The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-24

Word reaches his home here that
Judge Hiram S. Biggs. who is being
treated by specialist at Chicago, is
growing better. This his friends here
at home and all over the county will
be pleased to learn, and all will be
glad to hear of speedy recovery to
his usual vigorous Warsaw
Times.
DR.. j. j. Hamilton. who was raised
in West township, taught school,
studied medicine, married Miss
Seltenright in North township,
practiced medicine in Lapaz and Plym-
outh, served term as coroner of this
county and went to North Dakota
with the boomers five or six years ago,
is now resident of Caldwell, Idaho.
The remains of little Geneva Grace
Gregg, were brought to Plymouth
from Chicago Yesterday afternoon and
inferred in Oak Hill cemetery. She
was fifteen months old and was the
only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Gregg, of Chicago. Mrs. Gregg is the
niece of Mr.. George w. Protsman and
was well known here as Miss Grace
Vincent.
The Mormon Elder and the prohibit
tion candidate for clerk of the supreme
court addressed few of orr citizens
from the same platformTuesday even
ing. The Mormon got the drop on Mr..
Holler and got possession of the plat
form first. The followers of the Nor
mon prophet and the members of the
prohibition party in Plymouth are
about equal in numbers.
Fully ripened peaches are now be-
ing shipped from Texas north after
being treated by what is called the
Baker process, which it is claimed is
better than ice as method of preserv
ing fruits. By this system the fruit
is packed in tight compartment and
the air is then chemically treated.
1t is claimed that fruit thus preserved
is superior to that which has been re-
frigerated.
Roswell Beardsley has been post
master at North Lansing, n. Y, IA
years, being the longest period of Of
flee held by anyone in the United
States. He was appointed by John
Quincy Adams. MIR. BeardSley is "a
years of age. The highest salary he
ever received for one year was 5000;
his first years salary was but 1882.
The office occupies the same building
as when Mr.. Beardsley assumed the
position.
week brought liberty to Oliver White.
a life convict in the Michigan City
prison, after serving twelve years.
During all the time of his impriSon-
ment he was a model prisoner. In
his ''extra" time he worked overtime
and managed to send his savings to
assist in caring for his mother. 1t
was this affection shown her, as well
as his excellent prison record, that
led to his pardon.
The remarkable case of an abandon
ed gas well turning into very pro-
ductive oil well has just been discover
ed in the JOneSbOro oil field. The find
was made by several men at work on
an old gas well near the MiSSiSSinewa
river. A section of the tubing had
been removed, when the men we've
forced to quit work by great quanti-
ties of oil gushing from the well, and
later the flow settled down to an ex-
cellent output of the crude petroleum.
After Bert Head was arrested here
on the charge of stealing bicycles from
the shop of Kellar and Jeffirs in COM
pany with John Macomber, taking
them to Dent county, Mo-, and selling
them, description of the wheels was
sent to the sheriff there. The wheels
were found and were identified as the
wheels stolen from Plymouth. Nc
Comber was arrested, confessed, and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
a term of three years for having stolen
goods in his possession.
A western writer comments as fol-
lows on base ball as it was played
thousands of years ago. Eve stole
first. Adam stole second. When
Isaac met Rebecca at the well she was
walking with pitcher. Sampson
struck out good many when he beat
the PhilistineS. Moses made his first
run when he slew the Egyptians. Cain
made base hit when he killed Abel.
Abraham made a home run. David
was a long distance thrower, and
Moses shut out the Egyptians, at the
Red Sea.
Nicholas Rice, who for the last fifty