Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-01
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friends here for five or six days.
Mrs. Nj. l.. STEPHENSON, of Maxim
kuckee, passed through here this morn
ing on her way to Argos to visit.
The postotlices of the country were
closed this afternoon during the time
of Vice President Hobart's funeral.
The home of the parents of Mrs. J E.
F. Turner was burned to the ground
this week. They live at Camden, Ind.
Jno. Z. Dales, of Chicago, who built
the Bourbon water works and electric
light plant was 10 Plymouth last even
ing
Ernest Bissell returned to bis home
in Lima, Ohio, this morning. He has
been spending a vacation with his folks
and friends.
DIR. III. A. Deeds, dentist, is located
over the corner hardware store, at the
corner of Michigan and Laporte streets
Plymouth, Ind. wifi
G. G. Watson, of Bourbon, was in
Plymouth this morning attending to
business. He has completed a new
barn on his place near InwOod.
Valparaiso Messenger: Formal an
nouncement will be made in few days
of the candidacy of the Hon. b. F..
Shively for the democratic nomination
for governor.
A. F. Wilson and family, of Tyner,
have been the quests for the past few
days of Mrs. Kyle and Mrs. Sewall.
They left this morning for FIT. Wayne
where they will live hereafter.
John Alexander Dowie, general over
seer of the Christian Catholic church in
Chicago, has issued demand that the
followers of Zion forward to him ST.
100000 lie wants it by Christmas day,
but will accept it if 1t is a few days
late.
Nobody knew Daudet more closely
than Jean Francois Raffaelli, the
famous French artist, who has just ar
rived in this country. His paper, en-
titled "Alphonse Daudet and His In
Inmates appears in the Christmas
humble. of the New Lippincott."
The Xmas number of the "New Lip
pincott" has a striking frOntpiece by
Henry r. POore, A. n. d., an artist
who has several times interpreted low
ihgly the story of the Star of Bethle-
hem. There are also Christmas poems
by Albert Bigelow Paine, 1.-The Little
Child" and by Thomas Welch. cat
Nazareth"
Nobody but Kipling knows how to
reveal India with pen as does Flora
Annie Steel, and it would be hard to
find even in his pages anything so thick
with the aroma of the East as "The
Perfume of the Rose" her short story
of love and tragedy in the Christmas
New Lippincott.'
The democratic state central commit
tee will meet at Indianapolis, Dec 18th,
20 select time and place to hold district
meetings and to elect new committee
men. BARLEY II. Campbell, an Ander-
son attorney, is said to be candidate
for the state craftsmanship. He sup
ports Bryan and the Chicago platform.
Some of you who think you are we'll
up in spelling just try to spell the words
in this little sentence: at is agreeable
to witness the unparalleled ecstasy of
two harrassed peddlers endeavoring to
gauge the symmetry of two peeled
pears. Read it over to your friends
and see how many of them can spell
every word correctly. The sentence
contains many of the real puzzlers of
the spelling book.
Some people are not aware that the
governor OF Indiana has a distinctive
flag of his own, which is carried after
him when he rides fourth in state. 1t
is made of white tsffets silk, in size
is about four by six feet, and has
the seal of Indiana hand-painted on
either side. 1t adorns the governors
parlor most OF the time, but when the
chief executive reviews the troops, the
flag is used as marker, to designate
his position.
An old maid stood on the steamboat
deck, whence all but her had fled, and
calmly faced kissing bug that circled
over head. The maidens shrieked and
the matrons swooned, and the men all
swore amsin, but the game old maid
like hero stayed md whispered "come
again." There was buZz-s thunder
sound-the old maid-was she dead !?
Nay, still she stood and cried for more,
but the kissing bug had fled.-Ex.
The editor of the Hudson Banner has
written up the divorce case of brother
editor 10 this spicy style: Editor Nus
baum, of the Shipshewana Tribune, has
been given the dirty shake by his wife,
with tie assistance of the Elkhart
county court. She couldn't endure the
heading of the paper, which always
started out wirh 'Shipshe,' and she con-
cluded to ship-he, and has shipped the
editor whether he 'wans' or not"
From Mondays Daily.