The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-07-23
LOCAL NEWS

Elmer Bryan and family have
moved to Argos.
Mrs. Ben Fetters went to Han
ma to visit over Sunday
Ned KiImer is spending a
week with relatives and friends
ot Peru.
Mrs. w. S. Wilkinson and
children have gone to Hamlet for
a visit of two weeks.
Lincoln L. Croker went to
Cassopoiis, Michigan, Friday, for
a visit of few days.
Uncle Billy" Osborne and t.
NJ. Murphy of Culver, were Ply
mouth visitors Friday.
Mrs. Girton and her sister,
Miss Della Hostettler of Millers-
burg. visited in Bourbon Friday.
Miss Flora Koontz arrived
Thursday evening from Elm
hurst, Illinois and' is visiting at
w. w. Hills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine Win
bigler who are here from Cali
fornia, have gone to Bourbon Tor
a visit of a week.
Mrs. Ed. Thompson, daughter
and niece of Greene, Iowa, are
visiting Clark Thompson and
other relatives here.
Charles F. Holler does not
seem any more popular in a Pro-
hibition national convention than
he is in South Bend.
George w. Corner, an old res
ident OF near Walkerton, died
Wednesday night aged 81 years,
months and 10 days.
The rain Thursday night made
all the farmers, fruit and vege-
table men rejoice. 1t was general
throughout the county.
Matthias Mangus has returned
to his home east OF Argos after
visit OF several days with. rela-
tives at Bremen and vicinity.
Miss Louise Stegman is here
from Detroit for a visit of two
weeks with her sister, Mrs. Chas.
Ulrich and other relatives and
friends
Thomas K. Marshall, Demo-
cratic candidate for governor,
will make a speech at the con-
gressional convention in Ply
mouth next Thursday.
1t is reported that the Swift
Packing company of Chicago, is
considering a proposition to re,
move its immense plant to the
vicinity of Michigan City.
Peter Hahn was the first one
in this vicinity to thresh wheat,
this season and the yield was 80
bushels and 24 lbs per acre, get
ting 121 1-2 bushels from 3 81
acres.-Bourbon Mirror.
Two thousand Kosciusko
county niinrods took out hunt
ers' license, each paying 81. They
are useless for nearly every
farmer in the county rs barring
sportsmen and guns from his
farm.
VIM. Fretz and wife visited in
Plymouth last week with Miss
Sallie Robbins and on returning
home were accompanied by the
latter, who viii remain with
them some little time.-Bourbon
Mirror.
The McCallum Wagon Works
are taking out their boiler and
engine and replacing with small
er ones The present engine is
an 80 horse power and one of
about 35 horse power is all that
is needed.
Now that Shively is out of the
congressional race. we shall not
be surprised If Henry A. Steis
of South Bend. formerly of Win
amaze, is chosen to lead the Dem
ocratic party in a losing fight in
this district.
According to statistics receiv-
ed by Mary Stubbs-Moore, chief
of the Indiana Bureau of Stats
tics, 62,64S, sos dozen eggs were
produced in Indiana last year.
Marshall county produced almost
a million dozen.
Anthony w. Boggs who died
at Argos, July II, was rs years
months and % days old. His
wife, who survives him is a sis
ter of James NJ. Gibson of Ply
mouth. Deceased spent most oil
his life on a farm just west OF
Argos.
Mrs. A. Carr of Inwood, had a
field OF wheat that yielded 46
bushels to the acre; this will
probably no. be beaten in Mar
shall county, but yields of 80
bushels per acre are reported
from almost every section of the
county.
Sunday school excursions are
not SO popular here this year as
usual. The Methodist had but
$50 and the Presbyterians took
less than 500 to Winona. The
Bourbon excursion carried as
many as both the Plymouth ex-
cursions.