The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-10
REVIEW OF INDIANA

u NJ Gavin, Hugh Il. Adams ana
Charles Hutchinson, three of the four
rural route carriers out Of Nashville.
are confined to their homes with the
grip.
record price was reached in New
castle in the sale made by Benjamin
Bailey. farmer, south of that city, of
a team of Clydesdale mares, four and
six years old, for $500.
Mrs Mary Kumler Lands, of Lo-
gansport, whose condition has been
critical, is so much improved that her
physician and the members of her
family have hopes of her recovery.
Now that the snow has gone off the
fields and farmers have chance to
examine the wheat crop, they are not
feeling bad about the outlook. They
say wheat is looking much better than
they expected. Estimates are that
there is 10 per cent. more wheat sown
than last year.
A trainload of 267 head of cattle
was shipped from Medora. a small
town in Jackson County, to Boston a
few days ago and will be exported
from there to London The cattle
were sold for s20,274.07, or over SIS a
head This is one of the largest ship
ments that have been sent from that
county to foreign country for several
years.
An old-fashioned quilting, wood
chOpping and wool picking contest was
given at the home of Wesley Camp
bell, near Nj Liberty After the affair
the participants were. entertained at
supper. A prize of new hat, for the
person who could eat the most in the
shortest space of time, was awarded to
Campbell Nearly a hundred people
were present.
When A. ]. Davis, of Princeton,
opened a package of breakfast food at
his home he found little more than
be had bargained for In the box was
a small photograph of a comely young
woman, together with a letter saying
the photo was that of Miss Amy Rid
ington, of Vinton, Ia, and that she
would be glad TO hear from the finder.
The letter bore the date of October
IS, 1909
Robert Underwood Johnson, of Rich
mond, class of 1871, Earlham College,
recently elected editor of the Century
magazine, has received from the
French government the cross OF the
Legion of Honor for his services in fur
thering the international copyright
and from the Italian government the
Order of the Crown of Italy for his in
terest in the building of monuments on
the graves of noted people in Italy.
II present plans mature, according to
the announcement just made, Craw-
louisville will have another interurban
line. 1t viii be a trunk line from Ham
mond 1t is understood that the com
pany pushing the project has headquar-
ters in Chicago, and that Eugene Pur-
telle, of the firm of Eugene Purtelle &
Co, brokers, is the president The
chief engineer of the company was in
Charlottesville recently looking over
the local field.
While Harry Watts, the 10-year-old
son of George Watts, of KnightstOwn,
was playing with children of his age
he was accidentally struck in the eye
with the point of an umbrella rib. The
sight of the eye was temporarily de-
stroyed, but the lad now sees. Instead
of one object, however, everything ap-
pears double to him. II is hoped that
nature may soon correct the trouble.
short time ago Wallace Hackleman,
a farmer living near Knightstown, had
a similar arrangement of the eye as
the result of being kicked by horse,
and his vision is still doubled.
Carl. the 9-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Edwards, south o,
Connersville, lost his left hand becau
he did not know that dynamite cap
were loaded. He took two caps from
box, which, together with several
pounds of stick dynamite. were in an
clubhouse, and carried them into the
sitting room where his mother and
grandmother we're sitting. Unobserved
by them he picked the explosive com
pound out of one cap with a pin and
was starting TO do the same with the
second when it exploded. His left
hand was blown into fragments and a
small piece of the brass shell struck
his abdomen, making a serious wound
Vincennes has another smallpox
ordar- hoe hoap iccnQd
that all pupils of the North Vincennes
school and the Eberwine Avenue
school be vaccinated Children who
came to school without having car
ried out the order were sent to theil
homes with instructions that they car
order. Should they fail to return tt
school within the limit of the truancy
law probation officer Runner will take
the matter in hand, as he did recent
" In Bicknell The cases are few il
number, but the Board of Health de
clares that vaccination of all pupils o
these two schools is necessary because
smallpox cases were developed i.
each building.
A SNOWFALL thrown by boy strucl
Miss Velma Brady. Yorktown Higl
School student, with such force as t,
break rib and she was placed unde
a physicians care.
Hazletons fire department. which
costs the town 5000 a year, paid 70
itself three times at its first fire, b,
saving 81, 800 worth of property. Fir
broke out in the plant of the Whit
River News, when the fame checkin
apparatus worked effectively and KEEP
the loss within $500
Mrs. Eudora L. Drain. aged II. vic
on of Oscar 5. Drain, died at Evan:
vile few days ago She was a col
sin of Franklin Pierce, who was Pre-:
fdent of the United States from 1S5
TO 1857, and was native of Michigan
Six children survive her.