St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 July 1894 — Page 5

A-- ---— -- Walkerton Market. Corrected Weekly by Chas. M, Stephens. Cggs. 11 Butter 13 Lard 7 Green Hides 3 Potatoes, new 45 to 55 Corn, new 45 □ lover Seed $5.00 Wheat, 46 Oats 30 Beftns $1.50 Rye 40 Onions, new 60 to 65

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 & 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 agricultural country. The best town for its size In northern Indiana. Au excellent location for factories and men of capital.

LOCALNEWS. Oill at S. I). Martin’s for Key West Clippings smoking tobacco. There is now a cheap rate war to Europe, you will please take notice. Foreigners to the number of 137 were naturalized in LaPorte county last year. ISfrs, Charles Pool, who has been in quite poor health for the past year, is improving. The prohibitionists of this district meet in convention at Plymouth August 1 to nominate a candidate for congress. Any one wanting a bargain in a new canopy top buggy of the Studebaker make should call at the IndeFENDENT Othce. Henry Goodman, formerly publisher of the LaPorte Journal, is now publisl ' _ - paper in Chicago called the Chicago Puck. Jake Mason fell from a hay press on Tom Wolfe’s farm last Thursday and sprained his back quite severely, though not seriously. Counterfeit S2O bills on the National bank at Barre, Vermont, are in circulation. But this news will frighten no one very badly at present. Au. Elkhart fool nicked up a re volver, nsked a companion ii no wanted to be shot, blazed away, and

just missed his intended victim. Didn’t know 'twas loaded. The box factory of Coppes Bros. \ Zook, at Nappanee, was partially de Btroyed by Ore Wednesday night cans Inga loss of $3,000, partly covered by insurance. The lire started ti tn an electric light. Will Brooks and L. B. Williams, conductors on the B. & 0., were here from Garrett last Saturday to look after the details of comfort of their Brother McFarren who lost his leg at this station by falling under his own train.—Nappanee News. It is reported that the discovery of mastodon bones in the ditch through J. N. Hupei's farm, near North Liber ty, St. Joseph county, continues. One tusk taken out was Sj feet long and 22| inches in circumference at the largest point. The two tusks are differently shaped. The bones are found from a depth of three and a half feet to fiffeen feet, indicating that the great monster had mired there and had died in the mire. Grant Tank, who was selling goods at Hamlet Thursday, reports the burning of the Hamlet Hay Co.’s barn and contents that morning, the fire start-

iug from a hot-box in the machinery between 9 and 10 o’clock. Th>> large barn being built of pine burned in about half an hour. Three hundred tons of timothy hay and the boiler, engine and other machinery, which bad just been put in new, were destroyed. The barn and contents were covered with some insurance. “There is a set of men now' canvassing the country,” says the Bremen Enquirer, “offering to sell dry goods, such as calicoes, muslins and other cotton and woolen goods at fabulously low prices. They will show a pile of goods and offer sls, S2O or $25 worth for the extraordinary low price of 16, $7 or SB. They do nut want the cash nor will they sell for money. They will get you to sign a note payable in sixty or ninety days. You will naturally think that you are getting a great bargain and perhaps you will buy and give your note. In a few weeks you will receive a notice from some of the banks telling you they have your note for S6O, 70 or $80.” Moral: Trade at home, where you know the honesty and responsibility of the dealers.

Dr. Arlington has something new and effective in the treatment of catarrh. The good crops and the Three I all combined ought to make good times here this fall. Ot Townsend’s bird dog pup has been missing for a few days. A reward of three hundred dollars will be given for his return. Please remember that job printing

is cash at this otlice. We depend upon that department of our business to meet current expenses. i The section men are laying new track on the L. E. & W. through town to the depot. The track from Cole’s woods to town has all been put down recently. John Wesley Morris died at his home in Teegarden July 8. The funeral services took place at the Center

church, Rev. Strang officiating. The deceased was 21 years, 7 months and 26 days old. . A tax of one half of one per cent, Is to be voted on for the extension of the Electric railway south from Goshen to the B. &U. railroad. There is a strong sentiment along the proposed extension in favor of the tax, as they regard the improvement well worth the tax levy. '1 he Starke county Democrat says that the part of the tools for which the 3-1 contractors have waited so long arrived at Knox Tuesday and they began work at once. Their contract is for about five miles of grade. Gradingbegan near South Bend Monday. I nder the terms of the contract trains are to be running into South Bend by Jan Ist., 1895. An exchange gives the following recipe to kill cabbage worms. To each pail of water add one pint of common salt and two ounces of saltpeter. Dis solve thoroughly and apply the mixture to the cabbage heads thoroughly. The best time to sprinkle is when the sun Is hottest. If directions are followed it will kill every worm, audit is entire iy harmless to the human family. A number of Swedish workmen on the Three I grade got drunk Thum day afternoon and evening and aeveral lights took place among them. One -nw „ ..-.-J-.., . .viy cut onr>>, head with a billiard cue in a saloon row iI ~ li f1 r I fit i j. v ta t>l , v i. , 9 ■ 1.. , ..

lie nau io go to a physician to haw the wound sewed up. Al»out P’ o’clock two strapping big fellow« jumped onto one man near the L. E 4 W. raih’ad and were snvagelv pounding him when the fellow's nil", attracb-d the altenti n • f p-.q Ie ne o by and the row then c» ised, the two assailants taking to their hevD During the afternoon and evening six drunks were put in the cooler. The following is a sure receipt for killing a town; “Always growl, resist taxation, kick against improvements, exercise the virtue of enviousness, don't patronize your home papeis, talk against your neighbors and bus', ness rival, stay away from church and society, and criticise those who ansocial and enterprising, buy all your goods out oi town and let your mer- ' chants live the best they can; send your children “off" to school and let the schools us your town take care of themselves. The above receipt is 1 warranted to have the desired effect. ' even if given in broken doses.” I D. W. Place received the sad intelligence by’ telegram Wednesday ’ evening that his father, who resides near Logansport, had died suddenly. 1 In the morning of the same day Mr. Place had received a letter from his

father, written the fore part of the | , week, stating that he was well and | hearty. The news came so sudden • and unexpected that Mr. Place was ' almost prostrated by the shock. He ' left for South Bend that night and from there left for the home of his ■ late lamented father on the following [ morning. The republican senatorial conven- ■ tion to select a candidate for joint senator from Starke and St. Joseph counties I will be held in Walkerton Wednesday, | Aug. 1. There will probably be quite a strife for the nomination. Walkerton, it would seem, is in a position to furnish the logical candidate for the place. As this part of the county is located close to the Starke county line it has geographical advantages which the republicans who assemble here August ; 1 can not afford to overlook. It should 1 be remembered also that we can furi nish the timber to meet the indications in this case with ability and credit. ’ The republicans of St. Joseph county ’ should also bear in mind that this part i of the county has claims to recogni- ' tion in the present instance which are not to be overlooked.

I AV ork on the Three I grade is now progressing near Knox and Hamlet, also two miles south and a mile north of Walkerton. Gangs are also grading three or four miles south and about six miles north of North Liberty. Mr. Mclntosh, the main contrctor, informs the Independent that in about two weeks, after right of way matters are a little more settled, that work will begin to be in full blast all along the line with about 1,500

men at work. Chief Engineer Woodruff says that they expect to commence laying steel about September “It is of almost daily occurrence in our business,’ said a Lake Shore engineer to the Elkhart Review, “to see a man on the track not far ahead, look around when the whistle is blown and then leisurely walk on several steps before leaving the track. We pass

them almost immediately, and hl generally looks up with surprise at finding the train so close upon him. Many such thought lens pernoua are run down. A train moving at only 30 miles an hour covers a sixteenth of a mile in seven and a half seconds. A man in the middle of the track a sixteenth of a mile in front of a fast express, running, perhaps, 60 miles an hour, stands little more chance to escape than he would in attempting to dodge a cannon ball.” The Independent has at least a thousand dollars of delinquent subscriptions standing out. This amount is all in small dribs ranging from $1.50 to $5 and $6. These amounts seem small to each one owing them but In the aggregate they cut quite a figure tn the publisher of a country newspaper. W e are, in fact, carrying more delinquents than we can stand, and will be obliged to cut some names from our list and force collection# from delinquents who have allowed their subscriptions to run longer than is obsolutely necessary, unless they come in and settle or make some satisfactory arrangements with us toon. We like to accommodate our friend*, but there is a limit to our “means." We i can not |M>Mibly carry such a burden of drltuquenls as are now on our book* . Please come in and settle. Improvement* on Every Hand In apeaking of the imi»rvvem»4ite A ride tTitough Ilie counlrv just al I

tbi« limp of lb* yp*« m*k** otw r«»*b«* the fact th«t farming haa taken a big ■ Instead I to-sir.g tbe bay with * fork. ■ raking it up with a wooden dump rake, g ULering it up into cock* ami lb«>u y-iU'hmg it onto the wagog by । hand, the Lum< r m w^.L»yw run* over it with a tedder, hitebea the loader to bs# wagon and before you ran say Jack IT,luus m in Chinese, the 1- a I i* <>u. Changes arc to Ire seen iu many other things about the farm al»o. Not many rears ag > the c< ru ground was marked out’, with a ’marker' or single aboveL plow, the corn wan dropped by the hand, 'kivered' with hoe* aud then ‘tended with a double abovoL Now we have the mmb ru oom planter to put in the crop and cultivators to use in wsrkn g the ground, while the old double shovel is seldom seen. Wheat harvest is made more like play »l»o with selfbinders aud sheaf carrier*.” FARMERS, ATTENTION’ MercerA Neal,the leadinggrain and seed dealers, are still in the market. Buy and sell all kinds of grain and seed. The best flour on earth given in exchange for 1 wheat.

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Personal Pointe. Ed Koontz was in Chicago Thursday on business, , B ‘ P : . Y ^ wiok > of South Bend, b RB ative^ 181 ^ 1 ”^ 8 feW dajß here with rel ’ Mi BB Mary Fogarty, of South Chicaplace. VIBIBn ^ Ler ho “ e in la^^ J \ F ‘ Endley r « tnr »ed Lome

■ Cl™ y aftw a month ’ 8 vbit iu ■ V™' P “ tienCe Ra y, of Chicago, i 8 ‘ 1 » U K with relatives and friends in Walkerton. Mrs. Maud Richmond, of Winamac, is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Ewing, Tat L. Fitzgerald and D. M. Woodard were at Milford and Nappanee last X seaday and Wednesday. .Robert Bast and wife and brother

g ot South Bend, visited with t friends last Sunday. i. dgMiss Minnie Hagen returned to her " m|>ne in South Bend last Monday after a visit of two weeks in this place. ‘ Bert Applegate, of Hibbard’s print ing office, South Bend, spent Sunday with his parents in thia place. l Buck Mason, who has been work | ing for the past six mouths in a barber । shop at Ottumwa, l OW a, is at home on ’ a vitit. Mrs. Will Troyer, Mrs D. N. HrnLd i myer, Mra. Dan Brubaker and Mr*. ,Ed Koontz visile?! with friends in : : South Bend last Monday. J. P. Jouos, of Galien. Mich., spent 1 Sunday with relative* in this place. Hi* brother, Ran, who visited several ■ iks bi ro, returned home with him on Monday, | Brook 11. Bowman, of the Bremen Enquirer, and p. E. Dietrich of the mercantile firm of J, R. Dietrich & , (a, of Bremen, were in town a couple • hours lot Friday evening bet ween train* while enroute home from Plymouth. Prof. A. I. Jones and wife left on Thursday of l as t for F re ,i erick . town. Mo., where Im will take charge , of th* public schools for the coming year. The pmfewor is a well educated man and a good instructor. Ch ri* Holler, of Portage township, wm in thia place last Thursday. Mr. R'Jhr so president of the Mouth Beml Ho say* that several rfS Fwl v*rt inlor^Ungt Attraction* in

‘tree cnlortammenU will probably Ims introduced Ibi* year. Fiauk I’aul, of Chicago, arrived hcfc last Tn< *d»y on a visit of a few day* He ha* le«on employed ae a gripntau on the cable line f>r the past Iwo year*, but will quit that position to engage in olln-r and more congenial liuea of bnainewa He brought borne with him a surprise for Lis father in the shape I a valuable gold watch and chain which ho presented to the old gentleman. B. A, 0 Excursions On July 30th and 31st, tue Balti more & Ohio railroad will sell eicur■ioi tickets to St. Paul, Minn., at a rate of one fare for the round trip, on account ot the Catholic Total Absti uenee Union of America. Tickets will be good for return passage to and including Aug. 7th, 1894. On August 7th aud 14th the Baltimore & Ohio railroad will sell 30 day ! excursion tickets to points iu Virginia ou the Harpers Ferry & Valley branch, south of and including Winchester, at rate of one fate f.r the round trip. Excursion tickets will also be sold on | August 14th to points iu Michigan at ’ the same rate, good for return 20 days 1 from date of sale. .On August 7th the Baltimore & railroad will sell excursion I

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