St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 April 1897 — Page 8

STlje Jn^epenbcnt A Local Newspaper, Non-Partisan ENTERED AT THE WALKERTON P. O. AT SECOND CLASS RATES. v tioii: For One Year . . . J 1.50 For Six Moutbs . . . "5 For Three Months 40 If paid prompt)}’ in advance a discount of 25 cents on Ine year wit) be allowed. Walkerton, Ind., April. 3, 1897. BOSTON DRY GOODS STORE. ' w We desire this week to call your attention to our carefully and well selected stock of Ladies’ Ready-Made Suits I ——— Ladies’ Tailor Made Skirts Perf’ct fitting Shirt waist

Our Ready-Made Suits are nearer per section than any other garments yet produced. This is not empty self praise, but the general opinion of the many ladies who have visited our Cloak Room, and who are continually bubbling over with the most effusive compliments of the line which embraces Eton Suits, Bolero Suits and Jacket Suits, Silk lined, in Black and Navy Chevi ots and Serges, Etamines and Silk and Wool Novelties, at our usual popular prices. Our Tailor-Made Skirts are remarkable for the graceful num ner in which they hang and tit. They are made seven gored, four and a half yards wide, faced and bound with velveteen, and vie with their sisters I above in sharing their compliments ; and are made of Etamines, Figured Mohairs, Siciliennes, Matlasses, Bro caded Silks, Novelty Checks, Moire ' Velours, etc., etc.; ranging in prices from the cheapest that are any good | to the highest grades. We arc showing some very artistic es sects in Ladies’ Shirt Waists, which garment promises to be more popular than ever this season, and our line is the handsomest we have ever shown. All in this Sheer Organdies sects; all with detachable collars and i cuffs. The rainy season is near at hand, in view of which we have stocked with i our excellent assortment of Mackintoshes for ladies and children. Ask to see i them when in our Cloak department. Chillas, Adler & Coble, 201 and 203 So. Mich. St., SOUTH BEND, IND. The Leaders in Low Prices. ICE. I am ready to attend to the | wants of all wishing ice. Have a nice ice house, a nice ice wagon j and expect to do an ice business. Am prepared to deliver promptly i and on short notice. Prepare j your refrigerators, leave orders a;id I will do the rest. J. W. BROWN. Notice to Horse Breeders. . W- ‘ ■ "1 The Walkerton Coach Horse Co. will make the season with Le Volga, French Ct ach stallion, as follows: North LibertyMondays and Tuesdays at Brenton Rupel's barn. TeegardenWednesdays and Thursdays atFrank Johnson’s barn. WalkertonFridays and Saturdays at Leßoy’s livery stable. TERMS: To insure living colt. $lO. H. A. ADEL, Keeper.

■MM I Kart I Real Estate I | FARM LOANS, NOTARY WORK, I | LIFE INSURANCE. FIRE iNSURANGfjj M e have the agency for six old reliable Fire Insurance CompanieflSE 3 and are also agents for the New York Life Insurance Co. 3 Wo make Farm Loans on very reasonable terms. S We do all kinds of Notary Work, such as making out Deeds, CoM^ tracts, Pensions, etc. If you wish to sell or buy land see us. We will give your interests c 1 our best attention. Kankakee Black Bottom Lands a specialty in I from 80 to 1,000 acre tracts. | jE: g Kankakee Land Investment Company. B — —■

I • —wy, J ■ Do You Recognize the Above? Well, It is whore you tied the Deering Hai’.’-ti r(\ s binders and uowers. whioh >re <-i>nstru<-ted with ball and roller bearings, thereby making draft light, as shown by the boys on th< pl,*’>k with rollers underneath, win. g<> and tin’- < without rollers do not. Also as full a line of Farm Implements, wagons Iji "des hievel<-< grass seed. etc., is can be found in the northern part of the state, with prices always right. Do n<>t fail tiM > - before pla< : . nr a.le, for anything in i this line. MACHINERY HALL. w । w—fmii Tvr-wo.t — ----- -

THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Mews from the Sui reuniting Territory as Given by Our Correspondents. 7 YNH. < 11 Y Joseph Westervelt, of near this place, died last Saturday night of heart dis ease. He and his wife were at Walker I ton the same day, and he was feeling as well as usual. The funeral was held at ■ the house Tuesday, and the remains ' were laid to rest in the Plymouth eeme- ; tery. Mr. Wilcox, of Peru, was in town a few hours Monday. Fred Monroe went to Chicago Mon ' day morning to buy their spring dry i goods. Tyner has a water tower. It was put up on J. E. Johnson’s lot. A. D. Johnson and best girl visited in this place a few hours Sunday. Several from this place went to (I rover ' town last Sunday night to attend church, j Elmer Class, of Twin Lakes, was in , this place Sunday evening entertaining : one of our school inarms. Fred Myers and son, of LaPaz, were in । this place Sunday visiting with Fred's mother. I Hosea Sarber and family were visiting j with his brother, Amos, of this place, ' Sunday. 1 Charles Fogle, of Plymouth, was visit ing a few days with his uncle. Harry Detwiler, the fore part of the week, John Detwiler got kicked on the knee by a mule Monday, making him quite lame. i See W. C. Kyle, the L. E. A W. agent, with his new cap. j Several from near this place started ' for North Dakota Monday and Tuesday. Mell Shupp, of South Bend, was in : this place Sunday. Wm. Aldrich, of Teegarden, was in this place on business Tuesday. Mrs. Ira Kreighbaum has been visiting with her mother and other relatives of near LaPaz for the past week. The K. O. T. M. will have an oyster supper for the members and their families Saturday night, April 3, ’97. Geo. Bennett moved into one of Fred 1 Monroe’s houses Wednesday. Anderson Beagles is having a barn built. No. 1. STILL WELL. A. W. Taylor is moving today in his I new home. Mrs. Joe Wherritt went to South Bend yesterday. Wm. Draves, Jr., of Valparaiso, spent Sunday with his parents at this place. James H. Taylor sold two horses last week for sl.lO to his brother John.

xmwMM n-vw w> g’ffiwT it ■■ww, ■i. awerw - I'here will lu> a basket social at the church this evening. The proceeiis go for papering the church. Miss May Learn received a tine box of sea shells yesterday from her Uncle I Walt. 'i oung Wm. Bartz is working on John Kent's siM’tion. The Grand Trunk's water works gang is here this week putting in and repair ing pipes for the supply of water used on i the coal dock. The Swift Ice Co. at F’ish Lake have begun loading ice. Their shipment is ’ one train load a day. !. The (J rand Trunk R. R. receives about fifty to sixty thousand dollars freight ' per year at this place. L. (). U. GROVERTO WN Farmers are opening up on their spring I work. Grandma McDaniel has returned from a two weeks' visit with friends in New Carlisle. South Bend and Plymouth. Will Rapp and a friend from Chicago are visiting Will s brother, Fred. (). U. Holderman. wife and daughter, . ; of Valparaiso, visited with friends and I relatives here from Wednesday till Tuesday. Orla also looked after some I business matters. Frank Sult spent from SaturdT' Il!l Tuesday in South Bend visitiij£A lady j friend. Mrs. Chris Snider is on the sick list, I having suffered a relapse of the grip. The meeting under the auspices of the crusaders still continues with good in- । terest and good success. Chase.

OREGON. Sabbath school commences at Oregon next Sunday, April 4. Everybody in- , vited to attend. Miss Flo Peddycord visited friends and relatives in Hamlet a portion of last week. E. (1. Lancaster, of Walkerton, visited at Wm. Baird's on Thursday of last week. Leonard Boyer is wrestling with the mumps at present. Tom Parrel was at Plymouth on Wednesday of last week. Messrs. Levi and Leslie Hill were at Plymouth on business on Thursday of last week. On Friday evening of last, week Mrs. William Sawyer gave a surprise party in honor of hereon, William’s twenty-fourth birth day. It was a very sociable occasion and a good time was enjoyed bv all. J. H. Peddycord’s brother-in-law and wife of Plymouth, visited with him last Saturday and Sunday. Chas Davis of G rovertown, called on his friend. Miss Allice Boyer, last Sunday Tn arg. '

MOUNT VNRNON. Supervisor Beall did some badly needed work on the roads last week. S. C. Wenger was in Knox on business on Friday of last week. Mrs. Robert Armstrong, of Chicago, visited with her parents the greater portion of last week. Mis. Chas, Poole, who has been on the . sick list for the last week, is some better nt present. W ill Lantz went to LaPorte the first of last week to take a position with the Eagle W holesale Bakery Company. Lou Hargrave returned from Chicago last Friday. He has purchased a meat market which is located at the corner of i West Taylor street and Irving Ave., Chicago. Having packed his goods ready to move he returned last Tuesday | evening. Mrs. Hargrave and baby will remain visiting for a short time. Mart Miller was disabled a few days this week by being kicked on the foot and leg by a horse. Emma Rinehart attended the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association which convened at Elkhart this week. Lawrence Groshans, of Cheltenham, ; 111., visited with his cousin, Mrs. R. E. i Rinehart, and family a portion of this week. Trebor. Wanted-fin Idea Protect tour Idea.; ther may bring vou wealth. Write JOHN WEbDKRBURN & CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington, D. C„ for their SI,BOO prize offer and list of two hundred inventions wanted.

rwtttw, ' 111 ..T.I.ILJ-—i nn LI _WH iiiMrwnwK»B«ryw» TPrGAhr^N. Sam I >ecki r and Ira \ldrieh made a drive t<> f‘!x mouth Saturday, (Jrandma Almond, of Chicago, is visiiii g with friends in this community. Rex Hievma returned to his home at Wyott Monday. Miss Maud Carter, of South Berni, is calling on friends in the country. Albert Shenks, of Chicago, is at home on a hunting expedition. Deputy Bondurant, of Plymouth, was on our streets Monday. Rev. Stoneburner was in the vicinity of (Jravelton over Sunday. (Jeo. Rothenberger has been sum moned to appear in the court room next Monday. C. Rensberger returned from Wyott, Tuesday. Charley Johnson intends to go to Michigan in a few days to get a job picking st rawberries. Wm. Nixon has the contract of doing the carpenter work on the new postoffice building. Frank Johnson was drilling oats the first of the week. When Jim Swihart wants anything he wants it as bad as anybody. He walked to Plymouth Saturday fora pair of bed casters. Cyrus Hildebrand who has been attending school at Terra Haute was at home over Sunday. Willis Logan, of LaPaz, was in town Monday. Jacob Falconbury started on the road huxte ri n g T u esday. Mrs. John Stewart, of South Bend, is visiting friends in this vicinity. L. Lemert was at North Liberty Wednesday.

Bill Hannan, of Michigan, was the ! guest of John Aldrich Wednesday. Feegarden took a general move Tuesday and Wednesday. Gideon Logan occupies the property which he recently purchased of Frank Johnson; Jake FaL conbury moved into the Beech house; James Forsythe moved in with his father-in-law: Lambert McCombs and Katherine Hartsouth took possession of the property vacated by Mr. Forsythe. J. MILL CREEK. The noise on the Kankakee these mornings would indicate that ducks were plenty. C. Siddles had a leg broken in an accident last Tuesday. , Will Pontius, of Crumstown, killed three wild geese one morning last week. We will say to J. A. M., of Hamlet, that we have Hicks’ book and we read it, and if he would read his he would be in better shape for a cyclone. Some of our fishermen pay no atten tion to the new law.

G. W. Cotton went to South Bend Tuesday on business. F. E. Ryan went to LaPorte Tuesday. ! There will be preaching at the Mill Creek school house Saturday evening and Sunday. Whiz. NORTH LIBERTY. Mrs. Dora Horn and children, of South Bend, visited her mother, Mrs. Hannah 1 Kell®gg, the past week. C. F. Keek and wife are at Elkhart this week attending the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association. Jonathan Cripe and family left for Missouri last Tuesday. The town schools closed this week. , | John Whitinger has moved his family j into the McKenzie house. [ j Mrs. John Jolly and children, of Ham- । let, visited in town Sunday. i ■ Mary A oung, Minnie Williams, Miss ; Millard, Mrs. L. A. Grafford, Fay Graf fort and Floyd Reece, of Walkerton, vis- . ited friends here Sundry. Loca Briefs. Firemen’s ball in Hudelmyer's hall i April 21. Julius Barnes <t Co., LaPorte, have a , j new announcement in this issue. T. J. Wolfe, who is slashing prices on ■ clothing, calls your attention to his ad in this paper. The town election will be held Monday, May 3. A good deal of interest is being aroused on the question of candidates for marshal. The schools of the town and township were closed on Wednesday for the remainder of the week in order to give the ' teachers an opportunity to attend the j teachers' meeting at Elkhart. j Miss Millard invites the ladies to call and see the beautiful profusion of new spring hats. Howers and other millinery which she received this week. There is a bewildering assortment tonhoose from. The Thi nble Circle and the M. E. Ladies' Aki S ciety met at the home of Mt (bis Williams last,Tuesday evening, win : ■ they sewed a lot of carpet rags ami passed the evening in a very pleas- , ant manner. - - On account of the illness of Mrs. (Jeorge (Jo. xirich the Ladies'Aid Society will hold their monthly dime social at the honie of Mrs. E. Leibole, Wednesday, • April 7. Lunch will lie served at I 0010.-k. All are invited. Provoce (Jiberson. residing near North Liberty, died suddenly last Thursday, He was an old resident of this county and was about 70 years old. He is stir ( vived by a widow and two or three grown children. He was a brother of the late Jacob ( Jiberson, Os this place. B trick, | s • •kers. A ew X or \1 W •es X ed ▼ GUAR- • ITORY. X J ' J ’AMboAtAi

M. E> UERG#, COOfe LIVERY&FEEO STHBLe, WALKERTON. INDIANA. First class rigs and good horses. Horses boarded. Traveling men car- j riedto all adjoining towns. All prices reasonable. THE CELEBRATED Hindu Doctor, '[adapal? V ccfara £ ara 10. K (Native of British India) Graduate of Anglo-Vidic College, Madras Presidency, India Physician and Surgeon, CURGS Asthma, bladder, catarrh, consutr ption. convulsions, dropsy, dyspepsia, chills and fever, gravel, hemorrhage of lungs, diseases of the kidneys and liver palpitation of the heart, it< hing of anise, eczema. neuralgia, pa alysis, chorea, piles, fistula. various rheumatisms, scrofula, enlargement of tonsils and cancer. Gentlemen —Private diseases, venereal, taint, gonorrhoea, syphilis, seminal emissions, weakness of sexual organs Ladies— Womb diseases, hemorrhage, monthly periods among unmarried ladies, abscess, cancer. lueorrhoea. change of life. Both sexes will be treated internally and externally in a scientific manner. Will treat diseases, compounding his own medicines and will । not charge for his services except for drugs. : । Consultation free of charge and confidential. j Special attention given to diseases of the Eye | j and Ear. Office in Hudelmyer Block. Will make calls in country day or night 1

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSI NESS CARES. ! J. W. ARLINGTON, M. D. H. D. DENAUT. M, D ARLINGTON & DEtfAUT, PHYSICIANS ANO SURGEONS* OFFICE IN THE REAR OF FARMERS’ BANK,. Night Bell. Dr. H. S. DOWELL, ) painless Dentist. Teeth extracted without pain or sleep, by the use of local anaesthetic. Leaves no bad after effects. Teeth tilled with out pain by the use of antalgie. Dental , rooms in Fry-Dougherty block, Walker ton Indiana. I EWING & GROSHANS, ' BARBERS. Latest Improvements. Revolving Chairs. New Furniture. Good Sharp Razors. Everything neat and clean and strictly up to date. Your patronage solicited. * i I Located in Fry Bldg. I A. E. CRIPE, jBftRBERi HAIR-DRESSER. WALKERTON, INDIANA. Shaving and haircutting done neatly and expeditiously. Drop in and see us. FRANK TISCHER, ’ i W 4 U VQAXPrompt attention given to <| COLLECTIONSt Office located in Tischer's .wagon shop. — i O. M. CUNNINGHAM, y SOUTH BEND, INO, 3 Legal business given prompt attention.

;TIME TABLE D Solid trams between. w Sandusky and Pkoki* jj —AND— M Indianapolis and 'j Michigan City JFt. Wayne Conne r sville ;rl rough tickets sold to all points in the United

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NORTH BOUND FROM WALKERTON. 1 f No. 20 Passenger Leaves 12.17 p m. 1N0.22 “ " 654 11 SOUTH BOUND FROM WALKERTON. (No 23 Passenger Leave* 9.22 a Efc (No. 29 " “ 4 52 pm Immediate connections at Tipton with main Jine trains for Sandusky. Bloomington and al] points south, easiand west. For tickets, rates and' general information, rail on W. F. LaFeber Ticket Agent L E. A W R. R„ or address €. IL Gen’l Pas. Agt. Indianapolis Ind. I J

B- & 0. Time Table. GOING EAST. I No 16 Mail - -.9.10 a nc “ 8 Limited 12.42 pm.GOING WEST. ‘ 47 Limited 4:06 “17 Mail 3.15 p tc. | 11 Walkerton Accommodation 632 tn ! Walkerton accommodation arrives from ChieaI go at 7.40 p. m. Where no time is given trains do not stop 7 CHA 4.0. SCULL, O. P. McCARTY, Ge... Pass. Ag’t. Assist. Gen, Pass. Ag't., Baltimore, Md. Columbus O. E. । . SANDERS, Ag't., Walkerton. I L&l.Rß.TimeCard I Regular Passenger Train service operated daily ; between Streator, 111., and South Bend, Ind. ' Elegant new equipment and fast time. west Bound train No. I leaves Soutli Ben .1 at 7 o’clock a m . arriving at Streator 11 ;50 a. n .vast bound train No.'2 leaves Streator 6:50 a. m. arriving at South Bend 11.15 a. m. Following freight trains will carry passengers. west bound Nos- 7 and 9 ' from all stations. No. 13 between South Bend and North Judson East bound Nos. 8 and 10 between all stations. No. 12 from Kankakee to Shelby and Wheatfield, North Judson, erton, North Liberty and South Bend. _AA S LEAVE WALKERTON South Bound. No. 1 Mail and Express 7.44 ans “ 9 Local 9 10 a m “ 13 Freight 7.10 p m North Bound. No. 2 Mail and Express 11 20 a m “ If Local 4.22 pm “ 12 Fast Freight 6:15 pm Trains Nos. 1.2, 7, 12 and 13 daily, t rains 8.9 and 10. Daily except Sunday. Bekele can be had for all principal points. For rates and all information apply to r. Qui KK, Agent, Walkerton Jas. S. Bartie, G P. A., Streator, 111. WANTED-AN IDEAX““,SS‘. thing to patent ? Protect your ideas ; they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO.. Patent Attorneys, Washington, D. C., for their SI,BOO prize offer. 3r. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Fair Highest Award.