The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-12-18
If it is literally true that the wicked

stand on slippery places. the sidewalks
of Plymouth have been better for them
than other people since Wednesday
morning.
The younger generation knows
practically nothing of Thomas Mast,
who died the other day. Yet Mr..
Mast was in his time the greatest IT.
toonist in the United States, if not
the world. Indeed there are many
old-fashioned people who will insist
that he has not had his equal.
Arthur Woodcox, who has been Wis
iting Emanuel FreeSe, went to South
Bend Thursday and will visit friends
in ST. Joseph county and Michigan be-
fore returning TO his home in North
Dakota. He has resided in Dakota
five years and says the winters IRE
more pleasant there than here.
The cold wave seems to have gained
in severity as it proceeded east. Be-
low zero weather is reported in New
York state and throughout Now Eng
land the mercury reached as low as 80
degrees. The wave was comparative
ly mild as well as Of short duration in
Its passage through the Yellow River
Valley.
Jonathan w. Crumpacker. state en-
ator during the legislatures of '93 and
'95 and during the administration OF
President Mckinley associate Judge OF
the Supreme Court in New Mexico,
lies al his home in Laporte in a criti-
cal condition. He is gradually sink
ing and his death is believed to be but
Tie matter of a short time.
Everybody should read the article
in todays paper under the head OF
Eloquent Figures" 1t was written
for the indianapolis Journal byThomaS
~. OOOuWlu, WIZ Nuo III hIohs sOoio
one of the editors of the Journal and
has been for more than sixty years
conversant with the schools and all
other public affairs in Indiana.
Don't send to Chicago or any other
place to buy your Christmas presents.
Read the advertisements in the Tri-
bune and remember that the goods
carried by the merchants who adver-
tISe in the Plymouth papers are as
good as the best and when you spend a
dollar at home you add to the sum
total OF happiness of all our home peo-
pie.
Nearly all the travelling statesmen of
the Mishawaka Wcolen Manufacture
ing Co., have been called off the road
temporarily. 1t is understood that
the big plant is turning out 1850
pairs of boots per day and that with
in a few days the output will be
brought up to the 1000 mark. And
still the company is behind in filling
orders.
Isaac E. Rhodes of T%ippecanoe
township, has been awarded the con
tract for the construction of theFrank
Wood ct al ditch in Tippecanoe town.
ship, for the sum of S1716, IA, being
part open and part tiled ditch, con-
tanning 1716 cubic yards of earth TO
be removed, entire length being TO-
95S lineal feet, and to be completed
by Oct. lst, 1903.
Judge Hess returned from RocheS-
ter Friday evening where he had been
engaged nearly two weeks trying a
case for damages against the G. & E.
Ry. 1t was the second trial of the
case. The jury in the first trial al
lowed the parties "a, 600 for injuries
received. The jury Friday brought
in, a verdict of Sc, ZOO. The case will
be appealed to the Supreme court.
Superintendent Hills of Logans-
port, says the superintendent will
make an appeal to the commission
that selects the school books for the
state to make certain changes in the
present textbooks. The arithmeticS
now in use, he says, are particularly
faulty, in that they are not arranged
to present the studies to the students
in a way suitable to the different
grades.
Twenty-four of the twentycSeven
Conkey strikers charged with riot by
the w. b. Conkey Printing Company
of Hammond were declared not guilty
by Judge McMahan in the circuit
court Thursday and were given
their liberty. This ends the Conkey
strike SO far as the courts are concern
ed. The unions lost their cases
against Conkey and Conkey failed in
his case against the unions.
The advice of Master Aaron Jones
in his annual address before the Indi-
ana grange to the farmers of this
region to give more attention to their
| annlo orchards iS timalu Tho