St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 January 1895 — Page 1

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TYNER CITY. Will Richardson, of Chicago, came home on business and drove John's team to Tyner. Ue hitched to the cutter, the team got frightened at. the train and ran away, leaving the cutter fast against one of A. D. Johnson's hitching posts. l'he team went their own way as fust as they could run, breaking . cutter and harness all to pieces. No damage done to the horses. The adjuster from Chicago was here Thursday and allowed Mrs. Richardson the full amount. Insured for SBOO on house and contents. They took up a collection Saturday night at ths U. B. church lor the- Tee garden etmroh. TUej twined $27 in alt. Arnold Reusbarger is talking of going to Tennessee in a short time. There are a number of men here in Tyner who neglect to cut wood for their families. But they can be found any time sitting around the warm stoves at the stores and groceries while their families are freezing nt their homes. Protracted meeting commences nt the M. E. church Saturday evening, Jan. 26. Everybody is invited to attend. Ed Wallace’s horse got loose and went home and E 1 had to walk. Anderson Beagles lost a valuable calf the other night. He tied the calf up with a rope in the evening and in the morning the calf was found dead with its neck broken. Mrs. Lucinda Kreighbanm is visiting with her mother and sister of Teegarden. A. D. Johnson wants all of his accounts settled up by February 1, 1895, or some one will pay some costs. This is business. Mrs. Frank Hooton, after a ten years’sickness, died Sunday morning. She leaves a husband and four children—three boys and one girl—to mourn her loss. She belonged to the U. B. church. Mrs. John Good is not expected to . live. She has a cancer. Joe Burnsides took suddenly, Monday with bleeding at the lungs, and it was feared for a time that he would die. John Burnsides received a telegram from Chicago, Monday, stating that one of Jean Aikins’ girls was dead. A. D. Johnson is selling his saloon and getting ready to join the church. Mr. and Mrs. Ren Strang, of Walk erton, made W. L. Wallace and wife a visit Saturday and Sunday. Henry L. Jarrell was called to Pud dietown last Saturday by the serious illness of his nephew. There was a mush and milk party at Mrs. Garrett Jarrell’s, last Thursday night. The price of a bowl of mush and nice milk was 5 cents. All enjoyed themselves until 11 o’clock and went home happy. Those two young men who tried to make a black skunk out of a white one got caught. Mr. Jake Paul and family and Mr. Lee Williams and family, Mr. Anthony Turner and wife, John Wolf and f-tmi-ly, Anthony Strang and wife and Rev. Wm. Barden and family, of Walker ton, attended quarterly meeting here Sunday. Joe Waiterhouse, Jap Smith, Ed Robison and John Herman are cutting ice on Koontz’s lake for the club house. Mr. Dressel is the boss. E. J. Robison, of Tyner, attended the funeral of E. J. Vincent at Walkton Friday, Jan. 18. Reports the <

largest funeral be ever attended. Hon. J. W. Blunder ^"“’''Volk Plymouth anA sleeps Uome in 1 oik Township . Peter Shraeder has sold his farm and moved back to Plymouth. Charles Monroe is the boss shoe maker. There hasn’t been a death in Tyner for <ne year. That is something that can’t be said of many towns the size of Tyu r.

X. Y. Z. Smith. HANNA. Frank Eenix is on the sick list. Nick Sellers, who has been quite ' sick, was in town Saturday. Joe Ireland and wife Sundayed with D. M. Barber. Protracted meeting is si ill in progress with considerable interest. Mell Hulderman, of Wanatah, is working in the creamery in F. Lenix’s place. The G. T. U. expects to have a revival in the Temperance cause with good speakers present.

I Mike has signed the pledge and is j going to try it over again. We welcome , ■ yon back, Mike. ' 'l'he Misses Gertie Barber and Lillie Wells are on the programme committee for next Saturday evening. Tl omas Patrick expects to locate at I Knox the Ist of February. On Monday evening Dr. Roy put ' some questions in the query box that Rev. Harrington could not answer. Jim Parker was very busy last week. He bought the crippled mule for sl, kept it three days and gave $1 to have it killed and buried. Wm. West, our trustee, has purchased guide boards of Wm. Wuulbanm. to be placed at cross roads. We had a grand temperance meeting on last Saturday evening- The programme was good and the house was well filled. There were 13 signed the pledge. All are invited to come. O. F. S. G ROVERTOWN. Mr. and Mrs. 8. C. Rinehart visited with Seward’s parents last Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Chris Seider and daughter Bertha, and Mrs. Dittrick have been on the sick list but at present are on the mend. Mrs. Warren Rust visited her sister in South Bend over Sunday. Rob Walsh been removed from the night office at this place to the night office in Hamlet. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Akins, of South Chicago, died in that place last Sunday, We uid not learn the immediate cause of her death but understand she has been n invalid all her life. Her age was seventeen years. Funeral services were held in the U. B. church at this place, conducted by Rev. Father Good, of Tyner; interment at the Uneapher cemetery. Elmer Johnson and Miss Anna Yea ger were married Jan. 16th at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yeager. Rev. DrigLam performed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson begin life under very favorable circumstances, and with the very best wishes of a host of friends for a long, happy and prosperous life. The wedding dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson was also the infair dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Will Yeager who were married in Chicago week before last. Chase. TEEGARDEN. Thomas Hornsby and Jacob Falconberry were visiting in Knox this week. Wm. Brown and Kirt Alderich have gone to Knox to haul logs for Robert Holiday. Albert Teeples’ house was burned down last Saturnay night; nothing sav ed. The fire is said to have started from the stove pipe in the roof. Mr. Logan has purchased goods of M. M. Hanson & Co. and will open with a full stock this week and Mr. Hanson will locate in LaPaz and will erect a building there on a small farm he received. in exchange for his goods. The church was dedicated Sunday. A large crowd was present and the money was quickly donated with an overplus to purchase a bell and build a small wood house which we learn since the cold weather is greatly needed. Thomas Brown is visiting friends at this place. Singing was organized at the church Wednesday evening. William Hilderbrand is teacher. Mr. Stoneburner will preach at the church Saturday evening.

Meeting utill continues I A man living in town who owns 200 acres of laud in sight of town would not subscribe one cent for the church. We are thankful to our neighboring town, Tvner, for their liberal donations to our church. Jack. LA FAZ.

Mrs. John Harry is on the sick list. On last Sunday she had a congestive chill. The meeting held by Elder I. N. ' Miller at the Eongaker school house | resulted in 22 accessions to the Breth- ' ren church. It closed last Sunday ! night, Elder Miller received a telegram । ' last Sunday morning, informing him that his aged father was at the point of i death. The latter lived in Michigan i about 100 miles northeast of South Bend. Adam Longaker took Elder - Miller to South Bend after services at i night. Eleven persons were baptized on last Sunday afternoon.

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WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY,[INDIANA, SATURDAY, JAN. 26, 1895 . —**——■ . _

James Kaser lost a goat skin rob# of grayish color on Thursday the Uth inst between Ply month and his hone. He desires the finder to leave it at L Shafer’s store at LaPaz. He will pij a suitable reward. Gideon Logan has traded his pie^e of land consisting of about 11 acre^, adjoining LaPaz to Mr. A. Hanson, ff Teegarden, for his store. Mr. Hanson will move to LaPaz next week and Mij. G. Logan to Teegarden. Meeting will begin again next Mold day night at the Longaker sebogl house, and continue through the week. The fire week before last made quite a vacancy on the east side of Michigan* street. Leonard Logan has opened a store • again iu the old store house which be I formerly occupied. Mr. W. L. Johnson’s three farms | were sold at sheriff’s sale last Monday in Plymouth. Mrs. Johnson bought all of them. Judge ye where the money camo from. Mr. M. E. White is on the sick list, but is some better. VINKDRKSSKR. NORTH ^LIBERTY. C. C. Ocker and W. E. Highland, of LaGrange, were in town last week. Wm. Murphy is visiting here. Scott Williams, of Hancock, lowa, is visiting relatives here. Miss Cola Huff, of Argos, is visiting here. Chas. Poynter, of South Bend, is visiting his mother. Mrs. Grace Brockway was called to New Carlisle by the death of her grandmother. J. Whitman and family, of South Bend, spent Sunday here. Mrs. Waltz, of LaPss, is visiting Let daughter, Mrs. C. Brenly. A son of Heury Yent cut aL ug gash in his foot while cutting wood Tuesday evening. Dr. Dugdale was calleri to dress it. Hoffman Bros, have had plans prepareu i<» - < winrv brick store room, l'he first load of brick was Wednesday from South Bend. Kev. Abott will conduct services at the Episcopal church next Tuesday evening. Edwin Case, of Edwardsburg, Mich., has rented the Ridgway building. He is an undertaker and will carry a full stock of furniture. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, of Marmount, Ind., visited at Frank Price's last week. What might have proved to be a very disastrous tire was discovered about one o'clock Sunday night in the Grafford building by John Hoffman, as he was returning home from Walker ton. With the assistance of Brenton Irvin he soon hud the fire extinguished. The origin of the fire is a mystery but it was undoubtedly the W’ork of an incendiary. 1.0(41. BItIEFS. The winter is more than half gone. The good sleighing disappeared suddenly before the warm weather and rains of Saturday and Sunday. A thunder storm during Sunday night added to the variety of the program. A case of poisoning occurred in the family of Samuel Coran, of Warsaw, Sunday night, by the use of corned beef. Physicians have done all possible to relieve them but the entire family may die.—Nappanee News, Jan. 16. 'Pho Albion New Era says it is repml.d licit. detective Bailey, of Chicago, has arrested a man at Van Wert, Ohio, who is the leader of the gang that murdered the three Auburn men in a box car on the B. <fc O. road near Fostoria, Ohio. A man by the name of Newman who was exposed to smallpox in Chicago has been quarantined at his home in South Bend. The man bears a good scar showing thorough vaccination. His family also have been vaccinated. The authorities seem to apprehend no danger of a contagion, yet every precaution is being taken. The following is reported by an exchange. Use a little salt before swallowing the story: “A farmer in lonia C county, Mich., who used green willow , for corner posts for his barn, finds that j the posts have taken root and grown, r and that the building is considerably t higher than it was. Some limbs have I also come out for him to hang his harness on.”

Bob Ingersoll lectured at South Bend last Monday evening. It is reported that there are over twenty cases of diphtheria in Mishawaka. Scalp sores, fever and dryness are cured by Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. Bills printed at the Independent office annonce a dance to be held at Teegarden February 14. Sam Ross was unable to attend to business several days this week on account of a severe stitch in Ids back. K BeW^oi wr gtrnniT; the '/Aim ^rliorstudeut whoso mysterious- ' ly disap|Hmred a few weeks since, has , been located In Australia, where he I has ^fone Co devote himself to missionmy work. Dr. Arlington is giving special attoqjlion to the treatment of chronic diseases and owing to the great Increase in his office practice has concluded to devote the entire Saturday of each week to his office patients. Hereafter he will not answer calls to the country on Saturday. On January 8 and 15 and February 5 the Baltimore A Ohio railroad will sell 30-day excursion tickets to {mints In Virginia on the Haq>er's Ferry A Valley brunch, south of and including Winchester, at rate of one fare for the round trip. Excursion tickets will also be sold to points in the west, south and southwest, at very low rates There Is wanted in almost every town in this state an editor who can read, write and argue politics and at the same time be religious, funny, scientific and historic at will; write to please all without being told; always liave something good to say about everyone else, live mi the wind and make more money than enemies. For such meh good openings.-will be made • n the graveyard.--Ex. Sdfl State of Affairs at the Bend The Smith Bend Times says: “How strange it is that married women of l>rominence and seeming respectability and good character go ou as shame ful|y as women of this city have done a®d are doing, and continue blind of I tl»e fact that public opinion bus already branded them with the “Scarlet Letter” without a mitigating circumstance. They mny thrust their heada, ostrich like, into the sand, but the vulnerable part of them keeps bobbing into view If the half were told, the average eiti - zes would lose his breath. There is enough earthly lull here to uncover to make one wonder whither people are drifting, and wheu the last drift will be reached.” Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Fair Highest Award.

I(Y . ”*oc : HKeilulou: tdv mark<~nffs that you rap clean yourself by simply wiping v ®with a wet sponge. The -- lue lo<fik exactly Hk<- unU every piece is parked this way : sfcELwuJlD markThey are made by covering a linen collar or cuff with “ celluloid,” and are the only waterproof goods made with cn interlining, and the only goods that 1 can stand the wear and give perfect r Satisfaction. Never wilt and not effected by moisture. Try them and you will never regret it. Ask. for those with above trade mark and refuse any imitations. If your dealer does not 1 have them we will mail you a jampie ' direct on receipt of prke. Collars 25c. t each. Cuffs 50c. pair. State whether , stand-up or turned-down collar is r wanted. The Celluloid Company, 3 I2T-429 Broadway, NewYorfc.

WINTER GOODS THE LATEST STYLES THE FINEST QUALITY iu every department. Iu our Clothing liue we are showing TJJSTTZEJVRID OF BJVRG-JVIJNTS iu both tailor and ready made suits for fall and wiuter wear, ami actually have THE MOST COMPLETE LINE ever shown iu the town. In MEN’S_SUITS g We have a line that cannot be excelled. In Youths’ and Boys’ suits we have a complete liue of goods represented by the cut below: if w SEAMS IhbJßtkrmcrir has r- Ngak prdTdcTcd «— -■ double knees. seed Which have become so famous in the past few years NECKWEAR. We have the very latest styles out both iu four in-hauds, and scarfs, HHTS RND WINTER OHPS Our line comprises anything you can want, the late style stiff huts and also the late felt. LIST SHOES We have a full line of tan shoes for summer wear, aside from our complete line of black. In fact you will find us now as you have always found us—with everything in oia line of the choicest styles and best quality and at OU^R FAMOUS LOW PRICES! A CALL is all we ask to feel sure of your trade, as all we need to do is to show you goods uud 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. 2__ — I I hardware : Merchants,! a Have received' their supply of coal and wood heating § STOVES! FOK THE FALL AND WINTER TRADE. J, We have the best grades op Stoves in the market, and | can suit yozi on make and prices. Don t fail to ; See us if you intend to buy a Stove. | ROSS, lARRELL & GO. J

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