The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-10-17

Bend Thursday for a weeks visit
with friends.
DR.. Smith extracts teeth without
pain. Ross. Hotel one day only, Tues
day Oct. 22nd
James Stephens, while walking or
the track at Laporte, was struck by Z
yard engine and instantly killed.
Four hundred and sixty-sever
tickets were sold to Bourbon Thurs
day on account of the Bourbon fair
Truman F. Swihart and Miss Nora
F. Zehner. of Tippecanoe township,
were married Thursday forenoon a:
the Methodist parsonage by Rev.
John NJ Palmer
Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Barnhill OF
Wentachee Valley. Wash, who have
been visiting with the formers broth
er. f. R. Barnhill, have gone to La
Grange for few days.
Mrs link has sold her 75-acre
farm north OF Burr Oak to DR. Hop
per of Lafayette for $4,000. Dr. Hop
per's son will occupy the place The
links will remove to South Bend
The vote at the subsidy election
Saturday was gone over Thursday by
the chairmen of the seven precincts
with the auditor. The official vote
was PSI for, and 7s3 against, the sub
sidy. Majority aginst, 532
Miss Elsie Gurthet. of Patterns
burg, Mo-, is here for a protracted
visit. the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C.
w. Slayter and other relatives. Miss
Curthet was reared by Mr. and Mrs.
Slayter. She had not been here for
five years.
The business mems bible class of
the VI. r. church held social class
meeting at the church last night Re
freshments were served and pleasant
evening was enjoyed The class en-
rollment is over thirty and is taught
by the pastor.
Wednesday was the time set for
the hearing of the motion for a new
trial in the. case of Liberty Cross The
prosecution objected to the motion
as insufficient AMI the hearing will
come up next week The judge gave
notice that the case must be passed
upon at the present term OF court.
Statistics furnished bv tn State
Board of Charities show that there
are i,165 prisoners incarcerated in the
Jacksonville refor,natory 1,O5O pris-
oners in the Michigan City peniten-
tiary. forty-six prisoners in the wom-
ans prison. 1000 in Indiana jails, 900
in the girls school and 555 in the
boys school at Plainfeld. This makes
4,146 persons incarcerate in Indiana.
Mrs. c. V. Morris and her two
children departed Thursday after
noon for Vancouver, British Column
bia, where she will join her husband,
Court Morris, who is engaged there
in the lumber business Mrs. Morris
will remain indefinitely. She will
make her journey alone, and expects
TO arrive at her destination Monday
afternoon
An ancient instrument of torture
was recently sold at London auc-
ton. Ii was the actual bride which
in oklen days was used to curb the
tongues of women who talked too
much or were scolds. 1t is made OF
steel and passed over and round the
head. so that when it was fastened at
the back OF the neck with a paddock
it effectually kept the mouth shut.
An illicit mini at Gary Ind, at
which the tops of settler siphons
were being converted into spurious
quarters mckels and dimes, was raid
ed Tues Jay evening and the owner of
the mint, Andrew Birkus. was locked
up. Birkus admitted that his indus
try in the last year had Melted him
$500. with which he had paid long
standing debt He ground the tops
of large bottles into quarters and
made the nickels and dimes of the
smaller tops.
Notable among the events schedul-
ed for the week is the Inauguration
of regular transatlantic wireless
service. William Marconi. it is un-
derstood, on Tuesday, opered his
stations in Nova Scotia and Ireland
for the transmission of press and
commercial messages direct between
America and Europe Communica-
ton between this country and Cuba
also will lie facilitated by the COM
pletion of phe first cable directly con-
meeting New York and HAVANA.
Total gross earnings of all railroads
in the United States reporting for
the four weeks of September, accord
ing to Dun's Trade Review, are s44,-
942. sos, an Increase of Ill per cent.
over the same period of last year.
The gross earnings of the same lines
for four weeks of August were IA
per cent. higher than year ago and
the gross earnings for July were 9.3
per cent. higher than a year ago, so
that it does not seem that our all
roads are going to the bow-wows as
fast as some high priced manipulators
would have the people of the nation
believe.