Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-05

men.
y Mr.. Finch, of Notre Dame, brother
of Mrs. Geo. Grant, is here OWING to her
sickness.
Mrs. +. J. Houghton will visit a few
days at I.igonier this week. She goes
tomorrow.
Enie Zortmln, from Niles, Michigan,
is visiting her sister. Minnie Zortmin in
Plymouth.
business is reported as very slack AT
present. Very few fast rams are do
ing business.
The school muddle still continues at
North Liberty. No school has been
held for Sone time.
Counterfeit dollars and halves are In
circulation al Shipshewana. and quite u
number have been discovered.
Next Thursday is one of the import
ant days to the old soldiers who draw a
regular sum from Uncle sam.
Miss Wenona Meiser, of Columbia
city, VISITED a few days of last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Tuttle.
Two boys were drowned in the Calu-
met river at Hammond Thursday night
while attempting to cross the river on
the Ice.
Rev. ". ". Raymond and wife who
were at Goshen IN attendance l o the
Deanery convention, returned home
Friday last.
The Kansas City Time says: The
most mysterious force III existence used
To be electricity. Now 1t Is the Spanish
army in Cuba.
Mr.. Mllliken, General passenger agent
of the l.. X y. railroad was in our city
today %tranSacting business in relation
To the Georgia colony.
{. \. PEABODY, of Colfax, returned
home Saturday after Il few days visit
with \. {. Love. He expects To locate
here in the near future.
Rev. skinner, of South Bend, who Oc-
cupled the pulpit at the NJ. T.. church
yesterday morning and evening, preach
ed two excellent sermons.
1t Is stated that there are no less than
thirty seven varieties OF grip, but when
a person has one he immediately con
cludes he has the entire thirty seven.
They have a "tiger" at Monticello, and
the press of that lively burg says, d
pilgrim dropped $4,000 "a short time
ago while trying to count its stripes.
While sweetness and light are the
two best things on earth, II is but just
that we should all be anxious to get
twenty-three pounds of sugar for d
dollar.
y suffering woman is as scarce as
a dead mule or a worn-out piano. And
yet poor, Stammering, trembling mar
object to making speeches in
public.
I ne UldllN llltlltlN vi WIS. Val 4idlSi
will regret to learn that she died sud
denly at 3 O'Clock sunday morning. She
leaves a husband and Il family Of six
children.
The correspondent from Tyner It
the Walkerton independent. says tina
Marshall county has IA summer resOr
that is open winter and summer.
Mrs. John Gooyer, an aged lady ot
lIibbard. Is reported as in d very seriOu,
condition. Owing To her extreme age
which is 81, small hopes are entertained
OF her ultimate recovery.
We wonder if 'didOeS" is somethin!
good to eat. A correspondent to al ex
change says, that some of the churcl
goers' offspring are To be seer in tn,
back part of the church cutting all kim
of "didoes."
Mrs. Geo. Grant is considered To b,
III a very pTtCdTlOlS col'ilJlOll. y lillt
child was born to them a few days age
since which time she has been uncon
scious and her life endangered by con
WILSON'S.
Spelling holds a relation to WRITER
language, similar to that of enuncla
ton I'm spoken language. The question
now is, do our public school teacher
give the attention to correct spelling
that they should
An exchange remarks that the tim
will soon be heie when the sweet gil
graduate raises her lily white arms an,
IN accents bold and with seraphic grac
proclaims:'Al Ill along the %untrOdden pat
Of the future we can see the hiddel
footprints of an unseen hand"
\ Crown Point bride. gradually he
ing Installed into the mysteries q
marketing, called at a meat market tn
other day and asked for IA leg of laml
The piece was produced. She took on,