Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 November 1908 — Page 4

&ljc JniJtpcnUent. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY INDEPENDENT BLOCK. WALKERTON, INDIANA. W.A.Emdlbt, - Editor and Publisher. ADVANCE. TBLBPHONB NO. 25. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1908. Publisher's Notice. Notices of marriages, births and deaths .überted free. Notices for church Tor .society entertainments,, etc., where, the object .is .to raise moneys one-half the regular rate. Resolutions of respect, obituaries and local reading advertisements, scents per line. Cards of Thanks, 50 cents. Office seekers are already .hounding the life out of Governor-elect Marshall. There are about fifty applicants for every office. A permanent peace compact, it is said, is being prepared by the United States and Japan. What will Richard P. Hobson do now? William J. Bryan in a recent interview said that if the democratic party thinks best and the conditions warrant he may be a candidate in 1912, It will probably be a long time before another congressman will be able to represent the Thirteenth district for ten consecutive years, as did the late Abraham L. Brick. A railway surgeon in an address in in New York said that drink, gambling and other dissipations are more responsible for railroad wrecks than overwork. James E. Watson’s tenacity of purpose is worthy of admiration. He says that it is his ambition to be governor of Indiana and he will be in the race for the nomination again in 1912. Secretary Elihu Root will probably be elected United States senator from New York. Many influential men favor Root for the senate, among these being President Roosevelt and President-elect Taft. Charles W. Miller, the defeated candidate for congressman from the Thir teenth district, will resume the practice of law at Goshen. Since being elected attorney general of the state in 1902 he has given but little attention to the law business. We’ll bet that the next republican candidate for congress in the Thirteenth district will i/ot come from either St. Joseph or Elkhart counties. It will probably be taken into consideration that there are five other counties in the district. . Union B. Hunt, formerly secretary of State of Indiana, and at present chairman of the Indiana railroad commission, has announced that he will resign from hie position soon to accept the presidency of the insurance department of the Knights of Pythias, with headquart ere in Chicago. The new position will pay him $6,000 a year. Governor-elect Marshall of Indiana is now looked upon as a presidential possibility in 1912. However, the indications point to Governor Johnson of Minnesota as the most likely man to be honored by the democratic party with the presidential nomination in the next national contest. The democratic party would have to go a long way to find a stronger candidate. James E. Watson showed the right spirit when he wrote Governor elect Marshall a few days after the election as follows: “Now that the smoke of battle has cleared away, we are no longer democrats or republicans, but are all hoosiers, and I want you to feel that I am ready to advance any cause that will in any wise inure to the welfare of the people of this great state.” Narrow Partisanship. In a representative form of government political parties are, of course, an absolute necessity and we could not get along without them. But this fact furnishes no excuse for narrow and unreasoning partisanship, the kind that would vote for a little yellow dog if it happened to be on the ticket of the party with which the narrow partisan is allied. Some party men can see no good beyond the confines of their own political organization and will go blindly ahead working and voting for a certain democrat or a certain republican simply because he is such, and lose eight, in their so called party loyalty, of the true object for which political

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parties are created—to protect and conserve the common interests of the people. Party loyalty is not to be condemned but praised when rightly exercised, when the good of the people is the aim of the partisan. True loyalty to party, however, does not mean that you must support all men and all measures within your party, whether good or bad. It is your right to refuse to recognize men or measures in your party which you regard as objectionable, and it is a credit to your manhood to do so when the interests of the public require that you take such a stand. The harm that party zeal has accomplished in this country in blocking good legislation and preventing the adoption of measures for the public good is incalculable. It is demanded of you to be true to the interests of the people rather than be a blind, foolish partisan whose vision has become so narrowed from incessant party “loyalty" that you can look at the politics of the country only through a key-hole. Said one of our presidents, “He who serves hie country beet eerves his party best,” and there never was more sense crowded into a short sentence than is contained in this, and it furnishes a good motto for all men to heed and follow in their political life, A STRANGE INCIDENT. True Story of the Awe In Which Indiana Held a Crucifix. Among the soldiers who were engaged In fighting the Indians, In the campaign of which the Custer episode forms a part, were two young Irishmen who had been In the napal guard at Rome. Before they left for America, the Pope had given them his blessing and presented each of them with a gold crucifix; upon which the mystic beneficence of his prayers had fallen. One of these young men was with Custer when the general and all his followers went down before the ferocious onslaughts of the Indians. The other was with the company which was first to arrive upon the field. The scene of the battle was Indescribably horrible. The ghastly nude bodies of the dead lay about In a manner to sldken the soul. They had been stripped, scalped and mutilated according to the custom of the savages. The young Irishman wandered hopelessly about in this fearful charnel place, in despair of finding his friend. All at once he discovered a body neither scalped nor stripped but with Its limbs decently composed as If by a kindly hand. He recognized It as that of his comrade. On the quiet breast lay the gold crucifix of the Pope, attached to the slender chain on 'which It had always been worn. The squaws engaged In stripping the bodies had discovered the holy emblem hung about the young man’s neck, and awed at the sight of It, had feared to wreak their usual horrors upon him. They had straightened his limbs and left him without the disfiguring marks of the tomahawk. The friend of the dead man took the crucifix and a lock of his comrade's hair and sent them to the young martyr’s mother in Ireland. It was said by those who looked on that the Indians who spared the corpse because of the crucifix must have been those who had come under the training of the famous Father De Smet, since he had given the savages among whom he worked such a deep, though ignorant, reverence for the cross that they would never dare to maltreat a body on which it was found. Notes from a Tailor. “The average man has five pockets in his coat —two outside, two Inside, and a ticket pocket,” says a tailor. “There are, however, certain professions which render special pockets desirable. “Most people know what a 'poacher’s pocket’ is, but how many have heard of a music pocket? Many professional singers have their overcoats fitted with such a receptacle. Usually they are placed in the back of the coat, just above the waist line, and will hold half a dozen pieces of music without crushing. “Some detectives, too, have their business suits fitted with a handcuff pocket in the sleeve. The special advantage of this Is that the manacles can be withdrawn unseen. When an obstreperous prisoner sees the officer’s hand seeking a podket, he knows what Is coming, and acts accordingly. But with the special pocket the 'bracelets' are out and snapped on his wrists before he can resist. “One of my customers makes a point of having his trousers lined with leather from the knee downward. Why? Because a dog once bit him severely In the calf, and he doesn’t want It to happen twice.” ______ Veal calves bought at highest market prices. If you have any to sell let me know at once. W. D. McDaniel.

: NEWS LETTERS;: “ Items of Interest From Our Able jo o Corps of Correspondents. o COUNTY LINE. S. R. Dingman is in Wabash working for the Big Four railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Snyder spent Sunday with Abe Harley and family. Charles Ramsby and wife ate their Sunday dinner with D. R Kellogg and family. Jasper Morrie, wife and daughters, Mamie and Mable, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierson. BARBER. John Schmeltz and wife spent Wednesday in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Masterman visited friends in Walkertnn Wednesday. Sylvester Unger was in South Bend the first of the week. Earl Rupel of South Bend spent Saturday night and Sunday with hie brother Charles. The many friends of Mrs. Sylvester Unger will be very glad to hear she is rapidly improving from her recent op: eration at the Epworth hospital in South Bend. Mrs. Bettie Miller of California is visiting her father, Robert Beagles and wife near Tyner, and other relatives for a couple of months. KOONTZ’S LAKE. Some one thought it was Washington crossing the Delaware, but it was only a bunch of South Bend hunters who were breaking ice across Koontz’s lake to where Tom Dougherty was waiting with his ambulance to convey the wounded to town. One fellow shot one of his toes off near bis foot. Koontz’s lake is three feet below the high water mark. Sam Koontz ground 200 bushels of buckwheat last Friday. Starke county is at work on its part of the road. Now is a good time to dig the ditches on that new road while the water is low. St. Joseph county has its part of the County Line road finished. Vick Hill is building contractor. Peaceful Valley has two stock farms. A Rochester man caught 50 bass at Koontz’s lake last week. PLYMOUTH. Mr, and Mrs. Wesley Rupel of Walkerton returned borne last Saturday after visiting friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. J. E Johnson of Walkerton visited Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beagles, sr., last Saturday at Tyner. Robert Beagles is putting in a pair of scales at hie place of business in Tyner. Rev. S. Yager will conduct Thanks giving services at the German Lutheran church in this city. The Mozart club will sing. Mrs. Mahala Hartsell has sued the city for $2,500 damages, caused by injuries received from a defective walk. Mr. H. Baugher and Mise Georgia Hograth were married Nov. 16 by Rev. J. C. Smith. Mrs. S. J. Mille-, of Gilroy, Cal, is visiting her father, Robert Beagles. She was formerly Bettie Beagles, and this is her first visit in 15 years to her old home. Mr. and Mrs. Will Kyle Jr , returned from Roes, N. D. last Tuesday. George Bennett of Michigan City was calling on friends here last week. Mrs. S. M. Hobbs, cashier for the Metropolitan Elevated R. R. Co. of Chicago, visited Mr. and Mrs John Robbins and Mies Maggie Marshall recently. Geo. H. Kruger has purchased the business room occupied by Forbes’ seed store on Michigan street. Eldridge Thompson, a baritone player, has been engaged by the Rochester band to go with them to Indianapolis to attend the Odd Fellows’ dedication services. Mr. and Mrs. James Gilmore were called to Omaha, Neb., last Monday to attend the funeral of little Helen, their granddaughter. She was the only child of their son, James Gilmore, Jr., and wife and was eight years old. Mrs. Cox died very suddenly one day last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Bowell. Mrs. Cora Beagles visited her paients, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Burtor, from Saturday until Tuesday, near Tyner. MOUNT VERNON. Miss Katherine Quinn, accompanied by some friends from Walkerton, epent the day last Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Popki at Tracy. Miss Blanche Whitinger gave a bonbon social at her school house in Oregon township last Friday evening. The receipts for the evening were something over ten dollars. Mrs. Dan Kellogg and daughter Mildred visited with Mrs. B. F. Reinhardt last Tuesday afternoon. Seward C. Reinhardt of Grovertown spent Wednesday night at the home of M., and Mrs. H F. Goppert. Miss Gertrude Dingaman was calling on Mrs. Frank Pierson and Mrs. J L Hargrave last Saturday. Bernard Goppert called on H. F. Goppert last Tuesday and on Wednesday Mrs. Eteel Snyder and little daughter of North Liberty visited with Mr. and Mrs. Goppert.

teegardln^ , Jerry Maurer and amily returned J home Sunday after a vi R of two weeks ’ with the former's fathe , Allen Maurer. > M. Metcalf has movet back to town. i lim Lower is laid up on account of an injury to his eye whic i occurred while he was laying steel on the B. & O. road. Mrs. Rose Sheaks an j Mrs. Dora Klinedinst visited wi h their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pl ik e , in Michigan t several days last week; Miss Exie Davis vii ted with friends r in Chicago Sunday. 1 Daniel Gardner ha located in the blacksmith business here. He has , bought the D. M. Roi g bouse and will i move hie family there I oon. Ihe residence of A. ffoyer caught fire Saturday night but with the help of neighbors the blaze 4as put out with little damage resulting. The tire start . ed in the roof from a (defective Hue. 1 STILUtiLL. 1 Mrs. Amel Draves^Who has been visiting relatives in Ek Cj, m., during the ~ past week, returned g jme Saturday, s Edward Page hrS^oved on to the farm of Thomae Dr"y. It is said that r he expects to leavqiffie service of the e the Grand Trunk rjyroad and resume r farming in the snry*. n Burr Jack has nB 1 into the house recently vacated byK tward Page. e A party of relative and friends from d LaPorte visited atFhe home of Amel r Kempf Thursday offset week. Dale Winchel, whl* has been traveling through the southern states with Ringling Bros.’ show since June, returned to hie home near thia place yesterday even ing. He has been suffering from an attack of southern slow fever for several weeks, but with both pluck and luck he e succeeded in staying with the show company until the season closed. 8 The Ancient Order of Gleaners wiil 0 give a public dance in F. A. Mann’s hall next Saturday night, Nov. 21. e Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morris were visiting at Tracy Saturday. » William Bartz and Roes Downey were in LaPorte Saturday, t Charles Cable of South Bend has been visiting a few days with hie brother, g Fred Oable, of this place. Mrs. Jasper Ma&n spent Tuesday in Walkerton. B FOUR BOUNTIES | 1 ° 3 ° News of St. Jose phi. LaPorte. Starke and o Marshall Counties Boiled Down. 3 A county corn show will be held at Plymouth November 28 Farmers are r asked to lend the Laid in giving the ex hibition. mv A little son and Mrs. Lofty UyMlck of Plym^Ah choked to death Wednesday on a Bean which lodged in f its windpipe. Waiter Coleman of Kingsbury was struck by a Wabash train Monday night 1 at that place and instantly killed. * David Thrush, of LaPorte, has retired from the meat market business, after * having been engaged continuously in the business for almost 49 years, J. D. Johnson,, late of Teegarden, i bought a tine home in South Bend and ■ moved hie family to that city last week. The Argos town council has decided J to put in a sewerage system for the town. • John R Jones, chairman of the Mar- ' shall county democratic committee, is r seeking appointment as state tax commissioner. 1 . . ■* Little Brain in Largent Skull. The biggest skull ever known is that f of a prehistoric dinosaur which was uncovered in Converse county, Wyom--3 ing, recently. The skull is now in the f Peabody Museum of Yale. Prof. Pea- - body, who gave the curiosity to Yale, . calls the animal a torosaurus, although B it is of the dinosaur family. The skull , is eight feet six inches long ami is live feet eight inches in width. Yet. while the beast had a long head and a wide ’> one It was in rather straitened circumr stances so far as brains were concerned. 3 The cavity for the mental equipment 3 was of extraordinary smallness as compared with the size of the head. Prof, a Peabody says that the brain might a have been held easily in the hollow of r a modern man’s band. 1 The torosaurus lived in what the scl--1 entlsts call the Mesozoic age, which is so far back beyond the dawn of history that it doesn't nyike a bit of difference . to ordinary folks of to-day. He was ’ fully 25 feet ii/vTongth and ho had a long horn on thfe end of his nose for '• fighting purposes. Yet, it seems that - he was gentle and kind, as things went in those days. lie did not prey on other Ibeasts. but livUd on leaves and palms. Non-Resident Notice. 1 i t STATE OF INDIANA) St. Joseph county. J In tile St. Joseph Circuit Court, Jlbvember Term, IPOS. . J. Willis Cotton aim j Luviua Moak j I vs. ’ I Foreclosure William Sawyer }. of Joseph M. Woolf I Real Estate Mortgage Jacob H. Woolf aid Ella Woolf .! J BE IT KNOWN, That the above-named plaintiffs have flle4 in the office of the Clerk . of said Court their soniplaint against said defendants in the abjve cause, together with a proper affidavit th it said defendants, Joseph I M. Woolf, Jacob I. Woolf, and Ella Woolf ' are not residents O' the State of Indiana. Said defendants 'are hereby notified that said cause will stand for trial on the 12th Day of January, 1909. the same being the 50th day of the next term of said court jommenced at the cit y of . South Bend, on the third Monday in No- , vember, 1908, on wl dch day said defendants are required to ap] ear to said action. Fra 3 k p. Christoph, Clerk. Willis a. Hugh ;e, Atty, for Plaintiffs.

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