St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 March 1897 — Page 1

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VOLUME XXII.

PYTHIANS PARTICIPATE IN PLEASANT, PROFITABLE PASTIME. A Visit from the Knox Lodge and Work in Second and Third Ranks. Last Tuesday evening was the occasion of a very enjoyable time at the Pythian castle-hall in this place. The Knox knights in response to an invitation to visit the Walkerton lodge and assist in degree work turned out a largo delegation, arriving here over the Three I road about 7:30 o’clock in the evening. Thore were 38 in all and they were accompanied by the Knox band, composed principally of members of the Knox K. of P. lodge. They were met at the train by a committee and escorted to the Grand View hotel for supper. About 8:30 o'clock the knights marched to the hall where the Knox band discoursed some excellent music. Shortly after this the lodge was called to order by Chancellor Commander Clem and preparations were made for the evening's program, which consisted of conferring the second and third ranks upon two candidates, Messrs. Ham Blaine and Ort Hummer, respectively. The visiting knights took charge of the ceremonies, having with them a team for each of the ranks. They are well up in the work and know just how to conduct the ceremonies to give the work snap and interest. About 9 o’clock the goat was released from its cage and let loose in the ring with the candidate, who, under the rules of the order, was compelled to catch the goat, jump astride it, and ride around the ring for an hour as fast as the goat could go. The K. of P. goat, like all other goats belonging to secret orders, is especially trained for the business and knows how to run fast and when to buck and when to throw the rider, who by the time the exhibition is closed is generally tired of his job and quite willing to give it up. The goat, aside from having a little hair worn olf, is usually none the worse for its tussle and is quite as fresh and frisky as when it entered the ring. The goat performs an important part in the second and third ranks, although, there are other important features of those ranks in which the goat takes no part that our space this week will not permit mentioning. Some other time we shall give the rest of the details of this work. At the close of the initiatory work the knights were provided with a banquet in the ante-room. The menu was as follows: Baked Beans, Cold Boiled Ham, Buns, Sweet and Sour Pickles, * Cold Slaw, Hot Coffee, Cream. The visiting brothers left about midnight on the Three I for their homes. The Walkerton lodge enjoyed the visit of their brothers very much and hope to be able to entertain them again soon under more favorable circumstances. The Knox boys are a gallant, genial, good-looking lot of knights and it is a pleasure to entertain and be entertained by them. Below are the names of the visitors: FROM KNOX. Howard Chapel, Frank Green, Dwight Hepner, J. A. Brickies, Will Chapel, J. G. Heilman, George Rogers. I. M. Smith, M. D., Ben Favorite, Charles Favorite, R. P. Hollyday, Wm. Clay bourne, A. H. Reading, George Anderson, S. C. Close, Cal. Fuller, O. D. Fuller, J. E. Harvey, W. H. Harter, Warren L. Terry, Wm. Slidinger, Al Savery, Wm. Wilhelm, Wm. Bascom, Chas. Peele, J. S. Wilhelm, Chas. C. Kelley, Chas. Windesch, Wm. Windesch, John Swartzell, Frank Hardin. George Steinman, Prof. Reed, Harry Hepner. FROM HAMLET. C. J. Danielson, Dr. Mitchell, J. A. 1 Bell, Lem Parmalee. 1 me again. i 1 Dying One Hundred Ver day. I The Grand Army is dying at the rate of 100 a day. Every fifteen minutes of the 24 hours the final tap sounds for some one who wore the blue. Each year puts under the sod more old soldiers than the enlisted men and officers in the entire United States army. Time is carrying them off faster in the nineties than bullets did in the sixties. The war lasted four years to a month. In those four years 84,000 men fell in battle on the Union side. But now between 35,000 and 40,000 die in the course of na ture each succeeding 12 months. And for every Union veteran who goes to fame’s eternal camping ground two Confederates are numbered with the dead.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Notice to Tax Payers. The county treasurer will be at Mishawaka Thursday and Friday March 11 and 12. New Carlisle Monday, March 15. North Liberty Tuesday, March 16. Walkerton Thursday, March 18. Woodland Monday, March 22. „ To collect the first installment taxes for the year 1896. W. H. Oren, Treasurer St. Joseph Co.

WALKERTON. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY.

A Remedy for Potato Scab. Purdue Experiment Station has issued the following bulletin that will be of interest to farmers. It is one of the triumphs of practical botany that the cause of potato scab has been tracked to a minute germ that feeds on the surface of the potato tuber and to a less extet t on other fleshy roots and tubers. It has also been found that a suitable fungicide will kill the germ on the ' tubers without injuring t,he growth of i the potato. Corrosive sublimate । meets these requirements. So effective ■ has it been found, so cheap and easy to 1 apply, that many have adopted the ’ treatment as a regular thing. The deadly poisonous nature of corrosive sublimate, however, has kept it from coming into general use. It is therefore considered a matter of considerable moment to be able to announce the discovery of a new fungicide for potato scab, one that is thoroughly efficient and not poisonous. The new substance is formalin (sometimes called formalde hyde,) a watery solution of gas, not very expensive, and rapidly coming into favor as a general antiseptic, so that it is likely to become still cheaper and better known. It is sold by the fluid ounce, and can be obtained at most drug stores. The method of using the new fungi cide is very simple. Eight ounces ol the formalin are added to 15 gallons of water, and in this the seed potatoes are soaked for two hours. After taking from the bath they can be cut and planted as usual, either at once or after some time. Formalin is not corrosive, and so can be put in any kind of vessel, and not being poisonous, there are no particular pre- । cautions to be observed. It does, how ever, make the hands smart, if there are any raw spots and the fumes irritate the eyes and throat. But these are only slight annoyances. Tim potato crop of the state of Indiana reaches annually the large figure of over 90,000 acres, and nearly 6,000.000 bushels, and is sometimes larger. The treatment of the seed tubers as here recommended, will materi ally raise the market value of the crop and provo - a source of y rofit of co mono proportion. Try it. Old Man’s Ghastly Deed. A dispatch from Plymouth Monday says: Thomas Thornburg, for many years a resident of Twin Lake who has for some time past been living with his son-in-law, Wilson Wcnino, at that place, made an attempt to end his life by cutting his throat. The old gentleman, whose age is 65 years, did not ac company the members of the family to church as usual Sunday, but stated that he preferred to remain at home owing to the rough roads. Upon their return they found the house deserted but a note lying on the table told them to search for him in the barn where they found him lying with a gash in his throat from ear to ear, the cut having been made wish a razor. Although much exhausted from loss of blood the old gentleman was still alive. Physicians were summoned at once but there is little hope of his recovery. It is sup posed that domestic troubles caused th< rash act. Ladies who are sick and suffering with diseases peculiar to their sex, who are better today and worse tomorrow, should go to the London Medical Institute, 203 South Main street, South Bend, and consult Drs. Granville and Richards, who are making such remarkable cures of obstinate chronic diseases in men and women. The treatment given daily on the wonderful electric machine cures rheumatism, paralysis, all nervous disorders, lost vitality. You may almost be made young again, you men who have grown old Before y ur time. The charges of Drs. Granville and Richards are lower than any where else. All con saltations are free. If you can’t goto South Bend write to them at once, it will pay you to consult the famous special ists who have had more than 20 years experience in the large English Hospitals and in private practice in curing the sick. If these gentlemen cannot cure you they tell you so at once after consulting with them. The latest wonderful cures made by these physicians is that of Mrs. W. D. Dodd, of 720 East Osborn St.. South Bend, who has been entirely cured of paralysis after years of suffering. Mrs. Reece of the same city was also cured of paralysis, Mr. Claucy and many others. The new electric methods seem to be proving a great boon to the afflicted, and the sick are being attracted by those remarkable cures from all over our state and the states*'adjoining us. Do not miss the opportunity of receiving a cure, if others have failed to cure you try the new methods of Drs. Granville and Richards, of the London Medical Institute, of South Bend, and you will not regret it. London Medical Institute.

Drainage. I W ill the final results of draining our ’ muck lands under existing drainage , laws, justify the expense to the land , owners? By your leave, Mr. Editor, I shall proceed to discuss this question, in a few brief articles, through the columns of your paper. Thore never has been any question with me as to the value of | drainage, and thorough drainage too, to all Boih containing an excessive n , of water. Some people seem to have , gathered the idea that I am a tee-total , opponent to drainage in all its forms, , and under all circumstances. These people have no doubt been led into this belief by the conversation of parties who thought it was to their interest to so represent me. Drainage, at the proper time and place, and in an honest, upright way, has no warmer friend than it has in me. But right here 1 want to record my unqualified disapproval of the reckless, contemptible and hoggish way in which this work is so often done. I have been assessed on three different ditches, and know whereof I speak. Now to the question. The man who put down a well in this vicinity before there was much ditching done, knows that when he reached the level of our marshes he f truck a vein, or sheet of . water. This same vein of water will be encountered to day, but wiil be found to be on a level with the bottom of the ditches in the vicinity.. Moisture as- . cends through the earth by passing from one particle of soil to another above it. 'I bis process is continual until this moisture, or water reaches the surface, and is evaporated, if not taken up by vegetation before reaching the surface. This explains why a compact soil holds moisture better than a loose soil: as the closer the particles of soil lie to gether, the more readily this moisture passes from one to the other. It be comes apparent, then, that crops grow ing on compact soils suffer more from extremely wet weather, and less from extremely dry weather, than those grow i n[r nn In.*-enilu Yow f ■ k'o •< Hold of growing corn, a part of which field lies ten feet above this water level, or vein of water above referred to, and the re m tinder only four feet above it, and ob s-nation teaches that the crop on the m no elevated portion of the field will be affected much sooner, and much more severely by a protracted drouth, than that on the position which is nearer the water level. Now why is this so? Evi dently because this moisture or water has much farther to go to reach the plant roots in one case than in the other. Now sink this water level five feet, as you will do by cutting a ditch to that depth through an adj lining piece of marsh, and tile draining it, and that portion of your upland field which was ten, will now be fifteen and the portion which was four, will now be nine feet above the water level. Now watch the effect of the next drouth upon this field of upland corn. Where there probably was a fair crop before, you will be met with an entire failure now, with a drouth of the same duration and intensity. Os course you have brought your marsh inta cultivation, but under existing laws it has cost you a good round sum, and you have destroyed a valuable crop of wild hay or pasture that was costing you ' practically nothing. 1 believe it is safe to say that we have in this latitude, ten dry seasons to one wet one, and that we have ten acres of upland to one of marsh. You have gained one acre of low land, and practically destroyed ten acres of upland. I ask, what have you gained by drainage? How much better are you I off now than if you bad mowed a good ; crop of wild hay from your low land, or better still pastured itotT with cattle and converted it into beef, and the refuse into manure for your upland, and left the latter with an abundant supply of water under it, and near enough ta the surf ice to afford an ample supply of moisture for your growing crops? But more of this later on. It is ammusing to see how gracefully Mr. D. W. Place drops the discussion of personal matters that was fast assuming such an interesting shape between himself and me. I take it as a square back down from the position he so haughtily assumed in his reply to my first article. Os course, ho seems to strike quite a vicious blow at me, but he was careful to locate me in that large crowd of people who did not construe my article just as he did, and who, he says, haven’t got brains enough to have the headache, so that I can scarcely consider it as personal to myself. lam rather loth to drop this part of our discussion, for to me it was getting to be real “amoosin.” It is f also quite noticeable how he snuggles up to those parties, (R. E. Geyer, et al) who agree with him in his pet scheme of draining the Kankakee valley by private enterprise. This is real encouraging to 1 me, as all I will need to do to re-establish !

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’L*' Plaee s affections, is to en ' j ° Seho,ne - at the latter end of ’ whiclhe sees so much glorv and profit I to hi if self. I ros P ce tfully yours. B. F. Rinehart. » Disastrous B. & 6. Wreck. A vVeck occurred on the B. & O. railroad Ihalf mile east of Teagarden on 1 uesißy morning about 8 o’clock. It was head end collision between two accident wiik caused , By of the telegraph operator \ at t|3/*’ ai ' f ' i* l h °t Riving the proper ' runny'lt was very foggy when ; the®»inu»B met and the danger was not e®n until the trains were only about 300 felt apart. *fhe trainmen jumped in titmr tssave their lives, none of the crew ■ being yurt except Engineer Gilhousen, who rweived a slight injury over one eye. Threewore hurt, one having a leg br< ' f-io, two places, another a hip erushe, .another was badly cut on the he^.,. ^he injuries were not fatal. It was a very disastrous wreck and a very fortunate one, too, as no lives were sacrifleed, which seems a marvel. A brake man was on the front ear of one of the trains when the crash came, and a ear shot clean up onto the car he was on. but it never touched him. Another of the ’ crew was lying in the ditch when a ear came tumbling down the embankment dangerously near him, but he escaped without a scratch. About 27 cars and both engines were thrown from the track and th« most of them badly damaged. I’he engines were almost ruined. The trains were long and heavily loaded with , genoral merchandise, consisting of flour; groceries, etc., which were strewn along the track in a tempting manner for those who had conveyances convenient for hauling the stuff away. The wrecked trains wore through freights No. 96, east bound, ami an extra freight bound for the west. The injured tramj s wentaken in charge by Trustee Koss who turned them over to the county infirmary. The B. it O. trains ran between . Walkertpn and LaPitz over the L. E. a \V and \Vatididia roads by the way of eke j and Vlymouth while the wreck WiJ^ing eb an-d a s o "hh ii r. qliired Ft! day and a large put of the night. After I ortv \ ears. * An epitaph as curious in its way as any of the quaint gravestone ins riptions that have been recorded is on a tomb I stone in the cemetery of a suburb of ' Paris. The husband died first and beneath the record of his name was placed at his request the line: “1 am anxiously awaitii gxou, July 30, 1827.” When his widow died, forty years after, the following line completed her inscription: "Here jl am. Sept. 9, 1867." Elgin Uourant New .Sunday School. The I resbytcrians reorganized their Sunday school last Sunday and will meet every SuaJay at 3 p. in. Officers were elected avfollows: Rev. B ack, superintendent: Mi-s (\d lie Blaini , assistantsuperinteiident: Miss Grace Be 1, secretary; Miss Addie Woife, organist: Miss Jennie Place, assistant organist ; Miss Edna Nicoles, treasurer. i For Ri >t. —Part of house to rent with or withoi 34 acres of land, to first class * man. Aj uly to F. O. Krakovicz at once. The EEwhart business college has quit busincj^ ■rate B^EGUL ATO Fi voiiie Home Remeflg. For all d waßes cause j hy derangement of the Lnjd K|dneys> a|lJ stol „. u . h Keep it ~| ways j n th e house and you u ill save | jme an j [joctor’s Bills, and i.tx eat hai |j an ac tj ve> harmless and per~h y , purgative, alterative and tonic. y o , cc L dull, debilitated, have frequent ea ache, r| out h tastes badly, poor appetite and ton c coa t e j ) you are suffering rom torpid |j ver or biliousness, and SIMMONS Li\ r EGU lator win cure you. ' you ^ive eaten anything hard to J'gest, or p e j heavy after meals or sleepless at nig^ a d OS e o f SIMMONS LIVER RkGULATiF-jR w j[) relieve you and bring pleasant si If f natan y t jme you feel your system needs clea, ^ s j n g an d regulating without I violent Pt* ^ing, take SIMMONS LIVER I REGULATC^ J. H. go., Philadelphia.

OAK LOOS WANTED. At Baugher’s mill at once. Job printing cash at the Independent office. Don’t ask for credit. Firemen’s ball March 17. Iho Independent has secured a correspondent at Stillwell. Two Mormon elders are proselyting in , St. Joseoh county to secure converts to i I their faith. i T. J. Wolfe is handling the famous $4 tailor made Apollo pants. Any of their ’ samples are made at &L TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE INDEPENDENT’S CLUBBING RATES. To close out 40 gallons choice maple syrup will sell at 90 cents per gallon. A. IL Noble.) The Independent office has blank deeds and mortgages, notes and receipts for sale. That Barft can be -vit» Or. Miles’ NERVE PI ASTER. Oulx :&•-

i I Great Clearing Sale i FOR SPOT CASH. In Order to Reduce Our Stock Before taking I OUR ANNUAL INVENTORY We will sol l the following Goods for Spot Cash at Prices Quoted: I UM) Men s .Hid eoats (small sizes, worth $1.50 to SO. sale price § .50 to’® l.id- , I.T } ai ‘« overcoats, worth $5 to sl3. sale price 3.00 to”® Gi» 1 • fi . an<l . vo,n >>>•■'! « overcoats, wort h $1.50 to st;, sale pric-.... 50 to 3.00 i 2., Boys <»dd vesta (small sizes), worth TH) cents to sl, sale pr e io to 15 , Ah n stiff hats, all sizes, worth uL.^l to $3, sale price 50 to 1.0*3 50 pairs Men s calfskin b.M>fs y n . 7\ or s’ s , worth $2.5*) to <1.50, sale 100 to 200 Black imported pa, ts. w.>rth $1 to .-5. sale price . ’2tKJto 300 ■ ,u *' It Boots without rubbers worth 75e to >l. sale price ' 50 “ U’t k!,- arcti- s best qualify , worth A 1.50 to $1.65, sale, 125 11 " B os' buckle aivtiis best quality >, worth $1.25 to $1 35, sale LOO . All gl<>v, - ami mittens formerly $1 to $1.25, sale price ’ 75 •to cents to ~5 cents, sale price 56 1 “ “ " " 35 cents to 40 cents, *• 25 j Men's rubber b,H,ts. siiort, l>est qualify, a 59 hip, best quality, 359 i " Perfections for felt b<x>Ls, best quality 1.50 “ W<m>l knit bootsand best perfections 225 J " Best quality felt boots with best quality perfections 2.08 " Ail w<x»l beaver overcoats, worth $9 to sl2, for 8.50 Ail overcoats formerly $8 to $lO, for 7.5(1 $6 to SB. for 5.06 Men’s all wool suits formerly $13.50 to $16.50, for 12.50 “ “ “ " “ ' $11.50 to $13.50, for 10.06 “ suits “ “ SB.OO to SIO.OO, for 7.56 “ $6 to $7.50, for 5.06 “ $5 to $6, for 4.08 50 Boys’ Long Pant Suits, age Bto 12, Half Prices 50 Boys’ Knee Pant Suits, age 5 to 13, 75c. up. . Al! Winter Underwear 25 per cent off. Winter Caps as Low as IO Cents. Come and See us Before Buying. THOMAS J. WOLFE. ■TinmTT- HIM Illi I W IT " lr ~ Tm~B — K III'TIW—H—WB IHTI ■ >TI ~~l Will' IJ II ■MNMMnaOMK i ROSS & JARRELL - ^ HARD GOAL \ HEATERS. I \ Wood 1 (eaters, Oil Cloth Ruhs, air tight heaters Paints, Oils, etc. ROSS & JARRELL.

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A doctor declares that 4 oranges eater every day for a few days in succession will remove the appetite for intoxicanta । One should be eaten before breakfast, one at 11 a. m., one at 3 p. m. and the i other at 6 p. m. A dispatch from Wanatah reports tht birth of a boy in the family of EmD Boldt, weighing twenty ounces, or twenjty four ounces ela.d in elotHna. Tlxe. . child Hida fare to live. It hiaid by physicians that th© child is the smallest । of humanity ever born in Indiana. f Spring being near it is time to talk harness. I have the most complete line of harness you ever before looked at in Walkerton. They are made of the best oak tanned leather and guaranteed to be all right in every respect. This is the i time to come in and get prices. Can ! furnish you harness at any price or in ' any style that you may desire. Call and examine my stock before you buy else where. Can convince you that Ake’s is the place to buv your harness. F. M. Ake. 411 druggists sell Dr. Miles' Nerve Plasteis.