The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-07

Pierce Gault of Kosciusko county,
visited his sister, Mrs. W. H. Hallock
Saturday
Mrs. Sophia Heinke died at South
Bend, Saturday night Jan. &c, aged SO
years and 20 days. The remains were
taken to Bremen for interment where
funeral services were held Tuesday.
She leaves three children, 20 grand
children and AZ great grand children.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Paulus, Mrs.
Barnes and Mrs. Haas of Columbia
City, stopped in Plymouth Tuesday
on their way to Lapaz to attend the
funeral of Floyd Clabaugh son OF
Samuel Clabaugh He died at Fort
Wayne aged Is years.
The farmers institute at Bremen
was big success, the opera house
proving entirely too small for the
crowd that would have liked to gain
admission. II. L. Laudaman was
elected chairman and Robert Knob
lock secretary of the Bremen associ-
alton.
James F. Losey, father of Mrs.
John r Losey and Mrs. Strang, died
at his home at Gale.on, Pa, February
l. A telegram announcing his serious
illness was received here Wednesday
morning and Mrs. Strang left on the
afternoon train and reached Galeton
before her father died.
Intense excitement has been caused
by the striking of rich coal veins on
the Miller farm, east of Mill creek,
Laporte county The land is now
held at fabulous value and experts
have been called tosmake examina-
tons. Coal in paying quantities has
not heretofore been found in north
ern Indiana.
c. w. Reed of Bourbon township
and Eli Silvius who resides near this
in ten minutes of each other Saturday
morning. Both are advance paying
subscribers who have taken our pap
err thirty years. Both take other pap
ers, but say that the Tribune is the
best OF ALL We appreciate such ub-
scribers.
Rev. ]. F. Pressnal has returned
from Owassie, Mich, where he spent
four weeks in revival meeting. He
leaves for Greentown, Ind, Saturday.
Feb 2, to assist in series of meet
ings that will probably keep him
there two or three weeks. He says
the mercury registered from 10 to Is
degrees below zero where he was in
Michigan last week.
The Plymouth ice houses are now
almost filled with ice OF excellent
quality and at Culver thhe new ice
houses are being rushed to compile
ton. Mr.. Medbourn has had forty
men at work all week cutting eight
inch ice, for his new ice house and
hundreds of car loads have been cut
and shipped to various points in this
South Bend appears to have bought
a gold brick in the case of the United
States Mica company, which was Civ
en- bonus TO establish their million
dollar plant" there. The factory
buildings are not yet finished but this
week a bill was filed in the superior
court at Chicago asking for the ap-
pontment of receiver for the COM
rany. Plymouth is not the only place
that has been handed lemon by the
promoter.
While at work in the. woods on the
Asher Sans farm near Etna Green.
on January 10th, Emery Long and
Bert Smiley killed seven snakes.
three rattlers, blue racer and three
garter snakes The blue racer and
garter snakes were punched together
under a fallen limb, but the rattle
snakes were out in the open The
warm weather of that period had
served TO reanimate them. The above
named gentlemen have in their pos
session the rattles to substantiate the
truth of this story.
Representative Watson says the
railroads intend to do their best to
defeat his bill which limits to $50 the
amount of road work that any indi-
vidual may work out in one year. Ac-
cording to Representative Watson's
statements the object of the bill is
to break up the practice among the
railroads of farming out" their share
of the road work to middlemen, who
in turn let the contract in the town
ship in which the work is TO be done
He declares that the townships of In
diana are losing thousands of dollars
every year through this system.
Goshen Still Fighting.
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