Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-07-15
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Tuesdays Daily.


lively rate.
Hay making and wheat threshing
now occupies all of the farmers time.
All revenue stamps will be found at
the banks. No other parties purchase
them.
Just take day off and visit Pretty
lake. 1t is one of the finest resorts in
Indiana.
Councilman Dickinson undertook to
"kill'' the Few bridge last night but he
got gloriously left.
The citizens of South street are great
ly elated over the prospect of having
that street graveled.
The Wesleyan quarterly meeting will
occur next Sunday with the opening
sermon Saturday night.
A long felt want will be filled when
new iron bridge is built over Yellow
river on East CAIRO street.
Clarence Slater, Henry Hall and sew
eral other farmers are in Lafayette in
vestigating new hedge fence.
For sale OF trade-One solid comfort
gang plOw, one tornado feed CUTTER
Address. Victor WEIGH. Rutland, Ind.
Mr.. Huffman, the geniel assistant
agent at the L. f. 81 w. depot got his
hand mashed while loading baggage
this morning.
There is coal fight on down at
Bourbon. The fight, it is stated. is
getting very warm and there is no tell.
ing when it will end.
All the lodges in the city that elect
officers twice year now have new
corps of officers to guide them for
another six months.
The business men of our city antici-
pate big trade next month, owing to
the fact that so little money has been,
or will be. spent in Plymouth during
this month.
The funeral of Miss Belle Drake took
place this afternoon from her late home
on Pierce street at 2 o'clock. Rev
Tice officiated and preached fine fun
eral discourse.
A. Nj. Higgins, of Terre Haute, ex-
president of the Indiana Republican
clubs, will be candidate for clerk of
the supreme court before the Republi-
can state convention.
Ed II Corbin was selected by Hyper
ion lodge. X. of p, last night, to repre-
sent the knights of Plymouth in the
grand encampment, which convenes at
Indianapolis in August.
j. M. Clump, general manager of the
Shelby Cycle Co., Shelby, Ohio, was in
the city today. He came here for the
purpose of buying the Elektron bicycle
plant but the sale was not made.
1t is said that Summer card clubs
have been failure this season. A
good thing, indeed, as it gives an OPP
portunity for physical recuperation-a
sort of rest between the rounds.
A large seven-mile ditch is being cut
through low lands near Argos, by
steam dredging, and it Is expected that
it will reclaim about 1000 acres of
what Is now worthless swamp lands.
Mr.. Adelbert Coffey, of Indianapolis,
who with his family are visiting the
families of l.. e.. Capron and George
Vinall, leaves tonight for Chicago
where he will visit for short time.
After all there was more need of a
Schley individual, when Cervera tried
to escape from Santiago, than for a
Sampson. 1t was more a question of
quick scheming than of ponderous
thought
A number of bicycle dealers and
manufactures were in the city today
expecting that the Elektron works
would be sold. They came for the pur-
pose of putting in bid.
Gus Wolf, the clothing dealer, has
rented the Humrichouser store room on
Michigan street, formerly occupied by
Frank Mckinney, and will be ready to
greet all his old customers Monday
morning.
An aged lady got very mad at At.
torney l.. M. Lauer this morning. She
wanted search warrant issued to
search neighbours house, as she be-
Iieved the party had stolen a pillow
slip from her
The humane society should give some
signs that it is alive. 1t might begin
operations against the high overhead