Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-03
Tbe Jnoepenoent
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1899.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Fridays Daily.

All kinds of machine oils at Forbes.
The Depew fl ,uriDg mill, at Culver
has changed hands.
Buy your garden seeds in bulk and
save money. FORBES. WIT
Protrscted meeting still progresses at
the Pretty Lake church.
Enoch Now has traded his livery
stable at Culver for land west of Ke-
wanna.
A. Cory and family have made ar
rangements to move TO Fort Wayne to
morrow.
G. II. Mckinney, of Monterey is
about to make his permanent residence
In this city.
Mrs w. W. Ream went to Culver to-
day to attend Relief Corps No. 226
meeting The Culver corps is in -four
ishing condition.
Sap tanks, stock tanks, made of 20
gauge galvanized steel and guaranteed
against bursting and freezing. None
better made.
WIT FORBES.
The committee appointed by Mayor
Jones at last meeting of council are &C.
lively engaged in gathering informa-
ton of all sorts regarding paving of
streets.
Homer Gears is placing several I'm
provements on his candy store. mong
others is the partitioning off of room
to be used during The coming summer
as an ice cream parlor.
Yesterday mink invaded the chick
en- coop of J. III. Riley north of Plym-
outh and killed twenty-five hens, IN ost
of which were laying. Mr.. Riley found
the blood thirsty perpetrator under his
barn and lost no time in taking ven
geance with shot gun.
Chas. Scott, breakman on the Fort
Wayne road, who is we'll known in this
city, was severely injured yesterday at
Warsaw. He was caught between two
heavy cars, while attempting to loosen
coupling pin. The result was pinch
in which his hip was badly smashed and
three ribs were broken.
The Logansport street railway, power
house and all lines, poles, wire, rolling
stock, etc., now belong to George j
Marriott and Charles A. Dwyer, of In
dianspolis, who paid 100000 for the
line, $4,000 down, assuming $4,000
bonded Indebtedness. There are 81:
miles of the Logansport lines.
Capt. Ina Hawley, of this city, who II
now with the American Volunteers il
Wis.,, is receiving tlatteriDg notice from
various newspapers. A Milwaukee
paper marks her out as "a sweet voiced
woman whose singing is an attraction
to every one" The Sheboygan papers
speak highly of her acc omplishments al
. musician and add that she is q singer
of ability.
Last night while Miss Olive Thomsl
was going from the u b. church to tn,
residence of Sigmund Mayer, she re-
ceived severe fall on the sidewalk. A
first it was surmised that she had broker
her leg She was carried to near resi-
dence, where a physician sscertainet
the extent of injury. 1t soon developed
that the leg was not broken but wa
badly sprained. Miss Thorn IS is rest
ing easily TODAY but it will be month
until she will be entirely well.
A remarkable cat is that of Stephel
Bsgley of this city which every nigh
for the last SIX months has gone T.
rOOst with the chickens. "Gone to roos
with the chickens" is to be taken init
literal sense as pussy actually climbs t
roost, often the most crowded one il
the coop, and remains there until morn
ing. The cat has learned to run wit
the chickens when the latter are Gale
for food. Should the food be of tn
proper sort pussy partakes and seems I
enjoy the feast all the more for tn
company of her feaihered companion
The iron water mains are frozen g
that It is impossible to draw water frOI
them. This afternoon L. j. Southwort