Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 46, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 August 1902 — Page 7

Barb and Sin

Another carload of Smooth and Barb "Wire, and a carload of American Fence. The only Fence made that' contracts and expands with the weather. Always the same. Get our prices before you buy.

JOHN V. fiSTLEY AND SON

Leaders in Good Goods, Low Zbc TEdbune. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Plymouth, Ind., August 7, 1902. Advertisements to appear In TUE TKIRONE meat be 1 before Tuesday nocn to insure tnelr appearance iii the issue of tba week. m m. a am mwm . m tf & LULAL NLWb & X t County Treasurer O'Keefe made a business trip to Chicago Thursday. Several cases of typhoid fever are reported in the vicinity of Burr Oak. D. Frank Redd and family have returned from their visit at Climax, Michigan. Isaac Becker, of Xoblesville, is spending his vacation with his parents in this city. Mrs. Dr. Knott and Mrs. Will Orman have returned from a visit of five weeks in Michigan. Lauriston Stanley died at his home in Argos, Friday, August 1, aged 34 years, 6 months and 21 days. Mrs. Fred Brown, of Chicago, is visiting her mother. Mrs. I. Q. Redd and other relatives in this city. Miss Fay Corbin, who has been visiting her relatives in the city, returned to her home in Chicago Sunday. Mrs. Charles McLaughlin and Miss Dora Fogel went to Chicago Thursday morning for a visit of a few days. John Staley says his folks at Pretty Lake catch about 100 fine blue gills every day and often have fish to give away. Mrs. I. Q. Redd, of this city and her daughter, Mrs. Fred Brown, of Chicago, spent Wednesday at the Winona Assembly. Mrs. D. C. Cole went to Larwill on Thursday to spend two days with her husband who is taking treatment at the sanitarium. Solomon Romig and children have returned to Argos from Rice connty, Kansas and expect to make their home in Marshall county. Master Clyde Beerbower, son of Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler C. Beerbower, of South Bend, is visiting his grandmother in this city. Mrs. Charles Iloham will go to New York soon to visit her daughter Bertha, who was unitedfin marriage with Mr. James F. Farley July 29. Mrs. William Agen and family, of Garrett, are visiting at Monroe Steiner's. Mr. Agen is a traveling engineer for the B. & O. railroad. II. P. Kleinschmidt and family, of Pittsfield, 111., arrived or. Thurspay for a visit of a few days with George Kleinschmidt and family in this citv. Dr. B. F. Ilutchings and family, of Crawfordsville, who has been visiting the doctor's brother, G. W. Ilutchings, this city, returned home Thursday. Company I, has received an invitation and will probably attend the La bor day celebration at South Bend and will also attend the carnival at Elkhart Sept. 1. E. O. Wickizer, Jacob Zumbaugh, Owen Disher, Ilenry P. Stauffer and Jesse D. Williams, of this county, are prospecting in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Mrs. Tolton, who was supposed to have been murderel by her husband wa. lound at the barracks ot the Salvation Army in Chicago and is now at her home in Westville. The 2?orth Manchester Journal and the Tribune of that city have consolidated. The paper will be J.sued from the Tribune offi hereafter and will be known as the Journal. Mrs. Nellie White, wife of William White, of Argos, died August 5, 1902, aged 48 years, 5 months and 24 days. She leaves a husband, one daughter and two sisters to mourn bor death. The Argos Reflector says D. E. Vanvactor fell from a scaffold a few days ago and sprained andbrvked his leg so badly that he will not have the proper use of the limb for sometime. W. S. R. Smith has returned from a trip of several weeks through Wisconsin and Minnesota in the interest of the Clizbc Manufacturing company of this city. He says tbs crops were never better in that section than they are this year. S. B. Jordan shipped two yearling calves to Chicago Wednesday. Their combined weight was. 2,660 pounds, and at $7.70 per hundred they brought t204.82. The man who thinks it does not pay to fatten cattle here is certainly mistaken.

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Prices and Full Weights, The'statc fair will be held Sept. 15 to 19. Mrs. A. Cule visited over Sunday at Inwood. Rev. Ray G. Upson spent Friday at Chicago. The fair at Fairmount, Ind., will be held August 12 to 16. Miss Edna Bollman is visiting friends in South Bend for a few days Miss Blanche Disher, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Metzler, at Ro chester. Mrs. Charles E. Rivar and daughter, Eloise, are visiting relatives at Bourbon. Miss Etta Smith has returned from a visit of three weeks in Tippecanoe township. Mr. and Mrs. Swansea, of near Don aldson, were visiting friends in Plym outh Friday. Sheriff Bondurant and family took in the Red men's carnival at Roch ester Friday. The reunion of the veteran 29th Kesri men t will be held at Nappanee, Sept. 17 and 18. Miss Anna Shoemaker has gone to Monterey for a visit of a week with Mrs. Mark Rearick. Mrs Eurit and son of Logansport, are guests of the family of Adam Kebert and W. B. Clark. E. F. Plummer, a commission mer chant, of Chicago, was the guest of Mr. Edward Gam Friday. Mr. and Mrs. James Keiser have re turned from a visit at Warsaw, Fort Wayne and Huntington. Benjamin Becker has returned to Chicasro after a vacation of a week spent in Plymouth and Culver. Attorney Robert M. Washourn?, of Bourbon, stopped in Plymouth Friday on his way home from Logansport. Mrs. John Kuzmaul, who has been sick for several months, but seemed much improved last week, is again seriously ill. H. W. Bunch, of Lakeville, visited a few hours with friends in this city last Friday. He was on his way to Fort Wayne. Rev. W. E. McKenzie is attending the Battle Ground camp meeting which began Thursday and continues until Aug 18. Miss Maggie O'Donnell who had been the guest of friends in this city for a week, returned to her home at Marion Friday. Mrs. Bower, of Huntington, Ind., is visiting her mother at Walnut and her sister, Mrs. A. B. Personnett in this city this week. The democratic congressional committee had a stormy meeting here Thursday and adjourned without finding out " where they are at." When a man is restrained by injunction from speaking to his wife, as is Herman Rudolf of Milwaukee, things are getting desperate. Mrs-1. Q. Redd with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Brown and Miss Florrnce Brown, of Chicago, spent Friday with relatives and friends in Argos. Mrs. Chapman, has returned to her home in Argos after a visit of several days in this city with the family of her nephew, Delbert Bryan. Mrs. Gough, of Greenfield. Ind.. who has been visiting her son Robert, of the Allman store, and chaperoning a party at Pretty Lake, returned home Friday. Mrs. Rose Travis and children have returned to their home in Chicago after a visit of three weeks with her father, George W. Ellinger,' east of Plymouth. Hon. Marcus A. Hanna's health is such tnat his physicians have forbidden him to make any speeches at present, and he may not be able to visit Indiana during the campaign. It is reported that genuine diamonds have been discovered along Nelson creek in the northern part of Plumas county, Cal.,:and many prospectors have gone to the scene. A card from C. T. Mattlngly says he and Mrs. Mattingly are enjoying the lectures of the Chautauqua assembly at Chautauqua, N. Y., and expect to remain there until August 20. At 8:06 Friday morning at the overhead bridge near Donaldson, Jacob Sebeli, fireman of the steam shovel, was struck by the descending shovel, on the right arm, producing a severe laceration and bruising the lower third of the radius and ulna. ' He was at once brought to the office of the company surgeon, where Dr. Aspinall dressed the injuries and sent him to his heme on East William street.

Samuel Garl is visiting at Rochester. Mrs. Appleman is visiting friends at Walnut. C, W. Jordan and wife, of Chicago, are visiting relatives here. Miss Mabel Jacoby is spending a week with friends at Warsaw. Mrs. II. G. Thayer is the guest of relatives and friends at Bourbon. Robert Smith was called to Ohio to see his mother who is in feeble health. Mrs. P W. Smith is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Francis, in La-

paz. L. II. Vanseoik and wife went to Garrett last fcaturdav ror a visit or a week. Miss Ellen Lidecker has returned to Bremen after visiting in this city and vicinity. Mrs. A. B. White and Mrs. Yeagly, of North township, were Bourbon vis itors Saturday. Oliver R. Baker and Miss Nellie Kline of Union township were licensed to marry Thursday. Miss Geneva McCrory went to Valparaiso Saturday to remain during the commencement week. Miss Ruby Ripple, of Warsaw, is here for a visit of a month with her aunt, Mrs. Sherman Orr. Thomas Sponsler and Ed Butcher are attending the camp meeting at Dunlap in Elkhart county. Mrs. U. J. Dietrich and children, of Bremen, have been visiting the family of H. II. Miller this week. Mrs. Cupp, who has been visiting relatives in this county and at South Bend, has returned to Canton, Ohio. Mrs. Jacob Ness with her daughter, Mabel, and son Marvin, have gone to Columbia City for a visit of two weeks. Dr. Wiltfong, of Chesterton, read a paper at the meeting of the Porter county doctors at Valparaiso Tuesday. W. H. Manual and wife, C. L. An drews and Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Shir ley went to Bremen to visit over Suuday. Carl Spieshoffer left for Salt Lake City Saturday to attend the annual meeting of the Elks. He will be gone two weeks. Miss Laura Boss has been engaged as one of the teachers of the Bremen schools for the year commencing September 8. Misses Vink and Slough have returned to Bourbon after a visit of sev eral days with relatives and friends in Plymouth. George Paul Is again in the restaurant business. He has bought Bert Bushman's restaurant on Michi gan street. Mrs. Mary Noel went to South Bend last Saturday. She will be the guest of her daughters in that city and Go shen for ten days. The Elkhart man who threatened to sell his wife for thirty cents and found his offer taken must feel now like the price he received. Mrs. II. R. Priddy and daughter were passengers to Donaldson last Saturday for a visit of several days with friends and relatives. Patrick Burns, a pioneer resident of Laporte, died Friday morning of blood poisoning, resulting from cutting his hand on a piece of glass. He was 80 years old. Mrs. Charles nohamand "Auntie" Klinghammer went to South Bend Saturday morning to visit for several days with relatives in that city and Mishawaka. Geo. Vinnedge, who has been an in mate of the county asylum for 20 years died there Saturday. He was aoout 75 years of age and came originally from Tyner. Mrs. C. G. Bollman and daughter have returned from Bucyrus, Ohio, where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Bollman 's sister, Mrs. M. V. Underwood. nunters say that quail hunting promises to be exceptionally good next winter for the fields and woods are re plete with numberless coveys of the young birds. - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kanarr, of North township, went to Chicago Sun day for a visit of a week there and with relatives in western Indiana south of Chicago. The Forepaugh and Sells Brothers show will be in Logansport August 16 pnd the Logansport Driving As sociation will pull off their annual races from Aug. 12 to 15. Wanatah Mirror: Valparaiso is los ing the Pennsylvania round house and carpenter crew. The same will be es tablished in Plymouth. Will the coal docks from here go with it? Carrie Nation of saloon smashing fame is billed for Marion, August 21. The base ball park has been rented for that day by her representative, L. C. Masters, at which place she will deliver a speech. The Marshall County Teachers Institute will be held at . the ' court room In Plymouth during the week beginning August 25, at 9:30 a. m. The program ' is one of the best ever presented in this county, and evening entertainments will be a special feature this year. Every teacher should attend and everybody interested in the cause of education is Invited.

A Kansas man while helping his

wife with the washing last week, fell from the porch and broke one of his arms. When your wife wants you to help her wash just show her this item. Jacob Heckaman, of German township was ninety years old last Thursday and the occasion was celebrated by a great frmily reunion at which about 150 relatives representing five genera tions were present. Milton White and Mrs. Samuel vtaner, both residing in the same neighborhood, west of Lapaz, are at the point of death. Mr. White has bright 's disease and Mrs. Waner is suffering from a cancer. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fravert came down from Nappanee Friday to visit over Sunday in this city and vicinity. Sam reports business good in Nappaneeand he is well pleased with his new location. He is in the hardware trade. Lawrence L. Lctherman, the well known post otlice inspector who has been in Porto Rico the past year ar rived at his home in Valparaiso, Wed nesday evening. He is one of the government's best officials and is well known in Plymouth. The Bourbon-News Mirrorsars John Caldwell and wife started for Klncaid, Kan., Tuesday to visit the former's father and brothers. Mr. Caldwell's father is 86 years of age. While away they will also visit in Colorada and Oklahoma, being gone about a month. At the auction sales of Berkshire hogs at Beloit, Wisconsin Wednesday, at the farm of A. J. Lovejoy, the world's record for average price was raide, being $10,756 for thirty head. The highest price was $400 for a boar. Buyers were present from all over the Northwest. Gen. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville contemplates a trip to Alaska, and expects to start about Aug. 10. He will take a Kankakee river guide and has invited several friends to accompany him as his guests. They propose to buy an outfit at Seattle and penetrate the Alaskan wilds. The Baltimore and Ohio railway has decided to employ no more women stenographers in Its operating department. It is the policy of the company Jto select subordinates with a view to their promotion to higher po sitions, and women are not at the present time thought of as possible railroad officials. Not long ago in Jasper county, when an examination for teachers' license was being held, one of the questions was: "Name three ex-presidents of the United States who were famous generals of the civil war." One of the young ladies wrote: "Grover Cleveland, Abraham Lincoln and James G. Blaine." R. E. Freese arrived from Toronto, Canada, Monday evening, and was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Freese until Thursday, when he left for Chicago, and a trip through the northwest and the Pacific states which will probably require a year to complete, ne travels for a Cincinnati carriage company. A scientist says that "if the earth was flattened the sea would be two miles deep all over the world." After; due meditation a Kansas editor gives ! out the following: "If any man is caught flattening out the earth shoot him on the spot, and don't be too blamed particular what spot. There's a whole lot of us in Kansas that can't swim. Argos defeated Plymouth by a score of four to nothing In the ball game Thursday. Spectators say It was a good game and the score shows that'much. Another picked up team was beaten at Bourbon the same day. Plymouth has so many good ball players that the can improvise a half dozen teams in a half hour at any time, - Coronation day in England, Satur day, was ushered in with a roar of guns that aroused all sleepers within the confines of old London town. At 4:30 a. m., just at sunrise, the guns In the Tower of London and Hyde Park boomed salutes in honor of the day and announced to the people that the day for the crowning of their King had come. Many persons, however, did not require notification, for they were on the streets all night. While Ira Zumbaugh who resides near Sligo was waiting to unload his wheat for the threshing machine Thursday a spark from the engine communicated fire to the center of the load. Mr. Zumbaugh commenced pitching sheaves off as rapidly as possible, but in a few moments the flames burst up from the center of the load and his face and hands were badly burned. Men upset the wagon and saved it from burning and a part of the load of wheat was saved. Practically the last chance of Louis Thombs to escape the gallows disap peared when word was received that no justice of the Illinois Supreme Court would grant a writ of superse deas. Thombs was convicted of the murder of Carrie Larsen, whom he had enticed aboard the steamer Peerless at Chicago by advertising for a cook. When she attempted to repel him he strangled her, and thrust her body in to the river, making a hole in the ice for the purpose. He was hanged on

j Friday. " ' . ,

Mr, and Mrs. O, F. Ketcham went to Warsaw last Saturday. From there Mr. Ketcham goes to the eastern part of New York for a visit of two weeks at the home of his mother whom he has not seen for several years Harry Humrichouser and family, of Chicago, Mrs. Miller, of Elkhart, and Mrs. Brubaker, of Ashland, Ohio, are visiting -at II. Humrichouser 's in this city. Mrs. Brubaker is Mr. Humrichouser's sister and Mrs. Miller is his niece.' William Kliugerman and family

have returned to their home at 1921 Webster St., Fort Wayne after a visi or nve weeks with relatives and friends in Plymouth. Both were born and raise here and have many friends who arc always glad to see them. Mr. and .Mrs. u. 11. wncox and their son, Archie of Chicago, who has been here for a two weeks' vacation, spent .frnaay at rretty L.aKe ana brought home 70 fine blue gills. Mr. Wilcox says it was one of the finest days for fishing and boating that he ever saw. Forty years ago this week the 73rd regiment of Indiana volunteers, went into camp at South Beiid. One com pany was from this county and was commanded by Captain Kendall. The boys that are left living recall vividly that week as it was their first taste of army life. Almost 300 feet of the new railroac track about two miles west of Don aldson sunk twenty feet last night. The old track by the side of it is stil all right, but it is evident that the constructors have a bier iob on their hands to get a foundation where the track has sunk. Oliver Beyler will enter Purdue University next month for the four years course in electrical engineering, and Monroe Schlosser and Robert Knobloch will attend the agricultura scnooi. 'mis win make seven young people from Bremen who will attend that school. Bremen Enquirer. Mrs. L. Colaredo, of Canal Dover, Ohio, is visiting Mrs. M.E. Pershing, Mrs. Kendall, Mrs. A. C. Miller and other friends of her girlhood days, who now reside here. She is on her way home from Chicago, where she has been attending the university summer school. Mrs. Colaredo has been thirty years a teacher in the schools of Canal Dover. A trio of unusually large cranes are making their headquarters at present on the Tippecanoe river bottoms just northwest of Warsaw, This particular species years ago could he seen in large numbers about this place, but during the last few years have become scarce. John Trish says the trio referred to are unusually fine speci mens, being the largest he has ever seen. A railroad manager affirms that an immense proportion of the passenger traffic of the time is the direct result of newspaper advertising. "It Is be cause of the railroad advertising," he says, "that 60.000 people go to Call fornia every autumn and winter, that tens of thousands of eastern people go to Colorado and that more than 100, 000 people visit the far northwest in March and April of each year. " Cyrus Watson and sister, Mrs. Ni fong, of . near Inwood, have tone to Van Wert, Ohio, where they are vis iting relatives. They will also attend a family reunion, and, as they are 80 and 93 respectively, will be the objects of much attention. Before going Mr. Watson visited his daughter, Mrs. John Beck, at this place, a short time. Mrs. Beck and sister. Mrs. August Wissert, accompanied them. Bourbon News-Mirror. The State Fair Jubilee. The Indian State Fair will, the week of September 15, celebrate its golden jubilee at Indianapolis. For a year the state board of agriculture has been planning and bendings its energies to make this, the fiftieth, anniversary a memorable one, and pioneers from over the state will not find it difficult to see that the fair has multiplied in quality and quantity many times since the first one was held at Indianapolis in 1852. Pits Peat Against Coal. J. J. Wheat, of Chicago, conferred with Governor Durbin and other state officers this week, ne has been investigating the peat beds in Indiana and is enthusiastic over what he believes are the possibilities of development. ' He is anxious that Mr. Blatchley, the sate geologist, shall institute a thorough investigation into the extent of the peat beds. lie says there are 120 acres of peat in Starke county, with an average depth of forty-three feet. Wheat's idea is that, with the disappearance of natural gas, peat can be used as fuel in competition with coal. Muscallonge fishing at the Wisconsin resorts is said to be most excellent this year. A day or two ago, Mrs. C. A. Wheeler, a Chicago resident.caught a 42 pound muscallonge in Lake Little St. Germain, between Eagle River and Woodru'iT on t he Chicago & North western R'y, and On the same morning Mr. A,. Wuthmann, of ,215 East Madison Street, Chicago, caught one

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MARRIED Farley-Hoham, At the Methodist parsonage, Cornwall, New York, July 29. 1902, by Rev. A. Ostrander, James F. Farley jr., and Miss Bertha M. Hoham, both of New York City. The above announcement appears in the Cornwall Local published at Cornwall, N. Y. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Charles Hoham, of Plymouth, and was born and grew to womanhood in this city. They will reside in New York City and hundieds of friends here unite in best wishes for a long and happy married life. Epworth Hospital, South Bend. Epworth hospital, South Bend, has just reen given $50,000 by Mrs. Anna M. Studebaker, widow ot the late Clem Studebaker. About $40,000 had been previously subscribed and paid, $10,000 of which came from the Studebaker family. Mrs. Studebaker offered to the hospital board that if an income of $2,000 annually were assur ed she would pay the debt, non: Marvin Campbell, president of the board of trustees, and the members of the Vornan 's Home Missionary so ciety, who compose the board of di rectresses, began an enthusiastic canvass and the business-men of South Bend made yearly subscriptions aggre gating that amount. Twenty thousand dollars of the debt has already been retired and the other will be paid as the notes be come due. In addition to this splen did gift Mrs. Studebaker took all real estate gifts to Epworth hospital at their donated value, assuming the los ses that may occur in disposing of them and pledging the surplus, if any to the hospital. Got His Old Wife. Frederick Sixt of Martinsville, Somerset county, N. Y., adyertised for a wife, one "beautiful, accomplish ed, true and honest." The woman who was once his wife answered the advertisement and again installed her self In the first place in his affections. It seems that Mrs. Sixt got a divorce five years ago on the ground of desertion, as Mr. Sixt had gone away from home two years before. About six months ago Mr. Sixt's father died and left him a large sum ot money. Sixt went to Germany, got the money and then went to Martinsville, where he resides. He wanted a wife, advertised, and the former Mrs. Sixt answered the advertisement. Mr. Sixt replied and, discovering that he still loved her, they were remarried. Wanfs More Congenial Work. in regara to nis not wisning to go oacK to tne senate .air. iianna says: "It is true that I wish to devote the majority of my time to the question of capital and labor. To do this I must relinquish my position as senator. I take a great interest in this problem of harmonizing labor and cap ital, and will devote the remainder of my career to it. The only difficulty is that I am afraid the republicans of Ohio will have to some other fellow for the senate, because I don't want to go back there. I think I would rather do this kind of work." From Prairie Schooner to Overland Limited Send two cent stamp for copy of special edition of illustrated article from the July Review of Reviews, dealing with the history and development of the northwest and of the Chicago & Northwestern R'y and the only double track line between Chi cago and the Missouri River. A. H. Wafirerener. 22 Fifth avenue. Chicago, 111. Special Fares to West and Northwest via Pennsylvania Lines. Special round trip tickets to Iowa Wisconsin, Northern Minnesota, Manitoba and North Dakota points will be sold at low rates via Pennsyyania lines August 1st to 15th, in clusive, and September 1st to Septem ber 10, inclusive. For particulars about rates, time of trains, etc., apply to passenger and ticket agents of the Pennsylvania lines. '

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