The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-12-24

him good round sum.
A Vanderbilt has given $1,000, 900
as Christmas present to his two-year-
old son. And yet child like that
could have more fun blowing penny
trumpet than blowing million.
+. w. Boss made trip TO Argos
Monday. 1t is reported he has given
up the idea of being district chairman
and is now lining up bis friends IN the
hope Of retaining his position as
county chairmar.
Howard Monteith and Harry Run
yon, of Elkhart, have been arrested
for robbing the Model clothin. store
of that city Of twenty-five new 81
bills. Twen5y-four of the bills and 80
cents in change was found on the
suspects.
John Jacoby, one of the Oldest set
tiers OF the county, who resides just
east Of this city, came in Tuesday
and paid seven months in advance for
his Daily Tribune and for the Weekly
Tribune one year for his son, A ID.
Jacoby at Elkhart.
Last Saturday was just like the
previous Saturday. one of the rainiest
days Of the year, still our merchants
bad pretty fair trade and the roads
this week are lined with people COM
ing from all directions TO buy holiday
goods in Plymouth.
0. L. Greer, who has been for thirty
years breeder and for twenty years
judge at the leading poultry shows,
went to Charlottesville Monday To at
tend poultry display. His barred
Plymouth Rocks are among the best
in the United States.
The Culver Military academy will
send detachment of student troops
to st. Louis during the exposition
and the young soldiers will be in camp
there for two weeks. All the details
of soldier life will be faithfully car
ried out by the boys.
Fearful of violence from the strik-
ing livery drivers, in Chicago, families
in which deaths have occurred are
postponing the funerals and even with
holding the announcements of the
deaths. An ambulance bearing dying
man was attacked by the strikers
The l.. O. T. NJ. ladies have ar
ranged with Mrs. A. Miller OF New
York to give a Kermess during the
holidays. A cordial invitation is
given to all boys and girls from
three To sixteen years To take part.
Call at the Maccabee hall after school.
When on the lookout for some gift
TO send to an absent friend who FORM
merly resided in this city or county.
there is nothing he would appreciate
more highly as Christmas present,
considering the amount which 1T will
cost, than a years subscription to the
Plymouth Tribune.
According to the calendar the short
est day Of the year has come and gone.
We shall now be on the upgrade. The
days will gradually grow longer. This
will enable people to do more work.
There is something dreary and dis
heartening when the davs are short
and growing shorter every day.
A new application of electricity has
been made in France, and now the
power is actually used for telling trees.
A platinum wire is heated to a white
heat by an electric current, and this
is simply pulled through the trunk,
which it cuts like big cheese. The
new invention should find place in
American forests.
The Wolf Creek ditch took up the
time of the circuit court Tuesday. Al
most all the citizens Of the section of
country affected by the ditch were ex-
amining their assessments and enter
ing their complaints. These bitches
require considerable time and patience
in settlement and there are always
some persons dissatisfied.
The New York postoffice reports &C
least a ton OF letters addressed by
children to Santa Claus, which will
have to be forwarded to the Dead Let
ter Office at Washington. This does
not mean that Santa Claus is dead,
for from child's point of view he is
very much alive, but that the postal
authorities cannot locate him.
Corpses conveyed to cemeteries in
undertakes wagons instead of
hearses, citizen himself driving the
vehicle that conveyed his wife's body
to the grave, paiI-bearers riding in
private carriages for safety, and police
protection demanded for funeral pro-
cessions these are some OF the phases
OF the situation caused by the team