The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-01-29
Warren Crawford and family, of


SouthBend, were called here by the SER
ious illness of Mr.. Crawford s mother,
who makes her home with her son,
John j.. Crawford. in this city. Mrs.
Crawford is past 80 years Of age and
her recovery is not probable.
On the same day that a medical
scientist in California announced that
it is electricity generated in the lungs
that p%urifies the blood, another in Chi
cage declared in a class lecture that al
cohol is constantly being manufactured
in every human body. What kind of
machines are we, a%nywhOw?
Mrs. Weiss entertained the young
people of the German church at the
parsonage Thursday evening. There
was a fine musical, literary and social
program with light refreshments. 1t
was an evening that those present
will long remember as one of the
most pleasant in the journey of life.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Day whose
adopted daughter died a short time
ago, stopped in Plymouth Friday on
their way to Donaldson from Elkhart
county, where they visited Mrs. Days
father, Mr.. John Learman, and other
relatives. They will leave for their
home in North Dakota in a few days.
Knight and Decker's ministries
gave mi of the finest minstrel enter
tainments eyer given in this city.
They are fine singers and there is
nothing coarse or vulgar in their per-
Torrance and their specialties are all
good. Their acrObatS are the best
ever seen with a minstrel show in this
city.
Different merchants Of the city are
now busy taking the annual inven-
tory. They find the early closing
hour is quite a benefit to them, as
they can close their doors at 6 O'Clock
and be unmolested thereafter. In
this way they can finish up the work
in short order and ascertain their net
earnings.
The Warsaw Times says Civil En-
nineer Fitzgerald is in that city with
a force of clerks, and the grading for
the double track of the Pennsylvania
between Bourbon and Columbia City
has commenced. The people of War
saw will find Mr.. Fitzgerald and his
assistants gentlemen who understand
their business.
The state senate Wednesday passed
the bill for the reorganization of the
Indiana reformatory by a vote of SO to
10, three republicans and seven demo-
Gratis voting against it. The bill was
passed after a contest of two hours,
interrupted at noon for the joint ses,
sion for the c~anvassing of the vote for
United States senator.
Basil Fl. Boggs and Mrs. Cora A.
McGriff were united in marriage by
Rev. J. c. Kemp, at the NJ. E. par
sonage in Argos Sunday morning.
Jan. Is. The groom is the on of
James Boggs, a prosperous farmer
living northeast of Argos, and the
bride the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan Fink, of Argos.
1t looks as if the health authorities
of this country might soon have to
take measures for the exclusion Of the
bubonic plague. With the disease es-
tabliShed in the Chinese quarters of
San Francisco and in some of the
coast cities of Mexico its spread to the
states will be a matter of short time,
unless rigid preventive measures are
taken.
1t was recommended by the state
convention of grain dealers at Indian
apolis that farmers plant either a pure
white or a pure yellow variety of corn.
Either white or yellow corn will grade
better on the market than a mixed
corn, and it is by far more satlsfac-
torily handled by shippers. The con-
vention also recommended that pure
white oats be universally raised.
The widely published story that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company had
purchased the Vanderbilt interest in
the New York Central, Lake Shore
and other railroads is entirely without
foundation, although it is true that
there is a very close relationship be-
tween the two companies, and are
practically one and the same SO far as
their policy of management is con:
cerned.
The Warsaw Times says Mrs. Nancy
Royse, mother of the Hon. Lem. w.
Royse, who makes her home with her
son, is enjoying excellent health this
winter for a woman Of her age, In
August next she will be ninety years
old. Elder Chaplin, who died a few
years ago in Plymouth, was a brother
of Mrs. Royse. She has many friends