Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 35, Plymouth, Marshall County, 2 June 1904 — Page 7

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igan Street, just one square north of Post Off fee. 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.

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TLbc XCribune. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Advertisements to appear In TUETKIB ONE mut be in before Tuesday noon to Insure tnetr appearance In the Issue of that week. Plymouth, Ind., Juue 2,1904 I LOCAL NEWS & I Robert Barnblll visited relatives and friends in Argos last week. Norman E. Bailey is visiting his fatber and sister in this city. Judge Hess delivered the memorial address at Knox, Monday, May 30. MisLeona Yarman of Bourbon, visited friends in this city last week. Morris Agler has returned from a visit of ten days in Van Wert county, Ohio. Many of the school teachers will spend their vacations at St. Louis tbis year. Miss Lena Carr has returned to her home in Rochestor after a visit in this city. Mrs. Leonard Bock, of Argos, is slowly recovering from an attack of paralysis. Miss Bowman, of Chicago, who has been visiting at W. A. Beiden 's went to Warsaw last wetk. Veterinary Surgeon Myers was called to Laporte county on professional business last week.; Mrs. Lotta Freed has returned to her home at Leesburg' after a visit with her niece Mrs. Beiden. ' Mack Ettinger, Leo Jones and two or three other boys of Bourbon visited their teacher, Miss Cariie Boss one day last week. Otis Robbins, S. Fisher, David Liggett and Essex of Tippecanoe, have gone to Arkansas to work in a stave factory. The Pennsylvania will run a popular excursion to Chicago Saturday and Sunday June 4 and 5. Tickets for the round trip will be sold for SI. 25. It is estimated that this year's hay crop, which promises to be exceptionally floe, will yield the farmers of this country over five hundred million dollars. Lafayette Kershaw, a former resident of Plymouth now residing at Bismarck, N. D., underwent an operation for appendicitis last week and chances are favorable for his recovery. Emory Norris and wife, of ciarion, Iowa, are visiting relatives In the south part of the county. Mr. Norris Is a locomotive engineer. His run is between Clarion, Iowa, and Haytield, Minn. The Indiana budding at the World's Fair, St. Louis, will be dedicated at 2 p. m., June 4, 1904. A very elaborate program has been arranged, with a reception by the Governor of Indiana and members of the commission. The reduction of the working forces of railroads in this country is more ex- ' tensive and radical than was thought a month ago would be necessary. Present indications are that not less than 75,000 employes will be dropped from railroad pay-rolls. The committee of state of the church of the Methodist general con ference has agreed to report that dorn estic infidelity shall be the only ground for divorce recognized by the church. It is to be hoped that the conference will adopt the report. Dr. Hurty, secretary of the board of health says "preservaline," a preserving compound sold to g preserve meats, fruits aad other perishable ..stuff, is very dangerous to health. He warns the people against tbe use of this as well as all other preserving compounds. Ezra K. Barnhlll one of the most widely known veterans of the civil war and one of Plymouth's best citizens nas been confined to his home for almost a year by rheumatism complicated with other ailments contracttrocted durinj the service- He is not able yet to walk out bsyend his lot. Sow an Aurora, Ind., woman finds v that the man she married last fall is a pclysamüt, with more wives than tz czn definitely remember. o many czzzi c! tLlj tlnd zi2 reported ns to cizi2 Vz? t-IIef t-'t T7cmen ta'-3 lec3 tzzzVi toli: t2 'record cf th3 Li;i3 11:7 -nrj t-in cf ths ccc-s they c::oy.

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Miss Ada Haag is on tbe sick list. Judge Hess transacted business in Rochester Friday. Welcome Miller transacted business in Bourbon Friday. The banks of this city were closed on Decoration day. I. N. ßabcock and family have moved to Bourbon. George Stock of German township, raised a big barn last Tuesday. The Bremen and Bourbon postmaster's salaries have been increased $100 each. Rev, A. H. Zilmer went to Huntington county Friday to hold a series of meetings. Mrs. Julia Work, cf Brightside went to Chicago Friday forenoon to visit a few days. Mrs. Jacob Koontz, of South Bend, stopped here on her way to Bourbon to visit relatives. The public schools of Plymouth, except the high school closed Friday and the pupils will have three months to rest. The democrats who sell their votes manage to bleed most of the candidates during tbe last ten days before a primajyelection. Edward E. Reed died at tbe home of his sister, Mrs. Oliver Kline, near Bremen, Sunday, May 22, aged 69 years, 6 months and 25 days. The Kewanna Herald says the creamery at that place, opeiatod by Clifford and Penrod formerly of Plymouth, took in 9000 pounds of milk last Monday. In referring to the fact that a boy named Foote, in attempting to board a moving train bad both feet cut ofll. a Kansas editor remarks: A "reckless feat made Footeafeetless wreck." Colorado produced 1,800,000 pounds of honey in 1903, and the output tbis year is expected to be considerably larger. Epicures declare that Colorado honey is the finest produced in any state of the Union. Methodists in general conference at Los Angeles refused by a-vote of 441 to 188 to modify the clause governing dancing, card playing and theatergoing. Tbe vote was taken after a beated debate. . Prof. Starr, of Chicago, says that Britain is on her last legs. He prob ably got that idea from looking at pictures of the British Hon, who is represented as standing on his last legs, with his front ones m the air. The last saloon in North Manchester closed its doors last Saturday night. A year ago there were seven In the town, and two others in the township. The application of the tenth man for license started the bit ter war that resulted in extermina tion. The course of the damage suit brought by the Huntington man who wants $2,000 for injury to bis dignity will be watched with interest by every man whose feelings are always hurt worse than-his back when he slips on a banana peel and lands with his heels in the air. Tbe buildings at Brightside are re ceiving a new coat of paint and the chiidrens cottages are being varnished and painted inside. It is a general cleaniog up and brightening up for the summer. Twenty-four children have been placed in homes during the past ten days. H. S. K. Bartholomew who retired Thursday as editor and proprietor of the Warsaw Union after owning the paper two years, was in Plymouth today. He says he feels that he has laid down the heaviest burden be ever attempted to carry. He was the owner and editor of a democratic paper in a republican 'county. A singular accident occurred at Columbia City on Monday. George Weick, a former well-known ball play er, broke his arm by throwing a ball. His right arm was broken between the elbowand shoulder. Everyone on the ground heard the bone snap, and seeing him drop his arm and then grab for it, they scarcely realized what had occurred. i ' J. H. Pickerl with his four children arrived in Plymouth Friday from an extended visit south. They visited in Virginia -and Oklahoma and in In dian Territory. Mr. Pickerl says J. F. Selder shot a very fine oil well just In side the corporation a few days before he left Ocmulgee. He is much plecsed with that section of country end - ex pceta to return there if he can dlepec: cf hi3 fern near Dcnaldecn.

Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs Brockus have moved to Argos. E. J, Richmyer went to Knox on business Friday afternoon. C. C. Vink, and family, of Bourbon, visited In Plymouth Friday. , S. A. Rippey, of the county-Infirmary, is visiting at Walnut. Isaac Anderson went to Tolleston

Friday to do some boiler work. Bert Strunk spra'ined bis wrist badly while at work at the basket fac tory Thursday. Miss Gertrude Rimpler arrived from Chicago Friday to visit until Sunday with Miss Minnie Clark. Miss Eva Turner, who spent the winter with relatives at Los Angeles, Cal., returned home Sunday. . - Cassimere Wickey got the third fin ger of his right hand badly mangled by a saw at tbe Morris mills Thurs day. T. O. Taber, of Marioo, visited his mother in this city Thursday night on his way home from a business trip east. The Nineteen Hundred Cinch Club ended its existence, as an organiza tion at tbe residence of Dr. Eley, Thursday evening after a very enjoyable meeting. . In addition to tbe Delaware peach crop the republican political crop in Wisconsin is In line to get a heavy frost. A little pruning of factionalism might work wonders. Adams county, Ind., has more miles of macadam roads than any other county in tbe state, and petitioners are now pending for more than 20 additional miles of stone roads. Every rural route carrier in the country who covers what is known at the department as a full route will receive $60 a month, or $720 a year. beginning with tbe month of July. A. Druckermiller one of the pro gressive farmers of Burr Oak, was in Plymouth Friday and made tbis office a pleasant call. He reports most of the corn planted in bis neighborhood. Raymond Metoker, well known in this city, graduated from the Monticello schools Thursday evening, nis brother, the editor of the Indepen dent, with his family went to Monticello to attend the graduating exer cises. Ex-Auditor Milburn of Elkhart Co., says the prospects for a big crop of fruit on bis farm are excellent. The ast frosts did not do as much damage as at first believed. Mr. Milburn now gives.most of bis attention to fruit raising. ß. J. Thayer, who moved from North township to the state of Washington seventeen years ago, Is reported at the poiut of death from a general breaking down of tbe systeni. He is tbe father or A. J. Thayer and Mrs. Kirkly who reside north of LInkville. There is very little in a name. Girls named Pearl" and "Lulu" would seem to belong properly in a sentimental novel; in real life down in Shelby county they receive appointments as rural mail carriers and are no doubt quite equal to the job. President John W. White, of the Eort Wayne Electric Light and Power Company reports that the company's plant has been sold to eastern capital ists headed by Thomas Wanamaker, for about $500,000. Mr. Wanamaker some months ago invested heavily in the electric roads of that localitj. Mrs. Lillian Guyer, wife of Marion Guyer of Chicago, aDd for many years a resident of Plymouth, was operated on for appendicitis at the Germania hospital a few days ago andnow seems on the road to permanent recovery, but she will not be able to leave tbe hospital for two or three weeks. Henry Ilerzog, of Sterling, Okla homa, is visiting bis sister, Maryland other relatives here. Mr. Herzog was formerly engaged Jn the mercantile business in Bremen, and was postmas ter at one time. He left here 34 years ago, and this is bis first visit to tbe town since that time. Bremen Enquirer. Of all the fool performances to which attention has lately been attracted that at Atlantic City making a bonfire of 1000 square pianos takes tbe cake. This fool idea is said to have originated in the cranium of a Mr. Freund, tbe editor of a musical publication. The whole affair smacks of a cheap advertising dodge. Sherman Marsh of Fulton county plowed up a silver dollar in a new field last week which was minted in 1813. It was very slightly worn and bad evidently lain there a long time. When it came from tbe mint 91 years ago Napoleon 's grand army, in vine! ble in battle had been almost annihilated by starvation and the rigors of a Rus sian winter. Chas. Becbtal, who has been having poor health for some time, started with his wife on -'an extended trip overland in a wagon last Monday, built especially for the occasion. They will visit in Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and Missouri. Tbe latter state they aim to reach in , October, and from there take in the St. Louis exposition, and if they find they have been benefited by their travels wili go on further south to spend the win. ter.Eourbcn llers-llirror. ,

Mrs. D. S. O'Brien of Grovertown visited in this city Saturday. - Harry DeMoss, of Chicago, is visiting his parents In this city. , Olin Gandy, of the Culver Citizen, was a Plymouth visitor Saturday. Miss Bertha Hillsman has returned from a visit of two weeks at Columbia City. Mrs. O. C. Gibbons and daughter of Inwood,went toRochesterSaturday for a visit of a week. Ilarrisou Riddle went to Ar?os to visit his o!d army comrades and spend Decoration day. Mrs. Anna Senff, of Bourbon, has returned borne after a visit often days in Starke county. Miss Ava Darratt, of St. Paul, Minn., is here for a visit of a week with Miss Effie Conger. Miss Cora Borera has returned to her borne at Hammond, Ind., after a visit with relatives in this city. James McDonald was acquitted of the murder of Sarah Shaefer, the Bedford high school teacher. The murder is as much a mystery as ever. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer White came down from South Bend Thursday evening to visit until after Decoration Day with relatives m this vicinity. Miss Nettie Chaplin, of West township, has gone to Mexico, Ind., to take a position in tbe orphans' home, of which Rev John Appleman is. superintendent. A report is current in Fort Wayne that Mrs. R. T. McDonald, a wealthy widow of that city, was married in Rome, Italy. The rumor has not been confirmed. J. W. Hissong who is kept so busy at work on tbe new buildings at Culver Military Academy that he seldom gets to Plymouth, made a pleasant call at our office Friday. Tbe late W. C. Whitney's residence at the corner of Fifth aveoue and Sixty-eighth street, New York City, has been sold for at least $2,000,000, and it may be for a sum in exces? m' that. It was just a house to live in,

1 and it cost Mr. Whitney, first ; :iJ last, about $3,500,000. The Saturday club held its aauual meeting at the residence of W. D. Thompson. The officers chosen for the ensujng year are: President, Mrs. Ada Butler; vice president, Mrs. Mary C. VInnedge; secretary and Jtreasurer, MIsi Anna Morrill; past president, Mrs. George H. Thayer. The Indiana building at tbe Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis will be formally dedicated on Friday afternoon, June 3rd, at 2 o'clock. The Indiana commissioners through the pressor the state extend a cordial invitation to all citizens of Indiana to be present on tbis occasion. There are within three million of as many persons enrolled in the Sundayschools of this country as. In the public schools, there being thirteen milUonf in the former and sixteen million In the latter. The total Sundavscbool membership throughout the whole world is twenty-five millions. It seems to be rather an arbitrary not to say tyrannical order tbat Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy has issued to the Christian Scientists to the effect that they must seperate themselves from all other social, religious or fraternal organizations or cease to be members of the Christian Science church. Tbe habit of allowing poultry to run at large in town is not consistent with good management. Formerly all kinds of live stock ran at large, but laws and practices have changed. Chickens or other poultry on another person's onion bed or flower bed are trespasses and subject to taesspassing laws. ' ' Dr. S. A. Herben, of New Vork, has been elected editor of tbe Epwortb nerald, 01 Chicago, by an almost unanimous vote of the Methodist general conference. He succeeds Bishop J. F. Berry. Dr. Herben has been assistant to Dr. J. M. Buckley, of the New York Advocate for the past four years. The people of Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, practically suspended business tbe other day in order to attend revival services. Then they proved tbe genuineness of their interest by sub scribing $25,003 for a Y. M. C. A. building. Religion has reached the depths of-a man's nature when it touches hss pocketbook. Mr. H. G. Thayer who was Inyited to deliver the Memorial address on Decoration day at Rochester. Ind. J"l I 1 A. f A. was compeuea to give it up on account of severe personal illness. Tbe place was held open for him urtll it was certain. that he would nst be able to leave bis bed by that time. He has received many regrets from people at Rochester on account of his illness and his inability to deliver the address. . v Persons applying for a marriage license in Ohio will hereafter be asked four questions never asked before, in compliance with a law first passed by the legislature. The questions are: "Is either party a habitual drunkard V "Is either an epileptic?" "Is either insane?" "Is either under the Influence of an intoxicating liquor or of a drug?" The court records are framed to show tbat parties have made sworn answers to these questions.

non. H, G. Thayer and Mrs. John Brittenham are both improving slowly. William Manin and family went to Hamlet to spend Sunday and Decoration day. Miss Rimpler, who has been yisitiog Miss Minnie Clark, went to Logansport Saturday. Mrs. Herrick of South Bend, who had been visiting relatives here went to Macy Saturday to visit her grandfather. Arthur Wiltfongand Jesse Gilmore of Chicago, and John nay of Milwaukee, came home to spend Sunday and Decoration day. Oscar Baum, who is employed in Kewanna, went to his home at Donaldson to spend Sunday there and DecOration day in Plymouth. Mrs. John Hite of Inwood, went to South Bend Friday to visit her son Fred Hite, who is now a teacher of Che South Bend schools. Rev. Samuel Snyder who was for several years a resident of West township, is now the U. B. preacher at Grass Creek. He visited several days this week with relatives and friends in this city and county. E. W. Good, of Teegarden and his brother, J. B. Good, of Nappanee, made a fioal haul of fish at Koontz's lake last Tuesday. They caught 17 fine bass, seven of them weighing from 5 1-2 to six pounds each. With the advent of spring come the globe trotters of every nationality, color and age, all determined on doing wonderful things but by many people thought to be made up of individuals bent on securing some cheap notoriety. Prof. Carl Kloepfer, who has been teaching German In the schools of Springfield Mo. during the past year, came home with his wife and baby Saturday evening. They will spend most of their vacation with their parents in this city. Rev. Paul Faude, of Minneapolis, Minn., is visiting his uncle, C. R. Cooper, and other relatives and

friends in this city. He is a son of Rev. J. Faude, deceased, former rector of the Episcopal church here. He preach d at the Episcopal church Sun day eyening. June 14, 1904, will be the J 27th an niversary of the adoption of the stars and stripes as the flag of the United States, and tbe American Flag association, an organization for the pur pose of furthering patriotic zeal, is calling attention to this dat2 and ask ing that mayois of all cities, all offi cers of patriotic societies, school offic ials and all citizens as far as possible assist in securiug a proper observance of the day. The Methodist Episcopal confer ence at Los Angeles has chosen as ed itors of the various Methodist periodi cals tbe following well known able writers: W.'V; Kelley, editor of the Methodist Review; J. M. Buckley, Christian Advocate; D. D. Thompson, Northwestern Christian Advocate; C. B. Spencer, Central Christian Advo cate; C. W.Smith, Pittsburg Christian Advocate; W. B. Ilammond, Southwestern Christian Advocate. D. L. Rader, Pacific Christian Advocate; A. J. Nasch, Christlicher Apologete; Frederick Münz, naus und Herd.. ffTTtWHMRtftffTWO Smith-Sprachlin. At the home of John C. Sprachlin at 8:50 p. m. Wednesday, May 25, 1904, Rev. R. G. Upson united in the holy bonds of matrimony Andrew W. Smith and Miss Matilda E. Sprachlin. About fifty invited guests extended congratulations and best wishes after which all enjoyed a bounteous supper. Supreme Court . Will Decide. The argument of the case testing the constitutionality of tbe act extending the terms of certain county and judicial officers, which was heard Tuesday by the Supreme Court, attracted considerable attention, as a large number of officers and prospect lve candidates in all parts of the state are interested. The attorneys for the appelles, the county officers who se cured the legislation, expressed confidence tbat they vlll be able to make a strong case, in spite of tbe fact tt at the Hendricks and Warren Circuit courts held the law unconstitutional. It is expected that the Supreme Court will band down a decision at an early date. ' The Foolish Prohibition Party; If the prohibitionists were wise in their theories and reasonable in their politics they would unite with other temperance people to prevent any change in the Nicholson law of this state. But no. They are not willing to restrain where they cannot prevent. In the words of one, "The. Nicholson law is worse than no law because it helps make the liquor traffic legal.' Such rank nonsense disgusts every? body but a fanatic, and the enforce ment of such theories in politics helps the saloon-keepers' association to win ts victories. Elkhart Review.' If you want ail the news, and in a clear and readable shape

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