St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 November 1895 — Page 1

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HOG CHOLERA AND ITS PREVENTION Purdue University Agricultural Bulletin. It is difficult to estimate the loss Indiana farmers have sustained from hog cholera and swine plague this year. In some counties it will reach $25,000 and if the whole state has suffered as much as the north western portion, the total will probably exceed SBOO,OOO. Thore are two diseases responsible for these heavy losses, hog cholera and swine plague. As they are much alike iu symptoms and occur under similar conditions, they must be treated as one disease. Both are germ diseases of such fatal character that only a small per cent of the hogs attacked ever recover. Medicinal treatment is not very effectual. Preventive measures are more successful and are the ones to be adopted. These diseases being due to germs, cannot exist without the germs being present. They are taken into the body with the food, water and air. The closer animals come in contact, the greater the possibilities of spreading; hence, healthy and diseased animals shr ild be separated as soon as the disease is recognized. The healthy hogs should be taken from the sick and not the sick from the well, as in the latter case the excrement and secretions eon taining the contagious principles are left in the pen, on the ground, straw and troughs. During an outbreak it is better to have the herd divided in bunches of about fifteen, in small pas tures, rather than a large herd in a large Held. The hogs should not have access to ponds or wallows as this affords favorable conditions for the germs. The drinking water should be from deep wells. The food should be clean and often changed. If a hog Ims been separated from the herd ami recovers it should not he returned to the herd for several weeks, as it is capable of giving the disease to others although it may appear to be perfectly well. Hogs should not be placed in pens wher»> the disease has been for three All dead miimnlM I burned or buried deeply in places where hogs will not graze for a year. Diseased hogs should not be driven through lanes or other puldie high ways. The healthy hogs should be cared for first and then the diseased, otherwise disease bearing material may be conveyed to the healthy. Clean the pens, use plenty of air slacked lime on the floors before using again. The following formula given by the Bureau of Animal Industry is as es ficacious as any thing known as a preventive and remedy. It has given fair results: Wood charcole, ] pound Sulphur, 1 “ Sodium chloride, 2 “ Sodium hyposulphite, 2 “ Sodium bicarbonate, 2 “ Sodium sulphate, 1 “ Antimony sulphide, 1 “ Give a tablespoonful once a day to a 150 pound hog. Give in sloppy feeds, as bran, middling, crushed oats, etc. If will cost about SI.OO to have it filled. Editor of the Graphic. Os Campbellsburg, Ind., writes: “I will carry your ad at price named. Our druggists don’t handle Syrup Pepsin, and I want some of it myself. I have taken two bottles and it did my stomach more good than any medicine I ever took, and I want more of it. I . had a bad case of dyspepsia.”. Sold 1 at Bellinger & Williams’. I |t FREE MEDICAL REFERENCE BOOK j (64 pages! for men and women who are I ( afflicted with any form of private dis j ease peculiar to their sex, errors of I ' youth, contagious diseases, female troubles, etc., etc. Send 2 two cent stamps, to pay postage, to the leading specialists and physicians in this country. Dr. HATH AWAY & CO., 70 Dearborn Street, Chicago. You Have Seen Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin advertised for mouths, but have you tried it? If not, yon do not know what an ideal stomach remedy it is. A 10c bottle (10 doses 10c) will show yon its great merits as a cure for constipation, indigestion and sick headache. Regular size, 50c and sl, at Bellinger & Williams’. Delicate of Flavor. Refined and perfect in its effects is Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, the sure cure for constipation, indigestion and sick headache. Try a sample bottle at Bellinger & Williams’. All druggists sell Dr. Miles’ Nerve Plasters.

I.oca I Rrlefs. ——• See Rensberger’s ten cent brooms. Boys’ carts 10 cents at the Red Star. Fresh oysters by the can at the Star bakery. Read the Red Star’s low prices this week. A number of wells in town have gone dry. Quarterly meeting was held at the M. E. church last Sunday, with Presiding Elder Ogden in charge. Our offer oft tie Inter Ocean and Independent at $1.60 for one year still holds good. 'l'ake advantage of it. The Independent office prints 50 sale bills on good water proof paper for $1 50. We also give a free notice of sale in the paper. Leslie Bros., proprietors of the Crescent bakery, are doing quite a business wholesaling bread to dealers in some of the surroundingtowns. They ship quite a good deal of bread south over the Three I. Harry Fisher, an experienced cook from Elkhart, is employed at the Star bakery, where first, class meals or lunches will be served at all hours on short order. When you want a good meal real quick you will find Ihe Star Bakery all right. The W. R. C. will give a general supper at the (I. A. R. hall Saturday, Nov. 25. The comfort which is on exhibition at Hudelmyer & Henry’s store will be drawn. Come everybody am! get, a good supper for 15 cents. Tickets will be sold on the comfort, up to date. 'The main load leading to Knox is being graveled from the limits of Walkerton to the Starke comity line. This is a needed improvement. The value of good highways to the town and surrounding country can not be over estimairu. n>r» TIT* .Lt o ' Hal in t he prosperity of any community. 2V number of our business men have contributed towards helping along the improvement of this road. Most of the roads leading to Walkerton are in fair condition, but some of them could be improved with profit. The market for Kankakee lands in this locality has increased in activity to a great extent in the past two or three years. Shrewd speculators, who seem impressed with the great future of the lowlands, are buying large tracts with a view to improving it and holding it. for a future market. Marsh lands which a few years ago were practically frog ponds and could have been bought for from two to live dollars an acre have been reclaimed and now sell readily at fifteen and twenty dollars an acre. Men who a few' years ago had a few hundred acres of swamp which was considered almost valueless have grown wealthy by the advance in the price of their laud. More Marsh Fires, The big huckleberry marsh four miles from this place has again been laid to waste by fire, The marsh which was burned over about two years ago, was again growing nicely, the bushes having reached a height of two or three feet. A fire started in the Warner marsh last Sunday morning and burned in a southeasterly I direction to Beach Island, where it changed to the south and reached Nash’s place. Many fences ami trees were burned in the path of the fire and it required hard fighting to save some of the buildings in the neighborhood. The fire was still burning on Wednesday in some places. A Kessler Train Robber in Custody A dispatch states that, James Brown, ♦he self confessed train robber, was brought from Allegan, Mich., and placed in the jail at Albion, Ind. Brown confessed to the robbery of the Lake Shore express at Kessler, Ind., six miles north of Kessler on Sept. 12, 1893 and implicates Abe and John Smalley, two notorious characters of that county. It is said Abe Smalley threatened his life, hence the confession. Brown says little of the sentence he expects to receive, but expects a light one. He said that he would tell the Noble county officials all they wanted to know' of the robbery.

Machinery Hall west of the Farmers’ Bank.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOY. 9. 189. Y

TOWNSHIP TEACHERS. Discuss Questions of Interest at their Regular Monthly Meeting. The teachers of Lincoln Township met Nov. 2, for the purpose of holding their third institute of the year. All members but one present and answering to roll cull with quotations from favorite authors, also never,d pupils were present, ami, at the request of the chairman, favored the institute with quotations. W. C. Beall led iu the regular pre- : gramme with a talk on General Method , emphasizing the phase, that indirect j teaching is better than direct, or , preaching that each teacher should out line, for himself a psychological course of proceedure and the fact that there has been and is too little effort to kindle a lively and living interest. Followed by H. E. Beall on Language who brought out forcibly reasons for not following any set of set rules. Miss Hoke then, with reading, showed to the institute the beauties of the great, lesson taught in Longfellow’s “Arsenal. ” Then f<dlowed a discussion of some sentences by the institute. Miss Rinehart then read a good paper on Shakespearean studies showing the poetical history of his works, and d welling upon the moral phase, and the fact that no one cun live wholly to himself; that the deed returns to the doer. Sechetahy. About the Earthquake The earthquake of last. Wednesday, which appears to have been due at least in part to the subsidence of a large area of bind in the Indiana mdur al gas region, adds interest to recent reports that she laud is sinking along the Gulf of Mexico, and particularly sol near the mouths of the Mississippi, Maj. Q linn of the United States Engi neer Corps has given to the New Or- , leans l imesDemocrat a st.dement of the facts, us interesting of these is that the observed change of level is due to tv r»lK>>g of the laud, not to a lismg ofj the water. 11 The rate of change on the g 1!f coast is so rapid, in comparison with what is, observed elsewhere, that it might be feared the lowlands of Louisiana sooui will disappear below the ocean level, but for the fact that the rate necessari-1 ly is diminishing and has a limit from the conditions. In other parts of thu world the relative lowering is mostly; dim to the washing away of the soil by: rains which pound on the surface with an aggregate force of many millions of), tons annually, and the resulting st ream.si carry the silt and detritus into thd ocean. But on the Louisiana coast the chief cause of the land subsiding is its solidification. The soil was formed b< deposits from areas nearer the sonrea of she river system, and released under the operation of the well known law that the power of a stream to hold sohj matter in suspension varies with its velocity. There is why the river tends to make land at and near its mouth at the expense of the soil and rocks of the higher partsof its valley.—Chicago Tribune. Injured in a Runaway. William Ake’s team ran away last Monday about 11:30 a. m. while Mr. Ake was loading wood into the wagob in a field on bis farm. One of tlm horses jumped forward, which Rigl# ened she other, and they both beg® running at a mad pace. Mr. Ake, Inui just got, into the wagon, wp placed at a disadvantage in trying (to stop the team as be had hold of but one line, the lines not being fastened together. The horses were not stopped until the tongue of the wagon struck a stump. This threw Mr. Ake out over the dash board onto the tongue of the wagon. He struck on his breast, receiving internal injuries. Dr. Arlington, who was called, found Mr. Ake quite badly bruised up, but there was nothing to indicate that the injuries were serious. Wunderlich Dies Wunderlich, who was shot by Farmer Brick of South Bend a week ago last Saturday evening, has since died from his injuries. It was believed for a time that he would get well. This puts a new phaze on the case and Brick who had been released on bail, p aß again been taken into custody. That lame Back can ne cured win Or. Miles’ NERVE PLASTER. Only 25c, All pain banished by Dr. Mlles’ Pain I‘llia.

I.ocal Briefs. A good convenient barn for rent. Call at this office. Services will be held next Sunday at oie Island church at 3 p. in. Try our best Japan tea dust, only 12 C Blits per pound, at the Red Star. Mrs. T. J. Reece, who Ims been in quite poor health for several weeks, is ’ nproving. You can get blank deeds, mortgages, r Tgjpts and notes at the Indevendoffice. ' 4 I _ - y A. H. Noble and family will occupy| lira Smith’s new residence as soon as It is completed. The Singer Manufacturing Co., of South Bend, Ims increased the wages of its employes ten per cent. ’The Walkerton schools send out this week report cards of (he standing of the pupils in their respective grades. I - — I It is said that farmers along the Three I’s road west of Knox are doing quite a business in gathering mushrooms and Shipping the same to Chicago. They get |3 for a basket holding about one-third of a bushel. , The town of Marmont, on Lake Maxenkuckee, will hereafter be known its Culver City, the name having been (Changed in honor of Mr Culver, Hie founder of Culver Military Academy fend the owner of a large amount of real estate at that place. ; The will of Moses Harshbarger was probated Monday. The property is lyft to the smi Nelson, he to pa\ his brother James $36 per year and his mother ♦SO per year, this son also to furnish a home for the mother. Thereare mauv Contingent provisions. The son, N. I mrn G., is named as executor, booth 'Bend Times. DR.KI L M E R’S Root KIDNEY.LIVERS La Grippe, Cure* the bad after effects of this trying epidetuic and restores lost vigor and vitality. Diabetes, Excessive quantity and high colored urine. Impure Blood, Eczema, scrofula, malaria, pimples, blotches. General Weakness, Constitution all run down, loss of ambition, and a disincllnati ”. ,0 all sorts of labor. Gimruntee l'se content* of One Bottle, if not Lenefltsd, Druggt-ts will refund to you the price judd. At Druggists, 50c. Size, SI.OO Size. "InvalidH’ Guide to Health' - free- Consultation free. Dh. Kilmeh & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. THE^^ NICHOLSON SALOON. ••• ...NEWLY OPENED... Milliards and Pool, Cigars and Tobacco, Lunch at all Hours, and Soft Drinks. ••• We have one of the best cooks in the state of Indiana and can give you an excellent meal or lunch on shot! order. THREE DOORS NORTH OF HOTEL KERN. A. C. HARDENBROOK. THE PAGE FENCE. Does not need adjusting twice a year It is elastic and will take care of itself. It is undoubtedly the best wire fence dow on the market. W. W. PLACE, Agent, Walkerton, lud.

lOOOOver- 75 Cases of from $1 up. NEW GOODS | ARRIVING DAILY. We are now receiving our Fall and Winter Stock of CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, BOOTHS, ECHOES. Vaifswmnd Gents Goods. | and are offering them at lower prices than Hie same quality of goods I were ever before offered in Northern Indiana. < LOOK AT SOME OF OUR PRICES; Men’s all wool worsted suits SIO.OO Men’s half wool suits as low as 4 00 Men’s heavy cotton suits 3.00 Over /5 cases of best qualify of Rubber Goods at prices others sell sec onds at. \\ e warrant every pair of our rubbers. Lfitest Styles or Hats aiacl Cayjs fbt Great Reductions. I ill stock of Furnishing Goods in latest stiles and at popular prices. OVER 1,000 OVERCOATS at jroiu One (Dollar u-p. Come and see us before you buy, and ip you have the C^ASH you can buy goods cheaper than you ever, saw them. I: 'll u suits long । ant- msr “ half “ “ “ 950 “ “ “ (knee pants) 200 “ 75 Mon's odd coals, all wool (small size 2 00 “ odd coats, half wool, small size 1.00 . Boys’ odd coats, all wool 1.00 “ “ “ half wool 50 “ vests from 10 to 50 cents '—^LEATHER GOODS-*— Have gone up, but we put them lower than ever before. Look at some of our prices: । Men’s best calfskin boots § 3 00 ? “ oil grain 250 “ kip boots, 51.50 to 250 I Boys' “ “ 75 cts. to 1.50 I Boys’ All [ -r । | Men's Ail I Wool I '* VVvLrL. । Wool Suits! Suits $4. j |slo. | *

Garland, Radiant Home and Radiant Stewart, for ha rd coal; Marion and Cheerful Oak, for soft coal or wood; Garland wood heaters; Monitor Parlor, Bruno and Ra* diant Parlor, base-heating stores for wood. ALSO A FINE LINE OF RUGS & STOVE BOARDS Paintsand Oils in large variety. We handle the? celebrated Home Sewing Machine. ^ROSS, JARRELL & CO.

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SEE OUR ELEGANT LINE OF^> WOOD AND COAL HEATERS,