Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-30

aud LapOrte streets AID will open his
dental office Monday July Bird. He vii
be ready for business thereafter.
Miss Anna Joneson, of the souther
part of Sweden arrived in Plymouth to
day on Der way to visit her uncle al
Donaldson.
Mrs. Jennie Bowers, of Momence
ILL.,, returned home today accompanied
by her sister Nellie and her brother
Otto Knoblock.
Mrs. \. Ii McMaster, who has beer
visiting Miss Saza McMaster and
mother, returned to their home in
Fowler, Colo, today.
A. f. Pendleton, trustee of Rochester
arrived at The Children's Home yester-
day. bringing two children, a girl
years, and boy gears.
The executive committee asks all
who have not paid their Fourth of July
subscription to do so at once to Post
master Conger. Do not wait to be
called upon, they need the money now
Feed the hungry Lunches will be
served July 4th, 1899, by the Guilds of
the Episcopal church, in the store lately
occupied by W. II. Carpenter, corner of
Laporte and Center streets. Walk
in. wjul 1-3
The Terre Haute electric car line and
power plant has been sold for half
million dollars to eastern capitalists
and Terre Haute moneyed men lose
over million dollars in the operation,
thanks to the wild methods OF Russell
Harrison, son of the ex-presldent, who
managed to get the plant in hole so
heavily.
South Bend Times: The highest
price yet paid for piece of downtown
real estate was paid Saturday by Mrs.
NJ. A. Campan, of Detroit, for the
Gushing drug store corner, the consid
Grafton being $4,000 for the three-story
building, $3.50 feet front On Michigan
street and with 50 feet frontage on
Washington street.
The enumeration shows there are no
colored children of school age in Brown,
Crawford, Franklin, Fulton, Jasper,
Lagrange, Marshall, Martin, Noble,
Scott, Starke, Warren, Washington and
Wells counties. In Porter and Steuben
counties there is but one colOred child
of school age in each county and in
both cases the child is male.
Every body seems to BIZ planning to
come to Plymouth on the Fourth.
There is rot single attraction any
where in the county outside of Plym-
outh on that day. Lapsz, heretofore,
has never failed to have some kind of
gathering but this year the citizens of
that village as we'll as those of all the
other towns of Marshall county are
planning to come to Plymouth.
A dispatch from Mishawaka to the
South Bend Times says that Plym-
outh individual who is working OH the
Indiana Electric line, proved disturb
ing element to Fourth street residents
Monday afternoon, having taken on a
load of Mishawaka liquor. He was
taken in charge by Marshal Needham
and Justice Long did the rest. The
fellow had no money, but as the fore
man of the railroad gang promised to
look after that part the prisoner was re-
leased.
A stranger can generally do the peo-
pie up about a thousand times more
easily than can a man who was born
and raised III their midst This fact
has been demonstrated thousands upon
thousands OF times, and the demOnstra-
ton is still repeated weekly. W. E.
Miller has just returned the trick on
business men at Rushville to the tune
Of $1,000. He was an insurance agent,
but ne soon had everybody coming his
way. He came to the town a perfect
stranger, but people were ready to turn
over their pocketbOoks to him in a
week. His peculiar foDdness for small
girls, 8 to 10 years old, is commented
on. He bought bicycles for four little
girls who made his headquarters at the
Indiana Life district, their play house.
On one occasion he took an 8-year-old
girl to Indianapolis with him, stopped
at the Hotel Bates, escorted her to a
theater, bought her new hat, new
shoes, new dresses, cloak, bicycle,
gold watch and a diamond ring, and
treated the little tot to the best in the
city. Miller is said 10 have had a daily
bar bill of so and to have bought a
new suit of clothes every week He
spent his money freely and led merry
pace in his day, at the expense of
others. He is now in jail upon the
charge of forgery. The money he