St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 November 1895 — Page 5

Walkerton Market. Corrected Weeklj by Chas. M. Stephens, Eggs 18 Hutter 15 Lard 8 Green Hides 5 Potatoes new 20 to 23 Corn. 20 to 22 Clover Seed $3 50 to 4 00 Wheat 60 Oats .15 Deans 80 to SI.OO Rye 35 Onions new 45 Chickens young 5 W 001... .. 10 to 13

LOCAL NEWS. Elgin corn 9 cents at Noah Rensberger’s. Oysters, in all styles, at. the Star bakery. Fresh oysters served in all styles at the Star bakery. The Independent has blank deeds and mortgages for sale. Boys’ wheelbarrows and snare drums as low as 25 cents at the Red Star. Those who have contracted to pay their subscription in wood are hereby notified that we are ready to receive the same. Chris SchmeHz was selling a fine lot of honey in town last Thursday, and remembered the Independent with a sample piece. At Ida Bench’s the ladies will find the latest novelties in trimmings, hats, ribbons and a general line of millinery for the fall and winter trade. John Dial, one of Plymouth’s oldest citizens, died last Wednesday morning. He had been agent for the Adams express company in that city for the past nineteen years. A social ball will beheld in Bender’s opera house on Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 27. There will be good music and an oyster supper will be held in the rear of the hall. Everybody invited. By order of committee. A large number of the Walkerton Knights of Pythias expect to attend the district meeting at LnPorte Wednesday evening, November 27. Creat preparations are being made at LaPorte for the event and a grand time is anticipated. The Walkerton team has been invited to take part in the work of the amplified third rank. Dr. A. F. Schafer, of South Bend, who lately returned from a visit to the noted hospitals of Europe, is again giving his full attention to the practice of his specialties—the eye, ear, nose and throat. He also tits spectacles by the latest improved methods. Otlice hours 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 7 to Bp. m.;2to3p. m. Sundays. Office in Oliver opera house block. Mrs. Jennie Rensberger has bought the Star bakery and restaurant of C. R. Kohli and will conduct the business as formerly. Elias Myer will be retained as baker. Meals will be served at all hours. Oysters served in any style. A neat clean restaurant will be conducted and patrons will be given the worth of their money. Rooms are also being neatly fitted up to accommodate lodgers. On account of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. will sell excursion tickets at very low rates. Season tickets will be sold every day until further notice, and will be good for return until January 7, 1896. Twenty-day tickets will also be sold every day until further notice, good for return twenty (20) days from date of sale. Speaking of the small boy, some-

thing good is related by Hie Hartford 1 City Republican: “In one of our school I 1 rooms the other day a lad became a lit- • tie unruly, whereupon the ‘school 1 inarm’ gave him a lively shaking up, in 1 which the boy’s shirt was torn. When . lie surveyed the wreck he said: ‘Now you can fix that shirt. How would you like to have somebody shake the shirt off of you?’ 'L'He school roared.” The cornet band serenaded a number of the citizens last Monday evening. The Independent was among those favored. The band boys have a number of new pieces which they play beautifully. It can be said without boasting that Walkerton has one of the best bands of twelve pieces in the northern part of the state. This is the testimony of first-class musicians from other towns who have heard our band play. Mr. Rogers, of the celebrated Rogers’ band of Goshen, who heard the band at Knox recently, paid the boys a high compliment on their playing. They have received equally encouraging praise from other competent judges from neighboring cities, all of which is fully merited.

Blank deeds and mortgages at the Independent office. See that double decked dresser suite at Vincent’s. It is elegant. Seven nice, convenient rooms for rent to small family. Apply to Amos Stevenson. « Did you ever hear of an average good broom for 10 cents? Archie Williams has them at that price. Married, Mr. Ira M. Gardner and Miss Ada Ross, Thursday evening, Nov. 7, by Rev. J. Hildebrand, at his residence.

Leslie Bros, have secured a fine baker in the person of Mr. John Butler and are turning out the finest of baked goods of all kinds. Ed Fawley speared two pickerel in the Kankakee last Thursday night which weighed 10^ and Ilf pounds respectively. The huger fish was 34 inches long. Samuel Parker, one of Plymouth’s lending attorneys, will remove to Logansport. He has been appointed general counsel for the Pennsylvania railroad in Indiana. J. A. Williams, of the Red Star, is putting in a good line of crockery, which he invites the readers of the Independent to call and see when in need of anything of the kind. The Independent has just received some elegant samples of programs, folders, wedding invitations, fancy cards, etc. When you want anything in this line please remember us. For Sale.—Twenty acres of good land, all improved, located 2| miles northwestof Walkerton. Would make a fine truck farm. Good, rich soil. Will be sold very reasonable. Call on or address A. E Cripe, Walkerton, Ind. There is a strange disease prevalent among the cattle in this part of the slate, says the Michigan City Dispatch. Saturday a cow belonging to Mrs. Kunkle, who resides near Waterford, fell dead immediately after being milked. A similar case is reported of a cow belonging to Gaily White, who resides a few miles southeast of this city. J. A. Hopkins and J A. Anderson, of Plymouth, were in this place on ’ Friday looking the field over with a view to establishing a cigar factory ; providing the location impressed them favorably. Mr. Anderson recently sold his cigar factory at Plymouth to Mr. Hopkins and the latter desires a new location. Walkerton would un doubtedly be a good point for him. Those who wish to patronize the Thanksgiving sale to be given by the Presbyterian ladies at the hardware store of Ross, Jarrell & Co. Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 27, will please leave their orders for special articles that they may wish on the Saturday prior to the sale. Written orders may be left with Miss Edna Nicoles at the postoffice. Dressed chickens and turkeys will be among the articles on sale. The recent tires in the Kankakee marsh are said to have reduced the land to a smoldering bed of peat. The fire is reported to have penetrated the earth a distance of threefeet. —Goshen Democrat. That is true only of a very few isolated places in the marsh where the soil is of a peaty consistency. The burning of the soil was not general. Much of the land in this locality was benefited by being burned over, but we don’t know’ of any land here being injured by the fire. These reports were first circulated by telegraph liars through the Chicago papers.

Exaggerated reports regarding the ! burning of the Kankakee marshesfr have been circulated abroad. These > reports are untrue and harmful in'] many instances and therefore it is but > justice to the owners of marsh lands*that such misrepresentation be recti- . fied. Reports have stated that larged tracts of marsh land has burned to a ~ depth of eight and ten feet in many/* places, and that the soil in consequence^ is rendered worthless. In some few^ places the muck has burned down to.'i a depth of a few inches but this wasj not general at all. But very little, if ~ any land, has been injured in this 10-< cality. The most of it, on the contary,^ has been benefited and put in betteri shape for plowing and cultivation on account of these fires. The marsh lands in this locality were never in a better and more promising condition than at present, and people at a distance who have taken any stock in these false reports are hereby assured that they have been misled, so far as this locality is concerned. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder A Pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder.

An elegant line of sideboards just received at Vincent’s. Highest market prices paid for grain by the Walkerton Milling Co. It will pay you to see Clem Crawford before you buy a piano or organ. 108 West Jefferson St., South Bend. Though Elkhart county is a republican county it has had a democratic auditor for twenty years in succession. The old court house in South Bend will be moved to a lot on Lafayette street. The commissioners have let the job to H. Sheeler, of Chicago, who

will begin the work nt once. Dr. Arlington is giving special attention Io 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 Jie will not answer calls to the country on Saturday. An exchange in talking about advertising, says: “The hypothesis that advertisers can not sell at prices as I low as mm advertisers is a fallacy, i The energetic advertiser and hustler! sells more goods in proportion in his i total expenses than the conservative! nonadvertiser, other things being equal. He turns his stock oftener and can, as a rule, sell on smaller margins. He may be generally relied upon as having fresh, clean or model stock, as the case may be, because he sells what be buys quickly and replaces with goods that are in immediate demand.” The B. & <>. has taken a timely precaution against train robbers, as the following from the Indianapolis Journal, will show: “Train robbers will hardly be pleased with the new postal cars which the Baltimore & Ohio has put on to run bet ween St. j Louis and the east. Heretofore train j robbers have worked by leaping upon the platform and tiring through the* glass in Ihe doors at the mail clerks,! and thus compelling them to surrender and open the cars. The new cars > being devoid of platforms, there will > be no place for the robbers to get, a ; foothold. There is a door nt one end, f a trap door at the other end, and a । door on either side for the reception i ! and delivery of mail; all of these j (bans are strongly barricaded. U Idle j the car is not artnor chid, it is Im lit «oj strong that bullets will not penetrate it. If there were a smashtip on the road this car Would be in the worst of it and perhaps m>t suffer much. The ends ine strengthened by heavy timbers and iron braces, which protect , the carriages from being tele-scoped " Real Estate Transfers Frank B Byers to George B. I orgy ii strip 1 2 rods wide x 95 rods long in ! Lincoln tp, sl. Silas George, adm. to Sushiiua Brown lots 10 and 11 in D. W. Place's add to Walkerton, SB6O. George B. Forgy to D W. Place a i strip 1 2 by 95 rods in Lincoln tp, sl. A Prominent Lawyer Os Greenville, 111 , Mr. C. E. Cook, writes: “I have been troubled with j billionsness, sick headache, sour stem- ; neb, constipation, etc, for several* years. I sought long and tried many i remedies, but was disappointed until i I tried your Syrup Pepsin. I can cheerfully recommend it to any suffer- ' ing from above complaints.” Sold by ! Bellinger & Williams. Farm for Sale 155 acres, lj miles northwest, of* Walkerton; 125 acres under cultivation, i the rest timber. A good large house, I barns and wiudpump; good orchard. Terms one fourth down, the rest yearly pavments. William H. Gotld.

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I Personal Points. r George Kellogg, of Warsaw, was visiting relatives in this place the past week, D. N. Hudelmyer and Mrs. Daniel • Brubaker were in South Bend last Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Hostetter, of South Bend, i was visiting with her parents here during the past week. Charlie Petrie and wife, of South , Chicago, have been visiting with his parents in this place. Chas. Goodrich returned to Chicago last Tuesday after a visit of about a week here with his patents. Mrs. Mark Bender, of Knox, was visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Swank, and other relatives the past. week. Mra.lKreiger, of Fostoria, and Mrs. Win, Ij’rst. Chicago Jet., Ohio, are the gujts “f *he latter's parents, Mrand My Gw, Bentley. MrlWnd Mrs. Z E. Homebeck returtiedHbom their bridal trip last MonI day evening. They left on Thursday for Grand Rapids, Mich , where they ' will make their home. Mrs. Clara Hower, of Nappanee, visited with her sister, Mrs. Sam Cowan, and family over Sunday. Miss Feme Cowan returned home with Mrs. Hower to visit a few days. Father Samuel Yerrick, of this place, recently visited his old home at Akron, I Ohio. The Reformed Herald, a religous paper published in that city, has the following mention of Mr. Yerrick; “Mr. Samuel Yerrick, of Walkerton, Ind ~ was one of the most delighted persons in our congregation on Sunday morning, October 27. Years ago when | Grace Reformed Church had a hard struggle to simply keep alive. Brother Yerrick was one of the Elders. It * cotlld hardly seem possible to him that such changes hail taken place. The little band of communicants had multiplied into a host; the little struggling Sunday School had grown so big that wo hail 590 present to greet Father Yerrick last month; the little church had given place to the new church of 1881, tu'd that had to be nearly doubled in its imparity in 1895 Do you wonder then that this venerable man enjoyed commmiing with iu mi October 27, and that he believes that the Bible prophe i cio* alient the growth of the eiinrch . are fulfilled ? He knows of at j least Instnoco." Tv Fajjlitale Ruting on Nicholson I aw I hewbeing so many pieces of the! NiclUH^Hi law not pending before the snprenpl court. Attorney General Kntcbt|m will endeavor to make a , sort ofa^ck shot and combine the various caMp under one head in order to facilitate a ruling on the law as an integer, • and unless this can be one, there Will lie no end to fragmentary ' eases. । There is eminent talent em ployeilfou both sides and if the AttorneyM’eueral can bring about a linked base the eqd may be reached before Knot her legislature convenes Goshen News Older of Tonti Comes to Grief A mutual insurance organization ' known as the Order of Tonti has come to grids, and its affairs are now the sub jeet olßtigation in Rochester, N. 1 . Thia Xmeern had promised to pay to each member at the end of seven years , the sdlu of $1,066 in return for assess- ! mentSHggregating about S3OO A lit--1 tie co inion sense would warn the public ag just placing any reliance in such prom ies, but it seems that there were plent of dupes who believed in the integi ty of the concern. And there will j obably be plenty more to place reliai »e in the next similar scheme to be stl rted —Goshen Times. I ■ An Incendiary Fire TL-lLaPoi Ie Herald says of the

SoH'^iberty tire in the B. F. Wright “an investigation shows that ”he gOCerv was robbed prior to being QU^the thieves setting lire to the kU^ng to cover up all traces of their When the discovery of the fire U! tfpde hie , t>ar d° Ol ' ^’e building ^g^pen, showing signs of having (^misted in.’’ •qsa. aj<a Awarded -uoftest Honors —World’s Fair. b* DR, •dp; Sr CREAM BAKING POWDER most perfect made. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.

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