The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-03-19

visiting their parents, Mr.. and Mrs
A. Becker, in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wellman, of Pent.
water, Mich,, and their daughter
Miss Edna, have returned to theil
home after attending the Rhoads
Ungerw edding. Mrs. Wellman Is q
sister Of the bride.
Wednesday, March Is, 1903 will be
recalled as a record breaker. The
mercury registered 60 at sunrise and
at noou it was rapidly approaching 50
degrees in the shade. 1t was warmer
than most of the weather last sum-
mer.
President Roosevelt will be in Chi.
cage, April 2, and it Is expected that
he will make the most notable speech
of his western tour in that city. He
will pass through Plymouth on the
Pennsylvania limited about $50
Thursday morning. April 2.
Leroy Staley has accepted the posi-
tion of superintendent of the agricul-
tural department. of the Avoylles
Company at Marksvilie, La. The COM
pany owns 100, 900 acres of land in the
Red River valley. James B. Staley
is president of the company.
David Bower, an inmate of the
county intirmary from West township.
is at the point of death from conges-
tion of the brain. 1t was thought to
be paralysis when the attack came, but
diagnosis by the physician showed
that it was congestion of the brain.
There was heavy rain at Bremen
Tuesday morning accompanied by
thunder and lighting and house near
the business part of town was struck
by lighting, but nobody was hurt.
There YVES no rain in Plymouth at
/ the time and the thunder was not
heard here.
Chief of Police O'Neill, of Chicago,
lays the most Of the blame for the in
crease of crime in that city upon the
pulpit. He says the preachers of the
gospel are losing their old time influ-
ence, because they dip ITO too many
subjects foreign to the real work of
the church.
Mrs. Madeleine Yale Wynne has
told the Chicago Women's Club that
it is perfectly proper for & woman to
become blacksmith if she has an in
clination for that kind of work. 1t is
still held to be unladylike, however,
for a woman to want to do her own
homework.
st. PaulS church, which was dedi-
Gated at South Bend last Sunday, cost
$3.50, 900 and is said to be the finest
and most handsomely finished Meth
odist church in the United States. 1t
was erected as a monument to the late
Glenn Studebaker and his family gave
most OF the money to build it.
The itinerary of the presidents
western trip shows that he will be
away from home more than sixty
days, Of which only one will be spent
in Chicago, For a man who processes
to love the strenuous life this is
mighty queer arrangement. Chicago
will certainly feel bad about il.
DIR. Hervey L. Vannuys has sent in
a request to be relieved as pastor of
the First Presbyterian church at
Goshen after over fifty years of con-
tinuous service in that charge. The
death of his wife and the failure of
his health and strength are given as
his reasons for retiring from the active
ministry.
Alexander Ferguson, one hundred
and two years Of age, the oldest citi-
zen of Delaware county, has filed suit
against Yountz, his Son-iD-law, whom
he claims has defrauded him of ST.
200. Ferguson is too feeble either to
read or write. He alleges that his
son-in-law took advantage of his con-
dition to defraud him of an $500 note
and stock valued at s400.
Harry WEIGH was assisting the sec
tion men at Grovertown Tuesday
when the foreman accidently struck
the back Of his right hand with pick
driving it entirely through his hand.
He came to Plymouth on the 1918
train. DIR. Aspinall dressed the wound
and Harry returned to Groverton on
the 2:15 p. M, train looking very pale
but in good spirits.
Jacob Crane, who lives three miles
north of Atwood, in Kosciusko county,
started from Warsaw for home few
nights ago. He had been drinking
and wandered from the road, his team
of draft horses becoming stranded in
the mud. Crane started to secure
help, but wandered in bewiiderment
several miles and the horses were not