The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-10

Michigan this week and says there is
no difference betweenMichigan andIn-
diana weather.
There are doubtless many men in
this country today who would not
mind swapping their SO Pana mas for
75-cent umbrellas.
Mrs. Mary Owen has returned to
Blutfton, Ohio, after visiting her
uucle, Thomas Doran, who was seri-
ously i'll, but is now conyaleScent'
elijah Dowie has placed ban
on "Mother Goose" and Kindred
Story Books and the Time honored
Santa Claus will also be prohibited in
Zion.
Mrs. DUR, Mrs. FL. b. Hall and d.
Frank Redd have gone to their old
home at Loudenville, Ohio, for visit
of three weeks in Holmes and adjoin-
ing counties.
Senator Parks and wife have return
ed from Denver. They report a big
Sunday school convention, big hail
storm and very enjoyable visit to
the mountains.
The pension of B. +. Shearer, of
this city, has been increased to $50 a
month by special act Of congress.
This is good news for Uncle Ben and
his many friends are glad.
w. E. Leonard, jr., Edwin Mayer,
and Jesse Gilmore, of Chicago, Louis
Mueller, of East Chicago, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ira Ritchey of South Bend came
home for the Fourth of july.
Grandma Nash, who is 90 years old
slipped and fell a few days ago and
for time it was feared that she was
a seriously hurt, but we are glad to
state that she is now able to be up
again.
The 18th congressional district has
a voting population of 55,257, divided
as follows: st. Joseph 1914; Elk
hart Is, 022; KoSciuSko 1852; Marshall
6.511: Pulaski 1858; Starke and Full
ton 4,792.
Lawrence Matthewson and wife. of
South Bend spent the Fourth of July
with home folks at Inwood and vi
cinity. Mr.. MatthewSOn has a nice
home, Is doing we'll and has wife of
whom he may well proud.
A. B. Coffey and family, of Indiana
polls, are visiting relatives and friends
in Plymouth during the Fourth of
July holidays. Mr.. COffey was in
business here for several years and
now sells groceries In indianapolis.
The hail-storm did most damage to
the farms northeast of town. In the
Dietl and Peter Helm neighborhood
and the country between here and
there wheat, corn, oats and every
thing growing, is badly damaged.
Workmen are tearing down the
limestone abutmentS of Michigan
street vaduct and will replace them
with sandstone. Time has demon
strated that limestone, being of ami
NAL formation will not last long.
The nations birthday was cele-
brated by the boys of Plymouth with
all the noise possible to be made with
giant fire crackers, torpedoeS etc.
The merchants all closed their stores
at noon and the day was observed
quietly and appropriately.
A British newspaper cannot under
stand why the American people take
such pains to display their flag when
the Briton, who had flag much long,
er, scarcely notices or even knows the
British flag. The explanation is that
Great Britain has no Fourth of July.
Wednesday, when the hail storm
came up, Harrison Walker of Rich
land township was just starting to
reap field of wheat, but he does not
have to complete the job now as the
hail destroyed almost all his crops of
wheat, corn and Rochester Re-
publican.
Rensselaer, Republican: A young
lady at Valparaiso advestises that she
wants to exchange a coral necklace
for three weeks board. In other
words, to trade what goes around her
neck for what goes down her neck.
Nothing so very unreasonable about
that, after all.
Miss Julia YOckey secured the
shoes at Hartle's for writing "Why
Drew SeIby & Co.'S Shoes are the best I"
465 times on one postal card. There
were several others iwho wrote the
sentence over 400 times, but major
ity Of those competing were not able
to write the sentence over 200 times
on card.
John Rose and Isaac Coil, arrested
1 In o.. c1o