Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Tuesdays Daily.

$4,000 to its employees for the seasons
work.
Mrs. Jessie Hoham has been in a
very critical condition but is getting
better fast.
Willie, the son of a Shafer, of Lapaz,
who has been visiting him, started to-
day for Boston, Mass.
Mrs. George Richart and family have
moved to farm near Bourbon where
they expect to live in the future.
DIR. J. f. Brook, who has not been
able to be on the streets for several
months, is reported much better.
Eggs are now the highest they have
been this winter. They are bringing
from twenty to twenty-five cents a
dozen.
A. Fl. Zilmer and young son Edwin
are visiting relatives in Clarno, Wis.
Mr.. Zllmer will bring his mother home
with him.
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Florida today and will visit with her
father, Ebert Deacon, six miles south
east of here.
The Walkerton postoffice for the last
four quarters shows sufficient volume
of business to entitle it to be placed in
the presidential class.
The plant of the Laporte Carriage
company at Laporte, owned by Park
hurst s. Wilkinson, was damaged So
600 by fire Sunday morning. Incendiary.
l. r. Hale, former agent at Plymouth,
has been appointed superintendent and
traffic manager of the st. j. S. b. rail-
road with head quarters at st. Joseph,
Michigan.
Christopher Longren, aged 80, who was
taken to the county house last Sunday
died there this morning. His death
was watched for at most any moment
and of course was no matter of sur
prise when it came. Tomorrow he will
be taken to Donaldson by his friends
for burial.
Some thirty young people gathered at
the home of Amanda Langfeldt last
night to celebrate her seventeenth birth
day. Refreshments were served and
various amusements suitable to the
occasion were introduced. All departed
at a late hour wishing her many more
happy birthdays.
Mrs. Poll is one Of our remarkable
citizens She is lightweight years old
and is entirely free from many of the
infirmities of that advanced stage in
life. Long ago she obtained her secoId
sight and reads and sews as we'll as any
lady of fifty She performs her own
household duties and is never idle.
Goshen Democrat: Since the courts
have been appealed to in regard to short
weight on coal, purchasers are going to
the trouble and expense of weighing
their fuel when delivered. Two mer-
chants on Saturday weighed coal and
found that they were short. 1t would
not be surprising if more cases were
heard of.
General Miles has had comparative
ly easy task in establishing his position
on the army beef question before the
eyes of the country. He has merely
narrated facts and it remains for OH
Gals of the war department to dispute
those facts, as they have been doing all
along, and to further enhance their rep
utations as perverters of facts.
Mayor Quincy, of Boston, has in con-
temptation the use of the crematory to
supply the place of the potters' field. 1t
is claimed that the city could cremate
bodies at the cost of 81 body, whereas
it costs SO to dig grave. 1t will be in
teresting to watch the developments in
this exciting discussion, on which oppo-
site opinions are held by TIA most prom
inent persons.
Rev. C.. f. Weiss of this city has a
cat which might well take its place
among the upper tens of the feline race
at the famous cat shows in New York
City and Chicago. This pussy is very
large and has black hair which is long
and fluffy, like dogs. She is no rela-
ton to the Siberian cats of which Euro.
pean sOvereigns are so proud. She is
oil, In.
mon short haired cat, quite homely it is
said, and unworthy of such an aristG.
cratic and beautiful daughter.
The Masonic Mutual Insurance so
ciety that was organized in 1867 and
was the first of fraternal insurance
companies, and the model on which
most of such organizations are built,
has finally and formally been declared