Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-06-01
From Wednesdays Daily.

Miss Edna Nichols, of Walkerton, is
the guest of friends and relatives.
Mrs Clyde Swindleman, of Ligonier,
is visiting friends in Plymouth today.
Bert Ashton left this morning for
Denver, Colo, where he expects to re-
main.
James Bailey was able to be in town
today. 1t was the fret time for many
weeks.
The public schools were dismissed at
noon and the scholars given half
holiday.
Mrs. n. j. Davis and family left to-
day for Derby, Michigan, where they
will remain during the summer.
Charles Bushman left today for the
lumber regions of Michigan in the
interest of the A merican Bicycle Co.
Rosa, the little girl who has made her
home for the past five years with Mr..
and Mrs. Knott. was taken to Chicago
this morning by her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Solomon.
Miss Bessie Wink entertained a
number of young ladies at her home
last evening and today They were
Misses Anna Matchett, Laura Shafer
snd Mary Murphy, of Bourbon, and
Miss Grant, of Ohio.
Great opportunity offered to good, re-
liable men. Salary of SIS per week and
expenses for man with rig to introduce
our Poultry Destroyer and Insect De-
strOyer in the country. Send stamp,
American Mfg. Co., Terre Haute, Ind If
DR.. A. c. Holtzendorff sailed from
New York at 10 o'clock yesterday fore
noon, for Bremen, Germany, by way of
the Southampton. lie left here last
Saturday evening and will be gone
several months during which he will
take in the Paris Exposition.
Edgar &. Davis and Lucille Il. Emer-
ton were married at the brides home at
six o'clock last evening. Mr.. Davis is
young man from Chicago and Miss
Emerton is the daughter of A. j.
Emerton, who is employed ss travel
ing salesman for the Clizbe Bros. Mfg.
company.
AT meeting of the kindergarten
association at the home of Mrs. o. q.
Soice, it was unanimously resolved that
the thanks of the association be ex.
tended to Mrs. Chas. Corbin to whose
efforts the success of the carnival" is
due, to the merchants and the young
ladies who so ally represented them,
also to the young gentlemen who kind
ly donated the proceeds of their dance
for the benefit of the free kindergarten
The Sundsy-school convention at In
wood last Wednesday was one of the
most profitable that the association has
yet held. The work was on practical
lines, with the aim of greater efficiency
in the system of teaching and training
The InwoOd people provided generous
entertainment for the visitors and
made everybody welcome. All the
participants on the program acquitted
themselves well, and the results of the
session will be felt in all the schools. A
paper by Miss Ruth Thomson, of this
city, will be found in another column.
Decoration Day was fifty observed to-
day by the remaining members of the
G. A. II. Nearly all of the business
houses closed up this afternoon. The
comrades of the Grand Army formed
in line at 2 o'clock in front of their hall
and marched behind the band north on
Michigan street, and thence down Cen
ter to the opera house. 1t was the orig
inal plan of the committee to have the
exercises in the court house yard but as
the sky looked foreboding it was de-
cided to hold them in the opera house.
The address of the day was delivered
by Rev. Mckenzie. The MoZsrts furn-
ished music.