The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-11-27

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nessee, who visited here d few day,
has gone To South Bend to visit hi,
brother.
Daniel Mitchell, of Elkhart, is her,
for IL visit of a few weeks with his son
Henry j. Mitchell. He is one of tn,
old settlers of northern Indiana anC
was in Plymouth in 1916.
David Scott, of Ohio, who has served
three years in the Philippine army
and has made Il trip around the world,
arrived Wednesday evening for
visit OF a few weeks with his aunt,
Mrs. John w. Houghton.
George O. Work returned Monday
from a visit of six weeks at Hobart
and left Plymouth last Thursday fol
Fitz Gerald, Georgia, where he expects
to spend the winter with his sister
in-law, Miss Sue POrtmeSS.
A New York magistrate has decided
that it is not an offenSe punishable by
law TO smoke cigarettes. His honor
intimated that it ought to be, how
ever. and the intimation stamps him
a most wise and upright Judge.
Andres & Bergman, former Plym-
outh men VINO recently purchased the
BearsS hotel at Peru, have sold 1t to
Mr.. Hart who has for several years
been at the head of the commisSary
department of the Wallace shows.
The jury i'm the damage suit of
Benny Turner versus the city of
South Bend gave Benny Sic, 600, be-
cause the city left open a sewer mani
hole into which the boy fell. The
case was tried at Laporte. An appeal
will be taken to the supreme court.
Mrs. L. B. Sells and family spent
Thursday night in Plymouth on their
way from Fort Wayne to Chicago
Mr.. Sells has been promoted by the
Pennsylvania company and has been
transferred TO Chicago. consequently
the family will hereafter reside there.
John Losey informs us that the rea-
son he could not open his box at the
p~OStofice was that he did not under
stand The combination and he wishes
to make this public correction Of bis
statement. This is right. There are
certainly enough real errors with
which the postmaster has to contend.
A Hillsdale, Mich, preacher is
touching up delinquent and indiffer-
ent members of his flock by S, iding
them this written query: "What kind
OF a church would my church be if all
of its members were just like me?''
The pastor is said TO be receiving some
very unique replies to his Letters of in
quiry.
Frank Thomas, who has been at
in the KlOndike Alaska region for
over five years reached home Friday.
He came to Lapaz on the B & o.
thinking that he would walk home
and surprise his parents, but he found
his father with a carriage and team
waiting at the station when the train
rolled in.
Perhaps it was only a ''mental
lapse" that caused a young nan who
taught district school seven years to
omit the k from knowledge when he
wrote examination papers in Elkhart
recently. Evidently the repetition OF
the copy book maxim knowledge is
Power'' had not become indelibly fix
ed in his mind.
Mrs. Catherine Mattern, wife of
John S. Mattern, died at her home
three miles south Of Bremen Monday
Nov. II, after an illness of three weeks.
from heart trouble. She was ~ years
of age, was born in Germany, and had
lived in Marshall county nearly TWEEN
ty years, She leaves a husband and
en- children.
1t appears from the report Of State
Superintendent Frank l.. Jones, Just
published, that there are 16, 034 teach
ers employed in the public schools OF
Indiana. Only one fourth of these
are graduates of any college or nor
NAL school, but 6.O53 teachers have
studied n or mora years in some col.
lege or normal school.
Samuel Casper and six of his neigh
bors, each took a wagon load of hogs
to Bremen a few days ago. On theil
way home one of the teams ran away
and Mrs. Casper suggests that if the
horses, did not get anything to drink
at Bremen they probably smelled the
bottle on the way home. But every
body knows that it was a temperance
crowd.
An exchange says: ga young mar
who had been converted at a camp
meeting declared that all pride and
self-conceit had been taken out of hi!
heart. To prove it he would go dowr
among the audience and kiss an OLE