Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 October 1908 — Page 4

Jnftepen&ent. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY INDEPENDENT BLOCK, WALKERTON, INDIANA. W, A. Endlit , Editor and Publisher. ADVANCE. TBLBPHONB NO. 28. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1908. Publisher’s Notice. Notices of marriages, births and deaths inserted free. Notices for church or society entertainments, etc., where the object is to raise money, one-half the legular rate. Resolutions of respect, obituaries and local reading advertisements Scents per line. Cards of Thanks, 50 cents. One thing is sure, Bill will be elected. Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan each says he will be elected. Be patient. It will last only a little over two weeks longer. Harry Thaw recently bought 15,000 cigarettes. Keep him where he is. This ie an exceptional campaign. All the candidates for president are taking the stump except the one who is in jail. A wind jammer is usually built that way to make up for alack of brain. Nature abhors a vacuum and in this case it is trying to provide something to till the vacancy. The American Meat Packers' Association in session in Chicago endorsed the present government laws controlling the meat business. There were 700 packers in attendance. The supreme court of Wisconsin has declared as unconstitutional the eight hour telegraphers’ law, enacted in 1907. The law is declared to be in conflict with the federal constitution in some of its provisions. Ohio has become a doubtful state, according to reports. The state, which at first seemed safe for Taft, is now being disputed by the Bryan managers. The republican politicians have beome quite concerned over the situation and will redouble their efforts to keep Ohio in the republican column. When it comes to honesty and purity no one political party ie blessed with a monopoly of these virtues. Each party is made up of only men, and «when a speaker comes before the people claiming that hie party is the only one having pure motives and the interests of the people at heart you can stamp that man as one who will wilfully misrepresent to gain a point. It is not a question as to which party has the majority of honest men, as there is no difference in thin rpsnect ho* ft i= a quct»ii«>u as to which is advocating the soundest and safest policies to perpetuate the best interests of the people in all the various avenues of business and labor.

| Borgoigs ot Wilhelni’s! | | HIGH-GRADE TAILORED SUITS AT 1 | 58.95, 512.50, 515.00 and 519.75 1 25 y ( 25 77 I E placed on sale for the week beginning October 12th 278 strictly highy grade tailored suits bought at one-half their actual price. Every suit 25 g is perfectly tailored, made of guaranteed cloths, cut in entirely new 3 y and modish styles---all long coats with flare-trimmed skirts---the best products S 3 y of the best American tailors offered to you at one-half their actual worth — 3 y $8,95, $12,50, $15.00 and $19.75, All colors represented. 3 B 3 E y 25 A BROADCLOTH Suit made in 33-inch coat, satin trimmed and 3 y edged with soutache and lined with guaranteed satin. Flare E skirt with satin and button trimmed front and 6-inch fold, I 3 y edged with satin. An elaborate suit in all colors at $12.50. 3 £■ TWO TONE Stripe Broadcloth Suit—33-inch coat, either sinF V? gle or double-breasted. Flare skirt with 6-inch fold. Colors I J 7 3 | y \\f brown, blue and smoke, at $8.95. \[/ 3 y 0 © 25 E m AN ALL-WOOL Stripe Worsted made in 36-inch coat, satin ,9, 5 E lined, elegantly tailored, flare skirt with 6-inch fold. Reg- 75 E I ular $25.00 value, now selling at $15.00. M 25 MILITARY SUITS made of high grade Broadcloth and elabo- 25 E rately embroidered with self-colored soutache. Flare skirt 25 with 8-inch fold edged with embroidery. A suit easily worth 25 double the price; colors, navy and wine; now selling at $19.75. 25 ■ ■.■«■■■ ! 11l —■ ■ -W<l 2^2 "*** Do not think we have over-estimated the values, but this is positively the 23 y greatest bargain ever offered in South Bend. Everything is guaranteed and 3 B all alterations tree. S | WILHELM | g LADIES* CLOTHIER 3 E' 25 । y 119 West Washington St., SOUTH BEND, IND. 3 <

The country had better have a socialistic form of government rather than to live under the regime of a few great trusts and corporations manipulated by a handful of capitalists. That would be as bad as a monarchy. If we are to have great trusts the people should own them, not a few men. We want either an honest competitive system of the true American quality or a socialistic system. In fact, we are likely to have one or the other, perhaps socialism, unless the great corporations are crushed and made to keep within limits, so that honest competition in all commercial lines can have fair play. The competitive system, when rightly regulated, is the ideal form of government and well adapted to the soil of free America, that is, when it is really free.

VIEWS OF THE PRESS. It is impossible to believe that it will ever be safe to run at 60 miles an hour at night any vehicle not confined to tracks and not using its own roadway, kept free from obstructions. Whatever the future may hold in the way of safety for motorists who insist upon traveling at limited train speed, the pastime at present must inevitably be fruitful of tragedy.—Louisville Courier Journal. Opportunity, give me opportunity, says the average young man of today. Well, they are lying all around you, But think how some men are handicapped. The supreme court of North Carolina has just admitted to practice a blind deaf-mute who ie a negro. That man is getting along in the world, but can you think of a much greater handicap that could be placed on a man?— Philadelphia Inquirer. Attacking John E Lamb because he has worked himself into a lucrative law practice by dint of energy, industry and native ability, is one of the many repre heneible features of the present cam paign. In hie boyhood days John worked in a butcher shop, and he made good. The late Daniel W. Voorhees became interested in this butcher boy, took him in, and made an able lawyer of him. Is there anything discreditable about all this? —South Bend Times. Eugene Victor Debs, of Terre Haute, candidete for the presidency on the Socialistic ticket, ie being given more favorable attention this year than he has ever been given before. Through out the west he was treated pretty much as a curiosity, while in the east he ie taken with no little amount of serious ness. The condition of old line politics in New York city has added greatly to the Socialist vote and has compelled the New Yorkers to sit up and take notice. Debs’ chief value, it seems, is to awaken and arouse; be himself acknowledges that he doesn’t expect to be elected He is awakening and arousing and the fact is emphasized by the increased space be ie receiving in the big newspapers, which all but ignored him eight years ago.— Terre Haute Tribune.

Card of Thanks. To our friends who bo kindly assisted us during our late bereavement we wish to extend our heartfelt thanks. Mary A. Granger, C. L Granger and Family. Attention I The members of the G. A. R. and ladies of the Relief Corps arg invited, through "this notice, Qi honor at the recital to be given at the M. E. church, Friday evening, Oct. 23. Complimentary tickets will be given at the door.

:NEWS LETTERS? O =—_ : . o i ° Items of Interest From Our Able " o Corps of Correspondents. o BARBER. Ben Gardner has the foundation laid for a new barn. Mrs. Neville was the guest of Mrs. C. Rupel Monday. John Williams and family from Culver, Ind., visited over Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walterhouse. Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Hocker very pleasantly entertained the following guests at dinner Sunday: Miss Mary Nixson, of Teegarden, Grandma Hocker, Mr. and Mrs Alva Barber and children, of Barber, and Mrs, Ira Neville, from Chester, West Virginia.

TYNER. Ed Monroe spent two days of last week at the Bourbon fair. Dr. Thompson and wife were at Plymouth on business last week. Charles Ramsby and wife were guests of Ellison Strang and family last Sunday. Mise Merle Fink has returned home from Indianapolis after a five weeks' visit with relatives and friends. George Boner, Max Snyder and Waldo Keller started for Nebraska last Tuesday where they will be engaged in husking corn for a few months. Mise Jessie Jarrell and Mise Mabel Drollinger of South Bend were guests of relatives and friends over Sunday. Stillwell Beate Walkerton Again. The Walkerton high school base ball team crossed bats with the Still will team at this place last Friday afternoon. The game was fiercely contested from start to finish but as usual ended with the score of Stillwell, 20; Walkerton, 7. A large crowd of rooters cheered the contestants of both sides. The game, sad to say, was not won by the brilliant playing of the opposing side, but by the innumerable errors of the home team. At one time the lose of a game would hurt, but it has occuried so often lately that no one minds defeat now. A re turn game ie echeduled to be played at Stillwell next Friday at 2 p m. Everybody ie invited to go and “root," as that ie certainly one thing that Walkerton can do.

John Flack and eon, John C., feel very grateful to the friends and neighbors for their timely assistance in helping to fight the Are in the Flack buckleberry marsh Tuesday evening. By hard fighting only about a third of the marsh was burned and the fire was kept from spreading further which at one time threatened to destroy a large amount of surroondieg property, •ti these plucky fire fighters was ro doubt the means of preventing ft destructive fire. Sale bills at this office.

N ' iGING FIRES In the Mars hcs o es t rO y |vi UC h Hay 1 ind Fencing 'J he smolde r - D g muc k lands west of own, anned the w j nc j S) ou t into a ercefi r 0 Tuesday on W. F. Cook a pace, near Hlard Place's farm in La orte county, an( | spread rapidlv to adjoming terntc )fy The hay Qn the Cook farm ha bee * destroyed by tire about three weeks a but the Ure found fuel to fee upon j n dry, parched muck and sprea to £j Place’s land where 75 tons of ha; f in stacks wa consumed and also 25 t( ng on the Charlea young place. ante j Cripe, who had the con tract or cut ^ n g an j putting up this hay, ie also q a i oeer The tire raged like ma ,jun ,p et } the road at the Quinn place and spr oad |. o nver there being a streak fl aEne , or a m ji e an{ ] a half. Much bay . Q pathway of the tire had aire idy been burned by previous blazei , 8O compara ti ve iy little damage resu f rom Tuesday’s visita tion, which f jbsided by evening Considerable ft lc j D g waß destroyed The fire, howew , broke out again on the D W. Place If da | 2 o'clock on the following mor ®ad q Bec tj on men were outToltHp-fight it. After hard K the flames were well un der control - y 5 o’clock. A stack o' ba y o f 15 tone on Willard Places j bad a cloee call, the fire coming w . nlO feet o f it The flames have all be , Bu bdued in that locality and no new >utbreaks are reported. On Inee- 4 y evening Are started in I lack’s hue. elberry marsh about half a mile north o 1 town. The blaze was first seen in the a mth-west part of the marsh. By the use 1 ,f the telephone and other means a lar f , e number of people were brought to t he scene and by hard tight ing, back-fl -ing, etc, the flames were kept from ej reading into a destructive contlagratioi „ A pathway about 20 rods wide was I mrned across the entire marsh, destt oying about a third of it — five acres. ;be beautiful piece of woods and the R nehart huckelberry marsh were in grea t danger, being saved only by the moa strenuous efforts on the part of the f ghters. EIOI ;utionary Recital A recital 1 be given at the Metho diet church for the benefit if the pledge taken by tl e Epworth League ' r the building fur d, Friday evening October 23, by Mrs. Beechgood’s class m elocu- ' tion. Folio l ring is the program: Piano sole ( Mise Hyde Music, Be yB ’Quartette Recitatiot t “Aunt Polly Green, Bessie Beechgo Piano sole , s L>enaut. Recitatiot ( j n costume, “Aunt Gemima’s Courts hip." Edna Bennett Duet, Jur e Leßoy and Alice McCabe. IvHfltatioi , “What She Said," Esther । Bailey. Recitatiol “Guilty or Not Guilty," । Claire Barr< ; ' \ ocai soil-, Miss Florence McAllister ■■■WSKtb. ▼ * lT Unfivict Joe," Caroline , Perkins. f Violin sc v AHulen McCabe. Recitatn ft ■ "Our Hired Girl." Claire Barnd. RedtatioPy‘Sister and I," Edna Ben--1 n ®tt- I Recitation,! "Th® Dead Doll," Caroline Denaut. I Solo, Rev. ® • S Reedy. Recitation, 1 “After the Battle,’ Mrs Beechgood. I Solo, “Tenting Tonight," Mre. S. J. Shadel, accomi^ lll ^ b ? mal ° voices in chorus. ■ Admission vm 111 include doughnuts and coffee in the Bbasement after the program. 1 Admission: ■Adults, 25 cents; school children, big ar* d 10 cent - public Sales Oden Mitchell l wilt sell a * public auction at his reW* dence 0D tbe Daniel Koontz farm, miles south of Wal ' kerton, on Wocl cesda y> October 21, at 10 a. m , a lot oB personal property consisting in part following: Five head of horses, W our g° od “hch cows, hogs, farming inrßploments, etc. A credit of nine months vy 111 given on all sums overdo without Bitterest if paid when due. I

Luther Coil arB d Mellie Gardner will hold a public ealeß^t the Daniel Gardner farm Tuesday, C®ctober 27, at 10 a. m, Five head of hors« 3 » one milch cow > sev ’ eral head of hogs« and young pigs, farming implements, t* a yi corn, household goods, etc , will be ■’old. Twelve months time will be given 1 B Bumß over $5 without interest if paid * when due, Michlar Mable* J 1 a public sale at his residence^! J°Hy farm 3*4 milee northeast alet, 2*4 miles west of Grovertown W^ ne mde south of the Union sc’ |at house, Tuesday, Oct 20,1908, com I lancing at 10 a. m. Two good horses, a । about 50 chickens, ducks, top bu ( vfey, wagon, several plows, cream separat r and many household articles too nt eroue to mention will be sold. On it sums over §5 a credit of 8 months wi >“ be given without interest if paid when ■ due, C. B. Furry will ho 'd a public sale at his place of residence £ ithe Boyer farm, 1% milee southeast Bor the Koontz mill, at 10 o'clock a. m , iWVhureday, October 29. Two good work h l^see, 3 good fresh cows, yearling steer $ B^d heifer, fall calf, 2 veal calves, tarn Bung implements, timothy and clover lßi a y>corn in shock and crib, household agoods and many other articles will be B Bo ^. A credit of 12 months will be gi I * o u on sums over J 5 without interest i ■ paid when due. Four per cent off for c I o b. For a mild, easy acti-l- 30 °f the bowels, a single dose of Dot 1 08 Regulets is enough. Treatment cu Bms habitual constipation. 25 cents a g Ol, A B * 4 ^ our druggist for them. |

NEWS OF THE CHURCHES. I 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 choir will meet on Friday night at the church at 7 o’clock. Let all who have been singing with the choir be present. The Junior League ie growing in both interest and numbers. There were 27 present last Sunday. Plans are now on foot for a Sunday school rally. A special program will be rendered. The pastor will preach next Sunday as usual. To all who have no church home a special invitation ie extended to 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 parlor of the church Friday at 2 p. m. John T. Keesky, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor at 6:00 p tn. Prayer meeting and Bible study every Thursday evening at 7:30. Preaching every Sunday at 10:39 a. m and 7 p. m. Subject next Sunday morning: “ i’he R medy For the World's Restlessness.” I’he evecir g subject will be: “The duty of Mental Self Culture" C. H. Kiracofe, Pastor. eil ECUAiJ WANTFD One good OmLEwHimli hustler to take orders for our goocH in your own county. Full line of Ornamental and Fruit frees. Ex- , perience uih > ary Write for spe!'id t«ru < Rochester Nurseries. Rochester, N. Y. Notice to Ditch Contractors. Notice is hen i.y u''v> n th:it on Friday, at !* a. in.. Octoter 16 1908. । At Walkcrtoi . In.liana, I will receive bids .uni ■ cr ' 1 Ilie c >sist met ion .fa.iitch Stilton. for o D. W. I’ al. in the 1 oniui - oners t ourl. I’artie* assessed tor ,tH netlts. wti > w isli <0 c> >i|st met i heir port ions ■ : ' .1 ■< -.cn il mds tor the work I at ltint time. Ft res E. KrsziE, Su pt. of Construction. ; 1 1 1

LOVE IS BLIND Fit Glasses to Poor Eyes and Guarantee Satisfaction Diamonds Watches Cut Glass Silverware AT LOWEST PRICES. Fine Watch Repairing Charles M. Schuell 218 S. Michigan St . Opposite Auditorium South Bend - Indiana EXCURSION —TOINDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 Via L. E.&W.Ry. — nraranM S| — Special Train leaves Walkerton at 6:26 a m Returning, leaves Indiacap olis at 6:00 p m. For information see W. F. LaFEBER, Agent C. L HILLERARY, G. P A. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS C. ? I. & S. Railway WILL BE GIVEN ( Every Sunday BETWEEN ( Streator and South Bend Special Rate of 50 Cents To c outh 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.

Hon, Chas. W. Miller • Wil Republican Candidate For Congress Will speak in Hudelmyer’s Opera House Saturday, October 24th, at 8 P. M. The political issues will be fairly and ably discussed. The public cordially invited. A special invitation extended to the ladies.

I Pure Groceries i t Try our Splendid Line of $ I Coffees, Teas and | ? Canned Goods | A GRAND BULK COFFEE f | FOR 2Oc A POUND g Other brands that will please you I All our goods are fresh and I clean and backed up by the | Pure Food Laws. $ > JOHH J. DEVERY j J. wILLIS COTTON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Protate Business and Settlement of Estates a Specialty. LOANS and INSURANCE. REAL ESTATE AGENT FARMS AND TOWN PROPERTY FOR SALE. MONEY TO LOAN 00 Farms “S X s “ Per Ce ”“ Office over State Bank. Walkerton, Ind. Are You going To Get Married? See the Independent Office for Wedding Invitations

New England Queen A 523 Sewing Machine that beats the world; guaranteed for io years. See this machine before buying.

KEMEMBEK OUR GREAT REMOVAL SALE I Continues until Oct. 15, during which time you can buv furniture from us for less than Chicago prices. H. A. YEARICK, “tr | ■ -

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