The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-06-18

I
outh visitor Friday, and says Bremef
will send big delegation to help u
celebrate the Fourth of July.
Chicago university statistics show
that the average age of women gradu
ateS is greater than that of men
which, to say the least. is very ungal
liant on the part of the men.
The food crisis in East st. Louis i:
last and life savers have turned to the
task of saving property. The colo
weather and lack OF water hit fol
drinking and cooking have caused
suffering.
Mrs. McElvaine, who has been
spending year at Berlin arrived in
New York Thursday on her way home
She arrived in Plymouth Saturday
evening to visit her sister, Mrs. John
w. Parks.
Despite the cold wave no complaint
of low temperature is heard from the
postotfice department these days. Mr..
Tulloch S "hot air" is furnishing all
the caloric needed to keep the depart
ment warm.
Miss Maud Fries, daughter of j. G.
Fries, of Bremen. stopped here Friday
on her way to Attica to visit her Sis
ter. Miss Fries is a stenographer for
the Michigan Stove company at Do
wagiac, Mich.
Mrs. Minnie Sieb, who has been Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. Mueller and
other relatives and friends in this city,
returned to New York Friday. Master
Ralph Bowel went home with her to
spend the summer.
Because his wife would not allow
him TO ask blessings at the table,
William Webster Ryan, of Kokomo,
aged 90 years, has asked for divorce
from his aged companion, whom he
married forty years ago.
The largest sassafras tree in south
ern Indiana fell Thursday on the farm
of VIM. S. Walker, near Cold Springs.
1t was thirty inches in diameter, and
thirty-one years OLD. 1t made twenty
large posts and cord of stove wood.
Wheat is looking well, grass and
oats are doing we'll new, com is in
good condition and there seems to be
fair prospect for apples, blackberries
and raSpberrieS. There will be some
peaches, but the crop will not be
large.
j. r. Dietrich has given the con-
tract for the construction of his new
elevator to the Reliance Manufacture
ing Company, of indianapolis. The
elevator will cost $4,000, and is to be
finished in sixty days.-Bremen En-.
quirer.
Mrs. III. III. Miller and son Verne,
of Plymouth, were. visiting with U.
j, Dietrich and family, Wednesday.
Verne is with the Swift packing COM
pany, and gets '1ay-off" on account
of the flood in that city.-Bremen En-
quirer.
Mrs. Phil Sheridan is the right kind
Of a woman. She is true to the 10 M
DRY of her illustrious husband, and in
response to rumorS that she is soon to
wed says she had rather be the widow
of Gen. Sheridan than the wife of any
man living.
In addition to his other duties, NJ.
Taggart, of French Lick, Orange
county, Indiana. is to be president of
new national bank in that city. The
new concern will be operated on o diff
ferent plan from most of the existing
banks of the place.
AS might have been expected, the
southern newspapers are greatly cast
down at the spirit of lawlessness man.
ifested in the recent proceedings at
Belleville, Ill. The southern editor
would hardly be human II he over
looked that oppt rt1nity.
A delightful reunion was held at
the home of o. P. Thomas, of Mill
wood, Ind, it being his SOth birth
day. There being present in all "A
children and grandchildren and one
great grandchild. At the noon hour
a sumptuous dinner was spread and
heartily enjoyed by all.
Sylvester Weyrick, who has been
residing at Lynn, in the state of
Washington, for the past two years,
is here for visit of two weeks with
his sister. Mrs. Theo. Sponsler and
other relatives and friends. He is in
love with the far west and thinks it is
just the place for honest, energetic
young men.
The state at large will have an op-
portunity to see the results of the use
voting machines at Indianapolis In