The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-12-11

Mrs. Grace Stewart has returned tC
her home at Wabash after a visit OF
several days with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jackson Glass.
To the credit Of the weather bureau.
it may be said that it never becomes
discouraged and gives up its contest
with the indications. Such ~persever-
ance is bound to win once i'm a while.
A great-grandson OF Commodore
Vanderbilt has just succeeded in get
ting out of an asylum in which he had
been confined upon the supposition
that he was insane because he insist
ed on paying his debts.
Edward Henry, residing two miles
southwest of Plymouth, and Miss
Lizzie Burch, were married at the
residence of Stephen Coleman in Burr
Oak, Wednesday, Dec. 3. Mr., Cole
man is the brides grandfather,
Another name has been added 10 the
list of Indiana authors. James Pax
ton Voorhees, son of the late Senator
Daniel w. voorhees,, has written a
novel called "D'lia' and the volume is
filed with stories told by the famous
senator.
All the Plymouth people who at
tended the fat stock show in Chicago
say that it is the best exhibition of the
kind they ever saw, and that the cat
tie, horses, hogs and sheep are equal
to any that a be found anywhere in
the world.
Mrs. Hetty Green has added to hel
already large fortune the %trifiine
amount of 81, 500. 900. according tc
Wall street gossip. by selling hel
large holdings of Louisville and Nash.
vile at a figure between 14O and $50.
She is credited with having bought il
at 20.
The word Reichs-Tag, usually rem.
dered ReichStag, is a sumner tOa good
many readers of English or American
papers. The literal translation OF
the word is Empire day." and the
Specification is parliament or national
congress. The pronunciation OF
Reichstag is "righs-taag."
Mrs. Myrtle Schonfeld, of Michigan
City, walked from Michigan City te
Laporte Saturday night, practically in
her night gown, according to the pa.
perS filed in an insanity inquest over
the woman She is 81 years old and
has been married but a short time,
heing the wife of Albert Schonfeld.
In order to keep business going to
the full limit of its motive power the
Pennsylvania road is cOn~tiScating
big portion of the coal that is being
shipped over its lines. Tuesday this
road confiscated nearly all there was
on its lines. This is hard on people
who are waiting for coal to keep their
families from freezing.
Mr.. and Mrs. L.. w. Mcclure, OF
Argos, who accompanied their daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Ora Mcclure, to her
home in Philadelphia expect to visit
about two months in the historic city
which was the capital of the United
States during the administration OF
Washington and a part of the admin
iStratiOn of John Adams.
The finest apples raised in the
world are raised right here inIndiana,
is the proud boast of state fruit grow
ers whoare having their annual exhibit
ton of orchard and garden products
at the statehouse atIndianapolis. One
man who visited the exhibition saws
the apples are so big that fruit grow
ers turn up their noses if they see an
apple much smaller than a pumpkin.
Suppose, says the Auburn Dispatch,
a newspaper man, every time he hears
another man criticiSe him or his pa
per in public, should retaliate by
holding up to public gaze the faults
and shortcomings of said fault finder,
what would be the result? The
editor may not know it all, but he
does not live in a community long
without knowing a great deal more
than he publishes.
Indiana claims the first automobile
mail route of the United States. An
automobile mail service between PJrt-
land and Pennville, twelve miles, is
being given to those postoffices and
the smaller receiving points for mail
en- route. The mail is sent from Port
land twice a day-at 8 O'Clock in the
morning and 4 in the afternoon-and
one hour is taken for the trip. The
return is made thirty minutes after.
The Presbyterian Sunday school
through its Christmas committee has
decided to observe Christmas by CIV
ing. A beautiful cantata will be rem