The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-12-17
REVIEW OF INDIANA

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There were six deaths and but one
birth in Kendallville in November
Lieut.. c. c. Marsh, who was in COM
mand of the cruiser Yankee, which
sank near New Bedford, Mass, last
week. is Muncie man.
Authorities at Warsaw are after an
anonymous letter writer. who has been
sending threatening letters to John
w. Sellers, leader in the temperance
movement there.
The 9-year-old daughter of Harvey
Sternberg, near Goshen, was kicked
in the face by horse. A cash two
inches long was cut in her forehead,
the upper eyelid was entirely severed
and the lower eyelid badly cut.
John H. Brubaker, a prominent
Warsaw attorney. has just welded
Miss Emma Hollowell, of Goshen.
Brubaker is go years of age and has
four sons, the youngest of whom is
older than his bride, who is 10.
The revival services which have
been in progress for the last three
weeks at the New Salem Methodist
church, closed last week. The pastor,
the Rev. d. w. Hetrick, was assisted
by the Rev. Mr.. Coon, of Franklin.
Thirty new members were added to
the church roll.
John Larimer, IS years old, living
north of Jasonville, was accidentally
shot in the breast and abdomen while
hunting. While his injuries are not Ia
tai, he had a narrow escape from
| death, and it was due to the fact that
he wore very heavy hunting coat at
the time that he was not killed.
Miss May Stalcup, who lives near
Worthington, and her aunt, Mrs. Mary
Stalcup, of Elwood, were badly hurt in
runaway while coming to the city.
Miss Stalcup's face was badly LAGER
ated, and she was badly bruised. Mrs
Stalcup's shoulder is broken ana she
is injured internally. She may not re
cover.
A. l.. Bingham, of Ball Brothers
Manufacturing Company at Muncie
was whirling northward in Elm street
in his big touring car when he ran
directly in front of switch engine
and cut of box cars. Bingham was
unhurt. He saw the cars. but too late
to avoid the accident, although he
headed the machine up an alley that
ran alongside the track.
South Bend will have ten-story
office building j. nj. Studebaker hav
ing just announced that he would com
mence the construction of such "a
building on the corner of Main and
Washington streets, just across from
the Oliver Hotel and diagonally oppo
site the court house. The structure
will cost 100000 and will be Ill fee
long and have frontage of 66 feet.
When the new interurban line il
built from Kcndallville to Goshen Il
is expected that it will pass through
the ancient village of Benton, in Elk
hart County. and give that place &
new lease of life. Benton is one O.
the oldest towns in northern Indiana
Seventy-five years ago it was one o.
the leading villages in Elkhart County
and before railroads made their ap
pearance, or up to 1856, was the com
mercial center for trading.
John Syphers, II years old, wa
| taken from Clinton TO Pasteur insti
tnte in indianapolis. The boy, to
gether with several other children, wa.
bitten, near he Klondike mine ives
of the city, by dog supposed to b.
mad. The dog escaped, though pur
sued by farmers and miners. Farmer.
near ST. Bernice, eight miles west o.
Clinton, reported to the health Off
GERS that the dog had bitten severa
head of stock The animal was finally
shot and its head was shipped to The
State laboratory at Indianapolis.
The milk famine is the worst II
Hagerstown's history. Needler & Win
ner, who operated the only dairy. have
sold out. The high price of feed made
the business improbable and the large
herd of dairy cows was sold. Many
are buying cows while others arc
learning how to do without cream and
butter. Eggs are 80 cents a dozen
Some years ago they brought so cents
a dozen. That was when eggnog was
fashionable and every egg was re
quired to supply this demand. Saloon
lists had a standing order at all gro
GERS for all fresh eggs that came in
at so cents dozen.
Farmers near Morocco have a new
device in connection with the raising
of poultry. 1t is called the "oats in
cubator" The outfit is simple and
original, consisting of a number o
crates. one above the other, with nine
inches of space between. On the bot
tom of each crate layers of burlap are
placed and on the top crate water Is
poured each morning. The water
soaks the oats and then drops from
one crate to the other. Under the in
fluence of artificial heat the oats
spout and grow rapidly, the green
tender shoots making excellent food
for chickens during the winter
months. A bucketful of oats will make
five bucketsful of green food. Poultry
raisers who have tried the "oats in
cubator" are enthusiastic in its praise
Miss Mary E. Logan has returned
from India, where she has labored in
missionary work the last seven years
| 1t was her second trip to that country.
She is now at the home OF her father
S. Fl. Logan, near Rushville.
Salem Bashara, earliest leader OF
the Syrian colony in Fort Wayne. long
pioneer among the people of his ma
tionality. but later dethroned as his
fortune dwindled, died at his home at