Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 January 1903 — Page 7

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XEbe Tribune. HENDRICKS & CO.. Publishers. Advertisements to appear In THE TKIB UNE mcit be in before Tuesday noon to inure tnelr appearance in the Issue of tha week. Plymouth, IikL. January 29. 1903. I LOCAL NEWS & J C. L. Morris transacted business In Chicago Thursday. Miss Etta Cole has cone to Arros for a Tisit of two weeks. Miss Jennie Leonore Iloughton Is "visiting her aunt in Warsaw. Miss Edna Bell went to Aros Thursday to visit the remainder of the week. Mrs. S. W. Miller spent Thursday with her daughter. Mrs. Boggs in Argos. . Henry Zumbaugb, of Green township, sold some nice cattle in town Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ilugh M. Shafer, transacted business in Rochester Thursday. Ferdinand Etch has been appoi ited receiver of the Plymouth Electric Light company. Sol Rosenfield, of Kansas City, who has been visiting here left for home Thursday morning. Mrs. Jerry Blain, who is making her home at Van Wert, Ohio, this winter, made a business trip to Plym-1 outh Thursday. Mrs. Robert McCance has gone to Chicago to spend the remainder of the winter with her daughters, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Franklin. A large party of Plymouth ladies spent Thursday at the home of M rs. A . J. Thayer, north of LinkvWe, and enjoyed a splendid country dinner. Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Yost came down from Mishawaka Thursday for a visit of several days with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Eich, the parents of Mrs. Yost. The indictment" of forty-five coal operators and retailers in Chicago i ..1 J s. 1 v.t: - i i J : Buuuiu gc me puuuu du lusiue view of where the money extorted by the fuel squeeze has lodged. Two section men were knocked off the track in this city by the pilot of a freight train going east at 3 o'clock Thursday. Strange to say neither of them were much hurt. Monroe Schroeder, of Tynei, brought some fine samples of onions to town Thursday. He raised a good crop this yeai and has invested eleven dollars in seed for next year. Mrs. Lilii2 Pitner, of Chicago, is Tisiting her brothers, Albert and W. H. Love, and other relatives in this county. Albert Love, who has been very sick for several weeks, is improving slowly. The mayor of Worcester, Mass,, has vetoed an ordinance increasing his salary from $2,500 to $4,000 a year. Politicians all over the country are J wondering how a crazy man like that ever got into office. Wheat is now selling for 80 cents a bushel in Chicago, an advance of six cents in three weeks. The advance is said to be owing to Armour holdings, and grain men do not believe that the price will be maintained. The secretary of war has decidep that he will not be able, to select a site for the army post at Indianapolis from the documents he has before him and has ordered another board to proceed at once to the Indiana capital. . Hon. Charles II. Reeve has been seriousiy ill at his home in this city for several weeks. He is suffering from the effects of a severe cold, rheumatism and the general debility which, accompanies old age. lis is 81 years old. A Yale professor claims to have discovered that all life originated at the North Pole and that man came from the primates through fire. This of course happened long before the coal combinations got to doing business. A one-day-old babe was vaccinated at Goshen Saturday as a precaution against smallpox. The babe's father is at home with tne smallpox and it vras feared that the little 4fne would take the epidemic if the child was not vaccinated. James P. Clarke, who has been elected ULitcd States senator from Arkansas to succeed James K. Jones, V7ÜT be one of the most impressive, picturesque and courtly figures in the ccnats. He b known a3 "Old Cottontcp" and 13 a ficc, cld-fichicned couthcm ctlcrr. .

T0 J ein miius ui iuci our large stock Ice on Lake Maxinkuckee is a foot thick. Mrs. George Shrider visited in Valparaiso Friday. Amos Fnend, of Burr Oak, who has been seriously ill, is slowly recovering. Dr. Parker has decided to move from Burr Oak to Culver to practice medicine. David Staley went to South Bend Friday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Edgar Harsch. Miss Margurite Ormand, of Detroit, is visiting ber brother, William Ormand, in this city. Mrs. W. E. Leonard went to South Bend Friday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Cora Underwood. Mr. Mont Flitcraft, Mrs. Susan Richey and Miss Minnie Minard are seriously ill at Bourbon. Mrs. W. T. Leonard and her sister, Mrs. Sheets, of Troy, Ohio, went to Argos to visit relatives Friday. Mrs. Deeds went to Warsaw Friday to visit nntil Sunday with her parents and other relatives in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have returned to Argos after a visit of a few days at the home of Leonard Shafer. Alfred McGriff, who died at Argos, Thursday, January 15, was about 57 years old, and bad resided near Argos most of his life. Mrs. Julia Compton and two daughters arrived Friday from Bourbon for a visit of two days with the family of Pendleton Shafer. One hundred and forty-one houses have been burned by the authorities of Mazatlan, Mexico, iu their efforts to ombat the plague, Mr. and Mrs. Lamson, of Culver, attended a pedro party at the home of Attorney' E. C. Martindale in this city Thursday evening. Ira D. Sankey, who used to traved with Evangelist Moody, i in poor health and has been ordered to give up his home on Long island for a drier climate. Rev. O. A. Palmer, pastor of the Christian church in this city held meetings in the town hall at Bourbon, Saturday evening, Sunday morning and evening. , Howard Grube, who has been serving his country iu the Philippine Islands, reached San Francisco several days ago, and is expected home in about ten days. Automobiles that will travel two' miles a minute are predicted for 1903. It begins to look as if the onlv safety for the rest of us lay In the precarious airship, after all. Leonard Logan, Albert Bowman aod several other parties near Lapa will move to North Dakota in a few weeks. They are some of Marshall county's oldest and best citizens. Since Frankfort has developed a a female "bugger," the streets of the town are so thronged with its male population after dark that it looks as if the "hugger" would have to employ an assistant. Mrs. Nicholas Kettle has returned to her home in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, after a visit of three weeks with her mother and brothers m South Bend and Mishawaka, and west of Plymouth. Mrs. Joe Mormon, of Chicago and Mrs. August Miller, of Valparaiso, who have been attending the funeral of Mr. George Shafer at Argos, are visiting friends and old acquaintances In this city. The Indianapolis News says the Germans do not seem to be so much inclined to raise the Venezuelan blockade as they to raise something else that used to be one of the oyerproductions of Kansas. The petit jury for this term of court has been discharged and all the criminal cases disposed of. Hon. Adam E, Wise, the new deputy prosecuting attorney, bad a chance to make only one speech at this term of court. Chicago is greatly alarmed at the increased number and. proportion of deaths from pneumonia. In the first seventeen days of this month the deaths from this cause equalled onethird of the total number of deaths in the city. Nathan Rankin, a negro, was arrested at Chicago Thursday morning charged with the murder of John Koonsman, a grocery man at South Bend, in his store on the night of De: cember 13. Rankin has made a full confession, admitting that he was one of the three men who committed the murder and says that the others were Jcccph Earl Mallory, a white man, and the third a Jew or Italii whece cinie he decs not know, Tcs latter hs cay3 fired the fatal hot.

H. G. Thayer madd a business trip to Bourbon Saturday. Rev. A. -H. Zilmer preached at Hillsburg, Ind. Sunday. Rev. Mr. Crews, of Iowood, preached at the Reformed church Sunday. John Dolman, of Fort Wayne, transacted business In this city Saturday. Amzie Thomas Is getting along nicely and his recovery now seems assured. '. '. ' ' The bridge builders have all gone to Toledo, the last section left Friday evening. Mrs. W. M. Moore and daughter visited with relatives at Donaldson over Sunday. - Snow is the poor man's fertilizer and good crops will follow a winter of much snowfall. John Barr and family.of Valparaiso, were visiting over Sunday with G. W. Perschberger's. The Thimble club surprised Mrs. W. S. McGlcthlin Friday evening and had a royal good time. Mrs. Anna Wells has returned to Argos after a visit of a few days with her sister Mrs. Smith. The Episcopal dinner at the rectory Thursday was a great success. The net proceeds were about $28. Lieutenant Governor Gilbert has our thanks for an admission ticket to the senate chamber at Indianapolis. Miss Rose Smith, of Wabash, for several years a teacher of the Plymouth schools is yisiting friends in Plymouth. Webster's team ran away Saturday; the ten cent parcel delivery wagon was considerably shaken up and the tongue broken. Senator Kittenng says about ninetenths of the bills introduced in the legislature are foolish and ought to be killed on sight. Mrs. Joseph Davis and daughter, Mrs. Swanson, have gone to Flararaoad for a visit of a few days with the family of John W. Davis. The weekly trade reviews show that all sections of the country are buying liberally and paying cast notwithstanding the high prices. The Pennsylvania company is planning to erect the largest hotel in the world in connection with its new terminal in New York City. Remember that tne Tribune office is the best equipped printing office in the county to do high grade printing and our pjices are reasonable.

E. R. Güstin, the Peru, nurseryman for whom the Ridgway , Brothers worked, spent Friday afternoon in this city and remained oyer night. ! George Hutchinson, who resides near the Blain bridge was married to Mrs. Nancy Snodgras Thursday. He is.52 years old and his bride is 60. William Erwin, a prominent busi ness man of Bourbon and one of the most extensive land owners of the county, was a Plymouth visitor Saturday. Evangelist Wallace, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, stopped in Plymouth Saturday on his way to Argos, where he expects' to do some eyangelistic work. Ice cutting at Culver is completed. All the houses have been filled with as fine ice as Lake Maxinkuckee ever affords, which is equal to the best in the world. . Representative Hume, of Ilendricks county, has introduced a oill providing that ve tri nary surgeons shall be examined and licensed the same as physicians. Mrs. Betsey M. Stevens, the surviving sister of the late Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, has just celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday at the old homestead at Nottingham, N. II. Lawrence Matthewson, of South Bend, stopped here Saturday morning on his way to In wood, having been called home by the death of his mother, who died Friday night After a long illness. Mrs. H. O. Breunlin died at her home In Bremen, January 16, after a long and painful illness, of . cancer of the 3tomach. She was 33 years old and leaves a husband and one daughter. -- Francis Cartright and family, of North Dakota, stopped here Saturday on their way to At wood to visit relatives. They resided about 12 miles southwest of Plymouth before going to Dakota. Amzie Heminger, the smallpox patient in West township, 13 getting along as well as could be expected. It is a very severe case. He was covered with pox from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet and his eyes were swollen shut. Uis3 Mary Garden, of Chicago, achieved such Instant success at a concert in Paris last week that the manager of the Opera Comique has raised her salary to $500 a week, . thus making her the highest salaried singer at that opera "house. Mrs. Jacob Zimmer, living one mile southwest of Wyatt, had such a sore toe that it had to be amputated. Tlie cut falleu to heal, and three other amputations have since been performed, cuttcj the foot and limb away half wry to the knee.

One of O. A. G reiner 's matched span of mules died & few days ago, leaving Mr. Greiner without a team. The census returns show that on the first day of June, 1900, there were in the United States 3,500 persons 100 years of age. Of this number over two-thirds were women. The census shows that this Is one of the most healthful countries in the world. The sleigh ( ride social and supper given Friday evening by the Presbyterian ladies at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Jacoby, two miles east of town, was a grand success. Almost 00 persons enjoyed a sleigh ride, had a splendid supper and a royal good social time. The Lake Erie & Western Railroad expects to make extensive improvements as soon as spring opens. They will gravel their road bed, lay heavier steel rails and improve the road in every respect for their two new fast mail trains between Chicago and Indianapolis. " Rev. Weesner reports 36 " convertions and reclamations and 22 accessions at Summit Chapel, in Tippecanoe township, also at close of service Sunday evening he organised an Epworth League with 63 members. Ervin Fites, president: John-Dinius, 1st vice president. Jacob Bauer is having good success securing oil well leases, getting from 100 to 150 acres every day this week. The Elkhart company is well pleased with the outlook in this locality and m providing that the proper amount of leases are secured they will begin operation about the middle of March. Bremen Enquirer. Representative Denbo has added to his already long list of bills by offering one that fixes the maximum fare to be charged by railroads at 2 cents per mile and requires railroad companies to sell 500-mileage1 books for $10. This bill is similar to one offered two years ago by Representative E. E. Neal, of Noblesville. The report is revived that the Pennsylvania, owning the Vandalia, will extend it not only to Detroit, but

also to Toledo. To reach Toledo it will ?ie necessary to build 60 miles of new road from Butler, and it is settled that the line will be extended to a connection with the Detroit southern the coming summer. Three robberies occurred at Peru Wednesday nisrht and citizens arc in dignant at the police officials for the loose policing of the city. John Wooley had $80 snatched from him in a rail way station saloon, and, though be named the thief, the officers allowed the man to leave town. A newspaper is now demanding the resignation of the .marshal or better order in the city. The widely advertised bill for the reliei of prosecuting attorneys, increasing their salaries from $500 to $1000, was introduced by Representa tive Sparks, of Ru!i. This bill is backed by the st f nization of prosecutors, andau-..U .!.; effective lobbying has been dou,. t ;i. Mr. Sparks also introduced a bü increasing thesalara of the state siuti.Ntieian to $3000. Prof. Charles L. Rogers, for many years leader of Rogers's Goshen band and orchestra, died Thursday morning as the result of a stroke of paralysis, suffered on Tuesday. He was sixtyone years old. He served in the civil war as band leader and bugler, in The Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry and Eleventh Michigan Cavalry. His wile died .from a paralytic stroke three weeks ago. Horses are very helpless animals when compelled to work on Icy streets or roads without being shod. They strain themselves to such an extent that the next day it is often a bard matter for them to get about. A good horse always earns his feed and clothing, and amongst the latter, good shoes areas much of a necessity as food itself. Owners of the noble animal should bear this in mind. H. H. Bon ham undertook to move John Blain 's safe from the drug store to L M. Lauer 's office. When the sste was almost to the top of the stairway one of the blocks broke, a pulley g?ve way and the safe tumbled over and over to the sidewalk breaking a hole in the stairway almost as large as the safe. Why it did not go through the stairway into the cellar below is What everybody is asking. Senator James S. Barcus, of Terre Haute, introduced In the state senate Thursday, a bill providing for the appropriation of t5,000 for the purpose of having executed a statue of Gen. George Rogers Clark and to cover the cost oi having it placed in the National Statuary Hall at Washington. By the bill the governor Is authorised to appoint a commission of three, which shall have charge of all the details. An exchange tells us that Indiana farmers are smiling because wheat is now 7 J cents a bushel higher than it was a while ago. It is higher because Mr. Armour is manipulating a corner to force the other fellows in the gamble to pay the price he demands. Long before much of the actual wheat in the hands of Indiana farmers an reach the market the price wi.l be down because it i3 an artificial one. -

Warren Crawford and family, of SouthBend, were called here by the serious Jllness of Mr. Crawford's mother, who makes her home with her son, John J. Crawford, in this city Mrs. Crawford is past 80 years of age and her recovery is not probable. On the same day that a medical scientist in Calitornia announced that it is electricity generated in the lungs that purifies the blood, another in Chicago declared In a class lecture that al

cohol is constantly being manufactured in every human body. What kind of machines are we, anywhow? Mrs.' Weiss entertained the young people of the German church at the parsonage Thursday evening. There was a fine musical, literary and social program with light refreshments. It was an evening that those present will long remember as one of the most pleasant in the journey of life. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Day whose adopted daughter died a short time ago, stopped In Plymouth Friday on their way to Donaldson from Elkhart county, where they visited Mrs. Day's father, Mr. John Learman, and other relatiyes. Tiiey will leave for their home In North Dakota in a few davs. Knight and Decker's ministrels gave one of the finest minstrel entertainments eyer given in this city. They are fine singers and there is nothing coarse or vulgar In their performance and their specialties are all good. Their acrobats are the best ever seen with a minstrel show in this city. Different merchants of the city are now busy taking the annual inventory. They find the early closing hour is quite a benefit to them, as they can close their doors at ,6 o'clock and be unmolested thereafter. In this way they can finish up the work in short order and ascertain their net earnings. The Warsaw Times says Civil Ennineer Fitzgerald is in that city with a force of clerks, and the grading for the double track of the Pennsylvania between Bourbon and Columbia City has commenced. The people of Warsaw will find Mr. Fitzgerald and his assistants gentlemen who understand their business. The state senate Wednesday passed the bill for the reorganization of the Indiana reformatory by a vote of 93 to 10, three republicans and seven democrats voting against it. The bill was passed after a contest of two hours, Interrupted at noon for the joint ses sion for the canvassing of the vote for United States senator. Basil II. Boggs and Mrs. Cora A. McGriff were united in marriage by Rev. J. C. Kemp, at the M. E. par sonage in ATgos Sunday morning,' Jan. 18. The groom is the spn of James Boggs, a prosperous farmer living northeast of Argos, and the bride the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Fink, of Argos. It looks as if the health authorities of this country might soon have to take measures for the exclusion of the bubonic plague. With the disease established iu the Chinese quarters of San Francisco and in some of the coast cities of Mexico its spread to the states will be a matter of short time, unless rigid preventive measures are A. tatten. y It was recommended by the state convention of grain dealers at Indianapolis that farmers plant either a pure white or a pure yellow variety of corn. Either white or yellow corn will grade better on the market than a mixed corn, and it is by far more satisfactorily handled by shippers. The convention also lecommended that pure white oats be universally raised. The widely published story that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had purchased the Vanderbilt interest in the New York Central, Lake Shore and other railroads is entirely without foundation, although it is , true that there is a very close relationship between the two companies, and are practically one and the same so far as their policy of management is con cerned. The Warsaw Times says Mrs. Nancy Royse, mother of the Hon. Lern. W. Royse, who makes her home with her son, is enjoying excellent .health this winter for a woman of "her age, In August next she will be ninety years old. Elder Chaplin, who died a few years ago in Plymouth, was a brother of Mrs. Royse. She has many friends here who will be glad to know that she is well. Almost all the members and operators of the Schlosser - Brothers creameries in this and adjoining counties attended the State f)airymen's convention at Indianapolis. Schlosser Bros., have a reputation, second to noue, as manufacturers of fine butter, their advice and assistance is sought by dairymen everywhere and they never lose an opportunity to learn something from others. Card cf Thxr.Xj. To the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted me during the last illness of my wife, and for their sympathy and attention in my bereavemen":. I give heartfelt thanks. ' John Hewitt. Tell your neighoora about the good quality of Tue Thibuhe.

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Now we'll do a little shouting With a Lauer's Sale that will appeal to you as the strongest offering that has been made in 12 months, because, though startling the reductions may be, you know they are genuine and actual and that the goods are absolutely new and fresh and perfect. There comes a time in all seasons when it becomes necessary to clear the shelves and get ready for the next season, and that time is now here. Not a Suit not an Overcoat no Rubber Footwear shall remainall must go!

Suit Department 504 Suits all told All our 56.00 Suits now 54.25 7.50 " 44 5.25 8.50 " " 6.00 10.00 4 4 44 7 .00 44 1 2 . 50 4 4 44 8.50 44 1 3.50 4 4 44 9.50 44 15.00 44 44 10.50 16.00 and 17.00 Suits.... 12.00

All finer Coats the prices have been cut almost in half. All boys' and children's Suits and and Coats go at half price. Rubber Footwear Department All new fresh, guaranteed goods.

Mishawaka first quality arctics. .1.00 Mishawaka first quality rolled edge and all rubber arctics. . .51.20 Wales-Goodyear first quality arctics. 50.85 Mishawaka seal socks and overs. 51 .85 All winter Furnishing Goods Take advantage of this great sale.

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Extraordinary Reductions in All Depts. Valenciennes and heavy Laces and Insertions, per yard 3c Dress Trimmings, worth 5c to 25c Ic Fascinators, black and white - 19c and 25c Wash Rags, worth much more 3c Children's Combination Waists, a little damaged; choice. 3c Hat Pins, worth 10c and 15c '-- 5c Ladies' Handkerchiefs, slightly soiled, worth 15c and 25c 9J& Ladies' Mocha Gloves, worth 50c... --3Cs Ladies' and Misses' Gloves and Mitts, worth 25c, now ICc Misses' Corset Waists, a reliable brand, worth 75c, to close 3Cs Ladies' and Misses' Wool Hosiery, per pair ICc Ladies' Union Suits, ecru and silver grey, all new goods. 39c Hooks and Eyes, black and white, per card Ic Muslin Drawers, worth 15c, at-.-- ----------- 11c Bleached Muslin, full 44 wide, at- - -

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Also naming very close prices on Cloaks, Skirts, Silk and Flannel Vcists, Vool Blankets and Underwear. See us before you buy anything in these lines.

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Overcoat Departm't 237 of them All our 55.00 Overcoats now. . . .53.25 6.50 ' 44 .... 4.00 7.50 44 44 5.00 8.50 44 44 . ... 5.50 9.00 44 44 .... 6.00 10.00 44 44 .... 7.00 12.50 4 4 44 8.00 fl3 and 14 Overcoats, 59.00 and 10.00 Wales-Goodyear rolled edge and rubber arctics $1.00 Mishawaka first quality rubbers and felts 51-65 Mishawaka snag-proof felts and overs $1.85 must now be sold regardless of price. Stamps with all sales.

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