The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-01-21
REVIEW OF INDIANA

Muncle 10 manufacture MOTOR NenlcleS.
Thomas Bowling, a farmer near Mo-
rocco, has a small colony of bees, &C.
! This year he sold honey to the amount
of S364.24, and has $50 pounds left.
! His total expenses II connection with
the bees for the season was $24.S0,
leaving him a profit Oh s339.44 on the
years crop of honey.
A tract OF forty acres in the oil
field near Oakland City sold recently
for $4,000. The land was bought from
the Nichols-Shepard Machine Com
pany, and had come to the company in
satisfaction of mortgage for ma
chine sold several years ago. Aside
from the prospect of oil under it, the
land was practically worthless.
South Fork. small stream flowing
mile east of Oakland City, and emp
tying into the Patoka river, and which
has been the fishing place of Oakland
| City for generations, has been ruined
as a fishing resort Great volumes of
| salt water flows from around the cas-
| ing in each oil well drilled in the vi
cinity and all this water flows to South
Fork. The fish have died or have left
the stream.
The family OF Charles Steimel, in the
st. Thomas church neighborhood, near
Decker, is sorely afflicted with the
whcoping cough. Two of Steimel's ten
| oh cd loo civ of hn
remaining eight are in a very serious
condition. There is a great deal of
whooping cought in the locality, al
though it has not broken out in any
one part of the country in the form Of
an epidemic.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Clay City has several So greenbacks
OF the first issue of this kind of cur
rency put into circulation forty-seven
years ago. Several months ago a de-
posit was made of money which had
been kept between leaves of an old
family Bible until the death of the
woman to whom it had been sent by a
soldier of the Civil War. The bills are
kept at the bank as relics.
June, the month Of roses and we'd
dings, failed to hold her usual record
in matrimonial Line last year in Shell
! by County, according to the records of
the county clerk That month was
beaten by February, October and No
vember. The number of marriage Ii
censes issued each month are: Janu-
airy, IS; February, 2S; March, %;
April, IA; May. IA; June, &c; July, u;
August, %; September, %; October,
q; November. %; December, 81.
Playmates in childhood, lovers at 60,
George II. Oglebay, cashier and leading
stakeholder of the Romney Bank, and
Miss Lucy Harter, of Frankfort. went
to Chicago few days ago and were
married at noon at the home of the
brides brother, George Harter. Mr..
Oglebay was married twice, both wives
dying. Three weeks ago Miss Harter
wen. to Romney to visit old friends.
and Mr.. Oglebay met her for the first
time in many years. They planned
| their wedding and decided to waste no
time
One of the big delivery horses of the
Adams Express Company in Columbus
has grown so vicious that it has been
shipped to Chicago. The horse fire.
quently stood in front of the express
Office, in Washington street, where it
''nipped' at pedestrians on the side
walk. A few weeks ago George School
er, a mail carrier, was passing, when
the horse reached for him, grabbed
him by the shoulder and pulled him
from his bicycle The teeth of the
horse inflicted a wound in his right
shoulder that caused him TO be off du-
ty for three weeks. The horse was
then muzzled, and this seemed to in
crease its anger. Last week, Fred Nc
Caslin, who drove the horse, was stand
ing near the wagon, when the animal
struck him with it's muzzle and broke
three ribs. He tried TO work again in
few days, and tore the ribs loose.
and shipped away.
The Cox family, of Central Indiana,
1
There are three sisters and brother
who are centenarians, and their com
bined ages total 40 years. They are /:
Mrs. Eliza Wilson, Ford, Kan, 116;
Mrs. Nancy Ridenhour, Br;wnsburg,
Ind, aged LOG; Mrs. Anna Bolton, AL.
exandria. Ind, aged 104; James Cox,
Quincy, TN, aged 104. Mrs. Bolton and
Mrs. Cox are twins, and lay claim to
the record as the oldest twins in
America Mrs. Ridenhour has just
celebrated her birthday. She is an in.
valid, but her sisters and brother are
not only able to look after themselves
but insist strenuously on doing So
This is true of Mrs. Wilson. Two years
ago Mrs. Bolton. then 1O2. paid Mrs
Wilson visit. While there Mrs. Boil
ton became ill. and for several nights
her sister, ia years old, attended her
in a manner that a professional nurse
might have envied.
l.. ii. Henry, a Warsaw man whose
lower lip was eaten away by cancer
will shortly submit to an operation in
Fort Wayne hospital in which an
effort will be made to replace the Lip
by the grating process.
DR.. w. II. Johnston, head of the Lat
in department of the University of In
diana, has been admitted to the Mon
roe County bar Though not lawyer
Mr.. Johnston said he wished to become
a member of the bar that he might
get better acquainted with attorneys.
Major May Post, G.. A. r., and Ma
jor May Corps, w. r. c., of Anderson
have presented a wooden flag, by 1e
feet, to the Indiana Soldiers and Sail
ors' Orphans Home, at Knightstown.
Charles L. Williamson, a wealthy
farmer, living near Noblesville, was
kicked on the head by a horse last
week and fatally injured. He was rem
dered unconscious by the blow, which
fractured his skull, and lay in the
/ l.. 60, l.