St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 January 1896 — Page 5

Hullhtlou TlHiket. Corrected Weekly by Chas M. Stephen.. Egg* 1 J Butter 1" Lard 7 Green Hides 5 Potatoes new 20 to 23 Corn 25 Clover Seed $3 50 to 4 00 Wheat 62 Oats Beans. 70 toßo Rye 32 Onions new 45 Chickens young. 5 to 6 Wool 1° ,o 13 LOCAL NEWS.

Sole leather in any quantity at Ake's. For carpets or furniture see Vincent's. There are several eases of grippe in town. The Independent comes out this week in an entire new dress of body type. The Boston Store. South Bend, calls your attention to their ad this week. Rooms to rent, ground floor. After Jan. 1,1896. Apply to J. W. Arlington. Elmer Sneathen, of the Island, teacher at the Orange school, is quite sick with grippe. _ Mill full of bran and middlings. To empty out will sell low. Farmers take heed. Walkerton Milling Co. Through clubbing arrangements we can furnish this paper and the Plymouth Semi-Weekly Independent for $2. The Star Laundry, South Bend, does all hand work. Frst-class work guaran teed. A. E. Cripe, the barber, agent. The schools at Hamlet are closed on ' account of the prevalence of diphtheritic I croup. Six cases have resulted fatally so ; far. The styles in furniture at Vincent’s are always up to date. Prices as low as good goods can be sold at a reasonable margin. South Bend's peeping Tom received a well deserved thrashing the other day by the big cousin of the young lady who had been annoyed. Everything usually kept in a well supplied furniture store will be found at Vincent's. Goods delivered free in town and surrounding country. Jacob Wile, of LaPorte well known in banking and insurance circles, died in Chicago on Wednesday. He was l>orn in Bavaria, Germany, in 1828. Ari Stevenson, who is employed on the B. &O. section, had the lingers of his left hand mashed, last Monday, caused by a tee-rail falling on them. The hand was dressed by Dr. Arlington. Quarterly meeting will be held Satur day and Sunday, Jan. 25 and 26, at tne M. E. church in this place. I’residing Elder Ogden will preach Saturday even ing and Sunday morning. The Garden City Institute, of Chicago, will be represented in this place by a physician Saturday, Jan. 25, with headquarters at the American hotel. Chronic diseases will be treated. Consultation free. The Independent has just received a fresh order of cards and stationary for commercial purposes. Business men who wish neat cards, envelopes or letter heads will make no mistake by calling on the Independent. Quarterly meeting at the U. B. church Saturday and Sunday in town. The presiding elder is assisting in the 1 revival meeting. There have been 32 out to the altar of prayer and most of them united with the church. The T. J. O. M. Club met last Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Anna Cook. Chat, games, etc., made the evening a

- I pleasant one. Refreshments were served. All members are requested to be present next Tuesday evening at the home of ' Miss Myrtle Platts. A dispatch says that farmers of Van ’ Buren countyTMich., lost thousands of . barrels of potatoes which they had buried in a swamp for lire winter. Lhe flood of water washed the potatoes out < and they were frozen by the cold spell. They are a total loss. One farmer, named J. C. Peters, lost 4,000 bushels of choice varieties. The loss will aggregate many thousands of dollars. The town has settled with Mrs. Emma McMasters for SSO. She brought suit against the town for S2OO for attendance and cost of medical service during the illness of her daughter Ella, who broke her arm by falling on a defective sidewalk. The case of Ella McMasters vs. Walkerton, in which the plaintiff was awarded $l5O in the St. Joseph circuit court, will be appealed to the state supreme court. The Valparaiso Vidette says that a society that is growing rapidly in this state is the Indiana Cremation League. The crematory is located at C incinnati, and each member signs a solemn obligation that his remains be consigned to the furnace after death. The society is new and it is intended to secure members in nearly every town in the state. Its object is to overcome the general feeling of antipathy against the practice and to hasten the time when it will do away with graveyards.

Come this week to buy fine pigs. D. C. Swartz. Orders for bread at the Domestic ' bakery will be deliverer! to customers if desired. At O. F. Townsend’s you can get an up to-date haircut. Next door to the postoffice. A. C. Hardenbrook and family moved into their new house on Tuesday. The house is quite conveniently arranged and has a solid comfort veranda built along the entire front. It will make a pleas ant home. The American House, J. Rensberger, proprietor, has good accommodations for boarders and lodgers. Rates SI a day.

Dr. Arlington will move into his new office next week. His new office rooms are one door west of his present quarters. The old court house at South Bend is being moved to the site recently pur chased on Lafayette street. It is being moved at the rate of about seven feet a day. The protracted meetings at the M. E. church continue with good interest. Kev. Stockbarger is doing good, practical work. Five accessions to the church are reported so far. More will likely be added. Fok Sale. Twenty acres of good land, all improved, located 2D miles north west of Walkerton. Would make a fine truck farm. Good, rich soil. Will be sold very reasonable. Call on or address A. E. Cripe, Walkerton, Ind. “The condition of the poor in the city of South Bend is just simply terrible," said Township Trustee Wheeler to a Tribune reporter. "I visited six families yesterday afternoon and it made me sick at heart. For the life of me I don't see ! how they keep soul and body together. Sickness and lack of employment have brought some of them to the verge of starvation.” 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 fits spectacles by the latest im proved methods. Office hours 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 1 p. m., 7 to 8 p. m., 2 to 3 p. m„ Sundays. Office in Oliver opera house block. Rev. W. W. Jones, of Chicago, will de liver a lecture on the silver question in Bender's opera house Monday evening, Jan. 27. Bimetallism will be discussed in all its bearings. Rev. Jones has the reputation of being one of the best in formed men in the country on the silver question, and he will no doubt handle the subject in away that will be profit able for all to hear him. J. W. Brown wishes to call the atten tion of the readers of the Independent to the fact that he will be prepared to furnish them with ice next summer. He will do a full fledged ice business and can accommodate all. This announcement is made early so that those who intend to use ice the coming summer will need to look no farther. An exchange gives the following sar castic pointers: Persons wishing their letters to go through the mails in a hur ry should always write “in haste" in the lower left hand corner of the envelope. Then everybody connected with the pos tai service jumps around lively. The stage driver whips his horses into a brisk trot, the postmaster dances a jig and the route agent pushes forward ami tells the engineer to pull the throttle and let her go. The paper was late and the foreman was dumping matter into the forms at a rapid rate. Result: The first part of an obituary had been dumped into the form, and the next handful of type came off a galley describing a recent fire. It read

like this: “The pall bearers lowered the body into the grave and the body was i consigned to the roaring flames. There were few, if any regrets, for the old | wreck had been an eye-sore to the town j for years. The loss was fully covered by insurance. Don’t get mad if your visitor's name does not appear in the personal column. Perhaps you did not tell the editor he’s no mind reader. Don't get mad if your neighbor's doings are referred to more frequently than your own. Your neighbor uses his mouth. Your modesty may be keeping you in obscurity. That s no dream. A -newspaper man can t i spend all his time on the street and ■ • make three meals a day. If you know an item of news hold us up and give it * out of your system yourself. Sixteen to ; one if gotten second hand there w ill be a blunder in it. Ex. Starke County Democrat: The rapid fall of the recent high water in Yellow river, proves pretty conclusively that the removal of rock from the Kankakee at Momence was a decided benefit to this part of the country. The water rose much more rapidly than formerly, owing no doubt to the fact that the channel of Yellow river has been cleaned and straightened in Marshall county. The water, which was pretty close to previous high water marks here, went down to the channel of the river in a. few days, whereas woeks have been required heretofore. This was the first flood since the rock was removed, and the result is decidedly encouraging.

Ed Shetland has been laying off from railroading for the past two weeks as the gripfa* has had him. The Walkerton Independent and the Plymouth Semi Weekly Independent will be furnished to subscribers at 82. Rev. B. H. Beall closed hie protracted meeting at Knox on Tuesday evening. The meetings were quite successful, re suiting in 27 accessions. If you are troubled with any chronic disease consult a representative of the Garden City Institute, who will be in Walkerton at the American hotel, Saturday, Jan. 25. The Princes of the Orient held a meeting in the opera house at Plymouth on

Thursday evening. The degrees were conferred upon several prominent candi I dates. Neighboring towns were represented. . __ —- । Dr. Jones had quite a lively runaway Monday afternoon. He was returning , from visiting a patient on the Islan<| , whim his horse became frightened and^ ran, throwing the Dr. out and mixing up* things considerably. No serious damage was done. ? The Indiana, Illinois & lowa railroadcompany will sell home seekers Excursion tickets on Jan. 14 and 28, Feb. 11 and March 10 to i>oints in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Southwest Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma at low rates. For particulars call on Agents 3 I Route, or address. S. S. Whitehead, G. P. A., Kankakee. 111. It is told that a Kosciusko county farmer not long ago went into a clothing stoic in this city and purchased a suit of clothes at a remarkably low figure considering the quality of goods. The pro prietor remarked - "There, that is the cheapest suit of clothes you ever !»<>ught. . Oh. no, said the farmer, "this suit cost me 20 bushels of wheat. I never |»aid 1 over 15 bushels of wheat for a suit of clothes before.” Fact. Warsaw Times. The Latest about Snake#. The Hastings correspondent of the Milford Mail comes forward with the following snake story: Last Monday a tramp, who gave his name as James Morgan, was crossing the west marsh when the ground on which he was standing suddenly caved in for a space of aliout five feet around and to his horror he found himself in the midst of a large den of rattlesnakes. The reptiles fiercely attacked him. and it, was only by an almost superhuman es ■ fort that he freed himself, but not till hei had been bitten numerous times. H*was brought to Dr. Kline's at this place! and medical aid summoned from Nap pannee. The doctors worked with him all night and hopes are entertained of his recovery. Had Luck with the Tot W elt, The test well for the water works, which had been driven 115 feet, came to a standstill last Momlay on account of a misfortune. A very hard rock was struck which refused to yield to the i drill. The rock was in such a position ; that the drill would glance off and could ; not be made to work. (’harlesSheaLdey, the well driver, tried a plan which Js sometimes adopted in such cases, that of i blasting the rock with dynamite. Five jxninds of the explosive were put down the pipe with a lighted fuse attached, j The fuse by some means became extin , guished. and another piece of lighted j fuse and a cap were put down, but this 1 stuck in the pipe 25 feet down ami an attempt was made to pull it up with the i rope but this proved a failure and the i dynamite exploded, bursting the pipe, : and leaving HH feet of it in the ground.! This pipe and tin' work on the well will : be a loss amounting in all to about fifty dollars. Another test well will be com menced at once a few feet from the one iabandoned.

PROF. NIEL, ? government chemist, writes: I havecan> ully analyzed your “ Royal Ruby Port Wine,” bought by me In the open market, and certify that* I found the same absolutely pure and well aged. This wine is especially recommended for its health-res- ( toring and building up properties; its strengthens the weak and restores lost vi-। fality- particularly adapted for convalescents, the aged, nursing mothers and those reduced and weakened by over-work and worry. Be sure you get ‘ ‘Royal Ruby”: $1 per quart bottles, pints 60 cts. Sold by J. F. REID. | WtobonlP PURE RYE Shipped pure and unadulterated direct from the distillery,. Pronounced a pure and wholesome tonic-stimulant by the medical fraternity everywhere. Gives life, strength and happiness to the weak, sick, aged and infirm. If you cannot procure it of your druggist or • liquor dealers, upon receipt of $1.50 we will express prepaid to any address a full quart sample bottle of Old Elk Rye or Bourbon. STOLL. VAHNAnfi & GO , DISTILLERS Lexlnjfton, Ky.

personal points. A. L. Washburne, of LaPorte, was in town last Sunday. 8. S. Bosserman, of LaPorte, was in town on Wednesday. Miss Effie Beall visited with friends ,n LaPorte last Saturday. Ed Albion, of Chicago, visited with relatives in this place this week. H. Schwalm, of Cleveland, 0., and a memlier of the Walkerton Milling Co., w<is in town a few days this week. Mrs. Ira Rensberger, of Chicago, has been visiting in this place with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Goodrich. Rev. Stockbarger received a visit on Wednesday from his father and brother, Levi L and Fred Stockbarger, of Misha waka. (. has. B. McCready, of Lansing, Mich., visited with his college mate. Attorney Qrosby, of this place, the latter part of LiuHt week. Mrs. Wesley Rupel returned home Wednesday from South Bend where she has been staying for a week with her daughter, Mrs. Alonzo WorstMiss Maggie Hardman, of South Bend, returned home last Monday after a visit of two weeks in this place with her cousin, Mrs. Rebecca Vincent. Rev. George Cook left here Friday morning for his home at Kearney, Ne braska. He expects to stop at a few places in Illinois and lowa while enroute. Miss Zadie Rupel went to South Bend Wednesday to remain for a time with her sister, Mrs. Worst, who is quite ill from the shock of her recent terrible bereavement. A. H. Noble is enjoying a visit from his brother, James Noble and family, who are on their way from Missouri to their former home near Youngstown, Ohio, where they expect to locate. FEARS OF INTENSE PAIN. Dr.J.H. Watt*, druggist and physician, Humboldt, Neb., who suffered with heart disease for four years, trying every remedy and all treatments known to himself and fellow-practitioners; believes that heart disease Is curable. He w rites: "I wish to tell what your valuable medicine has done for me. For four years I had I heart disease of the very worst kind. Several physicians 1 consulted, said It was Rheumatism of the Heart.

It was almost unendurable; with shortness of brvath, palpitations, severe pains, unable to sleep, especially on the left side. No pen can <lescrltw my sufferparticularly ■during the last r months of those four weary years. I Anally tried

DR. J. H. WATTS.

Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure, and was surprised at the result. It put new life Into and made a new man of me. I have not had a symptom of trouble since •nd 1 am satisfied your medicine has cured me for 1 have now enjoyed, since taking It Three Years of Splendid Health. 1 might add that I am a druggist and have •old and recommended your Heart Cure, for I know what it has done for me and only wish 1 could state more clearly my suffering then and the good health I now enjoy. Your Nervine and other remedies also give excellent satisfaction." J. H. Watts. Humboldt, Noh. May fl, 'fl4. Dr. Miinsi Heart. Cure is sold on a positive tuamihsi that the first bottle will benefit. All druggists sell It at IL 6 bottles for 16, or It’rill be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Pr. Miles Medical 00.. Elkhart, Lud. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure Restores Health cgaaz CcrC^ah. and Hixua, ftmflAxeaend do it too in away that he will like. Every man that wears collars and cuffs should know about the “ CELLULOID * Interlined. A linen collar or cuff covered with waterproof ” Celluloid.” They are the only Interlined Collars and Cuffs made. They are the top notch of comfort, neatness and economy. They will go through the day with you in good shape, no matter how hot or how busy you get. You can clean one yourself in a minute, without dependence on busy wives, unskillful hired girls or uncertain and distant laundries. Simply wipe them off. Every piece is marked as follows: ^EI-LULOIO markYou must insist upon goods so marked and take nothing else if you expect s<it. isfjict-ion • If your dealer should not have them, we will send you a sample postpaid on receipt of price. Collars 25c. each. Cuffs 50c. pair. Give size, and specify standup or turned-down collar as wanted. TH E CELLU LOI D COM PAN Y, 427-39 Broadway, NEW YORK. Ml pain banished by Dr. Miles’ Pain Pills.

Bad Cooking’ is a waste and harmful in every way. Thousands of people are deprived of half the actual nutriment of their food because of bad cooking and the want of means to make food palatable and digestible. The Majestic IX is recognized as the most perfect cooking apparatus yet produced. It is made of malleable iron and cold-rolled double-stretched steel-plate throughout, except fire-box, which is made of the best gray iron. The oven and’ fire-box are built on an entirely new principle. The Majestic is backed by the strongest guarantee made by any maker. T. J. REECE & CO., Agents. SPECIAL SALES Through January! AT THE ° J Busy, Suring See-piive. Fur Capes, 40 Per Cent Discount. Jackes, this season’s purchase 25 uer ct. discount. Lot old cloaks, at $2. former nrice 812 to 325Knit Underwear, ten per cent discount. Dress Goods, ten uer cent discount OUR LINEN SALE is atlnicting idtention. It will pay you to look this department over with care. There is money in it for you at 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 that I will close out at cost. Don’t care to handle them any more. Smooth Wire. Several hundred pounds at cost, to close out. Gome Quick while the Assortment is Good- | T. J. REECE & CO. LESLIE BROS. Fancy Baking a Specialty. Give us your Orders for Birthday and Wedding* Cakes. Bellinger & Williams, DRUGS, Notions, Stationery, Perfumes, etc. Mudelmyer Block.