St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 45, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 May 1897 — Page 1

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BERRIEN DISTRICT 5. S. ASSO’N. Twenty-first Annual Convention--Program of Exercises. The Berrien District Sunday School Association, St. Joseph conference, United Brethern church, will hold its twentyfirst annual convention in Berrien ■^■HSpPThgs. Mich., June 8, 9 and 10. A fine program has been arranged for the meet- / ing, which, for the benefit of ournumer- / ous readers who will be interested in the '

proceedings, we give below: TUESDAY EVEN INO, JUNE 8. Preaching. Subject, “Consecration, Rev. J. W. Riley, Walkerton, Ind. After Service. Rev. I. S. Cleaver, Three Rivers, Mich. WEDNESDAY MORNING. Greeting:—Psalms 46:7. 8:00 Devotion. 8:30 ~ru” Call; Enrollment; Miscellaneous. 9:00 Quarterly Lesson Reviews. Their value, and how to prepare them, Rev.

G. S. Slusser, Galien, Mich. 9:30 The S. S. according to You, Rev. L. Shaffer, Three Rivers, Mich. 10:00 Aim and purpose of the S. S. Is the practice in harmony with the purpose? Rev. J. F. Bartmas, Buchanan, Mich. 10:30 Comparison of Denominational S. S. work with that of State, Rev. C. V. Mull, Sodus, Mich. 11.00 S. S. Reports. Adjournment. AFTERNOON. 1:30 Devotion. Preaching. Subject: “Jesus’ Method of Teaching,” Rev. J. L. Parks, Elkhart, Ind. 2:30 Address of Welcome, F. O. Tut tie. Response, Rev. J. W. Riley, Walkerinn Tnd

ton, mu. 2:50 Normal Lessons from O. Testament, Rev. J. D. Coverstone, Bremen, Ind. —3:40 How bring tlm power of church tLn -wJouu, ZCUV. P, P. Kogff, Wakarusa, ind., and R. W. Hutchinson, Marcellus, Mich. 4:10 The Bible, the S. S. Teacher's Text Book, I. S. Hahn, Bremen, Ind. 4:30 Song. Adjournment. EVENING. 7:30 Song Service. Preaching. Subject: “The Signs of the Times,” Rev. J. D. Coverstone. THURSDAY MORNING. 8:00 Devotion. 8:30 S. S. Report. 9:00 Review of the early Church. Rev. W. Simons, Marcellus, Mich. 9:30 Responsibility of the Primary Teacher, Mrs. Sarah Brown, Dowagiac, Mich. 10:00 The S. S. lesson for June 13th, Rev. I. S. Cleaver, Three Rivers, Mich. 10:30 The S. S. as a Unit. 1. The Pastor, Mrs. E. F. Light, Buchanan, Mich. 2. The Supt., Rev. O. L. Rich art, Goshen, Ind. 3. The Teacher, Rev. H. Clark, Elkhart, Ind. 4. The Pupil, Rev. P. Kenegar, Bremen, Ind. 11:10 Responsibility of teaching the Biblical standard of church government in the S. S., Rev. R. Kauffman, LaPaz, Ind. Music. Adjournment. AFTERNOON. 1:30 Devotion. Preaching. Subject: “Fidelity,” Rev. W. 11. Northam, Nappanee, Ind. 2:30 Normal Lessons, New Testament, Rev. H. H. Flory. Berrien Springs, Mich. 3:20 Election of Officers. Unfinished Business. EVENING. 7:30 Praise Service, The. Primary j Lesson for June 13th: a Children's Ser vice, by a Primary Superintendent. Offering. Song. Benediction. TEEG ARDEN.

Fred Johnson is in South Dakota. Wm. Wier has gone to Michigan where I lie will work this summer. Chas Lammert made a business trip to ’ South Bend Monday. Dr. Neville is putting a foundation under his house and office. Charley Beek, whois working in Chi cago, visited with his parents over Sunday. G. Logan is contemplating the build ing of a new barn. Gilbert Peterson and Johnnie Morris played a short game of “last one over the fence” Sunday. Page Mead, who has the job of building the new Miller school house, has begun laying the foundation Mr. Allman, of Plymouth, was on our streets Wednesday. G. Logan and family were visiting in the vicinity of LaPaz Sunday. Miss. Maggie Watkins is doing house work for Mrs. Dr. Neville. Many of our citizens made a pleasure trip to Koontz's lake Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Swathwood, of Kingsbury, visited with friends here the first of the week. The homeless man and wife that were on our streets the first of the week are holding forth at John Lockwood s. J.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. INDIANA. SATURDAY. MAY 29. 1897.

Since Victoria Was Crowned. J “Great social reforms belong to Queen Victoria’s reign,” writes William George j Jordan in the Juno Ladies’ Home Jour ' nal, narrating the progress of the world since Queen Victoria ascended the throne sixty years ago. “The degrading practice of flogging has been abolished in the armies and navies of America and Eng- ( land. Children are no longer permitted to ivork in the mines of Britain. Press , gangs no longer force men into the nor / vice of the Queen’s navy. The lied

Cross Society, approved by forty nine ' nations, has softened the horror of war. ; The transportation of criminals, with its many evils, has been suppressed. Execu tions are no longer conducted in public. The treatment of criminals has become humane. Factory laws and building j acts make life easier for the poor. “Inventive science has made marvelous progress in every department during 1 Victoria's sixty years as Queen. Canti- [ lever bridges have surprised the world. ' Travel has been wonderfully quickened by street cars, cabs, trolleys, cable cars,

elevated roads and other triumphs of in vention. In 1837 there were no type writers, no passenger elevators, no modern bicycles, no soda-water fountains, no horseless carriages, no chemical fireextinguishers, no ironclads, no perfecting presses. Fully chronicling the inventive progress of the last six decades would make it seem as if nothing of real consequence to man's comfort had been done before 1837.” The Memorial Sermon. The Memorial service at the M. E. church Sunday evening was a union ser vice of the M. E., the Presbyterian and United Brethren congregations. The house was crowded and at 7:30 o’clock the veterans of the (1. A. R., followed by the ladies of the Relief Corps, marched in and took the seats reserved for them.

The union choir sang a beautiful anthem and some familiar hymns. Rev. Riley offered prayer. The sermon by Rev. Pavey was listened to with groat interest and attention, and nt times with enthusiastic responses by the veterans. It had the ring of true Americanism. The saviors of our country, both living and dead, were eulogized, the history from the early colonization and early conflicts briefly touched upon, then in words burning and eloquent he spoke of the late rebellion so well remembered by those who lived through those tumul tuous times. With sentences like the scourge of a whiplash he dealt at the in stitutions and vices that menace our peace and prosperity as a nation, and earnest admonitions closed his masterly address. NORTH LIBERTY. Dr. J. N. Reece and wife went to In dianapolis Monday to attend the Grand Lodge. William Horn and family, of South Bend, visited at Hannah Kellogg's Sun day. C. F. Keck is assisting Supt. Bair at South Bend this week. Miss Carrie Rupel, of Walkerton, visited North Liberty friends Sunday. Miss Nellie Timmons visited relatives at Crumstown, Saturday. The G. A. R. has arranged a very in teresting program for Memorial day. Mrs. Jennie Motley and son. of Auburn, 111., are visiting her brother, Frank Drennon. James Bender and wife, of Shipshewana, Ind., are visiting relatives here. Mrs. Kohler, of Rolling Prairie, Mrs. Abner Giffin and daughter, of Seattle, Washington, and Alta Hicks, of New Carlisle, visited at J. C. Aaderson’s several days the past week. Henry Shultz left Sunday for Hamlet where he will engage in the jewelry I business. Ethel Kellogg, of Walkerton, is visiting relatives here. Mrs. F. E. Green and children left Wednesday for a two weeks visit with । relatives at South Bend. Mrs. Chauncy Hale and Mrs. Philips were at South Bend a few days this week. Curtis Brenly and family visited relatives at LaPaz Sunday.

Mrs. Wm Connor and daughter Emma were at Chicago Monday. Dr. Waxham and family and Mr. and Mrs. .1. N. Rupel attended the funeral of ; Wm Travis, nt, Stillwell, Wednesday. Hattie, the four year old daughter of 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Hathaway, of South Bend, was buried here Tuesday forenoon. Robert Jimerson, who has been confined to the house with erysipelas, is able to lie on the streets again. Marshal W. S. Whittecar is making a number of street improvements. Mrs. Samuel Dreibelbis, Sr., visited at South Bend the past week. Frank Rexstrew was home from South Bend Sunday. Mrs. Wm. K. Jackson, of Battle Creek, Mich., is visiting W. F. Hoffman and family. Mrs. Styles, of Plymouth, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. B. Irvin. I have a male hog, full-blooded Poland China, for sale cheap or will exchange for another hog. Also Barred Plymouth Rock eggs 50 cents for 13. Chas. E. McCarty. The Independent office has blank deeds and mortgages, notes and receipts for sale.

THE FOUR COUNTIES. I News of St. Joseph, LaPorte, Marshall and Starke Counties Briefly Told. The Butler ball team defeated the senators Sunday at South Bend 7to 5. | As the 4th of July comes on Sunday 1 this year, Michigan City will celebratw^,, on Saturday and LaPorte on Monday. T j Ihe corner etono of the Starke county I court hoiiHo will »« InM July 3. 'The ceremonies will bo in clinr&e of tt*<» । Masonic order. ' ; Allen Cummings, an old resident of ( Union Mills, LaPorte county, died May ' < 25, aged about 77 years. He settled in f LaPorte county 60 years ago. i Uriah Chandler, an early settler of Penn township, St. Joseph county, died | at his home near Mishawaka on Wednes- < day of last week in his 81st year. । I The fish protection association in St. 1 Joseph county has decided to secure the appointment of a deputy fish warden for each lake in the county to detect viola tions. South Bend Times: It is thought' that the Christiansen relief fund will reach S6OO to #BOO. About $225 had been contributed by down town people up to Saturday night. At Michigan City, a runaway horse : entered a drug store and trotted bick to 1 the prescription desk, over turning varnish and paint cans as he went, then turned around and trotted out. Quite a number of Plymouth bicycle riders are planning a ride to Benton Harbor, Mich., and return next Sunday. The round trip distance is 130 miles. Plymouth Republican. Cornelius Ford, a St. Joseph county convict, died of consumption in the Michigan City prison Saturday. He was sent up in 1893 for attempted mur- . der. At South Bend, lightning struck an oak tree and split it from top to bottom/ The nplinfore How from it, antidotal from a fence were thrown several hlinN dred feet. A man who was an eye ness escaped uninjured. There are ninety licensed saloons in South Bend while Plymouth has but seven. This is the smallest number of saloons licensed in Plymouth for twenty years, while the population is 1500 larger than twenty years ago. Plymouth Republican. The North Judson Masonic Lodge has accepted an invitation to lay the corner stone of the Starke county court house at Knox July 3. The laying of the stone will be made an event of unusual interest. A civic parade, which will be par ticioated in by uniformed Masonic bodies from Logansport, Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Valparaiso and Plymouth will be a feature. While at the prison at Michigan City Tuesday Sheriff Marshall saw and held a long conversation with Win. Sutherlin, the life prisoner for the murder of Edwin Fetters. Sutherlin has been placed at hard labor in the chair factory, but was free to say that he did not like prison life and if he really thought he was there for life he did not care how soon it ended. Plymouth Democrat. An enterprising hobo struck LaPorte the other day. He went to a hardware store, so relates the Argus, and purchased a gallon of gasoline: at a drug store he got 10 cents worth of resin and increased his investment to 25 cents by adding a little yellow ocher. When the hardware merchant w*ent home in the evening, he listened to a long story from his wife about the fluo--furniture polish she had purchased from an agent at only 50 cents a pint. “A man not a thousand miles from Knox,” says the Starke County Democrat, “recently sent a dollar to a Chicago man for instructions for making money

rapidly, and received the following reply. ‘Take a dollar hill and fold it several ; times each way. Then unfold it and i you will find it increases. Keep the in- ; crease but send the original bill to the printer who put you onto the scheme. Take a silver dollar and drop it on the counter. Jou will at once notice the ring it makes. Send the ring to your best girl and the dollar to the printer and they’ll both be happy.” PICKLE CONTRACTS. Parties holding pickle contracts for 1897 can get seed at our Walkerton factory on Wednesday and Thursday, June 2 and 3. H. J. Heinz Co. I* or Sale.—A first-class Star wind mill, all steel, 50 barrel tank, tower 28 feet high. Will be sold at a great sacrifice. S. E. Koontz. Millards have just received a large line of the fancy satin braids. They come m the greatest variety of color and combination this season. Call and see them.

PEN AND SHEARS. Price Constantine, commander of the army, is 29 years old. StW' Geologist Blatchley will soon mak® a ^ r ip over th® northern and --stern part of this state for the non® . . WP o' securing information and observations in this the state, which has been here I ’ ar W” ted in state geological ■ " 5.0. s*• Grand Lodge meet I ln( t^Kfn<]fnnapolis it was decided to buil d’»|7s,oo<» building there for grand head^^j^^g. The grand lodge also re duced ® minimum from sl9 to $lO un ( ^ er '°f age, to sl6 between 35 ant ^ $$ a# 6 ’ an ^ to ovor years. K A 3t ^keeper wrote to one of his cus tomert follows: “I am now able to offer y ^cloth like the enclosed sample at tw< ty cents a yard. In case I do n °t b e <from you I shall conclude you wish t'wy only nineteen cents per yard. In ord® to lose no time 1 will accept the lal» price.” Elkhart Review: Henry Stauffer, a farmer raiding just west of town, relates that aiw days ago one of his children boiled was supposed to be a double yoikedegg. and when the shell was broke^he supposed extra yolk proved to be <perfect egg with a hard shell. The inir egg measures about an inch | and oj^ialf the largest way. It is pre serve* EMI a rare curiosity. Oul U*my has 2,500 men and cost this year 97 $58,000,000. England with 7,500 ficers and 148,000 men cost $75. 000,(M Germany with 23.000 officers and ^J^hnen and 100,000 horses cost SU2F£OO. There is quite a distinct an apparent profligacy somewhes England’s army is al) over the woHH Un * at home. (hire is only about thrfW^fntieths of Germany but our a ^ a ^ h en ’ an d the an ®Q a al disproportion. <J ti । G'fflcult operation u|^m a swhther dav, and cntii'lurlnt Hi- ’ w Sr< v. * to the thu-tor in "The operation «as entirely and performed in a nHißt ■ qki^'y l,BDner ’ an ’^ * ta r, ' HU ^ s hav<*f® n a " toat could po-^ibly have been IB^^ toL except for tin- unfortu * e I'hat the patient failed to rally nah' frf, 1 and die? a few hourß ’ The l* est ' tongue is the postage . * r ue, discovered bv an eminent stamp t, ’ , .. . I , U Comes of wetting stamps and i envdtW with lhe tongue. The organ 1 , covered with red pimples. ; becomei , .. C it and any contagious disease Sore to , , , ~ ~ . sODtracted through the mucil may bes . . Jb disorder is known among the age. ® frtterf 38 *tamp tongue and « P ublic is warne<l a g ;iinst tl e jUtpJlbit. Goshen News. . Aypniporary learns that if a woJus her husband by death she y unwise and disrespectful to husband to remarry for at months and better to wait one ^but if she loses her husband by a djvT 8 P rocee ^’ n g she deems it the and wise thing to be immediate ? r< ®jarried to show her husband that is another fellow that is just as pjJßfool as he was. Xs Millard invites the ladies to call anX 0 the beautih ‘l profusion of new Mr hats, flowers and other millinery jj: she received this week. There is Syildering assortment to choose from J. ———— — PURELY VEGETABLE. .... ual Sri ■ ii’ic diseases of the **Ml lomach ga 1 "W and Spleen. gate the Liver s„ prevent Chu.ls M “ nQ '’ever, Mai.ahi■'evers, 1 h l AINTS, RiSTLES- a* J » 9 j JAUNDWB ANU Nau a ' BAD BREATH! x- ling is so unpleasant, nothing so common, as kA* reath; and in nearly every case it comes from ,k? iinach, and can be so easily corrected if you will taL iiMMONSLiver Regulator. Do not neglect so Mn-™ remedy for this repulsive disorder. It will aso i j ni p t ve your appetite, complexion and general health. I PILES! II w many suffer torture day af-er day, making life a bj den and robbing existence of all pleasure, owing lot* secret suffering from Piles \ft rebef >•< Iv to tl ‘ hand of almost any one who wii use s,stem.ai Cail, th- remedy that has permanently cured thonJan > S.mmons Liver Regulator >s no drastic, viol, It purge, but a gentle assistant to nature. CONSTIPATION SHOULD not be regarded as a trifling ailment —in fact, nature — ’ demands the utmost regular ty of the bowels, and any deviation 1 from this demand paves the way (often to serious danger. It is quite as necessary to remove impure accumulations from the I bowels as it is to eat or sleep, and no health can be expected where ■ a costive habit of body prevails. J SICK HEADACHE! T his distressing affliction occurs most Th : disTu^ «he Moma.h, ar.sing from the ““ s '“”” LiWm Regulator ok Meoh ink. ■ MANUEAt 11 Kt 11 ONLY BY 1 J. H. ZEILIN Si CO., Philadelphia. Pa.

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