States court would make things warm | for some people at the county seat.— ~Michigan City Dispatch. 1 Sick Headache cured by Dr, Miles’ Nervine.

Boys’ sleds at Vineent's. | Julius Barnes & Co., of LaTorte, have a new announcement in this issue. New Year’s ball in Bender’s opera | house next Monday evening. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Not one delinquent subseriber in ten | would eredit his home publisher any length of time for the price of a year’s subsecription because the amount is too small to deserve credit. But by many of his patrons a coantry editor is expected to wait indefinitely for money that ought to be paid in advance,— Lawrenceburg Register, The supreme court says that where a married woman participates with her husband i:: the execution of a mortgage on real estate in his name, and knowing that the mortgagee is relying |

BT = st R e eBR - S olels Ll ven e gt L on the title of her husband thereto in parting with money loaned to him, stands by and does not claim to be the owner, is estopped from afterwards asserting ownership in herself with her “husband as-trustee, as against such mortgage. ' A Knox special says: More wor from the absent officers of the Knox Mutual Insurance Company announces that President Scott is about to enlist in the Brazilian Army, and that Secretary Andrews will travel South for a large Eastern tobacco syndicate. Andrews says that if the newspapers expose his intentions it would ruin his | business. According to the statement 'made by him this man was at one ‘L time connected with the Chicago Hers t ald. Scott's parents have departed 1 broken hearted to their old home, near Pierceton, and the wife of the presi‘dent is soon to open a boarding house. | Literary Note. The second edition of the December World’s I'wir Cosmopolitan brings the total up to the extraordinary figure of 400,000 copies, an unprecedented result in the history of magazines. I'our huni A = i Sl i

dred thousand copies—26o tous-ninety-four million pages—enough to fill 200| wagons with 2000 each—in a single line, in close order, this would be a file of wagons more than a mile and a half long. 'This means not less than 2,000,- | 000 readers scattered throughout every | town and village in the United States.| The course of the Cosmopolitan for the past twelve months may be compared | to that of a rolling snowball ; more sub- | scribers mean more money en--f LUy lug vieo buny s LiGIeS Bt iilnstrations || in the world; better illustrations and ! better articles mean more subscribers, |, aud so the two things are aeting and |, reacting upon each other until it seems probable that the day is not far distant when the magazine publisher will be able to give so excellent an article that it will elaim the attention of every intelligent reader in the country. K. of P. Election. Walkerton Lodge No. 263, K. of P., held its semi-annual election last Tuesday evening, resulting as follows: C. C.—C. A. Pool. V. C.—Edward Grider. P.—E. J. Vincent. '

M. at A.—Walter McCool. : M. of E.—George Chapman. : M. of F.—D. N. Hudelmyer. : K. R.S.—B. E. Williams. : Trustee.—D. Brubaker. ] Representative—D. V. Place. The installation of the newly elected | officers will be held next Tuesday | evening. A ’ Fresh Plymouth bread daily at| Snyder & Son’s restaureni. | Private funds to loan on lm—‘ proved farms on short notice, Call or write J. H. Cooley, | Piymouth, indiana. L A Christmas Present for Some One. To the one guessing nearest the number of words in the first two columns of the INDEPENDENT to be published the | last week in December, a beautiful! E present will be given as follow: If the guesser be a boy the \ present will be a WATCH; if a girl, a string of SOLID GOLD BEADS; if a { married man or woman, a CASTOR. IDA HUTCHINGS. Oftice room for rent. Front room, bay window. J. ENDLY. l Call on Cripe for a neat hair cut.

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B O e e B e T Persoual Points. : Jay Miller was in South Dend the fore part of this week. Benson Cook returned on Monday { from Memphis, Tenn. 1 ’ Miss Hattie Hostetter is here {rom Chicago to spend the holidays. i Dr.J. R. Abner, of Grovertown, ‘ was in this place last Friday. J. H. Black and family arespending the holidays at Painsville, Ohio. Myron Leßoy and Andrew Cunningham drove to South Bend Wednesday. Mrs. Will Tank visited with friends at Garret this week. Mrs. H. H. Brown visited with rela—tives aud friends in South Bend last week. Dave Petrie, of Watseka, 111., arrived ‘here Monday evening for a two weeks

| holiday visit. Charles Miller, of Garrett, has been given the position of watching engines ab this place for the B.& O. road ~ Mrs. Rebecea Wolfe, of Constantine, ich., visited with her cousin, T. J. ce, and family over Christmas. * O. F. Townsend and wife tock Christas dinner with relatives in Plymouth. e latter remained nutil Wednesday. ~ Mr. White, a student at the Valpar--Biso normal, has been spending the holidays here with his cousin, Frank Ryder. James Denaut, a student at Rush medical college, Chicago, is spending the holidays here with his brother, Dr. Denaut. Mrs. Minnie Holmes, of Chicago, who has been visiting in this place with relatives for the past few weeks,left on Wednesday morning for California where she will sojourn this winter. Sandbagged. On last Sunday evening about 7 o'clock as Will Northam was walking up town from home some one stepped out from the alley back of the Fulmer block and strueck him a blow which felled him to the ground. He was Ifst<t ei L L R T et L e T

eaaerea uncounscious tor some time ,mld when he recovered found his ‘vpockets all turned inside out. He had no money on his person, however. Northam, as near as he could tell in the dark, thinks his assailant was a good sized man, perhaps five feet and eight inches tall. The man stepped out from the alley just as Northam passed, crossed the sidewalk and then whirled nd struck him a terrific blow with 3-’Qmel:hi i 2 | .‘msuning several teeth and inflicting ip ew cuts from which he Dbled considerably. There is no clue to the perpetrator of thedeed. All that honesty, experience and skill can do to produce a perfect pill, has been employed in making De Witt's Little Early Risers. The result tis a specific for headache, bilionsness and constipation. DBellinger and Wililiams. Mrs. T. S. Hawkins, Chattanooga, Penn., says: “Shiloh’s Vitalizer l ‘SAVED MY LIFE.’ I consider itthe | best remedy for debilitated system I ever used.” Tor dyspepsia, liver or I kidney trouble it excels. Price Tscts. | For sale by Bellinger & Williams.

KARL’S CLOVER ROOT will purify your Blood, clear your Complexion, regulate your Bowels and make your Head clear as a bell. 25c. and 50ec. For sale by Bellinger & Williams. WOMANKIND Has won its fame because it deals with what really interests the women of America. It leaves the discussion of the great guestions of religion and polities to other papers, and fills its pages with practical articles regarding home life, how to live delightful yet economiecally. - Its fashion department is complete—the work of experienced editors—and profusely illustdated, but it deals with i—fashions suitable to the homes of womon of artistic tastes and modest in‘pmes. Its stories are bright and inaring . It is full of hints for the 1 qggofling woman, and aids those ‘who seek to add to their incomes by ?.)raiu or hand. ‘ When you want sale bills remember hat the INDEPENDENT oflice will do you a neat job on water proof paper at the lowest price. In addition we will give a notice of sale in the paper free of charge. Corn 42 cents a bushel at Mercer & Neal's.

; ® : Christmas Present = TO EVERY CUSTOMER. % Al B .BSO o B . We are determined to do something for our customers and friends. - Therefore, we will mak. to every customer who trades ONE DOLLAR or more on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Deec. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 A Beautiful Christmas Present. Don’t forget the Dates. Don’t forget to come. Tell your Neighbors. : FOR THE HOLIDAY TRADE W WE ARE SHOWING A LINE OF Ladies’ Fancy Handkerchiefs, = = 50c. to §1 & Initial ¢ Linen, - - 10c.fo 2588 1% « 17 2 A big line of Gents’ hem=stitched and Jancy border, 10c Gents’ White Silk Initial, - = 50c. & “ and Colored border, - S 506 o “ Hems=stitched, - 35¢ 1 From 20 cents up, Shopping Bags, Kid Mittens 5 Fur Musts and Searfs, Everything, EVERYTHING YOU WANT! A big and cheap line of CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

in every Department. Don’t forget, we give you a beautiful present. 0. E. BOSSERMAN & COO., ‘ 710 MAIN ST.,, LAPORTE. eOL OV O ? ‘eAND s/‘ THE GARLAND, Qe the Best \Slewgrasse o : IN THE WORLD. The above trade mark upon a stove or 1 nge is an absolute guarantee of its being the very best article of the kind tha can possibly be made for the price asked. THE MONITOR PARLOR woc base heater has no superior. A full line of the above stoves, together wit 1 other makes, for gale by ROSS, JARRELL & CO. DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, NOTIONS, s WALL _PAPER . A HUDELMYER & HENRY’S. Goods Mlways as Represenied and e Prices that will Suit You. g L L g g Highest Market Prices Paid for Country Produce. M : Trade with us and we will guarantee to give you satisfaction. Hudelmyer & Heury.

e TIO)T R, B e IS IR AR S ; 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, @Best Location in the City ~ & FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS. &4 TRY USAND YOU WILL COME AGAIN W. F. FRY, Proprietor