The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-03-09
Brief State Item&

| from tip to tip.
Mrs. Becky Parkley, near Nashville, ha.
0een declared '~sane, the result of an acute
attack of the grip.
Charles Cole of Columbus, while hauling
wood, fell off his wagon, the wheels pass
ing over his right leg and hip. lie was
badly injured but no bones were broken.
Willard Baker, bartender in Vande-
marks saloon at Mentone, dropped dead
while in the act of drawing glass of beer
He was 81 years old and leaves widowed
mother.
Roy White of Ross Heights, Is years old
ate forty eight bananas on wager, and
lived to tell the tale. The fruit was of the
average size, but the last dozen went down
with painful slowness.
George Grissom, colored, of Muncie,
found a $3.50 diamond in the street and
hunted for the owner 1t proved to be the
property of Mrs III. C. Stark, wife of a
local theatrical manager.
The school board of Columbus has prac-
tically accepted the new Central School
building, erected by Caldwell Il Drake,
and completed six weeks ahead of time.
The building cost 6,701.20.
George Wright, 80 years old, we'll
known farmer west of Kokomo, was in
stantly killed by being kicked by horse
that he was hitching to wagon. The an
imal's hoof crushed his skull and he fell
dead in his tracks.
The new Nj. f. Church at Fishers Sta
lot Cd OF Of
has been dedicated. The Rev. William
Parr of Kokomo, preached the sermon. and
enough money was subscribed to free the
church from debt Music was furnished by
a large choir, under direction of Prof w.
L. Fisher, supervisor of TIE Peru schools.
Mrs. S. E. Young and family of Ander-
son, celebrated the completion of their res
idence, one of the largest and finest in the
city, by entertaining all of the head men
in the work of the building. The guests
included the architect, his bondsmen, lum-
Der dealers, carpenters, plumbers, electri-
clans, painters. plasterers, cement layers,
cistern builders, yard grader and brick
cleaners.
W. t. Mcdaniel of Nashville, suffered
three broken ribs and badly fractured
shoulder in a fall caused by breaking OF
the boOmpole on load of hay. Wilbur,
son of DR.. W. f. Hall. broke his left arm
by falling from a hay NOW, and Melvin
Moore broke his arm by a fall on a slippery
pavement. Clayton Mathews. son of the
late Jerry Matthews, killed by Big Four
Railway train at NIilrOy, and who suffered
n hroly lo<r OF no col no
home of his brother, Edward, while going
to supper, and the leg was rebroken.
Raymond, the 15-year-old son of A. j..
Alexander, a farmer near Wheatland, died
recently after several days of intense suf-
fering from strange nervous disease,
which the doctors called chOrea. While
going to school recently he viewed the
body of man who had committed suicide
behind an old car shed. and il is believed
this sight aggravated the nervous attack
from which he had been suffering for some
time. Young Alexander had become an
inveterate smoker of cigarettes, and it is
probable this complicated the trouble.
The Rev. J. NJ Green, pastor of the Ma
pie Avenue Nj. f. Church, Terre Haute,
has written neat and very helpful little
book ON 1.-THE Funeral" He deals with
the customs, cOmmendable and otherwise,
of funeral occasions. His questions es-
pecially concern the undertaken, the min
lister, the bereaved family and the friends.
and he has shown excellent taste in speak
ing of the prOprietieS and impr0prieties of
funeral occasions. Mr. Green is a gradu-
IF TaIo
full minister.
Allen Harrison celebrated his ninety
third birthday anniversary by reading no
less than sixty letters and cards from old
friends extending congratulations. He is
still more active than many younger men,
never failing every Saturday in walking
distance of three miles. He spends his
summers in working in his fields, and he
attributes his good health to life in the open
air and physical culture. He has not
tasted whisky for sixty-two years and he
ignores medicine and tobacco. He was
born in Butler County, Ohio. February "a,
1912. He came to Indiana seventy-seven
years ago, and located on the farm seven
miles west of Ladoga, where he has con-
fifty-fOur years ago.
Marshal Joshua Hunt of West Lebanon.
possesses small miniature with an inter-
esting history. During the Civil War he
was captured and confined in the Ander-
s0nville prison. There he met Wesley
King, boyhood friend. Just before Sher-
man reached Andersonvf1le, Hunt and his
friend were exchanged. King succeeded
in smuggling his prison clothing to Baltl-
more, where he dOnned the wretched garb
and had his likeness taken. 1t is an elo-
quent exposition of the pitiable squalor of
the prisoners = ragged. bare-fOOted and
hatless. exposed to the summers scorching
sun and the winters biting frost. King is
now in the Soldiers Home at Marion, his
mind impaired as result of the severe
strain of fourteen months in prison. Mr..
Hunt spent only three months in this in
ferno, and then came out more dead than
alive.
j. b. Goodall has been awarded the con-
tract for building the new Presbyterian
church at Peru; consideration S3S, 900. The
cont ct calls for the building above the
foundations, not including the furniture,
plumbing, heating system, gas fitting cleo
trio wiring and decorating.
John Smiley, aged 20, of Muncie, kissed
his young bride and infant babe goodbye
and announced that he was going to end
his life. For half an hour his young
wife fought bravely TO prevent the rash
act, but at last she was overp0werei,
and her husband swallowed the morphine,