The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-14


Bruce Joseph was badly hurt last
Tuesday by the overturning of load
of hay and will be laid up for some
time.
An old settler says that ten inches
OF snow fell February 1, 1892 but
Feb. IL, was nice and clear. The
warmest February during the past
forty years was 1877. His records
kept every day show these facts.
John Richard, ST., who has been
visiting his brother, Peter Richard in
this city and other relatives in this
vicinity, has gone to Letters Ford
and Monterey for a short visit and
will go from there to his home at
Logansport
Mrs. Dora Johnson who had been
suffering from consumption for sew
eral months, died Saturday at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sanford Sheaks, in Polk township
She was, % years old and leaves a
husband and two children.
Governor Hanly's insurance plan
was killed at caucus of Republicans
of the Indiana legislature Tuesday
night. 1t was decided that there shall
be no separate insurance department
with commissioners at the head The
state auditor will continue to super,
wise insurance.
There was a new moon at noon
Tuesday, the wind was from the
south and the weather continued to
grow warmer for "a hours. All who
pin their faith to the moon know that
this means mild weather until the
latter part of February, when we are
to have another cold snap of a few
days followed by spring.
4 secret poll of the House on the
81 ,O0C license bill, taken Monday az
ternoon. shows that forty members
are openly opposed TO it thirty-one
in favor of it, with twenty-five class
ed as "noncommittal Four mem
bers were absent land consequently |
could not be interviewed-two Re- |
publcans and two Democrats.
At the Thomas & Hogsett sale at
Golden, ILL.,, Marshall F. Greer and |
Mr.. Baker bought two very fine hogs, |
one costing SIS and the other SS5, |
and Mr.. Greer returned from REM
ington, Ind, few days ago with 4
top notcher, bred from $4,000 hog |
He has the finest Durec hogs in
northern Indiana and is preparing |
for a great sale next October
The undersigned will sell at public |
sale at his farm eight miles northwest
of Plymouth and one half mile east
of Tyner on Friday, Feb. Is, the fol-
lowing: 20 head horses and colts, %
head cows and steers, 10 brood sows,
35 head shoats, II ton of timothy and |
clover hay, several hundred bushels
corn in crib, wagons, farming imple
ments, etc. ]. W. Wolford
The Pulaski County Democrat tes-
titles to Republican prosperity in the
following words, towit: The Leslin
brothers, Rudolph and Charley, out
northwest of Winamac eight or nine
miles, sold a nice lot of hogs the |
other day. There were 90 head in the |
bunch, and they got $3.50 per 100
pounds, the aggregate being about
81 100 IN cold casa.
The daily newspapers of this coun-
try. especially those printed in the
large cities, ought to be persuaded TO
do something toward making their
news columns more accurate. This |
thing of publishing Startling news
one day and contradicting the same
the next ought to be stopped. 1t is a
rank fraud upon the reading public
and disgrace to journalism.
Among the communications receiv
ed in the Senate urging the passage
or defeat of various measures was
signed by twenty-six
teachers of Porter county, who pro-
tested against the passage of the ST.
600 license bill, setting forth as their
grievance that they did not believe
that additional pay for teachers
should come from taxing the saloons
alone.
Mrs. Beckwith, the granddaughter
of Abraham Lincoln, whose husband
has just secured divorce from her
on the ground OF desertion, illustrates |
the argument that hasty marriage en-
courages the divorce evil The young |
woman eloped few years ago with |
Beckwith, to whom her parents OBJ
jected, and discovered in very short |
time that her parents knew what they |
were talking about
Senator Parks has introduced all
bill in the senate that is |
sufficiently general in its terms to /
catch about all the offenders accord
ing to Thine author. The bill prohib-
its driving an auto recklessly or neg
ligently or in manner dangerous to |
the public. The violation of the act |
is deemed a misdemeanor, punishable |
by fine of from SO to 800. No |
Jail sentence is added, but the vio-
lator is to clay out" his fine If not |
paid.