The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-08-08

LOCAL NEWS

A. III. ELMER went to Hartford City
Saturday morning.
Miss Grace Lemler went to Column
bia City Saturday.
NJ. L. Helpman came down from
Chicago to remain over Sunday.
Miss Trellah Logan went to Gull
YER today tospend Sunday with friends.
Miss Dottell Van Lew, of Lake
vile, has been visiting friends here.
Dora Fogle pleasantly entertained
a company of young people Friday
evening.
"Bob'' Smith and Joe" Anders,
of Peru, will encamp at Pretty Lake
for week.
Miss Alma Wort returned TO her
home at BremenSaturday after visiting
Miss Gertrude Peterson.
DIR. and Mrs. !. NJ. Raub, who have
been visiting the family of DR.. j, W.
Smith. went to Fit. Wayne Saturday.
Miss Neva Ellis went to Kewanna
Saturday. where she will be the guest
of Fay McFearson and Lucille Lighter.
II. NJ. Simpson & Sons, of Vincen-
mes. have sold the apples in their
orchards to Chicago firm for 81, 600.
The county commissioners met
Monday in regular August session.
No business of special interest is on
the docket.
The hatless girl and the hated
horse are making swift progress to-
ward universal popularity. Plymouth
has them both.
A trainload of students from the
Valparaiso normal school spent the
dav at Maxinkuckee Saturday, trans
ferring hereen route.
f. \. Fink, the druggist. sold a
LARGE part of his stock to local dealers
and shipped the remainder to South
Bend Friday, where he will in future
reside.
Half a Gozen teams are hauling
gravel from the Evans pit west OF
town TO North Michigan street, where
it is being spread and rolled for the
PAYERS,
The citv council of Laporte let to
Chicago firm the contract for build
ing cement walks to the amount of
$3.50 Residents are kicking and
Injunction is threatened.
C. III. Reeve is having the cement
curb fronting his Lapcrte street lot
put in under private contract instead
of having it done under the city con-
tract with Hatch & Sons.
William j. Thompson, of Muncie,
filed petition in bankruptcy few
weeks ago, having failed in a large
merchandising business, and last week
he drew one of the best prizes in the
Oklahoma land lottery.
The supreme corfu has granted a
STAY of execution in the case of John
Rinkard, convicted of wife murder
and sentenced to be hanged Aug. %.
The court ordered that the execution
of judgement be suspended until Jan.
II, 1902.
The Linkenhelts have begun the
erection of buildings on the property
recently purchased by them at the
corner of Main and Bronson streets in
South Bend and will engage in the
coal business there. They will con-
tinue in the business at Plymouth.
loom Jack" Gowdy; once chair
man of the republican state central
committee, and now consul-general at
Paris, continues to absorb Rush cOun-
ty land with his. savings, and when
his eight years abroad shall have ex-
pired he will be one of the large land
ed proprietors of the state.
The names of the young engineers
who are occupying the Marble resi-
dence while at work on the Pennsyl-
vania line under the direction of S. III.
MacNair are Charles Ball, George
Taylor. S. NJ. Sloan, A. Starr. Bert
McMullen, b. Dearborn and A Hend-
rem. Most of them are from Pitts
burg.
The ground course of huge rough
ashlars was laid Friday in the con-
struction of the Masonic Temple and
it can already be seen that the build
ing will be as handsome and substan-
tial as the plans indicate. The brick
layers are nearly to the top of the
first story with parts of the walls and
are working rapidly.