Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 May 1904 — Page 7

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Zhc tribune. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Advertisements to appear In TBE TKIB VSK mcjt be In before Tuesday noon to Insure tnelr appearance In the Issue of that week. Plymouth, Ind., May 5, 1904 ä LOCAL NEWS Miss Kate Thomas Is visiting.in Rochester. Miss Grace McColl went to Bourbon to attend the funeral of Abraham Brillhart. Moses Beckner, of Argos and Miss Ida Roose, of Sappanee. were married Sunday April 24. Abraham Brillhart died at Bourbon at eleven o'clock Tuesday night, April 26, aged 77 years. Mrs. Frank Tanner went to Arros to visit with her parents and other relatives over Sunday. Dr. Bltchey of DonaTdson and W. B. Rust of Grovertown. transacted business at Plymouth Thursday. S. J. Ilanes who sr. 1 i his farm s utheast of Argos a few weeks ago, has moved to Hartzell, Oklahoma. The MaxlnKuckee Assembly Association has purchased the Assembly grounds consisting of about twenty-six acres, of James V Coombs and wife. The consideration was 83000. Joseph Medbourn, residing just north of Culver, died Monday, April '26, of consumptio i. He was about 40 years of age and leaves a family, The funeral was held Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Payne, who have lived near Bourbon for the past 49 years, celebrated their golden wedding April 20. They were married in Monroe county near Bloomington, fifty years ago. The New York Sun insists that every effort should be made to make Americans of the children of immigrants. This is true, and a similar attempt should be made with children of many natives of this country. George W. Roe. who was found dead In his hovel southeast of Walkerton, was for twenty years a prominent business man of Rolling Prairie. His wife, one son and two daughters are living and are prosperous well-to-do people. The auditor will contract for the construction of the James Marvin ditch in Center, orth, Polk and West townships, on Thursday, May 19. The ditch is an all open one 23 -000 feet in length, containing 3 ,001 cubic yards of earth. Jerry Ad ims residing near Bremen, was showirg some of hi: friends tricks with a silver dollar, Monday, when he accidentally let the coin go down into his throat. Dr. Gist of South Bend, removed it after a difficult- manipulation with surgical instruments. Gustave Mace, the famous Paris detective who died recently, invented for his own use a pair of spectacles, the glasses of which were divided, one part enabling him to see the ground on which he trod, and the other to observe people vjbo were behind him. The school board of Chicago has just made the discovery that three of the school houses brought into the city limits by the annexation process bear the names of men now engaged In the saloon business. Orders have been Issued to re-name these school buildings, Mrs. Frame Lamsonhas bought the Ross House and took possession Thursday. Mr. Lamson will still operate the hotel at Lake Maxinkuckee. Mrs. Lamscn has had twenty years experience In the hotel business and knows well how to cater to the traveling public. v Mrs. Sanford Gordon, who makes . her home with her daughter, Mrs. L. C. Wbisman, south of Argos Is In her 94th year. She Is as act'. ve as mcst persons twenty years younger and can Walk &XX1112 V1U1UUU UCIUJ UlUtU W tlgucd, Che has been a resident of llarLhcll and Falten counties over. 65 yers. . - Major General Peter Joseph G:tcrt2U3, a Civil vzt &eaeral, arrived In lew Ycrlz Tuesday on tha steamer from Antwerp, after aa absence from tbs United States cf thirt7llZ ycm. licit to Gzzzizl Ti-zz C'--l C-t-z--c3 tri3 cczrldcrcd czz cf

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Bourbon has 493 children of school age. Miss Helen Martin is visiting at Knox. Miss Dora Wilson went to Argos for a visit of a few da vs. W. L. Galloway and family went to Kokomo to .visit over Sunday. Mrs. Willis Wright of Walkerton, visited Mrs. Jewell Graves and other relatives in Plymouth Thursday. The vote of Marshall county on the first ballot for governor was, Pentield 6; Hanley 3J: Sayre 2; Taylor 1J. Mrs. Ilarley, mother of Recorder Harley of this city, is seriously ill at her home in Bourbon. Mrs. Catharine Blubaugh was called to Jooesboro, Ina., Friday by the serious illness of sister. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Furry of Chicago came to Plymouth Friday to visit over Sunday with relatives. Plymouth and Laporte high school base ball teams crossed bats at the fair grounds Friday arternoon. The fifteenth annual commencement of the Bourbon township schools will be held at theDavis opera house in Bourbon, May ll W. C. Curtis and family have returned to Chicago arter a visit at Brightside with Mrs. Work, who is the mother of Mrs. Curtis. Tne Culver Citizen is one year old and is an excellent local paper. Marshall county has the best papers of any county of its size In the United States. General U. S. Grant's former resldencs in Galena was presented to that city by General Frederick D. Grant at the commemoration of the war hero's birthday. Winston Churchill became" speechless in the English House of Commons the other xiay. Will Mr. Churchill please come over and accept a chair in our national legislature? 'President - Cunningham is said to have cost the rural mail carriers $120 each. Had he not been too eager congress would have voted the carriers a salary of $840 instead or $720. A St. Louis judge has handed down an opinion that 11 o'clock at night is long enough for a young man to stay with his sweetheart. Are you guilty Lof contempt of court. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Reeve and son Charles, went to Leesburg Friday to visit relatives and attend graduating exercises, Mrs. Reeve's nephew being one of the graduates. Out of Andrew Carnegie's once comfortable fortune he has now only $385,000,000 left. If he lives through a couple of centuries more of his prodIg2.1 philanthropy he will iudeed die poor. In the Forestry building at the World's Fair is an exhibit from a farm ner Petersburg, Ind., of two remarkable beech treks. They are called the Twin Beeches.' They are separarate trees, between which a horseman can ride but twenty feet above the ground they are joined together, forming one top and making a unique arch. . ' On the first ballot for governor at Indianapolis, the result as shown by four adding machines before counties began to change to Ilanly, was as follows: Taylor 373 3-4; Hanly '701,3-4; Sayre, 212 1-4; and Penfieid lV3-4; Before the vote was announced counties began to change to Hanly and on motion of non. Warren G. Sayre Ilanly was declared the unanimous choice of the conyention. The announcements of the death of nenry Shaw and Joseph Medbourn were mailed at Culver Tuesday evening addressed to J. W. Siders. They were received at the postoffice In this city and stamped at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning but were not put In Mr. Siders' box until Thursday morning, preventing their publication in the Dally Tribune of Wednesday and the weekly of Thursday. On the left of the front of the stage, at the republican state convention, sat a row of the fathers of the republican party who attended I the republican state convention of 1856. They were E. B. Wieste, Shelbyville; James D. Con ner, Wabssfc; Milton Garrigus, Koko

mo; Samuel Bruxsl, Noblcsvilb; J. F. Dornell, Greencastle; John Tllson, rnmlin: E. C. Chipsan, Andcrcoa; H. n. Il-rsilton, Greecsburjj; C. B. Jc z::, ITr-clccn; John W. Harriets, rrrclifcrt; Hccry G. Tfczyer, Fljtxuth, z.z'1 J. E. Hc:2, Auburn.

Roy Rhinehart is now night operator, at Grovertown. Mrs. Isaac Thomas, of Fort Wayne, is visiting in this city. Emanuel Price is plastering the new school honse at Donaldson. Mrs. Anderson went to Donaldson Friday to visit over Sunday. Isaac Aode.son is doing some special work in his line at -Valparaiso. Henry Humrichouser and Mrs. Harry Humrichouser ylsited at Pierceton Friday. Jacob Scherer died of pneumonia at his home in Bremen Saturday, April 23, aged 68 years. Misses Berth and Hattie Walters have returned to their hume at Burket after a visit in this city with their sister, Mrs. Fred Kepler. . George Paul has remodeled his restaurant, has some fine new furniture and had a- grand ice cream opeuing Saturday aud Saturday evening. Rev. A. n. Zilmer went to Blackford county Friday to preach and give a few days in the interest of the churches of bis denomination there. a A Pennsylvania man has just married his eleventh wife at the aire of ninety-one. Another one of those polygamists on the installment plan. Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Mayer and Mrs. Mayer All man went to Warsaw Friday to help Mr. Henry Shane celebrate his 7otti birthday. Mrs. Mayer is Mr. Shane's sister. 'Will business and politics mix?" anxiously inquires a contemporary. It will be a sad day for the American republic wheu politics islett to those who have no business except politics. Mrs. Harriet Coulter who was the war widow of David C. Kennedy 'and lost her pension by marrying Mr. Coulter, has been restored to the pen

sion rolls now that she is again a widow. Work is in progress on the trolley line between Wabash and Warsaw, and there is every prospect that the line from North Manchester will be in operation before the end of the summer, The people of L'ifayette are greatly pleased with the nomination of Mr. J. Frauk Han )y for governor and they tendered the republican candidate a public reception at his home Friday evening. - Thomas Craken, of Mishawaka, was stricken with pneumonia last week, and as he was a Cnristian scientist refused to have a physician called, but was 'treated" by a female '-scientist." The funeral was largely attended. The democratic candidates find it pretty bard to Interest farmers these days. Farmers have no time to discuss the merits of candidates and most ot them have already decided what they will do at the primary election. Mr. Weil, official bandmaster of the world's fair, made an effort to provide firstclass music for the fair, but has been compelled by the local union to employ only St. Louis musicians. To

be consistent they ' should play only St. Louis music. s A postal card mailed on April 16, 1872, has ust reached Its destination, having taken thirty-two years to travel just one mile. Anyone who has traveled on Southern railroads will quite believe this story when told that it happened in Tennessee. If you're waking, call me early call me early, mother dear; lay out my muff and furs and things, and bring my artics here. Aud till the furnace up with coal and close the doors to-day; for I'm to be queen o' the May, mother I'm to be queen o' the May! Rev. I. Rothenberger, Mrs. S. J. neck and S. W. Rothenberger of South Bend, passed through Plymouth Thursday on their way to Mulberry, Ind., where they were called by the death of their brother Stepben Rothenberger, who ,died suddenly at his home near Mulberry. The New York city. Federation of Women's Club met the other day and elected a new board of directors, thirteen In number. Deciding that this was unlucky, they voted to reduce the number to twelve. Advanced woman seems not to have advanced as much as she has wished us to believe. Four city tickets have been nominated at South Bend. They are democratic, republican, prohibition and socialist. At the beginning of the campaign betting was in favor of Fogarty, democrat, by large odds, bat now Soccers, the republican candidate for mayor is generally conceded as a winner. Tuesday, April 26. . was the 25th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Spiesshoffer and was also Mr. Speisshoffer's 57th birthday, About thirty of their' friends gathered at their home Tuesday evening spent two or three hours pleasantly and made them some useful and valuable presents. At noon Saturday President Roosevelt rreced an electric button in the green room of the white house at Washington which started the machinery or the world's fair at St. Louis, nearly a ttcrocd mite avvay. The program for tho opening ceremonies at St. Lcub tc-on it 9 a. m. Ply. mouth is on the route over, which this t!::tiiccurr:cü traT:!:3.

Vance Turner spent Saturday at Ar

go?Thomas Himes is visiting relatives in Michigan. John Edwards and family went to St. Louis Saturday. Mr. T. A. Cline, of Warsaw, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. II. M. Hartman , in this city. It was Ilanly against the field, and the field it appears, bad not attended to its feticcsj)roperly. Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Valparaiso visited relatives here Saturday, on way home from South Bend. Mrs. Cora Underwoood has returned to her home at Soutli Bend after a visit with her sisters in this city. Twenty-six iadies and gentlemen from this city attended tfie Masonic banquet and lecture at Culver Friday evening. Miss Hazel Ringyenberg, who has been making her home at Peter Heim's for the past three years, went to Bourbon Saturday tu visit her aunt a few weeks. Mrs. II. M. Hartman and children have returned from a visit of several days with relatives at Warsaw. Miss Edna Bumgardner accompanied them home. Mrs. William Miller and son have returned to their home in Chicago after a visit of a week in this city with Mrs. Miller's sister, Mrs. James DeLoney. Mrs. Carrie Nation, the saloonsmasber, arrived in Chicago on Wednesday and 11, on next Monday, comruence an engagement at a dime mu:eum. This is her first appearance in such a capacity. Her salary is $30 a week. Automobiles have one great advantage over the horse. Tbey don't have to have their tails cut off. Neither can the owners be prosecuted fur cru

elty to their animals. The animals that get hurt are those in front of the michmes. James E. Ilanes, wife and daughter, returned from Fort Wayne Friday evening where they attended the funeral of Harmon Dinkelow, a cousin of Mrs. Ilanes wüo was killed by falling under the wheels of his train near Clark Station. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Durbln who have just gone to housekeeping on West Garro street, were surprised Thursday evening by a crowd of friends who brought with them a 'shower" of articles whicn a young married couple would need. It was a very enjoyable evening for the surprised couple and the surprisers. Official reports show the unprecedented speed of 109.4 miles an hour made by a Michigan Central train carrying President Lcdyard to Chicago, Wednesday. The time was made between Brownsville and Springfield, Ont., 547 miles. According to the duty verified statement of the train dispatcher this establishes the world's record. A wagon and a dead team were found in a ditch by the side of a road, east of Hanna a few days ago. The place where the bodies of the horses and the vehicle lay had been under the wate? when the Kankakee overflowed its banks and so it is thought the man might haye become ditched and drowned, but the body has not been found.. The ownership of the horses is not known. Everybody seemed proud of the Marshall county delegates at the state convention. Every man voted his choice for governor, even Frank Pickerl, who had been instructed for Hanley, decided to vole for his friend "Billy" Taylor on the first ballot. For all the. other offices each delegate voted for the candidate whom he believed was best for the party and would best fill the office. The canvass for the M. E. church debt being about completed, the ladles aid society of that church propose to give a jubilee festival and supper at the church Tuesday evening. May 10. A full report of amounts collected will be.made, and all notes and accounts will be burned. Pastor Brooke invites all the citizens of Plymouth and especially the business men to be pnsent on this occasion. The head of an Eastern agricultural college says he ones heard a small girl in school tell volubly all about the river Amazon, but she was unable to tell the distance from her village to the nearest town or to the capital or the great metropolis of New York. This story illustrates a common weakness in our educational system the tendency to teach about far off things and countries to the neglect of matters at home. Then are now on .display in KleopfersN. Y. Store show window a number of new musical Instruments that were manufactured by C. G. Conn of Elkhart, for the Plymouth Band. These instruments are first class and make a great improvement to our city band, which now consists of about twenty-five pieces, and is one of the most complete bands in this part of the State. - The tetant practice of the members during the winter mcaths, and the large amount of musical selections which has just been received vAW cake 'the ccaccrfcj this summer the best ever witnccccd in our city.

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Vernon Ligget went toj Rochester to visit over Sunday. Mrs. C. A. Hartman taansacted business in Peru Saturday. Jacob Henry, who resides near the Starke county line, was in town Saturday. John Bicbard and family went to Mishawaka Saturdar to stay till Mon day . Mrs. John C. Bunnell went to KalamazoOj Mich.. Saturday to visit her daughter. The Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Walnut Grove church will meet with Mrs. John Travis, Thursday. May 5th. Mrs. A. II, Stafford, with her two children left for 'Cheney, near Spo kane Saturday to join her husband who has been there Sometime. Harry Buck went to Adrian, Mich., Friday to attend the funeral of his uncle, C. B. Johnson, who was at one time a resident of this citv. Miss Corinne Kramer lias returned to her home in Chicago after a visit of several days with Mr. Maurice Lauer and other relatives in Plymouth. i A new horse disease has come to England from India by way of South Africa. It is called epizootic lymphangitis, and is said to be as contagious as it is unpronounceable. Thirty per cent, of the bees in Connecticut are reported killed by the hard winter. There need be no fear, however, of a shortage in the honey crop, as long as the glucose and sirup hold out. " ' Owinn to the almost total failure of the wheat crop and the season being so late that it is very doubtful that a profitable oats crop will be harvested, many farmers are increasing their pickle acreage. This paper said that delegates to the state conventions should vote their sentiments. This is what the Marshal county delegatesdid, J. Frank Ilanly and everybody else respects them for their manhood. A correspondent tells of some features of the robin's habits. "For years," he says, "I have carefully watched a bird's feed box. Robins are plenty about my house, but I have never seen one attracted by the feed box. Not a single robin has ever taken a bite from it as far as my observation goes, though it has been liberally patronized by other species." Kev. C. U. Wade, wtio preached at Bourbon two years and was for the past six years presiding elder of Muncie district, North Indiana conference, is reported to be critically ill at a hospital in Denver. He accompanied the Chicago delegation to Los Angeles, Cal., to attend the general Methodist conference and became ill on the way. Mrs. Wade was summoned from Münde to join her husband. Elder Wade had the indorsement of his conference as one of the bishops to be elected by the general conference. ...OBITUARY... nenry Shaw was born Sept. 21, 1839 and died April 21, 1904, aged 64 years

and 7 months. He was a son of Henry and Mrrgaret Shaw, who came rs pioneers from Hancock county, Ohio, to Starke county, Indiana, In' 1851. Mr. Shaw spent 15 years of his life In the far west, where he experienced much hard usage. When he returned to Marshall county he was married to Miss Mary Patsel. To this union were horn five children, one son and four daughters. There survive him the uife rj:d four children, Mrs. Slsi of Plymouth, Charity, Veroca and Harty.

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County W.CT.l). , The annual institute of the Marshall County W. C. T. U. held an interesting session in Bourbon on the 25 and 26th Inst. Mrs. Vayhlnger, state president of Indiana W. C. T. U. presided over and conducted the exercises in a pleasing and instructive manner. Some very excellent papers were read by different members on the various departments followed by discussions showing a deep interest and earnestness in the work. While other papers were equally as good, perhaps, we make special mention of that "Scientific Temparance Instruction in Our Public Schools" as one ofjthe vital Issues in the temperance problems of today. Mrs. Vayhlnger, who is a very clear and forcible speaker delivered the evening address to a large and appreciative audience. Twelve Jnew active members and several honoraries were added to the union.

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