Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 September 1897 — Page 4

dhe Figonier Banner, T+2 BANNER PUBLISHING COMPANY J.E,McDORNALD Editer. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897. It migaT be well for the friends of the present representative in Congress from this district to allow bhim to serve his first term before booming him for the third,. Many things may happen between now and 1900—when the nomination will be made. THE McKinley administration has aroused a great deal of indignation in Georgia by the appointment of negro postmasters in several of the smaller towns, The whites are greatly incensed over this mmnoyation, and are making ‘official life a burden to the recipients of these administrative fayors.

OrrosITION to the encroachments of monopolies and the rapacity of trusts bids fair to be the chief rallying cry in the election of congressmen and members of the legislature next year. On that issue the Democratic- party can win a sweeping victory in 1898 and elect a president in 1900.—J. B. Stoll in’South Bend Times. :

THE election at Indianapolis is only a week away. and eyerything still indicates the overwhelming defeat of the republican city ticket. If ‘Tom Taggart doesn’t have more than 2500 plurality many good political guessers will be much surprised. The betting is even that his plurality will not be less than the figures aboye: noted.

THr ravages of yellow feyer in the South are assuming alarming proportions, and unless cold weather comes on apace the terrible scenes of a few yearsago are sure to be re enacted. By attempting to unearth some way of checking this dreadful disease, scientists would do tar more for mankind than inyenting many useless articles now giyen to the public. -

THE cost of strikes in this country between the years 1871 and 1984 is placed by the labor bureau at Wash‘ington at 163,807,866 and the number ; of persons thrown out of employment ‘at 3,714,406, These figures aloneprove that a strike is a wasteful and ineffective way to scttle a labor controversy.. And yet -there are times when a strike is deemed the only cifective remedy for rank injustice,

IT mAs been but a few years since Hon. Robert Lowry was viciously tought because he thought; as did his {riends, that he ought to be sent back to congress for the third term. Some of the fellows who are already talking third term for the present incumbent were then lond 1 their denunciation of Mr. Lowry for what they now uphold. Mr. Lowry was an able representative and a credit to the state and {he district. s

THE Alabama iron furnaces are do ing the largest business in their history. They are making heavy ship~ ments to Europe_ to meet orders and their output 18 eunguged ahead for three mouths to come. The output is the largest in seven yoars. As are sult of this there is 2 marked improvement ie the business affairs of that commonwealth. Alabama offers man) inducements for indnstrious settlers who have some means to start with,

*“Tugk real tesft of prosperity,” cor rectly observes the Boston Post, ‘'is not the booming ot the stock market. it is not the hustling of the business of the factories, refineries and mines of the great trusts and corborations. ‘Hiut the real test isthe ability of a man, wiiling to work, to earn by reasonable vxertion in reasonable hours, a comfortable living for himself and his family, to provide for the education of his children and torise toward a better scale of living.” i

TaE hedge fence is liable to have to go, for Prof. Thorne of the Ohio State Agricultural Experiment station. at Wooster. has written to the attorncy general asking what authority there is in law to compel farmers to cut down and destroy the osage orange hedge which in several sections of the state is badly infected with the San Jose scale. He states thatthe entomologist of the station has visited the place and explained to the township fruit commissioners the danger. Yet they haye taken no action. The nurserymen of the state are moving 1n the matter, well knowing that once the scale gets a foothold in the state it will ring the death knell of the fruit interests in Ohio. 7 » SPKAKING of the turning 'down of sundry newspaper men of Northern Indiana in their aspirations to postmasterships, the Elkhart Review says: *“The trouble is that a few aspiring politicians whose toes have been stepped on by newspaper men often haye far greater influence than the numerous friends of the defeated candidates. Yot these same men often slink behind the protection of ‘personal and priyate’ letters after openly declaring themselyes friends of the man who is turned down by their treachery.. The newspaper man who builde his hopes of political preferment on his party loyalty and work is building on an un~ stable foundation that is secretly undermined by the rat politicians whom be has helped into office, and whose ambitions he has often gratified at the expense of persoual self-respect and fudgment.”” o N

Tae New York Journal publishes statements from the governors of the states on the Cuban situation. Gov. ernor Mount, of Indiana, said: **The people of Indiana are in sympathy with the struggling Cubans. They believe in the right of the people to muke the laws by which they are ruled. They would rejoice to see Cuba free and under good local government. How thig much desired end must be secured is not entirely clear. The mass of our people are conservative and favor moderation 1n all things.”

THE question of goyernment by injunction is raising quite a breeze in the legal world. Among laymen the opinion has.long been prevalent that the privilege has been much abused. Although the abuse of a thing forms only a sophistical argument against its use, still when the abuse becomes more universal than the rightful use it is questionable if the sophism does not lose some of its heinousness then. In a late issue of the Chicago Times~ Herald the opinions of many of the prominent jurists of the country are given. Judge Grosscup, of the United States court, favors injunctions to protect property against wrong; Justice Walter Clark, of the Supreme court of North Carolina, holds that injunections in labor disputes are without warrant; Mayor Harrison. of Chicago. believes that courts should go carefully in granting the prayers of corporations, while exsSenator John M. Palmer prefers government by injunction to the rule of the mob. Chief Justice MecCabe of the State Supreme court, g 8 well as Associate Justice James H. Jordan, give opinions that the power has been misused and perverted.

Makes a Comparison

Forly years ago this summer several companies of regulators were legally organized in LaGrange and Noble counties to run down and apprehend horse thieves and other felons from whose depredations the people had long suffered. A number of men were arrested and handed over to the lawful authorities for trial; but Gregory McDougal was tried only by the reguiators and by them was hung to a tree between Ligonier and Rome City on the 26th day of January, 18568, This was a grossly unlawful act, but many of the best men in the two counties were implicated in it, and the surviving regulators of that day will soon hold a reunion to commemorate what they deem u part of the best work of their lives. The terrible affair in Ripley county last week, in which fiye men accused of like crimes by a suffering community were by like organizations taken from jail, dragged through the streets with ropes about their necks. three of them already dead from shots fired in the jail. and all hang, is a reminder of those early times, though 1n the savagery exhibited the last scene far exceeds the former. McDougal had several hours’ notice of his coming fate. the benefit of clergy and suffered no other dignity. A chronicler .of the event says: ‘‘*Mc.Dougal was seated with a clergyman and three or four other gentlemen, and at once driven to the place of exeeution. followed by a large cavals cade of horsemen and others in carri ages and on foot.'’ It was no midnight or masked orgy. It was in open day, about 3 p. m., in the midst of a large assemblage silently approving. No allempt was wade that we ever heard oi %0 punish anyone convected with tois unlawfal hanging. The regulators went on openly with their work in arresting and aiding in prosecuting the blacklegs, tuleves and counterfeit ers ihat had Infested this section of couniry until the gang was entirel, broken up. There has not been on the whole a better law abiding people in the state than in LaGrange and Noble countics since that dayv. The lamentable affair in Ripley county last week i 8 being held up as a terrible disarace to the state and an indication of 4 general disregard ot law. [t was horribly brutal and disgraceful, but we haye no fears of any diminished regard for lawful methods resulting. l.aw abiding people once in a while get 80 yexed with villainous depredations and the slow and uncertain pro cesses of law that they forget their obligations as good citizens to abide by lawful procedures. There need be no despairing over the incident. though wholly anjustifiable. —LaGrange Standard.

The Last ‘Act in u-k’olitical Drama, For a quarter of's century the Bunyan and Kimmell push has held sway in politics in Noble county. The machine worked well. especially while the chances for winning were good, ‘The Duke of York, a little more wary than his colleague. Bunyan, has way‘ered a little. When the chances were ‘good for his party, he was to the front; when the chances were bad—he was simply out of politics. He let the boys fight it out among themselyes as best they could. This became tiresome to the boys, and after the tight was over he was the first to say, ‘‘l told you so!” No little jealousy existed between two old ring leaders; each was jea'ous of the other's influence. The time Capt. White received the nomination for congress, with good echances of success—then The luke wanted the nomination—then Bunyan wanted it. tos. Neither would help the other, so there wag nothing to do but let Fort Wayne furnish the man. And so it went. Each of those two ‘meun might have filled good offices had this jealousy not exisied. Page after page might be written of these two men and their manipulations of the political wires, but it would not look well in print. ~ ! But we think it fortunate that these two men have been dumped. Politics will besconducted on a higher plane in the future. Their action in the matter of the Kendallville and Ligonier postoffices has not added any laureis to their brows. So Mote It Be. § PDenies The Story. Valentine Plough ot LaGrange was in the city Monday on buciness, and while here said that some one had lied about him and that the story of his visit to Germanl_yi some weeks ago was pure fiction. He says thal he was away from home twenty-four days; that he stayed in EuroYe longer than he mntended when he left LaGrange, and that the feflow who concocted the fairy story about him was too far away to know what happened in Gerweny. Mr. Plough says he is going back again before long,

INTERESTING HISTORICAL NOTES & ke L \ And Many Points of Local History, Facts and Figures Worth Preserving. BY 8. E. ALVORD. ; ¥ It is greatly to be regretted that so little is now known of the family his tories and indiyidual characteristics of the tirst pioneers. A few are living who can speuk from their own memories of events several years later. A very few others who enjoyed personal acquaintance at a later day with the pioneers . of. '3l, ’32 and ’33 have philosophic and discriminating memories of those personal qualities—physical, mental and spiritual-—that con~ stitute the elements of history, but such sources of information are not obvious, and are only accidentally discovered. :

The heart of histery throbs in the lives of the people. I'he liyes ot the people at any given time, therefore, are the primary subjects of historical research. Wbhat wére their external environments?—are important matters for consideration—but not the only nor most important. . There is an “inner veil,” bejyond which the soul forever seeks to penetrate—beyond and behind which the ultimate and dearest objects of an endless quest abide—the central fountaing of the stream of destiny—the souls of the men and women who projected the line of march and started the wheels of progress, as well those whose influences were deflective and retarding as those whose impetus was forward. in a right line. toward beneficent and glorious accomplisbment. The nrst settlenpts in Perry township were upon or near the Ft Wayne and Goshen road. deyeral of the first cabins were located on that trail or so near to it as to aftord accommodation to travelers. The pionesrs who were thus Jocated were enabled to derive considerable reyenue in ready money from the stream of immigration flowmmg into Elkhart county and further west )

Elkbart county had been organized in 1829, but settlers were located as early as 1825, and by the time the first settlements were made on Perry’s prairie the tide of immigration nto Elkhart was strong and virtually constant )

Jacob Shobe, whose quarter section in section 31 was crossed by the trail, established a tayern. = Adam Engle kept a tavern and Richard Stone also. Whether or not Stone's first tavern was on the 80 acres (w } nw } sec 34) entered by Susanna Hsagan. who was Stone’s mother~in-law, 1 am not posi~ tiye. Probably it was. Mr. Stone afterward, Aug. 12, 1833, entered the 40 acres on which the cemetery is located—sw se sec 27. 'The land in Sparta—se 1 sec 3—where the *‘Uid Stone Tavern’” fHourished for many years, he did not enter untii Nov. 16, 1835. On the same day Joseph Smalley entered the northwest quarter of the same section.

I'be tavern keepers mentioned— Shobe, Engle, Stone and others—had famiiics of -boys and girls, some of them well up in their teens, and other settlers who were located in 1833 also had similar families; and the tavern cabins were often, especially 1n the winter, scenes of joyous revelry. The pencil of a Rembrandt might have found worthy employment depicting these cabin dances. I'he great, roaring chimney place throwipg a raddy glare through 'the room; the dancers whirling through the mazes of the figures 1n all the impetuosity of high exhilaration—some springing into the air with fantastic contortjons, keeping timeé with armns., heads and bodies and coming down on the puncheon floor with shocks that made the fire tongs jingle and the blazing logs to roll tpgether and send up sheets of red flame and showers of sparks clear above the chimuey top; ihe groups of mothers and children in the angles of the room outside the dancing space; here and there a rustic beau who had discarded his heavy shoes, squatlling in a corner with jack knife or c¢lenched teeth removing splinters from his toes. his rosycheeked partner standing by shrieking with laughter—while the raging dance went on, perhaps some impromptu poet in the whirl roaring the while, according to Andrew Engle:

*“Oh, mother. dear, my toes are sore, A-dancing on this punchin floor.”

And the figure seated in a chair elevated upon a box at the end of the room; with imposing form and Apollo head and handsome face glowing with the glory of irrepressible joy and sparkling with fun, swaying with the rhythmic agitation ef his soul, as his fiddle responds with the mad music of the ¢Devil’s Dream.”’ and his voice with bugle tone peals torth the calls. Who is he? I need not answer to living- old settlers. That noble and geniagl identity is photographed in memory encircled with the halos of perennial cheerfulness, sympathetic enthusiasm-—good fellowship. Last week 1n stating tge grant of sections 20 and 21 to LeClere and Kichwaqua allusion was made to the uncertainty about the circumstances of that grant. The question was: Why did the Indians stipulate tor the:e lanfls apparently distant from their villages? I had seyeral times questioned the inhabitants of Ligonier as to whether any Indian viillage was situated there, and received negative answers. But since the publication of that article Mr. N. P. Eagles has removed that rimpressipn. ’ . | Mr. Eagles says that Mrs. Susanna ‘Hagan. ope of the earliest pioneers, ‘speaking about the yjliage of Ligonier and its growth several years after it had cntered upon a career of promjss ilng progression. remarked that she had seen a much larger Indian village ‘there or quite near the same locality on the banks of the river. She referred to a time some four years after the treaty of Carey Missign, jn- which those sections were granted to Kich-wa-qua and LeClere.. and it would seem probable that, at the time, seyeral families of Indinfis desired to retain permanent homes there, but finally gave up the idea and followed the fortines of the departing tribe. [To BE CONTINUED.] ' A Semnsible Rule, Convicts in the northern prison will no longer be permitted to receive dels icacies from outside friends. Heretofore favored conyicts will have to subsist on the same lowly diet as their less fortunate comrades, The high toned convicts will haye to trot with the! common herd and take their bread, coffee and bean soup along with them. They can no longer receiye daily from friends chicken, pie, cake, etc.. which had heretofore a tendency to cause the: other conviets to be greatly dissat-

Public Schools in Noble County, It hds been but a few yearssince log school houses “were numerous and frame school houses rare in Noble county, but today the log houses haye disappeared and the frame school houses almost as rare as of yore. There are only 8 frame buildings left, 6 of which are in Orange township and the remaming two in Washington; the remaining 100 sehool buildings are constructed of brick. Of the school buildings, Allen, Green, Jefferson, Noble and Perry have nine esach; Elkhart and Sparta, ten' each; Swan. eleyen; Wayne, twelve; York and Orange, eight each; Ligonier, two; Albion, Avilla and Kendallville, one each. The estimated yalue of these school buildings, apparatus and furniture contained therein is estimated to be $194,5625. A special school tax has been levied in the county ot $18,250.32 for 1897. This money is used in repawring the buildings, buying fuel. paying janitors, etc. Teachers are paid from what is known as the tuition fund which is collected principally by the state from tax levied for the purpose and from interest on the school funds. 'The amount thus received is not suflicient, however. to pay the teachers in full and a local levy is made in each school corporation. The amount thus collected for next year will be $18,739.40 in the eounty. There were enrolled in the country schools last year 3,648 pupils, with a daily average attendanee of 2,666; in cities and towns. 1,112 were enrolled with an average daily attendance of 793 To teach this vast army of children, eighty men and eighty three women were employed, receiving the total sum of $267.83 per day for their labor and a total amount for the school year of £43.265.31. Of this amount the men received $23.441.70, and the women $19,823.61. Thus we see that the women received over $3,000 less than the men for this work, although they exceed the men in numbers.

In the township schools sixty-eight males were employed and fifty-seven females. The men were paid average daily wages of $1.73 in the schools of the county and the women $1.55 mak ing the average of all teucheis $1.64 per day. Highschool teachers excepting superintendents, were paid an average of $2.80 per day. Washington township paid the low est average wages, $1.37 5-7 per day, while Allen paid the highest daily wages, $1.86, to women, and Orange paid the highest, $l.BB 4-7, to men. The total cost of employing teachers in the township was $49. ranging from $l.OO in Allen to $6.00 in Green. The total cost of managing all school matters in the townships was $396. Kendallville and Ligonier each had nine months of school; Albion eight and three-fourths; Avilla eight and onehalf; Jeflerson township eight; Allen, Orange and Elkhart, seyen and onehalf each; all other townships had seven months each. o The towns all have school libraries, but only three townships report a library. Elkhart township reports a library of 327 volumes, Green 81 and Noble 50. Allen, Elkhart, Noble. Orange and Swan maintain a township high school. Insuch schools, Allen enrolled eight pupils, Elkhart forty-three, Noble thirty-two. Orange fourteen, Sparta thirteen and Swan twenty-seven—a total of 137. Albion.—There were enrolled 1n the Albion school. 402 pupils last year with a daily ayerage attendance of 346. To teach them, two males and six females were employed; the average wages paid males being $3.12} per day and females being $1.624.. The report shows 588 volumesin the library. The: cost of managing educational matters for the town was s7s.—New Era.

Out for a Time,

The average American youngster is nesrly always equal to the occasion, but it remained ?or a couple of Goshen girls to work out a scheme that has puzzled & number of the bovs for seyeral years. OUne of the hardest trains on the Lake Shore road to beat is the ‘‘horse run,” which is due to leave Elkhart at about 10 o'clock. It never stops at Goshen and seldom at Ligonier. Sunday morning as a Ligonier voung man was beating his way from Elkhart he was told that this train would stop at Goshen that night, and stop it did, for when near the city limits the train broke in two and of course had to stop to couple up. Imagine the surprise of the young man in question to tind among those beating their way two young ladies, good looking, well dressed and said to be well known in Goshen. They were accompanied by two young bloods from that city. Upon arriyal at Ligonier they got off and did the town till 2:30, when they all got onto. the steps of a sleeper to beat their way back to Goshen, which they doubtless accomplished. This was a lark a little out of the usual, but may be an old thing to Goshen gir's. The breaking of. the horse train had -evidently been prearranged. : :

| Grand und Petit Jurors, The following are the names of the grand and petit jurors drawn for the next term of the Noble Circuit court: GRAND JURY. Harvey Kniff ... ... ... ... /. Swan ¥rank FPepple .... .......... . Wayne Charfes Neufer. .. .......... .. York Wan. wamhart:. - ..o 0 0. York John H. Wilson ... .....Washington Wm D 80nar............... Greep PETIT JURY. W Gorsuch .. ..., ... ... .Sparts Lewis-Secrist .............. . Sparta Sheldon Green....... ........Sparta Chas. Kinni50n.............. Elkhart Gea, Whitbeck ........ .......Allen Samuel S Diffendaffer.. . ..%... Green Jogln Wl . o Yetly Christiap Slaybaggh..... ......Perry Willis Foster'... ... .. ....Jefferson KAWIn Jpr1e............. ... . Allen MEBNRuY ~ 0 o 0 Noole E. B. Spenger ... ..., ...,. ... Waype Judge Adair Sustained. : The Supreme court in the case of Thomas 8. Lewis et al. ys Comfort E. Stanley et al., Noble C. C., denies a rehearing. i (1) A party is precluded from taking ‘& position on appeal, wholly inconsistent with a conclusion of law by the ‘trial court to which he failed to reserve an exception, (2) A father may make an advancement to his daughter bv} deeding land to her husband, and this does not make the daughter a purchaser of the land for value, nor does itei necesarily make the husband a trustee for his wife. (8) Where a husband, holding such land by a deed absolute on its face, becomes indebted, and then m?ikeg 8 voluntary conyeyance of the land to himself and wite. such deed is fraudulent apd void as to the' husband’s creditors, and the land can be Laken to satisty his debts. e

GERMANY’'S SAVINGS BANKS. Municipal Control Is Likely ts be Supplanted by National Authority, William E. Curtis writes from Berlin to The Chicago Record that in Germany the saving-bank system is managed by the municipal government, instead of the national authorities, as in England, France, Belgium, Italy and other European countries, The system dates back for nearly a century and. with the exception of some unimportant details, is uniform throughout the empire. German thrift is proverbial. ‘There are no other people in the world who can do without luxuries and things that they do not ' actually need with so great a degree of contentment. krom the cradle the children are taught economy. Itis. as much a matter of education as the catechism. In some of the schools the children are instructed to gather during their play hours and on their way to and from their home&all such apparently valueless objects as old bottles, tin cans, refuse metals, €tc., which are sold to the junkshops and the proceeds deposited to the credit of the child in the nearest savings bank. The same spirit that inspires this economy has caused the number of depositors in the savings banks of the empire to exceed the number of households. 1t is often the case that every child and every servant in a family has bis own account at the bank, which, when it amounts to a certain sum, .is witbdrawn for permanent inyestment. The usual rate of interest paid by the municipal savings banks 1n Germany is 3 per cent and, although their management is intrusted to the municipalities, the banking Inspectors of the general government exercise a super yision over them. There 13 usually a general office, with a director in chief at the city hall, whose principal duty 18 to receive remittances from branches that are established in eyvery ward These funds he inyests in goyernment bonds or in securities of equal value. The latitude of investment is much greater than is allowed the postal sayings bank authorities in England and France, The funds may be invested in gilt-edge realsestate mortgages and even in the erection of buildings, but before this is done the proposition must be submitted to the committee of the common council which has jurisdiction over the savings banks = This committee which is composed of practical financiers, bankers, merchants and manufacturers and men who are in the hab it of handling money, acts as a sort of board of directors for the system, In Berlin there are seventy-fiine branch offices with 483,000 depositors out of a population of 1,800.000 and the total deposits are a little more than $40,000.000. In Dresden the sayings banks show a still larger utility in pro portion to the population, " Although the number of people in Dresden is only aboutone-fifth as many as in Berlin there are half as wany depositors in the savings banks and the deposits exceed - $22,000,000. In some of the other cities the proportion is much larger. Inthe town of Aix-la-Chapelle, for example, with only 110,489 population, there are over 106,000 depositors, with credits of more than $20,000,000. In Altona, a city of 149,000 people. there are over 130,000 depositors, with nearly $20.000,000 to their credit. ;

This Illustrates the extent and the value of .the seryice; but there isa great deal of complaint from thw agrarians that no provision is made by the government for receiving the savings of the farming population, and an agitation has been going on for some years in fayor of a transfer of the municipal system to the postal authorities and the adoption of something like the French system. The Kolnische Zeitung of a recent date contained an interestit:jg article on this subject in which the advantages of such a transter wereset forth at length and the necessity of making proyision for the farmers as well as the mechanics in the cities and the larger towns was demonstrated in forcible langunage )

‘lt canpnot be denied,” the writer gays. ‘‘that hundreds of thousands of people in the empire would gladiv lay by a part of their wages every month if they were not prevented by insuflicient opportunities. An imperial post saving system would be of the greatest advantage, particularly to the agricultural classes, for there is a postoffice within easy reach of eyery farmer, the-postal system is everywhere trusted, and would not only furnish convenient opportunity for deposits but an easy method of payment,” The late Emperor Frederick was a great believer in the postal savings bank system, and if he had liyed it is probabie that 1t would bave been adopted in Germany long ago. :

Notes a Change. J. R. Rheubotham of the Wakarusa Tribune recently yisited Ligonier and speaking of his yisit says: At 11:45 am. Monday, we took the train for Ligonier, a city of which we were at one time a resident—away back in the 60’s, when it was a rough, dilapidated looking little burg. but a ' good market and trading point, We had not vigsited the place before in eles ven years, and its present size and appearance was a great surprise to us; in fact we copsider it gne of the pret tiest little cities in northern Indiana, its streets being handsomely graded and shaded by fine rows of maples. which in the hands of an expert trimmer, excel in beauty anything in the shade tree line we have ever seen. Fine cement sidewalks have taken the place of the old plank concerns laid lengthwise. nailed at one end and loose al the other. which were always an eyesore and a toe sore to its citizens. Fine brick and stone business blocks have been erected and as tine a Metho‘dist church as any small city in the state can boast of. Many very handsome res‘dences have been built since we last yisited there and a uumber of fine ones are now lun course of con . strpction. The city also has a splendid waferworks system and yp-to-date plectrie light plapt. Parquet Floors at Chicago Prices. Itis known to some of the residents of Ligonier, who appreciate fine work, that the beautiful partnlet floorins in the new residence of Mr. J. L. Dun. ning was manufactured and laid by us. We have also laid some beautiful floors in the home of Dr. Mitchell. We have taken a contract to lay floors in the residence of Mr. F. W. Zimmerman. Our skilled workmen will go to Ligonier about Oct. 1 to do the work in Mr. Zimmerman’s home. ' We invite home owners of Ligonier and yicinity to write us immediately for grices. sketches and colored plates to show the character of the work we do. We can save Ligonier parties money by laying their floors now while gufiworkm‘en' are iln the city. ~ Addresg promptly, : \g;fl : CHricaGo Froor Co., i{g ‘ .I§2 Wabash Avye. C%longo. ]

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. To the Public. ' On and after October Ist, 1897, we will charge $3.00 per hundred feet for sawing all kinds of lumber. But on large order or cash work we will make a liberal discount for the above rate. Get our prices on all kinds of work before contracting elsewhere. - - CRAMER. MCCONNEL & GILBERT. e N DR. BARTLEY, The well known Eye and Ear Specialist and Optician, will vigit : BTG ONIER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 5 1897, 8 a, m. to 4 p. m. at HOTEL GOLDSMITH. AL810N...... . Wednesday, Oct. 6th, at Dr. W. T. Green’s office. G el : W"‘\,?’ ‘v s . ) soa\VaEmseea. - ' SN 's_’;’ w@-\:\/”fix/ ;’:’:',/;'” L DR. BARTLEY, THE EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SURGEON. | Treats all diseases of these Organs—whether Surgical or otherwise—such as : | STRABISMUS or (Cross Eyes) cured in'a few minutes without pain, CATARACT cured without pain, and no dark roQms. . SLOSIIBE OF THE TEAR DUCTS, WILD HAIRS, DROOFING LIDS, CHRONIC SORE EYES—such as Chronic and Catarrhal Corjunctivitis, Granulated Lids are permanently cured without the aid of Caustic, Burning or Scrapindg the lids. Our treatment of the eye is mild, safe and always successful, NERVOUS PROSTRATION is mostly caused by some Optical Deficiency. All functional diseases of the Nervous System, such as Migrain (Sick Headache), Neuralgia Cephalag{a. Spinal Irritation, Neurasthania, Chorea (St. Vitas Dance), Epilepsy (falling sickness or fits), Astheno})ia (weak sight), Dizziness, and even Insanity, should have ver¥ careful conesideration. Also Palpitation of the Heart, Ndusea, Aphcenia (loss of the voice), Hysteria, In: djg’estiop. ‘Stomach Trouble, and 4 large list of Chronic Diseases, both Functional and ():%anic, can only be cured by removing the cause, whic degemj %pon'g groper correction of the vigion and ow ervine Treatment. "ALL CATARRHAL DISEASES of the Nost and Throat, such as ‘noises or ringihg in the Ear discharges from the Ears caused by Catafrh, anz %hich‘ camses deafness, ' Bronchitis, chronic Sore Throat, Polypus Ulcerations, Laryngitis, n%d in fact n’rll chronj¢ catarrhal conditions of the Nose ani hroat will receive mild and successful treatment. - o iSS A Mk OUR SPECTACLE DEPARTMENT is com plete, and we carry a full line with us of the be quality, and with a complete aet of trial lenses ar?‘ our system of fitting, we will guarantee a Fit ig Every Case. - CONSULTATION AND EXAMINATION FREE. : OUR REFERENCES are the Mediocal Professiog and the Faculty of the Chicago Eye and Ear College, e e AT B S e A REAL ESTATE BULLETIN. STRAUS Bros. & Co. . Any of these tracts for sale or trade on easy te'ms. Call at Citizens Bank, Ligonier, Indiana. 80 ACRES on Elkhart Prairie, )4 mile west of the Zinn school house near Ben- ~ ton. New house; fair barn. ‘ . 160 ACRES, 2 miles southwest of Warsaw. - lond. Buiidings fair, good land, 25 - acres of timber, : 23 ACRES oftf“of the south end of Robert Cary’s farm near Syracuse. . - 17 ACRES one-half mile of Topeka, a part of Burton Peck farm formerly owned by Chas. Ditman. 185 ACRES in Noble township, two miles from Wolflake, six miles from Alhion, excellent honse and good out-buildings., Flowing water the entire year. Formerly ownrd by John Crandall. t 0 ACRES one mile west of fden Chapel, Hawpatch, Part of ‘old Isaac Cavin farm, no buildings. Market-—Ligonier and Topeka. ; - Good house and lot with goou barn, on the north side, Ligonier; for sale or trade 160 LCRES in Etna townibhip known. as tho Garr farm. 140 Acres 3 3-4 miles west of Albion. Fair house,barn and out-buildings;good wind pump, Abour 125 acres under cultivativn, balance timber, no waste land. All in a high state of cultivation; good fences, - 2 good orchards. Just purchased from J¢ W, Long. Call quick; for sale cheap. Also several Michigaa farms for sale, ;

, a v Gole’s Air Tights Are the Best, ’ BECAUSE They save enough ~ fuel the first year to ‘ pay for the stove. BECAUSE They burn anything ~and everything combustible. . BECAUSE A cord wood equals a ton of hard coal. BECAUSE They consume their own ashes. For sale { only at . KING & WEAVER.

Bargains in Real Estate

We want to sell tae following described Real Estate. The- prices are low and terms will be made satistactory to-the purchaser. Look over the list:

80 ACRES excellent farming land, black loam, buildings poor, known as the Sullivan farm, 7 miles east of Ligonier. .

40 ACRES good land, well improved, good timber and fine truit, known as the Wright rarm, 8 miles east of Ligonier. 80 ACRES land, No. 1 hay farm, good barn, log house, good stone milk house, - nice young orchard, 7 miles north of

Ligonier, known as the Bowen furm. 80 ACRE>S land one-half mile west of Elkhart, with No. 1 good buildings. 160 ACRES land as good as lays out of doors, well improved, 24 miles from Wolflake, known as M. Kimmel farm. 140 ACRES land, nice farm, fair buildings, 2 miles from Wolflake, known as "~ the Leo Mellinger farm. )

200 ACRE farm !¢ mile east of Ligonier, well improved, brick house, three barns, one of the best farms in the county. 40 ACRES 8 miles south of Ligonier, good : ,'la;nd, brick house, no barn, known as the - Kiester farm.

Call in and see us before buying land. We can suit you. Mortgage Loans a speciality. SoL Mler & SoN., Bankers.

k\?'v»,.// %)’ //‘:\\\:x £ Ll ) ) Sl LAT S - For Fall ~and Winter. - Large Stock, » Low Prices. A. D. NEWTON. Repafring Neatly Done. : STOP! STOP!! S R Vo T s, £ SR TN i T s T T L e i ‘E\‘\}\‘“"'hf’ U -‘"\;‘:\,‘.""L‘;zlr o “ ':;"W; e STOCK-BREEDERS ATTENTION. If vou want the best hogs ever r&ised. : 1m Noble county, Look Over my Fine Herd. We have a lot of pigs for sale. _ The Fine Boay, - ‘“FREE SILVER” Sired by D. F. if-» grand sire, D. F., heads the herd. ‘‘Free Silyer” weighs over 600 pounds. . See our herd of Poland China Hogs before' buying anything else. 26 GO KIESTER & €O, war o 0 Woltiake. Tid

Be e TSI . Notice of Final Sgttlement, n the Matter of the Estate of William Cgvin }'Qecga ed No.igfit} " ; In the §oble Circuit Court, October Term, 1567, Notice i 8 hereby given that the undersigned a 8 executrix of the estate of William Cavin, deceased, has presented and filed her aceount a.nd-vouc'hers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Cir¢uit Court, at the Court House in Albion, Indiana, on the 19th day-of October, 1397, at which time all persons interested in said estate are re%nired to appear in said ccurt and show cause, if any there be, why said account and vouchers should not be approved, . And the heirs of said estate,and all others interested therein, are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make Proot of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate, . SARAH CAVIN, Executrix. o e FORTUNES ARE from good ineentiom quicker and easier than in REALIZED- 2y other logitimate busi " ness, Have you an ideal Protect it} It may be the ofipfimdty of n{our h&n& %ohl arrangement with HENSEY, BOND & RO N, Mnfi_LuW{eu. W,ulugbl,f D. C., and D‘l'% Colo., sou are entitled to a FREE CONSULT. ‘85% the mmfifiqfiw NEW IDE4, god'y ,@ m:% & i,‘ “' T A ) ! a desoription of your fi&- n¢ *tg-g‘:lhhmw flm