The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-02
Mrs. John Wright spent Sunday in

DODoluoOus
June Is. 1908 is the date which has
been fixed by the local United States
Land Office as the time of opening of
| 900. 600 acres of land in California
along the Colorado river tn settle
ment.
The annual commencement Of the
schools of Walnut township will be
held at WALNUT Friday. The class
consists of Alta B. Carver. Lloyd J..
Lowery, Charles E. Town, Guy E.
Lowery and Fred l.. Reddinger.
The intr ,duction of glass blowing
machines in the plants of the Ameri-
can Window Glass Company will work
a revolution in this important Indus
try, as we'll as causing great reduc-
ton in the price of an article Of prime
necessity.
DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Smith left Friday
morning for Perryville, Ind, where
they were called to the bedside of the
DOCTORS sister, who was seriously
burned yesterday morning by her
clothing catching fire from a bonfire
in the yard.
The colored auntie out in San Fran
cisco who has been telling how she
helped JEFF Davis in his flight after
Appomattox probably made mistake.
She must have been thinking of tie
time when she cooked for General
Washington in Valley Forge.
Major-G General Sir Hector Mac
Donald, who committed suicide at a
hotel in Paris rather than stand a
court martial on the charge OF i'm
moral conduct, was blood relation OF
Mrs. J. @. Adams and Colonel 1. B.
Rush, of Columbia City.
Eli Silvius, of North township. is
one of our old subscribers who always
pays for his paper in advance. He re-
newed his subscription Friday and dur.
ing the coming year will probably
make money enough to pay for the
paper thousand years.
A special sent out from Buffalo says
Hundreds Ct men started this week
four-tracking the Lake Shore railroad
from Buffalo to Chicago. The work
will take years OF time at cost OF
millions of dollars. The present con-
tract calls for four tracks from Buffalo
to Cleveland"
AS the result Of the burning of the
car shops of the Pennsylvania road at
Fort Wayne on Wednesday, 400 en-
ploves are thrown out of work. The
origin OF the fire was probably caused
by crossed electric light wire. The
loss will exceed 800, 900. The shops
will be rebuilt at once.
Mrs. Amanda Peoples, who died at
Nuncie March 81. was the daughter
of jacob E. Myers of near Rutland
and was born and grew to womanhood
in Union township. The funeral was
held at Poplar Grove, Mopday March
%. She was married to William
Peoples six years ago and they had re.
sided in Muncie about three years.
w. T. Varvactor, a former resident
of Plymouth, now resides at Palestine,
KosciuskO county. He got into a
fight with john Keller of that place
last Saturday and during the mix UP
plunged knife into Keller's side,
The wound was not very severe, but
the fine and costs assessed by War.
saw jpstice of the peace amounted te
SAL
Morgan Johnson. of Greenville,
Ohio. ex-auditor of this county and
one OF it's first settlers, transacted bust.
ness and greeted old friends in Plym-
outh Friday. He spent Thursday
with relatives and friends in Tyner
He says the population of Greenville
has more than doubled since he went
there, and he was gratified at the i'm.
provement he noted in Plymouth.
The president of Hamill university
has decreed that college yells must be
made less vulgar and that 1.-THE dick.
ems" and "you bet" must be classified
as profanity. The wise president thus
outlines an alluring picture Of sweet
boy under graduates with pink ties
and subdued manner mildly interrupt
ing college functions with something
like Goodness gracious; la la, Ia"
Mrs. J.JJ. Hamilton, who came here
from Caldwell, Idaho, 70 attend the
funeral of her mother. Mrs. Rebecca
Seltenriyht. was born AMI married in
North township and will spend few
weeks in this county before returning
home. Her husband, DR.. ]. j. Ham
ilton, served a term as coroner Of this
county, and be and Mrs. Hamilton
were residents of Plymouth for two OF
three years, and have many friends
here.