The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-30
REVIEW OF INDIANA


SIS SlAly HUGS averaging Zlt pOuuuS
for $S.77 a hundred.
The First National Bank at Mt. Yer
non has taken the entire $4,000 bond
issue of the Mt Vernon Lodge of Elks,
the money to be used in building an
Elks' Home
George Bischof, manager of the
Cumberland Telephone Company at
St Meinard, fell from telephone pole
at Ferdinand and sustained probably
fatal injuries.
| Hiatt Mcknight, farmer, aged so,
who lives three miles west of Thorn
ton, hanged himself. He left his home
between 8 and 10 o'clock and his
widow found his lifeless body suspend
ed from a beam in the barn at noon.
No cause is assigned for his suicide
Peary Cook, who is employed as a
bookkeeper at the Office of Reeves &
| Co. in Columbus, hardly knows where
he is at" Since the controversy be-
tween Commander Peary and DR.. Cook
as to which discovered the north pole
he has been in a quandary whether to
be loyal to his first name or his last
Alfred H. Ross, aged so years, real
estate agent, dropped dead at his home
in Windfall. An hour later his son, Al
fred F. Ross, died in an adjoining
room. The father had liver trouble,
but was convalescing and able to be
driven uptown an hour prior to his
death. He leaves a widow, three sons
and one daughter. His son was 81
years old. He died of congestion of
the brain.
Sig Kann, of Lgonier, has pug dog
which he claims Is the oldest of it's
species in that part of the State mig"
is sixteen years old and has outlived
other members of his family by nine
years, the average lite of a pug dog
being seven to eight years. However,
Mig" showed his age and is deprived
of his sight and hearing. He has also
lost his teeth and lives on cream and
hamburg steak.
Forest Davis, aged Z years, has
brought suit in the Superior Court at
Indianapolis through his father, Arte-
mus Davis, for $4,000 damages from
Carl Schiech. 1t is alleged that last
December Schiech persuaded Walter
Aarkins, aged 8, to put metal slugs and
shot into a toy gun and directed him
to shoot at his playmate, Forest Davis.
According to the complaint a nail from
the gun blinded the Davis boys left
eye.
Probably the largest haul from the
Wabash river was not made by a pearl
hunter. but was made by Tony Stan
/ gel, a resident Of near Hutsonville,
who was SEEMING Tor minnows. He
pulled in black purse. and on ex-
aiming 1t found that it contained
$4,000. The money was in gold and
paper and the purse was so water tight
that the money had been preserved, al
though it had apparently been in the
river bed for several years.
The veterans of the Civil War who
are members of the Union Veteran Le-
gion have renewed their effort to Sc
cure for Fort Wayne a memorial hall
in honor of Mad Anthony Wayne,
through whose generalship the Indians
were conquered and the territory made
American instead OF English. Samuel
l.. Kelker has just returned from the
national encampment at Washington
and reports that the chief officials have
agreed to take up the matter looking
to national recognition at Fort Wayne
of Wayne's services to his country.
A $1,000 fund is being raised at
Thorntown to be expended in celebrat-
ing the unwilling of the Mills Memorial
Fountain on October z. Elaborate pre-
parations are being made, and an in
teresting program has been arranged
for the dedication of the handsome
fountain. The Indianapolis Military
Band will furnish the music on the oc-
casion and number of speakers will
take part in the exercises. Workmen
are putting the finishing touches on
the fountain and by the last of next
week the work will be complete. The
finance committee has raised 1925 to-
ward the entertainment fund and sew
eral fraternal organizations have prom
ised to contribute generously.
Governor Marshall has declined a
second invitation to make the trip
from St Louis to New ORLEANS with
President Taft, as guest of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways AS
sociation. In his first declination the
Governor stated that his cause for de-
Ginning was that the management had
not arranged for the wives of the Gov
errors to accompany them on the trip
The Governor explained at that time
that during the fourteen years of their
welded life he and Mrs. Marshall had
never been separated on any occasion,
and that he did not care at this time
to break the established rule of their
household. The second invitation ex-
planned that arrangements had been
made to have the Governors wives
make the trip on a separate boat, but
the arrangement did not strike Gov
ernor Marshall as being more accepta
BILE than the former.
The Postoffice at Darlington has
been advanced from fourth Class to
presidential, the receipts for last year
having increased to $4,000. The sal
airy of Postmaster William c. Woody
will be $1,000
The finest pearl of the season was
brought into Oaktown by E. E. Brown,
a well-known pearl fisher in the Wa
bash river, west of Carlisle 1t weighs
twenty-five karats and has a fine
luster. Experts place its value at more
than $1,000.
Horses sold at high prices at the
public auction of Bert Souder, a farm
er, near Kennard. The total receipts
were nearly $4,000. Eight hundred
farmers and stockmen were in attend
ance. Twenty-four horses SOLD at an
average of 5000 each.
After confessing she had stolen two