The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

The old settlers meeting of Elk
hart county will be held at Goshels
Saturday, July rs.
Nicholas Haag, who resides north
west of this city, was fined one dollar
and costs by Squire Young, Friday
evening for allowing Canada thistles
to grow on his farm
Miss Laura Shoemaker accompan-
led Miss Cora Miller to Chicago
Thurday afternoon fora visit of afew
days. Miss Miller had been visiting
here a week She is the daughter of
the gentleman who purchased the
Hamlet farm north of the city.
Nelson Bailey, of this city, for
many years a resident of West town
ship a veteran of the civil war, who
served in Captain Johnson's company,
cf the Ninth regiment and is known
as "Doc" Bailey has had his pension
increased from $500 to S1700 per
month through Loves agency.
News has reached this citythat NJ
| w. Simons, who has been residing at
Denver, Colorado has been placed in
sanitarium This is sad news for
the friends of anyone, but there is al
ways a possibility of complete re-
covery in such cases. Insanity is not
an incurable disease and fully 40 per
cent of its victims recover
A change in the design of the small
bronze cent which has made its ap-
7earance each year since its adoption
in 1864 is being considered by a con-
gressional comittee and experiments
are also under way looking to the
use of new metal, either pure nickle
or aluminium, to take the place of that
now used which is IS per cent cop
per and per cent zinc
Splendid wheat yields are being
reported from every quarter of Mar
shall county though the south end
is holding the record One among
the best reported to this office is by
Clinton Jones southwest OF Argos
the average yield FER acre being 3s A..
bushels A reliable estimate of por
ton of one field belonging to Mr.
Jones showed As bushels per acre
Argos Reflector.
| Twenty -one Filipino men ant
women occupied an extra coach OF
Nickle Plate train No. 5 when it pass
Jed through Argos Tuesday morning
They had come from the Philippine
Island and swere on their way te
Chicago, where they are to exhibit a
the White City In the words of on,
of the Nickle Plate officials, the cos
tune of the islanders consisted of ;
string of beads and sash, with al
occasional blanket.
| Culver Military academy is an insti
tuition of which all northern Indian;
can we'll be proud. 1t enjoys tn,
honor of being placed by the war de
partment among the six schools il
the country whose pupils show tn,
greatest skill in mill airy training an
knowledge Each Of these six school
has the privilege of having an hno
graduate appointed as second lieu
tenant in the regular army, on a pa
with graduates of West Point.
Auditor of State Bigler is sendn,
to the prosecuting attorneys and un
dertakers in every county copies o
an opinion rendered by Attorney Gen
eral Miller that graveyard insuranc
companies organized for the purpos
of paying funeral expenses and dealt
benefits to the members, are contrar,
to the insurance laws of the state
whether the assessment is made be
fore or after the death of member
Prosecutions will be instituted agains
companies that refuse to quit bust
ness.
One of the most phenomenal yield
of alsac seed that has been our pleas
ure to hear of this year was that o
Minor Vining. He had not intendcs
having the field of clover hulle.l 70
he had thought it would not yielt
enough seed to pay for the work
The threshers insisted for they ha,
enough time to spare to do the worl
and the result was that 20 bushels
were hulled from a little over fv,
acres and the seed was worth $500
bushel
| The Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railroad company is the defend
ant in criminal suit, charging tn,
company with the illegal transporia
ton of horses. 1t is charged that
carload of twenty-four head o
horses shipped by Chas. Meyers from
Hopkins Station, Michigan, to War
saw. Indiana, was forty hours on tn,
road, in an ordinary stock car, will
out food, water or rest 1t is elaine
ed the horses were in wretchet
condition when they arrived in War
saw.
A middle aged widower, who clerk.
in Chicago hotel came to Plymouth
this morning to meet a widow from
Warsaw. The widow arrived at go
a. m, but when the $50 a. m. trair
rolled in from Chicago, she glanced
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