The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-05-30

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DIR. Bower IL riously i'll with heart
failure aud general debility.
w. A. Rinehart has returned from
Peru and is now employed in the barber
shop with Eugene Lewis.
Rev. Bay Epson went to Solomon
Creek Monday to attend the dis
trict conference of the u. B. church.
General Fredrick Funs.on's lasting
claim to fame is that he helped to eat
an Octopus during his trip to capture
The Supreme court has decided that
the Foraker Porto Rico tariff act is con-
stitutional. Particulars will be found on
the first psge'
George E. Gay and little daughter
who were called to this county by the
death of 5. B. Gay at Bourbon, have re-
turned to their home at Kokomo.
Mrs. Nj. F. Avelin, OF Washington.
d. O., was the guest Monday OF K. X.
Brooke on her way to Laporte, where she
will attend the funeral of her niece.
Miss Pearl Holem has accepted
position in the Independent Office in the
place Of Miss Bessie Long who was CON-
PEELED to retire on account OF her health
Mrs. Stephens of Rochester, who has
been visiting her daughter. Mrs. id
Cushman, north of town and also vieited
relatives in Illinois. returned home Satur-
day.
Mrs. Ed Sweet, who with her little
daughter has been visiting her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Rhodes. southeast
of town, returned to her home at Union
Mills Monday.
Hundreds OF German Baptists have
left this county and adjoining cou mites
since Saturday morning to attend the
annual meeting Of German Baptists at
Lincoln, Nebraska.
The county superintendent associ-
alton of Indiana will meet at the state
house June IL, ID and IA. The attend
ance is expected to be unusually large.
The new teachers wage law is to be one
of the topics for discussion.
One hundred men employed in street
paving at Garrett are striking for an ad-
vance in wages, The shovelers were re-
ceiving $3.50 per Gay and want $1.75.
The Kelley Broe., contractors. of Ports
mouth. o., threaten to import laborers.
w. E. bailey left Monday noon
for Ksokuk, Iowa. to visit old acqusin-
tances made during the war OF the re-
bellion. Mr.. Bailey spent several
months in Keokuk at that time. He
will visit st. Paul and other points in
the northwest before returning home.
Walter Williams will not be muster
ed out when the Fourteenth U. 8. In
fantry returns from Manila He enlisted
in the regular army and his time will not
expire until next March. He will remain
with the regiment at whatever point it
is on dutv in the United States until that
time.
The apparatus for the drilling for
oil or gas at Mentone, including the der
rick, machinery, etc., is on the ground
and experts will commence the work at
once. 1t has been decided by the local
company to locate the first we'll in the
low ground on Albert Tucker farm east
Of the cemetery,
Thieves at Evansville. this state,
profited by one of the common signs in
business houses. This safe is not lock-
ed; help yourself They opened the
door OF safe and extracted 81 80 in good
cash therefrom. 1t was an easy steal
and DO burglar will now pass safe bear,
ing like motto.
The main part of the independently
article which be says the South Bend
and Valparaiso papers copied ap-
peared in the Plymouth Evening News
three months ago. But News articles
three months old are great deal better
reading than the fake statements made
in the Independent.
The Independent says the statement
it made Friday about j. A. Jockey cir
culating another postoffice petition was
malicious lie. Nobody believes any
thing that appears in the Independent
unlese it is corroborated from other
sources, but it is seldom that the indie
pendent announces positively that it has
lied
j. M. Hume left Monday for
his home at Macomb, ILL.,. after q visit
of six days with his sister, Mrs. j. W
Siders. He says Plymouth is one of the
prettiest little cities he ever visited and
predicts that the present depression is
only temporary. He says it is q good
deal more alive now than many other
towns Of the same size and has advan-
tages that many Of its people do not full
Iy appreciate.