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TLhe TErtbime. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. Advertisements to appear In TBE TKIB DE mcjt be in before Tuesday noon to insure tnetr appearance In the issue of tba week. Plymouth, Ind., Juue 9. 1904. ö I nrAi nfwq ö UW W W WWW WWW WWWW fTWfl kJ Miss Lois Ilumricbouser is visiting at "Warsaw. Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Drummond visited Id this city last week. Indianapolis had 200 cases of typhoid fever during the month of May. Dr. McGill and wife came down from Chicago last week to visit at Brightside. Mrs. Andrew Bowell and Mrs. II ubbard went to Argos last week to visit relitivesand friends. Sidney Becker came hom- from Chicago last week to attend com--mencement and visit his parents. Harry Lackey has moved baci to Plymouth from Walkerton. He is employed In the H1s cigar factory. Mrs. Frank Tanner spent several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jcn Mitchell, at Argos last week. A' majority of the alumni of the Plymouth schools were here for commencement and the alumni reunion. James Taylor, of Newcastle township, Fulton county, was recently baptized at the advanced age of 94 years. It is evident that Illinois has no political bocs, but the old adage of two many cooks spoiling the broth is recalled. N. N. Lattimore, a prominent hardware man of Mentone, died last Tuesday from taking an overdose of head-ache tablets. A concert for the benefit of the Mozart Club will be given June 14th, at the Church of God, under the able leadership of Prof. MacHenry. A rare treat is promised the publicProf. Craig shook western dust from his feet Friday morning and left Bourbon for his home in Baltimore. This will very likely be his last experience In this neck o' the woods. Bourbon Advance. John W. Nichols the jolly West township democrat who was badly beaten for trustee csJIed at uur office to say that be was defeated because he did not get rotes enough, that he would rather be beaten now than in Novemr, that Qe 01(5 not want tne office anyway. Dr. Brown with his wife and son left for St. Louis last week to spend a week ai the great exposition. They are among the first to visit the fair from Plymouth, but a number of persons will go this week and next week. The doctorinforms ,us that he gets very reasonable hotel rates. Jacob Vollmer of Bremen, and Myron Chose of Polk township, have been appointed by the court 3 members at Urje, ca the Beard of Review. They v?ith the county treasurer, auditor zn$ r ccrapcce tne beard of cqirülnticrj, r hi:h convene the first llzz-: j, in June to rcmla la cessloa 7 -
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302-304-306 Mrs. Mary Beyler has gone to North Manchester to spend the summer. The amount of school fund on hand in this county. June 1, 1904, was $753.73, Miss Maude Van Scoik, of North Liberty, is visiting Mrs. Van Scoik in this city . The rain fall for the month of May was about four Inches; the snow fall was not recorded. With the advent of June the Georgia peach crop appears on the market, and the Indiana peach crop will graduate in a few weeks. Chicago is to hare a new $1,000,000 twenty-story theater. Absolutely fireproof " of course, as all theothers are and ever have been. The state conventionQof the Indiana Epworth League will be held at Greencastle, Ind., beginning on Thursday evening, June 19. The Argos Reflector says II. C. Brewer wife aird son left for Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, in the hope of bettering the sun's health. A Pennsylvania woman who died the other day left $500 for her pet dog. It ought to be easy enough for some sharp lawyer to get that. A young farm band named Towns was drowned in Mud lake in Green township by the upsetting of bis boat while be was flshinglast Tuesday. Benjamin L. Martin, of Richmond, claimed to be Indiana's oldest Mason, is dead. If this thing keeps on, the eldest Mason" supply may run out. Julia, daughter of Mr. nd Mrs. George W. Shrider ran Into, an obstruction and was thrown' from her wheel Tuesday erening, breaking her right arm. John R. Jones has gone to Texas and John C. Capron has gone to Oklahoma to look up the chances for profitable inrestment in real estate and oil fields. x ' Dora Shaffer returned from Chicago Sunday night having successfully undergone the operation.; She was not expected home so soon and it was a pleasant surprise for the family. Bourbon Advance. One of the strangest ' incidents re corded for sometime is that of a Chicago man who tried to commit suicide by jumping into the lake and was frightened out of the notion by a policeman with a revolver. W. Preston McHenry, who has spent three or four years teaching music in South Bend, Plymouth, Goshen and Elkhart, has decided to leave South Bend and locate In Detroit. He will spend the summer at Sault Ste. Marie. Some insight into the enormous wealth of Judge James Cheney, the aged multi-millionaire, who recently died in Fort Wayne, was gained when the county assessor piaced on the tax duplicate $914,000 sequestered property Fred Walmer has returned to Bourbon after being gone four years, one month and twenty-three days. He enlisted in Chicago, April 7, 1900, and since that time has crossed the At lantic and Pacific oceans and has vis. ited almost eyery civilized country on the globe as vrcll some that are not civilized, He collected many curious vrhile he ro3 fjece. The United &te,te3 crry 13 not a tad eceiocl for a
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N - MICHIGAN ST, J. R. newltt and family are visiting in Michigan. Mrs. George Shrider and daughter spent Friday in Chicago. Dr. Charles O. Wlltfong came over from Chesterton. Porter county to attend the alummi reunion. James E. Anglin, of Fort Wayne, speut Thursday evening In this city and rema'sed over night. Grandma Wade, Mrs. Pershing and Marie Leonard, who were on the sick list last week, are improving. Forty-one new cases of typhoid fever were reported at Indianapolis for the first two days ol June. Frank Walter, of Bremen, has retired from the saloon business after conducting a saloon twenty-four years. It is reported that an old man caught a bass weighing 1 pounds at at Lake of the Woods a few days ago. Mrs. Kershaw, of Argos, visited her grand -daughter, Mrs. Eldridge Thompson, Thursday and remained over night. Dr. Knott did not attend the conlerence of delegates to the republican national convention at Indianapolis Thursday. Miss Ava Darratt, who had been visiting a week with Miss Effie Conger, left for her home at St. Paul:, Minn., Friday. The council and mayor of Laporte are having fricton because of the efforts of the mayor to have a metropolitan police force and in order to spite him the council recently cut the salary of the city marshal from $825 to $472 per year. The druggists of the state are organizing a movement to secure a law that will reduce the alarming use and increase of the habit of narcotics by those who are so unfortunate as to have come under the Influence of that fearful bondage.' " The CuWer Citizen says the primary election delegate method of the democratic party for nominating candidates in this county is and was intended to be wholly to the advantage of Center township. Under this method it would have required 395 more votes to nominate Falconbury than Voreis. Miss Elsie Barber of Plymouth, spent several days last week with her her mother living northwest of town. Miss Barber had the misfortune to leaye her purse, which contained several dollars and some valuable articles, in the train when she alighted at the depot, and will likely not recover it. Bourbon Advance. Dr. Charles Miller and wife of Guth rie, Oklahoma, spent a week at the World's Fair and then ran up to Plymouth for a visit of a few days with the doctor's mother Mrs. S. W. Miller and his sister Mrs. Boggs of Argos and other, relatives . here. They - go from here to Chicago, for a visit of two or three days with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller before returning home. It is reported that the Czar or Russia has been going to mediums and consulting spirits to find out how to whip the Japs. While he was thus engaged the Japs have gone right along winning victories and many people think the Czar is crazy; but right here in America cad even in Plymouth we have people who are intellect and poreatly cane, rrbo con sult medicos Lad rpirits vylth ao bet
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Mrs. Ely Milner of Bourbon U visIting at Henry Ilockensmlth's. Ezra Barnhill walked down town Friday for the first time in six months. Mrs. Susie Wallace and Miss Martha Mullen of near Argos attended Commencement exercises. Henry Grass an old veteran of the Lafayette soldiers' home, visited John WindblglerThursday. Mrs. Edna Fromm and daughter of this city, have been visiting Mrs. W. E. Walter at Bremen. All the farmers southwest of town assisted in raising the big barn on Thomas Tribbey's farm Friday. Miss. Farnan. has returned to Fort Wayne after a visit with the family of her aunt, Mrs. J. E. Hanes. Charles Knobloch, a former resident of Bremen, died of consumption in Texas last Tuesday aged 24 years. Miss. Clara Richard has returned to her home at Leiters, Fulton county, after a stay of two weeks in this city. J. H. Blackburn, of Walnut, has returned home after transacting business in this city, Walkerton, Lapaz, and Teegarden. Laporte is preparing to establish metropolitan police service, provided a census of the city shows that it has 10,000 inhaoitants. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Wolf of Etna Green, visited W, A. Ueldon and family and attended commencement Thursday evening. Mrs. Drummond, of Argos, mother of Honorable Charles P. Drummond, of South Bend, attended commencement aud visited friends in this city. The officials of the wrecked Auburn bank have been indicted for receiving deposits after they knew the bank was insolvent and tbeymay get to join the Elkhart colony at Leavenworth, Kas. Six years ago Friday nobson and his gallant crew of seven men made themselves famous by one of the most daring deeds in naval warfare. The heroism v.: the Merrimac feat will always be prominent in American history. The Georgia and Texas peaches this year, according to advice received by commission merchants, are of the finest quality in years, and the crops are reported tobe large and practically matured. Joseph II. Hastings, of Kendallyille, an aged carriage maker, committed suicide on Wednesday by shooting himself in the temple. His wife was paralyzed and the care of her fell upon him, keeping him from working at his trade and making him despondent. Mrs. Harry Humrichouser and daughter have returned from the funeral of their cousin, young Mr. Chapman, of Warsaw, one of the prominent members of the high school, who got very warm while playing base ball on Saturday, lay down on the grass, caught cold, took pneumonia and died Tuesday. Ills death cast a gloom
over the city of Warsaw. Attorney R. N. Palmer, of Bedford, who defended James McDonald, tried on the charge of murdering Sarah Schäfer, has given his testimony to the grand jurywhich.is investigating the tragedy. His testimony it is said points to a person other than McDonald, as the murderer, and be will assist the proscuting attorney in mak ing a case against the suspect. The Chicago Tribune announces that a secret wedding which surprised the bride's family and friends was that of Miss. Bertha Cleavland and Denning Luxton wholesale agent for the Vose piano company. 'The bride Is 18 years of age and the Tribune gives fine pictures of the bride and groom, Almost everybody in Plymouth remembers Mr.. Luxton, the piano agent. Indiana has a law to protect quail, the uopen season," when the birds can be lawfully shot. .The report by the ornithologists of the Department of Agriculture showing what a tremendous quantity of weed seeds they consume and how destructive they are to insects should cause farmers to regard the birds as a treasure beyond price, and to urge the cutting out of the open season altogether. The Christian Publishing Assocla tion, operated and owned by the Christian church and located at Daytou, Ohio, will erect a large publishing house this summer. The association publishes all the Christian literature including "The Herald of Gospel Liberty," "The Sunday School Herald," "Bible Class Quarterly," and other publications. J. N. Hess, formerly of Argoi, is connected with the association as manager of the circulation and advertising departments. A rather remarkable case of faith healing or prayer-cure is reported from the home of John Knepp, south of town. . Miss Alma Sellers, the daughter of Randall Sellers, had lost her voice almost entirely, and for a year past had been unable to speak above a whisper, and that only by a great effort Mrs. Jennie Grove, of Goshen, a .i'alth cure disiclple, was called a fr w days ago, and after praying over the girl and placing her hands upon her throat, her voice was Instantly restored, tad thz can now speak and sing JL3 well as anybody. Bremen Enquirer.
No. 18,606 drew the World's fair prize at liar ties. Miss Louise Poland has gone to Winona to spend the summer. Mrs. A. L. narris and children have
gone to South Bend for a visit of a week. Only thirty-five tickets were sold for the Chicago excursion Saturday afternoon. The test for gas or oil in the vicinity of Hammond has proved a decided failure. Mr. Miller and Mrs Al; Duddleson have returned to their homes at Argos after a visit at Porter Kleckner's in this city. Bert Cleveland has returned to Indianapolis. He was here to attend commencement and the annual alumni reunion. Mrs. J. II; Steele has returned to her home in Elkhart after a visit of several days with relatives In this city and vicinity. Mrs. Adam Listenberger has returned to South Bend. She visited relatives in this city and in the country south of here. George Price has resigned his position as reporter for the Plymouth Independent. Ray Metsker of Montlcello, will take his place. There is a general movement to be noticed about the city in the line of improving property. This is an infallble sign of local prosperity. Misses Nellie and Bertha Brooke of Valparaiso and Master Leon Brooke of Frankfort are ylsiting their grandparents, Rev. Dr. C. A. Brooke and wife in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ellas Dillon and wife who have been visiting the family of W. A, Beldou and attending commencement, returned to their home in Van Wert county, Ohio, Saturday. Miss Frances E. Williams, wife of B. F. Williams of Polk township, died May 31, aged 42 years, 7 months and 20 days. Her death was caused by creeping paralysis after, an illness of six years. Mrs. C. A. Rhinehart and son Rüs sel of Jobnstowu. Pa. who have been visiting the family of J. G. Cox, went to South Bend for a visit of a week with relatives in that city before returning home. Life ' insurance to the amount of $165,243 was paid to South Bend beneficiaries during the year 1903. At Ft. Wayne $198,117 were received for like purposes. Indianapolis got $850, 929, and Evausville $244,925. Dr. Charles Miller and wife, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, who had been visiting here a few days went to Chi cago to visit Harry Miller and family before returning home. Mrs. S. W. Miller accompanied them for a visit of a week in Chicago. An elcvea pound boy was born at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Mil ler four miles south of Plymouth, Friday afrernoon. Mrs. Miller is the voungest daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Peter Richard of this city, who now have twenty-eight grand-children. Instead of laying off 500 of their men in the Fort Wayne shops, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to reduce the working hours of their entire force at that place, This is considered the more equitable method of accomplishing the purpose. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Katherine Stack of this city to Mr. John Bohrer of Chicago, Wednesday, June 15. Miss Stack is an accomplished young lady who has a host of friends in Plymouth. Mr. Bohrer is an enterprising young business man of Chicago. If you study the calendar for 1904 you will find that most holidays this year fan on Monday. Washington's birthday was on Monday as was Decoration day. July 4 will fäll on Monday aad so will Labor day, September 5. Christmas falls on Sunday but the day following, Monday, Dec. 26, will be a legal holiday. W. G. Schroeder, of South Bend, who at one time owned the hardware store where Leonard's furniture store now Is, stopped in this city on his way to Rochester to look np evidence to establish bis' claim as one of the heirs of an estate of $135,000,000 in Europe. Mr. Schroeder will have no difficulty in establishing his identity as a descendant of the great Emerick family. Indianapolis is threatened with a typhoid fever epidemic, presumably as a result of the spring floods. Foolishly the health department undertook to mislead the public by doctoring its report for the month of May so as to make it appear that the number of cases of typhoid fever was but 67, when in fact it exceeded 200, with 42 deaths. Such attemps at deceiving always fall of their purpose. The Episcopal Council of Virginia, recently in session in Richmond, announces, that members of that church may indulge in dancing, caid-playing, theatre-going and horse-raclngl "But the lives of members must be of such a nature as not to offend the .congregation." This is a decided advance. Heretofore the lives of church memmembers were supposed not to offend the Supreme Being. Bremen Enquirer.
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265 Wabasti Ave I 1CAGO, - HLI Rev. A. n. Zilmer is holding meetings in Blackford county. Misses Daisy Apple and Lotta Bitter are visiting in South Bend. The new Presbyterian church at Walkerton will be dedicated Sunday, June 12. Miss Maud Koontz and Mrs. Frank Lamson were passengers on the train to Culver Saturday. F. W. Boswortb Is attaching a tine porch to his brick residence on South Michigan street. Master Fred Sarber has gone to Mishawaka to visit a week with his sisters in that city. There has been aa earthquake shock at Port Arthur and the paragraphists are talking about the cUy being well shaken tefore taking. Mr. and Mrs. Reuoen Pinkey came down from Laporte to visit over Sunday with the family of Ilarry Brown. The Japs announce that Port Arthur will be taken June 20, the day that the national republican convention convenes in Chicago. Prof. E. E, Petty of the Winona Summer School attended the alumn reunion and tanquet. His wife is a graduate of the Plymouth schools and was Miss nonore Parks. Mr. Piatt, the aged New Yorker who allowed himself to be blackmailed to the tune of $685,000, was known in the household of tne blackmailer as Mr. Green, and no wonder! Mrs. Mary Carmichael, agent of the state board ofebarities, has returned to Indianapolis after spending a week In this part of the state finding homes for Brightside children. Mrs. G. B. Warner and baby have returned to their home at Indianapolis. They had been visiting Mrs. Warner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Pomeroy and other relatives in this city and vicinity. The republicans of North township will choose delegates to the county convention, Saturday June 11. The south precinct convention will be held at Linkvllle and the north precinct will meet at Lapaz. A Pennsylvania man killed himself because hss dinner was not ready when he got home. Some people are so Inconsiderate; there was no real reason why he should spoil the meal for the rest of the family. Albert Smith, of Whitley county, pursued a six-foot blue racer snakejnto a thicket, but before he could strike it the reptile turned upon him and struck at him. In attempting to elude the attack Smith tripped over a root and fell and the snake wrapped about him and bit him on the hand. It then escaped. The hand is swollen, but the wound is not thought to be dangerous.Probably the sharpest contest in the present campaign will be electing ..ha members of the next congress. The democracy express a great hope in securing a majority in that body and have, set their stakes accordingly. With a democratic house, President EooseveltQwould not be able to cany out his many developed policies, and if they can't secure all they desire they would rather get a half a loaf than no bread at all.
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Miss Ida Smith has returned from a visit with relatives at Laporte. Mrs. Jeff Florian and children are visiting relatives at Donaldson. June 14th is Flag day. Prepare to hang your bankers op the outer wall. J, O. Rothenberger, of Teegarden, transacted business In Plymouth Saturday. Richard E. Davis went to Chicigo to visit over Sunday with his father, who Is employed there. The Northern Indiana Editorial Association will hold its annual meeting June 16 and 17 at Lafayette. D, F. Shafer has returned to his home in St. Joseph county after visiting relatives east of this city. C. O. Yearrljk, of Plymouth, while fitting water mains in the trench in the east part of town Monday was covered up by a cave-in and would have soon smothered to death but for the pronpt action of A. T. Kale and and Wes McDanlel, who lost no time in digging a breathing place for Mr. Yearrick, who was deprived of air for nearly a minute. His hips and Shoulders were considerably bruised by the heavy weight of dirt falling upon him. Walkerton Independent. When you get a catalogue from a big mail order house, just look it over and see what they pay for produce; also investigate and see what their terms of credit are In case you haven't the ready cash; how much will they give toward the keeping up of sidewalks; just write and ask how much they will give toward the erecting of a church; how much they will give to assist the poor. After you have done this and received a reply, see if your home merchants wont do as well. Ex. Those people who shivered through the late winter and spring and pronounced them the "coldest ever," should read about 'the year without a summer," as it is known in history. In that year, 1816, the corn crop failed throughout the country. At Watertown, New York, on June 7r there was ice three-eights of an inch thick. In Maine, commencing on June 12, snow fell for three days and th earth was frozen half an inch deep. There was good horse sense remaining In the little school girl who eloped with her sweetheart from Petersburg to Washington, Ind., on marriage in tent, who .stopped to think while standing before the minister, and who realized that she was about to assume life-long vows at an indiscreet age, changed her mind, and returned on the first train to her mother. Good, hard horse sense should have prompted her to remain at home in the first place, but it was better that it should appear at the eleventh hour rather than not at all.
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