The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-02-20


didate this year, and in order to ease
Mr. Brick IS mind we told him SO when
he passed through Plymouth last Sat
urday.
The Republicans of the city are re-
quested to meet at the law office of
Frank w. Boss Thursday evening, for
tho purpose of forming a city organ
iZatiOn.
A prominent young couple of this
city were compelled to walk four miles
in the storm MOndy night, the result
ofarunaway. They had started for Ar
gosbut were compelled to postpone
their visit until later. Better use both
hands to drive.
Farmers from various parts of the
county report that quail are dying in
large numbers. The heavy snow which
has lain on the ground for the last two
weeks has prevented the birds from
gathering food and the intense cold
was the last straw.
The superior court, at Michigan
City: Tuesday, granted divorce from
her husband, TO Mrs. Belle Clemens,
formerly of Inwood. Her husband,
William Clemens, is serving a sentence
in the Michigan City penitentiary for
attempted rape in Miami county in
May 1900.
Eggs have taken flight in price
that seems incredible. They are
quoted at 33c in Chicago, while the
price is much higher in Pittsburg and
other large eastern cities. Lent be-
gan on the 18th inst. and the increas-
ed demand for eggs since has sent the
price sky high.
A foolish girl at Hartford City, this
state, took her life because her lover,
a soldier in the army. deserted her for
Filipino. She ought to have been
thankful that she found him out be-
fore she married him. There are
plenty of good men for good girls
whom bad lovers desert.
Hon. j. B. Stoll, of e South Bend
Times, was suddenly stricken with
neuralgia Of the stomach Saturday
about O'Clock, and for several hours
was in a very critical condition. He
was able to leave his bed Monday, but
is still suffering. The doctors advised
him that rest was needed or he
would collapse entirely.
The sheep market which has been
dragging SO heavily for the last two
years seems to be receiving a new i'm
petus recently. Wool is in better de-
mand now than for several years and
prices are stiffening. The price of
lambs more especially has advanced
just lately and this week in the Chica-
go market choice lot sold for Sc. so.
This was new standard of value.
The electric light was shown in this
country for the first time at the Gen.
tennial Exposition twenty-five years
ago. The public was SO skeptical
about the new discovery that electric
lighting in its modern aspects only be-
gan in 1882. Since that time the IN
vestment in electric lighting plants,
in this country alone, has reached the
enormous sum of over $1,000, 600, 600.
A crowd of young people from Bour-
bon were entertained at the home of
the Misses Myrtle and Marie Love,
Saturday evening on South Thayer
street, it being Miss Myrtle's Six
tenth birthday. Refreshments were
served and all report fine time, not
considering the dump in a snow
drift during the drive from Bourbon.
The. Saturday Club met Saturday,
Feb. Is, with Mrs. j. c. Jilson. The
subject for the day being Principal
Cities of Indiana" by Mrs. Julia X.
Blain. The paper was comprehensive
and descriptive of the different fea-
lures both industrial and educational
as well as giving many historical
points connected with the develop
ment of the different cities of our
state.
Big packing houses in the stock
yards at Chicago are at war, and as a
result the price Of dressed beef in the
Chicago market has been cut more
than 20 per cent. Instead of receiv-
ing from cents to 10 cents, the pack
ers are getting from 81 cents to Z
cents for the best dressed beef, and the
market mau is reaping all the bene-
fit, for the retail price has not been
reduced.
Nine of the wealthiest and most in
fluential citizeus of Chicago have sent
to the senate of the United States
through Senator Cullom petition
asking for uniform and more rigid di-
vorce laws in all the States of the