St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 December 1895 — Page 5

Walkerton Harket. Corrected Weekly by Chas. M. Stephens, eggs 18 Hutter 14 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 Beans 80 to $1 00 Rye 32 Onions new 45 Chickens voting 5 W001....* 10 to 13 LOCAL NEWS. The Walkerton Milling Co. want wheat. They pay the highest nnirKet price. Rev. B. H. Beall is building a residence near his property which will be occupied by his son, Ed. It will pay you to see Clem Crawford before you buy’ a piano or organ. 108 West Jefferson St.., South Bend. Owing to the revival meeting at the Island there will be no preaching at the U. B. church next Sunday evening. The most beautiful Christmas gifts are at the Tribune store in South Bend. Visitors are always welcome. The Bremen military company has -disbanded. The SBS left in the treasury was donated to the Holland Radiator Works. The “White Rose” Hour, manufactured by the Walkerton Milling Co., rebiins its popularity. It. never fails to give satisfaction. The revival meeting at the Island still continues with great interest. There have been 14 accessions, with more to follow soon. A painful affair occurred in this place on Wednesday the facts of which we do not publish out. of deference to the wishes of certain ones. The newspapers are roasting one Ralph O. Bates, a lecturer who is traveling through this state. He is said to be a fraud and don't pay his debts. We advise our readers to inspect the very large and exceedingly cheap line of books, stationery, art goods, toys, etc., at the Tribune store, .South Bend, before deciding on Christinas girts. Mrs. Emma Whitehead, of Nappanee, has been adjudged insane, i She is addicted to the morphine habit, which caused her insanity. She recently broke into a drug store at. that place for the purpose of securing her favorite drug. The case is said to be a very sad oneTo those who have been making themselves fresh with the Independent’s wood pile after daik, we wish to say that we received a nice dry load to-day, so that we can keep them supplied. It is good, hard body wood and we are confident that, our neighborly friends will be well pleased with it. 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. Office hours 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., 7 to Bp. m.; 2t03 p. m. Sundays. Office in Oliver opera house block. The following officers were elected Friday evening by Jesse Coppock Woman’s Relief Corps: Mrs. Norma Brannaman, president; Mrs. Me Al- ( lister, senior vice president; Mrs. Mar- , juiret Stickly, junior vice president; j treasurer; Mrs. S. C, AViodara^napialn: Mrs. Nancy Baker. । conductor; Mrs. Amos Atwood, guard; delegate, Mrs. P. Ryan; alternate, Mrs. i ] S. C. Woodard. 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. When you need anything in the line of job printing bring your work to the Independent office. If we can’t suit you as to prices and quality of work then we don’t ask for your patronage. Our job department is well equipped now, but we will continue to add the latest styles in type and the best material, that we maykeep abreast of the times and give our patrons entire satisfaction. The Independent is here for business, and we expect to secure patronage only by deserving it.

The Independent has blank deeds and mortgages for sale. Blank deeds and mortgages at the Independent office. Vincent’s have a line line of pictures from 50c to $1.40. An elegant line of sideboards just received at Vincent’s. Get the benefit of the Independent’s premium offer. See that double decked dresser suite at Vincent’s. It is elegant. Don’t buy elsewhere until you get prices of holiday goods at Endly’s. You can get blank deeds, mortgages, receipts and notes at the Independent office. The Independent office prints 50 sale bills on good water proof paper for $l5O. We also give a free notice of sale iu the paper. Items put in the Independent item box at the post-office should have Ihe signature of the writer, that, we mayknow they are genuine. For Sale.—Twenty acres of good land, all improved, located 2f miles north west, of Walkerton. Would make a line truck farm. Good, rich soil. Will be sold very reasonable. Call on or address A. E Cripe, Walkerton, Ind. The Independent has just, received some elegant samples of programs, folders, wedding invitations, fancycards, etc. When you want anything in this line please remember us. Those who have wood to pay on their subscription are hereby notified that, the INDEPENDENT can use the same to excellent advantage at the present writing. Alonzo Powers, the murderer of William Tratebas, of Chesterton, was sentenced to imprisonment for life by Judge Hubbard in the Ld’orte cir cult court last Tuesday. Henry Kaufman, of near Teegarden, died on last Tuesday morning, aged 75 years. He is survived by a widow and several children. He was a memher of the Lutheran church. He was buried on Thursday from the Lutheran church near North Liberty. An exchange remarks that the time will soon be here when the sweet girl graduate raises her lily white arm and in accents bold ami with seraphic grace proclaims: “All along the untrodden path of the future we can see the hidden foot prints of tut unseen hand.” At the regular meeting of Jesse Coppock post No. 378 December the 7, 1895, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Com mander, Silas Baker; S. V. C , Allen Ramsby; J. V. C , W. G Brown; chaplain, James Shoemaker; Sergeant, H. P. WoodardjO D., Edson Golt; D. M . M. R. Berger; (). G , H A. Adie; delegate to department, encampment, M. R. Berger; alternate, Amos Atwood. Nappanee News: Coppes Bros. & Zook will this year furnish the 3,500 barrels of flour for the passover bread baked by a Chicago flrm for the use of the Jewish people in that city and several hundred miles adjacent. It will require a special mill run, the flour being made finer and softer. The other requirements are that the baker has a rabbi come here with him to see that the wheat is perfect, that the rolls are cleaned, machinery blessed, etc. John Ball, of Lal’orte, who was thought to be of unsound mind, was declared to be sane by Judge Hubbard in the LaPorte circuit court last Monday. About a year ago Ball created a sensation by disappearing mysteriously at South Chicago. After returning he was supposed to be insane and a conservator was appointed to Like charge of Ids property. By Judge Hubbard’s decision he has been restored to his property rights. Engine No 269 of the east bound fast train on the B. & O. due here about noon was thrown from the track by the inter-locking switch near the coal chute last Tuesday. The L. E. & W. had the target. No. 269 was late and the engineer, McLaughin, thinking that he could get the target, did not slack the speed of his engine until it was too late. When he saw the L. E. & W. had the target be tried to stop his engine but for some reason could not get control of the air brake in time to escape being thrown from the track. The engine and the front trucks of the tender were derailed. No damage of consequence resulted and the engine was replaced in about two hours from the time the accident occurred. The fireman, Billy Aikin, jumped from the engine when he saw it could not be stopped. Mike Hallinan was the conductor of the train. This is the first occurrence of the kind since the inter-locking tower was put iu at this place.

J Shoo-Fly rockers for the little folk J at Vincent’s. J See Noah Rensberger's holiday anl nouncernent. Dr. Arlington has added to hi J office a line surgical table. Dr. Arlington is having a handsome! bay window built to the addition back! of his office. 1 Attention is called to the card of I । Dr. P. M. Jones, who has just located! in this place. i The report that Charles Snyder was drowned la the Kankakee river last! Tuesday was denied in person by Mr. i Snyder, who came to town while such rumors were flying about. For the holidays the Indiana, Illinois & lowa railroad will sell excursion tickets between all points on its line at the low rate of one and oned third fare for the round trip. Tick-1 els on sale Dec. 24, 25 and 31st, 1895.1 and Jan. Ist, 1896. Good returning^! until January 2nd, 1896. Citizens of this place and vicinity who are looking for suitable Christmas presents are advised to inspect the immense stock of books, stationery, art goods, albums, fancy articles, Christmas cards, toys, etc., at the Tribune store, South Bend, before buying. It’Will be money saved. J. F. Maloy, representing the Chicago I diversity, is organizing a university extension class in this place. This movement is endorsed by some of Chicago's leading educators, ami would seem to lie worthy of every encouragement by our citizens. The system is brief but comprehensive, and is the thing for busy people with limited lime for study. It is to be hoped that a good class will be established here. The waterworks question in Walkerton, seems to he in an unsettled con-j dition nt present. They say the extending of the corporation for the purpose of bonding the town won't j work. North Liberty News. You have been misinformed. The waterworks question is not unsettled.! I Walkerton is reasonably sure of liav- ! : ing waterworks. The extension of j the town's corporate limits is alto- ' । get her a different matter, ami has 1 nothing Io do with the question of whether we will or will not have! waterworks. A dispatch from Lagrange says that I a Anal count shows that more than n ! majority of the voters in the township ■ in which the town is situated have I signed remonstrances against the sa- ! loons. The contest was bitter and vindictive, and (he defeated applicants will open quart shops and put. hi pool tables. They will also appeal, on | the ground that .Sunday does not count as one of the three days required, ami that signatures obtained on Thanksgiving day are invalid. A ease was decided against Samuel I Koontz, Sr., in the Lal’orte circuit court last Tuesday, by which he has | to pay a note of $ IJHM) against the ! Stephens Store Co. The note was ’ made twelve years ago ami bears Mr. | Koontz’s signal lire. He claimed that ! he had forgotten about the note but' acknowledged that the signature was his. The note, we understand, was i held by Andrew Anderson, of South ! Bend. It was supposed to be outlawed but a payment had been made which renewed the note. Mr. Koontz thinks of appealing the case to a higher court. Those who entertain a superstition about the number 13 being unlucky, says the Lal’orte Argus, may be interested in knowing that for several years the Lake Shore road had a number thirteen express train, and as long as it ran under that number it. never met with the slightest mishap. It was so singularly free from till . trouble that it became noted on the! road. A short, time ago the number] was changed ami almost immediately I accidents began to happen to it and! they have since been of frequent occurrence although none of them have i been very serious. Probate Cause No. 5-2. George E. Steel Administrator. t i st n Est 'V e ? f n i) 1,1 Circuit Court o f John N. Barnhart, Deceased Joseph couty, Ind. , . ~ „ \ s ' . , , J December term 1805. John M. Barnhart, etai. To John M. Barnhart: You are severally hereby notified that the above named petitioner as Administrator of the estate aforesaid, has tiled in the Circuit Court of St. Joseph county, Indiana, a petition making you defendants thereto, and praying therein for an order and decree of said Court authorizing the sale of certain Real Estate belonging to the estate of said decedent, and in said petition described, to make assets for the payment of the debts and liabilities of said estate, and has also filed an affidavit averring therein that you and each of you are non-residents of the State of Indiana, or that your residence is unknown and that you are necessary parties to said proceeding; and that said petition, so filed and which is now pending, is set for hearing in said Circuit Court at the Court House m South Bend Ind., on the 6th day of January, 1896. Witness, the Clerk and Seal of said Court, this 1 27th day of November, 1895. ’ GEO. M. FOUNTAIN, Clerk. I J. B. Arnold, Attorney.

L Peraeual Point*. I J. E. Johnson, of Tyner, was in town I on Tuesday. Ed Goodrich spent Sunday and Mon* 1 day in South Bend. Miss Carrie Rupel is visiting in ■ South Bend this week. ■ 0. M . Goodrich, of Chicago, visited flat home over Sunday. I A. D. Johnson, of Tyner, was doing ■ business in town lust Tuesday. E Miss Lon Rensberger, of Chicago, is OLifiug friends and relatives in this 1 place. H The Misses Clara Gould and Laura ^mroshHiis were in South Bend Thurs■F Himmel Koontz, Sr., ami C. W. N. Ktephons were in LnPorte Monday and |Tuea<li*y. ■ Hev Gohs and wife, of South Bend, ■ ’cftUhnwu last Tuesday, being enSroute to Rochester. ft Mrs. Otie Wallace and Mrs. Collier, rs Tyner, were the guests of Mrs. L. K. Strang a part of this week. I Mrs. Will Clem returned on Tues■by from a visit of several days in Biicago. Her mother, Mrs. Sarah Vostetter, returned with her. | Scott Blaine contemplates making s ‘Hrip to Jacksonville, Florida, the Irst of January for the benefit of his ^ lealth. He expects to be gone about Mix months. Hon. T. J. Wolfe and Charles M. liens, of Walkerton, were welcome *' fliers at this office Tuesday. Mr. ' folfe has taken a paper published by ! so editor of The Times since 1868, benning with the Ligonier Banner. South Bend Times. Ross, Jarrell & Co. request those ring them to call and settle between 11 iw and the first of January, either cash or note. They wish to have sir books straightened by the first j”* the year. Please heed t his request. Fashion Card Overcoats, fly front and double 1,1 Mated Chestei field, will undoubted!ly be the popular garments as body •M’ its. Such as Palatots and frock . overcoats are objected to by a great | tu tay, mi thegroiind that if they wear ; lo^g -ahirttal overcoats they must wear a wgh hat, and business men object, aafhey are inconvenient in busineMlAvthiee ImUon cutaway, with edges tl ”' P°l'” ,, ‘r coat for wear, but for pliiclii al LuHiiieas wAr the three and four button sack will l>e all the rage. The goods used ■ will h« black worsted for Hie cutaway, and cheviots for the Hack suits TiousI era are again made amall from the knee down, and well shaped, -('reuses Hie not in style The tailoring departmeet, which is under the management of Albert C. Pich, is now prepared to give you all styles and perfect fit second to none, at reasonable prices. Respectfully, T. J. WoLFE Real Estate Transfers Louis M. Beall to Allen Beall, acres in I.incoln twp, $2,000. Allen Beall to Brenton Beall, same as in next above, $2,000. Rose LeFeber to Emmet S. Nichols, ] lot 2iu Place's Ist ald to Walkerton, I S6(X). Emmet S sicliols to Ruse LeFeber, ! lot 13 in Place’s Ist add to Walkerton, : S6OO. Mice and Rabbits and Fruit Trees Purdue Agricultural experiment station has just issued a bulletin on the protection of voting fruit trees from mice and rabbits which is of much interest just now. Mice and rabbits gnaw the bark off the young trees during the winter months ami the suggestion for protection says a favorite method is to wrap the trunks with closely woven wire screen, such as is used for screen doors. This may be ■ut into strips eighteen inches to two . jeet in length and wide enough to Completely encase the body of the Tree These may be tacked on or the | edges woven together, and if they do i not fit too closely, may be left ou for I several years. Instead of the wire j screen, ordinary roofing tin is some- ] times used . Sheathing paper is also | used with good effect, placed ou the j tree in a similar manner. Awarded Highest Honors— World’s Fair. DR, VW F CREAM BAKING POWD(R MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.

, Baking her brains. What housekeeper has not worked over her cook-stove until her face has become aflame, her head over-heated > and her entire bodily strength exhausted? Here comes one of the superb features or the l Majestic IX I It cooks and bakes with a minimum of fuel by reason of its scientific construction. Its asbestos linings prevent the radiation of heat, keeping it inside to do the work. One can open the oven door bare-handed when baking. Majestic women are cool headed women; a cool head means a healthy bodv. T. J. REECE & CO,, Agents. Interesting News! ...FROM THE.. BUSY, BUZZING BEE HIVE, OF LAPORTE....We waut to help you in your.... Christmas Selections! ....Until CbrißtruHH all Colored and Fancy.... DRESS GOODS! at 10 Per Cent Discount! Until Christmas ( Rlack ^Dress Good^ at - w pe-r ct. discount a (Black Silks a 20 11 a Colored Silks (( 20 a a Bur Capes at prices to sell them for Christmas Gifts. Jackets - - 20 per ct. discount Cloth Capes - - 20 H tc Fleece Lined Underwear « 10 a (i Stock Full of fJovellies in Si 1 vci'warc.^> Books, Perfumes, Handkerchiefs, Mufflers, Umbrellas, and lots of Goods useful and ornamental for Christmas time. Julius Barnes <fc Co. Michigan Ave., LAPORTE. Stoves at Bargains! Having decided to close out our stock of Stoves, we will sell them. nt prices never before heard of in this place. This is your opportunity to get a stove very cheap. Sash and Doors. A few sizes flint I will close out at cost. Don’t care to handle them any more. Smooth Wire. Several hundred pounds at cost, to close out. Come Quick while the Assortment is GoodT. J. REECE & CO. LESLIE BROS.

Is Fresh Bread, the Place to Pies, and get Fancy Cakes. Special attention given to the baking of Fancy Orders. Leave us your order for A Wedding Cake.