The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-06-23
REVIEW OF INDIANA

stone OF their handsome new temple in
Upton July Is, and to enable all of tho
members of the order at home and
those who will be invited from neigh
boring places to attend, will have the
exercises in the evening instead of the
afternoon as is the custom.
Timoer thieves are making inroads
on the valuable walnut and hickory
timber in the southern part of Brown
| county. several tracts of thick woods
Lave been denuded 81 n, although the
farmers have seen many teamst tiers
with logs on their wagons. they have
no .Say of identifying the logs. Grand
jury indictments were returned
against four men. but the sheriff failed
to find them.
The iirst premature Fourth cf July
celebration accident occurred Monday.
! when eleven-year-old George Heigh-
way, son of DR.. and Mrs. ]. G.. Heigh-
way, of Ladoga, was injured in gun
powder explosion. With some play
mates Young HIGHWAY placed tho
gunpowder in the back yard and
touched a match to a short fuse.
Young Highways right hand was bad
ly burned in the flash that followed.
Howard Stanley, living near Pitts
boro, has been exhibiting an apple
blossom which is a novelty. 1t is about
four times as large as the ordinary
bloom and looks and smells like rose.
but Mr.. Stanley is ready to take oath
that the blossom and the twig to which
1t is attached were taken from an ap-
pie tree at his home, and there are ap-
pie leaves on the twig to bear out the
statement. Another remarkable thing
is the lateness of the tree in blooming.
Oil has been struck at a depth OF
less Than one thousand feet on the Kir-
per farm, about two miles east of
Huntingburg. The well is now flowing
at the rate of twenty-five barrels a
day and is covering Hunley creek and
other small streams in the neighbor-
hood. Oil men estimate that the we'll
will produce five hundred barrels a
day. Several oil wells viii, be drilled
between Huntingburg and Birdseye,
Ind Several oil leases on land around
Huntingburg have been signed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto B. Zimmerman, of
Marion, were seriously injured by the
explosion of an old cartridge which
Mr.. Kinneman had found on the grave
OF a soldier in the cemetery adjoin-
ing this city. He took the shell home
and regarding it harmless commenced
to hammer it. 1t exploded and piece
OF the shell struck zimmerman in the
right eye and the bullet struck Mrs.
zimmerman in the left forearm infiict-
ing severe wound. 1t is feared that
Mr.. Kinneman will lose the sight of
his eye.
Near Hebron Church, on the north
ern border of Clark County, lives one
of the oldest married couples in this
part of the country. Thomas Mont
gomery and Mary Z. Blizzard were
married December 20, 1S4S. more than
sixty-one years ago. The husband is
ninety years old, and his wife is ten
years his junior. They are both. in
good health, and the aged man. still
works in the field. Their descendants
number well over one hundred, includ-
ing eight children living of family of
eleven, seventy-two grandchildren and
thirty-two great-grandchildren
A dog and pot of hot. coffee were
directly the cause of the death of little
Charlotte Garrison, 1926 North Ire,
mont avenue, Indianapolis, !, whose
death was reported TO Coroner Black
well. The child, who was three and
one-half years old. was playing in the
kitchen with the pet dog. The mother
had been ironing and the ironing
board was still in place on a stand
On table nearby stood the pot, filled
with hot coffee. The dog bumped
against the stand and the ironing
board was shaken down. In falling,
enc end of the board struck the coffee
pot and the scalding liquid was spilled
over the childs back, causing terrible
burns
David Bixler, age eighty, a contract
or, died at his home in Greenfield last
week of Bright's disease. Fifty years
age he did the carpenter work on the
house in Greenfield pictured far and
wide as the Riley home, and which
stands in Main street, near the bust
ness district. This property is now
owned by James Whitcomb Riley, and
although it is understood to be the
birthplace of the poet, such is not the :
case. Mr.. Riley, it is true, was born
on the same lot, but in log house
that stood several feet to the east of
the building Mr.. Bixler erected for the
poets father, Reuben A. Riley, and
which was the childhood home of the
Riley boys Mr.. Bixler lived in the
original Riley home for number OF
years, until tht house was razed Mr.
Riley sold the property later and lived
III another part of the city until his
death. In a few years James Whit
comb Riley bought the place, and, al
though it is kept in good repair, no ma
terial changes have been made since it
was built by Mr.. Bixler.
DIR. Pepper, of Mt. Carmel, has a
shipment of Wabash river pearls val
ued at $4,000. He bought them from
musel gatherers along the river be-
tween GRANVILLE and Mt Carmel.
A committee of Petersburg business
men met recently and decided to cele-
brate the Fourth of July by holding
automobile races for amateurs at the
old fair grounds race, track. This will
be the first automobile race meet ever
held in Southern Indiana, and. it is
thought, will attract wide attention.
Little Mary johnson the siz.eea.
months-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Scott Johnson, of near Ladoga, died
last week from the effect of poison
caused by eating strawberries. The
child ate the berries and died within
twelve hours