Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-06-01
Qbe Jnoepenoent
FRIDAY, JUNE l, 1900.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
From Tuesdays DAILY.

parents of q new girl baby.
Miss Honor Parks has been on the
sick list for the past few DAYS.
Decoration day services were held at
the Poplar Grove cemetery today.
Bert Wolf has severed his connection
with J. W. Hess's Drug store and gone
to South Bend to take similar posi-
ton.
Nero, the Laporte race horse brought
here on several occasions is racing at
Baltimore. Took third money in two
races.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Sanders, of
Marion, o., spent few days with Mrs.
S. w. Jacoby on their return from Salt
Lake City.
Bertha Gsskill and Florence Metheny
of Bourbon, passed through Plymouth
today on their return home from Frank
fort, where they had been visiting.
f. A. Rankin, who has been employed
in Bunnelrs furniture store for several
weeks, went to his home in Greensburg
this morning. Floyd will take his place
in the store.
f. l.. Austin, of Argos, stopped over
night with friends in Plymouth while
on his way to Dutton, Mich, where be
will attend a conference of the Church
of God next Sunday.
London has sent to this country the
richest bachelor in the world, Jas. III.
Smith, known as Jim the Silent He
is worth S5O,OOO,OOO and has entered
the wbirl of Gotham society.
The census enumeration is coming to
zee you in q few days and you had
better arrange not to get mad when he
asks you whether you are white or
colored. 1t is his duty TO do so.
A party of eight ladies from kewan-
ma were the guests of Mrs. j. 4. Ellis
yesterday. They were: Mistresses
Leighter, Mott, McFerson, Howell,
Snepp, Crump, Elston and Harding.
1t has developed that Fred Dolke was
not drowned as had at first been thought
but had simply strayed away from his
aunt's In Peru on a little excursion. He
was found in Macy and taken home.
The fly is rapidly destroying what lit
tie wheat there is left In the county. A
farmer remarked that there would be
scarcely 500 bushels raised in the
county, whereas there should have been
nearer 10000 bushels.
A. E. Rhodes has been in very poor
health for the past week. One week
ago Sunday he took severe cold and
during last week he had a very high
fever We are glad to know that he is
very much better today.
Rev. and Mrs. j. S Jellison, of Chi
csgo, arrived from Deedsville last eve
ming and stopped with Rev. belong
Mrs. Jellison left for her home this
morning but her husband went to Y ell
low Lake to hold a series of meetings.
Newton county claims TO have more
bridges than any other county in the
state. There are eight over the Iroquois
river, within nine miles, and more than
q hundred bridges in the county. The
contract for painting them was let last
week
Sunday afternoon the immense tent
which had been put up at Warsaw in
which the republican county conven-
ton of nearly one thousand delegates
was to be held next Tuesday collapsed
In hard wind storm. 1t was badly
damaged.
A young man from Inwood by the
name of Canwell drove to Plymouth
yesterday to see the circus. He hitched
bis horse on LapOrte street but when
ready to return home no horse was in
evidence and 80 he enjoyed ride home
this morning on the train.
The Sunday school of Mt. Olive
church observed Children's day last
Sunday. The exercises were interest
Ing and large number of people were
In attendance. The decorations were
pretty feature and the whole enter.
tsinment was creditsble to that school
South Bend has been selected over
Evansville as the place where the Indi-
ana state medical society will meet
next year. The st. Joseph county soci
ETY. has raised about $1,000 for the en-.
tertainment and have agreed that the
meeting shall surpsss all previous ones
Lon Learned was accidentally shot in
the leg few dsye ago. A pistol fell
out of his hip pocket and when il
struck the ground it was discharged the
bullet passing into the leg just above
the ankle. 1t was extracted by DIR. G.
F. Holtzendorf and Lon is now getting
along all right.
The democrats of st. Joseph county
met at South Bend Saturday and nomi
mated the following ticket: Judge, Tim.
othy f. Howard; prosecutor, Francis Nj