The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-12-11

G.. A. Marsh, of Sligo, who has
been badly crippled for several months,
was in town Saturday. His foot is i'm
proving slowly and be is now able to
walk without crutches.
Mrs. Martha j. Doub has returned
to Sidney, Ind, after a visit of a week
with her brother, Reuben Sisk. She
has bought property on Walnut street
and will move to Plymouth.
Fourteen hunters. mistaken for
deer, have been killed in the North
west this season. and the football IA
talitieS number thirteen. Fun has its
carnage no less renowned than war.
Marcus o. Packard, son of Orlando
Packard who has been visiting his
uncle, NJ. A. O. Packard and friends
in this city, returned to his home atm
dianapolis Friday. He has grownalmoSt
TO manhood since he left Plymouth.
The postofice department requires
the words sample copy" on papers
not SEM to subscribers and persons
who receive papers without these
words are responsible for the subscrip-
tion if they take them out of the post
office.
Mr.. Hiram Henderson, of Kewan-
ma and Mrs. Catherine ROhrer, Of this
county, were married Thursday by
Justice Molter. They went from here
to Argos for a visit of a few days after
which they will make their home at
Kewanna.
1t is reported that an Indiana man
has discovered that a decOction made
from clover seed improves the CON-
plexion of women, and the Valparaiso
Messenger fears that the price OF
clover seed will reach $40 a buShel be-
fore spring.
The Laporte Land company has sold
a sufficient number of lots to clinch
the Planet Manufacturing company.
Two hundred and fifty lots were sold
at $500 each. Work will begin in
two weeks on the plant. holdings
will be manufactured.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Richey have
gone to Lebanon, Indian Territory,
where Mr.. Richey will take charge of
the farm in connection with the
ChicaSaw Indian school. His many
friends wish him a large measure of
success in his new home.
The live stock industry industry in
the United States represents s4, $780,
600, OOO-more than all the cereals,
all the cotton. all the minerals, all
| the tobacco and all the lumber in
tereStS of the country. Such an in
dustry deserves all the blooming
possible.
The p. W.. Clifford Construction
Co. have landed another big contract
on the Pennsylvania road. being
awarded the contract for the grading
of a double track from Grovertown to
Wanatah. Work will will be COM
menced on the contract next week.
The Donaldson contract will be finish
next week.
For few days after dlsmissing Mr..
Slayter, Postmaster Yockey and his
assistants were very careful not to
misplace letters, but they are getting
careless. In C. F. Shadel's box today
were three cards for w. A. Strunk and
one letter for Mrs. James A. English.
box S44. Other reports not quite so
bad, are made by parties who do not
wish names mentioned.
States as well as congressman can
be ungrateful. Colorado is striving to
bar out cOnSumptiveS. If it had not
been for the ''lunger'' with a we'll
lined pocketbook Colorado today
would consist of half a dozen mining
camps, the weather station at Pixies
peak and a railroad water tank at
Denver. Consumptives made Colora-
do,
One of Representative John n.
Beckman's tasks this winter, says the
Hammond News, will be to get the
office of truant officer abolished, which
he believes in an unnecessary expense,
and that the little work allotted to
them can be well done by the different
township trustees in each county,
which will be a saying of many thous-
and dollars to the state.
A we'll known resident who, like
others, was forced to the extremity of
using soft coal in ahard coal stove, dis
regarded the avice of his wife and fill
ed the magazine full of the bitumin-
Gus article, When it all caught fire,
he and his wife and others were given
a lively two hours task to keep the
red hot pipe from causing the destruc-
ton of the hOuSe.-Elkhart Review.