Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1898-09-02
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Tuesdays Daily.

Mrs. David Wiser has been granted
pension of S12 month.
Daniel Hasg, who resides in the
country three miles west, is quite sick g.
Warren Crawford, whose parents
reside four miles west, left for Dakota
last Sunday.
Eyra Aldaffer, who lives on farm six
miles east, is reported very low with
consumption.
Mrs. Lee Hill, who resides in the
country has gone to Chicago to receive
medical treatment.
&. A Webster, wife and little
daughter Mildred left to make Vslpar-
also their future home.
Mrs. David Redding has been grant
ed a widows pension of S12 q month
with two dollars extra for her child.
Jesse Miller has been suffering all
summer from pisoned foot and limb
His condition is considerably better.
Miss Cora Rankard, whose leg was
broken in a runaway recently, is sur
7iving her injury In the best manner
possible.
Vim. Klingermsn and family for
merly of this place are now moving on
farm near Inwood after years stay
in South Bend.
Dave Lollimore. who resides eight
miles south of this place, had his
melon patch robbed one day last week.
The patch was literally carried away
The case of Dan Martin vs.. Philip
Hyde for the possession of real estate
was held in Justice COrbin's court yes
terdsy afternoon. 1t was decided in
favor of the plaintiff.
Mrs. AspinalPs deer, Ned, was shipped
today to White Pigeon, Mich. A gen.
tlsmsn living in that place owning a
large deer park purchased him as an
addition to his collection.
Few people who do not visit the
country can have an idea of the i'm
mensity of the pickle crop in Marshall
county. 1t is as important to the far
mers as the wheat crop and its returns
in many instances are greater.
The North Ohio Conference of the
United Brethren church will convene
&c Butler, this state, ON Thursday,
September 10. Bishop Weaver, of
Ohio, will preside. About $50 mem.
bers of the conference will be in at
tendance.
An ornament in sympathy with the
season may be seen In the Recorders
office. 1t is twig supporting twelve
peaches so closely Rugged together that
they seem all wanting to occupy the
same place. 1t was plucked by T. A.
Walker from the farm of j. Molter.
Yesterday morning while Norris
Matthews, the hired man of NJ. Hol.
lingshead, was hitching up the team it
started away on run and hurled him
in peculiar and dangerous position be-
tween the reaper and wagon. 1t was
thought at first that he was seriously
injured, but nothing developed later
other than few bad bruises.
Justice Corbin listened to a case of
assault and battery yesterday after
noon. 1t was trial by jury and lasted
several hours. The case grew out of
charges brought against John Laffert
by the proprietor of Whites store at
Argos. Martindale s. Stevens argued
for the defense and l.. NJ. Lauer and
e. +. Shoemaker took the opposite
The case was decided against White.
John Sparrow has been granted q
ten days leave of absence from the
soldiers homo and is now sojourning
with his old friends in this city. All
of the old soldiers from Marshall coun-
ty, he says, are in the best of health,
excepting VIM. Lloyd who is in the
hospital with stomach trouble. Ben
jamin Shearer's catarscts are ripening
slowly. Elias Larkins is still on deck
and happy.
John A. Campbell is manufacturing
watch intended to be one of the
triumphs of skillful workmanship of
these times. Every part has been irk-
somely and painfully turned out by
hand at MS own bench. The watch is
all but completed and has been the
work of years. Mr.. Campbell says that
1t will be equal to the famous Jurger-
son handmade watch of Switzerland,
the movement alone of which costs
1850 The arranpemeDt Of the mechan.