Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 19, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 August 1904 — Page 5

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Try the Goshen b cent cigar. * For groceries of all kinds ale rockbottom prices at J. B. Smith’s. tf Charles Shobe was at Goshen Monday looking for a few good horses. Will Menaugh of South Whitley has been chosen principal of the Albion high school. . Mrs. W. B. Inks went to Syracuse last Friday where she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hoykendorf. Misses Alice and Dora Keehn returned Tuesday after a most pleasant visit of a week with friends at Milford. A big tenting party, made of of ten young fellows will go to Wawasee next week. They will locate at The Oaks. Miss Leah Zink left Sunday evening for Chicago where she will resume her work at the Presbyterian hospital. I _J. A. Clawson, who hasbeen on the Pacific coast for the past three years, is at home for a visit. He says that things out there are on the go all of the time. | Roy Ferguson accompanied the base ball club to Auburn and Defiance last week. At Auburn he took to the tall grass as soon as the opening inning was over. : Mr. .and Mrs. J. W. Draper, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Poyneer and Miss Elizabeth Dunning made up a tenting party that left for Wawasee last Monday. They are at Crows Landing. At Goshen has just been announced the betrothal of L. Burr Whippey, once manager of the Elkhart exchange of the Central Union Telephone Co., to Miss Retta Cripe of Goshen. :

Lee Solomon and wife, acc%mpa.nied by Harriet Ochs of Ligoni&r, and Mrs. Mary J. Rowling and son, Arthur of Chicago, ‘were. guests at the Oak Bluff cottage at Rome City last Friday.

Pierre O’Conner left Monday for New York City after amost pleasant two week’s visit with friends in this city. Mr. O’Conner holds a respongsible and lucrative position in the east and has returned to resume his duties. .

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith returned Tuesday evening from a two weeks’ visit with friends at Sterling, 111. Mr. Smith says that the corn crop prospects in that part of Illinois are not up to standard but that the oats crop is one of the largest ever harvested.

- William Whetten and sixteen young men left Goshen last Monday for Dakota where they will assist in harvesting the immense wheat crop. Every fall, thousands of men go to the northwest to work in the harvest fields. Big wages are paid.

The contract has been let for the addition to the I. O. O. ¥. Home tpo be erected at Greenburg. The price is $43,985. ‘The home is to be 176 x 166 feet, two stories high, and is to be completed by July 1. 1905. Each member of the order in the state is assessed 50 cents to pay for the improvement.

The Sparta township Republicans are not all satisfied with the manner in which their township convention was controled. H. H. Hontz, the nominee for trustee and D. L. Holvestott for assessor were in a combination that could not be beaten. Lewis Airgood who has made a most acceptable and popular assessor, was defeated for renomination by a narrow margin. SMOKE Rsk Fof Tt Try it - §old Rverywhere

Goshen. : " Find the Goshen 6 cent cigar anywhere. . John L. Cavin attended the assembly at Rome City last week. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Morrell spent Sunday in this city the guests of relatives. = Miss Nellie Kerr is at home after an extended visit with friends at Cleveland, Ohio.

Mrs. S. W. Trump of Clyde, Ohio, is visiting with her mother, Mrs. C. W. King, and other relatives.

George Swank and family of Goshen visited friends in this locality during the early part of the week.

Mrs. J. Keller of Kendallville: and Mrs. Jacob Newman 0f Chicago are here the guests of Mrs. Jacob Straus.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Schloss left Tuesday for Monmouth, 111.,, where they will spend several weeks with their son. 5

Several of our people have been at Winona and vicinity and they all speak in high terms of the program that is being carried out.

Miss Margurite Micthell returned home Sunday eyening from Bryan, Ohio, where she had made an extended visit with relatives.

Will B. Inks went to Detroit Monday to buy another Ford automobile, having disposed of his last machine to a Nappanee gentleman last week.

Work on the new water works plant is progressing but unless more haste 18 shown the snow will be piled high before the structure is completed. -

We publish in another column the annual report of the treasurer of the school board showing the receipts and expenditures of the school corporation.

Miss Mildred Goldsmith and Mrs. Jacob Straus will leave this evening for Detroit where they will visit for several days with Mrs. Selling, Miss Goldsmith's dister. :

The town board at Albion has passed an ordinance tocompel the cutting of weeds, briars and noxious grasses inside the town limits. The ordinance should be enforced.

The premium list of the twentysecond annual fair of the Eastern Indiana Agricultural association at Kendallville is now in print and ready for distribution, Partiesinterested should address J. S. Conlogue, secretary. :

The visitors at Lake Wawasee are fewer in number at this time than has been known for ten years. The bad season and the World’s Fair at St. Louis are given as the excuses for the marked falling off in patronage at the hotels.

Otto Wolf returns to Toledo tomorrow after a pleasant visit with parents and friends in this city. Mr. Wolf holds a responsible position with the firm of Brown, Eager & Hull C0.,0f Toledo. :

Wallace circus was at Lagrange last week and from the papers one would infer that the sharpers found a large and juicy lot of suckers. It is reported that quite a number of farmers were fleeced on skin games as old as the hills. :

- The Goshen base ball club has disbanded. The ‘‘tight wads’ among the business men would not give what they thought was their share and the whole thing feel through. It was the same here but the liberal element was able to prevail.

Lucretia Rookstool and Ellen Traster of Syracuse were each fined for assault and battery upon Constable Clemmens who went to their place to levy upon some goods. The former was fined $4 and costs, a total of $47.70, the later got # and costs or $61.70. The women took an appeal to circuit courts. ?

Misses Susie Kelley and Hazel Tumbleson gave a most enjoyable picnic supper at the home of the former on West Second street last Monday evening in honor of Miss Louise Latta of Goshen, Miss Rene Bause of Kenton, Ohio, and Miss Chloe Smith of Toledo. About twenty guests were present. ;

Mr. Wing, of the firm of Wing & Mahurin, architects, of Fort Wayne, was here yesterday assisting in the closing of the contract for the fine new residence to be built for Mr. Sol Mier at the corner of Cavin and Sixth streets. Mr. Wing says that when the residence is completed it will be one of the finest in this part of the state. ;

Several Syracuse young ladies were in Ligonier last Thursday to see the ball game. They did not get out of town as soon a 8 the game was over either, but stayed so long that the manager of the Columbia City team was nearly distracted. He found it almost impossible to get his boys to break away and it was nearly midnight when the last of them left the city. j _

William Hatfield died from smallpox at Goshen last Tuesday night, and the remains were interred immediately. There are stillfour other cases in the Hatfield family, and six cases in the city. The disease has gained headway through a false diagnosis. At first it was declared to be chicken pox. From failure to use the proper precautions a great pumber of people were expesed. The doctors say that the Hatfield cases are the very worst type of smallpox that have come to their attention in many years.

Harry Sweetnam came down from Elkhart to spend Sunday. He is working for one of the electric construction companies at Elkhart and he says that a remarkable amount of this kind of work is being done in that city. The contest between (Col. Conn and the corporation that owns the Hen Island dam has been decidedly interesting, but Mr. Sweetnam says that Conn will win easily, haying the moral and financial support of a large majority of the citizens of Elkhart. :

The two young women who were with Kittie Hough when she was killed, have 8o far recovered as to be able to leave the hospital. Miss Lulu Houghton was taken back to Plymouth by her foster-mother who will nurse the girl back to good health, votwithstanding her waywardness. Miss Houghton is the adopted daughter of Hon. and Mrs. John W. Houghton who gave the girl' a splendid home and a good education but she did not seem to appreciate her opportunities. - It is to.be hoped that the terrible lesson of the accident will have some influence upon her. -

Goshen. : Roomer wanted. Inquire at this office. e Edward J. Melendy came down from Chicago Tuesday evening. Miss Glora Graham is at Lake Wawasee, where she will spend several weeks. : B. N. Cornell of Goshen was here yesterday looking after business interests.

(Goshen has another smallpox case, the victim being a child in an already quarantined family.

Mrs. John Haberstroh of Lagrange spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. George Golder.

Dr.and Mrs. S. L. Gants left last Thursday for Niagara Falls and the east for a two weeks visit among friends. . -

Clarence Kinney has a new Oldsmobile and he has been making himself acquainted with some of its peculiarities.

The Banner class of the U. B. church will give a social on Urick’s lawn, Saturday evening, August 6. All are invited.

Miss Frieda Golder returned home Thursday from Lagrange after a ten tays’ visit with her cousin, Hazel Haberstroh, and other friends.

et / Under the new ruling of thle post office department all of the rural route carriers out of Ligonier will be paid at the rate of $720 per annum.

Goshen has suddenly ‘‘got good.” Last Sunday the saloons were closed tight and in the afternoon, the marshal stopped a game of ball near the city limits. The Whitley county teachers’ institute will be neld at Columbia City, September sto 9. A strong corps of lecturers have been assigned to work during the week.

Joseph F. Ackerman left for Monmouth, 111., Tuesday, where he will visit with his uncle, Sol Schloss, for several weeks. This is Joe’s first trip to that part of the world.

‘The ball game this afternoon between the Ligonier team and the Fort Wayne Specials promises to be interesting. A good crowd ‘should attend as this is the only game of the week.

Louis J. Harter of Columbia City is here assisting C. V. Inks in his marble shop. Mr. Harter was manager of Mr. Inks’ shop at Columbia City for several years and is a good workman. ; )

Miss Hannah Cohn of Chicago will return home today, after a pieasant visit with Miss Sadie KFrank. Miss Cohn is'a bright girl and made many friends among the young people while here.

A distressing accident occured at Waterloo the other day, when the little five-year-old Bon of Claude Button was almost instantly killed by being run over by a wagon loaded with dirt, the wheels breaking his neck. ‘

Miss Ruby Solomon is at home after a six weeks’ visit’ with friends at several points in Northern Michigan. She spent most of her time at Manistee and Traverse City, where she has a number of relatives and friends. .

Thirty-one machines made up the great automobile procession from New York to St. Liouis as it reached Cleveland, after an uneventful trip from Erie. It is claimed that there will be fifty or sixty in line when they pass Ligonier today.

The horses that strayed away from the John Harper farm west of the city last week were found at the home of Charles Elliott near Middlebury on FKriday night. They were noticed in the highway and were taken up by Mr. Elliott who reported the matter to the gsheriff at Goshen.

Another bank has gone republi¢an, this time at White Pigeon, Mich. The State bank, an old institution, closed its doors last Saturday after a big run. A number of Indiana farmers and capitalists are said to have deposits in the bank, having taken their money there to avoid taxation in Indiana. : 1

Miss Ruth .Keeran accompanied her cousin, Arthur Nelson, to Chicago Friday morning and after visiting friends there over Sunday will go to Aurora to visit the Clint family who formerly resided in this city. She will visit relatives and friends in South Bend and Ligonier enroute home. sShe will be gone several weeks.—Auburn Dispatch.

‘A, J. Schmidt and J. A. Ellis, the Chicago automobilists who made the fast run dhrough here Wednesday, enroute from Chicage to New York, were forced to abandon the trip at Binghamton, N. Y., because of the heavy rainrall ‘in that state, which rendered the roads well-nigh impassable. At Binghamton, the party was over four hours ahead of the time made by Holecomb, whose record they hoped to break.

It is not always that the horseman gets hurt. While J. A. McAffee of Chicago was standing between the Latta automobile and that of br. Davis of South Bend, talking to the inmates of the Latta machine in front of Hotel Hascall, Goshen, Saturday evening, Charles Trainor attempted to drive between the machines, and it shied and struck Mr. McAffee knocking. him down and breaking his nose and knocking out four teeth. He was carried away unconscious. It is claimed that Trainor was wholly to blame for the accident.

Three burly tramps are in jail at Albion, charged with raiding a farm house near Kendallville.: The fellows had helped themselves to afine ham,. butter, bread, pickles and vegetables encugh to feed a score, and had just finished a fine breakfast when arrested by Marshal Shauck of Kendallville. The fellows were caught red-handed, for the remnants of the ham and other good things were found where they had evidently stored it for an evening’s feast. They are professional tramps and gave their names as Mike Kennedy, Arthur Berry and William Edwards.

Mr. Sol Mier closed a contract with J. M. Henry of Fort Wayne yesterday for the erection of his beautiful new residence. The contract price is not given out, but 1t is safe to say that the building when completed will cost not less than $25,000. The plans and specifications, made a part of the contract, provide for one of the most commodious, up-to-date and beautiful homes in northern Indiana. This will be a most substantial addition to our already beautiful residences, and a credit, not only to Mr. Mier, but to Ligonier,

- Goshen. Goshen, all Havana. Five ceng cigar. k Lime, hair and cementat J.B. Smith’s. - : tf Cash for butter and eggs at J. B. Smith’s. He pays the highest cash prices. . tf

R. L. Deubler came over from Goshen yesterday for a short visit with friends here. - ;

Do not forget the big sale of pattern hats at Fleming’s Millinery parlors. The latest things at the lowest prices. . . i ;

J. L. Graham went to Lake Wawasee Saturday where he joined his family who are stopping at Vawter Park hotel for the season. )

Walter Schmykle of Goshen, Albert Aichle and Earle Johnston ot Kendallville were the guests of friends in this city Wednesday evening. :

Mrs. Ben G. Hough was at South Bend last week looking after the effects of her daughter, Miss Kittie Hough, who was killed in the distressing accident some days ago.

Quite a number of our people went to Syracuse yesterday afternoon to see the ball game. Every livery rig in the city was in use and many private rigs were pressed into service.

Anyone who takes a look at the Elkhart river at its present stage will have to admit that it needs something to draw off the stagnant water and filth. The river never was so dirty as it is now.

J. W. Palmer, one of the leading farmers' of York township was here last Tuesday looking after business affairs. Mr. Palmer will hold a public sale on the 20th inst. " See advertisement in another part of this paper. '

Hon. V. R. Taylor of Wolcottville died at his home in that village last Sunday evening after a lingering illness. Mr. Taylor was a member of the legislature in 1881 and has long been a prominent citizen of his part of the county.

The Mier Carriage works are shut down for invoice, which will take about two weeks. Mr. Mier says that their business for the year has has been very satisfactory considering the season and that they anticipate a good business for the coming year.

Miss Grace Thompson left Thursday for Grand Rapids, Mich., where she will visit for several weeks. Before returning she will go to Bay View for a visit with her brother, James Thompson, who holds a good })ositiion in the big summer resort hotel. - )

Father Deuhmig retarned this (Wednesday) afternoon from a three weeks visit at Milwaukee, Escanaba and other west shore Lake Michigan points. While absent he spent considerable time at a sanitarium and received much benefit to his health by the treatment he received.—Kendallville Sun.

Roy D. Keehn came down from Chicago for a short visit with friends here, last Sunday. Mr. Keehn has decided not to accept the nomination of civil prosecutor as the duties of his position at Chicago will not allow him to give the time necessary to a canvas of the district. Mr. Keehn would have made a strong candidate had he been nominated.

Last Safurday at Auburn the democrats "of Steuben and DeKalb counties met in convention for the nomination of a judge, prosecutor and senator of the Thirty-fifth judicial district. The following ticket was nominated: For judge Hon. Stephen A. Powers of Angola, for prosecutor Alphonso C. Wood of Angola, for senator C. E. Gallatin of Garrett.

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