Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 May 1902 — Page 7

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Zbc tribune. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Plymouth. Ind.. May 29, 1902. Advertisements to appear Ji TUE TKIBCNE mot he i before Tuesday nnon to Insure tntrir appearauve io the Issue of tba ee' . LOCAL NWS R. C. Hullatid, of Chicago, is visiting Captain Cooper and John Biain. George Neil was called to Auburn, Ind., by the death of his brother. Republicans should do some thinkin,nomlnate a good county ticket and elect it. There is a great deal of 'tixin r.p" going on about town and all of it will result in beautifying the city. Mrs. Caser, or Teegarden, passed through here Thursday on her way to Grovertown to visit relatives. Master Henry Lawrence Humrichouser came up from Piercctcn last Thursday to visit his grandparents. Miss Lou Clare Jones, who has been attending the state normal school at Terre Haute, came home last Thursday. Josiah Geiselraan says he always sustains the government and he is painting his 'house red, white and blue. The pustoffice at Thelma, Porter county, Indiana, will be discontinued May 31. Mail should go to Coburg, Ind. Mrs. C. E. Woodward has returned to Chicago after a visit of two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. N. S. "Woodward In this city. Miss Theresa Swlr.ehart lias returned to Tippecanoe after a visit of several days with Miss Maude Watson in this city. Queen Wilhelmina is now the only woman ruler on earth that is, if we wish to be technical about a matter of this kind. Mrs. and Mrs. Chris Hoover, residing on the Richard farm south of town, are the parents of a boy baby born Wednesday May 21. The city of Anderson, this state, has just acknowledge the receipt of 550,000 from Mr. Carnegie for the founding of a public library. Mr. and Mrs. George Grennish have returned to Ft. "Wayne after a visit of several days with Mrs. Grennish 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ruff, residing northvest of Plymouth. From the number of smallpox cases that pass as chicken pox thjoughout the state, Indiana must have a great many innocent doctors within her borders. Indianapolis News. The federal grand jury at Indianapolis has returned an indictment against Ney Mikels, of South Bend, for violating the postal laws. Mikels is the fellow who sold Virginia blue sky. Senator Parks has returned from Importe, where he was a speaker in the Sunday school convention. He reports R. B. Ogles bee nicely located there and doing a good business in law and insurance. Quite a number of people took advantage of the low rates to Harrisburg. Pa., Monday and Tuesday, and are visiting in the east. The rates were given on account of the German Baptist annual meeting. The statistics of theJState Board of Health indicate that theJstate is getting typhoid fever under . control. There were only 1,198 deaths in 19oi from it, as against 1,320 In 1900 and probably 15,000 cases, as against about 17,500 in 1900. " Chicago ball teams seem to have luck on their side this season, both teams, .being near the front. The American league team being tie with two other teams for the first place and the National team second holding place to Brooklyn William H. Cullen, of Greencastle, for many years deputy clerk of this county, stopped here over night with his brother,-John Cullen, and went to Bremen last Thursday evening to the bedside of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cline, who is lying at the point of death. Professor Wiley has some very big talk in the Indiananpolis News about the possibilities of sugar beet culture in Northern Indiana. lie says that twenty-five factories could be established there and add $50,000,000 to the state's manufacturing capital, to say nothing about th ; Increase in the values of farms and the great profits In beet growing that farmers would enjoy.

W. E. Leonard is repainting his house on Miner street. Judge Capron finished up the Rochester term of court Friday. David Stonehill, residing south of Bourbon, is dead at the age of i2 years. Mr. and Mrs. Ora McClure, of Argos, are the parents of a daughter, born Wednesday, May 21. Joseph Boyer came here Friday and took his three children from Brightside to his home in Cnicago. John Miller has bought the McKague property near the Franklin house and will reside there. Mrs. J. F. McCann went to Chicago Friday afternoon to join her husband and make that city her home. Sixteen lady teachers of this city and vicinity camped at Pretty Lake over Sunday. On the other hand, if beef were only two or three cents a pound hardly anybody would take the trouble to eat it. Miss Bertha Hoover, the stenographer at the law office of John W. Parks, has been appointed a notary public. Prof. J. E. Newell, of Bourbon College, will resign to till the chair of mathematics at the college in Westfield, 111. Lawrence Maxey is driving the parcel delivery wagon for John V. Cushman who broke his ankle Wednesday evening. Mrs. Elizabeth Jolly, mother of

George E. Paul, has gone to Walkerton for a visit of ten days in that town and vicinity. The candidate cometh like a flower and retireth from the race bursted. His friends fill him with false hopes and atmosphere. Lightning has damaged many buildings and killed many dollars worth of stock in this section of the state during the past week. Kubelik and Paderewski no s( oner wind up their season than it is announced that the seventeen-year locusts are headed this way. . Some people are not bothering so much about the price of meat since the cost of cigarettes is being reduced. All kinds of living are not dear. The desire of many persons to return to their habitations near Mont Pelee is the strongest evidence vet that there is no place like home. Mrs. W. II. Funk returned to her home in Kansas City Friday afternoon, after a visit of a few days in this city with the family of her son, L. L. Funk. M. Lauer returned from Larwill last Friday considerably improved in health. Adam Vinnedge is also seemingly much better than he was a week ago. Edwin Barber escaped from Long, cliff several days ago and reached his home ten miles east of Plymouth last, Tuesday. Officers took him back to the asylum. The art of saying appropriate words in a kindly way should never go out of fashion. This is an art that always pleases and is within the reach of everybody. Carnegie adv'ses young men not to strive to obtain more than a competence. He will ;iot have to plead very hard with the majority of them to get their consent. Wm. II. Cullen was In Plymouth remaining until Sunday. He is now practicing law in Greencastle and is better looking than whan he left here fifteen years ago. The remains of Mrs. Mary A. Herald who died at South Bend, Sunday were taken to her old home at Argos for interment. She was 85 years, 8 months and 12 days old. . Mrs. Minnie Hale, after a visit of a month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, has gone to Washington, D. C, to visij. an aunt In that city before returning to her home in Wisconsin. The proposed fast train from Chicago to New York, which was to have been made In 18 hours, has been reduced to 17 hours. The time between Chicago and Ft. Wayne, 153 miles, will be three hours. The Laporte nerald says the address of non. John W. Parks of Plymouth to the Laporte Sunday School convention was very instructive and was listened to with interest by the large congregation present. J. n. Iden' of Bourbon, is a rival of Santos Dumont in the airship field. He has a machine constructed on the principle of a bird skeleton that he declares will solve the problem of aerial navigation, ne jealously guards his mechanism.

Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hutchinson went to Argos to spend Sunday. Elder A. H. Zilmer went to Clinton county to preach at Ilillisburgh Sunday. Mrs. A. North has returned from a visit of a week with relatives in Walkerton. Mrs. John W. Thomas and Mrs. Copley went to Warsaw to visit over Sunday. Mrs. Arvilla Chapman has returned to Argos after visiting her sister Miss Ocie Love. The rain made it too wee for farmers to work and assured a big vote at the primaries. Mrs. Myron Bell residing on West South street has gone to Valparaiso for a visit of a week. Home-grown strawberries will be in market in a few days. Present prospects are for a very Urge crop. Jerry Good, of Knox, well known in Starke and Marshall counties died Wednesday and was buried Thursday afternoon. Frank Rumley's barn, near Donaldson was struck by lightning last night and badly damaged, but was not burned.

The Bremen Enquirer is opposed to Sunday base ball, and a strong effort is making in Bremen to enforce the law and stop it. Mr. and Mrs. Georg2 W. Thomas returned to South Bend Saturday evening after a visit of one day in this city and vicinity. Will Burnside recently sold his farm near the Bhssville church and bought 160 acres north of Tyner at one time owned by Lon Fink. After all a representative delegate convention gives fairer and better expression of the wishes of the majority than a primary election. Indiana has 59 widows pensioned for their husbands part in the war of 1812. It also has 293 pensioned survivors of the Mexican war. A car load of small and partly green peaches from Texas were received in Chicago Friday. They were the first to show up of this year's crop. Misses Eva and Fay Wickizer and Carrie Loser went to Argos Saturday I morning to attend the funeral of Miss Bertha Dennison who died Thursday. Mrs. Dr. Atkinson has returned to her home In Chicago after a visit of several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hindel near lnwood Mr. and Mrs. Ohmer Williams, who came here to bury theirchild, returned to Chicago Saturday. Mrs. Wil liams' mother, Mrs. Carl, accompanied them. Will McDonald, formerly of Plym outh, who has been with the B. & O. railroad as civil engineer, has taken a similar position with a road in north ern Wicconsin. Lydia Hale, an inmate of the county asylum, escaped about 3 a. m. Friday morning, and was overtaken by - the superintendent near Tyner and re turned the same day. No demonstration will be made on Decoration Day this year in North Liberty aside from decorating graves of departed soldiers by comrades and members of the W. R. C. Ten Purdue students have been ex pelled from the university for alleged gambling and drunkenness. One of those expelled was a senior and would have graduated in two weeks. Miss Bertha Dennison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dennison, of Argos,'jdied Thursday aged 16 years. She had many friends whose hearts are sad because of her untimely deaths William Schultz at work on the new railroad bridge, was struck in the back by the steam shovel Friday after noon and badly hurt. His injuries are not however considered dangerous, The South Bend Tribune says that only a good ticket of clean active republicans who will work for success from now until November can bring republican success in St. Joseph county. J. W. McCrory has received a check for $1.000, from the Modern Woodmen on account of the death of his son, Byron McCrory, who was a member of the Modern Woodman camp in this city. . Many democrats said Saturday that they hoped the republicans would nominate honest, competent men at theT county convention, because there was a chance for some republicans tobe elected in this county in November. The republicans should nominate a county ticket worthy of the confidence of the people regardless of party affiliations. The election of any other kind of ticket would be worse for the party than defeat. Horrors seem to multiply of late volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, cyclounes, floods and mine disasters, etc., fairly tread upon each other's heels and tend to bear out the old adage that calamities come in groups'. John Brummltt of . Porter county, sold a car of hogs this week for $6.96 per hundred. The hogs were eight months old and averaged 260 pounds. Mr. Brummitt estimates that he got $1.00 per bushel for the corn, he fed these hogs.

Mrs. Joseph Davis went to Bourbon

to visit her daughter over Sunday. Thomas Nellons one of the pioneers of Fulton county died at "his home in Richland township, Fulton county, Thursday morning, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. The funeral will occur at Richland Center Sunday. Next Friday is Memorial Day ;it will be fittingly observed by the veterans of the war with customary solemn and appropriate ceremonies in which observation all patriotic citizens should feel it a duty and privilege to participate. Yellow River ought to be declared a navigable stream now. John Hay. a bright young machinist of Plymouth, has placed a gasoline launch on the stream, and promises to make a trip to Bremen via the water route. Bre men Enquirer. The state prohibition party promises a brisk campaign, and it is an nounced that the Rev. W. II. Boles will stump the state with a big tent and a song team. Things are, indeed looking bad when the prohibition party Boles up. An Elkhart woman was seriously burned a few days ago while striking a match. A part of the sulphur flew off and set fire to her clothing which was soon in flames. Aid care in time to save her life but it js thought that she will lose the sight of one eye and be disfigured for life. One of the worst storms ever known in Indiana swept over the counties of Delaware, Jay, Wells and other places in the eastern section of the state Thursday. Roofs were blown from factories in Muncie, houses were blown down in Bluffton and much damage was done over the line in Ohio. The democrats of this township selected seven delegates to the judicial convention as follows: Daniel K. Harris, reter J. Kruyer. John C. Butler, Charles Porcher. William F. Younn, John Ritchey, Dr. Eley. Three of these are for Marti ndale, three for Kellison and one unknown. A conference ot the ministers of Kosciusko county was held at Warsaw 1 ist week for the purpose of formulating plans for evangelizing the county. It is proposed to secure a large tent that will accomodate 1,500 people, moving it from place to place, holding ten days revival meetings at each place. No decisive action was had at the meeting of Stockholders of the gas and oil company last Saturday evening, but many of them are in favor of making yet another effort to find gas or oil. Jacob Bauer's faith is undiminished, and he will make an effort to raise funds for sinking another well. Bremen Enquirer. Congressman Brick arrived in this city Saturday on his way to South Bend to attend the republican county convention and try to do what he can to prevent the city from repeating at the election in November what it did in May. Webster's old blue spelling bock said: "Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other " Prof. Allen Norris, who has been the efficient superintendent of the Syracuse, Indiana, public schools the past four years, and who has been re tained at an increased salary for another year, graduates at the Indiana State university in June. He is a Marshall county boy, was born and raised in Union township, and is mak ing rapid strides in his professson. On Saturday of last week there was dedicated a monument to the mem ory of the explorer, LaSalle, on the Niagara river in Canada, within five miles of the great cararact, where in 1679 he set sail for the northwestern country in the first vessel to traverse the waters of the great lakes. In De cember of the same year he landed at the old Portage on the St. Joseph river near South Bend. A smart young man at Milforrl took from his father's postoffice box in Mil ford a letter addressed to a young lady whom he did not know, which proved to be a young lady who had just come to town a few days previous, ne opened the letter and wrote to the lady who sent it, "jollying" her, and she caused his arrest for opening the letter. The young man's case will be heard by Judge John n. Baker. Kewanna is to have . a new water works and electric light plant. A home company has been formed which has purchased a farm on the south edge of town. The farm is to be plotted into forty lots to be sold at two hundred dollars each. The company will utilize the proceeds together with other capital, in the construction of the plants. Reports from all parts of the "coun try state that it is almost impossible to tind laborers to carry on needed work, even at advanced wages. The price paid for labor was never so high as now and labor was never so fully employed. Yet the grumblers say times are hard and howl for a change. There are a whole lot of people In this country always out of sorts when things are going along at a prosper ous pace. Piatt McDonald, who came from Chicago to attend the dedication of the Masonic temple, returned Saturday evening. , He remained to see his cou-

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31 sin, Mrs. Phoebe Thompson-Willey, who returned Saturday from Australia. Mr. McDonald will remain a few weeks with his daughter, Mrs. Gilnv re, at Chicago, and will go thence to the far west to engage in mining. He will always regard Plymouth as his home. The Tribune wishes Mr. McDonald success and a long life. The grounds of the Winona Assembly were opened Thursday. The sessions of the Assembly and Summer School will open July 6. The faculty of the school will number over fifty teachers and lecturers from the leading universities and colleges of the West. Among those who will occupy the lecture platform this year are Senator Marcus Ilanna, Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, Captain Rich mond Pearson Ilobson, Miss Ellen Stone and Booker T. Washington. Harry Buck, Friday evening received about half an ounce of ashes from Mt. Pelee volcano, which are on exhibition at the hardware store. They were brought to New York by a ship that came direct from the West Inflies, and were sent to Harry by his brother, Frank C. Buck, who is employed in New York and got the ashes from the vessel. The decks of the vessel were covered with ashes thrown from the volcano although it was a hundred miles distant from Mt. Pelee. Iron Ore Near BbrkeL From Burket, a small town south west of Warsaw, on the Nickel Plate railroad, comes a report that iron ore has been discovered almost in sight of the town. On the 40-acre farm be longing to Isaac B. , Hire, lying just east of Burket, is where the ore has been located. Tuesday of this week capitalists from South Bend investi gated the matter and were so much im pressed with the qualities of the min eral found there that they leased a strip of the ground for $12,000, and pect to begin work there within a few weeks.

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