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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
CONGRESSMAN
WISH REELECTION
INDIANA REPRESENTATIVES
ALREADY PLAN CAMPAIGNS
FOR REELECTION.
Only Evidence of Contest is Shown
in Congressman Cox's
District.

Washington Aug. 1O.-Ah OF the
Indiana members of the House OF
Representatives Will be candidates
for denomination next year. OF the
eleven Democratic representatives
from the lHoosier state Mr.. Boehne
OF the First District is the only one
OF whose candidacy there has al any
time been any douIbt.
Mr.. Boehne is a man OF atfalis,
and from his own personal stand
point he is making sacrifice, imam
cially speaking, every day he is in
Washington Mr.. BOehne was far
from favorably impressed by con-
gressional life during the long per-
iod OF restful inactivity that ensued
after THE House passed the tariff bill
and before it was disposed OF by the
Senate. 1t goes against his grain, so
to speak, to kill time loaifing. But
next winter, in the hustle and hustle
OF regular session, with multifar-
lous matters OF legislation UP for
consideration, Mr.. Boehne is likely
to enjoy congressional life more.
AT any rate, he will consent, when
the time comes. TO the use Of his
name dor another term. No one can
forecast who his competitor viii be.
Thomas p Littlepage, former secrc-
tary to Senator Hemenway, has been
mentioned most frequently in that
| connection, but he says that he has
no intention to permit THE Use OF his
lranle.
Representative Culiop, Cox, Dix
ON, Moss, Barnard, Horribly, Adair
| Morrison, Crumpacker, Rauch, Cline
and -BarD,hart also have their eyes
fixed on another nomination.
Cox Meets Competition.
OF t4ese Representative Cox OF
the Third District is the only One
who is threatened with serious com
petition in his own party fold Geo
Voigt, a Jefferson lawyer, is said C
be an aspirant for the toga WORN by
the present Third District represen.
tatiye Mr.. Voigt furthermore. i.
said to be mighty busy lining Ut
the boys"
| However, as an, active quantity il
politics he has no advantage over Nj
Cox, VINO undoubtedly writes NOR:
letters and keeps N closer touch witt
the home folks than any other InG
ana member Voigt belongs - TIN
clement Of Third District Democrat
that kept former Representative Zen
or in office so many years and the,
are the closest OF friends.
The Democratic congressional com
mitfee is planning to help out" tn,
Democratic candidates in the close o
Indiana districts next year. This will
be link-a1ld an important link-il
| the scheme to elect a Democrat.
House and depose Uncle Joe" Can
ron. The congressional committe,
IAN not ait this time look forward t.
amy monumental campaign fund Blu
some mamma will fail from the Dem
ocratic heavens and the close Indian
districts will get their share of it.
| Furthermore, they will get a del
dge of oHatory, as the leading Dem
cratic speakers Of the natioD are t.
re sent into Indiana TO expound TIL,
issues from the Democratic view
f.oint. Altogether, the congress-
al campaigns in Indiana are YER,
kelly to be about the liveliest in tn
/ srflre country
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
French Study Language.

I'm France" said DR.. Alley, this
sort of work is done in the common
school, with the result that every
French boy and girl has learned to
love the language in the same way
that the flag is loved The children
know well-spoken French, and even
the so-called ignorant Frenchman
speaks good French.
But the average Hoosier or Buck
eye with common school educaltion
distcrts the LANGUAGE with regularity
and seems even to be proud OF it.
Il don't expect the results OF this
campaign for clean and forceful Eng
1ish TO bear immediate results.
look for evidences of the teaching
of hygiene almost immediately, and
for the pressure upon important
Things alone; but it will be years, oil
course, before our common school
people will speak English well. But
If we cam, for starter, call the at,
tention of 1000 school teachers to
the existence Of bad English, the re-
suit WIFI be felt in the long run. II
will be easier now that the majority
OF orr teachers are high school grad
yates because they know more about
literature and English than do the
common school graduates. A few
years ago it would have been a hard
matter, indeed"
DIR Alley and has assistant, T. c.
Bunnell, will visit siNty-eight coun-
ties before school opens, and speak
to the teachers at county institutes
These three matters will be gone
over carefully, and the. attention oi
the teachers called to what is being
done. and the reasons for it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
L. B CHURCH NOTES.

= So $.
There was an exceedinly good at
tendance last Sunday at all the ser
vices considering the hot day. Rev.
S. Simons and wife of our church
at Donaldson came over in their
auto to enjov the evening service.
About thirty of the PRIMARY de-
partment enjoyed picnic ON the
banks OF the river last Thursday aft
ternoon. The children greatly enjoy
ed the outing and especially the FIVE
O'clock dinner spread on the grass
by Mrs CLANCY and others.
The Chris ian Endeavor Society
held one of the best socials OF the
season at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas LaRue, corner Walnut and
HARRISON streets Friday evening. The
attendance WAS good and all enjoyed
the evening. The LaRues know jus.
how to entertain.
Rev. J. wv. Lake our pastor at Bre-
men, was a caller at the parsonage
Monday. Rev. Lake was I'm attend
ance at the county Sunday Sch ol
Council He is superintendent OF
the Adult Glass Department.
The Sunday School and all other:
who desire TO enjoy the day at PRETTY
Lake Saturday, Aug 14th, should be
at the church at $50 a. m. Br1ne
your baskets Ample provision will
be made for you ITO go. Come ant
go with us.
Kew. ]. E. Grimes, superintendent
OF St. Joseph conference, will be witt
us Monday evening, Aug. 16., to holC
the last quarterly meeting for the
year. All official members shoult
have their reports ready. AN are in
vlted to this meeting.
St. Joseph annual session will con
vene at Lafayette Tuesday, Sept.
and continue over Sunday. Bishop
Mathews of Chicago will preside
This viii be an interesting session a
the late general conference has adde,
1e new fields OF 'abor, making ST
Joseph one of the largest conference
OF the church.
The subject for next Sunday morn
ing will be "A Prophecy for tn,
Coming Year." in the evening tn,
subject will be Your Talent" lie
all members make an. effort to b.
present at morning service. AN cor
daily welcome.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
GOVERNMENT SEEKS REMEDY
Woodpeckers Attack Telephone, Tel
egraph and Electric Light Poles
Causing Damage.

Considerable damage is being done
to telephone, telegraph and electric
light poles by members of .lhe wood
pecler family These birds origin
ally built their homes in the dead
or dying trunks of limbs OF trees, but
for some reason best known to them
selves, have come TO the conclusion
that the peeled pole offers better con-
ditSons for home
They have become so ravenous OF
late THAT their depredatpons are at
tracting considerable attention among
Those who are compelled to use guam
titles OF wooden poles. Their activ-
ities spread over wide portion OF
the United States, notably in the
south, southwest and central west
Cedar poles seem to be the ones most
Frequently attacked The bids bore
into them at any height from the
ground, and the holes (which they
in diameter and four or five inches
in diameter and foeur or five inches
deep. Such an amount OF wood drilled
frcm 2 stick OF timber which is car
iying a load df wires naturally weak
ems the strength OF the timber.
1t would OF course, not he diff.
cult matter to extdrninate these
birds. However, this is not desira0
as they are among the most benefi
dial forms OF bird life native TO thi:
country, because they destroy large
numbers OF insects which seriously
damage forest and food crops. L
seems, therefore, that method:
should be undertaken TO compel tn,
birds to revert to their former habf
of boring rather than to extermin
ate them
/. Frequent inquiries have been mad,
by the Forest Service in this connec
tion, but the only information to dat,
'wbach the Government has been abb
to obtain is that on a casual inspec
tion of treated and untreated pol
lines in Louisiana In that region
was found that poles which had beer
mpregnated with creosote oil wer
not attacked by the birds, wherea
untreated poles under the same con
drtrCns were very severely injured
Whether or not creoSote will pre-
vent such an attack is not dehnitel,
known, but the Service is investigat
ng this problem, and should this OF
Iprove a preventative, it will fulfill
uwolfold purpose: 1t win protect tn,
Ipoles from decay and destruction
from animal life. In southern Ind
ana, some members of a traction
company thought that they could pre-
vent further destruction of their pole
by filing THE holes in the wood witt
stones. The birds, howeve. smpl
drilled around the stones ana lad
the conditions much worse. This APP
parently does not seem to he mean
Of preventing their depredations.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
Don't be Finrcky Eat What You Like

Much Is being said these days
about how TO eat, how to eat, ETC.,
We are told that there is a hot
weather diet, and ike the fail and
spring hat, We are given styles and
varieties for these seasons also. Such
fruits as peaches, pears and plums,
are not to be eaten IN the summer,
or, If eaten, should be INDUCED very
sparingly. But little meat should be
eaten in the spring, and some say
none at all. The watermelon IS likely
to cause ague in the fail, and black
berries, appendicitis in the summer.
1t seems unfortunate that what IS
forbidden happens to be the very
things we want, and the fruit we
woud have does got ripen at the right
time.
If these fruits are not to be in
dulged in the summer, then we
ought TO have varieties that ripen in
the winter Here is an opportunity
for some one TO make himself ia
nous.
We are told to drink warm water
n the sumnle. when something cold
as desired, and to drink something
cold IN the winter just when coffee
hot and steaming, is most rehshed
1t seems that everything is revers-
ed, or it would be so, if we should
rake all Of this advice 1t IS the cpin-
ion of the writer that iron clad rules
cannot be laid down an tilis matter,
what is needed is good common
sense. In fact this is a commodity
that Is useful at all times, whether
in eating, drinking or even getting
married. 1t has been the custom OF
this office never to refuse any OF the
fruits above enumerated, when
brought in by our friends in the sum-
mer, and lest it might be supposed
that these articles have been placed
On the forbidden list, it will be said
that all seasons look alike at the
Tribune office 1t has been said that
we should be temperate in all things
This perhaps means that we should
be temperate even in making rules
and regulations
Exercise proper sanitary precau-
tions, eat what you wafTt OF you can
get it, moderately and with judg-
ment, spend less time regulating. and
DON'T be afraid
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
Nicely Trimmed.

A negro who had no arms and nc
legs was ttdng on dry. goods box
receiving aims An Irishman went
along and dropped in a quarter and
he went along half a block and came
back and dropped in half dollar
then he went on for half block and
put in IS cents; then he came back
and on the fourth trip he put in 81
The negro booked at HIM and said
Amt you lIriSh?" Eyes, by gosh, ]
am Irish" Il Thought you didn't
ike the negroes?" well" said the
lrlshman, Il don't like the negroes
and / never saw one before that was
trimmed up just to suit me- FIX
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
Fall Outlook Good.

There is nothing discouraging in
the outlook for fall business that is
visible TO am observer on the side
lines. and it Is apparent that those
who are in the game are looking at
the same bright side Cf the prospect.
for they do not h6- Itate to say they
are confident results will show the
nearest return yet made to conditions
as they existed before the slump of
1907. Their confidence - Nased on
the bumper crops the fanme, are
harvesting this year, on the improve
ment in industrial conditions. wshic h
are gradually assuming a normal tone
and ON the settlemert of the tariff
question, which for months has been
a source OF uncertainty and unrest.
The Farmer, is of course, the base
ct the whole business structure which
Is being erected in anticipation of
the coming fall and winter months.
and while the farmer is a conserva-
tive money spender it calculated
that his actual needs, wflch he rarely
neglects when able to supply them.
Will be sufficient to create a demand
that will Ap the wheels now turn
ing in motion and start many more.
For Two years or more the farmer.
though blessed with good crops. has
been ultra Conservative in his expen-
cItures. The unsettled state of the
financial world has INSPIRED him with
unusual caution, but now that the f.
nancial tone is assuming a more nor
mai character he is expecre, % have
greater confidence in the stabiirr, and
permanence OF business conditions
and 10 supply himself with the ar
ticieS he has long needed but hest
tated 10 purchase With this source
81 trade once more flowing freely in
to tine markets other lines will be
given Il stimulus. Manufacturers will
employ more felp and as a logical Sc
quence the mercfmat will sell more
goods. The man who lives in the CITY
or town and works for wages is not
afraid to spend his money if he can
see a probability on steady employ
ment. He enjoys the comforts as well
as the luxurfes OF life, but he also
likes to save little, and if he is pru-
dent regulates his expenditures so
that he may bay UP a margin for
times OF sickness and depression.
The effect OF the settlement of the
tariff question is to bring about stead
mess I'M prices through the assurance
IT conveys of permanently in the rate
OF duty established and to remove
the adverse mental effect THAT agita-
ton OF amy kind has on business.
| Whether the rates are just what they
should be for the best interests Of adj
or not they are REGARDED as an inn
povment and the que stion is taken
out OF the issues for the present al
least.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12

ey OF like amount deposited with
the treasurer OF the United States
on account of liquidating and insolv-
ent national banks and asso Stations
which have reduced their circulation
DR.. Irwin Conkle OF Wnronl Lake,
has invented unique device Tor ty-
ing mail packages, which is attract
ing d great deal of attention among
Pos. ,fiiCe Department Officials Post
master General Hitchcock is .aking
quite an interest in it. The price paid
by the department for Irvine is q
large item and it is claimed that DR..
Conkle's invention will reduce this
item OF expenditure to one-third Of
the amount now paid, in addition to
being a great time saver.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
REMEMBERS THE PREACHERS
Representative Barnhart Has Fur
nished Government Books for
230 in 18th District.

Representative Barnhart has re-
me1nbered the ministers, priests and
rabbits, go of them in the Thirteenth
district, by sending them something
shat he Thought might interest them
n their religious work. He sent each
of them a copy OF the government
STATISTICS on the subject of marriage
and divorce And he 5 ALSO sending
each OF them a copy OF a publication
entitled, "A Century of Population
Growth in the United States" This
volume, IS we'll as the one ON ma
rage and divorce, will be valuable TO
the prealdhers in getting correct data
for many sermons.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
Twin Lake Wrinkles.

Mrs. o. A. CRUDE visited relatives
in Chicago Sunday.
Mr.. Daniel Holdeman spent Mon
day morning in Hubbard on business
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Glass spent
Sunday at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Elijah Myers.
Mrs VIM Piper visited with rela-
tives at belong and Monterey, Sat
urday and Sunday
Mrs Martin Lohm spent Tuesday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs Jacob
Hibray at Plymouth.
Nh and Mrs John Cook spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mr. Smith
who reside near Hubbard
Mrs. Benjamin Hoaem was the
guest OH her SON and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. Forrest Holem at South Bend.
Mrs. c. M. Slayter and Mrs. VIM
Hess OF Plymouth visited the form
ers daughter, Mrs. Milton Cook, last
Sunday.
Mrs. Levi Hartman was called to
Plymouth Monday ON account of the
critical illness of her grandson, Os-
car Williams.
Mrs Amanda Semler was called to
Plymouth last we k ON account OF
the serious Illness of her sister-in-
law, MIR. John Lawrence
Mrs. Charles Kyser was called to
the home OF her mother, Mrs. Rob
ert IGggett, who was very sick, but
is reported as being improved at this
writing.
Mrs. VIM Nichols and daughter OF
South Berd came to VISIT her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs Elijah Myers and
other relatives last Sunday and ex-
poets to remain for several days.
Mr.. Mickey Clemens had the mis-
fortune of losing his valuable horse
last Sunday, and on Monday. he
stepped ON rail and in consequence
is suffering with very sore foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM White and
daughter Clara, Mr.. Willard White
and his friend, Miss Anna Kyser, all
OF Plymouth, visited at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs Clarence White last
Sunday.
Several families i'm this vicinity
went to Plymouth Saturday to- attend
the funeral OF their old friend and
neighbcr, J. c. Gastil, who lived at
Twin Lakes many years ago, but died
at his home i'm Missouri.
Twin Lakes against the world FOR
oats raising Mr. Mickey Clemens
raised 554 bushels of oats from 10
acres, making an average OF 55 "a
bushels pr acre. Mr. Clemens rs a
hustling young fellow which was
proven by the ttlly board at the
threslhimg machine last Monday. II
this yield can be beaten in Marshall
county, we would be pleased TO hear
reports.
On account of last Monday being
Mr.. o. A. Grtibe's 31st birthday, his
wife took advantage of it and plan
ned surprise ON him. AT eight o.
clock about fifty OF his friends and
relatives gathered at thelr home and
spent very enjoyable evening to-
gether Mr. CRUDE was remembered
by several nice presents, among them
fine large rocker, which w'as pre-
scented by his wife Ice ;-eam and
cake was served AT late hour the
guests returned to their homes wish
ing Mr. CRUDE many more pleasant
anniversar 5.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
WAR AGAINST
SLANG in SCHOOL
FUNDAMENTALS IN SCHOOL
SUBJECTS WILL BE THE
OBJECT THIS YEAR.
Hygiene and Health and English
Language to Be Emphasized-to
Distribute Course.

Indianapolis, August 1C.-The
teaching OF the Fundamentals OF
school subjects, with less attention
to minor matters; the teaching X +re
principles OF hygiene and heath, I'D
the teaching of the beauty OF the
English language and its cwrent us
age. These are the three points
brought home to $4,000 Indiana
teachers in the new course OF study
for this year just prepared by the
department. of public instruction.
The new course is NOW in the
hands OF the state printer and should
&c ready this week for distribution
throughout the state ONLY 10000
copies will be printed because OF the
shrinking appropriation Tor printing
1t is the policy 'of Dr. Alley, super
inrerdent OF . public Instruction, to
have less time spent in mere cover
ing ground and more spent in thor
ough mastery of subjects Studied.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
Much Time is Lost.

There are some portions OF arith-
metic and history, Tor example, that
are necessary every day" he said.
"On the other hand, it isn't espe aally
necessary to know how to ges the
greatest common divisor by long di-
vision. In the same Way as much
time is spent by teachers on some
little Indian war as the bate OF
Lexington. We want teachers to en-
phasize things because of their value
and not because they are in the text
book.
The study of hygiene will play a
more important part in the school
room this year than ever before. Ii
has been the purpose OF DIR. Aley to
supplement- as much as possible the
campaign of the state board oil
health. Children Will be taught the
vaiue OF pure AIR, OF sanitation, OF
proper food and OF cleanliness The
physiology and hygiene textbook
study will be along special outline
| made out by the author OF the adopt
ed textbooks, DR.. H. w. Conn, es-
oeciaIy for the use OF the Indiana
| schools.
A further ambition OF the depart
merlt of public instruction is to in
spire a new patriotism in the schoo
children OF the state-and inciden-
.aliy TO the teachers-for the Eng
'ssh language, not only for Its belut
ard expressivenes but also for it
correct usage. Teachers will hrs
and foremost be expected 70 drill
their pupils on the WORDS rlisuseI
most frequently In the study OF lit
| erature the strong and wel'-kn
phrases will be pointed out and the
| students themselves will be eacolr-
aged TO use good English-no: only
| serviceable English, but polished arC
A
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
Wireless Shows Loss.

The enormous growth OF telegraph
and telephone business in the Unit
ed States is interestingly set forth in
bulletin issued today by the Census
Bureau. 1t appears from this bull
letin that the telephone Is supplant-
ing the telegraph to a considerable
extent, even in train dispatching
The bulletin says in part:
More than 100000 miles OF
single wire are used by the people of
the United States in communicating
with each other over the various tel
rephone and telegraph systems OF
this number 1898, 1863 miles are OPP
Grated by the telephone systems and
2.O72, sJ1 miles by the telegraph
companies. This length of single wire
would encircle the earth at the equa-
tor more than 600 times. Over the
telegraph wires in 1907 there were
flashd 36s,47O,5O9 messages, OF which
5.s69,317 were cableigrams.
wireless hSOWS Loss.
The bulletin gives the first stats
tics for the commercial wireless sys-
TENS already established and states
than they were operated at a loss OF
SAT, 62s in 1907 There were six COM
mercia1 wireless telegraph systems in
1907 operating 122 tower stations. 10
Gated at most of the large ports Of
the Atlantdc and Pacific oceans, the
Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii and the
Great Lakes They transmitted &c.
617 wireless messages Their auth
ohzed capitalization consisted OF
stock at par value of $39,45O,OOO, OF
which s32, 726,242 was the value Of
the outstanding issue
All of the advices received at The
office of the controller od the cur
rercy Indicate complete resump-
ton Of confidence in the business
world During the month Of July,
1909, thirty-seven applica ons to or
ganize national banks were received.
In the same month twenty-cight
banks, with total capital OF $685.
900, were authorized to begin bust
ness. OF this number twenty, with d
capital OF $4,000 had individual cap
ital of less than $4,000, and eight,
with capital of S775,OOO, individual
capital of 10000 or more.
The total number of national
banks that have been organized in
the United States is 9,494, Of which
2,517 have discontinued business
leaving in existence 6,977 banks with
authorized capital of 94s, 931, IT'S and
circulation outstanding secured by
bonds, $667, sos, 731 The total amount
OF national bank circulation out.
standing is $685., 354, 164, of which
s27, s45, 433 is covered by lawful mon