The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-14

The legislature passed the Vim
cennes University and the Indianap-
oils salary bill over the governors
veto, Thursday.
Mrs. Jeff Florian and Benjamin
Switzer of this city went to Donald
son to attend the funeral of Mr.. and
Mrs John Baker.
Warren Schroeder has returned to
his home in South Bend after a visit
of a few days with relatives in Ply
mouth and vicinity
Mrs. Mary Dill of Elkhart and Mrs.
Emma Dill of South Bend, have been
visiting Albert Dill and other rela-
tives in this vicinity
The postoffice at Toto, Starke
county, will be discontinued March
30 and superseded by rural delivery
service Mail to Knox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan have return
ed to Chicago after visit with Mr..
and Mrs. W. H. Love. They spent
most of the winter in New York.
The following Indiana postmasters
have been commissioned Joe F
Martin at Bourbon; Thomas Rudd at
Butler; Martin A. Miser at Waterloo
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Staley went to
South Bend Friday to attend the fun
eral of Byron Staley, son of A. C.
Staley, the founder of the Staley
wooden mills.
Ex-senator John c. Spooner of
Wisconsin will become general coun-
sci for all the diversified interests of
James ]. Hill His salary will be
$4,000 year.
Ferdinand Eich has accepted the
position of manager of the lighting
of the Lake Shore railway shops a.
Hammond and will probably movs
his family to that city
Mrs. Abraham French died at Cul-
yer Wednesday, March 6, after lone
illness She leaves husband and six
children all grown except one who
is about fourteen years old.
The government has won another
significant victory over the Standard
| Oil company in the ST. Louis suit
and is proceeding with the prosecu
ton of the company at other points
The amount appropriated by the
Legislature at its present session
amounts to about $4,000 more than
the appropriation made to run the
state government by the legislature
two years ago.
| Evangelists Catewood and Hill
held a revival meeting in the White
Front saloon at Crown Point for ar
hour Thursday night The saloon wa.
crowded and an overflow meeting
was held in the street.
| Governor Folk of Missouri, tell:
| the legislature of that state that it i:
better to defeat a good bill than tc
pass bad one but the legislature o.
Indiana has defeated several goot
bills and put bad ones in their place
/ ]. d. Graves, of = Pittsburg, Pa.
general manager for the Heinz Pickl,
company, has rented the Kloepfel
residence property and will bring hi.
family here. c. A. Wills, genera
manager, has bought the DIR. DUR
residence, which he will occupy.
If the Plymouth electric light com
pany can pay interest on $4,000, it.
manager own an automobile and car
pay for fine residence and pay of
the indebtedness of the purchase
why can not the city do the same
thing under proper management?
The city water works has been sue
cessfully managed under Democratic
and Republican city officials. 1t i.
more than self-sustaining if you fig
ure the cost of fire hydrants, and we
some fool will tell you that no on,
in Plymouth has ability enough tc
manage an electric light plant,
Byron A. Staley, who died in Soutf
Bend Thursday morning, was borr
| in Plymouth in 1852. He had beer
a resident of South Bend As year.
and was for a number of years con
nected with the Staley manufacturing
company of South Bend. He was /;
cousin of John ]. Staley of this city
Mr. and Mrs. John w. Wiltfonl
and Mr.. and Mrs c. Firestone wen
to Chesterton Thursday afternoon t.
be present at the wedding of DR.
Charles o. Wiltfong and Miss Grace
Axe Thursday evening The wed
ding passed off quietly, the younf
couple going at cnce to their owl
home, and Messrs. Wiltfong ant
Firestone and their wives returned t.
Plymouth Friday morning.
Warsaw pays sos per year for eacl
are light and the lights are burned
every night until IL o'clock and OF
the moonlight schedule from tina
time until morning. They pay A
cents for 16 p incandescent light!
for all night and all day, if they neec
them, and meter rates range from II
to cents per W. The proposition
from the Plymouth electric lgh
company is $50 per lamp per year anc
: no fiat rates for private lighting
: Why must Plymouth pay more fo
lights than Warsaw?