Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-08-02


lie was badly scared but soon recov-
cred his senses and secured stick and
killed the reptile. IL measured three
feet in length.
w. w. Michsels, pension attorney of
South Bend, was 10 this city yesterday,
taking affidsvits to secure pension for
Bernard Hillsmsn, of near Donaldson.
Mrs. A. l.. Kern, who has been at
tending the W. Z. Il. L. assembly at
Lake Msxinkuckee, was q Plymouth
visitor on her way to her home in
Bourbon.
The 18th annual commencement of
the Valparaiso normal summer school
will be held Aug. 8 to 10. There are
| ,2o5 graduates, with total enroll
ment during the year of 1000.
Laporte awarded the contract for
$4,000 worth of cement sidewalks to q
Chicago firm, and the citizens are
kicking. Mayor barrow cast the de
Gliding vote, ss the council was q tie.
The price of corn is q strong encour-
agement to the farmers who raise il.
There has been permanent advance
10 the worlds valuation OF corn. One
drought weighs little against this fact
Thomas |. Stsnsbury, who has been
visiting his brother, Upton Stsnsbury,
and ether relatives and friends in this
vicinity, left this morning for Garrett
City and from there he returns TO his
home in Ohio.
Solomon Mayer. of Spokane, Wash;
Adolph Mayer, of New York; Mrs.
Nathan Kramer and daughter, of Chi
cagO; Messrs. and Mesdames Sigmund
Mayer and NJ. Lsuer spent the after
noon at Culver.
\ Chicago drug clerk had set the
date for his marriage, but when it
came to hand couldn't figure out how
1t could be successfully done on six per
week, so he bid the girl farewell and
took deadly drug.
Winsmsc people are profiting by q
bread war among Logansport bakers
who furnish that town with the staff
of life and as result they are getting
II standard loaves for % cents, and
cakes and pies proportionstely cheap.
A woman from Brazil, this state, is
said to have quietly put away fourteen
glasses of lemonade at Michigan City
at one citing. The dealer offered all
one could drink for a PICKLE and this
woman invested a nickle for fourteen
glasses.
The Laporte Herald says that man
named Carpenter, aged 50. and q girl
named Zsrr, aged ~, residents of
Union Mills, want to get married and
the children of the old man are endesv-
oring to induce the clerk not to issue a
license.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hale, of Bremen, we're
in town, visiting relatives and confer
ring with the county superintendent
this morning. Mrs. Hale was formerly
Miss Minnie Cox: She has just re-
turned from taking q course ct the
state university at Bloomington.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Msttingly have
received word from their son, Ralph,
that one of the most interesting sights
on his trip to the Pacific, was his walk
through Chinatown in San Francisco,
where he was obliged to employ both q
guide and q policeman to take him
through safely.
Frank Mckinney, formerly engaged
in business in Plymouth, but who is
now located at Columbus, Kan, has
been visiting his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Chss. Mckinney, at Bourbon. Mr.. Nc
Kinney Is engaged in the retail shoe
business at Columbus, Kan, and Is
quite prosperous.
As the Pennsylvania fast passenger
train WAS leaving Chicago Monday
morning vandal threw large stone
into the engine cab, striking A. ).
Peterson, fireman, In the eye When
he arrived at Fort Wayne 1t was found
necessary to remove his eye. Total
blindness is threatened. A prison sen
tence for life ought to be the lot of