The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-08-18
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.


Fifty tickets were sold for the Max
inkuckee assembly Wednesday. 1t is
proving as great an attraction for
Plymouth people as Winona.
Mrs. Ira Lower has returned from
Michigan City were she was employed
during the past two weeks.
Councilman Cole was called to st.
Joseph county, by telegram an
nouncing that a large barn and its
contents on one his farms near north
Liberty, was burned Tuesday night
1t was probably struck by lightning.
A baseball umpire at Williamsport.
Pa, announced, at the close of the
game, that he could lick the whole
crowd in the grandstand. He has
since told the attending physician
that he is convinced that he spoke too
hastily.
Mrs. Whiteman and Miss Clara
Whiteman Of Nappanee. have been
visiting at A. c. Hume'S this week.
They went from here to Culver where
Miss Whiteman is one of the speak
ers in the gold medal contest this
evening.
The stockmen and cattle growers,
as we'll as the consumers, are begin.
ming to discover that tn beef trust is
tough proposition to run up against
especially when it has strike on It's
hands. Beef goes up, cattle 60 down
and the trust wins both ways.
The business men S picnic at Pretty
Lake Thursday will be the largest and
best ever given by the association.
The Plymouth band will furnish mu-
sic and everybody is invited to attend
with we'll filled baskets, but if you
have no basket come without one.
John Linderman, aged 60, stepped
out of his residence at Elkhart Sunday
night to separate George Streely and
David Rigby, who. though chums,
had become DRINK and were fighting,
and fell dead of heart disease, with
which he was chronically affected.
A pOSt-mOrtem examination was
held Sunday over the body Of William
Kress whose death at Roanoke, Wa
bash county, Saturday night aroused
suspicion among the authorities. Ten
32-caliber cartridges, four carpet tacks,
and needle were found In the stom-
ach.
Mrs. George Platz died at her home
in Fort Wayne few days ago. The
family lived for several years in ]. w.
Sider'S property on South Street Ply.
mouth, and many friends here sym.
pathize with the bereaved husband
and children. Mrs. Piatz was an ex-
cellent lady good wife and good
mother.
Among those who spent Wednesday
at Winona, were DR.. Deeds and wife,
Mrs, A. B. Pyle, Mrs. Welcome Mil
Ter. Misses Mabel Jacoby, Pansie and
Fay Hess, Mrs. R. A. Randall and
her guests, Misses Waite and Chaplin,
Of Ann Arbor and Milan, Mich, Mr.,
and Mrs. Peter Disher and their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Acker.
Rev. L. S. Smith. of Delphi, who
was pastor Of the M. E. church of
Plymouth five years, stopped in Ply
mouth Tuesday evening and remained
over night. He was on his way to
South Bend to conduct the examina-
tiou of the young preachers who will
apply for admission at the September
conference. He reports his family
we'll:
Inquiries of immigration officers in
New York show that places could be
found for nearly 100000 servant girls
il they could be secured. The author
tiles on Ellis island could place 40, 900
domestic servants in positions within
a radius of twenty miles of the me-
tropolis within three hours after their
arrival. More than as many more
lcould be placed in the west.
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