Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 March 1904 — Page 7

XEbe Gtfbune HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Adrertlsements to appear In TBE TKIB ONE mut be In before Tuesday noon tolnure tnetr appearance Id the issue of that week. Plymouth, Ind., March 31, 1904I & LOCAL NEWS &

Mrs. A. C. Capron is visiting in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Smith are visiting at Lapaz. Frank Reynolds has gone to South Bend for a visit of several days. R. A. Chase left for southwest Kansas last week to look after his oil interests. Mrs. W. II. Craig has returned from a visit of ten days with her children in South Bend. The dog tax collected and turned into the dog fund of this county amounts to 31002. Mrs. Mary Downing djed at her home in Bourbon, March 18, aged 79 years and 5 months. Mr. and Mrs. George Schearer went to Elkhart last week to visit with relatives. The beef trust has announced another increase in the price of meats. But then, that is an old, old story. James McGuire has returned to South Bend after a visit of a week with relatives and friends at Argos. Mr. an3 Mrs. Ferdinand Fribley and family came up from Bourbon to attend the funeral of Edgar Thayer. Jacob Martin, who spent the winter in Oregon, has returned to Marshall county and is now at his home in Arges. Ilarvey J. Curtis of Argos, and .t. A. Molier of Plymouth, are seeking the democratic' nomination of prosecuting attorney. Mrs. J. E. Houghton and Mrs. J. D. Chaplin went to Warsaw last week for a vi:it of a few days with relatives ia that city. John Bagely is critically ill at the home of bis sister In Milwaukee. He has been suffering, from consumption two or three years. The miners' wage schedule has been signed and Indianapolis chosen as the city in which to hold the next joint convention in 1906. Stepnea Coleman and wife, of Burr Oak, who were both seriously ill for several months are almost well again. They are pioneers of Marshall county. Mrs. Roxana Wince has returned to Warsaw after a visit of a few days with Mrs. Chaplin Wickizer and the family of Dickson Tnompson in this city. Mrs. Tapley who had been visiting relatives and friends in this city since the funeral of her sister, Mrs. W. C. Edwards, returned to her her home at Elkhart todiy. John Osborn says the mercury reached 20 degrees below zero January 3. at Lake Maxinkuckee, and December had eight days of zero weather, January 11 and February 8. Mrs. Shafer, widow of the late John John Shafer and mother ut Hiram Shafer of this city, died at her home about three miles south of Plymouth last Thursday morning. She was about 81 years old. There has been plenty of talk about the seedless apple, which a Western man has succeeded in producing. But nobody appears lo have asked the only question of real importance is it good to eat? While State Geologist Blatchley formulates opinions that the gas field In Pike and Gibson counties is of insufficient strength to supply Indianapolis, the Petersburg well continues to blow off the caps as fast as they can beputou. "There are no middle-aged ladies," said a speaker at the Chicago dressmakers' convention. A woman asserts that she is young until she is ready to confess that she Is old. The golden mean has no charm for the fair sex. , Mrs. Adolph Mohm, who will sing in the sacred concert, sang recently at a musical In South Bend- The South Bend Tribune speaks very enthusiastically of her singing and mentions her as being an artist of rare ability and excellent training. The remains of Mrs. Samuel W. Craige were brought to this city from INappanee Wednesday and were taken to tne residence of Calvin Switzer on West Garro street where funeral services were held at 2.30 p. m. Thursday conducted by Rev. Mr. nooke of Nappanee and Re. Geo. A. Pflug of this. city. Kellle Ely," the pioneer sensational reporter of New York and the woman who won great notoriety by her flying trip around the world, , has just been left a wealthy widow Sy the death of her husband, Robert Seamen, a millionaire merchant of New York. cica married 'Nellie Ely, " known In privets life -3 Elizabeth Ccchran, ia Cbl" jo In 1835, xihza thz bride xrzz t-Irty yc-ra eld tnd th3 groom C?TCZ.t7-t"0.

. J. W. Maxey Is able to be out again. Mrs. John W. Parks and daughter spent Saturday at Bourbon. Judge Capron is In Laporte trying the water works case again. S C. Greer, of Bourbon, went to South Bend to visit over Sunday. Chasteen Pickerl, of Green township transacted business at Donaldson last week. Rufus Lee and J5uy Lowry of Walnut, have gone to Illinois to work on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lamson came up from Culver Friday and remained over night. Robert Smith and family have moved from the Packard farm to Kirby,Ohio. Miss Hannah Gault of Mentone is visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Hallock in this city. II. G. Thorn, of Forrest, 111., visited his friend, C. W. Baker, in Plymouth Saturday. Kaley and Green are laying the foundation of a new building in Culver to be used as a pop factory. Dr. Kaszer reports a baby girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Poor, born Friday evening. Joseph Bergman of Mlshawaka, spend Sunday in this city with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bergman. Mrs. A. J. Egolf of Argof, was stricken with paralysis last week and telegrams were sent to her children. E. W. Hess and family have moved back from .South Bend to Walnut township and now reside on the E. W. Hess farm. Mrs. H. B. Allen and her niece, Miss Mata Garverof Walnut, who ha bten visiting here, went to Grovertewn last week. The Novelty factory was closed at noon Wednesday until Saturday morning on account of the death of Edgar M. Thayer. The ice on Lake Maxinkuckee is still quite firm and the Culver Herald thinks the lake will not be clear of ice before the middle of April. Stephen A. Knoblock of German township, has added his name to the list of democrats who want a nomination for county treasurer. FOR SALE: A Webster's International Dictionary. The very latest and best. Patent index and full sheep binding. At this office. Mrs. Cora Uunderwood, who had been here since the death of her mother, Mrs. W. E. Leonard, returned to her home at South Bend Saturday. Newton W. Gilbert was nominated for congress on the first ballot at Ft. Wayne last week. He had live more votes than both other candidates. Theresa Kruyer is home for a weeks vacation with her parents Mr. and Mrs; Peter Kruyer. She is attending commercial school at South Bend. Miss Jennie Hathaway has returned to her home at Louisville, Ky., after a visit of a few weeks with her sister Mrs. nenry Frey man, west of town. A Western girl sued a man for $10,000 for breach of promise. He married her to avoid judgment, and now she issuing for divorce and immense alimony. Ira Buck, of Peoria, Illinois was in Chicago on business last Wednesday and he ran down to Plymouth and visited over night with his brother In this city. Messrs. Joseph, John and Thomas Taylor of White county, who had been attenaing the funeral ofa Jonathan Taylor at Etna Green visited at W. A, Beldon 's Saturday. April 26, the eighty-fifth anniversary of th founding of the Independent Order f Odd Fellows, has been set as the,, ay for the dedication of the new hall cently erected by Argos Lodge of I. O. Ö. F. No, 263. The fast Vandalia World's Fair trains to be put on April 30, will leave Plymouth about" o clock in the evening and get to St. Louis at h o'clock the next morning. The returning trains will leave St. Louis at 8 o'clock in the v evening and arrive at Plymouth about 7 o'clock the next morning. In a jury drawn in Chicago last Wednesday to weigh evidence in a case where labor and capital were opposed, nine of the twelve men declared to Judge Julian W. Mack that .they would not consider his instructions on the law in the case, but would find a verdict in favor of the workmen. All were ordered from the jury box by the Judge. The verdict in the case was in favor of the employers. Laporte business men who used commutation tickets to Chicago and lost tbem by permitting other persons than the one whose name was written on the ticket to ride on tbem, will

prosecute the company for fast running through, the city limits of Laporte thereby getting revenge. The appellate court has decided that the owner of land abutting on a public highway, owns to the center of the road, and when a person stops ia front of his premises and undertakes to oe the land on his side of the road for some purpece other than traveling, he can be vrarccd c3 by the owner c3 b llzV.z to a s If he rztizz3 to

Mrs. H. L. Slngrey went to Argos Friday for a visit of a few dsys, Daniel Yoreis and Prof. Hahn transacted business in Bourbon Friday. Miss Jeanette Myers has returned to Bourbon after a visit with Miss Grace McColl and other friends in Plymouth. Ä Mrs. Caroline Carpenfr was called to Argos Friday by the illness of her grandson who was lying at the point of death with erysipelas. Mrs, Mary Carmichael, agent of the state bjard of charities, has returned to Indianapolis after a visit ofa few days at Brightside. Mr! and Mrs. Aaron Marrsand Mrs. Jennie Protsman of near Twin Lakes went to Warsaw Friday forenoon fcr a visit of a few days. narrison Horner has had his pension increased from eight to twelve dollars a month. He is a veteran who deserved an Increase some time ago. Charles Humphrey has moved to the property which he recently purchased of II. A. Brenner on Garro street, and one block west of the Blain bridge. Dr. Fulkerson the missionary from Asia home on a furlough, made an excellent and instructive talk at the Methodist church Thursday eveninsr. Second Lieutenant Clarence Rohrer, of the Elkhart military company, has just sent in another resignation, bis first having not been given attention. W J. Banks, who organised the grange which was Instituted in this city Thursday night, has gone to Argos where he expects to organize a grange in a few days. Prof. Max Kilian, late of Chemnitz, Germany, is an expert of great renown on the pipe organ. Come and hear him at Sacred Concert German Church, April 6tb, 1904. Nathan Freeman and fami'y nave moved from Piarceton to this city and reside near the Yandalia station. Mr. Freeman is proprietor of the barber

shop under Rinard's drug store. Charles Alleman, who accompanied the remains of hfs grandmother, Mrs. Edwards from Mankato to this city, went to Tippecanoe to look after his farm there and then returned to his home in Minnesota. A court at Anderson has judicially held that a hors2 suffering from "heaves" is worth $12.50. It is not thought, however, that the fixing of this price will materially increase the demand for such animals. Mrs. D. A. Elick and daughter, Mrs, Frank Hendricks, left for Nappanee Saturday to visit several days with the family of P D. Burgener and other relatives in that vicinity. A cyclone killed and injured many persons, demolished property, brought street cars to a standstill and wrecked telephone and telegraph systems in Indiana Harbor, Hammond, East Chicago and neighboring cities last night. One end of the . Republic's steel mills at East Chicago wa3 blown down by the storm Thursday night and the roundhouse at Hammond: - was destroyed. Many houses were wrecked in Hammond East Chicago and Indiana narbor. Clarence Phebus, the young man who had his hand taken off last summer at the Acker mill, left last Thursday for Huntington where he entered a school of telegraphy and will learn to .become an operator. Bourbon News Mirror. A contributor has sued narper's Weekly for $10,000 damages because the editor cut his 10,000-word story to 4,800. words. The decision will be anxiously awaited by those who wield the blue pencil in the interest of sufe rincr humanity. A dispatch from Chicago says that there are now seven condemned prisoners in the county jail and twentynine awaiting trial for murder more than were ever before confined for this crime since ice jail was built. The city is, inched, growing. . L. E. Force of Dayton, Ohio, a biotber of Mrs. Samuel Craige, her cousin, Mrs. Douglas of Co esse, Ind., Mrs. Price, Mrs. Flagart and Mrs. Samuel Fr. vert, of Nappanee, were among these from a dlst, iice who attended the funeral of Mrs. S. W. Craige. The Porter-Deipart bastardy trial which attracted large crowds last week was decided In favor of the plaintiff, Miss Capitola Deipert. The parties are cousins, aged sixteen and seventeen years. The defendant is a son of Daniel Porter a former resident os Plymouth now residing at Culver. A gas well struck , at Petersburg, Ind., Monday wa3 put under control after the fourth attempt and remained quiescent until late In the evening, when, for the fourth time the ;acker was blown out. The pressure has increased from 600 to 800 pounds and the estimated daily output from 2.000,000 to 4,000,000 feet. The roar of the well is heard plainly throughout the, .city, even through closed doors, ami in the open may be heard for miles. The heavy tools weighing hundreds of pounds were blown away from the mouth of the pipe 3 If they vrcre feathers and several drillers narrorrly escaped Injury frcn t2 Rylr j loolz.

Gus Elick returned to Elkhart Men -day. Mrs. Joseph Morelock and son went to South Bend Saturday. . Itev. J, F. Appleman came up from Mexico to spend Sunday. Mrs. James Seymour went to Stllwell to visit her sister over Sunday. We hope the cold wave that struck us last week Is the last of tie season. '' Mrs. Mary Hold ridge went to Walkerton tc visit friends and relatives. Mrs. Claude Reubelt and little, son went to Bourbon to visit ovei Sunday. . Mrs. D. C. Smith went to South Bend to spend Sunday with her daughters. Jacob Heartz and daughter have returned to their home in southern Illinois. Homer Stanton of Knox, visited friends in Plymouth Friday afternoon and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Shafer attended tne funeral of their grandmother at Argos Saturday. Rev. R.G. Upson returned Saturday from Warsaw where be had been holding bible meetings. Mr. and Mrs.' W. A. Beldon attended the funeral of Jonathan Taylor at Etna Green Friday. Mrs. House and Mrs. Zellers have returned to South Band after a visit with relatives at Tyner. Mrs. C. T. Allen, who has been t ere since Mr. Allen got his shoulder dislocated, has returned to Chicago. Mrs. C. D. Shobe and daughter Frances, came up from Rochester Friday for a visit oi a few days in Plymouth. A Boston paper announced that the winter snowfall there amounted to 80 inches, and the next day it snowed 3 inches more. The Marshall County Grange was

organized at Burkett's hall Thursday night with a large membership of representative men and women. S. C. Todd, the Argos lumberman has returned from a business trip in southern Michigan. He says he found the roads very rough and muddy. Otis Kebert was brought down from South Bend Saturday suffering with rheumatism so badly that he had to be carried from the train to a buggy. The Christian Church people have engaged the Simon's hall over Marshall's store where they will hold reg ular services on Sundays hereafter. Game Wardens Smith and' Fitch went to Logrnsport to spend Sunday and expect to spend next week on the Kankakee. They captured eight gill nets at Twin Lakes. The time for the selection of candi dates fcr the approaching municipal election is near at haod, and both parties are casting about anxiously for the most available timber. William Rouch and family who moved from Bourbon township to Salt Lake City, Utah, about a year ago write to their friends that they are much pleased with the climate ofthat city. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Shafer mother of Hiram, Israel, Leonard, Martin and William Shafer, was held at the Advent church in Argos at eleven o'clock Saturday forenoon. She was 82 years old. On Wednesday evening, March 23, at 8 o,clock, Mr. Elias Knepp. and Mrs, Emma Stover, of Teegarden, were united in marr age at the pleas ant country home of the groom ttjree miles north of Walkerton. Another murderer was taken to Michigan City from Terre Haute, Thursday, nis name is Jerry Duggins. He murdered Mrs. Ramsey and her two children by cutting their throats, ne will be hung July 8. Sylvester Witmer, residing eight miles north-east of Plymouth, was cutting down a tree and In some man ner got in way of it when it fell, nis arm and shoulder were ' badly crushed and his skull fractured. He is now in a critical condition. A Chicago shoe manufacturing company has bought six acres of ground at South Bend, and will put- up a large factory there: They came to South Bend without a bonus, believing that the shipping facilities of the town and prospect of freedom from labor troubles would more than pay them for making the change. The fact that Governor Durbin löst $9,0D0 of bard cash which he put up for the Elkhart Power company was brought out in the bank trial. It is evident that Walter Brown was able to hoodoo" some other people besides those whom be induced to start a third paper in Plymouth . because the Plymouth Tribune, would not say tnaC he was as pure as an angel of light. Damage from Thursday night's wind and rain storm mounted into the millions, reports from outlying centers showing that the ruin in Chicago's outskirts was but asmall'part of the destruction caused by the tornado.' The tempest was general In Michigan. Wisconsin and northwestern Indiana, and cloudbursts in its wake welled the rivers until floods are spreadir ruin and devastation In the

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G: A. Barlow visited In Argos over Sunday. Walter C. Fodell has gone to Culver where he has secured employment. Mrs. John Matthew has returned to her home at Culver after a visit in this city with the family of her son, W. II. Matthew. The editor of the Starke County Republican mourns the loss of his enerable father, Jacob Moorman, whose derth occurred March 21 in Alabama. Deceased was born in New York in 1825 and moved to Indiana in 1850, locating in Carroll county. Two years ago he located in the South in tha hope of being benlfited by a milder climate. His remains were buried near the old homestead in Carroll county.

P MOSTUARY David Wclborn. David Welborn, one of the old residents of West township,, died at the residence of his son, Mehla Welborn at 3 o'clock Friday morning March 25, aged 74 years, 5 months and 5 days. Mr. WTelborn was born in Preble county, O., removed with his parents to Indianapolis at the age of fifteen years, and came to Marshall county foaty-eight years ago. He was a prominent farmer, a gocd citizen and bad the respect and es teem or a large circle of friends. He leaTes a widow, two sons, two daughters, a stepson and some other relatives. Funeral services were held at the Dunkard church of which he had been a rrember many years, Sunday at 10:30 a. m. Death of Mrs. Stay. News has been received here of the death of Mrs, Evalyne Gracia Seay who died at her home near Salem, Mo., February 29. She was the only daughter of the late Judge W. G. Pomeroy of Rolla, Mo., and was born In Plymouth, Nov. 29, 1844. She moved with her parents tc Mis souri when she was eleven years old, her mother d cd when she was seventeen and at the age of eighteen she was united in marriage to E. A. Seay a young lawyer who became promi nent in his prof ession and was a member of an excellent family bis brother being governor of Oklahoma. Her husband died twenty years ago, but Mrs. Seay held her family together until all except two sons were married at the time of her death. She is spoken of by the Rolla Herald as a model wife and mother, and a true friend charac terized by a christian spirit, always extending a helping hand to the poor, while all who came in contact with her felt the charm of her presence and were happier and better for hav ing known her. Storm in Kosciusko County. A windstorm, nearly approaching a tornado in intensity, caused consider able damage at Yellow Creek lake and vicinity on Thursday evening. Barns, outbuildings and fences were twisted, torn and Jblown down during the few minutes the cyclone prevailed and the actual damage will amount to several thousand dollars. Robert and Art Haines' barn was totally destroyed, as were nearly all of their fences. Two horses were in the barn during the storm. One was found in the ochard,' some distrnce away, while the other animal was standing on the roof which bad fallen to the grouud, the horse's halter-strap being yet attached to a piece of the fallen timbers of the structure. Neither animal was injured, which seems almost miraculous. The barn of Hiram Parker was un roofed, the building was moved three feet on its foundations and the west portion of the building was entirely blown In. All carriage and farming implements suffered destruction from falling timbers . Other smalibuildings on the place, including cattleshed, windmill and corn crib were blown down. At John Parker's farm the house as well as the barn suffered and a large portion . of the roof of the residence was blown off by the wind. No live stock was Injured in any of the barns. The wind which was almost as f trong as a cyclone, seemed to be confined to a strip about 300 yards in width and a quarter ofa mile in length, and all buildings hi that strip for some distance were wrecked or badly Injured. Warsaw Times. A spring tonic that cleans and purifies and absorbs all poison from the system. Hollistcr's Rocky Mountain Tea will make you well all summer. 35 cents, tea or tablets. People's Drug Store. " republican Reorganization. The republicans of the city of Plymouth met at the Tribune office, Thursday evening, March 24, pursuant to call of Chairman Asplnall and reorganized for the city campaign. There was a large attendance of representative republicans but the only contest was for the position or city chairman. The ballot was & tie between F, E.

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