The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-01-21

Plymouth visitor Saturday.
Leopold Lauer transacted business
In Argos Saturday.
Rev. j. T. Appleman has returned
to Mexico, Miami county after a visit
of a few days In Plymouth.
Mrs. Rebecca Cakes, of Hunting
ton, attended the funeral of her
niece. Miss Maude Wiltfong Saturday.
Will Ormond has rented the Jacox
barn and now has his hacks and hor-
ses there instead Of at the Ross house
barn.
Mrs. Anna Cochran has returned to
her home at Argos alters visit of ten
days in this city with the family Of
her SOD, w. NJ. Cochran.
Mrs. j. HI. Baxter came down from
Mlshawaka, Thursday evening to at
tend the funeral of her friend and old
neighbor Mrs. Peter Stegman.
Paris is mourning the loss of its
Oldest tree, an elm planted by order
of Sully in 1000, in the Rue st. JAG
ques. 1t is leafless this year.
The annual sleighrIde and supper is
being planned for by the %Presbyter-
ian ladies at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
JOSIAH JacOby on mex Friday evening.
Samuel Michaels, a prominent and
wealthy farmer residing neal Logans-
port, has been arrested, charged with
dynamiting the home of Aaron Shock,
near Young America.
When Queen Victoria assembled the
throne AZ percent of the English peo-
pie could not write their names. That
proportion has been reduced to a trifle
less than ! per cent, today.
The first gold COINS for 1904 have
been issued from the mint, and are
finding their way about the country.
But they are just as "heavy TO get and
light to hold" as were the 1908 brand.
The Mormon church has put its ban
not only upon alcoholic liquors, but
upon tea and coffee as beverages also.
Apparently the average Mormon is
more willing to give up little luxuries
like this than to abandon polygamy.
Beulah Clark, daughter of the day
operator at Lapaz Junction, and who
only recently moved there from Ke-
wanna. is still suffering from the ef-
fects of running a lead pencil into her
side in the confusion at the Christmas
entertainment.
The United Brethren revival meet
ings at Pretty Lake church are Gre
ating quite an interest in that vicin-
ity. There have been several CONVEX
sions and many have asked for
prayers. The church IS crowded
every evening.
Judge Bernetha in the case of
Metsker versus O'Keefe decided that
the law gives county officers the right
to their choice Of party papers in
placing legal advertisements where
the law requires publication in two
papers Of different parties.
Barnum once said: III you have
sl9 to invest paw $40 for the article
and SO for the advertising. 1 can out
talk any man but a printer. The man
who a stick type and the next norm
ing talk to a thousand men while /
am talking to one, is the man 1 am
afraid Of, and l want to be his friend"
Burglars entered the postofhce at
Lapaz early Tuesday morning and
blew open the safe, making a total
wreck of it. There was no money in
the safe, but pension certificates and
other papers were carried away. Local
talent is suspected, and sensational
Developments are expected within a
few DAYS.
Carefully prepared statistics reveal
the fact that there are now 700. 600
Jews living in Greater New York.
Large accessions to their ranks have
been made during the past few years
by emigration. Tie greater part Of
the Jewish immigration made New
York its stopping place.
The southwest will not long have a
monopoly of the cattle raising business
1t has been demonstrated by actual
experiment that the waste lands of
northern Michigan denuded of forests
are we'll adapted to grazing purposes.
and millions of acres of these lands,
especially in the upper peninsula are
now being sold at cheap prices to be
devoted to cattle and sheep ranches.
Fruit and all kinds of grains also grow
on these cut-over lands.
McCutcheon, the Chicago Tribune's
c~artoonist, has q telling drawing un-
der the caption .'why q farmer boy
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