Weekly Republican, Volume 57, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 November 1911 — Page 1

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PVTI JV n . in?St. VOX.UUE 57 PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1911. NUMBER 47.

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Department Request for New Lease for Plymouth Post Office Gives Mr. Garn Opportunity To Show Strong Reasons For Permanent Quarters.

Ia our issue for Tuesday, Nov. 14, apeared a notice from tbe Gevernment, through J. X. Hunter, Postoffice Inspector, that a new lease was wanted for a suitable building for the postoflice business of ccndnet of the postoftice business if Plymouth. The notice" states that a building where heat, light, water, ilosets, urinals, safe or vault, and all that goes to make a complete and comfortable place for the purposes of the department, would be a consideration in the applications. Also good daylight, and a. location convenient to the business center of the city, good situation as to distances from railroad depots, sufficient floor space all these would be elements that should be counted by owners desiring to lease to the Government. They desire that the lease shall run five or ten years, and the premises Le in e'very way suited for the conduct of the business. A few years "ago the question of a Federal Building for Plymouth was agitated, and got so far that on February 12, 1910 the Supervising 'Architect of the 'Treasury Department asked the Postmaster here to submit prices on suitable sites foi such , a building,.. Sinee - ihen no further, communications have . been j received, and it was presumed that the allowances made for such purposes was exhausted, and nothing could be done at that time. ITence the matter dropped out of. mind, and few have given the subject thought since. Now the situation is quife different. Rents have advanced very materially since the present building was leased, and it is doubtful if premises even without "the lights, heat, water, toilet, etc., could be leased for what is now paid. Certain is it that with all these conveniences, the government will have to pay very much more than at the present time. Again the present floor space is about 2100 square feet, and any in crease that would require more rural and city carriers would make it necessary to have added floor space. This is 'almost certain to occur before another lease of ten or even five years would expire. As the present building cannot offer more floor space than now used, and as it is practically the only room with so much space that could be found in a suitable location, it is evident that something will necessarily have to he done before long. Two things are certain in this ease: A larger and better equipped building wiU soon be needed to meet the growing demands of the Plymouth postoflice, and the other fact is that no building is available at the present time that will bettei this branch of the governnx-ut business In a suitable location for the purpose. But few-people realize the amount of business transacted at this office The gross receipts for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1911, amounted o $13,927.58. The remittances to the Depository of Funds over and above the running expenses amounted to $4.386.08. With the city delivery, there is a working force of sixteen people. -and they are, among the busiest people of the. city in any line of business. 'The work accomplished by them .is only possible on account of the splendid system that has been worked out and maintaine'd. The duties cf each is specified, and each one works np to his position each day with a regularity that doe3 credit to any force of workmen.! "When one looks : back only a few years, and notes the increase of bmü uess in the Plymouth postofSce, and the improved methods of doinji thi3 work, and stops to think that tha businec3 will increase in the next ten XCZ73 3 it has dene ia the past, fca h bd to wonder if it would pe cLV.3 to do Ü3 work then in th?

ft present cramped quarters. No man of business would think it possible to do this, and as Mr. Gam looks over the situation, he sees the great necessity for arranging for a place that will be larger, and better adapt ed for the purposes of the government than the presnt one affords. Mr. Garn realizes that the poor light, bad ventilation, unevenly distributed heat (stoves are used) are not conductive to good results. No good business man would expect good service in such surroundings. The Pennsylvania a truck line railroad with the two branch lines from South Bend to Terre Haute, and from Michigan City to Indianapolis, make this a point of much importance as a transfer place, and as the business of the country increases this business through the Plymouth postoflice increases in direct ratio. With all these things to consider in asking for a lease o a building that will be suitable, that will meet the . requirements of the department, and give facilities for the present and for the increased business thai will come. Mr. Garn is fully conversant, lie realizes that there is really no place available that is adequate 'Vo "the needs' 'of this ""ofllee, and hence he must take steps to so inform the authorities, that such a place may be provided. lie sees no better way than to present the matter to the proper officials, and urge that a. suitable location be secured, and a building built that will be sufficient for years to come, where the business of the government may be transacted properly and economically, and the health and comfort of the employees vouchsafed. Mr. Garn will undoubtedly lay all the facts in the situation before the proper officers, and will do all in his power to get a Federal Building for Plj-month. Let every man, woman and child boost hard when the time comes to boost this enterprise, (f course the Commercial Club will be a factor in this matter, but they will want each one to do the little he can. This is a chance to get a government building at this place. It is needed, and it is to bo hoped that nothing that can be done will be left undone to bring about this much to be desired end. Talk it, urge it, da everything possible to get it. The Republican is here to back up any measure that will be i.i u ii f ii i At. J or the betterment of Flymonth, that; J ' I win encuance me yaiue oi property mm m , m , n i I and add to th ecomfort and happiness of our people. Let all boost for a new Government Building fori Plymouth. 1 i lease of the present building expires next April. A new lease must be made. The government' wants the building to be equipped with all the conveniences of a modern business establishment, with good daylight convenient to business and to railroad depots'. :" It is evident to anyone that the present quarters do not fill these requirements. It is ,likewi.e evident that there is 110 building in the business section of the city that does meet these requirements. If the government gets what it asks for. someone will have to prepare a building. It is certain that no man can afford to build a building, or, to remodel an old building to meet the demands, and

only be assured be can rent it for ta government is taking on a wider five or even ten years, unless he is scope as Jhe 'ed States and Mexi,J can secret service men continue their paid a verj- high rental. Goodbusi- toTestigat.ons.-find unearth new vines9 judgment, therefore, would in- nce, and the United States and ths dicate that the better course for the Texas officials are pushing most acgovernment would be to build its tively their eHorta to prevent the own building, where the postoffice forcea gathering on American sell to can be conveniently and permanent- their attacks on Mexico , v .'I Cavalry haa been spread out along ly located. the Rio Gran-id from Laredo to ' 1 BrowESvills. -

The next national republican platform should come out squarely and strongly for a tariff that protects each, and all' in this matry. What this nation u tody a pctive tcnlJ tzz cico it, cud it u nq nozz

necessary to apologize for a tariff wall than for this country's material progress. The history of the United States for the past fifty years is practically the history oftherepubli can party. Every intelligent man knows' this, and every man admits it, except the leaders of- the opposition, and a few supereonceited republicans who would rather see the party ship wrecked than to see it guided safely through by hand other than theirs. Starke Co. Republican.

Lecture at M. E. Church. 'Next Sunday evening at the Metho dist church there will be an address bv Mr. M. K. Dyer of Armenia. His subject will be "Some Problems and Modern Phases of Life in Armenia.' ' Mr. Dyer left Armenia under the persecution of Christians there about two years ago. His address will be made thrilling bv narratives of some of the incidents of Turkish 1 t T T ' , i j ! nus-ruie. tie expects 10 return to the Turkish Empire as an American citizen, two yars hence, upon the completion of his course in the State University at Madison, Wis., where he is now a student. All are cordially invited to hear Mr. Dyer speak next Sunday evening. Church Selects Janitor. John R. Jacoby has been selected as janitor of Jacoby church and, is to serve in this capacity for a year. SHIPS TO SANTO DOMINGO Cruisers Will Try to Prevent Anarchy Minister Is Ordered Back. Washington, Nov. '22. To safeguard American interests and prevent, a state of anarchy in Santo Domingo as a result of the assassination of President Caceres the cabinet decided that the armored cruisers Washington and North Carolina of the Atlantic Heet should be dispatched with all nced to S:;n Domingo City. The vessels are now engaged with tho rest of the fleet in wording out a Ecrrch problem oiT the Chesapeake capes. They have been reached by wireless and will qome into.Hampton roads to pick up -William W. Russell, the American minister, ' and convey him to the Dominican capital.- Mr. Russell was ordered back to his West Ind'an post by the state department. CHINESE PEACE DELAYED Yuan fehih Kai and National Assembly Do Not . Get Together. Pekin, Nov. 22. The struggle for ascendancy between the monarchists I and republicans still prevents progress In the settlement of the war. Yuan Shih Kai continues unabated his advocacy of a monarchy and seems to be drifting towards a conflict with the national assembly. He is carrying out plans to repress the Vangtse rebels and Is sending Manchu soldiery to tbe south, notwithstanding the opposition of the assembly to a continuance cf the fighting. Meantime the national assembly has decided not to take any dictation from Yuan In regard to the form of future government of China and has formally ' approved tho proposal for a national convention to decide whether it shall be a monarchy or. a republic. WAR COSTS ITALY &1ILLI0NSJ.1 i Trcops Attack Arabs and Kill 45 ofi .. Then with Bayonet. ' j Rome, Nov. 22. The government ha3 authorized an extraordinary expenditure of 565,000.000 to cover the . - ,v ÄTW, rrst nf inp wnr until tnt end or No " ----- cember. General Caneva reports that the , Grenadiers attacked a horde of Arabs with the bayonet and killed forty-six of them. . Aeroplanes reconnoitered the desert and dropped a bomb in a Tiirt-icli .ojmTrm Atv Trnlian warsnln j bombed and burned the village of Amrassi. A night attack at Derna and Tobruk was repulsed. A general attack of Turks and Arabs on the Italian forces 13 reported to be Imminent. ' Italy Mobilizing More Troops. London, Nov. 22. A dispatch from Milan via the frontier says that the Italian government lias found it necessary to mobilize another 20,000 men for service in Tripoli. - REVOLUTION IS SPREADING Cavalry Ditributcd Along L0P.3 Stretch cf International Boundary. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 22. Tho Iteyista revolutionary plot against tho MadcrisKins Hurt In Train Wreck. Telia. Okla., Nov. 22. A. Midland X."27 pif? train If1 cJ pen!C wcre ! czzzzj tzzrzl. . '

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PRACTICA MRS. MAE ROMIG MILLER ADVOCATES PLAY GROUNDS AND THE INTRODUCTION OF USEFUL STUDIES. Social Centers For Young and Old Prevent Much Evil and Make Community Happier and Better. Nearly one hundred women, members and friends of the Saturday

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Club listened to a . very inspiring problem what to do with the energlecture Saturday afternoon at the ies of the growing boys. There ran home of Mrs. Winnie Humrichcuser. be nothing better than agriculture Mrs. Angie Houghton Cook rend- for the boy to learn. In connecercd beautifully, "The Last Hope," tion with this . work, the government and Mrs. Maud Reynolds Houghton publications can be used to advansang sweetly three pieces, the words, tage. One boy can become an exand music of which were the com-rert on lawns, one on bees, one on position of three Marshall county the sparrow, and so on. The govpeople. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald ernraent spends $27,000 annually for Gilmore, Mrs. Bertha Reynolds Mc-j the publication of these results of Donald, and Miss Bertha Reed. the experiments of experts, and too The. lecturer was Mrs. Mae Romig often they are only stored awav in Miller, of South Bend. Mrs. Miller public vaults. They should get back spent her childhood in Marshall to the, people who pay for them and county, in the country near Argos, who will use them. Such study is a and taught in the . Plymouth High creat inspiror of civic pride in these school-in -MOO-löSl;" Later -he com--boys 'Aii expert from Pnrdue-will pleted her education at. Chicago Uni- come here free and tell the boys versity and married W. E. Miller, an what will grow best on the lots, and attorney of South Bend, where she how to care for them. Free seeds has since made her home. "m also be obtained of the Purdue Mrs. Miller is a-, woman of rare Experiment Station, force and ability and has won a tj, moving picture shows, which

state reputation as a social worker, having built up the remarkable Girls'. Club in South Bend, which was descnbed m Saturday s paper. I No subject having been assigned to Mrs. Miller she did. not take any but talked in an informal way about MRS. MAE ROMIG-MILLER.

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some of the things which might be! "lven ims season D' lue 'resDyierdone by the women of Plymouth, to j ian Brotherhood. Mr. Crawford has

make this a better place to live in. p K,-o rr she said that the more ambitious ones' leave because there is "nothing doing here." She said the location of Plvmonth is iust as eood as anv on rnrth and that the reason for this is because Plymouth has ' been

selfish. (There was no . applause at eloquence 10 me iino oi me newsthis remark which fell heavily upon boy with an easy now that carries Ac 1. Kei-u. v,..ihu audience and holds their atten-

there felt that it was meri.ed.) .Ab! citizens we are unlike other? in other icitiems. We think and plan for the welfare of our own home, of our one ' o rtwo children, and think we have done our whole duty' if we provide, ! comforts and opportunities for ther i Plymouth, needs ood picture? ' ;or the boys and girls to look at, not lthat,one. or two may make a trip to IJew York and view the art exhibits'

there, but pictures brought here-rad Caroline Carpenter, A. E. . Wise put on exhibition where all the bos Attorney -s. John Carpenter, Petiend girls 'car see them. Such op- tion for . Guardian.

portunitiea ,ire provided by the,' State of Indiana, Mart indale and Loan Art Exhibits, which Plymouth ' Unger Atorneys, vs. Lewis . Ov rcaa easily provide for. its citizens, if! myer, ' Chrs. : Ivelilson.' Attornay, tit'vodd. , . I Surety of the P?ace. ... '

.We need wholesome, healthy social amusement, social centers, where the boys and girls may be togethei naturally, and where .the girl can go dressed up and be her" prettiest. Mrs. Miller expressed the hope that when we have our Public Library, it

may not be a place for books alone, but may have rooms where young people and men and women may meet and talk and meet socially. It Should even have toys for the cliildren. for we pass through the toy age as really as we do the book age. And it should have a place for all kinds of club meetings. Mrs. Miller explained a, forgotten law of Indiana, by which if twenty citizens ask that any subject be taucht at night or nit of scao 1 hours, it is the dutv of the School P)0ard to provide a place and a teacher. We can have a night school if twenty citizens want it. We women can be taught Domestic Science, having a kitchen and a teacher provided by us all, the taxpayers. Every woman may at t tend who desires to learn how to manage her home more scientifically, more economically or with less drudgery. 'If we wish our daughters to learn how to cook, being taught by an expert teacher, we have but to peti tion for it. We spend so many school hours over Latin, or Gepmetry, or Algebra subjects which we will not use at all in real life and we know almost noth ing about the composition of soap, how to feed a husband to keep him healthy and happy, or how to rear our families. 'Vacant lot gardening has proved a solution to some communities of the are frowned upon bv m are a rrrcat social power The are tne poor man's theatre. It ' would be weu for tne wompn to investigate aml he assured that the shows of our e;tv llse 0nlv films which have been pa?S(,i upon the -National Censorship of Moving Pictures, of which Jacob Rüs. is at the head. There are only a few companies whose pictures are not thus endorsed. Any child who has seen Washington crossin? the Delaware in moving pictures-will1 not have to study it twice in. his history. But- we should .not stop with the moving -picture shows. We should be always trying to raise the child's taste by providing the better entertainments, art exhibits etc. Mrs. Miller closed her address with a plea'that we as mothers do not. try to pluck all the ripe fruit for our own children, but try to pass all we can on to those mothers who cannot reach quite as high for theit e'dldren as those more fortunate can that we be sisters working for a common purpose the betterment of humanitv. Capt Jack Crawford. Captain Jack Crawford, the Poet Scout. , was the second in the series of entertainments that. are. being 11 - ' 11 T v a wonderful fund of anecdotes of his me as uovernmem dcoui ana moian 1 ' e 1 n a x fiSnter, and relates them with an ease and Srace that is rare. He is the autbor of m.n' ße poems, and recites them Wltb a gmty and elegance that is not often seen. He from the .highest -flights of He spoke for. two bours last nih and hls audience was not tired so interested were all in the sPeaer- k has a message speciaU for tjhe and P1' and thls morning he was at the Washington FchooL where he sppke for half an hur' to the seventh grade pupils. ' . Carres Filed. . i v

. MARRIAGES . Twomey-Myer. Mr. Earl W. Twomey, the new

deputy county auditor, and Merian L. My er, a trained nure whose home is in Bourbon, were married j Saturdaj-. Mr. and Mrs. Twomey . tried to ke-p the wedding a secret, but it leaked out. However,, it could not be found out who married them, though Mr. Twomey states that the- were married in Plvmouth. McNeff-Schroeder. Mr. Jas. H. McNeff, a young teleraPh operator of Lapaz, and Miss ; Urace öchroeder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Schroeder of Polk township, were married at the U. B. church at Tyner on Sunday, Nor. 19, Rew. Love, pastor of the church, officiating. Tbe couple , have many friends who wish them well. They will make their home in Lapaz. R-tter-Bearss. Mr. Bert R. Ritter- of Tippecanoe and Miss Fonny I. Bearss of Tippecanoe township were married at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at tho Methodist parsonage by Rev. F. O. Fraley. The groom is a son of Daniel Ritter and the bride a daughter of? Fred Bearss, one of the prominent farmers of Tippecanoe township. The couple were accompanied to Plymouth by Mr. and Mrs. Lowney of Bourbon. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter left Plymouth on the north bound Lake Erie train at 4:17. Walters-Yates. Mr. Leonard E. Walters aml

Miss Blanche M. Yates were united menU Jn c,rcat 'ritian a11 c c0--in marriage Mondav evening Nov. I Hral telegraph business, and most 21. by the Rev. F. O. Fralev, at the I of the clePhone service is operated Methodist parsonage. There were'b-v the gomnent. While it is present two sisters' of the groom, j trne thr,t the wa-es of lcstaI eMrs. Lee Kendall and Miss Bertha ! Plo.ves tIlere aM VW nmC:h lo'ror Walters, who witnessed the cere-!tban her" and the average disdanee mony. 3 letter isca rrlel is less than i:i Mr .and Mrs. Walters will reside the UllitC(l States, yet the domestic

in Plymouth, where many friends tend to them best wishes. Jilson-Fells. 7 Tordcomes to sPlymeath friend of the marriage on Saturday evening oi jonn it. nison. Known iiere as Romer, and Miss Helen Fells, both of Chicago. Romer is the son of Mrs. Dannie JllSOn WUO IS Well tnown to

Plymouth people, and is an old'po aÄ the Americans, and that town boy. having been born in the parcel rate is low there and Plymouth. Friends here wish themjh';ffh her :t .Yf).,M s?em ÄS if onr

joy and unalloyed happiness. Smith-Kline. ill lue vuuui It L t B UlllVCT vu Mondav aftern'oon. occurred the vredding of William V. Smith and Miss Edna M. Kline, Justice Holloway performing the ceremony. Kamp-Greer. ' Paul K. Kamp and Ruth May Greer, both of Culver, were at the County Clerk's office getting license Mcnclay morning when Justice C. P. Holloway came in, and there being no time like the present, the couple were joined in the bond of matrimony then and there, and went on their way rejoicing. LODGE ORDER CELEBRATES Bishop White of Fort Wayne, lnd.,j Takes Part. ' Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 22. The Lodge of Perfection, Valley cf Fort Wayne, F. and A. M., celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with fivesevenths of its 1,400 membership present at the banquet. William GeaV.e presided. Bishop White of the Fort Wayno Episcopal diccese offered the invocation. The celebration in the Consistory Hall was notable because of speeches by Barton Smith of Toledo, sovereign grand commander, and by Governor Marshall. Bondsmen Seek Aldermen. Gary, Ind., Nov. 22. DOndsmen of Alderman Anthong Eaukus, cne cf the defendants in the Gary bribery ease, who has been rcisEin: for a week, began an international search for the man, when, as they say, they were informed that he was cn the sea irtur.r. for Europe and net at sent ca a business trip as was supposed, . Bends Sell Abcvs Par. Evansville, Ind.. Nov. 2. Citr Comptroller Joseph Koilmcye? sr.'.d $800,000 worth of city tones runnlu twenty-years and bearbs rcr icr.t interest. . Ail the herds '-were- purchased by local interests st elibtly above $101X0, tte largest amount sold to any cne mari heirs 54CO.OCO. .Loses Memory at Fort W?yne. Fort Wayne. Ind., Ncv. 22. Themas Goodyear, believed ty cards fcund in hie possession to te a member cf a theatrical company now playing in Toledo, was picked up by the police izzz. Gocayear apparently la suSertij frcn Itzs of xnencry.

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WIHFY CLEARED $21,000,000 ACCORDING TO THE REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT, AFTER PAYING BIG LOSSES. ONE CENT POSTAGE Government Also Operates the Telephones and Telegraph L-nes, In Addition to Carrying Letters and Parcels. The report of the postoffice department for thcUn iied Kingdom the fiscal year, shows a profit of $21,000.000 and this moreover after paying a los of $5.500,000 for teleI graph deficit, and another loss oi $200,000 on its telephone depart-

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money. Moreover, a large parcelpost business is handled, amounting to over five billion pieces, while there were onlv three billion letters. Over-oue billion packages were carried for a half -p?nny. or one cent ol our money, each. In view of the fact that the j English are not as vojnmicons letter , wH. 1 rr-i for lm;np nnrl n-r. own postal department might- be .He to !so manage its affairs as to avcid anv loss without increasins -1. i p ,i . i i j lnatter- and.t0. tabisha 1CC j ost rate .vnicu would strv? tho ('people without involving any loss in ; doing so. Thousands of small shop i eepers in London, for example, have no other means of delivering purchases. You step into a store on the Strand and bin- a bco!:. a .hairbrush, a box of cisars, and th? parcels post gets it out to your residence six or eight miles distant almost as quickly as you pet thcrs yourself. It is the salvation of the shop keeper in the small towns, who can order goods he cannot afford to "stock" and get what his customoi wants, quickly and at the cost of one or two cents, or less, for postage. The country dealer in fighting the parcels post, especially as proposed as local on rural routes only, is fisrhting h5s own best friend, although he dees not know it. lie not made its acqnaintnnc?, and fa:. to comprehend his own pcsiiUe opportunities. Not a hundred miles from Chicago is a town of about 3.5C0 people. Ten years ago many of it. merchants bitterly opposed the construction of an electric line 'between that place and a little hamlet of perhaps 109 people. 10 miles distant. It was argued the new road would build up another town and all the farmer trade in that section voald be lost. The line was built, the littI-3 hamlet has grown , to a town of 'more than l.OCO inhabitants, with waterworks, electric lights. telephone exchange, fire department and all that: and the trade from that section with the old and large town never wa. and never would have been, anything like whaV it is today, but for the road. Transportation facilities. and farilitv includes a reasonable erst of service create business. A parcels post will do the same Tl. II. Windsor in the. December Popular Mechanics Magazine. Funeral Notice. . The funeral of Mrs. Morgan will be held'at the home of ürt Yockey cn Michigan street at 10:00 Thürs day morning and friends will take the 11:15 train on the Lake Erie C; Western road for Tytecr wfcsre tha burial will occur.

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