The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-12-10

| follows: 5olO.t square ydruS Vi pave
ment at $3.50 per square yard,
$500. %; 3O9S. 81 lineal feet of curb
ing at % cents, s6S1.7l; total,
s6473.97.
Last week a farmer sold fine large
turkey to Fribley's. With the pur-
chase money he received he bought a
quarter of a beef with eight cents to
his credit. AT that rate 1T pays bet
ter to. raise turkeys than CATTLE
| Bourbon Mirror.
Soldier James Watson, of Sullivan,
who is having hard time in convinc-
ing the Pension department. that he
is alive. probably feels like Mark
Twain, when the latter remarked:
1.-The report of my death was some
what exaggerated"
Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight Hills
thinks Mr.. Rockefeller may some day
own the President OF the United
States. DR.. Hills probably goes upon
the theory that the president is about
the only thing worth while remaining
for Mr. Rockefeller to grab.-Record
Herald.
| Missionary work should begin very
near home. The mother of one of the
young Chicago bandits has been tor
some time engaged in organizing boys
clubs and trying to keep young men
out of the saloons-and she didn' t
know what kind of life her own son
was leading.
Mayor Harrison has been enforcing
the law SO rigidly in Chicago during
the past two weeks that many of the
thugs and thieves have left that city
for smaller cities within radius OF a
hundred miles. Officers and citizens
should be on the lookout for them.
Mark Twain tells the Italians that
the reason he is spending the winter
in Italy is because he wants to famil-
iarize himself with the Italian lam
guage so he can use it fluently in his
addresses to Italian voters during his
candidacy for the presidency next
year.
The steamer Hutchinson, laden with
2O0,O bushels of flaxseed, was
wrecked in Lake Superior. Ii Oil has
any effect ON troubled waters the ap-
plication of such gigantic haxseed
poultlce should have allayed whatever
storm happened to be raging at that
time.
Most of the Sunday schools report a
sudden and remarkable increase In at
tendance. This would be encouraging
were Christmas not SO close. 1t is
feared that this sudden access of
youthful piety is due to.a desire to
get solid with no higher power than
Santa Claus.
Frank McCrum, who lost limb in
a railway accident, is still at the home
of his aunt in this city. He suffered
greatly during the past week but rest.
ed well Thursday and Thursday night.
His mother, Mrs. G. b. McCrum, re.
turned to Bourbon Fridav but bis
father remained here.
The imperious manner in which
John Alexander Dowie commands
"his people" to step up to the cap
tain's Office and deposit their savings
in his Zion bank, in order to enable
him to meet pressing financial obliga.
tions, surely ought to serve as an eye
opener to some of them.
i The warning of that erudite thinker
and speaker, the Rev. DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills, that If men don't want
women to outstrip them in the in
dustrial race they must quit gambling
and drinking poor whisky, deserves
attention serious enough to bring
about better condition of affairs.
William E. Curtis says Seville,
Spain, should be called 1.-The City of
Tiles, as every building is decorated
with painted porcelain squares. The
art of making tiles has long been in
allegiance, builders not caring to pay
the price o: hand painted goods. Now,
however, revival has tax en- place.
i d. E. Vanvactor, proprietor of the
Argos planning mill, was a Plymouth
visitor Thursday. When David was
a boy he was one of the best teachers
| in the county and stood at the head of
that profession for several years. He
has been in his present position more
than a dozen years and has made a
success of his business.
| Herman Alleman, now employed as
night watch at the z. L. Morris mills,
butchered one of the finest hogs las
Monday ever killed in this city. He
rendered 100 pounds of lard, sugar
!! cured $50 pounds of meat. made SO