St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 July 1896 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXII.

Crimson Clover in Indiana. Crimson elover has been grown in Indiana several years. It has proved an almost absolute failure in some instances while in others very satisfactory crops have been grown. It is, at best, a rather uncertain crop in this latitude, but it has several characteristics which make it a desirable acquisition where it can be grown successfully. CHARACTER INTICS OF CRIMSON c I.o' Mt. It is a true clover, but earlier, smaller and usually less hardy than the common red clover. It starts promptly ami more vigorously from the seed than common clover, and this feature adapts it to mid-summer seeding. It comes into full bloom at this station, early in May. and is ready to be cut for seed about the Ist of June. It is an annual, the parent plant dying when it has matured its seed.

CRIMSON CLOVER A CATCH CROP. Being an annual and unable to endure severe winters, crimson clover cannot take rank as a staple crop in Indiana. It is, however, well fitted to be a ‘ catch crop," because, under favorable con ditions as to moisture, a “catch" can be secured in July and even in August, in which ease it will furnish winter and early spring pasture, or if preferred, a very early crop of hay or seed. If cut for hay a crop of corn could follow the same year. Crimson clover is especially com men ded as inter crop between two crops of corn, the seed being sown when “laying by” the first crop of corn and the clover turned under the following spring, with or without pasturing, as a green manure for the succeeding corn crop. In case of failure to get a stand of common red clover in wheat, crimson clover may be sown to advantage as soon as the crop of wheat is removed. CRIMSON CLOVER AS I FORAGE \ND FERTII. izing crop. This clover has proved excellent for pasture in the late fall, winter and early Spring, and judging from its dicimeul composition, it will doubtless prove a better food or fertilizing crop than the common red clover. TIME AND MANNER OF SOWING. Crimson clover should be sown in July, or early in August, to insurea vigorous fall growth in which case it will probably pass the winter with slight damage. If it is to follow corn, sow just before the last cultivation, using fine t<x>th eulti vator to bury the seed. If it is to follow wheat burn the stubble if possible, pul verize the ground thoroughly with disk or spading harrow, sow, harrow again with a tooth harrow and roll. The methods descrilied above were successfully used last year in sowing crimson clove: on the station farm. It is well to sow thickly say 10 pounds to the acre as many plants may be killed by drouth or frost. Perdue University Newspaper Bulletin. July 18, 1896. Personal. Free—64 page medical reference book to any person afflicted with any special, chronic or delicate disease peculiar to their sex. Address the leading physicians and surgeons of the United States, Dr. Hathaway A Co., 70 Dearborn street, Chicago. Try the American steam laundry, of LaPorte. Work first-class. A.E. Cripe, j agent. PURELY VEGETABLE.

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WALKERTON. ST. JOSEPH COUNH. INDIANA, SATURDAY. JULY 25. 1896.

The Line for the Water Mains. Since the selection of a new site, on the George Henry land, for the water works tower and pumping station some little change has been made in the proposed lino for laying the water mains. The line will be nearly the same as the one formerly proposed, a description of which was published in the Independent a few months ago. The new line which was decided upon at a mi'cting of the water works directors last Monday evening is us follows: (i inch pipe from tower down Eighth street to Avenue F; fl inch pipe on Avenue F from sixth street at the Koss. Jarroll A Co. corner to the Schafer corner near the B. A. O. railroad; 6 inch pipe from Avenue F down Ninth street to high school buil ding; 4 inch pipe from Eighth street at residence of S. A. Robbins on Avenue (1 to residence of S. F. Ross, thence on sixth street one block to Avenue H, thence two blocks south to the George Goodrich property, thonce on Fourth street to Baugher's mill, from there on Avenue F to the Ross, Jarrell A Co. corner; 4 inch pipe will lead from Ave nue F on Fifth street to the residence of Chas. Granger, from there on Avenue I) to sixth street, thence to T. J. Wolfe’s residence, thence across to Seventh street, thence to the corner of Mrs. Vin cent's residence and from there north to the high school building

Township I rustees Reports. , Attorney General Ketcham submits r the following opinion. “The law rej quires township trustees to publish , statements of their indebtedness in de tail, giving number and total of out f standing orders, warrants and accounts. । This applies to the trustees now in office । and said report should be published by said trustees on the first Monday in August, or as near that date as a weekly paper in circulation in his county can be had. I think a publication in the Hext j issue during that week would be suffi I ejent. Tim statnt । n.o « < x pit- it L that the I trustee shall cause a copy of hn report in full t<» be published, and that does I not mean simply a statement of receipt* ami exjMmdituree of each fund, but that I he shall publish a statement showing I his indebtedness in detail, giving the numbers and total amount of the out I standing orders. warrants and accounts i chargeable to such funds, which shall Is- < sworn to." DON’T STOP TOBACCO. | How to Cure Yourself While Using It Tin' tobacco habit grows on a man un I ■ i ed. impairing health, comfort anil happi i ' mw. To quit suddenly is too severe a j j shock to the system, as tobacco to ar. | I inveterate user becomes a stimulant that i I his system continually craves. "Baco ’ I <’uro” is a seientifie cure for !’• • j habit, in all its forms, carefully com j ■ pounded after the formula of an emit u nt j Berlin physician who has used it in his i I private practice since 1572. without a ' failure. It is purely vegetable and guar i i anteed perfectly harmless. You can use ‘ ■ all the tobacco you want while taking I “Baca Uuro.” It" will notify you when to I stop. We give a written guarantee t< । cure pvrmaneuio any cast' with three ’ i boxes, or refund the money with 10 per I cent interest. “Baeo Uuro" is not a I substitute, but a scientific cure, that | cures without the ah! of will power and 'with no inconvenience. It leaves the ■ sy stem as pure ami free from nicotine as I the day you took your first chew or j I smoke. Cured By Baco Cvro and Gained Thirty Poi nds. • From hundreds of testimonial*, the originals j of which are on tile and open to in»pe<-lH>tr the | following is presented: Clayton Nevada Co Ark .Jan. 2S. !Ss.\ Eureka Chemical A Mfg Co . I.aC)i"e. Wi« | Gentlemen. For forty years I used tottHceu hi ail i its fornix For twenty rive years of that rime I ■ was a great mflWrer fmm general debility and I ! heart difxse. For fifteen years I trier! to quit, | । tut culdu t. I V"k various reintdies. amoug <; 1 hardt in all its forms, anil I have iu< reased , > mind. 1 enuld write a quire of paper tip- a n.v | changed feelings and ecndilion. Yours respectfully. P H Faster C. P Church, Clayton Ark ! Sold by all druggists at SI.OO per box: ' three boxes, thirty days' treatment. $2.50 with iron clad, written guarantee, or j | sent direct upon receipt of price ;\\ rite for booklet and proofs. Lureka I Chemical & Mfg. Co., LaCrosse, Wis., and Boston, Mass. ! You will find an elegant binder twine ' at from 6 to 9 cents per pound at Machinery Hall. George Butcher, formerly of this place, now of near Grovertown, had to have his i leg amputated above the knee last MonI day. Dry gangrene set in and amputa- * tion had to be resorted to in order to ' save his life. . I The democrats of Lincoln township [ ' will meet in Bender’s Hall on Friday : evening, July 31, at 7,30 p. m., to appoint delegates to the Congressional, Judicial and County conventions. By order of committee.

Seven Is Bryan’s Lucky Number. It seems that W. J. Bryan, the democratic nominee for president, has a lucky or unlucky number, which will ,be decided next November. It is the figure 7. A corresjxmdent sends the following interesting special to the C ineinmiuj Enquirer about Bryan's figure 7: There is, perhaps, no superstiti^^R general throughout the civilised uh those rogiuding the figure Ui unlucky number. How it originnwf*» perhaps, will never be known, but it is generally attributed to the presence of the Twelve Apostles and Christ nt the last supper. There is also a world wide superstition regarding the figure 7 being a lucky number, and throughout all the railroads of this country the engineers invariably select the 7 in preference to any other engine. It is said that many of the railroads omit numbering an engine 13, because it is difficult to get an engineer to take charge of it. When the Democratic nominee for President, W. J. Bryan, arrived at Chi cago, several weeks before the convention convened, he put up at a hotel the name of which is spelled with seven letters Clifton. The clerk assigned him to room No, 7. The committee in charge of the arrangements had just seven coupons printed on the tickets of admission, and there were just seven business seesion*. THE CONVENTION HELD. The Demix'rntic Convention convened in the seventh month of the year July on the seventh day of the month, at A city, the name of which is spelled with just seven letters Chicago. Th<> name of the nominee, and by th* way, there arc just seven letters in n<»rainw, is spelled w ith s< ven letters, W|P iam seven letters W.J. Bryan, s*ven letters. lie wiw nominated by If. T. l/ewia, seven letters, and the first state to ret® for him was Georgia, which w iqiellrd । with sei < n loiters. Mr. Bryan’s home i« a city of seven letters. Lim- Jn pv* j the liatr whose v«»te e>->'ured l«m M*" ‘ । nomination was Montana seven letW . rim chairman <4 the Nations! < '«»mmitttL j in charge of the convention was ILurrity^, i moikd haters, and the new Chairman iS S. M White, sewn letters. He wears hi ( No, 7 dux ami A No. 7 hat and the™ were just iwren xtatos that fob the I standard of Nebraska for i !< f g time be ’ fore Illinois. The mm* of the club that Mr* Brvan seven kinds of busim •<* mm in his great Hpeix-h that " un d his u< min ituai. Then' were sewn randulaUs for Pres. ! bmt mmmaG.d Ix-son th- > ..m, i tun J if there is anuhii.g ii tins l -li.-f r<> Jgardingthe figure won W. J. Bryan. ' ! who is in his thirtv seventh vt«ar, uill be t i inaugurat' d Proidmt March I. !*.»> ; I’he fact that McKinley was nominated I for President on the anniversary of the ‘ ; battle of Wat* rloo is significant of his : beven it- a sacred nu aber. made So by ; I rhe Supreme Creator of the Universe i ! for in six days He crvat.nl the heavens' I and the earth, and on the seventh day ! | He rested. 1 HE MOI NTAIN CHAI TAI QI A. Mountain Lake Park, .Md., on the tain Line"Vl the Pktureaque B. & 0. Th" ii. 't superb and sensible -umu*|r ■ resort in America. ffMMHMX) expeigAn in imi'ro^.mei.ts: 2l' l b. .tuliful ge'dages; hotel and cottage, board at from I sl2.ooper "wk cheaper than stara*; - ’I e . main air m j ue-'itain views simply md-seril.ab^ S< -nm August .'.th to the 25th. TMpP superb entertainments daily. The® music and the best lecturers money can procure. Dr. T. DeWitt mage, Gen John B. Gorden and Biscay ! J. H Vincent already secured, with ll>>' others. Dr. W. L. Davidson, the great i Chautauqua manager, in charge. Ci । bummer scnools. 20 departments m • important school work in charge of lead- ‘ ing instructors from the prominent universities. A wonderful chance fcr teachers and students desiring to make up studies. Tuition insignificant, Wishes of students gratified. Lowrates on railroads. For full detailed information and illustrated programme address A. R. Sperry, Mountain Lake Park, Md. An old gentleman presented himself at the post office window today to pay his box rent and gave the clerk fifty cents thinking it was a dollar. When he was given back twenty-five cents he exclaimed: “Mine God in Himmel, has that free coinage business commenced already?” He thought his dollar had depreciated. -Carlinville. Ill.,Republican

Let Conscience be Your Guide. Men must look this year for jxrlitical guidance, not to the vaporings of party organs or the claptrap of political partisans, but to their own consciences and intelligence. will be three and possibly four pre®idvntinl tickets in the held, and be fore them all the average votwr will require keen discriminations and sound judgment to steer the proper course. It is a sacred duty of every good citizen to examine the facts as he finds them and to act in accordance with the dictates of his conscience. In time of intense excitement even calm, cool business men will lose their heads. What can be expected, then, of the ignorant and thoughtless? They will follow the crowd, of course, and the loudest talker gets their ears and their votes. This is a good year for some inde|xmdent thinking and there is going to be more of both than has been known before in a generation. Toledo Bee. Benefit of Cold Water. Pure, fresh, cold water is one of the most valuable disinfectants, inasmuch as it is a powerful absorbent. Every’ sick room should have a large vessel of clear water, placed near the lied or even beneath it. This not only alieorbs much of the hurtful Vapor but in its evaporation it softens and tempers the atmosphere, doing away with the dry ne*w which is so try ing and depressing to an invalid, or even to jx’rsons in health for that matter. It has fre quentiy liven shown by actual experiment that troubled sleep and threat sued insomnia are corrected by so sim pl® n thing as th® placing of an open bowl of water near the sufferer's head. A Cigar factory. Joseph A Anders->n. late of Plymouth, has located in Walkerton to carry on the ma mi fact tire of cignm. Mr. Anderson mm cd his outfit to this place last Tuv® JdiQ. Hr occupies kmmus in Chaa. S. > building ovgr Iteid'a drox xtow. Tm r A »»»lx old cigar maker of $1 experiemv. For the pa-st nine I b.D* been engaged in the mami | cigar# at WipuMth Mr. Au . b«* hid Walfee-t •» i# »h- l-x atio!'. as a one for hh busing H.s en terprise sh»uld Im» given g »xi | «al rn I reive substantial support from our busi news men Mr. Anders m will have two if »r thu I'Tv-i I rut Ifo will ni'.m.fe tur- about five ’brand- -f rig.im. H- mak- > a I” cent । | cigar of wide reputation c.il!«xi the San | » IXMuifWO which h«* hftw » r^vvrikfht. j I The Indu indint ami Toledo Blad.J ' 11.75 A cheap romhtmili m. Take ad > ■ VAr.tage <»f the offer. Breid, pies and iak - always fr< <h at . I the 1 huui’?*tic rv DR KI! MFR'g; S^P f•» ckcwwsy** RooT KIDNEY. LIVER I Kheiiniatism, । LumNtim. pain in Join’s or lark, brick du«t In I urine, fre<)wut calls, irritation, inflammation, i gravel, ufc* ration or catarrh of the bladder. Ilisordcred Liver, ' BlHnusne-s hea hiche, indlgt-sliou or gout. , A .Ul’-HOOT invigorates, cures ki>lra y i I difficulties, Bright’s disease, urinary trouble* ' Impure Blood, * Scrofula, malaria, general weakness or debility. Xw am p-Kuot buUdsup qui kly a run down constitution and makes the wtak strong. j (suurHntee Use rontefUw vs One B tile. If not bvDefited, ’ Orilggki&s »ill refund to you the price paid. At Dru^gfstci, 50c, Sfze 9 SI.OO "ISTalide* Guide to K cal th” free- Consultation free. I>*. K U.S EH A UIXUKAMTON. N. Y. I - Farmers! Look here, liemember we are still at the old stand ready to receive your grain and seed ami pay yon the highent market price; we also have on hand all kinds of seed for sowing or planting. Have just received a large supply of grain hags, which we will sell at cost. When you have anything to offer in car lots or less on any track call in and let us make you a price. Yours truly, MERCER & NEAL. WANTED-AN IDEA of some simple I thine to patent ? Protect your ideas ; they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDEKBUoN <fc CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington, D. C.» f° r their SI,BOO prize offer. _

The Davis sewing machine is one of ' the beet machines on the market. Vin 1 cent’s sell them at ?30 to ?35. A steady rain fell all day last Sunday, it was timely and averted a threatened drouth. The corn and other growing Crops are now all right. Irving Sibley's hgrdwnre store in South Bend was entered by burglars on Friday night of last, week and robbed of about $l5O worth of goods. To Cider Hakers. I will be ready to commence running my cider mill on the Archie Williams place Monday, Aug. 3. Those wishing cider made will do well to see me. Price one cent a gallon. Wesley Lopp. Land Ow ners, Attention! If you want to sell your land, and will sell it at a bargain, come and see us and we will furnish you a buyer. Kankakee Land Investment Co., Walkerton, Ind.

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Exchange: It is stated that such an enormous crop of peaches will be gathered in the Michigan lake shore fruit belt this season that the basket factories ।of that region are running double time and refuse to fill outside orders Cor packagen. t Those having books from the circa-? , lating librarj- will please return them to t headquarters Vincent's furniture store. Twenty five new volumes have just beec received but will not tie placed in the library until the old ones now out are returned. i Public Sale. .' We. the undersigned, will sell all th® personal property of Louis DeCoudres, | deceased, Tuesday, Aug. 4. 1896, commencing at 10 a. m. Sale will be held on the Louis DeCoudres farm, l^ miles i southwest of North Li.ierty. I j Sarah C. DeCoudres, W. S. DeCoudres. All druggists sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasters®