St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 March 1894 — Page 5

Walkerton Jlarket. Corrected Weekly by Chas. M. Stephens. Eggs 16 Butter 16 Lard 7 Green Hides 3 Potatoes 60 to 65 Corn, new ... .42 Clover Seed $6.00 Wheat, 48 Oats 27 Beans $1.50 Rye 40 LOCAL NEWS.

T. J. Wolfe's ad this week announces a special sale of sixty days; be sure and sea * it. For Sale.—A new milch cow with a good calf. Both for $26. Thomas Faulknor. The Misses Millard received a new invoice of spring goods this week. Call at the Independent office and get a free sample copy of “Womankind.” When yon go to LaPorte call at Lay’s European hotel and restaurant, Meals, 25 cents. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Brown entertained about forty members of (he G. A. R. Post and Relief Corps at their home on Monday evening. On last Tuesday evening about fifty of Mrs. Jennie Cripe’s friends and neighbors met at her pleasant home and all partook of oysters and cake, enjoying a very pleasant evening. Gentlemen's business or professional cards neatly printed on fine stock at 75 cents for 50, or 50 cents for 25, at this oflice. Sizes and styles to suit your taste. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hileman died on Monday evening. The funeral services were held at the residence on Wednesday at 2 o’clock p. m. Rev. Hilderbrand officiated. Make your plans for “The Review of the Nations,” to be given with interesting tableaux, under the auspices of the Epworth League and Christian Endeavor Society, for the benefit of Walkerton’s poor. It is reported that W. H. Gould, of near this place, has brought suit against the L. E. & W. railroad for $570 damages alleged to have resulted from the burning of bis hay meadow by sparks from a locomotive. A. “hard times party” was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Townsend on Monday evening. The guests were all attired in the oldest and shabbiest clothes they could find and some of them presented a very ridiculous appearance, causing a great deal of amusement. Miss Ida Beach and Vern Hardenbrook were voted premiums as being the most fantastically dressed of the whole company. The time was passed in card playing and other amusements, refreshments also being served during the evening. The occasion was a very pleasant one, all being nicely entertained. Thursday being Mrs. Sam Hudelmyer’s birthday, her nearest neighbors took a notion to take their work and just drop in, in an informal way for a neighborly chat of an hour or two in the afternoon. They came strolling in, one or two at a time, and the large sitting room was pretty well filled before Mrs. Hudlemyer began to realize that it wasn’t just a happen so. She was further surprised when her children, who were in the secret, brought in hot coffee served with whipped cream and delicious cake and dainty confections which they had prepared at their homes. The guests were further entertained with instrumental music from Ina Hudelmyer and others and a song from little Edith, making it altogether a most enjoyable afternoon. If you are in need of a harness and want to get the same at hard times prices, just bring your money with you, and go to Emil Johnson’s, 915 Main St., LaPorte, Ind., and find out what he can do for you, as I am still leading the harness business, with the largest and most complete stock of harness, saddles, blankets, robes, whips, fly-nets and turf goods in northern Indiana, and as I can guarantee that every one of my harness are hand-made and from the very best of oak tanned leather I can safely recommend them as a leader in that line, to which also the hundreds of people, who for the last ten years, have used my harness can testify. To the ones that I have not been able to reach with my harness, I kindly invite to come and see for yourselves, and I fell sure that my prices and goods will secure your future trade. Approved notes will also be accepted. Remember the place, 915 Main St., LaPorte, Ind.

Dr. H. S. Dowell extracts teeth without pain or sleep. j Warm meals and oyster stews served i at all hours at the Star bakery. Miss O. Millard will go to Fort Wayne next week to buy new goods. Any one wishing good dry hickory wood for cook stove call at this oflice. If you have an item of interest drop it into the Independent’s box at the postoffice. Sign your name. Remember that Dr. H. S. Dowel

extracts teeth by the use of vitalized air as well as by other processes. Go to J. Eitdly's and get a 25 cent bottle of the best cough syrup for 15 cents. All Sons of Veterans are requested to meet at G. A. R. hall, Friday evening, March 9. By Order of Committee. Leave your subscriptions for all newspapers and magazines at the Independent office. We will save you trouble and expense of sending. About $5,000 in pension checks is paid to old soldiers in this locality every three months. Twenty thousand dollars a year cuts quite a figure in the money circulation of a town like Walkerton. The editor of an exchange says: Salvation is offered to everybody but a miserable, lying gossip. They come from the devil; they belong to the devil; they work for the devil and they will go to the devil. The B. &O. R. R. Co. wishes to give notice that any person taking coal from their premises will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The practice of taking coal from the B. & O. yards will not be tolerated. The Nappanee News has the following: Victor Trook, of Chicago, writes the editor of the News as follows: As attorney for Rev. G. S. V. Howard, I wish to state that the newspaper reports relating to the charges against Rev. G. S. V. Howard, of this place, should be taken with some qualification. The charges are not supported by facts and can not stand against him. Rev. Howard will prove his innocence when the proper time comes. Mrs. Hannah Ennis, late of Republic, O-, arrived here last Tuesday morning to visit several days with her son, Charles Sheatsley. Mrs. Ennis called at this office on Wednesday and informed the writer that the recent eeports about her choking an old lady at Tiffin and embezzling household goods were false and had been started for spite work. She states that developments will prove her guiltless of the charges. According to an article in the South Bend Tribune, the first visit of LaSalle, the French explorer, to the soil of Indiana was in 1679, when he made his voyage of exploration up the St. Joseph river and his expedition across the country to the head waters of the Kankakee. Francis Parkman, the historian, who died recently, visited South Bend in 1818 in search of material for the life of LaSalle. The log chapel which LaSalle built at St. Joseph was removed only a few years ago, being in the way on the march of improvement and had to give way as so many other historical relics have done. The old portage from the StJoseph river to the headwaters of the Kankakee which was followed by LaSalle on his first exploring tour to the West w’as an Indian thoroughfare and cut a large figure in the first explorations of the country by the whites. It is not generally known what a vast plant it requires to publish and circulate a metropolitan newspaper. The Chicago Inter Ocean has in its Circulating Department alone nearly one hundred men and women, not to mention the carriers who deliver the paper to all parts of the city before ’ breakfast every morning. It may be mentioned that no kind of weather, however severe, is permitted to interfere with this delivery in any way. Os thislarge force, about one-half of them work through the day at ordinary of- . fice or clerical work and the other half begin late at night and work until about daylight, preparing and addressing the wrappers, counting and mailing the papers, “routing” and mailing the bundles. Their work is of the most difficult nature and is done in the quickest possible manner, and yet so well is it done that it seldom happens that a single bundle or paper of its immense edition of nearly 100,000 reaches its destination on other than the right train and at the right time, unless delayed by accident. The system is wonderful and its operation almost . perfect. ,

The Indianapolis News says thit naturally there are few better streams । in the world than those of Ind^na for fish. With the artificial care bestowed upon them they should teem with this • wholesome food. But so long as they are at the mercy of scoundrels, who, with nets and explosives destroy hundreds of fish where they need dozens, they will never be able to play the part they ought to play in the economy of life. It is a large question. Here is a food supply most important and properly cared for would be vast in extent. The supply would be obtainable in sufficient quantity by the lawful use of the line, and at the same time afford a wholesome sport ano recreation. The rascals who persist in seining and dynamiting should ba made to feel the weight of the law. GROVERTOWN. r Lucas & Young did some very fin* paper hanging for Dr. Abner. Uncle Henry Snyder, living soutlu^ east of town, has been seriously ill b™ at present is convalescent. The little son of Manuel Boyer, living northeast of town, has been dangerously ill for some time with throat trouble but is now improving. Harry Bowers formerly operator at this place, but late of Valparaiso, visited friends in this place this week. He is a very pleasant fellow and has many friends here. The Ladies’ Aid society of this place met last Wednesday at the residence of Mrs. Sam Koontz, Jr., and report a very pleasant and successful day. A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marsh died on Thursday of last week of membraneous croup, aged about one year. The Rev. C. Whitney, of Otterbein University, Westville, Ohio, was here the forepart of the week to assist Rev. Kegg in his revival here. Rev. Whit- . ney is a gentleman of high attainments and an excellent speaker. God’s people in this place and vicinity now have a home and a place in which to worship of which they may be justly proud. The morning of dedication day dawned bright and beautiful and long before the appointed time the new edifice was filled to overflowing. A few minutes after the appointed time Bishop Castle opened the service and for an hour the congregation was held with rapt attention by a j most excellent sermon at the close j which he made an appeal to the peo-i pie for money with which to cancel i the debt of twelve hundred and fifteen dollars, of which five hundred and some odd dollars were raised. Owing to the failure in raising the full amount the dedication exercises were postponed till evening. Bishop Castle again presided at the evening service and his sermon was paramount to the { morning sermon but his appeal for money was not responded to very heartily, only some forty-seven dollars being raised leaving a debt of six hundred and seventy-live dollars still on the church which was assumed by Brother A. J. Uncapher, after which the house was solemnly dedicated to God. Chase. LOW RATE EXCURSIONS TO THE SOUTH Via the Baltimore A Ohio R R. On February Btb, March Bth and April 9th, the B. & O. R. R. will sell Excursion Tickets to points in Kentucky Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, also to points in Virginia and West Virginia on the Harper’s Ferry । and Valley Branch at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be limited for return passage twenty days from the date of sale. For further information call on or address any B. & O. Ticket Agent, or M. V. Richards, Land and Immigration Agent, Baltimore, Md.. orL. 8. Allen, Ass’t Gen’l Pass’r Agent, Chicago, HL (bo you know why Mercer \ & Neal, the leading grain dealers, are always at the front? (Because they share j the profits with their custom- ■ ers, selling the best flour at 1 $1.60 per hundred- corn at 42 cents pel bushel, and other feed in proportion. J

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Personal Points. Michael Hoover went to Walkerton, Tuesday evening.—Nappanee Advance. Mrs. Flora Fahnestock, of Fort Wayne, is visiting with her sister, Mrs, J. Endly. John Young, of Peru, has been visitbig with relatives here for the past week. The Misses Rose Millard, Julia and Myrtle Platts visited in South Bend over Sunday. Mrs. Tillie Forsyth went to LaPaz on Wednesday to visit several days with relatives. Miss Franc Peddycord went to Walkerton Saturday to visit relatives over Sunday.—Nappanee News. Henry Muldoon, an old time harness 1 maker, is now in F. M. Lee’s harness ! shop, hard at work.—North Liberty I Herald. Miss Gladys Hess and Eddie Brown, □mWil Btuau, of Garrett, have [been visiting with H. H. Brown and Lfamily the past week. Dan Fitzgerald went to Chicago the fore part of this week to take charge of a telegraph office as day operatar. He is located at 91st street. The B. & O. local division was taken away from this place last Wednesday. The local freights now run through from South Chicago to Garrett. Miss Emma Rodgers, of Chicago Junction, Ohio, has been visiting the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Clint Lewis. She returned home Wednesday evening. Bros. Hoover, of Nappanee, Fisher, of Bremen, and Loewer, of Columbus, Ohio, attended the meeting of the K. of P. lodge in this place last Tuesday evening and witnessed work in the second rank. Mr. Elingson, one of the directors of the curled grass factory to be established at Hamlet, in company with Miss Myrtle Moore, also of Hamlet, were callers at G. W. Brown’s last Sunday, the 25th inst. Cal Sinninger, city editor of the St. Joseph, Mich., Evening Press, was in the city hist evening and this morning. The Press is waging a war to have the county seat of Berrien county removed to St. Joe, and Mr. Sinninger came jlown to have some statistics on the subject set up in German type at the ■leunonlte office. He returned at Loan. -Elkhart Truth. The Band Concert. 1 The concert, Wednesday evening, by the Walkerton cornet band in Bender’s hall was well attended and proved a decided success both from a musical and financial, as well as a social, point of view. The band under the guidance of its able leader, W. E. Snyder, is bej coming an organization of which Walkerton may well be proud. A good baud is something which is not only a credit to the town as a whole but a pleasure to each individual citizen, and if the Walkerton cornet band couI tinues the progress it has evinced during the past few months and our citizens give the boys the support they deserve, we will have the proud satisfaction of possessing a band that will compare favorably with those of much older and prouder cities. To speak separately of the numbers of the program would be superfluous; suffice it to say, that they’ were each and all choice and well rendered. After the regular program, the audience betook themselves to the tables in the back of the hall where they were treated to a line oyster supper, and as they regaled themselves they were further edified by selections from the band boys who were determined that all ^hould get their money’s worth. The following is the program as rendered: larenade, “Evening Shadows,” Band 'Sattz, ‘•fifth Avenue,” .—Band -&artette, “A Warrior’s Grave,” J; Messrs. McDuffy, Schafer, Wllder- ■ son and Peddycord. cornet Solo. “Blue Bells of Scotland,” W. E. Snyder. Duet, “Creep, Baby Creep,” O F. Townsend and Edna Nicoles. Polka, “El Madi,” Band Solo, “A Dying Mother’s Request,” F. Wilderson Tuba Solo, “Basso Profundo,” Wm. Snyder Song, “Merrily goes our Bark,” Misses Wolfe, Platts, Nicoles Gallagher and Messrs. McDuffy and Barnhart. Fun for the Basses..— Band Solo, “Old Sexton,” Sid Ewing Serenade, “Soldier's Dream'’ Band

LINEN & MUSLIN CASH SALE! At the BUSY, BUZZING BEE-HIVE, For the next Ten Days we shall make Special Prices on TABLE v LINENS, t NAPKINS, Towels and Toweling. Bleached AAcisline, /Auslins. Also Winter Underwear, Blankets to Closer CLOAKS, CAPES JACKETS will be a great investment for the buyer at the Busy, Buzzing Bee-Hive. Julius Barnes <fc Co. MICHIGAN AVE., LAPORTE, STOVES! ’ Ij W —3- * * * THE GARLAND. th® ® es t IN THE WORLD< The above trade mark upon a stove or range is an absolute guarantee of its being the very best 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 coons, GROCERIES, ROO TS, STIPES, NOTIONS, “ and wall paper AT HUDELMYER & HENRY’S. 33 9 1 Goods Always as Represented and Prices that trill Suit You. Bahaa Highest Market Prices Paid for Country Produce, Trade with us and we will guarantee to give you satisfaction. Hu Jes fit i|cr & Heiiry> I™HOTEL^RY 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 (Booms, (Best Location in the City *a-FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS. TRY US AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN W. F. FRY, Proprietor W. L. DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE SENTLEMEIi. f $5, $4 and $3.50 Dress Shoo. 1 53.50 Police Shoe, 3 Soles. V \w|L 52.50, $2 for WorkingmenJ' 1 v/lk S 2 and 81.75 for Boys. /r -V- > LAD,ES AND MISSES, S 3, $2.50 $2, $1.75 " ’’ CAUTION.—If any dealei t-, offers you W. X,. Douglas TUT' shoes at a reduced price. in IJ 13 IHh HpOr A orsays he has them withon the bottom, put him IV down as a Iran'S W..L. DOUGLAS Shoes are stylish, easy fitting, and give better satisfaction 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 cn their full line of goods. They can afford to sell at a less profit, and we believe you can save money by buying ail your footwear of the dealer advep. Used helow. Catalogue £reo upon application. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass, SAMUEL KOONTZ, JR-