The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-02-17
REVIEW OF INDIANA

| enrolment in their history. That OF
the High School alone is 22S. The Sc
Nor class this year has twenty-five
members.
DIR. August A. Fahnestock, a we'll
known Indiana physician and surgeon,
| fell down a stairway at Laporte and
was killed. He was born in Balti-
more in 1882. He was a thirty-second
degree Mason.
Governor Marshall has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the
laying of the corner stone of the new
public library at Auburn in May. The
building is the gift of Charles Eckhart
to the city of Auburn.
William Duncan, aged so. died on
the same farm, two miles southwest of
Washington. where he was born. With
the exception of a trip TO California
during the gold discoveries of 40, he
had never been away from the farm.
The Elks' new home in Mt. Vernon
was dedicated recently and two hun
dred Evansville Elks assisted in the
Herds, F. Clements and others. \
banquet was served in the new home.
Another step toward the extinction
of the natural cement trade in Clark
| County, which ten years ago amounted
to production of two million barrels
annually, has been taken by the deci-
sion of the Belknaps, who own one of
the oldest established mills. to discon-
tinue their mill half a mile south of
Senersburg.
The tenth annual breeders sale of
thoroughbred draft, driving and sad
die horses which had been in progress
at Bloomington for a week, closed
after animals to the value of 100000
had been disposed of buyers coming
from many States. Prominent Chi
cage buyers included George Ames
| and c. n. Jones.
County Superintendent Frank Lara
bee. of Greenfield had the largest
class of beginners at the teachers eX-
animation since he has been in office
He hopes to be able to supply the
schools of the county with local teach
ers within a few years. At present it
is necessary to Gsgage many teachers
| from other counties.
Mrs. Lizzie Feldman. OF Evansville.
tried for the seventh time to commit
suicide by leaping into the Ohio river
| \ stranger who was standing ON the
/ L D., int
the water, and he brought her to
shore The woman said that her hus-
band did not love her any longer and
that she wished TO die.
The Rev. w. J. Vigus. aged "A, field
secretary of the Winona Assembly, at
| Winona Lake, is dead at Wabash. He
was chaplain during the Civil and the
| Spanish-American War. DIR. Vigus was
twice a presiding elder of the North
ern Indiana Conference districts and
was candidate for the Republican
nomination for Mayor of Wabash at
the primary last September.
Mark Burson and L. G. Burson,
brothers, each an engineer employed
Il
Railroad Company, met in a head-on
collision when the freight trains they
were plotting crashed together near
| Schneider, in Lake County. 4 heavy
| fog was responsible for the wreck.
None was hurt and the locomotives
were not irreparably damaged.
| John T. A. Stephens, of VanBuren
Township, claims the distinction of be-
ing the only man living in Grant
County who attended the Chicago con-
vention when Abraham Lincoln was
nominated for the presidency in 1860.
He has lived in Grant County since
1868 and is now 40 years old. Stephens
is veteran of the Civil War and was
shot in the arm at Stone river.
| The Farmers National Bank and
the business men of Wilkinson held a
corn show recently. There were fifty
seven entries. Six different premiums
were offered on yellow corn and six on
white corn. 4. A. Coleman, of Rush
vile. was scorer. Elmer Jones. of
Charlottesville, won the first premium
on yellow corn, and Porter Copeland,
of Warrington, first on white corn.
The best oil well in the history of
the local field was drilled in recently
by Michael Murphy & Co, on the John
Clifford farm near Oakland City. The
we'll has over sixty feet of sand, fifty
two of which is oil-bearing and the
other gas. The well is estimated to
make a daily production of more than
five hundred barrels. 1t makes ;ilarge
block of land valuable from thu pro-
ducer's standpoint.
Acid and cereals caused a threaten
ing blaze, damaging a freight car on
the Indiana Union Traction line after
the car was wrecked shen brakes
failed to work in the North Main
street grade in Anderson. The freight
car, heavily loaded, toppled over on a
sharp curve, overturning several car
boys of acid and cases of cereals. The
wreckage then caught fire. None was
ured. The loss is estimated at
900.
The Delaware County Corn Club
will be organized at meeting of farm
ers in Muncie, the organization to be
effected under direction of Cary Sun
derland, former instructor in the agri-
cultural school at Purdue University.
Richard Cunningham. of Harrison
County, is regarded as Z busy man.
He is managing a farm and looks
after a good deal of live stock He is
trustee of Washington Township and
teaches school in an adjoining town
ship
The handsome dwelling owned by j.
Halbert and occupied by Charles
Webster, in North Meridian street,
Brazil, caught fire from a defective
fiue and was badly damaged. The loss
amounts to over $4,000 covered by in
surance.
The Hoosier State Poultry Associa-