The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-13

The show of cattle at the Indiana
State Fair, which will be held at Indi-
annapolis the week of September IA. is
particularly rich in promise this year.
Great preparations are being made
in the vicinity of Benton Haroor to
handle the grape crop. The prospect
is good for large crop of very fine
grapes.
An Indiana man committed sui
eide because his wife went home to
her mother. This probably completes
the list. Men have now committed
suicide for everything under the sun.
The annual reunion OF the Hess fam
i1y will be held at the Plymouth fair
grounds, Aug. 81. The family and
its branches are scattered over sever
al counties in this section of the
state.
Surveyor North has returned from
Starke county where he thinks be sue
ceeded in convincing Judge Nye that
water can be made to run up hill If
the wind blows hard enough in the
right direction.
Mrs. Monroe Bennett has returned
to her home at Fort Wayne after a
visit of a week at the home of her
father. Charles Becknell, her sister,
Iva White, returned home with her to
visit until September.
Mrs. Melinda Kleckner residing
three miles north and one mile west
of Plymouth, will have public sale of
stock, grain, hay, farming imple-
ments. household furniture and other
articles, Wednesday, August 10.
Daniel Mitchell has returned from
a visit of four weeks at his old home
in Elzhart county. He has sold his
farm near Elkhart and will take life
easy in his old age, as he deserves
after more than seventy years of hard
work.
Secretary Frank Dillon Oh the Full
ton County Fair association has Sc
cured the services of Carrie Nation
the celebrated temperance. orator and
saloon smasher, for Sept. 10. This
will be Thursday the second day of
the fair.
To show how completely the Texas
long-horned steer has disappeared, II
is stated that when few samples of
this animal were wanted for exhibit
tion at the ST. Louis exposition it was
found necessary to send to Mexico to
get them.
Miss Lentz, who takes Mrs. Hite IS
place in the Webster school, has leas-
ed Miss Bakers fine new cottage on
William street, and will occupy it
with her mother. They will have a
cosy, pleasant home within two blocks
of the school building.
Men are at work cleaning rearrang-
ing and putting in electric bells in the
school rooms this week, under the
supervision Of Superintendent Randall
and Professor Redd. Everything will
be in the best possible condition when
the schools open in September.
Miss Laura BoSs has gone west to
visit her brother, DR.. Jacob Boss in
Kansas and her sister, Mrs. Charles
Wade, at Beaver City, Neb. She will
return before the Bremen schools
open, having accepted position in
those schools for another year.
The health department of Chicago
demonstrates by facts and figures that
the death rate of males in that city is
by two percentum greater than that
of females. Considering the fast lives
led by Chicago men, it is a wonder
that the difference isn't greater.
Judge Francis E. Baker, of the
United States court, returned to Co.
shen, Thursday, from trip of two
months in Europe. He sent mes
sage TO his family at Goshen, by wire
less telegraph when he was on the
ocean 800 miles from New York.
J. J. Wright has been very sick this
week. Notwithstanding his II years.
Mr.. Wright has continued the active
management of his extensive business
interests, but while in Chicago the
latter part of last week he was over.
come by the heat and has been con-
fined to bis bed since Bremen En-
quirer.
The pOStoffice department has eS.
tablished during the mouth of July,
2,455 rural free delivery routes. The
total number of routes established fol
the entire fiscal year ended June 30,
1908. was 1864. 1t is announced at