St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 September 1894 — Page 1

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HAMLET. Grandma Brown is very low at this writing—Tuesday. Mrs. D. M. Barber, of Hanna, camo Monday evening to see her grandmother, whose death is expected any time. 1). P. Haley and wife have again agreed to disagree, and the latter has gone home to live with her mother. Dr. Arlington was in town Sunday. Joe Welsh has gone to see his mothev aud not expected to 'll VO. Doctor Moore made a business trip to Medaryville the. fore part of the week. Mrs. Dilla is here visiting her broth er, J. A. Bell and family. Rev. Bates was homo over Sunday and filled his appointment Sunday night and went to attend conference Monday. A free for all fight took place here at the bowery dance hist Saturday evening. The contending parties, seemed to be some of Mr. Sullivan’s Three I graders and a crowd of roughs from the vicinity of G rovertown and Donaldson, who came here with the avowed purpose of clearing the town. Clubbing, shooting and cutting seems to have been indulged in, as at least two have been shot. Charles Whitesell shot in the thigh and a Three 1

man shot in the abdomen. The bullet passing so nearly through tho body that Dr. Moore cut down and removed the bullet from the back and the doctor now reports the patient as doing well. Several of the Donaldson and Grovertown lads are reported badly hurt. How they are getting along we do not know, as various rumors are afloat. But of one thing we are certain, the whole thing was a disgraceful affair, the mob having sway most of the night. We think it high time our laws were being enforced. ^IROVEBTOWN. Airs, j? i eel . ill but at present is some better, Jim Catcher is wonderfully tickled over the arrival of a boy at liis house Sunday, the 26. All concerned doing nicely. The largest pickle day Grovertown ever knew was Monday, Aug. 20th. The last load was unloaded at precisely six o’clock Tuesday morning. The number of bushels taken in was esti mated at bet ween 2500 and 3000 bushels; this amount was handled with a force of only nine men. Mr. and Mrs, George Lindley, of Omaha, Neb., are here making their annual visit to the latter’s parents and many friends, and also Mr. Lindley’s parents at Knox. Chris Seider’s old hay press gave out entirely one day last week and he promptly replaced it with a new De trick press of improved make. H. F. Philips, of Chicago, has put in a butcher shop in his building south of the railroad. His meat is good enough what there is of it and enough of it such as it is. Wm. Mayer, general manager of the J. M. Clark Pickling Co., in company with Wm. Switzer, of Louisville, Ky.,

are here to assist iu the rush. Mr. Switzer is an experienced cooper. Also an experienced tank builder of Chicago is here to set up the fourteen large pickle tanks that were needed for hkth^rapidly failing copacity. The smallpox quarantine at the Awald farm, four miles north of town. Las been raised and now the family can I go where they please again. In a drunken row at a dance in Hara- 1 let last Saturday night u fellow by the ' name of Whitesell was badly shot, the ball entering just below the ribs and lodging near the groin; his chance for recovery is not considered the best; another fellow named Howell was seriously injured about the head with knife and knocks, another fellow, Henderson by name, is reported as having been shot in the stomach but this is not reliable. About a dozen shots were fired on both sides. It was evidently a bad fight and the results are not as bad as might have been. Bev. Kegg will preach his farewell sermon at this place bunday evening, Sept. 9th. Chase. HANNA. Our school will begin Sept. 10. Mrs. Barber went to Hamlet the first of the week to see her Grandma Brown who is not expected to live.

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John Wagner was arrested on last SaturUay eveninK blken u LaPorte for breaking into a car on the C. &- w. M. railroad. * Buck Stanley stopped off here a few hours Tuesday while on his way to I wion Mills to hold a series of lectures. D. M. Barber was in Valparaiso Tuesday on business. there were about 50 of the good people of Hanna drove to Wanatah Sunday evening to hear Stanley lecture on temperance. 1 here will lie a fishing picnic on Sept. 5 at the Kankakee river near tho Willvale bridge. Grand Chief Templar Wade, of Lafayette, will be with his flock of Good Templars on Sept. 8. Rev. Tinkham preached his farewell sermon here Sunday evening. The people would be well pleased to have Mr. Tinkham return another year. Last Wednesday evening a surprise party was given nt the homo of Miss Cora Barber in honor of her cousin, Bertha Davis, of Teegarden. There were about 30 present. After playing games they ate ice cream and cake and they left about midnight after all enj iving a pleasant time. O. F. S.

TYNER CITY. Mrs. Maggie Johnson is dangerously sick at present. Mrs Juha .Miller has been very sick i for I ho past week. The little girl of M,-. and Mis. Guy Collier is very sick at this writing. 1 here was another war the other evening in the east part of town. The constable hud to be called out to quiet the row. A. D. Johnson has bought tho eamlv store of r.. J Robinson. He and John McCorn«©k to aHemi the fairs, Richardson and mother were taking in the sights at Lake Maxeukuckce on Tuesday. Mr. Akens, the clarionet player, is in town. Garrett Jarrell made a business trip to last week. Osc»r Jarrell, an empl ve at tin' Logansport asylum, made Ins parents a visit over Sunday. Mrs. Mat Stoops, who has been lingering with consumption, died at her home on last. Sunday, three miles southeast of I’yner, ami was buried on Tuesday in the Plymouth cemetery. Mrs. W. B. Kyle has purchased a fine uew road wagon of the firm of Monroe Bros., and Mr. W. B. has purchased a buckboard for himself. X. Y. Z. biuru. LA PAZ. Dr. Al Moore has become a good wheelman. Schuyler McChesney is agent for bicyles for a Chicago company. Elmer, son of Henry Clayton, has been quite sick, with scarlet fever, but is better. Ella also had a touch of it. Charles Sheneman is now sick with it.

Rev. R. Z. Brown and wife who have been quite ill, are convalescent. 'The venerable Mike Eagan fell and broke one of his arms at the wrist last Saturday morning. Dr. Hamilton set the arm, and he is doing as well as can be expect ed for a man of his ago. 1 Leonard Logan took the 2:55 train for North Dakota yesterday to take a view of the country. ! Elder Hummer took sick at church last Sunday and had to be taken home. Dr. Hamilton was called who said he had slight symptoms of paralysis. He was on the street again yesterday. On Saturday, Sept. Bth, . will be his SGth birthday. He expects to preach a sermon on that day and is i anxious that his friends from the ; different localities where he has lived 1 and preached should come and hear J him and bring him some presents. * We look for a large crowd here next Saturday at the soldier’s reunion. A protracted meeting will begin at ’ the Gearhart school house, in Liberty township, next Saturday evening. The populists had a convention here last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Forrest, candidate for congress, made a speech. 1 Mr. Royce, republican candidate for 1 , congress, will speak here Friday evej ning, Sept. 7,

Mr. S. B. Moosy, a native Persian lectured in this place last Sunday ^‘i-enoon, ami at the U. B. baskel meeting tn whitinger’g grove in the afternoon, on Persia, its government, i eligion, manners and customs. mg lecture was highly entertaining. Rev. M. L. Peter and wife took the train for Columbus, 0., on Tuesday of last week. The Lutheran Synod would meet there. On last Sunday some malicious pm sons entered the truck patch of James Lakins on Will Sherland’s farm and destroyed all his melons and squashes ‘ and some corn. Vinkdresber. LOCAL It It I EES. Well, what about fire protection? II is reported that a populist daily paper will soon be started in South Bend. The saloon-keepers of this place have unanimously agreed to discard “schooners." For sale at a bargain, 40 acres of land situated in Polk township, Marshall county, Ind. Call on Silas George, assignee. A dance will be held in Miller’s

hall, North Liberty, Wmlnesdav evening, Sept. 5. Eqerybody cordially Invited Frank Ryder, manager. Those holding tickets for the furniture drawing nt S. D. Martin’s will please call with their tickets in time to have thmn counted "'aturdav evening, Sept, 8. " j A party was given by tho young ( people al the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Farrer, on Thursdav evening of last week, in honor of 1 Mrs. Farrer's brother, Otis Groshans, ’ men t s ’WWfww' nod n ptamnM evening | which weighs seventy tons, will be t shipped on the same car which carried the big Krnp cannon, and it will require five tiains of thirty ears each to Convey to 11s destination all of the * material of which the great wheel was ' composed. The West Pullman Reporter has this to say of a former Walkerton I boy: ‘'The M. L. church has purchased this week a philharmonic ’ organ of Estey A (’.imp, 233 State * street, through their salesman, Mr. J. ’ Milton Barnhart. This speaks well ‘ for Mr. Barnhart who is the voungest ■ 1 salesman for this celebrated music firm and has met in competition many older salesmen of other houses who ’ have been endeavoring for some time to make this sale.” ( The second production of Faust, by ! the Southers Price Co., Monday evening, had a very large attendance. 1 The play was most admirably rendered and the new scenery and stage effects much increased its effective- 1 ness. The Hades scene, in the last » It .1-— M 1 V . V ~

act, is especially “a corker. —Rensselaer Republican. At Bender's opera house, Friday evening, Aug. 31. The prohibitionists of St. Joseph county met in convention at South i Ihmd last Saturday and placed the 1 following ticket in the field: Hepre- r sentatives, P. C. Verkins, J. W. Shurts;| clerk, Frank F. Fields; auditor, D. W. Reynolds; treasurer, John J. Myler; recorder, A. B. Turner; sheriff, S. J. Knepp; surveyor, E. M. Hartman; coroner, Dr. Robert Moore; commissioners, east district, W. C. Kownover; west district, A. H. Price. A firm in Ohio—The Christy Knife ; Co., Fremont, are offering a nine . hundred dollar Steinway grand piano ■ to the person sending the largest amount of cash for their goods before ; December 31, 1894. A chance to get a Steinway grand piano is something t unusual. Our young people ought to , take advantage of it. Any number of families would be glad to help them > win the prize. The Christy Knife is a good thing and everybody wants it. . A letter addressed to the Christy r Knife Co., Fremont, Ohio, will bring . an answer immediately and full particulars.

F. M. Ake wishes to jog your memory again about those double team harness that he is selling at $22. A bargain. In order to close out my stock of b ”ggy dusters and tly nets I am selling these goods at reduced prices. XoWjs the time to buy cheap. F. M. Ake. So A 1 Bend has a man who likes hors«A es b* He is now fattening a batcher. He has eaten horse B wakes very<j ;u eating. wW^Rh News: Herman Greiger, who lives about six miles southwest of help, recently threshed his wheat crop.lwo acres of which yielded over 50 bushels per acre and the entire crop averaged 45 bushels per acre. Pretty good for Kankakee marsh land. This from an wc^inge is interesting if true: “At Logansport, Ind., the railroad men held a meeting on a certain afternoon and decided to strike at t’>:3o that evening. The business men of the city heard of it and also held M meeting and resolved to refuse credit to any one who would engage in tho strike. This settled the matter and the men returned to work.” HR L. E. A w. will run land seekms’ excursions to the south June 5, Joly 5. August 7, September 4, OctoA November 6 and December 4, 1891 Jal one first-class fare for round tup-£ These excursions will take in impttßnt points in Alabama, Florida, Kenfeexy, Georgia, Louisiana, MissisMppb North Carolina, Tennessee ami \ nghia. For further particulars call on tip local agent. F^mers harvest hay with a selfbitdet, tying it up in bundles the same as yheat and putting it into shocks to <lrj^ It is claimed that it cures much " beMF and holds Its rich green color, the outside of the bundles, and more easy to Imndle. ^WhisKr s-»vs he 1 ts tried this From September am u> . five the Baltimore A Ohio rsilroad will sell low iutc excursion tickets to ritilbuigh, Pa., on account of the G. A. R eneampnu nt. T ckets will be good for return until September 25th, 1894. tin September 4th the Baltimore A Ohio railroad will sell excursion ticket^ to points in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiumi, Missis- . sippj, North Carolina, South Carolina, ' Tennessee and Virginia at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be limited for return passage twenty days from date of sale. On September 4th and 18th the Baltiniore A Ohio railroad will sell 30day excursion tickets to points in Virgiuia on the Harpers Ferry & Valley Branch, south of and including Winchester, at rate of one fare for the round trip. Excursion tickets will also be sold on September 18th to points in Michigan at the same rate, good for return 20 days from date of sale.

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The Surprise To the readers of this paper at me changing my ad fr* the “Watch this space next week,” which has now been used three weeks of Sundays will be nearly, if not entirely, as great as .THE SURPRISE l j You will be greeted with wheu you see onr new and ex* 5 tensive line of ’SPRING 6(IODS fa every department. In onr Clothing line we are showing UNHEARD OF BAKG-AIITS in both tailor „„a re „ay m „ de sllits , or 3prtag snmmM Mini, and actually have the most complete line ever shown in the town. I u MEN S SUITS g We have » line that cannot be excelled. In Youths’ and tim; T ° “ liUe OI e °°' lß gpato w. — This SArmcnt has ■ NflggL P^e-cTcd ^ectnis.. double Knees, sccJ. elbows I NECKWEAR. We have tho very latest styles out both in four and scarfs. HATS AND SU7W7VVEF? CHPS Our line comprises anything you can want, the late style stiff hats and also the late straw. ITT SHOES We have a full line of tan shoes for summer wear, aside from our complete line of black. In fact yon will find us now as you have always found us—with everything in ou line of the choicest styles and best quality and at FAMOUS LOW PRICES! A CALL is all we ask to feel sure of your trade, as all ws need to do is to show you goods and name you prices, and you do the rest. Make our place your headquarters for everything in our line and you will save money and Always be pleased. T. J. Wolfe. NOAH RENSBERGER, DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, NOTIONS, BOOTS AND SHOES. highest prices for produce. Fir Prins mil Domili il Ns lul 1 llubO illiU ^uulllLj Ui UUUlhj We Compete with the Best of them t

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