Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-17
From Mondays Daily.

From Monday Daily.
Mr.. Rev. F. King Is quite ill with the
rheumatism.
Trustee VIM. Shetland has moved
back to Lspsz.
Mrs. Sarah Roher is dangerously sick
at her home in the country.
S. Holcolm recently went hunting
north of this city and shot three opos-
sums.
Melvin Crum's family are all sick
with la grippe at their residence east of
LapaZ.
Sheriff Marshall says that he is a
grandpa" A baby girl has been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Clint Bondurant.
George Eckerts house near Linkville
caught fire last week and would have
burned up but for the timely aid of
neighbors
Guy Porter has parted with his
famous slop house bull dog which be
recently purchased in the stock yards
of Chicago.
Otto Carpenter, who was shot in the
hand about year ago, has suffered a
relapse with the troublesome member
but is now better.
Some of those whom the cold weather
injured Saturday are F. Love, frozen
ears; George Banker, foot frozen; George
Mickles fingers frozen.
Clint Bondurant wears look of van.
ity on his face beyond our power to de-
scribe. He became father of plump,
beautiful girl this morning.
Il. j. Winnings has returned from the
west. He started from Sioux City last
Thursday. AT that time the thermom-
eter stood about 40 degrees below zero.
The &C urt house thronged with farm
ers and others today eagerly searching
the tax list for bargains. The list of
real estate on sale for taxes was quite
lengthy.
Mrs. Alice Merrill, nee Barber, of
Spanish River, Canada, who has been
visiting James DeLoney and family, is
now spending few days with friends
in Bourbon.
Miss julia Tumey, an aunt of Mrs.
Denny O'Brien left this morning for
New York, enroute for Queenstown,
Ireland, where her parents live. She
has been IN America for five years.
The commissioners were in Walnut
township today inspecting two bridges
which were built last summer by VIM
Kyle. The bridges are over the big
dredge ditch known throughout the
country as Deep Creek.
In letter of recent date from the
Mount Morris Brethren publishing COM
pany, they state that the distance from
Plymouth to Chicago was one of the
considerations which threw their pref
erence to Elgin. Elgin has secured
them 5000.
Secretary Hurry, of the state board
of health, has received reports lndicst-
ing that smallpox is prevalent In twen-
ty-two states, and that there are over
$50 centers of contagion. Three towns
of Indiana, Dana, Evansville and In
dianapolis, have cases.
Charles Reeve has two and one half
column article in the Sunday Chronicle
in answer to one "Enilus" who has
been writing for the same paper. The
article deals with the respective places
of religion and science, and naturally,
is both scholarly and brilliant.
For the first time, the big flowing
we'll in the rear or Zehner's mill is frozen
so that not drop of water issues forth.
This is so remarkable that those who are
acquainted with the surroundings are
inclined to disbelieve it is frozen and
think the pipes are disarrsnged or
broken in some manner.
Nsppanee will not have that fine new
business block built by Christian Deit-
rich of Bremen. That gentleman has
sought to buy the interest of N. A +.
Lauderman in two corner lots and the
latter insists that a saloon prohibitive
clause be in the deed and no Bremen
man would consent to such a thing
Mr.. Dietrich does not expect to rent his
property TO saloon, but he wants to do
~ he plesses with property he buys.