Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-22
From Fridays Daily.

on can generally tell a friend by the
cigar he gives you.
Low rates anywhere VIA. the Nickel
Plate road any time.
Mr.. Al Wittgensteln, of Cincinnati,
was IN the city yesterday.
Walter Chapman, Of Argos, is visit
ing at the Ross house today.
Mrs. Ida Davis. of South Bend. is Wis
iting with her parents in this city.
Your shoe trade can best be taken
care OF in u shoe department.
Carpenter Il Bosworth.
If everybody should tell the truth it
would take a pile of lying to straighten
things out again.
Mrs. Peter Brinkman, OF near Ilib-
bard, is reported as very Ill. Dr. Knott
was called last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Altman returned today
from Marshfield, Wis, where they have
been visiting several days.
We uIiuCI SlduQ llldL AiiSS bldtc DOl
ton has been suffering with a severe
cold the past three days.
Harry ". Miller arrived from Chi.
cago and will remain the guest OF DIR.
Borton until after Sunday.
Some people not only lose their own
time with their troubles but they take
up the time of others telling them.
The snow drifted so badly between
Michigan City and La Porte yesterday,
as to make all trains going south late.
Senator j. Is. Mount is at Column bia
City addressing crowded houses at the
Whitley County Farmers Institute.
Frank Nicolay has just placed a new
chair in his shop to meet the demands
of his fast increasing trade. Clyde
Swinderman. OF Ohio, is bis new as
slstant.
The Marshall Co.. Teachers met in
session this morning at l0O'clOck in the
opera house. \ full account of the
meeting will be found in Saturdays
daily.
The Swindell Bros, had the mlsfor-
tune of having one of their horses taken
sick with lung fever. DIR. Meyers has
been attending to it and brought it
through all right.
Reports in yesterdays papers give
it out that Eugene V. Debs has stated
that he will accept the nomination for
governor of the state of Indiana on the
populist ticket.
One of the treats in store for the
Teachers Association which is in SEES
sion, is the lecture to be presented to-
night by Prof. Hamilton King, rrlnci-
pal of the Olivet Michigan collage.
For the excellent report OF the Mar
shall County Farmers Institute, given
in Wednesdays paper, we are largely
indebted to Harriet NJ. Ault, of this
city, who represented THE INDErEN-
DENT at every session.
Yesterday morning the body of an
e%x-regular army soldier by the name of
Chas. Scannell, was round neal Jeffer-
sonville, Ind. lie had been discharged
from the service Feb. 9Th, and secured
quite a sum of money. 1t is supposed
he was murdered for the purpose of rob
berry.
At TT. Wayne, the reporter 10 the
Kansas City sun, has been using the
names of two or three respectable peo-
pie indescriminately in his letters to the
notorious sheet. One day this week he
was seen strolIing along the street by
r one of the gentlemen alluded to III his
Z scurrilous articles, who walked up to
/ him and famed his face SO thOurough.
ly that the wind left black and blue
marks all over it.
| The free silver democrats, of the state
committee at the meeting held yesterday
at Indianapolis, gained their point inre-
gard to the holding of the state conven-
ton before the National convention.
, The sound money members of the COM
) mittee realized that a serious breach in
2 the party would occur if they did not
accede to the demands of the free sill
[ ~verites, and the date for holding the
state convention was set for June 9th.
For the past few days the smell of
J burning wood at the residence OF Oliver
5 q. Soice has been very ~preceptable. Mr..
SOice has spent some time in wandering
around trying to locate the trouble.
+ This morning about = o'clock Fire Chief
i Kuhn was notified To go Immediately to
| the residence, and arrived in time to
prevent a serious fire. Mr.. SOice has
been using a fire place, and 1T seems the
t woodwork underneath the tile had
v caught fire. Owing to the absence of a
draft 1t had smoldered there for some
time. 1t is exceedingly fortunate the
discovery was made in time.