Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 December 1902 — Page 4

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Santa Glaus & Co. will have entire charge of our store until Dec. 25. In every department you will find new and practical merchandise exhibited by this always enterprising firm. It is their annual sale of just such goods that are sure to please the great throng of practical gift giving customers. What this firm sell you here is sure to be of lasting usefulness, and will surely be appreciated by the recipient. For your holiday buying, this store is full of good, up-to-date merchandise, and at our always lowest prices for the qualities shown.

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Tffr GLt(S f Ö TrVlH Never mind what old-fashioned people tell you Style and Comfort can live together in a pair of shoes. The "Dorothy Dodd" proves it. They are the utmosfheight of style. VarlJv ?l3''w VI Cl Ävl )u)y ÄvVlV They are shoes of gen tine distinction. The highest praise you tan give a shoe is to say It has the style of a 'Dorothy Dodd.' " Yet the "Dorothy Dodd" is the most comfortable shoe ever made. You long to walk for the pleasure of walking. It holds the foot firmly around the instep and supports the unsupported arch. You can escape the "slouchy" gait which comes with some shoes. It gives a new poise to your body in walking. Your carriage is more light and graceiul. Just try one pair. They cost 53.H). SOT Don't forget to ask us about the 54,000.00 in Prizes. You have a chance at this money if you buy a pair!

Cb story and tbc store always correspond bcrc. I J XLbc tribune. EatablUbed October 10. 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., "Publishers. I'eiepiione Mo. 127. OFFICE In Blssell Block. Corner Center and Laporte Street. UVfcBTI81NG RATES rill be mad tnowo on application. Entered the Postoffice at Plymouth. Ind.. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year In Advance $1.50; Six Months 7; cents; Three Months 40 cents, delivered at any postoffice. The Only Republican Paper in the County Plymouth, Ind., December 18, 1902. Major Glenn of the Fifth infantry is on trial before court martial at Manil, a charged with the illegal killing of seven war prisoners. Great Britain has ordered cessation of violence against Venezula, pending peace negotiations. Bowen proposals are received from "Washington and are under consideration. The president says: "Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as lie likes with his property or his labor so long as he does not infringe on the rights of his neighbors." This is eminently sound and logical, but there are any number of people who refuse to accept it as such. South Bend Times. In 1858 this government sent a special commission and a powerful fleet to demand the payment of claims and other satisfaction from Paraguay, whose president-dictator had assumed a defiant attitude toward the Uoited States. He yielded at last moment and It was not necessary to deliver the blow which had b:en prepared. If he had not yielded we should have adopted measures as severe as any contemplated by Great Britain and Germany agaiost Venezu!i. The death of Mrs. Grant comes in the fullness of years and honor. She was a true helpmeet to the great man, her husband, and the beauty of their lives in unison was no less a tribute to her than to him. She has ezemplified the finest traits of womanhood, and amid all the stormy scenes retained always the respect of the people. She was much like the general in her simplicity and frankness andsturdiness. She loved place and rxwer and the pomp of things, but she never lost her bead or her footings; first and last, she was clear-sighted, unspoiled, self-contained. Her later years were years of peace and pienty. She had lived to see her children and her children's children embarked in life as she could wish, bringing to her the cansolations of honor and attainment. Indianapolis News.

Furs are very appropriate to give, and we have a good variety for you to choose from. French Marten Scarfs.ornameutej with six tails, for. . .53.50 Extra Marten Scarfs, with fox tails, from 54.98 to 57.50 Brown Marten Scarf, good quality, from 53.00 to...$5.U0 Very large Real Fox Scarf. This stvle is verv stvlish. Values from 512.00 to. .515.00 Christmas Shoes You spend your money wisely here. Good goods, low prices and great variety. Men's fiile Pat. Leather Shoes; vour choice of '55.00 qualities for 54.00 Ladies' Pat. Leather Shoes for 51.75, 52, 52.50, 53 and.. 53.50 Your choice of Ladies' 52.00 Shoes for 5 1 -SO Men's 53.50 Shoes for. . . .52.98 Misses' Shoes,. from 51 to. 52.00 For your Holiday trade

uii mi tuMi puiiiiabci. rn im&iarvcs luiiccicu piumpuy ncre, fT f and good honest treatment will be accorded you at all times.

The speech of ex-President Cleveland in tavor of educating the negro and giving him an equal chance with white people, seems to have struck home among democrats, botU north and south, as no other speech ever did. The South Bend Times has a half dozen editorials along that line this week. Such articles look strange in the Times although Editor Stoll has been for years one of the fairest and ablest democratic editors in the United States. We are glad to see that he has come round right on the negro question. A Troublesome Question. The increasing number of clerks in some of the departments at Washington who are too old to be useful is more and more, the cause of serious consideration. The commissioner of pensions reports four hundred so old and broken down that one hundred young men could do more and better work. There are scores of them who ! can do no work, yet they draw salaries. It has always been thus to some extent, but the condition was never as serious as at the present time, due largely to the infirmities of ex-union soldiers who have been in the departments for years. Most of the very old men have saved nothing from their salaries. Washington seems not to be a good place for saving, and many of these men have lived in the faith that the government will take care of them; They are the victims of a sort of paternalism. The narrow routine of their lives unfits them for any other employment. It is asked why these men are not dismissed when they cease to be useful. The answer to such a question is that those who ask it would be the last to do the dismissing if they were at the head of bureaus, It is a fine trait in humankind that few men have the heart to turn men and women I over to pauperism. Assuming, that it is quite out of the question to dismiss the old and feeble, the question as to what sball be done with them is more and more pressing as the number of those who are unable to work increases and the work in the departments drags. Sooner or later, and sooner rather than later, congress' must take this important subject up to prevent the crippling of the civil service by the retention of an increasing number of clerks and other officials in the departments and in the postal service all over the country. In the meantime intelligent and ambitious young men are warned to keep out of the subordinate positions in the civil service1. Sale Bills printed at the Tribune.

inter Cloahs and Capes

Every winter wrap in our store marked to close out. The cold weather is ahead of you and you can have a good wrap at a very small price. 520 to 525 Cloaks at 10.00 and 512.X) 512 Cloaks at ...57.50 56 Cloaks for 53.75 Children's Long Coats, 51 .50 to . . .54 Q.s Ladies' Capes for 51.98. 52.50 and. .54'S

1Rfa Sine Xmas Iflufls What home is there with too many Rugs?

V Bright new stvles in V $2.25 to... ..

1Rew Brcss Ipatterns for the Holidays Right in this department is where your gift buyiug will he longest remembered. We have marked down the price on many pieces of Dress Goods for the holiday trade. All wool Cheviots. 36-inch goods,' for V'c All wool, 40-inch Panama Suitings .3c'c Fine all wool Whipcord Suitings for 50c Fine all wool 3S-iuch Grantele Cloth for 5e For this month onlv, our 51-00 Henrietta for 75c

this store offers you many unusual inducements, including Trading Coupons or Cash Discount

Where Wheels Hum and Productive Labor Tells The Plymouth Novelty Mfg. Co,

Manufacturers of Telephone Wood .Work for Independent Telephone Companies Qrowth of the Telephone Business One of the Great Industries of the Country Rapid Increase of Use of Telephone by Farmers.

But few directions there arc in which human Inquiry can be more profitably extended than in tracing back through past years the development of Industry. The past furnishes lessors for the future and inculcates the truth that the natural lawcf properly directed human endeavor is one of growth, and that energy and industry achieve results that overreach the expectations of those enjoying J their fruits. Perhaps in no department of life ! does natural ability and enterprise ! demonstrate their powers more than in mechanical work. The history of the growth of a manufacturing industry always proves interesting to the reading public. Seveal instances of manufacturing expansion are to be found in Plymouth, and as one of the mast notable we cite the PLYMOUTH NOVELTY 'MANUFACTURING COMPANY, located at the north end of Walnut street, on the line of the Yandalia railroad. This company owns six acres of land, extending from the Vandalia right of way to Michigan street, having its own switch for receiving material and shipping Its finished product. It employs about 60 hands, and has paid out more than $21,000 for labor during the past year. Its principal business is the manufacture of wood work FOR INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE C03IPANIES. There is. a very strong demand for these articles, and but few factories are eng iged in producing them. This company manufactures the complete wail cabinets, which are in general use, selling its product to the telephone manufacturers, who make the metal parti and complete the telephone by placing them inside the telephone and attaching them to the outside, selling the completed telephone to the local telephone exchanges or to the farmers throughout the" country. The rapid growth of the telephone Industry during the last ten years is really remarkable, and shows the quickness of the American people to

Values

New line just in. Kilted Skirts, Box Seams. We show Good Skirts in all from 54.00 to

Christmas Slippers i Fine assortments of warm and easy Slippers for ladies and men are shown in our Shoe section. Men's Slippers, 51, $1.25 and. ...51.50 Ladies' Slippers from 75c to. 51-25

Moquet Rugs, for 53.45 seize upon and mike practical use of any invention that has in It an element of real value and utility. Th telephore today is an almost inüispensible part of modern business life, multiplying as it does the efficiency Cf the individual many times, enabling him to transact more business in one day than without it he could do in several dajs. It also makes possible a more rapid and economic interchange of thought between persons separated by long distances. This is shown by the growth of the local exchange in Plymouth. It started less than ten years ago with but 20 subscribers and now numbers over 250, with other subscribers urging the installation of telephones faster than the manager can perform the work. This is found to be the same in many other enterprising localities. This development has taken place ince the expiration of the patents owned by the Bell Telephone Co., on the manufacture and use of the telephone apparatus. Since the expiration of these basic . patents the Bell company has endeavored to retain its hold by the use of subsidiary patents, and a strenuous fight has taken place between the Bell Company and the Independent Telephone Manufacturers, as all outside the Bell Company style themselyes. In some interesting figures oh the growth of the use of the telephone in the United States, a recent editorial in 'Telephony" states that at the end of the present year, 1902, there are . 6.511 telephone exchanges, of which 2,811 aie Bell, and 3,700 are Independent, operating 2,850,000 telphones, of which 1,500,000 are Bell, and 1,350,000 are Indepeudent, requiring the services of 79,436 persons, of which the Bell companies employ 40,864 and the Independent 38,572. It is considered that the telephone industry is yet in its Infancy, and that this great growth from a small beginning, ten years ago, will continue for for many years to come, until most of the farmers In the United States will be connected by telephone with their nearest ,towns, and their neighbors,

in Wlalhiita Shirts

Latest styles in Plaits and the Slot the newest here. the latest styles at .".55.9S

Great Iboliday Sale of (Bood Efaens ! jfine line of Christmas Ibandkercbiefs M

A nice piece of Linen in anything is always a welcome present, j and there is no more practical gift that one can make than some- ' thing nice in Linens. Matched Table Sets, in fine all linen Damask, from 55.50 to.fS.H) ' Bleached all linen Damask, extra value, for 4'Jc j 72-inch all fine linen Damask, per yard, from 75c to 51. OO j Napkins, per dozen, from 50c to 54.00 j Large size Dinner Napkins for .9c j Fancy Luuch Cloths, from 25c to 52.00 j Christmas Towels, big value, from 25c to ; 50c j

kl f J There will be a steady business for manufacturers with l-cal telephone exchanges. These exchanges allow 10 per cent per annum for depreciation, because they expect to renew their plants at least every ten years. SUPERIOll PRODUCT. In this large and prosperous business the Plymouth Novelty Manufacturing Company has already achieved a well merited recognition for the superior quality of its product. Its business is based upon contracts with some of the largest and strongest of the Independent telephone manufacturers. Among these, are the Strom-berg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Co., which is incorporated for $3,000,000, and employs about 1,600 hands in its Chicago and Rochester, N. Y., factories. It owns a large building devoted exclusively to the manufacture of telephones. Its main office is in Rochester, N. Y. The Plymouth Novelty Manufacturing Company also numbers among its customers other leading telephone companies, which are large and substantial concerns, and which have a good opinion of the Plymouth product. Noticeable among these is the Chicago Telephone Supply Company, of Elkhart, Ind., which has recently moved there from Chicago, having been presented by the people of Elkhart with five acres of ground, with large factory buildings, 300 feet long, 60 feet wide, and two stories high, with office building and power plant. This company employs about 200 hands, and will no doubt double this number within the next year or two. They buy a large amount of their wood work of the Plymouth Novelty Manufacturing Company, which makes for them not only the wall cabinets, but also switch boards, which are quite elaborate pieces of furniture, requiring accurate work and high finish, magneto boxes etc. This companyalso has a substantial trade with Marshall Field & Company, wholesale,' and other jobbers of special goods, such as folding tables, kitchen cabinets, etc. The Oliver Typewriter Company buys its base boards of the Plymouth Novelty Manufacturing Company, its last order being for 20,000. The Plymouth Novelty Manufacturing Company buys bolts and logs of farmers They use the oak in the product, and all other kinds of logs and bolts in the manufacture of crating. These bolts and logs are cut into lumber on the saw mill owned by the company which is located at the east end of the main factory, and operated by the same power which runs the factory.

RTH & SHAMBAUGH

(Blows for (Mft purposes m

Kid Gloves form ala-ge part of our holiday selling and extra stocks are bought for this dept. Ladies' Kid Gloves; very good value 75c Ladies' Kid Gloves; best at the price 1 .J0 100 doz Ladies and Children's Golf Gloves, from 25c to 5)c Men's line Kid Gloves, unlined and silk lined; every pair warranted; from 51 .00 to $2.iA) -Tl '

No one item does the dry goods section make such large preparations for as the holiday Handkerchief supply. Visit our great Handkerchief show ami be pleased. Children's Fancv Handkerchiefs, for common use lc Children's Fancy Hdkfs, from 3c to 5c Ladies' Hemstitched, with initial, for rc Men's soft Japponettc, with initial, -3 for 25c Men's fine Cambric, with initial, 2 for 25c Men's fine all Linen, with initial 25c 100 styles Ladies' fancy Hdkfs, up from 5c

THE EQUIPMENT. The main buildings are about 266 feet from east to west by 100 feet from north to south, built mostly of brick, with composition roof. They are very substantial buildings, exceptionally well adapted for the work. Factory experts, such as fire insurance men and factory inspecctor , pronounced this to be one of the most complete and up-to-date factories in the state of Indiana. It is fully equipped with first class machinery, which enables it to do good work economically, thereby enabling the company to successfully meet competition. The large fire proof boiler room, with cement floor, contains the 160 horse power boiler, heaters, pumps, well, etc. The main factory and the dry kilns, are heated by the Sturtevant System. The air is heated by being forced through a coil of. steam pipes enclosed In sheet iron case, the pipes being heated by steam from the boiler and exhaust from the engine. The hot air is then forced into dry kilns and through the factory by a fan operated by the vertical engine, which is an economical and effective method of heating. The power for operating the factory is furnished by one of the latest improved "Bass-Corliss" engines, 150 horse power, with 14 foot drive wheel. The machines in the machine shop are all connected by galvanized iron pipes with the Allington & Curtis Dust Collecting System, by means of which the dust and shavings are carried to the boiler room, where they are used for fuel, thus keeping the factory free from dust. There are five large dry kilns, the capacity of which is about 75,000 feet of lumber. The lumber is unloaded from the side track and carried to these kilns. From here it is taken to the different cut-off and rip-saws and cut to the proper sizes. It then passes through the machines where it is planed, shaped un the edges, carved, and the various operations performed that are necessary to make the com pleted article. These parts are then put together and carried to the finishing room. The machine shop contains the latest and best machines for wood work, many of which are almost marvelous in the quickness and accuracy with which they peform the various operations for which they are designed. There are av large number of machines in operation most of which must be seen to be appreciated. There are a corner cutting machine, automatic glue jointer, tenoning machine, planers, double end automatic cut-off

i1' lif' W-lU 4Dractical gifts arc generally most satisfactory. saw, band re-saw, Royal Invincible four cylinder power feod sander, sixspindle boring machine, for boring six holes at once, and adjustable so as to bore these holes from three-fourths of an inch to two feet apart; automatic lathes for making all kinds of turnings, sand ers, saws, etc.; all of which constitute an equipment which is complete and substantial, and well adapted for the manufacture of cabinet work and other products of this factory. After the articles are carried to the finishing room thev are subjected to an improved process of staining and varnishing, which produces a finish of fine quality. The shipping and crating room is at the north-west corner of the Dlant. and extends out to the side track, the goods, being loaded into the cars from a platform extending along the north end of the shipping room. The work is well systematized, modern and up-to-date methods being in use. The factory is lighted by electricity, furnished by a dynamo run from the engine shaft. This dynamohas been run for over two years without costing one cent for repairs. The same may also be said of the BassCorless engine, which is a splendid piece bf mechanism, within itself. The Company's relations with itsemployees have always been very close and friendly, Theirjcom fort has been very carefully considered in the building of the factory, which has high ceilings, admirably lighted, thoroughly ventillated and comfortable both winter and summer, not coffee is furnished without charge to the employees at noon. There is every indication that the business of the company will enjoy a substantial growth. The Superintendent is Mr. Charles A. Worthington, who has had large experience in practical wood-working, in the Pullman shops, Chicago, Evansville, Michigan City, and elsewhere. THE OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY are well-known practical business men and residents of Plymouth, and are as follows: Geo. H. Thayer, Jr., Pres. & Manager; J. W. Thayer, Yice President; W, n. Young, Treasurer; n. G. Thayer, Secretary. The benefits accruing to Plymouth, and surrounding country by having located in our midst this valuable manufacturing plant are at once apparent, giving employment as It does to a large force of men who spend their earnings here, and also affording a ready market for timber at highest prices. Such enterprises should be appreciated and carefully fostered by our citizens.

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