The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-16

ton of Allen collars of Fort Wayne,
former Judge of the Indiana Supreme
Court, who has been seriously i'll for
many month";. Mr.. collars was re-
moved from the hospital to his home
two weeks ago, but his progress
toward recovery has been disappoint-
ing.
Putnam County records for corn
husking have been smashed by Chas.
&. Rogers and his three sons, who
live near Greencastle. From o'clock
in the morning until in the evening
the three men husked six full thirty
bushel loads of corn and put it in the
crib by darkness.
Steven Davis, who lives six miles
west of Greensburg, had a fine hog
weighing go pounds to disappear
about month ago. The animal came
home last week but it weighed scarce
ly sixty pounds. 1t is said the hog fell
into an abandoned well a month ago,
where it remained until the well filled
up, thus permitting 1t 70 escape.
City Attorney Al Veneman, and
James d. Saunders, city engineer Of
Evansville, have prepared an ordi-
nance for the City Council taking in
a strip of land in the eastern part of
the city which will add about 1000 to
the population of Evansville before
the next census is taken. The City
Council is said to be favorable to the
ordinance.
John S. Downing, aged so, pioneer
who has lived in Clay County since
his infancy, boasts of an unusual rec
ord. He says he has never been fined,
never been charged with any offense;
never used an oath; never tasted an
intoxicating beverage; never used to-
bacco; never had fight; never in
dulged in any habits or practices dele
FERROUS to himself or the community
in which he has lived more than three
quarters of century.
Fifteen members of the Women's
Aid Society of the Methodist church OF
Windfall husked fifty bushels of corn
at the farm of DR.. G. c. Wood. When
the society was soliciting funds among
members of the congregation DR..
Wood agreed to give to charity all the
corn the women could husk In an hour.
The women accepted the offer and
were taken 20 the corn field by JUS
tice c. p Allen in a farm wagon,
where they worked industriously.
After the corn was husked the women
sold it to the Windfall Elevator Com
pany for a good price.
There is a singular incident connect
ed with the tragic death of Robert
Bell, Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern switchman, who was killed last
week in the yards at Washington
while at work. A month ago a clair
voyant was in the city. Mrs. Bell
went to have her fortune told, and
the woman told Mrs. Bell that she and
her husband did not get along we'll
together. Mrs. Bell asked the for
tune teller if she should go ahead and
obtain a divorce. The clairvoyant
told Mrs. Bell that it would be I'M
necessary, as her husband would be
dead within month. To the day a
month elapsed, and the truth of the
prediction was made evident when
Mrs. Bell was called out of bed to be
told that her husband was fatally in
jured.
Fishing with dynamite is costly rec
reation in Wayne County, as Earl
Doddridge, a Washington Township
young man, can testify. After a trial
lasting all day jury in the Wayne
Circuit Court returned q verdict of
guilty against young Doddridge and
he was fined the minimum sum, $3.50,
which, with court costs and attorneys
fees Will make the total cost nearly
$500. Doddridge was arrested last
summer following dynami,fIg in the
Whitewater river near Milton, which
resulted in the killing of quantity of
fish. Several other young men impli-
Gated in the affair escaped arrest, fled
the country and have never returned
to Wayne County since. Doddridge
belongs to a prominent family, has
always borne a good reputation and
the jury returned the lightest possible
punishment.
The Grant County Farmers Insti-
tute, on its adjournment, adopted res
olutions declaring against the next
Legislature appropriating funds to
Purdue University and the State Ex-
pertinent Station until better appropri-
ot;o, &c ,,,,do 20. forv,orcs ;,c+;+,t,e
The resolution says: The last Gen.
eral Assembly appropriated $330,000
for the experiment station and Pur-
due University, but not dollar for tu-
ition or salaries of teachers, and not
cent for farmers Institutes, there
fore we, as farmers of Grant County.
in institute assembled, shall oppose
any new appropriations for the expert
ment station of Purdue University at
the hands of the next General AS
sembly, or until farmers institutes
have better appropriation" A. -
! Burrier, chairman of the committee
on resolutions. was a member OF the
House of Representatives from Grant
County in 1901, and was formerly a
loyal friend Of Purdue University.
David Deatrick. 102 years old, and
the oldest man in Southern Indiana,
died last week at his home nearEaliza-
beth. He was native of Virginia,
but had lived in Harrison County for
more than ninety years.
William Brockman. young farmer
near Huntsville. has struck gas on
his farm. His well is now 220 feet
deep. The gas burns about four feet
above the casing. He will drill the
we'll to trenton rock In the hope of
striking stronger flow.
Sherman Ravens, of Shelbyville,
who has number of turkeys in the
Middle West poultry exhibit at st.
Louis, has received first, second and
third premiums on tom turkeys.
A. Z. Price, of Grant Park, is the