Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-09

planes and organs. Everything may be
| found from lost heir-lOoms TO rats
nests and whole quarts of moth.
Now is the time 10 plant pickles The
! farmers have received Instructions 20
that effect from Heinz headquarters.
OF course it is too early to make any
reasonable guess as to how the crop
will turn out
Attorney Ney Stevens will go u In
disnspolis next week where he has a
case in the state courts, and to Fort
Wayne the latter part of the week
where he appears for client in the
| United States court.
Speaking of strawberries, it might be
in place TO notice some fire specimens
brought TO town today. They numbered
on an average about twenty-eight ber-
ries to quart and were raised in this
county near Bourbon.
The commencement exercises of the
Michigan City high school were held
evening was the address of Congress
men Crumpacker, who was the guest of
honor and orator of the evening
The case from South Bend in our
courts yesterday has been decided for
the plaintiff In this case one man
sued another for a commission on a
certain real estate transaction He was
at last allowed about $500 on al $4,000
sale
The two confidence men, who took
such a snug sum from one of the
saloons Thursday tried TO run the same
bold bluff at the Ross House and other
places out owing principally to good
luck rather than to design on the part
of the employees they were frustrated.
Ii, G. Patton gave a tea party to his
violin class yesterday evening. After
the repast an interesting incident in the
life of Paganini was read. A very jolly
time, the remainder of the evening was
spent with a variety of games. Misses
Rowe, Hess and Shedd were invited
from Argos
Several weeks ago Mrs John Thomas
started for Seattle, Washington, ex-
pecting to remain there during the
summer Yesterday Mr.. Thomas was
surprised to receive letter from her
which had been directed from Skagusy.
He now has a faint impression that
her ultimate desire is to reach Dawson
City and visit her son Frank.
A negro chicken thief arrested at
Princeton who was In the habit of only
taking couple of chickens from each
roost, when asked by the judge why be
covered such a large territory, said:
"Jes' cause my conscience wouldn't let
me. jes' went round and took one or
two ever where went SOS not to cause
no sufferln in any pertickler hen house.
jes' thought I'd divide it up little.
1t is stated that of the S21 100000
taxes collected in Indiana last year, al
most 100000 was diverted to the
schools. This, however, is q small item
of the immense sums devoted to edu-
cation in Indiana. The interest on the
school fund nets large amount
licenses, taxes, and fines, swell the sg-
gregate, while the local taxation
for schools is usually larger than the
state tax
Daniel ID. Feldmsn and wife arrived
in Bremen last Sunday evening from
Lincoln, Nebraska, where Mr.. Feldman
has been engaged as one of the instruc.
tors in the state university of Nebraska
for some time Mr.. and Mrs Feldman
will spend three or four weeks visiting
relatives and friends in this county, af-
ter which they will leave for Orange
vile, Pa, where Mr. Feldman intends
to engage in business with relative.
r. b. Oglesbee has in his possession
an authentic war relic from Cuba. 1t
, is tiny glass crystal taken from a
chandelier in the palace of the governor
general. Under this identical chande-
lier General BlancO surrendered to the
United States vestige of domain in the
western world. The relic itself, was
obtained by Swift Wright, managing
: editor of the Havana Herald, and for
warded to Mr.. Oglesbee with his COM
plimeDts.
1t is worth while mentioning that the
boys have quit belling George Rish and
t wife. Since they were first married
{ every night found clamorous deputa-
ton under their window with old tin
boilers, cymbals, and variety of other
instruments which were neither must
cal nor pleasing The outraged groom
at last complained to the city authori
ties and profited thereby. Now here is
nothing but the whispering leaves and
the murmur of June showers to mar
their rest.
The Shelbyville Republican printed
an advertisement for 80 gallons of Ken
lucky whiskey at SO gallon, under a
five feet three-inch snake story. The
Columbus Republican makes this
mathematical proposition out of it: "If