Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 18, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 February 1903 — Page 5
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Albert Hume was home over Sunday. 1 Peter Emnaker visited at Atwood Monday. Frank Huba visited over Sunday in South Bend. Prof. Hahn and son, Donald, were Bourbon visitors Monday. Miss Estella Chase, who has been
quite sick for a week, is improving. LOST Between Antioch and Plymouth, iron crobar. Richeson Howard. L. E. Harris has gone to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to put in some mill machinery. Miss Olga Shakes who teaches at Monterey, spent Saturday and Sunday m this city. There are now 52 inmates at the county house and they all watched for the ground hog. Welcome Miller is tuning pianos at Kochester, Peru, Logansport and Argos this week. ' , Rev. J. L. Wince, of Pierceton, preached at Salem, five miles north of Plymouth Sunday. . Miss Carrie Hobbs, of Argos, visited over Sunday with. 3r. and Mrs. John Robblnsnear Iuwbod. " '' , ' v -Master Luther Helpman, of Bourbon, visited over Sunday with ttie family of A. C. North. The thunder shower Sunday night was not followed immediately by cold weather, as is usually the case Adam Bershberger has returned to Nappanee after a Visit of several days with his brother west of this city, Mit. I. .A demmens spent Sunday with Mrs. S. W. Jackson in this city, and is visiting at In wood this week. Miss Louclarc Jones, 5. F. Hendricks and wife, and Peter Disher were South Bend visitors Saturday. Senator Parks and Clerk Boss, of the Indiana senate were home Saturday, returning to Indianapolis Sunday. D. W. Seese and son, Vera, of Nappanee, attended the funeral of Oliver Matthews. They returned home Monday. . The Pennsylvani?. Special, twentyhour train between New York and Chicago, is to be taken off in order that the freight blockade' may be relieved. Mrs. Sheets has returned to her home at Troy, Ohio, after an extended Tisit here with her sister, Mrs. W. T. Leonard. Mrs. Mary Locke who has been stopping with Charles Fruits for sometime, has gone to Lakeville for a visit of several weeks. The funeral of Oliver Matthews, held Sunday afternoon was very largely attended. Rev. R. G. Upson preached the funeralsermon. Mrs. McElwee, of Kokomo, was here over Sunday visiting her sifter, Mrs. John ,W Parks, and attfadlni the funeral of her nephew. . Commissioners met in regular session .... Monday. r There are several ditches .to consider ind the usual routine work of the session. . The Church of to Livtez God hoi rented Hentschler's - hall and . comxnecetd a series or mestizos Monday evecinsf. . Everybody welcome Wllllacx 'siayter Is spending a few days at Argos this week. He is 89 years eld but does not seem much older than he did ten years ago. Mrs. J. H. Clem and Mrs. J. W. Kupe, of near Mil ford, and Mrs Catherine Seese. of Benton, Elkhart county, attended the funeral of Oliver Matthews Sunday. ; Lott Dickson, with his little grand daughter, Dorothy Sainter, came down from Chicago Saturday evening sud spent Sunday and Monday at the home of J. R. Lccey. . .
John R. Jones, of Argos was in town Tuesday. A. Becker transacted business in Argos Tuesday. Clarence Slavter moved into his new house Tuesday. The rural mail carriers report very bad roads this week.
Mrs. G. W. Shrider visited friends
in Valparaiso. Tuesday, Clinton Caslow, of Inwood, is visiting relatives at Tiosa this week A new paper mill to employ 150 bands, is to be built at Lafayette. The Euterpean Fraternity will meet on Feb. 10th with Mrs. J. A. Yockey. Cars are now running on the trolley line between Laporte and Michigan City. Hon. L. .W. Royse, of Warsaw, tranacted legal business in Plymouth Tuesday.
James Poulson drove over from Tippecanoe Tuesday and reported the roads very muddy. S. E. McCulloch has bought a bitch barn in South Bend and will take possession this week. . Rain, snow, sleet, slush and mud made a combination that suited very few travelers today. M. Hollingsheadcame down from Chicago Tuesday for a short visit with old friends here. George Paul now owns the restauant on Laporte street and is making bis usual popular prices. The Maccabee ladies, of Bourbon, came up in full force to visit Mrs. Daniel Hahn Tuesday afternoon. The new military, post will be located on Fall Creek northeast of Indianapolis and near Lawrence. Ordle Stephenson, of South Bend, visited over Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Stephenson.' Tha Mozarts bad an open meeting at the ladles club room, Burkets hall Wednesday evening. The missionary society of the Methodist church met at the parsonage Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. . William Seymour and Samuel Yaiz-
el, residing north of Inwood have gone Into the business of shipping bogs. It seems about as hard for the allies to raise a blockade as it does for a printer to raise a hundred dollars. Penn township, St. Joseph county, has the biggest bog in Indiana. He Is a Chester-White and weighs 1,052 pounds. Frank Dillon, of Rochester, was in Plymouth Tuesday to assist in fixing dates for the fairs in this and adjoining counties. V Mrs. Peter D. Burgener is sick at her home at Donaldson and Mesdames Edward and Ira Gam of this city visited her Tuesday. ' Eras tus Hess now of Akron, Ind., stopped here Tuesday on his way home from South Bend. He has a milk route at Akron. . Miss Almeda Roth, of Mishawaka, who has been visiting at Washington Heckard's, went to Warsaw to visit before returning home. The small-pox cases in West township are getting along all right. There are no new. cases and the disease will be confined to one family. The officers of the Northern Indiana fair circuit had a meeting here Tuesday af tertoon to arrange dates for the fairs for the coming season. Mrs. D. S. O'Brien was in town Tuesday and we were sorry to- learn that her husband is growing worse ' every day and his mind is now almost gone. ' MisaEtheida Wright, who has been visiting "jat the. home of Rev. p. E. Palmer in this city returned to her höm at Indianapolis Tuesday. She is Mrs. Palmer's sister. Poultry farming bids fair to pay better hereafter than ever before, and a pleasant and most profitable business is within easy reach of any enterprising man or wowan. . A widow who figures as the heroine of a story in a current periodical turns away a suitor for her hand with the information that her "heart is In two graves. " Another lover appears, however, and the tale closes with indications that the lady is about to engage in & double grave robbery.
: Rev. C. E. Welss was a SouttrBend
visitor' Tuesday. i George W. Baxter transacted business at Rochester yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Pomeroy are visiting their daughter at Argos. The little child of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rivar is very sick with pneumonia. The . weather man predicts cold weather for the remainder of the week. Marion Logan, of Fort Wayne, visited with friends here Tuesday evening, . WANTED A good reliable girl to
do general housework. Call at this office.
The people of Vermont voted Tuesday to substitute local option for prohibition. Mrs. Ida 'Jarrett, of South Bend, stopped here yesterday on her way to Etna Green.
Thomas Houghton, of Culver, braved the storm and came to Plymouth yesterday. Rev. A. P. DeLong is at Thorntown this week assisting his brother in a revival meeting.
Work at the creamery was delayed
about two hours Wednesday by the
bursting of a flue.
Edward J. Pippenger, of Nappanee,
is visiting and transacting business in
this county this week.
jurs. Adams is in feouth liena on
account of the illness of her daughter,
Mrs. George Miltenberger.
Samuel Parker occupied the bench
Monday the first day of the February term of the Fulton circuit court. Editor Metsker is attending the
meeting of the democratic editors at
Indianapolis. His wife accompanied him. V. J. Sweck, of Ball & Co's tailor
ing department, is attending a con
vention of tailors at Cincinnati this
week.
There Is a bill before the legisla
ture providing for the preservation of
all ballots for six months after every
election.
Thomas Carter, of West Plymouth, who has been confined to his home by
illness since December is able to be
out again.
The trustees of Jefferson township,
Kosciusko county, have placed a tele
phone in every school house in that township.
Tliere is quite a deep snow at South
Bend and Labor te. It rained in
Plymouth while it was snowing in
those cities.
John A. McFarlin will have a public
sale of bogs, cattle, sheep and chickens at bis Twin Lake farm. Friday.
February 20. ?
i " Fred H. Kuhn went to Chicago yes
terday to sample the brand of weather they have in that city oh the fourth
day of February, v. ' .
Emmett , Byers near Monroeville
sold a thirty-seven-pound turkey at
Monroeville a few days ago . The bird brought him 95.18.
After the sort of weather encount
ered since Monday we have decided
that the ground hog acted wisely in
getting into his hole.
The Manitoba potato crop amount
ed to 3,459,325 bushels, and the root, crop to 3,230,995 bushels. There are 1824 threshing outfits in the province. There is a bill now before the Indiana legislature providing that county superintendents of education shall be elected by popular vote for a term of six years. ' The healthf ulness of Plymouth and the surrounding country is proven by the fact there"" was not a. burial in Oak Hill cemetery during the month of January. A strike of bituminous coal miners lasting as long as that of the anthracite miness did last summer would have disastrous results In the state and the west generally. The international supper given by the Episcopal ladies at Hill's cafe Tuesday evening was a Trig success In every respect, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather. Enoch Mow, of Rochester, visited Tuesday afternoon and over night at the home of W. H. Matthews. - Little Etta D. Matthews went home with him for a visit of a few days. Senate bill No. 33 introduced by Senator Parks for the transfer of dependent children passed the house Tuesday. It passed the senate several days ago and now needs only the governor's signature to make it a law. - Mrs. Elias Brockaway, of New Carlisle, committed suicide Saturday by wrapping herself up in a 'blanket and then setting; the blanket on flrel The house was soon ablaze and when
firemen entered she was almost dead.
.x It will probably develop in course of a few weeks that, hard coal will ' be easier to get than soft coal. The pressure for hard coal in the east has been relieved. In the west the supply will shortly be fully up to the demand. The Indianapolis Journal pays a high tribute to the republican press of the state. The improvement of the pres3 in Indiana the past decade has been fully up to the general improvement of the general condition of the people.. ; V i . ; . "
- Senator -De Haven has done a- sen
slbie thing in offering an amend men
to the election law requiring the printing of the names of candidates
for congress on state instead of county
ballots.
The government is issuing a map
that shows where all the coa! in In
diana is except that which is con
trolled by the coal combine; but there
is the usual lack of motive power be tween it and us.
Mr. aurt Mrs. William Erwin, of
liourbon, were in Plymouth Monday
Mrs. Erwin was on ner way
home from White county, where she was one of the instructors at the
farmers' institute.
The present year promises to see unusual developments in the Indiana
oil field, which has of late become one
of the most prominent. It is believed
that $10.000.000 in new investments
will be made during the year.
There are eleven million men in
the United States who are capable of
bearing arms in defense of their coun
try, and this does not Include those
under eighteen and over forty-rive
years of age, who might help in pinch.
S. P. Bryan, of Walnut township,
who had one of the largest and finest
displays of poultry at the show, did
not take his chickens home until
Monday. His Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandotts and Leghorn are
beauties.
A. D. Stephenson, who resides near
Charleston, Coles county, Illinois, is
visiting relatives in this countv. ne
was a brother of W. W. Stephenson
who died in this county about twelve
years ago, an is an uncle of Willis and Leroy Stephenson Elder EberTeter,of Sheridan, Ind.,
general missionary secretary of the
Wesleyan Methodist eburebj will preach in the church of that connection In this citv next Friday evening, and will conduct quarterly meeting at Sligo next Sunday. Few appreciate the Immensity of the lumber industry acd the size of the total annual wood bill of the United States, which is estimated at
as much as $1,000,000,000. Ope-half of this is said to go on firewood and
fences, and hoop, hop and bean poles. A few years ago it was complained
that there were more trunk lines of
railroad than there was business for.
In Saturday 's papers it was announced
that the freight blockade is so great that iron mills must close in the East,
apd the great flouring mills in Min
neapolis in the West.
That valentines are still, popular Is
proven by a Worcester, Masss., firm
shipping 4 freight cars of them the
first week in January, the largest
order ever filled, there being 1,352,-
000 valentines in the assignment, which went to a big ' wholesale bouse in Chicago, :-.
Mr. and Mrs. "George Vinall in
company with Grant underbill, or
Culver, a 'traveling salesman fora Chi
cago grocery rjouse, left Monday even
ing for a trip through the - south.
Their first stop will be at Chattanooga and they will Tisit New Orleans and inspect the great rice farms of
Louisiana and Mississippi. In his annual report the superinten
dent of public instruction' complains
that the usefulness of the grade schools is being sacrificed to the desire to enrich the curriculum by putting into
it studies which have no place there.
In the common branches there is an increasing lack of thoroughness. This has gone so far that the officer sug
gests legislative remedies.
The ground hog made his appear
ance early In the morn in er and
when the wind and rain struck hi mi he
shivered because it looked like he
would have to stay cut until next November.. But before 11 o'clock the
clouds parted, the sun shone brightly,
he saw his shadow and scooted for his
den, If we have only sli'more weeks of winter we shall be thankful regard
less of ground hogs. "" f
One inducement for the old farmer
to retain his home on his farm is the
great difference in the rate or taxation
which prevails between the country
districts and our modern municipali
ties. The cost of municipal government constantly increases. The tax
on an average $20.000 farm is. sav.
$75, while the city tax on the same
amount of moneys and credits would not be far from $400."
At South Bend riots and violence
haye followed as a result.of the strike of the motormen and. conductors of
the Indiana railway company. .. Mobs
have attacked ther street cars,vitbl
stones, snots nave oeen fired and. the
tracks have been blocked, with obstructions. In addition tq all tbiaj nqpt; union men whom the. company, em
ployed to operate its cars have been
assaulted and severely beaten.
A. B. Dodds, ex-county surveyor of
Cass county, went to the Klondike five
years ago and by .the hardest kind of work managed to dig outof the ground
and save $15,000 in gold; - -He started
home two months-' ago, 'was shipwrecked and had to let his gold dust go to the bottom of the ocean to save himself from droymlng.' He Is now In San Francisco where . friends are
caring for him and he is slowly regaining health and strength, i;
Last Call on Laces and Embroideries This Week We Commence Our Semi-Annual Saleirf
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OUR Embroidery and Lace Sale, which has created such a furore the past week, will be continued all of this week. And now we commence our Semi-Annual Sale of Muslin Underwear. Others have had displays of Muslin Underwear, but do not for one minute compare ours to any you have attended before. We will show the greatest assortment of well made and elegantly trimmed lingerie you ever had the satisfaction of looking at. We show lace' and embroidery trimmed Night Dresses at 39c, 49c, 58c, 79c, 98c, $1.29, $1.49 and $1.98 each. Skirts, elegantly trimmed, at 49c, 98c, $1.29, $1.49 and up to $3.50 each. Corset Covers and Drawers at 8c, 19c, 25c, 39c and up to $1.00 per garment Ladies' Long Chemise, 75c, $1.00 and $1.25, beautifully trimmed and elegantly made. The difference between our Mulsin Underwear and others is not "how cheap," but "how well made and how good." We do not believe in sweat-shop made and hurried together garments, but in wellmade, sanitary muslin underwear. Call and see what we have to show you in this line. In this sale we will also sell you yard -wide Bleached and Unbleached Muslin at the lowest prices you ever bought them at. Yard-wide Unbleached 5c Muslin at 4c; the 6c kind at 5c Yardwide soft finish Bleached Muslin at 4c. Yard-wide Bleached Cotton, equal to the Lonsdale, during this sale at 6Jc per yard by the bo.t or by the yard as much or as little as you wish. This sale will last two weeks, and Trading Stamps will be given with all purchases as usual.
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Attorney Logan made a busines trip
to Rochester yesterday.
Mrs. Ruf us, of Erie, Pennsylvania,
has returned home' after an extended
visit with Mrs. George Lemler and
other relatives and friends in this county and St. Joseph county.
Three couples were licensed to marry ast Saturday. They were Joseph E,
Iloldred and Alta McPherson, Albert
Ellinger and Nellie Bates, Arthur
F. Kline and Bertha T. Beeler.
Fif ty-iwo. persons were paid . boun
ties for groundhog scalps in Kosciusko
county last week, the highest amount
being paid to one person being $16.80.
The price was 10 cents per scalp.
J. Siple has moved from a farm near
Donaldson to the village, of Argos where he will engage in draying. His family went to Argos Monday accom
panied by Mrs. Siple 's brother, Clyde Smith.
Many houses at Logansport were
flooded and considerable damage done
by an ice gorge in Eel riyer. The ma
chinery in the waterworks and electric stations were inundated and the
Market street bridge narrowly escaped being torn out.
The navy that rides the waters of
Lake Maxinkuckee is to be increased.
The secretary of the navy hasconsented to allow Culver Military Academy
two more man-of-war cutters. This
will make four of these cutters for the
use of the academy.
Representative Hemenway, of In
diana, has introduced a bill to pension
air soldiers and sailors who served at
east ninety days in the civil war, at
the rate of $12 per month, and all
widows of such soldiers .ind sailors who were married prior to June 27, 1890.
Meade Jacobs, of Marion, became
nsane from smallpox and drove his
amily out of the house at the point
of a revolver. The police had considerable trouble in pacifying him, as
Lhey did not wish to get too close on
account of the disease, which was
more feared thän the revolver. ,
The senate has passed without op
position a bill which makes the term
of service of county officers begin Jan.
after their election. This law will
naturally extend some of the terms of
officers, but no end of confusion will
be 'avoided if every officer elected in
November shall enter upon the dis
charge of his duties Jan. 1. The bill
s now In the house.
The StudebakerManufacturing Com
pany has paid $1C0 each for seventeen white oak trees as they staad in the forest. Another firm there has paid $5,000 cash for the raw- timber from
about seventy acres of woodland. Farmers who own tracts of timber have buyers on their trail almost7 all
he time. This was once one of the
imber regions of the state, but few
of the forests now exist. ,4.
Dbtcn Ult Ripplts. . Fern ' aniPfray Pif er visited Edith
and Lulu Stevlck-last Sunday. .
Mrs. Logan- went to Maxinkuckee
Tuesday to visit her sister Mrs."Adamson. ' '
Mr. and Mrs. Watson York spent
Saturday : it their f arm dear- Tyner City. " -
Mr.k and Mrs. David Welborn and
Mr Roscoe Nichols and family Visited at William Murphy's Sunday. -
Mr. 'Cornelius Burkett and family
and Mr, and Mrs. Joel Mailänder were
the guests of Mrs. Stevick Sunday.
The people of this vicinity ; we're
called out to assist in getting a horse
out of the water at the' Dixon Liaxe
bridge last jThursday, night: The
driver was boozy.-
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Tippecanoe News. Dr. C. M. Harris, of Bourbon, was In town Monday. William Crane, James Worsham and Jefferson Worthington were at Argos Friday. " " Rev. Rhodes the Methodist pastor,
began a series of maetings here Monday evening. " ' William Morical, of Irvin, Illinois,
is visiting with relatives and friends
at this Dlace. Mr. Charles Fere and wife, of Mentone, gave relatiyes at this place a short call Monday. Levi Hartman and Jess Hartman, of Bigfoot, formerly of this place, spent Sunday with '" relatives and friends herev ' ; Chas. li- Walker, JthV 'Tippecanoe correspondent, for the Ärgös Reflector, has resigned bis position, apd it is not yet known who will take his place. Parties wanting to buy farms will do well to call at my office, as I have farms for sale that are bargains Philip W. Swihart, Phone 3, Tippecanoe. Christian Grass, one of our hustling farmers, will leave for Oregon, in a short time, ne expects to join the colony which has been organized at Nappanee. Mr. El wood Walker and wife, of
Sheffield. Iowa, who were recently married, visited several days with relatives and friends, returning home Saturday, The Mutual Telephone company, of Mentone, and the Argos Telephone company, are thinking of forming a reciprocity thus increasing the mileage of line for patrons, and making' the line more thorough for both companies. Mrs. Kuhns, who has spent fourteen years as a missionary in China, will deliver two lecturers at' Tippecanoe
Monday, Feb. 9th. One lecture will be in the afternoon, and to ladies only the other one at night which everybody is requested to attend. Admission free. Attorneys Hall and Mansfield, of Cleveland, Ohio, were In town Thursday, looking up evidence relative to the case which has been filed against the N. Y, C. & St, Louis railroad company; by Mrs. Ella Palmer, of near here, In vr hieb ' complaint she claims to have received certain Injuries, alleging "that the conductor exercised undue force in his effort to keep her on the train, . until she. - had paid ,tbe remaining portion , of the fare, which it seems she had promised the conductor. . Those who are well" informed about the case, are not led to believe that it will be of any legal importance. ,
Smallpox in Every County, J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, is at work tabulating the vital statistics for. the year 1902. In the reports now in in much attention is given to smallpox. This malady during the past year invaded every county in the state. There were 6,377 cases of the disease. The greatest number of deaths were reported in October.
Be Won Id Limit Fortunes.
Washington, Feb. 2. Senator Wellington has introduced an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the holding of a fortune exceeding $10,000,000 by any one individual in the United States. In case of 'such holding the amendment provides that tbe excess 6hall all be condemned, and forfeited into the United States treasury. . Good Job far m JVoedmaa . Mexico, Mo., Feb. 2. In a letter rejceived from W. A. Northcott, lieutenant governor of Illinois and head consul of the Modern Woodmen of America, he says he fears that the state of
his health will not allow him to under
take the duties of the office of head
consul for another term. The position'
pays a salary of $5,000 a year.
Will Extend to SJoaz City. - . r j Sioux City, la., Feb. 2. Tbe Chi-. , , cago. Rock Island and Pacific Railway .
company and the Great Western Rail
way company have practically closed a deal for 1G0 acres of land in Slou.? City. I Tbe deal is considered to. mean that the extension of these two lines to Sioux City is assured,"
All the healing ba'samic virtues of the Norway pine are concentrated in Dr. . Wood's" Norway Pine Syrup. Nature's own remedy for coughs and
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To New Orleans. Mobile and PensacoU via Pennsylvania Lines.
Hundred of lives saved every year by having Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil in tne house just when it is needed. Cures croup, heals burns, cuts, wounds of every sort, ' Tell your neignoors about the good qualities of The Tetbuns.
February 17th to 32d, inclusive, excursion tickets to New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala.', and Pensacola, Fla., will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines.- Consult ticket agents of Pennsylvania Lines about rates and time of trains.
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