The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-12-31

John Greeley Davis went to bis
home In Kentland to eat turkey with
hrs father-in-law and attend a reunion
OF the AIDE family.
Mrs. ]. c. Woodrow, of Kansas City,
is visiting her sistef, Mrs. @. R. Coop.
er. her brother, John Blain. and other
relatives and friends.
Thomas Farnam, brother OF Mrs.
j.. f. Hanes, of this city, was killed
in the B. & O.. wreck near Councils.
vile, Pa, Thursday night.
General W. Kllgore, of Polk town
ship. is visiting relatives and friends
in Sullivan county after an absence of
thirty years from his old home.
Misses Maud and Myrtle Fink, Hen
ry Alderman and George W. Nybart
and family are among those who went
to South Bend to spend Christmas.
E. ] Richmire, agent OF the State
Life Insurance Co., has gone to Chi.
cago for a visit of a few weeks. He
did sloo, 900 worth OF business while
In Plymouth.
j. A. English is visiting his daugh.
ter, Mrs. Lee at Cardington, Ohio.
His little grandson. Robert Lee, who
has been here ten weeks returned
home with him.
Mr.. and Mrs John Elders. Mrs.
Smith Pomeroy. John Hill and wife
Miss Stella Sherman and Mrs. S. W.
Miller are among those spending
Christmas at Argos.
Observations for more than twenty
years show that we are likely To have
almost any kind of weathcr on Christ
mas and we had almost all Kinds be-
fore Christmas this year.
Among those home for the holiday
season are Miss Madge Hume, of Ober-
lin University. and Prof. Albert
Hume and wife OF the Illinois Agri.
cultural College at Urbana. III.
Ovyend Somers, who makes his
home with his grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Rhodes, went to Muncie
to visit until New Years with bis
father and other relatives there.
More than a million packages passed
through the New York post Office on
Wednesday before Christmas. The
foreign mails are very heavy and all
previous Christmas records are broken.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Cleveland, of
Indianapolis, j. c. Ross, wife and
daughter, of Lima. Ohio, and II. II.
LamSon and wife, of Toledo. are
guests of the family of G. 5. Cleveland
IN this city.
Massachusetts Odd Fellows say
that all liquor dealers and bar keepers
must quit their business or get out of
the order. In other words the Odd
Fellows put up the bars unless these
members come out from behind them.
William Rockefeller caused the ar.
rest of a fisherman for fishing In the
the streams of Rockefeller's estate.
The defense set up the right to fish 10
streams that had been stocked at the
expense OF the state. The court sus-
tanned this claim.
Christmas was celebrated with the
usual festivities in the family circle
at the White House, while several Of
the cabinet members gave elaborate
dinners. The observance Of the fesJi-
val was begun with trees and dinners
on Christmas eve at number of the
embassies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Metsker spent Christ
mas at Monticello. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Klingel visited at Columbia
City: Theodore and Dorothy Holdorff
were at South Bend; w. S. Reeve and
wife and John Odds and wife went to
Chicago and Miss Chesney went to
Wellington, Ohio.
1t is somewhat of a singular coinci-
dence tat simultaneously with. the
announcement that Rockefeller had
decided to make 100000 Christ
mas gift to Chicago university comes
a notice to all retail dealers that the
price of coal oil will be increased half
a cent on the first of the year.
Andrew Carnegie says stock spec
ulation is gambling and that all gam
bling is wicked and vicious. So we
are to infer that Mr.. Carnegie earned
every one of his $500, 900. 900. If Mr..