The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-06-04
Mrs. G. w. Hayes has returned
from a visit Of several days at Logans-

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held at the NJ. E church Sunday
afternoon and the program published
last week was carried out. There was
a very large crowd at Oak Hill GEN.
etery to participate in the decoration
services.
A Sharon, Pa, man undertook 60
kick neighbor'S hen off bis premises.
He never touched her, but the effort
upset his equilibrium and in falling
he brokehis collar bone. There are
other ways or soaring hen better
than kicking.
Emerson L. Reynolds, father of
Wesley Reynolds, the brave lad who
lost his life in defending the West
Vile bank from burglars, has been
taken to the insane asylum. Grief
over his sons death unbalanced the
fathers mind.
Revised estimates of deaths by flood
and fire at North Topeka place the
number at $50. OF the 1000 or more
survivors still in deadly peril, only 800
were were rescued during Sunday.
Dread that floods will be renewed by
swollen tributary streams.
The meeting of the board of review
the county commissioners, circuit
court and the election of county Su-
perintendent by the township trus-
tees, made business lively at the court
house Monday, b 1t the county officers
did not get much work done.
While Miss Fay Robinson and Ray
mond G. Barnes, of Button, were be-
ing united in marriage at the Baptist
parsonage there, the groom'S mother,
who objected to the union, was smash
ing the window lights in the home to
be occupied by the young people.
Special dispatches from Kansas City
state that Swift's packing house was
damaged by the flood to the amount
of 81, 0C0, 900. and Cudahy's and other
packing houses suffered losses to
about half that amount. AS there is
no insurance against flood losses they
will be total.
Newcastle, Ind, has such reputa-
ton for raising superior roses that
not only is indianapolis getting dirt
from there upon which t.. grow roses,
but also Chicago and Cincinnati firms
as we'll. 1t is getting SO that pretty
near all that's good comes from H.
diana or stays there.
Wonders do not come singly, even
in politics. Along with stalwart old
republican Kosciusko county's cleo
tion of a democratic county superin-
tendent for the first time in its his
tory. Fort Wayne, the Indiana Gibral-
tar of democracy, elects republican
school trustee, the first on record there.
South Bend is getting ready to died.
icate her soldiers monument on the
25th inst. The monument is mas
sive column of granite surmounted by
a bronze figure nine feet high, repre-
senting color sergeant, and sur
rounded at the base by four life-Size
figures representing the army and
navy.
Rev. o. S. Thornberry preached his
farewell sermons at the Presbyterian
church Sunday morning and evening,
There was a large attendance and
general regret that Plymouth will no
longer have him ard his family with
us. He will ship his good to Bucyrus
Immediately and he and his family
will leave for their new field of labor
this week.
May, this year, was In many re-
spects an ideal month, but it had
some peculiar features: it came In
with freezing weather and went out
much colder than usual, yet there
were twenty-four days of very hot
weather, and terrific tornadoes, great
floods and other atmospheric dIstur-
Dances caused death and destruction
In many sections of the country dur
ing the last days of the month.
George c. Clarke, for the last three
years in charge of difficult constructive
work on the Pittsburgh division
of the Pennsylvania, was on
Saturday notified of his promotion T.,
principal assistant engineer in the
construction of the Pennsylvania tun-
mel in New York. Mr.. Clark left FOR
his new service Monday and will be
succeeded on the Pittsburg division by
N. f. Brown. He expects to spend
five years in completing the tunnel
work.
Edison e. Sarber, a democratic
township trustee. was elected county
superintendent of schools in Kosci-
usko county, Monday. In Elkhart