The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-14
REVIEW OF INDIANA

ford City, was killed by an elevator in
the Colin Gardner paper mill in Ham
ilton, Ohio. He leaves a widow and
six children.
Surveyor Won Himple, with a crew
of men began the survey for the Ev-
ansville, Mt. Carmel & Olney interur-
ban line last week, and it will proba-
bly, take month to complete the
work. By giving $3.50 toward the ex-
pense of the survey, Owensville will
be station on the proposed line
The eighth typhoid fever fatality oc-
CURED at the Indiana Reformatory last
week, when James Scherit, % years
old, died of the disease. He was sent
from Decatur County October, 1906, to
serve two to fourteen years. He had
been sick since November 49, There
are LOW no bad cases reported and no
new ones.
After Twenty-Five years of service in
the Elkhart city schools, Prof Elan B.
Myers, principal of the central grade
schools, has retired from active work
More than a half century ago Mr.. My
ers taught his first school in Elkhart
County. He entered upon his profess
sional career in 1854. Subsequently he
matriculated in Oberlin College and is
graduate of that institution.
The farmers in the vicinity of Nit
chell have 80 per cent. of their ground
plowed for next season. The excellent
weather has put the ground in excep-
tionally good condition, and it is pre-
dicted that next years acreage Of corn
will be a record-breaker. The price
of corn has declined cents bushel
since gathering time, caused by corn
maturing better than expected and the
good prospects for next year.
Warsaw is proving a haven for
tramps. They are entertained at the
county Jail, which is also the city lock
up, and the city pays 40 cents day
for sheltering and feeding the tramps.
December proved to be busy month
| for picking up this class of transients.
Hoboes driven out of Chicago appar-
emily spotted" the seat of Kosciusko
County. During the month thirty-four
men, with no particular home, were
fed and lodged.
c. E. Miller, Peru veterinarian, has
gone to Ann Arbor, Mich, to consult a
specialist DR.. Miller fears that he may
suffer hydrophobia as a result of his
treating a COW strangely afflicted a
few weeks ago. The COW was bitten
by a mad dog and had to be killed
The dog also attacked two of Voge
Wilson's children, who are now under
the care of a specialist at Ann Arbor
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have also become
alarmed because they drank milk from
the COW.
Such tempting morsels as pepper.
mint lozenges and marshmallows are
being fed to the two dozen or more
I, captive opossums that are being pre-
| pared for the annual "possu feast
at Bethel, in northern Wayre County
January %. More possums are yet to
be captured, for several hundred per
sons will grace the feast. rhe pro
ceeds as usual will be given to the
Grand Army post of the village and
will be used to defray the expenses Of
the Memorial day observance next
May.
Queen Esther Anderson, aged s
years and colored, walke' into the Lin
coin school at Princeton one morn
ing last week, causing CONSERVATION
among the teachers and pupils, who
had thought her dead months ago. Last
spring a telegram was received
from Arkansas, announcing the death
of the child, and her name was taken
off the school roll. Her teacher and
playmates had no trace of her since
that time, and they did not doubt the
report of her death. Her temperance
was genuine surprise.
Wilbur Crooke. express messenger
On the Little Monon" railroad, be.
tween Bloomington and Bedford. had
an experience not soon to be forgot.
! ten. A hive of bees was among the
express matter and by some means the
covering became loosened and dropped
off. Crooke threw the door open and
daylight being seen by the insects,
they sought freedom by pouring out as
| fast as they could. The car was alive
with them, but they soon escaped with
out settling. Crooke thanks his stars
that the bees preferred the light to
him and that he was enabled to get out
of the way of the insects.
Dan Gift, an eccentric character at
Huntington, has been living in a
double house in the eastern part of
the city belonging to Bob Johnson.
But Dan has been having a hard win
ter and finally when his rent was
hopelessly in arrears, the proprietor
ordered Dan to get out. Dan was
greatly perplexed. He had no way to
move. He had no place TO move to.
How he was going to o ~ his land
lord he did not know But the fairies
came to his aid. The opposite side of
the double house was empty and when
Mr.. Johnson called at the house sew
eral days later to see if his orders
had been obeyed there was Dan, smil-
ingly esconed on the other side. Now
the matter has been dropped.
1t is said thai Rev. E. l.. Semans, of
Winchester, pastor of the M. E. church
there, will lretire from the ministry in
the spring after thirty-nine years in
the work. He is the father of Rev. r.
L. Semans, formerly of Fort Wayne.
S. M. Thompson, of Shelbyville, has
circulated a petition to ask the Gov
eminent not 20 remove the picture of
Abraham Lincoln from the postage
stamps, upon which it appears at the
present time. The petition has many
signatures of business men.
Since the accidental shooting of Ce-
I'll McCleary, of near Spurgeon, all eff
forts to find his father have been of no
avail. George McCleary, father of the
boy, who was shot, is peddler, and
at present is on the road. The condi-
ton of young McCleary is critical.