The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
REVIEW OF INDIANA

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Cholera is killing many hogs in the
south half of Rush County.
George HI. Peet, of Indianapolis, has
been appointed a clerk in the animal
inspection service of the agricultural
department He will be stationed at
| st. Joseph, Mo. On the recommends
ton of Senator Beverage, DR.. ]. c.
Sheerer has been appointed a member
of the Pension Examining Board at
Winamac, in place of DR.. T. w. Kel-
sey, resigned.
Warren T. McCrea, the weilknown
Hereford cattle breeder at Kentland,
has purchased the entire herd of
Herefords owned by Glenn Graves, of
Bunker Hill, Miami County There
were over fifty head and the average
price, excepting two bulls. was 800.
Beau Real. a prize bull, sold for
$4,000. and Merry Dale, another bull,
sold for $1,000. Mr. Graves has de-
cided to give up the stock breeding
business.
Mrs. Basil Street, aged 80 years, an
invalid, was burned to death at Peru.
A neighbor saw smoke coming out OF
the doors and windows, and turned in
an alarm of fire. When the house was
entered Mrs. Streets charred body oc-
cupied an invalid's chair. 1t is thought
that while the woman was smoking
pipe she fell asleep, and that fire from
the pipe dropped on her dress and set
it on fire. No one heard her scream.
The house was not burned.
Indiana and Western Kentucky is
short this year because of the scarcity
of apples. 1t is estimated that the
output in Kentucky and Indiana to-
gether this year will not run over 500
to 1000 barrels. Still-house apples are
now selling for 81 barrel. and are
hard to get. Should a freeze occur
soon fermentation would stop and
there would probably be still further
advance in the price of brandy.
Twitchell & McFadden, oil operat-
ors, have completed well in the Oak
land City field, in which fifty-four feet
of oil sand was drilled and the drill
ing stopped while the tools were still
IN the sand. Nearly forty feet of the
sand was oil bearing. This is the rec
ord for the field. No estimate of the
wells production can be made. II is
producing sorae gas There are now
over thirty strings of drilling tools in
the field and not an idle contractor.
When James Sexton, mail carrier at
Shelbyville, went to the depot one
morning recently for the mail pouches
which arrive at night, he found four
of them had been tempered with.
Three sacks, containing papers, and
one sack, containing letters, had been
cut open and the contents scattered
in the baggage room. Letters and cir
culars were opened, while many let
tiers were unopened. The doors had
been pried open. apparently with an
av and crowbar. The amount of money
secured, il any, is not known.
Some Columbus people are interest
ing themselves in the rice lands of Ar
kansas. Already two syndicates have
been formed there to grow rice near
Stuttgart, Ark, and many have bought
farms to conduct themselves. The Co
lumbus Land Syndicate has ITO acres
in rice this year and will begin thrash
ing soon. Cashier Pagan, of the Ger
man-American Bank at Stuttgart. esti-
mates that the syndicate will have
seventy-five bushels Of rice to the acre
this season and it will be sold at Stutt-
CART for $1.0e a bushel If the crop
J averages seventy-ive bushels the mem
} bers of the syndicate will have divi-
dends of $3.50 share.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Roudebush cele-
brated their sixtieth wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Noblesville with
family dinner. Mr.. and Mrs. Roude-
bush were married in Carroll County,
Ohio, October IS, 1S49. and moved to
Hamilton County about fifty-seven
years ago in an OK wagon. They have
family of six living children. four
sons and two daughters; twenty-three
grandchildren and fifteen great-grand-
!. children. Mr.. and Mrs. Roudebush
are 80 years old. They are enjoying
fairly good health. Mr.. Roudebush
was q prosperous farmer and stock
dealer until he retired twenty-four
. years ago and moved to Noblesville.
Surgeons removed a cambria needle
threaded with a small piece of thread
from just below the knee of Walter T.
Boiling, of St. Paul. Mr.. Boiling swal-
lowed the needle when an infant, near
| ly thirty years ago. The needle never
, gave him any trouble, although he was
treated for bone erysipelas sixteen
years ago. About a week ago he was
: out hunting with a physician and he
complained of a sensation as If brief
, were pricking him just above the knee.
/ The physician applied local treatment
: and the pricking ceased for few days.
/, When the sensation again appeared,
this time on the under side of the leg
[ just below the knee, the surgeon cut
: the flesh open with the result that the
, needle was removed. 1t having travelled
almost through the length Of his body.
He is seven feet tall.
, E. l. Martin, the New Carlisle but
ter maker, who has taken many first
: and second prizes at Indianapolis and
Purdue, has been offered a position
) by the Government as butter in
spector.
) Mrs. Roy Hiland. living four miles
: north of jamestown, was painfully
/ burned about the hands and arms
while rescuing her 3-year-old daughter.
l whose clothing caught fire. The child
;, was badly burned and her recovery is
doubtful
l The big flour mill in Elkhart owned
/, by the Indiana & Michigan Electric
: Company and leased by A. HI. Bur-
1 rell and B. ID. Morgan was destroyed