The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-28
REVIEW OF INDIANA


spectively. were tagged at st. Louis to
Mrs. Mech at Corydon, and arrived
there safe a few days ago.
Mrs. Barbara Kneisley. aged 90, is
dead at Lowell. She was married in
1886. She leaves seven daughters, four
sons, forty-four grandchildren, seventy
one great grandchildren, and eight
great-great-grandch Relatives
claim her record is unequaled any
where.
]. M. Moler, of Mt. Vernon, ILL.,,
showed up at the Evansville army re-
cruiting station leading a shaggy dog,
and wanted to enlist. When told he
could not take his dog along, Moler de-
parted, saying any Government that
wouldn't take his dog could not get his
services.
Miss Jessie Hanger, daughter of
County Commissioner William Hanger
and teacher in the Edwardsville public
school, has a primary class of twelve
pupils and eight of them are composed
of four pairs of twins. This is rec
ord that it is believed is not exceeded
by any other class in the State
Owing to the scarcity of dairy cows
there is a milk famine in Crawfords-
vile. Only one of the nine dairymen
in the city has enough milk to supply
and the price of feed is high, dairy
men say that there will be no advance
in the price of milk, s 1-9 cents quart.
Corn that had been in the crib twen-
ty years, owned by M. o. Smith, near
Morocco, has just been shelled. There
was about one hundred bushels. 1t
was cribbed in the fall of 1889, and
each year the crib was filled with the
new corn, leaving the old in the bot
tom. The corn shelled easily, the
color was bright and the quality good.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. G. Deprez, of Shell
| byville, have left for trip around the
world. They went to New York City,
where they will join party which will
start from New York. They expect to
be gone until May Is, and while on
the trip they will visit Italy, Egyps,
India, Burmah, Ceylon, the Straits Set
| Element, Java, China, the Philippines,
| Japan, Hawaii and San Francisco.
| Mrs. Sam Pass, aged 60 years, liv-
ing ten miles northeast of Frances
vile. is dead from hydrophobia- The
woman was bitten by rabid dog in
August, but the first symptoms of this
dread disease did not appear until last
week. The same dog afterward at
tackled Mr. and Mrs. William Luzinby,
living in the neighborhood, and they
killed the animal. They are now in
Chicago taking the Pasteur treatment
Lloyd Maddux, workman employed
lin the construction of a smokestack
$50 feet high at the Muncie electric
lighting plant, fell distance of fifty
feet, and although his condition is seri-
This is the first accident connected
with the erection OF the monster stack
and it was caused by the breaking of a
scaffold. The stack is made of rein
forced concrete, and has attracted Nen-
| gineers in all parts of the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ephraim Pike celebrat-
ed their fifty-ninth wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Spiceland with a
family dinner. Mr.. and Mrs. Pike were
married at Greensboro. N. c.. October
II, 1850, and came to Henry County in
1852. Since 1892 they have lived there.
They have a family of seven living
children, three sons and four daugh-
tiers; sixteen grandchildren and twelve
great-grandchldren Mr.. Pike is sc
years old. Both have been in feeble
health for several months. Mr.. Pike
has been an apt student of botany and
has wide knowledge of native plants
and herbs.
Zaharako Brothers, Greek candy
makers of Columbus, are increasing
their list of domestic animals that I'm.
derstand Greek. They began with a
horse that was driven to an ice cream
wagon. A Greek who could speak no
English was started out as driver,
and in a short time he had the horse
educated so it understands all com.
mands in Greek. Now the brothers
have a cat, three rabbits and a hunt.
ing dog, all of which understand
Greek. The dog is perhaps the most
remarkable of the animals, as it un.
derstands more Greek than the aver
age college student who has been
studying the language a year or two
Two sisters who had not seen each
other for forty-one years met recently
at the home of w. l.. Tharp, in Dan
vile. They were Mrs. Robert Hamil.
ton, of Jasper, Ark, and Mrs. j. NJ
Kellum, of Pittsboro. The sisters were
born in Kentucky and came to In
diana with their parents. They were
both married, and not long afterward
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton started west
Mrs. Kellum has spent practically all
of her life in Hendricks County, where
her husband is a school teacher and
farmer. Visits have often been planned
by the sisters, but circumstances each
time interfered until last week. Mrs
Hamilton will remain in Hendricks
County for several weeks before re-
turning to her southern home.
Samuel z. Tilford, for nearly sixty
years a resident of Indianapolis, died
last week at Anderson. He was a
mail clerk on the Central Indiana rail
road. Apoplexy caused his death.
Riley, the little son of Mr. and Mrs
Perry Rule, and one of the Rule tip
lets who attracted attention through
out the State because they were named
for the Hoosier poet, James Whitcomt
Riley, is at the point of death at his
parents home. about six miles north OF
Flora, with brain fever.
Charles Hardtimes, of Hartford, KY.
was arrested in Evansville charged
with striking Wesley Walker, negro
over the head with an ak. Both men
are employed on the steamer Hart
ford. Walkers skull was crushed and
he will die.