The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-08-20

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self-restraint in all things; an abun-
dance of exercise, of fresh air and
cold water, sutficiency of steady work
not carried to excess: occasional change
of habits, and then fresh air and sun
shine
The quail hunters in indiana ex-
pect this fall to be one of the best sea-
sons they have had for many years.
Quail do not migrate and hunters can
tell in the early season how hunting
will be during the fall. The past win
ter and spring In this section have
been very favorable for the breeding
of the quail.
Mrs Eliza Nash, Plymouth's oldest
lady, died at one O'Clock Friday morn
ling at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Robert Hume. Funeral services will
be held from the residence of A. G.
Hume, on South Michigan street, at
3 O'Clock, Sunday afternoon. She was
about SO years old. An obituary will.
be given later.
Prof. Moore has gone to Europe to
attend the congress of weather ex-
perts. He is the chief of the Ameri-
can weather bureau and while he is
gone people here can discuss the best
meth DDS of telling what the weather
has been as it seems pretty hard for
the bureau to tell what it Will be for
the next "a hours.
Mrs. Biggs, of Porter county, who
was assaulted by negro last week, is
slightly improved. Her injuries COM
prise broken collar bone, three broken
ribs, cash of the scalp and an in
jury to the throat. Her neck is black
and blue and her throat is swollen so
that she is capable of swallowing only
with great difficulty.
| J. w. Miller, who came here from
Cardington, Ohio, ABOUT a month ago
and rented Peter Jeffir's house on
William street, expecting to buy
farm in this county, has decided to
return to Ohio, and the family left for
Marion in that state Saturday. J..
o, Miller who came here from Ohio,
Tuesday went back with them.
Commissioners Fl. Bates, Frank
Quick and H. Barnholt. Of Porter
county, with Prof. Benton of Val
paraiso and Editor Bowser, of Chester
ton, visited our county infirmary Fri
day. They are preparing to build a
new infirnlary in Porter county and
found Marshall county had among the
best buildings and farms in the state.
Ralph Mattingly is home from Nash
vile, Tennessee, for vacation of a
few weeks. Ralph is with the In
diana Lumber company which has
large tracts of timber and mills in
Tennessee and other states with head
quarters at Nashville. Ralph's faith
err, Mr.. c. T. Mattingly of this city,
owns a controlling interest in this
company.
DR.. A. G. Tillotson, grand high
priest of the Indiana chapter of Royal
Arch MasonS, is preparing his report
for the grand chapter, which meets at
indianapolis in October. From re-
turns received by him it is shown that
the net increase of membership in the
state during the year about to close
has been 655, which is double that of
of the preceding year.
Work has commenced on the foun-
dalton of the new Presbyterian church
at Walkerton. The building is to be
constructed of cement stone, rock face
finish, a material that is coming into
extensive use for building purposes in
the largest. This materiaI 10 substan-
tial and durable and makes a hand
some building. The dimensions of the
building will be As by So feet.
So far as Indiana and Illinois are
concerned the weather has been de-
cidedly against large corn crop, but
later August and September may bet
ter conditions At present the out
look is not very bright for large
crop in this immediate vicinity: still,
in other states, there is large crop
in prospect, which will doubtless keep
in service all the grain cars that can
be commanded.
Postmaster General Payne has de-
cided to make the experiment of en-
ploying baggagemgn on trains which
are not provided with mail clerks to
take charge of and deliver open news
paper mail. This decision has been
reached after much )nslderation and
in response to a petition filed by
many of the leading newspaper pub
fishers of the country, who asked the
postoffice department to provide facil-
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