The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-25

Miss Flora Stone went to Battle
Creek. Mich. Tuesday where she will
visit her sister.
Jesse CRUDE, of Toledo, o., DR..
CRUDE, of Coldwater, Mich, Mrs. Geo.
Shelley, of South Bend, and Mrs.
Rhodes and children OF Wisconsin,
were here Sunday and the CRUDE
family had a reunion.
One of the Chicago banks has de-
cided thai its employees must not get
married unless their salaries amount
to at least 81, 900 a year each. This
will give the boy who is in love a good
excuse to strike for a raise.
The committee Will start within a
few days to solicit premiums for the
corn exhibition next winter. Those
who feel an interest 10 making the
corr show a success should help the
committee by a generous donation in
the way of premiums.
The notices to the county organiz-
atoms of both the Republican and
Democratic parties from the state
headquarters, calling the attention of
the campaign officers to the fact that
county assessors will not be elected
this year, will be sent out in d few
days.
The Ohio Legislature is considering
a measure for the more stringent reg
ulation of marriage. Persons wishing
to marry must appear in court sixty
days before applying for license and
must haze a bona tide sixty days resi-
dence. License will be refused To
habitual drunkards.
sit looks as If Miss Democracy will
have to avail herself of leap year priv
ileges if she wins either Judge Parker
or Judge Gray" says the Atlanta
Journal. Yes, it is only Willie Bryan
and Willie Hearst who seem to have
forgotten what yearit is.-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
OThere have been no new cases of
smallpox for several weeks and only
two or three families are now quaran-
tined. Unless some OF the virus is
left in disinfecting and somebody
takes the disease Unexpectedly several
weeks later. the disease is virtually
stamped out in this city.
We don't know that our plea will
have much weight. but we would like
to say to the weather man that the
people are entirely satisfied with his
demonstration of old fashioned win
tiers, and if it's all the same. we
wouldn't mind a day or two of SUM-
thine with warm weather.
.'Born, to United States and wife,
Feb. Is, 1904. a son." the foregoing
may sound strange, but in Pulaski
county there lives a negro farmer so
named, and this being their first child
United States and his wife have is
sued cards to their friends to attend
the christening IN March 5.
News comes from Australia that
John Alexander Dowie'S first meeting
in Sydney was broken up by a mob,
and that he himself was obliged to
run for cover. Evidently the Aus
t~ralians have not the American sense
of humor which has kept us from t. <
ing Dowie's vile epithets seriously.
WANTED-Teachers who wish 6
take a special three months course to
prepare for teaching shorthand, type.
writing, book keeping or %penmanship-
Large demand and good salaries.
Write at once for information regard
ing special course, as only a limited
number will be taken. HUNTINGTON
BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, HUNTING
TON, IND. 1874
A newspaper reader asks why it is
that the war news nowadays makes
such uninteresting reading, in con-
trast to the graphic stories we have
been used to in former wars. The
answer is that all the newspaper cor
respondents are "bottled up'' in Toxic
and other points distant from the
front, and that even their meagre re-
ports are merclleSSly censored.
A complete surprise was perpet-
rated on Claude Garrison teacher of
school No. II IN West township, last
Friday, by the patrons and friends
appearing at the school house at the
noon hour with baskets well filed,
and a general good time was had BY
all until time for the afternoon SeS-
sion when the pupils rendered an ex-
cellent program in honor Of Washing
tons birthday.
The New York Tribune notes, as
the first harbinger of spring, that the
wild geese are flying n0rthward.