The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-06-12
The Valparaiso College closed

Thursday for a four days vacation.
Quite a number of the students re-
turned home. Indications are that
the summer term which commences
Tuesday will be a record breaker.
Captain D. F. Allen would not take
the democratic nomination for secre-
tary of state consequently Schoonover
was nominated. The remainder of
the ticket is as stated in eur last issue.
Captain Allen was a soldier and could
not head a ticket of candidates in OPP
position to the war IN the Philippines.
An Indiana editor says ladies should
take off their hats in church as no
preacher can inspire man who is
looking into a lop-sided aggregation
of dead birds, stuffed weasels, ribbons,
beads, jets, paper, stick pins, flowers,
corn tassels and thistle-down, 1t
makes sinners feel lost in the wilder
ness.
The deepest lake in this country is
Crater lake, northwest Klamath coun-
ty. Ore. sounded to 1000 feet, and in
few places less than l, 500. 1t is 6, $50
feet above sea level, five miles in dia-
meter, and occupies the crater of an
extinct volcano. The deepest lake in
the world. Bailkal, Siberia, is only
400 feet deeper.
Early Hines, aged fifteen years, son
of Mr.. Hines residing nearDiXOn Lake,
sustained a compound fracture and dis
location of the elbow joint Thursday.
DIR. Knott reduced the fracture and
hopes to save the arm, but it is hard
ly probably that it will ever be SO
strong and useful as if the accident
had not occurred.
The populiSt state convention held
at Indianapolis declared in favor of
municipal ownership OF street car,
water. light and heating plants in In
diana and against the granting of
further franchises to private corpora
lions for such purposes, and in favor
of the election of county school super
intendents by the people.
The heavy rains of the last few
weeks have caused the Kankakee river
to spread over miles of territory and
the farmers have been compelled to
abandon the planting of thousands of
acres of river bottom land The river
is now the highest known for twenty
FIVE years at this period of the year.
The loss to farmers will be heavy.
Oklahoma gets its wheat early for
1902, but, unfortunately, it is small
crop. That territory however, has
been having such a run of good luck
for the past few years that this little
piece of adversely will not hurt it
much. 1t is to be hoped that the
corn yield will do better than the
wheat, and better than it did in 1901.
The contracts for furnishing the
county farm were awarded by the
commissioners to the lowest bidders as
follows: ]. V. Ashley, hardware
$500; Nj. Lauer & Son, boots and
shoes 1885. clothing s23Os; George
Vinall, tobacco $3.50; Linkenhelt
seeds, 1925; Ball g. Co. dry goods
1865; Charles Reynolds drugs $40. 10;
L. Linkenhelt coal 81 .25: J. V. Ashley
oils, $50. 90.
1t is officially stated that negotia-
tiOns are in progress between the
Pennsylvania railroad company and
the Postal telegraph company con-
corning the operation of the tele-
graphic system over the railroad COM
pany's lines. The Western Union
telegraph company at present operates
the Pennsylvania railroad telegraph
lines, but the contract will terminate
in about six months.
Hobart has man who is destined
to great riches. Just before he was
married he bought a suit of clothes.
He carefully removed the tags and
laid them away. The next day after
the wedding he put the tags back on
the clothes, which be returned to the
merchant and told him the clothes die
not fit. AS he had brought them Oh
time, there was nothing for the mer-
chant to do but take back the clothes.
1t is reported that many members
of the English nobility, peers and
peeresses and others, are actually too
poor to go to the expense required of
them to attend the coronation cere-
monies. 1t costs $40 a head to par
take of the luncheon prepared for
royalty on this occasion, and as many
of those belonging to the high class
have not the price they will stay
away.
The Plymouth Democrat thinks
Captain Guthrie, nominated for con-