Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 December 1908 — Page 5
&oS el o 0 080 o 0 ToL Do Do oo oao O dßeduction Sale} 8 One hundred and se\;enty-five Suits, one hundred o and fifty Men's and Youths' Overcoats, one hundred o Boys' two-piece Suits in plain and knickerbocker, one o o hundred pairs of Men’s Trm‘xsers to sell at manufacturer’s o price on next Friday and Saturday, December, 4 and 5. o Take advantage of this great reduction sale as these o goods will be sold at cost, and some below. All the ° latest colors and designs are shown. The mild winter o @ has left me with a larger stock of Clothing than I ought & 0 to have at this ime so must get rid of it. Remember ¢ o the date, December 4 and 5. | ¢ 30. J. CRRNEY; ¢ TheOnePrice ¢ ¢ Qlothiera Tailor} o Ligonier, Tnd. " 0 O e oSO oSO o 0 oo oo ol eDe Do o 000 O
# I Dealers in o Choice -~ We have a number of choice farms for sale in Noble county. Also real estate in the city ‘of Ligonier. ] We also have fine farms for sale in the two best counties in northern Michigan, Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties. These farms are all well improved. Soil, black, equally as good as any Noble county farms for producing. Before investigating in farms call on us as we can save your money. We are buyers of live stock and timber ' : See us before you sell as it will pay you. = Offices with - Farmers and Merchants ~ Trust Company LIGONIER., - - INDIANA
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Mrs. Lula Cutshaw of Goshen visited Ligonier friends Friday.
Gladys Cornelius was the guest of Marie Finch of Goshen last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Himes of dGosbem were Ligonier visitors Sunay.
Mrs. Robert Stewart of Goshen, attended the funeral of W. R. Allen Saturday. .
Colonial flower shop, .florists and decorators, Goshen Ind. Home telephone 852. 34-3 m
Mr. and Mrs. Laird Wysong of Goshen were the guests of Simon Cripe and family Sunday. - ‘
George D. Gaby soid sixty acres of pasture land located in Jefferson township to Harvey Eshleman of near Kendallville.
Mrs. Herbert Stansbury and Miss Lola Wolf were the guests of Clarence Zimmerman and family of Kendallville, Christmas. :
W. A. Beane of Albion, Saperintendent of Schools of Noble county, is in Indianapolis this week attending the state teachers’ association.
Omer Moore, a student of the Winona Agricultural institnte, is gspending his holiday vacation with his parents, J. W. Moore and family.
Dr. aud Mrs. L. J. Stiver and Mr, and Mrs. G. K. Poyser of Goshen were entertained Christmas at the home of Dr. and Mrs. O. E. Stiver of Kendallville. : ,
Safe blowers cracked the safe .dn the postoffice at. Auburn Junction Saturday night or early Sunday morning and made a good haul of $226 in cash and about §looin stamps. They made good their escape.
The Commercial club of Kendaliville will hold its annual New Year’s party tonight. The Ligonier orchestra has been engaged to furnish the music and the event promises to be one of the best of the season.
Sixteen persons were injured, five geriously, in a wreck on the Fort Wayne and Jackson branch of the Lake Shore near Pleasant Lake, Steuben County, last Thursday. It thought to be the work of train wreckers.
While shedding fodder for Oscar Bates, on the Baker farm near Wilmot, Irv. Walker got his right hand caught in the shredder and lost four fingers. The machine had become clogged up and he was attempting to remove the clog when his hand was caught.
Burgulars visited Avilla last Saturday night and entered five different places of business. They were poorly paid for their trouble as they secured $5.35 in cash, a string of bologna and a few bottles of booze. They took a horse and buggy out of a barn and drove it about two miles east of town where they released it.
An editor in Missouri says it is so dry there that the river bottoms ‘have to be taken up and sprinkled before the natives can go fishing and that wagons are going around with their tongues out. The railroads have set fire to the only lake in that region and crawfish holes are being taken up, placed together and sold for gas pipe. !
Miss Bernice Gale, the eighteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Gale, residing in Kendallville died last Thursday morning at 11 o’clock. She had been ailing for gome time and her death was due to dropsy. The remains were taken to Wolf Lake Saturday. where the funeral was held, Rev. Rendall officiating. Besides her parents, two sisters Natalie and Gertrude, a nnmber of intimate friends survive her.
A lady who had been visiting in LaPorte became 8o excited over Christmas affairs that she boarded a Lake Shore train for home forgetting her baby and left it on a seat in the station. She missed it by the time she reached the first station and wired back to the lady she had been visiting to take care of it until the next train returned, which carried the mother back to her lost treasure.
Howard Bowser of Syracuse was in town Friday.
A. B. Cowley of Kendallville was in town Monday. ‘
Fred Green and A. W. Lyon made a pusiness trip to Goshen Tuesday.
George Swan of Goshen visited his mother, Mrs. W. J. Swank Christmas. S
Mrs. Ann Crow and daughter, Cora of Syracuse are the guests of Lew Shearer and family.
Miss Cena Swank of South Bend, spent Sunday in Ligonier visiting relatives and friends.
I have ten Victor Grab Kkeyless dime ,savings banks for bsoc each. Regular price $l. J. D. CARR.
Your linens are always neat when done by the South Bend Steam Laundry. J. D. Carr, agent.
South Bend Steam Laundry,try it and satisfy yourself that the work is far saperior to any you ever had. J. D. Carr, agent.
Miss Grace Pancake, en route home from Fort Wayne to Ligonier, visited Mrs.- Fred Hess yesterday.— Kendallville Sun.
Joseph Weaver is recovering from a severe attack of appendicitis. Mr. Weaver has hiad a hard tussle for a man of his age but his. friends believe he will be able to be about in a few days. ;
Mrs. J. E. Buchanan of Auburn was honored at the meeting held at Inianapolis by being elected one of the chairmen of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, being chosen as chairman of this, the Twelfth congressional district. A
Milo Kline of North Webster recently sentenced to the Warsaw jail for 30 days, escaped from that institution and is now at large. Xline is a bad character and has given the Kosciusko county authorities no end of trouble.
Louis Calbeck.of the firm of Calbeck & Knapp, manufactures of fireless cookers at Ligonier, was in the city this morning, conferring with Goshen'’s business firms on material for their fireless cookers.—Goshen News Times. '
Anyone desiring information concerning “Sunny Colorado’ and land adapted to growing all kinds of grain vegetables, and alfalfa, without irrigation, write the undersigned. Land is selling at $8 00 to $15.00 per acre, few homesteads. Address Milo MeGowen, Limon, Colorado, formerly of Elkhart, Indiana.
Christian church,Sunday, January 3d, 1909. Sunday School and Bible classes at 9:30 a.m. New officers, new teachers and a new testament lesson—*‘The Ascending Lord,” Acts Chap.l:l to 11. Sermon 10:30 a. m. subject, “The Why of the Plan of Salvation.”” At 7p.m. a mass meeting addressed by a representative of the Anti Saloon League of Indiana. You are invited to all these services, I. WaLL SmiTH, Pastor.
The onion growers of Nappanee, challenge the claim of Noble and Whitley county growers that the two counties are the banner counties for raising onions.” Noble and Whitley county raised 200,000 bushels. Elkhart county raises 100,000 bushels and Kosciusko county raises 200,000 bushels. Nappanee is the center of the onion growing industry and there are 115,000 bushels in storage there now. The output increased from $BO,OOO last year to $125,000 in value this season. 3
A letter from J. C. Billman of this city who is in Texas with a party of home seekers, states that fans are running in the restaurants, new po tatoes, cabbage, lettuce caulifiower and fruit of every description are on sale at the market places. Regular June weather prevails and farmers are plowing and preparing to put in their spring crops. Heavy clothing is not required and the average Hoosier envies the delightful weather the Noble County party is enjoying in Sunny Texas.
Miss Kitty Whitmer. adaughter of Mr. and' Mrs. Samuel Whitmer of Wolcottville, is a patientat the Hope hospital at Fort Wayne, suffering from injuries sustained from a fall down a stairway while visiting with friends Christmas day at Claypool. Miss Whitmer fell in such a manner that her right eye was gourged out and it is feared that her eyesight may be totally destroyed. She was suffering a great deal last evening from the painful operation that was performed on the eye after her arrival at the hospital.
Representative Gilhams before leaving Washington for his home had a talk with Secretary of Agriculture Wilson about things he wanted done in the Twelfth district. He obtained a promise of expert lecturers, who will attend farmers institutes in this section of the state and talk to the farmers on agricultural subjects. Mr. Gilhams has taken the matter up with the institute chairmen of the several counties and has received favorable replies from Allen, Noble and Lagrange counties asking that such instructors be sent to them. :
The family of Frank Zeller, four miles north of Kendallville, was horrified Saturday morping to find the wife and mother, Mrs. Catherine Zeller, dead in her bed. Mrs. Zeller had complained of some trouble with her heart, but otherwise was feeling as well as usual Saturday evening when she retired for the night. The family, the married children, including one daughter from New York, being home on a visit. When morning came and the family were stirring for the day Mrs. Zeller could not be awakened, and it was soon learned that she had %uiet.ly passed away in the night, oroner 'Black was notified, he deputizing Dr. F, C. Hardy to represent him in the case, who stated the cause of death to be that of heart failure. - :
The Indiana State Grange closed a very interesting session at Winona reeently by the adoption of a radiecal gset of resolutions. Among - other measures endorsed, the Grange went on record being in sympathy with the preseut local option law, as favoring State-wide prohibition. The resolutions also recommended the establishing of the parcel post, a more perfect system of nursery inspection, the repeal of the present diteb and drainage law and the passge of amore equitable law ; the establishing of postal savings banks and a bank deposit guaranty the election of United States Senators by popular vote and that the qualification .of elective franchise be a knowledge of the constitution of the United States and a receipt for taxes,
Fred D. Miller of Kendallville was a Ligonier visitor Friday.
Charles Boles of Goshen was in the city yesterday on business. -
Elmer E. Knepper and bride arrived in the city Tuesday,
C. V, Inks was at Nappanee on Monday of last week on business.
Mr. and Mrs: I. A. (Wolf of Goshen visited friends in this city Sunday.
Mrs. I. O. Buehtel of Auburn spent Christmas with Ligonier relatives.
Karl Knapp has installed an automatic cumputin%scale through the agency of E. F. Kitson.
Newton Calbeck and family of Wolf Lake, were the guests of John Calbeck, Christmas day. :
Mr. and Mrs. Kreichbaum were the guests of Rev. I. W. Smith and family of Kendallville last Friday.
Marie Scott came up from Elkhart to spend Christmas with her parents. She returned to her duties: as stenographer, Monday. :
John Crothers of Sparta township attended a family reunion at the home of Cyrus Crothers of Kendallville last Friday. Thirty-one guests were present. :
There - will be a meeting of the high school superintendants in this section on Jan. 16, at Lagrange, the purpose being to form a high school baseball cireuit. v
Hiram Kilgore of Washington township has been suffering for several months with a rose cancer on his lip. He left for Goshen Monday, where he will take treatments at Dr. Kaughma’s sanitarium. Miss Lizzie Smith arrived home from Chicago last Thursday where she spent Christmas with B. F. Smith and family. Sne returned to Chicago Sunday evening where she has a position as stenographer. . The prices for William H. Crane at the Jefferson in Goshen next Wednesday night range from 50 cents to $1.60. Many Ligogier people walrlxt to see the celebrated ¢ ian, who in ‘‘Father and themhas the biggest success of his long career. Last Monday while Stanley Franks the . two-year-old son of Ernest Franks, was playing with & pair of scissors, he thrust them in his eye in such a manner as to inflict a severe wound. Itis believed that the sight of the eye will be saved but it was a narrow escape. D) ~ Manager Krutz of the Jefferson theater, Goshev, was iun the city today billing William H. Crane in “Father and the Boys,” for Wednesday night, January 7th. and ‘‘Three Twins” for Friday night, January 8. They are two of the greatest shows ever sent to Goshen and Ligonier of course will be well represented at both of them. s
“The Witching Hour” attracted a goodly number of our people to Goshen last Tuesday evening. A most pleasant theater party made up of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Rose and Master Irl Rose and Mrs. Ike Baum, Mr, and Mrs. S. A. Mier, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kegg, Misses Mabel and Dora Schwab, Miss Hazel McDonald and J. E. McDonald. All had a ‘nost interesting evening enjoying the play immensely.
The attendance for the years 19071908 at Purdue University was the largest in the history of the institution, 2,080 students being enrolled. This included the school of medicine at Indianapolis, now affiliated with Indiana University. The enrollment at Purdue has increased from fifteen students in 1876 to over 2,000. The number of graduates in one class has increased from one student in 1876 to 3056 in 1908, not including diplomas for advanced degrees and for the short courses in agriculture.
Last Monday morning word was received in town that Robert Etchyson had dropped dead while sawing wood on the James W. Smith farm, west of the city. The particulars of the sad death are as follows. He and his son George were engaged in sawing down a large tree standing in one of Smith’s flelds. As the tree fell to the ground, Mr. Etchyson staggered and fell across the stump dead. Death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage. The deceased was 60 years, 10 months and 10 days.
Congress has been asked to increase the pension of Mrs. Ira J. Chase, formerly of Wabash, from twelve dollars a month to forty dollars a month. Mrs. Chase is now a resident of Muncie, whereshe resides with her daughter. For some time she has been totally blind. Her condition is such that it is thought she should be given this aid at once. Her husband was once governor of Indiana and was elected while aresident of Wabash. After his death Mrs. Chase and her daughter remained in Wabash for a long time. Mr. Chase was a Christian minister before becoming governor. ok
Suit was filed at Warsaw recently by Clementine Keyes and others against members of the board of I'rustees of the Nicholas Low Theological institute of Mercedes, Argentina, charging that Elijah Hays of Warsaw, formerly of Chicago, was of unsound mind when he donated $127,000 to the Methodist church. It 18 alsc charged that the late Bishop Charles C. McCabe of Omaha used fraudulent meansin persuading Hays to turn the money over to the church. There is a stagling declaration in the complaint that one ot the trustees claimed to have performed legal services which were in reality the institating of a proceeding to secure the adjudicaql;)n that Hays was insane for which he presented a bill for $3,256.
“The week of United and Universal Prayer’’ will be observed by the congregation during the week beginning Jan. 8. There will be devotional seryices every evening at 7 o’clock in the session room of the chureb to which the publicisinvited. The following,&s the week’s program: Lord’s Day, **The Law of the Harvest’’ — morning; ‘ Anti-saloon League Re%resentative”—-evenlng; Monday — ““The Word of God;” Tuesday—'*Goa’s Faithfulness,Man'’s Responsibility ;”’ Wednesday—'‘Misgsions, Home and Foreign;” Thursdav—*The Voice of God in the Soul”’ Friday — ‘‘The Kssentials of True Universalism;” Saturday—*‘‘Laboring in Love;” The Lord's Day— Communion address and the sacrament, morning; ‘“‘Christ’s Message to the World,” evening. On Wednesday evening following these devotions there will be held the annual meeting of the oon%raegauon. It is desired that all members be present. T. YOUNGER, Minister.
O. F. Gerber was at Millersburg on business Tuesday. ' George D. Gaby of Brimfield was in town Moqday. Alice and Dora Keehn are visiting friends in Milford and Goshen this week. Frank Weaver and family of Churubusco spent Christmas with Ligonier reletives. ; " . T. L. Imes of Brimfield was in this city Monday on business. He made this office a pleasant call. Mr. and Mrs. M, C. Pollock of Angola, were here the fore partof the week, visiting Mrs. Martha Prickett, Miss Mary Head is spe;nding' a few days this weeK” with her brothers, Nat and Harley Head at Fort Wayne. : Carlisle sisters in their clever singing and high class emotional acts at the Crystal, Friday and Saturday nights. - :
Jake Laufenhawser, the funny Dutech comedian, introducing his funny songs and monologue, at the Crystal Friday and Saturday.
Babe Carlisle child impersonator of old maid and kid that knows it all, youngest on the stage, at the Crystal Friday and Saturday.
Petitions are being circulated in this city praying for the protection of Lake Wawasee by prohibiting the dredging of the lake for the purpose of securing marl. .
Fhe Goshen Democrat coziiticted a piano contest and Miss Florence Inbody, an orphan girl ot New Paris was the lucky contestant having received 853,837 votes. A grand total of 1,682,695 votes were cast.
The Studebakers of South Bend booked an order this week for $40,000 worth of wagons to be delivered to the U. S. government at Jeffersonville, Ind., where the government has a warehouse for army supplies.
John D. Hall of Kendallville is suffering from a case of blood poisoning. Recently while butchering at his home on Mott street he cut a slight gash in his little finger, but thought nothing of it at the time. Later the finger bacame painful and he was obliged to consult a physician. ;
The Indiana Chair Company of Warsaw, have filed articles of incorporation at Indianapolis. The directors are Lucius A. Wilder, William A. Baker, Albert A. Wilder and Jas. R. Frazier. The amount of the capital stock is $50,000. The company will engage in the manufacture of chairs.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Stansbury accompanied by Walter Stansbury and Miss Nadine Stansbury, their two children, came over from Logansport last Friday for a virit with friends and relatives. Mr. Stansbury returned home Saturday, not being able to stay longer on accountof large amount of work.
It is intimated by Congressman Gilham’s friends that he will be taken care of by the Taft administration. Mr. Gilhams has always been an obliging and painstaklj,ng publicservant and he has the ability and the energy to successfully administer the affairs of any official position that will be tendered him.
W. R. Allen, formerly of this city, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. M, Doane of South Bend, Wednesday, December 23, aged 74 years. He was a painter by trade and a veteran of the Civil Was. His death was caused by cancer of the stomach: The remains were brought to thig city on Saturday and laid to rest in Oak Park Cemetery.
After wrestling for forty-seven hours the jury hearing tue famous Charles Dunn murder case in Fort Wayne failed to agree and was discharged. This is the third trial. In the first two Dunn was found guilty and sentenced to prison for life, but higher courts reversed the:judgment and ordered new trials. Thousands of dollars have beed spent to prove Dann’s guilt of Alice Cothrell.
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BRONZE TURKEY RAISERS § ~ ATTENTION I have for your inspection a fine flock of this variety that are hard to beat, large, vigorous - and healthy, reared for breeding purposes, not fatted for market thus ruining their breeding qualities. Stock is in the pink of breeding con- . dition and can be seen at farm one mile east of Ligonier, or just north of the Rochestethidge. ] B. McCONNELL
The D. A. R, will meet at the home of Mrs. W. H. Bender Tuesday, Jan. 5, 'O9 at 2:30 p. m. Election of officers. Every member is requested ta be present. _
Glen Engle -returned to Grand Rapids, Mich., Sunday, after spendChristmas with his parents, Mr. and and Mrs. Wert Engle. He has a good position with the Postal Telegraph Company. :
At the U. B. church next Sunday morning, a representative of the Anti-Saloon League will fill the pulpit The public is invited to attend the service and hear discussed this vital question of the day. At the evening hour the pastor will preach on the subject, “The Happenings of a night”” There other services of the chureh will be at the usual hours.
Thomas Brooks Fletcher, lecturer on “The Modern Judas™ at Fraternity Hall, Tuesday evening was weil recieved. A large aundience grested ‘the lecturer despite the incliment ‘weather. - : : - A fire broke out in Miss MNay Shaw’s millinery store Taesday noon. The fize was extinguished =after dving about §75 worth o, damage. - Over in Elkhart County during the recent campaign certain Dewspapers made charges against somie of the members of the court house ring, that were candidates for county office and now some of these fellows whe were defeated at the fpal.lstlue-mu 0 sue the publishers for libel. The papers threatened are the Elkhmrt Truoth. Goshen Democrat and Nsppenee News. .