Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 September 1904 — Page 5

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P. A. Joray is visiting relatives in Warsaw this week. , .

Chas. Smith of Toledo, spent Sunday with friends and relatives.

~ Siz Kann left Wednesday for the southern’ part of the siate on a coniwercial trip. '

Mr. George Stacker returned home Monday, after spending several weeks in St. Louis.

Dr. Bolan, the specialist in piles and rectal troubles will be at Hotel Goldsmith Tuesday, Oct. 4th. -

Miss Tracy Dicus left for Defiance, 0., Monday, having been the guest of Will Crew for the past five weeks..

"1, D. Long of Klkhart, ¢came to the city Monday. Mr. Long has contracted to build several cement sidewalks here. 2

A new asbestos curtain has been , hung in the Boyer opera house at Kendallville. The curtain is 30 feet 9 inches in width - and 30 feet in licicht, and cost fully $l5O.

Miss Kate Casey of Tigonier, who lias been visiting. relatives ‘her_e, returned today to -Indianapolis to resuine her duties at the Institute for the Blind.-~-South Bend Times. -

The wind Sunday evening during the storm blew down the old smoke stk at the water works. Very little’ damage was done. Kngineer Fisel tinds it very difticult to keep up enough steam owing to the weak draught. .

Misses Martha and. Grace Thompson delightfully entertained a number of their friends at a chafing dish supper at their home on Martin street -Monday evening in. honor of the Misses Linnie Belden ~of Battle Creek, Mich., and Francis Stutz of Pendleton, Ind. - L

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(Chas. Buchtel of Cleveland, was the guest of his parents over Sunday.

Joseph Mock of Syracuse, was in the city Tuesday transacting businewg,.. " = ¢ : :

Mrs. D. B. DeLong left for Denver, Monday having been the guest of her brother, Will Crew.. ; ’

George Goshorn left for Toledo Monday where he will continue in his work in the Lake-Shore yards.

‘The Democrats of Elkhart township, held their caucus at Wawaka last Thursday, nominating Amon Spurgeon for trustee and Albert Kranks for assessor. :

The burglars and robbers in Goshen have frightened the public so that all valuables have been placed in places of safety, and all homes are securely locked, .

The York township Democrats held their caucus at the York Center school house last Saturday afternoon, and nominated Ulrich Butz for trustee and James Smith for assessor.

The barn warming, which was held in Dr. Shebe’s new barn last Friday by the ladiestof the M. k. church, was a success both finanecially and gocially. :

- Next Sunday at the Presbyterian chureh, communion service in the morning,” preaching in the evening by the pastor. The offering in the morning will be for Synodjcal Home Mission work. : i

IKd Engle, the Albion liveryman conducted a colt show last Saturday, offering prizes for the get of his shire stallion. Joe Smith. of Elkhart township, carried off the honors in a class of sixteen entries.

Prof. Warren Kime of' Ligonier made a successful balloon ascension at Millersburg last Monday evening. He ascénded until almost out of sight and alighted without accident about half a mile southeast of Millershurg.—Goshen Daily Democrat.

Dr. Franklin Miles, the well known Elkhart specialist, who was the originator of the Miles reinedies, is lying dangerously ill at the Palner House in Chieago. Dr. Miles became ill Monday morning while in Chicago, with inflammation of the bowels and since then his condition has grown worse.

Try the Goshen 5 cent cigar. - Angola is to have a new railway station. 4 Dr. Seymoure of Wawaka, w_as. in the city Monday, on business, For groceries of all kinds are rockbottom prices at J. B. Smith’s. = tf E. E. Church of Goshen was here several days this week on business. Max Gross of Elkhart : spent geveral days here last week calling on friends. . (Chas. Draper went to Butler Wednesday, to witness the play, ‘“The Holy City.” : : :

Miss Madge ‘Scott. went to St. Louis Wednesday, to spend several weeks at the fair. S iy i

" Pat Summers of ‘‘Fairview Farm?” has a string of horses at the Kendallville fair this week.

Benj. Ettlinger and wife returned to Chicago, having been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mier, '

Sidney Loeb of Seattle, Wash:, arrived Tnesday evening, for a few weeks’ visit with Joseph Selig and family. :

Mrs. P. Seitz, Miss HEdith Felton and Herbert Robinson wert to Goshen Wednesday to attend the CripeHonert wedding. ,

Frank Sack went to Goshen, Tuesday evening, to assist the Goshen orc¢hestra at the production of Hamlet, at the Irwin opera house. °

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Daniel who have been the guests of Lke Baum and wife, returned to their home at Columbia City Tuesday evening.

Mrs. John Harsh of Battle Creek, Mich., arrived Mouday for a visit of several weeks with he}‘mother, Mrs. Susan DeWitt on the North Side.

The great Sells Bro’s circus will be sold to the highest bidder at the close of the season on account of the health of Peter Sells, one of the partners.

Mrs. J. 1.. Grabam' returned from South Bend Saturday, where she accompanied her daughter, Grace, who entered St. Mary’s college for a year’s gtudy.. -

The 129th regiment Indiana Volunteers will hold their reunion at Elkhart Tharsday, Oct. 6,1904. Joseph Drain and P. A. Joray are members of this regiment. : 5

Woodward Hays of Albion was the guest of friends here Sunday. He will return to Chicago, where he will again take up his studies at the Rusp Medical College. I)r.aFred R. Clapp of Ligonier, will join the Albion fishing party in Minnesota. His wife will be the guest of his mother, Mrs. C. M. Clapp, during his absence.—New Kra.

The M. K. ladies will hold their rummage sale in the Davis tin shop, commencing Saturday and lasting one week., Kverybody is invited to contribute what they can.

.Dr. Bolan, the specialist in piles and all rectal troubles, will be at the Goldsmith hotel Tuesday, October 4. Those suffering with above mentioned complaints should consult him. : . o

Rev.C. V. Mull of Albion, spent Sunday in this ecity, the guest of A. J. Caldwell and family. Rev. Mull is on his way home from conference. He has been assigned to Albion for the ¢>ming year.

Messrs. Will Kelly, Dale Woodruff and Hugh Hutchinson leaye for St. Louis Monday to spend ten days at the fair. They will stop in Chicago to see ‘‘Hamlet,” and visit friends for sgveral days. Rob Reeves will accompany them to St. Louis.

Geo. Billings who has been visiting friends here a few days, returned to Washington, D. C., this morning. Mr. Billings is on the return trip from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota where he was sent, with twelve others, by the government in charge of the opening of the reservation. -

Goshen. : ¢Find the Goshen b cent eigar anywhere. Lime, hair and cementat J.B. Biithn. tf Fleming's are now ready to show you the latest things in street hats. ' Cash for butter and eggs at J. B. Smith’s. He pays the highest cash prices. ; "

Horatio Zimmerman of near Tlagrange, spent Sunday with Fred Huff and family. Efws R 0

Mrs. Leo Solomipn returned Saturday from Elkbart, where she had been shopping several days.

Mrs. Dora Buchtel and Mrs. Lewis Shearer were the guests of Mrs. H. S. Meunaugh of Albion last Thursday. Mrs. D. Probst and daughter Lucy returned from Elkhart Tuesday after spending several days with friends.

Howard King returned Wednesday from KEaton, Q., where he has been the guest of friends for several months.

i I. W. HARPER is the acme of excellence in whiskey production—safest and most satisfactory for all uses. Sold by Albert Bordner. tf

Drs. Hall and Smith of Chicago will be here October 12. All those suffering with chronic disease should call and seé thenron above date.

C. W. Withenburg of Cincinnati, a paint manufacturer, took a number of orders for paint for the new residences while in the city last week.

One day last week a boy, while in F. P. Bothwell’s office, thoughtlessly played with the combination of his safe, which necessitates Mr. Bothwell to employ an expert to readjust it [ .

Mrs. John S. Hays, Mrs. James R. Beazel and Mrg. Wright . Smith took advantage of the excursion Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hepler| of Benton Harbor, Michigan. (A

‘The Prohibitignists of Perry township will. hold a meeting at the City Hall Saturday,i)ct. 1, for the purpose of electing the following officers: Assessor, two justices of the peace, two constables afid one trustee.

It might be wal to remind our local sportemen that after October 1 it is a violation of the law to be in fields with ‘dog and shot gun unless you have a license issued this ‘year by Game Comimissioner 7. T. Sweeney.

~During the storm last Sunday night about four feet of the gable end of the brick building occupied by Frank Bordner on-the Wm. Stuff farm west of the city, was blown in. Some members of the family who slept in the north room, narrowly eseaped injury.

While working on the framework of Mier’s new house last Monday Jonathan Simmons fell from a scaffold sixteen feet from the ground receiving several injuries about the head and shoulders. He will be able to return to his work in about ten days. 5

L.ee Hatfield, B. & O. conductor, aged 32: was instantly Killed last Thursday evening by falling from his train a short distance west of Milford Junction. A rope hanging from the tank struck him and he, becoming unbalanced, was hurled headlong to the ground.

The pioneers of Whitley county held their first annual reunion at Loon Lake Saturday, September 17. Addresses were delivered by Judge Adair, W. H. Liggett and others,. The Whitley County News contains a three column half tone containing the pictures of fifteen pioneers, all over eighty years of age.

Hon. J. M. Robinson addressed the citizens of Wawaka last Saturday evening. He was greeted by a large and attentive audience. He discussed the tariff, trusts and the reckless appropriations made for military purposes. He spoke at Wolf Lake on Monday evening and at Green Center on Tuesday evening.

A LaPorte dispatch says agents of the American Kederation of Labor are at work organizing the servant girls of Indiana preliminary to a demand for higher wages and shorter hours. There are no unions of domestics in this state, and if the plans go through the housewives will face a new diffiulty, with a strike as the alternative to a refusal of the demands.

The Elkhart Paper Co., which is being operated under Receiver I, O. Wood’s direction, was obliged to close its mill for an hour Monday night because of a stoppage of the flow of water to the machines. Investigation disclosed that an eel had got tangled up in the sand pump, causing it to stop. WhHhenremoved it was minus its head. Theeel dressed 4!, pounds. H :

The race matinee announced for last Saturday afternoon has' been postponed until Saturday, Oct. 8, on account of the rain. The following program will be pulled off: 3:00 class, pace or trot, for the produce of Edifice only; 3:40 class pace, and 2:25 trotters; free for all trot, half mile dash; 3:00 class trot; running race. Halr mile heats, best three in five. Lovers of sport should not miss this matinee. ! i S

Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Ind.; has just-closed the first week of what {)romises to be the most successful year in her history. Already 216 students have been enrolled, 84 of them new men. The freshmen class will number more than 75 men and is the largest class that has entered the ingtitution. . The total enrollment will reach 260 before the close of the year, which is 35 more than the best year the college has known, Ray G. Pearce of Ligonier, fs a member of the banner freshmen class.

Samner Dowell of Topeka, a creditor of Rollin Ellison, on Saturday filed with Clerk T. J.. Logan at Ft, Wayne, a remonstrance againstthe discharge of Ellison as a bankrupt, for which application ' was made some time ago by the T.agrange banker. Mr. Dowell accuses Tllison of having failed to-keep the books in order to conceal his financial condition from his -creditors. .Tha. com};laint also asserts that Rollin Ellison lad reason to know, two years prior to the erash, that he was insolvent: that on thé day before the petition for bankruptcy was filed' the: bankrupt accepted stocks of the Mondamin Dairy compan’{,'and that no account wag kept of the: transaction, Finally it is charged that there is an unaccounted for deficit between ' the assets and liabilities. : -

Gosbem, ;e wouwn Roomer wanted. Inquire at this office. , ' Prof. Palmer was in Elkhart Saturday on business. - ‘Mrs. Katherine Casey is very ill at her home on West Third street.

J. F. Wing, the architect of the Sol Mier home returned to Fort Wayne Tuesday. -

Mrs. H. L. Poyneer left for Indian apolis Monday, which place wil be her future home. g

' Mrs. Sam Williams returned Wed nesday from Elkhart, where sh spent several days shopping.

The corner stone of the new Huntington eounty court house was laid vesterday with imposing ceremonies.

Grace Graham left for South Bend Thursday, where she will enter the St. Mary’s school for a year’s study.

Do not miss the opening at Fleming Millinery store Friday and Saturday. A complete new line of goods will be show.

Leon Wertheimer and Gus May of Ligonier were in the citylast Sunday evening calling on frignds’—Elkhart Daily Truth.

Mrs. J. D. Casey and daughter Harriet came down from South Bend Tuesday evening to assist in the care of Mrs. Katherine Casey.

Albert W. Allen of Toledo, caught a big pickerel in Diamond lake last week,. weighing ten pounds and measuring forty-three inches.

The 30th Indianaregiment will hold heirannual reunion in 1905 at Hamilton. The comrades decided at Topeka hat they would not disband for the hresent. i :

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Minier of Battle Creek, Mich., arrived Monday for a visit of seyeral weeks with Mr. and' Mrs. J. W. Stansbury of the North Side. / S .

The local peach crop will reduce the sale of the imported crop this year and the home grown fruit averages nearly as fine as any that has been shipped in from the peach belt.

- Frank Sack went to %lkhart Wednesday, to play with the Bucklin orchestra at the performance of ‘The Show Girl.” He -algse played with the orchestra at Goshen Friday night, for the play ‘Buster Brown.’’

The grand lodge Knights of Pythias of Indiana will hold its 36th annual gsession at Indianapolis on October 4 and 5. It is expected tuat the attendance this year will be much larger than usual, which has been aboutone thousand.

The experiment of pla.ntlng popcorn in this county which was brought from FKlorida, is declared to be highly succeesful. Some has been raised that shows a marked improvement over a sample from Florlga.‘and yields fifty bushel to the acre.

J. W. Welch of Ligonier, was in Lagrange on Monday shaking hands with old acquaintances, on his way to Big Rapids, Mich., on a visit. He is a former citizen of Lagrange county, having been county treasurer during the war of the rebellion.—Lagrange Democrat.

The smallpox situation in Goshen is very much improved and unless a new case develops within the next week, every case in thecity wilthave been . discharged. For nearly three nionths the city has been infested with the dreaded;pest and now that all ¢ases are cured a great deal of relief|is felt. -

lilder C. M. Mahin of Angola, who preached at the Christian church last Sunday, will again occupy the pulpit next Sunday. Special music will be rendered. Elder Mahin maide a favorable impression among our people and he should be greeted by a good- audience. The public is invited to be present.

The Lake Shore railroad company’s trouble with tramps is said to be increasing daily. The hoboes are becomming more daring and more particular as they will not ride in box cars, but must ride on the fastest frains on the road. Passenger conductors have recently been having more trouble with free riders than do the freight men and -1t is talked of taking strenuous action in order to free the road of the pest.—Goshen News 'l'imes. ’ - Mr.and Mrs. M. A. Hutchison entertained the Anti-Smellers at their home, Sunday evening. An elegant three-course dinner was served and Hugh Hutchison presided at the punch bowl. Among the guests present were Dr. and Mrs. Shobe, Messrs. and Mesdames G. M. Zimmerman, Chas. Shobe, Will Sisterhen, H. Stone, of Albion; and Messrs. Dale Woodruft, Will Kelley, and Misges Kthel Fisher, Mabel Graham, Lela Hutehison and Linnie Belden- of Battle Creek, Mich. e

A 'man supposed to be Attorney Anthony R. Stookey of Warsaw, Ind., was killed in the railroad yard at Barstow, Cal., September 22. The mangled body was found lying along the tracks at daylight. = The man was about twenty-six years of age. Pinned in.a coat pocket was a typewritten paper stating that Anthony R. Stookey had been admitted to practice law in the circuit court of Kosciusko county, Indiana, January 24, 1900. There were no other means of identification. The remains were buried at Barstow, Cal. Z

Farmers are in luck to have a good crop of lclover seed this season, as it readily brings $6 or more per bushel. From the south end of the county comes reports of unprecedented yield. Heretofore, a yield of five bushel per acre was considered as being extraordinary, the average being very much below that figure. This year as high as seven and eight bushels are being secured from an acre in that locality. . One farmer reports over 100 bushel from fifteen acres and another over thirty bushel from four acres. Yields of this nature mean a re&fization of about $6O per acre.

The Elkhart county Democrats held their ¢convention at Goshen last Saturday, and named the following ticket: Senator, Dr. J. F. Werner of Elkhart; representatives. Orlando Hamilton and James W. Brown; treasurer, Joseph E. Derbey; sheriff, Benjamin K. Gardner}-eoroner: Dr. B. K. Teeters; commissioners, Milo H.: Blough -and Samusl P: Stauffer: Addresses were made by 3!1‘1%11\.{K. Gannon“of Chicago; Homn. K, J. Fogarty, candidate for' secrefary of state; Hen: Frank B, Hering,.candidage for, eongress, and otheérs. The conyention endorsed the et oy of Fiou: B. II: Bhively of South Bend; for Upited States Senator.

Goshen. i : Goshen, all Havana. FKive cent cigar. 0 o . See Pat Carney’s $2O suits before buying Wanted two apprentice girls. Apply at Fleming’s.

Charles Shobe went o Goshen Monday on business. ;

Hon. E. B. Gerber returned Saturday from an extended trip to California.

Miss May Perrin of Ciyde, O..is spending the week with her cousin, Miss Kate Newton. = )

Mrs. Nate Lochamier was in Waterloo last week, the guest of Miss Mary M. Kelley.

A series of meetings are being held at the Advent church and are conducted by an officer from Zion City.

Elkhart has hopes of securing the shops of the Pullman Car company from Chicago which employ 7,000 men. . <

Mrs. M. N. Prickett of Ligonier who was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thompson, returned home Monday.—Goshen News-Times.

Miss Franeis Stutz of Pendleton, Ind., who has been the guest of Miss Martha Thompson, left Tuesday for Oberlin, 0., to enter the conservatory of musiec. |

According to a special from Mansfield, 0., the Immortal J. N. is seriously ill with small chances of recovery. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1826.

Mrs. Ed Jeanneret entertained at cards last Thursday evening. An elegant two course luin‘e.heon was served. Mrs. Richard Sweetnam won . first prize and Mrs. 7. R. Clapp second. .

Hon. Otis L. Bollou of Lagrange, Wq,&nominated as democratic candida for judge of the 24th judicial district at Goshen last Saturday, and Frank Brown was nominated for prosecuting attorney. 4

The- September number of The Samaritan, the official organ of the Modern Samaritans, published at Elkhart, contans a double column half tone of the degree team of I.igonier Congress No. 11. :

The Goshen police authorities believe that two organized gangs of burglars are working in that section, independent of the* other: Many houses have been robbed, and country residences have’ also suffered; burglars are operating in ditferent sections at the same time.

Mr. George W. Reed, who has been here for two or three months engaged in carriage painting, returned to his home in Ligonier on Thursday, after finishing up his jobs here. Mr. Reed is an accomplished and artistic carriage painter and has doue some fine work while in Milford.—Milford Mail. )

Chas. W. Dunn, formerly of Brimfield, who was tried for the murder of a little girl at Wallen, Allen county, and, for the second time found guilty, will spend the rest of his life in state’s prison unless the supreme court gives him a new trial. His plea for a new trial was denied by Judge Smith at Fort Wayne last week.

- Judge J. H. Smith overruled a motion for a new trial in the case of Charles W* Dunn and fér the second time the condemned man will be consigned to the state prison at Michigan City to be confined for the remainder 'of his life. The prisoner showed no emotion and was apparently as indifferent to the ruling of the courr as he was to the finding of the jury.—lort Wayne Sentinel: e Dl ; The time has arrived when you are thinking about getting a heavy winter suit. I want totell you something before you get thatsuit. I have one of the finest lines of suitings, pantings and overcoatings that has ever before been shown here, also, I am putting up a $2O suit which is equal to any $25 or $2B suit in the country, any shape or color to suit you,eithersingleor double breasted or any way that you | wantit. CARNEY, Thé Tailor. 25-3 t

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