The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-07-24

has beautiful twenty acres of wood
land in connection with the farm
which he expects to make one of the
pretties5 and most picturesque places
in the county.
1t is mentioned as a curious fact
that one of the seven automobiles in
Chicago reported to the assessors was
struck by lightning while all of the
seven hundred and Sixty-eight not re-
ported escaped unframed.
John Chart, of Polk township, was
town Monday, for the first time in ten
years. He lives less than nine miles
from Plymouth, but says he had no
business that made it necessary for
him to come here until today.
Sergeant James Condor is the old
est enlisted man in the United States
army, having served from November
I, 1888, to May I, 1885, when he
went on the retired list. He served
IN Florida, Mexico and the Civil war.
John A. BOSworth, who makes his
home with his son, F. P. Bosworth in
this city, has returned from visit of
several weeks in eastern Kansas where
he has a fine farm. He reports
excellent crops of all kinds in Kansas.
Mr.. and Ms. X. c. Noble, of Chi
cago are here on a visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Stephen Bagley. Mr.. Noble will
return to Chicago Wednesday, but
Mrs Noble will visit two weeks with
her parents and other relatives in this
CITY,
The best farmers are those that
make their farms pay without decreas-
ing the fertility of the soil. They use
Armour's animal Fertilizers which
improve the soil and grow the largest
crops. Sold by F. A. Forbes, Plym-
outh, Ind.
1t is strange, but none the less a
fact, that about eight out Of every
ten newspaper writers misspell the
word share Drained" The word it.
self implies criticism, belittling, de-
precating. Therefore, its miSSpelling
appears all the more ludicrouS in the
sight of painStaking reader.
Something ought to be done to put
a stop to the importation of tarantu-
las in the bananas shipped from Cuba.
The number of people being bitten by
the vicious spiders is becoming alarm
ing. Last week two people were Bit
ten in South Bend, and this week a
clerk in an Elkhart store was the
victim.
Mr.. Thornberry held preaching SER
vice at the Roberts school house Sum-
day evening and good-Sized company
of people came out from all directions.
The school house is i'm excellent repair
and has been supplied with new lamps
and an organ, the latter being used
alike by the Sunday school and day
school.
The Record Herald says it is OFF,
cially announced that there are now
139 Methodist churches in Chicago.
OF these SO congregations are English,
Is Swedish ID German, 8 Norwegian
and Danish and Bohemian. In ad-
dition, there are some congregations
which worship in halls and store
buildings.
The Odd Fellows in the vicinity of
Lake Maxinkuckee will give picnic
in Peoples grove Friday, July %.
Honorable Thomas JeSSup, of Rich
mOnd, Ind, has been engaged as
tie orator of the occasion. Plenty of
music and plenty of good things to
eat will be provided as we'll as boat
ride on the lake.
A good joke is told upon six sisters
of whom the greater number live in
CheSterton. The six of them were
weighed in a store recently and their
combined weight was over 1,1OO
pounds. A German lady sitting near
remarked with perfect sincerity that
"If that were pork now, it would be
worth something"
A woman in Charlotte, Mich, saw
man looking in through her window
J few nights ago. She seized poker,
J threw up the window suddenly and
landed a blow that almost paralyzed
him before he could get away. Not
many men could have played poker
hand any better than that, observes
the Marshall Chronicle.
Governor Durbin announces that he
will invite the heads of all the princl-
pal colleges and universities in Indiana
TO meet with the state board of edUca-
ton, at its next session, to consider
the manner of selecting Indiana stu
dent candidates for the American
scholarships at Oxford university,
provided for in Cecil Rhodes will.