Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 July 1903 — Page 7
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Mrs. Cordon, of Lapaz, is visiting
in Wbitiey and Allen counties.
Samuel Schlosser made a business
trip to Chicago Thursday afternoon.
Miss Lillie Machel has gone to
Wanatah for a visit of ten days.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A Ross went to
Rochester Thursday to visit relatives
Mrs. W. E. Peterson went to Argos
Thursday for a visit of a few days.
Dr. Borton and Mrs. Aspinall and daughter have gone to Ohio for a
visit of a week.
Daniel Ilealy, of St. Michael's
Academy, returned to his home at
Hamlet Thursday. Frank Chandler, of the Marion Chronicle, was in this city Thursday afternoon on business. Mrs. T. II. Toyne, with her son and daughters, went to Hanna Thursday for a visit of a few days. Theodore P. Ponader and Mrs. Mary T. Gerber, pouplar young people of Bremen, were married Sunday, June 21. Rev. S.-M. Yenn went to Mlshawaka Thursday for a visit of several days with his parents and other relatives. Mesdames F. B. Carey and W. F. Suit with their children spent Thurspay at the Winona Sunday school conconvention. Miss Lucy McFarlin went to Chicago Thursday to visit, her brother, Lloyd McFarlin, whose home is now in that city. "With the resignation of Both Prof. Newell and Prof. Kraft, Bourbon College seems to be closed probably for all time. Sir Christopher Furniss, the English ship and marine engine builder, says be will build ships to make the voyage to Europe in four days. Mr. and Mrs. Baker, of Frankfort, Ind., stopped here Thursday Tor a visit. Mrs. Baker will be recollected as Miss Nettie Burcb, daughter of Ferdinand Burch. Mesdames Henry Taber. Paul Butcher, W. W. Sponsler, Theo. Sponsler, Misses Fay Dunham, Abbie Kleckner and Dollie Moore, are among those who visited at South Bend Thursday. Prof, Kraft, who has had charge of the musical department of Bourbon College, has resigned. He will take charge of the music at Island Park, Rome City, Ind., for the present. Mrs. Sarah A. Wilson died at her home in Bourtoa township, June 21, aged 60 years. She had been a, sufferer for many years. The remains were interred at Bethel cemetery. Rev. I. Rothenberger and family, of South Bend, have been visiting in Plymouth for a few days. Mr. Rothenberger was. for several years, pastor of the Reformed church in this city. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. nerrold and their five children went to Columbia City Thursday. Mrs. Herrold and the children will visit there and with relatives at other points for several days. Thirty-seven members of Company I., and a large number of G. A. R.
men and many others, making 115 in all went to South Bend to attend the dedication of the soldiers monument Thursday. Mesdames E. Price, I. Stone, G. WWebb, J. A. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Zehner, Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Thompson, 'Mr. and Mrs; Macombs and Wilber Vanscoik were South Eeud visitors Thursday. t. Rumor has it tht Prof.- Hahn, of Plymouth, is contemplating the purchasing of the college building at this place. If such should be the case the. proiessor intends conducting a school of music. Bourbon News Mirror. A very large crowd heard the open air concert given by the Plymouth band Wednesday evening. The organization plays better than ever and every number rendered was appreciated. A concert will be given every. Wednesday evening.
James Badgley has gone to Laporte
for a visit of several days. Mrs. Forbes of Nashville, Tenn., is ylsiting at J. W. Thayer's. D. Frank Redd has gone to Climax, Mich., for a visit of a few days.
Mrs. E. A. Steward, of Warsaw, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mott. Plymouth and Tyner ball teams played ball here Saturday afternoon. L. Plummer, of Lakevllle, transacted business in Plymouth Friday. Montus C. Snyder entertained the class of 1903 at Hill's Cafe Friday evening. Read what our merchants have to offer you this week. They have special bargains. Mrs. Goss and sen have returned to Chicago after a visit of a few days in this city. Mrs. John W. Thomas and her niece Mrs. Haas, of Omaha, went to Warsaw Friday afternoon for a visit of a few days. Rochester will have no celebration this year. Everybody is coming to Plymouth. The Vandalia has built a large octagon band stand in the railroad park at Culver. Mrs. Mattie Guy, of Atwood, is visiting hersister, Mrs. VanTilberry, in this city. There were 644 tickets sold for the Bryan lecture at the fair grounds
Tuesday June 23.
Mrs. John S. Bush died at Culver,
Monday, June 22. The remains were taken to Sheldon, 111. An excellent program was issued for children's day exercises at Burr
Oak, Sunday, June 28.
Mrs. John W. Houghton has returned from a visit m California with her sister, Mrs. Charles Tibbets. Monroe Wilson of Nappanee and Miss Maud Penrose, of Bremen, were
married Saturday evening, June 20.
Mrs. Toan, Mrs. Frank Brooke and
Miss Jean Oglesbee were guests of
Mrs. Luther Helpman at Bourbon
Friday.
Mrs. Frank Gallup has returned to
Chicago after a visit of almost a week
n this city at the home of her broth
er, Jacob Ness.
At Huntington Robert E. Hudson
and his son, Robert L. Hudson, are
each endeavoring to prove the fact
that the other is insane.
Jacob Patsel died at Culver, June
23, 1903, aged 75 years, 5 months and 20 days. He had been a resident of
Union township many years.
Mrs. McCaslin, of Cowan, Ind., who
has been spending a few days with her parents, Rev. W. W. Lineberry
and wife, went to Winona Friday.
The body of C. F. Breed, of South
Chicago, who' was drowned in Lake Michigan on January 28, has just been washed ashore at Michigan City.
II. J. Curtis, of Argos, a former
teacher of the Plymouth schools, has
graduated from the Ann Arbor law
school, but ha3 not decided where he
will locate.
Mrs. Asher Boyce was called to Ply
mouth Thursday by the Illness of her
daughter, Mrs. Ralph Kleckner, but
found her better and returned to her
home at Argos Friday.
Mrs. J. W. Griffin and daughter.
Frances, have returned to their home at Evanston after a visit with Mrs. A
Toan and Mrs.K. F. Brooke and other
relatives and freinds in Plymouth.
Droves of lazy tramps are annoying
the Michigan fruit-growers and Kan
sas crops are waiting to be gathered.
now to bring the tramps and the
crops together is work for a statesman.
Arthur Chart, of Milwaukee, rrho is
visiting relatives in this city and county, admires our beautiful shade trees, and thinks Plymouth has improved greatly in the past ten years. Mrs. William Ormond, who has been visiting her mother at Decatur, Ind., the past three weeks arrived home Friday evening. She drives the entire distance, 108 miles, in two days. James Badgely says he held out to the end in the liae of march at South Bend, Thursday, but he was nearer played out then than in a double quick march of twenty miles, forty years ago. The Argos Reflector says Mrs. Lois Chapman, who is In her 88th year, was able to walk ' oyer to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Fisher, and from there to Argos; a distance of more than a mile, last Friday. .
Misses Etta and Esther Holem arc visiting at Rochester. - V Mrs. Effie Miller went to Donaldson to visit over Sunday. Mrs. Cann. of ; Chicago, is visiting relatives at Donaldson. Mrs. M. J. Kelley has gone to Rochester for a visit of a week. Miss Hazel Neff is visiting Miss
Bessie Kilmer at South Bend.
Henry Aukerman has returned
from a visit of a week at South Bend
Rev. A. II. ZUmer, preaches at Circleville Saturday evening and Sunday.
New home grown potatoes, rasp berries and huckelberries are in mar ket.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Ilite are
visiting relatives in Bourbon town Ship. Mrs. Dawson has returned to Ar
gos after a visit of a few days in this
city.
Miss Hortense Drummond has been
a guest of friends in Plvmouth this
week.
William Berger, of Hainestown,
Stark county was a Plymouth visitor
Saturday.
Misses Lulu and Katie Miller, of Donaldson, went to Argos to visit
over Suaday.
Mrs. Murfin has returned to her
home at Argos after visiting relatives
in this citv. Norman E. Bailey has taken a position as operator for the B. & O. at DeSance, Ohio. Mrs. Myra Nichtcr went to Donaldson to visit over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Hugh Eley has returned to his
home at Davis after a visit with bis son near Lapaz. The "High-Low" Club have been enjoying a few days outing with Miss Vera Humrichouser. Mr. and Mrs. Berkey and Mrs.
George Redmond, of Chicago, are
visiting Miss Josie Wickey. Recorder Harley and Jonathan Picked, of the board of review, were
passengers to Argos Saturday.
Miss Louise Wolfcrd who graduated
at Morris, Illinois, Tuesday, returned to her home in Plymouth Friday evening. Mrs. W. S. Reeve has returned to her home in Chicago after a pleasant visit of three weeks with relatives in this city. Mrs. Livinghouse has returned to her home at Wheeler after a visit of ten days in this and adjoining counties. Mrs. John Kempe has returned to her home in South Bend, after a visit in this city, with her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Weiss. Mr. Robinson, who has been assisting in building the Inwood elevator, returned to his home at Rensselaer today. Mrs. Tcrshing and her daughter, Sarah, have returned from a visit of a week with relatives and friends in South Bend. Mrs. Ida Jost and Mrs. Seward have gone to Tippecanue for a visit of a week with their brother, Dr. Sherman Johnson. Miss Myrtle Speicher has returned to her home at Urbana, Ind., after visiting her sister, Miss Bertha Speicher in this city. Mrs. Ira Buck has returned to her home at Peoria. 111., after a visit of ten days with relatives here and at Lake Maxinkuckee. Mrs. Vincent came down from Chicago Saturday for a visit of several days with her parents Mr. and Mrs. William Wilburn. The window display of Ball a Company, designed by Chas. Humphrey, Is the best and most appropriate we have seen in a long time. John Beiler has , returned . to his home at Lima, Ohio, after a visit of a few weeks with relatives in West township and In Plymouth. Will Portmess, the' Hobart base
ball pitcher, who was born in Plymouth, was married in Chicago recently to Miss Ella Bandell, of Crawfordsville. Wives of Logansport union clerks are raising strenuous objections to the young lady clerks joining the organization in which their husbands hold membership. Ed Lenfesty stopped In Plymouth Friday on his way from the soldiers' home at Marion to visit his mother at Grovertown. He looks well but is almost entirely blind. The American Library Association, In session at Niagara Fails, iias given out the information that $10,306,400 was donated to the founding of libraries in the United States in the year ended May 31. Something doing all the time at Plymouth, July 4. Military drills, industrial parade, ball games, balloon ascensions, band contests, automobile races and other races of every description. William F. Young returned from Nevada, Ohio, Friday and went to Valpariso Saturday. He Is employed by the Pennsylvania Railway company. He will spend Sunday at home.
Mrs. Oscar Baker and her little son,
Stanley went to Bourbon to visit over
Sunday.'
. Mrs. Martin, of Warsaw, arrived in Plymouth Saturday morning to spend
Sunday with Mrs. C. II. Nicholson. A. . D. Jacoby. writes that he and his wife and W. E. Weaver, of Elk
hart, are coming to Plymouth
to speed the Fourth of July
and will arrjve here Friday evening
July 3. ,
Rev. Ray G. Upson, of Plymouth,
was elected president of "the Young People's Christian Union of the
United Brethren conference, at the
meeting which closed in Elkhart Fri day afternoon.
Mrs. S. M. Hobbs, of Battle Creek,
Mich., who has been visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. A. C. Roberts, went to
Southern Indiana, to visit relatives,
but she will return to this city in
about ten days.
Topeka had not got over the river
flood when it was visited by a cloud
burst that washed away several
houses. The people of Kansas will
probably desire a return to the
drought system.
Up in Minnesota they ure making strawberry and raspberry preserves
out of timothy seed, broom corn, glucose and sugar, and still some people say we have no artistic imagination und are lacking in taste.
Wakarusa would like to be the
freight division point on the Wabash when the spur is built to South Bend and the Tribune suggests the town could well afford to give $5,000 to get it As planned at present the spur is to be built from Lakeville. A grand reunion of all the people whu were born, raised or ever lived in Stark county, Ohio, will be held in Canton, Ohio, for a solid week, commencing Monday, July 27, 1903, and ending Saturday night, August 1. Railroads give reduced fares. Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. M. Allman. Mrs. Laemle, and Luis Allman attended the wedding of Bertram Shane, of Warsaw,
and Miss Hilda Baum, of Ligonier,
which was celebrated in the Elk's parlor at Ligonier, Thursday, June
25.
Charles Baker a former resident of
this township, but now located in California, was back at bis old horn?
last week and while here disposed of his farm just south of town to C. W.
Shakes The tract contained 228 acres and the price paid was $75 per
acre. Bourbon Mirror.
A company with $20,000 capital
has been organized, to manufacture
automobiles in South Bend. Parker
H. Sercombc, a Chicago banker, is
the leading spirit in the enterprise,
and J. B Birdsell, Jacob Wol verton and other t substantial South Bend citizens are interested.
David Boyce and family will reach
home before July 4, after an absence
of several months in the west and
southwest. Writing from Morgan county, Mo.. Mr. Boyce says crops are
very uneven, on account of the storms
but corn looks well where it has not been injured by the floods.
The Ohio Humane Society has had
a contest of butchers in killing food animals declared off, but it is not ap
parent why such killing is any less
humane than any other. It is done by the most expert butchers, and the
very point of "the contest is to make the killing as expeditious as possible.
While the official weatherman at
Washington tells us that the present
season has not been much out of the ordinay, there is a lingering belief in
the mind of the average inhabitant that the past spring and the present
summer as Jar as it has gone have been quite remarkable for many and extreme atmospheric changes de-
veloped.
Work will commence in about 60
days on the new ship canal, connect
ing Lake Michigan and the Calumet
;ivef, thereby creating seven miles
it dockage and new property. As
soon as this work is completed India
na Harbor's dockage facilities will be second to none on the great lakes. The state of Indiana is justly proud of her n:w lake port city. The following from the Indianapolis Sentinel should be a warning heeded by every cigarette smoker, but it will not be. "Physically a giant, mentally a wreck, Steven Dixon, aged twenty years, a student at Manual Training High School and a prominent player on the base ball team, lies strapped to his bed at the Union State hospital of Indianapolis, guarded by wary and cautious attendants, raving in an insanity brought on by the deadly cigarette habit." The residence of Melvin Woods, three miles south of town, was destroyed by fire last Saturday morning. Mr. Woods was building an addition to the house when Are broke out in another part of the building, and when discovered was under such headway . that it was impossible to save it, or any of the contents. A brother of Mr. Woods was severly burned in attempting to get out a trunk, which was too wide for the door and had to be abandoned. It contained all his clothes and $50 in money. Bremen Enquirer. , t
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e e Closed Out
Wc have decided to close out our entire Basement Department at and less than cost. This includes everything in the line of Tinware, Glassware and Chinaware, and all 5c and 10c goods. Each and every article in this department is for sale, which means great bargains for those who can use such goods. We can't enumerate each article, but will say you will get such goods cheaper than you ever had the good luck to get them before. AH Summer Dry Goods Go At Cost Price amid Less We will also commence this day to close out all our colored Shirt Waists at greatly reduced prices. All our stock of 50c and 75c Shirt Waists now 39c. AH our $1.00 and $1.50 Colored Shirt Waists now 69c. We need the money and the room for purchases of fall goods -that will soon arrive. AH our Wash and White Goods have been reduced. 50c and 60c Wash Goods now 39c; 30c and 25c Wash Goods now 15c; I2c and 10c Wash Goods now 8c; 8c and 10c Wash Goods now 5c; 5c Wash Goods now 3c. 10 yard patterns Percales at 4&c per piece. Will close out all our Dress i Ginghams at 6c per yard. It is early to commence a closing sale, but the backward season finds us too heavily loaded and room must be made for fall purchases. Don't miss this big opportunity to buy at cost.
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Mrs. W. D. Baiter, and Mrs. Brown, of Denison, Ohio, stopped in Plymouth over night. Mrs. Baxter will visit relatives in the vicinity of Hamlet and Mrs. Brown will visit at Walkerton and other points in St. Joseph county. Earl North is home from Saginaw, Michigan, where he has been employed for several months. He will spend the remainder of the summer at home reviewing his college work preparatory to taking a course in the McCormick Theological Seminary at Chicago, which he enters in September. Porter county has six inmates at the Julia Work Training School at Plymouth: During May two children were discharged, having good homes. Mrs. Work's bill for the quarter ending June 30th, filed with Auditor Corboy, amounts to $175.55 for the care of the children. Valpariso Messenger. Writing from Smithton, Mo., June 24, David Boyce says he will get his pa per July 1, at Argos. He says a hail storm in Morgan county, Mo., did much damage last Sunday. He saw hail stones seven inches In circumference. Mr. Boyce and family have been traveling in the west and southwest for about eight months. C. M. Butler, who stopped here for a visit of a few days with his uncle, John C. Butler and other relatives in this county, left Friday for the home of his father, Thomas Butler at Albany, Oregon. Mr. Butler has just graduated at West Point, aud will be assigned for duty in October, ne expects to be sent to the Philippines. "Uncle" David Overmire, the wealthy Fulton county farmer who advertised for a wife, has received letters from eight . women who are willing to go into matrimonial copartnership, and a number of others have made a personal yisit to size up the lay of the land. Mr. Overmire is In no hurry and says he will look about a bit before he smiles the smile that won't come off.
Mrs. Catherine McQuisition died at her home at Donaldson Friday evening, aged 80 years, 9 months and 11 days. Funeral at Blissvlll church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The picture of three colored men saving a little girl from a white assailant as happened in Jeffersonville, must also make people pause a moment to think. Good and evil know co color line. Frederick Knoblock has sold his farm south of town to bis son Isaac, and will become a citizen of Bremen, having bought Mrs. Chas. nans' property on West Plymouth street. Bremen Enquirer. The auditor will receive bids up to 2 p. m. Thursday, July 9, 1903, for the construction and completion of the Clement Shoemaker ditch in Walnut township. It is an all open ditch and is 16450 feet jn length. When Santos-Dumont offered to take children for a ride in his airship at Paris who was it that took the fir&t chance? An American boy, of course!. If anything can bluff the American boy, it has yet to make itself known. Prof. B. W. Clayton, of South Bend,, will sing at the Presbyterian church Sunday at the morning service. Prof. Clayton has a fine baritone voice, and those who have heard him, both in sacred and concert work, pronounce him one af the best. The name of Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of Chicago, now discussed as a vice-presidential possibility, was originally Grosskopf which, literally translated, means Big-head. But Peter isn't afflicted that way, and never was. He, is one of the ablest judges now on the federal bench. A Michigan City convict preferred his prison tasks to working in the harvest field in the pure' free air of unpolluted nature, with the birds singing about him and the gentle breezes murmuring in the trees. And a good many men whose happy boyhood was ;
spent on a farm say nothing, but smile reminiscently and sigh sympathetically. Mrs. Alice Merrill and Mrs. Bessie Carr, of Bay City, Mich., arrived in Plymouth, Friday, June 26, and will be at the home of James De Loney. They will be remembered as Misses Alice and Bessie Barber, who were residents of this city over twenty years ago. This will be Mrs. Carr's first visit since she left this city They are on their way home from Charleston, W. Va., where they visited their brother. Dr. Barber, and will visit here several days. Tyree Firestone Foot Amputated. Tyra Firestone, who is employed at Swindell's cold storage plant missed his foothold in attempting to board a freight train Friday afternoon and was thrown against the water plug. Two fingers of the right hand were cut off and the right foot badly crushed, ne was taken to the hospital at Fort Wayne where It was found necessary to amputate his foot at the ankle, ne stood the operation well and Joseph Swindell who accompanied him to the hospital left him resting comfortably at 11:30 o'clock this forenoon.
The Smart Set Buncoed. And a grand son of Emperor Franz Josef, of Austria, has been touring the United States incog and nobody got on to him Uli be was about to sail for home! Think of it! A prince of the royal blood! Well, if this isn't a bunco game on the smart set! Indianapolis News. Johnson Makes Rules. Superintendent Alexander Johnson, of the School for Feeble Minded Youth at Fort Wayne, has adopted new rules for the admission to the institution andvhas seat a letter of instruction to each circuit jndge in the state informing them of the requirements. Hereafter each county will have its quota under the last census, and no hopelessly insane, epileptic or Incorrigibles will be received.