The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-03

Mrs. G. L. Post was struck and in
stantly killed by train No. 30 on TIE
Lake Shore road Tuesday night at
Mishawaka. She is the eighth victim
of the same train within short time
Railway men are growing superstltiouS
concerning No. 80.
The Wabash College is preparing to
erect large bronze tablet Oh which
are to be inscribed the names of 800
or more men she sent to the war of
the rebellion. Among the Marshall
county men are e. T.. Mattingly, A.
T. Metcalf and A. w. Bill.
Mrs. William Freisinger died Fri
day morning at her home near
Rutland. She was II years old
and an excellent woman who
had many friends in the southwest
part of the county. Her husband and
several sons and daughters survive
Funeral at Poplar Grove church at 10
o clock a. M, SUNDAY.
The Elkhart Truth says Editor
Louis Mcdonald presented his vale
dictory in the last issue of the Plym-
outh Democrat which he has edited
owe thirty years. Louis will probab-
ly deny the allegation as to the length
of time he edited the Democrat, but
there is no doubt about its being the
last issue of that paper.
The whisky manufactures and
whisky dealers of the country have
been furnishing money for many years
to keep the Prohibition party alive,
but they now find that they have done
the whisky cause more harm than
good and the leading distillers and
dealers have organized to fight all
temperance organizations.
The city council is troubled as to
the best method of cleaning paved
streets which get nasty and dirty very
rapidly. Cleaning with force of
men and broomS is very expensive and
the city dads are considering the pur-
chase of two horse sprinkler and
sweeper. The matter will be taken
up at the next meeting of the council
A large number of women in Den
yer were invited to witness prize
fight, that they might see for them
selves the harmleSSneSS and healthful-
ness of the sport and cease their OPP
position to it. They saw the prize
fight, but they now complain that it
was a fake" just exactly as men do
when the prize fighters stop short of
tearing each other into shreds.
When the Brazil school board dis
missed Rev. Emery Muncie for hug
ging and kissing 15-year-Old girl pu-
pill, all the other attendants at the
school went ON strike. The future
may require that applicants for teach
erS' licenses in Brazil be cultured in
OSCILLATION and hugging as well as be-
ing erudite.-South Bend Times.
Democratic delegates to the state
and congressional conventions were
chosen today. The delegates from
this city to the state convention are
VIM: Everly, Samuel Parker, G. w.
Metsker and NJ. A. Bland; to the con-
greSSional convention, John Wolford.
John Capron, VIM. O'Keefe, James
Rettick, Dan Mcdonald, p. J. KrCy-
er and Charles Porcher.
The Elkhart Truth edited by Hon.
G. G.. Conn says practical education
with a knowledge of how to put it in
practice is better than college course
for ninety-nine one-hundredths of the
human race. An ability TO foresee re-
suits, TO measure consequences, to
grasp opportunities, to discriminate
between the right and wrong way, to
to use common sense is the KEY to all
success.
A party of boys while seining in the
river at st. Joseph Thursday caught
ore .of th; largest surgeons ever
known to De captured in the lake and
tributary rivers. They caught it in
seine, and after having landed it made
it fast in the water with rope. Then
they called on some men, who helped
them drag it to land. The fish weighed
225 pounds and measured six feet and
seven inches.
Rev. Samuel Snyder, well known
In this county, is now located in Wa
bash county. Returning home from
a prayer meeting "Wednesday evening,
his horse became frightened and ran
away. In going down steep hill the
animal missed the bridge at the foot
If the incline and dashed into the
river, where it became entangled in
the harness and was drowned. Mr..
Snyder escaped without serious injury.
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The progress of the building that
VIM. Davis was moving to the north