Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 December 1908 — Page 1

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BURIED ALIVE. Two Walkerton Boys Lose Their Lives While Playing In a Cave One of the saddest and most shocking accidents in the history of this community occurred last Sunday in the gravel pit north of the Walkerton cemetery and near the 8. & O. tracks. It has been the custom for some time for the boys to dig caves at that place and a number of boys had been engaged in this pastime during the afternoon last Sunday. Among the boys who were playing in ths cave were Vern Cripe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Cripe, Walter Evans, eon of Mrs. Edward Wadkins, and Charlie Sherland, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sherland. The Sherland boy left about 4:30 o’clock and the other boys remained at the cave. Ae the hour grew late Mr. and Mrs. Cripe became worried over their eon’s long absence and began to make an investigation. Mr. Cripe went to the home of the Evans boy in search of hie son but not finding him there conti"ied hie inquiry and learned that his boy and several others had been seen at the cave during the afternoon. Returning home Mr. Cripe and hie older son, Olie, took a lantern aud started for the cave. Arriving there they found that the embankment, loosened no doubt by the rain, had caved in, and the horrible fear came to Mr. Cripe like a flash that probably hie boy had been buried alive, j He found a shovel which the boys had been using and began to dig, sending Otis back for more help, hoping almost against hope that if the boys were under the caved in embankment that they might still be alive and rescued. Help soon came and a number of men began to shovel vigorously. The body of the Cripe boy was found about 15 minutes j of 7 o’clock four feet from the opening of the cave and under about 2Q feet of earth. Dr. M. S. Denaut was summoned and after a thorough examination found life extinct. The body of the Evans boy was not found until about 7:30 o’clock. The body was eight feet from the opening of the cave aud under four feet of earth Life had been extinct for some time, j Such a heavy weight of earth had fallen upon him that his body was seriously bruised. No doubt the death of both boys was almost instantaneous, as several tons of earth fell upon them which would have been almost sufficient to apa . Li "9 take place. The accident occurred some time between 4:30 and 6 o’clock. Dr. Clarke, coroner of St. Joseph

Che Williams Drug Store - ' — NOW THE .... RED OK DEDE STORE p mHE9oaH»wo^ffi3BsraMßMQraH^ | Great Holiday Opening CHRISTMAS is almost here and you will want something to remember your friends. We have it! The most up-to-date line of Christmas Stationery in Two-Tone and Highland Linen put up in fancy packages. Books Bibles Gift Books of every de- You canno t afford to scription for father, x i mother, brother, sister, Z° without a Bible, when sweetheart and the chil- we have them at a price dren, at all prices. i which is surprising. A Special Line of Christmas Gifts su f : £ ble Students and Teachers i Toilet Sets and Smoking Sets We have them in all shapes and “PRICES” and you I cannot afford to let your friends pass Christmas without giv- F ing them a remembrance of some kind. Cigars Perfumes I Put up in Christmas pack- We almost forgot to men- I ages. tion them. We cannot tell you about the FANCY PACKAGES. ? We have them al! the way from 15c to $6.00. We cannot tell you how they look. You will have to come and see them. Too many goods and too many prices to mention them $ all here. You’ll have to come and see the line to appreciate it. K ID l-xzim With every 25c purchase you get a ticke: E Kon the PRESENT which is in our window to K V be GIVEN AWAY Christmas eve If we g forget to give them to you ask us for them. They ars yours and we | want you to have them. We are at your service day or night if you are in need of | Drugs or Medicines of Any Kind e You cannot afford to buy until you have looked our line over. Yours for a Merry Christmas an! a Happy New Year The Old Williams Drug Store I GROVER C. SPAHR * " J

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county, arrived here the night of the j fatality and after an irquest rendered a i verdict in accordance with the above . facte. This shocking accident has cast a pall i over the town and the sympathy of the : community goes out to the sorrowing ■ parents who have been so terribly as--1 flicted Vern Cripe, was a bright, examplary boy and was generally well liked. He j was a member of the Presbyterian' Sunday school and was quite regular in | hie attendance, being present last Sunday morning. He had just passed hie 14th birthday. Walter Evans was a good boy, honest and industrious, and a great help to hie mother. He was about 16 years of age. His remains were buried in the Walkerton cemetery Tuesday, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. J T. Keeeey at the United Brethren church at 2p. m. Many of the deceased’s fellow school pupils and playmates were in attendance. There were several beautiful floral remembrances. The funeral services of Vern Cripe were conducted by Rev. C. H Kiraeofe at the Presbyterian church Wednesday at 1:30 p m , the services being largely attended by schoolmates and fellow Sunday school pupils of the deceased There were many beautiful floral offarI ings from friends. The burial took place in the Walkerton cemetery. H A. Anderson, day car inspector at । this place, has taken a ten days’ vacation. Mr. Collis from Garrett is taking Mr. Anderson’s place. A box social will be given at the Three Oaks school on the Quinn road Saturday evening, December 5. Everybody | come. Ward Wisenbaugh, Teacher, Nearly everybody knows DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are the beet pills made. They are small, pleasant, sure Little Liver pills. Sold by Red Cross Drug Store. The Baltimore & Ohio road made a little change in its passenger schedule November 22. No. 17, west bound, has been changed from 3:40 to 1:56 p. m., at this station, and the milk train.No.il, west bound, now arrives here at 8:10 a. m. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Ewing entertained a party of friends at a fin^ turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day. The guests present Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Dowell, M.r. aud Mrs. O. Q. Shock.ney and children. Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Clark and little son, Mr. and Mrs. D M. Woodward of North Liberty, and Mise Robey of Converse, Ind.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH (OUNT3. INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1908.

1 j FROM THE SOUTHWEST k I The Attractions of New Mexico as , Observed by an Indianian. > Las Vegas. N. M„ Nov. 27, 08. ’ Editor Independent: Our party, consisting of myself and Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Burkholder, arrived at Springer November 19: We left Chicago Tuesday evening. Wednesday morning found us in Missouri. We passed through some rough country in this state. We saw some very fine level country inKansas,but not as much wheat ae 1 had exp.-cted to see. Going through Colorado we passed through some very barren country, this being full of prairie doge. We also passed through some very fine country. At Trinidad, Colorado, they divided the train into two sections, putting two engines on each section, this being done to pull through the mountains. Our party landed all right at Springer, New Mexico. When we left Springer it looked to me as though it was only a little ways to the mountains. We drove the UFa miles to the Miami ranch and we are not to the mountains yet. We started out the following morning after our arrival to see the big reservoir. In this they keep their supply of water for irrigating. This reservoir is being built by means of a big dam. The side of this dam next to the water is carefully covered with stone. Through this dam is a large culvert through which the water runs into a canal out over the ranch. At the dam the water can be turned off when not needed. There are three streams running into this great reset voir. It gets quite cold here at night but the ground is so dry it does not freeze. The soil is a sandy loam, containing no alkali. This land hasn’t a shrub on it. All you have to do is to plow it up. The timber is up in the mountains. We drove over to Miami, the town site. Here they have a store and a schoolhouse. The settlers of this ranch are all eastern people, and a very industrious bunch they are. The grass on the bottom lands looks very dead. But the cattle are fat and nice. Stock rune out here all winter We started out on another drive. The land men were showing Mr. and Mrs. Burkholder the different tracts of land. They picked cut a forty, very nice and level, except, a washout, which was lotted out, costing them nothing. Tfiey TNHd r > r ir---sTiami in the town site, with the agreement that Mr Burkholder should build on the lot within three years. The ranch buildings are about thrfour he of a mile from the mountains, lhe trees on the side of the mountains look from hero to be but 10 feet high They tell me there are trees three feet 1 in diameter. We can see enow on the * side of the mountains. Some people get lumber delivered from the mountains right down by the foundation for 514 I per thousand. Springer is a very nice little t -wn. It has a common school, a normal school and an insane asylum lhe population । is made up of Mexicans and eastern peo- 1 pie. 1 saw several droves of burros with wood tied on their backs. These are driven by Mexicans, who walk along behind driving them like you would a fljck of sheep. These burros are what we in the north would call donkeys. A man arrived here from Elkhart, Ind , with hie goods in a car, consisting of household goods, farming implements, baled hay and straw, horses, hogs and chickens. The freight on the car load of goods and stock was 5330. They follow the dry system of farming here, raising wheat, oats and barley. They have not been raising many potatoes but will raise more from now on. The seasons are so short and nights too cold for raising corn. There is certainly no mistake about this being a healthy climate. A man told me they had to kill people down here to start a grave yard, But once in awhile a person dies here. I saw a head of oats on the Miami ranch that measured 32 inches in length. Ibis may sound fishy to people around Walkerton, but I saw the oats bead measured. There seem to be lots of eastern people settling here, We are having a little snow storm here today. Hurrah for the Southwest. I send my beet regards to all, Yours reepectfully, Arthur McQuisten A Dangerous Operation. Is the removal of the appendix by a surgeon. No one who takes Dr. King’s New Life Pills is ever subjected to this | frightful ordeal. They wc-k so quie ly you don’t feel them. They cure constipation, headache, biliousness and malaria. 25c. at Red Cr iss Drug Store. L J Graffort and P. L Hoffman have been granted by the United States Commissioner of Patents, letters patent on an ice cream disher that promises to be a winner if properly pushed. The pitmts are dated Oct 13 and Nov. 10, 1008, and are Nos. 901137 and 903563. The disher has been on the market for the past year and has met with a large sale. It is simple of construction, sanitary and very durable, surpassing anything on the market today. That the inventors have a valuable article is ; proven by the number of large manui facturers who are making efforts to secure the patents.—New Carlisle Gazette.

Killin J Children. A correspond ht writes to us as follows: “I know a niother, who has a boy nine years who gets 100 in all of his studies f t school. Heis emaciated, and nothi -g but skin and bones. For hie breakfast he sata strong boiled coffee and breaJ and butter. He puts two or three hesiping spoonfuls of sugar into his nasty blank coffee. He is getting round shouip ere d and is atmmic The doctor whoP cs P9cte the children has examined bil e y es and has ordered his parents to gel glasses for him. He reads constantly pnd plays very little out of doors with] other children. Ilie four-year old eistlr has a full cup of black coffee, lifts her brother, with bread eml for her breakfast every morning ^believe the coffee is coloring the eki^of the children a mulatto color. TbjK health is surely being undermined ry this foolish way of living. What cq£ be done to prevent mothers from kilWj their children?”— Ex. 11 CHASING THE WILD WOLVES. Thanksgiving Hint Results in The Killing otO ne Wolf. Our authority qn wolf hunting in Indiana, Charles Visenbaugh, kindly furnishes us with tie particulars of the latest expedition ajainst the savage varmints that infe^Thie locality. Thanksgiving morning a party of ten hunters from Rolling Prairie with five trained fox hounds drove down for another chase. They were joined by a number of the Island farmen and several sportsmen from Walkerton. A number started froUfC-S. Wisenbaugh’s place on the north, the others starting from Critten Brothers on the south, meeting at the tamarack marsh, where the hunt began. No game was started, however, until they reached ths big marsh near Lockwood’s where four wolves were started by the dogs. Two of them, an old and ' ere it en run i g n rth. lhe third, believed to be an old one, ran southeast, all escaping, i’he fourth wm a young one weighing twenty-five pounds, which was I killed by David Bowers as it wap fbting from the dogs, requiri g two shots ‘to finish it. This makes the seventh .. elf killed this sea--8 Hl. Mrs Critten aer fine turkey dinner to the bun •• R Hing Prairie, tnollyr drive lied<off when suukieni snow io'"" rails. - Births! About 75 friends ; g relatives gath ered at the home of and Mrs. Henry Lemeri four miles weAof North Liberty November 23 o remind him of his 4Lt birthday. The friends present from a distance were Mrs. Rebecca Bixler of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs . G. W. Albinos L'eegarden, Mrs France Lemert and Mr. and Mrs Jacob Falconburg of Teegarden, Mrs II F Brooksand AndrewKeck of River Park. North Liberty, Walkerton, Mill Creek and Stillwell were represented. Music and games were the features of the evening and a three course lunch was served by the hostess

REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITIES 80 acres within 5 miles of South Bend at 84,500. 130 acres within 6 miles of South Bend at 88,500 80 acres, good soil, near Teegarden for S 3 600. 122 acres at 86,300. 40 acres at 82,000. Half cash, balance at G per cent on all these farms. TOWN PROPERTY I have a good pioperty for sale within three blocks of the bank; will offer for a short time at 8700—8100 cash, 88 per month. Will sell on contract if taken soon. J. E. BOSE ^7 TTHT M \ Ml — r S - -= - - - wr \ \A Cj || W Going to Shingle Your Roof This fall? If sn, it’s time you got at it, Make up your mi id to have really good eking' s thia time. They are the best and ako the- cheapest. Get them ! here. Our shingles ere all perfect and full count. 7ou can use every one, and you got every one you pay for. Get What Lumber You Need Here, too. Ours is the kind that works । up without waste; the kind that doesn’t 1 shrink or crack because it is thoroughly seasoned before we sell it. > Walkerton Lumber Co.

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/W i Useful and Ornamental things are both found in our stock. From I a ten penny nail to a wheel-barrow you | | will find the ROSS HARDWARE STORE H can supply your wants. Carvers, Keys and Locks Agate and Tinware Carpenters’ Supplies, etc. ; We keep all, and sell all of them at i ; a very low figure. I’hey are beet ! quality goods, too. Don’t forget us. GEO. P. ROSS ' D. ARMSTRONG Lock Smith and Safe Expert Umbrellas, Rubber Stamps and General j Repairer 130 N. Michigan St. South Bend Mrs Mcßaney s Experience Mrs. M. Mcßaney, Prentiss, Miss., writes: “I was confined to my bed for three months with kidney and bladder trouble, and was treated by two physicians but failed to get relief. No human tongue can tell how I suffered, and 1 had given up hope of ever getting well until I began taking Foley’s Kid ney Remedy. After taking two bottles 1 felt lika a new person, and feel it my duty to tell suffering women what Foley's Kidney Remedy did for me.” Sold by Red Gross Drug Store. i ; It has been stated by reliable author- , ity that in all probability Chas. W. Mil ler of Goshen will be appointed to the office of United States district attorney, with offices at Indianapolis. The salary • is 85,000 a year. k

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