Ligonier Banner., Volume 54, Number 7A, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 April 1920 — Page 1
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EFFECTIVE STEPS TAKEN TO HEAD OFF ANY ATTEMPT TO . . ROB COUNTY OF GREAT o . ROAD . : WOLF LAKt BIG MEETING Officers Flected and Committees Named to Make Prompt Actlon On : _Short Notlee - ' It is given out that all plans to abandon .the Linetoln Highway from Ligonier: to Fort Wayne “have been given up under the pressure of aroused publie opinion. This may be true, but there are a good many who must be gshown. . . There is another and more dangerous plan on foot. however. This Is to improve the Blazed Trail from Ligonier to.the Ohio state line béfore the Ligonier-Fort Wayne gap in the Lincoln Highway is paved. This latter scheme will accomplish the. purpose sought, for it will draw dil the tratfic from Ligonier east and leave the Ligo-nier-Fort Wayne brahch of the Lin-] coln Highway stuck in the maod. One of the most enthusiasti »hiuhway mectings . ever held in Noble county was held at the Wolf Lake town hall last Thursday evening when ‘over 300 citizens from Albion, Churubusco, KimmeH, Cromwell and other points along the Lincoln Highway braved the downpour ol rain and registered their protest in .no uncertain terms against the underhanded methods that have been employed by | certain interests in an effort to change the course of the Lincoln Highway from Ligonier to Fort Wayne. . *The meeting was called to order by Dr. J. E.: Luckey of Wolf Lake who was chosen temporary chairman. Af ter .a few brief remarks in which the} chairman outlined the purpose of the meeting, J. €. Kimmell of Cromwell was Sclectéd as sécretary. of the meeting. .
The.chairman then presented County Attorney Otto E. Grant of Albion who reviewed. the history of the Lincoln Highway from the time it was established by theé. National Lincoln Highway Commission, and later laid out as one.of the main markct high+ ways of Indiana. by the; first state highkway commission, and was later established as a part of the stuate highway system by the Indiana legislature. He read . letters ‘from the Siate Highway Commission to George: A. Young Auditor of Noble county in which they assured him that the Lincoln Highway would be built as laid out by-the first commission provided Noble county would meeét certain requirements and gave proof that the Commissioners of Noble county had agrecd to meet every request of the state highway commission. He pointed out that ’When} the Legislature of 1919 adjourned and the State Highway Commission wa‘sl reorganized the County Auditor ye¢eived a report of the new commission in which several new state roads were established in Noble County and the Lincoln Highway was ignored. It was then that the people of Noblc County. became aroused and at once became suspicious of the new member of the Commission from Noble County who it was learned had been selected by certain special interests to change the course of the Lincoln Highway through Noble county. Delegates were sent to Indianapolis, the hest legal talent was employed to go hefore the new Highway Commission and they were always assured that the commission had no intention of changing the course of the Lincoln Highway and would always agree to construct it first. Mr. Grant advised his audience to perfect a permanent organization broad enough in its scope to take in every person in Noble, Whitley and Allen ‘counties who favor the Lincoln Highway and believe in a square deal. He was followed - by Harvey Eshelman Commissioner _of Noble county, J. C. Kimmiell, of Cromwell, Byron P. Gray of Wolt Lake and others. P g
A constitution and‘By Laws was adopted 68 members signed the membership roll and the following officers were elected. ~'Pregident Dr. J.| E. Luckey of Wolf Lake, Vice President Milo Calbeck, Ligonier, Secretary and Treasurer, J. C. Kimmell, Cromwell. The chairman was instructed to appoint a Vice Chairman from ‘Whitley and one from Allen counties. The president appointed the following membership committee to make a drive for members. Perry township, W. H. Wigton and W. C. B. Harrison, Sparta township, J. E. Hitler, James Summers and Melvin Werker, Washington township, Walter Beers and Daniel D. Stump. Noble township, W. H. Smith and A. J. Graves, Green township, Freeland Gaff and Samuel Harlan, York township, H. G. Earnhart and Jack and Otto B: Gramt. =~ . The next meeting of the assoclaWfii%wflfi&‘mw
The Tigonier Banner, |
- GREAT SALE OX : Sheets Stores Will Clear Out Grest Stock of Merchandise With Rush ‘Probably the greatest sale of merchandise ever staged in Ligonier will take place at the Sheets Stores for the next sixteen days. . The sale opens tomorrow Wednesiday. April 21, and for a little over two weeks the rush will be on. ~ The announcement of this sale occuples two full pages of this issue of the Banner and the great reduction in prices will appeal to all buyers. Bills have been sent through the mails to every - resident within a dozen or fifteen miles of this city and customers will come in platcons and regiments, - _ This is no cheap john sale but the disposal of the very best merchandise at a cost set out in plain figures so all may know just what they are getting for their money. . Readers of the Banner will be quick to scan the bargain list. ,
. State Republican Platform. : At a meeting of the Republican Advisory Committee in Indianapolis the other day a draft for the state platform was mapped out. = " Among the things the platform will declare for is a protective tariff, indorsement’ of the Goodrich tax law with supplemented act to exémpt from taxation household goods up to a certoin amount, indorsement of Senators Lodge, New and Watson, federal extravagance curtailed” and high cost of ‘living reduced. - - .
+ A pledge of economy in state government is made, but no mention of Gov. Goodrich is found. = . Sugar Price to Soar. = ~ Sugar is selling in the Ligonier market at 21 cents the pound and the price will go to 26 cents it {s predictéed. There was a time when six pounds could be secured for a quarter;-but that seems long ago. The sugar shortage in the state is growing 80 acute that the price is bound to soar. Many people are hoarding sugar in Indiana which adis to the shortage in the market. A
Legion Post Meeting All ex-service men are ureged to attend the meeting of Ligonier Post American Legion in this city tomorrow, Wednesday, night April 21. Aside from an address by J. C. Brunk, secretary of the county Y. M. C. A. the matter of a petition to congress for a bonus will be considered. This means money to all former service men and should secure the attendance of all who served in the world war. = Shorthorn Sale On. One of the biggest sales of Shorthorn cattle ever held in the state is on today and tomorrow at Huntertown There are 170 head on sale and buyers are present from 22 states. Spurgeon Brothers have stock on sale. They have just disposed of three head to the Otis interests. The Otis herd is the largest milking Shorthorn herd in the world.
. - It Proved Costly. , There js a law in Indiana to protect improved highways from road hogs: It cost George Bush $45 in a Columbia City court to find this out. Bush is a resident of North Manchester and he persisted in running a heavy traction engine over a highway cutting it to pieces. Prosecution followed with the result indicated above. , _ - ' ! Gas Shortage. . Tourists Saturday complained that they could secure no gasolene in South Bend, Elkhart and Goshen and this city was drawn on for supplies. The shortage is owing to the strike and freight blockade. If the embargo is not soon lifted there will be few automobiles running. : : ~ Moore-Sparrow | Amanda Ann Moore and John Henry Sparrow, both of Ligomier, were united in marriage at the United Brethren parsonage in Albion, ‘the Rev. H. W. Franklin officiating. The bride gives her age as 46 and the groom 42. Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow gwm make their home in Ligonier. 2 E et . Flouring MIl Closed. Lyon & Greenleaf had to close their big flouring mill last Wednesday and cannnot operate until . they get an outlet for their produ:{p The freight blocked is the cause of the shutdown. The wheels were kept running until all storage space was filled. e ' Factories Handicapped.
Unless the freight embargo is soon lifted and railway freight service resumed Ligonier factories will have to close. No material is being shipped in. and finished products are being stored.. The railway strike is proving a great calamity to the country. e 3 = = RIS B : Given Birthday Party. Mrs. H. H. Decker tvas given a birthday party Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wagoner on the North Side. The atfair was a complete suroccasion of much enjoyment to The eleven guests who participated in a picnic dipper. - =
LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, TUESDAY APRIL 20, 1920
WOOL IN CLOTHING Claude Harper. ¢ | Ligonier Shows that the Woul Grower s Nct the LAFAYETTE, llnd, April 19 Indiana farmer receives $5.85 for the wool in an average suit of clothes large enough for a man weighing 176 pounds, according to Claude Harper, Purdue University sheep specialist. Mr. Harper has issued a statement declaring farmers are not profiteering in ihe sale of clothing. . "A man who weighs 175 pounds requires 3% yards of cloth to make a suit, the weight of the clothing being from 10 to 18 ounces per yard” Mr. Harper's statment says. . " “The average medium weight wool suit is made of goods weighing 14 ounces per yard. At 334 yards per suit the cloth in the entire suit weighs 49 ounces, or a little more than three pounds.. In the manufacture of all wool cloth it requires 1% pounds of scoured wool to produce a pound of cloth. -
- "Therefore, considering waste in manufacturing, it requires about 62 ounces of scoured wool for an average suit of clothes, Most of the Indiana scoured wool is selling in Boston from $1.25 to $1.44 per pound. This wool scours around 50 per cent of grease and dirt. At $1.44 per scoured pound, this - makes wool worth nine cents per ounce. At 62 ounces are required for the entire suit, then the cost of wool in the suit is $5.85.” - ; o
Mr. Harper says that if a suit is made of the very best grade of wool, which is selling at about $1.90 per scoured pound then the wool in the suit will cost $7.37. The cost of shipping, commission, etc., he declared, is at least five cents per pound which is deducted from the producer’s receipts. These, he pointed out. seli at retail all the way from $49 to $75 and higher. . . “The figures show the farmer certainly is not profiteering,” said Mr. Harper who also is secretary of the Indiana Sheep Breeders’ and Feeders’ Agsociation.
Real Estate Tranfers. : Hal Louis Gren to James W. Smith part lots 29 and 30 original plat Ligonier. « » Albert Hite to Letha Hite, lot 26, Smith’'s addition. . v William A. Lyons to Alfred J. Seagley, out lot 20. ‘ . William J. Buckles to Mary A. Baker ‘part lots 13 and 14 Wood's addition, - o - Mavel Bowen to Dovev E. Myers parc ot 13, Straus addicion ~ Bertha Geaugh to Ligenier Building & Investment Co. lot 17, Woods nddition. . . Harry J. Brown to Jesse L. Dunning, lot 16, O. P. - i Solomon Loeser to Leo and Ferdinand Loeser, parcels of land in Section 28 and 33 Perry township. -Low In Mentality, " After spending two or three days about the character and ‘i*ness of several members of the lahor board appointed by the president, the senate confirmed all the appointments say: the Columbia City Post. But they managed to give out the impression to the country before doing so that the board was made up largely of incompetent men thus crippling the influence of the board and giving grounds for those who may be dissatisfied with its decisions, grounds for fault finding, Senator New pronounced several ‘of the members of the board below the required standard in intelligence. . -
Has Leg Amputated. | C. T. Hart, a well known resident ot Brimfield sulmitted to a serious: operation in the Sacred Heart hospital at Garrett, Thursday, when: he had his leg amputated to relieve gangrene. He has suffered with the dreaded disease in the -foot for the past two years. Dr. Hayes of Albion called Dr. Thompson of Garrett in consultation, when it was regarded the only relief in sight was to amputate the leg. B o | KersHardesty Saturday afternoon:at the home of Rev. E. E. Hashour at Columbia City. occurred the mariage of Miss Irene Kerns, of Churubusco, and Fred A Hardesty, of Ligonier. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Albert McGuire and ‘the groom is an employee of the Banner laundry Ligonier. The newlyweds ‘will reside in this city. i
Loses Twenty Willle. 1 While in Citizens, Bank Saturday afternoon Alvin Shock drew Some money and walked out leaving a twenty-dollar bill lying on.a desk. When he returned a little later the money was gone. Mr. Shock will appreciate if the finder will leave the bill at the bank for him. . - . Returns to Ligonier. =old to Mae Trowl, out lot 37, Ligonier. South Bend to this city. S hall of the B. B. R. was & moet plea: b G youngieople. | 3%
'JAMES M. CAN ‘on ll‘ll’.\‘DllEDF n’o\l,x‘.,ms | n»m AND SUSPENDED SENTENCE IMPOSED BY (:orm" GOES BACK 10 PLYMOUTH Ligonler Vietims of Yoong l‘omr n& No Relief Unuless They Begin : Prosecution. 3
James Adams and the Mier State Bank will Jose on the bogus checks they cashed for Jimmy Cain unless action is taken in Noble county. Mr. Adams is shy 41 good dollars _and the Mier Bank about $BO. . The following from the Peru Sentinel tells of Young Cain's trial in the Miami circuit court. - .
“James Cain the young check forger was arraigned before Judge Cole, upon entering a plea of guilty he was given an indeterminate sentence of from one to five years in the Jefferson ville reformatory and was fined in the sum of $lOO. 'The father of the accused and a brother-in-law - who came down from Plymouth Wednesday morning were in court and made a plea for leniency and upon recommendation of the Prosecuting sttorney the prison sentence was suspended upon condition that the fine would be paid and that restitution be made to Cain’s victims within ten days. The father and brother-in-law made arrangements to pay the fine and costs and said they would make good losses sustained by Cain's victims which’ amounts to about $3OO. The son-in-l law has a large farm in Marshall county and as farm laborers are scarce he is short of help to operate the farm. He told the court that Cain who is 23 year of age, had agreed, on condition that he would be released, to work for him on the farm this summer. -In suspending the sentence the court gave the priscner to understand the prison suspension would be revoked by any further law violation on his part. : “Cain’s restaurant fixtures at Converse have been seized by creditors. He has a wife and two small children. The wife is employed at the Julia A. Works school near Plymouth and the children have a good home with her parents. In a letter recently written to Prosecutor Arnold, Mrs. Cain stated that whether her husband was scquitted or sentenced she had fully made up her mind that she would never live with him again, that she had tried it several times and was done with him. Cain passed forged checks at Converse and other places and had been in jail here since his arrest at South Bend several weeks ago. He went to Plymouth Wednesday afternoon with his father and brother-n-hwr L
Death of Hareld Bechtel. S. J. Williams received a telegram Saturday morning from Youngstown, Ohio, announcing the death of Harold Bechtel. No particulars were given except announcing the funeral for Sunday. : ;
Harold Bechtel was about 24 vears of age, a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bechtel who moved from Ligonier to Youngstown about three years ago. ‘The deceased was a young man of fine qualities, was making good with the American Express company with which he had been counected for a number of years. He visited friends here only a few weeks ago and seemed in excellent health. = . ~ H. E. Bechtel for a number of years ‘worked in the Schloss Brothers store and as secretary of the Ligonier, Im. provement Association made many ac‘quaintances. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Shaffer and little daughter Audrey May were almost instantly killed Friday near Fort Wayne when their automobile was struck by a G. R & L Ilocomotive. The family resided near Churubusco and there are two surviving davghters at home: Mrs. Emma Gross, of this county is a sister of Mrs. Shat.t'r. - 5 2 o
- Freight Trucking. A train of Diamond auto trucks passed through Ligonier Saturday loaded with freight. The trucks are used to carry feright between Chicago and Detroit, but they handle no local ke, . . : - The trucks are large ones and have a capacity of several tons. . - Many Pigs Dylng. ~ Many pigs are dying in northern Indiana counties. Farmers are greatly alarmed. unusual death list has not been e:l}:im In most instances for governor, gave a dinner to the re-
. mEwshres Carl Decker came from Boston and visited Bome folks. . Mrs. T. L. Imes, of Brimficld, is very u_l with lttle chance of recovery. - [ LN’!DM& is n#a;hgf town to adopt the daylight saving time schedule. Miss Vera Locher, has gons to Flint, Michigan, where she expects to ‘reside. The primary clection in Indiana oecurs. just two weeks from today. - The Butn-mi Tractor facwri‘i mav be removed from Peoria, lil, to SyraC. R Stansbury the merchant, is making marked {mprovements on hlx residence. - o : ~ Mrs. W. H. Beénder. who has been quite il of kidoey -trouble, shows marked Improvement. . Mrs. Maurice Brubaker and little son John have goue to lndianapolis ou a visit with relatives. -
- Grover H. Smith was home from Plichart over Sunday. He expects 1) o move to that city. - - = : - . Section gangs on the Nickel Plate railway west of Fort Wayne quit when their bosses were discharged. | The gafio'lene,shoflagu has. hit Kmdallville and only local people will be served with the precious fluid. - ~ Ashton Sedgwick is back in the United States from Cuba and will arrive in Ligonier in a few days. = Stanley Wyckoff, fair price com‘missioner of Indiana, has licited the price of sugar to 25% cents the pound. ~ Not satistied with killing the fruit a prophet has attacked the onton crop and says it will be a failure this year. _ Mrs. M. A Cytherman, daugther Florence and son Donald, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Goshen. . . - Atiorney Robert E. Proctor, well known in Ligonier has been elected president of the Elkhart county bar . Farmers, Try 'Way_gei Feeds, Hog and Dairy, they are guaranteed. Ask about them at the Farmers Co-Opera-tive Elevator Co. = e Yl ]
The Kahn -Brother company will establish a 256-machine shirt factory in Goshen. The Ligonier factory is double that size. ‘ ' - ~ Senator Hiram W. Johnsor, republican presidential candidate. will “deliver an- address at Fort Wayne tomorrow Wednesday night. - Mrs. Mildred Crothers, of Ligonier, is. a grand daughter of Milton Woods whose death near- Wawasee was recorded in Friday's Banner. ' Judge Donald Latta will spend several days in Indianapolis visiting his uncle and brother and while there will look in on the supreme court. Six meat trains were rushedgeast over the N. Y. C. railway Friday and many freight trains are moving an indication that the strike is about over. o 4 L . D e David Keistér died at Wolt Lake aged 59.. He was an old resident of Noble county, born here and was highly respected. Burial was made at Merriam. ’ L Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Christie paid relarives in Syracuse a recent visit and noted the marked improvements in_that town since L. E. Schlotterback became a permanent resident.
When the Elkhaft contractors seemed about ready to meet the demands of striking carpenters for 85 cents an hour and closed shop the latter concluded to increase their demands to -§1 an hour. : The entertainment given at' the Presbyterian church Friday night by the Goshen College Glee Club wis » most enjoyoble affair and was largely attended. This muscial organization is very popular in Ligonier. @~ John Fuller, of Denver, Colorado, a nephew of Mrs. M. Eversole whom she had not seen for 22 years dropped in to Ligonier Saturday for a visit. The young man served 8 years in the regular army and fought in the PhiliM" : * 7
Gov: Hardihg announces that he is! going to spend but $75,000 in his preliminary campaign and desires his accounts to be audited. He denounces the methods employed by other republican candidates who'are spending more than $lOO,OOO in each of a dozen states. He favors a federal law limiting ‘campaign expenditures. _Want to locate a missing relative? ands of missing persons; mo cost. Coolnd RN SRI e e
- POLITICAL CONSPIRACY Republicans Orgnnize - 'l'mm to Destroy President Wilsen and Wreek Prace of the Werld
- Comparing partisan abuse of President Wilson and his adnifnistration with the abuse heaped upon. -Livcaln and other great American presidests duriug their administrations. . Representative John H. Small. in-a recent house speech, attacked efforts to hamper the President in his program of constructive legislation and the restoration of world peace. © . Referring to rejection of the treaty of peace and the passage in ' the house of a partisan peace rsohution, Hepresentative Small predicted that this move would not “deceive the American peopie and that they would know where to place the responsibility Me.Bmallsag: .
A partisan majority may adopt this resolution and in the ¢ther body a bare majority may adopt it. but jt will not, as it is intended 15 do, deceive the American people. Partisan #pirit may ¢bb and flow, but in the end the American people will do the righteous thing and approve the essential features of the pemeo treaty, including the covenant of the league of nations. This peace resolution i« without warrant under the Constityo' - . o S
- Discussing republican abuse of the President, Representative Small said: “There has been a willful and per: sistent propaganda = proceeding [ months to disparage the President of the United States., Gentlemen know this fs true. Gentlemen Know . that such a propaganda wmuvd. Gentlemen know that {ts mailing st comprises every clty and hamlet fn the United States to which are constantly mailed veiled attacks upon the President. under various guises, but intended nevertheless to. destory him. e . e
“'There have been other Presidents maligned. The great Washington had his traducers. Jefferson, the tribun: of the people who spoke for populer rights, had his epemies. John Adams and the other great men who bave served the American people were slandered by men of their times”
- “Shorn of His. Prestige” “Shorn of his prestige”-—rather-—sa) Crowned with immortality. . - This seer of the laws that bind -~ . Us heart to heart as human kind Comes not yet down from Sianai's brow, L e
But stands there holding ‘up the law Born in such human sense of wo¢ In clouds surcharged with such a hell That error of its own weight tell— Reveallug tenderness of biue ... ... That let the love light streaming through P e Till we discern the face o God ~~ - And know we pever really trod . The way this death dream led. us through, = e And now the light that round us
shines . Bids- us, “Be still and have oue mind” The ounly mind we ever had, . Deathless, Eternal, tri-unq God— Love, Life and Truth blessed thres "in one, ' - o
Our everlasting sunkissed Home.. EVELYN AYERS PIATT
The above beautiful tribute to President Wilson was written -by @ former resident .of LaGrange, the talented wife of Burt Piatt, post office inspector and well kiown in Ligonier. : : : " Not Niee at Farm. Charles McNulty, a paroled prisoner from the state penal farm, charges the management with extreme brutality and says the prisoners are not properly fed. e Mc Nulty is a republican and was convicted on a blind tiger charge. He used to operat the “Bull and Bear” salloon _in the Indianapolis's board of trade building and stood well with the politicians. His disclosures following so close upon the revelations in the Marion county jail has put the republican administration in bad. : . Dangerous Work. ' The first presidential election fatality has been recorded in Indiana. Capt. James Lowes of Indianapolis, age 73, climbed on a desk to drape a picture of Maj. Gen Leonard Wood. He fell to the floor dying from injuries. _ This should be an awful warning to Congressman Fairfield. and other ‘Wood boosters. e
- Candy and Booeze, | When government agents raided the Aurentz Candy factory in Fort Wayne they found several wagon loads of beer and moonshine whiskey. The pro‘prietors are out on bon and the booze has been conficated. Lot A Indiana dairymen e opposing milk rules promulgated by the state ~ Miss Helen Teal, missionary in the far east, has arrived at her home in Kendallville. She is a niecs of AlS hivme. . . Mrs. Gilbert Notestine is in an Bikhart Bospital for a we fi"%
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LIGONIER TO HAVE DAYLIGHT - SAVING FROM MAY FIRST TO ‘ . - LAST OF OCTOBER COUNCIL PASSES DRDINANCE U| ‘ | Petitlon of Manufactarers and Mer- ~ chants Granted For Time Saving . During Sammer by Counecll o - Daylight Saving becomes éffective Sunday M. - 2 at 2:00 o'clock, A. M. in Ligonier and will end at 2:00 o'c‘l}ok. a m.. Sunday, October 28. ' In compliance with a well signed petition by the manufacturers and merchants of Ligonier the city council at its adjourned meeting Thursday evering passed a daylight saving ordinance which will have the same ef- ¢ - as the national daylight saving la of last year. - ,‘ - - “re were some objectors to the da,.ighbt saving movement on account of the stand taken by the farmers of ‘he federal:law, but friends of the movement argued that farmers observe their own time anyway regulating their duilly tasks by the sun. The m.vement in Ligonier means that all . {lvities will start one bhour arlier 400 cease one hour earlier during the coming summer. The object in ¢nacting the ordinance was to make uniform * hours for all. The manufacturers and merchants could have adopted the time reform on their own motion, but it was felt that an ordinance’ would be more effective for the reason that the public schools would come under its provisions. Much confusion would otherwisc have beer - experienced by familles with p- s in the public schools.
The daylight saving plan worked ¥ satisfactory last year and it is it there is no reason why it will not “work equally as well this year. The ordinance was introduced and passed by unanimous vote. Councilman Feldheiser being the only absentee, .
The petition. was signed by all the manufacturers and nearly all the merchants and it is believed the action of the councHl will. meet with general favee. = = : .
‘The strongest demand for daylight saving came' from the factc-v and shop workers and those who desire more time at the end of the day to devote' to gardens. o :
- Willlam M. Radford. William Magarity Radford was bora near Eureka, Hilinois, March 25, 1867 His education was received in the public schools in’ Eureka and Des Moines, lowa, and in Eureka College. He was mariied to Miss Nannie Guffey, of - Ligonier, Ind., July 4, 1899. They made their home in Eurkea undl 1912,"since which time their resiJénce was in Des Moines, lowa. Early in 1919 he gave up business be‘:ause of tuberculosis of the larnyx ind went in July to Denver, Colo., in hope of regaiming health. Not imiproving, he decided to return to his family at Ligonier, starting on April 2, 1820. On the fifth he arrived at the home of his parents, Prof. and Mrs. B. J. Radford, where he ectad to rest awhile, but failed m from the strain of the trip and pass--2d away on the morning of April 8. He became a member of the Eureka- Christian church in his youth. At the time of his death his membership was in the University Place churech in Des Moines. He was also a member .f the University Place Masonic Lod.c of that city.. Ot his children the first, Horance, died in infancy. The pther children, Hortense ' Gertrude, Frederick Willlam and Benjamin Jobnson, with their mother were at the funeral service here Sunday afternoon at the Radford residence. The funeral wus conducted by Pastor Philputt, a:sisted by Prof. Hieronymus. The musical service consisted of two vocal solos by Prof. Sucher, and a piano solo by Prof. Wagner. The burial service was performed by the iocal Masonic lodge, and the burial was in Olip cémetery—Woodford County Journal. :
Beating High Clothing Price. In many sections of the country men are resorting tc the wearing of ovoralls te beat the high cost of clothin: Overall clubs are becoming popular in all sections of the country and clothing manufacturers are apprehensive of the resuit. Jefferson Township Farmer Dies. Friends here have received word of the death Thursday night of John Mahnesmith of Jefferson township. He ‘was about sixty years of age, and had been a resident there for many years. One daughter, Mrs. John Stringtellow, _ Mrs. Ora Weeks, aged 79, is dead fn ten oh L e S e of tn ghtidram. .