Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 November 1895 — Page 5

YOU ALWAYS WANT-- - The best of everything, of cdurse, and in nothing ) else should so much care be taken as in buying o ® ’ Drugs, Medicines ~ ~—S=PAINTS AND OlLS<=%—~— . I carry nothing but the purest goods in this line ‘and sell at the lowest prices. FULL LINE OF FINE LAMPS..... JUST RECEIVED. 1 WANT YOUR' TRADE, Successor to E. L. WATSON 4 & J . O‘. SLUTZ

| . o The Figonier Banner, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1895. e ottt LIGONIER MARKET REPORT TALLOW,POTPOUNA. ..n.sseenns ssenens senees § 3 Hides,green,perpound.....ceeceecesccsess 4 Potatoes.porbusheli...........sive icvanens 2 Eg@B,PerdOZ.ccccebacucrcscacaiarnrecncashns 17 Bathber DEERONNd socii.-. . iiiivcsnscasass o 14 Ldard,perpoud.........cecemesannccconnacacs i Oornperbliabellciiiii .. ... vaeisiueaiis % ORtEDOEBRENEL. iL. coasai i iinnuaves BD Wheat, perbushel..c..eeseunictesccnanacenes 61 Hides,dry,perpound......ccaccesunancsceis 4 WOOLDGEDDHNA 0. oiooo ioaiavipaoviaaiis 10 Onions,perbushel ......ceecccccaciemceaa.. 60 OloverSeed,perbushel. .c....qccuvvannainnn. 4 30 Ry i saisiceanoll 80 F{OR Fermonn nonoseannansannsronancooeensanane. 380 et e ettt et e e e Easy tooth extracting.—Kline, the dentist, Sl Ask for the Indiano. Sold by all your dealers. Hon. S, E. Nicholson will deliver a lecture at Kendallville next Thursday eyening at the church of Christ. - Henry Reyher has purchased the Bowen House at Kendallville and will make extensiye improvewents therein before reopeuning. . : : Subscribers who have arranged to pay for their paper 1n wood are informed that we would like to receive a few loads of wood, of good quality, for use in a furnace | There is no better beer than the home product, and ne one can use any other only from a notion. The new proprietors of the Ligonier brewery are bound to succeed I

The Rushville fair grounds will have te be sold to pay off the indebtedness of the association which is nearly four thousand dollars. The deficit this year amounted to about seven hundred dollars.

WaNTED.—Agents of ability as salesmen, to canvass for the Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Indiana. Money loaned on the building and loan plan. Address with reference, O. P. Eversole, Gen. Agt., Fort Wayne, Ind.

~tansbury’s Double dtore T0R.... Finest and most popular line of Fur Capes. Blankets in finest qualities both in wool and cotton and popular prices. Ladies, Gents and childrens Un- . derwear finest and best in the market. ve Ladies and childrens mittens. Gents work gloves. Fancy Fringed Towels and very desirable patterns in stamped Linen.Wool and Ice wool Fascinators. Beautiful Feather Boas. Wool and cotton hose. All the latest Novelties in Dress Goods. , ’ Dress Flannel at thirty cents per yard. GROCERIES. Fine Teas and ‘Coffees. Pure | Spices. | Dried Fruits and 'Canned " Goods. e ; Self Rising Buckwheat ' Flour two pounds for ten cents. Elegant Novelties in Banquet - Lamps. o Everybods¢ invited to call. ~ CORN AND SALT FOR SALE. ~ PRODUCZ BOUGHT AND SOLD. - “R.J. STANSBURY A 0y VIANWDVUILL,

Smoke the Indiano five-cent cigar. Abe Wertheimer went to Milwankee yesterday.

George Lamb, ot Goshen, was in town Monday on business. '

Fifty dollars buys a $l5O ladies Ariel good as new. Enquire at this office,

Mayor Straus was at Warsaw yesterday looking after business interests.

Mrs. Yetta Straus of Butler was the guest of Henry Sax and wife oyer Sunday.

~ If you chew gum try the pepsin at C. G. McLean’s. Two packages for tfive cents, {

John Cavin is building a neat and tasty residence west of the public square, just north of the M. E. church.

From the number of fine black bass being offered for sale upon our streets fishing must be first class these cold November days. °

- Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Haryey Hoak are congratulating them over the arrival of a pretty little daughter, born last Saturday. '

- All kinds of foot wear neatly repaired at reduced prices.by 1. A, Batchelder at Frank Zimmerman & Co. s store. Give him a trial.

Miss Jennie Wertheimer, who has been visiting her sisters, Mrs. Joel Selig and Mrs. Jonas Schloss, ,for the past month, went to Chicago Wednesday.

It is stated that the Liake Shore railway has issued an order to dismiss all persons not of a%e working about liye engines which is likely to result in the discharge of a good many young men.

W. E. Harden wants the farmers to know that he can furnish galvanized stee: stock tanks of any size or shape at prices as lJow as can be had of out;ide houses. Don’t buy till you sece im. :

‘A promiment Elkhart attorney was fined 87 and costs for driying through a funeral procession recently. =He pleaded guilty and said he did not know that it was a funeral procession until he had driven through,

Chief Simon Pokagon, of the Pottawatomies has selected South Haven for the division of the government appropriation made for his people. The payment will be made in about two weeks and $104,000 will be distributed among 362 Indians. :

Wlll H. Randall, of Waterloo, formerly a resident of this city, was here last Monday calling on old friends and renewing acquaintances, He is ' now in the pump and well business at Waterloo hayving succeeded his tather. He reports a prosperous year.

Clayton E. Van Vleet of Detroit and Vivian Schlotterback of this city were married on Saturday last at the home of the bride’s grandmother, Mrs. Matthews, in Albion. They lett Sunday evening for the west where they will remain until after the holidays.

The sherift of Allegan county, Mich., who arrested Brown, the train robber, will be richer by nearly 81,300 as a reward. After the Kessler hold-up, the raillroad and express companies offered a'reward of $l,OOO for each of the bandits and ten per cent. ot all money recovered.

Workmen are engaged in putting in connections and catch basins 8o as to turn the water out of Cavin street gutters into the big sewer, It is to be hoped that the scheme will be a sueccess so that the expensive bridging and wide street crossings can be dispensed with. :

Shock Bros. have opened a neat barber shop in the basement under Gerber & Co.’s store where they will welcome all of their old friends. Louis Shock is one of the best tonsorial artists that has ever worked in this city and they are entitled to their share of the patronage,

It was reported here last week that Abe Smalley had been captured, it was a mistake. Oscar, a younger brother, is the man now under arrest, but officers are hot upon the trail of the much wanted Abraham., 1t is safe to say that if he stays in this country he will be taken in. The supreme court has decided in a case transferred from Crawford circuit court as follows: If a married woman signs a mortgage to her property but has not received or contrrcted for any of the benefits to be derived therefrom she will be deemed a surety and not be bound unless she has in some other way estopped herself. : G. M. Zimmerman has made a wonderful improvement in the appearance of his new property on Martin street. The lot has been graded down and the ‘house lowered. A story has been ' added and many substantial additions made. When completed it will be one of the neatest and best arranged dwellings on Martin street. S William Banks a farm hand lost his left arm one day last week while operating one of those new fangled cornhuskers near Oswego, Kosciusko county. His hand got caught in the folder in some way and the poor fellow was about to be drawn into the ‘machine when the engine was stopped. I'he arm was torn oft near the elbow and had to be amputated at that joint.

Chas. Nathan of Ft. Wayne was in the city Monday. »

Something new-—the Indiano; haye you tried it?

Call at the BANNER job rooms for first-dlass mercantile printing.

Only five cents for two packages (ten_sticks) of pepsmm gum at C. G. McLean’s,

Do you enjoy smoking a fine cigar? If you do, give the Indiano a trial and you will smoke no other.

A number of Noblf county hunters are in northern Michigan and Wisconsin gunning for deer.

W. A. Pearce is prepared to do upholstering, and furniture repairssat yery low rates. Call on him in the Weir block. ' 4-w

We have a firat class coal stoye in good condition that we will sell chearj Have put in a furnace and don’t need it. Call at the BANNER office.

The city council was unanimous in the granting of the franchise to the electric railroad. The ordinance is so drawn that it fully and completely covers and protects the rights. of our citizens. §

~ Abe Goldsmith, Mrs Lucius MeConnell and J. E. McDonald went to St. Johns, Michigan, last Tuesday as witnesses in a case inyolving about $2,000 in which the Randolph estate is interested.

Charley Nelson’s new residence on Grand street 1s nearing completion and is going to make Mr. and Mrs. Nelson one of the neatest and tastiest dwellings in the city. It is well located and of tasty architectural designs and splendidly furnished.

Fort Wayne capitalists are still agitating the ship canal from ;| Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, and will have a fine map priuted to show up the proposed route. Fort Wayne people are enterprising and don’t propose to hide their light under a half bushel.

John Malone who formerly liyed in this township was badly injured in a sawmill accident at Goshen last week. He fell forward upon a cut-off saw and had it not been for John Gouker, a fellow workman he would have been cut in twain. His shoulder and breast were badly torn.

Before making your selections in wedding stationary. invitation, or visiting cards you are inyited to examine the new stoek just received -at this office. Only the latest and most faghionable designs and at prices made to fit the purse. Satisfaction is a guarantee of good work,

1t 18 reported that the big fire in the swamps around Emma at one time last week threatened to be more than serious. But the flames were contined to the immediate neighbarhood of the swamps and nothing of value but a few hundred cords of wood and =a lot of fence was destroyed.

- Mr. Anderson, of Goshen has secured a class 1n bookkeeping. shorthand and typewriting 1n this city and will be here next Monday to arrange the preliminaries. Mr. Anderson is thoroughly equipped for this class of work and will doubtless secure a large number of new pupils here, :

C. A. Hartwell, of Chicago, traveling passenger agent of thé popular *‘Santa Fe’’ lines was in the city last Monday and Tuesday looking after the interests of the road. Several of our people are cotemplating trips to California and Colorado and they can do no better than go oyer the A. T. & S. F.

Senator Sam Parker of Plymouth, has been appointed counsel for the Pennsylvania lines of Indiana, to succeed Judge Ross, of Logansport, who has long been the company’s attorney. He will move to Logansport, which will be a decided loss to Marshall county’'s Democracy.—South Bend Times.

George Washington Long, residing near Nappanee, got an idea into his head that he had no right to the Long part of his name and has been trying to make his neighbors believe that he is the “Father of his country.” In fact he became 8o solicitous about it that it was necessary to take him to the asyluom at Logansport.

Already we have heard that some kick is to be made by certain farmers against the action of the county commissioners in granting the right of the H., C. C. &. L. Ry. to occupy the public highways. These fellows are like old time grangers who set fire to reapers and destroyed threshing machines because they thought they were going to get the worst of it. ‘e

The supreme court has decided that the salary of the township trustee, acting as overseer of the poor. is payable out of the county treasury and is not a charge against the township. Thisdecision, says the Elkhart Truth, is beneficial to townships in which large cities and towns are situated, as it throws a great part of expense of looking after the destitute upon the county at large.

Now that wet weather has come again the need of a better platform at the Lake Shore passenger house is felt. The ground in front of the depot is low apd during a rain gets soft and is filled with depressions which hold water. The ground: ought to be paved with brick the same as in Elkhart. The patrons of ithe road are protesting against the nuisance in unmeasured terms.—Goshen Times. Same here, too. Among the good things announced for the Christmas number of Harper’s Magazine are the first chapters of Briseis, a new novel by William Black, In the same number will be found the opening paper in Caspar W. Whitney’s account of his journey on snow shoes to barren grounds of British North America in pursuit of big game; a brilliant description of Caracas, the Paris of South America. by Richard Hardinﬁ Davis; a comedy by William Dean Howells; five shors stories and eighty illustrations including a frontispiece in. color. :

The county commissioners met at Albion Monday and granted a franchise to the Huntington, Columbia City & Ligonier electric road through the county to Ligonier. The line will enter the county east of Wolf Lake and run thence to Noblesville and then to Albion. From Albion the road will follow the highway past the poor farm and then to Ligonier by Diamond lake. The terms of the franchise Provide that work shall begin on the line no later than June Ist, 1896 and the road be completed within one i year form the date of the franchise.

l Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powqer * Most Perfect Made. | ~ Pepsin chewing gum, two pack{Lges for five cents at McLean’s. I _ lke Straus returned home Monday night from a ten days’ trip. 5 Gum chewers should trv the new article at the Criterion. Two packages for five cents. : ' Full line of the best groceries at Chas. McLean’s. . Drop in whenjyou want something fresh and new. ]' ; Ckas A. Gardner, the great German comedian, will appear at the 1%-win opera house. Goshen, tonight in ¢'The Prize Winner.”’ 11 Rememi)er that the Home Loan Association will loan monev 1n | any amoant for any length of time, with terms of repayment to suit the borrower. Enquire of Chas Reynolds, secretary. e The detectiyes are said to be hotjupon the trail of a clew that promises surprising developments in the Kessler train robbery. They claim that Brown has only told a_ part of [ the story. : . | That wholly uncalled for lie that the directors borrowed money in 1894 to pay premiums has been repeated so often that some one will believe it/ before long, notwithstanding the |fact that it is without any semblanc? of truth.

Hon. Thos. R. Marshall -and wife of Columbia City were in the city | last Monday eyening, guests of the Egotel Goldsmith. Mr. Marshall was here in the interest of the proposed eltlctric railroad and Mrs. Marshall to make her first visit to our little city, |

We heard of a Republican the other day that is so sure that his side | will win in 1896 that he is already arnlanging to be a candidate for the /postmastership. Postmaster Casey has nearly three years to serve yet and it will be a long time before the/fellow can get his work in. /

The city council will have fto soon take cognizance of the' fgct that Cayin street is getting in/ such a condition as to be a standing /disgrace to a wealthy and growing icity like Ligonier. Some steps shoulq be taken soon to proyide for paving or otherwise improving the street. |

When you are looking around for a good stove don’t forget that/Orson E. Niles has a full line of heating and cooking stoves of the latest,and best patterns. He sells the Brilliant Oak, one of the neatest, cheapest and most durabdle heaters in the market. - You should see eall and see his stock. :

There is a strange disease prevalent among the cattle in this pfl')rt of the state, Saturday a cow belonging to Mrs. Kunkle, who resides near Waterford, fell dead immediately after being milked. A-similar case is réported of a cow belonging to Gaily White who resides a few miles southeast of the city.—Michigan City News. |

Next year will be the last leap year of the century and another will not occur until 1904, The unusual gccurrence 18 due to the fact that the addition of one day each fourth year more than makes up the presumed deficiency in the calendar year. Those of the gentle sex, who contemplate making proposals during 1896 should not et the opportunity pass. It will be dight years before they are again licensed to do so and eight years will carry the marriageable young lady beyond a desirable age. I

The following is from |a bicycle publication: ¢-To etch your name on the handle bar of your machine, so that the festive thief may find the annexation of your property less convenient coyer the place om the bar which is to be etched, with a film of beeswax .and tallow. Then mark whatever design you choosge through the film. which should be |yery thin, being careful to scrape entirely through the film. If you then expose it to nitric or hydrocloric acid, the design will be found etched into the metal.”

Sylvester W. Shumard of Elkhart, says a special dispatch, has received the information that he has| fallen heir to $10,000,000. The estate !is located in Amsterdam, Holland, and is valued at $60,000,000. His grandfather was a soldier 1n the war that liberated America from the yoke ef England, and after the war he veturned to Amsterdam, ‘where he came into| possession of this vast fortune through the death of a relative. He recently died, leaving the estate to be divided among six descendants, of which Sylyéster Shumard is one. Mr. Shumard |/is now in Cincinnati looking after his claim.

Valorous Brown this week made a visit to the towns in Noble county that are to feel the touch and convenience of the north and_south electric line. Mr. Brown’s meeting with- the influential and business men ot Ligonier was highly satisfactory. ’;he citizens of that bustling place are jubilant over the prospects of the approaching road. Ligonier and Albion are putting forth eyery effort to assist the company to install the line. The route from Albion to Ligonier will be more picturesque than can be found intmany miles of travel in this section of the country, —Columbia City Post. }

On Saturday an aged farmer residing near Cromwell, drove to Goshen and had his horse cared for at one' of the livery stables. The big hearted proprietor inyited his patron over to the hotel to take something to brace him after the long drive. | The farmer still continued to take something, and soon felt strong and started for home without his conveyance, walking a distance of twenty-two miles, Not finding his horse in the barn at home, he, together with a neighbor, started back to Goshen to procure the rig. It will probably be some time before that livery man again thaws onht to a Noble county farmer.—Kendallville Sun. - At a Special meeting of the city council last Monday night Mr. Geo. W. Ruch of Columbia City, one of the officials of the proposed 'Huntington, Columbia Oity & Ligonier electric road, made a written application for an ordinance granting a franchise to enter our city and occupy such streets as are needed, Alter due and careful consideration the ordinance was passed granting such privileges as have been accorded to the line by C?lumbia City, Huntington and Albion. The line as ﬁx;opoaed will enter the city from chester along Union street until it strikes Cavin and then along Cavin to Pigeon across the bridge to Harden’s foundry corner, then to the Lake Shore depot. The line is to be built in one year from date of franchise.

SUBSCRIBERS, ATTENTION, We have secured the seryices of R. B.McKahan of this city as solicitor and collector. He is now engaged in yisiting our friends with instructions to make settlement of all accounts, We need the money and are sending Mr. McKahan to see you at considerable expense and we must insist that you all give him and his bills the attention that they deserve. If you can not make full and complete settlement, pay him something and arrange matters so that his visit to you will not be fruitless. | We do not send out a collector for any other reason than of dire necessity. Not that we want to<harrass any one but because we must have settlement o&)u_r accounts, We have entailed a )c siderable expense in making exatex;sive and absolutely necessary im‘provements in eur office building, and are contemplating the addition of ‘necessary machinery with which to continue the publication of our paper. ‘We need your assistance and we insist that it is due us. e Bills will be rendered to each and every one owing the office and we hope that they will be met promptly ‘upon presentation by Mr. McKahan or by mail. lln the meantime we would invite all who can to call at the office and make settlement. . F. W. Zimmerman’s having sold their residence property on west Third street are now living at the Hotel Goldsmith having taken up their residence there for the winter, M. C. Pf)llock has rented the Zimmerman residence. : | ~ As we predicted it would, the South€ Bend Morning Herald suspended publication last Friday,. Wm. O’Neil, the proprietor, will continue publication of the Sunday Morning Herald. It is the fourth unsuccessful attempt to publish a morning daily in that city. | H. C. Cunningham, of Ligonier, has leased the first Hoor of the new Iddﬂ ing’s building opposite the postoflice, and will fill it with a stock of drugs. He is an experienced and practical druggist and an excellent business man. He will no doubt make a suc}cess of the business. We welcome him to our city.—Kendallville Sun. A dispatch from Logansport says: Detective Silas Morgan, of this city, has been instrumental in.running to earth the three surviving members of the gang who perpetrated the train robberies at Allegan, Mich. and Kessler, Ind., and who Kkilled Detective George W. Powers on August 22 last. They are ‘‘Zip” Brown, ¢Doc’” Smalley and Tim Tayler, who was captured day before yesterday in Okalahoma. Morgan obtained his first clew from a friend in Pond Creek, O. T. He will receive $l,OOO for his services. : The following dates for county institutes have been announced by W. C: Latta, of Purdue: Allen, Fort Wayne, Dec. 16 and 17; Elkhart, Goshen, Dec. 9 and 10; Huntington, Huntington, Dec. 11 and 12; DeKalb, Waterloo, Dec. 18 and 19; LaGrange, LaGrange, Jan. 20 and 21; Noble, Albion, Jan. 22 and 23; Kosciusco, Warsaw, Jan, 24 and 25; Whitley, Columbia City, Feb. 19 and 20, Among the speakers announced are J. N. Babcock of Topeka, J, Warren Moore of this city, C. B. Harris of Goshen, M. T. Rose of this county and many others.

At Columbia City last Thursday John C. Wigent, late editor of the Mail and leading republican politician. died from the effect of a cancer that‘ first made its appearance two or three years ago on his lower lip. Physicians treated it and also used the knife but were unabhle to arrest its progress or effect its removal. Mr. Wigent, who ' was the republican candidate against Lon D. Fleming in 1890, came into prominence in 1874 when he was elected county recorder on the People’s ticket. He was an attorney of considerable practice before he went into ‘the newspapef business in 1893,

A resident of Washington township remarked the other day that he bad about lost all confidence in human nature. Several years ago when the Smalley boys were arrested for stealing hogs,;hé says he did not believe them guilty,:in fact he thogght they were wrongly charged. They had always dealt honestly with him and they were sy sly about their moyments that he had never seen the least thing out of the way in their conduct. It will be remembered that the jury disagreed upon the trial over the hog stealing matter and that there was “considerable feeling over the trial. It 'was evenjcharged that, the boys were beling pushed on account of their politics ete. : : ;

The newspapers hereabouts are reviewing recollections ,of ¢‘Old Ben Blair’’ a quaint old character that for years was a familiar figure upon the streets of our city as well as those of neighboring towns. Editor Barns of the Auburn Courier, who at one time was superintendent ot schools in this city says: ‘A few of our readers will remember the half crazy and fully encentric old Ben Blair, who used to travel over Noble and Whitley counties carrying a big cane profusely decorated with old coins and various other trinkets, He at his death left that to the Masonic iodge in Ligonier though 'we never heard what they did with it.”’ This cane as well as many others, for cane collecting seemed to be Blair’s fad, are still in possession of the lodge in care of Hon, J. C. Zimmerman. ; S Awarded e Highest Honors—World’s Fair . ‘DR: ; /v m : ~ MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Frey &om Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant

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