Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 May 1899 — Page 5

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It is a good time to buy your twine. I will take your order and save you money. Come and see me before it is all engaged.

BUCK, The Gash (E?e3nbepenbent Friday, May l'J, lS'JU. LOCAL BREVITIESFrom Fv1day' Eallv7hner'R Silver Leaf Hour 81.80. It's I best. tf Dallas Stone, three miles east of this city, is reported quite ill. About 821,000 of the Marshall county school fund is Rt ill not loaned. Sugar beet seed at Forbes.' Enough for one quarter acre oostsSO centc. 2w The Walnut Grove suni'.ay-school will hold their children's day exercises the second Sunday in June. Strawberries are down to from five to ten cents per box. They are far from sweet, but are a goodly appearing berry. Enoch Newcomb and little daughter Ethel went to Walnut this morning, j Mr. Newcomb'B hands are ttill alllicted with boils which makes it impossible for him to work. The children's home is busy preparing for the reception to be held the 21th. The grounds are now in order tor the summer. More trees are to be set out but not until fall. Henry Hawkins boasts of having caught a carp weighing 17 pounds which is a more difficult accomplishment than catching seventeen carp each weighing one pound. Allie Hayes, who went to South IJend to work recently, has returned on account of an injury. While working on the streets he let a pile of bricks fall on his hand smashing it badly. Logansport Pharos: Col. Robert Kreuzberger has received three car loads of wine. Two were from Germany and the duty amounted to 81,000. One car load came from California. We have sugar cane, sugar beet, mangel wurzel, KatHr corn, dwarf es3ex rope, English and Kentucky blue grass, Perennial rye grass, orchard grass, and many other seeds that you didn't know you could get in town. Fortes' Seed Store. 2w The Culver public schools closed laBt Friday with appropriate exercises in each of the rooms. A goodly number of patrons were present to witness the exercises. During this school year 177 pupils were enrolled and there was an average daily attendance of 137. Another insurance fraternity has been added to the long list of those organizations in Plymouth. The Knights and Ladies of Columbia organized with thirty seven present, and a still larger membership. They will hereafter be identified with society in Pylmouth. The managers of the Culver academy are now making preparations to erect new barracks. We understand that the new building will contain sixty-six rooms and be erected where the gymnasium now stands, that building being

Attend the Great

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You will find Sboes that combine beauty, ease and strength. They can be had cheap enough. Cheap enough here. Don't know much about other stores. Their prices may be as low as ours, but their qualities are not as high. No lumpy inner sole to torment the feet. Easy as a slipper. Wear long enough to get double value out of them. Ladies', Children's and Infants' Shoes at the lowest prices we ever made. Special Low Prices on Men's Shoes. Visit THE MODEL SHOE STORE NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFKICE.

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Twine Hardware Man. movtd to the north. The new buildiug will be absolutely fire-proof and will be a magnificent structure. John Hay has given his newly invented gasoline engine a strong test and finds that it fulfils his anticipations. The engine is of about one and one half horse power and stands twenty inches in height. The main body of the engine is but six inches in diameter. Yesterday the inventor rigged up a small boat with a propeller and placed the same, engine and all, upon the river. It was a re markable sight to see the little cratt glule to and fro at the rate of Irom seven to ten miles au hour. The engine is a great improvement over the many jrasoline engines on the market today. It. is the embodiment of simplicity, and is much easier repaired than others. From Saturday's Dally. Mrs. Belle Outca!t has left for Salt Lake City where she will visit her son Will. The democratic papers of the state are suggesting General Lawton as a gubernatorial possibility. A contention of the liaptist State Chautauqua will be held one week at Laporte, beginning Aug. 8. Westley Coslet, of Chesterton, Ind., took his two little daughters from the Childrens home this morning. Over at Knox the elevator interests have combined and under the name of the Fisher, Churchill & White Co. will conduct an elevator now under way there. The Twin Lake string band furnished a delightful concert at the Culver commencement last week. They hdve progressed to a remarkable degree dur ing the past winter. James Eli Fisher, son of a prominent citizen near Wabash and sentenced to hang Friday in Newstown, Mont., for the murder of a sheep herder, has been respited by Gov. Smith. The township trustess will meet at the office of the county Auditor on the first Monday of June and elect by ballot a courty superintendent of schools, who will hold his otlice lor four eais Mrs. C. II. Dietrich and sons Oliver and Willis and daughter Laura, of Bremen, arrived home Wednesday irom a three week's visit with the family of Dr. W. A. Dietrich, at Lookout Moun tain, Tenn. Free rural mail delivery will be inaugurated in' St. Joseph county next Monday. There will be two carriers to begin the service and it is estimated that about live hundred people will be accommodated. Saturday the contract for the largest ditch ever dug in Indiana was awarded It is known as the Bear Lake ditch and with its branches, is 70 miles in length draining over 27,000 acres of land Nearly all the land is in Noble county. The management of the Bremen fair has been reorganized, and the new olliw C 3 u

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fair a hummer ou October 10th to 13th Cash premium will be offered in the various apartments, and each one of the four days will be a big one. A I irge numberof business men were interviewed at Arcos this mornng on the subject of a mammoth Fourih of July celebration at Plymouth. Fhey were uniformly in favor of the phn provided it would be a county affair and not purely of a local nature. Harmon Sti art, a man aged about seventy years, who follows ditching for a nvlthood and resides in particular no where, attempted to commit suicide, four miles north of Bremen Sunday afternoon, by taking a heavy dose of mor phine. Sturart had been drinking heavy Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday he concluded that he wanted to die. A physician was summoned and after an hrurs work Stursrt was out of danger. Parties from West township were in Plymouth today confenng in regard tD the Stark county ditch, one branch of which will enter Marshall county. Law yers Martindale, Logan and Hess ex pect to co to Stark county next week to enter a protest against certain' assess ments in Marshall county and, if nec essary, contend for them in court. The ditch altogether will cost more than 815,000. From Monday's Dally. The June term of the county commis sioners begins three weeks from today. A brakemai on the Pennsylvaniaroad had a finger taken oil between two bumpers yesterday. Milt Strawhecker and his sister from North Dakota arrived today to attend the funeral of their father. Up to Saturday fith inst., 227 persons have filled petitions in the federal court of Indiana under the bankrupt law. Messrs. George Thayer and George Marble left this morning for New York City in the interest of the Novelty Co. E. llotzein and wife have returned from Chicago where they attended the funeral of C. F. Polensky, Mrs. Botzein's father. The acreage of corn will be greatly increased this spring is this part of the state owing to the plowing up of the ground to wheat. Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan, of Port land, Oregon, who are the guest of frit nds at Argos, visited Mirx Freyman in this city yesterday. Mrs. Allie Wise of Burr Oak is suffering the torture of a felon on one of her fingers. She wa9 in Plymouth to visit a physician today. Mrs. J. K. Lawrence, of Pierceten, is not expected to live many more days. Her many friends in this city regret ex ceedingly to hear th sad news. Laporte county h jb 13,274 school chil dren, of which 0.t'.7 are males and 0,577 females, a gain of 131 over '93. There are 30 colored children in the county. A big wreck took place yesterday at Grovertown. Twelve box cars, it is said, were piled up in various fashions and distributed about in a chaotic manner. Parties in Columbia City recently shipped 120,000 pounds of wool to Boston. This is believed to be the largest single shipment of wool ever made from Northern Indiana. Two cigar makers had a "rough house" time near the Pittsburg depot yesterday evening. How the fight started and how the fight ended is rather uncertain. No arrests were made. The by-corner settlement of Plym outh called Oklahoma is greatly agitated over their new game of "duck on the rock' which we are lmformed yesterday occupied the attention of the entire community. The three boys who tore down the plastering in the Model building have been detected and brought to justice The detectives in the case had nothing but an amatuer's experience but are now worthy of the title professional which they have earned. Among other delegates from the Maccabee lodge who have gone to Huntington will be found G. Love, Bert Yockey and wile, Adam Wise, Mrs. J. E. Marshall, and P. A. White, the latter representing the Lapaz tent. F. T. Hatch, superintendent of the Michigan division of the Vandalia lines, which is now owned by the Pennsylvania Co., states that the improvements planned a few weeks ago for this division will be up to the Pennsylvania's high standard. Local cultivators of the succulent strawberry state that the prospect for an abundant crop this season is very promising. Quite a number of vines were winter killed, but the remaining plants are healthy and there is no doubt that the yield will be very large. As the boxes grow deeper the home berry season comes nearer. Geo. Martin had his face and hands badly burned Siturday afternoon by the explosion of a gasoline blow pipe in his shop. The explosion occurred primarily from the breaking of a stop cock. A stream of burning gasoline was sent with considerable force into Mr. Martin's face. When he withdrew from its path the liquid fire continued to stream forth and soon the opposite wall of the room, against which

it struck was in a blaze. The injured man retained bis presence of mind and

dashed water upon the fire, thus exinguishing it. Eddie Olwell is suffering with a bad eye. He was playing jail with a num ber of youngsters and attempted to peek through the keyhole at a prisoner when he received a jab with a lath. Through Mr. J. S. Creswell we ac knowledge the receipt of an alabaster cluster of our heroes of the array and navy in the "war for humanity," the work of Mr. Edw. (Jeiselman. of the Bremen Marble and Granite works of Bremen, lnd. It is an artistic piece of work and will add much to the interest of our co:lec'ion of curios. Thanks. Mr. (Jeiselman. Plymouth Democrat. The Tippecanoe schools hold their graduation exercises at Tippecanoe next Saturday. Bed, white and blue have been chosen for the class colors. Such a combination is certainly in har mony with the great national movements of which we are in the midst. The motto is "Unless God is with Us, Our Work is Vain," Following are the names of the graduatee: Clyde E. Taylor, Merntt Patridge, Ella Snyder, Nellie Hall, Pearl Jordan, Herman Ecket, Howard Severns, Ota G. Fields, Ethel Martin, Flora Sellers and Ilerschel Eagleberger . Fourth of July Kuthusiani Kirtlng. The plan projected by our business men to give Plymouth an old-fashioned-Andy Jackson Abe Lincoln-barbecue-red lemonade eagle screaming fireworks sort of Fourth of July celebration, has aroused a degree of enthusiasm past the hopes of the most sanguine Every body seems willing acd ready to put his shoulder to the wheel and work for the success of the movement. Com mendations of the plan without num ber are heard in all shops, stores and omces, anu o-j every street corner. From Bourbon, Bremen, Argos and all over the county come offers of help if the celebration be made a Marshall county affair so that all the people of all the towns may come to Plymouth and share in the general glory. Let the good work go on. Death of Adam Stroliacker. Adam Strohacker, of West township, died last Friday and was buried Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Rothen berger was notified, and was here in time to preside at the funeral. Mr. Strohecker was one of the best known citizens in the county. He came here when a mere boy and has practically spent his life in this vicinity. At the time of his death he was 56 years old. He leaves a family consist ing of two daughters, three sons and his wife. His last 6lckness was of short duration, lasting about ten days. Death of r. A. It. Vounkman. Dr. A. B. Younkman, of Bremen, died Saturday evening of heart disease He has been ailing for a long time but was confined to his bed in a critical condition a week or so before his death. Dr. Younkman was a member of the Marshall County Physician's Associa tion. Iiis brothel physicians attended his funeral in a body. The funeral occurred Wednesday ac 2 p. m. Oeath of Ir. Lelaml. News came Monday of the death of Dr. J. S. Leland of Argos, who died Sunday of a stroke of paralysis. He had been an invalid for many months. LAl'AZ ITEMS. Modeste Plake, while in Milford was robbed of several dollars. Robert Broadhurst, while walking to his home was run into by some one in a bupgy throwing him several teet into a ditch ind bruising him somewhat. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. New ton Zentz last week. Dr. Fuson has been in Chicago on business for a few days. 52.75 BP RAIN CQAI UlklXTOSHIOR $2.75. Send No Money. J Statte Jour hrlpht aad weight, state l umber of Inches around body at brratl taken over Test under coat close up under arm, and we 111 Rend you this coat b express, C. O. and try It on at your nearest eiD.. aubjetl to sia.aiaai.oBi examine press offlce and If found exactly as represented and the most wonderful value you ever saw or beerd of and eaual to any coat you can bur for 5.(X), pi J theexprrtt agrat aar peelal nirr triri. 2.75. and exprens Charge. 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We are positively headquarters for everything in the line of Fancy headwear. See our stock before buying. We take pride in calling attention to our splendid line of pattern hats. Our designs are prettier than ever this year. Call and see for yourselves.

Mrs. C. A. Jhj. Call and see us in our new stock, but WE

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We have moved into our new room in the Kendall block. We have the greatest confidence in this move, for it is a move in the right direction. The new quarters will permit us to better serve our customers, and better to present the greater attractions of our line ef goods.

V. H.Carpenter &Cq

STAPLE DRY GOODS ö NOTIONS.

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A bower of exquisite loveliness, dainty creations, every wt hat a studied triumph, dashing styles, elegantly trimmed and showing rare taste. We have everything in hats that is becom- E2 ing, millinery that dressy women will be proud to wear, and at 135prices within the reach of everybody. zZm Here are some of the llowers that are of exceptional beauty this spring: atl American Beauties, Water Lilies, Daisies, y Roses, Sweet Peas, Pansies, Lilies of the Valley, Violets, Lilacs, Marguerites See My Splendid Line of Sailors and Walking Hats.

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They buy and sell all kinds of Grain. They manufacture wheat flour, feed, meal, buckwheat Hour, bran, chops, shorts, etc. Buy flour made at home and thus support liome industry. MR. ZARP has had 32 years practical experience in the milling business.

Plymouth Milling Company

J. K. ZARP,

KETCH AM & WILSON, Agricultural Implements and Hachinery. Road Wagons, IJuggies and Surries, Plymouth Wagons, Hay Rakes, Brown and Hoke Cultivators, Ruckeye Rinders, Buckeye Mowers, Standard Mowers, Union Corn Planters, Hoosicr Grain Drills, Shunk Plows.

Remington Bicycles, Underwood. & Son, Center Street.

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new quarters. New room, same low prices. HAVE as the Disher Mill) F. Zarp and Owen Disher. Monomer.