The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-03-12

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kins.
Miss Hazel Crist of Warsaw, who
has been visiting with Mrs. Rose
Lowry m this city retuI led to her
home, Friday.
The death rate in South Bend in
January was over twenty people in
every thouand, the largest death rae
of any city in the state.
Mrs. Belle Clifford and Miss Anna
Ebersold were called to Valparaiso
Friday on OF the death of
their grandmother, Mrs. Sprenzel.
Mrs. M. Tremmel has returned
to her home in Rochester after
spending a few days with her daugh-
ter, Mrs Harry Armstrong. in this
city
The usual concessions for summer
travel Will be granted by the rail
roads owing to the failure 'of. the
move to keep all fares on a straight
2-cent basis.
Reports from all the lakes of-north-
ern Indiana indicate a great harvest
OF ice Of a fine quality. Reports
state that the ice houses are. bulging
with the crop.
Mr.. Chas. Powers and Miss Rose
Fulton have returned to their homes
in South. Bend after spending a few
days with the family OF Elmer Bry-
an, IN this city,
Mrs. B Mcdaniel and daughter,
Miss Minnie Williams of Walker
ton, who have been visiting with the
formers daughter, Mrs. Ed Richards.
returned TO their home Friday. :
All engagements for Ernma Gold
man to speak in Chicago are can
celled Assistant Chief Schuettler eff
fectively blocking plans to rent a
hall. Averbuch was buried in pot
ter's field.
The Edward Hill estate, which
brought. suit against the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad company for the
death OF Mr.. Hill, who was killed at
the coal chute IN Walkerton nearly
two year ago. was awarded S 1000
in the federal court at ~lndianapoli
the latter part of hast week.
A large majority Of the men prin-
cipals in the New York schools fav-
ored the restoration of corporal pun
ishment. and their opinion was in
dorsed in a committee report to the
board of education, but the board has
voted the proposal down. the vote
standing tw~erty-one TO seventeen.
Mrs. Frances Myers, better known
as Grandma Myers, died al Argos,
Sunday, March l, aged IS years. Her
only child died in infancy but AZ
years ago she took the three-month;
old child of ID. B. Armstrong of this
city and reared her TO womanhood
This child now Mrs. Qualls survives
her.
Railroad officials are authority for
the statement that 100000 employees
Of railroads have been laid off. The
forces OF the mechanical, accounting,
engineering and clerical departments
have been reduced an average OF
one-third. and it i expected that adj
ditional reduction will be made in the
next month
Seldom has the country been
shocked and stirred SO profoundly
as it is by the reports of the Collin
wood school FIRE, with MS terrible
cost IL young human life.fThe heart
felt sympathy of every parent, OF
every man or woman in the country
: is with the stricken families in the
Ohio village. 2
California fruit will soon be eaten
all over the globe. An experimental
Shipment was recently made to the
Philippines, and, although the transit
!. occupied five weeks. the fruit arrived
in hhe condition, and as Australian
apples have been selling IN Manila
for. from ten to, twenty-five cents
apiece, its advent was hailed with
delight.
+ Grand Rapids, Mich, fhursda.
was threatened with a repitioa .ol
CFeveland's fEagedy OF "Wednesday
: on an even larger scale. Fire brokS
out in the laboratory of the Contra
High school while 1000 pupils were
an the midst of the morning work
The signal for the fire drill was given
and the children marched C,t IN per
feet order. The building was emp
led in Two and one-half minutes.
Charles F. Gunther OF Chicago. the
we'll known candy manufacturer, an
ncunced Thursday that he would &c
tire from the retail candy business
this month and turn over the. whole
sale branch of his factory to his scr.
BlrntII Nj Gu1tner- ihlo step VII
be taken to celebrate his seventeen
birthday. Mr.. Gunther went to Chi
n 1868 and for many years con
Quoted his business in Clark street
then removing to State street, wher'
his establishment has been one y til,
landmarks of the city ever since