Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 18, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 January 1896 — Page 4

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ATi UDAY, .lANI'MlV 11, lb'.t. LOCAL lUIEYITIES. From Wednesday's Daily. Sain Parker is in Valparaiso today. F. M. Axe goes to Valparaiso tomorrow morning. Norman Vogeii left for (Jreeneastle to attend college. William Conrad ami Albion Beck are over from Warsaw. Sleighing parties are exceedingly popular evening amusements now. The balance of the Jones Medicine Co. went to Chicago this morning. lr. Fdson, of Bourbon, is in the city today shaking hands with his friends. B. X. Leonard and wife returned today to their home in Knoxville, Tenn. Kegular meeting of the Sons of Veterans tonight, with work in the ranks. Arrangements for the Business Men's Association banquet are progressing rapidly. Treasurer llankin is in Indianapolis making Iiis settlement uitL tin state treasurer. W. A. Reynolds is now on the road for a Chicago wine house, visiting the drug trade. The dance at Bourbon last night drew a fair sized party of attendants from Plymouth. Attorney Kellison went to Indianoplis for a day or two on professional business this noon. Bert Harris and the Misses Daisy Howell and llattie Wolford drove toi Argos last evening. II. (I. Thayer addressed a magnificent audience in the college auditorium at Valparaiso last evening. Sol Allman will come up from Marion today or tomorrow to spend his "JTth birthday with his parents here. A quartet of Marshall county men headed by Dr. Deniston, started jesierday for the new colony in (ieorgia. Bourbon chronicles the first business failure of the season in Marshall county, in the person of Crocer .lack Bowers. (.'has. Wilcox suffered a stroke of heart failure while at his home this morning. Jle is reported better this afternoon. C. O. Fish, manager of the Union Protective Ass'n, was over from IJochester yesterday and today to visit his uncle, S. S. Fish. Local fishermen predict that if the. present high water continues, there will be a very plentiful lot of lish next spring. Trustee Steve Knobloek and Henry Miller, .LP. Dietrich and .Jacob Carbiener, of the Bremen school board, aie in town today. Dr. McKendree Deseoll came over from Chicago on the early train this morning, and will remain a guest of Dr. Porton until tomorrow. Ketcham !t Wilson have discontinued their branch store at Lapaz and moved the stock back here. The trade of the home store demands all their time and attention. A new map of the city of Plymouth is needed. Some man handy with the pen would probably lind himself well repaid for the production of a good up-to-date map. The program is being arranged for the coming annual session of the County Sunday School convention, which will be held in Plymouth on the 11th and 12th prox. The Messrs. F.yenson, Tuttle and Kyenson, of Columbia City, stopped over in Plymouth yesterday and last nighton their way back to Notre Dame after their vacation. Prof. L. M. Peak was in the city today making arrangements for adancing class. Prof. Peak enjoys quite a reputation as a dancing teacher and will undoubtedly do well here. Postal Inspector L. L. Letherman is at work on the mstery of that missing Pourbon mail sack. The theory is that it was stolen for the possibility-of its containing registered letters with money in them. (Icn. William Pulke LaSallc, a member of the Ninth Indiana volunteers during the civil war, died yesterday at Washington, D. C, from the result of a fall, lie is well remembered by all the old "Ninth" boys here. The (i. A. Ii. post has rented the hall and anterooms on the third lloor of the Simons block. They get nice rooms, one of which will ho devoted to the post library and collection of curios and relics, with electric lights, etc. The county democracy is in session at the opera house this afternoon. The meeting is one of organization. District Chairman Conrad, of Warsaw, and the eloquent L'x-Congrcssmau II. Frank Shively, of South Bend, are among the outside leaders who are present. One of the feminine attendants at a local maison-du-joe went to the First National bank this morning with a bill in college currency, such as busi ness colleges use to represent money in their makebelievo deals. She said that u guest of the institution named

n'5: ien h;d given her the bill the night betöre and had received toii'cu.iiig likv slH change in good monev. Marshal

Myers was sent after the gay deceivei to advise a settlement. Frank K. Neely and Clary Farelle lieeber, both of Argos, have been granted a license to marry by Clerk Wiltfong. They wanted that obliging otlicial to perform the ceremony right there and then, bu. he demurred and the llev. Win. Wirt llaymond was called upon instead. A goodly delegation went to Chicago today from this city. Some ot the party were headed for the Cycle show and others had divers objective points in the Oarden City. Among the pilgrims were: John Wolford, Theo. Cressner, John 1 irkholt,- Leonard 'ogeli, .lohn Perehn and Spot Ciillert. Jack Kirk, one of Argos, somewhat widely known citizens, has been making another effort to get his name in tiie papers again. Yesterday afternoon h j hired a livery rig at O. J. Warner's stable for an hour's drive. Put he failed to get back, and about midnight the horse was found fastened to a tree near the Nickel Plate road. The blankets were gone and Jack is also missing. From Thursday's Daily. (). F. Ketcham went to Warsaw to day. Frank M. Axe is in Valparaiso today. C. F. Wheeler is here from Cambridge City. Fd. A. Mee was a South Bend visitor today. James I lanes and sister went to South J lend. Oliver Hoham is here from Nebraska, visiting Charles Wilson. Postmaster Walter Scott Harrigon was over from South IJend. Kddie Hank has returned from a visited with his uncle at Valparaiso. T. F. Smith, of Logansport, chief train dispatcher of the Vandalia, is in town. Mrs. C. M. Prooke leaves tomorrow morning for her home in Kansas City, Mo. (lilbert W. Abbott, old resident of LaPorte, died yesterday, aged Ml. Came there in 11 11. The local Maccabees are growing rapidly, with from three to live initiations per meeting. Several good resolutions which have not been "broken since the New Year already are badly bent. The ice business is booming in the days, and a very good quality of ice is being put away in the local houses. L. P. Johnson graduated this morning at the Plymouth institute and returned to Ids home at Pushnell. Ohio. Nellie Pearson, living near Marion, j attempted suicide by drinking concentrated lye. Despondent over love af fairs. Lou. Porton, Will Wilson and Charles W'orthington are among the Plymouth attendants at the Cycle show in Chicago today. The ladies association of the Prerbyterian church will meet on tomorrow (Friday) afternoon with Mrs. W. P. Outcalt. Ceorge W. Wallace, of Valparaiso, was in town today in the interests of; the Cosmo Puttermilk soap manufactured at that place. Jacob Hendricks has gone to Hobart to stay for awhile. Jacob has been one of Tiik Inikpknikxt's appreciated friends at In wood. The ejectment of tramps from trains on VJie Pittsburgh road produces a scarcity of freight car passengers in towns along the route. A 12-year-old boy of Salem slipped and fell on the ice striking his head. lie walked home about a mile away and died shortly after. Several nations are discussing the feasibility of acquiring Cuba." And in the meantime the Cubans themselves are actually acquiring it. A Nebraska Indian has been arrested for having four white wives. And yet tiiere are those who claim that the Indian is becoming civilized. Auditor Aug. Knosman, Clerk Jim Fletcher, Kditor Sam (Jorrell and exSherill Yanderweele, all from Knox, took in tlio democratic convention hero yesterday. A wheelman in Indianapolis has sub stituted a skate for the front wheel of his cycle and he is said to move much more rapidly over the snow than on wheel over the ground. Nine days of leap year gone and only one marriage license reported by Clerk Wiltfong. What can be the matter with the dear girls, or are they just getting ready for a wholesale sacrifice? F. C. Follctt, Michigan City, ex-president of First National bank and former postmaster, is dead, aged S-). He was wealthy and had no family. Deceased was one of the first settlers in that city. John Purgner, a prominent Piemen citizen, died yesterday. lie was related to John euer of this place. The funeral services will be held on Friday at 'J o'clock from the Fvangelical church at Piemen. The Marshall county Sunday school convention will meet in the U. P. church in this city on Tuesday and

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Mabel Hall, of Chicago, have all promised to be present. A good time is assured. Neighbors of ex Surveyor North were busy talking about an alleged earthquake up in that neighborhoo'd until it was discovered that the gentleman had only been taken off his feet by the slippery walk. An examination for sanity was to have been held upon Lewis Canaan, the Pourbon man whose strange religious hallucinations were described in Tuesday's I n I f. r en i e x t. We have heard no report from such an inquiry, however. The Marshall County Medical society is in session today at the ollice of Dr. (iouldat Argos. Doctors Wilson and Kazer are in attendance from Plymouth, and Dr. Wahl drove over here from Piemen to go down with them. Among the prominent democrats from outside of town who attended the convention here yesterday afternoon, Rochester sent a delegation which included Yal Zimmerman, J. N. Orr, Kditor II. A. Pamhart, Julius Rowley. Samuel Keeley and J. A. Terry. In the circuit court case of (Irossman against the Nickel Plate, the jury returned a verdict last night giving plaintiff s7.V0 damages. The case of Solomon Cavender vs. James P. Yinnedge, in which the value of six bushels of beans is the question at issue, is on trial before a jury today. The Pusiness Men's banquet will be held at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Of course it will be understood that those gentlemen who have received invitations are expected to be accompanied by their ladies. If anybody who desires to attend has been inadvertantly missed by the committee, they may secure tickets of Mr. Ketcham. The K. O. T. M. will celebrate the inauguration of the newly elected officers on the evening of the 'Jlst with a big blow-out. The installation ceremonies will be conducted by (Ireat Commander Millo Meredith of Wabash, in the opera house, and will be free to the public. Afterward, m another hall, a banquet will be spread to some 00 guests. The Liberal Medical association of Northern Indiana will meet at Knox, January 15th, in the parlors of the Stevens hotel. Doctors Caple, of Maxenkuckee, Pannels, of Rochester, Jackson, of Plymouth, Moore, of Lapaz, Haifley. of A m boy. Shale r, of Rochester Wilson, of Plymouth, Hector, of Rochester, and McCann, of Monticello, are booked for papers. There is a remarkable old couple living on a small farm near Richmond, Ind. They are Mr. and Mrs. John Cates, the former of whom is 15 years old and the latter MH. They have been married almost 77 years and for '5 years have been residents of this county. Two years ago they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary and it is believed that they are the oldest couple living in Indiana, perhaps in the United States. From Friday's Daily. Theo. Cressner is in Pourbon. R. P. Oglesbee is here trom Indianapolis. Miss Kitchler, of Churubusco, is m the city. Joseph Hanes, jr., returned from South Pend. Mrs. George Thayer went to Chicago this morning. Sol. Allman returned today to his home in Marion. The business men's banquet on the 1 Ith begins at Dr. Johnson, of Pourbon, is a visitor in Plymouth today. After next Monday Gov. McKinley will write it William McKinley. W. II. Upham of the Central Flectrical Co., Chicago, was in town Unlay. Robert Pooler and family have located here, moving from St. Joseph, Mich. J. W. Replogle, great secretary of the K. O. T. M. was in town last evening. T. F. Knobloek, of the Holland radiator works, Premen. is in the city today on business. Miss Hunter, of Leiter's Ford, is the guest of her sister, Mr. Dr. Linkenhelt. The (Jem Cigar Slore. The big music box at Shatlel's is to be rallied oil' on April 1st ou the looth ticket plan. Grant Richardson, of Rochester, has accepted a position as nurse at the Plymouth institute. Jacoe Speyer ami wife left last evening for Chicago, en route to their home in Lexington, Ky. Gas Inspector Leach reports that Indiana gas fields have entered upon the decline and will be exhausted. John McLaughlin, noted as the largest shipper of hay in Northern Indiana, died at San Pierre, aged 10 years. Mrs. Katie Johnson, of Goshen, is a Plymouth visitor today. She has been visiting with her brother, Geo. W. Moore, of llibbard. The high school building of Michigan City, a twelve room building with a valuable library and laboratory, burned to the ground last evening, with

contents. Fire causrht ikmt the hot air j "halt ot funcice. Los ."Oh Ml. i insurance oaj. w...u.i u.i iv:. ,

companies. (ieo. W. Moore of near Hibbard who cut his foot severely while cutting wood about Christmas, is rapiulv recovering from the effect of the wound. There is no school in room C today. The teacher, P. D. Purgener. is in Pour- j bon attending the funeral of his uncle, whose demise was chronicled in yesterday's daily. A salo vi row in a local refresnment store yesterday, resulted in John T. Poulson being struck over the head, cutting a bad gash. Dr. Wilson dressed the wound. Y. F. Carey, physical director and general secretary of the Y. M. C. A , is in the city today. He comes to give assistance in the gymnasium departments of the association at this place. I G. Capron has disposed of his Laport e street saloons interest to Fd. A. Mee, now owner of the Marble Heart sample room in South Pend and former landlord of the Grand Central hotel in Valparaiso. The Sons of Veterans will install their new oflicers this evening at their hall. The work will be done by Post. Captain Howard II. Kelly. F.very member of the (J. A. R. as well as all members ot the order are urged to be present. The town of Goshen is reaching after the stars. The last bit of gilt braid came a night or two ago, when the city council there changed the name of North street to Plymouth avenue. We doll' our municipal hat to the honor, neighbor. A wonderful revival meeting is in progress at Hanna Laporte county, where Dr. Hoagland, an evangelist, has been laboring for several weeks. There are at present seventy converts, and it is believed the number will reach 100 bef oretne meeting closes. S. K. Hamptor is again on our streets after an absense of about two months at home with the Lagrippe. He and his family were all under the Doctor's care at one time; but all are once more out except Mrs. Hampton, who is troubled with rheumatism and dropsy and is not getting on so well. The County Medical association held a very interesting ami successful meeting yesterday at the office of Dr. Gould in Argos. The next session will be held in April at the otlice of Dr. J. II. Wilson in Plymouth This will be the annual meeting, when new otlicers are to be chosen and considerable like business attended t o It is said of a Goshen young man that he was e gaged to be married on New Year's day, but when it came to procuring the license he was short on coin and could not make the raise. This so disgusted the girl that she has served notice on the young man that she has big brothers and it will not be healthy for him in those parts. The postal authorities are after the dealers m fake toilet preparations again and the postmaster general has issued an order forbidding the Princess Toilet company, Mrs. C. II. Pupe, manager, of South Pend, Ind., the use of the United State mails. This company was formerly located m South Pend, and a fraud order was issued against it at that time. The company then moved .to Millwaukee, and afterward returned to Sout h Pend and began operations again. Henry Stein, the well-known pop dealer, played second fiddle in a rather exciting runaway down Michigan street yesterday alternoon. The leading role was taken by his versatile and experienced steed, which, hitched to a sort of ( hristmas dream of a little red box sleigh, tore down Michigan street from the court house direction to t he crossing at Puck's hardware store at a speed which discounted Pudd Poble's record smasher. There the little red sleigh went to pieces md the moving spectacle closed amid a great deal of appreciative applause from the large audience gathered. Prof. I. N. Sweet, It on diseases peculiar to women and children. All chronic diseases speedily cured by this great Magnetic llealer. I guarantee to cure all cases I accept to treat. TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE. Forms of Neuralgia resulting from female weaknesses cured by Prof. Sweet's Wonderful Magnetic Power. Chronic Pheumatism, Paralysis, Deformities and Neuralgia in all their forms, relieved at once. Can be seen at The Ross House from 1 a. m. to 4 p. tn. Special Notice: Consultation free. Do not fail to see him.

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