Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-05-31
ADDITIONAL A LOCALS.

ne weather fOrecaster gives little
encouragement until after the 10th of
June. There are to be more days of
unsettled and cold weather.
The twelfth annual convention of
the plymouth district of the Epworth
league vii! be held at the NJ. +. church
at Wlnsmsc June IL and Ia. About
fifty towns in Northern Indiana will be
represented.
a new Sunday school has been OF.
gsnlzed in the Roberts neighborhood
east of this city and will have it's first
regular meeting next Sunday at the
Roberts school house with Lizzie
Gurthet acting as superintendent.
The city of Valparaiso asks for re-
ceiyer for the Valparaiso Water com.
psny. The city wants to buy the plant,
as the cOmpsny's franchise allows, but
the company has paid no attention to
the oVertures, hence the action for re-
ceiyer
The Presbyterian general assembly
has agreed on creed revision which is
not to be "a substitute for or sn alter
native of our confession of faith" and
as everybody voted for the proposition
it would seem to be notable victory
for both sides.
An admirable feature of Leslie's
monthly for June is a powerful story
by the author of "Children of the Mist"
La it Mr.. Eden Phillpotts returns for
his theme to the simple sturdy folk of
DsrtmoOr, and his story is tale of love
and jealousy, sbounding in situations
of dramatic Intensity, woven about the
character of young peasant girl,
which is true as life itself.
The trustees of Manchester college
have leased the institution TO q part OF
the faculty, who have effected the fol.
lowing organization: T. NJ. Crouch,
president; L. ). Mohermsn, principal of
Bible school, [. Bruce Book. secretary,
and l.. ID. Elkenberry, treasurer. The
work will bs conducted along the same
lines as formerly, and 1t will continue
TO be known as a Dunkard school.
The city of Richmond, Ind. is going
In for municipal ownership. John NJ.
WestcOtt, the manufactures, has loaned
the city $4,000 to erect a lighting
plant, so there will be no necessity of
issuing bonds. Mayor Zimmerman sn-
nOunces that the next step on the
municipal program will be municipal
ownership of water works, the plant
now in use being owned by private
corporation.
A vigorous crusade is TO be insugu
rated by Mayor Golfsx and Prosecutor
Clarke against the selling of lottery
tickets in South Bend. La the mayors
opinion, the lottery business is doing
more harm than roulette and other
gambling devices He says that 81, 900
or $4,000 are taken out of the city
every month by lottery fakes aud that
most of the money is contributed by
those who cannot well afford to lose it,
The United States marshal the other
day arrested F. ID. Knots, of Medsry-
vile, the father of Representative
A. f. Knots, of Hammond, on the
charge of violating the interstate com
merce law. Mr. Knots is charged with
having shipped forty five dead quail
from Hammond to Chicago. The &C.
1 rola fn
by. his son. People are beginning TO
discover that the Indiana game and
fish laws now mean something.
Peter Holenback, the well-known
farmer of Harrison township, recently
went TO neighbOr, Wm Burton, and
asked him if he could get him to shear
some "little sheep" Mr.. Burton said
he could and went to Hollenback's and
did the job. There were forty-two
sheep and one of them yielded sixteen
pounds of wool and measured six feet
and four inches from tip to tip, while
another sheared fourteen pounds. The
animals were so big they could scarcely
be hsndled.-Logsnspor Phsros.
This is good time for democrats to
turn tables on republicans on the wool
question. Some years ago when wool
dropped from % to Is cents the repub-
licsns declared that Cleveland free
trade" made most democrats leave
their sheep unshorn because they were
ashamed To look them in the face Now
with Mckinley's high tariff all on, the
price is down to Is cents. If a demo-
crst could not look at a sleeps face
when a tariff was responsible for 1S-
cent wool, what part of a Sleeps snst-
omy could a republican consistently
look at with high-tariff wool down to
l6 cents Rochester Sentinel.
A Pathetic Picture of the Abandoned
Farm.
There is deep psthos in the picture
by w. l.. Taylor, called "The Passing
of the Farm which sppesrs in the
June issue of The Ladies' Home Jour
nal. The bowed and sad. faced figure
of the lonely window, standing with
one hand on the open door of the wait
ing coach while she takes q long last look
at her old home, makes a strong appeal