The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-05-26

Grandma Senour has gene TO Bour-
bon to visit relatives and old friends.
Mrs. Maud Hampson y; is arrested
Thursday evening and taken before
Justice Young charged with keeping
a house of i'll fame. She entered a
plea of not guilty, but she was not
ready for trial and not being able to
give bail was taken to Jail.
Ten new 1. o. o. F. lodges were in
stituted during the last year in Indi-
ana, making total in the state of,
703. Since June of last year 2,432
new members were received, net
gain of l, 400 members, making the
total membership last December
63, 745.
If the Kokomo "golden rule dry
goods store, which has just closed
its doors, with liabilities Of S25, 900
and assets of s12, 900, tried to live up
to its name, it is evident that the
people who owed it money did not do
as they would be done by. That the
store has been 'done up'' is at least
not to be regarded as proof tnat the
rule is unSound.
Christian Shrock, for two years a
resident of Elkhart and foreman In
the Lake Shore carpenter shops, has
disappeared. Tuesday he LEFT home
with $50 in his pocket to pay bills.
He did not return and Wednesday
Mrs. Shro"k received letter, post
marked on Lake Shore train No. %,
in which Shrock said he was crazy and
had to 60 away.
The L. E. & w. railroad have ar.
ranged to start their new system of
gasoline motor cars in July, on the
Peoria division running from Lafay-
cite to Upton. Later the Michigan
City division will be equipped with
the same service, the cars to be used
exclusively for passenger traffic, run
ming on a neutrality-suspicious. schedule
every two hours.
AS an after math to the recent fail
ure of the Indiana National bank at
Elkhart and thd sentencing to the
federal prison at Fit. Leavenworth of
WreckerS j. L. Brodrick, w. L. Col
Inns and Walter Brown, new state
bank to be operated at Elkhart to be
known as the Farmers and Merchants
bank has been organized and articles
of corporation were filed Wednesday
with the secretary of state.
The editor of the ChurubuSco Truth
says half dozen subscribers came
in and paid up in a bunch and then he
went right home and built a SIS ad-
dition to his palatial residence in the
shape of pantry that his peter half
has been praying for the past three
months. Instead of keeping the skill
lets and pots in the parlor, they have
been transferred to the new addition.
This is certainly evidence of prosper
ity.
The assessment of all members of
the 1. .. o. f. in Indiana for the
erection of large addition to the or
phans' home in Greensburgh was
agreed on without dissenting vote at
the session of the Grand Lodge Thurs
day afternoon. For many months the
question had been discussed, and the
result Will be tax on every Subordi-
nate member of so cents, and on every
woman member of a Rebekah lodge
40 cents.
Friday was the first day of Pentecost
or Feast of Weeks. " observed by all
the Jews in the world. In Palestine it
was also the first festival. According
to history on this day 1872 years be-
fore the Christian era. the Decalogue,
or Ten Commandments, were given
to Moses and by him to the children
of Israel and the world. The foun-
dation of all civil and religious govern
ment was laid down in ten verses.
Combinations of children are held in
all the Jewish temples.
Officers of the Pennsylvania rail-
road police force on Wednesday night
picked up quartet of lads in Fort
Wayne who were on their way to the
worlds fair. They had come from
Pittsburgh, making their way in box
cars and when detected were tucked
away in car loaded with hay. They
lett home Monday, having run away
from school and started out to see the
world. Two of them had 40 cents
each, one 35, and the other was broke.
All were provided with candy ard to-
bacco, and each had loaf of bread in
the bosom of his shirt. They were
locked up at the police station and
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