Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 December 1908 — Page 4

| FURS FURS I ‘ FURS WANTED! | At Extreme High Prices 3 We are here to do business and want to do 1 ■ business direct with the trappers. If you havea B bunch of furs, don't sell until you read my prices. E 3 I 3 Muskrats, 18c to 27c Skunk, No. 1 $1.50 to $1.60 E S Mink (small) $2.00 “ No. 2 SI.OO = 3 “ (medium) 3.00 “ No. 3 50c - (large) $4 to $5 “ No. 4 30c E On Good Bunches of Furs I Will Pay Your Car Fare EE I W. B. APPLE I Opposite state Bank WALKERTON, INDIANA E

Jnikpcnfrent. r- — ■ - PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY INDEPENDENT BLOCK, WALKERTON, INDIANA. W, A. Eh dijit, - Editor and Publisher. ADVANCE. TBLKPHONB NO. 28. . FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 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 regular rate. Resolutions of respect, obituaries and local reading advertisements, 5 cents per line. Cards of Thanks, 50 cents. Procrastination is a bad thing as a rule, especially in buying Christmas presents, Begin now and take your time in selecting presents A canvass of the legislature by supporters of Hon. John W. Kern, for sena- । tor, gives him 35 votes on the first ballot, it is claimed. The other aspirants for the place deny that Kern has any such strength. President Taft is determined to veto every tariff measure that does not pro tect the consumer. Taft will be the people’s president. He will make one of the greatest presidents this country has ever produced. Mark the prediction. It is to be hoped that the Indiana legislature will not play politics too much but will try to select a genuine man for the United States senate. We don’t want a poser or a pretender in the upper house at Washington but a man who is the real stuff. Kentucky makes more whiskey than any other state in the union but boasts that it'drinks less. Ninety three of its counties have prohibition, twenty others are nearly dry and only four are entirely wet. There was a time when old Kentucky consumed its share of whiskey, but the reputation it still sustains of being a heavy drinker is evidently unmerited.

fre^Tcum] Q W HAVE decided to remain in O I Walkerton indefinitely and will tS Q A continue business at the old lo- vS ft cation, opposite the Independent Q Q block. I will occupy the south room Q with a good stock of I< Dry Goods, Groceries, x ; Ladies’ Shoes and § 5 Chinaware ? New and seasonable goods in stock. J C Prices Low as Usual X [ FRED P. CLARK | ixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxre

$85,0D0 JEWELRY STOCK TO BE SOLD An enormous stock. Two floors—Michigan to Washington Street—just full of new Jewelry, Silverware, Leather Goods, xatiu v, ^^L’ 5 , ^ ts and krJt>. Stoner Hand-painted China and European Novelties. A visif to our store will explain why you should spend your Christmas money nete. Set of six Solid Silver Gorham Tea Spoons. $2.98; in a case. . Elgin, Waltham, South Bend Ladies or t.em >Wa uiu - -.ear cases, S.-. 50. 2000 patterns of Solid Gold Rings much less than regular prices. Diamond Set, Signet, Ham 1 _ dX Hurry Before The Rush CALVIN K. CLAUER 105 South INDIAN A J

Governor-elect Marshall has appointed Mark Thistlewaite, city editor of the Indianapolis News, as hie private secretary, Tom Taggart announces that he is not in the race for the United States senatorship. It is believed that Mr. Taggart’s friends in the legislature will support John W. Kern. An Englishman who came to the United States to study the election methods has been made insane by the complexities of the situation. It’s nothing after you get used to it. A Chicago barber has analyzed the result of the recent election in a pithy manner. He says the people voted for Marshall because they wanted something to drink and for Taft because they wanted something to eat. A law partnership to be made up of Governor Hanly, Charles V, Adams and Judge Samuel R. Artman has been established. It is said, however, that Governor Hanly will not have any active part in the law firm until after the expiration of hie term as governor. Governor Cummins, who was elected United States senator from lowa, is a worthy addition to that dignified body. Cummins will be more useful and pro gressive than dignified. It was a dis tinct gain for the people of lowa as well as of the nation when Cummins was ; elected to the United States senate. We need more like him there. The mayors of Indiana who are holding office under the law which prohibits them and councilmen from being reelected have started a movement to have the law repealed and will bring the matter before the next state legislature. The movement was started in the lower part of the' state and has not come this far north. The counties of Wayne, Lawrence Whitley, Wabash and Huntington are preparing to hold elections under the county local option law before the meeting of the legislature. The anti saloon forces are confident of carrying those counties and the moral effect, they think, may help to deter any legislation that may be proposed against the present temperance laws of the state.

An open winter is predicted by some IT of tire weather wise. The goose bone 'c is said to be just right for a mild winter. c Lawrence McTurnan, late republican C candidate for superintendent of public £ instruction, and the present assistant to c State Superintendent Cotton, has | ® brought suit in the circuit court at , Anderson against his wife for divorce. The complaint has not been made public. McTurnan’s wife is now in California. I The intellectual man of forty is the world’s greatest asset as far as work is । concerned, though the discoveries which have advanced the world are all made before that age. The planting is 1 done before twenty, the crop grows from twenty to forty and the golden harvest * is from forty to sixty, occasionally until seventy—Army and Navy Life. Among the protected articles that should be placed upon the free list are lumber and wood pulp. There is an urgent demand for revision of the tariff upon these commodities, as well as upon several others, as it would serve the double Ipurpose of cheapening lumber and print paper, upon which there is no longer any excuse for protection, and at the same time tend to conserve our rapidly disappearing forests, which is a serious condition confronting this country. President Roosevelt has called two editors liars and promptly enrolled them as members of his large and growing Ananias Club. They are Delevan Smith, of the Indianapolis News, and William Laffan, of the New York Sun. The president says these men have told deliberate falsehoods in published articles referring to Panama canal and Oklahoma gas deals redacting upon the president, his brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, and President elect Taft. The president does not mince words in his denunciation of what he terms "abominable slander and falsehood,” "lies,” and "mendacity for hire.” There is a movement on foot —a kind of warfare—against the "comic sheet in the Sunday newspaper.” The Boston Herald says: “The comic supplement has ceased to be comic. It is as vulgar in design as tawdry in color. There is no semblance of art io them.” The New York World, on the other hand, declares that the supplement must be retained; it says, children, like the ancient Egyptians, are primitive and likewise are grown-up people with crippled educational opportunities. No one con tends that the colored supplement is artistic. It isn't for you and it isn't for me. It is for people who don't care for fine shades of humor because they can’t । appreciate them. The movement must I be watched with interest. VIEWS OF THE PRESS. Some newspapers in this state are making the statement that the postoffice department is pushing to the front a general parcels poet proposition, line is a mistake, as the only step taken has been a recommendation made by the postmaster general for a local or limited parcels poet to utilize the machinery of ' the government in operation by reason of the rural free delivery system, whereby additional benefits may be secured without additional operating expenses The plan proposed limits the privilege to parcels originating at the office i through which delivery is to be made. That is not playing into the hands of the big mail order houses, but benefits both the local merchant and rural patron.—Goshen News. Kodol for Dyspepsia. Indigestion weak stomach, sour stomach, gas on the stomach, etc, is a combination of the natural digestive juices found in a healthy stomach with neceeeary vegetable acids, and is the only thing known today that will completely digest all kinds of food under any condition. It is guaranteed to give prompt relief from any form of stomach trouble. Take Kodol and be convinced. It will cure your dyspepsia. Sold by Red Cross Drug Store. A Leprosy Notion. A soldier who served in the Philippines has been found to be suffering with leprosy. Forthwith there is a cry of horror. The man has been wander--1 Ing about the country “suffering from ■ a dangerous contagious disease.” I We are told the burden of the Phlli ipplnes is not merely financial, nor even I confined to the sacrifice of our young ; soldiers on foreign soil. They are bring- | Ing back to us this awful malady, so । feared by the Asiatic peoples for ceuj turies. What nonsense! says a writer. Every ' tyro knows that leprosy is not conta- । glous. The doctors doubt that it is even I infectious. They admit that it may tie j contracted by long and intimate assoi elation with persons who have leprosy, । but they are not sure. And just now i they are announcing cures for leprosy, j Leprosy is not unknown in this country. This unfortunate soldier from the Philippines is not its first American victim. To go no further back there is poor Mrs. Ward well, out in Arizona, driven to insanity by the unreasonable demand of ignorance that ! she should be separated from her husband as well as from all society. Brave old Gen. Wardwell defied the edict. Ue is dead, but he did not die of leprosy. He was never in any danger of dying from that malady. We have troubles enough from the Philippines. But the danger of spreading leprosy tn this fair land is not among them.

rinripnrmwnn^^ 3 INEWS LETTERS^ ° items of Interest From Our Able £ ; o Corps of Correspondents. 2 BARBER. Melvin Sprague visited the Tyner high school last Thursday. Watson York has sold hie span of black ponies and bought a fine bay horse. Chae. Rupel thinks he ie the champion stock raiser of Polk township. He ie the owner, of two span of twin calves since the first of October. The four calves are Jowing nicely. Earl Ru el returned to South Bend Sunday. 1 Mr. and'Mrs. John Schmeltz spent Wednesday in this vicinity. John H$ son has been sick. The Re-< side won the scholars contest in ther Jarber Sunday school. Mies Agnes Ru£ 1 received the prize given to the pereo^ who obtained the largest number eg lew scholars. Merlin, »ie infant eon of Fred Morris, has been m. Wm. Speaks made a business trip to Hamlet and again Monday. Wm. Ie made a business trip to Plymou * end ay Anna ague is visiting with her gram penta, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Grenert ’iTeegarden. Mr. ana re. Geo. Sprague spent Monday withßSnde on the Island. Arthurs leaks has improved his residence by I wilding a veranda to the front. Frank I ^enmenger, who lived on the Roderick ^rm, purchased Mrs Cora Bowen’s 1 ( rm, and moved onto it last week. Ml. Bowen will reside in Chicago, j Edna at ' Ruth Robinson of Teegarden visited A ,a Barber and family over Sunday. ‘ KOONTZ’S LAKE. Stephen Mann is visiting in the southern part of the state. Washington Beaver was on our streets Monday selling some never work dope. Emil Anderson was in Chicago this week. Ice is J*, inches thick. Noble Sheatsley of Niles spent Sunday at Warner’s. MOUNT VERNON. Mrs. Elizabeth Roes and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kellogg and daughter Mildred spent the day last Sunday with Jr. and Mrs. B. F. Reinhardt. Mr. and Mrs Rayon Beall of Walkerton vUite^LaHt Sunday with their son, H. E. Beal* and family. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Rensberger and family returned this week from an ex tended visit with relatives and friends at South Bend, Goshen and Elkhart. Mrs. Popki and baby daughter ol Tracy visited from Saturday until Mon day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs Edward Quinn and family. Mise Tresea Goppert of Oregon visited over Sunday with Mrs. Herman Gop pert. IXTKXDKD FOK LAST WEEK. Mr. and Mrs Seward C. Reinhardt and family of Grovertown, Mrs. Elizabeth Stover and family, Mrs. Ada Rinehardt and family of Oregon and W. F. Rinehardt of Valparaiso were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Goppert on Thanksgiving Day, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Reinhardt, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hargrave of Barber and Miss Goldie Cripe of South Bend spent Thanksgiving day with Mr. and Mrs Daniel C. Swartz and family. Johnny Martin visited recently with hie uncle, William Spencer, and his cousin, William Dempsey, both of Still well. Ed Swartzentraub and son Maurice of South Bend and Oliver Clark of Oregon visits! with Mr and Mrs. II F Goppert during the first part of last week. L * to Explo<le ^'Atlent In the Tennessee was suffering from malady the Zfnedy for which the doctor prescribed in the form of capsules. The old woman trusted her medical adviser, but for the medicine she evinced much suspicion. Some time after she had taken the capsules she was asked by her son how she felt. “Poorly.” “Don’t you want nuthin’ to eat?” “No.” Soon, however, the old woman arose from her bed and took her seat in a rocking chair. Thinking that the attention would be gratefully received, the son filled her pipe and, taking a live coal from the hearth, carried both to his mother. “Take that away, son!” yelled the old woman in the utmost fright. “Don't you know better’n to come near me when I’ve got them cartridges in me!”

inr?rir3^'3'O'63~y3^ : FOUR COUNTIES 11 ° News of St. Joseph. LaPorte, Starke and “5 ° Marshall Counties Boiled Down. .2 0 v 2 . 2 C The little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A ■ Niewanger of Tyner died last Saturday ' T of membraneous croup, agod 22 months. V J. M. Studebaker will erect a fine | X modern office building in South Bend at J the northeast corner of Main and Wash W ington streets. Lt will be ten stories high. On board the “Soo City,” which sunk v off Cape Race, New Foundland, while on its way to Texas, was E L.Weaver, a a coal passer, of Dowagiac, Mich ; First z Engineer Charles Warwick and Fireman . Frank Schwimm, both of Michigan City. | August Robinson, who was killed in . South Bend last October, carried a life * insurance of SSOO in the Knights of the * Maccabees order. The claim was re- t cently paid. Mr. Kobineon was a son of fl John Robinson, a former citizen of this g vicinity. 1 John G. Wagmr, the retired South?^ Bend business man who was locked up | • at the police station for nearly two days, j has announced that he has retained 1 three Chicago attorneys to bring suit * against the city for $500,000 damages, ( alleging false imprisonment. Wagner ; j was taken into custody on suspicion of . having written threatening letters to . several merchants. The Natural Place. “Many witticisms fell daily from ttie 1 • Hi's of our late King." said a Portu- I | । guese consul. “The King was. you ' < know, a splendid shot. At a dinner the 1 ; rather inferior shooting of an English ’ visitor was praised, and someone said: j I “ ‘And Lord Gadabout, you know, | ( sends everything he shoots to the hos- . 1 pltals.’ r "The King laughed, and taking the ■ long, black cigar from his Ups, he said: : । “ ‘Naturally: since he never shoots anything but gamekeepers. - ” DeWitt's Carbolized ‘Witch Hazel J Salve has many imitators. There is one ' I original, and the name DeWitt is on * 3 every box. Beet salve for burne, I scratches and hurts. It is especially j j good for piles. Sold by Red Cross Drug 1 * Store.

’ ^.STALEY MFG.CO -yjtfRS.Mc.N3 ri^S WQq. I Couth Bend,!nd. ' I r a v■; >, \ 1 -f . IL “TaQEU. ‘ ‘ J For Sale by Gus Reiss & Co. I । BUY YOUR Christmas Presents of a reliable Jeweler, 5 W 1 . « y--:-Elgin, Waltham or South Bend Watches Ln Gold Filled Oases, Ajw and Warranted 20 years, only viliOU up DIAMONDS Fine Diamond Rings and In Solid Gold* - - - v«#«UU up A Special Bargain . . 521.75 . SILVER KNIVES AND FORKS . Make a nice present. Do not fail to see my line. Charles M. Schuell JEWELER Connected with the Jewelry Business in South Bend for the Last 25 Years 218 S. Michigan St.. Opposite Auditorium South Bend - Indiana

Pure Groceries I , I Try our Splendid Line of t ; Coffees, Teas and j ► Canned Goods I | A GRAND BULK COFFEE | | FOR 2Oc A POUND | Other brands that will please you I — I i All our goods are fro^h and t i clean and backed up by the J Pure Food Laws. | j JOHN J. DEVERY j suwwimiwniiiffl^^ A Fine Stock of | Indianapolis Candies FRESH FOR | C II RI ST M A S j ■ Fruits, Nuts and Pastries, See our Fine Assortment before buying your Holiday Candies. ^3 | SMITHS RESTAURANT | E 1 mmumuiiuiiimußuiuiu^ j 20 PER CENT I ] Discount Sale | I I 3 From now on until January Ist we will give you 20 per cent discount from the retail price of 3 our entire line of Ladies’, Misses, and Children’s £ 63 Coats and Ladies’ Ready Made Skirts. 3 Remember, this does not mean any old plunder I but strictly new and up-to-date garments that = have not been carried over even one season. Our aim is not to have one garment left Jan. Ist, and we are willing to give you the benefit £ of this 20 per cent, discount rather than to carry one single garment over. E: I I Yours for Honest Merchandise, | HYMAN &DUPLER | | SEWING M ACHINES and SUPPLIES 1 ' “cz - " ‘•• A full supply of Need- . '' x fcs?‘7 n Z I® 8 * Shuttles and Bob<27 bins for sewing machines / of makes - -j — -T' : i I e ‘■a® ~ \ J New England Queen ■-.. z \ an d domestic 1 rW' Sewing Machines, from S2O to S3O W^ I '.See our sew.ng machines at $12.50 eachNeedles, Shuttles and Bobbins ’or Guaranteed fur 10 years, use in Ail Makes of Sewing Machines. I H. A Yearick •'taiF I

The South Bend school board is ; busted, there being no money in the treasury to pay bills.

Get your sale bills printed at this office. Beet work and lowest prices. New type insures good work.