The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-31

the Western Union operator in this
city. She rs teacher of the Marion
schools, and with Misses Ella Cole,
Gladys Hoover and Gertrude Wood
bury, she spent Thursday afternoon
and evening at Lake Maxinkuckee.
Willie Hendricks and Guy Crawford
made a balloon of twenty-fOur sheets
of tissue paper and sent it up from W.
G. Hendricks yard west of the Lake
Erie station Thursday. 1t went east
and went up until it disappeared in
the blue ether and did not reach the
ground until it was three miles east
uf Inwood.
Geologist Blatchley suggests as a
remedy for the mosquito pest that
you pour a little oil on the water in
stagnant pool so that whenever germ
comes to the surface it will choke to
death. Another very effective plan,
SO people say who have tried it, is to
catch the germ and beat his brains
out with an AK.
Converse, Ind. has gone wild over
big gusher drilled in on the Rogers
farm, a mile and half north of the
town Thursday night. This well
opens an entirely new oil territory, be-
ing ten miles from the nearest well of
the Marion field. The well was COM
pleted Thursday and has not been
shot. but is good for $50 barrels a day.
Peter Disher says he has been some
what excited for few days. His
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Metzler, of
Rochester, came near drowning by the
upsetting of a sail-boat in Lake Man.
itau Sunday, and then the news came
from Niagara Falls, that he was
grandfather, his daughter, Mrs. Flo
rine Acker being the mother of nice
little girl.
hnDemmon, of Merrillville, must
surely De magnet. This spring
lightning struck his windmill, and
soon after his new house was built it
struck the chimney and tore off lot
of siding. That was repaired and for
gotten, and on Wednesday of this
week another bolt struck the same
chimney and disfigured the house IN
about the same manner.
Rev. w. w. Lineberry, residing
near this city, travels over the entire
state as the superintendent of the
work of the NJ. Z. church in Indiana.
He says he never saw better crops in
central and southern Indiana than are
promised now. The wheat is fully an
average crop, and oats and corn never
looked better at this season of the
year and there is an immense crop of
hay.
Special Pension Examiner Lacey, of
Washington, ID. c. is here trying to
find some one who knows that Stephen
Slayter, an old soldier who resided in
West township ten or twelve years
ago. is dead Slater resided near Etna
Green before moving to West town.
ship and while the department be-
lieveS he is dead it is necessary to
prove it before he can be declared Of
ficially dead.
The Warsaw Elks have decided IT,
have a lodge of their own, and on
Thursday, July 81, District Deputy
Bayard Gray, OF Frankfort, will insti-
tute the order. The Ligonier Elks
will perform the degree work. There
are twenty-five Elks belonging to diff
ferent lodges in this part of the state,
who will then transfer their member
ship. There will be twenty-six- char
ter members.
Arthur O'Keefe has sold his resi-
dence property at the corner of CAIRO
and Center street, known as the Mrs.
Dawes place, to Prof. Hahn of Bour-
bon. Prof. Hahn will proceed at once
to erect a brick block on the three
lots. He expects to found in Plym-
outh one of the finest musical colleges
and art Institutes in Indiana, an in
stitution in which every citizen of this
city and county will take great pride.
William Klingerman, who died at
InwoOd, Wednesday afternoon, drove
to Plymouth with his wife Wednesday
morning and was feeling better than
usual. They started home about
eleven O'Clock and he had very weak
spell on the way home, but got better.
About 2 O'Clock in the afternoon he
had another attack and lived only
few minutes. His death was caused
by heart failure. He had been suffer
ing from heart disease for several
years.
Dickson Thompson has been res
ident Of Marshall county 66 years. His
fathers family slept the first night at
their home on the shores of beautiful
Maxinkuckee. July 26. 1885. Dickson