The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-04-23

The recital given by Miss Grace
Durr and her class at the opera house
Friday evening was not very largely
attended, but was a very fine enter
tainment. The recitations and exer-
cises In physical culture showed excel
lent training.
Under the new law, all county OFF,
GERS, before they can collect their SAL
aries from the county. which their
fees lack paying, must show that fee
bills have been issued against all who
owe fees. They must also show rea-
son why these fees have not been col
lected.
Residents of Knox here say that
Yellow river was comparatively much
higher in Plymouth this week than in
Starke county. The dredging of the
river in that county and the Kanka-
kee bitches cause the water to pass off
much more rapidly than it did few
years ago.
Ezra X. Barnhill was down town Fri
day for the first time in six weeks.
He has been suffering with rheuma-
tism all winter and has not been able
to do a days work for over four
months. Mrs. BarnhiA has been
under physicians care for seven
months, and is not yet able to be out.
Henry Clay's birthday was cele-
brated ON Easter Sunday in Hanover,
Va, where he was born 126 years ago.
He has not failed of this honor since
bis death in 1852. In Kentucky also
he is remembered. Few persons now
live to recall the magic of Clay's pres
ence and the love of the people for
him.
The Mentone Gazette had a notice
of rag sewing bee" and either by
mistake or premeditated willfulnesS
the compositor made it rag chew
ing bee." The editor got an excellent
sample of what that kind of a func-
tion is like, the day the paper came
out. His wife was president of the
society.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Kelly and
Washington Kelley who now reside on
a farm west of Burr Oak were Plym-
outh visitors Saturday. Howard had
not visited Plymouth for five years pre-
yious to moving to the farm. He had
been employed in factory atMaywood,
Ill. He looks as natural as a s..basket
of chips" and farming seems to agree
with him.
1t would not be difficult matter
to get an electric road built by local
capitalists, to run from Goshen
through Nappanee or Wakarusa, to
Bremen, Lake of the Woods, Plym
outh AMI Argos. John r. Dietrich
says he will take one-tenth of the
stock of such a company, and num-
Der of others would invest in it.-Bre-
men Enquirer.
The fifteenth annual commence
ment of the West township schools
was held at Pretty lake church Friday
evening. There was large attend
ance and fine program, The gradu-
ates were: Bessie M. Garrison, Ora
E. Kyser. jesse W. Stafford, Clara E.
Burns, Ralph Beldon, Victor click,
Alma Hoover, Adrian Ton, Katie
Miller. Fern Morelock, Edith jeffrey,
VIM. Frank, Bessie Hamrick, Earl w.
Hofr. Floyd Holem, Floy Keller and
Harmon FreeSe.
The new stamped envelope that
has been under preparation in the
postofice department for several
months past has been made ready
for issue, and is now being distributed
to the postoffices throughout the coun-
try. The envelope is IN four demon
nations, one-cent, two-cent, four
cent and fiYe,cent. The change made
is very great. and. it is believed by
the officials who have had the matter
In charge, a great improvement. The
stamps on all the envelopes are Of diff
ferent shapes.