The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-04-10

Niles, Mich. She is IS years old.
1 The Blue Ribbon club rooms are be-
ing remodled and refurnished, and
after they are completed will be the
neatest club rooms in the city. They
now have about thirty members.
There was big fire at Chesterton
north OF Valparaiso, last Sunday. The
fire started just before midnight and
eight business houses were burned be-
fore the flames were under control.
Miss Queen Cleveland, of the Bright
side TrainingSchool, leftMonday MORN
ing with two children, for whom
homes have been found. One, a boy.
will be placed at Laotto, and girl at
Larwill.
Governor Durbin has appointed p.
j. kruger, delegate to the national
conference of charities and correction
to be held at Detroit May % to June
3. Mr.. Kruger is superintendent of
the Marshall county infrmary.
A New York woman who said she
wanted to die ate handful of moth
balls. Any human creature who can
eat mothballs is not fit to die, and
this one was pu rped out by the doc
tors and will live a while longer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hauk have
been confined to their homes over
three weeks. Mr.. Hauk is Ill with
disease of kidneys and liver and Mrs.
Hauk, who has been in feeble health
for several years, fell and broke one of
the bones In her ankle about three
weeks ago.
Northern Michigan was in the grip
of bowling blizzard Sunday night
and the wind blowing at the rate Of
fifty miles an hour brought the storm
to Plymouth early In the morning and
we have to record freezing weather on
April :.
\. L. Schaffer, of Edgar county.
III. last year harvested the largest crop
OF popcorn ever gathered. 1,SOO BUSH
els from 1O2 acres. l. bushels to the
acre. Indiana's largest single crop
was 100 pounds, by Samuel Gordon,
Mud Creek. Fulton cour ty, in 1860.
John d. Rockefeller, ir.. began to
earn money when he was six years old.
His father offered fee of l cent for
every fence post in need of repairs
that thel boy could find on the big
country place near Cleveland, O. His
first days work netted him Is cents.
Joseph F. Brown, who has been
running a saloon in Packerton, was
arrested Saturday and placed in Jail at
Warsaw charged with being one of
the men who blew the safe in at KIM
sey's bank at Claypool last week. The
watchman says he recognized Brown
as one of the men.
The sum of $50, 900, if not more, is
to be expended by Mishawaka Cath
olics for the erection of handsome
brick and stone structure which will
be dedicated to christian education.
1t is to be used for school purposes,
and combined with this will contain a
spacious hall for public gatherings.
The newly elected president of the
Northern Indiana Teachers associa-
ton is d. A. Lambright, superinten-
dent OF the schools at Kendallville.
He takes high rank among the fore
most educators of Northern Indiana,
is fluent and pleasing speaker, and
possesses superior qualifications as
presiding officer.
Mrs. Ed Conway died at her home
in Fort Wayne Tuesday morning. She
grew to wOmanhood and was
married in Plymouth and had many
friends here. Her husband. who is a
well known conductor of the Pennsy-
vania railway, land six children are left
to mourn her death. Funeral at Fort
Wayne Friday morning.
General Manager Pine of the
Singer factories of South Bend,
refuses to discuss a settlement with
the present local committee. Quite
feeling is being engendered among the
strikers that the committee ought TO
be changed, and the hope is that
when the change is made, settle
ment may be reached. Whether
those in revolt will bring about a
change of committee is problem.
The strike has lasted seven weeks, and
is, becoming a decided hardship to
many.
Mrs. Bert Cleaveland died at her
home in Indianapolis Monday after
noon. Miss Helen Good came to
Plymouth from Ashland, Ohio, and
was three years teacher in the public
schools. She endeared herself to her
pupils and made many friends. When
shewas united i'll marriage with Mr..
Cleavel; nd, one of the promising