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

James L. Pugh, ex-senator from
Alabama, is dead, aged 81 years.
Archie Roosevelt continues to i'm
prove and now seems out of danger
Mr.. and Mrs J. H. Armantrout of
Bourbon. are visiting their son in this
city.
Mrs. T. ]. Freshour, who has been
visiting in this city, went to Chicago
Tuesday.
Mrs Urias Buchtel has returned to
Talnia after visit of week in this
city and vicinity.
Mr. Benedict and Will Baugher
are visiting and transacting business
in Peru this week.
Joshua Curtis, one of Warsaw's
oldest business men, died Saturday
night aged So years.
Frank Wilson, who was called here
by the death of his sister, returneI
to mis- work at Chicago Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert McClurg of
Logansport, have been visiting in
Tyner and Plymouth FIR few days.
Albert Pence, who now resides in
Wisconsin, stopped in Plymouth
Monday night, on his way to Cincin
natl
Four new factories have been es-
tablished in Elkhart during he past
four months and everything is lively
in that city.
Liquor licenses have been granted
to A II. Morsches and Charles w.
Vogel of Plymouth and Ernest G.
Mochel of Bremen.
Elmer Gatten of Inwood, expects
to move to Texas about March IS.
Marion Cramer has purchased his
property in Inwood.
Mrs. W. G. Hendricks went to In
wood Tuesday to help her father,
John Westling, celebrate his 7,si
DaThday anniversary
John R. Nye, whose wife died
short time ago, took his three little
children to South Bend Thursday, to
place them in the care of relatives
there
Clifford Burkett visited his mother
and other relatives in Warsaw last
Saturday Mrs. Burkett is at the
horne of her sister. coavalescing from
a lcng illness
Everett Fences two year old son
fell in key of vinegar at South
Whitley and was drowned The acid
contained in the vinegar shriveled
the body in a horrifying manner.
Miss Edith Boyd, of Columbia
City, IS years of age, who was al
most dead with tuberculosis six
months ago. is recovering and has
gained over twenty pounds in that
time She has tried the open ali
treatement and has been sleeping
throughout the winter in a room
with the windows entirely removed
Andrew Richard has moved TO this
city from his farm near Wolf Creek
and with his family is now III the
home which he purchased of Jacob
Suit just south of the Haag grocery
store on Plum street He has opened
a real estate office in the Corbin
block and If you want to buy or sell
property you will find Mr.. Richard
ready to help you.
Leonidas Preston, who committed
suicide in a New York hotel one day
last week, posed rs a multi-million-
aire, bet lleaviy on the races, kept
handsome women, and flew high gen
orally. Since he put himself out OF
the way the fact has developed that
he forged the names of friends to
notes in the sum of 100000 and that
his cash on hand consisted OF IS
cents.
Figures just compiled by Miss
May Stubbs, State statistician, show
that the number of divorces granted
in Indiana during the year 1906,
equaled about IL per cent of the to
tai number Of marriages. About
three times as many wives were
granted divorce, throughout the
state, as men and the chief cause wa,
failure to provide, or abandonment.
A remarkable statement in the re-
port of Miss Stubs is that twelve
men secured divorce because their
wives refused to provide for their
husbands.
Willard Rhodes lives on the John
Jacoby farm just east of this city
There is a very large cistern at the
house from which water is used for
various purposes. A few evenings
ago some one removed the cap from
the cistern and forgot to replace l..
Mrs. Rhodes walked into the open
ing and went down in four feet OF
water She fortunately lighted on her
feet and her cries soon brought as
sistance. She was extricated from the
cistern very wet and cold bu, FORUM
ately no serious results have follow
ed the accident.