Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Tuesdays Daily.

| YARD.
Chicks like it. Our oyster shell and
poultry food.
WIT FORBES SEED STORE.
Seven murders have been recorded in
quiet old Clark county within the last
year.
Mrs. Robert Hume, who has been
quite i'll at her home in the country, is
convalescing.
Effort is being made to form trust
of the glass trades-table ware, flint
bottle and window.
The special services at Twin Lakes
are to be continued all week if the
weather is favorable.
Mrs. Chaplin Wickizer went to Tioss
today where che will attend the funeral
of Edward Partridge.
A wooden trestle, 90 feet high, on the
Indiana Southern, near Bedford, col
lapsed Sunday afternoon.
E. b. Shsfer has been suffering from
a swelling in his hand brought about
from having run a splinter in it.
Mrs. George W. Salesberry Of West
township is reported quite i'll. She is
showing signs of convalescence. how
ever.
Six business houses at Worthlngton
went up in smoke. Loss, $4,000. 1t
is supposed to be the work of incendi-
aries.
Miss Grace Glass returned to Wabash
today She has been visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson Glass
in the country.
The Basket factory is running full
force today. The prospect promises
considerable work before the regular
summer season opens.
1t Is said that the Pennsylvania COM
pany left over $4,000 in wages to the
employees of the Fort Wayne and Chi
cagO division last pay day.
One of the heavy flag stones on the
crosswalk across Lsporte street at its
juncture with Michigan street, has be en-
broken and should be replaced at once.
The residence, barn and extensive
grsHaries of A. j Dillmsn, near North
Webster, were destroyed by fire Sunday
night. The family is left in destl
tute condition. Loss, $1,000
Mr.. Kendall has begun placing the
iron siding on his building. The iron
has been moulded so that it uni
tates the appearance of brick wall
When the structure is completed it will
be handsome modern building,
Rev. ID. j. Hunterson and son Roy
of st. Joseph, Mo-, left yesterday for
Philadelphia, Pa. There they visit MIR.
Hunterson's aged father. They have
been the guests of the Miles family
south of Plymouth for some time.
All husbands or wives who cOntem-
plate sueing for divorce with view to
remaTrying should get move on them,
for the probability is that the legislature
will enact law prohibiting remarrisge'
for two years after divorce is granted
j Clarence Cook, city editor of the Fort
Wayne Sentinel, has just been notified
by his partners in the KOndike that he
has an interest in a claim there valued
at from 100000 to 100000. Mr.. Cook
will leave at once for Thistle Creek
where his rich possessions lie.
The artificial lake on Laporte street
is swelling every day. Yesterday a
wagon got stuck in the mud on Main
: street 80 that the combined effort of
four horses was required to extricate it..
With such facts held in mind who would
object to the council talking street paw.
ing in earnest.
The parties who are sending anony-
nous letters through the mails will
! please sign their names. The above ad-
. monition is given by lady who has re-
Gently received several such letters.
q Besides being anonymous, they have
, been grossly insulting. 1t is hardly
r necessary to remark that the writer
throws himself liable to the strict laws
g of the mail department.
9 A riotous belling disturbed the resi-
|, dents of West Plymouth last night for
a several hours. The parties whom ii
g was intended to honor or perhaps tor
It ment were Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Glass
d who had been married that morning
Surely nothing so loud and unmusical
has been perpetrated in Plymouth fol
o years. Cow bells and base drums, pistols
% and shot guns, tin cans, dishpans, shouts
g and screams mingled in one perpetual
mass Of discord.