Ligonier Banner., Volume 52, Number 19A, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 July 1918 — Page 3

AUTO-OILED AERMOTOR ■ \ ‘o' V f B . Its enclosed motor keeps in the ofl \ATk/ and keeps out dust and rain. The at / splash oiling system constantly flood* every bearing with oil; prevents wear and ena bl«* the mill to pump in the lightest breeze. The oil supply is re yi® B tWrtiV* - newed once a year, and it can be pe Wnp VSt on any old tower. I sell gasoline |r^ engines, pumps, tanks, water supply fl V goods and do well drilling and iniO. A. BILLMAN,

A NAPPANEE SILO Is the Best Investment A Nappanee Silo on your farm is the 4 OHW k es t investment on the market today. Mm We are close at hand thereby saving |B! freight. We want an opportunity to ffIHS show you the many advantages over xj'l lyfyiniiM s ^ os now maufactured. NAPPANEE LUMBER AND MFG. COMPANY Nappanee Indiana

An Ideal y.jS Bedroom ^^^^l can be furnished at a very moderate layout by selecting the various pieces or a complete suite from our exhibit of sleeping room appointments. There are the loveliest dressing tables, the springiest beds, roomiest warerobes, etc., all of good quality and beautiful design and at prices which will seem incredibly low. Smith-Clark Co. • Home Outfitters 110-212 South Main St. Goshen, Ind.

THE UNIVERSAL CAR While there’s no telling what conditions may face the country before the war is over, one thing is certain and that is that Ford'cars will grow more and more into being actual necesities, both in city and country. Prospective buyers will do well to place orders NOW, when a reasonably quick delivery is possible. Don’t put it off until spring for the demand is continuous from all parts of the country; Ford cars are wanted in the North, South, East and West, every day o$ the year. Let us have yonr order today and we’ll hustle our best that you may not be kept waiting. GEO. BRYAN, Ligonier, Ind.

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE

/William Grover and family have taken up their residence in Goshen. Mrs. C. C. Swank, formerly of Noble county, died at Kort Wayne recenty.

Mrs. George Shav, formerly Freda Wysong, spent the week end with Goshen friends.

Indiana has contributed 88,500 men to the American Army in the fifteen months of the wa®

B. F. Lombard of Milan, Mich , is spending a week with ins son E. P. Lombard and family at Diamond lake.

The city council held a short session Thursday night. Nothing out side of routine business was transact ed.

Mrs. Ray Morrow left Wednesday for her home in Harrison, Ark. Ray Morrow sailed for France the 26th of June.

Mr. and Mrs. Loren Heeter spent Sunday with N. B. Heeter and family near Millersburg and enjoyed a real country dinner.

Rev. Yoder has resigned the pastorate of the Christian church at Cromwell to complete a course at De Pauw university.

Harry Rentfrow’ of Ligonier, a recent registrant for army service has been put in class one by the Goshen conscription board.

Mrs. Amanda Brillhart, an old resident of Kendallville, is dead at the age of 84 years She was well known throughout Noble county.

The fourth annual Christian Citizenship institute will hold a twelve day session at Winona August 4 15. A fine program has been arranged.

Senator Munton who lost his wife, son and daughter in a railway cros sing accident, announces that he will continue to reside in Kendallville.

Mr. and Mrs. Dean dochran visited the army training school at Valparaiso Sunday and had the pleasure of talking with the Ligonier contingent.

Dr. and Mrs. C. G. Keehn Mrs. Cleo Holloway, Miss Elva Foote and W. W. Wood motored over to Rome City Friday and took dinner with Mrs. B. F. Peters.

George McLeod, Kendallville, cranked his Ford while the pesky thing was in gear and it ran over him fracturing a leg and inflicting other bruises.

The deeds racorded in Noble county show transfer of land from Jacob Sheets to Harvey Hoak, and a lot in Goshen from Mary VanScoyke to Henry Regula.

The ladles of Ligonier have not slacked up on their knitting for the Red Cross during the summer days. They ply their needles while at home and at lake resorts.

Merrill and Walter Hire have fields of wheat found free from sbnoxious weeds, less than 3 per cent of all wheat diseases, and commended by the state inspectors.

Express rates Increased Monday. The minimum charge on a package is 29 instead of 26 cents according to in formation furnished by Agent Williams. The increase in rates is 10 percent.

Five Diamond naval trucks passed through Ligonier Saturday over the Lincoln highway bound for the Philadelphia navy yards. They were driven by sailors from the Great Lake training station.

John Hartman, father of Horace Hartman husband of Ruth Bordner, died at Nappanee where he spent over 30 years In the mercantile business. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in Elkhart county.

The council at its meeting Thursdayjnlght granted George Ramsby a permit to move an old building from the grounds of the Lyon & Greenleaf mills to the end of Albany street. Mr. Ramsby expects to use the structure for a fertilizer storage.

One hundred members of the Boys Working Reserve will be released from training at Purdue university next Saturday and Col. 1. D. Straus says any farmer who desire harvest help may have it in plenty, even selecting the boy or boys to his liking.

IF YOUR HORSE COULD CHOOSE

he certainly would select this shop as the place he would prerer to come to be Jshod. Act on that assumption | and bring him here the next time he needs shoeing. You’ll find ^him better gaited and better (tempered Jaf ter we have shod him, . E. W RIEBER

LIGONIER BANNDR, LtGOklEk, mu

LETTER FROM LIGONIER GIRL

Miss Ruby Culver Writes Entertainingly of Her Life in Washington to Her Parents Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Culver

The local papers have carried many letters from the absent boys but the following is the first communication published from one of our bright girls away on war duty: Dear Folks:

Yesterday was the biggest day I have ever had in my life. It was one day 1 shall never forget. I wished my brain was about as big as a barrel so I could soak it all in. 1 will try and tell you something of the time I had. We started from the bouse at 9:30 a. m. I saw more and learned more than I could in a month at school. We went to Mt Vernon. We intendec^o cro on a boat, but it was so crowdea that we cook the trolly.- It was one o’clock before we got there. We then went to a dining room and had an old fashioned fried chicken dinner. It was fine. For desert I had apple pie with ice cream on top. It sounded to me like a funny combination, but when 1 came to eat it I found it to be delicious. Then we went to Washington’s Mansion. Oh, it is simply wonderful. I saw a clock in the dining room that was presented to the father of our country, by Lafayette. I saw lots of his original furniture and books and pieces of his fighting and surveying instruments: the buckles off his shoes and his knee buckles and oh, so many things. 1 had a drink from his well. In the living room there is a rug that was presented to Washington by Louis the XIV. It has the eagle in the middle with the motto “E Pluribus Unum” and the stars in the field. I also saw the key to the Bastile, which Lafayette presented to Washington. I saw the real fire place with all the cooking utensils, and even a bed warmer like ours.

From there we strolled along the Potomac. It is beautiful, so quiet and shady. Here we waited until we saw the President’s yacht, “Mayflower” coming. Then we went to the dock to meet him. I saw his wife too. What struck me so much was the fact of his and her simple dress. He had on a plain palm beach suit with a straight straw hat, while some of the other men with him had t'aeir dress suits and silk ‘ hats. I

thought the fact of his simple dress carried with it a feeling of democracy. Representatives from thirty-two nations were with him. He laid a wreath on Washington’s tomb, as did the thirty-two representatives. This was followed by “Battle Hymn of the Republic” sung by the famous John McCormick. He came from his tour in the west to sing at the celebration yesterday. He is wonderful. I feel that I have really seen and heard a great singer. At the close of the exercises he sang “Star Spangled Banner.” Believe me this was simply wonderful. Everything was so grand. How I wished for you to be here too, After the exercises we sat around in the shade of the big trees and read a book and talked. Then we started for home. The cars were so crowded that we could hardly get a seat but we did manage to stand up. I was nearly squeezed to death there was such a jam. We got back to the city just when the pageant parade was starting. I certainly never expect to see anything prettier. I don’t know how many miles long it was. Every allied nation was represented. Thousands of people participated. I can’t commence to tell how nice it was, only to say it was gorgeous. We watched this over two hours. In the Chinese division, Hoffman saw one of his old classmates, when they were at the M. I. T. college. We followed them to the capitol and here'l had my first Introduction to a Chinese. He was a perfectly charming lad, and Hoffman said he was smart as a whip. He has just received the masters de-gree-from theM. 1. T. school of engineering. I don’t know how many hundreds' of thousands of people were orr the streets, 1 never saw so many. There was another pretty thing too. The Capital dome was lighted last evening by search lights. This was a wonderful sight in itself. They never light it now on account of the danger of enemy planes. Yesterday being the Fourth they had the lights lit, and I wish you could have seen them. Everything was so grand, I just can’t describe it to you, only take my word for it that I had one big day. Lovingly, Ruby. Mrs. George Goudy and children, of Goshen, are in Ligonier on a visit. Rural Mail Carriers were not included in she postoffice employees to get a i increase of $2OO a year in pay. The rural carriers will be taken care of under a separate order.

R. D. Jackson of Indianapolis is handling LaGrange, Elkhart, Adams, Allan, DeKalb, Huntington, Robie, Steuben, Wellsand Whitley counties, in the Seventh Federal Reserve dis teict’ for the sale of short term treasury certificates, in anticipation of the fourth Liberty loan bond campaign in October. He will assist county directors and their assistants in the sale of these certificates.

LIGONIER July 30-August 4 A GREAT WAR PROGRAM Irvin Cobb America’s Greatest AV ar Reporter Who has just returned from the front will speak on the subject, ‘ My Recent Experience on the Fighting Front in France and Flanders”. Private Peat The lecture success of a generation and author of “Private Peat”, the best selling war book in America, will tell “My Own Soldier Story”. LlOllt. R.O£SltCr 9 A Captured and Exchanged Canadian He was a private when wounded and captured, and it is a private’s story he tells, “Behind the German Lines”. Dr. D. D. Vaughn and Dr. Stanley Krebs The Nine Grenadiers A singing band under the direction of Al Sweet, six years: leader of the Ringling Circus Band and for four years director of the Edison Phonograph Band and Orchestra, they will give all the late patriotic hits including, “Each Stitch Is a Thought of You, Dear”. Alice Shrode, the CHILD WONDER, Whistler and Reader. Maude WIIIIS Reproducer of Great Plays Maude Stevens Company An entertainment company presenting most unique program of child impersonations, whistling, folk dances, crayon pictures and violin. Henry and Company in magic, mystery and mirth Comes with over a ton of special paraphernalia and live stock for your amusement and mystification. Chautauqua Preachers Quartette Methodist preachers, of Chicago, but how they can sing. PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON recently said, that “The work that the Chautauqua is doing has not lost its importance because of the war, but rather has gained new opportunities for service, and the people will not fail in the support of a patriotic institution that may be said to be an integral part of the national defense.” Buy Season Tickets

Farm Loans for Five Years or TWENTY YEARS May be wholly or partly repaid any interest paying date after first year. The best Loan Plan ever offered borrowers. Let us tell you all about it. The Straus Bros. Company. Ligonier - Indiana

Dr. C. D. Lane Straus Block, Ligonier OFFICEfHOURSt 9:00 to 12 1:00 to 3:00 7sOO toStOO T , . Office, 307 telephone Rm „ 432

FRED H. GREEN, HARRY GREEN. JOHN H. GREEN. ODELL OLDFATHER. Green Brothers and Oldfather. • • ’ FARM LANDS, TIMBER AND SECUR) FIES BOUGHT AND SOLD. OFFICES WITH Farmers and Merchants Trust Company. LIGONIER, INDIANA.