The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-16
LOCAL NEWS

yer, was in the city Friday morning
between trains.
Miss Althea Van Auken returned to
South Bend Friday, after pleasant
visit with friends here.
Rev. J. ]. Coleman OF the w. M.
church went to Lafayette Friday, to
attend quarterly conference meeting.
Mrs. George Mikels of west Ply
mouth. is so seriously sick that her
friends are quite anxious for results.
Mel Shoop returned to his home in
South Bend Friday after a weeks Wis
it with his father, Jonathan Shoop.
in West township
VIII Ormond was in Niles, Mich,
Friday for treatment for his eyes.
VIII says it isn't old age nor a scum,
they've just gone wrong.
Mrs. c. S. Cleveland fell through
the cellar way at her home Thursday
evening, cutting serious cash in her
head, rendering her unconscious for
some time
Robert Liggett made a business
trip to South Bend Friday. He is
suffering considerably from rheuma-
tism and says he likes to rest a day
now and then.
Miss Carmichael, State placing
agent for orphan children, took a
bright little boy from Brightside to
place him in permanent home near
Wanatah Friday.
Henry c. Wheeler of South Bend.
was in our city Friday, in the interest
OF the Live Stock insurance company.
He says their company is home or
ganization on the mutual plan and is
taking well among the farmers.
John Newton: We can easily man
age if We will only take each day the
burden appointed for it. But the load
will be too heavy for us if we add to
its weight the burden of tomorrow
before we are called to bear it.
Quite party of people from our
city went to South Bend Friday to
attend THE Lion and the Mouse at
that place, among whom were Mr..
and Mrs. Will Ormond, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Logan and Mr.. and Mrs. Clint
Bondurant
Harvey Curtis, the rising young
lawyer of Walkerton, passed through
the city FRIDAY on his way to his old
home at Walnut. He said his brother
Charley's mining strike was in Ari-
IONA instead of Colorado and that
Charley had really struck it rich.
On Monday Logan as Mayor, sign
ed statement with one hand exhon-
Grating his next best friend" Nets
ker from presenting graft bills" and
with the other hand as county attor-
ney, deducted 30 cents from a bill
filed by Metsker before the county
commissioners.
With the close of this school year
in Plymouth. there will have been 35s
pupils graduated. The first class
graduated in 1876, consisted of four
students. The smallest classes were
in 1882 and 1856 consisting of three
each, and the largest class will grad
uate this year. consisting of 16 boys
and % girls.
Albert Wright. liveryman of Den
yer, Ind. while waiting on change
OF cars here, grew reminiscent anf
divulged to us that his father who
was killed by a falling tree, neal
Milford, last winter. was the frs
white child born in Kosciusko county
and his grandfather built the first mil
at the ford on the creek, from which
combine the town of Milford took it
name.
John Whitmore, an old Ply omutl
boy, was in town over Thursda,
nigth with his sisters and left for hi
home in Los Angeles, Cal, Frida,
morning. He had been j.. New Yorl
purchasing machinery for a larg
manufacturing plant with which he i
connected, and intended stopping il
Chicago few days to complete pur
chases and visit old friends. He wa
looking ard feeling well, only Xix
the rest of us, he is getting a littl
older.
In a recent interview, Senator Plat
of New York, decries his part j
placing President Roosevelt in posi-
ton to come into the presidency, a
he did by the death of Mr.. Mckinley
He says he placed him in the vic
presidency to get him out of the way
with the result of his becoming pres
ident through a long succession o
years, much to the discontinue o
Mr. Plat and many more of his kind
The idea of superranuated old fos
sill like Senator Plat, derogating tn
acts of President Roosevelt, and de
crying the one great act of his owl
life 1t is a travesty on justice
1t will be remembered that abou
a year ago, our county commissioner
hired tax ferrets, to seek out sequest
cred wealth for taxation, and tina
several parties were sent here VIII
made an exhaustive research throug
the records, compiling notes an
data Well the supreme court ha
since rendered its decision on sue
matters, TO the effect that that is til
county assessors business ard tn
hiring of ferrets is illegal Their
being no funds appropriated wit
which to pay for the work, the boar