The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-03-19
Mrs. N. j. Disher has gone to Bour-
bon for a visit of two weeks.

Don, went vlSlUeQ al ROCHESTER, over
Sunday.
Miss Louise Capron and her nieces
Misses Edna and Lura spent Saturday
In South Bend.
Mrs. George Baylor visited in Plym-
outh Saturday on her way from War
saw to Laporte.
DR.. Brown reports 10y at Fred
Lidecker's southwest of this city,
born Friday March IA.
Elmer McBroom, of Linkville, is in
very critical condition, His disease
is consumption of the bowels.
w. NJ. Matthews of InwOod, has
gone to South Bend to work for
Staley &RobinsonS real estate agency.
Miss Haines attended the Sunday
school convention at Bourbon Satur-
day. She had an important part on the
program
Mr., and Mrs. Kloepfer returned
from Oregon, Friday evening. They
are both we'll and were delighted with
their trip.
Mr.. Daniel Deeds, of Warsaw, who
has been visiting his son, DR.. Deeds
in this city, went to Nappanee to Wis.,
it over Sunday.
The Plymouth postoffice gets an ad-
ditional clerk after July l, and in ad-
dition getss100extra to apply on the
salary of another clerk.
Mr.. T. D. Gilman president of the
Home Bank, Of GOodland, and his
daughter, Hazel, were guests of Rev.
A. P. Delong over Sunday.
Frank Thomas and his mother, Mrs.
j W. Thomas, went to Warsaw Satur-
day to visituntil Wednesday with Mrs.
Thomas sister, Mrs. Brewer.
Rev. S. T.. Lewis of Warsaw, spent
a few hoursIin Plymouth Saturday on
his way to Laporte to preach for the
Christian church in that city.
The fret half of March gives us
fourteen days in succession that the
ground was not frozen. 1t is the
warmest March for many years.
Wagner, Clancy and Durham arrest
ed two weeks ago on suspicion Of COM
plicity in the ,Westville bank robbery.
have been. discharged for want Of evil
dence.
William ,Ormand has been awarded
the contract for carrying the mail in
Plymouth. His bid was $500 year.
There were nine other bids none of
which were below $500.
Mrs. John Van Kirk who has been
sick at South Bend for several weeks,
came acme with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S~earingen, and will remain IN
Plymouth for; few weeks.
The Indianapolis News canvassed
the members of the recent legislature
to see how many would stand for re-
election and found that over half of
them will be candidates for reelection
or higher political .preferment.
Mrs. John Marsham, Of Tippecanoe,
and Mrs. William Warshan of Fort
Wayne, who we're here ,seyeral days on
account of the serious illness of Mrs.
Delbert Stills, returned home Friday.
Mrs. Stills seems slightly improved.
The oil fever has broken out in the
vicinity Of Granger, ST. Joseph county,
and company has been organized
with a capital stock Of s100, 900 to
drill for oil or gas They will begin
operations the first OF next month.
The Ohio river is more than ten
miles wide in some places now, and in
less than six months the boatmen will
be saying harsh things because. there
is no water in the old thing. Some
rivers are as inconsistent as people.
The Mississippi is rising rapidly at
New Orleans and efforts to strengthen
the leyees are redoubled. The sitna-
tion ia Mississippi is especially alarm
ing. Great suffering and heavy losses
exist in many places in the flood dis
trict.
The committee that went to Wa
bash have returned and while they
have not yet made theis report to the
business mems association, we learn
that they were not favorably impress
ed with the concsfn that asks for a
bonus and it is not probable that any
effort will be made to raise money to
bring it to Plymouth:
John O'Brien, of Rock Island, H.,
is here for a visit of a week with
his parents and other relatives. Mr..
O'Brien was for many years in the
telegraph Office in this city. He is
older than his brother, "Dennie, :"
who took his place here, and for more
than twenty-five years he has been
recognized as an operator hard to beat.