The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-04-11

The 2-cent-fare law practically
brings a reduction in fares OF 33 Ia
per cent, for prior to Nov. l the rate
in Indiana was cents per mile. Nov
1, however, in an effort to stay the
enactment of the 2-cert-far law, the
railroads lowered the rate to 2 IL
cents.
| Governor Hanly has been ordered
to go to bed, and stay there, in abso-
lutte quiet for at least three weeks
This was ordered after Dr. c. 5
Goar, the Governors family physi,
clan, had called in consultation DR.
S. p Scherer "a stomach specialist
of Indianapolis.
Fred A. Busse will be Chicago's
first mayor of German extraction. II
he doesn't prove success as mayor
it will not be chargeable to inexperi-
ence in the matter of holding public
office He has been a city official, d
state legislator, state treasurer, and
at present is postmaster of Chicago
You can travel for two cents mile
on railroads anywhere in Indiana, but
if you buy ticket TO any point out
side of the state you will have TO pay
the old rates. Passengers from Ply
mouth to Chicago now buy tickets
TO Whiting or Hammond and pay
TIN &c cents a mile to the conductor
| from there to Chicago.
The Evangelical conference at Fort
Wayne last week transferred Rev E
10. Laudeman from Rochester to Fit
Wayne, returned Rev. F. B. Walmer
to Culver, sent R. Shchermeier to
Bremen and gave L. ]. Erflart the
Bremen circuit. A. S. Fisher goes to
Nappanee and Rev. F. Ransch sue
ceds E. Q. Laudeman at Rochester
The oratorica1 contest of the Mar
shall county high schools at the opera
house in this city Friday evening
will undoubtedly draw a crowd. The
price of admission is Is cents and the
prizes are a gold, silver and bronze
medals. The schools contesting art
Argos, Bremen, Bourbon, Culver, In
wood, Tippecanoe. Tyner and Ply
mouth
The transfer of Charles B. Harris
of Goshen, from the consular service
at Nagasaki, : Japan, to Reichenberg
Austria, is a merited compliment to
an efficient and a deserving repre-
sentative 'of the United States. He
did so we'll at Nagasaki that the at
tention of the state department at
| Washington was directed to the ex-
cellence of his service.
/, Miss Lizzie Sheets of Vermillion
ILL.,, organizer of the General Wom-
ans Missionary society of the United
Brethren church, will address the
United Brethren congregation next
Sunday morning and evening, April
18th. Let all who can come and hear
Miss Sheetz She will give her hear
ers something helpful to take home
with them
The Logansport presbytery, which
closed two days session at South
Bend Tuesday evening electedRev. D
J. Burrell, of Laporte, moderator for
the .ensuing year. Other officers elect
ed were: The Rev E. R. Horton
Crown Point, temporary clerk; H. G
Rice, Monticello, stated clerk; the
Rev. w. E. Shirley Hammond, per-
manent clerk. The closing sermon
was preached by the Rev. B. B. Big
| gler, of Logansport.
i Editor Zimmerman of the Bourbon
Advance came to Plymouth Monda,
morning and got to the station just
yards away speeding toward Bourbon
| He says 1t is the first time he wa.
ever left by railway train, but not the
| first time he has been left by those
who ought to have stood by him. He
took the fast train to Warsaw and We
suppose got back to Bourbon with
the loss of only two hours.
i The amount OF money on deposit
in the national banks of Indiana nov
is nearly s10,ooo,OOO more than the
amount on deposit year ago. The
individual deposits have grown dur
ing the year from $95,330, 526.24 te
$105 ,O89, 667.5e. During the same
!. time the total resources show an in
crease of $1e,132, 152 20, having grown
from s166,055, 720.s7 to $1s5,1s7, s72. 81
The deposits in Indiana natfona
banks are now far greater than eve
before in the history of the State
The Northern Indiana conferenc,
of the Methodist Episcopal church il
/ holding its annual session at Logans
| port this week 1t is the only Meth
, odist conference in this section of tn,
United States that is held in tn,
, spring Bourbon and Inwood are il
this conference but Plymouth and RI
chester and South Bend are in tht
, Northwest Indiana conference TIL,
Michigan road from the Michigan
line to Indianapolis divides the con
ferences Churches on the east of thi
road are in the Northern Indian;
conference