Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 16, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 October 1908 — Page 4

Bje JniJependent. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY INDEPENDENT BLOCK, WALKERTON, INDIANA. W.A.Emdlit, • Editor and Publisher, ADVANCE. TBLBPHONB no. 20. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1908. Publisher's Notice. Notices of marriages, births and deaths .nserted free. Notices for church "or society entertainments, etc., where the object is to raise money, one-half the regular rate. Resolutions of respect, obituaries and local reading advertisements, 5 cents per line. Cards of Thanks, 50 cents. There seems to be some method in Hanly’e madness. Hearst has a few more explosions to offer before the campaign closes. If Hanly is “mad” as has been charged, there are a lot of other crazy ones with him. The government has gone so far as to _ demand that maple syrup be made from the sap of maple trees. This is too much. jgaekell threatens to sue Editor Hearst for exposing his crookedness Haskell seems to be as big a bluffer as he is a crook. If the Independent was a sport it would not be afraid to bet that Marshall will be elected governor of Indiana and Taft president of the United States. The new county local option law will be effective upon publication of the law which will be within ten days or two weeks of its passage, which was September 26. The passage of the county local option bill by both branches of the legislature i was somewhat of a surprise to many people. It was carried in the house by a vote of 55 to 45. It was promptly signed by Governor Hanly. —. Charging a man with trying to bribe another to vote for local option is About as reasonable as it would be to charge him with bribing a person to join church. The bribery charge against Hanly is ridiculous on the face of it. Governor Haskeil of Oklahoma, the Standard Oil crook, is after President Roosevelt’s hide and declares that he will show up Teddy in his true light. Whether it is stealing a horse or some other equally terrible thing that the president is guilty of, the irate Oklahoma governor does not as yet deign to intimate. The public will be in a state of great anxiety until it learns what this wonderful exposure is. Governor Hanly has been exonerated from all charges of bribery made against him by Representative Knisely. Upon the demand of Governor Hanly an investigating committee composed of republicans and democrats was selected from the house and after a thorough investigation the committee failed to find any facts to support Knisely’s chargee and made a report exonerating the governor from all blame. Senator Wickwire, who was included in the bribery chargee, received a vote of confidence from the senate. The whole

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lamentable affair was doubtless a dirty scheme on the part of Knisely and others to injure the governor and the temperance cause he espouses. President Roosevelt has put his son, Theodore, Jr., to work in a carpet manufactory. There is nothing so very wonderful about this, only the president is setting an excellent example for “highup” people who fail to instil useful lessons of industry into the minds of their precious offspring, VIEWS OF THE PRESS. Unworthy candidates are found from time to time on the ticket of one or both of the parties. In such an event the duty of the patriotic citizen is plain. Just scratch the fellow who should not hold office. It will prove a wholesome lesson to the party managers and be a distinct gain to the public service.— Muncie Press. Roosevelt kicked out DuPont Friday on account of hie connections with the powder trust. Os course the republican leaders did not know he was badly hooked up with a bad trust when they made him head of the speakers’ bureau. There are a few other republican leaders who are in equal danger of getting the boot for the same reasons. —Columbia City Poet. Twelve years ago the cry on both sides was that prices were too low and each claimed that their success would enable the downtrodden farmer to get more for hie stuff. This year the general cry is that prices are too high, and the politicians are trying to devise schemes to induce the farmer to take lees for hie cattle and hie corn. We have heard no complaint from the d. f ; the fellows that are doing the squealing are the ones that are doing the buying.—lndianapolis Independent. Thomas A. Edison, world famous inventor, declares he is willing to stake his reputation as a prophet that within five years airships carrying passengers on regular schedules will be making trips across the Atlantic ocean. Admitting Mr. Edison to be a gentlemen of unusual and remarkable acumen, still one is not prevented from suspecting that it may possibly have happened during some of hie recent scientific researches that he discovered a new kind of pipe. —Lafayette Courier. President Roosevelt evidently knew । his man when he broke with Foraker years ago and refused to have any dealings with him. In hie statement published Tuesday and based on Mr Hearst’s exposure, he reproduces a let ter written by Mr. Taft, July 20, to the Ohio state committee, expressly refusing to enter into any agreement to support Foraker for the senate in consideration of the latter’s support of himself for the presidency. His reason was that Foraker had fought the administration’s reform policy and to combine with him would be a sacrifice of principle. All this is very creditable to the president and Mr. Taft. It is plain now that Foraker’s attacks on the president were inspired by the Standard oil crowd, in whose pay he has been for years.—lndianapolis Independent. Hearst charges C. N. Haskell, governor of Oklahoma and present treasurer of the Democratic national committee, with having been a tool of the Standard Oil company at the time Frank S. Monnett was attorney general of Ohio and was engaged in the prosecution of the Standard Oil company. Haskell calls Hearst a liar and asserts that the Haskell mixed up in the affair was W. C. Haskell, a man who is no relation to him, Hearst charges that the Standard Oil company contributed a large sum to the Democratic national campaign fund and that Haskell was the man who succeeded in getting the contribution. Os course Haskell is not a candidate on the Democratic ticket, but he is connected officially with the management of the campaign, and if he can not clear his skirts of the chargee preferred by Hearst, he should lose no time in handing in hie resignation. Nobody, how ever, believes that the Standard Oil company gave a large sum to the Dem ocratic committee. — Columbia City Poet.

I four counties! ° News of St. Joseph, l.aPorte, Starke and 0 o Marshall Counties Boiled Down. o i Daniel Webster was the orator of the day at the first Fourth of July celebration ever held at LaPorte, about 70 years ago. John Schroeder caught a pike above the dam in Yellow river today which weighed about 25 pounds. It is the largest fish taken out of the river for some time. —Plymouth Independent. Hon. Edwin C. Laidlaw died at his home in Mishawaka recently, aged 64 years. He was an honorable citizen, a veteran of the civil war and at one time a representative in the state legislature. He was born on the old homestead near Mishawaka where he lived until a few weeks ago, having recently moved to Mishawaka. That Hole In the Ground. Owing to a cave-in at the water works and electric light plant on Tuesday, the town was without electric light service three evenings this week. The pumping of so much water and sand in digging the new well undermined th<foundation of the building and caused it to settle, also the foundation of the engine, which is out of plumb, A casting on the flange union on the engine was cracked and also the suction main leading from the well was broken in two by the settling of the building. This result has been feared, and a little 4 more caution might have been used to prevent such an unfortunate occurrence. If the new well had been located at least 15 feet further from the building, much trouble might have been avoided. The engine is being leveled again and the foundation re inforced with fresh concrete. It is hoped that the electric light service can be resume d again by this (Friday) evening. Walkerton has a good water works and electric light plant, notwithstanding some unfortunate mishaps. Some mistakes have been made, which are common to the majority of men—(of course, there are some who never make mistakes nor anything else to speak of)—but we believe that most of the trouble is over with and greater precaution and a more careful supervision of the work of those under the direction of the Town Board will be observed in the future. The most of us learn by experience. NEWS OF THE CHURCHES. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Junior League at 2 p. m. Epworth League at 6 p. m. Thursday prayer meeting at 7 p. m. The young people of the Epworth League are planning to organize a Bible study class for the winter months. The Junior League was started and reorganized on Sunday afternoon. It will meet each Sunday. Next Sunday the pastor will preach iat 10:30 a. m., on “The Great Center and Our Relation To It,” and at 7 p. m., on “Our Dayepring.” All will receive a cordial welcome who worship with us. G. S. Reedy, Pastor. UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH. Walkerton Church—Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; Y. P. C. U., 6:30 p. m.; preaching, 7 p. m. Barber Church.—Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. The Ladies’ Aid will meet in the church parlors Friday at 2 p. m. The members of the Financial Board will meet in the Walkerton church Saturday, October 10, at 2 p. m. Every member is requested to be present at said meeting. John T, Keesey, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 6:00 p. m. Prayer meeting and Bible study every Thursday evening at 7:30. Preaching every Sunday at 10:39 a. m and 7 p. m. Communion service next Sunday morning. In the evening the theme will be, “The Duty of Self-Culture, or the Duty of Every One to Educate Himself,” Young people are especially invited. C. H. Kiracoee, Pastor. He M onaerea. Senator Clark of Wyoming Is credited wtih the retelling of a story by Bishop Potter, to the effect that a young clergyman went to preach one Sunday afternoon at an insane asylum. When he reached the asylum he discovered that he had left bls notes at a hotel In the city. He told the superintendent that he could not preach without those notes and that the services for the afternoon must be abandoned. The superintendent Insisted upon some sort of a sermon, because all of the inmates were expecting it; and they could not endure the disappointment. The young man had delivered a sermon on foreign missions that very morning and had the manuscript with him. The superintendent Insisted that he should preach to the insane, concerning foreign missions; and he did so. The audience gave silent and almost rapid attention to the discourse. When it was concluded quite a number of the patients came ' up to to be introduced to the preacher. । Oue of them had been particularly attentive and the young preacher asked him what part of the discourse had especially attracted bis attention. H® ’ answered: j “When you were telling about the heathen mothers in India, pitching their little children under the wheels of Juggernaut, I was wondering what kept your mother from doing that righteous act when you were a baby.”

ENEWS LETTERS! h. - B 1 ° Items of Interest From Our Able !jo Corps of Correspondents. 3 1° o< COUNTY LINE. Mrs. Tillman Snyder visited her sister Mrs. Jim McCormick of Hamlet Friday and Saturday. Mise Leona Lefever of Hamlet is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Obe Mitchell. Mrs. Hulda Snyder spent Sunday with Mary Young of Walkerton. Mies Lola Koontz visited at Mr. Dingman’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chae. Rameby and son Howard, Mr. and Mre. Hereball Teaby of Plymouth, Mr. and Mre, D. R. Kellogg and danghter Mildred, and Mre. S. F. Rose spent Saturday at Koontz’s lake and in the evening returned to the Kellogg home for supper and the evening was spent in a social way. STILLWELL. Mrs. Robert Hill, of Battle Creek, Mich., was the guest of Edith Dravee over Sund^ Mra. Auj™ Praxes epent a few days with her da mter, Mre. Wm. Richter, of Michigan C Jast week. Mre. J. R'ig^oteen, of LaPorte, is spending a few days with her granddaughter, Mrs. Michael Draves. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Mann and son attended the Case county fair in Cassopolis, Mich., last week, Little Corinne Kincaid, four weeks old, the daughter of Mr. and Mre. Edgar Kincaid, died Friday morning of cholera infantum. Funeral services were held in the Stillwell church Saturday afternoon. Mre. Ed. Wagner, of LaPorte, spent Saturday with her parents, Mr. and Mre. Wm. Marx. Mre. Wm. Collom and Maria Harness, of Mill Creek, were on our streets Sunday evening. Mre. Jane Baker and Mre. Sarah Dare were the gueete of Mrs. J. S. Mann last Thursday. Public Sales O. M. Wright will hold a public sale at hie place of residence, three miles northeast of Mill Creek and one mile east of Jared Drollinger e farm, Thursday, October 15, at 10 a. m. Five head of work horse*’, 9 head of cattle, 10 head of sheep, 13 head of hogs, tame hay, marsh hay, wheat in ground, farming implements and a lot of other property will be sold. A credit of 12 months will ; be given on sums over 85 without inter- 1 est if paid when due. For a mild, easy action of the bowels, a single dose of Doan's Regulets is enough. Treatment cures habitual constipation. a box. Ask your druggist for theyn.

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Few Very Wealthy Germans. There is no use in going to Germany to get rich —that is, real rich, from the American standpoint. In Berlin, for instance, with its 2,014,U.S people, there are only two Individual fortunes of about $20,000,000, while Chicago, with a little less of population, has several fortunes exceeding that figure, and one five times as great. In Berlin, too, there are but 1,620 favored individuals who have an Income of $12,000 or more. Nearly half the workers received less than $214 each last year, according to official figures, and there are 542,288 other persons whose incomes were between $214 and $714. The Proper Way. “How can you take the measure of a man like that great financier?” "I don’t know myself,” but some people seem to think it ought to be taken, by the Berti lion system.”—Baltimor* American.

15,000 Acres AT 50 Cts. On Oct. 9th the State of Wyoming will open for entry 15,000 acres of irrigated land under Carey Act Law. Contract for irrigation MUST be made before the entry can be filled. Our company has contracted with the state to furnish water, so you must arrange with us before you can secure any of this fine land at 50c per acre. Cost of water is $35 per acre, paid as follows: $5 per acre cash before Oct. 6th; 15 May Ist, 1909, and balance in ten equal annual payments of $2 50 per acre. this is YOUR chance to get the beet farm land on earth at VERY’ LOW PRICE Adjoining sections NOW SEL LING at SSO per acre! Only 100 farms (160 a each) to be had and there will be 1,000 applications before October 6th. FREE EXCURSION. Tallmadge & Buntin Land Co. CHICAGO. Seymour s Agency General Agents LAPORTE, INDIANA ^AGENTS WANTED L. E. & W. EXCURSIONS Sunday, October 4 7Of 1 T° Michigan City ■ And Return Special train leaves Walkerton 10:47 a. m. For information see W. F. LwFEBER, A^ent C. L. IIILLEARY, G. P. A. EXCURSION -TOINUIANAPOLIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 Via L. E.&W.Ry. Special Train leaves Walkerton at 6:26 a. m. Returning, leaves Indianapolis at 6:00 p. m. For information see W. F. LaFEBER, A^ent C. L HILLERARY, G. P. A. Low Rate Excursion TO CHICAGO VIA Baltimore & Ohio Railroad OCTOBER 5 TO 7 Account of Convention of Deep Waterway Ass’n. Fare Round Trip, $2 85. Good returning October 10. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS C., I. & S. Railway WILL BE GIVEN ( Every Sunday BETWEEN ( Streator and South Bend Special Rate of 50 Cents To South Bend and Return REDUCED RATES To Intermediate Points. Train leaves Walkerton at 10:12 a. m. Returning, leaves South Bend at 7:40 p, m.

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They Sat e<l Logs. An anecdote which is amusing on ' account of the “cheek” it displays, comes from Ohio. It was during a freshet, after a season of protracted drouth. A great flood came down the . Ohio river, bearing in its bosom haystacks, driftwood, sawlogs, live stock and a few men, women and children clinging to the wrecks of their h mses. Hundreds of people came forth to rescue the drowning victims, others sought to save the perishing cattle horses and sheep, but none so excited as a sawmill man. He had an eye—both eyes—on the sawlogs, thousands of them, and all the property of men 500 miles up stream. He wanted those logs, but at the same time he did not want to incur any personal risk. So he mounted the head of his logway and attracted the attention of so many of the crowd as were not trying to save life and property, and made an eloquent speech. The ending was something like this: “And now. fellow citizens and man—-

if you are men—bestir yourselves and I save those logs, and I’ll give you half ’ of them!” They say it is an actual fact that I the men “saved” about a hundred logs before they realized the absurdity of the offer. A Mere Fad. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was talking to a member of the famous Bible class about economy. “Rut economy, like everything else, may be carried to extremes, may be made a mere fad of." said Mr. Rockefeller. “There is a farmer out near Cleveland who makes a fad of economy. Every time lie drives in to town i he carries a hen with him, tied to tha i seat of his buggy. A friend rode with ; him one day and found out the us* of I the hen. When, at noon, the farm r ; lunched under a tree, lie gave his mare i a feed from a nosebag. The hen. set I on the ground, ate ail that the horse I spilled from the bag and thus there 1 ivas no waste.”