St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 April 1895 — Page 1

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GRO VERTOWN. What did yon think of that April fool ? Mrs. Seward Rinehart, who has been quite sick with lagrq pe, is slowly recovering. Dr. J. R. Abner is slowly recovering from a severe attack of the grip. Mrs. John Williams suffered a relapse of the grip and for a few days was seriously ill but is now convalescent. Frank Seidev has resigned his position at Knox and will at once move his family and effects here and go on duty as a farmer. 'The Sabbath school election last Sunday resulted as follows: Henry Marsh, Supt; Seward Rinehart, Ass’t bnpt.; Frank Yeager, Trees.; Ed Grayman, See.; Irma Lish and In i Butcher, librarians; Miss Nettie Holdeman as organist and Miss Jose Holdeman chorister. The school during th past two years lias been fairly well successful and our prayer is that this may be a prosperous year for the school and that the parents may bring (heir children to Sunday school instead of sending them. A sad accident occurred in the Illinoi.; Steel Co.’s yards at South Chicago the 28tli inst., in which Engineer Aikins, a former well known resident of thi । place, met his death. He, with several workmen, were putting up a drop and while striking with a sledge hammer it slipped off of the handle and fell a distance of thirty live feet, striking Mr. Aikins on the head. Although somewhat stunned at first be did not think he was much hurt and proceeded with his duties but soon became sick. He was removed to the I. S. Co.’s hospital where he at once lost, consciousness and lingered along until next day a little before noon when he passed quietly away. He was born in Marshall nnnnfy. lul., MuicU 11, 1852, . making him forty three years and eighteen days old. He was twice married and was the father of eleven chi! dren—four by his first wife—three of whom, Mrs. Elmer Butcher, Mrs. Chris Stilson and Miss Minnie, survive him; seven children by his second marriage, five of whom, together with his wife, also survive him. Mr. Aikins was an excellent husband, a kind father and a gentleman in every sense of the term. The remains were brought to this place last Monday for burial. The funeral services were held at the U. B. church and conducted by Rev. Sam Strang. Interment at Uncapher’s cemetery. Chase. LA PAZ. H. Y. Shirk Las traded his hard ware store for a farm of 101 acres about 12 miles southwest of Rochester, Ind. A man by the name of Marsh is now the proprietor. Mrs. Schuyler McChesney states some person or persons took a lot of rag carpet there to prevent their store house from catching fire last winter at the time when Dr. Hamilton’s house and barn and Leonard Logan’s store burnt down. She does not know to whom it belongs. The owners are requested to take it away. 1 Quite a large quantity of lumber and been lianb»d on the ’ c ...... uouse of worship is to be Inuit. \ Rev. D . V. Yoder, of Milford, Ind., will preach at the Longaker school house on next Saturday evening, and at the Claybaugh school house on Sunday and Sunday evening. Rev. John Stuckman of Gravelton is conducting a series of meetings at the Buffalo school house. James Eakin moved to Plymouth last Monday, where he expects to work at the carpenter trade. Andrew Korp has rented Mrs. John Harry s farm one and a half miles west of LaPaz. Elder P. Hummer and wife seem to be quite feeble. Henry Clayton is able to come to town again after several weeks’ severe illness. Henry Weed who lives near the Junction has been quite ill for several weeks, but is convalescing. There were four applications for membership last Saturday night in LaPaz tent No. 56 K. O. T. M. There will be initiatory work next Saturday night and also a week from that time. Aisiting Sir Knights are always wel-

WALKERTOK. ST. JOSEPH UWI\IY, UNVAANA,

come. The LaPaz schools closed last Friday. There were literary exercises in the afternoon in the school house by the primary grades, and at night in the public hall by the highest grades. VINEDRESSKR. TYNER CITY. Joseph Westerville was the first farmer to sow rye in this locality. Joe believes in sowing early. Tyner will soon have two blackmith shops. Uncle Joseph Westerville came to town Tuesday in the sleigh. Andrew Beagles and A. D. Johnson were in Walkerton Tuesday to see the colony leave for North Dakota. Sam Burgner, of Donaldson, and his two clerks were held up Monday night of last week by two burglars and all tied hand and foot. Relieved of S4O in cash and Sam’s gold watch. The men helped themselves to what they wanted and left the boys tied, bidding them good night. That was the last that has been heard of them. There will be a dance in Johnson’s hall in Tyner, April 12. All persons who can behave themselves are invited. Silas McCollough, of Walkerton, was in Tyner looking after men to work nt the mason trade. Ue says he has the contract of building up Walkerton with all brick and stone buildings, all lire proof. Frank Miller is buildin g a new addition Io John Rodney’s house. Misses Clara, Lydia and Mr. Delbert Knott started Monday for New York. P. ? . Surber bad a large attendance to his sale of personal property lust Friday. Stock sold high. Judge Hess was in town Saturday on business. Uncle J. 11. Barden made Lis last visit to Tyner Saturday. Ed Wallace, who is working for N. E. Bunch, the superintendent at the county asylum, was in Tyner over Sunday. X. Y. Z. Smith. TEEG ARDEN. Nell Beck has ordered a pair of running shoes, so as to be able to catch the boys at recess without so much exertion. James Falconbury’s wife moved to town this week. The assignee’s sale of Letherman’s property was held Tuesday at bis place. The Mennonites were holding pro traded meeting at this place this wee k. Y. P. C. U. meeting every Sunday night at the church. Geo. Lehman, of Elkhart, was visiting with his brother J. 11. Lehman during the first of the week. Ail persons interested in the Barber cemetery are requested to meet at the Barber school house Friday evening, April 12. The election of trustees and other business will come before the meeting. J. E. Myers and Cyrus Hilderbrand, who have been attending school at Terre Haute, have returned home. J. H. Cooley, the owner of the Letherman property, is having all the build ings nicely repainted. Spongier and Lower, of Plymouth, are doing the work. . W. S. Williams is having a new barn erected this spring. Daniel Gensinger has moved onto his farm. Simon Nitcher occupies the Louse Ue vacated. c l.<>,M mulny for Valparaiso to attend school there a term. Some of the schools of this township close this week. ' Mrs. Wm. Hilderbrand is’ quite ill with the lagrippe. \ Jack. mount nernon. Assessor t , SouHl BpU(1 a portion o' las! w k to prepare for his n-md asses (ng work. Mis Lan K’>on>z, wLn has bo n seriously ill for a week or tw o, i 3 hu--1 -oving. i Joe Klingainau was Imm* over Sunday. ' ‘ Mr. and Mrs. John Frame visit, d with relatives ji South lb I and Mishawaka a portion of i a ,,t week Emma Rinehart visited « it) J-muds iiii i her foi mer school near Bremen, a • ' nt lime since. Mrs. John Wenger was aken quite suddenly iff last Sunday night won hemorrhage of the lungs. She is be, ter at pr* -enc writing. Joe Martin vi uted with his brother-

in law, John Dempsey, near Stillwell, last Sunday. Will Sult will son have completed a much needed and snug sized barn on his farm. Sam Dipert is doing the carpenter work. Silas Ross and wife from Stillwell Prairie visited with old friends and associates in this vicinity lust Saturday and Sunday. Last Tuesday evening Samuel Wenger received a telegram announcing the death of his niece, Lulu Sliders, of Midiawaka. Funeral occurred on Thursday. Bert and Walter Beall and Emma Rinehart went to South Bend last Thursday to atte' d the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association. Trebor. BANNA. The ground was white with snow April 1. There is talk of a doctor from Rolling Prairie locating here. Buff Applegate was out Tuesday, the first time since his sickness. According tu Jack, Hanna has two high-falutin dancers. George Sheaks arrived here Saturday ready to begin work April 1. Our teachers are attending the teachers’ association at South Bend this week. Win. Osborn and B. F. Wells went to Wanatah Friday on their wheels to attend the I. O. G. T. convention. Three of our young mon acted very naughty at Parker’s soup house. Mr. Parker had them arrested. They plead guilty and it cost them $2.40. Jack Warburton is holding a series of meetings here to a full house. Jack is a very interesting speaker. About fifty from this place attended the convention at Wanatah Friday night. Harry Barber deliverer! a very nice recitation entitled, "What will a drunkard do for ale.” Several of our young boys and girls surprised Miss Edith Patric': last Thursday evening, it being her 12th birthday. All report a very pleasant time. O. F. S. I.<><4l. IBIUCFS. Ross, Jarrell it Co. sell genuine Oliver points at 30 cents each. All the new shapes in spring hats to be found at Millard’s. Call and see the new novelty ribbons, laces mid flowers at Millard's. Spring veilings, hats, caps ami all the latest novelties in spring millinery, at Ida Beach’s. If your buggy needs repairing or painting send for estimates to Win. C. Pituer it Son at Ln Porte. Mrs. Languish. “Tired! Oh, to tired all the time!” Mrs. Smart. “Well, so I used to be until I began to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla as spring medicine and now I don’t know what it is to have that tired feeling. Try it, my dear; only be sure you get Ayer's.” On Thursday of last week about twenty-five men gathered at the home of William Sult in Starke county, the occasion being the raising of a neat barn, size 30 by 40 feet. Sam Dipert and son, William H., are doing the carpenter work on the barn. Alex Staples, of South Bend, will be in Walkerton about the last of the month and will be prepared to do all kinds of moving. Any one having any moving or raising will d u we H lo see him, or address, A. Staples, nt Walkerton. Alex Staples. Farmers in the vicinity of Teegarden will please take notice that after April 5 they can bring wheat to Teegarden on Tuesday and Saturday of each week and exchange it for Nappanee flour, which is warranted to be good. Everybody invited to give it a tr * a b Daniel Gensinger. Mayor Schafer has received a letter from his brother, Dr. A. F. Schafer, who with Mrs. Schafer is now in Paris. One of the first persons the doctor saw after arriving in the French metropolis was Mr. Adam Appell, of South Bend, who is making a trip to Africa for the Oliver Chilled Plow works. He also found an old friend in a physician at one of the hospitals. The doctor is spending three hours a day in the hospitals. On the 14th inst they will be in Rome.—South Bend l Tribune.

SATURDAY, APRIL~^

.Jd Milkr is em P’oye<l in the Wal certon flouring mill. »e neatest and best preparation to pye! tho Wh,Bkers Is Buckingham’s T * e Walkerton Mining Co. now use coalMsstead of crude oil in running thet^ngine. nw M I* oue y® nr for 11-50— a American Farmer nna jfQH&Minldnd. an a Rfter AprH 1895 ‘ HU “?c---tion 50 y®""* of ”8® ^lll be reilev^Mkyoung put in their pi^> Wj ßr « than ever befiwPwdo tln^m on short notice, having two experienced tinners in our emplot. Our prices are reasonable. T. J. Rekce & Co. ThejOnly difference that we can see between the Majestic range and the Garland range is that one Ims to wait for a customer while the other waits for an order. Ross, Jarrell & Co. The L. E. 4 W. railroad will sell excursion tickets to Indianapolis, April 23 and 24, at one and one third fare for the round trip, on account of the meeting of the Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Tickets good returning up to and including April 26. Rev. Geo. S. V. Howard has been expelled from the Northern Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, Imving twice been tried ami convicted by that body on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He was formerly pastor of the M. E. church at Nappanee. He is now a resident, of Chicago. lAte real estate transfers: Andrew J. Ward, sheriff, to Jacob J. Rinehart, part of lot 32 in op, of Walkerton, $630. Dea^tla Townsend to Dixon W. Place, !°Ls prt 27 ami 28 In J. Rnpel’* •»! ndd to Walkerton, $325. James B. Worster to Henry B. Worster, part lots 110 and 117 in op North Liberty, $75. Noah B. Shoemaker to George W. Daugherty, about j acre in Walkerton, two. Fisherman s Good Luck. Au Imliauniiolis Special says the fisherman of the state have been greatly excited over the new fish law making a closed neoson for the hikes from Apiil to June 15, and both the secretary of state and the attorney general have been flooded with inquiries about it. Attorney General Ketcham has concluded to declare an opinion to the effect that the only lake in Indiana is Lake Michigan, ami that the bodies of water in the state are not legally lakes, but are ponds. The decision gives the fishermen )>alpable relief. O^elluloit £^33 MARK^'^'/*oq£collars and cuffs that you ra h"lean yourself by simply wiping o»<ith wet sponge. The genuine i look exactly like linen and every piece is marked this way : tv TRAoe _ ^ELIuIOIO markThey are made by covering a linen collar or cuff with “ celluloid,” and are the only waterproof goods made with an interlining, and the only goods that ran stand the wear and give perfect grtisfaction. 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 docs not have them we will mail you a sample direct on receipt of prive. Collars 25c. tach. Cuffs 50c. pair. State whether »tand-up or turned-down collar is wanted. The Celluloid Company, 127-429 Broadway, New York. i

B ' : ' 7 555 , Have Cents and Save Dollars _ By investing during our annual CLEARING SALE! 1 AV hlch will extend from now uiitll SthAPßlLijth This year finds ns with more choice goods to close than any previous year in our business owing to the fact that our full trade was awfully hurt on account of our being bothered as we were with contagious diseases. Now you can buy till winter goods including our flue winter goods, Our Fine Winter Suits, Overcoats. Caps. Underwear; GLOVES, MITTENS, FELT BOOTS, . . . And all heavy garments at prices that . . . out all former Offers iu our line. We are going to close out many things in winter goods regardless of price and will be pleased to show all who mny cull WHAT WE ARE DOING! For Spring and Summer we are going to show you P[l Fine All Wool Black Clay PA iPliul Worsted Suits at ibl.uU IN ALL DIFFERENT STYLES. . . . Will begin . . . Tailor Made Suits! which are cut, fitted and all made here at the low price of - gild will have at least 1,000 styles to select from. In made to order suits where your measure is taken and sent away for suits, as most clothing firms do, we can make your suits from FOURTEEN DOLLARS UP! and cun show you 3,000 samples to select from, representing the best houses in Chicago and New York. We have the latest things in hats, including the square crowned stiff hat and the PASHA, the new thing in soft hats. We can shoe anyone iu any kind and grade of shoe they may want, having iu stock a large variety of fancy shoes and a complete line of shoes for the working man’s wants. Wo strive to please and guarantee our prices lower than others. J, Wolfe. GASOLINE STOVES^E™ . . • Good Line of . . . ^COOK STOVES AND RANGES.^We furnish the Garland Steel Range on Application. These ranges are Unexcelled. SMOOTH BARBED WIRE Extremely Low Prices on Nails. FARMING IMPLEMENTS. ■ See the New Champion Low Elevator Binder, the Birdsell Steel Skein Wagon and the Plymouth Patent Sand Skein Wagon. We have a full line of implements. Paints, Oils and Varnishes. “.S' 1 ROSS, JARRELL & CO.

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