Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 December 1902 — Page 5

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XEbe tribune. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Plymouth; Ind., December 25, 1902. Advertisement to appear In THE TKIBDNE men be In before Tuesday noon to 1dure tnelr appearance in the Issue of tba week. VI ll,Llf liili I & LOCAL NEWS&f

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A Merrr Christmas to all our readers. D. C. Cole is visiting his daughters at South Bend. , Mrs. Ed Saline is -visiting her parents at Denver, Ind. Mrs. C. E.Smith and children spent Monday at Valparaiso. . Mrs Thomas Hirnes and son are visiting relatives at Warsaw. Erastus ness visited J. O. Hess in S uth Bend, over Sunday. Glenn Seybold is visiting relatives and friends in South Bend. The dagoes went to Chicago to visit

Harry Burns is visiting at Args.

Mrs. Wilkinson is visiting relatives

at Rochester. Mrs. Lucy Phillips and son are vis iting at Argos.

Joseph unase. or lyner, was a

Plymouth visitor Tuesday. Mrs. Franklin Mock, of Warsaw, is visiting the family of Ira Mock in this city. Mrs. Phebe Everly went to Warsaw Tuesday to visit til Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.-D. M. Beckner has gone to St. Joseph, Mo.$ to visit during the holidays. ' v

Miss Bessie Kepler is spending her

vacation with relatives and friends at Burket. Mrs. B. MV Seybold spent Tuesday in South Bend visiting relatives and old friends. Miss Louise Wolford is home for the holidays. She attends school at Morris. Illinois. Mrs. C. A. Hartman was called to Peru Monday by the serious illness of her mother. A Otto Stahl is visitinjr relatives and

at their homes during the holidays, i

Mr. and Mrs. F. M. nite are spend-' friends near Columbus, Ohio, during

log their holiday vacation at Chicago.

Willard Grube is spendsng the holidays with relatives at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Mrs. Susan Carder, of Bourbon, visited here over Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Astlev. Wm. Sheppard; of Starke co.inty, was fined in Justice Molter's court for being drunk Sunday. Will Arbaugh, who is working at Chicago, came home'Sunday evening to visit his parents a few days. There have been forty cases of small pox in Waterloo, Ind., within the past three weeks, but all are recovering, Mrs. J. C. Jilson went to Chicago Saturday for a visit of several days with her husband who is employed in that city. Prof. Roark, of Lebanon, Ind., a graduate of the state university, will take Prof. Martin's place in the public schools. Miss Blanche Disher, who has been attending school at Bloomington, Ind., came home Saturday to spend her vacation. The December urm of court opened on Monday, with Judge Bernetha on the bench, John Fogel. was appointed court bailiff. Mrs. Ed Hogarth and daughter and Mrs.01iver Soice went to Bremen Monday to attend the funeral of Benjamin Garver Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. nenry Price residing west of town .were called to Milford last week by the death of their nephew. James Holler. No .city of its size in the country can present more attractive window displays in stores than Plymouth at this holiday season Mrs. Lottie Jackson, of this city, has been appointed deputy grand instructor of the order of Rebekah for the state of Indiana. Frank Learman and Miss Weiss, of South Bend, attended the funeral of Lela Day at Donaldson, Sunday, returning home Monday. Sunday was the shortest day of the year and now as the days begin to lengthen it is supposed that winter will begin to strengthen. Albert Ruff, of Bourbon township, who recentlj purchased Phlegmon Thompson's urn has taken possession and will make that place his home. Up in the Klondike country, at this tine of year, the days are only four hours long. What . a, pudding that would be for an electric light company if coal was plentiful. Mrs. Elmer St. John and daughter have returned to Fort Wayne after a visit of several days with relatives at South Bend and with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Shirley south of Plymouth. Miss Louise Stegman is home from Detroit, Michigan, where she has been for nine months assisting her sisters in their millinery store. The Misses Stegman have a very large and pacing

büsinecs in Detroit.

the holidays.

Miss Hazel Russell, of Donaldson, who attends school in Laparte is home for the holidays. Miss Grace Martin, of Glendora. California, is visiting Mrs. G. W. Marsh in this city. .Mrs. Anna Pettis has returned to her home at Michigan City after a visit with relatives here. James E. Hanes, who has been suffering from a carbuncle on his knee, Is now able to be out again. The melting snow has filled Yellow Itiver almost bank full. The rise is much greater than was expected. Mr. and Mrs. Swan Peterson, of South Bend, are spending the holidays with relatives near Donaldson, Miss Mata Garver went to Bremen to attend the funeral of Ben Garver and visit a few days with relatives. Receipts of cattle, sheep and hogs at the Chicago stockyards are so enormous that the business is reported demoralized. Roy Turner, who is traveling in Kentucky for the Armour company, will spend the holidays at his home in this city. Mede Kingrey, of the Oliver House barber shop, South Bend, visited here Tuesday on his way to Peru to spend Christmas with his mother. . Miss Maud Metsker who is teaching at West Superior. Wisconsin, came to spend Christmas with the family of her brother. C. W. Metsker. The checks for the payment of the Plymouth Guards for the past six üiüülhs are expected to arrive in time for Christmas presents. Walter McDonald, who has been employed here this summer and fall on, the steam shovel train, went to Chicago to spend the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Campbell have returned to their home at Kokomo after a visit of a few days with relatives and friends In Plymouth. By referring to our news columns it will be seen that President Roosevelt has not accepted the position of arbiter of the Venezuelan controversy. Mrs. Zenobia Russell, has returned to Englewood after a visit of a few weeks with the family of J. C. Corbin, the Houghtons and other relatives kere. The Indiana University Glee Club will give an entertainment at the Methodist church New Years' evening. Proceeds for the Sunday school library. James Badgley has gone to Argos to spend the holidays with his brother, Anson Badgley. Both are old soldiers and they will have a merry Christmas. A whole car load of Christmas mail destined for the west was burned on the New York Central. Won't many a heart ache for the present that doesn't come! A wolf hunt to last a week began Tuesday in the Kankakee marsh. The animals have become quite numerous and have wrought havoc among sheep,

.iambs and pigs. V

Rollo Leonard is home from Chlcae- . .. , " ' r . . Walter McElrath is visiting in Chicago. Mrs, Moore is visiting at Defiance, Ohio. Read the program of the farmers' institute. Mrs. Blubaugh and Mrs. Ness are visiting at Jonesboro, Ind. Mr. and MS. O. F. Spahr, of Chicago, are home for the holidays. R. B. Oglesbee. of Laporte, was attending court here this week. William Waiterhouse ii visiting relatives at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs. Perrin and Miss Netta Ilaenes are visiting relatives at Bourbon. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Miller will spend the holidays at Marion and Indianapolis. The trains were all late but the cold wave reached Plymouth ahead of time. ' The beautiful snow that came Tuesday night made all the boys and girls rejoice. Every farmer and farmer's wife should attend the institute January 2 and 3, John and Ed Baxter and their families are home from Mishawaka for the holidays. Mrs. Page and Mrs. Keiser, of Columbia City, are visiting at George Lemler'3. Mrs. Will Craig and family, of Bourbon, are spending the holidays in Rochester. James Holland, of Bucyrus, Ohio is visiting his brother, W. P. Holland,

in this city.

Mr. Dill Foltz and family, of Nouth

Bend, are spending the holidays in

Tippecanoe. Mrs. Adams, of Paine, Ohio, is vis

iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wes

ley McCrory. Miss Myrtle and Mr. Arthur Hat

natfield, of Bourbon, are visiting at

Danville, Illinois,

Mr. and Mrs Henry nail are spending theholidavs with their children

and other relatives in Chicago, Miss Pearl Schmedlin, of Wabash, is visiting the Cummins' and other relatives here during the holidays.

Special meeting of the Rathbone

Sisters will be held Friday evening. All members are requested to attend. Mr. and Mrs. George Boce, of Glen

dora, Mich., stopped here on their

way to Crestline, Ohio, to visit until New Years.

Worst of earlier reports of earth

quake disastsr in Central Asia were

underestimated, about 4,000 victims

having perished. Miss Anna Z. Houghton will attend the Christmas dav wedding of F. K. Brooke and Miss Jessie Toan at Plvmouth. Laporte Herald.

The first Christmas gift was a life

and the motive of the gift was love

"God so loved the world that he gave

his onlv begotten Son." Mrs. Minnie Martin, of Etna Green, is spending the holidays .with her sister, Mrs. Anna Nifong and her brother and other relatives in this city.

The grading for the new electric

line from Laporte to Michigan City has been completed and work of lay

ing the rails will commence at once.

'All thingscometo him who waits" Is a proverb raising laughter.

They never come to those who wait,

But to those who chase right after. Christmas makes hard work for the postal, service, express offices and retail stores. Thousands of clerks will be glad when Saturday night arrives, Mr. J. C. Marchant and family, of Larwill, stopped here on their way to Rochester to visit Mrs, Marchant's

parents, Rev. Daniel . Showly and

wife. Christmas is a day of joy, but it

should not be allowed to die out of

our hearts the next morning. Let us

learn to find beauty and good in all things every day of our lives.

Misses Emma Holem and Hattie Bissell, teachers in the Columbia City

City schools. Lloyd Morris, of Ober-

linand Walter Dickinson, of 'Logansport, are home for the holidays.

Miss Jessie E. Toan and Mr. Frank K. Brooke will be married at 4 o'clock this afternoon . at the residence

of the bride's parents, corner of

Webster Avenue and Miner street. Mrs. D. Frank Redd Was presented with a fine music cabinet by the

ladies of the M, E. church, as a token

of appreciation for her faithfulness as

organist of the church for many years.

Milton White died at bis home near

Lapaz yesterday, after a long ill

ness. He made a wonderful fight for life but was not able to regain his strength. He had resided near where he died all his life.

The foreign mail arriving in New

York Sunday amounted to ,5,409 large

sacks, and more than 1,000 sacks in addition arrived during the night previous. It required a double force Of

ckrks to handle it.

Dr. J. S. Martin is president of the

county board of health. Other mem

bers of the board are Dr. Brown, Plymouth; Dr. Nussbaum. Bremen; Dr.

Sarber. Argos: Dr. Matchett, Bour

bon; and Thomas Medbourn, Culyer.

Fred Anderson of Donaldson, was a Plymouth visitor Tuesday. Mr. Granger, the barber took his wife to Chicago Sunday for, treatment by Chicago specialists. She spent several weeks at theLarwill sanitarium without material benefit. The condition of the very Rev. A. B. Oechtering, of Mishawaka, was not improved yesterday, Symptoms of cancer of the stomach have developed and it is feared his recovery is impossible. The Atlantic cable is playing an important part in current history. Without it weeks or months would be required to effect international agreements that are now made in a few hours. O. F. Ridgway has received a letter irom the superintendent at the hospital ätLongcliff saying that R. C.Ridgway shows signs of improvement and it is belieyed that his reason will be restored. The state board of education will meet Jan. 15, when immediate school legislation will be discussed. TLo board will then formulate bills ol school matters to be presented to the legislature. Mrs. O. A. Carpenter has returned to her home at Battle Creek, Michigan, after a visit of several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Zehner and other relatives in this city and vicinity. Ronald Thompson, of the state university, Miss Honore Parks, of Terre Haute, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Young,

of Milwaukee, and Martin Reber, of

South Bend are among those home for

the holidays.

Some of those who call themselves the salt of the earth cannot resist the

temptation in the scarcity of fuel to

push up the prices, having forgotten

the utterances of the Bible against

those who harass the poor,

G. S. Boycc and nerrick E. Ste

phens, of Elkhart, members of the

Samaritan Supreme congress, met with

the Plymouth Samaritans Monday

evening and gave instructions in the unwritten work of the order. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos York, residing just south

of the city limits on the Mattingly farm, died Sunday, of crebro spinal

meningitis. The remains were interred

at Trinity cemetery Monday after

noon. Mrs. Wiggins, of Wayne county, Ohio, who has been visiting her broth

ers. Robert and Jerry Liggett and

other relatives here, has returned

home. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Liggett accompanied her and will spend the

holidays in Ohio.

It is understood that .the project of II. E. Bucklen and others to build a Toledo-Chicago electric road via Elkhart, South Bend, Laporte, Valparaiso and Hammond has been abandoned. There was never anv reasonable assurance that the road would be

built.

Strikers and troops recently came in

conflict at Bostoff, Russia, the troops

getting the worst of it, about 300 be

log killed and 1,000 wounded. We should think that the name of that town, so far at least as the soldiers

are concerned, ought to be changed to

Worstoff.

Attorney-General W. L. Taylor has

instructed auditors and treasurers in

every county in the state to allow mortgage deductions this year. Over 90,000 were filled last year. An at

tempt is under way to kill the law, but it will not reach the higher courts for some time yet. The health authorities of Chicago, in reviewing conditions there and elsewhere, state that diseases unfavorably affected by unseasonable weather claimed so many' victims last week that the mortality rate reached a higher point than has been attained in any previous December. Marconi's success in transmitting a wireless message across the Atlantic has come sooner than was expected. A year ago the greatest distance covered by a wireless message was 1Ö0 miles and most persons, thought it would be a long time before a message would be sent across the ocean. The weather bureau of the United States issued a bulletin in 1900 from which one may learn that the number of lightning strokes in 1899 causing damage in the United States was 5,527; value of property destroyed, $3,016,520: number of daths, 562; persons injured, 820; number of live stock killed in fields, 4,251; value, $129,155. The mayor of Fort Wayne has been making a heroic effort to suppress gambling in that city and thinks he has it pretty well stampea out. except in clubs and private houses which he is not Inclined to molest. He is reported as saying that there is more gambling by women than men in Fort Wayne, and that the women play for higher stakes. John R. Jones will not become clerk of Marshall county until November 1, 1903, but he has announced that he will retain W. H. Matthews as deputy. We believe this will be satisfactory to everybody. Mr. Matthews is competent, upright and gentleman

ly, in the discharge of his duties, and as a citizen he has the respect of all

wno are acquainted witn mmra

Isaac Fortune and Miss Mary Protsman are visiting relatives in Kosciusko county. Gov. elect Mickey, '. of Nebraska, never wore a dress suit in his life and never danced, ne has lots of other accomplishments, however, that tit him for the high office to which the people have chosen him. Mr. and Mrs. George Koontz of the first ward are the parents of an elevenpound boy born ou Monnay. Grandpa Weber, who has been limping around with rheumatism all summer, now walks as spry as his son-in-law. A young man named Gruver, son of Fred Gruver residing just south of Lapaz, had his hand torn to pieces and his face badly spattered with shot, Sunday, by the. premature discharge of a shot gun. He was hunting rabbits. The teachers of Indiana will be in Indianapolis in force December 29, 30

and 31, for the forty-ninth annual session of the Indiana State Teachers' Association. The session of the general association will be held in Masonic Hall. At Laporte Monday the attorneys

for the city of South Bend in the damage suit of Bennie Turrer, in which a

verdict of $10,000 was rendered by the plaintiff, took an appeal to the supreme court. This is the second

time the case has gone there.

A fine run was made last week on

the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &Chieago

between Crestline and Fort Wavne,

the train making the run in two hours

and fifty minutes, hauling eleven cars

The schedule time for the train is

three hours and forty minutes.

Since the programs for the Woraans'

Institune went to press word has been

received that Mrs. Kline, a state worker from Huntington, is to be with

us. Mrs. Kline will be sure to inter

est all who hear her. The subjects

will be announced next week.

An eastern writer maKes the good

suggestion that brains be put into Christmas gifts, that something useful instead of purely ornamental be

given. Thousands of dollars are

wasted upon frivolous, useless, glit

tering things that only last for a short

time.

The coal famine is being felt keenly

over at Wabash. The paper mill at

that place had to shut down on ac

count of its inability .to get coal, and

the Pioneer Hat works may have to

follow suit if relief doesn't come quickIv. The situation along the Wabash is serious.

David L. Scott, who left Mrs. John

W. Houghton's December 3, taking

with him a gold watch and other arti

cles that did not belong to him, was

arrested at Jackson, Michigan, Saturday, and the articles were found in

his possession. Sheriff Bondurant

went to JacKSon Monday.

The new series ot postage stamps

will soon appear. The two cent stamp

will have McKinley 's head instead of

Washington's. A likeness of Martha

Washington will be on the eight cent

stamp. The 13 cent stamp will have

ex-Presfdent Harrison's head and the

five cent the portrait of Abraham Lin coin.

Fourteen members of the St. Louis

City council charged with bribery and

accepting bribes in connection with the selling of franchises and privileges have been tried already and thirteen

have been convicted, showing that

when those who sell their votes be

come reckless in their transaction dis grace and punishment fellow.

Washington Kelley, who now resides

at May wood, Illinois, but was for more than forty years a resident of Plymouth, has been visiting three months at Canton and other points in Ohio, stopped off here Saturday to visit until Wednesday, ne has" taken our

out paper for more than a qnarter of a century and called at our office to

renew for another year. The ministers of Hamilton, O., having decided that it is wrong to encourage belief in the myth of Santa Claus, there will be no Christmas trees in the churches of that city this year. No doubt evjry one of ths ministers was taught to believe in Santa Claus when be was a child, and the fact that he outgtew the harmless superstition when he grew older shows that it did not hurt him. By the closing of the postoffice at Alcinda, Noble county, the name of the place will be changed back to its original name, Indian village, by which appellation it has been known since the first settlement of the county. The site was a favorite habitation of Indians previous to the advent of the white man in this part of Indiana and was for many years a government reservation. Jacob Martin, after almost twentyfive years of continuous work as a teacher in the public schools, stepped down and out last Friday afternoon. He has been one of Marshall county's best teachers and while his place will be hard to fill, he no doubt did the

best thing for himself. He needs outdoor exercise and after resting up a few months will go into business, just what business he has not determined.

The teachers of the Plymouth schools and the pupils of his room gave him

fine testimonials of their appreciation

of him as a teacher and a man.

End

of our great Red Letter Sale is now rapidly drawing near. The year and the sale go out together. The volume of business has been great, and many lines of goods are being rapidly depleted. It is a harvest for economical, money saving buyers.

KLOEPFER'S NEW YORK STORE

out the winter goods before invoicing and to give you the benefit of spring prices in the heart of the winter, is the object of this sale. Be sure to get your share of the bargains during the few remaining days. Holiday goods below cost

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A Merry

Christina

and all things that the season can bring forth.

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3j Ball and Company

Plymouth, Indiana

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Working Satisfactorily. In the five and one-half years dur

ing which the indeterminate sentence

law has been In force, the Indiana

Reformatory and the State Prison

have released 1,927 men and only 363 or 1 J per cent, have been reported unsatisfactory. Of the prisoners re

leased, 1,299 werej from the Indiana Reformatory and 638 from the state prison; Makes the fires of life burn with a steady glow. Renews . the golden, happy days of youth. That's what Rocky Mountain Tea does. 35 cents. J. W.Hess.