Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-04-08


Why l like the Bissell plows: Be-
cause they sell; because they stay sold;
because they work; because they keep
working. 2tw.
Frank Suit city editor of the Even
ing News has been suffering intense
pain for the past four days. 1t is only
carbuncle on his neck but he says that
he has an elephant on his hands.
This has not been what a fastidious
person would call pleasant day. 1t is
true that the sun shOne bright, but the
wind was so strong that people didn't
care to stand on the street corners.
Two young ladies in Anderson have
been appointed deputy assessors and
are now at work listing property and
killing dogs in that city They are the
only feminine assessors in the state
The revival meetings held at the wes-
leyan Methodist church in South Ply
mouth, still continues, and much inter
est is manifest The church is crowded
nightly, and conversions are numerous.
a ladies' gold watch with initials +
L. W. and June 8, 1890 engraven on in
side has disappeared. Any one finding
same, or any trace of same please leave
word at this office, and receive reward.
The taxpayer who is now trying to
arrange things so that dog of his will
not fall under the eye of the assessor,
who is on his rounds. finds little comfort
in the fact that dogs are quoted at S425
in the Klondike region.
Valparaiso Messenger: ID. Francis
Goddard, the impersonator, who re-
fused to show here Friday night on ac-
count of a poor house met like fate at
Plymouth Saturday night and the Of
| flcers seized his effects for debts.
Mulaney, the man charged with the
murder of Policeman Christensen at
South Bend, may have his second trial
in Marshall county. The state claims
that considerable new evidence will be
presented against Mullaney at the next
trial.
Harmon Wilson had his goods all
! packed In car bound for South Da-
kOta, when he received word not to
come for ten days yet on account of
severe snow storms, Mr. Wilson will not
&c for two weeks. He don't care to be
snow bound
The annual meeting of the Marshall
County Medical Society will be held at
the office of Drs. BOrton and Aspinall
in Plymouth on Thursday Apr. IA 1898
at l o'clock PM. at which DR.. 5. G..
Loring of Burr Oak, will read a paper
on pneumonia.
1t looks as if there would be another
march from Atlanta to the sea. Gen.
Graham who commands the gulf depart
ment, with headquarters at the historic
town in Georgia, has received orders to
prepare for an immediate call to duty
III case of war with Spain,
Warsaw Daily Times: Hon. Henry
G. Thayer, of Plymouth, dropped In to
see us while waiting to catch the west
bound train for his home, he being on
his return from Goshen. We regret
that we were not in at the time for we
are always glad to see II. q.
The Eastern Star held one of the mos
enjoyable sessions of the season last
night. A large number of members
were present. Mr.. Mcdonald enter
tanned them by exhibiting some splen-
did stereOptican views of the great
gysers in Yellow Stone park.
Word reached Plymouth to the effect
that the large party that left Marshall
county last week for Dakota are snow
bound in that country and it will be
several days before they will be able to
reach their destination. Indiana is
pretty good state after all. Don't you
think so?
David CoOperman arrived home today
from STU Oseph Mich. where he holds
good position in machine shop. He
came to attend the trial which will be |
called against the Elektron Cycle
company. After tomorrow the boys who
have wages due them will know just
where they stand.
81 will give ten dollars "said a man
in Justice Reeves court today "for |
recipe that will keep woman from
talking when she has nothing to say"
AS rule the average woman never
speaks unless she says something, and |
it is more than likely that the reward |
will go begging,
If, after all, there should be no war
the people of Frankfort who went so i
wild the other night, five thousand of
them marching to martial music around |
the public square and singing provis-
ional muster, might feel that they had
heap a hit abaad Of tbomSalyac V;oIa,t |