The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-02

Miss Bessie Humphrey is spending
a few days at Peru.
Mrs. Fannie Ruth of Chicago, is
visiting in this city.
Commissioners meet in regular
session next Monday.
The weather bureau promises rain
tonight or tomorrow.
Fred Bonham has gone 20 Winona
for visit of a few days.
Pearl Zeiders is visiting friends at
Bourbon until Saturday
Mrs. L. L. Shafer is visiting rela-
tives and friends at Argos.
Miss Gertrude Soice returned
Tuesday evening from Buffalo, N. Y.
Frank B. Carey is doing Sunday
school work in Dekalb county this
week.
FOR RENT-Flat in Hoham
block over barber shop. Enquire of
S. ~ Stevens
Miss Oslo Goddard of Chicago,
visited her aunt, Mrs. Gilbert, and
her cousin, Mrs. Harry M. Bennett,
in this city Saturday ard Sunday
and went from here to Argos to visit
her father.
The Columbia, the 1O0-foot airship
which comes TO Winona Lake on
August to spend the week, is re-
garded as the most successful mon
ster of its. kind that has ever been
made since. men began to think of
the problem of aerial navigation.
Mrs. ]. p. Carroll and children
have returned to their home at Indi-
annapolis, after visit of three weeks
here with her brothers, Oliver and
Milton Soice, her sisters, Mrs. Harry
Buck. and Mrs. Hogarth, her sister
at Elkhart and other relatives and
friends in this vicinity.
A dispatch from Winamac says:
Jacob Sturdevant, of Porter county,
who was arrested two months ago
for robbing the Denham postoffice
of $500, confessed that Dr. Charles
Downing and Edward Conway, of
North Judson, assisted him in the
robbery. Both men were arrested
last Friday by deputy United
States marshal and taken to Indian
apolis.
Brooke Bowers and John Kinney
on rural route had letters adver
tised last week and Larkin L. Ev-
ans on route has letter advertised
this week Such errors occur so Of
ten at the Plymouth postoffice that
we never call attention to them un-
less requested to do so. During the
past four years more than fifty let
tiers for people known TO almost ev-
erybody in Plymouth have been adj
vertised.
The San Jose scale has invaded
Elkhart county, and farmers and
fruit growers are subjecting their
fruit trees to close daily inspection,
under the direction of H. H. Swain,
of near South Bend, assistant state
entomologist and also president of
the Indiana Horticultural society.
Fruit trees owned by Harry Sand
ers that were affected, were burned,
and other trees are being sprayed
with an emulsion Of whale oil, soap
kerosene.
Two of Russell Sage's nephews,
one in Indiana, the other in Troy, N
Y, express themselves as satisfied
with the requests made to them.
Both are poor men and $4,000 is to
them a fortune. The relatives who
are talking of contesting the will will
do so on the ground that he was not
mentally competent to dispose of his
estate. If he had left each OF them
a million they would testify unani-
mously and enthusiastically to his
sanity e.
Farmers in the north part of La
porte and Porter counties have been
greatly discouraged lately because Of
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Michigan City Dispatch. Late crops
are perishing, from drought Corn
and potatoes are drying up, especial
ly on the higher grounds, and the
soil is like ashes. Unless heavy
rain comes soon there will not be
half crop, and rain at this time
would save some of the corn and po-
tatoes.
An old soldiers reply to one of the
boilers was as follows: We opposed
secession and fought to preserve the
union from 1861. to 1865. We were
for the preservation of the union
then and we are for the preservation
of the Republican party now. The
boilers from the Republican party
make exactly the same plea now that
the seceders did in 1861 We want
no compromise but we want sub
mission to the regular organization
just as we did As years ago."
Prison Farm Success.
An adjunct to the State Prison
that is a source of considerable prof