The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-12-02


lection of w. ]. Murphy as cashier of
the First National Bank of Newcastle,
to succeed George r. Murphy, de-
ceased.
Members of the Ventura Club, COM
posed of Evansville young women,
have decided to take out hunting Ii
censes. AS result many of the farm
ers in the section ahve decided to lock
their stock in their stables.
J. K. Woodward, president of the
Merchants National Bank of New AL
bany, and James Tucker, the negro
chauffeur, who were shot by Tom
Hoal, the dime novel bank robber, are
now considered out of danger.
The turkey supply in Evansville was
exhausted and many residents were
forced to eat chicken or duck instead
of the big Thanksgiving bird. 1t is es-
timated that Evansville people spent
over $4,000 for turkey for Thanks
giving.
Within a month all the city street
cars in Fort Wayne are to be replaced
by new ones, and General Manager c.
d. Emmons, of the Fort Wayne & Wa
bash Valley Traction Company, says
Fort Wayne will then have better
street railway facilities than any other
city in Indiana.
DR.. Harvey Mitchell, aged SO years,
Muncie's oldest physician, died a few
days ago at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Charles Anthony, where his wild
ow is lying seriously ill. Death was
due to senility.. The handsome new
Mitchell business block in South Wal
nut street, recently completed, marks
the site where DR.. and Mrs. Mitchell
lived for a half century.
w. T. Durbin, former Governor of
Indiana, was one of the Presidents
callers a few days ago at Washington.
He said he was on his way home from
New York and stopped over to discuss
few matters with the President.
When asked if he intended to seek the
Craftsmanship of the Republican State
Committee, he said he did not want the
place, and had no thought of asking
for it.
Dr. John r. Moore, of Greenfield,
and James Whitcomb Riley were boys
together and their friendship has
never waned. When Mr.. Riley pub
lished his book, THE Old Swimmin'
Hole and 'Leven Other PONIES" the
poet presented Dr. Moore with copy
of the book This week Dr. Moore re-
ceived an offer of 500 for the volume.
but it was no temptation to the owner
to part with it,
Mrs. Nina Poszman, aged 30, living
near Boggstown, is dead, and it is
thought her death was due to pellagra,
the much talked-of disease. Her illness
began last May, just after the woman
had eaten some bread baked from
corn meal The analysis of the bread
disclosed that 1t was far from being
pure and wholesome. The woman's
throat and mouth were affected, and
physicians thought her sufferings were
caused from corn meal poisoning
The abolition of the postoffice at
New Bellsville, Brown County, puts
out of business an office that has been
In existence for about eighty years.
The town used to be on star route be-
tween Columbus and Nashville, but
since Nashville gets it's mail from the
Indianapolis Southern, New BeiiSville
has been out of the world II takes
longer, under the present arrangement
to get letter from Columbus to New
Bellsville, than it does to send letter
from New York to Columbus.
Edward Baugh, formerly justice of
the peace at Huntsville, has purchased
the land known as the David Weber
farm, consisting of $50 acres near
Huntsville, for $4,000. Not many
years ago Baugh came to Bartholomew
County from Ohio with a single silver
dollar in his pocket. He spent 80 cents
of that dollar buying a pair of sheep
shears and went to work. He soon
owned sheep of his own and then land
and live stock of various kinds. He
saved his money and has now bought
one of the best farms in Bartholomew
County.
Owing to the fact that he was solicit
Gus about the welfare of his Thanks
giving turkeys, in his poultry yard, Gill
bert Conwell, a farmer living on rural
route No. 5, near Newcastle, has fine
specimen of the golden eagle. measur-
Ing seven feet from tip to tip. Con-
well was carefully watching his tur-
keys in anticipation of placing them on
the market, and one evening last week,
as darkness was falling, the farmer
saw what he thought was chicken
hawk swoop down among his turkeys.
Determined not to let bird of prey
have premature Thanksgiving dinner
at his expense, Conwell obtained a rifle
and blazed away at the intruder. His
aim was sure and a bird fell dead.
Conwell examined it and found that he
had killed large eagle. The farmer
is having it mounted and the bird will
be an ornament in his home. The
eagle had probably grown hungry and
had swooped down from the heights to
satisfy its taste for turkey.
William Butts, aged "a years, single
and John Robinson, aged So years.
married, were killed by twenty tons of
slate falling on them in the Boyle
mine, near Jasonville. Both died in
stantly.
The State Children's Receiving
Home is quarantined because of an
epidemic of diphtheria that has broken
out at Westfield. One death has &C.
Cured at the home, and number of
children are seriously ill from the dis
ease.
While W. p. Seybold and family,
living northeast of Rockville, were at
tending lecture at Marshall, their
country home was destroyed by fire.
The house was comparatively new and
was handsomely furnished. The loss
reaches $4,000, with $500 insurance.
Mrs. Ernestine CURL, aged so. wife