The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-19

The Chautauqua season has opened
and for several months to come we
shall hear good deal about the way
this country should be run and isn't.
Plymouth was beaten by the base
ball team at Bluffton, Tuesday by
score of six to four. Having won 10
straight games they probably became
little careless and reckless.
Joseph Butzen, of hicago, was
drowned while fishing in the Koontz
lake three miles northwest of DON
aldson, Monday. He was "a years
old.
Tom Taggart says that he does not
claim that the men who shook dice
at bis hotel were holy rollers" but he
thinks here are worse men than they
are
Mr.. and Mrs Sigmund Mayer went
to Mt Clemens, Mich, Wednesday,
where Mrs. Mayer will try the efficacy
of the baths for the restoration of
her health.
John c. Bunnell, the furniture deals
er and undertaken, who has been
quite i'll for several weeks, is improv-
ing slowly and is now able to sit up
part of the time.
The Baltimore Sun thinks that de
spite the doctors, the strawberry
doesn't drive SO many men insane as
the peach in the white shirtwaist
P'raps not. P'raps not
Sister Valeria, head sister OF St
Anthony's hospital at Michigan City
is dead as the result of horrible ele-
vator accident, particulars of which
were given in this paper Saturday
Samuel Burns, for many years
resident of West township, but for
the past two years resident of East
Sophia street, is critically i'll with
what seems to be cancer of the stom-
ach.
There is a bad drouth in Shelby
county and corn, oats and pasture are
badly damaged Hundreds of head of
stock are being sold and shipped on
account of a scarcity of grain, hay
and grass.
Plymouth is the best place in the
state to get bargains in dry goods,
clothing, boots and shoes. Our mer-
chants sell 25 per cent cheaper than
merchants in Chicago, Fort Wayne
and South Bend.
The Rev. William Spurgeon, OF
London, speaking at the Evansville
Chautauqua, declared the four big
gest men in the United States, If not
in the. world, to be Roosevelt, Bryan,
La Toilette and Folk.
Early shipments OF celery out OF
Kalamazoo are larger by a quarter
than they have been for several years
The business of the express compan
les has increased and extra wagons
have been pressed into service.
Only 7S applicants for homestcads
appeared at Billings, Montana, when
the land Office opened and it is believ-
ed that 5000 homesteads will be left
for those who want to file under tho
regular homestead law after Septem.
Der Is
President Roosevelt pitched hay
very vigorously for forty minutes on
his farm near Oyster Bay, Tuesday
afternoon, in order to get it into the
barn before heavy rain storm came
up. He pitched load onto wagon.
rode on the load to the barn and
pitched it into the second story as
fast as two men could stow it away.
Mrs. Patrick Welsh, of Conaers-
vile. paralytic, who has been a
confirmed invalid for the last year.
believes that she has been miraculous
ly cured by bolt of lightning. Dur
ing storm she was stricken uncon-
scious, and after restoratives had
been administered the woman was
able to walk. She is growing strong
err each day and believes a modern
miracle has been worked
The Rev. M. II. Mcmahon, Meth
odist minister, was forcibly stood on
his head Monday at Elkhart 10 save
him from choking to death. A iece
of food lodged in his throat and heart
action had almost stopped, pending
arrival of physicians, when some one
suggested this treatment, and it prov
ed to be effective Mr.. Mcmahon
weighs nearly us pounds, and the
job was severe task for th- men
executing it.