Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-12
es Always Room at the 0 p-beCause Few Get There,
RYAN 6 Joseph,

plymouth, Indiana.
engines during the dry weather last
ummer.
Try the celebrated Perkins Home
made wet mince meat. kuhn's market
sole agent.
SEMI-W EEKLY INDEPENDENT and
the Cosmopolitan, the greatest maya
zine in America. only Sl.S5 per year.
Real estate men from Kokomo,
Marion and L.ogansport, connected with
j. W. Houghton in real estate business
were in the city last week and will he
here this week.
Miss Rauda Pundall has been the
guest of VI. +. Ault and wife for a
couple of days. She leaves Monday for
TT. Wayne, Waterloo and Butler. Ind
to visit other friends.
Seymour, Ind, is given credit of hav-
Ing the finest equipped p%ostotlice in the
state. Mosaic floor dark granite walls,
metal ceiling, with gold trimmings, is a
few OF the luxuiies mentioned.
The comic valentine this year, repre-
SCENTS the bloomer clad girl, perfectly.
No doubt there will be IA great
many heart burnlngS over this new adj
dition to the comic valentine nuisance.
Chairman Gowdy, OF the republican
sta tie committe has issued a call, for
the committee to meet at indianapolis
Wednesday, when a decision will be ar
rived at regarding the matter of APP
~portionment.
Programs are ont for the meeting
of the Teachers Association, which
will hold forth at the opera house on
Feb. 2lst and 22d. An interesting time
is assured, and an excellent program
has been prepared.
Reports come To us that the Ice har-
vest at Lake MaXinkuckee has not
been as successful as desired. Some of
of the houses are reported as not being
half filled. The prospects for another
heavy freeze are very slim.
There is a tramp doing business in
this section of the state that brings him
good financial returns without labor
lie appears at the back door and in a
tremulOus voice askes for a postage
stampto mail a letter to his sick mother
!; Look out for him.
Postmaster j. G.. Jilson is expected
home this evening at go with the re
mains of his mother, whose death oc
cured in Dayton, Tenn, Thursday
night Funeral will be held tomorrow
2 at go p. III. at Mr.. JIlsons residence.
The deadlock in the south Benz
council was broken Wednesday night
One democrat helped the republican
to make "a necessary quorum and cit.
business has been once more resumed
not however without many expression
: of dissatisfaction.
The latest scheme for making none
is this: One nan goes through tn,
country, pOliticlan-like, shaking hand.
with ever ybody. The second fellow
week CT two later follows selling an itcI
ointment. The first fellow is a direcI
descendant of the old scratch.
Mrs. Amanda Thomas had some mer
q chandise, bought at K~loepfer's, nippe,
by one of the light fingered gentry yes
terday. While making some purchas
es at a grocery store she laid the bun
die on a counter, and when she turne,
to pick it up it had mysteriously van
ished. There is no clew to the thief.
When Elijah S"toneburner was coming
into town at 2:30 this afternoon hi
team took fright at an l.. T.. ~ w. Ell
CINE while ON the Lake Erie crossing
The team ran nearly To the Vandali
crossing, where ii SHE'D into the ditto
. and dumped Mr.. St%oneburner'
mother and a child out on the road
= side. No one was seriously hurt
; The body of Mrs. A. ID. Jacoby wa
brought to this city at noon today
Many friends and relatives of the be
o reaved family were at Vandalia depo
when the train came in ana from Their
: the body was escorted to Jacoby churc
where the last tributes of resDect wer
e paid the dead and the funeral service O
N Reformed church was pronounced b
Rev. Rothenberger.