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PLYMOUTH, MARSHALL COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9. 1895.
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TWO WEEKS.
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Altaian
Big Bargain Givers,
19 E. Side Michigan St.
After the Circus.
The greatest show on earth has come
and gone. It came and went in all the
glory of magnificence and mingled Oc
cidental and Oriental splendor and gor
geous equipage and trappings that are
characteristic of the most renowned of
all tented amusement exhibits.
Plymouth has lapsed back to-day
into her usual state of peace and quiet
To most people, yesterday was a day of
unwonted pleasure, as witnessed by
thousands who turned out to testify to
the place the great Parnum & Pailey
show occupies in the hearts and minds
of the American people. For Plymouth
it was a great day. It is asserted by
old inhabitants that no such number of
people were ever brought together here
in a single day before. People tame
from all directions, from far and near.
All classes and ages were represented
for there are few people who can not
afford the occasional opportunity pre
sented yesterday, and the show is at
tractive alike to the very young and to
the very old. As to the show itself it is
a marvel. It is a great national educa
tional amusement. It affords a means
of seeing and learning many things
that is afforded millions of the great
American people in no other way. To
countless numbers of these it takes the
place of theatres, zoological gardens and
museums of every kind. Farewell and
success to the greatest show on earth.
Night Watchman Robbed.
From Wednesday's Daily.
Night watchman J. II. Pennett's
house was roobed this morn in r while
he watched the parade and stood with
in sight of the place of robbery. He
had his weather eye open all the time,
too, but from overmuch night work and
from zealously guarding the sleeping
city from the maraudings of midnight
marauders, the good watchman did not
note this daytime trespass on hi own
premises until it was too late to cap
ture the thief.
A window screen was forced with a
chisel and entrance to the house thus
accomplished. The burglar carried
away a gold ring, a gold watch chain, a
silver watch, a pair of gold cuff buttons
and 2 00 in money. A diamond pin
belonging to Kay Pennett was over
looked. All this was done whiie Mr.
Pen.utt was away from the house but
twenty minutes.
otjiki: i:or.HEi:ii;.
Peter Stegman's house was entered
during the parade this morning and
robbed of money and valuables to the
amount of about 30.
Mrs. Arthur Thompson's house was
entered during the parade and robbed
of some articles of value, just how
much has not been learned. There are
rumors of a number of other house
robberies. A full report of all interest
ing incidents of the day will be given
by the lMi:ri:.iKNT tomorrow.
A Serious Objection.
There is one feature connected with
the Parnum-Pailey show that slibuld
be remedied. That one feature has a
tendency to create a great deal of dis
satisfaction among its patrons. This
is found in connection with the "grand
concert" given at the end of the circus
performance.
The people as a rule, expect to be
humbuged in a srnull degree at this
part of the entertainment; but they do
not expect after giving up their money
for this part of the performance to have
the fifteen minute show given them,
disturbed by the uproar of removing
$7.88
$495
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seats. Wednesday night as soon as the
circus performance was over and the
"elevated stage' thrown down on the
ground, the carrying away of seats com
menced, and the result was, that about
five minutes of the "grand concert'
was understood by the large audience
Raymond-Meegan.
August 5, at the Peformed church
parsonage, Mr. (JecrgeF. Raymond and
Miss Jennie Meegan were married at 3
o'clock by Rev. X. 1). Williamson. The
bride is a cheery dressmaker with
rooms over the Singer sewing machine
sales room on X. Michigan street, and
a daughter of Mr. and Mr. Michael
Meegan, now of Xebraska, and the
groom an auctioneer now of South
Rend, formerly of Minnesota. South
IJend Times.
Miss Jennie Meegan, formerly resided
n Plymouth, and will be remembered
by a large number of friends who will
surely wish their former associate un
bounded happiness and success in this
new venture.
Relic of Glacial Epoch.
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A remarkably fine specimen of stone,
which was evidently carried to its rest
ing place here as a part of the glacial
drift, was unearthed recently on the
premises of the Indiana Manufacturing
Co. It was found at a depth of about
five feet from the surface and is re
markable from the fact that it bears
such plain and unmistakable evidence
of its being a relic of the glacial epoch.
On one side its grooves are as clearly
and cleanly defined as though they had
been recently cut by a chisel. Its
weight is about 300 pounds. Some
smaller and less valuable specimens
were also found. The large one will be
presented to the high school in this city.
Pocketbook Lost and Found.
This did not occur in Plymouth yes
terday, but at Michigan City. The book
also contained a large sum of money.
In our city the thieves that usually fol
low Parnum and Bailey's show got in
their work in excellent shape, and there
was, as we are informed, but one pock
otbook that came back, and that was
through the columns of the Inkpendd
i:nt. Of course the tempting array of
greenbacks, and a sprinkling of the 10
to 1 was lacking, but the owner was
glad to receive the book with valuable
papers therein unmolested.
Sayings of the Sages.
Every day is a little life. Pishop
Hall.
Few love to hear the sins they love to
act. Shakespeare.
Pride requires very costly food its
keeper's happiness Colton.
Doing nothing lor others is the un
doing of one's self. A. Mann.
Politeness is the result of good sense
and good nature.-(loldsmith.
Delay has always been injurious to
those who are prepared. Lucan.
All cruelty springs from hard-heart -edness
and weak character. Seneca.
It is a barren kind of criticism that
that tells you what a thing is not. 15.
W. (Iriswold.
Xo ashes are lighter than those of
incense, and few things burn out
sooner. Landor.
A clean mouth and an honest hand
will take a man through any land.
(lerman Proverb.
In character, in manners, in style, in
all things, the supreme excellence is
simplicity. Longfellow.
UNI
BR LEY
The Small Uoyand His Pa
rents Alike are in Their
Glory.
Wednesday's Daily
Just after midnight the people began
to straggle into Plymouth, some on
freight trains, some by team, and still
others on foot. The small boy had slept
with one eye open and long before the
them unload. About five o'clock the
big train arrived he was at the Pitts
burg depot in full force waiting to see
them unload. About live o'clock the
first section arrived, closely followed by
two more a total of 55 large cars loaded
asonly a circus crew knows how to load.
There were fully eight hundred people
there to greet them and the crowd soon
swelled to a thousand. The circus men
quickly commenced their work and the
systematical manner in which t;iey
went at it was a wonder to the people.
The large crowd who had stood around
the depot shivering in the dense cold
morning tog were well paid for their
trouble for it was well worth any ones
time to see how such a mammoth busi
ness was handled in so short a time.
IJy nine o'clock in the morning fully
10,000 people were on the streets. The
weather was perfect and everybody
turned out. On all country roads as far
as the eye could see a string of wagons
was coming in just as close together as
they could drive, and every train car
ried all they could pile on. Everybody
was bent on having a good time and
they are a good natured, motley gather
ing. The peanut and pop-corn vender,
the lemonade man and the toy balloon
man arealike in their glory. Altogether
Plymouth probably iever had as large
or happy a throng of people within her
gates before. Every available spot was
occupied to witness the parade this
morning and choice spots were at a
premium.
Every merchant has prepared for a
big crowd and the people will be well
cared for. Each merchant has doubled
his force of help and all are doinrj a
good business. Every available spot is
taken by followers of the ciicus with
striking machines, bail throwing and
rille shooting apparatus.
The crowd at the grounds is simply
immense. Thousands followed the par
ade back to the mammoth tents and
witnessed the free outside exhibition.
There is no doubting that the mam
moth aggregation is all that the owners
claim for it, and the many who came
from far and near to gaze upon its
wonders will go home tonight tired but
glad they came and that they had an
opportunity to see what many of them
never saw before and may never have a
chance to see again.
As yet no accidents have been report
ed. The city has been well taken care
of, Mr. Swindell having appointed 15
special police, who under the able di
rection of Chief Myers, are patroling
all parts of the city.
Altogether it as a grand gala day and
one long to be remembered by all.
Circus Day.
If there is any one thing in the life
of young Americans that causes him to
lose his sleep, it is the announcement
that a circus will soon put in an appear
ance in the town he lives in. There is
not a gray-haired sire, who has not ex
perienced the same peculiar sensations
that premetes the boy of to-day. After
the bill posters have decorated the bill
boards with their highly colored litho
graphs, you will see him stand before
those representations of athletic skill,
and in undertones converse with his
boon companions, telling how he carried
in wood for neighbor Jones, for ten
cents, and drove the ow to pasture for
neighbor Smith, and received a like
ompensation, and how the last errand
he run for some maiden lady gave him
the required amount, so that he had a
siUlicient amount to go to the circus.
And as we looked upon the countenance
of that bare footed boy and note the
glow of enthusiasm that illuminates
his face, it causes a thrill of intense
emotion to vibrate through our heart
as we look back in the past when we
were a boy, and dream over the same
ambitions that occured to us before
circus day.
There is not a pastime of our lives
more sacred than our childhood days;
and when years have passed by and
gray hairs appear, and our steps
weighed down and oppressed by years,
the days of our boyhood are as vividly
portrayed on our mind as though but
yesterday.
We believe in letting the boys go to
the circus. While some parents may to
some extent be opposed to that kind of
amusement, and object to tho youth riv-
eling in the enjoyments to bo found
there, yet we believe more harm is act
ually perpetrated when a parent re
fuses to allow the bov to go, then can!
be remedied bv ears of teaching.!
lhere is tint instinct in the heart o' a
boy, that nukes its presence known for
years after, and the dissajointmnt that
surrounds t he refusal of a parent lives
for years. Especially is this true when
he sees others of his associates given
the privilege of riveling in the delights
of seeing the circus. Let the boys see
the circus.
Clean, Neat and Handy.
Fred II. Kuhn has just completed and
is this afternoon moving into his new
meat market in his own new building
on Michigan street.
It is an exemplary business place, fit
ted with all the latest conveniences,
such as would make any butcher's heart
glad to gaze upon. Finished as it is in
natural wood in hard oil finish, elegant
racks of the latest pattern, two fine cut
ting blocks and an L counter with mar
ble slab on top. An octagon shaped
office occupits a prominent place at one
side of the room and a refrigerator 14
feet square stands just back of the
counter. The workshop is located in
the rear out of right from in front and
is fitted with benches, blocks, and ev
ery convenience required.
The walls arf; wainscoted three feet
high around the whole room, making a
neat and handsome appearance,
In all it is probably the neatest and
finest meat market to be found in
Xorthern Indiana. Mr. Kuhn and our
citizens may well be proud of it.
The New Woman.
The new woman has been talked
about, written, sung and preached
about until she is really becoming quite
notorious. Her bifurcated skirts, her
bloomers and her knickerbockers, her
speech, her manner and the lines and
proportions of her figure have been var
iously discussed, praised, condemned,
sketched, caricatured and Haunted to
the public gaze until her fame has been
proclaimed throughout the land. She is
at once a curiosity, a wonder and an
unfathomable mystery who, having
been seized by an ungovernable impulse
to ignore established customs and set
the world agog, has, by a strange ca
price of fate, been lead to exhibit her
self to the world as a public show. The
world gazes and its fancy is caught. It
is amazed and it falls into speculation
as to what will be the next sensation.
Put, after all, it is encouraging to know
that the "iiev woman" is not in the
majority and that the sweet, affec
tionate, modest and womanly woman,
the gentle, effeminate, skirted woman,
the woman to love and cherish and, if
need be to live and to die for, is still a
woman of the present.
Advertising Writing.
business competition, which is be
coming closer, more scientific and sys
tematic from year to year, is constantly
leading to the development of new con
ditions which grow apace as new re
quirements demand them. A most not
able and wholesome feature of recent
trade development is that of profession
ally written advertising for all depart
ments of manufacturing and retail bus
iness. The end of the Xineteenth cen
tury will mark an age of professional
advertising writing just as it will
mark an era in the marvels of elec
tricity or a greater degree of perfection
in surgical and medical skill. The field
of advertising writing is already par
tially occupied by a corps of writers
better known to advertisers than is the
author of tho latest sensational novel
to the general public. Their work is not
confined either to large establishments
whose advertising involves the yearly
expenditure of fortunes, but is rapidly
finding its way into the space used by
countless smaller merchants who may
spend anywhere from one to five hun
dred dollars yearly in a single good
medium, and is proving,more than ever
before that advertising is the one indis
pensible factor in the achievement of
marked success in almost any business
direction.
Court Notes.
The following cases were tried before
Justice Peeves this morning:
John Malay, assault and battery,
pleaded guilty, fined '..53, remanded to
jail in default.
Levi Zimmerman, assault and bat
tery, fined !?J.55, fine stayed.
Daniel Puckley, drunk, fined $y.."i,
went to jail in default.
Joe Evans, drunk, fined '.'.55, paid.
' Samuel Pattni, drunk, fined 'J.55.
went to jail in default.
James Falkenbury, drunk, fined
remanded to jail in default.
I enj. Van Lew, drunk, fined SU.55,
fino stayed.
Joseph Hiler, assault with intent to
commit a felony, trial continued until
to-morrow at 10 a. m.
I III
11.
Frederick Robertson, of Teegarden, I
Believes He Has It.
This vicinity bids lair to furnish to i
the world, in the person of Frederick
Robertson, of near Teegarden, the most
illustrious inventor of a!I the ages. Mr.
Robertson has invented a machine
which, according to our reports from
Walkerton. runs like lightning and is
said to be a practical embodiment of
perpetual motion.
Such a machine has been dreamed of
P1EI
Ml
for centuries. Inventors have studied
and toiled and hoped to startle the
world with some mechanical contriv
ance that would run on and on perpet
ually with a practical application to
machinery of all kinds, and have stud
ied and toiled and hoped in vain. Where
laurels were promised by the fevered
imagination the brow has been worn by
care and sorrow, and the self-promising
inventor has reaped only a whirlwind
of disappointment and vain regrets.
Hut a slow and measured series of evo
lutions has wrought a mighty change
in all things since the first dreamer of
perpetual motion attempted to convert
his dreams into something of palpable
form and substance that would give
him glory in realization. The Xine
teenth Century has produced such mar
vels in the field of applied mechanics
that the truth is hard to grasp and now,
if, at the close of the most progressive
century the world has ever known, a
machine which for all practical pur
poses shall approximate perpetual mo
tion shall be invented and given to the
world as a new motive power, the
world, rather than being incredulous,
will accept it as the logical climax to-all
that has gone before. The mysterious
resources of nature are by no means
exhausted and the man who can read
her long hidden secrets may yet come
forth to startle the world again and
again with undreamed of discoveries.
A Homley Truth.
"An editor's life is a constant trial,
and all his delinquent subscribers are
on the jury."
The writer of the above surely must
have tasted the bitter dregs that accom
pany the desire for revenue to meet a
paper bill, or perhaps a grocery
or rent bill. It has been demonstrated
scores of times the hard trials that ac
company the ventursome human being
that egotistically thinks his calling is
in the journalistic fields. There are a
large number of men in this field, who
do deserve credit for the manner in
which they set forth the needs of the
hour. Hut what is the reward?
There is not the slightest doubt in the
minds (f intellent people that the editor
fills a position in life that goes a great
way in lightening the burdens of the
masses, and it is a fact, that he is the
poorest paid, in a great many instances
receiving nothing but abuse for doing
what he conscientously believes is the
right thing to do to help along the mor
al enlightenment of the community in
which he lives. Some newspaper men,
have by rigid economy, arrived at that
point in life where they can majestical
ly wave their hands, and command re
spect. In a number of cases this re
spect is not forth coming, owing to the
benefits the community have derived
through their presence or the benefits
the organ they are connected with has
given theis community, but more from
a dread of the bitter denunciation of
the people through the searching write
ups through the columns of the paper.
Other men with more ability, an honest
desire to see the place where they are
located in prosper, who give their read
ers a better and more comphensive epi
tome of the happenings of their imme
diate neighborhood week after week,
and who strictly steer clear of personal
animosities, seem to fall into line to re
ceive the benefit of the utterances util
ized by the writer of the above quota
tion. There is no man on earth who does
more for the surrounding neighborhood
in which he lives, than the one who
from week to week gives his readers the
news of the day. The neglect to pay a
subscription by a subscriber is not a de
sire to defend the newspaper editor, but
a sheer carelessness on the part of the
reader. It will casually come to him
Jhat he owes the printer a year subscrip
tion; but the amount is so small that he
is apt to think it does not amount to
very much, and the sum being so small
that it would not amount to much.
Put there is where a subscriber makes
a fatal mistake, He does not take into
consideration that five hundred more
people are liable to tako the same view,
and thus the editor is compelled to defer
paying his honest debts owing to the
carelessness of his subscribers. Many
newspapers throughout the country
have been compelled to suspend publi
cation owing to this very important
neglect.
ARGOS AND VICINITY.
Arg s wi-1 le a dull day tomorrow.
Trustee Coadon was in town to -day.
Mrs. Hoy Sinery has been visiting
in Chicago.
Y. P. Kirk went to Plymouth yester
day evening.
H. S. Farrington returned from Roch
ester last night.
Mr. J. French visited in Plymouth
over Sunday.
It rained last night. Providing you
do not already know of it.
Mrs. Wilena liuse, of Chicago, is vis
iting her parents of this place.
Mr. Cowan the trustee, who a short
time ago took poison, is getting better.
Rev. Reed's brother at Rochester died
last evening and was buried this after
noon. On account of the show in Plymouth
tomorrow there will be but a short let
ter from Argos.
John Jones trustee-elect, of Oreen
township takes his office next Thursday.
Thomas Voreis the present trustee re
tiring. A party of little boys and girls met
at Charlie Worthington's yesterday
afternoon, and from what we could see,
they were having a jolly good time.
It seems as though a person wanting
a livery rig tomorrow could not get it,
as every horse in town has been hired
out to goto Plymouth, to the greatest
show on earth.
Wm. Polin has bought out Mr. Rosen
bury s business and also rented the
building in which Mr. Rosehbury
worked. Mr. Polin is doing business
at the new stand.
August y, lb'.5.
The new billiard hall is being fixed
up in line style.
L. J. Hughes and wife were at the
show last night.
Conference at the Christian Church
began yesterday.
Several robberies were reported this
morning from Plymouth.
Harry and Clara Atherton of Union
City are visiting at Mrs. Dr, Eaton's
Thomas Howies and wife went to
Niagara Falls via. L. F. .V W. Ry., this
moring.
Elias Davis and wife and Miss Mary
Simons went to Plymouth last evening
to see the show.
Mrs. C. V. Strickland preached at the
Christian church last evening. A large
crowd was present.
Miss Ina Stout and Miss OHie llively
of Silver Lake, rode their wheels over
and are visiting with Mrs. Ilarler's.
Well! Well! the show is over, and the
general remark can be heard from
parties who were there, that, lam sc
tired,"
On account of being in Plymoutfc
yesterday and it being late when we got
home the papers were delivered until
this morning.
Dug Corey, while driving home from
the circus last night, was run into by a
team, which upset his buggy, breaking
it so much that it had to be hauled in
on the dray. His daughter and another
little girl were along but nothing hap
pened to them. Xarrow escape.
Among some of the preachers present
at the Conference are C. V. Strickland
and wife, of Huntington, Ind., Abrain
West and family, K. E. West and fam
ily of Kokomo, Rev. Winegardner and
L. J. Aldrich, president of the Union
Christian College at Merom, Ind. We
will try and get a full account of the
proceedings of the Conference to mor
row. Walkerton
Walkerton, August 7th.
W. F. Rinehart returned to South
fiend yesterday.
Frederick Robertson, of near Tee
garden has invented a machine that
runs at lightning speed, which h claims
to be perpetual motion.
Quite a number of our people have
gone to Uarnum llaileysshow at Ply
mouth, while a number of others attend
the bicycle races at South Rend.
Mrs. Posa Shafer,of near (irovertown,
died at the residence of her niece in
Plymouth and was buried at (Irover
town cemetery yesterday. She was 53
years D months 15 days old.
John Myer was a little unfortunate
the other day. While on his way to
South Rend he lost an envelope contain
ing sixty some dollars anl a check for
four dollars and thirty-live cents it be
ing the property of Whitman Pros.
South Uend.
J. A. Holms went to Plymouth this
morning, where he has secured a lucra
tive position with the Xovelty Works
Company Valpo Star.