The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-06-05

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The Bremen band made good music
for Decoration Day.
The county commissioners met Mon
day for the regular June session.
Miss Elna Erwin, of Bourbon, was
a passenger for indianapolis Tuesday.
Mrs. n. S. Woodward, who has
been seriously i'll, is improving slowly.
Home grown Strawberries of excel,
lent quality are plenty in Plymouth
this week.
Rev. Samuel w. GoSs delivered the
annual address to the Rochester high
school Tuesday night.
Mrs. Grace .O!Brien, of Michigan
City is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Moses Crawford.
] b. w. Ross. of Polk, and Jacob Car
biener, of German township report big
rains in their neighborhoods.
Henry White who has been attend
ing school at Valparaiso, has returned
to his home in West township.
Miss Priscilla Sewell left Tuesday
f0renoonfOr Clay Center, Kansas. where
she expects to visit several weeks.
The Baptist church at Valparaiso
was struck by lightning Sunday night
and damaged to the extent If 5000.
Albert Baum, of Donaldson, went
to Pulaski, county this week to work
on the steam dredge in the big ditch.
The city council will elect a street
commissioner, a city attorney and a
member of the school board at its next
meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Gretchen have
returned home. after a visit of several
DAYS in thiS,city with their son Frank
Gretchen.
Misses Ella and Olive Heminger
went to South Bend Tuesday, where
Ella expects to have an operation on
one of her eyes.
J.. Ell. Matchett, of Bourbon, was in
Plymouth today. He reports heavy
rain Monday night and ground pretty
wet for farming.
Cold weather followed by warm
rains has caused rust on the black
berry plants in Michigan greatly
damaging the crop.
Jacob KeySer. residing on theGoshen
road northeast of town sold "a fieeces
of wool that weighed 326 pounds. He
got II cts per pound.
The rain fall of the central, western
and southern states, during the month
of May, was greater than that of any
other May for ten years.
Major Gantz, of Fairfield, Iowa,
claims to be the smallest man in the
world. He is SO years old, weighs 80
pounds and is % inches high.
George w. Baxter, is repainting his
house, at 311 Water street which, he
bought of DIR. Borton, and fixing up
all the surroundings in nice style.
Children's day exercises will be held
at Walnut Grove church, three miles
northeast of Plymouth, on theBremen
road, at 8 O'Clock next Sunday even
ing.
The assessors have fini he'd their
work and made their reports to the
county commissioners. The assess
ment will show an increase over last
year.
w. Fl. Cullen and daughter, Ida,
who were called to this county by the
illness and death of Mrs. Cline OF Bre-
men, returned to their home at Green
castle Tuesday.
L. E. Knox, of Bourbon, was in
town Tuesday. His little daughter,
Inez changed cars here for Cicero
where she went for visit of a few
weeks with relatives.
Constantine and Leah Fish, daugh-
tiers. of DIR. Fish, of Talma. Fulton
county, have returned home after Wis
iting at w. H. Love s and S. S. Fish's
in this city since last Thursday.
Plymouth schools, except the high
school will close next Friday. The
drills, parades and shows that have
been feature of the closing month
of school for twenty years have been
eliminated this year.
The city council have decided that
the railroad company must put IN a
decent subway under Center street
and one that will not be dangerous,
or they must make as good crossing
as they had before raising the tracks.
They give the company it's choice, and
the council is right.