Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
From Thursdays Daily.

The ground hog saw his shadow all
afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Sheldon left for New York
state where she was called on account
of the sickness of relative.
MaxenKuckee is furnishing the best
ice it has furnished for years. IL is
Transparent in body and is from IL to
Ia inches thick.
Frank E. Zero committed suicide at
Hammond last night by drinking a
quart of bay rum. He was an inebriate
and by trade was barber.
The late Father Grogan of Lafayette,
formerly of Lsporte, left $500 to the
Laporte church and wIlIed his library
to the Notre Dame university.
The Indianapolis News says that a
number of Fort Wayne republicans are
at Indianapolis, asking that the metro
politan police law be extended to their
city.
If you would like to buy a good mil
linery store doing a good business, the
best one in the town, on very easy terms
or cash, address Cora Leland, Argos,
Ind. IdIw
John Huges, who has recently COM
pleted $1,000 ditch in the south part
of the county, was in this city today
making final settlement with surveyor
English.
A GOshenite is seeking to introduce
Chinese pheasants into Elkhart county,
and bill has been introduced into the
Legislature to protect these birds for a
term of years.
The old Wiseman bridge, which has
been torn down to make way for the
new one, will be shipped piece by piece
to Rochester. Workmen began haul
ing it away today.
Indianapolis News: R. B. Oglesbee,
postmaster of the senate, is seriously
sick at the Denison. He was taken
down with the grip and expected to 60
TO his home in Plymouth until he got
well, but was taken worse, and has been
confined to his room for several days.
They are spesring fish through the ice
on the Kankakee river. 1t is unlawful,
but as they are mostly dog fish the more
they spear the better it will be for the
other fish. AT this time of the year
many people think dog fish are very
good to eat, but they are seldom eaten IN
warm weather because they get soft.
The Rev. Albert G. Johnson has been
admitted to the bar of the Huntington
circuit court. He was presiding elder
of the st. Joe conference of the U. b.
church, radical wing, for years. A short
time ago his wife brought suit for
divorce, making sensational charges,
and ne filed sensational cross COM
plant. Mrs. Johnson was given her
decree and $1,000 slimony.
The board of health at Indianapolis
is in panic over the existence of seven
or eight cases of smallpox in that city
and quarantine of about 40 others
strictly maintained, and urge that
people stay away from church, the
theaters and other public resorts and
assemblsges. The board of health
should be quarsntined unless it COM
pels the Indiana legislature to adjourn.
Around this date clusters halo of
superstition which has survived the ig-
norsnt beliefs of past ages. Besides
bringing to mind the ground hog legend,
it served our grsndfathers good service
from the belief that it iked just half
of the flight of winter. On that day
they knew that just half of the horse
feed or chicken feed had been consum-
ed; just half of the winters wood had
been burned, etc. At this date the
danes and misses would cease their
spinning and begin weaving and the
little BOYS would skate, and slide down
hill on their sleds more energetically
than ever, knowing that half of their
opportunities for such sport had fitted
away