St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 January 1894 — Page 5

Walkerton Market. Corrected Weekly by Chas. M. Stephens. EKS B Butter lb Lard 7 Green Hides •*$ Potatoes 60 to 65 Corn, new 45 □ lover Seed Wheat 5$ Oats. Beaus Bye - 40 WALKERTON. Population, 1,200; 72 miles east of ChIC*RO ; nearest competing towns. South Bend, 22!mi . Plymouth, 14 miles- Bremen 18 miles; Lal orte, 16 miles- Fine brick business houses, neat residences, large flouring mill, extensive pickle salt- . ing works, 1 saw-mill, and creamery (soon to be , re-built). Two railroads—the B & 0., running Lt 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 beM, town for its size in northern Indiana. An excellent location for factories and men of capital.

the abovlffi’s ad this week announces a two excUe of sixty days; be sure and see derful throv you have anything for sale or trade try a few lines in the Independent. Julius Barnes & Co., LaPorte, have •something of interest in this issue to dry goods buyers. Take your face to O. F. Townsend’s barber shop and get a first-class shave or hair-cut.

Oysters, pickled meats, pies, etc, for lunch, at Snyder & Son’s, in basement of Hudelmyer block. If you have an item of interest drop it into the Independent’s box at the postoffice. Sign your name. Pat Fitzgerald has entered the employ of the new dry goods firm, Holman & Foote, as salesman. The protracted meetings at the U. B. church are well attended and interest in the meetings is growing. Curry Miller is now employed in Koontz’s mill. Tie moved his household goods to that neighborhood last Wednesday. Leave your subscriptions for all newspapers and magazines at the Independent office. We will save you trouble and expense of sending. Anew association called the Breers’ and Saloon-keepers’ Mutual Aid and Benefit association Isas been organized, with headquarters at South Bend. The LaGrange Democrat has discovered that last Christmas night was warmer at that place than the night of July 4th the thermometer registering 54 deg. at 12 p. m. Christmas night

and 50 deg. at the same hour July 4th. Thirty-two ladies of the M. E. Ladies’ Aid society took dinner at the M- E. church on Wednesday. In the afternoon there were fifty ladies present and they spent the time quilting for Mrs. Lizzie Place and sewing carpet rags for Mrs. Brubaker. Judge William C. Talcott, 90 years of age and editor of the Porter County Vidette for nearly fifty years, has retired, having disposed of his interest in the paper to E. L. Welty. The Vidette was the first paper published in the county, and the only Republican paper ever published in Valparaiso. The band benefit in Bender’s opera house on Friday evening of last week was fairly well attended. The program, rendered by the Love brothers, of Indianapolis, consisted of singing, dancing and character sketches. They will give a farewell benefit Saturday evening, furnishing an entire change .of program. Admission, 10 and 15 cents.

^^^^neof T.ePoy’s livery teams, which —Koy Thompson, got a little frisky near the grist-mill last Thursday and began running up Avenue Fat a tearing pace. The two occupants of the buggy, Thompson and young Pratt, jumped out, and the horses then having it all their own way kept up a lively run until they reached the old creamery site where they were stopped by Charlie Garrett. The team kept the street and no damage was done. Elsewhere in this issue “A Farmer”

replies to the circular letter on the credit system published in the Independent last week. While “Farmer” is to be commended for his valor and loyalty in rising to the defense of his fellow-craftsmen, yet he evidently considers the matter from a too prejudiced standpoint. The author of the circular letter, we take it, had reference to all consumers, as well as to farmers, but simply cited the latter, who form a large Class of the consumers, to illustrate his points on the subject of credit.

The bogus telegram swindlers have been catching fish near Warsaw. The Crescent Literary Society will hold their annual meeting Jan. 19Everybody invited. About $20,000 more of claims for attorneys’ fees in the Pettit case are now being sued for against Tippecanoe county. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Teeples, of Peru, was brought to this place last Wednesday for burial. A man who stands in the way of progress is not only an enemy to himself but an injurious member of society. Luke McCumsey drew the second prize of a caddy of tobacco last week at J. Emily’s. It was drawn with “Something Good” tobacco. Knox citizens would like to havTHHl*

town council -pt.sg«wH"OHl'in.luce—imposing a tax ynou all pool tables, card tables and dice boxes. Services at the Presbyterian church both morning and evening. Sunday school 12 o’clock. Subject next Sunday evening, “Th^ Queen.” When you want sale bills remember that the Independent office 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.

If any of our subscribers desire the finest collection of World’s Fair views issued we advise them to write to The South Bend Tribune at once. The Tribune will send out over 200 views to subscribers for a few cents. Better subsbribe now. The Walkerton cornet band is getting a good many compliments on its playing. If the boys keep up their practice as dilligently in the future as they have during the past few months they are going to come out way on top of the heap. D. W. Place recently received a personal letter from a leading representative of the flint glass association of the United States stating that manufacturers in that line were preparing to resume operations and were in no sense alarmed as to tariff legislation. Bills are out announcing a sparring match bet ween V. W. Hardenbrnok and B. E. Cook at the Pastime Club rooms in this place Tuesday evening, Jan. 16. There will be eight rounds with six ounce gloves. Both are good । boxers and will give an interesting, scientific exhibition. All admission of ; 25 cents will be charged.

A letter has just been returned to (he Laporte poktoffice from the dead letter office that was sent from Laporte by N. Weber fourteen years ago. It contained a sum of money sent to parties in New York. It has been lying in the dead letter office at Washington, and the explanation is that it was found in the desk of a clerk who had recently been removed. The Lake Erie & Western railroad company has brought suit in the United States court at Indianapolis against Edward Hawkins, formerly of LaPorte county, as receiver for the suspended Indianapolis bank, for $19,095.53. It is averred in the complaint that this amount was received by the bank when the same was helplessly insolvent and that the railroad company is entitled to receive the entire amount specified. When the robbery of the Lake Shore train at Kessler’s Siding occurred, and all the obtainable facts were ascertained, The New Era expressed the opinion that local talent did not

rob the train, and that this would be made clear if the guilty parties were ever apprehended. But the detectives seem to have been satisfied that it was the work of local talent, and upon the I arrest of John Connors and Miss Flint felt that the right persons were in the clutches of the law. But there seems to have been no case against them, as . when the case was called at the beginning of this term of court, the case was dismissed and the prisoners set at liberty. WOMANKIND

Has won its fame because it deals with what really interests the women of America. It leaves the discussion of the great questions of religion and polities to other papers, and fills its pages with practical articles regarding home life, how to live delightful yet economically. Its fashion department is complete—the work of experienced editors—and profusely illustdated, but it deals with fashions suitable to the homes of wom- ' en of artistic tastes and modest in- , comes. Its stories are bright and inspiring. It is full of hints for the self supporting woman, and aids those who seek to add to their incomes by brain or hand.

When you go to LaPorte call at Lay’s European hotel and restaurant, Meals, 25 cents. ' " T Slow but Sure | Forty years ago ex Postmaster of Kingsbury, loaned ft man S4O. man afterwards left for the west wdh-| out paying the loan. Last Monday! he returned and hunted Shaw up and! paid him the amount with interest. | The supreme court recently madel this ruling: “If a township trustee 1 files a claim for services before a board of commissioners and it is a j proper one it should be allowed. An | alternative writ issued to compel the performance of this duty will be treated I as a complaint to which the board may] demur or answer. Trial will follow as in other cases and so the merits of the | case may be determined.” The subscription list of the Xnde- • pendent is having a healthy K row ^|

hundreds of homes in St. Joseph, LaPorte, Marshall and Starke counties within a radius of ten miles of Walkerton. Our merchants who wish to help their trade and at the same time extend the trade boundaries of Walkerton, will please take notice that the Independent can be of great assistance to them in accomplishing these much desired results. WHY NOT ’ Advertise in the Independent and help your trade, your home newspaper and the town in general. You get many behefits from a newspaper for which yon should show your appreciatiqn by patronizing it. Every dollar judiciously invested in printer's ink will bring you substantial returns. Our rates are reasonable, in fact no more than those of many amateur concerns of small circulation. Come in and secure space in the Independent for the year 1894. An Elkhart man in making some excavations unearthed a skeleton of an Indian, and a copper kettle. Besides the kettle, says the Truth of that city, “there were a pair of shears, small red stone pipe, soup spoon and hunting knife. The bottom and bale of the kettle had succumbed to the ravages of rust. The size of the Indian in life may be imagined from the length of the thigh bone, which measures 19 inches. The skull is in a goodTFate Of’ preservation aud all the teeth were in place. The body had bees bm^L with the bead south and inw onnot less than ten feet beneath the surface. The river had washed the bank away and but about two feet of gravel yet remained above the bones. A couple of small Indian mounds are not a great ways off,” Old Relics. P. Q. Nichols, of this place, has two very old relies, one being a picture and the other a German prayer book. The picture represents Christ raising Lazarus from the grave. It is printed in colors, and bears the imprint of Jwhn Fairburn, publisher, London July 14, 1798. The frame, glass and all are the same as when the picture was brought to Uris country from England nearly one hundred years ago. The prayer book is in the German language and was brought to America from Germany by one of Mrs. Nichols’ ancestors. The book bears no date, but it is probably not less than 250 years old. The leaves are yellow with age but the print is still quite legible. It is bound in cloth in very primitive style, show r ing that the book binder’s art had not in those days reached any considerable degree of perfection. Both relies are great curiosities and of much value as mementoes of olden times. z Mrs. T. S. Hawkins, Chattanooga, Tenn., says: “8hiloh& Vitalizer ‘SAVED MY LIFE.’ I consider it,the best remedy for debilitated system I ever used.” For dyspgpsia, liver or kidney Uouble it excels. Price 75cts. For sale by Bellinger & Williams. Office room for rent. Front room, bay window. J. Endly. Call on Cripe for a neat hair cut. SHILOH’S CURE is sold on a guaranteee. It cures Incipient Consumption. It is the best Cough Cure. Only one cent a dose. 25 cfs, 50 cts., and SI.OO. For sale by Bellinger & Williams.

Awarded Highest Honoil , t the World’s Fair. D R PRiCE’S O^lß^king Ihe only 1 ure Cream of Tartar Pol ler.—No Ammonia; No Alum. Used iii Millions of Homes J4O Years the Standard.

Personal Points. : s ^ill Smith, of South Bend, is visiting with friends in this place. Ed Vincent was doing business in [South Bend last Wednesday. | Miss Maud Rensberger is visiting [friends and relatives in Latta, Ohio. I Mr. Gage, of Nebraska, is here visity ing his sister, Mrs. Seth Martin. I Baz Peddyeord, of Walkerton, was flin town, Friday.-Nappanee Advance. I Mrs. Jake Nell and two children, of I Garrett, are visiting friends in this I place. I Mrs. Ida Bonner, of Goshen, was I Visiting with relatives in this place last I Week. ... I Miss Zella Grosbans, of South CldcaLro has been visiting here with her sisSer, Mrs. Chas. Farver. I Frank Stookbarger, of Mishawaka, # isited several days here with his broth-

> Miss Addie Poffenberger, sank t prawfordsville, spent Christmas in Mentone.—Mentone Gazette. i Walter Mattox, who has been a fre{ueut visitor to this place, left for bis home in Ohio this week. Walter Kegg, of Ligonier, formerly an employe in O. F. Townsend's barber shop, was in town a couple days this week. Mrs. Samuel Miller has returned to her home in Walkerton after a two months visit with her daughter, Mrs. Jake Nell, of Garrett. E. G. Lancaster was in South Bend the fore part of the week to consult a specialist in regard to his deafness. The doctor could give Lim no encouragement . Dr. C. C. Bondurant, veterinary surgeon, of Bremen, made a professional visit to this place lost Saturday. He expects to visit this place every two weeks to treat diseases of the horse. George Paul and family have returned again from South Bend where he has been in the restaurant business, wRI begin again where he left off in the real estate business. He will office with L. M. Lauer.—Plymouth Republican . Jake Bkrnhart, of Walkerton, a mail clerk on the B & Omade our office a pleasant call while iu Bremen a few hdurs Tuesday. Jake has been in the for the past few years and w* are glad to know fie fa getting to B ® rv *L*e. —Bremen k.R Lei bole, who was called to Akron, on account of the sickness of bis parents, returned home last Saturday morning. He left his folks better and still improving. Mr. Leibole reports a great depression in business at .4krou, which is quite a manufacturing center . He would like to have gone through some of the big manufacturiHg establishments there, but he was disappointed iu this, as the most us them were closed. — >•> May have been Buried Alive. The following case is reported from North Judson, Starke county, under date of Jan. 10: “Mrs. John Emmons, of North Judson, was taken suddenly sick and apparently died a week ago. The doctors pronounced it a case of brain fever, while others thought it a possible case of suicide. Her husband desired to keep the body for a few days to make sure of death. It seems that her mother went into a trance for four days, rallied and lived five years; also that her grandfater on her mothers side after having been pronounced dod for six days awoke and lived for 23 years. Mrs. Emmons’ body was k|pt until last Saturday, when on derdand of the physician and numerous residents, it was interred. During the time between Monday and Saturday toe body did not become rigid, and w the nose was weighted down and i*' o the weight removed it immediateJftfiKed its natural shape. The looked as life-like at the time of burial as it did on the day of death, alUji the physician applied the differhP death tests and pronounced her i»L Mortification did not set in, and was laid to rest without waiting ' that, the surest of all tests, to take ®sce. Many are of the opinion that w woman has been buried alive.” ■ S ■tecipe the barber; in express office V hj. Satisfactory work guaranteed.

LINEN & SUSLIN CASH SALE! At the BUSY, BUZZING BEE HIVE, For the next Ten Days we shall make Special Prices on TABLE v LINENS, v NAPKINS, Towels and Toweling. Bleached Muslin^ grown /Acislins. Alan Winter Up^erwear. Blankets CAPES JACKETS will be a great investment for the buyer at the Busy, Buzzing Bee-Hive. Julius Barnes <fc Co. MICHIGAN AVE., LAPORTE. STOVES! •WaJSW THE GARLAND, the Best 1 1 IN THE world. The above trade mark upon a stove or range is an absolute guarantee of its being the very beat article of the kind that can possibly be made for the price asked. THE MONITOR PARLOR wood base heater has no superior. A full line of the above stoves, together with other makes, for sale by ROSS, JARRELL & CO. PRY GOODS, GROCERIES f hOQTS SHOES, — NOTIONS, and wall PARER at HUDELMYER & HENRY’S. 5 Goods Always as Represented and Prices that will Suit You. hbb h h Highest Market Prices Paid for Country Produce. Trade with us and we will guarantee to give you satisfaction. Hudehnger & Hctit tp HOTEL FRY 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 ibis one of the best hotels in northern Indiana. Large and well ventilated (Looms, (Best Location in the City !»• FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS, -©a TRY US AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN W. F. FRY, Prepnutur — < w. i nmici AS TFM 53 SH<>E SENTLEMuH. "W WiSatW 85, 84 and 83.50 Dress Shoo. MA. 2 vSk, 83.50 Police Shoe, 3 Soles. ®2.50, 82 for Workingmen. 62 and 81.75 for Boys. LADIES AND MISSES, ® 3 , 82.50 S 2, $1.75 ~ CAUTION.—If any dealer 0 offers yon W. 1.. Douglas THE shoeß “*• reduced price, VKilnS 14 Inr jJLI, I-r * he h,s tUem W W. L. DOUGLAS Shoes are stylish, easy fitting, and give better eatisfactJon at the prices advertised than any other make. Try one pair and be convinced. The stamping of AV. L. Douglas’ name and price on the bottom, which guarantees their value, saves thousands of dollars annually to those who wear them. Dealers who push the sale of W. L Douglas Shoes gain customers, which helps to increase the sales on their fuh line of goods. They can afford to sell at a less profit and we believe you can save money by having all your footwear of the dealer advert Meed below. Catalogue free upon application. W. X.. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass, KOONTZ, SWANK &CO