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

section of country about three miles
north of townTuesday evening. Fences
and outhouseS were blown down, trees
uprooted and few buildings unroof-
ed.
Travelling men and other strangers,
who witnessed the work of the fire de-
partment Tuesday afternoon are
unanimous in declaring that Plymouth
has the best volunteer fire department
they ever saw.
A Blizzard ragged in both North and
South Dakota Tuesday. The ground
was covered with foot d snow and
railway trains were tied up. At the
same time people 500 miles east were
smelling in So degrees of heat.
MeSdameS Parks and Daubenspeck
and Miss Gail Moth drove to
Bourbon Tuesday. They were caught
in the storm in the evening as they
were returning, but escaped with only
slight wetting and the loss of one of
the ladies hats which was carried away
by the wind.
G.. n. FaSsett, editor of the South
Bend Sunday News, has been commits
stoned to write the biography of the
late Hon. Glen Studebaker. 1t will
be an exhaustive work, detailing every
event connected with Mr.. Studebaker'S
busy life, profusely illustrated chiefly
as a family souvenir.
Reports from all sections Of the
state indicate that while many farm
ers are complaining of a late spring,
farm work, as rule, is well along.
and blowing is progressing finely.
The last week has been favorable for
all kinds Of farm work and great pro-
greSS has been made.
Fire in the huckleberry marsh at
the edge of the town of Wolf Lake,
Noble county, Tuesday afternoon was
carried by the strong wind and CO L
municated to the residence portion of
the village. The Methodist church
and eleven of the best residences of
the town and all adjacent buildings
were destroyed.
Mr.. H. G.. Thayer observed his 6Sth
anniversary last Sunday. In the fore
noon be drove to North township and
attended the funeral of the late Hiram
Baker, and following the sermon he
paid tribute to the life cf the
deceased, citizen of the county with
whom he had done business continuous
ly for fifty years
A hurricane mixed with thunder
and lightning killed seven people in
Oklahoma Monday, and a blizzard
swept through parts of Colorado and
Utah. At Omaha the people were
sweltering in ninety degrees of heat
while it was showing in the north
west part of the state. 1t is a strange
mixture of weather. ~
Neil Felkner, of Milfoed, who until
recently was a wellknown travelling
salesman for the Kramer wholesale
grocery house of LaPOrte and who it
will be recalled was found to be about
$4,000 short in his accounts some
months ago, Saturday made an at
tempt to commit suicide by taking
morphine pills, but the attempt failed
and the young man will probably re-
cover.
Thomas X. Houghton, in looking
over his fathers papers this week
found the delinquent tax list of this
county Tor the year 1888 and left it
at this Office. 1t is quite curiosity,
but is perfectly legible after lapse Of
81 years. There were about as many
dellnquents as we have now, but the
total delinquent tax was only sSS.11.
1t is signed by Adam Vinnedge,
treasurer of Marshall county. w. G..
Pomeroy was deputy.
The funeral of Hiram Baker, Of
North township, held at Paramount,
was attended last Sunday by one of
the largest gatherings that ever met
at the church. Rev. L. Stafford
preached the funeral sermon. which
was pronounced an able and worthy
discourse. Mr.. Baker was one of the
oldest residents of the county. Four
years ago his aged wife was buried
from the same church, the interment
of both being in Fairmount cemetery.
Swanson. Davis.