The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-01

Investigations at the experimen
station show that the great loss t.
the corn crop in Indiana is due NOR
to the late harvesting and improre
storing OF the seed than to any on
factor which has to do with see,
corn.
Congressman Brick seems almos
as much ashamed of the Chronicl,
postoffice gang of boilers as we do
He is doing everything in his powe
10 prevent the impression from go
ing out over the district that they
are his friends
Mrs. Wiltfong went to Chestertor
Thursday, with her son, DIR. c. o
Wiltfong who was here as best mar
for the Gibson Jacoby wedding She
will return by way of South Benz
where she will visit Saturday after
noon and Sunday.
Mrs. George Phillips of Center
township, St. Joseph county, died
suddenly at her home Saturday morn
ing aged 20 years. She was the moth
er of Mrs. Ora Jacox of this city
and one of the pioneers of the vicin-
ity in. which she died.
The Bourbon News-Mirror thinks
Nathan Hoyt Sheppard was badly
disappointed when he was not allow
ed to speak at Congressman Brick
meeting at Bourbon. Perhaps earn
told Brick that Sheppard had never
voted for him for Congress.
Elections will be held in fort, -tw
states and territories next Tues lay
Thirty senators and new house OF
Representatives are to be chosen. Ok
lahoma will vote on new state con-
stitution and New Mexico and Ari-
iona on the question of joint state
hood.
Since the San Francisco earth
quake the United States has drawn
SIS, 100000 in gold from Europe and
the Bank of England has just an
nounced an increase in its discount
rate from tc 6 per cent, a figure
rarely demanded in the history of the
bank.
In 1894 very nearly 10000 women
registered as voters in the thirty-four
wards of the City of Chicago There
was an entire new registration of all
voters this fall, and the number OF
women who registered in the thirty
FIVE wards of the city and in Cicero
was 2,239.
Posses and United States deputy
marshals and railroad detective.
searched the sand dunes and marshes
| of northern Indiana Thursday for the
anonymous letter writer, who de-
manded $4,000 from the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railway, but
found no trace of him.
An epidemic of prairie itch has
been discovered among children south
of Elkhart and several schools mus
be closed as the disease isScon;agious
This itch breaks out in a scab form.
1t is said it was brought to that
county by farmefs who moved from
Dakota. The situation is serious
The question is being tested in
England whether shoeing cannot be
dispensed with in great degree 70;
farm horses and nature depended on
to harden the tenacity and resistance
of the hoof to the demands upon il.
If it could be avoided most of the dis
ease of the feet and limbs would dis
appear.
Boys and young men who have
been in the habit in past years of up
setting outhouses and otherwise de-
stroying property Halloween should
take more manly view of the case
this year. Frequently property has
been destroyed or damaged for peo-
pie who could III stand the loss thus
caused.
William A. Spores will be brought
to the state prison from .Scottsburg,
where he was this week sentenced to
be hanged for the murder of Douglas
Fawbush on June 6 1906 He plead
ed guilt and the only evidence given
was to determine the degree of his
punishment. Warden Reid now has
two executions Of his hands.
The election commissioners excep
DIR. Burkett are at Rochester trying
to convince Judge Bernetha that they
are honest men and ought 10 be al |
lowed to. give the voters of Marshall
county the privilege of casting their |
ballots for men of their choice Tues
day Nov. g. The earn faction is |
there trying to prevent fair cleo |
ton
If Mr.. Kelley, candidate for joint
from Stark and Pulas-
XII, who is making his canvass on the |
ground that he wants to get an ideal
ditch law through the Legislature,
really succeeds in drafting measure
that will suit all classes of farmers
and landowners he will prove himself
to be a statesman likely to go up
higher.
The evidence in the brewery case
venued from South Bend to Ply
mouth was concluded Friday fcrnoon
and the case was continued until mex.
term OF court to await special lind
ngs 1t is suit between brewers Of
Detroit and South Bend and about
$4,000 is involved. Judge Hess as
special judge is trying the case which
has already occupied ten days
The state ballots are now printed
md have been received NV most ~