The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-24

ago, that small poX would become
epidemic in Indiana and Illinois seems
likely to be verified. The disease
now prevails in three-fourths of the
counties and seems to be spreading
rapidly.
George Shaw, of Warsaw, who mar
ried the daughter of Rev. r. j. Par
rett in Plymouth, about sixteen
months ago and went with the family
to Elkhart, has been criticrll i'll for
several days, but was reported con-
siderably improved Wednesday.
The employees of the Singer sewing
machine works who went on strike
nine weeks ago, have held mass
meeting, when it was decided
with much cheering, not to return to
work under the conditions that the
management of the works offer.
The L. Z. & w. ticket agent at
Castleton, whose name we were I'M
able to learn, while jumping on a
freight train Thursday was thrown
under the car and both legs were sew
cred about the knees. He was taken
to the railroad hospital at Peru.
Oil has been discovered in the vicin-
ity of Elkhart and an oil company has
been organized which is buying land
both north and south of the city.
Richard Palmer, an expert from the
Ohio oil fields, has been secured and
test wells will be sunk in the near fut-
ure.
1t is reported that Sheriff Bondur-
ant and Marshal CLANCY have succeed
ed in 'pursuading the Italian laborers
on the Pennsylvania railroad to move
their sleeping car TO point west of
Donaldson, 1t is presumed that Starke
county boys are not afraid of the da-
goes.
Chas. Snively, of Hoopston. ILL.,,
who purchased the Clark farm about a
mile southwest of Culver, arrived IN
town Thursday with his family and
has taken possession of the same.
There are 200 acres in the farm and
Snively paid $50 per acre.-Culver
Herald.
a preacher at Washing ton, this
state, has been granted divorce on
the grounds that his wife made fun of
his sermons. She may have been
justified in doing so, but preachers
wives as a rule should and do struggle
to restrain themselves when the SER
mon don't measure quite up to their
expectations.
Prof. j. P. Kimmel, physical in
structor in the Indiana State Normal
school at Terre Haute, was hit acct
dentially with 16-pound hammer,
thrown by Capt. Beechner, of the
track team, and probably fatally in
jured. His skull was slightly frac-
tured and there is a decided concuS-
sion of the brain.
Messrs. Fred Martindale, Harry
Marvin, Ray Logan, Howard Van
Scoik, Clifford BCrkett, Louis Matt
ingly and Misses Flora Koontz, Mae
Southworth, Dollie Long, Harriet
Jacoby, Louise Jacoby and Laura
Van Anden went to Rochester Friday
evening to attend a dance given by
the ImpS of Satan.
State Forester Will III. Freeman, of
Indianapolis, is at Logansport to
superintend the planting of forest of
Is, 800 trees upon the farm of Quincy
A. Myers. For years the energies of
the farmers have been directed toward
clearing away the trees. Now that
the wooded sections are practically
gone the system is to be reversed.
After living in the same neighbor-
hood near Michigan City for fifty
years in single blessedness, Louis Kue-
ger, aged seventy mine, and Miss
Nancy Heathman, aged sixty-three,
were married Friday. The old gen.
tleman, who resides in the country
near town celebrated bis wedding day
by splitting load of wood and haul
ing it to market.
, One of the sure signs of a good
wheat crop, SAID one of our successful
farmers, few days ago, is poor
maple molasses season. asa good sap
year means poor wheat year," said
he, land there are the best of reasons
for it. 1t requires thawing and freez-
ing to produce good flow of sap from
the maple trees and everybody knows
that thawing and freezing is death to
the wheat.
Hon. John w. Parks was here last
week experimenting the planting of
almost So trees about his farm resi-
dence. OF the So trees planted there
were Ii varieties and Mr.. Parks will
watch their growth with much curl