The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-04-14
Miss Stacy has returned from a visit

MIS-. IImOtny CoillnS, "eii nno"h
Logansport lady, scratched her little
finger with comb a few days ago
while combing her hair and died of
blood poisoning after great suffering.
Rev. G. A. Brooke preached at Val
paraiso Sunday. Valparaiso papers
speak of him in complimentary terms
as the man who led the enterprise in
building the present Methodist church
in Valparaiso.
Reports from every county in the
state show that the wheat crop is a
failure, though best in the northern
counties. State Statistican Johnson
estimates the yield of wheat at 60 per
cent Of normal crop.
Wabash county has good Sprink-
ling of Hearst men among the demo- |
Gratis. At recent meeting a straw
vote was taken and the result showed
two for Bryan, twelve for Parker and
thirty-eight for Hearst.
Henry Morris, an Englishman wh)
has given much attention to the SUBJ
ject of cancer, recently called atten-
ton to the pernciouS influence OF the
clay pipe and the decayed tooth in
causing cancerous growth.
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If anybody has heard report that
George Bowel has Withdrawn from
the race for marshal, we are author
lied to state that it is not true.
George is still candidate and says
his prospects for success are good.
Mrs. j. E. Leighton who has been
visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. n.
V. Hoover, for few days, left Fri
day evening TO join her husband in
South Bend, who expects to be en-
ployed there the coming summer.
The Michigan University seems to
have found it necessary to establish a
"chair of graft" That is not what it
is called, but the purpose is to dis
courage big and little get-rich-quick
schemes. Not bad idea, either.
Mr.. Rockefeller says he would will
ingly pay any man 81, 900, 600 year
who could 90 for him the work he is
compelled to do by bis wealth. His
cares have made him as bald as an
onion and reduced his diet to soda
crackers and milk
Chas. j. Phegley, Of Rennselear,
who was bitten some time ago by a
mad dog went to Newcastle to have
the Bundy mad stone applied to his
wounds. This strange bit of mater
ial chung to The wound for 40 hours
before it fell off.
Christian Fisher. Daniel X. Harris
and w. L. Leonard went to Walker
Tuesday attired in their very best
clothes evidently determined to i'm
press the democrats Of Starke county
that they were worthy representatives
OF the Hearst boomers in Plymouth.
Republicans will have to put up
good men for councilmen in all the
wards if they win IN any OF them.
The second and third wards are very
close and with good men four repub-
licanS may be elected in those wards,
and we have a fighting chance in the
first ward.
Farmers from every section of the
county report that the rains have
failed to put life into the roots of the
wheat and there is no longer hope for
half crop OF wheat in Marshall
county. In fact it is said that fully
half the fields will not be worth
cutting.
j. H. Wiley arrived from Poi tland,
Oregon, Monday evening and is now
at the home of his wifeS parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. d. Thompson, in this
city. He says the sun was only seen
three times during the month of
March in Portland and then only for
short time.
j. #. Farrar an engineer on train
10 was struck in the eye by clnder
soon after leaving Fort Wayne Mon
day evening and so badly hurt that he
had to leave his engine when he got
to Plymouth. DR.. Aspinall treated
the injured eye and the engineer re-
turned to Fort Wayne next morning.
Medical authorities have come to
the conclusion that excessive meat eat
ing is the general cause of appendicitis.
Statistics show that in the United
States and Great Britain the disease
is more prevalent than anywhere else.
and these are two OF the greatest
meat consuming countries of the
entire globe.
John D. Rockefeller. it is said, Is
kept busy nowadays trying to get rid
of some of bis immense surplus wealth.
The task is not as easy as may be i'm
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