The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-12-03
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Don't forget Staley's big hog sale
Tuesday, Dec. 18th, at farm four
miles southeast of Plymouth.
NoTIcE-All ready to wear and
trimmed hats at 25 per cent reduc-
ton. Ball g. Company, Millinery De-
partment.
Wheat is moving out of Chicago To
the East. Yesterdays shipments wefe
oyer half million. Prices advance
there and at other markets. Coarse
grains and provisions are firmer.
Turkeys undressed, except the
feathers taken off, sell at 20 cents a
pound while live hogs bring less than
4 cents. Can anybody blame a hog
for being mean, shiftless and Stub
born?
A Hungarian countess has been i'm
prisoned on the charge of buying a
baby and passing it off as her own.
Well, If thing isn't yours after
you've paid your good money for it.
whose is it?
Earl Burwell came home from Du-
buque, Iowa, Sunday morning and
visited with his parents until today.
A number of his young friends gave
him a surprise Tuesday evening and
had merry time.
A construction and equipment bud
get of the Pennsylvania Railroad for
1904 comprehends the expenditure of
$50, 900, 900, of which IS. 900, 900, it is
said has been set aside for improve.
ments in Chicago.
Kleopfer's great red letter sale is
advertised in full red page in the
Weekly Tribune. 1t is always an
event eagerly looked for throughout
the county and every body should scan
the list Of bargains.
1t showed the day before Thanks
giving and it has showed every day
since. There was about five inches of
snow Monday morning but it melted
OF the roads Monday. There is a fine
foundation for g5od sleighing now.
A London scientist wants to start a
school to teach oysters how to be
healthy by breathing pure air while
growing. Better far would it be to
teach dealers IN oysters how to keep
the bivalves pure and fresh after
death.
The Indianapolis News says the
proceedings Of the corn shredder this
fall forecast short crop of farmers
next summer or a crop of short farm.
ers or omething of the kind. At any
rate it is pretty plain that fewer
hands will be available.
President Howard Elliott, of the
Northern Pacific railroad, has decided
to follow the example set by several
leading railroads of the country and
after January the employees of that
system will be required to abstain
from the use Of intOxicantS, whether
on or off duty.
Nine. Adelina Patti was booked to
sing at the West End theatre. New
York city, the other night. A So, 900
audience was assembled, but the
divine Patti wouldn't 60 on the stage
until she was handed check for
$4,000. Weber and Fields gave the
check. lost $4,000 and the madame
sang her sweetest.
A man in England has invented a
machine to lay brick. The report is
that it does the work of six men. One
man feeds it, another turns the crank.
II the six men mentioned means six
English bricklayers, then this machine
with the two men at work at it will do
the work of about two American brick
layers unless the Englishers have i'm
proved greatly in speed in the last
year or two.
The jury, which heard the evidence
IN the case Of Thomas Mcclure, who
was charged with having murdered
his two small boys In cold blood,
found the defendant guilty and AFFIXED
his punishment at life term in the
state prison. Nine of the II men fav-
ored hanging. The people are very
indignant over the result, as they in
sist that Mcclure should have been
given the death penalty.
Catholic priests are being worked
over in Michigan by man about so
years old who calls to tell them he has
just purchased the property of some
well known parishioner, asks the price
of pews, considers them cheap, secures
one and then discovers that he has
mlslaid his pocketbook and has to
bring some medicine to take home.
He usually borrows 81 from the kind
hearted prieSt That's all