Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 April 1904 — Page 7

We Have Moved From Laporte Street to our hew headquarters in the Speicher Block on nichigan Street, just one square north of Post Offfce. We now have the largest hardware store in the county and carry the Finest Line of Goods in this part of the State. We invite you to call and see us. Respectfully, Astley & Hess.

TEbe Tribune, HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Advertisements to appear lnTDE TK1B DNE mcjt be in before Tue? day noon to lniure tneir appearance Id the issue of that week. Plymouth, Ind., April 28, 1904. I LOCAL NEWS f o Ü Mfss Mabel Strunk visited at In wooi last week. Mrs. G. W. Stirider and Mrs. Ernest II. Shrider visited in Valparaiso last .week. N April 30, is the last day on which to file affidavits for mortgage exemptions. Miss Luemma Hess was here from Ohio to attend the Houghton-Cxk wedding. Dr. Ringle of Tippecanoe, has engaged in the business of raising Brahma chickens. Lamson has moved bis restauraat to the list room north of the old state bank building. David II. Bowles went to Argos last week to do some work for his father, Thomas M. Bowles. Toe Modern Woodmen have organized a lodge at Culver with twentyone charter members. Mrs. B. F. Rouch. and daughter Gladys have returned from a visit of several days at Warsaw. The Odd Fellows hall at Argos will be dedicated Tuesday, April 26. An immense crowd is expected. Mrs. Elmira Xulf and daughter came frjm Fort Wayne last week to visit the family of George Stultz. Eight applicants for increase of pension were examined by the pensioh board in this city last Wednesday. Henry G. Thayar is 70 years old and is still almost as vigorous as when he came to Plymouth fifty years ago. The Wilderness public school and Sunday school which weref closed on account of smallpox have opened again. The Goshen Democrat says wheat Is almost a total failure in Elkhart county if farmers know what they are talking about. Miss Edna Capron went to Xorth Judson last week to visit Miss Bollman and will also visit at Knox before returning home. Luther Helpman of Warsaw, trans- . acted some business In Plymouth last werk and went from here to Argos to look after nis farm. A boy in Jersey City has been taking time by the fcrelock: He. stole a watch and sold it to get money to go to the St. Louis fair. Money is reported easier in Chicago than at any other time this year, the rates being quoted at 4 to 5 per cent, with the bulk of loans at 4J. Mrs. n. B. Allen left for Alabama Thursday afternoon to join her husband who is managing tbelleinz pickle One of the most valuable relics to be exhibited in the government building at the world's fair is Thomas Jefferson's sun-dial made by Jefferson himself. Rev. L. E, Knox and family left Bourbon last week for Albion, Ind. Mr. Knox having been assigned to Albion by the Methodist conference, for the ensuing year. The senior high school class was entertained last Wednesday evening by Rudolph Shakes. A splendid supper was served and all the members seemed exceedingly happy: The people who induced the czar to make warhaye been sidetracked and are to have no share in the glory, if there is any. Apparently there is such a thing- as poetic justice. After all this weather is not so bad when one thinks of the deep snow and extreme cold in the East. People can stand a whole lotwhen they know that there are others not so happy. John Baglsy died at the home of his sister, Mrs. nammon in Milwaukee at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. We have no particulars except that the remains Were interred at Milwaukee. A hen's egg with a wrinkled small end simply indicates that it holds a a rcc:tcr. A hen is always inclosed I'V.n the egg with a smooth end. I:: loth eggs taste alike. Each" bzs llz proper share of phosphorus, olein, turnen, sulphur, . casein and czzt-Cirins.

Miss Clara Feiser wenttoArgos Frday, William Beeber was called to Cay

pool Friday by tne severe illness of his sister. Miss Walters, of South Bend, stop ped here on her way to Walnut to visit relatives. The deadly germ isn't half so deadly to the consumption of ice cream as the deadly cool weather. Kansas is already looking about for harvest hands. She is evidently proceeding on the supposition that there is going to be warm weather. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Deane, who have resided in the Drummond property on North Michigan stieet for sometime, are preparing to move to Englewood. Notoriety-seeker William Jennings Bryan has rented a hall in Chicago for the purpose of making known his objections to the platform of the New York democracy. Mrs. Eliza McCormick has returned to her home at Decatur, Mich., after spending several days with her aunt, Mrs. Henderson and the family of D. E. Snyder in this city. April blizzards, with six inches of snow, upset the plans of the world's fair managers in St. Louis, but the work will be rushed to have the opeaing on time. The storm covers the East and South. Mrs. Charles M. Ruhman and son, Myroh, arrived from Chicago Friday morning for a visit of ten days with Mrs. Ruhman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Lauer and other relatives in Plymsuth. DrDurrhad his gasoline launch, the Sentinel D., hauled down from Plymouth and put it in the lake this week. It is a good boat and will make a fine addition to the large number of power crafts on Lake Maxinkuckee. Culver Citizen. A Virginia mob shot at u, negro more tlhan one hundred times, but he was safely landed in jail for all that. Southern mobs are certainly no longer made up of 4,prominent citizens" or sv.cn disgraceful marksmanship would not be exhibited. Tney say that the planet Mars is suffering from another water famine and that the inhabitants of the plant have been irrigating. Residents of the recently flooded and still damp districts wish, perhaps, that Mars had a little of their surplus. The Anderson, Ind., Boys' Band will walk from that city to the world's fair, where It will play In the Indiana buildin? on Indiana day. The trip will require about a month, and the boys will give concerts in each town through which they pass. . The headless body of a man was found by the side of the B. & O. tracks in McCool Wednesday morning. About two rods away was the head which had been severed by the pilot of the engine. The man is a stranger and mystery surrounds the death. The hanging of a bunch of anarchists in Chicago a few years ago bad a most wholesome effect on that branch of lawbreakers, and the hanging of a trio of robbers and murderers in the same city Friday will quite likely produce a similar effect on the criminals of this class. A kitchen shower on the spider web plan was given Miss Jennie "Wickey at the home of W.G. Hendricks last Wednesday evening. About twenty young ladies were present, refreshments were served and Miss Wickey was the recipient of many useful presents, valuable to begin married life with. The average u: an eats from two to three times as much as is required , to keep him in healthy, physical and mental condition, according to Director R. H. Chittenden of the Sheffield scientific school of Yale, In a paper read before the National Academy of Science. Last Sunday at high nooa occurred the marriage of Miss Myrtle Wolford and Arthur Hatfield, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolford, Rev. Rittenhouse officiating. Relatives to the number of 78 were present to witness 'the ceremony and congratulate the bride and room. Bourbon Advance. - J The Supreme Court has declared that it is for the township trustee to dertermine (subject to an appeal to the county superintendent, what '.schools shall be maintained in his township and which of the schoolhouscs shall be closed for lack of pupils, (cnveyccccs being furnished to carry ttz children cf the district to another c:-ed.

. When he acquires the talking habit maybe Parser will be a wonder. It was that way with Mark Hanna. Mrs. S. A. !3rewer, who attended the Houghton-Cook wedding, returned to her home at Warsaw Friday. Mrs. Frank Wiltfon of near Lapaz, and Mrs. Schuyler WilfDng of Lakeville, visited at W. II. Love's Fiilay. L. J. Iless went toGoshen Friday to attend the funeral of his uncle, Israel Hess, who died Tuesday aged 86 years. The Rochester Republican positively asserts that the Wabash & Roches-, ter electric railway will be built this summer. Miss Nora Rodgers went to Mentone Friday to attend commencement exercises and visit over Sunday with

relatives. Miss Hazel Wiltfong, daughter of Schuyler WTiltfong, of Lakeville. visited her uncle John W. Wiltfong Thursday. Necessity will provide an additional attraction at the World's Fair. The tent club on the outside of the grounds will make the place look like an old-fash oned camp maeting. A bank failure at New Albany has finally been settled up after eleven years, the depositors getting 33 per cent. It is not said bow much per cent the receiver and attorneys got. Peter Niedemeyer, narvey VanDine and Gustav Marx were hanged Friday for the murder of Frank Stewart, who was killed in the raid in Chicago on the City Railway car barns. Israel ness, aged 86, and a resident of Elkhart county since the thirties, died at his home on Elkhart prairie, Tuesday night, leaving wife, three sons and four daughter. Funeral was held last Friday morning. The rise of the Easter lily Is one of the most sensational features of greenhouse lloriculture in America during the last quarter of a century. American llorists raise about 5,000,000 Easter lillies a year. Articles of incorpDration of the General Chandelier Manufactnriug company, which promises to become one of the important industries of La Porte, have been filed In the office of the secretary of state at IndianapolisThe young man down at Philadelph ia who, by the grafting process, has a nose now where he lacked one some time ago, is receiving numerous offers of marriage from all sorts, kinds and conditions of female candidates for the lunatic asvlum. Nothing makes a kitchen cupboard more attractive than gleaming tinware. A few drops of kerosene will accomplish this. Soap and water will remove the oil and the odor will soon disappear. There is nothing like kero sene to make the wash basin shine. A box car on the Pennsylvania, loaded with paints, caught Are two or three miles east of town Thursday. The train was run to Plymouth as rapidly as possible and the fire department was called out to extinguish the flames which they did after the car and Its contents were about half burned up. Kerosene is effective as a furniture polish. Mahogany can be freed from that blue, snoky film by the use of a few drops of oil mixed with a little water. Carved furniture, which defies the dust cloth, can be made as attractive as new by brushing it with a softhair brush dipped in kerosene. Samuel Crowl, formerly a wealthy merchant, of Elkhart, who recently went Into bankruptcy, has been arrested on a charge of forgery preferred by bis own lawyers, narman & Ziegler. Bogus checks were given in payment for liquor, it is said. Mrs. Gertrude Godfrey, of Ilomesstead, Pa., is visiting her aunt Mrs. Pershing, her uncle James M. Cook, and other relatives In this city for a few days. She is on her way home from West Union, Iowa, where she has been visiting her father, John W. Cook. Brighman H. Roberts, of Utah, told the Senate committe that when he married his third wife he did not tell wives Nos. 1 and 2, for fear the might be embarrassed by the knowl edge. How dreadfully embarrassed the two laidies must bavebeen, then, when he took wife No.3 with him to Washington at the time te tried to break into congress. The cold wave that has swept over the United States last week was more severe In the north ad east than in this region. It Is feared that the snow, sleet and freezing state of the temperature have had the tendency of creating much damage to fruit buds, and at bkst there are prospects of a very light yield of fruit in all parts of the country this year. The North Judson News says a white muskrat being captured un the Kankakee the past winter, which story causes another exchange to report a white coon. This brings the old settler to the front who says that during the early day a white deer was shot on the Ifankakee, and a white crow was often seen in Marshall county, all of which seems strange enoujh, but each are shadowed completely by the amateur naturalist who reports the capr ture of a snow white robin. Now let the can who Fhot a snow white blackbird tell his story.

Remember the Mozart Concert, May 4th. Mrs. Kate Miller went to Bourbon to visit over Sunday. Miss Sadie Powers has gone to Columbia City to make that place her home. Mr. and Mrs. Gottleib Schaal have returned from a visit of a week in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. William Martin went to Hamlet Saturday to visit over Sunday. Miss Buvce has returned to her home in Argos after a visit of a few days in this city with her sister, Mrs. Kleckner.

Mrs. Luella Bell and son, Robert, who were here to attend the CookHoughton wedding returned to Chicago Saturday. II. M. Shirar, who has been a resident of North Dakota for the past ten years, is visiting his brother, E. Shirar, in this city. Al Winbigler a former resident of Plymouth, has moved from South Bend to Walkerton and is engaged In painting buggies. Mrs. S. E. Vaughn of Hammond, a sister of Mrs., James E. noughton who came here to attend the wedding of her niece, returned home Saturday. A serious deficiency is reported in the peanut crup. And the circus tmst will abolish street parades. What kind of a show season are we going to have, anyway? Saturday morning, April 23, will be recollected as the first morning of the' season that looked like spring. Coming after three days of freezing weather it was very welcome. The bill in the New York Legislature to compel bakers to put trademarks bo their pies was lost. It is a legal maxim that a man cannot be compelled to incriminate himself. Erastus Hess, of Akron, Ind., spent Friaay night with his brother, L. .1. Hess In Plymouth, ne was on his way home from Elkhart county where he attended the funeral of bis uncle. There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us that it doesn't behoove most of us to talk about the rest of us, but if you want to vote for the best interests of Plymouth, vote the republican tick et. The Republican party of Plymouth presents, with pride and confidence, a municipal ticket clean and strong and well worth the support of voters Who desire a careful, economical and business like administration of city affairs. The death of Mrs. LIppincott, better known sa Grace Greenwood, removes one who in her prime was a popular authoress in America. She wrote much in both prose and poetry for children and her works are still In great demand. She was over 80 years of age. Joseph Minor of Turkey Creek pralle, stopped here on his way to Argo to visit over Sunday. He says wheat and clover are badly frozen out in the northern part of Kosciusko county and the south part af Elkhart. The wheat crop will be the smallest ever harvested in this section of Indiana. Though on the surface municipal politics Is unusually quiet, yet earnest, quiet work is being done on both sides. The republicans, realizing the strength of their city ticket, feel confident of its complete success if earnest work is done, and every man in the city goes to the polls and votes for the best interests of Plymouth. Nearly all the candidates for county offices "happened" to be in town yesterday, circulating among the big crowd of farmers. The candidates for treasurer are all making a verv strenuous fight on the platform of "returning the interest on public funds to the treasury." The other candidates seem to be going on the general principle thaf'they need the money." Bremen Enquirer. The greatest genius of England and the greatest genius of. Spain died on the same day 288 ytars ago. William Shakespeare and Miguel Cervantes do not belong to England and Spain, but tothe world; it was a curious fate that took them both away from it on April 23, 1616. And by a strange coIncidence another great poet Willam Wordsworth died on the same day in 1850. " There is a prospect that the tobacco premium business will have to go. A bill to prohibit the granting of premurns to the purchasers of tobacco, cigars or cigaretts for the return of coupons or tags Is being considered by the ways and means committer of congress, and it is likely that a favoranle report will be made on the measure. Tobacco men generally are said to be in favor of tne bill. A special from Leayenworth, Kansas says the three Elkhart, Ind., bank wreckers, Justus L. Lrodrick, Walter Brown and Wilson L. Collins, were brought to the United States penitentiary Thursday. Brown collapsed completely and was taken directly to the prison hospital. He was accompanied by his wife. Brodrick and Collins will be assigned to keep books, Brown will be given light work, probably prison florist, the place held by Captain Carter.

( Recorder Harley spent Thursday

night with relatives at Bourbon. Mrs. Ed Tanner went to Chicago to spenC Sunday with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Kleclcner went to namlet to spend Sunday. Mrs. Barbara Cass, one of the old residents of German township is dead at the age of 85 years. Ben Wallace's circus and menagerie will hold its 20th annual, opening at Peru, Saturday April, 30th. Mrs. James A. Hufman went to Wanatah to visit over Sunday with her sister, Mrs. S. C. Rhinehart. Mr. Bryan denies that he will name his choice among presidential candidates in his Chicago speech tonight. Forty-nin'e new railroads are being built, so far this year, In this country, contemplating a total mileage of 4, 168. Rev, J. B. Brooke, returned to his home at Clarke's Hill Friday after a visit of a week with his parents, Rev. C. A. Brooke and wife. Henry Stein, who spent the winter among the scenes of his boyhood in Germany, arrived home last Sunday afternoon. Bremen Enquirer. Tbe Plymouth and Knox high schools crossed bats at the fair grounds in Plymouth Sasurday afternoon. It was the first ball game of the season. It is always safe for voters to' vote for the best men for city officers no matter how ardently they may be pressed to vote for somebody else. Mark Cummins, who superintended the construction of the South BendGoshen electric line, is now in Europe, employed at a big salary by the Westinghouse Electric Co. The anti-saloon people of Nappanee have again won in their fight against applicants for license and the town will continue to be a '-dry" one so far as saloons are concered. D. W. Beall of Walkerton shipped 1,300 cans of milk to Chicago during the past winter. This amounted to 10,400 gallons. All this milk was furnished from 22 cows. Daniel McDonald, says that though his sympathies are with the Hearst element he will support the nominee, and at present he does not think Hearst or Parker will be the candidate. Polygamist Cannon says be is real cold to some of bis wives, owing to hard conditions of the law. It is safe to assume that he has picked out the oldest and homeliest one for icy treatment. John Nicholas Hummel died at his home in Bremen," Sunday, April 17, aged 90 years, 4 mouths, and 22 days. He was a native of Germany, but had lived in the vicinity where he died over 60 years. The Federation of Labor Is urging its members- to "avoid non-union whisky." The Washington Post pertinently suggests that it would be still better if the advice were amended by striking out the -word '-nonunion." North township will hold its annual Sunday school convention Sunday, May 1. Tee convention will open at 10:00 a. m. and a basket dinner will be served at, noon. The program for both forenoon and afternoon Is very interesting. The largest dredged ditch in Pulaski county, was completed Wednesday. It is the Quigley marsh ditch, which with its laterals, is twenty-four miles long, and will drain about 25,000 acres of swamp land, which always has been too wet for agricultural purposes. The Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing company has ordered all of its 90 traveling men to return to the house, as the orders so far this season will take the entire output of the factory for the yearr Last year the sales were $6,000,000, and it is expected that that amount will be increased 25 per cent this year. A Chicago pastor has started a crusade against high priced and irreligious choir singers. He thinKS the churches of the present day are depending too much upon their music as an attraction rather than upon the effectiveness of the preaching. For his part he says. "I would rather have old men and women without any teeth, gumming it,' than high-salaried singers with no thought of religion in their hearts." John Colvln a former Bourbon and Plymouth citizen who for several years past has made hisiiome in Oklahoma, arrived Saturday evening and was kept busy shaking hands with his many friends. Mr. Colvin is looking well and tells us he is doing well. While he does not appear quite as robust as when he left here, yet he informs us that the health of himself and family has been exceedingly good. Bourbon News Mirror. Mrs. Emma Dickson, of Dayton, Ohio, Is visiting relatives in Plymouth and Argos. She is the- only Hying member of v the original Houghton family bich was one of the most promine.it in this city a few years ago, Thomas K., John W. and James E. Houghton all being prominent business men and leading citizens. Mrs. Dickson is 82 years of age and came here to attend the wedding of her niece, Miss Angle K. Houghton to2 Mr. John E; Cock of Connersville, Ind,

MARRIED Cook--Houghton. One of the prettiest weddings ever celebrated in Plymouth occured at the residence of Mrs. James E. Houghton on North Center street, Thursday afternoon, April 21, 1904, when her daughter, Miss Angie K. Houghton,

was united in marriage with Mr. John J Ellsworth Cook, of Connersville, Ind. The room was decorated with flowers and evergreen, was darkened and brilliantly lighted with electricity. Precisely at three o'clock with the song "O Promise Me" and the Mendelsohn wedding march, the bride and groom took their places unattended and the words which made the happy couple husband and wife were spoken by Rev, George A. Pflug, pastor of the Presbyterian church, in the presence of about forty relatives and close friends of Miss Houghton. The bride was dressed in white swiss and carried bride's roses and smilax; the groom was attired in the usual conventional black. After congratulations, all sat down to a wedding dinner that could not be excelled. The table decorations were pink and white and all the rooms and tables were in perfect harmony. The bride was one of Plymouth's most popular young ladies, and best music teachers, beloved by her pupils. She possessed many excellent qualities of heart and mind and was known and respected by as many of our citizens as any other young lady in this city. The groom is a young man whose parents died several years ago leaving him an orphan, but he has won a prominent place in business and society and is one of the principal clerks in the Rex carriage factory at Connersville. Among the guests from out of town were Mrs. Emma Dickson of Dayton, Ohio, an aunt of the bride and the only living member of the original Houghton family. She was accompanied by her grand-daughter Miss Luemma Hess of Dayton. Mrs. Luella Bell and son, Robert, of Chicago, Miss Marie Kellar of South Bend, Mrs. S. A. Brewer of Warsaw, Mrs. John TO THE

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