The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-08-07

ner nome at camden, 1nd., AFTER a
visit of several weeks with her sister,
Mrs. G. W. MetSker. Miss Agnes
Thompson accompanied her home fol
a visit of two weeks.
The 18th annual reunion of the 74th
Indiana Veteran Association will be
held at Cromwell. Noble county, In
diana the 25th and Goth of September.
All members of the regiment are re-
queSted to be present.
Mrs. Laura Adams, of Stacy, Ohio,
accompanied her sister, Mrs. SWEET,
TO her home near Hanna this after
noon. She will GO from there to La
porte to visit her brother, Louis Suit,
before returning home.
The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocern
bears the reputation of being the best
weekly newspaper in the world. We
have arranged specially to supply it
and this paper together for one year
at the low price of $500 for both.
The commissioners have been kept
busy examining ditch petitions this
week. More applications for new
bitches and widening and lengthening
old bitches have been than filed during
any previous term for several years.
A negro seer has predicted that a
tidal wave will destroy Atlantic City,
n. j., this week. and the hotels at
the famous resort are without help as
a result. All the negro walters. cooks
and pOrterS have taken to the tall
timber to escape the day of wrath.
The new watch factory in this city
will soon be a thing of reality, as bids
for its construction will be opened on
the 10Th of this month. The factory
is to be erected in the eastern limits
of the city on the north side of the
Mishawaka road.-South Bend Trib-
une.
Everybody in the county should re.
member the Sunday school excursion
to Winona next Tuesday morning.
The fair for men and women is only
IS cents for the round trip and 80
cents for children. Admission to
everything is free. Read advertise
ment for particulars.
Everybody is glad to know that the
opera house is to be papered and re-
painted, have new chairs and new
furnace, in fact is to be made an
amusement hall in keeping with the
progress of the city. We hope to be
able to give write up of very nice
opera house in few weeks.
Percival G.. Turner, of Goshen,
formerly indianapolis representative
of the Metropolitan Insurance Com
pany. received the first prize, $1,000,
awarded by the Brown Book, Boston,
for the estimate of the number of i'm
migrants landed at New York during
the first six months of this year.
Ten thousand people listened to
Miss Ellen Stones lecture at Winona
Tuesday afternoon. The newspaper
reporters say she is slenderer and much
better looking than her pictures indi-
cate, She was modestly attired In
black and told the story of her capture
and imprisonment without oratorical
effect or gestures.
The katy-dids, the harbingers of the
approaching winter, have arrived an
nouncing the fact that but six more
weeks will elapse before the first frost.
The insects are here in great numbers
this year and consequently during the
remaining summer evenings animated
discussions will be in order in most
tree tops in the city.
The Jacoby- Ray reunion was veg
largely attended Tuesday. 1t was an
ideal day for a picnic in the grove and
was enjoyed by large crowd of old
settlers and their descendants, who
were glad to meet and congratulate
John Jacoby on having attained the
age Of eighty years and a residence of
fty-five years in Marshall county.
Alfred Mickey, who has been resid-
ing in Labette county, Kansas, "a
years, stopped off here between TRANS
to see his cousin, Prosper Mickey. He
was Oh his way to Rochester to attend
reunion of the Mickey family in Full
ton county Thursday. His father was
deputy recorder of Kosciusko county
thirty-five years ago when Alfred was
small boy.
That electricity is the fast coming
power for transportation purposes is
to be seen in the action of the New
York Central railroad IN eouipping its
trains within the limits of the city of
New York with electric engines, dis
carding the smoky steam locomotives
entirely. Not many years hence all
the big railroads in the country will
nroha hlu he run nv electric ,,ouar.