Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-01-13
From Saturdays Daily.


the house with bilious fever.
! Taylor Walker of Argos is reported
quite sick with heart disease.
Dun IL Parker have bought out the
Moore Bros. drug store at Argos
Miss Mary Smith is sick at the resi-
dence of her father in the country.
frankie Anders has gone to Kokomo
where he will 90 TO school for the rest
of the winter
The extraordinary demand for an
thricite this weather has raised the
price 30 cents per ton.
Mrs. c. T. Mattingly has been under
the care of a physician for the last few
days. Her trouble is maarial fever
Big bald eagle makes periodical visits
to farms in Bethlehem township, Cass
county, carrying off fowls and young
pigs.
Chas. Vangilder returned to Warsaw
this morning. He has been visiting his
uncle northwest of this city for several
weeks.
The Sterke county bar association
will give G. banquet In March next to
which the bars of Porter, Lake, Mar
shall and Laporte will be guests.
J. Ludlow Nye, of Warsaw, has locat-
ed an Art Studio in the Brink block,
and is making special cut prices for
short time to introduce his fine por-
traits.
Farmers who live near railroad
stations prefer riding to Plymouth by
rail- rather than trusting their horses
and buggies to eight or ten miles over
the rough roads.
Ligonier is claimed to be the smallest
town in the world having al Elk lodge,
says an exchange. The number of
charter members exceeds any other
lodge in Indiana.
Rev. III. A. Tucker, formerly pastor
of the Methodist church here, has gone
to Providence, K. l., in the interest of
the Anita Saloon Leagne of America.
he will be gone about four weeks.
Mrs. Jennie Erwin, of Bourbon, has
returned from trip to Indianapolis
and Union county in interest of the
Farmers Institute. She was in Plym-
outh today.
hos
to charles E. Hayes and Bertha E. Par
ker. These are two well known young
people who reside in culver. Congrat-
ulatlons are going the rounds, of
course.
A Kokomo young lady swallowed
quantity of salt as part of a fortune.
telling ceremony at watch party, New
Years eve, and 1T required the united
efforts of the party to keep her from
choking to death.
An effort will be made to have a till
passed in the legislature this winter ex-
tending the terms of county auditors
to the 1st of January The reason
such change is asked for is, it would
be more suitable time for the office TO
change hands.
State Superintendent Geeting is in
favor of change in the manner of ex-
aiming applicants for license to teach.
He would have all manuscripts for
warded to state authorities to grade
and pass upon. This would cut off
favorltism
| Charles Memberger, q years of age,
who was found lying by the New York
Central tracks, near Buffalo, n. Y, last
Friday, with his skull fractured, is dead
On the evening of the day on which he
received his injuries, Memberger began
to whistle, though he was wholly IN
concious and remained so to the last.
He whstled all sorts of tunes and with.
out cessation for 90 hours, and never
ceased until shortly before he died.
To write an article for maids and
mothers, and then TO make it so inter-
esting that it will rivet the attention of
the fathers of maids and husbands of
wives, is a guarantee of very wide
reading. Professor Thurston Peck, of
Columbia University, has succeeded in
doing this in the paper which he de-
votes to women in the January CosmO-
politan. Professor Peck has keenly
analytical mind, and he weighs the
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clusions are tender and compassionate,
but nevertheless very emphatic, 1t is
a valuable contribution to "New WON
an" literature.