Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 20, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 February 1903 — Page 7

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LEADER IN Leave your order made at the The Tribune. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Advertisements to appear in THE TRIB UNE must be in before Tuesday noon to insure their appearance in the issue of the week. Plymouth, Ind., February 19. 1903. LOCAL NEWS S. S. Fish was home over Sunday. Dr. Eley and wife visited over Sunday at Elkhart. Tell your neighbors about the good qualities of the Tribune. All railroads were more or less blockaded Monday and all trains are late. Dr. Knott was called to Argos Monday to see Lewis Shafer, who is reported quite sick. Rev. J. L. Wince, of Pierceton, preached at the Church of God in this city Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tanner's valentine is the prettiest baby boy in Plymouth, born Feb. 14, 1903. Little Ruth Linkenhelt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Linkenhelt is threatened with lung fever. Misses Eva and May Lemler, of Bourbon, visited over Sunday with relatives west of Plymouth. Mrs. Florence Thompson, of Larwill, visited over Sunday in this city with the family of Edward Green. Mrs. J. H. Baxter, of Mishawaka, is visiting relatives and friends in this city. She will return home Saturday. Mrs. Woodward, of Laporte, was in this city Monday to meet her little son who has been visiting at Fort Wayne. James Thomas, of Monterey, changed cars here Monday. He was moving to Hammond to make that city his home. Rev. A. V. House, of Arcadia, Ind., who was called here to attend the funeral of H. H. Dibble, returned home Monday. The men who sold their votes in Greene county, were disfranchised for fourteen years by the circuit court at Bloomfield. Porter Kleckner has moved from the Mattingly farm to this city. Elton Huff will take his place on the Mattingly farm. Mr. and Mrs. David McGriff, residing six miles south of Plymouth, are visiting their son, Bert McGriff, in Chicago this week. It takes a thief to catch a thief and it takes a mean person to always be seeing the meaner, and not the better, traits in others. James O. Parks, of East Chicago, Edwin Mayer and. his niece, Miss Corinne Cramer, of Chicago, were Plymouth visitors Sunday. The fee and salary bill should require all officers to make a sworn statement of all their sources of revenue and the amount received. Miss Nellie Wanders returned to her horns at Valparaiso Monday. She had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Myron Bell during the past two weeks. Mrs. George Albert and her son, Clarence Albert, who were called here by the death of H. H. Dibble, have returned to their home at Lewisburg, Ohio. The blizzard was widespread and worked havoc with telegraph and telephone lines, railroads and business generally. It is all charged up to the ground hog. By all means let the house continue to swing its sharp ax upon the bills of doubtful character in the legislature. Often the best legislation is performed by striking out the enacting clause. Miss Myrtle Northam, of Walkerton, is one of the two women bank officers in this country. she is cashier of the bank at that place. The other town with a woman bank cashier is Huntington. It is claimed that Ober & Mann, of Bluffton, made more hoops last year than any other firm in the world. From their two factories, one at Kokomo and another at Windfall, they turned out 22,000,000 hoops.

Fence AT LOW PRICES and get best Fence lowest prices. Mrs. D. Walker is visiting at Inwood. L. D. Watson is visiting at Etna Green. Miss Bessie Bowlin is visiting in Argos. Bert Sherow has gone to Argos for a visit of a week. Mrs. Alfred Morrison visited in Valparaiso Tuesday. Isaiah Yoder and family have moved from Inwood to Plymouth. February has maintained its reputation as a cold producing month. Miss Hall, of Knox, stopped here today on her way to Fort Wayne. C. S. and A. B. Cleveland are transacting business in Chicago this week. J. F. Zehner, of Argos, is transacting business and visiting in Plymouth this week. Mrs. Thornberry and daughter, Elizabeth are visiting at Columbia City this week. George Myers of near Argos, went to Donaldson Tuesday. He expects to move there in a few days. The cold wave reached us Tuesday night and Plymouth can't make faces at Dakota any longer. Andrew Richard shipped a carload of stock to Chicago for the Richard family Monday evening. Wayne Welch will close out his barber shop this week, quit business and move to Wabash county. William Cook, of the firm of Cook Brothers, of Culver, was in Plymouth Tuesday and went to Indianapolis for a few days. Most of the men who went to Atwood and Wanatah to work on the railroad returned home Tuesday. The weather was too cold for them. Rev. A. P. DeLong, who is assisting his brother in a series of meetings at Thorntown was home over Sunday and preached two excellent sermons at the M. E. church. Mrs. Catherine Losey, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Losey in this city, returned Tuesday to her home at Westfield, Pa. Mrs. J. R. Losey accompanied her as far as Rochester. Mrs. Mary Easterday who has been sick for many months died at her home near Oak Hill cemetery at 8:30 Monday evening, aged about 77 years. Funeral services were held at the U. B. church at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Marshal Chaney is the most popular man in Plymouth, if popularity is determined by the number of valentines received. His box at the post office was full most of the day and late in the evening he received sixty in one batch. Dr. Borton went to Bourbon Monday to visit his sister Mrs. Dr. Luther Johnson. Dr. Borton left Tuesday for an extended trip through the Southern states, a section of country he has never visited. He will be gone about three weeks. The sudden death of Major Kendall cast a gloom over the entire business portion of the city this morning. No man had more friends than he and business men could hardly realize that their genial associate of Monday was cold in death Tuesday. Easter day this year will be neither very early nor very late---April 12. The earliest date on which Easter can possibly fall is March 22, but this has not occurred since 1818, and will not again occur, until the year 2000 has been left behind. The latest day for Easter is April 25. In a collision on the Lake Shore road near Mishawaka Sunday Conductor James Connolly, of Elkhart, on a westbound freight was killed, and Brakeman John Lauby injured. The body of the conductor was driven through the front end of the caboose. The caboose was burned. Engineer of passenger engine says fog prevented him from seeing the caboose. The exposure of the get-rich-quick concerns and their wholesale swindling ought to be a warning to persons who think that any such profits as they promised can be made legitimately or paid for any length of time, but the lesson will be soon forgotten. The crop of fools is one that never fails.

This is the coldest week of the win

ter so far, ' : ' -V '-.--. ... Anna Dunn's studio Is closed until March 16. v V r Typewriting at The Tribune office reasonable. tf John Pfcnder visited relatives in Souyi Bend yesterday. . Miss Matic Bach tnau is reported on the sick list-this week. William Everly is transacting business in Indianapolis today. vMiss Dessie Bicbey who has -been sick the past week is convalescent. Mrs. Erma Pierce has gone to Indianapolis for a 'visit of 'two weeks. John' A. McFarlin has a big sale of slock at his Twin Lakes farm Friday. Dr. A.CIIoltzendorff was called to Argos on 'professional business Wed nesday. 1 ' r'; Mrs. W. II. Love and A. C. Hume who have been on the sick list are improving, f W. E. Leonard, jr.,-is here from Chicago to attend the funeral of Major Kendall. Ten degrees below zero was the re cord of several thermometers Tues day morning. W. II. Love, John B. Giller. and John C. Kuhn transacted business at Rochester yesterday. - Catherine Stevens, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Ney Stevens, is quite sick with scarlatina this week. Mi v Henry Fitzgerald, of Roch: ester, is among those here to attend the funeral of Major Kendall Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Slough, of St. Joseph, Mo., were guests of the fam ily of L, P. Switzer Monday. nenry Aukerman, who was visiting at Walkerton, came home to attend the funeral of Mrs. Easterday. . Frank Fertig, who was brought home sicic from Hamlet last evening, is considerably improved today. With the mercury down to zero and the wind blowing f jrty miles an hour yesterdaa was called a cold day. Theo. DeMoss, of Bourbon, trans acted business in Plymouth yesterday and reported all qiiiet in Bourbon. Mr. Fred A. Casper, of Maple Grove neighborhood is oreparins: to build a o a large bank barn the coming season. 'FOR SALE A 200-egg-Size, up-to-date incubator and brooder for sale or trade. 20t2 Alonzo Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Shafer have returned from a visit of ten days with relatives and friends in Miami county. This snow is worth big money. Without it. the present cold weather would have done greut damage to the wheat. . ' ...The, Wesleyap Methodist congregation at Sligo made Rev. E. E. Myers a donation Tuesday. Sligo ,is on his circuit. Miss Cora Day, who had been visit ing at South Bend since Saturday, re turned to her home at Donaldson yes terday. Mrs. John Lacv, of this city, has been the guest of Mrs. J. A. Carter 5 the Arlington Hotel," Rochester, this week. Miss Corinne Kramer has returned to Chicago after a visit of four days with her srrand parents, Mr, and Mrs. Sigmund Mayer. The two magnificent reproductions God Speed" and "The Village Wed ding" ate creating an artistic sensa tion in Plymouth. The blizzard that struck Plymouth at 4 o'clock yesterday morning was a sample of the worst weather we ever get in northern Indiana. God Speed" and "The ' Village Wedding' are being exhibited in the show window of the People's Drug Store, on Laporte street, Mesdames C S. Cleveland, Burkett and Deeds entertained almost a hundred lady f, nds at the home of Mrs. Burket yesterday afternoon. - The weather man tells us to expect cold weather for two or three days yet, but he thinks it will be slightly warmer, before Friday morning. ' A peculiar fact has been noticed by many that each Sunday we have an unusual fall of snow. Last spring for nine consecutive Sundays it rained. Two of the teachers of the public school were on the sick list this week and some of the primary rooms were vacated on account of the cold weather. . ; .. . ' ''r ' Come to the Fastnacht supper next Tuesday at Hill's Cafe just to see if the German ladies live up to their reputation ot serving a delicious supper.'- --. , ' ' ; A jury awarded Robert Sullender, a minor, $3,000 damages from the Laporte Carriage company for the loss of an eye while employed in the company's factory. - ' 'J" Wherever Is developed a get-rich-, quick scheme it should be punished promptly and fully, " The crime should have no. indulgence on the score ot human gullibility: :- . V ;. y The new. tax law making the" assessment begin Iarch X and close May 15, does not take" effect this year. J& will not become a law until the publication of the laws in June. '

. .Henry Humnchouser is visiting his son In Chicago and taking in the automobile - show.-ne. said when he started that he had not decided whether to purchase a one seat or twoseated vechicle. Mr. Samuel Suerer, who has been sick for some time at the home of his daughter in South Bend is no better and his children fear for the worst as

he is quite discouraged and the doc tors give no encouragement. Ex-Editor John R. Jones, of Argos, has been talking life insurance in Plymouth this week, but he went home yesterday .He says men have no faith n life insurance when tbey .feel like they are going to freeze to death. Miss Mame Hoham's piano class gives a recital in Burkett's Hall Saturday afternoon. Only a limited number of admission cards has been issued a to friends of members of the class. No charge is made for admission. The Ladies of the Church of God invite everybody to come to . the residence of W. D. Thompson on: Center street next Friday evening, any time after five o'clock. They will serve all the supper you can eat for 25 cents. The ousiness near Argos which Mr. J. Frank Ray had thought would develop into a paying quantity by spring was brought . to a sudden termination just after groundhog day. Frank re fuses to talk of the matter even to his friends. Major noward Grube arrived Mon day night from a four years' sojourn in the Philippines and will visit sev eral days with his father's family in this city. His arrival in San Francis co was mentioned In this paper ten days ago. February generally brings the cold est weather of the year. It is unfor tunate that the Romans who fixed up the calendar, taking part cf Februaiy to help make up July and August didn't just wipe out the second month altogether. Senator Hendee'sbill providing that county commissioners, township trus tees and road supervisors shall keep roads used in rural free delivery in order and providing a fine of from $1 to $2 a day for failure to do so, was passed on its third reading: in the house Friday. The Lee school just east of town although containing many small pupils has maintained the average attendance of any school in the township. Miss Ella Cole has taught tbis school for five years and has. maintained at all times the liveliest interest in the work in the history of the, school. Mr, and Mrs. D. E. Snyder, Mrs. Matthews, of South Bend, Miss Ella Cocherri; of Laporte, Mrs. William O'Üeefe and daughter, and Misses Maggie Steckman and, Anjiaann, of J this city' left : Tuesday on She Vandalia for Florida, where, tbey expect" to spend the remainder of. the .winter ' Mrs. B. F. McMariaman; of Swazey', Ind., accompanied by her' nephew. Clinton Barbinj of narrison, Ohio, came up last week and visited her brother, William Scofield, over Sunday. Mr. Scofield is confined to his home in North nownship this winter, and his recovery from his long illness seems further off than ever before. Mrs. Charles Hammeral died at her home in South Bend Tuesday. The remains will be brough to this city today and funeral services will be ueldat the Episcopal church at 2:30 p. m. Deceased was the daughter of WTilliam Klinger, was born in this city and resided here until a few years ago. The friends of Mrs. Harriet M. Lindsay will be interested in knowing that on Thursday, Feb. 12th at her home in Ligonier, she submitted to a delicate and serious surgical operation, and passed through it satisfactorily. Dr. Turnar, of the Elkhart Hospital, was the operating surgeon, and was assisted by Doctors : Mitchell and Woodruff, of Ligonier.. She is gaining strength, and seems ev the, road to complete recovery. Her daughter,' Mrs. M. L. Helpman is with her. ' All of the country from the Atlantic coast to the Rockies is iq the grip of the storm.' In New vYork there is sleet; in the Ohio Valley there is snow and rain; the South has .been- flooded by baavy rains, and the fleecy blanket spread over the Northwest grew heavier each hour Sunday. This blanket is hardening, and will be held fast for several days by the cold wave that rolled over the Canadian boundary early Sunday morning'' and . caused North Dakota thermometers. to. register as low as 44 below zero: ' r KSenator Burns Funeral The remains Of Senator Burns, who died at Ilotel English," Indianapolis, Saturday, were taken to South Benrt and the funeral was held Tuesday. The senate adjourned Monday, evening and attended the-; funeral in a body. Going by the-;way.-of the Pennsylvania lines to Loganspprt and then on the Vandalia to .South .Bend, passed through -sPlyinouth at Z S:i6 Tuesday morning. ? ) . . . ' . Men who want their youth; to' feel the same" when budding into manhood, use Rocky" Mountain : Tea. Brings back that vim vigor, meotalM and physical power of by gone days; . Free if it fails. 35 cents. J. W. Hess

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WE have decided to sell goods so low that we will draw trade from all over this and adjoining counties. When we cut, we cut deep and long. Not for one or two weeks, but for an indefinite time we will sell our goods at less than wholesale prices. We do not want to lose money any more than anyone else, but know our goods are paid for, and therefore are harming no one but ourselves by doing this. Our aim is to be the lowest-priced on everything.

You can buy Unbleached Muslin, yard wide, at 3c, 4c and 5c We defy you to buy as cheap as that by the bale. You can buy Bleached Muslin, yard wide, at 4c, 6c and 7$c by far less than competitors pay for them. You can buy all Prints yes, absolutely all of . the best makes at 4c, not only for a week or ; two, but for all spring season. You can buy a Standard Calico of us at 3c not quite as good as the best but a good, standard cloth. You can buy Apron Check Ginghams from US at 4$c See what others ask you for them.

Special Button Sale Buttons worth from lOc to 50c per dozen, at lOc per card ol two dozen. - t Don't think you can match our prices elsewhere, because you can't. We ;are not merely, selling a few Domestics at cost and taking it; up n other, dirt cheap during the spring season. Remember we will give Trading StampsTon all. cash sales ho matter how much the goods are marked down. The tendency on all goods for spring is higher but our prices will be lower. We show the best line of popular price 'WasK Gobds in Plymouth, and lots of new Dress Goods of all kinds which will also be sold at cut prices.

nv NEW SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT R. A. Randall Chosen to Superintend the Plymouth Schools. At a meeting of the school board Monday afternoon, Prof. R. A. Randall, of Goshen, was chesen to succeed Prof. R: A. Chase as superintendent of the city schools. . Professor Randall is a graduate of the Michigan University, Ann Arbor, and also a graduate of the State Normal school, of Michigan. He is 29 years cid has a wife and one child, and is at present principal of the Goshen High School. He has an excellent reputation as a teacher, and is said to have no superior as a mathematician in the ' state, ne was offered the chair of mathematics in a Dokota university1.' but declined. He was selected from a list of 61 applicants among the best educators in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois., . Professor, iCbase, who retires from the Plymouth schools, has held the position 34 years and our schools have a'reputation throughout the state for discipline and efficiency. ' Argos Notes. Clifford, sen of B. C. Bowell.: died with fcarlet fever Monday morning. . Dr., Knott, ot Plymouth was .calle 3 to thiis city Monday "on professional business.! Bessie Bolin, of Plymouth, -visited with J. P. Hoffman and family Tuesday afternoon. . 2. ; ''' ' The Argos Public Schools closed this morning for a short time 'on account of scarlet fever. . -. ' - Mr. Truman Hoffman and iliss Nora Boggs left for Plymouth where they are expecting to be married; Messrs. Lawrence Koffman jind Ray mond Crbcö returned home from Val paraiso where they have been attend ing college J - See special premium'off er' id another column , v-

Sunday School Valentine Parties. The pupils of the Presbyterian Sunday school were royally entertained at Valentine parties, Saturday afternoon and evening. The Primay classes and Cradle Roll spent a very pleasant afternoon at Burkett's Hall, where Mrs. K. F: Brooke, Mrs. Thornberry, Misses Haines. Morris and North had charge of them. " Each was given a valentine from a diminutive post office, Miss Gail North acting as postmaster. A class of girls from ten to twelve years of age were entertained at the home of Mrs. J. W, Parks, and the remainder' of the Sunday school at Mr. J. V. Astley's. The house was decorated with red and white hearts, over 3,000 'being used. About J 50 young people were there to enjoy the games and refreshments, and they had one of the" jolliest evenings of their lives. '" ; This is the last of a series of enterments given by. the Young Woman's Social Union and they wish to thank those who have so cheerfully assisted them in their efforts.

' A Surprise Party. An enjoyable, surprise party was given, at tbe home of Miss Louisa Sapp on West Madison street Monday evening, .'j Numerous'- games were indulged in.';'. " Light refreshments were served and all , left at a late hour,' reporting a good time. r ' v 1 Another S&!&ry -BilL . Senator Cbnlogue has introduced by request a bill regulating' the salaries of the county commissioners. ..This is the" last salary bill to.be offered and judging by th&reception given others it-will -have a hard time.' Tbe object of the" bill is' to readjust the salaries according to population. - In some of the small counties the commissioners will not receive:: more: than $200 a yeaf. ' ' . - - . ' Sale Bills printed at the Tribune.

You can buy 10c Dress Ginghams here at 7c. and the very best double fold Ginghams at 9c, You can buy All Linen Crash, 16-inch, at 5c, and an 1 8-inch, worth 12$c, at 8c. - You can buy Red Table Damask at 12c per yard; a good bleached Damask at 23c, and an All-Linen Bleached Damask at 39c. You can buy any Cloak in our store (the last chance) for one-half price just half the price asked for them in October. You can buy a few Jackets at 93c and $1.98; a few Ladies' Suits at $1.98 and $2.98. Any $10.00 or S12.00 Suit that was left over from 1902, at $4.98.

Short Horns and Polled Durhams Bulls, Heifers and Cows for Sale c :t. mattingly, PLYMOUTH, INDi 2m NOT BUNNELL ALONE How About the Fellows Who Stood for Him? . Considerable ado is made by some . newspapers because K. C. Bunnell is reported over - $400 short in his accounts at Walnut. It would be better to call to account the committeemen and congressmen who recomended his appointment and tbe postofäce inspector who will allow a man to keep $400 of the government's money at an office that pays less than $300 in a year. ' ".-.. 'A Pleasant Pedro Party. The Mfsses'nauk entertained a number of ' their numerous friends at thelrvhothe Tuesday evening at a pleasant pedro' party. Mr. Joe nendricks; was awarded first prize while . Mr. Harry Langfeld t carried away the ' booby prize. ' ' ;