Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 March 1904 — Page 7

Zbc Zxibxxnc. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. AdYertlsements to api ir in TBE TKIB DNE meat be in before Tuesday noon to lniure tnetr appearance in the issue of tbat week. Plymouth, fnd., March 17, 1904-

I 5 LOCAL NEWS I F. TGarnand hpent Friday in Valparaiso. Mrs. Deane has gone to Chicago for a visit of a few days. Mrs. George Keefer of Bremen, went to Bunker Hil! to attend the funeral or her aunt. FOR SALE Farm at sacrifice if sold before April 1st. See Bissell Plymouth Ind. 23t3 Mrs, Ella Palmer, of Bourbon, came up Wednesday afternoon and visited over t.ight la this city. Mrs. Delbert Bryan, Miss Grace Grube and Mrs. Frank Ilammond are rep rted on the sick list. Mrs. E. C. McKInney was called to Bourbon Thursday by serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. C. F. Jones. Dr. Mumford of Missouri declares the Dutch farmer has no equal as understanding proper soil fertilization. Messrs. II. B. Allen andC. A. Wills are busy these days arranging for the growing of pickles the coming season. John Jordan went over to Chicago for a visit of several days with his . daughter and other relatives in tbat city. , Mrs. Lydia High tlev, who spent the winter with her daughter Mrs. Almon Collins in Fon Du Lac, Wis., returned home Thursday. E. M. Burkett has returned to his home in Kosciusko county after a vis- - it with the family of his son-in-law, John Rinkenberg. LaPorte's water supply is so bad that Secretary Ilurty, of the state board of health sirs It should be boiled before beiug drank. Charles Zu mbaugh has moved from Green township to the farm northeast of Plymouth purchased by Jacob Zumbaugh a few months ago. George Chart, of Milwaukee. Wis., who was called to this county by the death of his mother, is visiting for a few days with his sisters in this city. Herman Mayor, of Decatur, was fined $1 and costs for applying the epithet "sheep nose" to Samuel Wyatt. while the latter was walking with his bride. The Senate started in to try the case of Reed Smoot, but Joseph Smith proved so much more interesting that Smoct appears to have ' been entirely forgotten. f" Mr. Murphy's remark that Mr. Cleveland neverspeaks without saying something is something of a tribute to Jenniugs, Bryan who never speaks without saying Cleveland. An old man carried out of a burning ouuaing in ew luric me oiuer u&j was found to have 2,000 stuCtd in his stockings. His idea was probably to make his socks self-supporting. ' 'Nearly 200 cases of typhoid fever Are reported at Waterloo, Iowa, and the city authorities are haying rigid tests made of the drinkinz water to

ascertain if possible the source of the contagion. Government head-stones for deceased union soldiers have been ordered by the commissioners for Henry N. Hand of Green township, quire C. Lee and Nathan Lee of Center towship. In congratulating Georgia on her magnificient peach crop, it might be well to remember that the Georgia farmer still has time coming to him in which he can kill it for a higher price. ." . Three candidates for delegates to the National Republican convention have been announced. They are George D. Pratt of Elkhart, John Spangler and Elmer Smith of Winaroac. Henry White and wife moved to their new home, two miles south of Plymouth, last week. They leave a host of friends ir.' Culver who wish them success in their new home. Culver Heraid. Frank E, Hering, who was the democratic candidate for Congress in the Thirteenth district two years ago, has decided to ask that be be .sent as a delegate to the ' St. Louis convention this year. Mrs. William Klingerman who died at Inwood, Wednesday was 57 years old. Her death was caused by apoplexy. Funeral services were held at Inwood Frid;i;,',at 11 o'clock a. m. and the remains' interred at Cak Hill. Yale has decided to abolish the appointment of valedictorian and salutatorian. This is another step forward in the evolution of the modern college; a class really needs only two oSicers yellmaster and football captain. Ths commissioners at their March ccczfcn j ranted licenses to cell liquor L3 fcllors: Roy Hanous, Arges; (:-co. 17. clTcrd, Cul vc r j A. H Lcrecce, rijncuth:' Jctu 7. WcITcrd, Plymouth; Vzz-lz ::::t13, rre n; T7m. T r , -

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visiting their daughters in Argoslast week. Ira Zu mbaugh and narmou Fisher went to the Kankakee marsh to shoot ducks Friday. . Major Robert Getty, of the U. S. army inspected company I at the armory Friday night. Mis Carrie Boss who teaches at Bourbon, came home on Friday, to visit until Sunday. Wilhim Hunt, of this citv, has secured employment at Peru and left for that city Friday. , Miss Maude Duddleson, who has been employed in thiscitv, is visiting her parents at Argos. Dr. Stephens, William nershberger and Joseph Pittinan transacted business in Chicago Friday. Mrs. Cenia Ervin has returned to ber home at Argos after a visit of several days with her grandmother at Warsaw. The removal ot Lawrence P. Cahill, postmaster at Cannelburg, Daviess county, Indiana, has been recommended by a postal Inspector. Mrs. W. O. Fisher, of Harvey, 111., who has been visiting relatives in this city, has gone to Walnut township to visit before returning home. All traffic on the northern peninsula in Michigan was blocked bv a bllzzard Thursdayd and the worst storm of the season raged in California. A Madison county gas well, . after being abandoned and doing nothing for several years, has suddenly blowu out the plug and resumed business. Mrs. Mary E. Hold ridge who spent the winter witn relatives In Ypsilanti, Mich., has returned to her home in this city to remain during the summer. Krienke, who confesses that he was Implicated In the murder of William Runyan, the South Bend druggist, waived an examination at bis preliminary examination and was bound over to circuit court without bail. Senator Beveridge has been advised

.hat a postal inspector has recom mended the removal of Darius G. Hogg, postmaster at TJtica, Ind. The Inspector reports that Postmaster Hogg djes not give any attention to his office. The thirtieth snow since the 20th of November fell Thursday night. Oriy two or three of the snows have been very beavy. The total depth of all the snows was about four acd onehalf feet. There were 70 days of good sleighing. Charles Foltz, of Bremen, died Sunday, March 6, on a train while on bis way borne from Dr. Dietrich's sanitarium, at Lookout Mountain, Tenn. His wife is Dr. Dietrich's sister, ne was 52 years old and leaves a wife and six children. James Kennedy, alias James Costello, alias James Yorkey, the man charged by Charles Krienke with ths mur der of Druggist William Runyan of South Bend, served several years in the prison in Michigan City, ne is widely known as a crook. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Parker who were married last week, have gone to housekeeping on a farm two miles north of Plymouth. Mr. Parker resided in Lapaz and his bride was Miss Cora nershberger daughter of Oliver Hershberger, of German township. How can they get ahead of us? Japan has been ordering an immense amount of rice from Manilla, while Russia gets her meat in the United States. Thus, in the homely but expressive colloquillism of the vernacular, we get them coming and going. The Ohio papers evince much distress over polygamy in Utah. Incidentally the Utah papers are consumed with grief about the prevalence of mob lawiic Ohio. Kentucky throws stones cheerfully in both directions, and the battle of the motes and beams goes merrily on. , Mrs.. Eliza Montgomery, mother of the late William Montgomery of this city, died at her home in Chicago, March 9, aged 100 years, 1 month and 24 days. She was born in Ireland Jan15, 1804. She prayed every day of the year 1903, that she might liye to be 100 years old and her prayer was answered. . The intenss cold of the present winter has been disastrous to the bee industry, and many colonies have been frozen, says the Warsaw Times. Bee keepers who were not expecting such a continuous cold season did not properly pack the hives and the bees froze. Many valuable colonies are a total loss. - Disruption has broken out between the senior and junior classes of the Bluffton high school over the question whether dancing is to be permitted at the commencement reception to be tendered the graduating class this year, Many-of the seniors will not attend the reception if the dance is permitted. Mr. and Mrs. John Leighton went to Chicago Friday to brin j their household good? to this city. They will store them here for the present end Urs. Lei jh ton vrill regain with her parents, II r. ted Urs. 'II. V; Hoover. ctre ci-liü Ii n-Zz J.zzV.2 for hii to rcn-lu in CL!;:-o.

The man arrested at Rushville was not Costello. H. V. Shaw is suffering from cancer this winter. Miss Anna Brakel is visiting relatives at South Bend. Miss Stella Johns is visiting her mother at Walkerton. William Phillips of Chicago, was the guest of Miss Dora Fogle Thursday. . Prof. nahn. James W, Maxey and Norman Miller were Bourbon visitors Friday. Mrs.'Mary Linderman has returned to Bourbon after a visit of a few days with relatives In Plymouth. Philip Gordon, of Elkhart, has returned to his home after a visit of several days with Simeon Culp. Mrs. A. Jones has returned to her home in Bourbon after a visit of several days with ber daughters in this city. Mrs. Jacob Hohara went to Argos Friday to visit her" niece, Mrs. Irwin Thompson, who is seriously ill with pneumonia. The warm spring-like rain of Thursday afternoon and evening was followed during the night by a light 'sugar snow."

David netzner, the marshal of Bourbon, with his two children chan ged cars in Plymouth on his way to Rochester Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Harris of Akron, Ohio, have returned to their home after a visit of a week with relatives in this county. John Blain moved back to Plymouth.this week and his residence is now quarantined on 1 account of his hired girl developing a case of genuine smallpox. An Illinois man shot himself the other day because his doctor told him he must give up dancing. The papers said he ,4blew his brains out," but that was impossible. Eev. W. S. Howard preached at Peru Sunday forenoon, and went to Lima, Ind., Tuesday, where he ad dressed the students of the Ilowe military school Tuesday evening. Attorney Davis who left South Bend very mysteriously about six months ago, has been located at Se attle, Washington. He is a son of j Lewis Davis, of West township. Two thousand homes are flooded in the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania. The more we hear from other parts of the country the more we are convinc ed that Indiana is a good state to live in. Clark, son of Al. Chapman, of Ar gos, and Car 1, son of Monroe CbapPman, of Warsaw, arrived in Argos Friday from San Francisco, where they have returned from the Philip, pine service and had been mustered out. Argos JJ 3 Sector. Mrs. Bicknell, who has been here helping (are for her brother, Charles Starke, returned to her home at Grovertown Saturday. Mr. Starke has been in a critical condition for several days on account of blood poisoning following an attack of pneumonia. ' John Godfrey, the last of the fullblooded Indians of the branch of the Miamis in Indiana was shot and killed about 10:30 Friday night by his' son, John, in a saloon which the old man conducted on the Indian reservation, along the St. Mary's river, southwest of Fort Wayne. The Argos Reflector says Francis Drake and Elias Can nam arrived home Sunday evening from their, three year's sojourn with Uncle Sam's boys in the Philippines. They left Manila early in January and were but recently mustered out at "San Francisco, coming home via thevsoutheru states. Grover Cleveland has applied for membership in the Masonic fraternity and in a short time will be gl7en the first three degrees at once. The former president has taken the course of instruction, and was to have been initiated several weeks ago, but a postponement followed the death of his daughter, Ruth. John McMaster, who has been in Chatanooga since November, says there has only been eight days-this winter that the mercury was lower than 40 above zero. The coldest day was 14 above and people commenced making garden ten days ago, yet all the old settlers are complaining that It has been ona of the longest coldest winters they ever saw. A man thought to he James Costello. who is wanted for the murder uf William Runyan at South Bend, was arrested at Rushville Thursday night. The man gave his name as Henry Morris and says he has bgen employed at Xenia, O., for the past six weeks. In size, appearance and age and in the loss of a finger tip he corresponds with the description of Costello. The Supreme court decided Thursday that when lots fronting on a street have been sold to pay an assessment for the cost of improving them under the Barrett law and have proved insufficient, the lot3 lying beck of them, but within 150 feet of the improvement, may be sold to pay it, although the owner of such lots never received znj direct notice of the improvement and t-e zzzzzzzzt did cot mention tnj prc-exty tut thetbutt 1--

rank Lamson of Culver spent Frl day night in this city. Owen Uuger, of Bourbon, transact ed business in Plymouth Saturday.

Mrs. Etta Bryant .ind children went to Rochester to visit over Sunday. Daniel Voreis and James W. Maxey did business in Bourbon yesterday. . -Mrs. James A. Gordon of Lapaz, is visiting relatives aLd friends at Areola this week. The price of wheat seems likely to remain near the dollar mark for several months. Miss Bertha Glass hasgontj to Wanatah where she expects to be employed for several weeks. E. Caudle has gone to Mentone for a visit of a week. He thinks some of moving to that place. Frank Long got a fine thorough bred bull terrier pup by express from Benton Harbor Saturday. Cal Shakes and J. n. Matchette, two of Bourbon's most prominent citizens were Flymouth visitors Saturday. Miss Effie Dow has returned to Columbia City after a visit of a week, with her parents near Teegarden. . It is said that the Lakeside Knitting company will remove its large factory from Michigan City to Elkhajt. E. Bechtol who resided two miles northwest of this city for several years is visiting friends and relatives in this county and Starke. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Chase and daughter came down from Chicago to visit over Sunday with their parents, Mrand Mrs. R. A.Chase. Patrick "Hursen is getting along very nicely considering the serious injuries he sustained when bis team ran away a few days ago. FOR SALE: A Webster's International Dictionary. The very latest and best. Patent index "and full sheep binding. At this office. C. E. Gordon, who has been visiting bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gordon near Lapaz returned to his home at Ray, North Dakota, Monday. Persons in Marshall county desiring contracts to supply the II. J. Heinz Co. with pickles the coming season may obtain thera at the store of Haag Brothers Plymouth, Itfd. 24t4 The correct name of Costello, the supposed murderer ot Runyan, is John Kinney. ' He was born in Warsaw and worked for a time several years ago on train O of the Pennsylvania railroad. Wheat prices here and abroad have advanced on the government farm reserve estimate. Corn moves up on buying supposed to be for Armour. Oats yield a little. Provisions about hold. Miss Laura Baker, who is employed in the candy factory at Zlon City has returned to the Dowie headauarters after a visit of six weeks in Plymouth with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Baker." Mrs. George Myers, of near Donaldson, has returned from a visit with her father, Dr. Caillat, at Aurora, 111., and reports him seriously ill with stomach trouble complicated with other diseases. George Soice, aged twelve, years, son of Milton Soice of this city broke bis leg at the ankle Friday evening while turning handsprings down an embankment with some companions of about the same age. Eighty farmers in Wells county subscribed $50 each for a canning factorÄ and established a plant in Bluffton eleven years ago. In two years they were $12,000 in debt through mismanagement. They have been struggling along ever since and now their indebtedness is $55,650, which the stockholders will.be compelled to pay. "March is often the month during which wheat in the ground is exposed to its greatest danger. " When the soil becomes dry and heavy winds set in, the ground is blown away f romthe roots. That proves very injurious to the growing wheat and often destroys the fond hopes and expectations of the farmer. Thus far nothing of the kind has happened, and the danger referred to may perhaps be entirely averted. If you are to work well you must sleep well. If you are to keep your health and strength and youth to carry your powers of work with you to the last you must sedulously pay court to your pillow. It will commonly be found that the men who carry their years lightly are men who possess the faculty of sleeping at will. If you have much work to do you must not count time spent in sleep to be time lost. "It Is time gained. It is an essential part.of the duty of the day. State Chemist Walker of Nebraska after spending several weeks in analyzing tomato catsup and strawberry jam. states that enly one brand of catsup was found which was made from tomatoes and was not artificially colored. Pumpkin was found to form the basis of all the others, and th$.

coloring is attained by means of coal tar dyes; Alleged strawberry jam in a number of cases he found was made chiefly from pumpkin, colored with coal tar dye3 cud containing a precervative la the fcrea of benzole. Timothy eced vro3 also found tD be an ini wviiv U Iii Lv4mv Kr f

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Names of the Firms Who Will Supply the Public Schools of Indiana. MILLION OF MONEY INVOLVED Surprised in the Awards Brothers Near Nashville Prepared for YV h i tea ps - Notes. Indianapolis, March 11. After a meeting fraught with argument as to 1 he merits of the books "submitted as san:plcs, the state board of education has awarded the contract for furnishing school books for the Indiana schools for the next five years and succeeded in l?reakin the alleged school book combination holding the present contract. The contract for the PTimer and the series of five readers wont to the Indiana School Book company; the contract for the arithmetics to I), c. Neath & Co., and the contract for tlie series of efght copy-books to Eaton & Co. The contract for the primary geography went to the Macmillan companj and for the advanced geography toGimi & Co. -The value of the books contracted for is nearly $1,000,000. lHsget Surprise of the Award. The books had been revised under the direction of the board of education, and it -was thought that the board would hesitate to change a scries already in use in the Indiana schools, with which the teachers were perfectly familiar. The biggest surprises of the aware vrcre the contract for the arithmetics and the turning down of the proposal made by Silver, Buirdette & Co. It was on the contract for the arithmetics that the most vigorous fight was made. It was expected that the fight on the arithmetics would be between Silver, Burdette & Co., and some other publishing house. The board refused to readopt either of the re vised books of that firm, preferring the books of D. C. Heath. Miss Nebraska Cropffcy, superintendent of the primary department of the Indlanapolisschools, is one of the authors of thearithinetics published by y Silver, Burdette & Co. Her bock vras very popular with tha Indiana superintendents. Indiana School Book Company. The Indiana School Book company has held part or all of the Indiana school book contract since 1&S9. Samuel Murdock, of Lafayette, is fhi president of th company, and Ediward Hawkins, ol Indianapoll, the secretary. The fact that so many Indiana men are associated with thia company, and th fact that the readers have been in use for s long, were believed to be in favor of that company. PETRO BROTHERS ARE "GAME Tired of Whit cap Derlltry Thy Annoanca That They Ar Kadj fmr Any Sort of Treable. Nashville, Ind., March 11. The Petro brothers, who are again being annoyed by threats of "whitecapplng," and who sleep with their rifles within easy range ready to do battle if attacked, are lawabiding, and they have served notice that they will resist to the death any further attempt to annoy them. The youngest cf the four boys is 22 years old. Last fall, while in Hamblen township, they were an noyed by anonymous threats, the ani mus for which could not be traced. To avoid difficulty they changed their home to Johnson township. While still in Hamblen township they slept night after night In the open tield, constantly on the alert against surprise by unknown enemies, and they are now taking similar precautions in their new 'soma Mrs. B. Bower' f Arm BroXen. Mr. and Mrs. Bing Bower were coming to town Saturday to -eat' dinner with their mother, Mrs. Isaiah Bower, who was celebrating her 65th birthday; just as they reached the fair grounds the king-bolt dt the buggy broke, the vehicle pulled apart and the horses traveling rapidly threw the occupants to the ground with great force and Mrs. Bower's right arm was broken just iielow the shoulder. Mr. Bower held tbe team and prevented a runaway. Dr. Stephens set the broken arm and the patient is doing as well as could be expected. STATE OF OHIO. CTTI OP TOLEDO 'i LUCAS COUNTY. v 8S Frank. J. Cheney, makes oath that he is eeaior partner ot the firm of F J, Chene? & Co., doing buisness in the City of Toledo, County and State afore said, snd that eaid firm will pay the Bum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every caee cf Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use. of Hairs Catarrh Cure, . Frank J Cheney. Sworn to, before me and eubecribed in my presence, this 6th day of Decena-ember,-A. D. 18S6. . s j A. W. Gleason, j seal Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take flail's Family Pills for constipation: Thertot Witch Hazel. The nama Witch Hazel is much abused. E. C. De Witt & Co. Chicago are the inventors of thd original and only Witch Hazel Salve. A certain cure for cuts, burns, bruises, eczema, tetter, piles. etc. Thsra are many counterfeits of thia ealve, some of which are dangerous phib they era worthless. In buyiDg Witch Hazel Cilva c:e that tha ntrna is ca theioox end a curö b csrfcan. bold

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" I have the pleasure to announce to you that I have moved my Merchant Tailoring Establishment to the Old State Bank Building on North Michigan Street, where I can accommodate you better than ever before. My stock of Woolens is complete. You can find everything here in the line of Suitings and Pantings in black and blue; in fact everything that a first class Tailor Shop can show you. The same low prices will prevail, and your orders will be executed right here on my own premises no Chicago make. Come and see me in my new quarters whether you buy or not. Don't forget the place the Old State Bank Building.

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