The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-23

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Charles Douthit, aged SO, is dead at
his home in Brownsville. He is sur
viYed by two sons and four daughters.
Plat Sutton, aged 65, was killed by
being struck by a Pennsylvania pas
senger train at Sweetser. He was a
Civil War veteran.
1t is understood that former United
States Senator James NJ. Hemenway,
of BOonville, who resigned his federal
job at Washington, ID. c., will accept
the presidency of the intermediate Life
Assurance Company, whose home Office
is in Evansville.
The American Seeding Machine Co.
will enlarge its Richmond branch to
permit of the employment of 1000
men. Opening of European and South
American territory by this great con-
Germ has Increased the demand for
machinery beyond the present ca
pacity.
j. H. Cate, for the last five years as
sistant hospital steward at the Ma
tional Military Home in Marion, will
leave next week with his family for
Liverpool, Brazuro County, Texas,
where he has purchased 175 acres of
land. Gates ranch is located about
twenty-five miles from Houston, and
twenty miles from the gulf coast.
Two double weddings on the same
day, two sisters figuring in one and a
brother and sister in the other, have
just been celebrated at Muncie. Miss
Margaret Drown and Elbra Rowe, and
Miss Nola Drown and Floyd A. Artip
married by the Rev. w. A. Bartlett.
The principals in the second wedding
were Carl Forkner and Miss Alma
Powell, and Mis- Eva Forkner and Roy
Lashure, the Rev. ]. p. Chamness Of
| floating.
| 1t has been announced at Evans
| vile that within the next month the
laying of large pipeline from the
natural gas field near Oakland City to
Evansville will be begun. The line
will cost about 100000, it is estimat-
ed. The pipe will be of sufficient diam
eter to supply Evansville with natural
gas for many years to come. Capital
| lists are back of the movement to or
ganize the company. 1t is stated it
| will take about one month to lay the
pipeline. Later the gas may be piped
| to Louisville
John c. Moss, of ASHORE, an uncle
of Congressman Ralph W. Moss, who
served through the Civil War in the
Forty-third Indiana reginAnt, has
started movement to raise fund
| for the erection of an appropriate
monument to the memory of the SOL
diers of Sugar Ridge Township, Clay
| County. The cost of the proposed me-
mortal is $500. There are three towns
boro and Saline City, located respec-
lively, in the northern, central and
southern parts. The location for the
erection of the monument is to be SUBJ
mitted to popular vote.
| Just what new disease has struck
several of the cities of Indiana is not
known, but it has certainly affected
| town clocks in various places. The
courthouse clock in Shelbyville refused
| to strike a month ago and an examina-
ton showed that one of the heavy
parts of the clock was broken. Re-
pairs were sent for, but they have
never arrived. The city hall clock
froze up last week and the custodian
of the building, after repeated efforts
| has failed to make it thaw out. The
town clock of Columbus has stopped
and the ones at Newcastle, Rushville
and Fort Wayne are suffering from the
same disease.
| George Rogers. aged so, had both
bones in ks right leg broken while
hunting in the woods near Elizabeth
town. The accident occurred just as
| Rogers jumped a small ravine. The
man was alone and fired his gun re-
peatedly and called for help, but no
one heard and Rogers was forced to
crawl more than half mile through
the snow and underbrush before he re-
ceived aid. Miss Elizabeth Cox, pres
ident of the State Board of Registra.
ton for Graduate Nurses, overlook
Rogers in her buggy and brought him
to his home. Rogers has been the Eli
zabethtown barber for twenty-one
year2 and has been a lifelong hunter
The fracture is regarded as serious
owing to the poor health of Rogers.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, through its attorneys at Rich
mond paid into the Wayne County
treasury the sum of $4,000 in payment
for a strip of ground at the County
Poor Farm which is to be used in the
widening of the railroad company's
right-of-way. The railroad company
| previously had shown that under an
agreement made with the county
| through it's commissioners twenty-five
years ago, 1t could use any part of the
poor farm for improving it's right-of-
way without cost, in return for certain
water rights given the county. The
present board held that the commits
sioners twenty-five years ago had no
right to give away" county property
and contested the legality of the old
| agreement.
Samuel w. Lory, aged 20, son of
County Clerk Louis w. Iory, of Madi-
son, died last week after three days
illness, brought on, it is thought, by
excessive smoking. He had been in
apparently good health.
A large gray eagle carried of four
young pigs from the farm of Knowles
Montgomery, west of Owensville
| When the big bird returned the first
time for additional prey Montgomery
shot at it. His aim, however, was bad
| and the bird flew away.
Mrs. Levina Shively, widow, age
50 years, was found dead in chair
at the home of son-in-law, sixteen
miles northeast of Washington. She
J had eaten sumner and had gone to an