Ligonier Banner., Volume 44, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 November 1909 — Page 5

£2.00 PER YEAR.]

R. J. Stansbury’s e ————— e i 39 & o e LAY/ BUNZULL Y BN LAd\» WM\ YV U 0 & Yon may feel that rou can't afford a new dress or suit this fall. but when we come before vou with dress goods by the yard, at the price which we are oftering the best of stock All people can afford to BUY their dress goods by the yard. A .15 STANDAKD PATTERN will help to make a dress at half PIECE of a ready-made suits. ' The one piece suits are the correct styles, so why not buy the goods by the vard and be satisfied. OTHER SPECIALS are quoted for ONE WEEK. -

. Dress Goods fot No. 1 All goc and ¢ triss goodds 1n wool, n black; white, old rose, pink. 8 il pastel shiades? wi<o brown ® and grecns at one smail price per yarg 34¢ All onir 7ac dress goods ot No. 2 ‘4l biack ili enlord, per yard e : i-.t’_.r‘;, il B dresy oy any coice ; At one price, per vard LN LBl Moot gl Sl.s anpd 9123 Loods 10 any cologs, al ped - G bt N 4 conasts 00l hroadelath c 3 apelies wide for suits, warth $i per vard : ’ Pvery day a big bargain Qs ! o S —————. A ——— A 3 AT ——— S A 1 a 5 O 3 TR 0 S| Underwear Department © dg order that we can close ont oir an derwenr at an carly date we widl piace these gonds o sale on this three day % special ot the following prices. onr line of 2o3children’s Hevoed pants atid ‘»é‘}iﬂ : Two doren pants and vests worth ’ PAC, IOF - : il4 Two s_!nfvl: P snits and veste sire 20 . “waorth 15¢ . lie : Two dozen pants and vests, size 22 worth 20c for - 15¢ Two dozen pants and vests size 24 worth 23¢ jor : la¢ One and one half dozen pants and vests, size 28, worth 25¢ : 10C Two dozen pants and yests, S{72¢% from 22 to 34, worth 35¢, o % Four dozen ladies’ drawers worth 32¢, at each, : : 21c Two dozen childrens’ union suits, : worth 20c each oo Six dozen boy's unton suits, atl sizes from 6 1o 15 vears ; extra heavy ' Heeced, all at one price. : 46¢ Ten dozen Vallastic !it't‘?ui. exira heavy pants and vests, cach fR7C Twenty dozen Puritan snug fitting - warments, the best weights each for 47¢ Ten dozen boy's pants and vests, ' all sizes, worth 2ss¢ each 23¢C Buy vour underwear in season and get get the beneflt of prices at this big clearsale. o : ~ All underwear not listed at a special price. B — e - Our Blanket Department . Has been a busy department the past ‘two weeks, Those large 12.4 quarter blankets are attracting the attention of ail Get them while they last ' Blankets for children’s beds - 43¢ Blankets for children’s beds 53¢ " Blankets for single beds b7c : Large blankets for double beds worth €2.00, at o . ofc Large blankets for double beds worth $2.00, at : " $1.79 Large blankets, extra heavy for : double beds, worth $1.25 at 2.00 | White wool blankets, worth §5 50 4.95 ~ Gray or tan wool blankets, worth : §Ssoler - a 0 | Plaid wool blankets worth §55.0 4.95 : These hlankets will not last long, so come | carly and get your choice. - 3X: ‘ g , . Outing Flannels Lot No. 1 consists -of our s¢ and )6¢ outing flannel, at per yard - 4lac Lot No. 2 consists of “ all our light ) and dark outing, worth 10c, at 8¢ Lot No. 5 consists all of our 12%:¢ ; outing. at per vard : 9¢ s ~ Daisy cloth, pink, light, blue, red, - white and cream, all at . 96 a Three cases comfort battibg worth 5. 12}4¢ per roll, at . glic , : , e F Knit Goods - sv Gacinators, Mittens, Shawls, Child-’ ) dren’s Knit Jackets and Infant's N Booties. ;

R J. STANSBURY

The ﬁinﬁixl’ - Daaner.

[ IGONTER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1909.

Bed Spreads - 1 Marseitles bed spread with ‘ fringe, with fHoral patterns $2.50 ; worth, for . , : L 8 19 1 Marseiiles bed soreads with edge escolloped 4! round, worth $2.55at 2.44 Bed Spreads, with fninge, worth §1 30, 1.29 & bl spreads, cut corpers frnpe, _ $ £, Bl L 1.2 G colored bed spreads. red, blue L pink and yellow, with fninge, worth » L 3200 t ‘ {6O ‘ towhite bed spreads, worth $l, at Roc én ither bed spreads at special prices. . e e e , - Table Linen » We have on haund the hest line of table damask, and would like all lovers of fine to visit thas depariment at this Line. We will make you happy in selecting Tabl Damask at this Unme : : 3 pieces to select from of the best call Damask linen, hleached and nn- ; Dbleached, wotth «x per yard, yours at this sale, f . 16C per vd 1 prece marcerized cotton fine as satin damask, worth foc vd, for 460 per ¥d bR anch uwron damask, worth oc per _ - vand lor . 26¢ per vd _ 1 Floral designs, all hinen, 68. in, wide, worth Soc. at this linen sale hec. - ©piece all plain satin damask for eI Hlroely - : ! Table cloth and napkins 72-in - wide, worth $1.25 per yd, for . gBc per yd 2 pieces all floral pattern; satin finish damask, worth §i 2 for oB¢ e et i e oit et Al A 0 S AN . Table Cloth Fatterns | Wide borders all round, something for | a nice table himen. The patterns we have only { a few on hand and willi sell them at special price while they last, ! 1 pattern 66x56-in. worth $2.50 to close for : Sk G 1 pattern 72x72-in. worth $31.50 to close for : 2.98 , 1 dozen napking, worth $4.00, to close lor : : : 3.29 t pattern cloth, 72xg0-in., worth s; (63, 1o close for : : 3.2 1 pattern cloth, 72xgoqn., worth S'l‘ 00, to close for 2.95 _ 1 pattern cloth, 72x103 in., worth s_; 00, 1o close for . 3.G6 .t pattern cloth, 72x72'in, worth s.§.<.>n, to close for ¢ - : 454 .1 pattern cloth, 72x32 1, linen napkin to match 22x22 in all linen, worth §3.00, taclose for 6 8¢ . 1 dattern vzxioB4n. wide, with ' napkins, all hemstitched, worth 83 00, toclote out = - e 6.84 n pattern 72xgo-in. wide, napkins . to match, hemstitched, worth $7.50 to close for , : 6.39 - S b 3 S A LT R et AA3 A A AS TR IR Fancy Table Pieces In Mexicau drawn work, hemmed and embroidered. * The best fancy’ line we have ever carried. Ask to seé them. ' " Towels, napkine, toweling, damask toweling for fancy work, for - 25¢C per yd - Huck toweling for fancy embrod- = ering, towels and dressér covers, for so¢ Plain Inies for fancy work ‘ Bleached toweling, worth loc yd, special at L gc per yd Bleached toweling, worth 12¢ yd, ‘special at : ‘ 11c per vd Bleached toweling, worth 15¢ yd., special at - 13 c per yd , Bleached toweling, worth 17¢ yd., special at . Iscser vd This is the time to buy table linens and toweling for Christmas presents. e 3 e o L 0 10, TSP A, ! S MMM 5 - Oil Cloths _ Colored table cloth for 15¢ per yd - Whita tableoil cloth for ~ 16¢c per yd ~ Marbled table oil cloth for . 16cper yd Floor oil cloth 1 yard wide for 25¢ per yd Floor oil cloth 132 yard wide for 43¢ per yd 6-4 Oil cloth pattern, far - - goc per vd 8-4 Oil cloth patterns for the floor sl3speryd

DECISION IN FANMDLS CONTENPT CABE I 8 APFIRMED BY THIBUNAL., o Effect of the Ruling Is That Gompers Miacrell and Morrison Must Serve BeatercesLrows Out of Buck's Case : : VWaabingios Nov. & The district Ut ol Rpsodly AfirEaad thy dearoe GF Thoay wgntene oourt & the TRarivt Columbla, adimndeing Mresidentl Samued R Recrolary Frank Morrison and Viee-President John Mitehell, ali of i h Amnerioan Federntion of Labuor, giity of rontemnt o court is e Hock Suove and Ksnge o 8 Chel Jextice Sheppard dizssenied f & The srdslon of 18e court on cone grirational grounde 4 The %t of the declisica will Y the Mro {iampers and the oiher do fendas wili bave b 20 to prison -The fate of the abor leiders was fisoat 1 ersley 83, W when Gowne § o = ;}" (":‘6”:,. ot 5 e b o S i e X 3 TT N | § -"' ’.a ~v"7“ G (SN ¢ e o Vo A SRR T A £ % *“;f 5 ~I\}?% o Al - . AR a 8 RO o : . 4 Sl R R b . & il - $ Samuel Gompers,

PEFsE Wa gnptoncend 1o 12 months’ In- | risin it Aitehell (¢ nine mwonths, | haveoll of the company's products and | the | N f that companys prod- | dets on the unfalr Hat, :%Iw.i the federn tions alleged wiolation of Judge | Gould's recont mandamus has atiract | il wide atiention 5 Originaily a Test Case. FRUCs CoOmpany s pro eeation | Bl Ihy ol o ot iha foutirnition haran | W 3 iy $ whereln ¢ was soueht | Hets by thelr Bght agulnst :l::;.» i in iy i i 1 Justice Gould ol (b ssyreme court . z of the District of Columibla fssiied an | injunction which later was mads L x manent, forbidding the publication of | the company's pame in these lstis ", President Gompers In an edßorial in | the Foderationist of January, 1508 made kpown hig intention’ net to obey | the court’s order. contending that the | injunction fssued was I derogation of | the rights of labor and 8n abuse of the | injunctive power of the courts | Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison sul- | sequently were elted for contempt, | P . : o v-,‘" , 2 Y 5 Pk 3 g % dup .2 v 3 2 L—“..N,_‘-.A.:.,._, PPE-UE— ; % .AJ . Joha Mitchell. , and this phase of the case has been before the court for many mwonths, the procesdings taking the form of a hear ing of testimony before an examiner anpd many arguments, ‘_ o Judge Wright's declsion last year, sentencing the three to prison, was a scathing denunciation of the defendants. He recited the conditions ante‘ceding the injunction and referred to the fact that for 25 years the Bucks plant had operated a ten-hour shop and always had maintained an “open shop.” : ‘ He also spoke of the numerical strength of the American Federation of Labor, with its 2,000,000 members, and of its repeated indorsemént of the boycott of the Buck Stove and Range Company, through the American Federationist, the federation’s official organ, speeches by the defendants, letters and circulars. The court referred to the use of the “We Don't Patronize” list and “Unfair” list of the labor organization, and said that members of !labor unions were forced and coerced into supporting it “whether individually willing or unwilling, approving or disapproving,” by various methods. | : »

PELLAGRA IS THEIR TOPIC Physicians and Other Scientific Men ~ Gather 3t Columbia. 8§ C. s - Oolurbis. & O, Now. $--A pational coniete e of ;mimmi opetisd here toodiay and will contings heough 1o mwarrew, The vause, spresd pnsd treal wont of ihe disoser. Which only re conily hax been called (o e atlrn tion of the geners] publie 0 (s coun: try. will bee discussed. The program privides for sddeesscs and papers by ivestigatare and ek eminent s the setenee of medicine pepresenting Fragoe, Mexion the West Indies the foderal povernment and several of the staten 14 in belleved the confersnce will result in wessures that | will chork what has becotae 8 il eph demic n some paris of Ibe Uniied Rintem ' _ ; COREY AND WIFE AWAIT HEIR Ster! King Is Looking Forward to in“teresting Event at French L . Chatesw. i | New York, Nov 1 —lnvestigation of a 8 repart in Parts that Willlam Ellis Uarex, president of the stéel irasd bad plaved his Freoch residence, ihe Bisioric {.‘h;‘afﬁma’ de Villegenis, on the market with orders for itz immediate disposal brought forth a vigorous de niai from both Mr and Mrs Corey Bome tme next March a thisd mom. ber of the family ix expected 15 ar rive on the scene and it Is the inten tlon of both Mr and Mrs Corey o have the third party first see the tight of day In the historie chatean in which Joseph Botisparts ones held court. For this event both Mr snd Mrs Corey are plavning 1o returs to France | o ‘ PANIC ON COCEAN LINER Lives of 36! Passengers in Peril When Terrific Gale Hits e e ¢ San Francisco, Nov. 8- Three hun. dred and . siXtyone passenpers wWiere throwt into a panie when the liner Hunsas City was caught in a terrific wind off Cape Rlanco,. Sea after sea boomed over her Lows. Forty feet o the starboard rall, the companiunway, nandrails and ventilators were car risd away and the timbers and glazs of Ihe pilot house wore erashed. The Gitarie rmaster at the whesl was subs merged. by the sen but managed to escspe belng swept overboard The passingers were terrified, but no one was injured e : : POORHOUSE FIRE PERILS 200 inmates of Wisconsin Institution Be come Panic-Stricken, But all ' ‘Are Saved., i Milwaukee, Nov. 3.—Fire in the heuniiry of the county poor larm build ing at Wanwatoss threatened the {ives of 206 inmates, many of shom be came panicstricken. Al were re woved. The loss was $20.000. b Stearmer Sinks a Coal Barge. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 3.—~The fuel barge Shawmul was rammed and sunk by the steamer America in Buf faln harbor. The four men aboard the SHawmut fumped aboard a tug and escaped. : i :

UNITED STATES FIGHTS t GIGANTIC OPIUM PLOT t Revenue Cutters Assigned to Prevent Ssmuggling of Drug Valued at | $4OO a Pound. j 5 Sau Francisco. Nov. I~The ban ' placed on the mportation of oplum by | the government huas increased the | prics of the drug untl {lt now sells at | §4OO » :wzmd in the Chinese gquariers, Land the revenue cutier service has ibm n ordered to take spnususl precau%Hmm to prevent smugßiing ; E The Cuiters Bear and Perry are | now o thelr way 1o this port from | the north, and on thelr arrival will | : ;lm aasigned o siations on !hv-_m:r.nh fern coast, while the MeCulloch will gvmisv out of San Francisco, l Information has been gained, it is tsnid, that s large shipment of the prohibited drug i to be landed on the ‘southern coast in a lagoon bLelow San Diego. i BEHEADS TWO; KILLS SELF | Insane Butcher Murders His Wife and oo Daughter in a Revolting. ’ Manner. i 2 e | Pottsville, Pa, Noy. 3.—One of the | worst tragedies that ever shocked this { county aceurred at Pine Grove, near ibere, when Daniel Schoke, a butcher tof that place, cut off the heads of his iwife and 12.vearold daughter, and Ithen committed suicide by shooting tiimself. Neighbors became suspicious {that something was wrong, as there was no sign of life about the house, and they broke open the front door. They found Schoke lying on the first floor and the bodies of the wife and little girl in a bed on the second floor. o £ The daughter's head was severed, and had rolled away from the body, ‘but his wife's head hung simply by !the vertebrae A large butcher's knife ‘en the floor showed how the murders ‘had been committed. Schoke Had cov|ered the bodies with the bed clothing, ‘and after writing a note telling what he had done he went downstairs and | shot himsmelf through the head. Death (in his case was instantaneous. i Schoke was 55 years old. It is believed that he worried himself insane i over business reverses. =

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HOTELS READY FOR THE RUSH All the Hostelries, Big and Little, Are Prepared for the Coming of the T Land and Expositicn Guests, | “Chicarn Is nioe poing 1o be caught unprepared for the big crowds that will attend Ihe Land and lrvigation Exposis tion,” s the report ghven by o leadiag botel manager. “Wae bßave boen Keeping vur car Lo the ground, aod we Lear reports {roun every direction that su-.f are going to be surprised by the num- | ber of guesls OB acoount of the 'novel shuw' ai the Coilseam, Nov 20 to Dec | 4. Of course, we always expoct a big attendance at the Live Siock :s‘t;uw.i which tceurs on the same dates, hot we shail have a erowd that wiil surpass anything seen in many years when the doors of the Land and Irrigation Expesition are thrown open on Nov. 20. Every botel {n Chicago i jooitng for | ward 1o this event and s prepared to gee 18 capacity packed to the fuil by a class visitors who do no! often get. in Chicago. i *This Land Exposition has a different sort of pull from the cibher big affairs thai are beld at the Coliseum from time to time. . We aunreciate the fact that we ste golpg to have a very substantial ¢inss of visitors on this oo casion and that thoy will come f{rom many siates, | “According to the plans of the exposition it will be a grea! educational event and enable the land seeker to save money by having coneentrated under one roof all the leading regions of the country where life is made atiractive by irrigation and an agreealile climate and productive soil You may tell all prospective visitors that we are ready for them and for them to come and enjoy this feast which Chicago has spread.” . The theater managers are also making preparations for special attractions during the exposition period. They wiil also take steps to be rid of the ticket scajpers and speculators. who often interfere with patrons of the theater and prevent them from getting ~seats at the regular prices. : ; ~_“We shall do our part tv entertain the exposition visitors in a fitting man~ner,” said one of the prominent {bea‘ter managers, speaking for all of the

~ PROMPT JUSTICE ’ The Magistrate Was Firmi-and Tried =] . to Be Genial, 1o the “History of Beverly” Mass, the following apcidote 18 rejated of 2 gownd Justive of the peade o the old oo jopint tigwes On s oold oieht I Winter # traveler called ot his bouse for lodgfug The ready hospitnlity of ‘the jus tow. was aboul beiug displayed whea the traveler pnluckily uttered 8 word which bis host considens] profane. : Upen Ihils he fofornmed hils guest that he was a magistrate, poloted out the nuinre of the offense gnd explained the fievessity of D 8 Leing expiated by sit ting an bour in the stocks e Remonstratce was unavaiiing, for custom at that time sllowed the mag: fstrate to conviet and punish st ooee, and in this rase be adted as accuser, witness, jury. jndge and sheriff, ali in oue. T Cold as It was, our warthy fustice, alded by his son, conducted the traveler to the place of punishioent, an open place unear the meeling house where the stocks were placed. Here the traveler was contined fo the gsual manner, the benevolent executor of the law rd. maining with himy to begulle the time of ifs tedivg by edifying conversation. At the exniration of the hour he was recondncted to the house and hospitably entertained tidl the hext morning, when the traveler -departed with, let us hope, a defermination to consider his words more earefully before giving them utterance in the hearing of a conscientious magistrate. s JAPAN'S PAGODAS. - They Are Built to Resist the Shock of = an Earthquake. -~ ' = A remurkable fact invdapao is that pagedas buill hundreds of years ago embody the princijple of the wodern selsmograph, which is to minimize the effect of earibanake molicn by the combination of ap inverted penduigm with au osdivary pendulum. or. -io other words, by the upien of a stable and an anstable strueture to produce a peutral stabtility, ‘which reoders the whaole building least sensilile to earthquake shock | Sy In the bollow well of every five storied pagoda a heavy mass of timber s suspended freely, like an exaggerated

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e 4t “the shek of an eartfiqoase this large peoduium slowly swings and the structure sways and then settles back safely upon Hs base, : This is alse the principle followed In the construction of all bell towers throughont lapan, where the bejl acts .gs penduium, and the roof, supported Ly posts -forms an Inverted pendulum, as 1o the seismograph. { When an earthquake occurs a pagoda or a bell tower may be rotated or displaced. hat it cannot be overturned as a whaole —Wide World Magazine. . | Peeling a Snake. : It is difficuit to skin a dead spake, and the skin is often spolled in the course of the operation, while, on the other hand. it Is-a simple matter to Skin o live snuake, aund the skin thus guived s worth much more. Dead suakes bring from 2 to § cents, according to their size, and live opes from 25 cents to §l. One of the largest ‘suake skin cowpanies bas factories in Sumatra. When a soake is received frow a hunter it is seized adroitly by ‘an operator, cne hand squeezing the peck and the other bolding the tall. 1t is then attached by the veck to the ‘trunk of a palm tree. an assistant holding it by the tail. With the point ‘of a knife the operaior cuts the skin just below the head and, pulling with all his strength, peels it from the ‘writhing reptile in the same way that a woman peels a pair of gloves from her hand.—P'opular Mecbanics. g R SRR ' Ths‘Prico of Peace. The anncuncement that France f 8 going to spend three miiliards of . francs for new ships of war—that is |to say. for peace»—-reufinds us how i prices have gone up sioce 1871, In % that year France bought peaee of Bismarck for one milliard. And a milliard, furtbermore, was deemed in that day a fairly stiff ficure—the thrifty French more than hinted that Bis. 'marck had driven a sharp bargain, whereas on the occasion of the present purchase the nation Is reported as quite in a glow of delight.—Puck. ; Nondetachable. T - Witness—At the time of the acel dent my maid was in my bondolr ar--ranging my hair. » e -~ Lawyer—Yes, and where were you?