The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-12-25

Isaac Fortune and Miss Mary Prots-
mar are visiting relatives in Koscius-
k0 county.
Gov. eject Mickey, Of Nebraska,
never wore a dress suit in his life and
never danced. He has lots of other
accomplishments, however, that fit
him for the high office to which the
people have chosen him.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Koontz of the
first ward are the parents of an eleven
pound boy born on Monnay. Grand
pa Weber, who has been limping
around with rheumatism all summer,
now walks as spry as his son-in-law.
A young man named Gruver, son of
Fred Gruyer residing just south of La
paz, had his hand orr to pieces and
his face badly spattered with shot,
Sunday, by the premature discharge
of a shot gun. He was hunting rab-
bits.
The teachers of Indiana will be in
indianapolis in force December %, 80
and 81, for the %forty-ninth annual ses-
sion of the Indiana State Teachers
Association. The session of the gen.
eral association will be held in Masonic
Hall.
AT Laporte Monday the attorneys
for the city of South Bend in the dam
age suit of Bonnie Turner, in which a
verdict of $40, 600 was rendered by
the plaintiff, took an appeal to the
supreme court. This is the second
time the case has gone there.
A fine run was made last week on
che Pittsbu-g, Fort Wayne & Chicago
between Crestline and Fort Wayne,
the train making the run in two hours
and fifty minutes, hauling eleven cars.
The schedule time for the train is
three hours and forty minutes.
OSince the programs for the WomanS'
Institune went to press word has been
received that Mrs. Kline, a state
worker from Huntington, is TO be with
US. Mrs. Kline will be sure to inter
est all who hear her. The subjects
will be announced next week.
An eastern writer makes the good
suggestion that brains be put into
Christmas gifts. that something USE
full instead of purely ornamental be
given. Thousands of dollars are
wasted upon frivolous, useless, gilt
tering things that only last for a short
time.
The coal famine is being felt keenly
over at Wabash. The paper mill at
that place had to shut down on &C
count of its inability to get coal, and
the Pioneer Hat works may have to
follow suit if relief doeSn t come quick
ly. The situation along the Wabash
is serious.
David L. Scott. who left Mrs. John
w. Houghton's December 3, taking
with him a gold watch and other arti-
Giles that did not belong to him, was
arrested at Jackson, Michigan, Satur-
day, and the articles were found in
his possession. Sheriff Bondurant
went to Jackson Monday.
The new series of postage stamps
will o appear. The two cent stamp
will have McKinley's head instead of
Washington Is. A likeness of Martha
Washington will be on the eight cent
stamp. The Is cent stamp will have
ex-PreSident HarriSon's head and the
five cent the portrait of Abraham Lin
coin.
Fourteen members of the st. Louis
City council charged with bribery and
accepting brides in connection with
the selling of franchises and privileges
have been tried already and thirteen
have been convicted, showing that
when those who sell their votes be-
come reckless in their transaction dis
grace and punishment fellow.
Washington Kelley, who now resides
at haywood, Illinois, but was for more
than forty years a resident of Plym-
outh, has been visiting three months
at Canton and other points in Ohio,
stopped off here Saturday to visit un-
til Wednesday. He has taken our
out paper for more than a qnarter OF
a century and called at our office to
renew for another year.
The ministers of Hamilton, O., hav-
ing decided that it is wrong to en-
courage belief in the myth of Santa
Claus, there will be no Christmas trees
in the churches of that city this year.
No doubt every one of tbs ministers
was taught to believe in Santa Claus
when be was a child. and the fact that
he outgtew the harmless superstition
when he grew older shows that it did
not hurt him.
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