Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-21
Tbe Jnoepenoent
FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1899.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Fridays Daily

over the kissing bug.
Miss Mabel Jacoby has accepted a
position as teacher in the public schools
at BlufftOn. Ind.
Mrs. George Anderson returned from
Knox today, where she attended the
funeral of niece.
The new $4,000 Methodist church at
Wabash Will be ready for dedication by
Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs. Lindley and children, of Omaha,
Neb.. are visiting Mrs. LiDdlay's sister,
Mrs. Dennis O'Bryan.
MIR. and Mrs. Sol Jacoby went to
South Bend this morning to see ).
Brugh, who is quite sick.
Michigan City has started the ball 10
rolling for street fair, Plymouth will
be in the same class within a short
time.
Miss Bessie Johnson of Tyner, and
her uncle, Claud Black, of Lincoln, H.,
were the guests of Plymouth friends
yesterday.
Lloyd Bowel is the happy possessor
of Shetland pony, and together with
the cart he expects, tomorrow Will have
quite swell turnout.
The Vandala hotel Is receiving
first -class coat of paint. The rates are
81 per day for transients, and $3.50 per
week for regular boaTders.
At Saginaw Tuesday GauDsalus was
last in a race, and at Detroit yesterday
Rightwood was dietanced. Campanla
Girl starts at Detroit today.
Miss Maud f. Metsker will leave this
evening for Altoona, Pa, where she
will visit for few weeks, after which
she will 90 to Philadelphia and Wash
ingtOn.
Mrs. Horace Thompson and children
left for Cleveland, o., this morning,
where she will reside, Horace having
been there some time working In q
freight office.
At the meeting of the Hammond city
council Tuesday night one of the alder
men stated that the city could not get q
contract without someone figuring on
slice of DOODLE
DR.. Brown has rented rooms in the
Kendall block where he will be pleased
to greet his friends and practice in the
future. Remember on the second
floor Kendall block. tfw
The street fair project is favOrably
received by almost every business man.
The greatest difficulty comes in getting
men who are willing to contribute their
time to make it a success.
Frank Jacox end George Vinall have
purchased land on the shores of Pretty
Lake and will each put up summer
cot age. The border of the little lake
is fast being occupied with cottages.
The girls in a Kentucky town have
formed a society and have for their
motto "The lips that touch liquor shall
never touch ours" There is big de-
mand for straws in that vicinity just
now.
The Holland Radiator Co. of Bremen
is now melting thirty-two tons of iron
per day in their furnaces. The man
spement informs the Enquirer that
with these large heats the company is
still unable to keep up with the orders
for radiators.
Tuesday Laporte citizen became in
volved in family row. He became 80
angered that he chased the inmates of
his home out OF doors with couple of
razors lie threatened to hang himself
and started toward the lake. After an
all night search he was found at work
at his occupation.
1t is estimated that the cost of taking
the next census will be about $780,
600. The enumeration will not be taken
until next June, but the work OF pre-
pairing for it is going on vigorously. Ii
is proposed to have all the volumes
completed within three years from the
closing of the actual field of work.
The gross earnings of forty-three rail
roads for the fourth week In June were
S7,956,6O5 against S6,SlS,669 for the cor
responding period in the previous year
an increase of S1,l37,9l6. Since January
1 these roads show for this year an in
crease in net earnings as compared with
the like period in 1898 of S12,
524,838.
Dr. ID. Z. Robbins, former newspa
per publisher of Erie, Pa, who is on
tour of travel on account of nervous
prostration, spent Thursdsy with hi
old friend and preceptor, DIR. j. III. Viii
son. and goes today to visit relatives il
Lsporte county. 1t has been thirty
eight years since DIR. Robbins and Dr.